Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1932, Page 5

DR. HICKLING HURT INFALLTO CELLAR Noted Alienist Forgets Ele- vator Lift Was Being Built in Closet. Victim of a habit of 30 years, Dr. D. Percy Hickling, 69, District alienist and nationally known psychiatrist, lay in Emergency Hospital today with several | broken bones in his body and head con- tusions received last night in a fall | down an elevator shaft at his home, 1304 Rhode Island avenue. Dr. Hickling fell 12 feet to the base- ment floor when, forgetting he had ordered his medicine closet cut out to ermit installation of the private lft, e opened a door that formerly led to, the closet and stepped into the dark shaft. Warning Unheeded. Members of his family saw Dr. Hick- ling approach the elevator door, nm‘l called a warning to him as he opened it, but he did not hear them in time to averi the fall. They rushed to his as- sistance and summoned the Fire R"s(‘ue Squad, which hurried the injured man lo_the hospital His condition was at first tPl’de eritical, but hospital officials said this morning he showed marked improve- ment. He is believed to have sustained a fractured collar bone. broken ribs and sible internal injuries in addition ml ead contusions. Dr. Hickling dined about 6:30 last | night with his wife, Mrs. Harriet H\(‘k-\ ling, and his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. D. Percy Hickling, jr Finishing his meal befcre the others, he arose and started for the medicine closet which he had been in the habit of going to. As the doctor opened the one-time closet door, his son said he called to him, but he had already swung back the door and stepped forward. his hand probably reaching for the light switch he was accustomed to find there. | Native of District. Dr. Hickling is a native of Washing- ton, a graduate of Columbian Univer- sity, now George Washington Univer- | sity, and one of the outstanding spe- ! cialists of the District. His career has included more than 40 years of teach- ing at Georgetown University, activity as a police surgeon and official alienist of the District, membership on the visit- ing staff at St. Elizabeth's and affilia- tion with numerous medical societies. He was one of the alienists called in ¢o determine the sanity of Harry K. Thaw and was asked to appear at the Leopold- Loeb trial, but refused. MAKES CAMPAIGN TRIP Rockville Attcrney Running for House to Visit Garrett County. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, September 26.—Harold C. Smith, Rockville attorney, left last night for Oakland to spend the entire | week campaigning in Garrett County in his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives to succeed Representative David J. Lewis. He de- voted last week to Allegany and Wash- ington Counties and reported Repub- lican prospects in both counties good. SENTENCED FOR THEFT Youth Gets Six Months in Alexan- dria for Snatching Purse. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va. September 26— Convicted of snatching a pocketbook containing $8 from Mrs. Gladys Coombs, | 330 North Pitt street, hile she was | standing in front of a store on the 600 | block King street Saturday night, Joseph English, 18, of 500 block South Patrick street, was sentenced to six months in jail by Judge William S. Snow in Police Court this mornll’ R HOLD HOUSEWARMING Hear Addresses in New Engine House. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., September 26.—The Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department Sat- urday night held a housewarming in its new engine hall. Addresses were rgade by George B. Robey. Wilson M. Senator John W. Rust, President J. E. Nickell. Mayor Thomas P. Chapman apd J. H. Beattie, chief of the McLean Fire Department, and others. The program included music by old-time fiddlers, dancing and refreshments served by ihe Ladies’ Auxiliai | dustry | siderable increase. Fairfax Firemen You should buy milk from Chestnut Farms Dairy | ing 400 operatives compared with 50 | | Knitting Mills_is reported, | relieve unemployment. | the | nolds Spring Co. | G. Munn, DR. D. PERCY HICKLING. DANVILLE INDUSTRY SHOWS PICK UP Silk, Cotton, Knitting and| Overall Plants Show Em- ployment Gains. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., September 26. _In'i dustry in Danville has picked up con- siderably and the unemployment, situa- tion relieved greatly, in one case em- ployment having shown an increase of | 400 per cent, a survey disclosed. i The Dan City Silk Mills are employ- | in Midsummer, an increase of 300 per | cent. A full-time schedule is bemg: maintained, with sufficient orders on : hand to insure such a schedule through- | out the Winter. | Full Schedule Maintained. ‘The Riverside and Dan River Cotton | Mills' list of employes has mcrcased‘ from 3,710 as of August 1 to 4,423 last | t week, representing an increase of 20 per cent. A full and even overtime | schedule is being maintained due to continued large orders, which are being received An