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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-18
PRIZES OFFERED
 RULES MADE IN
 YARD CONTESTS
Chamber of Com m ere e Promotes Interest in
 Clean-Up Campaign

To promote interest in the Clean- up Campaign, the Chamber of Commerce will give $1O, first prize; $8, second prize; S5, third prize, and $2 fourth prize for lots or yards showing the greatest inn provement during the forthcoming summer. No prizes will be award ed unless eight persons enter the contest. The conditions of the competition follow:
 The improvement may consist of clearing away rubbish, raging old buildings, fences, or clearing away debris; repairing old buildings or fences; beautifying by pl a n ing shrubs, trees or flowers.
 Improvements are to be judged by snapshots before and after pie lures, and by personal observations by judges.
 Each contestant is to submit a snapshot of lot or yard taken between April Is and May 15, be- fore improvement is begun; and pictures of the same place taken after September 1. The date on which the picture was taken must we written on the back of the snapshot.
 Entrants should declare their in- tention of taking part in the con- test with the Chambers Secretary before May 15.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-18
CARELESSNESS IS
 FOOTMAN OF DISEASE

A good citizen knows thas un- cleanliness and carelessness are the obsequious footmen Of disease.
 He does not leave his garbage pail uncovered to breed flies. The less he leaves rotting, the less he is swatting.
 He does net allow stagnant wat CT to stand about his place.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-18
GOOD HO|SEWIVES

The good housewife does not keep oil floor mops in a corner, or closet, but places them in metal containers. She does not clean with gasoline, but uses non-in- flammable cle aners, of which many are on the market.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-18
GOOD NEIGHBOR CAREFUL

A good neighbor does not throw tin cans, brush, papers, or rub bish on vacant lots, but places waste material in boxes or baskets, convenient for cleanup wagons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
CONTRACTOR SUES
HIS W|FE'S SISTER
Charges Woman Persuaded
Spouse to Leave Him.
Asks $25, 900.

George w Moore, a wealthy retired
contractor, 436 New York avenue, today
filed in the District Supreme Court a
suit for $25,0 900 damages from his wife's
sister, Mrs. Hazel Jason Iittleton of
Chevy Chase Gardens, for alleged alien
alton of the affections Of his wife. He
charges that Mrs. Littleton persuaded
her sister to leave him october IL and
has since. harbored her at her home m
Maryland.
Through Attorneys Leo A. Sinonton
and James B. Archer the husband says
he is past middle life and married Miss
Honilene Jason Davidson May 10 last,
and lived happily with her until he in
vited her sister to their home. Through
her actions, he says. the Sister-in law
wholly "disarmed him of any suspicion
of sinister motives but set about to
make his wife dissatisfied with their
home and insisted on her asking for a
more fayorably located resort home
than the one at Virginia Beach which
the husband owned and for a town
home in better location.
Moore tells the court that he placed
$12 900 at the disposal of his wife, but
found that she had selected a place
entirely beyond their income or require
ments, which. he asserts, was part of
the scheme of the defendant ito egg
on the wife's discomfort and to destroy
her happiness in her home" During
his temporary absence, it is charged,
the defendant Concealed herself in the
neighborhood and thereafter persuaded
and induced his wife reluctantly to
leave him and go with the defendant to
her home at Chevy Chase Gardens,
where she has since harbored her.
The husband says he has been de-
prived of his wifes companionship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
BONNER TAKES OVER
new FEDERAL POST
Former Executive Secretary Of
Power Commission Begins
Work on Reservoirs.

