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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-28

Georgetown and not in a school build
ing.
New members elected were Mrs. Ste
phen Bonsal, Mrs. Mary BuxS. Miss Lott
Use Harlowe, Mira Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick, Mrs. Gertrude Offutt, Miss Dor
othey Rood, Mrs. Bertha T. Voorhurst.
Mrs. John Donovan, Mrs. John H.
O'Reilly. Mrs. Jerry Donovan, Mrs
Henry w. Draper, II. W. Draper and
Miss Bradshaw. Refreshments were
served.
Miss Mary Lazsnby. president, pre-
sided.
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BIBLE COPYRIGHT
CONTROL CHANGES
ii Protestant Denominations to
Supervise Publication to
Prevent Garbling.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February 28-Control of
the copyright to the American stand
ard version of the Bible has passed to
the International Council of Religious
Education from Thomas Nelson e. Sons,
the publishing firm which since 1901
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-28
Tote FOR DISTRICT
SEEN BY HAvENNER
Georgetown Citizens Association
dominates Mrs. Forrest for
Advisory Council,

Urging united effort on the part of
organized citizenship DR.. George c..
Havenner. president of the Federation
of Citizens Associations, at a meeting
of the Georgetown Progressive Citizens
Association in the Curtis-Hyde School
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-28
AUSTEN CHAM BERLAIN
REPORTED IMPROVED
Physician Issues Measuring Bull
letin Regarding British Sec-
rotary of State.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 2S-Absence
from the House of Commons yesterday
of Sir Austen Chamberlain. secretary
of state for foreign affairs. gave rise to
such alarming reports as to his health
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-28

Great Britain has more people EN-
ployed than for several months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-28

A telephone booth in a confectionery
at Watertown. Mass. posts this sign:
BE Reasonable-Be Brief
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-03
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
YEAR 1929 TO DATE erH

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1873 UP TO AND
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WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 3, 1929.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
OPERATOR KEEPS
HOOVER WIRE OPEN
Stays on Job in Basement
Room Till Water Is a
Foot Deep.

One Of the heroes Of the fire IN the
White House last night was M. M. Rice
Of 2006 r street, of the White House
telephone and telegraph force. He re-
manned at his switchboard for more
than half an hour after the fire was
discovered, despite the dense smoke
in his small room in the basement and
with water more than a foot deep In
his room.
All about him he could hear firemen
crashing their way through the walls,
the din of the orders being yelled and
the roaring of the flames above.
Rice continued on with his work,
punching the plug in the switchboard
as fast as his hands could work. Other
than soaked clothes and infiamed eyes
from the smoke, he suffered no harm.
It was upon the arrival of E. W.
Smithers, head of the telephone and
telegraph room, who has served in that
capacity since Mckinley was President,
that Rice abandoned his post. When
Smithers arrived and hurried to the
telephone and telegraph room and saw
the conditions he ordered the room
abandoned.
Rice has only joined the White
House staff since the advent of The
Hoover administration and works OH
what Is referred to as the might
trick" He remained at the White
House until late in the night, assisting
Chief Smithers and Frederick Hohbin,
another telephone and telegraph op-
orator, in working out with the teie-
phone and telegraph authorities a plan
for running In new cables, so as to
establish White House communications
as soon as possible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
BYRD OUT OF SIGHT
OF LAND FOR YEAR
Members of Expedition Get
Snow and Drah Skies on
Christmas Eve.
BY RUSSELL OWEN.

