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months at the various country
stores which center around Mitch
ellville.
Speculation was divided as to
whether the bomb was constructed
by the person who committed the
crime or whether a professional
racketeer in some other city had
made it for him for money con.
sideration.
1t apparently was intended to
kill both Naomi Hall Brady and
her husband who spent Sunday
with her at her fathers home
on Carmody Road in Seat Pleas
ant. The package was left Sat-
urday night on the front porch
Of Mrs. John Buckley, who lives
across the road from the Halls.
Box Delivered Wednesday
The Halls were newcomers to
that neighborhood and it was
three days later wehn Mrs. Buck
ley discovered where they lived
On Wednesday morning she gave
the package to Leslie Hall, 16
year-old brother Of the victim
who delivered it to his sister.
While the whole family was
gathered around her in the little
kitchen Of the Hall home, con
Sumed with curiosity as to who
had sent a "belated Christmas
gift" the package exploded with
a deafening roar and killed or
manned everyone who was in the
room.
Had the package been delivered
Sunday, it is pointed out, it is
most likely that young Brady and
his bride would have opened II
together and both would have
been killed.
The construction Of the bomb
was such that it exploded only
when 1t was opened, which ap
,parently was the object of the
sender. Some say that farmer
verSed in the use of dynamite
could have constructed the bomt
with the aid of a dry cell and
expert wiring.
The tragedy has caused con
siderable feeling, not only in Seal
Pleasant, but in the Mitchellville
Mullikin-Wo Woodmore section, where
the victims formerly lived. AL
though many suspect the former
alleged suitor Of the crime, they
want him given a fair trial, Il
sufficient evidence can be OBJ
tanned to indict, before paSSine
judgment on him.
Some threats Of mob violence
have been heard. but these threat.
are accompanied by the qualifica
tion that they must bo sure theS
have the right man"
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While officers are searching
the Catoctin Mountains, near
Frederick, Md. for Francis Lind.
say, young Virginian, alleged to
have robbed the Farmers and
Merchants National Bank, in
Hamilton, Va, yesterday, his
bride, a 17-year old Maryland girl
has been released from the Fred.
erick Jail.
The young woman was found in
the automobile from which Lind.
say is said to have fled leaving
$2,367 Of the $4,000 he is said to
have taken. Officers said they
did not think she knew anything
OF the robbery. She returned tc
her home in WalkerSville, Md
Virginia officers arrived in
Frederick today to take the auto.
mobile and money back to Their
State.
At police headquarters in
Frederick it was said today that
Lindsay Is still at large and his
knowledge of the mountain
country may enable him to elude
pursuit, for several days. Sheriff
William c. Roderick, of Frederick
county, is leading the pursuers.
First Bank Robbery
The robbery of the Hamilton
Bank was the first ever perpe.
trated in Loudoun county.
Theodore Reid, the cashier, said
an unmaSked robber, who police
say has been definitely identified
as Lindsay, first entered the bank
and asked for a $3.50 gold piece.
He said he had given one to his
small daughter for Christmas and
that his son now wanted one.
Reid turned to q vault to get
the gold piece. When he looked
around again he was facing a
gun. The robber scooped UP all
the money from the vault and
the cash drawers and placed it ir
some boxes he found in the
vault.
4ICANs VIII 4Ado OCCA1 CdS11lCE OILY
three days, said, Say, this is
tough on me; I have just taken
over this job"
The robber replied, "It's tough
on me, too. Times are pretty
hard"
The robber made a hasty get.
away and was seen to enter an
automobile. E. S. Adrian, sheriff
Of Youdoun county, led the pur.
suit across the Maryland line. At
Brunswick, Nd, the robber was
halted by a bridge keeper, the
officers learned. The bridge
keeper had received description,
but believed he was unable to
make an arrest, so allowed Lind.
say and his wife to proceed.
Car Spotted on Street
Lindsay was still in Frederick
when three Hamilton men who
had been in the pursuing party
arrived there. They were talking
to Frederick officers when a car
answering the, description of one
sought was seen on the street.
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c OAST GUARDWIFE IS FREED
EXONERATED IN ROBBERY

