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Evening star., 1935-01-13
EUROPE SUPPLIES EVIDENCE.
Detective Says POderjay Has No
Chance to Be Acquitted.


VIENNA, January II tP,.-To Ivan
Poderjay's assertion that he is still
single, Jacob Won Weisenstein, the de-
tective who will take Poderjay to
New York to face bigamy charges, to-
day retorted:
ITS the swan song of braggart. "
"Poderjay may dream of the New
York courts liberating him." the de-
tective said, "but his dream won't be
realized because we've got the goods
on him"
The New York detective, who will
leave Vienna tonight for Genoa to
take Poderjay into his custody aboard
the liner President Polk, said he had
gathered considerable evidence in Eu-
rope to support the American charges
that Poderjay, when he married Agnes
Tufverson at the Little Church Around
the Corner in December, 1888, was al
ready wed to another.
Included in that evidence. he as
serted is photostatic copy of a mar
riage license issued in London Show
ing that Poderjay married Suzanne
Ferrand, French woman, there in
March, 1888. and copies of Austrian
police records proving Poderjay and
the Ferrand woman registered in
Vienna as husband and wife.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

Give it the bite test"
and see for yourself how de-
lightfully smooth and free
from grit it is. Stays on for
hours at a time.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
PODERJAY LAYING
PLANS TO REWED
Sure of AcquittaI in U. S. on
Bigamy Charges, Says
Austrian.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRENNER PASS, Austrian Frontier,
January 12-"So sure am ! OF
acouittal in the United States" Ivan
Poderjay said at this frontier station
today. that I am now making plans
TO return to Europe and marry Su-
zanne Ferrand."
The self-styled former Army cap
tain, en- route from Austria to New
York to face trial on bigamy charges,
termed the accusation against him
ridiculous" asserting I'm bach
elor."
Seemingly confident the American
courts would absolve him of the big
amy charge and investigation would
clear him Of any blame for the dis
appearance of Agnes Tufverson, New
York and Detroit attorney, immedi-
ately after their marriage in New
York, Poderjay said:
1T is true that l was married to
Suzanne Ferrand But then the au-
thorities declared our marriage void
for technical reasons
Living Near Paris.
The French woman, with whom he
was living at the time he was ar
rested in connection with Miss Tuf-
versions disappearance, has been liv-
ing quietly near Paris since Austrian
authorities released her from custody,
Poderjay said.
This time we shall see to it," he
said, firmly. that all legal formalities
tin connection with his proposed re-
marriage) are observed. I look for
ward to q happy future"
Poderjay, who police say has had
at least three wives. exhibited the
Aame self-possession and cocksureness
that characterized him when he was
first arrested six months ago.
From the subject of the bigamy
charges on which Austria granted his
eXtradition, and the mysterious dis
appearance of Miss Tufverson, he
jumped to the topic of patents and
politics.
Il adhere to my idea of pan-Euro-
peanism," he said, and international
peace" Concerning his patents. he
said:
II have Is patents on various
NONiSCo AC61okCACN IllC Nultul GU
states of the world. shall devote
my time to development of these after
the American courts liberate me from
this absurd charge of bigamy."
Licenses as Evidence.
Although Jacob Won Weisenstein
New York detective. who will accom-
pany Poderjay to the United States
has in his possession copies of mar
riage certificates showing Poderjay
was married not only to the Ferrano
woman, but also to Miss Tufverson
the prisoner clung to his assertion
that he is still single.
LAS far as Miss Tufverson is con
cerned,' he said. Il can only say tina
We parted good friends when I lef
New York
She agreed to go her way and
my way. I have no idea as to wha
became of her. but I'm certain sh
Is still living"
AS the Italian train drew out of tn
station into the snowbound Italian
Alps, Poderjay waved good-by to tn,
Associated Press correspondent
Il hope you'll send me copies o
the photos you took Of me to tn
prison in New York" he cried.
EUROPE SUPPLIES EVIDENCE,
Evening star., 1935-01-13
CLUB OF PRINTING HOUSE
CRAFTSMEN WILL MEET
Thomas E. Dunwody, Editor of
American Pressman, on Pro-
gram for Talk.

