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The Washington times., 1930-08-15

Boiling field really enjoyed
the day yesterday with only
two cross-country flights, five
tests and fiye local hops. The
lun before the storm, as it
were, The croSS-country jumps
were Lieutenant Umstead's flight
to Cambridge with Secretary
Davis and two other pasSen-
gers and back in a Sikorsky,
and = Lieutenant Smiths hop
from Middletown, Pa, in an
O-1-B, with Mr.. A. Legge.
AS. usual that great stunt
team Of ours over at the Naval
Air Station was in the air yes
terday for about an hour
Those chaps are sure good and
we hereby advise every one
that possibly can to get over
and watch their manouvers. ).
It is truly q treat. :. Lieuten.
ant Commanders Parnell and
Townsend took an O-2-U to
Philadelphia. Lieutenant Hen
derSon made q round-trip yes
terday to Hampton Roads with
a land fighter i. Lieutenant
Harper also used one of these
land fighting planes in going
to Lakehurst and back. Lieu
tenant Smith, with Ensigns
Petty and Godfrey came in
from Philadelphia in three land
trainers and headed right back
:. Lieutenant Commander Shoe
maker landed from Hartford,
Conn, with an O-3-U. Lieu.
tenant Commanders Miles and
Ostrander each arrived from
Mitchell in an O-3-U, which
Just about concluded operations
for the day.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
z HELD To JURY.
IN N5-1OHOLD-UP
Times staff Photo

John Irving, "a, and Elmer
Bennett, %, Baltimore youths,
arrested in connection with the
$1,000 McCrory robbery last
Thursday, were bonded over to
the Grand Jury yesterday on
bonds of $4,000 each following
a hearing before United States
Commissioner Needham C. Tur-
mage.
Witnesses. at the preliminary
hearing today identified the
young men as two of the four
some that held up David A.
Beavers and Walter A. Hopkins,
store men. last Thursday.
Police are still searching for
the other two men alleged to
have participated in the hold-up.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
MOtOrist Charged
With Wild Driving

On complaint of Harvey Moses,
street car motorman. 74O0 block
Connecticut Ave. N. W., last night,
Martin Mueller, 81, $500 block L
st. N. W.. was booked at the
Third precinct on a charge of
reckless driving.
Moses complained that Mueller
drove an automobile into a street
car at Twenty-sixth and F Streets
Northwest. Taylor Hartford, %,
of the L Street address, suffered
minor abrasions of the forehead
in the crash, but declined medical
attention.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Hospital Veterans
Will Hear TaLkies

Veterans in Government hoSpi-
tails throughout the country soon
will have "talkies" instead of the
old silent typo of picture, the Vet
erans Bureau announced yes
terday.
The first of the new systems
will go into operation at Mt. Alto
diagnostic center here today.
The mechanism has been so
planned that it may be attached
to radio reception or phonograph
recording at such times when pic
lures are not being shown.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
HERE
GIVEN HIGH
PRAISE
All U. S. Attorneys Personnel
Lauded as "StooI Pigeons
Are Scored on Unreliability

District dry agents were de-
nounced for employing "lawless
practices of law enforcement" BY
a Board of Trade subcommittee
for the National Crime Commits
sion in a report to that body.
The committee was headed oy
John Lewis Smith, and 1t made
an exhaustive study Of the D. G.
police, the United States Attor-
1ey's office, the local criminal
courts and the grand juries.
Police Praised
The report of the COMMITTEES
showered praise on the Metropoli.
tan Police Department. It said
that investigations showed that
the police are free from any
guilt of employing third-degree
methods In obtaining confessions
from prisoners, and it added that
the police force as whole Is
composed of men Of excellent
character who are diligent in the
performance of their duties.
The local criminal courts are,
conducted on a high, class plane,
the report said, and the officials
and clerks connected with the
United States Attorneys office
are not only capable but work
night and day, when necessary, to
carry out their oath Of office, it
added.
Stool Pigeons Hit
The Board Of Trade group,
however, was especially vehement
in its denunciation of the use of
"disreputable persons as stool
pigeons" or as paid informers, by
the Federal Government in ct.
forts to enforce the dry law. The
report said that since the enact
ment Of the Eighteenth amend
ment, that sort of ''lawless con.
duct OF law enforcement" has
been carried on in the District by
the Federal officers.
The report said:
"The condition became 50
notorious that several of the
infOrmers were indicted for
perjury, and in other in
stances cases were called for
trial and the infOrmers were
found to be in jail, having
been convicted of other crimes.
"The condition became SO
acute that the United States
Attorneys office was forced to
refuse to prosecute any cases
based upon evidence of these.
stool pigeons or infOrmers.'
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
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The Washington times., 1930-08-15
File Troubles HoldUp
Police Department
Moving Plans

