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police department. 1t was reported in
other quarters the trio may question
four Washington residents who were
registered at the Battery Park Hotel
on the day of Miss Clevenger's murder
Hoover said he was glad to offer the
facilities of his technical laboratory tc
the North Carolina police, although nc
special agents will be assigned to the
investigation of the crime, which has
no Federal angle. The Asheville police
department has no scientific labora-
tories, he said. and therefore requested
aid of the F. B. I. in looking for clues
on such articles alleged to have been
involved in the Staying.
Name in Diary Checked.
At police headquarters here it was
said nothing had been heard from the
Asheville detectives since local police,
at the request of the North Carolina
authorities. checked on a man whose
name was written in Miss Clevenger's S
diary. At that time police officials
here expressed hope their findings
not made public-would provide q
fruitful clue to the murderer.
Washingtonians whose names were
found on the hotel register we're not
disclosed. The Asheville police wish to
1nterrogate them about any unusual
noises they may have heard or things
they may have seen on the night of the
girls brutal Staying.
1t was considered likely that blood
stained clothing and other articles
found in the girls room may have been
turned over to the laboratory experts.
In all cases where police ask for such
assistance it is the policy of the F. B. +.
to maintain secrecy on its work-all
findings to be reported confidentially to
the police who requested the aid.
ASHEVILLE. N. c., July 80 R.-
The two weeks which Sheriff Laurence
E. Brown allotted himself to crack"
the Clevenger case ended today with
the murder mystery apparently still
far from solution.
Brown, chief investigator of the slay-
ing OF l8-year-old Helen Clevenger.
said he still was confident of solving
the crime, though it might take a
long time.
Now it is a question of scouting
the country and picking up scraps
OF information, one at time" the
college-bred sheriff said.
Soon after the co-ed's body was
found in the fashionable Battery Park
Hotel, July l6, Brown predicted he
would solve the case within two weeks.
He said his investigation had been
hampered by the fact that the Staying
had not been reported to his office
until two hours after the body was
found. The sheriff continued to de-
tain Daniel H. Gaddy, the hotel night
Watchman, whom he described as "the
key to this mystery" He emphasized
he did not suspect Gaddy of the
crime.
At Raleigh, Prof. W. L. Clevenger,
the slain girls 54-year-old bachelor
uncle, said he would not be surprised
to learn at any moment of an arrest
Clevenger added he had a definite
idea about the identity of the criminal
and said; He is person whose
name so far has not been mentioned
in the case
He said he thought the murder
was an inside job," committed by
some one familiar with the hotel.
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MORTGAGE CLINIC SET
FOR FAIRFAX SECTION
Federal Housing Administration
Official Will Give Advice at
Falls Church August 8.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, July 30
Joseph B. Kingston, acting associate
director Of the Washington District
Federal Housing Administration, will
conduct a mortgage clinic August 3,
from 10 am. to 8 pm. at the Falls
Church fire engine house. Informa-
ton will be available for those seek
ing advice on refinancing perma-
nent dwellings or those who desire to
construct new homes. Old type mort
cages, Mrs. Kingston said, may be con-
verted into long-term Federal Hous-
ing Administration insured mortgages,
thus enabling property owners to re-
duce carrying charges on their homes
or places of business and at the same
time, he pointed out, reducing fear
of foreclosure.
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HFLEE FIRE BY AIR.
MINE HEMMED IN
Refugees Jam Roads as
Flames Devour Forest
in Montana.
- the Associated Press.


