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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-10
Woman Tells Court
 What Mutes Testify

BEATRICE, Neb., Jan. 10--A court interpreter for deafmutes is the occupation of Mrs. Velma Gresham.
 Borr cf parents who were both deaf, while she herself possessed all her faculties, she mastered the sign language and has followed her present vocation for years.
 She points out that because the sign language is universal. it is possible to interpret the testimony of any mute, whether he be alien or American.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-10

P. Benedict, passenger, and Capt. Edward Pauley, aviator.
 The wreck showed the fliers became lost in the dense fog ana struck the earth with the en- zines running. The crash prob ably killed the occupants instant ly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-10
COULDN'T WAC TAIL

HOLLAND. Ohio. Jan. 10-Tele- phone operators get odd requests. Item: 4 Holland housewife's pet dog rot ito tail caught in the wringer on her washing machine. She lsantteally ssked central to get some~ one to help her.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-10

o,1 poneyp ppr sa(s u Tne EnpiPo.
 old pSpeis tos sase at The E9pire-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-10

Old papers for sale at The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-10

old papers for sale at The Empire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
JAPANESE VISITORS
MAKING WORLD TOUR
Party of 10 From Delegation Sent
to Olympic Games Leaves After
Washington Stop.

A party of 10 distinguished japanese
citizens, part of the japanese delega-
ton which attended the Olympic games
during the Summer left Washington
yesterday, after brief visit, en- route
to San Francisco, where they will board
steamer for Hawaii and Japan.
The party went to Amsterdam b.
way of Siberia, and the trip, therefore,
will take the members completely
around the globe. Their journey is be-
ing made under the auspices of the
Osaka Mainichi, newspaper in Osaka
which boasts circulation of 100000
The party which visited this city in
Guided one lady, Mrs. S. Kimura OF
Osaka, who is accompanying her hus-
band, large land owner in Japan
Among the members of the party are
Rev. E. IchikaWa, a Buddhist priest OF
the Gifu Province: S. Sawahara,
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives at Kure; Robert M. Kamide, a
lecturer: M Nakana. graduate of the
literature department of the Toxic I'M
perial University; group Of bank di-
rectors, an electrical engineer, a street
railway manager, lacquer merchant
and silk manufacturer.
The party, which made headquarters
at the MayhoWer, was entertained at
tea Friday afternoon at the Japanese
embassy. The trip west will include
stops at Niagara Falls, Chicago, Colo
RADIO Springs, Salt Lake City and Los
Angeles, the visitors sailing from Sar
Francisco October 10.
In San Francisco the party will be
met by S. Takaishi, general director
of the Osaka Mainichi, who is on his
way to this city to visit President
Coolidge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

acter requirements and are not engaged
in the hacking business, a permit is
issued for the fee of one dollar
I'VE are trying to eliminate from the
streets of Washington the guide who
runs up to visiting automobiles and
stops them to solicit business" Harring-
ton explained. "He is a nuisance. BY
licensing responsible guides and equip
ping them with authorized badges
strangers who wish the services of a
guide may recognize him and approach
him of their own volition.
Embellished Stories.
1--WE also are hopeful of putting out
of business the irresponsible guide who
deliberately gives out misinformation
about places of public interest. Much
of this results from ignorance on the
part of the guide, but some of it is due
to the fact that guides think their GUS
toners might be irked by the truth.
They don't want it said of them that
their tour proved boresome, so they
proceed to embellish their monologues
with fantastic or facetious touches de-
signed to keep up the interest of the
strangers"
Harrington has an uncanny memory
of names and faces-a gift that proves
invaluable to him in his work, and ex-
tremely embarrassing for applicants
with shady past. He keeps an &C
curate personal record Of every hacker
and guide in the city, so that If men,
DRY fails, the records are there to tell
their story These records, by the way,
received special commentator from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
WILL STAGE WAR
AT PROVING CAMP
Planes, Artillery, Tanks and
Bombs to Be Used in
ManeuVerS.

