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Evening star., 1939-11-26

Now IS years old, and a resident
OF this community for more than
half century, Mr.. Priest has made
the collecting of rare and unusual
bottles one of his hobbies ever since
he first came to Washington, in 1887.
At that time he came to the
Nations Capital from his home and
birthplace, within 3 miles of Valley
Forge, Pa, to accept a position as
teacher in history in what was then
designated as "The High School," at
Seventh and o streets NV, because
it was the city's only public high
school.
Mr.. Priests interest in his hobby
was motivated by picture of a
collection of interesting bottles in a
cabinet which he ran across while
searching for additional reference
material to intrigue his first history
pupils. Mounting the picture very
carefully, he remembers thinking he
would some day like to have an ag-
gregation like it. From that day,
though, to this, he has never again
been able to locate the picture which
was the incentive for his collection,
that has "growed" like Topsy from
nothing to its present proportions.
Today it is one of the foci of inter-
est in the home which he and his
sister, Miss May Priest, cataloguer
in the Library of Congress, share,
and have made veritable museum
of antique furniture, rare old china,
pictures, books and bottles.
Some Are Very Old.
Declaring that his historical
teaching background ran the gamut
from Adam to Amos and Andy
Mr.. Priest has been equally catholic
in the types of bottles he has ac-
cumulated. 1t is the result of gifts
from relatives, friends and former
pupils; searching through auction
rooms and antique shops, and the
frequenting of junk yards and
dumps.
"The latter" Mr.. Priest said
''have yielded some of my choicest
finds"
Mr.. Priests bottles are not ar
ranged in genera or species. "Some
IS or 100 of them, know to be very
DID," he says, from my research
concerning them and the reading
which I have done on the subject
although the photography on bot
ties is not extensive"
EARLY lamps" he adds, "were
often only low, squatty bottles with
bits of flannel or wick floating on
the oil or fat which they contained
In this category he places his Chal-
dean bottle lamp, which he esti-
mates at being more than 1900
years old. and a Roman one at ar
age of at least 1000 years. A Mayan
one with a spout surmounting a
head antedates the coming of Co
lumbus to the Americas.
An interesting 18th century lamr
is the one which Mr.. Priest holds
in his hand in the picture. "It is
he tells you, IAN inverted bottle put
on standard. Early types of stu
dent lamps very generally followed
this principle of design"
Reported Once Owned by Queen.
One of Mr.. Priests especial treas
ures is a green scent bottle which
according to reliable tradition, is
reported to have belonged to Queen
Elizabeth of England. A gold inlay
burned on the bottles surface is ir
the pattern of her famous ruff.
Two other priced bottles, alike
yet dissimilar in color, and evi.
IDENTIFY of German origin, depict
hounds trailing nobleman off fol
hunting sport.
A rare and unsual bottle, thought
Evening star., 1939-11-26

to be medicine bottle of the Middle
Ages, shows knight in armor
standing in front of church with
a Gothic arch.
Just how old are two ancient Chi
nese bottles he hasn't vaguest idea.
One is snuff bottle. The other
evidently held the dipping water
and color brush of some patient
Chinese scholar who used it for in
scribing the character he painted on
a scroll.
A bit more modern and in the
made in America" tradition, is a
bottle fashioned by Stringel, a IA
nous glass blower of PENNSYLVANIA
during its early days and ways. It's
graceful handle is in the form of a
swans neck. Another example of
his art is tall, quaint bottle more
than IA inches high and in a lovely
green color. A bowl base supports
column which expands into a
second smaller bowl from which rises
a second column, or the final neck
of this bottle, intriguing in its de-
sign and coloring.
Century Old Bottle.
A family treasure is Mr.. Priests
grandmother's lavendar bottle,
known to be considerably more than
a century old. In it, over the
choicest lavendar flowers from her
garden, there was annually poured
a pint of the very best whisky OBJ
tainable. Sips from the concoction
thus distilled were thereupon SPAR
ingly administered the family for
minor ailments throughout the year
with something of the austerity of
a rite, so that the quantity always
seemed to last until the next season
for lavendar flowers. Later this
bottle became his mothers camphor
bottle. An older brother, trying out
Its contents on the supposition that
they might have some of their once
magic potency, decided he couldn't
see how man could have any
pleasure drinking that" and thence
forth became a teetotaler.
A curious little contraption that
proves to be a mucilage bottle of
another day goes back to Mr.. Priests
childhood. So does a little clay ink
bottle which Mr.. Priest used as a
schoolboy in the little old one-room
stone schoolhouse at Mont Glare, Pa,
whose walls were heavy enough to
withstand an Indian siege.
Thus, veritable panorama of in.
dustries, manners and customs un-
folds before you with Mr.. Priests
hundreds of bottles of all ages, coun-
tries and climes. With his back
ground of historical knowledge they
interpolate the moving cycle of many
centuries.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

