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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
OLD GUN AND MATCHES REVIVE
WESTERN CANNIBALISM TALES
Dead Mans Gulch Yields Weapon Believed
Linked With Staying of Five Miners in
Colorado During 1873.

Six weeks later Packer appeared at
the Las Pinas Indian Agency near here
with large sum of money and told a
tale of the desertion of his five COM
rades.
A few days later Indians found the
bodies of the five men and discovered
what were said to be unmistakable
signs of cannibalism in connection with
the murder
Packer was arrested. Around his trial
the issue of cannibalism hung, but
never was definitely proven. On the
witness stand Packer said that one of
the men had died and the other four
had eaten his body and then died them
selves.
Packer was released from prison sew
eral years ago. Throughout his long
imprisonment he denied the killings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LAKE CITY, Colo, August 30
Tales of cannibalism and murder have
been revived here with the discovery in
Dead Mans Gulch Of gun believed
to have been the weapon used by Al
fred Packer, convicted slayer of five
miners in 1873. The gun, in good con-
dition, and some matches, perfectly
preserved, were found in cache near
Stun Gullion.
Packer, who died last year. spent
nearly 40 years in prison, charged with
the murder of five miners, with whom
he ventured into the hills here in the
Winter of 1873. The party went against
the advice of Indians, who recon-
mended they wait until Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30

events, has supervisory control of the
racing program.
The local regatta already has been
sanctioned by the body meeting In De-
troit and it is expected it will approve
the program in detail as submitted by
w. A. Rogers, chairman of the ar
rangements committee for the local re-
patta
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
SANCTION is EXPECTED
FOR CAPITAL REGATTA
American Power Boat Association
to Decide on Presidents Cup
Race Today.

Formal approval of the racing pro-
gram of the Presidents Cup regatta
to be held here September Is and IA
under auspices of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Power Boat Association, is
expected to be given by the American
Power Boat Association, meeting in De-
troit today.
Officials of the latter association are
meeting In the Michigan city i'll an
ticipation of the regatta to be held
there tomorrow Although the local
regatta is under auspices of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Power Boat Asso-
citation, the American Power Boat AS
ISOLATION, as controller of power boat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30

Delano Brant. 1919 Nineteenth street:
Winton Brown, 2230 California street;
Lawrence Edward Schlanser, son of
Maj. e. A. Schlanser, Medical Corps, at
the Army medical center, Walter Reed
General Hospital, and Joseph Hornsby
Spear, Sd, at the Washington Navy
Yard.
Similar appointments were issued to
Robert Morris, at the National Soldiers
Home. Va, and to George K. Schofield
and James Roswell Braig, at Langley
Field, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
Publix BUYS 65 Theaters.

CHICAGO, August 80 (P.-Publix
Theaters. Inc. theater operating unit
OF Famous Players-Lasky Corporation,
has purchased the Great States Thea
tiers. Inc. operating SIS motion picture
theaters in Illinois.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
U. S. to Pay 81 for Corsair.

GLEN COVE. N. Y, August 80 HD.--
Uncle Sam is getting bargain. offered
the yacht gratis for the Geodetic
Survey. he insists upon paying 81 for
J. p. Morgans Corsair, the cost and up
keep of which have run into millions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
Another Cricket Immortal.

LONDON, August 80 (P).-There are
six cricket immortals. the latest of
whom is Frank Woolley of Kent. He
has completed his hundredth century
with 176 not out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
FOUR DISTRICT BOYS
NAMED FOR WEST POINT
President Appoints Brant, Brown
Schlanser and Spear to
I Academy

Four residents of the District of Co
lumbia have been appointed by the
President as cadets-at-large at the
West Point Military Academy, subject
to qualification at the entrance exami-
nation next March. They are: Philip
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30

Banana shipments from Honduras in
a recent month totaled 1,143,643 stems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
Three Are Held as Embezzlers.

GENOA, Italy, August 80 (P).-Three
employees of the Banca America d1talia
were arrested today charged with ap-
prepriating sums sent the bank by
Italian emigrants to America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
WIFE DESERTION
LAW TO BE UPHELD
Supreme Court Decision in Favor
Of Seizure Of Husbands
Deposits Indicated.

