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The Washington times., 1929-07-23
DRINKS POISON,
DISAPPEARS

Mystery surrounds the alleged
suicide attempt at 2:45 a. m. today
OF Charles G. Williams. SO years old,
OF the 500 block Of Fourteenth st.
N. w.
Williams was found stasssring
down sixteenth street. near Eiagaen
Avenue Northwest. BY Policeman
M. II. Gore. Of the thirteenth pre-.
cinct. who said Williams told him
he had swallowed q quantity Of
poison.
The policeman rushed the man TO
Walter Reed Hospital. where he was
treated BY Lieut.. 8. r. Taaeart, Of
the Army Medical Corps. he lator
was removed 10 Emergency Hospital
and given treatment ~ Dr.. John
Schwarznlan.
Leaves M0spitaI Seen
shortly before 10 o'clock, while
wniting in the hospital restroom for
i relative to call Tor him, Williams
walked UP to one of the nurses and
told her that he would not walt any
longer. He left the hospital Inn
Sriediately. Hospital attaches
pointed ont that williams had never
been admitted asa patient. but nad
merely been given relief when
brought in by the police. He was
free to leave 1T any time, they said.
C. q. warden, president Of the
Tyler and Rutherford Company,
realtors. said today that Williams
had been employed by, the firm, for
thirty years and had left about
Sin weeks ago.
HAD Differences
EVE had our differences and 1t
came to parting Of the ways, !"
Mr.. Warden said. 'f1Ie left the firm
and We have heard nothing Of him
SINCE
Mr.. Warden said that Williams
had been nominal stoclholder,
holding one share Of the cofnpany's
stock. and had been It's secretary.
He refused TO say why Williams
had left the firm.
No one answered the doorbell at
the attractive eeTni.detached home
in upper Fourteenth street where
Williams lives. The windows were
shut and the house gave every
appearance 0f being deserted.
A
The Washington times., 1929-07-23
PROMISES
To START
No WAR
1contlnued from First pare)

tcontinued from First paee)
&c willingness 10 submit the dispute
to an international body for arbitra.
ton and settlement.
Tfs nationalist government stated
Wat sieher the League ck Nations,
81 d special body composed of the
nations signatory 10 the Kellogg
raesa would be regarded as 4 salts.
factory tribunal for settlement Of
TIE issue.
10 this end. the Nanling govern.
Fnant, according to dispatches
reaching here. sent another note 70
ahe Soviets reiterating its desire
Tor d peaceful settlement and pro-
poaine negotiations 70 srbitrate the
ii view of this attitude, combined
with the Soviet and Chinese mes.
sasas 70 Washington promising 70
abide Dv the terms OF the KeIl08E
Pact Tor the renunciation OF war
it appeared today that IN spite Of
ali the sinister reports from the
far eastern theater during the Iast
week, the matter would be peace.
fully settled.
An Quiet AT F'rOnf
soviet Russia has barred the
offer of the French government to
act as mediator In the dispute but
IL IL firmly believed she would be-
willing to place the issue before
neutral congress Of nations for
arbitration.
It Is reported here that q number
Of American consular officials ut
peipina, formerly peking, are pro.
ceeding to the Manchurian border
to ascertain the actual conditions
IN the affected zone III order that
direct steps may be taken to use
The influence Of the United States
fo prevent outbreak ok war.
There we're no indications today
of further disturbances on the
frontier, and it now appears that
both Russia and China are main.
faining an attitude Of passive de-
Tense. putting up an ostentatlCus
show 81 guns ana men, more IN
fhA hopA Of warding off possible
attack than of instituting hcstilities.
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CUT PLAN
GETS REED RAP
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posts could be abandoned for eco.
nofnic as well az military reasons.
pThe Army has been working
constantly to keep down its costs,
said Reed. ''Of course we spend
more than other countries because
we pay our soldiers better and give
them better rations than any other
country. don't think there can
be much reduction without hurting
efficiency"
Bingham said he believed that at
least SO garrison posts could Be
closed without hurting the national
defense. He approved the Presi.
dents position In turning Army
economies over to the Army itself
for solution.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
SILVER FOXES PAYING
 $10O,000 CHURCH DEBT
 PIES WEBB STARTERS

