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Evening star., 1936-10-08
NEW GRAND JURY
IS |MPANE[ED
Ralph G. Wilson Is DeSig.
mated Foreman by
Justice Gordon.

A new grand jury was impaneled
late yesterday by Justice Peyton Cor
don of District Court, who designated
as foreman Ralph G. Wilson, teller at
the National Bank Of Washington.
Wilson is 40 years old and lives at
1852 Evarts street northeast.
The new jurors will serve for the
next three months. Among them we're
six women, one of them single, and
five married.
Besides Wilson, the jurors are:
william B. Flack, IS, u Rhode
Island avenue northeast, salesman;
r. Duncan Macpherson, SO, 1889 On
trio place, salesman; Thomas A. Muir
ray, 64, 1909 o street; Louis r. New
ton, 20, 1875 Twelfth street northeast,
clerk; James E. Nolan, 40, 1912 La
mont street, salesman; Robert E.
O'Connor, 81, los Rhode Island ave-
nue., baker; Mrs. Maude H. Phillips,
OOs oV4 faoPC1 otiCCI, DO0Lo -. kenCS1SAA,
so, 425 Irving street, real estate and
insurance; Albert D. Reesch, 36, 1917
sherwood street northeast, assistant
auditor; Mrs. Elizabeth w. Reid, IS,
1916 Irving street. housewife; Aaron
Scheer, 80. 1881 Penn street north
east, store owner; Otto A. Schoeps, A,
1878 Owen place northeast. decorator;
Forrest L. Shekell. 81, $3.50 Fourteenth
street, salesman: Mrs. Mary c. Smith,
so. 727 Hamilton street. housewife;
Robert B. Smith, So, 619 G street
southeast, clerk: Mrs. Elizabeth T.
Sullivan. 81, 1919 Thirty-flrst street,
housewife; Helen v. Tapscott, %, 1910
Capitol avenue northeast, clerk; Au-
gust r. Terneak, %, 154 r street
northeast, bookkeeper; Warren D.
Wade, 56, 2611 Adams NH road, sales
man; Raymond D. Watson, A, 507
Sixth street, salesman; G. Meredith
Winship, jr., 1000 Sixteenth street,
teller, and Mrs. Nellie S. Schweitzer,
90, 6435 Eighth street, housewife.
Evening star., 1936-10-08

Charles I. johnson, Is, who recently
obtained a District Court order abro-
eating a six-year sentence imposed on
him by Judge Fay Bentley of Juvenile
Court, was arrested with two other
boys today while riding in an automo-
bile which police said had been stolen.
The boys, all of whom live in Cap
itol Heights, Md, where the car al
legedly was stolen, are being held for
investigation at the eleventh precinct.
Pleading guilty to a charge of illegal
entry on January 20, 1885, johnson
was placed on a years probation by
Judge Bentley. Six months later he
played hockey" from school and
Judge Bentley revoked his probation.
placing him in q home maintained by
the Board of Public Welfare.
After two months he escaped from
this home and later got Job at the
Agriculture Department, using part Of
his salary to help support his mother.
He was apprehended. however, and
Judge Bentley ordered him committed
to the National Training School until
he became 81.
Contending Judge Bentley had no
authority to impose more than the
original one-year sentence after re-
voking probation, johnson appealed to
the District Court. and Justice Jen-
nings Bailey, without announcing his
reasons, ordered his release.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
STREET WIDENING
WORK WILL START
U. S. and District to Join
in improvements Near
Interior Building.

