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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
SKIDMORE TO GRADUATE
TWO WASHINGTON GIRLS
Misses Edith Allen and Betty AT.
wood to Get Diplomas on
/ June 8.

Two Washington girls, Miss Edith
Allen, 1890 California street. and Miss
Betty Atwood, SIS Observatory circle,
will graduate from Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs. N. Y, at commence
ment exercises June 8.
Miss Allen has ma jored in Fine Arts
and has been a member OF the College
Art Club and Dramatic Association.
Miss Atwood has majored in English
and was president of the French Club
of the college. She also was men,
Der of the German and English Clubs
and News Board.
Miss Alice Diamond OF Gaithersburg
Nd. also Is member of the graduating
class Miss Diamond specialized in
Gecretarial science.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
FIREMEN PROMOTED

Lieut.. r. D. Crompton. No. "a En-
CINE Company. Fire Department, was
promoted to captain yesterday by the
District Commissioners. Sergt. T. J.
Williams, No. Engine Company. was
made lieutenant and Pvt. w. J.
Bunton. No. IL Engine Company, a
sergeant.
Pvt. Ernest Nellie was dismissed for
absence from duty and Pvt. c. P. Baker
for intoxication
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
Veteran Daredevil
Dies of Pneumonia
Caught on FIagpole
79-Year-Old Steeplejack's
Feats Included Sea Div
ing, Parachute Jumping.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 27-Robert Mer-
rill. who in his 70 years climbed flag
poles before sitting on them became a
fad, leaped in parachuteS before there
were airplanes, harpooned whales, de-
scended to the bottom of the sea, died of
pneumonia yesterday in Coney Island
hospital.
Merrill contracted the illness while
painting the flag pole of the Hotel St.
Regis, a job so difficult that many
young steepleiacks turned it down
He was born on ranch near Tucson,
Ariz.. his father, New Bedford whaler,
taking up ranching when his crew
abandoned ship in San Francisco to
join the gold rush back in AZ. For IL
year; Merrill himself sailed the seas
Then came an interlhde as a deep
sea diver before he got his first job
as a steeplejack on a San Francisco
church. His parachute jumping was
done at county fairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
HIT WITH PISTOL
Fight in Basement of Home for
Incurables Holds Two.

John Taubman, IS, colored laborer
tanned decorations on the head when
struck by Ollie Smith, IS, colored, with
a pistol during a fight between the
two men in the basement OF the Home
for Incurables on Wisconsin avenue to-
day. During the tusSle the pistol was
discharged. Examination of the weapon
at No. IA precinct. showed the gun was
loaded with blank cartridges
Both men were booked at No. Ia
police station and Taubman was taken
to Emergency Hospital. Police were
Withholding formal charges pending.
an investigation of the affair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
Land for Post Office Bought.

LYNCHBURG. Va. May 81 (Spe-
ciaD Checks totaling S49.507.9l have
been mailed from the clerks Office of
the Federal District Court here to
complete the purchase Of Ninth street
property for inclusion in the post Of
fee building site. This give the Gov
eminent a half block on Church
street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
DIES FROM BURNS
Harry Mountain Expires in Calm
ger Hospital After Accident.

Harry Mountain. 80 years old, of 249
ger Hospital yesterday from burns re-
ceived in a fire in his room at the es-
Enlistment, March IT, last. The fire
is believed TO have originated when a
receptacle OF canned heat" over
turned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
Club Plans Carnival.

The Entire Nous Club of the Congress
Heights NJ. E. Church. at its monthly
meeting lest night at the home OF
Misses Ethel and Lorena Click, 3l3
Seventeenth street southeast. voted to
hold its annual carnival on the church
grounds in June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27

$40 year. departmental or field service.
Senior elevator mechanician, $4,000 a
year, Office. of Public Buildings and
Public Parks Of the National Capital.
Assistant to the gsographer, $4,000 a
year. State Department.
Chief artistic photographer. $4,000 .
year; senior artistic photographer. $4,000
year; artistic photographer. 81 800
year; junior artistic photographer. l.440
year; departmental OF field service.
Full information may be obtained at
the office of the commission, 1924 F
street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27

Elephant trainers declare that the
animals are fond Of chewing tobacco
because of the sugar and licorice it con-
tains
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
EIGHT U. S. JOBS OPEN
UNDER CIVIL SERVICE

Fisheries Technologist Wanted,
Along With Geographic Aide,
for State Department.
The Civil Service Commission has
announced the following vacancies TO
be filled through open competitive ex-
aminations:
Assistant fisheries technologist. So, 900
to So, 400 a year. Bureau of Fisheries.
Assistant photographic craftsman, ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27

