Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1935, Page 17

STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THE _SUNDAY ‘Y JULY “SHOOTING IS LAID 0 FAMILY ROW Maryland Farmer Shoots Son and Neighbor, Then Ends Life. By the Associated Press. CENTERVILLE, Md. July 6— Queen Annes County authorities to- night pieced together the story of a father-and-son quarrel which led Joseph Greiner, 73-year-old farmer, to shoot his son and a neighbor and then kill himself. Deputy Sheriff Louis B. Perkins, who arrived at the scene of the shoot- ing on the farm of Joseph Davis, 35, 12 miles from here several hours later, said Greiner had prohibited his | son, August. 19, from working for Davis, but that the boy disobeyed his wishes. About sundown last night. Perkins said, Greiner took a high-powered German rifle from his home and crep across the fields to the Davis farm. Davis and young Greiner were completing the day's chores, and did not see the man approach. Perkins said Greiner pumped soft lead “dum dum” bullets into Davis' back as the latter locked the doors of his chicken coop. shot August in the | legs, then turned the gun on him- | self. The discharge blew off the top | of his head, according to the deputy Davis was taken to the Easnon‘ Emergency Hospital, but later was released. Greiner was treated by local physicians. Sheriff T. Herbert Everett, who was celled to the Davis farm by his deputy, said after an ali-night in- vestigation no inquest would be | necessary. The elder Greiner came here from ‘Washington State about 15 vears ago. and came to this country from Ger- | many just prior to the World War, | it was said. JERSEY BREEDERS | TO HEAR FOHRMAN | Superintendent of Experimental | Farm at Beltsville on Vir- | ginia Program July 11. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE. Va., July 6—M. H. Fohrman, super- intendent of the United States Experi- | mental Farm at Beltsville, Md., will | address the Virginia Jersey cattle breeders at their annual Summer meeting on July 11 at Bloomsbury | Jersey Farm near here, it was an- nounced today by T. T. Curtis, secre- | tary of the Virginia Jersey Cattle | Club, | Mr. Fohrman, who is in charge n[" cattle breeding. feeding and pasture | improvement at the Beltsville station. is credited with the development of many improved dairy methods, a par- ticular contribution being largely through the leasing of highly-bred herd sires from the Beltsville station to Virginia dairymen In a discussion of the control of inheritable traits which determine | milk and butterfat producing ability, | Mr. Fohrman will illustrate his ad- dress with a live cow to show how herds can be improved. Others to speak at the meeting are H. E. Dennison, field secretary of the | American Jersey Cattle Club, and Prof. C. W. Holdaway. chief of the dairy department at Virginia Poly- technic Institute. | A. B. C. BOARD PLAN ADVANTAGES CITED Statistician Reveals Virginia Lo- calities Will Receive Double Former Revenue. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., July 6.—Figures prepared by A. B. Clarke, statistician of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, show that Virginia lo- | calities will receive approximately | twice as much revenue from the sale | of liquor under the present control plan than they did under the pre-pro- hibition license system. The State will receive four times as much, Clarke's figures show. In 1913. he says, towns and cities received about $530,000 in local k- | censes. The counties received noth- | ing. This year the localities will share about $1,000,000 in A. B. C. earnings | plus some $155,000 in local beer and wine licenses. The State. in 1913, | received $530,000 from licenses. This | year $2,175,000 will be paid into the | State’s coffers from liquor sale profits. In addition, a $5,000.000 reserve fund has been set aside by the State for the operation of the monopoly. Counter to the general trend is the | case of Norfolk which, in 1913, re- ceived $128,454 from 174 establish- ments. This year the city will receive | approximately $78,551 in profits and | license fees. EXPERT SAYS CHIGGERS DON’T BOTHER NUDISTS Clothes Cause All the Trouble by Rubbing Bite, and Hot Bath Is Prescribed. By the Associated P-ess. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 6.—It's not the bite so much as the rub, ex- plained Dr. Emery R. Hayhurst to- day in backing up this assertion: “Nudists never would be troubled with chiggers.” The chief of the hygiene division of the State Health Department said chiggers irritate the skin only where clothing touches it and causes fric- tion. His chigger remedy for non-nudists: A hot bath with ordinary kitchen 80ap. Woman Who Trod On Corn Is Awarded $2,500 for Injuries LOS ANGELES (#).