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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-24
RED CROSS NETS $2,450
IN MONTGOMERY DRIVE
Chevy Chase Branch Leads Com
munities' Roll Calls-Mrs. Weld
Reelected President.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, January 24.-The
recent annual roll call of the Mont
gomery County Chapter of the Red
Cross netted approximately $2,450, it was
reported at the annual meeting of the
organization in the auditorium of the
Rockville High School yesterday. OF
this amount, $1,54895 was raised by
the county branches of Rockville, Be
theSda, Chevy Chase and Silver Spring.
Forest Glen-the Chevy Chase branch
leading with $843.50. The remainder
came from residents of the county, who
Joined at their places of employment in
Washington through organizations in
that city.
The meeting was conducted by the
president, Mrs. Ivan C. Weld, of Sandy
Spring, and was vel lattended. Mrs.
Weld was reelected president and the
other officers chosen, most of whom
were reelected, were: First vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Robert E. L. Smith, Rock
vile; second vice president, Mrs. Mill
lard West, Chevy Chase: secretary Mrs.
j. Somerville Dawson. Rockville; assist
ant secretary, Mrs. Robert D. Hagner.
Bethesda; treasurer, Miss Lorene Gar
rett, Rockville.
Reports from the various branches
were submitted. Mrs Willard West re-
porting for Chevy Chase, Donald A.
De Lashmutt for Rockville, Mrs. Fred
keplinger for Bethesda and DR.. George
H; Wright for Silver Spring Forest
Glen. All were shown to be functioning
efficiently. Miss Ruth Braden, Red
Cross expert. who has just completed
four months of nutrition work in vari-
Gus parts of the county, under direc-
ton of the chapter. gave a resume of
her activities. She also stated that in
connection with her nutrition work she
had helped organize 10 junior Red Cross
organizations in different parts of the
county, increasing the number to 13.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-24
ACCOUNTS $1,000 OFF.
Frederick County in Controversy
With Maryland Road Body.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md, January PA
discrepancy of approximately 81 200 be-
tween the accounts of the Frederick
County commissioners and the Mary
land roads commission has been dis
covered. following recent claim by
the State commission that Frederick
County owes more than $4,000 for road
work done in this county. County Com
missioner Roscoe P. Brown announced
that the county officials will not sane
ton the payment of the $1,000 not
shown on the county books
A survey of road work done in the
county by the State roads commission
during the past eight years revealed the
discrepancy in the commissions books.
Brown stated. The county will not
make its usual recommendations for
work in this county to the State COM
mission until the present differences
are settled, Brown announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-24
Slamming Door
Speeds Up Action
In Bank HOld-Up
Special Dispatch to The star.


RICHMOND, Va. January ga
Slamming of a door of the wash
room at the rear of the Liberty
Bank & Trust Co in the surburbs
here yesterday, while four bandits
were filling their pockets with cash
after having compelled the four
woman occupants Of the bank to
sit down on the floor. had the effect
of breaking up the dragging process
of the hold-up. Some one had made
an exit, the police say, and the
sharp crash of the door sounded
much like a pistol shot.
The robbers, who escaped with
$1,000 in cash, have not been
caught.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-24
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, January 24.-The
News Leader says it learned yesterday
that proposals to admit Hoover Demo-
Gratis to the forthcoming State Demo-
cratic primary and to call a State
Democratic platform convention. with
delegates elected at the primary partici-
pating. will be laid before the State
Democratic committee at its next
meeting.
The proposed convention, the paper
says, coming close upon the primary
at which the party's choice for governor
would be made, would establish the basis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-24
LOUDOUN FAIR DATED.
Meeting in D. 6. Results in De

Meeting In ID. Z. Results In De-
cision on September 4, S, 6.
PURCELLVILLE, Va, January pa
At meeting of the Virginia Horse Show
Association Tuesday at the Riding and
Hunt Club, in Washington, it was de-
cided to have the Loudoun Fair and
Horse Show September 4, and 6.
The Upperville show, the oldest in
the United States, will be June 10
and IA. Officers of the association
elected yesterday are NJ w. Carter,
president; A. c. Warden of Berryville,
vice president; r. CT. Gaskins, Wafrfn-
ton, secretary treasurer. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-24

Steel towers, some of which are 300
feet high, are being erected in England
in connection VIII an elect &c p~wer
system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-24
Richmond Gets Lazy Snow"

