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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
First Families
Of MARYLAND

Many Washingtonians will be
interested in Mrs. Francis ]. Par
rams new record of the descend
ants of Maryland's Manorial and
Landed Gentry Families.
Most of the material has been
taken from the almost forgotten
lore of Maryland'S pioneer people.
Many of these early settlers lived
but a stones throw from Wash
ington.
Some of the houses in which
they lived are still standing. If so.
Mrs. Parran can point them out.
If not, she can tell you where the
houses stood and who owned them
and how they passed from hand
to hand.
Hers is truly noteworthy con-
tribution to the ever.growing list
o. people, who are interested in
personal family history.
The edition is sponsored by the
Southern Maryland Society Of
Colonial Danes of which Mrs. Par
ran is founder and president. An
other volume is promised for 1886,
and Judging from the interest the
current book has aroused. there
will probably be other editions to
fo1lou, in tho future
Register of Maryland's Her
aldic Families" by Alice Norris
Parran. Printed by H. G. Roe
buck and Son.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

1naC ne mas an drClSClC klnSIlp
with Frans Halls, the Dutch mas
ter, there can be no doubt after
viewing The Toelzerin," which
took first prize in 1884 from the
Society of Washington Artists.
To look at The Toelzerin" is
Immediately to think of Halls
Woman With Flagon." The
peasant woman with the ruddy
cheeks and cheerful disposition
is alike in both.
Of the 18 other paintings on
exhibition, all of which with the
exception of two are portraits
there isn't one that cannot be
described as a real work of art.
Every one of his portraits is a
character study. From the faces
that are familiar, it can be well
understood that the character is
automatically represented.
The portrait of Daniel c.
Roper, Secretary Of Commerce
is one of the familiar figures
from those whose portrait it is
readily discernible that the artist
has not missed a single char
acteristic in the final painting.
Whether from accident or fore,
thought, the feature that first
catches the eye in the Secretary's
portrait is his Phi Beta Kappa
key dangling over the middle of
his vest.
Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue
is another of the familiar figures
who is done in Oil by Mr.. Schle-
reth.
Perhaps one of the best of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

ing does show differences Of ma
tional and individual taste. with
the result that the binders who
have studied abroad reflect the in
fluence of their foreign teachers.
This influence is noticeable in the
exhibition at Corcoran.
The books on exhibition range
in size from a large altar book
to a tiny one-inch volume, all Of
them beautifully decorated and
bound with the best of craftman-
ship.
Among the various sizes and
types of binding is one lovely
thing. a vest-pocket size edition
of the Rubaiyat.
The exhibition will continue
through February 2.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Gangster War
History

New York's gambling gang
ster war of the early 1900's is
the basis of Timothy Thent'S
newest Fall Guy"
Oft-repeated charges of police
completely and political corrup-
ton in that city's much publici-
lied underworld are used to boil
ster up a recital of murder and
brutality.
Mr.. Trent does not mince
words. In concise, almost
reportorial, style he maps out
his story.
Lieutenant Brennan, head of
the strong arr! squad, worked
with the machine. Gathering
his graft where he found :, and
passing the regular portion to
the higherups, he becomes SO
involved in the underworld that
when a gambler who had
"squealed" is shot, suspicion points
to him.
To save thei necks the real
killers place the blame Of the
crime on him. He is cautioned
not to talk and that he will
be taken care of. The upper
circle" however, decides to let
him take the blame for the muir
der so that he cannot tell what
he knows about the corrupt sys
tenn and ends up as the Fall
Guy"
C"The Fall Guy by Timothy
Trent. published by GodWin.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

The DOokblnderS whose work is
being shown include two Washing
Marian Lane and George
A. Scheirer. The others are Mar
garet Danforth and Mary Crease
Sears, both of Boston; Hazel
Dreis, of California: Fanny Dud-
ley, of Oily Lyme, Conn. and
Kathryn and Gerhard Gerlach, Of
New York city.
Progressive steps with examples
of books at various stages Of con-
struction are on exhibition. To
demonstrate the various stages Of
bookbinding by hand, the tools,
feathers. end-paperS and designs.
or working drawings. are all
shown.
The methods of bookbinding are
the same in all countries and are
almost ancient, but modern bind
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