Copyright, 1879. by the New York Times Co.
ana the st. Louis Post-DiSpatch. All rights
Tor publication reserved throughout the
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, De-
cember 24.-It looks as If we would
have white Christmas. A year ago
Christmas day we sighted the Barrier,
and for year we have been living on
it. Thirty Of us have not seen land
or anything resembling it for more than
year.
OF course, If one chopped a hole in
the back yard down to the water and
then swan persistently downward for
a quarter of mile one could find land
Of sort. We saw little brought up
by an automatic scoop and it was clayey
and altogether uninviting
This Is miserable polar Summer
day, with soft snow under foot and
drab sky above, such a monotone of
white and gray that unless there is q
little dirt around it is impossible to see
the surface, and there Is no horizon,
just bowl of cruel in which objects
stand out detached as If resting on air.
But tomorrow Is Christmas and In a
month the ship should be nearly here.
and a month after that, If all goes well,
we Will be where there are unfamiliar
trees and grass and trolley cars and
noises, and we shall probably all be run
over ny automobiles the first day ashore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
SOVIET GETS PLEAS
IN E|ELSON SEARCH
Borah and Wilbur Ask for Aid
in Rescue of Flyer and
Mechanic.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Word was awaited out of the frozen
North telling that trained men and dog
teams had been ordered across the ice
and snow of the Siberian Coast to the
rescue of Lieut.. Ben Eielson, American
aviator and his mechanic, Carl Borland,
who disappeared six weeks ago while
flying to the ice-bound fur ship Nanuk.
Action by the Soviet government, to
which unofficial appeals by the Ameri-
can Government and direct appeals by
Senator Borah Of Idaho, chairman of
the foreign relations committee, have
been made for assistance, remained to-
day the outstanding hope Of the flyers
for rescue.
Senator Borah's appeal was made
directly to Acting Commissar Of Foreign
Affairs Litvinoff Of the Moscow govern
ment. The Senator has long been q
foremost advocate for American recog-
milton of the Soviet.
Appeal Made by wilbur.
The unoficial appeal for assistance
by the Washington Government was
made by Secretary wilbur through
Boris E. Skvirsky, unoffcial representa-
tive Of the Soviet in Washington and
the Russian News Agency, Tass.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for
mer Assistant Attorney General and
now attorney for the airplane corpora
ton which employed Eielson and Bor-
land, Is generally credited in the Capt.
tai with being instrumental in bring
ing about intercession with Moscow.
The former Assistant ATTORNEY Cen
eral has kept in touch with the In
terior Department since the aviators
disappeared in the frozen stretches of
the coast Of Siberia. She also con-
ferred with Borah concerning the pos
Sibility Of asking Russian aid, but it has
not been indicated which appeal brought
the first result.
Announcement of the Senator's mes
sage to Moscow was made after it be-
came known that the Interior Depart
ment had appealed to the Soviet upon
the urgent request of Vilhjalmur Stef-
ansson. noted Northern explorer.
Also Confers With Newton.
Mrs. Willebrandt also conferred with
Walter Newton, secretary to President
Hoover. but whether she discussed res
cue plans with him remains to be di-
vulged.
Stefansson, whose appeal to Wilbur
for immediate action to secure the
rescue of the flyers was made on the
basis Of his intimate knowledge of the
severe conditions in the North, tele-
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new WORKERS GIVE
$5OO,OOO FOR POOR
Newspapers and Charity 0rganiEa'
tions Help Spread Christmas
Cheer Among Needy.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 25.-New
Workers gave more than a half million
dollars that Christmas might be more
than Just cold December day to the
city'S needy.
In addition to about $1,000 raised by
charity organizations, the New York
Times, which made its annual appeal
for the 100 neediest. cases." announced
receipt Of contributions totaling $254,-
SIT. The Evening Post collected $780,
I'll for its "old couples Christmas
fund" the New York American raised
$138,350 and also provided Christmas
dinners to 1900 persons.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, concen-
trating on the neediest cases in its COM
munity, raised $4,000. The New York
Herald Tribune raised funds to send
poor children during the holidays to the
homes Of persons who had offered them
hospitality, and the Evening World
sponsored a Christmas show at the
Paramount and Roxy Theaters for the
10000 children in its 'Kiddie Klub."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
PARTY CONTINUES
DESPITE FLAMES
Children Guests at the White
House Unaware Blaze Had
Been Discovered.

