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Smyrna times., 1937-10-21

JOEL SMACK KILLED ON
THE RAILROAD
Joel Smack Of Selbyville, Sussex
county, was instantly killed by a
Smyrna times., 1937-10-21
GAIN IN Ii IN
TAX IN $ I'd
N''ie Months TotaS
enues Total :. Mrs.MarI
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ConY
REACHING Hrcr
ppESI|
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Liquor Commisvo, "The 81
wen On the wsv !, year in
time ra., = 'S business,
0''l. Spirits dollars, !
: ~ collections lsr, spent du
nine months of 1921 eral COVE
than one-third g,.,. Margaret
Same ,a,,,s er Of the
ber 20 Ia Is.t - ls56 D perance
S4o8 9o- % ,8 cole:- the servi'
last ,,sar loilpaFsi 4 of the Fl
Al - al, ~ increase 4 tion Of I
ineioaed IN these agss M = s,osss sd ID
Ioae .,esu oy o.. he CON, hte Cent?
49, : 800 q : ~ 94oo 5sI.l0a $50 persc
100 '1o9.oS. Ever with Mrs
1881 has shown 4 o,..s - 4he
80 :, S,-'e over ne SANE ID Munns re
.,a ) ea- dne was the Il Of aIcoho
with tax receipts d - crease ID
compared with "a. lnr 's.'r;ro II
10 ISoo ana $23 .64403a the natior
ne commissions tz Aayed tn
: uiy august and 81 rooms as
TINS year We're Sl430Ns than th'
eo with Sll8,85506 i Munns T
three months last vs, dent Roo.
llons IN October, Noys sion Of (
December Of last yeu !. regulate
928.18. At the preas 50 that I
ceipts during these tts
this year will exceed M -
Smyrna times., 1937-10-21
SMYRNA DOINGS.
OF so YEARS AGO.
Notes of Marriages, Deaths,
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF OCT. 18TH, 1887

Taken from our old files OF
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tion.
Smyrna times., 1937-10-21
EMPLOYMENT EXAMINATIONS
For Positions i'm Delaware State
Employment Service

Wilmington, Dover, and George
town have been selected as the Gen.
ters for the merit examinations for
positions in the Delaware State
Smyrna times., 1937-10-21
Thief Enters Home at Seaford

Thief Enters Home at Seaford
During the absence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Dewberry from their
lome in Seaford last week a sneak
,hief entered the house and stole a
instrument valued at S35
nd several other articles.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
WALLACE ESTATE
IS NEAR MILLION
Petition Filed for Probate of Will
of Widow of Former
Diplomat.

With an estate valued at close to
$1,000000, a petition for probate of
the will of Mrs. Mildred Fuller Wal
lace, widow of Hugh Campbell Wal
lace, former Ambassador to France,
was filed in District Court today.
Mrs Wallace died in New York July
9, and her will, leaving most Of the
estate to grandchildren and. other rel
atives, was filed July %.
The petition estimates Mrs. Wal
lace's personal property at s578, ,850.76
and values her real estate at nearly
100000.
Real estate in Washington was as
sessed at ss3, ,o28, property in Tacoma,
Wash, Mrs. Wallace's former home, at
100000, and realty in Paris, France,
at 100000.
Mrs. Wallace's nearest of kin sre
four grandchildren, Patricia Wallace,
10; Hugh Campbell, Sd, 16; Ruth Wal
lace, IA, and Melville Weston Fuller
Wallace, 13, Of 1900 Massachusetts,
avenue.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
SUN ELIMINATES
FLOOD DANGERS
Waters ReCeding-Two Chill.
dren DroWned-Warmer
Weather Forecast.

