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To date there have been 19 negro
Representatives and negro Senator's
in the United States Congress.
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He was rotund person with red
neck. A two-carat diamond ring flashed
Evening star., 1928-12-08

street. was the man who claimed TO be
a native citizen. having been born In
California. Lee. q laundryman. Is mar
ried to an American girl. The wife.
holding their baby In her arms. attended
the hearing. and vept with Joy when
The commissioner announced his deci-
sion in her husbands case.
Lee En-. known also as Lee Tew. So.
who was arrested at the same time
George Lee was taken into custody. was
frse6 at request of the Government
The men have been at liberty under
i.000 bond since their arraignment be-
lore the commissioner shortly after their
arrest. They were represented by Attor-
ney John Lasky No mention Of tongs
or the tong killings was made at the
hearing Or. S. J. WI OF the Depart
ment OF Labor acted as interpreter.
Prosecution of the cases was handled
by Assistant United States Attorney
Joseph Connolly.
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chosen from the Glee Club membership
at the school.
Pupil Designs Sets.
The three stage settings employed in
the production were designed by
pupil at the school. Gregory Poole They
supplied the background for a light
romance concerning a princess. her
step-brother and an enterprising young
American
the princess; Marcia Knowlden. keeper
of an inn; Elbridge Church, nephew of
the King, and HanSel Harter, an Amer
tcan salesman
In particular The audience expressed
approval Of chorus numbers sung By 40
boys and girls in peasant costume.
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OPERA PRESENTED
AT WESTERN HIGH
1900 Attend Performance
Which Will Be Repeated at
Auditorium Tonight.

cast of IS Western High School
pupils, supplemented by a 25-piece
orchestra, last night presented light
opera in three acts, The Crimson Star" -"
before an audience of 1900 in the audi
torium of the high school, Thirty-fifth
street and Reservoir road The per-
formance will be repeated at 8 O'Clock
tonight.
staged under direction Of the high
school musical department for the bene-
At Of the school fund. The cast was
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Other popular features were the esthetic
and folk dances Of group led by Kath-
ryn Waldo, q student who had been In
charge of the rehearsals.
The 25-piece high school orchestra
which accompanied the vocal scores was
directed by Miss Lucy G. Lynch. who,
with her associate in the musical de-
partment, Mrs. Bernice Wagner Moore.
planned ana directed the rehearsals for
the production.
Teachers Are Directors.
Others of the principals we're: Evelyn
Standley. Frances Ward, Harriet Lloyd,
Roland Cheyney Martin Rittenhouse,
Oscar Sugar, Ken Murayama. Fred
Hunt. Carson Frailey. Robert Hubert,
Leonard Stevens, Eliza beth Towne Will
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PAIR HELD IN TONG
FUROR RELEASED
One Proves He Is Native.
Born-0ther'S Case Drop
ped by Government.

Offering proof Of his claim to being
American Horn and bred. Washington
resident for Is years and local prop
erty holder. one of the Chinese arrested
In October following the two tong kill
ings, on suspicion Of having entered the
country Illegally. was dismissed by
United States Commissioner Needham
c. Turnase yesterday. A case against
another was dropped at the request Of
the Government
George Lee. also known as Coy Nun
Lee, 33 years old, 800 block Of Kennedy
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they failed to pay. 500 fines imposed
for violating . Federal injunction.
Prosperity is hurting the labor
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ontented to fight"
Leaders of the Kenosha workers
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ago
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White Stag Found in Forest.

Steps have been taken TO protect the
white stag which was recently found in
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ABUSES OF INJUNCTION
DENOUNCED BY BARROW
Lawyer, Addressing Allen A For.
mer Employees, Says Labor To-
day Is "Too Well Fed"
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, December S.-Clarence
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waukee Jail. The Is were Jailed when
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Austria Ratifes Pacts.

