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The Washington times., 1928-12-06
MOTHER SEEKS
JURY RUN
TRIAL

Mrs. Jessie Sebastian. 32-year-oId
mother of Miss Kathryn Sebastian,
Columbia Heights beauty queen, ap-
pearing alone in police court today
before Judge Ralph Given, pleaded
not guilty to sale and possession OF
liquor. and demanded jury trial.
A similar charge against her 10
year.oId daughter, arrested with her
last night at house in the 1900
block Euclid st. N. W.. will be
tried in Juvenile court. Bond for
the mother was set at $1,000,
Mrs. Sebastian was placed on
probation several weeks ago, fol-
lowing her arraignment on a LIQUOR
charge, the court. admonishing her
ITO be more careful for the sake OF
your daughter.
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King Would Be Dead
6 Hours Before Public
Would Get Information
BY III. G. MUNIEE
International News Service

The serious illness of King George
has aroused worldwide interest IN
the manner in which in event OF
his death, the news would be con
Veyed to a waiting world.
The formal announcement or the
Sovereign's death would be made by
the home secretary. Sir William
JoynsOn.Hicks who. by virtue oil
his office. must officiate at all
births. deaths and marriages IN the
royal family.
Due to the formalities which
must be observed in such an event,
1t is probable that from five to six
hours would elapse between the
actual demise of the King and the
formal public announcement of his
death.
Many Details
The members of the royal family
and high officials of State would
have been called to the actual
deathbed, these officials including
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NEWS
CHEERS UP
NATION
BY HARRY r. FLoRY

LONDON. Dec. s (I.N.S. -
King Georges s temperature
was lower today after q fair
night, i bulletin issued BY the
royal physicians and posted
shortly before i b clock, stated.
.Th6 King passed 4 fair niglst.
His teIllnara tllsee Ills lllgrnlnK n
lower His general couditiOll y
slowly Improving and the iniectlye
process which still remains severe
ID becoming more localized.
b ft was signed by Sir Stanley
Hewett ana Lord Dawson. Of Penn.
All England was cheered by the
favorable tone Of the bulletin. The
Kings lower Temperature, restfuI
night and general Improvement
caused joy everywhere.
1t was the most favorable news
contained in an official bulletin
since the early stages Of His Ma
jecty's Illness.
The crowd that nad gathered ou..
side the gates OF Buckingham Palace
was restrained from cheering only
by the fact that the noise might
disturb the King.
The physicians insistent mention
of the severity of the infection was
the only tempering note in the
bulletin. It curbed extreme op-
timism somewhat. although mucn
hope was put In the statement that
the infection was Geing localized.
One Of the worst foas of the sea.
son persisted all night long and
still hung over the city today.
The Kings room Is equipped with
heavy double windows which are
capable of muffling the roar OF the
city's traffic at all hours. but the
smoke.choked London fog never
theless managed to seep through
into the room.
special apparatus which in.
cluded a number of artificial sun.
light lamps was installed In the
sick room to counteract the effects
of the penetrating fog.
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Boy, IL, Resumes Flight
To Cross United States

MERCER. Pa, Dec. 8 UN.SJ.--
With weather conditions reported
almost perfect. Richard f. James,
17.year.old New York boy who hopes
TO be the first youth under 81 to
span the continent by air, resumed
his flight eastward shortly before
10 a. m. today after being delayed
here more than "a hours because
OF damaged plane and poor
weather
James headed his pl1ne toward
Teliefonte. His plane was preceded
by one carrying Martin Jensen
who lis acting as guide for the
youthful aviator in his transcon-
finental journey. Jensen came here
10 assist young James in repairing
his plane which was damaged when
the l7-yeaf-oId flier was forced
down
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KIDNAPPED
B|]YFlUV(
s. AIV

