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the officer, as he has been told she
would In the near future, the corpora
ton counsel said there is no reason
why the case should drag along until
Congress expires.
Furthermore, Blanton is regarded as
one Of the essential witnesses, and
as he already is preparing to return
to his home in Abilene, Tex, 1t Is
planned to set the trial date IN advance
Of his leaving. Several bank attaches
also are to be called as witnesses, one
of whom is reported to have told De-
partment of Justice agents Of CONVEX
sation he had with Mrs. Blalock about
her account.
None Admit Knowing Her Haven.
The whereabouts of Mrs. Blalock no
, longer seems to be a mystery, for Col
Inns, Bride and several others vitality
concerned with the case declare they
have been assured through one of her
friends that she will return to aid In
the prosecution of Burlingame. None
of them, however, admit knowing her
hiding place, or would they reveal the
name Of the friend"
The Commissioners will give serious
thought this week to the personnel of
the special Burlingame trial board and
prepare to make the appointments as
soon as Bride frames the charges on
which the officer Is to BE- tried. II
originally had been planned to go out
side Of the District service for the ma
| jority of this board, but doubt has been
expressed whether this could be done
legally, since there Is no fund available
| to COMPENSATE the members.
Corporation Counsel Bride and Ring
| gold Hart, principal assistant corpora.
ton counsel, informally held last weel
that the Commissioners have authority
to name any person or persons to tht
| board, but a question was later raiSec
If such persons could serve legally with
out compensation. An official ruling or
| this point will be sought before thu
board Is appointed.
The delay in the prosecution of Bur.
lingame has given rise to numerous re.
ports in the Police Department that NJ
action is to be taken against him.
1t also was indicated yesterday tina
among the witnesses who will be callet
to testify before the trial board vii
be Representative Blanton. It Is be
lieved that Mr.. Blanton viii testif,
willingly as to his part in the prepare
ton Of the charges which Mrs. Blalocl
made against Capt Burlingame.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

Richard Tauber. considered to be
Germany's greatest living tenor, is
seeking divorce on the ground that his
artistic individuality demands that his
life be free and untrammeled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
MOTHER TESTIFIES
AT KILGORE TRIAL
Clandestine Romance With Sons
Victim, With Trouble Over Re.
turned Letter, Barred.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell CENTRIC, Calf, February 16.-A
mothers story of a clandestine romance
with an Imperial Valley rancher, which
led to his Staying by her son, Martin
Ray Kilgore, on the plea Of 1.-THE I'M
written law" was related from the wit
ness stand here today in the university
students trial for murder.
Mrs. May Kilgore, her voice barely
audible. told Of the love letter she wrote
to F. A. BARLEY, which fell into her
sons hands while he was visiting his
parents during a. holiday vacation from
his classes at Stanford University.
Kilgore confessed to shooting BARLEY
from ambush near here last December
%, claiming the rancher was attempt
ing to break up his parents home.
The love letter, Mrs. Kilgore testified
had been addressed to q neighbor OF
BARLEY, for secret delivery to the
rancher The mother tola Of its return
TO her in another envelone with re-
fusal to deliver the misstve
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MISS RASCHE TO FIGHT
INJUNCTION ON FLYING
Books Passage Abroad on Way to
This Country, Where She Will
Appear in Court.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMBURG, Germany, February TO-
Miss Thea Rasche, whose plans to make
a transatlantic hop from New York last
year were halted by injunction pro-
ceedings, today booked passage on the
steamship Cleveland, which sails for
America on February 81. She said she
intended to fight for revocation of the
Injunction which was filed by the Hollis
Corporation, former hacker Of her plan,
after she had been promised monetary
aid by Mrs. James A. Stiliman OF New
York
Although I am confident that my
attorneys could obtain revocation of the
Injunction in my absence, I am going
to America so as to appear personally
in court and show that I am not afraid
of my adversaries," said Miss Rasche.
1t was recalled that she sailed IN
secret from New York last August, ex-
planning then that she wished to avoid
further complications which might have
arisen we're 1t known that she planned
to leave the United States.
ST have not abandoned my LIES am
bition to be the first woman pilot to
fiy a plane across the Atlantic" said
Miss Rasche. Therefore ! want my
status TO be absolutely clear, so that no
legal technicality may be raised that
would smash my plans at the last mo-
ment."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
JURY FREES WOMAN
IN TRIANGLE DEATH
Mother Of Two Is Acquitted of
Murder of Alleged Love
Rival.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SOMERSET, KY, February 16.-A
jury in the Pulaski County Circuit
Court here today acquitted Mrs Ida
Cross Perkins of murder charge for
the killing last August of Mrs. Pearl
Decker Owens, Louisville. whom she
found sitting beside her husband, Logan
Perkins, In a train day coach.
The verdict was reported this after
noon, 20 minutes after the case was
given to the jurors. Spectators ex-
pressed surprise that the jury was out
so long. Those experienced with Ken
lucky juries believed veniremen had
been impressed by concluding defense
plea not to bring In hasty verdict"
The small town mother of two chill
dren who killed the city woman she
accused Of breaking up her home won
her freedom, however, only after hear
ing j. S. Sandusky, Commemorative
attorney, describe her cold-blooded
murderer.
Perkins, a spectator at the trial, said
he was standing by his wife, but they
have not been living together since
the killing. He lost an arm in the
World War
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BETWEEN ARGENTINA AND CHILE, GUARDSROUTE
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LEGISLATIVE JAM
FACES FINAL DRIVE
OF 10TH CONGRESS