VIENNA. December 9 (p).-The Aus
trian Senate yesterday ratired consular
and trade conventions ana = treaty Of
friendship between Austria and the
United States.
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Clowns connected with large circus
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they don their plus fours and spend the
morning before the matinee perform
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OLUMBIA Sc I
FOR ATLANTIC
FLIGHT
by International News Service

ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. y, Oct.
30-The historic monoplane Colnm-
bia, with Roger @. Williams at the
controls and Piero Bonelli navisat.
ing. was scheduled to take off from
here today on a transatlantic flight,
weather permitting. Williams ana
Bonelli had previously planned a
flight to Rome with Cesare SabelIi
in the Roma.
The exact destination Of the plane
was not revealed by officials Of the
Columbia Air Liner Corporation,
Originally the start had been sched-
uled for da WIN today. but the Colum-
bia was still in its hangar early
today and it was generally believed
at the field that the start would
not be made until noon. The work
of fueiing will take two or three
hours.
If the Columbia does not get
away until noon. there will he
little prospect of the planes over
taking the Graf Zeppelin. which is
due TO arrive in Germany early
Thursday morning.
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RUNAWAY G RI
HELD, DRESSED
AS BOY

Damage to q rented car and an
unpaid bill on the rental Of the
vehicle caused the arrest OF q IL
year-oId junior high school student
here and her companion, q Balti-
more man. in Richmond. Va, last
night.
Georgia Seeger, 1S-year-old
Powell Junior High School student
who disappeared from her home in
the 1400 block of Park Rd. n. w.
Saturday, was arrested by the Rich
mond police in the company Of =
man who gave his name a. -. Kane
Calvert. "a, OF Baltimore.
When arrested the girl was CARRIED
in boys clothing. The arrest took
place in q. Richmond Hotel, where
the pair are said to have registered
as tied and Joe Calvert. OF Balti-
more, brothers
-Four charges have been placed
against the pair by Richmond police.
The girl was charged with delin'
quency.
Last Saturday, It is said, Geor-
gia visited a fortune teller and was
Invited to go to Stafford. Va.
where there was a vacancy IN
country fair. They were to open
a fortune telling booth.
The girl said that she met Cali
vert in Stafford and they we're to
drive to Richmond. where they
were to meet the fortune teller
Continued on Paks 2, Column 30
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Zsp Log
On Return
Flight
ny international News Service
MONDAY
Eastern Standard Time


Eastern Standard TiEnel
1854 a. m.--Left Lakehmrst, N. j.,
for Friedrichshafen, Germany.
$40 4. m.-Passed over New
York city.
5:45 a. ns-Sighted over Edgar
town, Mass. on MartEas Vineyard.
6:25 a. m. - Passed Chatham,
Mass, on Cape Cod, headed for
Halifax.
7:l6 q. m. - Flew over trawler
WidgeOn, position 4I.29 north
longitude, 6s.47 west latitude.
1888 a. m.-Gave position as 20
miles east BY nor Il of Cape Cod,
100 miles due south of Cape Sable,
Nova Scotia.
1915 q. m.-Passed over s. s..
LacOnia, rs miles due south OF
Halifax, n. S.
$50 p. Unsupported speed be-
tween SIS and 10 miles an hour out
ever Atlantic.
$40 y. IN. - Reported sighted
over HillvieW, Trinity Bay. n. r.
10 p. m.-Private message from
Zeppelin reported picked mp in
Berlin indicated ship was about
$50 miles northeast Of Cape Race,
n. f., bucking sOutheasterly gales.
Oct. 80. 7 a. m.-Cunarder
Ascania reported Zeppelin abeam
on 42nd parallel OF longitude, $50
miles east of Newfoundland.
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rs the Cat Burglar 7 loose
again in Cleveland Park

Is the Cat Burglar loose
again in Cleveland Park
The hunting grounds OF the mo-
torious scat' bandit have been in
vaded again. after lull Of several
months.
With the same stealth and finesse
shown BY the cat when he ter
rorized the Cleveland Park section
at tiais-time a year ago. the robber
yesterday entered two houses on
Macomh Street and robbed them.
No Clues Found
Mrs Helen X. Winfield, living In
the 1900 block of Macomb Street.
and Mrs. Martha Spriggs. of the
3400 block Of Macomb Street We're
the victims of the robber Police
of the Fourteenth Precinct and
Headquarters detectives who inyesti.
gated the robberies said that they
were unable TO find any clues.
The robbery of the home of Mrs.
Winfield. secretary and treasurer OF
OF the Suburban Title and Invest
Tnent Company. Is made even more
mysterious by the fact that, although
she was ait home when the robber
entered. she did not hear or see
anything to arouse her suspicious.
Mrs. Winfield told police that
she returned home from her office
about $50 o'clock yesterday. Re-
moving two diamond rings. valued
at 5000, from her fingers she placed
them on a bureau in her room.
Rings, Money Gone
She did not leave the house. after
this yet when she-prepared to retire
about II o'clock she found the rings
and 81 had disappeared.
Mrs. Spriggs reported that 81 I'm
change had been taken from her
poeketbook in her home. Police Gid
not find any marks that would
show where the robber entered the
house.
Starting in the fall of last year,
the mysterious robber known as the
"Cat" robbed more than score of
homes in Chevy Chase before he dis.
appeared. He was shot at several
times and is believed to have been
struck once. q
No clues to his identity were ever
uncovered by police and he disap-
peared just as mysteriously as he
1 had appeared.
Police recall that one OF his favor.
lfte hannts was Macomb Street,
where he robbed several homes.
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COUNSEL NAMED
FOR DISTRICT
FIL|C|DE
--Phato BY Intsrna tIonal

