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by the Wyoming but direct messages
from the battleship made no men
ton of this.
This would give a total of PIT or
222 according to Interpretation of
the reports from the American Ship
per )rescued, and lit or 122 umac-
counted for.
The complete story of the hardships
which the rescued must have endured
before they were saved have been
told by survivors after landing.
What lingering hope there was that
those unrescued yesterday could sur
vive another night was lessened by
reports of the weather. Captain Won
Thalen radioed The Associated Press
that there were very strong norther-
ly winds with high seas, no sort OF
weather for men and women anC
children weakened by day and {
half in small boats or clinging tt
wave-washed RATS.
Radio reports received in Plenty
wood Wednesday evening from sur
vivors of the wrecked ship state tha
the ship was unseaworthy, that the
crew was incompetent, that thu
lifeboats were in poor shape, one o.
two collapsing before they reached
the water, that the ships officer
failed to send out the sos until /
was too late, while others claimet
that everything possible was done un
: der the circumstances. The reasol
for the disaster was varied and som
condemned the ship as being unsea
worthy, while others gave differen
reasons.
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sons and the battleship Wyoming
picked up eight. There was one re-
port that a dead man had been found
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FOUND-Pair of spectacles. Silver
trimmed. Owner may have same by
calling at this office and paying for
this adv. (31tf)
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TAKEN UP-1 black mare, no brand,
small star in forehead. Weight
about HOO, age 3. Carl Hovdey,
Outlook. 33-4
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front of Mint Cigar
Store two Chevrolet miller" keys.
Owner can have same by calling at
this office and paying for this ad.
(29-tf)
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CORN And PURE SEED

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ESTRAYED-2 spring calves, one
red the other black and white. Take
up and notify RALPH THOMP-
SON, Outlook, Mont. 32-3t
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BRITISH SHIP

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FOR SALE-White Rock Cockerels,
April hatch. Each $3.50. M. H.
DAMSTROM, Antelope, Mont. 33-t2
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WANTED TO BUY-One registered
Shorthorn bull of serviceable age.
Must be a good individual. Andrew
Elvsaas, Rt. 2, Froid, Mont. (30-4t)
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FOR SALE-Tenor Banjo, almost
new. Price reasonable. Call at Pro-
ducers News.
Evening star., 1928-05-09

Square deal for the public.
ment
Evening star., 1928-05-09
$4,000 SUIT is FILED.
Man Alleges Breach of Contract in
Asking Damages.

Herman Goldberg. Gal d street was
sued for $4,000 damages yesterday by
Louis GoldStein. 6S3 y street. for alleged
breach of contract. IT is claimed that
Goldberg failed to carry out an agree
ment TO sell the business at Gal u street
TO Goldstein. Attorneys O'Shea, Bur-
nett & Goldstein appear for the plain
tiff
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed by John T. Barry. l419 Massa-
chusetts avenue southeast. against Jo-
seph A. Davies. employed at the Navy
Yard. for alleged personal injuries The
plaintiff says he was struck by an auto
mobile OF the defendant on Seventh
street between q and streets SOUTH
east November last. He is represented
by Attorneys Arthur G. Lambert and
l.. 3. Mountfort.
Evening star., 1928-05-09
SAYS ADVERTISING
POPULARlZES MUSIC
More Intensive and Attractive Pub.
licity Recommended by G. B. Amor
.
ous, Convention Speaker.

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, May 9,--Music can
be made more popular through more
intensive attractive newspaper adver-
tising. c. B. Amorous of New York told
the Pennsylvania Association of Music
Merchants. in convention here.
"All traditions of the past" said the
speaker. cannot be utilized in music
advertising. Newspapers now prove the
best mediums for our advertising, but
we need to put more of the human
touch In our advertising copy,
THE new advertising should appeal
to the emotions and the sense of beauty
as we'll as the pocketbook. Point out the
value Of having more music in the
home. If the child can memorize music
it can absorb and memorize almost any
subject, whether educational or cultur-
al Mental development accrues from
music study. In our advertising to
bring out these facts we should aim at
prestige rather than lay stress on bar
gains"
Evening star., 1928-05-09

