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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29
Dining Rooms Used
For Pay Banquets,'
Churches Face Tax
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calf, No
vember 29.-County Assessor Allen
has assessed as taxable property the
banquet halls of the First Congrega-
tional and First Baptist. Churches of
Redlands, holding that the churches
forfeited their rights to tax exemp-
ton when their dining rooms were
used by service clubs and the Cham
Der of Commerce for pay banquets."
Allen said the First Baptist Church
banquet hall was used by service
club for a dinner honoring Gov.
Young of California at which the
guests paid for their meals. The
Congregational banquet hall, he said,
was used by the. Chamber of Com
merce for May day breakfast adj
vertised in the newspapers. Neither
of these occasions, he argued, was
for the purpose of religious worship.
The law, he said, stipulates that
church buildings should be tax
exempt when they are used solely
and exclusively for religious wor-
ship"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29
BROKER is ARRESTED
IN PEARL SMUGGLING
Federal officials in Los Angeles
Indicate Drive on Large
Organization.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November 29.-With
the arrest here yesterday Of Albert w.
Beaumont. who was specifically charged
with smuggling pearls appraised at
$4,000 into the United States, Federal
officials indicated that they were at
tempting to break up large jewel
smuggling organization whose opera
lions extend to many of the larger
cities of the world.
Collector of Customs L. H. Schwaebe
dispatched four of his operatives to
various outlying places" under orders
10 seize other jewels. Beaumont. who
was said to be a broker of Shanghai,
China. had been under surveillance for
some time. but Assistant United States
District Attorney Emmett Doherty said
the man had had his face lifted" In
Chicago and had been lost sight OF
temporarily
The suspect was held under bond
of $4,000 after he was formally
charged with smuggling the pearls
across the border from Vancouver
British Columbia. July 9. last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29
GERMAN ENVOY NAMED.
DR.. Won Dirksen Is Appointed AM
bassador to Moscow.

BERLIN, November 29.-Dr. Her
bert Won Dirksen, chief of the Eastern
section of the foreign Office, has been
appointed German Ambassador to the
Soviet Union at Moscow. succeeding the
late Count Won Brockdorff -Rantzau
DR.. Won Dirksen has been in the Ger
man diplomatic service only 10 years.
AS an officer in the Uhlan regiment, he
fought in the World War He was ac-
tive in the civil government in Belgium
for time and then went to the Ger
man legation at The Hague. He began
his diplomatic career in 1918 when he
went to View as diplomatic representa-
tive. In 1919 he took up work in the
border state section of the foreign ONCE
In Berlin and then became first secre-
tary at Warsaw, acting as charge daft
flares during the difficult period of the
Korfanty rising in Upper Silesia.
He was next appointed chief of the
Polish section of the foreign ONCE; then
in 1923 consul general at Danzig and in
1928 chief of the EASTERN section. He
Is ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29
WARRANT FOR BANKER.
State Charges Felony to Walker,
Fugitive for 10 Years.

SAVANNAH, Ga, November 20 LP).
John D. Walker, former head of a
chain of LOT small Georgia banks, who
is held here on Federal charge of
of funds, was charged
with felony in State warrant issued at
Swainsboro, Ga, and received by au-
thorities here yesterday.
Walker, fugitive from justice for 10
years. who has yet been unable to post
$25 900 bond for his release from Chat
ham County jail, will be held for
Emanuel County officers in case his
bond on the Federal charge is posted,
it was said last night.
The State warrant, officers declared,
was issued in connection with an alleged
larceny after trust of $1,000 from the
Bank of Summertown one of Walkers
string Of banks which crashed about
the time Of his disappearance In 1912.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29
SAAR PROTEST VOICED.
Lord Mayor Assails Severance
From German Empire.

SAARBRUECKEN, Saar, November
90 Cp).-The lord mayor, presiding at
the municipal council yesterday on the
occasion of the decennary of French
occupation. read a resolution protest.
ing against severance of the Saar ter
ritory from its attachment to the Ger
man Empire and It's century-old union
with the Prussian State.
He declared that experience had
shown that continuance of the present
regime until 1885, the year fixed by
the treaty of Versailles for plebiscite,
was an intolerable prospect and that
the populations only wish was to be
reunited with the Reich uncondition-
ally and without restrictions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29
FAUST CONDITION SAME.
House Member Resting Comfort
ably After Stroke of Paralysis.

