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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
CUSTOMS MEN CUT
LIQUOR IMPORTATION
Commissioner Describes Work in
Radio, Address Over N. B. C.
System.

The alertness of customs officers has
brought about dropping of in efforts
to bring liquor to this country from
Canada, F. x. A. Eble. commissioner
of customs, said in a radio address last
night.
Speaking over the National Broad
casting Co. system from Washington,
Eble said that among the $4,000, 900
persons who entered the country from
Canada and Mexico by automobile and
boat last year were many who sought
to evade the law. without success
A force Of TOO inspectors and 500
patrol officers are located at the various
ports of entry and along the inter-
national highways, Eble said. He en-
phasized that their duties are not con-
fined to detection of contraband, but
include compliance with those pro-
visions Of the tariff law having to dc
with customs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
PARTY WILL BACK NORRIS.
Boiling in 1928 Will Not Cost Senate
Support of Machine.

Boiling in 1928 Will Not Cost Senator
Support of Machine.
BY the Associated Press.
Boiling the party fold in 1928 to sup
port Alfred E. Smith for President will
not cost Senator Norris of Nebraska sup
port of the Republican national machine
If he is successful today in obtaining
his party's denomination.
This edict was given out late yeSter-
day by Senator FeSS of Ohio, the new
chairman of his party's national COM
mittee, following a conference at the
White House.
The National Committee can make
no discrimination among candidates"
Tess said. 1T is interested only in
the principles involved. It is the duty
of the, committee to support the nomi-
nees chosen in party primaries"
The statement was made in reply to
a question on whether Norris would
be supported. At the same time, Tess.
leaving for a To-day vacation on the
Great Lakes, said Immediately upon his
return the national organization would
be ready to open a vigorous campaign
for the denomination of the party
nominees to Senate and House seats.
He outlined as outstanding issues OF
the general campaign President Hoo
ver's administration, the tariff and farm
relief He discounted both prohibition
and the World Court issue as campaign
topics, saving both questions cut too
deeply into both parties to become a
source of conflict between Republicans
| and Democrats.
Chairman Nye of the Senate Cam
paign Funds Committee said in a state
ment yesterday he expected to prove
that influence was brought to bear on
George w. Norris, grocery clerk, to file
lot IT, nIRr clyn ct
Senator Norris.
The clerks attempt to contest against
Senator Norris was barred by the courts
on the ground that he filed too late.
Senator Norris had intended to run as
an independent in the event the grocery
man was allowed to enter the Repub-
lican senatorial primary, asserting iden-
tical names on the ballot would cause
hopeless confusion.
Nye said his committee would resume
hearings in Nebraska September /.
Nye's statement took notice of charges
made in Nebraska that his previous in
vestigation OF the candidacy of the sec
| ond George w. Norris was a result Of
prejudice.
The charges of prejudice are base
less" Nye said, and the committee
will be able as result of the scheduled
hearings to demonstrate that 1t is not
true George w. Norris OF Broken Bow
was a candidate as a result of his own
| or lone choosing and will be able TO
prove others were instrumental in caus-
| ing him to announce himself a candi-
date for the Senate and that his can
| didacy was not one In good faith"
The place for the Nebraska hearings
has not been determined. Nye expects
Senators Dale, Republican. Vermont,
| and Wagner. Democrat, New York, to
attend.
| After the Nebraska hearing the COM
mittee will resume the hearings on the
| Illinois primary In Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
DESERTED WATTS
PARENTS SOUGHT
Helpless Child, 8 Months Old,
Left With Nurse by Wom-
an Who VanisheS.