ularlv we'll done. "Tete Polonaise," from
the lie Roi Malgre Lui," by Chabrier,
concluded the program
Much credit should be given to J. j.
Blaney, the accompanist of the Glee
Club, for the success of the concert.
His work was satisfactory in every way.
being especially good In the Chorus of
BacchanteS," by Gounod.
Mrs. Mann, guest soloist. exhibited
an excellent voice with q wide range in
her renditions of the famous Mon
Occur S'Ouvre a Ia Voix" from Sam
son and Della" by Saint-Saens, and
the Russian song. The Three Cav
alters" by SCHNEIDER. She also sang
the solos in the two choral hymns from
the "Rig-Veda, Hymn to Manas' and
Hymn to Agne." and the "Rhapsodle," !"
from Goethe's "Harzreise In Winter"
by Brahms She was accompanied by
MFR. Torovsky. who also participated in
several duet accompaniments with the
Glee Club pianist
Evening star., 1928-05-09
LEAGUE TO CONSIDER
SUGAR CONVENTION
International Consultative Eco
nomic Committee Also Places Coal
Difficulties on Agenda.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
GENEVA, May 9. because Of depres-
sion in the sugar industry and diff
culties in the coal industry. both the
sugar and coal problems have been
placed on the agenda of the first meet
ing of the international consultative
economic committee, which will be held
at Geneva May Ia.
Director General Gerard OF the Gen.
trail industrial committee of Belgium
wrote the League of Nations that the
present depression in sugar enterprise
suggested the desirability to consider
the expediency of concluding another
international sugar convention on the
Evening star., 1928-05-09
SlS,O)O,OID DEBTS
Of ARMOUR PAID
Packers Widow and Daugh.
ter Sacrifice Huge Holdings
in Settling Accounts.
Ev the Associated Press.

Sv ths Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May a.-~Claims against
the estate Of the late ]. Ogden Armour,
Chicago packer. who once said he had
lost million dollars day for more
than 100 days during the World War,
today were settled i'll full
His debt to Armour & Co. Chicago
packers, and claims of bondholders of
the Sutter Basin Co. California land
reclamation project. were wiped OF the
books last night in transaction which
involved cash and bonds to the value of
approximately $4,000, 600.
THE books have been wiped clean
and every one treated Justly said Alex
ender F. Reichmann, attorney for Mrs
Armour. Mrs. Armour has taken every
possible step to see that her husbands S
debts were settled to the satisfaction OF
ell his creditors"
Settlements Are Decided.
settlement of the remaining indebt-
eIiness of J. Ogden Armour 10 Armour
& Co. was completed in a manner salts
factory to the company" said Edison
White. president. There will be avail
able presently in cash and marketable
securities approximately $4,000 ,0OQ. ana
In addition the company receives other
securities representing the balance OF
the Indebtedness"
The bondholders' protective committee
Of the Sutter Basin Co. announced
plans for a reorganization of the COM
pany soon after the settlement was
signed.
Authorship Of the final chapter was
credited to his widow and daughter.
Mrs John j. Mitchell. The terms of
settlement included surrender of the
beautiful Melody Farm estate, for years
the pride of the family. The valuation
was placed at S2.500,0 600.
Mrs. Armour waived claim to S6000.-
600 of land warrants held against the
Sutter Basin Co, and she and her
daughter gave more than Si.500,o00 Of
their personal fortune to complete the
settlements.
Transfer of Securities.
Liquidation of the debt of about s1S,-
100000 to Armour d Co. packers
was mace through the transfer of the
securities that Mr. Armour and his
relatives had pledged. At one time this
debt was said 10 exceed S50.000,000 and
was incurred by Mr. Armour in pro-
noting various vast enterprises
Final settlement was made possible by
the bandholders of the Sutter Basin Co.
accepting the plan Of reorganization
proposed when interest ON the s7,l23,-
600 bonds was defaulted February /.
These bonds had been guaranteed as
To principal and interest BY Mr.. Armour
and therefore. the bondholders had a
claim against his estate. although the
estate consisted principally Of securities
pladged with Armour g. Co.
BY the Sutter Basin reorganization,
the estate. Mrs. Armour. her daughter,
and Armour g. Co, are relieved OF
any obligation. Mr. Armour's estate
practically was wiped out In fact. his
heirs and relatives were called on TO
make considerable financial sacrifices
Evening star., 1928-05-09
IA Cities to Send
Sleutlls to Guard
Kansas City Throng

