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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
COUNTY MERGER
SUIT DATE SET

The suit OF the City of Alexandria
against Arlington and Fairfax coun-
ties for the annexation of additional
territory will be reopened Novem.
Der II, according to the counsel for
the city, Commonwealth Attorney
Albert v. Bryan.
This date was fixed by the three
judges who will hear the Case.
w. Hudgins, of Wise county; Fred.
erick c. Coleman, of Fredericksburg
and Don F. Halsey, of Lynchburg.
Judge Hudgins was appointed by
Gov. Harry +. Byrd to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of Judge
Samuel G. Brent.
1t was thought at first that Judge
Howard w. Smith, who succeeded
Judge Brent to the bench of the Six.
teenth judicial circuit. would be
appointed TO fill the vacancy. but it
was found that Judge Smith had
given testimony in the case before
his elevation to the circuit court
bench and had thus disqualified him
self.
The hearing of the annexation
suit has received several set.backS
since its opening almost a year ago,
due first to the death OF Judge
Brent and later to an effort on the
part counsel for Arlington and Fair
fax counties took to secure T. writ
of prohibition.
Practically all testimony in the
case has been heard. except for sew.
eral witnesses from Fairfax county.
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Bumsted, Freed, Thanks
u. S. State Department

The State Department is in re-
ceipt of a note of thanks from z.
J. Bumsted, American mining super.
.ntendent who was released Monday
by Mexican bandits after being kid
mapped and held for ransom since
August rs.
Joseph C. Satterthwaite, Ameri.
can vice consul at Gualalajara,
Mexican, yesterday notified the
State Department that he had re.
ceived the following wire from
Mr.. Bumsted:
sincere thanks. Will write soon.
Well, but tired" The American
Embassy in Mexico has been noti-
fled
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KIDNAPPED CHILD.
GIVEN $40 AND
SET FREE
nv international News Service


CHICAGO, Sept. 19.-Billy Ran
Teri. ten-year-old kidnapped italian
boy, who for thirteen days was
held hostage by band of Sicilian
extortionists, under death threats,
for ransom Of $4,000 today Was
restored unframed to the arms OF
MS frenzied parents.
At an early hour this morning
Billy was discovered by George
Mats, gasoline station attendant,
while trudging along deserted
highway near Lockport, five miles
north Of Joliet, I'll.
Billy was taken to Lockpors IN
a machine by four men. Oa the
dark road outside OF the village
they halted the car and one OF the
men put a $40 bin in the boy
nand.
The lad walked until he saw the
lights OF an automobile service sta
ton. He went in and asked Mats
to take him home, offering HIM the
SO. Calling the Sheriff they took
Silly to the Will county jail.
After Identification the Sheriff
1alled Frank Ranieri, father OF the
boy, on the phone and told him
that his son was safe. Upon re-
4tipt of this information the father
collapsed.
Meanwhile at the Joliet jail the
boy had been answering many
questions.
Where have you been. Where
did the men keep you all this
timer
II was in a farmhouse" saiJ the
COY. There was another little boy
there but he lived there and ne
liked to be there and / didn't. ne
paved with me in the daytime and
slept with me at night.ss'
The boy told police that he did
not know any of the men who had
Kidnapped him, but insisted that all
but one Of them had treated him
kindly.
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MRS. EocK,s SUIT VOID

NEW YORK. Sept. 1S.-The com.
plant OF Mrs. Consuelo Focl, one
time stage beauty under the name
of Consuelo Flowerton, In her action
for q divorce from Dirk F'ock. sym
phonic orchestra conductor. was dis.
missed by Supreme Court Justice
Valente. who said the court had no
jurisdiction.
Mrs. Fock's suit named the or
chestra conductors second wife, the
former Mrs. Edith Simmons. as co.
respondent on the theory that a
divorce he obtained from his first
marriage in The Hague was worth.
less in that 1t was obtained ny
fraud.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
Miraculous Healing Told
Of Missionary i'm Africa

Miraculous healing of the sick is
being accomplished in Africa by
Seventh Day Adventists missionar-
les, the Rev. w. H. Branson, director
Of the denomination in Africa, told a
gathering of physicians, nurses and
employees of the Washington SAM.
tarium today.
cleansed and blind persons had
their sight restored. He Is stay
ing a few days with his mother. who
lives in the 500 block of Carroll
Avenue. before attending the bien.
NAL convention of the worlds gen.
eral conference OF Adventists at
Springfield, Mass. September Is
to October 4.
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Higher-Up Of Police
Blamed by BlarltOn

