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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
ARRESTS DESTROY
ALLEGED RUM RING
$4,000 l. Week Alcohol
Trade Charged in Holding
of Two Men.

Prohibition authorities today declared
that an alcohol racket that crossed a
turnover of about $4,000 a week in
Washington and furnished numerous
bootleggers with ingredients for bath
tub gin had been broken up by the
arrest of two men.
James Clark and Jack Prone were
arrested by deputy United States mar
shals, who acted on information fur
nished by Warren A. Heddens, assistant
director of prohibition enforcement for
the Washington division, under the
Department of Justice.
Woman and Four Held.
Five persons, including a woman,
were arrested yesterday by the agents
in the same case and arraigned before
Needham C.. Turnage, United States
commissioner. Milton j. Lerner was
described as the leader of the ring.
The arrests yesterday and today were
said by the Federal agents to be the
gathering up of loose ends" left over
from a similar operation last June
when % persons, including some of
THOSE arrested yesterday, were 1nulCCSu.
Agents said that Lerner, Frank Smith
and his wife and Belle Calhoun were
doing a business in alcohol which gave
them a turnover of about $4,000 a
week. The alcohol was being brought
in from Maryland, either from stills or
industrial plants, the agents said, and
was being sold around the city to boot
leggers by the three ring-leaders.
Source Not Given.
The source of the alcohol in Mary
land was not made known by the
agents, but 1t was intimated that de-
velopment of the case might result III
proceedings against certain Maryland
residents. It was indicated that evil
dence had been developed that alcohol
had been removed illegally from indus
trial plants in Maryland and sent in
the District for distribution and sale.
A hearing on the charges preferred
against the seven men and women
already under arrest and eight others
whom the agents announced they would
apprehend in few days will be held
| August 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
HOPE ABANDONED
FOR As IN MINE
Gas in British Columbia Shaft
Hampers Workers in
Rescue Effort.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PRINCETON, British Columbia, Au-
gust 15.-Although hope virtually was
abandoned today for the As men i'm
prisoned by an explosion in the Blake
burn mine, at Coalmont, since O'Clock
Wednesday night, rescue parties worked
strenuously today to reach the en-
tombed miners.
While the main fan broken by the
blast had been repaired and put to
work, air in the tunnels was so laden
with poisonous gases that the rescuerS
were able to work only in short shifts
The bodies of two hoist men, Albert
Cole, 10. and Clifford Smith, 40. were
brought out shortly after the explosion
Their deaths were pronounced due to
after damp" deadly mine gas. One
man was rescued alive.
TIE entombed men were believed to
be nearly 1900 feet down a 21-degree
slope, which starts about $500 feet from
the mine portal. Workmen had pene-
trated 1900 feet from the entrance last
night.
w. A. Mckenzie, provincial minister
of mines, Inobilized all available rescue
resources and was en- route from VIC
toria to Coalmont.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
BY WILLIAM HARD.

One of the most instant possibilities
of drought relief, growing out of the
Presidents conference yesterday, was
developed today in the strong chance
that On the first of next month the Fed
eral Government, through Arthur M,
Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, and
Thomas H. Macdonald, chief of the Bu-
reau of Public Roads, will allot to the
principal drought-stricken States sum
of money amounting to approximately
IS or 40 million dollars in anticipation
of the costs of Federally aided highway
construction in those States during the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
NEWS CAMERAMAN
OUTW|TS ATTACKER
Wrong Plate Destroyed as
|. Man Tries to Prevent Shots
at Gambling House.

A notorious gambling house just across
County, Md, doesn't like the spotlight
of publicity, even though it be free. A
newspaper photographer learned this to
his surprise today when he went to the
place to make some photographs.
The photographer, accompanied by
Charles B. Calvert, Mount Rainier at
torney, who recently filed a complaint
against the gambling house, had made
several shots" of the palatial appear
ing old home and had focused his
camera for a view of the entrance to
it when a man drove out and DELHI
erately parked his car in the range of
the lens. Jumping out of the machine,
the man ran up to the photographer,
grabbed a plate from his hands, broke
it and threw it at him. The broken
plate struck the cameraman on the leg
and dropped on the road.
But the photographer got a 'break."
The man had destroyed the wrong
plate. He had broken one which had
not been exposed and the photographer
returned with not only the pictures of
the house, but photograph of the
man who broke the plate standing be-
side the machine he was driving.
The gambling house received some
other unwanted publicity the other day
when Calvert made his complaint
against the establishment to the coun-
ty commissioners and they then called
States Attorney j. Frank Parran, who
promised the board that he would file
Calvert's charges with the october
grand jury.
Calvert charged that during the past
10 years operation of the gambling
house has been possible through the
general corruption of police officers and
others charged with law enforcement"
Parran told the Commissioners that
repeated efforts to prosecute the alleged
proprietor of the gambling house had
failed either because witnesses could not
be compelled to appear or because
enough evidence could not be obtained
to secure an indictment from the grand
jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
NYE CALLS Meeting
OF BALLOT PROBERS
Receipt of Numerous Complaints Of
High Expenditures in Colorado
Race Announced.
Rv the Associaied press.

