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Evening star., 1936-06-07
Chevy Chase Residents
Give Variety of Parties
Mrs. Dickson Entertains at Luncheon and
Bridge-Mrs. Bennett Hostess at Tea
and Kitchen Shower.

Jacobs have also had as their house
guests, Capt. and Mrs. H. G. Taylor
of Portsmouth, Va, and Comdr. and
Mrs. M. D. Gilmore Of Annapolis,
Md.
Mrs. Holland Robb entertained at
luncheon and bridge Friday.
Mrs. Harold E. Burton entertained
at luncheon Tuesday in her home on
Chatham road. The guests were:
Mrs. J. C. Smith, Mrs. Adon Phillips,
Mrs. J. j. Jones. Mrs. Charles White,
Mrs. Elmer Weaver, Mrs. Martha
Lash, Mrs. Charles Schafer, Mrs. M.
Shepherd, Mrs. L. E. Talbert, Mrs.
G. Tucker. Mrs. Hugh Murrell and
Mrs. Cora MapeS People.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton will be hosts
this evening to company of 10 at
supper party at the Columbia
Country Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold E. Doyle have
opened their Summer home at
Arundel the Bay for the season. -
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Miss DasneauX
Selects Attendants

Miss Isabelle A. Dagneaux, whose
marriage to Mr.. James E. Eckloff, jr
will take place next Tuesday after
mother. Mrs. c. Rene Dagneaux, has
selected as her maid of honor her
sister, Miss Clementine Dagneaux,
and as the matron of honor, Mrs.
William A. Carr, of Washington, sister
of the bridegroom-elect.
Mr.. Peyton B. Fletcher, ir.. the
groom's cousin. will act as best man
and the ushers will be Mr.. Francis
J. Eckloff and Mr.. Rene F. Dagneaux.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Miss Riggs
Is Hos tess
At Luncheon

FRS. HARPER SYBLEY. the
Nu wife of the president of the
IVI Rochester, N Y, Chamber
4 Il of Commerce, was the guest
Evening star., 1936-06-07

-
Nu wife of the president of the
V Rochester, N. Y, Chamber
4 L of Commerce, was the guest
of Miss Annie S. Riggs at luncheon
in her home, Locust Hill. Friday, and
gave a talk on the modern women
of India to number OF additional
guests invited by Miss BigggS for
800 O'Clock.
Mrs. Laurence Stabler has arrived
at her home, "Homewood," after hav-
ing spent the winter with her cousin
in Berryville. Va.
Mrs. Eric Englund. representing the
MARYLAND University and Mrs. r.
Bentley Thomas of The Corner Cup
board" will be hostess June 10 to
200 of the foreign delegation OF farm
women now in session in Washington,
on a tour through Montgomery coun-
ty. They will visit the old Sandy
Spring Quaker Meeting House built
in 1917.
Mrs. Douglas Whitlock of Crest
leigh, has left for Cleveland, Ohio,
where she will join MIR. Whitlock for
the Republican Convention, remaining
about two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Addison G. Foster
of Washington. have arrived at the
Bungalow on Magnolia Farm, where
they will remain for the summer.
They have with them as a guest for
some weeks Miss katherine swan.
of Hollywood, Calf. Mr.. James Swan
of Washington. was a weekend guest
of the Fosters. accompanying MS
daughter to the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mimms OF
New York and Washington have ar
rived at Wrenwood where they will
spend the Summer.
Miss Chandlee Robson with Mrs.
Joseph E. Janney and Miss Margaret
Lansdale, who was of the graduating
class this week at Western Maryland
College, have motored to Oxford. Ohio,
where they will attend the commence
ment exercises at Western College,
Mrs. Janney's daughter, Miss Virginia
Janney will graduate. Miss Janney
will return with her mother and the
party to Sandy Spring.
Miss Lucille LaPorte, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ewing LaPorte, who are
occupying Sharon" has as guests
from Pittsburgh. Pa, over the week
end. Miss Marcella Heron, Miss Ann
Teall and Miss Peggy Suydam.
Friday evening Miss LaPorte en-
tertained at tennis and supper on the
terrace at Sharon.
Evening star., 1936-06-07

We've gone the limit in
this thrilling reduction of
one-half off the regular
prices on several hundred
dresses selected from our
late Spring stocks. There
are daytime and evening
models-in finest of chif-
fons. crepes and other
desirable fabrics. We ad-
wise an early selection!
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Another Warm Place.

