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The Washington times., 1930-04-16
GIRL, s, HURT BY TRUCK

Mildred Harris, 6-year-old, 800
block X st. s.. w., was injured
slightly late yesterday when she
was knocked down by a truck
driven by Fred Marshall, 1900
block D st. N. E., at Third and M
SITS. s. w.
The Washington times., 1930-04-16
Wales and Party
Hons Off for Cairo

LONDON, April 16 UN.s).
The airplane fleet carrying the
Prince of Wales and his party to
Cairo hoped off the airdrome at
Khartoum at o'clock this morn
ing.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
P|M[|CO TRACK
OPENS TODAY
.flmes s.aft Photes..

BALTIMORE, Nov. At
wasn't the urge to vote that
caused trainers, jockeys and stable
men to be busy by lantern light
in the stables of Old Hilltop, long
before dawn today.
1t was the call of Maryland's
premier racetrack - Pimlico -
where thoroughbreds are made
the kings of the sport or dropped
back into oblivion. The track
opened today for an 11-day Ses-
sion.
The Riggs Handicap, offering
purse of $25,000, features the
initial card, and 13 3-year-olds,
five fillies and as many colts and
three geldings will do their best
to capture a major portion of the
stakes. '
Spinach is slated by some ex-
perts to win the classic, but Her
Grace, Yarn and Conclave are
listed as strong contenderS for
the winners laurelS.,
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
VOTING HEAVY
IN NEARBY
49,
STATES
Results TO Be Reported Late
As D. C. Workers Wait Till
Night to Ballot in Vay Md.

Despite a chill rain and a
nippy breeze, citizens Of nearby
Maryland and Virginia turned
out early today to cast their bal.
lots and indications were that
adverse weather conditions would
not materially lessen the heavy
vote expected.
Hundreds of residents of the
nearby States who are employed
in washington were at the polls
early today to vote before coming
into the Capital. while other hun
dreds planned to vote this eve
ming.
Results to be Late
The heavy vote expected, coup
led with the large number ex-
pected to vote late. win pFob.
ably hold the results IN nearry
precincts in doubt until ton1or-
row.
Probably the heaviest vote will
be in Montgomery county, where
the bitter factional fight among
the Democrats and the inter
party struggle for the Congress
sional seat is carrying a con
stant stream of citizens to the
polls. Rep. Frederick N. zihl.
man, Republican, is fighting for
reelection from the district,
which includes the nearby coun-
ty, against David. Lewis, Demo
crat. =
County Rule At Stake
A referendum on changing the
county form of government in
Arlington county, Va, is drawing
a heavy vote. The proposal is to
go over to the manager form
of county government. Local Of
fices also are being contested in
this county. There is in addition
considerable interest in the one
sided senatorial fight, Senator
Carter Glass being conceded re-
election. j.. Cloyd Byars is op-
posing him.
In Alexandria the already
apathetic attitude of the voters
was enhanced by the rain and
wind. There is not an exciting
contest in the city, and it was
expected that the total vote
would be less than 1900. Judge
Howard w. Smith, running for
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The Washington times., 1930-11-04
LafOIette Certain
Of Election In Wis,

MADISON, Nov. 4 u.N.S0 /.
Election of Philip F. La Toilette,
Republican, to the goVernorship,
was regarded as certain today as
Wisconsin trooped to the polls.
His Democratic opponent. Charles
E. HammerSley, was given only an
outside chance to win by political
experts.
Eleven members of the House Of
Representatives also were being
elected today. The wisconsin dele
CATION to the House is solid Re-
publican and no change is expected
this year.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
FAIRFAX YOU I h
DIES BY GAS
Times, staff. Photo

The smell of escaping gas early
today attracted John NJ. Heeter,
proprietor. Of a .rooming house in
the 600 block E st. s. W., to a
room on the second floor Of the
house where he discovered John
Garner, "a, with rubber tube,
through which gas was flowing, in
his mouth.
Members of the Fire Rescue
Squad and Emergency Hospital
physicians declared Garner had
been dead for several hours.
Inquiry failed to develop any
reason for Gamers act: -
Garner has been living at the
rooming house for three years.
His parents live in Fairfax, Va,
and he is said to be engaged to
a girl in Fairfax.
He has been out of work for
several weeks but had started on
a job at the Washington Railway
and Electric Company's barns
Sunday.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
Cells ofHun,an CancerAre
Grown in Test Tubes

the same kind of cancers. Al
parentIy two patients seem to
have the same kind Of tuTnOr.
Under the miscrOscOpe, cells Of
the two specimens appear alike.
But, if you subject these cancer
tissues from different patients
to X-ray treatments, for in
stance. you'll find that a dose
of radiation will kill one speci-
men but not the other.
"The cancer cells Of different
persons show different resist.
ances to X-rays, radium rays or
chemical treatments. Why? We
don't know yet. If we can culti-
vate in . test tube the cancer
tissue Of q patient we can ap-
ply various doses Of Xfays or
chemicals and find out which
treatment takes" - eE .
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
BOOtLegger Attacks
Wife, Then Kills Self