—Last March Mrs, Jane Pearce acci- dentally stepped on a street car conductor’s corn. Now she has been awarded $2,500 in damages from the Los Angeles Railway Corp. Mrs. Pearce said that when she stepped on the foot of Con- ductor R. O. Clark he jumped and she fell off the car, suffer- ing serious injuries. | office of Modern Women Toiling = Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, and Miss Mary N. Winslow, artist, who painted the canvas of “Women in the Machine Trades,” presented to the Women's Bureau. YMBOLIC of woman's role in! the machine age is an unusual panel painted and presented by Miss Mary N. Winslow. which hangs today in the office of the Wom- an’s Bureau of the Department of La- bor, where the artist herself was employed for many years. Secretary of Labor ePrkins and other labor officials were among those | especially invited yesterday to view the oil painting, after it was hung in the the bureau's director, Miss Mary Anderson. Miss Winslow, who for the last two years has been study- ing painting under C. Lew Watkins at Studio House, affiliated with the Phil- lips Memorial Gallery. already has gained definite recognition in Wash- ington art circles. For development of the industrial “Woman in the Machine Trades,” the | artist has had an excellent back- ground. nomic analyst on the Woman's Bu- reau staff, studying industrial and la- | bor conditions pertaining to women for a number of years. She was the | author of several of the bureau’s pub- | lications dealing with the effects of | labor legislation on employment op- portunities of women, married women in industry and the economic respon- sibilities of women wage earners for family support. In expressing her appreciation of the painting, Miss Anderson said that it fills a graphic and arresting story from the viewpoint of the Woman's Bureau and its interests. | On the broad canvas working wom- en are depicted bent over various types of machines. The bright colors of background in this panel, entitled Netw Chesa péake Chart Aids Skippers and Landlubbers, Too A new chart of the Chesapeake Bay, designed especially for the own- ers and operators of small beats, has Just been issued by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Based on 34 topographic survey: as well as 18 hydrographic surveys, the chart takes in that part of the bay between Holland Point and Knapp Island. on the South, and Gibson Island and the Magothy River, on the north. It gives all the dope. too. Boat owners will find full statistics on depth, tides, shoals, channels and similar mysteries. Moreover, the map takes in a lot of shore—indicating roads leading to beaches, wharves and | resorts. Even anglers will find many | of their favorite fishing grounds care- | fully indicated. And water travelers who are strictly | amateurs will find careful descriptions of the shore line—as it looks from a rocking boat some distance out. The chart is drawn to the scale of 1/40.000, or about 1.8 inches to the | nautical mile. The topographic fea- tures were compiled, after field in- | spection by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, from more than 400 photo- graphs taken by the Army Air Service C. C. C. CAMP MOVED TO NEW DRIVE SITE | Roomy Quarters Are Completed Feud Between Seamstress and | | LURAY, Va. July 6.—Members of | for Unit Working in Shen- andoah Park. Special Dispatch to The Star. the C. C. C. camp iocated at Beech Spring on the Lee Highway have completed their removal to new and more spacious headquarters on the extended Skyline Driv: near Rattle- snake Glen. The old headquarters on Lee High- way will be abandoned fcr the present. The radio control station at Beech Spring has been placed at Skyland Camp No. 1, from where it will serve Virginia and Southern Maryland. There are three more of these stations | in the 3d Corps Area. The reason for the removal of the camp was the change in work. When Beech Spring was first established it was put under the State Forestry De- | Later, because of its prox- | partment. imity to the Shenandoah National Park, it was transferred to the Park Service, with headqua:ters at Luray, under J. R. Lassiter. The C. C C. camps are starting on a problem of soil erosion. The men will be put to work at once landscap- ing and preventing erosion on slopes on either side of the Drive. Whale Attacks Boat. Harpooned from a launch near Queen Charlotte Sound, off Australia, | Tecently, a whale came up under the craft and threw it out of the water, the crew saving themselves by cutting the rope and making for the shore. 'REVENGE FIRE PUTS 100 OUT OF HOMES, Locksmith Blamed for Moscow Blaze. By the Associated Press MOSCOW, July 6.