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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
GEORGE 0. WATSON
D|ESAT HOME HERE
Head of Liberty National
Bank and Stock Exchange
Suffers Heart Attack.

George o. Watson, president Of Lib
erty National Bank and the Washington
Stock Exchange, died at his home, 2l0l
Connecticut avenue, last night after q
short illness. He was 81 years old.
Mr.. Watson had an attack of grippe
several weeks ago, and this was be-
lieved to have caused a heart attack,
with which he was stricken Thursday
shortly after returning to his home from
the bank His condition grew rapidly
worse, and his death occurred at 8
O'Clock last evening.
Was Nationally Known.
Widely known in financial circles and
intimately associated with leaders in
finance, Mr.. Watson had a noteworthy
career as banker. He had served as q
member Of many Of the most important
committees of the American Bankers
Association, and years ago he was an
active worker In the District Of Column
bia Bankers Association.
Serving his third term as president
OF the Washington Stock Exchange,
Mr.. Watson had been one of its leading
members and most active traders for
many years. He WAS a close personal
friend Of Rome G. Stephenson, presi-
dent Of the American Bankers Associa-
ton. Last Sunday he spent the day in
Philadelphia as the guest Of Harry j.
Haas. slated to serve as president of the
American Bankers Association next
year.
A native Of Anacostia, Mr.. Watson
was the son Of the late Charles +. and
Eliza p. Watson. He was educated in
local public schools, and began his
banking career as runner for the Ma
tional Capital Bank in 1889.
Became Treasurer I'm 1908.
He became treasurer Of the Union
Savings Bank in 1905. In 1908 he be-
came cashier of the Commercial Ma
tional Bank, and from 1909 to 1917
served as cashier of the National Metro
politan Bank. Mr.. Watson organized
and became president of the Anacostia
Bank, and in 1917 organized and be-
came president of the Liberty Savings
Bank. which in 1919 became the Lib
erty National Bank.
Mr.. Watson was treasurer of Con-
gressional Country Club and for the
past 10 years had been q member OF the
Agricultural Commission Of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association. He was q
past president Of the Washington Chap
ter OF the American Institute Of Bank
ing. For some time Mr.. Watson had
been a member Of the Association OF
Oldest Inhabitants Of the District of
Columbia.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs
Zoe Watson; a daughter, Mrs. John F.
Lyon; son, Charles F. Watson, and
sister, Mrs. Simon Bube.
Funeral services will be conducted
in Calvary M. z. Church, Monday aft
ernoon at o'clock. Rev. DR.. James
Shera Montgomery, chaplain OF the
House Of Representatives, will oficiate.
Interment viii be In Congressional
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
FLAG BODY ASSAILED FOR CHOICE
OF FOREIGN SHIPS FOR VOYAGE
Winners of Contest Should Sail on u. S.
Vessels, Declares Assistant POST
master General Glover.