iucrease of 10 per cent in the number of employes at the Danville the plant now having 475 workers on the pay roll The-Blue Buckle Overall Co. is em- ploying a full force of 250 workers on‘ a full-time working schedule. The| Anderson Overall Co. reports a 20 per | cent increase in employment, stepping the number up from 64 employed dur- ing the Summer. Tobacco Seen as Aid. The opening of the tobacco season next month is also expected to funher‘ With a pros- pect for better prices for tobacco and | keener competition and heavier buying, tobacconists say employment in the in- | would probably show a con- Increase in employment is reflected in'a decline in requests for relief from Community WEelfare Association, according to Mrs. Agnes Fulcrod, sec- retary of the association. 800 TO RESUME WORK. Will Be Employed by Reynolds Spring Company. CHICAGO, September 26 (#).— Eight hundred employes will be put back to work at the plants of the Rey- in Jackson, Mich,, | between now and October 15, Charles president -announced today. | Three hundred and fifty employes were rehired during September. Since Au- gust 26, the Reynolds Bakelite plant has been operating seven days a week on a 24-hour basis each day, and the company expects to continue this rate. Increased operations are a result of introduction of a new line of products manufactured in a wide variety of forms. Ballston Citizens to Meet. BALLSTON, Va., September 26 (Spe- cial) —The Ballston Citizens’ Associa- tion will hold its meeting at the fire hcuse tomorrow evening. ¥ application for the fund. | Final | poration” directors. _ | day at his Long Island home. 1 | Rogers. wife of Lieut. Rogers, U. S. A., THE E HUGE WHEAT SALE | TO CHINA PLANNED President and Officials Dis-| cuss Transaction to Inv- volve 15,000,000 Bushels. By the Associated Press. President Hoover and officials of in- terested Federal agencies are consider- ing ways of using Reconstruction Cor- poration funds to' finance sales of Northwestern wheat to China. Such a proposal, involving possibly 15,000,000 bushels or more of privately owned grain and an $8,000,000 loan, was discussed yesterday at a White House conference attended by Secre- tary Hyde, corporation directors and Farm Board officials. No Direct Application Made. Both China and the Farmers’ Na- tional Grain Corporation were men- tioned in the discussion with President Hoover as possible recipients of the re- construction loan, but corporation offi- cers said neither has made a direct George Milnor, manager of the grain corporation, has been negotiating with China regarding a large wheat sale. arrangemenis have not been made, however. The grain involved in the proposal would come from producers of the Northwest on whom shipping costs have borne heavily. The relief act au- thorized the Reconstruction Corporation to make loans for financing foreign cales of surplus agricultural products where they “cannot be financed in_the normal course of commerce” and where they will not “affect adversely the world markets for such products.” Officials were undecided whether the act would permit direct loans to a for- eign country and have asked legal opin- ions on the subject. Those attending the White House conference included: Secretary Hyde, C. B. Denman and Charles S. Wilson of the Farm Board, Atlee Pomerene, chair- man of the Reconstruction Corporation, and Jesse Jones, Gardner Cowles, Wi son McCarthy and Harvey Couch, cor- Mills Sees Authority. Secretary Mills, speaking as a direc- r of the Reconstruction Corporation, said today he had no doubt of the cor- | poration's power to lend directly to China. He said the clause pertaining | to racilitating the export of surplus ag- | ricultural commodities was written with foreign loans in mind Mills said he expected the Chinese matter to be brought up before the cor- | poration’s dire¢torate within the next | day or two. He added that China had usually been prompt in meeting financial obligations to this country, citing the Boxer fund | and an earlier payment for 15,000,000 bushels of Farm Board wheat. HYDE TO RESUME TOUR Secretary Has Tooth Removed and Returns to Office. Secretary Hyde. who canceled an ad- dress in Ohio Saturday night because of an infected tooth, hopes to be able to resume tomorrow his Middle Western | tour in the interest of President Hoover's | candidacy. The tooth was extracted yesterday and the Secretary of Agriculture re- turned to his desk today. Unless some complication arises, he expects to speak tomorrow night at Port.smoulh ©Ohio. FORMER OIL HEAD DIES Samuel A. Megeath of Long Island Native of Baltimore. NEW YORK, September 26 (#)- Samuel A. Megeath, 62, former presi dent of the Galena Oil Co., died yester- He is survived by his widow, the for- mer Adelaide Miller of Franklin, Pa. and five children, Mrs. Francis J. Her- | aty, wife of Capt. Heraty, U. S. A., <ta-“ tioned at Fort Benning, Ga.; Mrs. Harry of Madison, Wis.; Mrs. Paul Streit. wife of Maj. Streit, U. S. A.. of Fort Leaven- | worth, Kans.. and