BY the Associated Press.
FARGO, N. Oak, August Ex-senator
Gerald p. Nye of North Dakota has
called meeting of the Senate Elections
Investigating Committee for August 80
at some place central to committee
members" he said today.
Immediately after this meeting, called
to lay plans for investigation of various
elections, the committee will make an
effort to complete the Nebraska and
Illinois inquiry at once. The Nebraska
primary probably will be taken UP first,
he said. There is a possibility both in
vestigations will be carried on at Chi
cago.
Senator Nye said numerous COM
plants of eXorbitant expenditures in
the Colorado campaign had been re-
ceived from both sides, but no an
nouncements of the committees inten-
tions would be made until investigators
now in that State make their reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
BISHOP MRZENA GETS
TERM IN WINE CASE
Head of Czechoslovak Church in
U. S. Convicted of Plot to
Divert Beverage.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 15.--A sentence
Of year and a day in the Atlanta
Federal prison was imposed in Federal
Court today upon Bishop Charles
Mrzena, head of the Czechoslovak Ortiz
odox old Catholic Church in America,
who was convicted yesterday of con-
spiracy to divert sacramental wine ls 70
bootleg channels.
Father John Petrykanyn, pastor of
the Lithuanian Orthodox Church of
Youngstown, Ohio. was given suS-
pended sentence of a year, on recon-
mendation of Federal attorneys, and
was told he need not even report to
probation officers He pleaded guilty
before the bishops trial to charges of
conspiracy to violate the prohibition
laws.
Victor Dumbra. wine broker, was SEN
fenced to four months servitude, and
another wine broker and four truckmen,
all found guilty with the bishop, were
given brief or suspended sentences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
DEATH PLOT is SEEN
AS HOME is BLASTED
Fine Residence of Brother of Two
Slain in Corn Sugar War
Is Demolished.
BY the Associated press.

By the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, August 15.-The pre-
tentious home of Raymond Porello, who
has seen two of his brothers meet death
in the strife over control of Cleveland's
corn sugar trade, was demolished by a
terrific explosion early today.
Porello, however, escaped the death
which police believe was marked for all
seven of the Porello brothers. He and
his family were at the home of his
mother.
The explosion was caused by gas, Sec
ond Assistant Fire Chief James Nimmo
said. He expressed the opinion some
one might have opened the gas mains
and left a candle burning in the attic.
Porello, the youngest of the brothers,
told police he was certain the explo-
sion was a plot to kill him, but de-
clined to name his enemies. Only last
week, he said, an attempt was made to
kill one of the two other surviving
Porello brothers.
The Porello home was shattered into
ruins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
R. zoos RETURN TRIP
REPORTED SMOOTH
Damaged Engine Not Missed
as Giant Craft Sails
Over Atlantic.
BY the Associated Press,

