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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05
POLICE OF DISTRICT
. LEADING MARINES
Washington Officers in Re.
serve Company Make
Record at Quantico.

Washington policemen who compose
most of the personnel of the 40lSt COM
pany Of the Marine Reserve Corps, now
in training at Quantico. appear certain
to bring home two first honors in the
camp when they return home neXs
week.
Among the eight companies from as
many different cities, the 40lSt so far
stands first in pistol Workmanship, with
every possibility of remaining in the
lead to the end. The company is also
rated first in the size and muscular de-
Velopment of its personnel.
Capt Harvey L. Miller of the Ma
ffe Corps Reserve, who recently organ
lied the company, enlisted many men,
berS Of the police force when he an
nounced that the Marine authorities
had authorized a special course in pistol
Workmanship for all members of the
been kept. Every day since the camp
opened last week the policeman have
been firing at the QIantico pistol range,
which Is one Of the best in the country
Unlimited ammunition is supplied,
and their instructors are men who have
won honorS in the national pistol
matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The
washington policemen have also been
receiving training on the fine points of
Thompson Submachine gun.
The Marine officers in charge of the
camp announced today that they hoped
to send the Police Marines of WASH
ington back home so well trained that
they will be qualified to instruct others.
In addition to their work on the range
the men are taking an intensive course
in cloSe-order drill, infantry tactics,
automatic weapons, the 37-millimeter
gun and grenades. Physical training
and hygiene are also included in the
course.
Known as volunteer" company. the
401st holds no weekly drills. but gets all
of its training during the Summer en-
campment. When the men return to
Washington recruiting will be resumed.
Although practically all of the men have
been in the service before. inexperienced
young men who show aptitude will be
accepted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05

for Irish potatoes, which are finer in
this county this year than ever known
before; Lewis p. Nelson. offering a goat
which will be the property of whoever
catches 1t, plus IS, when 1t Is loosed
in the arena. and j. A. Swan. jr., Of
fering a pig for an old-time pig catch
ing. Harold G. Brown, president Of
spoke in reference to the cooperation
of that body with the fair association.
and j. C. Albright. president of the
Culpeper Post of the American Legion,
also spoke. offering the cooperation of
the members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05
Depression Wrecks Motor Cycle.

By Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, August S.
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Brookeville road last night near the
intersection of the Forest Glen road
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05
Approve Extradition Pacts.

By Gable to The star.
BOGOTA, Colombia, August 5-Ex-
tradition treaties between Colombia
and Nicala aqua, Costa RIGA ana Guate-
mala were approved by the Senate at
the first reading. An air navigation
agreement with Spain and a protocol
with the Holy See regarding the armys
religious service also were passed At
the first reading.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05
THREE OF FAMILY
HELD IN AK DEATH
Sterfather, Grandfather and Won
an Cousin of Victim Face
Murder Quiz.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark, August S.
Three members of the family Of John
W. Nolan. %. we're arrested here yes
terday following the discovery of his
body. Oficers said his head had been
crushed with an AK.
j. NJ Stephens his stepfather; J.
M. Mcconnell, his grandfather, and
Mrs. A. L. Campbell, his cousin. were
arrested at their home while arranging
for burial services.
Physicians said Nolan had been dead
about IL hours when the body was
found at noon.
County officers said Nolan's death was
the second by violence in his family
within three months They recalled
the body of H. Campbell of Caruthers-
vile. Mo. Nolan's uncle. was found on
a railroad track. The officers said they
believed Campbell had been killed and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05
SPECIAL EVENTS LISTED
IN COUNTY FAIR PROGRAM
Exhibition at Culpeper to Include
Pig-Catching and Other Old
Time Sports.
special pispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CULPEPER, Va. August 5.-Several
special classes were arranged and sew
eral old-time sports revived at the
meeting of the officers and Stockhold-
ers of the Culpeper and Adjoining Coun-
ties Fair Association. which was held
Saturday evening at the courthouse.
Capt M. H. Calfee offering special
money prize for an extra class arranged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05

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carnival and "-veral prizes will be dis
tributcd. Music for the dance will be
furnished by a well known orchestra.
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PLAN TWO.DAY CARNIVAL,
Bladensburg Citizens Arranging to
Beautify Historic Cemetery.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RT.AnENSRTIpG M

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BLADENSBURG, Md, August s.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05

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track.
Nolan had lived for a month with
the three relatives arrested. He came
here from Charlottesville, Mo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-05

In the little world series" Of base
ball at Manila. p. l., the All-Filipinos
recently defeated the All-Americans by
taking the final game.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
WAS EDISON REAL INVENTOR
OF TALKING MOVIES?

