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Evening star., 1937-01-13

tions would be recorded entirely in
films. Actually he had not fired a
gun in the last Is years, he said re-
Gently in New York City.
Mrs. johnson stood by armed to
protect her husband when a lion or
a rhino charged instead of posed.
Time after time she brought down
beasts literally at her husbands feet.
On one trip into Borneo she twice
killed elephants as they were charg-
ing. Each time the elephant fell in
front of johnson and his camera.
Six Times Around the World.
She shared every expedition he
made. They went around the world
six times; spent a year in Australia,
two years in Borneo and five years in
Africa. johnson devoted II years of
his life to the South Sea islands.
AS means of locomotion developed
and cameras improved in their range,
the johnson safaris became larger
His films of Borneo wild life were
highly praised. His reputation and
skill brought him the commission to
record the vanished wild life of Africa
for the American Museum of Natural
History.
The Johnsons made their base on
Lake Paradise, in a remote region OF
Abyssinia. Because of the regions
inaccessibility game abounded.
johnson himself decried the in
sistence Of persons who wanted him
to relate occasions Of great physical
danger.
Preferred Beauty of Game Fields.
II have seen thrilling doings among
the wild life of Africa" he wrote ir
1885. Il have had narrow escapes
from death, and so has Osa. But in
world already filled with all the
difficulties and unpleasantness that
our world is, why should people ask
to hear Of any more? I don't believe
they really mean it, and am certain
that they, as we'll as we, would much
prefer the beauty of the great game
fields as they really are to the ex-
aggerated stories SO often told of fierce
and deadly animals and Of mighty
game hunters, forever barely missing
sudden and awful death.
There are dangers in Africa, Ger
tainly, and any one who lives among
the animals long enough will encounter
them. But animals are considerate, by
and large. It is only man who fails ia
that respect"
Evening star., 1937-01-13
THOMAS J. SULLIVAN
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Father of Capt. J. A. Sullivan Was
Retired Employe of D. c.
Government.

Thomas Joseph Sullivan, so. re-
tired District Government employe,
died last night of pneumonia at his
home, 627 Emerson street.
Mr.. Sullivan, lifelong resident Of
Washington, was the father of Capt.
J. A. Sullivan, commander of No 4
police precinct. and of Detective Sergt.
Thomas j. Sullivan.
For many years, Mr.. Sullivan was
carriage and wagon builder for the
District. He was retired about 10
years ago.
He leaves two other sons, William
F. Sullivan and Richard C. Sullivan,
the latter president Of the Sullivan
Chevrolet Co.; three daughters, Miss
Catherine c. Sullivan. Mrs. John P.
Dunn and Miss Agnes v. Sullivan; 13
grandchildren and great-grandchil-
dren.
Funeral services will be held at
am. Friday in st. Gabriels Catholic
Church. following brief services at the
residence. Buriel will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-01-13

Hotel, Buellton, Calf, suffered q
lacerated face and neck and possible
skull fracture. His right leg was frac-
tured.
Miss Lita James, Los Angeles was
recovering from bruises and shock.
T. E. Tllinghast, Hartford, Conn,
suffered q fractured leg and lacera-
tions.
LOOMS had head and internal In
juries, in addition to several frac-
lures.
While snow piled up on the dam
aged wings and fuselage Of the air.
liner, on the ridge 100 yards below
the Los Pinetos Ranger Lookout Sta
ton, two governmental inquiries were
set in motion in an attempt to de-
termine the cause of the disaster.
It was the fifth major airliner acci-
dent in the United States in the last
80 days. .z
Injured Man Seeks Aid.
Arthur A. Robinson, Rochester, N.
Y, who staggered over mountain trails
to summon aid after the crash, re-
manned at Olive View Sanitarium near
the crash scene. He was treated for q
fractured foot, several crushed spinal
verterbrae and possible internal In
juries.
Co-pilot Owens, with Pilot w. w.
Lewis and Stewardess Esther 10 Con-
ner, was taken to Windsor Hospital,
Glendale, where reports ware sefused
Evening star., 1937-01-13

