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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
FEDERAL WORKERS
START HOLIDAYS
All Except Those Engaged in
Emergency Work Benefit
Under New Bill.

Except for those engaged in enler-
gency work whose services could not be
spared, approximately 10000 employees
of the Federal and District governments
were enjoying this afternoon the first
Saturday half holiday under the new
law enacted during the closing days of
the recent session of Congress.
While the great majority of the de-
partnents and independent offices
closed at / o'clock, four hours on Sat-
urday constituting a days work. great
many workers who had reported at B
o'clock were released at noon. Such in
stitutions as the Library of Congress,
the Public Library, the National Mu-
scum and other monumental buildings
of educational value to the thousands
of visitors who spend each week end in
Washington, remained open, however,
as on previous Saturdays. The employees
at these places will benefit through adj
justments made in their working hours
and pay.
G. p. o. Closes Early.
The Government Printing once de-
spite the great tasks thrust upon 1t at
the close of Congress, was able to close
early today. Some of the employees
were released at noon and others at
O'Clock, according to their hours OF re-
porting.
At the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing che small group in the surface
printing division was retained on the
Job after all other employees had been
released at noon. This group Is work.
ing on the new March financing certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness urgently needed
by the Treasury Department. They
will not lose by working all day. Acting
Director Clark r. Long explained The
lost liberty will be made UP to them at
some other time.
Bonus Workers Stay On.
Another force was at work also in the
Veterans Bureau, although the regular
employees were released at / o'clock.
Those detained are the special employees
handling the loans on the soldiers bonus.
Due to the rush in this work and the
hundreds of applications for loans that
are still being made. This special
force worked during the afternoon in
stead of tonight. They will be given
half holidays at later date to make
up for the hours they miss today.
All work in the District Government
stopped at / o'clock except, of course,
in the Police and Fire Departments
It was expected that the half holiday
would result in greater activities in the
retail business houses of the city and
naturally the motion picture theaters
were looking forward to many extra
patrons. Street car and bus schedules
had been arranged in advance to take
care of the new Saturday afternoon
rush" period between and 1870
O'Clock. as was the custom during the
Summer months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
REPLEVlN SUIT WON
BY CHOIRMASTER
U. S. Marshal Directed to Return
Furnishings to Home of
7. Guy Lucas.

T. Guy Lucas, choirmaster Of St.
Johns Church, whose apartment was
stripped of its furnishings by United
States marshal as the result Of a suit
In repIeyin filed last Christmas eve in
the Municipal Court by Mrs. Edith l.
Townsend, after she had sued him in
the District Supreme Court TO recover
a sum Of money. has won the repleyin
suit, and the court has directed the
marshal to return the goods 10 Lucas.
Mrs. Townsend later preferred GRIM
inal charge against the choirmaster,
charging larceny after trust growing
out Of a real estate transaction, under
which Lucas was held for the grand
Jury, but that body ignored the charge.
The civil suit is Sill pending In the
district Supreme Court. Attorney Ar
thur L. Hilland has represented the
choirmaster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
Valley of Midwest
Needs l2-Inch Rain
For Spring Crops
u. S.Weather Expert Says
Winter Is Driest Ever
in Four States.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The United States Weather Bureau
jubilantly mapped heavy rains today IN
Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas ana
the lower Ohio Valley, and predicted
more tomorrow.
But j. B. Kincer, agricultural meteor
clogist, compiling data on the winters
dryness. remarked the Mississippi and
Ohio Valley section should have Il
inches of rain in the next two months
to start the Spring growing season
properly and restore moisture to the
subsoil
Kincer's statistics showed,
It was the driest Winter OF record IN
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wlscon-
sin.
It was the driest December and jan
uary Minnesota and Missouri ever saw.
It was the driest october to January
ever experienced by New York. Mary
land Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ken
lucky and Ohio.
And the mountain States Of the West
we're short on snowfall, finishing up the
season considerably below normal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
CAROL SETTLES DISPUTE
OVER RUMANIAN LOAN
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Rumania, March L.
Intense nervousness of the government
and political circles the last few days
was reported today to have been allevi-
ated during the night through interven-
ton of King Carol.
The King is said to have called upon
the National Bank to meet French con-
ditions for Rumanian loan now under
negotiation in Paris.
French financiers participating in the
proposed Rumanian loan have stipu-
lated as a condition that M Auboin,
French adviser to the Rumanian Ma
tional Bank. should be continued in
Office for another three years. The
bank refused to submit and yesterday
Premier Mironescu said that If the OPP
position continued either the bank S
chancellor must be dismissed or he
himself would resign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
VETERANS SLAYER
SOUGHT IN VIRGINIA
Finding of Body % Miles
From Presidents Camp
Leads to Arrest of One.