Representative Charles L. Faust of
Missouri was reported as resting as
comfortably as could be expected at
Emergency Hospital today. with a
partial paralysis of his right leg and
arm.
DR.. j. Ernest Mitchell declared his
condition was serious but not neces-
sarily alarming, and at this stage. time
only could tell whether the paralysis
might spread furthersA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29
Official Once Candy vender.

of state. has been in his career candv
vender with circuses, section hand, col
lector, reporter, managing editor and a
governors private secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29
Sentenced to Write
Verse 1000 Times
For StrikingFather
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAMILTON. Ontario, November
29.-James Buckner, 26, must write
1000 copies of a selected Bible verse
and the fourth commandment as
punishment for striking his 53-year-
old father. Municipal Judge Pater
suspended $50 fine yesterday with
the remark, "a fine in money would
not be recompense for an offense
committed against the laws of God"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29

Minnesota's commissioner of highways
will ask the Legislature to increase the
gasoline tax from = to & cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-29

Trucks up to 1212-ton capacity would
be permitted to use the proposed West
Side elevated highways In New York
City,
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Christmas Aboard the Wndammer Far From Por

the ship had run under. From the
poop, from the boom, wherever they
had leaped when that torrential wave
had come aboard, they saw nothing but
waste of white water and the stripped
spars of the stunned ship protruding.
We decided we were to die, but refused
to take it cowardliwise.
Get that skyhght up!" 1t was COW
cred and battened, but our weight tore
the canvas adrift as the leaf Of the
sea window lifted a little water cas-
caded down. "Godl she's under!"
There seemed nothing to do. Escape
was forbidden and We were condemned
to die in the noisy dark. The ship
was inert, killed. We heard the life
boats crunch to Splinters on either side
of the deckhouse. They could not have
lived an instant in that boiling horror
had they remained intact.
Mark now the glory of that ship!
We felt her give little, tentative shake,
as 1t were f1irt of her defiant tail,
She settled back, sluggish and stunned
still, as more big water Surged over her.
She quivered afreSh, with greater We
hemence, indignant at her thralldom.
She covered back-watching her op-
portunity. She advanced sideways, lift
ed a little, shook herself a little more.
Then she roared up from her down.
bearing-frantic, vigorouS-determine
to maintain her record for fighting
quality.
She stormed forward, roaring war
rior, indomitable. Shed matched her
cunning against the bitter enmity of
the sea and she'd won. She bounded
forward like a scared gull, treading
down the snorting combers. She
writhed and pitched, she rolled and
staggered, but she raced on, thunderouS
in her splendor. She shook herself
free of that impossible weight of water
and allowed us to reach the open. We
made breathleSs way to the compan-
ionship of our fellows, clinging to the
rigging, astride the boomS, covered on
the chart house top.
They told us in gasps that as the
great wave struck rockets had been seen
f1ar1ng into the screaming sky-then
had ceased. Some unknown ship had
Jared worse than we, but we could do
nothing We could only hold on and
continue the fight to best of our ability
hopeless men, And Christmas day
was past and gone before we had the
| ship victorious. We ate the sodden,
| tasteleSS pork funereally, relishing it
not at all. But the ship had bestowed
on us the Christmas gift of life, thanks
| to the glorious ship!
Evening star., 1928-12-23

most precious trifies for the child--a
shawl bought abroad as gift to some
doxy at I1ome-a cunning half model
of the ship mounted on a fantastically
painted board-the desire to give, which
is the ruling impulse of the season,
quickened within us.
The two watches. unemployed, fra
ternized, got to know each other;
found mutual likings and detestationS.
The port and starboard watches of a
Windjammer at sea are almost abso-
lutte strangersAthey lead a Box and
Cox existence. merely speaking to each
other in passing. We played card
games, poker and euchre, for boxes of
matches and figs of tobacco; the usual
inhibition against us of the half-deck
intruding into the forecastles was
lifted; we invaded the sailors quarters.
challenged them to gamble-and they
ridded us of all our matches and most
of our tobacco. We did not notice how
the weather was worSening, although
We did occasionally visit the galley to
inspect proceedings there and sniff the
rare incense of Mr.. Murphy's cooking.
Never had cracking shown SO brown
and crisp!
But when he was dissected and ap-
portioned, We carried the meSskits up
Evening star., 1928-12-23

