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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
FLOODS CUT WATER
SUPPLY AT HOUSTON
Property Damage Heavy in Texas
City as Water Sweeps
Bayous.
BY the Associated Press.


HOUSTON, Tex, May 31.-Three
ordinarily sluggish bayous became rag
ing torrents today as the full force of
Texas Spring floods swept down on
Houston, causing large property dam
age.
Possibility of water shortage here
was an added menace. The strong cur
rent of Buffalo Bayou crushed windows
of the Central Water Station and inun-
dated machinery. The plant was shut
down and the burden of supplying the
city with water was placed on the sub
stations.
Three or four houses were swept
down stream, but it was thought the
occupants had been warned in time to
escape. Homes in many sections of the
city were flooded and residents fed to
higher ground, .cking their furniture
in boats.
Water poured into wholesale and
produce houses near the edge of Buff
falo Bayou. Three stories of one build
ing were flooded and only the top of
another could be seen.
Gulf Coast Railway trains to Beau
mont and International Great Northern
trains North were detoured over South
ern Pacific lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
Former Policeman
Schenck Sentenced
To 20-Year Term
Pleaded Guilty to Two
Charges of Highway Rob-
berry; Loot $46.28.

Frederick A. Schenck, 27, former
policeman of the third precinct, who
recently pleaded guilty to two cases of
highway robbery, was sentenced today
by Justice Frederick l.. Siddons in
Criminal Division to serve 20 years in
the penitentiary. The court fixed the
penalty in each case at 10 years, but
directed that the sentences run con-
secutively.
your criminal career is going to be
checked" said Justice Siddons, for
some time. I consider these the worse
cases of robbery ever before me. You
used a pistol to enforce your demands
for money"
The two robberies for which the ex-
policeman will spend long term in the
penitentiary netted him only $4628. He
obtained $40 from Russell BENEFIT, night
clerk of the Meridian Mansions, 2400
Sixteenth street, February 20, and
$26.28 from Kenny C. Van Meter. man.
ager of a filling station at Fourteenth
and streets, February IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31

By the Associated Press.
The Nation is credited with a 500
O00. 900 900 realized income" in 1928 by
Prof. Morris A. Copeland of Cornell, in
findings made public today by the Ma
tional Bureau of Economic Research.
An increase of three-eighths was
shown, he said, from 1921 to 1927 in
this type of income, which does not in
clude paper profits, profits from sale
of capital assets or the value Of house
wives services, and the average for
each man, woman and child reached
$750 in 1928.
This growth, he explained. was ac-
complished in the face of agricultural
depression, price changes and "defla-
ton" with the Middle Atlantic, East
North Central and Pacific States ex-
periencing the greatest prosperity. An
increased share, he said, went TO en-
ploycs and their income did not show
the same fluctuations as the up and
downs for business.
He saw an apparent improvement in
agriculture's position in average cur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
Plus XII CELEBRATES
BIRTHDAY AT WORK
Grants Audiences and Answers
Correspondence on 72d Anniver-
sary; Receives Congratulations.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, May 31.-Pope Plus
XII celebrated his 72d birthday at work
granting audiences and answering cor
respondence today.
His holiness postponed until later his
replies to whole sheaves of congratula-
tory kilograms and cables.
He had an anticipatory birthday thrill
last night, trying out for the first time
the palatial automobile presented to
him by the italian Automobile Club.
Later in the evening, there was a
private family reunion of the surviving
members of the Ratti family. The
Pope's brother, Count Ratti, and his
sister Camilla. and his niece. the Mar
chioness Ugolino Persichetti and her
husband, were present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
YOUTHFUL SLAYER PAYS
PENALTY FOR CRIMES
No Efforts Were Made to Save
Nebraska Killer, Nor Were
Any Friends Present.

