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Evening star., 1936-12-13
squirrels and many other small ami
mails for the same purpose.

squirrels and many other small ami
mails for the same purpose.
YOU'D be surprised" Bailey said.
"how many photographers are CATCH
ing animals in this harmless way to
take pictures Of them in natural hab-
itats. It's thrilling sport. and one
which infiicts no pain and only Q
small inconvenience on the wild sub
jects."
Bailey has been working on q bear
trap many times lighter than the
giant, saw-toothed steel traps which
have been set for bears in the past.
He also is perfecting a muskrat
trap. which will kill outright, and
hopes to introduce it among fur hunt
ers. As every farm boy knows, musk
rats often gnaw their legs on and
leave the stump in the jaws Of traps,
or else they drown slowly.
Plans to Try Out Trap.
Baliey's trap delivers . crushing
blow on the skull and kills instantly.
The naturalist plans to visit the Dis
NAL Swamp in Virginia this Winter
to try out his muskrat and bear
traps. The bear trap tightens q
chain moose about q bears paw and
offers q spring resistance when the
captive tries to pull free, thus pre-
venting the heavy animal from in
juring himself.
Bailey also has perfected traps for
owls, hawks, eagles and other birds
Of prey.
The various traps which the scien-
tist has invented are much In de-
mand as equipment for explorers and
collectors planning expeditions to jun
giles and polar regions.
DR.. William NJ Mann, Zoo director.
will take set of the traps when he
goes to Sumatra soon to collect speci-
mems for the local Geological Park.
Other collectors use the traps for
apes, monkeys, leopards and various
small mammals.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
THEFT OF CHECKS
FROM MAIL Barred
Police to Question House.
maid in Connection With
Postal Robberies.

A mail theft racket, in which checks
for several hundred dollars had been
taken. was barred yesterday after the
arrest Of a housemaid for question:
ing in connection with the disap-
pearance of baby blanket and some
other articles from the home of a
former employer.
No charge has been preferred
against the prisoner, whom police
identified as Ethel Nash, SO, Of the
1900 block Of Irving street.
Police and postal inspectors for
some time have been working on a
series Of robberies in which the vic.
Tins reported that checks they were
due to receive had been diverted to
addresses other than their own and
cashed.
After investigation, authorities
came to the conclusion that some one
who had known the checks were ex-
pected had notified the post Office
Of a change of address" for the pros
pective recipients, and then gotten
the checks when they showed up at
the faxed address.
Friday, after Mrs. Virginia Rice,
1928 Taylor street northeast, had re-
ported the theft Of the household
articles and had given police the ad-
dress Of a former maid, Detective
Sergt. Van D. Hughes and postal In
spectors, investigating, were told that
number Of checks had been cashed
at a store in the northeast section.
The Nash woman then was picked
up for questioning.
The recent thefts involved Christ
mas savings checks, but others prevt.
ously had been taken.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
BY W. H. SHIPPEN, yr.

"RAPPING animals is Q gentle
art with Vernon Bailey. re-
tired Federal naturalist and
u author.
Only last night, in q talk before
the Biological Society at the Cosmos
Club, he exhibited two gray foxes
which learned to eat from his fingers
a few days after he captured them In
a trap of his own invention.
The distinguished scientist caught
more than IL 900 mammals Of all de-
scriptions in many parts of the North
American continent during more than
40 years with the Biological Survey,
from which he retired recently as
chief field naturalist.
His long experience with wild life
impressed Bailey with the cruelty Of
steel traps which crush and mutt
late and kill by slow torture. He has
been devoting his new leisure to per-
fecting traps which are human, and
to testing them in nearby Maryland
and Virginia.
Demonstrates Trap.
Bailey demonstrated the harmless
nature Of the trap in which he snares
the foxes by releasing a trigger that
frightened light chain moose about
his own finger.
Animals are caught by q forefoot
in the same manner and escape in
jury.
Recently the naturalist accom-
plished q feat in nearby Virginia
which would seem incredible to any
person who has ever encountered q
skunk. He caught one Of the little
animals in trap. approached with
out misadventure and 50 mollified the
captive he was able to bring it
home In q sack. apparently quite con-
tented. Bailey even took q closeup
photograph Of his captive by way Of
proof.
You may be the only man in the
world to succeed in such an under
Evening star., 1936-12-13
Man, II, KILLS WIFE,
73, AND TRIES TO DIE
Tragedy Follows Quarrel in New
York Home During Plans
for Golden Wedding.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 12.-George
Geisler. 70. is in critical condition in
q hospital today, charged with murder,
and plans for Q golden we(-Sing ami
versary are ended.
The body of his 7s-year-old wife
Marguerite is in the city morgue.
Police say Mrs. Geisler and her hus-
band quarreled last night over his
supposed attentions to other women
in the neighborhood where they live
in Queens. Neighbors said the quarrel
grew more and more bitter, Is the
old man resented the accusations.
Then. police say. Geisler beat his
wife to death with the spoke Of .
wagon wheel, slashed his own throat,
stabbed himself in the chest and
turned on the gas.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
Girl. IA, Accused of Murder.

