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Evening star., 1937-05-14
Drummer Boy of Chickamauga
Dies at San antonio. Tex.
Famed Civil War Figure
Beat "Long RoN'' at
Battle of Shiloh.

One Of the Nations immortal war
riors, Little Johnny Glen, the Drum
mer Boy Of Chickamauga," who was
barely IL years old when he won his
sergeants stripes in battle at Shiloh,
died last night at his home in San
Antonio, Tex, according to an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch.
He died with the rank OF a retired
major general, the fruits of long
Army service begun when he Joined
the 23d Michigan Infantry at the
age of TO-
After the Civil War, Gen. U. S.
Grant commissioned the youth sec
ond lieutenant and he climbed stead
lily through the ranks until he retired
in 1915. After his retirement, Gen.
Clem established his home here and
became familiar and beloved figure
in Washington society.
Gen. Glen was 86 years old when he
died. He is believed to have been the
youngest soldier who ever carried arms
as regular in the United States
Army. and military historians agree he
was the youngest on-commissioned
officer ever appointed
Hid in Baggage Car.
When President Lincoln issued his
first call for volunteers in 1861, Johnny
Clem, motherless boy, attempted to
enlist in the Sd Ohio Regiment, but
officers merely laughed at him. The
10-year-old lad, undiscouraged, hid In
a baggage car and rode to the mobiliza-
ton camp at Covington, KY, where he
enlisted by simply attaching himself to
the 22d Michigan Infantry and refus-
ing to leave.
The soldiers took a liking to the
lad and equipped him with a uniform,
drum and sawed-off musket. He beat
the long roll" at the battle of Shiloh
when he was only IL.
At Chickamauga Confederate forces
smashed the Union lines and as
Johnny's comrades retreated he was
left behind, valiantly beating his drum.
Three bullets tore through his cap
when Confederate officer rode up to
take him prisoner. In response to an
order to surrender, the little drummer
boy raised his sawed-off musket, killed
the officer and fled to rejoin his COM
mand.
Word Of Johnny's bravery reached
Gems. Rosecrans and Thomas and the
latter promoted him to sargeant and
made him his orderly. He fought in
the battles Of Perryville, Murfreesboro,
kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek
and Atlanta. He was wounded twice
at Atlanta.
High School Course Finished.
Mustered out Of the Army in 1865
young Glenn returned to his home in
Newark, Ohio, and was graduated from
the high school there in 1870. A
year later President Grant. who had
been attracted by the boys heroism
during the war. appointed Glen, with
out further schooling or examination
as a second lieutenant in the oath In
fantry
The young lieutenant then entered
the Artillery School at Fort Monroe
Va, being graduated in 1875. He be-
came q colonel in 1903 and was made
chief quartermaster Of the Philippine
Division. From 1911 to 1915 he was
attached to the Department of the
Lakes in Chicago. At the time of his
retirement he was serving with tn
Evening star., 1937-05-14
SENATE HEARINGS
ON D. c. MEASURE
| TOBEC|N TUESDAY
Commissioners and Auditor
Scheduled as First
Witnesses.
CHANGES TO DECIDE
NEW REVENUE AMOUNT
Teacher Rider and Others Elk.
pected to Require Debate to
Clarity Situation.
BY j. A. O'LEARY.