The Washington Club of Printing
House Craftsmen will meet Tuesday
at the La Fayette Hotel, beginning
with a dinner at 6:15. Thomas E..
Dunwody. editor of the American
Pressman, official publication of the
International Printing Pressmen
and Assistants Union, will speak or
"Pressroom Operation" and Fred j.
Hartman of the U. T. A. and a direc-
tor of labor relations of the N. r. A.
will speak on The Approach of the
Printing Movement"
Formal recognition will be given the
birthday anniversary of Benjamin
Franklin, born in Boston January II,
17o6.
Officers of the club recently elected
are: President. William D. Hall: first
vice president, George M. Duncan;
second vice president, John A. Nc
Lean: secretary. Robert B. O'Hara
treasurer. Bert E. Bair; sergeant at
arms Charles Wood; members of the
Board of Governors. Curtis Jones, E
e. Heinzman. Felix Belair, George
Cole, L. w. Thomas, August Radue
Burr Williams. r. j. Roy.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
PESTS TO BE STUDIED
Course in Parasitic Diseases Will
Be Started January 10.

A course in animal parasitology
will begin in the Graduate School Of
the Department of Agriculture Satur-
day. January 19. Lectures during the
three-month course, open to the pub
lie. will deal with parasitic diseases Of
man and domestic animals.
DR.. Joseph e. Alicata. an Agricul-
ture Department investigator and ex-
pert on animal parasites, will conduct
the classes.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
Music Hour Today.

The Wood Wind Quintet. under the
direction of John Hreachmack. mem
ber OF the Friendship House music
department. will present the o'clock
hour Of music at Friendship House,
324 Virginia avenue southeast. today.
The public is invited to attend.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

To young Miss Patricia Turn
bull, IA days old, shown here in
the arms of her mother, Mrs.
William J. Turnbull, goes the dis
tinction Of being the youngest air
passenger to leave Washington.
Mother and baby took off from
Washington Airport for Boston
yesterday afternoon in an Amerl-
can AirlineS airliner. Mrs. Turn
bull was visiting her husband.
temporarily here in connection
with construction work at the
Washington Navy Yard, when Pa
tricia was born. Upon arrival in
Boston the small traveller will meet
her year-old sister, left there with
relatives. Mrs. Turnbull decided
a four-hour trip by air would be
less tiresome for the baby than q
longer trip by rail-
Star Staff Photo,
Evening star., 1935-04-12

AS has been previously stated, the
members Of the Thursday Whist Club
jumped at it. It brought new in
terest in their rather dull lives. They
agreed that Miss Julia's idle remark
was inspired.
The burning question Of who would
make the best and most thoroughly
competent wife for James remained
unsettled. though not undiscussed. un-
til the second year after he had been
admitted to the bar and had been
promised junior partnership in the
firm of Stimson e. Holcomb as soon as
Evening star., 1935-04-12

he had earned it. The Judge, in
spite of his affection, was far too
shrewd to make things too easy for
his favorite. AS James clientele was
as yet confined largely to those Nappy
rounded UP and brought in to him, and
as he could not, to save his soul,
charge a darkey large fee, it seemed
for while as II his fate might remain
unsettled for many years longer.
The ladies, however, were not dis
couraged. They told themselves they
had expected to wait. Meanwhile,
the matter offered a never lending sub
Evening star., 1935-04-12

and he could only talk at all to more
than half a dozen at time when
he was excited, angry. or wrought up.
But no matter The good ladies
of New Concord had come to a de-
cision.
A little later Miss Julia made the
remark to which all this has been
preamble. Well" said Miss Julia,
absently trumping her partners king,
'it seems to me there is just one thing
we can do to help James amount to
something and that is to find him a
practical, common sense wife,
Evening star., 1935-04-12

the case. If ever I saw a man be-
sotted-"
Some one had suggested here that
they had better go on with their whist.
They did. But the idea that James
Stimson was an impractical, ire
sponsible dreamer when 1t came to
making money or getting on in the
world was lodged in the minds Of the
leaders of New Concord society, never
to be entirely uprooted.
At the same time the most of them
stuck to it that James was uncom-
monty bright with gift for oratory
Evening star., 1935-04-12

that might make him famous almost
overnight.
Both assumptions were presump-
tuous. James acquisitive instinct
was perhaps q small part of him. He
was never half so interested in
money making as in other things, but
he was no fool about money and was
meticulously honorable about paying
his bills and living within his income.
On the other hand he was no
brighter probably than half a dozen
of his young friends. His small gift
of oratory was entirely undeveloped
Evening star., 1935-04-12

ject for discussion and pleasurable
weighing of pros and cons. The
mothers with marriageable daughters,
naturally enough, never mentioned
their names-that, of course, would
have been considered the height of
indelicacy-but there was not a girl
OF anywhere near suitable age or con-
dition in New Concord who was not
at one time or another under con.
sideration.
James unofficial marriage brokers
get to work, tomorrow.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
|lSA GRtaI |IE,!5!.! .,.!! R!cHfS ,!.!:.!!
HosCe fasssha>sL