MALTA, Mont. July 3o.-Airplanes
and automobiles rushed women and
children to safety today from the path
of a roaring forest fire which has
hemmed one mining camp and caused
the evacuation Of another and an
Indian mission IN the Little Rockies
Mountain Range southeast of here.
Two planes brought Is women and
children out of Mission Canyon and
the highways were crowded with cars
carrying in fire fighters and taking out
residents as the mining camp of
Eandusky and ST. Paul's Catholic In
dian Mission were evacuated early
today.
The Little Ben mine was reported
hemmed in on three sides by the fire.
Miners and their families there were
taken to safety. Buildings at the mine
were saved. Structures at the old
August mine were destroyed. The
flames, raging along a six-mile front,
had crept to within less than a mile
OF the Indian Mission today.
Nine airplaneS we're flown here with
hre fighters and equipment from
MisSoula, and at least thousand men
were spread out along the fire line bat
ting the blaze.
A hundred and fifty head of cattle,
1t was reported here, perished in
flames that swept over Fort Belknap
indian Reservation land and through
Mission Canyon.
The blaze started just after weary
workers gained control of huge fire
in the same section which took three
lives earlier this week. S. e. Eckert,
district forest ranger, said the second
fire was caused by cigarette.
The Mission Canyon fire broke out
while authorities still were Investigate
ing reports that incendiarists were
responsible for the earlier confagra-
ton.
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He was travelling through Salina,
Kans.. Ben explained to friends, when
the thermometer registered 124. He
had heard Of using dry ice for keeping
cool and decided upon an experiment.
He purchased container of 10 pounds
Of the ice and placed it in the rear of
his automobile. Closing all of the win
dows, Goldberg drove along in comfort
as he said within a short time the
temperature inside of the car was 40
degrees lower than outside.
ELEPHANTS.
Huge crates probably wiu be
constructed to transport two Zoo
elephants q teU hundred yards
from their present quarters to the
elaborate elephant house 11otD near
ing completion.
The third elephant, Old Babe,
retired queen OF the circus picket
line, wiu moue under her own
power. A little child could lead
Old Babe, but the younger ele-
plants are not accustomed to
marching.
As to the latter, Zoo officials had
rather be safe than sorry.
X n + y
USHER.
AN ASSISTANT movie critic met
up with an usher In one Of the
houses recently who asked
a question which still is being pom
dered by the a. m. c.
You're a critic?" the usher asked,
eyeing the customer as if his physical
or something, completely
him for the job.
"Yes," said the a. m. c.
"But where's your form?" the usher
wanted to know.
"Form?" the subject queried right
back.
you know, the report card sort Of
sheet on which you write down what
you think Of the different features Of
the bill"
The assistant critic never had heard
of such thing-and he still Is won
dering where the usher ever old.
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PAGE G. O. P. TO RALLY

LURAY, Va. July 80 (SpeciaD -
Page County Young Republicans plan
a celebration tomorrow night at the
Page Valley pool, with two bands,
quartet, swimming, dancing and
speaking.
Dr. William Moseley Brown Of
Clarendon, former candidate for Gov
ernor. will make the main address.
He will be introduced by W. c. Dem
ing of Front Royal District Commit
tee chairman. ]. Everett Will Of
Luray, candidate for Congress. will
speak. I. r. Dovel. president, will act
as chairman.
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RAINFALL KEEPS DATE,
FULFILLING TRADITION
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WAYNESBURG. Pa. July 30.-Rain
fell yesterday in waynesburg and
townsfolk rejoiced in the fulfillment
again of a 61-year-old tradition.
The oldest inhabitants claim that it
always rains here on July 20.
They point to the log kept by Byron
Daily. which states on only two occa.
sions-in the 81 years-has it failed to
rain.
Residents took their umbrellas along
when they went to work yesterday
morning. although the sky was cloud.
less. Later, 1t began to rain. A down.
pour lasted several minutes.
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street and New York avenue. Motor
lists halted their cars to watch. Street
car motormen turned their heads.
Hundreds coming out of the Treasury
Building for lunch stopped en- masse
on the sidewalks to watch Policeman
E. w. Condor get his drink.
Condor blew his whistle at cars
coming out of G street and walked
over to the travelling Alaska.
"What do I do?" he asked. "Just
drink whatever I want?"
Yes indeed-y." assured Miss Batch
eller. "Whatn it be? It's all cold
and it's all free"
The crowd pressed around. To
cheers. Miss Batcheller poured drink
into a paper cup. Officer Condor
moved into the shade, glanced at the
traffic situation and dcwned his drink
at one gulp, bottoms up.
That surely is fine" he said. Then
he shook hands with his benefactress
and walked back to his duties. The
truck sped away in search Of more
thirsty policemen.
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Speeder Who Chose
Trial in District
Gets 25.Day Term

After electing to sample the
mercy of District authorities In
preference to that in Maryland,
Lucius Mccoy, 1425 II street
northeast, was sentenced to Is
days in jail on a speeding charge
yesterday.
Pursued to the District line last
night by Maryland officers, Nc
Coy was arrested by Washington
police, who said they gave him
his choice of speeding charges
Maryland or District variety. He
chose the District. In Traffic
Court. Judge John p. McMahon
sent him to Jail in default Of q
S25 fine.
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FAVOR WIDE SPAN

