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Milford chronicle., 1931-12-11
Yes Indeed! That's My Xmas Store
LIVING ROOM FURNITURE

3-Piece Fibre Suite ...:..!.*:t!.@S e.. 1900
9-Piece Jacquard Velour Suite . $ $3.50
3Piece Wool Tapestry Suite . $4,000
apiece Tapestry Suite ,.........$ $500
Solid Mah-Duncan Phyfe Sofa S 5000
S-Piece jacquard Suite ......... $4,000
3-Piece Mohair Suite. .......... $149.OO
2-Piece Mohair Suite .............$ 1890
3-Piece Rayon Velour Suite M $159.OO
2-Piece Tapestry Suite ..~,..... $1OS.OO
3-Piece Tapestry Suite ..... $123.OO
2-Piece Old English Suite ... $15O.OO
5-Piece Velour Suite .......... $139.O0
3-Piece Mohair Suite ........ $154.OO
2-Piece Tapestry Suite ......... $1,000
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-11
Studio COuCEcS-The New Idea In
DA-BEDS

Base with four legs. Made inside just
like an upholstered box spring, with the
same resilency and comfort. Thick mat
tress pad and three wall pillows all with
an attractive covering in three col
OFS .g. ::......... $1,000
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-11

SUITE NO. 3OO-1O-Piece Dining Room
Suite. Beautiful Burl Walnut, Duncan
Phyfe period style, handsome construc-
tiOn throughout. The chairs have up
holstered seats in tapestry covers. S155
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-11
RUGS! RUGS! RUGS!

We just received a large shipment of
9x12 Administer Rugs that we purchased
at SENSATIONAL PRICES. High grade
Administer Rugs priced lower than any
time in our memory.
We offer 30 patterns 9x12 Seamless AK
minister Rugs for ............. $685.
ALL PERFECT GOODS. Of you need a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

TT is IS years since the bugles blew
Cease Firing" in the World War, and
living men and women who had es-
capped from the destroyer looked
around at the ruin and death which
Uttered the earth. Millions of young
men-the best of the worlds youth at
that time-who would have been the
leaders of life in science and business
and beauty, and all human energy, were
dead. The genius Of a generation went
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

for The Sunday Star Magazine by Joseph simons
urgent and desperate desire had been to
defeat the enemy. The first ideals which
had stirred masses Of men to sacrifice
beyond self-interest for their country's
sake had faded out or weakened under
the strain and agony of the long ordeal,
but the fighting men had gone on to the
end with sense of unacceptable destiny.
Some of them believed to the end that
somehow their sacrifice would lead to q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
Cl7lllced Nations Must Unite PERISH.
BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS

down with them, and we have not yet
made up that loss. Other things went
down with them and into the discard
many illusions, many hopes and some of
the faith by which the human mind has
reconciled itself to life. Belief in the
progress of humanity itself toward some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

higher intelligence and more perfect Or
der had received heavy shock
While the war was in progress only a,
few minds here and there had dared to
look across the frontiers to the wider
aspect Of truth. Then the immediate
need haG been for self-defense; the
Evening star., 1931-12-25
.ESTELLE TAYLOR CUT
IN HOLLYWOOD CRASH
Actress Is Injured as Auto Hits
Tree After Being Forced Off
Boulevard by Car.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, December 25.-Es-
telle Taylor, screen actress and former
wife of Jack Dempsey, one-time heavy
weight boxing champion, was painfully
injured early today when the automo-
bile in which she was riding was forced
off a boulevard by another machine and
crashed into a palm tree.
Miss Taylor. thrown against the top
of her automobile, driven by her chauf-
feur, suffered deep laceration of the
scalp. a bruised hip and a cut tongue:
She was removed to the Hollywood
Receiving Hospital, where Police Sur
eeon Herbert Dasse treated her. She
later was taken to her home and placed
under the care Of nurse.
Miss Taylor was returning from a
hotel dance, accompanied by Frank
joyce, a film producer. Joyce and the
chauffeur Noel Scott, said the machine
was forced off the boulevard by a car
which failed to stop after crowding
them over the curbing.
Earlier in the evening, Miss Taylor
and .Jovce had called at the home OF
EVELYN Brent. film actress, and her hus-
band Harry D. Edwards, producer,
and the four had planned to attend the
dance together, but Miss Brent said
she was suffering from cold and de-
cided to remain home.
DR. Dasse said the injuries suffered
by Miss Taylor will keep her from the
vaudeville stage and screen Tor several
weeks. -.
Evening star., 1931-12-25
NEW RAIL RATES
EFFECTIVE JAN. 4
Freight Charge Boost to HeIp
Weak Lines to Last
Two Years.

