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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
5000 VOLUNTEERS
ASKEDFORPAGEANT
BicentenniaI Commission
Provides Blanks for Events
of Next June.

Tbs District of Columbia George
Washington Bicentennial Commission
yesterday issued call for 5000 volun-
teers to play roles in the historical
pageant It the base of the Washington
Monument five nights next June and
to aid in other colorful events of the
Bicentennial year.
Registration blanks will b. available
for volunteers at the Offices of the Dis
trict Bicentennial Commission begin
ming October /. The commission Is ask
ing the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, the churches and other groups to
aid in enrolling the small army of talent
necessary for the success or the pageant.
Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, in charge of
pageents, plays and special events or
ganized by the District Bicentennial
Commission, explained the magnitude
Of the task involved in so large pro-
duction She said:
All Types Of Talent.
There will be opportunity for every
type CT talent in this dramatic and NOV
ing page2nt-play to be produced in one
of the most beautiful natural settings in
the United States. Five thousand per-
sons will have roles in the play :tself,
but helpers will be needed also to stage
the play, costume the players and do
the innumerable tas'-s connected with
SO extensive project
Volunteer; are needed also for many
other striking events during the BIZ
centennial year, divided into the fol-
lowing groups: Historical, military,
dancing, symbolic, juvenile, musical,
scenic, makeup, ccstum,ng and man
agement. Like great army, these
volunteers will be divided into units
directed by captains and assistant
captains"
Lighting Arrangements.
Special arrangements for lighting the
monument grounds on the nights of
June %, %, "a and 25, when the play
will be performed, are being made.
Scenic effects produced by the spot and
floodlights playing on the actors attired
in picturesque colonial costumes will
provide one of the NEST wildly beau
tiful spectacleS ever viewed in wash
ington, Mrs. Forrest said.
The pageant is being prerared by one
OF the foremost pageant writers in the
United States in consultation with Paul
Kestsr, Noted dramatist, and Charlton
Andrews, who has written many sue
cesSful plays.
Several noted directors have volun-
teered their services, including r. H.
Burnside. the producer o. many noted
spectacles; also musician like Walter
Damrosch, Henry Hadley and John
Philip Sousa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

were tout Of gear with present price
levels and that they should be
brought nearer the proper level"
He said approximately 1900 car
loads of Florida fruit were shipped by
truck last year.
Ira C. Cochran of Philadelphia,
speaking for the National Retail Coal
Merchants Association, warned that
any increase would be passed on to the
consumer.
ANY increase in the price" he said
causes a resentment in the public
mind against the use of coal
Eject on Fuel Substitutes.
Generally. Cochran added, an In
creased rate would tend toward great
er use of substitute fuels" for domestic
heating, while an additional danger
lay in foreign coal competing with
anthracite on the Eastern seaboard.
He also predicted greater use of trucks
in transporting coal. E. S. Ballard,
counsel for the Ohio Lake Cargo Coal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

other institutions and organizations
functioning in the interest of the sight
less.
Among the booklets which the COM
mission plans to reprint in Braille are
eight of the series of sixteen by DR..
Albert Bushnell Hart, historian, en-
Honor to Washington" -Four CAM
paign maps used by the first President
also will be embossed. The first allot-
ment of the Braille publications will be
distributed through members OF Con-
greSs, Miss Jennings said.
The work of this department OF the
commission has had the commentator
of Helen Keller, internationally famous
for her achievements in the face OF the
handicaps of deafness and blindness.
Miss Keller, in a recent letter to Miss
Jennings, generously lauded the whole
bicentennial celebration movement as
one which bids fair to restore pros
perity to an economically troubled and
turbulent world"
Miss Jennings, who lost her sight
through an accident when a baby, is
president of the District of Columbia
Association of Workers for the Blind.
She is a product of the Academy Of Our
Lady in Chicago, and also held schol-
arship in the Chicago College of Music.
She is a student in evening classes at
George Washington University, here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
BANK OF u. S. FAILING
MAY BRING NEW LAW
Attorney Generals Office Goes Over
Case-Weinberg, Back, to Be
Quizzed on Loan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 26.-The in
quiry into the predicament into which
the Bank Of United States foundered
with loss to 100000 depositors is being
analysed with view to establish legis-
lation which will make recurrence of
such disaster impossible.
This was made apparent today when
1t was learned that the Attorney Cen
erals office is reviewing the evidence
in the case with view to placing
criminal liability for the closing of the
bank upon all of its directors. The
grand jury viii receive some of this
evidence on Monday.
The Attorney Generals Office has
learned that Morris Weinberg, one of
the Bank Of United States directors,
who went to Palestine after the closing
Of the bank, returned to this country
a few days ago. He will be questioned
next week concerning lean of $780,
900 to his Son-in-law, Arthur Lincoln
Jacobs. a law clerk who has not yet
been admitted to the bar and whose
weekly salary Is understood to have
been SIS. Jacobs has been examined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

