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Evening star., 1929-11-16
DETROIT ELECTION
FRAUD IS CHARGED
Defeated Candidate Claims
Dummy" Voters Put
BoWIeS in Office.
BY the Associated Press.


DETROIT, Mich, November 16.-
Charges that dummy" voters partici-
pated in the municipal election Novem-
Der 5, in which Charles Bowles defeated
John w. Smith for mayor by margin
of 8,40l votes. were made yesterday by
supporters of the unsuccessful candi-
date.
Charles p. ONeil, attorney for Smith,
announced he would appear before the
city election commission today and re-
quest that policemen be detailed to aid
in investigating the matter. O'Neil
charges that the names of regiStrantS
who had died or moved away from the
addresses under which they were reg
iStered were obtained from postal cards
sent out by the election commission to
all registered voters in certain precincts
informing them of a change in the To-
cation of voting booths.
Possession of cards Of this nature
which had not been delivered would
give persons interested the names of
those who probably would not vote, thus
enabling them to send dummy" voters
to cast ballots under their names,
O'Neil charges. He said that the
charges have been laid before John r.
Watkins, United States district at
Richard w. Reading. city clerk, has
conferred with Watkins regarding the
notification cards.
Meanwhile the recount of votes cast
in the election went forward. Thus
far in the counting, Bowles has had a
net gain of lat votes over Smith.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
KANSAS CITY OPENS
LIVE STOCK EXHIBIT
Champions and Near Champions
Vie for Honors at American
Royal Show.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, November 16.-The
kings, queens and lesser nobility of
the live stock, equine and feathered
Kingdoms were groomed in regal splen-
dor here today for the opening of the
annual American Royal Live Stock and
Horse Show, one of the foremost of
the country.
Hundreds of sleek, blooded horses.
cattle, fowl, dogs, and even Buffalo.
were in their pens and cages, ready
for the admiration Of the crowds. Rep
resenting nearly every section of the
country, the champions and near
champions will vie for prizes totaling
$95.000.
Rounds of judging events for farm
boys and girls and demonstrations of
live stock raising methods will be on
the daily program, together with ex-
hibitionS of horsemanship, drills by
mounted units and the daily parades
of animals.
First place in team and individual
All Club live stock judging contests
yesterday was awarded to Oklahoma,
with 1,730 points. Missouri ranked
second, with 1,676: Kansas, third, with
1852; Iowa, fourth, with 1915, and
Arkansas, fifth, with 1893.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
NATIONAL GRANGE
LAUDS CONGRESS
Passage of Farm Marketing Bill
Gains Approval of Meeting
in Seattle.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, November 16.-Activities
OF Congress as they affect the agricul-
tural- industry were reviewed Thursday
night before the siXty-third annual con-
vention of the National Grange, in ses-
sion here, by Fred Brenckman, Wash
ington representative of the organiza-
ton.
He lauded the passage of the farm
marketing bill, and said efforts to incor-
porate the debenture plan in the tariff
bill, now pending, met with the ap-
proval of the Grange and other sup
porters" Of the plan. The debenture
plan was eliminated from the farm bill
proper.
Brenckman criticized the House of
Representatives for placing cedar lum-
Der and shingles on the protected list.
He said that the action of the Senate
finance committee in restoring those
commodities to the free list "was in ac-
cord with the policy advocated by the
National Grange" He declared that the
imposition of duty on forest products
would simply serve to hasten the de-
pletion of our rapidly disappearing for
ests, besides raising the price of lum-
Der and forest products to the con-
sumerS Of this country"
Evening star., 1929-11-16