BY the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nebr., May 31.-Henry
Sherman, youthful slayer of three per-
sons, died in the electric chair at the
Nebraska Penitentiary early today.
No eleventh-hour efforts to save the
life of the 22-year-old killer were made,
nor were any of his friends present
Sherman's crime included the killing
of Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Pochon, his en-
ployers, on a ranch near Burwell, and
the Staying of Mrs. Eugenia Pochon,
mother OF the former. the attack on IA
year-old Nellie Pochon, and the beat
ing of a 6-month-old baby. He was
crazed with liquor, he asserted. and
angered by rebukes for his attentions to
Nellie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
Nations "Realized Income for 1923
Totals $9O,OOO0OO,O Economist Reports

rent income, although over 13-year
period the proportion going to agricul-
ture decreased 3 per cent, which he ex-
planned as being due partly to increas-
ing industrialization of the Nation and
partly to a change in the relative re-
muneration of farming. Manufacturing
property and borrowed capital, he found,
represented only small proportions of
the total realized income.
Prof. Copelands conclusions were
based on an exhaustive study conduct
ed by the research bureau for the COM
mittee on recent economic changes Gre
ated with Herbert Hoover as chairman,
by the 1921 Presidents Conference on
Unemployment. He prepared the chap
ter on THE National Income and It's
Distribution" which appeared in the re-
port recently published by the commit
tee, which was actively headed by Mr..
Hoover until a short time before his
election to the presidency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
Glass Would Tax Stock Spectators
By Amendment to Tariff Measure

speculative and investment transactions
on the exchanges and thus permit of
closer Federal supervision of the former.
He has in mind a tax of per cent on
dealing in stocks and securities. of which
the parties selling them had been the
owner for less than 60 days. His amend
introduced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
STUDENTS ARE BARRED.

BY the Associated Press.
Taking cognizance of reports that
Brown University students had been
offered SIS a day to act as undercover
agents for the Prohibition Bureau,
Commissioner Doran has written let
ter to J. S. Ellis, prohibition admin
istrator in charge of Rhode Island ter
ritory, in which he said that the "spe-
cial employees" fund from which in
formers are paid could not be useo
In the employment of students.
Prohibition Bureau officials also de-
clared that the law did not contem-
plate the employment of any particular
class of persons in undercover work..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
PERUVIAN FLYERS PLAN
CRUISE TO NEW ORLEANS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY Ala, May 31-Capt
Carlos Pinilos and Lieut.. Carlos Zegarra,
Peru's goodwill flyers, were expected to
take off from Maxwell Field here at
noon today for New Orleans.
The flyers landed here late yesterday
after day of precarious flying, caused
by motor trouble, which developed
shortly after they hoped off from Boil
ing Field, Washington.
They planned to have the plane thor
fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
BY the Associated Press.

Senator Glass of Virginia, former
Democratic Secretary of the Treasury,
is contemplating an amendment to the
tariff bill to place tax on speculative
transactions in the stock exchanges.
The Senator for sometime has been
working on legislation which he hopes
would define a differentiation between
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
Bank Statements

Washington clearing house, $5,259,-
170.27.
Treasury balance, $149,50O,319l8.
New York clearing house exchange,
81, $40 100000.
New York clearing house balance
$167 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
HOUSE MAY CONSIDER
CENSUS BILL MONDAY
Measure Providing for Reappor-
tionment Is Formally Received
From Senate.

BY the Associated Press.
The House today formally received
the us-reapportionment bill from
the Senate and leaders Immediately
made plans for consideration of the
measure Monday, with hopes of vote
by Tuesday night
The measure. one of the legislative
proposals slated by the administration
for action at the special session, pro-
vides for reapportionment of the House
membership upon the basis of the 1880
census and also upon each succeeding
decennial census.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
WHEAT PRICES DIP AGAIN.
Market Says to New Lows Under
Liquidation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 31.-Prices crumpled
again today under broadsides of selling
inspired by unfavorable news from
abroad and month-end settlements. New
bottoms were found for every grain
t. -aded in the futures pits, wheat drop
ping 23s to pa cents below Wednes-
days final quotations and rye contracts
for May delivery collapsing sensational
ly cents bushel. and closing at 73A
or GA cents lower than Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
WEATHER.

