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Evening star., 1935-07-12
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|NNEW WyORKFL0OD
Gov. Lehman Surveys Dam.
age as Red Cross Appeals
for $780, 900 Fund.
BY the Associated Press.


ELMIRA, N. Y, July 12.-Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman pushed ahead to-
day on his f1rst-hand survey Of the
widespread damage wrought by up
State floods earlier this week He
learned that at least 10000 persons
need aid.
This estimate Was gwen by Robert
s. Bondy, national disaster relief di-
rector Of the Red CScss, which organi-
zation has ISSUED an appeal for
s35O,0O0.
Gov. Lehman laid he was "very
well satisfied" w!tn the progress in
recovery from tine effects Of the
devastating hoocs, which caused 40
deaths and an estimated So. 200 900
damage.
Estimates from fieIc workers, listing
the needs so far as The inventory to
date goes, follow:
Corning, so families; Cortland
County, $50; Watkins Glen, IT'S;
Montour Falls, 1875; Ithaca, $50;
Hammondsport, 100; Binghamton,
300; Hornell, 1.150; delaware County,
100.
Optimistic reports greeted Gov.
lehman all along the line as his fact
finding" tour moved rapidly through
the flood-ridden upstate area
DR.. Thomas H. Parran, jr., State
Health Commission, told the Governor
that the public water supply was safe
in all affected communities with 'one
exception and one-half."
At the same time, Capt. Arthur W.
Brandt, State highway commissioner,
reported that every road would be
! opened for one-way traf1c within five
days and that traffic would be re-
sumed by August /.
DR.. Parran said the only exceptions
in the water situation are at Arkport,
where the chlorination of the water
supply will be completed later today,
and at Hornell, where. he said, the
water is safe, but inadequate. 1t will
be fully restored within a day or two,
| he said.
DR.. Parran said it is too early to
determine whether there will be much
typhoid fever in the wake of the floods,
but that he expected few small out
breaks.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

trict fiscal matters In the House, Mrs
Grant wrote:
I'VE were delighted to read in the
Washington newspapers that you would
consider this amendment (King's) or
the basis of its merit and we believe
that after DR.. Drolet's report and the
recommendations Of the American
Public Health Association are brought
to your attention, you will consider
Senator's Kings amendment merito-
rious."
Conflict Is Old Story.
The history Of current attempts tc
improve public health facilities in the
District, dating back to the arriva
of DR.. George c. Rutland last Win
ter to assume the post Of health Off
Ger for the District, Is one Of con-
troversy and conflict.
At the time of his arrival the Dis
trict appropriation bill was near COM
pletion in the House and the figures
for the Healt!, Department were those
recommended by the Budget Bureau
and based upon the only slightly high
er requests Of DR.. Fowler.
DR.. Rutland however, at the re-
quest of Senator Copeland, Democrat
of New York, Immediately drew up
program of expansion, based upon
what he believed to be actual needs
of the District, and submitted it tt
the Senate committee considering the
District appropriation. In brief. the
program called for an extra appro'
priation Of 500. 400, divided as follows
Staff and personnel, particularly te
expand the public nursing service
$50, 400; school medical inspection
personnel and equipment, s24,soo
anti-tuberculosis service personnel ant
equipment, $4,000; travelling fund
$1,000.
Public Nurses Needed.
In a memorandum which he sub
mitted to the Senate committee, DR.
Rutland pointed particularly to th'
need Of improved public health nurs
ing facilities. In the District, ht
said. the total Of available public
health nurses, both in official as vel
as volunteer service, is only one-thirc
of the accepted minimum for public
health nursing.
THE particular plan of public
health nursing which Is proposed fol
the department is the so-called gen.
eralized educational type. Under thi!
plan a nurse deals with all of tht
various health problems in a distinctl,
assigned district. It has proved
itself to be not only more effective, bu
also more economical than the so.
called specialized nursing system"
So convincing, evidently, were DR.
Ruhland's arguments that the Senate
adopted his program and increased
the appropriation item by the request
ed amount. In conference with the
House, however, the increase was
stricken from the bill and the point
was raised that lack Of consideration
Evening star., 1935-07-12
ROUTE CONQUERED
BY LAURA INGALLS,
Flies East to West in Nom
Stop Trip-May Try
Hop East Again.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BURBANK, Calf, July 12-Laura
Ingalls, today dreamed Of new aU-
alton laurels after conquering the
transcontinetnal skyways yesterday
in the first nonstop East-to-West
flight by woman.
The 30-year-old l20-pound aviatrix
made the gruelling but uneventful
trip in 18 hours 10 minutes 80 Sec
onds-too slow for record between
the oceans.
Il may try for a West-to-E East fight
for q record" she said. "I'u know
definitely in q few days"
Miss ingalls,. bringing her new $40
600 monoplane to a safe landing at
Union Air Terminal at dusk, said it
was an ordeal, but I'm glad I
made it."
Leaving Floyd Bennett Field at New
York, Miss ingalls, followed q course
over Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago.
Kansas City and on to the coast. She
said she hit strong headwinds and
an electrical storm east of Winslow,
Ariz., which slowed her time.
Her contemplated return flight to
the East will be her third attempt to
beat Amelia Earhart's mark of IT
hours minutes and 80 seconds.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
TWAIN GOT HUMOR
FROM HIS MOTHER
Missourian Says Famous Writer'S
Father Was Never Known
to Smile.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, Mo-, July 12.-The
world has Mark Twain's mother to
thank for his humor, as well as for
his drawl, one who knew the famous
humorist said last night.
The authors father, said Morris
Anderson of Hannibal, Mo-, where
Mark Twain spent his childhood, twas
rever known to laugh-and seldom
smiled"
Anderson, chairman Of the Mark
Twain Centennial Committee, des-
scribed the writer's parents in an ad-
dress, one of a series in commemora-
ton Of the Tooth anniversary Of his
birth.
Mark Twain's mother" Anderson
said, was the Aunt Polly of Tom
Sawyer She lived next door to my
grandmother. She read everything
she could get her hands on. This was
perhaps why her husband helped to
found the library that in time came
to be the first free library in Missouri.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
ALASKA PIONEERS
CONQUER FLOOD
Twenty Fight Way Through
Waters to Attend Meet
ing at Camp.