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him, 1.-The things you said to him the
day you came to our house after the
trial and tried to make him give me up
to you?"
st don't remember" he retorted,
having said anything that went be-
yond what the situation seemed to
call for. But that's not what I want
to talk about tonight. It's not the
reason I came all the way from Cali
fornia to find you"
Rhoda, turning desperately away
from him, saw a harbor and went to
it, in Babes arms. She heard what
William Royce went on saying, but
with no other emotion than a pas
Sionate wish that he would stop talking
your father wrote to me shorty
before his death requesting me to take
care of you and look after your inter
ests. couldn't find you at that tins
The management of the hotel where
you had lived informed me that you
had gone to live with friends in Den-
YER I assumed you were in gooo
hands and there seemed to be nothing
more for me to do in the matter until
1 saw recently in San Francisco
paper an advertisement for your
whereabouts. Seeing that, I came Il
the conclusion that certain contract
which your father had inclosed with
his letter might have a value fol
you, and that you ought to be found.
GOOD Heavens!" Martin exclaimed
DO you mean to say you've got the
contract that everybody has been try
ing to steal? Did you see Forster this
afternoon and tell him you had it?"
IT refer" said Uncle William males
tically ito a contract which my late
brother-in-law entered into with G. j
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Forster. I was speaking to my niece.
cannot see that it concerns you In
any way"
CONCERNS me" Martin told him. She
and I are engaged to be married"
"Humph!" snorted Uncle William.
He was a perfectly terrible person.
Martin didn't wonder that poor Rhooa
had changed her name and hidden
herself away from him like fright
ened little rabbit. Martin could see
him now, majestically. pauslng before
he hurled a thunderbolt.
off" he said. "your matrimonial in
| tentions toward my niece are. in any
way predicated upon your Knowledge
of the existence of that contract. 1
| think it only right to tell you that l
is of small value and doubtful Va
lidity"
"That's what Forster told us this
evening"" Martin observed. HE salu
he had told you that it wasn't worth
a nickel"
"I'n have no more of this i'm
pertinence," Uncle William roareo.
"You can't marry my niece She's
still a minor, and I shall never con-
Look here" Martin interrupted him,
I'VE don't like each other at ALL but
there's no good in our quarreling I'M
less we have something to quarrel
about. And, unless you're Rhodas
have. Are you?"
I'm her natural guardian" saio
Uncle William.
Not her legal one. then" Martil,
observed. But, as he turned to Rhoda
he saw panic awake once more III
her eyes. I'VE won't have any more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
RHODA
A Red-Headed Girl
By Henry Kitchell Webster
copyrs North Alliance and


