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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

Quoted his defense. In spite of his
physical condition, he battled for every
point, assisted by his son and by Rev.
j. Sidney Peters of Newport News, Va,
an old friend
His concluding stand started Friday
morning. For the best part of the
morning, throughout lengthy after
noon session, and then until late Friday
night he carried on. ReSuming yeSter-
day morning, he continued this counter
attack, wound through the afternoon
and then completed early last night.
AS soon as Bishop Cannon had fin
ished, the Jury adjourned to nearby
restaurants for a hasty dinner, then
started their final session at 8 o'clock
Shortly after 10 O'Clock they gave their
verdict.
Bishop Cannon is now in his sixty
seventh year. He entered the ministry
in 1888 and 80 years later was elected
bishop with supervision Of missions in
Mexico, Cuba, Africa and Brazil. At
the time of his election to the bishopry,
he held the presidency of Blackstone
Institute, where he was appointed in
1894. From 1904 to 1918 he was editor
of the Christian Advocate:
Long Prominent Figure.
A prominent figure in the church for
so many years, he is equally as well
known for his political activities. AS
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League of Virginia from 1910 to 1919,
he took a leading part in the prohibit
ton movement which put that State in
the dry column in 1916. He also has
long been identified with the prohibition
movement nationally and even interna-
tionally. At present he is chairman
of the Board of Temperance and Social
Service of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South.
The highlight in his political labors
came in 1928, when he was chairman OF
the committee of Southern Anti-Smith
Democrats. When the Caraway Com
mittee of the Senate, going into his
anti-Smith work, had him up as a
witness, he walked out upon Directing
to the line of questioning being pur-
sued. He later explained, however,
that this was due to a miSunderStand-
ing.
Bishop Cannon has twice been mar
ried. His first wife died more than
two years ago Last July he was we'd
ded to Mrs. Helen McCallum.
When Bishop Cannon was hailed be-
fore the board of pastors it marked the
first time that a case of this nature
had ever arisen in the Southern Meth
odist Church. So great were the pre-
cautions taken to keep the deliberations
from becoming public that a daily
police detail was assigned to the churcn
from the second precinct in which 1t
is located, while Charles H. Bradley,
retired detective sergeant of the Metro
politan Police Force, was stationed at
the door of the edifice to guard against
the entrance of any except those au-
thorized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
HAVANA AMERICAN
TO PUBLISH AGAIN
John A. Steverding to Take
Place of John T. Milford
as Editor.
BY the Associated Press.

HAVANA, February THE Havana
American. English-language newspaper,
whose 10 months existence has been
exceedingly stormy. will come rolling
from the presses early next week.
, Guiding its editorial policy-in place
Of John T. WiIford, who was expelled
from Cuba by the government January
l6 after many years in newspaper work
here-will be John A. Steverding, like
wise well known in Havana journalistic
circles.
Robert E. Hicks, president of the
American Publishing Co., returned to
Havana today. Almost simultaneously
arrived the governments Official order
lifting suspension imposed upon the
newspaper January 8, when nine
Havana publications were closed.
Mr.. Steyerding said the paper would
reappear Monday or Tuesday.
= Founded December /, 1929, the
American first incurred official wrath
by lending its presses to La Voz, po-
litical organ. In March, 1890, the
plates of La Voz were destroyed and
MILFORD alleged, the Americans ma
Chinery was damaged. He instituted
legal action, the government did like
wise, but later dropped its action.
Through trouble water the American
ran, until finally MILFORD was ordered
out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
PLAN GRAF FLIGHT
TO ARCTIC IN 1881
Director of Leipsic Institute Says
Question of Finances Is
Only Snag.
BY the Associated Press.

LEIPSIC, Germany, February T.
Plans for a flight to the North Pole by
the giant German dirigible Graf Yep
pelin next Summer have been virtually
completed, Ludwig Weickmann, direc-
tor of the Leipsic Geophysical Institute.
announced today.
The question of finances Is the only
snag in the way of 1881 trip, he said.
The principal work of the expedition,
Herr Weickmann said, would be the
exploration of newly discovered Islands
between Franz Josef Land and Emperor
Nicholas Land. A Soviet expedition
has already erected wireless station
on one of the islands, which will be
used as a base.
The Graf will head into the Arctic
from Leningrad. If possible German
and Swedish scientists will be landed
to explore the new islands on foot.
The airship now is in its Winter
quarters at Friedrichshafen after a
profitable year. during which it made
lO4 flights, carried 4,063 passengers
and nearly 1000 900 pieces c6 @aaA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
INCOME TAX FACTS.
NO. Z.

