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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
D. c.. Naval Reserve
scented for the purpose Of gaining ad
mission to ships or stations.

scented for the purpose Of gaining ad-
mission to ships or stations.
Although efforts have been made by
officers of the Naval Reserve to have
the system Of target practice used by
the Reserves changed to enc similar to
that used in the Regular service, the
organizations taking their cruises this
year are still using the modified prac-
tice.
1t has been the contention Of the
Reserve officers that the system used
by their gun crews does not give real
indication of what the ReserviSts could
do in actual firing In case OF emergen-
cy, and that it does not give the men
the same interest that would be ex-
pected If the Regular Navy system was
used.
Further, 1t Is commended that If the
Reservists were permitted to use the
system in vogue in the Regular estab-
lishment 1t would furnish better
means of comparison between the gun
merry of the Reserves and the Regulars.
The system desired by the Reservists
would necessitate some of the large,
floating targets of the Navy being towed
to the target rendezvous, there to be
lowed by a tug or other vessel across
the range while the Reservists fired
One of the objections to this. 1t was
said, Is that of expense. However, 1t
was added that in firing at the large
targets it Is necessary to obtain hit
in order to get q count in the score,
while under the present system any
shot within q certain area of the tar
get is counted. In the Regular system,
further, it was pointed out, the Reserve
gunners would be able to see concrete
evidences of their firing skill by having
the target brought aboard where they
could see the hits which they actually
made.
The armory Of the local Reservists
is being considerably improved under
the direction CT Chief Boatswain's Mate
Joseph Slattery, the lone Reservist
kept on indefinite active duty when the
destroyer Abel P. Upshur, formerly as
signed here as training ship, was
transferred to the Coast Guard as
patrol boat.
Various facilities for indoor training
are being installed, including the in
stallation of a bridge with all the
appliances usually found on such places
on a destroyer.
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Y. NJ. C.. A. News

Additional tryouts for the Girl Re-
serve operetta will be held Monday
Morning at 10 O'Clock in the Girl Re-
serve club rooms. All girls between the
ages Of IL and 13 are invited to come.
Rehearsals of the chorus and dances
will start Wednesday morning.
Eighty-five girls are now registered
at Camp Stay at Home. The new
campers registered during the last week
are: Rose Callow. Marjorie Dampman.
Frances Dorr. Dorothy Fiske, Alberta
Beal, Margaret Lum, Jane Lybrand
Beverly Squires, Eleanor Smith, Dorcas
Cole, Mary Frances MerZ Olga Miller,
Virginia Reed, Jean Lucas.
There are 35 Juniors and so seniors,
making a total registration Of 85 in
Camp Stay at Home.
Ramp KahIert.
The campers had seven inter st
groups instead of one main project dur
ing the week July to Is. To- interest
groups included modelling in clay, land
exploring. water exploring dramatics-
music, camp craft, and the Know Thy
self group sponsored posture drive for
the whole camp. Each group had its
own songs, symbols and slogans.
The new campers were introduced
Monday to camp by portrayed sketches
of thsir respective interest groups and
each camper was allowed to select the
group which interested her most
The advanced campers had birthday
party Tuesday and invited the camp to
be their guests. The party was held at
Campfire Point
The dramatic group presented on
Wednesday the play Pan Pipes" which
was directed by Mrs. Alice Sigworth
Morse and Miss Amy Veerhoff.
The Numbers went on hike in the
country Thursday and had a picnic
lunch. After lunch the hike was con-
tinued to the river and a launch ride
was taken out to the bay.
The dramatic group is working on
play to be produced later in the week,
which is called Told in Chinese Gar
den"
Miss Saida L. Hartman, senior coun-
selor at Ramp Kahlert, has planned
events for this week. There will be q
fishing party Wednesday and en- Friday
morning hike and breakfast at Deep
Cove
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
FOREST FIRES DEFY
CONTROL IN IDAHO
Additional Crews Rushed to Scene
as Racing Flames Sweep
Thousands of Acres.
BY the Associated Press.