Sandy, bag Of sticks on his back,
met the deacon one Sunday morning,
Sandy was going golfing, for folks
need something to keep them warm,
and it's not religion that'n do itl"
No" replied the deacon, dryly, but
the want Of it will keep some folks
warm yet, I'm thinking!"
Evening star., 1936-06-07
General Notes in
Sligo Park Hills

Mr.. John B. Mertie. jr., Is at Fort
Yukon, Alaska, on his annual ex-
ploration for the Alaskan Department
of the Geodetic Survey Mrs. Mertie
went as far as Chicago with him when
he travelled on to Seattle and Mrs.
Mertie returned here.
Mrs. George B. Webster entertained
yesterday afternoon at a dessert
bridge. The guests were Mrs. George
Gaubatz. Mrs. Frank Waggaman. Mrs.
z. r. Donaldson, Mrs. Fred Umhau,
Mrs. Ira Gullickson of Washington,
Mrs. Harry Millard and Mrs. Gilbert
Sward of Takoma Park, Md.
Mrs. John Baker Cole, with her
son Jack, is in Cumberland visiting
relatives.
Evening star., 1936-06-07

the week end with friends in the
college. Miss Evelyn Brown of Tar
rytown, N. T., visited DIR. and Mrs.
Karl Shedd at the same time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
English Woman
Hanged Before
5000 Witnesses
New King Refuses to Intervene
and Save Life of Former
Nottingham Nurse

A 34-year-old mother of five was
hanged in Winsor Green prison If
England Thursday while a crowd Of
5000, kneeling on the streets outside
prayed and sang hymns.
Mrs. Dorothy Waddingham, "a Wi
dow, went to the gallows for the
poisoning Of a woman patient in he1
nursing home at Nottingham. She
was the ninth woman to be executed
in England in this century.
A conspicuous figure in the crowd
outside the prison was Mrs. Violet
Van Der Elst, wealthy woman who
had led demonstrations against cap
ital punishment at nearly every re-
cent hanging. She organized the
demonstration today, appealing to
the crowd through loud speaker to
attempt to prevent the hanging
the crowd made no such move.
A Gordon of 800 police kept the
throng away from the prison walls
King Edward refused to intercede
with last-minute reprieve, after Sir
John Simon, home secretary, denied
appeals for clemency.
There had been numerous pro-
tests against the hanging of the
woman, whose five children includ-
ed six-months-old baby. The eldest
is 10 years. News of their mothers
fate was kept from them.
The agitation for clemency was
met by apparently inspired state
ments in newspapers terming the
poison Staying of Mr.. Louisa Bagu-
ley, a 55-year-old cripple, fragrant
crime.
The jury which convicted Mrs.
Waddingham February q had
strongly recommended mercy. The
crown charged Mrs. Waddingham
killed her patient to get about $4,000
provided for her in the will of Mrs
Baguley.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
Washington State
WPA Head Fired

Harry L. Hopkins, dismissing
George H. Cannon, the Washington
State WPA administrator, because
of alleged collection of campaign
contributions from his staff, de-
clared:
1--WE won't stand for political
skullduggery in WPA."
The national WPA administrator
coincidentally hit at the suggestion
recently made by Senator Vanden-
burg, Michigan Republican, that the
administration of relief be turned
back to the States.
Hopkins asserted such a step
would mean increased political in
fuences."
Hopkins announced also Thursday
that he was looking into complaints
against the WPA administration in
Pennsylvania, where political activi-
ties have been charged.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
Politicians Pictures
Don't Help Scenery

RALEIGH, April 15.-Forestry
Secretary r. w. Graeber has appeal
ell to all the candidates for governor
no to put their fetching physiogono-
mics on the Tar Heel trees and has
cited the scripture against it.
Mr.. Graeber may have been NOV
ed to action by a Mcdonald story
that the professor has about a mil
lion posters to be used as mural and
arboreal decorations. Inquiry at the
Raleigh headquarters revealed the
honorable intentions of the profess
sor. He is not going to have himself
stuck on the trees.
The last man who did it, "Our
Bob of Asheville, Jared finely, but
for each effigy that he planted on
tree, "Abie," non other than
Charles Laban Abernethy, set out
10. If there was a sprout in eastern
North Carolina that was not adorned
by Abbie, the scouts do not recall it.
First reports from the primary were
that ION the face of the returns
Abbie was beaten. The face helped
to do it.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
J. Edgar Hoover Fights Cut in
Appropriations by Government
Head of u. S. Crime Department
Fears Kidnap Wave If
Money Lessened

