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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
TAX CUT FORESEEN'
IN PRINCE GEORGES
Annual Levy Expected to Be
Fixed at $1.35 When
Signed Today.
BY GEORGE PORTER,
Stan Correspondent of The Star

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, March
28.-Prince Georges County taxpayers
will receive the benefit of a 1-cent re-
duction in the tax rate this year, it was
indicated this morning when the
county commissioners met shortly be-
fore noon to sign the annual levy.
Unless unforeseen developments arise
the rate will be reduced from $1.36 per
500 to $1.35. Budget schedules have
been prepared to this effect, but county
officials have been reluctant to an
nounce the glad news for fear the
small but welcome" reduction might
be eliminated by some laSt-minute cal
culation. 1t appeared certain today,
however, that the $l.35 rate would
stand.
Total Of Levy Greater.
The reduction is expected in spite of
tie fact that the levy this year is some
$50, 900 greater than last The total is
well over the $4,000 mark, as against
$7S7, 900 for 1929. This would indicate
need for an increase rather than a de-
crease in the tax rate, but it Is ex-
planned that surplus funds slightly In
excess of the levy increase have been
accommodating during the year.
Among the items which make the to-
tai required more than last year are ap-
proximately $4,000 for interest on the
lateral road bond issue and the school
budget which is about $4,000 greater
than in 1929. There was also an in-
crease in nearly all the various accounts
which make up the levy.
The school budget, always the largest
item in the levy, was given particularly
careful study by the commissioners, and
two items, submitted by the County
Board of Education, in what the COM
misSionerS term q supplementary e8ti-
mate, were eliminated.
One of these was the much mooteG
high school bus lines for four routes
and the other was a proposed addition
to the Beltsville school. The school ad-
dition, estimated to cost 5000, may re-
ceive attention later, 1t was said, Il
found to be absolutely necessary.
Bus Lines Rejected.
The proposed bus lines, which the
board of education favored but the
commissioners refused to authorize, were
Mitchellville to Marlboro, Accokeek tC
Oxon Hill, YoungS Store to Marlboro
Colored High School and Fort Foote tC
Oxon Hill. 1t was estimated they woulC
require an appropriation of approx.
mately $500.
The commissioners have striven al
year to keep expenditures down, hoping
TO be able to maintain the present ta9
rate, and are pleased at the prospect Of
q reduction, II only a small one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
DEATH OF 4 GIRLS
BY GAS ACCIDENT
Young Sisters Die in Fred
erick, Where Mother
Seeks Refuge.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md, March 28.- Rest
ing in one casket and to occupy one
grave, four children of Mr.. and Mrs
Lester Shields, Boyds, Montgomery
County, Mary Lucille, 8; Estelle, 5; Elsie
Yvonne, 8, and Mammie Helen, 10
months, who were asphyxiated by gas
fumes at the home of their aunt, Mrs.
Joseph H. Bussard, this city, yesterday
afternoon, while their mother visited q
neighbor, will be buried tomorrow morn
ing at Mount Olive Cemetery Chapel,
this city
Justice Sherman P. Bowers, acting
coroner. deemed an investigation I'M
necessary and gave a verdict of acct
dental death, due to suffocation by gas
Attending Religious Convention.
Mrs. Shields, came to the home OF
her sister yesterday morning following
q dispute with her husband. Mrs, Bus
sard was attending religious conven-
ton but came home at noon and dis
cuSSed the domestic troubles of the
Shields. Mrs. Bussard returned to the
convention in the afternoon, leaving
her sister and the children at her home
About 2 o'clock Mrs. Shields went to
the home of a neighbor locking the
children in the kitchen. She was absent
about 20 minutes When she returned
she found the kitchen filled with gas
fumes and the children lying about the
gas stove, all jets of which were turned
on
Dragging the limp bodies to the
porch and fresh air, the frantic mother
screamed for aid. The Frederick fire
company and four physicians responded
to the alarm, but inhalators, which were
used for several hours failed to reSusci-
tate them. Although the children were
pronounced dead on the arrival OF ply
sicians, some hope was held for the
oldest girl and nurses and doctors from
Frederick City Hospital aided in the
attempt TO revive her. Oxygen was
rushed from Hagerstown.
Declared Struck by Husband.
Mrs. Shields advised the coroner her
husband struck her with sticks and
stones during their quarrel.
The coroner, after comforting with
Sheriff William c. Roderick, declared
that he did not link the husband with
the tragedy, but wished to question him
regarding the wife's statement.
Shields heard of the tragedy from
residents of Boyds, who had read OF 1t
IN newspapers. He came to this city
shortly before last midnight. Sheriff
w. o. Roderick had been unable TO
reach him during the evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
GETS 5-YEAR TERM
ON MURDER COUNT
HerndOn Resident Appeals
From Second-De Ver-
dict in Fairfax Court.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


FAIRFAX, Va, March 28.-Boston
Williams of Herndon yesterday was
convicted of second degree murder by
jury In the Fairfax County Circuit
Court and sentenced to serve five years
in the State Penitentiary. Williams, who
was charged with shooting Howard
SimmS of Herndon March /, pleaded
that he had fired in self -defense. He
was represented by Attorney Walter
Tansill Oliver, the commemorative
case being In the hands Of Wilson M
Farr and Hugh Marsh. A 60-day stay
Of execution was granted by Judge
Smith to allow Williams to appeal from
the courts decision.
Gardner Arnold, pleading guilty to
possession of q still, was fined IS and
costs and six months in jail Thomas
Lester, pleading guilty to a violation of
the prohibition law, was fined $50 and
costs and given a 30-day suspended Jail
of violation of prohibition law, wa;
fined $50 and costs. but in view of the
fact that she is the mother of seven
small children her jail sentence was
suspended on receipt of $500 bond that
she would not break the prohibition law
for IL months. Seth Williams of Mer-
rifield went surety on her bond. The
trial of her husband will be held next
Thursday.
In the last three years Australia has
exported $46 200, 900 worth of gold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
Plucking Fauna
In State Law Code
Brings Impasse
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, March
2S.-"Flora" is all right, but you
can't pick fauna" in the opinion
of Delegate F. M. Peters, who to-
day upset the calm of the joint COM
mittee of the special State Legisla-
ture called to consider the new
State code
AS 1 understand it," he said, a
fauna is an animal, and how can
you pluck a ground squirrel or the
like? That fauna oughtn't to be
in the law"
He referred to the old rhododen-
dron law, placed unchanged into
the code. which prohibits the pluck
ing of flora and fauna from along
the highways of the State"
Senator H. p. Henshaw ended the
impasse by getting passed his mo-
ton decreeing that the code COM
mittee shall consider as its last
act" the fauna reference, what
ever that may be-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
MRS. A. A. VAUGHAN DEAD
Prominent Arlington County Resi-
dent Passes at Lyon Village.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYON VILLAGE, March 28.-Mrs,
Arthur A. Vaughan, SO years Of age
and prominent in club circles of the
county, died suddenly yesterday after
noon at her home, 1874 Oak street, this
place. She had been Ill but few days.
The body will be taken to Orange,
Mass, at 8 o'clock tonight for burial,
funeral services to be conducted there
Sunday afternoon at o'clock at the
undertaking parlors of j. F. Higgins by
Rev. A. A. Blair of the Congregational
Church. This afternoon between 4 and
8 o'clock the body may be viewed by
friends at the undertaking establish
nient Of G. j. Ives, Wilson boulevard
and Spruce street.
Mrs. VaughsA had been a resident Of
Lyon Village Tor the past five years.
She was bIh in Dana, Mass. She was
Q memb/ of the Creative Arts Club
of ArliTIgon County, the Woman's Club
Of LyG Village and Washington Cen
tenIGl Chapter, order Of the Eastern
%4r. She is survived by her husband
and one sister. Mrs. William E. Towne
Of st. Petersburg, Fla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
SAVE SUFFERER AT SEA

STEAMSHIP WASHINGTON, March
% 1F1-The skill of three American
physicians in performing an appendi-
citis operation on the high seas yes
terday saved the life Of Andre Gunner
of Paris, who is making his first trip
to America.
Guinier was operated on while the
ship was $50 miles distant from New
York. The engines were stopped long
enough To make the voEkpf the doctors
easier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
GETS 100000 CREDITS

BUCHAREST, Rumania, March %
lei (about $10,0OO,OOO for agricultural
purposes were granted yesterday to
the Rumanian government by a syndi-
cate headed by the Banque de Paris ct
Des Pays-Bas and including English
and Dutch financial interests. The
credits will be used to assist needy
farmers. The syndicate also under
takes to dispose of agricultural bonds
for Rumanian banking houses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
UNION AGENT DENIES
KU KLUX KHAN ISSUE
Organizer at Danville Says She
Was Not Ordered to Va
cate Hall.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, March 28.-The ku
Klux Khan issue entered the local tex
tile union situation here today When
Miss Matilda Lindsey, one OF the or.
ganizers of the Textile Workers OF
America, denied that she had been ap-
preached and asked to vacate the Dan
sylvania Hall on the score OF her 1alth:
She denied also that this was true OF
Francis j. German, vice president OF
the organization, who is in New YORK
just now.
The union is occupying the hall said
to be used by the LOGAN Klansmen, ano
the story was current here last n.gn!
that the fiery cross had been burned
and the union officials asked 10 termi-
nate their lease Miss Lindsey SAID,
can say that the report Is absolutely
unfounded, for our relationship win the
ownership of the hall has been very
cordial"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
SUIT ASKS $4,000

PHILADELPHIA, March 20 P).-
Charles B. Gray, mechanical engineer
and inventor, of Millbourne, suburb,
yesterday filed suit in Federal Court
seeking $l,500,000 damages from the
Eastman Kodak Co., for alleged in
fringement of a patent.
Gray contends the Eastman company
tnfringed on his patent for Q power
transmitting mechanism = relative "a
0hfnerA si1iIt'~rs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
LORD BALF0UR HON0RED
Palestine Tree Planting Promised
by Grateful Jewish Bodies.

NEW YORK, March % (P).- The
Zionist organization. in cooperation
with the Jewish national fund, has de-
cided to plant 5000 trees in Palestine
in memory of the late Lord Balfour.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise made the an
nouncement last night at a memorial
service for the British peer who pledged
his country's aid in the establishment
of the Jewish National Home in Pales-
tine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
Bounties Fall After April /.

FAIRFAX, Va, March % Especially.
Deputy Clerk E. r. Holbrook asks
that all citizens of Fairfax County who
have scalps of predatory hawks, owls
or weaselS, on which they expect to
claim bountieS, send them in to him
for redemption before April l. After
that date no further bounties will be
paid, in accordance with the law en-
acted at the last State Legislature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
CABARET MAN FREED
IN DETROIT DISASTER
Jury Finds Martin Cohn Not
Guilty of Manslaughter for Fire
Costing 90 Lives.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DETROIT, March 28-Martin Cohn
was acquitted yesterday of a man
slaughter charge in connection with
the deaths Of 20 men and women in q
fire and panic at the Study Club, q
cabaret of which he was proprietor, last
September.
A recorders court Jury returned the
verdict after more than IL hours de-
liberation. The State based its charge
against the cabaret owner on the claim
that he was criminally negligent in
failing to provide adequate safety IA
cilities at the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
JAPAN HIT BY QUAKES
Repeated Shocks in Yokohama
Area Regarded ominous.

TOXIC, March % P).-Continuously
repeated earthquakes have rocked the
leu Peninsula particularly Ito, 40 miles
southwest of Yokohama, the past fort
night. Inhabitants have become panic
stricken.
Although the disturbances at present
are local, their persistency is regarded
as ominous, since they are near the
epicenter of the 1923 earthquake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
Lodge to Have Card Party.

EVANSVILLE, Md, March 20 (Spe-
ciaD Under direction of a committee,
of which A. Eugene Burgess is chair
man, a card party will be held this
evening in Odd Fellows Hall here by
Oriole Lodge, No. Al, Odd Fellows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28
VACANT HOUSE BURNS
Fire in Dwelling Near Berwyn
Threatens Adjacent Homes.

~ q stan Correspondent of The Star.
BRANCHVILLE, Md, March 28.-
Famed by a high wind, fire Of I'M
determined origin Wednesday night
swept the upper floors of an unoccupied
house near Berwyn Catholic Church and
for a time seriously endangered several
nearby residences.
Volunteer flremen from Branchville,
Berwyn Heights and Riverdale sue
ceeded in saving the lower floors OF the
dwelling, which was formerly occupied
by DR.. DeVoe Meade of the University
Of Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-28

In the last three years Australia has
exported $48, zoo, 900 worth of gold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
LIQUOR KILLS FIVE
new YEARREvELERS
20-Year-0Id Girl, Taken
From Night Club Drunk,
Lying Near Death.

SS the hSSoClAteu FFeSS
NEW YORK, January 2.-Liquor was
blamed by hospital physicians today for
che death of one woman and four men
as an aftermath of the New Year cele-
bration here. Hospitals treated 79 cases
OF alcoholism.
The bodies of the woman and one
OF the men were found by police on
Brooklyn streets. An autopsy was or
dered in the case of a man who died in
his home to determine whether he had
been killed by poison liquor. One other
died az home and the fourth man sue
cumbed at Bellevue Hospital.
Thirty-five Acute Gases.
The number OF persons admitted to
hospitals suffering from effects of over
indulgence in alcoholic beverages was
% more than were treated a year ago
and Al more than New Year day, 1923.
Six of the 35 cases at Bellevue were
pronounced acute. One man was in a
state of coma and physicians said his
condition was critical. One of the acute
cases was a 20-year-old girl taken from
q night club.
Police officials said the New Year
eve crowds were more diSorderly, more
destructive of property and harder to
handle than ever before.
Hotels, restaurants and night clubs
said business had been at capacity VOL
ume. In many places the celebration
continued until after daylight.
Comparatively Few Arrests.
No records of arrests for drunkenness
were tabulated, but police estimated
the number was light. Only eight cases
of disorderly conduct were on the docket
in Tombs Court, where City Magistrate
Adolph Stern said the list was the short
est he could remember for New Year
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
HUGE DEFICIT FACED
BY SANTO DOMINGO
Presidential Election Next May
Will Bring Crisis in Conditions
Caused by Market. ri
BY JULIAN F. HAAS.
BY Radio to The Star and Chicago {
News. Copyright. lQanl

BY Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily
News, Copyright, 1900
SANTO DOMINGO, January AT
the beginning of the new year, this lit
tie republic finds itself facing a 500
oo0,oOo foreign debt and business con-
ditions generally bad, due to the fall in
prices Of sugar, coffee and cacao, which
are the principal products of the coun-
try A real crisis in national affairs is
expected in the presidential election
next May, the first held since the Unit
ed States Marines left in 1925, after q
nine-year stay. The future of the coun-
try largely depends on the outcome of
this election.
The opposition parties admit that
they have received fair treatment~from
the government and are confident that
they will win because they have formed
coalition of the majority of opposition
groups and have selected former Vice
President VelaSqueZ as candidate fol
President. Valesquez has brought many
members OF the Government party with
him after his break with the party.
Before leaving for the United State:
in October to undergo treatment al
Johns Hopkins Hospital, President
Horacio Vasquez although nearly rs
years old, announced that he would bt
a candidate for reelection on the Gov
eminent party ticket He sailed today
from New York on his return and his
arrival on Monday should silence critics
who are maneuvering to select another
candidate.
Everything is politically quiet, though
there have been rumblings of discon-
tent and several minor attempts to en-
barrass the government during the
Chief Executives absence. These activ-
tiles were either suppressed by the
| government or died out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, January
Just starting over to the big foot
ball game at Pasadena between the
Presbyterians of Pittsburgh and the
Methodists of Los Angeles. This
game don't decide anything but the
Protestant championship of a 100
per cent Catholic foot ball Nation.
It's certainly hot day (but I will
let Graham McNamee describe the
heat to you, that's, what we bring
him out every year for). Even the
old timers that came to this country
in the early days with Mary Pick
ford and Bill Hart say they never
saw hotter day. This game winds
up the most successful financial sea-
son that higher education has ex-
perienced since they took professors
out OF universities and replaced
them with coaches. Yours, WILL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST Co,
By HOWARD MORAN, Vice President
SHILLINGTON.
Assistant Secretary

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF DENTAL
Examiners of the District of Columbia,
Room 406 Medical Science Bldg, December
IL, 1929. Ordered: That all X-ray Iabora-
tories. or others engaged in taking dental
photographs. issuing readings of said radio
graphs, are hereby required to have said
interpretations or diagnoses made and certi-
fed to, before issuance, by a dentist regis
tered by the Board of Dental Examiners. or
q licensed physicians, effective en- and after
February !, 1880.
tSignedl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
SAKS VALUES ARE
NEVER EXAGGERATED

THERE are just few times in the year when
Saks uses comparative prices in advertise
ments. We do SO to indicate the exact original
prices of merchandise offered at reductions.
Saks sales are literally patronized because the
public has learned WE Do NOT EXACCERATE
OUR VALUES. The savings indicated below
are SAVINGS-not claims. The original prices
are those which prevailed in our stOck-they
are not imaginary or exaggerated. We do not
mark up our prices and then mark them down
and we do not Overstate original prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
WILL ENLARGE STADIUM
FOR 80 OLYMPIC GAMES
Los Angeles Planning Seating Ca
pacity Of More Than 10000
During Meet.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, January 1.-THE
city council has approved a contract
for enlargement of the Los Angeles
Coliseum to more than 100, 900 seats in
preparation for the 1882 Olympic games.
The council tentatively allotted $685.
600 for replacement of the upper tiers
of wooden seats and for construction of
new foundations for the proposed ad-
ditional seats. The contract for the
construction must be approved by the
Tenth Olympiad Association, the Sixth
District Agricultural Association and the
Community Development Association
before construction may begin. Under
the contract both the city and the
county must expend $450000 before
January ]. 1888, on the construction
work
The coliseum is the scene Of the
University of Southern California foot
ball games and Of other outstanding
athletic events.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
10000 MUMMERS
IN NEW YEAR FETE
Old King Momus Laughs Off
Rain and CeIebrants Have
Mild Weather.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCldteQ ETeSS'
PHILADELPHIA, January 2.-Laugh-
ter, applause and music replaced the
din of traffic and the hustle of BUSH
ness in Broad street today when a
fairy-like procession made up of nearly
10 600 Mummers, bedecked in myriad
of colors, welcomed the new year.
Philadelphia's annual show went
down in the records of King Momus
as one of the most successful ever held
here.
Jupiter Pluvius sent a slight drizzle
for a few minutes, but old Momus
laughed it off and gave thanks. for q
mild day.
Ridiculous to Sublime.
Gem-studded trains of royalty and a
galaxy of deliberately clad figures which
ran from the ridiculous to the sublime
in mimicry made up the fancy section
of the parade.
There were brilliant capes of a hun
dred or more feet long, with towering
headdress, borne by squads of pages.
Shimmering lines of satin and tinSel
depicted the comet and the rainbow, a
merry-go-round and what not. One
cape was a pink, ceriSe and gold Gre
alton of heavy satin arranged in six
sections, with laced ribbons joining
each section. 1t was covered with en-
broidered American Beauty roses and
glittering gold Spangles and the canopy
headdress was set with semi-precious
stones and heavy metal spangles. Sill
yer fringe finished the decorations.
Three Hours to Pass.
Three hours elapsed before the final
marchers had passed the judges stand
at City Hall.
One float showed cart" Shires, the
fighting base ball player, in the ring
with an opponent, "Conny" Mack act
ing as referee. There was float show
ing Byrd'S ship leaving for the South
Pole, scene showing the icy regions
he sailed and flew over, and another
depicting the camp at the South Pole.
The stock market slump, talking
movies, radio entertainers and long
skirt styles came in for their share of
burlesque.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
US. FACES ARMAMENT
BUILDING PROGRAM
Shrine Head Says Country Must
Spend $1,000, 100000 if
Conference Fails.
By the Associated Press.


ATLANTA, January 2.-Leo v.
Youngworth of Los Angeles, imperial
potentate of the Ancient Arabic order
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, declared
yesterday that unless the Forthcoming
disarmament conference in London
achieved results, the United States
would be faced with the necessity of
spending $500, 100000 for ornaments
within the next five years.
Speaking to Shriners from Southeast
ern States who came here to dedicate a
new mosque. Mr.. Youngworth declared
that the Shrine in sponsoring a world
peace movement had found "a cause
worthy of its best efforts"
"Armaments throughout the world are
on the increase" he said, land signs
are pointing to another conflict. Unless
something can be done at the forth
coming disarmament meeting In Lon
don, the United States stands face to
face with the necessity of spending
81 500. 900 900 on ornaments within the
next five years.
This amount will have to be matched
by other countries, and thus we will
have another race similar to the one
that brought on the World War"