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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
lockwood CITIZENS
TO SEEK MEMBERS
Miss Efie M. Lyles to Direct Cam
paign Aimed at 100 Per Cent
Representation.

A membership drive will be launched
next week by the Edgewood Citizens
Association, under the direction Of Miss
Efie NJ. Lyles, chairman Of the mems
bership committee. 1t is the aim to
make the association as near 100 per
cent representative of the community
as possible.
j. e. Oliver, president, presided at the
meeting last night and appointed the
following chairmen of committees, In
addition to Miss Lyles:
Entertainment and social, Mrs. j. p.
Lester; public utilities, Earl S. Brown
public safety, William T. Ryan; streets,
alleys and sidewalks. j. p. Lester; law
legislation, William H. Swain; trees and
lawns, Hugh s. Torbert, and publicity,
Frank A. Murphy. Only routine business
was transacted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
SHEPHERD FUNERAL
SET FOR TOMORROW
Services for Widow Of Former Dis,
trict Governor to Be Held at
Home Of Daughter.

Funeral services for Mrs. Alexander
Robey Shepherd, who died at the home
OF her daughter, Mrs. Francis d. Mer-
chant, Is Grafton street, Chevy Chase
yesterday, viii be conducted there to-
morrow afternoon at $50 o'clock. Rev
Or. Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor of New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church, OF
which Mrs. Shepherd was q life mem
Der, will ofhciate. Interment viii be
IN Rock Creek Cemetery beside her
husband, once Governor Of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
MRS. shepherd was born in this city
in 1912. Before her marriages she v1ss
Miss Mary Grice Young. Gov. shen.
herd died in Mexico in 1902 while en-
Gagged in mining operations. Shortly
after the death Of her husband Mr..
SSnepnerd returned to washington TO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
800 REDS FACE LOSS
OF JOBS IN new YORK
Whalen Submits List Of Names, Of
Communist Employees to Com
I13r9
panies' Executives. 81
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS. sF
NEW YORK, March 11.-A list Of
800 persons among the employees Of ~
industrial corporations, accused Of being
Communist agitators by Police Com
missioner Grover A. Whalen, faced loss
of their jobs today.
The names were given TO the execu-
tives of the concerns by the police COM
missioner yesterday. All Of the en-
ployers said the persons listed as
organizers, propagandists and agitators
for the Communists would be dis
charged.
Commissioner Whalen said he planned
to call other employers to his ONCE and
furnish them with similar lists. He
said the information had been supplied
by his undercover men, who had OBJ
tanned the confidence Of the Com
munists. He intimated that the total
Of employees against whom he was pre-
pared to make charges Of Communicate
activity among their fellow workmen
might reach thousands.
He said q similar campaign was
being conducted in cooperation with
the school board to rid the schools of
pupils who have been conducting agita-
ton under the auspices Of the Young
Communist League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
STRANGE MALADY
QUARANTINE MADE
Three Tennessee Counties strick.
en- by Mysterious Para
lytic Disease.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn, March H.
A quarantine of los persons suffering
from a mysterious paralytic nlalady was
in force today in Washington, Garter
and Unicoi Counties.
Announcement Of the quarantine wa.
made last night by DR.. 8. s. Moody
Washington County health offlcer, who
advised "the same precautions as are
taken whenever there is a suspicion oil
contagion through the respiratory or
gans."
Children Kept at Home.
He said all school children in families
affected had been instructed to remain
at home. but adult members not suffer
ing from the malady would be permitted
to go to their businesses provided they
exercised rigid precaution at home.
Probably 90 per cent of the Wash
lngton County cases have a history
which shows drinking" said DR.. Moody
About so per cent Of the patients said
they had recently been drinking jamaica
ginger and many others drank plain
bootleg. This served to increase our
suspicion that liquor may be the cause
but does not confirm It."
He said q head cold was the first
symptom of the paralysis, followed by
a throat infection, numbness of the feet
similar to the sensation usually called
sleepy legs" and finally inability to
fiex the ankle muscles.
Nearly All Men.
All Of those afHiicted thus far, except
two women and 14-year-old girl, have
been adult males.
Or. Moody said some experienced
pain, but many others did not and q
few were unable to control their hands
Latest reports showed that Washing
ton County had rs cases, Carter IS and
Unicoi. 4. The paralysis nrst made Its
appearance last week.
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PLANS TO GREET
BYRD TO Be LAID
Great Reception Is Expected
to Be Given Explorer and
: Capital Aides.

