Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1937, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SLAINUNIONHEAD | Parents View Murder Scene |FREFNAN WARNS LAUDEDASMARTYR More Than 1,000 Attend Rites and Are Told to Band to Fight Racketeers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 4.—More than a thousand lower East Side men and women, many in tears, attended an impressive funeral yesterday for Sam Gappel, slain union leader, and heard him eulogized as a martyr in & fight against labor racketeers. Gappel was one of two union offi- eials shot down by unknown assail- ants last Friday. The other, Max Rubin, business agent of the Cloak Drivers and Helpers’ Union, was re- ported improving in Bronx Hospital from a bullet wound in the back of his head. Gappel was treasurer of a painters’ local. Union officials declared, “The people of the lower Fast Side will have to organize to protect themselves against vicious gangsters, who are running wild here.” ‘When Gappel was shot down at the entrance to his home, #aid, he had just left & meeting where | he made a report on actions of some former union officials. Gappel's slaying was linked with the shooting of Rubin today, although police at first held they had no connection. Funeral speakers denounced the former lead- ers of the union, who had previous altercations with Gappel, as tools of Jacob (Gurrah) Shapiro and Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, fugitives from justice and accused of bossing labor racketeering Rubin was an important witness before a grand jury which indicted Shapiro, Buchalter and Max Silver- man on charges of racketeering. Silverman, captured in Los Angeles, where authorities said he had been living in luxury, arrived here by plane a few hours before the Friday night shootings. Special Rackets Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey said at Silverman's arraign- ment yesterday that he was clearly linked with the attack on Rubin on & Bronx roadway. The city has an- nounced rewards of $5,000 each for | information leading to the cnpme of Shapiro and Buchalter. 20 D. C. STUDENTS MAKE HONOR ROLL | Privilege of Unlimited Absences | Gained by 71 at Mary- land U. By the Associated Press COLLEGE PARK. Md.. October 4 —| Beventy-one students were named on the University of Maryland's under- graduate “honor roll” and won the privilege of unlimited absences from class. The District of Columbia topped the | gcholarship list with 20 representatives Baltimore City placed 12. Only five out-of-State undergraduates other than Washingtonians gained “honor student” ranking. ‘To make the honor roll a student | must acquire a 3.5 or higher average. 8uch an achievement represents a majority of “A” and “B"” grades in all subjects. Those who make the list| have optional class attendance right. | Students from Washington who re- ! eeived a 3 or better average were: Mary on 4120 Eighth st Phiin A Cox D liam B. Davis. 1% Doris Eichiin 12 Ei Flvove, & : Elwood Fisher, { 4115 Tiinois avenue oid M. Franke | 22 Madison street Hohru(vmtheb 26 | ('vmrma avenue: Vernon Gray. 4930 “ ern avenue: Elizabeth H. Hughes, Quincy _street: Lillian Katz. street: Phillip Lassweil. nue: Julian K Lawson Robert L. Mattingly. Charles H. Pierce. 1900 Jackson street northeast: Robert P. White. 1015 Mon- northeast: Jane L. Kraft, | street, morinest. Mildred | Baitz 633 Lamont street. and Marion Esch. 6210 Brookville road. | Others on the list include Kathryn Ab- | bott. District Heights: Pred Bishopp. BIIVH‘ Spring: Allan H Brnwn University Heights: Henrs H. Carter. Rockville; Flor- ence Comer. H'“VSHIIP Eleanor G. Cooley, Berwyn: _Shirley _Danforth Riverdale: Bernice’ Baroara Hobson College “Park: Mary E Jenkins, Suitland: Jane F. Kephart. Takoma Park: Albin O. Kuhn, Woodbine: sidor Lavine. Mount Ranier: Georgiana ightfoot. Takoma Park: Belle McGinnis, Kensington Philip ~ Miller. Brentwood: Maud Roby. Riverdale. Eva Burroughs, Mechgniceville: May Harrover, Manassas. : Margaret Kemp, College Park: Evelvn | Farrith Brentnoods” and Kathiis Bieder Hyattsville. ROAD MEN URGED T0 GUARD FUNDS 80 State Officials Hear Plea for Accounting System to Pre- vent Diversion. Uniform accounting systems should be established throughout the 48 States to guard against diversion of highway funds to other purposes, Col. ‘W. T. Chevalier, president of the Amer- ican Road Builders’ Association, told