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The Washington times., 1931-08-06
BETTY POWELL
WEDS SCION
picture on Page ~

The marriage, Tuesday, of a
socially prominent Washington
girl and the scion Of a noble
British family at BeachwoOd, N.
j.. was disclosed today.
The bride, Miss Betty NOrthrup
Powell, daughter Of Col. and Mrs.
Z, Alexander Powell, was married
to John ROSeberry MOnSOn, son
Of Lord and Lady MOnsOn, Of
Lincoln, England.
The couple will sail soon for
London, where Mr.. Monson. a
recent graduate of the Inner
Temple, London, will practice law.
After an extensive education
here and abroad Miss Powell
spent much time travelling to
remote parts of the world with
her father, a lecturer. war cor
respondent and traveller. On her
mothers side. the bride Is a
direct descendent of Cotton Ma
ther, of colonial fame.
At the marriage ceremonies
Mrs. MonSon was attended by
Miss Margaret Nuckles, of Al
bany. N. Y. and Miss Virginia
Lefflingwell. of New York; Alex
ander B. McGill, of Montreal
and an Oxford clasSmate OF Mr.
Monson, served as best man.
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| LURAY MURDER
TRIAL OPENS
Photo by International

LURAY, Va, Aug. 6.-Herbert
Minor, young mountaineer near
Shenandoah, went on trial in the
Page County Court here today on
a charge of numbering James F..
Lucas, father of five children, on
the morning of May %.
A jury was chosen quickly and
witnesses were called to tell of a
drinking party at the home of
Lucas on the night before the
shooting. Minor had been at the
party and returned to the Lucas
home at 4 o'clock in the morning,
when the fatal shot was fired.
Mrs. Lucas was the only other
person in the house at the time
of the shooting, she testified. She
said she was not in the room
with her husband and Minor at
the time the shot was fired.
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DRY C0NTEMPT 7
RULE ASKED

United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover and his assistant, Capt.
Harold w. Orcutt today asked for
contempt citations against James
and Rosetta Ann Anderson,
colored, who are charged with
continuing the operation of pad
locked speakeasy within so feet
of the woods in which Policeman
C. D. Poole was killed last Tues
day evening.
The petition for contempt clta-
tiOns against the Anderson pair
recites that they were charged
with boOtlegging as far back as
1929, and the decision Of the
owner of the house in which they
lived to tear down the building
averted paddock proceedings.
The couple then bought a two
story house near the Soldiers
Home, on Allison Street, Mr.. Or
cutt said, and operated a speak
easy there until last August %,
when the building was ordered
padlocked for one year. In the
meantime, the petition charges,
the AndersonS have continued
bootlegging from other buildings
on the property, and nine Sepa'
rate sales were made during July,
and a raid on July 80. A con-
tempt rule returnable September
j was issued by JUSTICE Ce
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
SMASHES
ALIEN RING

Another New York racket had
its back broken today with the
arrest of three New York en-
ployes of the Labor Department
and seven others who character
lied themselves as private
bankers and steamship representa-
tiveS."
They are charged with selling
bogus re-entry permits to aliens
for large sums. The seven alleged
racketeers were enabled to work
through the dishonesty of three
Labor Department employees, it
was reported here.
1t has been estimated that dur
ing the past 10 years the ring had
been responsible for the illegal
entry into this country Of 1OO, 900
aliens.
The Federal employees under ar
rest are Simon Rothberg, Edward
Burns, and Albert F.. Berrelli.
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Worker Falls, Seeks
$4,000 for Injury

Suit for the recovery Of $4,000
damages for alleged personal in
juries was filed in District Su.
preme Court today by c. E. and
w. o. Cooley. trading as Cooley
Brothers, by Nathan Chatlin, 1858
H st. N. E., who says that he was
delivering materials to house un-
der construction by the firm last
November 2S and in descending
the basement stairs, fell heavily
to the floor when the stairs col
lapsed. Attorney Joseph c. Turco
filed the declaration.
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
Truck Drivers Push
Helps Police Nab
3OO-Lb. Bandit

CHICAGO. Aug. 6.-Sixty-
seven years old and weighing
more than 800 pounds, Edward
Swanson was arrested as a
bandit.
Ripley or not, Swanson out
ran two policemen who gave
chase.
Muffy Servito was driving a
truck. nson, putting.
jumped on the truck. Servito
pushed him in the face and
sent him Sprawling because
swanson looked so funny"
But he looked funnier when
the policemen took advantage
while he was down.
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GERMANS BUY
j. s. COTTON

