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COUNTY CIVIC BODY
TO HEAR REPORTS
Flood Relief Committee of Bladens-
burg and Other Groups to Tell
of Their Findings.
special Dispatch to The star.

special Dispatch TO The Star.
BLADENSBURG. Md. September 4.
"A report by the committee working to
rid this town of its periodical floods
is scheduled to be laid before the Prince
Georges County Federation OF Citizens
Associations, which meets in the parish
hall of st. Luke's Protestant Episcopal
Church here next Tuesday night at 8
O'Clock. 1t will be the federation's first
quarterly meeting following the Sum-
n1er recess.
1t has been announced that the War
Department has finished a survey of
conditions making for the floods and is
now studying plans designed to do away
with the menace.
w. r.. Beattie, chairman of the fed
eration's committee studying the propo-
sition to. establish a Prince Georges
County hospital, is slated to report, as
is the chairman of the committee work.
ing on the development of parks and
waterways.
All citizens associations and kindred
organizations of the county are invited
to send representatives to the meeting
The federation has been in existence
two years. Judge Alfred D. Bailey .oi
Bladensburg is president.
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THREE SISTERS DROWN

WEISSPORT, Pa, September 4 R).-
Three sisters drowned here yesterday
while returning home from Danville,
where they attended the funeral of a
brother Tuesday. The husband of one
of the women also lost his life when
the car carrying the party plunged from
the highway into the Lehigh Coal g.
DR.. Archibald Mcbride of Paterson,
N. j.. Mrs. Archibald Mcbride, Mrs.
Elizabeth Kelly of Avon, N. j., and Mrs.
Michael Mallen. Bethlehem, Pa.
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ing can be as funny or as little as
nation when it tries to get back
at somebody. If every country run
him out for publishing something
they didn't want published, we
would have had him exiled at birth
and he would now be residing In
Siberia. Yours,
WILL ROGERS.
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Dead Controls.


THE first and last stunt I drove her
through was vertical barrel roll. In
that you charge down on a level
stretch and just at the right moment
point her nose up and roll the barrel,
Well, she came out of the first barrel
all right. At $500 feet, on pulling out
OF the second one, she topped on her
back and whirled through an upside
down spin"
On the field nearby an ambulance
corps and fire brigade surmised what
was happening. AS the P-i revolyed
and tangoed ground motors chugged in
readiness to dash.
The experimental article mutinied.
Either her controls damned or some
airfoil collapsed.
THE controls fell dead" continued
Capt. Hunter. II got no response. /
had little time to experiment before
jumping. The. plane spun and Topped
turtle, throwing my head up, then
down.
II thought she acted like that be-
cause she lacked speed. AS soon as we
pickup she'll be all right told nv
sell. The motor was wide open. the
| propeller whirling fast, but the P-l did
| nothing I meant her to do. Again and
| again failed to pull her out Of It.
"At $500 feet she was still unman-
ageable. was positive something was
wrong and we'd have to part. Only
one way to do it--jump! We were still
| spinning. / never had used a para.
chute before, and didn't swear by 1t al
I do now. 1t seemed to hinder gooC
| flying; clumsy and always In the way.
But now, 1t was not question Of
whether did or didn't believe In para.
chutes. No time to think about that
It was more important to know whether
! had o chance. The parachute oderet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
Will Rogers
Says:

TAHOE TAVERN, Calif.-It was
q historical day for France Tues
day. They flew the ocean and run
w. r. Hearst out of their country.
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T at W as a
pr city cute
sta { e ment he
h q n d e d 'eEn
back. but it will
be lost on 'em.
The Frenchnen
in di v du a ny
have plenty of
humor, but as a
government they
take everything
mighty serious.
There is n0th-
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the Y. w. M. C. The guests included
Mrs. David M. Gran, Mrs. Nelson Web
ster. Mrs. Thomas A. Clark, Mrs. l..
Monro Bricker, Mrs. David M. Craw-
ford, Mrs. Ida Schmidt, Mrs. FRANCESCA
Kasper Lawson, Mrs. Robert F. Phinney,
Mrs. Addie Stickney, Mrs. Mary Briggs,
Mrs. Edward N. Chisoln1, Mrs. David
c. Book and Mrs. Mary Sitz-Parker.
Smart washingtonians need not
wonder what to do OH Wednesday
mornings after Mrs. Lawrence Town
sends musicales are over, for an equally
brilliant annual series-the lectures that
DR.. Louis K. Anspacher has given here
for the past four SeasonS-will be re-
sumed at the Willard Hotel February
IL for the benefit of the George Wash
ington Memorial.
This announcement was made at a
meeting of the Anspacher lecture COM
mittee at the home of Mrs. Henry F.
Dimock, the honorary chairman, by
Mrs. George G. Thorpe, chairman, who
also announced that as a result of a
popular vote by DR.. Anspacher's sub
scribers last Spring this years series
| will be on Shakespeare. The talk on
February IL will be on Shakespeare as
a Poet" with some Introductory
moments on THE Theater as Shake
speare Found It."
On February 10 DR.. Anspacher will
speak on Julius Caesar; on February 26,
Macbeth, and the last lecture on March
| IL, which will be two weeks later, on
account OF Ash Wednesday, will deal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Luncheon for Dean of Corps
And Lady Isabella Howard.
The Ambassador of Great Britain and
Lady Isabella Howard were the guests
in whose honor the Misses Cullen en-
tertained at luncheon today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Mr.. Manton M. Wyvell will be host at
dinner this evening in his home, at
Woodley and Klingle roads, In honor OF
the former Chief Justice of the District
Supreme Court, Mr.. Walter /. Mccoy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Continued on Third Page.)
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SOCIETY
Chief Executive Host to Distinguished
! Actor at Luncheon-E1ad Guests at
Supper Last Evening.

at the Mayfiower for the balance of the
congressional season.
Mrs. Leigh, wife of Rear Admiral
Richard H. Leigh, will be at home in
formally Wednesday afternoon and the
following Wednesday afternoons through
January from to o'clock.
Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, wife of
the District Commissioner, will be at
home tomorrow afternoon from TO 7
o'clock.
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose will be at
home this afternoon at the Mayf1ower
Hotel and the other Mondays in this
month.
Princess Margaret Boncompagni is
expected TO return to this country next
week on the lie de France and will be
at the Ambassador in New York for
some time.
The naval attache of the Italian en-
bassy, Capt. Mobile Luigi Notarbartolo
del Duchi di Villarosa, entertained in
formally at dinner last evening in the
presidential dining room Of the May
flower.
The committee in charge of the series
of concerts to be given by the New
York Philharmonic Society, Willem
Mengelberg, conductor, has reserved a
box for Mrs. Hoover for the opening
concert, which will take place tomorrow
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the new
Constitutional Hall of the N. S. D. A. r.,
on Eighteenth street.
Others who have boxes are Mrs. Will
liam De Witt Mitchell, the Minister OF
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with Hamlet and a conclusion on 1.-THE
Theater as Shakespeare Left 1t"
Following the first lecture MRS.
Dimock will entertain at luncheon In
honor Of DR.. Anspacher and the COM
mittee, which, besides Mrs. Thorpe, con-
sists of Mrs. Charles Bell, Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock, Mrs. Goodloe Falconer. Mrs.
Samuel Jordan Graham, Mrs. Robert
Whitney Imbrie, Mrs. William Fitch
Kelley, Mrs. Brewster Warwick, Mrs.
Charles Oman, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman,
Mrs. Henry winfield Watson and Miss
Vera Bloom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max George Dennison
Prentice were hosts to O company at
bridge and dinner Saturday evening at
their home, on Porter street.
The list of guests included DR.. and
Mrs. Arnold McNitt, Mr.. and Mrs. Cor
don Edmonds, Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn
Woodwork, Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Skee-
han and Mr.. and Mrs. Oren Lewis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Waggaman en-
tertained a party Of IL at the Club
Chantecler supper dance on Saturday
evening.
son Gary, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Hume,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Sturtevant, Mr..
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Hungary and Countess Szechenyl, the
Minister of the Netherlands and Nine.
van Royen, Mrs. Pierce Butler, Mrs. VIII
liam Bayard Cutting, Senator ana mrs.
Frederic Walcott, Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon, Mrs. James S. Parker, Mrs. Will
liam r. Castle, jr.; Mrs. Charles j.
Rhoads, Mrs. Frederic A. Keep, MRS.
Adolph Caspar Miller, Mrs. Edwin 3.
Parker, Mrs. William K. Butterwortn,
Mrs. Frederick G. Hicks, MRS. Jonn n.
Gibbons, Mrs. George Mesta, Mrs: oscar
Jarecki. Mrs. William w. Galbraith, Mrs.
Arthur O'Brien Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Bel
mont, Mrs. William A. Slater, MRS.
Delos A. Blodgett, Mrs. Charles G. Mat
thews, Mrs. Sydney A. Cloman, Mrs.
Maxim Karolik, Mrs. Karl d. klemm,
Mr. and Mrs Frank Frost, Mrs. FrancK
C. Let's, Mrs. Thomas w. Philips, Jr:;
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Miss Belle
Gurnee and Mr.. william Phelps Emo.
Lady Lister Kaye of England, who for
the past several years has spent part OF
the Winter season in Washington, is
now a guest at the Mayflower.
Mrs. Elonzo Tyner and her daughter,
Miss Peggy Tyner, have returned TO
Washington and will be guests at the
Mayfiower for an indefinite period.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maury Herman and
Mrs. Frances Willis entertained at tea
yesterday afternoon in their apartment
in Chatham Courts for Miss Agnes
Koran Of Buffalo.
Mr.. Manton M. Wyvell will be host at
dinner this evening in his home, at
Woodley and Klingle roads, in honor of
the former Chief Justice of the District
Supreme Court, Mr.. Walter /. Mccoy.
President Pro Tempore Of Senate
and Mrs. Moses Guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Compton enter
tanned at luncheon yesterday, when
their guests included Senator and Mrs
George Moses, the American Ambassa-
dor to Chile and Mrs. Culbertson, Gen
and Mrs. Hugh Matthews and Mr.. and
Mrs. w. M. Ritter.
The Assistant Postmaster General
Mr.. w. Irving Glover, left Washington
yesterday for Ottawa, Canada, to con-
fer with Canadian postal officials. Mr.
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Glover will return to the city Thursda.
morning

