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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
CHEAP FLU LIQUOR
MOVE THROTTLED
ParIey Is Asked to Go on Rec
ord in Favor of Price
Control.

An attempt to get the National Con-
ference on Influenza to go on record
in favor of some form of Federal con-
troll of the price of medicinal liquor
as one method of combating spread of
influenza epidemics was promptly and
effectively squelched today during the
closing deliberations of the mobilized
Public Health officials and scientists.
DR.. Frank G.. Atwood of New Haven,
Conn, paved the way for indignant
protests from several delegates by urg-
ing that the seal of approval be
placed on Federal regulation of medici-
nal liquor prices to eliminate prefiteer-
ing and bring the price within the
reach Of any influenza patient.
With good liquor selling in Canada
at about s1.35 quart, he told the con-
ference, medicinal liquor should not
cost patients in the United States over
81. He had just begun to tell the health
officials that in his opinion "a few days
use of liquor was of value in the treat
ment of influenza patients" when DIR.
Arthur T. Mccormick of Kentucky
Jumped to his feet to make a point of
order against the speaker. 1--WE all
know that liquor has nothing at all to
do with the f1u," the Kentucky health
officer admonished, after DR.. Atwood
had succeeded in getting in another
protest that 1--WE are forced to pay
altogether too much for it,
Protests to Chairman.
At this point, DR.. H. F. Vaughan,
Detroit health officer, Indignantly pro-
tested to the chairman against the
danger of diverting the real object of
the conference" Other members began
mixing into the controversy, when AS
sistant Surgeon General G. G. Pierce,
who was presiding, called the meeting
to order
Bringing its sessions to close. the
conference adopted resolutions point
ing the way for congressional action
in making preventable recurrence OF the
influenza epidemic which has now as
sumed almost Nationwide proportions
In line with the bill introduced by
Representative Edwards of Georgia au-
thorizing a $25,000000 appropriation in
view of the existing epidemic, the con-
ference adopted a resolution petitioning
Congress to grant larger appropriations
for the Public Health Service for the
extension of research work in the in
veStigation of influenza, cancer and
other pernicious diseases. It was Of
fered by DR.. Joseph c. Bloodgood Of
Johns Hopkins University.
Defense System Asked.
A second resolution of equal impor-
tance appealed to Congress to create
system of national health defense"
providing machinery whereby the Pub
lie Health Service could cooperate more
adequately with rural sections which
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
YOUTH CONFESSES
IN GAS MYSTERY
Tells Police He Wished to
Make 0eclinants of House
III for Robbery.

The mystery surrounding the apparent
attempt early yesterday TO asphyXiate
the staff of women at the Friendship
House, the settlement house at 326 Vir-
ginia avenue southeast, was solved with
the arrest this morning of William
Alfonso johnson, colored, 20 years old,
of 314 F. street southwest, who has con-
fessed to turning on all the burners of
gas stove ito make everybody sick
so he could rob the place."
He Is charged with assault with intent
to kill. three cases of housebreaking and
two of larceny.
Miss Lydia Burklin manager of the
house, was awakened by slight noise
and going to the kitchen found the six
jets of the gas stove on and the room
full of gas. She threw open all the
windows and called the police. Detective
F. L. Arlington, of the fifth precinct,
who arrested Johnson, and Headquarters
Detective James Collins were assigned
to investigate. Seven women were in
the house at the time.
johnson was traced through discovery
Of his overcoat, in pocket Of which
was his knife, outside window and an
investigation of all former employees. He
was discharged by Miss Burklin last
September. Arlington found him at his
home early this morning.
According to Arlington, johnson ad-
mitted breaking into the place Thursday
and also January l and during the
middle of November He is said to have
stolen coat on the first occasion and
cape the second time. The last time
he is alleged to have taken bunch of
keys and few cents found in a desk
johnson is quoted by Arlington as
saying that he did not intend to kill
any one AS the women workers at
Friendship House had always been kind
to him, but merely wanted to make
them i'll so he could ransack the house
without being disturbed
He also told the detective that he
stood in the kitchen until he heard Miss
Burklin coming and then he ran. Police
say this would have been impossible
because the room was so completely
filled with gas that he would have GER
tainly been overcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 11.-A
World War veteran, held here for the
murder of his former wife, waited with
apparent satisfaction today for the law
to take its course, maintaining that his
execution would complete strange
death pact and unite him with his erst-
while mate in the hereafter. He is Gar
la i Williams, %, who saw service in
Siberia and who is accused of Staying
Mrs. Lorraine Ambrose, whose body was
found in hotel room here Sunday.
When arrested in hotel yesterday,
Williams held out his wrists smilingly
for the handouts Police said he con-
fessed killing the woman, assuring them
he would have given himself up as soon
as he had wound up his affairs.
Police said Williams made an amaz-
ing confession, in which he said he
killed Mrs Ambrose in death pact
that was to be completed when the law
claimed his life for the murder.
He said he elected 70 be hanged be-
cause he objected to suicide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
VAN LEER FAVORS
COMBINING BILLS
Best Parts of Brookhart,
LehIbaCh Acts Would Be
Kept by Him.