BY the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY. May 9.--Fourteen
cities, In addition to Kansas City,
will have detectives here next month
to guard the pocketbooks of Repub-
lican candidates and delegates at the
national convention. Chicago will
send two experts on pickpockets and
confidence men and one each will
come from the following cities
Colorado Springs, Denver. Memphis.
st. Louis, Cleveland. Minneapolis.
Omaha Houston, Detroit, New York,
Philadelphia, Buffalo and New
Orleans.
Kansas City police commissioners
have agreed to pay the expenses and
salaries Of the visiting detectives.
Evening star., 1928-05-09

same lines as that of 1902. the results
of which, he said we're extremely bene-
fetal to all countries concerned.
M Gerard added the belief that the
different countries. and in any event
Belgium. were prepared to make an
effort to frame new sugar convention
and his request to put the question
upon the agenda was accepted.
Latin America Is represented on the
consultative committee, which was cre-
ated by the international economic
in 1927 to handle recurring
problems, but Cuba, which
is especially interested in the sugar
crisis, has no delegate.
Square deal for the public.--Advertise
Evening star., 1928-05-09

Recruits for the Toronto police force
must not exceed l89 pounds In weight
or 6 feet in height.
Evening star., 1928-05-09

When you speak to other people for
their good, II Is influence: when other
people speak to you for your good, It's
interference.
The Washington times., 1928-08-30
DIR. VAUGH HAN
FACES SUIT

Charging that his broken leg was
set improperly and as a result is
permanently shorter than the
other, James K. Polk, Of the 100
block Of North Carolina Ave. $. E.,
today filed suit for $4,000 damages
against DR.. George Tully Vaughan,
OF the 100 block OF / st. N. w.
DR.. Vaughan attended him when
he was taken to Georgetown Uni.
yersity Hospital when hfs left leg
was broken on November s. 1927,
Polk said.
Declaring that II was the doc
: tors duty to exercise reasonable
care and prudence and a high de.
gree OF professional Skill" Polk de.
clares that the surgeon did not do
Z 80. "but negligently and carelessly
and contrary to the accepted pro.
fessional practice and without the
exercise OF such care as is usually
used BY practicing physicians and
surgeons" set his leg in a plaster
cast SO that the broken bones were
out Of position and overlapping.
Z The leg healed in that fashion,
and is permanently shorter than
his right leg and makes necessary
the constant use OF a cane as a
support In walking, Polk declared.
John Lewis Emith il Folks attor-
meYa
The Washington times., 1928-08-30
Marshal Field Plan For
Cheaper Housing to
Aid Chicago Poor
By International News Service

BY International News Service
CHICAGO, Aug. so.--construc-
ton work on the Marshal Field
housing project, declared to be
the first attempt to provide ade-
quate housing at small cost for
families II modest means. has
advanced sufficiently TO insure
occupancy after january !. The
first unit Of the ten.unit project
viii house 625 families.
The exact rentals have not
been determined, but win be an
nounced ~ soon AZ cost Of the
first unit has been determined.
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j s. OFFICES
CLOSED BY
HEAT
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NContlnueo from flrSL FA8s.l
been one Of the hottest Augusts
since 1871 when records were first
kept.
The average temperature for
August here is rs. This month
the average has been n, or two
full degrees higher than usual.
This is not the hottest month
on record, however, for twice since
records have been kept the aver.
age for August has been higher
than this month. The first time
was In 1900 when the record Of
80 degrees was established. August
1913, the month in which the high.
est temperature ever recorded here
was reached when the thermometer
hit 106, had an average tempera-
turs of 7S degrees.
One heat prostration was reported
mp to noon today. The victim was
George Scott, colored, AZ, Of the 500
block Missouri Ave. N. W., who was
stricken while delivering coal. He
was taken to Emergency Hospital.
The Washington times., 1928-08-30

NEW YORK, Aug. 90 Thst's
my daughter. knew Il she kept
on ii would come to this "
with the above words Mrs. sara
Butler. West New York, 3. =,
today Identified picture oE .
sirI who Appealed ~ Easton Fl.
police for protection, saying she
had been sold BY white slavsrs''
for Il 900.
The girl. Mrs. Butler said, n
her daughter. stella. e, who left
home two weeks ago with . girl
companion. saving she was going
to Atlantic city. Three men are
held In Easton on her charges.
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Mother Calls Eugenic
Daddy /" a Fake

