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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
MANLY MYSTERY
CLOUDS LIFTING
Investigation Brings Charge
EngIishman Mas Head
of Confidence Game.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TAOS, N. Mex, March 16.-The mys-
ferrous cloud surrounding the strange
life and death of Arthur r. Manly was
partly lifted today following the charge
that Manly was a leader in the subrosa
United States Secret Service Society"
an alleged scheme for extortion and in
tinidation.
Manby's decapitated body was found
in his home here last July 8. After a
jury decided that the man died from
natural causes and that his police dog,
found in the room, had chewed the
head from the body, further investi-
CATION by State and Federal officers
was started.
The latest development was an an
nouncement by Herbert Cheetham,
deputy sheriff of Taos and former
Federal agent. Cheetham said a spell
of fear which has closed the lips of
certain persons in Taos has been broken,
and the society has been revealed as
nothing more than a confidence game.
In support of their plans, members
of the organization spoke glibly of
fabulous sums and rights to ancient
land grants worth fortunes, it was as
serted by the deputy. He declared
Manly and his Princess Terecita" were
members.
Wrote In Sums or Millions.
Officers of the society always wrote
in sums of millions or billions of dollars
as a means of propaganda IN the bunco
system, but members were only called
upon with regard to their known re-
sources. Membership was made more
attractive, Cheetham said, with repre-
sensations that the roster included pres
ent and past Presidents of the United
States, governors of many States and a
long list of notables, including Benito
Mussolini.
Dissolution of the United States Sc
cret Civil Service Society mystery is be-
lieved to explain also the fabulous sums
which were alleged in Manby's private
papers to have been due Terecita Fer
guson, known as Princess" including
one of 1927, 900 900. Mandy spent near
ly half century dickering for old Span
ish land grants. One was q claim Tor
Terecita Of a $40,000,000 land grant in
Southeastern Missouri.
Trio Charged With Theft.
Terecita, together with her common
law husband, Carmel Duran, and her
nephew, George Ferguson, have been
charged with a series OF robberieS In
Taos. among which was the looting and
burning of the studio home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Younghunter of New YORK.
Valuable household articles tdentifeo
by the Younghunters as their property
were found buried in the back yards OF
Terecita's residence, near Taos.
Meanwhile, at Santa Fe, authorities
questioned the right of the United States
Department of Justice to intervene in
the investigation of Manby's mysterious
decapitation. Alfred M. Bergere, for
mer district clerk, declared that Mandy
was q naturalized citizen and not q
subject of Great Britain, as had been
previously claimed. Bergere is former
district clerk and said he remembered
that Arthur r. Manly had been adj
mitted to citizenship.
The British embassy, at the instance
of Manby'S relatives in England, has
asked the United States Government to
intervene in the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
100000 CHILDREN
HEAR BYRD SPEAK
Explorer Addresses Pupils in
Schools Through Greatest
New Zealand Hook-up.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, March a.
In perhaps the most inclusive broadcast
ever attempted in New Zealand, Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd addressed ap-
proximately 100000 school children to-
day, telling them of his experiences dur
ing the year of exploration in Ant
artica.
The two islands of New Zealand were
linked up by cable across Cook Strait,
and the address, made in the town hail
before 1000 children of Dunedin, was
sent by land lines to Christ Church,
Wellington and Auckland. Receiving
sets were installed in practically every
school in the country, and Byrd's voice
was heard equally well in all of them.
Explorer Is Their Idol.
It was widely believed that Byrd's
address would do much toward cement
ing relations between New Zealand and
the United States. His reception at the
Dunedin Town Hall was tumultuouS with
plauditS Of the young people. He was
the first world famous man to address
New Zealand students by radio, and
his achievements in the Antarctic have
made. him their idol.
His talk of adventures in the South
Polar regions, which included a flight
over the South Pole, won the friendship
of thousands, and when Admiral Byrd
proposed that he take to the United
States the greeting of the school chill
dren of New Zealand the applause was
enthusiastic.
Bark Comes From Dry Docks.
Earlier today Admiral Byrd called the
members of his expedition from their
vacations in the mountains to prepare
for the departure for New York next
Sunday. The bark City of New York
came from dry docks today, painted and
overhauled. She will unload her cargo
and carry only provisions to New York
via Tahiti and the Panama Canal.
The bark probably will precede the
steamer Eleanor Boiling by week. Ad-
miral Byrd is perusing mail steamer
time tables with the object of map
ping out his personal route, but Is in
definite as to his plans.
Suggestion Of members OF the Byrd
Expedition that some of their dogs used
in the Antarctic be domiciled in the
country met with quick objection by
sheep owners in the Mount Cook coun-
try. They declare the dog too fierce a
type for the safety of their stock and
they urged that the dogs either be de-
stroyed or sent to America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18