MOUNT VERNON, Va, July 80
fspeciaD.-At the meeting of the
Fairfax County Pomona Grange here.
the organization went on record as
favoring nothing less than a three
lane span for the proposed new
Chain Bridge.
A communication to be sent to the
State Highway Commission requesting
changes, for safety reasons, in Dim.
cult Run Bridge situated on the Lit
tie River Turnpike was sanctioned by
the Grange.
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RELATIVES OF WOMAN
KILLED BY GAS SOUGHT
Dolly Harris, 40, Is Found
Slumped Over Kitchen Table,
Note Nearby,

Police today were trying to locate
relatives of Dolly Harris, 40, who died
last night in the gas-filled kitchen
of her apartment at 93l G street, eav-
ing a note addressed to Birdie" with
the message, II love you all, but I am
so tired"
The note also asked Birdie" to
"please find Peg" The woman was
found seated in chair and slumped
over the kitchen table, her head in her
arms. Efforts of fire rescue squad
No. 1 to revive her failed.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
was investigating the case today.
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Huron Mountain
Club Reservation,
but otherwise OBJ
served the occa.
sion without spe.
cial ceremony.
he Huron
Mountain Club, q
dozen miles up
the Lake Super
ior Shore from
here, is reached
by narrow gravel
roads laid through
thickly growing
timber. The Ford
cottage, one Of
half a hundred
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THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair and con-
tinued cool tonight and tomorrow;
gentle northerly winds.
Maryland and West Virginia-Fair
and continued cool tonight and to-
morrow.
Virginia-Fair in north and central
and cloudy in extreme south portion
tonight and probably tomorrow: con-
tinued cool.
River Report.
Potomac very cloudy, Shenandoah
clear today.
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story, Of the advantage of holding the jobs and
controlling the purse strings. They say, to
begin with, that the descendants Of the Con-
quistadores, who constitute 40 per cent Of the
population, are always strongly inclined to be
with the ms Second, that out of voting pop
ulation Of $4,000, nearly $4,000 are on the
Federal pay roll and, though money has been
known to buy votes q regular Government check
counts far more than what might be put up at
the polls. Third, that the election machinery is
in the hands of experienced, determined and
completely hard boiled Democratic organization
politicalism
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AboUe. "Heat Chaser" truck
carrying cooling drinks from
The EDening Star to traffic
policemen and other officers,
1Dhich began its regular trips
today. The hostess is Miss
Hope Bachelor. BelotD.. Off,
Ger Paul G. Tanner gets the
first drink from the "Heat
Chaser" Star STAFF Photos.
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Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
IMPERFECT.

THE automobile industry may be
= feeling pretty set-up about its all
steel bodies, but just let a manufac-
turer read this and he will learn that
the feeling is not completely justified.
A Washington motorist driving
1886 model was telling friend Just
how perfect it was in every respect;
that he never expected it to give any
trouble, intended to drive it $4,000
miles, in short. that it had everything.
OF a sudden he caught himself.
Nope" he said. Its not perfect.
There's no wood for me to knock on
when I say things like that"
Perhaps some automotive engineer
will correct this cause for complaint
when the 1887 models come out.
y 4
TREES.
The figures on the number OF
trees in Washington ought to be
something cooling to contemplate
these ,Uarnlish days. There are,
count shows, more than 10000
trees. That Uould seem to assure
shade for eDery one ,0ithout any
serious oUercroUding.
X x y
WINNAH!
A MEMBER of the Diplomatic Corps
from Latin-America will tell you
If a friend in Panama who plays the
hospital lottery there every week, as so
many Panamanians do. Came the day
when he won a prize and could not
find his ticket, as, alas, is the case
with many Panamanians.
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Palestine has nine different schools
Of archaeology, representing British,
French, German, American and the
school of the Febrew University.
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WINNAH!

