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The Washington times., 1929-03-07
STATES
BIRTHDAY

HARTFORD, Conn. March 7
S.).-The Connecticut Historical
Society Is trying to establish when
Connecticut was settled. II the
matter can be decided in time.
the State will celebrate it's three
hundredth anniversary. In the hope
that the historical society may de-
termine the date. the State legis-
lature has authorized Governor Joh0
Fl. Trumbull to name a commits
sion of seven to handle the cele-
bration but the commission must
report two years from now.
Wethersfield was settled in 1884.
Windsor in 1886, and Hartford in
1886, according to Prof. Charlton
M. Andrews. admittedly an author
ity on colonial history. The state
manual says Windsor was settled in
1888. Wethersfield in 1884, and
Hartford in 1885, though white
people were living where Hartford
now is as early as 1888.
Prof. Andrews insists. however,
Connecticut wasn't really settle,l
until at least 1887 and he wants
1889 used as the real date. People
in Connecticut were too busy fight.
ing Indians before then, he says,
to think much about settling.
Prof. Andrews thinks January IA,
1899, would be a good day for the
celebration.
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
DR.. CaldweII's 3 Rules
Keep You Healthy

DIR. Caldwell watched the results
of constipation for Al years, md
believed that no matter how I.re
ful people are of their health. diet
and exercise, constipation will occur
from time to time regardless Of
how much one tries to avoid IT, OF
next Importance, then, is how to
treat It when It comes. DR.. Cald.
well always was in favor OF getting
as close to nature as possible
hence his remedy for constipation.
known as DR.. CaldwelPs Syrup
Pepsin, is a mild vegetable com.
pound. 1t can not harm the most
delicate system and T. habit
forming preparation. Syrup Pepsin
is pleasant.tasting and youngsters
love 1t. 1t does not gripe. = ou.
sands of mothers have written us
to that effect.
DR.. Caldwell did not approve Of
drastic physics and purges. He did
not believe they were good for hu.
man beings to put into their sys-
TENS. In a practice Of Al years
he never saw any reason for their
use when a medicine like Syrup
Pepsin will empty the bowels just
as promptly, more cleanly and
gently. without gripping and harm
to the system.
Keep free from constipation! 1t
robs your strength, hardens your
arteries and brings on premature
old age. Do not let a day go by
without bowel movement. Do
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
CHILDS To lose
RESTAURANT
FIGHT

NEW YORK, March 7.--Meat VS..
vegetables!
This Is the major issue in the
struggle for control of the profitable
Childs restaurant chain opening here
today in New York's own battle
of the proxies"
William Childs, the firms founder,
admits removing rhost of the meat
courses from his menus and attempt.
ing to educate his patrons to the
health values of vegetables aud
balanced ration.
William A Barber, who leads the
fight to oust Childs, contends that
the presidents vegetarian obses.
sion" dwindled the earnings Of the
company.
Although the strength OF the
Childs and Barber factions in the
fight, which is scheduled to come
to a head at noon today, could not
be definitely determined, 1t Is be-
lieved that Barber has sufficient
stock to win control.
Childs, founder Of the company
virtually admitted his defeat a few
days ago when he said that II the
election were to be decided ION the
basis of one vote for each stock.
holder instead of one vote for each
share of stock, / could now count
this contest as won."
The Washington times., 1929-03-07

Births, engagements. Maria ages,
Deaths and In Mem0rian appear daily
ON the last inside mage, last two columns.
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
]. PAPER CALLS
DRY LAW JOKE

CHICAGO, March Z 0.N.SA.-The
Daily Maroon. student paper at the
University of Chicago, tonight
Joined with the Yale Daily News
and the Daily Northwestern in flay.
ing prohibition as a hopeless
failure and farce"
The Daily Maroon statement said:
"There is no need to point out
the crime and corruption caused by
illicit booze traffic. The law is also
undemocratic. 1t cuts the poor
man out Of anything but bad
liquor.
LAS for ourselves, we are content
that genuine enforcement Of the
Eighteenth amendment Is utterly
hopeless and that maintenance of
such a law as 1t now stands does
only harm and no good"
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
TRY new Adult 7
SCHOOL PLAN

