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Fathers Fine Susnended.
By stan Correspondent Of Tho st.r

BY stan Correspondent OF The Star.
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. January Q
Granting the request of friends of
Leo Leckliter of Landover, Judge 7
Chew Sheriff yesterday suspended q sin
fine for intoxication imposed in Hyatts-
vile wednesday. The court was in
formed Leckliter's wife and eight chill
oren were dependent upon him for sup
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BURGLARS IN BETHESDA
Jewelry Reported Taken From Two
Homes in the Area.
2 Sac Cofrespondent % The Sac.

b STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
BETHESDA, Md, January 9.-Two
bu. ylaries, in which jeWelry valued at
several hundred dollars was stolen
were reported to police here yesterday
Mrs. Enoch G. Johns@n of Alta
Vista said her home was entered ly
thieves, who transacted the entire
house cry bureau drawer vas open
when she returned hc-1c A quantity
Of iewelry was stolen, she declared.
The other robbery was at the home
Of p. w. Spille, $500 Edeemoor lane.
The loot here vas valued al mere than
$500 and included $40 in currency be-
es6ss lewelry. 49,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-09
SPECIFIC WILL MAKER
LEFT $4,000 ESTATE
Mrs. E. Virginia Smith of Win.
chester Made Iron-clad Pro-
vision for Relatives.
Special Dispatch to The Star. =,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, January g.
Former Gov. Harry E. Byrd, this city,
and the First and Merchants National
Bank, Richmond, Va, qualified today as
executors and trustees of the will of
Mrs. E. Virginia Smith, filed in Cor
poration Court. They executed bond for
$82, 900, estimated value of her real and
personal estate.
Mrs. Smith, who left explicit instruc-
tons concerning her funeral and also
penned short eulogy to be read over
her grave, left her estate in trust to her
mother, Mrs. Octavia L. Jack; her
Mrs. Virginia Smith Brincker-
hoff, and her brother, James M. Jack.
She dictated elaborate provisions for
the protection of the beneficiaries and
administration of the estate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-09
Named Harpers Ferry Fire Head.

HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, january
8 Especially Charles E. Marlatt was
elected president of the Harpers Ferry
Bolivar Fire Department at the annual
meeting. Other officers named: Vice
president, j. Lyle E3ckies secretary, j.
Robert Dunn; treasurer, Fred Stead
man, and fire chief, Henry Vorhces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-09

Each individual hair on ones head
has tiny muscle at its root which, in
the ordinary way, keeps the hair lying
fiat on the head or in whatever posi-
ton we have trained it to grow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-09

In the FIRST London directory, i1sued
in 1917, is llsted strange combination
of business. A certain Mr.. Sam Ellis
q down as halter and st.ck hTpkeE,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-09

cid lady draws close to her fireside and
sews or reads by the light of quaint oil
lamps which were already old half
century ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
RAILROAD CHIEF
!. D|ESAT ST. LOUIS
VI. H. Williams, President OF
Wabash, Succumbs to
Heart Attack. II.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, october 15.-William II.
williams, president and chairman OF
the board of the Wabash Railway Co..
regarded in Wall Street and In railroad
circles as one of the Nations outstand-
ing transportation authorities, died sud
denly of heart attack late yesterday
in his suite at the Coronado Hotel here.
He was 81 years old.
Attending Dairy Show.
Mr.. williams, whose home was in
New York, came to st. Louis several
days ago to attend the National Dairy
Exposition. His entry of 40 Guernsey
cattle from his farm in New York is
the largest single exhibit at the show.
He was elected president of the Wa
hash September 10, upon the retirement
of James E. TausSig He retained also
the Craftsmanship of the board Of d.
rectorS, a pest he had held since De-
cember l, 1915.
Mr.. williams had been in the railroad
business for more than 20 years, and
was a director of several railroads be-
sides the Wabash He was born June
IS, 1874. at New Athens, Ohio, and was
educated In the public schools Of Toledo
and the Beaver Valley Pen Art Hall,
Beaver Falls, Pa.
Funeral Plans Uncertain.
His railroad career started In May.
1890. when he became cashier in the
local freight station of the Pennsylvania
lines at Toledo.
Mr.. williams Is survived by his widow.
Mrs. Belle Graham Williams of New
York. The funeral will be held In the
East. but definite arrangements had
not been announced today.
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warrant the order and that the COM
mission had no right to consider eco
nomic conditions and the needs Of the
farmers by making rates which were
unreasonable and produced inadequate
revenue.
In another case before the court
yesterday trunk line railroads argued
freight car rents.
Led by the Rock Island, the carriers
ate cked a commission order issued In
July, $780,. Some sections Of that
order relate to payments by short line
roads for the use of freight cars be-
longing to trunk lines.
Representatives Of the latter con-
tended relief granted short lines from
some Of the expense entailed in previous
agreements was not justified by evil
dence on which the commission changed
the order. Commission counsel held
however, that the change merely ex-
tended to short lines practices which
the trunk systems had approved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
SHAPIRO new TRIAL
PLEA is CONSIDERED
Justice Adkins Studies Motion in
Conviction on Mail Fraud
Accusations.