Senate hearings on the $45228, 900
District supply bill for the year be-
ginning July l will start at 10 am
Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma,
chairman of the District Appropria-
tionS Subcommittee.
The first witnesses will be the Com
missioners and District Auditor Daniel
j. Donovan. They will be followed
by department heads, after which
spokesmen for civic organizations will
be heard.
With the Federal payment for next
year fixed by the House at the present
figure of S5,000,000, the District faces
the necessity of raising $6,OOO,OO0 in
new taxes to meet the remainder of
the S45 5,228,000 total, and a House
subcommittee is now considering alter
native tax proposals. The exact amount
of new revenue the city will have to
produce will depend on what changes
are made in the supply bill in the
Senate and, finally, in conference.
Some Provisions Unsettled.
The list of legislative riders placed
in the bill originally in the House
committee, some of which were
knocked out or changed on the floor
of the House, has left some provisions
of the bill in an unsettled situation
The Senate subcommittee is expected
to consider what action should be
taken to clarity these features.
For example, the House bill leaves
administrative control over hospitals
in the Public Welfare Board, but
Incorporates the money to operate
them in the funds of the Health
Department. The House committee
tried to transfer control of the hos
pitals from the Welfare to the Health
Department. This proviso was
stricken out in the House. but it left
the money still in the Health item.
Similarly, when the House knocked
out the proposed transfer of the
expenses of the Department of
Vehicles and Traffic from the general
fund to the gasoline tax fund, it had
the erect OF leaving out expenses OF
this bureau
Rider May Be Debated.
The House rider to prohibit school
teachers from performing any cler-
ical work, except what is incidental
to class room assignment, also is
expected to be debated at the Senate
hearings.
A fight also is anticipated in the
Senate on provlso that would deprive
per diem employees of their compen-
satory leave.
Another issue at the Senate hear
ings will be the House language trans
ferring 16 Fairgrounds from the play
grounds department to the Commu-
nifty Center Office
1t is expected civic delegations will
appear to urge other changes in
House provisions. The bill passed the
House early in April, but the Senate
has deferred its hearings to await the
recovery from illness of Donovan, who
is the local budget officer.
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questionnaire. Why don't you look up
the dope In the Congressional
Library?"
So yesterday Bickelhaupt and his
secretary descended upon the Library
Of Congress in last-minute effort to
gather material that could be sent to
newspaper and magazines in an effort
to acquaint the American public with
mirror lore.
The answer at the Congressional
Library was one that almost hoored
BickelhAupt. Said one Of the
librarians:
There is nothing In the library
about mirrors nothing, except q
slight reference in the Encyclopedia
Bnttanica. Not even one small book
on mirrors. Nor . pamphlet. It =,
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especially the history Of mirrors, the
background Of mirrors and, above all,
who made the first mirror, and where
was it made?
One by one, the leading mirror
manufacturers of America scratched
their heads, Then they turned the
questionnaire over to their secretaries.
These young persons found that they,
too, knew nothing Of mirrors tradi-
tions. Neither did the shop forenaen.
So Bickelhaupt's questionable went
unanswered.
Frantic, Bickelhaupt wired each Of
the manufacturers: "Rlsh answers to
the QUESTIONABLE"
MakerB Didn't Knew.
Back came . flock Of telesrauns, Ill
Ct tie same tenor: Cant ansver the
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are for sale-have gone into the big
business class. The average home in
America today sports anywhere from
IS to 20 mirrors-and the ladies
carry 'em around as II they were a
dime dozen.
Incidentally, If any research artist
wants to make some money, he can
do so this week by presenting the
mirror manufacturers of America with
any stray items about their wares
for these men, the best IS in the
business, admit they know absolutely
anothing about mirrors 80 far as the
traditional. hstory-making side Of
the art Is concerned.
They don't even know what sweet
heart Of history owned the first mir
ror-whether 1t was Cleopatra or Nell
Of Old Drury.
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perhaps, the only subject in the world
that has not found a place on the
extensive book shelves OF the library"
This Notwithstanding the fact that
mirrors all through the ages caused
more phoney stories and superstitions
than probably any other adjunct of
life.
There IS, for example, the idea
that seven years bad luck results
from the breaking Of mirror. That
to look in mirror and see person
Of the opposite sex over your left
shoulder means marriage-to that
person. That Is, II it's in the moon
light.
Only One Definition Given.
Yet al the Library Of Congress
dtvulees On mirrors y that short
Evening star., 1937-05-14
MRS. RICHARD LOHOEFER
VICTIM OF pneumonia
Rites to Be Held Tomorrow, With
1nterment in Baltimore
Cemetery.