Moving day for the Police
Department was postponed
from Saturday to next Wednes.
day Major Henry G. Pratt,
superintendent of police. an
nounced today.
Minor details in removing
the mass Of files and office
furniture to the new head.
quarters at 462 Louisiana
Ave. N. W., from the District
Building were said to be hold
ing UP the work.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Insurance Man Dies
From Heart Attack

Following a heart attack,
James e. Baden died at his home
in Seat Pleasant, Nd, early to-
day.
Forty-five years old, Baden was
well known in local insurance
circles, in which he had been
an active figure for many years.
He is survived by a wife and five
children.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
DONOVAN TALKS
WITH BUREAU
LEADERS
Appointed by Commissioners
To Discuss Per Diem Work.
ers' Retirement Project

Twenty-seven hundred per diem
employees of the District will be
eligible for retirement under the
Civil Service regulations, If con-
ference between Mai. Daniel
Donovan, District auditor, and
Pension Bureau heads meets with
success. ....
The Commissioners appointed
Major Donovan to represent them
before the pension body, follow
ing q conference yesterday with
Robert Fl. Alcorn, chairman Of
the joint conference Of Civil Ser
vice retirement legislation. -.
A1corn urged the Comn1is-
sioners to take immediate steps
in the matter. which has been
hanging fire since early in 1926.
by appointing a representative
and issuing an executive order.
The per diem employees, that
is, those persons working by the
day for the District instead of
working on a monthly salary
basis, have been agitating for
equal recognition in retirement
matters for the past eight years.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
PARK SEARCHED
FOR MISSING
D. c. MAN
]. Benson Thomas Reported
Seen Wandering About in
Rock Creek Park Tuesday

With renewed confidence, au.
thorities continued the search for
j. Benson Thomas, AZ, missing
real estate operator, 3700 block
Military Rd. N. W., today follow.
ing a report that the, man was
seen In Rock Creek Park.
The report was made by w. N.
Payne, manager Of building and
loan company. 800 block Pennsyl'
vania Ave. s. e. The manager
told authorities that Thomas was
seen wandering through the park
on Tuesday shortly after he dis.
appeared from his office at
Thomas Circle N. W.
Police today renewed the "look
out" for Thomas and centered
their searching activities to the
park. ....
The search for Thomas started
late Tuesday after his automobile
had been found abandoned on
Canal Road near the District
Line. Thomas had been worried
over financial reverses, it was re-
ported, and had overworked in
recent m n this, leading to a
theory that he may have lost
his mind.
The river In the vicinity of
Chain Bridge and the wooded
section Immediately abounding it
have been thoroughly searched
by police.
The river was dragged for four
hours yesterday by Harbor Pre-
cinct police following a report
that q body was seen floating
near the bridge, but efforts OF
the draggerS were futile.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Thief of Spare Tire
GiDen Year in Jail

The attempted larceny Of an
automobile spare tire resulted in
a years sentence for 19-year-old
Henry Cheri, of the 710O block Of
Georgia Avenue N. W., yesterday
in Police Court.
Cheri was caught red-handed
yesterday by the owner as he
was removing a spare tire from
the rear of a car on Pennsylvania
Avenue N. w. The car was the
property of Thomas j. Keefe OF
this city.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Court Fixes Term
To Meet Sent. / Job