The Federal and District Govern
ments are combining In an improve
ment program which will be launched
Immediately in the vicinity of the new
Interior Department. Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets, from C to E. are
to be widened substantially, while E
street north and E street south, on
either side of Rawlings Park, also will
be widened between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets.
The National Park Service will re-
build Rawlings Park, which will be
diminished in area by the new pro-
gram, and construct in the center a
fountain on the croSs-axis between
the north entrance to the old Interior
Department and the north entrance to
the new building.
H. c. Whitehurst, District director
Of highways, who will have charge Of
the street widening job, said bids will
be called for Monday and opened on
October 26. He expects to start work
about November /. Public utilities
concerns already are at work in the
area, laying their new conduits in
keeping with the revised program.
Eighteenth street, Whitehurst said,
will be widened from 38 to 48 feet,
while Nineteenth street will be ex-
panded from 3S to Sc feet. E street
north. now 80 feet wide, will be in
creased to Sc feet and e street south
will be treated similarly.
Rollins Park will be considerably
altered. An underground tunnel has
been constructed to connect the two
Interior Department buildings, and
this has raised the grade there few
feet. Along Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets south the grade will be
lowered q bit, but along E street
north it will have to be raised, ac-
cording to Malcolm Kirkpatrick. resi-
dent landscape architect Of the
branch Of plans and design Of the
National Park Service.
Secretar. Ickes has made available
about $4,000 of Public Works Ad-
ministration fund for the rebuilding
program. This will comprise the
placing Of net top soil and new land
scaping. The long east and west axis
Of the park will eventually be ex-
tended for several blocks to the west
ward when the Federal rectangle Is
completed.
Onicials Of the National Capital
Parks made it clear today that sufd-
cient funds are not now available to
complete the project, but money is In
hand only for the completion Of the
cross axis.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
Thousand Year-OId Relics Shed
Light on Prehistoric Eskimo

New knowledge Of life In the Far
North before the dawn Of history has
been supplied by 1,000-year-old relics
unearthed by q joint expedition of
the National Geographic Society and
the Smithsonian Institution, accord
ing to an announcement today.
Eskimo armor, worn in ancient
battles in prehistoric Alaska 1000
yeas ago, and weapons. tools and
household articles, preserved for
many centuries in the perpetually
frozen Alaskan soil, were excavated
during the past Summer by an ex-
pedition to the Bering Sea, under
the leadership Of Henry B. Collins,
IT,, of the Smithsonian.
The relics furnish valuable new
knowledge Of two ancient Eskimo
cultures or primitive civilizations Of
Alaska, and Ill important gaps In
the history Of the ancestors Of the
modern Eskimo, the society said.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
318 SPECIES OF BIRDS
VISIT AT SANCTUARY

Some -318 different species Of birds
have been observed at the bird sane
tuary at Reaches Run on the Mount
vernan Memorial Highway, officials
said today.
DR.. Paul Bartsch of the Smithsonian
Institution, student Of birds, has Just
compiled q check list Of the birds Of
the District Of Columbia, many species
Of which pay visit to the nearby
sanctuary. The list embraces several
kinds Of swallows, wrens, thrushes,
vireos. warblers, sparrows, herons.
hawks, terms and owls Is wen as
others.
Paul r. Hodge, caretaker Of the
sanctuary. Is constantly ON the lookout
for the arrival Of new species, which
are duly recorded. He co-operates
with Dr.. Bartsch and with the Bio
logical Survey Of the Department OF
Agriculture, which Is interested in a
bird census.
Evening star., 1936-10-08

The armor uncovered was made OF
stats Of bone, similar to the slat
armor used by some Asiatic tribes.
Other finds included harpoon and
arrow heads. fish lines Of flexible
whale bone, fragments Of clothing,
cooking utensils, combs, avis. needles,
ceremonial masks and even toys
carved In imitation Of boats. animals.
etc.
The archeologists uncovered the
first site Of the old Eskimo "Thule
culture" ever found In Alaska. This
culture was the stage Of development
attained by the Eskimos previous
to the stage IN which they were found
by the flrst white explorers, ana y
characterized by certain types Of TOOLS
weapons and art objects.
The expedition made careful, put
unsuccessful search for remains OF pre-
Eskimo people.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
d. C. Man Starting to Olympics
Sees Spanish War Instead
Navy Lieutenant on
Quincy Sa,o Heavy
Bombing of Port.

