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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
NAVY CUT REPORTS
DENIED BY JAHNCKE
Acting Secretary Unaware
of Any to Reduce Roster
Under Present 1890.

Reports published today that the en-
listed strength Of the Navy would be
cut to $4,000 men In an effort TO slash
$50 ,000,0o from the 1888 naval budget
were denied this afternoon by Acting
Secretary Ernest Lee Jahncke in a
formal statement.
Il am not aware of any plan at
present on the part OF the Navy OF
40 administration to slash enlisted
personnel strength TO $4,000 men, -
Jahncke asserted. TIE T1avys Waaa.&
enlisted strength approximates $500,
and this represents reduction OF 1890,
effected by a new fleet operating plan
announced by the Navy last October.
This new fleet operating plan pro-
yides for about as low limit of
operating strength as was compatible
with efficiency. It was voluntary re-
duction, with subsequent saving of
about $1l 900 600. The personnel re-
duction was made with the hope that
AS new ships might be commissioned
we would be permitted 10 add to our
operating personnel as the necessity
requires"
The opinion that the Nays person.
mel would have to be- increased at the
end of the present fiscal year was ex-
pressed today by naval officials. who
pointed out that next August the
l0.000-ton cruisers Portland and In
dianapelis will be placed in commission.
They will be followed in 1893 by the
New Orleans, Astoria and Minneapolis,
and In 1884 by the Tuscaloosa and
San Francisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
JURY GETS LURAY
DEATH CASE TODAY
Herbert ]. Minor Says He Was
Drunk and Doesn't Remem-
Der Killing.
Special Dispatch TO The star

SPECIAL Dispateh 10 Ihe star,
LURAY, Va. August THE trial of
Herbert j. Minor, jr.. for the murder Of
James Lucas the morning OF May % was
begun here yesterday in the Circuit
Court. with Attorney Walton, assisted by
Charles Hammer Of Harrisonburg. for
the prosecution. and Lynn Lucas. assist
ed by II. v. Strayer. for the defense.
A jury was secured ia so minutes.
The prosecution put Mrs. Lucas. the
widow and only eyewitness: her father
and others. including DR.. Waff OF Shen-
and0all and DR.. Wright OF Harrisonburg,
on the stand. Testimony showed that
Minor visited the Lucas home the eve
ming before. again that night and at
about 4:30 am. when the shooting took
place. Minor was drinking it was said
and Dr. Waif stated that Minor seemed
dazed and did not seem to realize what
he had done when he arrived on the
scene. The prosecution rested and Minor
was put on the stand. He stated he was
drinking with Lucas and knows nothing
of the shooting: that If he killed him he
knows nothing Of it. as he was very
drunk. The case viii go TO the jury to-
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
BURKE TRANSFERS
TWO DETECTIVES
kenney and Trammell Given
Places on Auto and Cloth
ing Squads.

James Z. Kenney. recently promoted
70 the position OF detective sergeant.
yesterday was assigned by Inspector
Frank s. w. Burke. chief Of detectives,
to the automobile squad. He is to serve
with Detective Frank M. Alligood.
Handicapped by Eyes.
Alligood, suffering from trouble with
his eyes, has been severely handicapped
in his work. having been unable 70
drive car for the last few months. In
spite of his disability. however, he re-
covered 70 automobiles during the last
quarter, while other members Of the
squad averaged 20 each
Another change in assignments an
nounced yesterday was the detailing OF
Detective Curtis E. Tfammeii with the
clothing squad to succeed James E,
Kane, recently returned 10 street duty
waldrOn May BE Shifted.
Another change contemplated by the
inspector involves the transfer of JoSeps>
Waldron from the homicide to the GEL
eral assignment squad. In this duty
Waldron would serve with Thomas
Sweeney, his partner Of many years.
The names of Dennis 4 lxsepiay.
Robert j. Barrett and Van d. Hughes
have been mentioned as probable So
cessors to Sweeney. Waldron and
another member of the squad who Is
likely to be shifted to another assign
nnent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
RAY AUDIT BARES
SAT- SHORTAGE
Checks Must Be Noted Be-
fore Details of Expendi-
lures Can Be Revealed.
By a staff Correspondent Of The star.

