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The Washington times., 1930-09-24
CAPONES OFFER
TO SURRENDER

CHICAGO, Sept. "A (INS1. !.
offers from both -Scarface Az
Capone and bis brother. Ralph to
surrender to vagrarlcy warrants
today marked Chicago's war
against its IS public enemies" )"
The gang overlord'S offer to
give himself up on the vagrancy
charge was made through four
lawyers who appeared before
Municipal Judge John Lyle, spon-
sor of the war against crime.
The lawyers said their two
clients we're ready to surrender
on the condition that they be re-
leased on bail at once. No prom
ises were made. according to the
Judge. Authorities. however, ex-
pected the two gangsters to give
themselves up.
That the vagrancy law of 1874.
recently pressed into use to prose
cute gangsters. may bring solu-
tion to the murder Of Alfred
Jake" Lingle, racketeering re-
porter, was the assertion of Judge
Lyle after q conference with
leaders of the peoples forces in
the battle against crime.
Ralph Capone goes to trial to-
day in Federal court when the
Government viii attempt to prove
his ownership of two night resorts
where liquor was found in recent
raids.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24

in touch with me about pay
ment Of any check whatsoever
supposedly signed by Clara Bow.
/ know nothing about any such
report"
Clara said:
eff anyone in the world feels
he has a rightfuI claim against
me for any sum Of money what
soever, which 1 deny, | will
gladly accept service Of any
legal document"
II always pay every honest
debt promptly"
Well Sponsored
-Four checks were given to cover
the young woman's losses. &C.
cording to the Calneva resort
These were returned
by the Hollywood branch of the
California bank marked payment
stopped"
Miss Bow as supposed to have
been introduced at the gaming
house by Will Rogers and Marie
Dressler, who were on location in
the Sierras making the motion
picture lightning"
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
81 ASK CHANGES
IN ZON|NG

A list Of 80 applications for
zoning changes was prepared yes.
terday for consideration at q pub
lie hearing by the District zoning
Commission in the board room of
the District Building starting at
10 a. M, October /.
Indications are that several
warm fights will result. The hear.
ing, it is expected, will consume
at least two days. Among the ap-
plications are:
Changes from residential to first
commercial in the ITO and 90 foot
height area, property in the vi
cinity Of Nineteenth and G Streets
Northwest: change Rhode Island
Avenue, from Iowa Circle to -Four
teenth Street Northwest. to the
first commercial area; 1906. 1908
Fifteenth st. N. W., to the first
commercial area; change property
within the boundaries of Massa
chusetts Avenue. Sheridan Circle,
Twenty.third Street and Water
Side Drive Northwest to the resi-
Dental A restricted area with
60-foot height limit; from residen.
tial A restricted area to 8O-foot 8
area, portion of land with Har.
ward Street. Eighteenth Street,
Quarry Road, Adams Mill Road
and Summit Place as boundaries:
the south side of Columbia Road,
from Seventeenth Street to Mozart
Place, to first commercial C, 90
foot height limit area.
The other applications involve
property in all sections of the city,
some Of which request elimination
Of current zoning regulations while
others ask increased restrictions.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
2 Men Post Bonds !
After Gaming Raid

One of the largest gambling
raids staged in several months,
was conducted yesterday by mem
bers of the recently formed vice
squad, and two men and quans
tity of gaming paraphernalia
seized. The alleged gaming estab-
lishment was located in the 1000
block n st. N. w.
Those arrested are: Wilbur
Dorsey, 33 of the 100 block Sev-
enteenth st. N. W.. and Irving
Sallus. 80. of the 500 block o
st. N. w. Both men posted
1000 bond on charges Of setting
up a gaming table.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
DEATH BAT TLEB
BY FORNWALD

Parker Bowie, 47-year.old car
penter, today sat huddled in his
cell in the District Jail. bewila
dered and apparently wondering
how he worked himself up to the
point sof shooting down the man
who was paying attentions to his
wife. -
Meanwhile the victim of his
jealous frenzy, Sylvester Form
valid, 39.year-old married man,
lay in Emergency Hospital max.
ing a game fight for life, despite
three bullet wounds in back and
head. "a
Bowie was held under bond Of
$4,000 on a charge of assault
with a deadly weapon. yesterday
in Police Court when Assistant
United States Attorney Michael
r. Keough told the court Form
valid is apt to die, and asked
that a heavy bond be fixed. Coun-
sci for the diminutive carpenter
waived preliminary hearing.
Since his arrest Monday in the
Earle Theater, Bowie has main.
tanned silence. refusing yesterday
to discuss the affair further than
to say that he loved his wife,
and that he had warned Form.
wald to cease his attentions. y
Mrs. Bowie again asserted that
she will stick to her husband
until he has been cleared. and
expressed regret that her friend.
ship for Fornwald should have
caused the tragedy, (
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
10000 At TEND
CHURCH MEET