ton program for the relief Of unem-
plcyment presented last Fall had the
weakness of being "in the nature OF
q longer time program than industries
could put into effect Immediately"
Much distress and unemployment in
the past months would have been
avoided" Squires added, "if there had
been available Immediately a fund for
construction"
He said the philosophy proposed to
industry that the present was no time
for rocking the boat" had not fore
stalled an emergency.
Strive to Present Views.
While the Senate committee went on
with its hearings, leaders of the "un-
employment conference" continued eff
forts to obtain a hearing for speakers
they have asked to present their views.
A committee Of nine leaders has tele-
graphed the following, asking them to
speak on their behalf before the Senate
committee:
Clarence Darrow, Jane Adams of
HUI House, Chicago; Roger Baldwin
and others.
The committee from the conference
met in corridor of the Capitol and
decided to make personal appeals to in
dividual Senators. asking them to pre-
sent motion for hearing of the
speakers.
Leaders Of the delegation said they
wanted to present "the workingman's
side" OF the unemployment situation
They said they had no fault to find with
witnesses testifying, but that those sum-
moned by the Senate committee "were
not workingmen."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
THREE ARE INJURED
IN CRASH OF AUTO
Austin Shoots Believed Fatally
Hurt in Accident Near Gath
ersburg, Md, Today.

A blowout" was believed responsible
for an automobile accident early today
near Gaithersburg, Md, in which a
Washington man was perhaps fatally
injured and two other persons hurt
while returning from dance at Bruins
wick, Md.
Physicians declared there was vir-
tually no chance of saving the life Of
Austin Shoots, Sc years old, a salesman
of $685. Georgia avenue. He was
driving the car when it plunged down
6-foot embankment and struck a
tree on the Middlebrooke hill of the
Frederick pike, miles north Of Gath
ersburg. He suffered a fractured skull
and internal injuries.
The nose of Miss Marjorie SikkenS,
20 wears old, of Hyattsville, Nd. was
almost severed from her face. She also
suffered possible internal injuries. Miss
Kathleen Mahoney, %, of 1871 Third
street northeast, was injured internally
and bruised. The fourth occupant of
the machine. Wilbur Hodges Of Hyatts-
vile, escaped unhurt.
First-aid treatment was administered
by Drs. Stanley w. Barber and Frank
J. Broschart of GaitherSburg. The in
iured later were removed in ambulances
to the Montgomery County General
Hospital, at Sandy Spring, and treated
by DR., Jacob w. Bird.
Paul watkins, Oscar Gather and j.
LLOYD Whit, Rockville policemen, in
vestigated the accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18

thing critical Of him in that letter
for I was condemning only the Eli
cheney Bureau. Yet he has shown per-
sonal malice against me in these hear
ings and my institution Is mace 10
elimination of the rental item from
our budget means that we must move
again. and want to say right now that
If the House of Detention IS moved
again to some old vermlne-ln1esteo rat
hole where the rent is free shall refuse
to 90 with it. 1 will not countenance
another move of any kind so long as ]
am head of the institution"
Mrs. Van Wrinkle was notified OF the
GRAND iury's desire to inspect the
premises in a telephone call from Miss
M. Pearl Mccall, Assistant United States
ATTORNEY. The visit will be made to-
morrow afternoon at 1880, under ten
tative arrangements.
Mrs. Van Wrinkle declared criticism
of the 'hotel fare" served inmates of
the detention home was unfair and
uniustified." She declared the per
capita cost figures cited in the hear
ings by Mr.. Simmons were based not
on the actual cost of running the de-
tention home, but included also the
cost of running The Women's Bureau,
separate establishment" This was
lust as unfair, she declared, as assessing
the cost of the children's division OF
the Public Welfare Board against the
cost of running the Childrens Receive
ing Home, the per capita cost figures
of which were compared with those of
the detention home in the committee
hearings.
The Woman's Bureau, she said, occu-
pies one-third of the building at Sixth
street and Louisiana avenue, and there
fore should be assessed one-third of the
cost of upkeep of the building.
She declared inmates of the deten-
ton home are being served only the sort
Of good, wholesome food which any
similar institution serves, and denied
there Is any extravaganza Of any kind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
GERMAN DEFENSE LAW
OMITS BAN ON KAISER
theoretically Free to Return Under
Measure Given Approval
by Reichstag.
~ the Associated Press.