| BY the Associated Press.
CARDINGTON, England, August Is
The R-100, Britain's giant dirigible,
cruised steadily eastward today across
the North Atlantic on its trip back
home from Montreal.
Seeking the Great Circle route, and
with hardly any deviation from it, the
ship sped toward its hangar here at a
speed of about 81 miles per hour.
If this speed is maintained the dirig-
ible might be expected to reach Car
| dington in about 53la hours after de-
parture from Montreal, or at about 2
am, Eastern standard time, on Sat-
urday.
such a crossing over a distance Of
3.287 miles would compare with the
Graf Zeppelin's record of 1900 miles
from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen in SIS
hours "a minutes, an average speed of
about IS miles per hour.
Newspaper Man Describes Beauty.
Radio messages from the dirieibla.
both to stations in Canada and to the
air ministry at London, said that all
was well aboard. A newspaper man
stressed the beauty Of the scene as the
Gun OF 81, Lawrence and the Belle Isle
Straits were passed
He commented that the ship Travelled
SO smoothly that as they sat down for
dinner they were hardly aware of the
movement. With printed menu cards
ana the excellent cuisine, the atn1os-
phere, ne said was much more like that
OF Piccadilly Circus or Fifth avenue
IMAM OF 1ghter-than-air craft miles
out over the Atlantic.
a radio message from the 8. s.
Empress OF Australia said that the
R-l0O passed above that shin at
go pm, Eastern Standard time. yes
terday when the ship was 100 miles
east OF Belle Isle. The dirigible re-
NAMED IN sight for two hours.
Visibility Declared Perfect.
The ships master radioed: visibility
was perfect. There was a cloudless skv
with brilliant sunshine. There was a
light westerly wind. No message was
received from the airship."
The air ministry, reporting the ships
posiCion as q: ~ pm. Eastern Stand
ara time, said the dirigible was cruising
on three engines in longitude 44:IG
west, latitude $3.50 north, position
which was 1885 miles east and north
OF Montreal, and represented an average
speed of 61.3 miles per hour.
AT midnight there was a westerly
wind Of about IL miles per hour helping
the craft along; 1t was flying at a
height OF about 1,700 feet with the
temperature 81 degrees, the weather
| overcast and the skies rapidly clouding
with cirroStratus.
Damaged Engine Not Missed.
The ship, using only three of its six
engines, apparently did not miss its one
damaged engine, which could not be
| used.
The R-100 left ST. Hubert Airport
Montreal, at 1923 pm. Eastern Stand
ara time, Wednesday. 1t had remained
in Canada Is days after a crossing of
70 hours and 81 minutes from
! Cardington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
SOCIETY NEWS BELIEVED GUIDE
FOR ROBBER BAND IN CITY
Fifty More Apartments Looted While Owners Are
Away Vacation, Records Disclose.

A band Of robbers who read the So
ciety columns of the daily newspapers
to learn when their proposed victims
are away is believed responsible for
the series of apartment and house rob-
berries perpetrated here during the SUM-
nner vacation season.
Police said this morning that nearly
half Of the so or more apartment rob-.
berries have occurred while the owners
were away on vacations.
The items which appear In the So.
ctety news contain complete informa-
ton as to the whereabouts and the
time the occupants Of a certain apart
ment are expected to return.
It is' believed that the. rohber hand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
FOOD CARGO AWAITED
BY EAGER ALASKANS
Anticipated Ship Making Way
From Seattle to Point Barrow,
With Shortage Acute.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
POINT BARROW. Alaska, August IS.
With heavy ice grinding menacingly
on the beach, Point Barrow was hope
fully awaiting today the arrival of the
Anticipated windjammer, Holmes, from
Seattle with fresh supplies
The shortage Of staples has been
acute among the natives for months
and the reserves of the whites are also
running low The safe landing of the
cargo aboard the Holmes is the only
hope for relief from food shortage this
year by water.
If she fails in her attempts to land
this year supplies probably will have TO
be brought overland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
|TS|NAN RETAKEN
BY NATIONALIST
W|THHUGE STORES
Northern Army Reported Flee
ing important City 0ccu-
pied Few Weeks AGO.
U. S. ASKS CHINESE
TO PROTECT BISHOP
Foreign Representative at Marking
Active in Behalf of Those
in Zone.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HANKOW, August 15.--An official
Nationalist government communique to-
day said that Marking troops this morn
ing recaptured Tsinan, important North
China city. The northern army was
reported fleeing northward and leaving
behind large quantities of ammunition
and supplies.
Northern rebel forces occupied the
Shantung capital several weeks ago,
forcing the Nationalist to the southern
part of the province. Since then the
government has been making strenuous
efforts to recapture the city.
Nationalist military officials here also
claimed they were holding Kweiteh, i'm
portant city in Eastern Honan. Yester-
days advices indicated the northern
rebels had withstood Nationalist attacks
on the Eastern Honan front.
BISHOPS PROTECTION ASKED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
U. S. OFFERS EVIDENCE
In 5 AGENTS. TRIAL
Seattle Former Dry Director and
Others Charged With Con-
spiracy and Bribery.

