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Evening star., 1937-06-04
First Minor At1u00d A,uard
Made to Boy Killed BY Blast

A scholastic award established in
memory Of a Sidwell Friends School
student who died q year ago was pre-
sented posthumously today for the
first time in the name Of another
student, who met death a month ago
in an accident.
The award was created by Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert w. Atwood in memory OF
their l7-year-old son Minor, to whom
meningitis proved fatal December 20,
1896. 1t is to be presented each year
to the outstanding student in scien-
tific studies at Sidwell Friends School,
where young Atwood was a student be-
fore he went to Amherst College. He
was freshman at Amherst when he
died.
The recipient of the first Minor
Atwood Award was Robert Hooper, 18,
son of Louis L. Hooper, business man
ager OF Gallaudet College. Robert
died May In Georgetown Hospital
of injuries received May when a
bottle containing dry ice exploded
Evening star., 1937-06-04

while he was on picnic with friends
near Great Falls.
Award of the honor to Hooper was
announced by Friends School. The
prize it carries, $40 in cash, will be
turned over to his parents, school au-
thorities announced. He was rated
As the best science student in the
institution.
Hooper had carried a corked bottle
of dry ice on the picnic. After lunch
con he and several other youths amused
themselves by dropping the dry ice in
ginger ale bottles, Gaping them and
fleeing to a safe distance to watch
the explosion caused by carbon monox-
ide gas released by the melting ice.
Before Hooper had time to drop the
bottle which he had capped it blew
up. He was injured about the eye.
and arms and died the next day.
He was a brilliant student and had
planned to enter Harvard University
next year. He also was an ardent
stamp collector and WAS we'll known in
junior philatehc circles.
Evening star., 1937-06-04
BOYS DEATH IN FALL
DECLARED ACCIDENTAL

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
has issued certificate Of accidental
death in the case OF Eugene Charles
Melia, 9. of 1925 Brandywine street,
who died Wednesday night in George
town Hospital.
An autopsy revealed that the boy
died Of fractured skull suffered when
he fell to the sidewalk on Fcrty-third
street, while playing tag with several
friends. Eugene's brother, John, IA,
carried him into the house, and his
father, Frank A. Melia took him to
the hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 93G
am. tomorrow at st. Anne's Church,
followed by burial in Mount Olivet
Cemetaey.
Evening star., 1937-06-04
WILL HONOR VETERANS

Memorial services in honor Of Con-
federate soldiers who fought in the
Civil War will be held SUNDAY in the
amphitheater of Arlington National
Cemetery.
The principal address will be de-
livered by Representative Rayburn Of
Texas, after the members of Camp
Ill Of the United Confederate Vet-
Grams have marched into the amphi.
theater, led by the Marine Band.
Other organizations taking part in
the program, scheduled to begin at
1:45 pm, are Sons and Daughters OF
the Confederacy, Confederate Southern
Memorial Association, Children Of the
Confederacy. United Spanish War
Veterans, American Legion, National
Guard units and Boy Scouts.
Evening star., 1937-06-04
COSMOPOLITAN CLUBS
GIVE MEETING PLANS

Plans for the Capital District Fed
GRAFTON of Cosmopolitan Clubs con-
vention at Virginia Beach June 19,
20 are complete, it was announced
yesterday at the weekly luncheon of
the club at the Carlton Hotel.
The Washington club will elect the
second lieutenant governor at the
convention. automatically putting
him in line for the future governor
ship.
Fred J. Rice was presented with 4
past presidents certificate at the
meeting. The presentation was made
by James E. Collinower. Arthur w
Defenderfer, club president. presided
Evening star., 1937-06-04
ASKS ROOSEVELT TO SET
SLUM CLEARANCE DAY
Sirovich Resolution Provides for
Calling Nation Attention to
shocking Conditions.

