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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-27
OFFICERS

Officers for the Milton Giles Fort
post Of the American Legion were
elected Monday evening for the
ensuing year with no changes from
last year officers.
Officers are: DR.. w. Tford, Post
Commander; 3. ~ McWhorter. Ad-
jutant; w. 8. Ray. finance chair
man; j. p. Wilmuth. Sergeant at
Arms; Harry l.. Stebbins, Chap
lain.
The Legion voted to sponsor a
scout troop which Is now being
organized with S. N. McWhorter
as scoutmaster. A membership
campaign will be underway soon
and a dance at the Cortez ball
room will be held in the near flu
ture.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-27
CHURCH CIRCLE

NAhILE
Circle ! Of the Presbyterian church
met Monday afternoon az the home
OF Mrs. w. H.. Baxter ST. The
eighteenth chapter of acts was
studied with Mrs. g. Lester SkagRs
as leader. Mrs. z. z. Chamness.
chairman Of the Circle. presided at
the business session. The hostess
served a delicious salad course.
The next circle meeting will be
December 8 with Mrs. ChamneSs.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-27

sion being his seventh birthday
anniversary.
Those present we're Franklin
Hart. GeorCs Carson. Damon Pc
terSon. John De Long. Robert Dean
williams and Herbert Scurlock,
Paul d. Miller and Richard Rowe.
Different children's games and a
fish pond afforded the entertain
ment for the afternoon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-27
PERSONALS

Miss Cornelia Gross Of Mony-
vile. Missouri Is here for a two
months visit at the J. 2. Gross
home.
Mrs. Doyle r. Gibson accomp-
anied Mrs. r. Witt and Mrs. King
Cook to Waco. She IA visiting re-
latives In Temple and Waco and
will be gone over the Thanksgiving
holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Les Mauldin and
baby. Juanitta Winnifred. came I'D
Sunday evening from Brownsville
to celebrate Mr.. Mauldin's birthday
here with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. M. Mauldin. Mr.. and Mrs.
D. r. Mauldin and son, j. W.,
we're also dinner guests.
MI. and Mrs. ,.ictor Bobo Of
Bolton are here for a months visit
with Mrs. Bobo's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Y. p. Yarbrough.
George II. Alge arrived last week
from Nash. Oklahoma to join his
wife and son for the winter. Mr..
Alge left here last April. Mrs.
Alge and son. Wayne. returned
early In the fall for school.
Miss Pauline McCalip and Jewell
Watson who r attending Baylor
Bolton. will arrive to spend the
Thanksgiving holiday with their
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Rovee and
son returned Tuesday morning to
their home In Stroh. Indiana after
visiting several days at the A. r.
Butts home here and with rela-
tives In Fdinhurr.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
ABDUCT|ONTOLD
BY D. {. MAN

With weird tale of adventures
involving robbery and total loss of
his identity. Lucien T. Williams,
local contractor, who disa ppeared
six weeks ago, returned to his
home. in the $500 block of Fifth
st. N w, early today.
The 56-year-old builder SAYS he
was waylaid at the corner of Ninth
and L Streets Northwest, forced
into an automobile by four mar.
rauders. clubbed, robbed, and kid.
naped by his captors.
After the robbers had taken $500
in cash and jewelry from his per.
son, Williams says, they carried
him in their machine to a point
near Marion, Ohio. Then they
threw him out.
His experience had brought an at.
tack of amnesia, or loss of memory.
upon him, and, for the intervening
five weeks, Williams declares he
was without any realization of who
he was and without any clue to
where his home or relatives were.
He worked on farms and on odd
jobs in Marion. Four days ago, he
recovered himself mentally. He OBJ.
tanned enough money to pay for his
ride back to Washington and
reached his home early this morn.
ing. He is, in a highly nervous
condition, his wife says. and unable
to converse with anyone
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
Log Of Zeppelin
lon World Flight

NEW YORK, Aug. 2s (LN.SD.
FOLLOWING is the log of the Graf
Zeppelin since the beginning of her
round-the-tUorld flight as compiled
bu International Ne1s Service.
Washington Times throughout.
Wednesday, Aug. 8
11:4O A. M.-Left Lakehurst, N. j.
Thursday, Aug. 9
1s:45 A. M.-Circled Statue Of Lib
erty in New York harbOr, the official
starting point of the round the
world flight.
Saturday, Aug. II
700 A. M.-Landed at Friedrich.
shafen,
Wednesday, Aug. IA
1885 P. M.-Departed for Tokyo on
the second leg Of the round the
world flight.
Monday, Aug. 1S
4:4O A. M.-Landed at Kasumi.
guars air field, near Tokyo.
Friday, Aug. %
liz A. M.-Departed for Los
Angeles on the third leg of globe
encirCling voyage.
$40 A. M.-Reported over Sanche
in Northern Japan.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
SOVIET A|RMEN
OFF FOR n. !.