The q. 8. 8. Quincy is back in
American waters, and it reminds
James p. Kirkland Of his trip to the
Olympics which ended with his
watching bombs burst in the air on
the Spanish Coast.
Lieut.. Kirkland q. g., q. s. Naval
Reserve, attached to the office Of the
judge advocate general, decided early
this Summer he would 60 on the
Quincy to Europe on its shakedown
cruise and thus cross the ocean and
approach Berlin for 81 day.
To his early dismay but later de-
light, the Quincy, when it was two
days at sea, was ordered to change
its course and proceed to Spain. So
Kirkland saw a war instead Of sport.
He's been back in Washington few
days to attend to his law practice and
his teaching Of criminal law and
procedure at George Washington Uni
versity.
The Quincy steamed through the
Straits of Gibraltar just five and one
half days after it left Norfolk, 5000
miles away-a record crossing for q
naval cruiser.
Refugee From Kansas City.
A few days after excitement over
this feat was calmed, kirkland re-
called today in his Colordo Building
Office, the sea-going lawyer saw his
first Spanish-American refugee
Kansas City cab driver who had
turned chauffeur for q Spanish
doctor.
With his wife, q Spaniard, the
hacker had been hiding in the hills
four days, cold, terrorized, and with
nothing to eat. When word reached
him the Quincy was putting in at
Motril, they asked to be taken aboard.
From Motril the Quincy steamed
up the coast to Valencia to take
aboard some 125 refugees from Mad
rid, the capital.
"They all came down In pretty
good shape" Kirkland related. They
had their own baggage: they were
pretty well dressed. and they weren't
worried. We took them to Marseille,
and then turned down to Gibraltar
for fuel. That's where the fun began.
1--WE were lying about two miles
of shore when two Spanish battle
ships moved in and began to shell
Algeciras. The ships were just about
half way between us and the town.
We got a beautiful view of the pro-
ceedings.
Siesta, Then Bombing Again.
AFTER two hours of bombing in the
morning, the Spanish admirals retired
for a siesta. But they came back
to their work late in the afternoon
and let their big guns 60 for three
hours. We couldn't see the shore
damage very well, but one shell set
Evening star., 1936-10-08
DIRIGIBLE SUBSIDY
PLEA Seen BY ROPER
Expects Plan for Transatlantic
Service to Be Submitted
to Congress.
By the Associated Press.


Secretary of Commerce Roper ex-
poets a plan for q Government-sub-
sidized transatlantic dirigible service
to be presented to Congress next ses-
sion by the Commerce Department.
After conferences with DR.. Hugo
Eckener, commander Of the German
Zeppelin Hindenburg. Roper said yes
terday he was considering a scheme
for developing an airship service on
the same basis as the merchant ma
rine.
Tentative plans call for operation Of
the airlines by private enterprise, aided
by Government construction and oper-
alton subsidies, he said.
He said Eckener. had discussed q
proposal for regular airsl1ip flights be-
tween Europe and q new American
base to be located In the Washington
Baltimore area.
Earlier Eckener told newsmen three
sites for q permanent Zeppelin ter
minal in the United States were being
considered-near Baltimore, at Hybla
Valley, near Alexandria, Va, and Nor
ristown, N. J.
He said Morristown was favored be-
cause of its closeness to traf1lc centers,
but that the other sites were superior
from meteorological standpoint.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
COMMITTEE ASKS
ROBERTS TO GIVE
VIEWS ON BUDGET
Peoples Counsel to Testify
at Public Hearing on
Fiscal Relations.
ADVOCATES NAMING
OMAN COMMISSION
Group Would Determine Federal
Share of Expense
Each Year.

