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Evening star., 1935-09-29

I'VE had then 800 veterans and 500
green replacement troops. Anyhow,
Gen. Lee got word of our movement
and we were surrounded in the noun
tains by J. E. B. Stuart's Cavalry and
two Infantry regiments.
Refuse to Surrender.
"Our colonel said, Boys, I'll never
surrender-you can make your own
choice!'
And we said. Well stick to you,
colonel!
THE rs of us were saved when the
wounded Confederate horses broke
through their Infantry lines and We
went out behind them.
"Old January took me through that
He got so never had to picket him
at night. I would let him Craze loose
and he would come when called him,
from as far as he could hear the
sound of my voice.
I'VE had just turned out early one
morning in Virginia when a general
rode by. He stopped in front of my
tent. Where's your horse?' he asked.
We're moving
Il just shouted for January and he
came up at a fast trot from a quar-
ter of a mile. The general said:
THAT horse is too good to be in
this war!'
When my enlistment ran out I
tried to buy January back, but they
wouldn't let me have him. They said
the Secretary Of War wouldn't let him
go.
The happiest part of my life was
spent in the Army, soldering, but
that time was the worst part of it."
Jones, a native of Harrisburg, Pa,
enlisted in october, 1861, and was
discharged October Is, 1864. He
came to the home here IL years ago,
and an only son lives in Philadelphia.
MY little boy is coming for my
birthday party" said Jones. Hes
ST, but I still call him little boy"
Evening star., 1935-09-29
PARKWAY'S NEW
THOROUGH ARE TO
Be THROWN OPEN
Concrete Base Practically
Completed Between P
and K Streets.
UNCOMPLETED BRIDGE
CAUSES TRAFFIC SHIFT
New Connection With Highway
Being Constructed at West End
of Low-Level Span.

The newly constructed highway In
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, be.
tween and K streets, will be opened
to motor travel in about three weeks,
it was announced yesterday by Capt
H. C. Whitehurst, District director Of
highways, who is supervising the
building Of this park valley thorough
fare.
The concrete base Is now practically
in and the workmen are engaged in
building the curbs and cutters. A
black, asphaltic surface will be con-
structed on top of thiss and then,
shortly after the middle of October,
the road will be thrown open to
traffic
Routing Due to Bridge.
Pending completion Of the new low
level bridge across the creek at P
street, traffic will be routed up out
Of the park and across the present
street bridge. A new connection
with the highway is being constructed
at the west end of the bridge to &C
compliSh this.
Meanwhile, the J. A. Laporte Con-
struction Co. Of New York, under
direction of the Bureau of Public
Roads is at work building the new
low-level bridge. This Is expected to
be completed in March, with favor
able weather.
The engineers have dug new bed
onl dtUnrfnd the
waters from their centuries-old course
in the valley so they may construct
cofferdam for the bridge abutment
in mid valley. The giant steam
shovels are eating down to bed rock
for firm foundations and forms are
being nailed up, preparatory to the
pouring Of concrete.
Bridge Approaches.
When this low-level bridge is fin
ished. Capt. Whitehurst will begin
building the approaches to it, so traf-
fic from the lower part of the valley
may be carried to the east bank and
thence under @ Street Bridge.
When all this work is accomplished,
the dream of the planners will be
realized, motor highway through
Rock Greek Valley-all the way from
Lincoln Memorial to the East-West
Highway in Montgomery County. Md.
The Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, with the
aid OF funds under the Capper-Cra
ton park-purchase act, proposes to
push the parkway develoment farther
northward. 1t is now acquiring the
necessary land and making arrange
ments for road construction far up
Rock Greek.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
Ciuil Var Caralryman at 100
Recalls His Faithful Steed
"OId January Was Black
Beauty,' Says Joseph
r. Jones.
67-Year-OId Son, Still
His Little Boy, to Visit
Home Inmate.

