Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1935, Page 25

CDENTALSHT FATALTOSOLDER Bullet Fired at Target by Child Strikes Fort Bel- voir Sergeant. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. POHICK, Va, November 8.—Sergt. Clark H. Dewey of the 13th Engineers, stationed at Fort Belvoir, died in the fort hospital yesterday, the victim of & stray 22-caliber bullet. The bullet, fired at a woodpile by Leon Cohn, 9 years old, missed its mark and pierced the chest of Dewey who was in an outhouse in the rear of the Fairfax Tourist Inn, which the boy's father operates. Found by Innkeeper. The accident happened about 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Some- time afterward, Cohn found Dewey in the outhouse, apparently asleep, with his face smeared with blood. He said he thought the soldier's nose had been bleeding and took him in the house, washed his face and gave him a drink of water. Dewey then drove away in the di- rection of the fort. Six hours later, however, he returned to the inn and told Cohn he had been to see a doctor who said he was having hemor- Additional Members Of Town Hall Series New maintenance members of the 1935-36 Town Hall series of forum discussions, which will begin Sunday evening, November 24, at 8 o'clock in the Shoreham Hotel, when Mr. Frank H. Simonds will be the speaker, in- | clude the chairman of the Tarift | Commission and Mrs. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, former United States Ame bassador and Mrs. Alanson B. Hough- ton, Mrs. Emil Berliner, Mr. and Mrs. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, man of the Republican National Com- mittee and Mrs. Henry P. Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Luke I. Wilson, Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Phillips, Mr. Myron Hofer, Mr. and Mrs. William McClellan Rit- ter, Mr. Howard L. Cheney, Miss S. C. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Kenworthy, Mrs. John Coit, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hampton, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Adams. Athenian Sacrifice. Charles J. Brand, Mrs. Emlen Knight | Davies, Mrs. Oscar Jarecki, Mr. and Mrs. W. Alexander Julian, Mr. and Mrs. Demarest Lloyd, Mrs. Jamb_ Leander Loose, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Myer, Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. My-| | ers, Miss Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Franlk | | Hiram Snell, Mr. and Mrs. Huston Thompson and Mrs. Hugh Campbell | Wallace. | Reservations for the course of 20 | Sunday evening discussions are being made at the Town Hall office. Among | the early subscribers are Canon and | Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, the Chair- In classical Athenian days an ox was annually sacrificed before the large statue of Zeus, and, the sacrifice completed, a trial would be imme- diately held to- discover the animal’s murderer. Each man in turn pro- fessed himself guiltless, until finally the ax and the knife were found guilty, and solemnly condemned. This | curious ceremony is believed a sur- vival from most primitive days, when the bull was regarded as an incarna- tion of the divine life-force, annually slain and yearly incarnated afresh in a young and vigorous body. Clay Coss, Miss N. R. MacFarlane and ! Dr. Lang to Speak on Passion Play Tonight Dr. Francis J. Haas, director of the National Catholic School of Social Service, will introduce Dr. Anton Lang, jr., tonight when he delivers the illustrated lecture, “Oberammer- gau and the Passion Play,” under the auspices of the Washington auxiliary of the school for the benefit of the loan scholarship fund. Additional patrons and patronesses are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Mullen, | Miss Catherine Cody, Miss Olive Gage, | Miss Beatrice Mullen, Mrs. Eva T. | Kilkoff, Dr. Fulton J. Sheen, Miss | Elizabeth Dolan, Miss Agnes Regan, | Mrs. Peter John McGovern, Mr. and | Mrs. Frank Hall, Miss Catherine Hol- brook, Miss Dorothy Abts. The Reception Committee is headed by Mrs. Charles P, Neill and includes Mrs. John A. Remon, Mrs. J. Rosier Biggs, Mrs. Arthur F. Mullen, Mrs. Dorothy K. Butler and Mrs. William R. Knobblock. Miss Ruth Remon, an alumnae of the school, will have assisting her as D. C., FRIDAY, ushers the following first-year stu- dents: Miss Marie Harton, Miss Mar- tha Baum, Miss Dorothy Bowen, Miss Mary Hogan, Miss Emily Scanlan, Miss Irene Weber, Miss Wenchia Wu, Miss Mildred McCarthy, Miss Catherine Kohl, Miss Alice Kavanaugh, Miss Patricia Lucy, Miss Helen Coleman, Miss Claire Hess. —_— Democratic Club ‘The Woman's National Democratic | Club will entertain at tea tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6 'clock in honor ot Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr. Miss [Josephme Roche, Mrs. Blair Bannis- ter, Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Mrs. George Eckels, and Mrs. Basil Manly will be in the receiving line with | Mrs. Morgenthau. 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