BY stan correspondent OF Tie star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, August IA
shortage of $2,477.73 In county funds
In the Accounts OF The late Preston b.
Ray. clerk OF the Montgomery County
Circuit Court, is shown by a report
submitted to the county commissioners
yesterday by N. F. Rabner, special
auditor named 10 60 over the county
funds handled by Mr.. Ray.
The shortage occurs in two funds
handled by Mr. Ray, according to the re-
port one of these being fund OF 81 l40.l7
on hand In equity cases and court
orders and the other fund of $l4.373.S3
covering money ON hand from tax sales
unredeemed. These two funds totaled
$l8,5l4.O5. MFR. Rabners report shows
while the bank balance which closed
Mr.. Rays accounts he reports as
SIC .036,32, leaving $2,47773 unac-
counted for.
Ray Killed by Gas.
Mr.. Ray was found dead from gas
poisoning In the kitchen of his home
April IL. He was found to be more
than $4,000 short In state funds, an
accumulation Of 16 years in Office, when
his State accounts were audited at The
time OF his death.
The audit, MIR. Rabner stated in his
report To the commissioners covers all
tax sales unredeemed. beginning with
sales OF property for taxes dated May
8, 1908 up TO and including April 25,
1891. the date the bank balance Of
SIC 036.32 closed the accounts OF Mr..
Ray. ia SO far as the accounts Of the
Circuit Court are involved. III the
course OF the audit, Mr.. Rabner re-
ports. 1t was found that several items
had been inadvertently entered in dil-
ferent accounts, and these items have
now BEEN transferred to their proper
places.
Checks in Bank Loft.
william F.. Prettyman, attorney for
Mrs Ray, issued a statement last night.
in which he said that tile audit re-
port had been made without the pro-
duction to the auditor OF the can
celed checks on other vouchers. and that
the statement had been made by the
auditor to Mrs Ray that every item
with which Mr.. Rays account was
chaFgeable was actually deposited to
his account" 1t is said that these
vouchers are in the possession of the
bank, but are In loft of the bank.
where, because OF the hot weather. ii
is almost impossible at this time to
check them. Mr.. Patterson stated
These vouchers" the attorney said.
would demonstrate where the money
went, and until these checks are pro-
duced an audit is yalueless. The only
thing the auditor can show" Mr.. Pref
lyman said, lis whether the funds have
been collected aud deposited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
WAR DEPARTMENT WINS
SECOND OF POLO SERIES
Fauquier-Loudoun Second String
Bows After Crack Players
Capture First Tilt.
spes ial Dispatch to The Star.

Spes al Dispatch to The Star.
WATERMELON. Va August THE
second polo match Of a tw0-game series
between the War Department team
and the Fauquier -Loudoun team was
played OH Melbourne Field yesterday
afternoon with score of 10 to in
favor Of War Department. The first
game resulted in l0-to-S favor Of Fau-
QUEER Loudoun, making the series
tie score.
first team played--William Hubert,
Baldwin Spilman, John Hay Whitney
and Richard Kirkpatrick. In the Sec
ond game the visitors defeated the Sec
ond team-Charles Sabin. Henry Frost
Winston Frost and Hubert Phipps. very
young players.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
NINE COMMUNISTS TAKEN
BY MEXICO CITY POLICE
oficials Dispense Meeting with
Tear Gas During Funeral of
Red Killed in Demonstration.
BY the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, August mime
Communists were arrested yesterday
when police dispersed a meeting with
tear gas.
The meeting took place in connection
with the funeral of Benjamin Jimenez,
Communist who was killed by police
in breaking up an anti-war day meet
ing on August /.
Members of the funeral procession
are said to have shouted offenses to
President Ortiz Rubio and remon-
strances against the Gales monetary
plan which was placed in effect re-
gently
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
AUDIT FIRM HIRED
FOR MONTGOMERY
Commissioners Authorize Study of
Expenditures for Last
10 Years.
BY stan Correspondent Of The Star.

/ 80 a N7tait SoiiEApohAEltt VI AHt otAt.
ROCKVILLE, Nd. August 1.-THE
firm Of r. G.. Rankin & Co. of New
York was yesterday named to make the
audit OF the books Of Montgomery
County for the past l6 years at cost
not TO exceed $4,000. by unanimous
action OF the Board OF County Commits
Sioners.
This firm was one of the five sug-
gested for the work by each OF the two
committees, one OF the offic RS and Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation and the other
composd Of bankers of the county, at
the request OF the county commission
ets The bankers submitted II names
and the Civic Federation z names, and
the firm Of r. G. Rankin & Co was
among tn five firms which appeared
ON both lists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
PART OF NEW BRIDGE
ROAD TO BE GRADED
Work to Be Started Immediately
on Section of Proposed Wash
ington Street Approach.
BY stan Correspondent of The star.

By Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, August supervisor b.
NJ Hedrick OF Arlington district an
noupeed last night that the actual
grading OF that portion of the WASH
ington street approach TO the Arlington
Memorial Bridge that lies between the
Fort Myer and Georgetown-Al Alexandria
roads viii be started Immediately.
While the final details OF acceptance
Of this portion OF the right Of way have
not been completed. he said. there is
little left TO be done in this respect and
there is no objection on the part of
property owners To the starting OF the
work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
Racer Sued for Divorce.

LOS ANGELES, August az. Cliff
Bergere, nationally known automobile race
driver. was defendant in divorce slilt
today His wife. Ramona, charged the
driver with saying she had numbered no
success la his profession
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07

and mother and interest In certain
Philadelphia real estate. DR.. Spencer
Penrose is the sole survivor of four
brothers who gained unusual distinc-
ton in various fields of endeavor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
ARLINGTON VOTE 2,4OO
Canvass Shows Rust Received Sl7
to Jesse's ,5S3.

BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va.
August THE total vote in Arlington
County, in the Democratic primary held
this week, was 2A400, OF which John
w. Rust of Fairfax County received
BIT and Charles T., Jesse of Arlington
County 1883.
This was made known yesterday after
an official canvass of the vote by the
commissioners of election. Mrs. Grace
A. Donaldson. Mrs. Mary Moore Nc
Tntosh and Henry Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY

l.
Festival Program, Sylvan Theater,
Monument Grounds, pm.
Outing, Southern Social Club, to-
night.
Concert Third Baptist Church, Fifth
and @ streets, 8 pm.
Card party, benefit st. Francis de
Sales Church. Auditorium, Twentieth
street and Rhode Island avenue, north
east, pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
MAN FOUND SLAIN.
WIFE TRIES SUICIDE
Farmer Near Sykesville Killed by
Shotgun--Woman Tells
Of Shot.

Speeial Dispatch TO 'Phe star
MOUNT AIRY, Md. August L. With,
his neck maneled and his spinal cord
aeeered by a shotgun discharge, the
l:feless body Of Daniel II. Arlington,
81 year old farmer who lived two miles
east OF Sykesvilie, was discovered yes
tcrday by his wife and neighbor Ar
| fington'S hands were folded across his
chest and the shotgun was found lying
across hts stomach, pointed toward the
gaping wound in his neck. MRS. AIRING
ton attempted suicide after being ques-
tione1 by authorities, II was reported.
Carroll County Sheriff Ray Yohn
States Attorney Theodore F. Brown
and Acting Coroner George E. Benson
tiSited the scene and after a short in
yestigation declared that be had come
/ 10 his death from shotgun wound BY
party OF llarti unknown.
Alter being questioned by authorities
. AIRS. Hattie Arlington. vile III the de-
teased. attempted snicide by slsshiap
Lef neck witIl a razor. Ia aer state
fnent 10 Carroll County authorities. the
woman declared that she was on her
way 10 q spfsnS for water early IN the
morning when She heard . shotgun re-
poft. Without returning TO investigate
The widow statsd That she went to the
home of John jaeger 4 nsighbor. and
they then returned to The scene and
touna Afrsngtcn dead. Mrs. Arlington
was removed 70 ST. Agnes Hospital. Eal-
liiiAof " the Carroll County ambulance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
Amber CoIored Liquid Ends
HEADACHES
Quickly

y why use old fashioned. slow
working medicines when STOP
49, IT. y reliable. safe remedy, re-
VI fieveS the pain Of y miserable
~ headache in few minutes.
Headaches caused BY nerves,
49, combining work, eve strain ut
NAVY other minor causes quickly re-
,,\AN, sp0nd to teaSDoonfHl of
STOPIT
Next time yen suffer with u
ii headache step inia Peoples or any
Epad drug store and get = bottle Of
Il STOPIT take dose and notice
how promptly II brings you relief.
In aSc and GHe bottles. Absolutely
II safe /. contains no harmful drugs.
4 Get bottle today have sTOPlT
In your medicine cabinet ready to take
1t the first sign Of headache.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07

