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The Washington times., 1935-03-08
OxOn Hill School
High in Attendance

UPPER MARLBORO, Md,
March 8.-The Oxon Hill High
School, with 97.4 Pc cent, won
the attendance record among
Prince Georges county public
schools for February, according to
the report today of Miss Kathleen
Shears, attendance officer, to the
Board of Education.
Tippett won the banner in the
one-room school division, with
96.6 per cent; Ritchie School in
the two-room division, with 95.4;
University Park in the elementary
grade, with 93.5, and the Mary
land Park Junior High, with 95.
Lakeland and Blenndale won
among colored schools with 94.6
and 94.5, respectively.
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ASKS $4,000
|. AS LOVE COOLS

UPPER MARLBORO, Nd,
March 8.-Charging Ednah R.
Kerwin, of Largo, with stealing
the affections of Lake w. Koontz,
Hazel C. Koontz, 200 block Massa-
chusetts Avenue N. E., filed suit
for $4,000 damages in the
Prince Georges county circuit
court yesterday.
Their married life was blissful
from 1920 to June, 1880, Mrs.
Koontz asserts in a bill made out
by Robert w. Mccullough as her
legal counsel. Then her husband
is alleged to have been persuaded
to make trips during which the
defendant stole his affections.
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REV. 'CONNOR
To Be BURIED
TOMORROW

Final services will be held to-
morrow for the Rev. James j
O'Connor, for many years a be-
loved Washington priest.
Father O'Connor, for Is years
assistant at st. Augustine's
Church, died Wednesday in Bal
timore, where he was at st. Anne's
Church. Requiem mass will be
held there tomorrow morning,
followed by inter7nent in Mount
Olivet Cemetery here.
Born in Washington 54 years
ago, Father O'Connor was edu-
Gated at Gonzaga College and st.
Mary's Seminary. He was later
pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes
Church at Bethesda.
The Washington times., 1935-03-08
Passenger on Train
Sees Hanging Man

NEW YORK.-August Dreyer,
Of Crestwood, N. Y, former fire
chief of Yonkers, saw man hang
ing from a tree near the Bronx
River as the train on which he
was coming to New York passed
the spot. He got off at the Ford
ham Road station, the next stop,
and notified police.
They found a dead man, about
S5 years old, hanging from the
tree by a new Sashcord. He had
been dead for several hours.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES

Moe Schecter, 90, and Esther Green,
%, both of Brooklyn, n. Y.
Ben Ellison, 90. 1422 New Jersey Ave.
n. W. and Frances Farley, %, sS6 L
st.
James Fuller. 81. IA Chapel Ave.
n: E., and Bernice Mcdowell, 19, lis
Chapel Ave. N. E.
Clarence Galloway, 25, 31s F st. s.
W" and katherine Thompson, 2S, S16 F
St. S. w.
George H. Fogle, %, and Beulah D.
Vann, IS, both Of 2S25 Twenty-seventh h
st. N. w.
Lawrence B. Drinaud, "a, Richmond,
Va and Juanita L. Hatch, %, Whining
ton, n. C.
Walter D. Bozell. q. Marine Bar
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MRS. ARCHIBALD SMALL

Funeral services for Mrs. Archt-
bald Small, 73, will be held at
Grace Episcopal Church, Wood
side, Md, tomorrow at 2 p. M,
the Rev. Frederick M. Morris
officiating.
Mrs. Small, an active and de-
vout church worker, was found
dead in her home yesterday morn
ing by Quarles Fleet, the church
janitor, who had called at her
home at the request of the Rev.
Mr.. Morris, who had noticed her
absence during the church services
the previous night.
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BIRTHS

Guyon and Margaret Foxwell, boy.
Benjamin and Hilda Naddeo, boy.
Harold and Dorothy Klein, boy.
Francis and Elizabeth Wattay, boy.
William and Bride Clarke, boy.
Ferguson and Lena Gemeny, boy.
William and Daisy Baldwin, boy.
Bernard and Dorothy Wilkinson, boy
Howard and Louise Smith, girl.
William and Nettie Simmons, girl.
Joseph and Edith Williams, girl.
Claude and Emily Council, girl.
John and Helen Myers, girl.
kirthie and Ella Marshall, girl. q,
Augustus and Gather Jackson, boy.
Julien and Isabel Nell, boy.
Emanuel and Beulah Weaver, 10y.
James and Elizabeth Carter. boz.
Abrams and Make Nixon, glrL
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Cans of Peaches
ROut HOldup Man