Frank E. Bonner, former executive
secretary of the Federal Power Com
mission, who lost out there in the
shake-up precipitated by the row In
which he was a central figure, has gone
back to work for the Government.
Bonner has been engaged by the Blu
reau of Reclamation for some engineer
ing work having to do with reservoirs
in the Far West.
His salary will be $25 day, with an
expense allowance when he is out of
Washington, and the work is expected
to last three or four months. His for
mer berth paid $4,000.
DR.. Elwood Mead, commissioner oil
reclamation, said today that the bureau
was badly in need of an engineer for
temporary work and that Bonner's
knowledge of the subject matter made
it advisable to employ him. DR.. Mead
added lightly that inasmuch as the
work had nothing to do with power
projects the bureau did not have
to worry whether he was for or against
Government ownership. Bonner took
over his new work late Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
HOME. OF OVERSEER
DAMAGED BY BOMB
Second DanviIIe Residence
Blasted as Sixteenth Week
of Strike Opens.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, January 12.-Anoth-
er bombing opened the sixteenth week
of the textile strike early today, when
explosives damaged the home of Frank
Broome, overseer in the Riverside di-
vision OF the mills, and shook North
Danville.
Second Outrage i'm DanvIIle.
It was the second dynamite outrage
to occur within the corporate limits of
Danville since the strike, most of them
having occurred in Schoolfield, which
is in the country. None Of the Broome
household was injured and the damage
amounted to little more than shat
tered windows.
Windows of other nearby residences,
were broken.
The explosion occurred about 8
o'clock aAA aroused hundreds from
sleep. Broome's home had previously
been subjected to bombardments of
rocks and brick ana had been fired
upon at least one time.
Ministers Remain Silent.
The situation was otherwise un-
changed. Whether the Ministerial As
ISOLATION of Danville will make reply
to an attack by Rev. j. M. Spotford,
president of the Church League for In.
duStrial Democracy Of New York ana
editor of the Witness, organ of the
Episcopal Church. made in an address
at a mass meeting Of strikers yester-
day, remains q matter OF speculation.
Danville was stirred over the attack,
especially on Rev. j. B. VIM, pastor
Of Mount Vernon Church, in which
he said he supposed that the pastors
here are mtll-Owned." Mr.. Sponoro
made a plea for elimination OF pa.
ternalism in Southern industry and
expressed the opinion that sooner or
later Southern employers would have
to reckon with trade unions.
Workers Praised for Attitude.
Mr.. Spofiord presented check for
81 900 to the strike chest, this bring
ing the total contribution by thai
organization to the local labor cause
to $4,000. He stated at least 10 Epis-
copal bishops contributed 1t.
E. r. Hoage, president of the Colo
RADIO Federation Of Labor, also spoke
and COMMUNICATED the workers for their
attitude in the strike.
Three men questioned in connection
with the dynamiting were exonerateo
this morning by Police Chief j. H
Martin. He said his quizzing failed to
produce evidence enough to hold them
on a charge of bombing, though they
will be detained on concurrent liquor
charge. :,
The men are: B. H. Brown, Roosevelt
Kidd and Martin Collins.
Writs were to be served on approx
mately 80 strikers occupying mil-owned
houses in Scheduled today but most
of them are reported to have already
moved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

element with them--for, 1t Is a sad
duty to record, the production
doesn't come up to the specif1ca-
lions.
1t is true that unexplainable
things happened, that there were
odd-looking characters Just barely
to be discerned when the lights
were dimmed, and there were sounds
such as are sometimes employed to
create terror. Nevertheless, the
author struggled with haZineSs in
plot and poverty in the sparkling
qualities of a properly prepared
script, with the result that it is
necessary to conclude that If the
members Of the company had any
reason to be proud Of their re-
spective records on the stage, they
added nothing but blank pages
through the medium of '"The Blue
Ghost"
A Woodworking assemblage of
auditors proved one thing which
may be accepted as the lesson of
this production-there is real de-
mand for the kind of play that the
authors had in mind.
There Is one general protest to be
made in behalf of those who sim
cerely tried to solve the mystery.
They had exercised their intellectual
powers in the hope Of finding q So
luton and then found that the
whole thing was only a servants
dream, inspired by his contact with
spirits OF a more substantial sort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
MAJ. FRANK P. AVERY,
RETIRED, DEAD AT II
Native of Michigan Will Be Buried
Wednesday in Arlington
Cemetery.

Maj. Frank r. Avery, U. S. A., re-
tired, died in Walter Reed Hospital
today after an Illness of several months.
He was n years old.
Maj. Avery was for many years on
duty with the Sd Infantry and during
the World War was on duty at the
ONCE of the adjutant general of the
Army here. He was member of the
Army and Navy Club of this city and
of the Michigan State Society.
A native of Ionia, Mich, Maj. Avery
was graduated from West Point Mill
tary Academy in 1874. He was assigned
to the Infantry and reached the grade
of captain in 1898. He was retired for
disability in line of duty in September,
1898. Subsequently he was restored to
active duty and served in various ca
pacities until March, 1919.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Helen C. Avery 1915 Sixteenth street,
this city; a brother, Bryan Avery, and
sister, Mrs. Ada Burren, both of Mich
igan.
Funeral services will be conducted In
Arlington Cemetery Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. Interment will be
with full military honors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
0LDR0YD WILL is FILED
IN COURT FOR PROBATE
Widow Given Collection Of Relics
in Home Where Lincoln Sue
cumbed to Bullet.

