Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1935, Page 15

s« B-3 TWO ARE BELIEVED DROWNED IN CREEK Charles County Authorities Start Search for Miss- ing Men. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 13, 1935—PART ONE. Boy Naturalists With Hidden Camera Trace History of Duck Hawk’s Life CATHEDRALRITES | TOHONORGEN.LEE Secretary of Commerce Roper and Other Officials to Attend. A special service 1n commemoration | Speclal Dispatch to The Star. of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Washington MARBURY, Md, Januay 12— Cathedral at 4 o'clock this afternoon ; . . fETie ¥ tegs of CHicHIINEN Ereck wure will be attended by Secretary of Com- L : S . f . : I being dragged by Charles County au- merce Daniel C. Roper and many § e 6. : b b 5 f thorities tonight for the bodies of two other high Government officials. employes of a Washington gasoline filling station who are beileved to Assistant Secretary of State R. Wal- have drowned while duck hunting off ton Moore, Rear Admiral Cary T. Stump Neck Point yesterday after- Grayson, Judge John Barton Payne, noon. former Senator Blair Lee of Mary- o Rison, Md, while the secand 15 an land, Senator Carter Glass and Sen- unidentified Maryland resident who ator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia will drove down from the Capital with have seats in the choir among the | Groves yesterday. A dog that was : i ¥ : : €, | with the men also is missing. sponsors of the memorial. | i 2 ; . ; " s | Groves' boat was found floating up- Also present will be Senator Nathan = - . ” | side down on the opposite side of the L. Bachman of Tennessee, former creek from Stump Neck Point, while Senator W. Cabell Bruce of Maryland, the Rison man’s cap was discovered Representative Sol Bloom of New afloat nearby. Groves' gun and & One of the young hewwks on his first day away from the aerie. He bears little resem- The young hawks get their first glimpse of the world. The feathers The mother returns to care for the young. Her eyes nmever leave the camera nor the blind behind which she suspects an on- The mother hawk returning stealth- ily to her nest in a cliff along the Po- i o - tomac, several miles atove Wash lone duck were in the blind. +* York, Mrs. Guy D. Goff, Brig. Gen. William E. Horton, Maj. and Mrs. Edgar Erskine Hume, Mrs. Henry Ww. Keyes, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Mrs. Lawrence Washington, Miss Anne' Washington and Mrs. Robert E. Lee, 3d. i Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will have charge of the service, and Dr. Douglas §. Freeman of Richmond, biographer of Gen. Lee, will be the principal speaker. Seats will be available to the public until 3:45. Officers and members of the fol- lowing organizations have been in- vited to be present: The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Na- tional Society, Colonial Dames of America; the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, the Order of the First Families of Virginia, 1607-1620; the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the Founders and Patriots of America and the Society of the Cincinnati. TWO HELD TO JURY IN HOLD-UP SLAYING Police Testify at Inquest That Colored Pair Confessed Part in Killing. Charged with the slaying of a meat truck driver, two colored men were held by a coroner’s jury yesterday afternoon for action of the grand jury after police officers testified the two defendants had confessed their part in the hold-up killing, which took place January 4 at the corner of ‘Tenth and B streets northeast. The jury found the truck driver, Joseph R. Wushank, 2830 Bladens- burg. road, had “come to his death as the result of shots fired from a pistol held in the hands of John H. Cummings, 27, 700 block Seventh street northeast.,” and the jury also held Willett Marcus, 22, 1200 block Minnesota avenue northeast, as an | accessory. Wushank died January 8 in Cas- ualty Hospital. The two were traced by a hat found in the cab of the truck by Sergts. Clyde N. Strange and Jerry Flaherty, in charge of the investigation for the homicide squad. Coroner A. Ma- gruder MacDonald complimented the Police Department on its handling of the case. . —_— FOUNDER OF GEORGIA HILL SCHOOLS HONORED Students and Alumni of Mountain Institutions Pay Tribute to Miss Martha Berry. By the Assoctated Press. MOUNT BERRY. Ga., January 12. —The woman responsible for the growth of the schools she founded 33 years ago in a log cabin—Miss Martha Berry—today was honored by students and alumni. Here in the hill country of north Georgia are located the schools Miss Berry has developed. There are now & hundred buildings on 32,000 acres of land. with over 1,000 students. The exercises marking the thirty- third anniversary of the founding were held in Mount Berry chapel. More than 1,500 students, alumni and members of the faculty were