HEATHvILLE, Va, March 8
(SpeciaD 1T cost w. D. Parke,
local merchant, two cans Of
peaches and show window to rid
his store of a would-be robber, but
he saved what money he had in
the safe by throwing the cans Of
peaches at the intruder.
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Farm
To Add 7 Acres

UPPER MARLBORO, Md,
March 8.-Condemnation proceed
ings to add seven more acres to
the Beltsville Government Farm
will be held in the Baltimore Fed
eral Court April 5, under a court
order received here today.
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DEATHS

william H. Finckel, SO years. 25OS
Cliffbourne Pl. n. w.
George r. Hunter, SO years, Sibley
Hospital.
Catherine Walters, rs years. 2514 Four
teenth St. y. w.
Walter NJ. Mcfarland, rs years, 1853
Columbia Rd. n. w.
side Ter. \. W.
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WORK ON SIDEWALK

ROCKVILLE, Md, March 8
(SpeciaD Construction of ap-
proximately 1000 feet of sidewalks
in the subdivision of Linden will
be started Immediately with E.
w. A. laborers. Stephen c. Crom-
well, manager of the local E. w.
A. office announced today. Thirty
men will be placed on the job
for nearly 40 days, he declared.
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S. ID. MACKEY

Requiem mass was said today
for Samuel D. Mackey, the first
man to be sworn into the District
fire department.
Mr.. Mackey, who was 80 years
old, died Tuesday at his home,
5000 block Warder st. N. W., after
a brief illness.
Joining the fire department in
1860, he served until 1885 and then
resigned, but continued in the Dis
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REV. S. ]. PORTER

Brother clergymen Of Baptist
churches in Washington will serve
as honorary pallbearers tomorrow
at the funeral of the Rev. Samuel
JudSon Porter, pastor emeritus Of
the First Baptist Church.
The services will be held at 2:30
p. m. from the church he served as
pastor for many years, followed by
interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery.
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In MHmnriam

In MemOriam 3
BINNS. MARY En- sad but loving re-
membrance of our dear mother, MARY
E. B1NNS who died one year ago today,
March 8, 1884.
How sadly We counted the hours
That measured this sorrOwful year,
Since we laid meath mantle of flowers
Our dearling mother We loved SO dear
And tho the circle is broken
And parting has filled us with pain,
We hold as a glorious token
The bright hope of meeting again.
By her devoted son and daughter.
DULANEY RINNS AND
MARION LA MAY
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MRS. MARIE SKINNER

