Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1931, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR. . WASHINGTON, D.. C.; ' TUHSDAY, MARDI GRAS FETE | INFIVALE TODAY Rex and Zulu Hold Sway in Monster Parades in ‘ New Orleans. | By the Associated Press. ORLEANS, February 17.—The fat Tuesday that is farewell to the flesh for the 40 days of lent came . to the Crescent City today in a riot of revelry with King Rex and King Zulu as co- rulers of the glamorous realm of masked Make-believe | In the Latin tradition as well as in linguistic derivation Mardi (Tuesday) QGras (fat) carni (flesh) val (farewell) is the annual day of days for song and dance and laughter that climaxes and dies when the stroke of midnight ushers in Ash Wednesday. But Ash Wednesday is tomorrow, and today Rex and Zulu are kings of their respective races—Rex from out of the mists of the Miscissippi to parade up Canal street in miles of flambeaux and rple, green and gold bunting, #and ulu from the Congo via the navigation earl on a coal barge to strut up South Rampart street while his Ethiopian sub- Jects flatten themselves in homage. ‘The past five days of balls and merri- ment. have been but preliminaries for today’s suprerffe fantasy. All business is suspended, all c laid aside and from the narrow. balcony-shaded streets of the Vieux Carre. founders of New Orl held their first mardi gras. to “MAN OF THOUSAND HANDS"| WRITES HISTORY OF REVOLUTION| Special Attache at U. S: Embassy in’ Paris, Crippled in Body. Carries on With Aid of Many Friends. Rv the Associaled Press, PARIS,. February 17.—Crippled body. but unbroken in spirit, War- rington Dawson, a special attache at the American embassy here, calls him- self “the man of a thousand hands.” The thousand hands are those of friends in France, the United States and over all the world, who, familiar with his life work of research into American revolutionary history, find for him littl his Jabo Dawson, a former newspaper man e e o oaonsior | WL over theEmoeldbateRpatiantly ivor: his African visits, for 10 years has been | 118 ,Oper Soouments and helping me bedridden with a mysterious spinal af- fliction known to medical seience 'as| AS & consequence of announcement rhizomelic spondlylosis. | of a recent archive discovery-he re- D oement, of his body | Ceived letters from Boston, New Haven, 1 " | New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia. is impossible, but he has had a spe- | yel, . 3 | Washington, South Carolina, - Georgia cial apparatus rigged up over his bed | FIESPAABIOR B which holds whatever he is reading and is arranged to permit laborious writing. Occasionally he can be shifted to an armchair, but not often. With this handicap Dawson has writ- ten 17 volumes of varied sorts. Some of therh in French, and is now engaged | in editing the memoirs of the late | William Sharp, former American Am- bassador to France. His greatest pleasure he has found in delving into the archives of the American Revolution, and just last in | month he discovered a compleie journal of the. Battle of Yorktown left by the | Baron Gaspard de Gallatin, one of the French officers who engaged in the | siege. 'The journal contains a com- plete list of casualties in the American and French Armies at Yorktown. Despite the long tiresome days. Daw- son Is happy and enjoys life. His con- stant companion is & canary bird, which | sings beside him from a big cage. He jowts redords wiich simplity | Th0 BESGS Riss T e MEowe. e I his_greatest asset. “1'am physically helpless, but friends His home formerly was Charleston, 8. C. EAST TEXAS OIL Prospectors’ Success Leads Agricultural ‘Area From Depression Into Boom. Ry the Associated Press TYLER. Tex., February 17.—Unre- | strained oil development precipitated in East Texas last September, when C. M Joiner brought in a 200-barrel pro- ducer, is creating wealth for the faithful For, three years dry holes were me- morials to Joiner's hopes. His success al, what'is now Joinerville has led an | agricultural area from depression ints a boom, defiant of production laws such as govern the flow in other sec- tions. Neither oil production nor hotel ac- commodations have been prerated Prospectors and developers have taxed all facilities for transients, Foster Makes Fortune. The 24-mile stéteh of oil-producing territory. originating at Joinerville, ex- tends through Rusk and Gregg Coun- | 10,000-barrel well brought in by Frank | BRINGS WEALTH tles to Longview.. Width of the ofl- bearing strata has not been deter- mined. The leading producers include a R. Foster, a former national billiard | champion; the Bateman-Grim well at | Kilgore, about 7 miles northeast of | Joinerville, producing an estimated | 20.000 barrels datly, and the Lathrop- Montcricf well, also brought in’ by Foster, sai¢ to be good for 18,000 bar- rels daily. o Foster and his associates sold the Lathrop-Monterief well to'the Arkansas Gas & Oil Co. for $3,500,000. The Bate- | man-Grim well was sold to the Humble Oil Co. for $1,500.000. | | Thanksgiving day ' Foster borrowed $200 from his friend, -Col. Carl Estes, editor’ of the Tyler Courier-Times-Tele- graph for production. His property is said today to be worth more than $1.- 000.000. He had drilled 11 dry holes in 11 months. » Distriet Remains Independent. S. B. Crabtree, Foster's friend in the Eldorado, Ark., boom days, when Fos- ter was operating an amusement hall, said he had $10,000 when he came to Tyler to survey oil prospects last Sep- tember. Since then he has taken | $87,000 in cash profits. Crabtree es-| timated his holdings in the fleld at 1 $250,000. 1 After playing the tequiem at the funera! of the church sexton at the Thringstone. England, chureh. Mrs. FEBRUARY 1%,- 1931 WOMAN ASKS $75,000 Four Toes -Lost' in ‘Bus Accident, | ‘Klleges Mrs. Caroline §. Hodgkin. Alleging that she suffered . the loss of four toes and was otherwise injured when felled by -a_skidding motor bus | December’ 17, Caroline 8. Hodgkin, 415 —just swallow a few of these harmless little tablets. Pape's Cold Compound stops | that aching, and all that soreneés. Your eyes will stop watering; your nose won't | | run. That feverish, ‘“‘gone” | feeling leaves, and appetite returns. Only 35c at any COoLD Mary Shrewsbury, wife of the vicar, was taken {1 and died a few hours later. ompound arges neghi- gence In operating the bus without skid chains. ] Butternut, street, vesterday filed suit|snow on the ground and chi in the District Supreme Court to re- | cover $75.000 damages from the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co. ‘Through Attorneys Fred B. Rhodes and Cooper B. Rhodes the plaintiff says she was standing at a bus stop on Sixteenth street near Walter Reed Hospital waiting to board the bus when the vehicle skidded and struck her to the ground. She explained there was S5 53- Because of the depressed condition of agriculture in Scotland, Thomas Inness postponed collection of the Martinmas rents of his Learney and Collerlie ea- tates in Aberdeenshire until Candlemas (Pebruary 2) P Get RADIO NEWS Clearly replace worn out tubes A singla worn-ont radie tnba may ea: hum. and weak reqeption. Tonight . nsed by over 200 big broadcasting atations. 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