Roger Pollard. 10, patient at the
sanitarium, shouted to his nurses:
There's an airplane crash just out
side the window. I heard a great
crash and then the cries of many per-
sons"
Robinson, who hobbled on his In
jured ankle to meet the first rescue
party, said:
I'VE had no warning that anything
was wrong. We we're riding along very
smoothly. Suddenly the plane began
to drop-drop. Then there was ter
rible crash"
The plane, due in the union terminal
at 10:45 am. yesterday, reported at
HOS am. it was coming down to
localizer at field" The message re-
ferred to the airport's radio directional
beam.
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on their condition. Earlier accounts
said Owens was gravely hurt with q
broken jaw, possible skull fracture and
internal injuries. Lewis had a frac-
tured leg and head injuries. Miss Con-
ner escaped with fractured ankle.
The condition of E. E. Spencer OF
Chicago was given as serious. He had
a skull fracture, fractures OF both
legs and suffered considerable shock.
Richard Gardner, deputy county
surveyor, quoted Pilot Lewis as say
ing "the Burbank station seemed
tied up with other calls" and he
couldn't get through; also that ice
formed on the wing, he lost his course
and one motor sputtered badly"
Using a six-mule team and wagon,
rescuers toiled all night to bring out
the injured during snowstorm. The
big ship struck a foothill in murky
weather, 10 miles from its terminal
destination, rolling along slope for
20 feet.
A tragic picture greeted first ar
rivals at the crash scene, four miles
from the Olive View Sanitarium-a
seni-conscious pilot mumbling in
coherently into a radio no longer
working; every occupant piled up on
someone else"
The scene was detailed by Gardner,
who said he found Pilot Lewis in the
mail compartment. pistol in hand.
His leg broken, he was looking out
of the compartment, gun in his
hand" Gardner said. He had Just
fired q shot to direct rescuers to the
scene.
Dead Man First Seen.
'I pulled open the cabin door. My
eyes fell first on the dead man, James
Braden. His body had fallen over
Mrs. Osa johnson and she was asking
for some one to help lift him aside.
She herself apparently was suffering
from q broken leg.
Most of the passengers were con-
scious. The seats were all smashed
and everyone seemed to be piled up
on someone else.
'T recognized Martin johnson from
pictures had seen Of him. He was
delirious and was screaming from
pain and shock.
The stewardess was the heroine.
Although suffering from . broken
ankle, she lfmped about trying to
help out all the others and cheer them
through the ordeal.
Everyone was quiet and composed
except johnson, who was still In his
delirium. They all took the tragedy
bravely. When other rescuers finally
arrived, they al seemed Q bit cheered." I"
Four miles from the crash soene,
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Although it is an elaborate piece Of
artistry on the part Of the clockmaker
no hands adorn its lovely face
Whether it was an oversight or the
county ran out of money seeml
shrouded in mystery.
4 4 X
HURT.
Another merry fellow, it deuel.
ops. broke through the police
guards around the Capitol to hear
President RooseDelt by merely re-
fusino to be placed on record as to
identity.
He inas promised q place In the
chamber II he got through the
guard.
A Capitol policeman stopped him
at the steps to the Capitol and
said: "I'm sorry, but only members
of Congress are permitted to enter"
The interloper threw out his
chest and replied in hurt man
ner as If his dignity had been
neediessly ruDzed:
WHO told you tDGsnt q MEM
Der Of Congress?"
The abashed poltcen1GH stepped
Evening star., 1937-01-13
I. A. SMITH NAMED
ALUMNI SECRETARY
Appointed by G. w. President to
Assist in Enlarged Program
- Planned.

Lester A. Smith of the class Of
1882 has been appointed alumni sec
retary of George Washington Univer-
sitys sby President Cloyd H. Marvin, it
was announced yesterday.
Smith. who will take Office about
January IS, has been prominent in
alumni affairs for some time as presi-
dent of the Library Science Alumni
Association since 1884. and for the
past two years as member of the
Executive Committee of the General
Alumni Association. He holds A. B.
and M. A. degrees in library science
from the university.
His principal duties will be to
assist the president in the develop
ment of the university's enlarged
alumni program.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
SENATE TO PROBE CRASH.
Airline Heads and U. s. Bureau OFF,
cials to Be Called.