The Supreme Court is expected to
uphold the New York law enabling de-
serted wives to attach their husbands
bank deposits.
Hearing arguments against the law
on behalf of the Corn Exchange Bank,
the justices almost all disagreed yes
terday with the position taken by Spot
tiSwood D. Bowers.
Subsequently Chief Justice Taft
halted argument by j. Joseph Lilly In
support of the law, saying the court
was with him. In the usual course, this
meant that the court would soon af-
firm the decision of the lower courts
and uphold the law.
Attack on the law was based on pro-
ceedingS to seize the deposit of Raj
faele de Stefano in the bank. In an
affdavit, his wife maintained de Stefano
had deserted her and Bird S. Coler.
commissioner of public works, obtain
ed the requisite orders from two city
to seize Stefano's deposits.
Demand was made upon the hank
for the money, but it refused to pay,
contending the law was invalid be-
cause it did not provide notice to the
depoS1tor and give him opportunity to
be heard. Suit was brought against
the bank and the law was sustained by
the lower courts, which required It to
pay over the moneT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
STORES ARE READY
FOR YULE SHOPPING
Christmas Buying Expected
to Be in Full Swing by
Saturday.

The Christmas shopping season will
be in full swing by Saturday, If expert
ences Of the past several years in WASH
ington are followed this year, it was
stated today by Maj. Gen. Anton
Stephan, president of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
In anticipation of the increased
throngs expected in the downtown Sec
ton, local merchants have placed on
display full stocks of Christmas Offer
ings,> ordered months ago in keeping
with the shop-early mail-early move
ment which is designed to minimize the
last minute rush of shopping and mail
ing in the last few days before the
Christmas holidays.
Thanksgiving day, in the modern
system of merchandising, brought about
by customer demands, Gen. Stephen
said, marks the "kick-off" in the
Christmas shopping season. Tomorrow
most of the department stores and
shops will be decked out in Christmas
dress and many of the show windows
will be gay with Christmas colorS.
Records of local street car companies
show, Gen. Stephan points out, that
there is a definite upward curve of pas
senger travel Immediately following
Thanksgiving day. AS result of the
trend of early shopping for the Yuletide
holiday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
FREDERICK A. HOLTON
EXPIRES AT AGE OF 70
Was Formerly Scientific Expert
With Washington Firm of
Patent Attorneys.

Frederick Arthur Holton, 70 years
old, formerly associated as scientific
expert with the firm of Mauro, Cameron
& Lewis, patent lawyers, and for many
years a resident of this city, died in
GARFIELD Hospital today after a long
illness.
Mr. Holton's wife, by whom he is sur
vived, founded the Holton-Arms School,
2125 S street, in 1901. During the
early years of the school Mr.. Holton
contributed very largely to its success.
Memorial services, which will take
the place Of funeral services. will be
conducted in All Souls Unitarian
Church, Monday morning at IL o'clock.
The services will be attended by the
faculty and students of the Holton-
Arms School.
A native of Galesburg, Ill, Mr.. Hol-
ton came to this city at an early age.
AS a boy he attended Emerson Insti-
tute and was graduated from Cornell
University in 1883. Subsequently he
was an instructor at Cornell.
Later, returning to this city, he was
employed in the United States Patent
Office for number of years and at
the same time taught chemistry in the
Washington College of Pharmacy. Fol-
lowing this he became connected with
the law firm of Mauro, Cameron and
Lewis, He retired about 10 years ago.
In 1891, he married Miss Jessie Moon
of Newport, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
POWER COMMISSION
ADULTS ARE SPEEDED
Experts From Three Departments
to Assist Account
ants.

Expert accountants from the War,
Interior and Agricultural Departments
Will aid the Federal Power Commission
TO establish principles to govern the
audit OF power company capitalizations
running into billions Of dollars. The
chief accountant Of the, commission was
given free hand yesterday to select
from the accounting personnel of these
departments men capable of aiding
MIN IN the completion of pending cases,
and the departments have agreed to
make the men available for this pur-
pose.
Due to the inadequacy of its own ac-
counting force, the commission found
itself, nine years after its creation, with
about 1000 unsettled applications await
ing decision and without a guiding set
OF principles by which to determine
what items might be included legiti-
mately in their capitalization by power
companies.
The few cases involving DISPUTED
capitalization which have been passed
upon by the accountants have been
tied up by legal questions.
The power commission for years has
asked Congress for an increase in its
accounting STAFF and last year received
a small additional appropriation for the
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
NAVAL HOSPITAL TO GET
ADDITIONAL FACILITIES
Sick Officers Quarters Will Be Re-
modelled by Alterations
Costing $4,17o.

