Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1936, Page 16

VOTERS' MANDATE T0 AID CRIPPLE $14,000 Bond Issue to Help Burned Girl Wins in Ohio. BT the Associated Press. JACKSON, Ohio, November 5—To ¥.year-old Betty McGhee, the tabula- tion of election returns means that she may walk again. Her toddling baby feet led her five years ago into a heap of smoldering ashes left by road workers in the gar- den of her home. The burns left her crippled. Money for Surgery. Township voters approved over- whelmingly a $14,000 bond issue to pay off a court judgment in the little girl's favor and to provide money for surgery that may save her from life as a hopeless cripple. Betty's feet were burned almost off. She was awarded damages years ago, but the township had no money to pay. Finally the bond vote was decided upon as the only way out. Specifically, Ohio’s most odd elec- tion issue is a levy that raises the tax rate on each property owner.in the township approximately one-third of a cent. Father Now Dead. The money, which county officials anticipated little trouble in raising on the bonds, is sorely needed in the| McGhee household. In October, 1935, | Betty's father died. Since then her | mother, on relief, has struggled to| care for the crippled girl and three other small children. Surgeons said that a delay of a THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER §, 1936. Tailor Jailed for Price-Cutting SECURITY AMENDMENT INDORSED BY KANSANS Asks Restoratwn o N A BY the Assoclated Press. few years in treatment would make their efforts useless, but now they have that “mandate from the people” to do their utmost for Betty McGhee. MICHIGAN PRISONER RETURNED FOR TRIAL William Weitlauf Faces Charge of Robibng W. J. Bell of $13,030 in July, 1934. William Wallace Weitlauf, alias ‘Willlam Gohlson, 25, was returned to Washington from Michigan last night to stand trial on a charge of robbing William J. Bell, proprietor of a paperhanging establishment at Seventh and K streets, of $13,030 in July, 1934. Weitlauf was traced to Detroit and arrested. He was on parole from the Michigan State Penitentiary at Jack- son and was returned there to com- plete a 2-to-14-year term for forgery. He was turned over to Detective Sergt. James J. Tolson when he com- pleted his sentence. W. 0. WHITMAN DIES Bervices for Round Hill Business Man Set Tomorrow. #recial Dispatch to The Star. ROUND HILL, Va., November 5.— Funeral services for W. O. Whitman, 86, prominent landowner and business man, who cied at his home, near here, yesterday, will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. Whitman was a native of Taze- well, coming to Loudoun County‘ in 1910. He was twice married. Besides his second wife, who was Miss Earl Robey of Loudoun County, he is survived by 10 children, Mrs R. H. Dildine of Washington State, Mrs. Scott Knox, Bear Poplar, N. C.; Mrs. Clara Thompson, Bluefield, Va.; Mrs. Harrison Monroe, Round Hill; W. J. Whitman, Purcellville, and five children by the second marriage, JERSEY CITY, N. J,, November 5.— Jacob Maged, tailor who went to jail for undercutting N. R. A. prices, tele- graphed to President Roosevelt the hope that he would restore the N. R. A. “Business is bad,” explained the man who charged 35 cents for pressing a suit when the code said he should take 40. “Only the N. R. A. can restore it.” He expressed his hope in a telegram to President Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y., saying: ““My heartiest congratulations. Yours LOQUACIOUS RESIDENT ENDS WATER SUPPLY 60 Families Who Had Been Tap- ping Mains Are Without Free Service. By the Associafed Press. ST. LOUIS, November 5.—Sixty families in unhappy “Happy Hollow” were without water last night because one of the leaders in the south side settlement was too loquacious. George Quinby, 44-year-old elec- trician, made a slip of the tongue in talking to police and disclosed that he and his neighbors had tapped a city main and piped water to nine hydrants shielded by lattice. The Water Depart- ment shut the supply off. Families in the settlement, which is | on railroad property, pay $1 a year | rental fees. A. tailor at Jersey City. I trust thata new N. R. A. will once again become the law for the protection of the little man.” Maged was prosecuted under a State N. R. A. compliance act and was sen- tenced to jail. He spent only two days there, however, before an attoraey got him out. He pasted a picture of Mr. Roosevelt in the window of his home before the election and waged a single-handed campaign for the Presiden Plan Deep-Sea Researches. Scientists of Japan are to make deep- sea researches between Izu Peninsula and Oshima Island, using a tiny sub- marine only 30 feet long, and will try to film marine life 1,000 feet down. 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Hearty outdoor appetites welcome the sense of digestive well-being that smoking Camels encourages. “Herb” says: “Running the rapids .sleeping outdoors... toting canoes and supplies over rough por- tages—that's my life! Anything that goes into the woods with me has to earn its way. Camels more than earn theirs. Believe me, Camels are a swell thing to have on the trail... and a necessity. I've a pleasure lived on one meal 2 day —just dried meat and water at that—and I've dined on the best that the state of Maine of- fers—but no matter what I'm eating, it always Frances, Eleanor, Naomi, Leslie and W. 0, jr.,, at home. Bishop Cannon of Washington and Elder Lefferts of Leesburg will have charge of the funeral services and burial at Ebenezer Cemetery. Young Republican, Listening to Returns, Leaves to End Life By the Assoclated Press. RANDOLPH, Vt.,, November 5. —Dr. Harrison Hayward, health officer, reported yesterday that a young Republic: ., Frank W. 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