~ ANTICIPATION by the blind
- people of the country in the ma
ticnal tribute to George Wash
ington, on the occasion of the
200th anniversary of his BIRTH
next year, is being made dsfiuite part
OF the program of the Government to
bring about revival of devotion to
country among the American people,
with q rerewad appreciation of what
G7orgs Washington stands for in our
national life"
That blindness may not bar the way
for observance by every. man, woman
and Child in the United States of the
historic event in 1882, the United States
George Washington Bic3nt nnial Com
mission has set up department whose
activities are concentrated on stirring
the patriotic impulses of those who can
not see.
At the helm of this department is
Miss Dorotilea E. Jennings, herself
.s:ghtless since infancy.
Realizing that the many State and
city commissions, which are established
to conduct community observance of
the bicentennial year. cannot provide in
their programs for participation by or
carnations for the bind, and by sight
less persons. Miss jennings is planning.
through thousand institutios, parts to
be played by these groups in the bicen-
tennial ceremonies.
I'VE plan to have the civic and fra
ternal organizations all over the United
States cooperate with institutions for
the blind in staging joint programs in
1882" Miss Jennings said today. It am
interested in bringing juvenile groups of
the blind and other young people to-
gether through such organizations as
the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp
Fire Girls ana the like.
Miss Jennings work involves the re-
production of virtually all forms of lit
erature, issued by the commission, in
Braille, a system of raised lettering
adopted almost universally as a, means
of conveying reading material to the
blind without the need of an interpreter.
The news clip sheets published by the
commission for distribution all over the
United States are being reproduced in a
more conder sed form and sent to the
Braille publications in all sections of
the country. The plays and pageants
which the commission prepares for COM
munity use are being embossed in this
same fashion, and bicentennial songs
and sheet music are being made avail
able to all schools fer the blind and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
POLES ELECT OFFICERS

SCRANTON, Pa, September 26 LR).-
The next triennial convention OF the
Polish National Alliance will be held In
Baltimore. 1t was decided at the closing
session of the alliance today.
Jan Romaszkiewicz, Chicago. was re-
elected president, defeating l.. A.
Koscinski, Detroit.
F. x. Swietlik, Milwaukee, Wis, was
elected censor; DR.. H. Pawlowski. De-
troit, vice censor; Czeslaw Hibner, Chi
cago, vice president; Albin S. Sxerbow-
ski, Chicago, general secretary: j.
Spikier,. Chicago. treasurer; DR.. IS. r.
Wietrzynski, Chicago, chief medical
examiner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
TASK SEEN FOR CHURCH
Universalists Told Religions Place
in Rebirth of World.

HOOPESTON, Ill, September IS up
"A new world will be b-rn OF the eco
nonic depression and religion must play
part in its birth. DR.. Walter H. Mac
Pherson told 200 ministers and laymen
attending the ninety-fourth State con-
vention Of the Universalist Church
today.
He discussed the part the church
must play in economic rehabilitation
This is not just another depression, >
said DR.. Macpherson. 1T Is SO general
we are certain it is the birth of a new
world. 1t is therefore the task oil
churchmen to determine what they car
do to help this new world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
DISCOUNT RATE RISES
Bank of Italy Increases Charge to
Z Fer Cent on Monday.