EOINtdbF'T
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow;
probably local thundershowers this aft
ernoon or night: not SO warm tomorrow.
Temperatures: Highest, SO, at noon to-
day; lowest. SO, at $50 am. today.
Full report on page g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
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CONTINUED on Page 2, Column p
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-12

This Callie was ill., Tony went OF.
"A frail sort of girl. Gallo Pretty
pathetic, I gather. Rather decent of
Dick to bother about her. thought
Anyway when she told him that the
manager was getting more than a
little nasty over her having to miss
q day or two week from work, Dick
promised to speak to his father, and
get him to use his influence to keep
the manager from giving poor Callie
the sack. Dick forgot all about it. and
Is afraid the poor kid is out Of a job
and scared to death"
"She must have been pretty sure
Of getting fired if she gave Dick the
grocery store telephone number
Crystal said casually.
Tony paused in the bathroom door.
Thinking things, Crys?' she chal-
lenged. Cant say l blame you.
knowing Dick as / do. but we might
remember that the poor boy has been
tagging me pretty faithfully for the
last five months. And imagine Dick
has some humane instincts"
Almost for the first time since the
two girls had become chlms. three
years ago at Bradley College, there
was constraint between them.
Sorry, Crys!" she said suddenly
as they were about to descend to dim
ner. Il was talking high and mighty,
more to convince myself than to con
vince you. I know what you are
thinking-that If Dick had been play
ing around. in Way Down East
sort Of way, with this poor little
Callie girl. 1t would let me out
Right"
Something like that Crystal
acknowledged
Il had the same flash" Tony went
on. And I'm ashamed to say ]
thought lot more about myself than
about poor little Callie. But II you'd
heard Dick. you'd realize it was all
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-12
IN NEW YORK

New York. April 12.-The vogue for
the sophisticated and ironic in poetry
and verse has bred new group Of
poets who have substituted pleasant
Connecticut country homes for can
dle-lit garrets. I know one or two
who actually own town cars.
Nor are they given to poetic affec-
tations. You viii not find them eat
ing their hearts out in darkened cor
ners. but will discover them engage
ing quips about the Algonquin round
table. Among the males there are
several who could pose for ads show
ing what "the well-dresSed man
should wear"
And just few weeks ago Dorothy
Parker had most Of Hollywood bid
ding for her services Miss Parker,
b. the way. Is quite representative of
what this new group Is aiming to-
ward. Not only is she poet of merit,
but Manhattan's outstanding wise
cracker Is well. She Is. perhaps, one
Of the city's most quoted gagsters.
Sam Hoffenstein is another. He is
. tall. slender. well-groomed young
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-12
lWASIIINGTONA
~ LETTER. .f
a. aaga3

| people contend that he Is no states
man. but he has practiced law for 40
| years, knows human nature, says
what he likes and isn't letting any
one put anything over OH South Car
| DINA.
He says South Carolina produces
the best corn liquor in the world,
| just as Congressman Charles M.
Stcdman of North Carolina says the
best corn liquor In the world comes
from North Carolina. Spokesman for
other southern states deny both
claims.
Il myself wouldn't keep liquor in
| my office or III my house" Bleasc
told your correspondent, though I'm
not saying what pthcr people ought to
do.
Il haven't any liquor in my office
now or in my hotel room. l couldn't
get any into my house anyway, be-
cause Mrs. Blcase Is a prohibltiOnlst
But if you ask me if l will have
| drink that's something else.
There isn't any law against taking
a drink
If l buy it I'm conniving at a
violation of the law And if 1 carry
it I'm transporting it. in violation of
the law. l don't believe any public
servant ought to take any part III
law violation"
They Don't Offer 1t
II might be observed here III all
seriousness that it is, far easier to
pour member OF congress drink
in Washington than it is to have
one return the favor Extended in
quiry probably would reveal that
quite few others have tho same at
titrde as Blease.
Blease voted for the Jones law and
] thinks it will hasten the end of pro-
| hibition." While he was mayor Of
New Bern. S. c., no DRINKS were
arrested except those who created
! annoying disturbances and the New
Bern cops had instructions to help
home those who couldn't pilot them
selves. AS governor of South Caro-
| lima he ordered enforcers of the state
| dispensary law to get their evidence
| by entirely honorable methods or
hand in their shields He believes the
law was better enforced then in his
| state than it Is today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-12
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
fNCA Service Writerl


