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ZERS FRAME INNOCENT BOY TO MAKE SHOWING
CALLS TRAFFIC.
CONFERENCE

81 Traffic problems will be consid-
cred BY d special traffic conference
composed Of Representatives Of six
civic ana trade organizations Of
the city Thursday night.
The conference has been called
BY the advisory board Of the Dis
trict 81 Columbia Division Of the
American Automobile Association.
The organizations which will par
Iticipate are: The washington Cham.
Der OF Commerce, the Washington
Board Of Trade, the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association. the
Truck Owners Association, the Fed
GRAFTON Of Citizens Associations and
the washington Automotive Trade
Association.
The A.. "A. IA. has appointed At
torney George W. Offutt, jr., and
Charles p. Clark, assistant general
manager, az its representatives ana
the Chamber Of Commerce has se.
Iected Charles w. Darr and a.
Leftwich Sinclair to represent Il.
The other representatives viii be
chosen shortly
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FDLILERs STIR
l. {. int EsT
81 GARDNER MACK

Nothing z chirped q fair blonde
voice through the telephone today
.absolutely nothing can give me
the thrfIl 81 hunt for old'tine
fiddlers unless It Is hearing the
old-timers fiddle.
Shown how II ID possible ~
reach into the atmosphere Tor the
raw materials OF an overture 20
ot,r return to the worlds most
beautiful city and strike the We'll
known ana most resonant q re-
sponsive chords
And the same idea was ocn0ed
in deep. barrel.like bass. tonsolitic
tenor and mellow contralto ever
and oft through the course Of ye1-
terday when the public became
aware that IN old-tirne 1ioniin8
contest was about t0 Pc sphu ~
the National Capital.
That there are two rather Well
known personages IN the city en-
gagged In the most continuous 100
81 oId.tinne fiddiing that Is now
being carried on aYlywhere IN the
wnrid another voice proclaimed
over the fish at luncheon. But the
facf that both Vice President
Dawes ana speaker LOngw0rth are
really violinists ana not fidolerD
in the musical sense spiked any
further suggestion OF their Deipg
enrolled Is the first Of the confess
ants.
they Arc Personalities
However. they are possibilities,
and ii may be that they win come
IN on some part Of the contest
even though they may not pc con
testants. u.
The main thing now ds TO set -
touch with ell the old;tinne fl0nletl
plying their trade, exercising their
faIent 81 performing their diaDclic
depending on whether the
neraon giving the subject CONSIDER
alton regards old time fiddIing aa
An ART. science or something 20
be nut up with. And the business
of getting them properly enrolled
rs going on in earnest Eat WIZ II
tact. WRC has become .cOnside LILLY
.s11af me- over the matter and tO-
dav Il considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of calling on its atmosphere brother
WIZ Of New Yofk-to save time
for the contest on it, program ~
that the wide, wide Worid may
know Of It on al available wave
lengths.
lively adopted Ii that the entire
collection Of contestants shall be
gathered in an appropriate paa,-e
on the date vet 70 be agreed upon
and given not less than two and
possibly three opportunities to
demonstrate just how well they can
do their stuff.
Music Requirements
There Ii no limitation On the
kind az music that Is 10 be played
/ the only requirement being that =
can be used for dancing the oid
j time dances Quadrille, lancers.
/ schottisclae, polIa--to name q 1eW
Of then, And further, that the
tune played shall be recogniz pie
] as associated with one or the other
of those Dances
The suggestion has been made
that the contest be staged In some
place where there may be dancing
to the old time tunes dancing Of
the old time dances. This sugses-
ton Is being given consideration
and may be adopted At the pres.
ent time the names and addresses
of the old time fiddlers are the
first things wanted. These should
be sent to WRC ais soon as pos
sible SO that the definite arrange
ments as to the where ana when
and how Of the competition may be-
given those who win be most con-
cerned.
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an AQUARIUM as the different fig
lfes noted in and out OF my view.
Come on, Dwight, search this
man. He's got intoxicants on
him." .
Danny was pinned In front OF
me, six feet away or SO, Shep hold
ing and twisting one arm, while
Staples performed a similar Office
for the other. Dwight swan 1Iiro
range, a white parcel in his IaSft
hand. Dexterously he thrust the
printing fluid into the left-hand .,ads
pocket Of Danny's overcoat. "Ycu
search him." he laughed, to. Shcp.
"I'n hold him. .
.Shep pulled the bottle from
Danny's pocket. He tore OFF tie
paper covering and removed the
cork. "Ah! thought 50. WINS.
keyg'
Us It, sure enough?', asked Sta.
pies, with grim.
with a maneuVef sornhoM si1g-
gestive Of the football field. Danny
wrenched an arm his shovel arm
free, and drove at Shep with d
smash that was better lodged than
blocked. Shep chose to dodge, ana
simultaneously brought his black.
Jack down on Danny's forehead
with the force and technique OF a
railroad section hand driving q
spike.
Dwight ana Staples held Danny
in partially upright position, @ds
head hanging forward on his chest.
his feet bent sideways at the ankles.
like straw figure with clothes on.
A thin, sharply outlined angleWorm-
looking thing extended from the
ground up to about where Danny's
mouth should be. Danny's two ex
hibitors jerked his head back, and
the thing broke and spread on his
overcoat. and dripped in half 81
dozen little cataracts to the ground.
Jones Couldn't Hold Himself
Shops army was raised for q
second blow. 1 didn't believe it al!
at once. You, couldn't grasp IA
thing like that in one dose. 1t
came to me like calomel. When the
last pill was swallowed, so to speak,
and Shep had raised himself to his
tiptoes, so as not to waste any OF
his talents, something went wrong
inside Of me, and lurched out the
door.
And il I'd been locked in a cage,
and had been covered with hair ir.-
stead of clothes, interested visitors
never would have suspected that
the yell that got hung up in the
lower part of my throat wasn't a
dumb brute's growl. 1t made my
flesh creep to hear. 1t.
And now that am poised on the
running board, ready for the leap
without the slightest idea Of what
I'm going to do after. land-I
must remain poised long enough
to correct a false impression / may
have set up in the last few para.
graphs.
Shep and his merry men were
not typical enforcement agents OF
that period, Or any other period Of
which / can speak with knowledge.
Barker and his helpers. think,
were nearer the general run of such
officials. They were hard men for
us rum-runners to deal with. they
were wide-awake, stern, forecful
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4 am lover of Christ az q man
and of all His works ana all things
that help humanity" declares Bur-
bank. ''but, nevertheless, just as He
was an infideI then I am an infidel
today"
Burbank. in the article, was re
peating his recently expressed dis-
sention with the opinion Of Henry
Ford In the February Cosmopolitan
Magazine. that the theory of re-
incarnation might. be proved to be a
correct one-that all Of us are put
in this world for the good that we
