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Evening star., 1936-07-25
ILLNESS SIDETRACKS
FAMOUS POLITICIAN
Thomas ]. Pendergast May Miss
Missouri Primary First Time
in Is Years.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. July 25.--For the
first time In Is years, Thomas j.
(Tom Pendergast, powerful Demo-
cratic leader, probably will be absent
from a Missouri primary election
August f.
His illness in New York from a
heat-induced slight heart attack
prompted the question today:
Is wavy-haired. 40-year-old James
NJ Pendergast being groomed by his
uncle as the next "boss?"
Nearing 81. the elder Pendergast
accepts the title of 1.-The boss" from
his following as one of respect. but
opponents have shouted boss" anew
as an issue accusing him of running
machine"
A study of the two men is one both
| of contrasts and similarities. Tom
Perdergast, taking over his brother
Jim's saloon and first ward leader
ship when Jim died in 1911, learned
his politics in rough-and- tumble fash
ion.
Young Jim-his father, Mike, was
the third of the Pendergast brothers
learned his from the inside after
Uncle Tom mushroomed little river
front following into one that has
bulked large in electing Governors,
Senators and congressman.
The City Council created the post
of twelfth assistant city counselor at
$4,000 year when young Jim was IS
He got the job-and up he climbed
Last June. at Philadelphia, he was
Missouri's representative on the Dem
ocratic Platform Committee.
NEW YORK. July IS OPT. J.
CTom) Pendergast,' Missouri political
leader ill here in a hotel. was said
late today by friend to be steadily
improving
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$4,000 JEWELRY TAKEN
Statesmen Report Hold-up in In
diana-S55O Cash Loss.

BEDFORD. Ind. July rs R.-M.
Kushner, 43. and M. Singer. 36. Of
New York City, informed Sheriff Lin
coin Dinbar last night they had been
robbed of $4,000 in jewelry and $3.50
cash by two gunmen on U. S. road
so three miles east of Shoals, Ind.
The New Workers, who said they
represented Prutinsky & Co., told the
sheriff they were en- route from St.
Louis, Mo, to Cincinnati, Ohio. when
the bandits automobile crowded them
to the side of the road. They said
the robbers told them to drive ahead
until they came to a cross road, but
that after a mile the bandits stopped
them and took the money and cases
containing rings. watches and dia-
mond settings.
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DON'T
"Thou Shalt Nots" for
Capitals Citizens.

CONSIDER the Districts bird sane
tuary law before you seek to wreak
vengeance upon the pestiferous star
lings. In the eyes of the law the star
ling is a respectable and desirable
neighbor, more so than the English
sparrow that chirps at you. Much
more so.
You may kill sparrow (provided
you don't use a firearm or beanshooter
without a police permit, just as you
may kill a crow, Cooper's hawk, sharp
Skinned hawk, or a great-horned owl.
Or you may rob the nest Of a SPAR
row Of eggs or young. and you may
destroy the nest.
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TWO TO BE ARRAIGNED
ON GAMING CHARGES
Police Seize Betting Equipment
in Fourteenth Street
Raid,

Two men were scheduled to appear
today before United States Commis-
sioner Needham c. Turnage on charges
of setting up a gaming table as a
result of police raid yesterday in
the 1700 block Of Fourteenth street.
The men are Albert Clayton. 38. of
the 1900 block of D street northeast
and Charles Harrison, 80, colored, 900
block of Third street.
More than 100 numbers books, bet
ting sheets and race betting equip
ment were confiscated by the police
vice squad when it broke into the
place. Eight men besides those charged
were released as witnesses.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