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE sub.
iect matter of adult learning takes
its departure from experience, not
from arbitrarily arranged knowl-
edge" according to Prof. Eduard c.
Lindeman Of the New York School
of Social Work. lecturer at the
New School for Social Research,
and a contributing editor of the
New Republic.
Speaking on adult Educat ation"
AT the second Of a. series of
luncheons under the auspices of the
in the Educational Pie" he urged
that adult education be the cooper
ative effort of groups with similar.
interests.
1--WE are beginning to see that
education undertaken for the pur.
pose of getting grades, degrees and
finally jobs, Is training but not
education" he asserted.
Education must be a re-interpre.
tation of tire meaning of experience.
If we forget the subjects and think
of the problem in the light Of the
fact that the whole value of learn.
ing is experience we'll be on the
road to educational development.
He-ktressed the need in developing
a technique Of adult education, for
counteracting the influence of spe-
cializatio which runs through all
our life. he said. and must he met in
education by getting away from the
teacher-pupii relationship ir adult
work to cooperative digging out of
material without any lecturers" at
ALL
The Washington times., 1929-03-07

The proverbiai lure of the fire
engine Is just as strong for dic.
nified members of the bar OF the
District Supreme Court as 1t is for.
the school boy.
So strong is it that several times
it has interrupted proceedings at
the sensational trial Of Capt. Guy
E, Burlingame. The captain IL on
trial in the Sixth precinct station.
located next door to one OF the
busiest fire engine companies IN the
city
Woodward a Sprinter
The apparatus runs about three
times a day during the trial and
every time it moves out 1t means
sEout a minute Of rest for the
hardworking official reporters who
are making the stenographic record
of proceedings.
At the first rumble of the pow.
erful motors of the engines and
trucks, Henry F. Woodward, the
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
Night Sessions Promise
US. Air Programs
For British

LONDON, March u.N.S).--
Americans in London are prepar-
ing for all.night sessions at the
radio as the result of the an
nouncement by the British Broad.
casting Company that negotia-
tions are under way for a regular
exchange of programs between
this country and the United States.
No definite decision has been
reached. but 1t Is hoped that the
interchange may begin within a
few weeks. At present II is
planned to relay American pro.
grams one night a week, but
this may be increased later.
AS there Is five hours difference
in time between New York and
London, it will be necessary for
Londoners to wait up until
o'clock in the morning to hear a
night-club band broadcast from
New York.
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
BURLLNGAME LA.WYERSLU URED
BY FIRE ENGINES

older member of defense counsel
ana one OF the most sedate and
quiet members of the bar. Is on
his feet, and before the siren
screams its warning he Is at a
window.
William r. Leahy. chief OF defense
counsel. many years younger, has
not vet been able to beat his as
sociate to the window. although
they have had a few dead heats.
Board ResisS Lure
Defense counsel have been uni
formly first in reaching the point
of vantage, but the suave and port.
ly William w. Bride. Corporation
Counsel, always manages to get to
window before the engines can
get into New Jersey Avenue.
Members of the extraordinary
board conducting the trial have
thus far withstood the lure, but
bets are being made they will sue.
cumb before the trial ends late to-
day or tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
Forbidden Afghanistan"
To Be Lecture Subject

Forbidden sAfghanistan," where
life goes on much as 1t did in Marco
Polo's time, will be described and
pictured by Lowell Thomas when he
lectures before members of the Ma.
tional Geographic Society at the
Washington Auditorium tomorrow
night.
Mr.. Thomas, famous for his adven.
lures with Colonel Lawrence in his
Ara bia n campaign. subsequently
penetrated the isolated realm of the
King of Afghanistan who attracted
so much attention when he visited
European capitals in search of ideas
to moderniZe his hermit kingdom.
His abdication after an effort to
introduce Western innovations Illus
trated the primitive customs of his
country. Many parts of 1t have
seldom been penetrated by travellers.
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Twenty-Five days left to file your
Personal Tax Return. Persons Iiv-
ing in the District OF Columbia on
January l, 1929 should inquire at
the office of the Assessor as to
their taxable status.
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
D | D RESEARCH
REPORTED .