BERLIN. Aug. 6 IN.SD .-Presi.
dent HooVer's offer to sell Ger.
many commodities at low prices
on long term credits met with
favorable reaction today when
after considerable dickering. the
German government agreed to
buy 100000 bales of cotton from
the Federal Farm Board.
The price to be paid is some
what lower than the offer origi-
nally made by the Federal Farm
Board. The German government
will acquire an option on an
additional 100000 bales, and is
considering purchase of a large
amount of copper on similar
terms.
Negotiations for the sale were
carried on by United States Am
bassador Frederic M. Sackett. The
value of the cotton is estimated at
between $30000,000 and $40.
600 600.
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Blood Test ShOlUs
Presence of Cancer

LONDON, Aug. 6 U.SD. DIR.
Alfred Piney, secretary of the
British Empire Cancer Campaign,
has announced that a Dutch ply.
Sician, DR.. S. G. T. Bendien, after
IA years work, has successfully
evolved a blood test providing an
early diagnosis of presence of
cancer.
DR.. Piney said that he submit
ted samples of blood of 38 pa
tientS, five known to be cancer
Gus, to DR.. Bendien, who return
ed the samples diagnosing cancer
in the correct cases.
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PARKING FEES
REFUND NEAR

Hundreds of dollars collected
from Federal employees for park,
ing on the site of the future
Interstate Commerce Commission
will be returned by the Sydney
Hechinger Wrecking Company.
upon sufficient proof that the
were made illegally.
Mr.. Hechinger said:
"Our work was completed
July 81, and naturally we were
no longer interested in it. II
w. L. Brown, the watchman
who made the collection.
through some misunderstanding
collected for the month Of
August the money will be re-
turned, and, If necessary, 1 will
pay 1t out Of my own pocket
upon presentation Of SatiSfae-
tory evidence"
Employees claimed they had
paid the Hechinger watchman
and protested against a second
charge of SO, SOUGHT by the new
management. L. ' Cumberland,
of Hyattsville, h been operat-
ing the place since August /,
and pays the Government q rent
Of $337.5 so per month.
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ID MORE YEARS
IS LIFE HOPE
Of EDISON
Inventor Has His Own Theory
of Expectancy After 90;
Still in Peril, Says Doctor

WEST ORANGE, N. j.. Aug. 6
Q.N.SD Thomas A. Edison. ill
at his home here, today told his
personal physician he believed he
would live for at least 10 years
more, provided 1 pass this pres.
ent Illness"
Has His Own Theory
Edison, according to DR.. Hubert
S. Howe, has a theory that when
q man reaches 82-the inventor is
84-and is stricken with a serious
illness, then RECEIVERS. he is likely
to live at least 10 years more.
"My friend Rockefeller" DR..
Howe quoted Mr.. Edison. seems
to have passed these dangerous
stages successfully. 1 feel if he
can do it, / can"
Not Out of Danger
DR.. Howe declared the inventor
was not out of danger. that
uremic poisoning might reach Mr..
Edison'S heart at any time and
cause sudden death.
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
Frances FeW Autos
Due etOLiOuOr Habits?

The fact that France hasn't
as many automobiles as the
United States is all a matter of
prohibition. according to Ernest
H. Cherrington. general secretary
Of the World League Against Al
coholiSm.
Instead Of having only one au-
tomobile for every q persons,
she might approach the Ameri-
can ratio Of one for every 4.9 per-
sons If it were not for the fact
that France is permeated with al
Cohol," he observed.
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Insists Mrs. Gavin
Is Floods DdHQhteT
2, 500 Miles Overland

REDWOOD CITY, Calf, Aug. 6
U.N.S0 Eugene Aureguy, the
estate investigator who allegedly
contracted with Mrs. Constance
May Gavin to receive half of any
settlement she may get out of the
James L. Flood estate, took the
stand again as a witness today in
the Flood trial.
Despite severe croSS-examina.
tion, Aureguy yesterday held to
his original statement, that when
he entered the case, Mrs. Gavin's
mother had told him Mrs. Gavin
was the illegitimate daughter Of
"Jim" Flood.
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
Plane Hunts YaWL
To Give Death NeLUs

ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. I.
Aug. ga telephoned order for
airplane ser ice received here
sent a Seaplane out on a four
hour scouting cruise over Long
Island Sound along the coast of
Massachusetts and as far as
Block Island, looking for the fifty
foot yawl, Ponjjola, captained
by James Lowe, of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Pilot Barney Barbin flew the
plane to drop a note to Lowe,
whose mother died at Grand
Rapids.
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
Commissioners Scan
Eastern Shore Roads

