Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1929, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1929: LINGUIST AND EX-MISSIONARY THODIEASGALE RAKES .S, SHIS Lieutenant and Boatswain’s| Mate Are Lost From Naval Vessels. The storm that lashed Washington | yesterday had a tragic echo out at sea, with two fatalities on naval vessels. |Ernst Kotz Widely Experi- enced in Remote Parts of World. Compiled Language for Col-| ony in East Africa, Work- ing 15 Years. Lieut. (Junior Grade). Edwin V. Brant was lost overboard from the | cruiser U. S. S. Marblehead from the Ix:dq{1 has not been recovered. | The Navy Departmert also was aa- | vised today from the U. S. S. Floriaa | Boatswain’s Mate (First Class). John Michael Welch was lost overboara | about 3 am. yesterday. His next or| kin s his father, Edward ch, EIm strect, Newburyport, Mass. | The Navy Department’ today learned | details of the fatality on the Marble head, but_weather reports showed that a full gale was blowing off Hampton | Roads, Va., where the Marblehead was | operating with the scouting fleet, en gAging in maneuvers. Lieut. body was not recovered. His mother i Mrs. Helen R. Brant, whose address i given in naval records as R. F. D. No. 1, Morristown, Pa. The home port of the Marblehead is | Boston, Mass. Lieut. Brant was born in Pennsylvania February 15, 1901, and | entered the Naval Academy in June, 1920, being commissioned an ensign on SHINES I | s CAPITAL. Washington Enjoys Junelike Weather in Wake of Storm. | Old Sol poked his head out from be- | hind the clouds today and gave Wash- ingtonians a_touch of Junelike weather | after a 24-hour period of rain and| windstorm which caused minor trouble. | Officials in the office of the director | of Public Buildings and Public Pa sent a crew of men to Rock Creek Park | to clear a tree from a road which had been blocked. Workmen also removed & quantity of driftwood blown Into East | Potomac Park from the Potomac River.| The Potomac also flooded the Ana- costia Naval Alr Statfon last night for | the second time in rtecent weeks. Though the damage was negligible, the | water rose over the seawalls and splash- ed into the hangars. A road front | of the administration building was flooded nearly two feet deep. Planes were raised on blocks to prevent dam- e. uWenher Bureau attaches reported the rainfall during the 24-hour period ending at 11 o'clock this morning to- taled 1.55 inches. The wind reached a velocity of 42 miles an hour late yes- terday, falling off to 17 last night. Fair and cooler weather was forecast for tonight and tomorrow. FATHER SEEKS $15,000, CHARGING DOG BIT SON Suit Claims Animal Wounded Boy | as He Attempted to Sell Newspaper. Charging that his 12-year-old son Abraham was injured seriously when bitten by a dog, owned or in the cus- tody of the defendants, at Gettysburg, Pa., on Decoration day, David Kaplan, residing at 118 South Collington avenue, Baltimore, has filed sult to_recover $15,000 damages from Marshall H. Fear- now, 4512 New Hampshire avenue, and Thomas Gaines, 25¢ West 103d street, New York City. Fearnow is said to be the owner .of an automobile on which was riding & police dog attached by a leash to the running board, the dog be- ing the property of Gaines. The boy was selling newspapers and was called to the car by Fearnow, it is said, who wanted to buy a paper. As the young- ster reached the side of the vehicle the dog 1is said to have snapped at him and sunk his teeth in the boy's moutn. in- fiicting & wound that required three stitches. The plaintiff is represented by Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer. NOTED HISTORIAN DIES. LONDON, October 23 ().—Prof. | Thomas Frederick Tout, noted author- | ity on history, died at his home today, | eged 4. Prof. Tout, president of the Historical Association from 1910 to 1912, was & fellow of the British Academy and a | lecturer in English history at Oxford. In 1927 he became a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and in 1927-8 was messen- ger lecturer at Cornell University. “Business Man” Gets 20 Years. NEW YORK, October 23 (#).—Ray | Williams, up for sentence as a robber | and gunman, asked a week's adjourn- ment to wind up his business affairs, vhich, he told the court, consisted of | an interest in several good speakeasies. ‘ou certainly have your nerve with Judge Rosalsky. 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After spending most of his life in the remote corners of the world, including four years as a prisoner of war, Ernst Kotz, a linguist of note and former missionary, has been appointed as asso- ciate secretary of the foreign missions boafd of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church here. The most celebrated accomplishment credited to Kotz during his colorful caree: is the compiling of a written nguage for the natives of Tanganyika, Sast Africa, a colony mandatory to England. The language, reduced to writing by Kotz after 15 years of work, is one of the most difficult in existence. Kotz's “Chasu Grammar” has been recognized by the Berlin University. was published by a branch of t Kotz was aided in his task by his familiarity with the native tongues of other lands. He has mas- tered 11 languages, some of them nearly as fluently as his native German. The Vaasu tribe is comprised of nearly a half million men, women and chil- dren. Until educated by missionaries they lived in tiny circular grass huts, which sheltered cows, chickens, pigs and geese, as well as the natives., The country is dotted with countless v lages, some of them with only a dozen or s0 huts and others with more than 12,000, Mfumwa Governing Head. A chief called Mfumwa is the gov- erning head of each village. Each chief enforces a_well defined code of | laws. The inhabitants cultivate rice, maize and beans. They also go in for sheep raising on an extensive scale. | Mount Kilimanjaro, which, with an