But If you take the life Of startling,
or other wild or game bird which is
protected by the bird sanctuary law,
you could be fined IS for each bird
killed. In default of payment of the
fine you could be imprisoned for as
much as 80 days.
There you have the reason why
Clifford Lanham, generalissimo of the
Commissioners Startling Nuisance
Abatement Committee, has used toy
balloons to frighten the starlings from
the District Building, instead of bull
lets or poison.
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ANGORA CAT-Cream and yellow: male
in vicinity of 18th and Taylor SITS. NV
Reward. 1851 TAYLOR St NV. Adams 6159
BAG. white beaded. small; contains case
Cathedral Heights. Potomac 51sS.
BLUE PURSE containing folding glasses,
Wednesday evening. Telephone Emerson
THURSDAY night. NV. section. Reward
COIN PURSE, in taxi: $50 and keys: Re
ward. Phone Metropolitan 4053 between
z and 8 am. or pm. 26'
DIAMOND AND PLATINUM WRIST WATCH
July 10th .Shoreham Hotel or 1900 block
r. l. ave-; liberal reward return or inform.
leading to recovery. 1922 r. I. ave. Dist
DOG-Red Doberman-Pinscher, from Fort
myer tag on G9laT Mysr Fsad
Finder please call Col. Wainwright. Fort
DOG-Wire- -haired terrier. about months;
brown. black, white; Nichol collar. with
non-printed tag. Cleve. 1922.
LAUNDRY in bag, about noontime Mon.
day July goth. between 18th and o and
our plant. 623 G NV. Reward. Berg
mann's Laundry.
POCKETBOOK White, in Lansburgh's
Dept. Store Friday: finder keep money. re-
turn other articles. 1888 Euclid st. NV
Mrs. Mildred Frydell
SORORITY PIN-Lost July 30; bearing
Greek letters. D. L. s.; small pearls. Re-
ward. Call Potomac O595-J
Hampshire ave. and Garfinckers. Reward.
District 56A1
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DEFENDED BY BROTHER.
Windsor Auditor Thinks Clevengel
Arrest Due to Prejudice.

WINDSOR, Ontario, July 25 R.-
They will never pin this crime on my
brother" H. B. Clevenger, Windsor
auditor, declared last night when in
formed Prof. w. L. Clevenger of
North Carolina State College had
been detained for investigation" in
Asheville, N. c., in connection with
the Staying of his niece, Helen eleven
ger.
IT think the reason they are trying
Evening star., 1936-07-25

zles, not for ornament" he says, "but,
as was informed, as token of their
being consecrated. No one dared touch
them, such a sacrilege being supposed
to draw after it the vengeance of the
saint to whom they were consecrated. P"
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received here, but contrary to an early
announcement, they we're not given out
to the press. No reason for the change
of mind was advanced, but 1t was sug-
gested some of the kilograms were
from Democrats and that it might not
be appropriate to release them for
publication.
Hamilton, who left last night for
Chicago, where he will resume his
direction of the Republican campaign.
said he had talked by telephone with
leaders in various sections OF the coun-
try and received assurances the Gov
ernor's acceptance speech had struck a
popular mote. Two of those he dis
cussed the matter with we're in New
York. he said, one in Southern Illinois,
two in Pennsylvania, one In Indiana
and one in the West Coast.
Sees New York Victory.
Ohio, Hamilton declared, is In the
bag" for Landon. Also predicting
Landon will carry New York State. he
said His upstate majority will be
around 10000. big enough to overcome
whatever advantage President Roose-
welt may have in New York City. In
the last analysis, Landon will carry the
State"
Hamilton said he believed the Lam
don ticket will carry Illinois because
the Democrats will be unable in Cook
County to tear down the Republican
majority down State" Prospects In
Missouri, he added, are good enough
to justify me in saying we will carry
that State unless the Kansas City ma
chine polls too big a vote against us. ."
The campaign leader denied he was
painting rosy pictures" for political
effect, asserting he was expressing his
honest opinion.
He was questioned concerning the
reported formation Of Democratic
Landon-Knox clubs, but said he knew
Of none. He said, however, he under
stood Landon- Knox clubs without any
party label are being formed in various
sections Of the country. It was pointed
out this would enable Democrats to
support the Republican national ticket
without prejudicins their State afilli-
ationA
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to do it is that he Is a Northerner,' u
Clevenger said.
All of US we're raised in Ohio, and
while he's lived south of the Mason
and Dixon line for good many
years, they still consider him to be a
Northerner The Southerners still
think that Northerners shouldn't come
down South I've been down there
myself and I know that's the case"
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Firemen Join in Fun.

