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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
TURK MOONSHINERS GIVE
POLICE A MERRY CHASE
Liquor Found in Ghoulish LARS.
Gravedigger Uses Coffin as His
Hiding Place.

STEAMBOAT GP.-Turkish moon
police of the republic, which has made
moonshine one of its IS state monopo-
lies, a merry chase. The most recent
roundup conferred round a grave digger
in the old Moslem quarter Of Eyoub In
the cellar Of his house the police found
two ancient collins stolen from the
cemetery made famous by Pierre Lott,
and in the collins two stills wherein the
popular native drink of douzico.
Other contrabanders have been caught
distilling gallons of the beverage in the
black depths of one of the ancient
Byzantine cisterns which wind in a
mysterious labyrinth beneath the mod
ern city. After a lively battle under
ground, the police hailed out to prison
a score of the cistern bootleggers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
: Employees Have Outing.

The Employees Association OF Gail
Carl, Inc, held their annual Spring
gathering last night with over 1oC
employees present. A program of enter
tainment was rendered by the men,
bers A motion picture exhibit of
services rendered by Call Carl, Inc,
was shown. after which the new men,
bers of the organization were initiated.
American hosiery is being worn by
women of Paris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
BUILDING INSPECTOR
PRAISED FOR WORK
L. E. F. Prince, in Letter to Col,
Oehmann, Notes Improvement
in Administration.

Col. John w. Oehmann, District
building inspector, yesterday received
from L. e. F. Prince. Washington
builder, a letter of commentator on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
Bladder Weakness
Hurts W. nHs

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
WASHINGTON COUPLE
MARRIED so YEARS
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry F. Lerch
Celebrate Golden Wedding
Anniversary.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Lerch, resi-
dents of Washington since early child
hood, celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary last night with family re-
union at their home, 1920 M street. Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

A movement to aid childrens hos
pitfalls In ireland, which are in great
need of funds. has been started in
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

which to make your choice Cigars-smoking to-
naccos- ppes-pocket lghters-and numerous other
items are sure to be appreciated by the man who
gifts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
HOWELL TO CONFER
WITH DRY LEADERS
Advice on Drafting District En-
forcement Bill to Be Sought
From Bureau.

The advice of prohibition unit officials
will be sought by Senator Howell, Re-
publican, of Nebraska. on details of the
local prohibition enforcement bill which
he plans to prepare for consideration
of Congress at the regular session.
The Nebraska Senator said yesterday
he has already discussed with prohibit
ton officials his intention of intro
ducing bill and that they agreed with
him as to the advisability of such a
proposal.
The Senator was not yet prepared to
state what the provision of the bill
will be, adding that he will be guided
by the suggestions he obtains from the
prohibition authorities. When he first
announced several days ago that he
proposed to offer local enforcement
measure he explained that he had In
mind law for the District of Column
bia that would correspond to the laws
which nearly all States have enacted to
supplement the national prohibition
act.
One of the questions which Senator
Howell has been considering is how
much information officers need in the
District of Columbia to obtain search
warrants in prohibition cases. The
Senator stated several days ago he
understood evidence of a sale is re-
CURED and he indicated that if that
is the rule he felt it would hamper
officers in enforcing prohibition.
Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis
trict committee announced in the past
| week that he would be glad to give
! prompt consideration to any recon.
mendations that are brought forward
for strengthening dry law enforcement
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
Tailor and Wife End
Lives When Ordered
ToLeave Apartment
Couple, Wealthy Until
Boom in Florida, Believ.
ed to Have Formed Pact.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 2S.-Not SC
many years ago Giuseppe Maroni, a.
year-old proprietor of little tailor shop
at 989 Fourth avenue, was reputed to
be wealthy Neighbors who secretly
pitied him whispered among themselves
of the many shops and real estate hold
ings he once had in Manhattan, of the
fine motor cars in which he and his
wife Elisa, 38, used to ride; the Florida
real esate boom that finally wrecked
him.
So they were surprised when they
learned that Maroni and mis- wife had
been found dead from gas about 4 pm.
today in the kitchen Of the little two
room apartment they occupied in the
rear of the tailor shop.
Maroni was lying under the gas stove
his wife under the gas heater. Gas
was flowing from all of the jets Of both
appliances. Sixteen policemen from
two emergency squads worked in relays
for more than two hours over the two
victims before physicians said that
further effort to revive them was useless
In the apartment the police found
no notes but significant memorandum
1t was a notice dated Monday of last
week evicting the MaroniS from the
apartment they had occupied at Sixth
avenue and Fortieth street.
Neighbors told the police last night
Ma1oni and his wife kept riding back
and forth around the neighborhood in a
battered motor car, the last remnant
of their former opulence. The police be-
lieve that during that ride they made
suicide pact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
CITIZEN GROUP PLANS
PROTEST MEETING
Trinidad Association to Discuss
Road Assessment Tomor.
row Night.