without the common acquistive in
stinct. I suppose he had James in
mind"
"Of course. he had. James hasn't
the slightest trace of an acquisitive
instinct, so James must be a genius.
The Judge made up that theory to mt
Evening star., 1935-04-12
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS
James Stimson. Sd. with whom the
StimSon line ends. returns from prepara.
tory school in the East to find his Aunt
Sarah involved in various SDeculatlons
income to Si.SO0 a year. College is out
of the question James besins STUDYING Ia law "
in the office of his grandfatherS former
partner, Judge Holcomb-to the Judge
inordinate delight, and that OF his coloreo
ONCE boy, Nappy.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Your Name
Free on Eggs!

All our Chocolate Easter
Eggs will be marked with
your name, if you say so.
Order early-two Easter
Bunnies are here to fill your
orders.
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21
Extension Workers ParIey

At the annual conference of ex-
tension workers in agriculture and
home evonomics, at the University
of Delaware last week, the follow
ing were present: County Agents
c. r. Snyder, of Georgetown; Rus
sell z. Wilson, of Dover, and Ed.
Willim, Jr., of Newark. County
club agents: Laura B. Rutherford,
Newark; Helen L. Comstock, Do
yer; Annie B. Moore, Georgetown.
Home demonstration agents: Louis
R. Whitcomb, Dover; Mrs. Kate H.
Daugherty, Newark. Dean G. A.
McCue, Director of Agricultural
Extension, and Prof. A. D. Cobb,
University of Delaware; Mrs. Helen
Mckinley, Miss Pearl Mcdonald
and George Worrilow, of Newark
Miss Florence Hall, F. Q. Meier
Charles E. Potter and Miss Ella
Gardner, of Washington.
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21

The most interesting thing Of the
evening to the young people was
the procuring of votes for a beau
tiful crazy quilt the joint contribu-
tion Of the members of the young
Ladies' Missionary Society, the
votes 10 cents each, amounting as
will be seen, to S37.00. The young
ladies voted for were, Grace Quigg,
Clara Beck and Mary Hall. Miss
Grace Quigg received the highest
number of votes and was conse-
quently presented with the quilt.
At special meeting the Mission
airy Society, by resolution, recog-
nized the kindness of friends of the
church and community in the lib
eral patronage bestowed upon their
entertainment on Friday evening,
the 18th inst. and acknowledged in
debtedness to Mrs. Baldwin and
Mrs. John H. Hoffecker, and other
ladies by whose help they were en-
abled to realize more than their
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21

the finest practical Illustration
know of to show you the need for
20-W Sunoco Motor Oil. Ordinary
oils are lot like the cream in the
freezer. When they're warm they
permit the motor to turn over with
out any effort; but when they get
cCld they start to freeze and get
as thick and stiff as the frozen ice
cream. That's why so many mo
torists have lots of trouble getting
their cars started on cold mornings
the oil has become so stiff that
it stops the starter. Sunoco 20-W
Motor Oil, is not subject to cold, it
remains liquid at zero and below.
Consequently cars start easily and
promptly. The battery is not drain
ed of its power. Oil reaches all the
moving parts of the motor as soon
as it leaps into action, and there is
no unne cessary wear" "Inciden-
tally" he concluded, "ycu might be
interested to know that the Sun
Oil Company was one of the first
1efiners to recognize the need for
a light winter oil like Sunoco POW
and have been meeting this demand
for three winters. OF course, Sun
oco 20-W is Mercury Made and il
has become so popular that each
winter over a million motors are
lutyicated by this oil"
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21
Mail Auto License Forms

The State Motor Vehicle Depart
ment have placed applications for
new 1886 automobile registration
plates in the mail for every motor
ist who held a license during 1885.
These applications are being mail
ed to the address of motorists as
recorded in the department and
those who have changed their ad-
dress since they procured their last
plates and have not notified the de-
partment, will face delay in re-
ceiving their application blanks.
Issuing of new license tags will
start on Friday. Those who desire
their present numbers or special
numbers will have to return their
applications before the end of this
month.
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21

proud duty to turn the freezer. At
ter the rock salt and crushed ice
had been packed in the freezer and
the smooth, rich cream put in the
container, you would begin turning
the mixer. At first, before the
cream got cold, the mixer would
spin easily, but after a while as
the cream began to thicken and
freeze the paddles would be harder
and harder to turn until the frozen
cream became SO stiff that you
simply couldn't twist the handle
for another complete turn! That's
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21

