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GIVES UP.
IN NUMBERS DRIVE
Police Vice Squad End
Weeks Activities With
Ia in. Custody.

The surrender yesterday of the last
of tour men sought as alleged pm
cipal operators in the numbers" game
he4e brought to a close a week of in
tensive campaigning by members of
the police wee squad and the United
States attorneys office.
Police activities in the past week re-
suited all told in the arrest OF IA
persons.
These arrested yesterday included
Joseph T. johnson, ~ years old, of the
oouv block Eighrn street and William
oelgle OF the 100 block Seventh street.
johnson was charged with permitting
gaming while Seigle was held Tor violal-
Ane tri.t section Of the code torbidding
S-CGing up a gaming table.
Earlier, ISauore Shapiro of the 1900
block Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
surrendered to Sergt o. j. Letterman
or the vice squad VINO had been seek
ing him as one of the alleged principals
in The numbers game operations.
Shapiro was held in $4,000 bond.
IN a raid carly yesterday morning
on an establishment IN the 900 block r.
street northeast, Scrgt. Letterman and
his squad seized nearly $4,000 IN cur
rency and arrested William Poe Moses,
80 years old, of the r street address,
aneJher alleged principal.
Moses was released after depositing
$4,000 cash collateral for his appear
ance in Police Court tomorrow morn
ing on charge of setting up gaming
table.
John w. Carter, ,colored, who was
arrested Tuesday while driving between
here and Ardmore, Md, where police
said he had established an elaborate
Office with large staff of clerical help
to transact routine work in the num-
bers" game transactions was the first
of the four men accused to be taken.
George Gray, the other member of the
reported quartet, also was taken earlier
in the week.
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COED BANK ROBBER
!. DECLARED INSANE
Medical Experts Testify in
Trial of Rebecca Rogers
in Texas Court.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex, September
i4.-Technical testimony concerning in
sanity was offered in the trial here to-
day Of Mrs. Rebecca Bradley Rogers,
charged with robbing the Farmers Ma
tional Bank of Buda, Tex, in 1926.
Several alienists testified that If testi-
nnony given by non-eXpert witnesses was
true, there was no doubt in their minds
that the former Texas University coed
was insane.
Physicians called to the stand all
agreed that the woman who on three
other occasions had been brought to
trial in connection with the hold-up
had suffered from pellagra. One of them
testified that 1t was possible for the dis
ease to sap ones mentality. The others
said the disease often causes insanity.
Family Doctor on Stand.
DR.. w. c. Lackey of Fort Wcrth, for
many years physician for the Rogers
family, testified that an attack of pneu-
monia and meningitis in 1912 probably
caused q pressure on the defendants
mind which caused her to change from
a normal child to one who experienced
alternating moods of happiness and de-
spair. He also said her father was OF
lLI6 HlOIOSCb OCJSCUCO CypS, dIlu LiAoe ACA
mother was sufferer of hysteria.
DR.. A. G. Goslein, woman member
Of the medical staff of the San Antonio
State Hospital for the Insane, told Of
how Mrs. Rogers was examined by the
entire staff of the hospital this year
She testified that all these making the
examination were of the opinion the de-
PENDANT was insane.
DR.. Goslein testified that early this
year the entire STAFF of the San Antonio
Hospital had examined Mrs. Rogers and
had reached the unar :,nous opinion that
she was insane.
Asked on direct examination If it were
possible for the defendant to feign an
unsound mind, DR.. Wilmer L. Allison
Fort Worth alienist, said: There is no
possibility"
would it be possible for such per,
son to know that it would be wrong to
rob a bank?" he was asked.
mo, don't think So" he replied.
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PARAMOUNT HEIGHTS
CITIZENS CHOOSE HEADS

