davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-02

Even the employed seem to find time for a good deal of unemployment.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-02

It doesn't pay to be fussy about ones traffic rights with a ten-ton truck on the port bow.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-02

Another disadvantage of be- ing illiterate is that juryman's fees are small.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-02

Nearing the age of 90, Justice Holmes says he keeps young by working. But it's a terrible price to pay.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-02

It seems that no one has thought of a taxpayers re- lief bill.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-02

Equipment Necessary to Give City Milk"-headline. A dependable water system would probably help.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
PLANES WILL AID FORECASTING
BY STUDYING WEATHER AT CEILING
Bids for Altitude Flight With Meteorological Equipment
to Be Opened April IA.

the bids are opened next month and
the costs ascertained the number and
location of cities where the observa-
tons are to be made. In each case
the Weather Bureau will contract with
commercial airplane operators to make
the daily flights.
The Weather Bureau regards the
present kite system as slow and expen-
sive. requiring the maintenance of large
fields, a squad of men and expensive
housing facilities. 1t takes three hours
or longer to send up kite with a
meteorograph. A plane could do the
same work in less than an hour, it
was explained, and could ascend to
heights beyond those reached by the
kites.
The Weather Bureau also will have
the benefit of the airplane observations
made by the Navy at AnacoStia and
other naval stations.
The Weather Bureau contracts for
upper air observation flights, to be
awarded on the basis of the bids which
are to be opened April IA, will provide
that the daily flights are to begin July
l, 1t was announced. Invitations for
bids are to be mailed Nv the bureau
Monday to all parts of the country.
Because the Capital sarea alEeady is
served by the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
ton. there probably will be no effort
made TO obtain separate observation
service here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
ARCHBISHOP SCORES
SUNDAY FILM SHOWS
Curley Enters Battle Over Mary
lands Ancient Closing Laws
in Legislature.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, March 13.-Arch-
bishop Michael j. Curley today entered
the battle over the States ancient Sun
day closing laws, in progress in the
Legislature for weeks, with a statement
Of opposition to Sunday motion pic
lures
THE average moving pictures pre-
sented to our American audiences" the
Catholic prelate said In a statement
"are so full Of salaciousneSs, and 50 de-
structive of moral standards, that they
should not be shown to decent people
on any day.
Educating our youth Is costing US
millions. Immoral movies tear down
what our schools are trying to build up.
bill giving local option to Balti-
more and the % counties on the en-
forcement of the so-called blue laws
passed the House of Delegates this
week and is now in the hands Of a
Senate committee.
Archbishop Curley's statement was
Endorsed by Right Rev. Edward T. Hell
fenstein, Protestant Episcopal bishop OF
Maryland, and by Rev. Robert DaVidS
executive secretary Of the Baltimore
Federation of Churches.
The archbishop said he was we'll dis
posed to clean and wholesome recrea-
tons" on Sunday and even toward mo-
ton pictures IF they are consistently
clean"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
THEFT OF S75O,ODO
IN GEMS REPORTED
Palm Beach Police Hear Loss
May Reach 100000.
Store Manager Kidnapped.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PALM BEACH, Fla, March ia
statement from the office of the sheriff
Of Palm Beach County this afternoon
said jewels estimated to be worth
$3.50. 900 to $75o,00o were stolen last
night or early today from a safe in the
Palm Beach store of Charlton & Co.
New York jewelry Arm
Oficials said the loss might run into
81, 100000.
The building had been unlocked and
the safe opened.
Sheriff r. c. Baker, police and in
surance detectives are investigating a
story by Otto Wegener, New York and
Palm Beach. manager of the store, that
he was kidnapped in front of his hotel
last night by four men, who forced him
to give them the keys to the place and
the safes combination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Jury DEL|BERATES
|. DEN|SON EVIDENCE
Maximum Penalty Is $500 il
Ex-RepreSentative Is De-
cIared Guilty.

