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The Washington times., 1929-08-20


His daughter, Mrs. Dave Mangoe.
of near Westernport, celebrated her
twentieth birthday last month. and
his second wife, who before marriage
was Miss Elizabeth MacMannis. of
Westernport, celebrated her sixtieth
birthday yesterday.
Mr.. Trainum is the oldest civil
war veteran in the United States
and is the oldest person ever having
received a pension. He was un.
able to read until he had passed the
only after his conversion In the
United Brethren Church and his
desire to read the Bible.
Has Birth Record
He was born In Richmond. Va,
where birth records bespeak, the
authenticity of his age. the date
given as January /, 1916. He Is Of
Freneh-Irish descent son OF Foster
Tranum and Patsy Tiger Tranum,
both of u farming district near
Richmond
His parents died when he was
young. his father being killed when
the tongue OF an ox-cart swung
around hitting him in the head and
fracturing his skull.
His mother grief striken over the
death Of her husband died a few
months later. The family became
separated, Burbridge being raised
by a neighbor until a gypsy band
happened along stealing him In the
night when he was 13 years old. He
escaped. however, and Joined the
John Robinson circus of the old
school, hiring out as a team driver.
which afforded the young Tranum
much adventure In the Eastern
section Of the United States.
He 'lait tAe elreua atteE several
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DUE
I D DIE
N()V. e

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 20
(LN.S. Death in the cleo
trio chair on November % was
the fate which was meted out
today to DR.. James Howard
Shook, convicted slayer Of his
illicit sweetheart, Miss Theora
Hix.
The death sentence Was passed
by Judge Henry l.. Scarlet. in
criminal court here, after he had
oyerruled q motion for a new trial
which had been argued by lttor.
neyA for Shook.
In overruling the petition l6r .
second trial. Judge Scarlet declared
shocks contention during his de-
Tense had been false, adding that
the murder was surely premedi.
ated. = The court stated Snookss
story was Inconsistent throughout, :"
and that there Is nothing against
Miss Hix's character
sits BY Calmly
Snook, former 49.year.0ld Ohio
State University professor. stOically
heard the Judgment OF the court
that he should burn at Ohio
State penitentiary the day after
Thanksgiving. He showed not the
slightest trace of emotion.
He was as calm as he was during
his recent trial when he never
batted an eye as the fiendish MUIR
der Of the young and beautiful coed,
Miss Hix was re-enacted.
Shook battered and slashed his
paramour to death on lonely rifle
range on the outskirts of Columbus
the night OF June Is, leaving her
mutilated body lying in the weeds.
The States contention was that
Shook hammered and knitted ne
girl when she repulsed his advances.
After he had given her an alleged
love potion" which had not be-
come effective.
The jury returned a verdict Of
guilty of first-degree murder after
celebrating less than half an hour
and by taking emily one ballot.
The trial was one Of the most
sordid in the history of the country,
the "love-nest" relations of the
former professor and the coed be-
ing barred in most intimate and
repulsive detail.
Shook was taken to the State
penitentiary here less than half an
hour after his sentence, and was
placed in death row."
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PERUENV|)Y
QUITS IN
row
~ 1nternational News service

