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Canadian Official, II Killed.

: HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, septem-
her 3 lR.-J. r. Mahoney, minister Of
natural resources In the government Of
Nova Scotia, was killed in an automc-
Bile ACCIDENT here last night. His auto
mobile collided with trolley car when
he tried to pass another motor car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-03
MOTOR RACER KILLED.
Fatal Accident Reported at Lake
wood Park, Near Atlanta,

ATLANTA, September 3 R).-While
thousands of holiday spectators looked
on, Olin Pickens. Atlanta motor cycle
racer, was killed at Lakewood Park
here yesterday afternoon. A rear tire
blew out and his machine overturned
on the first curve during the first race
Of the day. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-03
New Stamped Goods

Already days growing shorter-evennss lonser-ank
then you'll want have bit Of handwork nearby Some
of The loveest new designs arriving these dsystsbe covers
sampIers-bedrocm and dining seshmss for tie baby
and the chdrenaI IN the fascinating stitches Every piece
moderately price,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
PARADE OF FLOWERS
AWAITS ALPS VISITOR
Blossom Time Begins in March,
With April Marking Height
of Glory.

5 On the sheltered sides of the Alps
near Lake Lugano. the wild Christmas
roses. snowflakes, violets and periwinSles
sing the last days of March, and prim-
rose. snowfakes, violets and periwinkles
mingle in the color medley that sur
rounds the snug little villages.
To the northward. the delicate firing
ed bells of the Soldanella alpha, sem
tries of Spring, peer through the melt
ing drifts on some warm slope. Then
writes Paul Francois in Nature Maya
zine of Washington. on the first patch
OF bare ground delicate crocuSes arise
like the 10000 soldiers born of dragon
teeth that Jason killed.
: Easter time finds the larch tree
which in Winter sheds its leaves
and stands stark and gaunt mid the
SWhlrl1ng storms, reawakened with a
burst of emerald-green leaves, through
which peep rose-red cones, and pale
yellow Staminate flowers. A pyramid
of beauty. the tree is a gay debutante,
coming out in la grande maniere.
: April brings to the lowlandS, up to
the 5,000-foot level, the army of anem-
ones. with their long silky flowers
fringed with yellowish brown hairs and
<bedecked with large white petals.
BY the time the visitors are leaving
the higher Alps, and making their way
down to the April resorts, the snow.
bells and lilies of the valley meet them
in all their beauty at about the 5000
foot level, and the gentle narcissus
,creepS out in its delicate twin flowers
beside the trails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
rtIRPL HANGAR
|. TO HIDE EXECUTION
Rum Runner Slayer to Hang
at Coast Guard Base
for Killing Two.
BY the Associated Press.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, August
f5.-An airplane hangar at the United
States Coast Guard base has been desig-
mated as the execution chamber OF
James Horace Alderman, convicted rum
runner slayer of two Coast Guardsmen
in 1927.
In announcing their decision Tuesday
night to erect a scaffold in the hangar.
Federal officials said they had complied
with the order of Federal Judge Hal
stead L. Ritter to keep persons other
than officers from witnessing the hang
ing.
A site for the execution was denied
twice by State authorities.
, Meanwhile, Alderman was under
death watch guard in the Dade County
jail at Miami. while his attorneys were
seeking stay of execution through
habeas corpus proceedings. to be heard
today in the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The gallows where the man. known
as a whisky pirate" is scheduled to
hang, is within the sheet iron hangar
10 cutoff from observation on all sides.
The scene of the hanging is only a
flew feet from where Alderman was
landed from the CG-249 after his
high seas battle in 1927 in which he
killed two Coast Guardsmen and Fed
eral agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
EDITOR EX0NERATED !
ON CHARGE OF LIBEL
Californian Freed When Prosecu.
tor Asks That Case Be
Dropped.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Calf, August 15.-On
motion of Deputy District Attorney
Frank Waterhouse, the charge of GRIM
inal libel against II. L. Baggerly was
dismissed at the conclusion of his pre-
liminary examination here Tuesday.
In moving for dismissal, Waterhouse
said Baggerlys testimony indicated that
no malice was intended in the recent
publication OF articles criticizing Police
Judge Percy O'Connor, the prosecuting
witness in the libel case: that Judge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
RADIO MAN KIDNAPPED.
Search Is Made for Abductors Who
: Posed as Policemen.

