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The Washington times., 1936-10-22
MISS ROSA MORDECAI

Death came suddenly last night
to Miss Rosa Mordecai, grand
old lady" of the Louise Home.
who knew the Washington of
Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln.
In good health before yielding
to a heart attack, she died in
her ninety-seventh year.
The Rabbi Solomon Metz con-
Quoted services in the home, 1900
Massachusetts Ave-, today, with
the gray old ladies who loved
her attending. Her body was
then taken to Philadelphia for
burial.
Miss Mordecai was born in
Washington in 1889. The daugh-
ter Of Major Alfred Mordecai,
who was in charge Of the Wash
ington Arsenal, she often told
of the hoop-skirted days when
she sat in the Senate galleries
and heard debates on States
rights.
Before the cannonading at
Manassas she attended the ex-
elusive Nine. Burr'S School-the
same school that Lincoln visited
when he was Chief Executive.
About the time that cannon
balls fell on Fort Sumter, her
father, a native of North Carolina,
was offered command of the
troops from that State. He did
not choose to bear arms against
the Union. nor against the seces-
sionists, so he resigned from the
Army and took Miss Mordecai and
his other two daughters, Laura
and Miriam. to Philadelphia.
In Philadelphia, with the aid of
her sisters, she opened a school
for girls and held classes in their
residence there.
Surviving Miss Mordecai are two
nieces, Mrs. Charles P. Sunimerall,
wife of General Summerall, re-
tired Chief of Staff of the United
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%. 1886. DORA N. BELT,
Remains resting at the W. W. Cham:
bers Co. Southeast funeral home, 517
Eleventh St. s. E.
Funeral services will be held on Sat
urday. October "a. 1886 at 80 a. M,
from the W. W. Chambers Co. Southeast
funeral home SIT Eleventh St. s. E.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend.
The Washington times., 1936-10-22
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DIED
ANDERSON

ANDERSON, DOVE EMILY-On Tues
day October 20. 1895. DOVE EMILY
ANDERSON. the beloved wife Of Rupert
Anderson and daughter of John W. and
Nora White.
Remains resting at the W. W. Chambers
Co. Southeast funeral home, 517 Eleventh
Street Southeast until 10 p. m. Wednes-
day. October %. 1885.
Funeral services and interment In
Fries, Va.
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DIED

