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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
Jury BRIBERY PLOT
. IN OIL CASE PROBED
Los Angeles Prosecutor
Seeks indictment of Five
in Julian Co. Trial.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 20.-Declar-
ing that he has confessions or admis-
sions of guilty participation in "the most
outrageous bribery schemes ever I'M
covered in this county," District Attor-
ney Buron Fits today sought indict-
ments against i've or more persons in
volved In alleged Jury tampering in
connection with the 500, 100000 Julian
Petroleum Corporation fraud case.
Fits said he would ask the grand
Jury to indict among others, Sheridan
G. Lewis, former president of the Julian
Co. Lewis was arrested yesterday on
a charge of suspicion of conspiracy to
offer and give bride to juror.
Others taken into custody for investi-
CATION In connection with the latest
Julian upheaval are Jacob Berman,
Julian Co. official; Louis Krause and
J. H. Weaver, alleged Juror bribers;
Frank G. Order, John B. Groves, Mrs.
BERTHE A. Shook, Mrs. Agnes G. Hackett
and Mrs. Carolina Love, members of the
jury which acquitted the 10 Julian prin-
cipals Of fraud in 1928.
Score of witnesses Held.
More than a score of witnesses were
being held in technical custody until
they testify before the grand jury.
Chief among the developments grow
ing out Of Fits investigations is COM
fession from Berman in which he adj
mitted he had bribed two jurors, Order
and Groves, for their votes of mot
guilty" In the Julian trial. Berman
said the brides were made through
KrauSe, whom he knew to be Juror
flxer" He said the brides were con-
summated through the purchase for
$4,000 of house from Order and the
payment of $1,000 cash to Groves.
He Tells "the Whole Story"
"I promised would tell the whole
story of this Julian affair from start
to finish, and this jury bribing was
part of it." Berman told Fits. ut was
my money, $4,000 of 1t, that went to
buy Juror Orders home, and per-
Sonally, in company with Louis KrauSe,
gave Juror Groves IS 900 in 500 bills"
Mrs. Love, another juror. admitted
she had been approached by Weaver,
acting as agent for Lewis, and had
agreed to accept $4,000 if II found
I could conscientiously vote q verdict
of acquittal." She said the deal did
not go through, however, and she re-
ceived no money from any source.
Partial confessions" and damaging
admissions" received from others ques-
toned will be presented to the grand
jury, Fits said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
SCHOOLS MAY DROP
BUTLER UNIVERSITY
Board Recommends Such Action to
North Central Association
Of Colleges.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, March 20.-The board Of
review of the North Central Associa-
ton Of Colleges and Secondary Schools
late yesterday recommended that But
Ter University of Indianapolis, Ind, be
dropped from the association.
A report read by George F. Zook Of
the University of Akron, at Akron,
Ohio. secretary of the board, said that
the board felt that the control of ath-
letics at Butler, it's library facilities,
internal administration, faculty load
and endowment did not meet the aSso-
cations requirements.
Two other institutions. Crane Junior
College Of Chicago and Iowa Wesleyan
Of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, also would
be dropped under the recommendation,
final action on which rests with the
executive committee. The board said
it found Crane Juniors teaching and
library facilities were inadequate, and
that Iowa Wesleyan had failed to COM
ply with financial standards fixed by.
the association for a college of its class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
VICTIMS OF COLLISION
ASK $4,000 DAMAGES

Honorary pallbearers were officers of
the Order Of Founders and Patriots of
America, District of Columbia Chap
ter, as follows: Col. u s. Grant, Sd;
e. I. Fulton, D. B. Axtell, F. B. Culver,
H. A. Davis, Dwight Clark, Rev. H. E
Starr, H. w. Samson and DR.. Samuel
Herrick
Leslie Clifton Barr Of Ballston Va,
whose head was imbedded in the auto
mobile of Herbert L. Lacey, 264 Carroll
avenue, Takoma Park. when it was in
collision with his motor cycle at Penn
sylvania avenue and Madison place
January IL, yesterday filed suit In the
District Supreme Court to recover $780,
600 damages.
Bernard A. Baumback, a minor, by
his mother, Lillian NJ Eckert, also of
Ballston, sued Lacey for $4,000 dam
ages. The boy was riding on the motor
cycle with Barr.
Through Attorneys Alvin L. Newmyer
and Albert w. jacobson, both plaintiffs
alleged that their skulls were fractured,
Barr asserting that he also sustained q
fractured nose. arm, hand and collar
bone, while Baumback also claimed
other severe and permanent injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
EDITH KING WINS
ORATORY CONTEST
Senior Is Victorious Over
Seven Others at Armstrong
High School.

