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Evening star., 1937-01-11

in digging into the soil for sleeping
grubs
1t is a grand month to study the
form and the bark Of trees. The silver
naples buds are swelling. The birch
is scattering millions Of seed children
on the breeze. They are carried
swiftly over the snow and look like
tiny black bugs. The acacia trees are
in bloom in California and the lower
hills and fields are velvety green.
Arbor day is celebrated in Florida this
month.
In the woods are lichens, gray and
beautiful, on old tree trunks and rocks.
Nearby the partridge berries, in their
crimson coats, beckon to the hungry
birds. Ferns and moses are growing
Justify under their feecy snow blanket,
and the evergreens have handsome
cones from which the seeds have
dropped.
In the Southwest the three-toads are
calling to their neighbors, 1T is time
we started on our journey to the old
pond"
In the South, the pickerel are mov-
ing into shallow water to lay their
eggs. The willy tarpon outwits the
eager angler in Florida waters. and in
the North, the pike may be caught
through a hole in the ice. The cod
moves into fresh water to spawn.
Birds are willing to become more
friendly at this time Of the year.
Many of them have learned to trust
their human brothers, and ioyfully
Evening star., 1937-01-11

But, not knowing this, he was just as
daring as If there had been the danger
he thought there was.
Across the snow-crusted Green
Meadows ran Reddy, headed straight
for the Old Pasture. He felt like a
new Fox. He did so. Mover had food
tasted better than had that stolen
breakfast This was because never
had Reddy been in greater need Of
food. Not since the ice storm several
days before had Reddy had mouth
full to eat. He thought of Mrs. Reddy.
"I hope she has had as good luck as
I have had" said he to himself. II
would have brought some food home
with me, instead of eating all Of 1t
II it could have been carried. It
couldn't, SO ate all of it."
When he reached home there was
no sign Of Mrs. Reddy. Evidently she
had not returned Reddy was not sur
prised at that. He himself had re-
turned sooner than he had expected
to, due to the fact that he had ob-
tained that breakfast much sooner
than he dared hope when he had
started out. 1t was hardly likely that
Mrs Reddy would have had such luck
Reddy curled up on the snow just
outside his doorway. He often curls
UP on the snow. That red fur coat Of
his is so warm that he doesn't get
chilled from lying on the snow. Jolly,
round, bright Mr.. Sun was shining
and added to Reddy's comfort. From
where he was he could see In several
directions. He was watching for Mrs.
Reddy.
Once he abruptly lifted his head,
with his ears cooked sharply. He had
heard faint sound so far away that
he wasn't quite sure that he had
heard it.
WAS that a gun?" muttered Reddy
sit sounded like it, but it was so faint
that I am not sure. Anyway, even If
1t was, there is nothing for me to
worry about, for it was in the wrong
direction. She didn't go that way"
OF course, 1t was Mrs. Reddy of
whom he was thinking. 1t was true
that she hadn't started out in the
direction from which that sound had
come She had started in a direction
almost opposite to that. but she might
have swung around that way. He
doubted it, however, and gave the mat
ter no further thought. He lay there
for long time. Finally he began to
get uneasy. He got up and walked
back and forth. He stood motionless,
looking and listening for several min
utes at time. Mrs. Reddy often had
been gone longer, much longer. than
Evening star., 1937-01-11
Bedtime Stories
Mrs. Reddy's Homecoming.

this, and he hadn't given the matter so
much as a thought. But this time he
was uneasy, and he didn't know why.
At last he heard a sound that made
him instantly alert. 1t wasn't the
sound of a gun this time. It was q
faint bark. He answered it, and started
swiftly in the direction from which it
had come. Presently he saw Mrs.
Reddy, and he saw, too, that something
was wrong. Something was very
wrong. Sc wasn't moving toward him.
She wasn't coming to meet him. She
was lying down. Reddy raced to her.
Mrs. Reddy was hurt. She had been
shot. Reddy remembered the sound
of the gun he had heard. She had
Travelled a long way since then. Slowly
and painfully she had been trying ever
since to make her way home. From
lack Of food she was not at her best,
anyway, and her wounds had weak
ened her greatly. Tenderly Reddy
licked those wounds. Mrs. Reddy strug-
gled to her feet and slowly, with many
stops to rest, she made her way home,
Reddy by her side. wishing there was
something he could do for her beside
licking her wounds.
(Copyright. 1890
Evening star., 1937-01-11
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

TOR the nature lover January Is
- a month of glorious adventure.
Even the name of the month Is
a from Janus, the god of begin
ming, who was a double-headed deity,
with one face looking back upon the
accomplishments of the past and one
looking eagerly forward to the future.
January Is a month filled to the brim
with lively folks. willing to share with
the trailer secrets and valuable infor-
ma ton.
1t is the month in which the bear
twins are born. In the South the
weasel retains his coat of brown. in the
North it is ermine. The little deer
mouse in his cozy house, established
in a reconditioned catbird's nest. an
chored in tall weed stems. may be
tracked by his footprints on the soft
snow. Small tunnels may be found
by other mice bound for orchard trees.
January is the courting month for
wolves. The smallest animals in the
world, the shrews, are actively engaged
Evening star., 1937-01-11
Ban on Chinese Hit.