President and Mrs. Hoover were en-
joying themselves at a Christmas eve
party they were giving at the White
House for the benefit Of the children of
some of the Presidents aides and per-
sonal friends when the fire in the ex-
ecutive Office was discovered.
A section Of the Marine Band was
playing in the corridor of the White
House, and in the State dining room
the party was at its height when the
news reached the President. There was
no excitement, and as the President and
his man guests Immediately left the
room the children in the party did not
know what was going on. Mrs. Hoover
remained behind and directed the fun.
Seated at the table, In addition to
the President and Mrs. Hoover, wers
Mr.. and Mrs. George Akerson and their
three sons, George, jr.; Fred and
Charles; Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Newton
and their three children, Marshall.
Walter, jr., and Grace; Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence Richey, Mr.. and Mrs. French
Strother and their son, French, jr.;
Comdr. Joel T. Boone and Mrs. Boone
ana bkleI uaugnCers SuSanne; Mr.. and
Mrs. Vernon Kellogg and their daugh-
ter, Jean; Delano Large and jeanette
Large, Mrs, Hoover's nephew and niece:
their mother, Mrs. Large, and Allan
Hoover, the Presidents son.
= President Receives News Calmly.
The word was brought to the Presi-
dent by Irwin Hoover, the chief usher
of the White House. who has served in
that capacity since early In Theodore
Roosevelt's administration.
The President did not become ex-
cited upon receipt of the news. He calm
ly arose and offered some excuses, ask
ing Secretaries Newton, Akerson and
Richey and the other men about the
table to join him.
Allan Hoover, home from Harvard to
spend the holidays with his parents
sensing something was wrong, left the
table and followed. Walter Newton, jr
son Of Secretary Newton, a plebe at the
National Naval Academy, joined Allan
They did a mans share in the salvage
| work which was soon to follow. Maurice
| Allen, secret service man, joined the
President, as did Irwin Hoover and
several White House attaches.
Among the latter were Edward Nor
ris, chief machinist In charge of the
| heating plant; Charles Thomas, chief
electrician; Michael Forbes, chief car
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Wind Prevents Docking.

NEW YORK, December 25 (P,-The
Cunard line officials here were advised
yesterday that the liner Ausonia, from
New York December IA, was unable to
land passengers destined for Havre at
the French port on arrival there yester-
day, owing to high winds, and proceed
ed With them to Plymouth, England, her
next scheduled port of call
Thirteen cabin, IL tourist (third class)
and q number of steerage passengers
intended leaving the ship at Havre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
GIFT OF SAVINGS BRINGS
FUND DRIVE FOR DONOR
Woman Inmate of County Home
Sends Grimy Dollar Bill
to Charity Bureau.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, December 25,-A
grimy dollar bill, dropped upon the
table from an equally grimy envelope.
1t fell among other bills, most of them
of larger denomination, many from
tinted, scented envelopes.
The clerk in the charity bureau
looked a bit disdainfully, perhaps, at
the crumpled newcomer. And then he
read the accompanying note, penned
In shaky lines that bespoke old age.
Today the bill lay in a drawer by
itself and special fund was being
raised for its donor.
1t came from a woman, inmate of
the county home, and represented the
savings of several months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
LIQUOR SUSPECT
IS HELD AS BURKE
Man Held in Arizona Thought
to Be Gang Massacre
Gunman.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NOGALES, Ariz., December 25.-A
man giving the name Of j. G.. Barton
arrested here on suspicion Of rum run
ming, today Is held in the Santa Cruz
County Jail pending word from Chicago
which may identify him as Fred Burke
notorious gangster, wanted in the nli-
nois city for questioning in connection
with the st. Valentines day massacre
there and other crimes throughout the
Middle West.
Barton, released from jail yesterday
following failure to connect him with
liquor activities, was rearrested q few
hours later by. Sheriff H. u. Patterson
after 1t was found that he bore strik-
ing resemblance to . photograph Of
Fred Burke on Chicago police bulle-
tin. Barton was located in the hills
near the Mexican border and was
brought to Nogales under guard.
Sheriff Patterson Immediately COM
municated with Chicago and st. Joseph,
Mich, oficials in an effort definitely
to establish the identity of his prisoner.
Burke is wanted In the Michigan city
on suspicion Of having killed police
man.
The prisoner emphatically denied he
Is Burke.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
PRESIDENTS SECRETARY WORRIES
OVER UNCOVERED EXECUTIVED DESK
But White House Chief Usher Supplies Substitute for
Tarpaulin.