JOPLIN. Mo. P.-For days and
days Of 100-degree weather, firemen
sat by enviously while children frol-
licked under a free street shower set
up by the firemen. Finally, unable to
stand it any longer, they put on their
bathing suits and joined the fun.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Arnold Feared Americans.

Matthew Arnold, the famous English
essayist, for many years a good and
capable lecturer, when he arrived in
America found 1t necessary to take les
sons in elocution here before he felt
himself capable Of addressing an
American audience.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

morning I did not get a reply. I
knocked on the door harder than
usual and my heart started coming
in my mouth. knew that something
was wrong.
Il called her name and still she did
not reply. MY thought was to take
hold Of the knob and shake it, maybe
awaken her, so I took hold of it.
There she was in that posture I found
her.
"Of course. with the love one has
for a child. I shook her Then saw
there was something serious. Then I
said:
"'Oh, it is awful. 1t is awful What
is done?'"
Wollner Completely Cleared.
Wollner, who was released in COM
parry with friend, w. H. Rymer, pro-
prietor of a music store here, told
newspaper men last night the sheriff
had said he was completely exonerated.
c. w. Pegram, friend of Clevenger
for 20 years. was asked by newspaper
men If he knew whether the professor
planned any legal action looking to
his release from jail.
Boys, I can't tell you anything, -
Pegram said, because I don't want
to cross the sheriff"
DEFENDED BY BROTHER.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Radio Boosts Army Morale.

Britain's military chiefs have found
that there Is no greater raiser of the
morale of men stationed In the far
corners of the earth than a loud speak
er giving the results of games and races
at home with snatches Of song from
the music halls.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Sacred Fish in East.

An English traveller in the East in
the seventeenth century tells us that
sacred fish were to be seen throughout
the East, fish confined in the court
yard of a mosque, with rings of gold,
silver and copper through their muz-
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Rippy
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shaving Abbott's lead to one hole
The eighteenth was even in par.
Morning cards:
Par, in .-34445453+36
Rippy. in --3455545 4-38-75
Abbott, t,in---354444544-37-75
(Abbott l up)
The match. in which each young
ster carded medal 75s, or over par,
was tied three times. Abbott won the
twelfth. thirteenth and fourteenth to
come from behind with a sub-par
burst and stayed in front.
Dyyny TT TvNVc nDnnrrr,r
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FOUND.
LOST

DOG. Shepherd, black and brown: white
feet; tag on collar cJog"): at Parkway
Motor Co. 3O40 NJ st. NV.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
SPECIAL NOTICES.
TERMINAL VAN LINES

OF TAMPA. FLA
Padded Vans-Pioneer Distance Movers.
ofnces. 800 10th St NV. West 0919.
DAILY TRIPS. MOVING LOADS AND PART
loads to and from Balto.. PhilA. and New
York. Frequent trips to other Eastern
sisiss Reps1da9ls na STs ssEyiss sinss ds 1922 e
co. Phone Decatur $500.
AUTO CoNsULTANT EXPERT. UN-
biased advice on used cars. repairs: small
fee. Call Mclean. Potomac 27s2. 26.
FREE-SAND AND GRAVEL MIXTURE
suitable for roadways, roueh concrete. All
givsn free at LAMOND TERRA GOTTA
WORKS. Blair I'd. and Underwood st. nv
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders Of the Potomac Insurance Com
pany Of the District of Columbia. for the
election Of directors. will be held in the
ii am The books for the transfer Of
stock will be closed from July 27 to Au-
gust 8. inclusive. 1885.
Secretary.
wiLL NOT sE R %Ss T3R ANY
felf. A. 6. EHRLICH 112S 10th st. Nv.
A SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
Of Lady Lee, incorporated, corporation,
will be held at 1905 r st. NV. Washington,
p: G.. at 9 p.m August IL 1886; for the
to increase its capitalization from $40. 1000
to S25. 600 and for such other business as
may be properly presented.
Hz5Ezas zz5Nks SHzEEEES: SHzEEES:
Directors
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WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
debts other than those contracted BY my
18th st. ne.
WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR BILLS
other than ones made by myself. LEROY
l. .LAUER. 416 Jefferson ave-, Riverdaie,
MONEY ADVANCED AT So INTEREST
on purchase of new or late model used
automobiles. CARTER. Potomac O320-M.
27'
A DEAL FUNERAL AT SIS
Provides same service as one costing $500.
Don't waste insurance money" Call
DEAL, with 26 years experience. Lin.
esln $500.
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Clevenger

