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MURDER CHARGE
PLACED ON WOMAN
Grand Jury Indicts Clara NJ.
Rollins, Accused of
Death of Man.

Murder In the first degree is
charged in an indictment reported to-
day by the grand jury against Clara
M. Rollins. colored. residing at 209
Clark's court southwest, in connec-
ton with the death Of Tracy Small
wool, lib Delaware avenue south
west, also colored, August 81 last.
Smallwood, according to the police,
had called to see the woman, but
found her out and again called at
1870 o'clock at night when he awaited
her return from nearby drug store.
She entered tie house and shortly
after two shots were heard and Small
wood staggered out of the house. He
died the next day at hospital. The
woman claimed Smallwood had
thrown a pitcher at her and that they
had fused"
Three indictments for depreciation
on private property were returned
aginst Ashby Hammond, colored, who
is said to have entered three vacant
houses and cut the lead piping from
plumbing fixtures, which he sold for a
trifiing sum to junk dealers. EN-
manuel A. Forrest is charged in one
ciate in the venture.
Abduction Is Charged.
Abduction is charged in an indict-
:nent against Ella NJ. Costley, colored.
She is said to have abducted Bessie
Ford, IL years old, also colored, from
her guardian, Estella j. Bailey, 1143
Twenty-second street, August II. She
took the child to Chicago, it is reported,
where she was arrested and brought
back to this city.
The grand jurors ignored a charge
of grand larceny and of larceny after
trust against Lawrence E. Noting
ham and one Of assault with dan
gerous weapon against Charlie Lee.
26 Indictments Reported.
A total of 26 indictments were re-
ported. Those indicted and the charges
against them include: Noble Madison
Price and Albert Henderson, grand
larceny; Benjamin F. Waters, Frank
E. Pettit and John F. Thomas 1.-TWO
cases each); Benjamin +. Waters and
Frank f. Petit and Frank Parker and
James hebron and Edwin J. Barton
and Carl r. WEIGH, housebreaking and
larceny; Emanuel A. Forrest. Ashby
Hammond Cthree cases), depreciation
of private property; Gertrude Haw-
kins, assault with dangerous
weapon; Henry Langstream, larceny
after trust; Paul 1. Lorings, bigsmy;
Leonard Stanley Deale and Robert A.
Rucker, alias Robert H. Rucker, alias
Robert A. Lewis, alcs Robert Alexan-
der Proctor, nom. lpport wife and
minor children; Andrew Robinson,
William Eaglin and Thomas Campbell,
Thomas Campbell,
William Eaglin, William Beall, Paul e.
Moore and James Clark, joy-riding;
Lawrence Rucker, Harry Rest and
Henry Savoy, joy-riding and grand
larceny.
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$4,000 Given to College.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, September 81
R).-A check for 5000. the gift of
Cyrus II. X. Curtis, of the Curtis
Publishing Co., Philadelphia, to Mil
waukee- Downer College has been pre-.
sented to the college board Of trustees
to be used for the equipment of the
$500 900 science building under con.
struction. .-.
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DISCOUNTS NAVY BUILDING
japanese Admiral Doubts COMPETE
ton Among Powers.

TOXIC. September 81 P).-Viscount
Admiral Saito, head of the Japanese
delegation to the recent three-pcwer
naval conference in Geneva, believes
that, although the United States may
build new auxiliary vessels, severe
naval competition among the powers
is extremely unlikely.
Interviewed on his return from Ge-
neva, he expressed hope that it would
be possible to hold the naval pariey
provided for in the Washington treaty
earlier than 1881. so as to avoid I'M
necessary naval construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
MISSOURI BETS BARRED.
State Supreme Court to Reopen
Case Involving Racing.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-. Septem.
Der 81 R.-The barrier to betting
on horse races in Missouri again was
established today, when the Missouri
Supreme Court granted motion for
rehearing of the test case in which
it ruled last July that the contribu-
ton, or certificate, form Of betting
was not a violation of State laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
SCHLESCHISCH.O .Czecho-
slovakia.-The village church here is
soon to be sold TO the highest bidder at
an auction by the Agrarian Bank,
which has foreolosed an unpaid mort
gage. The church belongs to the Mo.
rayian Brotherhood,
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Series Umpires Named.