Chairman Copeland Of the Senate
Commerce Committee said today he
planned to investigate the crash of a
Western Air Express transport plane
yesterday in Southern California.
Airline heads and officials Of the
Air Commerce Bureau will be sum-
moned before his committee, he said,
to discuss the causes Of this and other
recent crashes and suggest new safety
measures.
Yesterdays accident, Copeland as
serted, was in "the most dangerous
flying country in America"
The Air Commerce Bureau said its
immediate investigation of the crash
in the Tehachapi foothills of Cali
fornia would be in charge Of James L.
Kinney and E. L. Yuravich, both OF
Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1937-01-13

During the digging out, the fox bit
one of the hunters. Sank his teeth
in the fellows finger and couldn't be
persuaded to let 60 for love or money.
Finally pried loose, the fox was put
back in the woods, given a good start
and the hounds let loose after him
again. After 15-minute chase they
killed him.
The M. F. H., looking for his hunt
ing knife. found it stuck jauntily in
the belt of a white-haired. dis
tinguished lady who is the wife of an
admiral IN the United States Navy.
In the excitement of the digging out,
keeping hounds out of the den, etc,
she'd picked it up and strapped it
on.
Otherwise, it was a fairly quiet day.
NONCHALANT.
GEORGE KENEIPP believes the
~ height of nonchalance-or some
thing-was achieved by the we'll
dressed man who sauntered up to q
motor club touring counselor yester-
ing the best route from washington to
Philadelphia.
I'VE gave him the data" said
Keneipp, "and, as he turned to 60 he
remarked - almost as an after
thought-that from Philadelphia he
was going to New York, put his car
on a boat, land at Marseilles, travel
the length of the Riviera, and then. if
all goes well, start driving down into
Africa as far as the roads will allow.
And before our clerk could catch
his breath the fellow was in his ma
chine and gone.
"Whew!"
JUDGE w. T. MCCARTHY, Circuit
Court jurist now sitting in Ar
lington, evidently has been accus-
toned to hands on his clocks. He Is
often observed looking at the huge
mahogany and gold circle Of numerals
over his judicial head.
But the Judge invariably pulls out
his watch and double checks the
time.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

TODAY.
House:
Meets at noon and probably will re-
ceive committee assignments.
Democrats caucus at 1890 am. to
ratify committee assignments.
Rules Committee meets at AS am.
on Government reorganization meas
ure.
Appropriations Subcommittee begins
consideration of s790,000,0 900 def
cheney relief bill.
Senate:
In recess until tomorrow.
Banking Committee considers ex-
tension Of monetary and other expir-
ing legislation.
R8troed Investigation Committee
res,ln1es. hearings.
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Evening star., 1937-01-13
Science Forces Confession.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (R.-Scien-
tific crime e-detecting methods con-
vincec Forrest Waitman, "a, Of the
ACCESSIBILITY of confessing theft of an
automobile. In the car, found wrecked
and abandoned. police discovered a
lock of hair. They put it under q
microscope alongside q lock from
waitman's head. They matched.
waitman was sentenced TO 10 years
in o reformatory.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
ANTHONY AND CLEO.

ANTHONY AND CLEO.
n n AYBE it was Roman holiday
M Anyhow there was dis
wv covered in a hotel cocktail
L 4 lounge the other evening
fellow named Marc Antony. He was
from Dallas, Tex. He was giving
party.
all reports, but Cleopatra wasn't there
It is a very sad state of affairs, too
when Marc Antony tosses party anc
does not invite Cleopatra.
And especially when Cleopatra wa!
right on hand at that same hotel tt
be invited if Marc had thought o.
it. She was in the ball room. Hel
name was Cleopatra Tomadelli.
X y
FAME.
When a man is mistaken for his
o1rn grandfather, it is bad enough,
but uhen he is so listed tn the
famous Who's Who, little wonder
that the learned in naval history
lift their eyebrows in surprise.
Brig. Gen. Dapid Diron Porter Is
the adjutant and inspector OF the
Marine Corps and on duty at head
quarters at the NaUy Department.
In the current Who's Who, DaUid
Diron Porter is listed as rear dd-
miral. Gen. Porter is the grand
son of the famous Admiral Porter.
There is no other Admiral Porter
at present aliDe, over here, at any
rate.
When q marine is taken for
naUdl officer, it is ercusdble in the
Porter family. perhaps, but Ad-
mirdl Dauid Diron Porter died on
February 10, 1891. Who's Who
did get Gen. Porter's address cor
rect, for he does liue at 1919 Nine.
teenth' street.
HUNT.
THOMAS T. MOTT, M. F. H., OF
fox hunt in Maryland whose nam
shall be Redland. reported the othe
day that his pack and subscriber
had a rather nice day afield, albei
they chased nothing but grey fox
Grey foxes are not considered mucl
fun to chase, as they run in small
but not the best circles.
All that happened on this chas
was:
The professional huntsnan, Will
on foot in a covert, slipped and fel
in a creek.
The hounds became so excited a
one point that the fox was able T
double and run right back through
the pack without being noticed.
One of the field jumped fence an
his horse ran straight into a tree wit
him. Riders arm was hurt, but nc
broken.
The fox family ducked into der
Some farmers then came down an
suggested they'd like him dug out an
killed. as too many chickens had bee
eaten by foxes around the countrv
side of late.
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aside and the man strobe through
the door as If he had just bought
the CAPITOL and tras entering his
rie2tfEl propertG.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
South Carolinian Dies.

