Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1931, Page 34

Cc-2 NEW RITES ENTER Indians in Arizoma Hear High Mass Sung by Bishop at Ceremonies, By the Associated Press. BAN XAVIER DEL BAC, Aris, De- rattie of gourds and the chants of the Indians as they gathered around the crumbling walls of the old mission San Xavier del Bac to take part in the |ceremonies of the annual flesta—one OLD PAPAGO FIESTA | the Southwest, many braves thanksgiving for past favors and & prayer for the future, The Indians came from all perts of accom- panied by squaws and papooses A note of sadness was added to this year's ceremonies when ‘word came that Chief Conderis, st Santa Rosa Village, 100 miles 1o the west, was believed dying. The chief was carried | to an ancient well nearby, where he directed the viikita, a tribal custom, which consists of a pantomimic appeal for rain addressed to the sun god. Many of the chief's tribesmen had remained with him, preferring to stay at his side rather than come to the observance here. eember 3.—The age-old pagan oere- mony of the Papago Indian mingled | today with the ritual of the faith to which he was converted by the first whife men who came to the Southwest. | The annual fiesta of the Papago started at sundown last night with | tribal chants and dances. But today | the.Red man digressed from his primi- | tive observamee to hear a solemn ponti- | fical high mass sung by Bishop Daniel | J. Gercke of the diocese of Tucson and to hear Rev. Father Bonaventure Ob- lasser of Topowe deliver the sermon in Papago tongue. u!rhroughnul the night there had been steady’ boom of the tom-toms, the Today's ceremony was the observance of the Feast of St. Prancis. Tomorrow the Indians will continue their tribal rites, ending their flesta at sundown. RUSVSIA SELLS DOORS HULL, December 3 (#).—Soviet Russia is competing with America in exports of mill-work to Great Britain A shipment of 4,000 Russian doors was received recently from aboard the steamer coogm.m. bringing the stock here to 16,000 doors. Heavy American consignments of mill-work recently also have arrived for storage and sale. THE EVENING VIRGINIANS PLAN ELABORATE FETE [Alexandria and Wakefield Ceremonies to Be Held February 22. Special Dispateh to The Btar. RICHMOND, Va., December 3.— | Plans for an elaborate celebration at | | Alexandria and Wakefield February 23 | were formulated by the Virginia George Washington Bicentennial Commission, but the body deferred action on the question of indorsing the proposed drive for a $5,000,000 fund for erection of the George Washington Memorial Atheneum in or near Alexandria, Gov. Pollard and | | other members of the commission ex- | pressing the view that such action | | might be construed as seeking to com- | mercialize the anniversary. Dan 8. Hollenga, business manager of the Alexandria Chamber of GCom- merce, outlined the plan for the erec- | tion of the Memorial Atheneum, in | STAR. WASHINGTON, which & play entitled “The Spirit of the Republic” is to be presented every year or every two years, and said that other States had already indorsed the | drive, which was to be made largely through the country. Other State Activities. The drive is to open this month in North Carolina, he said, with a cam- ign conducted by the schools, and ennsylvania and Oklahoma will fol- low shortly with similar campaigns. Celebrations during 1932 are plan- ned to be held in every city and town in the State, and former Mayor W. A. Smoot of Alexandria expressed the hope that the commission would desig- nate Alexandria as the place at which Virginia's celebration would begin, Col. John W. Williams, clerk of the House of Delegates, who is secretary of the commission, suggested that a large part of the State’s $10,000 appropria- ton for the bicentennial be used in aiding the local celebrations throughout the State, and this was taken under advisement and will be placed before a special committee It was stated that all of the programs throughout the State will be in the hands of local com- mittees President to Be Invited. President Hoover will be asked to speak at Wakefield, Washington's birthplace, at 10 am. on February 22, and the commission will call on the President shortly to make this request. school children of the D C., THURSDAY., DE take part in the exercises in Alexandria that afternoon. It is planned to broad- cast the President’s address, gver a Nation-wide hook-up. Membets’ of the General Assembly, | which Wil be session at that time, will aftend the ceremonies at Alexandria in a body | and will return to Richmgnd that night, where exercises are to, Bb held. at jthe Capitol, after which ;{Here ®ill be a banquet of 1,000 membders of patriotic societies, this function to take place at one of the local hotels. The commission requests every local- ity in the State to have its own pro- | gram February 22. St. Peter’s Asso- clation will be asked to put on a suit- able programi at St. Peter's Church, New Kent Gounty, January 8, 1032, the anniversary of Washington’s marriage at that place, New York More Wicked. NEW YORK.—This talk of Paris be- | ing “gay” is rot and drivel, so far as | Tade Styka, Polish portrait painter, has been able to observe. New York is more wicked than Paris, she said, and Harlem is much “hotter” than any- thing gay Paree has to apologize for. it ER 3, 19: GLAD TO ESCAPE FROM CRASH, GRAVE DIGGE Job Waiting When Death Loomed. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 3.—When duty | calls, John O'Brien, 60, is not the kind | - | of fellow to shirk it. Piremen extricated him from mechanism of & street car after it had | struck him last night and he was taken to a hospital, where it was found he| was but slightly hurt. to do my duty.” | R CAN DO DUTY |“Such a Mix-Up It Would Have Been,” He Speculates. digger and thank goodness I'll be able «ne| LIBRARY FOR BETHESDA TO BE OPENED TUESDAY All the way en route to the hospital Newcomb Club to Make Facilities he kept repeating: “Such a mix-up would have beer would have been; a Week. An attendant asked him to explain, and he said: “I had a job to do tomorrow. car had killed me I couldn’t have done | Newcomb Club Public Library, it and somebody else would have had in the small building at Wisc: to do the same for me. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., December 3 If the Available to Public Twice ~The opened for the first time Tuesday from |11 am. to 4:30 pm. More than #0 books are on hand, members -of the | committee announced.’ | § F | The two smal] rooms ¢¢ ‘the building. | which was occupied by the Bank of Bethesda * at- one ,time, have been | decorated by the tommiftee of the club in charge. Qe room will be for adults and the nd for children. The library Wil be open twice a week—Tuesdays and Saturdays—with & librarian on duty to issue books to any one_desiring to take them out, The commiittee of the Newcomb Club which is handling the matter consists of Mrs. Bemjamin G. Potter, president; Mrs. A. B. 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