The proposal of the United States
Flag Association to engage passage on
ships flying foreign flags for winners IN
nag essay contest it is sponsoring,
came in for sharp criticism yesterday by
w. Irving Glover, Assistant Postmaster
General and chairman of the Post
once Departments subcommittee on
Merchant Marine.
Following q meeting yesterday morn
ing of Mr.. Glover's subcommittee, at
which the subject was brought to the
fore, the Assistant Postmaster General
called newspaper representatives into
his office late yesterday and vigorously
condemned the plans Of the flag Asso-
citation.
The revelation that the sponsors of
the movement planned to send abroad
on ship of foreign registry So winners
In a national essay contest on the theme
of the American nag and that each win
ming contestant would spend approx
mately 1,750 on the trip, aroused the
ire of the postal official and members Of
his committee.
Selected French Line.
According to a recent announcement
of the United States Flag Association,
of which Col. James A. Moss is presi-
dent, the winners in the flag contest,
the number of whom were to be mar
rowed down to So through process of
elimination, would sail June is aboard
a ship of the French Line. The trip
to Europe is being awarded as q prize
in the contest.
Here is our Government" said Mr..
Glover, trying to bring back the con-
dition of so years ago when the Amer
lean ship was used by Americans 100
per cent. The Government is spending
millions Of dollars to build up the Mer-
chant Marine. Every dollar spent on
American vessels has simply the same
effect as does the act of buying from
the apple vender in the street.
why should we go out and support
ships flying foreign flags when the
American merchant marine provides
vessels that offer the same and better
facilities. Right now the United States
is building Sc ships at cost OF $340,-
OOO, 900 and trying to educate the
American people to the fact that here
is q merchant marine that Is ready to
transport them anywhere, to carry their
goods with expediency and economy
and to serve them with the best.
Not Concerned by Contest.
Mr.. Glover emphasized that he had
no concern with the flag contest being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
GIRL FLYER UNHURT
IN PLANE CRACK-UP
Elinor Smith Faints in Altitude
Flight-May Have
Set Record.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, March 2s-Elinor
Smith, girl aviator, had a thrill, a
crack-up, a good cry and maybe a rec
ord regained in her history today.
The Paragraph Of the plane in which
she dived from dizzy height over
New York yesterday after a try for the
altitude record has been sent to WASH
ington for celebration.
William Ward, representative Of the
National Aeronautical Association, who
examined the Paragraph. said there was
possibility Miss Smith went higher
than the 28,734-feet mark set for women
by Miss Ruth Nichols.
The alttmeter of Miss Smiths plane
showed only $4,000 feet, but Ward said
the instrument might have stopped
functioning at that height. The baro-
graph indicated her 30-minute climb
was almost in a straight line.
Starting from Roosevelt Field yes
terday, Miss Smith tainted at the top
OF her climb for lack of oxygen, plunged
to 1000 feet before regaining conscious
ness, glided to a small clearing in a
clump of woods near Roosevelt Field
and nosed over to avoid hitting a tree.
She was daZed unhurt. A cry and a
cup Of coffee and she announced she
would try again next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
JURY is EXPECTED
TO GET BOWLES CASE
Judge to Deliver Charge After
Prosecutor Ends Argu-
ments Today.
NJ IN. Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
H1LLSBORO, Greg, March "a
Twelve men today were to hear the
States final demands that they con-
Wet Nelson c. Bowles, Portland mil
ionaire, and his former secretary, Irma
q. Loucks, Of the murder Of Mrs.
Bowles.
Einal pleas for the lives and liberty
Of Bowles and Miss Loucks we're made
by william q. Hare and Wallace Nc
Camant yesterday.
Prosecutor George Mowry had laid
down only his preliminary baTrage of
oratory against the defense's suicide
theory when court adjourned. He ex-
pected to complete his arguments by
noon today. Then Circuit Judge George
Bagley viii deliver his charge to the
jury.
Mrs Bowles came to her death last
November Ia in Miss Loucks' Portland
apartment. Bowles and Miss Loucks
were the only persons in the apart
ment with her and they said she
plunged q bread knife into her breast
when she realized fully the intimacy
that existed between the millionaire and
his former enploye,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28

sponsored by the United States Flag
Association. But I am intensely
interested in the upbuilding Of the
American merchant marine" Mr..
Glover declared, and IT'S this kind OF
thing that gets me hot under the col
lar"
Mr.. Glover declined to commit him
self on the merits of the associations
contest. Call it what you like" he
said, but do believe it is this sort of
thing that Is damaging when we are in
the midst of trying to educate the
people to the fact that they have the
best merchant marine in the world.
Here are young students, winning
through their alert brainwork on the
theme of the flag of the United States
free trip abroad, and then 1t Is an
nounced that they will travel aboard q
vessel flying foreign flag"
Cites Value Of Support.
For purposes of Illustration, Mr..
Glover outlined to the press representa-
tives the Importance of the expenditure
of the American dollar on American
ships. He cited an example of q recent
shipbuilding undertaking by an Ameri-
can line, in which, he said, materials
from AZ of the AZ States were used and
90 per cent of the expense Of the build
ing placed in American industry.
"Shipbuilding has been the only in
dustry that has not suffered during this
worldwide depression" the Assistant
Postmaster General said, principally
because the Government stands behind
1t. Now, why can't the American people
stand behind the Government and the
ships of the United States, which are
constructed by American labor. with
American money and Of American ma
terial"
Mr.. Glover had also learned that two
Congressman, whom he described as
great friends Of the American mer-
chant marine on the floors of Congress"
had sailed off for Summer vacations
on a foreign ship.
Trip Of POstmaSters.
Furthermore, q group Of several hun
dred postmaSters and their wives, he
found, had made plans for holiday In
Europe, via foreign ship.
The Congressman, whom Mr.. Glover
wouldn't name, had gone already and
Mr.. Glover said he could do nothing
about that.
But he got hold Of the poStmasters
and persuaded them to travel under the
Stars and Stripes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
METAL HELD BASIS
/ OF MOTHER LOVE
Scientists Study on Rats
Shows Manganese Vital
In Maternal Instinct.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 2s.-The ten
tative conclusion that the emotion OF
maternal love is bound up with the
metallic element manganese has been
reached after 9 series of experiments
by Or. Elmer v. McCollum, professor
of chemical hygiene at the Johns Hop
kins Medical School.
The absence Of any trace Of the ele-
ment in the food of rats, he told the
American College Of Physicians here
yesterday, causes evidences of maternal
love to completely disappear.
Sharp Differences Shown.
The experiments, conducted thus far
solely on rats, were designed to estab-
ush the functions of the various metal
lie elements in food, DR.. McCollun1 said.
A diet completely free from manganese
was fed to colony of male and female
rats.
AFTER a hundred days we observed
lated. 1.-THE mother rats fed on q man
gsnese-free diet showed no maternal
solicitude for their young. They paid
no attention to them and let them die.
after a certain lapse of time, no
more offspring were born. We found
the diet had also affected the males"
Studies In Early Stage.
On the other hand, DR.. McCollum
reported, rats fed on a diet containing
but five-one- thousandths Of ! per
cent Of manganese behaved perfectly
normal in every way. He said evidently
the lack Of the element also made the
young pariahs to normally fed mothers.
DR.. McCollum said the studies are IN
too early a stage to determine just
what element is contained in the man
ranese to cause the results obtained.
Clinics of the convention, which has
been in progress here all week, shifted
to washington today. approximately
1900 physicians registered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
MAN AND WIFE GIVEN
JAIL TERMS AND FINES
Herman o. and Julia G. Hagnel
Convicted on Charge of Using
Mails to Defraud.