With $500 fine the maximum pen
atty possible should he be convicted, a
jury in District Supreme Court retired
this afternoon to deliberate in the case
of former Representative Edward e
Denison of Illinois, charged with pos
sessing liquor.
Charging the Prohibition Bureau has
passed the buck" to the United States
attorneys office, william z. Leahy,
chief of defense counsel, had demanded
shortly before that the jury acquit Deni-
son.
The defense attorney made his plea
after John j. Sirica, an assistant
United States attorney, had character
lied the defense explanation of the
seizure Of q liquor laden trunk in Deni-
manding the defendants conviction.
Case Described as Comedy.
"It is your duty" Leahy said, etc
acquit this defendant in order that the
Prohibition Bureau will know in the
future that the Governments money
cannot be used to wash out the bu-
reau's own dirty linen. The Prohibi-
tion Bureau also should know they
can't drag an innocent man in here
and ruin his life"
Leahy asserted the entire case con-
Stituted a comedy of errors. He
contended no two Government wit
nesseS had told the same story.
Slrica commended Denison's explana-
ton OF the seizure of liquor-laden
trunk in his rooms in the House once
Building January 10. 1929. was obvi-
ously fictitious. The defendant had tes-
tined the whisky trunk belonged to some
one else and had been inadvertently
switched with his baggage by express
company. employees. Denison said his
trunk had contained dishes.
me prosecutor. referring to testi-
mony that j. j. Quinn, a Government
witness, had Eeen dismissed from the
prohibition service since Denison's ar
rest, declared the jury should believe
the other prohibition agents, regardless
Of what they might think about Quinn.
SracaS reference to Quinn was seized
upon by E. Hilton jackson of defense
counsel Immediately after he began his
argument.
Denison Termed Victim.
TT is surprising that j. j. Quinn. the
pivotal witness on behalf of the Gov
ernmeLt, is referred to by the prosecut-
ing attorney as a man who is no good, :"
Jackson remarked
Commencing Denison on his long
service in Congress, Jackson said he
hdd f1lled important committee assign
ments with exceptional success. He in
sisted the Government had failed TO
make out case and that Denison was
a victim OF circumstances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
REVOLVER is FOUND
IN NIRDLINGER CASE
Discovery Strengthens Police Be
lief in Beauty's Story of Stay
ing in Self Defense.


NICE, France, March 13.-Police
found loaded revolver this afternoon
carefully hidden in the apartment of
Fred @. Nixon Nirdlinger, Philadelphia
theater owner, who was shot to death
Wednesday evening by his wife, former
st. LOUIS beauty.
They believe the weapon belonged
to Nixon Nirdlinger, and said it was
concealed in such way that he might
have ready access to it,
With the discovery officials believed
they had checked up on every salient
point in the story CT the 26-year- oId
wife. but Magistrate Vachier had not
decided whether to have charges pre-
ferred against her for the killing Of
the husband who was % years her
senior. The police had been inclined,
until todays discovery of the hidden
revolver, to doubt the beauty'S story
that she purchased for her cwn pro-
lection the weapon with which she slew
her husband.
Attorney Bonifacio was engaged to-
day as counsel for Mrs. Nixon
Nirdlinger
Examination Of the apartment, police
said, seemed to corroborate her version
Of the affair. A magistrate today began
an independent investigation of Nixon
Nirdlinger's grounds for Jealousy
An autopsy was to be performed to-
day. The theatrical magnate's body
will be sent to Philadelphia later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
AUTHS ACCUSED
OF TAXI ROBBERY
Cousin HeId-Youth viii Be
Questioned About Kid
naping Here.