Inc railroads Of the country will put
into effect on January their new
schedule of freight rates designed to
create fund to assist the weak car
riers.
These rates, which will boost charges
for all classes Of freight but agricultural
commodities, allowed as an emergency
measure, may be maintained until
March 81, 1888.
Permission to levy them under a
blanket tariff, effective on five days
notice instead of the usual 80, was given
by the Interstate Commerce Commission
yesterday afternoon. The carriers at
once announced they would post the
new rates December 30.
Administration Planned.
The fund which they will form will
be administered by the newly organized
Railroad Credit Corporation
1t will be distributed in the form Of
loans to those lines unable to meet their
fixed charges.
This arrangement was allowed by the
commission in denying the Is per cent
horizontal increase sought by the rail-
roads.
Roads now bankrupt or deriving less
than so per cent of their income from
freight traffic will not be eligible 10
draw on the fund.
Earnings Estimated.
The rates, which constitute a sur
charge. range from SO to Sc per car
and it has been estimated that they
will net between S100,o00,0 900 and $125,-
100000 annually. as compared to the
400000,00G which the IS per cent
boost would have returned.
Under the original plan of the COM
mission advances made to needy car
riers would have been outright gifts,
but at the insistence of those lines
which are not dependent upon it the
fund was allowed to be distributed as
leans.
OF approximately 178 class ! roads,
ali but one eligible for participation
are adherine to the plan There are
something more than a score not
eligible.
The Railroad Credit CORPORATION,
which has its Offices here, is in charge
OF IL directors, chosen from the ranks
OF railroad executives
Evening star., 1931-12-25
AUTO KILLS DRIVER
FOR AID SOCIETY
Man Fatally Injured on Way
Home After Completion
of YuIe Tasks.

The chimes of the city's steeples were
ringing out Christmas eve, the busiest
day of Phillip W. Pughs year-ringing
out Christmas eve, but ringing in
Christmas morning, which was to have
been his day of rest.
At 81 he had spent strenuous hours
delivering toys and bundles to the poor.
and this may or may not have slowed
him somewhat as he plodded home
ward to his rented room at AIS Second
street
Pugh. who drove a wagon for the
Chlldren's Aid Society, had been COL
llectlng donations all day and delivering
them through the holiday traffic to the
homes OF destitute children.
Died in Taxicab.
Approaching Massachusetts, avenue a,
Second street shortly after last mid
night, he either failed to see or was
blinded by the lights of an approach
roadster.
Inc roadster, operated police say, by
Francis Mulcare, 30 years old, of 405
Ienth street northeast, sent him spin
ming to the pavement.
Whlle the injured man was being
placed in taXicab. directed to Casualty
Hospital, police learned from Pugh's
fellow roomers that he lives apart from
ms wife and two sons. all three of
whom are residents of Cleveland, Ohio,
Pugh died Of a fractured skull and
internal hurts while he was being sped
to the hospital in the tonneau Of the
taxlcab. He was pronounced dead on
arrival.
Identified Through Accident.
Mulcare was arrested pending an in
quest after police reported that the
brakes of his automobile were unsatis-
factory.
Pugh formerly was postmaster at
Broadway, Va, the home of two sisters,
Misses Sallie and Minnie Pugh. An in
quest Will be held at the District Morgle
tomorrow morning at IL 80 O'Clock.
Pughs body was identified at the hos
pltal through coincidence, by a motor
lst whose car had struck him at Third
and L streets about a month ago-,Jesse
Smith of ell Ninth street northeast
A card bearing Smiths name was
found in the dead mans pockets, and
the motorist was summoned to the hos
pital avg
Evening star., 1931-12-25
3O-DEGREE DROP
FORECAST HERE
Unusually Mild Christmas Eve
to Be Followed by Cold
Weather Tonight.