OSWEGO, Kans., December IL OP1-
County Attorney Vernon Rosenthal
fiied q second degree murder charge
today against Mildred Baker, IA, ac-
c,lsing her in the fatal clubbing OF Ed
Littlejohn, Is, miner, at Chetopa. Lit
tlejohn was struck on the head and
fatally injured last Sunday, authori.
ties said. q he fought with John
Demott. allegedly over Demott's atten-
tions to the girl. Demott Is held - .
material witness. a
Evening star., 1936-12-13
Sneesing Malady
OF Arlington Girl
SReported
Mary Margaret Cleer
May Be Returned
Home Tomorrow.

By Stan Correspondent Of The Star,
ARLINGTON. Va, December Ia
Mary Margaret Cleer. the 13-year -old
Fort Myer schoolgirl who has bafied
medical experts with her prolonged
sneezing malady, may be brought home
tomorrow from Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity Hospital. Baltimore. where she is
reported to have been cured, her
father, Thomas Cleer, said today.
"Tickled to death" over the report
that his attractive little daughter has
been cured Of the strange illness that
kept her sneezing at regular intervals
from October 8 until few days ago,
the father was enthused today over
the fact that he and the girls mother
will 60 to Baltimore to see Mary Mar
garet tomorrow, and possibly to bring
her home.
Officials at Johns Hopkins said the
girls sneezing attacks stopped five
days ago. that she Is resting comfort.
ably and gaining weight. She lost
nearly 40 pounds during the period Of
sneezing.
The cause Of the spells, however,
was not found. A hospital statement
said, Authorities feel that the sneez-
ing episode belongs in the group Of
so-called functional disorders that is
Q fractional Of q personal nature
which does not have an organic back
ground.
THE outlook with regard to the
child's further education development
and vocational adjustment is favor
able. the statement added.
Scientists are reported to have con-
cluded. however. that the sneezes
somehow were related to her sur
roundings, since whenever she has
heen ren1ovad from, har ham. for apv
Evening star., 1936-12-13
Proposal for Freezing Swamp
In Building Canal Is Recalled
D. e. Engineer Proposed
Use of Refrigeration
in Panama Project.

Photographs published last Wednes-
day in The Evening Star Of the dam
Of frozen earth made by Government
engineers to hold back q threatened
landslide at Grand Coulee Dam in
Washington brought back memories
to Charles K. Rogers, 1425 Rhode
Island avenue.
Rogers says that while employed
as an engineer IS years ago on the
Panama Canal he suggested use Of
refrigeration in freezing the swampy.
shifting morass over which the Gov
eminent was then attempting to build
railroad tracks for construction work.
When construction Of the Panama
Canal was started, Rogers. new assist
ant engineer at the Folger Shake
speare Library, went to the Isthmus
and remained until 1919, years after
the canal was in operation.
As proof that the refrigeration idea
s nothing new to him, Rogers has
q copy Of the Independent, a news
paper published in Colon, Republic
Of Panama. The paper Is dated May
l8, 1910, and now Is frayed and vel.
low. It contains an article Rogers
wrote on Refrigeration as Now Ap-
piled to Railroad Building"
I'm the solution Of one of the prob
lens Of railroad construction over
swampy ground Of q shifting, quick
sand nature, the use of refrigeration
in overcoming such difficulties and
affording the contractor in such work
sure means of constructing a solid,
permanent roadway for all time, for
illustration the stretch of marshy
ground on the line of the Panama
Railroad, may be cited" the article
reads. in part.
The article then outlined Rogers
Evening star., 1936-12-13
SYMPATHY FOR EDWARD
Mcclellan Wishes Ex-King Well
"Whatever He Does"

