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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

YESTERDAYS newspapers still on the doorstep. A pack
age from the laundry Two days accumulation OF letters
the nabox Milk bottles untouched just where the dairy
man had placed them in his early morning rounds Custom
arv the Chinese Educational Mission at 2O23 Kalorama
Road in the Columbia Heights section of Washington, D. G.,
beehive of activity Yet this day of January 1919,
its abysmal silence made it abandoned
Dr. Theodore T. Wong mission head, c. H. Hse Treas
Ben Sen W. Secretary not about their
toned duties administering the Thirteen Million Dollar edit
cational fund from the Boxer rebellion ndemnes An indie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

ttrY one OF the most brilliant manhunterS IN
the Nations Capital 1t is disclosed in
THE MASTER DETECTIVE, of course,
and is but one of the many thrilling, surpris-
ing fact stories of outstanding detective
exploits brought you by the new April issue
now on all neWsstands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
GLANDS

color Of any hair not completely
and permanently gray.
Start stimulation of those
lazy glands tonight! The way
to wake them is by massage.
Use your fingertips, dipped in
Danderine. The Danderine will
cut through the pore filth and
get at the gummed glands. One
treatment will dissolve every
particle of dandruff. The first
week will give you a healthy,
wholesome scalp. But keep the
treatments up until the very
feel of your hair tells you it is
in perfect condition.
You can get Danderine at
any drugstore. 1t is a marvellous
medicine for sick scalps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Riddle of the Vanishing Bride
Who Bumped off Chicago's
Labor Racket" CxGr?
JdI-BYd
George DoHgherty Reveals
Detectives Secrets
Sharing C6nGdd's Modern Borgid
The Horror in the Love Nest
Devils Brigade
The Massacre in the
Brokerage Office
The Clue of the Missing Film
Master Defecf-O-graphs
The UnSolyed Mystery Of
PedSenh0u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
FAMED VIGILANTE
IN GOLD TOWN DIES
Col. w. A. Breckenridge, Who
Was Tombstone, Ariz.,
Sheriff, SuccumbS.
D. the. Associated Press.


TUCSON, Ariz., February "A sher-
in Of the early West, Col. William A.
Breckenridge, "a, who lived through the
deadly days of the Dos by his skill with
n six-gun and bravery in battles with
desperadoes of the plains, is dead.
The aged peace officer whose life
since he ran away from his Wisconsin
home at Is, was filled with years OF
fighting, died Saturday. He was oper-
ated on for appendicitis five weeks ago
and apparently was recovering. Most Of
his late years had been spent in Los
Angeles and Chicago.
Wrote Memoirs.
He was the author of "Hellodorado,"
o book based largely upon his expert
ences as a sheriff in the turbulent min
ing days of Tombstone, Ariz. The pref
ace to the book said of him:
"He was a sheriff of the best type,
nuiet. Soft-spoken and fearless. He cap
tuIred many murderers, horse thieves
and train robbers, but always preferred
to, take long chances instead of Staying"
From the quiet woods of his home at
Watertown, Wis, where he was born
December rs, 1846. he fell into life
replete with thrilling episodes. He was
in turn a soldier in the Civil War,
a railroad worker, fighter of Indians in
Colorado, organizer of vigilantes, pros
pector, one of the band which trailed
Geronimo, notorious Apache chieftain;
hunter of outlaws and railroad detec-
tive.
Sheriff at Tombstone.
He ran away from home in 1862 and
became a soldier in the Civil War
Three years after the war he strayed to
Colorado, where he figured in numerous
skirmishes with Indians, helped to build
O railroad and then went to Montana.
Several years later he struck out for
the Southwest and fought his way
through the Apache country to Prescott
and Phoenix, Ariz. For time he was
Q deputy sheriff in Phoenix, but word
OF the Schieffiin gold strike at Tomb
stone lured him to the life of pros
pector there
But this experience held his interest
briefly and in 1880 he became a deputy
sheriff at Tombstone. 1t was in this
post that he won fame throughout the
Southwest. his fearless pursuit of MUIR
dererS and horse thieves is one of the
thrilling stories of the West
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02

