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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
U. S. WOMAN is ACQUITTED.
Three Men Sentenced in Italy for
Anti-Fascist Activities.

ROME, December % (P.-Mrs. H. j.
de Bosis, American-born widow Of an
Italian poet, was acquitted yesterday Of
charges that she had engaged in anti
Fascist activities, but three men in
dicted on similar charges were given
prison sentences.
Reno Rendi, occasional correspond
ent for American newspapers. was SEN
fenced by the special tribune for de-
Tense Of state to is years in jail. Mario
Vinciguerra received a like sentence
and Gelmetti. another defendant, was
ordered to prison for three years.
Three other defendants, Augusta
Benedict. Olga Benedict and a third
named march,, we're acquitted.
Mrs de Bosis. born Lillian Vernon
of St. Louis. Mo, who told the court
she was IS years old. expressed her re-
greet that she had taken part in recent
anti-Fascist propaganda. which con-
sisted of the printing and distribution
of circulars.
Rendi testified that Mrs. de Bosis had
nothing to do with writing the circulars,
but only with their mechanical prepara-
ton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
EX-LAND AGENT DIES
z. M. Searle Sold 100000 Acres
for Union Pacific.

LOS ANGELES, December % R.-
Edwin M. Searle, 81 who as general
land agent for the Union Pacific Rail-
road sold more than 1,250,000 acres OF
land in Nebraska half a century ago
died of heart disease here today.
Searle was born in Rushford, N. Y.
served as a drummer boy with the Union
forces in the Civil War, and joined the
Union Pacific as a telegraph operator
in 1867.
AS land agent he laid out the town
of Ogallala, Nebr., and later represented
that district in the State Legislature.
He had lived in Los Angeles IL years
Besides his widow he is survived by two
sons, E. M. Searle. jr., of Omaha, and
A. L. Searle of Ogallala.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
EMPLOYEES TO RETURN

BELOTT, Wis, December % CP).-
w. c. Heath vice president of the Fair
banks, Morse Co., announced last night
practically all of the company's 1885
workers will be called back to approx
mately full-time employment on Janu-
airy 5. All departments except one will
have full personnel, partly because of
the transfer here of products formerly
made at Three Rivers, Mich, and In
dianapolis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
FOREIGN,

Mrs. Frederick Cripps. formerly Ouch
ess of Westminster, has become pro-
prietor Of q leading beauty parlor in the
fashionable section Of London, and has
decorated the employees with her racing
colorA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23

"I read the book 'Ben-Hur' and wrote
q scenario of 1t, a one-reeler, in two
days, and we went out to Sheepshead
Bay. where Payne had given The Fall
Of Jerusalem in fireworks. His scenery
was yet standing, and we utilized that
oR CUR background. We made the
pica1xe IN three days. 1t was consid-
cred then the greatest spectacle ever
pyt upon the screen, and 1t was ire
nnend0uS success, and made money.
I'm those days there had been nc
litigation over the movies; a scenario
had never been copyrighted, no one
knew whether the copyright law that
protected an author and publisher In
their book rights also protected them
from having their books pirated for APP
pearance on the screen. The heirs Of
Lew wallace, who wrote 'Ben-Hur,' anc
Harper Bros, who published 1t, suec
che Kalem Co. and myself for $25 ,00C
damages for taking 'Ben-Hur' for th'
screen. The suit dragged through thu
0ouyts for years, and was finally de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23

cided against us, and that first lawsuit
settled for all time that the copyright
Of a book or story also covered the
moving picture rights of it.
Our 'Ren-Hdr' cost about S25, 900
TO produce. but the later big 'Ben-Hur,'
which was produced in grand style BY
consent of the owners Of the copyright,
cost more than $1,000 900, and I was
told that the company that produced
1t paid the wallace heirs and Harpers
$4,000 for that right"
(CopyriEht. 1880. by North American News
paper Alltsnee.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-23
PUP is ELEPHANTINE
Kennel fer Gift" Pet Must Be
Made Larger.