MEMPHIS, Tenn, December u Lp.
-Tennessee's bachelor Senator, K. D.
McKellar, expressed sympathy today
for Britain's abdicated bachelor King
and wished him well wherever he
may live and whatever he does"
The two met in Washington sew.
eral years ago.
THE abdicated Kings well-known
sympathy for the troubles of the plain
people and his devotion to the unfor.
tunate and needy in his country, it
seems to me-" McKellar declared,
Should have led his cabinet and
people to have been more generous
in their attitude toward his marital
affairs. especially in view of the well.
known history of his ancestors"
Evening star., 1936-12-13
TALKING UNSTEMMED
By the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
oCALA, Fla, December 12.-His
strength waning, Howard stillman
entered the second week Of almost In
cessant talking tonight.
He began the constant stream Of
intelligent, but irrelevant, converse
ton last Saturday.
Physicians still puzzled tonight
over the cause Of the strange malady.
His physician said there probably Is
scme abnormal pressure on the brain.
A specialist In psychiatry withheld
definite CONCLUSIONS
Evening star., 1936-12-13
CITIZENS TO SEEK
us. R0ADFUNDS
Attempt Will Be Made to
Enlist Lewis Aid in old
GEORGETOWN Fight.
y /, Stat, Correspondent Of The Star.

NJ Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
BETHESDA, Md, December IAN
inquiry will be launched next week by
proponents Of the plan to improve Old
Georgetown road to determine whether
Federal funds are available for WIDEN
ing and resurfacing the dangerous
reaches Of the narrow thoroughfare.
Coincident with the move will be an
attempt to enlist Representative Davis
j. Lewis and other members Of Mary
lands congressional delegation in the
night to impress upon State, county
and Federal officials the importance Of
Immediately correcting hazardous con-
ditions.
"We feel the assistance Of Mr.. Lewis
and his colleagues will be very benefl-
cial in securing ultimate approval Of
the proposal to widen and resurface
the highway" representatives Of the
trade body asserted.
Interest In County.
HE has always manifested great in
terest in the welfare Of Montgomery
County, as evidenced by many improve
ments Of q public nature which we
have received primarily because Of his
efforts and we feel he will aid us In
this fight, too"
Samuel E. Stonebraker, a member
Of the committee. declared 1t was
largely through the work Of Repre-
sentative Lewis that Federal funds
were made available for many Of the
most important projects carried out in
Montgomery County in recent years.
Listed among them are many new
school buildings and additions to ex-
isting structures, highways, municipal
street and sewer systems, the new park
at Somerset and the post offices for
Bethesda and Silver Spring.
The chamber. which inaugurated
the improvement campaign follow
ing the death of two motorists on the
hazardous highway last Sunday, will
send . delegation to the mass meet
ing that is to be held next Wednesday
night at the Bethesda Women's
Club.
Stirred BY Tragedy.
Sponsoring the meeting Is the old
Georgetown Road Citizens Associa-
ton, which also was stirred by the
bus-auto wreck and Is taking a lead
ing part in the road improvement
drive.
william Buckley, committee chair
man, will attend the meeting with
two OF his aides. Stonebraker and
]. Harry WEIGH. It is expected many
other civic organizations along Wis
consin avenue and the Rockville pike
also will be represented.
Advocates Of the project maintain
the improvement not only would in
sure the safety Of pedestrians and mo-
torists who use the thoroughfare, but
also would open the subdivisions it
serves to intensive development, pro-
viding the county with Q great In.
crease in tax proceeds.
Ofncials Of the county and Mont
gomery's members Of the State Legis-
lature have been asked to attend the
mass meeting to hear the views Of
county residents who favor the project.
Evening star., 1936-12-13

Jackson is the son of Mayor and Mrs
Howard w. Jackson of Baltimore.
A week ago Miss Miller sent out in
vitations to cocktail party for the
couple to be held in the Beethoven
Association Club House here Sunday.
Il didn't know it would turn out
to be wedding reception" Miss Mil
Ter said tonight. Il planned 1t as only
sort Of an engagement party. But
they decided late this week that the
wedding would be tomorrow"
The stars Of the opera armament as
well as leaders In society and busi-
ness already had given their accept
ances for the party.
The Mayors son and the singer met
in Baltimore q year ago. They met
again q month ago and were in each
others company often.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
Ambulance Believed
Used to Haul Away
$1,000 Stolen Arms
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHREVEPORT, La, December
12.-Police suspected robbers used
an ambulance to haul away 1000
worth of shotguns. pistols, ammu-
milton and other loot stolen early
today from Q sporting goods store
here.
Storekeepers found the firearms
and goods missing. An ambu-
lance, believed stolen in Shreve-
port. was repoted whizzing away
from the scene.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
0lympics Star to Wed.

