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Evening star., 1936-08-12
POLICE SEEK GIRL, 13,
MISSING SINCE SATURDAY

Mrs. Helen Kishter, 618 Keefer
place, today asked police to search for
her 13-year-old daughter Esther,
missing since Saturday.
After visit to the home of young
girl friend, Esther departed for her
own house, but never reached it, Mrs.
Kishter said.
She was dressed in white skirt, a
red sweater and white shoes. She
weighs 80 pounds, is S feet inch tall,
has brown eyes and brown curly hair.
Mrs. Kishter said she disappeared
several years ago in the company of a
girl friend. Now, however, all OF her
playmates are accounted for.
Evening star., 1936-08-12
YOHN H. HUNTER, a merchant,
living at 1896 Fourteenth street.

YOHN H. HUNTER, a merchant,
living at 1886 Fourteenth street,
today was pronounced Wash
- ington's safest automobile
driver by a committee headed by
Commissioner Melvin c. HaZen.
The selection was made for the
American Automobile Association.
which will hold traffic safety clinic
in New York August 81 for safest
drivers selected for each State and
the District.
Clarence NJ. Woodwork, sales
representative, residing at 1923
Kearney street northeast. was award
ed second place and also will go to
New York.
The committee made its choices
from five leading candidates taken
Evening star., 1936-08-12
TAX RULING ASKED
FOR GAS MERGER
Utilities Commission Seeks In.
formation Before Passing
on PROPOSAL.

The Public Utilities Commission has
asked the Bureau of Internal Reve-
nue. for a ruling as to whether any
Federal tax should be levied on the
Washington Gas Light Co. incident to
its proposed merger with the George
town Gas Light Co.
The Washington company already
owns the stock of the Georgetown
company. The latter corporation
would be dissolved in the consolida-
ton. which is permitted under an act
of the last session of Congress.
The question apparently turns on
whether the parent company would
inherit any taxable increase in stock
value as a result of the merger.
The commission made the request
for the ruling, since it must pass on
all terms of the merger before it can
be effected.
Evening star., 1936-08-12
Bullfrog, Supremely Lazy,
Is Spoiled by Spoon Feeding

out a kitchen spoon and forced food
down Louie's throat.
Soon the frog appeared normal
again, except that he would not touch
his food unless handed to him on a
spoon.
"It's quite a problem" sighed the
director, "for spoon feeding requires
time. and we can't lavish it all on
Louie"
The director-who has spent about
80 years with frogs and fish-said he
never heard of a similar case.
Boiled down to hard facts" he
said, II think it's just case of
supreme laziness manifesting itself In
a bull frog"
Evening star., 1936-08-12

from a selected group of Is, who be-
came flnalists over some 800 appli-
cants.
Hunter. who is ST, has been driv-
ing for 80 years. during which he ran
up an estimated total mileage Of
100000 He has never faced traffic
charge, paid a fine. suffered a for
feiture, or even received a traffic ticket
for parking, the record showed. Hun
ter was found to nave driven some
100000 miles in the last 10 years and
10000 miles in the past year.
Woodwork, 48, who has driven
some 100000 miles in the past 81
years, also was found to have no
blot on his long driving record. He
estimated he had driven 100000 miles
Evening star., 1936-08-12
Luray Woman, SO, Dies.

LURAY, Va. August IL (SpeciaD -
Mrs. Silas Lillard, SO, died Monday at
her home near here. She is survived by
four daughters, Mrs. D. L. Kaufman
and Mrs. John E. Kite of Luray. Mrs.
Annie Dovel, Reliance, Va. end Mrs.
w. A. Lillard, Hagerstown, Nd.
Evening star., 1936-08-12

Display Men to hold its 1887 conven-
ton in Washington.
The club is composed of represen-
tatives from department stores and
shops.
Officers are: w. Arthur Gray,
Lansburgh g. Bro, president; James
Stiles, Hecht Co.. vice president; Jo-
seph McCann, S. Kann Sons Co.,
treasurer, and o. d. Grimes, Palais
RSyal, secretary.
Evening star., 1936-08-12
Heads State Bankers.