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. "a 1.N.So
Fifty thousand persons are ex.
pected to fill Creighton Univer.
sity's stadium here tonight to take
part in the huge Eucharistic
meeting, regarded as the most
colorful spectacle of the current
congress.
A professional will start the
ceremony at z p. m. followed by
an address by Cardinal Munde-
lein, Of Chicago, at 8 p. m. Car.
dinal Mundelein,s mesasge is to
be broadcast. Judge Martin r.
Mention, Of New York, win also
speak.
With the stadium lighted only
by Pickering candles held aloft
by the audience, the congrega-
ton will repeat the holy. name
pledge uttered by the Very Rev.
Michael j. Ripple, of New York,
Business sessions were held yes
terday.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
ARRESTED IN STORE

James Edward Harris, colored.
%, of no address. was arrested
late last night by Policemen M. "A.
Warren and A. B. Cole, Of the
Eighth precinct, in a store in the
1900 block Fourteenth ST., N. w
Harris, according TO police, was
in the act of leaving with ap.
proximatelv 5000 worth Of mer.
chandise that he had piled on q
counter.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
Big NGDGL DirigibLe
Pays CdpitaL Visit

Without being previously an.
nounced. the Navy dirigible Los
Angeles paid q visit to Washing.
ton yesterday and cruised leisurely
over. the White House and the
downtown yesterday about 4:3O.
Naval communications reported
that the Los Angeles was on d
training cruise and had flown
here after soaring over Annapolis
and the upper Chesapeake Bay
section. The previous night it
journeyed as far as Havre de
Grace before returning to its mast
at LakehurSt, N. J..
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
Judge Orders Child
TO Speak to Father

sUNBURv. Pa, Sept. "a, Tne
sight Of a staid judge making a
written order that a child shall
speak to her own father was the
unusual scene in the 1iorthunlber,
land county court here today
The wife had Frederick Werntz,
Watsontown merchant, in the
Domestic Relations Court. He testi-
fled that his wife had taught her
little daughter, Elizabeth. not TO
speak to him.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
Life Adjustment
Center to Reopen

The Washington Life Adjust
ment Center will reopen Monday
at I D. m. in the Mount Pleasant
CONGREGATIONAL Church, 141O Co
lumbia Rd. N. W., under the di.
rection Of Miss Buelah E. Smith,
it was announced yesterday.
Miss smith has had wide ex-
perience in psychiatric social work.
She is q graduate of the University
Of wisconsin and attended the
Smith College School Of social
work,
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
Legs" Diamond Goes
To Summer Home

NEW YORK. Sept. "a (IN.S0.
The man nobody wants. Jack
Legs" Diamond, was believed
today to be speeding to his sum-
mer home at AGRA, N. Y. The
New York racketeer king was
released in Philadelphia yester-
day after being held for brief
questioning following his arrival
from Germany, which deported
him.
New York police intimated If
Diamond remained on his sum,
mer home he would not be an
noyed by detectives.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
Wife to Sue Suspect
In Kennedu SLnuinn

RENO Sept. "a QN.S)-That
Mrs. Irene Burch. %, wife Of
Arthur g. Burch, who was tried
three times in Los Angeles on a
charge Of numbering j. Benton
Kennedy in 1921, was contemplat.
ing filing divorce charges within
the next 30 days, was disclosed
today when she was found living
in a modest cottage.
The Kennedy murder case, in
which Burch and Mrs. Madalynne
Obenchain were central figures,
attracted nationwide attention
nine years ago. Both are said to
be residing in Los Angeles at the
present time.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
Kin,baU Union Tutor
Killed in Car Crash

