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The Washington times., 1931-06-08
Of BEER
AS ECONOMIC
AID STUDIED
Wickersham Crime Commits
sion Polls Growers of Coun-
try, Sen. J. J. Davis Reveals

The WickerSham Law Enforce
ment Commission, which urged
a further trial of the Eighteenth
Amendment although a majority
of its members favored an i'm
mediate repeal of prohibition, is
studying the probable economic
effects of permitting the sale and
manufacture of 4 per cent beer.
This phase of the commissions s
inquiry into prohibition cOndi-
tiOnS was revealed today when
Senator James J. Davis (R.l of
Pennsylvania asked the dry body
to make public the results Of it's
study. = '..5
Brewers Questioned
The commission apparently has
sent questionnaires to- former
brewers in all sections Of the
country, asking a report on their
requirements in event 4 per cent
beer were made siaWfuls The
brewers we're asked to state how
much grain they would use, how
much machinery they would re-
quire to rehabilitate their brew
cries and how many employees
would be put to work.
The attention of Senator Davis
was attracted to the commissions s
study when one Of its question
naires was sent to a former
brewer in NOrristOwn, Pa. The
brewer in turn asked Senator
Davis what the commission had
discovered in its inquiry.
OF Interest To VETS
This phase Of the commissions
activities will prove of great in
terest to the organized vets, who
have been contending the sale
of light wines and beer would
end the current depression.
The vets have argued that
the breweries would relieve farm
depression by furnishing a new
market for surplus grains and
would relieve unemployment by
putting large numbers of men to
work at the old abandoned trade
Of brewing.
(Other news Of WickerSham
Commission on Page g.
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SLGyers
Sentenced to Death

The murderers of Mrs. Vera
MoSebar White, of Denver, and
Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller, Of
Chowchila, Calf, Seventh Day
Adventist missionaries in Yunan-
fujn have been sentenced to
death and q Chinese woman ac-
complice has been sentenced to
20 years Imprisonment, the State
Department was notified by
American Consul Harry E. Stevens,
at Yunanfu.
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NAVY Will DROP
GUAM AS BASE

With announcement of the de-
cision to abandon Guam, "the
key to the Western Pacific" as
a naval base. following a confer
ence by President Hoover with
Navy officials at his Rapidan
camp over the weekend, new
fuel has been added to the con-
troversy between advocates Of a
strong defense policy and
pacifistS. t.
While the withdrawal Of the
present naval facilities at Guam
Is being taken as major step
in the stringent economy pro-
gram undertaken by the present
Administration, the decision to
abandon the base also is being
interpreted as fOrecasting the I'm.
ture naval policy Of the United
States.
It is regarded as a further sign
that naval strategists have eliTni,
mated from their plans all thought
of waging warfare in the Western
Pacific and have decided to cut
loose from the Philippines in case
Of war.
With Guam rs y potential
naval base, the line Of battle for
this country in the Pacific was
from the AIeutian Islands south
west to Guam and thence sOHth.
east to Tutuila.
tOther News Of Rapidan
Conference on Page 81 S.s
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filipino ADMITS
KILLING DOCTOR

NEW YORK, June 8.-Because
his girl needed some money,
Gavaine Demiar, underSized Fill
pino, killed DR.. George E. Deely,
noted Brooklyn specialist and
philanthropist, in his bachelor
apartment, according to police.
Demiar, also known as George
Damico, today confessed the
vicious knife murder of his former
employer, police said.
Demiar was arrested after he
was trailed through a weekend
visit to Philadelphia, when he re-
turned to New York. He said, &C
cording to police:
II went to his house to rob
DIR. DeeIy. The git1 with whom
I was living needed money, and
/ knew the doctor always kept
some in the house."
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FLAMES RUIN
SEVEN CITY
BLOCKSON
OCEAN
Oil Barge Explosion Spreads
to Wharf Warehouses; Rain
Helps in Fighting Blaze