The Board of Commissioners
of Montgomery county, headed
by it's president. Lacy Shaw, TO-
morrow will make a tour of Kent
county, on the Eastern shore OF
Maryland, to inspect new con-
crete highways that are said to
be the last word in concrete road
construction.
This inspection will be made
in connection with proposed new
road construction in the county.
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
Board Determined
To Sell Cotton

Despite the protests of South
ern Senators and various South
ern cotton exchanges, the Federal
Farm Board will sell its stabilized
holdings of cotton. amounting to
100000 bales, to Germany or
any other country on terms suit
able to the board and on long
term credits. Chairman James c.
Stone said today.
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
Fall Expected to See
Girls Ball Team
Play Conflicts

WICHITA, Kan, Aug. GA
b aSe eball game between a
Wichita girls baseball team
and a convict nine at the New
Mexico State Prison is Sched-
uled for August 81.
Albert B. Fall, former Secre-
tary of the Interior, who is
serving term in the prison
for accepting a bribe, is ex-
pected to witness the contest.
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
NeIU Hampshire
RiShOp Dies at 62

NORRISTOWN, N. j.. Aug. 6
GNS0 Right Rev. George Al
bert Guertin, one of the foremost
churchmen of the east, who for
"a years has been Roman Catho-
lie Bishop Of New Hampshire,
died here today. He was 81 years
old.
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said. The plane will fly to Reyk-
javik, Iceland. the Faeroe Islands,
Stavanger, Norway, and Copen-
hagen, Denmark.
$500 Miles Overland
Essentially an overland route,
the itinerary under survey is
1859 miles in length. The route
includes approximately $500 miles
of land.
The route is divided into 10
legs so the distances between con-
troll bases never exceeds 500.
From a United States terminal
at Detroit, it extends northward
over the Canadian Undertake
region, past Hudson Bay, to Baf-
fin Land, across Greenland to
Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands,
and on to the European terminal,
Copenhagen, via Norway.
Cramer took off from Detroit
July %, accompanied by radio
expert, Oliver Paquette, loaned to
the company by the Canadian
government.
The present flight Is Cramer'S
third attempt to chart an air mail
route over the Atlantic. In 1928,
he and Bert Haskell attempted to
fly from ROckpOrt, ILL.,, to Scandi-
navia, but were forced down in
Greenland. He and his CON-
paniOnS were lost for two weeks.
Fog Areas Avoided
Compared with recent ocean
hops, where water jumps we're
more than 1000 miles long, the
mail line being studied has land
stops every 500 miles.
Moreover, officials of the
Transamerican Line point out
that planes using the proposed
route will avoid the dangerous
fog areas of Labrador and South.
ern Greenland and will follow
. course that is well suited to
flying from the StandpOints Of
terrain and weather conditions.
Cramer's flight marks the first
promising effort by a U. S. air
mail carrier toward the estab-
liShment of an air service linking
North America and the Cont.
nent.
Cramer, formerly chief pilot
Tor Sir Hubert wilkins. was
chosen for the flight because OF
his Arctic experiences and knowl-
edge of most of the route.
DETROIT, Aug. s 0.N.SO.-
The route followed by Parker D.
Cramer, Detroit to Copenhagen
flier, was made known here to-
day.
After hopping off from Detroit,
he flew over the Canadian tim.
Der lands, Hudson Bay and Baf-
fin Land. then to Greenland. The
route will take him to Reykjavik,
Iceland over the Farce Islands,
Norway, and Denmark to Copen-
hagen.
The Washington times., 1931-08-06
HAMPTON COURT SOLD

Hampton Court, an eight-story
apartment house, containing ll8
apartments, at 2Ol3 New Hamp-
shire Ave. N. W., was sold yester-
day for $415,000 at public auc-
ton to Jane D. Shallo, repre-
Senting trust-holderS.
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COPENHAGEN
! FINAL GOAL
Of FL|ER
Plans Hop From Greenland
to Iceland, Following I His
Surprise Drop on Arctic

(IontGnued FROM Rage
said. The plane will fly to Reyk
javik, Iceland, the Faeroe Islands
Stavanger, Norway, and Copen
hagen, Denmark.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-18

for Chinese accessories of many
kinds. That's because England was
opening up trade swith China in
Queen Anne's day and Chinese
things were being brought into
those old-time fashionable homes.
Chinese celadon lamps are a
fashion in many homes today. But
there's soft green pottery that
initiates the celadon quite salts
factorily at much lower price. Try
it with a pleated shade of soft gold
color silk if you want it at its
SmarteSt.
A very formal lamp-and suit
able for use with formal eighteenth
century furniture, is the directoire
column damp. It's distinguished
type, but don't use it unless the
room is formal in feeling.
Less formal than this lamp, but
with a directoire feeling just the
same is the saucer candle lamp, fine
for a small table or a desk. It's
particularly smart in pewter or in
enamel finish with parchment
shade.
Copyright. 1881. by Amos Parrish)
Next: Amos Parrish writes on
new corsets that give you the new
silhouette.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-18
Luncheon TO
Open Season
for Club

