Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1930, Page 5

THE EvinING Litunaduay, D. remembered him well. On one occasion they gave him a comfortable set of | slippers and a bathrobe, on another STAR, C., E. J. BEVERSTOCK. Q. M. C. CLERK, WASIHINGTON, DR 8 1930. A-S ool is 118 old. He wumbo years o says he THEFT SUSPECT HELD Census Finds Ex-Slave. o . B — STAMFORD, Conn., July 3 (#).—As|House, Ga., as a slave on the planta- Youth Jumps From Car While |recorded in the census, Major Bond,!tion of Len Bufford. M}wwflumyflwnmmm%’EXE AVATION YIELDS = Select “Acme” for its hard = enamel-like finish. MEtro. 0151 BUTLER-FLYNN= 607-609 C St. Phone for Color Card LURAY CAVERNS by BUS And the Proposed Shenandoah jonal Park May Be Seen in One Round Trip to Luray $6.00 Buses leave daily. 9th _Si. and Pa. Ave. (Bus Terminai). 3:30 p.m. Intermediate Stations, Warrenton. Sperryville. " FPanorama and ' Skyland resorts. 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Construction Division Per-’ sonnel to Remember Their VATICAN CITY, July 3.-—The_exca- vations north of the Dead Sea by Father Alexius Mallon, announced recently in cable dispatches from Jerusalem, have | convinced authorities here he discovered | | the famed wicked cities of the Old Tes- | tament, Sodom and Gomorrah. | Father Malion, who is director of the | Jerusalem section of the Pontifical Bib- | lical Institute of Rome, also is certain | he has uncovered the places destroyed, as the Bible says, “by brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.” It was from these cities that the just man Lot fled, and it was here that Lot's wife, s0 the Testament tells us, turned around to see the co ation and was changed into a pillar of salt. Sodom and Gomorrah were two of & group of five towns called “Cities of the Plains.” The others were Admah, Ze- bolim and Zoar. Father Malion believes | he has found them all in the region of | Eastern Ghor, in Transjordania, a few miles from the Dead Sea. Excavated on Plain. Excavations were begun last Novem- ber on a plain between the Wady Ghar- beh and the Wady Djarafa. Twenty | workmen were distributed into two| camps, one directed by Father Mallon, | the other by M. Neuville, counselor of | the French consulate. At a depth of about 8 feet great stretches of city were unearthed. Houses were found more or less intact. Some | of the homes contained a large assort- | | ment of household implements and in- | struments of bone, stone and metal. | The extent of feminine vanity in the | twin wicked cities is indicated by the | quantity of jewelry uncovered. Dozens | of beautiful ceramics, vases and chal- lices also came to light. Confirmation of the terrible destruc- tion inflicted on the cities is lent by the discovery of enormous quantities of ashes among the ruins. Describes His Feelings. “There was nothing so moving,” Father Mallon reported, “as to bring back to light the remains of a civiliza- tion so brilliant and yet so terribly de- stroyed. In the Holy Land there are no other ruins better preserved than those of Sodom and Gomorrah.” Excavations carried on by Father J. O'Rourke, rector of the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome, prove that the ruins go back to the third millennium before Christ, that the citles were de- stroyed about 20 centuries before Christ, and that they had an appar- ently long existence, something like a thousand years. Before beginning his excavations, Fa- ther Mallon had to prove to his own satisfaction that Sodom and Gomorrah existed on the north side of the Dead Sea and not on the south side, as a number of archeologists maintained. ‘With the help of another Jesuit, Father Power, he was able to prove this fsom the Bible itself. Reference to Lot's choosing Sodom as his residence and mentioning nearby place names became Father Mallon’s authority. HEART ATTACK FOLLOWS FLANDERS GRAVE VISIT Salem, Oreg., Gold Star Mother Is Stricken in Lille—Condition “Not Serious.” By the Associated Press. | 'PARIS, July 3.—Jnnie Pandgraf of Salem, Oreg., & member of the “H” party of Gold Star Mothers, yesterday was confined to the hotel at Lille follow- ing a heart attack. Mrs. Landgraf, second mother of the ty to go on the sick list, was stricken m night after she had visited her son's grave in Flanders, Her condition was described as “not immediately seri- | ous,” and it was said that she might return to Paris in a few days. Mrs. Edwin Lange of Oshkosh, Wis., whose {llness last week necessitated a blood transfusion, today was reported as improving steadily. She probably will be able to leave the American Hos- pital in time to return home with her party. 