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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
SHOOTING OF CONSUL
LAID TO ANARCHIST

BY the ASSOtidtcu IiCes.
VERA CRUZ, July 20.-Reports re-
ceived here from Puerto Mexico at.
tribute the attack on United States
Consul William E. Chapman to an
anarchist, since his assailant made no
attempt to carry off anything of
value.
The intruder entered the consul's
house through a skylight in the
kitchen and secreted himself behind
the door in the consul's sleeping room,
the dispatches say, and from this
point he shot the consul while the
latter was attempting to turn on the
lights.
Mr.. Chapman says that nearly three
weeks ago he asked for police pro-
lection. fearing an attack owing to
the agitation against the execution OF
Sacco and VanZetti.
Gen. Juan Amaya. a high official
of the government. has gone to Puerto
Mexico to investigate the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
Germany and Japan Sign Treaty.

TOXIC, July 20 R.-A commercial
treaty between Japan and Germany,
based on one which was operated be.
fore the World War, was signed here
this morning by representatives of the
two governments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
Assigned to New York.

Lieut.. Col. Edgar w. Miller, Army
Medical Corps. who has just COM
pleted tour Of duty in the Philip.
pines, has been assigned to duty at
the general dispensary, New York
City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
|B|RGER TO TESTIFY,
| COUNSEL ASSERTS
Will Make Sweeping Denial of
Murder Charges, When
State Ends Case.
BY the Associated Press.

BENTON, H., July 20.-Charles
Karch, chief counsel for Charles Biz
ger, announced today that the south
ern Illinois gang chieftain would take
the witness stand in his own defense
and make blanket denials Of charges
that he was implicated in the killing
of Mayor Joe Adams of West City.
Karch said he planned to introduce
Birger's testimony Immediately after
the State rested it's case, and that Ray
Hvland, charged Jointly with the gang
chieftain, also would take the stand
and deny any completely in the Adams
murder.
Newman Appearance Problematical.
Counsel for both the State and de.
tense have intimated that the appear
ance on the stand of Art Newman,
Birger's lieutenant. who also Is facing
charges growing out of Adams death,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
Gen. Joyes Gets Leave.

Brig. Gen. John w. Joyes, assist
ant chief Of ordnance, Munitions
Building, has been granted leave of
absence for four months effective
July 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20

A 900pound COW ordinarily eats
about 30 pounds of silage a day, and
1,200-pound one approximately 40
pounds. Yearlings eat about one-half
as much as mature animals
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
END OF MISSISSIPPI FLOOD IN SIGHT

NEW ORLEANS, May :, l41- With 33ovoo persons in the North End and Old River Districts, either driven from their homes, or forced to the upper floors or the tops of buildings, the begin ming of the end the greatest flood in the history of the Mississippi Valley felt today below the mouths of the rivers between Cerscent City and the mouth of the Red River. consistent fall shown indicating that the waters which have been running free over the lowlands long return ing to the main streams
 VICKsBURG, Miss May :. eP,-secretary Hoover summarizing the lower Mississippi flood sit .aion today declared that every penny of the ten million dollar Red Cross fund. and as much more as the American people give is needed for the care of refugees Three hundred and thirty thou sand people must be cared for the result of the devastation already wrought. The river has al ready spread thirt yfour thousand square miles of Louisiana owlands, he said. and the crest of the flood is just passing Vicksburg. "There is about six thousand square miles of Louisiana still kept dry bv the levees but these levees which thou sands of men are working. have not yet felt the power of the hood.' he said.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
OVER EDUCATED WOMEN

LONDON, May 4, LP)-"Women are spelling themselves by over-education and too much work, declared Sir w. Arbuthnot Lane, the well known surgeon.
 "They have improved in many ways during recent years" he continued, and they are all the better for the higher standard of education they have demanded, but many of them are now going too far They are wearing themselves out to sat isfy their unsuitable desire for thoroughness.
 Sir Arbuthnot said that man is the frail cre- ature and woman is the strong. "She takes too much advantage of this strength. Women of all kinds and classes work too hard except those who exhaust themselves in search for pleasure.'
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
NEW DANCE STARTED ALONG RIO GRAHDE