1t Is hoped her parents will relent and
come for Mary De Clare" the most
forlorn, the most helpless of all the
waits.
The 8-month-old infant was left to
board at the hom@ OF a professional
nurse in Takoma Park, Md, by a wom-
an, who never returned.
Five weeks have passed and no word
has come from the woman-five weeks
in which the child has never smiled,
has never recognized her nurse, Mrs.
Edith Richard.
Mrs. Richard took the child in be-
cause she saw it was afflicted and be-
cause the woman pleaded with her. The
woman paid $3.50 for the first weeks
board and drove of in a large taxicab.
While Mrs. Rlckard was making in
quiry, learning that the woman had
given fictitious address and name, the
child lay in its crib and rolled its vacant
head from side to side.
Authorities Seek Parents.
The child never utters a sound I'M
less hungry, her head never ceases roll
ing until she sleeps. Doctors say her i'm
movable, great black eyes may have Wis
ual power, although she gives no sign
of seeing.
Maryland authorities and the Mont
gomery County Social Service League
IN particular, have made every effort to
locate the parents. They have no in
stitution which can receive the waif,
no funds to provide her board.
Mrs. Richard herself has q large
family. The little waif she is caring
Tor takes much of her time which she
can Ill spare from her other duties.
WQ1f iC In
and rolls its head until exhausted and
unable to do SO longer. The child
is swarthy, black-eyed and has black
hair.
Physicians are of the opinion she is
possibly gypsy.
A man with foreign accent tele-
phoned Mrs. Richard a week after the
wait was left at her home. He inquired
anxiously of the infants health, and
then gave fictitious name and address,
Address Found Non Existent.
The woman who brought the waif
said she was Mrs. j. p. johnson" of an
address later found nonresident. She
said the mother was outside in the taxi,
too Ill to come in.
The woman explained the mother
must go away for her health, and would
Mrs. Rickard accept the infant for only
a few weeks. They didn't bring the
child's clothes, she said, because of
fear the child would not be accepted.
Those would be sent tomorrow.
The woman further said the waits
father was a tailor, living at an adj
dress which never existed.
Doctors say the childs faculties might
be restored IN a measure by prolonged
hospital treatment and perhaps an
operation. But all that Is expensive
Without any comprehension, without
any feeling save that of hunger, with
out any home and without any place to
go or even name, the childs single
hope seems to be that her parents will
have change of heart, will come and
get her and help her to live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
AMATEUR CHEMIST
SURVIVES BLAST
Hands of Boy, Is, Injured in
Experiment, Will Prob
ably Be Saved.

Ralph Lowe, 15-year-old amateur
chemist, learned at Emergency Hospital
today that all 10 of his fingers prob
ably will survive the explosion which
shook Ralph's home. at 1929 lakewood
terrace, yesterday afternoon, an instant
after Ralph made laboratory test in
the basement.
Although Ralph's father, DIR. Clifton
d. Lowe, is an animal husbandryman
in the Department of Agriculture,
Ralph himself is more interested in
sometimes violent, reactions.
When Ralph closed out his term at
Western High School last June he was
so proficient in chemistry that the in
Structor allowed him to clean up the
laboratory. The instructor also per-
mitted Ralph to take several odds and
ends of the sEelves-leftoVers and
such from the closing term.
With them Ralph equipped a lab
oratory in his basement. He liked TO
experiment almost as much as he liked
to SWIM and while he wasn't swim
ming Ralph was experimenting.
From time to time he ADDED to his
stock of chemicals by purchases from
the neighborhood drug store.
Ralp1's mother was somewhat dis
tressed by the strange compounds whlcf
Ralph concocted and sought TO dlVer'
hin. to other pursuits. But at every OPP
,rtunity Ralph went back to his base
ment.
The doctors say, however, tina
Ralph's experiments probably will cos
him no more than several days in thu
| hospital. His left hand was badly LAGER
ated, but his fingers likely will b.
saved.
Ralph explained he had been making
a torpedo by pouring a chemical com
bination of his own invention into
copper tube, which he sealed.
Ralph, being only an amateur chem
ist. wasn't sure it was a good torpedo
mixture, so he hit 1t with a hammer
1t was an excellent torpedo RALPH
| learned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12