Lithuania is frowning on the entrance
OF foreign banks into the country.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Reporter Gazes In AUe
At$2,O 600, 900. Gold

Small neat bricks of African
gold. Red bullion gold for mint
ing. Shelves of gold, rooms of
gold. Gold and gold and
gold.
We went into the corridor that
runs around the vaults. where
the vaults are eight feet thick,
OF solid steel. The passage is
so narrow that two men could
not pass. At each turning a mir
ror betrays the whole of the
next corridor to the eyes of the
guard. Some of the passages
come to dead end in the wall.
Said my guard:
"We're victualIed for a siege
Of sixty days, SO guards could
hold the underground fort for
that time, and we have alarm
communications with an army
of 500 men on Governors Island
who can reach here in 20 min
uteS from the signal"
Going back through the mouth
OF the vault the guard turned the
siege doors on us. The walls of the
narrow passage swung suddenly
out and round. blocking the corri'
dor tightly with 80 tons of steel
Four 300 pound bolts slid noise,
leSSly to their sockets. We were
shut in with the gold.
That door is opened only by two
men working two combinations
There is no man living who knows
them both.
"And if two of them should
plan together to open the vault"
said the guide, why, this is
what would happen. See this
dial? Every time that door is
opened it rings an alarm in
police headquarters. They're
heavily armed and would be
here in q few seconds"
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
RAD|O-ELECTR|C
SHOW OPENS

Exhibits Of electrical devices
of all kinds, from simple house
hold appliances to a complex
electric robot, are being shown
during this week at the first
radio and electric show in Wash
ingtor, which opened last night
at the Washington Auditorium.
More than 1000 persons
attended the opening of the
show, at which Vice President
Curtis spoke. The Vice PreSi
dent praised members of the
Washington Electric League,
under the auspices of which tha
show is being given.
Among exhibits are the televoX
or mechanical man, a combined
radio, phonograph and machine
for showing both silent and talk,
ing pictures, and numerous other
electrical marVelS.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22

official scenes in the drama which
has brought before the bar of jus
tice an educator of high standing
Mrs. Graham said
'Well, think there is an.
other woman in the caSe-there
has been. / suppose she would
be jealous, though not naturally
So-when a person went so far
as he-cOrreSpOnds with her,
and at camp he stayed with her,
and he went to New York and
stayed with her and spent some
money upon her.
"My daughter told me when
she found it out at the begin.
ming of his first year at Knox
vile, two years ago. This
woman was with him in camp
two years.
"She had no intention Of
getting a divorce. She desired
to avoid scandal.
"Her name is Betty, I know
nothing of her-I know her
address, $50 Riverside Drive,
New York City. Her name
was something like DOdd.
There was friction, 1 know.
And he had threatened to
shoot my daughter. He would
get prOvOked-he locked the
doors of the apartment and
threatened to shoot her, and he
told her if she ever told anyone
about it, he would kill her."
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
NEW BLIND SCHOOL HEAD

BOSTON, Sept. %. With 300
blind children attending the Per
kins Institute for the Blind has
opened its second century of
school service. Gabriel Farrell is
the new head of the institute.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Mother-in-Law Reveals Kane Threats
To Wife, Hints at "Other Woman"

HAMPTON, Va, Sept. %
GN.SD-The case of the Com,
monwealth against Professor Eli,
sha Kent Kane, 37-year-old Uni
versity of Tennessee romance Ian.
guage instructor charged with the
murder of his pretty 3O-year-old
wife, Jenny Graham Kane, was a
matter of record today.
A story of alleged brutality of a
woman who lived in constant fear
Of her husband, but nevertheless
would rather die than divorce
him." was laid bare in a 36-page
detailed report of the four-day in
quest into Mrs. Kane's strange
death by drowning off lonely
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
BY MARGARET LANE


