Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1935, Page 14

A—14 « THE PHLPPIE SEAT N LEACUE SOUGAT Quezon to Seek U. S. Per- mission for Regime to Enter Geneva. By the Associated Press. ' MANILA, P. I, September 20.— The possibility the new Philippine Commonwealth will seek permission of the United States to apply for mem- bership in the League of Nations “if it doesn’t crack up now,” was ad- | vanced today by President-elect | Manuel Quezon. Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. by in the austere halls of the venera- ble edifice. * k ¥k % B-Z-2-Z-2. NE occasionally hears of those phenomena of the animal world |O who has had to put up with extreme measures to get vesul's over dwelling in which her landlord with unfulfilled promises only her apartment one of those cvenines | The veteran Filipino political lead- | er who was overwhelmingly chosen in Tuesday’s election to head the 10-year regime, said in an interview he would seek “more government and less politics.” |in her kitchen where she had re- BROILING IN THE RAIN. I WOMAN Government worker A an unaccommodating land- lord, finally had to resort to Forced to occupy the only available apartment on the top floor of a madc- retains his living quarters, her varicus calls to him over the phone were met Came that long-prolonged ramy; | 3 season a few weeks age. Arriving in| | & | she was greeted with a shower bath e | take care of young cats and vice versa, but have you ever heard of | eagles mothering hornets? paired to get dinner. Rushing into her bed room she pri- cured a pair of overshoes, a rain cane and an umbrella, first managing to, Well, it's happening this very day | get her landlord on the pnone in the Washington Zoo. An eagle | objects) is responsible for the preserit | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., cornice of a deer house in the north- east corner of the Zoo park. Hornets have built a huge nest under its left wing and the eagle is glad that he or she is made of stone. * Xk X X DID YOU KNOW—2? Did you know that the emergency trucks of the Washington Gas Light Co. are equipped with short- wave radio receiving sets capable of picking up police calls, thus enabling the drivers to speed to the scene of any situation which might involve gas lines, such as explosions and fires? * ok Kok “PATHETIC FALLACY.” HAT is known in literary circles as | the “pathetic fallacy” (attrib- uting human qualities to inanimaie | location of one of the world’s famous statues. | 1t is the Greenough marble figure of | George Washington, represented as a Roman father, naked from the walst up. For many years this statue stood in | the east plaza of the Capitol. So| many people pitied the statue, how- | place for it in the apse of a chapel in the original Smithsonian Museum, where it now reposes, saintlike, and safe from all rigors of the weather. * ok ok X SIGN IN ANACOSTIA. Sign seen on Nichols avenue, Anacostia: DOGS ELECTROCUTED Sc * ok Kk ¥ “THIRD HOUSE.” THE appellation of “Fourth Estate” for the newspaper profession is generally well known, but that of “Third House” for the press galleries of the Capitol has been less wide- spread. Our goldfish bowl research ' expert testifies that this designation of | the press galleries was officially adopt- | ed during President Harrison’s admin- istration when Dr. Francis Bacon, cor- | respondent of the New York American, used to sign himself as “Regular Mem- ber, Third House.” ; —————e Ex-Advertising Manager Dies. | WAYNE, Pa., September 20 (P)— | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935. WOODCOCK BACK FROM LOVISIANA Head of St. John’s College Ends Preliminary Work on Fraud Cases. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., September 20.— Back from what he termed “a most | interesting legal experience in a most | interesting city,” Col. Amos W. W.| Woodcock, president of St. John's Col- | lege, was busy today with his duties | at the institution after his experience | as a special assistant to the United States Attorney General in the New Orleans income tax cases | Col. Woodcock went to New Orleans | July 20 to examine evidence and con- duct grand jury praceedings in con- ever, as the hot rays of the sun beat | Ernest John, 58, former advertising income tax laws. the cases, Col. Woodcock said he could not discuss Louisiana politics. “The first trial of the income tax fraud cases is that of Abraham L. Shushan, set for October 8, he said. “That will be followed by the so- called Mississippi Vallev Co., set for October 16. Each of these cases in- volve the nonpayment of income tax upon graft from public contracts.” Col. Woodcock said that Shushan was president