After careful analysis of the Brook
hart and Lehlbach pay bills pending
before Congress, Capt. Carlos Van Leer,
chairman Of the Personnel Classifica-
tion Board, today declared that in his
opinion the most satisfactory salary
measure for the Government would be
combination of the best points of
each of these bills.
The part of the Brookhart bill which
Capt. Van Leer would retain would be
that which establishes the same num-
Der of steps in each grade, as existed
under the classification act before the
WEIGH bill changed the number of
steps. This feature. which has been
generally approved by most of the rep
resentatives of Government employees,
would enable all persons in the Gov
ernment service to be promoted equally
by placing them in the same relative
step in the new law, which they held
in the old. 1t was Controller General
McCarl's mathematical formula that
put the workers from seven into five and
six steps which met widespread criti-
cism from the employees organization
and others.
Chairman Van Leer would discard
the mathematical formula in the Lehl-
bach measure for placing persons in
the same relative positions for the
Brookhart provision establishing the
same number OF steps. But the chair
man is for retention of that part of
the Lehlbach bill which gives to the
classification board full authority to al
locate all positions in the Government.
Further criticism of the Lehlbach
mathematical formula came today from
-J.e WsrKarsner, chief of the docket sec
tion OF the Federal Trade Commission,
whose extensive brief of Is pages
against the McCarl formula not only
was laid before McCarl, but also before
the House civil service committee.
Karsner said that his objection to the
McCarl formula was sustained by 10
OF the leading mathematical experts in
colleges, universities and technical
schools of the United States. Karsner
charged that the Lehlbach formula was
dS eIIOueOuS dS tie MCOdIl 1OTululd.
Sirovich Would Abolish Board.
Proposal to abolish the personnel
board and to transfer its powers, duties
and functions to the United States Civil
Service Commission is made in bill
introduced in the House today by Rep
resentatiye Sirovich, Democrat, of New
York.
Representative Sirovich said that COM
plants are coming to members of Con-
gress from hundreds of thousands of
Government employees and that these
complaints all lead to the personnel
board. Whatever Congress enacts is
misinterpreted by this board, Mr.. Siro-
vich complained.
He declared that the work for an eff
ficient and satisfied personnel should not
be divided, but unified, and for this rea-
son he would turn it all back to the
Civil Service Commission.
The new bill provides that annual in
creases in compensation shall be made
upon the attainment and maintenance
of excellent or satisfactory efficiency
ratings to the next higher rate Within
the salary range of the grades until
the maximum is reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
Graf Zeppelin to Fly to Arctic, Alaska,
u. S., and Maybe Around the World in 1929

Commerce from H r. Buckley, United
States trade commissioner at Paris.
The dirigible will be used by scien-
tif1c expedition to be headed by DR..
Fridtjof Nansen, noted explorer. The
expedition has been arranged by the
Society for the Exploration of the
Arctic. and the big airship has been
placed at the disposal of the explorers
by the Zeppelin works and the German
government, according to Commissioner
Buckleys message. The dirigible will
be used also for fight to Alaska by
way of Siberia to ascertain the prac-
ticability of that route for regular flights
from Europe and America.
The transatlantic trips to this country
are to be made in June and July, the
Associated Press dispatch states. Pas
sengers. mail and freight will be carried
on these two trips, Dr. Eckener said
The round-the-world trip would be un-
dertaken later in the Summer, depend
ing largely upon DR.. Eckener's ability
to replenish his motor fuel gas in this
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
CAILLAUX'S MONOCLE
NEARLY COSTS HIM EYE
French Leader Injured When Auto
Skids Into Another on Icy
Pavement.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 1.-THE ever-pres-
ent monocle of Joseph Caillaux, former
premier, nearly cost him the sight OF
his right eye when he was injured in
an automobile accident near Chartres
Yesterday. His nose was broken and
his eve injured, but it was announced
today that there was no permanent
injury.
The former premier was riding in a
closed car and reading correspondence
when his automobile skidded on an icy
pavement. 1t was foggy and the ma
chine crashed into another automobile.
M. Caillaux hastened to Paris after
the crash, but arrived too late to at
tend the opening session of the Senate.
in which he had intended to take part
in the attack on the Poincare cabinet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
DOLLAR LINE SHIP
AGROUND ON REEF
Tugs Try to Pull President Adams
Free Outside Cristobal
Breakwater.
By the Associated Press.

