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THE WEATHER

District of Columbia, Maryland, Vir-
ginia and West virginia--Fair tonight
and tomorrow, slightly warmer tomor-
row.
Record for "a Hours.
Thermometer pm, rs; pm, II;
IL midnight, 81; 4 am, So; am, IS;
noon, II.
Barometer-4 pm, BOLT; 8 pm,
30.18 IL midnight. 1921; 4 am, 3021;
8 am, 1926 noon 1927.
Highest temperature, II, occurred at
noon today. Lowest temperature, So,
occurred at 5 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 80; lowest, &c.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by the United States Coast
and Gcodetic Survey)
Today--Low tide. 1925 am. and 1:12
pm. high tide, 6:15 am. and Sat pm
Tomorrow-Low tide, I'll am. and
1:57 pm; high tide, 7:0l am. and
1888 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 5:07 am, sun sets
1922 pm.
Tomorrow--Sun rises SOB am; sun
sets 1871 pm.
Moon rises 6:25 pm: sets 2:47 am.
Automobiles lamps to be lighter one
half hour after sunset.
Condition of the Water.
Great Falls-Clear this morning.
Harpers Frrry--Potomac clear and
Shenandoah slightly muddy this morn
ing.
Weather in VariOuS Cities
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Deaths Reported.

The followiu- deaths hav been reported to
ths Health DEPARTMENT In the last 20 hours
Cnoitol ST. A wa vi
Sarah J. Mansfield 81, POST Park road.
Mary Char,pney; ~. Garfield Hosoitai
clarence Peacock, IS. Gsliineer Hosnital
Aueustns Berrhardt. ST. Gao Morton nj n =
Celia Pope, a.. Providence Hnsnital
Melwoed Steele. 20. HOMEOPATHIC Hospitai
Bertha Boley. "a. Gallinger Hnsoital
DitaI
Infant Of Waiter and Elizabeth Goodwin,
hours, Sihlev Hospital.
firm ~ "
Louise, Bennister, 81. Freedmen's HosnitaI
Cornela Evans. so. Csallinger HOSPITAL
John Bradley rs, 2iie 10th st NV.
Helen Rerrv. ~, Georgetown HoSpitAI
nitai
virsinia Harris, II. Curtis Sanitartun,.
Amanda NJ Jamson. q, 1880 ST ne
pital avs
! hour, Columbia Hospital
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DeafhS.

RUPP. MARGARET HELEN: suddenly. Sat-
urday, July 49, 1923, at South River. Md,
MARGARET HELEN RUPP, aged IS years,
beloved daushter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Anton
Rupp, 1908 L st. NV. Funeral services
at her late residence Tuesdas. july 81,
10 am. Interment Prospect Hill Cemetery.
SMITH. JAY n. Suddenly on Monday. July
30, 1923, at his residence. 300 Taylor 81
NV. JAY p. SMITH. husband OF Emma
r. Smith. Notice of funeral hereafter
SMITH, JOSEPH r. On Saturday, July %.
1928. JOSEPH r.. the devoted husband Of
Anita Smith; father OF Francis Smith and
Virginia Noble and son Of Dora Smith. He
also leaves seven sisters and a. host OF
other relatives and friends. Notice Of ~
neral hereafter. Remains resting at the
w. Ernest Jarvis Co west end funeral
parlors. gath and Dumbarton ave. NV.
TOwNER, LILLE PRICE. At Evanston, Ill.
LILLE PRICE, widow Of the late oscar
T. Towner, Services. g. John r. Wright
Co. funeral parlors. 1897 10th st. nv, AZ
! pm Tuesday. July 81. Interment Rock
Greek. baltimore papers please COPY
WALKER, MARY e.. On Sunday. July. o.
1928 MARY E.. widow Of the late Andrew
j. Walker. Funeral SERVICES a. 400
81. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
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NEW Y0RK-LOS ANGELES
FLIGHT FAILS IN KANSAS
Air Mail Pilot Is Forced Down on
Nonstop Attempt by Spark
Plug Trouble.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OMAHA. Nebr.. eJuIy 30-H. j.
Jack" Knight, air mail pilot, failed
in an attempted New York-Los Angeles
nonstop flight when his Bull plane
blew out spark plug somewhere in
Kansas early yesterday.
Knight returned to Grand Island.
Nebr.. yesterday morning and took of
at 80 pm. for Omaha, his home
town, arriving here at 2:15 pm. With
Knight was Etlenne Dornay, designer
of the plane.
The pilot disappeared from inter-
viewers almost as soon as his plane
came DOWN to earth. pausing only long
enough to say he needed rest, as he
was going out for dinner,
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HOPS OFF FOR AFRICA.