RALEIGH. N. c., August IL R.-
r. Emmett Kerr Of Charlotte has been
elevated from first vice president 10
president of the State Bankers Asso-
ciation. He fills the vacancy caused by
the recent death of Paul P. Brown of
Chapel Hill, 4
Evening star., 1936-08-12
WORLDS DISPLAY MEN
TO BE INVITED HERE

The newly organized National Cap
ital Display Club will lay plans at
q meeting to be held August 20 to in
vite the International Association of
Evening star., 1936-08-12
BY W. II. SHIPPEN, Jr.

BY W. II. SHIPPEN, Jr.
nITY the poor photographer who
- had to take closeup of this
practical joker!
The gibbon likes to collect
lenses out of cameras or eyeglasses
with his long arms. One of his favorite
tricks is to circle a photographer and
whack him from behind while the
man is trying to focus on him out
front.
This gibbon moves so fast. espe-
cially when he can get hold of a
rope or trapeze. that he seems to be
in several places at once. He is some
what slower on the ground, however,
and looks bit silly running upright
with his arms stretched over his head.
The gibbons arms are SO long they
drag the ground, so when running he
carries them above his head or crossed
behind his neck. The arms seem to
help to balance him.
1t is probable that more Wash
ingtonians have heard than seen this
Evening star., 1936-08-12
One Killed, Four Hurt in Crash.

WILLIAMSPORT. Pa, August IL
(Pp.-A head-on collision of two auto
mobiles on the Susquehanna Trail
killed one man and injured four other
persons early today.
Evening star., 1936-04-17
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. FRIDAY Il,

Recovery Administration by naming
the four members Of the commission
from outside the Government.
These four members Of the commit
tee are George H. Meade, William H.
Davis and DR.. John M. Clark OF New
York and George Harrison Of Cincin-
natl. The other members Of the COM
mittee, named by the President at the
time Of the issuance of his executive
order creating the commission, are
Secretary of Commerce Roper. chair
man; Secretary Of Agriculture Wal
lace and Secretary Of Labor Perkins.
Evening star., 1936-04-17
MARRIAGE CLAUSE
BILL DELAY SEEN
Repeal Measure Expected to Be
Pushed Aside for Tax
Action,

The Ramspeck bill to repeal the
marriage clause which has worked
great hardship on many Government
employees probably will not be acted
upon in the House until after the
administration tax bill has been
passed, it was learned at the Capitol
today.
House leaders intend, however, to
allow this corrective Civil Service
measure. which would limit the COM
bined salaries of husband and wife
in the Government service to not
more than $4,000 annually, to be
fought out on its merits while waiting
for Senate action on the tax bill.
Pressure has been brought to bear
on Chairman O'Connor Of the House
Rules Committee and members Of the
committee to grant a special rule
early next week on the application
made by Chairman Ramspeck of the
House Civil Service Committee. Chair
man O'Connor said today his COM
mittee has not yet decided on any
date for a hearing on privileged
status for the RamSpeck bill. Action
will not be taken until the committee
sees free time ahead in the House
when the special rule could be called
up.
The legislative program has been
determined upon by the House leaders
through next Tuesday. Then, If the
tax bill comes in, no other legislation
will be considered until that important
measure has been disposed of.
Evening star., 1936-04-17
ANTIQUES EXHIBIT
. .. GETS THIRD DAY
Old and Rare Pieces to Be
Seen in Georgetown To-
morrow Also.