To formulate plans for fight against
the assessment for the widening of
Benning road meeting of the Trinidad
Citizens Association will be held to-
morrow night at o'clock at the Wheat
ley School. Montello avenue and Neal
street northeast.
George ]. Cleary. president of the
association, has extended an invita-
ton to property owners, whether men,
bers of the organization or not, to
attend the meeting, and authorize an
attorney. which the association has en-
gagged. to conduct a protest at the
hearing to be conducted before. the
District Supreme Court on or about
october Z. The legal service will be
without cost to the property owners
and other protestants, Mr.. Cleary has
announced.
Fifteen hundred property owners OF
the section have been assessed $4,000
for the Benning road work, according
to Mr.. Cleary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
SENATE EXPECTED
TO CONFIRM BOARD
Administration Leaders See
Assurance of Farm
Group Victory.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press :.
Confirmation of all members Of the
Federal Farm Board Is looked for by
administration leaders unless some I'M
expected charge of serious nature
is lodged against any of the eight men
Opposition on the floor of the Senate
to Chairman Legge and possibly two
or three other members Of the board is
considered inevitable. There is held to
be no sign at present. however, of
opposition based on past or present
connections which might be construed
as making any board member unfit
to serve.
Administration leaders base their
opinion that all will be confirmed upon
assurances given them by various SEN
ators in what might be considered
the opposition groups.
Content to Rest.
A number of prominent Democrats
and Western independent Republicans
have indicated that while they believe
the board will prove ineffective, they
are not disposed to vote against its
confirmation, because they regard the
difficulties to lie in the farm relief
legislation rather than in the men
named to carry out its provisions.
A number of Senators, on the other
hand, both Republican and Democrat,
have eyinced desire to confirm the
board as soon as possible in the belief
that it has in view a constructive. long,
range program for the relief of agri-
culture that will be carried forward
more rapidly once the board is in
trenched in Office.
Hearing Close Slated.
Chairman McNary expects to close
the agriculture committee hearings on
the nominations Wednesday. The board
members will be voted upon promptly
by the committee, but McNary does not
believe Senate debate on confirmation
can open before the following Monday
or Tuesday
The agriculture committee still must
examine four commissioners. of whom
Carl Williams of Oklahoma, who repre-
sentS cotton on the board and Sam r.
McKelvie of Nebraska, who speaks for
wheat, apparently will be questioned at
length.
Williams will appear tomorrow. After
he was appointed several Southern Sem
atorS described him as not being IAN
iout-and-out cotton man." and Senators
Smith of South Carolina, Heflin of
Alabama and Ransdell of Louisiana, all
Democrats, have indicated they will
examine him closely. Williams has been
an official of the American Cotton
Growers Cooperative Exchange and
the publisher Of farm journals.
Close Quiz Expected.
The committee will question Nickel
vie Tuesday. Coming to the board as
the representative of wheat, over whose
problems there has been much contro-
versy, he also appears to be slated for
close questioning from Senators in
whose States the wheat surplus has
presented serious economic situation
Williams was Endorsed by Oklahoma's
Senator'S one of whom-Thomas-is a
member OF the Senate committee, but
McKelvie had no Endorsement from
either Senator Norris. also a member of
the committee or Senator Howell.
Chairman McNary believes the hear
ings can be finished Wednesday by
examining both William F. Schilling Of
