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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
ISLANDER CHARGED
I. TO CHURCH WORKER
Minister Accuses Atlanta
Woman in Suit for $25, 900
Filed Yesterday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, May 16.-Mrs. Row
land Bryce, Atlanta church worker was
charged with SANDER today in a
suit filed by Rev. Rembert G. Smith,
Sparta. Ga, Methodist minister, who
)rought similar actions yesterday against
two bishops of his church.
Damages of $4,000 on each Of two
counts were asked against each OF the
bishops, Edwin D. MouZon, In Charlotte,
N. c., and John M. Moore, In Dallas,
Tex.
Damages of $4,000 were asked of
Mrs. Bryce for malicious and defama-
tory words" which the suit alleges she
uttered about Mr.. Smith. Mr.. Smith
preferred charges against Bishops James
Cannon, jr; Mouzon, Moore and H. M.
Dubose for their unwarranted political
activities" at the Methodist General
Conference in Dallas in 1880, and the
suit against Moore and Mouzon is an
outgrowth Of that controversy.
In the suit today, Smith charges Mrs
Bryce said to friends, DIR. Smith forged
my brothers name to a large check
payable to him, and my brother has
never been reimbursed. He has kept
silent rather than hurt the good name
of the church. Rank dishonesty is
surely more culpable than even stock
market gambling"
Attorneys for Smith said statements
she is accused of making grew out of
an association with James z. Odum in
an insurance company and from obliga-
tons assumed by Odum and later paid
by Smith. Smiths attorneys said he
had letter from Mr.. Odum saying the
minister had fulfilled his obligations.
Mrs. Bryce said she is innocent Of the
minister's charges.
II never heard of the suit" she said
"but know it refers to a matter of
which there was some talk last
Summer"
In his suit against Bishop Mouzon,
which attorneys said is identical with
the one against Bishop Moore, Smith
charged defamatory utterances were
made when charges against the four
bishops were instituted at the general
conference.
One thing for which damage is sought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
WOOD ALCOHOL USE
REGULATION ASKED
Representative Dyer Lays Deaths
and Blindness to Car
Fluid.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Dyer, Republican, Of
Missouri, yesterday called for con-
gressional action to regulate the use of
wood alcohol in preparations intended
to prevent the freezing Of automobile
radiators.
In letter to Surg. Gen. Hugh S.
Cumming, he said these preparations
were being used for beverage purposes
with resulting deaths and blindness.
The letter was part of an exchange
Of correspondence which has been in
progress for several months, in the
course of which disagreements between
Dyer and Cumming have arisen.
The House member, ranking Re-
publican on the Judiciary Committee,
said the wood alcohol industry had OPP
posed through well organized and
costly Hobbies" every measure introduced
in State legislatures during the past
Winter. to provide regulation Of the
In addition, he charged the Public
Health Bureau with IAN apparent will
ingness to trail along with State health
officers in trucking to the producers of
this deadly liquid"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
KIDNAPER TO RECOVER
AFTER SHOOTING SELF
Bullet Blinds Contractor Caught
by Father Of New Jersey
Boy Victim.
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GLASSBORO. N. j., May 16.-Physi-
clans today predicted the recovery OF
George Miller, contractor of Pitman,
who yesterday kidnapped Paul E.
Kramme, r., 7, and shot himself in
the head when caught by the boys
father.
Dr. j. H. Underwood said Miller will
be blind. as the bullet, which entered
the right temple. severed beth optic
nerves.
The boys father, bank official and
builder. said today he would net prose-
cute Miller, but State police announced
the wounded man must face Charges
of kidnapping, highway robbery, larceny
of an automobile and atrocious as ult
and battery.
Miller, riding in a taxicab, police
said he had stolen. picked the boy up
in front Of the Kramme home in Mon
rceville. He threatened the father and
mother with a pistol and made of
With the boy After an automobile chase
Paul was rescued.
The father. who was shot in the ell
bow By Miller during the chase, said
Miller told him h was faced with
bankruptcy and had intended holding
Paul, r., for ransom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
QUOTA CLUB TO HOLD
ANNUAL MEET HERE
Hiss Catherine Olney to Preside
at Convention of Inter
national.