War as it would be fought today will
be shown in graphic detail at demon
stration at Aberdeen, Md, Proving
Grounds Thursday at the tenth annual
meeting of the Army Ordnance Associa-
ton.
In a firing program expected to
SurpaSS any maSsed demonstration OF
war since the World War will be
brought into action field artillery pieces
of all calibers, tanks, bombing planes
smoke screens and aerial bombs, using
full strength charges of explosives and
actual battlefield projectiles.
1t is expected that more than 5000
members of the ordnance organization
will witness the demonstration.
Secretary OF War Dwight F. Davis.
Assistant Secretary G. B. Robbins an6
F. Trubee Dawson, Assistant Secretary
high ranking officers of the various
branches of the Army.
Affiliated with the association are the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineerS, the Association of Military
Surgeons of the United States and the
Construction Division Association and
many Of the members of these organiZa-
tons are expected to attend.
Maj. Gen. Clarence O. Williams, chief
of the Ordnance Department here, is
in charge of the arrangements for
entertaining the visitors. He will well
come them in an address at the BUSH
ness meeting of the association in the
administration building at Aberdeen
Charles M. SchWab, president of the
association, is expected to speak.
One of the features of the war eXl1i-
bition will be the firing of huge sea-
coast gun capable of firing a projectile
weighing more than ton a distance
of 80 miles. 1t will use the standard
wartime charge and projectile.
Batteries of the most modern type
anti-aircraft guns will shoot at aerial
targets towed by Army Air Corps planes.
Bombing planes will drop Compound
bombs into the water.
Field artillery troops will simulate
battle maneuvers, using a full smoke
screen barrage. Gun and bomb tests
with great variety of war machinery
will be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
POLICE SER CEANT EXAMINES
PROSPECTIVE CITY "GUIDES'
Finds Many Applicants Have
Hay Ideas About
Washington.
Others EmbeIIish ExpIana-
tions With Apocryphal
Stories.

Distressing though it may be to some
of them, the scrutiny of the law is be-
ing brought to bear upon the personal
character, life history and breadth OF
knowledge of WaShington'S profession
al city guides"-with surprising re-
suits.
1t is these surprises in his daily rou-
| tine as GEAR" of the hacking and
guide professions in the National Capt.
tai that makes life interesting for Sergt.
Joseph D. Harrington. the good-na-
tured but imperturbable policeman
philosopher of the Traffic Bureau.
| Sergt Harrington, as hack inspector,
| long has kept his watchful eyes on the
ever widening ranks of the city's hack
| ing gentry, from taxi drivers to sight
seeing bus operators.
Gives Them Quiz.
When Sergt. Harrington administers
regulations, he enters into the spirit
of the thing. Guides are supposed to
know how to tell strangers where to
20 and what to see and how to get
there and what they do in this Govern
i ment building and whose statue is on
the dome of the Capitol. He makes it
his duty to find out if applicants for
guide licenses know all this. Besides,
he inquiries quite carefully into their
police record and general character.
lone fellow came in here and when
asked him if he had ever been ar
rested, he said, Not for two years, !"
the sergeant said yesterday in an in
terview. 'I looked up his record and
found that he just finished serving a
two-year sentence at Occoquan."
One pompous-looking colored man,
armed with handful of documents,
came in and announced his desire for
a guides permit.
"Ah have lettahs heah from i'm
pohtant people all ovah de country.
he told the sergeant.
"Ye-eh?" remarked Harrington, un-
moved. We'll, if a stranger asked you
where he could take train to Lees
burg, how would you direct him?"
Oats easy replied the duSky ap-
plicant, with an air of confidence.
"Ah'd send him to Union Station, of
co'se."
Hmm. Say, boy, do me a favor,
will you? Go to Union Station and
sit down-or lie down, don't care
which-and when that train for Lees
burg pulls in, telephone me right away,
will you?"
"Yas, subj" he replied, seriously.
it fob you wifi pleasuah, suh."
He Didn't Get the Job.
This occurred Friday afternoon, Har-
rington declares, but the colored man
must still be waiting at Union Station
for the Leesburg train, as he hasn't
returned to the Traffic Bureau yet, or
telephoned to the sergeant.
You know" Harrington said, "only
one guide so far has answered that
question correctly by designating the
Rosslyn Station. Some of 'em squeeze
out of the hard ones. like the fellow
who, when asked him how to get
to the Freer Art Gallery, said to call
a taxicab.'"
Sergt. Harrington does not attempt
to ask long list of questions to the
applicants, but picks two or three
typical ones from among queries usu-
ally propounded by visitors. If they
reply correctly to these, pass the char
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
RUM
PROBE TO CONTINUE
District Attorney Says Spe-
ciaI Grand Jury Will Go
On After First of Year.