Rep. Thomas r. Blanton, or
Te< 5. Is in Washington today. but
Is not ready TO resume his war on
the local police department. He 81
here he said. in the interest We
the people OF the United States
and will not mingie their troubles
with the police department.
Blanton took time, however. 10
saw that he Is accommodating
ammunition for the coming fight
against the police. The trouble. he
said. is not with the privates, but
with the Iligher-ups. "And the
higher up you 30 the worse, they
are, he said,
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FLlER ENTERS RACE

LANCASTER. Pa.s Sept. IS.-AI'
bert r. Jacobs. OF Lancaster and
Philadelphia, who with Samuel Cor.
don, OF Philadelphia, entered Class
A of the transcontinental air race,
has reached Los Angeles. after
being delayed four days at Kansas
City by motor trouble, according
to information received here. ia
cobs, in a wire to the Lancaster
Always, Inc, of which he IL q
member. said he and Gordon I'm
tend to enter the Los Angeles~to-
Cincinnati air race on the return
trip.
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HIKE POSTPONED

Rain today caused postponement
from tonight until next Monday
night. a joint hike of the Red
Triangle Outing Club and the
Christian Endeavor Society of Cal
vary Baptist Church. The trek will
be from Sixteenth Street and
Blogden Avenue to Pierce Mill
where a wienie roast will be held.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
BENEFIT CARD PARTY

A benefit card party will be held
Thursday night in the Chestnut
Farm Auditorium for the Christian
and Elenora Rupert Home for the
Aged, according to an announce
ment by DR.. Margaret Eek, presi-
dent OF the Ladies' Aid Society of
the home
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19

The 0bOUc wants and offers are
only a feuO Of many interest
ing proportions you WiH find
odOeytised in todGy's Times
etnssified NdVertisinR sections.
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NEAR Navy Yard, seven
rooms, gas. electricity, h..w..h.,
garage, large lot, alley.
ALSO another house near Ian.
Ter Pl. \. W. Five rooms, bath
and porch, $500.
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COUPLE WE'D SIS YEARS

HAZLETON. Pa, Sept. 19.--Mr.
and Mrs. Able Deremer, two OF
HazIeton's oldest citizens, observed
their slxty-fifth wedding annlver-
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HIGH NOON CLUB

The regular weekly luncheon
meeting of the High Noon Club,
VIII be held at the Hamilton Hotel
This afternoon at 1880 o'clock, it
was announced yesterday.
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Buick Sedan for Sale

BUICK Master "6' Sedan, 1927;
has had wonderful caro-: in excel.
lent condition throughout; tires.
paint and upholstery like new:
low mileage; your car taken in
trade; terms.
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i Il
Children Cared For

CHILDREN cared for during
office hours; SO. SIS per month,
mother with car will call for
child at home or school.
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TIMELY TIPS

Cash Value for Old JeweIry
GOLD and silver watches. dia-
monds. nld jewelry needed in our
manufacturing dept. full cash
value paid.
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1.-THE second day
tells the story"

THE FIRST loaf of Rice's Bread
convinced me there really was a
bakery whose product tasted and
had a texture like my mothers
bread.
ANY experienced baker can
take materials of fair quality and
produce bread that tastes good
and seems satisfactory while fresh.
The second day always tells the
story of inferior ingredients. The
bread becomes hard and dry.
"Rice's Bread must be made Of
the most wholesome materials,
for with reasonable care it keeps
soft and fresh for several days"
Mre. r. C.. Hardin.
216 Buffalo Ave.
Tdk01td Park
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Suburban Home for Sale or
Rent

BUNGALOW for sale or rent.
Five rooms and bath; all modern
improvements, double garage:
fruit trees. 50x10O #. lot. WIN
sell very reasonable.
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"WOnderJuE for
sandwiches"
"Rice's Bread lie my favorite-aI-
ways so fresh, good tasting and
wonderful for sandwiches. had q
few of my friends for a little lunch
the other day and they wanted to
know what bread l had used to
make such delicious sandwiches.
1t cuts so well and keeps fresh
80 long. Our family always feels
perfectly satisfied with Rice's
Bread. 1t certainly has all the
qualities that a good, wholesome
loaf can have"
Mrs. Dorothy l.. Cation
$50 18th ST., N. z.
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Wilkins Coffee is an easy coffee to buy-you
can obtain it at all independent grocers, as
well as all chain stores. Also, it is the fresh
est coffee that you can buy, as it is delivered
much more often to grocery stores than is
any other coffee sold in Washington.
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sary.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28
AirpLar1e Accident
Snuhs Out Life o.
Mex. LdlU Authority