SPOKANE, Wash, July 11.-Aug-
mented crews were rushed into the
North Idaho forest fire sector tonight,
where blazes were raging uncontrolled,
but on other fronts quiet was reported.
The Hemlock Creek confiagration in
the Clearwater National Forest was still
out of control, after 5000 acres had
been scared. High winds famed it all
day and by nightfall it was eating
through valuable timber to Lean-to
Ridge Lookout Station. Six hundred
fighters moved against the blaze to-
night.
Two fires in the Elk River district
were reported under control after char
ring 400 acres of cut-over land and
some virgin timber. Nearly 500 men,
including logging crews driven from
their camps, had nearly trenched it
tonight.
A dozen fronts were ablaze in West
ern Montana, where high winds made
fighting difficult. In the Lolo Forest,
where careless smoker is believed to
have started several blazes, 230 fighters
were constructing 8 or 10 miles Of
trenches.
Scores Of smaller fires in North Idaho
and Eastern Washington, famed yes
terday by winds, were subdued tonight.
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HARRISON IS HELD
IN MANS Staying.
Must Face Grand Jury in
Killing of Father of
Seven.

A coroner's jury yesterday ordered
Nelson Harrison. IS years old, an timer
ant painter. held for the grand jury in
connection with the fatal shooting early
Friday Of Charles Frederick Branden-
burg, 50 years old, father of seven chill
dren.
At the same time the jury ordered
the release Of two other men arrested
following Brandenburg's death. They
were Charles A. Neill, jr., 25 years old,
owner Of the automobile in which
Brandenburg was shot, and William
F. Waddell, 36 years old, from whom
Harrison admitted stealing the As
caliber automatic which fired the fatal
bullet.
Raise Fund for Widow.
Following the inquest announcement
was made that funds were being raised
by friends of the dead mans widow and
children, said to be virtually penniless.
Miss Mary Nipple, 1435 Harvard
street, who inaugurated the campaign
to raise money, turned $186.70 over to
;fle widow, MIS- Alice Brandenburg. Miss
Nipple, friend Of the dead mans fam
lily, said she and James Conroy, 108
Thirteenth street southeast, who is as
oAoVAAA6 A4CAg ChPGCb w IOIIeIU SEVERAL
hundred dollars more within the next
few days.
Il certainly need it, too," said Mrs.
Brandenburg, who lives at Is 1 street.
MY husband had been out of work for
some time, and I had only rs cents
when he was killed My oldest son,
Emory, who is Is, is the only one in
my family with a job and he makes
only SIS week as an apprentice
printer. That isn't much when you
have to take care of family as large
as mine"
Admits Shooting.
Harrison, testifying at the inquest.
admitted the shooting, but insisted it
was accidental This contention was
corroborated by Nell, whose home is
ut 1928 Twelfth street.
Waddell was not present at the time
OF the shooting. He was arrested after
police learned Harrison had stolen the
pistol. together with a pocketbook,
watch and several neckties, from him a
short time previously.
Il became acquainted with Waddell
Thursday night" Harrison testified.
L begged him for drink and he took
me TO his room, at 637 1 street, where
We had a number of drinks together. !"
Harrison left while Waddell was
~SASCPi AAS odiO' LII dOQlIlOn TO The gun
and other articles, he also took nearly
quart OF Waddell's liquor, he added.
going to Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth
street, where he met Brandenburg and
Neill.
Asked Drink
They asked me for a drink" Har-
riSon continued. II gave them several,
and we started out to try to sell Wad-
dell's pistol to get money with which
to buy more liquor.
"Brandenburg went into three
restaurants, but was unable to dispose
OF the gun. He was sitting in the front
seat when he handed the pistol back to
me, saying he couldn't sell it because
the hammer had damned 1 was trying
to show him he was mistaken when
1t went off,"
After the inquest, police said Harri-
son would be charged with grand lar
ceny, regardless of the action of the
grand jury
Brandenburg was to be buried tomor-
row in Cedar Hill Cemetery The burial
will follow services at Shippert's Funeral
Parlor, 2008 Pennsylvania avenue, at
2 pm.
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HUEY LONGS BROTHER
GOVERNOR CANDIDATE
Louisiana Executive Will Support
Relatives Rival in January
Primary.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, La, July 11.-Earl
K. Long, brother of Gov. Huey p. Long
of Louisiana, today formally announced
his candidacy for lieutenant governor
in the Democratic State primary Of
January, 1882. in opposition to John r.
Fournet, speaker Of the House of Rep
resentatives. The Governor is support
ing Fournet.
Gov. Long recently said when it was
reported that his brother would run
that he would support Mr.. Fournet re-
CARELESS of who announced for the lieu
tenant governorship.
Earl Long said his announcement was
made in good faith and he expressed
opposition to the naming Of all State
officers" by the Governor, in the lat
ters reported Endorsement of an ad-
ministration ticket headed by o. K
Allen. chairman Of the State Highway
Commission, for Governor.
Mr.. Long also criticized the erection
Of the new State Capitol at Baton
Rouge as monument to some ones
vanity" and said that two thirds of
the 100000 that is now going into
this monument might we'll have been
put into the public schools, for the re-
lief Of the unemployed and aid to the
drought victims Of last year"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
ROBBINS AND JONES
LEAVE FOR SEATTLE
Aviators Forced Down on TOXIC
Hop Hope to Replace Engine
for Second Attempt.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NOME, Alaska, July 11-Reg l..
Robbins and Harold S. Jones, Texas
aviators, who were forced to abandon
. nonstop Seattle-Tokio fight near
here Thursday, began return trip to
Seattle today.
The two men plan to make another
bid for the $4,000 prize offered for the
first nonstop flight between the United
States and Japan in about week
At Fairbanks, 9he refueling plane
will be left. Plans for the next pro-
posed Seattle-Tokio flight call for an
other refueling in midair over that city
and a second contact here.
Before leaving, Robbins and Jones
said they hoped to obtain more power
full motor for their Transpacific plane
at Fairbanks before continuing to Seat
tile. They said they were forced to de-
6cend at Solomon Thursday morning,
after 2,100-mile flight from Seattle
IN between 26 and II hours, because
their motor was not powerful enough
to keep the plane in position until they
had refueled with sufficient gasoline to
complete the last lap to Toxic.
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LINER STILL AGROUND