The Paramount Heights Citizens As
ISOLATION met in the schoolhouse to
elect new officers for the ensuing year.
Robert Palmer. the retiring president,
presided over the election. Rev. Nc
Dowell was chosen to head the associa-
ton for the coming year. Henderson
I. Brooks made motion to nominate
Mr.. Palmer to run again, but Palmer
only reiterated his statement made
early in the Spring, that he would
under no circumstances accept the
nomination, and further, he being
chairman of the board of commission
ers, he thought it best that the official
government of the town, as represented
by the commissioners and the unofh-
cial government, embodied in the citi-
zans' association, should remain two
separate entities, headed by different
men. Consequently he declined.
Other lesser Offices were duly filled.
Mr. Dorsey of Clark avenue was chosen
as the new chaplain of the associa-
ton. Formal installation exercises will
be held on September 26 at the Fair
mount Heights Methodist Episcopal
Church
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ST. AGNES SCHOOL
OPENS WEDNESDAY
Institution for Girls Looks for
Record Enrollment-Miss
Chapman in Charge.
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BRADDOCK, Va, September IA
A record enrolment is expected at the
st. Agnes Episcopal School for Girls
when that institution reopens on
Wednesday for its sixth school year.
again been appointed principal by the
board Of trustees, will enroll the stu
dents and assign classes on that day
and studies are to begin the following
morning.
The high school faculty will include
Miss Chapman "a. B., Smith College,,
Latin; Miss Fanny B. Catlett "a. B.,
Wellesley College,, English; Miss Re
becca Dickert iB. S., State Teachers
College, fredericksburg, French and
history, and Miss Evelyn P. Shackel-
ford, Latin and mathematics.
In the intermediate department Miss
Martha B. Sinclair University of Vir-
ginia and William and Mary College,
will teach the sixth and seventh grades
and serve as athletic supervisor while
Miss Hattie S. Hall (Farmville State
Teachers College and the University
Of Virginia) will instruct the fourth
and nth grade pupils.
The primary department faculty will
include Miss Mamie B. Watts Estate
Teachers College, Farmville), second
and third grades; Miss Elizabeth Barr
"a. B., Randolph-Macon Women's Col
lege and State Teachers College, Har-
risonburg), first grade; Mrs. Mary W..
Burke "a. B., Vassar and the Teachers
College, Columbia University, kinder
karten.
The music department will be In
charge Of Miss Laura Pendleton Roege,
piano, and Miss Lucy MacMoreland,
voice and director of the Glee Club.
Miss Alma Bostick will teach art.
Rev. George r. Vest rector of the
Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Brad
dock, has been named chaplain of the
school with DR.. Llewellyn Powell of
Alexandria, physician. Miss Martha
B. Sinclair will serve as the school
secretary.
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Rumanian Patriarch Very Ill.

BUCHAREST, Rumania. September
IA C).-The condition of Miron Cristea,
patriarch Of Rumania and member Of
the regency, was worse last night.
Several specialists were called into con-
sultation in the presence of Premier
Juliu Manu-. The patriarch has been
seriously Ill the past few days.
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census. But only ATTIC OF these were
born in the city, the balance represents
ing newcomers from the provinces or
foreign countries.
The feminine population exceeds the
masculine by $4,000. This signifies
that about every sixth man in the city
might take unto himself a second wife,
If polygamy were sanctioned. The pre-
dominance of women is emphe sized in
the borough of Wilmersdof. where the
gentler sex constitutes 58.5 per cent
of the population.
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U. D. C. FAVOR HIGHER
VETERANS PENSIONS
Old Dominion Chapter Endorses
Move-Delegates Named
to State Meeting.
special Dispa TEN to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG. Va, September IA
Old Dominion Chapter, United Daugh-
tiers Of the Confederacy, here has in
dorsed the proposition looking to an
increase in pensions for Confederate
veterans, which is to go to the atten-
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DEATHS SURPASS BIRTHS
IN>BERIN, REPORT SHOWS
But Population of City increased
Last Year Despite High
Morta 1itv

BERLIN P1.-one baby is born for
eacn II minutes that the clocks tick
in Berlin, but nevertheless the deaths
in the German capital exceeded the
births by 5000, 1t was revealed by the
1929 edition of the Berlin Statistical
Year Book. The volume also showed
that there mad been net increase of
population of 1926 since the 1927
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One-half of all celluloid toys made
in Japan, according to recent estimates.
are dolls, 80 per cent are animals and
20 per- cent rattles. drums, trumpets,
boats and other novelties
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15
1000 GIRLS LEAVE HOME.
About Half of Paris Yearly "Run-
Always Are Found.