CHICAGO, Nov. 4 (IN.S.).
James Hester, so, said to be o
bootlegger from Toledo, Ohio, to.
day beat his wife, Mrs. Betty
Hester, 80, into semiconscious.
ness with a table lamp and then
committed suicide by slashing
his throat with a safety razor
blade. The tragedy occurred in
the Palmer House, famous Loop
hotel. ..~
Mrs. Hester blamed jealousy
for her husbands. actions. She
told police Hester was employed
by Dutch Heller, alleged Toledo
beer peddler.
Mrs. Hester said she was
asleep when her husband awoke
her by striking her on the head
with the table lamp.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
Aimee Is Reported
Resting in Panama

COLON, C. T., Nov. 4 (IN.SO.
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, or at
least woman identified by immi-
grafton authorities and friends
who knew the four-square gospel
evangelist in California as Mrs.
Mcpherson, was in Panama today
for 10 days of rest and sightsee-
ing.
Mrs. AMcPherson arrived from
New York on the liner Toloa, &C
companied by a Mr.. and Mrs
William Smith, and plans to re
turn to Los Angeles aboard the
liner Pennsylvania on November
IA. On the ships passenger list
she appeared under the name
Betty Adams, and when seen by
the International News Service
correspondent she denied flatly
that she was the Los Angeles
evangelist.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
z HELD, THIRD
. MAN STILL
At LARGE
William CarneII Hunted As
Man Who Fired Fatal
= Shots in Night Attack

William j. Carnell. Frank Ma
honey and william c. Mckay,
were indicted for murder in the
first degree in connection with
the fatal shooting last October
s of Louis Bush, bus magnate,
during a holdsup in the rear Of
his home.
Mahoney and Mckay are in
custody in connection with the
killing, but Carnell, who is de.
scribed as a desperate character
with a long criminal record. is
still at large. The Grand Jury
did not indict Mrs. Mary Sulh.
van, mother of CARMEL, who was
drawn into the case when police
reported that she had knowledge
of the killing and had harbored
the alleged killers.
Capt. Kelly Investigated
Capt. Edward j. Kelly, of the
homicide squad, investigated the
affair and disclosed the evidence
which resulted in the indictment
of the trio.
Mahoney is said by police to
have led Carnell, who knew Of .
"job" to be pulled, to Mckay,
where the latter's gun is said to
have been borrowed. Mahoney
then is said by police to have
taken Carnell to the garage In
rear of Mr.. Bush's home.
Bush thought he was being
made the butt Of a neighbor's
joke when he heard a voice from
the darkness tell him to put up
his hands, he declared as he lay
dying; but, when he realized that
it was a real hold-up, told the
robber that he was welcome to
his money.
Hit ON the Head
The robber struck him over the
head with the pistol, Mr.. Bush
declared, and the pistol fell to
the ground. where it was OBJ
tanned by him. A scuffle fol
lowed in which he was fatally
shot.
The wounded man made his
way to the front door of his
home and was met by his sister.
in-law, who called for police and
medical assistance. Mr.. Bush died
october 8.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
S.174,0OO,00O
DROP IN j. 5. .
REVENUE
Expenses Rise as. Depression
Hits Custom, Tobacco, and
Other internal Tax Figures