The sick officers quarters at the
Naval Hospital are to be remodeled by
alterations costing S4,l70, providing ad-
ditional facilities, the Navy Department
made known yesterday in announcing
recently awarded contracts totaling
1892, 1852
The Martin Bros Co. of Washington
was awarded contract which provides
for new partitions, metal basins in the
rooms and other alterations. No addi-
tons to the quarters are contemplated.
An item of $95,817 for the purchase
OF Hammerhead cranes for the Mare
Island, Calf, Navy Yard was the Iarg-
est among contracts awarded The San
Diego, Calf, Air Station, with dredg-
ing =. to be done at a cost of $50, 900,
End the same stations seaplane runway,
which IS to be paved and extended at a
cost Of $23.4I1, also were listed among
naval stations where work has been
provided for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
GRAND VISITATION
SERIES is ENDED
Official Calls of Ceremony
Made on Harmony and
Harding Lodges.

The series of grand visitations to the
A constituent lodges of the jurisdiction
by the grand master of Masons in the
District of Columbia, accompanied by
the officers of the Grand Lodge, ended
last night when official calls Of cere-
mony were made on Harmony Lodge,
No. II, at $50 o'clock, and on Warren
G. Harding Lodge, No. SO, at 8 O'Clock.
These two lodges hold their communi-
cations in Masonic Temple, Thirteenth
street and New York avenue. The grand
visitations of 1929 began october 9 and
had been in progress almost nightly
since that date.
Harmony Lodge is one of the largest
Masonic bodies in the District of CO.
lumbia numerically, having a present
membership of more than 1900. Guy
F. Allen is the master. The lodge was
chartered May 5. 1863.
Harding Lodge has been in existence
only six years, having been chartered by
the Grand Lodge at its annual meeting
December 19; 1928. It. has at present
154 members. Frank Jones Is the
master.
After extending fluctuations to the
two lodges visited, based on their rec
ords for the Masonic year ended Sep
TENDER 80 last, as disclosed by reports
submitted to the grand secretary and
the grand treasurer, Grand Master Wis
dom D. Brown reviewed in detail sew
eral matters of special interest to the
fraternity, including the subjects he has
ANNOUNCED as his special program for
his term of Office.
In accordance with a custom it has
followed for many years, Harmony
Lodge presented to the grand master a
miniature trowel of gold, suitably en-
graved. The address of presentation
was made by Past Grand Master Roe
Fulkerson. who Is past master OF
Harmony Lodge Grand Master Brown,
in responding, expressed his gratitude.
Announcement has been made of a
special communication of the Grand
Lodge tomorrow evening at 7:30 O'Clock
at Masonic Temple. Thirteenth street
and New York avenue, to consider and
pass on an important report. with rec
concentrations. of the committee on the
proposed new Masonic Temple on Tenn
pie Heights
The annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge is slated for December 10, and
the annual election December 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
MILITARY BEARING
OF POLICE PRAISED
Dawson in Letter to Pratt Lauds
Type of Officers on Metro
politan Force.

The individual appearance and mill
tary bearing of the members of Wash
ington's police force were highly COM
mended by Maj. D. A. Dawson, Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner, in a letter
addressed to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, SUI
perintendent of police, made public yes
terday. Maj. Dawson participated with
Maj. Pratt in the recent inspection of
the personnel, equipment and station
houses.
It was particularly impressed with
the high type of police officers compris-
ing the Metropolitan police force" Maj.
Dawson stated. The individual ap-
pearance and military bearing of the
members of the force are excellent"
Maj. Pratt said he regarded the COM
ments of Maj. Dawson particularly sig
nif1cant, in view of the latter'S years OF
experience as an Army ofhcer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
PROVIDED IN NEW BILL
Measure Is Being Drafted by Chair
man Reed of House
Committee,

