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The Washington times., 1936-12-26
Six Weeks for Murder

CAIRO, G.N.SD.-Six weeks
Imprisonment for murder! This
was the Supreme Court judgment
delivered here by Judge Sir Wasey
Steery on Antonia Piacentini who
was found guilty of the murder
Of Miss Maria Zammit as the re-
suit Of a Suicide pact" It was
the first conviction for murder
passed by the court for over 16
years.
The Washington times., 1936-12-26
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The Washington times., 1936-12-26
$4,000,
HANDLED BY
TUGWELL

DR.. Rexford Guy Tugwell leaves
the Roosevelt A m n istration
within the next fortnight with a
heritage Of far-flung projects
throughout the United States in
various stages Of preparation, con-
struction, or inactivity; with more
than 100000 persons dependent
upon the Resettlement Admin
istration, and with the RA treas
ury almost exhausted by the un-
expected demands Of the drought.
The former Columbia Univer-
sity professor who came in as a
presidential adviser with inaugura-
ton Of President Roosevelt, and
became Undersecretary Of Agri-
culture, then Resettlement Admin
istrator, has handled more than
1868 100000 of Federal funds
since RA was launched April 20,
1885.
Funds Nearly Gone
RA funds drained by the unex-
pected load Of drought relief, will
be exhausted by February /, &C
cording to DR.. w. M. Alexander,
deputy administrator slated to
succeed Tugwell.
When RA was established, the
rural rehabilitation program of
FERA, designed to aid poverty
stricken farmers, and the sub
sistence homesteads program Of
PWA, q low-cost housing program
for rural relief clients, were trans
ferred to it.
Subsistence homesteads had had
So projects approved. OF these,
Tugwell dropped % after investi-
CATION. OF the others, IA have been
completed; IS are under construc-
ton, and IL are being planned.
A total Of $16,066,362 is involved.
Rehabilitation Projects
Rural rehabilitation planned 245
projects throughout the country.
OF these, 26 have been completed,
at an estimated cost Of $6,802, 1857.
Twenty-nine more projects are
under construction, at an eSti-
mated cost Of 9,381,6 ,618.
Tugwell has approved 79 other
projects on which no construction
work has started. A total of 602,-
10 acres have been optioned un-
der this section Of the program,
and 10.293 acres purchased, obli-
eating $3,878,400 of RIA funds.
The total cost is estimated at
$79, ,467, ,186.
The balance of the 245 projects
are in various stages Of study or
planning.
TugwelI also launched four SUI
burban Resettlement projects. at
Somerset, N. j.; Berwyn, Md, near
washington; Milwaukee, and near
Hamilton, Ohio. The New Jersey
project was abandoned after ad-
verse court rulings, leaving $719,-
536 of RA's funds invested there
tied up. The others are under
construction, designed to be COM
pleted by June 80.
Land Purchased
Under its land-use program, RA
has purchased 100000 acres of
submarginal lands, at an average
cost Of $3.50 per acre. This land
is being taken out of agricultural
production, and transferred to
various other governmental agen>
cies-the National Park Service,
Forest Service, Biological Survey
and to various States, for public
use in recreation and for Wild-life
refugees.
Another Tugwell activity has
been the voluntary readjustments
of farm debts. Under this pro
gram, operating through county
committees, debts of 45,263 far
merS have been reduced $36,902,-
900 by agreement with creditors.
The chief activity of the last
few months, however, has been
drought relief. Since RA was
established, loans have been made
to farmers for feed, seed and neces-
sary animals and equipment.
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The Washington times., 1936-12-26
w. S. Wheatley Cited
Twice AS LifeSaVer

Two citations for saving the
lives Of fellow workmen are a part
of the long Navy Yard record Of
William S. Wheatley.
In one Of his rescues during his
36 years of active service in the
The Washington times., 1936-12-26
JOHN C. LINQU1sT

Requiem mass will be cele-
brated Monday morning at $50
o'clock in st. Anthony'S Catholic
Church for John C. Linquist,
stereotyper of the Government
Printing Office, who died Christ
mas Day after long illness at
his residence. 1922 Thirteenth St.
N. w. He was So.
A resident Of Washington since
his early childhood, he was born
in Albany, N. Y. He had been
in the Government Printing Of
flee for the past 80 years.
Surviving Mr.. Linquist Is his
widow, Mrs. Florence Laupmann
Linquist; a daughter, Catherine
Linquist, two sisters, Mrs. Bell
Buckley, and Mrs. Mae MCGEE,
and a brother, James Linouist,
all Of Washington.
1nterment will be In Prospect
Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1936-01-05

