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Evening star., 1928-11-17
DRUG STORE BANDIT
IS GIVEN Z YEARS
Youthful 0hioan Sentenced
to Penitentiary for Ho|d-Up
Netting $257.

Francis Heyer of Akron. Ohio, just
81 years old, was sent to the peni-
tentiary for IL years and months to-
day by Chief Justice Mccoy, in Grim
inal Division 1, for robbery. With two
companions Heyer entered drug store
at 3552 Connecticut avenue last Mo-
vember and with pistol held William
w. French, the proprietor, taking
S25779 The companions have not
been apprehended Heyer did time in
Philadelphia for similar offense and
is wanted in two other cities, the court
was told
Robert E. Dorsett, colored, will serve
Is years in the penitentiary for man
slaughter. He was indicted for second
degree murder in connection with the
death of Alexander Steen, colored, but
was allowed to plead guilty to the les
ser offense. The court imposed the
maximum penalty for manslaughter.
Dorsett beat Steen with his fists and
after he had knocked him down beat
his head against the concrete In Nay
lors court May 27, inficting injuries
resulting In Stems death.
Perry E. Dutch, colored, was given
term of five years in the penitentiary
for grand larceny. He stole an auto
mobile September belonging to
Charles M Fling.
A similar term was imposed on
Frank H. Clouse for housebreaking and
larceny. He broke into store at l05
Pennsylvania avenue September 8 and
stole a quantity of jeWelry.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
POSTAL ROBBERY
NETS SMALL sum
Edmonston, Md, Office and
Justices Home Are En-
tered During Night.
Special Di;patch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md. November IT,
Prince Georges County police today are
searching for the thief or thieves who
last night entered the post office at
Edmonston, near here, and also the
home of Justice of the Peace John
Downing in Edmonston. Search also
is being made for two men who at
tempted to hold up Thomas Van Pelt,
in charge of Frank Groome's gas sta
ton at Cottage City, on the Washing
Baltimore boulevard, early this
morning.
Discovery of the Edmonston post Of
flee robbery was made by Mrs. Maggie
May Tierney, postmistresS, when she
reached the Office this morning. She
found that the door to the office, which
is located in the Lewis Bros. general
store, had been jimmled open. Seven
teen dollars In stamps and some small
change were found missing.
At the home of Judge Downing two
pocketbooks which were left on the
dining room table, were robbed of their
contents of $40 Judge Downing yes
terday received $275 cash in connection
with a rea. estate deal. This he had
hidden in shoe under his bed, where
it was found intact.
According to Van Pelt two men en-
tered Groome's garage this morning
and asked him If he had any head
lights. When his back was turned he
said the men pressed revolvers to him
and demanded his money. Instead he
yelled and the men fled to their auto
mobile and left in the direction of
BalClmore.
Evening star., 1928-11-17

