Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1936, Page 2

A—2 %% PRESIDENT'S TALK 'AMAZES' KANSAN G.0.P. Legislator Questions | ‘Inference’ Increased Acreage Planned. B the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., July 10.—Repre- sentative Clifford R. Hope issued a statement at Gov. Alf M. Landon’s office today which said that President | Roosevelt had come forward “with the l estounding inference” that increased | wheat and corn acreages were “reliy a part of the administration’s ({arm) plan all along.” Now that the drought “is threaten- ing a scarcity of food and feed crops,” Hope said, the New Deal is “attempt~ ing to get out in front and lead the | parade the other way.” The Kansan, ranking Republican on the House Agficultural Committee, participated yesterday in the luncheon conference just preceding Frank O. Lowden’s assertion that he and the presidential candidate were agreed on a farm program embracing a Federal bounty to encourage soil conservation. For Landon, today’s light schedule | afforded an opportunity for more work on the acceptance speech he will de- | liver July 23. Observers looked to this address for an elaboration of the | terse “that’s right” by which the Re-| publican nominee agreed with Low-} den's assertion that “bounties would have to be paid” for soil conserva- tion practices. i Knox Expected Wednesday. Frank Knox, the vice presidential eandidate, was expected for a visit next Wednesday to discuss campaign plans. A scheduled caller tomorrow was James G. Rogers, former Assis- tant Secretary of State. Hope said that “with some amaze- ment” he had read accounts of Mr. Roosevelt’'s Tuesday press conference “in which he pointed with gratifica- tion to a 10 per cent incresse in the wheat acreage and a corresponding increase in corn planting.” “The President,” Hope said, “gave the impression that these increases were right in line with the adminis- tration's program. This leads to the question: Just what is the adminis- tration’s program? Last Fall it asked the Winter wheat producers to reduce their acreage 5 per cent. Many did 80, but enough others increased their plantings to bring the acreage up nearly 6 per cent above the 1928-1932 base period.” The farm plan outlined by Lowden, former Illinois Governor and one-time candidate for the Republican presi- dential nomination, embraced the payment of bounties through a sys- tem of State administration Gov. Landon’s working schedule was lightened today by termination of a three-day special sessions of the Legislature, which rushed through the Governor's social security recommen- dations, Out of the Senate debate their re- mained in the records today the dec- laration of Senator Joe McDonald, Democrat, that: “The people of this State who go hungry, whose children are not cared for, have a right to invoke the wrath of God upon the one individual who now is causing their suffering. and that individual is the present Gov- ernor of our State, Alf M. Landon.” G. O. P. Leader Replies. Senator Dalles Knapp, Republican floor leader, terming McDonald’s charge “insult on the fair name of Kansas,” had asked McDonald to de- lete it from the Senate Journal, He refused. McDonald, representing Kansas City, Kans, unsuccessfully sought consideration of beer tax legislation during the brief session. Kansas law prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquor and there is no tax on beer, the status of which as an intoxicant de- pends upon individual court interpre- tations. Landon's majority forces defeated | McDonald’s efforts by limiting the session’s activities to the security sub- | Jects. “There is one thing I can say for Alf Landon,” McDonald said in a-final speech. “He has never said that he balanced the budget. The Kansas bal- anced budget is a myth of the news- papers.” Students Help Build Church. Brethren of the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield, England, | have started to erect a modern com- munity church in their grounds. They are being assisted by students of their college. Early Cistercian simplicity is | the keynote of the project, with a | great nave, a sacristy with a rose | window, an aisle and a crypt under | the nave. There also will be galleries and chapels and eventually a tower with a large dome. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Everything Is Compara- tively Quiet on Polit- ical Fronts. SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 10.