EVANSTON, Ill. CNAN.A) When
Chief of Police Freeman promised the
boys of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at
Northwestern University a pup" they
Immediately began building a kennel.
Now they have TO enlarge it. The
pup" is a st. Bernard Of elephantine
proportions. 1t is 8 months old and 8
feet inches from nose to tail.
Copyright, 1890. by North American News
paper Alliance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
THREE ARE KILLED
IN FACTORY BLAST
Others Are Seriously Hurt
as Fire Follows Ex-
ploSion.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEPTUNE, N. j., July 5.-Three per-
sons were killed, two of them children; ;
another child is missing and three
adults we've seriously injured in the ex-
plosion of fireworks factory on the
outskirts OF the city late today.
Three blasts, following each other in
quick succession. RACED the factory,
owned and managed by Frank Cimino,
and his story-and-a-half home, which
stood on the lot.
Consiglio Cimino, 10, father of Frank
Cimino; Mile Cimino, 8, daughter of
Frank; Dolores Renna, g. 321 Nevins
street Brooklyn.
The seriously injured: Mrs. Mary
Cimino, wife of Frank: Mrs. Nancy
Renna. mother of Dolores; Alfred Del
Fiore, an employe.
OptOmetrist Witnesses Tragedy.
DR.. M. Gould, Perth Arnboy. N. j.,
optometrist, was sitting in his automo-
bile few feet from the Cimino home
With j. L. Coddington, also of Perth
Amboy, when the blast occurred.
DR.. Gould said the elder Cimino was
sitting on an upper porch of the factory
building Mrs Renna, her daughter.
Dolores, and Mile Cimino were stand
Al ydlu.
Then the afternoon quiet was shat
tered by blast, which was quickly fol-
lowed by two others, and almost imme-
diately the house and factory, which
stood side by side, were enveloped in
flames.
Dr.. Gould said he saw Mrs. Renna
her clotehs blazing, pick up the two
children, one under each arm. and start
toward the street. Before she gained
safety another blast knocked her to the
ground and hurled the baby from her
arms. Both children were killed. Mrs.
Renna was taken to a hospital at
Spring Lake, but was not expected to
live.
Frank Cimino. 9, is missing.
The factory SpecialiZeS in mammoth
fireworks displays and the two frame
buildings apparently were laden with
high explosives, the cellar of the home
being used as a store room. Little was
left of either, pieces of the dwelling
being blown hundreds of feet away.
First Serious Explosion.
Cimino has operated the factory for
ID years and this was the first serious
explosion.
The factory was located on a sandy
road, about two blocks west of the main
highway running through Neptune.
Fire tracks from neighboring towns had
difficulty negotiating the sand.
Neptune, little town of about 700
population, is in Monmouth County,
not far from Asbury Park, and a few
miles inland from the Atlantic coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
SLAIN GIRL FOUND
|NAUTO WITH NOTE
Jersey Police Trying to Ascer-
tain if Deed Is Maniac
Killers Work.
BY the Associated Press.

BUTLER. N. j.. July 5.-The body of
young woman, shot twice, was found
in an automobile on the Mariontown
road, about miles northwest of here.
late today. In the car was a note say
ing, You will find the other bodies
along the road"
The note telling of other victims was
unsigned. Handwriting experts will
compare the writing with that on the
notes written by the "3-X" murderer of
Queens, on the theory that the slayer
is the maniac who has terrorized the
New York borough and committed two
murders there.
Discovery of the body and the note
started State troopers, under the COM
mand of Sergt Simpson of the Pomp-
ton Lakes station, on a hunt along
lonely roads of the surrounding terri
tory for other victims mentioned in the
note
The Mariontown road is a deserted
thoroughfare sometimes used as short
cut between Butler and West Milford
The coupe was noticed along the road
throughout the day. PaSserSby tonight
looked in and saw the body Slumped on
the floor with two bullet wounds in her
head.
1t is believed that the murder took
place some time during the night of the
Fourth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
BIG BUSINESS STILES INITIATIVE
AND LITERATURE, SAYS DRESSER
Representative Government Is Dead, Trusts Control
America, Asserts Novelist.

