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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
WOMAN SECURES
BOND FOR SHEPARD
Intuition of Wealthy Denver
Widow Holds Convicted
Officer Innocent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, December 27.-A
woman's intuition, as she expressed 1t,
was responsible for release on bond of
Maj. Charles A. Shepard, SO, Medical
Corps officer convicted Monday on a
charge of fatally poisoning his wife.
Mrs. Alice w. Watt, wealthy Denver
widow, has announced she posted
$4,000 to secure the officers release
because she had an instructive mowl-
edge of the utter impossibility of the
major committing such a deed"
She does not like the publicity, she
said, but if it will "tend to influence
other friends to come to his aid, then
1 do not regret it,"
Meanwhile plans went forward for a
new defense fund to be applied to litiga-
ton for new trial or appeal of the
conviction under which Maj. Shepard
faces formal sentence February 2, to life
imprisonment.
Maj. Shepard has renewed his work
at FitzSimmons Hospital here among
tuberculosis victims of the World War
He was convicted on Government
evidence tending to show he murdered
his wife June Is, 1929, at Fort Riley,
Kans., TO be free to marry Miss Grace
Brandon, blond Brooks Field, Tex,
stenographer, who testified for the
prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
FATE OF OIL WELLS
HANGING IN BALANCE
Conference in Oklahoma Still Seek
ing Outlet for 80, 900 Small
Production Units.
BY the Associated Press


TULSA, Okla, December 27.-The
fate Of some 10000 small oil wells in
Northeastern Oklahoma and South
eastern Kansas still was undetermined
today as representatives of a dozen oil
purchasing and pipe line companies
prepared for a second conference in an
effort to arrange new markets.
Withdrawal of the Prairie Oil g.
Gas Co. as a purchaser of crude OIL
effective January J., will remove what
has been the principal market outlet
for production of the settled fields in
the two States.
There was hope the conference, called
by E. B. Reeser, president of the Amer
lean Petroleum Institute, would pro-
vide the relief needed to keep the
wells, now yielding approximately
10000 barrels daily, from shutting
down.
Reeser said that. while progress was
made yesterday, no solution of the
problem was reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
COURT DEFINES POLICY
LIABILITY IN AIR DEATH
Mother Had Sued Insurance Com
pany After Accidental Killing
of Son in Plane.

Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 27.-The ex-
preston "aeronautic expedition" in life
insurance policies signifies only military
journeys or voyages of exploration or
discovery, the appellate division of the
Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
Mrs. Ray Gibbs sued the Equitable
Life Assurance Society Of the United
States to recover $1,000 on a policy is
sued to her son Harold, killed in June,
1929. when a Coastal Always plane
crashed en- route from Albany to New
York. He was passenger.
The company offered to pay $4,000,
but pointed to the clause In question
to sustain its refusal to double the
payment for accidental death. The poll
ICY stipulated that only the face value,
$4,000, would be paid in case death re-
suited from submarine or aeronautic
expeditions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
.DEBUTANTE SEASON
TO COST MILLIONS
IntrOduCtions of Society Buds
Has Reached Peak in
Christmas Week.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 27.-The
debutante season has reached its peak
with Christmas week, and parents who
present their daughters to society this
season will pay an aggregate debut
bill which will run into several mil
lion dollars.
Ball rooms of fashionable hotels.
spoken for months and even years in
advance. have been ablaze with light
from dinner until dawn every night for
weeks. The let-up will not come until
Midjanuary. and a sprinkling of debut
parties will continue clear through
February.
Catering to debutantes is big in
dustry in New York. for girls come
from all over the country to make their
bows in the Ritz-Carlton, Pierre's, the
Central Park Casino, Sherrys, the
Savoy-Plaza, Park Lane and other
hotels which invite big coming-out
parties.
$50 DebutS in Season.
The managing director at Pierre's es-
timated today that $50 girls will have
come OUT there during the season,
which began In October and ends with
February. Their parties will average
So. 900 in cost, which totals more than
half a million for the one hotel. Charles
Pierre placed the average debutante
supper-dance invitation list at 400 per-
sons, though many parties have twice
as many guests. Last week at the Ritz
Carlton three important debutantes had
parties to which thousand guests were
asked.
Barbara Hutton, pretty granddaughter
~ az 6Va-on6-
ten-cent store founder, had a. Ritz
Carlton debut at which the music alone
cost several thousand dollars.
Another thousand-guest party was
given at the Ritz-Carlton for Peggy
Potter daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo
Potter and granddaughter of the late
Bishop Henry Goldman Potter Of the
Episcopal diocese of New York.
College Students Guests.
Natalie Coe, belle of Charleston, S. C.,
came out Christmas night at big party
for which the RitZ-Carlton ball rooms
were made over into Southern planta-
ton in full holiday dress.
Most of the girls, for whom big de-
butts are given are full-time debutantes,
and their educations have been COM
pleted. But male guests for the parties
are largely recruited from nearby COL
legeS, which accounts for the tremen-
dous rush Of parties during the holiday
period.
The cost and size of modern coming
out parties has taken them out of anna
| teur hands for the most part Profess
sional counsel is available to the veal
thy. Social advisers plan everything
except the debuntante's dress and her
invitation list, and can even lend
hand with that in a pinch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
MAN ENRICHED IN JAIL
REPORTED REMARKED
Business Conducted by First Wife
Prospered During Nine-Year
Term in Staying.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 26.-The New
York World says Charles T. Davis,
whose manufacturing business brought
him fortune during nine years in
prison, was married for a second time
early this month in California
Davis attorney confirmed the news,
the World says but declined to give the
details. Davis was paroled from Dame
mora Prison last March after serving a
a detective in 1921.
Mrs. Henrietta Davis. who conducted
his surgical supply business while he
was In prison. obtained q divorce from
Davis in Reno last July. Previously
Davis sued his wife to prevent her
from selling the business for $4,000 900
but lost, finally reaching a property set
Element with her on the proceeds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
$500 BOND FORFEITED

Baltimore Collects From Surety in
Vice Arrest Case.
BALTIMORE, Md, December 81 up.
"A $500 bond, posted by the Grand
Central Surety Co. of New York for the
release of Hal Gibson, alias Harry Mill
ham, wanted in New York in connec-
ton with the vice investigation, was
collected here yesterday by Herbert r.
O'Conor, States attorney.
The bond was declared forfeited No
vember 25, after Gibson failed to APP
pear the previous day at a Central Po-
lice Court hearing. Gibson, who at the
time vas assistant State manager with
Earl CAROLS Sketch Book" was ar
rested in the Maryland Theater No
vember Is. He was taken into custody
at the request of New York authorities.
According to the bail clerk Of the
Criminal Court, it was the first bail
bond collected in the city this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
RUM ON BEACHED BOAT
Coast Guards Find 1900 Gases
Valued at $4,000.

NORFOLK, Va, December 81 (P.
The British schooner Albertine Adoue,
was taken in charge by Coast Guards
men from the station there, who found
cargo of 1000 cases of intoxicants
valued at $780, 900 on board, the Coast
Guard station here reported LAST night.
No members of the crew were aboard
when the vessel was found and she was
towed to Wilmington, N. c., where her
cargo will be taken in charge by Fed
eral officers.
The ship went ashore In the fog which
has held the Virginia and Carolina
Coast in its grasp for two days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
H. W. LOOMS IS DEAD;
COMPOSED FIVE OPERAS
Son Of Talented Parents Had
Achieved Reputation as Musical
Educator and Writer.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, December 27.-Harvey
Worthington LOOMS, composer and
music educator, Is dead here. He had
composed four comic operas, one grand
opera, 1.-The Traitor Mandolin" So
spirituals and other music.
He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y; his
father was Charles Battell Loomis,
tenor, and his mother Mary Worthing-
ton, a soprano of some prominence and
founder Of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
Society.
LOOMS comic operas were 1.-THE
Maid of Athens" THE Burglars Bride"
Going Up?" and THE Bey of Bahia"
His grand opera was brought out at
the Astoria, January II, 1898, before
the Society of Musical Arts, with Nine.
Pilar-Morin in the leading role.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
Diamond Output Halved.