Planters Of Samoa, group Of islands
off New Zealand, are protesting
against the ban on Chinese laborers.
The new Labor government of New
Zealand, which holds a mandate from
the League Of Nations to look after
Samoa, has announced that it will
permit no more Chinese laborers to
enter Samoa and those now there will
be sent back to their native land.
Evening star., 1937-01-11
Alert Defense.

Alert Defense.
TACK Moos of Philadelphia has
been a leading player in that
city for many years. A few
weeks ago he visited the Caven-
dish Club in New York City for the
first time. Mr.. Moos so well liked the
games and the spirit of keen, but
friendly competition that he immedi-
ately decided to join the club and
spend the Winter in New York. On
defense the other day Mr.. Moos made
a shift Just in time to defeat q game
contract.
South, dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
Evening star., 1937-01-11
C0LD-In n-ThE-hEAD
SOMETHING new FOR
IT THAT'S BETTER

No matter what you've used be-
fore, do yourself this favor:
Go out and get yourself a tube Of
that new and remarkable relief for
head colds-REL Head-Cold Jelly.
Put alittle up just one side Of your
nose. Wait few seconds - and
see what happens. First you'll note
a delightful, refreshing "pine
woods" odor. Then you'll feel that
side of the nostril open - clearly
all the way up. That stuffed up"
feeling is gone! It's really wonder
full how quickly REL Head Cold
Jelly starts relief!
Evening star., 1937-01-11
CITIZENS AROUSED
BY FISCAL REPORT
Mount Pleasant Association Mem.
bers Voice Disappointment.
Action Sped.

Expressions Of disappointment at
the Jacobs Fiscal Committee report
and the fiscal relations proposed in
the budget message occupied the mem
bers Of the Mount Pleasant Citizens
Association at their meeting Saturday
Evening star., 1937-01-11

followed the suggestion Of its Execu-
tive Committee by voting to become an
associate member Of the Criminal
Justice Association.
DR.. Charles B. Campbell, chairman
OF the Committee on Public Health,
outlined in his report the program
which the District Medical Society
intends to work for this year, the
most important item OF which he felt
was the passage Of q pure food, drug
and cosmetic act here.
Evening star., 1937-01-11
night in the Mount Pleasant Library.

Feeling the association was as yet
unprepared to take action, but realiz-
ing the necessity for speed, DR.. A. A.
Chenay, chairan Of the Public Utilities
Committee, made q motion that the
fiscal report be referred to the Execu-
tive Committee for study and that the
committee. when ready. should be en-
powered to act for the association
and to instruct the delegates to the
federation. The resolution was
adopted.
The group went on record extending
its sympathies TO the family Of M. S.
Murray, longtime member OF the
association, who recently died. 1t also
Evening star., 1937-01-11
BY THRONTON w. BURGESS,

While Fortune smiles on one. alas
Unseeing she will others pass,
Evening star., 1937-01-11

SIS, 600 900 for Honolulu Building
Total cost Of new construction in
Honolulu last year was more than
$4,000 900.
Evening star., 1937-01-11

-Reddy Fox.
Reddy Fox was we'll pleased with
himself. Yes, sir, Reddy was well
pleased with himself. He had secured
q good meal through his own daring.
He had seen Flip the Terrier and
Bowser the Hound called into the
house just after their breakfast had
been put out for them, and he had
had the daring to go over there, close
to the back doorstep of Farmer
Browns house, in broad daylight and
nobble that breakfast. He felt that
that was a very daring thing to do.
and so it was. He wasn't in the least
danger. Farmer Browns Boy had pur-
posely called those dogs into the house,
so that Reddy might have that break
fast, and all the time was watching
Reddy from window. Those dogs
would not be let out again until
Reddy was well on his way to his
home in the old pasture. So in real
ity Reddy was running no risk at all.
Evening star., 1937-01-11
Indian Chief Stamp.