A warning by J. Edgar Hoover
that any slash in appropriations re-
quested by the Justice departments
Bureau of Identification might re-
suit in a new ttwave of kidnapping"
has been made public in Washington.
The statement was made in recent
hearings before the committee after
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat of
Tennessee, had protested that the
bureau had been running wild" in
spending money. The committee cut
$225,000 off the bureaus request.
Hoover was asked why his bureau
claimed credit for solving most Of
the kidnapings in recent years when
local authorities and others broke
many of them. He replied he had
given credit where it was due.
New light on the John Dillinger
case also was cast by Hoover, who
said his agents were forced to ki1l''
the gangster in Chicago. Some have
contended Dillinger was shot down
without warning.
Orders have never been issued to
shoot a man if we can take him
alive" Hoover told Mcclellan, who
had questioned the wisdom of furn-
ishing guns to justice agents.
He said that when agents were
pursuing man like John Dillinger,
who pulls his gun out and starts to
fire at one of our agents, we must
kill him it we cannot take him
alive"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
Woman Kills Self as
She Goes Over Falls

Chief of Police William Everett of
Asheville, N. c., telegraphed Satur-
day to the superintendent of the
Niagara Falls reservation police that
the glasses believed to belong to a
woman who disappeared at Niagra
Falls Wednesday night were sold to
Miss Mabel B. Haven of Asheville.
The glasses were traced through
an oculist's name in the case. They
were found just above the American
falls with an umbrella and hand
bag identified as belonging to a
woman who registered at local
hotel as Mrs. B. F. Hyde of Clifton,
North Carolina.
Superintendent Trace G. Levee
of the reservation police said Thurs
day he believed the woman who dis
appeared committed suicide by 60
ing over the falls.
He said the description sent by
Everett fitted the woman who dis
appeared.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
Bath-Tub Staying
Is Still a Mystery

Checkmated by shortage OF clues
in the garroting of Mrs. Nancy
Evans Titterton, police have begun
a thorough investigation of all
crank letter and telephone calls re-
ceived since the writer-critic's nude
body was found in her apartment in
New York City Friday.
In the absence of the hoped-for
fngerprints which chemists had tri-
ed to develop on the clothing ripped
from Mrs. Titterton by her assailant
detectives eyed short piece of cord
and few dabs of mud as their only
clues.
The mud was found on the rumpl-
ed cover of the slain woman's bed
It was being compared with speci-
mems taken from the shoes of per-
sons known to have been in the
vicinity.
The cord, believed by police to
have been used to tie the victims
wrists together before she was as
saulted and strangled, was found
under her Beekman Place apart
ment.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
China's Paradise
Is Changed into
Veritable He'll
100000 Reported to Be Eating
Rats, Cats, and Dogs
in Famine

Wholesale suicides and mercy
slayings are being reported in
Szechuen province, once the para
disc of China" but now called
"China's hell"
This section is suffering the worst
famine with an accompanying
drought in China's history. Confirm
ed reports show that dogs and cats
have been eaten and even rodents
are priced by hunger stricken peas
ants.
Reports coming in from the pro-
vince portray conditions difficult to
believe but which are considered au-
thentic. With tree bark, roots and
grasses long since exhausted, dying
legions allegedly are reduced to-
cooking and eating human flesh
from the bodies of relatives, dead
through starvation.
Latest reports on the famine indi-
cate 100000 persons are affected
instead of the 100000 first report
ed. There has been no tabulation Of
deaths. Reports only say tens of
thousands have died from starvation
or accompanying illnesses or have
committed suicide to end the agony
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
EXECUTORS NOTICE

Having qualified as Executor OF
the estate of Amelia Goodman, late
of Ashe county, N. c., this is to mott
fly all persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned on or be-
fore the 1st day of April, 1887, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please make i'm
mediate settlement.
This the 1st day of April, 1886.
STA H.H. BURGESS, Executor.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23

5-14 H. H. BURGESS, Executor.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
kidnapping Suspect
Absolved of Guilt