Thomas A. Edison was the real
spirit behind talking pictures in
1886 and his dream came true only
one year ago this month, declares
Commander Fitzhugh Green, scien-
tific worker and author, in an ar
ticle in the April number of The
American Magazine.
Edison invented his phonograph
in 1885," says Green. "He wanted
pictures to go with it. Realizing
that he ought to have about forty
pictures to the second to make them
look right on the screen, he invent
ed a camera to make them. He then
developed the Kinetescope, which
used a new product called 'film,'
made by young man named George
Eastman up in Rochester. He syn
chronized his two machines, gave
his new customer an ear tube and a
peep-hole and produced a talking
picture.
But to everyone who heard those
early talkies, the idea was anathema
for the rest of his natural life."
Writing of the industry today,
Green declares that Hollywood has
been changed from a movie capital
to. a talkie metropolis" He esti-
mates that old-fashioned movie in
terests worth $8,OOO,O00,OOO have
been overturned by the talking pic
ture business.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
Sunshine Valley
(Near Oakley

God has plucked another flower
from his garden. This time he clip
ped a blossoming bud, when little
Marklin Meredith was called to the
Heavenly home. He was hurled to
an almost instant death by the un-
merciful wheels of an automobile
while on his way home from school
on Friday, April 5th. Little Marklin
was in his first year at school and
his smiling face will be missed
among his classmates and friends.
Those left to mourn his loss are
his grief-stricken parents, two sis
ters and one brother, besides a host
of other relatives, friends and class
mates. Funeral services were held
on Monday in Greenwood M. e.
Church at 2 p. m. Rev. Shackler
officiated. Four little boys from his
room were pall-bearers, while four
girls carried flowers. He was laid
quietly to rest in Hollywood Gene
terry at Harrington.
We extend our deepest sympathy
to the bereaved family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. T. Banning
entertained several relatives on Sun
day.
Mrs. Alfred Passwaters underwent
serious operation at the Emergen-
cy Hospital on Wednesday. We hope
she will soon recover.
Coleman and Orville Webb were
Sunday evening guests of ]. L. Ban
ming and family.
c. E. Webb, of Marcus Hook, Pa,
passed the weekend with relatives
here.
Mrs. M. A. Webb entertained sew
eral friends and relatives on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Wilson and
son were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. G. Banning on Sunday.
Miss Mary Hemmonds spent Sum
day with her sister, Mrs. J. T. Ban
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Morgan and
son visited Mr.. and Mrs. George
Morgan on Sunday. !
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
WHOLESOME TOWN LIFE

Life in community like Milford
is about as healthful as it can be
anywhere, assuming that people
make good use of all the chances for
wholesome life that exist here. Con-
ditions are more favorable for nor
NAL living than they are in large
cities, where the living costs are
high, where people are crowded in
to small space, where they are
wearied by the journey to and from
their work.
Hence when you spend money in
large cities for your supplies, you
encourage the development of COM
munities already too big.
When you spend money in Mil
ford or any town where merchants
are keeping up-to-date stocks and
stores, you encourage the develop
ment of a type of place where peo-
pie live more healthfully, normally,
and inexpensiveIy.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
Greenwood

Mrs. Matte Wharton has returned
to Wilmington after spending ten
days with her brother, John Scott.
Marklin Meredith, 6 year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Meredith,
died April 5, from a fractured skull.
The boy had alighted from an auto
mobile and stepped in front of an
other one. He was taken to the Mil
ford Emergency Hospital. The boy
died shortly after being admitted.
Funeral services were held on Mon
day afternoon in the M. e. Church.
Mrs. Harland Galloway and
daughter were Mrs. Reese Warning
tons guests the first of the week.
Arthur Wiley has returned to his
home in Wilmington after visiting
relatives in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell Willey's
weekend guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
c. S. Callahan and their niece from
Philadelphia.
The w. c. T. U. met with Mrs.
Nelson Meredith on Wednesday eve
ming.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
SNOW SLIDES AND 'SPLOsIvEs'