BERLIN, March 18.-The Reichstag
today adopted the new law for the pro-
lection of the republic by a vote of
265 to $50.
The law supersedes the old defense
law which went out of operation on
July %, 1929.
Under the old law the former Kaiser
was specifically forbidden to re-enter
Germany. The new law does not con-
tain this provision and while under 1t
the Kaiser theoretically would be free
to return. Nobody, not even the mon
archists, considers even the possibility
of his return.
Among the offenses which the law
would make punishable by imprison-
ment, and in certain cases exile and
loss of civil rights, are:
First, adherence to groups which pur-
pose assassination of political enemies +;
second, commission of attack upon q
person because Of political activity;
third, rewarding or favoring the exc
cutioner Of such attacks fourth, mem
bership in or support of any secret or
ganization inimical to the State or
whose purpose Is undermining of the
| republic; fifth, Slandering or defaming
Of the President, members of the Reich
and state governments sixth, melting
to acts Of terror against political per-
sonageS or tolerating or praising OF
such acts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
PROBE ACCIDENT
INVOLVING ATTACHE
OF CHILEAN EMBASSY

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to speak English, he let bystanders at
tend to sending young Hammond to the
hospital. Then, he said, he went to
the third precinct, where. with the aid
Of associates from the Chilean en-
bassy, he explained the accident and
his diplomatic connections and was
freed,
A fun report of the accident win be
drawn up by the Chilean embassy.
Witness Describes Accident.
Lonnie Beal, "a years old, 2019 N
street, told police he was seated with a
friend in an automobile parked on the
east side of Connecticut avenue near
Eighteenth street, when his attention
was attracted to the sedan coming up
the avenue by its high rate of speed.
He said he saw the car run through a
red light at the intersection of Eight
zenith street and the avenue, and the
collision occurred some so feet north, at
the corner of N street"
Beal'S story was borne out by his
companion, Dewey Spivey, 20 years old
of 2OI9 N street, who said he saw the
large sedan pass, but was uncertain II
it ran past a red light at Eighteenth
street. There are no traffic signals at
the N street crossing.
w. S. Shaw, 81 years old, Of 1911
Twenty-second street, was walking on
the west sidewalk of Connecticut ave-
nue. not far south of N street when
Comdr. Polich's automobile passed.
Shaw declared the sedan passed at a
high rate of speed, but did not know If
1t passed a red light.
At the hospital today young Hammond
was to undergo X-ray examination to
determine the extent of his head injury.
Hannmond's mother, who lives in Fred
erick, Md, has been notified and was
expected today at the bedside Of her
SON
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
ARMY OFFICER HELD.
IN W|FE'S DEATH.
Mai. Shepard, Hospital Sur
qeon, Is Arrested on Fatal
Poisoning Charge.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, March discharged
with fatally poisoning his wife, MAJ
Charles A. Shepard, surgeon at Fltz-
simmons Veterans Hospital, was in jail
here today, following his arrest last
night by Federal officers on fugitive
over iong-distance telephone.
Mrs Shepard died last June 10 IN
Fort Riley, Kans. Later, when reports
that she had met foul play arose. an
Investigation was started. Her remains
were disinterred and an autopsy per-
formed. Psychologists reports to Army
officers at Fort Riley said death result
ed from poison.
Mai Shepard vigorously denied the
charge after his arrest.
Arrested on Girls Confession.
The arrest was made by United
States Marshal Richard G. Callen
under direction of special agents OF
the Department of Justice. Federal
authorities here said that the officers
arrest followed an asserted confession
of girl with whom the Army officer
was friendly.
While officials declined to disclose
the girls identity, they said she was
somewhere in the South" and they
over long distance telephone.
The girls admission that she had
been friendly with the Army officer even
before the death of Mrs. Shepard was
given as one reason for the tnveStlga-
ton of Mrs. Shepard's death.
Maj. Shepard's detention followed an
investigation by the Office Of the United
States district attorney at Topeka,
L. E. Wyman. an assistant district at
torney, said last night. The officers
bond was set at $4,000.
Under Surveillance for Months.
The surgeon has been under sur
vigilance for several months. He was
called to the Federal Building here
yesterday morning and subjected to an
all-day examination. His arrest was
ordered after the questioning.
Maj. Shepard came to FitZsimmons
Hospital eight months ago as patient
Two months ago he returned to active
duty when a stomach disorder from
which he was suffering responded tc
treatment. Because of his experience
in the treatment of tuberculosis he
then was assigned to the hospital staff
The prisoner entered the service dur
ing the World War. In 1920 he was
commissioned in the Regular Army
He was at Fort Riley in 1921 and 1922
when he left on a tour of foreign
service, Maj. Quade said. Following
his tour of duty he was returned tC
Fort Riley, where he remained until
eight months ago, when he came tc
FitzSimmonS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18