Paul H. Wendell, former Trenton
N. j., lawyer, was absolved of guilt
of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby
when the Mercer county grand jury,
Wednesday, after lengthy investiga-
ton of the charges, voted mo BILL
according to announcement by Pros
ecutor Erwin E. Marshall.
There is no indictment against
Wendell" Marshall announced.
Wendell still was held pending
court orders, on enlightenment
charge. He had been held on charge
of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby,
since few days before Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann was executed for
the same crime.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
Business Boom Seen
If Roosevelt Wins

Alexander Calder, president of the
Union Bag & Paper corporation, of
New York City, predicted last week
business boom will follow the
presidential election.
Speaking at the annual meeting of
the company he said eff President
Roosevelt is reelected, we will have
the greatest business boom in the
history of the country, but 1 won't
say how big a crash we will have
after.
IF a Republican is elected, we
won't have so big a boom, but we
also will have less of crash"
Calder said conditions within the
industry were better and the future
for the company is finer "than at
any period in the past % years that
I have ben associated with Union
Bag"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23
Preachers Tongue
Cut in Vengeance

His tongue slashed from tip to
base by knife thrust down his
throat in what a deputy sheriff de-
scribed as ''backwoods vengeance y
Jack Barker, Is, was in critical
condition at a Texarkana hospital
this week while Miller county Off
GERS sought witnesses to the brutal
assault.
Three brothers, held on charges OF
assault with intent to kill and al
first quoted by deputy sheriff as
admitting wounding Barker, stead
tasty protested their innocence.
Deputy Sheriff Will Greer sale
"backwoods vengence" was the mo-
tive.
"Austin Pilgreen said that he in
tended to cut Bankers throat but
the knife was thrust down his throa
instead" Northcutt said. "He tolc
us that he wished we had killed
HIM"
The assault took place at the quie
little Falkland rural school nea
Fouke, where pupils were staging ;
spring playlet before approximate!
100 farmers, theirs wives and chill
dren.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23

A woman brought $50 half-dimes
dated 1860 for deposit in Peters
burg bank. Some of them are worth
zoe apiece.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-04-23

The Navajo Indian reservation is
larger than the State of West Vir-
ginia and has population of nearly
$4,000 full-blooded Indians.
The Washington times., 1936-12-31
Treasury Condition

Treasury balance December 90,
81, 1,860,652,087.34; internal rev.
enue, 81,s26.90; customs re-
ceipts, $36,232, 2,26S.37.
The Washington times., 1936-12-31
BABY
IS A GIRL