BROWNSVILLE. Texas. April 29. P-Tiring of the strenuous acrobatics of the Charleston and the Black Bottom. the Rio Grande Valley has turned to dance of it's own, the Spanish Shawl
 A terpschorean artist recently visited the valley of the Mexican dances and straight away invented the Shawl, which is rapidly ontdis- tancing the other dances in popularity.
 The new dance combines jazz with the softer, genter movements of the Latin motif. Some des- cribe the Shawl ,he Mexican interpretation of modern dancing.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
TOBACCO CHEWING DEER
 MAY SUPPLANT HCSKIES

ANCHORAGE. Alaska, April 29 (A')-Tobac- mule and the fighting qualities of Gene Tnnney, bid fair challenge the supremacy of the mala- mutes in the field of Alaska transportation.
 This is the belief of W. c. Culver, formerly of the United States Bureau of Education. who says Eskimo herders of Broad Pass finding ready sale to prospectors of sed-broke reindeer for draught purposes.
 Save On Animal Feed
 The of dogs entails hauling dog feed to a base of operations and feeding the animals during the months when they have no work to perform. It has been found economical to utilize pair of reindeer for hauling supplies over the spring crust and then butcher the animals for meat at the end of the journey.
 Where it required 50 pounds of tallow, 100 pounds of meal and pounds of rice with the addition of dried salmon to feed dog a small quantity of reindeer moss sufices to cover journey of 100 miles with a reindeer team and the prospectors grub bill is reduced to the extent Of about 1so pounds of reindeer meat
 Reindeer Temperament
 Reindeer extremely temperamental and must be handled with diplomacy. says Culver
 Better call truce when 'Reiny' becomes of the various brands of strong plug tobacco then sit down and wait until the steed's mental process digests his single idea-that of adamant stubborn ness-and supplant it with something bespeaking desire to travel"
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
MISSISSIPPI FLOOD Is RECORD BREAkER

MEMPHIS, May [, U49-The Mississippi flood after more than three weeks of rampage has placed 323S37 persons, record number for disasters, under the care of the American Red Cross. l he list is being swelled hourly additional flood pour the dykes. Reports to the Red Cross show that up to yesterday ?5eoo have b5eh against typhoid fever and S50oo vaccln- aed against smallpox Twenty seven arpanes and s26 power boats working in the flood waters and thirty wireless stations operating.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 29, uP)-Alaska livestock will Alaska hay in winter well as in summer if experiments conducted by w. H. Al berts, director of demonstration farms in the Terri tory. a snccesS
 Alberts feels that Alaska be made self supporting in the agricultural and animal industry, At present cattle fed oat hay clover and other rouehage shipped in from Canada and the States.
 Wild red-top, native grass, grows to height of six feet and is very dense in parts of the Snstna valley. The principal objection to native hay has been its lack of nutrition due to rapid growth under the mdniaht and the great amount of moisture in the soil
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07

PARIS, May 4. R-The Americans longing for the dishes mother used to cook has brought Commander Andrew Jackson Stone. U. s. N Re- tired, szeabe fortune.
 He furnishes Vermont sausages and Bantam ericans in France. His business is of the most successful American enterprises in France.
 After the war, Stone, realizing that France short 2,500.000 hogs. retired>to a little mount ain section near Meuan. not far from Paris and started raising pigs. Today pedigreed herd of 1.500 fat porkers the slopes of his 500 acre tract and he not only controls the Vermont sausage and corn the cob market of France. but is grad ually educating the French people to liking for the foreign food Pork sausages have been fav- ored for long time in France. Commander Stone is popularizng Vermont pork sausages.
 The French people still have prejudice ag- ainst corn. They consider 1t fit only for pigs and horses. Under American influence French families now use corn table vegetable. Ger. tain chic French hostesses who pride themselves on knowing American customs serve the cob at informal dinners. A few French families eat what Americans call stewed corn. The French keep the American and call their newly dis covered edible sweet corn" pronouncng as Am- ericans would.
 Homeward bound Americans now eat Yer mont suasages the ocean voyage if they want to. Commander Stone furnishes every liner sail ing form France with Vermont sausages He also produces hams, but for them he uses the famous Bayonae recipe. where the best hams in France made.
 The Stone pigs eat better than any others in France. Their menu of boiled corn and artichokes is the envy of the wild boars in the nearby forests The boars occasionally raid the pigs steal their food and leave some of the herd in mansled condition. No pig on Stone's farm is allowed to outeat its neishbor. The young sorted and put into pens with fellows of their own size and vigor
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07