MOSCOW, Aug. 2S. 0.N.s.).-A
second attempt to make a Moscow.
to.New York airplane flight by
stages began today when a bi-mo-
tored mono-plane christened Land
of the Soviets." flew from Moscow 70
Kurgan.
The first plane which attempted
the long flight. was damaged in a
forced landing in Siberia a fortnight
ago.
The crew consists Of chief pilot
g. A. Shestakov and four COM
panions.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
PAID'LAW HANGS
by POWER MOTHER ]
TRUST Of 8

MACON, Ga, Aug. %
I.N.S. Money supplied by
the international Paper Com
pany, a holding corporation
for the largest power utility in
New England, continued until
few weeks ago to defray the
expenses of the Augusta (Ga.) }
Chronicle, it was testified to.
day at the Lavarre- Hall in
junction hearing.
The money continued to be fur.
nished the Chronicle despite the
wide publicity given efforts Of the
so.called power trust 10 scalsisss 1
string of southern newspapers bv
lending Funds to the ostensible
purchasers, and the fact that the
Georgia newspaper has been, thrown
into temporary receivership by a
row between its new owners, VIII
liam Lavarre and Harold Hall, tes-
timony revealed.
July and August Checks
Two checks, dated respectively
July 25 and August 3, 1929, total.
ing $500 were sent to the Chron.
icle by the International Paper
and Power Company. according to
verbal and documentary evidence.
This testimony was brought out
when w. s. Morris. auditor of the
Chronicle. called as a witness for
Hall, was cross examined by coun.
sci for Lavarre. Hall Is seeking
operating control of the Augusta
paper, together with the Columbia.
s. c., Record. and the Spartanburg
S. c.. Herald and Journal. which
Hall and Lavarre purchased with
money borrowed from the power
company.
did you as auditor of the COM
pany know that the International
Paper Company was furnishing the
Chronicle money directly?" he was
asked. The witness admitted he
did.
Handled Through Lawyers
'Mr. Hall said the International
would furnish us money to defray
expenses" Morris testified.
Letters from the International
announcing that checks were being
forwarded were introduced. They
stated the money would he sent
through a New York law firm
representing the company and not
directly from the power COMPANY,
The Washington times., 1929-08-23

ers with youths. The high speed
of the present industrial machine,
a belief that it is easier to train
new and young workers for new
jobs rather than retain old workers,
liability of older men to accident,
higher cost of workmen's COM
pensation insurance, pensions and
group insurance are among the rea-
sons given.
The reports disclosed that the
age dead-line is applied most dras-
tically by the larger corporations.
Although Henry Ford recently an
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
The Washington times., 1929-08-23

Many manufacturing plants, 1t
was found, refuse to employ men
over 35 years, and in some there
is reported to be a strong tendency
to discharge workers because of
age.
The elaborate reports submitted
by more than 1000 local union rep
resentatives are being compiled for
use of the executive council of the
federation, which ordered the sur.
vey made. The situation will be
laid before the annual federation
convention in. Toronto next month.
Many reasons are advanced for
the supplanting OF veteran work
The Washington times., 1929-08-23

HULL, Quebec, Aug. %
(LN.S.). A middle-aged
woman, Mrs. Marie Viau,
mother of eight, and her lover
were hanged here today for
the murder of the woman s
husband, Zephir Viau, 81.
Mrs. Viau, the sixth woman to
pay the extreme penalty in the
history of Canada, bore UP bravely
until the end. She was dropped
through the cedar log gallows in
Huh Court yard at sis ., m.
sixteen minutes after Philbert I4efe,
sjasIre her Ralisor, died in the same
u ~ ~ 4 II
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
ToDAY'S SCRATCHES

FIRST RACE-Loves Orb. First Day.
Beau Mcneil
SECOND RACE-Crspe Satin, Com
plication, MunninE Sweet Lacruse. Volt,
Arrant Jade.
THIRD RACE-viscountess, Lower
Five, Kinsman, Tester, Isabella, All
Range.
FOURTH RACE-Fretwell, Uranus,
Runolathe, Isostasy. Nine Sixty.
SIXTH RACE-Harborton.
SEVENTH RACE-Edna Y, DEPOSIT
tion, Vie, Bedford Dream, Queen
Emma.
Weather, cloudy; track, fast.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
Via Radio to International News Service
Copyright. 1899 International News Service