MILFORD, Iowa, Nov, IS, (P)- Silver foxes are paying off $100,- 900 mortgage on St. Joseph's Cath ollie church here
 A mortgage lifting pig club which the Rev. E. c. Meyers organized a few years ago paid $30,00O of the debt and was so successful that the priest is continuing his livestock ventures.
 He bought a pair of silver tip fox es (Adam and Eve) of the Sir Charles Dalton strain in Canada three years ago and now has 22 animals. While few of the foxes are kept for breeding stock, most of them are pelted. One pelt brought $867 in New York last win ter.
 The pig club extended turnout northwest Iowa. Each member raised a baby pig to maturity and when it was sold gave the proceeds to the church
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
1 E 6 AL N 01ICE
U. s. LAND OFFICE, ANCHORAGE
 ALASKA Ocfoher 1 1000

i
 ALASKA, October 1, 1929.
 Notice is hereby given that the City of Seward, Alaska, a munich pal corporation, corpora d under the laws of the Territory of Alaska, having applied to purchase under the act of Congress approv- ed September 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 5O2) tract of land to be used as a cemetery site, embraced in U. s. Survey No. 1759, situate within U. s. Survey No. PAP, and within surveyed section 34. T. I N. R. w. Seward Meridian, containing 40 acres, serial O6633, hereby gives notice of its intention to make proof to establish its right under said law to enter the land above described, before the U. s. Com missioner of Seward, on November 25, 1929, by two of the following witnesses:
 F. c. RIcMullen, Seward, Alaska;
 A. D. Balderston, Seward, Alaska;
 Joseph 5. Badger, Seward, Alas
 ka; Martin B. Lanning Seward,
 Alaska.
 Notice of the above intention to make proof will be published in the Seward Daily Gateway, print ed at Seward. Alaska. which I hereby designate as the newspaper nearest the land.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register. First publication October 1G. 1929. Last publication November 20, 1929.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
G0LD
 DIVIDEND CHECK

COLORADO SPRINGS, Nov, IA, of check written B years ago was reported a few days ago by the First National Bank here. The check was issued May IS, 1896, by the Portland Gold Min ing Co.,, of this city to w. w. Will Hanson, prominent real estate dealer, It was a regular monthly dividend of l cent per share.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
LE C Al N ! TICE
Y 5. LAND OFFICE. ANCHORAGE,
 ALASKA, AUGUST 29, 1929.-


 OFFICE is hereby given that HORACE P. WALKER, entryman, together with his witnesses, Nor man Noble, and Fred A. HentOn, all of Kodiak, Alaska, has made final proof on his homestead entry, ser ial O6S42, for lands embraced in U. IS. Survey No. 1878, situated on the southerIy shore of Devils Bay, ap- proximately ? miles from Kodiak, containing 155.62 acres, latitude 57o 49' 20" N. longitude 152o 23' IS" ". U. s. c. and G. Astronomical Monument bears s. 40 49' 16" w. 147.54 chains from corner No. of U. s. Survey No. 1878.
 The proof is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska; any and all persons claim ing adversely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim in the local land of flee, Anchorage, Alaska, within the period of publication, or thirty days thereafter. If no adverse claim is filed wiSain the aDove mentioned period the final proof will be ac- cepted and final certificate issued
 J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register First publication September IT, 1929 Last publication Nov. Is, 1929.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
TEXAS OIL WELL
 HEARD FOR MILES
 AS SHE ROARs IN

PALESTINE, Tex, Nov, Is, (P)- The J. c. Beard No. 2, Humble well in the Neches field, Is miles east of Palestine, came in recently like a volcano, spreading a gas fog over a large territory. The roar of the well could be heard several miles.
 People in the vicinity have been out, and work around the we'll has been suspended until it james down Materials were being trucked up to within a quarter of a mile of the well, and will be rush ed in as soon as it is safe to ap- proach it.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
SUSPECTED TRAGEDY

Word was recently brought to Dawson from the Bonanza dis a tragedy in which an oldtimer, trict of what might develop into Joe Oberfelt undoubtedly met death. Neighbors reported they discovered his cabin burned to the ground amid which debris bones were found supposed to be the remains of the old pros pector.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
s. s. YUKON TONNAGE

The s. s. Yukon, of the A. s. s. O., which arrived in port early yesterday afternoon from the south, discharged an approx innate $50 tons of general cargo. Of this 65 tons was local with the remainder for rail points.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
PAGE SEVEN

The s- s. Starr, of the San Juan Fishing & Packing Co, en- route to Seward from Seattle was reported as entering the. Gulf of Alaska early yesterday morning which should bring her into port sometime tonight.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

Attorney A. J. Dimond of Val dez who arrived in Seward Fri day from Anchorage, left today on the s. s. Yukon.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

Anchorage is purchasing a spe- cial kind of blow in an effort to keep the streets open for traf- fife throughout the winter.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