power to tax, which is the power to
destroy.
THE mental capacity of our school
teachers is practically nullified by bust
ness authorities debating what thew
may teach. They must denounce boil
shevism and keep their mouths shut on
Darwinism The great educational
thing, they are told. is the flag and it
is the duty of every citizen to be a
100 per cent American--in other words,
a damn fool"
4-e said that big business movements
of all sorts are making it impossible for
men to express themselves as individ-
uals. Because they cannot hope to
succeed in small, private enterprises,
American citizens have lost their initi-
alive and their power to think. There
is hardly any such thing as an indi-
vidual left in America, he said.
When asked If these things would
kill American literature, he rose from
his chair in excitement. They have
already practically done So" he ex-
claimed. Just name me a single great
writer. And Supposing there were one,
what chance would he have of being
popular?
what do the books concern them
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, July 5.-Theodore
Dresser has returned from his voyage
OF exploration through the United
States more pessimist than ever. This
morning he fumbled silently with the
papers on his desk for 10 minutes be-
fore he suddenly rose, drew himself to
his full height and exclaimed: "All
newspaper interviews are stupid. For
years l have not seen one that is worth
anything. ! will bet you $40 that you
cannot get into your paper the things
that am going to say"
The wager was taken up and Mr..
Dresser enthusiastically discussed the
ills of the universe for an hour and
half Since modern business and flnan-
cial development have made American
citizens into nothing but "trudging
asses" there Is no great contemporary
American literature, he said. If there
Is to be any future 1t will have to take
the form of satire or expressions of de-
spair. he added.
THE Constitutional Government of
America is abdicated. In every State
in the Union. there is no such thing as
representative government" he said.
America ~ controlled by trusts that
function Is government, They have the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
LEGATION GUESTS ROBBED
OF CASH AND JEWELRY
Thief Takes Suit Gases Containing
Valuables From Automobile
of Atlanta Woman.

Guests of the Nicaraguan legation last
night lost clothing, money ar1i iewelry
valued at $l,225 when a thief took an
automobile in which they had stored
their suit cases
The automobile, which belongs to
Mrs. Laura Mitchell of Atlanta, Ga,
was standing in front of the legation of
Honduras, 1922 Rhode Island avenue,
when 1t was stolen. One of the suit
cases belonged to Sonora Josepha
Morales and her daughter, Senorita
Hayve Morales, both of Nicaragua, who
are guests at the Nicaraguan legation.
Another guest, Emiliano Gallo, a stu
dent at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga,
owned the other suit case. The Morales
lost clothing and jewelry valued at 1925,
while Gallos suit case contained cloth
ing and jewelry valued at $400 and
certified checks for 5000.
The occupants of the car were paying
call on the Honduran legation when
the car was stolen.
Miss Morales was Miss Nicaragua in
the recent beauty contest at Miami Fla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
BY the Associated Press.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, July S.
Niagara's laundering horseshoe cataract
ended another dream of fame and for
tune today as it took the life of George
L. Stathakis, 46-year-old Buffalo chef,
who attempted to ride through the
maelstrom in a barrel Of his own
construction.
Thousands saw the barrel of wood
and steel plunge over the cataract.
But not vestige of the barrel or a
trace Of the mans body was found
afterward.
William (Red) Hill, veteran river
man, engaged by Stathakis to haul him
out after the trip, gave up hope to-
night OF finding the body and left the
river bank
Hill had predicted the trip would
end in death. He even had an under
taker on hand.
The huge cask rode we'll as the strong
current carried it toward the cataract.
It bounded high, then was submerged
by the heavy waves. AS 1t neared the
Falls brink it just missed an old sub
marine chaser, a wreck marooned on
the rocks.
A diverting current caught the barrel
and carried 1t away from the marooned
boat and it sped on toward the Falls
brink. 1t passed over the crest at a
point that was very high and some be-
lieved 1t had hit rock as it rose high
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
BARREL RIDER GOES TO DEATH,
NIAGARA DASF1ES HOPE OF FAME
Searchers Fail to Find Trace of Ton Graft
or Body of Chef Who Dared Fury
of Falls Maelstrom.