ON BOARD GRAF ZEPPELIN, Via Radio
to Internatio tionaI News Service, Aug
The Graf Zeppelin, en- route from Kasumi-
gaura flying field to Los Angeles, on the
third leg of its round-the-world flight, to-
day successfully passed through the worst
storm in the history of its air travels.
The airship struck the storm within 800 miles after
the start from Kasumigaura at 3:12 p. M (1.12
a. m. Washington time)
During this time DR.. Eckener and his navigating
officers literally played tag with Wholesale death in
the skies, but the Graf rode magnificently through
the ordeal The roaring motors never once fatered,
and did the great silver hull fail to respond
smoothly and unerringly to the movement of her
rudder or stabilizers.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
EDITH FOLTZ
WOMEN FL|ERS
TULSA BOUND

FORT WORTH. Tex. Aug. %
S.).-Miss Mary Won Mack. Ger
man flier, led the contestants in
the Women's Santa Monica-C -Cleve-
land Air Derby away from the local
airport today. Miss Won Mack
hoped off for Tulsa, next control
point, at 9 o'clock.
She was followed at regular inter
walls by the remainder of the entries,
who spent the night here.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
CALM As
LIGHTNING PLAYS
AROUND SHIP

TOKYO, Aug. % (I.NS.).-The Graf
Zeppelin, bound from Tokyo to Los Angeles
on the third leg of it's round-the-world flight,
crossed the Japanese coast line to the Pacific
ocean this evening and at 8 o'clock q a. m.
Washington time), was approximately 420
miles east by northeast of Tokyo.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23

proximately 125 miles northeast Of
the capital.
Both reports Of the liners pro.
gress indicated DIR. Eckener was
driving his charge at an average
of better than IS miles per hour.
1t was not known here whether
the Graf's commander was follow.
ing the practice established on the
Continued on Page 3, Column u
The Washington times., 1929-08-23

Just four hours after DR.. Hugo
Eckener, commander Of the round
the-world airship, gave the order
'let go" at Kasumigaura air field,
near here, to begin the third leg
Of the world.circling flight, the air.
ship was sighted passing over
Sanohe, Amuri Prefecture, S4S
miles northeast of Toxic.
Two hours previously word had
reached Toxic that the Zeppelin had
passed over Taira, which is ap-
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
Few Sc Execution

Only small group was present
to see the execution of the 42-year.
old woman who followed the lure
of an Illicit love for a 32.year-old
man until it swept them both up
the fateful IS steps that lead to the
hangman's moose.
1t was the first double execution
here in several years, and the first
hanging Of woman in more than
30. Others have been condemned,
including Doris Mac Donald. the
American girl. but all were saved
from the drop.
StryChnine in Soup
viau, So, and the father Of eight
children, was poisoned by strychnine
placed in a bowl of soup by his AZ
year-old wife, who was madly in love
with Lefebvre, IL years her junior.
The pair, according to evidence
introduced at the trial. had plotted
the Staying for a considerable time.
I6 ~
I.efebvre and administered by the
wife, who placed enough in her hus-
bands broth to kill six men.
The children of Mrs. Viau, the
youngest and the eldest Is, are
being cared for by a farmer in the
Gatineau district. Efforts have been
made to spare them details Of the
sordid tragedy.
Reporters Kept Out
No newspapermen were permitted
to witness the execution, due to a
ruling at the last hanging in Canada,
when the Quebec government was
flooded with applications from all
parts of the country.
Efforts were made to obtain in
tervention for Mrs. Fiau on the
gr0dnds her health was falling, but
the council remained adamant.
Many women have been sentenced
to hang in Quebec Province during
the last decade. but all received
Communication to life imprisonment.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
$685.. .2O5.95.
New York Clearing House bal.
ance. S175, ,OOO. 600.
New York Clearing House ex.
change. S1.451 ,0OO, 200.
Treasury balance. S107. .235. .34S.10,
Customs receipts, S$S6, ,437 ,569. 10.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
DAVID THORNTON DIES

:. STAUNTON, Va, Aug, 23.-Da.
vid Thornton, 81, is dead. Thornton.
who was unmarried. is survived by
two sisters, Mrs. Minor w. Jones, of
near here, and Mrs. Thomas Ryan,
of Staunton. A brother, George. also
survives.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
SHOT At
HOME