JACKSONVILLE, Fia., January 13
R.-Frank Bamberg Mccoy, 81,
formerly of Charleston, s. c., died
here yesterday.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
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Evening star., 1937-01-13
106 Years in One Town.

Miss Emma Coate of North Curry,
Somerset. England, has celebrated her
l06th birthday anniversary in the vii
lage in which she has always lived.
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-16
1e9 ERRORS CITED
IN SMOAK APPEAL
Wilmington Man in Death
Cell for Poison Murder
cf Daughter
Daily Dispatch bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

7,oIo;oh. Nov. i * 'rs":s Tor I'D
smoak Wilmington railroad
a.o.,-or under sentence Of death for
a.,cring his Young daughter, have
Pa +. b,:ef IN tho ST. me Court set
.:.a ar 100 erIo's aiHs"i to have
80, 80 c9rlr tied y julie j. Fl. Gle
.,rr+. Who presided al nc :''ll III NHw
,IaYcv, >2;lntv - ! a. 10y
,lSosa allegations of error (excep-
-;ons =, they are termed at law are
,siIo1 down 10 six questions present
~ occording to the brief, but when
~, ,,firc document is examined The
ahof reliance of Smoak's lawyers is
eo+ forth in the opening paragraph
Of their argument:
mo lawyer can read the evidence
olauceG al the alleged trial against
80 defendant without reaching the
conclusion that thu defendant, while
csargcd only with the murder of his
-onohte~ Annie Theln'a Smoak, has,
70 oil intents and purposes, been tried
for the murder of his first wife stry-
Chime poisoning; for the murder of
bic second wife by strychnine poison
ing TO: the attempted murder of the
mother Of Mrs. Jeanette Harker, his
raramour: for fraudulently obtaining
monsv from insurance companies; for
fo,rication and adultery with Mrs.
Harker: for making false statements;
end for being { man of generally bad
character" reads the brief.
The Smoak appeal, filed through L.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-16