HEAR THE POPULAR RE- CORDS "Pagen Love Song" Big. Rock Candy MOuntain"-"Alice Blue Gown '-"Barnacle Bill" No 2-and the new Black Crows Establishments"
 Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

Dune Little has most of his logs out for a new and large cab in, at Cooper's Landing, and ex- poets to have real place for his friends to stop at when ne completes the structure.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
TIE MINING PROMOTER

The promoter is as necessary to the mining industry as dynamite Tn fact believe that some of them belong to that family-W. H. Cross.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

British Malaya, the worlds larg- est source of tin supplied ST percent of the 1928 output despite ancient methods of mining.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16
l [ G AL N0 I l [ E
SERIAL O6691, SURVEY 1737. N THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA,
 AUGUST IT, 1929 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT
 NOTICE is hereby given that FRANKLIN PACKING COMPANY, corporation organized under the Laws of the State of Washington, has made application to the United States Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, pursuant to laws of the Emitted States for trade anu man. ufacturing site on land embraced in United States Non mineral sur vey No1737, situate in Latitude 58 deg. 29 min. IS sec. North and Longitude 152 deg. 5 min. 26 sec. West, on the south side of Shuyak Island, north shore of Shuyak Strait, west of and adjoining United States survey No. 1896, Ter ritory of Alaska, more particularly described as follows:
 Serial No. O6691
 Beginning at Corner No I
 Meander Corner on the north
 shore of Shuyak Strait, south
 side of Shuyak Island, said
 Corner No. being identical
 with s. ". Corner of United
 States Survey No. 1896; thence
 North 2 deg. 43 min. East 6.3O
 chains along the west side line
 of United States Survey No.
 1896 to Corner No. 2; thence
 South 45 deg. 20 min. West 1927
 chains to Corner No. 3; thence
 South 2 deg. 43 min. West 8.19
 chains to Corner No. on the
 north shore of Shuyak Strait
 thence by meanders along the
 line of mean high tide on the
 north shore of Shuyak Strait
 northeasterIy approximately
 1850 chains to Corner No. l,
 the place of beginning, con-
 taining 5.06 acres, more or less.
 Latitude 5S deg. 29 min. IS sec.
 North; Longitude 152 deg. 5
 min. 26 sec. West. Magnetic
 variation 9 deg. East.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- verseiy any portion of the above described tract of land are required to file with the Register and Re- cefver of the United States Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, their adverse claim thereto, under oath, during the period of publication or within thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provi- Sions of the Statute.
 FRANKLIN PACKING COMPANY, By: c. M. HADLEY, Secretary. TT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the foregoing notice be published for the statutory period in the Sew ard Gateway, newspaper of gen. eral circulation printed in Seward, Alaska, the nearest newspaper to said above described claim or sur vey.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register. First publication Sept. IF, 1929. East publication Nov. 18, 1929.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

Suits pressed while you wait at the Seward Steam Laundry cleaning and pressing department.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

HOME GROWN Potaroes and Cabbage from Hope, at Brown & Hawkins Corp.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

HOME GROWN POTATOES Sc PER POUND at Brown K flaw kins Corporation.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-16

LATEST STILLS IN REED & COOK LEATHER BAGS.
 The Alaska Shop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-20
Dresbptertan 3
Ghurth nf thr Gnurnart
Connecticut Are. at N st. NV.
VIM. A. EISENBERGER, Assistant.

s:45 Am Sunday School.
11-Kindergarten and Jr. Work.
11-Morning Worship. Sermon by
DR.. C. A. Richmond
"THE COMPLETE LIFE"
Covenant Quartet will sing, love
Not the World" (Harker); Awake
Our Souls" (Hesse); Tenor Solo,
Prayer" (Fox).
200 PM. Christian Endeacor
8-Evening Worship. Sermon By
Rev. VIM. A. Eisenberger.
1.-THE PRAYER CURE"
Covenant Quartet will sing Savior,
When Night tShelley): ''Ho, Every
One That Thirsteth' (Rogers): Con-
tralto Solo, abide With Me- (Iiddle).
a PM, Thursday-Mid-week Hour Of
Worship.
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|DR. ]. n. PIERCE
GIVES OUT TOPICS
First Congregational Church
Announces Program for
Sunday.