AMSTERDAM, December 81 (P9.-
The International Commission of the
Diamond Industry announced today
that the General Association of jewelers.
had decided almost unanimously to re-
duce production so per cent, effective
January 4. The International Commits
sion recently approved the reduction,
but Dutch Endorsement was needed to
bring it into fleet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
FILE INTENTION TO WED

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, December 81
(P-Lieut Lester j. Maitland, first avi-
ator to fly from California to Hawaii,
and Mrs. Kathleen McDermott of San
Antonio have filed intention to marry.
Maitland and Mrs. McDermott said
they had no definite wedding plans. A
wedding license has not been issued.
Intention to wed was filed Tuesday at
Boerne, Tex, near San Antonio, where
the Army flyer is stationed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
LEAVES ON PEACE MISSION
Greek Premier to Visit Warsaw,
Vienna and Rome.

ATHENS, Greece, December 81 P).-
Premier Venizelos left today on visit
to Warsaw. Vienna and Rome with
the announced purpose of exchanging
notifications Of the recent Greco-Aus-
TRAN treaty of amity and arbitration
he VIII stop en- route at Belgrade and
visit King Alexander and Foreign Min
lister Marinkovitch.
In statement made coincident with
the premier's departure, Foreign Min
lister Michalkopoulos announced that
Greece preserves full independence with
no intention of binding herself to any
great power or becoming its tool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27

MEXICO CITY, December 81 (P.-
Friends OF Jose Marie Maytorena, lead
er in the Madero revolt, who is living
in Los Angeles, are seeking the gov
ernment'S permission for him to return
to Mexico. He has lived abroad since
the happenings of 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27

and in print for 20 years. My dress
ing room when play Indianapolis
won't be the same without Kin sit
ting there. loved his work, and I &.
loved him. Just think, just two lines
day, yet he expressed more origi-
nal philosophy in 'em than all the
rest of the paper combined. What
a kick Twain and all that old gang
will get out of Kin!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27

tempt To write q
little humor his
death is just like
EdiSon's would be
to the world of
invention. Norman
in our generation
was in a mile of
him, and I am so
glad that I didn't
wait for him to
go to send flow
ers. I have said
IL from the StaCo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
Will Rogers
Says:

HOLLYWOOD. Calif.-Kin Hub
bard is dead. To us folks that at
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

GO that evening In late August 1918, the
woman spy posed herself fascinatingly on
a hotel divan, scanning soulfully if a little
anxiously the cosmopolitan crowd that flowed
in and out. American faces remained impas-
sive, unmoved by arts of yelled seduction that
years In the German service had taught her.
Then for an instant they leaped, as with long
strides tall, rather youthful man crossed the
lobby. A big fish, she thought, in position TO
know something about the Alsace attack, If any
one was Hitherto theirs had been only bow
ing acquaintance. Could she land him now?
She turned the eyes upon him-and they
worked.
why, Mademoiselle," he bean1ed. coming up
with outstretched hand, you are charming this
evening. And who could resist that smile?
Won't you come into the bar and have a cock
tail before dinner?"
Bar? Cocktail? Bella Donna heard the
words IN a rosy mist. The eyes would still do
it, she told herself joyously.
IT should be charmed, Monsieur" she said
demurely.
There was q laughing noisy crowd in the bar,
and ct once her escort caught its spirit.
OTTO" he cried to the rubicund bartender,
who was something Of a character in Berne,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