— On the Republican side there tempo- rarily is a lull, Incredible though it sounds, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., is not getting ready - to run for any- _r thing. At least he 3 wasn't up until 7:30 pm. (New| York standard daylight savings time). Later re- ports may change this. He likes run- ning second. Organizing the speaking bureau for the Demo- crats, Chairman Rayburn does not list amongst the chosen orators the name of his most distinguished fellow Texan. In vaudeville it breeds a laugh when the second half of the sketch makes the wrong answers, but politics is something else again. Can it be that Uncle Jack Garner has be- come the Gracie Allen of his sex? Only they do let Gracie talk! A writer who isn't taking sides won- ders at length whether the homespun, suspender-wearing qualities of Gov. Landon can overbalance the melodious . and limpid lines of President Roose- _yelt. For this problem the appropriate . musical accompaniment would seem "o be “Poet and Peasant.” .. Otherwise, for the moment, all is eomparatively quiet an both the East- ern and Western fronts. | climbed on two stools at an uptown Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. HEADSTONE. RE is a strange tombstone in a little Virginia graveyard along the back road from Wil- liamsburg to Washington, which probably expresses more love end sacrifice than a costly monolith. The graveyard is just a collection of pathetic little mounds, most of them with wooden headboards, and faded flowers. But one mound has no stone at head or foot. Instead in the center of this grave, there is placed the cover of a china vegetable dish, its shiny white surface festooned with painted roses and its handle brave in gilt There is no name. Just this tribute. *x % ¥ ¥ EXPLAINED. A stunning young girl, and a con- siderably less than stunning escort, drug store fountain a couple of cocktail hours ago. “An aspirin and water, please,” said the man. It was served and the escort pushed the glass and the tablet over to the girl. One for you, too?” the clerk, | asked the man. “No,” said the escort, “I'm her | headache. She does not aflect me the same way.” SR DEPRESSION. "l\,lOTHER. where will I be when | the 17-year locusts come again?” | | asked a small Washington boy. V] YEARS, Hut ¢ i “I don't know. my dear,” answered | his mcther. | “Well, I will be 27 years old then.” | | continued the lad. “and I guess I'll| be looking for a job like all the other boys.” * X% ¥ ¥ SMART COPS ‘YHO ever said A glance at the grades made by the graduates of the last police school class shows an average of 90.87 | mer cent, while they had to make only | 70 to pass. The lowest grade made | was 85.18 and the highest 96.16 Out of the last class of 19, 14 quali- | fied as pistol experts and the remain- ‘wx’ng five as sharpshooters. This was | the hignest average ir. marksmeaship | ever made in any police school class | here. The course is easy, say you? | | well, it only includes 72 single spaced | | pages on criminal evidence, study of | the District and United States codes | | for the District, city geography, police | regulations, report writing, first aid, | |athletic training and miscellaneous. | Lieut. Walter H. Thomas is chief | instructor. ‘these dumb cops?“; * ok ¥ x BATHER. | A YOUNGSTER, aged perhaps 3,/ | was cavorting on Ocean City's | beach on the Fourth, with considerable | disdain for the silly people who were getting wet in all that water. v He knew how to conduct himself on a beach. He would proceed with great caution to the very edge of the water, stick a tiny foot out in challenge and then as a wave even started in his direction scamper back up on dry sand. At the end of a long after- | noon of scampering, mother took him | home. He was heard to murmur proudly as he went, “The water hasn't touched ! me yet. mamma!” | * % o* NICE KITTY. The young lady who brought the black kitten home from the grocers in a bag, has had numerous phone calls since the story appeared in this column. Some have called up to inguire if the cat has brought her good or bad luck, names have been sug- gested, and offers of adoption made. The advice she has taken came from a friend, who reminded her that feline nature is variable and inconstant, and that a kitten upon which every benefit has been be- stowed, has been known to walk out on its benefactor. So she has re- turned the cat to the owner. * ok ok % MONUMENT. HAT story which you may have heard about the existence of a sec- ond Washington Monument, which stands in a brick-lined well capped by an iron man-hole in the immediate | vicinity of the world-famous obelisk is entirely