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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
LONDON PAPERS PLAY
U. S. POLAR CLAIMS
British Foreign Office Denies Con
troversy on Sovereignty Over
Antarctic.
Ry the Associated prnss.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 5.-Reports pub
lished in the United Ssates that the
American Government was preparing a
diplomatic note contesting British
claims to sovereignty in the Antarctic
based on the explorations of Comdr
Richard E. Byrd were published prom
inently in the Evening Star and Eve
ming News today.
"who owns the South Pole?" and "U,
S. challenge to Britain in Antarctic
we're streainer headlines clear across
the front pages of the two papers.
The Star does not think that the
latest reported furry in Anglo-Ameri-
can relations needs serious treatment.
1t prints picture of the frozen Ant
arctic wastes captioned: whats all
the argument about9"
The British foreign office said that
it had not yet received any American
note and that there was no controversy
going on with the United States au-
thoritieS over the Antarctic. At the
foreign Office 1t also was said that no
note had been sent by the British gov
ernment to Washington protesting any
claims by Comdr. Byrd regarding SOW
ereignty over the territory he has been
exploring.
The only explanation that has been
suggested for the reported American
note was that it might be based on a
British note sent to Washington when
it became known that the Byrd ex-
pedition was setting forth. In this
communication Great Britain offered to
lend any assistance possible in British
territory and referred to resolution
of the Imperial Conference In 1925 re-
garding Britain's claims in the Ant
arctic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05


Another attack on the sale Of news
papers from sidewalk racks was deliv-
cred in Juvenile Court this morning by
Judge Kathryn Sellers before she placed
Thomas Brooks. I5-year-old colored
youth, ,son probation for year on con-
viction for attempting to rifle news
paper rack of $l.1O.
Commenting on the many cases
which come under her jurisdiction on
similar complaints, Judge Sellers ex-
pressed the hope that the citizens of
Washington would protest the honor
system maintained by the newspapers,
ii the hope of having the District Com-
rnissioners revoke the privilege.
Assistant Corporation Counsel 3. NJ.
Welliver told the court he had been i'm
formed that 100000 worth Of news
papers are yearly sold in this manner
and that In his opinion the safeguards
placed on the coin boxes are entirely
inadequate He said that the light
padlocks were easily forced and there-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
PROBE OF NOMAD
MYSTERY is SEEN
U. S. Agent Denies 'Schoon-
er's Rich Owner and Crew
Were Drunk.
BY the Associated, Press.

BY the Associated Press. .
PHILADELPHIA, April 5.-The aux
iliary schooner Nrn1ad lay 1t rest in
the Philadelphia harbor today. her
skipper lost in a watery grave and her
millionaire owner and crew of two rest
ing from IL days battle with angry
seas.
The 125-foot pleasure craft was towed
into port by Coast Guard patrol boat
lot from a point IS miles of Cape
May, where it had been sighted aim
lessly drifting without a helmsman by
Ensign w. E. Anderson, Coast Guard
aviator.
Aboard the craft today was Customs
Officer Luther Sterner, who told of the
Nomad's terrifying log as it had been
related to him by the owner, Leland
II. Ross of New York City. Ross and
the crew, Richard J. French, steward
and Henry G. Bush, sailor. rested in
their hunks below decks.
Motors Fail, Sails Put to Work.
The Nomad, Sterner said, put out
from Charleston IL days ago, flying
the pennant of the New York Yacht
Club. Ross, as If acting on premoni-
ton. placed his wife ashore just before
they left. Within few hours the
motors failed, and when efforts to re-
pair them failed sail was set.
The Nonad plowed through gradual
ly mounting seas under full sail until
a sudden squall tore away part of the
mainsail. Capt. John L. Schofield
climbed aloft to make repairs when a
rolling sea wrenched him from the mast
and washed him overheard. He was
never seen again.
Day after day Ross and his crew
worked to keep the craft headed into the
sea- Water flooded the stores and SUBJ
merged the engines.
Liquor Cache Reported.
"A distress signal was flown.
On the eleventh day. with all on board
Frustrated by exhaustion, the Nomad was
sighted by the aviator and patrol boat
dispatched to assist her.
Sterner denied that Ross and his
crew were drunk or that the craft was
without helmsman when picked up.
He declined to comment upon the
statement that 40 bottles of liquor were
found in the ships cabin. 1t was re-
ported that Federal authorities would
make thorough investigation of the
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
Judge Sellers Scores Newspaper Racks
In Placing Accused Boy on Probation

