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GIRLS TRIAL NEAR INFATHER'S DEATH Virginian, 21, Expects Lib- erty After Confession in “Late-Hour” Case. B the Associated Press. WISE, Va., November 16.—Cheered by encouragement from all parts of the country, Edith Maxwell, 21-year- old school teacher, charged with Kill- ing her father with a shoe when threatened with a spanking for keep- ing late hours, says she expects a jury next week to acquit her of murder charged. The unemotional reticence main- tained for months has faded away in recent weeks as she read in her cell in the Wise County Jail letters from lawyers who would defend her, from ministers and from many others, urg- ing her to be brave, to talk frankly and not to fear her trial, which opens Monday. The domestic tragedy was brought Into the national spotlight when Com- monwealth’s Attorney Fred B. Greear announced July 21 that Miss Maxwell had confessed that she killed her 52- year-old father, Trigg Maxwell, by striking him over the head with the heel of her shoe when he scolded her. This was two days after Trigg Max- ‘well was found dead. Uncle to Defend Her. Nowhere has interest rivaled that in Wise County, and the famous “Pound” section to the North. Miss Maxwell is related to families long prominent in the politics of the county. Her uncle, W. W. Dotson, three times prosecuting attorney of the county, will defend her, with two associates. Residents of the area have read eag- erly the news accounts published by papers, and are resentful of those which have portrayed the community as primitive, hide-bound and isolated from the rest of the world. Good roads, good schools and modern con- veniences and luxuries have largely taken the place of the primitive con- | ditions made famous in tales of the *“Lonsome Pine country.” Miss Maxwell, a graduate of the Teachers' College at East Radford, Va., has been in jail here since her arrest July 21, under care of her uncle, Jailer Jim Dotson. Her mother, Mrs. Anne Maxwell, indicted with her, was | admitted to bond a few days after the | slaying. Stoicism Relaxes Somewhat. ‘Miss Maxwell was permitted to go| to the home of a sister while her fath- | er's body was awaiting burial. She| showed no emotion, even when Sheriff J. P. Adams thought it advisable to | return her hurriedly to jail from | Pound, where she had gone to attend | the funeral. She seemed uninterested, oblivious | to the spotlight of national attention | beating on her. For months her stoi- cism was maintained, but in recent weeks she has grown more cheerful, has discussed the encouraging letters and has expressed confidence that a | “fair trial” will set her free. A self-defense plea is expected when the trial is called Monday. In addition to her uncle, well known to Wise County courts, her attorneys are A. A. Skeen and former State Senator R. P. Bruce. Commonwealth’s At- torney Fred B. Greear will have as assistants to the prosecution O. M. Vicars and Lewis McCormick, both of Wise. Judge H. A. W. Skeen will preside. HOPES FADE FOR FLYER Report of Sighting Kingsford- Smith Plane Discredited. SYDNEY, New South Wales, No- vember 16 (#).—Hopes of finding Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australia | fiyer, which had been spurred by re-| ports his plane was seen flying low over the Siamese coast November 8, waned again tonight. H. F. Broadbent, Australian air- man who beat Kingsford-Smith’s solo flight record from England to Austra- lia, said he believed the airplane was his and not the missing pilot's Lady | of the Southern Cross. | Chain of Dinners To Observe Twain 100th Anniversary Rites Planned in New York, Bermuda, Hono- lulu, San Francisco. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 16.—Mark Twain's birthday party, which has been going on almost a year, is grow- ing into a pretty large affair. = It’s two weeks yet until the 100th anniversary of the humorist’s birth, | but his friends are going to climax the centennial celebration Tuesday night with a chain of dinners half way around the world. Dinners will be held simultaneously in Bermuda, San Francisco, Honolulu and New York, in all of which Twain lived and wrote. They will be linked by an international broadcast. Next week also will see the high peak in exhibitions of Twain manu- scripts, personal effects and other memorabilia. One of the most elaborate of the exhibits—in the Mark Twain room THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.