PALMER, Alaska, July IL (NA.
MAJ Some of the Matanuska pio-
neers have encountered some genuine
pioneering hardships. They found
themselves in the midst of the worst
Matanuska River food in so years
and waded three miles through tor
rent from knee to waist deep.
About 20 men had pitched a log
ging camp at the foot of promontory
rising directly off the valley floor across
the river from headquarters camp at
Palmer.
In a hot day or two the river rose
from a hamless, shallow stream into
rushing. unruly flow Of ice-cold
water, mud and tree trunks, all churn-
ed together. 1t slipped over its left
bank and spread into a stretch Of low
land between Palmer and the Butte.
Unaware of Flood.
Unaware of the foods extent, the
Butte pioneers started out for Palmer
one noon to attend q headquarters
camp meeting. They waded a mile or
so along a road they had stamped out
through the trees, not realizing their
danger until they were just as well of
trying to go through the torrent as
to turn back.
A few of the men had two teams
hitched to wagons. They stood up in
the boxes. At places the water swirled
ankle-deep through the wagon boards.
Timbers 10 and II feet long rammed
through the flooded trees. Men afoot
lodged them and kept bucking against
the rushing water.
The men coming through with the
teams got along all right until they
came to an old creek channel spanned
by a timber bridge. The bridge was
under water, but they guessed at its
location and the first team started
over.
Horses Are Rescued.
The bridge gave way. The horses
plunged into the channel, dragging
the wagon with them. Otto Peterson
and his companions leaped for the
banks, which were under water, too.
Peterson grabbed one horse by the
neck and held its head out of water
while another man grasped the strug-
Cling beasts tail. A third man bat
tied to unhook the team from the
wagon. For a moment it appeared
the horses were doomed. But the pio-
neers whipped the flood. They got
the horses unhitched, abandoned the
wagon and continued on to Palmer.
Pat Hemmer, following with the
second team, turned back at the
washed-out bridge, fought his way to
the Butte camp and waited until the
water subsidized somewhat before
bucking the stream again. He made
1t to town next day.
Copyright 1885 by North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1935-07-12
MOOSE FOR THE TAKING,
NAMES OFFER TO SMITH
Honorary Head Of Zoo, Who Ask
ed Donation of Two Animals,
Gets Hunting License.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 12.-Even in his
disappointment, AL Smith chuckled.
AS honorary night superintendent
of the Central Park Zoo. Smith has
written the Governors of various
States asking that each contribute one
Of its native animals.
Hearing that Maine was overrun
with moose, he asked Gov. Louis j.
Brann If he would like to present q
pair to the zoo.
Brann's reply was hrief and pointed.
It was a hunting license
HE must be Republican Cover
nor" lamented the honorary night
superintendent.
But the H. N. s. was wrong. Brann,
too, is a Democrat.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
AA.A. STRANDED
BAR TO RECOVERY
Advertisers and Publishers
Declare Amendments
Must Be Beaten.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 12.-Executive
officers Of seven major associations of
advertisers and publishers joined last
night in q statement terming pro-
posed amendments to the agricultural
adjustment act "an open challenge
70 the economic recovery of this
: country and inevitable obstruction to
Eecovery.'
Barnum Heads Signers.
Heading the signers was Jerome D.
Barnum, president of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association,
who was engaged in q vigorous de-
bate on the A. A. A. amendments with
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
o. The other signers were Allyn B.
McIntire, president, Association Of
National Advertisers; w. B. Warner,
president, National Publishers AsSo-
citation magazines and periodicals.; ;
John Benson, president, American
Association of Advertising Agencies;
Harry J. Prudden, Newspaper Repre-
sentatives' Association of New York;
George ]. Auer, Newspaper Adver-
tising Executives Association, and
Everit B. Terhune, president, Associ-
ated Business Papers, Inc.
Evils Are Outlined.
The statement charged:
"The bill places exorbitant taxes
on the very necessities of ife-food,
shelter, furniture and clothing
ranging as high as 125 per cent on
some of these items.
"It strikes the working man and
woman, the wage Garner, the very
hardest.
1T contains the power, not only
to regulate and restrict advertising
of all commodities embraced in its
sweeping provision, but to prohibit
advertising.
1T threatens the existence of the
newspapers, the magazines and the
radio, and all other forms of COM
mercial printing and advertising.
Imperils Jobs o. Thousands.
cit imperils the jobs of hundreds Of
thousands Of employees of newspapers,
magazines and radio stations.
ut endangers the very life of some
Of our greatest manufacturing in
dustries, such as the millers, the pack
erS, the Gamers and the tobacco man
ufacturers, as well as the security Of
their employees.
by its power to regulate distribu-
tion and allocate markets, it threat
ems our transportation system, on
water and on land.
In fact, it is an open challenge to
the economic recovery of this coun-
try; an inevitable obstruction to re-
Covery.
THE measure must be beaten"
SENATE NEARS VOTE.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
SENATE NEARS VOTE.
Smith Makes Appeal for Measure
After Attack.