Glover will return to the city Thursday
morning.
Commissioner Jefferson Myers of the
United States Shipping Board and Mrs.
Myers entertained at dinner Saturday
evening Mrs. George Earle Chamber
lain of Washington, Mrs. Charles Q.
Thompson and Miss Dorothy Thomp-
son of Seattle and Mr.. Charles l:
Thompson and Mr.. John Jay Hall OF
New York.
A meeting is being held this after
noon by some of those taking part IN
the tableaux in the Soiree Interna-
tionale, which is being sponsored by
the Colonial Danes of America and
given at the Carlton Wednesday. jan
uary Is, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
and 10 o'clock at night. Nine. Bedoya
will be the patroness for the group OF
the Rose of Lima" which was given
last year. Mrs. Mccormick Goodhart
is chairman of boxes for this important
event and Mrs. Robert Giles, 1853 r
street, in in charge of the tickets.
Mrs. William Morgan Shuster enter
tanned party of nine at luncheon yes
terday at the Carlton.
Mr.. and Mrs. William James Wallis
gave tea Friday afternoon, January 3,
for their niece, Miss Ruth Millicent
Becker of Waterbury, Conn, who is a
junior at Vassar College. Those assist
ing were Mrs Camille Hindmarsh, Mrs.
Franceska Kaspar Lawson and Mrs.
Bessie Edison.
Miss Beatrice Littlefield was hostess
to a small company at tea yesterday
afternoon in compliment to Miss Jean
Peoples.
Mrs. James F. Curtis entertained a
company of 20 young people at dinner
at LIE Paradis yesterday evening. The
party included number of debutantes
of this season.
Mrs. McMoreland, wife of Maj. Ed
ward E. McMoreland, entertained a
company of Is, at luncheon at the Fri
day Morning Music Club program of
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series of talks which Mrs. Howard will
give every Tuesday morning at IL
o'clock. Among the subjects to be dis
cussed tomorrow are the naval dis
armament conference and the World
(Continued on Third Page.)
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Mrs. Basil Manly will be the guest of
honor at the luncheon which Mrs.
Georgette Ross Howard will give at the
clubhouse of the American Association
Of University Women tomorrow follow
ing her lecture on Current Topics
This win be the first Of the Spring
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