LONDON, July 80 CP).-Flying Of
ficer p. Murdoch of the South African
air force left Croydon air field yester-
day in 30-horsepower light plane in
an attempt to fly TO Cape Town and
back. 10000 miles. in l8 days.
Murdoch said the object of the flight
is to show that it is possible to fly
season and thus prove the practical
bilit'' of regular all-year air service
The feat has never been accom-
plished.
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AUSTIN FUNERAL HELD.
Air Corps Lieutenant Is Buried in
Arlington Cemetery.

Funeral services we're held at Airing
ton National Cemetery this afternoon
for First Lieut.. Charles B. Austin, Army
Air Corps, who died at Fort Monroe.
Va, last Friday. He was from Illinois
and enlisted in the Signal Corps in Oc-
tober. 1917. Appointed a second leu
tenant in the Air Corps in March. 1918,
he was promoted first lieutenant in
1920
He received the degree of bachelor of
arts from De Paw University in 1918
and was graduated from the Air Serv-
ice Tactical School in 1924 Recently
he was stationed at Langley Field. Va.
The officer leaves widow. Mrs. Laura
Jackson Austin, and three children.
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RITES FOR w. J. PARR.
Confederate Army Veteran Buried
in Congressional Cemetery.

Funeral services for William joseph
Parr. 81 years old. who died at his resi-
dence. All Cummins lane. Chevy Chase.
Md, Saturday. were conducted there
this afternoon at 2 O'Clock. Rev. 3. H
Melton. pastor of the Ninth Street
Christian Church. officiated. Interment
was in Congressional Cemetery.
Mr.. Parr was veteran of the Con-
fcdereta Army, serving as a scout. He
was employed in the Washington NAVY
Yard for 30 years until the time of his
retirement number of years ago. He
was past State councillor of the State
Council Of the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics
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Hoover Adherents to Meet.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star
POTOMAC. Va, July 30-Members
of the Republican party residing IN
Arlington County and Alexandria will
meet in the auditorium of the town
hall building here tonight at $50
o'clock 20 elect committee to push
the Herbert Hoover campaign in this
section. W. b. Fulton, newly elected
mayor of Potomac, who will assume his
official duties on September /. will pre-
side tonight Several well known
speakers will deliver addresses. while
music entertainment has been provided
for.
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CHARLESTON. S. c.. July 30 Lp).---
Several arrests we're made yesterday
and quantity of liquor was seized by
the crew of Federal prohibition agents
who Saturday launched a crusade to
clean up Charleston.
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Marriage Licenses.

Harry N. Merkci 81. owlngs Mills, aud
Rev william M Hoffman.
James Malloy., 49, and Mildred C. Lee, %;
Frank G. Kennedy. 2s. Richmond. Va, and
Doris E, Ramsay. 81, Hopewell, Va; Rev.
William NJ, Hoffman,
II; Rev. j. G. Murphy
Anthony J. Vassallo. %. and Mabel C.
Rond ~: Rev I C. Murnny
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Births Reported.

The following births have been reported 4
ne Health Department in the last - hours
ChaDin and MAY Axnes Baumau. girl
Robert snd Ruth conroy. girl.
John a, and Ruth EDWARDS. girl
Joseph c. md Doris NJ Fries boy
James NJ. and Augusta n. Geris, girl,
Arthur Z. and Ruth l.. Grasan, bow.
arthur W. and Ruth Hummei, boy
Karl and ISohella Rannell. hoy.
Joseph A. and Mary C. Seymour boy,
Henry n. and Doris Sherry. boy.
James p and AsneS l. Thomson. boy.
Howard T, and tic Villa I'd, girl
Milhnr g. and Mabel Winehrenner. bow
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GROCER DROPS DEAD.
Charles M. Pugh of Riverdale
Heights Was II Years Old.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RIvERDALE HEIGHTS. Md. July 80.
Charles M. Pugh. 7l-year-old grocer
dropped dead here yesterday of a heart
attack. He had been in business here
seven years He came from Washing
ton. where he was at one time in the
wholesale grocery business. He was a
native of Virginia.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Lynn M
Pugh. he leaves two brothers, George
w. of Glenn Dale. Md. and David H.
Pugh of Lorton. Va.
Funeral services will be held at st.
johns Lutheran Church here tomor-
row at pm, with the Rev. l., H.
Waring, pastor. officiating. Interment
will be In Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
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MRS. ]. G. BARKER RITES.
Final Services Today at Shrine of
the Sacred Heart.

