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Hotel tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock
lie Chapeau Departmental Willette
Preston. with National Pouvoir Repre-
sentative Carolyn Herman, will be pre-
Mrs. Ethel v. Murphy of New York
lie Demi-chapeau National Mrs. Janet
English of Virginia. Department Comdr
F.. G. Fraser, Grand Chief de Care
Francis Miller and Premier Historien
National Paul J. McCiahan will be honor
guests of the evening. Gen. P. c. Har-
ris, the Legion'S national director OF
education of war orphans, Will be
among the guests. with Catherine Vtr-
ginia Hutchins. Helen Black and Louis
deS les Dernier. District participants in
World War scholarships, who also will
be guests of the salon.
Interest in the approaching opening
of the fifth season of the Community
Institute of Washington Tuesday eve
ming in Central High Auditorium is
heightened by the fact that tht artists
of the occasion are Mrs. Louise Homer
Stires. lyric soprano, and her sister
Miss Katherine Homer, both personally
we'll known and popular in musical and
social circles Of the Capital. Mrs. Stires
and Miss Homer are expected to arrive
Sunday morning and will be guests OF
Dr.. and Mrs. John M. Turrentine in
their home on Cathedral avenue.
Additional patrons who will attend
the recital Tuesday include Miss Belle
Sherwin. DR.. and Mrs. George F.
Bowerman. Mrs Henry w. Fitch, Mrs
Stokes Halkett. Mrs. Dana Burand. Mrs
Eugene Hawley Mrs. Paul Henderson
Col. and Mrs. Harry Lee. Mr.. Lynch
Luquer. Mrs. William Mcclellan Ritter
Mrs. Jouett Shouse. Mrs. Robert N. Mel
son. Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, Miss Jessie
Patton. Miss Elizabeth Peet, Capt. and
Mrs. c. A. Carlson. Mrs Frederic T
HaSkin and Mrs. Carrie Byram.
Singers and dancers well known In
Washington society will assist i'll the
program of "SweetheartS of the Ages, y
which the RectorS Aid of ST Margaret
Episcopal Church will present for the
benefit of certain good works and the
poor of the parish Friday evening, Oc-
tober %. in the ball rooms of the Will
lard Hotel Music has been arranged tC
accompany the tableauX which will re-
veal popular girlish types of by-gone
ages throughout the world
A list of distinguished sponsors
headed by lIrS. Edward E. Gam, for
the event also includes Senator and
Mrs Charles L. McNary, Mr. and Mrs
Warren J. Haines. Mrs Delcs A. Blodgett
Mrs Charles Graves Matthews, Miss
Edna Patton, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis E
Pope. Mrs Gwynn Gardiner Mrs
Thomas Wales. Miss Pansy Bloomer
Mrs. John K. Hyde, Mrs Thomas w
Sidwell, Mrs. j. M. Holton, Miss May
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bears the hall mark of 1649. It's old
bell, bearing the inscription, York
Virginia, 1925" has had a remarkable
career. 1t was carried away in the
War Between the States to Philadel-
phia, where it was discovered in a
scrap heap; recast, it was returned to
Yorktown in 1881 1t has occupied its
old place in the belfry since 1889.
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Mrs. Hugh Mclean of Buffalo, NJ Y,
Is passing a few days at the Dodge and
is accompanied by Mrs. Hayden C.
Pratt of Rochester.
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VIRGINIA CHURCHES HOLD
MISSIONS CONFERENCE
Northern Section of State Is Well
Represented at Meeting in
Fairfax County.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, October 10
Virginia churches belonging to the
Washington City Presbytery met last
night with the Falls Church Presby-
terrain Church to observe National Mis-
sionS week. Representatives were pres
ent from Falls Church, Vienna, Nc
Lean. Idylwood, Clifton, Arlington and
Clarendon.
Addresses were made by Dr. E.
Graham Wilson. president of the Board
of National Missions; Mrs. F.. S. Ben
nett. vice president, and Rev. F.. r.
Thorne, a member of the Board of
Christian Education and of the depart
ment Of promotion of the Board Of Ma
tional Missions. Moving pictures of
Porto Rico, Cuba and San Salvador
were shown by DR.. Thorne.
The meeting opened at $50 with
worship services conducted by Rev. A. B.
Altfather of Falls Church. Dinner was
served at $50 by the women of the
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OF honor at a dinner this evening at 9
o'clock at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Many Of the citys business and pro-
fessional men who attribute their phys
ical trim" to Beckett's ministrations
Will attend the dinner Members and
ofncials OF the Y. M. C. A. Joined 10
arranging the testimonial as farewell
dinner to the veteran physical edu-
Gator
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FAMOUS NELSON TOMB
WILL SERVE AS ALTAR
Bishop Thomson Will Omciate at
Episcopal Services in Williams
burg Sunday.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va, October 16.
The large box tomb Of Scotch Tom
Nelson, grandfather Of Gen. Thomas
Nelson of Revolutionary War fame, will
re used as an altar for celebration of
the holy communion by Grace Episco-
pal Church. built about 1893. Owing to
the unusually large attendance expect
ed Sunday, Religious day" at the Ses-
quicentennial, Right Rev. A. C. Thorn
son, Bishop Of Southern Virginia, will
of1ciate, with Suffragan Bishop John
B. Bentley of Alaska and Rev. w. H.
Baird, assistant rector of Bruton
Church in Williamsburg, assisting.
The silver service Of this church
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Falls Church Aid Society. This was
followed by conferences for ministers
and laymen, members of women's mis-
sionary societies and young people and
Sunday school workers.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kilby Of Nyack,
N. Y. are at the Dodge during their
brief stay in the Capital
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Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Granger OF New
York City are at the Carlton for few
days.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
Help for Germany