without foundation, accord- ing to O. C. Simmons, custodian of the Washington Monument. The tale goes that the 12-foot sunken shaft was the architect's work- ing-model intended to be preserved but through error had been erected below the grade-line indicated in the plans and therefore necessitated the building of the brick well to protect it from the 40-foot filling. Says Mr. Simmons: “Actually, this 12-foot sunken shaft is an engineer’s bench-mark—scientifically erected for use as a constant-point from which to take accurate measurements by the surveyor’s transit. This smaller obe- lisk, which resembles the Washington Monument in design, is to be found beneath the man-hole cap of the brick-lined well within a short dis- tance from the base of the monument. It is located on the south side of the | District of Columbia curfew. | valor of enlisted men in the Conti- | nental Army, will conduct a pilgrimage | | The National Park Service, which has THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, VIRGINIA DRINKERS 10 HEAR CURFEW A. B.-C. Board Will Prohibit Early-Morning Sale of Wine and Beer. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va. July 10.—The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, under powers granted it by the last General Assembly, today is- sued curfew regulations forbidding the sale of wine and beer between 2 am. and 5 am. in the Summer, and 1 am. and 5 am. in the Winter, and after midnight Saturday. The regulations, which will become effective July 20, will affect 5,500 re- tail licensees, not all of whom, how- ever, are in the custom of running all-night places. The Summer hours will be in effect from May 15 to September 15, and the restricted Winter hours will apply the eight other months of the year. Stops Migratory Tipplers. The regulations, almed at migratory | tipplers who drink from place to place in the early morning hours, also for- bid the consumption of beer in public places after the curfew hours. They do not affect home consumption of beer and wine, other than that the purchase of it must not be made within the curfew hours, i The board said licensees would be | held responsible for seeing that their | tables were cleared of all alcoholic | beverages when the curfew hour ar- rived. | The extra Summer hour was added | in deference to vacationists and the | general population, which usually | keeps later hours in Summer than in| Winter. The regulations will not affect the 1 am. curfew already decreed in! Portsmouth and Norfolk, nor will they | affect Alexandria and Arlington | County until the closing hour there is | moved back in September. Alexan- = | dria and Arlington licensees now halt ' sales at 2 am, to coincide with the Local Authority. The board sala 1t felt that. in is- suing the regulations, it was giv-| ing local authorities full power to cope with local s ons in regard | to night “nuisances.” Such regula- | tions could not be issued until the | board was given authority by the As- sembly to control 3.2 per cent beer, as well as beer of higher potency. No regulations were issued to halt | the sale of beer and wine on Sun- | days, it was said, because the State board did not feel that its control of licenses governed that point. Any action on the part of a community to stop beer and wine sales on Sun- | day would have to be taken through the general “blue” laws, it was said. Board members said they could not take away what they could not give— the right to sell beer and wine on | Sunday. The decision in that matter would rest upon local constructions | of the law as to “work of necessity.” The early-morning prohibition will hit night clubs, all-night restaurants and beer gardens the hardest. PURPLE HEART UNIT PLANS PILGRIMAGE Local Chapters to Conduct Trip to Wakefield on Sunday. The order of the Purple Heart, founded by George Washington more than 150 years ago to reward the Sunday to Wakefleld, Va., Washing- ton’s birthplace. The two local chapters, Wakefield | and Mount Vernon, numbering about 60 members, will make up the party. charge of Wakefield as a national | monument park, will be represented by Francis Watson. Watson was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds | and gallantry in action in Belleau Woods, France, In 1932, the War Department re- vived the Order of the Purple Heart in honor of the bicentennial of Washing- ton’s birth. It was founded by Gen, Washington at Newburg, N. Y. on August 7. 