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Evening star., 1947-05-11

new in road signs: the
story of the Old West
told in cowboy lingo
A COWBOY leaned over in the sad
~ die of his dusty sorrel to read
the roadside sign erected on High
way "a near old Nevada City. Next
to him sleek sedan with New York
license plates pulled up, and the
: driver leaned out to study the same
sign. 1t wasn't highway directions
the cowboy and the motorist were
absorbed in. 1t read:
"A ghost town now, but once one
of the hell-roarin' mining camps that
lined Alder Gulch in the SOS. 1t
was trading point where gold dust
and nuggets were the medium of
exchange, where men we're men and
women were scarce A stack of
whites cost twenty, the sky was the
limit, and everyone went heeled."
The cowboy turned to the
driver of the sedan. Talks tur-
key, don't it?" he said. II never
miss one of 'em when I'm trav-
elm in Montana
I've stopped to read at least
twenty already said the New
Yorker. Its the first time l ever
enjoyed history lesson"
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Cote Staying AIibi Witness
Found Hanged Year Later
BY the Associated Press

BROCKTON, Mass. Dec. "a
39-year-old defense witness for
Walter E. Steele, named by Mrs.
Bertha Surprise Cote as the slayer
of her husband before she was con-
victed, was found hanged in a ga
rage yesterdays year to the day
after Rene Cote, IS, was slain in his
apartment.
Medical Examiner H. Leavitt
Pierce pronounced Ralph McFad-
den, witness for Steele, suicide,
and said he probably had been dead
for several days.
Steele first was named by Mrs.
Cote as the slayer of her husband,
but the 25-year-old garage me-
chanic was cleared in Brockton Dis
trict Court and Mrs. Cote herself
was charged with murder.
Mrs. Cote halted her trial abrupt
ly with plea of guilty to man.
slaughter and Is currently serving
three and a half to six year
sentence in the Women's State
Prison in birmingham.
McFadden had testified before the
grand jury at Plymouth that he
was with Steele during the early
hours of the morning that Cote was
murdered,
Evening star., 1947-12-29
PoroIyzed Priest
Celebrates First
Hiqh Mass
Bv The Associated Press

PRAIRIE DU CHEN. Wis, Dec
29.-A young priest who is unabl,
to raise his arms above his head
celebrated his first solemn high
mass yesterday.
The Rev. Cosmas Meyer, 20, gave
thanks during the ceremony to Pope
Plus XII, who permitted him to
continue studies for the priesthood
despite the partial paralysis he suf-
fered as a result of poliomyelitis.
Three of Father Meyers brothers,
all members of religious orders. par
ticipated in the mass and two cou-
sins. members of religious brother
hoods, were servers.
The ceremony was held In cen
tury-old St. Gabriel's Church and
attended by Father Meyers sister
Regina, now Sister M. Venard of the
Notre Dame Order, and his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Meyer.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Recommendations
Continued From First Page.)

(COQC1QueO from f1rSL PdRe.)
operation between the medical and
nursing stats.
II. Provision Of a library of books
and daily newspapers for patients.
Repair Of Equipment.
II. Repair and use of tubs for pro-
longed baths for disturbed patients.
13. Using mechanical restraints
only on the order of physician,
keeping a daily record of such re-
straints which should be reviewed
daily BY the medical and nursing
supervisory staff. Also, working out
clearer definition of the psychia-
trio conditions requiring restraints,
and how long they should be used.
IA. Extension of occupational
therapy to the wards.
Is. Daily exercise and out-of door
games under adequate supervision
for patients able to get around.
IS. A drinking fountain on each
ward.
IT. Modernization Of the pantry,
kitchen and dining room services
which at present are "sad sight"
18. A coat of paint and simple
home like decorating" on the wards,
10. Adequate lighting, repainting,
re-equiping and additional staff for
the hydro-therapy department.
20. Elevators that run.
81. Sound -deadening materials in
the corridors, wards and examina-
ton rooms.
%. Finding the cause and cor
recting flooding in the hydrotherapy
unit.
%. Raising the level Of the
psychopathic divisions work so that
it will attract medical colleges to
help staff the service, as a method
of improving patient care.
"a. Establishment of division of
mental hygiene in the District gov
ernment.
Is. Provision in the law to human
ize commitment procedures.
e. Provision for voluntary and
direct commitment to St. Elizabeths
Hospital of some patients requiring
prolonged disqualification.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
HiIdegorde Reports
$4,000 Gem Theft
By the tssociofsd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Hilde-
garde, the night club singer, re-
ported to police that sneak thief
entered her Hotel Plaza apartment
early yesterday and stole jewelry
and a fur coat she valued roughly
at a total of $25, 900.
The theft occurred shortly after
midnight, while she was singing for
late show at the hotel.
The singers real name is Hide
garde Loretta Sell.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Death of RecIuse Sister Leaves
FoirfuxWon1un Alone at 20