CHICAGO. September 81 @.-Presi-
dent B. b. johnson Of the American
League today appointed r. F. Nallin
and F. T. Ormsby to officiate in the
c0ntpS world ssEieM ------,-----
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man Ambassador to the United States,
who was killed in an airplane acct
dent last week, was held here today.
Wreaths from President Coolidge
and Secretary Of State Kellogg were
placed upon the late Ambassador
grave by Jacob Gould Schurman, the
American Ambassador to Germany.
who attended the funeral with Mrs.
Schurman.
With a simple. touching ceremo-
NAL, the casket was borne through
Gross LUCKNOW Castle grounds to the
bafons last resting place beside his
mother on a nearby pine-clad hill.
The small company Of mourners in
cluded members OF the family, the
most intimate friends and old retain.
ers, while a restricted delegation OF
departmental chiefs Of the foreign
once represented President Won Hin.
denburg and Foreign Minister Strese-
mann in the latter's absence at
Geneva.
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PARALYTlc CUTS THROAT
OF ONE-ARMED ARGUER
Formers Skull Fractured After
Beating With Wagon Spoke.
Row Over Tunney Decision.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. September q.
Owe Barnes. So. paralytic,
and William Casey, 81. who has only
one arm, are in a serious condition at
a hospital today.
Barnes suffered fractured skull
yesterday after he slashed Casey's
throat with a razor. Casey beat
Barnes on the head with wagon
spoke. The two men were arguing
over the Dempsey -Tunney decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27

More than 100000 visitors attended
the recent Prague's sample fair.
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PRUSSIA OPTIMISTIC
OVER LOAN FROM U. S.
German Financial Circles Expect
Difficulties Holding Up Advance
to Be Settled.


BERLIN, September 27.-Despite
dispatches from New York indicating
that difficulties have arisen in Wash
ington over the projected f1otation in
the United States of a $50 ,000, 900 loan
for the State of Prussia, German
financial circles declare that they are
not apprehensive regarding the cut
come Of the loan negotiations.
The dispatches received here indi-
Gated that the difficulties have arisen
over the purposes for which the loan
Is needed. It Is said here that the
State Department is not yet in posses
sion of the full particulars regarding
the loans purpose and the details of
how the money Will be applied, but
that it was taken for granted in Ger
many that the American underwriting
syndicate had consulted the American
State Department before concluding
negotiations.
Dispatches from Washington yes.
terday said the answer of the State
Department to the proposals Of an
American banking group in connec-
ton with the loan had been withheld
presumably because of strong OPP
position to the loan manifested in
some financial circles in Germany"
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NATHAN PEARLS TURN
COLOR AFTER TRAGIC
DEATH OF DIPLOMAT

Continued from First Page.)
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SIXTH RACE-Purse. ST. 300; clalming'
,r 3-year-olds. 1 mile and 20 Yards.
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Mrs. =. /. shewbridge entry.
SEVENTH RACE-Purse. 81 800; claim
NJ. for B wear odds and up: l IL miles.

apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather clear: track fast. .--<l2-l
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FIFTH RACE--Purse $4,000; the Della
ware Handicap; for 3-year-olds and up; l -
miles.
Crusader ... 12S Montferrat Ig2
Bostonian 80. lit Navigator lOo
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HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES
FOR TOMORROW.

FIRST RACE-Purse, 81 1900: claiming;
maiden 2-year-olds: 4 IL fIrIongs
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Miss Agnes Murray-sasamore Stable en-
SECOND RACE-Purse, 81 300: claiming;
for 3.year-olds and up: l Il miles.