Funeral services were held TO-
day for Mrs. Marie Sipe Skinner,
former art supervisor for the pub
lie schools, who died Tuesday af-
ter an illness Of several years.
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trict service until several years
ago.
The funeral rites we're held at
st. Dominics Church followed by
interment in Congressional Gene
terry.
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MACKEY. SAMUEL D.-On Wednesday,
March 6. 1885. at Providence Hospital,
SAMUEL D. MACKEY. the beloved hus-
band Of the late Joeanna Mackey (nee
Neitzeyl in the ninety.third year of his age.
Funeral from his late residence. 1851
Warder Street Northwest, on Friday.
March 3. 1895. at s:45 a. m: thence 10
St. Dominic's Church. Sixth and E Streers
Southwest. where high requiem mass will
be offered at $50 a. m. for the repose
of his soul.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend
Interment in Congressional Cemetery.
ARRANGEMENTS by 2 A TaltaYnll
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PAVLOPOULOS. PETER N.-on Thurs
day. March 7, 1895; at his -, residence. esd.
735 First Street Northwest. PETER n:
PAvLOPOULOS. the beloved husband Of
Baailo Pavlopoulos.
Funeral will he held from his late re i
dence, 735 First Street Northwest, on Sat
urdav afternoon, March o. 1895. at ! 80
o'clock. thence to St. Sophia's Greek
Church. Eighth and L Streets Northwest.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend
terv
Services hv Chambers
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lracks, and claudins L. Davis. 20. 2OS1
F ST.
Talbot L. Purvis. 20. s23 Kentucky
Ave. S. E., and Edith r. Motley, 81, all
Kentucky Ave- s. f.
Joseph B. Patterson. rs, 313 H st.
n. W., and Anne L. Randlette, 25, Rich
mond, Va.
Cokis Rice, 40. Dallas, Tex, and Oar.
inko A. Dimitrova, 2S, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Lenwood White, %. and Mary A. Dor
sey, p, both of 424 Q St. n. w.
Charles H. Linstid, %. and Mildred Y,
King 30, both Of Baltimore, Md
Lloyd w. Henson. 10. 1l13 VI st. s.
E., and Amy E. Carter, 19, 631 K st.
John ]. Smith. 20. somerville. Mass.
and Francis l. Scott, "a, Tappahan-
mock, Va.
ROCKVILLE, Md, March (SpeciaD.
The following marriage licenses were
issued here today by the clerk of the
court for Montgomery county: William
Louis Kegley, 21. and Grace Louise
Ihorp. IS, both of Washington, d. C.;
waiter Lee Thompson, %. of Norbeck,
Nd, and Helen Lee Richards 49, Of
CIarksburg Md; Holmes Ashby Orndoff.
u and Virginia Grace Evans, 20, both
OF Washington, d. c.; Austin A. Sweems.
-, and Helen l.. Lewis, 23, both of
Washington, d. G..
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HANSON, PETER-On Wednesday. March
9, 1885, at Mount Alto Hospital PETER
HANSON, the beloved husband of Sophia
Hanson. Late residence. Clarendon, Va
Remains resting at the W. W. Chambers
Company funeral home. Fourteenth and
Chaplin Streets Northwe IT.
Funeral will be held on Saturday morn
ing, March g.. 1885. at 10 o'clock from
the W. w Chambers Company funeral
home. 400 Chaplin Street Northwest
Services and interment at Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery with military honors at
10 80 a. M.
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YAPLE; RALPH F.. JR.-On Thursday,
March Z, 1895, RALPH F. YAPLF n
aged weeks. the beloved son of RaInb =
and Gladys Yaple (nee Carter), of Fort
howard. Nd. Remains. resting at the
home. 517 Eleventh Street Soitbeast d.
Funeral services will be held on Frid,v
attern9Sn' after March 8; 1885 at 80 O'Clock.
from the W. "; Chambers Co Southeast
east 0outh'
attend 'A'eu u
Interment will follow in Fort lincoln
Cemetery. H'ncoI"
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MarcS g. Ss5 HvvA ErdSG SoRGnH mar"'TT me-
beloved daughter of Antonio and Philo-
mena Norcia and sister of Ralph Norcia,
Rosie Norcia. Virginia Norcia and Mrs.
Mary Norca.
Funeral services will he held from her
parents residence. 535 Third st. N. F.
Notice Of time of services hereafter.
Services by Chambers Southeast funeral
home
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DIED

March 7, 1885, at Emergency Hospital
age 16 years. EDITH MARIE DYGERT
beloved daughter of Harry E. and Eliza.
beth Knight Dygert and sister of Grace E.
Dygert.
Funeral services from her late residence,
1412 Massachusetts Ave. S. E., on Satur-
day, March 9. at 3 p. m.
Friends are invited to attend.
Interuent in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Richmond Va, papers please copy.
Services by the w. W. Chambers Co.
Southeast funeral home
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Funeral services will be held on Satur.
day morning. March 9. 1898, at II o'clock
from the W, W. Chambers Co. Southeast
funeral home, 517 Eleventh STREET South.
The Washington times., 1935-03-08

MILLER. EMORY HOGE-on wednesday.
March g. 1895. at his residence. 1888
Irving Street Northwest. EMORY HCGE
MILLER. the beloved husband of Matilda
Miller Besides his wife. he is also sur
vived by three children two daughters.
Mrs Charles B. Good and Miss Haznl Mil.
ler and one son. Emory n. Miller. ir.
Funcral services will he held from his
late residence. 1898 Irving Street North.
west on Saturday afternoon, March 8.
1898 at o'clock
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend
Interment will follow in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Services by Chambers
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WOODROW, JOHN Ton wednesday
March 8. 1895, at his residence, Forrsi,'
vile, Nd. JOHN T. WOODROW, beloved
survived by one daughter and three sons
Mrs. Annie Clifton, of Washington, D, G :.
James, Clarence and Sandy woodrow. of
FEorestVllle; Md. and three granddaughters
daisy. Catherine and Annie Woodrow,
=, Funeral from his residence on SUNDAY
March 10 1885, at 10 80 a. M, thence 10
Jackson M f. Church, Forestville. Md
a. m. @" -
.oIS Relatives and friends are invited to at
IN Int Interment + in Payne's Cemetery, Wash
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DIED
II II n NILIE