CHATHAM. Mass, July II (P.-The
Dollar liner President Hayes was still
aground on Shovelfull Shoal tonight,
more than SO hours after she struck in
fog yesterday morning.
Fog continued to hamper the efforts
otgfour Coast Guard cutters and a
wrecking tug attempting to redoat the
stranded vessel. A second tug was on
The way from New York.
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VETERAN OFFICER DIES
George Quackenbos Forsook Medi-
cine to Join Police.

NEW YORK, July IL UP).-George
Quackenbos, who gave up a medical
practice in 1895 and joined the New
York police department in response to
a call Of Theodore Roosevelt for high
Caliber officers, died today at the age
Of 81.
After graduating from a Chicago COL
lege he became a cowpuncher in the
West. Later he came to New York to
become instructor in languages at Co.
1umbia University. In his spare time
he became proficient at biography and
the sign language of mutes.
From Columbia he went to the Col
1ege of Physicians and Surgeons, where
he obtained degree. A few years later,
when Roosevelt was chairman of the
New York Police Board, Quackenbos
Joined the force as a patrolman.
He rose to the post of lieutenant,
which he held until he retired in 1922.
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Conservatives Hold Out.

HAVANA, July II B.-Conservative
members in the House Of Representa-
tives, who have attended no ordinary
sessions since June 81 as a protest
against majority tactics, today an
nounced they would not1 return to the
floor until they completed their legisla-
tive and political program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
II Portuguese Bankers Held.

BRAGA, Portugal, July IL CR.-
Eleven directors of the Banco de Mimic,
which suspended payments last year,
we're arrested today and released on
heavy bail, pending judicial inquiry.
Directors Of the banks branches at
Lisbon and Oporto are already awaiting
trial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
GOMEZ TO TAKE OFFICE

Venezuelan Inauguration Slated
for Tomorrow at Caracas.
CARACAS, Venezuela, July II R.-
Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez will take the
oath of Office as president before the
congress Monday. The day will be made
legal holiday and the city will be
decked with flags.
Gen. Gomez was formerly president
and dictator of Venezuela for many
years. He succeeds DR.. Juan Bautista,
who resigned recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
J. R. FRANCIS DIES
Manufacturer and Inventor Loses
Fight With Illness.

