Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1936, Page 20

B—2 x* MINNESOTA SEES SANTA CLAUS FIRST Penasse, Northernmost Point in U. S., Waits Arrival of Famed Visitor. By the Associated Press. PENASSE, Minn., November 28— Apple-cheeked fledglings in this iso- lated fisherman's hamlet enjoy a rare holiday privilege. Santa Clause makes his first visit in the United States at the northernmost settlement of Penasse. The children of Penasse think of Christmas with a special glow and excitement. Their homes are sepa- rated from the Minnesota mainland by 45 miles of wilderness and the icebound Lake of the Woods. Penasse huddles in the northernmost corner of the Northwest angle. Save for Uncle Sam's mail plane, the children will tell you, St. Nicholas is the only outsider who comes their ‘way all Winter. The plane, on skiis, flies over the region a couple of times & month, weather permitting. Each evening until the precious holiday the tiny circle of huts in the eolony will be radiant with many a fireside grouping of youngsters and their elders, the brave mothers and the hard-bitten, gruff-spoken men- folk returned from a whacking day of scrap logging. ‘The parents will tell in accents which but ill conceal their gladness why the boys and girls of Penasse are so favored. The children will hear how on Christmas Eve, the fresh snow flash- ing millions of diamond points on the pines and the quiet of a Winter light holding awesome sway, a twinkling of bells and the sharp crack of leather suddenly break the stillness. Nor will the wise parents neglect to relate how essential the sleep of his little ones is to Santa's appear- ance, And so the jolly hero of children everywhere, the supreme grandfather with gifts galore, will greet the States first at Penasse, depositing presents for all. Blocks and dolls and toys that spin and move if you wind them will work their magic among the young in this outpost inhabited by only 25 courageous persons. MAMMALS TOPIC OF V. H. CAHALANE Tllustrated Lecture on Animals That Live in National Parks to Be Given Wednesday. Victor H. Cahalane, acting chief of the Wildlife Division of the National Park Service, will give an illustrated lecture on “Little-known Mammals of Our National. Parks” at 8 pm. ‘Wednesday in the connecting wing auditorium be- tween the Labor and Interstate Commerce Com- 7 mission Buildings. | Animals that Hve deep within the woods, on the grasslands or un- der the ground of the national pa will be brought out of their hid- ing places in the pictures accompanying the lecture. ‘The speaker will delve into the pri- vate lives of such animals as the wily red fox, mammals with pockets, curi- ous creatures such as kangaroo rats and pocket gophers and porcupines. Joining the parade will be the tini- est animal of North America, the Jong-nosed shrew, as well as buffaloes, W. H. Calah elk, wild dogs, mountain sheep, coug- | ars, wolves and coyotes. MAN HELD AFTER WIFE GETS POISONED CAKE | Pennsylvania Shoemaker Accused of Bending Deadly Gift to Estranged Mate. BY the Associated Press. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., November 28.— Charges of “attempt with intent to kill” his estranged wife with a Thanksgiving day cake containing enough poison to end 30 lives were filed this afternoon against Philip Patti, 40-year-old shoemaker of Du- bois, Pa. The district attorney's office thumbed law books back to an act of 1860 to find the charge, then added another of ‘“administering drugs through food with intent to commit s felony,” a crime under an act of 1901, ‘The cake, its frosting smeared with poison powder, was delivered to the Leonardo La Porte home here Thurs- day by a uniformed messenger. Recent threatening letters received by Mrs. Pauline La Porte Patti, who left her husband last May and re- turned to her parents, caused the family to have the cake tested. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Sure, There’s a Santa there really a Santa Claus?” a letter. at Marshall, Mo., and is a part- Santa Claus (that's really his name) is busy these days writing letters to children who ask the age-old question: “Is Claus, who works in a junk yard time preacher, is shown mailing —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. BY PHILIP H. LOVE. A homeless girl of about 9. found crawling through one of last Winter's heaviest snows with her feet so badly as a certainty, is learning to walk again in Children's Hospital, where | & plastic surgeon is reconstructing the aflicted members with skin taken from her own back. | The child, colored, and of unknown | parentage, was discovered by a colored family in Prince Georges County, Md. Her shoeless feet were wrapped in soiled bandages, and, according to members of the family who took her in, she had been “living like a stray dog or cat’—wandering around the ‘noxghborhnod, eating whatever and wherever she could. Reported at Marlboro. Unable