Certain items of income are
specifically exempt from tax by
the provisions of the revenue act.
These items, therefore, need not
be included in gross income.
Among such items are the pro-
ceeds from life insurance policies;
amounts received as gifts, requests,
devlses, or inheritanceS; interest
on municipal bonds, State bonds,
certain bonds issued by the
United States Government, bonds
issued by the possessions of the
United States and Federal farm
loan bonds; amounts received
through accident or health in
surance or under workmen's COM
pensation acts for personal in
juries or sickness and damages
received on account of such in
juries or sickness.
Amounts received as compensa-
ton, family allotments and allow
ances under the provisions of the
war risk insurance act, the voca-
tional rehabilitation act, or the
World War veterans act, 1924,
or as pensions from the United
States for services of the bene-
fciary or another in the military
or naval forces of the United
States in time of war, or as a
State pension for services rem
dered by the beneficiary or anoth-
er for which the State is paying
Ia pensation, also are exempt from
tax. Interest or dividends not .ex-
ceeding $500 from domestic build
ing and loan associations, sub
stantially all the business Of which
Is confined to making loans to
members; the rental value of a
dwelling house and appurtenances
thereof furnished to a minister
of the gospel, as part of his COM
pensation, also are excluded from
gross income. Other items ex-
Guided are alimony, notary fees
if the notary was commissioned
By. the State and city jury fees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
BY the Associated Press.

NOANK, Conn, February T.
Three months ago George Palmer Put
nam, publisher, explorer and aviation
enthusiast, beamed on questioning re-
porters and admitted:
ITO marry Miss Amelia Earhart
would be swell
Then a sadder tone came into his
voice as he lamented, but nothing in
this vale of tears is certain"
Today the world didn't look at all
like vale of tears to him, for at noon
he married the famous transatlantic
aviatrix at the home of Mrs. Frances
Putnam, his mother.
Will Keep Maiden Name.
The ceremony was simple. Judge
Arthur Anderson of Groton performed
it and the witnesses were Mrs. Put
nam and Robert Anderson, the judges
son.
The bride, first woman to conquer the
Atlantic in a plane, will retain her
maiden name and plans to be at work
Monday as usual at her executive post
for an aviation concern. Her husband
won't take any longer time of from
his work with Brewer and Warren,
New York publishing firm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

moved from areas when necessary for
the good of the community.
The General outdoor Advertising Co.,
largest of the billboard operatives In
the metropolitan area of Washington,
has agreed to cooperate in reducing as
far as practicable the number OF its
advertising display units inside Wash
ington as well as removing its boards
within two-mile limit of the District
line. The company also has agreed to
reallocate some of its existing bill
boards within the city in an endeavor
to preserve the orderly appearances Of
certain sections. Now that the final
enactment of restrictive legislation is
near, it is probable that other adver-
Using agencies will come into the agree
rrient to cooperate voluntarily in
remedying local conditions.
Penalties for violation of the anti
sign regulations were doubled at the
request of the Commissioners. The bill
now carries a minimum fine of $40 and
a maximum fine of 5000, which would
be imposed for each day the violation
continues. No changes were made In
the final draft of the bill as reported
from committee, the amendments Sug-
gested by the Commissioners having
been acceptable to "a interested. partAeSs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
BANK PLAN APPROVED

Bondholders o. K. Reorganization
of Kansas City Institution.
KANSAS CITY, February 7(P-The
Bondholders Committee today declared
effective the plan for the reorganiza-
ton of the Kansas City Joint Stock
Land Bank, proposed by A. o. Stewart,
a Pacific Coast f1nancier.
Acceptance of the plan depended
upon action by holders of 95 per cent
Of the $44, 100000 in outstanding bonds.
The bank has been in receivership
since 1927. In 1928 its former presi-
dent, Walter Cravens, was sentenced to
six years in the Federal penitentiary
and fined $25 900 for misappropriating
its funds. He was released on bond
pending appeal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Life Insurance Companies Merge