1782, and there are only three known records of awards to | Revolutionary soldiers. The revised organization today has 50 chapters and is Nation-wide, G. LOGAN PAYNE, 60 ONCE D. C. MAN, DIES Former Publisher of Times and Founder of Advertising Firm Expires in California. BY the Associated Press. Logan Payne, 60, owner-publisher of the San Jose News, died today at his Los Gatos home. Payne was a native of Washington, Towa. He purchased the San Jose News in 1927 from H. L. Baggerly. Prior to that time he was publisher of the Washington (D. C.) Times, and was founder of the G. Logan Payne Co., an Eastern newspaper advertising representative firm. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Payne, and two sons, Robert, circulation manager of the S8an Joes News, and George H. Pawne, assistant 1 publisher, g The |are kinsmen MRS. OWEN'S CASE PUZZLES OFFICIALS “Promotion” to Some Other Country After Marriage Seen Likely. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The approaching marriage of the first women to be appointed to a diplo- matic post is causing a furore in the State Department, although it has been announced that it rests with the President and with Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen herself whether she will continue to serve as American Min- ister to Denmark after her marriage to Boerge Rhode, captain of the body- guard of King Chrisian of Denmark and honorary gentleman groom to the monarch. The opinion is expressed that, in view of her coming back to the United States to help campaign for the re- election of President Roosevelt, she is likely to be rewarded by a “promo- tion” to some other post where her marital relations would not conflict with time-honored State ment policies. The flurry among veterans in the State Department over the approach- ing marriage of the dayghter of the late William Jennings Bryan is akin to that stirred up by “The Great Commoner” himsel! when, as Secre- tary of State in the Wilson cabinet, he undertook to inject more democ- racy into his portfolio. There is some- thing in the Bryan blood that stirs up controversy and creates ‘situa- tions.” Officials Hold Silence. Veterans of the State Department, who, year in and year®out, adhere to precedents religiously, are silent on the prospective marriage. Neverthe- less they admit a new situation con- fronts them that may force them to abandon many policies in the depart- ment that have come to be unwritten law as to personnnel While ambassadors and ministers, of which there are some 45 represent- |ing the United States abroad, are nominated by the President, the Sen- | ate has the prerogative. under the Constitution, of confirmation. Few instances have arisen in which an envoy te a foreign government, se- lected by the President, has been re- Jected by the Senate, owing to the extreme care exercised in making a choice. Even before the name of an envoy is sent to the Senate for con- firmation, the State Department sub- mits the name of the person to the | foreign power with a biographical | Sketch, to ascertain if the person will be persona grata. Records But before this process the pros- pective envoy's record is closely checked as a rule as to his family connections, at home and abroad. to ascertain if he or she is free of for- eign contacts as to family or property that might cause embarrassment. In this connection, the State Depart- ment has been especially careful in ascertaining whether person sent to a country has relatives there who of people in political especially whether they amined. life, and themselves, their friends or relatives, | own property with which the ap- pointee might have to deal in pro- tecting American interests. Many instances have been known {in which young consuls and diplo- matic secretaries have married abroad, but it is well kown that they have paid for this by being shifted as far | away from the wife’s native land as possible. Instances of an ambassador or minister marrying a native of a coun- try to which he has been assigned are rare, and in this respect Mrs, Owen has set as decided a prece- dent as she did in obtaining her ap- pointment to Copenhagen. It is admitted, however, at the State Department. that Mrs. Owen's case is without parallel in the diplo- matic history of any country. In her case, she is to wed one of the King's official household, tively speaking, and the question naturally arises—does Mrs. Owen be- come & member of Capt. Rhode's household and in effect that of the King, or does Capt. Rhode become & member of that ~f the Minister? The obvious and easlest solution is to give Mrs. Owen some sort of a “promotion” to