Peoples Counsel William A. Roberts
disclosed today he had been invited by
members Of the Presidents special
Fiscal Relations Committee to appear
before them and explain his plan for
solving the troublesome problem Of
what constitutes q fair and equitable
share Of the expenses Of the United
States toward the cost Of operating
and maintaining the District.
Roberts will testify at one Of the two
public hearings to be held by the
committee October % and "a, at which
representatives Of organizations in
terested in the fiscal relations subject
will be given an opportunity to pre-
sent any data in their possession which
will aid the group In its work.
The plan Roberts will present-one
he has advocated for nearly three
years-involves the creation of a COM
mission Of six members which each
year would determine the amount the
Federal Government should contribute
toward the District expenses.
Roberts said the commission should
be given an ofiicial and authoritative
status so its recommendations would
have to be followed by both the Com
missioners and the Budget Bureau.
He proposes q change in substantive
law relating to budget procedure to
make this possible.
The commission, according to Rob-
erts, should be composed of the three
District Commissioners, representa-
tive of the Interior Department, the
director Of the Budget Bureau and an
other representative of the Treasury
Department. Such a commission, he
said, would be representative of all
agencies concerned with the District
budget.
Under the Roberts plan the commits
sion would be q fact-finding group.
Its duties would be to determine an
nually the cost Of services provided
the Federal Government at District
expense and Ak the amount the United
States should pay. The commissions
recommendations would be binding
both on the Commissioners and the
Budget Bureau.
In reaching its conclusions, Roberts
said, the commission should determine
the cost to the District Of such items
as water service, fire and police pro-
lection, street lighting, paving and
maintenance Of streets surrounding
Government reservations and the cost
Of educating children Of Federal en-
ployes attending the public schools.
The activities of the commission,
Roberts explained, should precede the
preparation Of the annual District
budget so the amount of the Federal
contribution would be definitely known
in advance. With this figure known,
he declared, the Commissioners should
be required to frame q budget that
would not result in a deficit.
Besides Roberts, representatives Of
number Of organizations will appear
at the hearings. These include spokes-
men for the Citizens Joint Committee
On National Representation, the Wash
ington Board of Trade, the Federation
of Citizens Associations and the
Washington Real Estate Board.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
MILK PRODUCERS
GET j. s. ANSWER
IL Have No Right to Go to
Court, Reply to Pact .
Attack Holds.

The contention of IL Maryland and
Virginia milk farmers that the Dis
trict milk marketing agreement and
order Is unconstitutional was met by
the United States today with the re-
ply that the farmers have no right to
60 to court. The producers said the
agricultural adjustment act on which
the order Is based Is invalid.
The answer was filed in District
Court in the name of Secretary Wal
lace, whom the farmers had sought to
enjoin from enforcement Of the order.
Judge Oscar Luhring said he would
hear arguments on the iDjunction
petition Monday at 10 am.
Skirting the question of constitu-
tionality, the Government made these
four points In answer to the two
suits-one brough by II Maryland
producers supplying milk to the High
land Farms Dairy, and the second
brough by one Virginia producer for
the Model Farms Dairy:
/. The agreement and order pro-
vide no penalty for noncompliance on
the part of the producer.
2. The producer won't suffer any
financial injury through the order be.
cause the prices set by 1t are minimum
prices.
8. The two diaries involved have no.
indicated they will refuse to pay tlle
plaintiffs their present contract price,
which Is higher than the minimum set
in the order.
4. The plaintiffs have not shown
they lack recourse at law, If they are
financially injured later by the opera
ton of the order and the agreement.
With the answer was filed an afi-
davit in the form of an economic brief
by z. w. Gaumnitz, chief Of the Dairy
Section of the A. A. A., tending to
prove that the farmer does not suffer
from the operation Of the agreement.
The order and agreement are direct
ed at distributors Of milk. The ques-
ton of constitutionality has already
been raised by . ruling against the
Government in q Boston case, which
will probably be brought before the
Supreme Court during the present
session.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
FORT MYER SCHEDULES
SERIES OF PARADES