rounding clay and after more than
two months of careful work was
mounted and placed in the geologi-
cal museum at the university.
The cliffs bordering the western
shore of the Chesapeake are some
times as high as 10 feet and are
filled with shellfish and whale re-
mains. The Miocene deposits repre-
sent an age when that territory was
under water. Specimens as COM
plete as the one discovered by the
Catholic University group are said
to be rare because this soil remains
soft and the deposits become easily
damaged. The area is visited fire.
quently by students, professors and
museum authorities in the hopes of
discovering fairly complete fossil
specimens.
The Catholic University specimen
consists of a skull, a portion of the
right jaw, several sections of the
vertebrae and parts of four ribs.
Evening star., 1939-11-26
College Of Law Glass
Plans Dance December Is

The senior class of the evening
division of Washington College of
Law is sponsoring an all-school
dance December 16 at 24O0 Sixteenth
street NV.
Arrangements are under the di-
rection of committee headed by
William j. Chisholm, chairman.
Proceeds of the dance will be for
the benefit of the 1910 yearbook
fund.
The newly-elected officers of the
alumni association of the college,
under the leadership of Elizabeth E.
Benson, president, will meet at the
college on Thursday, December 7,
Evening star., 1939-11-26

and the program for the entire year
will be submitted at this time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter OF
Sigma Nu Phi Legal Fraternity will
hold its fall pledge banquet at the
Mayf1ower Hotel on next Saturday
December 2. The guest speaker on
this occasion will be o. r. Luhring,
associate justice of the District
Court Of the United States for the
District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

in 1847 by Isaac Davis, Representa-
tive from Massachusetts,.
The contest will be held at 8 pm.
on Thursday in room 1O2 of the hall
OF government. Finalists this year
are Susan Broaddus, Charles Corker.
Joseph A. Hartman, Alton Hemba,
Samuel Katz and Herbert Shapiro.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

The skull, fairly complete when
found, had been crushed somewhat
before removal by the pressure of
the everything sediments. This re-
suited in part from the tidal under
cutting of the face of the cliff in
which the fossil was found.
The specimen is about 10 per cent
larger in every respect than one
previously found by DR.. Frederick
w. True in 1912, a member of the
staff of the National Museum at
that time and which has served as
a type specimen for similar discov-
cries to date, it was announced.
Evening star., 1939-11-26
Columbus Prom

Plans for the Columbus University
junior prom to be held Saturday
night were completed yesterday,
members Of the Dance Committee
announced.
The prom, inaugurating the social
season Of the university, will be held
at the Raleigh Hotel, starting at
10 pm.
DR.. John R. Fitzpatrick, provost
Of the university, was in Atlantic
City last week representing the
junior college before the convention
Of the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools.
Evening star., 1939-11-26
Radio. Sound Devices
To Be Demonstrated

The devices used to produce
sound effects in radio broadcasting
will be demonstrated in the monthly
program of the Playhouse at the
Department of Agriculture audi
torium at 8 pm. Thursday.
On the program also will be the
Playhouse dancers and orchestra
and some industrial films.
The Playhouse is presented by the
Agriculture local of the National
Federation of Federal Employees and
is directed by Lee H. Shugar.
Evening star., 1939-11-26
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

Not zone blue bottle hanging upon
the wall" but more than 1000 bot
ties of every imaginary kind, shape
and variety, filling up cabinets and
spilling over into the downstairs
hooks and corners of his residence
at 10 West Thornapple street, Chevy
Chase, Md, is the collection of w.
Edwin Priest, retired professor of
history in our Washington high
schools.
Evening star., 1939-11-26
Five-MiIe Hike Todoy

A five-mile hike along North
west Branch, from -Four Corners to
the Old Northwest Mill, has been
planned for today by the Capital
Hiking Club. Club members will
leave at 8 am. from 1416 F street
NV. in busses for the starting point.
B. F. Rogers will be in charge.
Evening star., 1939-11-26
Students Visit F. B. l..