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Evening star., 1936-02-07

under the A. A. A. could be recoy-
cred.
Constitutionality OF the House ver-
sion OF the new farm bill was defend
ed in the Agriculture committees for
NAL report filed yesterday.
IF means can be found to rehabili-
tate the agricultural industry by
methods not in conflict with the Con-
stitution the national welfare will be
promoted" the report, by Chairman
Jones, said. This bill proposes to
meet the agricultural problem by the
exercise Of Federal powers, in con-
formity with the Constitution, through
provision for conserving our soil re.
sources and for making proper utiliza-
tion Of them"
It explained the methods were. first
through grants to States to carry out
their own" programs for agricultural
rehabilitation; and. second. through
conditional non-coercive" Fedora
payments to farmers until State action
can become operative.
The committee called attention tc
rapid depletion Of our soil as men,
ace to national welfare" resulting. Il
said, in reduced farm income, exhaus.
ton OF the soil, dust storms ant
eroded lands.
Evening star., 1936-02-07

JUNCTION, but a spokesman announced
today that blood TRANSMISSION was
proceeding successfully.
A physician not associated directly
with the case said the count was Suf-
fering from an abscess Of the leg, the
result of a slight blow he received
some time ago.
The counts hemophilia, disease in
which the blood lacks the clot-forming
quality which normally stops the flow,
is of the type in which the patient
bleeds under the skin from any kind
of blow, the physician explained, a
piling up of the blood causing alb
scesseS.
Two efforts to complete a blood
TRANSMISSION were made yesterday and
another last night before the attempt
which was described as proceeding
successfully. The blood donor was
Luis Menocal, a Cuban medical stu
dent.
At the counts side we're his wife, the
former Edelmira San Pedro, daughter
of wealthy Cuban merchant, whom
he married in June, 1888, at Lausanne
Switzerland, and members of her
family
The former Prince of Asturias, who
renounced that title and his heritage
to the one-time throne of Spain to
become the Count of Covadonga, came
to Havana with his wife last November
from New York.
Evening star., 1936-02-07

themselves to extra efforts in behalf
of Ned Smith of West Virginia, after
President Lewis told the convention
Smith is being attacked by certain
political interests"
The other officers voted pay in
creases yesterday were: Ellis Searles,
editor of the Miners Journal, from
$4,000 to $1,000: executive board men,
bers, from $500 to $500, a month and
convention delegates from $l050 to
$3.50 day.
While the pay raises were under
consideration a number of delegates
made brief speeches in protest, in
the face of jeers and boots from those
favoring them. Some of the speak
ers were for smaller increases, while
others told of hungry and 0barefooted
miners in their districts.
The debate was interrupted by the
arrival of Representative Vinson,
Democrat, of Kentucky, but it was re-
sumed afterward.
Meanwhile, as a result of the &C
ton of the convention yesterday in
voting to take employees of coal-proces-
sing plants into the Mine Workers,
observers saw possibility of widen
ing of the breach with the A. F. of L.
on the industrial union issue, if the
miners attempt to organize skilled
craftsmen over whom federation
unions claim Jurisdiction.
Evening star., 1936-02-07
COUNT COVADONCA
IS CRITICALLY ILL.
HemophiIia Attack Follows
Blow on Leg at Cuban
Home.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, February THE Count
of Covadonga, 28-year -old former heir
to the Spanish throne, who renounced
his royal rights so he could marry
Evening star., 1936-02-07
Officer Ailing, but Prisoner
Waits Patiently to Go to Jail

