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Evening star., 1937-10-21
VOICE ON TAXES
SOUGHT BY GROUP
Sixteenth Street Highlands
Citizens Association Hears
System Denounced.

Appointment of committee to
study the District tax situation and
suggest some practical means for
giving Citizens voice in fiscal affairs
was authorized by the Sixteenth Street
Highlands Citizens Association at its
meeting last night.
The action followed denunciation of
the tax situation by Col. Edgar Snyder
as "intolerable, wrong in principle and
generally outrageous"
The motion to appoint the commit
tee was made by Haviland Hobbs.
After hearing Col. Snyder assail the
business privilege tax, the association
voted to substitute general sales tax.
"The business privilege tax is the
straw that breaks the camels back"
Col. Snyder said. 1T is high time that
we take means to have ourselves rep
resented in Congress"
New officers elected last night were:
w. E. Stoutamyer, president; George
M. Gooch, vice president; Mildred
Green, secretary, and Mr., Hobbs,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
PARK POLICE TO HOLD
DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT
Floor Show Will Be Feature of
Event to Raise Funds to
Finance Club Work,

The United States Park Police Re-
volver and Pistol Club will hold a
dance at 10 pm. Saturday in the
main ball room of the Willard Hotel,
featuring floor show.
Oficials in charge of the event said
today this is the only means they
have of raising funds to finance the
clubs work. Arch Mcdonald and
Arthur Godfrey, radio commentators,
will act as masters Of ceremonies.
Kate Smith, the radio star, has been
invited to attend.
Phil Lampkin and his orchestra
will furnish the music, and Phil Hay
den and 16 dancing girls will aid in
putting on the floor show.
The Committee on Arrangements
comprises E. S. Mast, chairman, and
M. H. Raspberry, v. w. Cleary, ]. H.
Compton and w H. Sconyers. All
are members of the park police.
Evening star., 1937-10-21

corresponding secretary. To serve
with Mr.. Wender ~ delegate to the
federation, the group elected Hugh g..
Smith.
The retiring president, J. M. Schaf-
fer, who has headed the organiza-
.tion for four years, was presented
with q billfold and given rising
vote of thanks for his service.
J. P. S. Nicely, warden Of Neighbor-
hood House, outlined plans for the
ceremonies November 26 to dedicate
the new Sternbergh Courts, hous-
ing project recently completed. Canon
Anson Phelps Stokes of the Washing
ton Cathedral and other dignitaries
are to be present.
The association opposed any change
in selection Of School Board members.
Mr.. Schaffer, commenting on the reso-
luton he introduced, said "the pres
ent movement to change the method
Of selection is another case of po-
litical juggling that has perYaded some
parts Of the District government in
the past few years"
Mr.. Schneider scored the business
Evening star., 1937-10-21
WOMAN is ACQUITTED
IN DEATH OF KINSMAN
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, october al
Mrs. Bessie Braithwaite, 26-year-old
Westernport woman, was acquitted
last night by a Circuit Court jury Of
shooting her brother-in-law, Alphonse
F. Baker. %. last June 30. The jury
returned its verdict after celebrating
five and one-half hours.
Mrs. Braithwaite's first act was to
embrace her husband, Fred Braith-
waite, who, with their 6-year-old
daughter, sat with her all day in
court. She then thanked the jurors
and shook hands with court attaches.
Mrs. Baker, widow of the deceased,
also thanked the jury for acquitting
her sister.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
SOUTHWEST GROUP
ELECTS WENDER
Citizens Group Opposes
Change in School Board
Selection Method.

Harry S. Wender, local attorney,
was elected president of the South
west Citizens Association last night
He was not at the meeting, however,
being out of the city on his wedding
trip.
Other officers named were r. D..
Marshall, vice president; r. E. Robin
son, treasurer; Mrs. Bessie Parrish,
recording secretary, and j. H. Schneider,
Evening star., 1937-10-21

privilege tax. terming 1t unfair" and
. burden on the business man." The
matter was referred to . committee
for study.
DR.. l.. S. Gordon, chairman Of the
Health Committee, reported on the
work Of his group the past year,
especially In connection with the Boys
Clubs In the city.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
VIRGINIA SOCIETY PLANS
DANCE ON DECEMBER 6

Officers were elected and plans
formulated for the hrst dance of the
season at the meeting of the Society
Of Virginia Of the District of Co
lumbia last night at the Willard
Hotel.
Col. Edwin A. Halsey, secretary Of
the Senate, was named president;
Gen. Hugh s. Cumming, Commis-
sioner Melvin c. Hazen and Repre-
sentative Otis Schuyler Bland, vice
presidents; I. Chance Buchanan, sec
retary, and Fred P. Myers, treasurer.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
Gas Kills Family of Eight.

