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Evening star., 1939-07-16
Army Officials Find Landowners
Willing Parties to Muneuvers

Preliminary negotiations for the
land were carried on by COM
mittee Of Manassas residents, head
ed by E. r. Conner. Others were
w. F. Cooke, the town manager, and
Charles Lynn. The largest tracts
were obtained from the Brown g.
Hoo1 Lumber Co.
Then a detail of the 5th Engi-
neers from Fort Belvoir, Va,
mapped the area to determine. who
each tract belonged to. They also
aided in obtaining permission to
use land.
Ofdcers said they found all the
owners welcoming the Army, par
ticularly in the northern part OF
Prince william County. Old-timers
there remembered the 1904 ma
neuvers, the last held In the area,
and wondered when the soldiers
were coming back.
Evening star., 1939-07-16

The word "rigmarole" was orig
inally "ragman-roll."
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Pendergast Friend
Indicted in Alleged
Pay Roll Padding
E. Mont Reilly Accused
Of Forging Endorsements
On Checks
By the Associated Press.


KANSAS CITY, July 15.-Dis-
closure of alleged pay roll padding
in the city's Department Of Public
Works brought the indictment to-
day of Republican friend of fallen
Democratic boss Tom Pendergast.
E. Mont Reilly, former Governor of
Puerto Rico and now a small loan
broker, was named in IA indictments
charging he forged Endorsements Of
pay checks issued to persons listed as
street cleaning division employees.
The indictments were voted by a
county grand jury which reported
1t would resume it's urgent work"
next Tuesday.
Recently a city Court of Inquiry
heard testimony that Reilly had
names placed on the Public Works
Department pay roll. then collected
the checks payable to those names.
Reilly refused to testify before the
inquiry or the grand jury. He told
investigators, however, he had re-
ceived money from pay checks in
payment of loans made by him to
city employees. His loan office Is
across the street from City Hall.
The disclosures brought dismissal
Of Michael D. Waters, head of the
street cleaning service, and the res
ignation of Matthew S. Murray as
director of public works. Murray
Evening star., 1939-07-16
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS,
BALTIMORE, July 15.-It takes
more than soldiers to hold Army
maneuvers-for one thing, 1t takes
a lot of willing landowners.
Oficers preparing for Che Sd
Corps Area maneuvers near Ma
nassas August 5-19 arranged with
more than 400 property holders for
permission to use woods and fields
for troop movements.
Land on which the soldiers will
be encamped was leased. The rest
of the 111-odd square miles, some
$1,000 acres, was obtained on a
permissive basis. The Army agreed
to pay for any damage done by the
troops. Each Of the three divisions
will have two squads of engineers
to repair damage If possible. If not,
a special board of officers will de-
eide the loss sustained by the land
owner and pay him.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Staying and kidnapping
Put Police on Trail
OF Escaped Convict
Chicago Area PotroIIed
By Extra Police; Chase
Fails in Nearby Town
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 15.-A Staying
and a kidnapping put police on the
trail of Singing Jack Russell today
and led them to the honky- -tonks of
West Madison street, where the
fleeing convict was sought by State
and Federal authorities as the man
who killed Billy S. Hamilton, %, of
Arkansas City, Kans., and left his
body in a ditch near Ringwood, Ill,
yesterday.
He was also wanted for the kid
naping of Bud Egholm, %, of Okla
homa City, Okla, in Kenosha, Wis,
last night, and on a "Lindbergh
law charge in the kidnapping of
r. E. Brown, a McAlester, Okla,
photographer, shortly after the
convict fed from prison. Mr.. Brown
was held captive "a hours during a
wild ride through Kansas, Missouri
and Arkansas. and released near
Pittsburg, Kans.
State highway policemen, patrol
ing all roads surrounding the
metropolitan area, carried orders to
"shoot to kill" If the fugitive was
sighted.
Threatened to Kill Wife.
Russell, former cowboy, 80 years
old, escaped from the Oklahoma
Prison guard at McAlester Tuesday
and headed for Chicago, where he
has wife, Mary, and reputation
as a barroom yodeler. j. F. Dunn,
warden of the Oklahoma Peni-
tentiary, warned authorities here
that Russell had threatened to kill
his wife, presumably because she
aided in his apprehension. A guard
was placed around her home.
Discovery of Mr.. Hamilton's body,
stripped to an undershirt and shot
in the head, convinced police that
he was the motorist who was abduct-
ed by Russell near Pittsburg,
Kan, Wednesday. Today State S
Attorney William Carroll of Nc
Henry County, Ill, issued war
rant charging John Doe, alias Jack
Russell, with murder.
AS the hunt for him progressed
Mr.. Egholm turned up in Elgin,
Ill, with a story of having been
forced to drive man from Kenosha
last night and then of being robbed
of S. and his car. He identified
newspaper pictures of Russell as
those of his captor and said the
man told him he could find his
automobile "in the 1900 block of
West Madison street in Chicago "
That was a district we'll known to
Russell in his more carefree days.
Another Body Found.
A few hours after extra policemen
were assigned to patrol the neigh
borhood the proprietor of rooming
house in the vicinity of 1400 West
Madison street reported finding the
body of Frank Walker, 81, dead in
bed Walker had been bludgeoned.
strangled and attacked by a de-
generate. Police Capt. Julian Ber-
nacchi announced ne had ordered
an investigation to determine
Evening star., 1939-07-16
whether Russell had any connection
with the Staying.
Roads Barricaded.