obOChlHS SOHulllOus.
President Roosevelt is called on to
declare a national slum clearance day
under a joint resolution introduced
yesterday by Representative Sirovich,
Democrat, of New York
He called attention to the fact the
President has testified that one-third
of the people Of the United States live
under the most wretched and bane-
full slum conditions in dilapidated,
fire-trap buildings, many of them
from IS to 100 years old, in poorly
lighted, overcrowded rooms with in
adequate sanitary facilities and a
lamentable lack OF proper ventila-
ton"
Sirovich declared these slum con-
ditions are shocking to the moral
sense of the people and disgrace in
the eyes of the world, and bring in
their wake high infant mortality
juvenile delinquency, crime, disease
and misery, and are the direct cause
of the disintegration of family life
and the destruction of the home,
leading to a shocking waste of hu-
man life, health and energy
Evening star., 1937-06-04
CALL FOR SCENT
FARE MEETSPLEA
FOREIGNER TOKEN
Clayton AssaiIs Transit
Company Request for
Cent Rate.
VIGOROUS FIGHT DUE
AT HEARING JUNE ID
Request for Greater Increase In
spires Nickel Test Demand.
Valuation Data Expected.

Demands for a scent street car
and bus fare were renewed today by
William NICK Clayton, chairman Of
the Public Utilities Committee of the
Federation of Citizens Associations,
in reply to the proposal by the Capt.
tai Transit Co. for a boost In the
token fare.
Clayton attacked the service being
rendered by the company as "ridlcu-
lousy inefficient" and protested
against efforts of the company to
increase the number OF its one-man
cars.
Hearings Open June IA.
Hearings on the rates OF fare of
the company are to be started by the
Public Utilities Commission June IA
at 10 am. in the District Building.
A battle royal is in prospect. The
company will endeavor to show it
must have greater income because
OF increased costs, with spokesmen
for organized civic groups insisting
the company would be better off with
lower fare and greater patronage
Clayton's attack was inspired by
the eleventh hour petition of the
company for a greater increase in
the token fare than was asked in the
original petition filed nearly a year
ago Action on fares has been de-
layed by the commission to await
completion of the valuation of the
company properties. That case is TO
be closed this week, and a decision
Is expected prior to the June IA
hearing
Last Summer the company request
ed an increase in the token fare
from four for 80 cents to three for
25 cents. Wednesday this was amend
ed to raise the request to four for
35 cents. or at the rate of g.. cents
each.
Wants Scent Test.
I think 1t is pretty nervy on the
part of the company to seek further
increase in fare" said Clayton When
the hearings open l shall ask the
commission to order scent fare for
a test period.
When the ST weekly street car pass
was in operation the company claimed
the average cost per rid was between
3l7 and 4 cents. Now they are SELL
ing large number OF weekly passes
at s125. and yet they want an in
crease in the token fare.
"A Scent fare would not be possible
with the present equipment Many
cars belong on the scrap heap-per-
haps as many as 200 of them. But
There is no reason why the company
should not provide more new cars.
Street car service prior to the
merger of the old street car COM
panies was fairly satisfactory. Now
it is about the worst in the country
although proponents of the merger
promised to make it the best"
Evening star., 1937-06-04
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the Navy Band at Walter Reed
Hospital at $50 pm. Lieut.. Charles
Benter, leader; Alexander Morris,
assistant.
BY the Army Band at the Capitol
at 1870 pm. Capt, Thomas F. Darcy
leader; Karl HubDer, assistant.
Evening star., 1937-06-04
Grange Members Greeted.

Members of Potomac Grange, No.
Of Washington greeted members OF
Congress belonging to the grange a,
the annual congressional dinner Wed
nesday at the All States Hotel. S. S
McCloskey, master of Potomac Grange
presided, and Senator johnson Of Col.
orado was the principal speaker.
Evening star., 1937-06-04
Fashion Show Tomorrow,

A fashion show, with modern styles
mixing with those OF so years ago. will
be held by the Adonis Club tomorrow
at the Lincoln Colonnade. Prizes will
be awarded,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07
It's the 2OOth Anniversary Of
Three Famous Revolutionary Figures
by ELMO SCOTT WATSON.