Measures agreed upon at the London conference
should prevent for a time at least the bankruptcy
Of Germany and the threatened political upheaval
The world will breathe easier as a consequence.
1t is idle to pretend, however that they are more
than temporary measures to meet the present
emergency the seriousness of which is attested by
the fact that the statesmen of the seven powers found
it necessary to get together to come to Germany's
rescue and that they were able to reach an agreement
quickly.
While the headlong plunge of Germany toward
economic and political chaos has been checked
fundamentally the situation in Europe remains little
changed
The central banks will renew for three months
the credit of $100OOOOOO recently granted the Reichs-
bank. Governments will ask their bankers to stop
the withdrawal of shortterm credits which has been
draining Germany of its financial resources, re-
quest which doubtless will be acceded to readily
since the bankers stand to lose if Germany goes
under Consideration will be given to possible further
credit needs of Germany and the conversion of
short-time into long time loans.
Germany will not get at this time the new and
large loan she has said is essential But it is hoped
action OF the conference, coupled with the repara-
tions moratorium, will enable her to overcome her
difficulties and restore her credit.
Spokesman for the powers including President
Hoover, naturally expressed qualification at the out
come OF the conference. Even Chancellor Bruening
professed 20 be happy at the measure of assistance
extended although he will return home with empty
pockets, which is not calculated to strengthen the
already precarious position Of his government.
The conference itself realized that the work of
putting Germany its feet only was started. This
Is indicated by the statement that IF these measures
are carried through, they will form the basis of more
permanent action to follow"
Permanent action, it is presumed, will include the
reduction OF armamentS, which the cause of most
OF Europes troubles, and which the conference un-
fortunately did not touch upon. 1t will of necessity
include readjustment of debts and reparations
payment OF which is due to be resumed year hence
Permanent action to accomplish lasting results
also will require the settlement of the differences be-
tween France and Germany. There are numerous but
not insurountable obstacles to this beginning was
made in conversations at Paris and London and
France has shown some evidences of modifying her
truculency.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-And now we are to
have "pee-Wee" fishing holes! Mr..
Carter of Danville, proposes to build
an angling pool on Westheld boule-
ward to take the uncertainty out of
fishing. What a laudable idea!
What high craftsmanship!
Perhaps the board of zoning ap-
peals had no choice but to grant the
petition. The only objections came
from neighbors who fear intrusions
upon their peace and quiet.
But if there was a single died-ia-
the-Wool angler who didn't feel con-
tempt more than amusement as he
read that announcement, 1 miss my
guess.
We f1shermen-yeS I'm one of 'em
may be liars, but we're not bum
sports. We like to get out along
some quiet stream and do a bit of
silent coInnluning with ourselves
and nature while we watch a bob
bing cork or a wabbling plug come
up out of a shady pool.
We may forget our line as we
watch a muskrat paddle along and
dive under the opposite bank; q
water snake glide leisurely to the
Overhanging branches of a willow to
sun itself, or a terrapin stick an
inquiring nose out of the water at
our feet.
We match our wits with our
quarry in what we think is an even
break. And when darkness steals
down and the bullfrogs begin their
chorus, we turn home, immensely
gratifled, fish or no fish.
Maybe we're too sentimental, but
we anglers think fellow gets
little closer to himself and to his
Maker when he's "hshin'" than
when he's sinking puts on velvety
greens. But I'm not arguing that
with the golfer.
Now what are we to have? We
can go to Mr.. Carter's fish-prison,
pay our way and get a rod and
baited hook! We can draw up an
easy chair to the side of the pool,
have the boy adjust the sunShads,
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
Bond Issue Needed