A hand-woven Persian carpet, liz
feet long and 8 feet wide, was sold IN
London recently for $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07

Centuries ago there was in Europe
came IN which thu players danced to
the sound ~ their own voices while
! throwing a ball 70 onc another. In due
cntirae Of time the game was forgotten,
but our world ball. meaning dance,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07

After other methods have failed ana
that stubborn corn or caIloux keeps
coming back Just spread r.. y.
Kern Remover ON the ANNOYING corn
or eaIl0ns with handy little glass rod
Nc burn. no bandaEe. plaster or
bother. Almost instantly the Astonishing
pain Is gone, and soon yen can easily
:. lift the corn out with y0nr finHers
Why suffer neediessly when this simple
remedy Is available TO every one who
Is bothered with terturinK cOrns. H
costs only 25c at Peoples or any coed
druK store. but Is worth many dollars
in eomfort 10 those troubled with pain.
full e0rns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
CAPITAL MAGAZINE
IS LEFT $4,000
Economic Geology Company
Gets Share of Large
PenroSe Estate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August Specific
requests of more than $1T5000 were
made in the will OF Dr. Richard A.
+. Penrose, who left the residue of
his estate, valued at 81 900 600, to the
American Philosophical Society and
the Geological Society of America.
Gives 10 Chicago University.
DR.. Penrose, who was a noted geolo-
gist and brother of the late Senator
Boies Penrose, died last week. He was
u bachelor.
The University of Chicago receives
$4,000. 10 be used for the benefit of
the Journal Of Geology. of which DIR.
Penrose was one Of the editors for
many years.
The Economic Geology Publishing
Co., incorporated in the District of Co
lumbia, Is given $25 ,000 TO be used for
the benefit of its journal
Dr. Penrose left SIS, 900 to his Sec
rotary, Miss Marion L. IvenS. and $4,000
10 the assistant secretary Miss A. NJ
Feeney. All his servants also were re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
One Brother Remains.

Twenty thousand dollars was left to
each OF three cousins in Carlisle. Pa.
DR. Penrose devised to his brother
Dr.. Spencer PenroSe of Colorado, his
interest in the estates of their father
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-26
WORKERS FACE STARK HUNGER
NO PROVISIONS FOR RELIEF

Hunger and starvation will be
widespread in New York state during
the coming winter. This fact which
has been admitted by the joint COM
mittee on unemployment of the State
Board Of Social Welfare and the
State Charity Aid Association after
thorough investigation of the relief
situation in the state exposes as a
brazen lie the Hoover Clifford aSser-
ton that the states will be able to
take care Of the jobless this winter.
In only three cities out of A visited
by the Investigators was there any
sign of planning" for relief for the
coming winter. This means that there
is planning" in three cities, not re-
lief.
Despite the fact that the cities cut
every bit Of relief down far below
the level of subsistence they were
forced to dispense more relief in the
first half of 1881 than in the entire
year of 1880. While even larger ex-
penditures are necessary if they are
only going to keep up for the rest Of
1881 the present wretched scraps that
are handed out, most cities have al
ready used up the relief appropria-
ton and several have a deficit now.
The report points out that those
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-26
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEI

in winning many white southern
workers to the defense of their Negro
fellow workers. The executive COM
mittee of the Alabama department
of the fascist American Legion is
holding meeting in Birmingham ito
formulate plans to combat the
spread of Communism"
A resolution calling upon the Ala
bama Legislature to pass new anti
working class laws directed espe-
cially at the vanguard of the work.
ing class, the Communist Party, was
adopted at meeting of the General
Gorgas Post of the American Legion
in Birmingham. The resolution en-
dorsed the announced plan of Ralph
T. ONeiI, national commander of the
fascist organization, to have the next
session of Congress outlaw the Com
munist Party.
YelVerton Cowherd, post command
err, in a talk on the resolution,
blamed the Communist Party for the
growing militancy of the Negro mass
es of Alabama.
Birmingham police have suffered
a setback in their efforts to extra
dite Elijah Thompson, a Negro work.
Ell, from Chicago. Thompson pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-26