Government receipts in the
first four months of the 1891
fiscal year, ending October 81.
showed a reduction Of $174,O00.
600. while ordinary expenditures
gained $47, 100000, the Treasury
announced today.
Slump Hits Customs
The business depression has
cut sharply into revenues from
customs and miscellaneous inter
nal revenue, including the TO
bacco taxes; the income tax re
duction has been due to the ]
per cent reduction in rates and
to a lesser degree, to the STOCK
market crash Of late 1929. The
slump win not affect income
taxes until after March 15. tsiIlce
payments are now being made
on the basis Of 1929 incomes.
For the four months all re-
cefpts amounted to $1,016, ,T53, 600,
with ordinary expenditures ST.
126,831 900. There was deficit
of $l75,l38,OO0 on october 81.
however, the Treasury has post
poned most Of it's annual sinking
fund operations until March 10,
owing to the strong position OF
the Government bond market. so
that Uncle Sam is about $22o,-
10000 behind last year as the
fifth month Of the fiscal year
opens.
The most serious drop was $34,-
100000 to a total Of $134,25 400
in customs receipts. Total income
taxes amounted to $582, ,262 800,
a decline of $50, 8,000, 900, while mis-
cellaneous internal revenue OF
$2O6, ,525, 300 was Sill, 100000 lower.
Expenses Rise
Virtually all items Of expendi-
ture were higher than last year
with the exception Of interest and
refund of taxes. For four months
the Federal Farm Board spent
$24,665, 800. There was a $4,000
900 postal deficit, $4,000. 200
greater than last year.
In the Governments effort to
economic it has been faced by
the virtual necessity of maintain
ing employment at the present
level. While there has been a
move to reduce forces in certain
branches Of the Government, these
economy operations have been
postponed until business starts
moving forward again.
Heavy financing operations will
take place within the next year,
when notes, certificates and bills
amounting to 81, ,469, 450, 900 will
be retired. The next financing
will be done November II, when
$120, ,OO0, 900 in bills will be retired.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
burke CHARGES.
DROPPED

Charges of intoxication against
Private william F.. Burke. of No.
6 precinct, we're dismissed to-day
by Judge Gus D. Schuldt in Po-
lice Court. The $40 collateral
posted by Mr.. Burke was returned
to him.
Private Burke was put on trial
last Thursday and pleaded that
the condition in which he was
found was caused by taking a
strong sedative and not by drink
ing whiSkey. None Of the Of
ficers who arrested the policeman
would swear definitely that ne
was drunk. -
Captain Stoll, Of No. 6 precinct,
who was among the officers who
made the arrest, did not appear
at the trial.
Private Burke was arrested
some weeks ago while at a
Fourth Street address in what
was said to have been an intoxi-
Gated condition.
At the time Of his arrest, off
GERS said, he was creating quite
0 disturbance. He was cited for
trial before the trial board and
charges of drunkenness were
placed against him on the police
blotter. Judge Schuldt has had
the case under consideration
since Thursday.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
Race
Holds Idaho Stage

BOISE. Idaho, Nov. 4 UN.So.
With Senator William E. Borah,
Republican, regarded as certain
to be returned to the United
States Senate over his Democratic
opponent, Joseph Tyler, interest
in Idaho centered today on one
of the hottest gubernatorial cam
paignS since 1916.
John McMurray, Republican,
and c. Ben Ross. Democrat. were
each claiming victory in the gov
ernorShip race as the voters went
to- the polls.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04

NEW YORK, Nov. Ave
have been able to grow human
cancer cells in test tubes.
"The growth. however, is not
satisfactory yet. The cells sur
vive only three weeks and
rather feebly. Cells from trans,
planted cancers in animals,
however. have been kept grow
ing for two and even three
years"
So DR.. Francis Carter Wood, di.
rector of the Crocker Research
Laboratory of Columbia Univer,
sity. divulged for the first time
how scientists are delving into
the growth of normal and cancer
cells.
Or. Wood said:
% twO cancer patients hA1a
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
10 Die When WGhdbi
Tribes Steal CanleLS

LONDON, Nov. 4 UN.S0.-
Ten inhabitants of a Palestine
border village were killed today
by Wahabi tribeSmen who crossed
the Jordan frontier on raiding
expedition, according to dispatches
to the London evening newspapers
from Jerusalem.
British airplaues and armored
cars were rushed to the scene to
protect the villages, but the raid
ers had left, taking 600 camels
with them.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
Creu SaUed As Ship
Drifts Oft, Sinking

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 4
Q.N.S0.-After facing death in
the Pacific for more than 48 hours
as their crippled steamer drifted
helpleSSly in mountainous seas,
the officers and crew of the jap
anese freighter Seiyo Maru have
been rescued by the steamer Shira-
ha Maru, according to dispatch
to the Mackaye radio station here
today from the freighter Cali
fornia.
Listing As degrees, the Seiyo
Maru was permitted to drift away
in a sinking condition after the
crew had been transferred to the
rescue ship.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
BOyntOn, Boy Filler,
On Way Back East

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Nov. 4
GN.s0 Stanley Boynton, seek
ing to establish a new west-east
transcontinental record for junior
fIiers, today was en- route to
Portland, Me. He left here yes
terday afternoon and was Sched-
uled to spend the: night at Phoe-
nix, AriZ.
Boynton recently set an east
west record of "a hours 'and 2
minutes of. elapsed flying time.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
IS DIE IN FILM FIRE