Chief Justice Walter I. Mccoy, in
chambers today, announced the APP
pointment Of Attorney r. Russell
Kelly as counsel for Franklin Ellis
wooth Smith, who is under first de-
gree murder Indictment for the
Staying Of his 19-year-old daughter,
Bessie, on September IS. last.
Immediately following this an
n0uncement, Assistant United States
Attorney William II. Collins, who
has been assigned to prosecute
Smith, asked in open court that the
date of the trial be set for Novem.
Der 10.
The chief justice ordered the date
to be tentatively set for that day,
contingent upon the agreement OF
counsel for the defendant.
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Foundland last evening indicated
that DIR. Hugo Eckener. commander
OF the Graf. had decided to go south
OF the Lindbergh route, which 1t
was first thought he would follow.
1t is believed Eckener changed
his course in order to avoid a gale
of hurricane proportions coming out
OF the southwest. At times he flew
at an altitude of more than a mile
to avoid fog banks.
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School Boy Injured
In Fall Out of Auto

500 block of Anacostia Rd. s. f., was
seriously injured yesterday when he
Pennsylvania Ave. and Anacostia
Rd. s. f.. He is I'M Casualty Hospital
skull.
The child was riding on the rear
seat of an automobile driven by John
Holland. OF the 400 block OF Van
Buren, ST. N. w. who was driving
him home from school.
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barrow Sees Atlanta
Thrill Staying Follow
LOeb-LeOpOId Parallel
BY International News Service

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.--The Harsh.
Gallogly thrill murder" case in
Atlanta presents some of the same
interesting psychological questions
and sociological problems that made
the Loeb-Leopoid case in Chicago
one of the outstanding murder trials
of our age. in the opinion of Clar-
ence barrow, who saved the latter
pair from death on the gallows.
The noted criminal defense lawyer
was asked by international News
Service to draw some parallels be
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
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BANK STATEMENT

Washington Clearing House,
$4.268, 1861 .46.
Treasury balance $229 ST. ,830. 86.
Customs receipts. $54 ,28I ,l38. Is.
New York Clearing House bal
anee, $I33 ,OOO, 900.
New York Clearing House ex-
change, 81 80 ,000, 900.
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Germans Believe Big
Yep Heads South to
Dodge Violent Gales
Nv international News Service

HAMBURG, Oct. 30.--The general
belief in German aviation circles
today was that the Graf Zeppelin
was heading south to avoid storms
over the eastern part of the North
Atlantic.
The government weather station
here today reported violent gales
and rain between the 46th and 57th
north parallels of latitude and tenth
and SD west parallels of longitude.
Good weather conditions and fol-
lowing winds were also reported be-
low the 10Th parallel as far south as
the Azores. Tt is believed DIT.
Eckener is heading south to take
advantage of these.
Some German newspapers We're
inclined to discredit reports that the
dirigible had been sighted over New
Foundland last evening because or
a report from an unnamed French
ship that the Zeppelin had been
sighted at about the same time
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ID
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Boy, s, Kills Sister, 10,
Playing With Rifle

CUMBERLAND, Md. Oct 30
Mabel Ella, 10 years old, daughter
of AlonZo Snyder. residing on the
Potomac near Paypaw, was instant
BIZ killed this morning accidentally
Irhot in the head by her brother
Kirk, aged years, with a %.
CALDER rifle.
The children were playing in
their rooms before they got up.
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Z P PE 81 0WS
IN heavy GAL Is
BELIEVED THIRD WAY ACROSS,
HEADED FOR IRISH COAST