By the Associated Press.
After hearing critics denounce the
A. A. A. bill as a Soviet measure
and its processing tax provisions as
''tyrannical," the Senate today neareo
a final vote on the measure.
Senator Smith, Democrat, of South
Carolina, in charge of the bill, ap-
pealed for vote by tonight on
grounds all long speeches are finished
Amendments to the A. A. A. bill
extending cotton and tobacco control
acts for another year were adopted
late yesterday with scarcely dissent
ing voice. But several Senators at
tackled processing tax sections of the
bill intended to guarantee constitu-
tionality Of the crops control program.
Amendments were offered by Sem
ator Borah, Republican, of Idaho,
striking out sections blocking tax re-
covery suits and the section halting
future injunction action against the
taxes Another amendment he pro-
posed would eliminate section legal
izing all processing taxes heretofore
applied by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture.
Smith held that most professors al
ready had passed the tax on to con-
sumers, but Borah contended those
unable to do so would be denied the
right of courts to determine whether
the tax itself is legal. He said it
would be tyranny" to take property
illegally from citizen and then come
and declare it was legal"
Senator Schall, Republican. Of
Minnesota called the whole A. A. A.
plan "a Soviet measure"
You might as well abolish the De-
partment of Justice and the courts"
as restrain citizens from tax suits,
said Senator Dickinson, Republican,
of Iowa, at another point in the de-
bate.
Borah conceded there was ground
for the doctrine of denying individuals
the right to sue the sovereign, but
objected that recently it was being
Extended into many lines
Evening star., 1935-07-12
LIFE GUARD JOB EASY
Floating Hospitals Children Too
Well Protected for Worry.

NEW YORK R.-Herbert Olson has
the easiest job in New York. He is
hfeguard for the floating hospital, the
boat that makes daily trips down New
York Harbor with children who need
sunshine and fresh air.
Olson sits in row boat tied to the
stern Of the vessel to be handy If one
Of the children falls overheard. He
hasn't had to make a rescue yet, be-
cause the children are under heavy
precautions.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Gas Routs Bees From House.

