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Thousands of Books on Weather.

The Weather Bureau at Washington
has in the course of its existence &C
cumulated a library of more than
$4,000 books all relating to the weather.
This library is frequently resorted to
for the purpose of answering the thou
sands of questions which are constantly
being received. The department en-
beavers to answer all such inquiries but
sometimes finds itself stumped for 1t
appears that there is a great deal that
Is not known about the weather.
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WOMEN TO HEAR DAVIS.
Labor Secretary Will Speak at
BANQUET Monday Night.

Secretary of Labor Davis will address
the Business and Professional Women's
Clubs of the District Of Columbia at
banquet to be given at the Hotel Ham
ilton Monday night.
other speakers will include five
woman members of Congress-Mrs.
Ruth Hanna Mccormick, Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Owen, Mrs. Mary T. Norton, MRS.
Katherine Langley and Mrs. Florence
Kahn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-24
COMMISSIONER TO SPEAK.

Engineer Commissioner William B..
Ladue will be the principal speaker
at a meeting of the Citizens Associa-
ton of Congress Heights in the Cath
olic Auditorium, Nichols avenue and
Portland street, tonight.
DR.. Edward E. Richardson, president
of the association for 10 years, and
recently elected to the Citizens Ad-
visory Committee, will be the guest Of
honor of the evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-24

New mining districts In Panama are
to be developed at once.
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| DEAD, 5 MISSING
AS SHIP GROUNDS.
18 on Lake Superior Vessel
Rescued-Storm Causes
Many Wrecks.

BY the Associated Press
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Deem
Der 2.-The freighter Kiowas gamble
with the treacherous seas of Lake Su-
perior had ended today on an isolated
shore of the lake, with 5 of her crew
missing, l dead and 10 rescued after
severe exposure.
The Kiowa, carrying 26 men, went
agasRnd Saturday night on a reef 10
miles west of the village of Grand Ma
rails Mich.
Through the night she listed and
Sunday morning, while the storm con-
tinued, Capt. Alex Young of Duluth de-
cided to chance launching lifeboat to
get ashore. The reports said the little
craft capSized, throwing him, the stew
ard, Wheelsman, Waterman and porter
INTO the water. A sixth man was be-
lIeVed to have been carried out into the
lake With the boat, and it WIS his body
found yesterday, that revealed the
kiowa's plight. His companions were
believed to be dead.
While the KioWa settled in the shall
low water half mile from Aux Sable
penthouse, l8 men huddled in the por-
ions which were not submerged and
waited for help. When guardsmen
reached them many were suffering from
the exposure to the gale and SUBJ
zero temperatures.
The grain carrier Queedoc was
aground tonight in the upper river. Is
miles above SaulG Ste. Marie.
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MORROW TO LEAVE FRIDAY.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, December '2.-Am-
bassador Dwight w. Morrow will leave
here Friday for the United States, not
to return until after he has finished as
delegate to the fiVe-poWer naval con-
ference in London in January.
That over, he is expected back in this
Capital to wind up almost three years
as Ambassador before returning to his
New Jersey home and accepting the
senatorial toga worn recently by Sen~
ator Edge, just appointed Ambassador
at Paris.
May Retire Next Summer.
Friends believe political conditions in
the United States may govern the
length of his stay in Mexico after the
London naval conference In the event
Of long congressional session or a
special session it is expected he will
retire as ambassador early in the Sum-
mer or sooner.
But his own wishes in the matter are
to remain III Mexico three or -four
months after the European trip in order
to clear up certain outstanding prob
lens with the new regime of President
elect PaScual Ortiz Rubio With the
new administration then in office he
hopes fdRquick action on the agrarian
policy, and to start the financial prob
lem on the way to settlement.
Declines to Comment.
The Ambassador himself told news
paper men he had nothing to say re-
garding the announcement that he had
assented to becoming Senator from New
Jersey replacing Senator Edge and the
temporary Senator designate, David
Baird, jr.
Mrs Morrow and their daughter, Miss
Elizabeth, will accompany Mr. Morrow,
They first probably will go to their
home in Englewood, N. j., and then tc
Washington, where Mr. Morrow will
consult with the State Department..
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BANDIT GETS $3.50
FROM OIL CONCERN
IN DAYLIGHT ROBBERY

