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CATHEDRAL RITES
TO HONORGEN. LEE
Secretary of Commerce
Roper and Other Officials
to Attend.
A special service in commemoration '
of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Washington
Cathedral at 4 o'clock this afternoon
will be attended by Secretary of Com
merce Daniel C. Roper and many
other high Government officials.
Assistant Secretary of State R. Wal
ton Moore, Rear Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, Judge John Barton Payne,
former Senator Blair Lee of Mary
land, Senator Carter Glass and Sen
ator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia will
have seats in the choir among the
sponsors of the memorial.
Also present will be Senator Nathan
L. Bachman of Tennessee, former
Senator W. Cabell Bruce of Maryland,
Representative Sol Bloom of New
York, Mrs. Guy D. Goff, Brig. Gen.
William E. Horton, Maj. and Mrs.
Edgar Erskine Hume, Mrs. Henry W.
Keyes, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Mrs.
Lawrence Washington, Miss Anne
Washington and Mrs. Robert E.1
Lee, 3d.
Right Rev. James E. Freeman.
Bishop of Washington, will have
charge of the service, and Dr. Douglas
S. Freeman of Richmond, biographer
of Gen. Lee. will be the principal
speaker.
Seats will be available to the public
until 3:45.
Officers and members of the fol
lowing organizations have been in
vited to be present: The United
Daughters of the Confederacy, Na
tional Society. Colonial Dames of
America; the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution, the Order of the First
Families of Virginia, 1607-1620: the
Association for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities, the Founders and
Patriots of America and the Society
of the Cincinnati.
TWO HELD TO JURY
IN HOLD-UP SLAYING
Police Testify at Inquest That
Colored Pair Confessed Part
in Killing.
Charged with the slaying of a meat
truck driver, two colored men were
held by a coroner's jury yesterday
afternoon for action of the grand jury
after police officers testified the two
defendants had confessed their part
in the hold-up killing, which took
place January 4 at the corner of
Tenth and Β streets northeast.
The jury found the truck driver,
Joseph R. Wushank. 2830 Bladens
burg. road, had "come to his death
as the result of shots fired from a
pistol held in the hands of John H.
Cummings, 27, 700 block Seventh
street northeast." and the jury also
held Willett Marcus. 22, 1200 block
Minnesota avenue northeast, as an ι
accessory.
Wushank died January 8 in Cas
ualty Hospital.
The two were traced by a hat found
In the cab of the truck by Sergts.
Clyde N. Strange and Jerry Flaherty,
In charge of the investigation for the
homicide squad. Coroner A. Ma
gruder MacDonald complimented the
Police Department on its handling
of the case. ·
FOUNDER OF GEORGIA
HILL SCHOOLS HONORED
Students and Alumni of Mountain
Institutions Pay Tribute to
Miss Martha Berry.
By the Associated Press.
MOUNT BERRY. Ga.. January 12.
—The woman responsible for the
growth of the schools she founded 33
years ago in a log cabin—Miss Martha
Berry—today was honored by students
and alumni.
Here in the hill country of north
Georgia are located the schools Miss
Berry has developed. There are now
a hundred buildings on 32.000 acres
of land, with over 1,000 students.
The exercises marking the thirty
third anniversary of the founding
were held in Mount Berry chapel.
More than 1,500 students, alumni and
members of the faculty were present.
Students presented gifts worth sev
eral hundreds of dollars. There was
a full program of school songs and
addresses by members of the faculty
and alumni, as well as students.
CLINIC REPORTS SLATED
Executive Board to Hold Annual
Meeting Tomorrow Night.
Annual reports of the Executive
Board of the Women's Clinic will be
read at its annual meeting tomorrow
at 8 p.m. at 4704 Georgia avenue. Dr.
Lauretta Kress will report for the
Georgia avenue clinic, and Dr. A.
Frances Foye will report for the col
ored clinic at 1237 Τ street.
Other reports will be read by Mrs.
Charles H. Curl, vice president; Mrs.
Edgar T. Brown, treasurer; Mrs. Η. E.
Rogers, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Grattan Kerans, recording secretary
and publicity chairman, and Mrs.
Gladys Ball Middlemiss. chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee.
Mt. Rainier Church
Dutch Supper' Tuesday
The Mothers' Club of St. James'
Catholic Church in Mount Rainier,
Md., will give a "dutch supper" in
the auditorium at Thirty-seventh
street and Rhode Island avenue Tues
day.
Supper will be served from 5 to 8
o'clock, and the proceeds will be turned
Into the funds being raised to help
relieve the indebtedness on the church
and school.
The Rev. J. Edward Malloy. pastor,
Is honorary chairman; Mrs. Helen
Phillips, chairman, assisted by Mrs.
John S. White, Mrs. Mary C. Bailey,
Mrs. Elizabeth McQueeney, Mrs. Pat
rick Casey, Mrs. Mary Roland, Mrs.
Rose Magruder, Mrs. Frank Luckett,
Mrs. John Morheiser, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hastings, Mrs. Mary Farrell, Mrs. H.