LONDON, Nov. 4 QNS0.-
Fifteen persons, eight women and
seven children, were reported to
have been burned to death today
in a motion picture theater fire
in Bangkok, according to dis
piaches received here.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
Land Is Reclaimed
For AnGcOStid Park

Retaining of land for the
foundation for the Anacostia
Park project is under way, the
work going forward above Ben
ming Bridge, according to an
nouncement yesterday by the
United States -EngipeelS Cities
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
AIR MAIL SETS RECORD

A new high record was set in
October in air mail carried
through Washington by the East
ern Air Transport, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
MARQUIS DURAzzo DIES

BRUSSELS, Nov. 4 QNSD.
The Marquis Durazzo, Italian
ambassador to Belgium, died here
today Of brain hemorrhage. He
was 81.
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
THE WEATHER

Rain this afternoon and tonight probably
clearing Wednesday mornings slightly colder
tonight with lowest temperature about ~ de-
sreea. Strong northeast and east winds shift
ing to west and diminishng Wednesday morn
/ Ing. Temperature yesterday-Highest, 54I low
est 80. Full Weather Report Page ~
The Washington times., 1930-11-04
PIMLICO RESULTS

ERsE RACE -Rabie. B. Pas chrigtmAs.
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would take the bosun's whistle for a gas alarm.
Yes the Army probably thought we were
weird outfit. But these naval gunners were
picked men-500 of them, chosen from more
than 10000 applicants. Only IS of them had
been in the Navy before the war.
The best way to start telling about them is
10 go way back to the Fall of 1917.
In November of 1917, I was gunnery officer of
the Navy, in charge of target practice espe-
cially with our big 10, IL and IA inch guns, the
largest we had at that time, as none of our
16-inch guns got completed until after the war.
Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, chief of the Navy
Bureau of Ordnance, realizing that the German
artillery was outranging anything the allies
had figured that the Navy ought to see if 1t
couldn't beat the Germans at their own game.
THAT was before the first German Bertha
shell travelled 70 miles to drop in Paris.
But even then the Germans were supreme in
long range artillery fire. They had guns which
the allies never mentioned publicly throwing
shells 40 miles
Those guns were fred from near Cambria,
and they hit St. Omer and Doullens, important
railway functions behind the British front. The
Germans also had 12-inch guns that bonn
barded Dunkirk, the important French port
just across from England. Those guns gave
the allies some nervous moments In the Fall
of 1917 we all knew there would be q great
German drive In the Spring. Suppose the Ger
mans should come up with guns that could
shell Calais and Boulogne! The whole British
army would be imperiled and the war might be
irretrievably lost then and there.
So Admiral Earle decided to pit against these
German guns our 14-inch, 5O-caliber naval gun.
This the main gun on our biggest battleships,
threw a shell $4,000 yards ct miles, at an
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A DM1RAL EARLE was confident that it could
be done, though. On November &C. 1917,
the department approved Earles plans and in
side of two weeks the drafting room force at
the Naval Gun Factory, under Comdr. Harvey
Delano produced its first report.
1t had to be a rush job. Battleship turret
mount designers gathered with bridge and
railroad men to develop detailed plans. BY
January IS, 1918, drawings and sketches were
ready to submit to the bidders.
The biggest job planning the gun car.
1t had to be strong enough to carry 5S-foot.
Cotton gun. 1t also had to be able to with
stand the shock of its firing at an angle from
zero to 43 degrees, with trunnion pressure Of
966 900 pounds and vertical and horizontal re-
actions of 100000 pounds.
But with all Of that 1t had to be light enough
to travel the rundown French railroads and
take the bridges in safety, and it had to be
small enough to go through the tunnels.
As it was finally built, the gun car had as
backbone two lengthwise Orders each 70 feet
long, feet deep and 135,S3O pounds in weight.
AT each end these were bracketed together with
special U-shaped housings in which steel
H-beams, each carrying a center pin socket,
received the center pins on the two 12-wheel
car trucks placed at each end. Structural-steel
girder beams carried the load to the axles.
THIS axle-load business had the experts
stumped They all said we had too much
axle load. The whole business-car, gun and
an-weighed SOS, 900 pounds, as compared with
the SIS, 240 pounds of class 1900 New York
Central locomotive and tender. They told us
the whole thing would collapse.
Then we had job placing the gun so that
the Orders would take up its firing load and
recoil. We put the gun IN o well between the
gtrders, which would permit of 15-degree ele-