PHILADELPHIA, September 22-
The special grand jury investigating
gang murders, bootlegging and police
bribery in this city probably will go on
until after the New Year, John Monag-
han, district attorney. said today.
Sensational as have been some of the
revelations heretofore, he said, he had
reason to believe he had uncovered
only a small part of the "scandalous
conditions"
At the same time he disclosed that
Samuel o. Wynne, Federal prohibition
administrator for eastern Pennsylvania,
turned over to him today black book
taken when a 75-gallon still was seized
in south Philadelphia.
Evidence of Brides.
The book contained entries showing
that brides we're paid to the captain,
the district detectives and to patrolmen
in whose territory the still was oper-
ated
This captain and his subordinates
whose names are mentioned in the
black book will be summoned before
the grand Jury Monaghan said.
Speaking of the length of time the
investigation is likely to continue, the
district attorney said:
IT never tackled more gigantic task,
but don't intend to stop. The so-called
higher ups won't stop me-"
Patrick j. McKewen, chief of county
detectives, today announced that he
would give the city police force until
Monday to bring to headquarters Fred
erick SLIDER missing city hall detective,
charged with being implicated in ex-
torting $500 from confessed bootleg
ger.
Monaghan late yesterday disclosed
that he had information that SLIDER is
in Philadelphia, and not in Canada as
he previously had been led to believe.
The grand jury did not meet today
and Monaghan was resting at his Sum-
mer home in Atlantic City. He indicated
there would be several arrests Monday,
the start of the sixth week OF the in
YeStigatiOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
RIVER REPORT GOES
TO COMMISSION
Engineers Will Advise on
Park and Power Improve
ments for Potomac.

The report of a joint committee Of
engineers and landscape architects on
plans for park and power development
on the upper Potomac in the region
of Great Falls will be one of the out
standing matters to come before the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, which will meet Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
Legislation to be submitted to Con-
gress at the coming session will be dis
cussed, as will plans for the immediate
future in mapping out the course of
work for identifying further the Ma
tional Capital Changes in the high
way plan will come up for final indorse-
ment and land acquisition for park and
playground purposes will be considered.
Final recommendation on the thor
oughfare plan of the District of Co
lumbia will be recommended it is ex-
pected, at the coming meeting. Certain
streets have been designated as through
routes from one section of the District
to another Interest centers not only in
the radials. such as Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island and Wisconsin
avenues and Sixteenth street, but in
the cross-toWn arteZial highways, such
as Columbia road ard Park road.
The meeting. which will be the first
of the season. will be held at the Navy
Department Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
OSTEOPATHS TO OPEN
CONVENTION OCT, q
Middle Atlantic States Association
to Hold Sessions Here for
Three Days.

The ninth annual convention of the
Middle Atlantic States Osteopathic AS
ISOLATION will be held in the Washing
ton Holel October 4, 5 and g.
The opening session, at 9 am,
October 4, will be devoted to business
affairs of the North Carolina and Vir-
ginia osteopathic societies, followed by
open discussions at 1920 am. At 2:30
pm. a diagnostic clinic will be held, liz
charge of DR.. H. Walter Evans, of the
Philadelphia College of Osteopathy.
The association will hold dinner at
the Columbia Country Club at $50 pm
October 4. followed by review of the
cases examined at the afternoon clinic.
Morning and afternoon sessions will
be held October 5 and 6 and night
session October
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

representatives Of the Bureau of Eff
f1ciency
With all his strict attention to duty,
Sergt. Harrington is admired and re-
spected by every member of the pro-
LESSONS which come under his official
supervision.
They have found that he is, after all.
their best friend and Severest critic"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
Payne Named Consul.

HAVANA, September 90 LP).-Charles
F. Payne, United States vice consul at
Havana for three years, was today
ordered to Colon, Panama, to take over
the consulate there left vacant by the
recent death of George M. Hanson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
CEMENT WORK-CEMENT WALKS, STEPS
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DANCING.
GLADYSE WILBUR

will be located at the Playhouse, 1914 N
st. starting September 20. 2o'
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