to ascertain her identity, the family reported the case to Prince Gegrges County social workers at | Upper Marlboro, who, in turn, took her to Children's. “Her feet were 80 badly frozen,” |a hospital physician said yesterday, “that we held no hope of saving them. Gangrene already had set in, |and parts of the members were as | good as gone.” | The hospital's plastic surgeon, how- |ever, felt that he might be able to | save thé girl's feet through a series of skin-grafting operations. | Dorothy Duckett—that's the name under which she is registered—has frozen that amputation was regarded | Waif Found With Frozen Feet Is Learning to Walk Again Children’s Hospital Patient, Identity Never Learned, Saved From Loss of Limbs by Operations. undergone five operations since last admitted as a patient, and, in all probability, will have to undergo a few more. “It'll be worth it, though,” she | said, “if I can get to walk real good, like other people.” That Dorothy eventually will be |able to walk satisfactorily there is | little doubt. Already, she can hobble around her bed, despite the fact that reconstruction of her feet has not been completed. Walking Exercise Restricted. “Our big problem.” said a hospital doctor, “is not whether she'll be able to walk, but how to keep her from walking too much now, when she shouldn't.” Each of the operations performed. thus far has been merely a step in the process of grafting skin from her | back onto her feet. Now that her feet are in a condition approximating the normal, she will be given physiother- apy treatments to stimulate circula- tion and strengthen the muscles. Later operations will be confined largely to putting “finishing touches” to the re- construction work. Meanwhile, Dorothy is taking hoe- pital life cheerfully. Yesterday, when she was permitted to demonstrate her new feet to a visiting surgeon by walk- :1( around her bed, she chirped hap- y: “My doctor’s lettin’ me walk! My doctor’s lettin’ me walk!" [PEACHER APPEALS SLAVERY CONVICTION Arkansan Plans No Fight, How- ever, if He Can Raise ® $3,500 Fine. BY the Associated Press. JONESBORO, Ark., November 28— icuy Marshal Paul D. Peacher of Earle, Ark, filed a notice of appeal today from a Federal Court eonvic- tion of subjecting seven colored men to slavery. N. F. Lamb, chief of defense coun- sel, explained the action only was & carried out if Peacher is able to raise a $3,500 fine assessed against him. Federal Judge John E. Martineau also sentenced Peacher to two years’ imprisonment on seven counts of an indictment accusing him of violating an 1866 anti-slavery statute. A District Court jury which con- | victed Peacher last Wednesday recom- | mended clemency. Judge Martineau 1 said he would place him on probation | if the fine is paid. 30 in Vienna “Red” Net. VIENNA, November 28 (#).~-Thirty alleged Communists and railroad workers were arrested at Gras today and were suspected of importing Com- munist literature from Yugoslavia, authorities said. The officials sald they believed they were on the trail of a widespread organization among railroaders. formality and the appeal may not be | Hitch-Hikes Far To Face Minor Traffic Charge Motorist Lands in Jail After Trip to Crash Scene. By the Associated Press. MONTICELLO, N. Y., November 28. —An uneasy conscience impelled An- drew Bitting, 38, of Beatrice, Nebr, to hitch-hike half way across the coun- try to face a minor traffic charge. ‘As a result he was lodged in the Sullivan County Jail today to serve & five-day term. Bitting’s coupe was involved in a collision with a bus in Liberty, N. Y., on August 29. His coupe was the only | casualty and Bitting went home as | fast as he could without it. | Once there he began to worry and | finally set out to thumb his way back | to Sullivan County, where he sur- rendered to State Trooper W. M. Leins. The surprised trooper took him be= fore Judge Fred Sprague; who fined | him $10 on charges of leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a license. Unable to pay the fine, Bitting was sent to jail. | Genflemen in Anglo-Saxon days brought their own knives with them to table. Cleveland Has Record Fall ‘The heaviest November snow on record at Cleveland le‘t these mercury dropped to 18 above, The snow measured 11.7 inci ’ ) ASs rked-cars heaped high. The p:cmriam, A. P. Wirephoto, A NINE YOUTHS WAIT CHAIR IN SING SING Death House Like School Dormitory With 23 Occupants. B the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y., November 28.