IN EALIZING that one plan is
N not necessarily as good as an
other, and that we already have
been offered one hundred times as
many as could be read, much less
carried out, I still believe in the
suggestion made last fall.
Let the federal government
authorize a bond issue to be loaned
to states, counties and cities at low
rates of interest and expended by
them for such projects and I'M
provements as they are prepared TO
undertake Immediately.
In my judgment, there is no other
way to make huge amount OF
money available for local work, and
local work is essential.
This idea of relieving unemploy-
ment by building roads 500 or 1000
miles away doesn't mean much TO
those who lack the railroad fare.
For one, I never have had much
faith in purely federal projects as a
means of providing work in gen
eral sense.
Nationwide unemployment and
distress calls for a scheme of relief,
nationwide in character, which will
be effective not only in all sections
but in hundreds upon hundreds OF
small communities.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

most of the attention of the phySi-
clan is likely to be centered on the
stomach and the intestines. It will
be found, however, that these Or
ganS are normal and that the chief
reason for the difficulty lies in the
beginning weakness of the heart.
Among the most serious symptoms
Of this disease, from the point of
view of the patient, is the develop
ment Of severe pain in the region
Of the heart called angina pectoriS.
There are some cases in which
the pain is not referred directly to
the heart, but over to the gallblad-
der region or to the middle of the
abdomen, SO that the patient and
his physician fear gallbladder in
flammation, gallstones, or even ap-
pendicitis, whereas the disturbance
is primarily beginning failure and
breakdown Of the heart.
Newspapers report repeatedly the
sudden death Of some business man
or captain Of industry from acute
indigestion. DR.. David Riesman
Classics such cases as cases of op-
pressive type Of heart disease.
The patient on walking feels a
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
A Prohibition Tragedy

Two Of the best agents of the prohibition
department in this state are dead, killed in
an attempted capture of bootlegger.
These particular agents had records for
uncovering real criminals in this traffic
They were not content to catch the small ped
dler. They went for the forces that are back
of the gangster. They had a reputation for
going to the bottom. They did not look for
tools, but for principals.
That makes the killings not only lamen-
table, but, perhaps, significant. Very few
agents who have been blind have been killed.
For years there had been traffic in alco-
hol from Clinton county. 1t had reached the
proportions of an established and gigantic
business. Great stills, costing thousands, had
operated. Trucks were never molested
Shipments of sugar to that city would have
suggested to any alert investigator the facts
that one of these men found very easily and
which resulted in raids. Whether it has
stopped the business in that section is doubt
full. But few men went to jail.
1t is peculiar, at least, to discover that
these agents met death in what was ap-
parently very easy raid and a very easy
capture.
The facts of the killing disclose that the
government employs in it's service convicted
bootleggers and places them on the payroll.
That may be necessary. But apparently the
bootleg industry does not resent these men.
They escape. The wise are killed. The honest
die.
1t is to be hoped that the government
which demands death as the price of enforc-
ing a law will probe these killings to the very
bottom Every device known to the detection
of crime should be employed, including bal
listic experts.
These murders suggest very strongly
that prohibition has created war condition
in this country. Gangsters in the employ of
those who grow rich through law violation
flourish. The consumption of liquor increases.
It's tragedies multiply. If the liquor traffic
was curse before prohibition it now be-
comes menace to every established insti-
tuition of government.
We now have reached the stage where
the efficient government servant can expect
death. The inefficient and the crooked and the
venal are immune.
Apparently the matter has gone far be-
yond the question of whether men shall
drink or not drink. 1t challenges the stabil-
ity of government itself.
A real probe of these killings may disclose
more than was revealed by the Wickersham
commission.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
On Skunk Oil

