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Rodio and Eaurpn1erat
BUSINESS OPportunltses

ROcNIING EOUsE-With a I. 3, ! and 2
two I'M. apis. also single; $3.50 loan on
house; $500 cash takes it. and assume
loan. The loan can be paid monthly
Ia. 637l RI.
NEIGHBORHOOD STOREs-Increase bust
ness IS 60 & profit 1900 new plan, Rich
ards The Printer. Al Mass. RI. 3114.
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Death Notices
Monuments & Cemetery Lots

JALITY MONURIENTS-And markers for
IS. Indianapolis Granite Co.. q at Fan
reek HI. 2522. n. G. cor. lairgr0uno.
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Barter and SlDop

CAMERA-8xl0 Eastman View and outfit;
also books; trade for light car or radio.
Y. "A. 5provl R. R. 10 Box 264
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Storage and Transf eT
Miscellaneous for Sale

BABY RED-Ivorv. on wheels; excel con;
real bargain. Call Ir< 1864
BABY BUGGY-GD. COND. MATERNITY
CORSET; VERY REAs. Oh. 4l32-R 3.
BTCYCLE-Boy' liver Johnson good
cond. s15 634 Virginia Dr.. 5255.
The Washington times., 1929-02-04

Ice appear to be unable to cope
with the situation.
About 100000 workers were made
idle by the closing of workshops.
Howling mobs gathered at every
street corner in Bombay. Pedes-
trians We're assaulted upon the
slightest provocation Many houses
belonging to Pathans were be-
sieged. One was set on fire, but the
occupants were rescued.
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UPHOLDS
GOVENANT
IN SALE
Photo BY International

The Court of Appeals today rem
dered two decisions affirming the
rights Of property owners to place
in a deed transferring the
ownership of property prohibiting
the subsequent sale to persons of
the colored race.
The first suit is a result of the
efforts of the Bloomingdale Citizens
Association to prevent the acquisi.
ton by colored people of property in
a white neighborhood. The case in
question is that of Edward G.. and
Susie B. Russell, who sought to with
draw from an agreement and at
tempted to sell their home in the
first block Randolph Street to col
ored persons.
'sThe chief consideration for the
contract" Justice Van Orsdel as.
serted in the opinion, was the
mutual promise and covenant of
the signers, each with the other.
Mutual agreements OF this kind,
entered into for valuable con-
siderstion, are upheld on the theory
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SEEN
ASFARNER
FIRES ON
HIM

MARTINSBUBG, w. Va,
Feb. A negro assailant,
who has kept jefferson and
Berkeley counties in state of
terror for several weeks, is
today being sought by a
sheriff's posse which hopes to
have him under arrest by
night.
Climaxing a career running PACK
several weeks, in which he entered
il homes, shot two persons, and
attacked two women, the negro
n1arauder yesterday broke into the
home of James Stribling, prom
irent citizen living on Warm Spring
Road. several miles from this city.
Giant In Size
The outlaw: described as man
ar gigantic size, brandished pistol
with which he held Stribling and
his family at bay. He made OIL
with an amount of cash ana
watch stripped from the arm Of
Stribling's daughter who was sleep
ing in an adjoining room.
Abandoning the car in which ne
had come. the desperate stole an
other and continued toward Snen-
andoah Junction where shortly alter
{ o'clock he broke into the nome
of Frank Rodgers
Rodgers brother-in-law heard the
stranger and was most anxious 70
caDture him. However, he stumbled
arafnst chair In the darkness.
This warned the prowler, who fled
short time afterward the des.
perado broke into the home OF J. T..
smallwood, residing on the Shenan-
doah Junction Keraneysville Road,
There he held the family at bay
by brandishing pistol while he
attempted to attack Mrs. M. 7.
Bell. of Shepherdstown, Mrs. Small.
woods sister who was visiting the
Snallwoed home.
Tried Attack On Wife
SmaIlwood attempted to struggle
from his bed, but was fired at, the
heavy bullet entering the chimney.
Then the desperate herded the
Smallwoods into an adjoining room
while he again attempted to attack
Mrs. Bell. She put up a valiant
resistance, however, and he was
forced to flee Her. bruised hand
showed how hard she had fought
the invader.
State and county officers, both OF
Berkeley and Jefferson Joined hands
yesterday in their effort to appre-
hend the desperate. yet he eluded
them all and attempted to enter the
horne of Oscar Sperow. at Wine
breeners Crossroads. Sperow was
awaiting him. however, and fired
upon him.
The negro returned the fire through
door and then made a hurried
getaway. No one was hit.
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VILE
TALK IN AIMEE
PROBE