lotto, the two stiffest Martins you ever mixedI
Then two more-and make them sitter"
In little nook. they were gay and laxative,
speaking first French, then English, which they
both knew well. But as the Martins grew
sitter, the Americans tongue grew thicker.
His head rolled, then fell forward upon his
chest. He slept. Now the great eyes flashed
indeed, as Bella Donna leaned forward
"otto," she whispered, come stand in front
of u.s."
Then, shielded by the broad aproned figure,
rapidly and with expert fingers she searched the
American, and, with a little cry, found long
narrow envelope.
LET him sleep moment until return" she
told Otto and disappeared.
In her room in the hotel she lighted an cleo,
trio heater under small teakettle, steamed
open the envelope and drew out the single sheet,
folded twice, of an American official paper.
What she read made the eyes glow with tri-
umph. It was an order, in proper official form,
from Gen. Nolan, commanding Ga at Ameri-
can G. H. O., France, to the chief of the Aneri-
can secret service in Switzerland, directing that
he send at once to G. H @. all men In his serv-
ice who had ever been in Alsace, or had special
knowledge of the country, or spoke its patois.
Intelligence officers for an invading army!
The very news the German chief wanted!
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lures, as well as group Of 10 portrait draw
ings In crayon and colored chalk, and two
water colors. The place of honor in the ex-
hibition Is given to a three-Quarter- length
portrait of the artists distinguished father,
DR.. Tarleton H. Bean, reproduced in The Star
Magazine last week, but with incorrect title,
Bean" appearing as Brown"
On the opposite wall from that on which
hangs DR.. Beams portrait is a large canvas,
a double portrait the little daughters of Mr..
and Mrs Arthur Foraker lent by Mrs. Foraker
"a very excellent painting. Near this is to
be seen portrait of Jane Davis, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James J. Davis, which carries
conviction as likeness and has pleasing pic
torial effect.
OF special interest to many visitors to this
exhibition Is a portrait of Ernest Thompson
Seton, rather modernistically rendered, but
strong characterization
Among the most pleasing of the garden pic
lures are those Of the garden at Abremont of
Mrs. Henry Parson Erwin and a glimpse of a
walk at 'Evermay," flower bordered.
OF the portrait drawings much can be said in
praise. One of Mrs. Moncure Robinson in red
chalk Is not only subtle in manner but inter-
pretative in the best sense Portraits of MRS.
Charles p. Stone and Miss Electra Webb are
delightfully."- rendered and extremely individual.
A portrait of Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot secre-
tary Of the Smithsonian Institution is remark
able as likeness vital and significant; whereas
the portraits Of two Of the younger generation
young Newbold Noyes and Charles Bittinger,
the latter the SON of the painter-are all that
one could want or expect portraits to be.
A T the Arts Club 20l7 street, the exhibit
tons change today and from today until
April there win be seen in the assembly room
OIL paintings by Eugen Weisz, Instructor at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

dent of the American Iris Society, author
OF "The Iris" Illustrated. New York:
Orange Judd.
THE CHERRY AND ITS CULTURE BY VIC
tor r. Gardner, horticuturist and director
of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment
Station. Illustrated. New York: Orange
Judd
PAPER BOOKS-MY "REMINISCENCES AS A
COWBOY. By Frank Harris Illustrations
by William Chopper. New York: Charles
THE DEENIE MEN. BY 10 Mcmahon. author
and illustrator of GOOD Faery Tales-Irish
Ones" Illustrated by the author. New York:
Dutton
HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY Paul Good
man. Revised edition. New York: Dutton.
CoNQUERNG OUR GREAT AMERICAN
PLAINS; a Historical Development. BY
Stuart Henry, author of "villa Elsa" ETC.
Illustrated. New York: Dutton.
JACQUELINE AND THE JAPANESE. BY
Heinrich Eduard Jacob Translated from
the German by s. H. Cross. Boston: Little,
STARS FOR SALE. BY Ruth Wright Phila-
delphia: Penn.
THE FIERY DIVE: and other Stories. BY
Martin Armstrong New York: Harcourt,
PRODUCING PLAYS: a Handbook for Pro-
ducers and Players. BY G. B. Purdom
Illustrated. New York: Dutton
CONFUCIANISM; Ethics, Philosophy, Religion.
BY Frederick Starr, University of Chicago.
New York: Covici-Friede
THE SEA. BY H. A. Mariner, assistant chief,
Division of Tides and Currents United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey author
Of 1.-THE Tide" Illustrated. New York:
Appleton.
MYSELF AND THE THEATER. BY Theodore
Komisarjevsky. New York: Dutton.
THE HOAX. BY Italo Svevo. Translated from
the Italian with an introduction by Beryl
de zoete. New York: Harcourt Brace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
RevieoOs of the MezU Books.
Continued from Eighteenth Page

Continued from Eighteenth Page
So meet Mrs. Angie-Bepler- Swisher- Edwards
Newton-Bellamy." with "Hymen supplying
the hyphens."0
PEAKS OF HAZARD BY Sir Michael Bruce.
Indianapolis: The BobbS- Merrill Co.
HES had such glorious time, being alive,
that to tell everybody about it is merely the
most natural impulse in the world. We are all
that way. No sooner do we come upon q
single exciting moment than our next move
Is to find some one to tell it to. So with Sir
Michael Bruce. He has been everywhere, pretty
much-South Africa and all through the war,
with Gallipoli to top that action; then to Brazil
and across the Andes and later up the Amazon,
around the Horn, up to the States. He has,
while going about, done and been quite a num-
Der OF things. Explorer, of course: soldier,
equally Of course; hunter, sportsman, farm
worker, surveyor, gambler, partaker in a revolu-
ton Of South American brand and few other
things besides Such is the budget of expe-
rience from which Sir Michael has drawn the
pictures and stories and personal partakings in
vivid and exciting lot of events and happen
ings. The gusto Of life is in full possession
here, coming out In word, almost in gesture,
before one and another of the adventures
which apparently ran out to meet this young
man and bid him welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

Corcoran School Of Art and at George WASH
ington University, a frequent contributor to
local exhibitions, while in the reception room
and dining room there win be placed on view
water colors by Frances Hungerford Combs, a
Washington painter, whose works are well
known here. Mrs. Combs is on the executive
board of the Washington Water Color Club.
BEGINNING yesterday and continuing for a
week, an exhibition Of paintings by Hide
garde Hamilton of Lexington, Va, will be held
at the Carlton Hotel, sponsored by the Art
Promoters Club.
H. Ryland) has recently held an exhibition at
the Ainslie Galleries, New York, which received
high commentator from critics. She and her
husband spent several months last year travel
ing in Europe, spending considerable time in
the south of France, where, at AK, they had
villa; visiting the italian lakes, going into
Czechoslovakia and adjacent regions. The
paintings which may be seen in the current
exhibition were for the most part made on this
trip. though already 40 of the works which she
brought home with her from Europe have
passed into private ownership-an amazing
record for young artist
THE League of American Pen Women has
sponsored q series of exhibitions by indi-
vidual artists this season. For a fortnight,
ending yesterday, paintings by Mrs. Walter
Miles OF this city were on view. Beginning
this afternoon and continuing to April S, paint
ings by Grace NJ. Ruckman win be SEEN Both
Mrs. Miles and MRS. Ruckman have studied
under local instructors.
Included among Mrs. Miles exhibits were
portraits Of her three daughters
subjects.
Mrs. Ruckman,s exhibition, opening today
with tea from to pm, win be free to the
public from to pm. week days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
Books ReceiUed

THREE observation-disclosures Recruiting
Sergeant; The Drunkards Looking Glass;
Gods Revenge Against Adultery. BY Mason
L. Weems, with an introduction by Emily E.
r. Skeely. New York Random House.
LILAC CULTURE BY John c. Wister presi-