When Fate swept the FairchiEd
monoplane from the sky to the street
| in Toluca yesterday and snuffed out,
in the crash, the lives of the three
passengers it ended the career OF
one of the foremost lawyers Of Doug
las, William D. King, widely known
as an authority on Mexican Legal
procedure and famed as an inter-
national lawyer The news. OF the
tragedy reached Douglas past the
middle of the afternoon Its nature
brought general sorrow to the hund-
reds who had become acquainted with
the victim and knew him as neighbor
and friend. 1t changed to a picture
of sadness the view that had been
viSualized by people here generally
when the trio started from the Camp
jones field last Thursday on their
flight to Mexico City as 1t had
then been thought that this might
marx the inauguration in an informal
way of air transportation between the
local port and the capital OF the
republic to the south.
When the news reached the city,
Mrs King, wife of the unfortunate
man, was in Nacozari. Her son,
the eldest of the King children, was
at Roswell, N. M, where he is a
student in military academy. The
other two children, Ann Marie and
Jack, were here with friends at their
home. The sad duty of advising
them Of their fathers fate was looked
after my intimate friends. Mrs. King,
with courage and fortitude, planned
quickly to meet the emergency and
| in a short time was travelling toward
Douglas by special train, arriving
here soon after 9 last night. Mean
while she had completed other plans.
She had decided that her husband
should be buried in the capital OF
the republic he had served as a
legal counsellor and that to bring
this about she would travel on to
Mexico City at once to be present
at the final rites.
Arriving III Douglas she Immediately
again took up the journey, accom-
panied by Mrs. Won Fredericks, long
time stenographer for Mr. King, and
started for Ell Paso by automobile.
From Ell Paso they will leave this
afternoon for Mexico City and are
due to arrive there Friday.
| Mr.. King was born on Oct. Is,
1884, at Brockton, Mass. He was
educated i'll the common schools and
secured a high school diploma, then
going to work Tor q living. He had
acquired ability as a stenoglApher
and came west to lind employment,
finally locating in Clifton, AriZ After
being there for a time he secured
employment with the Moctezuma
Copper company at Nacozari ano
most of his life was spent there
prior to his location for the practice
of law in Douglas about 1918, Or
] (Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28

dente Municipal, Aqua Prieta: with
deep sorrow have to inform you that
Attorney William King died today at
the time the airplane in which he
was a passenger crashed near Toluca
Mexico. Please inform family that
they may order disposition Of the body.
Affectionately, the President of the Re
public,
P, ELIAS GALES.
Ell PASO, March 81 william d.
King, who was killed in an airplane
accident in Toluca, Mexico, today, was
one of the best known authorities on
mining law in the United States and
was closely associated with the Green
way, Ricketts,, Dudley interests. He
was known to be close friend of
President Gales and General Obregon
and was known as brilliant Spanish
scholar. Mr. King was counsel for
many mining companies in Mexico,
among them the Cusi Mexicana and
the Cia La Ventura, and represented
the interests Of H. G. Dudley of Du-
luth.
He was interested with the late
General John c. Greenway, L. D.
Ricketts, and Mr.. Dudley in organizing
the AhumtGla and Erupcion companies
at Los LamentoS, Mexico.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28
HOUSE PASSES
REPLACE N E N I
BILL FOR NAVY
59,OOO,OOO Appropriation
Provided By Measure
Greatest Since 1921