on high, wading through sluicing brine
to our middles along the reeling deck
and desperately afraid lest the sea
should snatch our prizes from us. For
we had finished with the overture to
the gale. and were now fairly into the
first movement of that crashing SYM
phony of elemental riot.
Just as we whetted our knives for the
first carving, the foresail split from
head rope to foot with the crack of a
six-inch gun. Instantly the ship Jagged
in her impetuous stride, and high
piled following wave that had been
chasing her for hours, poised, saw its
opportunity and struck. 1t crashed on
to the poop like an avalanche. 1t
snapped the steering wheel neatly in
two halves and hurled the helmsman.
unconscious, to leeward in the swilling
scuppers.
The thud of the untended rudder and
the Shudder of the foremast as the
great course tore itself to rags, seemed
to set the ship frantic She fell away
from the wind, and almost broached
to- Immediately the gale became a
hurricane, because we were no longer
running away from 1t.
Captain and mate were at Christmas
dinner below with the captains
Evening star., 1928-12-23

wife and daughter. The second mate,
pipe in mouth. had been leaning
against the doorpost of our quarters
aft. jollying us on our carnal appetites,
jocosely asking for crumbs from our
rich table. He almost swallowed his
pipe as the shock came.
''Hell's bells-all hands!" he rasped.
Some one checked the kit containing
our portion of Mr.. Murphy off in a
bunk among the blankets. We did not
even wait to don our oilskins. We for
got that we had been promised leisure
this day of rejoicing-the ship was inn
periled and the bonds of discipline
tautened instantly on us, Hungry We
were, and disappointed: the most we
could do was to dip our fingers into
the gravy and suck them to get fore
taste of the flavor The great butter
tins of duff were ignored: the mighty
mince pie might never have been. In
dividual appetites must be sacrificed
to the common need of the harassed
ship.
We went on deck, into the screaming
welter of freshly furious squall that
droned and shrilled. whipping off the
tops of towering waves and f1inging
them in solid spindrift watts into our
faces SO that they cut like knives. The
Evening star., 1928-12-23

ships tobacco as prize for the first to
make the course.
It was cold enough to make this Wig
orous exercise a delight. We cavorted
like monkeys among the denuded spars,
daring one another to more risky feats.
We slid down backstays, used the cross
tree outriggers for horizontal bars and
somersaulted to our hearts content. for
We were young and it was Christmas
day and there was no work TO do, with
promise of rich feeding to come.
Then We quieted and descended to
breakfast, which in no wise differed
from hundred previous breakfasts;
cracker hash and acrid xcoffee. After
breakfast the shippers daughter ap-
peared at the door of our quarters
child of bringing box Of cigars;
the steward followed her with a couple
of bottles of rum. Glory be! We lolled
on the sea chests smoking the weeds
with lordly enjoyment and talked Of
Christmases past.
X X X X
FANTASTIC though it may sound
L the actual 'intangibly tangible
Christmas spirit had reached us, a
lonely unit, out there in the heart OF
the clamorous bay. We dug out our
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Fishing for Something.

what are you fishing for, little
boy?"
whales"
But there are no whales in this
pond"
mo. nor anything else. so I might
Just 6 well hsh for whales"
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06
DIES In HOME HE
BUILT In 1885
Elisha w. Sherman, ~, Was
Widely Known As Dealer
In Antiques

Taught School at Age Of I4.--Be-
came Contractor and Builder.
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06


came Contractor and Builder.
Elisha W sherman. a lifelong resi-
dent Of this section, died az his home
in Abingdon. in the Ragged Hill" sec
ton Of the town Of Pomfret, last week
Wednesday. after a short Illness. He
was seventy-seven years old.
Mr.. Sherman was typical New
England Yankee" He was always
pleasant and smiling. shrewd al a
trade. with twinkling, snappy eyes. and
a kindly disposition He was known
throughout this section and his home
was a center for antique dealers from
New England and New York City.
Although living on a remote back
country road he had many visitors at
traeted BY his wonderful collection Of
antiques. These visitors were always
given a warm welcome whether they
made purchases or not, but 10 was sell
dom that they left empty handed.
Proud Of His Wares
Mr.. Sherman was proud Of his pos
sessions and enjoyed describing the
articles and telling the history con
nected with many Of the pieces he dis
played. He had several rooms in his
home devoted 10 this display, among
the largest in the state.
Fer many years MIR. Sherman has
been familiar figure at auctions for
miles around. When a piece attracted
him he would buy il. He bought at
first as a collector and il was not until
recent years that he became a dealer
Even while selling many articles he
had those which he held priceless and
would not part with because Of the love
he had for them.
Mr.. Sherman was apparently In the
best Of health and was more active
than most men Of his years. He was
taken III on Saturday and died the fol-
lowing Wednesday.
Born in Pomfres
Elisha Winsee Sherman was born in
Pomfret, October 81, 1851. He was a
son Of William Emerson and Lucy
Healey Sherman. He obtained his ed
ucation in the public school and at the
age Of fourteen years himself became
a country school teacher In the Gen
eral Lyon district. Phoenixyille. Lat
en- he became clerk in the store Of L.
ID. Post in Andover. Subsequently he
learned the carpenters trade and be-
came contractor and builder; also a
painter.
In 1855 Mr.. Sherman built the
house in which he died. II was there
that he spent the happiest days Of his
life, surrounded by his wife and chill
dren. He was married July 3Igf, 1878.
His wife was Miss Ann Trowbridge Of
West Woodstock. Mrs. Sherman died
July 3ist. 1912. Mr.. Sherman's chill
dren have grown up and gone out into
the world. Since Mrs Sherman died
he lived much alone. but his children
were frequent visitors at the home
Mr. Sherman was member Of the
Baptist church. He united with the
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06
GAS" TAX IN STATE
Connecticut Drivers Pay sl,5fs,i39
In Six Months