One of the brightest spots in the
memory of former Cavalryman Joseph
r. Jones, who celebrates his Tooth
dierS' Home here, is his recollection of
the horse which bore him through
some of the hottest engagements of
the Civil War.
"Old January" Jones called that
horse, black beauty which he said,
could outtrot and outjump anything
in his regiment, the 9Th United States
Cavalry. Even today, Jones cannot
think of January without quivver of
rage at the Army regulations, or just
plain "hoss thievery," as Jones put it,
which separated the pair.
The old soldier raised himself in
his wheel chair yesterday, and his
feeble voice, strengthened by indigna-
ton, created stir Of interest among
the prone or seated figures down the
long hospital ward at the home.
"They stole January, that's what
they did" stated Jones. His voice
shook and his eyes blinked back the
moisture.
First Horse Shot Down.
Jones acquaintance with January
began several months after the Con-
federates shot his regular horse from
under him at Antietam in September
1862. Jones then made out as best
he could until one cold January morn
ing, January l, it was, when they
brought him the big black horse.
HE liked me the first time he lai6
eyes on me-" said Jones. He was
one Of those wild horses which were
lassoed on the Western plains for the
Union troops. But we got along.
II began to teach him tricks.
would ask him, "Are you hungry
january and he would nod his head
Yes
Then I would say, DO you want
something to eat?'
January would nod again and ]
would say, "All right, then, salute
me!
January would arch his neck and
stamp his right foot in as pretty q
salute as you ever saw. I rode him
to Gettysburg and through Gettysburg
We came out with rs survivors of the
800 men of our regiment who went
in.
cat Gettysburg, our regiment got
orders to 60 to Fairfield in the noun
tains about 8 miles to the southwest
toward Hagerstown, to take some
Rebels we heard were coming up with
ammunition.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
Italy's Gold Reserve Drops.

ROME, September % @.-The
Bank of Italy's gold reserve dropped
22S. 100000 lire (about $22,559, ,000)
from September 10 to September 20.
Gold and foreign credit coverage Of
sight obligations dropped close to the
80 per cent mark.
Bank note circulation, the state
ment disclosed today, at the same time
increased from 14,234, ,o00,o 900 lire to
14,917, ,000, 900. A-.. >
Evening star., 1935-09-29
20 Drown in Lake Arapa.

LIMA, Peru. September 28 @.-
The newspaper El Commercio reported
in belated dispatches today that 20
persons were drowned in Lake Arapa,
Azangaro Province, when q motor
launch overturned. Eleven persons
were rescued.
Lake Arapa is approximately 10000
feet above sea level and some of the
deaths were attributed to the shock
Of the icy water.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
BEST BUILDINGS
AWARD PLANNED
Board of Trade Honor De.
signed to Encourage
Good Architecture.

For the encouragement of CORD
architecture and planning the WASH
ington Board of Trade announced yes
terday it will award certificates OF
! merit to the owners and architects
of the best buildings erected in Wash
ington during the year.
The contest is under direction of the
Committee on Municipal Art, Of which
Louis Justement is chairman. TIE
scope Of the contest is wide enough
to cover general building, signs and
landscaping.
Subjects which may be given the
Board Of Trade award include:
Any public or private building, the
completion of which occurred between
January /. 1885, and January /, 1885.
Merit in design is a quality which Is
independent of size and cost and the
most modest dwelling or shop will re-
ceive equal consideration with the
most costly structure. Alterations in
volving substantial change In design
also are regarded as suitable subjects.
Unobjectionable Signs.
Signs designed to accomplish the
purpose of selling things which they
advertise without being Objectionable.
Landscaping, gardens, including the
arrangement Of back yards and the
general plan Of subdivisions.
Because awards have not been pre-
viously given for signs and gardens
there is no time limitation as to the
date OF completion Of these subjects.
The territory considered will be the
District Of Columbia and adjacent
suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.
A jury Of three prominent architects
selected by the Municipal Art Com
mittee will make the selections. The
awards will be made at the Board of
Trade meeting early in 1896.
Submission may be made by own
ers, architects, builders or any other
interested parties, accompanied by
data giving the location of the
property, the names and addresses of
the owner, the architect and the build
er. They must be accompanied by
photographs not exceeding by 10
inches.
January 20 Outside Data.
Submission will be received until
January 20, 1886, and should be adj
dressed to the Committee on Munich
pal Art, Washington Board of Trade,
Evening Star Building.
In a statement issued yesterday,
Mr.. Justement said the committee
hopes especially that the buying pub
lie will be interested in demanding
well-designed buildings and In "learn-
ing to distinguish between that which
Is basically fine and that which bases
its sales appeal on mechanical gadgets
and flashy but vulgar designs"
Most of the ugliness in buildings,
Mr.. Justement said, is caused by
superfluous and poorly designed orna-
ment and sham architectural features.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
JEWS END SERVICES
FOR ROSH HASHANAH
Holy Days Continue Till Oct. 6
and z, However, Finishing
With Yom Kippur.