LOS ANGELES, Feb, 4 q.N.s)-
Asserting that He knew enough
to warrant an entire reopeping of
the Aimee semple Mcpherson kid
naping case. William H. Carter,
foreman of the 1925 grand jury,
today was scheduled to testify be-
fore the legislative committee in.
vestigating the s2,5Oo love offer.
ing" given to Judge Carlos s.
Hardy by the Angeles Temple.
Although the Investigation is
being made to determine whether or
not there are sufficient grounds
unon which to impeach Judge
Hardy, the unsolved mystery of the
kidnapping of the noted evangelist
has played a major part in the
hearings.
Kenneth Ormiston, former Angelus
Temple radio operator and one of
the central figures in the kidnap-
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| AWYE R SWO0D AIDE.
AID POLICE NAMED AS
CAP TAIN KILLER

DETROIT, Feb. 4 (IN.S9.
Cecil T. Holt-not Ralph A..
Wood-killed Ambrose Il.
Haggerty, Of Chicago, on the
night the Wood-Holt case got
its start, Iobnt Gillespie, former
police commissioner charged
today.
Haggerty was killed In what po-
lice declare was a frustrated con-
spiracy conceived by Mrs. Grace NJ.
Wood to kidnap and murder her
husband.
Gillespie not only made the start
ling charge that Holt had killed
Hagperty but further declared he
had proof that bullets from four
different guns were pumped into
the Chicago youths body.
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Where Is Mrs. BlaIocIk'
Blood Rite Sacrifice
Stirs Hindoo Mobs

LONDON Feb (I.NS)-Bombay is in the throes OF the
worst kidnapping scare its history and as result serious
clashes occurring hourly between aoofefs ana
medn Pathan bsmen according to exchange telegraph
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Likely Members of
Hoover Cabinet
By GEORGE r. HOLMES

Four weeks from today Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge
take long ride together down Pennsylvania Avenue fellow
actors the great quadrnna drama of change Of
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u. S. Alcohol Formula
Defended in Death Probe

NEW YORK. Feb. 3 N.N.Sl.-
The new formula 44-A by whicl the
Government adulterates commercial
alcohol is not sufficiently poisonous
to cause death, Government chem.
lists here said yesterday as the city
pushed an investigation into the
death of Mrs Nora Murrat, ~,
Mrs Murrat was found dead in
her furnished room, and city toxi-
cologists who examined her BODY.
said she had died from amyI poison.
ing. Amyl Is one of the 'ngredi.
ents of formula 44.A.
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Mr.. Hoover is still occupied. and
intensively so. with the selection
of his Cabinet 1t Is not vet com
p1eted. Some commitments have
been made. but there is good rea-
son to believe that a majority Of
the ten men who will constitute
his official advisers are yet to be
tapped on the shoulder with the
final words You're it"
Al summary of the Cabinet situa.
ton today, four weeks from the
day the new appointees assume
theh. responsibilities, reveals how
closely the President-el has kept
his own counsel, despite the
maneuyers and the strategems Of
the politicians and the curious 70
find out who's going to be who
after March 4.
Mellon to Remain
Andrew w. Mellon will remain as
Secretary OF the Treasury. OF that
there is no doubt whatever. No an.
founcement has been made, and
none viii be made in all probability
until March 4, but Mr.. Hoover mas
permitted it to become known thar
the Mellon dynasty win be con.
tinued in the Treasury.
William M. Jardine will remain
| as Secretary OF Agriculture II ne
chooses to do SO, under present
| plans. 1t is largely up to the
| kansah himself, according to the
most authoritative information.
/ Mr.. Hoover does not believe thar
Jardlne ever had fair chance Ia
/ adequately demonstrate his agricul-
| tIiral policies, confronted as he was
4 by two hostile and McNary- -Haugen
Congresses.
Outside OF these two posts, both
! hold-overs from the Coolidge Ad-
! ministration, igr HooVer's commits.
| ments, If any, are unknown. He
| has esta ablished an iron-clad rule
! that his selections must be known
only to himself and the man in
| question until he himself sends the
! list to the Senate on March 4.
Thus far his ecnfidences have been
very well kept.
AS for the eight other Cabinet
positions. there is good reason to
believe that the candidates lin up
/ about like this:
Secretary of State Henry l..
Stimson, now Governor General OF
| the Philippines, and ex-Sscretary
Of war in the Taft Administration;
Henry r. Fletcher. former Under
Secretary Of state and now Ambas-
sador to Rome; Hugh Gibson. now
Ambassador to Belgium, and close
1 personal friend and associate of
Mr.. Hoover's ir Belgian and Polish
| relief work.
| Secretary Of War William j,
Donovan. now Assistant Attorney
! Continued on Page 2, Column p
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BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
50, 1871, ,984.O0
New York Clearing House, bal
ance, $153, 1000, 900.
New York Clearing House, ex.
change, S674,OOO, 900.
Treasury balance, S1S1, ,3S4, ,64s.61,
Customs receipts, S1,922, 10000.
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King George Sets Up;
Treatment Is Changed