comedies and the two. outstanding
serious plays will be chosen by an ex-
perienced committee Of judges to take
part In the finals, to be staged st Nc
Kinley Auditorium On March 6.
Clubs which will be represented with
plays include the Arts Club; East
washington Community Players, Jewish
Community Center, Mackin Club, the
Masks, Orange and Blue Players. South
east Community Players, Stellar ORA
matte Guild, Towne Players, Universalist
Players, Woman's City Club, Womans
Club Of Chevy Chase, the Woodlothians,
the Columbia Players, Tart and Talent
Club, Marjorie webster Alumnae Players
and the ComIs Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, February "A
unique mechanism with power of
memory and ability to produce moods
of colored lighting to At the mood Of a
death march or minuet has been in
stalled at the new $2,500,000 severance
music hall here.
The apparatus, an important example
of what engineers have been able to do
with the tiny electron that shoots off
from an atom of hot metal, will be put
into operation Thursday night when
the Cleveland Orchestra plays dedica-
tory music.
The moods of light are devised by a
lighting artist sitting at console, SINH
lar to one of movie theater organ. In
full view of the stage and auditorium,
with a score before him similar to the
orchestra conductors score, he presses
buttons, switches and pedals analogous
to the pedals, stops and worries of an
organ.
AS he performs, the lights throughout
the hall change at his touch, to have
psychological effect on the audience,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
DEATH Marc CHI OR MINIUET MOOD
PRODUCED BY LIGHTING DEVICE
Mechanism Like Organ in Cleveland Hall
Gives Visual Accompaniment for
All Music Types.

sympathetic to the effect of the music.
Combinations of the red, green and
amber lights of the spotlights, foot
lights and flood lights throughout the
changing variety. according to the en-
gineers of the Westinghouse Electric g.
Manufacturing Co., where the apparatus
was developed.
Slow changes. imperceptible to the
consciousness, may be accomplished, or
instantaneous changes from one color
scheme to another. If he wishes, the
color artist may set up in advance as
and the apparatus will remember
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
PLAY PRELIMINARIES
WILL OPEN CONTEST
Four Companies to Be Selected fol
Finals Tournament to Be
Held March 8.

Preliminary contests Wednesday night,
February IL, at Wilson Teachers Col
lege, will open the annual District Of
Columbia One-act Play Tournament,
sponsored by the Community Drama
Guild Of Washington. The tournament
will be under the direction Of q special
committee Of Guild members, headed
by Miss Marjorie Webster and including
j. Minor Dorey, Ruth Harsha Nc
Kenzie and Florence McCracken.
Seventeen clubs in the city are
registered to take part in the annual
contest, from which the two outstanding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02

them--keep them on hand until its
master desires to use them.
The apparatus may be compared to
q 144-tube radio set, for the operation
Is In many ways ike tnaC OF raolo'
Ranging from the console, which can
be moved to any part of the auditorium
is vacuum cleaner hose filled with
approximately 1900 wires.
Grid Tubes in Cages.
The wires go to a basement room
which is suggestive Of a pet shop. In
ia cases, each about the size of pet
shop canary cages, are grid glow tubes
glowing with orange light from streams
Of electrons in neon gas. The streams
Of electrous are capable Of the most
minute alterations and control the
minute alterations OF the lightning
combinations in the ITO auditorium and
stage lighting circuits which the con-
sole controls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
AUTO KILLS FIRE CHIEF

John W. Blakely, Former d. @.
Resident, Victim at Selma, Ala.
SELMA, Ala, February 2 [P.-John
w. Blakely, chief of the Selma Fire
Department, was killed when his auto
mobile overturned near here yesterday.
Blakely. q former resident of Washing
ton, d. c., was prominent in Knights Of
Columbus circles in this State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02

Natives of South Africa have a new
craze for Japanese silks. and are using
them for many purposes in which, in
this country, cotton would be utilized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02

Large estates and farms in the Essex
district Of England are being broken up
into small fruit orchards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-02
Upsefs rival brands with
Sweeping Victory in
RipIey's latest T0ste-Test