William e. johnson. colored, is
going to work in Is days. Judge
Isaac r. Hit has given him a
room in the District Jail.
johnson was arraigned in Po-
lice Court yesterday on a charge of
vagrancy. The court ruled with
great leniency when it learned of
the mans expectation of going
to work September /.
johnson told the court that
he wouldn't mind going to Jail
If he could get out to go to work
on the job that will be waiting
for him.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Petty Theft Brings
80 DnuS in LOckun

The petty larceny of a two
cent pencil and a rubber stamp
sent Gilbert II. Reynolds, 80. to
the District jail for 80 days, after
he had just recently been re-
leased from that workhouse after
serving time for drunkenness.
The articles were stolen from
William Ockershausen.2O0 block
Seaton Pl. N. e.
Reynolds told the court that
he was drunk at the time.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Judge Booth Named
To National y. Chair

Officials of the National Uni
versity Law School yesterday an,
nounced the appointment of
Judge Fenton w. Booth, United
States Court of Claims. as pro.
fessor of elements of Anglo
American jurisprudence at the
institution.
Judge Booth, a native of Mar
shall Ill, came to Washington in
1904, upon appointment to the
Claims bench. For some years
he. was dean Of Howard Univer-
sity Law School.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
TRADE BODY REPORT CITES POLICE HITS PAID INF0RMERS
z, 700 D. c. Employees Soon Eligible for Retirement
SKYWAYS ~

Due to the beautiful rainy
day yesterday. the local air
fields were q bit less busy than
usual. AT Hoover field they
were still expecting D demon
stration of the new Kingbird,
two Of which are to be placed
In commission by the Eastern
Air Express, IL this demonstra-
tor qualities. Howard Behr
was over three hours coming
back from Easthampton, Long
Island, with q passenger in the
Hoover Standard, Had to bat
tie o fierce head.wind all the
way. Dick Dice dropped over
from Baltimore in his J.6
Challenger. And the rest of
the day everyone sat around
and enjoyed the weather. we
learn that Manager Wynne has
invited the Mats to take an
aerial ride and really see the.
city.
At washington airport, AS
sistant Manager Crowder tells
us that. Captain Carroll took
Operations Manager Rabbit to
Langley for q meeting of the
national advisory council on
aviation yeSter y. Hugh
Kristler stopped off from Rich.
nlond on his way to Denver in
his Waco F.. Richard Knox,
headed for Richmond from
Baltimore with a BIS Ryan,
gassed up. This field expects
Amelia Earhart and Paul Col
Inns to bring down q load Of
journalists from New York in
one Of the new N. Y. p. w.
A. G. line tri.motored Stinson
some time t01av
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Car Skids;: Woman
SeriOuSLu Injured

Mrs. James Norris, SIS, of Middle
River, Md, was seriously injured
today when an automobile in
which she was a passenger
crashed into a telegraph pole
near the foot of Big Savage
Mountain. near Frostburg, Md.
Her two daughters escaped injury.
The woman was thrown against
the back seat of the car and is
believed toe otave suffered a frac-
tured skull. Later in the day an
automobile turned over at the
same point when 1t skidded on
the wet road, but the passengers,
a man and two women, escaped
injury.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Mrs. r. p. SraOak
Loses Terrier, Fin

Somewhere in the streets in
Washington twenty-five dollars is
running loose. This reward is
offered by Mrs. r. P. Smoak, of
1914 e st. N. E., for the return
of her Boston terrier, female.
brindle and white. The dog an
swers to. the name of Flip. e.
Flip disappeared Tuesday morn.
ing from the front yard Of Mrs.
Smoak who let it roam aound the
yard and went into the house to
continue her work and only to
return a few minutes later to
see the animal make its getaway
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Man, ParOIed, GiUen
4 Years on CharQes

Already on parole for larceny,
James Anderson, colored, was sen
fenced to four years at Occoquan
yesterday by Judge Robert E. Mat
tingly in Police Court on two
charges of destroying private prop.
erty.
Anderson is said to have en-.
tered vacant houses, one owned by
George E. Schlueter, of the 400
block of Mass. Ave. N. W., and to
have destroyed the plumbing fix
lures.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
Washington Maiden
Hostess at COLLene

