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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
4REDS" SLAUGHTER
1900 IN KWANGS|
10000 Homeless, Damage
$4,000. 900 After Commu-
mist Reign of Terror.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONGKONG, July 26.-Reports of
the massacre of $4,000 persons during a
reign of terror carried on by Com
munlsts who seized the City of Tung-
Ian, Kwangsi Province, we're received
here today in messages from the in
terror
More than 10000 persons were made
homeless by pillaging and burning by
the Reds, advices said, and damage,
estimated at $5,000,000 had been done.
The interior districts have been
neglected by the military during the
past several weeks during the Strug-
gle OF the Canton insurgents to assert
themselves against the rule of Chang
Kai-Shek and his Marking regime. APP
peals for aid were received from many
parts of Southern China.
Small Soviet Set Up.
From Southern Kwanetung Province,
where the Reds have defeated provincial
troops and established a small Soviet
in the Manning district, appeals were
made. Airplanes were sent to Swallow.
Kwangtung, to observe activities of
Communists in that region in response
to calls for help.
Merchants in Southern Fukien Prov
ince, nominally under the control OF
Marking, appealed to Canton for troops
to suppress the Reds. who have cap
tured the towns of Yungting and
Shangchang.
Encouraged by the revolt in the
north of Shih-Yu-Shan against Chang
Kai-Shek and the Marking government,
Canton insurgent leaders are preparing.
for conflict with the Marking leaders.
Various factions of the southern in
surgent movement have been united by
the support of the northern war lord.
being rapidly repaired. The Canton
Suichow Railway also has been re-
opened.
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COUNTY GOVERNMENT
CLUB MEETS TONIGHT
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
BETHESDA, Md, July 27.-Consid-
Grafton of the road program will be
given at the meeting of the Montgomery
Government Club, to be held at the
Bethesda Grade School Building to-
night, beginning at 7;30 o'clock.
The road program to be considered
will be that of the northern and cen
trail districts for 1881 and 1882 as ten
tativeiy approved by the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners.
Temporary bylaws win also be con-
sidered and are expected to be adopted.
In addition other public questions will
be discussed.
Announcement of the meeting was
made last week by Maj. E. Brooke Lee,
president of the club. At that time
each election district director was re-
quested to notify the delegates of the
respective districts.
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FOUR DIE IN CAB
DRIVEN INTO RIVER
-Four Others Escape Drown
ina Death in Accident After
Dance Party.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 27.-Two girls and
two young men were killed early yes
were riding with four other persons
careened past a warning light and
plunged into the East River.
The dead were identified as Helen
Bext, Is years old; Mary Snihur, 10;
Thomas Gormley, 10, and Lewis Gurias,
60 From the position of their bodies,
when the car was recovered five hours
later. it appeared that they had waged
machine.
Driver Is Held.
Michael Favalora, 26 years old, driver
of the taXicab, was ordered arrested on
charge of homicide by an assistant
district attorney, who questioned him
at Bellevue Hospital, where he was
treated for minor bruises.
When it was found that none of the
names given by the three. other sur
vivors of the accident were known at
the addresses they gave to the police,
the prosecutor ordered an immediate
investigation.
The names given were Helen Smith,
10 years; John Martin % and Mar
tin Smith, o. Police later found
Martin Smith to be Andrew Graham.
Accident Follows Party.
All of the occupants of the taxicab,
including the driver, were said by the
police to have attended party in a
dance hall prior to the accident.
Witnesses told police the machine
was travelling at a high rate of speed
when it plunged. In his statement at
the hospital the driver said something
had gone wrong with his steering ap-
paratuS.
When the four survivors of the TRACE
dy came to the surface of the water by
ISLANDERS who had witnessed the plunge
threw ropes to them and pulled them
safely to shore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

nor his CLEAR, concise and able
- work" in connection with his
articles from Haiti detailing the
Il Investigations of the Presidential
Commission in that country last
year, FRANKLIN T. Waltmsn, jr., to-
day received the Pugsley prize of 81 900
for the most outstanding work among
Washington newspaper correspondents
for 1880. Mr. Mailman is member
of the local bureau of the Baltimore
Sun.
The prize is an annual award offered
by Chester D. Pugsley of Peekskill, N.
Y, and the vote of the five judges was
unanimous for Mr.. Mailman, according
to Eugene S. Leggett, president OF Ma
tional Press Club, in making the an
nouncement, based on report submit
ted by the clubs Committee on Jour-
nalistic Awards, through which the
competition was administered.
The committee reported Mr.. Walt
man was chosen as the winner, 'as the
following excerpts from the letters of
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Foot Ball in Commons.