present. Students presented gifts worth sev- eral hundreds of dollars. There was & full program of school songs and addresses by members of the faculty end alumni, as well as students. | A R N CLINIC REPORTS SLATED Executive Board to Hold Annual Meeting Tomorrow Night. Annual reports of the Executive Board of the Women’s Clinic will be read at its annual meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at 4704 Georgia avenue. Dr. Lauretta Kress will report for the Georgia avenue clinic, and Dr. A. Frances Foye will report for the col- ored clinic at 1237 T street. Other reports will be read by Mrs. Charles H. Curl, vice president; -Mrs. Edgar T. Brown, treasurer; Mrs. H. E. Rogers, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Grattan Kerans, recording secretary and publicity chairman, and Mrs. Gladys Ball Middlemiss, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. o Mt. Ralflle! Church « Dutch Supper’ Tuesday ‘The Mothers’ Club of St. James’ Catholic Church in Mount Rainier, Md., will give a “dutch supper” in the auditorium at Thirty-seventh street and Rhode Island avenue Tues- day. Supper will be served from 5 to a| o'clock, and the proceeds will be turned into the funds being raised to help relieve the indebtedness on the church and school. The Rev. J. Edward Malloy. pastor, is honorary chairman; Mrs. Helen Phillips, chairman, assisted by Mrs. John S. White, Mrs. Mary C. Bailey, Mrs. Elizabeth McQueeney, Mrs. Pat- rick Casey, Mrs. Mary Roland, Mrs. Rose Magruder, Mrs. Frank Luckett, Mrs. John Morheiser, Mrs. Elizabeth Hastings, Mrs. Mary Farrell, Mrs. H. T. Glynn, Mrs. Charles Monninger, Mrs. Samuel Mastin, Miss Gertrude ‘Widemeier, Mrs. William Wersick, Mrs. Anthony Rolfes, Mrs. James Sheahan, Mrs. Herbert Gill, Mrs. P. H. Jewell, Campbell, Mrs. Lillian Green, Mrs. Francis A. Mutchler, Mrs. Thomas R. Graves, Mrs. Letitia Plumer, Mrs. Bes- sie Ardeeser, Mrs. Ruth E. Martin, Mr. Samuel Mastin, Mr. Frank Luck- ett, Mr. Arthur Goelling, Mr. Joseph Robicheau, Mr. Frank Bailey, Mr. Bernard Gerhardt, Mr. A. Elffier Mar- tin, Mr. Leo Merkle, Mr. P. H. Jewell, Mr. P. J. Farrell, Mr. Anthony Rolfes and Mr. William Wersick. ington. looker is hiding. < Boys Locate Eyrie of Falcon That Hunts From Pgstal Tower Young on Clif The falcon is back at the old post office and the pigeons along Pennsylvania avenue are all aflutter. street, rising with a pigeon victim, scattering feathers and blocking traffic in the excitement. ‘The post office tower has a the American duck hawk famuly, of three years ago the present falcon’s ancestor was raising havoc among Pennsylvania avenue pigeons. T. Doran McCarty, a Star printer, bor= rowed a rifle and, taking careful aim from The Star roof, shot the bird. It was stuffed and reposed in the Postmaster General's office for many The Star printed a piece about it at the time. Recently John and Frank Craighead, 18-year-old twins of 5301 years. Forty-first street and already well cient sport of falconry, have made a study of the American duck hawk, taking pictures of its nesting place on the cliffs along the Potomac. The pictures and the article below were furnished by the Craighead boys. BY FRANK CRAIGHEAD. For the last few years Washing- tonians in the vicinity of the old post office and The Star Building have been amazed to see a large dark falcon drop from the sky and with doubled talons strike down a speeding pigeon, transforming it into a shower of flying feathers. A num- | ber of these have probably wondered where this annual visitor, the Ameri- | can duck hawk, spends her Summers and where she raises her fierce brood. The eyre, or nest of this falcon, is far from the post office tower. Al- though the starling-infested city pro- vides a perfect hunting ground, it is | not the falcon’s idea of a nesting | stooped behind a projecting rock for site. With special care she has chosen a site on a cliff overlooking the Po- tomac, far from the habitations of man. My brother and I located her | though only a few feet from the | and constant | nest. searching. Our purpose was to take | bird returned to warm the eggs, and eyre after diligent pictures, if possible, and obtain one of the young to train in the art of falconry. We descended the cliff and found | doubled our enthusiasm, So that we'of the fittest. |Craighead Twins Obtain Rare Photo- graphs of Mother Bird Feeding fs of Potomac. The falcon uses the post office building tower as his post of observation, and occasionally dives to the strange attraction for members of which this falcon is one. Twenty- known for their revival of the an- a nest containing four eggs. A cam- era was set up some 5 feet from the eggs, focused on them, and then camouflaged to deceive the falcon. A blind of burlap sacks, brush and sticks | was constructed at the base of the | cliff. A thin thread was stretched from the shutter snap of the