Continued From First Page)
his face, so that only his nose and eyes
were visible: He wore gray soft hat.
When he came in the door," Ralph
said, Il was counting the money rep
reSenting part of our Friday and Sat-
urday business, as I do each morning.
l had divided the cash into little piles
OF $40, $40 and SIS bills. When he told
me to stick EN- up I made some re-
mark about cutting out the joke and
then noticed those two automatics
pointing at me. I said nothing and the
gunman put one of his guns in his
overcoat pocket and with the free hand
he Scraped the money together and
dumped 1t into his pocket.
Three minutes more and I would
have been on the way to the bank ="
Ralph said.
The office stands by itself in the midst
OF thickly populated industrial section,
not 80 yards from the warehouse of the
Barber e. Ross Co. and only short
distance from the warehouse of the E.
G, Schafer Co. Usually there are one
or two men in the office with the pro-
prietor. The entire affair did not take
more than two minutes, and within 10
minutes Lieut.. j. w. Mccormick and
three. men from the twelfth precinct
were securing the neighborhood for the
robber.
One of BOldeSt Hold Ups.
Police declared the hold-up to be one
of the boldest in recent months. The
weather was in the bandits favor. The
cold rain beat down, freezing into ice
as it fell, keeping most of the employees
of the nearby warehouse indoors.
Within 100 yards of the office where
the stick-up took place were fully 100
men Ralph telephoned police within
3 minutes after the robber vanished
over the railroad tracks behind the
Office
A few months ago colored boy was
discovered attempting to open the safe
OF the Ralph company. He is serving
jail term at Occoquan. Although the
safe door was wide open this morning
and contained about $500 in cash the
rohber made no attempt to loot the
safe.
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to be weighed carefully. George Black,
our supply officer, did the weighing and
when he told me that the total weight
Of the plane was around 500 pounds
knew there was no mistake about it.
We Shoull reach the hump within
the hour now and we could tell exact
ly the weight we carried by the amount
of gasoline we had burned. That would
be one of Harold June'S many Jobs.
June was probably one of the busiest
men in the world during that flight.
sending radios, dumping gas from cans
into the tanks, estimating the gas used
from our six tanks, taking motion pic
lures and in between time, taking his
turn plotting.
Only man with extraordinary COOL
ness could have done this job efficient
ly. Mac was busy with his camera,
shooting the great mountains, and Bernt
at the wheel was fighting to get alti-
tude He knew he must use no more
gas than was absolutely necessary.
AS I thought of the battle ahead. l
realized how very lucky 1 was to have
such great fellows with me.
CCopyright. 1929, by the New York Times
Co, and st. Louis Post Dispatch. All rights
for publication reserved throughout the
world)
The second installment of Comdr
Byrd's own story will be printed in The
Star tomorrow.
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Identification as Brophy. The news
editor, seeking pictures of the explorer,
came upon one showing him with
Brophy. The resemblance between
Brophv and Mitchell" was so apparent
that the editor confronted Mitchell"
with the picture and Mitchell" admit
ted his identity.
Brophy was second in command of
the Byrd expedition at the time of his
sudden and unexplained resignation.
He was in charge of the Byrd supply
ship Eleanor Boiling. The ship turned
back after getting 900 miles out. ice
formation preventing its further move
ment ahead. lie returned to Dunedin,
New Zealand, and resigned.
Was Arrested in Dunedin.
At Dunedin Brophy was arrested as
public nuisance, and a court gave him
his choice between entering sani-
tarium or returning to the United
States.
He took the latter alternative. but on
arrival in New York he voluntarily sub
nlitted to a mental test at Bellevue He
was declared sane, but ordered to take
a rest.
On the advice of Comdr Byrds New
York representatives, Brophy spent six
weeks in Canada and then returned to
New York, the suicide hoax and dis
appearance following shortly afterward
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-02
S15,OB4,281 SHOWN
DISTRICT BALANCE
Commissioners Summarize
Fiscal Data, Without
recommendations.