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The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
FAMED EDUCATOR PASSES TO HIS REWARD

VIENNA. Calif., May 5, P)-Doctor Ben,a- min Ide Wheeler. President Emeritus of the Uni versty of California, died here yesterday after an extended illness. The following bographicai sketch of Dr. wheelers life is furnished in the ad- vance service of the Associated Press.
 The story of the great physical growth Of the University of California is the story of the prin- cipal achievement in the life of Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler who for 20 years as IF s'ient guided the destnies of that institution He was elected pres ident of the institution while occupying the chair of Greek and comparative phiology at Cornell in 1899. At that time the University of California then young among the universities of the country. had an enrolment of 2.439 students When he retired the active head of the university in 1919 and became president emeritus. the enrolment had reached nearly 10000.
 Few men of scholarly attanments had been the recipient of a greater number of academic honors from institutions of learning than Dr. Wheeler Among those which conferred degrees upon him were Brown University, from which he received his A. B. in 1875, and his Masters Degree three years later; Princeton. Harvard, Yale. Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania. Dartmouth, Coum bia. Colgate. Illinois, Wisconsin University of Ken lucky University of Athens and University of Hei- delberg.
 After he was graduated from Brown Unver- sity Dr. Wheeler spent several years instructor his Alma Mater and Harvard and Cornell. For two years. 1895 and 1896 he professor of Greek Literature at American School of Classic al Studies, Athens, and in 19O9-1919 he Roose- welt professor the University of Berlin
 When he assumed his duties President of the University of California. Dr. Wheeler from the beginning displayed his ability business ganizer in university affairs and director of education He the personal through which many thousands of dollars made avail able for the university through gifts. bequests legislative appropriation. In his efforts to build up the university and through spread inteec tual influence he always had the cooperation of the student body He always impressed upon those mind well the body fit, and often told the students that "The world makes way who knows where he is going" It has been said of Dr. Wheeler that had he entered business he would have been of the leaders American industry.
 Dr. Wheeler the author of number of scientific and educational works and contributed largely to dictionaries and encyclopedias phil ology, philosophy and psychology.
 He born Randolph, Mass, July IS, 1854 and died May 3rd. 1927 In June. 1881 he married Miss Amey Webb of Providence. R. l.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
SING OR TALK LOUDLY IN
 VIENNA AND YOU'RE JAILED

VIENNA, May I, P)-Under notifications of the municipal laws of Vienna persons whc talk. whistle or sing too loudly in the streets are fined thirty cents For repeated ofenses jail sentences are provided.
 If person is de-ected reading a newspaper or book while walking along the street. thereby impeding pedestrian trafic." he may be subjected to similar fine.
 Stopping friend in the middle of a roadway carrying packages of undue sizes and using bad or unseemly language. among other punishable of- lenses
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
JAMES WILKINS, OLD NOMEITE. DROPS DEAD

SAN FRANCISCO May '. lP)-James A. Will lins who made fortune in the Alaska gold rush dropped dead while paying his income tax al the Customs Houes yesterday. Whklns was oah Francisco cafe owner before going to Alaska where he owned half interest in Number Grass Guteh near Nome He was that time member Of tho firm of Sullivan and Wilkins He later sold cut for about million dollars and came outside
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
,oITET RUSSIA INVITES CAPITALISTS IHl'HE

GENEVA, May :, uPJ soyi Russia has ofered the olive treneh of pet1 fH economic e"i- alteration to capitalist countr eV Fywhere Pre- n.ier Sokokof told th: Int natit nal Economic conference today. He th the Soviet Union would welcome industrial afeement with for eign countries capitalists and that there is no reason why the world could not have pacific com petition between two economic systems represente ed by the Soviet other countries.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
SNYDER CASE GOES TO JURY MONDAY

NEW YORK; May ', lH)-The jury will get was conclude at the close of yesterdays session was concluded at teh close of yesterdays session of the trial which has lasted three weeks and an adjournment taken until Monday Mrs sny- der contrary expectations, did not take the stand in redirect examination.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07