Fight With Illness.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, July II LP).-
j. r. Francis, 60, manufacturer and in
ventor, died in hospital here late to-
day after years illness.
Mr.. Francis, who came here in 1925,
vas founder of the Marvel Carburetor
Co., Flint, Mich, president of the
Francis Pharmacy, Indianapolis, and a
vice president of the Borg-Warner Co.,
Chicago.
He Is survived by his widow and one
son, Dean Francis, of Indianapolis. The
body will be sent to Indianapolis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
MEXICO GETS U. S. REPLY
Minister Estrada Refuses Comment
In Arrest of Acting Consul.

MEXICO CITY, July II UP.-
Foreign Minister Estrada today received
by telegraph the reply Of the United
States Government to his protest
against the arrest Of the acting Mexican
consul at Chicago. He refused to COM
ment on the reply. saying that he might
say something about it about the middle
of next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

The End Fleet Division, which sails
on its annual cruise in two weeks, will
have bag inspection Monday night, to
ascertain whether the members have a
complete outfit for the cruise. The 3rd
Fleet Division, which has just returned,
will have infantry drill.
The following Monday night the End
Division will have instruction in con-
nection with its coming cruise, and on
July "a the officers and men will be
given their physical examination to
determine their fitness to perform &C
tive duty in connection with the annual
sea training.
July 81 has been set as the day for
the regular battalion inspection.
Warning has been given by the Navy
Department that it will not issue dupli-
cate courtesy cards to Naval Reserve
officers within the four-year period for
which the originals were issued. It
was pointed out that the Bureau OF
Navigation receives various requests for
reissue Of these cards which are re-
ported lost or mutilated. The requests,
it was said, usually contain the state
ment that reissue Of the card is urg-
emily requested because 1t Is of great
value as a means of Identification. The
bureau states that it expects the right
full owners to use great care in their
preservation.
These cards are issued to all Naval
Reserve officers upon request. They
contain the picture Of the of1cer and
the signatures of the officer and the
commandant of the naval district In
which the officer resides. They are in
tended for use by the officers in visit
ing ships and naval stations, and pro-
vide for courtesies to be shown officers
who present themselves with them. The
idea of their issue is to encourage Re
serve officers to take advantage of any
opportunity that presents itself for
them to visit these places.
When q card Is reported lost I'M
mediate notice Is sent to all ships and
stations for it to be taken up If pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
Science
-
Feminine Intuition Just a
Superstition.

Feminine intuition--just another su-
perstition.
The best that can be claimed for
women In sizing up" persons at first
sight is that they are almost as good as
men, according to experiments reported
to the British Journal of Medical Psy-
chology by Dr. C. w. Valentine. Neither
sex, he found, has anything in this line
to boast about.
He confronted university graduate
students of both sexes with school chill
dren who had been rated by their
teachers over long period for the
traits of conscientiousness, kindness,
obstinacy, straightforwardness and gen.
eral intelligence. The students were
asked to judge the children on these
qualities by looking at them and talk
ing with them.
Both sexes judged boys equally we'll
The men judged the girls a little better
Women, DR.. Valentine found, arrived at
their judgments quicker and were more
positive about them, but were no nearer
right. They seemed to take in more
details of appearance in forming their
opinions, while the men Judged more
on the conversation of the youngsters.
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REVISED DIVORCE
CANON CONSIDERED
Plan Advanced by Bishops Is
Before Protestant Epis-
copal Convention.
~ the Associated Press.