MERIDEN. N. H.. Sept. "a
QN.S.) Howard E. Merrill, 35,
acting headmaster of Kimball
Union Academy, a former Dart
mouth athlete, i. dead and Gard
ner HAGEN, football coach at
"KUA,n Joseph Hamilton, post
graduate student, and Lewis Hooz
and John Amazeen, Portsmouth
students, suffered minor injuries
as the result of the upset Of an
automobile on the Hanover road.
Merrill is survived by a widow
and three children.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
Argentine BOrrows
Million to Pay
October Debt

BUENoS AIRES. Sept. "a
dNs).-A $50.OO0.0O0 one
year loan at S per cent inter
est has been contracted by the
provisional government of Ar
gentina with Brown Brothers.
Of New York, it was learned
today.
The loan was made for the
purpose Of paying off debt
Of equal amount contracted un-
der the ousted Irigoye1 regime
with the Cilatha m Phoenix
Banks, expiring October /.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
Cruelty Is Charged
In DiUOrce Action

Mrs. Helen Roasline Smith, 600
block Eighth st. N. g., filed suit
today in District Supreme Court
for limited divorce and alimony
from James Robert Smith, 500
block H st. N. z. She asks Gus
tody. of their two children.
Mrs. Smith charges her hus.
band with cruelty and says he
attempted to strangle her. She
declares he locked ! er Up in the
house and threatened to burn
her clothing. They were married
November IA, 1925.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
200 Yenr-OLd Victim
OF Dngqer UncOUered

GENEVA, Sept. "a 1N.S9.-A
murder presumably committed
900 years ago was uncovered by
workmen digging a road in the
Alps overlooking Geneva with the
finding Of a woman's skeleton,
q steel dagger between her ribs.
Swiss coins dating back to 1710
lay beside her.
The Washington times., 1930-09-24
| LAN MUST Be
MODIFIED, He
DECLARES
Veteran Member Praises AbiI-
ity Of Defeated Drys asWeIl
as Vets; Cites Rep. cramtOn

The prohibition issue already
has claimed the political lives Of
some of the best MINDS Of Con-
gress and the people viii suffer
from less efficient government
unless the fight Is settled, Rep
resentative L. C. Dyer (R.) of
Missouri, veteran member of the
House. declared today.
The quarrel over prohibition
has grown so intense in many
sections Of the country, accord
ing to Dyer, that the ablest men
In Congress face defeat unless
they read the minds Of their
constituents on this one question.
Has Detached View
Having no opposition for re-
election, Dyer viewed the diff
ficulties Of many of his col
leagues in the primaries and the
election from q detached posi-
tion. Although wet, he praised
the ability of some of the de-
feated drys. He said:
SIN the recent primaries
some Of our ablest and best
men have been defeated. The
List is growing and unless we
modify the VOlstead act, more
able men win be sacrificed.
"WhiIe the men who succeed
these legislators may be able,
every member Of Congress
knows that experience is
valuable asset.
"There is no doubt but that
efficiency Of government will
suffer from this issue, with
tried and brilliant men turned
out Of office regardless Of
their abilities"
Dyer n a m e d Representative
Cranton (R.) of Michigan, un.
official dry leader, as one able
legislator who fell because of the
wet and dry issue.
Services Valuable
Cramton, he said, was a valu-
able member of the Appropria-
tions Committee and was indus
trious in consideration of other
legislation. Representative Den1p-
sey tR.) of New York, chairman
Of the Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee, was named as another
fine legislator who was defeated.
He added:
"The vets will make big
gain i'm the elections this year.
They will gain even more in
the next Congress after reap
pOrtiOnment, because the cities
viii gain members at the ex-
pense Of rural districts, which
have not kept pace in pOpula-
tiOn.
"We may expect to see more
good members defeated because
they are not right on the
issue. People against prohibi-
tion now are taking the atti-
tude the Anti-SalOOn League
first tOOk--they are against .
dry no matter what his general
qualifications for office may be.
Before long one Of our
major parties win DECLARE for
raneal. Modification Of the
VoIgtead act, to permit making
OF 2.75 per cent beer, would
take the Issue out Of politics
for years to come.
Dyer is hopeful that the Wick
Arshaun commission and PreSl-
dent Hoover both will recommend
modification as an aid to enforce
n1ent of the ban on hard liquor.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-11-07
Motor Injuries Treated
BY Red Cross First Aid