As the Potomac River and swollen
creeks receded today toward their nor
NAL level, the Weather Bureau gave
assurance that all possible flood dan
gers had been eliminated by clear
and warm weather
The debris left in District streets
in the wake of the flood waters from
OXon Run, however, aroused D. H.
Cole, president of the Washington
Highlands Citizens Association, to
urge the Commissioners to speed con-
struction of sanitary sewer author
lied by Congress.
Rock Creek, which raced over its
banks Thursday night after five days
of almost continuous rain, has re-
turned to its usual level and traffic
was resumed this morning on the
Rock Creek parkway and Beach drive,
which had been closed because of high
water.
Two lives were lost yesterday as
children played in the rushing waters
of Rock Creek and Watts Run. The
victims were Franklin Kerr, II, COL
ored, 1900 block of T street, who
drowned in Rock Creek, and Orlando
Reed, II, also colored, who drowned in
Watts Run at Forty-ninth street and
Deane avenue northeast.
The Potomac River was near the top
of the sea wall at Hains Point at mid
night last night, when the crest OF
the high water passed. but it remained
within its banks, park police said
Weather Bureau forecasters said to-
day and tomorrow will be clear with
temperatures ranging above 80 de-
grees.
I'VE have been fighting for that
sewer for IA years" Cole said of his
sewer request. Every one agrees
that health conditions in our neigh
borhood are dangerous after a flood
but no one seems to do anything about
it, can't understand the reason for
delay now that Congress has appro-
priated sufficient funds for the sewer. u
At the Office of Engineer Commits
sloner Dan I. Sultan it was pointed
out that engineers have been at work
for several weeks making surveys and
drawing preliminary plans for con-
struction of the sewer. Bids for con-
structior Of the s169,00o project will
be called for shortly, it was said.
Construction will alleviate condi-
tions in Washington Highlands, Cole
said, but it will not prevent floods in
Oxon Run. His association plans to
renew its fight to have Oxon Run
Strengthened and dredged, Cole de-
clared.
Hundreds Of persons were driven
from their homes when Oxon Run
poured out of its banks Thursday
night, Cole pointed out.
Evening star., 1937-08-28

w as :; :.: :::;;.S ar: S: :'sS2 ss2
wv fish that may be caught
commercially in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and in Maryland
Virginia waters they provide sub
stantial source of income.
According to 1884 statistics-the
latest officially ompiled-l58, 400
pounds Of eeb, worth $ll,699, were
taken in Maryland in that year and
lis 500 pounds, worth $12,054, in Vir-
ginia. The latter State apparently
prizes this long, wriggly denizen OF its
lakes and streams more than Mary
land.
No separate statistics have been kept
for the District, and the catch Is in
cluded in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS es-
innate.
Those who anchor their small boats
at night just downstream from the
Georgetown docks to catch eels prob
ably are scorned by some of Wash
ington's fancier fishermen.
Born and Dies in Sea.
But-well, let the latter read this:
The eel is the only North American
fish which habitually lives in fresh
water, but is born, spawns and dies
in oceanic depths. Anguilla rostrata,
the scientific boys call him, and he's
known as "catadramus" as opposed to
the "anadramus" salmon which Is
born, spawns and dies in fresh water,
while living most OF his life in the
sea.
Fred G. Orsinger, superintendent Of
the Department of Commerce Aqua
rum, and Samuel F. Hildebrand, Bu-
rueau of Fisheries ichthyologist, had
chance discussion on eels today.
You know" said Orsinger, my
first experience with ees was out in
La Sale, ILL.,, when I was kid about
Z. was chasing little transparent,
fiat, wriggly fish about inches long
in the Illinois-Michigan Canal and
went in over my head. I couldn't
| swim and nearly drowned. An older
boy pulled me out.
The little fish looked something
like an eel and it started me to won
| dering where eels came from and why
I'd never heard of any one who'd seen
a baby eel
Lifelong Study.
well, at that time" said Hide
| brand, I'VE knew those Transparent
little fish were baby eels, but what we
didn't know was where they came
from. Everybody thought eels spawned
at the mouths OF rivers, the young
swimming up again. It wasn't until
DR.. Johannes Schmidt, a Dane, fin.
ished lifelong study of the life cycle
of eels that it was known that all com
mon eels, European and North Ameri-
can both, went to a point in the At
lantic between Bermuda and the West
Indies. spawned in the oceanic depths
there and died.
THE young eels, or elvers, as they
are called-flat, transparent except
for their eyes and about to 4 inche.
long-make their way toward the
European and North American cont.
nents and enter the river mouths
They have been noted entering the
Potomac in solid ribbon about feet
wide. Another interesting thing i
that elvers take three years to get tt
Europe, while needing only one tt
reach North America, but in no cast
Evening star., 1937-08-28