ATLANTA, Ga, February P).-
Consolidation of the Southern States
Life Insurance Company, with home Of
fees in Atlanta, and the Volunteer
State Life Insurance Company, with
home offices in Chattanooga, Tenn, was
announced today by Wilmer L. Moore,
president of the Southern States con-
Germ. Policyholders will be secured in
the future by the Volunteer Company
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
CLAIM STATEMENT IN ERROR.
John T. WiIford Did Not File Against
Cuba for Deportation. -

State Department officials said
late today they had been in error in
stating that John T. MILFORD, publisher
of the newspaper the Havana Ameri-
can, had filed a claim against the
Cuban government in connection with
his recent deportation from the
Republic.
The erroneous information was given
out, department officials said, through
confusion over a claim against the
Cuban government filed by MILFORD last
year as a result of a raid on his news
paper plant. Wilford filed a complaint
against his deportation with Arnbas-
sador Guggenheim, but has filed no
claim for damages, officials added.
Wilford's claim in connection with
the raid will be given due considera-
ton, it was said, with a view to de-
termining if international law is ap-
plicable to make a claim against Cuba
justified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
Two Appointed to West Point.

Edward B. Gibson, jr., Navy Yard,
Washington, d. G, and Charles B.
Miles, 1454 Rhode Island avenue. have
been appointed by the President cadets
at large at the West Point Military
Academy, subject to qualification at
the entrance examination March 8
Raeark. &#
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
January Circulation
Daily. ..114,464
Sunday, 1880

District of Columbia, SIS:
FLEMING NEWBOLD, Business Manager
of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR, does
solemnly swear that the actual number of
copies of the paper named sold and distr;b-
uted during the month of January, AID
1891, was as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

The worlds greatest telescope, located
on Mount Wilson, Calf, Is equipped
with a 1oO-inch rejecting mirror. :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
BANDITS GET S237
IN SIX ROBBER|ES
Chain Store, Laundry Office,
Pedestrians and Occupants
of Autos Held Up.

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Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
Philosopher Sets Fifty
as Golden Age of Man

While drinking a bumper of ap-
pie cider, there awhile back, one
day at a roadside carayansary, a
man asked US what age would we
choose to be if we could live for a
thousand years.
1t was funny question to ask.
Maybe we would not care to live
a thousand years more. And yet
we sometimes think we would. 1t
might be interesting to see what
the world will be like a thousand
years from now.
Well, anyway, we said if we
could have the say about it, we
would decide to go through the
thousand years at the age of fifty.
Not twenty-one nor ninety-one, but
fifty.
Fifty seems to be the ideal age,
writes John Steven McGroarty, in
the Los Angeles Times. A normal
man or woman ought to be in ideal
shape at fifty. Still virile, not yet
senile, all the mistakes and follies
of youth left behind.
No doubt others will not agree
with US, but anyway, fifty would be
our choice.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
Growing Film Markets

The Far East and Africa seem to
be going movie crazy, and have
opened up a fine market for Ameri-
lean motion picture equipment. For
a time Germany had cut in on the
American trade, because of lower
priced equipment, but with the adj
vent of the talkies and the neces-
sity of installing new apparatus for
heir showing, the market for Amer
can output has been given new life.
Last year ALSO projectors were ex-
ported from this country to a total
Falue of $S05,000. Asia, Africa and
oceania took nearly one-t third of all
he shipments.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
Anatomical Names

In the body. one might find a
bunch of grapes, a cuckoo bill,
small pan and a milestone, accord
ing to Lloyd Edwin Smith, writing
in Hygeia Magazine. Many parts
of the body were at first named by
the old Romans and the Greeks for
the commonplace objects that they
seemed to resemble.
The bunch of grapes Cor its name
means that in Latin) is the red lobe
Of the palate, the uvula. 1t hangs
down from the soft palate as
bunch of grapes would hang be-
tween two leaves. The coccyx
Cuckoo bill in Latin) was named
because the curvature of these four
bones at the end of the vertebral
column were thought to look like
the bill of a cuckoo.
The patella is the movable bone
In the knee. Patella in Latin
means small pan.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
Sparrows Travelling West

A ship left Yarmouth with a spar
row sitting on the nest the bird
built in the ship. Two eggs were
in the nest. The ship expected TO
be away from land for about a
month. A pair of blackbirds built
their nest in the hollow formed be-
tween the marble head and appraised
arm of a figure above a grave in
Southend cemetery. A pair of blue
tits rested, for the third year in
succession, in a letter-box in Clar-
ence road, South Benfleet.-London
Mail.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
TO MOVE BUILDING AT DOVER
To Move County Structure TO Pro-
vide Vista for New State House