NEW YORK, Dec. 6
(I.N.S. 1.-The body Of seven
year-old Joseph Storelli, who
was kidnapped from New
York 3 East Side On Novem-
Der III was found today by
searchers in i swamp near
Secaucus, N. J following the
confession of Pete Zudenow-
ski that he had murdered 3
child near Secaucl1s.
The man captured In Detroit had
confessed that ne had abducted the
child. killed him and hid the body
in the lonely. frost-covered meadows.
A few days following the boy n
disappearance police abandoned the
search for the kidnaper when the
mother. Louisa. thought her es-
stranged husband had taken the child
to Italy with him.
The murderer had slaslied the
boys throat so deeply as nearly 70
sever the head. A hundred feel from
the body the police found q rusty
and bloodstained butcher knife.
The story from Detroit sent Capt,
William f. Hogue, with 80 detect
tiyes scurrying to the point
Captain Hogue broke through the.
reeds into small clearing and
found the body OF the seven-year.old
victim frozen to the ground, where
1t had lain for more than three
weeks.
1t had been laid face down. His
brown, double.breasted overcoat had
been laid over the body like a
blanket. His hat was missing.
DETROIT. Dec 8 u.N.s.). Peter
Kudzinowski, 26, alias Roy Lambert.
alias Roy Rogers sat in police head
quarters today and boastfully told
how he kidnapped 7.year.old Joseph
Storelli in New York, and murdered
He also confessed police say, to
the murder of Harry Quinn, In
Scranton, Pa. in 1924.
Kudzinowski was arrested few
days ago as a golden rule drunk,
to be released when he had sobered
up. A maudlin boast, overheard by
detectives. led to his confession.
IF they knew what I'd done.
they would never let me out OF
here" Kudzinowski was heard to
remark to another prisoner.
He was taken before Inspector
Fred Frahm of the homicide squad
and after hours of questioning told
of the murders ito clear his con-
science"
His confession follows:
Tin 26. I was born in Dickson
City. Pa. and lived there with my
father and mother until 1924.
Beaten TO Death
Then something happened and
had to get out. There was
friend of mine. a fellow named
Harry Quinn. Well, one day Quinn
stole quart of whisky from me,
and 1t made me good and mad.
When ] met him I hit him several
times with a rock and beat him
until he was unconscious.
ran home but couldn't sleep.
| cot to thinking about Quinn. l
got up early next morning and went
to q farmers house about 40 miles
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Johnson SEEKS
TO SPEED Up
DAM BILL
BY EDWARD B. IOCKETT
international News Service
The Boulder Dam battle royal is

on.
Spurred by confidence Of success
during the short session and by the
constructive argument which
opened debate in place of last sum
mer's bitter crossfire Of wrangling,
Senator Johnson (R.) of California to-
day, initiated a move to swing dis
CONTINUED on Page Q Column 81
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Wilkins Expedition
Kept in By Gale
By CAPTAIN SIR HUBERT WILKINS,

Commander of Wilkins Hearst Antartic Expedition
American
DECEPTION ISLAND, Antarctic, Dee. 6-Via Whaler
He oria and KITPSan Francisco Examiner Wireless Sta
tion)-Dec "a bowling blizzard ragged all night and
most Of this day Work outside has been impossible We
could not hear your press dispatches this morning 4r
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wire will carry without unnecessary
Interruptions.
Aids In Production
The device will revolutionize the
printing industry, it's inventors be-
lieye.
1t not only sets the type by feIe.
graph, but will increase several times
the production of linotype and Inter
type typesetting machines. accord.
Ing to this inventors. II auton1ati-
CONTINUED. on FaSa- 2. Column 81.
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NelO Invention Sets
Type By Telegraph
BY James Z. Kilgallen

ROCHESTER,, n Y, Dec. IN.S.).-The ''teletv vpeset-
ter a invention which type bv telegraph was
publicly demonstrated here today for the first time
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GET SHOP
JOBS To BALk
BOREDOM

NEW YORK, Dec. Q.N.S0.-
Coincident with the revelation that
Lady Doria Hope, daughter of the
Duke of Newcastle. had worked as
a sales girl in A New York depart.
ment store, comes the news that
there are many society girls ana
debutantes working in similar posi-
tions for salaries that wouldn't pay
their buffers rent.
The daughters of wealth and
luxury are taking 10 the depart.
mept store counters because, as
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Here Is your big opportunity 70
enlist in the army that goes to
battle under Commander-in-C Chief
Santa Claus, marching against the
foes of cold, hunger and depression
that threaten hundreds of families
right here In your own Capital
City,
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typewriter, operated by a rapid
typist. Picture the operator sitting
Ia New York. for example, news
story before him.
He starts punching tape.
Presto.
Almost simultaneously the identi-
caI story comes out in type in com
nosfrlg rooms miles away, in Wash
ip1fon. Atlanta. Detroit, Chica 90,
81 f.ouis, Kansas City Denver, San
rrancIsco--any distance, In fact,
Flat the ordinary leased tslegraph.
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NAL TBIE IS
MERGERS
F0E