do they reach the adult stage until
they get to fresh water
Sometimes, in order to get home
eels are forced to come completely out
of water and wriggle through damp
grass. This they are admirably
equipped to do, as all who have han
died them well know.
They commonly reach length of
from to 4 feet and from to 6
pounds in weight.
Heeds Call of Sea.
AFTER a certain as yet undetermined
length Of time, the adult eel has an
imperative call to descend to the sea
again to spawn. Winding down the
continents by brook, stream and bay
and never eating, it eventually reaches
South Bermuda waters, spawns and
dies. Specimens Of 32-inch eels con-
tanning as many as 100000 eggs have
been taken"
You know" said Orsinger, that
probably explains why some eels I had
out at the Shedd Aquarium in Chi
cago suddenly refused to eat and
wouldn't eat for two years until they
died. I imagine they felt the urge
to go seaward and spawn. I do know
that no one ever bred them in cap
tivity.
Well" he added, people who scorn
eels are bit foolish in my mind.
They're real fish, not half snake or
some queer animal as some people
would think. They'll always have a
warm reception in any aquarium I'm
associated with"
And so. the next time you go fish,
ing, consider we'll the eel If you'd
been as many places as he you'd
likely be a famous man.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
FOx Bites Hand
hat Fed 1t, Lands
In Capital Zoo
Captured IL, Virginia
Forest, animal Is
Brought to City.

The Zoo has just received Urocyon-
cinereoargentatus because It bit the
hand that fed 1t.
Captured in Virginia forest by
Taylor Morrison Of Hanover, Va, the
Observation-Disclosures was not
rs cowed by its name as 1t might have
been. Morrison's right hand bears the
scar Of teeth marks.
Carting it to Rock Greek Park, Nor
rison wrote President Roosevelt that
the creature was gift to him. Head
keeper w. H .Blackburne said yester-
day at the Zoo: "The Urocyon-cine-
reoargentatus has sharp teeth-N eats
almost nothing but raw flesh"
1.-THE beast is . vixen," Morrfson
nuttered.
He was technically correct. tt
Ame13ean name Is Common Gray FOX;
Il Is q female, months old.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
STEPHEN Macy HEADS
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS
New Organization Will Meet Next
Friday to Draft Charter
and Bylaws.

Stephen Macy, 104 c street north
east, was elected president of the re-
Gently organized National Capital
Amateur Astronomers Association at
q meeting in the Naval Observatory
last night. r~<
Other officers named were U. S.
Lyons, associate astronomer at the
observatory and one of the prime mov-
ers in the organization, vice president;
Mrs. Earl Ruth, secretary, and R. c.
Masters, treasurer.
The group will meet again next Fri
day at the observatory to draft q
charter and bylaws.
Seventy-five members voted last
night for an initiation fee of 81 and
annual dues of SO a member Recent
telephone inqiries of the whereabouts
OF Finslers comet impelled Lyons to
organize the amateur astronomers of
Washington.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
TWO YOUTHS DETAINED
IN ROBBERY ATTEMPT
Police Seek to Identity Boys in
Attack on Taxicab
Driver.

Two youths were held for investiga-
ton today by seventh precinct police
following an unsuccessful attempt to
rob cab driver last night.
Henry Stanley, 26, of 1928 Trinidad
avenue northeast drove his cab to the
curb on Wisconsin avenue near O
street and called for help. The youths,
who were in his cab, leaped out and
ran up Wisconsin avenue to P street.
A group OF citizens chased two boys
into dead-end alley and police cap
tured them
Police were seeking today to identify
the youths they were holding for the
robbery attempt, while Stanley was
recovering from injuries suffered, he
told police, when he was struck owe,
the head with beer bottle.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
WOMAN ADMITS
RAISING" MONEY
Mrs. Graffins, Amateur Art
ist, Held for Changing ST
Bill Into $40 Note.