NORFOLK, Va, June 8.-A
$5, 900, 900 fire, raging in the water
front warehouse section here, de-
stroyed seven city blocks and
threatened this city with de-
struction until rains aided firemen
from Norfolk, Portsmouth. New
port News and other nearby cities
in placing the flames under con-
troll. The fire Is still snouldering
in the seven-block area.
The blaze was brought under
control at 1870 last night when it
reached Main Street at CONNER
call Place.
OF the total Of 40 injured, %
are seriously enough hurt to be
in hospitals, many Of the injured
being policemen and firemen.
Oil Barge Starts Fire
The fire started late yesterday
with the explosion Of an oil barge
at the Buxton Line pier and rap
idly swept to nearby structures.
Within an hour the entire district
was aflame.
A total of IS fire companies
were called out, including those
Of Portsmouth, Suffolk, Elizabeth
City, N. c.: Thoebus, Va: Hamp.
ton, South Norfolk, Craddock.
Norfolk Navy Yard, Naval Oper.
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
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Lone Bandit LOOts
2 Stores in Block

DETROIT, June 8 GN.SD.
While police a block away were
getting his description from the
manager of q shoe store whom
he had just robbed Of $2,0l5, a
lone bandit walked into a down
town hosiery shop and robbed
the cashier of SIS. He held five
persons at bay with his auto
matte pistol in the shoe store
while he forced the manager to
turn over Saturdays receipts.
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MiSLead
Boulder AppLicantS

RENO, New. June 8 (TN.S).-
Declaring that 1900 men were
now in Las Vegas awaiting work
on the Boulder Dam project, and
that $500 others had filed appli-
cation for jobs, Archie L. Cross,
Federal director of employment
for Nevada. today said that an
employment racket" was being
perpetrated in Detroit and in New
Jersey cities. Cross said advertise
ments had appeared in various
cities soliciting applications for
Boulder Dam jobs and that a
dollar was charged for sending in
applications.
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RUB|O' 5 cousin
SHOT To DEATH
Photo by International

MORE, Okla, June 8
ONSO Emilio Cortes Rubio, %.
cousin Of President Ortiz Rubio of
Mexico, and Manuel Gomez, %.
another Mexican youth. were
slain today when they ran from a
deputy sheriff who sought to ques-
tion them.
Salvador Cortes Rubio, another
cousin of the president, was not
wounded. Both the slain youths
were armed.
The trio we're returning to the
City Of Mexico for the summer
vacation after having attended
school in the United States.
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TROOPS HyRL
GAS BOMBS
on MOBS
Policeman FeIIed As Wives
Join in Melee; Old Feud
of 1927 Blamed for Trouble

CANONSBTRG, Pa, June 8
UN.S0.-Two striking miners
were shot and a State policeman
was Slugged into unconSciousness
today during hand-to-hapd fight
ing between State troopers and
miers near the Westland Mine Of
the Pittsburgh Coal Company.
Fifteen rioters were arrested
charged with feIOniOuS assault
and battery and inciting to riot.
Beaten Unconscious
Trooper Earl Limbers of T4oOp
d. Pennsylvania State police,
was beaten uncOnSciOUS with his
avn riot stick which was Snatched
from hi grasp, By the miners
Fellow Offices, unable to bat
tie their way to LimberS' side.
whippeEl out revolvers and fired at
his attackers Mike Sklurski, IS,
dropped with bullet through the
right forearm. William Parsons,
90, received a slight flesh wound.
Women Aid Husbands
Sev1ral score Of women, march
ing with their menfOlk, were
bOwled over by the troopers
charge, the miners said.
The rioters were reported to
have charged the police four
times, each time retreating in dis
order before the acrid fumes of
gas.
An auto load Of stike breakers
en- route to the Kinloch mine
near New KenSington was stoned
by miners who had dropped their
tools at thu operation.
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Orange Arc Seen in Heaven
Before British Quake

for further reflection when it
was remembered such an arc
preceded the disastrous japanese
tremor OF last year.
The epicenter of the tremor
that rocked England yesterday
was fixed in the North Sea by
j. j. Shaw, seiSmologist.
Although the shock was not
felt in Wales or ireland, France
and Belgium quivered under 1t.
The orange arc was witnessed
Thursday night and again
shortly before the quake was felt.
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NeV Delay Likely
In Report on Grain