Following an unusually mild Christ
mas eve, Washington awoke to a
Christmas of bright, exhilerating
weather, which bore promise of much
colder" temperatures tonight and
tomorrow.
Southerly winds ushering in Christ
mas last midnight with a record of 81
degrees, the maximum for the pre-
ceding "a hours, veered to northerly
early today and were sweeping colorful
clouds over blue sky at noon.
The temperature at that hour was
mounting toward so, but is expected
to take 30-point drop tonight to a
minimum of three degrees under
freezing.
The forecast is for much colder
weather tonight and tomorrow under
clear skies, although clouds should per-
Sist the greater part of today.
Fresh winds and promise of Winter
cold in the air were tonic to holiday
throngs today as thousands paid neigh
borly calls in the suburbs or motored to
nearby points of interest in Maryland
and Virginia.
The extremes yesterday were As and
81 degrees.
While last nights mildness was
unusual" the forecaster at the Weather
Bureau today said the high temperature
broke no records for this season.
Evening star., 1931-12-25
MAIL PLANE CRASH
FAILS TO HALT GIFTS
Pilot Leaps to Safety, Loads An
ether Ship With Packages
and Goes On.

CLEARF1ELD, Pa, December rs Cp).
-Airmail Christmas gifts were de-
layed only few minutes last night
when New York-bound plane fell
$4,000 feet.
Pilot Jimmy Johnson of Cleveland,
fioated to earth with his parachute
and quickly obtained another ship at
Kylerstown Airport. Fourteen hundred
pounds of mail mostly Christmas gifts,
were soon winging their way on
eastward.
johnson said he left the plane at
$4,000 feet when something went
wrong with a wing of the ship.
Il was flying from Cleveland and
everything seemed OK when suddenly
noticed something wrong with the
wing. 1 don't know just what it was,
but began to drop. So I took the
jump"
johnson landed in a field only a
short distance from the airport. The
plane came down nearby and was re-
duced almost to splinters by the
impact
Evening star., 1931-12-25
Sleuths Called
ToClear Up Police
Station Robbery
Cash and Valuables of
Prisoners in No. 2 Pre-.
cinct Taken From Drawer.

The police of No. 2 precinct are seek
ing to learn who robbed the property
drawer at the station house Wednesday
Of money and valuables to the extent
Of s13760
Capt. Hugh H Groves, commanding
officer of the precinct. today asked the
assistance of headquarters detectives in
running down the culprits, who removed
the property Of incarcerated prisoners
sometime between 2 and $50 pm De-
cember %.
The drawer is located in the desk SER
geant's Office in the station, and is &C
cessible, under ordinary circumstances,
only to policemen.
Capt. Groves reported that s75, a
watch. fountain pen. eyeglasses, a belt,
tie and keys were stolen.
incidentally. there's saying among
policemen when little crime waves"
sweep their precincts that they're rob-
bing everything in the precinct but the
collateral drawer"
Evening star., 1931-12-25
MAN DIES IN FALL
FROM APARTMENT
Claude E. Moore, 81, Killed
at Christmas Eve Party in
PIunge-Trio Held.