About 1000 young women disappear
from their homes or places of work in
Paris every year, and of this number
one-half--2, ooo--are never heard OF
again, according to recent statistics in
the Paris Soir. Most of the girls are
between Is and 10, and most OF them
disappear not for tragic reasons, but
to earn better living than they can
get at home.
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Armed with spikes which contain
deadly poison and is said to have the
power of killing human beings, a fish
has been found in the Great Barrier
Beef of Australia
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ton Of the General Assembly Of the
State next Winter.
The chapter has elected the follow
ing delegates to the State convention to
be held during the coming Autumn at
Wytheville: Mrs. c. r. Shumate, Mrs.
C. L. De Mott, Mrs. D. c. Jackson, Mrs.
j. w. johnson and Miss Elizabeth
Gooch. The alternates are: Mrs. A. s.
Priddy, Mrs. e. B. Virgins, Mrs. J. F..
Wiley, Mrs. j. B. Wood, Mrs. j. r. At
wood and Miss Mollie Lowry.
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Blast Kills IL Italians.

PARMA, Italy. September IA Dr.
Twelve persons were killed and Is
wounded by a gasoline explosion yester-
day which caused the collapse OF
house
Smyrna times., 1929-02-27
WOMAN IN AIRPLANE FLIGHT
Miss Myrtle Brown Proudly Scars
Over BeIlanca Field at New Castle


Miss Myrtle Brown, sister of Mrs.
G. M. Bellanca, wife of G. M. Bellanca,
president of the Bellanca Aircraft
Corporation, near New Castle, made
her first solo airplane flight last week
at the Bellanca Field. Miss Brown is
thought to be the first woman to learn
to fly in the State. Miss Brown took
up Waco training plane of the Della
ware Flying Training School Service
for more than an hour circling high
over the city and field. When she
alighted, she said that after the first
few minutes she had lost all fear and
from then on had enjoyed every min
ute. "I felt like could have flown on
for weeks" she said afterwards. Miss
Brown explained that she IS only
learning to fly for the sport of it and
has no nonstop Atlantic or Pacific
flight records in mind. The day will
soon be here, Miss Brown said, when it
will be as necessary for women to fly
plane as it is for them today to
know something about driving an au-
tomobile Interest of women in fly
ing, she said, should greatly aid the
movement in America to make the
public more air-minded and should
subsequently be help to much need
ed development of commercial and
pleasure flying. Miss Brown was
taught to fly by J. Allison Buck, pres
ident of the Delaware Flying Service.
For several weeks Miss Brown has
quietly motored off to the Bellanca
Field where the hangar of the Della
ware Flying Service is located and
taken her seat beside Mr.. Buck at the
controls in the Waco plane. It was
hard at first she admitted to get used
to the sensation of flying but, as this
gradually wore off she said she was
able to settle down to the hard careful
work of learning to handle plane.
The difficult steps of taking off and
landing We're mastered and finally the
time to make a solo flight. Miss
Brown came to Wilmington from
Omahafi Neb., the former home Of
Mrs. Bellanca. She expects to make
her home there for some time. Out
side Of short flights in the east, Miss
Brown may consider a flight to
Omaha to visit friends and relatives
in the near future. She will continue
her solo work at the field for some
time vet.
Smyrna times., 1929-02-27
ST. PETERS PLAN CENTENNIAL
Committees Were Appointed to Have
Charge Several Phases of Celebration