BY the Associated Press
SEATTLE, Wash, August 15.-The
Government began presenting evidence
today in the trial of Roy c. Lyle, former
prohibition director, and four other Fed
eral officers, charged with conspiracy to
violate the national prohibition laws and
bribery.
Lyle, Earl Corwin, former chief field
prohibition agent; William M. Whitney
Lyle's former chief assistant; r. l.
Bryant, former field agent, and Clifford
t. Mckinney, former United States at
torney, were specifically charged with
dealing with Puget Sound and Gray
Harbor liquor smuggling gangs, leaders
of which they sent to prison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
MENINGITIS Is BLAMED
ON PHILADELPHIA POOLS
Bath Houses Will Be Analysed as
Three Boys Die and Three
Others Are Stricken.
nv fha Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 15.-With
three boys dead from spinal meningltls
and three others i'll with the disease,
water from municipal swimming pools
was to be analysed today, and the De-
partment OF Health was speeding its ell
forts to examine all public bath houses.
The dead boys, who are believed by
some authorities to have contracted the
disease while at city-owned pools. were
Thomas Staples, 8; William Hofelder,
10, and Edward Jaroszeuski, Is.
DR.. John A. holman, professor OF
pathology and bacteriology at the uni
versity of Pennsylvania, said he doubted
the boys contracted the disease from
the water, and DR.. Charles j. Halnes,
chief of division of communicable dis
eases of the Department OF Health, SAID
there was the possibility the disease
came from contact with a carrier"
outside of the pool while the boys were
waiting their turn for 9. swim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15

obtain this first-hand information and
plan their robberies accordingly.
There have 1cen at least a dozen
apartment robheries In the fashionable
upper Connecticut avenue section, near
Wardman Park Hotel, within the past
two months, police records at the bu-
reau reveal And in nearly every in
stance the departure and date of return
Of the occupants has been announced
in the society columns of the daily
papers
Most of the robberies have been per-
petrated by Jimmy" thieves, who op-
crate during the early hours of the
morning when other occupants Of the
place selected are asleep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
EARLY RELEASE OF ROAD FUND
SEEN IN DROUGHT RELIEF PLAN
Government May Distribute Approx
mately $4O,OOO,OOO to Stricken States
by First of Next Month.

Federal fiscal year, beginning July /,
1881.
This anticipation and acceleration of
Federal assistance would not bring the
money immediately to the States, but
would enable them to finance an i'm
mense amount of emergency road build
ing and to furnish corresponding
amount of employment to sufferers
from the drought and also to sufferers
full assurance of reimbursement of the
Federal part of the expense from the
Federal Treasury.
Federal Road Chief Macdonald states
that additionally in ready cash the
principal drought-stricken States have
standing to their credit in the accounts
CONTINUED on Page 8, Column %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
PLANE WITH FLEXIBLE WINGS TO
AID SAFE FLYING DEMONSTRATED
Inventor Says Device Makes Quick Stop After Landing
Possible.

the lower wings and skid drop from
the front of the fuseIage. Waterman
few his ship at speed of 140 miles
an hour. He said his device would be
demonstrated at the National Air Races
in Chicago.
Waterman who has been flying since
1914, was once associated with the late
Glenn II. CurtisS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
FAILURE TO INVITE
MARYLAND SCORED
Richie Thinks State Should
Have Been Represented
at Drought Farley.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, August 49,
Maryland, in the opinion of Gov. Albert
c. Ritchie, should have been repre-
sented at President Hoover's drought
relief conference.
'It is a known fact that Maryland
is included among the States most seri-
ously affected by the continued dry
weather" he told farmers picnic last
night at Williamsport, land I cannot
understand why the President should
ignore our State and its farmers"
A light rainfall, which started yes
terday, continued today over much of
the State, but was so small in volume
farmers said little relief was given
crops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
HANDCUFFED POLICEMAN
FOUND SLAIN ON BEACH
Body of oficer With Wound Above
Eye Is Discovered Face
Down in Sand.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Me, August 15.-Hand-
cuffed with his own bracelets" Patrol
man Michael T. Connolly, 40, was slain
early today and his body thrown face
down in the sand on the beach below
the Eastern promenade.
There was hole above the right eye,
but whether it had been made by bull
let or blow from sharp instrument
could not be determined pending an
examination by physicians.
Connolly's uniform coat was buttoned,
and his revolver and club we're in the
usual pockets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
BISHOPS PROTECTION ASKED.
United States Makes Request to China
in Behalf Of O'Shea.