Word Of the arrival Of the Byrd
Antarctic expedition at Dunedin, New
Zealand, en- route home after two years.
absence, Is expected to result in the
launching here within the next few
days Of plans for great reception 10
Rear Admiral Richard Z. Byrd and
members Of his expedition, eight Of
whom are residents of the National
Capital, when they arrive here early in
the Summer.
Neither the Navy Department nor
the National Geographic Society has
had direct word from the expedition
since the party left Little America, their
Antarctic base, but It 10 understood
here that the expedition viii return
home early in June.
The only definite plans which have
been made so far for public demonstra-
ton in honor of the expedition or its
members, so far as could be learned
here today, have been made in Brook
Ign, N. Y, the home of Bernt Balchen,
famous pilot. who was at the controls
during the flight over the South Pole
last November. The Brooklyn Chapter
of the National Aeronautic Association
is planning a celebration there in
Balchen's honor, according to word re-
ceived here at the national headuuar-
tiers of the association.
In addition to the eight members of
the expedition who give the National
Capital as their home, there is a ninth
member who was born here, but who
now makes his permanent home In
Massachusetts. So far as could be
leraned here today none of the rela
tives OF those in the expedition has
heard definitely when Washingtonians
IN the party will return home.
Residents of this city who now are
on their way home with Admiral Byrd
are:
Malcolm P. Hanson, radio engineer
and lieutenant in the Naval Reserve
who assisted in the radio preparation
tor the Byrd-McMillan trip Of 1925
the Wilkins expedition of 1926 and the
Byrd transatlantic fight of 1927.
l.. V. Berkner, radio operator, ensign
IN the Naval Reserve, who lived at 6301
Florida street, Chevy Chase, Md, be.
fore leaving for the Antarctic.
Epominondas j. Demas, flight me.
chanic, whose father. DR.. Nick D
Demas, lives at 1905 Irving street
northeast. Demas' mother said today
that she has received no direct WORD
from her son since the expedition left
Little America, when she received q
radio message announcing the de-
parture. 5s+ -
Kennard Francis Bubier. aviation
mechanic.
William @. Haines, meteoroIogist. OF
the United States Weather Bureau.
Victor H. Geyka, machinist, U. s
M. c., who was on duty in this city
when the expedition was organized.
Charles Eric Lofgren, personnel Of
fcer and paymaster of the expedition
Charles Leroy Kessler, fireman.
In addition there is In the expedition
as a weather observer Henry j. Harri-
son, who was born here, but who now
lives in Worcester, Mass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
C. O.P. CLUB VOTES
FOR DRY REPEAL
Bitter Clash Marks BaIIoting
by National Organization
on Prohibition.
Ry the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE Ma
tional Republican Club today was on
record in favor Of repeal Of the eight
zenith amendment.
After four-hour session marked by
spirited clashes between vets and drys
in the membership, the club by q vote
Of 461 to 335 adopted resolution which
held the eighteenth amendment "is dis
ruptive of our Federal system, in that
it is destructive of the rights of the
States" and urged representatives of
the Republican party in both houses Of
Congress to advocate and vote for its
repeal Gin order to restore the American
form Of government"
The club has q membership Of about
1000, about half Of whom live In New
York and vicinity, and the rest scat
tered throughout the country. Many
leaders Of the party are members. Both
the wet and dry factions had waged an
intensive battle for proxies.
Move to Table Action Loses.
Motion to table the resolution was
defeated when Richard w. Lawrence,
president Of the club, reversed an earlier
ruling and admitted the wet proxy votes
under protest. The motion was then
defeated by q vote of 479 to 800.
Mr.. Lawrence first had ruled the
wet proxies could not be voted on the
motion, as they had been given for the
specific purpose of voting only on any
resolutions that might be offered. The
dry proxies empowered the holders to
vote on all resolutions, motions and
propositions. The president reversed his
decision when warned by Martin SAKE,
one of the wet leaders, that exclusion
Of the wet proxies would break up the
club.
Held Victory for WadswOrth.
The adoption of the resolution was
generally agreed by both vets and drys
to give prestige to James w. Wadsworth,
whose defeat for reelection to the
Senate In 1926 was attributed to his
opposition to prohibition.
Mr.. WadSworth, who was active In
the fight for adoption of the resolution,
expressed pleasure over the result.
Alfred G. Crozier one Of the leaders
of the dry forces, charged that the
adoption Of the resolution was the
work Of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
SECOND BID SUBMITTED.