Dover will be treated to the
spectacle of a two-story brick
building being picked up bodily
and carried to a new site several
hundred feet away across the
Green, according to plans prepared
by E. William Martin, architect Of
Wilmington. This structure is the
old County Building, next door to
the State House, which houses sew
eral departments of the State
Board of Agriculture. Facing west
on the Dover Green it is to be NOV
ed to a position across the street at
right angles to its present location
so that it will then be facing
south. The building will be the
gamer by this move" as Mr.. Mar
tins plans provide for an addition
al basement story to be dug in the
new site prior to the advent of the
structure. This gives the Board of
Agriculture needed storage space.
Removal of the building is prompt
ed by a desire to get it out of the
way of the new group of Capital
buildings to be built about the
Green in the future. F'ulfillment
of Mr.. Martins plans will give a
clear line of vision from the main
street all the way east to the site
of the new State House and also
allow for the construction of
wide road leading to it. Mr.. Martin
stated that bids will be requested
from firms having extensive exper-
fence in the moving of brick build
ings.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
Woman Suffrage in 1897

Why has it never been imagined
that the right of election should be
extended to women? Whyl but
because by the law of nations and
perhaps also by the law of nature,
that sex is dependent on ours; and
because, therefore, their voice
would be governed by the relation
in which they stand in society.
Therefore it is, sir, that with the
exception of companies in which
right of voting merely affects prop
erty, it has never been in the con-
temptation of the most absurd the
orists to extend the elective fran
chise to the other sex.-Charles
James Fox in Speech on Parlia-
mentary Reform, 1897.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
Friday, Jan. Is. 1892

The following described Real Estate

Inc following described Real Estate;-
All that certain piece or parcel of Land
ana premises. and all the buildings ami
other improvements thereon erected. sim
ated al Smyrna Landing in Duck CreeI,
hundred, Kent County and State Of naIa
ware, and lying on the northeast ILL -
the Smyrna Landing Road bounded ON the
northeast by Parcel No 4 as shown On
plot OF real esttae of William Temple. Ie-
ceased, surveyed at the instance of Francis
M. Dunn. Sheriff of Kent County me-,
paratory to making and executing deeds 70
the purchases of said property. the said
surveys and plot having been made bv
William A. Atkinson surveyor. Januarv
9th, a. ID. 1880, and which plot is now of
record in the Office of the Recorder of
Deeds in and for Kent County in Deed
Book o.. Vol. 10. Page 2l6, said parcel
No: q now being lands Of Hoffecker Bros.
and Hall Co., on the southwest by parcel
No as shown on said Sheriffs plot now
lands of Lydia B. Jacobs, on the southeast
by said Landing Road, on the west and
northwest in part by Duck Creek, and in
part by the George w. Cummins lot as
shown in said plot, now lands Of
be the contents whatsoever they may, and
being parcels Nos. 3 and as shown on
the aforesaid plot and being the same
lands and premises supposed to have been
conveyed unto the said John McNatt by
Deed of Alfred B. Pernet and wife, bear
ing date the 25th day of October, A. D.
1927, and of record in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds at Dover. in Deed Book
H., Vol. Is, Page 31S, and also being the
same lands and premises for which a con-
firmatory Deed bearing date tho
day of August A. D. 1928, and about to be
recorded in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds at Dover, was executed by Elva W.
Wheeler, widow, and Clara F. Wilson,
single woman, unto the said John McNatt
in order to vest in him all of the land COM
prising parcels 3 and attempted to be
conveyed in the said deed from the said
Pernet, the said grantors in the said con-
firmatory deed, being all of the present
holders in fee. simple of the lands en-
braeed in said parcels and in said plot.
The improvements thereon being two
story frame dwelling. with attachments
and sheds.
Together with all and singular the build
ings and improvements of every kind what
soever, ways, water, watercourses, rights.
liberties privileges, improvements, heredi-
taments and appurtenances. whatsoever
thereunto belonging or in any wise apper-
tanning.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property Of JOHN McNATT and CATH
ERNIE R. McNATT. his wife. Mortgagors.
and will be sold by
AUSTIN D. SMITH, Sheriff
Sheriff's Office. Dover, Delaware,
December q. 1881.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
Beauvais Tapestry