where two girls sold all day to
the senders of the Christmas mail.
Up and down the state the women's
clubs sold the stamps and helped the
work"
The pioneer interest taken by
those women in the first Christmas
Seal sale has enabled the tubercu
losis campaign to grow until now II
is a nationwide effort carrying mes
sages of hope and cure into the fur
thermost corners of the country
Women have continued to express
their interest with action. and al
this very moment they are helpinc
the 1000 affiliated tuberculosis as
sociations with the manifold details
connected with the campaign. sucl
as typing envelopes, folding seal
and letters. managing booths. an
advertising the campaign. Whei
tuberculosis is finally under contro
the women of the United States will
deserve a large share of the credit
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21
RED CROSS IN
RURAL HOMES
Program Inaugurated To Cut
Down Farm and Home
Hazards
NATION WIDE DRIVE

The American Red Cross has
launched a nationwide campaign to
eliminate hazards in the home and
on the farm that now take an an
nual toll of nearly $4,000 lives, ac-
cording to a recent statement by
James L. Fieser, vice chairman in
charge of domestic operations.
Every Red Cross chapter is being
asked to play a part in this cam
paign," Mr.. Fieser said. Hazards in
the various communities will be
pointed out. The children in our
schools throughout the country will
be given a list of the home hazards
and asked to enroll parents or rela-
tives in the fight against them"
Nearly five million men, women,
and children were temporarily dis
abled in the homes of America last
year by accidents, officials of the
National Safety Council have re-
vealed. Most of the accidents in
which persons were killed and in
jured could have been prevented,
according TO this safety agency, this
fact alone largely motiNating the
Red Cross drive for accident elm
ination.
Active cooperation of social, civic,
educational, veterans, and other
groups has been secured. Red Cross
inspection forms or home check lists
will be distributed to homes where
there are no children with the help
of these organizations.
Due to inaccessibility and lack of
compensation coverage, little or no
pioneering has been done in the
field of farm safety, the Red Cross
states. However, more people were
accidentally killed in agricultural
pursuits last year than in any other
occupation, making the need for
safety education and farm home in
spection apparent.
Other agencies now active in the
neutrality-suspicious. field point to the
fact that, because of its nearly 49,
900 chapters and branches, the Red
Cross has unique opportunity to
successfully promote project of
this nature.
Home accidents injure many more
than do automobile accidents; they
kill nearly as many, claiming an av-
geofabout so lives daily. In terms
- IAII he or
cal minded, home accidents cost
more than $1,000 per minute.
Accidents Of all types are Public
Enemy No. A. Only three diseases
cause as many deaths each year,
heart disease, cancer, and cerebral
,hemorrhage.
"The home is not the place of
safety it is commonly supposed to
be-" said Mr.. Fieser in commenting
on the new Red Cross service to the
community. ''The Red Cross, as a
part Of its chartered obligation to
prevent death and alleviate suffer-
ing, is conducting this humanitarian
program to cut down the mounting
toll of avoidable personal injury and
death in the homes of the country"
The annual Red Cross roll call,
running from Armistice Day to
Thanksgiving Day, is one of the
means of backing such a campaign.
All citizens of the United States are
offered the opportunity to join and
assist in the work of the organiza-
tion.
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21
-~e-CC~~D
Mis-. sissIrs Sea,

Miss Bisseirs Seat sale in winning
.on, Delaware. reported that 100000
Of the seals were printed. In addition
to being sold Individually from the
sheet for a penny each they were
put up in envelopes containing ten.
twenty-five and fifty seals.
But to put one hundred thousand
stamps into ten-stamp envelopes is
no joke" she wrote. "and some one
had to do 1t. That is where the New
Century Club of Wilmington came
in. It's five hundred members held
stamp bees They took the sheets
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21
Women's Efforts Made First
Christmas Seal Sale a Success

Put this stamp with message bright,
On all the mail you send.
Every penny helps the fight
The dread White Plague to end"
These stamps do not carry any kind
of mail, but any kind of mail will carry
them"
This verse and message printed
on envelopes containing the first
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21
SUNOCO 2O-W OIL FOR WINTER
Makes Starting Easy and Battery
Is Not Drained of Power