hOaQS barrlCa0e0.
Young Hamilton's car, identified
by license plates, was found today
in Kenosha and held for agents Of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
in Milwaukee.
The search concentrated tonight
at Marley, ILL.,, 40 miles southwest
of here, after a State policeman re-
ported he chased the fleeing convict
several miles before his motor cycle
ran out of gasoline
The policeman, Frank Mech said
he took up Russell's trail when he
noticed that a speeding automobile
fitted the description of the car
Mr.. Egholm said was stolen from
him. The license plates, he said,
were the same as Mr.. Egholm re-
ported were on his car.
State police, deputy sheriffs, city
policemen from Joliet and prison
guards from the State penitentiary
at nearby Joliet Immediately barri-
caded roads in a 12-mile radius from
Marley and established a radio
blockade. Approximately 125 men
were drawn into the hunt.
Meantime. Joliet officers kept a
close lookout for the convict. Mech
said Russell was proceeding toward
Joliet when he last saw him.
SSrir To-
Evening star., 1939-07-16

still is State w. P. A. administrator.
Waters also stood on his constitu-
tional rights and refused to testify.
The indictments charge Reilly
forged the Endorsements on IA war
rants totaling $252. The maximum
penalty is from two to five years in
prison on conviction in each case.
Despite his party affiliation, Reilly
was a close friend of Pendergast,
now in Leavenworth Penitentiary
on his plea of guilty to income tax
evasion charges.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
7. Owen Knight
Heads WoItonions
Special Dispatch to The Star.

5peclaI DISPATCH TO The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, July 15.-T.
Owen knight of Silver Spring was
elected president Of the Rockville
Chapter Of the Izaak Walton League
at the July meeting, it was an
nounced today. Thomas A. Ridgely
OF Brookeyille and A. E. Higgins,
DerWood, were named vice presi-
dents; j. Bradley Van Hoessen of
Forest Glen, secretary, and Hum
phrey Cissel of Rockville, treasurer
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Best Pickpocket' Bruqs

Arrested in Metz, France. for pick
ing a pocket in church, 55-year old
italian boasted to the police that he
was the best scholar at the Milan
school for pickpocketS.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Tourist Slump Reported

Because fewer tourists visited
Panama in the Spring than In many
previous seasons the country had a
business slump.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-05-11
M1 NIX
ACTIVITIES

Ur. and Mrs. Carroll Pitts and
Mrs. Martha Durham of Calgary, Can
do, motored to Colville Thursday re-
urning home Friday by way of the
Coulee Dam.
Shirley Pitts of Quincy and Mar
jorie Pitts of Coulee are spending the
week at their grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. P. Pitts of Mold.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Mathis and daugh
ter of Seattle are visiting in tow
this week
Sam Hanan, Mrs. Jack Woods ant
Gyace Fritsch visited at Spokane Sat
urday.
Frank Willis and Chef Evans Wis
tied at Spokane Saturday.
Norma Burton called on Susan Pet
erson Wednesday.
Darrell Box and Elton Henderson o:
Wenatchee visited at the home Of
Mrs. W. L. Joplin Sunday.
Mrs. Ernest Chappell of Tieton Wis
tied in town over the weeken
FOR SALE-Model 800 johnson
cupboard motor, 81 horsepower, A.
condition, $4,000. Cost $4,000 new
r. A. Dierkes. Adv.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-05-11