Members Of 81. Peters Episcopal
Church in this town held a parish
meeting in the Parish House one night
last week and, under the direction Of
the Rev. Emanuel A. Lemoine, rector,
organized the machinery which will
have charge of the centennial cele-
bration of the church next April. At
the outset it was decided to furnish
up the church for this most import
ant celebration in its history by hav-
ing the exterior re-painted, but pre-
serving, so far as may be possible, the
beautiful growth of ivy which for
years has been one of its chief attrac-
tons. The following committees were
appointed to have charge of the sew
eral phases of the celebrations: Execu-
tive committee; Harry B. Grieves,
George Carter, C. WV. Schantz, Miss
y. Agnes Cummins. Mems campaign
committee; Harry B. Grieves, Joseph
B. HUM, George w. Boehmler, Wal
lace Elterich, G. w. w. Schantz, DR..
Edward S. Dwight, C.Leland Harmon
son, Franklin Middleton, Albert w.
Cummins, Ernest P. Collins, DR.. G.
G. Harmonson, Noah Lear, William
Robinson, Jr., Arthur Stokesbury,
Wallace Elterich, Jr., Frank Pratt,
John Price Hyatt, Charles Deakyne,
John Morris, Stanley Morris, Clarence
Ringgold, Joseph P. Bartlett. Wom-
ems campaign committee: Miss j.
Agnes Cummins, Mrs. Sarah Farrell,
Mrs. Margaret S. Mcdonald, Mrs. /.
Luther Lapham, Mrs. George Carter,
Miss Clara Leinberger, Mrs. E. A. Le-
moine, Mrs. @. w. w. Schantz, Mrs.
Wallace Elterich, Mrs. Alice Reid, Miss
Emily Spruance, Mrs. L. NJ. Hirons,
Mrs. Olive Shallcross, Mrs. George
Davis Brown, Mrs. Elva Gooding, Mrs.
John Morris, Mrs. Franklin Middleton,
Mrs. Ernest Collins, Mrs. c. Leland
Harmonson, Mrs. Frank Pratt, Mrs.
Walter Keys, Mrs. Earl Keith, Mrs.
Davis Turner, Mrs. G. E. Webb, Mrs.
Klaumenza, Mrs. Joseph O. Bartlett,
Mrs. Charles Deakyne, Miss Helen
Ringgold, Miss Helen Start, Mrs. John
Wick. Program committee: G. w. w.
Schantz, Miss Emily Spruance, Mrs.
George Carter, Harry B. Grieves, Mrs.
Alice Reid, Joseph B. HUM. Finance
committee: Harry B. Grieves, Joseph
B. HUM, George W. Boehmler, Dr.Ed-
ward S. Dwight, g. w. w. Schantz, g.
Leland Harmonson, Franklin Middle
ton, George Carter and Wallace FL
terich. Publicity committee: George
Carter, Albert w. Cummins, Mrs. Ed
ward S. Dwight. These committees
were instructed to proceed at once
with the work.
Smyrna times., 1929-02-27

Charles H. Jolls, chief clerk of Dis
trict No. 8, U. S. Railway Mail Ser
vice, who had been in the railway mail
service for 80 years, died last week
in Philadelphia and was buried Tues
day Of last week in Camden. Mr..
Jolls was formerly stationed at the
central postofice, Philadelphia, and
for many years before that had been
employed on mail trains running thru
the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula. His sum
mer home was in Camden and he was
well known throughout the entire
State. He is survived by his wife and
two daughters.
Smyrna times., 1929-02-27
LEGISLATORS SEEK HIGHER PAY
Bill Would Raise Rate From $40 to
SIS Per Day Including Mileage