MUNCASTER, MARY RITTENHOUsE-
On Tuesday, October 20, 1885, MARY
RITTENHOUSE MUNCASTER, in the
ighty-fourth year of her age, widow Of
Dr. Otho Muncaster.
Remains resting at the W. W. Chambers
Co. funeral home, Fourteenth and ChapIn
Streets Northwest.
Funeral services at Church of the Pill.
grims. Twenty-second and P Streets North
west on Thursday, October 20, 1886. at
interment Rock Creek Cemetery.
sCyLLY. WILLIAM AUGUSTINE = Sud
scgII cqgfITa beloved ef husband q
Funeral l., services at st. Matthew.
Jnterment Arlington National Cemetery.
sHAFFER. BENJAMIN F.-On Monday,
SGs 9GtoHsF ST. 7Sa0 VS. BES5XMfS h fssdsnos F H%F a.
FER. the beloved husband Of Emma L.
Shatfer s1d.r and father Of Mrs Mrs. Robert /,
Smith and John L. .Shaffer..
Funeral services will be held on Thurs
6s day sts 9stQRs S@ 1?$S S4 # p r2%
Relatives and friends are invited to
Interment in Washington Memorial
Services BY the W. W Chambers Co.
SHERMAN ROBERT E.-On Tuesday, Oc-
tober 20, 1895. ROBERT E. SHERMAN,
husband of Frances D. Sherman. Remains
resting at the w. W. Chambers Co. funeral
home, Fourteenth and Chaplin Streets North
west
Funeral service will be held on Thurs
day. October 20, 1896. at 10 80 g. M, from
the W W. Chambers Co. funeral home,
Fourteenth and Chaplin Streets Northwest.
Interment in Arlington National Gene.
terry.
SPENCE, EDITH CAYLOR-on Wednesday,
October 81, 1896, at her residence.
EDITH CAYLoR SPENCE, beloved wifs
of Clifford H. Spence and devoted daugh-
ter of Edith C. Caylor and sister of DR..
C. C. Caylor. Mrs. Alice Spaulding. Mrs.
Vera Reid and Mrs. Mildred Mark
Funeral services from her late residence,
723 Fifth Street Northeast on Saturday.
October "a, 1896. at 2 80 p. m.
Relatives and friends invited.
Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.
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States Army, at Fort Meyer, and
Mrs. John D. Miley, both of
Washington.
MRS. MARY r. MUNCASTER
Funeral services were held to-
day in the Church Of the Pilgrims
for Mrs. Mary RittenhouSe Num-
caster, "a, a resident Of Washing
ton for more than 81 years, who
died Tuesday from an attack of
pneumonia. The Rev. DR.. Andrew
R. Bird officiated at interment IN
Rock Creek Cemetery.
A native of Montgomery county,
Md, she was the widow of DR..
Otho Muncaster. a prominent
physician in Washington until his
death in 1915. Mrs. Muncaster
was married to DR.. Muncaster
when she was 16 years old and &C.
panied him here Immediately after
the marriage.
Surviving Mrs. Muncaster are
two daughters, Mrs. Philip Van
Sickler, of Loundon county. Va,
and Mrs. H. Southwell Brown, Of
washington.
MRS. EDITH E. C. SPENCE
Funeral services for Mrs. Edith
Evelyn Caylor Spence, who died
yesterday after a short illness in
her home, 723 Fifth Street N. E.,
will be conducted at her late resi-
dence on Saturday by the Rev.
Cliffodd H. Jope. Interment will
follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Born in washington in 1900,
she is to be remembered by her
friends as the girl with the pleas
ant smile and sunny disposition.
Two years attire her graduation
from Central High School in
1917 she was married to Cliffrod
H. Spence.
Active in church work at the
Ninth Street Christian Church,
she was a Matron of the Warren
G. Harding Chapter in 1882.
Surviving besides her husband,
is her mother, Mrs. Edith Caylor;
a brother, DR.. c. c. Caylor; and
three sisters, Mrs. Cecil Spaulding,
Mrs. Vera Reid and Mrs. Mildred
Mark, all of Washington.
DR.. JAMES CLIFFORD PERRY
Funeral services will be held in
the Oliver. Funeral Home, in Nor
folk Virginia, for DR.. James Cliff
ford Perry, former director of the
United States Public Health
Service, who died suddenly Mon
day night. He was 73.
A native of North Carolina, he
graduated from Maryland Uni.
versity in 1885 and entered the
Public Health Service in 1889. He
saw service in this department of
the government in the Philippines
and Far East from 1905 to 1914.
At this date he was transferred
back to Washington and in 1918
was made assistant surgeon gen.
eral in charge of personnel and
accounts.
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editions Of The Times.
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Marriage Announcements
Funeral Directors

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service. Goodhart's. 1914 a MA STA.
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FLING. JESSE Bon Wednesday. octo-
JESSE B. FLING. husband of Elizabeth
Fling. 613 Ridge Ave. Silver Spring Md.
Body resting at Warner F. Humphreys
funeral home. 8424 Georgia Ave, Silver
Spring Md
Services from woodside NJ f. Church.
Woodside. Md. on Friday. October %, at
2 30 D. M
Interment Grace Church Cemetery.
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EPPERLEY, G. GRANT-On Tuesday, Octo-
ber 20. 1895. G. GRANT EPPERLEY, the
beloved husband of Allie E. Epperley and
Funeral services will be held from his
late residence 431 Sixteenth Street South
east, on Thursday October %, 1886, at
2 p. m. Relatives and friends are invited
to attend.
Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Services by W. W. Chambers Co. South
east funeral home.
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DIED
BURKE, OREsTUs P.-sudde

