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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
LAKIN TESTIFIES
SHATTUCK ASKED
HOOvER'S ADVICE
; Tells Lobby Committee of
Attorneys Action Before
Accepting Post.
GAVE CONSENT AFTER
CONSULTING PRESIDENT
Sugar Heads Activities in South
American Countries Gone
Into by Body.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
H. c. Lakin, president of the Cuba
Co. sugar importers. testified today be-
fore the Senate lobby committee that
Edwin p. Shattuck would not accept
employment with his concern until he
had consulted with Mr.. Hoover, then
President-elect, as Miami, Fla.
Lakin said he wished to employ
Shattuck to work for lower sugar duties
and that the latter accepted after con-
ferring with the then President-elect.
He added that he understood that the
President said it was all right"
"In effect, you offered to hire him
and he asked Hoover if it would be all
right" Chairman Caraway of the COM
nittee asked Lakin.
Yes" the witness answered, Ito see
If it would cause the President any
embarrassment"
Hoover's Legal Friend.
Lakin reiterated previous testimony
that Shattuck, an attorney, had been
employed Chiefly because of his rela-
tions" with President Hoover and
Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance
committee. He had told the committee
GI1nb 51iAJbuIA Wu0 PAO0dNAJ
Hoover's closest legal friend" and that
he was the personal attorney for the
President and his family.
Caraway wanted to know if Shat
tuck was not hired because of his in
huence." Lakin replied that he did
not interpret it that way" but after
the lobby committee chairman inquired
If it were not chiefly because he knew
Hoover and Smoot," the sugar COM
pany president answered, "He had their
confidence"
Lakin added he was willing to "ad-
nit influence If IL doesn't imply
something improper and asserted he
still approved of his employment OF
Shattuck.
From the circumstances surrounding
Shattucks employment, the committee
switched to communications between
Lakin and persons in Cuba interested in
a lower tariff on sugar. A letter from
the witness to the secretary of commu-
nications of Cuba was read, which pro-
posed that propaganda in South Amer
lean countries might help the forces
working for lower rates.
Iakin suggested 1t would be a good
thing to have the situation called to the
attention Of other Latin American
countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
VERNON duplicates TWO
OTHERS IN TRAIN WRECK
Sheriff Reports Both Are Under
Arrest, but Withholds
Names.

LOS ANGELES, December II P).-
In a statement to Chief Criminal Deputy
Sheriff Frank Dewar, Tom Vernon, who
was returned from Pawnee, Okla, as
the wrecker of Southern Pacific pas
senger train in Soledad Canyon, Calf,
on November 10, today implicated two
other men in the wrecking and in the
subsequent robbery of passengers.
Dewar said the men named by YER
non were under arrest in nearby cities.
Their names were not divulged.
The confessed train wrecker was idcr-
tilted by Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Firth, who
viewed him soon after his arrival here
in custody of Deputy Sheriff Tom Hig-.
gins, who tracked him to Pawnee and
arrested him there.
Firth, the day after the wreck, told
investigators of having brought a man
to Los Angeles from near the scene OF
the derailment. Vernon, Mr.. and Mrs
Firth said, was the man. Dewar said
the prisoner also had been identifico
by five of the passengers on the train.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
TO NAME
SENATOR TODAY
Pennsylvania Governor Re-
fuses to Say Whether He
Has Talked to Grundy.
sS the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, December IL
Appointment of junior Senator from
Pennsylvania will be made late this
afternoon by Gov. Fisher, it was stated
today at the executive offices.
The announcement was made at the
press conference, at which the State
executive had promised to make known
his appointment. .-..
Gov. Fisher said the delay was neces-
sary to permit Attorney General Cyrus
E. Woods, who has been out of the
city, to determine the proper form for
filling out the commission.
The governor refused to say whether
he had been in conference with w. l..
Mellon of Pittsburgh, former Republican
State chairman, and Joseph r. Grundy
of Bristol, who was expected to be
appointed.
He indicated, however, that he had
made a definite decision and would be
ready to announce it as soon as the
attorney general had prepared the
necessary papers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
COTTON MEN PLAN
MARKETING AGENCY
Centralized Distribution, Under
Government Control, Is Studied
at Memphis Farley.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, December IL
The Evening Appeal today says 1t has
learned that decision has been made at
a conference of cotton growers here to
organize governmental controlled, cen
tralized cotton marketing agency, sim
liar to the grain organization in the
West
Three Federal Farm Board members
were meeting today with $50 repre-
Sentatives of the cotton industry in
executive session and were discussing
the proposed organization.
The newspaper says the bureau viii
be formed through incorporation of the
American Cotton Growers Exchange for
approximately $30,000,000. The Federal
Farm Board, according to the Evening
Appeal, will supervise operation of the
agency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11