United States Makes Request to China
in Behalf Of O'Shea.
Further protection for Bishop j. A.
O'Shea and any other Americans who
may have remained in the city of Kan
chow has been asked of the Chinese
government by the United States.
Bishop O'Shea of Connecticut is with
the st. Vincent's Seminary at German
town, Philadelphia, Pa, and head OF
the Catholic Mission at Kanchow. He
elected to remain after his colleagues at
the mission had left for point OF
safety.
The American legation at Pieping adj
vised the State Department today 1t
has requested Dr. @. T. Wang, Chinese
minister for foreign affairs, to permit
American citizens who have remained
at Kanchow to accompany Nationalist
troops from the city If they have not yet
withdrawn.
HRnxyx7 wn rsWAun rnuCVrNCuc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
Women Leap to Safety.

MOUNT OLIVE, N. c.. August is up.
Their auto stalled on the track, Miss
Annie Sutton and Mrs. Joe Smith. the
latter with her 20-month old baby
in her arms, leaped to safety here to-
day a few moments before a train de-
rnolished the machine. Both are from
Wilson, N. G.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
MOVE TO GUARD FOREIGNERS.
Foreign Representatives at Marking
Said to Have Instructions.


PIEPING, China, August is N1.-
Foreign diplomatic representatives at
Marking were understood today to have
been instructed to make representations
to the Nationalist government in behalf
Of foreigners living at Tsinan, important
North China city.
The diplomats, it was said here, had
reminded the Marking foreign Office Of
the considerable foreign colony at
Tsinan and to have asked consideration
for them. The action was in conse-
quence of the bombing raid by Marking
aviators yesterday, in which score Of
Chinese civilians were killed.
The Northern headquarters today
claimed an important advance along
the Lunghai Railway during which
Kueiteh fell before them, and the Nam
king front in Shantung retired as far
south as Taianfu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
Plan to Join Against Kurds.

ANGORA, Turkey, August IS CP).--
Negotiations designed to bring about
cooperation between Turkey and Per-
STA in depressing rebellious Kurdish
tribesmen on the Persian Turkish from
tier are proceeding at Angora and
Teheran.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
HELD IN TORCH Staying
Man Charged With Burning Com
panion on Drinking Party.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. August Is Up.
John Cutler, "a, was burned to death
last night and Dave Golden, a COM
panion, was in Jail here today, accused
by officers of throwing gasoline upon
Cutler and setting him afire during a
drinking party in an automobile near
Cedar Glades, IS miles north of Hot
Springs.
Officers vino arrested Golden said
witnesses told them both men were
drunk and that Golden threw the
gasoline upon his friend and ignited it
before aid could reach Cutler.
Coroner j. p. Randolph said an in
quest will be held late today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
$15O,OOO Fire in Arkansas Town,

ARKADELPHIA, Ark, August is up.
Fire of undetermined origin early to-
day destroyed the plant of the Arkadel-
phia- Stfttngs Herald, daily newspaper;
the Citizens National Bank, a grocery
store and newsstand, with a loss esti-
mated by firemen at $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
Kissing in Public
Jails Couple, but
Term Is Suspended
By the Associated Press.


FLORENCE, Italy, August IS
kissing and petting-under some
circumstances-have become eX-
pensive in the city made famous
by the romance of Dante and
Beatrice.
A city judge with an austerity
reminiscent of Savanarola SEN
fenced Bruno Irmint to three
months and 10 days in jail for
kissing his fiancee, Letizia Ma
mcni, in a public park, and the
latter three months for accepting
his careSses.
Both sentences were suspended
later. The penalty in Rome for
a similar offense is a mere dollar
fine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
By the Associated press.

LOS ANGELES. August 15.-An air
plane with flexible wings hinged to the
fuselage and operated by air drums was
demonstrated here yesterday by the in
ventor, Waldo Waterman, who claimed
special safety features for his device.
The wings. he said. fiexed automati-
eally in response 70 air currents, made
quick stopping after landing possible
and could be tilted in flight to increase
the planes speed.
The wheels are attached directly 70