BURKE, ORESTUs P.-Suddenly on Tues
day, October 90: 1886, at Proyidepce
Hospital, ORESTUS P. BURKE, the be.
loved husband of Anna May Burke, OF
1880 Prospect Avenue Northwest, and
father of Mary Katherine Burke and son
of Patrick o. and Betty Burke and brother
of George T. Burke. Mrs. May Harding,
Mrs. Pauline Harding and Mrs. Saddle
Perry and half brother of Ennis Carter,
Ashton Carter, Mrs. Lester Hogan. Mrs.
Charles Maston and Mrs Evelyn Whalen.
Funeral services from his late residence,
1880 Prospect Avenue Northwest on Fri
day October 23 1896, at 2 p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend.
Interment, St. Johns Cemetery, Forest
Glen, Md.
Services BY W. W. Chambers Co.
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States Army, at Fort Meyer, and
Mrs. John D. Miley, both of
Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va, April 8.-The grand jury IN
the sewer bribery case is to be told
Of "at least $5,000," over payments
made by Arlington county to the
contracting firm Of Marasco and
Nickles, Of Pennsylvania for the
30-inich interceptor line between
Rosslyn and Four-Mile Run.
Two men are awaiting grand
Jury action on charges of irregu-
larities in reporting depths Of the
cuts. on which payments are
based, by Louis Bishop, an in
spector.
Bishop is accused of accepting
$500 bride from N. C. NickleS,
of the Marasco and Nickles firm,
and was formally charged with a
felony at a preliminary police
court hearing and ordered held
for action of the grand jury which
conveneS April 20.
Nickles, who is charged with
having paid to Bishop q gift Of
gratuity Of $500 to influence the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
HEARINGS
ENDAND
QU|z0PENS
BY WILLIAM s. NEAL
International News Service

AS Democratic members Of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee began writing a new tax
bill, another committee opened a
searching investigation behind
closed doors, of the AdminiStra-
tion'S 1900 million dollar relief
program.
Harry L. Hopkins, Works Pro
greSs administrator, was sum-
moned before the House APP
preparations deficiency subcom-
mittee to tell why the Administra'
ton needs a $500 million dollar
relief fund.
Republicans Plan Grill
With Chairman Buchanan 3D.
Of Texas promising a thorough
inquiry, Republican members
planned to question Hopkins on
charges that the whole relief
organization is imbedded in
politics.
Representatives Taber and Ba-
con of New York, and Thurston of
Iowa, were to lead the Republican
fight for a virtual investigation
of the WPA organization through
the testimony of Hopkins and
other witnesses.
The hearing was secret, but re-
viSed testimony will be made
public when a bill is presented to
to the House.
Democrats to Write Tax Bill
Hearings on the tax subcommit-
tees $799 100000. tax program
ended with spokesman for the U.
S.: Chamber of Commerce aSSailing
the plan. Chairman Doughton
Cd Of North Carolina, served
notice that Republican members
would be banned from the secret
meetings when the bill is finally
drafted and approved. Doughton
told Representative Treadway (R.)
Of Massachusetts,:
you Republicans have sworn
opposition all along the line.
Now we will get down and write
q BILL"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
SLAIN GIRL
PARENT BURIED

CULPEPER, Va, April 8.
While W. H. Reaguer, local
undertaken, today awaited trial
in Washington in connection
with the murder of Mrs. Willie
Mae Wood Of this community,
the father Of the slain girl was
being buried here.
J. w. Fletcher. SO, was buried
in Fairview Cemetery here. He
had died on Sunday, after an
illness of several weeks. The
father of Mrs. Wood, he leaves
as his living survivors his widow,
three other daughters and two
sons.
Mrs. Wood, 81, was foun d
brutally slain in a room of the
Houston Hotel in the Capital,
after she had left Culpeper for
an automobile ride with her
cousin, Anna O'Bannon, IT, in
October Of last year
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
Col. Breckenridge
May Run in Florida