BY international News Service
1t is an ancient adage that
big oaks from little acorns
grow.
The inherent truth Of it has
been strikingly manifested in
Washington recently, and has
caused the capitals social and
diplomatic set no end of
amusement and gossip.
The affair is not without its seri-
out side, too. for q prominent South
American diplomat has resigned and
the governments Of two countries
have been somewhat embarrassed
all because d Peruvian serving man,
one Cornelius. saw fit to change
employers.
The principal actors in this little
seriO-comedy Of international scope
are Mrs. Miles Poindexter, wife Of
the former Senator from washing
ton and ambassador to Peru; Senior
Alfredo Gonzales Prada. the Presi.
dent OF Peru. and OF course, Cor.
nelius.
Servants Brought Back
A. the story goes, it is this:
When the Poindexters returned
from Lima some months ago, the
former Senator having resigned az
American ambassador to Peru, they
brought with them two Peruvian
servants, Cornelius and his wife.
who had worked for them during
their residence in Lima. They were
to receive very modest wages-as
servants wages go in the capital
and be taught to speak English
Mrs. Poindexter was the envy Of
other hostesses in Washington for
having acquired two such perfect
servants as Cornelius and his wife
at such wages!
After some months in Washing
ton, however. Cornelius got to look
ing around. Others, he found, were
receiving considerably more Of those
Americana dollars than he and his
good wife. So he became dissatis-
fled.
COnsHlts His Embassy
In q strange country and uncer-
tain of his rights, he consulted his
AAAOASSIs 4AG.s SOuGnb2 d0NACG} AAO1A
his country's chief diplomatic repre-
sentative, Senior Gonzales-Prada, as
to whether he had to remain in
the Poindexter's employ. Most al.
suredly not, IL he didn't want to.
he was informed by Senior Gonzales-
Prada. There were no indentured
servants in free United States.
Cornelius decided to leave. Where
was he to go? Wen. he could go
to work for Senior Gonzales-Pr Prada
for the time being. Cornelius packed
his bag and left the Poindexter
menage.
The next thing that Senior Con.
zales-Prada knew he was called on
the telephone by a lady who said
she was Mrs. Poindexter, and who
proceeded to tell him In no uncer-
tain terms what she thought Of
him. the Embassy and all Peru,
for having ''enticed" her jewel OF
a Cornelius away from her estab-
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AIR RACER DIES IN CRASH
Denied Hall in Boston,
SaccO Memorial
Goes to N. Y.

NEW YORK. Aug. 20 u.N.sl.-
Refused . hall or theater in
Boston. the Sacco.Y anEetti
memorial committee today an.
nounced that services to com.
memorate the second anniversary
Of their execution would be held
In Town Hall here on August -,
the anniversary date.
The civil liberties union Is as.
ISOLATED in the observance, at
which Henry Raymond Mussey
viii preside.
The committee announced that
full page advertisement in
Boston papers failed to bring q
meeting place there. They applied
for every hail, hotel or theater
with 1000 or more seating
capacity, committee members said.
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Large Barn Is Burned
By Lightning Bolt

HAGERsTowN. Aug. 2O.--A large
barn on the farm OF Mrs. Sarah
Grimes. at Grimes Station, this
county, was burned to the ground
yesterday when struck by lightning.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
No livestock was In the barn at
the time, but all It's contents were
destroyed, including the seasons
crop Of wheat and . large quantity
Oe farming implements, Several
Nearby bnllainga alao were destroyed.
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First Negro Appointed
To Legal Berth in n. Y

NEW YORK. Aug. 20.-Francis
r. Giles, first negro to be appointed
rs Assistant United States Attorney
for the borough OF Brooklyn, was
named to that position, yesterday,
by United States Attorney Ameli
He will assume duties in the civil
department, being assigned to pad.
Jock cases. He is married and has
practiced law In Brooklyn since
1923.
Giles IL 81, and was highly recon-.
mended by Charles D. Hilles, of
the New York Republican COM
mittee; w. J. Maier, OF the state
committee, and by his organization
in the seventeenth assembly district,
together with several delegations Of
coIored Republicans of Brooklyn.
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CHINESE FL [
BORDER

HARBTN. Manchuria, Aug. 20.--
In wholesale evacuation from towns
along the dancfu1rian fr0ntier, hun.
sdredN UE Chinese are swarming to-
ward the interior OF Manchuria.
thrown into panic by recurring raids
by Soviet troops stationed on the
frontier.
This evacuation was revealed to-
day in official customs department
dispatches from Tahiho. The dis.
patches confirmed reports that he
Sino- Russian crisis Is becoming more
serious hourly.
zoo Chinese Killed.
A check-up of reports indicates that
the sporadic raids carried out by the
Russians thus far have caused only
200 casualties, but apparently the
Chinese authorities are determined
to bring these raids and armed
clashes to an end.
A total of $50, ZOO Chinese troops,
well armed and equipped, is being
rushed to stategic border points on
six rail and road lines.
Chinese Also Accused
It appeared today that the Soviets
have mot been alone in warlike &C.
tivities. Reports from the frontier
indicate that individual Chinese SOL
diers have been maltreating Russian
and Japanese women. while the Chi
nese military authorities are acting
cruelty toward interned and i'm.
prisoned Russian civilians.
LONDON, Aug. 20 U.N.S).-Japa.
nese troops from the Japanese Man.
churian garrison are moving north
ward along the south Manchuria
railway to be ready for any emerg-
ency, said a Central News dispatch
f,.n.,a hns.rhni Ahin nEAnrnnn.n
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SUN COD IS DUE
HOME TODAY