Chairman Reed of the House COM
mittee on education is drafting a new
bill providing for creation of depart
ment of Education with a new cabinet
officer at its head, to aid the States in
educational matters. He emphasized
that this new department will be set
up primarily for research purposes, and
that the bill he introduces will not au-
thorize the proposed department to in.
terfere with the States, but to cooper
ate with them and coordinate their
efforts.
The educational activities of the IN
terror Department and the Federal
Board for Vocational Education would
be transferred to the new department
under Reeds proposal A Federal con-
ference of education composed of rep
resentatives from different Government
departments would be set up for adj
visory purposes as to means of improv-
ing educational methods.
There Is a general sentiment
throughout the country for a Depart
ment Of Education" Reed said. "The
problems of education have grown to
such extent research is needed to bring
about improvement and economy In
educational methods"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
EXPENSE FOR RECOVERING
BODY REFUSED BY U. S.
Father Denied Refund of Money
Spent After Civilian Emrloye
of Army Drowned.

Expenses incurred by his father, Dem
mis- A. Sheedy, in recovering the body Of
Leo H. Sheedy, civilian employe Of the
Engineer Department of the Army, &C
cidentally drowned. were denied yester-
day by Controller General McCarl.
The boy was drowned on April 10,
1928, while employed as deck hand
on the steamer Nauvoo at Keokuk,
Iowa, and it was some time later that
the body was recovered.
Among the expenses which were de-
MED payment were services of five diff
ferent men for dragging the river; of
man for distributing handbills Offer
ing rewards; of another for rowing the
father around islands looking for the
body; for the rental of "trammel"
net, and a 500 reward for recovery Of
the body. The claim of $221.0O sub
mitted by the father through the United
States Employees Compensation Com
mission was denied by McCarl because
the controller general said, it could not
be considered as a legal expenditure
either for the payment of funeral or
burial expenses. The Government did
allow, however, the actual burial ex-
penses and the cost of transporting the
body
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
FIVE MOTORISTS HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
Man and Wife Are Injured When
Car Skids on Rock
vile Pike.

Five persons we're injured, none sert-
ously, in three automobile accidents re-
ported to police last night and this
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cole Of 1926
New Hampshire avenue, narrowly es-
capped serious injury last midnight when
the machine in which they were riding
with DR.. v. Pearson of 1914 Seventeenth
street, skidded on the wet highway and
partially overturned on the Rockville
pike, near Bethesda, Md.
They were treated at Emergency
Hospital for decorations to the head
and body bruises, and DR.. Pearson was
taken to Georgetown University Hospt-
tai and treated for decorations to the
forehead.
Victor Bauman, 80, of ITS " street,
was slightly injured yesterday when
run down at North Capitol street and
Rhode Island avenue northeast by an
automobile operated by Lottie Houser,
whose address police did not learn.
The woman took the injured man to the
nearby Office of DR.. L. A. Cornett at
1927 North Capitol street for treatment.
Richard j. Burlesque of Clarendon,
Va, suffered painful injuries to the
face and head last night when his
machine was sideswiped by another
car near Hughesville, Md.
He was treated at Casualty Hospital
and later went home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
H|NE
TO GIVE OPERETTA
peggy and the Pirate" Will
Be Offered at School
December 5 and 6.

Boys and girls and teachers of Hine
Junior High School, Seventh and c
streets southeast, are engaged in pre-
pairing for the presentation Of a one-act
operetta, Peggy and the Pirate" at the
school auditorium at o'clock on the
evenings of December S and 6. The OPP
eretta will be given by the Boys and
Girls Glee Clubs of the school and will
be the most elaborate production of its
kind ever given by the students of Hine
Rehearsals are progressing and cos
tunes have been made for the players
who will add to the picturesqueneSs of
the scenes on the stage. Among the
boys and girls who will take leading
parts are:
Harry Fonoroff, Melvin Eicher. Mary
Ellen Keller, Zelda Wrightman, William
Bell, Majery League, Mary Folmer.
William Martin, Charles Green and
Daniel Gevinson.
In addition to the principals in the
operetta there will be q large chorus, in
which many other boys and girls of the
school will sing.
The operetta is the work of Geoffrey
F. Morgan, who wrote the libretto, and
Geodrey O'Hara, who composed the
music. 1t will be given under the direc-
ton of Miss Helen w. Merriam and
Miss Marie Walcott, members of the
Hine faculty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
NOVENA is PLANNED
AT DIAMOND JUBILEE
Celebration at st. Aloysius Church
to Continue Until Day
of Feast.