~ William Partridge Has Gathered Her Grotesqueries for Years. Queer shapes fashioned naturally of driftwood by the erosion of water and sand are shown in the collec- tion of William T. Partridge. Left to right: An object suggesting a furred animal leaving the water, a waiter and a hand with crossed fingers. Inset: BY DON BLOCH. ATURE as caricaturist, working in all kinds of what the art crities call “media,” is one of the many things William Partridge knows a lot about. Mr. Partridge is consulting archi- tect for the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission. His office at 1517 H street is replete with grotesqueries, which nature has achieved in tree roots, trunks and branches. There are oafs worked out in oak roots, xiphopagi (Siamese twins) in cypress burls, in fact al- most everything the myth writers imagined. There is no centaur, but Mr. Partridge’s collection rather com- pensates for that by offering a per- fectly wrought horse's head. As if nature were not content to hold to her standard horse pattern, she added one filip more and cupped the horse’s head slightly to make a neat ash tray. The effect of the collection is quite An elephant’s head. startling. If you came upon it in the dark, you might wish you were somewhere else. The gathering of such curiosa is | just a hobby with Mr. Partridge now. | Time was when it was a very prac- | tical matter. Mr. Partridge was | teaching in the Columbia School of Architecture in New York then. He found, as so many teachers must, that his pupils needed inspiration; | something to unleash their imagina- | tions. He discovered the answer in | irregular pieces of wood and stone. These forms, he decided, could be | used as suggestions for groups and | individual figures. The students took to the idea very well. Eventually, Mr. Partridge stopped | teaching. But he went right on add- ing to the collection. That part of it which is in his | office includes about 100 items. There | are quite a few “standout” pieces | among them. One which might nave been sup- —Star Staff Photo. pressed if a human artist had tried to exhibit it is a contoried root form which constitutes a perfect reproduc- tion of a pair of human torsos, an Adam and Eve arrangement. There is also a human hand, with its fingers crossed; a slim, delicate branch which reproduces the linear loveliness. of a feeding crane, a swimming trout, and, especialy worthy of mention, & piece which reproduces with perfect fidelity a beaver emerging from a stream. The fur of the animal, to the eye of the beholder, is wet enough to drip were it not of wood. Not a feature of the animal is missing. How has nature wrought these in- teresting grotesqueries? Very simple: A wind blows, the limb of a tree falls into a stream, where the sand and the water get to work on the material offered, and finally ther> comes forth ——well, just what Mr. Partridge has in his office. It 1s more than a little awe-inspir- ing. Robot Charts R_iger Rise Weather Man’s Leg Work Reduced by Accurate Mechanical Device.- BY JOHN L. COONTZ. OVERNMENT weather experts ( don't have to go down to the rivers any more to check on their rise and fall. A tiny river robot, recently invented, now does this for them. All the river fore- caster has to do is to sit tight in his snug Washington office—miles from the fiver—and watch its antics. This human gadget records and transmits electrically river data over miles of country just as records of wind velocity, barometric pressure and temperature have long been trans- mitted to the Weather Bureau by another kind of electrical apparatus. | The new mechanism works as fol- lows: A float in the water, which rises and falls with the river, starts a| motor like those used in electric clocks, | set up at the river bank. This motor | in turn passes the electrical impulses | along over a leased telephone wire to | start a pen moving over tracing paper | at the recording end of the instru- ment in the Weather Bureau station. This graph keeps constantly before the forecaster’s eyes an accurate pic- ture of the rise and fall of the distant river, enabling him to put to some other use the time formerly spent in running back and forth to the river's edge. The new device is now working sat- isfactorily on the banks of the Ohio | River and is making possible more prompt and accurate forecasting of | this river'’s low and high water, one | of the most important “flood tribu- taries” in the country. Replacing the old type of river gauges in use by the Weather Bureau fcr the past 25 or 30 years, the new mechanical type removes ali need for expensive and unsatisfactory tinker- ing with about 200 gauges that have | been buffeted by drifting logs and breaking ice until they are practically two general types—the measuring staff, which comes in various forms and is set up in a variety of ways, and the self-recorder. Today the rise of the principal flood- making streams of the country can be predicted hours, and even days, in