So, to avoid a repetition of this sad
occurrence, the victim took to pasting
his tickets up where he could not fail
to find them. He stuck them on the
walls Of his room and, when space be-
gan to run short, on the woodwork.
Finally another of his numbers ap-
peared on the big lottery board. Ex-
cited, he rushed home for his win
ming ticket. He found it, firmly pasted
on the bathroom door, His excited
efforts to detach it threatened its de-
Struction. So he pulled the pins out
of the hinges, took down the door and
staggered down the street to the lots
terry office with it under his arm. He
collected.
CUSTOMER.
WHEN the Benjamin Franklin sub
station was established at Penn
sylvania avenue and Twelfth street,
postal officials pridefully announced
the improved services that would be
available with the expanded facilities
it offers-but they couldn't foresee
one.
The establishment is air-cooled. It
has comfortable benches. And so
since the hot weather started there has
been one steady patron-a woman
who seats herself comfortably, and
then embarks on a crocheting mara
thon,
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Alice LenEwsrth Republicans don't despair but they
ogne hard set-up beat AS for the Democrats they
merely grin and say election Republicans will
quired carry identification tag the
1861
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Night FinoI Delivered by Carrier
Anywhere in the City
Full Sports

Base Ball Scores Results Complete Market News of the
Day, Latest News Flashes Around the World What
ever it Is you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition
THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR-deivered
by carrier7oc month Call National 5000 and service
will start at once. 4S
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FORD, IS, DE[UGED
WITH GREETINGS
Spends Birthday at Cottage
in Huron Mountain Club
Reservation.
by the Associated Press.

BIG BAY. Mich, July 30.-Henry
Ford was 73 years old today. He
watched q pile of congratulatory mes
sages accumulate at his cottage in the
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Heat Chaser

Continued From First Page.)
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The National Scene
BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH.

UR1NG q week in New Mexico I've some superbly
beautiful country and also number of Democrats, New
Dealers and Republicans They tell the poitica
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SYSTEM.

REN GOLDBERG is travelling
salesman for produce concern,
and his duties take him into the Mid
die West, where the weather recently
has been quite hot.
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Clevenger

Continued From First Page.)
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Precfpitation

Monthly precipitation in inches in |
Capital (current month to date):
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For
New Envoy

The Director General Of the
Pan American Union. DR.. Leo S.
Rowe, entertained at luncheon to-
day at the Pan American Annex
in honor of the Minister Of the
Dominican Republic, Senior Don
Andrea Pastoriza. In addition to
the honor guest, those present
were:
The Secretary Of Agriculture,
Mr.. Henry A. Wallace; the Secre-
rotary of Commerce, Mr.. Daniel
C. Roper; the Solicitor General,
Mr.. Stanley F. Reed; the Assist
ant Secretary of State, Mr.. Sum
mer Welles; the newly appointed
Minister to Nicaragua, Mr.. Boaz
Long; the Assistant to the Secre-
tary Of State, Mr.. Harry A. Nc
Bride; the Consul General of the
Dominican Republic at New York,
Senior Don Rafael ESpaillat de la
Mata: the former Minister of the
Dominican Republic at Washing
ton, Senior Don Rafael Brack; the
First Secretary of the Dominican
Legation, Senior Don Emilio Gar.
cha Cooley; Mr.. Alexander v. Dye,
Mr.. Laurence Duggan, Mr.. Ed.
ward j. Shaughnessy. Mr.. Joseph
F. McGurk and DR.. William
Manager.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Prentiss. jr.,
of Lancaster, Pa, spent the week.
end at the Carlton.
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T0avm Topics
Copyright 1880

Mrs. Royal S. Copeland,
wife of the Senator from New
York, shopping in a Thir-
teenth Street jewelry store
yesterday was wearing a most
becoming outfit. Her black
Russian type turban was
trimmed with Persian lamb
which matched the collar on
her cloth coat.
She is a charming hostess
and her attractive apartment
at the ShoreAam is the scene
Of many gay, informal parties.
Rain or shine, one who
makes it a daily habit to take
a constitutional on his way to
work is the Secretary of Agri-
culture, Mr.. Henry A. Wallace.
Along about 8 o'clock in the
morning when part way be-
tween Wardman Park Hotel,
where he and Mrs. Wallace
make their home, and his Of
fees he will dismiss his chauf-
feur and set out to cover the
remaining distance on foot.
Sometimes we see him up
around Twenty-second and
Pennsylvania Avenue, Other
times he is striding along
Constitution Avenue at a brisk
pace.
Leap year! And doesn't that
mean some fun as far as par
ties go? There's one scheduled
for the 28th of next month, for
which the young ladies will es-
cort the masculine guests, send
them corsages, have a "doe"
line and do the cutting in on
the dance floor. Already some
have been heard to murmur
something about paying back
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Cabinet Ladies
To Receive