DANVILLE, Va, March II Especially.
The city council today had under
consideration another offer for the mu-
nicipal gas and electric plants, a bid OF
$3,850000 and a bonus Of 100000,
made by A. B. Leach a. Co. OF Chicago,
investment bankers.
The bidders failed to state who they
represented and the matter was passed
by for a week. The Utilities Corpora
ton of New York has made a bid OF
$3,750,000, which is still pending.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
.TAL|AFERRO NAMED.
RIGGS BANK OFFICER.
Commissioner AbandonS Plan
to Resume Practice
of Law.

Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro
who asked President Hoover last week
to relieve him of his post-retirement
service by March 81 so he could resume
the practice of law, announced today
that he had abandoned these plans to
become vice president of Riggs Ma
tional Bank.
The announcement followed the ac-
ton of the board of directors of the
bank yesterday in electing Mr.. Taliaferro
to the vice presidency, to assist Robert
V. Fleming and Frank j. Hogan in the
conduct of the affairs of the trust de-
partment. The position is a new one,
created, according to Mr.. Fleming, be-
cause OF the steady expansion Of the
banks trust service. Mr.. Taliaferro Will
take 1t upon his retirement as Commits
Sloner.
Term Expired in February.
Mr.. TaNaferro's term as Commits
sioner expired early in February, and
he continued in service at the request
OF the President pending the appoint
ment OF successor. He explained his
decision to take the position with the
bank instead of reopening his law Office
as he announced he would do in his
letter to the President in the fol-
lowing statement:
MY plans to reopen Offices for pri-
vate practice of law have been aban-
doned to become vice president of the
Riggs National Bank, where I will de-
vote myself principally to the work of
the trust department.
1T is with a great deal of satisfaction
that I will become Identified with this
splendid institution which Is constantly
increasing its scope of usefulness in
washington and its international con-
nections."
Succeeded CunO Rudolph.
Mr.. Taliaferro was appointed Conn
President Coolidge. He succeeded Cuno
II. Rudolph who resigned.
A native of Salem, Roanoke County
Va. Mr.. Taliaferro came to Washing-
ton In 1899 and went to work in a
hardware store. Later he took a course
at Georgetown University Law School
graduating In 1918 with the degrees OF
LII. B. and M. p. L. He beganShis Law
practice Immediately. From 1919 Il
1928 he served as an assistant pro-
lessor OF law at his alma mater.
Mr.. Taliaferro Is identified with q
number OF. societies and clubs and also
Is member of the board of directors
OF Columbia Hospital. He belongs tc
the Cosmos, Congressional, Manor and
Lawyers Clubs the American and Dis
trtct Bar Associations, the international
Society of Law and the Italy-American
Southern and Columbia Historical So
cieties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
POLICE WHISTLE SHAKES
C0L0RED BANDITS NERVE
Blast Sounded Blocks Away scares
Man Who Was Planning to
Rob Service Station.

The blast of q police whistle.
although several blocks away. was
enough to shake the nerve Of q colored
bandit who attempted to hold up
ming station at 1922 Pennsylvania
avenue last night. The man fed when
ne neard the whistle, leaving the days
receipts in the cash register Untouched.
Elijah B. Williams, the manager, was
accoSted by the man about z o'clock
and forced to raise his hands. At that
moment q customer drove up, took in
the scene at glance and hurriedly
drove on again, bending low over his
wheel.
In the meantime q neighbor had seen
the hold-up man and telephoned police.
Policeman e. r. Hartman was on his
way TO the scene from No. 8 precinct
when his automobile got involved In
traffic. He blew his whistle to make
his way through the vehicle congestion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
GANGSTERS BOAST OF WEALTH
IN INTERVIEWS WITH POLICE
Salts, Moran and Kaufman Describe big Business
Ventures to Chicago's Detective Head.