the National Highway Advisory Coun- eil of the organization in session at the Willard Hotel today. Chevalier pointed out that such a system of uniform accounting would aid the Federal Bureau of Public Roads In administering Federal highway aid funds equitably. He said many States now divert money collected in taxes on motorists for highway building and maintenance to other State functions. The council heard discussion - of various other problems in connection with the road-building industry today. It will end its session here tomorrow after a series of round-table confer- ences and action on definite recom- mendations for legislation to carry on the national highway program in a manner adequate to meet modern needs. Murray D. VanWagoner, State high- ‘way commissioner of Michigan, agreed with Chevalier that the greatest pres- ent need is for action to prevent diver- sion of highway funds. He said that Michigan now is using all money col- lected in gasoline and automobile taxes for road purposes and has appropri- ated other money from the general treasury to aid the highway program. Raymond H. Combs, president of the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, discussed the need of im- proving country roads so farmers could more easily transport their prod- uce to market. Charles M. Upham, engineer-direc- tor of the American Roadbuilders’ As- sociation, presided at the session, -at- tended by 30 State officials, Tennyson street. | Fire Destroys Two Sawmills. PORTLAND, Oreg., October 4 (#).— Firemen stood by helplessly yesterday as a spectacular blaze destroyed two sawmills, with losses estimated at $125,000 to the Blake-David Lumber Aaron Latker | indirectly | | With the slain girl's lipstick. LEWIS WEISS. Mr. and Mrs Frank Hajek, accompamed by a poltcemau, as they viewed the scene of the slaying of their daughter, Frances, 18, and her sweetheart, Lewis Weiss, 20. of the trysting couple were /ound in a parked automobile in a wooded area on the outskirts of New York City. The bodies FRANCES HAJEK. *Copyrwht A. P. Wirephotos. HUNT “KID" SUTOR IN SLAYING OF TWO {Youth and Girl Murdered in Parked Car—Lipstick Rings on Foreheads. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, October 4.—Police | termed “a kid's job” today the Wood- land murder of a trysting couple shot to death in a parked car and marked on the forehead with red circles drawn Convinced Frances Hajek, 18, and her sweetheart, Lewis Weiss, 20, had | been trailed and killed by a jealous suitor, detectives questioned her pa- rents to learn what other boys she knew. The bodies of the youth and the | girl, each shot twice through the head, were found by a passerby yesterday, who noticed the car, parked in a secluded nook in Hollis Woods, in Queens, ‘Weiss, an honor high school gradu- ate two years ago, apparently had been slain first. A husky 200-pound ex- basket ball and base ball star, he had died without a struggle. Police said the assailant then ap- peared to have held Miss Hajek by her jacket while he fired two bullets into her brain. She also was stabbed seven times in the chest with an ice- pick or a stilleto. Medical Examiner Howard Neail was shocked by the savage attack on the girl. He said, however, she had not been raped. “From the look of things,” he said. “It would seem that young Weiss was merely an incidental victim of the hatred, born of jealousy, that some one held against this girl.” Inspector John J. Ryan discounted an earlier theory that the slaying was the work of the uncaught maniac known as “3 X” who within & week in June, 1930, slew the escorts of two girls as they sat in parked cars, “Three X always left his signature on a note or letter,” Ryan sald. ‘“He never drew crimson circles. It seems to me a kid's job.” MANY SEEK TICKETS FOR CHEST PAGEANT 10th Anniversary Drive Will Be Held in Constitution Hall November 8. Hundreds of persons already have applied for tickets to the Constitu- tion Hall mass meeting and pageant which will open the Community Chest's tenth anniversary campaign here November 8, it was announced today. Robert V. Fleming, chairman of the Mass Meeting Committee, and Randolph G. Bishop, campaign di- rector, states that while there is no charge for admission to the affair, the seats are reserved and the tickets are distributed on a first-come-first- served basis. The Hebrew Free Loan Society has resigned from the Chest and will not be included in the list of agencies for which funds will be raised in the Chest's coming campaign. The society explained in a letter to Chest officers that the revolving fund from which the society makes loans to small business men is large enough to eliminate the need for additional funds from the Chest. AIR CRASH KILLS THREE AUSTIN, Minn, October 4 (#)— Three persons were killed when two airplanes crashed in midair near here last night. ‘The dead, all from Austin, were: Mr. and Mrs. Ephie Hull, each about 26, who were married last June, and Co. and the Northvuzlcm Co. plants. Duane Wehner, lbo‘ 16. 