Hollow Horn Bear" Brule Sioux
chief, is the Indian appearing on the
United States 14-cent postage stamp.
Evening star., 1937-01-11
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

David Ma OSWALD MCw sshsnksn ~l
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
Temperatures Up,
Ending Cold Wave
I'm Southern Areas

CHICAGO. Nov. %. UP)-Ris-
ing temperatures promised today
an end of a bitter cold wave but
southern states residents still shiv-
cred from abnormally cold weather
with the mercury lower at some
Georgia, Alabama and Texas towns
than in Canada.
Five inches of snow fell at Pales-
tine, Tex, where the temperature
was 30 above zero in what Chicago
Weather Forecaster j. r. Lloyc
termed Unusually severe weather"
The mercury dropped suddenly
at Austin, Tex, where 256 inches
of rain fell yesterday. and snow
began to fall this morning when
the temperature was 80 at 7 am
Warmer weather was predicted
in Illinois. Indiana, Missouri, Wis
consin, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas
Nebraska and Minnesota and
Lloyd said "the real cold is pass
| ing on.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

his understudy, Buck Gilmore,
still is out with an infected foot.
Fullback Walt Schell did not re-
port for practice yesterday because
of a badly cut eye. Hal Rirshon,
halfback, and j. Broadwell. tackle,
also were casualties of the Mus
tang conflict.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

LOS ANGELES, Nov. % CUP)-
Coach Bill Spaulding of California
at Los Angeles attempted today to
piece together a starting eleven for
Saturdays game with Missouri. Key
man Kenny Washington, roughly
handled by Southern Methodist,
was in not-too- good condition and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

HONOLULU, Nov. 90 CUP) -
Stanford's proposed football games
with Hawaiian teams here Christ
mas and New Years day have
been cancelled. Coach Otto Klum
said today. A change in boat sche-
dulles which would prevent the
Stanford squad from arriving be-
fore December 30 was given as the
reason for cancelling the games.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

FOR SALE house traier. Accom-
modate 2. Completely equipped.
Inquire Simpson Service station,
1497 Adams. MIG
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

FOR SALE one GM.C. 1886 Pick
up, / Dodge 1895 Pickup, l good
two wheel trailer, at Havekorst
Farms, 21a miles south of Melo-
land. Phone Holtville 8730J4 MIG
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

EIECTROLUX Air Purifier and
cleaner. For factory representa-
tlves, phone 979, Ell Centro. MA
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
% For Sale. Miscellaneous

4 SACKS sour clover seed. Bar
gain. F. E. Alexander. 2 miles
south McCabe school. N16T'F
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
"a Wanted, M1sceHaneOus

WANTED TO BUY-Magneto for
Fordson tractor K. w. Taylor.
Rt. Box 1873 or l1a miles south
of Date Ranch. N25
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
POST>PRESS CLASSIFIED ADS
III livestock For Sale

FOR SALE high grade springing
Guernsey heifers, IL miles
north of Brawley, east side of
road. South of Country club. A.
o. Knutson. N24
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

FRESNO, Nov. % CUP)- Coach
James Bradshaw stressed pass de-
fense in drills of Fresno State COL
lege of the Pacific here Thanks
giving day.
Fullback Ken Gleason and half
back Tony Heeb have recovered
from injuries suffered in the Hard
in-Simmons game.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

LET US FIGURE on your new
home Remodeling or repairs
Long experience. John p. Harri-
son and Son, phone 1175-W, TAO
SO. 7th. Dec.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
32 Eegals

WILL NOT BE responsible for
any debts other than my own.
Signed Mrs. Helen M. Currens
ms
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
81 Used Cars. Trucks

FOR SALE late 1886 C-1 Interna-
tional Pickup, long wheel base.
See r. B. Leedham, Internation-
al Harvester CO., 345 Olive Ave.
N22 TF
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

FOR SALE. Complete hot water
plant. furnace and tank. 588
Main st. N24
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
Special Notice

WANTED, Laundry work or will do
washing and ironing in your
home. Cora Armstrong, 140
Hamilton. N25
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

FURNISHED to permanent tenants.
Very desirable flat. Modern. Close
In. Inquire 231 So. 9Th. A31-TF
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

2 ROOM Furnished apartments
$3.75 and $4.75 per week. 783 Park
O5- IF
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
BABY CHICKS

500 Reds -. S1075 per hundred
800 Barred Rocks S11.75 per hun
dred.
WHITMAN SEED co.
618 Main Phone 294
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
Situations Wanted

WANTED part time house work
Inquire 618 North 9th st. N2t
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

If YOU are thinking about buy
ing home in Ell Centro or vi
cinity or if you want to sell or
trade the home you now have, see
G. A. IRVING
831 Main Phone 974
THE BEST LISTINGS
A SPECIALITY
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
POullTg FOR Sale