Funeral services for Mrs Julia Gill
christ Barker, lifelong resident of this
city. who died Friday, were conducted
In the Shrine of the Sacred Heart
Catholic Church today. She was one
of the first members of the Sacred
Heart Church.
Mrs. Barker was the widow of John
p. Barker. She is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. George w. Jacobs, Miss
Marie M Barker and Mrs. Samuel Q.
Muloy, all Of this city, and son,
John d. Barker of Long Beach, Calf
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JOSEPH T. BASSF0RD DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Retired Veteran of Metropolitan
Police Force Had Record of
80 Years of Service.

Joseph T. Bassford. go years old, re-
tired veteran of the Metropolitan Police
here. of which he was a member for
more than 80 years. died at his home,
1894 Madison street, yesterday after a
short Illness.
Mr.. Bassford was appointed to the
police force November %, 1889. and re-
tired December /. 1927. He was sta
toned at No. 2 precinct during the last
Is years he was in the department.
serving as desk sergeant. He served as
an enlisted man in the United States
Army for number OF years prior to his
appointment on the force.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Ella
BaSsford, two daughters, Mrs. Edward
Weaver and Mrs. Alfred Webster and
by two sisters. Mrs, Anna Hyde and
Mrs. Mary TennySon.
Funeral services will be conducted in
the Columbia Heights Christian Church
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. inter-
ment will be in Arlington Cemetery.
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LOST

lake and circle. Reward. Wis. ass7
is White sold with chip diamond
1898 Col, Rd, NV. Adams ss4e
CAMERA, Zoo Park; anxious to recover RE-
T Ei,i,aa eastman camera postal size, Walter
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70 70 name Dutch, Reward. Call Mr.. Ktng.
nt ss n,a bull terrier clipped ears stub
reward Wisconsin $500
DOG. romeranian. dark brown medium sire;
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heaeh Gail Decatur Tas,
HANDBAG, Brown leather. containing six
i12a G 81. NV. Phone Franklin 2io3
LAnY's PURSE containing resri necklace
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Assistance from the government en-
abled a family of II recently to go from
England to Canada for only $3.50.
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BATHING SUITS Conn ave, between the
lake and circle. Reward, Wis. 1887.
BRACELET White cold with chip diamond
ma J sapphirrs. Saturday afternoon; reward
1898 Col Rid NV. Adams 6946
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vicinity clipped to the shoulders; answers
70 name Dutch, Reward. Call Mr. Ktng.
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Thomas st. NV Clipped resemble lion and
one, ear split Name shep. Reward N
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DOG. Pomeranian, dark brown, medium sire.
Areen collar with Baltimore license; lost sat
night, reward Mrs, Kathleen Sheridan
Rtays. 2l0S Bancroft pl. ~
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DOG White bull terrier, clipped ears. stub
taii, brown head N Y. license tag, Liberal
reward. Wisconsin 9Sfa
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day. July rs, i02S. az Freedmens Hospital,
Clarence. John and Ceeelia Jones. He also
leaves other relatives and friends 70
mourn his departure. Remains resting ~
the John T. RhineS funeral chapel. Srd
and Eve SITS, S.w. Funeral from the Church
OF the Incarnation, Tuesday. July III, at
8 a m. 1ntefment EOSemOnt Cemetery.
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JOHNSON. NETTIE. Departed this life July
80, 1923, at FreedmenS Hospital after a
short illness NETSrIE JOHNSON. She
leaves to mourn their loss a devoted son.
ter-in-iaw and a host of other relatives
and friends. Remains resting at the
George q Clarke Co. funeral pArlors. lAlS
Florida ave ne. Notice Of funeral here
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AUARF---On Monday eve, the 2Srd OF July,
one silk scarf o. yellow and green and blue,
loom, Return the same TO SiOS Mount Pleas.
ant ak and RRnhiNA rAWhfn
Evening star., 1928-10-22
CAR FARE DECISION
MAY COME TODAY
Refusal of Increase Made
Possible by New Plan Out
lined by Bride.