A taxicab drivers story Of beinI
robbed and beaten by two young mer
who took him for ride" in an ex.
pensive sedan, resulted today in thu
arrest of Laurence Joseph Auth, rs, or
charges of assault and robbery.
The police announced that they had
received assurances from Anton A
Auth, general manager of the Auth
Provision Co., that he would surrender
his son, Francis Auth, ~ = year Ole
cousin of Laurence, who is said tc
have accompanied Laurence last night
Laurence was taken into custody early
this morning at his residence, 405 Sixth
street southwest. by Detectives H X
wilson and Richard j. Cox. and latei
released on bond at No. 4 precinct. The
taxi driver. John r. west, 20, of s43 X
street, confronted the prisoner and de-
clared he was one of the men who rob-
bed him.
Traced by License.
POLICE traced Auth through the Ii
csnSe number Of a sedan furnished
them by West, and which was found
to have been issued to Anton Auth of
1902 Colorado avenue, the young mans
uncle.
Laurence Auth probably will be given
a hearing in Police Court tomorrow.
West, who declared that he was badly
beaten, bore no marks Of the encounter
and did not require hospital attention.
He said he was robbed of all the money
he had-about So in change.
Tell Different Stories.
The two boys, Lawrence and Francis,
tell different story about the affair
than the taxi driver
According to the story they told at
their homes, they were driving in the
vicinity of Fourteenth and H streets
when a taXicab narrowly missed their
front fender.
The boys said they shouted: Where
did you learn to driver"
They said the cab driver cursed them
and continued down Fourteenth street.
The boys said they followed the cab
in their car until the taxi stopped at
Twelfth street and Ohio avenue and
discharged his passenger. They said
they walked to the taxicab and asked
the driver just what he meant by call
ing them names.
Pull Driver From Cab.
They said when the cab driver got
sassy" they pulled him from his cab
slapped him with open hands and put
him in their own car and proceeded
around the block.
The boys said they tried TO Smooth
things over" and when they did the cab
driver. they said, offered them money.
Both boys told their fathers that they
threw the money back at the driver
They said they let him out OF the car
and left
According to Vests statement, he
noticed that Cadillac sedan was trail
ing his cab as he passed Fourteenth
and H streets. He picked up fare a
moment later at Fourteenth and K
streets. depositing the passenger at
Twelfth street and Ohio avenue.
West declared the sedan was idling
in the street behind his cab and fol-
lowed when he drove away On Elev-
enth street. between 1 and K. West
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
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Pair Are Badly Wounded
With Meat CIeaver in Flu
riouS Night Battle.
HOLD ASSAILANT UNTIL
POLICE COME TO RESCUE
Relationship Admitted, but Victims
Deny Charge of Selling Pris-
oner in China.

A strange tale of having followed his
two brothers to this country, seeking
revenge because they sold him and his
wife into slavery in China. was told
today by Lee New Young, 35 years old
who is held at the twelfth precinct po-
lice station while Casualty Hospital
physicians endeavor to save the lives
of the brothers, whom he allegedly at
tackled with a meat cleaver.
The story of the sale of Young and
his mate was told to Detective Sergts.
Thomas w. Sweeny and Carlton Talley,
who questioned the Chinese in his cell
at the police station. The victims adj
NIT they are his brothers, but deny the
charge of selling into slavery.
Sweeney and Carlton questioned
Young. who does not speak English
through an interpreter. The latter
quoted Young as saying he had decided
to WELD the meat cleaver because he
was unable to forgive his brothers fol-
their act.
Suffer Severe Cuts.
The brothers. Lem Ben Lee. 81. pro-
prietor of a laundry at 2127 Rhode
Island avenue northeast. and Tom Bow
Sing, %, who assisted him, are suffering
from compound skull fractures and
severe cuts about the face. Lee also
was badly cut on the back Of his neck
and on his right forearm and more
than 100 stitches were required to sew
his wounds.
The attack occurred this morning
when Young, said to be boo how
doy," or Ratchet man, crept into the
room in which Lee and Sing were Sleep
ing and bounced upon them with the
cleaver.
The ensuing struggle was furious
one, but Lee succeeded in breaking
away from his assailant long enough
to run to telephone and summon
police. He then returned to the melee,
attempting to pull Young on of Sing,
whom he had thrown to the floor and
was beating with the cleayer.
later, they found the Chinese in a
knot on blood-stained bed, still fight
ing furiously.
Two Taken 10 Hospital.
The struggling figures were olsen
tangled. and Lee and Sing were taken
to the hospital In an ambulance. Young
was locked up, pending the outcome of
the wounded mems condition.
Lee and Sing came to this country
about 10 years ago. 1t is said, and later
were joined by Young, who is said TO
have participated in a tong war here
several years ago.
The wounded men told police Young
came to the Rhode Island avenue adj
dress last night, and, after explaining
he was homeless, was given permission
to spend the night there.
Young, however, told police he had
Continued on Page 2, Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