Justice Jesse @. Adkins of the District
Supreme Court took under advisement
yesterday a motion for new trial filed
by Jacob B. Shapiro, real estate opera
tor, who was convicted June Is on an
indictment containing IL counts of al
legged fraudulent use of. the mails In
connection with the sales of properties
encountered by hidden trusts" Argu-
ments were made on behalf Of the ac-
cused by Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer
and by Assistant United States Attorney
John w. Fihelly in opposition to the
motion.
While he is considering the matter
Justice Adkins directed Probation OFF,
Ger Amos A. Steele to make an investi-
CATION Of the operations Of Shapiro
and to report to the court. This is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
D0AK WILL DISCUSS
WORK OF Department
Labor Secretary to Take Stump
and Review Alien Conditions
- and Jobless Aid.

Secretary Doak will take to the
speaking stump" during the next 80
days, and will review the Labor De-
partment'S activities against alien
smuggling, the closing Of alien gates
and the efforts Of the departments
employment service to find work for
the joblesS
Doak was busy today drafting fiye
speeches, the first to be delivered in
Boston, on October 81. before the AS
ISOLATED Industries of Massachusetts,
The following day he will appear before
the American Coalition Of Patriotic So
cieties, in session at the Carlton Hotel
here, and on the next day he will ad-
dress the American Association of Per-
sonal Finance Companies, in session at
the Mayfower Hotel.
Six days later he will make a speech
at the Scottish Rite celebration. to be
held in Alexandria, Va, and on Novem-
Der IL, he will be the principal speaker
at the unwilling Of the World War
cross at Clarendon, Va.
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|. c. C. DEFENDING
FERTILIZER RATES
:
Supreme Court Hearing on
Rail Protests to Order
Is Continued.

The Supreme Court today continued
hearing arguments on railroad regula-
ton imposed by the Interstate Com
merce Commission and protested by the
carriers. 800 -
Counsel for the commission was de-
Tending a rate reduction on mixed
fertilizers and fertilizing material In
voked in central territory in July, 1928,
which the roads contested yesterday
on the ground that they had not been
given a proper hearing by the COM
mission; that the evidence did not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
Stops Lights for Council.

Automatic stop lights have been in
stalled in the city council room at Liv-
erpool, England, to discourage long
winded speeches. When a green light
shows in front Of the rostrum of the
lord mayor speaker has only / min
ute to go, and a red light means that
his time Is up
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15

said to be the first time that q reference
has been made to the probation onicer
in advance Of a decision on a motion
for a new trial.
Shapiro will continue at liberty pend
ing the decision Of the motion by the
court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15

New Zealand, have been placed on Ma
tuihi Island In Hawkes. Bay. and have
thrived to such an extent that they will
be kept there until the end of the school
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15

year. Teachers have been taken to the
island, and a physical culture expert
will visit there regularly to give in
structions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15

Child Refugees on Island.
Seventy children who were made
homeless by the earthquake at Napier,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
Volunteers Fight
Northern Fires

DENVER. Colo, Aug. 81, UP
Fire ragged uncontrolled through the
Routt National forest today. break
ing out just as scores OF men were
battling TO subdue disastrous
blaze IN the Grand Mesa National
forest. A third fire broke out in
wyoming
The Routt forest fire threatened
TO be the most destructive of three.
The flames, three miles east Of
Storm mountain and six miles from
Steamboat Springs, defied the ef-
forts of IS rangers and volunteers
TO bring them under control.
Great monetary loss was threat
ened.
SACRAMENTO, Cal. Aug. 81.
(U.P) - Five thousand volunteers
battled a series of five forest fires
in northern California today, bar
the flames to prevent fur
Their destruction of property.
The most serious fire was IN
Lake county, where valuable sum-
mer homes, mining property and
were ruined as the flames
spread toward the Nevada state line
A force OF ITO men was sent from
Reno to fight the blaze in Last
Chance Valley.
A $4,000 home in Carmel Valley
owned by Samuel G.. Blythe, mag
aZine writer, was destroyed by a
brush fire that swept up the slopes
OF Mount Toro. More than $4,000
acres Of grazing land in Napa coul-
ty were burned over, and 10000
acres in San Benito county were
plackened
The Oakland municipal recrea-
ton camp was reported threatened
by another fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
0UNTYY ]R

