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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-29
Boys Clubs to Honor
Young Athletes

When member Of boys club in Washington receives gold
kew it is quite an honor
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-22
Answers

/. It is an auction at which bids
are decreased instead of in.
creased until a minimum price is
reached.
2. No nation formally indorses
slave trading, but it is believed to
exist in Abyssinia, China, Eritrea,
Hedjaz, Kufra, Liberia, Morocco,
South Morocco, Rio de Orc, East
and West Sahara and South Tripo-
Ii.
3. A. P. Mccarthy of st. Louis,
Mo-, carried $3.50 pounds on his
back in 1898.
4. If the temperature is lower a
watch will gain.
S. In 1927 DR.. A. S. Rosenbach
paid 100000 for a copy of the
Gutenberg Bible, which is said tc
be the highest price ever paid
for a book at auction.
6. africa, Chile, has the mini.
mum amount that has come I'm.
der observation. The average
rainfall for II years was only 0.0i
inch a year and there were only
measurable showers within that
time.
Z. Helen of Troy.
8. A form of government ir
which power is restricted to a few
9. Embracing many arts.
10. A candidate backed at a ma.
tional convention chiefly by the
delegation from his own state.
II An animal of microscopic
smallness.
Il. James Bland, a negro poet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-22
Children's Problems
Solved by Study
of Puppet Shows

New York.-Children's wo:-
ries about love, marriage and
even sex are being solved for a
group of little patients at Belle
vue hospital here by puppet
shows. These puppet shows
represent for children the prob
lem plays which parents see on
Broadway.
This use of puppet shows was de-
scribed to members of the Amer
lean Orthopsychiatric association
meeting here by DR.. Lauretta Ben
der and Adolph Woltman of the
psychiatric division of Bellevue hos
pital.
Just as the grown-up audience dis
cusses the problem of John and
Mary on the stage, the children dis
cuss with each other and the psy-
chiatrist the problems of the puppet
characters. Through such discus
sion, by children or grown-ups,
comes better understanding of their
own problems. With little help
from the psychiatrist, the children
are then able to find the best way
out of their difficulties. The pup
pet shows are designed to include
all the problems that worry chill
dren and keep them from growing
up happily. a
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atoms and could not be. But
when it was completed at last,
the impossible" had been
accomplished. From the steep
slope the shaft ran in for the
more than 500 feet with a clear
ance of about five feet. 1t was
about four feet wide at the bot
tom and three at the top.
The whole length was shored
and braced with timbers against
the countless tons of sand and
clay above. The tunnel ran
third Of it's length at slight
pitch upward, then took steep
pitch for another third, to re-
gain the proper distance from
the curving surface above, and
thence ran nearly level to point
below the Confederate fort.
Here the main gallery branched
into two laterals about 80 feet
long for placing the magazine.
Into the side galleries, on the
eve of the projected attack, were
carried 5000 pounds of powder,
the amount to which the requisi-
ton was cut by General Meade.
The various magazines thus
made were linked by fuses in
tubes, the fuse led down the gal
lery and tamped with tons of
earth. While this was going on,
those working in the big tunnel
could hear the Confederates
above. Sounds of digging led
them to believe their enterprise
had been suspected and was
about to be countered. More
over, the shock of discharge of
Confederate guns overhead led to
fears of a cave-in. Everything
argued for speedy shooting the
mine, and preparations for the eff
fort to take advantage of the GER
tain breach in the lines were
fastened. But it was here that
the brilliance of Peasants
achievement was nullified by the
laundering of higher-ups.
A Fatal Choice.
While Peasants was busy with
his operations a division of negro
troops were being trained by
Burnside to lead the assault
through the breach to be caused
by the mine. But at the last
minute Meade and Grant disap-
proved of their use for this duty
lest they be criticized for select
ing colored men to be the "bat-
talon of DEATH" So Burnside had
the storm division chosen by
drawing straws. AS it turned
out, this foredoomed the enter
prise to failure because the lot
fell to Gen. James H. Ledlie,
commander of the First division
of Burnside's corps.
It was brought out then ana by
congressional investigation lat
er, that Ledlie's "bad habits"
and consequent unreliability were
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OFF YOU'D take a few stems