tories. But lack of space (plus
the inclination of most school
book historians to make Revolu-
tionary war heroes pieces of
statuary rather than fiesh-and-
blood human beings) has pre-
vented our learning there many
other interesting details about the
men themselves.
We know that Ethan Allen
"thundered on the portal of all
earthly kings at Ticonderoga"
and demanded its surrender Sin
the name of the Great Jehovah
and the Continental Congress.
We know how John Hancock,
warned by Paul Revere, fled
from Lexington that April night
in IT'S before the British red
coats arrived, thereby making it
possible for him to write his
signature with its historic flourish
year later. We know that
Thomas Paine wrote Common
Sense" and the "Crisis" and
some of us have recited those
thunderous words from the lat
ter-"These are the times that
try mems souls.
But what else did they do to
distinguish them from other
men? What of their subsequent
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07

Listed among those who were v
mount the steps Of the guillollne'
he escaped that fate by a stranss
freak of chance. One mofnnss
the keeper of the prison WEN ,r
along the corridor placing cna's
marks on the doors Of those WIZ
were to be executed that gay.
so happened that the oooi .J
Paine's cell was open a
pushed back fat against tne W., VIZ
of the corridor. In the os ~.
ness of the gloomy old prison md nd
keeper failed TO notice TINS ode a
put his chalk mark on the 'n' s,e
of Paine's door. Thus when w.. s,s
door was finally closed .sav
guards passed it by wneh ' sss
came to lead the other priSo''
to their doom. ,.od
Paine was finally re, rsr,es
through the efforts OF y s;s,er
Monroe, United States mll' ssat
to France, and resumed ND -, 1 he
in the convention. Eventualv and
returned to the United STATES ana Ne
died in New York in loos. a.
was first buried on his lai lars
New Rochelle but a lew yr,nc.
later William Goblet, the ,. ns
lish radical, removed his oV n.
to England with the hope ne J. re-
creasing enthusiasm for 'n e.; m
had been the principal pssrial-
But that hope failed to ms Ties Of
ize, and eventually the pq 2nsrssnch
this English American . : ). rest
revolutionist found their ias'
ing place in France.
q Western Newspaper on''~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07
Origin of Oyster Cocktails

THE oyster cocktail is usually as
1 ISOLATED with expensive dining
rooms and exclusive social gather
ings. Like many members of the
social register, it has come q long
way from its humble beginnings.
Records show that the oyster
cocktail was invented in a shabby
waterfront saloon in San Francisco
about 1866. Its concocter was
drunken gold miner who had reeled
into town to spend his months
wages.
He appeared at the bar and or
dered a stiff whiskey cocktail and
plate of California raw oysters.
After gulping the cocktail, this tip
sy guest placed the oysters in the
same glass. The bar flies shuddered
as they watched him fill it to the
brim with tomato catsup., Worces-
tershire and pepper sauce. To their
further amazement, he ate the mess
with evident relish. When finished,
instead Of getting sick, he called
for another plate Of oysters.
The bartender was impressed. He
seized the idea, put on an adver-
Using splurge, and was soon doing
land-office business selling the new
product for -four bits a glass.
Other people experimental. and
found that it worked equally well
with shrimps. When society took it
up the success Of the oyster cock
tail was assured.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07

0nies from the Mother Country.
The effect of this pamphlet is
$50 powerful, instantaneous and
general that John Hancock will
soon have his chance to flourish
his pen and write his bold sigma
ture to the document which in
corporates the sentiments ex-
pressed in Common Sense" For
the author of it was that third
boy born in January, 1881
Thomas Paine.
So these were the three famous
Revolutionary figures whose two
hundredth birthday anniversaries
we celebrate this month, Ethan
Allen, the frontiersman, John
Hancock, the merchant, and
Thomas Paine, the pamphleteer.
Their backgrounds, their charac-
tiers, their careers were all as
different as those of three men
could possibly be. But they had
more in common than the fact
that all were born in the same
month of the same year. All
were patriots; all labored might
lily in the same cause, though
their motives for doing so diff
fered widely; and all risked their
lives and everything else that
man holds dear to bring about a
new order of s'life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness" in a New
World.
Men Not Statues.
Their names are familiar to
most Americans who have read
of their deeds in the school his.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07
NoT TN THE BOX SCORE:

DIG-TIME baseball men who for
- years have conducted their BUSH
ness with scant regard for the rights
Of customers probably will behave
for a while now. The reason Is
they have been tipped of that con-
tinued mismanagement will result
In a governmental bureau taking
charge of the national game-in or
der to preserve it from the fate OF
the buffalo 1. The thirteen-year-
old national diving queen, Marjorie
Gestring, is an accomplished plan
list Contrary to reports, there
is a stone on Tex Richards lot At
Woodlawn. There Is, however, no
maker on the great fight promote
er's grave and no provision for up
keep.
That pass interference rule will
not be changed in spite OF the
clamor of the losers and the sillier
reporters. So far only one sane
remedy has been proposed although
dozens were discussed and laughed
down during meeting of the East
ern Association of Football Officials.
This was Bill Crowley's suggestion
that only one pass should be per-
mitted during each series OF downs
in the last five minutes OF each
half. It would minimize one OF the
two real causes of the trouble, the
number of desperate heaves that
are made when scant scoring time
remains Big league clubs
would do well to consider Smokey
Joe Martin, sent to Baltimore by the
Giants last summer. Since receiv-
ing chance to play regularly Mar
tin has become the best third base
man in the minors -. Bill Pow
ers, secretary Of the New York
Hockey Writers association and
one of the games best informed re-
porters, was born in Florida.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07
Lady Nicotine
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS dis.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS dis
~ covered tobacco when he dis.
covered America in 1892. He car
ried back to Europe fantastic tales
of how the barbaric natives per
fumed themselves by swallowing
the smoke of understanding herbs"
Other early explorers reported
that Indians smoked tobacco by in
haling it, not through the mouth
as we do now. but through the
nose. Their pipes were shaped in
the form of Y. the two points
of which could be inserted in the
nostrils.
When first brought to Europe, the
tobacco plant was supposed to have
mira culous healing powers. an d
physicians forced people to smoke
it for their health. Later, as the
practice grew more common, clergy
and kings professed to see traces
of immortality in it. and passed the
most stringent laws to stamp it out.
It even became crime punishable
by deatn 10 SmC:.e TOBACCO III sew.
eral European countries.
It was not until smoking became
fashionable that it really gained
popular following. Sir Francis
Drake brought back complete
smoking set from America in 1886
and presented it to Sir Walter
Raleigh. Just before he went to
the scaffold for political treason.
Raleigh smoked pipe full of Vir-
ginia blend.
This Immediately impressed the
courtiers as gallant gesture, and
smoking was soon rife in the Eliza
bethan court. Even Queen Eliza
beth is said to have enjoyed a sur
reptitious puff or two in the privacy
of her boudoir.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07
JANUARY, 1877.