The airplane is to be used by Uncle
Sam to aid in the forecasting of weather
conditions. On April IA bids will be
opened at the Weather Bureau for daily
high altitude flights at various points
in the United States by planes carrying
meteorological equipment.
The service at first is to be on a test
basis only few 'airplane observation
stations being established. If successful,
the service probably will be materially
extended and airplanes in all parts Of
the country will take off at fixed hours
each day, climbing thousands of feet
above the earth so that the Weather
Bureau may know Of conditions In the
high upper air which may affect the
weather below.
The service will be the same as that
which has been carried on by the Navy
at the AnacoStia Naval Air Station and
other naval shore bases for many
months. Each morning at Anacostia q
Navy plane takes OF and climbs high
above the station, carrying recording
apparatus to learn in detail the facts
concerning atmospheric pressure, tenn
perature and humidity at various levels
At first the use of airplanes by the
Weather Bureau will supplement the
use of kites, now sent up daily at i've
stations in the United States to carry
meteorological instruments for upper
air observations.
It win not be determined until after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
COMP AN|ES TO CUT
OIL |MPORTAT|ONS
Secretary Wilbur Announces
Voluntary Agreement by
Major Firms.
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A voluntary agreement with the
Government by major importing COM
panies to reduce oil imports several
million barrels yearly was announced
today by Secretary Wilbur.
Secretary Wilbur said only the Stand
ard of Indiana remained outside the
agreement, but that difficulties pre-
venting 1t from joining in the program
were, being worked out as rapidly as
possible.
The Gulf Oil Co. and the Standard
Of New Jersey were included in the
agreement, he said.
No Written Agreement.
He also said he had been advised,
unofficially, the Royal Dutch Shell Co.
and the Pan American Petroleum Cor
poration had said they would cooperate
as much as possible.
Wilbur pointed out today there was
no written agreement between the COM
panieS or between the companies and
the Government. but that the agree
ment was a pledge Of each individual
company to do all it could to curtail
imports in line with domestic restrictions
through proration.
"All we can do" Wilbur declared, els
to present the problem to the oil COM
panleS and ask them to work with us.
The Governors of the oil States like
wise are doing all they can to harness
the flow of domestic production and the
two oil supplies should be harmonized. F."
Handled by Lamont.
The limitation curbs primarily the
inflow of South American petroleum,
which has been protested vigorously by
the American independent operators,
who asked the last Congress for a par
tial embargo.
The negotiations with American i'm
porting companies were conducted by
Secretary Lamont, member of the Oil
Board, acting under instructions from
President Hoover.
Secretary Wilbur declined today to
say to what extent the agreement would
reduce imports, but said 1t was several
millions OF barrels yearly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
TREASURY LIFTS CUSTOMS BAN
ON FIVE BOOKS HELD CLASSICS
Taboo Ended on Unexpurgated Decameron, Casanova's
Memoirs, "Gargantua and PantagrueI and Others

in a New York Federal district court.
Marie Slopes British viewpoint on
married love" is the point of conten-
ton and the outcome will set a prece-
dent.
The third class Of forbidden reading,
seditious matesial, seems to have
dropped out of the export trade. Gus
toms Bureau officials say their only
recent experience with 1t involved Soviet
posters which were found innocuous.
Under the 1922 law the three classes
were excluded on the judgment Of
customs inspectors. The new law allows
the Treasury Secretary to use his dis
cretion in exempting from exclusion
1.-The so-called classics or books of
recognized and established literary or
scientific merit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
262 LIVES BELIEVED
LOST IN SHIP BLAST
Explosion Occurs When Chinese
Soldiers Throw Cigarette Stubs
Into Cotton Cargo.

BY the Associated Press
SHANGHAI, March I3.-Additional
reports on the sinking Of the coastwise
steamer Pachi indicated today that 2e2
lives had been lost when the ship ex-
ploded so miles north Of the Yangtze
River mouth Wednesday night. The
remainder Of the 722 persons aboard
were saved.
First reports gave the death list at
200 and the number rescued at 1870.
All who persisted were Chinese.
The explosion occurred when Chinese
soldiers aboard tossed burning cigarette
stubs into the cotton cargo. The ship
was anchored immediately, but second
blast blew out her stern. Many were
burned TO death. The other victims
drowned as the ship went down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Alaskan Proposes
On Finding Balloon
Freed by Nebraskan
az the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr., March 10
There's romance in the air of the
north country.
After a dinner party last No.
vember Mrs. Robert Tunberg, re-
leased a toy balloon, bearing her
name and address, and thought
little more about it. Imagine her
surprise when she opened her
mail and found the following let
ter from Henry A. Prentice, a
miner, in Fairbanks, Alaska:
I'VE were out of fresh meat
and I tracked a bear up the
canyon and finally dropped him
on a high ledge SO or go feet up
the side," wrote Prentice. ut
sure was tough getting to him,
but made it. On the way up
I found the balloon"
You don't happened to be
single and unattached, white and
81, willing to cook the grub for a
couple of lonesome old baches
away up here in no mans coun-
try?" the miner asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Nv the Associated press.