RICHMOND, Va. January "a Cp.-
A big faxed but widely spaced snow
was lazlly falling here this morning.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
JURY To PROBE
BANKRUP
. FRAUDS

NEW YORK, Jan. IL n.N.S).
Following complaints made by
scores Of business men, six Federal
judges and fleeced women investors,
sweeping grand jury investiga.
ton was begun today by United
States Attorney Charles H. Futile
into the. administration of bank
ruptcies,
AS the scandal assumed wider
ramifications today, a prominent
lawyer, former Republican candi-
date for Congress and a Federal
court messenger were involved, and
1t was limited that a police lieu
tenant and high officials would
be drawn into the case.
!. Merrill f. Gates, jr., lawyer and
social registerite. was taken into
custody last night. He is the son
dent of Amherst College when
President Coolidge and Ambassador
Dwight Morrow were students
there
Messenger Cuts Throat
The inquiry centers around David
Steinhardt. fugitive lawyer and
former candidate for Congress. He
Is alleged to have absconded with
from 100000 to $4,000, 900 given
him by credulous investors in the
hope Of receiving huge dividends.
Steinhardt is under indictment
charged with embezzlJng court
funds, funds belonging to hankrupts,
while receiver in bankruptcy, ap-
pointed by the Federal Court.
Many women were drawn into
his investment pool" get-rich.
quick scheme.
Max Primer, Federal Court
messenger and a cousin of Stein
hardt, cut his throat last evening
when confronted with evidence that
he had been paid 100000 by
| Steinhardt to reveal official secrets.
His salary was only $500. Fed.
eral men pointed out that a mes
senger Carrying decisions from the
| judges chambers to the Federal
Building might be in a position to
cause reaping Of huge profits.
Lawyer Held
Primer screamed that he wanted to
die, but doctors say he will live.
A few hours later Merrill S. Gates.
jr., lawyer, was arrested and held
for arraiSnment later today. He is
accused of being $4,000 short in his
receivership of the bankrupt estate
Of ]. Harold Rapp. Gates protested
his innocence.
Following the announcement of
United States Attorney Miner that
he had questioned "a prominent &C.
tress" seen in Steinhardt's company,
it was believed that the missing law
yer would soon be apprehended.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
HOLZ WILL Be
HONOR GUEST

Two farewell meetings to honor
Staff Captain Ernest r, HOlz. di-
visional commander of the Saliva.
ton Army in Washington who has
been transferred to oklahoma, will
he held tomorrow and Sunday. The
first meeting will be held tomorrow
night at $50 o'clock in the Saliva
ton Army Temple Corps Building,
sos e st. n. W., where officers
and members of the organization
will give a dinner for Captain Holz.
The principal speaker Is Col. AL
fred Chandler. Chief Secretary of
the Southern Division, who is here
from Atlanta in the place of Com.
missioner William Mcintyre, who
is now in London.
Sunday night a public meeting
will be held in the Temple. This
will be the final farewell meeting.
In addition to Colonel Chandler,
other speakers will be Captain John
Curran, financial secretary Of the
Army for the District OF Columbia;
Ensign Harold Smith Of the Evan.
gelene Residence; Adiutant Arthur
Low. in charge of the mems social
department; Adjutant John Simp.
son, in charge of the automobile
corps; Captain Holz and Mrs. >Holz.
Staff Captain Holz leaves Wash.
ington Monday to take charge of
the Oklahoma Division OF the Army,
the largest division in the southern
territory. He has been stationed in
Washington for more than five
years. and during his tenure of
office the activities of the Army
have trebled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
Speakers Will Tell of
Negro Achievements

James A. Jackson, specialist in the
department of domestic relationship,
Bureau of Census, and DIR. Alain LIE.
roy Locke, professor of philosophy,
Howard University. will be among
the speakers tonight in the first an.
niversary celebration of negro
WABC at New York city.
J. Finley Wilson. grand exalted
ruler of the colored Elks of the
World. the third member of the
group invited from this city, will
not be present on account Of illness.
He was stricken while on a business
mission in Detroit, Mich. several
days ago. Tonight's broadcast will
he the fiftieth weekly program of the
negro achievement hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
Britain MOurns Death
OF Earl of Howe

