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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
ONE MAN KILLED.
WHEN BARN BURNS
$4,000 Loss Reported in
Fire at Great Mills.
Tobacco Lost.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star. -a'.
LEONARDTOWN. Md, october g.
A fire which cost the life of enc man
destroyed large tobacco barn filled
with prize tobacco. new truck and
other valuable farm equipment, valued
at $4,000. occurred on the farm of
Charles Millicent of Great Mills, Md,
10 miles south of Leonardtown. yester-
day, was believed to have been started
by Martin Amesworthy, IS. falling
asleepfin the barn while smoking. His
charred bones were found in; the de-
bris after the fire. He leaves a wife
and two small children.
The Leonardtown Volunteers Fire De-
partment answered the callf but on ar
irving found the barn too far gone to
save
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
$4,000 LIQUOR SEIZED
Coast Guard Patrol Takes Schooner
OF Florida Coast---Crew Essapes.

ST. PETERSBURG, F1aS.,. october 9
R.-The two-masted schooner sSadell,
carrying q liquor cargo valued at $40 600,
was seized by o Coast Guardapatrol
boat of Bay Port, about SO miles north
of Clearwater, and towed to st.
Petersburg Tuesday night.
The rum-runner's crew escaped in
a launch that had the schooner IN tow
and headed out into the Gulf Tof Mex
leo, - &
Tn eSadell was carrying 900 sacks Of
assorted liquors and $50 cases Of fancy
Hquors, champagne and gin. -
The Sadell was carrying 800 sacks Of
boat, said 1t was stolen from him at
Dunedind Isles, near Clearwater
recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
WARDEN IN C0LORAD0'S
PRISON RIOT SUSPENDED
State Commission Acts Pending
Hearings on Charges of In
competence.


BY theiAssociated Press.
DENVER. Colo. October 8.-Frances
B. Crawford, warden of the Colorado
State 5Penitentiary, was suspended late
yesterday by the State Civil Service
Commission pending hearing on
charges Of incompetence, neglect of
duty and drunkenness.
Crawford subjected to criticism and
under Are since bloody riot at the
prison at Canon City October 3. 1929.
had refused to resign. He denied the
charges and said he would resist them.
The State Board of Corrections has
been studying the prison situation in
detail. investigating rumblings of dis
content within the prison, leading
searches for hidden weapons and mu-
nitions and ordering changes in off,
Gals
Thirteen: prisoners and guards were
killed in the October riot Severa
guards were slain after Warden Craw-
ford refused to give the rioters their
liberty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
EARTH IS WEIGHED
BY TUNGSTEN WIRE
DR.. p. R. HeyI Describes More
Accurate Method at Meet
ing of Scientists.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, January 2-The fine
tungsten filament in your electric lamp
is the spring of the scale with which
science has weighed the earth's $780,
O00, 600, 0OO, O0O. 900, 900 tons.
If your baby needs more sleep 1t is
not SO good to put him to bed earlier at
night. An afternoon nap is better.
With these extremes illustrating the
scope of its researches, the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science yesterday closed its eighty
seventh annual meeting.
To weigh the earth more accurately
than has been done before, science
merely had to send to the nearest cleo
trical supply house in Washington to
get some tungsten f1lament, and then
do six years intensive work at meas
uring and calculating.
DR.. HeyI Describes Plan.
The ordinary commercial filament
was the heart of the scales, as described
by DR.. Paul r. Heyl of the United
ington. Stronger and more flexible than
the fine steel wire previously used, the
tungsten helped to eliminate errors.
A wire one-thousandth of an inch
thick suspended a tiny bar made to re-
semble a dumbbell by having a two
ounce glass ball attached to each end.
This feathery dumbbell would move
slowly when two steel cylinders, each
weighing 140 pounds, were placed close
to the balls
The rotational movement. Dr. Heyl
said, was caused by the gravitational
pull of the big weights upon the glass
4. loVaf fclV
to the weight of the period at the end
of this sentence. To measure this pull
accurately was the main job.
The apparatus differed from previous
designs In obtaining very slow swing
of the dumbbell, so that the scientists
could measure the effect OF swing
lasting five minutes instead of one TAX
ing but about half a minute. This also
made for greater accuracy. AS a result,
the pull of gravitation was found slightly
larger than previously believed. Know
ing this pull, called the gravitation con-
slant, the earth's weight was obtained
by mathematical computation.
Shows Less Density.
The new gravitational value, said DR.
Heyl. changes no earthly weights, no
nautical tables. It might make slight
difference in calculations about comets
which have orbits extending farther
out from the sun than the new planet,
Pluto. It might be useful to Einstein
in calculations of the distance across
space.
It shows that the earth has slightly
less density than formerly estimated
that is, the earth's SOLID substance is
not quite so hard.
If all humans and their live stock
were moved to the moon, DR.. Heyl re-
marked, the drop in the earth's total
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03