tSOAAIAANN0 AOLA EAlCG 1dkS.J
ing is his correspondence. Letters still
are being delivered at his home literally
by the bushel and a dozen exert typists
are busily at work replying to them.
The good right hand of the next Presi-
dent is cramped from signing his name
to the endless stream of typed letters
flowing from the improvised office in his
home to the desk in his study. He
had hoped to answer every letter per-
Sonally, but the task now seems to be
an impossible one.
In the midst of these worries Mr..
Hoover found time yesterday to meet
several callers to re-enroll in the Red
Cross and to view remarkable "arti-
fetal lightning" demonstration in the
famous Ryan Memorial Laboratory of
Stanford University.
Louis B. Mayer and Cecil B. DeMille,
noted movie magnates, flew from Holly
wood yesterday to pay their respects
to the Presient-to-be and they readily
accepted an invitation to have lunch
at the Hoover home. William H.
Crocker of San Francisco, national
committeeman for California, was an
other visitor at San Juan Hill.
Mr.. Hoover S gned Red Cross men,
berShip blank, presented to him at his
IloNl3 NY HlS oWIl uduSIlleT-ln-ldW, A1TS.
Herbert Hoover, jr. He already was a
member of the central board of Ameri-
can Red Cross. Motion picture cameras
recorded the signing ceremony.
Late in the afternoon the President
elect joined with newspaper men in a
visit to the electrical laboratory of DR.
Harris j. Ryan, where the eminent uni
versity electrical wizard created blind
ing flash of artificial lightning % feet
long.
Mr.. Hoover and other spectators held
their breath in amazement as the g.
600, ,000-volt tongue of fame roared its
way between two large terminals at
the VIII of Dr. Ryan.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
MIDWEST STORM
DAMAGE MOUNTS
Scores Homeless, 3 Dead,
Trains Stop, Mercury Drops
as Floods Rage.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, November 17.-Cold-
er weather today followed 36 hours of
nearly continuous rainfall in Kansas,
Missouri and Northern Oklahoma TO
edd to the suffering of many persons
threatened by increasingly menaclng
floods in the tri-State area.
Three deaths already have resulted
from the storm, while two persons were
seriously injured here by raln-bilnded
motorists. An unidentified motorlst
drowned when his automobile was swept
into a flooded stream at Paola, kanS.,
Yesterday The body was not recovered:
c. E. King, a driller. was electrocuted
at Mulberry, KanS., when he shipped on
wet planking. Hugh Reave was Killed
here last night when his stalled car was
struck from behind by another auto
mobile during downpour.
Train Service Paralyzed.
Ten feet of water stood over three
railroad lines entering Kansas City to-
day and train service was partially
paralyzed following five inches of rain.
A railroad bridge was washed out.
Thirty persons who fed their homes
in low sections of Augusta, Kans., were
marooned knee deep in water in the
Santa Fe freight depot here early to-
day. Ell Dorado, Kans., residents, fol-
lowing nine inches of rainfall in that
fed to uplands after the town
was flooded. Nearly so families were
driven from their lowland homes about
Ottawa, Kans., by steadily rising waters
of the Marais Des Cygnes River, follow
ing seven inches of rainfall, the heaviest
in 20 years. Joining of flooded waters
of the Neosho and Cottonwood Rivers
at Emporia, Kans.. threw backwater
into that town today. One thousand
feet of Missouri Pacific Railroad track
was washed out there, while trains were
delayed for six hours between Coffey-
vile and Arkansas City, Kans,, due to
a waShout.
A hundred volunteer workers battled
last night to save dam at Harrison
vile. Mo-, which impounds Lake Luna,
source of the city's water supply. Great
damage to the town and possible loss of
life was threatened if the dam gave
Wav.
The highest flood in history of Pleas
ant Hill, Mo-. drove 25 families from
their homes.
The general rainfall over Oklahoma
increased to downpour last night, with
the mercury dropping at Oklahoma City
from 68 to 46 degrees.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
DEMAND JURY TRIALS
IN ROBBERY ATTEMPT
Youths Arrested in Company With
Girls Plead Not Guilty-0ne
Convicted of Larceny.

-Four young men arrested with two
young women on charge of attempt
ing to rob a gas station while claim
ing to be on their way to Rockville.
where one couple was to be married
pleaded not guilty and demanded jury
trials when arraigned before Judge
Ralph Given in Police Court TODAY.
John P. Mclaughlin, 10 years old. one
OF the quartet, stood trial on an addi-
tional charge of larceny and was fined
$40 or 80 days. No papers were issued
against the women.
ThoSe who will be tried by iurv are
Michael A. Parrella, 27 years old: George
Woodln, Ii years old; James w. Callan.
"a years old, and Mclaughlin. Parella
was at liberty under $l,5OO bonds. and
a similar bond was set for the others.
with the exception of Woodin. the court
accepting $500 bond in his case.
90 Inc girls. Miss Betty Stewart Rec,
70 years old, and Miss Alice Louise
HaSmer, 19, were released following a
nearing before Assistant United states
attorney Joseph Bruce.
=, Mclaughlin pleaded guilty to taking
tnree knives, four spoons and a fork
from the Mayfiower Hotel. He said he
was at dance there, went into the
Kitchen to get drink, and "scooped
up" the silver from q nearby table.
IL was Mclaughlin and Miss Rec
who were planning to be married, police
say Mclaughlin is on probation on a
Joy-rlolng charge, he said today.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
Will Rogers
Says:

NEW YORK CITY.-Pardon a mere
comedian for entering this sea contro-
versy. But If 1 was going to South
America and saw my boat wasn't going
any too good, I would swing over and
keep in next to the coast line. Course,
that's just rough id:a of mine and
perhaps is not practical. I got the
idea from some excellent air pilots that
I have flown with. When things don
look just right they go the long way
round and keep over territory where
they have the best chance of landing
IN case it's necessary. But that's why
an airplane is safer than a ship or a
bus at grade crossing.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
Eight D. c. Aeronauts to Join Group of
Early Bird" Among First to Fly

Eight pioneer American airmen, CIV
ing this city as their home, will par
ticipate in the organization of an asso-
ciation of those flyers who were in the
air during the first l3 years OF flight,
between 1908 and 1916, at meeting at
the Hotel Stevens; ChiSago' l;,g,o pee December
The association, to be known, apprc-
priately enough, as the EARLY Birds"
win have an eligible list of about 200
old time flyers to draw upon for mem
bershlp, it is estimated. They are the
men and women who first entered the
new field, and while some have gone
into other pursuits or have retired
there are a goodly number who still are
active as pilots, private owners, heads
of airplane factories or executives in
aviation businesses.
The Early Birds will hold banquet
and will establish a permanent organi-
Evening star., 1928-11-17

zation, adopting constitution and by
laws and electing officers
Those giving Washington addresses
who already have notified the organiza-
ton committee they will take part i'll
the formation of the society are Par
ker D. Cramer, aeronautics branch, De-
partment of Commerce, who with Bert
Hassell, took part in the attempted
fight from Rockford, ILL.,, to Sweden
last Summer; Brig. Gen. B. D. Foulois,
Office of the chief of the Army Air
Corps, War Department; George A.
Gray. Star Building; Ernest Jones, 45o7
Forty-ninth street; Maj. T. De w. Mill
ing, office of the chief of the Army Air
Corps; Capt. H. C. Richardson, Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics; Miss Marjori-
Stinson, Wardman Park Hotel, and
Comdr. John H. Towers, Navy Bureau
of Aeronautics. pilot of the first plane
to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
SIX WEEKS NEEDED
FOR DOME REPAIRS
Museum Work, Delicate in
Nature, to Be Done After
Office Hours.

The slipping dome of the National
Museum, which has settled minute
fraction of an inch to the east during
the past 10 years, will be completely
restored by January if repairs can be
continued at the present rate. accord
ing to the contractor in charge of the
work
Workmen today were starting to place
steel uprights behind the massive piers
which support the dome. These up
rights are riveted into ring of steel
girders around the bottom of the piers
and will be similarly fastened to an
other ring of slightly smaller girders
which will be placed around the piers
80 feet above the bottom ring.
In about two weeks, after the rings
of steel beams and the uprightS are in
place. 48 screw jacks will be set between
the upright braces and the piers and
will be tightened in the hope of trans
ferring the pressure on the piers to the
framework of steel which will have been
thrown around them.
Dangers of Work Seen.
The work of taking up the jacks will
be a highly dangerous undertaking and
will be done under constant supervision
of experts from the Bureau of Stand
ards Great care must be taken in eX-
erting pressure against the piers to
prevent the whole dome from crumpling.
Only one lack can be frightened at
time 1t will be given a 30-degree turn
end the workmen will then wait 10
minutes before going to the next jack.
The work of tightening the jacks will
go on until the men from the Bureau OF
Standards decide that enough pressure
has been brought into play to prevent
further settling of the northeast and
southeast piers 1t is estimated that
the work of taking up on the jacks
alone will require about 90 days.
After the job has been finished the
space between the piers and uprights
will be boarded up and filled in with
concrete, leaving the jacks in position.
Work After Office Hours.
The steel girders used are hauled to
the inner courtyard in the muSuem and
then hoisted to the top of the building,
whence they are carried inside
through q hole cut in the roof for this
purpose. Because of the noise inside
the dome all riveting work is done after
4:30. when the building has been closed
to visitors.
The first warning that something was
wrong with the dome of the building
came about 10 years ago when one of
the keystones slipped down one sixty
fourth of an inch. This keystone has
continued slipping and now is about
IL inches out of place The mortar
around the three other keystones has
dropped out but the stones have not
slipped noticeably.
Engineers on the job expressed the
belief that the sli2page has resulted
from the fact that the foundations of
the northeast and southeast piers have
settled little.
1t was emphatically denied that there
is any immediate prospect of the dome
falling in.
Evening star., 1928-11-17