The viii Of Osborn H. Oldroyd, who
formerly lived on Tenth street near
F, in the house where Abraham Lincoln
died, has been filed for probate. 1t
was dated February 8, 1925, and pro-
vided that his widow, Mrs. Ida A.
Oldroyd, should have his entire estate,
including the collection of relics of Lin
coin and Of the Civil War. The coll
lection has since the date Of the will
been bought by the Government.
In a petition for the probate of the
document filed by Attorney David Aiken
Hart for the widow it IS stated that at
the time of his death, October 8, Mr..
Oldroyd owned the premises at 1928
Webster street, valued at $50, 900, and
had no personal property. Besides the
widow, he is survived by daughter,
Daisy Gordon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
CHEST PUTS MOST DOLLARS
IN NEEDY HANDS, SAYS COUZENS
Senator LaudS Charity Meth
cd After Is Years
Experience.
Hopes for Success Here, Urg-
ing Liberal Contributions
by All.
BY JAMES COUZENS,

bI janis OOOZENS,
United States Senator from Michigan.
The Community Chest of Washington
is preparing for its annual campaign.
For some is years now have taken an
active interest in the Community Chest
idea, not only in my home city of De-
troit but in other communities, includ-
ing Washington, where I live part of
the year. No device has yet been found
to equal the Community Chest idea for
collecting and distributing money for
charitable and philanthropic purposes.
We hear objections to the Community
Chest idea on the ground that it is too
efficient and does not permit those
charitably inclined to give to the chart
ties with which they are particularly in
touch. There may be some basis for
this, but submit that under the plan
any giver may designate the charity to
which he desires to contribute. To do
this means more money for the relief
of the needy, because of the very mate
rally lower cost of administration. Ger
tainly every one who contributes to
charitable or philanthropic institutions
desires that as much as possible OF their
contributions go to the relief OF the
needy. Under the Community Chest
plan more dollars reach the needy than
through any other plan, because the
cost of collection and administration is
materially reduced by the unifcation
under an annual campaign.
In the Is years that I have con-
tributed to Community Chests I have
never designated my contribution for
any specific purpose, because have felt
that whether or not 1 was enthusiastic
about any one particular activity in
cluded in the Chest, charity required
me to be charitable to those who were
enthusiastic about the other activity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

In other words, If charity is the basis
of our gift, we must be charitable. Then,
again, human needs are human needs
everywhere, whether it be in Washing
ton, Detroit or elsewhere.
NeighborlinesS is perhaps one Of the
greatest incentives to car, for those
less privileged or in need, and how can
we be neighborly and have heart for
those in need if we refuse to contribute
to the needs of the people of Washing
ton just because it Is not our home
town? I know that many temporary
residents in Washington decline to con-
tribute to Washington needs because
they do not hold Washington as their
permanent residence Well, what Of 1t?
The poor and needy here need care, and
the very fact of our proximity seems to
me should move our hearts to contribute
to their needs also. This does not mean
that we should not support. the needs
of our neighbors in our home cities, but
it means that because of our privilege
of having two homes we should be as
generous as possible IN supporting the
needs of our neighborS.
These are trying times, and because
they are every one should extend as far
as possible their contributions.
I wish for the Chest q successful
campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
SILVER LOAN TO CHINA
is REPORTED SC0RNED
Finance Minister Declared to Have
Claimed q. s. Seeks Only
to Dump Surplus.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, January 12.-vernacular
press reports today said T.. ". Soong,
finance minister, commenting on advices
the International Silver Commission was
willing to lend China 200, 900 900 ounces
Of silver, asserted the Nationalist gov
eminent considered the project not
likely to help this country through its
silver crisis.
Soong allegedly stated further that
the Nationalist government was not
willing to accept such loan. The YER
naculars further quoted the finance
minister as saying he did not believe
the project announced in Salt Lake
City was a sincere effort to help China.
He was quoted as charging It was an
attempt Of American silver interests to
dump their surplus IN China.
The minister allegedly disapproved the
silver loan proposal as being obviously
detrimental to China He said America
was willing TO lend b large quantity of
raw silver as the mines in America had
been hard hit by the slump, but that
other means must be found to restore a
better rate of exchange between gold
and silver,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
FORMER DEPUTY HURT.