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 81 GN.s).
A girl baby, their first child, was
born last night to Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Mellon in a private hospital
here. The child will be named
Catherine Conover Mellon, young
Mellon, son of Andrew w. Mellon,
revealed.
Little Catherine will be the first
child to bear the family name Of
the former Secretary of the Treas
ury. She was named, presumably,
after her maternal grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Conover Brown, Of
Kansas City, Mo.
The young Melons were married
in New York February 2, 1885.
Although the first to bear the
distinguished family name, Cath
crime was not the Secretary's first
grandchild. Paul's sister, Mrs.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce, is the mother
of a daughter.
The Washington times., 1936-12-31
P0NT|FF PLANS
HOLIDAY MASS
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local surgical treatment would
necessitate amputation of the af-
flicted leg. The Pope's chances of
rallying from this were considered
as negligible.
DR.. Milani strived today to in
duce sleep with mild sleeping
draughts, valeriana alternated
with camomile tea.
Thirty-four cardinals gathered
in prayer before the Pope's own
altar in the Cathedral of st. John
Lateran, together with many other
high churchmen, making scene
of solemnity and Splendor.
Cardinal Marchetti, acting as
papal vicar, celebrated the pom
tifical mass with which Pope Plus
has traditionally uShered in the
New Year. Cardinal Marchetti,
a close personal friend of the Pom
tiff, is often regarded as a likely
successor to him.
After the high mass, prayers
"cLc O14CLCO GAIdC CLlC 6OPC AAC
be spared, and the Cardinals also
prayed for restoration of universal
peace and for the well-being of
the church during the coming
year.
The Pope, according to British
diplomatic quarters, has expressed
a wish to broadcast a final mes
sage" to all Spain, begging all
factions there to put an end to
bloodShed.
The Washington times., 1936-12-31
PARTIES HA|L
GAYNEWYEAR
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pected to pack the downtown
streets, blowing horns, ringing
bells, throwing confetti, shouting,
cheering, laughing, seeing the old
year out and the new year with
it's new hopes come in.
Other thousands will gather in
the hotels and night clubs of the
city to dance and make merry.
Tables are at a premium. Almost
every place reports capacity
crowds have booked reservations.
Private clubs will be packed to
the overflowing with celebrants.
Liquor stores report a rushing
business, with crowds assembling
in private homes to raise a glass
and toast the infant New Year on
the moment of his arrival.
Religious Services
But the celebration will not be
entirely revelry. Many thousands
of devout persons will gather for
Watch Night services in the
churches, to greet the New Year
with prayer and meditation.
To accommodate the merry
makers, Capital Transit street cars
and buses will operate four hours
later than usual, while taxicabs
will operate all night.
Police and motor clubs issued
appeals and warnings to motorists
to drive with care tonight, and
especially on their way home after
celebrating.
Washington feels that 1885 has
been a good year-and that 1887
holds even greater promise for the
future.
So, as the clocks chime mid
night tonight, from every lip will
come the greeting:
Happy New Year."
The Washington times., 1936-12-31
FATHER DEALS
ON KIDNAPPING
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member of his family, and has
not heard from the kidnaper de-
spite his suffering and that Of
Mrs. MattSon.
Another report that DR.. Matt
son had contacted the kidnaper
came from a person close to the
investigation, who has been par
ticularly cognizant of the activi-
ties of the large squad of Gmen
concentrated here since the boy
disappeared from his home last
Sunday night under the arm OF a
swarthy desperate, who left a note
demanding $4,000 ransom.
Details Refused
The informer would go no fur
ther than to say there's been a
meeting"
Unusual activity at police head
quarters and at the downtown Of
flee building headquarters of the
Omen added strength to the re-
port.
Police and G-men held to their
policy of refusing to discuss their
investigation.
Newspaper men said nobody had
left the Mattson house during the
night; neither had there been any
visitors.
Another report, also uncon-
firmed, was that Paul Sceva, close
friend of the Mattson family and
manager of the Rainier National
Park Company, had been ap-
pointed by DR.. Mattson as inter
mediary. The only thing tangible
that might indicate this to be true
was that Sceva could not be found
by newspaper men. Friends Of his
said he left Tacoma last night.
Officers last night raced into
the hills near Issaquah, 40 miles
northeast of Tacoma, on a report
the desperate and his little pris-
oner had been seen in a cabin
there. Residents of Renton re-
ported a squad Of State highway
patrolmen roaring through their
town toward the Issaquah Valley.
a few miles distant. Shortly be-
fore dawn, mysterious lights were
seen. Citizens, investigating the
flashes, found they came from
flashlights of officers, beating the
hills.
Description Corrected
Mrs. Charles Fletcher, grand
mother of the kidnapped boy. ap-
pealed to newspapermen to cor
rect descriptions of him and the
clothing he wore which have been
broadcast. She said:
"CharleS is not blond, as has
been said so many times, but
has dark brown hair and big
brown eyes. He has remarkably
even, white teeth also. He had
been in the woods with his
father and on his return took a
bath and put on the old Overalls
and a pair of fur seal moccasins.
which were brought to him from
Alaska last summer by his
mother, but they are probably
gone now"
The Washington times., 1936-12-31
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an Investigator by the New York
Federal Food Board and as a rep
resentative Of the Department OF
Justice in Buffalo in the capacity
Of deputy fair price commissioner.
He began his service as a special
agent in the intelligence unit in
1920 and was advanced through
the various grades.
During this service he was in
charge of the investigation at Chi
cago which resulted in the convic-
tion of AL Capone and number of
other racketeers. and was engaged
for about 20 months in connection
with the investigation of the Lind
bergh kidnapping case.
Mr.. Murphy, who previously was
assistant chief of the Secret Serv-
ice, came into the public eye
earlier this year when he was de-
noted following his investigation
of the activities of G-men. He was
placed in charge OF the Pacific
Coast division, but later, when
Mr.. Wilson was named acting as
sistant chief, Mr.. Murphy was re-
called from the Pacific post to
familiarize Wilson with the as
sistant chiefs duties.
Back on Old Job
Despite this, it is understood
that Attorney General Cummings
registered no objection to Muir