be molested If he returned to Wiscon-
sin Immediately after the funeral, and
Big Joe" went out tosthe Oberta home
to sit around his pals $4,000 CONN
at the wake.
Then there was George (Bugs) Moran,
North Side successor to Dion O'Banion
whose ranks were so sorely depleted by
the st. Valentines massacre of last
year. George, who was picked up in
the loop yesterday for his weekly in
terview with police, added to the days
financial news with the tale that he
had invested Sl25,000 in q North Side
cleaning establishment.
These two, Of course, only mentioned
casual amounts, but George (Potatoes)
Kaufman, who recently slapped a man
who pushed too fast as they were going
around together in the revolving door
Of a Loop hotel, lightly dropped the
news to Siege that he stu had 100000
or $700.0oos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, this evening at Stanley
Hall, John 8. M. Zimmerman, band
master; Anton Pointner, assistant
leader.
March, ION Parade" ......,.... Sousa
Overture, American Festival. .Hegner
Entr'acte:
(a) "Melodie of Peace. Martin
CD "Mignonette" ........... .Hadley
Excerpts from musical comedy 1.-THE
Red Feather" .... De Koyen
Fox trot, Dance Of the Wooden
@o1M .'............. stevens
Waltz suite, Wine, Woman and Song"
Strauss
Finale, Loyal Comrades. Hlankenberg
THE Star Spangled Banner"
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Hy the Associated Press.

By the AsSociated Press.
CHICAGO, March 1i.-Three gang
leaders boosted Of their big business
ventures to Chief of Detectives John
Siege yesterday.
First there was Joe Salts, known for
years as the beer baron Of the South
Side, who came down from his Wis
consin country place to attend the
funeral today Of his friend and bench
man, John (Dingbat) Oberta, slain on
q gang ride last week.
Between his fearful pleas to the de-
tective chief to call of the cops" while
he attended the last rites of his friend
Salts found time TO tell the chief and
reporters of his 100000 country place
In Wisconsin with o golf course and
O club house TO accommodate 26 people. y
Siege promised Salts he would not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11

Continued From First Page.)
in Historic Light" today's Pravda, ON
cial organ of the Communist party,
prints q cartoon showing figure repre-
enting the Pope being encircled by
flames from the hanging bodies Of re-
ligious martyrs burned at the stake for
writing under the heading, "a Blow
to Capitalistic Civilization" today's
Izvestia, which is the official organ Of
the government, characterizes present
assaults abroad on the government for
its attitude toward religion as prelude
to a renewal against the Soviet Union
of the economic blockade of 1919 and
the armed intervention OF that time.
The present agitation uniting Eu-
rope against the Soviet Union, says
Izyestia, is based only upon the jealousy
and fear of the imperialiStic powers
that the BolShevists will succeed in full
filling their flve-year industr1alization
plan and thus become q menace to the
capitalistic world.
Fear Soviet Economic Success.
Quoting a recent statement credited
to Leslie Unquhart in the New York
Engineering and Mining Journal that
Successful completion by the Soviet of
its five-year plan will destroy, or, at any
rate, deal a terrific blow to entire CIV
ilization," IZvestia says it Is clear the
foreign powers are In deadly fear Of the
Soviet's economic successes and those
powers are attempting now to paralySe
the Soviet export trade.
The paper cites alleged efforts in New
York to undermine Amtorg, the Soviet
trading corporation, which, it says, Is
charged with importing the holy scrin-
lures from Russia for sale in the United
States and with acting as the inter-
mediary of the Communist Information
ale for the spread of the revolutionary
propaganda.
1t also refers to alleged attempts by
Sweden, Belgium, Germany, France and
other countries to place an embargo on
Soviet matches, OIL timber, max and
other products, all of which Izvestia in
terprets as the beginning of restoration
OF united economic blockade BY the
world powers against the Soviet Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
Suit Attacks Garnishmsnt.

william H. Jones, 1852 p street. has
hled suit to recover $4,000 damages
from Levine, Berman 81 Englander.
Inc, trading as the Star Credit
Clothiers, 026 Seventh street. Through
Attorney Richard A. Hartman the court
is told that the defendant sent q notice
Of intended punishment to his en-
ployer and jeopardiSed his position and
caused him to suffer In his reputation
and credit. He denies that he Is in
dehted to the company as charged and
Asserts D counter claim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
COMMUNIST LEADER
AND AIDE REARRESTED
william z. Foster and Lieutenant
Now Facing Charges Of
Felonious Assault.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 11.-William z.
Foster, Communist leader in America,
and Robert Minor. one of his lieu
tenants and editor Of the Daily Worker,
were arrested on charges of felonious
assault yesterday, just after they had
been freed on bail on a charge of
unlawful assembly.
Both charges grew out of last Thurs
days Communist unemployment DEM
onstration, which ended in riot in
Union Square.
Three others Of Fosters followers,
arrested following the riot, have been
rearrested on assault charges after
gaining their release on bail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
OPERAS SUBSTITUTED
FOR PRESENTATION HERE