The exhibit of antiques and his
toric relics at the parish hall Of
Christ Church, Thirty-first and OI
streets, which had been planned for
two days only, has been extended to
include Saturday, it was announced
last night by Henry S. Matthews, jr.,
chairman of the committee in charge.
The announcement followed meet
ing in the parish hall The doors are
open today from 10 am. to pm. and
will be open tomorrow from 10 am.
to pm.
The oldest and one Of the rarest
pieces in the exhibit is Greek signet
ring of twisted gold, estimated by
experts of the Smithsonian Institution
to be about $500 years old. In min
iature, the design shows a deer at
tackled by a lion and the lion in turn
being stung by bee. The design is
believed to have been a family seal.
Contrasts in Exhibits.
Strange contrasts are evident in the
collection, ranging from delicate fem
mine clothing and pearl jewelry OF
the beautiful girls Of early George
town history to a pair of ancient
bronze Spanish stirrups taken from
Nicaraguan bandit shot down by an
American Marine. The stirrups are in
the shape of huge shoes and are worn
through in two places. They are be-
lieved to have been brought to Amer
lea in the early part of the sixteenth
century by SpaniardS.
Rejecting tragedy of thwarted love
are belongings of a famous George
town beauty, who rejected an offer OF
marriage, only to have her disap-
pointed suitor shoot himself to death
on her doorstep. Her relics include
green silk "calash," or kind of bonnet
which she used to keep the wind from
blowing her tresses and an elaborate
collection of seed pearl jewelry.
Washington GaveL.
Perhaps the best known piece in the
collection is the gavel used by George
washington at the laying of the cor
nerstone Of the Capitol, September l8,
1893, now property of Potomac Lodge
OF Masons, No. 5. So precious is the
gavel that a committee of three men,
bers of the lodge come to get it every
night, take it to a deposit vault and
bring it back the next morning.
The collection is virtually all from old
Georgetown Homes, where, according
to Alice Coyle Torbert, in her his
torical introduction to the catalogue of
antiques, "at the center of the whirl-
pool of changing administrations and
embassies, many families have con-
tinued to live behind ancestral walls,
having busted their daguerreotypes
and polished their presterling silver
through the decades, through the gen.
erations."
Evening star., 1936-04-17

fisheries and game department re-
ceived information from the chief Sec
retary's department of New South
Wales and officials, armed with search
warrants, were sent to a number Of
towns. The first collection seized
contained approximately LOO eggs.
Evening star., 1936-04-17

parts Of the country. Reports received
In Melbourne say the raids have
caused sensation in natural history
circles. It Is claimed that, as q re-
suit Of these visits, correspondence was
found, giving the names and addresses
Of collectors In other states. The
Evening star., 1936-04-17
Plan Mass for Thomas Hurney.

A memorial mass for Thomas Hur-
ney, late registrar of Georgetown Uni
versity Law School, will be celebrated
at 8 am. Monday in the Church Of
the Immaculate Conception. He died
year ago Monday.
Evening star., 1936-04-17

Miss Beverly chalker 1880 Connecticut Avenue, Is shoUn
nearing brocdde dress OF the preReuoutondy War genera
ton and standing beside chair from George Washngons
dining suite Its legs aUed of to suit the needs OF
Mrs Washington the chair the only OF the original
set of ~ not at Mount Vernon Miss Chaker nearing
caaSh OF eighteenth century style The articles part
Of an exhibit OF old museum pieces at the Christ E. Church.
ThHty-frSt and streets. The display H close tomorrow
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1936-04-17
Egg Collections Seized.

Claiming that they had been Illegal
ly gathered and held, thousands Of
eggs Of Australian birds were seized
recently by ofacers Of the fisheries
and game department In different
Evening star., 1936-04-17
STEAMSHIPS.

MEDITERRANEAN and all Europe-De
Luxe service on famous express liners via
the smooth Southern Route
ITALIAN LINE. 624 9Th Ave. New York
WEST INDIES & CARIBBEAN GUEST
CRUISES every week with the Great White
Fleet. II and IS days. S1sj and up. Ap.
ply Travel Agents or UNITED FRUIT Co,
Pier 8: North River, New York City.
Evening star., 1936-04-17
PRESIDENT COMPLETES
ANALYSIS COMMITTEE
Four Members Outside Of Gov
ernment Named to Aid
in Summary.

President Roosevelt yesterday COM
pleted the Committee on Industrial
Analysis recently created by him to
complete the summary of the results
and accomplishments of the National
Evening star., 1936-05-03
MUSIC AND IDEALS
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES e FREEMAN D. D. IL D. D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON
when thev had sung an hymn."