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seems 10 be some sort Of publicity
stunt"
Miss MailIIouse. Mrs. Burnham's
aunt, summering with her and the
baby, &c . Long Island shore resort.
exclaimed veEemently: "Why he
must be crazy" S
Two s@other women meanwhile
came forward to put the captain on
the pan.
He was served with q summons
i'm an assault case brought by Boris
TOrchinsky. husband Of Mrs. Rosa
lind TOrchinsIky, whose child the
captain also fathered, he says.
Mrs. Torchinsky deserted her
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BURNE D
AF TER PL A|lE
HITS HILL
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homes Merrill's to Hemrstead y. =.
and Ronne's 10 Buffalo.
Officials Of the Curtiss Company
were undecided III to whether the
reward Of $500 offered by Frank
II. Russell. vice president OF the
company, for anyone on the ground
locating the plane would be given
to Miss Fannie Craft. 81 farnerette
near Milford who gave searcfers
their first ciew to the location OF
the wrecked plane.
Jones will return to Curtiss Field
this afternoon.
BY International News service
MILFORD, Pa, Aug. 3O.--The
badly mangleds bodies of Mazel Nc.
Merrill and Edward Rome. aviators.
killed when their plane was wrecked
near here while en- route. to New
York, will be brought here this after
noon. The bodies, found by q group
OF Milford searchers, will be sent
to New York for burial after Coro-
ner Henry Ludwig holds an inquest.
The two victims were battered
end torn almost beyond recognition.
Chief OF Police J. M. Bissert in
formed International News Service.
The plane was a mass of debris.
The ship had struck the ground so
hard it tore out a huge crater, large
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/ husband for the big chest and bi.
Iceps man and Torchinsky c1atg ges
tIle captain also crowned him on
the head with q plate.
His Weighty Sweetic
Mrs. Torchinsky--she's n and
weighs $50 pounds likewise turned
broad back on her ex-sWeetie,
much to his surprise.
Mrs. TorchinclSy was living with
Medvedeff and tried to sell some
effects she had taken from her
sweetheart. He trailed her to an
apartment at Riverside Drive and
10th Street and pulled the pistol
on her. soaring her so that she
fled. He possessed himself OF the
papers and her money, che said.
But the climax OF the toughest
day in the life OF the gifted discus
thrower came in late. afternoon,
when his irate wife went to maks
an unexpected call on him at the
office of his lawyer. Kevie Frankel.
Previously the lawyer had let it
be knowa that Medyedeff would he
on hand there at 4:30 p. M, ITO
receive gentlemen Of the press and
give interviews"
''SmackO!" What . WaIIop!
Arriving at the building, Mrs.
Medvedeff unexpectedly came face
to face with her strong man in the
elevator at the ground floor.
"SmackO"
It WAS a lightning like swipe from
Mrs. Medvedeff's large and COM
petent palm, and it resoundetl
through the lower corridor.
The bravo dumbbell tosser stood
just as still as that work of art
and turned about three shades
paler.
Home wreckerr' cried Mrs.
Medyedeff I'll teach you to go
around having babies and filing
fake divorces against mer'
She started for the physical cul-
ture progenitor. again, but by this
time the eleventh floor was reach
ed, and he fled into the lawyers
office, his wife in hot pursuit.
Thus foiled for the moment, Mrs.
Medvedeff retired. But she wasn't
through.
She went to the ground floor
and hid at the entrance, awaiting
her husband with yearning palms.
An attache Of the lawyers office
sawa her there, however, and sum
mOned two policemen by telephone
Thus protected, the great strong
man and hygienic papa emerged
from the building about half an
hnsa,. 1af
But even this didn't stop Mrs.
Medvedeff.
"Smackow
She landed again, before the po-
lice could interfere. And they had
to hold her off by force while the
eugenic weight bouncer sprinted
into waiting taxicab.
In Frankel's law office. Medve.
def boasted that he was the father
of the "eugenic baby
"But Mrs. Burnham took ad.
vantage OF me-" he almost whim.
pered. Really she did-she lured
me into 1t. / don't believe that
having eugenic babies is the right
thing to do.
"And maybe I shouldn't have
taken the money for it,"
Maybe he shouldn't. For Mrs,
| Medvedeff revealed that they were
living in a rooming house in New
York when she was forced to hale
him to the court of domestic reIa-
tions for non-support. He was re.
leased on probation and lived again
with his wife, Sifera, all within the
last 10 days.
On August "a, she says, he ca
joIed her with hOneyed phrases and
nromises to do better, and they went
tO0ether to court, where she Sc
cured his release. They went home
happily together. :.
Unknown to her, he sneaked off
IN the offices of Frankel that after
noon and started a divorce action
against her citing a Manhattan cpl
sode,
The Washington times., 1928-08-30
enough FOR the DaSements Of two
ordinary homes. Chief Bissert said.
n Intsrnational News Service