camera | |to the blind below. Several pictures | were obtained in this manner. Better Method Found. Quite accidently a more satisfac- "tory method was found. My brother | | had just finished setting up the cam- era on our third trip to the eyre. The pair of falcons were circling., diving and screaming above his head. He a few minutes to gather up his equip- ment. In this position he was com- | pletely hidden from the hawk, al-| Almost instantly the female after a short wait my brother snap- | ped the camera shutter and got an ex- | | cellent picture. This performance are just starting to appear. bl ance to a fierce killer. built a blind not more than 8 feet from the nest and took moving pic- tures as well as still ones. After the eggs had hatched and the downy young were a few weeks old, taking pictures was quite an- other story. At this stage we waited | on the tiny ledge of the cliff from six to seven hours in order to get the pictures we desired, for the mother falcon was loath to return until it was absolutely necessary to feed her young. Three of us, my | brother, a friend and myself took turns waiting. Quite often our legs were so cramped from remaining mo- tionless on the narrow ledge that we could scarcely stand. Boy's Life Imperiled. On one occasion one of us almost fell over the cliff onto the rocks be- low when he attempted to climb down the rope before his cramped arms had been exercised to restore circulation. We witnessed a remarkable per- and boldest got the lion’s share froml the impartial parents, while the little fellow had to be content to eat after | the appetites of his bigger brethern | had been appeased. This was only | one of the many incidents that we were able to observe at first hand When Winter approached and the duty of raising the young hawks had | been taken care of, the falcon re- | turned to the city, her Winter hunt- ing ground. To the careful observer she may be seen often, flying lngh! above the city, distinguished from the pigeons and starlings by her greater size and long pointed wings. To those | who have seen this bird strike her prey in midair, there will be no doubt as to her identity. Dance Planned. GAITHERSBURG, January 12 (Special) —Sponsored by the young people of Gaithersburg and vicinity, a | dance for the benefit of St. Martin’s | Parochial School will be held in St. | -PRESIDENT PAYS VISIT TO SON’S VIRGINIA HOME Makes Sur for Lunchecn, Leaving Aides se Trip to Leesburg Uninformed. By the Associated Press President Rocsevelt took advantage yesterday of a warm, sunshiny day to drive to the home of his son, El- liott, near Leesburg, Va. Leaving shortly before mnoon, the President arrived at the home of his son for luncheon. He remained for a cpuple of hours before returning through the Potomac Valley. Mr. Roosevelt motored alone on his surprice trip. His aides said they had not been informed where he was going or how long he would be gone. He is trying to adhere to a five-day formance one morning while Walling | Martin's Hall here on Friday. William | weck and White House aides and em- for the adult birds to feed the young. My brother had been in the blind for three hours. The birds had final- ly stopped circling and screaming, and had settled down on a dead stub that commanded an unimpaired view both upstream and down. Finally | deciding that all was well, the tiercel, | or male bird, with long steady wing beats headed off into the distance. From our point of observation in the rocks some 200 yards from the nest, we noted his departure and timed him until he returned with a bird in his talons. It required exactly 20 minutes for him to leave, catch a | bird, deplume it and return, As the male appeared flying very high the female left her post at the nest and flew out to meet him. When | directly over the female the male dropped the plucked bird and his | mate. turning quickly over, caught it as it plunged downward. She then | carried it to the young. Photographs Meal. My brother in the blind was re- | warded for his vigilance by observing and photographing the meal. The | mother tore the quarry up and fed it to her ravenous brood. One of the hawks, being a small and backward little fellow, was seriously handicap- | ped. In the falcon’s eyre the rules are | “first come, first served,” and survival Therefore, the largest | Castelberg’s Offers You Your LAST CHANCE Sterling Silver Old 1934 Prices! The prices of sterling silver flat- ware were increased 10% to 15% To Buy At The by the various manufacturers on or about January 1st, 1935. Castelberg’s, as a special induce- ment, offer for immediate sale their remaining stock on hand at the old 1934 prices. We have a complete assortmnt of most pat- terns, and it will be to your de- cided advantage to make your silverware purchases now, and save 10% to 15%. 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