Minnesota, representing dairy products,
and c. c. league of California, repre-
senting fruits and vegetables.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
HAWLEY'S BALLOON
RECORD YET HOLDS
Referee of Gordon Bennett
Cup Race Won LaureIs
in 1910 Flight.
b. the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PTeSs.
ST. LOUIS, September 2e.-When
Alan r. Hawley, as referee, started the
balloons of six nations In the race for
the Gordon Bennett Cup here today
there were recollections of the dramatic
race of 10 years ago, when he set an
American record that has endured.
With Augustus Post of New York as
his aide, Hawley scared away from st.
Louis in 1910 as pilot of the America
II. Unheard from after several days,
they became the objects of one of the
greatest searches ever conducted In
North America and appeared after hope
had been almost abandoned, to recount
the dramatic story of their flight Of
1,l73 miles that ended on mountain
side in the isolated region of Quebec.
The America II, like the rest of the
balloons in the race. scared north from
st. Louis into Canada. Hawley and
Post had travelled 1,173 miles when
they were caught in severe snow
storm and heavy wind which. threat
ened to carry them to the coast of Lab
rador. They brought the balloon down
after much difficulty.
They spent the night in the balloon
basket and the next morning set out TO
reach civilization and report their safe
landing. For eight days they struggled
through the wilderness. a broken leg
suffered by Hawley on the journey i'm
peding their progress. Finally they
reached Chicoutimi, Quebec, on an i'm
provised raft and sent out word OF
their safety.
Hawley and Post not only won the
event. but set up the record that no
balloon has since surpassed in America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
HOLLYWOOD SLAYERS
MAY BE IDENTIFIED
Hardware Man Recognizes Win.
dow Weight Used by Gangstersr
on Realty Official.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, September 28.-Po-
lice predicted today that the identity
of gangSters who beat and shot David
Antink to death near his Hollywood
Calf. home Thursday night would be
established soon by hardware mer-
chant who identified a window weight
as one he had sold the day before II
was used to strike down the realty COM
pany secretary.
The merchant, whose identity was not
revealed, told police he could identify
the purchasers, and was rushed to
headquarters to view photographs OF
suspects.
Police are searching for Morrie Moll
known as. the phantom gunman," who
was identified by Antink as one of five
men who robbed him In 1923 of 300
in drugstore funds. They theorized
the Staying was in revenge for Antink' S
part in sending Elmer Dowdy and
Granville Blair to prison for the rob-
berry. Moll jumped $4,000 bond while
being held for extradition in st. Paul
Mimi. last Spring.
Several of the dozen persons who
witnessed the shooting of Antink were
under guard today, police said. Their
identity was kept secret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
SCIENTIFIC EFFORTS
CUT TRAFFIC DEATHS
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Bulletin Shows Boston, San
Francisco Success.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 28.-The de-
crease of automobile accidents in Bos-
ton. Mass, and San Francisco. Calf, Is
credited to the scientific study and
meeting of traffic problems in bulletin
of the National Automobile Chamber OF
Commerce issued today.
Motor fatalities have decreased 80 per
cent in San Francisco. the report says
due to an elaborate traffic survey and
improved facilities and regulations.
Boston, which already had a low rec
ord, is below last year for the first
eight months of 1929. says the report
citing a similar traffic survey there
Pittsburgh was mentioned as third
major city which had launched a fact
finding plus caution" traffic plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29