Speaking on Roosevelt, His Policies
OF Reclamation and Conservation, F."
Edith King, 18-year-old senior, won the
Armstrong High School finals of the
National Oratorical Contest yesterday
afternoon. With her victory goes q
prize Of 500 and a right TO compete
in the finals of the Washington region.
The contest was held at 80 o'clock
before the assembled students of the
school. Three boys and five girls COM
peted, each delivering a six-minute
prepared Grafton. The four-minute
additional extemporaneous address.
which is optional with school authori-
ties in the early stages Of the contest,
was not required.
Names Of Contestants.
The contestants, besides the winner,
were Kenneth Carter, Catherine Wat
Tor. RoSaline Queen, Nelson Logan,
honorable mention, and Lillian Bull
lock. They spoke, respectively, on
webster and the Constitution" 1.-THE
Citizen, His Privileges and Duties I'm
der the Constitution" What Hamilton
Predicted" 1.-THE Constitutional Powers
Of the President and World Peace"
THE Constitution, Guarantee of the
Liberty of the Individual" Lincoln
and the Constitution" and THE Citi-
zen, His Privileges and Duties Under
the Constitution"
Assembly Salutes Flag.
The assembly opened with the salute
to the flag and few remarks by j. B.
Hunter, chairman of the faculty COM
mittee, who presided, in which he
praised the oratorical contest as a
means of combating propaganda sub
versive to the ideals of American Gov
eminent.
Others Of the faculty committee are
C. M. Thomas. Carrie E. Lee, DR.. H. L.
Bailey, Mrs. E. B. Howard and Mrs.
E. w. Smith. The judges were Lieut..
Thomas H. r. Clark, Benjamin L. Gas
kins an attorney, and j. Finley Wilson,
exalted ruler of the Elks.
The winner lives with her mother at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20

400 Florida avenue, and expects to
enter Howard University following her
graduation In February. She will study
teaching.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
NEBRASKA REPEALS LAW
GUARANTEEING DEPOSITS

BY the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nebr., March 20.-Ne-
braska Teusday abandoned its 19-year-
old State bank guaranty law.
At the same time the State adopted
in its place a new law which relieves all
State banking institutions Of special
and regular assessments except levy
Of two-tenthS Of per cent, which Is 70
continue for 10 years.
The old law, which provided that all
State banks contribute regular assess
mentS on their average daily deposits
toward q fund used to pay depoSitorS
Of banks which failed, was repealed at
a special session of the Legislature last
week, after it had amassed a $40, 0O0,-
900 deficit fund. Sixty-five thousand
depositors are waiting restitution from
the fund.
Abandonment of the old law was
completed yesterday when Gov. Arthur
j. Weaver signed the substitute passed
by the Legislature. He expressed be-
lief that the two-tenths Of l per cent
assessment levied under the new law
will produce $4,000, 900, and that this,
with another 100000 levied before
the old law was repealed, will do much
to refill the empty purses Of depositors.
In addition $4,000, 900 will be added by
State appropriation, If a constitutional
amendment to permit 1t Is approved by
the voters this Fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
CHICAGO AVERTS CRISIS