A striking Illustration of the i'm
portance of using 2OW motor oil
for winter driving was recently
given by Mr.. r. Weir, Jr., the Sun
Oil Company's district manager.
DO you remember" he asked
when you were youngster what
a thrill you would get when mother
decided to make some homemade
ice-cream Usually it was your
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21

its correctness. 1t reached us as
the current news of the town and
we gave it as such.
! The wife of Col. Richard john
4 SON Of Massey's, Md, whose serious
accident in falling down flight of
steps fracturing her skull was no
ticed in our last issue, died on
Thursday evening in less than two
days from the fall. She never re-
covered consciousness. Her funer-
al which occurred ON Monday was
largely attended. Col. George H.
Raymond and N. F. Wilds repre-
senting the Fruit Growers Bank of
which Col. Johnson is a director,
the first named being one of the
bearers. The place of interment
was st. Dennis Cemetery, near Ga
lena, Fathers Gfynn and Bradford
officiating.
Monday was the anniversary of
the 77th birthday of Thomas j.
Armitage. Twenty two of his
! friends went to his residence on
upper South street, about z o'clock
in the evening, carrying with them
provisions for nice supper, every
thing being prepared beforehand,
such as roasted chicken, sausage,
ham, tomatoes, worked biscuit, pre-
serves, cake and many other things
to tempt the appetite. After en-
joying the supper they served cake
and lemonade, which was highly
appreciated. To all the company
it was "a very enjoyable evening
and Mr.. Armitage feels very CRATE
full to his friends for their evidences
of personal regard.
MRS. ETA BALDWIN
ADDRESSES SUNDAY SCHOOL
The attendance of Asbury M. E.
Sunday Shool last Sunday was un-
usually large and the exercises in
teresting. A new blackboard has
been lately purchased, upon which
the lesson was very nicely portray
ed by Miss Mary c. Bell. A bible
chart has also been added. After
the study Of the lesson, Mrs. Eta
E. Baldwin, of Boston, Well-known
in this community, addressed the
school, taking for her theme, her
experience of twenty years in the
mission field. Closing her address
she said that everyone who had
given penny or offered a prayer,
had a part in this result, and she
trusted that the Smyrna school
might have increased zeal in send
ing relief to those in heather lands.
She was listened to in rapt atten-
tion by those present and those
that were absent missed a treat.
a rising vote of thanks was given
the speaker and the school closed
in regular form.
THE JAPANESE TEA PARTY
The Tea Party and Apron Bazaar
held by the Young Ladies Mission
ary Society last Friday evening in
the Town Hall, was a decided sue
cess, socially and financially, the
latter being shown by the following
statement:
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21

of stamps in the
morning, counted
and divided them
a n d h a d t h e m
ready II the after
n oon for t h e
stores S a n d { b e
tables in the post
office corridor
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21

James r. Robinson, near town,
brought a duck egg with him to
market on Saturday that weighed
ten ounces.
Sixty-one bushels per acre was
the Weld of Jacob Leinberger's five
and a half acre lot of corn on the
lower edge of the town.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society
will meet Tuesday evening, the
oath inst, at seven o'clock, at the
residence of Mrs. Joseph E. Will
liams.
There were three shorthand
writers at the M. E. Church on
Sunday morning taking down the
sermon - young fellows getting
their hand in at reporting.
A cannon ball was found last
week in digging the trench for the
water main, but we have no record
of battle being fought at Duck
Creek Cross Roads in we ancient
time"
The prices for poultry are not as
brisk as this time last year. The
following are the figures quoted to
us by a local dealer: turkeys, 13
cents per pounds; ducks, II cents,
chickens 10 to IL cents and geese
10 cents per pound.
DR.. E. M. Cloak, who with the
aid of several of our chess players
played a game of chess with Will
liam ]. Ferris of New Castle last
Summer by postal card, winning
after a daily move of some two
months, has commenced similar
game with George Tatnall Of Will
mington.
The new Massey's Md M. E.
Church, will be dedicated next Sun
day, and it viii be an important
event to the colored people Of the
vicinity. Bishop Cain is expected
to preach the dedicatory sermon
and several other ministers will be
in attendance to assist in the ser
vice of the day.
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF. so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths,
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF NOV. 18TH, 1885

Taken from our old files OF
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21

Christmas s e a ! s
sold in America,
in 1907, are Just as
true today. Miss
Emily Bissell. who
launched the first
Christm as Seal
Smyrna times., 1935-11-21
Watch the Label nm r,

The numbers indicag
and year up to whi:
scription account is pai
bills once a year and tt
put aside and neglec!s
paid by the year az.
than accumulated bik
ma Times will apus
prompt remittance.