weight would be about one-mnlionth OF
a millionth part of the total tonnage.
ing tricks for science lived in Chicago
the sons AMI daughters of college pro-
lessons. They we're studied by Drs. II:
M. Johnson Marion NJ. Jacobsen and
Carlyle F. Jacobsen of the Mellon In
-stitute Of the University of Pittsburgh.
1T has already been shown" this re-
port stated, that the afternoon nap
does not tend to retard or shorten the
sleep of the night, or to render 1t more
restless. These experiments, coupled
with those which were made by diff
ferent method by Drs Boynton and
Goodenough at the University of Min
nesota. show that the child ordinarily
rests more quietly during the afternoon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
CUBAN SENATEHEAD
SEES CLEARER SKIES
People Win Settle Differences
at Ballot Box, Declares
Or. Vasquez BeIIo.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, January 3.-Dr. Clemente
Va2Quez Bello, President of the Senate
and one of the chief pillars of the
ciated Press today Cuba's political
troubles will be liquidated and the
Cuban people will settle their differ
ences at the ballot box.
Many men have deserted their party
organizations and refuse to abide by
party control" said the President OF
the Senate, but, in my opinion, these
will tire of Offering resistance to con-
stituted authority. We shall begin cut
uary 15-and shall make our crop as
usual"
Would End Waste.
DR.. Vazquez Bello believes scientific
investigations which Cuba has been
making show that this country has been
wasting much in utilizing only the
sugar from cane and not getting the
valuable by-products. BY the use OF
cane alcohol mixed with gasoline and
by the manufacture of paper, fertilizer
and many chemical products out OF
cane he foresees great improvement
eventually In the economic condition OF
sugar planters.
Declaring the political situation was
a direct result of the economic depres-
sion, DR.. Vazquez Bello stated that the
position of the United States was an
elogous to that of Cuba. just as Pres
ident Hoover and the Republican party
arc being credited with causing the
United States present economic crisis
so also is President Machado being
charged with causing Cuba's financial
depression" he said.
Blame Called Injustice.
1T is a great injustice TO shoulder
the blame for Cuba's condition on @
man who has devoted himself so con-
scientiously to measures for relief. Is it
President Machado's fault that sugar is
selling at cent pound?
MACHAnO,S WORD DOUBTED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
Capture of Genius
By Future Biologist,
Professors Forecast
EngIishman Sees Manipu-
latiOn of Glands 10 Con-
troll Temperament.
~ the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, January 3.-The
elusive quality Of human temperament
known as genius" may be captured
and dominated by the biologist of the
future, in the opinion Of Prof. Julian
Huxley.
In an address here last night the
noted English biologist and lecturer at
Kings College of London University
predicted that hundred years from
now the manipulation of a human
gland may be able to substitute desir.
able for undesirable characteristics OF
temperament in the growing child. TWO
or three generations hence, ne said,
the tables may be turned on the adage
about genius being born. rot made, "
for the biologist of the future Is hope
full of inplanting genius where no such
characteristics was Unborn.
Astonishing discoveries are being
made in biology which are destined to
be even more revolutionary in their
effect on science than recent chemical
and physical research" DR.. Huxley said.
This is an age in which we pay more
attention to our automobile than we do
to our bodies. But the time is coming
when the findings of biology will switch
interest to the remarkable possibilities
of changing the outward and inner
nature of man as the result of biological
knowledge
1T will be found possible to modify
the human organism in desirable ways,
to alter the actual inherited nature
of man. We have discovered that diff
ferences in temperament depend on
ductleSs glands to great extent The
manipulation, building or breaking
down of these glands will alter temper
cinent as VIC desire. In two or three
generations we shall be able to alter
tn. temperament of a child in desirable
ways. We even may be able to gain
control of genius"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
LARGE OIL PURCHASERS
HOLD TO WITHDRAWAL