FOURTH RACE-The Eastern Shore Han
dicap Purse, $4,000 added for 2-year dds
D furlOngs.
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az. B. Mclean entry.
b Greentree Stable entry.
G Sycamore Stable entry.
d II. p. Whitney entry.
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have the ballots impounded for the
Senate privileges and elections COM
mittee, and the sergeant at arms of
the Senate has requested, on behalf
of that committee. that the ballots
he kept. But a great majority Of
the Judges have replied that they
cannot take cognizance of such an
informal request.
Mr.. Ware very properly has Joined
with his opponent in making a last
demand that the ballots be retained.
If there has been fraud in the Penn
sylvania election. it should be uncov-
cred. Pennsylvania politics has not
smelled so sweet that the strong-arm
method of destroying ballots, even
to live up to the letter of the law,
should satisfy the people.
The difficulty arises largely from
the fact that the Senate failed to
take specific steps at its last session
in connection with the Ware Wilson
contest. The filibuster in the closing
days Of the session against the reso-
luton to continue the life of the Reed
slush fund committee prevented any
such steps. The filibuster was led
by Senator David A. Reed of Penn
sylvania, an avowed supporter of Mr..
Ware. This fact, II nothing else,
should impel Mr.. Ware to do every
thing in his power, and his power
Is said to be great in Pennsylvania.
to bring about the preservation of
the ballots.
Technicalities there are which seem
at present to make the preservation!
Of the ballots a difficult task. In the
interest of clean politics and clean
elections, however, these technicali-
ties should not be allowed to bar
the way.
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the take.off. Add three to Ave and 1t
makes eight. Eight lives sacrificed
in an endeavor to win a big money
award! And only four out Of nine
actual starters successfully complet.
ing the trip. 1t does seem to question
the wisdom of prize offerings that in.
wife desperate Irritation with death
with equipment and ability that can.
not possibly. as whole. meet a severe
test. Aviation cannot be developed on
a shoestring. Expensive experiments
are necessary. And there can be no
denying that large prize draws out
those who never should or could under
ordinary circumstances be allowed to
attempt hazardous feats without the
proper training or equipment. 1t is
this phase of the Dole race that
has aroused considerable discussion
throughout the country.
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THIS AND THAT


now Is the appointed time to consider
the remaking Of the home garden, so
that next years may be better, fuller
of bloom and more satisfactory in
every way.
Today it is easy to stand on the
path and note the plants that have
not come through. Tear them up and
throw them away. In doing so, the
holes left in borders will offer an ex.
| cellent wedge for starting the entire
| remaking process.
Then one may come to the decision
that the placing Of certain shrubs was
all wrong in the beginning, although
one did not know 1t at that time.
No garden should be static. No
gardener ought to stand still.
If one has not learned something
| by sheer experience after four years
| the chances are that he probably
| never will. At any rate, he will not
be reading here, for no one but gar.
den enthusiast will have gotten this
far on this subject.
X X y II
Here are some lilacs which never
| should have been planted in this stu
alton. When they were put there
they looked so small. What new gar.
dener ever would have dreamed they
would grow so tall!
1t takes about four to FIVE years for
the mistakes in planting to show up
| When finally they are realized, the
| question is:
Will the gardener have the nerve
| to correct them?
Suppose the changes. including the
throwing away OF good plants that
will not bloom. involve much work
| and considerable doubt as to the out.
! come?
Well. that Is where gardening nerve
comes In. One has to take q chance
| in gardening as elsewhere. The age
| old timidity, the thought that one had
better let we'll enough alone" cramps
our style.
Why had one better let we'll enough
alone?
In the bigger things of life one
might we'll hesitate, but here, thank
Heaven! is an opportunity for us to
| venture forth freely upon peaceful
| uncharted seas.
| the ocean Of the home garden, no one
will mind or criticize us the next day
! in the papers.
* -
There is, no doubt, a cycle In gar.
| den activities, within which ones in.
| terest increases, then declines.
After the gardener has watched the
growth and Towering of a variety of
plants for several years his interest
| begins to wane.
Especially the static, perennial gar.
| den has this effect upon many restless
persons. A garden ought not to be
too peaceful.
| Wherefore, let us pep 1t up with a
change every four years, much the
same as the Nation does with its cleo
TONS
| Now is the time to put on a cam.
| paign in the garden. Look over the
| situation as a general might a battle
Held. Discard the deadwood. plan bet.
terments, dig EN- all up and plant 'em
| over again!
| IL one never corrects mistakes. even
| In his garden, how is he ever going to
do 1t in that greater gardening-liyine
a life?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18
Save the Ballots.