Shot through the back Of
the head, Col. Charles NJ.
Joyce, a Washington lawyer,
was found lying unconscious
on the back porch of his
Whalon Avenue, Clarendon,
home today by his wife.
He was taken to Emergency Hos.
pital, Washington. where it is said
he Il IN dying condition
Just hefore he was found uI1.
conscfq. Joyce had gons into the
rear I'D to water some flowers.
There we're sounds OF an argument
and a hot was heard
App rent Iy there were no eve,
witnesses to the shooting. How
Joyce managed to get from the
garden where he is believed to have
been shot and onto the porch is
not known.
DR.. Ralph Quick, of Clarendon.
was summoned to the home inn
mediately and he ordered the re-
moval of Joyce to the hospital.
AIet BY Ambulance
I. L. Bollinge~. neighbor. living
also in the 300 block of Whalon
Ave, placed Colonel Joyce in his
car and started for Washington.
In the meantime, someone had
called Emergency Hospital and that
institutions ambulance met the
private car on the Key Bridge,
where Joyce was transferred from
one carrier to the other.
While Joyce was being rushed to
Emergency Hospital, police of Ar
lington county learned that James
the Joyce home, was seen running
from the back yard Immediately
after the shooting.
Seek Wood
Police of Washington, Baltimore
and Richmond were telephoned and
asked to be on the lookout for
Wood, although no specific charge
has yet been placed against him.
Wood has been. variously dex
scribed as a lawyer and a practi->
tioner of other professions, but
police have been unable to defin-
itely learn much about him.
Mrs. Joyce is Frustrated at her
homeland is under the care of
physHe1an and nurse.
Joyce represented Wood when the
latter sued his wife, Hattie l.. Wood,
Of the 1900 block of Pennsylvania
Avenue n. w, for absolute divorce
in the Equity Court of the Dis
trfct. charging that the wife and her
alleged paramour conspired to have
him committed to st. Elizabeth's
Hospital.
He was, in fact. he charged. sent
70 Walter Reed Hospital on Novem-
Der / 1920, for mental observation,
and was within a short time sent to
st. Eliza abeth's. A month later. he
charged, his wife instituted proceed
ings to have him adjudged of un-
sound mind. but jury refused to
reach such a verdict, and he was
released from the Anacostia institu-
ton. he told the court in his petition
tor a divorce. He married his wife
on November l., 1909. he said.
Taken to Asylum
When he discovered the conspiracy
alleged to have been Matched by his
wife, he shot the man in the case
and was returned to st. Eliza beth's,
where he was held for nearly six
years, he said in the petition.
During the period of his incar-
eeration in st. Elizabeth's, he al
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The Washington times., 1929-08-23
STEAM ROLLER KILLS BOY

ALBANY, Aug. 23-Authorities
launched an investigation into the
death of Joseph Neville. 6. of Troy,
who was crushed by a municipal
steamroller in front of his home.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
As Revealed as Age
Limit of Workers
BY international News Service

nationwide survey by the American Federation of Labor
into the problem of employment for veteran workers. made
public today disclosed that As years the deadne for
poymen thousands of industrial plants throughout the
cnInfr
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
Running Smoothly After Storm

AS the dispatch filed after dinner the Graf
wa. running smoothly. making about 81 land miles per
hour The aIrshps position was then than 800 miles
northeast of Kasumigura airfield.
Now that the experience of the storm is past both
passengers and officers of the Zeppelin delighted
with the performance of the ship in time of such dire
stress.
The experience has added confidence to the already
complete assurance felt all hands, of the Grafs
ability to weather almost kind of storm which may
beset the air.
Everyone aboard congratulated themselves and one
another the airships behavior All were happv Too
Angeles. - - O
TOXIC, Aug. "a U.N.S.).-The giant air-liner Graf
Zeppelin carrying complement of IS passengers and
members of the late tonight was over northern
Japan well on its way toward Los Angeles, via the
Great Circle Route, making wonderful speed.
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
Lady Hay Was CaImist fAU

Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, the only woman passenger
on board the coolest and apparently the least
cerned of the just she the heroine
the incident In the main cabin when the Graf so nearly
plunged into the east of Bermuda last October on
the first Lakehurst flight Her agnificent behavior had
most beneficial effect on the other passengers.
The storm not actually of long duration, nor did
its wildly twisting air currents and deadly lightning
flashes seriously delay the progress of the air liner
The Washington times., 1929-08-23
Taken to Asylum

When he discovered the conspiracy
alleged to have been Matched by his
wife, he shot the man in the case
and was returned to st. Elizabeth's,
where he was held for nearly six
years, he said in the petition.
During the period of his incar-
eeration in st. Elizabeth's, he al
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The Washington times., 1929-09-25
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
THE VOICE OF THE HEAVENS