Miss Ella Sandberg, coed from
Washington at the University of
Southern California, will act as
hostess to the incoming freshmen
of the college this year, it has
been announced. Freshmen week
will be held on the campus from
September 8 to II.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
BANK BOARD ELECTS DEAL

Election of w. w. Deal, morti-
clan, with funeral home at 816 Fl
st. N. E., to the, board of the
Northeast Savings Bank was an
nou1ced yesterday.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15
SCHOOL REGISTERS

Registrations at the Immacu.
late Conception High School for
Girls began today when the
school was open all day under
the direction of the superioress,
Sister Mary Louise.
The Washington times., 1930-08-15

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and effort by consulting the Real Estate
The Washington times., 1930-08-15

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through the Real Estate for Sale coll
umns Of today's Classified Ads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

One hot Summer afternoon loafers on the
old red brick court house steps were brought
out Of their lethargy by the magic cry Of
"Oi!" Often they had been startled before
by false reports but this time the greasy, smelly
clothes of "roughnecks" from the well at the
edge Of the town dismissed their fears.
Prom then until now e Dorado has not been
the same. Before morning the next day the
price of city property had risen untold hun
dreds Of per cent. First arrivals were the lease
scouts critical gentlemen who spend most Of
their time poking around in slush pools Of oil
wells to see II there really Is Oil.
Bank corridors, where only the day before
trembling farmers had stood trying to decide
to ask for q 800 or $50 loan to tide them
over until ''pickin' time" were transformed into
curb markets for the selling Of leases. No one
knew what the leases were worth. and few
cared But leases were bought and sold.
BY the next day practically the whole popu-
lation of the neighboring field in Caddo Parish
in Louisiana had moved over into Arkansas.
For blocks on either side of the square lots
were leasing for fabulous prices as places TO
pitch tents and erect hot dog" stands For
more than two weeks the hordes of stragglers
poured into the village.
In the meantime drill crews we're assembled
and rigs were ordered the oil companies pre-
pared to find out If there really were an oil
field. Presently the Missouri Pacific sidings
were filled with fiat cars loaded with pipe drill
rigs, wagons and the necessary impedimenta
incident to the transportation of the rigs to the
site of the future gushers.
BY this time FL Dorado had assumed the
appearance of a gigantic shanty town. From
the nearby sawmill town of Huttig. by day and
by night wagons hauled pine boards freshly
cut and still smelling of rosin. Carpenters
drew fabulous wages to shape them into rough
lean-to shacks, and business began in earnest
all kinds of business.
In a little less than three months oil pros
pectors were certain Of where the oil field was
going to be- Gusher after gusher roared over
the derricks and sprayed the now deserted cot
ton farms with q nasty brown liquid Fl
Dorado had assumed its role in the oil fields Of
the Southwest.
WHEREVER roustabouts congregate the first
demand is for amusement and excitement.
In the thriving young city everything was d.
rected to satisfy this desire. There was amuse-
ment aplenty and with it Suficient excitement
to last this section Of the country for another
Is years. t..
First on the scene were the liquor interests
Manufacturers in Miller County, about 90 miles
directly west, obliged the metropolis with plenty
Of fabrication for good, clean fun. There was
saloon on every corner and two or three in
the middle Of every block. But the good, clean
fun did not stay either good or clean for very
long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