neighbor, Mrs. Sallle Green, to help
her carry a typewriter from the
Alger home to Mrs. Green's.
I'm a writer" Miss Alger said.
II write Western stories"
Entering an outbuilding on the
Green place, Miss Alger saw a
mirror.
IT haven't looked in a mirror for
years." she said. She did not bother
to look then.
Later she took stock of herself
and noticed her nails and began
looking for some of that stuff to
put on my fingers" Her cheeks
and lips showed signs of poorly
applied rouge and lipstick.
Left Notes for Mail Carrier.
The sisters apparently had de-
pended primarily on the Fairfax
County Welfare Board for subsist;
ence in recent years. One welfare
worker said Eloise apparently was
afraid of strangers and would hide
when any one approached the
house. She said no one was per-
mitted upstairs where Eloise spent
most of her time.
1--WE felt these old people had q
perfect right to live as they wanted
to and would be happier If they did
They were very proud and did not
like to depend on charity, the well
fare worker said.
Charles F. Dyer of Burke recalled
taking groceries to the Alger home
several years ago. When he re-
turned with another load he was
driven off with shotgun and never
went back, he said.
The sisters left notes for the mail
carrier, and he relayed their orders
for food, Miss Alger said.
She has another sister named Mrs
Alma Robertson whom she has not
seen since 1927, Miss Alger said. She
believed. Mrs. Robertson lived at
Salisbury, Md,
Funeral services have not been
completed, the Everly funeral home
at Fairfax reported.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Man, 26, Kills Infant Son,
Beats Wife, Ends Own Life
BY the Associofsd Press

MARSHALL, Tex, Dec. 29.-Po-
lice today could offer no motive in
a brutal Staying that left an infant
dead, his mother badly beaten and
his father suicide.
Justice of the Peace Elmer Wheel
er yesterday returned a verdict Of
suicide in the shooting Of Richard
L. Preston, 26. His body was found
in his parents home shortly after
murder charge had been filed
against him.
Justice of the Peace H. L. Gallo
way issued the warrant charging
Preston with murder in the death
of his 4-month-old son, Robert
Thomas.
The infant was dead on arrival at
a hospital here after his mother
stumbled from a wooded section,
where. the attack occurred, to a
neighbor's residence.
/ Chief of Police c. M. EZell said
Prestons wife fled from her house
about 2:30 am. yesterday, carrying
the baby in her arms. He said they
were caught in a thicket and badly
beaten.
Mrs. Preston was reported In
satisfactory condition last night.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Man Held in $1,000
Bail in Shooting Of
Sleeping Woman

A man accused Of firing two shots
from the street into q first-floor
bedroom, seriously wounding a
sleeping woman, was held in IS 600
bail on his appearance in Municipal
Court today.
Isaac Rhodes, ~, colored, 1900
block OF Eighth street NV, was
charged with assault with intent to
kill after the shooting at S am. yes
terday.
The victim, Fanny Proctor, 81,
colored, 5000 block of E street Sc,
was in flair" condition at Gallinger
Hospital with a bullet wound in the
left temple.
Detective 1t. E. E. Scott said
homicide squad detectives who in
vestigated the shooting indicated
the victim was acquainted with
Rhodes.
The bullets, according to police,
were fired from a 45-caliber auto
matte. One bullet struck the wom-
an. The other lodged in woodwork
near the bed. Rhodes was arrested
at his home shortly after the
shooting.
When Rhodes appeared in court
today Judge Almond w. Scott con-
tinued the case until January be-
cause the wounded woman could
not be present as a witness.
Evening star., 1947-12-29