The annual convention Of the Quota
Club International, Inc, will be held in
Memorial Continental Hail and the
Msyfiower Hotel June "A, Is and %, it
was announced yesterday by the con-
yention bureau Of the Greater National
Capital Committee.
The convention will be presided over
BY Miss Catherine Olney. worcester,
Mass, niece CT Richard Olnev, Secre-
tary Of State in the Cleveland
administration.
Speakers at the convention will in
clude Miss Mary Crawford Of Memphis,
ssid TO be the only woman cotton Inter
broker in the country, Other speakers
will be Miss Rietta Emerson. assistant
restor OF the st. Paul M E. Church.
Wilmington, Del; Miss Lulu Dryden
Of Baltimore, Miss Dorothy Jamtson of
Charleston, w. Va, end DR.. Mabel II.
Palmer, who recently returned from q
tour Of the South Sea Islands and
Australia, where she was engaged in
extending the work Of the Quota Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17

was reputed Characterization Of Smith
by one of the bishops as an honest but
eccentric preacher" and the Rev. Mr..
Smith would have given many thou
sands Of dollars for the publicity which
he has been given free of charge"
Smith charges the utterances were
made to "rtdicule and damage the
plaintiff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
BANK ROBBERY RING
BELIEVED DISCLOSED
Bad Check Suspects in Boston
Linked to Other Swindles in
Cities of U. S.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BOSTON. May 16.-Four men, ar
rested today on charges Of conspiring
To defraud three Boston banks, tonight
were believed by police to be members
Of a ring that has robbed banks in
many cities through fraudulent check
transactions.
Boston police said the quartet an
swered descriptions Of members of the
notorious schwartz check gang" and
disclosed that police of Detroit and
other cities were interested in the men
held here.
The men, all Of whom are held n
SIS. 900 bail gave their names as Ben
ian1in Hanfling, Charles Mayer, Will
liam LANCER and Benjamin Baird, all
of New York.
LANCER, police said was identified
by a Fall River bank teller as the man
who defrauded the. B. M. G. Durfee
bank there of 5000 In 1880. A De-
troit police inspector tonight was on
his way to investigate any possible
connection between the men and bank
frauds in the Michigan metropolis, and
information concerning the men was
requested from other cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
SANDING BANDITS
RAID PALACAQU|MA
Insurgents Destroy Many
Houses During Three.Hour
Engagement.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Subsistence Of insurgent activity on
the east coast of Nicaragua was fol-
lowed yesterday by a report to the Navy
Department of a fierce attack by a
well armed band on town in the
northwestern section, center Of many
past disturbances.
Col. Franklin B. Garrett, commanding
the I'd Marine brigade at Managua, said
bandits assaulted Palacaguima yesterday
morning, armed with machine guns,
rlIles and hand and rifle grenades. Pa
lacaguima is rs miles south of Oco-
tai
The insurgents withdrew, Col Gar
rett reported. after a three-hour en-
gagement during which many houses
were damaged by bombs and rifle fire
There were no casualties among the
Nicaraguan Guardia defending the
town, but several of the attackers were
believed killed and wounded Two
stores we're looted of goods worth about
$1,000
Insurgents Escape.
Patrols followed the trail of the band
into the jungle, but they did not estab-
lish contact. and Col Garrett said
scouting planes also failed to find them.
The Marine Corps officer said the in
surgentS were led by Gonzales and Or
tez, two of Sandinos lieutenants He
added that most of the men were
dressed in uniforms similar to those
worn by the Guardia, and that some Of
the men were believed to be Hondurans.
Marine Corps officials said the fact
that machine guns and grenades were
used indicated the insurgents still have
a plentiful supply of arms and am
munition, and also presaged future en-
counters, possibly involving the Ma
rineS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters.
Gary Cooper at Palace
Stars in "City Streets"

