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VIRGINIA COUNTS DEATHTOLL OF 25 Three of 18 Killed in Traffic Die at Same Spot in Two Crashes. By the Associated Press. Virginia counted a three-day Christ- mas toll of 25 deaths last night, in- cluding 18 in traffic accidents. Firearms claimed three victims, fires two, a child died in the collapse of a self-made cave, and one was killed by a train. Three died within the space of & few minutes early yesterday morn- ing in two successive accidents at the same spot on a highway near ‘Winchester. Police said a car driven by Thomas G. Scully, young Winchester attor- ney, smashed into a crowd gathered about the body of Dewey Newlin of Winchester, who had been struck by an automobile and fatally injured a few minutes earlier, and instantly killed Frederick Affieck, fire engine driver, and Homer Hook, a truck operator. State Patrolman Hurt. The second crash also injured State Patrolman R. E. Bayliss, who, with other members of the group, was putting Newlin's body in an ambu- lance. Scully was released under $1,000|. bond on a charge of “feloniously kill- ing and slaying.” No charge had been placed late today against I. N. Grubbs of Frederick County, sald by police to have been driving the car which struck Newlin. While the list of traffic fatalities grew with reports from all sections of the State, John Garrett, 58, colored, became the second victim by crema- tion of fires in Virginia village locke ups. Was Lone Occupant. Garrett was imprisoned in the | Dillwyn jail, a wooden, two-room structure, without any formal charge against him when flames razed the building Christmas morning. He was the lone occupant. 1 A similar fire at Colonial Beach only | 8 few weeks before snuffed out the life of another lone prisoner. Seven of those killed in traffic mis- haps were pedestrians. Besides New- lin the list included Eddie Parker, col- ored, struck by an automobile about | two and a half miles from Hampton | yesterday afternoon; William W. | Whitehurst, 76, struck by a Norfolk street car; Joseph Russell Brown, col- | ored, whose body was found on Route 56 near Buckingham Courthouse, ap- parently & hit-and-run victim; Henry Day, colored, of Loudoun County, be- lieved to have been another hit-and- run victim on the Winchester-Wash- ington highway; Orin Cobbler of Figgsboro, killed near the Henry- Franklin County line, and C. H. Bal- lard Robinson, colored hotel man, struck by a bus at Norfolk. T. A. Fletcher, 42, died at a Dan- ville hospital last night of a fractured skull suffered when struck by an automobile police said was operated by D. A. Brooks, who was held under bond for a hearing. Crushed Under Car. Troy J. Hubbard, 28, of Tazewell County, hurrying home to his bride | of two weeks, lost control of his car | on a curve, was thrown out and | crushed beneath it. Robert Watson, 20, of Nine Mile | road, Richmond, was killed while | walking near his home. Two com- | panions were struck down and hurt, | John Kosuszek was arrested for in- voluntary manslaughter because of | the accident involving his car. | Miss Mary Crockett and Garnett | Luttrell of Washington were killed ! yesterday morning when their car left the road six miles north of Fred- ericksburg and overturned in a ravine. | Joseph 1. Clements, also of Washing- ton, was seriously injured. | ‘Thomas Gilpin, jr., colored, ol‘ Richmond, who was injured in an ac- | cident near Fredericksburg Christmas | morning, died in a hospital the same | day Frank Fudola, 23, of Richmond, died in a Richmond hospital of injuries received in a highway accident near New Kent Court House Christmas eve. ! Woman Killed by Rifle. The three victims of firearms were Miss Edns. Lovelace, 30, of near Ax- ton, who was struck by a bullet from & .22-caliber rifle as she was churn- ing, and Hermand Lindsay, V. M. L | colored waiter, whose death police charged' to another colored man, and | Corbett Cockeram, 25, colored, killed | In a Christmas day gunfight at Pulaski. | Authorities at Axton said Bruce A. ‘Turner, jr., 15, told them he held the gun, which was accidentally dis- | charged in the kitchen of his father's home and killed Miss Lovelace. | Other accidental deaths since Christmas eve took the lives of Oscar T. Dewitt, Lynchburg court reporter, who was burned to death in his apart- ment; Walter Easton, 10, of Newport | News was trapped in a cave dug| into the bank of the James River; | Walter Mayo, colored, of Lanexa, who | was fatally injured in a fall from a truck, and Dorsey