Two women and a man were being
| held by police today in connection with
the death Of Claude E. Moore, 81, of
l74l Church street, who plunged from
window Of an apartment on the third
floor OF the Roosevelt Hotel, Sixteenth
and v streets, last night
= Those arrested for questioning in
connection with Moore's fatal drop,
which climaxed a gay Christmas eve
party, were Mrs. Virginia Gould, 37l8
Benton street; Mrs. Esther Taylor, same
address, and Robert W. Witt, Cincin-
natl. The women also gave New York
addresses.
Going to the hotel in response to a
telephone call, Policeman Earl L. Baker,
second precinct, found Moore lying on
the sidewalk on the v street side of
the building. about so feet from Six
teenth street.
After being examined by DR.. N. S.
! Ferris, resident at the hotel Moore
was taken to Garfield Hospital He
died en- route. His head was badly
crushed.
Says Man Cut Head on Stove.
| M D. Wilson, assistant manager of
the hotel, told Policeman Baker that
Witt, Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Taylor regis
| tered yesterday morning Moore was
said to have joined them about 10
O'Clock last night, a half hour before
he plunged from the window
According to Policeman Baker, Mrs
Gould said Moore fell against the
kitchen stove, cutting his head, a few
minutes before he dropped from the
window. After being assisted to his feet,
| Moore lurched into the bed room, Mrs
Gould said.
| II followed him and heard him gasp"
Baker quoted Mrs. Gould as having told
him, but when l got inside the room
he had disappeared
Police Report Liquor.
Earlier in the evening, Moore, accord
ing to Mrs. Gould, told his companions:
You don't know what I've been
through"
Although he did not elaborate on the
statement, Mrs. Gould said, she and
the Others thought he was referring to
ms recent failure to pass an examina-
ton for the diplomatic corps.
Witt told Baker he and the other
members Of the party we're drinking
prior to Moore's plunge. Witt, accord
| ing to the policeman, was very much
, under the influence of liquor" at the
time he was taken into custody. A
gallon of whisky and five quarts of gin
were found in the apartment, Baker
added.
All Held for Investigation.
After being questioned at headquar-
tiers, Witt was locked up at the twelfth
| precinct station, while Mrs. Gould and
Mrs. Taylor were taken to the Women's
| Bureau. All were booked for nvesti-
! CATION.
Police said they were told Moores
| wife Is in France. His mother, they
said, mad remarked and is living In
Seattle, Wash
Witt said he and the two women
drove to Washington yesterday, in
/ tending to visit Mrs. Gould's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. James Poole, at the Ben
| ton street address.
Moore's body was taken to the
morgue, where an inquest is expected
to be held within the next few days
Evening star., 1931-12-25
CHINESE FAIL TO FREE
CAPTIVE MISSIONARY
Miss Harriet Halverstadt and
Ten Natives Held by Bandits
Near Foochow,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FOOCHOW, China, December 25.-
Provincial police today failed in their
efforts to secure the release of Miss
Harriet Halverstadt, missionary of
wellington, Kans., who, with 10 Chi
nese, was captured by bandits yesterday.
Police said, however, that they had
learned where Miss Halverstadt was
being kept prisoner and had established
that she was being treated kindly.
The captors were said to be peasants,
seeking to embarrass provincial au-
thorities who, they said, had imposed
exhorbitant taxation upon the country
folk
Miss Julia Bonafield, an American
woman attached to Miss Halverstadt's
mission. will leave tomorrow in an
effort to find Miss Halverstadt and to
supply her with food and ether
necessities. In the meantime military
authorities have appealed to provincial
civil officials to settle the tax issue In
the hope Of effecting Miss Halverstadt's
release.
Evening star., 1931-12-25
WAGE GRANT AVERTS
RAIL STRIKE THREAT
Chicago and Northwestern Restores
Old Scale After Ordering
10 Per Cent Cut.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 25.-The Her
aid and Examiner said today that q
settlement of the wage controversy
between the Chicago g. Northwestern
Railroad and the Brotherhood of Main
tenance of Way Employees, which re-
suited In strike ballot being taken
had been effected.
The agreement, the newspaper said
precludes strike of the workers, a
majority of whom voted for a walkout
The settlement was accomplished AT
conference between Fred w. Sargent
president of railroad, and a committee
OF railroad union men, including Fred
erick H. F1jozdal, president of the
employees organization.
The 5000 maintenance of wav en-
ployes, whose wages were cut approx.
mately 10 per cent October 6, will be
restored to the old scale, the Herald
said. -N
Evening star., 1931-12-25
BANDITS HOLD UP PARTY
AND ESCAPE WITH $4,000