fore an added temptation to youthful
delinquents.
Grover E. Payne Of the circulation
department of The Star, testifying
against the Brooks boy. told the court
that 425 rObberies had been reported
to his department since January IL.
IF the citizens want their children
exposed to this unnecessary tempta-
ton, I have no choice but to pass
sentence on the defendant brought be-
fore me-" said Judge Sellers. "In my
opinion the practice Is Illegal and inn
proper and should be abolished as soon
possible. I have numerous complaints
both personally and through the mails"
Brooks, who lives at 2614 I street,
was released in custody of his parents
following his arrest early son the morn
ing Of March 23 by Policeman 4. II.
Gentry. Gentry told the court he
caught Brooks in the act Of forcing 4
box at Eighteenth and @ streets bv
twisting OF the paddock with an iron
bar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
KIDNAPPED LABOR
LEADER TO RETURN
Prepared to Identify Il
EIizabethton Abductors,
Hoffman Says.

ASHEvILLE. N. c., April CP.--
Albert L. Hoffman, textile labor rep
resentatiye, who alleges that he was
kidnapped and forced to leave Eliza
bethton, Tenn, said today before
leaving for the Tennessee town that
he was prepared to identify at least
IL of his abductors. Hoffman will be
under escort.
ELIzABETHTON, Tenn. April S CD
labor watched Elizabethton
today as a result of fiare-up over re-
cent labor troubles which drew from
President Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor an emphatic protest OF
what he termed an outrage" against
labor officials.
He referred to the alleged abduction
Of e r. McGrady. legislative, represents
atfpe or the American Federation oi
Labor, and Alfred L. Hoffman, textile
union organizer, who claimed they were
taken from their hotel by party OF
about 20 men early yesterday and "run
out of town, The incident resulted In
the arrest of six Elizabethton citizens
Formal Statement Issued.
In formal statement issued at Wash
ington, Mr. Green called on Gov. Hor-
ton ''to bring the criminals to justice
and to afford the labor officials protec.
ton while in Elizabethton. He further
declared that IF necessary" he woulc
pay Elizabethton a personal visit "as 9
challenge to this lawlessness."
An undercurrent of feeling that fol.
lowed a recent strike affecting loca
rayon mills was believed responsible fol
yesterdays demonstration.
McGrady and Hoffman reported last
night they were unharmed after being
taken from their rooms, placed in au-
tomobiles and ordered to leave the vi
cinity. McGrady was in Bristol. Tenn.
and Hoffman was in Asheville, N. C.
J. B. Penix. local labor organizer, re-
Continued on Page 4, Column II
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Continuation Of Credit Ad-
justment Cooperation by
Member Banks Is Asked.
ACTION THREATENED
BY BOARD GOVERNORS
Assurance Held for Trade Of Con-
tinuous Money Supply at
Fair Rates.