In line with its work for the preser.
walton of life and prevention of acct.
dental death, the American Red Cross
has adopted a new program of emer.
gency first aid stations on the high.
ways of the nation. where victims of
automobile injuries will be helped.
In the last year $1,000 persons were
killed as the result of automobile acct.
dents and more than 100000 were
injured As its contribution to the
nation wide safety campaigns of other
organizations. the Red Cross will aid
through the emergency stations. a
number already are in operation by
Ch' ".ers on such important traffic ar.
teries as the Westchester County.
N Y. park system, the Valley Forge
and Gettysburg highways in Pennsyl-
vania and the White Horse Pike in
New Jersey, connecting with Atlantic
City.
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Orphans Court

The Orphans Court met OF Thursday
with full bench present. The follow
ing business was transacted:
Inventory and appraisement OF the
personal and real estate OF william
w. Padgett late of Charles County,
deceased. returned by executor and
was approved.
Petition and order of Court for sale
OF the personal estate OF said deceased
granted to said executor.
Ordered that letters of administration
upon the estate of Susan r Slyo, be
issued to VIM. H. and Augustus B.
slye, by the Register of Wills, upon
the nling of Bond in the penalty of
$1,000 90 and that warrant to appraiss
the personal estate Of said deceased be
issued to Frederick L. Dent and J. u.
Joy upon the filing Of said bond and
qualification of the said admisistra-
tors.
Ordered that the first and final ad-
ministion account OF LYDIA Jane Ian
caster, ezecutrix of Benedict Joseph
Lancaster, deceased be passed.
Talley sheets OF the several election
districts of Charles County were hled
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Little Journeys in
Americana
BY LESTER B. COLBY
Frontenac's Nut-Brown
Daughter.

THE Chevalier de Frontenac, gov
ernor of Konnedieya, had nut
brown daughter. She was very beau
tiful Her mother was a squaw; a
woman of rare, bronze beauty her.
self. They had such women among
the Indians In those days. 1t was in
the latter part of the 1600's, and
Louis XIV, of France, had sent From
tenac to rule that part Of the New
World known as Konnedieya.
Konnedieya? Never heard of It'll
Why, | am surprised. Canada was
Konnedieya. in the beginning, before
the rasp-like togue of the English
man made the word less beautiful.
Konnedieya means beautiful water.
This charming nut-brown daughter
was the apple of the Chevalier de
Frontenac's eye. He was grim,
war-scarred soldier, full fifty years
old, when she came into the world !;
his waistline had vanished and he
was getting gray around the muzzle,
like an old beaver
AS men will do, he laid great plans
for this beautiful creature whose skin
was the color of old gold. and whose
supple weil-formed limbs and muscles
had in them the grace and spring of
panther. She was taught, in her
tender years. by the best tutors TO be
found In Quebec and Montreal.
If l am correct, as she grew bit
older, she visited Paris and learned
prayers in French convent. The
old chevaier, now called Count de
Frontenac, laid large store in the fu-
ture of his daughter. Then fell his
great SORROW
War came between the French and
the Mohawks. These Indians were
brave soldiers They carried their
war to the very walls of Quebec and
Montreal and for months knocked at
the gates Of the greatest cities in
Konnedieya. And somehow, I do not
know exactly how, they managed to
carry off Frontenac's daughter.
For months he endeavored to get
her back. Offers of money, offers of
gay apparel, offers of fine knives and
other weapons-offers of every kind
failed Years passed by.
Word came finally out of the forest
that she had become the wife of
Kiodago, a young Mohawk chief It
was then that Frontenac, seventy
years old now, organized an army in
1896, to invade the forest and rescue
his beloved daughter Soldiers with
strong hacks carried the indomitable
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Volume LVIII
MAKES RECORD