Presidents day will be celebrated
with a luncheon, Oct. IL, opening
the 1892 season for the Monday
club. Mrs. Ollah Toph will serve
her second term as president. The
club Is literary in objecs and will
have varied program or papers on
literature, music, art, travel, and
science, during the year.
One of the city's older clubs, the
Monday club was organized in 1895
and affiliated with the local council
of women in 1897. Meetings are held
second and fourth Mondays in the
month, at the D. A. r. chapter
house. There are 101 active men,
bers. thirty-six associate members,
two out of town members, and one
honorary member.
Special meetings will include a
guest program, Nov. 8; Christmas
party, Dec. IA; anniversary celebra-
ton, Feb. 81; election, March IA;
and an outing, June 13.
Speakers to Appear
A number of distinguished speak
ers in Indianapolis and vicinity
have been scheduled to appear be-
fore the club, and present programs
of interest. Other officers are:
Mesdames Edward Ferge-. vice-presi-
dent: Frank Mccaslin. second vice-presi-
dent: Edward Files. recording secretary;
John w. Noble. corresponding secretary:
william c. De Miller. treasurer: G. w.
Seaton. parliamentarian; Ralph Goldrick.
hostess chairman: Horace M. Banks, presi-
dents aid c. e, Mehring. delegate to To-
cal council. and J. w. Moore. alternate.
Committee chairmen are:
Program. Mrs. Henry E. Won Grimmen-
stein. social Mrs. E D. Keenan,: mem
bership. Mrs. Martin wallick; finance.
Mrs. Toph; publicity. Mrs. Won Grimmen-
stein. and telephone. Mrs. Lucinda Span.
Irvington Quest Club opened its
new season Sept. 4, when the presi-
dents day luncheon was held. The
incoming president, Mrs. L. A. Ran
dali, spoke on the attachments of
the club. The second meeting was
held Sept. II, with the program on
The American Indian and Early
SETTLERS" opening the years study
on American History and modern
topics.
Members Given Topics
Each member has been assigned a
related topic, on which she will
speak briefly at each meeting, in
response to roll call.
Social meetings will start with
the guest day, Oct. 9, which will be
the next meeting. A Christmas
party will be held Dec. IL; celebra-
ton Of Washington Centennial, with
a dinner, Feb. "a, and a family pic
mic, June II. officers are:
Mrs. Randall president; Mesdames E.
schlosser.. secretary; Richard " B. Miller.
treasurer: H. p. Bartlett, publicity secre-
try; J. H Arlington. delegate to local
council; Ira Melvin, alternate; F. c. Will
llams, IrvinRton union of clubs: j. G..
Siegesmund alternate.
The program committee is Mes
danes A. E. Curtis, Pearl Kohnle
and SchloSser.
The club was organized in 1919,
and has nineteen active members.
The membership is limited to
twenty-five.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-18
FASHION DECREE is
LITTLE PLUMP

LONDON, Sept. 18.-The ideal
woman for the wilmer fashions will
be five feet ten and one-half inches
tall and "a little plump" fashion
experts of London announced today
in forecasting the end of a long
period of popularity for small, chic
figures.
With the return of the hustle
pulled sleeves and possibly corsets,
the favorite fashion figure of the
next few months will fill the fol-
lowing specifications:
Height, 5 feet 1015 inches; hips
AZ inches; bust, 80 inches: arms
length, 2915 inches; waist, 81
inches, and weight, probably be-
tween 1872 and 1872 pounds.
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w hats in Fashion?
More Lamps-More Decorative
Directed BIZ AMOS PARRISH

NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Notice
IN how much earlier you're turn
ing on the lights these days? That
means longer evenings in the house
--rG1re time to catch up on that
reading you've been planning to do
all summer.
Al. Of which makes this Inc
time to think about table lamps.
First, whether there are enough
so all the family can read without
eyestrain or glare.
And second, whether these lamps
are the kind that make the right
decorative note in your room.
The answer to question number
one--Are there enough?-is prob
ably No. And that goes for every
one, no matter how completely fur
nished your home is. Because it's
almost impossible these days to have
enough lamps, so important a
fashion have they become.
Many Tables-Many Lamps .
The fashion of using many small
tables scattered about the room,
instead of one large table as for
merly, is responsible for the in
creased Importance of table lamps.
And there's such big variety of
decorative ones that folks use them
for decoration even when they're
not necessary for lighting.
If you go into homes where
money is no object and the best
decorative brains in the country
have been given free rein land all
OF us can go into many of these
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-18

homes through the pages of the
decorating magazines, at least) one
of the first things you'll notice is
an abundance of lamps.
Fortunately it isn't necessary to
be millionaire to have plenty of
lamps. Nor to have the same type
lamps they have.
Wide Range of Prices
True, the materials used in the
lamps most Of us have can't compare
with theirs. But the actual types
can be the same. Because the types
of lamps most in fall fashion range
in price from as little to as much
as anybody wants to pay.
Candle lamps are one of these
types. This is the table lamp that
corresponds to the candle floor lamp
which is the most fashionable kind
of floor lamp today.
The candle lamp comes in Eng
fish brass or bronze finish and is
used with shades of stretched silk,
pleated silk or parchment. 1t may
be short and squatty to go with
heavy furniture, or tall and slender
to fit into delicate furnishings
scheme.
COlOrful Pottery Helps
You can get smart color accents
from the fashionable pottery bowl
lamp. The bases come in clear
colors like green, yellow, oxblood,
blue and even white. The shade is
usually parchment, usually with a
floral pattern such as the one
sketched.
If you've gone in for eighteenth
century type furniture, as so many
fashionable folks have, you'll ap-
preciate the beauty of the classic
urn lamp, now made in low priced
ranges as we'll as high.
Pottery, china, pewter, bronze,
alabaster-they're all fashionable
materials for these gracefully
shaped lamps. And if you want
something decidedly new, try an
urn lamp in white. For white is
the newest, smartest accent color.
Chinese Types Fashionable
Because of the fashion for Queen
Anne furniture, there's also a fash
ion for Chinese type lamps. In fact,
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Her career since then has been a
succession of triumph after triumph
over the hurdles of difficult tests
and questions that have been put
to her in every city on the CONT
nent.
She has baff1ed the police in nu-
merouS cities with her uncanny
knowledge Of crimes that have been
committed in their districts. Her
assistance in dozens of cases has
led to the capture and conviction
of criminals.
She has been the means of trac-
ing lost property and persons. She
has solved mysteries that have been
thought beyond the ken of all NOR
tai minds. But undoubtedly hers
is not normal mind.
Although she can not tell how
she accomplishes the seemingly in
credible things she does, she states
most emphatically that there is
nothing supernatural about it.
She will answer questions on per-
sonal matters, love, marriage, bust
ness, or even civil and national af-
fairs.
In the last three years she has
received more than 100000 letters
in addition to an equal number
of questions she has answered dur
ing her personal stage appearances
It's interesting to speculate on
the mysteries she will uncover and
the secrets she will disclose for the
questionerS during her stay here.
Other theaters today offer: "Mon-
key Business" at the Indiana;
Phantom of Paris" at the Pal
ace; Murder by the Clock" at the
Ohio; 1.-THE Bargain" at the Circle;
Violet Carlson at the Lyric; "The
Greeks Had a Word for It." at
English's; bad Girl" at the Apol-
10, and burlesque at the Mutual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-18
Shot Hats Escape

AS Albert Hicks, Is, Negro, 946
North West street, and three Negro
companions, are alleged to have at
tempted to steal an auto near Cnf-
ton and Udell streets Thursday
night, Hicks was shot in the foot by
Paul Wall, 1925 Eugene street. His
companions fled, but Merchant Po-
liceman Cecil Hicks captured one,
George Bonds, Is, of 2726 RAIDER
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-18
BRITAIN is THREATENED
BY FALL IN STERLING
Bank of England Warns Present
Grave Situation May Be Cause.
By United Pre-

By United Press
LONDON, Sept. 18.-Warning
that the present grave situation in
Great Britain may cause an alarm
ing fall in the pound sterling was
given the government by the board
of governors of the Bank of Eng
land, the Daily Mail said today.
PrecariousneSs of the exchange
situation was said to be mainly the
result of the passive strike" of en-
listed men of the Atlantic fleet and
rumors of a general election. Ac-
cording to the Daily Mail, officials
of the Bank of England requested
the government to announce def
nitely that a general election was
not contemplated soon.
A cabinet meeting at which the
government was said to have re-
ceived the views of the Bank of
England ended Thursday night
without an announcement of what
took place. It was understood that
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon-
aid urged an early decision for Or
against a general election.