Herman o. Hagner and his wife, Julia
e. Hagner, indicted in 1928 on a charge
Of using the mails TO defraud, were SEN
fenced to serve five years each In the
pcnitentiary and to pay a fine Of $1,000
each today by Justice Peyton Gordon
Of the District Supreme Court.
The couple was ordered committed,
despite the request Of Lucien II. Van
doren. defense attorney, that bail be
permitted pending the action OF appel
late court on the appeal which he
noted today. United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover prosecuted for the Gov
eminent.
The Hagners we're indicted when It
was charged they sent false accounts
Of merchandise sold in their stores at
Scranton, Pa, and Camden. N. j.. To
the Merchants Transfer & Storage Co.
Of this city. causing loss TO the local
company said TO be about $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
MARAUDERS ASSAULT
WOMEN NEAR CHICAGO
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 28-Two maraud-
ing colored men were sought yesterday
by police who followed a trail of wan
tonneSs through southern suburbs.
The pair tied up John Miller in his
home at suburban Harvey, shot his
police dog dead, stole a watch, revolver,
$50 and his car. Then they sacked
home in Riverdale, another suburb,
and iourneyed to Blue Island. Break
ing into the home of Mrs. Alma Field
KANT, they bound her husband and
son, took her into another room and
attacked her. They took some valu-
ables, robbed an upstairs resident,
Noble Westfal, and cut the telephone
wires.
Farther down the street they en-
tered the home Of Mrs Theodore
Thoms, attacked her and robbed her of
diamond ring
A dozen colored men from the rail-
road yards in Blue Island were rounded
up for possible identification.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
YOUTH HELD TO JURY
IN HOLD-UP ATTEMPT
Alfred Aquilino, II, Given Hearing
at Rockville-Fails to
Make Bond.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

0brG4hl OAepakCu 70 Inc DtaIs
ROCKVILLE Md, March 28.--Alfred
Aquilino, II years old, Of the hoo block
Of Park road, Washington, was held for
the action OF the grand jury today fol-
lowing q hearing on two charges result
ing from the youths alleged attempt TO
hold UP the proprietor Of a sanitarium
ct Forest Glen.
Aquilino is accused in warrants charg-
ing him with assault with intent to kill
and assault with intent to rob. Fol-
lowing the hearing before Police Court
Judge Charles A. Woodward, he was
ordered to post bond Of $500 on each
Of these charges to await the action Of
the grand Jury. Failing to make bond,
he was committed to the county jail.
DR.. Nathan A. Springer, proprietor OF
the sanitarium. testified that Aquilino
did not seem normal mentally when he
walked into his office March %, pointed
q revolver at him and demanded 500.
The youth became frightened while DR..
Springer was opening a safe and ned.
He was captured in Washington after
an exciting chase.
He Is represented by the law firm Of
Peter, Simpson g. Oxley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
Battle FOR BURKE
GETS MORE TENSE
Missouri Governor Soon to
Decide If Illinois or Mich
igan Wins Bandit.
By tbs AssociAtedPreSs.