some other country— if she is to be retained in the dip- lomatic service. MOTORISTS WARNED TO WATCH CHILDREN Rules to Guide Drivers Passing School Grounds Issued by Motor Club. Five rules for guidance of motorists while passing school grounds, many of which are used as playgrounds dur- ing the Summer, were issued today by the District Motor Club of the Amer- ican Automobile Association. Motorists were urged fo have their cars under complete control when approaching children; never to pass a school at a fast rate of speed; to use their horns when seeing children about to cross the street, never to as- sume that a child will stop, and to as- sume that every child on the street is looking to the motorist for protection. During the months when schools are in session safety patrols are pres- ent to protect the children, but dur- ing the Summer the patrols are not on duty and special precaution must be taken by the car owners to avoid accidents, officials of the club ex- plained. National Scene BY ALICE LONGWORTH HE Omaha World-Herald, turning from a half century’s mili- tant support of the Democratic party to fight for the can- didacy of Gov. Landon, is one of the severest of the many blows the New Deal has felt since its most stal- wart friends began going over to the opposition. It was from the editorial page of the World- Herald that William Jennings Bryan went to the Chicago convention to make his famous cross- circle about 10 feet over in the grass.” BACKED FOR GOVERNOR MILWAUKEE, July 10 (#).—The Republican State Convention yester- day selected Alexander Wiley, Chip- pewa Falls attorney, as its indorsed candidate for Governor. Wiley won on the second ballot after he and Julius P. Heil, Milwaukee manufaec- (CBPyright. 1936 by the North Americas 2 *Newipaper Alliance, 1) turer, ran a close race in the first ballot with neither getting s majority, A of-gold speech. In a recent editorial, the Omahs paper deplores Mr. Roosevelt’s war upon the existing economic order. “This newspaper believes the Amer- declaration: * It makes the emphatic ican system is not so desperately sick that it is necessary to replace it with an order alien to our traditions.” As the weeks go by there will be a great rallying of those who still believe that the American system is better than any other that has yet been devised, (Copyright. 1936.) Depart- | figura- | Why It’s Hot and Dry Everywhere This Week 1Cnnnnu:d From First Page.) a great, wide, deep mass of heavy air flowing almost continuously from the Atlantic over the Gulf of Mexico and parts of Mexico, turning northward over New Mexico, Arizona and Central California, and then eastward over the mountain States and the grain belt. Some of it may originally have swept around from the Arctic. A good deal of it actually has passed over parts of equatorial Africa before turning westward across the Atlantic. | It is heated when passing across | the tropical seas and the gulf. It | gets hotter and hotter as it passes over hot arid Northern Mexico and | the Southwestern Desert. It is a| | vicious circle. The longer the tropical air stream travels unobstructed over- land the hotter it gets. That is how temperatures in Northern Mon- | tana may be higher than on the Mex- ican border. If there was an unob- structed flow of this clock-wise cir- cling tropical air current it would be hot in the Western and Central United States all the time. and it would get Ihotur as the Summer progressed. | Here is where the broken-off chunks of the North Pacific high enter the picture. They flow over the Cascades and over the Rockies. The tropical air, on the northward turn of its clockwise path, bumps into one of them. The only way it can get by is to climb over. It hasto go up 2or 3 miles, where it 18 cooled. The mois- ture is squeezed out of it and comes down as rain. The lower air is cooled. | The coolness extends far over the Central States. This is the procedure, | generally speaking, by which the great plains and corn beit States get their rain. It shows conclusively, | Weather Bureau experts say, how lit- tle the actual moisture in the soil of | any particular locality has to do with | its precipitation, aside from local | showers. When the Midwest gets| rain, it is likely, the water will )uvc( come originally from the Atlantic | Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. Not Breaking Off. | Now this Summer—and also in 1930 | |and 1934—the eastward floating | | chunks haven't been breaking off the | | North Pacific high. There has been |a big low-pressure area wedged