TE n LILLE. ANNIE FOWLER-On
NNIR NWNeITRResday Eai,,, mTorning. March 6, 1895,
late William D. Tennille and daughter of
me late John and Annie Brooks Fowlcr
o;ster oil Lonqon no n and Salisbury, England. and
Remains resting at the w. W. Chamhers
Company funeral home. Fourteenth and
Chapln Streets Northwest. "''N
Funeral services will be held on FRIDAY
afternoon, March s, 1888. at q o,niony
from the W. W. Chambers Companv 'oM fr.
neral nome. l40O Chaplin Street Northwest
Relatives and friends invited
lnterment STRICTLY nriNata Dramatic.
Evening star., 1935-07-20

Five of the basic processes of Natures
sunshine cannery have been determined
by chemists of the Fixed Nitrogen Lab
oratory of the Department OF Agri-
culture
These discoveries include a primitive
carbohydrate which appears to be q
keystone of life on earth. The forma-
ton of this substance out of water and
carbon dioxide gas is the fundamental
process from which all the others pro-
ceed.
The transformation, as described by
Dr. Dean Burk of the Fixed Nitrogen
Laboratory staff, is brought about with
the energy of sunlight through two
catalystS-substance which promote
chemical changes but do not enter them
selves into the product Of the chemical
action. One of these catalyStS is chloro-
phyll, the green pigment of leaves, which
has been known for a long time. The
other is a recently discovered engine.
This primitive carbohydrate which re-
suits from the initial chemical process
is in the same class with most Of the
common foods which supply heat and
energy when they are broken up in the
animal body and the stored sunlight IS
released
Once this primitive carbohydrate is
formed, a new chemical process starts.
Both the chlorophyl and the engine
are released from the combination, while
the water, carbon dioxide and solar en-
ergy remain bound together. The cata-
lystS are free to start the process all
over again and "can" some more sun
light combined with carbon dioxide and
water in the form of the basic carbo-
hydrate.
This process can take place only in
plants. All animals-and all plants
which do not possess the chlorophyll-
must depend on these plants for their
food supply. They have no capacity In
themselves for the direct storing OF
sunlight, which Is the basic form OF all
energy on earth. In the animal body,
of course, the carbohydrate enters into
new combinations retaining large part
of its stored energy. The plants may
be transformed into coal or the animals
into oil which retains the solar energy
for use as fuel millions of years hence.
If the process of sunshine canning ever
failed all life on earth would cease IN
a very short time.
Neither plants nor animals, however.
can live on carbohydrates alone. Ali
but few of the simplest organisms need
foods that include nitrogen in their
composition the So-called protelnS.
There is an unlimited supply OF nitro
gen in the atmosphere. 1t comprises
four-fifths of the air we breathe.
The animal, however, simply breatheS
it in and out again. None of it remains
in the tissues to supply the food needs
of the organism. Some plants, however,
have the capacity for fixing" this gas
in their cells. In recent years man has
learned how to get nitrogen from the
air for use in fertilizer, but by rela-
lively inefficient and costly method re-
curing high pressures, high tempera-
lures and enormous expenditure of elec-
trical energy. DR.. Burke and his asso-
ciate, Hans Lineweaver, have continued
their investigations to determine how
the plant does the job so much more
easily.
Dealing with some of the simplest
plants that are capable Of using nitrogen.
Evening star., 1935-07-20
Difference Between the
Drys and PrOhibitiOnists