Thoroughgood, col- | ored, killed by a train at Norfolk. Shelton G. Mitchell, 65, was severe- 1y injured when his car was struck on s railway crossing at Charlottesville, and many others were injured in other parts of the State, including | three members of the family of Thom- as W. Walsh, jr., secretary to Repre- sentative Andrew J. Montague of Richmond. QUITS . POLITICAL JoB Mrs. J. B. Spillman Resigns ltltnv Democratic Post. RALEIGH, N. C., December 26 (). | —Mrs. J. B. Spilman of Greenville, recently appointed to the State U employment Compensation Commis- sion, said today she had resigned as vice chairman of the State Demo- cratic Executive Committee. Her resignation, submitted to J. Wallace Winborne of Marion, State Democratic chairman, is to be acted upon at the next meeting of the Ex- ecutive Committee. Under North Carolina’s unemploy- ment compenstaion 18w, no member of the commission may hold office in & political party. ————e ACCUSED OF FRAUD LOS ANGELES, December 26 (#).— Federal postal inspectors reported the arrest today on mail fraud charges of Roy L. Martin, 49. Officers said Martin was suspected of being implicated in a Nation-wide ring whichc fraudulently advertised s cure for cataracts and other eye ail- ments. Its alleged operations ex- tended from Los 'Angeles to New York. Martin denied the charges. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Another Ziegféld Packs Em. Patricia Ziegfeld, daughter of the late Florenz Ziegfeld, producer of the Follies, surrounded by a group of beautiful girls on a film lot at Hollywood, where she recently followed in her father’s Jootsteps by selecting 60 dancing girls for a new film production. Photo shows: Mary Adair, Ruth Riley, Georgia Lee, Juanita Field, Rae Templeton, Nellie Colt, Caroline Mason, Dorothy Ward, Claire Manners, Patsy Bedell, Georgia Clark, Marsha Kent, Clarette Ellis, Patricia Ziegfeld, Inez Rees, Harriet Haddon, Marjorie Moore, Margaret Davis and Dorothy Lee. —Wide World Photo. e Pins Hope of World Title On Molasses-Coated Fishhook By the Associated Press. BURLINGTON, Wis., December 26. —Upon a plain, molasses-coated fish- hook, R. K. Burlin of North Chatham, Mass., pins his hope for & world cham- pionship. No, you rod and reelers, not a fish- ing championship, but the world title which the Burlington Liars’ Club will award to the author of the tallest tale submitted this year. Burlin tells of taking a lot of the trouble out of fishing by solving the bait problem. He says he just smears a bare hook with molasses and, on casting, pitches it high into the air. ‘The sweet aroma of the molasses at- tracts bees overhead. They cling to the hook and when the fish strikes they sting it to death. Expeditions that poke into isolated lands couldn’t find exploring condi- tions much more rigorous than Nich- olas Stumpf of Lincoln, Ill, did right on his own farm. “Winds kept blowing with terrible force from the mouth of a cave” Wonderful Wonder- liftvalues! Both front and lide-cfl:sing ‘Wonderlift belts, for averageandshortfig- ures. Specially priced at . . ’5 Stumpf relates, “and they were so strong they kept every one from ex- ploring it. I tried bucking the wind, but couldn’t stand up, so I put curry combs on my knees and crawled up to the mouth. “It was no use, though, for when I turned on my flashlight the force of the wind blew the light beam right back out at me and I couldn't see where I was going.” From 5,500 entries of liars around the globe, club officers will choose | the new champion. He will be named December 29, over a radio hook-up, and | will be awarded a medal, studded with what a convincing liar could palm off as diamonds. Social Bureau on Campus. A “Social Service Bureau” on the | University of Oklahoma campus offers | to supply male escorts for co-eds on | request. The “gigolo” fee is 50 cents for two hours. Has 13 Ancestors at Birth. HEXT, Tex., December 26 (#).— Harold Don, baby son of Mr. and Mrs. ©. V. Wallace, began life with an un- usual array of living ancestors. They include his 19-year-old parents, four grandparents, four great-grandpar- ents and three great-great-grandpar- ents—a total of 13. . D. G, DEC ER 27, 1936—PART ONE. MARYLAND MISHAP A, B, C of Crop Insurance mu, 9 UVER YUI_E Plan on President’s Desk Almost Dupli- cates That of Joseph in Bible. Automobiles Take Six Lives. 2 Died in Falls, One Burned te Death. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December 26.