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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
Two Treated for Poison
Swallowed by Mistake

Two persons received medical
attention late yesterday as a
result of swallowing poison oy
mistake.
Mrs. Daisy McKeever, Al, was
treated at her home in the 5000
block M st. N. W., by the family
physician.
Three year-old Richard Coffren,
of Capitol Heights, Md, found a
bottle of poison and drank A
small quantity. His screams at
tracted his parents who rushed
him to Casualty Hospital. After
treatment he was taken home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
Hoover Still Looking
For Man to Accept
Tokyo Post

President Hoover is having
difficulty filling the post OF
Ambassador to Japan.
Roy o. West, former Secre-
tary of the Interior, who re-
turned to his business interests
in Chicago at the expiration of
the Coolidge administration,
was recently under considera-
ton. but informed the White
House he was mot available"
The post also was offered to
former Gov. Alvin T. Fuller
of Massachusetts,, but he de-
clined it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
Bandits Batter Runner
And Flee With $4,000

PHILADEL PHIA, Dec. 5
0N.SO Three bandits battered
a runner of the Overlook Ma
tional Bank, of West Philadel-
phia, unconscious early today and
escaped in an automobile with
his bag containing between $40,-
600 and $4,000 in checks.
The messenger, William Hollo,
way, recovered in time to see the
car speed away.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
Radio Photo OverSea
Catches Fugitive

forged transfer papers. had been
a fugitive from justice.
The photograph. believed to be
the first use of transatlantic
Photographic service for criminal
enabled private de
tectives to prove to officials of
Scotland Yard Westgaard was
the man they wanted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
H|T-RUN SLAYER
IS SOUGHT

SILVER SPRING, Md, Dec. 5.
Silver Spring police are seeking
the hit-and-run driver who is be-
lieved to have struck and killed
william Johnson, colored, IS, last
night on the Colesville Road near
Browns Corner.
The aged negro was found
lying in the highway by Reed
Richmond, of Baltimore. Ac-
cording to police, the mans skull
had been crushed in, and the
force of the blow had torn the
soles from his feet. Sergt. Guy
Jones and Officer Charles Barnes
went to the scene of the fatality,
later summoning DR.. w. r.
Haynes, of Silver Spring. who
said the man had died instantly.
The victim was a native Of
Washington and had been enl-
ployed on the farm of Walter
Gates, near Colesville. No one
is known to have witnessed the
accident.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 GNS).-
A radio photograph flashed across
the Atlantic Ocean today had re-
suited in the identification and
arrest at Harwich, England, bf
C. S. WeStergaard who, since Llis
having obtained 100000 from the
Chase National Bank here last
October, allegedly by the use OF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
SMUGGLING
NOT YET
ENDED


II the sea and lake coasts are
to be adequately protected against
rum smuggling, the forces of the
Coast Guard must be augmented
both in personnel and vessels,
Rear Admiral F.. C. Billiard, COM
mandant, declared in his annual
report today.
While pointing out that law en-.
forcement operations proceeded in
a gratifying manner during the
year, Billiard declared that this
matter continues to be one re-
curing the utmost vigilance and
attention at all times"
Constant Vigilance Needed
Nothing short of this constant
Intensive watchfulness along and
adjacent to the shore line, and
the cruising over wide areas at
sea by the vessels of the service,
will serve to prevent the persist
,ent efforts of the Smuggler in
forwarding, and succeeding in, his
design to land liquor on the coast,
or in some port, disguisedly
among the large volume of legiti-
mate traffic." Billiard said. 8
There is no doubt that any
lessening of service forces at this
time would be followed by an
immediate and corresponding in
crease in liquor smuggling. Some
liquor smuggling is still going on
along the seaboard and there re-
mains a considerable amount of
smuggling on the Great Lakes,
where rum runners are very &C
tive"
Billiard asserted that if the forces
Of the Coast Guard were in
creased, smuggling could be
greatly curtailed or even elimi-
mated. He declared the problem
is no less troublesome this year
than in 1928, and urged favorable
consideration of recommendations
for more men and boats.
"It is perfectly evident that the
smuggler has no intention of vol
unfairly abandoning his unlawful
pursuit" Billiard said. I'm plain
words there is nothing to do but
to put him out of business. This
can be done and the Coast Guard
will do it if the necessary means
to accomplish that end are placed
at its disposal"
Discipline Satisfactory
According to the report "a very
satisfactory state of service dis
cipline obtained during the year"
That there was an appreciable
decrease in major violations Of
discipline and of offences calling
for punishment it was stated.
The Coast Guard rescued from
peril 4,375 persons during the
year the report said. A total OF
80,263 vessels were boarded and
2,571 seized or reported for VIC
lations of the law.
The I'm alone incident was not
mentioned. In that case a Coast
Guard cutter on the Gulf of Mex
leo sank an alleged Canadian rum
runner. The case has been re-
ferred to international arbitration.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
TOO MANY SPUDS