2 FAR EASTERN WAR CONFERENCE TOPIC National Council to Open Three-Day Sessions Here Wednesday. Consideration of the Far Eastern crisis and policies necessary to avoid another World War will be foremost on the program of the three-day con- ference of the National Council for | Prevention of War, which opens at 10 | am. Wednesday at the Washington | Hotel. William W. Lockwood, jr., of the! American Council-Institute of Pacific | Relations, will address the opening | session on “Objectives of the United | States Policy in the Far East.” John | Nevin Sayre, president of the Na- tional Peace Conference, will preside at the meetings. “The Neutrality Law” will be in- terpreted by Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel, education director of the Na- tional Council, and J. Max Weis of World Peaceways, will tell of the pos- sibilities of a constructive peace pro- gram in the Orient. Six peace organizations now work- ing for application of the neutrality law to China and Japan will meet during the conference to map out the next steps in their joint campaign. Miss Jeannette Rankin, first wom- an member of Congress, will speak on “Legislative Next Steps in Keeping Our Country Out of War,” Thursday. Other speakers and their subjects in- clude William T. Stone, vice president of the Foreign Policy = Association, “Revision of Our National Defense Policy”; Stephen Raushenbush, chief investigator for the Senate Munitions Committee, “The War Referendum Bill”; John De Wilde, Foreign Policy Association, “Peaceful Change as it Relates to the Far Eastern Situation”; Walter Van Kirk, director of the Na- tional Peace Conference, “The Future Development of the Peace Movement,” and Ray Newton, director of the Emergency Peace Campaign, “The Proposed National Peace Enrollment.” WOMAN, GRIEVING DEATH OF HUSBAND, IS SUICIDE Mrs. Mary K. Hesson, 50, In- hales Gas in Kitchen of Res- I taurant She Operated. Despondent over the death of her husband nearly two years ago, Mrs. Mary K. Hesson, 50, ended her life yesterday by inhaling illuminating gas in the kitchen of a restaurant she conducted at 2125 G street. Police said they found Mrs. Hesson's body slumped over the stove, a gas tube leading to her mouth and a coat over her head. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a suicide certificate. She lived at 1220 G street, and police said had no known relatives. Harold Morgan, clerk at an adjoin- ing hotel, smelled gas and notified firemen at & nearby fire station, who in turn called police.. Three notes addressed to friends were found, one stating her grief at the loss of her husband. The fire rescue squad at- tempted to revive her. Tropical Medicine Expert Dies. NEW YORK, October 4 (#)—Dr. Frank W. O'Connor, 53, an expert in tropical medicine, died following an operation Saturday night at the Hark- ness Medical Pavilion. A native of Ireland, he came to the United States 14 years ago and was engaged in research at ‘Columbia Uni- versity at the time of his death. Work- ing in his chosan field, he lived for many years in T Africa. OF CHURCH SPLIT Bishop Calls on General Convention to Avoid Debate on Altering Its Views. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, preaching at Washington Cathedral yesterday aft- ernoon, called on the General Con- vention of the Episcopal Church, scheduled to meet Wednesday at Cin- clonati, to devote itself to only one concern-—namely, to reafirm the mission of Christianity in the world, and to refuse to waste its energies in discussion of minor questions diversive in character, ‘The bishop spoke on “An Unchang- ing Church in a Changing World" and specifically deplored debate on canon 41, regarding the remarriage of divorced persons. Proposed alter- ations in the church’s attitude, he said, “would divide us down the mid- dle, split us in twain.” “I belong,” Bishop Freeman de- clared, “to an unchanging church, the same today as yesterday. There is no departure from traditional doctrine in this church. We have an unchanging faith, and the imperative need of the present hour is for adhering with fixity to our ideal of Christian wor- ship. - There must be no catering to changing fashions, no ecclesiastical vaudeville, in the BEpiscopal Church, This is & time when something must remain fixed and firm. Do you want to worship in & church which does not know what it belleves? The great Roman church does not try to accom- modate itself to every wind that blows, and I honor it for its stability, The bishop argued that “any ques- tion which creates division in our church” should be avoided at Cincin- natl. “We are facing the darkest days the cause of Christ in America has ever known,” he insisted, “and there must be unity among us—no high, no low, no broad church, but only one church—the church ofJesus Christ, ever the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow. “In the general convention, I would not touch any great controversial question. What do we care about no- menclature when the house is on fire? The situation is desperately bad for Christianity. We have been slipping | until our backs are against the wall Realizing this, my conviction is that | the one big issue for us at Cincinnati is the spiritual revival of the Nation. | Why draw back when it is God's com- mand to go forward? The only gospel | to save the world is the Gospel of | Christ.” Freeman to Speak. RICHMOND, October 4 (#).—The Virginia Preaching Mission will spon- sor a four-day program at the mosque | here beginning November 4. Right Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will be one of the| principal speakers. UNION OPPOSITION LAID TO SHIP LINES| Regional Director of Labor Board Says “Obstructionist Tactics” Delay Elections. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 4 —Mrs. Eli- nore M. Herrick, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, has charged unidentified ship lines | today with obstructing elections among | their unlicensed personnel to deter- mine a collective bargaining agent. Investigators for the board. Mrs. Herrick said, have uncovered evi- dences of wholesale discharges of | crews who seemed to favor a union disapproved by the employers, and other instances of partiality have come to light, she added, in the granting of passes to union representatives to board ships in port. Elections on the ships of 84 Atlantic and Gulf Coast lines will decide | whether the seamen will be repre- sented by the American Federation of Labor’s International Seamen's Union or the Committee for Industrial Organization's National Maritime Union. Mrs. Herrick said the ‘“obstructive tactics” of the employers had de- layed the board in posting election | dates on the ships of 18 lines. S8he declared: “I am not making the names of the lines public at this time because our investigations are not completed and I do not wish wrongtully to attribute | responsibility.” quency, said Jenkins, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1937. BOARDS OF PAROLE RAKED BY HOOVER “Interferring Meddlers” Who Intercede for Prison- ers Hit by F. B. I Head. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 4.—J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, blasted today at “Interferting meddlers” who intercede for criminals and at ‘“convict-cod- dling, sentimental, silly parole boards” who free prisoners unwisely. Hoover told the International Asso- ciation of Police Chiefs about a citizen in the West who secured the release of a suspect, but found later the man had spent most of his life in jail and was still wanted. “There is not one of you who is not afMicted with this interfering sort of ‘good fellow,’” Hoover said. *“I suggest that these interfering med- dlers be called on the carpet and shown just what they have done to impede the efficiency of your de- partment. Parole Called Common Foe. “One of our common foes in con- nection with proper law enforcement remains the administration of parole as it is practiced in too many of our States. “Our parole scandals are un-Amer- can. It is a filthy betrayal of the American people to practice the easy, ill-considered release of dangerous felons , . . we must consecrate our- selves to & never-ending battle against