high school when he was IL years old.
He completed his course at Harvard in
three years.
Not Husky and Robust.
The future head of the American
Telephone Telegraph Co. was not a
very husky and robust lad. When his
companions were playing base ball, foot
ball and other games he was generally
OF getting his exercise and recreation
by collecting butterflies and other in
sects. He had notable collection when
he was high school pupil. They were
all catalogued under their Latin names.
His mother had been a school teacher
before her marriage. While she had
other children, she was able to devote
much time to teaching her son Walter.
The lads memory was not of the best
when he was Schoolboy, and as a re-
suit he learned early to dig out the
facts. He was able to remember them
by not attempting to clutter his mind
with non-essential details.
1t was an excellent lesson for the
youngSter to learn. Perhaps much Of
his success in the business world can
be laid to his ability to eliminate unim-
portant details and get down to the
bed rock Of proposition.
His college course was a success. 1t
didn't give him an inflated idea of his
knowledge or ability, as his letter Of
application for his first job shows. He
had learned that man has to begin
at the bottom to be of real value to
himself or to a business. He was
willing, as he wrote. to take anything,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
Arrival of Heir
Ends Divorce Pact
OF Young Couple

BY the Associated Press.
SOUDERTON, Pa, August 12.-Mr.
and Mrs. William Kenneth Meyer, who
were married here on January after
signing contract that either was
privileged to obtain a divorce without
consulting the other If there was no
issue within two years, today announced
the birth of a son.
Mr.. Meyer, who is a free-lance writer
of Chicago, said the child weighed s1a
pounds and arrived at 3 o'clock this
morning. The father and mother were
delighted.
The baby was born at the home OF
Mr.. Movers parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Alb
ner Meyer, prominent residents Of this
town.
Mrs. Meyer before her marriage was
Ethel Olyette Amelia Den OF Sun
Prairie, Wis,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
LIVELY CONTEST IN OHIO.
Five Democrats Run for Senate with
Dry Law as Issue.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, August IL Or
Except for a lively five-cornered con-
test for the Democratic nomination for
United States Senator, in which pro-
hibition was one of the chief issues,
Ohio's primary today created only
nominal excitement.
On the Republican side balloting was
virtually a formality. United States
Senator Roscoe McCulloch was unop-
posed. Gov. Myers Y. Cooper also was
without opposition.
Prohibition was made the issue In
the Democratic senatorial race when
one of the candidates, former Repre-
sentative Robert j. Buckley of Cleye-
land, came out for repeal of the eight
zenith amendment and a second, George
S. Myers, also of Cleveland, for modi-
f1cation.
Former State Director of Agriculture
Charles v. Truax of Buckyrus and w.
w. Durbin of Kenton kept silent on the
question. The fifth candidate, former
Representative John McSweeney of
Wooster, was supported by the Anti
Saloon League.
Only small percentage of the g.
100000 eligible voters were expected to
cast ballots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
RECEIVES BORDER REPORT

The State Department last night re-
ceiVed from the American embassy in
Mexico City, the report of the Inter
national Boundary Commission, on
adjustment of the course of the Rio
Grande.
1t is expected that statement will
be made on the subject this week, after
consultations with the division of Mexi-
can affairs, the assistant secretaries
and the solicitors ONCE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
PERSONALITIES INJECTED.
OkIahOma's Democratic Run-Off Elec
ton Ends Bitter Campaign.

OkIahOma's Democratic Run-Oh EIec-
ton Ends Bitter Campaign.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, August IL
P).-Table manners and mode of dress
were among the issues in Oklahoma's
Democratic run-off primary election
today. -
The election ended brief, but bitter
campaign. The principal contests were
between William H. (Alfalfa Bid Muir
ray and Frank Buttram, gubernatorial
aspirants and It. P. Gore and c. j.
Wrightsman, seeking party designation
as senatorial nominee.
Gore and Wr:ghtSman has concen-
trated their campaign about each others
alleged ineligibility. Gore and his sup
porters have charged that Wrightsman
spent excessively in the campaign.
Wrightsman's partisans have charged
Cores candidacy has violated gentle
mans agreement" as to representation
from different sections of the State.
The winner will oppose Senator W..
B. Pine, incumbent, in November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
Lesson Costs Henry $4,000.

