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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05

A few prize skeletons are dragged out
Of their hiding places in the past Of
Washington (and other cjtieS) by the
National Association Of Real Estate
Boards to illustrate the. point that while
there is much clamor today over tax
improvement over those Of early days
of the Republic.
These skeletons are records OF the
tremendous lotteries which were oper-
ated here as means of providing funds
for the erection of public buildings,
lottery schemes said to have been Or
ganized by the District Commissioners
with the tacit approval of the President.
"The present tax system may not
please many people, but at least we do
not have the special assessment by lot
terry" the association comments in an
article describing the crazy for chance
drawings that swept the country In the
eighteenth century, and how Congress
even app owed the financing Of public
canal through the sale of thousands OF
bits of pasteboard.
Once started, the lottery system Of
public finance increased by leaps and
bounds, but it finally brought about
evils and abuses which destroyed public
confidence in the method and put IT
officially to an end.
1IIC 1OllOWAI6 Ahl0bA6oS OeSSNN OAN 80
study of history, are reported by the
National Realtor Association:
Lottery of 1898.
In 1893 the funds for the erection of
the public buildings for the Capital City
were running low and the Commission
ers of the District of Columbia organ
lied lottery to raise $3.50, 900 for the
improvement of the Federal City" They
appointed a Samuel Blodget (author OF
the first American statistical work
"Economia") as supervisor of the build
ings and general agent for the lottery
at a salary of 5000 year. The lottery
tickets for "the improvement of the
Federal City" were 81 each, and OF the
$4,000 issued 1871 represented prizes
and 1928 were blanks. The big prize
was a superb hotel with baths, ETC., to
cost $50. 600" and the cash prizes ran
from $4,000 down to $40 each:
The Commissioners announced that the
scheme was drawn up with the prevl-,
Gus appreciation of the President" ana
in letter to Washington proposing a
second lottery the District Commission
ers stated that the tickets for the first
lottery were taken up with avidity."
Nineteen years later, on May 6, 1872
an act of Congress, approved by Presl-
dent Madison, recognized an act OF the
MARYLAND Legislature passed In 1!9o 70
authorize two lotteries in the City OF
washington to raise $52,5oo to improve
the means of communication by the
construction of a canal in Maryland and
the district of Columbia. Virtually re-
ceiving Federal approval, this lottery
was tremendously successful and the
tickets were sold throughout the various
States that then comprised the United
States. x,,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
PRIVATE BUILDING
HAS MARKED GAINS
Months Improvement Shown
Though Quarter Year
Total Lays.

Private building operations in the
District approved last month showed
a marked Improvement in volume over
February, but the quarter-year total
Jagged more than $4,000, 900 behind the
same period of 1929, when a heavy
Spring construction program was
launched.
Projects for which permits were is
sued during March by Col. John w.
Oehmann carried total cost estimated
at $3,083 ,040, as compared with $857,170
in February and $4,540,170 in January.
This brought the quarter-year total. to
So. 480. $50.
Last years first quarter building had
Il cost totaling $11,S86,450. The jan
uary total last year was $2,558.445:
February. $4,076,4 80; and March,
$5251.525.
During the past month plans were
approved for IS private dwellings and
for four apartments. Permits we're is
sued as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
RACER READY SUNDAY
Kaye Don May Have to Wait
Longer for Beach, However.

DATONA BEACH, Fla, April GP.-
Kaye Don, British racing champion,
awaiting beach favorable for his pro-
posed assault on the world automobile
speed record, announced here yesterday
that alterations being made upon his
powerful Silver Bullet racer would be
completed Sunday.
Indications were, however, that the
rough beach, which has delayed his at
tempt for three weeks, would not i'm
prove sufficiently by Sunday for the
trials. Don's eight English mechanics
have been at work two days lowering
the gear ratio in the giant 24-cylinder
machine in order to increase its speed.
Louis Coatalen, French designer Of the
machine. is expected to return from
New York by the time the Silver Bull
let IS in condition for the trials. He
left early this week to address a meet
ing of the Society of Automotive En-
gineers in New York Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
FOUR SENTENCED TO DIE

zAPORoJIE, U. 8. Q. r., April s
R).-Four officials Of the State grain
trust were sentenced to Death yesterday
for selling hundreds Of tons Of high
grade flour to private spectators during
the extremist period in the government
grain collection campaign.
Thirty other oficials implicated in
the sales were sentenced to from to 10
years imprisonment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05

to improve the roads leading into the
city, and this lottery, too, was success
full.
But the lottery system finally became
unpopular. At first laws were passed to
prohibit lotteries under fines and for
FIXTURES, then the lotteries were pro-
hibited by criminal statute, and finally,
in 1892, the prohibition Of lotteries was
a part of the constitutions Of all States
except II, in which the lotteries were
prohibited by law anyway.
Farmers of Algeria generally are in
stalling labor-saving machinery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
PLAN SCHOOL EXHIBITS
Architects Would Teach Children
to Appreciate Good Work.

American school children will be edu-
Gated to an appreciation Of good archi-
lecture through the exhibit of models,
plans and sketches to be placed in pub
lie schools throughout the country I'M
der auspices of the American Institute
Of Architects.
This idea is of national importance"
It Is declared by B. F. Belts in the
American Architect, Of which he is edi-
tor, "for it is to the youth Of the coun-
try that the development and mainte-
nance of our future cities must one day
be left"
Government police of Porto Rico have
purchased 25 motor cVcleS
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
CRU|SERTREATY
|RkSPR|NGLE

Additional opposition to the
cruiser provision Of the London
naval treaty was expressed today
by Rear Admiral j. r. Pringle,
president of the Naval war Col
lege, at Newport, r. l., before
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
Already ne has told the Naval
Affairs Committee. also consider
ing the treaty, he opposed the
proposal of the American delega-
ton to agree to 1S eight-inch
and 18 six.inch gun cruisers when
it was placed before the Navy
general board prior to the Lon
don. conference.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
CHURCH CLOSES
CANNON CASE

DALLAS. Tex, May Il UN.S).
Although formal protest against
the decision has been promised,
the case Of Bishop James Can
non. jr.. of Virginia, was con-
sidered at an end today so far
as his church Is concerned. fol
lowing his complete exoneration
of charges of alleged stock-market
speculation.
Resembling q previous vote to
cite the Virginia prelAte for trail.
the powerful committee on epis-
copacy yesterday filed its report
with the quadrennial conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, in which the charges
against Bishop Cannon we're dis
missed and his character passed"
The committees action is not
renewable by the conference, and
the case was expected to be
closed probably today or tomorrow,
with the filing of the formal pro
nouncement of the committee and
statement by q. T. Fttzhugh,
Memphis (Tenn.) attorney.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
HOTELS WORRY.
OVER L|PST|CK

CHICAGO. May II 1.NJSD-
The old adage about the female
of the speceis being more deadly
tina nthe male also applies to the
implements used by the two sexes
for facial adornment.
Chicago hotel managers, at a
meeting here. agreed that 'lipstick
Is far more deadly to towels than
the razor, long the pet annoyance
of hotelkeepers because Of the
minute cuts which soon cause a
towel to wear out.
Ernest N. Raul. assistant man.
ager of O hotel which operates a
laundry doing work for seven
other hotels as we'll as his own,
said his company's expense from
lipstick stains was enormous. He
continued:
Every towel so stained has
to be put through three special
laundering processes. It's get
ting worse every day, too, be-
cause the guests apparently
don't realize the extra work they
are putting us to-
One hotel has warned female
guests that towels stained with lip
stick will be charged on their bills,
and another has sought to solve
the problem by offering the ladies
paper napkins as cosmetic remov-
crS.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
To NAME
R0HM SLAYER

RICHMOND, Va, May al
Local police hope today to be
able to name the man they be-
lieve slew Harry Rohrn, 45,
wealthy leather merchant.
They will place all the data in
their posSession-including facts
which it is said definitely clear
up the mystery murder May IL,
in Rohm's rnansion-before Com
monwealth'S Attorney Dave E.
Satterfield. jr.
An arrest may be expected
without delay if the common
wealth's attorney deems the evi-
dence sufficient.
1t is reported the police impli-
cate more than one person in
the Staying.
Detectives so far have been
unable to find the 80 caliber gun
with which the murder was COM
mitted. They found a number Of
weapons, but examination by bal
listic experts showed none had
fired the fatal shot.
Rohm'S wide acquaintance
among women led police to be.
lieve the motive for the murder
was jealousy. They have not
indicated whether they still hold
to this theory. Three love notes
found on the body are believed
by some to have been planted, P"
with the idea of stimulating the
idea of jealousy as the motive.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
FINED, P D. MAN
EXONERATED

Raymond H. Cross. employe of
the Postoffice and official scorer
of the Masonic Bowling League,
who was convicted on a charge
of being intoxicated last Friday
in Police Court and was not
given an opportunity to call wit
neSSeS in his own behalf, was
exonerated today after Judge
John P. Mcmahon granted him
a new trial.
When arraigned in court on
Friday, Cross asked that two
physicians who examined him
be called to testify as to his
Sobriety. This was denied and
he was fined SO. The fine was
set aside today.
On the stand Cross testified
that Policeman M. E. Legate had
dragged him from his automobile
near Ninth Street and PennSyl-
vania Avenue Northwest and
struck him over the head with
a blackjack and then took him
to the First precinct station.
NIOSS AaGCI WCAl6 W IAAC AAOOPICdA
for treatment.
When the case was called this
morning, Legate stated that he
did not smell the odor of liquor
on Cross nor did the man stagger
as he was taken from his auto
mobile. The patrolman said that
Cross was sitting in the machine
with his head on the steering
wheel.
Leaving court this morning
Cross said that he intends to pre-
fer charges Of assault against the
policeman with Major Henry G.
Pratt, superintendent of police,
and may seek a warrant for
Legate.
DR.. Isadore Levin. OF George
Washington University Hospital.
who examined Cross the night of
his arrest. testified in court today
that he did not show the slight
est indication OF intoxication.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
COURSE Of GRAF
IS CHANGED
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chose a course which would spare
the Graf the rocking effect Of
disorderly winds, and found a
cloudless lane of travel to enable
the passengers to be awakened
from their sleep by a flood OF
golden sunlight in their state.
rooms.
FRIEDRICHSHAF'EN, Ger.
many, May 81 U.N.S).-Taking
an almost direct southerly course
along the twenty-second parallel,
the German dirigible Graf zeppe-
lin was reported 1850 miles out
from Cadiz, Spain. at 2 p. m. TO-
day. Central European time g
a. m. Eastern standard tirne).
In a wireless message to the
office of the Hamburg-American
Line here, the Graf gave its posi-
tion as 1915 north, 20 west, less
than 100 miles northeast Of the
Cape Verde Islands.
At 10 a. m. central European
time (6 a. m. E. s. To-. the Graf
had radioed her position as %
degrees north, 81 degrees west.
The message read:
Everything is going well with
the exception Of the trade wind
which seems to be very weak"
DR.. Hugo Eckener. commander
Of the Graf, had counted on the
South Atlantic trade wind to ex-
pedite the passage across the
ocean to Pernambuco, Brazil. first
stop of the Graf on the American
side.
Talks with Ship.
At 9 a. M, c. E. r. Is a. m. E.
S. t., the Hamburg-American
line steamer Osorio was in com
munication with the Zeppelin. At
that time its position was "a de-
grees north % west.
Although the giant globe-trot-
ter appeared to be making fast
time, it was obvious DR.. Eckener
had struck a different course than
that which he had intended to
take. It was regarded likely he
would cross the Cape Verde ISL
ands and continue to hug the
African coast for several hundred
miles further south, then veering
due west across the ocean to Per
nanlbuco.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
$4,000 Reward!
Senator Stubborn

William Randolph Hearst has authorized The Washington
Herald to increase its offer of reward from $4,000 to $4,000
conviction of the slayer of Mary Baker Anyone having nfor
nation about the asked communicate directly with the
Managing Editor of The Washington Herald 1917 St. w.
(POsmnerS, Sher Storekepers
and post this notice in prominent pnce)
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
SUSPECT
TRAIL TRACED
To v. VA.
Department of Justice Men
on Secret Mission in Case;
Soldier Undergoes Mind Test
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Last reports had him at Harper's
Ferry, w. Va. It is believed that
the Department of Justice sleuths
have taken up his trail.
Howard l.. Brewster, soldier
attached to the headquarters com.
pany Of Washington, was ex.
amined today by an Army medi.
cal board to determine the degree
of his sanity. The board met
at the barracks, Eighteenth and
c Streets Northwest, at 9 O'Clock
and was still in session this after.
noon.
It is not believed that any
findings will be announced by
the board before tomorrow.
The board, composed Of Major
Charles L. Maxwell, Major Pat
rick 8. Madigan and Major VIII
liam c. Porter, was appointed
last night at the request OF Capt.
Alexander r. Boiling, command
ant Of the headquarters company,
Brewster's commanding officer.
Apparently having abandoned
the hope that anything further
Is to be gained from questioning
Brewster, the civil authorities did
not disturb him yesterday. He Is
still confined to the company
guard room at Eighteenth and c
Streets Northwest, and will be
held there until the military
authorities decide what to do
with him.
Explanation Sought
Should Barrere be captured he
will be asked to explain a mum.
ber Of things including his move
ments on April II after his land
lady at an Eleventh Street board
ing house elected him at the
point of a pistol that morning.
From then on, witnesses declare
his movements were principally
between Washington and Oak
Crest, two miles beyond the point
where the body was found.
Barrere also will be asked why
he went into hiding when he
found detectives were checking
his movements on the day of the
murder. If he can explain these
things satisfactorily, investigators
declare, he will have established
an alibi as strong as the ones
which released Miss Bakers other
men friends who were taken into
custody for questioning.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
Detention House Site
RiLee CherrHdaLe

CHERRYDALE, Va, May 21.-
The CherrydAle Parent Teacher
Association last night expressed
itself as being strongly opposed to
the old Cherrydale school b,iild.
ing, or arE building adjacent to a
school, being used as house Of
detention.
There has been some talk of
using the old Cherrydale school
for the detention house.
Mrs. o. c. Rauh was elected
president Of the association,
Charles Toone, vice president;
Mrs. Fred BortSdack. secretary,
and MRS. C. Peck, treasurer.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
Girl Struck by Car;
2 Injured in Crash

CUMBERLAND, Md, May 81.
Miss Agnes E. Byer. 20, daughter
of Charles o. Byer, is at Allegany
Hospital with a fractured nose
and dislocated jaw from having
been struck by an automobile.
She alighted from a bus in the
rain and in rushing to shelter
failed to observe the approaching
car.
Miss Bertha Tranum, 81, West
ernport, and -iSs Irene Wolford,
%, Frostburg, were injured yes
terdy, the former seriously, when
the car in which they we're riding
crashed into a pole on Green
Street.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
Open Forum Plans
CitU Picnic-Meeting

The first city picnic-meeting of
a series scheduled for this sum-
mer by the Washington Open
Forum will be held in Rock Greek
Park. at Sixteenth Street Rescr-
voir grounds Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock. A spelling bee will
feature the program.
This meeting will inauguraCe
regular picnicS in Rock Greek
Park. the previous two meetings
this year having been in Virginia.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
More War Mothers
SdiLinU for France

NEW YORK, May q uN.SD.
The third group of the 5000 Gold
Star mothers to visit Europe this
summer to view cemeteries, where
their hero sons are buried, sailed
today on the United States liner
George Washington.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
y. s. Girl Advances
In Tennis TOurnev

PARIS, May 81 I4N.S). Helen
Jacobs, Of Berkeley. Calf, and
Mile. Sigart, of France. today
passed into the third round of
the French tennis championships.
They defeated Mile. Claude
Anet and Nine. Lebesnerais, 60,
6-2, in the second round.
The Washington times., 1930-05-21
Wet Independent Slate Wins
More in Philadelphia Than
Do "UnCIe Joe" or Pinchot

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missing districts were all from
Pinchot territory where his ratio
was 4 and 5 to / over Brown.
This was disputed by Browns
managers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-22
What to Do With Outlines

of your chiffon sleeves. For this you
use orchids as first choice, but any other
flowers that are not too stiff are good.
Among these you can count roses, little
garlands of trailing arbutus, flags, lilies,
apple blossoms. Have your flowers made
of some soft material, perhaps chiffon
with velvet centers, and fasten them
over the hand. under the cuff They
are most effective with very sheer
frocks, chiffon, net, organdie. They are
equally effective IL your frock Is short
sleeved, provided you make ruff cuffs
of the material and use the flowers
judiciously to decorate them.
Then there is the fancy cuff solution
to this wrist-chic problem. Some of the
newest sleeves end at three quarters,
and crisp organdie puffs gathered into
tight cuffs are pretty as can be. Or, for
wear with some of the little silk suits,
many a girl has cuffs made that slip
around her wrists, when the gilet has
looking, showing under the silk coats
sleeve. They are fresh and summery
For the evening gown, bracelets that
use the same jewels, but do not match
In dsign, are the latest fad. If you want
combination of jewels, emeEalds, rubies
and diamonds are still exceedingly good
Pearls, set in rhinestones, are excellent,
especially when you use one bracelet of
this kind and a crystal bracelet with It..
The old-fashioned fad for wearing
grosgrain ribbon tied around ones neck
and wrists Is back again. L0ok at a
sweet little voile figured in blue and
white, or pink and white. Tie little
grosgrain or velvet bow of bla0k around
the neck and wrists. just see how much
sweeter and daintier the frock looks
than without Il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-22
Worth. While Skill
In Art of Sewing

Many continental women are still
taught that to be able to do exquisite
plain sewing" is one of the accom-
plishments of a lady. In the convent
schools girls are still taught to sew
with meticulous care. Not to be able
to take even, dainty stitches indicates
to them lack of education.
In this country, of course, a girl can
easily contrive to get through school
with colors flying without ever having
had a needle in her fingers. though the
chances are that somewhere along the
line she has had an opportunity to
learn something of sewing in school.
Usually an American girl would be
more eager to learn how to make her
own hats or her own frocks than to
learn fine sewing.
The ability to do fine sewing is still
an accomplishment quite as worth while
as knitting or stenciling or tatting, and
there is pretty good reason to believe
that as the seasons roll around there
will be greater and greater admiration
for exquisite hand sewing.
This has nothing whatever to do
with the ability to make clothes-and
usually the girl who has a knack for
dressmaking is an indifferent needle
woman.
Some of us who have learned sewing
in childhood seem to have an idea that
the whole thing depends on taking very
little stitches. We remember being told
by the sewing teacher to take stitches
so small that they could not be seen
and we sewed with miraculously fine
needles and thread that was hardly
courser than strand of spider webbing
But this is not the really important
matter. The ability to take perfectly
regular and perfectly even stitches is
what really makes all the difference
and sometimes stitches may be so small
that they do not hold the material
together properly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-22
Hang Clothes With
NeatnesS and Care

Do you have difficulty In keeping
your frocks and blouses hanging on
their hangers?
Most persons do have their trouble
especially with thin, slippery silk
blouses and frocks-and most of our
frocks and blouses nowadays are of
silk. The large openings at the neck
allow the garments to slip over and
OF from one end Of the hanger, and
then 1T is only q matter of time when
the whole thing goes to the floor.
This dtfnculty can be overcome II
your hangers are covered with some
material that makes them less slippery.
Hangers covered with velveteen are
sold, and they are admirable for keep
ing the things placed on them from
slipping. They are worth trying.
IN some Of the stores where women's
frocks are sold the simple device of
sticking q little adhesive tape part Of
the way along the hanger keeps the
frocks and blouSeS from slipping of.
The shoulder of the frock or blouse Is
not, of course, touched by the. adhesive
side Of the tape, but is simply kept
from slipping by the little ridge of tape.
In most houses, guests for an evening
or afternoon have to dispose OF their
wraps by laying them on . bed in the
room assigned TO guests. Often wraps
are sadly wrinkled in this way. But
there is a growing feeling that this is
not o good arrangement. People even
In moderate circumstances are provid-
ing their houses with ample sized coat
closets. In one house this coat closet
has taken on the proportions of a
dressing room-With a rod and hangers
at one end where the wraps Of guests
may be disposed Of in 3 considerate
fashion.