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 25.-Inter-
rupting preparations for a Christmas
party, three bandits, each carrying two
revolvers, held more than 100 employees
of the Prudential Insurance Co.'S
Broadway Office at bay yesterday, while
they rifed the safe and cash register.
They escaped with $1,000 in cash in a
Jaxicab.
A few minutes later Upper Broadway
and Riverside Drive were TURNED into
shooting ground when policeman
firing a dozen shots from the running
board of a Communicated automobile
pursued the bandits for 20 blocks. The
chase ended when the fugitives' taxicab
became lost in the heavy Christmas
eve traffic. No one was injured.
Evening star., 1931-12-25
KILLED SEEKING TREE.

Bound for nearby Virginia after
Christmas tree, which they had planned
as surprise for their mother, l3-year-
old Leroy Faunteroy, colored. was killed
about o'clock this morning and his
brother severely shaken when their
roadster overturned in collision on
M street near Thirty-fourth street.
With 19-year- Charles Faunterov
driving. the pair left their home at lsD
street southeast and started for a resi-
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1931-12-25
DESERTED, SHE CHARGES.
Woman Kidnap Suspect Eats Prison
Fare, Not Turkey.

BLOOMSBURY, Pa, December 25 LP).
The expected Christmas dinner with
her parents did not materialize today
for Mrs. Ethel De Pew. Instead of
dining with her mother and father on
their farm near here, she ate prison
fare in the Columbia County Jail, while
she awaited the arrival of officers to
take her to Kansas City, where she is
charged with kidnapping.
Her husband, Martin De Pew, alleged
leader Of the gang which last week
abducted Mrs. Nell Donnelly in Kansas
City, deserted her in Buffalo, N. Y,
Wednesday morning, she told the sheriff
Yesterday, Just as she learned of his
alleged connection with the kidnapping
She then hitch-hiked to Bloomsbury
to spend Christmas with her parents.
When she arrived she consulted a
lawyer and then surrendered herself to
the sheriff
Evening star., 1931-12-25
HOOVER HELPS SANTA OPEN BAG
FOR PEGGY ANN AND HERBERT
White House Children Arise Early Enough to See
ST. Nick Come Down Chimney