Stricken ill while en- route to Green's
boro, N. c., with a prisoner. Special
Policeman j. E. Paschal, Al, Of that
city, was confined to Emergency Hos
pital here today while the prisoner pa
tiently waited for him to recover and
continue the trip.
PaSchal, according to local police,
arrived in Washington late Wednes-
day and while stopping at downtown
hotel his automobile was stolen. To
add to his misfortunes, the officer be-
came i'll and had to be removed to
the hospital.
r. D. Mcpherson, 81, whom Paschal
is said to have gone to New York to
arrest. accompanied the officer to the
hospital. Learning Paschal was to be
confined at least for a day, Mcpherson
left to visit some friends at Falls
Church, Va.
Meanwhile Paschal notified Wash
ington police that his prisoner had
disappeared A lookout was sent out
for him.
1t seems, however, that Mcpherson,
unfamiliar with the city, took the
wrong bus and was carried away from
Falls Church. His funds exhausted,
Evening star., 1936-02-07
|C.L. BENJAM|ND|ES
| OF LONG ILLNESS
Deceased, 65 Years Old,
Was First Editor of
Printers Ink.

. Charles Love Benjamin, IS, first
editor of Printers Ink, died in Noun.
Alto Hospital yesterday after q long
illness.
Mr.. Benjamin was the son of
Charles. F. Benjamin, late president
of the Perpetual Building Association.
He retired about four years ago as
director of the National Artistic Light
ing Equipment Association, in Chi
cago, where he resided. Earlier, while
in New York, Mr. Benjamin was with
the Century Publishing Co. He was
a veteran of both the World War and
the Spanish-American War.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs Phoebe
B. Benjamin. and daughter, Miss
Virginia Benjamin, both Of Chicago;
two brothers, Henry H. of this city
and Frederick ]. of Chicago. and two
sisters, Miss Virginia S. Benjamin and
Miss Irving C. Benjamin, both of thi;
city.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. tomorrow in Glenwood Cemetery
Chapel. Rev. DR.. ]. H. Miers. pastor
of Fourth Presbyterian Church, will
officiate. Burial will be Glenwood
Cemetery.
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record. in secret session. as opposed to
new taxes now to pay the soldiers
bonus of more than s2,000.000. 1000.
Chairman SABBATH, who disclosed the
vote, said:
I'VE understand the President has
evolved a scheme by which we could
find the money somewhere else"
After conferring yesterday with the
President, Chairman Doughton of the
House Ways and Means Committee
said the new tax bill might surprise the
country by being smaller than is ex-
pected.
In connection with the bonus finan-
cling study. Representative Vinson,
Democrat, Of Kentucky, received fig
ures from the Budget Bureau and Vet
eranS' Administration which show that
the cost of liquidation over 10 years
would be $4,000, 900 annually.
That figure was reached. Vinson
said, on the assumption that the money
would draw per cent compound in
terest. The annual cost OF a 15-year
plan would be $4,000, 900 on the
same basis.
16O Millions for Sinking Fund.
Vinson said the independent Of.
fees appropriation bill now pending in
the Senate carries s16o, 900. 900 for the
bonus sinking fund which was set ur
under the original plan to pay of the
bonus in 1945. To amortiZe the debi
in 10 years under the present bonus
bill, he said, would require adding only
s29, ,000, 900 for the first year to the
amount now In the measure.
He said that had the bonus beer
paid as planned before the recen
bonus act. the cost would have beer
$l25, ,000,0 900 annually to January l
l945.
On the basis OF these figures, h,
said, the new bonus act should cos
only s64,0o0, 900 additional yearly
This figure, however, contrasted with
the estimate by President Roosevelt
that the extra cost would be around
$l00, ,O0o, 900.
Vinson said perhaps the President
had made calculations including car.
rying charges on Treasury borrowing
that would be required to hnanc.
bonus payments until the amortiza
| ton plan had been carried out
Vinson said that he believed the cos
figures show that "it is unnecessary t,
levy new taxes to pay the bonus"
Vote Expected Early in Week.
The Wagner suggestion gainet
support as the Senate drove into fur
Evening star., 1936-02-07
Freeze Amazes Old>Timer
Potomac Never Frozen Entire Length
Before, He Says.
BY JOHN JAY. DAILY.