HONOLULU, October 81 (P.-Five
women, two men and baby, all men,
bers of a Japanese family named
Kobiyashi, were found dead yesteT-
day in their gas-filled home in a
populous Honolulu residential district.
Police said the deaths were due to a
faulty gas connection.
Evening star., 1937-10-21

The executive council includes Mrs.
Richard A. Allen, DR.. Larry e.
Annette, George p. Grove, r. Walton
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
HoopSnoke
Story is Fake, Says
Philadelphia Zoo

PHILADELP HIA, Aug. 80.
Once there were snakes which used
to take their tails in their mouths
and roll down hills as smoothly as
the pneumatic tires on your car.
And instead of bouncing off a
tree at the bottom of the incline
and lying down to rest, they stuck
their tails in the tree which i'm
mediately gave up and died.
That, the Philadelphia Zoo ad-
mits, is a good story but-alas-
they add, it's only a story.
For the Zoo has received one
Of these unusual specimens, known
as the hoop snake and quickly
stripped it of all its mythical CLAM
our by branding it "a harmless
mud snake"
The reptile does coil up, but in
a horizontal and not a vertical
position, officials said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
ARMY REJECTS
PATUXENT PLAN

Army engineers have reported
unfavorably on a flood control
project including the Patuxent
River and its tributaries, in Mary
land.
After a survey the engineers
concluded that interruption to
highway traffic can be avoided
by raising roads and bridges and
enlarging the bridge openings for
the passage of flood waters, the
War Department announced.
State or local agencies should
bear the cost of such work, the re-
port stated. The conclusion was
also stated that "the benefits to
be obtained from flood protec-
ton by reservoirs, levees, channel
enlargement or removal of SnagS
and other debris would not be sui
ficient to justify the COST"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
SOPW|TH BESTS
CATBOAT FOES

MARBLEHEAD, Mass, Aug. 80
G.N.SO Following a maritime
upset, T. o. M. Sopwith today
celebrated his first two racing
victories in American water over
Harold S. Vanderbilt. But it was
not clash of those Glass J yachts,
Endeavor II and Ranger, which
found Sopwith exulting. The
Englishman was plotting a 12-foot
catboat, known as knock
about" in races for the Brutal
Beast Challenge Cup for Glass J
shippers.
Leading Vanderbilt across the
finish line in both races, Sopwith
won the Knapp trophy with a
total point score of 1871; Chandler
Hovey, owner of the yacht Rain
bow, was second with 9 points;
Frederick Sigrist of Endeavor T.
third with 8: Gerald Lambert
owner of Yankee, fourth with 7,
and Vanderbilt last with 4.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Horums
Horse Traders Meet
In Upper N. Y.

ALMOND, N. Y, Aug. 30.-The
spirit of David Harum lowered
over this tiny upstate village as
surviving old-time horse swap
perS" from New York, Ohio and
Pennsylvania gathered on the
George Kane farm for the third
annual horse traders conven-
ton" Horses arrived in truck
loads and individually.
Kane is president of the "con-
Vention." Asked what the rules
were. he replied:
We'll now, I only got one
rule. never trade a fellow a
kicker without telling him
about it,"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
LETTER OF Grief
EXPLAINS WIEE'S
MURDER OF SIX
Missive Near Bodies of
Mother and Brood