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Freshe picked Michigan vegetables arc sieas prorey | 3 | Fellow, as in Past. | - 1 The construction division personnel of the Quartermaster General's Office | of the Army is eagerly anticipating the Fourth of July in the Munitions Build- | ing, because one of their associates, who witnessed the surrender of Lee at Ap- pomattox, Va., will celebrate his eighty- | ninth birthday tomorrow, and, as is cus- tomary, they propose to make it a very happy occasion. | E. J. Beverstock, who holds a clerical | position in the division, is the fortunate | Civil War veteran who has a wholei roomful of kindly fellow workers to watch out for his welfare. He needs no | sympathy, however, for this veteran | Government employe is a kind, cheery | soul, with a fund of funny stories. But a large share of his thoughts is in the | past, recalling again those fighting days | in the Shenandoah Valley, the days he | spent in Libby Prison, at Richmond, ys.a and across the river at Belle Is- and. Mr. Beverstock was born near Mon- | roeville, Ohio, and at the age of 21 he| joined up with the 123d Ohio and saw | service in the Shenandoah Valley. It was a lucky turn of war, for there he met his future wife for the first time. | Her family, like so many others, was | divided—her father and herself being Northern sympathizers. On one occa- | sion a detachment of Confederate sol-| diers came to her house, but Margaret | Bell hid her father in an oven and | wrapped a Northern flag about her body, hiding it before the Southerners arrived. The ruse worked, for her father escaped. ‘The veteran Government worker was captured in 1863 at Winchester, Vi but in about four months he was p: rolled, having served from June to Sep- tember of that year in Libby Prison and at Belle Island. ‘Three days before Lee's surrender Mr. Berverstock was captured again by the enemy, but was soon released as & pris- oner of war. He witnessed the epochal surrender of,Lee and is considered to be one of the few {mrsons now living privileged to see that momentous event. During the Civil War Mr. Beverstock was picked to assist a surgeon and in time he was promoted to hospital steward. Even yet he recalls vividly how they used to sit on the limbs of patients while they were being ampu- E. J. BEVERSTOCK. —=8Star Staff Photo. Later, with his brother, he set himself | ||| up as the proprietor of a mercantile | establishment and was engaged in that capacity for several years. When the World War broke Mr. Beverstock was too old to do his bit in | ||| active service, but he wanted to serve ||| his Uncle Sam that he had assisted in || the days of youth in the Shenandoah Valley. He came into the construction || division of the quartermaster general's ogl'lce 12 years ago, and has been there since. His wife died in 1920, after they had been married 32 vears, and he lives with | his_daughter, Mrs. P. B. Parsons, at| 1612 Webster street. Mr. Beverstock has had five extensions on account of age, under the civil service rules, and | ||| his fellow workers are looking forward | | to having another extension this time. || July 4 is not merely Independence day for the personnel in the construc- tion division of the quartermaster gen- eral's office, it is also “Pop” Bever- stock’s birthday. Each year they have g RTINS Uy R 0T COLONIAL ANTHRACITE “Guarasteed No Slate, No Clinkers” Ask the Man Who Uses It Ralph J. Moore Coal Co. 1406 N. Cap. St. Pot. 0970 Pot. 0971 tated. A door was utilized as an oper- ating table. As a memento of those days he still has a set of surgical imple- ments taken from Lee's headquarters. At the close of the war Mr. Bever- stock went back to farming in Ohio. CLAFLIN Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 MT. VERNON STEAMER TRED AVON Under U. 8. Government Inspection Leaves Seventh St. Wharf Daily 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. 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In aviation circles this was taken as an indication that Coste may be for his projected hop to Being Pursued. While being pursued by a policeman for fast driving in a car later reported 8s having been stolen yesterday after- noon. Dennis Tinney, 21 years old, of the 1000 block of Lamont street, jumped from his automobile near the inter- section of Twelfth and O streets and an the car into a frult car owned by John Romeo of 912 PFirst street. Tinney was arrested by Policeman | A. G. Mihill of No. 10 precinct, who had been chasing him. ¥ A drainage project soon to be started | in Northern Ireland will cost $3,250,000. | and Saturday. July Fourth and Fifth Are Legal Holidays The President of the United States having signed the joint reso- lution of Congress declaring July Fifth a legal holiday, the banks of this city will not be open on Friday All necessary bank service for the week end should be secured before the close of business today. 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