CHICAGO, March 20 R.-Possibility
Of q second financial crisis in Chicago's
governing bodies was averted today with
officials that bills for 1928 taxes will be
mailed by June 1.
With the 80 days allowed taxpayers
to get their money in, this would bring
the funds into the treasures by July /,
when the $74,000,00o relief fund raised
by the SilaS Strawn citizens committee |
will have been exhausted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
SCHUMANN- HEINK'S SON
EVADES JAIL SENTENCE
Judge Rules He Must Pay Back
$1,000 to Brokerage Firm
He Once Headed.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, March 20.-Henry
Schumann-Heink, son of Nine. Schu-
mann-Heink, famous contralto, will not
have to serve the six months In Jail for
which he was once head, within a
period Of two years.
This was the probation condition an
nounced yesterday by Superior Judge
Charles G. HaineS. Modification of the
probation terms followed an impas-
stoned plea made to the court last Mon
day by Schumann-H eink, who said he
had been offered a position in San
Francisco at salary Of $4,000 per year
would not only repay the brokerage
firm the sum of 5000, but also would
repay approximately 1900 to alleged
victims of the firm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, March
19.-went down last night to hear
an Oklahoma University debating
team against California, ITO disarm
or not disarm" Our first debating
team Is over in London, on the same
subject, and with the same results,
Only this team goes home when the
debate is over. These have debated
all over the country on this subject,
on both sides of the argument, and
they told me very surprising thing,
the side against "diSarma11ent" al
ways wins. They explained the fact
because disarmament was a theory
and an ideal, and that the other side
could shoot your argument tun OF
holes. Yours, WILL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
AMERICANS FIRST
TO CLIMB PEAKS
Eastern Party Menaced by
Avalanches Scaling Cana
dian Mountains.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
WINNIPEG. August I4-Eight peaks,
more than 10000 feet high. three Of
them unnamed, in the upper region of
the Athabasca River, were climbed for
the first time by a party led by DR..
Max Strumia of Philadelphia, and DR..
W. r. Hainsworth of New York
Accompanied by Newton Waite Of
Orange. N. j.. and John F. Lehman
of Everett, Mass. Drs. Strumia and
Hainsworth first climbed Mount Chris
tie, 10,181 feet high, from camp on
Fryatt Creek Later, climbing Mount
Belanger, 10000 feet in altitude, they
narrowly escaped being swept to their
death by avalanches and on their de-
scent were held for three hours on a
rock ledge until sunset made further
snowslides unlikely.
An unnamed peak near Mount VOL
ley, whose altitude is placed at 10700
feet. offered the greatest difficulty. Only
by inserting "petonS"- iron spikes to
which they could attach their climbing
rope-into the crumbliug rock were
they able to reach the summit
Climbing from the site of the Cana
dian Alpine Club on Maligne Lake
they made the first ascent of three
peaks of Mount Maligne, all 10000 feet
or more in height. and mapped for the
first time the tremendous ice fields
surrounding IL.
Dr. Strumla who has climbed rs
peaks in Switzerle nd. France. Italy and
America, said that during the trip just
completed through Jasper Park, he eX-
perienced some of the most difficult
rock and snow work he had ever en-
countered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14

not only have affected the farmer, but
every other business interest" said Mr..
Bracken.
I'VE dc not look upon guarantees Of
advances by banks to any commercial
institutions as being a proper function
of government under normal conditions.
Unless more serious situation develops
than is now apparent, it is not likely
that the provincial governments will
guarantee advances on the new crop"
The premier said wheat pool repre-
sentatives and bankers were negotiating
concerning initial payments on the 1880
crop, but declined to say what figures
had been discussed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
Survey for Electric Service.

FRANCONIA. Va, August IA (Spe-
ciaD In response to petition from
citizens of Mount Vernon district for an
extension of the electric power line from
Potters Hill to Franconia, the Virginia
Public Service Co. has made survey at
the request of the Fairfax County
Chamber of Commerce Public Utilities
Committee.
E. C. Gibbs. chairman, reports that
line 26 miles long, costing $4,10O: will
serve all save four of the petitioners.
The company requires a monthly guar
antee of $82 over a four-year period
h-fore it will undertake construction of
this line.
The Franconia Community League
has undertaken to sign up the neces-
sary number of subscribers to guaran-
tee this monthly minimum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
ALLEGED ROBBER FACES
SHOOTING OFFICER QUIZ
Rhode Island Victim in Hospital
as Clues in Other Gases Are
Gathered Against Dennis.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CRANSTON, r. l., August 14-Daniel
j. Dennis, who, police say. has con-
fessed to the robbery of $42, 900 worth
of jewelry from the home of Col Samuel
Nicholson Of Providence last January 8,
will be arraigned here today on charges
of assault with attempt to kill The
charges grew out of the shooting OF
Motor Cycle Patrolman Henry r. john
son. who stopped Dennis for questioning
Tuesday night.
Police are also investigating a story
to the effect that Dennis was one of two
men who killed guard and trusty in
an attempted jail break at the State
prison last April.
Dennis admitted serving at the Ohio
State Penitentiary from 1922 TO 1927
for burglary. The story of former
fellow prisoner is being checked to de-
termine the truth of an allegation that
Dennis shot Cleveland police officer
in 1922.
johnson. who was shot in the abdo-
men, is in critical condition at St.
Jossph's Hospital in Providence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
claw" Collars Still
Operators; Send
Dog TO Tell Family
MOuntaineer Ties Note to
Pets Collar and Sends
Him Home.
By the Associated Pres. .