ROME, September % [P).-The min
istry of finance announced tonight the
Bank OF Italy will raise its discount
rate from So to Z per cent Monday
following upon decree which will be
published Monday in the official gazette
Under the direction of Premier Mus
solini the Bank Of Italy has been quiet
~ reducing its circulation during the
past few weeks and has succeeded in
increasing its gold reserve from "a
000, 900 lire Approximately $I,750 ,o0O)
to more than $4,000, 900 lire t$2 ,7o0,-
O00). The gold coverage also was raised
from 53.43 to 53.49 per cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

yesterday In efforts to prevent blan-
ket freight rate increase
Representatives of Washington State
and Florida fruit growers. at Interstate
Commerce Commission hearings, painted
a picture of railroad charges eating up
profits on fruits and vegetables
Ohio Lake Cargo coal producers d.
rected an objection to the method pro-
posed by the railroads for raising coal
rates.
Willis Crane, speaking for % oil COM
panies in the East operating 20 re-
fineries, said If rates were raised to az
"uneconomical" point these interests
would resort to trucks and pipe lines.
773,OOO Trees Uprooted.
w. p Ellis. representing apple grow
ers, said high rates already had
prompted the uprooting of 773,000 APP
ple trees since 1925 In the Yakima VAL
ley of Washington.
c. r. Marshall, for Florida growers
and shippers, commended freight rates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
ADMITS KILLING HUSBAND

Ohio Woman Confesses Stabbing
Man to Death During Row.
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, septembs-
IS R.-Mrs. Sophie Huckenstein. a..
yesterday pleaded guilty to q first
degree murder charge after her hus-
band, John, SO, had been stabbed TO
death with butcher knife
Police said the woman confessed the
stabbing during an argument she said
started when her husband called me
names because ] gave cigarette TO o
neighbor boy"
Mrs. Huckenstein' was arraigned be-
fore Municipal Judge Harry Brokaw.
who ordered her held without bond
pending action by the Columbiana
County grand jury.
The family came here a month ago
from West Sunbury, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
LOST SAILORS H0N0RED
Memorial Services Held for Those
Who Persisted on Tampa.

Who Perished, on Tampa.
TAMPA, Fla, September 26 (P1.-A
memorial service was held here today
in honor of % young sailors from
Tampa who persisted with the sinking
of the U. S. S. Tampa off the coast OF
England Is years ago.
The ship, Coast Guard cutter doing
convoy duty during the World War,
disappeared after an explosion in Bris-
toll Channel There were no survivors
and the mystery Of the tragedy was
never solved.
The memorial service was held in a
public park and committal ceremony
was later conducted at the edge of
Tampa Bay. Two children cast adrift
a wreath containing % rosebuds.
Costa Rica is considering several
projects for increasing its revenues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

Rate Committee, while Directing TO
the method proposed by roads for rails
ing coal rates, said his committee was
not opposed to an increase
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
|FRU|T men FIGHT
| RAIL RATE RAISE
Washington State and Florida
Tell |. C. C. of Destruction
of Profits.

BY the Associated Press.
Western and Southern fruit growers
Joined forces with Eastern oil interests
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-19


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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
REFILL STORY
 OF EVENTS IN
 ASSAULT CASE
Testimony Again Given in Pantanges-Pringle AL
 legged Attack

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 10.- Eye witnesses to the events immed- lately following Alexander Pan- tages's alleged attack on Eunice Pringle, two years ago ,retold their stories on the witness stand here yesterday afternoon in the Pan- tages's retrial.
 w. c. Hale told as how he was seated in balcony seat in Pan- tagess theatre on August g, 1929, when Miss Pringle ran screaming from the theatre owners office.
 "She was screaming and her clothes disarranged." said Hale. Through the open door of the private office I saw tall man helping Pantages rearrange his disheveled clothing"
 Mrs. Lou Pringle, the dancers mother, occupied the stand during the forenoon session. The court ruled that attorneys could not question her concerning the $1,- 100000 suit her daughter brought against Pantages after the alleged attack. Mrs. Pringle testified to the good character of her daughter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
DEMOCRATS. ARE TO CAUCUS FOR
 30 ELECATES
Three Juneau Precincts and Salmon Creek Meet
 Tonight at Moose Hall