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 20
uN.S).-The Sun God was expected
to arrive at its home flying field
here at o'clock this afternoon.
after making a nonstop flight from
Spokane to New York ana return.
The Bull biplane. piloted by
Nick Manner and Art Walker, ar.
rived at Miles City. Mont. and
flew over that city until dawn.
when another supply of gasoline
and oil was transferred from q
refueling plane.
The Sun God was to proceed to
Belgrade. Mont, where fuel will be
taken aboard for the final leg of
the journey to Spokane.
The Sun God left here Thursday
afternoon.
Whether the plane win land here
or proceed to San Francisco has
not vet been determined. Sponsors
of the flight announced the decision
would rest with the pilots.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20 uNsA-
Aviation authorities in and about
New York today were unanimous
in hailing the round-trip, coast-to.
coast, refueling- endurance flight OF
the airplane, Spokane Sun God. as
an outstanding contribution to
aeronautical science.
Most OF the air luminaries inter.
viewed by international News Ser.
vice were agreed that the Sun Gods
flight would prove more valuable to
aviation than the recent series of
observation-disclosures flights over one
airport, such az the record. breaking
performance of the st. Louis Robin,
By flying great distances cross
the country for their refueling con.
facts, the crew of the Sun God
Nick Manner and Art Walker-defi
nitely established that 1t will be
possible for transport planes of the
future to carry passengers and
freight for indefinite distances with.
out being forced to land to take on
fuel and supplies.
Moreover. the Sun Gods feat fore
casts the eventual use of the re-
fueling principle by all OF the great
American aviation companies, who
are now operating passenger service
lines.
1t was pointed out by one au.
thority that the success of the Sun
Gods flight reduces to a minimum
the hazards Of ocean flying.
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BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House.
1884, ,O20.O5.
New York Clearing House bal.
ance, S1s3, 600, coo.
New York Clearing House ex.
change, sl,77a, ,O00, 900.
Treasury balance. Slo8, ,llS.0l3.a2.
Cllstonlh Eeceipta. kala1fss 80 IS.
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DORVAL

FIRST RACE--Mum Ruffiu. Yankee
Rock. Knave of Clubs, Bidable, Dixis
Beauty, Elder Blossom. Ed Pendlet6n,
Coverwood, Gilded Youth, All Range.
SECOND RACE-Washington Carrie,
FIFTH RACE-Fire Brigade.
SIXTH RACE-Aregal.
SEVENTH RACE-Jake. Dear Lady.
Lady Edna, Duckling. Pat Calhoun.
Sweetest Song.
Weather. clear; track, fast.
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Endurance Champions
TO Bid New York Adieu

NEW YORK Aug. 20 H.N.S.l.
Dale jackson and Forrest O'Brine,
holders OF the world refueling en-.
durance flight record, were preparing
TODAY TO return to the West. after
Esing welcomed in New York by
Mayer walker.
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Vet, 113, Fatherof33,
Still Enjoys Life

PHOENIX, Md, Aug. 20.-Marred twice, with 81 children
first wife, IL children by his second wife, divorced from
his first spouse and father Of his youngest child at the
o. This the record held by Burbrdge Coleman Tranum
of this little hamlet who will celebrate his Hath birthday
Innnn
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SCHEDULED
TO ARRIVE
TODAY

