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The Washington times., 1929-05-17
MOtOrist, Lacking $73,
Must Serve Jail Term

WEST CHESTER, May 17.-Leslie
Brown, of Kennett Square, received
a sentence Of 25 days in the Ches-
ter county prison when he was
found guilty before Justice Of the
Peace Grace, at Kennett Square,
for an fnfraction Of the automobile
traffic laws.
He was ordered to pay q fine Of
$50 and costs, the total amounting
to $3.50, but was unable to do 30,
and received the jail term instead.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Joliet, Out of Money,
Turns Out Street Lights

JOLIET, H., May II H.N.S.h
T. city of Joliet, finding itself not
only broke but in the hole. today
began an economy program by turn
ing out a large number of its street
lights.
Mayor George sehring toured the
city last night and spotted IS lights
whic.. he thought could be spared
and they were ordered turned off
tonight. A bond issue to relieve the
situation was beaten, Is to ], two
months ago and the city has no
available funds In sight.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Puts Rope Around Neck,
Rifle in Mouth. Dies

GETTYSBURG, May 17.-With
rifle and rope, William Weaver. 81,
committed suicide on his farm, near
here. His body was found hanging
in the barn.
Weaver apparently sat on the
front wheel of a wagon, with a
rope around bis neck, tied to a
rafter. Then he placed the muzzle
Of a .46-caliber rifle in his mouth
and released the trigger with a
stick. The bullet ripped through
his head and lodged in the roof Of
the shed. The shot knocked Wea.
yer off the wheel and left him hang
ing. No motive was revealed.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Huge Strawberry Crop
Assured in Delaware

GEORGETOWN, DEL, May H.
The strawberry crop Of lower Della.
ware has survived the danger
period and nothing but an unex.
pected bareback Of cold weather
"" prevent q huge crop this year.
Rrokers at selbyville are appre-
heusivs Of prices owing to the large
quantities of berries being shipped
from points further south. 1t is
expected. however. that by the time
the Delaware berries begin to move
the Southern fields win have been
depleted.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Puyallup Indians to
Register for u. S. Paw

SEATTLE, May II QN.S).-Wan-
dering braves, squaws and papooses
Of the Puyallup Indian tribe will
have to pitch their teepees on the
home camp ground and formally
enroll with the tribe by May Is,
If they hope to share in a $500, 900
fund now on deposit for them IN
the United States Treasury, &C.
cording to announcement here by
F. A. Gross, sueciaI agent of the
Government Indian service.
1t Is expected close to 1000 ap.
plications will be filed before the
closing date.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Club Tawes An Oath
Never to Sneak Evil

NUNEAToN. England, May IT,
Even the subconscious mind must
be purged Of malicious gossip IL
you would become q member OF the
Anti-Scandal Club, founded by the
Rev. Frank Melville. vicar of Ex-
hall, near the Mall, Warwickshire
town. The club takes oath to
speak no evil.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
Mothers Stolen Auto
Ends Sons ElOpeTnen1

ATLANTIC CITY, May 17.-Elope-
ment of a North Jersey boy and a
Brooklyn girl was halted here by
his arrest on a charge Of stealing
his mothers automobile.
Paul A. Maurello. 20. Of Norwood,
was arrested as he arrived here by
AUTO with Eleanor Rodi, 10. of
Brooklyn. His mother had sent
warrant ahead The youth said
he had purchased the car from
his mother.
The Washington times., 1929-05-17
FORUM TALK ON RADIUM

George Shibley will address the
Washington Open Forum Sunday
afternoon at o'clock ON "Radium
and Its Effect on Philosophy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
Youthful Carrier
OfGerms COrnered
By Doctors at Last
Fresh Air and Exercises
Recommended After Is
Arrests in Five Years.

DENVER, October 26 (R.-Sammy
Matz, 10, who has laughed at lock-
smiths ever since he got out of swad-
ding clothes, has at last received q
bad break.
Sammy has been arrested IS times in
the last five years. Each time he was
released. Sammy is what is known as
a diphtheria carrier. Immune to the
disease himself, he carried the deadly
germs in his nose and throat. The
Juvenile Court could not send him to
reform school or anywhere else. So,
perforce, they turned him loose.
Now, however, three doctors have de-
cided Sammy's germs are not Of viru-
lent character. They recommended he
be placed in some institution where he
could get plenty of exercise and fresh
air. The judge Is expected to act OH
their recommendation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
Bingham First Approached
by Manufacturers AssoCia-
ton, Arkansan Indicates.
LOBBY COMMITTEE ASKS
LIST OF $1-A-YEAR MEN
Only Recommendation Is Result of
Wuichet Testimony-Rail Lobby
ing Funds Questioned.