How a young Maryland farmer has
led the way for the State in raising
high quality, well finished hogs was
Illustrated recently az the annual Bal
tim re Livestock Exhibition when J.
NJ. Mattingly, manager of "Susque-
hanna Farms" St. Mary's County,
won first place or grand champion in
every class in which he had animals
entered K. A. CLARK, OF the Animal
Husbandry Department, University of
Maryland, stated. after seeing the ami
mails, "the hogs shown by 'susque-
hanna Farms would have done credit
to their owners and the State in any
kind of competition.
The seventy four shoats we're award
ed the following places: first place and
grand championship for the best car
load of not less than 80 hogs, weigh
ing over 200 pounds; first and second
places n d grand championship
for the best pen OF hogs, weighing
over $50 pounds; first place Tor the
best pen OF hogs weighing under 160
pounds; first, third and fourth places
and grand championship for the beat
individual barrow weighing over leo
pounds and first place for the best in
dividuAl barrow weighing under 100
pounds.
The total amount in prizes captured
by the animals from "Susquehanns
Farms" was s175 and 81, 1882 was
realized from the sale OF the hogs
later on.
The story OF the success OF Mr.. Mat
tinEly is phi email one,
particularly so because the animals
raised on the farms prior TO his com
ing, less than three years ago, were
In very run down, sickly condition.
Hence, his battle from that time on to
lay the firm foundation which this
year showed such excellent results
should serve as real incentive to
every swine grower in the State.
The first thing thai the present man
ager did was to get all the available
information he could on raising hogs
in the State. much Of the aid having
TCOntinued On Page 81
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Fall of Great Rock
Due to Shake State

The biggest crash in modern natur-
al history is coming some day soon
out in Dolores canyon, in western
Colorado, when the Potato Rock falls
This freak of nature, the largest bal
ancing rock in the world, according
to scientific estimates, weighs APP
proximately 10000 tons and rears s.
feet-the height of an eight-story
building. At a distance 1t looks like
nothing so much as a gigantic potato,
standing on end.
For thousands of years erosion has
worn down the earth around the huge
formation of red sandstone until now
it balances precariously on two points
of crumbly shale, the largest of which
is no bigger than your dining table,
the other much smaller. Between
them a hole has been worn Of recent
years until it is now large enough
for man to crawl through And
gradually, imperceptibly, the hole is
growing larger, the supports smaller.
Below the rock is preeipice 500
feet deep Some day-perhaps tomor-
row-perhaps ten years hence-erosiOn
is going TO take away the fnal ounce
that means the difference between
support and capitulation to the age
old siege of nature. And the crash
viii resound over all western Col
orado.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-11-07
Comfort Kits Sent 10000
Service Men by Red Cross

Gay patterned cretonne bags. or
comfort kits, containing articles use
full and amusing. are sent by the Red
Cross to 10000 soldiers, sailors and
Marines, on foreign service, as Christ
mas remembrances.
The little gift bags are donated and
packed by women in Red Cross Chap
tiers all over the country. They are
despatched by Army transport in the
early autumn in order to reach the
foreign ports and posts of the U. S.
services in time to be hung on the
Christmas trees. Giving the remem-
brances from home is the outgrowth
of a plan adopted by the Red Cross
prior to the World War when so many
National Guard regiments were on
the Mexican border.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-11-07
TO HOLD DEMONSTRATION

A culling demonstration will be
given by Prof. Rice, poultry specialist
at the University of Maryland, this
coming Monday, November 10th, at
l;30 at the home of Tho S. Grinder,
Narbury under the direction of the
Marbury Home Demonstration Club.
Anyone interested in poultry is in
vited to attend this monstration and
will find it good opportunity to have
Prof. Rice answer questions in regard
to their poultry problems.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-11-07
Saving Mothers and Babies
Is Important Rcd Cross Task

Saving mothers likes and better ba.
hes were imHor ant features during
the past year of the Public Health
Nursing Service of the American Red
Cross. About four-ffths of the 794
nurses in the Red Cross work made
more than 100000 prenatal and mater
nal visits, in addition to assisting
doctors in the examination of 800, 400
school children.
Statistics reveal that the lives of
two out of three American women who
die in maternity cases could be saved
if they received proper medical and
nursing care. AS more than $4,000
women die in the United States each
year from various diseases of the ma
ternal state. this means that more
than 10000 of these deaths are pre-,
ventable.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-11-07

The election being over the PEOPLE
will settle down to business again.
Notice that the play for the new
Catholic Chu ch is to take place on
the 22nd. inst It will be quite an
affair Don't miss it.
The Railroad authorities have chang
ed the crossing through this town,
but made it no wider. Action OF the
Town Council is in order.
good many persons are carrying
round in their pockets souvenirs, in
the way of bits OF smokeless powder
from h late explosion at Indian
Head.
Some of our worthy citizens in their
exubberance Tuesday night, INDUCED
in the free use of fire arms. This
practice is to be condemned.