John T. Jester Seriously Injured in
Crash ut ChestertOwn.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CFIESTERTOWN, Md, January H.
John T. Jester, former deputy sheriff,
was seriously injured In an automobile
collision here last night. Walter Raj
eigh, %, of Chestertown, driver of the
car in which he was riding, was ar
rested on q charge of driving while
drunk. The Raleigh machine hit one
driven by Clarence Quimby of Queen
Anne's County.
Six persons were injured In another
collision on the Centerville road. They
we're Mrs. J. K. Valiant, Grace VAL
liant, 10; Oakley Valiant, 8; Mrs. Earle
Sharks, Mrs. Clinton D. Robinson and
Jane Robinson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

Two Accidents Are Reported From City
Area.
BY q stan Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, January r.
Two persons were injured, four Seri-
ously, in automobile accidents in and
near this city last night. -Four of the
persons injured were treated by phySi-
clans, two at the Alexandria Hospital
and one at Providence Hospital in
Washington.
Lewis McCracken, 81, of Mount Ida,
received q possible fracture Of the skull
when the automobile in which he was
riding overturned at RoSecrest avenue
and Russell road about o'clock this
morning. McCracken was taken to
Providence Hospital in Washington,
where he was treated by DR.. harrington.
The automobile in which he was riding
and which Is owned by Mrs. Withers of
Burke Station, Va, was badly damaged,
and McCracken was extricated from be-
meath it and taken to the hospital by
M. P. English.
Mrs. Margaret Brown, %, of 500
Cameron street, received a conclusion
of the brain shortly after IL o'clock
last night when an automobile driven
by Leo Lyons of South Fairfax street,
this city, collided with the rear of an
other car on the 800 block, South
Patrick street. Mrs. Brown was treated
at the Alexandria Hospital by DR.. M. D..
Delaney.
Huc TT1nv KuTEn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
MAN BURNED ALIVE
| BY MISSOURI MOB
Prisoner Chained to School
Building Where Teacher Was
Attacked and Slain.

By the Associated Press.
MARYvnLE, Mo-, January Ia
Chained to the roof OF the Garrett
Rural School, IN which he was alleged
to have assaulted and murdered Miss
velma Golfer. 19-year-old teacher, Ray
mond Gum, colored, was burned to
death by q mob which made o funeral
pyre Of the building today.
Gum was seized as he arrived at
the court house in an automobile driven
by Gabe Purcell, deputy sheriff. He
was to be arraigned today. The leaders
OF the mob told Purcell to stand aside.
A rope was placed about the prisoners
body as the group OF SO men on foot
began the march toward Miss Golfers
Rural School.
No firearms were in evidence. Spec
tatorS near Gum when he was seized
said no resistance was offered by his
guards.
Marched TO School House.
Gum was marched into the school
house and 70 the spot where the bruised
body of the young teacher was discov-
cred. Those of the throng about him
who were closest said he confessed his
guilt.
He was then taken to the roof Of the
building. He was placed across the
ridge pole. Holes were chopped in the
roof and gasoline poured over the floors
and on the walls. A member of the
mob applied q match.
Gum was calm throughout. Those
close to him said he was not injured
during, the march to the school, al
though his clothing was stripped to the
waist
At least 1000 persons stood around
the small school building.
Armed National GuardSmen were on
duty as o precaution against possible
mob action during the arraignment Of
Gum.
Hearing Was Secret.
A week ago he was brought back to
Maryville at am. and given q secret
preliminary examination and then
taken back to Kansas City.
Miss Golfers battered body was
found In her school room at twilight
December is. Gum was arrested sew
eral days later. In a confession at
tributed to him by county officers,
Gum said he had seized the girl at
the doorway Of her school and killed
her with q club after she resisted him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
CHARTER OF LIBERTY
ISSUED BY FARMERS
Rural Areas in Saskatchewan
Threaten Political Conquest If
Demands Are Refused.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILKIE, Saskatchewan, January IL.
"A charter Of liberty" formulated by
farmers of Northwest Saskatchewan has
been sent to Prime Ministers Macdonald
and Bennett.
Failing immediate and sufficient gov
ernmental action to aid farmers, the
"charter" states, the farmers will or
ganize at once for political conquest Of
Saskatchewan, along with such other
provinces as will join the movement,
for the purpose of forming a co-opera-
tive commonwealth within the British
Empire.
The charter" demands Of the Domin-
ion government:
A temporary basic price for wheat.
Abolition of grain exchanges and
speculation in farm products.
Crop insurance guaranteeing farmers
production against natural risks.
Establishment of board of standards
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
GOLD SEIZED AT BORDER