this slimy, unwholesome and utterly reprehensible condition.” Newspapers, Hoover continued, are one of the policeman’s “greatest aids and one of our best friends,” although they are sometimes a stumbling block in the pursuit of & criminal. Urges Newspaper Co-operation. Co-operation of newspaper publish- ers, he said, is necessary “to withstand the attacks of criminal or political elements when these subversive forces attempt to decry the police depart- | ment as an inefficient or domineering organization.” Chief Leon V. Jenkins of Portland, Oreg,, told more than a thousand chiefs that they handled public dis- orders “by trial and error.” Careful Study Needed. “We have got to learn how to teach our police officers the proper attitude toward both sides in a controversy, Chief Jenkins continued. “We have got to study carefully the kinds of police equipment—horses, tear gas, riot sticks—and find out which type sults the situation. We have got to study police tactics, how many men | to use, how to use them, and so on.” An open discussion, with emphasis on handling strike disorders, will be led Thursdav by Chicago’s commis- sioner of police, James P. Allman, and New York's commissioner, Lewis J. | Valentine. Turning to other police problems, Chief Jenkens declared, “No magic formula has yet been devised to solve the traffic problem. Juvenile Delinquincy Problem. He suggested a resolution be adopted in appreciation of contributions re- | ceived from automobile interests to finance the study of traffic problems. The problem of juvenile delin- “is not one that can be solved by the police depart- ment alone. “In many of our cities right now the police are arresting children for playing on the streets because the school playgrounds are closed at 3 or | 4 oclock in the afternoon; and we see church auditoriums locked up in the evening by the same ministers who complain about young boys and girls going to roadhouses to drink and dance. “These examples show one thing very clearly —namely, that juvenile delinquency cannot be decreased un- less all of the agencies in the com- munity work together.” FILM COMBINE NEAR LONDON, October 4 (#).—The Daily Mail said yesterday that Alexander Korda, motion picture magnate, will | take a six months trip sbroad and | that he expects completion of a deal | between himself and Samuel Goldwyn | for joint ownership of United Artists | Corp. would be made before his re- | turn, Korda and Goldwyn hold an option | until December to buy the United Artists holdings of Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin for & reported $5,930,000. London Film Productions, Ltd., of which Korda is managing director, will cease production in the Denham Studios while he is away, Petitioner Opnosed to Black Unafraid of Public’s Views .~ “lI Know I'm Right and, That’s What Counts,” He Declares. By the Associated Press. Albert Levitt, who petitioned the Supreme Court to bar Associate Justice Black from taking his seat, has been soldier of fortune, preacher, professor, | corporation lawyer, Federal judge and utility “baiter.” In each profession, he has stirred up ripples. “I know what people are going m say about me,” the 50-year-old Levitt chuckled the day he filed the Black petition. “‘There goes Levitt tilting | at windmills again.’ But I don't care. I know I'm right and that's what counts.” When he attacked utilities in his native Connecticut several years ago, Levitt had neither electricity, gas xor telephone on his farm. At least, he laughed, none could accuse him of venting a personal grudge for having been nicked on his light bill. As an insurgent Republican he ran often for local office, never getting elected, but upsetting apple-carts along the way by splitting factions. Be- tween elections and law cases he raised goats, chopped firewood and composed lullabys which he played on a small organ. Several years of wandering as a young man took him around the world four times and to the Philippines as a soldier. In the World War he was gassed and wounded. The armistice brought Levitt a quieter life. He settled down to teaching law, philosophy and medical jurisprudence, moving successively from Columbia to Colgate, Washing- ton and Le‘l.nd Brooklyn Law 8chool. & ALBERT LEVITT. —A. P. Photo. In 1933, after failing to capture Hiram Bingham's senatorial seat, he was appointed a special assistant to the Attorney General. Then he was