Two Cabinet hosteSses will re.
ceive tomorrow afternoon. Mrs.
Homer 8. Cummings, wife Of tbs
Attorney General, will be at
home at Ruthven, her residence
on Tilden Street, and she will
have receiving with her Mrs,
Stanley Reed, wife Of the Solici.
tor General, and Mrs. James W.
Morris, wife of the new Assistant
Attorney General.
Those assisting will include MrS,
Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Morgen.
THAI, jr., Mrs. George H. Den,
Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, Mrs. Golden
Bell, Mrs. Herman Koppleman.
Mrs. Bruce Kremer. Mrs. George
R. Holmes and Mrs. William
Stanley.
Mrs. James A. Farley, wife Of
the Postmaster General, will re-
ceive in her apartment at the
Mayflower.
On January % Mrs. Claude A.
Swanson, wife OF the Secretary
Of the Navy, and Mrs. Henry A.
Wallace, wife of the Secretary Of
Agriculture, win be at home, and
the following Wednesday, Mrs.
Daniel C. Roper, wife Of the Secre-
tary Of Commerce, and the Secre.
tary Of Labor, Miss Frances Per
kinS, win receive.
| y r
Mrs. M. j. Strauss, of New York
city, is at the Carlton, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss
Nancy Strauss.
Miss Annie M. Hegeman has re-
turned to Washington and is at
the Carlton while opening her
house at 1900 I st.
Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond
has arrived from her home in New
Orleans, La, and is at the Carl
ton.
| 4 \
DR.. H. w. Dodd, president Of
Princeton University, and Mrs.
Dodd have arrived in Washington
and are at the Carlton.
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debts, and we wonder just what
that might mean.
Carrying out the idea, Mrs
Neitah King, who is giving the
party at 240O Sixteenth Street,
will have her floor committee
made up of debs and subdebs,
including Sylvine Clagett,
Gloria Grosvenor, Randy Rich.
ardson, Mary Senate Howes,
Bette Hartz, Betty Angus, Betty
Marsh and Catherine McKane.
Saw Mrs. Eugene Cassin
Carusi, the former Cecil Perry,
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Ben
jamin Perry, dancing one eve
ming recently, and she looked
extremely smart. Her costume
consisted Of a black skirt, a
tunic blouse Of cherry red I'M
cut velvet and her black felt
hat had a most bewitching veil.
The hat itself was of the Chi
nese coolie style and most be-
coming to this pretty young
matron.
The Junior League, of Wash
ington, announced yesterday
plans for its 1886 course in
civic instruction for provisional
members. The course will be-
gin on January "a and will last
a month.
Miss Agnes Stands, Junior
League educational chairman,
has been responsible for plan
ming the course, and Miss Lucia
Murchison, director of social
service at the Children's Hos
pital, will direct it.
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First Lady To
Be Honored

Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt will be
the guest Of honor at the recep-
ton which the Democratic Wom-
ems National Council will give on
Thursday afternoon, from S to 6
o'clock, at the Washington Club.
Receiving with Mrs. Roosevelt and
the council president, Mrs. Arthur
D. Condor, will be the wives Of
the Vice President, the Speaker
of the House and, of the Cabinet
members, and Miss Frances Per
kins, Secretary of Labor.
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Neo4 co~um
4
Envoy is Host

The Ambassador Of Turkey and
Mime. Ertegun entertained at din
ner last evening at the Embassy IN
Sheridan Circle.
Senator and Mrs. Alben W.
Barley will entertain at an in
formal dinner this evening in their
home in Cleveland Avenue.
i
Mrs. Russell Bennett has issued
cards for an at home on Sunday
afternoon, from $50 until 1880
o'clock, at 1902 Eighteenth Street.
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another, instead Of the clever student that she IS
This young lady who is Russian and who lived in that
try until she about five years old and later spent several
years the Orient received most of her education in Paris
where she studied under Nine Berrer at the College Mont
morency and later graduated from the Sorbonne.
Writes Stories and Paints
One of the breads of most travellers round
trip the fact that each country has different tongue but
this need bother Mile Skdelsky she speaks only
English French and Russian, but Italian German and Portu
guese WELL
In her Spare time she often sits down and dashes off short
stories for her Them for her pleas
she paints and has quite collection of portraits and land
scapes in her home This Child of the League of Nations
she aughngy calls herself has been in Washington nearly
years. during which time she has made friends An
other her deep interests modern interior decorating and
wonders whether least half of the atractvenss of the
apartment Warman Park where she makes her home with
the Bianchs is not due to her sklful hands.
lecture for the students Of French at George Washing