ST. JOSEPH Mo, March GA
fight for custody of Fred Burke, roam
ing machine gunner, appeared for the
finish today rs authorities from Chi
cago and st. Joseph, Mich, prepared
to press their claims before Gov. Henry
S. Caulheld.
While representative from both
cities were awaiting Q hearing before
the Governor IN Jefferson City, Harry
Ditchburne, assistant State attorney OF
Chicago, said he would press for Gus
tody Of the gunman.
Burke, arrested at Milan, Mo-, Thurs
day morning, is wanted in Cook Coun-
ty for the participation in the st.
Valentine day massacre Of seven cohorts
OF George (Bugs) Moran. He Is ac-
cused OF Staying q patrolman In the
Michigan City.
May Reveal Evidence.
Ditchburne indicated that, II neces-
sary, Chicago authorities would aug
ment their claims before the Governor
with heretofore unreYealed evidence.
We've never put out all the evidence
we have against Burke In the st. Valen-
tine day massacre" he said I'VE have
witnesses who will indeutify Burke as
one OF the men who ran out Of the
Clark street garage"
The garage was used as q rendezvous
by members Of the gang.
Earl w. Mathews, chief OF police hare
who laid plans for Burke's capture
however, was inclined to favor the de-
mands OF Michigan authorities.
Wants Largest Reward.
"T want to turn him over 10 the
State that has the strongest case and
where the highest reward win be paid .
he said.
Interest OF the Federal Government
In Burke's arrest also must be con
sidered. The Government, susnecting
Burke Of completely in o mail truck
robbery at Toledo, Ohio, has issued q
hold order for him.
Burke ate ravenously and slept
soundly while the police band practtced
in a room above his cell yesterday.
Later he was visited by his young
wife, who married Burke when he was
known as Richard F. White, q real
estate salesman. She kissed him
through the cell bars.
MAY ar FTSEvVurpr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
NYE COMMITTEE RIGHTS +
INVOLVED TN HEARING
Counsel for Seymour and Grocer
Norris Question CONSTITUTIONAL
ity of Nebraska Inquiry.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nehr., March 28.-Attor-
neys for Victor Seymour, Republican
State leader, and George W. Norris,
former Nebraska grocer, said question
of the constitutionality Of the Senate
Campaign Funds Committees inveSti-
CATION of the 1880 Nebraska primary
was involved in a hearing opening to-
day IN Federal Court before Federal
Judge T. G. Munger. The hearing
concerned demurrers to Federal perjury
indictments against Seymour and the
former grocer.
The indictments were outgrowths of
testimony given in hearings here last
Summer and Fall when Senators Ger
aid T. Nye and Porter H. Dale sought
the reason for sthe filing of the grocer
Norris in opposition to Senator George
w. Norris for the United States SEN
ate. The grocer's filing was declared
illegal by Chief Justice Charles A.
Goss of the Nebraska Supreme Court
Nye contended Seymour plotted the
defeat of Nebraska's senior Senator,
and engineered the grocer's candidacy.
Seymour told the Investigators he knew
nothing Of the reason for thu trocers
political ambitions. Grocer Norris
contended he filed for Senator Of his
own accord.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
MAY BE ELSEWHERE.

Neither Justice Department nor pos
tai officials were informed today Of the
issuance Of hold order by the Govern
msnt for Fred Burke, alleged gsrgster
now held at st. Joseph, MO.
Chief Postal Inspector Milliean said
Burke was not wanted in connection
with the mail truck robbery at Toledo
in 1921, since all those suspected Of
completely in It had been sent to the
penitentiary. No other mail truck rob-
berry has occurred there since, he said.
Assistant Attorney General Dodds said
50 far as he knew no word for the IS
suance of a hold order against Burke
had come from the Justice Department.
He added, however, If the local district
attorney knew of q Federal charge
against him g hold order could have
been issued from there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
NEW LABORATORY BEGUN
FOR BATTLE ON CANCER
Huge X-Ray Tube Will Be Housed
in Radiation Test Room
at Pasadena.
By the Associated Press.