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia,
Aug. 20 lI.N.S. The people
of the Canadian maritime
provinces. from st. Johns to
Cape Sable, continuously
scanned the eastern horizon
today for trace of two unsnng
sky heroes who are attempt
ing q transatlantic Westbound
flight from Lisbon to New
York.
They are two Swiss youngstels J,
Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher,
the youngest aviators who ever d..
fled the dangers OF transocean
hop.
These latest aspIrants for Europe.
to-America air honors were reported
over Teroeira Island Of the Azores
group at s o'clock yesterday eve.
ming. Greenwich mean time $50 D. m.
Washington tinnel. and were flying
steadily westward at high speed.
Expected Today
The Azores are 1,150 miles from
ST. Johns, Newfoundland, and 1850
from Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1t was
estimated that. if the airmen wee
able to maintain good speed ana
flew In q straight line westward
without any miahaps or had weather
they would ha over the ma ritine
provinces some time today.
Kaesar ana Isuescher hnpped off
at Lisbon. Portugal. ii the plane
Young Switzerland, at 7.30 q. m.
yesterday tuguese time. or I:30'
g. m. Washfngfon time. Ialsbon Isl
2,150 miles from st. Johns ana
'2,650 miles from this city.
Reach New York Tonight
T The young Swiss said they hoped
to reach Roosevelt Field, Long Is.
land, just outside Of New York city,
some time Tuesday night.
Owing to the quiet manner in
which the ayiators prepared for their
flight and r. which they hoped off
at Lisbon and the further fact that
the enterprise was overshadowed by
world interest in the globe -girdling
voyage OF the Graf Zeppelin, the
two Swiss fliers received scant at.
tention in the press,
AleW to lndO.China
Kaesar, who is well known in
French aviation circles because of
his flight from Switzerland to Indo-
China and return, said that he and
his companion would travel by way
of Halifax. This news aroused con-
siderable interest in the flight here
and from dawn watch was kept
for the plane.
The airmen are using Farman
monopIane with a 230-horsepower
Gnome LIE Rhone Titan motor,
capable of 105 miles an hour under
satisfactory weather conditions.
HORTA, Azores. Aug. 20 I.N.S).--
In the absence of any reports to the
contrary, Oscar Kaesar and Kurt
Luescher. young Swiss fliers hardly
out of their teens were believed to
be speeding today across the Atlantic
toward New York in their Farman
monoplane Young Switzerland.
No Trouble Seen
No indication was given that the
fliers were experiencing any diff.
Guilty, and after swooping low over
the village their plane struck out
on q straight westerly line over the
ocean.
Weather conditions in the vicinity
of the Azores were. excellent. and
there were no reports OF heavy
storms between here and the coast
Of America.
LISBON. Aug. 20 u.N.S.l-Aero.
nautical authorities we're watching
with undisguised interest today the
Continued on Page O.. Column A.
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Japan Honors Eckener
And Zeppelin Crew
BY JAMEs R. YOUNG

TOKYO, Aug 20 INS) Thrilled by the unprecedented
exploit of the Graf Zeppelin which has pioneered its way
through alien skies than half way round the world
Japan paid honors and tribute to the masters who made the
feat possible
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years and secured odd jobs here and
there rs a carpenter, blacksmith,
sawyer in lumber camps and finally
settled down to master the trade Of
4 stone mSson ana then married
Continued On Rasa . cDlgnn q
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FOUND DEAD IN WRECKED PLANE
HER PLANE crashing into the desert six miles north
of Wellton, Arz, Marvel Crosson 25-yearod aviatrx
of San Diego Calif killed. while competing in the
Santa Monica Cleveland womens air derby Miss Crossons
body found today after alnght search She was
flying to Yuma Arz when she met her death, apparently
in forced landing.
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Fixing Six Years

Flying Six Years
Marvel Crosson, girl flier. claimed
by death today in the women's air
race from California to Cleveland.
was resident of San Diego. Calf.
She was an experienced aviatrix,
having piloted planes for six years
Miss CrosSen was the holder of
the worlds altitude record for
women. reaching height of 1896
feet in recent flight.
PHOENIX, Ariz. Aug. 20. Q.N.S.l,
Their numbers reduced by death and
by minor crashes, II Of Is avia.
trixes, who hoped off from Santa
Monica. Calf. Sunday. today re.
sumed the gruelling flight toward
Cleveland, Ohio, and the national
air races there.
Miss Marvel Crosson, Is, Of San
Diego, Calf, worlds altitude record
holder among women pilots. lay
dead near the debris of her No. ]
plane, six miles north of Wellton.
Ariz., 100 miles west of Phoenix.
Posses found her BODY this morning
after an all night search.
Survivors Of the race here hopped
off for 210-mile lap to Douglas,
Ariz., unaware of the fate OF Miss
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
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.B0DEF(N)N|]
IN PLANE
WRECK