DENISON, Iowa, Aug. 80 I.N.S)
A strange document of sorrow and
heartbreak, the farewell note writ
ten by his wife before she killed
herself and six children served as
a poignant reminder Of what
might have been" to the bereft
husband today. ..
The six-page letter was found
in the living room Of the small
farm house where yesterday Al
bert Noolen came upon the bodies
of his wife Elsie, 80, and their
children.
KILLED BY FUMES
All had been killed by carbon
monoxide piped into the house by
the hose from a washing machine
she had attached to the exhaust
of the family car.
In explanation for taking the
lives of her children as well as
herself the anguished mother
wrote:
I'm doing this because I see
this family Is not going to be
raised up right and I think it
is q shame to let them grow up
to live such life themselves"
CHILD IN ARMS
Nollen reported he found the
bodies when he returned home
after spending the evening in
town. Mrs. Nollen was lying on
bed clasping her 2-year-old
daughter, Viola, in her arms.
Leona, 4, was on the floor beside
the bed. The other four children
were heaped in the living room.
They were Orvin, IL; Wilbert, 10;
Pauline, 7, and Earl, 6.
Nollen, his wife and three of
the eldest children had spent the
afternoon in town buying the
youngsters clothing and school
supplies for the start Of their
classwork Monday.
They returned home and MOL
len did the evening chores.
Instead Of returning to the
house for dinner. Nollen started
for his car. AS related by his wife
in her letter:
80 I followed him out and
got on the running board. I
asked him where he was going.
He acted smart and asked him
again where he was going and
he got mad and told me 1t
wasn't any of my business.
HE threw me out of the car
so I climbed in the back seat.
He went to Denison and I fol- 4.
lowed him around a while and
then went back to the car.
Il thought he would come
back but he never did, so I
came home.
Hes beat me up lots of
times and I always forgot about
that just because I loved him
and wanted to live with him.
But I've always said if couldn't
live with him I didn't want to
live because there isn't any
other I ever cared for bseide
Albert"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30

will have a decided advantage
over those who are now in. They
will be at home all the time and
will have plenty of time to talk to
their spectiVe conStitu-
ents. And they will have plenty
of things to talk about if their
prospective opponents are casting
almost daily votes on such contro-
verSial subjects as farm relief, new
taxes, wages and hours bills, and
court reorganization schemes.
This is one of the reasons many
members would like to have the
extra session right away and have
these matters disposed of so that
next year they can do their seri-
GUS fence building.
And that is the big reason why
the doctor with the filters medi.
cine can clean up by contracting
members of Congress now.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
WRECK is CLUE
TO ADvENTURER

SANTA CRUZ, Cal, Aug. 30
dN.SO-Weathered wreckage on
the coast near Pescadero today
was believed to hold the clue that
may solve the mysterious disap-
pearance of Capt. Thomas Drake.
From Seattle came j. w. Tough,
friend of the missing adventurer,
to inspect the battered wreck Of a
ship, to determine if it was brakes
37.foot schooner, Progress.
Drake, famous lone skipper"
of the seven seas, sailed from San
Francisco last November 16.
headed south. He was never
heard from.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Happiness
Pair, We'd II Years,
/ Gives Recipe

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3o.-Are
you getting along with your hus-
band, or vice versa?
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Ekman
have just celebrated their seventy
foarth wedding anniversary and
are "a and 81 years of age, respec.
lively. They were married in Pc.
laid in 1868 and have lived in Los
Angeles for 43 years.
Ekman gives the following as
his recipe for successful matri-
nony:
ga man and wife should con-
slider each other as part of
their life, not to be changed.
They should be good humored
and not quarrel. Young mar
ried couples today look for new
land exciting things. Thus their
ktime is wasted when it should
Ebe spent in caring for each
Fother."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Parking Meter
Calls Policeman

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. 80.
Paul Souders, Of Ventnor, helped
out friend by driving to Camden
and bringing his car back loaded
with parking meters. The city
had demanded quick delivery and
the contract deadline was near.
Souders parked his automobile,
put a nickel in a parking meter
already installed. went for his
friend and came back to find the
meter on the curb had summoned
a policeman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
MYSTERY SHIP
IN PLANE RACES
BY LEON w. SHLOSS