LONDON, Jan: IL 1.N.S).-The
passing of Richard George Penn
Curzon. fourth Earl of Howe, a
noted public figure and a close
friend of members Of the royal
family, was mourned throughout
England today.
The Earl died at his home here
last night. He was 81 years old
and a direct descendant of Lord
Howe. commander of the British
forces in the revolutionary war.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
SUPPLIES Of us.
LIQUOR RUN
| D v

One vexatious problem of unus.
ually trouble.making nature to be
inherited by the Administration of
Presidcnt-elect Hoover will be the
decision as to the resumption Of
the manufacture of medicinal H.
quor, it developed at the Treasury
today.
According to a report made to
Congress by Prohibition Commits
sioner ]. M. Doran the question
of manufacturing new medicinal
whisky will become live one
within six months or a year"
This indicates that about the
middle of the summer the Admins.
tration must make arrangements to
replenish the supply of medicinal
spirits. When General Lincoln G..
Andrews was prohibition czar he
made an effort to obtain legisa ton
for the establishment Of semi.
official distillery which would have
been given a monopoly on liquor
production.
Dry Forces Acted
The legislation failed. At that
time the radical dry organizations
got up in arms against manufacture
ing whisky, claiming that stocks
on hand were sufficient. Some of
the drys insisted that whisky was
unnecessary for medicinal purposes.
DOran said that the present stock
Of whisky is estimated at 10000, coo
gallons. Books of bonded ware
houses show 100000 gallons,
but considerable quantity has dis.
appeared through evaporation, leak
age and theft.
That quantity, at the rate Of
present Withdrawals. about 500, 900
gallons year, should last between
five and six years" Doran said.
There is no reason to anticipate
any great increase in medicinal
whisky Withdrawals"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
d. A. V. Making Plans
For Annual Ball

Preliminary arrangements for the
annual ball of the District of
Columbia department, Disa d
American Veterans, will be made at
a meeting of the general committee
in charge of the event at headquar-
ters of the d. A. ", $50 Earle
Building, tomorrow night, accord.
ing to announcement today by
George W. Phillips, general chair.
man.
The committee Is striving to make
the hall the largest informal get.
together" of service men ever held
in Washington. Under present plans,
the program will be enlivened with
community singing, novelty acts and
other entertainment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
French Line Facing
$4,000 Fine in
Rum Case

NEW YORK. Jan. II nsN.S.l-
The French Line today faces the
penalty of a $70,SOO fine as the
result Of the seizure of $40 gal,
Ions of whiskey malt by customs
agents at the lines Fifteenth
Street pier last night. The Cargo
had been unloaded from the lie de
France, which arrived Wednesday,
and was not listed on the mani.
fest.
Agents said the malt was the
equivalent of $4,000 quarts of
bootleg Scotch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
Fifth of POstmasters
Appointed Are Women

More than one.fifth Of the post
masters appointed by President
Coolidge in 1928 were women.
Statistics issued by the Civil
Service Commission show that ISL
women. or 81 per cent of the total
number. were appointed to first
second and third class postmaster
ships during that period. All OF
the appointees were women Of busl-
ness experience and were awarded
the appointments because they rated
highest in the civil service ex-
aminations
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
Engineers IndOrse Bill
To Beautify the Capital

The Champion Bill, which provides
for the further Identification of
Washington, was endorsed by the
Washington Chapter. of the, Ameri-
can Association Of Engineers at a
meeting held last night in the 1900
block of N ST N. w.
The association also approved the
item in the District budget bill for
the purchase of two incinerators.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11
DAWSON WILL LECTURE

How to Chose a Congenial Com.
Danion" is the subject of an address
ey Mathew Dawson, author and
teacher, on Saturday at p. m. The
lecture will be held at the headquar-
tiers of the League for the Larger
Life. in Stoneleigh Court ballroom.
The public is invited.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-11

To combat the flu, take
666 every three hours till
it acts we'll on the bowels,
then three times a day.
AS a preventive, take it
two or three times a day.
666 was found to be one
of the most effective rem.
edies during the last flu
epidemic.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
Extend MEXICO
HOLDUP z YEARS
Claims S Commission
EXacts Millions