named as Federal judge to the Virgin Islands. He re- signed after crossing administrative and legal swords with Acting Gov. Lawrence W. Cramer and returned to the Justice Department. As “no man” to Attorney General Cummings, Levitt was assigned to study controversial subjects “to get the other fellow's viewpoint,” criticizing the President’s court bill, were sigetracked before reaching Cum- mings’ desk, Levitt was irked. His resignation followed. but | robert, when his memoranda, including one | Qlice On Way to Open Chxe/ Justice Hughes is shown leaving his home to open the new session of the Supreme Court. —A. P, Photo ARTHUR JAMIES, o6, FIREMAN, S DEAD Veteran Alarm Telegraph Operator Had Been 36 Years in Department. Arthur James, 56, a veteran fire- alarm telegraph operator, died in o | ley Hospital today after an illness of | two weeks, his first fllness in 36 years with the Fire Department Born in Washington on July 6, 1881, Mr. James entered the Fire Depart- | ment in 1801. When the fire-alarm | office was transferred to the District | Building from the old No. 14 engine house in October, 1908, Mr. James was the first operator to sound an alarm. During the last 25 years Mr. James sent out the alarms for most of the biggest fires in Washington. * He was on duty the last half of the night of the Knickerbocker Theater disaster and he also sent out the call when the executive offices of the White House burned in 1929. When he first went on duty with the Fire Department, Mr. James served & year as elevator operator. | Then he was transferred to the alarm office as a telephone operator. A few years later, he was promoted to an alarm operator. In point of service he | was the senior employe in the office. | Mr. James' parents had lived ln[ Washington a long time before his birth. His mother, who is now more than 90 years old, lived near the Washington Barracks during the Civil ‘War. When the arsenal exploded in | the barracks on an historic occasion during the war, she was hurled | | through the window of her home by | the force of the blast. Mr. James was a widower, his wife | having died several years ago. He is survived by a son and two daughters. | Recently the family moved to 4308 | Thirteenth street northeast. Arrangements are being made to hold the funeral at his home 11 a.m. ‘Wednesday. DISTRICT MAN HUNTED IN SOUTH ARRIVES HERE| Charles A. Lynch, 32, who had been the object of a police search since his disappearance from a Texarkana, Ark., night club on September 23, ar- rived at the home of his mother here late Saturday night, Texarkana police notified Washing- ton authorities about 10 days ago that they had been called to a night club to stop a fight, and although the combatants had left by the time they arrived, some papers were found bear- ing Lynch’s name. A week ago, Lynch's mother, Mrs. Blanche Lynch, received a bundle of her son’s shirts from Texarkana, and believing them to be stained with blood, asked police here to have them analyzed. The examination showed the stains were not caused by blood, however, Lynch said on his arrival here that he had been robbed the night he left the night club, but had suffered no| bodily harm. His mother lives at the Willard Hotel. SHANGHAI AIR BASE The first offices to be established in the Far East by a domestic American airline have been opened in Shanghai by United Air Lines, it was announced here today by Walter Swan, local agent of the line. Charles A. Perkes, with the title of Far Eastern traffic manager, has been put in charge of the Shanghai office, which is intended to develop business from the connecting service of Pan- American Airways and trans-Pacific steamship lines, BIRTHS KEPORTED William H. and Helen Talbott, girl. William and Bessie Sharkes, Eifl. DEATHS REPORTED illard Corman, 81, Bmersency Hoapital. fln‘;u:; X uelllx“ 08 Washington .r'y‘ i herwood, 74, 3511 30th Prederick R. Brill, 70, 3401 Hishview terrace n.e. Wi nsend. 