elevation of more than 20,000 feet, is the highest mountain in the far-flung, | sun-scorched reaches of Africa, is in the Vaasu tribal territory. The snow- capped peak is worshiped by the natives, | as all have heard legends handed down by their forefathers describing it as the home of spirits. The “White Moun- tain” is so sacred no native ever has been known to risk death by climb- ing it Kotz explained that there are more than 1.200 languages in Africa. The vocabulary of the native is far richer than most Americans realize. For in- stance, some of the languages have 200 different forms of the verb. The na- tives talk by means of tone ‘“clicks,” made by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth. These sounds are greatly varied in their tone. Four common forms are used—Ilow, high, low middle and high middle. A" word ac- cented with a low click may mean the opposite when accented with the hign or_middlehigh tone click. While a missionary Kotz began his grammar study of the tribe by making friends with a man he knew to be well versed in the Chasu language. Grasp- ing the native’s hand with a sudden movement, he would ask the name for it. The native, thinking Kotz referred to a ring he was wearing, would reply, Isiriri.” Words Slowly Acquired. Calling the hand “isiriri” a few days later, Kotz would discover his error. Re- peating the process. Kotz would be told the name of a finger, “kichaa” By patient experimenting, Kotz finally Will Rogers Says: NEW YORK.—About the ban- quet at Mr. Fords, it was great. Every time I would waste some cof- fee out of my saucer it would be on a millionaire. I started to kick on my seat, for the guys on either side looked like a couple of Ford dealers. So, before I would sit down I made ‘em tell. One said he was Orville ‘Wright. T told the other one I sup- pose you are Lindbergh. He says, “No, I am only Dr. Mayo.” Well, between a forced landing and an operrtion I was at home. And, say, a Democrat presided. Of course, a Republican provided. And Mr. Hoover made a humorous speech. Told what the electric light meant to the man that was too lazy to fill a lantern. But, when all's saild and done, I was disappointed. I thought they would give out Lin- colns as souvenirs. They didn't even pass around Fords. NAVAL AND MILITARY ORDERS TO HONOR DEWEY Services Will Be Conducted at Tomb in Bethelem Chapel October 28. The Naval and Military Order of the | Spanish-American War will honor Ad- miral Dewey by conducting simple serv- ices at his tomb in Bethlehem Chapel, | Mount Saint Alban, Navy day, October 28, at 10:30 a.m. Col. M. C. Buckey, U. 8. A, will pre- side. Col. Robert Lee Longstreet, U. S. A, will be in charge of the arran ments, and Chaplain George F. Dudley, U 8. V., will conduct the devotional exercises I IO\V many great—or even mod- erately successful men—went through life without nection? The number of people who get rich quick over some brilliant new scheme compared who acquire money through a steady. systematic accumulation. is negligible, There method. The merely a man wh spend all that is is GIVEN ADVENTIST BOARD PLACE no get-rich-quick capitalist WOMENS MISSION i BODY INELEETION | Massachusetts Delegate Is| Elected Head of | R | . Group. Flection of officers this afternoon | | featured today's session of the Women's | | National Misslonary Association, one of | : i three organizations holding conventions ¥ | under the auspices of the Universalist | Church here this week. The associa- | tion is meeting in the Hotel Mayflower. | Rev. Hazel 1. Kirk of Massachusetts was elected president to succeed Mrs. | James M. Vallentyne. Other officers | elected were: | Mrs. Walter R. Corlett, Illinois, first, vice president; Mrs. Alice T. Walker, New York, second vice president; Mrs. Grace C. Foglesong, Rhode Island, re- | cording secretary: Mrs. Mattie P. Schonland. Massachuset .hr%x;refio?d- 3 e ing sccretary: Mrs, P. C. Shedd, Maine, learned the native word for the hand | {2 S ME® £ Sampson, Massa iganza. | chusetts, literature secretary: Miss H. When asked the name of an organ Eola Mayo, Maine, secretary of the the native replied in his own tongue, | Clara Barton Guil Mrs. William H. “I don't know.” Kotz, thinking that McGlauflin, this city: Milo Fol- was the name, recorded it as such. som, Maine, and Mrs. Leonard E. Later when the boy was asked to dust| Thayer. Massachusetts, trustees, and the organ there was utter confusion. Mrs. Marian W. Lobdell, Massachusetts, It was in this manner that Kotz learned | chairman of the norainating committee the native never had seen such an in- | for 1931 and 1933. strument before and knew no name| Elected by Assembly. for_it. The Chasu language has four or five| The officers’ nominations were re- different ways of forming the past tense | ported by Mrs. Ethel M. Allen of Ohio. of a verb., Out of such confusion Kotz | chairman of the nominating committee. had to form a rule that applied to all | === verbs. After scores of trials he discov- | ered a rule applicable to all of the 200 or so verbs of the language. Kotz was a director of a Seventh-Da: Adventist mission when the World War opened. The territory where he was stationed, then a part of German East Africa, was captured by the British. Kotz, a German, was placed in an in- ternment camp. Removed at first to a Tanga coastal city, he later was taken to Bombay, Italy, and thence to Egypt. Meanwhile’ his wife and three children were held in Tanga. | Mr. and Mrs. Kotz were denied the privilege of corresponding with each other for about a year. Kotz later was permitted to write a_brief postal card occasionally. Mrs, Kotz was returned to Germany first. When her husband was released, after four years in prison, the strain of the ordeal had so changed | his physical features that his children failed to recognize him. | ‘While interned Kotz spent his time writing. 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