Of course they will be Of trans;
cendant Importance to lovers OF
history and those who go to the
Emperor for adventure.
The tale of the preservation Of
this journal is worthy Of recount
ing on its own. When first as
sembled it was thought to be too
frank to risk publication in face
of the French libel laws, so it was
kept intact at the Caulaincourt
Chateau.
Just before the outbreak of
the World War an ambitious
descendant of the generals pre-
pared it for the eyes OF the world.
The guns trained on Paris halted
this enterprise and it was hidden
in the walls of the chateau. A
German bomb leveled the build.
ing and it was given up for lost.
However, an architect examirr
ing the ruins came across a bat
tered box in which later was
discovered the historic literary
treasure.
The carefully compiled notes
tell of the events leading UP to
the Russian expedition, the swift
drive into the heart of the north
country and then the retreat.
The horror of the cold, the toll
taken by the ice, the harassment
of the Cossacks all are pictured
in a clear terSe style that is easily
read and quickly graSped.
It Is hardly ever that we yet
incidents such as this from the
pen of a Master Of Horse to an
Emperor.
At one point in the retreat, the
country was so steep and the
ice so smooth that the officers
were forced to sit down and slide
to the bottom of the incline. Cou'
laincourt reports that the EN-
peror had to do likewise because,
despite the number of arms Of
fered Napoleon, he was unable to
stand on his feet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
New Volume
Of Horrors

For sheer horror and an audacity
of imagination hardly comparable
in today's literature, THE Motives
of Nicholas Holtz" has no equal.
Written by Thomas Painter and
Alexander Laing it comes close to
the borderline of those books that
are being turned down because
they are so close to the strange
turns of truth that they would
not seem plausible in print.
Into the town of Ironvllle comes
a reporter searching for the real
facts in the death Of his pal and
colleague. Jack Martin has all
the courage and brains that every
reporter would like to lay claim
to. He is in the city only a few
hours when his life is threatened
and he finds that everyone knew
he was there and what he came
for.
Then through a series of events
behind which Nicholas Holtz, mu-
nitionS magnatc, is the main
spring. he faces death in every
conceivable form until the very
end of the book.
The main story evolves around
the Ironville virus. A new disease
let loose upon the world after it
was discovered by a chemist who
thought he had learned how to
create life in a test tube. The pes
thence threatens the nation.
A girl Communist and her
cousin link power with the re-
porter to fight Holtz. The cousin
is killed by the disease. The chem
list who started it all is overcome
by his conscience and spends his
time working for an anti-virus.
The reporter and HoltZ' right
hand man fight with the chemist
for a cure.
Holtz' son is caught by the dis
ease and the reporter lures Holtz
into the room to look at his son
and face death. The anti-virus
comes in time but the magnate'S
own follower Keeps it from him
and he dies.
1t is truly a book in the class
Of those you hate to put down
after you start reading 1t.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

supervising regattas and other
marine events. Last year the
guardsmen did this 276 times.
Their planes must be on the look
out for pleasure craft which have
ventured off shore and run into
engine trouble or out of fuel.
Winter is perhaps the hardest
time of year for the Coast
Guard-but then the year round
they are busy. There's never
time TO loafing. And always they
live up to their motto:
"SempeF ParatuS."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