and Mrs. Stanley Carr, Miss Ann Cow
ington and Prince Firouz Of the Persian
legation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Senator Henry Allen Of Kansas has
returned to Washington from Wichita
and joined Mrs. Allen in their apart
ment at the Mayflower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Mrs. McMoreland, wife of Maj. Ed
ward E. McMoreland, entertained a
company of Is, at luncheon at the Fri
day Morning Music Club program Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Representative and Mrs. E. Hart Fem
Of Connecticut entertained at New
England breakfast yesterday morning
in their apartment at 3540 Massachu-
sets avenue There were IL guests In
the company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Mrs. James F. Curtis entertained a
company of 20 young people at dinner
at LIE Paradis yesterday evening. The
party included number of debutantes
of this season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Representative and Mrs. Francis
Seiberling of Ohio have arrived from
their home in Akron and will be guests
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
RED CROSS WORKER
DIES FROM HURTS
Hubert B. Williamson Sue
cumbs in Bryn MaWr Hos
pitaI Following Accident.

Hubert B. Williamson, 48 years old, Of
Cathedral Mansions, director of Red
Cross disaster field operations, died late
last night in the Bryn Mawr Hospital,
Bryn Mawr, Pa, as the result of in
juries received in an automobile accident
near Devon Monday.
Williamson had been detailed to the
Devon area, where IL persons were
killed in a fireworks factory explosion
there recently, and with Vernon Moore,
accountant from Red Cross headquar-
tiers here, was driving along the road
from Devon when their machine was
struck by a truck Williamson received
a conclusion of the brain. Moore was
not so seriously injured, but is still con-
fined to the hospital.
A native of Keokuk Iowa, Mr.. VIII
hanson first entered the services of the
Red Cross at WATERFOWL, S. OAK, in
January, 1925. He was in charge of
Mississippi Valley food work in the
lower delta of Louisiana in 1927. In
February. 1929. he conducted the relief
operations in the Southeastern flood in
Alabama and Georgia and in the Wa
bash Valley in Illinois and Indiana last
Winter.
Mrs. Williamson was with her nus
band at the time of his death. Maurice
Reddy, Red Cross director of disaster
relief preparedness. went to Philadel-
phia today to arrange funeral details
which have not yet been completed. Be-
sides his widow, Mr.. Williamson leaves
two children, Margaret and Edward.
Commenting on the unfortunate &C
cident, James L. FieSer, vice chairman
in charge of domestic operations of the
Red Cross, paid this eulogy to Mr.. Will
hanson: He was one of the most
valued and experienced workers in Red
Cross disaster relief
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
HEARING PLANNED
. ON ELECTIVE BOARD
Senate District Committee
Sets May 2 to GET Senti-
ment on Capper Bill.

The Senate District committee will
hold a public hearing at 2 o'clock on
the afternoon of May 2 on the Capper
bill to provide for the election of the
board of education. At the present
time the board members are appointed
by the justices of the District Supreme
Court.
Senator Capper's bill. which is similar
to measures considered in previous
years, would provide for board Of
nine members and would authorize the
Commissioners to lay out election pre-
cincts and provide for the registration
of qualified voters. Three. members of
the board would come up for election
each year.
The Senate committee also has ar
ranged for a hearing at 2 O'Clock Tues
day, April 20, on the taxicab regulation
bill, which was not reached at the last
committee meeting.
Another meeting is to be held prob
ably next week to reach decision on
the bill drafted by the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission to pro-
vide for 10-year program of eliminat-
ing alley dwellings, or the changing OF
alleys to make them satisfactory for
dwelling purposes. The committee had
hoped to finish work on this bill yes
terday, but decided to invite the Com
missioners to express their views on the
question.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
POLICEMAN is FINED
FOR DRINKING BEER

Convicted of drinking two bottles of
beer while on duty, R. F. Harper, a
tenth precinct policeman, was fined $50
by the police trial board yesterday.
$780,
Inspector Louis j. Stoll, chairman,
announced the board took into con-
sideration the fact that Harper had a
perfect record prior to his suspension.
A fine of $25 was ordered in the
case of Thomas Hayes of the eleventh
precinct charged with sleeping on duty.
M. NJ. Carpenter of the fourteenth pre-
cinct was fined SIS. He was found to
have taken too long to eat bowl of
soup
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
TWO HELD IN STORE
ROBBERY OF YEAR AGO