~ AIRY COOPER'S artillery is
in good working order, with
7 a plentiful supply of am
~ munition, In City Streets,
shown at the Palace Theater.
but he ambles in and out of every
situation without firing shot. Like
the lawyer who can argue, or the
super-salesman who can convince,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17

MS IaTnllldT per-
Sonality-plus is
triu m p h a n t
without the final
test Of strength.
The foe Is a
composite of the
motley charac-
tiers of the mod
ern racket, for
midable W h e n
facing the gentle
citizenship of a
great city, but
completely lost
when attacked
from the inner
circle of their
own crew. For,
be it known.
EarU inEiSt.S I'M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
Marine and Police

Marine and Police Teams to Shoot.
team of crack marksmen of the
Marine Barracks at Quantico, Va, will
meet the pistol team of the Metropoli-
tan Police Department on the latter's
range here next Wednesday. The match
will get under way at 2 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
HELD AFTER ACCIDENT
Virginian, Whose Auto Hit Child,
Brake Violator, Police Say.

Howard Bradley, 81 years old, of Cher
rydale. Va, was arrested on charge of
operating an automobile with bad brakes
yesterday after his car ran down a
child on Potomac street.
Five-year-old Carroll Inscoe of 1854
Potomac street, who was playing in
front of his home when the accident
occurred, was treated at Emergency
Hospital for shock and possible internal
injuries. Bradley obtained his release
on $25 collateral short time following
his arrest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
CRASHES INTO STORE
Automobile Breaks window at @
Street Place.

Drifting from its parking place In the
2100 block of Eighteenth street, the
automobile Of Adrian E. Ensor, 26, of
2700 @ street, yesterday crashed into
the store window of Benjamin Cruger,
20l0 Eighteenth street, police reported.
Damage to the store was estimated at
$500. Police said the glass was in
sured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17

Europe IL spending $4,000, 900, 900 Q
year on military prepafAtions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
Dorothy Mackaill at Earle
In "Pnrty Husband

A SERIOUS vein Of good. old
"A fashioned philosophy. running
beneath the surface of lightness and
laughter which makes Party Hus-
band" this weeks feature at the
Earle, highly entertaining picture,
lends to the production q degree of
Intelligence and sound thinking too
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
ROAD CONTRACT BREACH SET UP BY co TRACTOR
Hubbell & Waller Sue Sub- contractor and Tie Up
 Camp Equipment

Alleging 9 breach of contract on the part of Gordon Mcdonald, which resulted in involving heavy cash penalties on it, Hubbell 6 Waller Engineering Corporation, through it's attorney H. L. F'aulk- ner, this week asked for and ob- tained q temporary injunction re- straining Mcdonald from moving certain equipment from Klawock where the interested parties have a contract to build road.
 McDonald was ordered to appear before the District court here on December 15, next, to show cause why the order should not be made permanent. and possession of the equipment turned ever to Hubbell & Waller so it can complete the -cad.
 Last spring that firm was award ed a contract by the United States Bureau of Public Roads to con- struct shcr5 road at Klawock. In turn it sublet the job to McDonald. The complaint declares the work was to have been conp,eted by November 24, last; that this was not done and that the defendant ceased work; that McDonald was subject to a penalty of $25 per day for each day after November q, but that he had no funds to ray such penalty; that some $3,o00 expenses incurred by him will have to be borne by the plaintiff; and, in addition, the plaintiff is required to pay a s25 Der day penalty to the Government for failure to complete the read by November q.
 l. is a.laged that t'le company mus have the equipment, consist ing Of Heating canp5, gravel sew. enc caterpillar tractor and two five-tcn ho1ts, in or,s2r So sssr- form the work. McDonald has re- fused 70 permit tho use 2. ttc equipment and threatened to rove i. away from the prcjses. The company asked that he he enjoiAed from dcing that, and thas he be required to turn it over une.l the project has been completed.
 Judge Justin w. Harding is-ueu temporary order to that end md get the hearing for pern,an- ent order for December 15.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
WHISkEY-DOPE
 THEN CANCSTER