— There are more young men in the Sing Sing death house tonight than will be in a small town high school graduating class next June. Twenty-three men are there, nine of them under 21. Each took human life. Each, in the regular order of things, must die. The death house, once considered a lonely place apart, has come with the Christmas season to be almost & dormitory. When James Sullivan came to the prison this week he found the eight others who, like himself, are still too young to vote—though old enough to kill and to be killed. Boy Murdered Merchant. Sullivan is 17, & school boy who buldgeoned a merchant to death for the paltry $9 that was in the till. At school in New York the kids NOVEMBER 29, 1§36—PART ONE. Sentenced to 199 Years called him “little Dillinger.” He was tough. A rowdy and a ruffian, there | was something of incongruity in the | cry that poured from the lips of ui woman who stood at the prison gates | as they led him in. sl “He is only & child,” the woman | cried. That was his mother, They've set January 7 for the ex- ecution. He won't be alone. Young | Wentworth Springer goes out that | night, too. He murdered a storekeep- | er, like “young Dillinger” did, and he’s only 17. Others Under 20. Springer, Lawrence Jackson and | Robert Taliaferro, were together in the storekeeper's murder. Jackson has just turned 18. Taliaferro is only & year older. Of the five other “under-age” ocon- demned men, two killed a bank pres- | ident during & holdup and the others Frank Tallach, 17 (left), and Louis Miller, 18, shown in their cell in Chicago after being sentenced to 199 years each for mur- dering an intended hold-up victim last September. They killed Martin Damanskas, 42, when he caught them trying to break into his garage, and later, the same night, wounded another man when he resisted. —Wide World Photo. SARGA MUST QuIT ‘ALL THIS SHOOTING’ Budapest Police Warning Is Lat- est Complication for Duel- ing Doctor. BY the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, November 28.—Dr. CENTENNIAL TO END | 8,400,000 Attend Attractions to Reopen in June. DALLAS, November 28 (#).—The 1936 edition of the Texas Centennial ends tomorrow night. Exposition gates will be closed until June 12 on amusement and educa- tional attractions, which in six months lured nearly 6,400,000 visitors. BENEFITS ONSUGAR OUTSIDE.3.HEAVY More Than Half $80,850,- 000 Paid by A. A. A. Goes to Island Interests. BY the Associated Press. A survey of Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration expenditures showed yesterday that more than half of the $80,850,000 Government bene- fit payments for sugar crop control has gone to sugar cane growers in the Philippines, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Cane producers in the off-shore areas received $40,783,298, or 50.4 per cent of the benefits paid by the A. A, A. since the progr: began three and one-half years sgo. Domestic sugar crop growers re- celved the remainder, a little more than 36 per cent of the total going to sugar beet growers in 20 pro- ducing States and 13.5 per cent to Bouthern sugar cane growers in seven States. $29,158,469 in Beet Benefits. Beet growers received $29,158,469 in benefits and domestic cane grow- ers, $10,910,545. The records were based on pay-| ments from the start of the sugar control program on May 12, 1933, through September 30 this year. Those payments represented all but a neg- ligible portion of the sugar crop pay- ments under the old A. A. A. pro- gram. Only a comparatively few su- gar contracts remain to be settled. The survey did not show the num- ber of separate growers participat- ing in the sugar program. Philippine cane producers received $15359,533 in benefits, by far the largest allotment, domestic or off- shore, for any particular growing area. Hawailan growers received $13,- 323,861 and the Puerto Rican pro- ducers $132,099,904. Louisiana sugsr cane sections were paid the largest domestic benefits for any one State, $9,463418. March 13, the day on which she was | Franz Sarga of the “me against nine” | dueling saga today ran afoul of | police, who warned him to “quit all | this shooting around where stray bul- { lets might hit some one.” were convicted of homicides which had money for their motives. Even the prison uniforms, the prison haircuts, the prison faces, could not conceal the youth of the death-house inmates. Young Sullivan—*“little Dil- ‘The police warning was the latest | linger"—noticed it at once. | complication to beset the diminutive | | “Gee)” he said. “There are sure |doctor in the campaign of honor he | | plenty of kids her has been waging against practlcally - | all comers for the sake “of my wife 'YUGOSLAVIA HONORS | o S o Police were considerably exercised | DR.L. 1. STRAKHOVSKY when they learned that the first two | duels of the herr doctor’s series of | Order of Crown Is Bestowed Upon G. U. Professor for Promoting Better Understanding. ‘The decoration of the Order of the | Crown of Jugoslavia has been be- stowed upon Dr. Leonid I. Strak- hovsky of Georgetown University, it was announced . = | yesterday, be- | cause of his aid iin promoting ybetter under- | standing between | American and | Jugoslavian stud- | ents. | Dr. Strak- hovsky received the decnration on Thanksgiving day at the Legation in ‘Washington. He was given the rank of officer. 