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 18.-
The special claims commission set
up by the Wall Street government
and Mexico to negotiate the settle
ment of over $4O0,000,000 worth of
claims made by U. S. business in
tcrests in Mexico has been extended
for two years with the signing of
an agreement at the state depart
ment by Manuel Tellez, Mexican am
bassador to the U. S. and William
R. Castle, Jr., acting secretary of
state.
The commission was to have ex-
pired yesterday, but owing to the
greed Of American interests in still
making thousands of claims against
Mexico, was extended.
The claims arise out of alleged
lamages American interests claim to
have incurred during various re-
3allions and uprisings in Mexico. 1t
Has first established in 1923, and
as been extended three times since
hen, expiring every two years.
Tens of millions have already
sen eXacted by the claims commits
sion, the Mexican workers and pea
SAINTS having been the ultimate
payers.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
THOMAS BACKS
SN0WDEN STAND
In Canada to Prepare
War, Dump Jobless

OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 1S.-Speak-
ing in the name of "the people," the
labor imperialist, ]. H. Thomas, said
today that Phillip Snowden's bitter
opposition to the Young plan had
the backing of Britain's rulers. 81
don't think it. l know it." Thomas
said in reply to a question.
Rapidly growing Anglo-American
imperialist rivalry is the chief rea-
son for Thomas appearance here,
where Winston Churchill is already
pleading the cause of the British
empire to offset the results of U.
S. economic penetration for the i'm
pending clash. Churchill and Thorn
as will be joined in few days by
Sir Horace Wilson, who just nego-
tiated the betrayal of the strike of
100000 Lancashire textile workers.
Thomas, minister of employment
in the Macdonald government, is
also arranging further shipments of
British unemployed to Canada under
the empire settlement scheme. Aside
from relieving the labor market at
home and being used often as strike
breakers in the dominion, the new
arrivals are potential supporters for
Downing Street when Canada's rul-
ing class is torn asunder on the
question of support to U. S. of Bri-
tain when the Kellogg past is
thrown into the wastepaper basket.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
BRITISH AID
PALESTINE RIOT
Reformists Help to
F7onent Race Riots

JERUSALEM, Aug. 18.-Arabs,
melted by the British officialdom
here, attacked Jews in various parts
of this city yesterday.
The race riots are a result of a
deliberate policy followed by the
British imperialists, to urged on
race riots thru subtle propaganda,
in order to prevent the Jewish and
Arab workers from uniting and thus
fighting British imperialism
shoulder to shoulder.
The incitemen to race riot by the
imperiaHsts is aided by the Hista-
druth, the reformist labor union or
ganization, taking in only the Jews.
The Histadruth has adopted a white
chauvinist attitude towards the
Arabian workers.
The wealthy British and Jewish in
dustrial magnates here encourage
racial differences among the work
ers by hiring Arabs at wages
amounting to less than half paid
the Jewish demanded by Jewish
workers.
| Both the Arab Mohammedan
priests and the Jewish religious mis-
leaders are encouraging an attitude
of hatred between the Arab and
Jewish workers.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
Terror AGAINST
PANAMA ALIENS
Registry as Part Of
War Plans

COLON, Panama, Aug. 18.-Fol-
lowing the order of its master, the
Wall Street government, the Pana-
ma government has ordered all
aliens in Colon, on the Panama
Canal, to present themselves for
finger-printing and registration,
when deposit of SIS must be made
on or before October II.
Failure to obey the decree will re-
suit in fines of from $5 to $25, and
possible deportation.
A national decree was made to
the same effect on July II, and altho
the latter is not yet in effect it is
being held as a bludgeon over all
aliens here.
The move is looked upon as an
other step in the Wall Street war
preparations, as measure of ''pro-
lection" for the canal.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
COL 0MBIA BOARD
TO Give u, S, OIL
Experts" New Scheme
to Sell Reserves

BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 18.-
RECOMMENDATIONS for the formation
of a national hydrocarbide council,
composed of experts from all bran
ches of the Colombian petroleum in
dustry, have been made and will
probably be adopted by the govern
ment.
The council would be permanent
in character and would have the
power to render decisions in all
cases affecting the petroleum in
dustry.
As the council would be a govern
ment board, and as the government
is controlled by American oil and
fruit interests, the board would take
on the character of an official body
to facilitate the handing over of
oil fields of Colombia to American
interests, with the pretense of Sim
partial investigation" by a "board
of experts"
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
TROOPS RECEIVE
INSTRUCTIONS
TO SLAUGHTER
Dockers Lead Move for
Struggle