Beginning today and continuing
throughout this month, q series OF
formal parades and guard mountings
will be held at Fort Myer, Va, Col.
Jonathan M. Wainwright, command
ing ofiicer, has announced.
The 18th Field Artillery and the
Sd Cavalry viii hold one guard
mount and one parade each week. all
ceremonies taking place in front Of
the bachelor officers quarters.
The ceremonies are open to the
public. They will be held on Nom
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fri
days at 4:45 pm.
Evening star., 1936-10-08

fire to little gunboat the rebels had
been using for a transport. She
burned all night, right to the waters
edge.
There was more bombing up at
Palma, in Majorca. That's a beauti-
full island. The temperature ranges
from so to 80 degrees. You can rent
q six-room house, have q servant and
eat for $50 a month.
''Well, we took 10 or Is persons of
the island for transport to Marseille.
At noon, while we were standing by,
two bombing planes zoomed over the
island from Spain. They were per-
fectly safe; there was no effective
answering battery on Majorca.
"The planes came back at S pm,
and we later learned that the two-a-
day appearance of the two planes
was daily occurrence"
Two Other d. C. Men Along.
Two other Washingtonians-J
Wetherall and James Gallery-were
aboard the Quincy with Kirkland.
They stayed with the ship, but the
lawyer left it August IL for trip to
Nice and then Paris, England. Ireland,
Scotland and Liverpool, where he
booked passage for America.
Nice reminded Kirkland that every
time he goes abroad with the Navy he
finds trouble. He was cruising with
the Wyoming in 1884 and assigned
to shore duty in Nice. By nightfall the
town belonged to the sailors. A few
hours later it was a battle-ground.
American sailors in a Nice cafe
were presented with beer check for
SIS. There was an immediate pro-
test. One blue jacket suggested ap-
plying the bill to the war debt. At
the words war debt" the French
men rose en- masse and In wrath.
Chairs hit heads, blackjacks swished
and the question of the beer bill be-
came a leading issue
Evening star., 1936-10-08
ROW OVER ALLEY
PROPERTY AIRED
| Street Neighborhood Fights
Warehouse Before Z0n.
ina Commission.

The story Of q neighborhood fight
over use Of alley property in the rear
of 2020 I street was told to the District
Zoning Commission today when 1t
considered q petition for official sane
ton for a warehouse which has been
used as such for about two years.
The petition came from Howard P.
Foley Co., Inc, which Is engaged in
the electrical equipment business and
has been using an alley building to
store conduits and other articles.
Strong protest was voiced for q
group Of residents in the square, rep
resented by James c. Wilkes. at
torney.
Complaints Lodged.
The fight revolves around narrow.
one-lane alleys which serve the in
terror of the square. It was brought
out also that the building has been
used as q warehouse for two years
without issuance Of an occupancy per-
NIT for that purpose.
Foley explained he had left q g.
foot area adjoining the alley open so
as to permit his neighbors to get their
cars in and out Of their garages.
wilkes charged the companys
trucks at times blocks access to the
alley for as long as As minutes and
that neighbors complained OF loud
noises created as early as am.
Other Petitions.
In another case, g. F. Gardner ap-
pealed to the Commissioners for per-
mission for the owner Of alley prop
erty at the rear Of 1924 Thirteenth
street to expand the floor space OF an
automobile repair shop. Opposition
was voiced by Joseph Low, represent
ing owners of q nearby apartment
house, who said the alley now was
congested with trafic.
The commission had before 1t also
petition of Samuel B. Miller for use
Of lots at the rear of SO Newton place
for storage purposes. Cauther q
Slocum, Inc, asked permission to ex-
tend machine shop operations to lots
at the rear Of 1918 North Capitol
street.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
Women Lawyers to Dine.