The Lincoln Lumber company, a.
Warded contract last month to mill
about 100000 board feet of timber
in the reservoir area OF the dam, is
ready to start milling the timber as it
is brought to the rivers edge by WPA
crews, it was learned this week.
At the last meeting of the scout
committee. it was suggested that local
people be asked to give any odd jobs
to Boy Scouts to help them get unis
forms. Please call Mr.. Fitch at the
school for a boy to do any type of
odd job.
SEND BROKEN GLASSES direct
to Alfred E. Jones, Box 1916, Spo-
kane. All glasses and repairs manu-
featured by recognized dispensers. Il
G. J. Weller has purchase a new
Mercury 8 four door sedan, from thi
Aldrich Motor company.
Karl Briggs and Jack McGarvey at
tended the Wenatchee Spokane base.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-05-11

Earl Joplin. Maize Paine of Wen
atchee, Alma Tucker and w. L. Jop-
lin attended the boat races at Nc
Ginris lake Sunday.
Mrs. j. E. Underwood of Spokane
is visiting in town this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chef Evans and child
rem called at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Evans at Baird Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Gegnar and
daughter visited at Wenatchee Mon
day.
Elwood Willis visited at his home
over the weekend.
Mrs. Ras Tanneberg shopped in
town Tuesday.
Mrs. Edwin Nicholson and son Wis.
tied in town Monday.
David Peterson shopped in towr
Wednesday.
A miscellaneous stork shower was
held in honor of Mrs. Chester Evans
at the Ladies Aid parlors Wednesday
afternoon. Mrs. Elwood Harold. Mrs
Glen Bean, Mrs. George Tampien, Miss
VERNE Steinmetz and Mrs. Ray Croft
were hostesses.
Frank Mathis, who was i'll, is i'm
proving nicely.
Miss Hilda Mesick and Mrs. R. L
| Woodhouse visited at Wenatchee We'd
| nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rolly Bernard Of
| Okanogan, were visitors at the Harry
Mitchell home the first of the week
Mrs. George Tampien, Mrs. Chef
Evans, Mrs. Leonard DIN and Mrs
Bob Hilson visited at the home OF
! Mrs. Milton .Kirkwood Tuesday.
Mrs. Bill Collins and son and Mrs
D. w. Woodcook and daughter of AL
mira visited friends and relatives in
town Tuesday.
Mrs. Cecil Lee visited in town Wed
nesday.
WANTED-Loan of $4,000 at
8 per cent interest, for one year
Good security. Write Box 51S, Cou
lee City. ADV
Mr.. and Mrs. Rollie Bernard Of Ok.
onogan spent the first part of the
week at the Harry Mitchell home.
Cecil Adkins was a business caller
in town Wednesday.
Evelyn Larsen visited her parents
at Wilson Creek over the weekend.
The worst dust storm Of the yeal
enveloped this region Saturday.
A new sign is being painted on the
west side of the Aldrdich Motor COM
pany building
A few of the core-drillers stationed
here have been transferred to Daven
port, where they will work for few
weeks and then return to Coulee City
] Bids for the removal of a thousand
Indian graves to be flooded by the
lake behind the dam will be called fol-
soon. The graves are to be moved tc
| higher areas by a lice s d
embalmer. The lake, now about 81
miles long has not yet flooded any OF
the old burial grounds.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-05-11

ball game at Wenatchee Tuesday night
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ragon and child
zen, Mrs. Cecil Lathen and Tommy
I1lthen all Of Oakesdale were callers
at the Hilson home Sunday.
A GENERAL LINE OF DIR. HESS
PRODUCTS for livestock and poultry
Dodd and Gilbery. Adv
MIS-. N. D. Swank is visiting in
Spokane for few days.
Despite the fact that the wea
Their has been trifle cool and windy
quite few of the younger folks havt
already inaugurated the swimming sea-
son.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-05-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Woodnouse had as
dinner guests Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Sampson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wayne Clark of Spokane and Mr.. and
Mrs. Arnie Gardner Of Coulet City.
A Mr.. and Mrs. Reinwalt, charged
with larceny at the Coulee Junction
Service, entered pleas Of guilty in
Ephrata. He was given six months in
the county Jail and she was given 60
days in Jail.
Miss Hilda Mesiuk and Mrs. Wood
house spent Wednesday in Wenatchee.
Miss Mesick was delegate to the w.
E.A. convention.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-05-11