LONDON. Feb. U.N.Sl.--Kins
George was able to sit up on Sat
urday and Sunday for a short time
it was revealed in an official med.
ical bulletin issued at Buckingham
Palace at noon today. A supple
mental ray treatment is to be ad.
ministered.
The bulletin says:
s'The King continues to gain
strength slowly. He was able to
sit up on Saturday and Sunday for
a short time.
"The question of ray therapy has
been further considered. The period
of administration of ultra violet
rays has terminated and 1t viii now
be possible to supplement this
treatment by the addition OF lum-
inous rays"
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Ills BuEClA a 1C1CANN AANA "
The laborers suspect the Pathans
of having attempted to klahaP
scores Of children for sacrifices ~
connection with the construction OF
new public works at Baroda. oo
Aroused by these suspicious 81 o,ooo
laborers are going about the clty ~
bands Of various sizes and attack'
ing Pathans wherever they IlIlu
them. About a hundred PatilaiS
have received serious injuries.
Bombay advices to the evening
newspapers reported two persons
killed.
Virtually all the cotton mills, ran.
way workshops and factories Oh
the city are closed because rev
laborers reported to work. MOST
of the schools are also closed as
parents are afraid to allow their
children out Of their homes.
The dispatch states that the po'
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Injured Boy Calls
For Father on Road

MT CARMEL, Ill. Feb. A.
Bobbie McMickle. 13 years old, of
this city, is in st. Mary's Hospital
at Evansville Indiana suffering
from a fractured skull received last
Monday in an accident. The lad
has been calling for his father,
Fl. D. McMickle, a salesman, for
the Checkomoter Checkwriter Com
panv. of Chicago,
The father was last heard from
at Fredericksburg, Va. 1t is be-
lieyed that McMiclIe may be in
washington. d. c. The lad is
said by physicians to be in criti'
cal condition.
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''The finest legal minds in
the District" /" are today work
ing with Capt. Guy j. Burlin-
game in the preparation of his.
answer to charges made
against him by Mrs. Helen
Blal0ck, a palmist.
An air Of mystery has been thrown
about a visit yesterday TO Baltimore
by Representative Thomas l.. Blan"
ton OF Texas, who has taken the
lead in investigating the police cap
tain.
Tomorrow at noon Is the deadline
for the presentation by Burlingame
of his explanation of a series of
letters which Mrs. Blalock says he
wrote to her and which were eouched
in endearing terms.
High police officials are unit
in saying that Burlingame will come
out OF the affair with flying colors.
They say that 'the finest legal
minds in the- District have volun-
teered to represent him and some
of the biggest business men here
have promised to back him to the
limit
Blant0n Busy
''I am to busy winding up my
work in Congress and representing
the people of my district to discuss
the case at this time" Blanton said
today.
The Texas representative was re-
ported today to have declared he
had additional evidence against Bur
lingame available,
Blanton is now rooming at the
National Woman's Party Headquar-
ters on First Street. Northeast.
Representative f. w. Gibson to-
day announced that he desired
copies of Burlingame's report to
Major E. B. Hesse so that the
record in the case in his committee
would be complete. He is leaving
the matter at present in the hands
of Blanton.
Where Is Mrs. BlalOck?
81 have not seen Mrs. Blalock
recently and do not know where she
is" Mr.. Gibson said. If. Mr..
Blanton wants me to talk further
with her. he might arrange it,"
Commissioner Proctor L. Dough
erty today was not in touch with
Mrs. Blalock and knew nothing of
her whereabouts.
Major Hesse admitted today that
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column 8
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Inquest Ordered in
Staying of Carpenter