Eighty-five Strayer College stu
dents visited the Federal Bureau of
Investigation yesterday on a tour
arranged by J. Edgar Hoover. Miss
Alice Wakefield and Franklin Chace
of the college staff accompanied the
student group.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26
Looking Ahead

In little pamphlet coming into this
office periodically there is the follow
ing message which is adaptable to
everyone.
"On an anchient Egyptian tablet I'M
earthed by psychologists was inscribed
lament declaring that the earth is
degenerate, youth in despair and the
world coming to an end.
"That was more than 1000 years
ago-and we are still here! Since that
time we have evolved from the chariot
to the aifplane. When we can see moth
ing but progress behind US, why is 1t
that prophets of gloom see nothing
but disaster ahead?
"Today the world is going right on
revolving at the rate of sixteen miles
a second, and scientists tell US that it
will continue to do so for another five
hundred million years or so.
GAS we continue into another new
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26

the time when you realize suddenly
that your children have a little self
reliance and can do a little thinking
for themselves. Up to that time you
are under the impression that you
must do all their thinking for them,
and that without your watchful care
they couldn't survive even for a single
day.
Anyway we were all outside last
Sunday afternoon. The snow had be-
come almost ice and was very slick.
Little George hoped on the sled and
started down the hill. Suddenly he
realized that a brick wall lay at the
bottom of the hill and he was headed
for it at what seemed to US too great
a speed ever to stop in time.
His mother screamed. His Pa pic
tured him crashing into the wall and
maybe cracking his skull.
But just before Little George
reached the wall he began dragging
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26

year let US practice the philosophy of a
very wise man, the late President Eliot
of Harvard, who believed that each
man should have a calm attitude eX-
pectant of good Let US take courage
from H. G. Wells observation: 'Exis-
tence impresses me as a perpetual
dawn
eve will have our problems. We
may be delayed. But let us bravely
work for the best and expect the best"
#**
Appears like the dog war is on
again. There have been reports Of
promises of so much head, if brought
into the Council chamber, and as re-
suit it is said those looking for dogs
even try to coax the pets of people out
of their own yards.
This surely is not the intention OF
Council, and if the practice is found to
be true, it should be stopped.
People are very touchy when it
comes to pets.
An Alabama couple picked lovely
time to visit Oakland. 1t was last Sun
day and the blizzard of that day was
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26

A little pamphlet I received asked
me to see what happened to my car in
just 1000 miles of driving, and then
told me without even asking. Nine mil
lion explosions have occurred in the
motar. The crankshaft, rear axle PIN
ion shaft, the clutch and transmission,
the universal joints, all revolved three
million times; the camshaft, distribu-
tor shaft, each one and one-half nil
lion times; the rear axles, 100000;
each valve opened and closed one and
one-half million times; the fuel pump
operated the same number of times,
and each speak plug fired that many
times; the contact points opened mil
lion times, the piston travelled 2,840
miles, and the carburetor mixed 281,
900 cubic feet of air and from so to
80 gallons of gas. That's a lot of
movements.
Says a wise old bird: "Your feet
amt going to lead you into temptation
if your mind amt already headed that
way"
The PRECEDENT is suggesting county
boards to check up on the relief sys-
tenn. Wouldn't it be a better plan to
make it unnecessary to have a relief
system?
I guess it happens to every parent-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26
Lesson for January 20

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts Sc;
iected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
perroi
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26
PETER DECLARES HIS LOVE

LESSON TEXT-John 21;11-19.
GOLDEN TEXT-If We love me, keep my
commandments.-Joh 14:15.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26

surpassed only by the storm yesterday.
But strange to say, the couple, who
had never seen snow before, enjoyed il
immensely and even drove from Oak
land to Cumberland during its height
in the afternoon.
Another lady from Washington who
visits here in the summer, is spending
several weeks here this winter and
thinks the weather is wonderful. She
wanted to see what real winter was
like. She is finding out.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26

his feet and came to rest gently about
six inches from it. He looked back
and grinned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-26