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 8 GIN,
SO.-Col. Henry Breckenridge,
New York, may enter the Florida
Democratic presidential preference
primary of June 2, as an opponent
of President Roosevelt, his Ohio
campaign manager, Carl A. Vein
mann, disclosed. today.
Breckenridge, severe critic OF
Roosevelt Administration policies,
has entered the May IL Ohio
primary and those Of eight other
States. Weinmann inquired Of
Secretary Of State George Myers
what procedure must be followed
to file as a candidate in Florida.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
Back Broken, Walks

EUGENE, Ore. QN.S0. - Al.
though his back hurt him some.
what, Melton James walked
around for more than two weeks
before he visited a doctor and
learned that his condition was Sc.
riouS-he was suffering from a
broken back.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
Tree Poured Rain

,ROCKAWAY, Ore. U.N.S0.-It
was q clear day, with a bright sun
SHINING, but despite all that, a pair
OF timber fallers here received q
rain-water soaking recently. They
1elled a hollow Snag which had
caught, and retained about a bar.
rel OF ratnwater. When the tim
per crashed to the ground, both
IoggerS received a drenching.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
ice Again Delays
AirIines HEARINGS

For the fourth time, the Inter
state Commerce Commission yes
terday postponed hearings in the
case Of the Central Airlines, Inc.
against the Pennsylvania Airlines
and Transport Company, in which
the former charged the latter With
unfair practices under 3ectton ID
Of the air mail law.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
Goat Saves Cow

RICHMOND, Va, April S.-But
for a billygoat's but, Bossy would
now be butter. The COW was stand
ing on a railroad track in Blu
chanan when a train approached
Rilly bowed his head and bounced
her neatly out Of the path of the
oncoming locomotive. He, himself ,
escaped death by a hairs breadth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
5000 OVerpayments
On Sewer Claimed

judgment Of the county execu
tive" recently waived preliminary
hearing and Is also awaiting &C.
ton Of the grand jury. Both men
are at liberty on bonds.
Recheck Of the 4,600-foot line
showed that all grades, elevation
and other specifications had been
filled according to contract.
Evening star., 1936-08-02
Vogobonds Of Space
Continued from poge
Continued from pogs two

consequent deleterious effects on
humans.
Everyone may be assured, however,
that there is not enough matter in the
comets tail to produce the slightest
effect on the air which we breathe.
even though the earth passed through
the very core of the comets tail. 1t is
thought that perhaps the particles of
the comets tail are composed of ions.
or electrified molecules of gas. If these
encountered the earth's atmosphere,
then some small change in the ioniza-
ton of the air around us might pos
sibly be noticeable.
With this in mind, at least one ex-
pertinent has been made to check any
possible ionizing effect of the comets
tail. This is one in which the author
was engaged while working in the
Wilder Physical Laboratory at Dart
Evening star., 1936-08-02
THIS WEEK

mouth College during the appearance
of Halley's comet in 1910.
On the day on which the earth was
expected to pass into the tail of Hal
ley's comet. we had our apparatus
busily at work. A strong blower such
as is used in the ventilation of build
ings was installed to bring the outside
air into special chamber within the
laboratory. 1t was hoped by special
screen arrangement to collect any ex-
ira ions that appear in the earth's
atmosphere. A sensitive electrical de-
vice would Immediately indicate the
presence of anything unusual.
Hour after hour we watched, taking
readings of instruments which liter
ally counted the number of ions in the
air. While there we're sometimes more
Evening star., 1936-08-02

been tanned in the public imagination
by the astronomers, who now recog-
nize them as a part of the law and
order of creation and objects of most
unusual interest astronomically.
1t has sometimes happened that
very brilliant comets with extraor-
dinarily long tails have passed be-
tween the earth and the sun, allowing
their tails actually to engulf the earth.
This was the prediction in connection
with the visit of Halley's comet in
1910. From the peculiar light which
the heads and tails of comets emit.
it IS known that they are composed
chiefly of carbon oxide and cyanogen
both very poisonous gases. Some
therefore feared that the passing of
the earth into the tail of Halley's
comet might result in the contamina-
ton of the earth's atmosphere, with
Evening star., 1936-08-02