WASHINGTON March % tP-
Without a record vote the house today
passed the largest annual supply bill
for the navy department since the
Washington naval limitations confer
ence. The measure now goes to the
senate. It carries $359,OOO,OO0, or
$2O38400 more than the current
appropriation.
The bills consideration was marked
with a demand by Rep. La GuarGia.
of New York, republican, for imme-
diate withdrawal OF American marines
from Nicaragua and also by a pro-
tracted discussion over the letting of
contracts for two dirigibles authorized
by congress years ago.
Simultaneous with discussion in the
house, Secretary Wilbur announced at
the navy department that new bids
would be requested on the new air
liners. This was explained as neces-
sary tc receive formally an anticipat-
ed bid from the Goodyear company
of Akron, Ohio, for the two ships
and another from American Brown
BoXeri company, of Camden, N. j.,
for one.
Both prospective contracts were dis
cuSSed at length in the house debate
and the secretary's announcement
that bids again should be asked
came simultaneously with an un-
successful effort by Rep. Begg, an
Ohio republican, to amend the bill
to direct the secretary to ask at
once for bids. Beggs proposal was
rejected 78 to %. The histo-H Of
the proposed dirigibles began after
the wreck of the Shenandoah. Fotll
were authorized and last year congress
appropriated 100000 to start one.
The Goodyear company submitted a
cost plus contract which the navy
did not accept and naval officers
this year asked congress to provide
funds to start both, explaining that
if this were done, the Goodyear COM
pany had expressed willingness to
bid on both at cost of $8,000,000,
including hangar. At the same
time congress was advised it would
cost $5,50O,0OO to build one
The bill carries $2,0O0,00O to start
beth ships but it is optional with
the navy department whether one
firm builds both except that the total
cost of the two must come within the
$8,000,0O0 limit of cost fixed by
congress at the time the air liners
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TEXAS TOWN IS
SWEPT BY FIRE;
LOSS is $3OO,OOO.OO

SEAGRAVES, Texas, March 81 lP--.
Twenty-one OF the 33 business build
ingS in this Gaines county town, the
most important trading post between
Lamesa, Texas, and Roswell N. M,
lay Smouldering in ruins tonight and
business men were surveying a loss
estimated at from $150,OOO to $4,000
as the result OF a fire which swept
the retail district late today.
Carried forward by a high wind.
the flames, which had their inception
in a cleaning and pressing plant,
destroyed buildings on one side of a
block on the principal business street,
then jumped across and took out all
except one Of the structures ON the
other side.
Despite the efforts OF. some 100
men and boys who sought to stem
the tide OF destruction in the absence
Of fire department and an adequate
water supply, the fire burned briskly
until it reached brick garage.
No injuries were reported.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28
END 1O-YEAR
CONTROVERSY
WITH MEXICO
President Gales Signs New
Regulations Covering
Oil Titles
OBJECTIONS MET
Land Titles Valid in 1917
Are Valid Now New
Regulations Say

MEXICO CITY, March 27 R-
Through the efforts OF the American
ambassador, Dwight w. Morrow, the
ten year controversy between the
governments of Mexico and the
United States on the Oil question
seems to be ended by the signing
today by President Gales OF new
regulations governing the oil law.
These, it is thought, VIII remove the
cause of complaints that the law is
retroactive and confiScatory as ap-
piled to American Oil rights acquired
before May l, 1917, when the new
constitution rlationalized the mineral
lands Of Mexico.
The regulations are the outcome OF
conferences extending over several
months between Ambassador IIorrow
President Gales and Luis Morones,
minister of industry and commerce.
They declare in effect that oil titles
that were valid before 1917, are valid
in perpetuity.
This removes the substitution OF
so year confirmatory titles for rights
prior to 1917, which the United States
government considered confiscatory.
The new regulations also define more
literally than the previous law the
precise positive acts" or physical
works upon lands necessary for re-
tention of titles and the mineral
rights thereon.
Differences still may arise between
individual oil companies and the
Mexican government on the QUESTION
of titles or the way in which the
law may be administered. But the
issue between the governments CT
retroactive and ccnfiscatory features
is apparently disposed OF.
Questions still remain as to what
land titles any given company had
or May l, 1917. The effect Of the
regulations is that titles coed then
are gccd row, for an unlimited time.
Any titles which were bad before
1917, will remain bad.
The regulations still require con-
firnlation of the 1917 or earlier titles,
but expressly provide that ccntirmz-
tions operate as recognition OF rights
acquired, which shall continue il
force" and that combinations "are
issued without time limitation"
Applications for confirmation OF
LILIES HluSe NC AtaNO pSAoAC oo'A'eNe'A ;
IL, 1929.
WASHINGTON, March 81 (R-The
new oil regulations promulgated by
President Gales were hailed tonight by
the state department as p "practica
conclusion of difficulties of ten years
standing growing out of the Mexican
petroleum laws.
In brief statement the department
said it felt, ''as does Ambassador Nor
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MEXICO CITY, March 81 Q9 -
Three Americans were killed today
when plane which they were flyine
! from Nogales, Arizona, to Mexico City
crashed in the streets of Toluca, only
about As miles from their objective
The victims were Sterling Rohlfs
pilot; William D. King and Wallace
Springer.
Word of the tragedy came to Alex
ander w. Weddell, U. S. consul gen
eral, from Riva Ralacious, governor
CT Toluca. The governor said that
Rohlfs and Springer were killed in
stantly and that King survived less
than an hour after he had been taken
to hospital.
The bodies are being sent to Mexico
City.
The governor said that the plane
was about 1000 feet above the city
when strong gust Of wind caught it.
The pilot apparently attempted a
landing, but the machine nose-dived
and crashed in a side street near the
center of the city. The plane was
completely wrecked and the bodies OF
the occupants were badly broken.
NOGALES, March 81 ,lR-A Herald
dispatch from Mexico City received to-
night says that bad landing caused
the instant death of the three Ameri-
can fliers, Sterling Rohlfs, William d
King and Wallace Springer today al
Toluca, Mexico, which is near the Mex
lean capital city.
The trio left Douglas last Thursday
to fly to Mexico City. They made
landings at Cajeme, Sonora, Mazatlan
Sinaloa and Tepic, Nayarit. Rohlfs
left his valuable papers in safe keep
ing with local hotel before his de-
parture. A passport issued to Rohlfs
by Secretary of State Frank Kellogg
in 1925 says that Rohlfs was born in
Brooklyn, New York, May 18, 1887
The passport calls for admission to
"all countries"
William King was one of the best
known attorneys on the American
Mexican border. He has resided in
Douglas for many years. Little is
known in this section of Wallace
Spencer, except that he is a member
of well known New Mexico family
BUFFALO, N. Y, March 81 F0-
Sterling Rohlfs, one of the three air.
men killed in Toluca, Mexico, today,
was son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Rohlfs of Buffalo. Mrs. Rohlfs is a
writer under the pen name of Anna
Katharine Green.
4
MEXICO CITY, March 27.-Presi-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28
PROTECTED VICE. CHARGED WITH
CHICAGO BOMBING BY DINEEN