hausted, but battling to save a
life.
Three days after they started
they we're back at their home port,
the man sent to a hospital. Still
another life saved by the Coast
Guard. You can go through the
records and find simple records
like those by the thousand. It's
just part of the days work.
1t is winter that brings hard
ship for the Coast Guardsmen.
No matter how bad the weather.
how furious the storm. they are
out the minute the SOS. crackles
over the radio.
Routine Duties
When the organization isn't
saving lives. they have plenty of
other duties to occupy their time.
Here. are a few of the things
they are required to do by law:
Prevent smuggling.
Enforce customs laws.
Enforce navigation and other
laws governing merchant vessels.
Enforce rules governing anchor
age in ports.
Patrol waters during regattas
and marine parades.
Enforce laws on immigration,
quarantine and neutrality.
Suppress mutinieS.
Remove wrecks and dangers to
navigation.
Handle the international ice
patrol.
Extend medical and surgical aid
to fishing vessels at sea.
Assist all vessels in distress.
And finally, IN time of war,
operate as part of the Navy at the
direction of the President.
To do all this, the Coast Guard
has 848 officers. 81 CADETS et the
Academy, 746 permanent and tenn
porary warrant officers, and zoos
enlisted men.
There are So large cruising cut
tiers, able to go to sea in the fierc-
est storm; Isl patrol boats, and "a
harbor craft. Of the smaller
boats, many are used as icebreak-
erS in rivers and harborS. There
are also 40 airplanes of all types
One of the most important
branches of the organization in
cludes the land stations. of which
there are 278, located on every
coast and shore line of the coun-
try. 1t is these men who launch
life boats and bring passengers
and crew from beached vessels.
Of the cruising cutters, two are
assigned to the Great Lakes.
There are 20 along the Atlantic
Coast Zone stationed at Puerto
Rico two in the Gulf of Mexico,
and IL on the Pacific Coast, in
Guiding one at Honolulu and one
in Alaskan waters.
Always Respond
During the last year the Coast
Guard in addition to saving the
lives of 5,825 persons rendered aid
in 7.O25 cases-to ships which
with their cargoes we're valued at
$50, 703, $40. For this service the
Coast Guard receives not a cent
from the party assisted. Be it a
millionaire'S yacht or a humble
fishing boat. when the call for
help goes out the Coast Guard is
on the job.
Last year the Coast Guard
boarded and inspected 27,665 yes
sells. seeing that life belts and life
boats were adequate, that running
lights were in order. that mari
time laws were carried out so that
passengers and crew would be
properly cared for in event of dis
aster.
AS soon as winter is over a new
season of activity will start, with
no time off for rest. The cutters
will start out on the ice patrol,
never leaving the shipping lanes
until the last berg has melted
away.
Then with the coming of sum-
mer, will be the added work Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Bookbinders Display Art
At COrcOran Gallery

Books that designed not particularly to look into but to
look at are at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The books the work Of Of the outstanding bookbnders
of the country, masterpieces of workmanship and art
Exquisite gtteng beautiful leather make these volumes
really thing of beauty and joy forever"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

artists work on view is one en-
titled THE Old Couple" Nothing
can be more typical of a peasant
married couple who have lived the
greater part of their lives together
than this portrait of two old peo-
pie sitting side by side.
Mr.. Schlereth takes inspiration
for not a few of his works from
his native Bavaria, giving each
one of them the touch Of sym
pathy and love.
His portrait of Miss Elizabeth
L." is far different. 1t is of a mod.
ern woman, fashionably attired.
The portrait entitled La Anda,
lusa" is lovely study in color and
composition. The white and pur.
pie are effectively used in this pic.
ture to give the spirit of Spain.
Picturesque Scenes
The Arts Club is also exhibitin'
the work of Alan Page Flavelle,
a washington artist, whose work
on exhibition consists principally
of quaint picturesque scenes o.
old Europe.
Mr.. Flavelle recently returned
from a years study in Europe I'm
der the Hiram Gee Fellowship
award from Syracuse University.
He received the purchase award
in the Independent Artists Show
in 1885 and has a portrait in the
autumn exhibition now at the
Phillips Memorial Gallery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Napoleon in Russia .
Fills Gan in Histories

other steps the pages of With Napoleon in Russia
Clearly outstanding piece of literature well as an ex
tremey revealing gift to history the memoirs Of Armand de
Cauancourt Marquis de Cauaincourt in his right and
Duke de vcenza by creation Of Napoleon worthy perusa
by all readers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