BY the AASoclRted PreSS.
PASADENA, Calf, March 2S.-The
million-volt laboratory of California
Institute OF Technology here is to have
a brother, a radiation laboratory,
ground for which was broken yester-
day
1t win be the armory for new weap-
ons to fight cancer. For years the mil
lion-volt laboratory housed In the larg-
est X-ray tube in the world. capable of
operation at $50, 1000 volts. This was de-
signed by DR.. Charles G. Lauritsen,
electro physicist.
DIR. Charles Packard, Pathological ex-
pert OF Columbia University, who was
sent here by cancer treatment experts
to test the Lauritsen tube on fruit flies
and rats, determined no harmful effects
came from the hard, high voltage rays,
and said they were almost equal to
radium rays for deep-thearpy treat
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
DIPHTHERIA RACES ANEW
Epidemic Breaks Out Again in
Point Barrow, Alaska.

POINT BARROW. Alaska, March "a
Gpl.---A diphtheria epidemic which had
been raging here for several weeks and
was believed to have been brought un-
red control, fiared anew today, and the
only hospital again was overcrowded
with patients.
Two inland families arrived here yes
terday suffering from the disease and
several other cases were uncovered
Only Thursday. DIR Henry Griest, the
settlements only physician, believed the
disease sufficiently controlled TO allow
the release Of trappers from quarantine
70 60 TO their trapping grounds.
The inland patients brought wore
that between so and &C other familie;
had been exposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
FEAR OF U. S. TRADE SEEN.
Austrian Leader Also Says Soviet
Menaces Nations.


BERLIN, March % (R.-Larger ma
tional economic units, particularly the
United States and Soviet Russia, were
pictured today in reports OF an address
OF DIR. Karl Renner, former Austrian
chancellor, as having made the pro-
jected economic union Of Austria and
Germany necessary.
DR.. Renner, speaking before the
Austro-German Peoples Union, said
that the economic unity of the United
States had long challenged the exist
ence of disunited tariff -ridden Europe,
while recently Soviet Russia has risen
as a new great rationalized and I'M
flied trade force.
Caught between these two economic
giants" he continued, the individual
nations Of Europe soon will be helpless
dwarfs, unless Europe acts to make
economic pan-Europe a reality. Ger
many and Austria have taken the first
step. 1t only remains for other nations
to join them"
On the other hand, Vienna dispatches
today said some Austrian economic ex-
perts feel that Austrian manufacturers
will need protection against German
manufacturers for many years to come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
Wife Hopes for BrOphy.

MANILA, March % (Hp.-Mrs. Glenn
w. Brophy, wife Of the Los Angeles aV-
ator. who disappeared March 20 while
attempting q night 500 miles across the
from Hongkong today. Mrs. Brophy said
she believed there was o chance that
her husband had been picked up By
. fishing boat and was still alive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band, this evening at Stanley Hall at
$50 o'clock.
March, THE Bersaglieri". Eilenberg
Overture, la Dame Blanche" .Boieldieu
Entr'acte, 1.-THE Poets Dream"
Edward MacDowell
Excerpts from the musical eXtrava-
ganza, "Chu Chin Chow. +. Norton
Fox trot, Hes Not Worth Your
Tears" ................... Warren
Waltz song, mississippi Rip
Piles" ...................M Mary Earle
Finale, Liza Leess. ........,...,.S Slept
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28

voted an apology to Lands and prom
ised Johnson's removal II he offended
again. Only one club owner declined
to sign the resolution.
A year later harmony seemed restored.
lands was reelected at $65, 900 q year
and johnson was first to congratulate
him. But within month Johnson was
criticizing the commissioners handling
of the Cobb-Speaker allegations, and
the club owners voted unanimously to
give johnson leave.
Frank Navin, vice president, was
clothed with executive authority, and
for the first time in "a years Ban John
son was out Of base ball.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
so SCOUTS TO ENcAmP
District and Nearby Areas VIII
Send Group April Z.

Fifty Boy Scouts from tbs District,
nearby Maryland and Virginia, viii
leave April z for q tnree-day visit %
Camp Roosevelt. The boys who win
make the trip are chiefly patrol leaders.
senior patrol leaders, Junior assistant
scout masters and scrIbes.
During the three-day encampment
the youngsters win study camping
encampment win be Ia charge Of Doug
las D. Withers. program director cs 60
District Council
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
Snow Blankets Greece.

ATHENS. Greece, March % Dr.
Heavy snowstorms occurred today
throughout Greece. transportation serv-
ices in Thessaly and Macedonia were
interrupted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
Man, so, Wife, 2s Have Son.

SHREVEPORT, La, March % LP).-
]. A. Vance. 82-year- road contractor,
and his -2svyear-old wife announce the
birth Of son.