DENVER, Colo, September 2s.-The
controversial problem of q marriage
and divorce canon agreeable to all ele-
mentS OF the Protestant Episcopal
Church was up before the House of
Bishops Of the General Convention here
today.
A proposed canon, adopted by the
House Of Clerical and Lay Deputies.
base been rejected by the Committee
on Canons of the House of Bishops,
which advanced new plan of its
own. The bishops and deputies are
agreed on nearly all provisions except
that regarding the status in the church
OF divorced person who has been
remarked
Under the provision of the proposed
canon, adopted by the deputies, di-
vorced person remarked by a civil au-
thority, might petition an ecclesiastical
court for recognition. In case OF a
favorable decision the new union would
be blessed by priest of the court and
the petitioner would retain all commu-
meant rights.
Impediments Listed.
The Committee of the House of
Bishops recommends that no marriage
OF divorced person be recognized UNI
less the divorce has been granted on
grounds OF certain listed impediments
% marriage, which existed before the
e@lemnization Of the ceremony.
1mpediments to marriage listed in
<ne proposed canon are: Consanguinity
lack OF free consent, mistake as to
IDENTITY, mental deficiency sufficient to
prevent exercise of intelligent choice.
insanity. failure of either party to have
reached the age of puberty, impotence
OF eiCner party, facts which would make
the marriage bigamous.
Inc existing canon provides that the
church recognize no marriage of a
divorced person, except that of an in
nocenG party to divorce granted on
grounds OF adultery.
Back Premarriage instruction,
Both houses approved the establish
ment OF ecclesiastical courts in each
diocese and missionary district to con-
&oer marital cases. They concur on a
Recommendation for premarriage in
SCuctaon. The bishops have approved
q provision providing for Intervention
of three days between the Issuance Of
marriage license and the performances
OF the marriage ceremony.
a resolution which seeks to relieve
ministers OF the obligation to interpret
literally the Bible and creeds, was in
Croduced In the House of Deputies by
Henry s. Booth, lay delegate from De-
6oit. It was predicted consideration
Of the resolution might open the old
r1noamentalist modernist fight on
biblical Interpretation.
Rev. Q. Floyd Rogers, clerical deputy
from Asheville, N. c., seeks to put the
church on record as favoring congress
sional action to establish a Federal
Board for supervision of motion pic
tures, In an attempt to raise the moral
standard Of Aims. His resolution was
before the deputies for action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
CH|CAGOAN ADMITS
Staying HIS WIFE
Man Who Had Eye Removed
Refused Ether to Keep
Secret, He Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September ga confes-
sion that he slew his wife because she
irritated him by reminders of her su-
perior education. and that he placed her
body, wrapped in a blanket, in a man
hole, was made yesterday, police said,
by John Chorak. Chorak was arrested
Saturday at his former home town of
Beaver Dam, Wis, and was brought
back to Chicago for questioning.
Mrs. Chorak's body was found last
July 4 in the manhole of a sewer on the
far South Side, just around the corner
from the Chorak home. A coroners
autopsy indicated she died of suffoca-
ton. although Chorak was quoted by
police as saying he struck her. and that
he believed she was dead when he
dropped the body down the manhole.
Dropped Body Down Manhole.
"She used to be a school teacher, 4"
Chorak was quoted as saying. II never
had much learning. She was all the
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except those for whom the vote Is cast,
Hagan declares that there will be no
less than 63 names on the ballot, segre-
gated under eight titles. and that II
any voter leaves more than IL names
OF candidates not scratched out by a
line drawn at least three-fourths of the
way directly through 1t, his ballot will
not be counted for the office where he
did not scratch out the correct number
Of names.
The difficulties to be encountered,
according to Hagan, are that the esti-
mated more than 5000 voters viii have
to scratch out III names of candidates
for whom they do not wish to vote in
stead OF merely voting for the IL can
didateS OF their choice. He expressed
the belief that it will be a physical i'm
possibility for the voters to accomplish
this task within the time allotted to
them when they cast their ballots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
Two Injured in Crash.

DETROIT, September % RD,-Mrs.
Mary Bakrantt. AZ. and her son, Ale
bert, 10, of Cleveland. were injured
tave Gouger az, also Of Cleveland. with
whom they were riding, collided with
another car and overturned at q down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
BALLOT MARKING
CHANGE IS URGED
Hagan Hits Law Requiring
Scratching of All Names
Not Supported.
BY a stan Correspondent of The star.

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, September a.
A change in the Virginia ballot and
the method Of marking it was urged at
meeting in Odd Fellows Hall
by j. Foster Hagan.. Republican nomi-
nee for the House of Delegates
Pointing out that, under the present
law, it is necessary to strike out the
name of every candidate on the ballot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
At All NewSsfandS

Tune in
Wednesday Nights at
6 O'Clock on Station
VOL and Hear
Strickland Gillian and
Other Prominent People
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Refused Anesthetic.
OIL MAN DIES IN CRASH
Wealthy Texan Drives Auto Into
Cement Bridge.

SHEFFIELD, Pa, September 20 up.
&C. G. Cromwell, AZ, wealthy Best,
Tex, oil operator, was killed lste last
night when an automobile he was driv-
ing crashed into a cement bridge near
here.
Cromwell flew his airplane from
Chicago to Bradford Saturday and last
night borrowed an automobile from
a relative and was en- route to visit
friends In Kane when the accident oc-
Cured.