pA0 = LAY tAttAuuAiAS uhhASuSt
An increase in the pay of members
of the Legislature from SO to $15 a
day for not more than go days at a
regular session, and not more than 30
days at special session, is provided
for in a bill introduced in the House
by Representative Shorb, Thursday.
The presiding officers would receive
$18 day. The bill also fixes mileage
that could be charged for coming to
and going from the State House to
their home during a session at 7 1-2
cents a mile. As this bill would amend
the constitution it would require fav-
orable action by two consecutive ses-
sions Of the Legislature before it be-
came law. The present pay of the
members is $40 a day and when the
constitution was first adopted about 80
years ago it was SIS day. There is
no provision in the present constitu-
ton as to mileage.
Smyrna times., 1929-02-27

ponents, there certainly appear to be
many issues. In addition to those al
ready mentioned Mr.. Lewis states that
the town board meets only once a
month and he is urging that it meet
once week and will work for that
aim, should he be elected
Smyrna times., 1929-02-27
FOLKS OF MIDDLETOWN STIRRED
UP OVER COMING CAMPAIGN
TO HOLD ELECTION ON MARCH 4
FOR TWO POSITIONS IN COUNCIL
Chargest of Soaring Taxes, Personal
Gains From Post Are Made-AlsO
BOOtlegging and Gambling

DOOlICSSHIS dIu GdmDllnS
Middletown has become the scene of
a hot political campaign. Charges of
exorbitant taxes, high electric light
rates, and use of office for personal
benefit are being made freely. Mon
day night of last week the candidates
for Mayor and for the two positions
on the town board, or council, which
become vacant this year, filed for
election on March A. Those that filed
are as follows: For Mayor, Walter S.
Letherbury, the present Mayor, and
James z. Lewis, reform" candidate
for Mayor; for the town council,
Thomas w. Truitt and DIR. j. Allen
johnson. Their opponents as candi-
dates for the town council are Henry
D. Howell and James Redgraves. Mr.
Lewis, so-called reform candidate for
Mayor, charges that Middletown taxes
are too high. He says that the capi-
tation tax that everyone in the town
over n years Of age has to pay is $4
a year and declares it is one of the
highest taxes Of that kind in force iii
any town in the United States. He
further charges that bootlegging and
gambling are common in and near the
town and there is no effort made to
stop these abuses. He declares that
all the town equipment is supplied
through the privately owned hardware
store of the present Mayor, Walter S.
Leatherbury, and calls the prices the
people have to pay for articles secur-
ed through Mayor Leatherbury's hard
ware store "exorbitant." Brooms that
sold in stores around the town at rs
cents apiece cost the town slips when
purchased through Mayor Leather
burys' store, Mr.. Lewis claims. Such
misuse Of his position is common, Mr..
Lewis AYERS.
Mayor Leatherbury, however, states
that since he is On the board as Mayor
of the town, when articles are needed
for the town, the councilmen come to
him for advice because as a hardware
man he would be expected to know
about the price and the cheapest way
to purchase them. Mayor Leather
bury said, when asked about the
charge made by his opponent, that
since the town did not keep any ac-
count for the purchase Of small arti-
cles, many such things purchased else
where were charged on his account.
He merely forwarded the money to
the store that furnished the article in
order that the accounts could be kept
straight and to insure promp delivery
Of the article required, he declares.
He said that he has arranged for the
purchase of hundreds Of articles at
cost through his position as a mer-
chant and thus has saved the town
much money.
When asked about the $4 capitation
tax for all persons over 21 years Of
age, Mayor Leatherbury said that it
was in the town charter and could not
be changed by the mere election Of
candidates. Mr.. Lewis said that it
was not a part Of the town charter
and that it could be changed, and he
was pledged to work for a reduction
of tax which he claimed had become
onerous. While there is no party
alignment in the election, outside Of the
present administration and their op-
Smyrna times., 1929-02-27
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delphia over the week end. They at
tended the Penn-C California foot ball
game yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Peyser and
their young son were in New York last
week visiting Mrs. Peyser's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Loeffler.
Mrs. Joel Hillman of Atlantic City
has spent two weeks in Washington at
the Argonne.
Mrs. LIE Roy Friedlander with her
young son is in Memphis, Tenn, as
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bloom
Mrs. A. NJ. Baer is at home from a
motor trip to Baltimore. where she was
the guest of her son-in-law and daugh-
ter. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Strauss.
The Friday Bridge Club met at Har-
vey's for luncheon, followed by cards,
last week
Mrs. r. B. Behrend has been spending
a week in New York.
Mrs. Edgar Jacobs and young daugh-
ter Carol were guests for a week in
Baltimore of the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Lobe
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Gauss have re-
turned from Atlantic City, where they
had remained a week
Mr.. Carlton kaufman of New York
spent the past week end in town visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry l..
Kaufman
Mrs. Morris Cafritz has cards out for
a luncheon, followed by bridge, Tuesday
at the Ambassador Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Rich of Schenec-
tady, N. Y, are the guests of their
mother, Mrs. Max Rich of 2701 Con-
necticut avenue.
Mrs. David Himmelblau and young
son David of Chicago are visiting the
formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Mantner of Adams Mill road. Mrs
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Mr.. Lyon Honor Guest
At Womens Civ Club