Senator-elec William S. Ware and
William B. Wilson, his Democratic
opponent in the senatorial election in
pennsylvania last year. have Joined
In petition to have the ballots cast
In that election impounded for count
and investigation by the Senate. Mr..
Wilson has charged gross fraud in
the election. The petition goes to
the presiding Judges Of the half hun.
dred judicial districts in PennsyI.
vania.
The situation is such that unless
the courts act, the ballots will be
destroyed under the Pennsylvania
law some time between September 20
and October 8. so that the ballot
boxes may be used in a coming elec-
ton. With the destruction of the
ballots will go evidence which might
be adduced to show fraud. The Sem
ate, however. is already in possession,
through the Reed slush fund COM
mittee, Of the ballots cast in Phila.
delphia and Allegheny counties, but
an examination Of these ballots alone
could scarcely settle the question.
The Senate has sought in vain to
impound the ballots in some of the
other Pennsylvania counties, through
the Reed committee. The jurisdic-
ton OF that committee was challenged
as soon as Congress had closed
without specific extension of the
committees life. The challenge came
not only from Pennsylvania, but also
from Chairman Keyes OF the COM
mittee on control of the contingent
fund Of the Senate, who refused to
allow the Reed committee any more
funds. The case went to the courts
and a judge in Pennsylvania held
that he had no jurisdiction, but that
the Senate itself would have to de-
termine whether the Reed committee
was alive or dead. The case still
Drugs on appeal.
Efforts have since been made t.
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The Dole Race.

Six men and three planes have now
flown the watery waste between Oak.
land, Calf, and the Hawaiian Islands.
When Art Goebel and Lieut.. w. ".
Davis let their ship. the Woolaroc, and
two hours later Martin Jensen and
Paul Schluter their plane, the Aloha,
down gently on Wheeler Field, Homo.
lulu, they were the second and third
pair Of air voyagers to arrive on the
islands from the California mainland.
Lieuts. Maitland and Hegenberger
were the first by virtue of having
flown the course seven weeks ago as
demonstration Of Army Air Service
development.
Goebcl and Davis, in negotiating the
twenty.four hundred miles Of the tur.
bulent Pacific. are the winners of the
Dole prize Of $4,000. Jensen and
Schluter win the second.place prize
Of $4,000. The other two planes in
the race are still missing. They are
the Miss Doran, which contains Miss
Mildred Doran, pilot and navi.
gator. and the Golden Eagle, carrying
Jack Frost and George Scott. Grave
fears are felt for the safety OF these
five contestants, as it is assumed that
their gasoline supply has been ex.
hausted and that they are probably
floating on sketchy life-rafts some.
where on the water following a forced
descent.
If they should suffer the fate OF
Nungesser and Coli, the gallant
F'renchmen. the Dole race for a total
heavy toll Of life. Three flyers were
killed in trials and others were cracked
up but miraculdUsIy ESCAPED death IN
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PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

My little son has just come to mo
all agog with the question: did you
know that each Of us in America has
40 slaves?"
You're mistaken" said. "Abra-
ham Lincoln saw to that when he
freed the slaves"
My son smiled and showed me
his current copy of Popular Science,
in which Robert E. Martin had
caught his fancy by translating the
mechanical power used in the United
States into terms of human slaves.
This Is the sentence that caught my
sons fancy:
about one billion horsepower is
at work in our country, exclusive of
our own physical energy and that of
draft animals. If we had slaves
doing the work of our power plants.
we would require about 40 slaves for
each of us-a total Of 1900. 900 900. or
two and a half times as many people
as there are in the world"
Here are some Of the interesting
comparisons Mr.. Martin makes be-
tween horsepower and human power
The automobiles of the United States
represent twice as much power as all
the human beings in the world.
The steam locomotives of the
United States represent more power
than all the human beings in North
America, South America and Africa.
The developed water power Of the
United States represents more power
than all the human beings in England,
Ireland and Wales, and 80 per cent
of the water power of our streams
is still undeveloped.
The windmills of the United States,
running all at once in a 2O.mile- an
hour breeze would represent more
power than all the human beings in
Turkey and Europe.
If all the power we have generated
mechanically had to be supplied by hui.
man beings. Mr.. Martin estimates that
there would be 1853 human beings to
every square mile in the United
States. Since there are only IS per.
sons to the square mile now, this
gives a vivid notion of the magni-
tude of the mechanical power we
possess.
We are obviously headed toward a
civilization in which it will not be
necessary for men to work with their
hands, in the present sense of manual
labor. What will that riean, If it
ever happens?
Will mems ambitions be dulled by
the ease with which they will be able
to make q living, as men pick fruit
from tropical trees? Some think so.
There are others who remind us of
the great and glowing Greek civiliza-
ton that was built on slavery, and
they ask why greater and more
glowing civilization may not be built
on these far more efficient mechanical
slaves.
fCopyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-18