Judge Ellen K. Raedy of Municipal
Court will act as toastmistress tonigh:
at the first Of series Of informal din
ners to be given by the Women's Bar
Association. The dinner is scheduled
for $50 O'Clock ut Wesley Hall, 1908
K street.
Evening star., 1936-10-08
Seabrook TO Lecture.

william Seabrook, writer and ad-
venturer. viii lecture on Magic and
Witchcraft" ct Roosevelt High School
Auditorium Monday, October 26, at 8
pm, under sponsorship Of Sigma Tau
Delta, honorary English fraternity at
Wilson Teachers College.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-13

est mainland point II miles dis
tant, and from Onancock and Reed
vile in Virginia. The afternoon
program included a sailboat event,
airplaine stunt flying, and para
chute jumping. The natives serv-
ed one of the famous Chesapeake
Bay suppers in boarding tents.
Congressman S. Otis Bland, prin-
cipal speaker at the Thursday ev-
ening program, advanced a sug-
gestion that a proposed Tangier
airport be named Hunter Field"
in memory of Sergeant Wilbert
Hunter, of the Maryland state po-
lice, who died on the ice last win
ter while attempting to take food
to the inhabitants of ice-bound
Tangier Mayor William T. Crock
of Tangier, introduced the speaker
following prayer by DR.. w. F.
Corkran, of the Wilmington Meth
odist Conference. The Crisfield,
Md, High School Band, directed
Smyrna times., 1936-08-13
FARM JOURNAL
ON STRAW VOTE
Continued From Page Three)

credit the Straw Vote during the
present campaign by quoting from
a book written by Prof. Claude E.
Robinson, of Columbia, in 1882, en-
titled Straw Votes" Mr.. Robin
son attempted to gauge the accur-
acy of the various polls throughout
the country in the 1928 election,
and gave the Farm Journal a low
rating. I wrote Mr.. Robinson at
the time, calling his attention to
the fact that he had compared our
poll on a state-by-state basis with
the total states votes-an unfair
comparison when we only showed
the preference of the rural popula-
ton. Mr.. Robinson readily ac-
knowledged our position, stating
that the Farm Journal poll could
not fairly be compared with other
national straw votes, which include
urban population, nor with the
state election totals, and assured
US that he would draw attention to
this fact in his later writing.
THE New Deal high command
which has so carefully quoted from
Mr. Robinson's book has not taken
the trouble to ascertain these facts,
as far as I know. But it is well
known that ignorance of facts and
distortion of facts are both char
acteristic of the New Deal"
Smyrna times., 1936-08-13

The improved harbor for smaller
craft that is part of the Della
ware City branch channel of the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is
being used more extensively this
season that at any time since it
was constructed little more than
ten years ago. In the days of the
lock canal the harbor was known
as the basin" Boats waited in
the basin to take their turn pass
ing through the lock from the
canal to the river, or they could
tie up in the basin overnight after
entering the canal from the Della
aware River.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-13

by J. Otis Ford, gave a concert
preceding Congressman BANDS adj
dress. The Rev Harry N. Bailey,
pastor of Swain Memorial Church,
the only church on the island, is
chairman of the homecoming COM
mittee Other members are Sew
ern Crockett, w. t. Crockett, J. T.
Pruitt, Carey Crockett, Andrew z.
Parks, George T. Pruitt, Willard
Crockett, A. Frank Die, John S.
Wheatley, Edward S. Pruitt, and
George Bowden.
Smyrna times., 1936-08-13
Holy Land Seed Yields Fruit

Following the monthly meeting
Of the official board of Peoples
Observation-Disclosures Church,
Dover. Friday night, the pastor,
DR. R. C. Helfenstein, presented the
members with a tray of fruit that
had a unique history. Four years
AGO. when DR.. Helfenstein was Wis
iting the Holy Land, he chanced to
be eating some apricots while he
was walking around the ancient
walls of Jericho, and the thought
occurred to him to put one of the
seeds in his pocket to plant in his
garden. This he did with the re
suit that from this seed has grown
a tree from which he has picked
the first fruit this year.