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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
THIEL QUITS TREASURY
TO ENTER BUSINESS
Assistant Treasurer Has Handled
Billions During Career of %
Years in Office.

by the Associated Press.
The man who probably has had more
money In his hands than anybody In
the world is going into Wall street.
He is Frank J. Thiel, Assistant Treas
urer OF the United States, who for %
years has been connected with that
Office and to whom custody of such
sums as billions of dollars was routine
affair.
Mr.. Thiel, at the beginning Of the
war, handled perhaps the largest gold
shipment in history, when he trans
ferred $50,000,000 in new gold coins
from the mint at Philadelphia to the
subtreasury in New York.
He has resigned from the Treasury.
effective April 80, to become a member
of the banking and brokerage firm of
M. J. Meehan g. Co., members of the
New York Stock Exchange. He will
open Offices here.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
BR00KHART TO PROVE
LIQUOR PARTY CHARGE

Senator Smith W. Brookhart of
iowa today offered to tell all about
a Senatorial liquor party at the
Willard Hotel to the local Grand
Jury.
He accepted the challenge of Dis.
triCt Attorney Leo A. Rover who
suggested earlier in the day that
he would bring proceedings against
the hotel IL complaint were filed
with aim by the Iowa Senator.
This was the outcome of spirited
passage on the Senate floor yes
terday between Senator Brookharr
and Sentaor Reed Smoot of Utah.
Brookhart said Smoot attended the
party. Smoot denied it. But Brook.
hart insisted he had seen Smoot
there.
1T IL not necessary for me TO file
q complaint against the hotel or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
TESTIMONY RE-READ
TO PANTAGES JURORS

her trial, Mrs. Pantages returned to
the courtroom this morning to await
the verdict.
The jury has three courses open,
according to its instructions.
Either it must convict the theatri.
cal magnate,s wife of second degree
murder for the death Of Jura Roku-
motto, humble japanese gardener, In
a Hollywood automobile crash on
June 16; find her guilty of man.
slaughter, or acquit her.
The longer the jurors deliberated.
the more hope for Mrs. Pantages'
freedom was held out by her friends.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
MILLER HuGGINs, PILOT
NY. YANKEES, DIES

NEW YORK. Sept. Is 0.N.S).--
Miller Higgins. manager of the
New York Yankees, died at ST.
Vincent's Hospital at 3:15 this
afternoon.
At the bedside when the end came
were Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Higgins.
brother and sister-in.law of Higgins,
Myrtle Higgins, his sister, DR.. Vim
cent Flanagan. house surgeon of st.
Vincent's, sister Claudia and Mrs.
Christie Walsh, wife of Babe Ruth's
business manager and Rev. J. Price
Of the Washington Heights Methodist
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
BEARS PAY AS BULLS
PUSH STOCKS HIGHER
BY w. S. COUSINS

Bv International News Service
NEW YORK. Sept. 25 u.N.S).-
The Wall Street bear stepped
squarely into the bulls trap today.
After flooding the market with sell
ing orders for u. S. Steel. Radio and
other active shares on the strength
of 10 per cent money rate and
reaction in steel prices, the bears
were compelled to scramble for
stocks near the close of the market
as prices in the favored issues rose
spectacularly.
The close of the market saw
many of the days losses entirely
recovered. though moderate losses
were recorded in some sections of
the list
United States Steel. which was
slammed down to 2261a shortly after
the noon period, rallied to 1884 in
the last hour and closed at 231 u,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
EIGHTH ARREST MADE
AT GAST0NIA INQUEST

GASTONIA, n. c., Sept. Is
GN.S.).-The eighth arrest was
made today in the investigation
into the mob murder of Mrs. Ellie
May Virgins, Gastonia strike
martyr killed two weeks ago. Jake
Borders, 65-year-old gate-keeper
at .Loray Mill, was held under
$4,000 bond.
Seven men, six of them also con-
nected with the Manville-Jenckes
owned Loray Mill, already were
under $1,000 bond each.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