but with all his terrible energy, in
spired partly by the need of his wife and
three children for that $100 first prize,
he couldn't reap against the bang
boards with the speed and smooth pre-
cision of the lanky Holmes.
1t was a pretty sight to watch that
farmer. HuSking corn, as any one who
has tried it knows, requires remarkable
Commemorative staying powers and self
control While the hands are ripping
one ear from the huSk and tossing it
wagonward, the eyes are seeking the
next one.
And a sixth sense, or hindsight, must
detect the ears that lie low and have
escaped the waist high rush. All ears
passed up count against one. There
are cleaners following close behind to
make check.
And Olson, the winner a smaller man
than Holmes, matched Holmes pre-
cision and added trif1e more energy
which probably won for him.
They didn't tell Olson before the
start that his only boy, Charles, years
old, and namesake of Olson's father,
who died recently, was very i'll and that
1t would be necessary for him to hurry
home as soon as the contest was fin
1shed and results announced. Mrs. OIL
son, who was present, knew it, but not
till the husking was done did she in
form her husband.
Another gallery that was hopeful. If
not confident, was the smaller one fol-
lowing "Old Man Missouri"-O. C.
Groom. so years old, who won the Mis-
souri, State contest.
Well, II trying could win, Groom was
not going to lose. In a suit of farm
yard overalls and a torn cap he hustled
the stalks in manner to conjure with.
Of
Kans., who has husked as high as 154
bushels of corn a day in his prime,
wasn't letting any weeds grow under his
feet either
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paper Alliance)
Evening star., 1929-11-16

Hamilton, assistant cashier, was on
duty.
Stick 'em up," sang the rear guard.
Miss Hamilton also Smiled-and then
complied. She didn't know how to open
the safe, but just then Robert Barry,
the cashier, entered. He did, and the
robbers scooped up $500.
Abandoning their other captiveS, but
still holding the policeman, the robbers
drove next to Leeds, another suburb
nearer the city. There another car was
stolen and Willcut changed his prison.
The occupants of the stolen car were
robbed of $109-while Willcut again
looked on.
Back in Kansas City Willcut was
freed, land keep y'r mouth shut" was
the parting admonition.
Chief of Detectives Edward P. Boyle
recalled his entire force, which had
been galloping about the countryside
following successive reports of the
depredations of Willcut'S captors, and
assigned every man available to mis-
sion OF retaliation.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
TEXAS CAPITAL SOUGHT
FOR DIRIGIBLE FACTORY
Proposal Contemplates Passenger
Line to Europe and South Amer
lea From Dallas.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, November I6-John
M. Spellman, vice president and gen.
eral counsel of the Associated Factories
Corporation of Dallas, said yesterday
that his corporation has undertaken
the solicitation of $16,000,000 Texas
capital to finance a dirigible airship
factory i'll Dallas.
The factory, he said, was proposed
to his company by the American
BrownBover Electric Corporation of
Camden, N. j. The proposal contem-
plates, as we'll as the dirigible factory. a
passenger line from Europe to the
United States and thence to South
America.
Spellman declared it was not a
visionary scheme" but had been sub
mitted in good faith by the Camden
Corporation.
The plan, he said, is to build two
dirigible airships, each of 6.500,0O0 cubic
feet displacement and each capable of
transporting 100 passengers with bag
gage and $4,000 pounds of mail, ex-
press and other cargo. The airships
would ply route from Paris to New
York, Chicago, Dallas and Galveston,
thence to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos
Aires.
Evening star., 1929-11-16


He was released three hours after his
abduction with only his feelings in
jured.
Forced to Surrender Gun.
Willcut was watching at busy in
tersection for speederS when he saw the
car which ultimately proved his prison
Something about it made him suspicious
and he raced after it: AS ne pulleo
alongside the car stopped with a
shrek of brakes and gun glistened
over a window sill.
Meekly the patrolman surrendered his
revolver and entered the car.
Wont this be RICH" said the man
covering the officer with his pistol.
Taking cop on a job! oh, boy! Won't
the town laugh?"
Several persons saw the abduction
and phoned police headquarters. De-
spite a net of motorized police thrown
about the city, however, Wllcut's cap
tors drove out of the city on principal
thoroughfare to Independence, then TO
Hickman Mills, Mo-, suburbs.
Now listen, copper" said one OF tnS
two men in the car. you'll be lucky to
get out of this alive. You do what you're
told"
Then. Willcut said, they decided to
hold up grocery, because the grocer
"had the only rifle in town." and then
to rob the bank.
Twenty minutes later the three en-
tered the store, Willcut walking ahead
stick 'em up" said one of the men
behind.
George Lorimer, proprietor, grinned
The uniform proved it was only joke
Then he and customer saw two re-
volvers. They obeyed orders.
Two Others Join Party.
Afterward Lorimer and the customers
were added to the little cavalcade as it
headed toward the bank. Miss Sylvia
Evening star., 1929-11-16
SWEDISH FARMERS
WIN HUSK|NG TILT
Neighbor Boys Capture Hon.
orS in Withering 80-Minute
Corn Row Contest.
BY the Associated Press.