water at we'll near the eastern end of the
village was taken.
Forty-eight hours later worse thing hap
pened There was an alarm in the forest where
party of woodcutters were at work. A move
ment had been seen in bamboo thicket and
three volleys were discharged into the space,
with the result that young sambar stag was
killed and all the powder for the guns was
exhausted. AS usual, the horns were blown
and the drums beaten when the men marched
homeward late that afternoon But on the
broad road, half a mile from the village, they
met the great lord of the jungle not at all
disconnected by the noise
They saw him hundred yards away down
the straight track walled in by tall trees
and dense teak brush. They stood transfixed,
the horns and drums suddenly dumb He
walked toward them with unhurried steps
along the dim vista under the lofty trees.
The strangeness as we'll as the terror of
the sight turned their blood to water. They
knew. with the unquestioning fnality of the
Orient, that this was ordained, that nothing
could be done, that it would be worse than
useless to attempt anything. Bulbud, the
leading elder of the village, who alone re-
tanned the power of speech, pointed this out.
1T is impious," Bulbud said, his thin voice
quavering ptifully, ito resist the decree of
Evening star., 1936-01-05
Can the magic Of eAncient India kill
the striped lard Of the JINGLE Rsqd this
strange tale Of an insahable man-kiAev
and his ghostlv guide
by HERBERT RAVENEL SASS

passed swiftly into the thicket bordering the
path along which Kasim was coming.
They found the remnant of kasim next
morning near the pool amid the tan1arisks. He
had been dragged part of the way but for a
considerable distance had been carried bodily.
Kasim was the first The second was man
named Ghetto, another woodcutter. He was
taken on the second evening thereafter from
path where dense scrubby teak jungle af-
forded perfect ambush. Ghetto also was
found beside the pool below the shrine.
There was no doubt now as to what the
village faced. After many years of grace,
there had come upon Rangapoor that form of
disaster which the primitive forest tribes of
Central India dread most and against which
they are pitifully helpless.
What could be done was done. For the pro-
lection of the village ITSELF four jackal-tails
we're planted, one at each corner of the town,
so that line drawn from one to the Others
would enclose all the huts. The men, going
out in the morning to their work in the forest,
marched in compact groups with blowing of
horns and beating of tom-toms and with the
four available guns, old and rusty muzzle-
leaders in the hands of the best hunters. For
three days these measures seemed effective;
but on the fourth day dog dug up one of the
jackal tails. That evening youth, drawing
Evening star., 1936-01-05

heaven. We are ten. My Lord will take one
OF us and the rest will live" They waited in
silenceexcep fortheir quick gasping breathing.
He came on silently, with an imperial and
awful majesty. His tail twitched rapidly as he
drew near: his bearded head, set close upon
mighty shoulders, swung rhythmcally from
side to side. He was not long and gaunt as
old man-killers often are, but massive, with
sinuous, deadly litheness no less terrifying
than his enormous power. Squarely in the
middle of the road he came on, his great pads
making no sound and suddenly the huddled
silent mass of men broke before him, some
running with wild screams up the road, Others
shrinking back with staring eyes and jibbering
mouths against the green Jungle wall on either
hand
Then one man who had turned to run
tripped and fell. This was the tigers victim. In
one long bound he was over the prostrate man,
widower named Malwa. There was breath
less pause; then slowly the others began
backing gaway, eyes goggling and limbs shaking.
In the morning they found what remained
of Malwa lying beside the pool below the
ruined shrine of the sultan's favorite.
Alan McGregor travelling by camel-back,
with two native attendants, reached Ranga-
poor after three days journey through the
jungle. He was the forest officer for the
district; spare, rather silent man, darldy
tanned by the Indian sun, his clipped mus
tache barely tinged with gray; though he had
twenty years of forest experience behind him.
Word had been sent to headquarters of
dangerous fire raging in the hills forty miles
farther west, and it was this rather than the
trouble at Rangapoor that had brought him.
The latter problem, in fact, he thought had
been solved. A message had come to district
headquarters six weeks ago that at Rangapoor
six men, including Malwa, the best wood
cutter, had been taken. But since then
no further report had been received, and
McGregor hoped that for once the powder
which he had sent promptly for the native
shtkdris hac done the work He saw now that
this had been too optimistic an assumption.
Fear hung over Rangapoor like pail.
Though it lacked an hour of twilight, the
cattle had been driven in from the woods,
Evening star., 1936-01-05