Washington. April l2.-Dcspite all
the whoop- tie doo over the fact that
a dry congressman found himself in
trouble with the prohibition laws.
there is probably less liquor at the
capitol today than there ever was.
The Michaelson incident has un-
Goubtedly scared some members. but
the tendency toward caution began
some time ago. Congressman have
learned 10 use discretion. They have
learned. in most cases. that 1t doesn't
do to vote for a law designed to send
people to prison for five years and
then openly flout that law. Too many
persons are apt to be sore about it.
Thus the members OF the senate
and the house who keep liquor in
their offices have become fewer and
fewer. among the dry contingent es-
pecially. And there is not SO much
public drinking. either by legislators
or government officials here. No new
tcetotallers are reported. Of course
but conditions A~en't as smelly as they
we're.
Several Kinds Of Them
l. The man who votes dry, pro-
fesses to be dry and Is dry
2. The man who votes dry. pro-
fesSes to be dry and Is wet.
3. The man who votes dry. pro-
fesses to be wet and is wet.
4. The man who votes wet. pro-
fesses to be wet and is vet.
5. The man who votes vet. pro-
fesses 10 be dry and is wet
The third group is the smallest.
One of them is western congress-
man who was quoted as saving last
fall to his constituents that he
voted dry but when offered a drink
acted Just like everybody else
Another is Senator Cole Blease of
South Carolina. who says:
Everybody in South Carolina
knows take a drink. I get I'D on
the stump and tell en- l do. But
I'm representing my constituents
when vote dry"
Senator Bleasc is bluff. florid :
faced. frank. plain-talking gent of So
who wears suspenders. colored shirts,
butterfly neckties and no vest. Some
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rot. No. Crys, I'm afraid Tony won't
get let off SO easily III fact. honey.
I've got to confess that Dicks stock
has jumped several points. Maybe it
won't be SO bad"
! They found the other members of
the house party assembled in the liv-
ing room, with Cherry as all excited
! leader of the conversation At sight
| Of the two girls. lovely and fresh in
their evening dresses. she called out
in her shrill but musical voice:
What do you think. Tony-Cry-
stall? George Pruitt has just been
insulting my daughter!"
"Liar!' George accused her. his
little black eyes twinkling under his
always unruly thatch of rust-red
hair You know you think it's the
biggest compliment could pay Hope,
and you're just sore because 1 didn't
apply it to you"
What's all the shooting for?" Tony
demanded. "Crys was telling me
that George is going to paint Hopes
picture. If that's an insult"
He's going to paint her, but howl"
/ S'''ai! SAIS'i Ouyc lie EOlllE I'd
call it Saint and Sinner" because"
Hold on. Cherry" George inter-
rupted. Since it's my idea, let me
explain. You see. girls" he address
sed Tony and Crystal-"that baby is
the most fascinating combination OF
Faith and Cherry. Poor kid! Heaven
only knows what she'll do with COM
hlnation like that! Faiths pure
serene brown eyes-the eyes of 2
salnt-and Cherry's devilish red gold
curls and Cherry's adorable, wicked
little mouth"
Telephone for Miss Tarver." Lena.
the maid, announced impassively.
NEXT: The truth-or an elabor-
ate lie?
Copyright. 1929, NEA Service. Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-12

Agriculture Is ever reaching out for
knowledse. Four department scien-
lists. Or. +. n. CoIyille. n. =. Edwards,
o.. r. .. Rands and George Arcen-
eaux are bound Tor Java 70 agricul-
ttlral congresses. Hare and points ca
route they vtll.ptck W helpful data.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-12