The, hope that local trac-
ton barons have been nursing
along Tor i year and half
of ! $50. .0OO, 900 merger c1
their street car companies
was blown 10 slnithereens tcs
day when the report Of Dr.
Milo Il. Maltbie, utilities ex
pert to the SenAte District
Committee, was made public.
Every fundamental of the mucn
heralded wilson traction merger
pian. from the $50. 100000. valuation
On down the line, was lanabasted Dy
the utilities expert III his lz0 pase
report.
IL "a not recommend the accept
aIace 81 $5O,OO0.00O as the present
value of the property and AZ the
amount to be used Al the basis Tor
determining fares fcr decade
Maltbie said il wauld suspend
for 4 decade the sovereign power
of Congress ana the Public Utilities
/ sConlnIssion "a reaulate rates, and
ssthe new company would have the
fares appreciably.
Blasts the Whole Thing
with these few words, supported
by page after page Of facts, Or.
Maltbie today assumed the role Cf
undertaken for the merger agree
ment which has already been ap.
proved 81 the Public Utilities Com
mission, the companies, trade and
civic bodies. the House District
Committees and almost entirely BY
the Bureau of Efficiency.
The Maltbie report was In direct
conflict with ths Bureau Of Effici-
ency report almost from beginning
to end Even where both reports
found fault iii the same parts Uk
the agreement they recommended
different solutions.
And the conflict assumed head
on" proportions with regard to the
$50 100000 valuation, the basis uf
the. agreement. Whereas the Bu-
reau of Efficiency declared II q fatr
compromise and less than the courts
would allow, Maltbie stated that II
was too high and would not be
sustained by the courts.
Bans Rate Angle
He recommended that. the naer-
ger be- effected without any men.
tion of value or rates. He advised
against that provision of the agree.
ment which would give the merged
company monopoly Of local trans
portation, which he declared is 'nn-
usual" and unfortunate.
II He found fault with the power
agreement, as did the Bureau OR
gEfficiency, but Maltbie urged Its
elinination. The expert also crttl-
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Here is that golden moment you
have SO many times wished f0rs
when you might spread that wee
Join the ever lncreasins forcpu
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Balls Rate AngIe
BANK STATEMENTS

WASHINGTON Clearing HOUSE,
SIS, ,591, ,99i .95.
New York Clearing House bal.
ance, S156, 6,OOO, 900.
New York Clearing House ex-
change, $I,612, ,OOO, 900.
Treasury balance, $S3. .3O8, ,611.O4.
Customs receipts, S6,O21, ,232. .26.
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l. CL E:RK
FIGURES i'm !.
TRIPLE
DEATH
Pictures on Page -

The twin demons of debt
and drink yesterday crazed
Thomas B. Miskimon, 81, of
the 800 block Of Eleventh st.
8. E., to the point where he
ended the lives Of his wife
and granddaughter, as well
rs his own.
There are no survivors of this
FAMILY tragedy except Mrs. Myra
Midkiff. stepdaughter. who came
home III the early evening to find.
IN scantily Furnished room on the
second story, mute evidence OF
what had happened some hours be
fore.
The bodies Of the three lay side
by side near the door of the room.
IN Miskinons hand there was q
pistol tightly cIuiched. His wife.
Hrs. Leoia MisEfnaon. is, had been
shot twice IN the body soshad ths-
6-year-old granddaughter. Norma. q
Put Pistol in Mouth
After killing the pair Miskin1on
puk the revoiver in his mouth and
pulled the trigger. The bullst
pierced his head.
He had apparently shot his wife
first when she Was sewing. the
second shot came az she was strtlg
Cling toward the door, the fpoiiee
believe.
AIRS. Midkiff came home from ner
work as a clerk IN a local office
TO find the door Of ser home locked.
After an hour or more of waiting
she asked aid from the Fifth pre-.
rinct police station 10 force an entry
70 the home. sensing that some
thing was wrong. and the triple
tragedy was revealed. None OF tr.c
shots fired had been heard by
neighbors.
Drinking Two Days
Her stepfather had. been drinking
for the past two days, Mrs. Midkiff
told police. He was an employe Of
the War Department. but was har-
ried by many debts. He moved TO
the city from AIexan iria. Va. six
months ago
Deputy Coroner Joseph Rogers is
sued certificates of suic:le and mur-
der Miskimon has son by a former
marriage Holt Miskimon. living in
the 400 block of Massachusetts, Ave.
n. w. and his wife is survived by a
brother W. f. Campbell, and three
sisters.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-26
Another Rescue
Job For Krassin
BY United Press Leased Wire

