Evening star., 1937-03-20

heard to whistle shrilly. The revenue
men fingered gun triggers. Crouch
Ing. the chief agent whispered to the
photographers, Get here beside me. :"
Mueller and Perkins shrank into the
darkness. Their feelings were not
improved by the sound of the agent
cooking his revolver.
Two cars drove up. The agents
swarmed out The moonshiners sur
rendered complacently. But the pho
tographers had still another scare.
When the still was dynamited sticks.
stones and sharp bits of copper flew
through the air like angry bees.
| Mueller ducked like doughboy cross
ing No Mans Land during a barrage.
Perkins also counts the still raid as
the most frightening of his expert
ences, but close second comes his
brush with crowd Of anti-publicity-
minded Chinese
Here, as well as in other American
cities having noticeable Chinese
population, there is q custom which
requires that At fixed intervals the
Chinese dead be disinterred and their
remains shipped back to the land of
their honorable ancestors. The dis
interment ceremony Is most sacred,
and the Chinese at the Washington
rite were resentful Of an attempt by
Perkins to photograph the goings-on
THE car in which the photographer
was riding with q reporter and =
driver was stoned by the Chinese,
bowling mad and shouting threats
and imprecations. Among the stones
was = mixture of bricks, sticks and
whatnot, which rained on the car
like giant hailstones, but with more
force and in considerably greater vol
ume. Driving out Of this storm, the
newspaper "expeditionary force"
sought to dash through the cemetery,
to discover they had selected dead
end" street. They were surrounded
by ferce-visaged, fierce-talking Chi
nese with all the bristle but none of
the politeness exhibited by Chinese
train raiders in Hollywood concep-
tions of Oriental rail travel.
Risking q smashed pate, the re-
porter who accompanied Perkins got
out Of the automobile and by sheer
boldness-or bluff, If you like-dis-
suaded the angry Chinese from COM
hitting triple mayhem. It was i'm
possible, however, to get the desired
picture.
Pridgeon tells 4 couple Of stories in
lighter vein.
Assigned last month to photograph
the Zoo grounding, "Pridge" was un-
able to persuade that infamous wealth
er prophet of the animal kingdom to
make an appearance. Try as he
might, the grounding just wouldn't
be accommodating.
Well, the city editor had said there
must be = picture Of the groundhog
in the paper that day, and Pridgeon
had been in the business long enough
to know full well the fate Of the
photographer who returns without his
picture. So he went to the National
Museum, confided his woes to a cura-
tor and pretty soon he was back in
the office with perfect picture Of
grounding, complete with shadow.
He had borrowed q stuffed ground
hog, taken 1t outdoors and arranged
it In a natural setting. Clever place
ment of mirror provided the shadow.
Pridgeon's secret didn't out for
several days. When 1t did, the picture
was re-published with q caption ex-
planning 1t was all . ruse, although
April l was two months distant.
WEIRDEST Of the Pridgeon ex-
periences was when he developed
negatives Of pictures he had taken of
prominent Washington woman to
md that In three Of 10 prints there