PLATTE CITY, Mo, November 16.-
All honor to the rural Swedish COM
munity of Rio and Woodruff, ILL., it
breeds muscled men and real farmers
and the proof lies for all the world to
see in two neighbor farm boys, who
walked away yesterday with all honors
of the national corn huSking cham
pionship.
Fighting down interminable rows of
matted 10-foot corn. with heavy mud
under foot, these representatives of a
single community bested the champions
of six other corn belt States and when
cannon doomed the signal to halt
the national championship Walter
Olson was but scant half bushel ahead
of his neighbor, Harold Holmes.
Spectators in Sympathy.
Not even the marathon runner can
know the heart breaking, muscle bind
ing toll which goes into an 80-mfnute
corn Shucking contest and 5000 spec
tators gritted their teeth and swayed in
sympathy as these two friends, mem
berS of the same Lutheran Church,
wrenched apart the tangled rows of
corn and beat steady rat-tat-tat on
the bang boards.
1t was Olson's second national-or
world-championShip, Last year he
shucked 26.6 bushels in Benton County.
Ind, to take first honors. Yesterday he
picked only 25.27 bushels in the hour
and 20 minutes.
Not all the honors went to the Scandi-
navians, however. Clyde Tague of
Guthrie County, Iowa, won third place
with 1888 bushels.
Norwegian Wins Fourth.
Henry Sorenson, a Nebraska Nor
wepian was fourth with % no bushels
Others finished in the following order:
Charles Etter, Indiana, 22.01.
Charles BockeS, Iowa, 21.62.
w. J. Lutz Kansas, 21.42.
c. Maley, Minnesota, 21.2.
Henry Westergren, Nebraska, 20.98.
r. Hanson, Minnesota, 20.74.
Ira Critton, Kansas, POST.
o. c. Groom. Missouri, 20.09.
l.. Roberts. Missouri, 1887.
Twenty-eight radio stations broadcast
a running account of the contest, with
Dave Chandler of Chicago himself for
merly a competitor in the national
meets, at the microphone.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
UNEMPL0 0YMENT FUND
INCREASED S62, ,5O0,0 900
British Taxpayers Must Contribute
100000, 900 in Coming
Year.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 16.-Unemploy-
ment insurance in the coming year will
cost British taxpayers $610, 100000. Miss
Margaret Bondfield, minister of labor,
has proposed legislation to extend the
dole system that will increase contribu-
tions from the treasury to the unem-
ployment insurance fund by $42 500, 600
The fund is maintained by employers
employed and the state. Previous legis-
lation passed by the present Parliament
demands another $4,000 900, making
the total increase next year $62 500, 600
The state was already contributing
$60,000,000 to the fund, and will now
have to make up 1922 500 900, or more
than one-third of the total of the fund
and twice as much as the government
provided in it's 1929-30 estimates.
Another indication of the immense
cost of this system is the fact that bor-
rowingS on the fund from the treasury
amounted to more than $184 200, 900 on
November 8 last.
Evening star., 1929-11-16