PROVIDENCE, r. I. Jan. 4.
Q.N.SO Coast Guard. men of
patrol boat No. 200, this after
noon absolved of all blame in
the killing of three alleged liquor
Smugglers aboard the. power
cruiser Black Duck by United
States Attorney Henry M. Boss,
jr.
Reports from both the Coast
Guard and from Department of
Justice agents, who have con-
Quoted a thorough investigation,
disclosed that the patrol boat
conformed to all requirements
before opening fire and that the
Black Duck was attempting to
escape, Boss said.
The law specifically reads, 1t
was stated, that a Coast Guard
boat may fire at or into a ship
which has refused to heave to-
The guardsmen of the No. 29O
sounded their horn, waved their
Searchlight on the Coast Guard
ensign at the mast head and
called to the speed boat to
heave to.
Instead, Boss said, the Black
Duck turned and, putting on
speed, attempted to get away, the
patrol boat gunners firing at her
stern.
The Speedboat sh"-~cd to the
left, he continued, and the gun
fire raked her deck.
The Federal attorney was un-
derStood to be considering the
advisability Of having the crew of
the No. 900 appear as voluntary
witnesses at the Newport county
grand jury proceedings tentatively
set for January 13, without ask
ing for immunity, but vney will
not appear at the resumption of
the State inquest on Monday at
Newport.
Federal and State prosecution
authorities were at odds today
over the killing of three alleged
liquor Smugglers by Coast Guard
machine gun fire.
On the heels of the refusal of
United States Attorney Boss to or
der the crew of the Coast Guard
patrol boat to appear at a State in
quest when sessions are resumed
on Monday, came the announce
ment today that Attorney General
Oscar L. HeltZen, of Rhode Island,
had ordered the crew hailed be-
fore a Newport county grand jury
next week.
Federal Attorney Boss had
turned over to State p~c .cution
authorities the names of the men
Of the No. 200, but inasmuch as
they are in Connecticut, at the
New London Coast Guard base,
and on Federal reservation, the
State is unable to s'"--mon thenl
for the inquest.
When he heard this. ~ - de
Island attorney general said:
"All right: We'll get them TIL
out the assistance Of A., '~ral
district attorney. If the facts
justify the contention that the
Coast Guard was criminally neg.
hgent we will try to have the
grand jury indict the crew Of No
29O on charges Of voluntary man.
slaughter"
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Another intensely interesting
inStalment of this amazing ex.
pose will appear exclusively in
The Washington Times %
Monday.
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ChicagO's RObber Gangs
Get $4,000 Loot in DaY