The total tax on gasoline consumed
by motor vehicles in Connecticut IN
I the first six months Of this year
amounted to Si.519,i39. an increase
over 81 1907, 024, for the correspond.
+ ing period of last year, according "a
report just made public by the bu-
reau Of public roads.
In the first half Of this year 75,-
706, $50 gallons Of gasoline were tax
ed and used in the state. as against
SIS. 1851, 209 gallons taxed and con
sumed in the first half Of 1927, the
report shows.
All Of the funds collected in the
first half Of this year, which amount
ed 10 $1,593.l29 and included other
receipts than gas taxes, were spent
on the construction and maintenance
Of state highways. All Of the earn
ings for the similar period Of 1927,
which amounted to si,307, 024, went
for the same purpose, according 10
the report.
The total tax earnings on fuel for
motor vehicles during the first half
Of this year IN the other New Eng
land states are as follows: Maine,
SLIPS 05; New Hamnshire. $685.
756; Rhode Island, 1857. 600; and
Vermont. s3s0,425. Massachusetts,
has no tar. k.&xx
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06
HAWAIIAN MUSIC
FEATURES LECTURE
Rev. A. III. Gates to Lecture
Curios May Be On Exhi-
bition
Attendance Contest With Monthly
Prizes

Rev. A. II. Gates of Rockville will
lecture on Hawaii at the meeting OF
the Parent Teacher Association TO be
held in the High School hall next
Tuesday evening. A special added
feature will be Hawaiian music and il
is expected that a number Of curios
VIII be on exhibition.
An attendance contest has been ar
ranged II is hoped by this method
that more may be present al these
meetings. An outline of how the con.
test is TO be conducted follows:--
May Cast Vote
Each person above school age who
attends a meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association may cast vote
for one of the schools mentioned be-
low.
Each school viii have different
colored ballot, as follows:.-
Putnam High school, yellow.
Israel Putnam school, white.
Smith street school. green
Sawyer District. pink.
East Putnam, blue.
As the number of pupils in each
school is different. a plan has been
arranged SO that at
p. II. s.. one vote counts one.
p. s., one vote counts one.
Smith street school, one vote counts
ave.
Sawyer District, one vote counts
fifteen.
East Putnam. one vote counts fif-
teen.
A box will be placed at the door at
esrh meeting and ballots may be do
posted at that time.
ghc school having the largest mum
her of votes at meeting will be
given monthly prize,
The school having the largest to-
"a for the year will be given a grand
prize.
=. pupil may vote.
But every pupil may ask as many
people to come and vote as he wishes.
Ballots may be secured from teach
ess or at the High School auditor
insn at each meet ng
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06

hurch in South Woodstock when boy
The funeral was held at the Arlington
Congregational church, Saturday. at /
o'clock, Rev. Walter Lanphear Of East
ford and Rev. George b. Hawkes. Of
Arlington, officiating Mr. Lanphear
spoke most kindly Of Mr. sherman and
feelingly touched upon the fact that
his brother was in Mr. Sherman's en-
ploy as young man. There were
many beautiful flowers.
Mr. sherman Is survived hy FIVE
sons. William Edward, Frank Works,
James Healy, Nathaniel Lyon. and
Elisha Angel. and BY daughter, Mrs
Emerson Jones.
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06
Tra.n Zee R.Rht Of Way

A Supreme evnft aeeislan handed
down recently contains the following
-Nhen "a nam pnrs urts rallfoad
trnck he kiawe that tie goes 90 q
place whore be will he Killed II train
comes upon hlm before hs Is clear Of
the track he kuows thai he must
stop for ibe lfaiH not The train STOP
FOR him
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06
TROLLEY LINE RAILS WILL
BE REMOVED IN THE SPRING