AS winter memories fade away
into spring story of snow slides
and marooned inhabitants and the
skillful efforts of explosive engin-
GERS, reaches Washington. The ac--
count relates that snow barriers
were distributed for a distance of
about 13 miles along the tracks of
the Denver & Rio Grande Western.
Railroad between Durango and Sill
verton, Colorado. The % snow
slides ranged in length from 80 feet
to 450 feet and were from 80 feet
to rs feet high. Kegs of black blast
ing powder were loaded into "pock-
cts" that radiated from pits of from
four to IL feet deep which were
dug in the snow. AS many as II
kegs were loaded in a single pocket
The series of blasts loosened the
packed and frozen snow to a de-
gree that permitted its removal by
steam ditching machines and gangs
of men with shovels, thus furnish
ing prompt relief for the marooned
Coloradoans.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
MILFORD, FRIDAY, APRIL II, 1929
MODERN TEN COMMANDMENTS

The Federal Council of Churches
has issued bulletin, in which 1t
gives what it conceives to be Ten
Commandments of social justice.
One of these typical commandments
says that people shall not value a
city's greatness by its population or
it's bank clearings, but by its low
infant mortality, its homes, play
grounds, libraries, schools, hospl-
tails, and low crime record.
The various commandments OF
this code go on to call for justice to
all races of men, respect for wom-
anhood, treatment of crime that re-
forms the criminal, industrial and
democratic ideals that will make
better men and women, outlawry Of
war, generosity to backward peo-
pies, etc.
1t is interesting to compare such
a modern code of rules for conduct
with the famous old laws called the
Ten Commandments. The old Ten
Commandments are not obsolete,
and should be in force as much as
ever. But as a product of a primi-
tive age, they are somewhat mega
tive. They warn us mostly against
certain sins we are not to commit.
We still need these warnings, for
people keep committing these Of
fenses, which are destructive Of So
cial welfare.
But people may keep the Ten
Commandments, and still fail to live
up to high ideals. A harsh and un-
generous and selfish man may not
commit the crimes mentioned in
hat code, yet he may treat his work
people so unkindly that he is NOR
lily worse than if he had violated
he laws of the Ten Commandments.
Our modern standards call not
merely for the negative repression
f our animal instincts, which the
'en Commandments required in pre-
istoric times, but for generous and
indy acts that shall contribute to
ocial welfare and give people good
pportunities in life.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
&oG
THE SOCIAL MOTIVE

If you want to accomplish some
public improvement in Milford or in
any other town, and you publish a
notice that meeting will be held at
such and such time to promote it,
there will probably be only a poor
attendance.
But if you give this occasion the
social touch, and plan for a dinner
or supper or refreshments, people
will be attracted by the social time
that goes with eating, and they will
come. After they are thoroughly
fed, and have enjoyed meeting their
friends, then they are in a mood to
hear your proposition. It takes
Of human nature to ac-
cemplish such projects.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
Cedar Neck

The Cedar Neck Home and School
Association is planning to give a
play entitled always in Trouble" /"
at the school house on Friday eve
ming, April 26. ALWAYS in Trouble"
is a lively farce, full of laugh pro-
voking situations and witticisms,
and is well worth seeing. Watch in
the paper next week for full partic-
ulars.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
Home Education
LIKE THE STORY BOOK SAID
Minerva Hunter