MEXICO CITY, January IL R.--
Laredo said last night 10000 gold pesos
(about 100000 had been seized by
American customs officers at the border
point when a prominent former en-
ploye of the Mexican government at
tempted to smuggle it across the line.
Mexico has rigid ban on the re-
mova1 Of gold from the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

taste for mys-
terry and weird
things tried to
make 1t inter-
eSting.
AS audiences
60, almost any
good play which
is prOpe ly
classified may
be expected to
draw its own
group Of ad-
mirers, but the
mystery ia n S
who assembled
at the opening
S e S sion last
evening W e'r e
obliged to bring
fbaip oUn nx.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
SISS0N TO BE SPEAKER

Assistant Attorney General to Ad-
dress Bar Association.
Charles Peck Sisson, Assistant Attor-
ney General, will address the Federal
Bar Association at its monthly meeting
in the University Club Friday evening
on Alaska"
ISOLATION will be held at the Meyflower
Hotel on Thursday evening, February
H., meeting of the Committee on
Arrangements was held at the Office of
Assistant Attorney General Sisson last
Thursday evening, at which plans for
the dinner were worked out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
"EARLY-BIRD" POLICEMAN
MAKES LIQUOR ARREST
Dry Law Enforcement Unit Mem
Der Seizes Truck Loaded
With Alleged Rum.

George c. Deyoe, member of the po-
lice dry law enforcement unit, has made
practice of looking over suspected
neighborhoods on his way to headquar-
tiers and on several occasions has made
arrests and seizures.
His inspection in the vicinity of Sixth
and T streets this morning Melted him
one arrest and the capture of a motor
truck containing 2,208 quarts Of alleged
liquor.
Roland John Crismond, %, giving a
California street address and alleged to
have been the driver of the truck, was
booked on charge of illegal possession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
DISTRICT BECOMING
BIG G. P. o. CUSTOMER

Government Is Getting Better
Work Done for Less Money.
The municipal establishment of the
District of Columbia is becoming one
of the best customers Of the Govern
ment Printing Office, and comparison
of typical items of printing indicates
that the Government charges for Dis
trict work are approximately 40 per
cent less than was formerly paid private
contractors for work of lower quality"
This was brought out today in the
annual report of George H. Carter, the
public printer, who said the District
work for the fiscal year reached a
total of $106. 270.65, an increase of $780,
32l "a over 1929.
He said much of the work came from
the school system, including printing
of diplomas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
FOUR AUTOISTS HURT.

Quartet at Woodbridge.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WOODBRIDGE, Va, January PA
triple collision here last night caused
injuries to four persons. They were
Mrs. E. H. Embrey of Stafford, Va:
Walter Anderson, Richard Hill and
George Hill of Brooklyn, N Y. Mrs.
Embrey received possible internal in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
Confederate Veteran Dies.

STAUNTON, Va, January IL (Spe-
cial) Jacob P. Hamilton, 80, Con-
federate veteran, died Saturday at his
home near Hebron Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
MRS. JUDY KILLED.

SkSdding Truck Strikes Her Near
Franklin, w. Va.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FRANKLIN, w. Va, January H.
Mrs Emma Judy, A, was almost in
stantly killed on the State highway
near here yesterday when struck by a
skidding truck, which crushed her skull.
Oscar Lambert of Franklin, driver of
the truck, was exonerated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
WOMAN IS KILLED,
IS HURT IN AUTOS.
Week End Accidents in Near
by Maryland and Virginia
Take Toll.

Automobile accidents In nearby
Maryland and Virginia over the week
end resulted in one fatality and serious
injury to Is others. s.
HIJRT IN ALEXANDRIA.