Calvin Coolidge is to receive Christ
mas present from the White House
the large leather and mahogany chair
in which he sat as he presided over the
cabinet sessions during the more than
i've years he was President.
This Christmas gift is not to be sent
to the former President in the name
of President Hoover, but as remem-
brauce from three members of the old
Coolidge cabinet, one of whom is now
President. and the other two still MEM
bers of the cabinet-Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon and Secretary of Labor
Davis.
The chair, which has been tucked
away in ore of the storerooms Of the
White House since March 4. last. was
! sent to a local furniture dealer veste T.
day to determine If anything is neces.
ssry in the way of mending, and TO
! then be packed for shipment.
The chairs about the cabinet table
60 all similar in size and design, the
T.~'ident's chair included, the only dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
THREE CONFESS $4,000
BANK THEFT NEAR YORK
Farmer and Two Baltimore Men
Break Down Under Cues
tioning by Police.

YORK, Pa, December II (P.-Break-
ing down under questioning, three men
arrested in connection with the $4,000
hold-up yesterday of the Seven Valleys
National Bank, at Seven Valleys, near
here, confessed early today to the rob-
berry. The money has been recovered
The confession was made at the State
police suhstat1on at Hallam, York
County. where the prisoners were taken
by police working on the theory that
two of them had recently attempted sc
rob the State bank there
The prisoners are John Messersmith. a
farmer of near Stoverstown, ID miles
from here; Harry M. Sprague and VIII
liam B. Ward, both of Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
Barricaded Mutineers Send Mes
sage Captives and Chiefs of
Revolt Will ''Die Together"
HEAD KEEPER SHOT TO DEATH
AS INMATES START OUTBREAK
$50 Criminals Demand Their Freedom.
Civilians Join Guards and Militia
to Fight Them.

AUBURN, 11-warden Edgar S. Jennings and
of longem convicts rioting Prison.
from the by
Three con killed during the attack
Robbed of their last of purchasing conduct the
a R an S a ed with the
prepared
enable body Of prisoners to escape
c Vere killed The attack BY
Open Gas Attack
cover @ @ the sFden an % prison sSad a Tss e made om nd
through the into the hall and waiting until the
Warden Jennings the through were
Guard az George Atkins the neck Guard JF
Van @ 0u qTd ID e ee a T m S w @ @
n n o % % 5 f ss M issk Th With t0 nn A 3
Van Housn Rker wounded outbreak Of last
.ss
@
Through Sullivan figured the the rioters sent
%" te e viii Fs
Jennings sent through rusty to the police
For Gods sake SAX gg,,. give them oS what they want"
@ ae ali going to die unless you order all gates
and all state troopers city police National Guards and all
duct to freedom @ 0 % ne
@ b tt: Of the is one s
wall into the street opened BY prison the action be-
~s Wiling to he s
Convicted Week
Pawak taking part
barricaded the hail. also
holding the warden and IL keepers
body prisoners. $500 in number In the
the State troopers city police
but said be orderly
guns outside walls
convcs the prison revoled shot down Prtn
Dunfod seized Warden Jennings and several
other keepers and held them as hostages
National Guard ordered
the prison Acting Herbert Lehman at Albany
The composed Auburn companies and units from
Geneva and Syracuse.
Police Reserves Called.
in Immediately and off duty
in located assist
moting prison inmates here
IL Is o'clock
Peacock They armed with riot
and tear bombs.
the by National Guard soldiers
ordered the front gate OF
opened at noon to the to file out.
armed including guardsmen. troopers
citizens formed hollow in front the
if the convicts obey and attempt get
Citizens Take Up Arms.
for mile either side OF the prison
and the prison literally with
citizen of Auburn who owned had joined
o. volunteer posses.
had only what weapons they
they the the IL
seemed probable
compelled interior the prison building
if the convcts make
At the interior of the prison quiet No convcs hac
their within the view of those gathered outside
on .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
CURFEW ENFORCED
IN PORT AU PRINCE
President Borno Sees Little Chance
of Progress by
Strikers.


PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, December
11.-Martial law has been strengthened
here by a curfew regulation requiring
every one to be indoors at 9 pm. Save
for military police continuing their
rounds the city presents a normal
appearance.
President Louis Borno, commenting on
the situation arising from the riots OF
last week, said: I'VE have little to fear
for the future With continued close
watch maintained by the National
Garde in the front line and with sup
port of the United States Marines there
is little chance of progress by the
strikers"
Col. Frank Evans, commanding the
Marines, said he was confident there
would be no further trouble in the
larger communities. although there was
possibility of an outbreak in the in
terror. Agitators were said to have been
inciting the people with stories that the
President and Marines had connived to
enslave them with high taxes on tobacco
and coffee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
FARM YOUTH IS HELD
FOR Staying PARENTS
19-Year-0ld Boy Confesses Killings
in Order to "Get a Start
in Life"
b The Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
WAXAHACHIE, Tex, December H.
A 19-year r-old farm boy, Herman Riley
was held here today on a charge OF
numbering his mother and father and
attempting to kill his brother in order
that he might harvest the produce OF
their farm and get a start in life"
District Attorney A. D. Emerson said
the boy had confessed that he shot his
parents and brother in hopes of max
ing the crops myself"
Mr. and Mrs Riley were shot to death
FriGav and their younger son. Walter
wounded at their home near here. Wal
ter was shot in the nose and the older
boys confession indicated. the district
attorney said, that only the fact that
Herman believed him dead saved the
boys life
After his father slept Herman lit q
match so he could see the sleeping
r1an, and shot from within few feet
His mother, the boys confession said
ran out of the house, but returned ano
was shot as she entered the room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
Husbands l3 Cars
Go at Wife's Order,
Still He's Absent! !
sy the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, December IL
Schuyler c. Schwartz, his first
wife said, had l3 automobiles and
q different woman to ride in
each. His second wife sued for
separate maintenance, charging
about the same thing.
That suit was dropped when
Schwartz agreed to get rid of the
automobiles. He did get rid of
them, but Mrs. Schwartz said
their lack must have prevented
his returning home He phoned
frequently, she said, saying he
was on the way home, but seldom
did he arrive.
She is suing again for separate
maintenance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
SUICIDE SAVES PETS.

CHICAGO, December IL (P.-Before
lying down to die in his gas-filled kitch-
en-, Harry Wallbrunn, SO years old,
thought of his pets.
Two gay canaries in a cage were taken
to rear porch, safe from the gas His
cat he also locked out.
His sister came home last night from
Christmas shopping and found Wall
brunn dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
Pilsudski Is Seriously III.

BRESLAU. Germany, December IL
(P-Reliable information received here
today indicated Marshal Josef Pilsudski
Poland's strong man and dictator, again
is seriously i'll. and his illness is delaying
formation of a new cabinet to. replace
that of NJ Switalski, resigned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
LAYDEN SOUGHT AS COACH
Duquesne Mentor Offered Little's
Job at Georgetown.

PITTSBURGH, December IL R,-
Elmer Layden, head foot ball coach at
Duquesne University, today confirmed
reports that he had been offered the
position of athletic director and head
coach at Georgetown University in
Washington.
Layden said he had been asked to
take a position vacated by Coach Lou
Little, who resigned to coach at Column
bia University in New York CITY.
Layden is a former star fullback of the
famed -Four Horsemen of Notre Dame.
Last year he signed three-year con-
tract to coach at Duquesne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
TRAFFIC CRAWLS S AT SNAIL'S PACE
AS FOG BLANKETS THREE STATES
Air Travel Paralyzed Trains Are Delayed by Mist Over
Missouri Kansas and Arkansas.