81 F YOU'D take a few steps,
Sis, I believe I'd be inspired
to answer that question, Did you
ever see a dream walking?' You
are nothing less than devastating
truly menace!"
"You meow so sweetly, Connie.
I'm bit suspicious that this little
peplum frock of mine has got
you catty. Your eyes really aren't
green by rights, you know
Connie Sews Her Own.
''How could you? l think my
dress looks as nice on me as
yours does on you. Why practical
ly all of the girls at the Laf-a-Lot
last night wanted to know where
/ found such a lovely frock. Not
one of them guessed that 1 made
it myself. And did I feel elegant
when played Mendelssohn's
Spring Song on DANES new baby
grand! The girls said 1 fit into
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Foreign Words
and Phruses

Etourderie. CD Giddy conduct,
an imprudent caprice.
Ricordo. Ut.) A souvenir, a
keepsake.
A contre occur. CD Unwilling
ly.
Pas seul. CD A dance per-
formed by one person.
Dec favente. (L.) With the help
of God.
Clauqueur. CD One paid for
applauding at theater.
Calembour. CD A pun.
A la lettre. CD To the letter,
literally.
Coup de maitre. CD A master
stroke.
81 non vero, e ben trovato.
Qt.) If it is not true, it is very
ingenious.
Elk amino. CD Heartily.
Sans culottes. CD Ragged men,
the lower classes during the
French revolution.
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ants had noted, however, that al
though the Union earthworkS
were lower than the Confederate,
the land sloped very sharply be-
hind the position of the Ninth
corps. Thus what went on be-
hind their lines was concealed
from Confederate observers over
a considerable area.
So he conceived the idea of
tunneling under the Union lines
and the mo mans land" be-
tween them and the Confederates
and laying a mine under the posi-
ton held by the men in gray.
His proposal was sent through
the usual military channels to
his division commander, Gen.
Robert B. Potter, his corps COM
mander, General Burnside, both
of whom approved of it, to Cen
eral Grant, who saw in it an OPP
portunity to crack the Confeder-
ate line and pour enough troops
through the crevasse to capture
Petersburg. So he ordered Burn
side to go ahead with the project.
Carrying out those orders was
an epic achievement for which
Peasants deserves more credit
than history has yet given him.
With his regiment of about 400
miner-soldiers he did the job
despite lack of cooperation from
his superiors. General Meade
and Major Duane, chief engineer
of the Army of the Potomac,
said the thing could not be done
that it was all "clap-trap and
nonsense; that such a length of
mine had never been excavated
in the history of military oper-
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Ask Me Another
Q Il General Quiz
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.

l. What is a Dutch auction?
2. In what countries is slavery
still practiced?
3. What is the worlds record of
weight carried by man?
4. Does a watch gain time at
night?
S. What is the highest price
ever paid for a book at auction?
6. In what part of the world
does the least rain fall?
7. Of what famous beauty was
Menelaus the husband?
8. What is an oligarchy?
9. What does polytechnic"
mean?
10. In American politics what is
a "favorite SON.?
II. What is an animalcule?
IL. Who wrote the song Garry
Me Back to Old Virginny"?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-22
BY
Elm o
Scott
Wa t 8 O N