BY the Associated Press
The relations between Senator Bing-
ham, Republican. Connecticut. and the
Connecticut Manufacturers Association
were condemned before the Senate to-
day by Chairman Caraway of the lobby
committee as tending to shake the
confidence of the American public in
the integrity of legislation"
Caraway made his statement after
presenting report to the Senate from
the committee detailing circumstances
facturerS' Association of Charles L.
Eyanson to assist Senator Bingham in
his work on the finance committee in
framing the tariff bill.
I'm view of the extraordinary circum-
stances attending this transaction" the
Arkansas Senator said, lit was felt by
the committee that it was its duty to
call to the attention of the Senate i'm
mediately the information obtained.
1T seemed to the committee that the
transaction was beneath the dignity of
the Senate and that it would tend to
shake the confidence Of the American
public in the integrity of the legisla-
ton"
Caraway also disclosed for the first
time that the committee had reason to
believe Bingham was first approached
by the association relative to their CIV
ing him assistance, although the records
show that Bingham first asked for a
loan" of a man.
A resolution proposed by Caraway
calling upon the Department of Com
merce to report all dollar-a-year men
on its pay roll was adpoted without dis
cusSion.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana,
said one of the employees of the Con-
necticut Manufacturers Association.
Joseph E. Wuichet, testified he was a
dollar-a-year man for the Commerce
Department. Walsh asserted this was
unlawful.
Denies Witnesses Candid.
Senator Bingham sat silent and alone
as Caraway and then Walsh reviewed his
relations with the manufacturers.
Caraway said neither Charles cyan
son, $4,000 assistant to the president
of the Connecticut Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION, who was loaned" to Bing-
ham, nor Wuichet "can read their tes-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
WAR" FORECAST
IN c. 0. P. MOVE
Selection of Kahn as Treas
urer Seen as Night on
H00Ver'S Loes.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 26.-War by
the Republican senatorial campaign
committee against Republican Senators
who oppose President Hoover on the
tariff was forecast by New York news
papers today.
The forecast was predicated on the
selection Of Otto H. Kahn as treasurer
Of the Republican senatorial campaign
committee, which was announced Thurs
day night at a dinner given by Jere-
miah Milbank for Claudius H. Huston,
chairman Of the Republican national
committee.
Mr.. Kahn accepted the treasurership
at the request Of Senator George II.
Moses of New Hampshire, chairman of
the committee. In recent years the
committee has had no treasurer, OBJ
tanning most Of its funds from the ma
tional committee.
Selection Significant.
The Times said that selection of a
banker of Mr.. Tahn's standing was &C
cepted as an indication that Senator
Moses intended to be prepared for a
hard fight for retention of Republican
control of the Senate when one-third
of the members come up for election or
reelection next year.
The selection, said the Times, was
seen as somewhat of a war measure,
aimed as much against the members of
the so-called Republican Progressive
group as against the Democrats, with a
possibility that the Republican sena-
torial campaign committee might fail
to support some of the Progressive Sen
ators who have opposed, and are OPP
posing, President Hoover and the adj
ministration on the tariff bill.
Moses and Watson Leaders.
The American said the campaign for
an immediate aggressive fight against
the insurgents was largely due to the
appeals of Senators Moses and James E.
Watson of Indiana.
The newspaper quoted Moses as ap-
pealing to the 100 persons present to
join him and Watson in helping to
make the Republican majority so large
its DEGREES would be challenged only
with futility by La Toilette, Norris, Bo-
rah, Capper and other reputed Pro-
greSsive- Republicans.
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improvements Recommend
ed in Report From Assistant
Engineer Commissioner.
GENERAL REVENUE FUND
SUGGESTED FOR BUILDING
New Mains Central Object of Pro-
posal-Approval of Plan
Is Predicted.