BY the Associated Press.
Continuation of the credit adjustment
cooperation of Federal Reserve banks
and member banks which has been at
tended by curtailment of brokers loans
in recent weeks was called for by the
Federal Reserve Board in a statement
published today reiterating its warning
of February Z.
I'm case the desired readjustment is
not brought about by voluntary cooper
alton, the Federal Reserve system may
adopt other methods of influencing the
situation" the statement said.
The boards statement Of February Z,
it recalled, pointed out that. owing to
the unusual absorption of credit in the
security market, money rates to busi-
ness were increasing at time of the
year when money conditions are usually
easy"
In this statement" it explained, "the
board endeavored to enlist the cooper
alton of the Federal Reserve banks and
member banks, in order to bring about
an orderly readjustment in the credit
situation. Progress in this readjust-
ment in recent weeks is indicated by the
decline in brokers loans Of member
banks.
Continued developments in this di-
rection, indicating definite reversal of
recent trends, would release an increas-
iV,D -
trade and would lead to an easing in
the money situation" the statement
added.
Credit Readjustment Sought.
The objective of its policy, the board
declared, is a readjustment in the
credit situation with a view to assuring
trade and industry of a continuous sup
ply of bank credit at reasonable rates. :.
While the system recognizes that
Continued on Page 8, Column 2.)s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
FEDERALS TRAPPED
BY REBEL FORCES,
TRAVELLERS REPORT
AImazan Caught Near Esca-
Ion, Train PaSSen-
gers Say.
WEST COAST CAMPAIGN
FAVORABLE TO L0YALS
Insurgent Losses in Battle at La
Reforma Put at 1000 Dead
by Government.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Now far into the state of Chihuahua,
Federal cavalry ranged rapidly north
today in pursuit of the remnants OF
the once strong rebel army reported
virtually destroyed in fighting at Jimen-
ez and La Reforma.
Offcial government figures on rebel
losses placed the number of dead at
1000. the wounded at 500 and the cap
tured at 1000.
Rebel headquarters at Juarez, how
ever. stated that it had received no ad-
vices of the determination" reported
by the government.
Naco Situation Tense.
On the other hand, messages coming
from rebel commanders and travellers
from Diaz north of Jimenez, stated
hat Cen. Almazan, the Federal advance
conmander had been trapped between
Escalon and Jimenez by strong rebel
forces. -
also was reported developing favorably
for the government. The rebels were
stated to have evacuated Culiacan ana
to be retreating farther northward.
The situation at Naco on the border
was still tense, neither the rebels nor
the Federals engaging in any but aerial
warfare. In this the Federals suffered
heavily by the loss of the one plane sta
toned there.
Religious Insurgents to Be Fought.
A force of 300 Federal sympathizers
was reported forming in Northern Chi
huaIua for the purpose OF attacking the
rebel garrison at Jaurez and bringing
that border city back into the govern
ment fold.
Diverting additional troops to Jalisco
and Guanajuato, the government con-
tinued its preparations to stamp out
the so-called religious insurgents In
those states.
Gov. Phillips of Arizona has prepar-
ed a protest which will be sent to
washington against the alleged move
ment of Mexican Federal troops through
Arizona.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
Statements of Contributions
to Campaign Funds in South
Given by Brookhart.
TEXAS POLITICAL WAR
WITHIN PARTY Barred
Split Between Creager Faction and
Wurzbach Described in Evil
dence Submitted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Letters, kilograms and affidavits to
show that large sums of money were
contributed in recent years to Republi-
can campaign funds by postmaSters
and other Federal officeholders in
Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and
Tennessee we're put into the record of
the Senate patronage committee today
by Chairman Brookhart.
Affidavits collected by the Post Office
Department at the request of the COM
mittee disclosed that more than $4,000
was contributed by 1I0 postmasters OF
Mississippi, one of them giving $2,125.
Some of the money, the affidavitS said,
went to E. P. Booze, husband of the
colored Republican national commlttee-
woman for that State A total OF l54
poStmasters said they had never con-
tributed.
Texas Letters Go in Record.
Texas letters put into the record at
the request of r. B. Creager, Republican
national committeeman Tor that State,
were laudatory of the methods used by
his organization. A committee check
up of records furnished by Leonard
wilmington, secretary of the Texas Re-
publican State organization, disclosed,
however, that large number OF tnem
were from Federal oflceholders, most
of them postmasters, who had been
regular contributors to Creagers cam
paigE fund.
A former postmaster in Arkansas
said in an affidavit that he had paid
s378 to his Republican committeeman
in order to obtain his job; Tennessee
postmaster declared, also in an affidavit,
that he had given 5000 and two hogs
for his appointment. and an Alabama
physician, in a letter, asserted he be-
iieved appointments were and are
being given to the highest bidder here
in Tuscaloosa and other parts OF the
State"
First Hearing Since Hoover Spoke.
Today's hearing was the first called
by the committee since President Hoo
yer announced that Republican organi-
cations in South Carolina, Georgia and
Mississippi would not be recognized as
dispensers of Federal appointments
pending reorganization, and expressed
the hope that recommendations for ap-
pointments in other Southern States
would be made with the aid of an adj
viSory council.
In nearly all instances, the Missis-
sippi contributions were described as
voluntary, but in some cases the affi-
davits carried the inference that all
successful candidates for postmaster
ship appointments were expected to
donate to the campaign funds.
R. K. Haxton, postmaster at Green
vile, Miss, who said he gave S2,125, de-
clared he subscribed $500 Of it in the
form of an investment in an insurance
lContinued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
Squirrel Runs Amuck, Biting z People;
Police Asked to End Animals Career

