Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 7

MISS PATTEN DIES; LIBRARY CURATOR Miss Katherine K. Patten, who com- piled a valuable collection of books, maps, pamphlets and newspaper clip- pings pertaining to Washington and ‘Washington people during her long serv- joe at the Public Library, died early yesterday at her residence in the Cairo Hotel after an extended illness. Miss Patten, first member of the stafl to be appointed by Dr. Bowerman, the present librarian, after he took office in 1904, was curator of Washingtoniana at the time of her death. Born in Bath, Me., the daughter of Capt. Jarvis Patten, a merchant cap- tain who became the first chief of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Navigation, Miss Patten first took up the work of classifying data relative to Washington during several years’ service as curator of the Hall of the Ancients on New York avenue. Built Up Collections. She devoted succeeding years to building up the library’s collection, which grew to such proportions that in May, 1928, it was transferred to a sepa- rate division, with quarters in the sec- ond-floor lobby. Her work brought her in touch with journalists, writers and club workers, who regarded her as an authority on questions of the develop- ment of the National Capital from earliest times. In January, 1905, when Miss Patten was in charge of periodicals in the ref- erence room, she began clipping The Evening Star and other papers for local historic references. Miss Patten brought many of the clippings into books on single subjects, such as the “White House,” “Old Wa.sh_-, ington” or “Washington in War Time. Funeral Services Tomorrow. The result was a collection which library officials believe cannot be dupli- cated. The Croggon articles in The Star and later accounts by the “Ram- bler” were mounted, bound in book form and carefully indexed. Miss Patten is survived by two sis- ters, Miss Anna B. Patten of Washing- ton and Mrs. H. P. Philbirck of Spring- field, Mass, and a_brother, win Patten of Rockford, Il Funeral services will be held at 2:30 ofclock tomorrow afternoon at the Nevius funeral home, with interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. o FIVE DIE, FIVE HURT AS TRAIN HITS AUTO Machine, Carrying Ten Persons, Crushed by Locomotive in Nebraska. By the Associated Press. McCOOK, Nebr, March 10.—Five persons were killed, two were injured seriously and three others were badly cut when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by an East- bound Burlington train at a grade crossing near Colfer, Nebr. late yes- The dead are: Herman Pureley, 15; Golda Pursley, 15; Fern Pursiey, 8; an unidentified Pursiey girl, 7: and the children’s grandmother, Nancy Osborn, 70. The injured were: Elmer Pursley and Ella Pursley, both aboun 45, par- ents of the children; Glen Pursley, 13; Elmer Eugene Pursley, 4, and Hazel Pursley, 10. Elmer Pursley, farmer northeast of Colfer, was driving the auto in which 10 persons were riding. Trairmen said they could see the crossing for a mile before reaching it, and that “they did not see the car. BILL TO PUT WOMEN ON JURIES IS KILLED Measure Rejected by Maryland House After Committee Re- fuses Favorable Report. The Maryland House of Delegatés this afternoon killed the bill of Del- egate Farrington of Montgomery Coun- ty which would have granted the wom- en of the State the right to sit on Juries. ‘When the bill was unfavorably re- ported by the Judiciary Committee a moticn to substitute she bill for the report was made, but lost by vote of 85-49. Both Montgomery and Prince Georges delegations split in the voting, Dele- gates Farrington, Lavinia Engle,\Odori- on Robey of Montgomery, and Oliver Metzerott and Richard Zantzinger of Prince Georges voting for it; while Del- egates George L. Edmonds, Walter W. Dawson of Montgomery, and Kent R. Mullikin, J. Guy Bell, William F. Keys and Charles C. Marbury of Prince Georges voted against it. Following the roll call the House adopted a motion to lay the bill on the table, which will prevent its being brought up again this session. Ty UNION ARMY VETERAN TO GET FULL HONORS | Burial of F. A. R. von Bernewitz, 97, Will Be Tomorrow at Noon. 1 Compiled Valuable Collection of Washingtonia During Long Service. & MISS KATHERINE K. PATTEN. —Harris-Ewing Photo. PRESIDENT THANKS PRESBYTERY WEET Hoover Sends Message Not- ing Support by Church of Law Enforcement. ‘The conduct of routine business con- cerning the transfer and status of sev- eral ministers occupied the greater part | of the time of the Presbytery of Wash- | ington City, meeting in its monthly ses- sion in New York Avenue Presbyterian | Church yesterday. communication _from President Hoover thanking the Presbytery for its assurance of support in the program for law enforcement was read at the meet- ing. ‘The Presbytery granted authority to Rev. Dr. Newton