TALLIN, Esthonia, Dec. s.
Esthonia, known as the "Po-
tato Republic" is faced with
glut of potatoes, and the govern
ment is attempting to find ways
of disposing of the oversupply.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
Two-Headed Calf Draws
Crowds to SeIbee Farm

CLIMAX, Mich, Dec. 5.-A call
born with two heads. three eyes,
four noses, three sets of horns
and it's tongue upside down, Is
attracting crowds to the farm Of
Otis Selbee, near here.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
BUSINESS WOMEN MEET

CLARENDON, Va. Dec. s.
The Arlington County Business
and Professional Woman'S Club
will give a dance at the Ashton
Heights Clubhouse on Saturday
evening. Mrs. Emma Weekly
and Miss Lorena HeiShman are
the committee in charge of the
arrangements.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-05
U. WOMEN. TO MEET

The University of Michigan
Women'S Club will hold their
monthly luncheon at the A. A.
U. w. Club on Eye Street at l
o'clock today,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

trafic policeman, and the wounding Of
two other persons. A fourth man. Tony
Missouri penitentiary.
The men under sentences Of death
for murder are John MESSING, Tony
Mangiaracina and Carl Nasello.
Sammy Stein, accused as the actual
slayer of the policeman, has never been
captured.
Nagle was not an actual participant
in the robbery and the bullet-protected
escape through streets crowded with
delegates and spectators on their way
to the morning session Of the Republi-
can convention June II. But the State
contended that he was conspirator in
the hold-up.
The State virtually waived the death
sentence when 1t failed to qualify the
jurors on 1t.
The jury received the case last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26
.EVANGEL|NE BOOTH
RECOVERY LIKELY
Salvation Army Commander
Progressing FavorabIy
After Auto Crash.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, May 25-Comdr.
Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army
as reported progressing as favorably as
can be expected" tonight from injuries
received in an automobile accident
She is being treated at her home for
conclusion of the brain and Commissions
of the eye
Comdr Booth was injured when her
chauffeur suddenly Swerved his car
across ditch to avoid hitting the auto
in front of him which turned across
the road. There was not enough room to
pass between the car and a telephone
pole at the edge of the pavement.
The commander was thrown against
the top and side of the car and was
badly shaken.
She was on her way to the army
headquarters here and was taken back
to her home.
First announcement Of the accident
was made today when she was forced
to cancel lecture engagement as Cleve-
land, scheduled for tomorrow.
Army officials announced that there
was mo immediate cause for alarm"
over her condition. The accident was
unavoidable. they said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

Court on charges of false pretenses.
Policeman william B. Piper Of the third
precinct arrested James Bullock. 10, of
the 1900 block Of Fourth street and
Rudolph Austin. 10, of the 1000 block
of Georgia avenue, whom he alleges
procured 1900 counterfeit tickets to the
competitive drill this year. They had
them printed, Piper charged, and sold
them for Is cents each.
More than $50 tickets, which Piper
said he seized at q printing shop, and
So which he said were taken from a
salesman, were exhibited as evidence
today.
Judge Schuldt ordered probation Of
ficers to investigate the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26
Counterfeit TICKET
SALE IS CHARGED
Two Colored Youths Alleged to
Have Sold Seats to
Cadet Drills.

