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DECLARES KING MUST GO.
Catalonlan Separatist Leader Fears
Bloody Dictatorship.

BARCELONA, April Is R.-Col
Francisco Macia, Catalonian Separatist
leader in a speech to a crowd celebrat-
ing the Republican victory in yesterdays
polls, declared that King Alfonso
must CO.
otherwise" he said, che will be
obliged to form a dictatorship which
would be bloody because the people
would rise against it,"
Col. Macia telegraphed Niceto Alcala
zamora, Republican leader, hailing him
as President of the provisional govern
ment of Spain.
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Lothrop Ames, Boston, Mass: Mrs.
James Ross Todd, Louisville, KY; Mrs.
Graham Dougherty, Philadelphia, Pa;
Mrs. Eliza Hugeh Andreini, Charleston,
S. c.: Mrs. Houston Whiteside, Kansas
City, Kans.: Mrs Gertrude Bowler. She
boygan, Wis: Mrs. w. e. Norvell, IT..
Nashville, Tenn; Mrs. Henry B. Joy,
Crosse Point, Mich; Mrs. Lawrence
ODonovan, Talladega. Ala; Mrs. Lucius
Robinson, jr., Hartford, Conn; Mrs
Rowland G. Paynter, Georgetown, Del;
Mrs. Leslie Wheeler, Chicago, H.; Mrs
Jaqueline S. Holiday, Indianapolis,
Ind; Mrs. c. Baker Clotworthy, Balti-
more, Md; Mrs. Frederick M. Alger, De-
troit, Mich. Mrs. Ford w. Thompson,
st. Louis, Mo-; Mrs. w. A. Simons, Mis-
soula, Mont; Mrs. Ward w. Pickard,
Nutley, N. j.; Mrs. John S. Sheppard
New York City; Mrs. w. N Harriss, VIII
mington, N. c.; Mrs. George Hoadly,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. L. L. Leventritt,
Tulsa, Okla; Mrs. David Honeyman,
Portland. Greg; Mrs. Charles Warren
Lippitt, Providence, r. l.: Mrs. Florence
Rodgers. Dallas, Tex; Mrs. George
Orvis, Manchester, VT; Mrs. Algernon
S. Craven, Greenwood, Va, and Mrs.
William Brewster, Louisburg. w. va.
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THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair and warm
er tonight and tomorrow, moderate
southwest winds.
Maryland-Fair, warmer in east and
central portions tonight and tomorrow,
moderate southwest winds.
Virginia-Falr tonight and tomor-
row, warmer tomorrow and in north and
west portions tonight; gentle variable
winds
West virginia-Fair tonight and to-
morrow, warmer tonight and in east
| portion tomorrow
Record for A Hours.
Saturday: Thermometers pm, Sc;
pm, "a; IL midnight. SIS.
Barometer pm, BOLT; 8 pm,
1923; IL midnight, 1894
Sunday: Thermometers am, as; s
am, AZ; noon, So: 2 pm, 56; pm,
| 60; 8 pm, So: II midnight, 48.
Barometer-4 am, 30.42; 8 am,
30.53; noon, 30.49: pm, 30.47; 4 pm,
3O.42; pm, 30.41; IL midnight, 30.43.
Today Thermometers am, Al; 8
am, IS; noon, So.
( Barometer-4 am, 3O.46: 8 am.
30.44; noon, $685.
Highest temperature, 81, occurred at
pm, April IL.
Lowest temperature, 40, occurred at
4
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 81; lowest, so.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey)
Today-Low tide, 1l:40 am. and
ll:56 PM; high tide, ass am. and
1omorrow-Low tide-am. and 1890
pm; high tide, 5:42 am. and 6:05 n m
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 5:36 am: sun sets
6:42 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 5:35 am; sun
sets 6:43 pm.
Moon rises 1852 am; sets 2:41 nm.
automobile lamps to be lighted one
nalt hour after sunset.
Rainfall.
Comparative figures of the monthly
rainfall in the Capital for the first four
months against the average is shown IL,
the following table:
Average. 1oa1
January. 3.55 ms. January 4 se In.
rreDruary...3.27 ms. February ..I.36 ins
March ....3.75 ms. March .350 ms
April. ..3.27 ms. April ...206 ms
Record rainfall for the first four
months were: AoUA
January, 1882. TOO inches: February
1884, 6.34 inches; March. 1901 a.
incnes; April, 1889. 913 inches.
Weather in Various Cities.
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ne was SDOCkeQ
and S aid the
p ople down
here were "just
W a lilo wing in
sin" and he was
going to intro
duce a bill In
Congress to re-
move the canal
to go between
c e d a r Rapids
and Des Moines,
so the people
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MUSIC AIDS DRIVE
FOR GIRLS SCHOOL
Total of $1,000 Reported
After Entertainment at
the Auditorium.