BY the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
TULSA, Okla, January 3.-The
petroleum industry was confronted to-
day with the prospect Of having TO
devise another plan of relief TO save
small "strippers" oil wells in North
eastern Oklahoma and Southeastern
Kansas.
A committee representing purchasers
of midcontinent crude oil awaited
formal notification of the Prairie Oil &
Gas Co.'S rejection of the first plan
proposed by the committee under
which the company was asked to
continue to take part of the
production cut of from market by the
Prairie's withdrawal January / as a
purchaser
The Prairie Company ceased pur-
chasing Crude Oh at am, Thursday,
after announcing December 5 that full
storage tanks and diminished market
outlet forced the company to with
draw.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
Will Rogers
Says:

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-The Ala
bama Bo-Weevils destroyed the
Washington Apple Knockers at
Pasadena Thursday. Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
MACHADO'S WORD DOUBTED.
DIR. Zaydin Explains Refusal to Accept
Immunity on Return.

DIR. Zaydin Explains Refusal to Accept
Immunity on Return.
NEW YORK, January (PC DIR.
Ramon Zaydin said here yesterday he
had not returned to Cuba when prom
ised Immunity by President Machado
recently because he doubted President
Machado's good faith.
DR.. Zaydin, editor of the morning
edition of FL Pals of Havana, is now
chief American correspondent for his
paper He left Cuba some Donths ago
fearing his life was threatened.
He Is a member Of the lower branch
of the Cuban Congress and resigned
the presidency of that chamber to lead
the opposition against President Ma
chado.
When three weeks ago Ambassador
Ferrara made public statement by
President Machado that he offered other
voluntary exiles and myself all possible
guarantees that we required to return
to Cuba" DR.. Zaydin said, II replied
that refused the offer because did
not believe in its sincerity. Coronel
Aguado, who placed faith In the guar
antees held out to him, arrived in Cuba
only to be forthwith arrested and
thrown into jail after being court
martialed."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
TWO INDICTED IN MURDER
Nelson Bowles andSFormer Secre-
tary Have Week to Plead.

PORTLAND, Greg, January 3 Dr.
Nelson c. Bowles, Portland millionaire,
and Irma Loucks, his former secretary,
indicted jointly for first degree murder
of Bowles' wife. were granted one week
in which TO enter pleas at their arraign-
ment In Circuit Court yesterday.
Mrs. Leone C.. Bowles, 80, was stabbed
to death In Miss LouCils' apartment last
November H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
Byrd to Aid Crew Idle.

NEW YORK, January (P).-Rear
Admiral Richard Byrd. explorer, will
sell autographed copies of his book,
Little America" to aid members OF
his crew who accompanied him to the
Antarctic and who have not found en-
ployment. It Is expected the auto
graphed copies will bring $50 a volume
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
Ex-Kaiser's Son Goes Under Knife.

POTSDAd, Germany, January 3 up.
Prince Oscar, fifth son of the former
Kaiser, was operated on today for ap-
pendicitis at the City Hospital by Prof.
Bier, personal physical of the former
Kaiser. Gen. Won Dommes, marshal Of
the imperial household at Doom, wit
messed the operation on behalf OF Oscars
father The patient is reported doing
very nicely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03

nap than In any time of corresponding
length during the night.
so that ifsa child Is judged to be in
need of more rest than il is getting, the
ideal way OF gaining it Is by means of
the afternoon nap"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
U. S. MINT is GUARDED
Secret Service Men Receive Tip on
Hold-up Plan.

SAN FRANCISCO, January (R).-
Warning that reached secret service
headquarters through an underworld
tip yesterday resulted in a heavily
armed detail of police plain clothes men
being sent to guard the United States
Mint here.
The warning, Capt. Thomas B. Foster
Of the United States Secret Service said,
told of plans for holdup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
NOTED ENGINEER DIES
Samuel M. Purdy Supervisor of
Muscle Shoals Construction.