Conviction of three boys for playing
foot ball in the street in Glasgow, Scot
land, was brought up in the House of
Commons recently, when Member Bu-
chanan asked the secretary for Scot
land to investigate the case. The boys,
all about 9 years old, were given a fine
of $1.85 or five days imprisonment. AS
the parents have only either unemploy-
ment insurance or poor law relief, they
could not pay the fine.
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INDIANS ARE FREED
IN COED Staying
Probe Is Pushed as Seven
Apaches and White Man
Prove AIibiS.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WHITE RIVER APACHE RESER-
WALTON, Ariz., July 27.-Seven Apach;
Indians and white man, w. r. Warner
4O-year-old painter, have been released
by authorities investigating the mys-
FERROUS death of Henrietta SCHNEIDER
23-year-old anthropology student o.
Columbia University, New York.
Officers said today they have no 1ea
clue to the fatal Stabbing and probabi:
attack by several men upon the CIR
who had been here month studying
the life and speech of the Indians. Tht
body was found Friday in ravine neai
Fort Apache.
Three days of investigation have
elected only mournful shaking o
Apache heads and Sorrowful cluckint
of tongues, and a story from Warne.
which officers said accounted Tor HI
movements He was held for question.
ing after discovery of a reference
him in an unfinished letter from Mis-,
SCHNEIDER to sister in New York.
Letter Describes Fear.
The letter related Warner once saved
Miss SCHNEIDER from unwelcome at
tentions Of an unnamed Apache whom
she feared
Warner told officers he had taken tn
girl riding in his automobile severa
times.
A statement made through an In
dian interpreter by an Indian dea
mute that he had seen Warner at For
Apache on the night of July 10 placin'
the inert form of the girl in his car
was not substantiated. officers said.
Practically all evidence, authorities
asserted. supports a theory that Miss
Schmerler was attacked as she walked
through the ravine with her tashllght,
on her wav to dance at Fort Apache.
Her flashlight. pocketbook and foun-
tain pen. were found scattered along
the ravine.
Among the seven Indian suspects au-
thorities believed they had apprehend-
ed the Apache of whom Miss Schmer-
Ter had expressed fear in her letter.
They were not able to identify him,
however. The Indians had been round
cd up largely of previously records Of
misconduct which made them likely
suspects.
Further Probe Promised.
Sheriff L. B. Divelbiss of Navajo
County indicated that further investl-
cation will be made of the sparse white
population of the reservation territory.
we are not holding single person
now" he said tonight. I'VE have no
real clues to the slayer's identity"
William Bonner. superintendent OF
the White River reservation, said.
every one on the reservation, Indians
and whites alike is under suspicion"
Several Federal under-cover investi-
gators ere working on the case under
direction of John c. Gungl, United
States district attorney, who arrived
here this afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27


deposed head of Chile, as the
President who invited them to interview
him and then refused to be questioned.
The North American journalists had
heard much of South America S
Mussolini," as Gen. Ibanez was known
for his iron-handed rule, but the pros
poets of an interview appeared slim
until Foreign Minister Rios Gallardo
announced that the President desired
to see the visiting newspaper men.
An informal reception was arranged
hurriedly at the executive Offices, and
the newspaper men sharpened their
pencils and stuffed several extra sheets
of paper In their pockets. The reporters,
more than dozen strong, were ushered
into an outer Office, where a secretary,
noting the paper held by several of the
group, was quick to issue polite but
firm edict.
THE President cannot be questioned -
he said. He merely wishes to receive
you"
There was some soto voice grumbling
from the newspaper men. several of
whom, with typical Yankee independ
ence, suggested walking out. The more
conservative writer's prevented such an
international incident" however, and
the group was ushered into the Presi-
dents private Office.
Five Met by Hoover Ousted.
Gen. Ibanez, Respondent in military
uniform, came in from an adjoining
room and soon dispelled the resentment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Falling to Death,
Pilot Writes Note
To Explain Crash
Unlicensed, He Scribbles
Cause of Motor Stall
as Plane Plunges.
BY the Associated Press.