Two men suspected of robbing and
assaulting Moses Reichgut, proprietor
of dry goods store at 1903 Seventh
street, a year ago were arrested last
night by Detectives j. E. Flaherty and
v. D. Hughes of No. precinct.
A Tip" led to the arrest of George e.
Washington, colored, of the 1900 block
of Eleventh street, who, police say, con-
fessed to the robbery and implicated
Frank Raymond, colored, of the 1900
block of Ninth street Raymond was
later arrested at his residence.
Reichgut was attacked on April 80,
1929, by two colored men and his store
robbed of two suits, two overcoats and
a small amount of money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
YOUTH Is DROWNED

LEWES, Del, April "a (P.-Jolted
into the Delaware Bay by the explosion
of a gasoline windlass, Herwin Phillips,
81, of Cambridge, Md, was drowned
yesterday while his father and other
members of the crew of the small oyster
boat stood by, unable to give assistance.
Encountered by heavy clothing, Phil
lips was unable to swim and sank
quickly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
CONTRACT is AWARDED
FOR INCINERATOR WORK

The District Commissioners today
entered into a contract with the firm
of Metcalf & Eddy, engineers of Boston,
Mass, to supervise installation of the
Districts two new garbage incinerators
provided for in the last appropriation
bill A fee of $4,000 will be paid for
their services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
Bow Hurt in Fall From Bicycle.

William r. White, years old, of
Mount Rainier, Md, sustained a broken
left leg and abrasions of the upper
lip yesterday afternoon in a fall from
q bicycle near his home. He was
rushed to the Casualty Hospital and
treated BY staff physicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-24
E. L. SIEH RITES HELD
Services Are Conducted at Airing
ton Cemetery.

A military funeral for Elton Lloyd
Sieh, SO years old. an employee of the
Treasury Department and veteran OF
the wartime naval service, who died
Saturday at the Naval Hospital, was
held yesterday in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Mr.. Sieh, who had been Ill for sew
eral months, came here in June from
his home at Blue Rapids, Kans, to enter
Government service. He lived at 1910
c street southwest.
The veteran is survived by his widow
and two children, June and Elton
Lloyd, jr.
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WESLEY

Westby-Archibald Anderson has
accepted a position with the county
t., pientywood.
ladsen visited
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ANTELOPE

Antelope%ens Olson vas in Ante
lope on business from the Dagmar
country Monday.
The Earnest Grayson family NOV
ed into the house they recently pur-
chased the first of the week.
Several Antelope farmers made up
a shipment of five cars Of cattle from
here Thursday, Jesse and Robert
Clark accompanied the shipment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Good left on
Thursday afternoon for Sidney, Mont.
County Attorney Grant Blackwell
was an Antelope visitor Wednesday.
James McNulty who has been at
Palarmo, N. D., the past year re-
turned to his farm north east of town
this week.
VIM. Grayson is driving a new
Chevrolet this week.
Gust Steinberg was down from the
county seat Thursday he left on the
afternoon train for Belt, Mont.
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City to visit at the home of their mo-
Their Mrs. Rice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gunderson and fam
lily will leave the latter part of the
week for Minneapolis where they
will make their future home.
Robert Gunderson has sold his
house to Clifford Hansen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asved are moving to
Medicine Lake for the winter months.
Last Saturday evening the commu-
nifty assembled at the School House
for a farewell party for the Gunder-
son family. About seventy-five people
were present for a progressive whist
game the opening feature Of the ev-
ening. After an hour at cards the
frorr was cleared and dancing COM
menced, the music being furnished by
Age Christensen and Bruce Hender-
son. About eleven o'clock the party
assembled in the lunch room where a
very appetizing lunch was served and
after the lunch, George Lund made a
short address on behalf of the COM
munity and presented the Gunder-
son family with a token of esteem
from the community. Mr.. Gunderson
made a very appropriate reply thank
ing the friends and expressing re-
greet at having to leave the town. At
ter this the party returned to the hall
and dancing was resumed. Bruce
Henderson acting as floor manager
and a few old time square dances
were arranged. The party was ar
ranged by Mrs. ~Strandskov, Mrs,
Christensen and Mrs. Evensen.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Peterson drove
to Bainville last Sunday AFTERNOON
to visit some of their old friends.
Mrs. Hunt and two children OF
Los Angeles arrived last Thursday
evening for a visit at the home OF
Mrs. Hunts sister Mrs. Angvick.
Regular meeting of the CONNER
cial Club held last Tuesday evening
A meeting of the All Club was
held in the school house last Satur-
day afternoon.