Determined to reach decision on
the application of the Capital Traction
Co. for 10-cent fare today, if possible,
the Public Utilities. Commission called
a halt on the gas valuation hearing at
l o'clock and after a brief luncheon
recess convened in executive session to
consider the car fare case. Originally,
the commission planned to continue
with the gas valuation hearing until 8
o'clock and renew the discussion on the
long pending higher fare petition at
that hour.
The eleventh-hour change in plans,
it is believed, portends definite action
this afternoon. 1t is reported that two
of the members of the commission al
ready have made up their minds as how
to vote, but that the third has not yet
been able to reach a conclusion.
Possible Course Outlined
Indications are that the commission
will first take up the case of the Wash
ington Railway s. Electric Co., which
did not ask for a higher fare, but was
made party to the proceedings in the.
interest of uniform rate Of fare, and
refuse to grant it an increase. Then
the commission will be in the position
of telling the Capital Traction CO. that
it would be idle to give it a higher fare
since John H. Hanna, its president, has
announced that it would not be ac-
cepted unless the increase is applied to
the competing company.
This plan of disposing of the car fare
case was suggested 1ast Friday by Cor
poration Counsel William w. Bride, the
commissions general counsel, when it
appeared that the commission had ex-
hausted all other legal means of deny
ing higher fare on the ground that
the public utilities act guarantees a
public utility corporation fair return
on its valuation.
Present Earning Power.
The Capital Traction Co. is now
earning 3.8 per cent on its court valua-
ton of $26,000,000 and insists that a
7 per cent return is a fair rate.
The commission gave serious thought
to Brides suggestion over the week end,
and if he gives the commission as
surance this afternoon that his plan
will not be overthrown in the courts,
it is reported that the commission may
follow it.
Evening star., 1928-10-22
ELECTION OUTCOME DOUBTFUL
IN THREE MARYLAND COUNTIES
Lower Tier Politics Confused by Religious,
Prohibition and Racial Issues
Influencing Voters.

southerly direction, this peninsula is
a favorite place of recreation for city
dwellers. It's innumerable bays and
creeks, fresh and salt, abound in fish,
oysters and crabs and its farms IN
ample products, much of which goes
to the Washington markets.
1t is favorite region for washington
gunners who are fortunate enough to
obtain permission to shoot here In the
hunting season, for its fields and
streams TEEN with wild game. Good
roads invite travel by land and beau
tiful, deep, natural waterways are the
paradise of motor and sail boat devotees.
Maryland Religious Haven.
For these reasons the people of Wash
ington usually take a special interest
in the affairs of southern Maryland.
That is more than ever true during
this unusual political campaign.
Lord Baltimore was a Catholic and a
majority of the first colonistS he sent to
Maryland were Catholics from England.
But he gave specific instructions that
religious tolerance should be one OF the
corner stones of the colony, and the
first settlers in his domain carried out
his wishes faithfully in this respect.
Maryland became haven for oppressed
Christians of all SectS.
This spirit still prevails especially in
st. Marys County, Oldest and most
overwhelmingly Catholic county of the
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Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, October o.
In the three lower counties of southern
Maryland, comprising the oldest portion
of the State, the political situation this
year is more complicated than it has
been at any time within the recollection
Of present-day residents. A survey just
completed by The Star, in which DEM
ocratic and Republican leaders and
members of the rank and file of both
major parties were interviewed, indi-
Gates that st. Marys County will give
Smith a majority of 800 or more; that
Charles County is close, but may give
like majority for Hoover, and that
Calvert County is surely Republican and
will probably give Hoover majority
above 500.
These southern Marylnd counties are
near Washington and many Washing
tonians love the section Hundreds of
persons who live in the National Capt.
tai during the Winter months maintain
Summer homes in this part of the State
and vote here.
Roughly triangular in form, lying
south of Washington and bounded by
the lower reaches of the Potomac River
and Chesapeake Bay, with the Patuxent
River intersecting it in northerly and
Evening star., 1928-10-22
MISSING WITNESS DELAYS
CHICAGO POLITICAL PROBE
Primary Day Polls Watcher Dis
appears in Midst of Criminal
Investigation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, october 22.-The unex-
planned disappearance of a State wit
ness confronted directors of Chicagos
politico- criminal investigation today.
George Reind, primary day polls
by David Stansbury, special assistant
attorney general. Stansbury is in
charge of the prosecution of 16 aides of
Morris Eller, twentieth ward Republican
leader.
Reind, employed during the April
primaries by Attorney General Carl
strom, had volunteered to testify re-
garding election frauds, Stansbury said.
Mrs. Reind, who claimed her husband
was out of town on business, was sum-
moned before the special grand jury
today.
Reind was kidnapped at the polls on
primary day The reputed henchmen
of the Eller faction are on trial, charged
with completely in primary day terror
ism and vote frauds.
Evening star., 1928-10-22
GIRL, 9, SAVES LIFE OF AUNT
WHEN SHE GIVES FIRE ALARM
Five Flee as Flames Damage
Home of Headquarters
Detective.
Woman Believed Fatally
Burned in Another
ConfIagration.