An elaborate program Of music fea-
tured benefit entertainment for the
National Training School for Women
and Girls at Lincoln Heights northeast
in the Washington Auditorium yester-
day.
With additional money raised yester-
day. the total sought in campaign to
raise $4,000 for the school reached
more than $1,000 it was reported today.
The funds are to be used to make pay
ments on the trades hall at the school,
Miss Mamie H. Burroughs, president
Of the school. explained. Dr. John r.
Hawkins, treasurer of the drive, re-
ported sum of $4,000 in hand at yes
terday's meeting.
Representative Oscar DePriest of Illi-
nois, in an address delivered after the
musical program, paid glowing tribute
TO the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth
r. B. Harrison, who attained fame in
the Pulitzer prize play as de Lawd, y
addressed the meeting. The program
of music included selections by the fol-
lowing: Louise r. Burge, contralto; the
National Training School Octet: Lester
Dorsey, baritone; the Women's Glee
Club of Howard University violin selec-
tons by Louise Vaughan Jones, and
music by the Bordentown Band.
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Republicans, IA Monarchists: Gijon, 81
Republicans, 9 Monarchists; Santiago
De Compostela, 10 Republicans, Is
Monarchists; in Cadiz it was believed
chat the final computation would show
more than 80 Monarchists returned and
only 80 Republicans.
Aznar Scouts Dictatorship.
Premier Aznar denied this afternoon
that dictatorship was probable. mo
one is thinking of such a thing" he
said. The premier said he had in
formed the King of the results of the
elections and that in his opinion the
results indicated "a complete disaster. -
Don Niceto Alcala Zamora, Republic
an leader, who recently was court
martialed for his connection with the
revolution of last December, declared
today that he was "overjoyous"
Il am proud CT being Spaniard after
this" he said. 1T is matter of great
pride to me to see how the citiZenry
has shown its civic courage and its
political wisdom. The government
should now resign and save the coun-
try more worry and struggle. 1t would
be the best way to show that it wants
peace and order. Even If a new cabinet
is formed, it will not now save the
monarchy from impending disaster,
since the people, in solemn referen-
dunn, showed they are against mon
archial rule"
Sources very close to the government
said the cabinet, at meeting late this
afternoon, would decide whether to an
nounce its resignation Immediately or
postpone it pending further study of
the possibilities.
Rumors that the King might abdi-
cate were persisting in many quarters.
DECLARES KING MUST GO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13

period of three weeks and many were
killed and wounded. This was climaxed
by the revolt Of the garrison at Jaca
in December. Capt Ramon Franco,
Spanish premier aviator. participated in
a republican movement soon after.
Although Capt. Franco escaped into
Portugal, Niceto Alcala zamora, for
mer minister of war, and other leaders
were court-martialed and sentenced to
prison terms. but were pardoned.
Meanwhile, Premier Berenguer had re-
signed and Juan Bautista Aznar Sc
lected to succeed him. He was greeted
with student uprisings in Madrid and
other cities, demanding the formation
OF a republic and the end of the mon
archy.
In spite Of these events, the govern
ment announced the municipal cleo
tons would be held as scheduled-the
hrst In eight years-and that its pro-
gram aiming at parliamentary cleo
ton in June would proceed Whether
the June election, in view of yesterdays
results. will be held remains to be
seen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
FOREIGN
Will Rogers
Says:

PANAMA. - Senator Brookhardt
has just been down at Panama and
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SEVEN LOSE LIVES
| IN PLANE CRASHES
Another Receives Fractured
Skull in Fall as 1000
Spectators Look On.
BY the Associated Press.


Airplane accidents caused the deaths
Of seven pilots or their passengers Sun
day.
George Vein, chief pilot for the
Curtiss- Wright Airport at Milwaukee,
and his mechanic, Carl Jantz, were
killed when control wire snapped on
their pane and sent them crashing 800
feet to the ground.
The right wing of the craft piloted
by Gertin A. Munsan, 80, .buckled as a
left bank was attempted, and Munson
and w. H. Portman, "a, we're killed at
Houston, Tex.
At Sodus, N. Y, Hugh Shipley, Put
NEVILLE farmer, and Homer Potwine,
garage employee, riding in a plane
piloted by Robert Loope, were killed in
fall from an altitude of 800 feet.
Loope was uninjured, but was SO nervous
following the fall that he could not give
a correct account of the fatal dive.
Walter Prick, 26, secretary of the
Gray Eagle Flying Service, of Marion,
Ill, was killed when stunning at the
Marion Airport. He nose-dived from
an altitude of 1000 feet and when he
tried to level at 200 feet the motor
missed fire.
william Davis, AZ, suffered a frac-
tured skull and crushed right leg in
fall of 500 feet before 1000 specta-
tors at Hasbrouck, NJ j. He was flying
one of five airplanes of French manu-
facture brought to this country by
Charles Levine
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OFTEN ESCAPED AssAssINs.
Strikes and Instructions Frequent In
Reign of Spanish King.