With certain sadness that comes from relinquish-
ing another illusion, we learn from lengthy gov
ernment report just issued that skunk oil is after
all, not a panacea for the ills of horsefesh.
DR.. H. E. Moskey, United States veterinarian has
made an exhaustive study Of the claim Of a New York
dealer in raw furs that skunk oil will cure strangIes
remove fever from the feet, prevent quarter
remedy sore throat and even correct isshapen hoof5
DR.. Moskey finds that skunk oil will hurt neither
man nor beast, that it has the other hand the
virtue of rather imposing odor that gives the pur-
chaser that the product is authentic and
thereby prevents fraudulent imitation
But otherwise, the government says, in effect skunk
oil is much useful to skunks than to horses.
With this problem out of the way, the government
scientists may turn their inteecs upon the depression
foreign trade tariffs, unemployment, equalization Of
wealth. taxes and other lesser problems confronting
Mr. Hoovers administration.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
Start Right Now

TITO begin with, all Governors of
4 states, mayors Of cities, county
commissioners and heads of other
political subdivisions or districts
should be asked what projects and
improvements they are prepared to
undertake and how much money
they could use legitimately.
Their replies would determine the
amount of bonds the federal gov
ernment should issue.
Meanwhile, a plan Of payment,
supervision, interest charges and
time of maturity could be formu-
lated.
There is no reason why the
proposition couldn't be worked up
and put into effect within three
months, provided a start werernade
right now and a special session of
congress called for the latter part
of September, OF early in October.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
DE AOONTv KENESAW
NLEAOO1N M. LANDS

XXTE were down to the hospital yesterday to OBJ
wv serve the convalescence of our good and mutual
friend, when we were disturbed by the ringing of
ouance sirens announcing the arrival in critical cod
ton of two women injured in automobile crash
through ones criminal negligence. Before We
left the hospital one Of the women had died.
We did not find out the man was at fault but the
chances are he can not pay tenth of the material
damage he has caused. so long as human reckless
exists there will always be certain risk of life
and limb the highways of this state, but it certainly
nexcusable that the victim should be forced to pay
for his injuries
livery man who drives car should take out La
Z bility insurance otherwise he is placing at his
discretion not only anothers life and health but also
his savings account be it ever so humble At it's next
session the Indiana legislature will have the oppor
tunty of following the lead Of other states by passing
a compulsory liability insurance law. May it do So
They had an earthquake down in Ecuador the
other day which leveed whole town. We never heard
hope the natives got all they could out of this
about the only compensation of passing through
catastrophe is the opportunity OF reading about it.
XXTE passed through an earthquake a little over
w year ago, and while it caused no great dam
age it was sufficiently vibrating to make want
to it mentioned in print. 1t out in Cali
fornia it was during our first week there and being
very naive in that sunny lands quaint customs,
looked for account of the happening in the next
days newspapers.
We shall never forget how we picked up the Los
Angeles Times and found nothing on the first page
but the Communist menace, and nothing the
ond but account of the latest adventure OF Sister
aimee Finally, in the second section, immersed in
the weather report a short sentence on seisno-
graphic temors. California, the perfect advertiser,
knows not only how to embellSh, hpt above all, hoy
to- cover up
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
Cabinet in Peril

TT is true that the elders" have
L refused to call a session Of the
German reichstag, but by an un-
comfortably narrow margin. The
petition for it, filed by Communists,
NationaIists and National Socialists,
needed 267 votes. 1t received 243,
which means that only twenty-tour
stood between the government and
the coalition opposing it.
That coalition, though formed OF
divergent and irreconciliable ele-
ments, has one common cause-re-
pudiation Of the reparations settle
ment. :,
If twenty-four reichstag "elders"
change their minds, the German
cabinet will fall, with Communists
and Nationalists fighting for con-
troll Of the next one and reparatlon
payments stopped, no matter who
wins.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24