Five literary classics once tabooed by
Uncle Sam have obtained official suffer-
ance in this country under liberalization
of censorship effected by the 1880 tariff
act
THE Arabian Nights" 1.-THE Memoirs
of Casanova, Rabelais' "Gargantua and
Pantagruel," THE Decameron OF Boo
cacio" and Apuleius' The Golden ASS"
have been recognized by the Treasury
Department as classics and admitted for
importation. Under this decision faith
full and incorporated TRANSACTIONS have
a clean bill OF health Certain editions,
as those containing illustrations deemed
obscene, still may be excluded.
Soon the admissibility of books deal
ing with birth control is to have test
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
YARD WHERE POE RESTS
SCENE OF CHURCH FIRE
Historic Baltimore Structure Is
Damag on Poets
Grave Escapes.
By Inc Assoclated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March l3-Historic
Westminster Presbyterian Church. on
the grounds of which is the grave of
Edgar Allan Poe, the poet, was dam
aged by fire today.
Starting from a defective furnace.
the flames wrecked the pulpit, destroyed
the organ and damaged a portion of
the balcony.
The entire structure seemed doomed
when flremen arrived on a dozen pieces
Of apparatus, but the flames were con-
fined largely to the basement. Beneath
the floor Of the basement lie the
ancient graves and vaults of many
former pariShioneTs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
DEATH ENDS CAREER
OF LORD PRIVY SEAL
Vernon Hartshorn, M. P, SO, Dies
Suddenly at His Home in
Maestog, Wales.

BY the Associated Press.
MAESTOG, Wales. March 13-Ver-
non Hartshorn, lord privy seal since
1880 and formerly president of the
South Wales Miners Federation,
dropped dead at his home here today.
The Right Hon. Vernon Hartshorn,
lord privy seal since 1880 and M. p.
from the Ogmore division of Glamor-
ganshire since 1918, was SO years old.
He was postmaster general in 1924; a
member of the Indian Reforms Com
mission from 1927 to 1880; served on
the Coal Trade Organization Commit
tee, and also on the Coal Controllers
Advisory Committee, and was president
Of the South Wales Miners Federation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Liquor in Sausage
Revealed by Fired
Butcher in Raid
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Ind, March 13.
Revenge may be sweet for AL
bert SZymoniak.
Albert is a butcher. He used
to work in the shop of John
Briggs until Briggs discharged
him.
III get my revenge" said he.
Yesterday, the police said, he
did. He led the officers in a
raid on the place of his erstwhile
employer, pointing to a string of
sausageS.
Inside the sheaths, the police
said, there was moonshine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
FEAR BUBONIC PLAGUE

IuTK ey CLOSES Ffontler 70 GeorBla
to Ward OFF Disease.
ANGORA, Turkey. March IS tP1-
Considerable alarm is felt in official cir
Giles here al the possibility of spread OF
bubonic plague in Turkey from Georgia,
Southern Russia, where an epidemic is
raging.
The frontier has been closed to per-
sons coming from Russia.
The Provinces of Artyin and Kars in
the Georgian republic were known to
be especially hard hit by the disease.
The epidemic extends from Karabagli
to Djolga. There have been many
deaths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
INDIAN is SENTENCED
Woman Gets One to Ten Years fol
Staying Wife of Artist.

BUFFALO, N. Y, March IS DR.
Nancy Bowen, 65-year-old Seneca In
dian, today was sentenced to impris-
onment for / to 10 years for man.
slaughter, first degree, in connection
with the Staying of Mrs. Clotilde
Marchand, wife of Henri Marchand, an
artist, in Buffalo, last March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
German Counselor Shot.

HAMBURG, March Is LP).-A police
sergeant under questioning in q depart
mental trial for political offenses today
whipped out his service revolver and
fired at Herr LasSalys, the government
counselor, wounding him seriously.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Operator Burns to Death.

WEWOKA, Okla, March Is R.-
Horace E. Brough, motion picture oper-
ator, burned to death here last night in
a projection room Aim blaze. The the
ster was cleared without confusion
Damage was estimated at 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
New Spanish Party Formed.

BARCELONA, Spain, March Is up.
Formation of another Left Republican
party in Catalonia was announced to-
day. 1t will be called the Catalonian
Republican Socialist party and will be
the third Republican party in Cata-
lonia.