Reign of Spanish King.
BY the Associated Press.
King Alfonso has escaped numerous
attempts against his life, weathered
widespread strikes and put down insllr-
rections of increasing vigor against the
government since he assembled the
throne in 1902. Because of the death
of his father he became King at his
birth, n 1887, but did not begin his rule
until he was Is years Of age, Queen
Maria Christina acting for him as
regent in the meantime.
The establishment of a dictatorship
in 1928 under Gen. Primo de Rivera
ushered in period of growing unrest
against the monarchy, expressing itself
in the rising tide Of Republicanism and
eliminating in demands from Repub-
lican circles that the King should abdi-
cate. Gen. De Rivera resigned in jan
uary, 1890, because of i'll health and
lack of confidence on the part of the
King.
The appointment of Gen Danasn
Berenguer as premier failed to allay
the dissenSion, a general strike was de-
clared throughout the nation. Civilians
and police clashed in Madrid over a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
Authority on Latin Dies.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 10
R1.-Prof Kristoffer Nyrop, widely
known authority on Latin languages,
died here today at the age of 70. His
books were accepted as standard texts
throughout the world. He was an
honorary member of the Modern Lam
guage Association of America
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
FIRE DAMAGE is ST, 900
Two Canaries and Dog Suffocate in
Fou- N Street Home.

Fire originating from spontaneous
combustion in the basement Of the home
Of Clayton Baus, 6019 Fourth street,
caused $1,000 damage and resulted in
the sufocation of two canaries and a
dog.
An adjoining home, owned by Arthur
Hipsley. was slightly damaged. No one
was at the Baus residence when the fire
broke out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
OUTDOOR GAMES TOPIC

Play Institute Meeting VIII Have
Demonstration Tonight.
A discussion and demonstration Of
outdoor games viii be held at o'clock
tonight at a meeting of the 1891 Play
Institute in Wilson Teachers College.
Eleventh and Harvard streets.
Leaders on tonight's program include
D. d. Withers Of the District of Column
bia Boy Scouts, Miss Ella Gardner, rec
reation executive of the Children's
Bureau of the Labor Department, and
Miss Mabel r. Cook, Girl Reserve execu-
tive of the Y. w. G. A.
The next session of the institute win
be held April 20.
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KuERTErs TRIAL BEGINS
Alleged Slayer and Attacker OF
German Women Arraigned.

DUEsSELDoRF. Germany, April Is
R).-The trial Of Peter Kuerten, At
year-old workman and alleged perpetra-
tor Of a series of mysterious murders
and attacks against women here last
year, was begun today.
In spite of the number and violence
Of the crimes Kuerten is alleged to have
committed. he was not apprehended
until letter which went astray was in-
tercepted by police some time later.
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here asked me TO come down to
offset Brookhardt and / kinder
wanted 10 see (and perhaps join in
the wallowing). I will say this for
the folks down here, they are not
wallowing in the canal. I few in
here yesterday from Costa RIGA and
/ haven't seen the canal yet and
can't find anybody that knows where
It is. There is one great, thing about
the tropics-it gives YOU o great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02
By ]. Frank Dobie,
A4or of "Corouados Children and several special articles
for The Sunday Stars Magazine.
Paintings for This Article by Stockton milford.