67, 201 R eood, 04, 0135 st e T Galiinger Hospital ‘36 18011 at, Tayl resine Snlllv-n ymon EXPERIENCES TOLD BYRETURNED NUN Il Patients in India Tie Goats to Bed, Sister Mary Laetitia Says. BY BLAIR BOLLES. Sister Mary Laetitia, just back from | India, where {ll Hindus and Moham- medans tether their goats to their hospital beds, listened to the trains g0 by the Mother House of the So- ciety of Catholic Medical Missionaries in Brookland today and remarked that their pounding noise isn't any- thing as noises go in India. “Why, over in Dacca, in Bengal, our hospital is filled with noises,” the nun said. “It overflows with bleats and moos. A lot of our patients bring live stock or barnyard friends with | them for the sake of soup, or maybe a sacrifice. One time we were tak- |ing care of a man whose chicken flew up early in the morning on an empty | ward bed and laid an egg. signal for a long, loud, cackling.” Sister Mary, who is 35, grew up in the quiet countryside of Sussex, Eng- | land, but she learned about noise just after the World yWar, when she moved |to a Brooklyn (N. Y.) house, a few | blocks from the rumbling elevateds. She took her master's degree in noise | appraisal when she studied nursing at Bellevue Hospital, New York, where silence is like a pearl in a lunch counter oyster—hoped for, but never found. It was the triumphant Founded in 1925. Sister Mary went to India in 1927, | two years after she joined the new order of the Society of Catholic Med- ical Missionaries. The society was founded in 1925 by Dr. Anna Dengel, | an Austrian, to supply woman medicos for ailing Hindu and Mohammedan women, who would suffer & ruptured appendix before they would let a male doctor operate. ‘When she left India a month ago, Sister Mary was superintendent of the society's hospital at Rawal Pindi, in the Punjab, near the Himalaya foot- hills, where malaria is as common as the head cold in ‘his country. Often, Mohammedan husbands ob- | ject to their wives' going to any hos- pital, even though it is staffed by women, and Sister Mary, who studied midwifery at Queen Mary's Maternity Hospital, London, has delivered many & Moslem mother in & harem. Permitted to Remove Patient. So popular are the sisters that none | interferes with them, and during the Dacca riots & few years ago the na- tives halted their pillaging and house- burning long enough to permit the nuns to enter a dwelling and remove | & patient. The most elegant patient in Sister Mary's recollection was a Hindu prince who arrived at the Dacca Hospital with 40 retainers. “I want beds for all of them,” he told the nuns. “We explained that his retainers were well and the beds were needed for the sick,” Sister Mary relates. “Finally, & house was rented for 38 of them and it was agreed that his vizier would stay at the hospital with him during the day and that his second in command would stay with him at night.” . MARRIAGE LICENSES Fairfax. Guy Franklin Williams, 23. nd 7. Vienna. R. F. R. Audrey Ellen Stallings. Alexandria. Hassell Burnam Leigh. 42. \ienna. and Hazel Rebecca Lee. ington, D. C. Theodore Ellsworth Martin, Evelyn Marie Bennington, 25. Washington, Stovan Christowe. and Margaret Wootel Angeles, Calif. Weaver Kale Hart, 30, Clifton Station. and Viola Marie Baldwin, 15, R. F. D., Fairfax. ‘Timothy Joseph Kane. Hargest, . D 21, R. P D. 38, Wash: 27. and both of New York_ City. Hallowell, 28, Los 4, and Margaret 22, both of Baltimore. Joseph Pranklin Lyons. 26, and Marga- ret Elizabeth Poole, 21, both of Falls Church. Zachariah Thom: dsmith, 49. and Marvarer Woots Hares 35 Doth of Washe ington. Georse William Eimer. and Anna Knox Th: Frederick Lee Bal n 2 and Edna Irene Williams, Vlemu( Johi and Lillian Vireinia No 2 M Voin et Faias. John Thomas Cranford. ir. 22. River- le. Md.. and Dorothy Mae Proctor. 21 rth Beach. Md . Washington, ‘fenna. Arlington, R. F. D. ED HOWE, APOSTLE OF SIMPLICITY, DIES Achieves “Absolute Tri- umph” He Sought by Expir- ing During Sleep. By the Associated Press. ATCHISON, Kans, October 4. — Edgar Watson (Ed) Howe, “the sage of Potato Hill,” has achieved his “abe solute triumph ” After a long lifetime of observing and writing about the foibles of plain people, the 84-year-old author, editor, philosopher, died yesterday in his sleep of the infirmities of age com- plicated by paralysis, His death fulfilled his once ex- pressed desire, “My hope is to go to sleep one night after a hard day's work and never awaken. That would be the absolute triumph.” The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at his home here —"“Potato Hill"-—with the ritual of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Howe was perhaps best known for his novel, “The Story of a Country ‘Town,” which he published in his own country newspaper office after other publishers had rejected it. Edited Globe for 37 Years. He founded the