DENVER, December II P).-Glenn
Morris. Olympic decathlon champion
from Simla, Colo, obtained a license
here today to marry Miss Charlotte
Edwards. Sterling, Colo, teacher. Mrs.
Florence Miller. license clerk, said
Morris told her they intended to be
married tomorrow and make their
home in New York City.
Evening star., 1936-12-13

period Of time and placed in o hos
pital, the spells abated.
She previously spent two days in
Children's Hospital. Washington, at
which time the attacks temporarily
stopped, only to commence again when
she returned home.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
400 M0RMONS ATTEND
SOUTHERN CONFERENCE
First Semi-Annua1 Session Being
Held at Washington Chapel,
Sixteenth Street.

Some 400 Mormons are attending
the first semi-annual Southern Dis
tricts Conference which started last
night and continues on through today
at the recently erected Washington
Chapel, Sixteenth street and Colum-
bia road.
Don B. Cotton, president Of the East
ern States Mission, will preSide over
the conclave, which has for its subject
the recent security program under
taken by the Mormon Church to take
all Its needy members OF the Govern.
ment relief rolls. The principal ad.
dresses. viii be given BY John H. Tay-
Evening star., 1936-12-13
Depository Looted Of $4,000.

LAKE VIEW, s. C., December IL
P.-Yeggmer burned their way into
the safe Of the Depository Of Lake
View early today, rifled rs deposit
boxes and fed with an undetermined
amount of loot which was believed,
however. to exceed $4,000.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
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Evening star., 1936-12-13
DEPUTY JAILER SHOT
AS PRISONER ESCAPES
Robbery Suspect Clubs captor
With Gun, Reported smuggled
in by Woman.

By the Associated Press.
PADUCAH, KY, December Ia
Deputy Jailer william Burton, IS, was
shot twice in the abdomen tonight
by q prisoner who escaped from Nc
Crecken County Jail. At the hospital
where he was taken, Burton's condi-
ton was termed serious.
The deputy said Frank Lever, ~,
who was being held to the grand
jury on a charge Of robbery, struck
him over the head with . gun, then
shot at him three times. after he had
let the prisoner out of his cell Ito
use the telephone"
Lever then forced the jailer to let
him out Of the building.
Mrs. Myrtle Mooney Adams, jailer,
said that Louise Holman, 20, who was
taken in custody after the escape. had
confessed giving the gun wrapped in
paper to Lever this morning.
Evening star., 1936-12-13

lor, high Mormon ofIicial, and Louise
Y. Robson, president Of the Woman's
Relief Society, both representatives Of
the church's central body in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Delegates from five States and the
District are participating.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
"A YEW YORK, December l2.-An
M engagement party planned for
" Rosa Ponselle. the opera sing
L er, and Carle A. Jackson OF
Baltimore, will be . wedding recep-
ton tomorrow.
Miss Libbie Miller. q friend of Miss
Ponselle, disclosed tonight that the
couple will be married In q quiet GER
emony here Sunday afternoon to be
performed by Justice Salvatore CO.
tillo Of New York County's Supreme
Court.
Miss Carmela Ponselle, the singers
sister. will be bridesmaid, and H. Rial
jackson, brother Of the bridegroom
to-be, will be best man.
Only members Of the family and
close friends will be at the wedding.
Evening star., 1936-12-13

Many new highways are to be con-
strlcted IN Germany In 1887.
Evening star., 1936-12-13
KING SENDS MESSAGES

Tooth Birthday.
LONDON, December II R.-
George VI. proclaimed King today,
settled down to writing congratulatory
kilograms to subjects reaching their
Tooth birthday anniversaries.
Mrs. Fannie Hill of Sunbury proudly
received the first Of the messages the
new monarch will send to the Britt
ish centenarians. =
The Washington times., 1936-10-02
INDIAN MAIDEN
TO BE SAINT

The Reverend Father J. J.
Thompkins, S. j.. former profeS-
sor at Georgetown University, has
arrived from New York to give an
illustrated lecture on the life and
miracles of Kateri Tekakwitha,
THE Lilly of the Mohawks," to-
night at 8:15 o'clock in the Holy
Trinity Auditorium, Thirty-Sixth
and o Streets Northwest. Admls-
sion will be free.
Father Thompkins will also
lecture about the National Shrine
of the North American Martyrs at
AurieSville, N. Y. A MohaWk
Indian maiden, Kateri (Cathe-
rine) Tekakwitha, who, if her can
onization, now pending in Rome, is
granted, will be the first North
American born saint recognized by
the Catholic Church.
Beginning Sunday at 1880 p. m.
in Holy Trinity Church, Father
Henry Nellis will conduct a novena
for canonization of the Indian.
The novena will continue each
Sunday night for nine weeks.
The Washington times., 1936-10-02
3O-Day Suspensions