The latest report received by
the bureau, from a ship near the
center of the storm, said the wind
velocity there was approximately
so miles an hour. The storm cen.
ter at that time was 40 to so miles
northwest of Nassau, headed for a
point slightly north of Miami
Storm warnings were changed to
hurricane warnings from Jupiter
to Miami.
The hurricane, which is likely to
reach the Florida coast late tonight
or early tomorrow morning, Is of
small diameter compared to the
storm of 1927, the bureau said.
fBy International News seryice)
Conditions bordering on chaos
reigned late today on population
centered along Florida's east coast
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as weather reports indicated the
West Indian hurricane will strike
early in the night.
International News Service dis
patches told Of schools being dismiss
sed throughout the area and shop
keepers closing their stores to go
home and protect their lives and
property.
Tension increased during the early
hours of the afternoon as barometers
began to fall at a number of points.
Relief agenies at West Palm Beach
and Miami were being hurriedly
modified.
Residents of the lowlands and
rural districts were pouring into the
towns and cities surrounding Okee-
chobee. Relief agencies were being
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
COP KILLED, 2.SH0T
IN CANISTER FIGHT

CHICAGO, Sept. Is U.N.S)-
Police Sergeant William Gallagher
was killed, Policemen Stewart Nc
Cutcheon and Jesse Hults were seri-
ously/ wounded, and an unidentified
negro was slain today in a battle
with gangster-kidnapers.
The battle followed a daring gang
land kidnapping of Charles Bey. a
negro. 1t was reported police had
cornered the kidnapers as they were
about to kill Bey. The gangsters
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Sept. 25,
Q.N.SJ.-Indicative of their indeci.
sion the Pantages murder jury to-
day requested that disputed testi-
mony at the trial be read to them in
open court 1t had been out IL
hours without reaching an agree
ment.
The jury of seven men and five
women was reported to stand seven
to five for conviction.
Only two ballots were taken last
night; according to courtroom gossip.
Pale and shaken by the ordeal of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

anybody else" Brookhart said to-
day. LET the District Attorney
summon me before the grand jury
and I will tell everything know
and give the names of other Sen
ators to be summoned"
Brookhart said he would be glad
to waive his immunity as a Senator
in order to testify before the grand
jury. He told reporters that he
would make no further statement
on the party until he had told his
story to the grand jury.
He declined to say just when the
party was held. but declared 1t was
we'll within the statute of limita.
ton. In his speech on the floor of
the Senate yesterday Brookhart said
the party was given at the Willard
by a Mr.. Fahy, Of New York, IN
eomplinent 10 the new Senator'S.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
MCPHERSON DENIES HE
ever THRILLED WITH
AFFECTIONS OF MATE

II am firmly convinced that my wife COM
mitted suicide"
AS he prepared to 60 into the grand jury
room for an inquiry into the tragic death Of
Mrs. Virginia Mcpherson, Robert A. Nc
Pherson, jr., today made this declaration to
reporter for The Washington Times.
Il loved Virginia before we were married and
have loved her since" the debonar looking
bank clerk declared.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
Honolulu Volcano
Near Bubbling Over

HONOLULU, r. H., Sept. rs
U.N.S).-With auakes continuing
almost necessarily for the past
three days, and with stronger
intensity today in the North kona
district, residents Of that section
momentarily expected lava out.
break on Mauna Loa or Mount
Hualalai.
DR.. T. A. Jaggar, volcanologist,
stated that the activity was ap.
parently centering at Mauna Loa,
slightly west Of the summit, but
tremors were reported from all
parts of the island of Hawaii.
Old time residents said the
activity was similar to that proceed.
ing the big lava flow of January,
1907.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
FISH SEEKS TO FORCE
ARMY-NAVY CLASSIC

Navy Adams direct the command
ants of the two academies to con.
fer on the subject of renewing the
annual game.
II the army and navy academies
do not voluntarily get together and
settle their athletic differences Fish
said he would INTRODUCES a bill
which would compel them q re-
slmA Athlstic palaiianA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
Girl, Is, Is Indicted
For Orphanage Burning

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. Is
a.N.S).-Rosebud Ankton. the 15-
year.old negro girl who confessed
to police she started the Industrial
settlement Home Orphanage fire
here which claimed the lives of
eight negro children. today was
under indictment for murder and
arson. According to police. she
confessed she started the blaze be-
cause Of alleged mistreatment OF
the inmates. A probe has been
started by the attorney generals
office to determine If there was any
foundation to the girls charges.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