like" Hoover, the White House chief
he has solved many others. He sent
for pieces of canvas ordinarily used to
cover the sidewalk and the east en-
trance during receptions. This was
thrown over the Presidents desk, to
the great relief of Mr. Akerson, al
though, by the time It had been pro-
cured, the desk was slightly damp.
1t was said at the District Building
this morning that the Fire Department
has only few small tarpaulins, to be
used in extinguishing small fires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
BOMB is SENT THEATER
MAGNATE FOR PRESENT
Receiver of Christmas Parcel and
Daughter Are Injured in
Explosion.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, December 25.-
G. T. Woodlaw, owner of theater here,
was slightly injured and his daughter,
Mrs. H. Kleinschmidt, was burned last
night when Christmas package, deliv-
cred to Woodlaw at his Office in the
theater building, exploded as he was
opening it.
Police said the parcel held a bomb
which contained a mixture of tear and
mustard gas.
Woodlaw's theater, police declared,
has been picketed by union operators
since September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

George Akerson, the Presidents Sec
retary, was rs urbane and unrufied as
ever last night when he stood outside
the executive ofices watching the fire.
men sat their work. But one thing
worried him: There was not, apparent
ly, q tarpaulin of any shape, size or
form In the possession Of the District
Fire Department, and a tarpaulin was
needed very much to protect the Presi-
dents desk from the Hood Of water that
was pouring into the building from the
hose lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
MASONS THWART BLAZE.
New York Clubmen Carry Poor
Children's Gifts to Safety.

NEW YORK, December Is (P).-Fire
almost thwarted Santa Claus today.
A short circuit in electric wiring
started smoky blaze in the auditorium
of the Level Club, Masonic organiza-
ton, where $1,000 worth of gifts for
poor children were stored.
The $50 members of the club seized
armfuls Of the presents and carried
them out to safety. Then, when the
flames were extinguished. they took the
gifts back inside, ready to be distributed
this afternoon.
Damage was principally from water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
TWO SISTERS FOUND DEAD
Police Batter Doors Of Home After
Pair Disappear.

GRAND ISLAND, Nebr., December
rs N1.-Miss Gertrude Lippelt, about
so, q teacher at Grand Island College,
and her sister, Mrs. Marie Kirby, about
SIS years Of age, were found dead when
officers forcibly entered the little cot
tage they were occupying near the coll
lege campus.
several days and suggested the investi-
Sation. Indications pointed to either
asphyxiation from a hard-coal burner
or q suicide pact. authorities said. A
poSt-mortem will be undertaken to de-
termine definitely the cause of death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
GAYLY TRIMMED TREE AND GIRI s
TAKE OFF IN PLANE FOR FLORIDA
Sleigh Bells Jingle Machine With Christmas Decora-
ton Starts With Youngsters for Grandmas Yue Dinner.

accompaniment to the roar of the mo-
tors.
Two modern little girls, Suzanne and
Mary Frances Williams, and z years
old, were on their way TO have Christ
mas dinner with their grandmother.
Pilot Harold Z. McNdahon estimated
the l,2So-mile flight would require IL
hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
Yule Turkey Heaps
Goals of Fire-Gives
Silver Nugget for AK
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOISE, Idaho, December 25.-
Good for evil, Goals of fire-and
all that sort Of thing-is what
John Swift's Christmas turkey
returned in exchange for the ak.
John found silver nugget as
big as pea In the birds craw.
Johns employer says he has
been notified John will not report
until after he has thoroughly in
spected that turkeys grazing
ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
KENTUCKY TRAP FAILS.

Wait by Detectives for Killer Proves
Futile.
LOUISVILLE, KY, December IS up.
Eleven detectives and three patrol
men waited In vain at the Kentucky
and Indiana bridge across the Ohio
River three and a half hours late Mon
day night to be hosts at a surprise
Christmas party for Fred Burke, called
"the most dangerous man alive"
Information that Burke, Chicago
gansters slayer, was headed toward
Louisville had been received by Chief
of Detectives M. Rey Yarberry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

mitchell FIELD. N. Y. December
25.-A gayly decorated Christmas tree
took on shortly before dawn today for
a nonstop flight to Tampa. Fla.
It was trimmed and set up in the
cabin OF the huge biplane Northern
Star OF the American International
Always. Sleigh bells jingled q shrill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
Falling Icicle Kills Man.

CHICAGO, December Is R.-Joshua
Stevenson, jr., SO. was killed yesterday
by an icicle which fell from ware
house in the stock yards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
WEATHER.