Mother was bigger and she could
see
When Daddy was down by the
poplar tree
And that was the moment when.
tendcr.eyed,
She opened the door and propped
it wide
And started the baby on eager
feet
Daddy was coming up the street.
Daddy was weary and shabby too,
But oh, the print of her little shoe
And the welcoming of her tiny
hands
Made him monarch Of richer
lands
Than ever were = and night by
night
The little game was their dear
delight.
Night by night-till the one when
Death
Snatched her up on laughing
breath.
A staggering car that rocked and
reared
Free of a lads light hand that
steered
And crushed her lifelcss before
their eyes,
So little, so eager, so sweet and
wise.
Three souls cry out in the little
When darkness hovers and settles
down,
A man who plods from his days
work home
Remembering how he used to
come,
A woman who listens with strain
ing ears
And fights the silence with bitter
tears,
And lad with haggard brow
who sees
A baby's ghost in the poplar trees.
Anne Sutherland Brooks.
Evening star., 1939-03-07
c, TUESDAY, MARCH T. 1889
New Malice Fowl at Zoo
Hdrdheurted as Parents
: Eeove Eggs to Hotch
FIN Sun, With No
Cure Given Young

Two egg-laying megapods with
the worst instincts of the most
heartless fairy-tale stepmother have
taken up their abode at the Ma
tional Geological Park.
They are Malice fowl, natives of
South Australia. with considerable
superficial resemblance to the wild
pheasant. DR.. William M. Mann.
Zoo director, got them In a trade
with a New York bird dealer. They
are called megapods because of their
big feet.
The Malice pair are so In love
with each other that they never
permit their offspring to distract
their attention from each other.
The limit to which the fowl will
60 for their young Is to build large
mound-like nest of earth and vege-
table matter, in which the female
lays her eggs, usually IS. She lays
eggs twice q year.
Then the Mallees fly Oh, leaving
the eggs to their own fate. The sun
bakes the mound and incubates the
eggs. When they hatch the young
make their own escape from the
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Glen {. Curtiss Dies
At kenwood Home

Glen E. Curtiss, 81, Government
attorney, of 702 Dorset avence, Ken
wood. Md, died yesterday at his
home following an illness of several
weeks.
Born in Syracuse, N. Y, Mr..
Curtiss was a graduate of Syracuse
University and of National Uni
versity Law School here.
He had been associated for many
years with the General Accounting
once and recently had been work.
ing as an attorney in the Office of
the general counsel of the G. A. O..
In addition to his widow, Mrs
zettie Curry Curtiss, he is survived
by two sisters, Miss Viola Curtiss OF
Washington and Mrs. Claude Lewis
OF Bernhards Bay, N. Y, and an
aunt, Mrs. Ellen Cook, also of Bern
hards Bay, N. Y.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at his late home.
1nterment will be in Rock Greek
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1939-03-07

Joseph Miller and H. H. Miller, no
relation, to the scene.
There the f1remen and policemen
joined by Patrolman j. E. Dawn,
held a brief indignation meeting
condemning pranksters who would
get policemen and f1remen out be-
fore dawn on a false alarm.
While they were voicing their
wrath, Harry S. Williams, a roomer
IN boarding house at 1927 M
street NV, just around the corner
from the Thirteenth street address
rushed up.
A little breathlessly, Mr.. Williams
said two men had Just rushed
through the boarding house, grabbed
a fire extinguisher belonging to the
proprietor, Samuel Streb, and fled
IN q light sedan bearing Maryland
license plates.
The f1remen jumped on the fire
engine. The policemen piled into
the patrol wagon and the chase
was on. They overlook the car at
Thirteenth and o streets NV. and
forced 1t to the curb.
Two very much surprised young
men were quickly collared. The fire
extinguisher was recovered and re-
turned to Mr.. Streb. The young
men were booked at the second pre-
cinct station for Investigation. Both
were well-dressed. One said he Is
IN artist. The other, appropriately
enough, said he was q IRE tender.
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Firing Squad Is Chosen
By Execution SLAYER
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, March IA
firing squad will be assembled here
next month to executive 54-year -old
George Hayes, who expected to be
hanged for murder, but chose to
be shot.
Utah is the only State in which
a condemned man may make such
choice.
Hayes was convicted at nearby
Tooele Of participation in the fan
tastic execution Staying" Of Sher-
man w. Caldwell, 71-year-old trapper
hermit, who was strapped into a
tilted-back chair, hooded and gagged
and then shot.
At the trial Sheriff Alma White
Of Tooele County testified that
Hayes had requested, when I swing
will you tie my ankles so I won't
kick around and make noise like
a frog?"
But when District Judge Oscar w.
McConkie asked the partially deaf,
head-phone equipped defendant
Yesterday to choose between bullets
and the gallows, Hayes replied:
"I'll take the squad"
"The firing squad?"
Hayes nodded his head.
Grinning broadly as he was led
from the courtroom, he extended
forefinger to initiate a pistol, placed
1t against his head, and clicked his
tongue against the roof Of his mouth
several times.
Evening star., 1939-03-07