They held another tea-party" at Boston the
other day. down with the tyranny of habit!'
was the cry. Lets find out which cigarette
really tastes the best"
From Back-Bay to the Fishing Docks, 1t was
another Boston rebellion. Throwing brand pref
udice overheard more than a thousand
Boston smokers compared the four leading
cigarettes, with the brand names hidden.
They didn't know which was which. They
didn't care All they wanted was to pick out the
best tasting cigarette.
At Lexington . . . modern Minute Men needed
hardly a minute to give o. G. a ? to victory.
At Bunker Hill, OLD COLDS cool, throat-easy
quality completely routed the enemy.
''No taxation without representation" said
the Boston of long ago. "No throat and un.
limited smoking JOY" says the Boston of today.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
Continued on page g.
DAVIS MAY Be
HELD in JAIL
UNTIL OCTOBER

LOS ANGELES, Aug 5. W.P)-
Mlllard K. Davis, accused of the
murder in Mexico Of w. l.. Press
ley, today faced the possibility of
remaining in jail until October Is
while red tape concerning his ex-
tradition to Mexico is untangled.
An attorney for the accused man
applied to Federal Judge Paul Nc
Cormick for a writ of habeas cor
pus, claiming that Davis can not
be legally eXtradited into Mexico.
The lawyer pointed out that Press
ley died in the United States after
being stabbed in a fight across the
Mexican line.
Judge Mccormick denied the ap-
plication and ordered Davis return
ed. He held up the application,
however, pending an opinion OF the
United States attorney general.
Davis also has writ of habees
corpus pending before the U. ).
district court of appeals and was
ordered to appear before the court
on October l5
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
Continued on page g.
DEMPSEY GOES.
HUNTING WITH
TWO GOVERNORS

RENO, Aug. S. W.H Jack Demp-
sey threw aside all care today, con-
fident that he will make S500,000
from his exhibition boxing tour, and
departed with a company of
notables for a six day hunting "trip.
Governor Rolph OF California,
Governdor Balzar of Nevada and
Senator Noble Getchell, Nevada po-
litical leader, left for Getchelrs
ranch near Midas to hunt sage hens.
They were expected to return eth
er Monday or Tuesday Of next week
No action was taken today in
Dempsey'S contemplated divorce, but
Reno rumor had 1t that either his
complaint, or cross-complaint by
his wife. Estelle Taylor. would be
filed before Dempsey leaves on his
transforming itinerary August 10.
Dempsey received today an offer
of $4,000 from Gene Normile and
other San Francisco promoters for
en- exhibition bout in that city. 1t
was taken under consideration pend
ing decision as to just when the eX-
champion will reach California.
He does not intend to enter that
state until after exhibitions in the
northwest-and. it was reported, not
until the troublesome divorce mat
ter Is out Of the way.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
Capital Staying
Starts Scandal

WASHINGTON, Aug. S. W.P)-
Staying of a Washington policeman
was linked today with charges that
police had beaten inmates of the
National Soldiers Home who re-
fused to buy their liquor from a
favored bootlegger.
Patrolman Charles D. Poole was
killed at the scene of a Woodland
drinking party near the home. Bert
Davis, an inmate, was held on
charges of murder. He was intoXi-
Gated when arrested and insisted
the shooting was accidental. An
autopsy showed no trace of alcohol
in the brain of the policeman.
It was disclosed after the Slay-
ing that officials have been inveS-
tigating a complaint by an employee
of the Soldiers home that he was
beaten by a policeman in Poole's
precinct who found him patronizing
bootlegger other than the one ia
vored by the officer.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
Gangster Control
Rests With Cities

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. U.D -
State and city authorities have been
reminded by Attorney General
Mitchell that responsibility for sup
pressing gangsters rests chiefly with
them.
The federal government will help
when it can he said, but there will
be rackets as long as municipal and
local government permit them"
There is not much comfort get
ting racketeers under the income
tax law when they are machine
cunning little children in the
streets" Mitchell said, referring to
the killing of children by New York
gunmen.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
Stranded Party
Saved From Sea