HRS.
"NR hill-path above Rangapoor was
bordered in one place by karinda
bushes, and that in itself might be
an ominous thing. The karindas
grew very thickly here; behind them were
dense tamarisks around pool, and beyond
the pool the ground sloped upward amid rocks
to an ancient shrine where barely legible in
scriptions on broken tomb told of the beauty
of girl who. centuries ago, had been a
Sultans favorite.
A bad combination - karinda bushes, a
pool, ruined shrine. Thick cover, water to
drink, the presence of the dead to deter
intruders. But the man who was coming along
the path in the early dusk approached this
spot without apprehension. There was no
known reason to distrust the path through
the karindas; even the little brown children
of the village used it. The man - his name
was Kasim - came on slowly but without
pause.
Like most of the woodcutters of the village,
he wore only light cloth around his waist
and carried no weapon except small axe
slung from his left shoulder
When he was quite near the place where the
karinda bushes began, something moved on
fiat rock close to the ancient shrine From
that rock, well up on the hillside, the path
entering the karinda thicket below was visible,
and Kasim. approaching along the path.
appeared vague erect figure in the fading
light.
The movement On the rock was only mo-
mentary; something which had been couched
there, motionless as the Sphynx, was there no
longer. In the tamarisks below the road, how
ever the perfect silence which had reigned
was no longer absolute. There were faint in
termittent sounds; tiny sounds yet somehow
formidable, which moved downhill through
the tamarisks, past the pool and into the
karinda bushes.
A great and almost noiseless thing had
Evening star., 1936-01-05
The
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The following story is based upon authentic
folklore Of India and upon actual Happenings.
II. X. S.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18
Why Sunlight Is Needed
Bv Both Men and Plants

to be related chemically, but widely
different as to function" (Palladin,
plant Physiology".)
Metal Used in Pixmertatioe
The fermentation Of Nature =
mostly made by few metals. the
chief are iron, copper and sulphur.
1t Is not surprising to learn that
bilirubin, which Is one Of the colorin9
matters Of human bile, can DO de-
rived either from the chlorophyil or
plants or from the hemoglobin Of the
blood OF animals. AS matter Of
fact, In the human body bilirubin is
derived entirely from blood pigments
because bile Is the result Of the de-
struction Of blood,
Bilirubin contains no iron bccauss
the body utilizes its iron over and
over again. AS the old blood cells
are destroyed. having SERVED their
usefulness, the iron is re-ab5orbed
and used for the formation of new
blood in the bone marrow. but in tie
course Of time some loss Of iroA
occurs which has to be replaced,
Our pest source for this in the
plant kingdom is from the green.
lealy vegetables and the whole grain
cereals The iron which they con-
Cain, Drawn from tho soil, Is Synthe-
s,~eo IN their chemical structure by
Inc action Of sunlight. 10 the pri-
mary source of energy ON our planet,
the sum- then, we owe the regenera-
'lon or our blood I should not be
surprised II science discovers some
uay mat the exposure Of the body to
sunlight helps in the renewal Of our
Dlood-forming activities.
30, as l suggested yesterday. we
should become, at this season of ths
Seal, sun worship~ss like our ancient
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18

Tuesday, Feb. 10; morning stars:
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune.
Evening Stars: Mars, Saturn, Uranus.
Zodiac sign: Aquarius. Birthstone:
Amethyst.
Scanning the skies: Venus is 10
100000 miles nearer the Sun than the
Earth is, and hence would ordinarily
receive three-fourths again as much
heat as the Earth. It's exceptionally
heavy belt of clouds probably defects
a considerable part of this extra heat
and makes conditions somewhat SINH
lar to those OH Earth. Venus is APP
proximately the same size as Earth
and has about the same force of grav-
ity So when those rocket ships start
operating, Venus may seem more like
home, sweet home to us than most Of
the planets.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18
IT'S TRUE

Daniel Boone, the great frontiers
man and Indian fighter, often tainted
from excitement.
Water isn't an element-it's conf
pound.
Henry VIII, first English king to
have the title Defender of the Faith,
made an alliance with the Mohamme-
dan Turks.
Putting a crease in trousers is a
comparatively new innovation.
Americans drink more coffee now
than they did before repeal-an ave-
rage of 3.03 cups per capita.
When William the Conqueror died,
his physicians rushed away in panic
to safeguard their property while
his servants looted his treasure and
furnishings and, leaving the British
Kings corpse almost naked on the
floor, fled.
When Marquis de Lafayette was
given commission as major-general
in the U. S. Army, he had never seen
battle nor even drilled any troops.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18
NOTICE or RESALE.
GhOlSOn s: GhOlSOn.
Attorneys.