LCS ANGELES, Dec. 10.-@WiId whiskey and dope make the gang sser what he is today"
 The submacfine gun thug of the prohibition era" is no kin of the open-fighting outlaw of frontier days, emphatically declares Col. Evett Ed" D. Nix, former United States Marshal of Oklahoma, now visiting in Los Angeles.
 "Old-time outlaws shot it out in the open" he said.
 Now the gangster-who cannos be compared to the Jameses and the Daltons shoots innocants down without provocation
 "Bootlegging opened the way to law breakers. Youngsters see an unpopular law broken. in their own homes. They learn to deride such laws and the turned criminal on the strengeh of it.
 T felt certain that the prohibi- ton law couldn't be enforced when it went into effect-and I never drank a drop.
 With 150 men, it was impossible to stamp out whiskey bedding to the Indians around Guthrie in 1889. And if laws are not enforceable in small area, what can you expect over an enormous territory"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
RING GIANTS
 NOT so HOT

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-"Little men, if physically well balanced, are far more valuable than the big fellow in any branch of athletics" |" says Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, former heavyweight boxer.
 T never had much faith in size" OBrien adds. The giants they are importing these days are making a circus out of the boxing game. As far as I can see none of them have the first requisites of a fight cr.
 Camera is nothing but an over grown boy who still would be herd ing sheep or something if left to his own devices. He has marv- elous body and is fast for a large man, but I do not believe he would lift up his hands if he were not told to do So.
 "The same condition exists in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10

E. w. Starbird, 75, was burned to death when his cabin at Chicken in the Fortymile district was de- stroyed by fire. The position of his body showed that he had en- deayc-ed to get out of the door before he was overcome He had lived at Chicken B years.
 At the annual meeting in Fair banks cf the stockholders of the Mt. Mckinley Park Tourist and Transportation company, James L. Ga,en was reelected president; A. E Lathrcp, vice president; John H. Kelly, secretary. These officers with Robert Sheldon and George A. Lingo constitute the board of directors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10

football. One of the greatest yard gathers in the country is a man weighing less than 160 pounds. The grid coaches keep most of the so- called dreadnaughts on the bench, while speed takes the field
 T do not believe anything will come to the newly formed heavy weight class. could name ten of the smaller heavyweights who would not have to dread the dread naughtsp
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
BRITISH JOCKEY
 SIGNS CONTRACT

LONDON, Dec. 10. Gordon Richards, the famous British jock ey, has signed contract to ride for the Beckhampton stable next season.
 He will receive a retaining fee of $20,0GO plus 10 per cent of all stakes won by horses he rides.
 This year the stable has won in round figures $375,000 in stake money, and assuming an equally successful season in 1892, Richards will receive about $55,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
QUICK ACTION IMPOSSIBLE

WASHlNG6CN, U. C., Dec. lU.-
 When President Hoover asked Con-
 gress to open the way for further
 war debts revision, saying it was required in an economic emer-
 gency' within five days, Congress
 sional leaders at once said consid-
 ation which they want to give the moratorium made such quick action impossible.
 There is no prospect of the pro- po-al being rejected despite the
 Senate fight against it by Senator Hiram L. Johnson, Republican or [ California. His resolution for an inquiry into the amounts of for
 eign securities in this country was adopted without debate.
 Even while the messenger stood in the aisle bearing Hoover's mes sage, the State Department dis
 closed the receipt of 8 formal nosi- 1 fication from France Of it's posi-
 ten that separations revision must
 be accompanied by a sealing down , Of war debts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
ALASKA NEWS