ROSARIO, Argentina, Aug. 18.-
A second general strike will tie up
the port of Rosario, starting Mon
day.
Labor union delegates of this port
at two o'clock yesterday morning
voted the new strike, to be held in
sympathy with the street car work
ers of the city, who have remained
on strike since last months general
strike.
The workers obtained virtually
complete victory in the last strike,
but will go out again because of the
refusal of the tramway bosses to
concede the car workers demands.
The strike is expected to spread
thru the entire northern portion of
Argentina in a few days, rs unions
in this section have indicated their
intention to strike in sympathy with
the port and tramway workers of
Rosario.
Rosario is the port of outgoing
and incoming traffic of northern
Argentina. Thousands of troops
were sent here during the recent
general strike, fired on the workers,
and killed several. Most of the
troops sent by President Irigoyen
have remained here since.
The federal authorities and COM
manders of the federal troops have
received long telegraphic instruc-
tions from Irigoyen telling them to
"do everything possible to prevent a
new outbreak" which is taken to be
an order to again fire on the strik-
ers who picket.
, Strike meetings are being held to-
day by practically every labor or
ganization, most of which are led
by the Communists, in northern
Argentia.
They will vote on the project of
supporting the general strike.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
JAIL WORKER EDITOR.

LILLE, France (By MaiD -
Eugene Blondel, editor of the paper
"L'Enchaine" has been sentenced to
a month in prison. He is Ga years
old and sick in a hospital. He was
taken from the hospital by police
agents and transported to Lille
Prison where no attention is being
paid to his illness. He has also beer
refused the benefit of the so-callec
political regime" that is, he may
not read the papers or receive visi
tors.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
MussOlini Seizes Wife
and Year Old Baby of
Escaped Anti-Fascisti

PARIS, Aug. 1S.-Prof. Carlo
Roselli, who with two companions
escaped from the Italian penal is
lands Of Lipari, whittier they were
sent, he said, for opposing the fas-
cist regime, asserted here today that
he has learned from Italy that his
wife, an Englishwoman, and year-old
baby, have been arrested and are be-
ing "held as hostages" to restrain
him from continuing his attacks on
fascism. 1t was also reported that
relatives of the two men who es-
capped with Rosselli-Luffi and Nitto
had also been arrested
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
ACETATE AMONG SOLDIERS

LONDON (By Mail) Two young
Communists were arrested while
distributing anti-war leaflets to SOL
diers at Chelsea barracks today.
They were held for a few hours
before being released. The leaflets,
which called on t.:o soldiers to re-
fuse to bear arms against the work
ers, were warmly received.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19

By ALBERT MOREAU.

the policies of American imperialism to subugate the
annhate the Communist Parties and the revolutionary
union the influence which it to revise
the labor laws the countries For this purpose the
national bougo and the being used to do
work daora with all at their
disposal The revision being with the degree
mancy the workers and the
political conditions existing the respective countries Funda
mentally the labor laws adopted by the reactonary governments do
differ The
pete of the and to eliminate the Communists who
driving behind these unions In Latin America
three O Countries headed by ruthless
dato with fascist method all organizations
Cuba Chile (2 countries where the dictator
Colombia, Brazil
Argentina @ others which rapid of fascstizaton
the of the relationships all
reaconary enactng labor laws for the
above mentioned
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
SWISS PUT ON WAR STUNT.

LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 49,
Two Swiss aviators who have been
preparing here for transatlantic
flight to New York announced to-
night that they expect to depart
sMonday if weather conditions per-
mits.
They will be equipped with war
peraphanalia to prove the practica-
oility of converting "peace" planes
into bombers in the next imperialist
war.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
COOK WON'T SEE MINERS
BLACKPOOL, England lRv Mail

- A. J. Cook, mine union renegade,
refused to discuss a request from IA
unemployed Lancashire miners that
he raise the demands of the thou
sands of unemployed miners at the
conference of the Miners Federation
of Great Britain. "The matter must
be raised through the usual union
channels" Cook said.
The daily worker., 1929-08-19
IS POLE COAL
MINERS KILLED
Powder Blast Wrecks
Pit

WARSAW, Aug. 1s. = Sixteen
coal miners are believed to have
been killed in mine disaster in the
Hildebrand colliery near Kattowitz
last night when powder explosion
took place. Access to the pit is ex-
tremely difficult and the real num-
Der killed cannot be determined.
Nine bodies have already been taken
from the pit. At least seven other
miners have died of suffocation, it
is certain. Coal powder blasts are
frequent in the mines in this vicinity,
formerly German territory.