Samuel A. Megeath, jr. and Walden C. Megeath of New | York. Megeath was a hative of Baltimore and a former resident of Franklin. because: OUR HERDS ARE SLEEK, WELL-FE[’) (clean, healthy cows give the best milk). OUR FARMS ARE TIDY AND MODERN (sanitary farms safeguard the milk supply). LABORATORIES ARE COMPLETELY EQLIPPED (scientific tests insure milk’s purity). OUR CITY PLANT IS RUN WITH UNCEASING VIGILANCE. (Selected milk and cream preserve a high standard of excel- lence.) OUR SERVICE IS DEPENDABLE (prompt and courteous deliveries bring you the fresh milk you love to drink). OUR Our record proves that we lead the city in quality milk production, For the past ten years and seven months, except for four months, CHESTNUT FARMS DAIRY HAS BEEN AWARDED, EACH MONTH, THE HIGHEST GENERAL RATING OF ANY OF THE FIVE LARGEST DAIRIES IN THE DISTRICT. Order Chestnut Farms Milk from our salesman, or call Potomac 4000. CHESTNUT FARMS DAIRY A DIVISION OF N ATlONAL DAIRY D. C, DE VALERA TERM LEAGUE ON TRIAL Execution of Obligations of Covenant on Weak and Strong Is Urged. (Continued From First Page.) by a vote of 44 out of 50. In his address he said, although the interna- tional sky was overcast, some gleams of light could be observed. “MUST FACE RESPONSIBILITIES.” French Paper Says League Must Bey Judge of Japan. ‘TOULOUSE, France, September 26 ()—The newspaper La Depeche de | Toulouse, regarded as close to the gov- ernment, featured today an article by Guglielmo Ferrero, Italian historian, de- claring the League of Nations must face its responsibilities and act as judge of whether Japan violated the League Covenant in Manchuria. “The League should decide,” cle said, “whether the world has el tered a period when there will be wars which are not wars.” TITULESCU LEAVES LEAGUE. Rumanian Delegation Head Opposes | Russian Pact. BUCHAREST, Rumania, September 26 (#)—It was officially confirmed to- day that Nicholas Titulescu no longer will head the Rumanian delegation to the League of Nations. Virgll Madgearu, minister of trade. ;lvlho ieft for Geneva today, will succeed m. The change followed the failure of efforts to reconcile his views with those of the Vaida-Voevod government on the Russian pact of non-aggression. M. Titulescu is convinced tha$ the Kellogg pact is sufficient; the govement would rather conclude a separate pact with Russia similar to that recently initiated by Russia and Poland. RUSSIA FAVORS MANCHUKUO. TOKIO, September 26 (#).—The at- titude of Soviet Russia toward the new Manchurian state of Manchukuo is | friendly and there is a willingness to co-operate in practically all matters of joint concern, Ambassador Koki Hirota Teported from Moscow to the foreign office today, but he added Moscow was finding the question of De Jure recogni- tion difficult and formal action was not | likely soon. This description of the Soviets' policy | was given to the Ambassador on the | eve of his departure for Japan last { Saturday, he reported. Karakhan, he | said, gave him to understand that' the | Soviet government was willing that a | Manchukuo consulate be opened at | Moscow in addition to the Siberian cities where such consulates already | have been authorized, while Soviet con- sulates would continue to function in | M-nchurian cities. P MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1932. CENTURY-OLD BUILDING BURNS IN RUINS OF SOUTHERN TOWN Court House Was Last Survival of Splen- dor for Which paulding.. Miss., Was Known in Days of Alamo. By the Assoclated Press. PAULDING, Miss., September 26.— Pire has destroyed the 100-year-old court_house here and now the tale of a troubled town can be told with ashes. It was just a half-hearted, lazy blaze, yet it wrote an epitaph for Paulding, one of Mississippi’s historically famous towns. ‘The court house was all that remained of the spendor that was Paulding’s in years when the fall of the Alamo was news. Jasper County built it a century ago and this became one of the most important towns in the South. Folks came many miles to gaze at the court | house’s two-story magnificence and went back to their plantation firesides and predicted that any city with courage enough to build such a structure would some day be a metropolis. * And it might have been but for one of those tricks fate plays. This was a typical Southern town 100 years ago—bigger than most, but typical nevertheless. The men raced fine horses, wagered their cotton and fought duels over unimportant incidents. The women spun fine cloth and sent it to Mississippi boys who were fight- | ing with Sam Houston in Texas. Then came the Irish. A colony set- tled nearby. They were tough-fisted Irish—men who drank beer f{rom buckets and wiped their lips with the back of their hands. They were fear- less strangers in a land of aristocrats who wouldn't drink a mint julep if the leaves were crushed or if the glass were not_frosted. The Irish literally fought their way | to recognition, built a little chapel and a big cemetery and eventually were