MENDOZA, ILL.,, July 27.-So the
world would know why he plunged to
his death, H. j. Hewin, As years DID,
an unlicensed airplane pilot of Du-
buque, Iowa. scrubbed note of ex-
PLANTATION yesterday as his plane fell
to earth.
The unfinished note, found amid the
debris of his tiny parasol plane. said:
Something wrong in rear cylinder.
Think broken ring. No compression.
Blows by"
Hewin left Dubuque yesterday morn
ing to visit his mother in Rankin. Ill.,
who is i'll. Farmers saw his plane falter
and fall disappearing over hill. They
were unable to find it because of tall
corn and summoned Eugene Jacoby,
another aviator, who circled over the
territory and signalled the farmers the
location of the wreck
Hewin was still seated in the cockpit
of the wrecked plane when found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
ORATORY WINNER, ILL,
TREATED IN ENGLAND
Robert Rayburn, Newton, Kans.
Is Stricken Aboard Liner.
Party Proceeds.

BY the Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH, England, July 81
Robert Rayburn of Newton, Kans., one
of the winners Of the American ora
torical contest, who became i'll aboard
the liner America, yesterday was in a
nursing home here under the care OF
the wife of the leader OF the party.
proceeding on their tour Of Englan&.
He was said to be bright and cheerful
Yesterday and it was announced the
result of observations on his case would
be made known today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

the jurors show, Tor his clear, concise
and able work; for fine example of
newspaper reporting and for the liter
airy quality of the dispatches and the
circumstances under which the ma
terial had to be gathered
Alfred D. Stedman of the st. Paul
Dispatch: w. C. Murphy. jr., former
ly with the New York World and now
with the United Press: Cole E. Morgan
of the Universal Service, Clarence l..
Linz of the New York Journal of Com
merce, Carlisle Bargeron of the WASH
ington Herald and w. w. Jermane re-
ceived honorable mention.
The judges were Marlen E. Pew,
editor of the Editor and Publisher:
Theodore P. Moves, associate editor of
The Evening STAR Roy A. Roberts,
managing editor, the Kansas City Star;
Grafton Wilcox, assistant managing
editor, the New York Herald-Tribune,
and DR.. Henry Grattan Doyle, dean
Of the lower division, Columbian Col
lege, George Washington University.
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AMERICANS IN CHILE SAFE.
Culbertson Gables u. S. rs Crowd
Gathers About Embassy,

The State Department was informed
today by Ambassador Culbertson in
Chile that no American citizens or in
terests have been affected in any way,
as far as he could learn, by the politi-
cal upheaval in that country.
The Ambassador cabled that there
we're big crowds in the street in front
of the embassy, but there was no par
ticular disorder.
Military police remained in barracks
today ready for possible emergencies.
Banks remained closed this morning,
but trolleys and buses were running
and business was fairly normal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Bows Remark Causes Arrest.

AS the result of casual remark by
a boy, his brother, Harauchandra Saba,
a young Bengali, has been arrested at
Bhadreswar. India. charged with being
concerned in the murder of James Ped
de, the district magistrate of Midnapore.
TIL, small brother had told people that
''Bmal Da," Saha's nickname, killed the
Sahib and ran away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF,
TODAY.
FUTURE,

Card party, Northeast Masonic Temple.
Eighth and F streets northeast, 8 pm.
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to one country all at once?
Ex-President Gales has declared
that you can use silver to pay your
debts instead of gold. He is trying
to get silver back where 1t belongs.
That's fine. Mexico has got the silver,
but what about us? We will have
to start paving of with potatoes
and watermelons. q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

was that the
japanese Gulf
Stream was in
closer to us this
year, and that
the water was
much warmer,
hence warming
the land. Even
t h e ocean is
against us. Did
you ever see as
many cockeyed
things happen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Luncheon, Washington Association of
Credit Men, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow,
1890 puA
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Will Rogers
Says:

SANTAMONICA, Calif.-A fellow
was just up here telling me that one
of the causes of the extreme heat
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JUDGE SLAIN IN COURT
Calcutta Police Immediately Kill
Assailant.