The annual report of the District
Commissioners. transmitted to Congress
today. for the second year in success
sion carries no recommendations from
the city heads. The report simply con-
tains a 60-page summary of the an
nual reports of the various department
heads, as we'll as the special boards,
which report to the District Commits
Sioners.
The report lists the cash receipts of
the District during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1929, at $36 LOGS, 544 81
and cash expenditures amounting to
$35,014, 48882. The cash balance to the
credit CT the District of Columbia in
the United States Treasury on the Last
day of the fiscal year was given as
$l5,C84, 28l.10, and to the credit of trust
and special funds, 1894, 1875,
$1,165, OOO, 900 Assessments.
The assessed value of land in the Dis
trict of Columbia is estimated at $685.
100000 and of improvements at $780,
100000, total OF $l,165 100000 Taxes
on this real estate yielded the District
a total of SIG 1882, 1929 during the year
under review. The tax rate was $l.7O
per 500 OF assessed valuation:
The continued increase of the use
OF the automobile was shown by the
report that the gasoline tax had netted
the District $l,352,57910 during the
year, an increase of $148,7l8.41 over the
previous fiscal year. 1t was estimated
that this tax represented an average
tax of $3.50 for each registered automo-
bile during the y months.
Auto Tax Collection.
Beginning January l. 1880, the per-
sonal property tax on autos will be COL
lected at the time the license plate is
obtained. In January persons who buy
tags will be required to pay personal
property taxes on their cars from July
l to December 81, 1880. This will in
no way affect the payment of the Sec
ond half of the 1890 tax, according to
the report. which should be paid in
March, 1880. Beginning in January
1881, those who buy tags for their
cars must pay the entire years per-
sonal property taxes on the car before
receiving the plates.
The material contained in the rest
of the annua! report has been printed
in The Star from time to time as the
reports of department heads were made
public.
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1t had been the three of us, Bennett,
Balchen and myself who had set out on
this job two years ago, and the three
of us would be together at the finish,
for we knew that Floyd Benefits spirit
flew with us.
Bennett Selected Plane.
He had selected the Ford plane, pre-
pared it and flown it, and had helped
with our early plans-so that his genius
and his friendship were with us, helping
us to reach our goal. The last thing
we put in the plane was a stone that
came from Floyd's grave at Arlington
We weighted it with the American flag
that we proposed to drop on the South
Pole.
The plane had circled now and hit
the Gilbert GroSVenor air trail which
by midnight we hoped to extend to the
South Pole. In few moments we
emerged from the confusing bowl of
milk over the take-off into sunshine
that stretched ahead to the horizon. A
thousand feet beneath us We picked
up the dog-team trail 1t is only with
the sun in certain positions that the
trail can be seen from the air. Now
it was faint, broken thread that we
lost time and again, but managed to
pick up each time with the Bumstead
sun compass.
Forced to Angle on Course.
A strong easterly breeze forced us to
head 10 degrees to the left of the course
to allow for this wind, and so the plane
grabbed along toward the South with
it's nose pointed we'll to the left of
the trail. We had constantly to check
the course by the drift indicator. an
instrument through which the ground
is sighted to ascertain the amount the
wind has caused the plane to drift
from the true direction. We enioyed
the first few hours of the flight when
We had time to look around, for flying
over this mysterious Barrier never loses
its fascination. Shortly after we passed
the crevaSSed area $50 miles from Little
America, we sighted the mountains to
the westward. Again was struck with
the majesty of these ranges. We saw
one great mountain mass end and an
other one unaccounted for on the maps
begin to the South and run toward the
Beardmore Glacier. Great white glaciers
flowed into the Barrier, and about a
hundred miles off were some snow
covered peaks, towering high over the
Barrier, that glistened like fire from the
suns reflection so that they looked like
great Volcanoes-in eruption.
Sight Trail Party on Way.
Soon the great mountains ahead
doomed up and an hour afterWard we
sighted the trail party, 304 statute miles
due south of Little America. There
could be no doubt that so far we had
come South as straight as an arrow. 1t
was well, Tor we had messages and
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FORMER BYRD AIDE, WHO LEFT
SUICIDE NOTE, is FOUND IN OMAHA
Richard G. Brophy, Business
Manager for Explorer,
Faxed Death.
Works as Newspaper Man
Until Picture Reveals Iden-
tity to Sharp-Eyed Boss.