I guess it happens to every parent
Evening star., 1939-07-03
lanzetti's S Lieutenant,
Missing, Believed Slain
BY the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, July 3.-Police
of three counties searched today for
Louis Fats Del Rossi and ex-
pressed fear he might have met the
same fate as his friend and leader,
Willie Lanzetti, one-time Philadel-
phia gang figure, found slain Sat-
urday.
Seeking Del Rossi for questioning
in Lanzetti's death. detectives found
that he had been missing since Fri
day afternoon, when he was seen
with the slain gangster in an auto
mobile near City Hall. Some ex-
pressed belief he either was killed
as was Lanzetti or had fled the city
to escape such a fate.
Del Rossi, long connected with
the once powerful Lanzetti gang,
was freed from New Jersey prison
in March when the New Jersey
Criminal Assemblage" Act was de-
clared unconstitutional by the
United States Supreme Court. Freed
with him after serving two years
were Willie's brother, Ignatius, and
Willie's brother r-in-law, Mickey Fall
cone.
Although some theorized that
Lanzetti, 38, third of his family to
die a violent death, was shot and
killed by woman, Detective Capt.
William Shaffer of lower Merton
township, Montgomery County, was
emphatic in dismissing this posi-
bility.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Yellowstone River Swimmer
Nearing 228-MiIe Goal

The swimmer emerged for 10 min
utes at Forsyth Saturday night to
treat swollen eye and to eat.
III swim it with one eye," he
said.
He had planned to swim the dis
tance nonstop. Force to leave the
water, he was somewhat disap-
pointed.
Anyway, it will be plenty tough
for the next fellow to crack 288-
mile record" he declared At For
syth Giles claimed the American
distance record, He had Travelled
the 1853 miles in 50 hours and 35
minutes. Legless Charles Jimmy
had set an American mark of 147
miles in lat hours on the Hudson
River.
The worlds record is credited to
Pedra A. Candiotti, who swan 281
miles down the Parana River in
"a hours in 1888.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
BY the Associated Press.

ZERO, Mont, July 3-An "aw-
fully tired" cattle auctioneer, breast
stroking the Yellowstone River with
aching arms and legs, today neared
his goal of worlds distance SWIM
ming record plenty tough for the
next fellow to crack"
Husky Clarence Giles of Glendive,
Mont, expected to complete at his
home town before another sunrise
the 288-mile marathan swim he
started at Billings Friday at 1890
pm. (mountain standard time).
I'm feeling pretty good, but I'm
awfully tired" he told a railroad
telegraph operator at Benz, Mont,
early this morning.
Il ought to make it in now.
though" he called to a little group
on the river bank
Frank Hyde, Glendive newspaper
man and aide to the marathoner,
said Giles was swimming only about
miles an hour" through this Sec
ton, where the river is wide and
the current weak
Giles slipped safely through the
Buffalo rapids, miles above Benz,
during the night.
A driving rain hampered him as
he struck out for Terry, about 40
miles from his goal. His feet, arms
and legs had been cut and bruised
by rocks.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Meteor Fragments Sought
After BIust JoIts Portland

be roughly equivalent to 200 kilo-
meters.
The Harvard experts explained
that between 1000 and 10000 solid
particles weighing half pound or
more hit the earth each year.
One of the best known was a
meteor that struck in North Central
Siberia on June 80, 1908, with a
terrific blast, COMPRISING air in
front of it that blew down trees for
Is or 20 miles around. Another,
thousands of years ago, cut crater
three-quarters of a mile wide in
Arizona.
A meteor, which did not strike the
earth, was heard over Southern
Vermont and Central Massachusetts,
on May 26, 1895. 1t burst some 151a
miles in the air and to the north of
Ware, Mass, according to the best
reports, and the sound was heard
over a wide radius.
The largest meteor ever picked up
from the earth's surface is 361z tons,
a chunk mostly of iron, approx
mately 10 feet by by 5. 1t was
found in Melville Bay, Greenland,
and is in the American Museum of
Natural History in New York
BY the time meteors or their
fragments reach the earth's sur
face they are usually harmless. Sew
eral houses have been hit in various
parts of the world without worse
damage than holes in the roof. The
meteors are not molten when they
hit, and not usually more than
warm. This is because the blaze
of light is due to friction which
melts only a thin layer on the out
side. Meanwhile the inside of the
rock, or iron, does not have time
to heat up much before the meteor
strikes.
A meteor like the one supposed
to have struck in Arizona long ago
could theoretically destroy much of
a great city. There is scientific
dispute as to whether certain craters
along the Carolina coasts represent
the fragments in the head of a
comet that struck there apparently
millions of years ago. Biologists
who held the comet theory declared
that such an event might spread
death over an area of several States.
although they did not claim every
one would be killed.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
N. A. Dobbins Is Named
Chest Unit Chairman