Rosh Hashanah services will be
concluded in Washington Jewish
synagogues today, but holy days will
continue until October and Z, con-
cluding with the rites of Yom Kippur.
Washington Jewry has been OBJ
serving Rosh Hasharah since Friday,
meeting in the synagogues of both
the reformed and orthodox faiths.
Rabbi z. Green at Ohev Sholm
Congregation, Fifth and streets, to-
day will preach on "The Awakening
Call"
At Adas Israel Synagogue. Sixth
and I streets, Rabbi Solomon H, Metz
will take as his topic, Whom Shall
We Educator"
Evening star., 1935-09-29
CAR NEAR WINCHESTER
SERIOUSLY HURTS MAN
Luther II. Coffman, 72, Walking
Along Road, Is Struck.
Woman Cited.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WINCHESTER, Va, September 28.-
Luther H. Coffman, 70. returning afoot
today from nearby Clark County, was
critically injured when struck by an
automobile said by police to have been
driven by Mrs. Mary Warf1eld, Balti-
more.
Coffman suffered compound leg
fractures, scalp injuries, cuts and
bruises. Hospital attendants said his
condition was critical. State In
spector R. E. Bayliss quoted Mrs.
Warfield as saying she was passing
truck that had been parked at the
side OF the road, and that cab door
was open.. While trying to avoid
striking the door she hit Coffman. she
said, walking on the left side of the
road. She was en- route to visit rela-
tives at Reliance, Va. She was cited
to report here tomorrow.
Evening star., 1935-09-29

~ OBERT PITCHER, 90, father
- of three small children, was
drowned last night when a
L y rowboat in which he and two
friends were returning from the Pres
ident's Cup regatta capsized in the
Airport Basin. Pitcher, machiniSt,
lived at 1909 D street southeast.
With his brother Raymond. Mel
bun Wright and Arthur Sherry,
Pitcher had been watching the regat-
ia from his 30-foot cabin boat. All
but Sherry had started ashore in a
rowboat, which turned over in nine
feet of water when one Of the occu-
pants started to walk to the rear.
The brother and Wright were unable
Evening star., 1935-09-29
FIRST WARD CITIZENS
TO ASK MORE POLICE
Additional Traffic Lights on
Pennsylvania Avenue Also
to Be Requested.

An increased police force and the
installation of traffic lights on Penn
sylvania avenue intersections from
Eighteenth street through Washington
Circle and at Twentieth and K streets
will be requested in a petition to be
presented the Commissioners by the
First Ward Citizens Association.
The association, at meeting We'd
nesday, indorsed The Stars safe driv-
ing campaign and declared many
traffic and criminal offenses were due
to an inadequate police force.
Seventeen schools were listed for
awards for good citizenship.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
MOTORISTS ARE WARNED
ROAD EDGES ARE SOFT
Southern Maryland Routes Are
Cited in Bulletin Issued by
Commission.
nv a stan CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

BY q Staff Correspondent of The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, September 28.-
Motorists driving in Southern Mary
land were warned today to be care
full OF soft earth shoulders In st.
Marys County, due to recent wash
outs.
A bulletin of the State Roads Com
mission also cautioned the travelling
public to drive carefully over i've
temporary one-way bridges on State
Route No. between Great Mills and
Point Lookout.
Soft shoulders also were reported
In Caroline and Talbot Counties.
Evening star., 1935-09-29

to rescue Pitcher, but his body was
recovered by three men from the
Washington Boat Club called by
Sherry, who had remained on the
cabin boat. Only small amount Of
water was found in Pitchers lungs
and it was believed he may have died
Of a heart attack.
His companions we're released
pending an inquest after they had
been questioned by police.
Pitcher, who was employed at the
Union Station roundhouse, is sur
vived by his widow. Mrs. Mary E.
Pitcher, and the three children, one
three months old, one II months and
the other seven years old.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
Sociologist to Speak Here.

Miss Mary L. Read, New York edu-
Gator and sociologist, will speak on
"Rochdale Principles Of Consumers
Cooperation at a meeting Of the
Civic National Forum today at $3.50
pm. at the John Wesley A. M. E.
Zion Church, Fourteenth and Cor
coran streets. The public Ii invited.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
AUTO CLUB FIGHTS
FUEL TAX BOOST
D. C. Keystone Board 0p-
poses Proposal to Increase
Gasoline Levy.