ones, twos and groups could be
seen running toward the smoking
Crater.
Burnside and Ledlie had failed
to clear their own defense obsta-
cles and to prepare passages
out of and over their own deep
trenches. So their storm troops
were disordered and delayed ac-
cordingly. Not shot was fired
from the Confederate side at first,
but by the time the Crater was
filled by huddled mob of fore
most men, the Confederate rifles
were cracking from tanks and
front, hostile guns were throwing
gusts of canister, and it was fatal
to go beyond that scene of hide
Gus death.
Out of the Death Pit.
Gallant officers of the Union line
sprang out of the death pit and
led few of their bravest men
as far as 100 yards beyond the
Crater's lips, but forward of that
none went and nothing could live.
Survivors raced back for what
shelter the pit could give them.
There one after another they fell,
torn by rifle balls and shell frag-
mentS.
Men started despairingly to dig
a trench from the Crater back to
the Union lines. Men in the lines
began to dig a hasty ditch toward
the Crater to save what life they
could from certain death if the
men remained there. Toward
noon orders were gotten into the
Crater for the men to withdraw
as best they could. They dashed
for their lines, but only part of
them reached safety.
The Confederate loss had been
276 officers and men, and this
"stupendous failure" as Grant
called it, had cost him 3,798
killed, wounded, captured or
missing. In the afternoon the
Confederates swept forward to
drive away the last struggling
Union troops and that night Ma
homes division ''held the Crater
and all the horrors that lay in
and about it,
Years later a farmer clearing
land near Petersburg discovered
by accident a tunnel under the
ground. Further investigation re-
vealed the fact that it was only
one small part of an elaborate
system that had been dug by the
Confederates during the long
siege of Petersburg, many of
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Vic P4SbO1C PCA1CNtAy' bAAOO6As
if only Dwight could see me now"
81 still say my two-piecer with
its piped peplum, cute little but
tons and stream-lines is the No. l
spring outfit in this woman's
town."
Mother Happens Along.
'Girls, girls, if your talk were
only half as pretty as your frocks
you'd be better off. Sometimes I
wonder if you wouldn't be more
appropriately titled The Cheek
Twins, rather than The Chic
Twins"
"Okay, Mother, you win. Let's
change the subject by changing
clothes. Well put on our cullottes
and join you in a round of golf,
how's that? Gee, Mother, you new
er look sweeter than when you're
wearing a casual young two-piece
shirt dress. The plaid pique is
just the thing for you, too. In
fact, Nom, you're just about
tops from any angle"
The Patterns.
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20 go to 40 bust). Size IA re-
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terial plus II yards of ribbon or
bias binding. Pattern 1881 is avail
able in sizes IA to 20 (32 to AZ
bust). Size 16 requires 4A yards
of 39-inch material.
Pattern 1886 comes in sizes II
to 20 (32 to AZ bust). Size Is re-
quires 4A yards of 39-inch ma
terial.
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well known in the Union army.
It was disclosed that Ledlie
stayed behind in dug-out drink
ing throughout the Crater action
and could not be induced to go
out and try to extricate the rem
nants of his division from the
deathtrap in which they were
caught.
When the tunneling operations
had been completed on July % a
total of $4,000 cubic feet of earth
had been excavated. The four
tons of powder were placed in
the laterals on July q and the
next day the miners tamping
had been completed. Peasants
was then ordered to explode the
mine early on the morning of
July 80. He lighted the fuse at
3:15 o'clock in the morning. The
minutes licked away-and moth
ing happened! So Lieut.. Jacob
Douty and Sergeant Henry Rees
volunteered to risk their lives
and go into the tunnel to see why.
They found that the fire had
stopped where fuse lengths had
been tied together, so they
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federate trenches rise up in a
gigantic upheaval. The air above
the spot was filled with mount
ing cloud of earth, men, guns,
planks and fragments. Confed-
crates near the Crater ran in
every direction. The waiting I'm
ion legions shrank back, to es-
cape the shower of debris. Both
sides gazed astounded, appalled,.
A great hole appeared in the
ground, 200 feet long, 60 feet
wide, Is feet deep, smoking, dust
shrouded, horrible.
The Union artillerymen recov-
cred from their surprise first. AL
most Immediately they began
laying down fiery barrage on
both sides of the breach. Five
minutes later, blue soldiers in
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them no doubt, to prevent any
repetition of Peasants feat.
Today the visitor can walk
through those tunnels and mar
vel at the engineering skill which
has made it possible for these un-
foreground passages to remain but
little changed through the 20
years since they were in use.
Different, however, is the case
with the Crater. Today it is lit
tie more than a depression in
the ground. Shaded by the sur
rounding trees, grass-carpeted
from top to bottom, it little re-
sembles that place of horrors
where on hot July day in 1864
nearly 5000 Americans died in
vain.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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Of course, this time it will
be only a sham battle, staged
by the National Park Service,
with the Devil Dogs" of the
United States Marine corps
representing the Union troops
and cadets from the Virginia
Military institute and nation
al guardsmen from the Old
Dominion playing the part of
the Confederates. But to the
thousands of spectators who
are expected to gather in
Petersburg for the re-enact-
ment of this battle there will
be a thrill of reality to it as
they see the 1887 prototypes
of the 1861-65 warriors swing
into action and hear the voice
of DR.. Douglas Southall Free
man, editor, historian and BIZ
ographer of "Marse Robert"
Lee, describing through a
loud speaker system the bat
tie as it progresses.
With his description supplying
such parts of the battle as must
necessarily be omitted from the
re-enactment, they will hear in
memory the gigantic roar of the
explosion of four tons of powder
as it hurled a mountain of earth,
artillery, planks of wood and
other debris high up in the air,
taking nearly 300 Confederate
soldiers to their death. They will
see the Union storm troops rush
ing down into the huge hole in
the ground, and then, slipping
and sliding, trying vainly to
climb up the other side, while
Confederate rifles and cannon
reap their harvest of death in
that inferno below them. And
when the gray-clad soldiers with
a series of brilliant charges re-
capture the broken lines, they will
realize anew the full horror of
this terrible fiasco which cost the
lives of nearly 1900 boys in blue
and gained not single yard of
disputed terrain in the long
drawn-out fight for possession of
Petersburg-"the longest siege
on American SOIL"
Back of the story of this en-
gagement is the history of the
stalemate which existed in the
fourth year of the Civil war. The
genius of Robert E. Lee had
baked every attempt of Ulysses
S. Grant with his host of blue
coats to crush the ragged men
in gray in the long series of bat
ties that had ragged north and
east of the Confederate capital.
So the Union commander decided
to swing around that beleaguered
city, cross the James river and
strike Richmond from the south
through Petersburg, "the back
door of the Confederacy."
The result was a protracted
siege or nine months. In this
time Skirmishes occurred almost
daily, totaling some $50 minor
engagements.
A Tragic Climax.
But all of them were leading
up to tragic climax-the Battle
of the Crater. That it was to
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turn out thus was no fault of the
man who had the original idea for
attempting the most spectacular
coup of the whole war He was
Lieut.. Col. Henry Peasants of
the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania
Volunteers, a part of the Ninth
corps, commanded by Gen. A. E.
Burnside. Peasants had been a
mining engineer and most of the
men in his regiment were Penn
sylvania coal miners.
During the attacks on PETERS
burg III June, 1864, Peasants
"sized up" the terrain with the
practiced eye of the engineer
The Union troops were behind
high earthworks within 400 feet
of the Confederates' defensive
trench system and nearly oppo-
site a strong point called Elliott's
salient, which was well fortified
and almost impregnable. Pleas
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spliced fresh ends, lighted the
fuse again and dashed hastily out
of the tunnel. For a few min
utes the waiting Union troops
stood shivering in the cool dawn
and then
A Gigantic Upheaval.
They felt the earth shake I'M
der them but the only sound they
heard was dull grumbling roar.
Their eyes, however, told them
the story of what had happened.
Over across mo mans land"
they saw a section of the Con-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-22
Once More the Guns Roar i'm Elmo
PetersbmrS's Historic eeCrater'' ss.:

HE guns of the War Between the States have been
stilled for nearly three quarters of century, but
April 80 of this year the quiet little city of Petersburg
Va will echo to their roar. There on that
date bue-cad 'Yank' and gray butternut brown
CARRIED Johnny Reb will fight again one of the most
spectacular engagements in the whole four years of
the Civil wharf.-the Battle of the Crater.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-22

BABY CHICKS

Minnesota Master Bred Chicks Puliets
Cockerels, Turkey Poults. EAGLE CHICK
HATCHERY, New Uim, MINI. Box 27oA-
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the picture perfectly. I thought
if only Dwight could see me now"
81 still say my two-piecer with
its piped peplum, cute little but
tons and stream-lines is the No.
spring outfit in this woman's
town.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Washington Produce.

:, BUTTER-92 score. 1-pound prints. 3s:
!4-pound prints. 80: tub. 81 90 score
l-pound prints, 81: i4-pound prints, So,
tub. "6. Market strong.
MEATS - Choice beef. 10: calves. l6;
veal, 10; lamb. IS; pork loin, 2l; fresh
nam. 90: smoked hams, 20: sliced bacon
;i3:, slab bacon. rs: compound, l31a;
lard, -.
LIVE SIOCK-Pigs SaSI2: light hogs
sl2a212: medium, ol2a924; heavies,- Sa9l2:
roughs, 6as: calves. 5a912: lambs. 5a10.
Prices paid shippers-net fob. Wash
ington. BY the United States Bureau of
Agricultural Economies.
EGGS-Market steady to firm. United
States Government graded eggs, Il cent
higher Current receipts. II to u la: hen
merry whites, u - to ~ Government
graded and dated white eggs met prices
paid shippers. b. Washingtonl: u. S.
extras, large, %; U. S. extras mediums,
Il: U. S. standards, large, 22A.
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady at un-
changed prices. Fowl: Colored heavy.
Is to IS; Leghorns IL to l3. Chickens:
Rocks and Crosses. under 3 pounds, 90 to
~: over 3 pounds. 23. Guineas. young
: pounds and up 40 each; under . pounds.
25 TO 30 each old guineas. 20 to % each
Turkeys: Young hens, 10 to 20; young
toms, under % pounds, 16 to II; 20
pounds and over; Is; No. 2. 12; old hens.
IA. old toms. ID
Evening star., 1937-03-13