thickest part of the bone behind, evidently at
one blow. and with sufficient force to throw
out extensive cracks like those of starred glass;"
OF all the characters connected with pioneer
history in the southwest, James Bowie comes
nearer being unauthorized legend than any
other. He did nothing really great or con-
structive; yet his name has probably been more
widely popularized than that Of the truly great
and constructive founder of the Texas republic,
Stephen F. Austin. He affected little, If at
all, the destiny of a nation, and merely scrap
Of his paper survives yet the stories that sprang
up about him are second in number only to
those about the voluble and spectacular Sam
Houston. He is remembered popularity for three
things: First, his brave death in the Alamo,
fighting for Texas independence; second, his
supposed connection with lost Spanish mine
on the San Saba River, which came to bear
Bowies name, and which today, after thou
sands of men over a period close to a hundred
years have vainly sought to find it, is yet the
object of ardent search; third, the knife which
bears his name-and which, to many people,
symbolizeS his character.
AL three of these claims to remembrance are
wrapped in legend. The traditional tales, some
of them truly extraordinary, centering around
the Lost Bowie Mine, would, If compiled, I'LL
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q volume. History is clear as to Bowie's part
In the Alamo, but the best stories about him
there do not get into documented histories.
Nor do the tales Of how he Succored abused
slaves, took the part of bullied preachers, and
rescued wronged women. But our subject is
the Bowie knife.
The known facts about James Bowies early
life are that he was born in Tennessee in 1795,
two years later than his distinguished brother,
Rein P. Bowie, and that in 1902 he came with
his parents and their numerous progeny to
Louisiana. The name Bowie at that time was
already more than century old in Maryland
and had been known for two generations in
Virginia and South Carolina, the several
branches Of the family having shot out from
a stout clan Of Scottish Highlanders. The
male members of it-hard riding, hard headed,
well propertied, decently educated, contentious
in politics, and ready to die In adherence to
the code of the Cavaliers-generally deserved
the epithet given to them, ''the fighting
Bowies."
THE pair that reared James were equal to
j holding their own In q wilderness where
turbulent men were made more turbulent by
the confusios 90 land claims following the
Louisiana purcnase. On one occasion Rein
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Bowie, ST., father of James, in defending his
land against gang of squatters, killed one OF
them. He was arrested, charged with mans
slaughter, and put in jail to await trial. Mrs.
Bowie, accompanied by slave, rode on horse
back to the jail, demanded entrance, and
entered. In few minutes she and her hus-
band reappeared, each armed with q brace OF
pistols While the jailer retreated they
mounte5 the horses in waiting and rode away.
It is not recorded that Rein Bowie was again
molested. Years later, when this wife and
mother was told how her son had been killed
by Mexicans in the Alamo, she calmly re-
marked, "I1l wager no wounds were found In
his back"
In time James Bowie and his brother Rein
came to own and operate great sugar planta-
ton on Bayou Lafourche, called Arcadia.
Meantime John j., third brother, had moved
to Arkansas and established large plantation.
Jim Bowie was man Of surprising vigor, OF
heedlong energy and of great ambition to lead.
He was feet tall and all muscle. He roped
and rode giant alligators for fun. Generally
polite and courteous, in anger he appeared
"like an enraged tiger" He was somehow con-
nected with Dr. Longs flibustering schemes
against Mexico and, with one or more Of his
brothers, he seems to have carried on an
extensive business in slave smuggling. The
Bowies are said to have bought blacks from
the pirate LATTE on Galveston Island at q
dollar pound. On one occasion, says the his
torian Thrall, Jim Bowie while driving 30 OF
his purchases through the swamps Of Louisiana.
lost the entire band Thereafter he prepared
himself against similar disaster by wearing
three or four knives so that he could transix
any Negro that tried to run away. Jerking
knife VS. quicker by far than reloadinH o
Is5zs& risiu& =, the muzze. big JIM" as they
called him, showed the knife men" among
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- through long centuries of warning,
certain weapons of the Old World,
like King Arthur's "Excalibur" and
Siegmund's great sword "Ciram." be-
came the subjects of legends and Of
songs that have made them inn
mortal Their solitary counterpart in the New
World, before Six-Shooter and law-abiding
habits supplanted its use, was the Bowie knife.
The knife'S origin Is wrapped in fable as fan
tastic as that recounting how the dwarf smiths
forged for the old Morse gods; its use Is
memorialized in a cycle Of dark and bloody
legends yet told all over the southwest And
certainly the Bowie knife was once as impor-
eant to the frontiersman as q steady eye.
It the rule to "use a knife and save
powder and lead" The Bowie knife was the
best possible knife to use, and knife-throwing
and thrusting were arts to be exceled in, as
well shooting and wrestling. Indeed, many
frontiersmen regarded any other weapon than
the knife, for work in close quarters, as "ht
only for the weakly" Bowie himself, it is
claimed, could juggle number of knives in
the air at the same time and at 20 PAGES send
one through a small target of thick wood
Tor dozens of purposes the Bowie knife was
"aS handy as a shirt pocket" Its hard
bone or horn handle was often used as kind
of pestle to grind coffee beans The blade,
sometimes as heavy as a Mexican machete,
served to hack limbs from trees and to cut
underbrush, as well as to dress and skin game.
Tradition has it that in the bottle Of San
Jacinto the Texans killed more Mexicans with
the Bowie knife than with bullets. An English
man named Hooten, who visited Texas few
years after the battle and Straightway wrote
book, said: ST have myself seen skulls Of
Mexcans brought in from the battle-ground Of
San Jacinto that were cleft nearly through the
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NITRATE COMBINE
PLANS ADVANCING.
Loan viii Help Finance
$3R, 900, 600 Chilean
Proposal.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 16-Pablo
Ramirez, chairman of the special Chill
can Commission now in New York said
in a statement yesterday that negotia-
tons looking to the creation OF the
$375, 100000, Chilean nitrate combine
were proceeding satisfactorily"
He denied a report from Santiago
that a 1925, oOo, 900 loan had been ar
ranged with New York bankers, saying
the figure was fantastic" He said the
amount of the eventual loan had not
yet been discussed.
His statement was the first informa-
ton from an official source that loan
will be one feature Of the financing
now being discussed by the commits
sion with representatives of the Gug-
genheins, who, through the Anglo
Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corpora
ton, own a preponderating interest In
nitrate properties in the South Amerl-
can country.
Under the plan now being considered
by the conferees, the Chilean govern
ment will become a partner In the en-
terprise, in consideration for which 1t
will remit the tax on nitrates, which
for the last three years has averaged
$50 900 900. The conferences have been
in progress for several weeks. It was
said that the conferees are hopeful Of
reaching an accord on the many de-
tails involved in the plan, but that
nothing further could be said at this
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
ATTORNEY NAMED
TO CHAMBER POST
Thomas P. Littlepage Elected
Vice President-0thef Of
ficerS Are Advanced.