p HEN Gov. Moody of Texas
short time ago focused the
HI eyes Of the Nation on Berger
by declaring martial law in
that thriving West Texas oil
town In an attempt to end a series of crimes
that had startled even the hard-boiled citizens
of the oil belt he called attention to a bit of
American history in the making-one side of
the evolution of the oil boom town.
Berger Is only one Of some half q hundred
boon towns" in Texas, Oklahoma Arkansas
and Louisiana which are transforming the
Southwest from the somnolent, mortgage
ridden ranch and cotton farming country Of
decade ago into a vast empire of rich cities
and prosperous towns an area of well financed
farms and well stocked ranches
In declaring martial law in Berger how
ever, Gov. Moody called attention to only q
part-the spectacular part-of the Oil boom
town-perhaps the least important of its at
tributes Boom towns are vexatious to the
Southwest. Springing up from the barren
prairie of sandy pine woods within few days
OF the discovery Of oil. they are peopled almost
Immediately with the chaff of the surrounding
country new strike means a new boom
town; it means a troublesome spot an other
wise peaceful map.
But the boom town means money and money
has mear. md stii means lot to the South
west. SO the Southwest has ignored the dirt
and filth of the boom town with its organized
murder and bootleg rings, has pushed through
the blood and slush to grasp the coveted wealth.
And out OF 1t ALL although the boom town is
not vet extinct the Southwest already has be-
gun to reap a marvellous benefit.
The history of the United States could be
written in terms of recurring booms Lean
and hungry fortune hunters from the more
civilized parts of the world have breasted
swollen streams and waded through almost i'm
penetrable swamps to reach the. land where
cotton grows as high as your head" and they
have trudged through blazing deserts and
braved the perils of icy mountain passes to
wade in a mountain stream where pieces Of
gold as large as walnuts could be had for the
findings.
California was settled by the gold rush;
IT was rich and free land that created the
State OF Oklahoma, and q rush of a different
kind that sent settlers scurrying into Montana
and the Plains States. Here in the Southwest
1T Is oil, spouting by the thousands of barrels
over the pine lands Of East Texas Louisiana
ana Arkansas, or settling in straining pools
ON the dry surface of Texas and Oklahoma
plains.
The oil boom is not settling the Southwest
sam Houston and kindred adventurers at
fenced to that almost a century ago. But the
OIL Doom Is bringing about complete and
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magical change, both geographically and
sociologically.
1t seems strange that the presence of a few
oil fields few hundred square miles in area
as compared with the thousands Of square
miles Of territory lying between Amarillo and
Berger on the west and the Mississippi and
between Tulsa and Oklahoma City and the Rio
Grande. should completely change the map
of the Southwest.
Yet there is hardly hamlet in the whole
section that has not felt forcibly the effect
of repeated strikes in oil. though these strikes
have been widely scattered and at times have
been in almost inaccessible places.
This can largely be explained by the ex-
istence in the Southwest Of the boom town
psychology the most valuable con-
tribution Of the oil boom to a people who
needed stimulation. Before the oil strikes
any progressive program was put over only
with difficulty in any of the cities and towns
OF the area. Conditions were static; nothing
but the cotton crop mattered. The Southwest
slept, ate and had its leisure at the dictates
Of the price for the downy staple. mans
wealth was gagged by the amount he could
borrow, and most men borrowed what they
could.
Credit conditions were tight: land and
mortgages on cotton crops were the only Sc
curity for loan Progressive farming de-
manded capital; it demanded the faith of the
bankers in more up-to-date methods Of agri-
culture. Neither were forthcoming, the
agricultural ways of the land were left just
the same as they were 'befo de wah."
0IL and boom towns have changed all this.
Conservative bankers, whose only idea Of
material wealth was bale of cotton, saw land
values jump from $40 acre to $4,000 an
acre They saw cities built because citizens be-
lieved in the permanence of some hundred
unsteady oil wells.
Gradually the boom town psychology per
meated the Southwest. It's progress through
the land was slow. and men did not do reck-
less things. But the oil fields have proved to
be the catalytic agent which has started fer
ment in the Southwest, and what the South
west viii amount to from now on depends
largely upon the psychological reaction which
had its stimulus in the boom town.
The effect upon large section Of the South
west perhaps can best be traced by the his
tory of a typical Oil boom town-El Dorado
near the Louisiana line in Union County, Ark.
Before the oil strike, about 10 years ago, Ell
Dorado was the retail center for its county,
town with population of three or four thou
sand. The towns business, centering around
the public square, consisted Of some two dozen
retail shops, which subsisted for about nine
months Of the year upon hopes for good
business the next Fail, when cotton would be
harvested
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Musical Torture.

First Indignant Roman Citizen-I hear Nero
was torturing people again last night.
Second DittO-Yes, somebody ought TO taks
that violin away from him.
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