Frankly admitting that she ha6
painted a 81 bill into a crude likeness
of $40 bill, Mrs. Marjorie Graffius,
"a, of the 1900 block of Sixteenth
street, was held for grand jury action
under $1,000 bond when arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage today.
Guilty, of course-I did it," the
attractive brunette replied when the
commissioner asked how she wished
to plead to the charge Of altering the
81 bill. She said she believed her
sister would arrange The $1,000 bail
for her shortly.
Detectives, who arrested Mrs. Graf
fius yesterday after she had passed
the raised 81 bill for $40 at a res
taurant in the 1900 block of M street
on Thursday, described her as an
| amateur artist who had turned her
talents from painting landscapes in
water colors for the walls of her
apartment to raising" money.
She said she resorted to the scheme
in which she was caught because she
could not find work. She had come
to Washington three years ago from
Punxsutawney, Pa, and had lived here
most of that time except for a period
about year ago when she worked as
a telephone operator in a Miami hotel
Arrested by Detective Sergts. Joseph
w. Shimon and William v. Christian
Mrs. Graffius was turned over to Secret
Service agents for prosecution after
being held overnight at the Woman's
Bureau.
Shimon said Mrs Crafts, who also
used her maiden name of Maloney
admitted passing the altered bill after
a tracing of $40 bill and two checks
apparently made out to herself by her.
self, were found in her purse.
She had made the tracing of the
$40 bill on artists heavy paper to sex
If she could paint one fro mscratch,
Shimon said, but decided that wa.
too difficult. So she had painted ovel
the figures on the 81 bill and ther
changed them to $40 and had at.
tempted to paint out the hair or
George Washington's picture to make
it look like Thomas Jefferson"
The checks were used to divert thu
attention of the restaurant cashier
before attempting to pass the altered
bill, Shimon said He said she frs
presented Sl00 check to the cashier
| who declined to cash it. and then nre
sented the spurious $40 bill. Although
the painting Job was pretty neat
according to Shimon, the restaurant
proprietor discovered it when h,
counted the days receipts.
Shimon said several attractive paint
ings done by Mrs. Graff1us were hang
ing on the walls of her apartment.
Also found in her purse, he said
was letter from "a boy friend WHIT
said he soon would be out of Jail ane
everything would be all right again.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Soldiers Home Band in the
bandstand at o'clock tonight. John
8. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, "The Flag Lieutenant"
Paul T. Garrett
Overture, william Tell' re-
quested) -Rossini
Trombone solos:
(a) "The Gondolier,"
Gardell Simons
(b) Forgotten" -Cowles
Robert E. Clark.
Scenes from the opera, Faust"
Gounod
Popular numbers:
will You Remember Richman
"Who Wouldn't" Donaldson
Vale petite, The Lady Of My
Dreams" Ruth G. Clark
Respectfully dedicated to Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.)
Finale, THE Bon Tom Zimmerman
"The Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1937-08-28
.HE half hour strikes.

" HE half hour strikes.
The white-robed Dominicans
in their Brookland house OF
L studies have finished supper
They gather in their chapel to chant
the compline.
Noctem quietam ct finem perfectum
tribuat nobis, omnipotens ct miseri-
cors dominus-in the sonorous Latin
of the breviary.
Brothers, be sober and watch, be-
cause your adversary, the Devil. goes
about like a roaring lion seeking whom
he may devour; whom resist you
strong in faith.
And may thy angels and saints
keep in peace us who dwell herein
and may thy benediction always rest
upon u.s."
The bell sounds through the echoing
halls of the Dominican college and
the brothers go to their rooms to study
half the night.
Literally hundreds of Washingto-
mans don't do something or other at
this hour ON this particular day be-
cause their astrologers have warned
them to beware. One Of the most
ancient and silly Of superstitions -four
ishes more than ever under the very
shadow Of the New Deals brain trust
Imagine the constellation Of Leo caring
about stenographer's love affairs.
4 X + X
This hour are heard the first note.
Of the billion-fldd orchestra Of the
crickets and the katydids.
Melancholy, deeper than words, l.
the unceasing symphony Of the Sum.
mer night. There lives in Washing.
ton q great naturalist, Dr. H. A. Allarc
Of the Department Of Agriculture. Ht
carries on here the tradition Of Thor.
eau and Burroughs He has made 4
study OF this mystery insect music,
its eternal persistence, its eternal wing
play in some endless role Of life de.
signed, It would seem, to keep the In.
sect happy while he lives along X
Evening star., 1937-08-28
BRIDGE TRAFFIC FLOWS
FREELY AS TUG LEAVES
Dredging of Channel Above Ar
lington and Highway Bridges
Is COMPLETED.