81 To the majority OF
SA the citizens of the
lAkEa English colonies in
NJ North America that
month meant tn e
beginning of a new year,
nothing more. They could not
have realized that it was to
be made significant for them
because of the births of three
boys during its 81 days.
In that year these citizens
were loyal subjects of His
Majesty, King George II of
England. But by the time an
other so years had passed,
they and their sons were to
be engaged in an armed re-
bellion against his son, and
outstanding among the ''rebel
leaders" would be these three
boys born in the first month
of 1877.
The first had made his appear
ance on January 10. The place
was a farm home near the town
of Litchfield, Conn.,, and he was
the first-born of IA children in
''a bold, domineering and clever
family" He was given the name
of Ethan-a Hebrew name signi-
flying strong" And strong he
grew to be, for this boy was
Ethan Allen, who was later to
be characterized as "the Rob
Roy of Wilderness Common
wealth." "the Robin Hood of New
England" and "the Strong Boy
of the Revolution.
Two days later in the home of
a clergyman in Quincy, Mass,
was born another boy who was
to bear the name of his father
and his grandfather, also a cler-
gyman. This boy, however, would
not follow in the pious footsteps
of his elders. Instead he would
be taken into the counting house
of his uncle, be adopted by that
relative, fall heir to a large for
tune and become a great and
wealthy merchant of Boston. And
on a July day in 1776 he would
be the first to sign his name to
an immortal document Of human
liberties and sign it $50 large
that King George could read it
without his spectacles." That
name would be John Hancock.
The scene changes now from
New England to Old England. On
January % in the home Of a
Quaker stay-maker in the little
town of Thetford in Norfolk am
other boy is born. He will be-
come preacher and a dissenter,
a writer of verse and prose, q
republican and radical, and a
severe critic of the government
and POLITICAL customs of his ma
tive land. AS such he will be
welcomed to the British colonies
in America as the dispute be-
tween them and the Crown grows
more bitter and in 1776 he will
issue a pamphlet bearing the
name Common Sense" In that
pamphlet he will advocate abb
solute independence of the col
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07

earnings are a good deal ahead Of
airy of his fellow tennis pros.
A player, busting himself of at
third base, received the greatest
surprise ever to come the way of
a hitter of q game-winning triple?
That was years ago when Moose
Mccormick had been with the
Giants only q few days. He had been
told to bunt but ball came across
the plate to his liking and he swung
with full force.
He was met at third base by a
red-faced, highly excited little fell
low. A season or two later Moose
came to bat as pinch-hitter six
times in a six-game series while
winning five of the games and tying
the other with his hits. But such
fame was in the future.
He slapped the dust from his
clothes with one hand while he ex-
tended the other for the expected
concentrations. TheL he listened
in awe. The red-faced little fellow
was not in . congratulatory mood.
Instead Manager John j. McGraw
was timing Moose $50 for disobeying
the order to hunt.
Bob Fitzsimmons was preparing
to win the heavyweight champion
ship of the world from Jim Cor
bett at Carson City? A visitor one
day discovered Ruby Robert stand
ing just outside the Fitzsimmons
bedroom door listening intently. In
side the room Mrs. Fitzsimmons
could be heard lifting her voice
in prayer for victory.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07
Twas This Way
90
By LYLE SPENCER
New Way. of Gambling
@ Western Newspaper Union.

HORSE racing may not m c h
/ longer be the favorite Ameri-
can way of gambling. It takes lot
of time and money to follow the
ponies regularly. So group of Cal
ifornia professors have invented a
new racing sport where anyone can
own a whole stable Of racers with
out it costing a cent. They have
conceived the idea Of racing snails!
On latest reports a history pro-
fessor had just won the Kentucky
Derby" with his champion thorough.
bred ''Slimy." Pedagogues VIII o
never before showed the slightest
interest in gardening may now be
seen out in their back yard on sunny
afternoons, peering diligently under
cabbage leaves. Who knows. any
one of them might turn up another
MAN O. War!"
Seven or eight members Of the
group regularly maintain racing
stables. and several have seriously
undertaken the business of breeding
snails. One is said to be developing
a giant slug who can outsquirm by
two to one any ordinary snail.
The races. usually run on the
back of tilted ironing boards, vary
in length from six inches. for juve-
niles, to two feet, for experienced
veterans. Haf-inch handicaps are
sometimes given noted sluggards.
Every formality and regulation OF
orthodox turf procedure is carried
out in these races.
The snails are even tested for
possible doping, because drop Of
alcohol noticeably increases snairs
speed and vitality, and thin film
of salad dressing in his lane has
helped many a snail to gallop home
to a smashing victory!
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-07

Reds with nj 8 n =
baseball and other
circus features be-
fore departing sud-
denly from Cincin-
nati-in charge OF
their new farm sys-
tenn Lee Hand
ley, the young in
fielder the Dodgers
tried so hard to get,
has q weak arm :.
The strident 0bjec-
tons Of one of the
powers about til e
fhrnno nrovonfS the