In recent years officials of colored
high schools have attempted to solve a
problem which annually confronted
them at competitive cadet drills. AL
though accounts were carefully checked,
they always lost money on ticket sales,
in spite of the fact that all seats were
filled and many sales were made.
A possible clue was revealed yesterday
when two colored youths were arraigned
before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

parel and all manufactures of silk were
increased to IS per cent from so per
cent.
The rates on unshelled and shelled
pecanS we're raised by another amend
ment from and cents a pound, re-
Spectively. to and 10 cents.
The rate on photographic paper was
boosted to Az cents a pound and 10
per cent advalorem from Az cents II
embossed or printed otherwise than
lithographically, an additional duty of
10 per cent instead of per cent would
be provided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26
CONVICTED AS AID
IN HOLD-UP OF BANK
Owner of Car Used in Kansas City
Robbery During Republican
Convention Gets Life Term.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, May 25-Maurice
Maggie, whose automobile five robbers
used last June during the national Re-
publican convention in the hold-up of
the Home Bank & Trust Co.. was found
guilty OF murder here yesterday by a
jury and given life imprisonment.
Three men are waiting to die for their
part in the robbery, which resulted in
the murder of j. H. Happy" Smith, a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26
COPELAND TO SPEAK.
Senator Will Address Memorial
Service This Afternoon.

Service This Afternoon.
Senator Copeland of New York will
address the annual memorial service at
the Stanley Hall Theater of the Sol
diers' Home today at o'clock
The service will be held primarily
for the benefit of all the veteran or.
CARNATIONS within the home, as well
as all other members of the home end
their friends. 1t has no official con-
nection with the decoration exercises
on May 80.
The United States Soldiers Home
Band will play several selections Rev
H. Allen Griffith. chaplain Of the
home, will officiate.
Australia produced $4,000 tons of
dried fruits in the season just closed,
breaking all records.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

In advertising its twentieth anniver-
sary recently a London store used an
electric sign containing 10000 lamps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

Seaboard Air Line shows some i'm
April and four months net
up ST per cent above 1928.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
FOOD IS PROVIDED
ALLEGED LUNATICS
Gallinger officials Supply Patients
Awaiting Court Hearings With
Sandwiches and Coffee.

Following criticism leveled at the
management of Gallinger Hospital for
failure to provide food for alleged luna
tics awaiting hearings before the Dis
trict Supreme Court, hospital attendants
today came to court provided with a
large quantity of sandwiches which,
with coffee, were distributed among the
six persons whose cases had not been
reached when Justice Frederick L. Sid
dons adjourned court at 1880 for
luncheon.
Two women and Tour men who re-
manned to be tried when the noon re-
cess was announced were taken by the
hospital attendants, policemen and
deputy United States marshals into a
shaded spot in Judiciary Square, ad-
jacent to the courthouse, where they
eagerly devoured the sandwiches.
Eight other women, whose cases had
been disposed of. were returned to the
hospital in time for luncheon there.
It was explained by hospital authori-
ties that the reason patients in the past
had been obliged to go without food
during the noon hour was because ii
was expected the court hearings would
be finished in time to return the pa
tients to the hospital for luncheon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
GALLAGHER HELD
BY GRAND JURY
indictment Charges He
Forged and Uttered Postal
Money Order.

Charles F. Gallagher, sometimes
known as Reds" was indicted today
by the grand jury on charge of forg-
ing and uttering postal money order
He is under arrest in Baltimore await
ing a hearing set for Monday.
The indictment alleges that May
last money order for $50 was sent
from the National Soldiers Home in
Virginia to the order of j. R. Humphrey,
secretary of the Bricklayers' Union, No.
/. 1t is alleged to have come into the
possession of Gallagher, who is said to
have cashed it at store where he
bought a pair of pants for SIS and re-
ceived SIS in cash, it is stated.
The grand jurors returned Is other
three cases. The cases ignored are
Charles w. Donalds and Edward H
Clark, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny, anc
James Walsh, robbery. Others indicted
and the charges against them include
n-Support-BrookS Ross Newton
Alfred L. Kebler, julius D. Scheer
Lewis AlonZo Dodson, Vernon w. Fow
Ter, Julian James Cook, Lemuel John
ston, Howard Fowler and Walter Collier
Grand larceny-Louvia G. johnson
g cases., Adrian Frederic Bried, Georg
Cheslock, James N. Bradford, Gilber
Hudson, Edward Barrett, Willie Saun
derS, Leroy Adams, alias Henry Clark
William Thompson and Clara Carter.
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny-Normar
Curley, Edgar Lee Bigham and William
Miller.
oy-riding-Louis A. Anderson, John
Johnson and Edwin Williams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
DISTILLING MODEL
REPORTED STOLEN
Former Patent Office Employe
Asks Police to Recover
Invention.