M. Poincare's words "enlighten and in
form the world" If and when a repa-
rations agreement is reached, France, it
Is lntimated will ratify the war debt
agreements and consider evacuation of
the Rhineland.
The second step meanwhile will be
the debate in the American Senate over
the Kellogg pact. All Europe now re-
CARDS this pact as of the utmost i'm
portance, but remembering the fate of
the Versailles treaty, Is unwilling to
make 1t the basis of political action
until we actually ratify it.
The third step will be the new naval
conference. This conference is bound
to come in 1881, but an effort will
doubtless be made to hold 1t sooner,
though how and when nobdy seems to
know.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
CLARK BOY EXONERATED.
Arlington Charge of Halloween
Depredations Is Dismissed.

William Clark, son of Joseph Clark of
Arlington, Va, whose name was among
those of 19 Arlington County boys
charged with committing Halloween
depredations on railroad property and
placed under 500 parole bonds each.
was proved innocent of any unlawful
conduct and released through the eff
forts of Attorney j. H. Brewer, jr., en-
ployed by the boys father.
The case was dismissed and William
was released from the one-year proba-
ton imposed as we'll as the bond. 1t
was shown that he was in no way i'm
plicated.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
Ordered to the Philippines.

Maj Ward S. Wells, Medical Corps,
at Walter Reed General Hospital, and
Capt. Arthur E; Brown, Dental Corps,
ordered to the Philippines for duty. and
Capt. Joseph r. Darnall, Medical Corps
now in the Philippines, has been order
ed to this city for duty at Walter Reed
Hospital.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
Woman Is Reappointed.

The President has authorized the en-
ployment of Mrs. Josephine Robbins in
a clerical capacity in the naval estab-
lishment without regard to the civil
service rules" Mrs. Robinson served in
the Navy as a yeoman for more than a
year and a half during the World War,
ard her reappointment was recon-
mended by the Secretary of the Navy.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
RECOUNT is ORDERED.

NEWARK, N. j.. November II R).-
Republican leaders yesterday obtained
from Chief Justice Gummere a writ for
a recount in behalf of Fred Hartley, jr.,
over whom Paul j. Moore, Democrat,
claimed majority of SAG votes for rep
resentative from the eighth con-
gresSional district.
The recount will begin November 26,
it was said
Evening star., 1928-11-17
SUICIDE THREAT STARTS
SEARCH FOR WOMAN, 40
Mrs. Lizzie Meade Writes Relative
She Will "Go to Bottom
of the Potomac"

An unsigned letter containing a sui
eide threat, received yesterday by Mrs.
J. w. Maxwell, Branchville, Prince
Georges County, Md, was turned over
to police of the Twelfth precinct last
night with request that search be
instituted for Mrs. Lizzie Meade, 40
wears old, of Branchville.
The letter received by Mrs. Maxwell
requested that she take care of the
children until another relative came
for them.
II just can't stand it any longer"
was mart of the message, 80, with
PRAYER for you and myself will go to
the bottom of the Potomac"
Mrs Meade's five children are being
cared for by her sister. Mention of
two of the children, Louise, IL, and
Nellie, years old, was made In the
letter.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
Lieuts. Hegenberger
and Maitland Will
Get Mackay Trophy