ana CQey 90 CQaC almost every
day. But so quietly that the coun-
try at large is scarcely aware
Just what this second oldest mill
tary organization is doing The
Coast Guard does an efficient
work, but It doesn't brag about it.
In the headquarters mere, where
Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet
directs the activity Of the 10000
officers and men. with their 300
odd boats of all types, and their
40 planes, are simply written rec
ords of deeds of breath-takin
heroism, showing that the danger
and romance of the sea is not yet
dad.
During the last fiscal year the
Coast Guard saved the lives of
some 5,825 persons who were in
peril on the sea. Most of these
cases the public never hears Of.
Sometimes, when there is a spec
tacular wreck such as the recent
Dixie, the Coast Guard breaks into
the limelight. But where there is
one such case there are hundreds
equally daring performed by un-
sung heroes.
For instance, only a few weeks
ago a radio brought the report
that the engineer of freighter
had suffered a badly crushed
hand. There was no doctor on
board. So a young Coast Guard
flier stepped into an amphibian
plane and flew 258 miles to sea,
located the ship and landed along
side. His report merely stated the
sea was high" but he landed
safely.
The injured man was placed in
the plane, then the take-off and
258 miles more, over a storm
swept sea, to Tampa, where an
ambulance waited to take the vic
tim to a hospital and save his life.
Fog and Storm
And then again, and closer to
home, as the work of the chief
boatsWains mate in charge of the
station at Cobb Island in Chesa-
peake Bay. 1t was late in the
afternoon of January 7, only three
eeks ago, that report was tele-
phoned to the station of a plane
flying low and apparently in dis
treSS.
Patrols and a surfboat were or
dered out into the fog and storm
and darkness, and later the plane
was found. In it were a Mr.. and
Mrs. George Edwards, of Long
Island. They were flying from
New York to Florida, they ex-
planned, ran out of gasoline and
were lost in the fog.
Suffering from exposure they
were take, to the station, given
food and shelter, the next morning
furnished gasoline and sent on
their way. And the report of the
incident closes with these words:
"They were very grateful for
our assistance and hospitality
in this case"
Just two more lives saved by
the Coast Guard-merely an Incl
dent IN a seasons work.
Then just a few weeks ago a
call came to the Coast Guard at
Duluth, Mimi, that an amateur
radio station had sent out word
Of a man badly injured in a
lumber camp. Roads we're blocked
with snow and ice. There was no
way to get him to a hospital.
So the 125-foot patrol boat
Crawford started across the ice
covered lake. bucking, smashing
through IL inches o. ice. 1t took
a day and a half to get to the
camp. And even then, so thick
was the ice that the boat could
get no closer than half g. mile to
shore.
So members of the crew took a
stretcher and walked ashore,
through a bitter storm. They put
the injured man on the stretcher
and started back to the boat,
slipping, falling into crevaces in
the ice, soaked to the skin, ex-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Laconic Reports Disclose
BreathtakinS HerOisn7
By CARROLL E. B. PEEKE

"SEMPER PARATUS"
From the United States Guard founded
In $780, those words the Latin for Always Prepared have
been the motto of this famous lesaving organization
But at this time of year the Coast Guard is better pre-
pared than normayfor with wintry storms sweeping the
coasts and the Great Lakes with the Gulf Mexico struck
by frequent tornadoes and other tropical storms the Coast
Guard must be constant watch lives and property
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Hans Schlereh Is Hailed
AS A Real Artist

Sometimes in the midst Of multitude Of modernists
real artist.
Such artist Hans schereth whose work being
shown at the Arts Club of Washington, 2017 St. N. w.
His exhibition continues through January 81.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
1900 Low.Water Mark.

The year 1900 was the low-watei
mark of Christian missionary activity
since the coming of the friars There
were only 300 Roman Catholic mis-
sionaries at their posts in that year;
among the Protestants. in India, only
Danish mission with German mis-
sionaries supported by English mis-
sionary societies. and in the north
william Carey and the Baptist mis-
sion. In South America there were
no non-Catholic missionaries.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
HUNT FOR BUTLER
IN TAYLOR MURDER
Report Sands Was Seen in
Long Beach Revives a.
Year-0Id Mystery.
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 15.-An in
tensive police hunt for key figure in
the staying of William Desmond Tay-
lor revived interest today in the grim
14-year-old enigma of the movie
colony.
Informed that Edward F. Sands,
discharged butler Of the film director,
had been seen four times in Long
Beach this week, police and investi-
gators from the district attorneys Of
flee searched beach towns for the
long missing man.
Sands disappeared shortly before
Taylor was found shot to death in
his apartment in 1922 and just after
q warrant for the buffers arrest had
been issued charging him with forging
bezzling his money. Taylor was the
complainant.
With the noted directors death told
in sensational headlines, Mary Miles
Minter and the late Mabel Normand,
then screen stars, were questioned
NOAISclllAllk tLlCH ICldliOilS Will tllc
victim. The macabre puzzle never
was solved
Oficials inclined to the belief that
Sands, wanted for questioning, was
really the directors brother.
Taylor's real name was William
Cunningham Deane-Tanner, and that
of Sands, authorities said, was Dennis
Deane-Tanner.
OF the many theories investigators
considered. one which they adhered to
most strongly was that Taylor was
shot to death in a blackmail plot.
Vague clues have since taken in
Vestigators on far-fung trails in
search of Sands in this country, South
America and Europe.
An investigator of the district at
torney's office. Capt. Jesse Winn, said
he was sure "the trail is hot" this
time.
The current search was launched
after a Long Beach hotel man. asso-
ciate of Taylor, who said he knew
Sands well, reported seeing him within
the past few days.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
Diary Discloses Russian Flyer
Liued As Days after Crashing