UN.SD.-Officials of the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association to-
day eyed the National Air Races
at Cleveland this week as a pos
sible springboard whence the
United States may recapture the
world aerial domination it enjoyed
a year ago, but has since lost to
Italy.
Presaging a new N. A. A. drive
to place U. S. pilots back on top in
the number of world records held,
Charles F. Horner, association
president, reviewed the present
standing of the nations. He re-
vealed there is at least one plane
of record-smashing capability en-
tered in the contests.
U. S. NOW SECOND
The N. A. A. campaign Of two
years ago resulted in Uncle Sam
taking the lead in records held.
Now, however, the standings
are: Italy, As; United States, 43;
France, IS; U. S. S. R., Is; Ger
many, IA Great Britain, 4.
The aerial thunderbolt which
the N. A. A. will watch at Cleve-
lands newly enlarged airport. is
the so-called mystery ship" OF
Frank w. Fuller, West Coast
sportsman pilot.
This silver streak, the racing
version of the Army's Seversky
fighter, acknowledgedly the fast
est pursuit plane in the world,
has been clicked secretly from 80
to so miles faster than the present
world mark of 352 miles per hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Search of Plateau
Planned by Party

NEW YORK. Aug. 30.-An ex-
petition into the uncharted terri
tories of Shiva's Temple and
Wotan's Throne, virtually inacceSsi-
BILE plateaus in the Grand Canyon,
will be made by the American
Museum of Natural History in
September.
The expedition, to be known as
the PatterSon-American Museum
Grand Canyon Expedition, will be
backed by Morehead Patterson, a
New York business man.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Mellon Art Prints
Shown at Library

A selection OF mounted prints
Illustrative of the masterpieces
which will later be in the Mellon
Ar Gallery is now on exhibition
in the second floor lobby of the
Central Building of the Public
Library at Eighth and K SITS. N.
W., Miss Clara w. Herbert, acting
librarian, announces.
Full-time advisory service in the
art division Of the library will be
resumed on September l,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Smithsonian Gets
Snail Collection

DR.. Carlos De La Tore, former
president Of the University OF
Havana, has presented the Smith
sonian Institution with a complete
collection of several thousand
rainbow" snail shells, it was an
nounced. The Snails. from the
forest of East Cuba, have delicate
sunset tints of pink, blue, violet,
green and yellow which rival but
terflieS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
U. S. Cites Firm
In Candy Lottery

The Federal Trade Commission
told the Cherry Specially Com
pany Of Chicago last night that it
isn't cricket to sell dealers candy
packages along with a lottery
scheme to boost sales. The COM
pany is allowed 20 days to convince
tse rlpseslops that it iissnot 4o-
tabg4 t6e 1a~.~ "
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Identity Mistake
Frees 'HOldup' Man

NEW YORK, Aug. 80 G.N.SO.
Twenty-two-year-old Harry Tesla
walked out of Tombs Prison a free
man today after coming within an
ace of starting a 30-to-60-year SEN
tence as a holdup man.
Young Tesla was identified by
a witness as the gunman who held
him up, and the youth was con-
victed and sentenced. The victim
subsequently "took back" his
identification.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30

OS1QOLu 1ldVC IALC duSAoG 4CSAo.
lators been as severely afflicted
with the shakes a year before the
Congressional election as they are
right now.
REASON FOR PANIC
The reason, of course, is what
happened to President Roosevelt's
New Deal legislative proposals in
the recently ended session and
what is going to happen to those
who participated in the scuttling
of those proposals next year.
Representatives and Senators
who have remained in washington
either to clear up their affairs
here or to stay away from the fir
ing line at home are frankly puz-
zled as to the politics of the future
and are trying to get what comfort
they can out of the conviction that
there are many in the same boat.
1t is, for many, a case Of misery
loving company.
One thing that the congressman
would like to have decided soon is
that matter of a special session Of
Congress to be held this fall.
MAY BE HELPFUL
While most of them would like
to get little rest and give their
home districts a chance to cool
off before the heat of another Ses-
sion is turned on, there is a de-
cided feeling that a session this
fall would be materially helpful
to the political futures of a lot OF
others.
This feeling is based on the be-
lief that unless there is an extra
session the session starting In
January will run on into late sum
mer of next year, even as the one
just ended ran for eight months
If that should happen all OF
the members of the House and
many of the Senators would find
themselves at a decided diSadvan
tage because early next year they
will have to get back to the home
folks and do a lot Of highly con
centrated campaigning.
TIME FOR DEFENSE
You can't defend the records Of
some of the members in the two
or three months which would b.
available before next November Il
President Roosevelt should take il
into his head to keep regular SEES
sion in Washington until mex
August or September.
Moreover if Congress is in ses
sion those from the outside whit
nrn sanLinn To- GET On the inSid.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Cure for "Jitters,"
Need of Congress
By FRANKLIN G. sARTWELL