Some of the boys, members OF the
Old Timers Club, were sitting peiore
the fireplace talking about the weather.
Most of the Old Timers have passed
the three score and ten year mark,
with the exception Of the baby mem
ber, John walsh, editor OF the
Bulletin
Mr.. Walsh, in his day, the best
skater that ever cut didoes on the
frozen Potomac, skating each morning
from Alexandria, Va, his old home
town, to Washington, where he worked
as an apprentice printer, was telling
about the great freeze on the river so
wears ago. It seems that back in 1885
the Potomac River froze all the way
from Great Falls to Mount Vernon
and that gave little Johnny Walsh
and his boy friends plenty Of skating
area
still" said Mr.. Walsh, recalling
this freeze to his old cronie, John
BOYLE, who will be 80 his next birth
day, that was no freeze at all COM
pared with the present situation.
Man and boy, I've watched the old
Potomac freeze these last six decades
or so-and I've never seen anything
like the ice of today. Why, man, the
river is frozen all the way from Harp
ers Ferry to Point Lookout-from its
source to its mouth. And that never
happened before"
Mr.. Boyle put in an objection: y
don't know so much about that, ne
said, "but I recall one terrific Winter
back in 1868 that was humdinger.
NV father had been provost marshal
for Gen. Robert E. Lee, and after the
war. we returned to Washington. There
was a coat of ice an inch thick over
the city streets-and the river was
frozen all the way down to brackish
water"
That may be So" Mr.. Walsh i'm
posed. II wasn't skating that Winter.
To decide the argument, Mr.. Charlie
Hamilton. who came over from Lon
don in 1870. suggested someone cal
UP the Weather Bureau:
What for?" the Old Timers
chorused. "There wasn't any Weather
Bureau back in those days.
Sure enough, Mr.. Hamilton had for
gotten. The Weather Bureau. as II
is known today, was not organized
until 1870. Previous to that weather
recordings were made by the United
States Army Signal Corps.
The best place to get weather re-
ports in those days." John Walsh said
was Fort Washington. We used te
skate down there to find out what
was going on in the way of weather.
So these lads. members of the Ole
Timers Club, had been studying
Evening star., 1936-02-07

weather before Uncle Sam himself
took a hand in it. And they all agreed
that this present Winter, taking it by
and large, as Mr.. Herbert Hoover used
to say, is one of the meanest, dirtiest
low-down Winters old Washington
town ever saw. Especially this present
spell
There was this observation made
When the Old Timers went up against
bad weather they got it full in the
face, so to speak. You see, there were
no steam heated houses in those days
No hot-water heating systems. Moth
ing but open fireplaces and old
fashioned stoves. So, -
well, it was plenty cold back in
the late sixties" John Boyle opined.
But the Potomac River didn't
freeze all the way down to Point
Lookout" John Walsh said, flicked
the ashes from his cigarette and went
back to work.
The remaining Old Timers still
talked about the weather, recalling
the days when there were l6 steam
boats on the Potomac River-Ships
running to Old Point and Norfolk and
to Baltimore. Freighters, excursion
boats and ferries piled from Aiexan-
dria to Washington.
And they all had to cut the ice
in the Winter time" Mr.. Hamilton
recalled, but there was no ice like
this of today"
So there are the facts in the case
direct from the Old Timers head.
| quarters,