Service
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-It is a
curious and terrifying thing to
find ones self among two bill
lion dollars worth of gold. Not
in notes, not in bonds, not in any
flimsy substitute; but in the rich,
solid metal of two billion dollars,
buried and guarded against war
and siege in the honeycomb vaults
of New York.
I had that SOLDERING experience
this morning, being led under
guard through steel corridors and
cells of gold, IS feet below the
streets where newsboys were yell
ing the disaster Of the gold
standard in England.
No Stairway To Vaults
The vaults of the Federal Re
serve are IS feet below the street
and SIS below sea-leVel, so that
gravel and sea-mud press against
their outer walls. There IS no
stairway to the vaults. Only ele-
vators without levers, worked by
telephone from below. We spoke
to the invisible operator and were
mysteriously drawn down.
The guide stood back uncon-
cernedly while I hooked my lin.
gers through the bars and gazed
incredulously at $75,000,000 in
gold. 1t was stacked in gold
bricks on neat shelves, row after
row, like books in a library. And
there were 20 of these compart-
ments, each containing the same
amount
Gold bricks, gold bars. sacks
of gold coins. one room even
contained $40,000.000 worth Of
little exiled English sovereigns.
Gold bars worth $4,000 each.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
v. {. .T.U..PLANS
CAPITOL DRIVE

Hoping to check the campaign
for s1nodification of the Volstead
Act and force both national poll
tical parties to nominate drys for
the presidency. the Women's
Christian Temperance Union TO-
day announced plans for nation.
wide conferences.
The first will be held in Wash
ington, December 4. Mrs. Ella
A. Boole, national president, said:
"This meeting will be planned
to impress Congress with the
earnest desire of millions of
Americans to give prohibition
q chance to succeed"
The regional conferences in 25
cities will bring together 10000
local w. c. T. U. delegates, she
said.
Among the cities in which con.
ferences will be held are: st.
PeterSburgh, Fla: Omaha, Neb.;
Denver, Col; Ogden, Utah; Los
Angeles, Calf; Boston, Mime
apolis, Portland, Ore: Columbus,
Ohio, st. Louis and Chicago.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
WALKER READY
T0FACE QUIZ

NEW YORK, Sept. % 1.N.Sl.
Mayor James J. Walker is to
appear at City Hall today, ready
to answer any questions of the
Seabury committee investigating
New York.
The mayor, who returned last
night from Europe, said he had
nothing to conceal concerning
his private, financial or public
affairs. He said his trip 10
Europe "waS paid for" properly.
David Maier, former convict.
returned with the executives
party. He announced that he
had paid for the mayors trip
and that later he would explain
all about it,"
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
Street Escdpdde
Cost "Fattu" S25

LOS ANGELES, Sept. %
Q.N.SD.-A joke is no longer a
joke when it gets into a police
court, Roscoe C. Fatty Ar
buckle admitted today after he
had paid fine of $25 for
breaking glass on city street" :"
The former film comedian was
taken before a municipal court
judge when he broke a bottle
on the sidewalk in the view of
a policeman. He explained:
81 thought it was a joke
someone was playing on me
when 1 found a bottle in the
front seat of my car"
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
No Reason for America
To Drop Gold Basis

Abandonment Of the gold stand
ard by the American govern
ment would be undertaken only
in a world financial calamity OF
a scope that cannot be visualizec
at this time, it was declared by g
high Government official today
There is no reason for this
country to abandon this stand
ard.
For every dollar in United
States. National Bank and Fed
eral Reserve currency that ex-
lists, there is dollar in gold.
Dollar for dollar the paper
could be redeemed in gold"
The American gold supply is
more than $5,0O0,OOO,00O.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22

Grand View Beach ten miles away
week ago Friday.
Case Made Open Book
Filed by the man who judged
the drowning of Mrs. Kane delib-
crate, premeditated murder, Cor
Oner DIR. G. X. Vanderslice, the
report for the first time made an
open book of the feelings of the
parents and relatives of the dead
Mrs. Kane, MIR. and Mrs. w. c.
Graham, of Hilton Village, New
port News.
Heart and soul behind the prose
cution seeking to convict Kane of
first degree murder, the Graham
family have remained behind the
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
HydttSUiLLe POnders
NeW Traffic LiqhtS

The mayor and council of
Hyattsville will convene tomorrow
night in the Municipal Building
to consider installation of traffic
lights at the intersections of
johnson Avenue and Franklin
Street with the WaShington-Bal-
timore Boulevard.
Proposed one-hour parking reg
ulations will also be discussed to
decide between what hours the
new law will operate,
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
WARTIME MIND
IN JOB CRISIS,
HOOVER AIM
Creation Of Mass Psychology
As In "Hooverizing" Era
Seen in His Acts and Words
By WILLIAM C. MURPHY, JH