CHICAGO. August IS CR.-Kidnaped
by two men who posed as policemen and
displayed papers which they said were
warrants. Lucian D. Conan. radio OPP
orator for Station VIGIL, was the object
of search yesterday.
Conan had given his superiors in
formation which led to the discharge
of fellow employe after $4,000 worth
fbroadcasting station, operated by the
Chicago Federation of Labor. Edward
N. Nockels. secretary of the federation
and manager of the station, is convinced
the kidnapping is linked to this incident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15

OConnor was not charged with mall
feasance, nor was his honesty or In
tegrity attacked.
State Senator Herbert G. Jones, chief
counsel for Baggerly, characterized the
freedom Of the case vindication of the
press.
In his weekly paper, the Los Gatos
Matthew'S, for July rs, Baggerly
charged that wealth and social prestige
procured leniency in the San Jose Police
Court, over which Judge O'Connor pre-
sides, when Miss Josephine Grant, San
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
Mary Garden Hires a Beach.

THE RIVIERA (N.A.N.A) Monte
Carlo Beach" usually closes at pm,
but recently it was kept open all night
till 5 a.m.-for a supper and bathing
party given by Miss Mary Garden. Her
guests. came by car and motor boat from
Cannes, Antilles. Beaulieu and Cap
Ferrat Aquaplaning. swimming in the
pool and trips in high-speed motor boats
were provided after supper. 1t is ru-
mored that engaging the beach for the
night cost almost a thousand dollars.
Copyright, 1929 by North American News
paper Allance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15

on July 10. She was charged with driv-
ing while intoxicated. possession Of
liquor and reckless driving The first
two charges were dismissed on motion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15

Of the prosecuting officer, and upon her
plea of guilty to the third charge, Miss
Grant was fined $50 and the fine slls-
pended by Judge O'Connor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
The Singapore Naval Base.

In the early stages Of his cruiser
parity negotiations with Prime Minister
Macdonald, President Hoover made Q
gesture which undoubtedly went far
toward smoothing the way to an agree
ment with Great Britain. He ordered
the temporary suspension Of the con-
struction Of three American 10,000-ton
cruisers. The British have Just made
gesture Of their own, designed to facil-
itate progress at the London confer
ence, though Japan, rather than the
United States, is the object Of It.
The first lord of the admiralty an
nounced in the House of Commons yes
terday that the British government, in
view Of the fact that conference deci-
sions may affect the question Of the
use Of the Singapore base" has decided
to slow up work on 1t. Thus Britain
matches the effort Of America to do
all that is possible in advance to pro-
mote an accord on further limitation
Of naval armament. All the building
operations at Singapore that can be
stopped will cease, the admiralty
spokesman, said. and no new work will
be begun pending the outcome Of the
five-power conference in January.
The underlying significance Of Brit
aims move lies in the governments
obvious desire to conciIiate Japan. The
Singapore base, since its inception by
the Baldwin Conservative cabinet six
or seven years ago. has been the cause
Of anxiety and resentment on the part
Of the japanese. They regard 1t as pistol
pointed at the heart Of their legitimate
aspirations at sea in the Far East.
When the first Macdonald Labor gov.
eminent. in 1924. discontinued work on
the base, Vice Admiral Okada, vice min
lister Of the japanese navy, declared:
III Great Britain finally ahandons the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
Foreign Minister Curtius.

If there is anything in q name, the
man just named foreign minister Of
Germany--Dr. Julius Curtius-should
have no difficulty in conducting the
Reich's external affairs with the very
acme Of suavity. DR.. Curtius succeeds
the late Gustav Stresemann In the Will
helmstrasse. He does not come to his
responsible task unequipped by expert
ence, for he has been a member Of the
last two German cabinets and has be-
come thoroughly converSant with the
complex political issues the Berlin gov
eminent faces both at home and abroad.
The world, whose gaze nowadays Is
turned in increasing degree toward
Germany renascent, greets DR.. Curtius
with confidence for the special reason
that he was a close personal friend of
DR.. Stresemann. At the recent Hague
PREPARATIONS conference, StresemanI1
publicly-and, as events transpired, al
most pheticaIly-expressed the hope
that Curtits would some day be Ger
man foreign minister.
The latter is consistent exponent Of
the policy Of European Cancellation with
which Stresenann's name had become
synonymous. He may be depended upon
to carry 1t out to the extent that Ma
tionalist hostility and other influences
within the Reich permit. DR.. Curtius'
earliest major duty will be to represent
Germany at the concluding PREPARATIONS
conference in The Hague, which Is to
give Anal sanction to the Young plan.
Presumably before that meeting the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
Remembers Early Life
Of Senator Newlands
To tho Editor Of The star:

To tho Editor Of The star:
was much pleased to see The
stars account of the meeting OF the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants, ut
which the name of the late Senator
NewlandS Of Nevada was brought UP
Tor discussion in connection with his
interest in the California Syndicate
q corporation so successful in bringing
TO the attention Of the public the de-
velopment Of Chevy Chase and its sur
roundings.
We were both clerks in the ONCE
OF the Third Auditor of the Treasury
in 1867, when he consulted me in re-
gard to going West, especially to CAL
itornia, having brother in San Fran
cisco in the Revenue Marine United
States Service, urging him to come
out and grow up with the country.
I well remember his large head,
covered, should say, with a pretty
color of red, and rather conspicuous
on that account. He had taken q
course of law in Mississippi for one
year, which entitled him to grad
uation after one year Of study In Co
lumbar College. He secured q Gov
eminent position to aid in so doing.
From this college also was graduated
in 1870 in the law department, being
admitted to the bar of the District on
motion of Prof. Kennedy. was prob
ably Influenced to study law by advice
given me by Mr.. NeWlands. was
always q welcome guest at his home
in Chevy Chase after he became q
member Of Congress and later Sen
A. j. WHITAKER.
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Singapore project the traditional feel
ings Of unsuspecting friendship for her
will be restored in Japanese breasts.
Such q decision would give the world
assurance that Britain is pledged to
abide by the spirit Of the Washington
treaties and encourage other nations to
follow her splendid example"
To understand the true inwardness
Of Labor Britain's latest action anent
Singapore, japan's conference policy
needs to be remembered. The wakat-
-Takarobe delegation, which will
soon tarry in Washington, is definitely
understood to be coming with ironclad
instructions from the Toxic government
to demand q l0-l0-7 cruiser ratio. in
stead of the 5-5-3 battleship ratio I'M
der which Great Britain, the United
States and Japan are now operating
If the japanese contrive to secure such
ratio, they would have, roundly.
twelve or fourteen 10000-ton cruisers,
as compared to fifteen or sixteen pro-
spectively to be allotted to the British.
But Japan's cruiser fleet would be con-
centrated in the Pacific. Britain could
only keep in Far Eastern waters a part
Of her cruiser quota. In other words,
Britannia would be outnumbered, in the
seas which wash the shores of India,
the Malay Straits, Hongkong and China,
by the cruiser feet Of Japan.
It is the susceptibilities of Australia
and New Zealand which here are pri-
marily impinged upon. Having them
mainly in mind, Britain conceived the
Singapore project. Its strategic i'm
portance lies in the fact that it covers
the approaches to India from the East
and to Australia from the West and
TANKS the approach to Australia from
the North.
Ramsay Macdonald is not only a
statesman and peace-lover. He is also
canny Scot. 1t is Just possible that
Singapore may suggest to him a val
liable trading pawn, when the time
comes at London to reason with Japan
about 10-10-7 cruiser ratio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
Ohio Voters Turn Down
Bond Issue Proposals