More than score of traffic accidents
were reported in Kansas City alone. but
because of the generally slowed speed
of trafic none of them was serious.
Railroads maintained schedules from
the West and Southwest, In most in
stances. but many trains lost as much
as an hour in moving through the train
wards to the Union Station. Block sig
nails and the lanterns of switchnen
were invisible a cars length distant,
trainn@n said
Oficials of air routes operating to
the Southwest from Kansas City said
no planes had left here since Sunday
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
AMBASSADOR WELCOMED.
japanese Foreign Office Pleased BY

Japanese Foreign Office Pleased by
Appointment of Castle.
TOXIC. December IL (P.-Appoint-
ment of William r. Castle, jr., as Am
basSador to Japan for the duration of
the London naval limitation conference.
announced yesterday in Washington
was welcomed in government circles
here today. The foreign office, which
has long been familiar with Castles
work in the American foreign service
was especially pleased.
The limited term of the appointment
was interpreted here as showing the i'm
portance Washington attaches to its
relations with Japan during the Lon
don conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
Reserve Bankers in Session.

Governors and chairmen of the IL
Federal Reserve Banks began their
semi-annual business meeting today In
the offices of the Federal Reserve Board,
It has been the policy of the confer
ences In the past not to issue any state
ment concerning matters discussed at
the meetings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
BY the Associated Press.

KANSAS CITY, December 1l.-A
'arge part of three States, Missouri,
Kansas and Arkansas, struggled this
morning to keep trafic moving through
dense fog which dropped over nun
dreds of square miles soon after dark
last night Air routes have been par
alyzed since Sunday and motor trafic
moved today at snail's pace.
Streets here resounded throughout
the night to the din of motor car horns.
In many low spots drivers could see not
even the radiators of their own cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11

Customers Error
Skaters Window
For Pawn Broker
Ry the Associated Press.

BY InF AbSuCldttu ElCHnE
CHICAGO, December 1.-THE
customer in Leo Schneidman'5
pawn shop yesterday thought he
needed bullets for his revolver,
but he didn't.
He showed the gun to Schneid-
man.
'Is it loaded?" inquired the
store owner.
Would be buying bullets if
it were?" countered the customer.
See. l will show you" He aimed
at the window and pulled the
trigger.
MY error" he shouted on his
way out. amid the rain of glass
from the bullet-shattered VIM
dow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11

Radio Programs-Page 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-11
WEATHER,

FFgUN4aNA NS~~0N'F
Rain or snow tonight and tomorrow;
slightly colder tonight minimum tenn
perature about 80 degrees. Tempera-
tures-Hishest. So. at $3.50 pm. yester-
day: lowest, 36, at 1880 am. today.
Full report on page 9.
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Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-05
TIME TABLES ISSUED
 BY GE0DET|C SURVEY

A press release from the Coast and Geodetic Survey states that tide tables for the world for the calendar year 193O are contained in Serial 439, book ol +sO pages, just
 published and beig Sold by the Survey at Washington, D. C.
 This volume contains full predic- tions for every day in the 193O cal endar year for 89 of the principal ports of the world and differences and constants for more than $500 subordinate stations So that the navigator may predict the times of high and low waters at practically every port. IA addition to several auxiliary tables to facilitate tidal computations, 1t includes tables of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and mOonset, and N table of the moons phases, apogee, perigee and the greatest north, south and zero de- clinations. Special reprints from this edition contain tide tables of the Pacific coast alone.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-05
LEGAL NOTICE