could be obtained around the build
ing for parking and for overflow
meetings, which could be held un-
der cover Of temporary nature,
where radios and loud-speakers
could be installed. I need not go
into greater detail The expert
enced architect can meet all re-
quirements If unhampered by lack
of space.
I'VE want a distinctive building,
architecturally correct, yet utili-
tartan building, located where there
is ample and economical ground.
1t should be of commanding ap-
pearance but conveniently divided
under one roof for all needs"
Mooney Backs Views.
Col. Harper at the close of his
statement adds these questions: IF
the Federal Government builds
such structure, will 1t be Federal
building? If SO, will the Federal
Government charge entrance fees,
pocket the profits and absorb any
losses? If owned by the District of
Columbia, what about the
f1nances?"
Sharing the same views in large
part, former Postmaster William M.
Mooney also declares: II am strong
ly opposed to John Marshall place
and Constitution avenue as a loca-
ton for the projected public audi
torium. Picture. If you please, the
Griffith Baseball Stadium located
on that site, and it will give an
idea of what conditions would be
if the Auditorium Commission Sc
lection should be unchanged I
favor the East Capitol street sug-
gestion as better choice"
A similar attitude likewise Is rep
resented in a letter from Morris E..
NARROW, president of the NARROW
Coal Co.. reading: "The strongest
argument in favor Of the East Capt.
tol street site is the fact that there
will be no difficult traffic problem
to be dealt with. This location
could be reached from many angles,
and the almost unlimited space
available for the accommodation of
unusually large gatherings would
make 1t comparatively easy for the
proper authorities to handle, and
in the congested downtown area the
normal movement of the city's ac-
tivities would not be disturbed.
Another important consideration
in favor of the East Capitol street
site is that its selection would be
a step toward the development of
the eastern section of the city,
which is necessary if we wish to
establish proper balance in the
growth of our city. This area has
been sadly neglected, and yet East
Capitol street, from the Capitol to
the Anacostia River, offers posi-
bilities for the making of one Of the
most beautiful streets in the world. I"
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Plans for Housing Penal
Dock Workers investigated

An Investigating Committee of
Kenilworth Citizens Association
members was named last night to
look into plans of temporarily hous-
ing Occoquan prisoners on the site
OF the new penal wharf on the
Anacostia River during the con-
struction period.
The committee was appointed
after Paul R. Donley of the South
east Citizens Association told the
kenilWorth group that usually
any one wishing to build or rent
property on the water front must
send an application and blueprints
to the Federal engineers, who in
turn forward them to persons living
IN the surrounding area for ap-
proval. But in this case we were
not asked; we were told to get ont
IN q specified time to make room
for the buildings"
Charles M. Maize, president of
the association, after deciding that
not enough facts or details were
presented to pass any resolutions
on the matter, named the COM
mittee.
The Overton fiscal relations bill
was Endorsed and the Griffenhapen
report was supported, with specific
exceptions relative to education the
Public Library and the parks and
recreation departments.
The association met in the Kenil-
worth Recreation Center.
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Elliott Roosevelt Rops
New Deal on Freight Rates

FORT WORTH, Tex, March Z
R.-Elliott Roosevelt, son of the
President, mentioned "a black mark
against the ledger of the present ad-
ministration" in a discussion about
so-called discriminatory freight
rates in the Southwest.
In a radio broadcast by transcript
ton last night MI. Roosevelt said:
"Unless something is done about the
rate discrimination in the Southwest
at this session of Congress
Texas will consider the lack
OF facing the problem black mark
against the ledger of the present
administration, as we'll as the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
unless there is change in SEN
timent, the aged, decaying, tortoise
like Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion will be empowered to set and
adjust freight rates as it sees fit
to hear this year, for example, evi-
dence that has been gathered on a
freight problem for five years past,
and perhaps two years hence, after
the problem is entirely changed,
render a decision on it,
Mr.. Roosevelt recommended elm
1nation Of rate differentials.
Evening star., 1939-03-07

Rumors linking Harold D. Smith,
Michigan budget director, with two
Federal posts were current here
today.
The Associated Press reported
from Lansing, Mich. last night that
Mr.. Smith. a friend of Attorney
General Frank Murphy, had con-
f1rmed reports that he might become
budget director; in Washington. Mr..
Smiths name had been heard in
connection with the post Of con-
troller general, vacant since July,
1896.
The Associated Press said it had
been reported that Mr.. Murphy,
who as Governor, appointed Mr..
Smith, had recommended him for
the budget post which has been oc-
cupied by Daniel w. Bell as acting
director since Lewis w. Douglas
resigned in 1884.