Any physician who produce guaranteed panacea for
political filters do and-Office business Capitol Hill
the distant homes Of Senators and Representatives.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
Nursing Bottles
Banned for Beer

MFORD, England, Aug. 80.
The mayor Of this Essex town has
forbidden a proposed contest to
see who could drink beer fastest
out of a nursing bottle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30

Raised by q She-Bear That Stole Her
When a Baby. Like Little MOwgli Of
kipling's Most Famous Story, She
Lived for Eight Years the Life Of q
American Weekly with Sundays
Washington Herald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30

Paintings By American Indians. Ex.
I@mpAes Of the Remarkable Technique
~ Some Of the Foremost Indian Artists
ttAA PEeaent Dsy Reproduced 10 Full
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
FALLS FROM CAR

Stanfield Everett, IA, of Mclean,
Va, was treated at Emergency
Hospital for decorations of the
head. suffered when he fell from a
machine near his home.
AN inquest into the death of
Ralph Jones, 38, of 1923 West Vir-
g1n1a Ave. N. E., was scheduled to
be held today. Two men, Elmer
M Bliss, jr., 2800 Twenty-seventh
st. N. w., with whom Jones was
riding, and Lawrence J. Bernard,
1859 Verplanck Pl. N. W., driver
OF a second machine, were sched-
uled to appear before the coroner's
jury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
AUTO HITS TREE

Richard Williams, 80, of 1929 E
Sd. S. E., suffered conclusion of
the brain and face decorations last
night when the automobile he was
driving struck tree at the en-
trance to Floral Park, near T. B.,
Nd. Williams was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital.
Robert D. Kisling. 81, a Boiling
Field aviator, suffered fractured
skull when the car in which he
was riding plunged from the MARI
boro Pike near Silver Spring, Md.
Edward v. Miller, IS, driver of the
machine, also Of Boiling Field, was
treated at Providence Hospital for
lacerationS of the chest and nose
injuries. 'Kisling is at Walter
Reed Hospital,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
ACCIDENT TOLL
HERE NOW z;
D. C. man KILLED
Virginia Crash Fatal
To \. M. Bowman

While the death yesterday Of
Mrs. Ann Sanford, 10. Of 1925
Brandywine st. N. W., brought the
total Of Washington's traffic IA
talities to 70. another District resi-
dent was killed early today in an
automobile accident near Stras-
burg, Va.
The dead man is Hunter M.
Bowman, 26, of 2142 o st. N. w.
His companion, Benjamin w.
Swami, 20, a private at Fort Myer,
was seriously injured when the
car in which they were riding left
the highway and hit a tree.
TOLL is HIGHER
Mrs. Sanford's death brings this
years total to 16 more than re-
corded at this time last year. She
was injured August 81 while cross
ing the street at River Road and
Brandywine Street Northwest.
The driver of the machine
which struck Mrs. Sanford, Hunt
ley N. Ruff, "a, of the 800 block
of Twenty-first st. N. W., will be
summoned for a coroner's inquest,
police said.
Bowman, whose body was taken
to q funeral establishment at
Strasburg, was service manager
at the Pratt Service Station,
Twenty-second and M Streets
Northwest, and is survived by a
brother and his mother. with
whom he made his home.
- SWAMI IN HOSPITAL
Swami, whose home was for
merly in Edinburg, Va, near where
the accident occurred, was taken
to the Winchester Hospital, where
he is suffering a fractured nose
and internal injuries. His condi-
ton was described as being I'M
determined. Police said that
Swami was driving and apparently
lost control of the machine.
Alexander T. Reher, 80, of 1928
D. st. S. E., was seriously injured
last night at Fifteenth and G
Streets Northeast when his car
collided with one driven by Win
fred L. Brooks, 10, of 1908 Urell
st. N. E. Reher was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital suffering decorations
Of the head and internal injuries.
Mamie Randacavag, Al, of go
Third st. N. E.. is being treated at
Casualty Hospital for injuries re-
ceived early today when the taxi
in which she was riding collided
with q truck at Union Station
Plaza. She suffered injuries to
the head and decorations of the
knee.