CHICAGO, Jan. 4 QN.SJ-In
a half-dozen robberieS yesterday
bandits secured loot in cash, cloth
ing and valuables totaling more
than $4,000. One robber gang
was dissolved when police ar.
rested two leaders of a stick-up
group who implicated others, In
cluding q woman "decoy."
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him at various times. Shelby said
they later checked up on these
witnesses.
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(cOntinusd from Page One)
Sonal stories of 15- and 16-year.
old girls Etdn ped by t0hite.
SlauerS; how debauchery, IN.
rivGled in human experience, is
offered utSitors; how millions are
arrested from DeGlthy viSitorS in
fake rambling houses; hoD Fed,
erdl and local lGWS are openly
flouted, and etc.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-The irony
of the Coast Guards who sold the
liquor they seized by numbering
unarmed drunken men is nowhere
in the country so keenly under.
stood as by the civilian population
of Atlantic City, cowed by a reign
Of terror, imposed jointly by cor.
rupt officials and rum runners.
To Atlantic City-not the pol
iShed veneer of the visitors board
walk, but the real city of $4,000
fiSherfolk and wage earnerS-Sale
Of seized liquor by officials, carouS
ing of drunken Coast Guards and
hijacking, terrorist murders are
an old story.
Shift from New York
The occupation of Atlantic City
by the rum-vice-gambling gangs
dates back little more than two
years. The shore resort has never
observed the prohibition law anc
always offered vice and gambling
to its visitors, but not until thu
gangs corrupted the right Gov
ernment officials was there com
plete and open defiance of all law
1t was when the costs of bribery
in the New York district became
too expensive that Rum Row be
gan to shift southwark.
The lower New Jersey coast, in
the Atlantic city district, hao
been smugglers' paradise since
pre-Ctvil War days, and the only
Joker Of its use today in bringing
in the large part of the nations
Illicit whisky supply is that il
is impossible to land a load in this
area without passing within a
short distance Of q Coast Guard
land lookout.
Seizures Rare
Coast Guard officials admitted
to the Evening Journal that al
though every mile of the lower
New jersey coast line is under
day and night surveillance by
land lookoutS, shore patrol boats
and off shore patrolS-only half
a dozen seizures have been made
during the past year.
The Evening Journal in Subse.
quent articles will show on maps
exactly where rum is being un.
loaded over the famous Atlantic
City boardwalk and in nearby in.
lets and how the Coast Guard
lookout stations and patrol boats
cover every mile of this coast.
Coast Guard Orgies
It will also tell Of drunken or.
gies participated in jointly by
coast guards and bootleggerS, anc
how certain coast guardsmer
themselves bootleg seized liquor.
On the admission of com
manding officer of the Coast
Guard, as will be explained later
it is rarely that a shipment Of
Government seized liquor reache!
Government warehouses in its en-
tirety.
On the admission Of a United
States Customs official the Gov
ernment knows of the identity
and operations of leading rum
running groups but is powerleSS
to bring about their arrests.
The rum-running racket in thu
Atlantic City district, supplying
New York and most of the EaS
is divided into several groups.
These men come in for a "cut'
on nearly all of the liquor sold il
Atlantic City.
Two Of these are powers higt
in local politics.
The third is "Scarface" Al. Ca
pone, car af the nations under
! world, whose Incarceration in
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him at various times. Shelby said
they later checked up on these
witnesses.
Stayed There Two Hours
Continuing his testimony, Shell
by repeated young McPherson's S
story of his movements on the
night of September IL and the
morning Of the following day.
!, I'VE remained at the McPher-
son home for two or two and a
half hours" Shelby said. 1T
was a most exhaustive, thorough
and painstaking investigation"
Shelby also told of an inter
view with Miss Martha Berry, a
friend Of Mrs. Mcpherson. over
whose presence in the Mcpherson
apartment the dead woman and
her husband are alleged to have
quarreled. Shelby stated that
Miss Berry described Mrs. Nc
PherSon as being "high-Strung,
erratic and subject to fits Of de-
preston"
He said Miss Berry told him
and Kelly that Mrs. Mcpherson
had attempted suicide on several
previous occasions.
Spoke Of Light
The inspector then told Of a
conversation which he and Kelly
had with Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Heavrin, of the Park Lane Apart
ments, in which they told of hav-
ing heard sounds Of a domestic
quarrel on the morning when
Mrs. Mcpherson is supposed to
have met her death. He said
that the HeavrinS told him there
was a light In an apartment in
the Lombardy Apartments, across
an area-way from the Park Lane,
at the time they heard the
sounds.
Shelby said that checking up
on the apartments in the LON
hardy he went to the room
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Brown. He said Brown told
him:
well, if anyone heard sounds
of a domestic quarrel on that
morning they undoubtedly came
from this apartment.
MY wife and I had a bitter
quarrel"
Shelby also said Brown ad-
mitted saying to his wife, Wen
have to get out Of here. I'm
going to take my damned
clothes and leave here in the
morning.
CrOSS-ExaminatiOn Begins
Following the luncheon recess
Shelby was turned over to Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Robert
E. Lynch. The prosecutor ques-
toned the witness at considerable
length without in any way weak
ening the story which Shelby told
on direct examination.
Shelby found an opportunity
during the croSS-examination to
remark that young Mcpherson is
a very fine young man."
Also under crosS-examination,
Shelby denounced as "dastardly"
the report of the Grand Jury
which is the basis of the present
charges against him and Kelly.
Shelby frankly admitted that
while before the Grand Jury he
he'd declared that damnable
woman and that man Allen ought
to be indicted for perjury He
denied, however, that he was in
a rage when he made the remark.
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Drunken Coast Guards
Cow Atlantic CITY
photo by Underwood & Underwood

Philadelphia cell has not incon-
venienced his operations.
UnmOIested BY Guard
The major portion Of rum
rows fleet now lies off shore
southeast of Atlantic City, M.
rectly opposite the huge Coast
Guard base station at Cape May.
The great Coast Guard off
shore deStroyers, it is charged by
a Coast Guard officer of the At
lantic City district, do not molest
these boats, although their pres
ence is known to the Coast
Guards.
These ships operate out Of the
tiny French Island of st. Pierre,
near Newfoundland. The rum
ships used today are low-lying
schooner hulls with high-speed
Diesel motors.
They carry two short radio
masts. The radio sets on these
boats, powerful as those on trans
atlantic liners, communicate with
bootlegger station on shore on the
amateur wave length.
Landing instructions are given
in code designed to sound like
amateur stations communicating
with each other, sending call
initials and harmless exchanges
Of greetings.
False Papers Used
These boats are furnished by
officials at st. Pierre with a
dozen sets of false papers. AS the
liquor is sold, the papers are de
Stroyed, so that the master of
the vessel will always have on
hand papers calling for the pos
session of the amount of liquor
he has on board.
These papers are sold at $25 a
set.
st. Pierre officials make a
practice of deporting United
States Department of Justice
agents as soon as their Identities
are learned.
The deception is made still
more complicated by frequent
changes of the vessels name be-
fore and after stopping at st.
Pierre. Papers also covered these
changes of names.
Thus, at any time, these boats
are stopped off shore, they will be
carrying proper papers for a con-
Signment of liquor from st. Pierre
to some Central American port.
Brothers Land Rum
Two brothers in Atlantic City,
whose operations are admittedly
known to Customs and Coast
Guard officials. do most Of the
landing for the big rum-running
syndicateS.
In turn, they hire small boat
owners, who, for a consideration
of $1,000 a load, meet the rum
ship at the appointed place, take
on a load, and land it at desig"
mated spot where trucks are wait
ing. Rum ring killers accompany
them on these trips. The rum
overlords take no chances.
The trucks usually carry Q
three-ton load of liquor, and are
equipped with high sped trans
mission capable of making 60 to
20 miles an hour.
They are preceded and followed
by armored sedanS carrying gun
men.
All of these cars carry auto.
matte devices to change license
plates so rapidly that a pursuing
car cannot take down the num-
berS. These operations will be
fully described later.
At the time when gangsterS
were needed by the Atlantic City
rum baronS, New York, Philadel-
phia, Chicago and other cities
were driving gunner from their
lairs and these desperadoes found
warm welcome in Atlantic City.
Another intensely interesting
instalment of this amazing ex-
pose will appear exclusively in
The Washington Times %
! Monday.
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
MISS MEADE BURIED

WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. A.
The funeral of the late Miss Alice
Carey Meade, member Of a dis
tinguiShed Winchester family
took place from the home of her
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Shirley
Carter. this eitys
The Washington times., 1930-01-04
Sales of Dynamite Checked
In Vicinity of MitcheLLUiUe

Prince and Detective Sergeant
John Fowler of Washington spent
most of yesterday morning check
ing dynamite sales in recent
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q fen days before returning to wash
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MARKET FOR MEDALS
IS WELL PATRONIZED
Manager Says Trade Picks Up on
Days When People Can Dis
play Priced Insignia.
py the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 14.-Berko-
Wits loan office on Cooper square has
found that folks is funny about
medals"
Nat Tinkel, manager, remarked yes
terday that the medal market is sort of
mirror of people.
They come in" said Tinkel, land
look over my medals. They tell me they
captured Eau de Cologne single handed,
or wiped out half dozen machine gun
nests all by themselves, and they want
to buy medals that will honor their ex-
plot.
They oil banker to pin the medals
on their coats and strut out into the
public gaze. On holidays like Armistice
day the number of buns standing
around on street corners down here
and wearing medals would make q fell
low think all the heroes were hoboes.
"Of course, don't sell them Amer
lean medals unless they can prove they
are entitled to them, but they're well
come to all the foreign decorations they
can pay for.
THE people who pawn medals
they're different Mostly they won their
decorations. They pawn them to get
money to buy something to eat"
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: MI walter Hughes Newton. secre-
tary I'd the President. entertained q
small company at luncheon yesterday
at the Willard.
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Mrs. Walter Franc of Columbus, Ohio,
came to Washington yesterday and is
guest at Wardman Park Hotel for a
weeks stay.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Ladder Mackall have
loaned their home, 2401 Woodley place,
for a card party this evening for the
Magruder Chapter, d. A. r.
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George Z. Tew, Mrs. Patrick Farrell,
ards. Mrs. John 8. West, MRS. j. Harry
Cunningham and Mrs. Robert Figitt
were guests.
Mr.. b. H. Barndollar, disbursing ON
Ger of the Alaska Railroad, located at
Anchorage, Alaska, is In Washington,
his former home, on business.
The state Committee Of the Sons and
Daughters of the Republic of the
ID. A. r. will give theater party to
the children who are members OF their
several clubs Saturday morning at 8
o'clock, at the Fox Theater, to see the
picture, 1.-THE Big Trail" This COM
mittee is carrying out an extensive pro-
gram IN good citizenship, love Of our
nag and country among its club this
Winter.
Mrs. Walter Franc of Columbus, Ohio,
came to washington yesterday and is
guest at Wardman Park Hotel for a
weeks stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ladder Mackall have
loaned their home, 2401 Woodley place.
for a card party this evening for the
Magruder Chapter, d. A. r.
The Gamma Eta Zeta Fraternity,
womans honorary fraternity In journal
ism of George washington University,
is giving banquet this evening for les
initiates at the Dodge Hotel. The gueScs
of honor will be Provost and Mrs. VII
liam A. Wilbur, Dean and Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, Prof. and Mrs. Elmer
Louis Kayser, DR.. and Mrs. Robert w.
Bolwell. Prof and Mrs. Dudley l.. Smith
and Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Bement.
Addresses will be made by the guests
and the pledges.
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WOMAN ASKS 100000
ESTATE OF PUBLISHER
Had Been Companion of L. H.
Mitchell Two Years, Says Miss
Mabel Kelsea in Suit.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. November 14.-Miss Mabel
Kelsea. %, fled suit in Circuit Court
yesterday in an effort to obtain the
100000 estate Of l.. H. Mitchell, poultry
magazine publisher. She alleged that
for two years prior to Mitchell's death
she had been his companion, with the
agreement that he was to name her his
sole heir.
Mitchell died intestate. Beneficiaries
named under the rules of relationship
are Miss Elizabeth Keown, Maremont,
Ohio, niece. and a brother, Urgene
Mitchell, Louisville, KY.
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FEAR STORM FATAL
TO MEN IN CANOE
Coast Gnardsmen Believe Heavy
Weather Yesterday Must Have
Sent Small Craft to Bottom.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, November IA
With unsettled weather forecast for to-
day over the entire Pacific Coast area,
hopes dimmed of finding two men In a
16-foot canoe who were thought to
have persisted in Santa Barbara Cham
mel yesterday during a storm.
The men, Frederick Reik and Fred
erick Pohl, were on projected canoe
trip from San Francisco to Montevideo,
Uruguay. Once lost, they landed safely
at Santa Barbara after being overdue
at Monterey, another port on their
schedule. They rode out heavy seas for
a week before landing at Santa Bar
bara.
Coast Guardsmen said they believed
1t impossible for the boat to have kept
afloat through the last storm, but a
search was being continued for the
canoe.
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Unique Honor Paid War Heroes.