advance. Flood forecasters can now calculate precisely when and where a river'’s crest. swollen by rains, will reach and pass the flood stage. Their reports, sent out by wire, radio, tele- phone and printed bulletins, warn cities, towns and farms of the ap- proaching high water in plenty of time to make all necessary precau- tions. However, there are certain types of floods that cannot be foretold—local floods which sometimes follow a sud- den rainstorm and recede so fast that there is no time to receive or send reports. Nor can the Federal fore- casters predict floods caused by in- frequent heavy rains in the South- west. A torrent of water from such a storm may sweep through a canyon that has been dry for years and carry beyond repair. The 650 gauges with which the Weather Bureau watches water stages | at strategic points along rivers throughout the United States are of NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING IS “POINT-OF- SHOPPING” ADVERTISING J@E HIGY ‘INCORPORAT! |'oUR PLUMBER’ PLANS 10 PROCEED Bids Will Be Operfed on Thursday in Spite of Jurisdiction Fight. By the Associated Press. The National Park Service an- nounced today the Public Roads €u—] reau will begin opening bids on Vir- ginia sections of the Shenandoah- Great Smoky Parkway in Roanoke Thursday despite the unsettled ques- tion of law enforcement jurisdiction. A. E. Demaray, associate Park Serv- ice director, said although “jurisdic- tional questions between the State and Federal Governments are still un- settled, and the State has not con- veyed the rights of way, we shall go ahead with the opening of the bids on schedule.” Demaray said steps subsequent to the opening of bids had not been de- cided, pending settlement of the jurisdictional questions. The State has asked that final transfer of Virginia Parkway rights of way be postponed until the Legisla- ture can enact laws reserving to the State jurisdiction over liquor sales and other activity on the Federal parkway. The Park Service is skeptical of the possibility of holding up funds for| parkway construction, because the, $6,000,000 now available is subject to P. W. A. regulations. Under presi- dential order projects financed with P. W. A, funds must be under con- | struction by December 15. Demaray said State Attorney Gen- eral A. P. Staples was in conference with Interior Department counsel yes- terday and their conferences would be continued next week, with the hope that a solution to the problem could be reached. Secretary Ickes expressed confidence this week that “construction would start soon.” e PAINED BY OPERATION, PATIENT SHOOTS DOCTOR NOVEMBER 17, Collection Shows Nature as Caricaturist VlRElNIA PARKWAY By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 16.—An-| gered because an operation had failed | | to relieve his sinus pains, an unem- ployed home relief recipient called Dr. | | Ercole Fiore to his home today and shot him. | The physician, wounded three times |in the neck and chest, was taken to | Mount Sinai Hospital where his condi- tion was described as critical. | | Giuseppe Falzone, 49, was booked on a charge of felonious assault. | —— - off buildings and other belongings before a warning can be issued. The radio is doing much to take the terror out of river floods today. | Broadcasts were particularly helpful during the record-breaking flood last ' 'Spnng of the Republican River in | Kansas, followed by one of the great- | est overflows in the Kansas River | recorded in 40 years of river-flood | checking. | In addition to flood forecasts and warning information on river stages Federal flood forecasts also guide | navigators in setting their schedules | closing their land ditches. "1935—PART OXE. COURT PROGEDURE RULES TAKE FORM Federal Cases to Be Given Uniform Treatment When Approved. By the Associated Press. A uniform code of procedure in| equity and law cases in Federal courts | is being drafted by a committee of lawyers under direction of the Su- preme Court. The code, a sort of “new deal” for Federal courts, is intended to simplify | rules long considered complex because | of the practice of Federal judges of | following the rules of State courts in the States in which the Federal dis- tricts are located. This policy has brought complaints of confusion and conflicting decisions. Two former Attorneys General, Wil- liam D. Mitchell and George W. Wick- ersham, are among the lawyers at work. The group has been meeting several days and may make an an- nouncement early this week. Supreme Court to Approve. The new outline of procedure will not be announced until the Supreme Court has approved it. | Lawyers and court attendants said | there have been no important changes | in the rules since 1911 and 