Atchison Globe in 1877 and retired from it 37 years later. His active mind, however, could not be at rest and he began publication of “E. W. Howe'’s Month= ly,” devoted to “information and in- dignation.” In this magazine, which Mr. Howe discontinued in 1933, ap- peared such pungent paragraphs from his pen as: “All my life I have heard men clamoring for more rights. It has_ always seemed to me I exercise more rights than are good for me. Iam at liberty to do a hundred things I shouldn’t do. I have always been too much of a free man.” Mr. Howe was known as a keen stue dent of human nature, his attitude toward his fellow men may well be summed up in his own words,” a little improvement persisted in, is enough. Knowing myself and others, I do not expect too much, and cheer a reason- able average.” Feared Youth, Obeyed Women. Of youth he wrote “I am timid in the presence of you'h. I sharply criticize the young and know they pay it back with interest. An- | tagonism between youth and.age is as natural and inevitable as the antagon- ism between women and men. I am timid in the presence of women, too.” Of women: “I have never suited women; always there is something .about me they want to fix . . . As a rule I have found it easier to obey my women folks than to fight them, and be a free man only in private.” Howe's death followed by days that of his former wife, Mrs. Clara L. Howe, 90, from whom he was divorced more than 35 years ago. She died last Wednesday at her home in Falls City, Nebr. When he was 80 years old Mr. Howe wrote: | “At 80 I am not afraid of the future. I have been treated with reasonable justice all my conscious life, and expect as much of the future. No one can convince me there is a | devil after death to torture me for eating, drinking, loving, hating, ven- | turing.” Virtually Finished “Conclusions.” Shortly before he was stricken paralysis last July, Mr. Howe | tually completed work on his book. “Final Conclusions,” of which he said in June, 1935: | “Give me two more years and I am going to write the greatest book !in the world.” Mr. Howe's survivors include two sons, Eugene A. Howe, Amarillo, Tex., editor, and James P. Howe, Walnut Creek, Calif, and a daughter, Mrs. Mateel Howe Farnham, New York. In the closing lines of his auto- biography, Mr. Howe wrote: “A good many years ago I was driven through Yellowstone Park in a stage coach by a plain man called Doc Wilson, of whom I became quite | fond in the course of five days. When | we parted he said: ‘Well, good-by; take care of yourself.' It is the great { human philosophy: no one will or jcan do it for you * * * nature has never yet produced a creature without ‘flrst providing for its needs; man's | Sreatest fault has always been too much preaching and not enough work. Well, good-by; take care of yourself.” VOTING TRAIN Natives of New York City were re- minded today by the Fusioneers, a non-partisan organization promoting Mayor La Guardia's campaign for re- electiton, that they cannot vote in the election of November 2 unless they register in person. A registration train will leave Wash- ington at 1:20 p.m. next Saturday, ar- riving at 5:30, in ample time for all ‘ to register. The train will be met by Mayor La Guardia and other officials, Round-trip tickets, at a rate of $6.85, may be obtained from .usioneers’ headquarters, room 305, 1406 G street, Policemen Off Duty Go In for Varied Hobbies One Conducts Sunday School as Another Raises Canaries. i Members of the metropolitan police torce, when off duty, go in for every- thing from teaching Sunday school to breeding canaries. Observe Detective Sergt. John Wise of the homicide squad, for example, Before becoming an officer Wise was a divinity student, and he still conducts a sort of “Sunday school” at his home in Arlington and leads the neighbor- hood boys in the singing of hymns as he plays the organ. ™ Then there's Detective Sergt. Clyde N. Strange, also a member of the homicide squad, whose hobby is roses. The back yard of his home at 5930 Eighth street is full of them and each one gets his tenderest care, The gambling squad’s Detective Sergt. George Deyoe is a crack skeet shet; Detective Sergt. John C. Dal« glish, homicide squad, goes in for dogs; Detective Lieut. George Darnall, one-time carpenter, built himself ‘a Summer home at North Beach, Md., and Lieut. Ben Kuehling once raised and kept 350 canaries, all at the same : ;