in the air, faltered for an instant and
then fell straight down.
"Statnakis barrel broke up" Hill
said. Il knew from the start he would
never make 1t. The cask is caught
back there in the rocks and surely is
mass of ruins
After StathakiS took the fatal plunge,
the Maid of the Mist made two trips up
TO the foot of the falls. The crew re-
ported they saw nothing of the barrel.
Stathakis said he was the author of
"the mysterious veil of humanity
through the ages" He said he wanted
to know the sensations as he made the
perilous trip to record in a book as
much as he did the chance to reap the
monetary harvest he believed awaited
a successful conclusion of the stunt.
Stathakis barrel was the heaviest
craft in which any seeker after fame
and fortune has yet attempted TO make
the plunge over Niagara Falls. 1t
weighed about a ton, was 10 feet long
and almost feet in diameter. 1t was
constructed of oak slaves, 4 inches
thick, held in place by heavy hoops of
steel. At each end were strong steel
projections. Inside the wooden barrel
was a steel casing. The interior was
we'll padded and Stathakis was strapped
to a spring mattress for the plunge.
The strange craft was fitted with air
chambers.
Stathakis lived in Buffalo for several
months. He formerly lived in st.
Louis, Mo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
RECKLESS DRIVING
CHARGED TO BOX
Texas Representative Pleads I'm
munity From Arrest on
Way Home.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 5.-Repre-
sentative John C. Box of Jacksonville,
Tex, was on his way home today after
being detained here on a reckless driv-
Ing charge preferred by officers of a
nearby county at the request of q New
York tourist.
The Representative was stopped here
by motor cycle officer. Chief of Po-
lice Haynes said he released Box when
the latter pleaded his constitutional
rights as Congressman.
The Constitution provides that Sena-
tors and Representatives shall not be
subject to arrest on misdemeanor
charges while attending sessions of
their respective Houses, and in going to
and returning from the same"
The chief of police said Representa-
tive Box told him he "side-swiped" a
New York automobile as he passed 1t
about 80 miles from Knoxville, while en-
route from Washington to his home in
Texas.
Box told the officer he had talked to
the tourist and never suspected he
would bring charges"
The police chief took the name of
the firm insuring the Congressman
car. The name of the tourist was not
learned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
PIPING ROCK CLUB MEMBERS MISS
FIREWORKS AS PILOT GOES ASTRAY
Aviator Errs in Cue and Shoots Off Cargo Several Miles
From Designated Site.

Brooks had been engaged several days
previously to fly over the club grounds
and touch OF fireworks from his plane.
He didn't know where the club was,
but groundkeeper was to have trained
a searchlight from the polo field across
the airplane's course. When Brooks
saw the light he was to start shooting.
His unfamiliarity in the Long Island
terrain brought him swooping downward
at several points and at each Swoop
groundlings pilloried his ship with auto
mobile searchlights. @
Soon there were so many search
lights playing from so many points that
Brooks lost hope of spotting the one
he had been engaged to look for. He
shot of his cargo anyhow.
It turned out today that the point
he chose was some miles from the
Piping Rock Club and on the side OF
the polo field toward which the diSap-
pointed members were not looking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
KILLING OF SAILOR
ADDSNEW TROUBLE
FOR j. S. IN CHINA
Brooklyn Man Victim of
Bandits Fire, Which
Gunboat SilenCeS.
PROTEST ALREADY MADE
IN MISSIONARY PERIL
British Also Attacked on Yangtse
Decentralization Treaty
Recently Signed.