Lost or stolen: one model of a dis
filling apparatus with which Wallace G.
Stone, formerly an employe in the Pat
ent ONCE, hoped to demonstrate that
all Objectionable features of the art OF
distilling may be eliminated.
Stone, who resides at the La Sale
Apartments, Connecticut avenue and L
streets, yesterday asked the police to
eliminate an Objectionable feature out
side the scope Of his inventive genius.
The model is missing from room IN
the basement of the apartment build1ng,
Stone reported, and he wants 1t back.
Fearing the apparatus has been dis
mantled and the metal sold, Stone, who
intended applying for patent, is pre-
pairing to bring out his blue prints and
start work on another model.
TheftS of money from apartments
and of articles from parked automobiles
were reported to police last night. John
Chase of 916 Fourth street southeast.
reported that his home was entered
during his absence and 5000 stolen from
a room on the second floor.
A cut screen in basement window at
4404 Fifteenth street revealed to VIII
liam e. Gable the manner in which en-
trance was gained to his home. The
sum of $25 was taken from the room OF
H. H. Green, roomer, police were told.
Leon Chatelain, jr., of the Valley
Vista Apartments, left two raincoats
and an umbrella in his automobile when
he parked on L street, between Fourth
and Fifth streets, and he reported to
police that when he returned to the
car the articles were missing.
A report from Hileary Middleton, 1915
Twenty-eighth street, that his home
was entered last night through side
window, was being investigated. Mid
dleton reported nothing lost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
WARNING SAVES MOTHER.
Daughters Action Limits Liquor
Evidence Gathered by Police.

Pour out that stuff, the law is here"
yelled Evelyn Jones, colored, to her
mother Sallie as she saw an automobile
pull up to the front of the house and
two officers alight, the police reported
yesterday.
Evelyn's warning was trifle too late
to keep her mother from getting locked
up and charged with the possession of
whisky at the eleventh precinct, but
yesterday in Police Court Assistant
United States Attorney David A. Hart
decided that the gill of alleged liquor
which the police drained from Sallie's
half-gallon jar was not enough evidence
to bring the woman to trial, so she was
turned loose.
Policemen r. j. Walters and S. H.
Miles went to the premises in the 1900
block of Forty-ninth street northeast
after they had received a. Tip" that an
escaped Gallinger patient was hiding
there. AS they drove up they heard
the young colored girl give the alarm
and rushed into the house to see the
kaotiler hurl jar out of rear window.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
MEXICO SOON TO LINK
HIGHWAY TO U. S. BORDER
Construction Will Be Finished by
First of Year, According to
Present Plans.

MEXICO CITY Especially The city
of Tampico, state of Tamaulipas, i'm
portant as a banana center and as q
port on the Gulf of Mexico, will be
linked with the American border by the
first of the year, according to present
plans.
Work will be begun in about two
weeks on a highway from Tampico to
Limon, which is connected by a road
with Ciudad Victoria, capital of Tamau-
lipas. This Tampico- Limon branch will
then connect with the national high
way. now under construction, which is
already open from Laredo, Tex, to
Ciudad Victoria.
An engineering commission is al
present studying conditions with view
to pos IDLY changing the proposed route
of the national highway and bringing
it through Tampico instead Of through
San Luis Potosi.
Construction of the highway from
Ciudad Victoria to the border city OF
Matamoros, opposite Brownsville, Tex
will probabI. be ready fot traffic In
April, according to Robert T. Sparks
assistant construction superintendent Of
the b. w. Kuhn Co., which Is building
the road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
II. |. FORD RETlRES
FROM NAVAL POST
Associate Engineer at Hydro.
graphic Office Has Record of Al
Years Of Service.