The Mackay Trophy has been
awarded to Lieuts. Lester j. Malt
land and Albert F. Hegenberger
of the Army Air Corps, for their
nonstop flight from California
to Honolulu, in June, 1927, as the
NEST meritorious flight by officers
of the Army during that year.
Assistant Secretary F.. Trubee
Dawson of the War Department
announced the award w&ch had
the recommendation of Maj. Gen.
James E. Fechet. chief of the
Air Corps. The trophy will be
presented later this month, pos
s'bly in the presence of the
donor. Clarence F. Mackay.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
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Evening star., 1928-11-17

The word gigmanitr was coined by
Carlyle to describe the British Phil1Stine
idea of responsibility.
Evening star., 1928-11-17
HOOVER FINISHES
WORK AS HOUR OF
DEPARTURE NEARS

Continued From First Page)
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is being rushed to the camps of
SANDING from everywhere. The re-
port of Gustavo Machado, who ar
rived in Mexico after four-months
stay at Sandino's camp, is an in
spiration to the millions of the op-
pressed masses of the two CONT
nents. The morale of the army is
mistaken. General SANDING has
cognizance of the fact that hundreds
of thousands of workers in the U. S.
are with him.
While the Daily Worker carries
the accurate news of the arrival of
Gustavo Machado in Mexico, bring
ing Sandino's message of his un.
shaken faith for the struggle which
will rid Nicaragua of the presence
of the American financial bandits
the capitalist press carries the false
news of Sandino's disappearance and
the surrender Of his army. The
Washington Government is at an
impasse and this is the cause for the
lies spread by the kept press. The
Nicaraguan masses are determined
to fight American interference and
their two weapons at present are
Sandino's army and an absolute in
difference to Wall Streets elections.
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Capitalist Press Lies About SANDING

tude might bring about. 1t is at
present unable to cope with the
situation.
U. S. Workers Fight Intervention.
Furthermore, General SANDING and
his army are becoming more and
more popular, not only in the Latin
American countries but also in the
United States, the metropolis of
ruthless imperialism. The militant
workers of this country have inces-
sanity manifested their disaproval
of the presence of the American
marines in Nicaragua, condemning
the cold blooded murder of hundreds
Of Nicaraguans and the ruthless des-
truction of their farms and villages
by the orders of the Government of
]. P. Morgan & Co. They manifested
their condemnation at mass meet
ings organized by the Workers Com
munist Party and the U. S. Section
of the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League.
The oppressed masses of Latin
America look upon Sandino's army
of liberation as the starting point
which eventually will liberate them
from the yoke of American imperial
ism. Financial and material support
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By ALBERTO MOREAu

WITH the approaching elections in
Nicaragua, the Wall Street Gov
eminent at Washington is at an i'm
passe. 1t. is meeting with two great
difficulties impossible to overcome.
The Indifference of the Nicaraguan
masses towards the coming elections
as manifested by the lack of interest
for the American financier candi-
dates and the ever growing populari-
ty and strength of Sandino's army
of independence.
Nicaraguans Resent Intervention.
The Nicaraguan masses have no
illusions as to the sincerity of
American interference in the coming
elections in Nicaragua. They deep
ly resent the presence of the Ameri-
can marines and their officials who
are determined to enforce the will
of Wall Street by giving no choice to
vote for any but candidates approved
by Washington. AS a result, the
workers and peasants of that coun-
try are taking the attitude of alb
solute indifference towards the
coming elections. Thus the Ameri-
can government is alarmed at the
frightful result that such an atti-
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committees and trade union frac-
tons, he said.
Katayama of Japan stated that
there vas insufficient connection
between the Communist Parties of
the homelands and the colonies and
the former gave the latter INSULT
cient support. This is particularly
true of the BNitish, Dutch and the
American Communist Parties, he
said. Katayama demanded the
liquidation of fractionalism in the
American party and the establish
ment of closer connection between
the Communist Parties of Japan and
the United States.
Hansen, of Norway, declared that
the struggle against compulsory ar
bitration was internationally i'm
portant. The Norwegian workers
delivered a heavy blow against it
in a recent successful strike, he
said.
Garlandi, of Italy, said that the
Communist Parties were negiecting
work among the peasants. The
Communist International must have
a clear program for peasant work,
he declared.