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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
INVENTORS GUARD
WINGLESS PLANE
Mysterious Craft Being Developed
on Barge on Long Island
Sound.
BY the Associated Pres-.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 20.-The secrets
of a new mysterious aircraft. without
wings and operated on the rotor prin-
ciple. today we're being jealousy guard
ed by three inventors who are develop
ing the craft on q barge on Long Is
land Sound.
Walter P. Chrysler and Harold Elst-
ner Talbot, jr., are said to be backing
the venture Nothing could be learned
concerning the matter at their ofices,
however
The machine is based on the principle
used in the celebrated Flettner rotor
ship. 1t resembles seaplane without
wings. A single motor in the nose sup
plies the traction through three
bladed propeller. An air-cooled aux
Hilary motor provides power to rotate
the cylinders, which take the place OF
wings.
Two rotors are on each side Of the
craft. An outraged rudder Is forward
behind is a small pair of tandem cock
pits. Between the motor and the cock
pits are two large booms used IN place
of the customary four longerons,
Approach TO the barge ON which the
experiment is being made Is closely
watched. The three inventors anc
three assistants are the only person;
permitted on board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
A|RPLANES GIVE UP
SEARCH FOR BLACK
Heavy tide and Currents
Leave Scant Hope Body of
Publisher Near Shore.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 20-Search by
airplanes for the body of Van Lear
Black, who vanished from his yacht
Sabalo of the New Jersey coast on
Monday evening, was abandoned today.
Three planes which pressed the hunt
for the Baltimore publisher for three
hours this morning reported that there
was such a strong tide out to sea with
ocean currents moving away from shore
In such volume that little hope re-
NAMED for the present that the body
would be found near the coastline.
Yacht to Leave Soon.
Coast Guard boats. engaged since yes.
terday with planes, the sabalo itself
and the naval dirigible Los Angeles In
the search were stili standing by today,
but Paul Patterson, editor of the Balti-
more Sun, of whose publishing COM
pany Mr.. Black was chairman of the
board, said, the yacht was about to leave
the site where the publisher was missed
on Monday evening after having APP
parently fallen over q deck rail from
his craft.
A report of the accident was made
today to the New York ONCE of the
steamboat inspection service by Capt
Kelley of the Sabalo. He was asked 70
return tomorrow morning with one other
witness to complete the formality OF
recording the tragedy. Capt. Kelley
was accompanied today by the chief
engineer of the yacht. A. w. Hay.
Gov. Franklin d. Roosevelt, q friend
Of Mr. Black, requested that everything
possible be done to promote the quest
The only possibility that he may be
found alive rested in the fact that he Is
good swimmer and may have kept
himself afioat until picked up by some
small ship.
Last Seen on Rail.
He was last seen shortly after
o'clock Monday night 10 miles south
of Ambrose Channel. sitting on the
stern rail of his yacht, his legs en-.
twined around the guard rails and one
hand graSping stanchion. He wa:
smoking cigarette. That day he hac
Continued on Page 2, Column S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
BEAUTY TO MATCH COSTUME
WITH HUES FOR FINGERNAILS
Cosmetologists Find New Fastides for Nations Billion
Dollar "Make.Up'' Business

explained the spokesman, for beauty as
a big business.
II hats, gloves, shoes and bags are
black, said Franklin, the fingernaiis
also will be black and the color of their
gloss can be changed with each cos
tune.
Beauty as big business, he said, Is
exactly as old as the bob-10 years.
Its rapid rise in the postwar decade
to a present level of 1900, 600 900 ex-
penditure per annum he attributed to
the development Of the permanent-wave
machine.
Beauty seekers spend annually $780,
OG0, 900 for cosmetics and an added
81 ,iOO, 0O0, 600 for having them put on,
he said, explaining the causes thus
when women found 1t possible,
through the permanent wave, TO keep
their hair curled, they had 1t cut To
keep 1t trimmed they acquired the regu-
FAR habit of going to the beauty parlor.
After that, meticulous care of face and
hands as well as hair was merely o
! matter Of merchandising"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20

BY the Associated Press.
Three SCARED and battered destroyers
are to become perennial" targets for
the lighter guns OF the Nays battle
ships
Already one of these vessels is being
equipped with radio control that will
enable 1t 10 move crewless about the
seas, while the guns of the bigger
ships blaze away at 1t.
The Stoddert, which has been in
service for 10 years, Is the first of the
three destroyers selected to improve
the Nays craftsmanship. Two others
will be chosen later from the scores
of similar craft built during the war
which have since become obsolete.
In firing ON these vessels the gum
ners will use target ammunition, which
contains no explosive and win only tear
holes In the defcnseless craft instead
OF blasting 1t out Of the water. When
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
DISCUSS BRINGING
NATURAL GAS HERE
President Wood of Light
Company and Utilities Body
Take Up Plan.

Bringing of natural gas to Washington
is being discussed at conference this
afternoon by ofTicials of the Washington
Gas Light Co. with the Public Utilities
Commission. President George A. c..
Wood telephoned this morning and
asked for the appointment. He did not
state to the commission what would be
the subject Of the conference, but 1t
was stated later at his office that the
discussion would center around natural
gas. The company at present supplies
its customers with carburetted water
gas.
The commission had been expecting
a communication from the gas company
dealing with a proposed reduction of
rates, but according to information at
Mr.. Woods ONCE this matter will not
be taken up today. 1t is expected that
the reduced rate schedule will be offered
to the commission before the end of the
month, however.
First Definite Step.
Although there has been much dis
cussion OF the possible advent of ma
tural gas to Washington, this confer
ence is the first substantial intima-
ton that 1t Is on the way.
Piping it here would involve line
several hundred miles long. Although
there Is natural gas as near as Gets
burgh, Pa. (82 niles, it is believed
that the supply for Washington would
have to come directly from some heavy
producing field.
Natural gas has much higher heat
ing content than the water gas now
In use here, and 1t could be con-
siderably diluted before being sold, and
still be as satisfactory as the present
product. In previous utterances, Mr..
Wood has given out the hint that his
company Is not so much interested in
natural gas as in by-produet gas, which
Is obtained by the distillation of coal.
This gives OF the illuminating gas and
leaves coke as a by-product A market
would have TO be developed nearby for
the coke, and the plant for this type
Of manufacture would have to be placed
out of town.
Open Mind On Product.
Mr.. Wood has said that his mind was
not closed to natural gas and that II
he could be assured that Washington
could get supply of it that would not
be subject to embarrassing Interrupt
tons, and If it would give as good serv-
ice to the public as the plants present
product, he would be willing to try II
out His present overtures seem To
indicate that such a supply has been
assured
1t is not thought at this time that
there Is an indispensable connection be-
tween the natural gas discussion and
the lower rate schedule, as MIR. Wood
has promised TO submit the rate sched-
ule In plenty of time for It's adoption
after extensive public hearings, before
Congress reconvenes, and any change
over from the present type of gas tc
natural gas would probably take far
longer than that to accomplish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
WRIT is ASKED TO HOLD
DEAD MANS BODY HERE
Mrs. Bertha Shaman Seeks Injunc.
ton to Prevent Shipment
to Youngstown, Ohio.

Mrs. Bertha Shaman, 1921 Georgia
avenue, today asked the District Su-
preme Court for an injunction against
Bernard Danzansky, undertaken, 350l
Fourteenth street. to prevent the ship
ping to youngstown, Ohio. of the body
of Charles hickman, her brother, who
died yesterday. Justice William Hit2
issued a rule on the undertaken to
show cause Friday why the injunction
should not be issued.
Through Attorney James B. Stein, the
plaintiff says her brother shortly before
his death expressed wish to be buried
in Washington in accordance with
Jewish rites. In opposition to these
wishes, 1t is said, the undertaken is pre-
pairing to ship the body to the home
of @ married daughter of the deceased
in Youngstown. Mrs. Shaman says
she and the daughter are the only
relatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
I'm JUST ASICK GIRL, BUT I'LL BE
ALL RIGHT SOON" SAYS AIMEE
Just Blah, Evangelist's Mother Declares,
Charging Daughter Struck Her on
Nose During Fist Fight

has not had any bandages on her face
or eyes since last night"
A communique from Angelus Temple
headquarters said:
The latest news from Sister Nc
Pherson Is that she Is somewhat i'm
proved this morning. Please continue
to pray earnestly"
approximately 1900 followers of the
pastor prayed for aid for their leader
last night and this morning groups
came to continue the supplications at
the temple.
The Examiner today said Mrs. Nc
Pherson had denied striking her
mother as the latter charged.
The paper quoted Mrs. Mcpherson as
follows:
IT did not hit mother. I wanted to
talk to her about some things she had
been saying and she started to leave
the loom. / asked her to stay and
talk to me. She threw herself on the
floor and screamed and yelled, as she
had done before. Then she went away
and severed all connections with the
temple"
Guards stationed at windows and
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Nv the Asaociated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Green or black fingernails and rose
eye shadows are in store this Fall for
the Nations billion-spending beauty
seekers II cosmetology's calculations find
popular favor.
Manicures to match women's cos
TUNES were named today by II. l..
Franklin, managing director OF the or
ganized beauticians OF the country as
the latest wrinkle in the beauty game,
designed to keep American women
spending at a record-breaking clip.
Preparing for a national convention
here of what he claims to be the Ma
tons fourth largest ndustry-making
women pretty--Franklin was arranging
demonstrations of color scheme finger
nails and "beauty-enhancing" eye shad-
oWg.
The ''smart-to-th -fingertips' style
has already started, he said, and Is due
for q decided Fall flair. Nail enamel
Of every hue, selected for the coming
season by the sAuitsfr, win be available
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
GINGER PARAL. YS|S
CAUSE DISCOVERED
Experiments Show a New
Poison, Affecting Only Ex-
tremity Nerves.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Chemists of the National Institute of
Health and of the Prohibition Bureau
have obtained small quantities of what
is apparently a new poison, hitherto
unknown in the world, with a strange
ly specific action on men and animals,
after analyses extending over four
months of samples Of Jamaica ginger
extracts which caused the so-called
Jake paralysis" in thousands of per-
sons scattered over the country this
Spring.
The new poison is described as a
"cresol-phosphoric acid-ester." Its exact
chemical nature remains unknown and
is the object of further research. The
remarkable feature of the substance is
the specificity of its action on the
human body. 1t attacks directly and
solely, the experiments indicate, the
lower motor neuronS, whose cell bodies
are IN the spinal cord. But its action
seems restricted to those neuronS which
control the distal muscles of the ex-
tremities-that is, those of the hands
and feet. The rest of the nerve cells
and other body cells are left unaffected.
Few known poisons act so specifically,
picking out the microscopic cells set
aside in the body for a particular func-
ton.
The thousands of victims exhibit
about the same symptoms, as described
by local physicians and public health
officers. Nearly all cases were char
acterized by wrist drop and foot drop"
on both sides. They seemed to have
lost control over both hands and feet.
Milder cases could get around with the
aid of canes and crutches. Severer
cases were bed-ridden and unable to
feed themselves. In no case, illustrate
ing the remarkable specificity of the
poison, did the muscle paralysis extend
above the elbows. A few very severe
cases were found where it extended into
the thighs.
Neurologists found no change in
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, August 2o.-A state
ment it was all lust blah" was added
today by Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother
of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, evangelist,
to the maze Of reports concerning the
purported Hfness Of Mrs. Mcpherson.
At the Malibu Beach cottage, where
the evangelist is declared variously to
be suffering from q nervous collapse, a
face-dfting operation, blindness and
need of rest, Mrs. Mcpherson announc-
ed this morning:
I'm just sick girl-but I'll be all
right soon.''
DR.. Edward Huntington Williams,
psychiatrist and nerve specialist, after
visiting Mrs. Mcpherson said:
She is much improved. Another day
or two of rest and she will be all right"
Can See All Right.
Certainly she can see all right.
There's nothing the matter with her
eyes," the physician continued. She
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
THREE DESTROYERS TO FURNISH
e'PERENNIAL' NAVY GUN MARKS
Radio Control Will Provide Crewless Moving Target for
Guns of Fighting Ships.

there are too many holes, the destroyer
targets viii be towed to port and
patched.
Two other destroyers, the Sloat and
the Marcus. are to become stationary
targets for bombing tests. They will be
dismantled and anchored at sea, where
airplanes will drop enough bombs to
determine whether four 30-pound bombs
or one 116-pound bomb would be more
effective.
The Navy also Is hopeful of equipping
the battleship Utah. which the United
States must lose under the London
naval treaty. with radio control for
operation rs moving target.
Once before the Navy experimental
with . Iadio-controlled vessel The
battleship Iowa was sunk by gunfire
after 1t had been bombed, but the
results OF this test were not con-
sidered conclusive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
WOMAN DERBYIST IS INJURED
IN CRASH IN CAROLINA FIELD
Mrs. Mae HaizIip Seriously
Hurt in Forced Landing
En- Route to Capital.
Companion Is Expected to
Reach Capital in Time for
Start on Friday.

Forced down in cotton field miles
east of Greenwood, 8. c., Mrs. Mae
Haizlip of st Louis, who was flying
from Atlanta to Washington to start in
the Women's Dixie Air Derby, leaving
here Friday morning, was seriously In
jured today She was still unconscious
four hours after the crash.
According to Associated Press dis
patches, Mrs. Haizlip, flying with Miss
Vera Dawn Walker, another entrant In
the Dixie Derby, in another plane, got
on her course and Mrs. Haizltp was
forced TO land. When the plane hit
cotton field wheel gave way and the
ship ground stopped. Miss Walker made
. safe landing nearby and went to the
aid of her fellow flyer.
Miss walker was expected to come on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
TWO INMATES SHOT
IN OCCOQUAN FIGHT
Guard Wounded in Attack
by CoIored Prisoner in
Dormitory.

Two colored prisoners at the Deco
guam work house were shot and q
guard was severely cut today when one
of the prisoners attacked the guard
during fight in the dormitory at the
institution. The second prisoner was
shot accidentally while trying to assist
the guard.
A bullet from the guards gun went
clear through the chest of Harry
Moore, 4s years old, who attacked him
with the knife, and lodged under the
scalp Of Arthur Templeton. It was
removed by the prison doctor, DR.. F.
w. Hornbacker. Moore was brought
to Gallinger Hospital here where it
said his condition was critical.
Guard Slightly Hurt.
The guard, John A. Tyers, was also
brought to the hospital, but his CON-
dition was said to be not serious. He
was suffering from cuts on the head
and neck inflicted by Moore.
Capt. M. M Barnard, superintendent
of the District Penal Institutions, who
conducted an investigation, said Tyers
was forced TO use his pistol In self-tle-
Tense after he had been attacked by
Moore, The weapon used by the colored
man was not found. but was believed
to have been jagged piece of glass or
small-bladed knife.
He said Moore attacked the guard
about o'clock this morning In dorn1i-
tory 5. Moore knocked the pistol from
the guards hand and 1t was picked up
by another prisoner and handed back
to Tyers. who then fired in self
defense.
Previous Attack on Guard.
Moore, who has served a number of
terms in the work house, also attacked
another guard, William A. Goodwin,
with a shovel several months ago.
Goodwin, defending himself with a pis-
toll, fired at Moore, infiicting a wound
which was not serious. Authorities at
the prison said Moore was regarded as
a bad actor
Moore was serving a sentence of $50
days for assault, having been arrested
April q by police of the first precinct
for an assault on Charles SCHNEIDER of
2706 Thirty-tnird street southeast. It
was charged that he attacked Schnider
in the vicinity of Center Market and
cut him with a knife.
The prisoner gave his address to the
police as GIG Cannon street northeast
and said he had been employed in Viz
ginia. When received at the District
Jail preparatory TO his transfer to &C.
coquan, he gave his address as ArllnR-
ton County, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Three Die in Auto Crash.

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass, August
20 R).-Three persons were fatally in
jured here today when their automobile
crashed into a tree. They we're Edwin
@. Nash of Cambridge and Mr.. and
MRS. Paul Plummer of Melrose, who had
been married only few weeks.
Mrs. Plummer was found dead in the
wreckage. Plummer was dead upon
arrival at the Lawrence General Hospi-
tai, while Nash. who identified himself
as an instructor 1t Harvard University,
died at the hospital two hours after
the accident
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
BAvARlAN HEADS QUIT
: AFTER TAX DEFEAT
Slaughtered Live Stock Bills Fail
ure Brings Cabinet Resig-
nations.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MUNICH. Bavaria. August 20.-The
Bavarian cabinet resigned today after
the defeat in the Landtag of a bill
which proposed to levy a special tax
on slaughtered live stock.
The cabinet, constituted July 81, 1928,
was composed of DR.. Held, premier and
minister Of foreign affairs; DIR. Gold
enberger, minister of education; Prof.
Fehr, agriculture and labor: DR.. Steut-
eel, interior; DIR. Schmelzle, finance, and
Herr Gurtner. justice.
Cattle raising Is one of the chief &C.
equations of Bavaria, the census of 1928
showing 3,824,972 head The tax pro-
posed would have placed duty on
every head killae
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
L. MILLS RETURNS
Undersecretary of Treasury Spent
Vacation in Europe.

NEW YORK, August 20 (R).-Ogden
L. Mills, Undersecretary of the Treas
ury, returned on the Olympic last night
from vacation in Europe.
While abroad he discussed with Wal
ter z. Edge, American Ambassador to
France, the French double extraterri-
torial tax ON American corporations
with subsidiaries In France, but Eaid
his conversations were unoflcial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
DOYLE Wins Acquittal.

NEW YORK, August 20 (P)-A Fed
eral Jury acquitted DR.. William r. Doyle
TODAY on two counts of perjury in con-
nection with his income tax returns
for 1927 and 1928, but failed 10 agree
as TO his guilt or innocence on third
count charging evasion in his 1923 re-
turn. The Judge declared q mistrial
on the evasion count, and United States
ATTORNEY Tuttle said that Doyle would
be brought 20 trail again on that
charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
ENDS LIFE IN PRISON
BY STANDING IN BLAZE
Second Suicide Attempt Succeeds
for Pennsylvania Charged
With Killing Woman.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WARREN, Pa, August 20.-Building
a fire in the county Jail, Frank Nc
Koon, 20. succeeded in a second attempt
at suicide today by standing in the
flames until he was burned fatally.
McKoon was awaiting trial on a
charge OF first-degree murder for the
killing of Mrs. Mabel Lindquist at Sugar
Grove last Memorial day. He first tried
to kill himself at the time Mrs. Lind
uuist was slain. He recovered from a
bullet wound in his left breast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
CASUALTIES REPORTED
IN PERSIAN REBELLION
Government Forces Are Disarming
Tribesmen in Southern Sec
ton of Country.

BY the Associated Press.
TEHERAN, Persia, August 90
Heavy casualties were reported today
in fighting in Southern Persia, where
government forces are disarming re-
benious tribesmen.
Conflicting reports had reached Te-
heran this evening of the nature OF
the conflict.
One report stated that rebellion had
broken out,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
GRONAU REACHES ISLAND

German AWAIT Proposes to Con-
tinue Toward America.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, August 20
R9.-The German aviator Capt. GroS
nau, flying from the Farce Islands, ar
rived here today He intends shortly to
continue toward America by way of
Frederoksdal, Greenland, where he says
him.
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communal on Page 2, Column 3D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
ITALY DEMOB|L|zES
! PORTION OF RELIEF
Several Phases of Work for
Earthquake Victims Held
Completed.
Nv tha Associated Press.


ROME, July 31.-Araldo di Crolla-
nAnse, minister of public works, today
reported to Premier Mussolini that first
cid service in the regions stricken by an
earthquake last week is beginning to be
asmobilized in several phases. that re-
manning being confined to a limited
number Of townships and special cate
gories of the population.
The minister said that the tenting
accommodations are being systematized
with the aid of the military and the
eationing service is being appreciably
eurtailed as the local provisioning re-
sources improve.
The work of demoliShing uninhabit-
able houses and shaping UP those still
salvagable IS being intensified, while the
gradual return of the frightened tnhab-
itAnts to their abandoned dwellings is
noted. At Rio Nero 1000 have moved
back and resumed their ordinary occu-
pations.
The first group of anti-earthquake
houses is well under way, 205 such
dwellings now going up in II town
ships. The work is being done by $50
workmen, assisted by soldiers and fire.
men.
The higher council Of the Public
Works Department will meet Saturday
to approve the types of new houses
chosen. All the schemes now under
way will assure the housing of more
than $4,000 persons,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
british TREATY OK.
HELD BUNK EXPOSE
Johnson Declares U. S. Will
See Error of Disarmament
Pact in Time.

Senator johnson. Republican, of Cali
fornia. who led the unsuccessful fight
against the London naval treaty in this
country, declared last night that the
approval of the treaty by the British
Parliament is the FIRST exposure Of part
of the bunk used to obtain ratification"
by the United States Senate.
only q short time ago." Senator
johnson said in his statement, the
State Department and every little man
echoing what he was told to say, were
harping upon the British opposition and
the internationaliSt press again and
again repeated that treaty so violently
opposed by like parties in Great Britain
and America must be an inspired and
holy document.
There never was any truth in the
statement that like parties in each
country we're In opposition. The British