An advance bid having been pl9p"
upon the property hereinafter set oo'
and pursuant TO AN order issued ~
tho Clerk Of tho Superior Court o.
Vance County, North Carolina. IN Tue
Special Proceeding dockctcd IN tbr 0.
flee of tho said clerk entitled y" NJ
Hicks. Administrator dc bOniS hop'
OF the Estate OF J. w. Hicks. I'ccca%
cd, VS.. Leonard M. Hicks ana W.T.
Ella Hicks: Vara II. Gris5om ana hu",
band, A. r. GriSsom: Edith II. pan,|'
and husband, Henry Daniel; james -
Hicks and wife. Viola Hicks; U"ors'
w. Hicks and wife Vcrlic Mot"s
Hicks; Lucy II. RidcoUt and nv 9"p
J. l.. Ridcout; Elizabeth H. tN"A''o
and husband. Boyd Edwards; E"eI
RI. Tucker (minO) and h'lapa"N'
James Tucker; and Frances 10
Hicks (minor)." and by the aulI'o'"!
OF tho said order. and by w. ~
thority Of further order Of SAId 'o!'
for resale. the undersigned Co,""'
sioncr will again offer for 5a",
public auction. TO the highest o'ooq'
for cash. at the Courthouse door >,
Henderson,. North Carolina. Al -
o'clock. Noon, on Thursday. Fcpru''
q. 1886, the following described ''''
estate:
Begin at a stone j. T. Hicks cop'''
in Cooper line; thence IL =. %
1870 chains to a stone; thence =
w 1914 chains to a stone; thcnoD
- Ia e 1910 chains to stone. 0t' 20 n
back s corner; thence S 60 4 lO' On
chains TO the beginning. containing ~ ~
acres. Reference is made TO Boon 49,
page IA, Vance County Registry 10
further description.
Bidding to start at $22OOO .ooc
This the 10th day of February '0'0'
T. p. GHOLSON'
Commissioners.
GholsOn 81 GhOlSOn,
Attorneys.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18
NOTICE OF RESALE.

An advance bid having been made
upon the property hereinafter set out.
and pursuant to an order issued by
the Clerk Of the Superior Court Of
Vance County, North Carolina. in a
special proceeding dockctcd in the Of
flee of the said Clerk entitled IL. NJ.
Hicks. Administrator Of the estate of
Martha Paschall Hicks, Deceased, vs.
Leonard M. Hicks and wife, Ella
Hicks; Vara H. Grissom and husband.
A. T. Grissom. Edith II. Daniel and
husband Henry Daniel; James H.
Hicks and wife, Viola Hicks; George
w. Hicks and wife, Vcrlio Moslcy
Hicks; Lucy H. Rideout and husband,
j. L. Rideout Elizabeth II. Edwards
and husband, Boyd Edwards; Vjrgie
II. Tucker (minor) and husband
James Tucker; and Frances Rose
Hicks (minor);" and by the authority
Of the said order, and by the au-
thority of further order Of the said
Court for resale, tho undersigned
Commissioner will again offer for sale
at public auction. TO tho highest bid
der, for cash. at the Courthouse door
Noon. on Thursday. February y, 1886
the following described real estate:
II is that tract OF 30 ~ acres OF
land bought Of G. w. Finch and Uthor5
Nov. II. 1896. sec Record Book IT,
page Il6. Vance County Registers OF
ficc boundaries rs follows:
Begin at d stone James q. EuJJ'
old corner in Shocco Creek and run
thence N 81 w AS poles to a &one
Mrs. Peggy Rudd's corner in Il. j.
Wortham's old line: thence n ~ II
ii poles TO stone in Wortham'S Line;
',hencc t. 146 poles TO - ston" IN
Rudd's line; thence S . w dS poles 7"
tho place Of beginning, formerly
known as the old Bob Wright place
IT is tho same land described in Dcnd
Book IS. page fS9. in the office Of The
Register Of Deeds Of Vance County.
Bidding to start at $693.OO
This the 10th day Of February 'o9
II. j. GIIOISON,
Commissioner
GhosOn g. GhOlsOn,
Attorneys.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18
Nationwide Group
Starts Movement
To Save Wildlife
Daily Dispatch DureaW.
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
NJ 4 ~ ma SK ERVI1l.