BALTIMORE. August II (P.-With
Henry Benson 1t was merely case Of
swapping a stomach ache for head
ache. Suffering with the former, he
gave a Gypsy woman $4,000 in bills to
make plaster out of them to cure him.
He wore it five days and then discovered
the $4,000 had shrunk to So. That's
when Henry got the headache.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
SHELBY WILL ADDRESS
WASHINGTON OPTIMlSTS
Metropolitan Police Detective Head
to Speak on General Problems
Confronting Officers.

Inspector William S. Shelby, chief of
the Detective Bureau of the Metro
politan Police, will be the principal
speaker at the weekly luncheon meet
ing of the Washington Optimist Club
tomorrow afternoon in the grill room
of the Hamilton Hotel, it was an
nounced today by Wash B. Williams,
president of the club.
Inspector Shelby will speak generally
OF the problems that confront police
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12

in Washington and in other large
cities, it is announced.
Herbert B. Nevius, governor of the
Optimist International sixteenth
district, and member. of the Washing
ton club, on Thursday will visit the
Baltimore Optimist Club, taking with
him David Wolf, Washington clubs IS
year-old orator, who recently won the
Optimist International oratorical con-
test at the convention in Erie, Pa.
A delegation of Washington Optimists
will also make the visit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12

ming There is no qualification out
side of an intention necessary. And
by the way, we lost mighty good
ex-senator out here this week,
james Phelan. a philanthropist, a
gentleman. With these qualifica-
lions, naturally Democrat. A fine
fellow was Jimmy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
COURSE OF BOILERS IN DOUBT.
More Than 10000 Expected TO Cast
Ballots in Alabama.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, August IL CAo).
Approximately $4,000 Alabama Dem
ocrats, who supported the Republican
presidential nominee in 1923 and
brought the State within 1000 votes
of the Hoover column, had the choice
of returning to the Democratic party
in today's primary or Withholding their
ballots for independent Candidates
headed by Senator J. Thomas Hef1in.
Estimates of the vote ranged from
10000 to 100000.
While John H. Bankhead, Jasper at
torney, ard Frederick I. Thompson,
Mobile publisher, have fought for the
Democratic nomination for senator,
Hefiin, for 81 years an Office holder as
member of the party has stumped
the State urging voters to remain away
from the polls, or at least cast their
ballots in the county races only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
28.OOO-FOOT JUMP
FROM PLANE CLAIMED
Barograph Sent Here May Prove
Parachute Leap Establishes
Record.

BY the Associated Press.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. August
Jimmy Donohue yesterday made a
parachute jump from what he believed
an altitude of $4,000 feet, a new world
record.
seal Paragraph was carried and
will be sent to Washington for cali
bration.
The former record, held by an Army
flyer, was $4,000 feet, Donohue said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12

PITMAN. N. j., August IA police
tag of another kind awaits visiting mo-
florists here. 1t reads: Welcome to
Pitman. This card entities you to park
your car as long as you please in
Pitman. Never mind the time limit.
but do not park In safety@zo zones. or
near FIRE MIGRANTS. or block alleys, and,
above all. observe our speed laws"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
BY ]. ". FITZ GERALD.

College students. If they are ambitious
and need to make their way in the
world, begin to hunt jobs in the Spring
before their graduation. Walter s. Gift
ford was in this class He decided, in
his senior year at Harvard, that he
wanted to work for the General Elec-
trio Co.
He sought no friends to find an open
ing for him. Instead he sat down and
wrote letter applying for job. He
directed the envelope to the Western
Electric Co. by mistake. He received an
application blank from that company in
reply. While embarrassed by his error
in writing a letter to General Electric,
and then sending 1t in an envelope ad-
dressed to Western Electric, he forgot
about it when he was hired as a clerk
by the latter company. His pay was
$40 a week.
Might Serve as Model.
His. letter Of application might well
serve as model to young men today
who are seeking to get their start in the
business world. He wrote, in part
1T is my wish to enter some good
business as soon as possible after
leave here. Now If there is only some
position ono matter what, provided there
will be a fair chance for a rise If 1t Is
deServe6 in the General Electric Co.
should like to try it and would endeavor
to suit
THE fact that for two years out
here. studied great deal on the
mechanical side mathematics, chem
istry, etc. may help as to the kind of
a position could fill. began with the
intention of becoming a mining en-
gineer, but for several reasons have
abandoned it.
IF you wish any references, ETC., I
think I could get them, fdf, of course,
you know nothing about what sort Of
fellow am"
Walter S. Clifford was born in Salem,
Mass in 1885. He wrote his letter of
application in 1904. the year he was
graduated from Harvard. His early
education was received in the public
schools of his native city. He was a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
FIVE STATES PICK /.
NOMINEES TODAY
Voting Holds Political Fate of
National Figures in
Senate Races.
Continued From First Page.)

lief and attacked Robinson as a friend
of the power trust"
The senatorial campaign was marked
by vigorous thrusts at Senator Robin
sons candidacy by j. A. Conner, grand
dragon of the Ku Klux Khan in Arkan-
sas, who urged support of Campbell on
the ground of Robinson's inclusion on
the 1928 presidential ticket with Alfred
E. Smith. Conner was barred from the
primary.
Gov. Harvey Parnell is seeking the
Democratic nomination for a second
term Brooks Hays, Little Rock at
torney: County Judge John c. Sheffield
of Helena and Thornberry Gray of
Batesville are his opponents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12

out the ones
that were to
run. Now they
pick themselves.
You put an ad
in the papers
saying you be-
lieve that you are
needed" Maybe
it's an original
idea with you,
but there is no
way of keeping
Won from RIM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
THREE MEDICAL OFFICERS
ARE ADVANCED IN RANK
Lieutenants on Duty at Reed Hos
pital Promoted by Order
to Captains Grade.

Promotion of three medical officers
at Walter Reed Hospital from the grade
of lieutenant to that of captain was an
nounced by the headquarters of the 3rd
Corps Area, United States Army, today.
The officers are: William H. Lawton,
whose home is in Garrett, S. c.; James
E. Yarbrough CT Spring Hope, N. c.,
and Abner Zehm of Minneapolis.
Capt. Lawton was a graduate OF
George Washington University In the
class of 1927. Capt. Yarbrough gradu-
ated from Jefferson Medical College in
1927, and Capt. zehm graduated from
the University of Minnesota in 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
Sun Tan Carried Too Far

RAMAPO, N. Y, August IL (R).-This
thing of getting a tan can be carried
too far. So decided some shocked resi-
dents of Pomona when they came upon
four young women and seven young men
who had carried the idea quite far, In
deed. AS q result a fine Of S. was levied
on each. -
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SISTERS BURN TO DEATH
Lose Lives in Fire Which Destroys
Farm House.

LODI, Calf, August IL (R-Mrs.
Claud Hall, IS, Los Angeles, and Esther
BuIch, %, and Josephine Bunch, Il,
sisters, were burned to death in fire
which; destroyed the Bunch farm house
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-Today
is another primary day. In the old
days when Senators were Senators,
why the State Legislatures picked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
WALTER S. CLIFFORD SEEKING JOB EARLY, WROTE
TO WRONG FIRM, BUT ACCOMPLISHED PURPOSE
Sought Employment With
General Electric, but Land
ed With Western Electric.
PAY WAS $40 PER WEEK
Only Asked Position With
Chance to Rise if
Deserved.

This is the eighth of a series of 10
articles on the boyhood of famous Ameri-
cans and telling how they got their
start in life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12

Argentina sent nearly 81 100000 worth
of fox furs to the United States in the
last IL months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
Watned to Stand Alone.

as long as 1t offered an opportunity for
advancement II he made good.