Nathan A. Dobbins, Washington
attorney, has accepted the chair
manship of the Capital Unit of the
Community Chest campaign this fall,
Chauncey G. Parker, jr., general
campaign chairman, announced to-
day.
Mr.. Dobbins, who is prominent
Howard University alumnus, is to
build up a campaign organization
composed of active volunteers from
colored groups, who will then be
given special instructions in prep
aration for solicitation during the
campaign.
Mr.. Dobbins succeeds John r.
Pinkett, chairman of the Capital
Unit last year.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
c. R. Mundee ASSIGNED
To Worlds Fair

c. Roy Mundee, chief of the Food
stuffs Division of the Department of
Commerce, will represent the de-
partment at its headquarters in the
world trade center of the New York
Worlds Fair this week.
Mr.. Mundee plans to call on rep
resentatives of foreign governments
at the fair to discuss the possibility
of arranging talks on trade problems
with visitors from other countries
Other officials of the department
will be designated for duty at the
fair during the summer.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
By the Associated Press.


PORTLAND, Greg, July 3.-Port-
land, jolted and terrified by an ap-
parent exploding meteor, joined
science in a search for fragments
of the celestial visitor today.
The Portland area and South
western Washington were rocked at
1853 am yesterday by the mammoth
explosion and blinded by flames
flashing from the sky. Reports of
the blast came in from as far away
as Arlington, 125 miles up the Co.
lumbia River.
J. Hugh Pruett, University of Ore
gon astronomer and Oregon repre-
sentative of the American Meteoro-
logical Association, slfted reports of
the objects trajectory as hundreds
of amateurs took to the field in
efforts to find acknowledgements
of the heavenly body.
Pruett said it probably would be
two weeks before he could determine
just where the explosion occurred.
Portland residents, however, will
swear it was right over the city.
A stone. wall was toppled. windows
were broken, a store wall cracked
and a rural mail box knocked loose
from it's post by the force of the
blast.
Witnesses said the object flashed
across the sky from the southwark,
trailing a tail of fire, just before the
explosion. Hundreds of persons ver-
flied that the burst of smoke and
flame appeared to be over the north
ern section of the city or the Colum-
bia River at height of about 5000
feet
First person to sight the projectile
was Ford Hand, Eugene druggist.
He said it looked big as the moon"
as it passed over Eugene, 100 miles
south of here. 1t made no noise
there, indicating to Pruett it was
more than SO miles high. Numerous
others in n"the Willamette Valley saw
it, trailing flame, before it exploded.
The first blast was followed by a
diminishing series of rumbles last
ing approximately 80 seconds.
Conclusion of the explosion was
felt within a 40-mile radius of Port
land. However, two groups of mo-
tor1sts. Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Adkison
of Eugene and Mr.. and Mrs. o. S.
Peterson of Sunnyside, Wash, said
they saw the phenomenon and heard
the explosion while travelling near
Arlington, on the Columbia River
highway.
G.. A. Wikander, amateur astrono-
mer here, estimated the smoke from
the explosion was so degrees above
the horizon and Is to 20 degrees
east of the North Pole.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Scientists Doubt Meteor
Burst at 5000 Feet

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July (P.-
Harvard University scientists, read
ing reports of an exploding meteor
heard over the Pacific Northwest
yesterday, said today it was highly
probable something fell to earth, !"
but that a year might elapse before
it was found.
They doubted the celestial visitor
burst at 5000 feet, as suggested by
some witnesses, and said instead it
more likely exploded Is or 20 miles
up. The noise of exploding meteors
has been heard 60 to 70 kilometers
away, they said, but the fact the
Portland blast was heard 125 miles
from the location given by witnesses
was unusual. That distance would
Evening star., 1939-07-03

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Evening star., 1939-07-03

Democrat, urg-
ing the nonina-
ton of Sena-
tor Burton X.
Wheeler of Mon
tana for t h e
pre- S idency on
the Democratic
ticket in 1910.
First it will be
noted that Sen
a t or johnson
assumes that
President Roose-
welt will refuse
the nomination.
This is impor-
tant in ord er