For the first time in weeks traffic
flowed over Arlington Memorial and
Highway Bridges today uninterrupted
by the periodic lifting of the draws
to permit passage Of the tug Abe
marie, whose high mast would clear
neither span.
The dredging of the Georgetown
Channel has been completed and the
Albemarle will aid for the next six
weeks in the deepening Of Washington
Channel.
After that the Albemarle will begin
to bring gravel barges down the Ana
costa River from dredging activities
above the Eleventh Street Bridge.
This span, like those of Arlington
and Highway Bridges. will be lifted
for the tug while the work is in
progress.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
&,63O PRISONERS
JAILED IN VIRGINIA,
SETTING RECORD
States CommittaI Rate
Four Times That of Ma
ton, Report Says.
ARLINGTON is FIRST
IN JUVENILE CASES
102 Minors Held in Nearby Coun.
ty-Penal System Cost of
$547, ,553 Is Deplored.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, August 28.-The State
of Virginia committed 84,63O persons
to Jail during the past fiscal year, to
set an all-time high record that is
four times that Of the committal rate
of the entire Nation, Russell B. De-
vine, supervisor Of Jail accounts for
the State Department of Public We'll
fare, disclosed yesterday.
Moreover, he reported, the figure
represents so per cent increase over
the 1880 total and is five times greater
than the 1873 committed in 1911,
the first year in which statistics were
compiled.
Annual Jail committals in Vir-
ginia,' said the welfare official, who
is consultant to the legislative COM
mission now studying the revamping
OF the States antiquated penal sys-
tenn, ARE substantially more than
those for the entire nation OF Eng
land"
6,653 Increase in Year.
The year which ended June 80 saw
an increase Of 6,653 over the previous
year in the number committed, Devine
pointed out. 1t cost the State $547,-
553.20 for the prisoners in Jail last
year as against $469,6O5.4l for the
previous year.
The tragedy of this is that there
has been no productive return on this
vast expenditure, he said. ut is,
in very truth, money gone with the
wind"
A breakdown of the figures shows
that in the adult group committed
white men accounted for the largest
number, with a grand total of 46,740,
of which 26,407 were jailed in the
counties, 18,050 in the cities and 2,283
on the farms.
Colored men were next with 26,9l3,
divided to 10,987 in the counties,
1929 in the cities and 1857 on city
farms.
Total commitments of colored women
were 1867 as against 3,476 whites.
juvenile Total Jumps.
Juvenile commitments took SHARP
jump over last year with 2,934 in 1887
against 2,528 in 1895, an increase Of
406.
However" Devine said, "it must
be borne in mind in the juvenile com.
initials that the favorable showing fol
the cities is not real because the larger
cities do not send their juveniles tt
jail at all, but to detention homes"
A further breakdown of the figure.
shows that Arlington led the. counties
In juvenile commitments with 63 white
| and 80 colored. total Of l02 Nanse.
mond was second with 83, Of which Il
were colored, the States high fol
Negro juveniles. Lee County topped al
the other counties In white juvenile!
with rs. Only one colored youth wa.
sent to Jail there
Wise Leads Counties.
Wise topped all the counties IL
total committals with 2.242. Nanse
mond was next with lab, Scott wa,
third with 1897, followed by August:
with 1872 and Lee with 1904.
Norfolk had the highest city tota
with 8,110. Richmond was secont
with $500, followed by Roanoke will
5,507 and Danville, 4,453.
Counties showing the smallest mum
Der of committals we're those In tn
Tidewater group.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
Washington s
Own
Book Of Hours
6 o'clock pm.
hreshold of old age ant