Beauvais, so often seen by tour
lists on the way from Dippe to Paris,
now has a new, although sad, in
.erest as the scene of the great d.
rigible disaster of October A. 1880.
1t is an ancient town, where great
tapestries have been made for GEN.
:uries. Tourists have chiefly sought
t for Its interesting cathedral and for
is Place de photel de Vile, which
contains a statue of Jean Hachette.
who led the women of Beauvais to
victory against Charles the Bold in
,472.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30
NEW OYSTERS IN MARYLAND
Test of Beds Shows Prospects in
Industry to Be Best in 20 Years

Test of oyster beds in the Chesa-
peake bay and tributaries show
prospects in that industry to be the
best in the last 20 years, Captain
E. o. Townsend, chief inspector of
the Conservation Department of
Maryland said recently. The in
dustry is now beginning to realize
the fruition of conservation meth
DDS adopted a few years ago when
the practice of planting ten per
cent of the oyster shells taken
from the beds were adopted, Cap
tain Townsend said. He exhibited
what he termed perfect specimen
of the results of this planting. Up
on single shell planted in Tangier
Sound two years ago, twenty fully
developed oysters had become at
tached, some of them being three
inches in length. Within six months
the oysters will separate themselv-
es from the parent shell and a few
months later would be matured to
commercial size. At that time the
oysters attached to the parent shell
will shuck out quarter, Captain
Townsend said. Although the
speciman exhibited was taken from
Tangier Sound, the conditions exist
in Wicomico and Nanticoke rivers
and in the oyster beds of other
Chesapeake tributaries. When the
shell planting law was first enacted
by the State Legislature it met OPP
position of several large packers,
who sought court decisions on con-
stitutionality of the legislation.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30

Mrs. Alpheus w. Sort, of Den
ton, announces the marriage of her
daughter, Miss Anne Short, and
John Merritt Hurd, son of Mrs.
Emily Hurd and the late Samuel
Hurd, of FELTON,, which took place
Wednesday in Harrington. The
ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Edward Collins, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of that
town. After touring the South,
Mrand Mrs. Hurd will live on their
farm near FELTON,. The bride is a
sister of Leland t. Short, post
master of Denton; Kirkman Short,
of Denton; Carlton Short, of New
York; and Mrs. Luther Short of
Hillsboro.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30

In the old parish church of a small
village not far from Swindon, Wilt
shire, England, is an interesting tab
let. It bears the following inscrip-
ton: ITO the memory of John
Harding's will who died Septem-
Der 20, 1721. He gave by his will to
the poor Of the parish that have no
collection out of the parish the sum
of ten shillings a year, to be paid
yearly at the time of the year he
died, out of his ground called Pills,
now in the possession of his widow,
who duly pays the same, and after
her death to be paid by the next
taker of the ground, and so on to
the worlds end"
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30

Daniel Cole, aged % years, of
Preston. Md, who suffered a frac-
tured skull in an automobile acct
dent at Cash's Corner, near Cecil
ton, Md, on Tuesday of last week,
died in the Delaware Hospital on
Tuesday morning. Daniel was rid
ing in an automobile driven by
Clarence Cole, a brother, from his
home to Wilmington, when the car
hit telephone pole while rounding
a curve in the road, injuring Dan
iel and cousin, Andrew Cole, of
81 East Fourth street, Whining
ton. Andrew soon recovered from
his injuries. Clarence escaped in
juries.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30

a wild duck dinner was given on
Friday evening, Dec. Is by Senator
John G. Townsend, Jr., of Delaware
and was enjoyed by the following
guests: Senator Robinson, of Ar
kansas, Democratic leader in the
Senate; Watson, Republican floor
leader; Metcalf, Fess, republican
national chairman; Walcott, the
particular Senate friend of Senator
Townsend; Kean and Barbour of
New Jersey, Daniel o. Hastings of
Delaware, Goldsborough of Mary
land, Thomas of Idaho, Byrnes of
South Carolina, Kendrick and Pat
terson.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30

Clerk of the Peace Frank w.
lawson. Georgetown, has issued a
- rriage license to Miss Marie E..
uldson, daughter of Lemuel Hud-
SON Whitesville, and Walter Levin
Bratten, son of Lambert Bratten,
of ocean View.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30

william O.West, son of John West,
also Of Bridgeville, were married
sunday of last week at Greenwood
- The Rev. J. H. Thornton.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-30

Roger Wooleyhan, owner of the
wooleyhan Transportation Com
nanv of Chesapeake City, Nd, has