At the First Congregational Church,
Tenth and G streets, DR.. Jason Noble
Pierce viii speak tomorrow morning at
IL o'clock on IAN Understanding
Heart" and at the o'clock service on
What Pulls Men DOWN." The eve
ming sermon will be illustrated by the
screen drama, white Shadows in the
South Seas"
DR.. Pierce will preside at a mass
meeting Tuesday night at 8 o'clock,
when the subject peace and Brother
hood as Taught by the Worlds Great
Living Religions" will be discussed by
representatives Of Buddhism, Christian
ity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Judaism
and Mohammedanisn
The church supper Thursday at s
o'clock will be followed by the prayer
meeting at Gas pm, and then at 7:45
pm. will come the auditorium service,
where Or. Pierce will speak on Iron
in the Blood" and his message will be
illustrated by the Aim, Alaskan Adj
ventures"
The Sunday school meets at $50
o'clock Sunday morning.
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Christian Endeavor

The Alumni Fellowship Of the Dis
tr1ct OF Columbia Christian Endeavol
Union will hold Its annual banquet
at the Y. w. G. A., Seventeenth and K
streets, Monday at o'clock. There
will be annual reports, election and In
stallation Of new officers, and Hermon
c.. Metcalf will give an illustrated 49,
minute lecture on the 80 years OF
Christian Endeavor' since the 1896 G.
e. convention in Washington.
The Georgetown Lutheran G. z. So
ciety will present Clarence Decides,
a three-act farce, in the Georgetown
Presbyterian Sunday school room, F
street between Thirty-first and Thirty
second streets, April 26 at 8 pm. Pro-
ceeds will go toward paying off the old
debt of the church.
The executive board of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian C. E. met
last evening at the home of Miss Selma
Robinson to plan for the Spring work
of the society.
The union will present a biblical
drama over Station WJSV the last
Sunday evening of this month.
The intermediate union will present
its pageant, when Youth Crusades
With Christ" at Rhode Island Avenue
Methodist Protestant Church at the
Endeavor service April %.
The nominating committee to select
new officers for the D. G. G. e. Union
will meet at union headquarters. room
PIT, Y. M. c. A. Building, tomorrow at
4 o'clock.
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DR.. EARLE WHITLEY
TO GIVE READINGS
Nineteenth Annual Shake
speare Sermon Scheduled
for Tomorrow Night.

At Vermont Avenue Christian Church
tomorrow night DR.. Earle Wiley will
give his nineteenth annual Shake
speare sermon. This year, instead of
using one play, he will speak on Great
Moments in Shakespeare" and will give
dramatic readings from several of the
most important plays, including Ham
let" King Lear" Macbeth" "Othells, "
and Romeo and Juliet" His morning
subject will be Come Up Higher"
The Business Women's Circle, of
which Miss Charlotte Darrow is leader,
will meet Tuesday evening with Miss
Alleen Robbins at her home, 1408
Girard street.
Circle 2, Mrs. Henry G. Littlefield
leader. will meet Wednesday at noon
with Mrs. j. NJ. Robson, wife of Repre-
sentative Robson of Kentucky, for
luncheon at her home, 106 G street
southeast. The honor guests will be
Mrs. Robert Blackburn, wife of Repre-
sentative Blackburn of Lexington, KY,
Representative Walker of Lancaster
KY, and Miss Emma B. Hamilton of
Frankfort KY, secretary to Representa-
tive Blackburn.
The Parent Teachers Council will
meet Wednesday evening in Annex 2
The program will be in charge of Miss
Geneva Pixley, Mrs. Herbert Willis and
Mrs. j. f. Wilson.
A mystery play, Thirteen Plus" will
be given Friday evening at 8:15 O'Clock
at the church under direction of Miss
Roberta Belle Galloway. The cast in
cludes Miss Dorothy Shore, Miss Eula
Mae Emick, Miss Virginia Turley, Miss
Mildred Wick, Miss Hazelle Drake,
Miss Florence Lockwood. Miss Kath-
arine Wiley. M. Elmore Turner. pastor
of Tskoma Park Christian Church:
Claude Cook, Raymond Geegh. Howard
johnson. Ernest Matthew and Leo
Tooley.
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CHURCH WILL HOLD
/ EXERC|SESAP e
Corner Stone of Universalist
) National Memorial Will
Be Laid.