Cloudy, continued cold. possible snow
furries tonight; minimum temperature
about 26 degrees; tomorrow partly
cloudy. Temperatures-High 81 at
$3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest 20 at TOO
am. today. Full report on Page 4.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-22
OWENS DENOUNCES
DETECTIVE MILLS
Graduate SIeuth' Arraigned,
Judge Continues Case
for Inquiry.

Diploma mills" that entice young
men to take short course" of home
study on the pretense that after this
education they will be equipped to OPP
crate as detectives, were denounced by
Judge Given in Police Court today.
Ambitious youths, and in many in
stances men of advanced ages, will en-
roll in these mills" and pay tuition
which they cannot afford merely on
the theory that they are soon to become
renowned as detectives, Judge Given
said.
The condemnation followed the ap-
pearance of Sam Glover, 38, colored, ar
rested Friday for carrying dangerous
weapon. According to the testimony of
Detective WiMiam MesSer, arresting OFF,
Ger, Glover when apprehended was
armed with diploma" knife, black
jack and a tin shield on which was in
scribed Special Officer"
Arraigned on the charge, the man ad-
mitted possessing the equipment and
informed the court that he graduated
from preparatory school" in October
Posing as we'll known local detective,
he practiced his art among members of
his race, whom he said retained" him
on occasions. The badge was procured
at a secondhand store, he said; the
diploma after course of home study
Judge Given ordered the case con-
tinued for investigation and declared he
did not believe Glover had any inten-
tons of using his equipment improperly
but believed he was acting in good
faith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-22
AVIATION HISTORY
DEPICTED IN FILM
Public Showing to Be Given at
Central High School Audi
forum Tonight.

"The History of Aviation" a motion
picture showing development of aviation
in this country from the pioneer days
of the Wright brothers down to present
days Of air mindedneSS," will be given
a public showing this evening at 8
O'Clock in the auditorium of Central
High School under the auspices of the
Washington Board of Trade.
The picture, which includes scenes in
numerous history-making flights and
tests made in recent years, was brought
to Washington for public showing by
the trade body in the interest of further
development of aviation here, with an
eye also to encouraging early conStruc-
ton of municipal airport for the Dis
trict
The picture, loaned for the occasion
by Frederick Patterson, Dayton, Ohio,
includes pictures of Orville and Wilbur
Wright, Santos Dumont, Bleroit, Far
mum, CurtiSS, Beachy, Reed, Alcock and
Brown, st. Clair Street, Sadi ,Leconte,
StinSon and Bertrand, Lacudura and
Cantinho, Macready and Kelly, DAISY
and Bernard, Vaughan, DePinedo, Ra-
mon Franco, Cobhan, Byrd and Ben
nett. Maj. Dargue, Lindburg, Cham
berlain and Levine, Byrd and
Acosta. Maitland and Hagenberger,
Smith and Bronte, Dole Derby, Schlee
and Brock, CoSteS and Lebrix, Halde-
man and Elder, Hunnefeld, Koehl and
FitZmaurice, Wilkins and Ellison, Car
rama, Stultz and Earhard, Ferrari and
Del Prete, Collyer and Mears, Gobel and
Tucker, Collyer and Tucker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-22
MAIN STREET CREDITED
FOR BULK OF ARTISTS

Americas artistic stimuli come from
the small towns. not from the big cities,
Representative Ruth Hanna Mccormick
of Illinois said yesterday in announcing
the foundation of the Allied Arts Extern
sion, a cooperative movement for the
exchange of ideas on painting, Sculp-
ture, handicraft and kindred arts.
Main street has produced more
writer's, opera singers, Sculptors and
painters than Broadway ever knew, she
said.
In the smaller towns" she said,
there is a much more genuine and
more general artistic development. The
day is over when the concert company
or road show from the big city, no mat
ter how lowbrow its program, could
invade and capture the small town.
People resent poor-caliber programs
and Immediately ask, What is New
York trying to put over on us now?"
Through the Allied Arts Extension, she
said, communities will arrange for ex-
hibits of fine arts, handicraft and the
production of the drama on par with
the productions of the Theater Guild.
An art committee, including such men
as dorado Taft, Winthrop AmeS and
Andrew Wright Crawford, will review
each exhibit or dramatic production be-
fore it is presented