CALCUTTA, India. July ~ R.-
Ralph Reynolds Garlick, senior oisSrlct
Judge at Alipore, was SnoI ueao IN
shot and Killed his assailant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
WIRELESS MESSAGE
GIVES GRAF LOCATION
WELL OVER ARCTIC

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
BY REX COLLIER.

N EWSPAPER correspondents who
M accompanied President Hoover
VI to South America in 1928 will
l. remember Gen. Carlos Ibanez,
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STEAMSHIP GROUNDED
s. S. Pennsylvania Badly Damaged
in Orkney Islands.

WICK, England, July 81 P.-The
Danish steamer Pennsylvania, out of
New York for Oslo, was reported
aground today southwest of Swona, in
the Orkney Islands.
The Pennsylvania, owned in Copen-
hagen, is a freighter, carrying a crew
of 80. A cablegram to the agents said
the ship was seriously damaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
PRESIDENT
OF CHILE, RESIGNS
FIees Over Andes-Santiago
Quiet After Rioting-CiviI
Rule Is Established.

Continued From First Page.)
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

WANTED - RETURN LOAD FROM RICH
NELL BROS. TRANSFER. Decatur 1866.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of The Potomac INSURANCE. Company
the ONCE of the company, 9O0-6 F street
northwest. on Monday August 3, 1881, at
II am Books for the transfer of stock will
be closed from July 25th to August 3rd,
inclusive. ALEXANDER K. PHILLIPS,
Secretary.
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LEADERS OF BUSINESS
URGE DRY MODIFICATION
1,2OS Out of 1000 Recommend
Change as Aid to Return
of Prosperity.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, January 24.-ProSperity
can best be brought back to the United
States, 1908 business leaders Of the Ma
ton told the Sherman Corporation, by
a change in the Federal prohibition
laws.
Two thousand executives were sent
missionaries several weeks ago, In
which they were asked to list opinions
on breaking the depression No effort
was made to influence opinion, the cor
poration executives said, and no par
ticular classification was made of any
issue to make it outstanding.
John F. Sherman, chairman Of the
board of the business engineering or
ganization, who made known the result,
said factors of needed Government
action were listed. In addition to pro-
hibition changes, the replies advocated
the following:
Reduction Of taxes, 1,142; stimulation
of public works, LIT; amendment of
antitrust laws, 993; adjustment OF
tariff, 987; curtailment of production of
raw commodities, Sill, and adjustment
of gold reserves 373.
Comments on prohibition included
statements that 1000, 900 men would be
given work by legalized manufacture of
liquor, grain supplies would be con-
sumed and that revenue sources would
be reopened.
In the announcement, Mr. Sherman
said:
I'VE made the study at the request
Of many of our clients. We carried it
on with only one objective, to get facts.
We listed modification of the prohibit
ton amendment in the QUESTIONABLE
because the issue is outstanding. We
were surprised to learn that business
men Of the caliber to whom we went
seemed to rate prohibition as a major
economic issue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
ANNULMENT FIGHT
RACES BRIDAL TRIP
73-Year-0Id Realty Dealers
Attorney Insists He Is
Kidnap Victim.
Rx the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, January 24.-Hugh W..
Thomasson, wealthy husband Of a
woman As years his junior, was travel
ing somewhere in the West with her
tonight, while his attorney was proceed
ing with a marriage annulment suit
started by Thomasson in September.
His attorney, Stephen C. Rodgers
charging Mrs. Thomasson abducted her
husband, today prevented an effort by
Mrs. Thomassons attorney to have the
annu ment suit dismissed
letter from Mrs. Thomasson to her
lawyer here said Thomasson was with
her and Chauffeur, enjoying a second
honeymoon, travelling toward Cali
fornia. ThomaSSon had been missing
since Thursday morning and police had
been searching for him at the request
of his lawyer.
Trickery Is Charged.
Several motions in the annulment
suit started by Thomasson on grounds
that he was tricked into marriage, were
scheduled for hearing in Circuit Court
at Clayton, suburb, today but we're
continued because neither party were
present.
Attorneys for Mrs ThomasSon moved
10 nave the suit dismissed, but Rodgers
opposed the motion saying This Is a
plain case of kidnapping" and the
motion was overruled by the court
Il know what my client wants to do"
said Attorney Rodgers. He has been
abducted by this woman"
The 73-year-old real estate dealer,
who forsook bachelorhood and a fancy
for playing the violin last July to be-
come fourth husband of Grace Caroline
Allen Fish Putney Mahood was last
seen in hotel lobby at Carthage, Mo,
Thursday night as a young woman and
colored chauffeur dragged him out of
the place. after Carthage police said he
had asked for their protection.
Feeble Call For Help.
The. hotel clerk at Carthage said
ThomaSSon gave a last feeble call for
help as he was hustled into large blue
sedan which the Chauffeur drove rapidly
west on United States highway Sc, the
route to California.
The honeymoon" letter was one of
six received by lawyers and the circuit
clerk at Clayton, directing that the an
nulment suit and all related litigation,
including a counter suit for alimony,
filed by Mrs. ThomaSSon. be dropped.
All were in Mrs. ThomaSSonS hand
writing while two bore what purported
to Ee ThomaSSon's signature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
HIGH MASONS Plan
TO ATTEND DANCE
Knights TempIar Annual Drill
and Ball to Be Held
on February 8.