Final Decree Granted 49, A final
decree of divorce was granted by
Judge Vaughn n. Thompson yester-
day afternoon to Margaret Lemon
from Robert Z. Lemon on grounds
OF extreme cruelty. She was given
custody Of two minor children.
Special-Peunanent wave $500 for
two weeks only. Ruth's Marcelle
Shoppe. Fourth and Wensley. 2lyf
Seeks Divorce-Fred r Noble yes
terday afternoon field suit for di-
Yorce from Hazeldeaa L. Noble,
charging deSerton.
The Coolest Eating pIoce IN town
California Hotel Coffee Shop-a.r
cooled. Open all night l5tf
At the FL Dorado Drug Co thew
are specializing on evening curb
service. Real drinks and sand
witches CITY limits 2ti
Petition Filed - S. P Williams,
public administrator. yesterday al
telnoou filed a petition for letters
OF administration in the estate OF
Edward Bolger, who died near West
morland August 10
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27

turned its back on free silver and
William Jennings Bryan came out
of seclusion in an effort to save
civilization from what he consid-
ers its certain doom.
He accepted the nomination for
president to save from dissolution
the new party which he organized
Like other idealistic leaders, he saw
his followers divided by dissension.
He agreed to be their standard bear
er in the hope that he could hold
the group, the Liberty party to-
gether.
Andrae B. Mordshog. as, Los An
geles, is his running mate.
Reorganization of the money sys-
tenn is the chief aim of the party.
Interest charges would be abolished
under its plan. The government
would own all banks, MINIS would
be opened to the free coinage of sill
yer. Railroads. telephones, electric
projects would be owned by the gov
eminent.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
WATERFOWL OF
COUNTRY MUST
Be PROTECTED

PORTLAND, Ore. Aug. 81. UP)
Extinction OF the once-prolific
waterfowl life OF the American con-
tinent threatens. Paul G. RedingtOn,
chief of the federal biological sur
yey said today.
Hunters must satisfy themselves
with short seasons and small bags
during the next few seasons to Off
set the huge losses caused by con-
tinued droughtS. Redington said. He
enthusiastically approved President
Hoover's orders reducing the hunt
ing season to one month, instead
of the usual three, for this year.
Young wild fowl are not being
produced he declared Every duck
CT goose killed this year viii be one
less to reproduce the species"
For three years, drought over the
continent have reduced matches
Closing the entire season may be
necessary next year, Redington
warned. He hoped. however, that
moderate bags this year would aid
the situation so that such a step
would not be necessary.
Redington said that not a single
brood of young was found this sea-
son in former Mallard territory in
eastern Oregon. The Malheur Lake
bird reservation estimated rs per
cent decrease in ducks and 80 per
cent decrease in all other water
fowl.
C. A. Leichardt, federal game pro-
tector, told Redington that not 20
per cent Of the millions OF birds
that nested in lake, klamath and
Malheur counties in Oregon in the
past are breeding there this season.
Former nesting grounds are now to-
tally dry. he said
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
MERGER OF BIG
OIL CONCERNS
SEEMS ASSURED
Continued from page u
wells and 4,700 miles of mains. 1t
earned S42, 750,663 in 1880.