President Hoover has carefully gone
over his trout-fishing paraphernalia TO
have it in readiness for the opening OF
the season In Virginia on April ! and
Is now making his plans to go to his
camp, on the headwaters Of the Rapi-
dan River, on March 90 to spend the
week end and to be on hand Tor the
opening.
Mr.. Hoover has been looking forward
to this event not only because OF tne
genuine pleasure he derives from WHIP
ping the mountain streams scr trout
but because of the opportunity IL al
fords for exercise and recreation In the
open air and for meditation In tue SOIL
tude Of a picturesque country.
On this little excursion he viii be
accompanied by Mrs. Hoover tWo OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, this evening at Stanley
Hall. John s. M. Zimmerman, band
master; Anton Pointner, assistant leader
March, "Folies Bergere". Lincke
Overture, Concert. ............B Bach
Entr' acte,
(a) I'm a Rose Garden. :. /. .Acciani
OBJ Bachelor Buttons. .Hadley
Excerpts from musical comedy.
1.-THE Bellies of Brittany. Kern
Fox trot, Sleepy Babe. ....... Kahn
Valse espagnole, 'Espana". .Waldteufel
Finale, Hero Of the Isthnus" :. Lampe
1.-THE Star Spangled Runner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
HOOVER PLANS TO WHIP RAPIDAN
TROUT STREAMS ON OPENING DAY
President Looks Forward to Week End Excursions, Which
Afford Opportunity for Exercise

his secretaries and q small party OF
friends. He has not determined lust
how long he will extend this week end
visit, but it is expected that he will de-
The President has indicated that it is
his intention to indulge In these week
end recreationS as much as possible. 1t
is thought likely that later on he will
leave Washington on Friday afternoons
and return Monday mornings so as to
have Saturdays for fishing. The PreSi-
dent is a lover of the sport. but not to
the extent that he will indulge on the
Sabbath day. Inasmuch as Monday Is
It Is thought that he win do his fishing
on SATURDAYS 80 as TO be at his desk as
usual on Monday mornings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
SHEPARD'S ARMY RECORD.
Served in Various Capacities Since
First Assignment in 1917.

According to the official records,
Maj. Charles A. Shepard, Medical
Corps, on duty at Fitzsimons Hospital,
Denver, is native of Canada, and was
appointed a major in the Medical Corps
of the Regular Army in July, 1920, and
has been attached to the Denver insti-
tuition since last December. In Octo-
Der, 1917, he was appointed a contract
surgeon in the Army and served sue
cessively in the Public Health Service
and the medical section of the Or
ganized Reserve Corps and the Army
Medical Corps, at Camp Kearney,
Calf; whipple Barracks, Ariz; Fort
Bliss Texas; Denver, Colo; in the
Philippines, at Fort Omaha, Nebr., and
at Fort Riley, Kans. He is graduate
of the University of Buffalo, 1896, and
of the Army School of Aviation Medi-
cine, 1928.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
Wheat Importing Halted.

PRETORIA, Transvaal, Union OF
South Africa, March 18 (P9.-A gazette
extraordinary today published notice
prohibiting importation Of wheat into
the Union without a written permit
from the minister of finance. The
South African wheat importation re-
striction bill empowers the government
to take this action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
JEWS PROTEST PROSECUTION.
Telegraph Agency Reports Action Taken
by Anglo Jewish Group.