27..-- Barrow r. B. of E. Schl. Li=bes Go 10
 The above d'stan"es were measured by cHtiohi- . CT during the writer of 1926-- (rom Isaac's Point H. Wainwrightl Ds;a4ees from w. inwrigh 10 I,dIow estimated by M." Carrier and oit'r traVters
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
ALASKA WRESTLER WINS DECISION

DETROIT May '. lPl-Jack Sherraw, Alas kan heavyweight wrestler last night defeated Will liam Demethral of Chicago, winning two falls out of three Sherraw was a favore from the outset of the match.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07
TABLE OF TRAIL DISTANCES

DISTANCES BETWEEN NOME Pr. RARRo"
 Compiled by Alaska Road Commission
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-21
THREE HURT IN PANIC
Passengers on Street Car Jam Exits
When Fire Bursts Out.

Three persons were injured and
several others received cuts and
scratches when the control box on
an inbound Garfield street car
caught fire and precipitated a panic
near 'McCarty and Delaware SITS.
Sunday evening.
3. +. Roack, S14 e. Iowa St., in
jured his back when he dived
through window in the rear vesti-
bule. Deller Cowles. $50 Buchanan
St., was cut about the arms by bro
ken glass. Mrs. S. c. Felske, 900 S.
Delaware St, was trampled when
she tainted in the aisle in the path
Of passengers dashing for the exits.
Twenty-Five people were on the
car at the time. Damage to the car
swas slight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-21
WIDOW OF EDITOR ;
ACCUSES FRIEND
IN MURDER CASE
Salesman Named by Mrs.
Albert Snyder Arrested for
New York Officers.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, March 21.--Mrs.
Ruth Snyder, known as Tommy
among her gay friends, crumpled
under an attack of continuous ques-
tioning today and in a semi-hysteri.
cal condition described how her hus-
band, Albert Snyder, art editor of
Motor Boating, had been murdered
in his bed.
Her version of the crime was made
public in part after Henry Judd
Gray, corset salesman in the employ
of, a Newark IN. J) concern, had
been arrested in Syracuse, N. Y.
Mrs. Snyder named Gray, with whom
she had been frienly, as the slayer.
Ruse Charged
Detectives charged a lovers plot,
on the basis of her statement. They
said the pretty, blonde Mrs. Snyder
had agreed after the murder to let
herself be bound and gagged and to
have the house mussed up to sug-
gest burglary.
Mystery remains in the case. A
dispatch from Syracuse said Gray
had registered at the Onondaga Ho-
tel in Syracuse and Friday and had
kept to his room. Snyder was killed
early Sunday morning as he slept.
But police in the upstate city
said they had found torn clothing,
as described by Mrs. Snyder, in the
hotel room. Gray was arrested for
New York detectives.
Mrs. Charles Gray of East Orange,
N. j., where Gray lives with his
wife and daughter, said she had
positive information her son had
been in Syracuse for the past three
days.
May Arrest Woman
Meanwhile Mrs. Snyder's immi
nent arrest was promised by Dis.
trict Attorney Newcombe Of Queens.
'The Staying of Albert Snyder, u
Newcombe SAID was coltl blooded,
premeditated murder and we have
entirely discarded the theory of rob-
berry"
Here is the scene in the Snyder
home at Queens Village as recon,
structed by detectives: Mrs. Snyder,
80, mother of 9-year-old daughter
Lorraine, was the wife of man
twelve years her senior ard more
settled" than she would have liked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-21
SeUen Formal
Charges