NICE colored fryers, 8 to 31k lbs.
Live 25c, dressed 30c. $50 Maple,
block east of new ball park .N23
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

II Apartments For Rent
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

Al FAT Turkeys, all sizes, alive
or dressed. Reasonable. Mrs.
Isom, l mile west Main, l block
So on Dahlia. block west. MA
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23
I LIDeSrOcT FOR SAFE

2 Extra good children's ponies, sold
with guarantee. 315 Commercial
street, Ell Centre. N26
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-23

SONOTONE corporation has open
ing for salesman exclusive I'M
perial county. Car necessary.
Apply 1925 Bank of America
Bldg, San Diego.
Evening star., 1937-08-27
ERRAND BOY HELPS
CAPTURE BANDIT
Co|ored Youth, II, Phones
Police While Robber Hunts
for Rear Exit.

Playing return engagement at
an Elite Laundry branch yesterday
afternoon, colored bandit was cap
tured after an ll-year-old errand boy,
also colored notified police he had
looked in the front door of the estab-
lishment and seen the woman man.
ager lying bound on the floor.
The boy, Kenneth Wilson, inter-
rupted the hold-up of the laundry
branch at ITO Florida avenue when
he returned from an errand and found
the front door locked. While the rob-
ber sought vainly for the rear exit,
Kenneth ran to his home next door
and asked his mother to telephone
police
Smashing the front door to gain en-
trance, officers freed the manager,
Mrs. Virginia Darne, and captured
the hold-up man, who identified him.
self as Frank Parr. "a, of the 400
block Of M street northeast.
Held Up Place Before.
Mrs. Darne said the man entered
the Office, brandished a revolver and
directed her to line on the floor. He
locked the door, bound her wrists and
ankles with tape and then rifled the
cash register of about $40, overlooking
SIS In desk drawer nearby. she said.
Evening star., 1937-08-27
LIGHTNING KILLS
+ FEDERAL LAWYER
Jefferson Davis Donnahoe
Struck While SWIMMING
in North Carolina.

Jefferson Davis Donnahoe, 40,
Federal Trade Commission attorney
of Clarendon, Va, was killed yester-
day when he was struck by lightning
while surf bathing at Nags Head,
N. c., according to an Associated
Press dispatch.
Mrs. Donnahoe, the former Eliza
beth Stanley Wilcox, who was SWIM
ming with her husband, was stunned
but succeeded in reaching shore
Donnahoe's body was swept to sea.
Mrs. Louis A. Mcmahon, mother of
Mrs. Donnahoe. went to Nags Head
where her daughter was under the
care of physician last night. Mrs
Donnahoe operates an interior deco
rating studio at 1911 street.
Donnahoe was secretary to Repre-
sentative Zebulon Weaver of North
Carolina before he was appointed te
the Federal Trade Commission. He
was the son of Mrs. P. A. Donnahoe
Of Asheville, N. c. He was educated
1T the University of North Carolina
North Carolina State College, Wake
Forest and the University of Gin
cinnati.
Coast Guards from the Kitty Hawk
station were searching the beach fol
Donnahoe's body today. An Army
observation plane from Langley Field
flew low along the coastline yesterday
searching for the body.
Evening star., 1937-08-27
5%OF BABESBORN
WITH SIX FINGERS
Condition Is Most Frequent
of Abnorma|ities, Ga||inger
Official Says.

The most frequent abnormality Of
children at birth Is when they are
born with six fingers.
Mrs. Lillian Reed, superintendent
OF the delivery ward at Gallinger Hos
pital. made this known today in as
serting that approximately per cent
OF the children born there have extra
fingers. Last year 2,l64 births were
recorded at the hospital, about two
thirds being colored.
In the birth of white children,
however, such cases are a rarity.
Doctors were unable to explain this
but said observations led them to
believe the abnormal condition was
hereditary.
Last week Dr. w. c. Hill handled
three such cases In two the chill
dren, both colored, had an extra finger
on each hand. Several months ago,
he said. child was born with an
extra finger on each hand and six
toes on each foot.
Operation Quite Simple.
The removal operation In cases
where the extra fingers have no bone
is quite simple" Dr. Hill explained.
A gut" string is tied at the base.
In three or four days the finger drops
of. There is little pain to the child
If this duty is performed several weeks
after birth, but usually the fingers,
which are normal in every respect
other than having no bone. are tied
at birth. before the nervous system
begins to function. Removed then,
there is no pain.
The medical term for such cases
is "polydactylism," meaning many
digits."
Removal Of the excess fingers or
toes by the knife method too often
causes hemorrhage. This practice
has virtually been abandoned.
Complex In Bone Cases.
In cases where the finger has q
bone an operation is necessary. DR..
Hill said and often is very complex.
1T takes a fine plastic surgery job
to remove traces of the operation in
cases of this kind" DR.. Hill COM
mented.
He said that in Austria there was
a town where practically all of the
population was born with six fingers
and six toes on each hand and foot.
Mrs. Reed and DR.. Hill both scoffed
at the idea of most expectant mothers
the occurrences before birth affect
the normality of the child.
only in very rare cases do We
have any serious abnormalities at
BIRTH" Mrs. Reed explained. The
extra fingers on children are OF little
consequence, and cases Of that type
are very common. Occasionally chill
dren are born with two thumbs"
Evening star., 1937-08-27

