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TRAELER HITS,
 SINKS RAPIDLY,
 NORWAY COAST
British Seamen, Aboard German Craft, Are
 BelievedDrowned

OOAOi 4NO way, 11CO. lA.-E,lCFSl British seamen, members of the German Trawler Venus crew which sank off the northwestern coast are reported missing with Capt Wis., naerotsky, the German member of the crew.
 RAFT DRIFTS ASHORE
 MAALOEY, Norway, Dec. 12.-A raft bearing two desperate, half frozen seamen and the bodies of four of their dead comrades, drift ed ashore near here from the Ger man trawler Venus which grounded early today and sank quickly.
 SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS
 MAALOEY, Dec. 12.-A motor boat was sent out to search for additional survivors. It is said that all of the crew, except the six on the raft, were packed into two beats as the ship went down.
 A lifebuoy has been picked up bearing the name of Venus" but it is not known whether this is the name of the vessel that went down or not. She probably was a trawler with cargo of fish from Iceland.
 The two men alive on the raft which drifted ashore are the first officer and the engineer.
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Greta CarbO's Private Life
Actress Tried to Prepare Own Meals When Servants
Were Given Day Of-Stdr Scorned
Supersttions.
Superstitions

| stories sbout the sleepless nights OF
Greta Carlo. 1t Is said Carlo often
called her business manager at and
o'clock in the morning. when, nervous
and worn out from lack of sleep. she
felt she had to talk with some one or
| 60 insane. It has also been said that.
when tortured by insomnia. she would
get up and go for long walks in the
dead of night.
| Gustaf says these stories are untrue.
When Carlo could not sleep she would
read. Often he would see her light
burning all through the night.
"She did lie awake lot at night,
he said. But any one staying in bed
as much as she did during the day
couldn't expect to sleep all through the
night. When Carlo wasn't swimming
or walking or exercising. she was usu-
ally lying down.
when she didn't want to sleep she
seemed to think no one else in the
house did. She was ringing that bell
all through the night. I used to swear
would diSconnect the thing before /
went to bed. Sigrid got so she would
sleep right through 1t. But it seemed
as though was always waiting for it
to ring"
Gustaf was always reminding Carlo
of the bad luck she would have some
day because she continually broke the
head of little Chinese statue on her
dresser.
she had Chinese idols standing all
about her bed room" he said. Heads,
full-length figures, big ones and little
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HUSBAND is ACQUITTED
Harvey S. Lowe Had Been Charged
With Assaulting Estranged Wife.

Harvey S. Lowe, 1915 seventeenth
street, was acquitted by a Police Court
jury yesterday on charge Of assaulting
his estranged wife, Mrs. Olethia s.
Lowe, $500 block of Thirteenth street.
The wife said Lowe came to her
apartment october IS and knocked her
down after a quarrel. Her head struck
piece Of furniture, fracturing her
skull. she said.
More than a year ago Lowe was shot
and wounded seriously by his step-son,
Harry v. Hazel. II, who claimed he
found the man mistreating Mrs. Lowe.
Hazel was released when charge of
assault with a dangerous weapon was
nolle pressed in court.
Lions raised in captivity grow better
names than those living in the jungle,
says an English wild animal expert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-06
BY RILLA PAGE PALNfBoRG.
CHAPTER XIV.

~Soon after Greta Carlo moved into
her house." said Gustaf Norm, ''she
had an electric bell installed from her
bed room to the servants room, with
the button placed within easy reach
Of her bed. She kept that bell ring
ing all hours of the day and night.
She. always thought she was hearing
burglars"
Carlo liked to take her meals at
home She refused to go out to eat on
the one day a week that Gustaf and
his wife Sigrid had off. Gustaf said
she knew so little about cooking that
he always felt guilty when he left
Greta to get a meal. She was like a
child trying to prepare 1t.
"She wouldn't have known how to
boil or bake potatoes" he said. SO
We would leave cooked potatoes cut up
In a frying pan. On these I would
put a note saying, Stir often when
over the fire or they will burn
"Garbo never liked fruit salad, but
was very fond of vegetables. When
we went out I usually left q salad
cooked beets. carrots, string beans and
peas-or one Of raw vegetables.
sometimes she would fry herself a
steak. But generally we left cold
roast This, with a homemade cake,
would be her dinner"
Walked Through Dinner Hour.
Fifteen minutes before dinner was to
be served Carlo would often start for
a walk, saying she would be back In
q few minutes. Usually she stayed two
and three hours. When she returned
Eigrid would say that the dinner was
spoiled. Carlo would answer, Il don't
care. I didn't want any anyway"
Later they would hear her getting
something out of the ice box.
Carlo was very fond of coffee, but
seldom drank 1t at night. as she thought
1t kept her awake. Usually she took beer
or milk with her dinner. When she
wanted coffee she used a brand with
the caffeine removed.
She always left the kitchen in order
after she had Eotten a meal. The food
was set away III the ice box The dirty
dishes were scrlped. piled together and
set in the sink. If Greta had eaten
anything sticky she would fill the dish
with water.
1t Is a queer picture-the mysterious
Carlo stirring potatoes and frying a
steak and then sitting down at the
kitchen table to eat her solitary din
ner, when all over the world there were
thousands of admirers longing to set
the handiwork OF the greatest chefs
0e Hollywood Woo has heard many of the
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tray down the cup turned over and
some of the scalding coffee splashed
on Carlo She was good-natured
about it. She said it didn't burn her.
"She laughed when Sigrid said that
it was Friday, the thirteenth: You
don't believe the day has anything 70
do with it?' Carbon asked"
(Tomorrow: CARLOS few intimates)
copyright, 1881, by Rilla Page Palmborgo
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ones. This one on her dresser was one
of her favorites. It was a sort of Chi
nese madonna, with nun-like wells
draped over its head. I believe it is
called 'Kuan Yin" It was made of a
marble composition that broke easily.
"Garbo would come running into the
F:.chen with the two pieces in her
hands. wailing, or Gustaf, I have
broken her again. Isn't it terrible.
She would stand there while 1 glued the
head back on.
Il always knew when the little ma
donna had had tumble. There would
be one long ring of the bell. Finally, I
got tired of gluing her together. ]
bored a hole into her neck and stuck a
small spike In the hole. Then I bored
another hole in her head and set the
head on the spike.
"Garbo executed that lady nearly
every day think her arm must have
brushed the figure off as she was max
ing her toilet before the mirror. often
Sigrid or I would find the little idol
standing on the dresser, her head off
beside her. In her haste, Carlo did
not stop to put the head back on
but she never left the idol lying on
the Ao0r
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Wasn't Superstitious.

"osht SupcTStltlOuSs
But Carlo wasn't a bit superstitious
One day everything seemed to 60 wrong
in the kitchen. Carlo was sitting out
in the garden, and she ordered some
coffee and cookies, as she often did in
the afternoon.
"Sigrid took them out to her on the
tray. AS she was about to set the
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Meeting, Cushing Auxiliary, Pythian
Temple, 8 pm.
Gard party, st. Francis de Sales
Church, Twentieth street and Rhode
Island avenue northeast, pm.
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3DEAD, 2 WOUNDED.
|. IN MYSTERY FIGHT
Texan Kills Trio, Shoots
Fourth, After Being Lured
From Gasoline Station.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Tex, September 49,
Three men were shot to death and a
fourth was wounded dangerously near
here last night by j. H. Boyd. 50.year-
old Louisiana gasoline station operator,
who said they had lured him from his
station and kidnapped him.
Officers identified the dead men as
Hardy Luce, As; Bill Fish, 38, Boyd's
stepson, and Early Sullivan, %. Physi-
clans said they did not expect Bill Sui
Ivan, brother of Early Sullivan and
brother-in-law of Fish, to live. All were
filling station operators.
Right Arm Broken.
One pistol bullet fractured Boyd's
right arm. Another plowed furrow
across his chest.
Boyd said two of the men came to
his station, IS miles from Atlanta. told
him a motor car in which they were
riding had developed trouble and asked
him to tow them in. He said when he
drove up behind the machine one OF
the group forced him with a shotgun to
enter their car.
Boyd told officers he liberated one
arm and opened fire after he was struck
over the head. Two of the four Slumped
on the seat A bullet tore into his right
arm, disabling it. He said he shifted
the pistol into his left hand and fired
two more shots. officers said Boyd fired
but four shots.
Motive Undetermined.
The Sullivan brothers lived near Wv
ian, La. Luce operated a gasoline sta
ton Just over the Louisiana line in
Texas. Both Boyd and Fish operated
stations in Louisiana. The motive OF
the alleged attack was not made clear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18
NANK|NG PREPARES
L|NDBERGHS' FETE
Flooded River to Be Cleared
of Traffic for Landing
Expected Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NANKING, China, September 1S-
Although the flooded Yangtze River
swept away one wharf especially con-
structed for the Lindbergh monopIane.
preparations for the reception of the
former Lone Eagle" and his wife.
probably tomorrow, are complete.
This city, the capital of China.
eagerly awaited news of the take-oh of
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
from Fukuoka, Japan, nearly 200 miles
distant across the Yellow Sea.
As the Yangtze still is running a ter
rifle current, the Marking Aviation Blu
reau cabled Lindbergh, requesting that
he exercise the greatest care in landing.
River to Be Cleared Of Boats.
Chinese navy launches and Aviation
Bureau motor boats will sweep the river
clear of all craft. The United States
gunboat Mccormick will be standing by,
ready to render assistance.
When the Lindberghs arrive here
their plane will be moored to an espe-
cially constructed wharf, replacing the
first one that was swept away. How
ever, the flyers still will be some dis
lance from solid earth, as the whole
Of the Hsiakuan, Markings water front,
is under flood water.
Take-oR Postponed.
The flyers will board boat at the
landing jetty and then proceed through
flooded streets to the south gate of
the Marking city wall, where motor
cars viii be waiting.
Many social events have been ar
ranged in honor Of the Lindberghs for
the five days they are expected to
spend in the capital.
The Lindberghs landed at Fukuoka,
Japan, from Osaka, industrial center
Of Japan, late yesterday. They had
planned to continue to Marking today,
but storms prevented this and they
postponed their take-of until tomorrow.
WILL FLY ON TO EUROPE.
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Lindbergh Consults With Consul and
Leaves Route Undecided.

TOXIC, September 10 L4).--A Rengo
news agency dispatch from Fukuoka
said today Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
had announced he was going to Eu-
rope, but did not name the route he
might follow after completing his air
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Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-Texas
had Just lost a war to Gov. Muir
ray, so when Gov. Long said they
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had been inhu.
enced by the
lobbyists, W ny
they. called him
a liar" by reso-
luton. That's
like calling you
q liar by mail.
Nothing makes
q man or q
body Of men as
m ad as the
truth. If there
Is no truth in
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hindsight is much easier than fore.
sight.
Now comes the other logical question
Why, then, did he not take the license
number? Well, he says that he did mote
it, but has forgotten it. Privately, my
leading citizen who whispered 1t in.
formed me that he believed that Wuis.
mann actually could remember the frs
three numbers OF the i've on the license
plate.
It was this information today that
turned over to District Attorney Blue
Official pressure might jog a memory
that a special writer could not bulge
Mr.. Blue jumped at 1t. That would
narrow the search to 100 cars-the oper
last two numbers on the license.
battered model A Ford should not bS
hard to locate among hundred Con.
necticut cars.
Believes Slayer Was Known.
There is no doubt that once that cal
Is located we shall be q long way toward
discovering what lies in the secret past
of this strange family.
have talked at length with the
assistant district attorney, Fred j. Num-
der, who has the case In charge To-
cally, with the district attorney himself
over the telephone repeatedly, with DR.
Schultze and with the Nassau County
authorities under District Attorney
Elvin Edwards and Inspector Harold
King. I cannot say that T agree 100
per cent with any Of their deductions
but taking them all, am inclined to
think that whoever came up over the
side of the Penguin that fateful night
over week ago, was known to one OF
the CollingseS.
It is evident that his violent intent
was not known to Ceilings, at least at
first, or Ceilings most likely would have
armed himself with the .32-caliber auto
matte or the bowie knife which were
close at hand.
1 do not think either Mr.. Blue OF
Mr.. Munder believe there were two
pirates. They believe that there was
one. am not so sure, however, but
that second dominated by the first
is quite logical, but the wounded man
Is to me myth. may say here, how
ever, that little Barbara, 5 years old
but with the mentality of 2l2 or 3, Is
quoted as saying, "the bad man made
my daddy go overheard swimming in his
clothes" She did not say bad men"
There Is some simple explanation to
the strange, inexplicable story told by
the dead yachtsman's wife, some reason
why the wounds and bruises and IA
tally were one-sided. In my opinion IL
lies in some bargain" whatever 1t was
that had been violated.
copyright, 1891, by the North American
NEWSPAPER Alliance, Incl
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Ceilings Mystery DeePens
Creator of Craig Kennedy Finds Widows Story Tells
Nothing of Appdrent Desperate Battle
Which Preceded Drowning.

| family's mode of living had been dis
tlrbed.
The first and most vital thing to de-
ternine is what happened In July and
August to the Ceilings family. Mrs.
Ceilings was much of the time not on
the Penguin, but in Stamford await
ing the birth of her sister : in = laws
baby. Ceilings was. at least some of
the time, cruising alone on the 30-foot
hermit boat.
Hotel Register Cited.
Then there is the strange coinci-
dence of the registry Of IF. E. Colling
bourne and wife, Stamford, Conn.," at
the Hotel Charles, Springfield Mass.
Springfield is easily reached by auto
mobile from Stamford, yet it is almost
equally easy to reach by small boat,
going up from the Sound at Saybrook,
through the Connecticut River. What
is the connection between the hotel
register and the Hotel Charles blanket
found with Mrs. Ceilings the morning
after the murder?
At once the objection may be raised
that this hotel register entry IS of
August 8, 1880, not 1881. But that Us
only the starting point Of my theory.
Let us make one jump toward the
end of it.
For a week the Suffolk County au-
thorities have been chasing an elusive
Chris Craft that left ruTnors here and
there on the north shore OF Long Island.
A couple Of days ago in Norwalk, there
bobbed UP story of Girls Craft that
put in at S, the morning after the muir
der, with two drenched occupants, one
old and the other young.
Citizen Gives Tip.
I do not say that that search is on
a useless line. What offer is a search
on a line that looks much more prom
ising.
As I waited this morning In the
colonial town hall of Huntington for
District Attorney Blue to arrive, one
of the leading citizens Of Huntington
drew me aside and whispered, Deputy
Sheriff William Wuismann has some
thing he's not told any one yeti"
Here is Wuismann'S story. On We'd
neSday night week ago he was pa
trolling the road on Asharoken Beach,
which is a neck of land that joins
Eaton's Neck and Duck Island to the
mainland Of Long Island. Some time
after midnight Wuismann saw a model
parked on the beach. It had a Con-
necticut license. New Jersey, even
Pennsylvania, licenses are common
enough out there; Connecticut licenses
| are rare.
1t was just at the point, and with
about enough time to cross Duck Is
land, commander Minor Crary's canoe
and get out to the Penguin at Prices
Bend.
None of His Business.
Why didn't Wuismann investigate?
| Wen, IN the first place it was none Of
his business. He saw then no evidence
Of felony or any other such act about
TO be committed. And, besides, there
were two men, one a rather old man,
perhaps so, and the other a younger
man, perhaps II or ID. It is no criti-
! c1sm OF Wuismann to point out that
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FELICITATES CHILE

President Hoover today felicitated the
President Of Chile on the anniversary
Of Chilean independence.
The message. addressed to Provisional
President Manuel Trucco Franzani,
said:
I'm my own name and on behalf Of
nv fellow countrymen send your ex-
ceilency most cordial Independence day
greetings"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18
BIZ ARTHUR B. REEVE.


NEW YORK, September IL (N.AN.A.)
Checking UP on the evidence in the
murder of the young yachtsman. Ben
jamin p. Ceilings, Of Stamford, Conn.
whose body was washed ashore at Hunt
ington. Long Island, Wednesday. q week
after his mysterious disappearance, ]
have today turned over to Alexander
Blue, district attorney of Suffolk County
a brand-new clue which, II properly
handled, may break the case. More i'm
portant to me than that is the fact that
1t fits perfectly with the new theory
that it seems to me must be developed
from the findings Of the autopsy an
nounced today.
Far from clearing UP the mystery of
what happened in the recluse family
that lived and cruised UP and down
Long Island Sound on the 30-foot
cruiser. the Penguin, the autopsy of DR..
Otto II. Schultze deepens it. ,l
Fits widows Story.
It is true that the finding of the body
graphically verified a part Of the strange
story told by the wife. Lillian Ceilings.
That is. in so far as she told and retold
Of the trusting up Of her husband and
of his being cast overheard helpless into
the relentless NAV of the sea.
But she told nothing about The
desperate, noisy and bloody struggle that
must have preceded it. Ceilings has
eight major wounds, three OF which are
fractures Of the skull. These details
have been all but omitted from her re-
cital of the horrible events that took
place between Prices Bend, near the
old gravel works in Northport, and ex-
elusive Cove Neck, where she was found
the next morning-marooned on a
small motorboat scanttly clad, but with
six blankets and pair of gym shoes
which her considerable, elderly captor
left her after dumping her helpless huS-
band over the side of his own cruiser
and turning that cruiser adrift in the
sound without lights, with only the
helpless 5-year-old Ceilings baby, Bar
bara, on board.
In my opinion, there is something
that lies silent in the past of this
strange little family that has not been
told-something that the district at
torney must learn If this case Is not to
go down as just another unsolved mys-
terry. Therefore, hope may be par
doned If in developing this new theory
of mine resort to questions rather than
to direct statements.
Seeks to Trace Bargain"
What we are trying to get at is just
what Lillian Ceilings was thinking over
and over IN her head on the Bo-Peep
where she was left alone for hours over
| week ago. not the story she told
| Historically to Of1cer Forrest of Cove
Neck, haltingly to the police Of Nassau
County later, more calmly to Inspector
Harold King when he arrived on the
scene and then smoothly to Alexander
Blue by the time Jurisdiction Of the
crime was settled on Suffolk County.
What was that bargain" that she
referred to in her bizarre tale of hel
husband and the pirate of about So
with his companion of IT? Was it q
bargain struck that night? Far more
likely, it seems to me, 1t was bar.
gain struck some time ago, and that
somehow, by some act Of Ceilings, the
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Science
NetO Fat Disease Of Children
Announced in France.

Discovery Of a new and rare disease
Of children called "precocious matron-
ism" is announced in the Revue Fran
caise d'Endocrinologie.
1t is a variation on the precocious
fairness of children caused by disorder
Of the pituitary gland and differs
chiefly In that it involves also over
functioning of the suprarenal gland.
This abnormality is found in children
between five and seven years old, ac-
cording to the report of Dr. S. de Can
dia. The change in shape Is of a type
usually met with in women Of mature
age. There is excessive body develop
ment and fat accumulation is especially
noticeable about the neck, around the
ribs, and on the breasts, TANKS and
stomach. The children have the ap-
pearanee Of dwarf adult women.
T. r. H.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

WILL FLY ON TO EUROPE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

1t, they laugh it of. Now Texas is.
going TO raise all the cotton she can,
and be worse broke next Fall than
this, Just to spite Long because he
had the only real cotton idea that's
been suggested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18

The Welsh Nationalist party recently
passed resolution condemning the
poor radio programs and declaring
against the plan Of licensing radio re-
ceivers.
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tour Of China upon which he expects
to start from Fukuoka tomorrow.

The dispatch said Col. Lindbergh,
in q conversation with e. r. Dick
over, American consul at Fukuoka, re-
iterated he would not decide upon a
route until he arrived in China.
Rengo also quoted the colonel as
saying he would fly as far as Europe.
but would not attempt fight to
America. Previously the colonel had
said he would ny all the way home,
but that the route had not been Sc
lected.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-07-04
MARKETSESTABL|SHED FOR SILVER TRADING

Trading in silver futures is the latest development of the silver situation and promises to become an important factor in maintaining a market for the white metal.
 The first regularly establish ed market in the United States for trading in silver futures was opened in New York June 15 by the National Metal Exchange. Press reports say spirited bidding and active trading marked the opening and 61 lots amounting to l. 525, 1000 ounces of silver chang ed hands.
 The trading unit of the ex- change is 25,000 ounces with a variation of 2 per cent either way in weight admissible of bar silver in the usual con- mercial bars assaying not less than 9.9 fineness.
 Trading in silver futures has also been opened on the San Francisco mining exchange. Contracts are taken on the same basis as on the New York silver exchange.
 Trading transactions in the nature of investments in silver bars, which are purchased on the lowest market and sold on the highest market quotation, hove boon oarr;od i,a- tho Seattle Mining Exchange for some time, according to re- ports, and a similar practice has just been inaugurated by the Canadian Metals Exchange in Vancouver. The Canadian exchange receives silver in- vestments as small as $10, the money being actually invested in the white meal, which is held on warehouse certifi- cates" subject to the selling order of the purchaser.