A sensation occurred this after
noon in the Grand Jury inquiry
into the tragic death of Mrs. Vir-
vinia Mcpherson when the Grand
Jury conducting the inquiry ordered
the testifying witness and the AS
sistant United States Attorney, who
is conducting the inquiry, out of
the room while they considered
what apparently was new and sem
sational developments in the hom1-
eide quest.
Policeman Lawrance Bolts, Third
precinct, was on the stand when a
discussion developed among the
grand jurors. Bolts had been called
in connection with the story OF
Policeman Robert J. Allen that he
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

Representative Hamilton Fish (R)
Of New York, today renewed his
efforts to bring about resumption
OF the annual football classic beA
tween the West Point and An"
napolis academies.
He called upon President Hoover
and urged him to have sec%tsfy
q waS GOod aAA sserseaxY De
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
MCPHERSON JURY HAS
new STARTLING DATA

had seen a man leap from the win.
dow of the Mcpherson apartment
on the night Of Mrs. McPherson's
death.
Botts' testimony is, of course, un.
known, but after he had been on the
stand for about Is minutes the grand
jury room was ordered clear OF the
witness and Of Assistant United
States Attorney William H. Collins,
who is presenting the case to the
inquisitorial body.
The jury as it started the second
day of its inquiry into the mys.
terious garroting Of the young
nurse, whose body was found Sep
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column u
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Markets AT a Glance

down fractionally.
Radio Corporation slipped off to
IS. but a powerful buying wave
carried the stock in the late trad
ing to S9s for a net gain of 3ss.
American and Foreign Power re-
ported near the noon period at 171h
closed at 1S1 and Columbia Gas
made a net gain of points at its
final price of 1873.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

Episcopal Church.
Col. Jacob Rubbert. owner of the
Yankees; Dr. Edward A. King, who
attended Mr.. Higgins and Edward
Barrow, business manager of the
Yankees. were not present having
left the hospital for lunch.
According to tentative arrange
ments, funeral services will be held
at the Church of the Transfigura-
ton, at o'clock Friday afternoon
by DIR. Price, who was a close
friend of Mr.. Higgins, The body
Continued on Page 2, Column s.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
Restaurant Blast
Kills | and Injuries z

NILES. Ohio. Sept. Is Q.N.SJ-A
blast OF unknown origin demolished
the restaurant of the Falcon Mill,
Of the Empire Steel Corporation
plant. here today, instantly killing
a boy waiter and injuring two per-
sons
William Bershak was killed. John
Lobe. a cook. and William Ger
sham. q customer. suffered severe
M&mr4AM
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

D. L. Case. who said he recog.
rized Borders as member of the
mob which fired upon truck load
of strikers, killing Mrs. Virgins.
He said there were 10 or II shots
fired into the truck by vigllantes
who chased the group of % strikers
from mass meeting in South
Gastonia.
After Borders was arrested the
inquest was adjourned until Octo'
Der 49,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

are negroes.
One of the policemen was wounded
when he tried to crawl through a
window in the gangsters' lair. He
fell inside the building, screaming
with pain as the gangsters with
sawed-off shotguns and machine
guns drove back police who at.
tempted to rescue him.
Another policeman was wounded
when he tried to smash down the
rear door.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
Lindys Land Safely
At Trinidad Island

PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad Island.
Sept. rs U.N.S.l.-Heading homeward
after his trail-blazing to South Amer
lea. Col Charles A Lindbergh, ac-
companied by his wife, brought his
amphibian Sikorsky to safe landing
here at 1:10 p. m. today, after flight
from Paramsribo. Dutch Guiana with
stop at Georgetown, British
Guiana, en- route.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

Monro Butler. jr.. Indian Spring;
Miller B.. STEVENSON, of Columbia
Country Club and champion. They
were out in 3S strokes and returned
in rs.
Other leaders were Charles W.
Cole, ir., of Indian Spring. rs; Wal.
ter r.. McCallum, Washington Golf
Country Club, II; Page Hufty. Con-
gressional Country Club. n; John
r. Miller, Beaver Dam, 7S and
Harry G. Pitt, Manor Club, 49,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
SH0REY'S IS LEADING
amateur GOLF FIELD