NEW YORK, Oct. O-The Graf Zeppelin IS not making
the speed her transatlantic homebomd trip that had
been expected of her. Buckng heavy gales she IS
about third of the xNav acrosa The Atlantic
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n international News service

nv international News Service
ATLANTA, Oct. 30. Battle
lines were being drawn today
for one Of the greatest legal
fights in the Southland's his
tory.
On one side, backed by two great
fortunes, was an extensive array
of counsel, and on the other were
Atlanta's prosecutors, determined to
ayenge society for two thrill
murders.
In the vortex were two college
youths. George Harsh and Richard
Ga1logly, who were indicted late
yesterday for the hold-up murders
of Willard Smith and r. II. ,Meeks,
store clerks. The killings were the
elimination of an alleged career of
,lawlessness and banditry that ex-
tended over ia period of weeks.
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The position given by the
Cunarder is approximately $50 miles
east of st. Johns, Newfoundland
and north. IL the Zeppelin were
abeam as reported, or in other
words, on the same parallel of
longitude, she would be about one
third Of the way across the long
water Jump from Newfoundland to
Ireland
The speed travelled by the Graf
between the time of her previously
reported position and the Z a. m.
report would indicate that she was
bucking head winds, or had been
forced to maneuver around storm
areas.
BERLIN, Oct. 30.---A private radio
message from the Graf Zeppelin re-
ported picked up here today indicated
that the dirigible was about $50 miles
northeast OF Cape Race, N. F.. at 10
y. M, Eastern standard time, last
night, on It's return flight from Lake
hurst, n. j., to F'riedrichshafen Ger
many.
Position Graf midnight $50 miles
northeast of Cape Race encounter
ing southeastern gales. Course south
east, All well. DR.. Eckener" the
message read.
The midnight" referred to in the
message apparently referred to New
foundland time The message also
indicated that the dirigihle had aver
aged about 60 miles an hour since
it was reported over Newfoundland
at $50 p. m. (E. $. IT, yesterday.
ST. JOHN. Newfoundland, Oct. so.
With "a passengers. a crew of 40
and one stowaway aboard. the Graf
Zeppelin today was believed to be
far out over the Atlantic, on a
course slightly north OF the shipping
lanes. on it's return flight from
Lakehurst, N. j., to Friedrichshafen,
Germany.
Reports that the huge craft had
been sighted at two places over New
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May Call ON Darrow

Friends of the two boys init.
mated today that an effort was
being made to secure the services
of Clarence Darrow, noted Chicago
criminal lawyer, as one OF the de-
Tense counsel. barrow defended
Leopold and Loeb.
w. s. Howard. of the defense
staff. indicated that a plea OF in
sanity might be advanced in behalf
of Harsh, who. police said. con-
fessed TO the murders and impli-
Gated GallogIy.
"Harsh Is undoubtedly mentally
abnormal said Howard.
Indications were that yoluminous
evidence would be amassed by both
the defense and prosecution before
the trial starts. 1T was believed
from the number of witnesses at
the grand jury probe and others TO
be called, that the trial would ex
. tend over a period Of weeks.
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Civil Suits Filed

However, trial for first degree
murder was not the only court bat
tie that stared the two scions Of
wealthy families in the face. Two
civil litigations are ahead. First,
Mrs. Mary Belle Smith. 19-year-oid
widow of one of the alleged vic
Tins. is suing for $500 900 damages,
and /. V. Ellis. grocery store man.
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Gus wound during one of the hold
ups attributed To the youths.
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AT o'clock this morning (E,. S. ID the
Graf was II the position Of 40 west and $3.50
north and her speed had been reduced to 40
knots an hour owing to bad weather, accord
ing to word received BY international News
Service.
The airship was 500 miles east Of the New
foundIand coast and LOO miles from Ire
land. Commodore Eckener expects to pass
over the Irish coast Wednesday noon.
LONDON, Oct. 3O.-The British air ministry It
noon announced that northwestery gale was blow
ing from the western coast Of Ireland to the mid
atlantic.
The forecast was for changeable conditions with
variable winds, showers and clouds later.
1t believed that the Graf Zeppelin was in the
gale when the forecast was announced.
ABOARD s. s. AsCANIA, at Sea, Oct 80 (via. Chatham,
Mass Radio Station to International News Service The
Ascania wireless communication with the Graf Zeppe
lin at G. NJ r. q m, f. S. To-, but the airship
sighted AT that time the Ascania position 53 %
north and AZ 03 west The signals strong abeam the
liner The weather fine with strong southerly wind
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