Several weeks ago Holmes beat out
Olson in the Illinois contest by Just
little more than the margin olson peat
him Yesterday. Olson won the national
championship last year, too, so when
Holmes took the lists against MIN TINS
year and was so successful in the state
contest the SWedes around Woodall and
Rio, the post office used by the olson
brothers farm, took time to remark:
ia, this one ought to be a real
fight"
5000 Are Called Out.
And it was 1t was the battle that
called 5000 spectators to the REM
farm.
But right here it must be mentioned
that. Clyde Tague, q thin and wizened
won third place with 1888 bushels and
saved the show from being Scandi-
navian walkaway. Henry Sorenson, a
Nebraska Norwegian, was fourth with
22.09 bushels.
In some respects, the ways of husking
corn are as many as there are huskers.
For instance, o. G. Groom and Layton
Roberts, MiSsourians. and w. L. Lutz
and Ira Critton of Kansas didn't con-
slider they we're husking corn at all.
They were shocking it, and Tague
and Brockes of Iowa, SorenSon and
Westergreen of Nebraska and Maley and
Hanson of Minnesota were picking and
not husking. Only Charles Etter of
Indiana and the winner and runner-up
were really husking corn, according to
local dictionaries.
Yankee" Roberts of Missouri used a
peg and steamed down the field like
an antelope. He was one of the first to
get to the end of the rows. And
far behind was "Swede" Holmes using
thumb hook. But he was taking three
rows at a time instead of Roberts two.
The scales showed Roberts had only
1887 against Holmes 2474 bushels.
Tague of Iowa had his shirt off, was
hatlesS, and went berserk into the stalks,
Evening star., 1929-11-16
HOUSE TO RECEIVE
FRENCH DEBT PACT
Agreement to Be Placed
Ahead on Schedule for
December Session.

The debt agreement by which the
French government Is to pay the United
States $4,000, 900, 900, including $400,-
100000 for the sale of surplus war sup
plies, will be the first major legislative
business to be considered by the House
ways and means committee after the
disposition of the tax-reduction pro-
gram in the December session of Con-
gress. The agreement has been ratified
by France.
Chairman Hawley said today the mat
ter would be brought before the House
early in December. Representative TIL
son of Connecticut, the Republican floor
leader, said it would be given legislative
right of way as soon as possible.
In the Seventieth Congress the House
ratified the agreement, but the Senate
failed to act, pending ratification by
France of the Mellon -Berenger agree
ment.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
Banker Called Home.

NEW YORK, November Is R.-
Maurice Dreyfuss, banker, arrived from
Paris at 1880 pm. yesterday and left
for Paris at 5 pm. On the way to New
York he received a radio message say
ing urgent business required his pres
ence home. His visit to New York was
spent on steamship pier supervising
the removal of baggage from one ship to
another and smoking cigarettes.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
WEATHER DELAYS TRIP
OF M. P.'S ABOARD R-101
Air Ministry Postpones Flight of
Giant Airship for Week Be-
cause of Storm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 16-Bad weather
today forced postponement of the pro-
jected fight of the dirigible R-101 with
members of the House of Commons
aboard.
Some 40 members of the Commons
and Lords had already arrived at the
old palace yard at Westminster, from
where they were to be taken to Carding-
ton, when the air ministry announced
poStponement of the trip until Novem-
ber %.
One M. p. explained, what is the use
of the ship if it won't stand thiS?"
Another remarked, There is only one
conSolation-if we had all gone up and
anything had happened to the airship
there would have been practically
general election brought about in record
time"
Evening star., 1929-11-16
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-The
Senate is meeting at night, there
was a lot of things they couldn't
investigate in the day time.
We are going to get lower taxes,
just think too, lower taxes and not
on presidential election year.
Twenty thousand people in Mis-
souri, gathered to see IL farmers
in the worlds championship corn
husking, no wonder the farmer has
nothing, If he had been smart enough
to put these on under the guise of
college athletics, hired a coach and
a stadium, why then the farmer
would be sitting as pretty as Notre
Dame.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
Mexican Police
Save Indian Girl
In Altar Rites
By the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, November IS.
"A dispatch to El Universal from
the city of Puebla last night said
that the police of the town of
Zozongotla saved a 7-year-old In
dian girl from death as a sac
rif1ce to the god of water by
intervening as she was about to
be hacked to pieces by supersti-
tiouS tribesmen.
The recent drought had done
great damage to crops and the
Indians were determined to follow
the ancient custom of making a
sacrifice. They were alleged to
have selected the girl and taken
her to the top of a high hill,
where they were about to kill
her when the police arrived, dis
persed them and took the girl
into their care.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
WARRANTS ARE ISSUED
FOR MICHIGAN BANKERS
Embezzlement of $3,5oo,Ooo Is
Charged to Six Executives Caught
in Market Collapse.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
FLINT, Mich, November l6.-A
gamblers craze which made group of
executives of the Union Industrial
Bank of Flint forget their duty as
financial protectors of their depositors
and fling millions of the banks funds
into the tumbling stock market was
described yesterday by H. H. Wilkin,
executive vice president of the institu-
ton. in a statement issued coincident
with the swearing out of warrants for
six former officers of the bank.
More than $3,500,000 of the banks
funds were used by these former off,
GERS over period of years.
Named in the warrants, which charge
embezzlement, abstract or wilful mis-
appropriation of bank funds, were John
S. DeCamp, former senior vice presi-
dent; Elton D. Graham, former vice
president and cashier; Milton Pollock,
former vice president; Ivan P. Chris
tensen. former assistant cashier; Mark
H. Kelley, former assistant cashier, and
Russell A. Runyon, former discount
manager. 1t was indicated that addi-
tional warrants may be issued later.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
COLLINS, FLYER, WEDS.
Six-Day Courtship Results in Mar
riage to Oklahoma Girl.