Minerva Hunter
Vernon's birthday was coming
Birthdays became the chief topic OF
conversation. Mothers birthday,
Fathers birthday, Baby's birthday
and neighbors' birthdays were dis
cussed freely and fully. When
Mother offered to read a story,
Vernon repeatedly selected the one
that told how a boy named Harry
celebrated his birthday. Birthdays
with their many possibilities held
the center of the stage for Vernon
day after day.
The long-expected morning came
at last. When he awoke, he found
the wagon he had longed for. The
postman brought box from his
grandmother. He saw his mother
preparing the birthday cake and
placing candles on it. Ice cream
had been ordered for dinner. Evil
IDENTIFY, everything was being done
according to the accepted rules for
this great occasion and Vernon
moved as in a dream.
Dinner time found the lovely cake
III SlC OOhbC4 VI IhC IctUlCs w dACu
candles fiickered their golden
flames. Baby in her high chair
Joined in the gaiety with gurgles of
delight. All seemed well until sud-
denly Vernon gave a heart-broken
sob of disappointment.
Mother paused at the pantry door,
in surprise.
what is the trouble?" Father
asked.
mo package at my plate" Vernon
managed to say.
mo package" his father repeated.
Harry had a birthday package
by his dinner plate" Vernon ex-
planned between sobs. Plans were
not worked out well. The story
book boy and the real-life boy were
not having things alike.
Fortunately, Father knew all
about this story-book boy who had
a birthday. He had read it many
times to his little son. Mother, at
the door, nodded reassuringly to
Father who said, "The meal isn't !
over, Vernon. Perhaps something
nice may happen yet. Wait and
see."
Mother had made some plain little
handkerchiefs for Vernon to use
around home. They had not been
but she felt sure he
would not notice that. She hurried
TO the drawer where she kept tissue
paper and bits of ribbon. Soon the
package was ready.
Another story in the book which
the story of Harry, told
about prince who received gifts
from his subjects. A picture show
ID the prince receiving a gift, pre-
;ented on tray. Mother got her
ray, placed the gift upon it and
vent into the dining room. "a gift
or Prince Vernon" she said, Just
Is was said in the story book, ex-
,ept that it was Prince Charlie who
the gift in the story.
Vernon quickly remembered this
,ther story. Mother, o Motherl"
le beamed as he accepted the gift,
even Harry was not called a prince
N his birthday"
Later, when the children were in
,ed, Mother and Father talked Of
he incident. They agreed that the
,reat joy of a story often lies in
he fact that the reader can imagine
Limself the hero of the tale. Even 4
,rown people long for some stories
o come true in their lives, 1t is
he blessed privilege of parents to
york this magic for the children .
nee in a while, and a birthday is a =
1ost fitting season.
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
WORTHLESS CHECK PAssERs

Judging by the newspaper dis
patches, one of the most common
kinds of fraud today is that of pass
ing worthless checks. People are
constantly being victimized by this
ancient game.
One reason why so many worth
less checks are passed, is that so
many people expect that their per-
sonal checks are going to be ac-
cepted by business concerns with
out question. People will offer
their checks in payment of bills to
places of business, when they have
only a very slight acquaintance with
the management of these concerns,
and perhaps no acquaintance at all
Then if the managers decline to put
up the cash to cover these checks.
they may get mad and threaten new
er to trade at that place again.
Their attitude reminds one of the
current story of a woman who ap-
peared at bank where she was an
entire stranger, and asked to have
check cashed. Madame, 1 can't do
it, as I don't know you," remarked
he teller as politely as he could.
WELL" said the lady, "I don't know
you either, but that's no reason why
We shouldn't do business together"
The insistence of many persons
Who ask to have their checks CASH
ID, without regard to whether peo-
lie know that they are financially
has this result. It ]
makes many business people feel
hat they must expect to take a |
.hance on such checks, and that if
hey don't, they will lose trade. AS
result they sometimes get stung. ]
1t is a good rule not to ask people j
o cash personal checks unless such (
,eople have reason to know posi- I
lively that the check is good. If ]
'eople have money in bank, they {
an always provide themselves with !
ash or its equivalent to pay their t
ills with. If people who have good I
redit would make it their practice I
D do this, business concerns would {
eel more at liberty to refuse doubt
III checks. S
Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
SoS
MIR. HOOVER'S FIRST WOMAN
APPOINTEE

Mrs. F. L. Slade of New York.
named delegate to the international
prison congress at Prague, is the
first woman to be appointed to OF
fee by President Hoover. She may
bring home some new light on this
problem of all ages.
We need the woman's point ot
view on this question, since Wo-
mems sympathy and intuition may
see into the twisted hearts of these
offenders. Men have run prisons for
1000 years on the basis of furnishing
the bad folks, but have not reform
ed many of them that way. Perhaps
the women will be able to suggest
how penal life can so touch them as
to alter their motives and purposes.
Se@
IN TIMES of business depression,
bankers complain of frozen credits,
referring to sums owed them on
which they can't collect. The debt
ors may be theoretically solvent, but
they fail to pay what they owe,
which has most depressing effect
on general business.
If our people in Milford, or any
other town could only realize it, all
slow pay accounts have this same
effect. When you fail to pay your
bills promptly to the people from
whom you obtain supplies, you
freeze up the resources of the COM
and you contribute to make
all business depressed. If people |
would only thaw out those frozen
dollars and pay what they owe on
time, the stream of business pros
perity would flow faster, and come |
nearer bringing welfare to all. Are
vou guilty Of this charge?