when they had sung an hymn"
Listening recently to beautiful can
tata, we were again compelled to think
of the large place music occupies in life.
1t is universal language; while speech
divides, music unites. An audience OF
diverse tongues and ideals feels the
coaleScing power of melodious strains.
Even songs sung to familiar tune in
different languages induce a spirit OF
camaraderie. 1t was this that prompted
some one to afirm: Il care not who
writes the laws of a people if I may
write its songs He believed that what
laws could not effect, songs could accom-
plish. As we reflect on life we associate
incidents that we're memorable with
certain strains of music, certain hymns
or songs. 1 sat one evening with a Pres
ident of the United States. There had
been eloquent speeches, but they left him
quite unmoved. Presently quartet Of
male voices sang some old. time-honored.
familiar songs. Immediately he was
absorbed: they were carrying him away
from the cares of state to other days.
He was hearing melodies that belonged
to the past. and his deeper emotions were
stirred. noted presently that he wiped
his eyes; his heart was responding.
Repeatedly great bodies of men and
women, falling under the spell of beauti-
full music, find all their diverse views
and personal peculiarities dissolved and
their unity complete. Songs are asso-
ciated with personalities. incidents. ex-
periences-happy and sad. knew a man
years ago whose habit of life was unap-
pealing, If not repellent. One day / met
him in the street when presently the
subject of church music was suggested.
To my surprise learned that he had
been a choir boy and for a while had
been in ST. Paul's boy choir, at Concord,
NH AS he related his early experience
a new and different man was revealed.
He recalled many of the old hymns and
anthems he had sung. 1 found that the
door to his deeper, finer nature was
music and that beneath rude exterior
and rough ways he had a nature
susceptible to life's finer impulses and
responsive to its nobler ideals 1t marked
the beginning of profitable friendship
and the assumption of Christian habit
of life. From that time forward he be-
Evening star., 1936-05-03

came a valued member Of the church.
Something long suppressed or neglected
In his life was revived
One of the late incidents in the life
of Jesus is related to the singing of a
hymn. 1t was His last night with His
disciples and with solemn words He had
attempted to prepare them for the tragic
circumstances of the following day. Just
before they parted, 1t is recorded that,
when they had sung an hymn, they
went out into the Mount Of Olives"
There was something refreshing and
strengthening in that act and it must
have been long remembered by those
who participated in it.
Facing life's crises, we again and again
turn to music 1t is the tonic Of the mind
and of the heart. In our preparation of
men for war service, singing was as i'm
portant as disciplined training. Men
forgot trials and unknown events that
awaited them as they sang together. 1t
bound them In a closer fellowship and
the mystic chords strengthened them for
an unknown adventure. No matter how
Grass or vulgar an age may become, it
responds always to music. Where the
logic of argument fails 1t succeeds. We
wonder whether we give it its proper
place in the economy of life; yes, and we
wonder whether we do not debase it
where we permit it to degenerate into
the cheap strains-if strains they may
be called-of jazz. Our world, with its
strife and confusions, needs a strong
tonic to ease it's tried and tired nerves.
We may employ argument, philosophy,
well-deviSed systems, and doubtless they
all have their place, but the lubricant
that makes them function is music. The
Christian religion would be sadly i'm
paired were it not for its hymns of deep
devotion, of praise and aspiration. Rock
of Ages" Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
Nearer, Ny God. to Thee" "A Mighty
Fortress Is Our God" these and other
noble hymns have been translated into
every language. they constitute in them
selves that which unites men of many
systems in one corporate whole. If we
ever attain the high ends of Christian
unity, a large and contributing factor
will be the churches hymns that express
the fellowship of all believers in Him to
whom they are addressed
Evening star., 1936-05-03