\ No. 139 NOTICE OF HEARING ON FIRST I AND FINAL ACCOUNT IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
 THIRD DIVISION, SEWARD
 PRECINCT, AT SEWARD. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
 OF CHARLES G. ANDERSON,
 Deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JOS. s. HOFFMAN, duly appointed, qualified and acting administrator of the estate of CHARLES e. AN DERSON, deceased, has filed in the above entitled court his First and Final Report and Account, and that December 27, 1929, at the hour Of l2:OO p. m. in the court room of said court at Seward, Alaska, has been lset as the time and place for the hearing on said First and Final Report and Account.
 All persons haV11g any interest in the above matter are hereby ad- monished and cited to appear at said time and place and offer their objections, if any, why said First and Final Report and Account should not be approved and settled and said estate closed in accord ance with law.
 This notice is dated and the date of it's first publication is October 25, 1929.
 JOS. s. HOFFMAN Administrator of Estate of Charles G. Anderson, Deceased.
 Published October 25, November I, 8, 15, 22, 1929.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-05
FAMILY REUNION WILL
 BE HELD AT VALDEZ

Mrs. George WI. Jaynes and two children were among those arriving in the city yesterday en- route to Valdez, on the Admiral Rogers.
 Mrs. Jaynes is a, sister to Mrs. E c. Simmons, also from Kodiak, and the ladies will visit their brother, Robert Kelsay, the genial, affable and efficient agent of the Alaska Steamship %. and the Pacific Steamship Co.,; and also agent for about every company in that part of the Territory.
 Kodiak citizens are glad to know Mrs. Jaynes will return to Kodiak after the holiday season.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-05

Everything will be in readiness next spring to start machine drill ing on the property of the Giant Mining o., on Archangel creek, ac- cording to Mike Sherry, head of the company, who has just returned to Anchorage from the company's camp.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-05

An infection in finger which threatened to spread thruout his system was the cause of the de- partment of justice authorizing the transportation of Austin Madros, native, from the jail at Nulato to the government hospital at Tan ana.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-05

JUST RECEIVED, A FRESH SHIPMENT or HAAS CANDY. The Alaska Shop
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-12
MOVIE
aSlDElIGHTS'
CAPITOL

Hail the New Show World In all
talking pictures, Paramount has put
real old time action in the talkiesl
George Bancroft in The Mighty"
at the Capitol theatre tomorrow is
a real thriller. Things we had ex-
pected to wait years to see and hear
have been bundled into this pic
ture in a grand style.
The cast is a real thrill, Just read
these names. George Bancroft.
Esther Ralston, Warner GLAND. Ray
mond Hatton. o. =. Heggie. Doro-
thy Revier and Morgan Farley.
The story Is that Of a pre-war
gunman who smiled at the law. was
forced into the war and emerged
a national hero without a past.
He is made police chief of a crime
ridden city. but his old gang find
him and they plan a grand raid.
with his aid. Growing tired Of wait
ing. they hold up three banks while
Bancroft and the police force are
at a picnic. Off goes deep-chested
George at the head OF fifty motor
cycle officers. riding at break neck
speed firing as fast as their auto
MATES will shoot What a thrill
From thence on the action Il SO
swift that We are told six cameras
were required TO catch It. and you
wouldn't doubt this statement in
the least when you see and hear
The Mighty" at the Capitol the
atre.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-12
MARKETS

NEW YORK. Dec. 12-tR--Price
movements were decidedly mixed
at the opening Of today's stock
market. U. S. Steel common opened
with a block OF 5000 shares at TIC
1-2, off 3-4. Union Carbide drop
ped 2 points and Union Pacific and
"A. nj. Byers ! Ia each. Auburn
Auto jumped 6 points. Sears Roe
buck l 7-8 and Standard Gas &
Electric l ga.
The market turned reactionary
soon after the opening when a re-
newal Of liquidation against Fox
film carried that issue down more
than six points. and fresh selling
developed in several of the leading
industrials and public utilities.
North American company dropped
three points and u. s. Industrial
alcohol, and Air reduction quickly
extended their declines to 2 points.
Auburn Auto was marked up I3
points to 225, Canadian Pacific ad-
vanced 23-4 points and American
and foreign power 2 before the
general selling movement started.
Reduction in the Bank Of Eng
land discount rate from Sig to 5
per cent was accompanied by a
lowering Of the sterling rate and
the announcement that SII. 000. 900
IN gold was being shipped to Lon
don. with another $1,000, 900 ship
ment in prospect.
Sterling was quoted at S4.S3 I-16.
off l-3 cent.