A far-reaching program of improve
ment of Washington's water distribu-
ton system, calling for expenditure of
about $1,287,000 more than can be
met by the expected water revenues
over a period of five years, was recon-
mended by Assistant Engineer Com
missioner Hugh P. Dram in report to
Engineer Commissioner william B. La
due today.
Capt. Dram recommended that no in
be made, but that the extra money be
appropriated from the general revenues
of the District.
Capt. Dram supported this recon-
mendation, considered the most vital
in the report, by pointing out that the
District is now earning return of Z
per cent on the capital invested in the
water distributing system.
Increase Opposed.
Since the improvements called for
are all capital expenses, he wrote, to
increase the rates to take care of such
expenses would not be in line with good
commercial practice. Although the
recommendation still must be passed
on by both Col. Ladue individually and
the District Commissioners as board,
opinion at the District Building was
that in all its essentials it would be ap-
proved by the Commissioners.
The report was not the sole express
sion of opinion of Capt. Dram, to whom
the task was assigned by Col Ladue, but
was also concurred in and signed by
Maj. Brehon Somervell, the United
States engineer for this district; e. d.
Hardy, the senior engineer of the United
States engineer Office, and D. w. Hol-
ton. acting superintendent of the
District Water Department.
Recommendations Listed.
Nine major improvements were
recommended. They are:
/. Parallel the 24-inch second high
service main from Florida avenue to
Park road on Eleventh street with a
new 36-inch main. Funds now in hand
for the extension of the M street main
from Eleventh street to New Jersey ave-
nue. should be applied to this work and
the extension of the M street main
postponed for many years, as there is
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NEW TRIAL MOTION
FOR FALL IS FILED
Arguments for Rehearing of
Bribery Case to Be Open
ed Next Friday.
BY the Associated Press.


Convicted of bribery, former Secretary
of the Interior Albert B. Fall today
pinned his hope of exoneration upon a
motion for new trial and, that failing,
an appeal to higher court.
Still stoutly maintaining his inno-
cence, the former cabinet officer, now
aged and failing in health, awaited the
next development in his case at his
suite in the Mayf1ower Hotel, surround
ed by members of his family and old
friends from the West.
The verdict of the jury that he was
guilty of bribery in accepting 100000
from Edward L. Doheny before execut-
ing the famous lease on the Elk Hills
naval oil reserve to a Doheny company
was followed closely late yesterday by
the motion for a new trial, advancing
80 reasons which cefense counsel con-
sidered as justifying such an action.
Claim Judge Erred.
The motion made numerous charges
of error on the part of Justice William
Hitz, who presided, asserting that he
went beyond his province In his tnStruc-
tions to the jury by improperly and
unlawfully'' arguing the case, and iii
effect directing" coercing, influencing
and driving the jury on questions of
fact which were "Solely and exclusively
within the jury's function to decide"
In addition, Falls counsel charged
that the court erred in admitting EVIL
dence of the transaction by which Fall
leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserve
to Harry F. Sinclair, and also in COM
menting on that evidence in its charge
Taking up the section of Justice Hits
charge dealing with recommendation
for mercy, which subsequently was at
tached to the verdict, the motion as
serted that it constituted an 'unwar-
ranted and improper invitation to the
jury to convict, and the suggestion that
by so doing they might by attaching
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
POLICE MAKE DRIVE
ON LIQUOR SELLERS
Fifty-Seven Places Raided
in Day of Unusual
Activity.