—More than 100 | persons were homeless today as the | result of vengeance of a seamstress | who started a fire that destroyed two | community dwellings. | A fued between the seasmstress, | | Maria Alexeyeva, 35, and her neigh- |bor Ivan Citneykoff, a locksmith, brought on the act. | A little more than a year ago a| court awarded Citneykoff’s family | half of Alexeyeva's room after a dispute over living quarters which are at a high premium in this overcrowded capital. | Infuriated, the seamstress threw acid over the faces of the locksmith’s wife and daughter. She was sen- | tenced to a year's imprisonment at ! hard labor. After serving her time she started the fires. MISSIONARY SLAIN Swiss Citizen Killed in North Manchuria. MUKDEN, Manchukuo, July 7 (Sun- day) (#).—Anthony Joerg, Swiss mis- sionary at Tetuhsein, North Man- churia, was slain, apparently by ban- dits, about June 1, it was learned today. A note in Chinese, pinned to the body, said Joerg had been killed es- caping his captors. De Valera Greets Owsley Alvin Mansfield Owsley (right), the new American Minister to the Irish Free State, presented his letter of credence to President De Valera (left), in St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle—after which they engaged in an exceedingly good-humored chat, as this photo would indicate. —A. P. Photo. 3 their garments and graceful bearing indicate to the observer a stubborn re- She formerly was an eco- fusal to yield to the crushing monot- | ony of their work. The figures, more than anything else, Miss Winslow ex- plained, portray joy in their work. The scene is typical of a modern fac- tory. Finds Villa Gone. Wher: a Moravian manufacturer went to inspect a villa he was having built, not a trace of it could be feund, workmen having laid off while he was gone and thieves having seized the opportunity to steal the buildings, brick by brick, at night. 1935—PART ONE. * B3 VIRGINIA VETERANS MEET TOMORROW Ex-Service Men in Spanish War to Convene in Alexandria. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va.,, July 6—Be- tween 600 and 800 Virginia veterans of the Spanish-American War are ex- pected to register here tomorrow for the twenty-seventh annual Staie con- vention, which will be in session Mon- day and Tuesday. The convention will be opened at 8 p.m. tomorrow with roll call of camps and their auxiliaries at Elks’ Hall. A program of musical selections and group singing will follow. Sessions Start Monday. At 9:30 a.m. Monday, sessions will be started with addresses of welcome from George W. Cummings, depart- ment commander; Mayor E. C. Davi- son of Alexandria and Dan 8. Hol- lenga, manager of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce. ‘The program also includes addresses by Agnes V. Rooney, State president of the veterans’ auxiliary; Maj. Dean Hudnutt, United States Army: Maj. James D. McLean, Marine Corps; Neville G. Orme, representative of the American Red Cross, and Mrs. Anna Nagle, national president of the veterans’ auxiliary. Officers to Be Picked. Officers for the 1935-36 year will be elected at a business session Tuesday. The annual banquet is scheduled for |7 p.m. Monday at the George Mason | Hotel. Committees in charge of the con- vention are headed by John E. Griese- | mer, Charles B. Emmons, commander of the Alexandria camp, and Mrs. Florence M. Hillery. Margaret M Tyler and Nannie Bryan will act as pages. Graf Model Shown. A model of the Graf Zeppelin has just peen placed on exhibition in the national aeronautical collection at | the Science Museum in South Ken- sington, London. | Sells Shares in Self | Shares in the talents of young Richard Crist, Pittsburgh artist, shown here in his studio, are selling today at a par of $5. He wants to leave for Mexico on a three-month painting expedition and to finance his trip has offered to bring back a of those who buy one or more shares in Richard Crist, Inc. the shares are selling. water color or oil painting for each Already —Wide World Photo. |- : IBANANAS LURE FUGITIVE | MONKEYS BACK TO CAGE Six Simians, Escaped From Wis- consin U. 3 Days Ago, Are | Recaptured. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis., July 6.—A banana | tonight settled a psuedo-scientific | question about whether monkeys get homesick. The six Rhesus monkeys, “on the loose” for the last three days since they escaped their cages from the psycholcgy department of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, were lured back | into their cages tonight by bananas. lPreviuust. the monks, regarded as sacred by natives in their Indian home, chatteringly sneered at at- tempts to recage them by food Their keeper, casting an eye at the truck gardens about Madison, opined that the monks wouldn't come back unless they got homesick—and he wasn't certain that would occur. Alfred Benson, however, insisted that a monkey was a monkey and that any monkey would run for a banana He rigged up a trap, baited it with bananas and the monkeys finally en- tered their cages—to ponder the value of freedom vs. bananas. King Likes Croquet. King George of England is encour- aging croquet playing | | | A Wherever Fords Go ... 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