From the Akron Beacon Journal.
One Of the tragic things that i'm
pressed Alice in her journey through
Wonderland was the Queen, who upon
the slightest pretext was inclined 70
impose death sentences upon her sub
Jects. 1t is related that even at the
court croquet game the Queen went
stamping about, shouting "Off with his
head!' or "Of with her headl" about
once In minute, causing Alice to re-
fleet: They're dreadfully fond Of be-
heading people here; the greatest won
der is that there's any one left alivel"
When the results OF local elections
throughout Ohio are reviewed, it is OBJ
served that taxpayers were In something
OF the same mood as that Queen, only
the heads that they Topped off were
those OF bond issues or higher tax
levieS. Cincinnati was the only city IN
the State to make general approval OF
bond issues. That city has not been
running wild with debt-making pro-
grams. 1t has been issuing no more
bonds than taxpayers can conveniently
pay for.
In Cleveland and Youngstown, for the
first time in history, the people voted
Gown pond issues and extra levieS for
Cne public schools. The YOUNGSTOWN
N0NoC VAC 0CA1OOlS 10 OIllI
from their administration everything
put the most essential services. Gar
rettsVille killed a proposal for O new
nigh school. Columbus. by q vote of
more than two to one, killed proposals
Tor higher county tax levy and bonds
Tor the Children'S Home. In Stark
County only 765 people voted for bonds
providing for an addition to the court
house and 4,091 against It. In many
cities proposals for street widening, paw
ing, sewers and other public improve
ments had no chance at all.
The moral OF this should be apparent
TO all oflcials who have had charge Of
administering the public business. The
one clear verdict from Ohio IS that cities
and counties shall try to keep expenses
within the income. The future viii NOT
be mortgaged to pay the bills. When
people begin to vote against school bond
issues It Is evidence that they are out
OF all patience with the rise of taxation
and are giving no more blank checks Eo
otnclaldom to use as it pleaSes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TR.ACEWELL.

The following letter from young
bookn1an has come to our desk:
Dear Sir: Should one persevere in
reading q book If he doesn't like 1t,
or should he put it down and forget
about 1t?
"F'or the past few years have no.
ticed a growing Discrimination In myself
to finish book. I take keen pleasure
in beginning q new one but seldom
IT am told that this is mental laziness,
but somehow I cannot believe 1t, as I
am only IS years old. and have always
thought myself mentally awake.
IT would like to know your opinion as
to forcing ones self to finish what one
has begun. Will it be worth while, or
is it better to pass up such book and
take another one?
1T seems to me that the entire fault
cannot lie with a reader, but that some
of it must remain with the book. SIN
cerely yours, A. b. II.
This is a problem of the average
booklover which has been dealt with at
length in this column. In the past our
attitude has been that If a book does
not hold ones interest, it should be put
down, either for another or for a read
ing rest.
The reading rest, as it may be called,
Is a necessity in the life OF every one
who loves books. No matter how ardent
q bookman one is, he cannot be reading
forever.
The mind should not be constantly
on stretch. 1t is a question, OF course,
whether the average man or woman
who reads Is really extending his mind
to any great length.
The extent of holding that reading, in it
self, is not an exercise of intelligence
at all, but is rather fleeing from men,
tai eXertion.
Under such a viewpoint, reading be-
comes q sort Of mechanical action, a
sop to intelligence, q pretense and a
fraud.
Great readers, these cynics hold, are
more or less conscious hypocrites, since
they are not exerting their minds at all.
but are putting up bluff at intelli-
gence.
The man who is really using his
brain, according to this view, looks with
suspicion on books, because they tend
to lull him into the belief that he really
Is thinking, when all that he is doing is
accepting the thoughts of the writer.
With this attitude we find It impos-
sible to agree. A good book makes q
reader think to degree which nothing
else can, not even q vivid conversation
with one with whom one disagrees.
In conversation repartee too often
takes the place of wisdom. Takers are
too likely to go of at tangent, under
the force of ideas. whereas one who
reads a book has the words before HIN
and can stop reading while he thinks
He may even extend this thinking
period to the reading rest, as we call
II, as he finds book becoming dull,
boresome, lacking in interest. Thus he
ends, through the very exercise OF
thinking, the tension of thought which
made him weary in the first place.
Not all books, however, are intended
to make people think. Many have no
other purpose than to interest. If they
produce some degree of exaltation In
a reader they have done wonders. A
good romance sometimes has this happy
effect.
1t will not do to take our books too
seriously. Books are neither magic nor
mystery, but the productions of human
beings, based on the action of intelll-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
Survival of Explorers
Of North Gratifying