accepted by the proud planters. To- gether, they made Paulding a bustling | city. Next came the railroad, but mnot | through Paulding. The city divided on whether to grant a right of way and the company, anxious to lay its rails from Meridian to New Orleans, dodged the town. So Paulding never heard the grunt of a locomotive, her mansions were never discolored by coal smoke and it killed, her. Families moved away in droves about the beginning of the century. The Irish were the last to leave. Jasper County built another court house at Bay Sp: and maintained }wo capitols until the fire ate the one here. Its destruction made Paulding as life- less as the big Irish cemetery. The town was scarcely breathing when the fire came. Its streets had long since been rooted by hogs that wallowed in troughs where blooded horses once drank. Its mansions had tumbled. Scene of War Drama. A few colored people lived kitchens of the big houses, tooke’: htO): cakes on the hearths and shuffied a jig on ball room floors where gallants once waltzed with the belles of Ten- nessee, Alabama and Mississippi. One of the real dramas of the war | between the States was enacted in the old court house. Jasper County was to instruct its delegate to the secession convention. Jones County, its big neigh- bor, was loyal to the Union, and all Mississippi watched Jasper—and the | Nation watched Mississippi. The boys came in from the forks of the creeks, parked their muskets near Ithe gold-headed canes of the townsfolk and they all talked it over. The men | who raised cotton and owned slaves were ready to fight any time. Tradition lsa\s the Irish held their tongues for a | long time. They had seen a lot of civil | war and they thought twice before they finally voted for another fight and then | roared with the crowd, “Jasper goes for secession.” The cry echoed against the little chapel and across the big ceme- tery, where so many were to sleep be- cause of that day's action. WOMAN FLYERS REFUEL PLANE OVER CAPITAL | Holders of Record Demonstrate Method Before Ending Four-Day Visit. Endurance Bringing their four-day visit to the | National Capital to & close yesterday afternoon with two demonstration re- fueling contacts, perfectly mads above the heads of a crowd of more than 5,000 spectators at Washington-Hoover Afrport, and Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden, holders of the world refueling en- durance record for women, left Wash- ington for Norfolk, Va. They were ac- companied by their rerueling plane and | ' Although It’s Conservative in Design, This Woman’s Dress Has Interesting EDWARDIAN . je:m Patou ‘deéewés a vote ‘of thanks for tailering this ~dress with almost cla ssi mmphcl!v It is still a dis- tmctly Edwar:r ian fashmn- h it Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis | its crew, Steuart A. Reiss, pilot, and John Runger, refueler. Perfect weather conditions made pos- sible two of the smoothest refuelins contacts the now experienced crews of the Flying Boudoir and its “nurse plane” have made in all the scores of contacts which were necessary to the eight-day flight which gave them the women’s record. A photographic plane and a tri-motored plane full of sight- seers accompanied the endurance plane plane and its flying service station as and its flying service station as port and downtown Washington. Find Stolen Automobile. BAILEYS CROSS ROADS, Va.. Sep- temtw 26 (Special). —Falls Church | police Saturday night found an auto- | mobile, said to have been stolen & week {ago from Aaron S. Rippey of 116 Wooten avenue, Chevy Chase, Md., in the stone ouarry of C. H. Powell here. PUERTO RICO FACES OVERPOPULATION : Yearly Increase of 20.4 Per Thou- |dustries. sand Pictured as Gruvest Prob- lem in Gov. Beverley’s Report. By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, September 26.—In his first annual report to the Secretary of War, Gov. James R. Bever- ley asserted today that Puerto Rico's mt problem 1s its excessive popu- ‘This e‘rumm-netincrauql 20.4 per thousand, bringing the total | population to 1,599,142, or 465.5 to the square mile. “‘Organization of agriculture, encour- agement of industries and vocational training can help to alleviate the situ- ation, but they never will be sufficient to raise the standard of living to a satis- The government collected more reve- nue thar, ever be‘l;re. to a total exceed- lance of trade more than 000000 “In the cllzndn year 1931 un island was the best customer of the Dulted Btates south of the Gulf of exico. -—— THREE SEIZED IN CHASE COLORADO SPRINGS, September {26 (#).—Officers last night chased and captured three young alleged automo- bile thieves suspected of stealing a car in Denver earlier in the evening. They gave their names as Donald McKenzie, 18, Detroit, Mich.; Harold Flarrance, 16, Binghamton, N. Y., and Herman Dietz, 19, Kansas City. mypwvw e % L R THE HECHT CO F STREET AT 7™ i el FREE PARKING WHILE YOU SHOP HERE The New Knit-Tex Angora Topccat, now. $25 Second Floor—The Hecht Co.