The man did not resist arrest when
police, led by Lieut.. Clarence Lutz,
rusheo in.
Detective Sergt Walter S. Beck re-
ported Parr said he held up the branch
August, when he bound Miss Nora Her.
ring, manager Of the store at that time,
with tape and forced her to lie on
the floor In the back of the shop That
time the store was robbed Of $21.
Delivery Boy Saves SIS.
Gilbert Horn, also colored, who
works for liquor store in the HOO
block of Bladensburg road northeast,
responded late last night to a call
for quart OF whisky and change for
$50 to be taken to an apartment in
the 1900 block Of Elm street north
east.
Gilbert found no one at home. He
became suspicious and hid SIS of the
change. Just as he was leaving
through the lobby, q man held him up
and robbed him of the remaining
change In his pocket, 81.
Theft of 36-inch brass crucifix
was reported to police last night by
from the altar Of Holy Trinity Catho-
lie Church. Thirty-sixth and o streets,
Frank I. Murphy, sexton.
Evening star., 1937-08-27

Urging once again the reopening
of the old No. police station, Maj.
Brown said it was felt the combin-
ing of the second and eighth pre-
cincts, ordered about five years ago
by the late Maj. Gen. Herbert B.
Crosby, then Commissioner. covered
too much territory for proper policing
and public safety. This building,
on Fifth street between M and N,
would be reconditioned as police
station at cost of $4,000. For
renting new home for the Woman's
Bureau Maj. Brown seeks $4,000. The
location was not specified.
The site for the proposed new
northeast police substation already
has been purchased. This would re-
duce the area now covered by the
eleventh precinct force, now charged
with policing all the area east of
the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers,
or more than II square miles.
Increase in Pay.
While urging the increase Of 100
in the uniformed ranks, Maj. Brown
asked for assignment of 10 more
men as detective sergeants and IS
additional as motor cycle officers. For
the detectives this would call for $500
more pay and $4,000 more for motor
cycle assignments.
Approval Of the requested increases
In force would raise the total from
1891 to 1,498. There would be Is
captains instead Of IA, Al lieutenants
instead Of SO, So sergeants instead OF
IS and 1874 privates instead Of
1,274. Officers pay would 60 up from
1886, ,730 to $3,634,730.
Asking for $9,250 increase in the
fund for purchase Of uniforms, Maj.
Brown said this year 1t would be i'm
possible to furnish all new appointees
with complete uniforms due to in
creased costs of clothing and because
most Of the uniforms on hand are
OF large sizes.
Replacement Of the departments
Evening star., 1937-08-27
MURDERED WIDOW
BURIED IN ARLINGTON
Grand Jury Returns Indictment
Charging Janitor in Ander-
son Killing.

The body of Mrs. Henrietta Ander-
son, 36-year-old widow, Veterans
Administration clerk and mother Of
three children, rested today in Arling-
ton National Cemetery beside her war
veteran husband
While Mrs. Anderson was being
buried yesterday a grand jury re-
turned an indictment charging first
degree murder against William (Ma-
jor) McAfee, 81, colored janitor, in
the Staying Of Mrs. Anderson. She
was killed Sunday in her apartment
at 1888 L street. The jury deliberated
only five minutes.
Funeral services for the widow were
held at Chambers Funeral Home,
Fourteenth and Chaplin streets. Only
one Of her three children was present,
Linwood, jr., IA. William, 2, was at
the home of relatives in Pennsylvania.
Barbara, 10, is i'll in Children's Tuber-
culosis Hospital, Glenn Dale, Md.
Barbara was to have been brought
home Sunday. Now she has suffered
relapse.
Linwood Anderson, the war veteran
father, died in Mount Alto Hospital
last December. His illness resulted
from war services.
A fund for the children Is being
raised by Veterans Administration
colleagues OF Mrs. Anderson.