The police turned loose on Washing
tons wet spots with vehemence yester-
day and dried up 81, temporarily at
least, thereby establishing a new record
for a 24-1our period, according to a
memorandum submitted today to Maj.
Henry @. Pratt, superintendent, by
Lieut.. L. I. A. Edwards, personnel Of
ficer.
Thirty-tw of the 81 liquor cases were
credited to the seventh precinct, which
covers Georgetown and the vicinity.
The blotter at the first precinct, in the
downtown section, recorded all but 10
of the remaining Is cases.
Most of these cases, however. were
made by Sergt. Letterman and his spe-
cial liquor squad, which conducted raids
in all sections of the District, bringing
the victims to the central station.
Illegal Possession.
The largest number Of cases were for
illegal possession of liquor. There were
% of these. Selling liquor ranked sec
ond, with 20 cases. In addition, per-
sons were charged with transportation
Maj. Pratt explained he believed the
unprecedented record for one day rep
resented the result of considerable pre-
lininary investigation by the police
Twenty-Five new cases were brought
into Police Court today Many of the
arrests made were under the Jones law.
David A. Hart, assistant United
States attorney, said that earlier in the
week he informed members of the va
rious liquor squads and other police
and agents that unless better informa-
ton sheets were made out by them
that he would not make charges against
the persons whom they had arrested.
The apparent reawakening of the pro-
hibition enforcement machinery was at
tributed by attaches of the court to the
private talks which Hart and his assis-
tant, James r. kirkland, have given
many of the police.
Kirkland told how several police had
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BURTON HOLDING OWN
BUT CONDITION GRAVE
President Hoover Pays Night Visit
to Senator From
Ohio.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The condition of Senator Burton of
Ohio, who is critically Ill at his resi-
dence here, was reported today by his
secretary to have undergone no change
during the past "a hours"
Burton, long a figure in national Re-
publican politics, had an attack of
grippe about a month ago and was re-
covering slowly until yesterday, when q
sharp relapse brought fears that he
would not recover.
for Herbert Hoover for the presidency
and the Chief Executive called on him
last night. The President has visited
him several times during his illness.
His secretary, who spent the night at
the Burton residence, said "the Senator
is a very sick man, and there is cause
for great concern, but he appears to be
holding his own, showing no inclination
to weaken or gain in strength"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
FRANCE MAY TALK
NAVY WITH ITALY
Preliminary Agreement
Against Arms Race May
Be Sought.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, october 26.-It Is learned in
responsible circles that France is dis
posed and ready to negotiate in pre-
liminary agreement with italy to pre-
vent any naval armament race between
themselves.
Such an arrangement, it is under
stood, must, however, be based on
recognition by Italy that Frances
necessity of defending extensive coast
lines and distant colonies justifies a
bigger fleet for France than for Italy.
France is described as ready to discuss
the question of reasonable proportion
between the two nations, but is quite
unwilling to accept naval parity.
The impression in well informed in
ternational circles here is that Great
Britain and the United States have
reached complete agreement on the
main lines of a naval disarmament
accord.
It is said that the feasibility of a
three-power deflnitive treaty between
Great Britain, the United States and
Japan is being envisaged for the Lon
don conference in January. This would
be extended to a four-power treaty II.
as Is expected, Italy comes in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
SECRET CULTS DEMAND BLAMED BY
MEMBER WHO ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Says He Was Ordered to End Life Because He Fell in
Love With Wife of Another.

and the other infiicting surface
abdominal wound.
Neither Clifford nor two young men
with him, Ben Powers, 10, and Paul
Harper, 81, both Of Oakland, would
describe the cult other than to say it
was known as the 20. r. T. p. T." All
questions were greeted with silence.
Police said the suicide attempt was
Clifford's second in the last week. We'd
nesday night, while riding with the
woman for love of whom Clifford said
he was condemned, Mrs. Gladys Hunter,
he was prevented from shooting himself
by Mrs. Hunter.
Hunter. Her husband is an employe
of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The
couple is understood to have left here
yesterday for San AntNnios ..-A.uA.......aasEts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
FIND TRACE OF SHIP
GONE FOR 5 YEARS
WreCkage of House of David
Craft Washed Up in Lake
Michigan Storm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
DETROIT, Mich, october 26.-The
tumultous waters of Lake Michigan
which eliminated the Milwaukee from
the shipping lists of the Great Lakes,
yielded up the story of another tragedy
this week.
Out of the lake have come bits of
wreckage of the House of David schoon-
er Rosabelle, unreported since it set out
for a cruise eight years ago. The Rosa
belle carried crew of II men and was
on it's way from High Island with a
cargo of potatoes raised there when it
disappeared in storm. Wreckage OF
the vessel was found on the beach near
Racine, Wis, by searchers for trace
of the Milwaukee.
The Rosabelle's crew consisted of
Capt. Erhart Gliese, First Mate Charles
Anderson, Second Mate Waldemar
Frederickson and Seamen Alvin Winder.
Edgar Marshall. Jake Vonmoulken,
Robert Dauley. G. Daley, L. Nye, Cecil
Claudel and Edwin Wilson.
High Island, in the northern part OF
Lake Michigan, is the property of the
House of David, which is located at
Benton Harbor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASsocIateu Freks
Ell PASO, Tex, October 26.--Strap-
ped to an operating table, James Cliff
ford, 2s-year-old self-styled scion of
wealthy Oakland, Calf, family, declared
today he shot himself on order of a
secret cult, whose heads gave him a
pistol and demanded he commit suicide
because he had fallen in love with the
wife of another cult member.
Police were forced to handcuff the
injured man and he was strapped to
the operating table while physicians
worked because of violent attempts TO
complete what he said was an attempt
TO kill himself. He was not wounded
dapgegouslys one Of two anots going wild
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
THREATENING LETTERS
BRING YOUTHS ARREST
Reported to Have Confessed to De-
handing $4,000 From Wealthy
Oklahoma Men.
BY the Associated Press.