Frank c. Oman, the "honest cattleman" upon
whose testimony Tom Mooney was convicted of mur-
der and sentenced to the galows is dead in Durkee,
Ore.
We would like to SAY nothing but good of the
dead" and remain silent upon this mans guilt. Since
he died without confessing truth and justice to the
living compel frankness on the part of those who
know the role he played in the nations worst ju-
dicial scandal
without Oxmans testimony Mooney would not
have been convicted. Billings, an ex-convict, had
been found guilty but the array of human derelicts
the prosecution produced as witnesses had raised
such doubts that even Billings prosecutor had re-
fused to ask the death penalty.
For the Mooney trial there was only one "eye-
witness" to place Mooney at the explosion scene the
confessed perjurer Macdonald. Suddenly appeared
Oxman apparently rich and respectable, who said
he saw the defendants planting the letha suitcase
and who with an air of simple honesty identified
them The defense was stunned the jury convinced
After Mooney was sentenced to hang, and his
appeal was pending there came to light an astound-
ing conspiracy Letters produced by the defense
in Oxman's admitted handwriting, in which he had
urged friend, Ed Rigall of GRANVILLE, Ill., to cum
to San Frico as an expurt witness in the Mooney
case
'rYou will only hafto answer 3 & questions"
rxnan wrote Rigall "and I will coach you on them
rYou will get mileage and all that witness
draw probably 100 in cleare" Another letter, show
ing that Oman knew Rigau in San Francisco
at the time said: "I thought you can make trip
and see California"
Rigan went to San Francisco on money Oman
sent him. There he was wined and dined by the
prosecution and coached by Oxman to say that he
had seen Oxman in San Francisco and also the
defendants in the mythical Ford on Market street.
1t was too much for the GRANVILLE pool room
He refused to go through.
He told Oxman that he in Niagara Falls on
the day of the explosion and that OXnan knew he
wasn't in San Francisco.
We'll" Oman is reported to have said to Rigau,
syou we're here as much was" Rigall left on
the eve of the trial for GRANVILLE and there told the
story TO lawyer friend, who told it to the defense
Oxnan was arrested on charge of subordnation
of perjury His trial a farce with United States
Senator Sam Shortridge defending him and Short
ridges best friend, Raymon Benjamin, acting
special prosecutor"
Oxnans defense was that Rigall held out page
of his letter in which he had told Rigall not to
II he hadn't been in San Francisco on the fatal day
Rigan denied this.
Far from believing in Oxnlan's innocence the peo-
pie Of San Francisco started recall against District
Attorney Fickert the basis of the Oxman revela-
tions. On the morning of the election bomb was
exploded under wing of the Governors mansion
Ia Sacramento.
The, morning papers reported it as pot Of
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24
Questions and
Answers

When a man is discharged from
the army, does he receive his fare
back to the place where he enlisted?
The travel pay is 5 cents per mile
from the place of discharge to the
place Of acceptance.
What kind Of acid is In ripe to-
matOes?
Chiefly citric acid.
Why is Texas called "the lone star
state? =
For a short time it was a republic,
and its flag had one star on a blue
field which was continued on the
state flag. The nickname is derived
from the flag.
On what day of the week did
Woodrow Wilson die?
Sunday. Feb. 5, 1924.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-07-24

sudden sense of oppression against
the upper part Of the chest or in
the middle Of the abdomen; if he
stops walking and rests. the condi-
ton passes off sometimes with the
belching Of gas.
The trouble appears to be mild,
and the person is likely to pay not
the slightest attention to it. 1t re-
sembles, however, the condition
called angina pectoris but without
the pain.
In such cases, an examination
would probably have indicated a
beginning disturbance Of the heart
months before, but the patient likely
passes these attacks as being due
to temporary indigestion.
DR.. Riesman points out that a
catastrophe might have been fore
seen or suspected if the patient had
been asked repeatedly as to the
pains and the symptoms, and if the
most delicate means Of examination,
including the use Of the electrocar-
diograph, had been used before the
patient had been given clean bill
of health.