HAMBURG, July 26.-The Rus
sian ice breaker Krassin today was
standing by the Hamburg South
American liner Monte Cervantes at
Bell Lay off Spitzbergen after the
latter craft had struck an iceberg
while enroute to Spitzbergen.
The German liner has 1900 pas.
sengers aboard, but its damage is
said not to be serious.
Advices to the steamship com
pany here said that while cruising
toward Spitzbergen the Monte Ger
vantes had struck one of the float
ing icebcrgs that abound III the
northern waters.
She sprung leak and sent an
sos. The Krassin, which was re-
ported in the vicinity of Kings Bay
after rescuing 16 men from the
Arctic area where they had been
entrapped since the dirigible Italia
crashed, picked up the signals and
went to the rescue.
Captain Meyer of the Monte Ger
vantes messaged the United Press
that after his craft had sent the
> message the vessel proceeded
under her own power to. Bell Bay on
the west coast of Spitzbergen.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-26
EXPOSITION AT
LONG BEACH TO
OPEN TOMORROW
Wealth of Exhibits Will
Be Shown From All
Parts of the World.
By DUANE r. HENNESSY
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

LONG BEACH, Calf, July 26.-
On sandy 6O-acre peninsula over
which the waters of Long Beach
harbor rolled only few years ago,
the Pacific Southwest Exposition
will open at noon tomorrow.
Within the walls of the Tunisian
city which sprang up on the dredge-
built strip, % foreign countries
have placed exhibits on the pictur-
esque "Street of the Nations.
A million persons, many of them
tourists, are expected to WIT the
exposition during its 39-day run,
ending September 3. Through the
exposition, Long Beach will present
the Long Beach-Los Angeles harbor
as the outlet of the Southwest to
the countries of the Pacific ocean.
Forty seven buildings house an
impressive display of cultural and
commercial exhibits. Chief among
them are the palaces of modes. fine
arts, aeronautics, education, oil and
mining and land and commercial de
velopment.
Show officials estimate the cost
of Building construction at $2o0,OOO.
With the displays they have $1O,-
0G0,000 exposition, they believe.
The Tunisan theme will be ear
ried out in detail. From the Muez-
zin tower of the bazaar, which tops
all the other structures, MOhamme-
dan prayer will be ehanted twice
daily, Through the avenues mat
ives,'' some afoot and some on
camels, will lend atmosphere.
Among the features will be the
pageant, "Friendship of Nations, y
to be presented in the outdoor thea,
ter bordering the channel, and Hopi
Indians living in Pueblos, built
three stories high and, strangely
enough, against the building which
houses the modern airplane.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-26
COUNTY TO GET
$3l,825 FROM
LICENSE FEES

SACRAMENTO, July 26.-Cah-
fornia counties will receive $2,242,- :
S37 for highway maintenance, and
a like amount will go to the state
highway commission for state high
ways, from the license fees collected
by the state division of motor We
licles, according TO announcement
of Frank G. Shook, chief of the di-
vision.
Los Angeles county, with a total
registration of 500, ,5S9 vehicles, re-
ceives the lions share of the Ii
cense money, or $l,193,2l3. San
Francisco's registration of ll2,+l5
will net the city 1921, ,795, and Ala
media county's l09,2Sl vehicles will
bring $2l6,957.
The county allowances, without
deducting traffic officers salaries
for the year, which are also paid
from this fund include:
Imperial $3l, ,S25.S9; Kern $55,-
l29.lS; Kings $l5,620.69; Orange
$72,044.S9; Riverside $47,763.34
San Bernardino $71,003.S2; San Di-
ego $113,90l 90; San Luis Obispo
$l7,559.72; Santa Barbara $35,-
299.6S; Ventura $3l, l,l43.38.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-26
Chicago Keeps
Normal Pace
by United Press Leased Wire

CHICAGO, July 26.-Labor trou-
bic in Chicago resulted in two bomb
ings and one shooting and the gang
war was credited with another
shooting last night.
The Drug Corporation service was
slightly damaged by a powder bomb
placed at its door. A barber shop
owned by John Criscione on the
west side was demolished by a dy-
Mantle bomb. Both were said to
have resulted from labor trouble al
though police also advanced the
theory that the attack at Criscione s
might have been black handlers.
Alvatoro Cannale, member of
the Aiello gang was wounded by
shotgun slugs as he was putting up
his automobile. Walter Powers,
west side caterer was shot three
times as he stood in front of his
hotel. Powers has been having la
Dor trouble recently.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-26
JanitOr Witness
Against Minister