be- | | tween it and the North Pacific coast, | holding it together and pushing it | !mumwnrd, The North Pacific highs | have been coming over only at the rate of two or three a month when | there should have been five or six. It is a matter of interest that the average Summer temperature of West- | | ern Arizona is about 100. It doesn't | vary much from day to day. The| | country stays baked all Summer long, | even when much cooler weather is en- | joyed a few hundred miles or so to the northward. This is simply because { the northward flowing hot air, fur- ther heated above the oven of | Northern Mexico, always passes across Western Arizona without bumping into any of the cooler chunks of air from the North Pacific. Hence this part of the country is always dry and hot in Summer. It would be the same throughout the whole West if, a little Farther North, the cold air masses did not normally enter the picture. The above is an outline of the funda- mental situation, but considerably simplified. All sorts of complicating factors are entering the picture from times to time—notably weaker masses of cold, wet air coming down east of the Rockies from the Arctic. At first the East did not feel the effects of the Western heat wave because there was a cold air flow over Hudson Bay com- ing down over the St. Lawrence Valley and the Eastern Great Lakes region. It was holding back the east- ward flow of the hot air over the West- ern mountains and plains. Thursday this had practically disappeared. There was nothing in the way any more. The hot air, some of which may originally have started over the jungles of Nigeria or the Sahara Desert, came pouring across the Ap- palachians, all the time getting hotter. As a result the Atlantic seaboard | sweltered. | Shorter in the East. Heat waves don't last so long in the | East, however. There is always the complicating factor of maasses of cold air coming down from the North At- lantic or Hudson Bay to break up the uninterrupted, clockwise flow of the tropical maritime air and bring rain and cool weather. The West has only the broken off chunks of the North Pacific high to rely upon, with the occasional masses of cooler air com- ing down over Western Canada. The behavior of this North Pacific high is tantalizing to Government mental cause of the heat ware.q. . . | Cool Air ' meteorologists. If its behavior could be predicted, the problem of weather forecasts for the great grain belt of the United States would be greatly simplified. Mire Yields Antique. SUPERIOR, Wis. (#).—Frank Meyer wasn't happy when his automobile became mired in the red clay along the Nemadfi River. He was later, though. He got a shovel and started to dig out. The shovel struck some- thing metallic. Out of the clay he pulled a chain. He took it to & jewel- er whe sald it was antique, made of gold and of s typs worn in the seventeenth century, A FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936. MILLER WI'™. NOT APPEAL VERDICT Conviction in Threat Case Is First Here Under Lind- bergh Law. d| No appeal will be taken from the guilty verdict returned late yesterday | by a District Court jury in the trial | of Jesse J. Miller, 22-year-old hearded | Thurmont, Md., man, who was the | first person convicted here under the | so-cailed Lindbergh law, his attorney, | Fred J. Icenhower, said today. The jury of three women and nine men deliberated only five minutes, an unusually short time for a case in- volving so serious an offense. Miller was charged with sending an extortion note to Mrs. Stephen McK | Farrand, wife of a Justice Department | attorney, threatening to kill their young son. Sentence ‘probably will be imposed | Monday. The maximum penalty is four to 20 years imprisonment and 1| 5.000 ane. The stagnation of the semi-permanent high pressure area shown over the Pacific, with con- sequent failure to block the path of the tropical air stream—shown by the arrows—is the funda- President Favors Restoration of 5 Naval Vessels Constitution Is One That Would Be Berthed Here as Shrines. #Y the Associated Press. President Roosevelt has recommend- ed that five naval vessels having “his- torical and patriotic tradition” be restored in so far as practical and berthed together here as national shrines. The suggestion appeared today in a letter written by the President (o Representative Cochran. Democrat, of Missouri, which the Missourian insert- ed in the Congressional Record In his letter, the President said he had given the matter considerable thought and had “come to the conclu- sion