p$ bft ASSOCIATED ETeSS.
PANAMA, January 1.-THE steam
ship President Adams of the Dollar Line,
bound for San Francisco by way of the
Panama Canal, struck a reef outside Of
the Cristobal breakwater today and
went aground. At o'clock this morn
ing three tugs began trying to pull her
free.
The President Adams left Boston De-
cember 30 and New York January 3
with 80 passengers for Marseille by way
of Havana and San Francisco, calling
also at Far East and Mediterranean
ports en- route.
Most of the passengers, it was said
at the Dollar Line offices, were making
the complete trip. A few were to dis
embark at Havana and San Francisco.
The President Adams, Of $500 tons
net register, was formerly known as the
Centennial State She was built at Cam
den, N j., in 1921.
Cristobal is on the Atlantic side of
the canal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
GUNMAN SLAIN, TWO
POLICEMEN WOUNDED
Battle Follows Complaint of Toledo
Man He Was Ousted From
Home by Pair.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Ohio, January 11.-An un-
identified man was killed and two po-
licemen were wounded in gun fight
early today which started after Mike
Henison complained to police that he
had been forcefully elected from his
home by two men, one of them "a De-
troit man armed with two guns"
Two officers accompanied HENSON to
his home and as they approached the
house one of the men tried to escape
and an exchange of bullets followed.
The man, identified only as Mike, ="
died from five bullet wounds. Charles
Dolly. one of the policemen. received a
bullet below his heart, which may prove
fatal, and the other officer, Ben Rabe,
vaa wounded in the hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11

Five members of the crew of an Army
transport plane which left the Army
Air Depot at Middletown, Pa, for Boil
ling Field here were killed when the
machine early this afternoon crashed
at Royalton, Pa, near the Army Air
Depot at Middletown.
The plane was piloted by Lieut.. Rob-
ert Angel, attached to the field here,
and contained seven passengers, all en-
listed men, who were being transported
TO Washington.
The injured men, including Lieut.
Robert Angel, were rushed to a Har-
risburg, Pa, hospital.
The passengers in the plane were
Sergt. Charles Maylon, Pvt. Samuel
Jones, Pvt. Clarence Bird, Staff Sergt.
Rudolph j. LeHutton, Pvt Mike B.
Kelly and Staff Sergt. Henry Cronan.
All were attached to Boiling Field.
Early reports did not identity the dead.
Associated Press dispatches said the
ticket agent of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road at Middletown first reported that
he saw the plane leave the field at
finally fall. He rushed to the scene and
helped extricate four bodies from the
wreckage. Another man was dying, he
said.
The wrecked plane, an Army trans
port, three-motored Fokker, was of the
same type as the Question Mark, Army
endurance plane. The plane, piloted by
Capt. H. A. Dinger, also attached to
Boiling Field, lett the local field this
morning. 1t had arrived safely at the
Middletown base and was returning to
Washington under command of Lieut..
Angel when the crash occurred. Early
reports indicated that Capt. Dinger had
been killed, but it was learned later
that he left Middletown in an am
phibian shortly before the big Fokker
took to the air.
No cause fer the crash of the plane
has been determined.
identification of the dead could not
be made Immediately, officials of the
Middletown airport said, as they had
no record of the occupants.
The plane came to Middletown for
supplies and as a training trip for the
men at Boiling Field, Capt. Frederick
s. Christy, commandant at the air field,
said.
AT the Harrisburg hospital it was
reported Lieut.. Angel had both arms
broken and severe head injuries
The occupants of the plane had to
be sawed out of the wreckage.
At the airport it was said that the
cause of the wreck might never be
known because the machine was so COM
pletely wrecked 1t was apparent that
Lieut.. Angel attempted to make forced
landing. The plane came down between
rows of trees and close to houses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
By THOMAS r. HENRY.