—A day- after-Christmas survey showed today nine persons met accidentsl death in accounted Austin Crowl, 21, and his wife Lois, 21, whose coupe overturned and burst into flames near Howarsville after they had left & Christmas party. Charles Joseph McCanney, 48, of Philadelphia, struck by an automobile as he crossed the road to meet a friend. Della Briscoe, 60, colored, of Char- lotte Hall, struck by an automobile while crossing a road near his home. Killed Walking to Church. ‘Wallace Young, 35, colored, of Love- ville, struck by an automobile as he walked to church. The two women who died in falls downstairs were Mrs. Elizabeth Berndt, 687, of Baltimore and Mrs. Minnie Jane Bradley, 69, of Hagerstown. On Christmas day, Leroy Robinson, & boarder in a Baltimore home, burned to death in & fire that destroyed the house. —_——— Poland’s Marshal Unpretentious. WARSAW, December 26 (#).—Being made marshal of Poland wasn't enough to make Edward Rydz-Smigly change his unpretentious habits. When sending out cards, according to cus- tom, on his elevation to marshal's rank, he had no new ones printed. He used his old ones, merely crossing out “general” and writing “marshal” in ink above it. ARMER BROWN of Prederick fi § g fne b B I i - g el EE i up with modern crop tnsurance which is almost s duplicate of the biblical plan. Crop insurance now is just an idea on the President's desk. But in a couple of months supposedly it will be law. And when it is law, the farmer, it is hoped, will have some security despite drought, flood, early Winter, late Spring and overwet Summer. Farmer Brown, for instance, what does he get out of this scheme? ‘Well, in the past when nature ruined his crop, he took his losses and hoped for better luck next time. But with the insurance in operation it’s a different story. Brown each year turns a small percentage of his crop, or a corresponding cash amount, over to the Government. And whenever his yield fails below average, he gets back from the Government enough grain to bring his supply up to 75 per cent of his yield. %'flwflnllfimthm ‘Brown, however, we'll say, s a hard- working, cobscientious farmer who — Ny 02, 1930 through 1935 his average yleld was 21.79 bushels an acre. Supposing that the insurance plan were in operation, this is what would happen. A Government agent investigates Brown’s crop records and covers sev- eral sheets of paper with addition, sub- traction, multiplication and division. This is what he finds: Seventy-five per cent of the average yield per acre is 16.34 bushels. This total is listed a3 Brown's “coverage.” During the six years he fell 6.97 bushels below his coverage. This averages .32 bushels below cov- erage each year. 8o Mr. Brown, in order to be as- sured that the amount of wheat he has L [Happy for sale each year never falls below 16.34 bushels for each of his acres, must deliver up each year .32 bushels of wheat for each of those acres. Brown sends his premium wheat to a Federal or State warehouse. There it is stored with thousands of bushels of premium wheat delivered by Brown — NICE HOST TO 1,500 AT CHRISTMAS PARTY Children Attend Motion Picture Theaters as Guests of Maryland Governor. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December* 26.— Gov. Harry W. Nice was host today to 1,500 children at a Christmas party in two motion picture theaters. ‘The Governor, busy at the govern- ment house, was represented by Peter H. Magruder and Police Magistrate Joseph M. Armstrong. They visited both theaters and gave the children the Governor's greetings and wishes for a happy New Year. Nine hundred white children packed one theater, and 600 colored children the other theater for the annual ‘The late Gov. Albert C. Ritchie be- gan the custom of giving motion pic- ture perties to the local children dur- ing the Christmas holiday season. Gov. Nice continued the custom when be took office. SPARROWS DOOMED - Germany Wars on [Feathered Pests to Conserve Seeds. ‘WANZLEBEN, Germany, December 26 (#).—Germany’s one-time popular sparrows have been marked down as state enemies. Tens of thousands have been killed, with more to follow. Germany was forced to forbid the use of rye and wheat for distillation, and cannot afford to have sparrows eating up the seed. NEW ECONOMY NEW LOW PRICE Foundations for every figure type, marked way below regular prices during this sale only. Smartstyles, smart fabrics, exceptional values. A real thrifc opportunity in corset departments and corset shops everywhere! MORE MONEY-SAVING SPECIALS NEMO semi step-in satin girdle. Talon closing. 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