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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
BROKEN ENGAGEMENTS COME
AS SURPRISE to- D. C. SOCIETY
Miss Charlotte ChiIdTesS and
Miss Barrine Drake Were
to Wed Soon.
Prospective Brides Active in
Junior League and Social
Activities.

Society, both official and residential
in Washington, as well as other East
ern cities was surprised today at the
news of the dissolving of the engage
mentS of two of the Capitals most at
tractive and talented young women,
both prominent members of the Junior
League. Miss Barrine Drake and Miss
Charlotte ChildreSs. In one instance the
date of the wedding had been set and
announced, and the prospective bride
has selected practically all of the fur
niShing for her new home in Boston, in
addition to having purchased an elab-
crate trousseau.
Miss brakes engagement to DR..
Charles w. Bowers of New York was
announced in June, 1880, by her
parents, Col. and Mrs Charles B. Drake
OF 1909 S street, and Washington So
ciety looked forward to brilliant we'd
ding. 1t was stated at the time of thu
announcement that the wedding would
take place in the early Autumn, after
Dr. Bowers returned from O visit in
Austria, his former home. Col. and Mrs
Drake have been prominent in society
in the Capital for some years. Miss
Drake is a gifted musician. She is
graduate of the Holton Arms School
and also attended Miss Twins School
in Philadelphia. She had been a
leader in social and philanthropic ac-
tivities of the Junior League and Is one
of the most popular members of the
younger set in New York, where she
has spent much time, as well as in
Washington.
Reason Not Announced.
DR.. Bowers is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Petzlbauer Of Vienna and
Moedling, Austria. Dr. Bowers changed
his name when he became an American
citizen. He is graduate of the United
of Vienna. No further announcement
was made by the family of Miss Drake
other than that their daughter had
broken her engagement to DR.. Bowers.
The marriage of Miss Childress and
son Of Mrs. Charles e. Langley Of
Washington and the late Mr.. william
r. G.. Wood, noted Baltimore artist
was to take place December % in
Washington. Several prenuptial parties
had been given in honor of the popular
bride and Bridegroom ELECT. number of
others planned, when it was unex-
pectedly. announced that the engage
neIlt was broken. Runor has 1t that
the young couple are of opposite tenn
peraments; that they had discovered
this and decided to bring the bethrothal
to an end The news of the engage
ment of Miss Cl1ildress and Lieut.
Wood, announced the first week In the
past August, came as q complete sur
prise to many of the friends of the
couple. for they had been engaged I'M
ofHcially for about week only.
Miss Chiidress Is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Childress Of 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15

Twentieth street. Mr.. Childress, for
merly chairman Of the Public Utilities
Commission, now is an Official of the
United States Shipping Lines.
Made Debut in 1925.
Miss Childress made her debut in
1925. She is q striking blonde and
popular in the younger residential set.
She is graduate of Holton Arms, and
figures actively in the work of the
Junior League.
Lieut.. Wood has been popular in the
Capital since his graduation from the
Naval Academy, in 1924. He had pre-
viously attended Friends School in
Baltimore. He was on duty with the
battle feet and in the Orient, and has
been taking a postgraduate course in
radio engineering at Harvard Uni
versity. Lieut.. Wood and Miss ChildreSs
had planned to make their home in
Boston.
Miss Childress' sister. Miss Adair
Childress. made her debut in WASH
ington two Winters ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
MARYLAND CENSUS
GROWTH IS RECORD
Greater Increase Than in ANY
Decade Shown-Population
Is 1881, 526.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The final 1880 population bulletin for
Maryland, issued today by the Census
Bureau, showed the largest numerical
growth Of any decade in its history
with the increase most marked in areas
close to Baltimore and Washington.
The total population was 1881 ,526,
an increase of 181 1855, or 1875 per cent
over 1920. Fourteen of the % counties
displayed growth. Baltimore County
increased by 66.1 per cent. Ann Arundel
County, also adjoining Baltimore and
containing Annapolis, increased by 26.4
per cent. Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties, adjoining the District
of Columbia, increased by 400 and 1915
per cent, respectively.
Allegheny, Washington and Wicomico
Counties, containing, respectively, the
cities of Cumberland, Hagerstown and
Salisbury, also showed marked In
creases.
Five Maryland cities had populations
of more than 10000. Baltimore's
population no longer numbers more
than half the population of the entire
State because of increases in suburban
areas.
Seventeen Maryland towns were in
corporated during the last 10 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15

the Division of Identification in the
Lamar bank case as one of the out
standing achievements in the history
Of criminal Identification.
The Lamar bank robbery occurred
May %, 1928. A quartet of bandits
stormed the First National Bank, killed
its president and two employees, robbed
the vaults and fled into Kansas.
At Dighton, KanS., they stopped at
the home of Or. Wineinger to have the
wounds of their party dressed. When
the surgeon had completed his work
they drew their guns, ordered him into
his car and pushed the car over a clif1,
killing the doctor.
Print Is Different.
Examination of the car revealed q
fingerprint not the PHYSICIANS. A copy
of the print was forwarded here in the
forlorn hope that, somehow, 1t might be
identified But there are more than
two million flngerprints on file at the
bureau. Since it was impossible to COM
pare all these prints with the one found
on the car, Director Hoover instructed
his experts to impress the design OF the
print on their minds and endeavor to
keep watch for one like 1t during their
daily routine.
Ground noted that the print had
several twists and ''whorls" unlike any
he had seen before. He fixed a pic
ture of these markings In his mind.
Months went by without result, but one
day Ground was startled to see a
print with the same peculiar twists
as the one he had remembered. The
print, sent in by a California sheriff
in connection with a minor charge,
was that of one Jake Fleagle, who had
been released.
It was the first definite clue TO
identification of the real culprits in
the Lamar case.
Ground was offered a large reward
that had been posted for solution Of
the case, but he could not accept the
money because Of department rules.
Director Hoover saw that he was
promptly promoted, however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
GARFINCKEL DENIES
STORE IS TO BE SOLD
Reports That New York Interests
Have Acquired Property Are
Emphatically Denied.

Reports that New York interests had
acquired ownership of the business OF
Julius Garfnckel 81 Co. have been
widely circulated in Washington, but
were emphatically denied today. There
is absolutely no truth in these re-
ports" as Mr.. Garf1nckel declared. "It
is true that several parties have made
overtures to me, but I have been and
viii remain deaf to any proposal to sell
my interests. They represent a life6
1t is due to the people of Washing
ton, to whom owe this business, that
I should remain its sole owner and
director, as I have always been. You
cannot state to emphatically that no
one has acquired or will acquire my
business"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
DIAMOND RALLIES;
FIVE PERSONSHELD
Police Seek others lin Shoot
ing of Gangster in New York
Four Days Ago.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.. october 15-Jack
LEGS" Diamond battled to stave of
death today while police strove to pick
up the four-day old trail of the gum
men who shot him.
The gangster who was shot five times
in his room in the Monticello Hotel
Sunday, rallied somewhat early today
after surgeons had issued a bulletin
saying his condition had been COM
plicated by pulmonary collapse. AT
the time the bulletin was issued little
hope was held for his recovery.
Four persons were held as material
witnesses today in addition to John M.
Ginsbvrg, manager of the Monticello
Hotel The others were Miss Marion
Strasmick, show-girl companion of Dfa-
mond in the hotel: Joseph Goldie, as
sistant manager; Thomas Marshal,
clerk, and John Hughes, bell boy.
Surrenders to Grain.
Ginsburg, who disappeared imne-
diately after the shooting, surrendered
yesterday while police were seeking him.,
He walked into the Office of District
Attorney Thomas c. T Grain, accom-
panied by his wife and child, his at
torney and Wallace D. Bennett, a real
estate operator of Edgewater, N. j.
Ginsburg said he was preparing to
take his family to Benefits home in
E6gewater Sunday when he heard "a
lot Of noise-it sounded like lot Of
shots"
He said he opened the door Of his
suite and saw Diamond coming out OF
his room, holding his head and stag
gering
The hotel man repeated his conversa-
ton with Diamond as follows:
What happened?' I asked him as
I ran up to him He said, I'm hurt.
Please get your doctor right away.
Take me to your room and please get
me the doctor in a hurry. I'm badly
hurt"
Asked for Drescher.
Ginsburg said Diamond went into
his suite and lay down on bed and
asked for whisky. He then said he
called doctor and sent for the as
sistant manager.
Diamond then asked for Harry
Drescher, a friend, who lived in the
hotel. Ginsburg said Drescher came
In and asked Diamond who shot him.
Don't ask me any questions" Gins
burg said Diamond replied. Somebody
gave it to me. I don't know who
It was"
Ginsburg said he then left Diamond
In the care of Goldie, the assistant
manager, and went to Edgewater with
his family in Benefits car.
From Edgewater he said he went to
Philadelphia to visit his mother, then
returned and surrendered at the sug-
gestion Of his attorney.
He was held in $4,000 bail, and bail
for the others was fixed at $1,000. d.
Others Being Sought.
Police are seeking Drescher, who dis
appeared from the hotel after the
shooting. They also are looking for
Charles Entratta, alias Green, who was
acquitted of the Staying OF two gang
sters in the Hotsy Totsy Night Club
! in 1929 for which he and Diamond
were indicted.
Robert Miller, Alais Robert Duvai,
known as the Count. also is being
sought. A cablegram addressed to him
was found in Diamonds room, saying
arrangements could be made for pia-
mond's entry into Germany. DIAMOND
was refused entry into Germany last
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
ESCAPED BOY SLAYER
OF FOUR EvADES NET
Police Of Two States Seek Fanatic
Who Fled Asylum With
Pal

BY the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, October 15.-
Frank Mcdowell, the boy fanatic, who
killed two sisters and his parents as
"atonement for SIM" was a fugitive to-
day from the State Hospital for the In
sane at Chattahoochee, with authorities
of two States on his trail.
He and John Pruitt. another inmate
of the hospital. obtained a gun, over
powered a guard and fed from the hos
pital Monday night and thus far OH
Gals have found no trace of them.
Mcdowell shot his father and mother
to death at st. Petersburg, Fla, in 1924.
At his trial he confessed that he killed
them and his two sisters at Decatur,
Ca, year earlier because he thought
their deaths would atone for his "un-
pardonable sin of blasphemy" committed
when a child
He was sentenced to life imprison-
ment in the State penitentiary, but soon
thereafter he was declared insane and
transferred to the asylum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15

eminent that are legitimateIy able to
make inquiries.
The fact that the Department Of
Justice makes an investigation does not
by any means indicate that prosecu-
tons are intended. All that could be
said at the moment is that Mr.. Hoover
wanted to get all the facts so that he
could make up his mind whether Stock
Exchange officers could aid in prevent
ing manipulation In the market by
groups or individuals interested in
Fronting by the circulation Of bearish
or pessilnistic information
tcepyEight, iss0A
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the sea of natrimony. The ratio OF
divorces to each thousand persons was
only "a. There was a total OF 5'6s4
marriages during the year, an increase
Of SO per cent over 1928. The ratio OF
marriages per 1000 persons was Ill.
Increase In Year.
In 1929 there were lis divorces here.
an increase Of 1873 per cent over the
previous year. There were 81 annul-
ments as compared with 81 the year
Matrimony claimed 1885,, $50 couples
in the United States last year, while
during the same period 20l.475 divorces
were recorded. This was an average Of
iO.l marriages for every 1000 Of popu-
Iation, while divorces totaled 1.66 per
thousand.
For the country at large. the mar
riages recorded one of the largest yearly
increases, numerically and in percent
age, exceeding the preceding years total
by 50,062. or AZ per cent. There had
been q decrease the preceding year OF
is by comparison with 1927. The
divorces, although showing an increase
of 80 per cent over 1928, could not keep
up with the growth in marriages.
The ratio of divorces to marriages,
computed by the department in re-
Spouse to numerous requests, showed
that for each 81 marriages performed
one couple was dissolved. The year be-
fore the ratio was an even to 1.
Nevada Double Leader.
Nevada was the outstanding leader
among the States both in marriage and
divorce. Divorces totaled 1883 and
were 20 per 1000 of population, but
the rate of marriages per 1,ooo. was
637 This was attributed largely by
the Government stausticians TO the
adoption of strict marriage laws by its
neighbor, California. The same reason
was given for Arizona's ratio of 17.3
per 1000. the second highest.
Across the continent, Delaware had
the lowest figure on marriages, only
So per 1000, with North Carolina close
upon it with six. North Carolina
showed considerable decrease from
the preceding year, the statisticiarls
said, because Of a law requiring fye
days notice prior to issuance Of
licenses to those under 81.
Georgia had the lowest proportion
of divorces to marriages, one being
granted only to each 1873 new unions.
In Nevada there was one divorce TO
each 2.3 marriages.
More Than 1O,0oo Divorces.
Numerically, Texas led in divorces,
with 1886. Illinois next with 1880;
Ohio had 1888, and California, 1909.
The only other State having more than
10000 divorces was Michigan with
1881.
New York reported the most mar
riages, with 1855; Illinois had
"a, 092. Pennsylvania 70,507; Ohio
$3.50; Texas 63,173, and California
completed the more than $4,000 class
with 1885
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15

and Germany and the possibility Ct
throwing Germany into Italy's arms.
Should such an eventuality materialize
France will have to face that new bloc
by herself.
May Be Bargaining Move.
Well informed quarters, however, are
inclined to think that Frances naval
program is nothing but last attempt
to obtain Mediterranean pact from
Great Britain and possibly a consulta-
tive pact from the United States.
This matter was discussed at length
in London during the Naval Conference
It Is true that the French never asked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
COMPANY REQUESTS
MORE POWER LINES
Asks 50-Year Franchise for Extern
siOns in West Virginia
County.
Special Dispatch to The star.

WINcHEsTER, Va. October 1S.-
q Potomac Edison Co. subsidiary, has
filed application with the County Court
of Jefferson County, w. Va, for a So
year franchise for electric power extern
sions in almost every section of thkt
county not already served by its lines.
Lines would be extended along many Of
the important State highways and
county roads. A hearing will be held
November 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
TWO WIVES IN JAIL
Husband Gets Black Eye Acting as
Peacemaker.

Ell, DORADO, Ark, october Is
(N.AsN.A9. The marital affairs OF
Willie Graham. colored, Of Fl Dorado,
Ark, are getting complicated.
Both his present and past wives live
in FL Dorado. Walking down the main
street recently with his incumbent wife,
his former wife decided she wanted him
back again. She tried honeyed words,
dazzling smiles and q sturdy right
uppercut.
All failed. Both wives are IN jail and
Willie has black eye, received when
he essayed the role of peacemaker.
Copyright, 1880. by North American News
paper Alliance.)
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iterranean feet has
caused considerable
apprehension In
political and diplo-
matte circles in
Washington. It is
fully realized that
France is today
sufficiently rich to
build almost any
sized navy it wants
to, but the wisdom
of doing so Is
doubted here.
II IS believed
h ere that the
FIR e n c h govern
ment must be fully
aware Of the re-
percusSionS of such
a program in Italy
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Kills Husband, Wounds Self.

EUDORA, Ark, October is Gpl.-Mrs.
Fannie Ferris, 80, shot and killed her
husband. r. E. Ferris, Al, at merchant,
and fatally wounded herself at their
home here last night. Mrs. Ferris had
been In III health for three years and
had threatened several times to kill
her husband and herself. neighbors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
Coatless Witness Fined.

MUNICH, Germany, october is OD
lit is highly improper for man to
appear =. court in Germany in his
shirtsleeves, however hot it may be-
A witness In a case at Darmstadt was
hned so marks. The Court Of Appeals
ct Munich reduced the fine TO Is marks
but censured the witness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15

MILAN, Italy. October is (R1s-A lg-
pound hanmock-tent which folds up
compactly is being tested by the war
and air ministries. It Is designed pri-
nnsrily for aviators who land in isolated
spots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
FINGER PRINTS FIGURED.
Memory Of Expert Finally Identified
Men in Bank Robbery.

Memory Of Expert Finally Identified
Men in Bank Robbery.
A blurred fngerprint of unusual de-
sign found on a murder car in Kansas
and traced to its owner through re-
markable memory feat on the part of
a fingerprint expert of the United States
Bureau of Investigation led to solution
of the Lamar bank robbery case and
the capture yesterday of Jake Fleagle,
master mind" of the two-year-old
crime.
Smudge on Car Side.
The smudgy finger mark which Jake
unwittingly left on the side of an auto
mobile in which the body Of murdered
physician had been sent over a steep
cliff near Dighton, Kans., not only be-
trayed Fleagle and his three accom-
plices, but cleared of suspicion several
innocent men who had been positively
identified" as the bank bandits by eye
witnesses.
The memory feat which resulted in
identification of the smudge as the
distinctive fingerprint of Jake Fleagle
was performed by Albert B. Ground,
flngerprint examiner of the national
division of identification of the United
States Bureau of Investigation. Ground
memorized the peculiar markings and
nearly q year later picked one exactly
like it from among the thousands of
prints handled daily.
Brother Arrested.
The identification caused the arrest
Of Jak. brother, Ralph, who confessed,
implied ing two others, Howard L.
Royston and George j. Abshir. Ralph
Fleagle, Royston and Abshir were
executed recently for their part In the
atrocity, but Jake had eluded capture
until yesterday.
director Hoover lasards the work Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

News that the French government
proposes to build in 1881 $4,000 tons of
warships ana begin construction Of
three pocket battleships" for the Med
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15

A movement has been started In
England to supply radio sets to the
$4,000 blind who have none.
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RATIO OF DIVORCE
IN DISTRICT LOWEST
IN ENTIRE COUNTRY

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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-13

purchases abroad have exceeded four
billion annually, This in spite of the
drop in prices of the chief articles
which are imported to this country.
For 1929 raw silk headed the list with
n value of $432, $40, 900, or almost half
u billion dollars, For the American
breakfast table this country paid the
coffee producing countries 1902, 207 900.
This country is the greatest consumer
OF rubber, sending abroad $229,663 900.
II Thomas Edison should discover a
rubber. substitute 1t would spell bank
ruptcy and starvation for the rubber
producing countries. Sugar Is next
with purchases abroad amounting TO
many millions of dollars. There would
be a real revolution in sugar producing
countries If this country should sud-
denly start to produce all the sugar
1t consumes,
without going farther into the i'm
mense purchases which this country
makes in the worlds market, 1t can
be stated that there is no danger OF
q trade war being declared by the
large producing countries against such
a good customer as the United States.
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A TOLERANT PEOPLE.

What would happen to the members
Of an American Syndicate that would
go to Russia and participate in bust
ness disturbance as the All-Russian
Textile Syndicate has in this country?
The Russian Syndicate, government
agency, helped in the reduction of the
price of wheat by selling short on the
Chicago Board of Trade.
Just as these operations were being
called to the attention of the country
and the officials of the Chicago Board
OF Trade by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, cable from Russia described
how six natives had been lined up
before the firing squad and shot for
forging bread tickets. Could syndi-
cate of Americans expect more If they
attempted to manipulate the price of
foodstuff and depress business in
Russia?
Or again, what could occur in
France If an American syndicate
should attempt such manipulations In
that country? In view of the treat :.
ment that was accorded William
Randolph Hearst for criticizing the
policy of the French Government, how
long would such American syndicates
be allowed to stay in that country If
it attempted to participate in the
manipulation of the prices of any
staple food.
We are tolerant people. Foreign
propagandists are permitted to do
things here that are not tolerated in
other countries.