M1. Lena Lohoefer, e5, wife of
Richard Iohoefer, died Wednesday Of
pneumonia in Homeopathic Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at II am.
tomorrow at her late residence, 1872
Seventh street northeast. Burial will
be in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Balti-
more.
Mrs. Lohoefer had been a Washing.
ton resident the past nine years, COM
ing here from Baltimore She was a
member of the Order of the Eastern
Star, Daughters of America, the Pyth-
ian Sisters Auxiliary, all in Baltimore.
and Keller Memorial Lutheran Church
here
Besides her husband, she leaves the
following daughters and sons: Mrs.
Clifton Dodson, College Park, Md:
Mrs. Max Semrau and Mrs. William
Kohlhaefer both Of Baltimore; Mrs.
William E. Taylor, this city; Charles
T., ]. Louis and Henry r. Lohoefer.
all Of Baltimore, and Melvin B. Lo-
hoefer, this city. She also is survived
by 10 grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1937-05-14
MADISON MEMORIAL
ASKED IN HOUSE
Imposing Structure Here to Honor
Fourth President Sought
by Plumley.

With the location OF the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial still in dispute, a
resolution proposing another preten-
tious memorial in Washington to an
other President-James Madison
was introduced late yesterday by Rep
resentative Plumley, Republican, Of
Vermont.
The resolution pointed out that
Madison was not only the fourth
President Of the United States but
the father" Of its Constitution, and
deserving Of an imposing memorial.
A commission Of nine members
would be created by the resolution to
select design for the memorial and
make other necessary plans for its
erection. Three of the members
would be appointed by the President,
three from the membership Of the
Senate, and three from the member
ship Of the House.
Evening star., 1937-05-14

article in the encyclopedia, which
merely defines q mirror as IAN opti-
cal instrument which produces images
of objects by reflection; in ancient
times merely a polished sheet Of
metal called speculum, in modern
times sheet of polished glass silvered
at the back"
And that definition Is wrong, ac-
cording to Bickelhaupt, who says
that today, with modern methods
employed, the old-fashioned mirrors
silvered on the back are no more.
Instead mirrors whose backs are gold,
or lavender and old lace, or silver
mixed with chromium, or whatever
metal the mirror makers want to use.
Mirrors, says this authority, who
admits that he, too, knows precious
little about mirror except that ehsy
Evening star., 1937-05-14
7 VAN A. BICKELHAUPT, secretary
&c 49, AR;~,.or ATo4,yfo a<,,raS.cb

IVAN A. B1CkELAAUPl, secretary
of the Mirror Manufacturers
/ Association, the other day decided
he wanted to know something
about the origin and history Of mir
rors. He had an idea which, he be-
lieved, would make America mirror
conscious
Thirty-five leading mirror manufac-
turers were planning their national
convention, which ends today in the
Shoreham Hotel. So Bickelhaupt,
who has ofices in the Shoreham
Building, sent each one Of these out
standing mirror-makers a question
naire.
With about 20 questions asked, the
mirror-makers were requested to
state al they knew about mirrorsE
Evening star., 1937-05-14
Albino Bison Seen Possible,

MO1ESE, Mont, May II (R.-Ex-
perts saw the picturesque possibility
today Of developing a strain of Albino
bison after an albino female calf,
born to a dun colored mother and
sired by an albino bull bison, had sur
vived its first week Of life.
Evening star., 1937-05-14
FENCING EXHIBITION
Experts Will Vie in Events at
Soldiers Home Tonight.