By the Associated Press.
Difficulties with revolution torn
China, already climaxed by State De-
partment protest, were augmented yes
terday by a radio report to the Navy
Department that an American blue
Jacket had been killed in battle with
bandits.
The seaman was Samuel Elkins OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, attached to the United
States Gunboat Guam. He was struck
by a bandit rifle ball during a short
encounter at Yochow, Human, China
when brigands turned from looting the
city to fire upon the ship.
A news report from Shanghai said
three British gunboats had been fired
wounded before the British and Amer
lean seamen silenced the bandit rife
men.
A report of the encounter sent to Sec
rotary Adams by Rear Admiral Charles
B. McVay, commander in chief of the
Asiatic Fleet, said:
u. s. Ship Fired Upon.
"U. S. Ship Guam reports she was
heavily fired upon by communists at
about l pm, July 4, while conveying
the Neihing past Yochow. Fire was
s1lenced by IS rounds 3-inch and 200
rounds machine guns.
Seaman (first-class) Samuel Elkins
was killed by rifle bullet.
mo sign of foreigners in Yochow."
The next of kin of Elkins was listed
by the Navy as Mrs. Rose Teitlebaum
his grandmother, Coney Island.
Two days ago, the State Department
instructed the American legation at
Peiping that urgent protests" were to
be made against the mistreatment of
American citizens in China.
Report on Missionaries.
This action followed a report from
Frank P. Lockhart, consul general at
Hankow, that he had received reliable
advices that American missionaries at
Suiping, Honan, China, had been driven
through the street with sticks.
State Department officials said yester-
day no reply had been received from
the protest, and they probably would
not get one for at least a week. In
structions had been to deliver one pro-
test to the highest military authorities
now in control of Suiping, but because
of difficulties of comrnunica ton, officials
said the protest could not be delivered
for some time.
Lockharts report to the department
said Rev. Thomas I. Lee of Minneapolis
and Deaconess Thonea Sandland of
Grygla. Mimi. had been paraded
through the streets of Suiping and
roughly handled by local political
organization.
New Treaty Signed.
Late last month a treaty of arbitra-
ton between the United States and the
Republic of China was signed by Secre-
tary StimSon and the Chinese Minister
in Washington. But even if the treaty
had been ratified and placed in effect
by the two governments, it was not
known today whether it would apply to
the situations now causing international
difficulties in China.
Information regarding another en-
counter between the British ship Teal
and a band of Communists was also
transmitted to the Navy yesterday by
Admiral McVay. His message said one
man had been seriously wounded in an
engagement at Cheng Ling on the
Yangste River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
HUNTED SLAYERS
ELUDE SEARCHERS
PoSsemen Abandon Chase,
Believing Quartet Escaped
Into Mississippi.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
EMELEE, Ala, July s. Convinced
that their quarry had escaped posse
men late today abandoned their search
for four colored men wanted for the
Staying yesterday of two white men,
which resulted in the death of two
colored men, one Of them being lynched.
Possemen seeking the slayers of
Grover Boyd and Charles Mars said
this afternoon it was apparent the quar-
tet had eluded them and escaped into
Mississippi. Quiet was restored tonight.
The colored men slain were John
Robertson, shot down resisting a posse
seeking to search his home, and Jacob
Robertson, his nephew, who was
lynched by a mob last night.
The colored men, Tom Robertson and
his sons, brothers of the lynched VIC
time, Esau, Ollie and John, were sought
throughout last night by between 200
and 800 armed men after they had
beaten up Clarence Boyd, nephew of
Grover. who was slain as he sought to
aid him.
No Indication of Probe.
A coroner's jury late today returned
a verdict that the two colored men
came to their death at the hands of
party or parties unknown" Oficials
mad made no indication that an investi-
CATION would be conducted
Jim Ayres. white, was suffering cheek
wound received in a battle with the
colored men last night, and Clarence
Boyd, nephew of Grover, was injured
severely about the head with a bottle
held by colored man.
First reports of the trouble were ex-
aggerated, the death list being given as
high as eight.
Dead and 2 Wounded.
Sheriff w. D. Scales who took charge
OF the search last night and attempted
to control the unruly mob of 200 to 300
men, today checked the casualties and
found four dead and two wounded.
Reports that two colored men had
been burned to death also were proved
un1ounded by search of the ruins of
John Robertson'S home.
The trouble started late yesterday
when Clarence Boyd met Esau Robert
son and demanded payment for a stor-
age battery he had sold him.
The colored man said he did not have
the money, and Boyd seized the battery.
the store in which they were standing
and he found the colored mans brother
Oliver and his father there. The three
were said to have jumped on Boyd and
beat him.
Grover Boyd, uncle of Clarence, and
Carl Scales went to Clarences assist
ance and one of the colored men fired
four bullets into Grover Boyds back,
killing him. Scales and others seized
Esau, but the other two disappeared.
Taken to Woods and Hanged.
Esau was held by the crowd which
formed and last night was taken to the
woods and hanged. In the meantime,
Sheriff Scales and his deputies arrived
and search for the two other colored
men was started. When the posse
called at the home of John Robertson,
brother of Tom, he met them with gun
fire and in turn was slain. Later, 1t
was discovered that Mars had been
shot and Ayres wounded. Enraged, the
mob fired the house.
Sheriff Scales said reports that a race
riot was in progress were untrue and
that colored persons not implicated in
the shooting had not been molested.