BY the Associated Press.
OMAHA. Nebr., December 2.-Richard
Gale Brophy, business manager for the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition who resigned
suddenly in New Zealand last Spring
and later disappeared from New York
having a suicide note, has been found
alive, working on the copy desk of the
Omaha Bee-NewS.
The Bee-NewS said in a copyrighted
story today that Brophy's identity was
learned from q photograph showing him
with Conner. Richard Byrd. Brophy.
who hCd been working here as &c.
Manning Mitchell" admitted his identity
and left at once for New York, saying
he intended to Straighten out his af-
fairs there.
Disappeared in August.
Brophy disappeared from New York
last August leaving a note to his wife
which said he was going to Coney Is
land and walk into the waves until
they cover me and then I will be no
more"
New York police, after an investiga-
tion said they doubted that Brophy had
killed himself. Nothing was heard of
him until the news editor of the Bee
News made the discovery yesterday that
Brophy and Mitchell were the same
man.
Il only wanted to rest" Brophy eX-
planned My nerves were Shatter- d.
was tired. distraught. unable to find
relief from the pressure that seemed to
hem M in.
Il have found rest in. Omaha, but !
am going back to New York and
straighten out my tangled affairs. l
must begin where left off that day at
Coney Island"
"Bummed" Way to Omaha.
Brophy said he "bummed" his way to
Omaha. He started work for the Bee
News, September 25. 1t was the news
that Comdr. Byrd had flown over the
South Pole and returned successfully to
his base that resulted in "Mitchell's''
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WANG PLANS TO RESIGN.

LONDON, December 2 OP).-A Reu-
ter's dispatch from Shanghai says that
DR.. c. 7. Wang. Nationalist foreign
minister has intimated privately that
he will resign at the end of this month.
DR.. Wang was quoted as stating he
was disheartened by the public criticism
regarding negotiations for settlement of
the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute
1t was regarded in Shanghai as al
most certain that DR.. Wang would
make such intimation, in view of the
difficulty in which the Marking govern
ment has been placed in consequence
of the separate negotiations between
Moscow and Mukden.
In addition, the extraterritoriality
problem, which threatens to become
acute by the end of the month, is likely
to prove highly embarrassing for any
foreign minister.
The dispatch added that pressure I'M
doubtedly was being exercised in vari-
Gus quarters to induce DR.. Wang to re-
consider his decision.
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DEATH TOLL NINE
IN VIRGINIA WRECK
Cool Sailor Saves Mary in
Stampede That Follows
PiIe-up of Cars.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ONLEY, Va, December 2.-Salvage
crews today were removing the last of
the wreckage of a train that left the
rails, piling up eight coaches, with a
death toll Of nine persons and an in
jured list of "a. The train was bound
from Cape Charles, Va, on the Penn
sylvania Railroad for New York with
excursioniSts.
Calm oTders, Save women and chill
dren first shouted by Karl F. Cheno-
weth, boatswain's mate, attached to
the battleship Oklahoma, probably
saved scores from death in the stam-
pede that started in an overturned third
car said A. v. Kemp of Norfolk, a sur
vivor. Chenoweth was injured himself.
Doctors said that Mrs. Kemp was
saved from death by the sailor, who
tied handkerchief above Mrs. Kemp's
half-severed wrist.
The dead are:
Miss Grace Raby, 90 Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Annie Abrams, 80, Norfolk, Va.
Ralph Smith, 10, Middleton, N. Y,
seaman attached to the u S. S. Utah.
Marion A. Galloway, brakeman, Del
ma, Md.
An unidentified white man, wearing a
Masonic emblem with the initials w. c.
Jane Diggs, colored, Norfolk, Va.
Three unidentified colored persons.
-Four hundred and lightweight pas
sengers were speeding up the Eastern
Shore Peninsula of Virginia early Sum
day when they were thrown from their
seats under a shower CT flying glass as
the cars struck a broken rail and ca
reened. Two coaches were overturned,
and four behind smashed into them.
The locomotive and the first two cars
remained on the tracks.
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CONTINUED From First Page.)
for their wives as their means and sta
ton in life warranted, from debts
thoughtlessly and needlessly contracted
and often beyond the capacity of the
husband to pay. Moreover, it does not
require the discernment of a Solomon
to appreciate that the unauthorized
purchase of goods by wife, whose hus-
band has adequately provided for her,
inevitably will have tendency to els
turb and possibly disrupt their con-
Jugal relations"
Similar Case Is Cited.
One of the cases cited in the opinion
holds that when the husband has sup
piled his wife with those necessaries
which their station in life and his finan-
cial standing entitle her to have at his
hands or has furnished her with mon
evs sufficient to enable her TO purchase
them for herself, he is under no obliga-
ton to pay bills incurred by her for
what would have becn necesSarieS if he
had not already supplied her, but which
are not in fact such because of the
precedent supply.
The tradesmen, the same opinion as
SertS, readily may ascertain by inquiry
the fact of wifes authority to pledge
her husbands cr2dit for purchases she
desires to make and the suggestion that
such action on the part of the trades
man might readily be considered Of
fensive, not only by the wife, but by the
husband whose credit she seeks to
pledge, is answered, the court points out,
In the words of Lord Justice Bramwell
of England, who said IF it be said that
such a proceeding would offend the
customer, / answer that may be an ex-
c2llent reason why the tradeSman should
not ask the question, but it is no rea-
son for seeking to make the husband
pay because the question is not asked"
EuddIeston's Testimony.
Representative Huddleston at the trial
in the Municipal Court, testified that he
had no knowledge of the purchase by
his wife of the fur coat and scarf for
which suit was brought; that he
never authorized her to purchase the
articles; that he had instructed her not
to make any purchases on his credit.
For long time before the goods were
bought, he had been paying his wife
SIS per month, he said. and instructed
her to limit herself to this amount. It
has been his personal custom for years.
he told the court, to buy for cash for
himself and family and never heard Of
her transaction with the Saks Fur Co.
until served with summons in the law
suit.
The present day means available TO
merchants concludes Justice Robb in
holding them to the responsibility to
learn If the wife has authority to pledge
her husbands credit, for the aScer-
tainment of the moral and financial re-
sponsibility of patrons and customers
are such that little apprehension need
be INDUCED on account of the rule We
have ann )unced."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-02
LEGISLATIVE WRITER
WILL LECTURE TONIGHT