that the Constitution, Constella- tion. Hartford. Olvmpia and America should be restored. in so far as prac- tical, to their original condition and berthed together in the District * * * and maintained as historical navai relics for the inspection and inspira- | tion of all the people of the United States who wish to visit such vessels.” He suggested that “such work and expense be spread over a period of four years,” and added that “it is difficult to select any one of these vessels as having a better claim to preferential treatment than the others.” Join World Labor Unit. MEXICO CITY, Julv 10 (& —The Confederation of Workers of Mexico. this country’s largest labor organiza- tion, announced last night it had affiliated with the International Svn- dical Federation, which has head- quarters at Amsterdam, effective yes: terday. MADNESS BLAMED 1N DEATHS OF NINE |Heat, Jealousy Held Causes i of Insane Slaying That Wipes Qut Family. Ey the Associated Press INDIANA HARBOR. Ind., July .10. —A sudden flurry of madness. caused, police said. jealousy. ill health and the excessive heat, caused Celestino P. Gonzalez, 36, to kill his wife. his six children and a roomer and then uicide here vesterday. ard today for a for- e Lake County deaths and for the burial of the victims Gonzalez. a Mexican, Killed Aro, the roomer. at the Inland Steel Co. and then comn sui- cide. When police went to the Gon- zalez home they found the wife and the six children dead—their skulls open by an ax Mrs. Gonzalez was 33 vears old. The children were: Juana. 16: Elena, 15 Genaro. 12: Celestino, jr, 11; Philip, 8. and Jose. 7 They apparently had been killed as they &lept early yesterday morning. The bodies were found on pallets on the floor which they had fixed in an |effort to find relief from the extreme | heat. | A neighbor said she heard a bov's scream shortly before 7 o'clock yes forgot it when S cor= Jose Police said Gonzalez had been in ill health recently and apparently had become jealous of Aro. Aro was killed in the locker room at the steel plant where he worked. Who’s Who at the Zoo Danger, Bengal Tiger, Left Jungle With Whiskers Intact. Danger, the bewhiskered g ments are highly prized back i BY W. H. SHIPPEN, JR. HO would pull a tiger's ‘whiskers? v V Especially those of a great bengal like Danger, one of the Zoo’s finest. Yet the natives of the East Indies would face almost anything (except the rightful owner) for a set of tiger's whiskers. ; They are supposed to ward off evil in a land where misfortune strikes swiftly. The brown men of the deep, equatorial jungles are superstitious about a beast which sometimes holds the power of life and death over & whole village. Inexperienced white hunters are apt to find their finest pelts bereft of whiskers in a mysterious manner, They vanish like the hairs of an ele- phant’s tail, to which African natives attribute supernatural power. Nevertheless, Danger left Sumatra in 1932 with his whiskers intact. Or perhaps they hadn't grown then, since he was only 18 months old. Danger, the great bengal, is one of the biggest and most highly-devel- oped types of the cat family. % His ancestors are native to India and certain islands of the East In-| dies. Other types range ai far north A . reat Bengal, whose facial orna- n Sumatra and the East Indies. —Star Staff Photq. as Siberia. Tigers inhabit Southern Siberia, Persia, Java, parts of China and Japan. In India alone the tiger is said to kill for meat at least 600 natives yearly. The taste of human flesh spoils a tiger for other diets, and he often takes up his abode in some swamp near a village almost helpless against his forays. He also levies heavy tribute on herds of cattle and pigs. The tiger is a good swimmer, and usually prefers the vegetation-grown banks of a stream as a hunting ground, although he is found on grassy plains and sometimes in deep &orests. He often ambushes his prey from hiding beside a watering place. N In addition to the big bengal, the Zoo has other tigers, two of which came from Siberia. The Siberian variety has long, soft fur of a lighter color than his more gorgeously-marked fellows of the tropics. Even old Zoo fans are sometimes surprised to learn that tigers live in sub-Artic climates of ice and snow. Tomorrow: Bungo, the hippo’ with a mouth like a cellar door, who once dined on a whole nest of Easter eggs. 4 $ Unmoved at Verdict. Miller, who sat through the day- long trial without change of expres- sion. received the verdict unmoved. His attorney had staked his hope ot saving the youth from prison