PHILADELPHIA, January 3 E).-
Samuel M Purdy, widely known engi-
neer and supervisor of construction of
the Muscle Shoals power project. died
here yesterday of heart disease. He was
Sc and a native of Lake Providence, La.
Mr.. Purdy also was noted for his
work in subway construction. At the
time OF his death he held the post OF
construction engineer in this city's
department of transit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
BRAKE TESTER PATENTED
Long-Drawn Controversy Ended as
Auto show Opens.

Coincident with the opening Of Tho
national automobile show'. in New York,
announcement was made today Of the
award by the Patent Once Of patent
covering basic claims in 'the brake
tester fleid. This has been a subject
of controversy i've years.
The award was made on claims of
Graham and Flood, now owned by
B6ndix- Cowdrey Brake Tester Inc. and
covers nearly IS patents and patent APP
plications,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03

Underwood" Thursday. Alabama
made "a for Coach Wallace Wade.
Here Is the best one that happened
at the rose festival A policeman
arrested some little boys for pluck
ing roses from the yard at the house
Einsteln, the great scientist, Is stop
ping at. The kids then showed the
policeman that the roses were not
growing. They were tied on all
sorts Of bushes with strings. That's
one of CALIFORNIA; theories that
Einstein don't understand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
BROOKLYN STORE ROBBED
Machine Gun Hold-Up Declared
First in Gotham Suburb.

NEW YORK. January 3 JP1.-The
first machine gun hold-up in the his
tory Of Brooklyn occurred last night.
Four men held up q chain grocery
store and escaped with $500. Two of
the men had pistols, third stood guard
at the door with q machine gun and
the other remained in an automobile.
Two other and later robberieS Of
grocery stores from which small sums
were taken were attributed To- the same
gang
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03

had all red suits,
shoes, pa n t S,
helmets and all.
They look e d
like eleven bot
ties of straw
berry pop. The
score sounded
like the Demo-
cratic conven-
ticn at Madison
Square Garden
in %, Alabama
vat "a far
The Washington times., 1931-11-17

If your footwear wardrobe is
in anything like the state ours
is about now, you need above
everything else another pair Of
shoes for general wear. So
our reason for haunting shoe
departments this week was
partly selfish. We simply had
to buy a pair of daytime shoes.
The Town Pump
The first pair is the kind of
shoe that makes you think of
football games and such. 1t
has that true spectator air, and
yet was not designed altogether
for a sports shoe. We've gen.
orally come to think of the
regulation pump for sportSwear
as having simple, perforated
bands OF calf, and this pump
we've sketched has calfskin ap-
plique intricately worked in a
looped effect that's edged with
stitching. All to dress it up
and make it just as suitable for
town wear as for college sports.
Calfskin covers just those parts
that get the most amount Of
scuffing-the rest is suede.
This shoe, with its two-inch
continental heel, makes as
grand a complement to fall or
winter suits as oxfords are usu-
ally supposed to do. And it
costs just about So.
The NiceSt Colonial
Did you follow Fashions die
tateS early in the fall and wear
Colonial pumps? Ours were adj
mired so much that we knew
we'd be wanting another pair.
And here it is, illustrated Sec
ond from the left. We've never
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
PLEASANT RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION

Shoulders droop under weight of
years. Young, yet beauty has fled.
Cheeks are sallow and drawn. I'm
slightly pimples. Keep your system
clean and you keep the beauty Of
youth. Its energy. It's irresistible
charm. Then life is not a failure.
Clogged bowels and inactive liver
cause poison to seep through the
system. Health vanished and with It
beauty and energy. DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets will help save you
from this dark hour. For 20 years
they have been prescribed in place
Of calomel to men and women seek
ing health and freedom from consti-
patton. They act easily and smooth
ly. No dangerous gripping. Take
nightly before retiring. Results will
amaze you.
Thousands Of men and women
would never be without DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets. a vegetable COM
pound. Know them by their olive
colon 15cO SOC and soc. All druggists.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17