NEW YORK, June 8 UN.SJ.
Further delay on the report to
be made to Governor Roosevelt
by Samuel Seabury in the probe
of charges against District Attor-
ney Grain was indicated today.
Seabury intimated he would make
no report until after the trial of
Magistrate Jean Norris, which
begins before the Appellate Divi-
sion on June %.
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LONDON, June 8 Q.N.SJ.
Puzzled by the cause Of Great
Britain's worst earthquake in
1000 years, seismologists and
other authorities today we're
further mystified by reports that
the disturbance was preceded by
a huge orange arc that stretched
across the sky.
Despite a tendency to link
with superstition a popular be-
lief that rainbows are identified
with such upheavals. they paused
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? Texas Bankers
Get 3 Years in Jail

FORTH WORTH, Tex, June 8
G.NSD.-W. l.. Smallwood. for
mer chairman of the board of the
Texas National Bank. and c. c.
Johnson, former vice president,
were sentenced today to three
years each in Leavenworth Peni.
tentiary on charges growing out
of the failure of the bank here
year ago for 81 ,283, 900.
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Admiralty Official
Sees Continued War

FOLKESTONE, England, June
8. ONSO.-Disarmament will not
result in the abolition of war.
A. ". Alexander, First Lord 0f
the Admiralty in Premier Mac
donald's Labor cabinet, declared
today. He prophesied that "Ro-
bot civilization" even if shorn Of
all the present trappings of war,
could, within a short time, bring
about a conflict worse than the
last.
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Knox NJ. YOung's II
Best at Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, June 8 Q.N.SO
Knox M. Young, jr., Pittsburgh
amateur, shot IT. three over par,
to take early honors in the first
round of national open golf quail
flying play. Other early scores
we're:
J. Morris Hunter. 80: William
Mckay, "a; Frank runo. "a: Dale
Zimmerman, SO: Blaine Hines. SO;
Ben Myers, SO; Harry thinner
man, 80; John Manley, 90.
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Cubs Angle
For st. Paul PL1uer

CHICAGO, June 8 Q.N.S0.
William Wrigley, owner Of the
Chicago Cubs, today is under
stood to be considering the pur-
chase of Jack Saltzgaver. star
second baSeman of the st. Paul
American Association Club at a
reported price of $4,000. Saltz-
gaver, a lanky youth, purchased
two years ago from Oklahoma
City for $4,000, is batting around
325.
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Gloria Wilson Gets
Lea Hurt in Crash

Gloria Wilson, IL. of 1880
Chaplin st. N. W., is at Gar.
field Hospital with a broken
leg received when struck by an
automobile at Sixteenth and
Fuller Streets Northwest.
According to police, the girl
was struck by an automobile
driven by Reuben Coloma, %,
of 1889 California st. N. W.
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500 Chicago Police
Shifted in ShUke-uD

CHICAGO, June I.N.SD J.
Commissioner of Police John H.
Alcock issued orders today for one
of the biggest "shakeups" in the
police department. The orders
brought about the transfer of $50
members.
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KenlUOrthy, Noted
Masonic Leader, Dies

ATLANTIC CITY, June 8 U.N.So
Robert Judson Kenworthy, 10, Of
New York, secretary Of the Grand
Lodge, F.. and A. M. and one Of
the most widely.known Free
masons of the city, died while
asleep at q hotel here today.
Death was caused by heart dis
ease.
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CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as Of June S.
$7S,721 ,308; expenditures. $10,.
l86. 6.9s4.26; customs receipts, &S,.
34l,242.97. ~ =. a. -,
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tOther News Of Rapidan \
Conference on Page 81
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THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Tuesday; warmer Tuesday
moderate northwest winds. Temperature yester
day-Highsst, 81; lowest, IS.
Full Weather Report on Page 4
he ~ nntaF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-20