From the Toronto Daily Star.
The news from Cambridge Bay, a
place on Victoria Island in the Arctic
Ocean, that Col. MacAlpine, Editor
Pearce of the Northern Miner and their
six associates, who disappeared with
two aeroplanes eight weeks ago, had
turned up safely after being helped by
Eskimos is most gratifying.
The prominence OF the missing men,
the importance of the interests they
represented and the fact that they
dropped out of sight while employing a
developing the natural resources of the
country combined to arouse the interest
of the whole Nation in their fate.
Cambridge Bay is on the far side OF
the straits used by the explorers in
making what is known as the North
west Passage; in other words, in pass
ing between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans around the north Of Canada. 1t
is about 200 miles west of the point
where the remains OF the exploration
party Of Sir John Franklin, the FIRST
discoverer Of the northern passage,
were found on King William Island 20
years ago. 1t is also nearly 1000 miles
north-northwest of Fort Churchill, the
terminal of the Hudson Bay Railway.
A fortune was spent by friends Of the
missing men in trying to locate them,
but to no avail. The prevailing opinion
among experienced flyers in the prairie
provinces appears to have been that the
whole party would succumb. But there
were not wanting those, when things
looked blacklist. who expressed the be-
lief that the wide experience In north
ern wilds possessed by some of the
party would bring them all through to
civilization in safety. Happily this
view proves to have been the correct
one. The party was fortunate in max
ing q landing within travelling distance
Of Cambridge Bay, which Il now Hud-
son Bay Co. post, equipped with radio,
as well as o mounted police post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
PROM the Fort worth R.oord.r.l..r,n

from the Fort Worth Record TeleRrnm.
For the better part of the present
year there has been tendency in many
places Tor q revival Of the "old tunes !"
new YORK started it, and followed
through with the reproductions Of many
vehicles of q majority of the popular
songs-and dance tunes-of from 30 to
90 years ago. The Gilbert and Sullivan
operas were reproduced, and those of
our own Victor Herbert are on SCHEDULED
The innovation carried to the radio
eventually, many programs attempting
friendly competition between the
present jazz numbers and the ballads
OF the earlier period Of musical ex-
istence.
This much can be said of the cold
songs" they were tunes" The word
"syncopation" had no deleterious infiu-
ence on songs which were written for
people to sing, whistle and employ a.
waltzes and two-Steps. A popular waltz
song-for instance, after the Ball.
exercised some sort of influence on the
lives Of most Americans while It was
the vogue. A record Of miles covered
with the perfect time of such popular
numbers would require the system Of
light years" employed by astronomers.
The words might or might not have
been somewhat melodranatic, but a
good waltz tune was a welcome addition
to the gayety of the Nation Of that era.
1t is questionable whether the sur
vivors Of those days would vote for a
revival Of the old songs. Rather, we be-
lieve, they would be in favor of setting
the current musical scores back to the
"tuneful" and take huge burden from
the back Of an obviously overworked
syncopatios3,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14

This newspaper puts at your disposal
a CORPS OF trained researchers In wash
inrton who will answer questions for
Won. They have access to the Govern
Ynent departments, the libraries, mu-
seums. galleries and public buildings
and to the numerous associations which
maintain headquarters in the Nations
Capital. If they can be OF assistance
to you, write your question plainly and
send with 2 cents, in coin or stamps,
to The Evening Star Information Blu
reau, Frederic j. Haskin, director,
washington, D. O.
q. How many airports are there in
the United States?-K. 8. E.
A. There are asa airports in the
United States, with an additional 1,035
In process of construction. While some
of these are only landing fields, there
are others which are equipped with run
ways, flood lights, hangers, hotels and
weather bureaus.
@. Is there such q place as the Trail
of the Lonesome Pine?-S. w.
A. The famous Lonesome Pine, Gel
ebrated in song and story, stands on
top of Big Black Mountain, near Big
Stone Gap, where the Trail of the Lone
some Pine connects with Kentucky. It Is
SO3Ucu tA1hO OAAo GCS ID p1SAAhAAS w ~AS'
@. Why don't railways make provi-
sion for dancing to while away the time
on q journey?-T, r. G.
A. On some of the new recreation
cars" introduced by the Chicago, Bur-
lington g. Quincy Railroad, arrange
merts have been provided for dancing
Radios and monographs supply the mu-
sic, and the chairs and tables are OF
the collapsible type, so that they may
be removed easily.
q. What did the Schneider Cup race
cost England?-T. M. M.
A. The last Schneider Cup race. held
in September, cost England 100000
@. What kind of q fruit is monas-
tery?-A. B. D.
A. Botanically, q monastery is known
A 0 philodendron. The taste Is SINH
lar TO both the pineapple and banana