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Evening star., 1936-09-27
20 Miles per Gallon!

II had heard q lot
aboutthe economy
ofthenewD Dodge"
says Grace Smith,
"but I will frankly
admit I was skep-
teal until ] got a
new Dodge and
really had achance
to try it out. But
the first week con-
vinced me and I
have averaged 20
miles per gallon
right from the
startl"
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Is to 20% on oil. The beauty Of It ID
that my Dodge is just about 40 easy
to pay for as a small carl"
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f. Pitts

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PILOT AND PASSENGER
ESCAPE BURNING PLANE
Leap From Wreck age After ship
Falls Into Wires Carrying
$4,000 Volts.

Dy the Associated Press.
SOMERSET. Pa, September 26-l
The pilot and . passenger escaped
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Record Until 10 PM. SATURDAY.
Hishest. II. $3.50 pm. yesterday. Year
ago. SO.
Lowest. AZ. $50 am. yesterday. Year
ago. 81.
Record Temperatures This Year.
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Washington
19 Miles per Gallon!

MANY people have been able to drive
Dodge cars over 100 900 miles" COM
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Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital current month to date):
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menus marry A.
Olive. THAT
means dspsndabil-
ity and that's one
reason bought .
Dodge. ge.IteostsvsU
lttlsmorstopayfor
than smallcarsand &S|3
the small amount I3$3
of gas and oil s
which 1t consumes @ ssss,:
II have been M Ia
getting 10 miles to -. '
the gallon q gas
more than balances
this difference"
i Il any sponder more psopls ars
bgying Dodge cars than any other
make excepting the three Ios1sst.
priced esrs?
DODGE
pivisjes of chsysles cospossslea
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Report Until 10 Pm. saturday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-16
RENTAL HUNTING
with BARBARA HOLMES

you interested the places described b cite phone
call Barbara Holiness 1919 ST. N.Y. d. 500 d. 1000.
1AOO RI CKC TITO N w .AS
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Suburban Rooms

Suburban Rooms 76
DETACHED home, very attrac. bedrm,
twin beds, living rm., studio style, $l5
ca: on bus line. WAL. 1868.
$3.50 wkly for two gentlemen. single beds
priv. family, plain cooking. 724 No
Barton ST., Arlington, Va.
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SUBURBAN APARTMENT:

If it's a suburban apartment you
are looking for, this studio apart
ment, located in private home,
SHOULD answer your purpose. AS
it is ont in Silver Spring, Md, on
Oak Drive, I would suggest it
would be more convenient to
someone having their own car:
however, there is the best of trans
portation into town, close by. The
room is furnished with a studio
couch, easy chairs, good reading
lamp, and contains a telephone,
which is taken care of in the rent
of $40. This is suitable for two
men
WISCONSIN AVENUE:
Which, YOU take into considera-
ton the value offered here I be-
lieve it would be to your advan.
tage to inspect this at once. Tho
apartment is of the studio type
with q bed-living room, dinette.
kitcherette and bath. Everything
is furnished to make housekeeping
easy, including maid service, gas.
electricity, linens and silver. Rem
tai is SIS.
GROUP OF NEW
APARTMENT BUILDINGS:
More new buildings are ready
for occupancy There are foun
buildings in all; two facing on
Hamilton Street and two on Third
Stree (They are not duplex
apartnents0 Each building con-
tains IL units and the planning
and treatment of the apartments
are most unusual Colonial type
of finishing has been used through.
out and the dinettes have attrac-
tive print paper with scenes from
the horse and buggy days" In
the kitchens. which are compact
and beautifully appointed, there
are new ranges, electric refrigera-
tors and plenty of cabinet space.
All these units are outside ones.
which give them plenty of light.
Across from the Third Street
building is a Government park
which will be Handicapped. This
is not a playground but one Of
those lovely parks we all like so
we'll. The apartments are of the
two-room, kitchen, dinette and
bath type, renting for $3.50 and
$3.50
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-16
ROOM IN APARTMENT
AT THOMAS CIRCLE:

Right off Thomas Circle in an
apartment building is another
room that should be of interest to
Government workers who go to
law school at hight. Living here
one would have the opportunity
to 60 home and change without
being the least bit rushed. This
room also is equipped for two
Rental $3.50 a week.
FURNISHED UNIT:
A couple of girls or a married
couple could be very comfortable
In this furnished unit. There is
a combination kitchen and dining
room where they could prepare
their meals to their hearts con
tent, and the other room is fur.
nislled as a studio bedroom where
they could entertain their friends
The gas and electricity is included
in the rental of $50
GUEST HOUSE ON P ST. N. W.:
This guest house is noted for its
excellent meals I have been told
by people who have lived there
that tie meals are exceptional in
every way The room that I in,
spected was IN the second floor
front and was quite spacious and
we'll furnished A particularly in.
tereStirg touch was a fireplace
which added to the charm of the
room. This house is located in
the Dupont Circle area and is
within 20 minutes walking dis
lance of town You will be agree
ably surprised at the rates.
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Dignified living quarters with
all the comforts of your own home
are offered in this home on Clifton
Street. The mouse is occupied by
it's owner, and the atmosphere is
one Of friendlineSs and congen-
iality. The room is on the front
of the house, is very large and
furnished with the idea of the
comfort for two in mind. This is
a very convenient location in
which to live; the street cars are
at the corner and churches are
near by. Rental is quite reason
able.
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Business Opportunities

| AVAILABLE about Jan. 1st 1937-Store
room, close to 14th and New York Ave
N. W.. size 16x70, with meEzanine
MAURICE FITZGERALD
! 1911 St. n W MA 1886
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Real Estate
Houses for Sale

"OuSSS AVL o@AC VO
81 ,66O-REAL BARGAIN. N. W, FACING
Govt. park. Vacant and new-house
condition. Six rooms, reception hall,
and shower, gas heat, electric hot.
water heater, electric kitchen, built-in
garage. All-brick row house.
$7,950-Near Grant Circle. Detached. all.
brick home: excellent condition. g
rooms .. inclosed rear porches, largo
derfuf buy. Offered at big reduction
a., in . price owner leaving city. no,.o,oa
home on lot sOx125: Eight rooms a
BED RooMs), 2 BATHS; oil heat, 2;
gBFSSggsZ sS Se t s PsrP
tached brick, stucco and timber Eng
lish home: priced down for quick sale.
Lot 5Ox132. 2 rooms T. BED ROOMS
BATHS e H1t0@at Siti6 heat and FeiFs
$14 ,950-Another beautiful; spacious home
brick Sq9qa RET TTy SPACIOUS s6G fo9ms
and breakfast nook, automatic heat
and refrigeration, Gear brick garage.
Beautiful condition.
S15, 50O-Lovely- N. W. location, Former
silver Star Home. Beautifully built.
Detached house on big lot with fine
shade trees. lawns and shrubbery. Cen
ter hall rooms. including music room
and inclosed heated sleeping porch; 2
baths, attic, automatic heat and retrig-
Grafton garage. Price materially re-
$16, 6OO-Chevy Chase, Md. near Circle,
stately Colonial, center hall, 4 BED
ROOMS, 215 baths. breakfast room, auto
fine condition. Priced way down for
quick SAFE BOSS & PHELPS
1417 K st Realtors. Nail. $500
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MAN WITH CAR

Married, to start training for executive
position (NOT CANVASSING) Earnings
while training $35 per week plus bonus.
Apply before noon Mr.. earn. 1909 9th
St. N W.
Evening star., 1936-06-01
Union and one confederate-took

part.
Maj. Gen, Milton 4. Reckord. head
of the Maryland National Guard, de-
hvered the principal address.
Time, that great healer Of all sor-
row and strife. has finally brought to-
gether those who would honor the
soldiers who fought, both North and
South" he said.
At the cemetery Robert Lincoln
Beckwith of Chevy Chase, great
grandson Of Abraham Lincoln, placed
q memorial wreath at the base Of the
Confederate marker and similar
wreath at the Union marker.
Civil War veterans participating In
the exercises were G.. w. Dellinger,
81, Confederate, Of Winchester, Va;
Thomas c. Rover, SO, Hagerstown; |;
Evening star., 1936-06-01

rometer Of Iowa sentiment on the New
Deal since Senator Dickinson is one
Of the administration most bitter foes.
Contesting with Dickinson for the
nomination are former Senator Brook
hart, Mayor Edwin Manning Of Ot-
tumwa, Guy Linville Of Cedar Rapids.
Norman T. Baker Of Muscatine and
George A. Chaney of Des Moines.
Coming q little more than a week
before the Republican National Con-
vention at Cleveland, the results were
expected by political observers to have
an important bearing on Dickinson's
candidacy for the party's presidential
nomination.
In today's balloting the voters choose
the general election candidates Of the
Democratic, Republican and Farmer
Labor parties for Senator, Representa-
Evening star., 1936-06-01

tives, State offices and State Legisla.
ture from among nearly 900 aspirants.
No presidential preference was In
volved. In the Democratic senatorial
contest the choice was between Gov.
Clyde L. Herring, Representative
Hubert Utterback and Samuel D.
Whiting of Iowa City.
Lieut.. Gov. Nels Kraschel and State
Supreme Court Justice Richard
Mitchell sought the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor. The candidates
for the Republican gubernatorial nom-
ination were State Senator George A.
Wilson, j. M. Grimes and George r.
Call.
Evening star., 1936-06-01

He said that requests for an ex-
tension beyond today, which was
originally set as the deadline date,
had been received from farmers and
county agents in all parts Of the
State.
Reports received in the Stats
ONCE" Hutcheson said, indicate that
more work sheets have been signed
this week than in any two weeks since
the sign-up campaign began"
Approximately 10000 farmers have
signed work sheets in Virginia, the
director said, adding that the per-
centage Of signers was below that of
the South and Middle West as
whole.
Evening star., 1936-06-01
What Shall We See.

SAN DIEGO R.-The pajama-
nightshirt dispute is slated for settle
ment at the exposition next week. A
sleeping garment derby"-a clock
winding, lamp-extinguishing, cat-put-
ting-out dash Of 90 yaids-will be
judged by q committee Of married
women.
Said F. Gilbey Bowker. head Of one
faction: "Nightshirts bestow on man
the dignity of q Roman Senator"
Retorted e. H. Rathbun, leader Of
the pajama clan: I'VE shall see what
we shall see"
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SENATORIAL CONTEST
TOPS IOWA PRIMARY
Dickinson and Brookhart Race
Held Barometer of New
Deal.
zy the Associated Press.

zy the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa. June IA six
man contest for the Republican SEN
atorial nomination, involving United
States Senator Lester j. Dickinson and
former Senator Smith w. Brookhart.
topped Iowa's primary elections today.
Political observers here professed to
regard the senatorial race as ba-
Evening star., 1936-06-01
1896 SOIL PROGRAM
DEADLINE EXTENDED
Virginia Farmers Given Until
June 6 TO Sign Blanks of
Participation.
ky the Associated Press.

ky the Associated Press.
BLACKSBURG, Va, June L.
John r. Hutcheson, director of agri-
cultural extension work in Virginia,
announced today that the period for
signing work sheets for participation
In the 1896 soil conservation pro-
gram had been extended through
June 6.
Evening star., 1936-06-01
THOUSANDS ATTEND
BLUE-GRAY SERVICES
Five Union Veterans and One Con.
federate at Hsgerstown-Gen.
Reckord Speaks.

Ev the Associated Press.
HAGERSTOWN. Nd, June l.
Thousands gathered this afternoon
for the first joint memorial services
of the Blue and Gray ever held in
Washington County.
Five veterans Of the Civil War-four
Evening star., 1936-06-01
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. MONDAY JUNE l.

Jacob Snively, 95, Paramount, Md;
F. D. Grams, 80, and M. H. Neville.
90, both Of Martinsburg, w. Va.
Evening star., 1936-06-01

French aviation services will have
first and second class air travel.
Evening star., 1936-06-01

Junior driving licenses will be issued
to child motorists in Czechoslovakia,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-27

doubted, it seemed to me that this feat would
be impossible. was skeptical. told him that
if he could make a tree grow up and blossom
out of that hunk of mud there in front of me
while watched, I would certainly give him five
rupees (an exhorbitant amount which found
later).
Immediately he placed the mud beside me in
the grass, made few passes over it with
wand-ke stick, and to my mute amazement -
up sprang a tree. Leaves came out as it grew,
and when it reached the height of perhaps six
feet, blossoms were revealed from bursting
buds. There was sturdy trunk and full-sized
branches.
Feel Sahib = real tree. Real leaf"
l felt waved my hands about. Sure enough
they bumped into the branches, knocking some
of the petals to the ground where the roots
were now firmly embedded. l shook my head
wondering if I were dreaming. No, there was
the tree just like any other tree in the park
Determined to miss no tests, broke off tiny
branch containing three of the leaves, placing
them carefully in my notebook There wasn't
any comment to make. There was the tree -
real growing. paid the man his five rupees
and left the park. Twice turned around to
look back at the fakir and his tree, and there
they were both very much alive and the tree
still growing The next day went to the park
bright and early to view my tree. But 10 - 1t
had disappeared - vanished into thin air!
70 sort out the various cults and classify
them would be difficult as to attempt to
explain the complications of the complex caste
system Some of the most common terms which
come under the general heading of fakirs are
sadhus, gosains, sannyasins, and yogis. The
yogis are the most respectable of the lot, dis
regard caste and normally live well. They are
mystics and hypnotists. The others are all ia
natics, who practice anything and everything in
the name of religion.
-mutilaton and mutilation of infants and
children by parents for the purpose of making
pitifully crippled beggars is practiced I have
seen men with legs tucked up behind them, toes
drawn over the shoulders and under the chin;
others with arms broken and bound in gruesome
POSITIONS some, by enforced fasting, trans
formed into living skeletons - all in the name
Of religion. But is this religion or racket
The mendicant ascetics all carry begging bowls
and never fail to capitalize on their deformities.
Flourishing in India is a strange medley of
religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Is
lam, Sikhism Jainism Christianity, Moham-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-27

mechanism, and the offsprings of each, involved
and complex. Census figures today show, how
ever, that the Hindu belief leads all others with
more than 16OO00,0oo people embracing that
faith, Of which Brahminism is part. On this
great continent with tentacles that strike far
out, back into the mists of time with all the
deities, gods and godlets that the ingenuity of
man and priest and the incantations of holy
men can call forth, it is to be expected that
there would be many strange and hidden cults
What battles me is the weird and apparently
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-27

tance over enthusiastic beggers, lepers and the
black cobras that seem to protrude their fiat
ugly heads from baskets everywhere, strolled
down Give street, the main stem of John Bulls
restless Eastern empire. didn't have far to go
or long to wait
HINDU youth approached me, one of the
~ strangest looking humans I had yet seen
in India, where weirdly formed people are the
rule rather than the exception. He was at least
six and half feet tall and so emaciated tnat
his arms were not much larger around than
NV thumbs His legs appeared like wooden
stilts His ribs could be counted as though they
were dried scraped, polished and hanging in a
doctors laboratory. dirty white turban was
perched rakishly his skull-like head
"I will read Sahibs fortune" he said only
three rupees"
"One rupee" told him.
He shrugged and Immediately began pouring
out in a soft lsping voice my past history as
though he was reading it from my own unex-
purgated autobiography 1t was amazing un-
believable! But this was only the beginning OF
long series of amazing experiences Ihe rat
ting youthful skeleton asked me TO thlnK OF d
GIRLS name, any name, and he would write IL
for me on a piece of paper for eight annas
"Do YOU write English" asked him.
mo sahib, but l will write it for you" he
smiled with such confidence that couldnt I re-
sist putting him to the test would MAKE 1t 80
dficult that it would be impossible for him to
catch nv thoughts if that was the secret OF MS
wizardry l had it! That Russian dancer IN
Shanghai Techla ZarmarnoH! NODDED 10
the Hindu indicating l was thinking of a name
Without a moments hesitation he wrote win
NV own fountain pen on an envelope belonging
70 me in a bold plain hand, "Techla Zamarln-
off" only he began at the end ana wrote II
backwards and upside down. / was faoper-
gasted. I put the letter in my pocket to check
up later figured this chap must nave mes
merized me and only imagined was reading
the name Techla Zarmarnof But. as write
this todav the name is still there, clear as ever
What's the answer? You figure 1t out.
nUT this, as l have said, was indeed only the
d beginning That very night while IN one OF
Calcutta's principal parks was witness TO an
other feat of inexplainable magic This one mas
me completely baf1ed still An old man accosted
me in the park, asking me II wlsheo TO see
him grow a tree from a lump of mud ne held
In his hand
Unless the man could hypnotize me, which
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-27
Fakirs Battle Science
More Than 100000 Fakirs Roam Over
Is Their Mystic Power A Religion Or A r
By John Richard Finch