To the Editor of The Star
The replies published in The Star to
the letter of Mr. Walter Walton indicate
clearly the difference between prohi-
bitionist and a dry. Mr.. Walton pro-
feSsed to be a prohibitionist, but is
really dry. I, too, am a dry. His
critics are prohibitionists.
It was the drys who defeated ma
tional prohibition and brought about
repeal. There never were enough vets
to do it. Repeal was opposed by the
prohibitioniStS. The difference between
them is the difference between pure
fanaticism and reason; between blind
faith and enlightened science; between
fiction and fact.
1t is the unseeing loyalty to a cause
that induces such a sincere advocate as
Mr.. Mahoney to give voice to such
inaccuracies as that 800 drunken boys
under q years of age have been arrested
in Washington during the last IL
months" and his statements that court
and other records" indicate great in
creases in deaths and injuries from
drunken driving and crime and poverty
due to intoxicating liquors since repeal.
An inquiry at police headquarters re-
NCdlo Illdb bI1CLC Aldo OCOA1 AAO oOAAOA hAeAA
number of juvenile delinquencieS during
the past II months, with no increase in
the percentage due to alcoholism. Pow
erty we have with us as never before
and automobile accidents are on the
increase. While liquor drinking, as
during the late lamented bootleg era,
still has a good deal to do with irre-
sponsible motor plotting, the record will
not support the theory that alcohol
accounts for any very great proportion
of the accidents. Far more are due to
daring carelessneSs of the modern driver,
and the speed to which the present auto
mobile is geared.
That poverty has no relation to pres
ent liquor drinking must be apparent
to all who are familiar with conditions.
1t was the old saloon, where pay checks
were caShed, bad associations formed
and designing owners all but robbed
their helpless patrons that made drunk
ards of men. These were the poverty
breeders. Happily this ancient institu-
ton has disappeared under modern
repeal conditions and it never will return
as long as we have the wise plan of
easy and wide distribution now in vogue.
Drinking has become respectable and
we should thank God not so much for
the disappearance of the brothel as for
the elimination of the type of de-
bauchery that made the brothel possible.
Mr.. Jones, too, reaches his conclusions
without considering the facts. America S
greatest authority, Director Joseph H.
Choate of the Federal Alcohol Control
Administration, after estimating the
rrncant cnnSI1mnti0n of Illicit linIlOr as
being greater than that upon which tax
is paid, recently stated that unless the
present huge capacities of distilleries are
Immediately increased America will be
faced with shortage which must be
supplied by imports.
The cry that repeal has failed and
that prohibition must come back will
avail us nothing. 1t is like shouting
into a rain barrel.
MRS. BERTHA BOUROUGHS.
Evening star., 1935-07-20
Tax Rate and Surplus.

All discussion of District finances for
the current fiscal year and OF the re-
Gently enacted appropriation bill has
been predicated upon continuation OF
the $150 tax rate on real estate and
personal property. The Commission
ers' formal announcement of that rate
for the current year, made yesterday,
was anticipated as long ago as last Fall,
when budget estimates were submitted.
The important feature of the announce
ment is Auditor DonovanS estimate o,
a three million dollar surplus at the
close of the current fiscal year; an es-
innate based, however, on the revenue
demands written into the appropriation
bill and not taking into consideration
further demands resulting from enact"
ment of the social security legislation.
The amount of these is still prob
lematical. Estimates of expenditures for
the needy District and old-age pensions
are somewhat hazy. The final form of
the local unemployment insurance bill
is yet to be decided upon. AS passed
by the House it would require an i'm
mediate appropriation of $750,OO0 from
local revenues, but notifications already
decided on in the pending Senate bill
and the united local sentiment against
any appropriation from general revenues
to augment the proceeds of the pay roll
tax may eliminate that item entirely.
In the deficiency bill, however, now
awaiting conference between House and
Senate is included an appropriation
for the local health program. 1t does
not meet the requirements outlined by
DR.. Rutland and the medical author
tiles. But it represents a beginning.
Furthermore, it will furnish the Health
Department with normal maintenance
funds, which were cut in the regular
appropriation bill.
Congress should grant the requested
appropriation without question. The
money is available, as Mr.. Donovan's
estimate demonstrates. To pile up a
surplus of tax money by neglecting es-
sential needs of the community is not
merely poor economy. 1t is nothing less
than diSgraceful.
Evening star., 1935-07-20
Washington's Water Gate.

AS long as the memory of living Wash
ingtonianS runs-and indeed longer
distinguished visitors to Washington,
perSonageS of note in foreign lands COM
ing to the Capital by water, have been
received at the Navy Yard, the only
place where ships capable of crossing
the ocean could be docked. This has
never been satisfactory or suitable ar
rangement. For the Navy Yard, or naval
gun foundry, as it has been known for
a good many years, is SO located that the
progress of the distinguished guests
through the city has been along route
not calculated to impress them with
the dignity and significance of the
American Capital.
Now plan, conceived some years ago,
is about to be executed to provide a
suitable place for the debarkation OF
such visitors. 1t is announced that the
original design for water gate facing
the Lincoln Memorial is to be carried
into effect in the near future. This will
involve the dredging of the Georgetown
Channel on the District side of the river
so that ships may pass through the draw
of the Memorial Bridge and berth at
that point for landing.
No more suitable site could be found
for the ceremonial reception of an hon.
ored guest of the Nation, who could
then be transported through the park
and along an avenue lined by imposing
structures-when that avenue has been
cleared of wartime temporary" archi-
lecture and the present public building
plans are completed-to the White House
for reception by the President. Such an
approach and entrance will be infinitely
more fitting than that which circum-
stances have required to be used for
many decades. Washington thus reached
and entered by guests of honor will be
at its best instead of presenting its least
| attractive aspect to the newcomer.