Clayton Grant and William L. Far
mer, Wilmington attorneys, is sche-'
duled to be heard next week when
cases from the eighth district will be
before the court.
The case, which broke last Decem-
Der and was tried in january, 1886, at
tracted nationwide attention, as the
prisoner was suspected poisoning on
a scale wholesale enough to put him
in the "Bluebeard" class.
District Solicitor John j. Burney
and New Hanover Sheriff C.. David
Jones were leading figures in the in
vestigation, indictment and trial Of
the charges against Smoak.
Annie Thelma Smoak, daughter of
the defendant, died in commissions De
cember l, 1895, shortly after her father
had left their home a short distance
in the country and had gone to work
at the Atlantic Coast Line shops. On
thanksgiving Day, less than a week
previously, she had been taken by her
father to a doctors office suffering
from commissions. The first time she
was given treatment at hospital and.
recovered. The second time she was
dead when a physician reached the
Smoak's home.
It was discovered that on Novcra-
Der 10 Smoak had bought strychnine
at a Wilmington drug store on the
pretext that he was going to treat
some hogs, according to the clerk who
sold the poison.
An examination of vital organs Of
the dead girl revealed enough stry-
chime, in the opinion of doctors, to
cause death.
Further investigation brought out
the fact that both Smoak's first and
second wives had died under circura
stances paralleling the death of little
Annie Thelma. A post norton on the
body of the second (Annia Mason
Smoak who died in 1885 revealed the
poison in her vital organs.
At the trial it was shown that
Smoak had insurance on the lives 0!
both his wives, as we'll as 5000 on the
life of Annie Thelma. 1t was further
shown that after he had taken out Ia
surance on the life of the mother O
Mrs. Harker, paramount of the defen-
dant. after his second wifes death,
and that thereafter the mother had
suffered a violent attack of convul-
sions after being given medicine" by
the defendant.
Defendants brief complains that he
was tried for crimes other than that
for which he was indicted. Objection
was made to the competency of evil
dence &. out the other deaths, of evil
dence tending to prove immoral rela-
tions with Mrs. Iiarker, and hypothe-
teal questions asked by medical ex-
perts.
Summing up the assignments of
error the brief says: "The state upon
this particular trial was allowed to in
troduce everything that it could find
detrimental to this defendant, while
he was not allowed to prove even his
good character
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-16

didn't mean that. But it is fine of
him, isn't it?"
My father answered: Every
fine."
My mother was not so sure. II
don't know about it. Money is
the root Of evil"
My father laughed. Poverty is
the root Of evil, too, sometimes,
Eleanor"
"well. the Bible doesn't say
that"
Aren't you glad to have me go
to college, mother?"
Eyes, Jerry. But Yale, it's so
far. And you've never been away
from u.s."
1 felt the grip Of my fathers
fingers on my shoulder, and look
ing up into his face, I saw that
he was deeply moved. think he
knew the. that things would never
again be with us as they had been;
that when I left home the bond
would be broken. And presently
he said:
IT thank God that my boy is to
be given the best. And I pray
God that wherever he goes he may
still be in our hearts," #
was thrilled by his emotion,
and swayed by it. My voice
broke. 'There will never be any
body like you and mother
know that!"
learned in those first days in
New Haven that I was not like
most of the other students. had
come from simple people whose
social horizon was bounded on one
side by the Tea Commandments
and on the other by my fathers
black coat. At Yale many Of the
men 1 met had been prepared at
private schools, and had inherited
traditions of family Importance.
There were others, too, who were
rich and without traditions. But
all of them had something that I
did not have-a sort of sophistica-
ton which made me feel an out
slider. Their attitude toward me
was, decided, somewhat like my
own attitude toward the European
immigrants in our town. They
went their way, and went mine.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-16

AND was conscious always Of my
awkwardness, my lack Of manner.
the archaic quality of my ideals.
was to know later that l had
misjudged my classmates, that J.
might have won response had
been less self conscious, but at the
time I thought them snobs, and
kept to myself, q watching them,
however, with eager eyes, and
wishing that I were like them.
shall pass quickly over my first
three years at college. The his
tory of them is not different,
fancy, from that Of any boy who
finds himself in an utterly new en-
vironment and has to adjust him.
self to it. I did some foolish
things, and perhaps some wise
ones. I loved books, so that in my
studies I satisfied certain of my
teachers, and I had great physical
strength and endurance, which
brought me conspicuously to the
front in athletics.
Yet I had always that feeling Of
being an outsider until in my sem
ior year I made a friend who
changed the world for me. His
name was Lionel Clark, and he
lived in st. Louis. I had first been
attracted to him when a theme Of
his was read in class. It was q
short sketch Of fur trading in the
early middle west, and his pen had
caught all the color and move
ment of the days when the
Mississippi was great highway.
He wrote Of trappers and priests,
Of Indians and Of French gallants,
of gay ladies transported from all
the luxuries of aristocratic society
to rough and primitive surround
ings yet losing none of their
elegance or insouciance in the
process.
I walked beside him as we left
the room. 'That was a dandy
writeup," I told him. rs it all
true ?"
had never spoken to him be-
fore. He was a dark, thin-faced
lad, with a cool, bright glance and
an ease Of manner which marked
him as one of the inner circle
from which / was shut out.
Ito Be COntiEUed)