NEW YORK, Aug. 30. 1T vas
recalled today that col Charles A.
Lindbergh was forced down in the
west in the same orange-colorcd
Falcon which carried Mazel IA. Mer-
rill and Edwin Rome, WeII-known
flyers. to their death In = crash
near Milford, Pa.
On that occasion Lindbergh was
reported to have put out the fire
with hand extinguisher. The
plane was subsequently sent to the
buffalo pant OF the Curtiss Com
pany for repairs.
1t was from Buffalo that Merrill
and Rome hoped off on tasir
disastrous flight.
The Washington times., 1928-08-30
JAILED
IN DEFAULT
Of BOND

Edward M. Taylor, suspended Dis
trict policeman under indictment for
hijacking and brought back from
New York to face q charge OF at
tempting to kill william s. McBreen
on August 80, 1927, went to jail
today in default Of a $1,000 bond
fixed by United States Commits
sioner Needham C. Turnage.
a. wordy battle between police and
Joseph Solomon. Taylor's attorney,
preceded Taylor's appearance be-
fore Commissioner Turnage.
Learning that Taylor was being
held at Police Headquarters, Solo
Pratt, chief of detectives, that the
prisoner be brought before Com
missioner Turnage Immediately.
Clash with Pratt
ell bring him before the Com
missioner when I get ready" Solo,
mon said Pratt told him.
You'll bring him here a D.
sight quicker than that" Solomon
countered, and threatened to start
immediate habeas corpus proceed.
ings.
Taylor was arrested in New York
on q Federal warrant issued by
Commissioner Turnage. New York
police took him into custody, it
was said, and there was some dis
cussion of the legality Of his ar
rest. The arrest should have been
made by a United States marshal,
it was claimed. Taylor was brought
back to Washington by Headquar.
ters Detective Fowler.
Deputy United States Marshal
John Clarkson rearrested Taylor on
the street in front of Commissioner
Turnage's office as he was brought
there by the police.
Hearing Continued
Commissioner Turnage continued
the hearing until September 1S
and fixed bond at $4,000 on the
assault charge. Taylor was at
liberty under a $500 bond on the
hi.jacking charge.
The assault charge grew out OF
the shooting of McBreen at q gaso.
line filling station at Twenty
sixth Street and Benning Road.
McBreen was shot In the back
while seated In front of a window
in the station office He was at
tired in the same kind Of a uni
form worn by another employe of
the station, Henry Finke, with
whom Taylor had quarrelled earlier
in the day. Taylor frequently re-
ceived envelopes with money in
them left for him by coiored men
| at the station. it was said.
/
The Washington times., 1928-08-30

Furnished roOma. and board, too, II
yaH want IT, cen he easily serured
through tho Rental Columns Of today's
Glasaified Adss
The Washington times., 1928-08-30

PARISIANS, hopeful Of seeing the old method of
settling feud on the field Of honor revived by the
ported duel between Edwin Carewe, film director and
Jaime del Rio, are doomed to disappointment BY the an
nouncement BY the principals that thoughts Of duelng
were furtest from their minds In fact Del Rio the
The Washington times., 1928-01-27

were disarmed after pistols had
been drawn by the raiders and both
are now in chestertown Jail.
A S0-gallon still in operation and
barroom outfit were found in the
house.
The Washington times., 1928-01-27
Raiders Pistols Best
BOotleggers' ShOtguns

CHESTERTowN, Nd, Jan. IT.
Pistols and shotguns FLASHED when
Federal prohibition officers assisted
by local police raided the still and
barroon of Charles Menus, at
Reeses Corner. Menus is the son OF
Henry Menus. sentenced to the
whipping post for wife beating in
this county and later reprieved.
The younger Menus and a negro
employe. James Lee attacked the
officers. led by Deputy Sheriff Rob.
ert E. Lee, with shotguns. They
The Washington times., 1928-01-27
San Francisco Offers
Dance With Shoe Shine

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 27.-Jazz
with your shine.
San Francisco bootblacks, pressed
by the growing competition, have
The Washington times., 1928-01-27

evolved a new method Of attracting
customers.
For the colored gentlemen in San
Francisco, whose business it is to
add lustre to your shoes. are now
drawing clients by doing the clog,
the Charleston and Black Bottom in
front Of their establishments. to
the whining accompaniment of
blues piece. emitted out Of a nearby
monograph or radio horn.
Few of the more progressive shine
stands in this city are complete
without their photograph and as.
sortment of syncopation records.