T. Glynn, Mrs. Charles Monninger,
Mrs. Samuel Mastin, Miss Gertrude
Widemeier, Mrs. William Wersick. Mrs.
Anthony Rolf es, Mrs. James Sheahan,
Mrs. Herbert Gill, Mrs. P. H. Jewell,
Mrs. W. H. Deck. Mrs. Daniel A
Campbell, Mrs. Lillian Green, Mrs.
Francis A. Mutchler, Mrs. Thomas R.
Graves, Mrs. Letitia Plumer, Mrs. Bes
sie Ardeeser, Mrs. Ruth E. Martin,
Mr. Samuel Mastin, Mr. Frank Luck
ett. Mr. Arthur Goelling, Mr. Joseph
Robicheau, Mr. Frank Bailey, Mr.
Bernard Gerhardt, Mr. A. EUHer Mar
tin, Mr. Leo Merkle, Mr. P. H. Jewell, '
Mr. P. J. Farrell, Mr. Anthony Rolfes
^ and Mr. William Wersick.
Boys Locate Eyrie of Falcon
That Hunts From Postal Tower
Craighead Twins Obtain Rare Photo
graphs of Mother Bird Feeding
Young on Cliffs of Potomac.
The falcon is back at the old post office and the pigeons along
Pennsylvania avenue are all aflutter. The falcon uses the post office
building tower as his post of observation, and occasionally dives to the
street, rising with a pigeon victim, scattering feathers and blocking
traffic in the excitement.
The post office tower has a strange attraction for members of
the American duck hawk family, of which this falcon is one. Twenty
three years ago the present falcon's ancestor was raising havoc among
Pennsylvania avenue pigeons. T. Doran McCarty, a Star printer, bor
rowed a rifle and, taking careful aim from The Star roof, shot the bird.
It was stuffed and reposed in the Postmaster General's office for many
years. The Star printed a piece about it at the time.
Recently John and Frank Craighead. 18-year-old twins of 5301
Forty-first street and already well known for their revival of the an
cient sport of falconry, have made a study of the American duck hawk,
taking pictures of its nesting place on the cliffs along the Potomac.
The pictures and the article below were furnished by the Craighead
bnvs.
BY FRANK CRAIGHEAD.
For the last few years Washing
tonians in the vicinity of the old
post office and The Star Building
have been amazed to see a large
dark falcon drop from the sky and
with doubled talons strike down a
speeding pigeon, transforming it into
a shower of flying feathers. A num
ber of these have probably wondered
where this annual visitor, the Ameri
can duck hawk, spends her Summers
and where she raises her fierce brood.
The eyre, or nest of this falcon, is
far from the post office tower. Al
though the starling-infested city pro
vides a perfect hunting ground, it is
not the falcon's idea of a nesting
site. With special care she has chosen
a site on a cliff overlooking the Po
tomac, far from the habitations of
man. My brother and I located her
eyre after diligent and constant
searching. Our purpose was to take
pictures, if possible, and obtain one
of the young to train in the art of
falconry.
We descended the cliff and found
I a nest containing four eggs. A cam
era was set up some 5 feet from the
eggs, focused on them, and then
camouflaged to deceive the falcon. A
blind of burlap sacks, brush and sticks
was constructed at the base of the
cliff. A thin thread was stretched
from the shutter snap of the camera
to the blind below. Several pictures
were obtained in this manner.
Better Method Found.
Quite accidently a more satisfac
tory method was found. My brother
had just finished setting up the cam
era on our third trip to the eyre. The
pair of falcons were circling, diving
and screaming above his head. He
stooped behind a projecting rock for
a few minutes to gather up his equip
ment. In this position he was com
pletely hidden from the hawk, al
though only a few feet from the
nest. Almost instantly the female
bird returned to warm the eggs, and
after a short wait my brother snap- ;
ped the camera shutter and got an ex- j
cellent picture. This performance j
doubled our enthusiasm, so that we ■
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built a blind not more than 8 feet
from the nest and took moving pic
tures as well as still ones.
After the eggs had hatched and
the downy young were a few weeks
old. taking pictures was quite an
other story. At this stage we waited j
on the tiny ledge of the cliff from
six to seven hours in order to get
the pictures we desired, for the
mother falcon was loath to return
until it was absolutely necessary to
feed her young. Three of us, my
brother, a friend and myself took
turns waiting. Quite often our legs
were so cramped from remaining mo
tionless on the narrow ledge that we
could scarcely stand.
Boy's Life Imperiled.
On one occasion one of us almost
fell over the cliff onto the rocks be
low when he attempted to climb down
the rope before his cramped arms had
been exercised to restore circulation.
We witnessed a remarkable per
formance one morning while wailing
for the adult birds to feed the young.
My brother had been in the blind
for three hours. The birds had final
ly stopped circling and screaming,
and had settled down on a dead stub
that commanded an unimpaired view
both upstream and down. Finally
deciding that all was well, the tiercel,
or male bird, with long steady wing
beats headed off into the distance.