of the Louisiana Dock Board wren the Shushan atrport—re- puted to be the finest in the nation— was constructed. He said Shushan was charged with feiling to repuit income derived as graft. The Mississippi Valley Co., colonel said, was composed of a num- ber of contractor brothers. He said the company was charged with hav- ing paid graft to a state purchasing agent and charging it in their income tax returns as salaries and commis- sions. Stotesbury Grandson to Wed. HOLLYWOOD, September 20 (). — ‘Walter Brooks, Philadelphia socialite | nection with alleged evasions of the| and grandson of E. T. Stotesbury, | He returned Sun- | banker, has announced he will marry | the | | SOLDIER KILLED IN FALL 3,500 FEET FROM PLANE |Fnlls Trough Trap Door of Army Bomber as Ejector Lever Is Released Accidentally. By the Associated Press. HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., Septem= | ber 20 —Pvt. George H. Brinkley, 22, fel: through a trap door of an Army bombing plane yesterday and was dropped 3,500 feet to his death at | Point Reyes, 35 miles west of here. Army officials here reported the trap door opened after Brinkley accie dentally released a bomb-ejector lever, The plane, piloted by Maj. John M. Davies, was one of six Army bombers in maneuvers along the coast. | Rabbits for Poor. l Faced with a plague of rabbits, | farmers at Leicestershire, England, | shot the bunnies and gave them to the poor. TRUNKS - "ussaze and He pointed out American permis- Saddlery down on it in Summer and the cold | manager of the Victor Talking Ma- | day, visited his home at Salisbury, | Miss Wells, the daughter of Will sion would be required to apply for league membership to enable the | Philippines to assume the obligations fmposed by the League's covenont. Quezon said he did not plan imme- @diate action on this question. | The President-elect expressed the | hope that the 40 members of Con- | gress and 20 or more newspaper men | coming from the United States to attend the inauguration in Nuwmbcrl would get “an insight into our prob- | lems, and give their friendly co- | operation in finding solutions” | Speaking of the request by 65 mem- bers of Congress to increase tariffs to protect American cotton goods from Japanese competition in the islands, Quezon said American tariff experts are now here preparing for | a reciprocal trade conference early | next year and that tariff increases | very likely will be a part of the con- | ference program. I SOUTHWEST GROUP ASKS MORE FIRE EQUIPMENT| Civic Association Cites Need Through Erection of Low-Cost | Housing Project. | The Southwest Civic Association, | through Dr. George L. Johnson, chair- man of its Public Service Committee, today wrote to Charles E. Schrom, chief of the District Fire Department, asking the new pieces of fire appara- tus provided for by an appropriation by the last session of Congress, be delivered to the Southwest section. Two hose wagons and a pumping engine are asked to supplant those now in use. The association said that in the Jast 25 years three fire companies | have been removed from the area| south of Pennsylvania avenue, and added that erection of a low-cost housing project in the Southwest sec- tion would increase the responsibility of the three companies now serving the area. RIVER YIELDS BODY, FEET STUCK IN MUD By the Associated Press. i ANNAPOLIS, September 20.—The | hody of Carranza Sanchez, 21, of New «Mexico, who drowned in South River | off Selby-on-the-Bay, was recovered | today. His feet were stuck in the mud. ‘v Sanchez was one of a party of four who arrived at the resort last night | and went to the shore. 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A man on F street seems to be “cutting off his mose to spite his face.” He has placed several boards with spikes upturned and numerous broken bottles in front of the en- trance of his garage to keep auto- mobiles using @ parking lot across the alley from running on his prop= erty to turn * *x x PEERING REPORTER. HOULD you have occasion to wa'k through the corridors of tre State, War and Navy Building about the noon hour you would see a number cf messengers seated at tables, several of whom are deeply engrossed in news- papers. Closer scrutiny, however, will dis- close that the real object of their in- terest is lunch, which they consumz surreptitiously behind the shielding folds of the journals. It would, of course., be unthinkabtie to eat brazenly in full view of passers- 16-Day Excursions Niagara Falls FRIDAY-SAT!JR’E)AY September 27, Round $16‘80 Trip Eastern Standard Time. Fridays. Saturdays. Lv. Washington__S:20 PM. 7:45 AM. 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