on an | insanity defense, which was contra- | dicted. however, by a Government | psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph L. Gilbert of | Gallinger Hospital, who described Mii- ler as “middle or high grade moron but able to distinguish right from wrong. He said the defendant was feeble- minded and of an unstable disposi- tion, belonging to that class known as ‘“defective delinquents.”” At boinh times he examined Miller in the Dis- trict Jail, the defendant apparently feigned insanity, Dr. Gilbert decla explaining that Miller refused to tell him anything about either himself or his family. Members of Family Testify. Only members of Miller's fam: were put on the witness stand to suo- stantiate the insanity claim. Orville Miller, his brother, said Jesse had wandered over the country for a num- ber of years. His mother. Mrs. Elia Miller, testified that the boy “didn act altogether right” and would “laugh sort of silly” when he was cor- rected. Asked where Jesse's home was, hi unt, Mrs. Rosie Miller, respondes ‘Any place in the bushes.” 8She ex- plained that he lived in the woods never worked” and refused to asso- ciate with other young people. Letter Received July 8. The letter written by Miller to Mrs Farrand was received by her June 3 at her Chevy Chase residence, 3011 | Gates road. She immediately turned it over to the Department of Justice, It directed that she send $5,000 to Orville Miller at Blue Mountain, Md Orville was questioned by Justice Department agents, who exonerated him of any complicity in the plot. In his argument to the jury, Icen- nower made much of the fact that | Jesse gave his brother’s correct name | and address. This. he said, was no: | the action of a sane man. MRS. ELLA DONOGHUE . DIES IN MARYLAND | Was Active in Charity Work. l Funeral to Be Held Here | Tomorrow. | Mrs. Ella M. Donoghue, 70, life- long resident of Washington and ai one time active in Catholic charty work, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Julia M. Tyrrell 6504 Ridgewood avenue, Chevy Chase, Md , where she had been living for sev- eral years. She suffered a heart attack. Mrs. Donoghue, who was educated in the public and parochial schools here was the widow of Thomas A. Donoghue. When younger she had been very ac- tive in religious organizations, being 2 life member of the Jesuit Mother Guild. a member of the Sanctuary o! St. Aloysius’ Church, the Women" Catholic Order of Foresters and th Blessed Virgin Sodality of St. Aloysius Church. Mrs. Donoghue was the mother of Rev. Thomas A. Donoghue of St. Igna- tius’ Church, New York City; Dr. Johr Donoghue, Washington dentist; Harr: J. Donoghue. president of the Wash- ington Industrial Loan Co. and Cla:- !ence F. Donoghue of the General Ac- counting Office. Her funeral will begin at 9:3¢ am tomorrow from her home at 1 Nev York avenue, where she lived prior 1« | moving with her daughter, and go t« St Aloysius’ Church, where requien |mass will be said at 10 am. Buria | will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. BUS ROUTE SHIFT ORDERED STUDIEE Removing Eastbound Vehicle: From Monroe Proposed at Hearing. Continuing the investigation of th: bus line on Monroe street northeast the Public Utilities Commission ha: ordered Fred A. Sager, chief engineer ! to check the paving and trafic or | Kearney and Lawrence streets, sug | gested as possible alternative route: | for eastbound busses. | No official action has been taken bt | the commission on the petition of Monroe street residents to remove ont of two routes. The petitioners askec that the eastbound busses be left or Monroe and that the westbound be removed, but it was learned that & | new eastbound route is under con- sideration. | Conrad H. Blanz, 2012 Monroe stree! | northeast, who appeared as a witness | suggested that Kearney street coulc | be used from Twelfth to Seventeenth | street, Seventeenth to Lawrence street and over that thoroughfare to Twenty- second and the present terminal, al Quincy street. Other alternative routes suggested were Otis and Newton streets, but resi- dents of Newton called on People's Counsel Willlam A. Roberts to repre- sent them in objecting to the bus line there. Their chief argument was thal & bus line would endanger children at the John Burroughs School and play- ground. They presented a petitior from 78 property owners. James L. Martin, executive secre- tary of the commission, said that s decision is to be made “soon,” but thal all action will be deferred until Sage! can complete his investigation anc submit a report. [