Following the recent decree providing
higher import duties on -four into 30.
hvia. several flour mills are being con.
Structed there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
Greens Fees Cut.

Because of the great exodus of golf
ers from London in August. leading
courses that gave reduced green's fees
after 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
MEXICAN ARRIVES
FOR ORATORY MEET
Roberto Ortiz Girls First to
Come for international
Contest in October.

Advance rumblings of the oratorical
combat which will be heard round the
world on the night Of October 26 In the
finals of the Fourth International Ora
torical Contest were heard here yes
terday, following the arrival of the
first of the nine forensic representatives
of Fl nations who will compete In the
world finals in Constitution Hall
Roberto Ortiz Girls, 18-year-old win
ner of Mexico's national oratorical
contest, is the first of the contenders
for the high school speaking champion
ship Of the world to reach Washington
and comes with the hope of repeating
the victory his country's spokesman
won last year.
Landed Last Tuesday.
Young Ortiz Girls landed in New
York last Tuesday with James Leonard
Butsch, Washington's contender for the
American championship last May, and
the other American finaliStS who were
returning from a three month tour of
South America The Mexican accom-
panied the boys and girls from the
United States on the tour and aided
them greatly in their study of Spanish
as they trooped through one Spanish
dllPI anu
1t was during that three months to-
gether that Robertos speaking ability
was discovered. weighed and set down
as wonderful by his American friends
Roberto is diminutive fellow. He'd
scarcely reach the shoulders of last
years victor but he has much of the
same independence and Latin fire which
characterized that speaker.
He is f1fth-year secondary school
student In the city of Oaxaca, in OAK
AGA State and has one more year Of
high-school work before entering q
Mexican university for study which will
prepare him for diplomatic career.
AS Roberto explained here yesterday in
broken English which he has picked up
only since his association during the
Summer with the United States orators,
the Mexican school system provides a
SiX-year elementary-school course and
six-year high-school course. Hence
his position in his school this year cor
responds with that of an American high
school senior
Not Homesick.
While in Washington. Roberto will
stay with Mexican friends He plans to
spend his time learning the American
Capital, its people. its buildings itself"
as he put it. With no members of his
family here and known only by the
family with which he is living, together
with his deficiency in English. Roberto
is far from homesick. He grasps his
opportunities as rare for:
ITO be in diplomacy. I must know
English and French and my own Ian
guage, and English is difficult so I have
to learn it here, so the difficulty is less"
Generally held in the Washington
Auditorium. the international contest
finals this year will be staged in Con-
stitution Hall opened since the last con-
test by the Daughters of the American
Revolution. Nine contestants will ap-
pear on the program which is not yet
completed. The contenders will be an
nounced at later intervals by Randolph
Leigh, director general of the oratorical
contest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29

More than 1000 people attended the
funeral of John Kelly. the young me-
chanic of Belfast, Ireland, who was
killed during the motor race at Bally-
stockart recently. The mourners gath
cred outside his fathers home at 10
Distillery street, Belfast. where the serv-
ices were held, and every window blind
in the district was drawn as sign OF
sympathy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
Reaching 10Th Year,
Man Wins Foot Race.
Clicks Heels Thrice
sneciaI Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, September
28.-S. Ellis Maloy, retired Freder-
lex County farmer and dairyman,
celebrated his seventy-ninth birth
day anniversary yesterday by win
ming a foot race against Nelson
McClung, seven-year old son Of a
neighbor, who was celebrating his
natal day.
Maloy declared he felt eft and
fine" after the race, run over rather
rough ground, and to prove 1t,
jumped up and kicked his heeN to-
gether three times before coming
AHsHn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
TRAINMEN HONORED.
"old-Timers" of N. & w. Railroad
Given Insignia.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
than five centuries, 5l2 years, of ace
tive railway service were represented
by 10 'old timers" who met here in
the Office of President A. C. Needles
Of the Norfolk g. Western Railway Co.
Co.
They came to receive from President
Needles, the gold, diamond-mounted in
sigma Of the Norfolk & Western Vet
Grams Association, which is presented
by the railway to members of that as
ISOLATION who have given so or more
years of active service to the Norfolk
& Western Railway.
Only one of the ten veterans present
is now in active service, General Supt.
James T. Carey, who has been an en-
ploye Of the railway almost 5lla years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29