BENSON DI PAVE. Italy, November
IA (P).-As monuments to war heroes
italy is erecting radio towers crowned
by large flags which are illuminated at
night. An ex-Service mems periodical
says such a tower is inspiring, instead
of being obscured at a celebration, as
is the case with most monuments.
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Diplomat Of Turkey to
Sneak at W0men's Club.

Mrs. Bulent Bey, secretary of the Turk
ish embassy, will talk on Turkey. a
New Nation in an Old Land" at the
forum luncheon of the Women'S City
Club tomorrow at l o'clock.
Subscribing members are: Mrs. Will
liam Lee Corgin, Mrs. Francis d.
Merchant, Judge Mary O'Toole, Mrs.
A. B. Stewart, Mrs. B. L. Owens, Miss
Mate H. Lewis, Mrs. Patrick Gallagher,
Mrs. Henry Seymour, Miss Sophie Casey,
Miss Violet A. Hambleton, Mrs. Merritt
o. Chance, Miss M. e. Croggon, Mrs.
w. B. Rogers, Miss Margaret Vail, Mrs.
Jennie o. Berliner, Mrs. Grace Hays
Riley, Mrs Lawton Miller. Mrs. Gertrude
Notes, Mrs. Appleton p. Clark, Miss
Sara Woodward, Mrs. G. H. Claudy and
Mrs. e. A. Decker.
The Political Study Club will hold
its November meeting tomorrow at the
washington Club when the members
will hear a talk on THE Lure of the
Forest" by Mr.. H. N. Wheeler, chief
lecturer of the United States Forestry
Service. Mrs. Dorothy Sinnott will sing
Trees" The guests of honor at the
social hour following will be Mrs. r. Y.
Stuart. wife of the chief of the For
estry Service; Mrs. II. N. Wheeler, wife
of the speaker; Mrs. E. A. Sherman,
Mrs. Fred Morrell and Mrs. George
Lautz.
Mrs. Arthur Tew entertained at the
Kenwood Club on Tuesday, November
IL, at luncheon and bridge when Mrs.
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Says He Is Oldest Active Tailor.

MONS. Belgium, November II R1.-
THE dean OF Mons as his friends know
him, believes he Is the Oldest active tai
lor in the world. Philip Goslin, %, has
been stitching since he was IL years
old,
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AL Smith to Write for Press.

NEW YORK, November IA (P.-Al-
fred E. Smith is to write q weekly
article for newspaper syndicate, be-
ginning in January. It will be from
1000 to 1900 words.
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sEAMAN's BODY SOUGHT

Heavy Seas Impede Search for Lost
Naval Man.
SAN PEDRO. Calf, November IA
R.-,A search impeded by heavy seas
was conducted today for the body. of
william I. VIM, Is, apprentice sea
man on the aircraft carrier u. 8.
Lexington, washed overheard and
drowned yesterday. VIM was the son
Of c. H. VIM, Paducah, KY.