Equaling par for the course with
a 70, John c. Shorey, jr., Bannock-
burn, in the District Amateur Golf
championship at the end of the first
IS holes at the Congregational Country
Club today, Shorey missed breaking
par when he took a five on the
eighteenth.
His card:
Out .... 6 4 3 Is 4 4 4 2-36
In .... 6 2 5 3 4 4 4 45-3i-13
Trailing by one stroke were J.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

Sitting calmly in a corridor of
the District Supreme Courthouse
the young man spoke in a quiet
tone of the latest tragedy of mod
ern youth. the reverberations of
which have echoed Ihrough Warasa
ington for the fast two weeks-
ever since he discovered the gar.
roted body of his wife in the little
apartment which they shared in
Park Lane.
I'VE went along, for 4 while. Viz
ginia was alternately happy and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
AUSTRIAN CABINET QUITS

VIENNA. Sept. IS u.N.S).-The
Austrian cabinet ct Federal Chan
ceIlor Steerwity resigned today AZ
ths result Of intense political frie.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25
Hurricane Nears Florida
EXPECTED TO STRIKE
NORTH OF miami LATE
TONIGHT OR TOMORROW

tropical disturbance approaching the southeast coast Of
Florida already has attained hurricane proportions and
gradually increasing in intensity at p the United States
Weather announced.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-25

Hayre de Grace Results


Purse, s
Went oposta off
by by
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pd-Loket
Weakened
SECOND
at
t2) K
Bryson
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Good lace
a
THIRD RAcEThs Quick Fire Handc.p
D
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Two-do NUT
Ma
in
turn came
o
in finale
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Lincoln Fields Results

FIRST RAcE--Three.year-olds and upward. Claiming
$1,000 Three-fourths Of a mile Time, l:1s
Leflore los (NeaD. ............... $3.50 1914 sass
Flood r.. Jones'
Naney Seth, los (Rideout) Ais
Grff Bowie, Rus Mccain, Fnnie and Roy Gibson
also an.
SECOND maidens Claiming Purse 81 400
Seventh ghth Of mile Time, 1850 is.
Ellen N, 1o7 (Ne.D .............. $fo34 $3.50 1914
Patti Louise, lO7 (M E. Meyer)........ STA 4.32
Favor Girl, liz (Pendergrass). SIS
Bunyora Top King Pal also
RAcE-cyst.l Purss $500 Threeyearolds and
pward. aininx and one Time, las.
R-.nc TIA h-el. 6.l4
Mis-. Pearl 100 (NeaN
Padon. Fernando Magic Wand and
Vino also
RAcE-Two.year.od maidens Claiming Purse $1,000
Seventh. eighths of q mile. Time, 1850.
lis o. SMITH $3.50 $3.50 $3A
Wizardy, (McDermot). 4SS S1Z
Sasans Sister, liz (Parmalse) ........ ESQ
Hannah Black Avarice, Contingent Abigail
and nc Bud also
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with
Handicap ma
s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30

cities, that crime Is not more prevalent,
that police protection of criminals and
lawbreakers is not more fragrant than
elsewhere, that elections are not more
corrupt than In other communities.
That, of course, is the poorest of de-
lenses. 1t is virtually confession. The
point that concerns the country is not
that Chicago is worse in these respects
than other cities, but that 1t is as bad
as 1t Is.
There is altogether too much evidence
Of state Of official laxity and pre-
sumptive corrupt liberation of crime in
that city for the charge to be set aside
with the plea of comparison. The
actual murder record stands as proof
Of at least a state of lawlessness, what
ever may be the vigilance and the
fidelity of the police and the courts. The
"rackets" or blackmail and coercion
systems conducted in Chicago, costing
the people hundreds Of millions of dol
lars annually in increased prices for
commodities and services, are too well
known to be shrugged of as gossip and
SANDER. The evidence of official negli-
gence If not of actual partnership in
crime is too positive to be rated as
partisan exaggeration.
Now comes this case, which may re-
suit in a revelation of actual, direct
judicial protection of crime. The tale
MIR. Loesch has to tell will undoubtedly
be given keen attention. Whether it
will lead to action that will result in
reform awaits answer. The pity of it
all is that there is every reason in
established facts 10 justify public belief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
Inspiration Is Found
In WigmOre's Career
From the Chicago Daily News.