1912. | The court appointed the lawyers last | June to outline “a unified system of general rules for cases in equity and | law in the district courts and the District Supreme Court so as to secure | one form of procedure for both classes of cases.” The lawyers are using a large con- ference room in the new marble palace of justice. Others on Committee. In addition to Mitchell and Wicker- sham, the committee includes Scott M. Loftin, president of the American Bar Association; Wilbur H. Cherry of | the University of Minnesota; Charles | E. Clark, dean of Yale Law School; Robert G. Dodge of Boston; George Donworth, Seattle: Joseph W. Gamble, Des Moines; Monte M. Lemann, New | Orleans: Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard Law School: Warren Olney, jr., San Francisco: Edson R. Sunderland. Uni- versity of Michigan, and Edgar B. Tol- ! man, Chicago. Armistead M. Dobie of the Univer- | sity of Virginia, also a member, was | unable to attend. | Expenses are met from an appropri- ation of Congress. THUGS CHOKE, ROB MAN Peter A. Pynott Loses $65 When Beset by Two Bandits. Two colored men early yesterday | choked Peter A. Pynott, 307 V street northeast, into submission and then robbed him of a billfold containing $65, several valuable papers and keys, he reported to police. | The billifold, minus the money, was later found in an apartment house in the 1900 block of Fourteenth street by Pvt. F, E. Stroman of the second pre- | cinct. A description of the two men was furnished police by Pynott. —— U. S. Films Hit. Heavy income and other taxes have | and dry land farmers in opening and | forced American film distributors from | day at Normandy Farm. Mexico. Nabs High One FRED STONE'S DAUGHTER PLAYS SOFT BALL. PAULA STONE. The actress daughter of Fred Stone is shown reaching for a high one during a practice session of soft ball at the Hollywood studio where she is making a picture. ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. VOCATIONAL GUIDANC ASSOCIATION TO MEET National Youth Administration Official to Outline Program at 8 P.M. Tuesday. The Vocational Guidance Associ- ation of the District of Columbia will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the board room of the National Education Build- ing, Sixteenth and M streets. Richard A. Brown, assistant executive director of the National Youth Administration, will discuss the administration’s pro- gram. —_— ‘Will Discuss Antiques. Miss Genevieve Hendricks will ad- | dress the Washington and Baltimore members of the American Institute of Decorators at a dinner meeting Thurs- She will discuss European antiques. KAUFMANRESIGNS, SAYS RING BROKEN Miss Perkins Declares Alien Fraud Racket Smashed by Prosecutors. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, November 16.—Sam- | uel H. Kaufman tonight announced his resignation as special assistant to the Attorney General in the prose= | cution of naturalization frauds, say- ing he felt he had accomplished the | task se for him. Coincidentally, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced in Washe ington that a racketeering organiza- | tion that had been preying on aliens for years had been broken up. 26 Sent to Prison. Twenty-six of the 47 persons ine dicted, including former Representa- tive Michael J, Hogan, have been sen= tenced to prison, she said. “Now that the so-called ring has | been broken up by so many jail sene tences, Mr. Kaufman feels that his | job has been completed and he is | resigning,” Secretary Perkins added. { Estimating that more than $1,000,- 1000 had been paid to the racketeers for faked naturalization papers by aliens who entered the country fille- gally, she said an investigation was started in 1933 by the Labor Departe ‘ment. Found Papers Altered. | “The investigation, directed by Col. Daniel W. MacCormack, commissioner of immigration and naturalization, re- vealed that records at Ellis Island had been altered, official documents were | missing and files relating to apparent cases of fraud had been stolen,” she said. “These revelations started the in- | vestigators on a trail of bribery, rack- eteering and deception which covered the period from 1924 to 1933. “Sixteen hundred cases of allegedly illegal entry were investigated and more than 400 aliens arrested, many of whom have been deported. Two hundred and fifty cases of fraudulent naturalization have been uncovered and investigated and in 12 cases | naturalization has already been can- | celled.” ‘ Japanese in America. Japanese at present living in Hawaii number 150,832, and those in the United States 146,708, ELECTRICAL REPAIRS 1 Commercial Motors Repairs—Rewinding MILLER-DUDLEY/ ITI6 W44 ST.NW. 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