A new assault on proposals for
boost in the gasoline tax in the Dis.
trict as means of raising more rev.
enue in the next fiscal year was made
yesterday by the Advisory Board o.
the Keystone Automobile Club Of tht
District in q letter to the Commits
Sioners.
The District Automobile Club of the
American Automobile Association, the
officers of the keystone Automobile
Club and other groups have assailec
the proposal since Commissioner
George E. Allen recently revealed his
suggestion that gasoline taxes be di.
verted into the general revenues oi
the District.
Commissioner Melvin c. HaZen has
baked at that suggestion, but Is rep
resented as believing an increase in
gasoline taxes would be warranted in
raising additional revenues next year
| The question will be considered in
the forthcoming report Of the Munich
pal Taxation Committee, headed by
Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Pretty
man, which will hold another meet
ing this week. The committee was di-
rected by the Commissioners to con-
slider revamping of the District taxa
ton system and to suggest additional
sources of revenue.
Harvey L. Cobb, chairman Of the
Executive Board, and George E.
Keneipp, secretary of the Keystone
Automobile Club. yesterday wrote the
Commissioners:
"a recent newspaper report indicates
that the District Commissioners are
considering the diversion of funds de-
rived from the 2-cent gasoline tax to
purposes other than highway and
grade-crossing construction and main
tenance.
ut is the feeling of this board that
the motoriSt, by paying the current
2-cent District gasoline tax, the 1-cent
Federal tax, the Federal tax on lubri-
eating oils, the fee for license tags,
personal property tax and operators s
permit, Is already contributing fair
share Of the revenue necessary to carry
on the functions of the government.
More Roads Declared Need.
There is still vital need for addi-
tional road construction and MAIN
tenance and it is declared In the
Hayden Cartwright act appropriating
Federal-aid highway funds to the
States that it is unfair and unjust
to tax motor vehicle transportation
unless the proceeds of such taxation
are applied to the construction, i'm
provement or maintenance of high
ways
''It is further provided under the
Hayden Cartwright act that one
third of the Federal aid may be with
held from States which do not con-
tinue to use at least the amounts that
we're provided by law for highway
purposes at the time of passage OF
the act, which would have an impor-
tant bearing on the unemployment
situation in the District as well as
upon local road construction and
maintenance.
Marrow, crooked and congested
streets can only provide continuous
menace to the safety Of our citizens un-
less the gasoline tax and other reve-
nues derived from motorists are used
to alleviate such conditions"
Evening star., 1935-09-29

tsee KING. Page BAD
Evening star., 1935-03-25
And Noav a 10Th State!
New Star May Be Added to American
Flag if Hawaii Wins Statehood.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ ARRANGEMENT of the field
of blue in the American flag
II to accommodate another star
L may be in prospect as Hawaii
renews in Congress her long
denied claim of statehood.
Through her delegate, Samuel
Wilder King. former commander in
the Navy, the territory of Hawaii,
annexed to the United States in 1897,
las introduced bill in Congress for
statehood, and plans to invite a con-
gressional delegation to visit the
islands this Summer.
Prepared to answer every argu-
ment against full admission to the
Union, King says addition of another
star would not throw the flag out OF
balance, because the present arrange
ment of six rows of eight stars each
could be altered to make seven rows
of seven stars each.
The last alteration of the flag was
in 1912, when Arizona and New Mexico
we're admitted to the Union.
Arguing that recent growing i'm
portance of defenses of Hawaii, estab-
lishment of the proposed trans-Pacific
airline through the island and their
increased strategic, financial and COM
mercial importance makes decision OF
their destiny imminent, King believes
now is the time to bring the $50, ,0OO
persons there within the Unions fold
The delegate, who enjoys seat in
Congress but cannot vote. points out
that in point of population Hawaii
exceeds in numbers that of almost any
Territory at the time of admission tc
the Union.
Evening star., 1935-03-25
HOLDS TREATY REMAINS.