can develop within us and carry
over for the benefit Of succeeding
generations when reincarnated.
Gan religions of the past, and
probably all OF the future, viii
sooner or later become petrified
forms instead OF living helps to
Mankind Burbank declares In the
article.
"As a scientist, I cannot help but
feel that all religions are on a
tottering foundation.
None IL perfect or inspired.
''The idea that good God would
send people TO q burning hell liz
utterly damnable to me.
IT don't want to have anything
to do with such God"
Referring to F'ord's opinion on
reincarnation, as expressed In the
Cosmopolitan Burbank says:
THE universe Is not big enough
to contain perpetually all the hti>
man souls and the other living
beings that have been here for their
short span.
"a theory Of personal resurrection
or reincarnation Of the individual
Ia untenable when we but pause to
consider the magnitude of the idea.
"On the contrary, must believe
that, rather than the survival OF
all, we must looks for survival only
In the spirit of the good we have
done in passing through.
Once obsolete, an automobile is
thrown to the scrap heap.
"Once here and gone, the human
life has. likewise served Its pur.
pose.
IF it has been a good life 1t has
been sufficient. There Is no need
for another.
1.-THE theory of reincarnatton.
which originated in India, has been
welcomed in other countries.
Without doubt it is one of the
most sensible and satisfying Of all
religions that mankind has con-
ceived.
This, like the others, comes
from the best qualities of human
nature, even If in this, as in the
others, it's adherents sometimes fail
to carry out the principles in their
lives.
1T do recognize the existence of
a great universal power--a power
which we can't even begin to COM
prehend and might as well not at
tempt to.
1T may be a conscious mind and
1t may not. / don't know.
"As scientist, / should like &to
know, but, as a man, / am not 80
vitality concerned.
LAS for Christ-well, He has
been most outrageously belied. His
followers, like those of many
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men. but they were not wantonly
cruel or unnecessarily brutal
And they knew what civilization
would be like without law. and
they had d fairly accurate idea
Of the legal radius within which
they must act.
They were working at a dis
tasteful job-how many OF US are
not?-but they were good, every
day American citizens not one
hundred percenters - they'd rate
around seventy.five to eighty. prob.
ably, and they did not feel that
their whole duty was performed
when they had forced other people
to obey the Constitution.
They were intelligent enough to
understand that they must obey 1t
themselves, too. From my five
years experience. believe that
these men were typical Of the en-
forcement personnel. Shep and his
assistant atrocities were an abnor-
NAL type-with fellow freaks
enough to constitute a sort OF sub
variety OF the species.
But didn't pause on the rum
ninmboard long enough to consider
didn't pause at ali. My pausing
mechanism was out of order. The
sight OF those three Shiny animals
beating up-perhaps numbering, q
helpless boy while their ears were
deluged with his mothers pitiful
shrieks for mercy-well 1t stripped
from me every emotion, every
sensibiIity but indignation. rage,
hatred, ferocity-select the right
word from that string IL you please,
and strike out the others. l cant
make any choice-they all look good
to me, only a little weak.
Love Was RebelIlng
/ was dehumanized. The petty re-
finements Of mind and spirit that
we soul-proud being treasure so
carefully were dissipated. Ten
| thousand generations Of develop
ment dropped away like an out
grown shell, and crouched on the
| running board bereft of all impulse
but a few simple instincts that you
could duplicate by the thousands in
any menagerie in the land
And ] didn't know that I was
even perturbed. The revolution had
taken place so quietly that l hadn' t
ben prescribed by the aristocrats of
my emotions, so to speak--by con-
vention. thoughtfulness. reason AID
the rest. But here was an emerg-
ency that the aristocracy was I'M
able to deal with. Reason was too
slow. too cumbersome for avail. and
convention was weak. They were
overthrow with one beat Of the
heart. and a Mussolini administra-
ton of the down-trodden Instincts
usurped the governmental powers
of my being, and took full charge
of the situation,
But the new administration forgot
to notify me of the change, and
never suspected that anything un-
usual had happened. Everything
seemed commonplace and matter Of
fact to me. Here was a blotch on
the landscape. which l later identi-
fled as thing roughly resembling
human being, clothed in a brown
overcoat and SLOUGH hat-the man
Shep. He was to be torn and
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rended and stamped into the ground
as you have seen excitable and
scary persons stamp on snake
long after all need for such physical
exertion has passed.
IL had any object aS ~ -
my movements Il was probably
something like that But the only
consciousness + had was to reach
him. The MussOlini government
would do the rest.
And all otIis seemed as natural
and commonplace as walking into
q dining room. and handing my
overcoat to the hat-check boy. The
look Of utter horror that the two
things holding the straw figure di-
rected behind me. couldn't under.
stand. II / hadn't been in such q
hurry ia probably have looked
back.
was an arms length or so too
far away when Shep turned around
and saw me coming at him
Through the air: My face was a
daub Of mud. blood and wheel
grease. / didn't like his looks and
I began to feel irritated. The yell
was still sticking In the lower part
of my throat, and 1t must have
sounded like growl, to Shep. My
lips were dry and stuck to my teeth
and stretched my mouth into o
sort OF grin to clear them out OF
the way for the next step OF the
campaign as laid down by the revo
lutionists.
For an instant Shep was
startled. and seemed to forget
the blackjack which his hand Stin
held mechanically above his
head. That instant was enough
for me. and I grabbed the
WeapOn--I had some faint notion
Of beating out a few stanZas Of
Measure for Measure" on his
skull. although didn't think Of
II that way then.
/ landed just about the time
grabbed. and / landed mainly or
my injured foot, which had for
gotten about. The Mussolini gov
eminent had overlooked 1t In Tho
pressure of business, and l went
down on my back with $50 pounds
of slime on top of me.
They were pretty good men, too
at rough -and-tumole. and they KEEP
me there. wouldn't let go OF
the blackjack, and neither woulf
Shep, and Dwight sort Of driftei
into The position to execute the
command thumbs down"
He had to be pretty quick about
1t, because / was wiggling free.
was cycling his blackjack about al
Cant. John Smith must have eyed
Powhatan's stone ak, when a he
Pocahontas commanded in cool
all I-have-to-do-is.spe sort of voice
Here, here! No violence with thai
man-he's insane. I'm taking hin
TO the .sanitarium. Turn him ovel
to me. I'll be responsible for him
He's easily managed when you
know how" the voice smiled. TIN
DR.. Brown, of the Polytechnic SAM
tarium."
(TO Be Continued Monday
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ANDERSON / | I
BY XII KLUX