From the Chicago Daily News.
There is inspiration for younger
deans Of law schools and professors Of
law in the glowing tributes paid the
other evening to John H. Wigmore.
retired dean Of Northwestern Univer-
sity Law School, by eminent represent
ativeS OF the American bench and bar.
Mr. Wigmore has devoted his life to the
study, exposition and Interpretation of
law from the points Of view of history.
philosophy and the social sciences. To
him law Is much more than a set of
rules, and case at law is not some
tning 70 be disposed Of merely by
study Of precedents.
HIS conception Of law as an instru-
ment OF essential justice used in the
light Of what great British Judge
called the artificial perfection of rea-
SON. Is not only profound but thor
oughly rational and progressive. He has
emphasized principles and has traced
the origin OF basic legal doctrines to
conditions of life and deep-rooted tribal
vital.
Great occupants Of the bench now
administering justice or writing vigor-
Gus dissenting opinions that will serve
rs the foundation for the law Of to-
morrow acknowledge gratefully their
debt to Mr.. Wigmores books or lee
lures. He has worked, too, for the re-
vision of criminal and procedural codes
and for rational and effective admin
istration of Justice If he and Others
like him had norc juptis In the various
State Legislatures the sound law-reform
bills which are butchered year after
year BY selfish, tim or short sighted
lawyer-legis'ators would receive synnna-A
thetic and enlightened treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
Long Skirts Protested,
But Tone UncOnvincins

Prom the New York Times.
Six thousand girls at Hunter College
have talked over the new long -skirted
styles, and nearly three -fourths of the
total made formal protest against the
innovation. Almost every day some one
becomes violent over the new fashions.
Many women who knew the discom-
forts of stays and voluminous gowns
get excited at the unhappy prospect of
returning to that hampering clutch.
They are the women who shared or at
least saw the successful battle for Wom-
ems freedom IN politics and economics
as we'll as clothes,
1t is really not at all surprising that
they should object TO something that
reminds them of the old days preceding
their emancipation. Long skirts look to
them like a drag on their stride and
they mean it figuratively as well as
physically.
The young things vino rebel seem
less credible. Little girls have always
loved to dress up In mothers clothes
and the college girls Of today have been
deprived of that privilege. At least, If
they did put on grown-up frock, It
was just like their own in its straight
lines and short skirts Now they have
chance to swish about haughtily in
flowing silks and If they exclaim that
they don't want to, 1t is hard to believe
them. They are making q lot of clamor
about 1t, but they protest too much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30

A Modern EXPLORER.

While the world is today acclaimirg
Comdr. Richard E. Byrd for his latest
achievement in flying over the South
Pole and mapping the contiguous terri
tory, it is likewise lauding the gallant
4l-year old naval officer for his other
remarkable feats in the realm of mod
ern scientific investigation. No one can
forget that Comdr. Byrd was also the
frst man to fly over the North Pole, and
that that historic flight of 1900 miles
from Spitzbergen to the Pole and back
was made in a little more than fifteen
hours, or that year later, in 1927,
with the South Pole project just FORM
ing in his mind, Byrd and three COM
panions set out to cross the Atlantic in
q three-motored plane. 1t was on this
flight that Byrd experienced his first
accident on a major undertaking, but
the accident was of the most trivia;
nature and none of the party was badly
hurt. Reaching France, after the long
voyage in the clouds over the ocean
wastes, Byrd encountered a dense fog
that nullified even his expert navigation
ability, and the plane was forced to
land in the water on the coast.
With the exception of this minor
accident, therefore, this modern ex-
plorer has completed without mishap,
three of the most difficult undertakings
known to man. It is a fine tribute to
the keen yet methodical mind of this
scion of a noted Virginia family. Par
ticularly in his polar flights Byrd has
been faced with almost insurmountable
difficulties, the transportation and as
sembling Of the big plane alone being
an accomplishment of rare merit, but
with the aid Of his brave and skiIlful
companions every dificulty was met
and conquered.
Over the North Pole, over the South
Pole and over the Atlantic Ocean!
What more is there for this enterprising
explorer to do? Perhaps, now that he
has accomplished the South Pole flight
he is already busy on another project.
The world anxiously awaits its details
with a confidence born Of experience
that If Byrd attempts it. it will be done
In workmanlike and skillful manner.