Seven specific charges are lodged
against Judge Clarence w. Dearth
Circuit Court judge of Muncie, as
the Indiana Senate today begins the
impeachment trial.
Each of the seven charges con,
tanned in the articles of Impeachment
submitted by the board of impeach
ment managers of the House of Rep
resentatives will be heard and voted
upon separately by the Senate.
If Judge Dearth is found guilty
of any one of the seven charges, re-
CARELESS Of possible acquittal on the
others, the Impeachment voted by
the House of Representatives will
be sustained.
In brief, the charges are:
l. That Dearth took newspapers
away from thirty-eight Muncie news
boys and threatened them with
court action because he did not like
an article in the paper the boys were
selling.
2. That Dearth is guilty of cor
ruption in that he appointed Jake
Cavanaugh jury commissioner when
Cavanaugh was not a freebooter and
later attempted to cover up by
himself deciding a plot 2Ox2O feet
worth about $25, and that Cava-
naugh has continued to serve with
out being reappointed.
8. That Dearth has aided in and
sanctioned irregular drawing of
juries, resulting in miscarriages of
justice, in that ne prepared lists OF
prospective jurors from telephone
directory; sanctioned calling of per.
sons who had served on juries within
the year and had sanctioned. the IL.
legal placing of at least twenty-five
persons on jury panels since Jan. /,
1927.
4. That Dearth manipulated and
controlled the drawing of grand
and petit juries SO he might person.
ally control their decisions.
5. That Dearth disregarded and
dismissed impeachment proceedings
agar st a sheriff without hearing
6. That Dearth confiscated the
property of Johnny Haines, a news
boy, without a hearing and for the
purpose of suppressing a news,
paper. r
Z. That Dearth so manipulated
juries that many citizens could not
obtain fair and impartial trials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-21
Cloudy Skies Usher
in Official Spring

High Hoosier waters today official
ly ushered in Miss Springtims at
$50 a. m. The skies were cloudy
as the new season tripped across the
threshold.
Spring officially begins the minute
the sun crossee the equator on it's
long journey northward for its sum-
mer stay, Meteorologist j. II. Arm.
ington stated. The time varies about
five hours from one year to another.
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday with
temperature about 80 tonight was
the United States Weather Bureau
forecast. Somewhat warmer weather
is predicted Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-21
ARMS SESSION OPENS
Member Of Band Of Sever Fired
Safe Robbery Fooled
BIZ United Press

BIZ united Press
NEWARK, n. j., March III
Seven men held up the Miller street
car barns of the Public Service Rail
way Company here today and were
about to blow a safe containing
$4,000 when they were frightened
away by shot fired by one of them
acting as lookout.
-Four of the men remained outside
the building while three, fully armed,
entered the Office where George II.
Dmme, night supervisor, was as
signing run to John Stevens, a
motorman. The men ordered Stevens
into rear room and directed
Denme to open the safe. Then one
of the lookouts apparently lost his
head and fired, the bullet coming
through the window. The bandits
fled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-21
Rules of Senate
for Trial

Doors of the Indian Senate will
remain open during hearing of evil
dence in the impeachment trial Of
Judge Clarence w. Dearth, Muncie.
opening today. Such is the provision
of the U. S. Senate rules adopted by
the Indiana body for the trial.
Under the rules, the presiding Off.
Ger, Lieutenant Governor l.. Harold
Van Orman, will rule ON all evidence
and motions, unless he decides TO
put the matter up 10 the Senators.
AT any time a Senator may question
the ruling, however, and a vote must
must be taken.
During debate, or vote on motions
or decisions, the doors of the Senate
may be ordered closed.
VIII BE Sworn In
Oath will be taken by all Senators
at the opening of the session, the
oath to be given by the presiding OH.
GER. He shall have power to issue
orders, mandates and writs and the
principal doorkseper is empowered
to carry them out. obtaining what
ever aid may be deemed necessary.
The rules give the Senate the right
to compel witnesses to attend
Failure of the defendant to appear
would be the same as a guilty plea
and judgment would be entered at
once.
All records Of procedure will be
kept by Miss Fern Ale, secretary of
the Senate.
Debate Limited
Counsel for both sides must be ad.
mitted to the trial and have the
right to examine and cross.examlne
witnesses. On all motions the de.
bate Will be limited TO one hour, un.
less the Senators vote to extend the
time.
Board of managers OF the House
of Representative will open and close
the case. A single speaker will open
for both the prosecution and defense,
but both are permitted to have two
speakers in closing.
Motions of Senators must be I'm
writing and properly recorded, ex.
ce2t the motion to adjourn.
Vote On Each Charge
Vote will be taken on each charge
separately and If any one charge
receives a two.thirds vote the de.
PENDANT is found guilty. Should none
receive a two-thirds vote the case is.
dismissed.
Debate on motions, which may be
behind closed doors. will be limited
to ten minutes for each Senator. on
the decision debate is limited to mr.
teen minutes, but in either case time
may be extendd by a majority vote.