Her principal life interest sud-
denly snatched away, 70-year-old
woman tottered about her dilap-
idated farmhouse at Five Forks, Va,
today. bewildered by the death of
her sister and constant companion.
For most of the 80 years the
spinster sisters had lived in the
community, their doors were bolted
against outsiders and shotgun
presented an added threat to those
who would trespass.
Yesterday, in the Uttered, ram
shackle home near Burke Station,
Fairfax County, Miss Eloise Alger,
65, died unattended. Her bed was
a heap of rags on the upper floor
Of the story and a half house. Po-
lice said she had been helped up
the stairs shortly before her death
by a mail carrier. Roy Bowman,
one of the few contacts the sisters
had with the outside world
The surviving sister, Miss Belle
Austin Alger, greeted newsmen to-
day on the crumbling porch of the
home and did not invite them in.
She answered questions patiently,
but her future was clouded. She
did not know where she would live,
but she wanted to leave the place
She and Eloise had bought the
home in 1917, she explained, COM
ing from New York after the death
of their mother. Their father, a
veterinarian, had preceded their
mother in death, she said.
Once Interior Decorators.
For a time they had money and
were popular in the neighborhood.
They had horses and enjoyed riding.
Both had good educations and were
trained as interior decorators, so
they opened a business in Washing
ton.
Then the money went, Miss Alger
didn't know quite how. Eloise be-
came i'll and nervous and did not
like strangers, she said That may
have explained the presence Of a
shotgun, she said.
Miss Alger interrupted the con-
versation long enough to ask a
Evening star., 1947-12-29
LOST.

His FAILS Clutch. !he % Va y5fi 5rd Dec; chii
dren's pet; identifcation taE, marked
Ksnops Gt 1r return h05a t. soo TsHaTd s
no., Arlington, Va. 80
BILLFoLD. red; containing currency and
valuable papers. Reward. HO. 1921. 80
BLACK BROADCLOTH BAG with gold
Identification; left in cab Il pm. Christ
mas eve in front of 5000 Conn. ave. Re-
ward. Ho. 1900. Ext. 422. "a
CAT Persian yellow mos old: "a ans wt. to
aaaf ad ron Il ST nN sa Dec seea ao on Tevsrd
Return to 3s25 Fulton st. NV. or call Wo.
CLASS RING, rold onyI stons; initials
reward: e; R Me- shs,osi foeS. Sle, 1'h and . NV
COLLIE DOG, male; large. tan. answers to
Reward. Call OR. 1921. 81
COCKER SPANIEL PUPPY blk: vic N. H
f5ssnG1y' ReTsrd IA namS ss7o. Parry eh'l0s pet
DOG, large, tan and white, resembles
gose dog answers Gs 9S %o sarss No.
FUR SCARF. Sunday, 2sth. about noon,
between Grant Circle and 1st and Kennedy
sts. NV. Reward. TIA. 061s after pm
GLASSES, clear plastic rims; lost Christ +
between Chevy Chase Circle and ordway
st. NV. Reward. Woodley 1900. 30.
GLOVE, one, red kid sunday in taxicab
between and : pm. Finder please call
ST.. 4190. Reward. 3O'
LEDGER BOOK, picked up in error. from
The Lerner Shop End hoor desk; Wo9ld ba
GBy sDss ssFa The fEhsER s Ms
Ill St. NV. -29
MINK FUR PIECE, initials therein T. R.
c., kntru oil MT
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Reward. Phone ME. 2161. Ext. 615. 30'
MOVING FILM. mr., 10th and w sts. NV.
Fri; night, several 8 nm. developed movie
chief subject. Reward. DE. 0S00, Ex:
NECKPIECE, 3-piece. Baum Marten; yicin-
1ts NsrS S4o4 s. 6 staeyS aIoH st. aE EaHnF'0n a44
PEARLS, Saturday. Carroll ave, Takoma
Park, near Hubbards or between Hampton
lane and Heads in Bethesda. Reward.
ytefnity, Of Chevy Chase Circle. Reward.
PEARLS, graduated, double strand; lost
Dec. "a, downtown Washington or Herzogs 8,
Maine ave. s.w. Reward: TIE. 1928. -29
II Arnson ya sna s
ward KE. 5o47.
PHOTOGRAPH, girls: Fri. night, on bus
or in YMCA. Reward. Georgia 1852.
POCKETBoOK, red plastic; left in taxi
Tuesday. Dec. %: valuable papers. Re-
ward. HANLON HI. 6161. 80
WRIST WATCH, lady's Longine, yellow
gold On each side is a small circle with
diamond, black band. Lost Friday, bet.
$50 ana ,, on 18th and z stS. NV.
ana MlrphsS and 10 on F. Reward.
WRIST WATCH ladys, yellow gold, Ham
nton; lost 1900 blk, D 81. ne. Saturday
night or en- route 1900 blk. B st. s.e. vi.
WRIST WATCH, lady's, gold. corded black
Calvert-Woodley .pl, Cathedral, Conn. or
Ordway. Reward. WI 5s43, 80
WRIST WATCH, lady'., plain eoid,
Parker; Friday might, vic Palace Thea
ter or s.e. streetcar line. Reward. ri. s4eO.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Two-Minute Earthquake
Felt in Maine Towns
BY the Associoted Press