Thomas P. L.ittlepage, local attorney,
was elected second vice president Of the
Washington Chamber Of Commerce at
a special meeting of the board of di-
rectorS Of the organization today, TO
I'LL the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton Of Rudolph Jose as president and
the incident elevation of officers next
in line.
Harry King, as a resIlt Of the &C
ceptance Of the directors of Mr.. Jose's
resignation, is now president of the
chamber, while George A. @. Wood,
second vice president, was elevated to
the post of first vice president, pre-
viously held by Mr.. King.
The directors in accepting a report
of special committee, headed by Mar
tin A. Leese, which had called upon
Mr.. Jose to ask a reconsideration of his
resignation submitted Monday. voted
that letter expressing the deep regret
Of the chamber at the resignation Of
the president and voicing also the keen
appreciation of the body for his civic
work be sent to the retiring officer.
Mr.. Jose is president of the Wash
ington Cadillac Co., which filed appli-
cation in voluntary bankruptcy in the
District Supreme Court this week. He
had been elected to the presidency Of
the chamber at its october meeting
last year to succeed Charles w. Darr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
SCHOOL PLANNING DANCE

A dance will be given by the Aneri-
canization School Association at the
Elks' Hall January 20.
Judge Walter T. Mccoy is president
of the association. S. II. HanesSian, vice
president: Walter Lutz, secretary, and
Albert Blum, chairman Of the Recre-
alton Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
"STORM SONG" STAR ILL
Show Hats as Pneumonia Threat
ems Francine Larrimore.

Because Of the illness Of Franctne
Larrimore, who is said to be threatened
with pneumonia, presentation Of Storm
Song" OF which she is the star, has
been discontinued ct the National
Theater.
Miss Larrimore became Ill Monday
evening, but insisted On appearing In
the play, which Is o new one. Despite
the fact her condition steadily grew
worse, she persisted In portraying her
role until Wednesday evening, when she
nearly collapsed
DR.. Sterling Rufan, who examined the
star. ordered her to bed at once. She
has since been confined TO her room, In
the Carlton Hotel
Purchasers Of tickets for the show are
having their money refunded, according
to officials Of the theater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED
Broker Alleges Plot TO Withheld
Commission In sale.

Charging conspiracy to prevent him
from collecting his fun brokers COM
mission On 0, sale Of Q number Of oil
stations from the Taylor Kornan Co.
to the Texas Co.. r. Owen Edmonston,
jr., real estate broker, 1924 Vermont
avenue, today fled suit In the District
Supreme Court to recover SIS, 900 DAM
ages from both corporations.
Through Attorney william c. Sui
Ivan the broker also asked S25 900
additional damages from Harry G. Tay-
Tor, John A. Norman and NJ. K. Robert
son, the latter said TO be a repre-
sentative Of the Texas Co. A similar
conspiracy Is charged against the In
dividuals.