At Harry's words that the box which had contained Sues emerald was empty, Corrinne raised startled eyes to his face. Empty! It seemed to her that the whole world started to slip from under her.
 But 1t can't bel" she heard her voice saying. No one could get in but you!'
 But 1 lost the key. .or some- one took 1t. Somebody has had a chence to break in."
 Harry. .. you know I didnt!" But even while she said 1t all the evidence that she herself had given him tumhled through her mind. She had admitted that she had prom ised to secure the ring for Clifford and her own Harry the two counter feits, one of which was so much more beautiful than the other. She had explained. of course. that she had had no intention of securing the real ring. |. but how would Har- ry know?
 q guess this ends 1t. Corrinne. I'm done!" Harry's voice was very calm and deadly.
 Don." Her own voice was scarce
 ly a whisper.
 we cant go on like this. It was all a mistake in the first place. May be we loved each other. I don't know. .. but I can't stand deceit. And this seems to be the climax. Oh. of course you might have thought that you had the right to the ring. since 1t was Sues and she
 would defend you. can see that. And Clifford probably was going to give it back. But you lied about 1t. |" T didn't lie. Every word was the truth!'
 But the stone's gone. What more proof do I need?" Even Corrinne in her agony noticed that there were
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windows, 1 should have gone in to close and lock them when 1 made the rounds of living room, dining room and library, after our guests were gone last night"
 A pale-faced. headed but Ter had materialized while his master was speaking. Beg pardon. sir. but 1 did not close the trophy l room windows because 1 thought you might be using the room again. |. You see, sir" said Whitson turned to Dundee. "Mr Miles and Mir Dunlap played ping-pong in the | trophy room after elmer until the other guests began to arrive. and did not want them to find the room stuffy-it was a warm night if any of the guests"
 | "I see." Dundee interrupted |. "Who. to your knowledge. was the room last night, Mir Miles?"
 'I was. except sprague, of course. and I had no idea he'd gone there. Drake wanted to play anagram ms, and before the bridge game started. went to the trophy room to get the box" Mics explained. q turned off the light when I'd got the box, and there was no light burning in there this morning when Celia, the parlor maid, went in there to put the anagram box pack in the cabinet. and-and found the body. Flora-Mrs Miles-had q brought the anagrams in from the porch and left them on a table in the living room. as our guests were getting ready to leave. There was nothing else to bring in. in case of rain. The bridge tables are of iron. covered with oilcloth and fitted with oilcloth bags for the cards, score pads. and pencils"
 | "Yes. I know" Dundee inter- rupted. Miss Grain has already told me all about that, and a good many details of the party itself. By the way. where is Mrs Miles now?" @.:
 'In bed. The doctor is with her. She is prostrated from the shock" | Where is this room you cali the trophy room ?" Dundee asked. "No, don't bother to come with me. Just point it out. It's on this floor, I understand"
 | Miles pointed past the great cir cular staircase that woupd upward from the main hall. You can't see l tIle uOOF lIOHl lleIc, DuL u S DculIll | the staircase Celia found the door closed this morning, and no light on. as I said-''
 Dundee cut him short by march ing toward the door which was again closed. He entered so noise lessly that Captain Strawn. Dr Carraway. did not hear him. For a moment he stood just inside the door and let his eyes wander about the room which Penny had already described. It was not a large room I-12 by 14 feet, possibly-but :t 1 looked smaller. crowded as 1t was with the long ping-pong table. bags of golf clubs. fishing tackle. tennis racquets, skis and sleds. There were two windows in the north wall of the room. looking out upon l the yew-hedged driveway. and be- tween them stood cabinet of
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kitchen; had descended the kitchen stairs with Lydia. to the servants sitting room in the basement Now he continued along the main drive way to the more impressive en- trance. whose flanking, slim turrets frowned down upon line of po- lice cars and motorcycles.
 His approach must have been ex- pected and observed, for 1t was the master of the house who opened invited him into the broad main hall, at the end of which. down three steps, lay the immense living room. The detective's first glancS took in stately arm chairs of the Cromwell period. thick, mellow toned rugs. and, in the living room beyond. splendid examples of Jaco- bean furniture. In all this dignified but simple grandeur only Tracey Miles-short, stout blnod, the typi- cal business Babbitt-struck a false note.
 "A horrible thing to happen in a mans home, Dundee," Miles was saying. his plump, rosy face blighted with horror. "I can't real ize yet that we actually slept as usual with corpse lying down here all night. And I have only myself to blame"