The Connecticut Co. began remov-
ing rails south Of Putnam some weeks
ago with the intention of proceeding
ndrth TO she Massachusetts, state line.
1t Is understood that the work has now
been abandoned but will be resumed
in the spring
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06
Silence for the Unreasonable

Euripides was wont 10 say sllrnee
was aii answer 10 wise IN hui we
seem to have greater occasion for II
In our dealing with foois and unreas
enable persons: FOR glen o. breeding
and sense will be satisfied with renson
and fair words Plntarch
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06

Isaf bells are still used 10 ymn~
Sums Tor body development Among
the noted hnr heIl users wns Herms&
Sell, who dlo the knee bend correctly
seven times with q har bell Of 40
pounds across bis sboulde7s This
WIS done al Yale university II. r.
Hansen o. Copenhagen did The sams
exercise 81 times viih 277 pounds.
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06
John Gates, Pioneer, Settled In
What Is Now Town of
Windham
Brought Slave He Purchased in vir
ginia
THE FIRST SETTLERS STORY
BY viii Carleton

: THE FIRST SETTLERS STORY
BY VIII Carleton
II amt the funniest thing mar
can do
Existing in a country when it's new;
Nature-who moved in frst-a goos
long while
Has things already somewhat her owr
style.
And she don't want her WOODLAND
splendors battered,
Her rustic furniture broke up anc
scattered.
Her paintings. which long years ag,
were done
By that old splendid artist-king. III,
Sun,
Torn down and dragged in Civiliza
tons gutter,
Or sold to purchase settlers bread
and-butter.
She don't want things exposed, from
porch TO closet
And so she kind o. nags the man VIII,
does ii.
She carries in her pockets bags o.
seeds,
As general agent Of the thrifties
weeds;
She sends her blaekbirds, in the earl,
morn,
To superintend his fields of plante.
corn;
She gives him rain past any duck
desire
Then may be several weeks of quie
ire;
She sails mosquitoes-leeches perch
ed on wings
To poison him with blood-devourina
stings:
Here we may recall the belated
weary traveller who burst terrified
into the ''0ld Red Tavern on Thomp
son Hill" with the story that riding
through woods to the east his horss
had been scared by myriads of noise
some insects that filed the air as (
cloud and swarmed about him almosr
to the village, and the swell time Of
Mary Utter.
She loves her ague-muscle to display
And shake him up-say every otheI
day;
With thoughtful, conscientious care
she makes
Those travellin' poison-bottles, rat
tiesnakes:
These travelin' poison bottles sue
as gave name to Rattlesnake Hill il
killinglyl.
She finds time 'mongst her other fam
lily cares.
To keep in stock good wildcats
wolves. and bears;
The Hunters Moon
Still nowadays the Hunters Moo
throws light on those ferocious crea
lures Of the woods to be more thai
a memory in West Woodstock, an
in Eastford where the actual weigh
Of thirty-five pound wildcat wa
determined by A. NJ. Bowen's scales
She spurns his offered hand, wit
silent gibes.
And compromises with the India
tribes
lFor thew who've wrestled with hi
bloody art
Say nature always takes an Indian
aart).
In short, her toll is every day in
creased,
To scare him out, and hustle hir
: back East;
An early settler in Sutton. Massa
chusetts had his cottage completel
covered by snow in i7l7 when he wa
absent; an Indian found il only b,
the hole the great chimney's hea
made in the drift and relieved tn
family.
Till fn'lly, It appears TO her SOM
day,
That he has made arrangements 70
Co stay;
Then she turns round. as sweet a
anything,
And takes her new-made friend int.
the ring,
I And changes from snarl INTO ;
purr:
From mother-in-law to mother, as j
were.
Well, when / first infested this re
treat,
Things to my view looked frightfu
incomplete:
But Nature seemed quite cheerful
all about me,
A-carrying on her different trade
without me.
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06

rsaAsss~--ths f@@~ss o-M-R syszns
def bead and se@res sf sa&ftssx-
al sdvsso~nnenss whkoh have nswsw
sssa effsrs1 bsssws 90 ss<& tsw
Driess-
small dswn pay mszt - EASY
DYnthfy tsrms--yeurs S1 ear snks@
In trsdsf cense tn sn1 skeoes
ysurs while tls<y Last
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06

rT,HIS little automatic device sur
4 prises everyone. One local woman
said she could hardly believe her eyes
at first. IL seemed almost too good to
Putnam patriot., 1928-12-06

be true that cans
could be opened so
quickly and easily
almost like magic
But the fact remains
that % out Of loo