The t,rner stone of the new Univer-
salist National Memorial Church, now
in process of construction at Sixteenth
and S streets, will be laid April 28, at
4 o'clock. The service of dedication Will
be conducted by DR.. Frederic w. Per-
kins, minister of the church, and rep
resentatives of the Universalist General
Convention will participate.
Other participants will be DR.. John
van Schaick and DR.. Clarence E. Rice,
former minister; DR.. Frank d. Adams
of Detroit, president OF the UNIVERSAL
list General Convention; DR.. Roger F
Etz, executive secretary; DR.. John S.
Lowe of Boston, former general super
intendent of the Universalist Church;
DR.. Ulysses G. B. Pierce of All Souls
Unitarian Church, Washington. and
Rev Moses R. Lowell of Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church.
The UniverSalist National Memorial
Church is one of the group of nationally
representative churches being erected or
planned in Washington. It succeeds
the Church of Our Father at Thirteenth
and l. streets. The money is being con-
tributed by UniverSalist churches and
individuals throughout the country
Many of the leading features of the
church, such as pulpit, lectern, COM
munlon table, DaptlStry, organ, cnancel
furnishings, windows and pewS have
been given as memorials to clergymen
and laymen of the Universalist fellow
. ship who have served the communities
and churches in which they have lived
One of the most prominent of these
memorials will be the organ given by
Mrs. Frances K. Hutchinson in men,
DRY of her late husband, Charles L.
Hutchinson Of Chicago. Mr. Hutchin-
son. former president of the Univer-
salist General Convention and long a
member of its board of trustees, was
one of the original sponsors of the Ma
tional Memorial Church enterprise, and
the first chairman of its building COM
mittee. He was leader in the artistic
and educational life of Chicago, and
long president of the Art Institute and
treasurer of Chicago University. He
had special Washington connection
through having been one of the incor-
porators of the Carnegie Institution.
The cost of the church and lot will
be more than 100000 The architects
are Allen & Collens of Boston and the
general contractors Boyle-Robertson
Co. of Washington.
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PASTOR TRANSFERRED.

Church of the Nazarene Here.
At the recent District Assembly of the
Church of the NaZarene held at Lans-
dale, Pa, Rev. j. H. Parker, who has
been pastor of First Church of the MAJ
arene, Seventh and A streets northeast
for the past three years, was transferred
to Reading, Pa. and Rev. L. B. Will
lianls was called to the church in this
city.
At the morning service tomorrow the
new pastor will be installed and the
official board consecrated.
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INSTALLATION SERVICE.
Reception Will Be Held for Dr. and
Mrs. Jones.

At the Second Baptist Church
Fourth street and Virginia avenue
southeast, tomorrow morning the pastor
DR.. H. M. B. Jones. will preach on the
topic. Are We Interested in Others?'
At the evening service at the East
Capitol street branch DR.. Jones SUBJ
ject will be Counting the Cost"
An installation service and reception
for DR.. and Mrs. Jones will be held
Tuesday evening with officers and min
listers of the Columbia Association OF
Baptist Churches of the District off,
ciating.
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SPIRITUAL REALlTIES."

Takoma Park Baptist Church to
Hear Elwood Street.
At the Takoma Park Baptist Church,
Ptney Branch road and Aspen street,
Rev. William e. La Rue, pastor, will
speak at IL am. tomorrow on Spiritual
Realities"
Elwood Street. director of the Com
munity Chest of Washington will give
an illustrated address at 3 pm. on 1.-THE
Church and Charity"
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REV. ALLAN F. POORE
IN Passionate HERE
Will Preach Second Sermon Tomor-
row at Waugh M. E.
Church.

Rev. Allan F. Poore, recently assigned
to Waugh M. E. Church by the Balti-
more Conference of the Methodist Epis-
capal Church, will preach there the
second time tomorrow.
Mr.. Poore, Washington boy, was
educated in the public schools of Wash
ington. later entering Columbia Univer-
sity. after which he read law for three
years.
He has completed the full course of
theology. He entered the ministry %
years ago as special student under the
late Dr. A. H Ames and has passed all
that time IN the Baltimore Conference
except for two years.
He has occupied two other pulpits in
the Washington district. Eldbrooke
and Anacostia. He came here from
Ellicott City. Md.
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ANNOUNCES THIRD
In SERMON SERIES
Dr.. Porter to Preach on Finding
God in Nature"-0ther
Services Listed.

DR.. Samuel ]. Porter. pastor of First
Baptist Church, will give the third in
his series of sermons on Finding God
in Nature" tomorrow evening. The SUBJ
iect will be 1.-The Bible and Forestry: or
Gods Voice Among the Trees" The
Sunday school, with the superintendent,
It. Edgar Petty. will sponsor this service.
A tableau of the cross will be given It
the close of the sermon. The morning
subject will be God the EXCEPTIONAL; or
When God Appears on the Scene the
Program Changes"
The Swedish service will be held at
$3.50 pm, when Pastor Nels Hedeen
will preach. The B. Y. P. U. will meet
at 6:45 o'clock
Plans are being made for celebrating
May 26 the one hundred and tenth
anniversary of the founding of the Sun
day school.