walton; that would only give us half our maxi
mum range; we needed all we could get, for we
were going to be shorter in range than the
German guns even at our best.
Now, in shooting any gun, the farther you
want to shoot the higher you must elevate the
muzzle If you can shoot a shell fast enough
ut high enough angle, it win 60 far, because
1t gets up into rarefed air and encounters little
atmospheric resistance. So we had TO get ut
least q 43-degree elevation in order to put our
best foot forward.
But to elevate the muzzle you have to de-
press the breech, together with all the bulky
recOil mechanism. So we fixed that in this
way:
Between the rails Of the track at the spot
where the gun was to fire. pit was dug In the
ground. A crane car put into It o foundation
Of tinber-woTk backing and structural steel
girders and o heavy steel casting. That took
about 20 hours Of fast work. .s.,t, IS.
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Rear admiral Charles p. Plunkett.
u. S. ~, retired, Who was Entrusted
sOith carrying out admiral E0rle's PIaH
to put battIeships on sUheeIs.
initial muzzle velocity of 1890 feet per second.
Admiral Earle figured it would hit harder than
the German shells and believed that we could
either knock the big German guns out or force
them back so far behind the lines that they
could no longer reach important railway juno
tons and seaports far behind the allied front.
But it wasn't going to be simple job The
German drive would be on by the time we
could get our guns in France so nobody had
the faintest idea where we'd be wanting to put
them. Obviously, they must be able to go any
where and take care of themselves That
meant that we must adapt guns designed for
battleships 10 travelling ON railroads and we
also must devise rolling repair and machine
shops, cranes, wireless cars, ammunition cars
and the hke .-. -
In fact. It practically meant that We had to
put battleships on Wheels ;..-'-
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LII of that sounds complicated, but it has
to be given in order that you may UNDER
stand the problem that confronted us. When
we had this done, we were able to fire our gun
at its maximum range, $4,000 yards, from any
place in France where there was railroad
track, 20 hours after receiving our orders
There had to be plenty of auxiliaries, OF
course. All in all, we had to have six locomo-
tives, 10 ammunition cars, 10 berthing cars for
the crews to live in, six construction cars and
five each of the following: Kitchen cars, head
quarters cars fuel cars, workshop cars, crane
cars and cars to carry pit foundation material
and miscellaneous equipment
In addition there had to be staff quarters
car, kitchen, dispensary, radio and commissary
car. On February 19, 1918, was ordered to
get the personnel together for training.
We tried to keep the expedition secret but
the news spread all through the Navy and
10000 men asked to be assigned to the detach~
ment-and we needed just 80 officers and 500
men! picked the men mostly from the Naval
Reserve: excellent men, many of them from
college. Others were grade machinistS, cleo
tricians engineers, firemen, carpenters, and
good general handy men. Long before the guns
were ready we had these men at work at Naval
Proving Grounds, Indian Head, Md, and else
where, teaching them how to handle and IRE
big guns
About that time we struck our first bump.
The bidders all named remote dates of delivery.
They didn't seem TO realize that we had to go
overseas right away. don't believe we'd ever
have reached France II 1t hadn't been for SAM
uel Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
chairman Of the munitions committee of the
War Industries Board.
After everybody else had said 1t was impos.
sible, Vauclain declared that If the American
Bridge Co. would help the Baldwin works
would build the gun cars In 100 to 40 days.
J. n. Hansen, president Of the Standard Steel
Car Co., promised to deliver the auxiliaries I'm
the same time. The bids were accepted, with
delivery promised for June is. The gun cars
were all in our hands by May IS and the au1il.
iaries by June II
WHEN We finally got our gums We weTent
w dead sure they'd work. 80 we had Do
FIRE the things to ind out. OF course, we were
satisfied I'm our own minds, but we had 10 COM
vince lot Of doubling Thomases. And Tho
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The Real Story of the United States

Upsetting the Belief
That Germany's
Guns Which Fired
ON Paris Were the
Biggest in the War
RearAdmiruIPlun-
kett ReUeaLs Here
Hitherto Untold
Facts AboutMavy5
II 1Oe DrV-L1H1
.Dreadnanghb.
BY CHARLES p. PLUNKETT.
(Real admiral, u. S. ~, Retved)
as told to-
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BY CHARLES p. PLUNKETT.
(Real admiral, u. S. ~, Retiyed)
as told to
THOMAS M. JOHNSON
as told to

"VH HE most spectacular job the American
Navy did. during the World War
wasn't done on the sea at ALL It
took place on dry land, long way
from salt water