he Harlan case was not entirely cor
rect, However, the LID. points out
while these attorneys have not beer
officially retained by the LID, they
have represented several defendants
for the LID. in previous cases.
The International Labor Defense.
which is modifying all it's efforts in
behalf Of the "a convicted miners
has brought Attorney Richard Dow
ling from New Orleans to join the
defense not only CT these men, but OF
all others jailed as a result of the
reign of terror of the coal operators
gunner and police. The LID. has
also accepted the offer OF the SER
vices of Franklin Reynolds, of Mt.
Sterling, KY, who was one of the
attorneys associated with Clarence
Darrow in the famouse monkey
trial" in Dayton, Tenn.
Funds for the defense of the Ken
lucky miners as well as the hun
dreds Of jailed miners in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and West Virginia are
urgent. Rush contributions to the
international Labor Defense, 80 E.
18th Street, Room 43O.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-26

workers who managed TO exist last
winter on what little savings they
had will be forced to depend on re-
lief this winter to keep from starving.
The relief that has been handed out
thus far has been as low as 81 a
week for family Of any size and SO
for every two weeks. The report dis
covers that it is impossible for a
workers family to live on these mis-
cradle allowances.
While Hoover and Clifford set up
their committee to prevent tie. u4
employed from getting adequate re-
lief this charity crew advises the for
nation Of committees in the several
cities. The unemployed workers will
get adequate relief in only one way
by militant struggle, together with
the employed workers for immediate
relief, for social insurance and
against wage cuts and speed up. Only
a united fighting front against the
hunger policy Of the bosses can star
walton and death be defeated. Force
appropriations by the state and cities
for relief for the unemployed, to be
paid for by larger taxes on the rich.
Demand reduction of state military
expenditures and the use of thes
funds for the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-26
COTTON PICKERS
PAID 25c PER DAY
tBy a Farmer Correspondent


PITKIN, La, Aug. 25.-Cotton
pickers here are being paid the
measly sum of Is to so cents a hun
dred pounds. Most Of the pickers
are boys and girls. They are forced
to work on their own board.
1t is a very good picker who can
pick up $50 to 200 pounds of cotton
a day. Most of the workers get only
Is cents for full days work.
In the meantime, experiments with
cotton picking devices have been 60
ing on constantly, and it seems that
success is in sight When these ma
chimes begin operating on a big scale
most of the pickers will be thrown
out Of work, as is happening in the
factories where the installation of
new machinery is constantly throw
ing new thousands of workers into
the army of the unemployed.
The workers in the cotton fields
must unite and organize to fight for
better conditions. They must Or
ganize into a union and formulate
their demands on the bosses. Only
the Trade Union Unity League is or
ganizing these frightfully oppressed
groups of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-26
IS MINERS FACE
RAILROADING AS
PA. TRIAL OPENS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl
under the influence Of the prosecu-
ton for some time.
Thompson appears to be sick from
his long imprisonment. 1t was learn
ed quite recently by LID Representa-
tive Schwartzbart that during the
first weeks of the Imprisonment of
these miners, they we're forced to
sleep on the cement floor, without
blankets. When Schwartzbart told
this to the Washington Observer, 10
cal newspaper the paper did NOT
print the news, and ScAwartzbart
was barred from further visits to the
defendants in Jail.
Every attempt has been made by
the coal operators and the police to
terrorize witnesses for the defense.
In Meadowlands, the superintendent
of the mine went personally to all
the girls who we're with the defend
ant Stella Rosefsh at Cannonsburg,
and told them: Stella and her moth
er are going to get four-year SEN
fences. If you dare to go and tes-
tify for them, you'll find yourselves
in the same place that Stella is 60
ing!"
When the jury was selected, in this
atmosphere of arbitrary despotism
that would have shamed the car, the
defense attorney, P. V. Morino, repre-
senting the lid, was NOT allowed
to question the prospective jurors. 1t
seems that there is law in Penn
sylyania, that for certain cases the
Judge can decide whether the jurors
are to be questioned by the attor-
neys or not. If you already know
some cause for which you can chal-
lenge juror, all right, but you can't
ask him whether he is prejudiced,
And this jury can bring in a verdict
that will put these miners in Jail for
five years!
1t was for taking down the names
of the jurors that Ray Greene, the
LID organizer was spotted. She slip
ped in by a side door-into the pri-
vate trial provided seventeen miners
by this coal operators COURT
A bailiff bounced upon her, hauled