Mr.. Gideon A. Lyon will be honor
guest and speaker at the Women's City
Club tomorrow afternoon at $50
o'clock. Mrs. Grace Ross Chamberlin
will be hostess and present Mr.. Lyon.
Patronesses are Miss Julia E. Coonan,
Miss Media Ann Martin. Miss Josephine
O. Willis, Miss Lucy Watt. Mrs. A. B.
Smith, Miss Mary e. Lazenby. Mrs.
Clara Wright Smith, Miss Loretta
Barnes, Mrs. z. D. Vosbury, Mrs. L. E.
Becker, Mrs. Charles Wilcox, Miss M. c.
Neaser. Miss Jane B. Bassett, Miss
Katherine r. Wilson, Mrs. A. B. Allen,
Miss Sarah Cushing, Miss Grace Osgood,
Miss L. D. Bulloch, Mrs. Anna H. B.
Kinney, Miss Edith LeesnitZer, Mrs. F.
Golden, Miss Florence NJ. Christman,
Miss J. B. Wishart, Miss Elva Nc
Namara, Miss Villa Gallagher, Mrs.
Isaac NJ. Capayas, Mrs. j. e. Lehman,
Nine. Marie Boulay-Anderson, Miss S.
Pearle Jencks, Miss Elsa Donaldson,
Miss Eleanoe B. Spencer, Mrs. A. B.
Stewart, Miss T. j. Robinson. Mrs.
Mary E. Dubose, Mrs. Marie H. Heath,
Mrs Lillian @. Knowles, Miss Jean
Black, Miss Elizabeth Freeberger Miss
Daphne Anderson, Miss Nell Dunlap
Miss Minnie M. Howerth, Miss Pearl /
Perrin, Miss S. Alice Wright, Miss Stella
D. Prandy, Mrs. c. H. Able, Miss Grace
" Wright, Miss Gertrude Brooks, Mrs
j. H Meyer, Miss Lou Frazier, Mrs
Emma Hughes, Mrs. I. B. Dodson and
Miss Mae Stevenson.
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M.HASTEKNAK
rag coNNse+icvv MA

It's smart to be dull in black
this season.
Black lends itself particularly
to the new silhouette of graceful
sophistication.
Discriminating misses and ma
irons in planning their wardrobes
mote as the first two black
daytime outfit and formal black
evening gown.
This is true of the woman with
small allowance as we'll as of the
one of boundless means-if the
woman is one who exercises ex-
acting taste in her apparel.
Pasternak's have an extensive
varied display of afternoon and
sports dresses. suits, coats. hats
and evening gowns in black.
Every skin in every fur coat and
scarf at this shop is selected by
NJ. Pasternak himself and BY
comparison it is found to your adj
vantage to buy your furs here.