Raleigh, Feb. 18-Launching of a
program to form a nationwide organ
iZation to work for the preservation
and rehabilitation of wildlife resour-
ces, ]. D. Chalk, State game and in
land fisheries commissioners, said to-
day is one Of the most significant re-
suits Of the North American W1ldlifc
Conference recently held in Washing
ton at the call of President Roosevelt.
The choice of j. N. Darling, former
chief Of the u. S. Biological Survey
and popuar cartoOnist, as temporary
president of the newly formed organi-
cation places an able and dynamic
figure in the leadership, according to
Mr.. Chalk. Darling has exhibited
deep personal interest in Wildlife as
we'll as giving Il progressive leader
ship to the Biological Survey during
his tenure of office.
Numerous organizations seeking to
assist in wildlife problems are III OK
istence but no central group has had
the authority to speek for the millions
Of sportSmcn and wildlife enthusiasts,
according to the commissioner. He be-
lieves the proposed association will
provide a means of accomplishing eff
IcCClVc IHSuIIS Ill IHc lAAlcA CoI VI VIII
life
This new organization" Mr.. Chalk
explained, lis to be a coordinating
agency or general clearing house for
all present agencies, organizations
and individuals engaged in the re-
StoratiOn Of wildlife.
"The purpose as outlined by stho
temporary officers is to start with
the counties, thence into congress
, sional districts and finally into. state
organizations. Federal and State Dc
partments are not directly included
in the operations-they are on the
sideline so to speak-but, of course,
will be interestd in the progress of
the organization and will be in read
mess to assist in every way in help
ing the group to function properly"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18
Plan Conference
Family Problems
At Summer School

Chapel Hill, Feb. 1S.-The second
conference on marriage and the fam
lily will be held at the University of
North Carolina July 6 to 10, it was
announced today by DR.. Ernest r.
Groves of the University Department
of Sociology.
The first conference. which met
during the summer session of 1884,
resulted from the interest of college
teachers in the methodology of the
instruction in preparation for mar
riage that has developed at the Uni
versity Of North Carolina.
Although the program Of this sec
ond conference features discussions C:
the problems Of teaching marriage, it
also includes other topics relating to
the conservation Of marriage and the
family and is broader III its appeal.
This is in accord with tho interests
expressed by those attending last
year. DR.. Groves said.
TO this session are invited teach
ers in college. i'll high school, and in
adult education, physicians. lawyers,
ministers husbands, wives, and par
entS.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18
TODAY'S YESTERDAYS

Feb. 10, 1564-Galileo Galilei was
born the day Michelangelo died. They
were the greatest Italians of their
times. It is we'll known that Calico
was prosecuted by ecclesiastical au-
thorities, tortured, for teaching Cop
ernicus' discovery that the Sun did
not revolve around Earth, but the
earth around the sun. Not so well
known is the fact that men of science
assailed him, too. When he announc-
cd he had discovered spots upon the
Sun with his new telescope, orthodox
astronomers fretted: IF anything
was pure and perfect, it is the Sun. Is
this imposter going to blacken its
face, too?"
Feb. Is, 1795-George Peabody was
born in Danvers Cater Peabody,
Mass, where he started to make his
own living at II. Before he was 4U
he was a millionaire and head Of a
large banking house in London. He
reversed the usual process and ex-
pended millions he made in Europe
in the United States, becoming the
greatest philanthropist the country
had before Rockefeller. His greatest
benefactions were for education of the
masses. Britain could not succeed in
inducing him to accept title. but
when he died Westminster Abbey was
opened for the first time to the fun
cral of a private citizen of another
country, and his body was dispatched
by Britain's finest frigate to the U. s.
In the words of Prime Minister Glad
stone, Peabody taught the world how
a man may be the master of his for
tune. and not it's slave.
Feb IS. 1911-For the first time in
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-18
TODAY II
TOnAY,s ANNIVERSARIES

1795George Peabody, the Amer.
can merchant who established one Oh
Rritain's greatest banking houses pc
loved philanthropist on both sides OF
the Atlantic, born at Peabody, Mass
Died in London. Nov. 4, 1869.
1s17-Harret Farley Donlevy), edi-
tor and author, Lowell, Mass, mill
worker and editor of the famous
Lowell Offering" born at Claremont'
N. H. Died Nov. IL, 1907
1832-Octavc Chanute, American
engineer, Chicago manufacturer, first
in the country to experiment in scien-
tific gliding and whose work paved
the way for the Wright brothers, porn
in Franco. Died Nov. %, 1910.
1S42-Charles Emory Smith, Albany
N. Y. and Philadelphia newspaper
editor, diplomat, postmaster-generai
under Mckinley, born at Mansfield
Conn. Died Jan. 10, 1908.
1S60-Andres Zorn, Swedish painter
etcher, born. Died Aug. %, 1920.