INDIA is the strangest, most colorful and
weirdy mysterious land under the SUM- It at
once fascinates and repulses; thrills and appalls
delights and saddens. Bound up in a bundle of
complexes so legion that even the thought of
understanding is futile, India the eternal, the i'm
mutabe, remains challenge to a modern world
of realities - the iconoclast of nations - ruth
lessy disproving the accepted beliefs of a scien-
tific world, laughing at man-made conventions,
and transforming the impossible into the COM
monplace. There is no spot on the terrestrial
plane where the supernatural seems more real,
the strange powers of the occult so battling and
yet so real. That this land of unique incongru-
tiles is integrally linked in some perverted way
with higher, more enlightened plane seems to
me undeniable after witnessing the amazing
feats it was my privilege to experience in my
last trip through India. Science is "kismet" so
what chance have 1? I'm baffled, bewildered
uncertain! But here's my story and after you've
read it you may decide for yourselves.
had tramped through India before, from the
southernmost tip to the Khyber Pass. | was
not stranger by any means to this great kali
eidoscopic land. One thing had never seemed
to have time for in my travels, however, was
to thoroughly investigate the ascetics, yogis
mendicant magicians snake charmers and in
general = all fakirs When l learned that there
were more than 100000 Hindu fakirs avho
roam the length and breadth of India, having
renounced all worldly possessions, and who live
work and care free, on the generosity and holy
instincts of the religion-conscious people, I de-
cided that here was a subject worth delving
into.
I began within an hour after arriving in Cal
cutta. Comfortably established in nv hotel I
donned white linen suit, my sun helmet and
selecting light malacca cane to keep at a dis
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-27

supernatural powers that these people, who, in
a way, are so elemental, seem to possess
IN AGRA IN the shadow of beautiful Tai
/ Mahal in Trichinopol and Madura, Benares
Alahabad, Lahore, Delhi. Bombay, and dozens
of other cities | saw the strangest sights my
ewes have ever witnessed-men buried for hours
in the earth with the mud packed down sohdly
on top of them, dug up to be apparently unaf-
fected others run through with swords shot
with pistols; fire-walkers, sword swallowers;
glass eaters and poison drinkers, indeed so
varied an assortment of weird and unnatural
feats that began to feel like Aladdin when he
rubbed the magic lamp.
Wearing little no clothing, the fakirs carry
a begging bowl made of gourd or coconut or
sometimes of brass, and carry water pot and
a staff They wear rosaries beads which
serve to remind all who see, of prayer and piety
In addition to the act of renunciation and as
ceticism which, in many sects means the re-
nunciaton of ali desires and passion, and in
wolves celibacy, many tortures and rigors are
involved. A well-known modification is the
couch of spikes on which the fakir reclines.
have scores of them sitting on the sharp
nails which form the beds, calm, unperturbed,
serene. There is authentic case of one man
who lay on his couch of spikes for over 30
years
Another well-known penance is to hold the
arms above the head until they become so stiff
that they cannot be lowered meaning that the
fakr can never feed himself Swinging from
steel hooks fastened to loops of flesh cut in the
victims back is also popular. I saw one man
who stood on his head for six hours at a stretch
each day while he mumbed prayers and col
lected coins. Another each day lays fiat on the
ground and rolls five miles through the streets
of Lahore All in the name Of religion, mortif-
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-01-02

The Big New Years Eve Frolic at the Pioneer Hall, drew a capacity crowd, who all joined together in mak- ing "whoopie' as the old year passed out and the new year came in. Music furnished by the orchestra kept the jolly crowd danc- ing to an early hour, Fav- ors, noise makers, balloons and etc, presented to the dancers helped to make the evening a huge success. Hundreds of balloons tied to the ceiling as decora- tions were handled as ex- pected, everyone having a grand time popping them down and passing them to fellow dancers.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-01-02

Pilot Hans MiroW of the MiroW Air Service, return ed to Nome yesterday in his Lockheed Vega in the fast time of 2 hours and fl minutes, just one minute under the record held by Pilot Jerry Jones of the Pa- cific Alaska AirWays in the Lockheed Electra - both flights were made between Fairbanks and Nome. Pilot MiroW had as a passenger from Fairbanks to Koyu- kuk Station, Johnny Sch
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-01-02
LOCAL ITEMS

The first baby to be born in 1886, came to MT. and Mrs. Jerry Harney at the Maynard Columbus Hospi- tai yesterday afternoon, in the person of a seven pou- nd baby girl. Mother and baby are doing nicely, and Daddy Harney, who is en- ployed as electrician for the Hammon Company is on hand with a great big smile and is passing out the cigars to their many friends who offer the happy couple many congratulations. The baby girl has been named Sharon Marie Harney.