by JHt hSSobiabcu
WILLIAMSON, w. Va, August IA
The folks at home know now why Lutte
Hall, Lee Hall and Sam Davis didn't
come home to supper last night. Just
after shutdown, their shaggy dog, COW
cred with dust and burs, came bounding
into the cabin. Around his neck a piece
of rope held a note which read: We're
in jail" Jail is 10 miles cvel the noun
tain.
The law" bounced on the three men
and the dog far up in the hills and
they were taken to Jail. They were
operating still. the United States COM
missioner was told, and he held them
for Ic|c-al grand jury
There are ne telephones down there
where the cabin is and the woman folks
had to know. somehow. So Lutte tied the
note to the dog and pointed him home
ward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
SUGAR FARLEY PLANNED

Beat and Cane Planters of U. S.
and Insular Possessions to Meet.
NEW YORK. August IA (Pl.-A COM
mittee appointed by bankers and vari-
GUS American and Cuban sugar inter-
ests to attempt sterilization of the sugar
market, yesterday directed a subcom-
mittee to arrange conference of do
mestic beet and cane planters of the
United States and insular possessions.
Thomas L. Chadbourne, chairman of
the general committee, said committee
men hoped to hold the meeting within
10 days. They believed discussion of the
problems of overproduction, with re-
Sultant capital losses and unemploy-
ment, might produce means for avoiding
abnormal SURPRISES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
ADVANCES ON CANADIAN
WHEAT CROP UNLIKELY
Guarantee Will Not Be Sanctioned
Unless a Serious Situation
DEVELOPS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, August IA
Premier John Bracken, on his return
from Toronto yesterday, said 1t was I'M
likely the provincial governments would
find 1t necessary to guarantee advances
on the 1880 wheat crop. Negotiations
covering all advances for the remainder
of the 1929 crop have been completed m
Toronto, he said.
THE provincial governments entered
the picture last year in an attempt to
avoid an economic crisis, which would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
"Cap" Hatfield Reported Ill.

RICHMOND. Va, August 14.-"Cap"
Hatfield of Hatfield Mccoy feud fame,
is reported seriously i'll at his home at
Logan, w. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14

While Arthur williams was driving
sheep near Meath, Wales, his right arm
was dislocated by a golf ball driven
from the Clynn links
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-26
Language Changes Made
Over "Precise" Protests

Until about the middle of the Nine
teenth century 1t was usual in pro-
nOuncing the word humble to refrain
from sounding the h. Generally the
word was preceded by an instead OF
by a. The changing to sounding the b
came gradually as matter of usage.
as many changes in language come.
In the end usage must be followed,
though precise speakers resist it for a
time. Even in fairly recent years a
few persons persisted in pr0nouncing
humble without the h. The variation
you have observed ON this point be-
tween an early and later edition of
Webster's dictionary is accounted for
by acceptance Of the change by the
later editors. The gradual alteration
n usage concerning the word humble
was a subject of protest as long ago
as 1853, when a correspondent of the
periodical "Notes and Queries" Illus
trated his contention that the should
be silent by giving a list of what he
stated to he the derivati0ns of words
in which the b should be silent. The
words were heir, honest, honor, hour,
humble and humOr.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-26
IT'S 15f-and miIaer
Find Throws Light on
Early American People