the very threshold Of old age and
death.
DR.. Allard attributes it to some in
herent, pervasive mood that makes all
things move and spin eternally in a
spirit of restless play" This same
orchestra was "flddling in the great,
waving jungles of carboniferous ferns
millions of years before mans embry-
onic beginners were even indicated. "
During the Autumn months this is
an hour Of sudden DEATH"
Motorists driving home from work
are brain-fagged. They are not SO
alert at street crossings nor for chill
dren darting from behind closed cars
Toxins of badly digested food. tobacco
smoke. bad air, WEAKNESS have seeped
into their cerebrums.
There is more traffic and hence more
chance for accidents Folks are in q
hurry to get home They are irritable
and not 50 much inclined to respect
the rights OF others.
Dusk deepens at this hour as the
SCdSOA 6OVhklCSS. tlSlOIl S 1lOL 80 $OOO
Even now it Is a bad hour for folks
driving westward into Virginia and
the sunset.
X 4 + 4
It is equally bad for those walking
westward along F street.
Summer dresses are translucent.
There Is some ungentlemanly staring.
\ X
Now comes the peak Of Washing
tons Summer water consumption.
Folks have hurried home to turn
the automatic sprayers on lawns, into
the greensward of which the tena-
cious claws Of crab grass are piercing.
The daily average consumption Of
water is 100 100000 gallons. The all
time high Of l40O00,00 was reached
during the 1890 drought.
Swimming pools begin to be
crowded on hot afternoons. Home
GIN consumption increases enoemously
With before-dinuer Tom CollinseA
Evening star., 1937-08-28
WOMAN HELD FOR THEFT
PLACED ON PROBATION
Judge suspends Sentence When
Told She Took Clothes for Four
Young Children.

A woman accused of stealing chill
dren's clothes in a downtown depart
ment store was placed on probation
for year today when Policewoman
Cecilia "A. Clarke explained to Judge
Robert E. Mattingly that the prisoner
has four young children.
The woman was arrested yesterday
with a shopping bag full of clothes
she told police she had taken for her
youngsters. Judge Mattingly suspend
ed 500 fine or 90-day sentence be-
fore allowing probation.
Mrs. Clarke said a 12-year-old son
Is in the Industrial Home School. The
other youngsters are s, 10 and II years
old. Their father u 4 p. W. A.. worker.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
CHILDREN GET HOME.
Brother of Mrs. Anderson to Car,
fa,. T..in

Brother of Mrs. Anderson to Care
for Trio.
The three children of Mrs. Hen
rietta Anderson, 36, who was mur-
dered last Sunday in her apartment,
at 1888 L street, will find a home
with their uncle, William L. Stonesi-
flfer, in Steelton, Pa, friends OF the
slain woman revealed today.
Stonesififer, who has been caring
Tor Mrs. Anderson's 2-year-old son,
sent word that he intended to take his
sisters 14-year-old son and 10-year-
old daughter into his home also. The
daughter, patient at the Childrens S
tuberculosis Sanitarium, has not been
told of the death of her father last
December or of the murder Of her
mother.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
PLAN OUTING
International Club Scheduled t

International Club Scheduled to
Go to West Virginia.
The Washington International Club
was scheduled to leave today on a
weekend outing at Capone Lake,
Intermount. W. Va About IS men,
bers planned to take the trip and
were to leave the International House,
1708 New Hampshire avenue, by auto
mobile, to return tomorrow evening.
Last night the group held an eat
home" dinner at the International
House. Among the guests were Rep
resentativs Scott of California and
Miss Lulu Quintanilla, sister Of the
counselor Ut the Mexican Embassy.