Some of the highest ranking Ma
sonic officials in the country will attend
the annual indoor drill and ball of the
knights Templar, Washington juris-
diction, on February in Washington
Auditorium, it was announced yester-
day.
Among these will be James H. Chick
ering, grand commander of the State
of Pennsylvania: Fred P. Spillman,
grand commander from West Virginia ::
Claude w. Fletcher, grand generalissimo
of Virginia, and John H. S. Lane, grand
captain general Of Maryland.
Local Men as Guests.
Among the local men who will at
tend as guests are George L. Sherman.
grand master of the Grand Council of
the District; Elwood P. Morey, deputy
of Scottish Rite, and John @. Slye,
grand tall cedar.
The judges of the competitive drill
are as follows:
walter w. Weber, Denver Com
mandery, No. 2, Denver, Colo; John H.
s. Lane of Maryland and j. Harry Ull-
rich. grand junior warden Of the State
of Maryland.
Grand COmmandery Ball.
Music for the grand review will be
furnished by the newly organized band
of the Grand Commandery.
The following were named members
of two new committees yesterday:
Hall-Jasper N. Baker, chairman; Will
liam H. Harrison. Charles w. Pimper,
Amasa A. Ludwig, Ralph B. Morrow.
Roland M. Brown, Hugh l.. Murrell and
Samuel B. Reeder Reception.
Whiting Estes, chairman; Gratz E.
Dunkum, Lem Towers. jr.; John A.
Meyer, William K. Reeve, William L.
Miller, James T. Gibbs, Mark F. Finley
and Charles F. Roberts.
The drill this year will be the most
extensive ana elaborate in the history
of the knights Templar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
CHAUFFEUR FINED SIS
ON CHARGE OF SPEEDING

John W. West. colored, chauffeur to
Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy, received a SIS fine
from Judge Isaac r. Hit in Police
Court yesterday for speeding.
Policeman v. v. Vaughn testified that
he paced West, who was driving the
official car of the Assistant Secretary
of the Navy at "A miles on Virginia
avenue yesterday.
The chauffeur, according to Vaughn,
drove his car onto the grounds of the
Navy Building and refused to accept
ticket claiming the policeman had no
right to arrest him on Federal property.
Vaughn promptly secured a warrant
and West was arrested.