Prom our point of observation in the
rocks some 200 yards from the nest,
we noted his departure and timed
him until he returned with a bird
in his talons. It required exactly 20
minutes for him to leave, catch a
bird, deplume it and return.
As the male appeared flying very
high the female left her post at the
nest and flew out to meet him. When
directly over the female the male
dropped the plucked bird and his
mate turning quickly over, caught it !
as it plunged downward. She then
carried it to the young.
Photographs Meal.
My brother in the blind was re
warded for his vigilance by observing
and photographing the meal. The
mother tore the quarry up and fed it
to her ravenous brood. One of the
hawks, being a small and backward
little fellow, was seriously handicap
ped. In the falcon's eyre the rules are
"first come, first served," and survival
of the fittest. Therefore, the largest
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and boldest got the lion's snare irom
the impartial parents, while the little
fellow had to be content to eat after
the appetites of his bigger brethern
had been appeased. This was only
one of the many incidents that we
wire able to observe at first hand.
When Winter approached and the
duty of raising the young hawks had
been taken care of, the falcon re
turned to the city, her Winter hunt
ing ground. To the careful observer
she may be seen often, flying high
above the city, distinguished from the
pigeons and starlings by her greater
size and long pointed wings. To those
who have seen this bird strike her
prey in midair, there will be no doubt
as to her identity.
Dance Planned.
GAITHERSBURG, January 12
(Special).—Sponsored by the young
people of Gaithersburg and vicinity, a
dance for the benefit of St. Martin's
Parochial School will be held in St.
Martin's Hall here on Friday. William
Boland heads the Committee on Gen
eral Arrangements.
j PRESIDENT PAYS VISIT
! TO SON'S VIRGINIA HOME
Makes Surprise Trip to Leesburg
for Luncheon, Leaving Aides
Uninformed.
By the Associated Press.
ι President Roosevelt took advantage
; yesterday of a warm, sunshiny day
to drive to the home of his son. El
liott, near Leesburg, Va.
Leaving shortly before noon, the
President arrived at the home of his
son for luncheon. He remained for
a cpuple of hours before returning
through the Potomac Valley.
Mr. Roosevelt motored alone on his
surprise trip. His aides said they had
not been informed where he was
going or how long he would be gone.
I He is trying to adhere to a five-day
! week and White House aides and em
j ployes were given, as usual, the Sat
urday afternoon elf.
The partly-leathered hazck,
taken from the nest and be
ing trained in falconry by his
ι young captors. He has learn
ed his first step in training—
that human beings are his
triends.
—Photos by John Craighead.
HORSES IN DEMAND
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va., January 12.—
' The demand for work horses on Shc-n
j andoah Valley farms has become so
acute with the beginning of early farm
work that dealers are going into Ken
tucky and other border States for
aniirals.
[ Frices have Increased. Farmers
ι claim a horse is more useful for cer
tain work than a machine.
Boy Naturalists With Hidden Camera Trace History of Duck Hawk's Life
The mother haxok returning stealth
ily to her nest in a cliff along the Po
tomac, several miles above Wash
ington.
The mother returns to care for the young.
Her eyes never leave the camera nor the
blind behind which she suspects an on
looker is hiding.
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The young hawks get their first
glimpse of the world. The feathers
are just starting to appear.
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One of the young fwwks on
his first day away from, the
aerie. He bears little resem
blance to a fierce killer.
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TWO ARE BELIEVED
DROWNEDINCREEK
Charles County Authorities
Start Search for Miss
ing Men.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARBURY, Md„ January 12 —
The waters of Chicamuxen Creek were
being dragged by Charles County au
thorities tonight for the bodies of two
employes of a Washington gasoline
filling station who are believed to
have drowned while duck hunting of!
Stump Neck Point yesterday after
noon.
One of the men is Maudy Groves
of Rison, Md.. while the second Is an
unidentified Maryland resident who
drove down from the Capital with
Groves yesterday. A dog that «ai
with the men also is missing.
Groves' boat was found floating up
side down on the opposite side of the
creek from Stump Neck Point, while
the Rison man's cap was discovered
afloat nearby. Groves' gun and a
lone duck were In the blind.
Deputy Sheriff George M. Sullivan
said It was the opinion of authorities
that the men left the blind to recover
a crippled duck and drowned when
their boat capsized in the rough water.
Woodrow Milstead. a farmer who
lives at Chicamuxen, told Sullivan
that he was hunting some distance
away from Groves' blind yesterday
and saw the two men rowing in the
middle oi the creek about 2:30 p.m.
He said he looked back a few moments
later and che men and their boat had
disappeared from view but he thought
nothing of it at the time.
Search for the men was instituted
late yesterday after Groves' father,
an employe at the naval powder fac
tory at Indian Head, reported that his
son had failed to return home. The
car used by the two men was found
locked where the men had left it a
short distance from the blind.
Lunch Fund to Benefit.
HAMILTON, ya.. January 12 (Spe
cial).—The Hot Lunch Committee et
the Hamilton Parent-Teacher Associa
tion will held a bingo party at the
school Friday for the benefit of the
lunch fund.
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