PHILADELPHIA, March Z u.N.so
Although hailed by press and pub
lic as an innovation, the intel
lectual stock-taking now being con.
Quoted by the American Philosophi-
cal Society is not without precedent.
Il was stated today by DIR. Francis
x. Dercum, president,
DR.. Dercum quoted records Of
the society, the Oldest learned
society in the Western Hemisphere,
which disclose that as long ago as
1895, under the presidency of David
Rittenhouse. the same organization
was engaged in an enterprise sini
lar to that under way today.
An adequate public school sys-
tenn, more efficient pumps for sail
ings vessels, better and cheaper
methods of heating rooms and the
prevention of decay in peach trees
subjects which today seem pro.
Eaic-those were the problems which
cried to science for solution cen.
tury and quarter ago and on
which the American Philosophical
Society centered it's attention.
cit is true" said DR.. Dercum.
'that the steck-takng of that day
was much more limited in scope
and more materialistic in intent
than the one we now are embarked
upon, yet it's purpose was the
same-to ascertain the days needs
and to develop a program designed
to help meet them"
The society's first stock-taking,
according to DIR. Dercum, was au-
thorized at the meeting of Febru-
ary 6, 1795.
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
SEVENTH ARREST IN THEFT

NORRISTOWN, Pa, March L.
The seventh member OF the bandit
gang recently broken up here was
arrested. He Is Charles Reese, 10,
OF Jeffersonville, for whom police
have been searching for several
weeks. Reese was arraigned on sew.
eral burglary charges, and held with.
out bail for court.
The Washington times., 1929-03-07
. GUNMEN GET
DEAD CHECKS

CHICAGO, March Z u.N.s.).-Four
machine gun bandits were sought
today after they had held up Rock
Island passenger train on the out
skirts of the 'ity and escaped with
a satchel containing cancelled
checks and non-negotiable papers.
The train was bound for Min
neapolis via Joliet. Among the pas
sengers robbed were Sherman
scheidt. vice president of the First
National Bank of Joliet, and Jos.
eph Carloss, the uSnk's messenger
Two of the bandits produced
Thompson sub.machine guns from
violin cases and their two confed'
crates drew revolVers
Births. engagements. Maria ges,
Deaths and In MemOriani appear daily
A. ~ 10 90 fVa,n Aolm fna
The Washington times., 1929-03-07

not sit and hope, but go to a drug
gist and get one of the generous
bottles of Syrup Pepsin. Take ne
proper dose that night and by morn
ing you will feel like a different
person.
Get a bottle today, at any drug
store and observe these three rules
of. health: Keep the head cool. the
feet warm, the bowels open.
The Washington times., 1929-03-07

Births. Engagements, MarrIa ges.
on the last inside page. last two columns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03

every day than any country in the
world, with the possible exception of
Germany" Jones said, and we fly
every night more miles than all the
other countries of the world together.
THE United States really is leading
the world in commercial aviation today
and such organizations as this gather
ing of commercial secretaries can do
the country great service by correct
ing this mistaken impression"
Women should and will play a very
important part in the development of
aviation in the United States in the
future, Miss Earhart declared.
TOO much attention is being paid
to selling aviation to the men in this
country she said. IF the wife doesn t
want her husband to fly he usually
doesn't. Similarly, it is the mothers
pressions of aviation. If we really want
should bend our efforts to inStilling
confidence in aeronautics in the minds
of the women"
Miss Smith told the association that
she agreed with everything Miss Ear
hart had said and added that flights
such as her endurance record and the
Transatlantic flight of Miss Earhart
were not stunts
"Our flights" she said, were made
in the honest attempt to create interest
in aviation. feel that if 1 have given
women a more active interest in flying
that my flight has accomplished its
purpose"
Gerrish Gassaway. manager Of the
Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington,
Del, presided.
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now is building the worlds two largest
dirigibleS for the United States Navy
and Col. c. De F. Chandler, president
Of the Aero Club of Washington Chapter
of the National Aeronautic Association
Mr. Glover predicted that the day is
at hand when American business men
will demand that all mail between the
principal trade and business centerS of
the Nation be carried by air. The Post
Office Department, he says, is ready
today to put postal clerks in the air
to sort mail aboard planes just as the
railway mail clerks work in the mail
cars.
I'VE are ready for this step and do
not think the day is far off when we
will have to take the STEP" he said.
Tube System Next Step.
AS a further means of speeding up
the handling of air mail, Mr.. Glover
said, the Post Office Department prob
ably will be compelled before long to
establish a pneumatic tube system be-
tween airports and the post Office in
the cities they serve.
In tracing the growth of the air mail
system, Mr.. Glover pointed out that in
1918, when the air mail started, the
total amount of mail carried during all
of that year was 1900 pounds.
Last month";" he said, mail planes
carried $4,000 pounds in single day,
as much as was carried during the en-
tire year. We carried $4,000 pounds
of air mail in March and 1 am sure
that the figures for April, which are
now being tabulated, will show in excess
of $4,000 pounds of mail carried by
air.
Casey Jones took sharp issue with
the nreVailino opinion that commercial
aviation in Europe is farther advanced
than in this country. The European
reputation for supremacy, he declared,
is largely due to American tourists who
go there and fly on European pasSen-
ger planes as part of their trip, but
who never fly on the American lines
following their return.
Fly More Than Any Other.
eve are flying more miles on the
commercial lines of the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
DEBENTURE PLAN
WINS TWO VOTES
Advocates of Measure Claim
Support of Senators Cope
land and Nye.
BY the Associated Press.