Problems which confront the forth
coming Congress, prosperity plans of
the Nations business leaders and
Comdr Byrd's achievements in the
Antarctic will be among the principal
current topics to be discussed this eve
ming by Will P. Kennedy, legislative
writer of The Star, in a public forum
at the Central Y. M C. A.. 1885 q
street. Special seating arrangements
have been made to care for an eX-
pected overflow. The lectures will be
given every Monday night, beginning
at 7:l5 o'clock.
question-and-a period will
follow Mr.. Kennedy's talk. AS a
supplementary feature there will be a
showing of The Evening STAR Universal
newsreel by courtesy of the newsreel
management.
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his control, it will be their duty to &C
quit the defendant and in such case
their verdict should be not guilty"
Error Is Charged.
The doctrine of irresistible impulse,
the court declares, is the law in this
District and in an applicable case should
be explained to the jury. In view of
the uniform adoption of this doctrine"
says Justice Van Orsdel, "by the trial
courts of this District and the approval
Of the rule by the United States Su-
preme Court, we have no hesitation in
declaring it to be the law of the Dis
tTict of Columbia that in cases where
insanity is interposed as defense and
the facts are sufficient to call for the
application of the rule of irresistible i'm
pulse, the jury should be SO charged.
The court also points out that it cam
not agree with the claim OF the prose-
cution that the facts in the Smith case
were not sufficient to can for the allow
ance of the instruction.
Considering the evidence as whole,
concludes athe court, 1--WE are of the
opinion that it was error to refuse the
prayer requested by the defense, and.
regardless of the gravity of the offense
or the probable guilt or innocence OF
the accused, fundamental principle OF
law is involved, and new trial should
be granted"
Man Admitted Killing.
At his arraignment Smith admitted
| the killing, but denied it had been pre-
meditated
, Shortly after the courts decision was
made known. officials of the District
Jail communicated the information to
| Smith, who was described as being
"agreeably surprised"
An eficial who talked with him
briefly said Smith felt that the public
was against him because of the nature
of the charges. Smith was quoted as
having said he anticipated another
long fight in the courts" The prisoners
physical condition was said to be
fairly good" He talked little.