man who may be found in his ample
apartment reclining OH chaise
Tongue. He wears spats. trick ties and
IS somewhat OF beau brummel. His
verse is biting and trenchant-and
he is among the best sellers.
Edna st. Vincent Millay. who pio-
neered, now lives in an elaborate
country estate. Her first editions
bring fat prices and her collections
OF poems continue year in and year
out to have a great demand.
Even among the more Serious"
poets, change can be found. James
Hoarty, for instance, is a successful
advertising man on the side and lives
upon rolling Connecticut farm.
Genevieve Taggart, who is a model
craftsman, finds it possible to spend
year abroad gathering material for
biography. Helene Mullins can
afford very cunning bouffant dresses
and trips gaily at literary fctcs.
Norma Millay, who happens To be
Ednas sister. is far too smartly
dressed to suggest the garnet variety
| of poet.
Jumping the continent to the Pa
chic coast. one could find Robinson
Jeffers living what might be consid-
cred the poetic life In Carmel.
overlooking the Pacific. he lives in a
little stone house which he built HIM
self, LETTERS, by the way, is q poet to
De reckoned with. And is lust be-
ginning to get The attention he well
deserves.
And there's Edwin Arlington Rob
lnson, who Is looked upon BY MANY
as our poet laureate His Iris
tram" was book Of the month when
u appeared and sold b. the tens Of
thousands.
And 50 It goes.
Meanwhile. however, the last OF the
Greenwich Village poets gather d
Monday nights, 4t the Grub etreel
Club and spoNt their yerseG at each
other. spsiqg boi1ae The pests 80
sm, IT, pooGible q 1oeejve some 81
them Tor tholr ltterasy n& It's even
posable ~ ~ Mind. ~ after all
they q III. "a sI6lse 9 thssn mear
j: = = !;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-12
Walter Hagen's Victory.

Golflng honors in Great Britain go
again to an American. For the fourth
time Walter Hagen has won the British
open championship. On wind-swept
Scottish golf links Hagen showed a
control almost uncanny and turned in
a total score for the u holes of 292, the
third lowest score ever made in a Brit
ish open tournament. Bobby Jones,
another American, holds the record
with a POI in 1925 and 285 in 1927.
Not only did an American win first
place in the British open tournament,
but of the ten golfers, including Hagen,
turning in the lowest scores, eight were
from the United States. Hagen's VIC
tory marks the eighth win for an Amer
lean in the British open championship
during the last nine years. Our British
cousins must look to their golfng
laurels.
Walter Hagen came out of the ruck
to win his latest championship. 1t is
only short time ago that the American
professional went down before George
Duncan. a Britisher, in the Ryder Cup
competition, taking bad beating. In
the open tournament Hagen started
with round of rs and, indeed, the
scores of three of his rounds we're rs.
But, playing marvellous golf, he also
turned in score of 81, giving him a
lead which none of the others, including
Leo Diegel, who had forged into the
lead early in the tournament, was able
to overcome. The champions putting
according to the cable dispatches, was
superb under weather conditions which
caused other golfing stars to falter. 1t
was on the green's that Hagen really
triumphed
The British open champion, when the
cup emblematic of the championship
was presented to him, gracefully and
with good craftsmanship called atten-
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with . companion, were riding In an
automobile. A police car, with four de-
tectives, pursued them, merely on sus-
picion. The criminals increased their
speed to over seventy miles an hour
Their car skidded on the wet pavement,
crashed into telephone pole, and when
the police car drew up and the detec-
tives jumped out the gangsters greeted
them with a burst of fire from sawed
of shotguns. Two of the police we're
killed. One Of the gangsters was killed.
Scalisi and Anselmi were brought to
trial. Cangdom, united, raised a defense
fund Of hundred thousand dollars, and
after months CT delay the trial was be-
gun. Jurors were threatened. The home
G. n witness was bombed. Scalisi and
Ansc-:--l were convicted of manslaughter
in connection with the death of one of
the policemen and sentenced to four
teen years. They were brought to
second trial from prison on a charge of
murder in connection with the death
of the second policeman. They were
acquitted. The Supreme Court of Illi-
nois then declared that If the men were
guilty of manslaughter their sentence
was unjust; If guilty Of murder, it was
ridiculous. They were brought to trial
a third time. This time they were &C
quilted on the plea that they thought
the pursuing police were rival gang
sters. The death of the policemen went
Scalisi and Anselmi rose to high rank
In Capones gang. They were known as
'torpedoes," or gunner. They lived to
die at the hands Of other gunner. And
their death will be avenged by other
gunner.
The law, apparently blindfolded and
with hands tied, watches the grim give
and take. If it meant the self-extinction
Of gangdom, law and order might smile
and let the battle go on. But for every
Torrio there is a Capone. For every
O'Banion there is Hymie Weiss. For
every Weiss there is Bugs" Moran.
Those who rise to the top may die. But
there are plenty more at the bottom.