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Aug. 5. UP
The coast guard cutter Bonham re-
turned here today with sloop Santa
Lucia with five persons aboard af-
ter the small vessel had drifted In
the currents off the Lower Califor-
MIA coast since last Monday.
When the cutter rescued the five
$50 miles south of here last night,
there was one gallon of drinking
water left and no food.
The boat had been caught in a
storm six days and was not report
ed missing until last Monday when
it failed to return to port. During
the storm a skiff containing 20 gal
Ions of gasoline and water for re-
serve was lost.
Those aboard were w. j. Mead
ows, fingerprint expert OF the Los
Angeles police department and his
wife; Clyde o. Davis, also Los An
geles policeman. and his wife, and
A. Gregory Baeder, Angeles aviator.
The five had been fishing the
Lower California waters since July
10, they told coast guard officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
State Fair To
Test Spoilers


SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 5. U.PJ
With the discovery that there are
some persons in California who
simply cannot be spelled down.
officials of the annual state fair
spelling bee today announced that
no previous winners will be allowed
to compete in the contest Septem-
Der 8.
The contest, which usually at
tracts district champions from all
parts of the state, is to be held in
the grandstand building, where ed
ucational exhibits will be housed.
One hundred words will be chosen
at random from standard diction-
aries, and winners will receive
prizes of 5000 and a gold medal,
$l00 and a silver medal, and $50
and a bronze medal
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
OKLAHOMA OIL
FIELDS UNDER
MARTIAL LAW
State Troops On Guard
Following Orders By
Governor Murray.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug
5. (U.P)Soldiers stood guard today
over the vast Oklahoma oil fields
which Governor w. Fl. (Alfalfa
Bid Murray shut down under mar
tial law in a drastic attempt to have
the states first industry by forcing
up the price of crude oil to a dollar
a barrel.
Making good his threat that un-
less prices went up he would use
force in stopping production of the
flush wells, the colorful governor
called out his troops yesterday.
THE states natural resources
must be preserved and the price of
oil must go to 81 a barrel; now
don't ask me any more damned
questions" stormed the fiery execu-
tive as he sent his troops march
ing through the fields where mil
lions have been made.
In declaring martial law Murray
braved the wrath of hundreds of
men, charged Harry Sinclair with
attempting to overthrow the state
government" accused "some of the
inferior federal courts" of taking
orders from corporations, and
gambled heavily with one of the ma
tion's biggest industries.
Every well in the Oklahoma City
field was shut down and Cicero T..
Murray, the governors cousin, mob
ilized additional forces in the Sem
mole area to close gushers there.
Only stripper wells, with production
of less than 25 barrels daily, were
exempt from the sweeping order.
Murrays shutdown order and dec
laration of martial law came after
major crude oil purchasing COM
panies had sent prices up from d
to SO cents within a week but had
refused to comply completely with
the governors demands.
Murrays order affected 3l06 flush
wells in 81 pools. Hundreds of the
wells, however, already had been
closed voluntarily by their oper-
operators when the price of oil went
as low as % cents barrel.
THE Seminole field will all be
closed within 48 hours said Cicero
Murray Every well in the state
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
SHIPPING BOARD
SEEKS TO SELL
OCEAN VESSELS
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
Copyright, 1881, by United Press.

WASHINGTON, Aug. S. iU.P =
United States shipping boaro Off
cials were in New York today at
tempting to sell the S. S. Leviathan
and her sister ships of the United
States lines, because they have not
been profitable.
The fleet was to have been the
show window" of a revived American
merchant marine but hopes of its
maintenance and the revival
faded with confession of P. w.
Chapman, promotional genius, that
he could not operate the line prof
itably.
The liners may go to the Roose-
elt-International Mercantile Ma
rine combination, which is under
stood to be the only group interest
ed in an outright purchase. Ken
meth d. Dawson, a Pacific coast
operator, is offering to take over
operation of the lines but not to
purchase them. His proposition is
said to include, however, an offer
W IINtSI Ill lllt Va IiAN "a
ent owner. The only other course
would be for the government to take
back these ships, which were seized
from Germany in the war The
Hoover administration is strongly
opposed to such action.
Merger of the Roosevelt lines,
headed by Kermit Roosevelt, son OF
the late president, and the Inter-
national Merchant Marine, recently
brought together two of the strong
est shipping groups.
Addition of the United States
lines would create the most power
full shipping combine supported by
American capital since j. p. Nor
gan, the elder, attempted in 1903 to
challenge the supremacy of the pre-
war British and German merchant
marines with his gigantic Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine corpora
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
First Fatality In
Portland Milk War