y
YORK. Pa, January 11.--John Curry,
IA, is awaiting the verdict of a jury
which may send him to the electric
chair or to life imprisonment.
The trial of the boy for the murder
of Nelson D. Rehmeyer, aged recluse
and alleged witch doctor, on Thanks
giving eve ended this morning.
The work of drawing a jury to try
the third defendant in this weird
murder case, Wilbert Sess, started at
once.
In his final plea to the jury, Com
monWealth Attorney August Hermann
urged that you should stop your ears
ana close your eyes to the age of the
defendant"
His mind is as old as his muscles" {"
Hermann said. He is as accountable
as any of you would be-"
In 1nStructing the jury, Judge Ray P.
Sherwood said he could see no justifica-
ton in the evidence for bringing in a
verdict OF voluntary manslaughter, for
which the maximum penalty is 10 years
imprisonment. Second degree murder
carries penalty of from 10 to 20 years.
Sought to Break "Hex" Spell.
William A. Vanbaman, attorney for
Curry, had insisted that the three
purpose of securing a lock of the re-
cluse's hair to break a witchcraft spell
and that Curry was influenced by John
Blymeyer, who was sentenced to life
imprisonment for the murder. Con-
siderable witchcraft evidence is likely
to be brought out in the trial of young
Hess, who, it is alleged, was induced to
go on the strange expedition because
his family, beset by illness and run
of hard luck, believed they were be-
witched. Hess mother, a middle-aged,
motherly-looking country woman, sat
beside him as the drawing of jurors
started
The machinery of justice moved swift
ly yesterday afternoon in the York
County courtroom, where this Curry, a
black haired boy of IA sat beside his
sobbing young mother and listened
to testimony which might send him to
the electric chair.
Seems to Enjoy Attention.
Under cross-examination on the wit
ness stand the boy was dry-eyed and at
times, trif1e defiant. He had started
out Thanksgiving eve on thrilling boy
ish adventure with apparently no
thought that it would end in such a
predicament. Now he was afraid, but
mixed in the fear there seemed little
vainglory that he should be the center
of so much attention.
Fatherless child of the factory tene-
ments, said to have been. driven from
Continued on Page 2, Column S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
81 Women Among
5000 i'm u. S. Given
Right to Fly Planes

By the Associated Press.
On the first day of the year,
$500 persons held authority from
the Commerce Department to
pilot airplanes, and "a of them
were women.
Of the total. 1927 of the pilots
held transport licenses, the high
est grade of certificate for ci-
william aviator, allowing them to
engage in interstate commerce;
l,105 were authorized to fly pri-
vate machines and 532 were linn
tied commercial pilots. Two of
the women ranked as transport
pilots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
Cameramen, Facing
Arrest on Mayors
Order, Flee York
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

YORK, Pa. January IL
Newspaper photographers, who
have been conspicuous about the
courthouse here in the YORK
witch" murder trial, were alb
sent yesterday.
According to local news
paper. they departed hastily
Wednesday night after an ulti-
matum from the mayor that
any one caught on the street with
camera would be arrested and
put in Jail for disorderly conduct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
R0NGETTI JURY VOTES
MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT
Chicago Jurors Convict Physician
Who Was Granted Retria1
After Death Sentence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January ia verdict of
manslaughter, carrying penalty of to
IA years, was returned today by the
jury trying DR.. Amante Rongetti on a
charge of numbering Miss Loretta Enders
through an alleged Illegal operation.
On his first trial, Rongetti was sem
fenced to death, but the Supreme Court
granted retriaL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
YORK WA|F FOUND
GUILTY OF MURDER
14-Year-0Id Boy Convicted
in Murder of RecIuSe
witch Doctor"

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
YORK, Pa, January 11.-John
Curry, IA, this afternoon was found
guilty of murder in the first degree,
carrying sentence of life imprison-
ment, for the murder of Nelson
Rehmeyer, elderly recluse and alleged
witch doctor, by jury in the York
County Court.
The jury was out approximately
two hours. The severity of the ver-
dict came as a great surprise to the
crowds which milled in the corri-
dorS of the courthouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
Seven Enlisted Men in Big
Passenger Transport Ship
Which Falls to Earth Near
Army Airport.
FOUR BODIES EXTRICATED,
ONE MAN FOUND DYING
Capt. Dinger, Who Piloted Machine
East, Escapes Death by Turning
Stick Over to Lieut.. Robert Angel,
Who Is in Hospital With Two
Broken Legs.