for him, which is what happened.
Forster never paid the woman the
money he promised her. And it was
her quarrel with him that enabled us
to find out about it. That's the bones
of the story. 1t would take an hour to
give you all the details, but we've got
them and we'll furnish you with them
whenever you like-now or later"
Rhoda's gaze from the time Martin
had begun speaking had been fixed
upon her uncle's face. Shed seen him
wilt: she'd have said he actually sagged
and spread little. like partly debated
balloon tire. But, before Forbes had
finished speaking. he managed some
how to pump himself up again.
He said now, in his booming voice, II
don't want the details at this or at any
time. There's no possible good to be
gained by raking up that old story. And
it could do harm in more ways than
one The scandal hurt the university
at the time. It's forgotten now, and,
as president of the board of trustees,
which / happen to be, should be I'M
willing to see it revived"
Revived" Rhoda blazed at him. 1--WE
aren't going to revive it; we're going to
kill it. We're going to prove that it
wasn't true
You're going to attempt to prove
that it wasn't true" Uncle William an
swered, land that, my dear child, is a
very different thing. Your father Is
dead. Technically there is no stain on
his character. since the jury acquitted
him. ANY attempt to go beyond that
even if there we're no other aspects of
the affair to be considered, would be
most unwise."
Rhoda didn't know what he could
have meant by that. She would hardly
have noticed that he'd said it, If she
hadn't been aware that Martin looked
at him with suddenly sharpened inter-
est. She found herself overpowered by
hopeless anger, and she knew that in
another minute, in spite of herself, she
was going to begin to cry. Her eyes
were already blurred with tears, but she
put the last squirt of her energy into
final appeal.
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unique proposal of marriage
marked the end of her moment
/ of panic. She walked into the
room steadily enough, though
still in the embrace of Martins right
arm, and under the now startled gaze
of their visitor. The really astonishing
thing was that he wasn't an ogre at all.
He wasn't much taller than Martin, and
he had perfectly normal, human-look-
ing eyes and teeth. Why had she ever
been afraid of him?
1t wasn't until she heard Martin muir
muir again. IT'S all right, darling" that
she released herself from his arm, said,
SHOW do you do, Uncle William and
went up and shook hands with him.
She thought he expected TO be kissed,
but she couldn't manage that.
He said, heavily, How do you do, my
dear. I'm very glad to have found you
at last. I felt it was important that 1
see you at once"
"i'm glad you came" Rhoda told him.
not in the manner in which one says
something polite, but as If she really
meant it. She dimly remembered some
thing about him and thought she had
an idea. You're lawyer, aren't your
she asked.
He seemed little surprised at the
question, but answered stiffly, Eyes, that
is my profession"
well, then" said Rhoda, you're just
the person we want. You see, Martin
and l." She broke off there to
remedy an omission by introducing the
two men in due form. After they'd
shaken hadns, Rhoda went on. You
see, Martin and have just found out
what really happened to my father
before his trial, I mean-that made him
leave the university"
Uncle Williams reception to this
statement was not ENCOURAGING He be-
gan to look little more like the ogre
Rhoda remembered. THAT is not a
matter for discussion" he doomed,
Certainly not now"
But Rhoda was no longer little girl
of IL. tits got to be discussed" she
contradicted him crisply, land now is
the best time to do 1t. I'm going to
have Mr. Forster arrested"
Forster" Uncle William exploded.
&C. j. Forster? Perfect nonsense! What
has Forster to do with it?"
ct won't seem so much like nom
sense" Rhoda said, when you know
what he's got to do with it. Tell him,
Martin"
Uncle Williams attitude and gesture
showed that he meant to protest. but,
before he could speak, Martin cut in.
Forster admitted to Rhoda and me
this evening that the whole case against
her father was frame-up. The woman
was planted on the train and instructed
to pretend she'd lost her ticket, in order
to trick Prof. Mcfarland into paying
her fare. He fell for the trick, but he
didn't fall for her. She admits that
herself. But she went ahead, under in
etructions, and perjured herself on the
stand. Forster's motive was to force
Prof. McFarland's resignation from the
university, so that he'd come to work
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Martin followed along to the foot Of
the stairs. "She's. not to get up in
the morning" he told Babe, as If he
we're a doctor giving nurse instruc-
tions-"at least not until late. I'll
come around some time after 10 with
the documents and we'll go down and
get her trunk"
Then he kissed Rhoda, and she
heard him murmur, his lips so close to
her ear that it tickled, Don't you
WorrY. darling. The hunch is coming
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of this tonight" he went on. "Rhodas
clear to the end of it. I'm going 70
ask Babe to put her to bed at once.
I'll 60 back with you to your hotel ana
put you abreast of the situation"
This was a Napoleonic move. Babe
came into action instantly. Before he
finished speaking she was leading Rhooa
toward the little stairway that wens
up to the loft where their bed rooms
were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
SYNOPSIS.


After the death OF her father, whose last
Rhoda Mcfarland calls herself Rhoda White,
hoping to escape the guardianship of her
uncle, William Royce. An effort is made to
md her through the medium OF newspaper
ads Martin Forbes, reporter, tells her
that q man named Max Lewis is trying to
prove that she is Rhoda Mcfarland: A
stranger, Claire Cleveland, comes to Rhoda
claiming to have known her father. She
says that he had certain papers belonging
to her, and asks to have them returned.
Rhoda SAYS that all her fathers papers are
in a sealed trunk in her apartment When
the trunk is stolen, she accuses Claire, who
denies any knowledge OF the matter. Forbes
retrieyes the trunk. which was stolen by Max
she goes to see man named Forster. who
IS Lewis uncle, and who, according TO
Claire. had been Mr.. McFarland's enemy
and is the person responsible for the ads.
She tells him of the theft of the trunk and
of her meeting with Claire. He is, frantic
and denounceS Claire as a blackmailer and
the cause Of Mr.. McFarland's disgrace
Then he goes away. leaving Rhoda prts-
oner. Forbes, acting on bunch, goes to
Forster,s hotel and finds Rhoda. few mo-
ments later they learn that the room in
walls that affords view OF qForster's private
study. They see Claire enter and talk to
Forster. In the quarrel that follows he
shoots her. Unnerved by the turn of events
he confesses to Rhoda his part in the plot
that ruined her father. When Forbes takes
Rhoda home her uncle is there. waiting for
her. Forbes soothes her panic and asks
her to marry him as a means OF escaping
her uncles guardianship.
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along all right. You leave Uncle VIII
liam to me-"
Evidently Martin was the right sort
of person to leave him to. Her last
glimpse from the balcony was of her
uncle. smoldering and Tuning like
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Vesuvius getting ready for an erup-
ton, but going out Just the same
through the door Martin held open,
obedient after all
Continued in tomorrow's Starr
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TwENTY-EIGHTH INsTALLMENT.

IODA'S sob of assent to this
unique proposal of marriage
marked the end of her moment
of panic. She walked into the
room steadily enough. though