z passed; A bid 1-Spade,
which both Y and B passed.
OF course z should have passed
also, but he reopened the con-
tracing with his overcall of
2-Clubs. A bid 2-Hearts; Y
went 3-Clubs; B went to
4-Hearts, ending contracting.
The opening club lead en-
abled A to obtain a spade dis
card in dummy, so that he
lost only a single trick in that
suit, instead of losing three
tricks there as would have
been the case had A been al
lowed to play the hand at
spades. Dummy's ace enabled
the declarer to gain entry to
dummy for a lead of heart:
the second trump lead dropped
all opposing cards of the suit,
after which A had nothing that
he could lose except one spade
and two diamond tricks, giving
him four-odd.
Unless an adverse 1-No Trump
can score game you never bid for
a lead against that declaration
made at your left. Often a play
er at auction felt obliged to bid
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Last Word
In Style
Now

Score one for a very smart
bright green woolen suit seen
at a recent football game. 1t
had a shawl collar and flar-
ing peplum jacket trimmed
with red fox fur. Because of
the large collar and curved
border of fur on the short coat,
there were no fur cuffs, other
wise the jacket would have
appeared very much overdone.
A warm reception for ice
colors for evening is indicated.
One of the newest frocks uses
ice-pink satin and has a round
ed neckline embroidered with
bands of brilliants and a skirt
on wrap-over lines. A frock OF
ice-blue satin gains warmth by
a belt of CHEEKY red velvet and
a drapery Of the same.
x x x
A new flame colored evening
wrap is attracting much atten-
ton whenever it is worn. It
is in bright me-colored velvet
and has a short collar but huge
loose, inset cuffs of ermine. The
bodice is sections and is attached
to a floor-length skirt.
The silver standard is well
maintained by an evening frock
of wavy silver lame without any
trimming. It has a Surplice
treatment molding bodice and
hips.
Perhaps we shouldn't men
tion notions in a fashion bulle-
tin, but sometimes one sees an
item that is irresistible. Such
a one is a miniature booked
rug on which is a little spin
ming wheel holding spools Of
thread. There is also tiny
stool, the top of which is a
thimble and a larger stool that
is really a pin-cuShion.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17

seen a more gracefully designed
Colonial type. And so snugly
cut that it's really practical for
winter weather. Besides, calf.
skin is the warmest, Sturdiest
leather for wearing in the win
ter. time and that's just what
this pump is made of. In black
or that warm dark brown that
costumes like this season, the
square metal buckle matches
the shoe exactly. There's a tiny
strip of elastic underneath the
tongue, so that the instep grip
is like an oxford. And just to
be a little different and little
more dressed up this Colonial
pump has radiating tiny lines
of stitching at each side of the
tongue. We wish that one like
this had been available earlier
in the Season-we like it so
much better than the Colonial
we've been wearing. It's less
expensive, too-only around So.
We Love q Sailor
All the new pumps are cut
high across the instep in some
way or other. 1t gives them
such a protective air! They
almost look as though they
MIGHT grow I'D into an oxford
when they have a smart
one-eyelet tie, as in the third
sketch from the left. This is
the sailor tie that's so flatter-
ing to ankles. Insteps just
naturally look arched and ariS-
tocratic behind a dainty gros-
grain bow. The little pointed
tongue, Of course, just adds to
the effect. And there's a bit
of stripping Of a different
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Advice for
Love|orn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
He's Embarrassed

Dear Miss Fairfax:
Just a little country girl some
people seem to find attractive.
I don't drink or smoke and I'm
not free with boys. But there's
a boy I've known for several
years who comes to see me
sometimes-a mighty fine boy,
but unfortunately, he has got
in with the wrong crowd and
goes in for things that I'm sure
he's ashamed Of. Lately he has
avoided me and is very nervous
and embarrassed when we accl-
dentally meet. His mother is a
dear old lady and, even if the
boy doesn't care a particle about
me, it would be a joy to see him
drop this wild crowd. Should
I continue to accept his invita-
tions or not? Many thanks for
your help. BETTY
No, I shouldn't drop this boy
because he's got in with a wild
crowd. The fact that he's en-
barrassed when he meets you
shows he is conscious of the diff
ference between you and these
later associates. Have patience
with him, keep your own fine
Stands-I refuse to consider
them old-fashioned-and it's
more than likely your friend
will become himself again. Much
of this adolescent wildneSS is
bravado; they get over it just
as they recover from mumpS and
measles.