I. LONDON, March 10 lP).-The Jewish
Telegraphic Agency reports that pro-
tests against alleged persecution OF
Judaism in Soviet Russia were voiced
Yesterday In a resolution adopted by
the Anglo-Jewish Association and in
the report of the joint foreign commit
| tee of the Board of Deputies and the
! Anglo-Jewish Association.
The Anglo-Jewish Association de-
plored the anti-religious policy OF the
Soviet government, which by the
wholesale closing and confiscation of
.synagogues, the restrictions # the &C
itivities of congregations, the persecE-
ition of rabbis and religious teachers,
the suppression of religious 1nStructlon
TO children and the corruption OF the
state schools by atheiStical teaching is
causing intense spiritual suffering to
millions of law-abiding Jews and
threatens Russian Judaism with ex-
ttnction."
The report of the joint foreign COM
mittee explained that efforts to get the
British foreign Office to make trlenuly
representations to the Soviet foreign
commissar had resulted in an express
sion Of regret that under the clrcum-
stances 1t was impossible to accede to
any request for intervention.
It added that all information at the
disposal of the committee showed that
in the past year "the sufferings OF the
Jews have been severely aggravated"
Would Result in Extinction.
"The inevitable result must be the
extinction of Russian Judaism" the re-
port continued. Direct appeals to the
Soviet government have been tried and
failed. while diplomatic representations
by foreign states, even of the most
friendly character, are difficult, and in
the case Of Great Britain forbidden by
the protocol by which diplomatic rela-
tons were resumed.
1.-The committee; however, feels 1t
would be unfair to Anglo-Jewry to adj
wise an entirely passive attitude In the
face of so terrible a calamity as that
which has befallen our Russian CO.
religionists, and which seems likely to
affect disastrously the whole fabric of
Judaism in Eastern Europe. It Is at
least a satisfaction to add our protest
to the great volume of indignation with
which the chief rabbi is so zealously
identified"
: Leonard Montefiore, president Of the
Anglo-Jewish Association, said: THE
new decree, issued after the denials Of
persecution, is an admission that per-
secution existed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
SOVIET TO CLOSE
MOSCOW CHURCHES
Officials Announce Sc Institu-
! tons Will Be Converted
Into Schools.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 18.-An official an
nouncement today said that Sc churches
In Moscow and vicinity would be closed
upon demand of the people and public
organizations" This is the largest
number of churches ever closed by the
, Soviet government at one time.
4 The announcement said that these
schurckes would be converted into cul-
t,tural and educational institutions,
schools, workers clubs, libraries, labo-
ratories, museums, mess rooms and
workshops.
JEWS PROTEST PROSECUTION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18

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Federal contempt Of court citation
which charges him with giving false
AFFIDAVIT This action resulted from his
AFFIDAVIT last year that he was too Ill
at his Miami estate to return to Chi
cago and appear before a grand jury.
District Attorney George E. @. john
son said this case will be brought to
trial before April Is and that in the
meantime Capone's bond is adequate
and the Government will not trouble
him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
VATICAN is IMPRESSED.
News Of Changed Attitude of Soviet
Described as Unexpected.

Described AS Unexpected.
VATICAN CITY, March 18 R.-
News received in Vatican City indi-
eating q changed attitude on the part
of the Soviet government toward reli-
gion has caused profound impression
ct the Vatican.
It was described as being most unex-
pected in view of the recent declaration
of Orthodox Church leaders in favor of
the Soviet government and reports that
tomorrow's expiatory ceremonies at st.
Peters would be the signal for q new
anti-religious campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18

q. j. Morgan Of London and Venice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
SENATORIAL BODY
TO SEEK "TRUTH"
ON UNEMPL0 YMENT

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
MRS. VAN WRINKLE
CHARGES MALICE BACK
OF HEARING CRITICISM

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
HUSTON'S DEPOSIT
OF $4,000 TO BE
STUDIED IN PROBE

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18

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MYSTERY SHROUDS
CAPONE'S ACTIVITIES
FOLLOWING RELEASE

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New Britain herald., 1930-10-24

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Tan kee stars, are transforming in the east.