By GhE hSsUCIdItu FItoSs
NEWKIRK, Okla, october 26.-Shel-
ton Phipps, 2l-year-old Ponca City
youth, was held today in connection
with a threatening letter said to have
been sent to Lew H. Wentz, Oklahoma
highway commissioner and capitalist,
and L. K. Meeks, wealthy Ponca City
banker.
young Phipps confessed sending the let
tiers.
The letters instructed the two men
to place $4,000 In 81 small package and
secrete this package on bridge on a
lonely country road two miles south Of
Ponca City.
Phipps was arrested when he APP
pea-ed at the spot where Meeks and
Wentz were instructed to leave the
money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EVANSTON, Ill, October 26.-Miss
Pauline Stasiak probably could be de-
scribed as hit-'em-again driver; a
hit-and-run and hit 'em-again driver,
to be real hyphenated.
Judge Porter, IN filming her SIS yes
tsrday. said worse than that. He said
that as a driver she was "a menace to
the community" and told her to stop
driving until she learned how.
!, Eetas~ Aanacchiar Was. thu. complaiux
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
Nearly Every One

In about 9 out of 10 of the
better homes of Washington
The Star is read regularly
by the different members of
the family for worthwhile.
reliable news and informa-
ton.
If The Star is not being
delivered regularly to your
door every evening and Sun
day morning, telephone now
National 5000, and the route
agent will collect go cents
per month (65 cents when
five Sundays in the month";.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
HTT-AND-RUN-AND -HIT-'EM-AGAIN
GIRL IS BANISF1ED AS DRIVER
Complaining Witness Says She 'Ran'' Only to Return
and Smash His Second Car.

ing witness. He said Miss Stasiak
smashed into his machine at street
intersection. backed away, turned
around and disappeared.
80" said Peter Pennacchia, II went
to the garage and get my other car. A
fellows got to have two or three cars
nowadays with so many careless drivers
at large. started out again. stopped
for a light. Crash, bang. She hit me
again. Same girl, same car.
II can't afford to keep buying cars
for her to smash into"
The court decided the point was well
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
IDENTIFIED AS KIDNAPER.
One of Eight Held Recognized as
Child Sees Picture.

DETROIT, October IS R.-James
Fernando, one Of eight persons held in
connection with the kidnapping of s.
year old Jackie Thompson, was claimed
by police today to have been identified
by the child as one Of the men who
carried him off September 80 while ne
was playing in front of his home. Jackie.
according to police and his father,
Henry S. Thompson, picked Fernando
from a group of other suspects in
newspaper picture.
Six men and Two women now are held
In connection with the case. The latest
arrest was that OF Charles Vangeliste.
%, who was taken into custody when he
appeared at the Fernando home last
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
CREW OF 81 STRANDED.
Men on Freighter Chicago Washed Up
on Island in Lake Michipan.

Wen on FTeIghCef CnlcaBO Washeu Up
on Island in Lake Michigan.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, October
&c LEp.-The cold northern dawn
spreading over the white-capped waves
P. C. Farrell of the package freighter
Chicago and 80 members of his crew
huddled about their camp fires on the
rocky shore at the western end of
Michipicoten Island, where they have
been marooned without food or shelter
since Tuesday night.
Michipicoten is a wooded and noun
famous island 100 miles northwest Of
Sault Ste. Marie. Its highest rocks rise
a thousand feet above lake level. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
Bacha Sakao Capture Confirmed.

LONDON, October 20 P.-The
Afghan charge d'affaires in London last
night received Official confirmation Of
the capture and confinement Of Bacha
Sakao, who was driven from the throne
hA bad usLexpedA b3 NAaiE KhaTa .. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
Presents Credentials.

BERLIN, October 26 R.-President
Won Hindenburg today received Prof.
Daniel Binchy, first Irish Free State
Minister to Germany, who presented his
credentials
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