At the Swanson home the bomb
exploded just as the judge drove
into his garage, missing him but
damaging the residence. He said
he regarded it as an obvious at
tempt at assassination.
There is no doubt that the bomb
was thrown by those whose Grim
inaI interests are opposing the
election of an enemy to their pO-
Ii0icai alliances" he said.
Robert E. Grove, candidate for
reelection as states attorney and
cO-leader with Mayor William
Hale Thompson of q powerful re-
publican faction, offered a reward
of $4,000 for the arrest and con-
victiOn of any one connected with
the bOmbing.s He also offered i'm
munity to any one who would
supply information.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28

CHICAGO, March 27 tR-Bitter
recriminatiOns came tonight as the
aftermath Of the bombing last
night of the homes of Charles S.
Deneen, United States senator,
and Judge John A. Swanson, can
didate for the republican nOmina-
tiOn for states attorney.
Rewards totaIing $4,000 were
offered for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of the
bOmbers.
From Washington, Senator De-
neen, head of a strong republi-
can faction in Chicago, issued
statement asserting that 'the
bombing of my home is the work
Of crganized and protected Grim
inaI classes of Chicago and Cook
county in their desperate effort to
retain political control of the city
and county"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28
FREAK TORNADO KILLS FIVE AND
INJURIES SCORE IN GEORGIA BLOW

CANTON, Ga, March 27 ga
freak tornado which preceded a
cold wave killed five persons and
injured a score, IL seriously, when
it struck several dwelling houses
in eastern Cherokee county last
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. William J. Mill
wood and two of their children
were killed when the twister struck
their farm house in Orange COM
munity. Four other members of
the family were injured.
Mrs. Osie Heath was killed at
the home of Grady Fowler in
Lathanham community, three
miles from the MillwOod home,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28

when the tornado demolished the
place where a neighbOrhOOd family
had taken refuge. Sweeping from
northwest to southeast, the storm
spent its fury within small area.
1t cut swath through the for
estS, but only razed five or six
houses.
Grady Fowler was believed fa-
tally injured. An unidentified
baby, about year old, was found
unhurt in the debris of one of the
wrecked homes. A nail was driven
into the arm of cine woman who
suffered no other injuries.
About 20 persons were said to be
homeless.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-28

Copper Steady; eiectrolytic
spot and futures, 141sc;
lead quiet; spot, 6.O0c.