BY WILLIAM C. MURPHY, JR.
A re-establishment of the war
time psychology to combat the
economic depression is taking
shape as the real objective of the
Hoover Administration.
The Presidents speech to the
American Legion at Detroit, with
it's reference to the emergency
second only to war;" is only the
latest manifestation of that Ad-
miniStration effort.
There have been numerous
other evidences to the same gen.
eral effect; including the recent
White House incident which some
newspapers interpreted as an ef-
fort to have the press impose a
voluntary moratorium on news
of disquieting nature.
"HOOveriZed" Patriotism
Mr.. Hoover knows the power
of organized mass opinion in a
national emergency. With the
possible exception Of Woodrow
Wilson, no man had a greater
hold on the imagination of the
American people during the World
War than did Mr.. Hoover as
food administrator, and in his
other numerous official capacities.
Doubtless he recalls the days
when "HOOverize" was considered
synonymous with the practice of
patriotism, when at a nod from
him the nation was willing to do
without sugar in its coffee, en-.
dure meatleSs days, and put up
with unpalatable substitutes for
ordinary food, on the theory that
such practices would aid in win.
ming the war.
A wartime psychology. such as
Mr.. Hoover did much to create
in 1918, induces also an almost
blind faith in the wisdom of the
Government.
Akin to Treason
Criticism of the constituted au.
thoritieS, taken as a matter Of
course and the exercise of an
inalienable right in normal times,
comes to be looked upon as akin
to treason when wartime mass
psychology begins to work.
Officials are able to enlist pub
lie support under such conditions
for projects which would be
ridicuIed at other times.
1t becomes possible to cultivate
a feeling that the personnel of
Government should not be sub.
jected to change during the
existence of the emergency; that
there should be no swapping Of
horses in the middle Of the
stream"
Wilson's 1918 Appeal
An outstanding example of that
feeling was President Wilson's ap.
peal to the country in 1918 for
the election of a Democratic Con.
greSS, an appeal, incidentally,
which Mr.. Hoover indorSed. That
particular appeal failed, however.
Some observers Of Mr.. Hoover's
PreSenC e11OrC 10 arouse a ma.
tional spirit of cohesion and de-
termination to work out of the
depression believe he will en-
counter difficulties which were
not present during the war.
At that time everyone had
something to do, whether it was
knitting socks or manufacturing
munitions or serving in the COM
bat forces. There was plenty Of
money, but a. shortage of food
stuffs and clothing and man
power.
Now the situation is almost re-
verSed. For the individual, the
problem is not how much he
can do but whether he can find
a job at all; not how little he
can eat, but whther he can eat
q
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
BRITAIN STOPS
SPECULATION
BY DECREE
Pound Sterling Drops to $4.55
As Parliament Acts; Stock
Exchange Opens Tomorrow

LONDON, Sept. % GNSJ-
Dealings in foreign exchange by
residents of the United Kingdom
except for the transaction of nor
NAL business was forbidden in an
order issued today by Chancellor
of the Exchequer Philip Snowden.
The order was issued under the
gold standard suspension measure
rushed through parliament yeSter-
day and signed by a royal commits
sion shortly before midnight.
Suspension Effective
Suspension of the gold stand
ard for six months became effec-
tive officially when a royal COM
mission composed of Lord San
key, Lord Onslow and Lord Den
man, acting for King George, who
is in Scotland, gave royal assent
to the parliamentary bill releas-
ing the Bank Of England from
paying a fixed rate for gold.
London banks today sold the
pound sterling for S4.55, COM
pared with par value of $4.S6.
Depreciation of the value of
the pound was already under way
before Parliament acted, and was
expected to continue for some
time without any effort on the
part of the government toward
stabilization.
For the present the government
desires to witness the reaction of
foreign exchanges to the pound
value, permitting it to move to-
ward its natural level.
81 May Be Target
At a later date sterilization
may be attempted in the neigh
bOrhOOd of 81, according to the
belief in financial circles.
Careful consideration by Presi-
dent Hoover and his Cabinet to-
day Of the situation arising from
England's abandonment of the
gold standard convinced them
that the move, regrettable as it
may be, will have little effect on
American business and finance.
This was stated on high au-
thority today Immediately after
the Cabinet adjourned.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
T. R. SHAFT SOON READY

GREAT FALLS, Mont. Sept. %
UN.SO An obelisk go feet high,
dedicated to the memory of The
odore Roosevelt's forest conserva-
ton work, is to be unveiled near
Summit on the Roosevelt High
way, october 25,
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
PLANS
DIVORCE FIGHT
MNAgNEEaA
Photo by International