An exhibition of many types OF
military fencing has been arranged by
the Washington Fencers' Club in
Stanley Hall at the Soldiers Home at
GAS o'clock tonight. The Soldiers
Home Band will play selections be-
tween bouts.
The fencing will include a Filipino
sword and dagger bout; five foil
bouts, one between two Belgian Army
veterans now swordmasters at the
Naval Academy, mounted saber con-
test and boyonet sticks bout.
Evening star., 1937-05-14
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Army Band in the audi
torium at 10:30 am. tomorrow. Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub
ner, assistant.
Evening star., 1937-05-14
BOY WHO RAN RED LIGHT
ON BICYCLE is IN COURT
Judge Takes Personal Bond After
Story of Shake-up of Bus
PaSsen rerR 1c Told

Judge Edward M. Curran took a IT.
year-old messengers personal bond in
Police Court today on charge of run
ming through red light on bicycle.
Policeman E. A. Horsley told the
court he chased the boy, Lewis Stew
art, and caught him after he cut in
front of bus and passed q red light
at Thirteenth street and New York
avenue
Horsley said the bus driver was
forced to apply his brakes 50 suddenly
he shook up the passengers. The po-
liceman, who was . passenger On the
bus, alighted and chased the messen-
ger on foot.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Crunler Bids d. C..
ToVirgin Islands
ToEscape March
Ice Before White House
Reminds Hin, This Is
Temperate Zone.

His excellency. Lawrence W.
Cramer, Governor Of the Virgin
Islands, slipped and slid across the
icy pavement in front OF the White
House.
washington is in the temperate
zone, isn't it?" the Governor asked a
friend.
yep" said the friend.
well, there's nothing temperate in
the temperate zone, so far as I see, "
said the Governor of the Virgin
Islands. after six years on St.
Thomas Island, I'll take their weather
any time.
1t gave the Governor an idea. With
Washington weather what it is, espe-
cially in the month of March, he be-
lieves that all who can make the
journey should go to the Virgin
Islands and lead the life of Reilly.
Though he is in Washington pri-
marily to straighten out certain sugar
quotas that apply to the Virgin
Islands, Gov. Cramer now hopes tc
interest members of the new Mari
time Commission in setting up better
steamship service between this coun-
try and the Virgin Islands.
The Virgin Islands are the natura.
playground of America. in the estima-
ton of the Governor, and the average
American could 60 there at little
expense.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

tives' Association, insisted "the tax
payments would carry the load"
Outlook Complicated.
The attitude Of Magill, who thought
Congress might have to modify the
rates decided on, complicated the out
look for prompt congressional action
on the measure, on which agreement
was announced Tuesday night after
long negotiations undertaken at the
request Of President Roosevelt.
Under it, taxes of 21a per cent would
be levied against both employers pay
rolls and employees wages for three
years. These would be increased grad
ually until, in l949, they reached 3h
per cent each. Rail spokesmen esti-
mated 100000 workers would be COW
Evening star., 1937-03-18
ARLINGTON RITES
FORHOBSON TODAY
Four AdmiraIs Are Among
PaIIbearers for Hero
of 1893.

With full naval honors, Rear Ad-
miral Richmond Pearson Hobson, u.
s. N, Spanish American War hero,
retired, is being buried this afternoon
in Arlington National Cemetery. -Four
admirals are among the honorary pal
bearers. Lieut.. Comdr. Joseph H.
Brooks of the Navy Chaplain Corps is
officiating
Admiral Hobson died Tuesday of q
sudden heart attack in New York at
are age of Sc. The body left New York
this morning and was scheduled to
reach Washington in the early after
noon. Funeral services were arranged
at the Fort Myer, Va, chapel at 3
o'clock.
Accompanying the body were Mrs,
Hobson and her three children, Rich
mond P. Hobson, jr,; Lucia and
George Hull Hobson.
The Navy Department announced
these honorary pallbearers: Rear Ad-
miral S. E. w. Kittelle, RETIRED; Rear
Admiral Emory S. Land, who has just
@O13il4NAoAaSA I1iS k'Oco Va NINA Va tAiS
Bureau of Construction and Repair;
Rear Admiral William G.. Du Bose, new
chief of that bureau; Rear Admiral
Horatio c. Gillmor, retired; Capt. c..
w. Fisher of the Construction Corps,
and a civilian friend, J. w. Powell Of
New York
The full seaman guard at the Wash
ington Navy Yard and detachment
of Marines are acting as the funeral
escort, as we'll as the Navy Band.
Acclaimed for his attempt to bot
tie up the Spanish fleet at Santiago,
Cuba, by sinking the collier Merrimac
in the narrow navigational channel,
Admiral Hobson retired from the Navy
in 1903, served in Congress as men,
ber from Alabama, and then devoted
the later years of his life to fighting
narcotics and advocating world peace
and prohibition.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
RAIL PENSION PLAN
SOUNDNESS IS HIT
Treasury Official Believes
Levies Will Not Meet
Required Payments.