George Alexander, 1903 Twelfth
st. N. W., IS miles.
Ralph J. Boucher, 1916 C st.
S. E., "A miles.
Garvis Cherry, 1922 Tenth St.
N. W., As miles.
Lemuel E. Dees, 204 New York
Ave. N. W., IS miles.
Elmer DeLilly, 1908 Sixth St.
N. E., As miles.
Mayo DeLilly, 1908 Sixth St.
N. E., IS miles.
Martin Evans, 1874 R St. N. W.,
IS miles.
wath Evans, IS Myrtle st. N. E.,
~ miles.
Walter E. Gallagher, Green Val
ley, Va, so miles.
Samuel Gugino, 1907 M st. N.
w., As miles.
William B. Harris, 1000 Clagget
St. N. E., IS miles.
Charles C. Hartman, 1879
Quincy St. N. W., so miles.
Uhler c. Hebrew, 1913 Otis st.
N. E., AZ miles.
Paul Herrell. Vienna, Va, As
miles.
Joseph B. Johnston, 2O5 Airing
ton Ave-. Clarendon, Va, As miles.
William E. Johnston, 1908 Penn
sylvania Ave. S. E., As miles.
Cyril T. McNaughton, Rhode Is
land Avenue, Branchville, Md, A
miles.
Eugene L. Sanders, SIP Con-
necticut Ave. N. w., A miles.
Julian Suydan, 1904 Thirteenth
St. N. W., AZ miles.
15-Day Suspensions
Joseph G. Como, 612 G st. N. E.,
So miles.
John P. Crawford, 172 Todd Pl.
N. E., SO miles.
Thomas A. Crawford, 1889 r st.
N. w., 40 miles.
James S. Donnella, 203 D st. N.
E., 40 miles.
Mildred v. Dryer, 1926 Thirty
ninth st. N. w., 40 miles.
Continued on Page 20, Col. y
The Washington times., 1936-10-02
Times Writer
Proud Father
Of TWinS

Two future journalists appeared
on the scene in Washington today
when Mrs George Mason Green,
wife of the Alexandria and Airing
ton county correspondent of The
Washington Times presented him
with twins.
The babies, a boy and a girl
weighing about 10 pounds, made
their bow to the Capital at 2:40
a. m. in Columbia Hospital.
Fellow workers in the city room
of The Times, after congratulating
the excited father. determined the
event rated a story" Green said
"No"-but here's the story anyway.
The proud parent-they are his
first children-revealed the boy
is not yet named, but that the
little girl will be known as Ann
Gibson Green. The parents live
at 1410 N. Herndon St., Lyon
Village, Va.
The Washington times., 1936-10-02
PARKING LAWS
CALLED WASTE

Ierming the enforcement of
overtime-parking laws as wasted
effort, Walter Mathews, director
of the Philadelphia Safety Coun-
Gil, Philadelphia. told traffic Off
Gals of 26 States. meeting in the
Department of Commerce Build
ing today. that concentration on
moving traffic would simplify
their traffic-control work.
The petty overtime-parking
tickets. he said, clutter up the
records, waste valuable time of
policemen, and lead to ticket
fixing. There would be no ticket
fixing, he stated, if only the graver
traffic charges we're considered by
officers.
He advanced the slogan of
three CS in traffic control. Con-
centration on the cause of acct
dents; coordination of all efforts
toward removing accidents causes,
and continuity-of traffic safety
drives.
The principal objective of the
conference, organized at the re-
quest of President Roosevelt, is
the unification of the traffic laws
throughout the country. Various
phases of traffic control have
been discussed by the delegates.
L. C. PhareS chief of the State
Highway Patrol, Austin. Tex, at
tackled the, ticket-fixing problem,
saying that under the present sys-
tenn politicians make monkeys
of policemen"
He advocated Jail sentences for
traffic violations as a means Of
getting closer observance of the
law. He said that fines should
not be imposed. as such a penalty
was too easy.
VOTE AMERICAN
DeMoIay to Install Officers
The Robert LIE Bruce Chapter,
Order of DeMolay, will hold a
public installation and dance TO-
night at their hall, 1873 Third st.
N. w., at $50 o'clock.