william r. Zumbrunn. Washing
ton attorney for the Ku Klux Khan.
attacking confirmation of Federal
Judge Harry B. Anderson, Of the
western Tennessee district, before
a subcommittee OF the Senate Jul
dietary Committee, today read a re-
port of a Department Of Justice
agent which detailed long list OF
automobile thieves who, despite
pleas of guilty and past criminal
records were paroled by Anderson
before serving a single day of their
sentences.
In one case, a plea Of guilty
brought a fine of one cent.
Many of the paroled prisoners
were negroes.
The official docket of the court
contained no record of any or the
cases cited by Zumbrunn.
]. NJ. fowler, Department OF
Justice Investigator, who was on.
the stand, could assign no reason
for any of the paroles:
Senator Mcclellan Cd of Tennes-
see, Immediately announced that at
his request all "loose leaf records
of the court were in the mails en-
route to Washington. These in.
clude the Al cases in which Yum
brunn yesterday charged Anderson
making false entries" In his Of
ficial records. ...~
McKellar's statement drew fire
from Zumbrunn. The Khan repre-
sentative demanded to know what
the Senator's status was-'whether
a member of the committee or coun-
sci for the defense"
Fairly shouting, Mcclellan re-
sponded: I'm here as a representa-
tive. Of the people of Tennessee.
I'm standing for what I think is
right, and by the eternals I'm
going to keep on doing So
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scientific and literary men who pro-
dtlce no real thoughts Of their own,
have $50 garbIed His words and con-
duct that many Of them no longer
apply to present life. Christ was
q wonderful psychologist.
when 1t has been proved to uao
shat there is immortality, that
there is resurrection beyond the
gates Of death. then will believe.
Until then, no."
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U. S. COMMISSIONERS
LOSE NEW ORLEANS JOBS

NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. "a
Four United States commissioners.
who have been functionfng here tor
years, will be relieved of duty Feb.
ruary 1, and Henry j. Loisel, now
q deputy United States district
clerk, will assume the office Of
United States commissioner, under
an order issued by Federal Judge
Louis H. Burns today. and consoli-
date the offices.
The four commissioners, r. H.
Carter, r. H. Carter, jr., Arthur II.
Browne, and Eaton J. Bowers, have
been operating independently OF
each other, with the result that no
unified system Of records and no
standard practice of issuing proc
esses has prevailed.
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TRAWLERS AID
SHIP IN GALE
By International News Service

BOSTON, Jan. zO.-W IIH IIIS
steam trawlers Ripple and Wave
standing by. the disabled steamship
Mariner was riding out a gale off
Truro, Cape Cod, today, according
to wireless messages received at
the Charlestown Navy Yard.
Calls of distress from the Mariner
were answered by the fishing
trawlers, who asked for bearings
from the naval station here.
The Coast Guard cutter Acushnet
was under steam at Woods Hole
ready to dash around the arm OF
Cape Cod if further assistance was
needed by the Mariner. ....,.....
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LIGHT SUPPLY COMPANY
FILES IN BANKRUPTCY

Morr,s Epstein, trading under The
name OF Elite Light Supply Com
pany, 1901 Eye st. N. W., today
petitioned the District aSupreme
Court to be adjudged . voluntary
bankrupt.
He lists his debts at SO, 1880 and
Ills assets at $3.50. Attorneys
Simon, Koenigsberger, Young and
Brez appear for the petitioner.
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ANT PINT
AND Then
ARREST
sYNoPs1s

PAusp JOKES, out Of JOB, turns
ssssn-runner to get easy and quick
ssoney TO pay hospital bills for his
Wifs Btleea and iniant, Sonny. He
los Just 0rrived n Washington from
Baltimore driving block or prOtec.
tion car for load OF rum. Convoy
ing the sltquor Into q garage ~
Southeast Washington alley, 1t "
accessory TO nearly 4oreck an auto
bearing prohibition officers. These
prohibition men haze had bad tceek; ;
they hdUenit made many arrests and
they are IN the state OF mind to eUe4
frame some isnocegt party IN order
to make shooting to their chief.
Nos0 90 Oh sOith the story:
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"RUM-RUNNING IN
WASHINGTON"
y DONALD MeDOUCAL
eAEsvis and stage Rights Reserved