all the other bards who make the glory
of English verse.
His peers would find him a shy soul,
modest and generous to a fault. Take
up either of his two slender volumes
"A Shropshire Lad" and Last Poems,"
printed more than a quarter century
apart-and read any random line. The
most confirmed skeptic must yield to the
charm of him, feel his charity, acknowl-
edge his ardent zeal and his manly but
hammered gentlenesS. His bread he
earned by teaching, and he counted it
a privilege to be associated with youth
when time had taken away the inspira-
ton of 'the continuous excitement" of
the period to which he referred in the
oft-quoted stanza:
when I was one -and-twenty
I heard wise man say
Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away:
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me-"
Mr.. Housman was seventy-seven when
he bade farewell to his school and his
friends and the army of scholars to
whom he had conveyed his learning and
something of his appreciation of things
worth singing about. The term is over,
quiet falls over Cambridge, the Shrop-
shire lanes perchance have been mo-
mentarily conscious of a well-remem-
bered traveller hurrying by. Yet the
melodies remain, and new generations
of lovers will take JOY In them. Mean
while, discouraged folk may smile with
returning confidence, grateful as they
must be that so sweet and rich genius
should have done so much to redeem
the era to which he curiously belonged.
Evening star., 1936-05-03
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Mr. Morrill, called up in the Senate
today" says The Star of April q. 1886, the
bill to appropriate $780,
White House 900 for the erection i'm
Ex4srs;or mediately south of the
Executive Mansion of
another building of equal size and similar
exterior, connected with the present
building by corridor, and creating the
President, Secretary of the Treasury and
Secretary of the Interior a commission
to select material and make contracts
for the erection of the building. Mr..
Morrill, pointed out the contracted quar-
ters of the President now for residence
purposes. He said the Executive had only
six rooms and the servants had to GO
outside to get lodgings. Besides, he said,
the lower portion OF the mansion is not
properly drained. Mr. Morrill, added that
this bill has the approval of the present
four years ago.
Mr.. Hawley did not think the arrange
ment satisfactory. He would be sorry to
see the present building turned into mere
offices. 1t ought to be preserved from
that because of its historical associations.
The business ought to be done outside
Va II. dllU Ilt ldNOlCu tllC lCJGlOIi VI
building just west of the present mansion
and between it and the War. State and
Navy Department, for the official use of
the President. Let the present mansion
be left for the President S residence.
Mr.. Morrill, replies that Mr.. Hawley
had not examined this subject as at
tentively as the public buildings commit
tee. That committee unanimously favored
hi hn hod II
been consulted approved it. He said it
was unjust to any President to conf1ne
him in the present building as it now
exists; that he is there in his office from
half past nine am. and cannot get
away from his Office and his duties
when he desires to escape. He could
/. not assent to the idea of buying another
site and erecting another building. Be-
sides. he called attention to the fact that
under the bill the present mansion would
be preserved intact. The bill was passed,
with few dissenting votes"
This is really too bad!" says The Star
of April %, 1886. AN archeologist in
n. Europe has discovered
DeounKlng that Christopher Colum-
coluubrs bus was not born at
Genoa, but at Calvi. in
Corsica. Now all the school books will
have to be changed, and those OF us
who have got beyond the school book
age will be forced to unlearn all We
learned in youth about the great eX-
plorer. Was ever man so treated. before
or since? Sent home in chains. after
a discovery which revolutionized the
science of the whole world: buried, no
one can possibly tell where; his name
stolen from the hemisphere whose
christening he made possible, and now
robbed of the birthplace which the ira
dition of centuries has assigned to him!
The next move in this Kaleidoscope rec
ord may be the proof that no such per-
son as Christopher Columbus ever ex-
iSted."
Evening star., 1936-05-03
Question of Procedure.

Georgetown residents are objecting TO
the repaving of p street, not because of
any great sentimental attachment to
cobblestones, but because they know
smooth concrete will attract traffic. Once
traffic, now avoiding P street because of
the rough pavement. begins to flow over
the new concrete, the traffic evil is
established.
The Commissioners seem to think they
have to repave p street to remove the
car tracks and because they have built
the new P Street Bridge. Despite the
fact that nobody who lives on P street
wants the change. the Commissioners
are going ahead with their plans at a
cost of about sa0,OOo-a portion of which
will be levied against abutting property
owners in the form of a benefit"
assessment. Insult added to injury!
The whole point of the controversy is
this: Georgetown residents know that
when p street is repaved the trafic by.
pass planned along the route of 4
street will not be constructed until traffic
on p street has become 50 dense that p
Evening star., 1936-05-03
HOusnan.

Surely Washington possesses its quota
Of admirers OF A. E. Housman. 1t would
be pity if it were not so, because prob
ably no kindlier spirit ever has lived in
modern times The poet, dead in Cam
bridge, was perhaps the truest melodist
of his age. Music ran in his veins as
naturally as rain drops course down
slate roof He was of the company of
the born singers, and it is pleasant to
imagine that he may take immortal ease
in some unguessed celestial Mermaid
Tavern with his brothers Spenser and
Shakespeare, Sidney and Carew, Love-
lace and Herrick, Cowper and Keats and