DIR. j. Ramsey hewitt, District
coroner. will conduct an inquest to-
morrow into the death in Casualty
Hospital yesterday of franklin p.
Naylor, n. a carpenter.
The white man is alleged to have
been shot in the neck by his SS-
year.old colored wife several weeks
ago at his home in the 500 block
F'orty-eighth st. N. r.
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United atatss WeatheF huteau
Fair and continued cold tonight;
lowest temperature tonight 20 de-
grees. Tuesday cloudy. Yesterdays
temperature: High, 80; Low, 10,
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SMOOT URGES
EXTRA SESSION
ON HOOVER
Ry GEORGE E. DURNO

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Feb. 4
G.N.S.).- -President-elect Hoover was
urged to convene the extra session
of Congress on April / by Senator
Reed Smoot, chairman of the Sen
ate Finance Committee today.
The Utah Senator said this would
enable both Senate and House to
pass the farm and tariff bills and
adjourn before the hot weather set
in. April has been set as the
tentative date previously for con-
vening.
Smoot said he favored appropriat.
ing whatever amount of money ap-
peared necessary for adequate farm
relief but would oppose any
measure which would involve price
fixing. He asserted that if $780,
900 900 was inadequate, he would
vote to appropriate as high as
$500, 900, 600.
Smoot arrived here today for a
series of conferences with the Presi.
dent-elect on Federal finances and
tariff.
Fears Summer Session
He explained that a session started
April l was necessary if Congress
was to get its important business
through before the hot weather set
in. To open on April IS, Smoot pre-.
dicted would be certain to run the
session well into July and force an
adjournment because of the heat
Hoover told Glenn Skipper, Flor.
ida national committeeman. that he
will make two.day trip of the
region around Lake Okeechobee to
survey the need for flood control
in the Everglades. starting about
the 14th or 18th of this month.
The tour of the Everglades will
be made by motor. Skipper esti.
mated the entire trip would encom.
pass about $50. miles. AS yet he has
not worked out an itinerary and
could not say where the Hoover
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QUITS CUBA
IN AIR MAIL
VENTURE