Hank Gfinrci, shrimp fisherman w.sh the Alaskan Glacier Sea Food Company at Petersburg, is the champion shrimp fisherman Of the warld. Since he has been with the company, he has caught 6,5oo,- eco pounds Of shrimp. If the boxes 0. shrimp were laid end to end, they would extend 20 miles; if pilao n tcp CT another the would at .a.n a height of five miles.
 Caused by a short-circuited wire Q fire destroyed the contents oi the second story of the home O.. Mrs. A. Dunkelberger in Petersburg. The urper part Of the dwelling was damaged. The loss it is believed vii be covered by the sl 800 insur- ance that was carried on the house ard it's contents.
 Federal officers in Wrangel eel ebrated Thanksgiving by destroy ing 2eo bottles of beer. The liquor had been taken in raids.
 Mrs. L. s. Hopkins has been em- ployed as an extra teacher at the Petersburg public school. She lS teaching the sixth and seventh Eades.
 Petersburg's indoor Tom Thumb golf course has been reopened un- der the management of William Cathey.
 Automobile competition on 2 good road tetWeen Fairbanks ano
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
Mary Nolan Agrees
 to Pay Labor Debts

BEVERLY HILLS, Cal. Dec. 10. Mary Nolan, beautiful blonde film actress, in court admitted ewing three labor debts which she agreed to gay. She denied how ever, owing Louis Fist, violinis5. $50 for playing as he contended soothing music to soothe Miss Nclans nerves"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10

w Lockhead, TO, pioneer of Alas ka. dropped dead Of heart disease On the sesreet at Fairbanks. He had ben in various camps of the North. He is said to have been the disccVerer of pay dirt on American Creek in the Hot Springs district.
 Occurrence of diphtheria at Tan ma has caused the sending of 35,C00 units of antitoxin there hv lirplana from Fairbanks.
 William Sorenson and Mrs. Addie Rivers were married at Nenana.
 Mrs. Leland Moore, 23, bride of three months, died of pneu- nonia in the Fairbanks hospital Mrs. Moore was the daughter ol MT. and Mrs. C. G. Traub. Shl vas born at Chicken in the Forty mile country and lived there con- Sinuously until she moved to Fair banks with her parents two years ago. She had never been away from the Interior of Alaska.
 Iean Ernest N. Patty of tht Alaska Agricultural College ane School of Mines has received al inquiry from a large chemical com pany in New York City which de. sires to purchase shipments of stib' nite (antimony ore) for European delivery. There are several anti mony deposits in Interior Alazka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
Counties in Minnesota
 Aim at Lower 1882 Taxes

ST. PAUL, Dec. To- = Pocket books of p Minnesota counties have been snapped shut by boards Of commissioners upon taxpayers insistent demands for lower taxes next year.
 Tho action, in most instances, has followed tax protest meetings of farmers and residents in village and township areas. On the basis of 1892 budgets an estimated re- duction of S3,452 1888 has been ef- fected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10

More than 36,0Oo persons visited chrysanthemum show at Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, in a week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
Ota the Third Floor

the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines has compelled the Alaska Railroad to discontinue the gas railway car service batwaen the two places.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
 RATIFICATION
 NOW SOUGHT
President Sends Message to Congress Concern
 ing War Debts
Continued from Page One)

House would not act on the Hoover moratorium proposal before De- cember IS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10

though diminishing the ci this morning with Of low forming the Berng Sea Light precipitation the in the northern portion mostly slightly Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10

EXCL SIVE and attractive Christmas gifts at Winter & Ponds,
 -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
TIDES TOMORROW

High tide, 2:13 a. m., 157 feet Low tide, 7:48 a. m., 3.7 feet High tide, 1:44 p. m, 19.0 feet lew tide, 3::31 D. m, 20 4125
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BOYS SUITS $l3.5 50 up

A suit that he will be glad to get now or as Christ mas present. Made of pure wool, they come in single and double breasteds with an extra pair of trousers. In blues, browns and greys. Exceptional values.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10
Ties SIPS up

Does he like virile stripes? We have them. Does he like small patterns? We have them. And if he likes some thing new, we have wool ties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-10

Automobile competition on good road tstween Fairbanks ana