DOVER-FOxCROFT, Me-, Dec.
ga fairly strong" earthquake
shook houses and ratified dishes In
a dozen Piscataquis and Penobscot
County towns for minutes yes
terday.
No one was injured and there
were no reports of property loss.
The tremors-some householders
felt two distinct shocks-were re-
ported from Greenville, IS miles
northwest of here, to Milo, Is miles
east, and Dexter, 10 miles south.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Six Robbed in HOTEL;
Rings, Gifts and Cash
Taken in ) Homes

Thieves over the week end took
S253 from six guests at the Willard
Hotel, rings valued at $225 from a
Wisconsin avenue home, SILT as well
as Christmas gifts from a Thirty
fifth street NV apartment, and
$3.50 from Benning road room.
Pants" burglars also we're busy,
police reported. Robert L. Baldwin,
55, and Anthony J. Furrietta, 81,
said $3.50 and S14. respectively, was
taken from their trousers last night
while they slept in their rooms in
the 100 block of Second street NE
Mr.. Baldwin's trousers also disap-
peared but we're found early today
on the Supreme Court Building
lawn, police said.
$3.50 Taken From Trousers.
Joseph Silverman, 2033 Benning
road NE, notified police that while
he was sleeping yesterday afternoon
$3.50 was taken from his trousers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shirley R. Shelton,
1913 Thirty-fifth street NV, said
that on their return home last
night, after a three-day absence
they noticed the front door had
been jimmied and several Christ
mas boxes opened. A portable type
writer, a set OF gold cuff links and
a mans felt hat were gone from
under the Christmas tree.
The Silt also reported missing had
been collected by Mrs. Shelton S
14-year-old son, Edward Hartman
on his newspaper route. He told
police he was to have turned In
the money today to the Washington
Post.
Hotel Guests Robbed.
The reported thefts in sixth,
seventh and eighth floor rooms at
the Willard Hotel were discovered
early yesterday. The guests and
the amounts taken from their rooms
were listed by police as follows:
Miss Kay Mummings of East Bar
net, England, $129; George E. Ban
tow, New Hyde Park, Long Island,
Sc; Walter E. Giesler, Wheeling.
w. Va, $50: David w. Mitchell,
Douglaston, N. Y, $40; Leroy F.
Furry, jr., Garden City, N. Y, $19,
and William Cooreman, Jericho,
N. Y, $19
Mrs. Mary NJ Watlen. %, of 5000
Wisconsin avenue NV. reported
yesterday that a diamond wedding
ring and a diamond engagement
ring valued at 1925 were stolen from
her room.
A 1O-year-old colored boy. John
Woods of BOT K street NV, notified
police that five other colored boys
~oized him in an alley near his
'rome late yesterday afternoon and
ook his trousers and shoes.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
GuIlinqer
Continued From First Page.)

pointed out that patients are
acled in these wards.
:. Wortis, in his report, declared
as a disgrace that this essential
,lth service should have been per-
tied to deteriorate to its present
oDlorable condition"
He called for an entirely new
building with approximately zoo
beds. but he said the present build
ing could be modernized to accom-
modate between 80 and 100 patients
"In the long view," he observed
this would be more expensive than
new construction. However, 1t may
have to be achieved as an interim
arrangement"
Cites Austrian Conditions.
Pointing out that he had recently
returned from Austria on a medical
teaching mission, DR.. Wortis de-
clared: ~. ...-...,.s ?
only in that defeated country
did I find an occasional psyche
pathic division as neglected as is
the Gallipger psychopathic divi-
sion"
He reported that the five psychia-
trists stating the psychopathic divi-
sion are "overworked, underpaid and
so harassed by the volume of
clinical responsibility that they are
not able to give patients even the
necessary basic psychiatric and
medical study and care"
He found the psychopathic wards
clean, but commented that the
poverty and drabness of the place
is outstanding and depressing"
Nursing Care Inadequate.
He charged that patients are
sometimes put in mechanical re-
straint without signed orders by q
physician.
AS for nursing care, he reported
that mental patients are each given
less than an hour of nursing care
in every 24-hour period in CON-
parison with three and half hours
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Dead SINGER Denozified