Senate advocates of the export de-
benture plan today claimed two more
votes from the ranks of those they had
previously put down as certain to cast
their ballot against the proposal.
The two claimed are Senator Cope
land, Democrat, of New York, and Nye,
Republican, of North Dakota. Senator
Copeland declared on the floor that he
intended "to hold his nose and vote
for the debenture plan" as altered by
the Norris amendment, designed to re-
duce rates when overproduction is fore
cast Questioned about the report that
he would vote for the debenture plan,
Senator Nye said: II hope I have my
mind made up SOON"
Administration Senators still claim a
majority against the plan, although
they admit the vote will be close. Sena-
tor McNary of Oregon, who has the
farm bill in charge, has been hoping
to have the Senate vote on the de-
benture section late today, but these
expectations have been diminished by
requests for opportunity to discuss the
legislation.
The best guess now is that the Senate
will complete its work on the bill as a
whole early next week, probably Tues
day.. Although the main difficulty will
have been overcome when the debenture
section is disposed Of, dozen or more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
amendments are pending which promise
to nrnvnka considerable debate

amendments are pending which promise
to provoke considerable debate.
The announcement of Senator Cope
land that he would vote for the deben-
ture section divides the vote of New
York on the question. Senator Wagner
has declared his opposition to the plan.
Senator Copeland argued that the
large industrial centers of the country
will not have prosperous conditions I'M
less the farmer is prosperous. There
fore. he said, he would vote for the de-
benture plan, although he considered
it no more than a bounty. He con-
tended that the tariff was just as
economically unsound" as the deben-
ture plan.
He was interrupted by Senator Shep-
pard, Democrat, of Texas, who said he
felt compelled ito congratulate the
Senator from New York for the gener-
Gus position he has taken in behalf Of
the farmer. coming as he does from the
most populous State in the Nation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
BLISS ACQUIRES
THE CALVERTON
Several Apartments Figure
in Exchange of 0WnerShipS
of 100000 Property.

A $3,000.00G real estate transaction
involving the exchange of ownership of
a number of large apartment properties
and a long-term leasehold has been
consummated with the acquisition of
the Calverton Apartments, large eight
story apartment structure at Columbia
and Quarry roads, by the Alonzo Bliss
Properties from the Wardman Corpora
ton. it was announced today.
The Bliss organization gave in ex-
change for the Calverton property a1e
Dorchester, Twelfth street and Mary
land avenue southwest, five-story stucco
building; the Darlington, Twenty-fourth
and L streets. four-Story brick builo'pg,
and the Penhurst, 48 T. ..creet NORTH
east. six-Story brick aIIurture, aha q
lot on Sixteenth street between Varnum
and Webster streets, containing 10000
square feet.
The Wardman Corporation was rep
resented in the transactions by Harry
Wardman, Thomas Bones and James
Hobbs.
Involved in the transaction also was
the 99-year leasehold on the lower three
floors of the Dulin & Martin Building,
at the corner of Connecticut avenue
and L street, given by the Wardman
20. 10 JOnn "A. L. CdSSeQy ana MIS-
Hazel D Caldwell for the Calverton
Apartments, and later traded to the
Bliss Properties: an 8-Story apartment
at 2701 Connecticut avenue; a 4-story
apartment at 1863 Connecticut avenue,
and brick residence at 1927 Column
bia road.
The Wardman Corporation took back
a 1O-year leasehold on the first three
stories of the Dulin & Martin Building,
to be occupied by the firm of Dulin 81
Martin.
Wardman also later sold for approx
mately $125,000 the apartment house
at 1863 Connecticut avenue to the Park
Road Development Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
HELD AFTER ACCIDENT.
Collision Delays Traffic for More
Than Hour,