C11AS 4Gt16 <AA%
Copyright. 1886
4 flare of light came through the
windows of the 1eft-hand curtains
and made little yellow oblongs On
the opposite side. Indistinct voices
clarified as q door creaked and the
Ieblongs grew brighter.
Bye, Ms"
aBye. Danny. You'll be home
~ seven, won't your"
ooh, no, Ma. I've got twenty
furnaces now, and they're 3 long
way apart. can't get through
before nine"
Twenty furnaces! When did
you get the OtIaers?"
.'Why, that's what ! was telling
vou about while / was eating,
Mr.. Banlxroft recommended me.
He told 'enl was saving with
coal, and they could depend on
my getting around the same
time every morning. He got SIX
new. ones for me. I start with
iem this morning. That's sixty
cents q day more.
Sixty cents q day more! why
that's four dollars and twenty cents
q week.
That's what I was telling you
while I was eating breakfast. You
must have been half asleep. ii you
didn't hear that"
wen. I've heard 1t now, and It's
good hearing. Stopped raining
hasn't itg,.
sEes. stars are out. Bye, Ma. 2
Bye pauA q
Drys Spot Danny
heard Danny.s steps slowing
up as he passed the car. The door
creaked and the oblongs disappeared
gradually from the curtains.
A voice so low that could barely
hear 1t rasped Here's our meat.
Got the printing f1uid?"
It's in the car. You hold him
mp. I'll get It.
The car swayed as the men got
MP from the running board.
Hey, you-where you going?"
Who's askfng?"
None OF your lip, now, boy.
asked you where you're going"
To the best Of my knowledge
and belief, its none Of your damn
business where I'm going. It's
enough for me to tell you that
you're blocking my way"
yeah. That's the reason I'm
standing here. You're one them
wise guys, Ell? Well. you'll be
consid'abI wiser when git
through with you. You may be
> BIT sadder. too-but. that's up
TO you"
The door creaked again, and prob.
ably the yellow oblongs appeared on
the curtain-I can't be sure ]
to look out the window, without
hurting my foot too much.
Danny! Danny! What's the
natter" came from the doorway.
Nothing, Ma, nothing. just
come policemen looking for informa-
ton"
Were enforcement agents, boy,
not policemen"
"You maybe highway robbers for
ali I know"
Danny, be careful what you
say!"
Eyes, Danny" mimicked Shep,
you damn sight better be careful
what you say" / attained the win.
dow in time to see the law en-
forcer pull something from his hip
pocket. It wasn't a gun. In the
dim light of the alley 1t looked
something like a frankfurt sausage.
Danny's Mother Hysterical
A window clattered on the oppo
site side Of the alley, then another
end another. "Oh! My God, Danny
Danny" heard the shuttle o,
loose-shod feet, and a gray-hairel
woman, frail, bent, horribly stoop
shouldered SWAN past my window
couldn't shake the idea that I was
looking at a new kind of fish in
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8 Christ Was Irfdel, :
Says Burbank

SAN FRANCISCO Jan. 23-That Christ was an infidel
in His day His rebellion against the prevailing religion
government that the same the world
today call him infide the statement of Luther
Francisco Bulletin.
The Kevin review., 1926-12-02
HOME, DAD AND THE BOY
The Alb Dad
By FRANK H. CHELEY

~~~~~~~-~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~,
The Kevin review., 1926-12-02
Wen IN noabt White
Bauer L0St In Hole

The value Of the Peterson-Broder-
ick well in section 1892 W, as it
now stands, will remain in doubt
until the crew succeeds in removing
lost bailer from the hole or is able
to break it up by further drilling.
The well has attracted the atten-
tion of majority of the oil men in
the Kevin-Sunburst field because Of
the discovery of oil in two stray
sands. AS the location is only three
miles northeast of Shelly. local oper-
ators are particularly hopeful that
commercial production will result
from deeper drilling or shooting the
sands already found, believing that
an intensive drilling campaign, which
would mean much to the town, is GER
tain to result
1t has been definitely established
that the hole contains oil but the
amount remains undetermined. Some
assert that 25O feet Of he fluid now
stands in the well. The Gil is black
and heavy and apparently is If q
paraffine base as it congealg quickly
at surface temperature. Tie regular
crude does no. sohd-
ify until the mercury drops near the
zero mark.
The first stray sand found in the
-Broderick well was IL feet
thick and the second from two to |
three feet in depth Drilling has
been proceeding under difficulty as
the well is making from 100000 to
100000 feet of gas and it has been
to keep the hole nearly
filled with water in order to counter
act the gas pressure
The Kalispell-Coleman company
has let contract for a second well
on the Cleveland lease in the ex-
treme east end of the field The
new well will be one location east
of the first hole which opened up
whaht appears to be new good pro
ducing from stray and. mhe com
pany is making arrangements to
erect a permanent camp and power
plant to the lease.