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (P.-Returning
from shopping trip Mr.. and Mrs.
Harden Nelson found swarming bees
had taken possession of the two-story
house. Shooting" did no good, but
the gas spray, recommended by the
county farm agent, did the job. ~
Evening star., 1935-07-12
WOMAN CLAIMS DRESS
ON ROBBERY SUSPECT

CHICAGO R.-Mrs. Beatrice Hor-
wich was called to identify stolen
property recovered by the police.
When she saw the woman burglar
suspect she exclaimed:
That's my dress she's wearing"
Police ordered the suspect to doff
the gown. She reappeared from an
ante room, tossed the gown over and
said:
"Give it to her. she can't wear it
anyway"
The dress was torn In several places.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
MANS ILL SUPPLIES
CLUE TO AID HORSES
Animals, Used as Test Tube for
Humans, Benefited in Turn
by His Suffering.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., suly u
N" Animals, long subjects of study
ir improvement of human health,
al netting by the sufferings Of
yample, DR.. Cassius Way told
tt Jersey Veterinary Medical
A on science discovered that
81 housemaid's knee and police
n eel were forms of arthritis.
v rianS went on to discover
q ng bones, spavinS, curbS and
sr in race horses are forms of
th me disease.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
COMEDIAN IS CONVICTED
ON INTOXICATION COUNT
Mrs. Vinne Barnett Acquitted In
Hollywood Following Poster
Tearing Episode.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. July 12.-vinne
Barnett, comedian and film colony
"rib5er," was convicted on q charge
of intoxication III Municipal Court
here yesterday. His wife, Mrs. Gene
We've Barnett, Was acquitted.
The Barnetts were arrested after q
poster tearing episode outside down
town Los Angeles tnester. Barnett
claimed fans were removing posters
and photographs frcm the theater
lobby and he was autographing them.
Both denied they had been drinking.
Mrs. Barnett testified that after she
had accompanied ner husband to the
police station, Patrolman Ogletree
said: "sister, you talk too much. I'm
going to book you too"
Evening star., 1935-12-12
JUNIORS FRIDAY FINDS

ts) TAILORED AND DRESs-UP
crepeS in cunning styles.
Were 1928 to 1875. TO OE
NOW -------------
(5) INTERESTING EVENING
dresses for Junior
NSy S5yIi'''' Were 1878 1895
GS) SMART CREPE DRESSES,
were l6.95e Now IN 0S
price-eut to only 1O'IO
u6) JUNIORS FORMALs. start
ed life al 1928. They're
holiday BARGAINS 1905
12D sPRIGHTLY CREPEs for
dress-up or tailored occasions.
Were 1928 and 1928. q 90
NOW
Evening star., 1935-12-12
D. c. AVIATOR GIVES.
u. .S.MOST RECORDS
Ben King Sets Two New
World Marks for Small
SeapIaneS.

BY establishing two new world re-
cords for small seaplanes yesterday at
Miami, Ben King, Washington anna
teur aviator, has for the third time in
six months placed the United States
in world leadership In the holding OF
international aviation records.
King, a civil engineer who lives in
the WestcheSter Apartments and flies
"for the love of flying" yesterday
established two world speed records for
midget airplarles. according to an AS
ISOLATED Press dispatch from Miami,
where the all-American air maneuvers
opened today.
No Previous Record.
He first few T0.48 miles an hour
over a 500-kilometer course, creating
an original record for Seaplanes
Weighing less than 551 pounds. No
record existed previously in this class.
Later in the day he few the same
tiny two-cylinder engined plane over
a -kilometer course at so .931 miles
per hour, breaking the record of 1928
miles per hour established for France
FIVE years ago by Pilot Vercruysse.
These two records brought to 80 the
number in the possession of the United
States and, by taking one from France,
left 1t with 38 records.
Sets Other Marks.
Last June, King set two world marks
and two national records in a flight
from New York to Whitney's Landing,
IL miles from Annapolis, Md. moving
the United States into a tie with
France for world aviation leadership,
A week later he few from Port Wash
ington, Long Island, to the Anacostia
Naval Air Station to smash another
light plane distance record and put
the United States into the lead.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
TREE FUNDS SOUGHT

Solicitation Of funds for the annual
community Christmas tree program,
arranged by the Alley Improvement
Association, was announced yesterday
by that organization. The ceremonies,
he'd each year in memory Of J. Milton
waldron, founder Of the association,
are planned for benefit of the needy
in the courts and alleys of WaEhing-
ton.
This year the tree will be in the
Shiloh Baptist Church, Ninth and
P streets. Contributions may be sent
to Mrs. J. M. Waldron, 2223 Twelfth
street.
Evening star., 1935-12-12

Ave little sisters viii be glad to see
them, too.
SO far there has been no shower Of
presents. Perhaps there will be fewer
than last Christmas. when the girls
were only months old. compare
lively poor, and needed toys, clothes
and furnishings for their home.
DR.. Allan Roy Dafoe, their physi-
clan, said today no presents had been
received, but Christmas is still two
weeks away. Plans for the holiday at
the hospital have not yet been made
the quints have been busy movie
making-but they are sure to include
at least one Christmas tree and per-
haps DIR. Dafoe will dress up in q
Evening star., 1935-12-12