and sometimes less, the records
showed, after the experiment was
over. that there was not the slightest
effect that could be attributed to the
comets tail Certainly one need not
fear being electrocuted in such
fashion.
If one would really seek for some
thing thrilling and tragic in his imag-
ination in connection with comets,
however, one might suppose that some
fine day good big comet, rushing
into the solar system, will be headed
directly for the earth. If the head Of
such comet were actually to collide
with the earth, then indeed there
would be fireworks! 1t is thought that
possibly in times past rather small and
insignificant comets have hit the earth
Evening star., 1936-08-02

and left scars that appear very much
like the craters left by meteors.
That gigantic meteor weighing tons.
which still lies somewhere in the ST.
berian wastes, may have been part
of some comet. Airplane photographs
made over North Carolina have shown
ring-like craters embedded in the
earth's crust, and some have supposed
that these were due to the crashing
of cometary fragments or huge me-
teors into the coastal region.
Speaking of meteors, August is the
best month in the year in which to
observe these things which. after ali,
arevery closely associated with comets.
The shower of meteors that every
watcher of the sky sees in the north
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Evening star., 1936-08-02
Mosozins Section

the garden with him, asking the names
of flowers in Italian. He was blue
eyed, blond Lombard of middle age,
friendly and obliging, and was happy
to show the foreign Sigiora anything
he knew about flowers or vegetables.
But one day George had met them in
the garden and smiled at Adolfo and
said to Camilla with an expression
that CONSTRUCTED her heart with misery:
"Nice fellow, this one. Is he teaching
Won Italian too?" And she walked no
more in the garden with Adolfo.
The village was fortunately very
small. and these had been the only
incidents of the sort. but what would
happen when they left the village!
IfCeorge's mind had been so cankered
that he could think such things even
of Roberto and Adolfo, harmless peas
ants, what would happen when she
was back again in her own world and
had to see men and talk to men from
morning to night? She shut out the
idea with desperate force; she could
not think of leaving the village, she
must stay here as long as she could,
suspended, arrested, hardly breath
ing, waiting for something.
George was coming in. Far out on
the lake she could see his boat turn
and make for the rotten wooden land
ing in front of the inn. He was rowing
himself, with long, strong. even strokes.
and the boatman sat in the other end
of the boat and examined their catch
of fish. 1t was getting on towards eve
ming, and there was only an hour or so
before dinner. As she thought OF that
hour. to be spent sitting with George
while he looked at his mail and read
the newly arrived American news
papers from Paris, she felt unable to
endure it. There would be things read
out from his letters, and perhaps the
statement growing more frequent
these days. that I'VE really must be
thinking of going back to New York.
She could escape by going out on the
lake, where she could sit in silence,
looking at the water and the hills and
the shifting colors of the sky in the
northwest, up towards Switzerland.
She called the fat innkeeper and told
him she wanted boat with man to
row it. He waddled off into the village
and she closed her book at last. She
had not read word of it this after
noon. Over its bright green cover she
folded her hands and waited for George.
. He came in grinning with good
humour and the satisfaction of well
spent day. She had to listen to the
names of the fish he had caught -
names he knew both in English and
Italian by now and even looked at
some of the silver objects in big
sack. He saw his mail and began to
go through it. just as she had ex-
pected.
Here's one from Molly. Wants to
know when we're coming back. Same
from mother. Well, guess it's about
time we started thinking of it. at that,
Camilla. Can't stay here forever, you
know. in spite of the fish,"
He opened a business communica-
ton and read it slowly, thoughtfully.
eyes," he said, Il think we've got
to fix date, Camilla. Sorry. But it's
got to be done sometime. You know
it's got to be done"