Democrats of four precincts will assemble at o'clock tonight in Moose Hall to elect 30 delegates to represent them at the Divisional Convention called to be held at Petersburg on November 20 While the meeting will be held jointly, each of the four precincts will elect it's own delegates.
 The three Juneau precincts and Salmon Creek, on Glacier High way, are the four to be represent ed. Juneau No. l, will choose IS delegates, No. 2, nine, No. 3, five, and Salmon Creek will name one. All Democrats, who will be qualified to vote in the 1892 pri- mary and general elections, arc urged to participate in tonight's $ caucussing," declared Senator Allen Shattuck, Precinct Committeemar and President of the Juneau Dem ocratic Club. We hope for a large attendance of both men and women voters so that as many members as possible may have a voice in their representation at the Petersburg Convention"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
NEW NATIONAL PARLIAMENT IS
 OPENED TODAY
Address Made by King from Golden Throne in
 House of Lords
NEW GOVERNMENT
 CHARGED WITH TASK
Policies Are Announced Attention Is Called to
 Disarmament Meet

LONDON, Nov. 10. = Amid the pomp and glitter of tradition, King George, wearing the crown of the empire, and with an ermine robe over his scarlet uniform of a field marshal, today opened the new Ma tional Parliament whose task is to rescue the nation from the finan- cial and industrial crisis.
 Speaking from the golden throne in the House of Lords, His Majesty bade the Government Godspeed in it's undertaking.
 My people have given you an emphatic mandate. We expect you to achieve success" said the King My Government intends to pursue the policy of peace and goodwill The people will continue their &C., tive interest in the work of the League of Nations. They will give close attention to preparation for the approaching Disarmament Con- ference, the successful result which will produce great universal bene- fit.v
 The Queen, wearing crown and clothed in magnificent robes, sat at the Kings left and the Prince of Wales, in scarlet and ermine. sat at the Kings right.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
<'Perfect Professor Rules
 Nauy Department m Spain

MADRID, Nov. 10.-Jose Giral Pereira, minister of marine and newest member of the Spanish cabinet, is regarded as Spain's foremost chemist and is one of her leading educators.
 Senor Giral, born of Spaish par entage in Santiago de Cuba on March 10, 1879, is holding his first cabinet portfolio but is going about managing Spain's naval af- fairs with gusto.
 When called into the revamped cabinet after the resignation of Niceto Alcala Zamora from the presidency, Giral was rector of the University of Madrid and deputy in the national assembly. His friends know him as a quiet stu dent of science, especially inter- ested in pharmacy and describe him as .'the perfect professor type
 Alter a brief residence in Cuba,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
By FRANK I. WELLER Associated Press Farm Editor)

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 10.- A three hitch" that no one yet has ever been able to harness soon is to be attempted by Sena- tor McNary, chairman of the Sen ate Committee on Agriculture
 He will try to make one team out of the American Farm Bureau federation, the National Grange and Farmers Union.
 Announcing that he intends to submit a unity" program to the leaders of the three groups at conference to be held in his office a tthe Capitol prior to the con- vening of Congress the Senator said that unless farm organizations can pull together there may be no farm legislation at this session.
 In some quarters the warning was interpreted as an effort to break the deadlock over revision of the agricultural marketing act.
 Farm Aid Fights Renewed
 The Farm Bureau has renewed it's fight for the equalization fee and the grange it's battle for the debenture. McNary is represented as wishing amicable adoption of single track plan and then united action to put it over.
 Meantime the farm groups have done a little teamwork on the side. Under the title of unity confer ences" they met in Chicago and agreed in effect to fall in with Mc- Nary's big hitch plan provided they could have both the fee and the debenture
 About the only difference in the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
COLD CREEK IS MADE SAFE
 FROM FLOODS
Bed of Stream Is Cleared of Boulders Which
 Are Piled on Banks

All possibility of high water in Gold Creek overflowing it's banks and inundating riparian land has been removed by the clearing ot the bed of the stream of boulders and other obstructions, reported Mayor Thomas B. Judson to the City Council last night.
 Rocks and jammed logs that im- peded the flow of the stream have been removed in the last 10 days by force of 10 men and the rocks, piled along the banks, serve as protection to adjacent ground.
 Some few remaining details Of the clearing task remain to be done, but all the work will have been completed by next Friday night, declared the Mayor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
WORKERS READY TO OPEN DRIVE FOR ROLL CALL
Fiftieth Red Cross Anniver- sary Roll Call Campaign
 Starts Tomorrow