THE VOICE OF THE HEAVENS
OMORROW the conjunction Mercury and Mars the
tends mental disturbances mpulsive conduct
Moderation should
that time.
LOOKING AHEAD
tomorrow birthday during the coming sndsavor
avoid disputes legal entanglemens and discreet
your correspondence as well personal contacts
child born tomorrow will tend to be reealways looking
worlds conquer trained
this tendency to be content and to complete what he begins
MEDICAL GENIUS VS.. QUACKERY ANNOUNCED BY STARS
During the next 16 Neptune will transit the sign Virgo
sign, corresponding sixth hygiene,
health sickness Dr. Gerson Bieefed Germany
has been known his profession the vegetable Doctor
diet tuberculosis
amentarycanal ailments. His theory attracting wide
circles and American phlanhrops
offered to finance his project for a sanatarium.
While feeling grateful Neptune
influence medicine, should also
this is often perverted by fraud and deception
quackery flood unwhoesome
medicines during the coming 16 years.
Premie syndca
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-06
MEMORIAL GROUP
TO GIVE bREAKFAS
Victory Fete Is Planned To.
morrow by Local Jeffer-
son Branch.

A victory breakfast wilr be given at
the Willard Hotel tomorrow morning by
the Washington branch of the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Foundation, which
has raised all but $4,000 of the $4,000
which was Washington's quota in the
drive for funds for the purchase of
Monticello, the historic mansion which
was once the Virginia home of Thomas
jefferson. According to Mrs. Rose
Gouverneur Hoes. chairman of the
Washington branch of the foundation,
the proceeds of tomorrow's breakfast
will materially reduce the balance.
On the coming Fourth of July at
meeting of riendS of Monticello from all
parts of the country, Stuart c. Glib
honey, president of the Thomas JEFF
ferson Memorial Foundation, hopes to
burn the remaining deed of trust on the,
property, as it is expected that the $22,-
900 still owing on the property will
have been raised by that date. The
movement to raise funds was started in
Washington six years ago by Mrs Min
nigerode Andrews, who with Mrs. Hoes,
was one of the prime movers in the
effort.
An interesting feature of tomorrow's
breakfast will be the passing of the
large autograph book to receive the
signatures of those present and to be
later placed permanently at Monticello.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-06
FIXES 1929 RATES
!. ON INSTALLING GAS
Utilities Body Approves
Schedule Assessing Half
Cost on Customers.

The Public Utilities Commission yes
terday approved a schedule of charges
for 1929 for installation of gas services.
The customer is required to pay one
half the cost of connecting the service
from the mains in the streets. The new
schedule approved calls for slight reduc-
lions in most Of the charges, which are
arranged according to the character of
street service required to be cut for lay
ing of conduits and the size OF the pipe
used The charges for the Georgetown
Gas Light Co.'s connections, for the first
time, were made slightly lower than
those for the Washington Gas Light Co.
on account of the fact that most of the
Georgetown Co.'S services are laid in less
congested territory, which does not call
for as much labor as work in the con-
gested sections.
The commission accepted the resigna-
ton of Mrs. Julia Williams Bubb, who
has been an employe for seven years.
She recently married and is going to
New York to live.
The route of the WaShington-Win
chester bus line was ordered changed to
make the bus go west on Pennsylvania
avenue to Fifteenth street, north on
Fifteenth street to F street, east on F.
street to Fourteenth street and south on
Fourteenth street to Highway Bridge.
The BUSES formerly turned around on
Pennsylvania avenue opposite the Will
lard Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-06
MINNES0TANS HONOR
GOVERNOR AND WIFE
Mr.. and Mrs. Christensen Are
Giyen Reception by State
Society in Capital.

Gov. and Mrs. Theodore Christianson
of Minnesota were honored last evening
by the Minnesota State Society at
reception at the Willard Hotel. The re-
ception was planned as feature of
the inaugural period.
Receiving with Gov. and Mrs. Chris
Hanson were Mr.. Justice Pierce Butler
OF the United States Supreme Court,
Mrs Henrik Shipstead, wife of the Sem
ator; Representative and Mrs. Newton,
Representative and Mrs. Clay, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Goodwin, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Anderson. Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Pittinger and Repre-
sentative and Mrs. ChriStgau.
Also in the receiving line were the
secretary to the President, George Aker-
son, and Mrs Akerson, Prohibition Com
missioner and Mrs. James M. Doran,
Federal Trade Commissioner and Mrs.
A. F. Myers, E. Walsh. adjutant general
of Minnesota and aide to Gov. Chris
Hanson; members of the Republican ma
tional committee from Minnesota, Sena-
tor Mckenzie, Mrs. Manley Fosseen and
Mrs. Bede johnson, president of the
Minnesota State Society.