Wells dllu f,iUu TlllCS VI llldllio' II
earned s42,750,66 in 1880.
Resources Enormous
Foremost of California Standards
holdings is so per cent interest III
the Kettleman Oil corporation,
which controls half of the produc-
ton from l,760 acres on the north
dome of Kettleman Hills in Califor-
nia-one of the most fabulous oil
strikes in the industry's history. It
shut down may of these wells and
curtailed the others, yet produced
94,576 barrels daily in 1890.
The company had sos $50, $50 as
sets in 1880 on which 1t earned a
net profit available for common
stock of S37,675,3 0l
The operations of the two COM
panies are in effect Complementary
and the merger would make posi-
BILE the most economic use of their
reserves and facilities" the presi-
dents said. Each of the companies
is today handicapped by being able
to meet only locally the competi-
ton of other large oil corporations
having nationwide systems of distri-
button. To meet the competition,
each OF the companies feels the ne
cessity for enlarging the territory
in which il distributes"
If the companies merge, Tagle
probably will become chairman of
the board and kingsbury. dynamic
and resourceful captain of Califor-
MIA oil men, may be president.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. ~ 'U.P)
"A new giant of the oil industry.
created by a merger Of the Standard
Oil companies of New Jersey and
California into a corporation worth
almost S3,000.000 900. was i'll pros
pect today after a series of confer
ences by leading officials.
Presidents w c. Teagie Of New
Jersey Standard and K r. Kings
bury of California Standard all
nounced they had agreed merger
was advantageous and Logical"
Some details of the proposed con-
Solidation remained to be settled at
future conferences, they said. add
ing that mo insurmountable OBJ
stacles have developed"
The New Jersey Standard OWLS
producing companies in Canada
South America, Mexico, Roumanil
and Dutch East Indies, and subs!d-
iaries which include the Humble
Oil g. Refining company and the
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
WOman'S Golf
Champion Loses

EyMOOR COUNTRY CLUB
HIGHLAND PARK. III, Aug. 81.
UP)-Mrs. Q. B. Hill, OF Kansas
City. won her way into the semi
finals Of the womens western golf
championship tournament today
when she defeated her townswoman,
Mrs. George W Tyson. holder OF
the title, one up in the quarter
finals.
Other results:
Miss Virginia Van Vie. Chicago,
defeated Mrs. Charles Dennehy
Chicago. and 3.
Mrs. Leona Pressler, Los Angeles
defeated Miss Helen Macedonian,
Chicago, and 3.
Miss June Beebe, Chicago, de-
feated Mrs. John Arends. Detroit,
and S.
The seni-final pairings for Fri
day:
Mrs. Hill vs. Miss Van Vie.
Mrs. Pressler VS.. Miss Beebe.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27

sey republican leader. as donor Of
$4,000 TO the Bishop.
In the first days session this
week, c. Bascom Slemp. republican
national committeeman for Virginia
and former secretary to President
Coolidge, testified he aided Cannon
in obtaining contributions from E.
c. Jameson, New York capitalist.
Basil Manly, a committee aide,
who was called as witness, declar-
ed that no report was made Of the
$4,000 contribution by Cannon or
Frelinghuysen.
There is no record in the office
of the clerk Of the House OF Rep
resentatives as far as We can learn
nor were any reports made to the
Steiwer committee which inveSti-
gated 1928 campaign expenditures, -
Manly said.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27

ened fire and sounded a general
alarm. Germano. leader OF the re-
voting conyicts, ran, shooting, from
the hospital across the prison yard
into a factory building. Here the
.convicts erected a barricade.
Use Men As Shields
When reinforcementS reached the
prison a determined assault was
made upon the barrier and several
hundred rounds were fired with
the convicts replying. The revolt
ers strengthened their position by
seizing several prisoners not part OF
the plot and used them as shields
against the guards weapons.
Machine guns and gas bombs fin
ally were used on the barricade.
Blinded and fearing capture, the
four convicts killed themselves,
prison authorities said.
Prison officials Immediately be-
gan investigation Of how the pris-
oners obtained possession Of the
firearms. Warden James P. Cor
gan said he had been unable thus
far to learn much of the plot. Sui
eide of the ringleaders, it is feared,
may prevent complete explanation.
| Not even the plan by which the
men hoped TO shoot their way out
of the prison yard could be learned,
although it was reported an armor-
led car, said to be from Detroit, was
waiting outside the prison to re-
ceiye the convicts once they passed
| the walls.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27

Standard of Louisiana. It's average
production last year was 270,000 bar
rels OF oil daily At the close If
1890 it had assets of $730,986, 692.
Standard of California controls
Is subsidiaries in North and South
America.
A statement from Standard head
quarters said that merger of the
two companies, based on 1880 fig
ures, would give the new firm ap-
proximately 10 per cent of the to-
tai crude oil production and 10 per
cent of the gasoline business, domes-
tic and export, in the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
MORE TIME TO
Be TAKEN FOR
CLARK PROBE