Evidence has been found of three
distinct ancient American civiliza-
lions, the oldest about 5000 years, in
the Lowry ruin, southwestern Colo
RADIO. The excavations were made by
Field museum archaeological eX
petition, under DR.. Paul S. Martin.
Two large kivas, best described as
large, single rooms, were unearthed,
Doctor Martin reports. One was con-
structed on the ruins OF the other.
Material there found, with that from
several large burial places, will lie
sent to the museum for a new hall
of archaeology. The ruins are the
largest in the Southwest, and were
untouched by previous explorers. On
the walls of the kivas were paintings
depicting the religion and domestic
habits of the people. Great was our
SURPRISE" writes Doctor Martin, ito
find fragments of perfect paintings
still adhering to the walls of the up
per room. They probably had not
been exposed to the light of day for
1900 years. All were perfectly geon-
etric, and were executed in black
and white. The information obtained
from the lower room was Of even
more Importance. The paintings were
in better condition, and were similar
in design to ancient pottery, repre-
senting lightning, rain and clouds.
This is the first time such designs
have been found on kiva walls"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-26

~ Could Not Let You Be Hurt Through
Me, Brian"
the window. He glanced sardonically
at the broad man in his narrow groove
and vanished.
Coffee John finished CLOSING the
cup. 1t shone like old ivory. Then he
glanced at the dark shallow wall be-
hind the partition. The two figures
blurred.
He handled the cup lovingly, yet
win delicacy; filled it with a stream
of dark golden liquid, touched it with
yellow cream from private bottle
and laid three little cubes of sugar
upon the thick saucer edge. One could
have been no better served.
With light step he went back to
them and put the cup before her.
"A lady might need war-r-min up
on .uch night" he said in distant,
rumbling voice and returned to his
place.
She was spent and exhausted. She
had said all that she could say and
he had listened to nothing at all. Her
hand. moving, touched the handle of
the thick cup, wavering, but with
sudden poignant longing for life, she
lifted it and drank.
The door opened from the night. A
voice whined inquiries. Coffee John
came again.
''Your taxi's a-waitin' out front, sir.
He's gettin' him bite O. lunch"
They lifted new faces.
1.-The taxi! BY Georgel Tell him
we're coming!" cried Brian.
1.-THE END.]
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-26
Bomb-Proof Auto

The most costly and luxurious auto
mobile ever brought to China was
built in the United States for the
president of the Marking government.
The whole of the metal work on the
body of the Limousine, and even the
hood. is of halfinch thick navy steel
plate. which Is designed to shed the
bullets or bombs of would-be assas-
sins. Two extra seats project from
The back Of the car, built high enough
to permit the occupants to see for
ward over the hood. These will be oc-
cupied by special guards with machine
guns. The running boards are I'M
usually long for guards to stand, each
with revolver in hand. !.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-26
MULLTNOMAM HOTEL
9TH and Pine-PcrtIand, Ore.
"A Hotel ID5seTe UOzs are xDeEcOnae
Fireproof Room bath $500 up
Not for Beauty Seekers

A number of free clinics for plastic
surgery have been recently opened in
New York city, but these are barred
against mere beauty seekers. They
are designed for the relief of unfor-
tunates who have had their features
marred by accident in one way or an
other, or the uniformed and excellent
work is being done in this direction.
1t is said that as many as 80 opera
lions have been performed on SIN
glessase.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-26
NEW YEAR, OLD YEAR
CHANGING PLACES
0Do YOU want to take my
- placer" asked the Old

0nO YOU want to take my
- placer" asked the Old
Year.
whats 1t like in the world?"
asked the New Year.
"Well, it's different at differ
ent times. Sometimes it Is very
gay and happy, sometimes it Is
sad. Sometimes there are quar-
rels, but there is much Joy, much
happiness, and oh, such love.
ly lot Of friends one can make.
ut makes the world q won
derful place-having friends"
"Then why do you want to
leave?" asked the New Year.
"Ah, 1 am too old now.
must go away and rest-rest
with all my beautiful memories"
"Have you lovely memories?"
asked the New Year.
"They are surprisingly beau
tiful," said the Old Year.
'Then / think / will take your
place." the New Year said. "You
: have had much JOY, you have
made many friends, and now
that you must 60 you have many
beautiful memories
And the Old Year and the
New Year changed places, and
every one shouted:
Happy New Yearl Happy
New Year !'-Mary Graham
Bonner.
90. 1880. Western Newspaper Union,