RENO, New, Sept. 22.-Jack
Dempsey today was a free man
matrimonially speaking-in Ne
vada at least.
While Estelle Taylor, screen
actress, and her attorney, Joseph
Scott, of Los Angeles, declared
she was still the wife of Dempsey,
Attorney Burns asserted emphati-
cally that the decree awarded
Jack here yesterday after %
minutes of legal Sparring was
good and valid in every State
in the Union and will stand any
where"
Mrs. Dempsey and her attorney
announced they would go forward
with their plans for California
divorce. Unless a compromise is
reached. a legal battle loomed
which may end eventually in the
United States Supreme Court and
determine once and for all the
validity of Reno divorce DEGREES.
The Washington times., 1931-09-22
STEWARDESS
. LIVED HIGH
ASHORE
Friend of British Nobility
and Merchant Princes,
She Worked for a Living
By DAVID p. SENTNER

~ SAA NJ A'ASA'
Copyright, 1891, International News
Service)
NEW YORK, Sept. ga Gin
derella of the high seas who
DOTTED her uniform of ocean stew
ardess between voyages to step
out in golden slippers.
This was the picture painted to-
day of Elizabeth Harris Dahl,
divorcee, who wrote romantic let
ters to Prof. Elisha Kent Kane.
charged with drowning his wife
near Hampton, Va.
"Lisbeth," although only a ,.ew-
ardeSs aboard the liner Leviathan
and later the America, was
cOurted for her beauty, charm and
wit by the salt of transatlantic
paSSengerdOm British nobility,
kings of finance and princes of
professional life.
Lived in Style
Taking orders aboard the YES
sci, the fascinating 45-year-old
stewardess lived on land at the
most exclusive and expensive
hotels and, ordered her suitors
about like a true queen Of the
seas.
When in London, the lovely
blond stewardess stayed at the
palatial Savoy Hotel. When in
New York, she resided on Park
Avenue and Riverside Drive.
So great was her political
influence that at the Ascot races
in England, the ultra social event
of the season, she obtained a
seat in the royal enclosure, close
to the king and queen Of the
British empire. And when the
Prince of Wales passed her en-
promenade, he nodded pleasantly
to "Lizbeth."
This, and much, much more
was revealed to International
News Service by friends of Mrs
Dahl. who will be questioned as
to her relationship with Prof
Kane by Virginia deputy
sheriff.
Deny "Affair"
Both her friends and her
mother, Mrs. Phoebe Harris,
visiting in Mount Holly, N. j.,
today deprecated talk of any
affair" between the Tennessee
professor and the fascinating
Stewardess. Mrs. Harris said:
elizabeth met Prof. Kane
aboard the Leviathan a long
time ago." "She hasn't seen
him since he went back to his
wife from whom he was
separated"
But a friend said Elizabeth
had met the professor at Camp
Knox in the south 13 years ago.
Another friend of the steward
ess, although insisting that
"Lisbeth' had only a passing in
terest in the professor, declared
she had told her she had known
Kane from childhood" Said this
friend:
AIZDeCn ulOnL care hang
for Prof. Kane, and anything
she may have written him was
only the result of her natural
habit of rOmancing. Of course,
he may not have understood
this. She would frequently
write friends such lines as
I wish / could fly to the moon
or Il wish you and 1 could take
trip to the North Pole
"She is very beautiful
woman and all men fell for
her. She has had scores of
wealthy and prominent boy
friends her latest being one of
BrOadway's leading producers"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-08

Don't miss the "Talkles!"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-08

the beach and roads must be made) and because of an exces- sive fall of snow there in winter
 the work, so important to Alaska,
 is dropped Probably the vital reason of all has been lack of
 funds to continue work for any
 length of tne.
 We hear this last is a thing of the past, and now the company operating there ras taken in two large outfits. We are not in formed regarding this company but hope and trust they will meet
 with encouragement of every sort
 At Yakataga in 1926 the Gen. eral Petroleum Oil Company made another fiasco in Alaskan oil cir cles. With every appearance of
 sincerity this company took in large outfit, built road of some miles from the beach to the drill ing site, began and prosecuted the work for some two or three sum- mers.
 About this time the General Pe- troleum consolidated with the As sociated Oil Company, pulled up stakes, machinery, moved out and quit.
 Same old story. So ended another tragic chap ter on the oil trail in the great Territory of Alaska. And last but by no means least, there is the Valley of Ten Thous- and SmokeS-what about that? Can anyone positively say this
 wonderland of Mother Nature is not a subterranan oil field on
 fire? Started itself perhaps by underground friction, or by earth quakes or lightning, or what have you?
 No one can say. But there are those now so interested in this wonderful Valley that they are also on the oil trail and they may make some declaration of valuable discovery before many years have passed.