Harry l. Ford, associate engineer of
the photographic Office, Navy Depart
ment, is being transferred to the re-
tired list after Al years of service, the
Navy Department announced today.
Born in Trenton, N. j., September %,
1864, Mr.. Ford enlisted in the Navy
at Mare Island. Calf. April l, 1888,
and served with the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey until March, 1899,
holding the rating of master at arms
Later he served in Alaskan waters and
in 1908 was appointed to the Hydro
graphic office here.
Mr.. Ford was III charge of the topo-
graphic survey in Cuba from 1908 to
1924 and in the latter year was de-
tailed to the ~. S. S. Niagara and as
sisted in surveying the Gulf of Venez-
uela. He was attached in 1925 to the
chart construction division of the
photographic Office
Due to his Is years of service in the
tropics, Mr.. Ford was eligible for re-
tirement three years ago, when he
reached the age of 81, but he con-
tinued on active duty, despite this
privilege. His home is at the Mercy
noldS Apartments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
PRISONERS BLOOD
SAVES SECOND PAIR
Man Sentenced Wednesday
Selected for TRANSMISSION
After Volunteering.

Another mother with newborn
baby was saved from death Wednesday
night by the blood of one of two pris-
oners at the District Jail who recently
gave their blood to keep dying mother
and her infant alive, it was revealed at
Gallinger Hospital today.
The prisoners, Edward M. Taylor and
P. r. Manson, answered the call sent
out from Gallinger Hospital Wednesday
night for volunteers for blood trans
fusion with the same alacrity and will
ingness they displayed on August Is
when they hurried to the institution on
a similar errand.
In this case the mother was brought
into the hospital Wednesday evening In
a critical condition. Realizing that a
blood TRANSMISSION was the only hope
to save her life, hospital physicians sent
out a call for volunteers to the District
Jail. Manson and Taylor offered them
selves Immediately.
At the hospital, Taylor, selected by
physicians, gave pint of blood. Fol-
lowing the operation doctors said both
the mother and baby rallied shortly
after the TRANSMISSION.
Manson was sentenced Wednesday In
the District Supreme Court to three
years in the penitentiary for forgery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
CAPPFR WILL AID
Promises to Work for Laws Covering
Sale of Securities


Assurance that the Senate District
committee will take up in the regular
session legislation to regulate the sale
Of securities in Washington was given
by Chairman Capper in a letter to
District Attorney Rover last night. in
which the Senator commended efforts of
the district attorneys office in regard
to that subject and also Endorsed steps
. being taken to stamp out violations of
the gambling laws.
Senator Capper told Mr.. Rover that
he would be glad to consider any Sug-
gestions the district attorneys Office
may have relative to further legisla-
ton along these lines.
Il have noted with interest and graft
fication," wrote Senator SCapAer. your
efforts to deal effectively With those
who, under the guiSe Of buying and
selling stocks, are defrauding many
citizens.
st am pleased to note also your &C.
tivity in attempts to enforce the laws
against gambling Undoubtedly there
. is urgent need for vigorous effort to end
the activities of bu\Ket shop operators,
as well as those who have been selling
fraudulent securities in the District of
Columbia.
such frauds are a menace to the
public, and ! can not commend too
strongly your effort to put an end to
a condition which is disgrace to the
National Capital. If you feel the need
of additional legislation to deal with
the bucket shop type Of swindle, I
shall be glad to receive your recon-
mendations, which am sure will have
the earnest consideration OF every
member of the District committee.
"The vigorous prosecution also Of
those who have made business of
gambling to the detriment of thousands
Of individuals and families who can Ill
afford the losses they have suffered Is
also to be commended"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
CARDINALS FLEE VATICAN,
THOUGH PONTIFF STAYS
Plus Spends His Vacation by Cool
Fountains in Gardens of
Papal Palace.

ROME (N.A.N.A).-In and around
st. Peters all is quiet. There is hardly
a cardinal left in Rome. Cardinal
Gasparri is taking a six-week rest in
Umbria, but the Pope, though he need
no longer do so, elected to spend his
holidays within the confines of the
Vatican. 1t Is hot, and more than 900
gallons of water an hour run through
the fountains in the Vatican gardens
Perhaps the cool fountains tempted
Plus XXI to stay beside them.
There is in the gardens, too, a lit
tie round marquee, which Pope Benedict
XIV had built. He called it the coffee
house, because he was wont to sip his
coffee there after dinner during his
holidays. The present Pope drives from
the palace to the gardens in his beau
tiful motor, and has spent number of
the hot afternoons of his vacation in
the coffee house. Its curtains can be
pulled around to inclose it entirely. or
drawn back to make it a beautifully
airy Summer house.
(Copyright, 1929, North American Newspaper
Allance)