LONDON, March 25 tP).-Premier
Ramsay Macdonald told the House
of Commons today the military clauses
OF the Versailles treaty are the only
part of that pact affected by Ger
manys decision to institute compul-
sorry military training, 80 far as I
am aware"
His statement, made in reply to a
question by Gordon Ralph Hall-Caine,
Conservative, was regarded as a reit-
Grafton of the official view expressed
last week that the discussion of the
revision of these clauses Of the treaty
does not affect the treaty in general.
The treaty does not provide for
denunciation by the signatories," Mac
Donald said. The member is under
a misapprehension in supposing that
any action taken unilaterally by Ger
many or any other government could
have the effect of denouncing the
treaty in the usually accepted sense of
the term
Evening star., 1935-03-25
CLOTHING MAKER
ADMITS N. R. A. AID
TO HIS INDUSTRY

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1935-03-25

takes position to have two or three
more weeks of discussion there could
be no harm done If I should take
some little time to present my views
on these matters which all sides ac-
cepted in the Senate.
In view Of announcements made
by Senators, If the forces in charge
desire this controversy ended and
settled. they will not further contest
the bill as completed by the Senate,
but will make 1t law without further
quibble.'
Long was telling the capital today
that it vas ne who got the relief
bill through the Senate all of a
sudden Saturday BY remote control"
from the South. Long, who has
fought the administration on the bill,
said:
Il told them I was going to take
an airplane from Columbia, S c.,
because I wanted to scare them into
action. They acted"
Evening star., 1935-03-25

regimentation of industry" and felt
that industry should be left alone.
Curlee went into detail in complain
ing that the code authority had re-
fused his association data on produc-
tion and pay rolls in the industry by
regions
| Questioned by Senator Costigan,
! Democrat. Of Colorado. he said the
information was desired for compari-
son of wages in union and non-union
| shops.
Denies Low Wage War.
Curlee denied it was the policy
of his association to battle for low
wage levels" and asserted the annual
average wage Of his employees was
| higher than that for employees in Or
ganized New York shops.
The witness also protested vlgor-
ously on the makeup of the code
| authority He said the rival trade
association had 10 men on the au-
thority and had the power to select
those to represent his association.
No code authority so constituted
can be truly representative of an in
dustry." Curlee said
Only two members of the Code All
thority, he added, were actually rep
resentatives of his minority trade as
sociation.
Under committee questioning. Cur
| lee said he and others had been in
vited to serve as representatives, but
declined.
Opposed System.
II knew 1 would have been on an
impotent minority" Curlee said, ex-
planning why he declined. Il did not
believe in the system as whole and
did not want to become party to it"
Senator Costigan cited N. r. A. fig
ures showing the average hourly wage
for the industry was 66.2 cents. He
! asked if the averages for three men,
bers of Curlee's group were 43. A and
IS cents, but the witness said he did
not know.
Curlee said the figures were open
tn diSputa
Evening star., 1935-03-25
TOWN STILL THRIFTY
Yorkshire Village Has Balance
Left From Coronation in 1910.

YORK, England, March 25 P.-
The changing times have not changed
the Yorkshireman's thrift.
When the people of East Wilton in
North Yorkshire met today to arrange
their jubilee celebrations they found
the village still had balance left over
from the coronation of their majesties
Is years ago. So East Wilton will use
it 10 celebrate their jubilee
Evening star., 1935-03-25

CONTINUED From First Page.)
York. and Cannon, Democrat. of
Missouri. Cannon was not present
and was appointed with the under
standing that his consent would be
sought
Long Threatens Filibuster.
Meanwhile, Senator Long, Democrat.
of Louisiana had issued an implied
threat that he would begin a filibuster
In the Senate If any of the Senate
approved amendments to the bill are
eliminated. Thomas also made such
q threat.
IF the bill is sent to conference by
the House and any OF the Senate
amendments are stricken out" Long
said, then 1t is almost certain that
heated discussion and endless delay
will result
Long dictated a statement which
said:
THE best thing to do about the
relief bill is for the House to accept
the Senate amendments and get the
bill into the Presidents hands as quick
as possible.
IF the bill is sent to a conference
to work out the diSagreements and any
Of the amendments are stricken out,
which the administration leaders &C
cepted in the Senate, then it is almost
certain that heated discussion and
endless delay will result.
Il would dislike very much to be
drawn into any further debate on
questions involved in the measure,
but of course If the administration
Evening star., 1935-03-25
POLAND PROTESTS"

BERLIN, March 25 R.-Poland,
Germanys closest friend among the
nations, received the same reply as the
the French and Italians after lodging
friendly protest" against the Reich's
military conscription plans, it was
learned today.
Joseph Lipski, Polish Ambassador,
verbally expressed his country's Off
cial anxiety over the international
situation caused by CONSUMPTION" His
visit to the Reich foreign Office was
made last Saturday, two days after
the government had refused to enter
tain the French and Italian protests.
Baron Konstantin Won Neurath, the
Reich foreign minister. 1t was learned
officially, replied to Lipski that since
the other powers had failed to diSarn,
Germany must rearm.