China has a new law placing the ad.
ministration of highways under the
minister of railways.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29

Employment in Canada is the highest
ever known there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-27
Dining
Suites Reduced

Massive Dining Suite Of Early
English design, in walnut prin-
cipally; ten pieces with solid ma.
h Of any interiors; S17O
reduced to ...........
Mahogany Dining Suite Of ten
pieces, with handsomely de-
signed semi.closed china and 66.
inch buffet; reduced @2SO
Berkey & Gay Dining Suite Of
Colonial-Sheraton influence; ten
pieces in mahogany, maple and
gumwood; reduced @26S
Berkey & Cay Dining Suite of
ten pieces, in mahogany chiefly,
with 66-inch buffet and OBJ
long table; reduced @CQS
10 .s...ss.s...
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-27
TELEPHONE USE INCREASE
STRIPS POPULATION GAIN
Is, 522,767 in Use at End of 1927,
With 1854, 172, 621 Calls
Made in Year.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Growth of telephone use during the
five-year period ending December 81,
1927, was nearly four times the esti-
mated increase of thg country's popu-
lation during the sAml period.
The Department Of Commerce, an
nouncing the results Ii it's quintennial
telephone census, figured that the 49,
522,767 telephones in use at the end of
1927 represented an increase of 291 per
cent over 1922, while the population
increase for the period was placed at
rs per cent.
In 1927, the department said, 81
6l4,172,621 calls were made-an in
crease of 1913 per cent over 1922 The
wire mileage of 1886, 1872 was 71.3 per
cent greater than the 1922 mileage, and
number Of employees had increased from
312,015 to 375,272.
Every State in the Union showed an
increase in number of telephones in
use, led by Florida with 1887 per cent
gain. Three States-California Indi-
ana and New Jersey-had increases
exceeding so per cent. Only Indiana,
Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska and
Montana showed gains of less than 10
per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-27
SELF-STYLED SPY
ACCUSED OF FRAUD
Man Implicated in Interna-
tionaI Plots Held in $500
Alleged SWindIe.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, May 27.-Dr.
Arngaard Karl Graves, self-styled for
mer international spy, was arrested here
yesterday on charge of suspicion of
grand theft, preferred by Henry Kirsch-
mann, jr., San Francisco business man,
who alleged Graves had defrauded him
out of $500 in connection with pro-
iected expedition to search for buried
treasure.
Press dispatches revealed that before
he appeared here four years ago Graves
figured in the international affairs of
England, Germany and the United
States. They related that prior to the
World War he was sentenced to ID
months Imprisonment in England on
charges of having in his possession
plans of big guns at the Notifications of
Edinburgh, Scotland. His release four
months later caused storm in Parlia-
ment.
Other Crimes Alleged.
Among Graves other alleged activi-
ties was an asserted attempt to black
mail Countess Won BeSnstorff, wife of
the German Ambassador to the United
States before the World War. He also
was said to have startled the Washing
ton diplomatic corps by engineering
plot to restore the German monarchy.
Graves said he came to Los Angeles
10 weeks ago from New York, and had
been retired from secret service work"
He said that after serving four months
in prison in England he was released
and became a member of the British
secret service.
Graves made his first appearance in
this country in New York in 1913, when
he made himself known to authorities
and claimed he was in the British serv-
ice following confidential envoy of
the Japanese government.
Accused of Attempt at ExtortiOn.
The charge in 1916 that Graves at
tempted to extort $4,000 from Countess
Won BernStorff over certain personal
letters he claimed to have intercepted,
and which he claimed would embarrass
the Bernstorffs if made public, were
dropped on March 8, 1917, because the
principal witness had left the country.
Then Graves asked permission to be-
come q United States citizen, giving as
q reason his fear the German govern
ment was attempting to get possession
of his person. He was arrested by State
Department agents in Kansas City in
1917 and accused of representing him
self to be Department of Justice rep
resentative. On September %, 1917, he
was ordered interned for the duration
of the war and spent this period at
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga.