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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF
NATTONS.-The proceedings of the
Imperial Conference ct London surpass
in interest and importance all other
current matters, even the German de-
velopments, but postpone summary
and comment unto the adjournment.
1t is, Of course, lamentable that the
R-101 was inflated with hydrogen in
stead of the non-explosive and nom
infiammable helium gas which our
dirigibles use. The only important
source of this gas yet discovered is in
Texas. Owing to the fact that this
source was supposed to be limited, the
Sixty-ninth Congress passed a helium
conservation act whereof one section
reads:
Hereafter no helium gas shall be
exported from the United States or
from its possessions until after author
ity for such expectation has been
obtained from the President of the
United States on the joint resolution of
the Secretary of War, the Secretary of
the Navy, and the Secretary of Com
MERGE"
1t has since developed that the Texan
source is practically unlimited. Our
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

not lar from the White House.
And last week, in 1880, a group of
scientists and Navy men, after a pill
grimage of more than 5000 miles by
land and sea, completed the erection of
an immense Photographic telescope OF
IS feet focal length on the volcanic islet
of Niaufou of the Tonga archipelago in
the South Pacific Ocean.
Now every one who follows the news
knows that total eclipse of the sun is
scheduled for next Tuesday, october 81.
This spectacular event, which will be
visible only from small region of the
South Pacific, is the reason for the
present Importance of Niaufou as base
for the Americans. They have gone
there to see the eclipse, to photograph
it, to study its varied phenomena-and
above all, to time its occurrence to a
split second.
But why should the Navy be inter-
eSted in these astronomical mysteries?
Why should 1t assign a vessel and send
a corps of trained specialists with tons
of delicate instruments, thousands of
feet Of lumber for towers and shelters
and boxes and bales Of other equipment
half way around the world In order that
for few seconds the glory of the oc-
Quilted sun with its ruby red promi-
nences and its pearly green coronal halo
may be recorded?
A similar expedition last year took
Navy astronomers to the Philippines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
BY HENRY w. BUM.

following is a brief summary
Of tae most important news of
the world for the seven days
Il ended October ID.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
BY GEORGE w. GRAY.

! NE hundred years ago, in 1880,
\ q young lieutenant of the
i United States Navy set up
sr@all telescope in Washington,
MT foT from tho White House
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

Ne8uEts KfUFeu 6bdFIIIuB'
The results were startling TO every
one, including herself. Before the cam
paign had progressed many days Mrs
Pratt discovered that these frank dis
cusstonS with women voters in the pri-
yacy of their hcmes had started ire
mendous wave of good will in her favor.
The barrier of aloofness which the fiery
soap-box orators were trying to build
around the "fine lady" refused TO take
root. The opposition simply could not
get away with the idea that the district
would be Negotiated on the map II 1t
elected the woman candidate. When
ever the thought was advanced-and y
Aaeefned 10 be the only point OF attack
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
Girls Beads Help SoLUe
Newnrk Kidnaping

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 8.-The
baby kidnapping mystery Of New
ark is solved.
A child Of IL, so driven by her
maternal longing for a live doll
that she raShly spent $40 Of her
mothers money on baby clothes,
confessed she took 21a-year-old
Evelyn Gaffney from Evelyn's
home in the dead of night.
The infant was found COM
fortably sleeping, bundled in
blankets, in a baby carriage the
young mother" had informally
appropriated, in an alleyway.
Until two months ago, Mary
Fielder, the 11-year-old prisoner,
had a job minding the children
in the home Of Frank Gaffney,
657 s. Fifteenth st. Evelyn was
one Of five for whom the girl
cared.
But the Gaffneys learned Mary
had a weakness besides babies.
It is beads. They led to prompt
recovery Of the baby.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
S10,0DOSOUCHT
AFTER TRIAL

CUMBERLAND, Md, Dec. 8.
Two suits for $4,000 damages
each were entered in the circuit
court here by John Mcdonald
and George p. Mcdonald against
the Western Maryland Railroad
Company and three police officers
Of the road. e. Bond, Balti-
more: E. j. Chapman, Of Hagers-
town, and Noah Hendley, of this
city.
The case follows the recent
trial Of the McDonalds in the
circuit court here on a charge
Of dynamfting a car in a freight
train near Indigo tunnel, on April
II last. The contention was that
1t was an attempt to wreck the
tunnel, but the charge went off
before the tunnel was reached or
within $50 feet of it.
The McDonalds were acquitted,
In their suit they allege assault,
false imprisonment without prob.
able cause. and they ask damages
for loss Of reputation and credit.
money spent in defense of charges
and loss Of working time. They
were arrested on September is
and the case was tried at the
October term.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
Mothers and Daughters
Pals. in Colorado City
WILLIAM TYLER PAGE

DENVER, Dec. 8 (dNS0-
Denver girls differ from the
modern girl recently described by
the Dean of Women at Syracuse
University, who tells her mother
only superficial things.
The mothers, it seems are close
companions and confidantS of a
large number Of Denver girls, &C
cording to the concensus ex-
pressed by representative girls
in this city. Bobbie Van Wage
nen, Denver school girl de-
clared:
"My mother and / are pals,
and I believe most of my girl
friends and their mothers are
pals, too"
Betty Danford, Denver Univer.
sity cooed, agreed with Miss Van
Wagenen.
Lucille Kelley. q Denver bust
ness girl, said:
'Tt depends q great deal on
q girls companions, whether
she and her mother are ON
confidential terms. And this
is largely up to the mother.
II home is q pleasant place
for friends to gather. q girl
will not join the wrong Kind Of
crowd"
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
STARTED COLD
RUSH NORTH

PORTLAND. Ore, Dec. g.
d.N.S0 Robert Henderson. the
man credited with starting the
worlds geratest stampede of hui
mans-the gold rush to the Klon-
dixie in 1878, is still digging his
''pay" out of the Northland at
the age of "a.
Henderson was recent visitor
in Portland and lowed as how"
it was about time he was paying
the city a visit, it having been 81
years since he had spent night
in Portland.
Chief Dirty Blanket
Although his official name is
Robert Henderson, he is known
to thousands of friends as big
Chief Dirty Blanket"-a name
given him by the Indians at Cal
gary years ago.
His claim to fame comes as the
result of a strike made in 1894
and 1895 on Quartz Creek, where
he washed out $500 in gold, a suf-
ficient amount to convince others
that wealth was to be had in
the Klondike. AS a result. some
$4,000 gold seekers poured through
Chilcott Pass in 1898 at the
peak of the gold rush.
+ Seeks Silver
Henderson has forsaken his old
love, and is now interested in 200
miles of silver belt" on the Stew
art River where, he claims, 10000
tons of silver ore were removed
last year.
He calls Victoria, B.. c., his
home but is vitally interested in
the Yukon territory and plans to
return to the old stamping
grounds in the near future. Hen
derson was born in Pictou, Nova
Scotia, in 1855.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08

Denver mothers share the opin-
ion of their daughters that the
modern girl is not as secretive as
indicated by the opinion Of the
Syracuse dean.
Mrs. c. c. Gates, prominent
society matron and mother OF
five daughters, said:
Mothers must grow with the
times. Just because q woman
wore flannel petticoatS, she
can't expect her daughter to do
the same. A mother should
not cOnfine herself to the
home. She must contact the
outside world. If travel or
other activities are too ex-
penSive, anyone can afford con-
structive reading"
Girls are much the same in
every generation. according to
some Denver mothers.
Mrs. j. J. Hall, a prominent
society matron, said:
"When was is, I thought
was about the smartest thing
in the world. And that's the
way with most adoleScents.
They think they know more
than their parents do. I don't
believe young people are any
different now than they were
when / was q girl"
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
I8 State Societies
Form Local Council

Representatives Of 18 local So
cieties met at the Willard Hotel
Saturday night to organize an
Executive Council of State and
Regional Societies Of Washington.
The council will maintain a bu-
reau Of information and further
cooperation between the societies.
Officers of the council are DR..
William j. Davis, New York So
ciety, chairman; Robert H. Kemp
ton, Massachusetts,. vice chair
man, and Miss Eta Taggart,
Southern Society, secretary.
The societies represented are
those of Alabama, Connecticut,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts,,
Missouri, New York, North Dako-
ia, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennes-
see, Utah and the Southern So,
ciety.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
PARLEY
/. FAILURE SEEN
-Times staff Photo

LONDON, Dec. 8 (U.S0-Indi-
cations in London point today to
the ultimate failure of the India
round-table conference, designed
to evolve a constitution for the
United States of India" in much
the same manner that the re-
cent Imperial conference went
underground.
While the federal relations COM
mittee, comprising 40 members,
is seeking to evolve a skeleton
constitution, practically nothing
in the way of real news ap.
pears from the official press Of.
flee of the conference in historic
st. James Palace. ....
Hard Weeks Ahead
This committee has many hard
weeks before it to clear away o
thick jungle growth Of internal
prejudiceS and misunderstanding
before it viii be possible to ap-
proach the business of finding
a constitution acceptable to all
the varied nations, religions and
castes.
Three chief dangers, any one
of which is bound to wreck it's
endeavorS, lie ahead Of the COM
mittee. These may be described
as:
First-The native princes when
faced with concrete proposals for
their union with other states of
India. may be unwilling to accept
such restrictions on the internal
autonomy of their states as may
be found indispensable if a central
federal authority is to be set up.
Plot Suspected
Second-The British Indian Ma
tionalists undoubtedly will suspect
any scheme as a plot between the
native princes and the British
Government to keep the Popular
party Of India-Gandhi'S unrepre.
Sented cruSaderS-under the heel,
Of the reactionarieS.
Third-The British Parliament
never will be induced to commit
itself definitely to the transfer Of
financial control from British
covered India to Semi-inde.
pendent United States of India"
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
Lubin Says Russia
After Foreign Credit

People of Russia are under
going privations at home in order
that purchasing power may be
established abroad, according to
DR.. Isador Lubin, a special
assistant to the United States
Senate committee on education
and labor, who spoke last night
before the National Forum of
the Jewish Community Center
on life as he had observed it in
Russia on recent tour.
Russia is exporting manu-
factured articles instead of
distributing them at home in
order to obtain funds for the
purchase of modern equipment
farming tracts, the speaker
stated.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
BIBLE STUDENT
ASKS REVISION

BUDAPEST, Dec. 8 d.N.SO
"The man who rehabilita4ed
God"
That is how Benjamin Donath
is known and why he is reverently
admired and pointed out to Wis
iting strangers in this town.
The title was conferred on
him by Cardinal Gasquette, mem.
ber of the Papal commission at
Rorne for the revision of the
Bible.
Mr.. Donath, an amateur Bible
student, claims to have discov
cred that a wrong translation of
the second commandment had
miSrepresented God as a God OF
vengeance when in reality the
original text represented him as
a God of mercy and forgiveness
The second commandment In
its present form contains this
passage: +
"FOr l, the Lord, thy God,
am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon
the children unto the third
and fourth generation"
Now Donath, who reads Is
languages, claims that a COM
pariSon of texts, and especially
the oldest Greek translation
from the original Hebrew, reveals
the following true version of this
passage:
II am thy God, the guardian
Of grace. who bears with the
sons for the sins Of their
fathers"
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
Stranded Actress Has
Back Broken When
GiUen Free Ride

BETHLEHEM, Pa, Dec. g.
Stranded in Ashland, where
she was a member Of
theatrical troupe, Mabel Clark,
81, of Baltimore, was seriously
injured here early this morning
when a car in which she and
two other young women were
riding crashed against a pole.
Miss Clark is lowering near
death in st. Luke's Hospital
here with a fracture Of her
spinal column.
The three were en- route to
New York in a car driven by
Jerome ]. Delmore, of Brooklyn,
who offered to take them free
Of charge to the metropolis.
when they lacked funds to buy
railroad, tickets.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
international Newsreel

) About 1880 q. m. Mary F1euer
quietly entered the Gaffney home
through. a bathroom window,
deity lifted Evelyn from the bed
where she slept with two brothers,
and went out a kitchen door.
At 6 a. m, when the awakened
parents learned with horror the
child had vanished, they noted
beads on the floor. Mary had
dropped them.
So police sought the girl, and
found her gazing in show-win'
dows. She calmly told of having
fed the baby cake and having
put it asleep in the carriage,
She told where it was. And she
said:
81 love the baby. was .
little mad, too, because the
Gaffneys wouldn't let me take
care Of her any more. I took
the baby to . hallway and we
slept until about 6 o'clock this
morning and then ! took her
for q buggy ride"
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
SCORES
EVICTION Of
FAMILIES.
Occupants Will Be Expelled
From Company owned
Homes on Christmas

DANVILLE, Va, Dec. 8.-The
executive board Of the Virginia
Federation Of Labor, meeting here
to study the textile strike, today
issued an appeal to organized
labor throughout the United
States and Canada to support
the striking mill workers.
The appeal will be sent to
President william Green, Of the
American Federation Of Labor
with the request that it be sent
out under his official sanction.
Flags Persecution"
The board branded as "persecu-
ton, heartless, cruel and harsh"
the action of the mill owners in
ejecting strikers from company
owned houses. The eviction
order has been served and scores
of the strikers and their families
will be thrown out on Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day.
The executive board COM
mended the strikers for their
and excellent conduct
during the strike" but entered no
protest against the sending OF
several companies Of militia to
Danville.
Address by Thomas
Norman j. Thomas, socialist
candidate for governor Of New
York at the last election. ad-
dressed a mass meeting Of strikers
last night. He urged them to re.
main firm and carry on, and
promised that financial aid
would be continued.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
POWER VALUES
PYRAM|DED,

Electric Bond and Share Com
pany interests paid themselves
from IA to 4,063 per cent interest
on loans, and also pyramided
property values, in financing a
Mississippi River hydro-electric
plant, it was charged in an official
report which became public yes.
terday.
The report, prepared by Federal
Power Commission accountants,
challenged 40 per cent of the Min.
nesota Power and Light Com
pany's alleged investment of $3..
797,00 in its Blanchard Rapids
plant near Royalton, Mimi.
Controls Company
Electric Bond and Share con-
trolS the Minnesota company, and
also a chain of other companies
figuring in the financing, accord.
ing to the report.
The report traced the huge in
tereSt payments to one of the
chain companies. which built the
plant seven years ago. This COM
pany "waS merely an organization
on paper" the report said, and
operated entirely on money Dor
rowed from holding company in
the chain.
For the borrowed money it gave
notes bearing Z per cent interest,
plus discount Of 10 per cent
from their face value. Although
the notes were paid off after
periods ranging from one day to
20 months, the entire discount Of
10 per cent was applied to all of
them, the report said.
This resulted in an average m
terest rate of 1853 per cent, and
In rates on various notes Of 26
per cent, 278 per cent, and 4,063
per cent.
Costs Inflated
The 100000 interest total,
when fully paid, swelled the
R4O4AVo IA U44C 4AO4OAAA6 ,NO4A1kCb4Ay
and inflated the investment of
the subsidiary.
Meanwhile the value of the
subSidiary's property was boosted
on its books by $206,76S, accord
ing to the report. Soon after
ward 1t was sold out to another
company in the chain at a price
including this boosted value.
The Minnesota company, which
bought the plant, listed the inter
est payments and the boosted
value as part of its assets and
sold bonds to the public on this
basis, according to the report.
Fees Of $4,000 paid to the
Bond and Share interests, and a
$306.000 profit paid to a former
owner Of the site on a construc-
tion contract. were among the
other items challenged.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
Injured Polo Player
Shot,: Is Near Death

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 0N.SO.
James Meckley Potts, bank direc-
tor and former polo player, was
near death today from q bullet
wound in the right temple. Police
said Potts shot himself yesterday
Potts is a native Of PennSyl-
vania. He was injured year
ago when thrown from horse
while playing polo, spending two
months in a hospital after the
accident.
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
II of CreuU Seeking
Treasure DrOIUned

PARIS, Dec 8 GN.S0.-Four-
teen members Of the crew were
drowned and the remaining seven
rescued when the Italian salvage
steamer Artiglio blew up near
Belle Isle in the Bay Of Biscay,
a dispatch received from that
Island today reported.
The italian ship at the tine
was engaged in seeking the rich
treasure believed locked in the
vaults of the sunken British liner
Egypt"
The Washington times., 1930-12-08
RIK0V QUARREL REFUTED

MOSCOW, Dec. Z ON.S0.-A
I. Rikov today resumed his duties
as president Of the Union Council
of the People CommissarieS, dis
sipating the rumor that he had
quarreled with Stain and lost
the confidence of the Soviet gov
ernment.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29

trict bitches and the other half in
field bitches.
The combined capacity Of our
plant Is about 745 Gu. #. per second.
we have two main canals leaving
our plant. The High Line canal Is
8 II. higher lift than the Low Line
canal.
The steam plant discharges only
into the Low Line canal. The Co.
inch pump discharges only into the
High Line canal. The other three
pumps will discharge into either
canal. BY changing the gates in
the fumes any OF the three Will
discharge into either canal. without
interference with the others.
Our pumping head ranges from
nothing TO 20 feet and averages
about u feet. We have four gravity
gates, with tunnels under floor OF
plant through which We car take
water when the river Is half full or
over. These gates are each 4x6 feet
in size, operated by screw Lifts inside
the plant
In the early days we used wood for
fuel; but since the wood was all
cut off we have used oil for fuel.
We have storage for about % cars
Of oil. The tank cars are unloaded
at the plant direct into our storage
tanks.
We have a drainage district sep
arate and apart from the irrigation
district. They have and maintain
l46 miles Of drain bitches, ranging
from 4 TO 20 foot bottom width.
However. the irrigation district has
dug some six or eight miles Of
drain bitches, in addition 70 many
miles or barrow pits which we have
improved and deepened. We are
trying to get all barrow pits 70
grade so that they will drain. and
in a few more years they will all
be in that condition. We work
closely with the drainage district
board and do practically all their
work for them, charging no profit
on the work, realizing that improved
drainage tends TO better irrigation
conditions. Also the same man
pays the charge for both jobs and
our charging a profit on drainage
work would only tend to have less
Of it.
Watering In the San Benito Dis
trict for the past years disclose
some interesting facts. They show
by acres:
First column shows year: second
first watering: third, %subsequen.
.-I f2mk 49, AA&-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29

we had Is or 20 gasoline driven re-
lief pumps in operation
Land sold, but not desiring water
did not pay full water charges for
four years. For the first year he
paid rs cents per acre flat rate. the
second he paid $50. the third he
paid S2.25 and the fourth year he
began to pay $500 per acre wheth-
er he wanted water or not.
If he used water, the charge was
a flat rate Of $500 per acre for
the crop, on cotton, corn and SIM
liar crops. II he made two crops the
same year, 1t was $500 per acre.
For alfalfa, sugar cane, sorghum
and trees, it was $500 per acre for
the season. For truck, any number
Of crops, 1t was $1,000 for the year.
However, whenever he had paid as
much for water on land in cultiva-
ton as would equal his dry OF flat
rate. he did not owe any further
flat rate on the undeveloped land.
Es-l these charges would have
kept us out OF trouble. but the farm
ers themselves did not prosper any
too well and by 1912 the company
was carrying about sl20,0000 90 in de-
linquent charges on their books.
The company could not collect.
therefore could not meet its obi
cations and a receivership was the
inevitable result.
We. like every canal company in
the Valley, except one. went into
the hands Of a receiver. The Mer-
cedes system was the only one that
did not: but they suffered just Ike
the rest Of us; but their owners
were financially able to carry them
over the crash.
District Formed
Under the receivership IL was
practically impossible TO operate.
Operation revenue was insufficient
to meet expenses and the bond hold
er's trustees refused to advance
operating expense. Water was scarce
because the machinery and canals
had been allowed TO run down and
there was no money for the pay
rolls and fuel. This condition to-
gether with the bandit troubles had
driven many farmers out OF the
Valley. so that in 1916 We had less
land in cultivation than at any time
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29
NfFANFST MEN

CLEVELAND. June 28-Two
men. under the guise Of mourning
friends. called az the home Of John
Bartlich TO attend the wake Of his
wife. Bartlich recognized one OK
them as a fellow workman. When
the grieving husband told the men
the body OF his wife was still a.
the un~dertakers. they attacked and
overpowered him and fled with S36.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29

LONDON.-Women shippers are
rare. and Lizzie Meadows Is said 70
be the youngest in the world. She
is only 10, and runs a barge on the
Grand Junction Canal. When she
was is her parents died and she had
TO shift for herself. Despite being
a cripple. she finally acquired her
barge and Is now a full-fledged
CAPTAIN"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29

TOKIO-Japanese students arn
taking up aviation I'm mn extensive
way in line with the governments
recent urge to that effect Six or tha
leading universities here recently
formed the japanese Students Fed
Grafton OF Aviation 10 encourages
flying. This organization Is backed
by the army and navy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29
HOLDS RECORD NOW

PARASITIC world enduranc@
flight record for women. formerly
held by Elinor Smith OF the United
States. has been broken at lie Bour-
get Field here by Mile. Lena Bern
stein. She kept her ship aloft for
s. hours and AS minutes. SURPRISING
Miss Smiths record by nearly IN
hours.