BY the Associated Press.
The actuarial soundness Of the pro-
posed new rail pension plan was in
dispute today.
Roswell Magill, acting Secretary OF
the Treasury in the absence of Secre-
tary Morgenthau, said studies indi-
Gated the levies would fall consider
ably short of meeting the required
payments" but John J. Pelley, presi-
dent of the Association of American
Railroads, and George NJ Harrison,
president of the Railway Labor Execu-
Evening star., 1937-03-18

cred by the pension system thus
financed.
The present retirement law imposes
fiat 81 per cent tax on both en-
ployes and employers. It was chal-
lenged in the courts by most Of the
major railroads, and President Roose-
velt later asked management and labor
to get together on substitute.
The Treasury statement conceded
with an estimate by Joseph B. Glenn,
a Railroad Retirement Board official,
that the newly system might
run into the red liter about 20 years.
20-Year Coverage Seen.
He said the tax yield probably would
not cover the cost of pensions for
more than about 20 years.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

month would not be subject to taxes.
Railroad labor officials said the
pension agreement provided for dis
tribution among employees of approx
mately $50,000,00O collected in taxes
under the 1885 retirement law since
last Spring and impounded under a
court order. Previously officials had
announced that another $4,000, 900
would be handed back to the rail-
roads.
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This year, he said, the yield prob
ably would be between 100000
and $110000,000, while the cost of
pensions would be only s5O,0O0,000 or
$60,000,000. AS the number of pen
sions increased, he said, not only
would the yearly tax be used but the
accumulation of unused taxes from
previous years would disappear.
Pension payments would be based
on the length Of an employees service
and his rate of compensation.
The compensation in excess of $500
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Counterfeit Bill Stolen

YORK, S. c. (P).-Burglars who
broke into a drug store took SIS and a
counterfeit SIS bill which had been
laid aside. An hour or so later they
passed the spurious note at filling
station.
They were not caught.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
MRS. LOVES COMA
PASSES So HOURS
Trance SeIt-Imposed, Says
Physician of Convicted
Jealousy Slayer.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 13.-Jailers
Of Helen Wills Love, convicted jealousy
slayer, who asserted Il can force my
self to die" said today the young
woman still WAS in comatose condi-
ton after 36 hours
The trance, which physicians said
was self-imposed, forced indefinite
postponement yesterday of her SEN
fencing on a conviction of second-de-
gree murder in the New Year shoot
ing Of Harry A. Love, who, she said,
was her secret husband.
Il got raw deal" Matron Vada
Sullivan quoted the young woman as
saying after her conviction. Il can
end my life at any time by just willing
my death. can force myself to die.
Doctor Gives Version.
The jail physician, DR.. Benjamin
Blank, and DR.. Harlan Shoemaker of
the County Hospital told the court
they believed Mrs. Love willed herself
into trance
4 believe this is case of affected
coma" said DR.. Shoemaker. Her re-
fexes, pulse and respiration are nor
NAL, yet 1t seems impossible to arouse
her"
Jail matrons said after visiting Mrs.
Love in her cell this morning that
there has been no apparent change in
her condition.
Mrs Love, attied in a regulation
nightgown, lay motionless on her iron
cot, her eyes closed. She showed no
reaction, even to pin pricks.
Yesterday noon physicians gave her
powerful stimulant. She moved
slightly, murmered water" and then
lapsed back into the seeming trance.
Loses Self-Control.
Nov she is unable fully to control
her reactions" DR.. Shoemaker said.
Both DR.. Shoemaker and DR.. Blank
agreed her condition was not imme-
diately dangerous.
If death comes to Mrs. Love in her
trance, I would be compelled to be-
neVe 1t came from some nervous de-
preston beyond her control" said DR..
Edward Huntington Williams, psy-
chiatrist, who examined her for sanity
before her trial.
She is not an abnormal person
On the contrary she is pretty level
headed"
Her strange coma came as a climax
to the trial during which one of the
women jurors was jailed for drunken
ness after deliberations had started.
An alternate took her place.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
CONTINUES
ON WILLARD STRIK
Head of Association Annourc-s
Hotels Are Compelled to Hike
Food Prices.