(5) JUNIORS vELvETEENs,
were 1888. Now they're O 90
bright buys at only O'OO
uD JUNIORS WINTER WOODS.
high colors you like. O 90
Were IL 95. Now OsOO
U0 GAY YOUNG FORMALs,
were 1925 to IA.q5.
Now they're reduced & ~
to q mere e---- OsOO
(2) BEAVERETTE TRIMMED
SUITS. were 2p.75. They're
=. d f-rFlllins BUYS 1926
3 ~ 1915 JUNIOR SUIT. with .
three-uuarter aRger coat.
Wolf pouch collar. 1605
Now only------- AO'%O
Evening star., 1935-12-12
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
CHICAGO. December PA hun
dred and eight years old tomorrow
Friday, the 13thl
1t was not how she happened to live
so long that puzzled Mrs. Martha
Steiger today, but why?
Undoubtedly" she is won't to tell
her family of daughters, IL grand
children, 80 .great-grandchildren and
6 Observation-Disclosures, Its for
some very good reason-perhapS /
don't quite understand it.
But I know there is something in
this pattern of life have to get done
even though it seems to be taking a
long, long time"
That was why, her daughter, Mrs.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
Woman, lO8 on Friday, the 18th,
Says Tasks Not Yet Completed

Bertha Deering, with whom she lives
in suburban Park Ridge. said the CEN
tenarian was content to live on "calms
ly awaiting her time"
She has been blind for the past two
years, but this, too, Mrs. Deering said,
she accepted as part Of the scheme of
things" She is deeply religious and
passes many hours singing old hymns
to herself.
Her mind is clear, Mrs Deering said.
and her hearing still sharp. As for
her appetite
"Oh, that's great. She eats nearly
everything save meat She likes cake
Evening star., 1935-12-12
ECLIPSE ON CHRISTMAS
TOBE SEVENTH IN YEAR
Astronomer at Hayden Planeta-
rum Says Only Four Will
Occur in 1885.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December l2.-An
eclipse on Christmas day will be the
seventh this year, but only four will
occur in 1886, the American Museum
Of Natural History announced today.
Two will be of the sun and two OF
the moon. none OF them visible in the
United States, said DR.. Clyde Fisher,
curator of astronomy at the museum
and head of the Hayden Planetarium.
Instead, he said, American sky
scanners should consider themselves
extremely fortunate" that they saw
o. total eclipse of the moon last July
and a partial eclipse of the sun in
February.
The Christmas eclipse of the sun
will complete a cycle which scientists
believe began 1,407 years ago,
Fisher. commenting on the 1885 rec
ord, said seven eclpses in one year
are extremely rare"
Evening star., 1935-12-12

II you can use a few extra
street or formal dresses,
clap on your hat and speed
for LAnSburgh's. All these
dresses are attractive and
wearable right now. Sizes
for misses. women, little
women, stouts.
LANSBURGH
Evening star., 1935-12-12
Lions Entertain Wives

Members Of the Lions Club enter
tanned their wives at ladies day"
meeting yesterday at the Hosel My
flower. The program included several
entertainment acts and the showing
Of sound motion pictures. Mr.. and
Mrs. Chester C. Caywood we're in
charge.
Evening star., 1935-12-12

and she wants a big one for her. birth
day. She is excited because I'm plan
ming to have all the family-and that's
crowd-in for q party. She remem-
bers them by name"
Because Of the excitement Of her big
day tomorrow she had been instructed
to get all the sleep she could before
hand.
Mrs. Steiger was born in Germany
in 1927 and came to this country in
1888.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
Books for Prison Asked.

sLANSING, Kans, December IL P.
Chaplain H. H. Fowler of the Kansas
State Penitentiary made an appeal to-
day for books for the prison library.
"A heavy demand has been noted, he
eaid, for books ION travel"
Evening star., 1935-12-12

white beard and red Santa Claus suit
again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Olivia Dionne, the
babies parents. probably will be in
vited to the hospital for Christmas
dinner and 1t is likely they will bring
along their five older children TO see
the quintuplets.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
FLOOD OF PRESENTS
LIKELY FOR CUNTS
Wealthy Movie Actresses Now,
Don't Need Gifts as Badly
as Last Year.
Axsoc,ated prass.

By the Associated Press.
CALLANDER, Ontario, December
l2.-wealthy movie actresses now, the
Dionne quintuplets don't need presents
this Christmas as they did last Yule-
tide. but the gifts are expected to start
rolling in soon.
Like other children, rich or poor, the