Once again Santa Claus clambered
down the chimney in the State dining
room of the White House and appeared
laden with presents for President Hoo
yer and members of his family. Just
as they were finishing breakfast today
Of course, most of the gifts were in
the form of toys and inexpensive pres
ents for Peggy Ann and Herbert, Sd, the
grandchildren whose presence at the
White House has contributed so much
to the JOY and pleasure of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hoover's Christmas.
The children were expecting Santa
this year and looked and listened in
all directions after they left their beds,
before o'clock
They were in high glee upon his ar
Evening star., 1931-12-25
REED WORKS RUSE
ON K|DNAP SUSPECT
Handwriting Same as in
Threatening Note, He Says
After Test.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, December 25.-A
threatening note 3s-year-old race
bookmaker printed under dictation by
James A. Reed from the original copy
has been added to evidence detectives
are building up against the kidnapers
Of Mrs Mel, Donnelly.
The bookmaker, Charles Mele. was
arrested here soon after Mrs. Martin
De Pew, wife of steam shovel oper-
ator, sought as the leader of the gang,
surrendered to authorities in Blooms
burg, Pa, Wednesday, Police said he
was the first actual kidnaper" in
custody.
Reed said be believed Mele was the
author of the letter he read which he
received at his downtown law office
while Mrs. Donnelly was in the custody
Of the kidrapers.
identified by Woman.
Identified by the wealthy victim
under the glare of flashlight in the
police shoW-up as one of the men who
guarded her almost So hours in a rura!
cottage before the release OF herself
snd her colored chauffeur, George
Blair, week ago. Mele went to work
under Reeds orders to print something
for U.s."
If this letter." the former United
states Senator dictated, gets in paper,
or police or postal authorities, YOU will
never see her again for being so damn
smart"
"What?" asked Mele.
Dam" Reed replied, you know the
word"
Reed, friend of the Donnelly family.
who expressed a wish after Mrs. Dom
nelly's release to crown this with a
hanging" continued the dictation and
Mele wrote on.
With the copy completed, Reed an
nounced a comparison of the letters
indicated Mele wrote the original. It
was one Of three from the kidnapers
winch previously had not been made
public.
Writing Disguised.
Lieut.. William T. Gordon, superin-
tendent of the Bureau of Identification
said there was a marked similarity in
the formation of individual letters, al
though "Mele plainly has attempted to
disguise his writing"
Paul Schiedt and Lacy Browning
farmers VINO leased the cottage, also
are held in connection with the plot
which ended in the release of Mrs
Donnelly without payment Of $4,000
ransom demanded.
Mele said he had served two Jail
terms for bootlegging, but denied he
mad participated in the kidnapping
Scheldt ssid Mele sure looks like ore
OF them (the guards) but I wouldn't
want to identify him."
DESERTED SUE cuApcEc
Evening star., 1931-12-25
SHIP STEWARD JAILED
Attempt to Smuggle Chinese to
q. S. Charged in Bremen.

BREMEN, December Is (Py.-A Ger.
man-American steward named Thomas
was sentenced to 10 months imprison-
ment today for attempting to smuggle
four Chinese aboard the steamer
Bremen, bound for New York last
April, for bonus of 5000 each.
The Chinese were kept as stowawavs
it was charged at the trial, and thew
became restless on the way because Of
thirst. TWO other stewards, also, were
sentenced. but all three were released
on probation.
Evening star., 1931-12-25

rival. They shrieked with delight when
they heard the funny noises in the
chimney and rushed from the table To
be near the fireplace.
Before opening his huge bag. Santa
patted the heads of the children and
told them he had received the best
sort Of reports about their behavior
Santa would probo bly, have made q
longer speech hsd he not noticed the
popping eyes of Peggy Ann and her
brother were on the big bag.
The first thing he took from the bag
were two pairs of roller skates. Next
came miniature airplane.
So interested did the President be-
come that he arose from his chair, went
Continued on Page 2, Column ST.
Evening star., 1931-12-25
STIMSON HOME GUARDED
AFTER THREATTOCETHIM'
Mysterious Letter Received by Secretary
Results in Prompt Action by
District Police.

Woodley, the home of Secretary of
State Stimson, at 5000 Cathedral ave-
nue., has been heavily guarded by police
for the past two nights, following re-
ceipt of a threatening letter by the
Secretary, The Star learned today.
While police officials were unwilling
to discuss the report, other than to ad-
nit that the Detective Bureau had as
signed special detail at Woodley, it
was learned that Mr. Stimson received
the letter about 10 days ago and that
Evening star., 1931-12-25

1t contained threat ito get" hirl It
was postmarked New York"
The letter was turned over to the
Department of Justice, which later
asked the Metropolitan Police to take
any measures they thought necessary
to guard the secretary's home.
1t Is understood that the Bureau OF
Investigation Of the Department Of
Justice regarded the letter as the work
OF crank. However, a police guard
was placed as precautionary measure.
The letter Is said to have specifically
mentioned the dates of December 2l,
% and 23. 1t was written in long hand