Conferences between the Villa.
Hotel management and union CON-
mittee representing waters and cooks
who staged sit-down strike Monday
continued this morning at the Shore
ham Hotel, The point at issue is
future hotel policy toward the union.
On the heels of strike at the Ham
ilton Hotel, l.. Gardner Moore. pres
ident of the Washington Hotelmen's
Association, announced that hotels
here are compelled to raise their food
prices by 10 per cent to meet the wage
demands of kitchen and dining room
crews.
The Hamilton strike yesterday in
volved % chambermaids, II house
men and four parking lot employees,
all of whom won pay increase after
a l5-minute sit-down. The chamber
maids and housemen received a Is
per cent wage raise and the parkin2
lot employees l3 per cent.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
SOCIETY LEADERS,
BODY DISCOVERED
Mrs. Hale Holden, Jr.. Haverford,
Pa, Was Wife of Pullman
Official.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, March l3.-The
body Of Mrs. Hale Holden, jr., sports
woman and society leader in suburban
Haverford, was found hanging in a
bath room adjoining her bed room in
her home last night.
Lieut.. Walter Brown of the Lower
Merton township police, said the body
was found hanging to a hook in the
bath room. About the throat was a
moose made from the belt of a linen
dress. She had been dead about two
hours when discovered.
Mrs. Holden was 33 years old. She
had returned to her home yesterday
after visit to Florida with friends
Her husband is vice president of the
Pullman Co.
Holden found the body on his return
from business trip to New York.
Their children, Joan, IL, and Hale
Holden, Sd, 7, had raped on Mrs
Holden's bed room door on their re-
turn from school, but received no re-
sponse They found the door locked
and supposed their mother was asleep.
Mrs Holden was the former Jose
phine B. Cotton of New York.
She was the daughter of Joseph
Bell Cotton, well-known corporation
and mining attorney Holden's father
is an official of the Southern Pacific
Railway Co.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
ROPER SAYS REFORM NECESSARY

GREENVILLE, S. c., March 10
A3.-Daniel c. Roper, Secretary of
commerce. said here last night that
changed economic and social condi-
tions had made it inevitable that the
Nations judicial system be adjusted.
He told the Greenville Chamber of
Commerce that President Roosevelt
recognizing that our judicial system
Is an integral part of the whole scheme
OF government had recommended
reforms in the interest of more
expeditions functioning and for serv-
ing the ends OF justice"
The Commerce Secretary, a native
OF South Carolina. linked the court
reorganization program with the Pres
loents recommendations for changes
IN the executive branch Of Govern
ment in the interest Of greater ef-
1lclency, coordination of effort and
more economical administration.
At the outset OF his address the
secretary said that economic recovery
nao advanced to the point where
1t was necessary to think In terms of
control against destructive booms and
safeguards against future depressions