LOS ANGELES. Aug. Of U.P)-
Blayney Matthews. chief investiga-
tor for District Attorney Buron
Fits, will require a week or 10 days
to check new evidence" il the
David H. CLARK murder case. Mat
thews said today
The announcement was taken to
indicate that possibility was Slight
that charges against Clark will be
dropped next Monday before the
setting of his date of retrial on
charge OF shooting Herbert Spencer.
magazine editor
Matthews denied reports that he
was seeking a mystery witness
who was supposed TO be able to tes--
ify that Clark had been heard to
threaten Spencer and Crawford.
Il know OF no such witness" de-
clared Matthews. II can think OF
no witness whose possible testimony
would fit such a description. Ny
sole investigation is in connection
with certain evidence involving
Clark's story of self defense"
The chief investigator expressed
no great confidence in the investi-
CATION and from attaches of the
office it was indicated that the in
luiry was considered as a long
chance"
Matthews. asked regarding reports |
hat members of the hung jury I
which deadlocked at II to one for /
were under investigation +
aid that he had been asked to
make no such inquiry and knew OF I
10 information involving the jurors /
which had been placed officially
before the prosecutor.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
FORMER SENATOR
CONTRIBUTED TO
CANNON'S FUND

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. UP
The senate campaign fund COM
mittee investigating activities OF
Bishop James Cannon. Jr., in the
1928 campaign today revealed an
other prominent republican had
aided the Methodist Episcopal pre-
lates Anti-Smith Democratic Or
ganization.
Testimony before the committee
today Unidentified former Senator
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen New Jer-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
Webb Approves
Four Measures

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 81.
(U.P)-Four appropriation bills total
ing 81 ,O72,50O previously held up by
Attorney General U. S. Webb, were
effective today after they had been
declared constitutional in an OPT
Mon to the state controller.
The bills include $4,000 for Los
Angeles flood control: 100000 for
Santa Ana flood control; $500 for
construction of jetties on the Rus
sian river and $4,000 for nursing
education at the University Of Cali
fornia.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
AGED POLITICIAN
FIRST CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENCY

MONTE NE, Ark, Aug. 81. UH
w. H. (Coin) Harvey, past 80 and
nearly blind, stood out today as the
of a zealot, stood out today as the
first nominated candidate for presi-
dent in 1882.
Harvey, a former Democrat who
retired from politics and active life
in great disgust when the country
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
POLO PLAYER DIES

HONOLULU, Aug. 81. W.P In
iuries received in a polo game here
Sunday had ended fatally today, for
Harold Erdman, "a, member OF a
prominent island family. Erdnian
was the son of Rev. John p. Erd-
man and a nephew Of Walter. Dill
lingham, Honolulu financief and
public leader.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
GRAF TO MAKE TRIP

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Aug. q.
U.P)-The Graf Zeppelin will start
on flight to Pernainbuco. Brazil.
Saturday. it was announced today.
The Graf will make two flights to
Brazil and return during the next
few weeks, according to the present
schedule
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27

Undersheriff Returns Under
sheriff Rodney Clarke resumed his
duties in the Sheriff'S office today
after returning from a vacation in
san Diego and San Fernando with
his family.
DR.. A. b. Hanson, Dentist, Davis
Bldg Extraction specialist
No Police Court - Lack Of ar
rests by city police last night was
responsible this morning for an ad-
journment until such time as priS
oners may be brought before Judge
J. E. Simpson.
Special S1.00 Shampoo and finger
wave. Ruths Marcelle Shop Phone
1888. Fourth and Wensley. lStf
Correction On Divorce-Through
error the Press stated yesterday
that Ruth Gavin has filed suit for
divorce from Neil H. Gavin. Mrs.
CavinS attorneys today advised the
suit is for separate maintenance
ana not for divorce.
Building Permits - Building per-
nitS issued today and yesterday
afternoon were to c. c. Dickerson
or a $50 addition to a residence at
.047 Woodward avenue. Harry Cope |
and for $50 screen porch on a
eSidence at the southeast corner
II Second and State streets. and J. /
l. Lampkins for alterations to
porch at 672 e. Centre street. to
.ost SIS.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
American

At CIeVeland-
st. Louis ... 900 010 600 |
cleveland -. 063 o2O OOx-ll 10 l
Coffman, Styles. BraXton and
Bengough w Terrell and Myatt.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
Baseball Scores
National
First Game

AT Pittsburgh
Chicago ...... 900 0l0 1902 O
Pittsburgh - 900 300 00X-3 10 l
Sweetland and Hartnett Spencer
and Phillips.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27

At Philadelphia
Cincinnati - 900 023 O0O-5 10 4
Philadelphia 301 900 llx-6 13 l
Kolp and Sukeforth: Bolen, Watt,
Milligan, J. Elliott and McCurdy.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27
Five Slain In
Prison Outbreak

CONTINUED from page II
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-27

At Philadelphia