A public novena, concentrating the
diamond jubilee of the PRONUNCIATION OF
the dogma of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, will be held in st. Aloysius Church
at North Capitol and streets begin
ming Saturday night at 1880 and con-
tinuing daily until the feast OF the I'M
maculate Conception, December 8.
Features of the program arranged IN
observance of the binding article OF
faith made by Pope Plus TX in the pres
ence of 200 cardinals and bishops will
be a blessing with a relic Of st. Ann.
mother of the Virgin Mary, at the coz
clusion of services each evening; a SER
mon by Rev. John F. O'I1urley, S. j., OF
Corzaga College, and sp sial prayers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28

takes, we shall be taking a forward
step in the direction of cutting down
crimes" Judge O'Toole said.
One of the first activities OF the as
ISOLATION probably will be in connec-
ton with the men released from the
District work house ana 1t Is expected
that officers will confer with authorities
of the jail and the Occoquan 1nStitu-
ton.
Among the objects set forth in ten
tative application for incorporation,
drawn up by Judge O'Toole for SUBJ
mission to a general committee, headed
by Rudolph Jose, are the following:
To protect those unjustly accused; to
obtain parole and probation when SUITE
able; to improve prisons and prison dis
ciplne: to get employment and other
assistance for discharged prisoners; to
get necessary aid for prisoners families;
to supervise those on probation and
parole; to secure needed legislation: to
obtain publicity for needed reforms in
prisons; TO conduct research and give
advice. B..
Judge O'Toole said it was not ex-
pected that the association would be
able to engage in all activities plsnned
in the first year, but that start would
be made. Cooperation with existing So
cietieS for the aid Of prisoners will be
sought.
Serving on Q subcommittee with.
Judge O'Toole are: Dwight Burnham,
accountant: r. L. McKeever, real estate
broker; Allen Pope and Rabbi William
l.. Rosenblum. Mrs. w. A. Roberts, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Washington
Council of Social Agencies, is co-operat-
ing with them. A meeting will be held
next week, at which contents of the
papers of incorporation will be deter
mined and a name for the association
chosen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
Has No Objection to Eating
Place in Commerce StruC-
ture During Construction.
PROBLEM is EXPLAINED
BY SECRETARY MELLON
Says Luncheon Service Will Be
Increasingly Difficult as Pro.
gram Goes Forward.

Cafeterias in the new public build
ing being constructed in the Pennsyl-
vania avenue-Mall triangle have the
approval Of Controller General McCarl
McCarl told Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon yesterday that he would not
object to funds appropriated for con-
struction purposes being used to build
a cafeteria in the Department of Com
merce Building while the structure is
being erected. -
It was also learned that a cafeteria
has been provided in the Internal Reve-
nue. Building which will be the first
triangle building completed and ready
for occupancy next July l.
The cafeteria in the Department Of
Commerce Building is to be in the
basement, while the one in the Internal
Revenue Building is on the seventh
floor.
Real Problem Presented.
A real problem was presented in the
matter of providing eating places for
the large number of employees to be
housed in the triangle, Secretary Mellon
explained.
TT has long been established" the
Secretary said in his letter to McCarl
that rest rooms, cafeterias, emergency
medical attention, and so forth, are
necessary adjuncts to the proper func-
tioning of the various executive Offices
and bureaus where large numbers of
employees are housed in a single build
ing. The question of the proper &C
commodation of the Government en-
ployes who will be housed in the 'tri-
angle area for luncheon service will be
increasingly difficult as the building
program goes forward, with q conse-
quent reaction on employees efficiency
in the event that suitable provision is
not made near or In the new buildings.
Situation Recognized.
'"This situation was recognized by the
Secretary of the Treasury and the Sec
rotary of Commerce in the develop
ment of the plans for the building of
the Department of Commerce, which will
eventually house between 5000 and
5000 employees, and provision was made
in the drawings and specifications for
the assignment of space for and the
equipment of cafeteria Of suitable
size, it having been determined as an
administrative question that the cafe
terra was necessity"
It was explained that the contractor,
the Consolidated Engineering Co.,
had placed its bid on the complete
cafeteria and was planning to go ahead
with the necessary work Of ''roughing
in" for water, steam, gas and electric
outlets.