Petroleum produced in Venezuela
toke all records In the last year.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Finsnt.sl Writ

NEW YORK. March l3.-Selling In
steels and motors put a damper on a
stock market rally today and many
issues fell back fractions to 2 or more
points
Although brokers said there was
nothing outstanding in the news to
promode liquidation, 1t was thought,
in view of the week end, trading forces
were inclined to cash in profits rather
than extend commitments. Extreme
declines were reduced in some in
stances in the final few minutes.
Except for lively opening, and
moderate pickup near the close,
dealings we're on the quiet side. Trans
fers we're around the 0O0,000-share
mark
Notwithstanding the lower drift Of
cialties managed to run counter to the
| trend for substantial gains
The thought apparently was again
present in the minds of speculative
and investment forces that the adj
| ministration, concerned over the re-
| cent boom in raw materials, might
take steps to stem an undue tnf1a-
| tionary movement in stocks and
| staples
Offerings Of United States Gov
| ernment securities. heaviest since 1920
in yesterdays session, dried up appre-
ciably and support appeared for other
| bonds. Commodities were uneven.
OF the time were United States Steel,
Bethlehem, National Steel, Youngs-
| town Sheet & Tube, Sheffield,
General Motors, Chrysler, Electric
Auto-Lite, General Electric, Ana
conda, American Smelling, Kennecott,
ST. Joseph Lead. Westinghouse, Du
Pont, Allied Chemical, Southern Pa
clfic, Goodyear, Goodrich, Fajardo
Sugar and Johns -Manville.
Evening star., 1937-03-13

Approximate Sales of Stocks the Stock Exchange
II 100 AN $4,000 u 90 Noon 13o 600
Dividend are the annua
cash
Unit of trading less than 100 shares tAnnua rate
including Paid this year
Companies recevership or bens reos. uised
- - ''NN|~
Evening star., 1937-03-13

WHICH enQeu a
two-day session
In New York yes
terday. P. R. Will
liams of San
Francisco, vice
president of the
Bank of America,
said:
Il believe that
the real solution
of poplIlariz i n G
savings lies with
the next genera
ton. Our own
habits have prob
ably become so
fixed that thev
Evening star., 1937-03-13
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK. March 13 HP.-Foreign ex-
Change steady. Great Britain in dollars
others in cents
Great Britain demand 4Ss,?s: cables,
.SStn; tO-day bills 4S7,s: France de-
mand. 4 sofa cables. 450Hs: Italy de-
mand 5"dh4; cables, 5.26L.
Demands: Belgium 1885: Germany,
free. 40.22; registered 20.25 5Arayel. "a Is;
Evening star., 1937-03-13
BALTIMORE STOCKS
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK, March l3 LP-Buttsr
b,Z1b: steady to firm; prices unchanged
Gheese, Il1.7l4; steady and unchanged.
Eggs, 2S,124 steady: mixed coIorS
whites, browns and duck eggs unchsnSeS
Live poultry steady; freight and express
prices unchansed
Evening star., 1937-03-13

Holland. 54.67;, Norway. o455: Sweden.
sstzerand "a 7a Spain sf nnaaoted Hrn1aa poTL df
tueai ;45 p; Greece 90: Poland g 96:
So2echosioVakia; $40; Yugoslavia PA; :;
Evening star., 1937-03-13

mania. .75; Argentina. 80 56n: Brazil
S.SolAn: Toxic @S.53; Shanghai 2os5;
Hongkorg. 3043; Mexico City 21,S0:
Montreal in New York 10O.O6H; Ne "
York in Montreal. 99.93a4.
Nominal
Evening star., 1937-03-13
F|NANC|ERS URGE
THRIFT REVIVAL
Development of Desire to
Save Advocated at
A. B. A. Session.
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

Two bankers made special appeals
Tor q revival of thrift and the desire
to save at the savings conference of
the American Bankers Association,