The three had taken of from Cape
Vankaren December 10 on 125-
mile hop to Cross Bay, but did not
reach it. For months a search was
made with airplanes and dog teams
for the missing men.
A geologist named Kremchukoff
.wirelessed yesterday that he had
found the wreckage May 3.
In the tent where Bogdacheffsky's S
diary was found Kremchukoff came
across statement signed by the
three aviators explaining that the
plane ran into a dense fog and snow
storm and crashed when the wing hit
mountain top.
None of the three was injured in
the crash. After waiting nearly a
month in vain for searching planes
Volobuyeff and Butorin went out for
Evening star., 1936-05-15
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Evening star., 1936-05-15

up and delivery service effective May Is.
The tariffs provide no allowance for
shippers who perform this service for
themselves, the commission having
suspended an earlier proposal which
would have allowed five cents per
hundred pounds when the service was
performed by shippers.
The roads inaugurating the service,
which will be provided at regular sta
ton to station rates, include the Bos-
ton g. Maine, the Baltimore g. Ohio,
the Pennsylvania, the Grand Trunk
Railway System, and their subsidi-
aries.
Evening star., 1936-05-15

gang, william c. Bond and Herman
Bocorselski, members of. the Board of
Governors.
The society will give dinner at the
Carlton Monday evening in compli-
ment to Fred J. Melville of London,
dean of philatelic writer's, and other
foreign guests now in America to at
tend the Third International Phila-
telic Exhibition.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
Britain Gets Oil From Coal.

Encouraged by the government, oil
production in Britain is growing in
dustry. Last year 100000 gallons
of motor fuel were obtained from coal
and shale Three surveys of coal
producing districts in England. Scot
land and Wales are now in progress
with the hope of making possible the
establishment of more oil producing
plants.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
BY tho Associated Press.

by tllS AsSOClateu EIcso'
MOSCOW, May 15.-A diary found
near the body of Soviet flyer dis
closed yesterday that he had lived
for IS days after an airplane crashed
on a barren peninsula near the
Bering Strait only to succumb to cold
and starvation.
Discovery of the wreckage solved
the mystery of an airplane with a
crew of three which had been missing
for nearly five months.
The body was that of mechanic
named Bogdacheffsky. His compan-
sions, G. Volobuyeff, head of the
Chukhotsk aerial group of the North
ern Sea route department, and pilot
Butorin, had left 27 days after the
crash to try to reach aid. They have
not been heard from and presumably
perished.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
DR.. HAW0RTH RENAMED
STAMP SOCIETY HEAD
Philatelists Elect Cation First Vice
President-Dinner
Arranged.

DR.. Ellis Haworth, head of the
science department Of the public
schools, was reelected president Of
the Washington Philatelic Society
Wednesday night at the Carlton Hotel.
Other officers chosen included:
Harry B. Cation, first vice president;
Mrs. Catherine L. Manning, second
vice president; c. H. Vaughan, secre-
tary; Philip Simms Warren, treas
urer; M. o. Cooper. auctioneer; John
K. Hedler, jr., sales manager; E. w.
Bethel, librarian; Valdemar Weier-
Evening star., 1936-05-15

help. They carried a food supply
sufficient for about a week.
Chukhotsk Peninsula juts out from
Northeastern Siberia toward Alaska.
1t was near there that James j.
Mattern, American around the world
flyer, crashed in 1888 and was lost for
Is days.
Evening star., 1936-05-15
D00R.T0.D00R TARIFFS
ARE FILED BY RAILROADS

By the Associated Press.
More than score of Eastern rail-
roads yesterday filed tariffs with the
Interstate Commerce Commission pro-
viding for establishment of free pick