WELLToN, Ariz., Aug. 20
(I.N.S.). - Marvel Crosson,
San Diego aviatrix, was found
dead today in her wrecked
plane six miles due north of
here.
Her body was crushed and
broken. Indications were that
she had met death in a forced
landing.
The left wing Of her plane. in
which she was en- route to Phoenix
from Yuma yesterday In the nation.
al air derby, was crumpled from
hitting = bank.
Parachute Unopened
parachute which she carried
As taopened. Apparently the
gatl had no time to open It.
AriRs Crosson was the first to
meet with disaster In the derby,
although three other aviatrixes had
made forced landings yesterday but
escaped injury.
Miss Crosson war the only one
OF Is plots to fall to make the
Yuma.Phoenix hop.
Her fall was witnessed by Frank
Leydendecker, well dri3 - ranch
hands at the Seaborn tlAnch and
by q child of Mrs. Frank Spain,
owner of the Wellton Hotel.
Sought All Night
Twenty men sought Miss Cros-
son all night, keeping beacon fires
burning in hopes she might answer
with bonfire.
Deputy sheriffs were saddling up
this morning to resume the search
| when Constable Victor Gail arrived
with word OF the discovery.
In 1915 Gail was the discoverer of
two fallen Army aviators. Colonel
Robertson and Lieutenant Bishop,
who fell with a damaged plane in
the Sonoita, Mexico desert, 20 miles
south Of here.
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The OFFICIAL WEATHEF

Fair and continued cool tonight; We'd
nesday partly cloudy with slowly rising
temperature; gentle northeast and east
winds. Temperatures yesterday Highest.
70; lowest. IS. High tides tOday-s:O1
a. M, 8:29 p. m.
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ToDAY'S SCRATCHES

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New Britain herald., 1929-08-23

he replied. q don't know of any one in the neighborhood who owns a dog like this. I guess we sRall have to keep him until some one comes 10 claim him. Probably somebody will appear sooner or later"
 Now, if the little dog had under stood what Farmer Browns Boy was saying, and he could have re- piled, he would have only too eager ly told Farmer Browns Boy that he didn't want to go back where he came from; that he hadn't been happy there, but that now he was happy and wanted to say. AS a mat ter of fact, he had fully made up his mind that he was going to stay. He had made up his mind that he wouldn't go no matter what hap pencd. He intended to adopt Farm CT Browns family, whether or not the family adopted him.
 So it was that the little dog found q new home and a very happy home. T. seemed as if he would turn him. self inside out with joy every time he saw Farmer Browns Boy. BoWser the Hound would have been quite excusa hle if he had grown jealous, but Bowscr had too much sense to do anything like that, In fact he was glad to have the little dog about. You see Bowser wasn't so old but that he liked to play once in a while.
 Copyright, 1929, T. w. Burgess)
 The next story: The Little Dog Gets a Name"
New Britain herald., 1929-08-23

clude irritability, fatigue, restless ness and emotional disturbances.
 Doctor Mills is convinced that oc- ular adjustments to educational forcing produce weakness of the eye muscles and eye strain through pro- longed orerattention. He believes that the curriculums Of study are so intensive nowadays that the phy- sical cost of this type of training yields questionable profit when bal anced with the efficiency produced. The world does not require faster and more neurotic persons he says, but urgently needs more accurate and more dependable ones There is a definite limit to the amount of words that any reader can see at single glance. The at- ttmpts to force the vision to see more and com prehend more in q [ short space of time is likely to pro- duce strains resulting in serious in capacity.
 Doctor Mills recognizes the fact that many people are able to read far more rapidly than others and to comprehend what they read more rapidly. HGsrecognizes also that much of this ability rest in heredity and is perhaps a form of genius.
 Intellectual capacity is practi- cally determined at birth and gains only by proper training. There is a definite and individual limit to the speed of correct recognition and perception of objects and of words, and if this limit is exceeded, there is a penalty represented by lessened accuracy, poor memory and inhibi- ton of associative values which are important in learning.
 The tests that have been made in dicate that the most rapid readers can do at best a page of solid read ing in a minute and that this speed can seldom be maintained with any u~efulnees for more than half an hour at time.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-23

vas saying, but he knew that he "as being talked to and that was quite enough. Already he had made up his mind that he would have Farmer Browns Boy for d master, too, He had made up his mind that ho would no longer go roaming about and running away.
 When Farmer Browns Boy start ed for tho house and Whistlcd for the little dog, the latter promptly bounded aftou him, He was feeling so much better now that he could gambil little in feeble sort of way. Farmer Browns Boy took him into the house and there Mother Brown made much of him. Where do you suppose he has come from ?' said she
 Farmer Browns Boy shook his head. T haven't the slightest idea"
New Britain herald., 1929-08-23
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