8ix years ago he Strakhovsky. of Leopold II of Belgium and last | of the Crown of Roumania. A native Russian, Dr. Strakhovsky came to this country a few years after the World War. Since then he | tory at the School of Foreign Service | at Georgetown. He was an officer in the Czar's army during the World War. e Lindbergh Lands in Fog. READING, England, November 28 (&) —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed tonight at Reading Airdrome because Lympne. Later he motored to his Kent home Seven Oaks. STAINLESS STEEL DIESEL POWERE | was made a chevalier of the Order year he was decorated as an officer | has been professor of European his- | of fog, after a flight from Chester and | |nine were fought only a few yards from an important highway. They decreed that such careless- ness must cease. Dr. Sarga, who was not even perturbed by the thought of nine duels in a row, turned his at- tention to the current problem at once and emerged with the solu- tion. Dr. Sarga’s wedding to the grand- daughter of a wealthy Hungarian | banker brought on all his troubles. | Friends of the family accused the | He immediately issued challenges un- i der the Hungarian code duello to all that he could identify. MEAT CUTTERS STRIKE AT SWIFT SUBSIDIARY Picketing Starts at Chicago Plant. Workers Want Recognition and Wage Boost. B the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, November Members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters’ Union, Local 248, went on strike today at the Plankinton Pack- ing Co., a subsidiary of Swift & Co., Chicago. Picketing started at the company's South Side plant. George Bohacek, union secretary, said 800 walked out demanding rec- ognition of the union in collective bargaining, wage increases and a 40- hour week. E. G. Six, general man- ager of the plant, termed the wage demands “inordinate” and said wages had been raised 7 per cent on No- | vember 2. | Although office employes were booed | and jeered while entering and leav- ing the plant, police had no difficulty in getting the picket lines open for them. See This Wonder Train at Washington Union Station Monday, November 30th 9:00 A. M. to 7:00 P. M. Don’t fail to see this newest of all streamlined trains— before it joins its running mate and goes into regular twice-daily service between Chicago and St. Paul- Minnespolis on December 18. These new Silver Streaks have 250% more passenger accommo- dations than the smaller Twin Zephyrs they will replace. New space—new beauty—new comfort. Among Many Features — o Lusash ol doacl © Smart cocktaillounge © Spacious Dining Car o Inter-car phone service © Radio-Phonograph Reception o Hostess service © Restful, indirect lighting © Full-vision windows © Reclining Parlor Chairs AMERICA'S TRAINS | little doctor of marrying for money. | 28— | NOT INPORTANT PLEASE ] REMEMBER '] T0o, THAT KiMBALL | DOES NOT [} BUILD LIGNT WEIGHT AND UNDERSIZED IMITATIVE PIANOS AS THEY ARE VERY €OSTLY AT ANY PRIGE. A CHANCE LIKE THIS . AGAIN Colorado far outstripped the beet- producing areas, receiving $6,491,150 in _benefits. Payments by States to beet grow= | ers, in addition to Clorado, were: California, $4,280,573: Michigan, $3.211,086; Nebraska, $2.672,775; Mon= tana, $2295.204; Utah, $2,122,040; Idaho, $1,982,366; Wyoming, $1,645« 199; Ohio, $1,347,872; Minnesota, $997,793; Wisconsin, $513,885: South Dakota, $356,545; North Dakota, $350,905; Kansas, $271,060; Iows, $250,587; Indiana, $213,295; Wash- ington, $93,959; Illinois, $55,245; New Mexico, $6,641, and Oregon, $219. Louisiana cane payments accounte ed for more then 90 per cent of do= mestic benefit payments to cane grows ers. Other cane States receiving ale lotments were: Florida, $1231,727; Georgia, $108,« 156; Mississippi, $70,667. Alabama, $35213; Texas, $1,342, and Arkansas, $22. LANDON PLANS ANGLING | EXPEDITION IN FLORIDA Wires Gov. Sholtz to Arrange “Proper Reception” by State's Bass. | By the Associated Press. | TALLAHASSEE, Fla., November 28, —Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas asked | Gov. Dave Sholtz today to arrange | for him a “proper reception by the | Plorida bass.” | The Kansan, who was Republican | candidate for President in Novems= | ber. is coming to Monticello, near here, | next week to fish. Gov. Sholtz telegraphed him a wel | come and offered “a suitable escort, | if you wish, and officers who will be at your service to any extent dee | sired.” | Gov. Landon answered, in part: “Thank you for your courteous and | gracious telegram. Appreciate your | offer of escort, but doubt that it is ; necessary. “Gov. Johnson assured me last Sume | mer he would arrange for the Colo= | rado trout to be around. If not too much trouble would appreciate your | attention to this little matter of proper reception by the Florida bass.” Last Summer, Gov. Landon made & fishing trip to Colorado. 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