LOS ANGELES, July 26.-How
DR.. Frank Dyer, pastor of the
Wiltshire Boulevard Congregational
church, made love to a woman in
his study was related on the witness
stand today by f. j. Murray, church
Janitor
He provided today's sensation at
the trial to oust the minister.
cit was the Sunday of the 1926
New Years and | was locking the
church. | opened the study door to
see if everything was all right,
Murray declared.
DR.. Dyer was in there and / saw
a woman lying on the couch. DR.,
Dyer was sitting beside her with
his arms around her.
"One of his hands rested on her
leg
Murray said he begged the pas
tors pardon, saying he believed
the study empty. DIR. Dyer then ex-
cused him, Murray said, and told
him to go home. Dr. Dyer said he
would lock the place, Murray testi-
fled.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-26
POLICE SEEK TO
BREAK UP GANG
WARS IN /. A.
By United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, July 26.-ln a
determined effort to prevent ex-
tended warfare between rival gang
sters, police today held eight alleged
racketeers on suspicion of rurder
charges.
Their arrests were made directly
as result of the Staying of Augic
Palombo, north end bootlegger, but
police hoped ultimately to find
solution for more than one of the II
deaths this year that have been at
tributed to gangland rivalry in the
investigation now under way.
Tho round up during the last two
days brought under arrest Mike
Pupito, Vito Ardito, John Testini,
Dominick De Soto, Vito Disargo,
Salvador Nerna, Louis Passelli, and
Dominich Shiovone. They are men
ranging in ages from "a to 81 and
they represent themselves as cafe
workers for the most part.
Police said they are former Chi
cago gangsters who came here to
spread the illicit liquor trade, and
that war with local liquor gangs
who win not yield their territory Is
inevitable.
At the same time police said that
Frank and Tony Cornero, asserted
leaders of tho established Los Ang-
cles liquor rings, who had absented
themselves for the sake of convcn.
iencc, had returned to protect theii
interests from foreign invasion.
Police are inclined to believe that
Palombo 5 death resulted, not in a
clash between the 'home' and
'foreign' gangsters, but rather
from q factional feud among the
invaders, The net of evidence is
wound more closely around Pupito
and Ardito than the others in tn"
Palomho Staying investigation, ao
co$ling to police, because they are
JOINT owners of an armored cai
which police believe was used il
the Palombo Staying.
Ammunition peculiar to gangland
and similar to that used in killing
Palombo was found in Pupito s
apartment.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-26
T0RRID WEATHER.
OVER WIDE AREA
OF NORTH WEST
By United Press Leased Wire

PORTLAND, Ore, July 6. The
Pacific Northwest today entered its
sixth day of excessive heat con
fromted by a serious forest fire sit
uation and with death toll of at
least three persons.
Although it was comparatively
cool at seashore points, the interior
was baking under a fiery sun whose
intensity surpassed all previous rec
ordS.
The Dalles, Oregon, in the mid
Columbia region of Oregon, and
Washington sweltered late Wednes-
day under n new record temperature
of 10 degrees. Pendleton and Ar
lington, Gre, experienced ia de.
gree weather while at Lewiston
Idaho, it was l13.
At Portland, on the west side of
the Cascade range, the mercury reg
istercd 80. High marks in Washing
ton including maximums of lll.7
at Walla Walla, 100 at Pasco, 1915
at Yakima, and l04.3 at Spokane.
Numerous fires in forests, grain
fields and pasture land dotted both
Oregon and Washington today.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-26
BIG b()() 7
At RACCTS
ATTENTION.
Tunney and Heeney Wait
For Opening Gong In
Heavyweight Battle.
FORMER FAVORITE
Experts Pick Champion
To Retain His Title at
Yankee Stadium.
Ry United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, July 2d.-Gcne
Tunney weighed 1872 pounds and
Tom Heeney 203l2 for their heavy
weight championship bout tonight
when they weighed in ut the Nen-
kcc Stadium at p. M. today.
The fighters diG not see each other
when they went to the Stadium
Tunney got ON the scales first,
posed for photographers and then
Immediately went to his dressing
-ooms.
Heeney then came in aud repeat
cd the process. The challenger's
weight was big surprise to boxing
experts, for he had announced he
intended to go into the ring weigh
ing l9s pounds.
Tunney weighed more than he did
for any fight in his career. lie
tipped the. scales at ls9 when he
defended his championship against
Jack Dempsey at Chicago.
After the weighing IN, DIR. Will
liam Walker, official physician of
the New York state boxing commits
sion, issued the following state
ment:
"Tunney is in perfect physical
condition and is trained to the
minute for this fight His pulse
and blood pressure and heart action
yrc normal and he is both physically
md mentally calm.
"Heeney also is in good physical
condition, but is mentally excited
he was nervous when he got on the
!,ales and his reflex action was
slow.