HAVANA, Feb. 4 (I.N.S.).
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who
flew here from Miami, Fla,
today to blaze the trail for .
regular air mail service to
Central America, hoped off
at 9:23 a. m. for Belize, Brit
ish Honduras, after a brief
stop in Havana.
The flight from Florida was made
without incident.
News Of Lindbergh's hop off at
Miami had been flashed to this
city. and crowd gathered at the
flying field to greet the famous
flier.
Lindbergh's final destination il
cristobal, Panama Canal Zone.
The straight airline distance be-
tween Havana and Belize is $50
miles. The route lies in q south.
westerly direction over the Carib4
bean just south of the Gulf OF
Mexico.
I.indbergh win spend tonight at
Belize, hopping off tomorrow morn.
ing for Managua, capital Of Mica.
ragua. This leg Of the journey viii
take kim over a wild region filled
with mountains and thick Jungles
and virtually uninhabited save for
hamlets and rowing bands Of In.
dians.
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 4 q.E.S.l,-Co1.
Charles A. Lindbergh today cels-
brated his twenty.seventh birthday
by blazing trail for regular air.
mail service between Miami and
Central America. Cheered by .
crowd Of 1900, the Flying Colonel
hoped off at sos a. m. for CristO.
bal, Canal Zone.
In his flight to Cristoba1, which
win take three days, Colonel Lind
hergh will retrace a part OF the
space he traversed several months
ago on goodwill mission to the
Latin.American countries.
Colonel Lindbergh expected to
reach Cristobal at 4 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon.
Passengers With Him.
Aboard the air mail plane with
Colonel Lindbergh are: John Ham.
bleton, vice president OF the Pan.
American Airways; Harry Bunk.
ley, radio operator, and J. T.
Trippe. president Of the Pam
American Company. Trippe will
go only as far as Havana.
Colonel Lindbergh's plane, a ST.
korsly amphibian two-motored ship,
viii keep in constant touch with
the mainland by radio.
Five hundred pounds of mail were
loaded onto the ship before the
| take-off.
After eating early breakfast.
Colonel Lindbergh came upon the
Pan. American Field at $40 with
James A. Patton, general traffic
manager of the Pan-Anerican lines.
Everybody stay OFF the field,
please, the flying colonel requested,
and guards cleared the 1,500 per-
sons from the field.
| A few minutes later Colonel Lind.
bergh was in his plane.
well, were off again, he
smiled.
Colonel Lindbersh yesterday was
the luncheon guest Of President.
elect Herbert Hoover.
''Lindy" flies on-blazing new
trails. No thought of himself or
his personal safety, but fiEsd with
the unquenchable spirit which car
ried him through on that epochaI
flight from New York to Paris.
Who of this generation viii ever
forget that historic achievement?
| What reporter, whose privilege it
was to witness the scene, will ever
| cease to recall that memorable
morning at Roosevelt Field-Afay
| 20, 1927-when this slim, blonde,
bronze-faced youth jumped into the
cockpit Of his plane. the Spirit Of
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
as severe as Judge Hughes gave that
Whalen Always urhane.

as severe as Judge Hughes gave that
microphone.
Whalen Always Urbane.
Mayor James j. Walker of New York
City would have made good an
nouncer in the days when everything we
said was extemporaneouS. believe he
likes microphones. He can go before
one utterly unprepared and talk as long
as you wish him to without a CULVER.
His friend and police commissioner,
Grover Whalen, is always urbane, but
he prefers to read a prepared speech.
Comdr. Byrd approaches the micro
phone as II it all came in the line of
duty. He acts and speaks with the sim
pie dignity that has characterized
everything he has done. have always
regretted that We never had Theodore
Roosevelt on the air. Radio came too
late for him, but I'll bet he'd have
learned how to use it in short order.
Every now and then we broadcasters
make mistakes and when we do we
usually hear about them. Some of our
worst mistakes, including the treacher-
Gus slips of the tongue, never are caught
Profanity IS barred on the air, but the
mike made curse out of a perfectly
good sentence of mine once and no
body caught it. 1t was at a foot ball
game several years ago. and / guess I
can tell it now without getting called
on the carpet. Phil Carlin disagrees
with me now as to which game it was,
but, anyway, the home team, ahead in
the final quarter by one point, was be-
ing splattered all over the field in the
last drive of the visitors.
Dam that flood If you want to win
this foot ball game" 1 started to say,
but just then the left half of the home
team intercepted a pass and I never
did finish that sentence. didn't real
lie what had said until looked over
at Phil and saw him shaking with laugh
ter. When Monday came around
hardly dared go to the studios, but 1
have never heard word about that
simple damn" that got into the mike
to this day. The crowd noise must have
covered 1t, or should have had hun
dreds OF letters berating me.
Wary of Figures Of Speech.
But I've been wary of figures of
speech ever since. An engineer know
wasn't so fortunate. He was giving a
test talk" over the wires before an
early morning commercial program was
to go on the air. After burlesquing
some OF the company's advertising he
went on, You all know our Mr.. -"
naming prominent executive. Hes
the reason for the nice new entrance to
our building. We had to widen it to
let him in" The transmitter was on
the air warming up and it hadn't been
cut off from the line carrying the pro-
gram from the studio. Every word went
out en- the air. To make it worse, the
wife of the official happened by one
of those when-it-rains-it -pours coinci-
dences, to be listening in. Today test
talk" consists entirely of counting and
the enumeration Of technical details.