 What do you mean?" Dundee asked.
 why, that the-body wasn't dis covered :ooner Miles explained. "If 1t had occurred to me that Whit son hadn't closed the trophy room
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She wondered whether she should wear the veil to the church, and the answer was, of course. yes. Since she was going in closed car the veil would not be disarranged in transit, and 1t certainly required more adjustment than could be
 made in the moment or two at the church.
 Then came the question as to whether she should keep the veil on while she was guest of honor at the wedding reception in her home. The answer was. of course, yes. The veil Is not removed until the bride changes into travelling dress. She remembered wedding re- ception held in a hall rented for the occasion. At that affair the bride had removed her veil and at the time, she felt the bride was incor- rect. She was, too.
 When the vexatious problem of the veil had been settled came the question of the wrap. Since 1t was winter time she would have to wear a wrap both to and from the church. What should 1t be?
 Necessarily 1t must be white or some of the off-white shades. Polly chose an ivory transparent velvet. She might have chosen heavy white silk or satin. The wrap must be loose since 1t should not disar: range nor crush the wedding out fit hidden beneath 1t. The wrap may be furred with fluffy fox collar or with ermine or left collariess with a softly draped effect about the neck,
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YOUR CHILDREN MMeRabe17s&a11az NOIQ3IRY NfA .Sfp\ncf .MC. [
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l Mrs Ruth Bryan owen in a recent article untangles some of our mud dled ideas concerning her new bill in the house of representatives.
 It is, in brief, bill to create in the presidents cambinet a depart ment of home and child, putting the institution of the family and the home life on Q parity with bus iness, affairs of state, agriculture and national defense. Not that the interests of the children are not now fairly well covered in the various departments of govern ment in the national capital, but 1t would assemble these depart Icentric organization and power.
 Without going into the matter seriously, 1t Is difficult for the aver |age person to decide whether to regard such Q move favorably or otherwise.
 Without question Mrs owen is lqualified to know good bit about the advantages to be gained by the establishment of a department of home and child in the cabinet. he has been engaged in many Iactivities that deal with family life, in both community and state or- ganizations.
 I myself have stood outside the door, unable to convince my wav- ering mind that the American home needed any more superim- posed law than 1t now has: that 1t should be kept free and apart from too much bureaucracy seemed para mount to me. for who can class the home with those other depart ments that must function under n load of technicality and system? Although such technicality and such system are obviously for the public good.
 Perhaps others have stood with me. Would a new department mean the shifting of the home away from the helpful human-wel- fare organiza tions we now have in Washington to the colder regions of statistics and the. mechanics of government?
 Some Possible Drawbacks
 Would the divine spark of real interest and contact he sacrificed to a certain extent? Would the as- sembling of agencies for the better ment of children. such as the chil- dren's bureau. the child health de- partmenft, the National Training School for Boys and Girls. and the departments of rehabilitation. Educa- ton and home economies. change feature and lose something if brought together under one head?
 Mrs owen says that none of these things would happen. but that on the contrary they would gain strength by cooperation. Her strongest argument is that mothers now puzzled by the labyrinth of fed- eraI departments and bureaus. will lknow where to turn for aid and an- swers to their problems.
 | She also assures us that the rights of the states would be safe Iguarded against any encroachment Ifrom the federal government. That ciears up another doubt in our minds.
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under the telephone table? Couldn't
 "Clifford left our house last night. You might question the maids as 70 whether he came back. But If ne did he wouldn't have been admitted to the box. You know that. No one else could have. ...
 You mean that I'm the only one who could get in?'' Corrinne was facing the charges now. She would fight in the open. Subterfuges might as well be cast aside.
 "Yes" A Ieaden word that dropped down to the bottom of Corrinnes hurt heart.
 'Then let's ask the bank official if anyone came. They'll know. liar. ry. They'll prove that I didn't do t!''
 Harry's voice was little sarcas- tic. "Of course you know you are safe in that suggestion. It's the last thing ,e can do, under the circumS stances"
 "But why?" Corrinne asked won- deringly.
 NExT-Corrinne packs.