P. Patterson, associate pastor of the Covenant and First Church, to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of San Jose, Calif. The Board of National Missions re- ported it is willing to appropriate the usual amount, of $4,000 for the office of field secretary, until the incumbent, Rev. John R. Duffield, has an opportunity to locate elsewhere. Rev. Mr. Duffield is seeking a pastorate. A request of Rev. Gustave G. Kun- dahl, r of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Cottage City, Md. that he be relieved of the pastorate was referred back to the congregation of that church, asking that it consider giving the pastor a vacation in which to re- cover his health. The communication states .Rev. Dr. Kundahl would be will- ing to continue longer under this ar- rangerent. ester R. Smith, moderator of the Presbytery of Washington City, pre- sided at the meeting. “Set-Up” Banished And Ice Shaved as Hotel Goes “Dry”| Call for Ginger Ale Will Get Only Glassful in . Fujure. ‘The “set-up,” as it is quaintly known, is gone from the new Shoreham Hotel. Hereafter any one ordering T ale or charged water gets a brimming &m(\ll. tinctured perhaps with shaved . No more bottles and no more cracked ise, which has more staying qualities than the shaved variety. ‘The “set-up” never had recognized standing in the nomenclature of hotel tion. There it was simply bottled ale and cracked ice, or bottled | water and cracked ice. In the field of gastronomics, however, the term was as well established as its rumored use. Thing of the Past. But, effective last night, “set-up” is a dead letter s0 far as the Shoreham is concerned. L. Gardner Moore, managing director of the Shoreham, thinks a problem has been solved; that a decided damper will be put on table-drinkers who use ginger ale or water as a concomitant fcr something stronger. Laurence Mills, secretary of the Washington Hotcl | Men’s Assoclation, also belleves the move will have beneficial effects. They take the stand that under pres- | ent conditions hotel operators are in a | warm spot. The. prohibition command will not order discontinuance of the sale | of bottled ind ice—but threatens punitive measures if they are sold. | In Draught Only. | 8o the Shoreham's ginger ale and | water is only going to be handled in draught, being kept in kegs at a soda fountain there. No botties will be| handled even at the fountain, for they might have a bad habit of trickling'into the dining room, Moore says. | Thus far draught ginger ale of special | blend is purely 4 local product and the makers thereof like the new idea. Na- | tional sellers, whose product thus far only comes in bottles, are reported not so happy and Moore has heard from em. | That, however, is not his lookout, he says. He's only buying in kegs, which will | be very unhandy for table drinkers. Boats recently ferried a completed bridge weighing 930 tons a mile from Keizersveer, Holland, where it was as- | sembled, to its pier: | MATTRESSES RENOVATFD Best Service and Prices Funeral services for F. A. Richara | COLUMBIA BEDDING CO., INC. Von Bernewitz, 97-year-old Union Army veteran, who died in Sibley Hospital Sunday after a long iilness, will be conducted in the Tabler funeral home, 928 M street, tomorrow at noon. Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson will officiate. Spe- cial services also will be conducted by the Grand Army of the Republic, of which Mr. Von Bernewitz was a mem- ber. Interment, with full military hon- ors, will be in Arlington Cemetery. Mr. Von Bernewitz, who resided at 2640 Fourth street northeast, came here four years ago from Cincinnati, after having made his home in the latter city for 50 years, He s survived by two sons, William ‘Von Bernewitz of this city and Herman Von Bernewitz of Brentwood, Md., and seven grandchildren. Mr. Von Bernewitz served with the Tliinois Infantry during the Civil War. Scallops Led to Water. ‘The scallop season is not long and the persons who are employed in it must make the best of the time with the re- sult that in some sections of Long Island and New England the school ses- sions are curtailed in order to allow the children to do their part. But the Gov- érnment will not permit of any irregu- Jarity in the handling of this delicacy 2nd recently a New England fish dealer was fined $1,000 for “watering” scal- lops. When treated to an ordinary bath the scallops take on size and weight so that am unscruj dealer is really selling water at the price of scallops. 219 G 8t N.W. NAtional 5528 o Back to Pre-War Prices $1 .50 Baltimore and Return 7-Day Limit OCAMPO AGCEPTS PERU PRESIDENCY Agrees to Head Government Until Constitutional Body Can Be Restored. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, March 10.