, at her, biting her hands. Harry FRANKIE
4 years old, was bitten while at play
Mfs. Rose Vogel, her son Carson and
Lawrence Flournoy we're attacked on the
street.
Acting Police Captain James Walsh
to whom Mrs. Meyenberg told her story,
said it was the first time in 81 years
service he ever heard of squirrel biting
a person
The Department Of Health and the
rel. All the attacks were In the vicinity
Of the 1900 block on Addison street
The sever who were bitten were in
mo danger, physicians said,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
Melting Of Snow
Discloses Body
Of Missing Boy
Remains of Child, Lost
in Storm, Is Found
Near Ranch.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GORDON, Neb.. April 5.-The snow
that cost him his life has melted away
revealing to searchers the body of g.
year-old Melvin Reeves. The boy, hunt
ing a lost mitten, was caught in sud-
den and terrific blizzard three weeks
ago and perished in struggle to reach
a place of shelter.
The body was found last night by
George Davis, an employe at the ranch
of Nathan Hitler. 1t lay in cow path
about 200 yards from the Hitler ranch
house, indicating the boy had been try
ing to reach the home of Mrs. Hitler.
who was his aunt. The Hitler place is
four miles from the Reeves ranch.
Hundreds OF persons, including 200
indians from the Pine Ridge Reserva-
ton, joined in many days of fruitless
search for the boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
EscoBAE TO CONTINUE REVOLT.
Insurgent Commander Attributes Loss
of Jimenez to Ammunition Shortage.

d
JUAREz, Chihuahua, April 5 tP).-
Evacuation by insurgents OF their Dase
at Jimenez after a four-day assault by
Federal troops was attributed to short
age of ammunition by rebel Gen. Jose
Gonzalo Escobar, in message 10 tne
Associated Press today.
The lnsurgent commander -chlef,
who was in Chihuahua City today Tor
a conference with his aides to consider
the next plan of battle to be followed
ljv the revolutioniStS, declared the re-
bellion would continue.
"Our men have at present one more
reason TO fight with all courage our
nbilorred enemy-the necessity OF aveng-
ing the blood shed in the battles OF
the last few days by the most abom-
Unable tyrant Mexico ever had" de-
clared Gen. EScobar.
Savagery Laid to Federals.
The rebel chieftain's message to the
Associated Press, a. 1,000-word tele-
gram. which he described as truth
full account of the happenings" charged
the government troops with Savagery
which he said "was carried to the ex-
treme of shelling the ambulances where
our wounded we're given treatment"
MANY rebel soldiers periShed in that
manner" he said.
Passengers on a train from the
south and messages from rebel generals
in the field last night said that Gen.
Juan Andreu Almazan, the federal
leader, whose troops captured Jimenez.
had been trapped between insurgent
forces under Gen. Marcelo Caraveo in
Escalon and the rebel army in Jimenez.
Some 5000 cavalrymen under Caraveo,
whose movements had not been re-
ported here for several days, were said
to have f1anked the federal army and
captured Escalon, cutting the federals
off from their base.
Cavalry Left as Rear Guard.
Caraveo, with his cavalry, was left as
a rear guard when Escobar withdrew
from Jimenez. Caraveo is reported to
have engaged in skirmish with the
federals in Diaz, few miles north OF
.Jimenez, and then to have made wide
circle to the west of the federal army,
into Escalon. He stormed Escalon and
took the town yesterday, the report said.
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 2)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
By the Associated Press.

By the Ass0clated PTeSs -
CHICAGO, April 5.--Seven persons,
four of them children, have been bitten
by a red squirrel during the past three
days. one woman was bleeding from
20 bites on the arms, neck and shoulder
when she ran into police station yes
terday and told of the attack.
Mrs. Marie Meyenberg said she was
hanging clothes on the line when the
squirrel jumped on her shoulder. When
she tried to brush it away, she said,
the animal began biting her. Her, hus-
band also was bitten, the squirrel leap-
ing upon him as he sat on the porch.
Augusta Schrader, age s., was on her
way to school when the squirrel jumped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
20 DEAD, SO INJURED
IN RUMANIAN WRECK
Bodies Remain in Snow All Night
When Express Is Derailed
Near Buzer.

BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Rumania. April S.
Twenty persons were killed and So
injured when the Bucharest-Jassy
express train was derailed late last night
near Buzev. Most Of the bodies re-
manned in the snow all night until
relief trains arrived.
Relief work was made difficult by a
blizzard today. Such injured as could
be removed were taken to a hospital at
Buzev.
Most of the victims were business
men and soldiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
Big Cat Smothers
Sleeping Infant
To Death i'm Cradle
BY the Associated Press.

0y the ASSOClhgeu FTeSSs
ALLIANCE, Neb., April S R.
"A large maltese cat smothered
to death a 5-monthS-old baby on
the farm of Charles Mracek, 90
miles north of here yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mracek had put
the baby to sleep. They re-en-
tered the room to see the cat
leap out of the cradle and found
the baby dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
MEXICO FREES 27 NUNS.
Warned Against Leading Convent
Life-Priest Is Held.

14CSG 14C1Us
MEXICO CITY, April tP.-Twenty-
seven nuns arrested in the neighbor-
ing town Of Atzcapotzalco on charges
of leading convent life have been re-
leased from custody here after being
warned that their alleged practices
were against the Mexican religious laws.
A priest who was taken with them
has been held for further investiga-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
KELLOGG, IN PARIS,
BETTER AFTER COLD
Former Secretary of State Says
Wife, Who Accompanied Him
From U. s., Protected Health.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 5.-Former Secretary
Of State Frank B. Kellogg, arrived
here this morning from lie Havre,
where he disembarked from the Isle de
France, feeling -At again" after a
slight cold
He gave the credit for his improved
condition to Mrs. kellogg, who accom-
panied him. "She made me keep to
nv bed a whole day. he said. He was
met at the station by First Secretary
Gordon of the embassy and represent
atives of the foreign Offices. He left
directly for ais hotel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05

ROME, April CP).-Winter has re-
turned to northern italy and today
Rome was feeling the effects of cold
winds from the Alps and Apprentices.
Snow fell in Venice, where the tempera-
ture was considerably below freezing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
Bank Statements

washington clearing house, $5,4os,-
398.62.
Treasury balance, $419,611, ,574.9s.
New York clearing house exchange,
81, ,524 ,O00, 900.
sl75,000,oo0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
vlscouNT GUlO IMPROVES

former Japanese Foreign Minister
May Recover, Doctors Say.
KY0TO, Japan, April 5 GPl Physi-
ciafls today said that the condition of
viScount Shimpei Guio, former foreign
minister, had shown improvement and
tilst be was likely to recover.
He Is 73 years Of age and yesterday
was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage
while on train en- route to this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
CUBAN OUTLAW KILLED.
Slain by Rural Police When Found
Stealing Live Stock.

HAVANA, April 649 "A special dis
patch to the Havana newspaper El
Mundo from Molguin, Cuba, today said
that Mateo Machado, a notorious OUT
law, was shot and killed by rural police
last night.
He is said to have refused to sur
rander to guards who had surprised
him in the act of stealing live stock
at Tecajo, an American-owned farm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
WEATHER.

% s. weather Bureau Forecast.l
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow,
possibly showers tomorrow; slightly
warmer.
Temperatures. Highest, 80. at las
pm. yesterday; lowest, 56. at 8 am. to-
day. Full report on page 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
Cold Wave in North italy.

Continued on Page ?, Column 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi.
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05

CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 2)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20

until the day of the Three Wise
Kings (Jan. g., when the children
receive their presents.
A whole ticket in the Spanish lot
terry is expensive, costing 1000 Pc
setas. Therefore, to satisfy every
body, tickets generally are sold in
twentieths, ana these in turn often
are divided, SO that many persons
hold portions as small as one four
thousandth, which costs half a
peseta.
Christmas eve and Christmas day
are celebrated thoroughly, one of the
most important features being the
Importance attached to eating and
drinking well.
Madrid celebrates New Years eve
vociferously. One of the traditional
rites for every true Madrilero is TO
go to the Puerta del Sol, the Times
square of Madrid, at midnight, when
the clocks strike IL and the iron ball
on top of the ministry of the In
terror building comes down, to eat
twelve good-luck grapes, one for
each month in the year.
Christmas gifts are exchanged at
any time between Dec. a and Jan
/, but the children set out their
shoes for presents on Jan. 6.