An offer of several thousand dollars
by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr.,
through the Art Center of New York,
as a prize for the best architectural
suggestions for hot-dog stands, ap-
peals to the popular imagination. The
incident serves to emphasize both the
hot dogs established place in Ameri-
can life and a development in the in
termittent warfare against ugl1ness
along the Nations highways.
perhaps the Art Center, realizing
that the world is going to the bow
vows. believes that we should have
more beautiful bow-wows," suggests
the Albany Evening News. 1T Is
we'll. America hopes that the present
inartistic hot.dog stands will pass and
that we shall have standardized
architecture for all Of them-Ren-
aissance, Gothic, Doric or whatever.
9 Yes. let us live in a hot
dog stand by the side of the road and
please the eye as we'll as the palate
Of man. America Is going to the hot
bow-wows, so let them be more beau
tiful bow-wows.
The Buffalo Evening News Is will
ing to see what the architects can
suggest to make them sightly-if it is
not possible to make them invisible.
50 tildl lNc SCCLicIy SIlll uiitOfOAC0 Wy
billboards along the highways may be
SEEN"
Though the st. Louis Post-Dispatch
thinks that, compared to the motives
which have inspired the great ar
chitecture of the past. the hot dog at
first seems quite impossible" since
nothing so lowly as it ever inspired
a temple or q cathedral" still. asks
the Post-Dispatch, "Who can afford to
say confidently that the lowly thing
couldn't do it? Another 100 per cent
American institution, the movies,
which are as abhorrent to the high
brow as the hot dog itself. have in.
spired Oriental edifices which would
brighten a real Oriental to DEATH"
The st. Joseph News-Press. in for.
ward.looking mood, thinks, ''In the not
distant future, the eye may be glad
dened with a form of glorified hot
dog shops worthy place In the ar
chitectural scheme of things with fill
Ing stations"
The popularity and permanence of
the hot dog is stressed by the Water
town Daily Times, which declal IS:
"It has come to stay, and many miles
Of them are sold each Summer to
tourists who are going up and down
the country. An institution like this
deserves to be decently housed"
comedies this paper, but 1t raises its
voice to contend that the hot dog itself
should not be tempered with. insist
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James Oliver Curwood.

James Oliver Curwood was the butt
Of that school Of criticism which takes
no stock in what the public likes, con.
tenting itself with what it's members
conceive to be the proper thing for
the public to like. Granting that his
books We're read by millions, he was
held up to constant ridicule for writ
ing them. His success as a novelist is
not hard to explain
But, spite Of all the criticising elves,
Those who must make us feel-must
feel themselves.
Curwood loved the forests and the
majesty of the untamed wilderness.
The romance of ruggedness appealed
to him. He delighted in strong, virile
men and in good women. He set them
down against a background he knew
best. and they won out against great
odds through their own intrepidity and
on the theory that weak men must
fall, for heaven still guards the right"
His plots may have been of one pat.
term undoubtedly they lacked depth.
His strong men, because Of their very
strength and rectitude. lost some Of
their attractiveness. and in literary
merit there was much to be desired
But his characters lived again in the
romantic imaginings Of his readers,
who found in their Curwood books a
vent through which their souls might
leave the prison Of a walled.in life
and soar to the heights OF adventure
and mighty combat in a land which
exists for them on the printed page
alone. Curwood is dead and his books
may not outlive him long, but he
used his talents we'll, which, after all,
is an epitaph for which better men
might hope.