—David Sa- manez Ocampo, head of the Arequipa junta which has held out against the Lima government since the overthrow of Sanchez Cerro as provisional Presi- dent, today accepted the prgvisional presidency himself, It was offered him by Col. Gustavo Jimenez, and at the end of negotiations by telegraph the southern leader agreed to head the junta which will govern Peru until constitutional government can be restored. Ocampo is not in good health, but he telegraphed Jimenez that he would as- presidency” as a duty. He asked the colonel to let him organize his own junta “within the requirements of na- tional harmony,” and a plane was to leave here for Arequipa today to bring ::le new government head to the capi- | This development came after an ex- change of telegrams yesterday and last night in which Ocampo’s ‘“Southern junta” resigned when the Lima junta charged that Ocantpo’s terms of com- | promise amounted practically to a de- mand for a dictatorship by the Southern faction. Jimenez expressed regret at this d garding a dictatorship and offered Ocampo the post he has now accepted, believing that your personality is an unquestionable guarantee of the fulfill- ment of our patriotic design.” Lima loomed definitely as the scene of future developments with today's there Wwas little information as to the 1t was doubted whether a plane would be available to bring the new executive to Lima today. The support of many army garrisons was assured to the Samanez government but it remained to be learned why the southern Junta resigned last night. | The Jimenez government decreed to- day that trial of leaders of the Callao mutiny shall go forward. The Junta headed by Judge Ricardo Elias, which was ousted from power nine days ago, Callao mutineers, but today's decree revokes amnesty except to non-com- missioned officers and troops. RAID ON HOME NETS Police Find Cache in Dwelling of || Sweetheart of 15-Year-Old Held as Armed Bandit. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 10.—Close on || the arrest of a 15-year-old boy as an | armed robber, police raided the home || of his sweetheart in the Bronx early today and found in a radio cabinet what they described as an antique pis- tol, 2 trench knife, a loaded cartridge belt and six smoke bombs. charge of violating the anti-firearms | order, although he said he was not Marion, 14, was not at home. The pis- tol was made in London in 1490, police said, and still is in working order. When young Douglas Hudson was caught in a stolen car with two other boys of the same age, he was loaded down with a revolver, two stilletos and a blackjack. W., B. & A. 12th and N. ¥. Ave. N.W. LIQUID or TABLETS Cure Colds, Headaches, Fever . 666 SALVE CURES BABY’S COLD i Central— Southwest— sume the “heavy responsibility of the |||/ cision, apologized for the suggestion re- | |||} turn of affairs, but until Ocampo arrived | | make-up of the incoming government. ||| had granted general amnesty to the | |||/ “ARSENAL” IN RADIO | John Eaton, 40, wa€ jailed on a | aware of the arsenal. His daughter ||| POLAND GIVES PERMIT TO “ALL QUIET” FILM Premier Ends Five-Month Row by Barring Some Scenes and Giv- ing 0. K. to Rest. ~ By the Associated Press. WARSAW, March 10. — After five months’ deliberation and negotiation the Polish government today finally per- mitted showing of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” but not until Premier Slawek himself had seen the film and 700 of its 3,500-meter length had been excised. Five different bodies of officials saw the American-made movie of the Ger- man side of the war and pronounced TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1931 their opinions. The War Department from the beginning opposed the film as too pacifistic. Polish officialdom seldom has been so stirred up by a controversy as it was over the film. No department was willing to accept responsibilty for its showing or rejection, so that the premier had to function as an arbiter. After seeing the fllm in its shortened form he issued an order to permit its showing. ‘The scenes chopped from the picture are of the soldiers maltreating Him- melstoss, which was regarded as un- dermining army discipline; young sol- diers growing hysterical during their first battle, some hospital scenes, Ger- man soldiers visiting French girls, which was considered immoral, and the closing scene, which give the impression that everybody was killed in the war. AUXILIARY WILL MEET, Mrs. Richards to Address Medical Group Tomorrow. Mrs. Theodore Richards, secretary and assistant director of the District Chapter, American Red Cross, will be a speaker at a meeting of the American Red Cross auxiliary of the Woman's Auxiliary, Medical Society of the Dis- trict, at 10:30 o'clock toms ing in the Medical Soclety Bullding, 1718 M street. All wives of members of the society have been invited. e o VS P RO Food prices in Italy have dropped from 5 to 20 per cent in the last few weeks. 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