The washington Opera Association.
through Mrs. Wilson, Greene, has an
nounced q change in the operas to be
presented at the Fox Theater April %,
a. and IS. The opening opera will be,
as originally announced, La Boheme, u
With Beniamino Cigli, Lucrezia Bori
and Lawrence Tibbett, the changes
being ANDRE Chenier." with Rosa
Ponselle, Giovanni Martinelli and
Giuseppe De Luca replacing La Juive'
for Thursday and "Traviata" for Fri
day matinee with Lucrezia Bori. Tokat-
van and Lawrence Tibbett, being substi-
tlted for Louise"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
DUNEDIN ENTHUSIASTIC.
New Zealand City Opens Heart TO
Adventures.
BY RUSSELL OWEN.

BY RUSSELL OWEN.
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, March II.
The men of the Byrd expedition are
scattered all over Dunedin today, revel-
ing in the shops, walking the hard pave
ments with Joy in the unaccustomed
sensation Of not sinking every step,
eating enormous meals and generally
having the time of their lives. 1t
seems too good to be true TO be ashore
again and lodging automobiles.
Hospitality Unexceeded.
Nothing could exceed the generous
hospitality Of the New Zealand people.
They literally overturned the city for
Us. and one must be careful in ex-
pressing o wish for something, for 1t
Is Immediately produced. The action
Of one man is typical.
my place is yours. IF you need
anything until you get settled, clothes,
money, anything at all, 1t is waiting
for you," he said to q group of men.
That is Dunedin and New Zealand.
The sincerity and warmth of their well
come Is Enthusiastically real and deeply
touching for men who had been so long
without the pleasanter things of life.
For two days the men are on leave
while Admiral Byrd makes his plans for
return to the United States. Just
when and how the return will be
made Is yet undecided, as the ships need
some overhauling. particularly the City
Of New York after her hard Southern
trip.
Reception Is Held.
A large reception last night at CITY
Hall, at which Mayor Black, p. A. de il
Parrelle, minister of internal affairs.
and Comdr Hotham Of the British Navy
spoke in welcoming Admiral Byrd and
his companions home from the ice.
Admiral Byrd, in replying briefly, said
that he merely followed in the foot
steps Of MawSon, Shackleton, Scott and
others who had been the real pioneers,
and that he had greater admiration for
them than ever before when he realized
in the Antarctic what they had done
without dogs and planes. What he had
had been due to his men
sitting behind him.
DR.. Laurence Gould, geologist Of the
expedition, said no expedition had visit
ed New Zealand without falling In love
with the place. vs.
Copyright, 1880. by the New York Times
Co. and the st. Louis Post Dispatch, y All
rights for publication reserved threughout
the world) rsT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
BLAME FOR DEATHS FIXED
to Nine Children.

I. C. C. Verdict on Accident Fatal
The death Of nine school children and
the driver of a bus at Berea, Ohio,
January % in a collision with New
York Central Railway train was held
TODAY by the Interstate Commerce Com
missions bureau of safety to have been
caused by the bus being driven on the
tracks in front of the train after wait
ing for another to pass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
SHOTS FIRED INTO CROWD
AT PARTY KILL WOMAN
Four or Five others, Including Boy,
Are Wounded-Farmer Held
as Suspect.
BY the Associated Press.


YAZOO CITY, Miss, March ll.-One
woman was killed, another shot in the
stomach and seriously wounded and a
youth was hit in the back by shots
fired last night into a crowd on a
plantation near here where o drinking
party was being held
Offcers here are holding Arthur Bur-
roughs, 40, a farmer. as the man who
did the shooting
Mrs. Benoit Hardin, 10, was killed
instantly.
Mrs. Bessie Pippin received a wound
in the abdomen.
A boy named Horton was shot in the
back and two or three others were
wounded slightly.
Cause Of the shooting had not been
determined today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-11
Thieves Ply Trade
In Church, Hospital
And Police Court
az the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March IL
L. w. Ringer went to church
Sunday. During the service, some
one stole his coat, with valuables
in the pockets, his hat and scarf.
Catch that thief, police Capt.
Boyles ordered. "our churches
must be kept safe from thieves"
w. L. Hadaway went to a hos
pital yesterday. Some one stole
his suit case filled with clothes.
Catch that thief" police Capt.
Boyles ordered. "A Citizen must
have safety in a hospital"
Mrs. ]. r. Bradley went to
police headquarters yesterday.
Some one stole her purse as she
sat near the sergeant's desk.