WICHITA, Kans., November 16 (4o).-
A six-day courtship, begun last Satur-
day when Dolores Lacy of Lamont,
Okla, sold disabled veterans forget
me-not to James H. Collins, widely
known New York aviator and Cater
pillar Club" member, resulted in their
marriage in Wichita yesterday. The
couple planned to fly to Southern Cali
fornia for their honeymoon. Collins is
a vice president of the Cox g. Stephens
Aviation Co. of New York.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
RIVAL FARM BOYS FIGHT IT OUT
AS FIUSKERS-TF1E FUSKIER WINS
Wizened Yankee Saves Contest From Being
All-Scandinavian Affair by
Taking Third.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special
PLATTE CITY CNANA)-A
against
oher a bushel in the weghngs
Walter Olson cornhukng
between
socially attend the Lutheran the village
ndulnnh nhauap I'M nphe
Evening star., 1929-11-16
JANE ADDAMS OUT SOON.
Settlement Worker Suffers Broken
Wrist in Fall.

CHICAGO, November 16 R).-Jane
Addams, head of Hull House, will be
confined to hospital only a few days
by the wrist injury she suffered Thurs
day night. Miss Addams slipped and
fell when arising from the dinner table
and her wrist was broken.
The injury was painful, but 1t was
stated that Miss Addams was not other
wise hurt and that she would soon be
able to resume her work at the settle
ment house.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
QUEEN IS FRIENDLY
WITH UNTITLED KIN
Bearing Toward Relatives by
Marriage Sets Precedent
at Court.

This is the fourteenth OF a series of
fifteen articles presenting the authentic
biography of the Queen of England. The
author of the biography, who wishes to
appear here under a nom de plume, is in
a position to write with authority OF
the royal family of England.
Evening star., 1929-11-16
Ancient Calendar Banned.

NANKING, China, November Is P).
Documents are to be considered IL
legal after January if dated in ac-
cordance with the ancient Chinese cal
endar. which was abolished several
months ago. Nobody paid any atten-
tion to the abolition
Evening star., 1929-11-16
BANDITS FORCE. POLICEMAN
TO WITNESS THREE HOLD-UPS
Officer Is Used as Shield While Two
Men Rob Store, Bank
and Motorists.
BY the Associated Press.


listened the jbs of
hold-up.
wncut compelled in front of his
the holdp
Evening star., 1929-11-16

A want ad was worth more than
$4,000 to Mrs. Anna Myers of Chicago,
who, through that medium, was advised
she was joint heir to an estate that had
awaited settlement so years.
Evening star., 1929-11-16

punishment should be available to
school authorities. Mrs. Doyle was the
champion of the former cause while
Mrs. Smith was the leading proponent
of the other conviction.
In an emphatic statement Mrs. Doyle
declared:
Il object very much to having our
high school children set upon pedes-
tai to be diSsected by pedagogues.
They are human beings and are de-
serving of consideration as such. I
believe our present younger generation
is the finest we've had and I believe
their fine feelings of Judgment and dis
elimination should be considered and
appealed to-"
When the vote was taken, the board
was polled and those favoring the pro-
posal were DR.. Carusi, Mrs. Smith and
DIR. II. Barrett Learned, while the op-
ponents were Mrs. Doyle, Mr.. Gilligan,
DR.. j. Hayden johnson and Mrs. Mary
9. Mcneil,