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A REWARD FOR INFORMATION AS TO
whereabouts of Geraldine Smith who left
home. last Friday. IDA v. PRESTON,
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-27
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

e.r trailing rope caught on two
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-27

high tension electric lines. but they
managed 10 free II. Then the water
soaked basket itself became tangled
in six high tension lines. Thousands
Of volts Of electricity flashed about
them. the deadly wires only a few
feet from their faces. But they got
clear again. One Of the poles caught
on their basket with a cross-arm,
and they had to swing over the side
and push II off with their feet.
Rising eight or ten thousand feet.
they found a southerly wind which
took them away from the storm.
About 3 o'clock. az an altitude Of
$1,000 feet. they encountered a freez-
ing current which formed ice in the
rigging and stiffened their wet
clothes. They stuck it u for an
hour before going lower to thaw cut.
After getting warm, a little above
the treetops. they again tried the
higher attitudes. but al into a snow
storm above the 5,S00-foot level.
Crossing the Potomac southwest
OF Alexandria. Va, about . a. NJ, thew
began TO drift toward Chesapeake
Bay, and Shey decided 70 come down
at Weems. Va. They still had suffi-
cient ballast and gas to 20 through a
day of good weather.
When they learned that they had
won the contest. although they had
covered only 25l' miles By official
measurement. they were more sur
prised than anybody else concerned.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-27
TictOys In Balloon
Race Tell of Hair
Raising Experience

WASHINGTON-tPt-The darting
thrills provided by the ~sirplane have
obscured somewhat the imaginative
surge which once attended the as
cent Of a free balloon. But drift
ing with the winds through the
heavens remains nonetheless crowd
ed with adventure.
Capt. william Z. Kepner, assistant
commandant of Scott Field, has been
in the thick Of such adventure often,
but he probably encountered more
desperate problems while winning
the national elimination contest a
few weeks ago than in any other
similar space OF time.
Soon after leaving Pittsburgh,
late in the afternoon of Memorial
Day, he observed that a little cloud
which had looked harmless enough
az the start was becoming threaten
ing IL rapidly developed into a vio-
lent thUnderstorm-the disturbance
which killed two of the contestants
and before many minutes had pass
ed the strong currents OF air assoc
ciated with it caught his balloon.
The 35,O0O-cubic foot bag was
sucked swiftly under the cloud and
then hurled up through its center.
For several thousand feet the dark
ness was intense, and the v~alving
Of gas had little effect on the too
rapid rate az ascent.
Recognizing their danger, Cap
tain kepner and his aide. Lieut.. w
U. ~EarecksOn, put on their para
chutes, tied the release rings with
pieces Of rope TO the rigging. and
sat on the edge Of the basket. II
they should be knocked out by light
ming they planned to fail out of the
basket, trusting 70 luck that the
parachates. opened when their fall
ing weight jerked out the rings,
would land them safely somewhere.
They were not struck, but at an
altitude Of about 1900 feet tney
found themselves IN u part of the
cloud thick with static lightning.
which turned the darkness into a
%greenish yellow glow. Meanwhile
the wind was whipping their bag vio-
leHtly 70 n side and another. Sud
denly 10 shot them down toward the
ground, and they had to throw over
ballast rapidly to keep from crash
ing.
Within 80 or 100 feet Of the
ground their craft rcgained equi-
horium. They saw Lieut.. Paul Ev-
ct Of Langley Field. one Of the bal
loonists who was killed shortly aft
erward, pass about 100 yards away,
and the Goodyear Y, piloted b.
Nard II. Van Orman. dive within a
few feet Of the ground and then
shoot upward. Van Orman was in
jured and his aide. Walter Morton
Of Aron, was killed later when they
had to abandon their balloon near
f~oungwood. Pa.
BY staying low, Captain Kepner
maneuyered his balloon into a Val
iey down which il was swept away
from the center Of the storm. The
arr was bumpy. chopping them ID
and down and forcing them to valve
gas or throw over ballast alter
nately.
Their trailing rope caught on two
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Brownsville Auto
Party Home After
Trip TO Colorado

Miss Doris Faux. office secretary
Of the Brownsville Chamber Of Com
merce. he's returned To her desk after
a months vacation during which
time She visited points Of interest
in Colorado, New Mexico and West
ern Texas.
Travelling in company with Ira
Webster and his daughter. Miss
Elizabeth Webster, Miss Faux visit
ed Denver. Colorado Springs. Mani
tou. Boulder and Estes Park in Colo
RADIO. They returned through New
Mexico where they stopped 70 visit
the Carlsbad Caverns. The party also
stopped at MADEIRA Springs in the
Davis mountains az West Texas.
we also saw the headwaters Of
the Rio Grande." Miss Faulk said.
"and YOU can't realize how beautiful
and clear the stream is there"
The entire trip was made ~ auto
mobile. the party leaving Brownsville
June -.
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