BERLIN A1.-The German opera
singer Gotthelf Pistor has just been
denazified even though he is dead.
His family had to get him cleared
by a denazification tribunal in order
to come into possession Of the in
heritance because he had Joined
the Nazi party in 1882
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-04
True Tales About Ohio
Opens Tavern
Concluded from page u

TN0I.
Opens Tavern
The hunter brought his family
from Deerfeld, cleared a patch of
ground around the cabin, planted it
with corn and pumpkins and began
to prosper. By 1903, when more
settlers had come into the forest, he
opened a tavern in one room of the
cabin, his family living in the other.
Later he built log mill near it on
East Fork.
1t was the first tavern and first
mill in Clinton County and no more
was it necessary for the settlers to
grind their corn in hand mills or to
take it on horseback to Deerfeld
or Waynesville for grinding. Besides
Venison and bear steaks, corn
meal and flour provided most of the
settlers food. Sifted through hand
made sieves, the finer flour was used
for johnny cake and hoe-cake and
the coarser meal for mush and corn
pone.
Pioneer hunting business was
profitable and Van Meters primeval
forest home provided him with a
sort of mint" all his own. There
was little or no money in the early
settlements and skins were legal
tender there. All the frontier stores
accepted pelts and whisky in lieu Of
money. Corn also was taken in by
the early merchants.
A bear skin was worth 81; a deer
skin so cents; a fox skin so cents;
a coon skin was a quarter and even
a rabbit skin a fve-penny-bit--six
and one-fourth cents. And besides
the value of the hides there were
heavy bounties paid for the scalps
of wolves, panthers and wildcats.
Little is known Of Van Meters
family. Though no descendants now
live in Clinton County and through
more than a century the family
strain has run out. 1t is known
that Van Meter had one son-Abner.
After his fathers death the water
mill on East Fork was known as
Abner Van Meters mill.
The Van Meter settlement grew to
be Morgantown then slumped awav
and now is farmland. When the
first early road was being blazed
there, Van Meter met the surveyors
with a jug of whisky and persuaded
them to "bend the line" so it would
pass his tavern. When he died in
1913 he was buried beside that dirt
road and later, when it was inn
proved and widened, it covered his
grave.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-04

Ann Montgomery, sister Of the bride.
Games we're played with prizes
won by Margaret Basinger, Norma
Montgomery and Mrs. N. P. Steiner.
Many lovely gifts were received by
the bride.
Present were:
Mesdames Grover Montgomery,
Ray Guider, Arthur Swank, Russell
Montgomery, N. P. Steiner, George
Kimmel, Kenneth Dearth, Leland
Badertscher, John Warren, Clyde
Warren. Edgar Montgomery, Wood
row Barclay, Margaret Basinger,
Gilbert Montgomery and Edith
Powell.
Misses Helen Montgomery, Lucille
Barclay, Lucille shrum, Norma
Montgomery, Jean Ann Klingler and
the honored guest.
Regrets were sent by Mrs. Dora
Montgomery, Mrs. Harold Montgom-
cry, Mrs. Orland Wilkie, Mrs. Lloyd
Van Meter, Misses Janet Steiner and
Carol Montgomery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-04
East Orange

Mrs. Harry Amstutz of Harrod,
Mrs. Rayon Boutwell, and daughter
Lonnie Sue called on Mrs. Earl Rup-
right and daughter of Arlington,
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenny Chidester and
children spent Tuesday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. Rayon Boutwell, and
children.
The Riley Greek Baptist Woman's
Missionary Society will meet on
Wednesday, December 18th, for an
all day meeting. Pot luck dinner
and Christmas gift exchange at the
home of Mrs. Emanuel Boutwell,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Heldman of
Bucyrus, Mr.. and Mrs. Ted w.
Smith and daughters Ann and Jane
were supper guests Sunday of Mr..
and Mrs. c. M. Heldman.
Mrs. Alice Mae Boutwell, and Lon
ME Sue called on Mrs. Alta Potts
and daughter Rene, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Estes Sanders, Mr..
and Mrs. Ferd Morris and sons Ted
and Joe spent Thanksgiving day
with Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Leiber
and sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Amstutz of
Harrod, Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Bout
we'll and son Michael Dale of near
Findlay, Mr.. and Mrs. B. J. Bout
we'll were Thanksgiving dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Rayon Bout
we'll and children Lynn Ray and
Lonnie Sue.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-04

Entertains for Bride
A shower honoring Mrs. James
Steiner, the former Geraldine Mont
gomery, was given Tuesday night by