Nine-year- Olive Varney saved the
life of her aunt, Miss Mary Varney of
Boston, early this morning when she
snlelled smoke and gave the alarm in a
fire which caused $4,000 damage at the
home of her father, Headquarters De-
tective Frank A. Varney, 3017 Charming
street northeast.
Olive was awakened at 3 o'clock by
the smoke. She called her mother. who
was asleep on the first floor, and they
discovered the smoke coming from Miss
'varney's' room on the second floor.
Forcing her way into the room, Mrs.
Varney awakened her sister-in-law and
then led her two younger children,
Jacqueline, Z, and Buddy" 5, to safety.
In a second early morning fire, at
205 Eighth street northeast, Mrs. Lila
Smith, 48 years old, was rescued by
two fire lieutenantS who groped their
way down burning staircase, but she
is so badly burned that physicians at
Casualty Hospital do not expect her to
live.
Husband Is Detained.
Sidney Smith, her husband, is being
detained at the ninth precinct because
police were not satisfied with his ac-
count of the fire.
Miss Varney came here several days
to visit her brother. She had a fire
last night in the fireplace of secon6
floor bedroom.
When the fire was discovered, a call
to police headquarters brought Varney
and an engine company, members OF
which turned in regular alarm upon
their arrival.
The fire had started from defective
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DRUGGIST CHARGES
HOLD-UP ATTEMPT
Says Customer Made Motion
as if to Draw Gun, but Re-
fused to Take Cash.

A customer who refused to take the
proffered contents of the cash register
at DR.. Irving Sirota's pharmacy at
Third and G streets today, after he had
made motion as though to draw a
gun, has provided the police with
something to puzzle over.
A policeman, on whose automobile
Heman George Chaplin, %, 540s Twen-
ty-ninth street, jumped, arrested and
booked him for investigation" after
DR.. Sirota had pointed him out sus-
pected 'hold-up man."
Asks for Cigarettes.
DR.. Sirota was busying himself about
his store about $50 o'clock today when
the man entered. Chaplin ordered a
package of cigarettes of DR.. Sirota and
a soft drink of Frank Bruno, 17-year-
old fountain assistant, who lives at
1911 Girard street.
The drink was placed on the coun-
ter, and, according to DR.. Sirota, his
customer" munbled something about
not wanting it. According to the
pharmacist, Chaplin thrust one hand in
his pocket and poked it in the general
direction of the proprietor.
Now it happens that DR.. Sirota was
member of the World Wars famous
Lost Battalion" and guns aren't par
ticularly new things to him. After be-
ing assured that he knew what the
Chaplin to help himself" but some
how the latter was reticent. Where
upon the druggist opened his cash
drawer, Scooped up about SIS, and
placed it on the counter with generous
wave of his hand. Chaplin regarded
the pile dubiously.
Calls for Police.
"Aw, put it back" Sirota quotes
Chaplin as saying just before colored
woman entered the store. Chaplin
nodded toward the woman with an in
dication she was to be served, and, tax
ing her order, the druggist retired to his
prescription department in the rear of
the store and then upstairs, where
he telephoned police.
When he returned to the store,
Chaplin had gone outside where he was
hailing motorists for a lift. Sirota fol-
lowed him and as the fellow accosted
man riding alone, Sirota called out:
Don't pick him up! He just tried to
hold me up!"
"Yeah?" returned the motorist as he
stopped his machine and got out. This
"motorist" happened to be M. I.
Bridges, a policeman attached to the
seventh precinct, at the moment "off
duty" and he arrested Chaplin and took
him to the sixth precinct.
At the latter station, Chaplin was
locked up in cell, with "held for in
vestigation" written beside his name
on the desk sere snt's book. -