The Roll Call Executive Commit tee of the Juneau Chapter, Ameri- can Red Cross, is fully organized and ready to open the campaign in all communities embraced in the Chapters jurisdiction, is was an- nounced today by Chairman B. D. Stewart The quota for this year has been tentatively fixed by the local Red Cross officials at 1,500 members.
 Mrs. H. I. Lucas has been ap- pointed to head and canvass the business district, and Mrs. G. F. Freeburger the residential areas, MT. Stewart said. They were au- thorized to pick their own assist ants and both have enlisted the aid of a competent corps of work CTS. Former Mayor I. Goldstein has been assigned to the task of canvassing the waterfront sec- ton.
 Merchants and others are co-op- erating in the drive to the fullest extent here. The Chamber of Con- merce recently endorsed the drive, and all stores are carrying window cards announcing it. The window display cards were arranged for and put up by T. L. Allen and Curtis Shattuck.
 MT. Stewart announced the ap- pointment of other workers as fol- lows:
 c. H. Bowman, Douglas: Lieut. Col. w. c. Miller, Chilkoot Bar racks; Steve Sheldon, Haines Judge J. J. F. Ward, Skagway Judge R. w. DeArmond, Sitka; Mrs. John Olson. Hoonah; E. A Snyder, Tenakee; c. E. Swanson Petersburg; Ernest Kirberger Rake; Oscar Sather, Scow Bay Mrs. Helen Rouner, Chichagof; w E. Riggs, Hirst- t-Chichagof; Mrs John Maurstad, Angoon; E. M Axelson, Yakutat; Mrs. c. c Whipple, Thane; Mrs. E. B. Han sen, Port Alexander; Mrs. James Drake, Glacier Highway.
 The Roll Call will start in al communities tomorrow and vii come ot an end on Thanksgiving Day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
GOVERNOR ASKS
 ALL ALASKA TO SUPPORT DRIVE
Calls Upon Citizenry to Support Red Cross Roll
 Call by Joining

Governor George A. Parks today called upon all Alaskans to sup port the annual membership Roll Call of the American Red Gross which will open in thousands Of communities in the United States on Armistice Day. The Governors statement in full follows:
 "The annual roll call of the Am erican Red Cross should remind qs of the past achievements of that great organization and impress on each one the urgent necessity for increased revenues to relieve dis tress during the next year.
 conditions are abnormal, yet the vast majority of our people are able to contribute to the relief of those less fortunate and should consider it privilege and an ob- ligation to subscribe their share in maintaining an organization which for 50 years has met every emer- gency in such a splendid man ner.
 T am sure that the people of Alaska will respond in their usual generous manner and that our quota will be oversubscribed."
 Greatly increased demands for relief, especially in the field of disaster and veterans welfare, make a large increase in membership imperative, Red Cross officials state.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-10
COL. l. N. LEWIS DIES SUDDENLY
 IN NEW JERSEY
Inventor of Machine Gun and Other War Weap-
 ons, Passes Away

HOBOKEN, N. J., Nov. 10.-Col. Isaac Newton Lewis, aged 73 years inventor of the Lewis machine gun, died last night as the result of a heart attack enroute from his office to his Montclair home. He was talking with a friend when he collapsed. For some time Col Lewis has suffered from heart trouble
 Choosing two fields from which to carve his brilliant career, Col. Levi sachieved preeminence both as soldier and as a scientist, al- though his attainments in the realm of invention were closely bound to his first love-the Army.
 Guns Used By Allies
 More than 100000 Lewis machine guns were used by the Allies in the World War, and at one time the British government detached 500,000 men from field service in order to train them in the use of this weapon.
 The quick adoption of the Lewis gun by British military authorities was in sharp contrast to the diffi- culty MT. Lewis experienced in ob- taining recognition for his inven- tion from the United States gov ernment. He is said to have spent IS years trying to induce the War Department to adopt his weapon, but met with rebuff at every turn Finally the air forces decided to give the model a thorough test and found it so satisfactory that it won a place on the line.
 Adopted By British
 Previous to this, Col. Lewis had made a dramatic appearance be-