VANCOUVER, Wash, Aug. 5. W.p)
C. b. Mariner, 25-year-o!d Wood
land, Wash, dajryman, today be-
came the first casualty of bitter
milk war waging in the Portland
milkshed.
Mariner was brought to a hos
pital here suffering from a frac-
tured skull and hemorhages.
The young farmer, account said,
was one of a group of striking
dairymen who dumped a load of 33
cans of milk from a truck owned
by Ira Bennett, Longview, Wash.
The milk was dumped after bat
tie between nine striking dairymen
and five guards on the truck.
Settlement of the fight by pro-
ducers TO obtain a higher price for
their milk from distributors ap-
peared likely with in a few days
according to q fact finding COM
mission appointed by Mayor Baker
OF Portland.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
TWO DIE
IN WRECK
At YUMA
Crew OF ArgOnaut Killed
As Train Leaves Tracks
Following Rain.
SEVERAL INJURED
Valley Residents Among
Serious Casualties In
Early Morning Crash.

YUMA. Ariz.. Aug. 5. U.P)-TWo
persons were killed early today and
u injured, four seriously, when
rain n-softened earth gave way be-
meath the Argonaut, crack Southern
Pacific tranScontinental flier, hurl-
ing the engine and three cars over
a 30-foot embankment, 20 miles east
of here.
The dead:
ID. b. Steyaert. engineer, and j..
w. Moser. fireman, crushed beneath
the engine.
Most seriously injured:
Manuel M. Guerrero, passenger,
internal injuries.
Lemon Bass, Los Angeles. Joe
Hill. 10, Britton, Okla. and James
Syas. all negroes. The three were
beating a ride" in the blind" the
small compartment between the
tender and baggage car. Caught be-
tween the two telescoping cars, all
were badly injured internally and
Hill received a possible fractured
skull 80 -
Two other negroes, Walter and
James Wnlttear, were rldlng
blind further TO the rear and
escaped with slight injuries.
Further tragedy was averted by
the action of c. w. Birks, flagman
Knowing that two more sections of
the same train were following close
behind, Birks ran back a quarter of
a mile to firm ground and kept
tah bn ptn
light of the second section and
tagged it down.
The accident occurred shortly
BATTER 2 a. m, when the eastbound
flyer was 80 minutes out of Yuma.
The train rolled into a typical Arl-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
Would Suppress
Amos And Andy

CLEVELAND, Aug. 5. (U.P)-Peti-
tions to silence Amos n Andy,
popular radio team, were being cir
culated today among the Cleveland
negro populace.
Sponsored by a Pittsburgh negro
newspaper the petitions charge the
two white men have been exploit
ing certain types of the American
negro for purely commercial gain
They allege negro womanhood has
been broadcast to the world as in
dulging in bigamy,' and negro
lawyers depicted as schemers and
crooks
According to representatives Of
the newspaper, who are circulating
the petitions, more than 275,000
names already have been obtained
in a nation wide drive. The goal is
100000 signers, they said.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
GMlLl-.
fWY|R9sfR> R?SS;

BEVERLY HILLS, Aug. 4.
(SpeciaD-Saw by the paper
this morning they formed way
out here in Sacramento a Draft
Dwight Morrow-for- President
club. Well, hope he makes it.
All I want out of it is the am
bassadorship to Mexico. Don't
laugh, you haven't seen all our
ambassadors lately, have youO
l could get away with that
job for Morrow could tell just
what to do and who to do it
to. l could attend the dinners
and bull fights and make
speeches to both and listen
without laughing (much) to the
Americans, saying we got to
take this country over and civ
ilize it like ours. Like ours, ha,
ha.
Yours,