Lieut.. Angel, pilot of the plane,
died at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon.
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WEN HEN.
20. 8. Weather Bureau Foreeastl
Light rain or snow and colder tonight;
tomorrow fair and much colder; lowest
temperature tonight about % degrees.
Temperatures: Highest, 81, at 2:30
pm. yesterday: lowest, 80, at am. to-
day. Full report on page 8.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-13
PERSONALS

PERSONALS
Mr.. and Mrs. r.. A. Davis are
spending the week in Laredo.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. q. Richcreck left
Thursday morning fer several day
stay in Austin. They were accom-
panied BY Miss Margaret Ham OF
s~tephenville who has beer visiting
the past month in the Richoreea
home End with her grandmother.
Mrs. F. ". Ham and an aunt, Mira.
j. y. Stephens.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. c. Mills or Le-
nox. Iowa, and Mr.. A. q. Davis Of
Gravity. Iowa. arrived this week 20
visit their brother and sen, bort L.
Davis and wife.
Mrs. bud Pennington Of Round
Rock and Mrs. John Watson and
baby Of San Benito visited Wednes-
DIV with Mrs. Seth Duncan.
Mrs. Roy Gray ard daughter lett
Wednesday for a visit with relatives
in Indiana.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Bu.ry OF May.
Texas left Tuesday after visiting
their daughter. Mrs. =. n. For.
Mrs. j. A. Walker OF Del Rio who
tfNF VfNM FAGANAAA 9 HfHENtst tANs
and Mrs. 3. X. Traylor. Was called
home because Of the illness OF Mr..
Walker. Little Gail Walker remain
ed with his grandparents.
Harry Bailey of Saskatchewan.
Canada. is spending the winter with
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John Blake.
Mrs. j. II. Mckinney and son
Jack and John and daughters, Audre
Belle and Betty Joe, have returned
from a visit with relatives and
friends a. TYLER, Gainesville and
Pittsburgh. They were accompanied
home by Mrs. McKinncy's mother.
Mrs. r. A. Mckinney, and brother.
+. {. Mckinney.
W. Fl. Scroy and J. W. Dane are
receiving medical treatment in the
Mercedes hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. J. Gum have re-
turned from a visit with relatives at
Tyler and Temple.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Kaufman and
two children who have been visiting
at the Harold Tobin home have re-
turned TO their home in Kennedy.
Doyle T. Gibson and brother Otis
were business visitors in Corpus
Christi Wednesday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-13

were in San Antonio on business the
first of the week.
Mrs. Al Crater and son are here
from Dallas visiting her mother, Mrs.
a. 4. Wood.
+. V. Jobson has gone TO Temple
for treatment.
q. II. Cothran is here from New
York visiting his brother, W. L.
Cothran.
Charles p. Ross Of Vernon was in
the city on business Tuesday.
Mrs. n. r. Cooley, sister OF the
Mesdames Claud Psrkhill. Roy Buck
leyand Owen Council, and Chapman
Taylor, nephew of these women,
came into Mission Sunday, driving
through from Mayfield, by. and will
remain for a months visit with their
relatives here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-13
\VESLACO
MRS. COOK
BRIDGE HOSTESS

Miss Louise Cook entertained
Thursday afternoon with two tables
OF bridge. Guests for the afternoon
were: Mrs. J. Leo Curlee. Mrs. John
Petty; Misses Opal Pike. Nadine
Weaver. Hazel Stone, Jessie King,
Mary Louise Anderson and La Verne
Cook. Miss Pike won high score
and Miss Weaver held consolation
Roses were used in the decorations.
A delicious salad course and coffee
we're served.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-13
E~NTEETAINS SUNDAY
SCHOOL CLASS

Mrs Il. l.. Reeves entertained the
members Of the Light Bearers class
OF the Baptist church at their reg
ular monthly meeting Thursday aft
crnoon. Rcd and white roses ana
fern made the lovely decorations.
Mrs. J. II. Couch. president OF the
class. presided at the short business
session. Mrs. F.. L. Compere led the
devotional service with the interest
Ing discussion or visions for 1929.
Delicious refreshments were served
TO Mesdzmes J. e. Cook, Luther
Cross. ". T.. Forbes. j. II. Couch, r.
II. Dunn. Z. L. Compere, II. "
Diggs. George Bellman, j.. N. Maui
din and A. J. Hayes.