Than Hour.
Following an automobile collision at
L street and Vermont avenue, which
delayed traffic this morning for more
than an hour, William johnson, "a
colored, of the 900 block of Delaware
avenue, was booked at the second pre-
cinct on a charge of reckless driving.
johnson was said to have made a
sudden turn out of L street. sideswip-
ing car operated by F. L. Thiering, lis
New York avenue. Both cars were
badly damaged and there was some de-
lay before they could be moved from
the intersection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
RAILROADS PLAN SLASH
in EXPORT GRAIN RATES
Eastern Trunk Lines Would Move
Surplus Before New Crop
Reaches Market.
By the Associated. Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Eastern trunk line railroads today
we're preparing to apply to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission for au-
thority to reduce the freight rates on
export grain in order to assist in NOV
ing surplus grain out of the United
States before the new crop is thrown
upon the market.
This decision was reached yesterday
by representatives of the Eastern trunk
lines, who said it was in line with the
desires of the Hoover administration.
Rates would be reduced between Buffalo
and North Atlantic ports, Chicago to
New York and st. Louis to New York
The petition is expected to be filed
with the Interstate Comerce Commits
sion within few days and it is under
stood the railroads plan to put the
new rates in effect May rs. No oppo-
sition from the Commerce Commission
is anticipated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
Order TO Step Up
Is Taken Literally
By Woman Prisoner

Police Court attaches are plan
ming to change the order with
which they command prisoners
to step before the bar of justice.
Mary Bailey, colored, first block
of Congress court, charged with
destroying private property, APP
peared in the court dock this
morning to await trial before
Judge Ralph Given. When the
woman's name was called she
stepped forth and stood before
the counsel table, but as she is
of diminutive stature bailiffs be-
lieved she should stand closer.
"Step up" ordered a bailiff.
Mary did. She stepped up on a
chair and was about to stand on
the counsel table when halted
and ordered to retrace her steps.
The woman was arrested by
Officer L. Parks of the second
precinct yesterday. but after tes-
timony was heard Judge Given
ordered the charge dismissed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
Child HIT BY CAR
DIES OF INJURIES
Three Persons Suffer Slight
Hurts in Trio of Traf-
fiC Accidents.

A child was fatally hurt, and three
persons were slightly injured in traffic
accidents yesterday.
James v. Taylor, 400 Third street,
was driver of a taxicab that knocked
down and fatally hurt Irving Williams,
coiored, years DID, of 1888 Florida ave-
nue., at Nineteenth and T streets, yes
terday afternoon.
Dies Of Fractured Skull.
A passing motorist took the injured
boy to FreedmenNs Hospital, where an
examination disclosed fracture of the
skull that caused his death about an
hour after he reached the hospital.
Taylor told police of the eighth pre-
cinct that the accident was unavoidable.
He was paroled by DR.. Joseph D. Rogers,
deputy coroner, to appear at an in
quest at the morueg today.
owen Earheart, 80, of Newark, N. j.,
was shocked and bruised last night
when a taxicab in which he was a
passenger was struck from the rear by
motor truck driven by William Lang
ley, 1867 Morse street northeast, at
Ninth and B streets.
The CAD, driven by Charles Marchant
lexington apartments, Fourth and T
streets, northeast, was going south on
Ninth street. Earheart was treated at
Emergency Hospital for injuries to his
forehead and chest.
Street Car and Auto Collide.
A collision between street car in
charge of Motorman G. E. Shoemaker
and an automobile driven by Robert j.
Hook, 652 Eleventh street northeast,
occurred in the H street viaduct yes
terday afternoon. Mrs. Mary C. Hook,
occupant of the automobile, was shocked
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FIVE SUSPECTS HELD
IN NUMBER GAME RAIDS
Detectives Visit Four Places to Ar
rest Quintet for Operating
Lotteries.

A roundup Of alleged operators of
the numbers" game, which Is said to
have gained numerous followers here
recently, netted five suspects today, all
colored.
They were picked up by headquarters
detectives in four places, two in the
first block of G. street, one in the 600
block of North Capitol street and an
other In the 1900 block of Riggs street.
The arrests were made following an
investigation by H. w. Smith apE
Paul w. Jones, Headquarters detective
sergeants.
Those booked for alleged violation of
the District code prohibiting lotteries
are T. S. Dyson, II; S. A. Stewart, "a;
F. D. Crawford, 81; A. c.. Smith, 81,
and Eugenia Reese, 40.