Special Dispatch to The Star
LURAY, Va, March Mystery as
deep as the mountain Businesses in
which his body was found yesterday
surrounds the circumstances leading
to the murder on the trail from Ida TO
Skyland Camp of Edward Burracker,
36-year-old World War veteran of near
Skyland.
The veterans body was discovered in
an isolated spot a short distance from
the road by searching party that had
been sent out when he failed to return
after leaving his home for a trip to the
store at Ida. The body was lying beside
a log and was covered by leaves.
One suspect has been apprehended
and is lodged in the jail at Luray. He is
David Sours, who was arrested after
bloodncunds followed a trail to his
home, where officers claim to have dis
covered pair of wet and bloody over
ais and a shot gun. Sours denies any
knowledge of the killing.
On Trip for Supplies.
The meager information in the hands
hacker, who was employed by George
Freeman Pollock, owner of Skyland,
Summer resort near President Hoover's
fishing camp on the Rapidan and who
worked principally on the roads leading
to the camp, left his home on Thurs
day TO go to Ida for supplies for his
family. consisting of his wife and three
children.
When he failed to return Yesterday,
search was instituted by other resi-
dents of the neighborhood and at a
point about 2 miles from Ida they dis
covered the signs of a struggle in the
road and turning off found Burracker's
body.
BloOdhounds Sent For.
Failing to discover any clue as to the
cause of the killing or as. to the identity
of the slayer, they notified officers, who
Immediately sent for hloodhounds, and
these were put on trail that was
thought to be approximately "a hours
old
The hounds Immediately took the
scent, which led them to the home of
Sours.
All efforts to obtain any admission
from Sours as to his connection with
the murder have been unavailing, and
authorities are without any information
other than the overalls and gun to con-
meet the suspect with the killing
Sheriff Edward is OF the opinion that
the shooting might have been the re-
suit of bootleg feud.
Burracker lived just over the line in
Madison County, and while his work
was near the Presidents Summer camp,
his body was discovered % miles away
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
GLOBE FLYER PLANS
NEW RECORD TRY
Mears and Breese Hope to Beat
21-Day Mark Made by
Zeppelin.

BY the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, March T. John
Henry Mears, aviation enthusiast. is on
the trail of another globe circiing
record.
Mears announced today he and
Vance Breese, chief test pilot for the
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, were
Planning a flight around the world
starting from New York about June
10; that they expected to do things
to the 21-day record of the Graf Yep
pelin."
Twice Mears has set the pace for fast
world circling trips and this will be his
fourth attempt.
In 1913. by train and boat, he went
around in 80 days. In 1923 ne and
the late Can't. C.. B. d. Collyer did 1t
In % days by plane and boat Mears
and Lieut. Henry Brown cracked up in
his third start from Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, last Summer. He car
ries pictures of the wreck in his pock-
cts, laments the loss of a wonderful
plane" and remarks I'VE didn't get a
scratch
Mears has done more flying than
most pilots, yet he can't fly himself.
"Breese-he's not my pilot, he's my
associate" Mears explains. "Breese
will use the same type plane that came
to a bad end last Summer. high wing
Lockhead Vega 1t will be the third
City Of New York.
From New York they will fly to Har-
Dor Grace and then across to Dublin in
daylight-they hope. After that will
come Berlin, Moscow, towns in Siberia
whose names Mears himself cannot pro-
nounce; Chignik, Alaska, then Seattle
and back to New York Their mascot
will be Tailwind, the Sealyham dog
Mary Pickford gave Mears a year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
BUILDINGS TOPPLE
IN BALKAN QUAKES;;
DAMAGE IS HEAVY
PaniCky PopuIaCe Driven Into
Open by Series of Earth
Shocks.
SHEPHERD AND 200 SHEEP
Die IN MOUNTAIN SLIDE
Violent Tremors Rock Cities in
Serbia, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia
and in Greece.

BY the Associated Press.
VIENNA, March Widespread de-
struction in South Serbia from two
earthquake shocks this morning was
reported in dispatches from Balkan
cities today.
Residences and public buildings in
many towns, notably Demir, KAPPA and
Valandoyo, were shaken down. The
shocks drove large sections of the pop
ulation panic-stricken into the open.
There was only one known fatality,
but it was feared there were others.
In the Valandovo region a noun
tain slide swept a shepherd and 200
sheep to death. At Guevgueli the first
shock split the post Office in two.
Violent Shocks in Bulgaria.
The Athens express was held up be-
cause of the quakes, which tore up the
roadbed.
An earthquake of considerable vio-
lence was experienced In the western
part of Bulgaria, according to mes
sage from Sofia.
No damage or loss of life was re-
ported Immediately. The epicenter ap-
peared to be about ITO miles from
Sofia on the other side of the frontier.
Reports were received at Belgrade,
JugoslavIa, of severe earthshocks In
Valandovo, Strumnitza, Guevgueli, De-
mirkapia, Vardar and Kavar. Several
buildings were demolished.
Saloniki Panic Stricken.
Saloniki, Greece, reported a violent
earthquake, the shocks lasting for full
IL seconds. The populace, panic
stricken, rushed from shelters into the
open. fearing a fresh shock
II was not ascertained at once
whether any lives had been lost. An
even more violent shock was felt at
Drama and Comotini.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
DETROIT MAYORLETSR REDS PARADE
ALL THEY WISH AND PEACE REIGNS
Bloody Scaps and Black Eyes Things of Past Com
munists Speak Minds Unmolested.

So on that occasion and several times
since the Communists met in Grand
Circus Park, paraded half a mile
through the retail skyscraper district
and went to the City Hail. They car
ried banners and made speeches de-
nouncing capitalism, Mayor Murphy,
President Hoover and various other
persons and institutions
They have their say and I have
mine," said the mayor. They tell
what they demand, and I tell what
we are doing. tell them that Detroit
is doing more for the needy and I'M
employed than any city in the world,
including Moscow. I've gotten some
good ideas from them. For instance,
they complained once because children
of unemployed men have to pay fare
when going to school on the city
owned street cars. I arranged for them
to ride free"
whenever Communists meet, no po-
hceman in uniform Is NRrmitted In or
near the gathering. "They simply can't
see a policeman anywhere Naround,"
Mayor Murphy explained. when they
get to the City Hall the policemen on
regular duty in the corridors have hid
den their clubs. So far nobody has
been hurt, physically or morally. by
these demonstrations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
STUMPED
IN GORDON DEATH
Vice Graft Killing Moves to
PigeonhoIe-Private
SIeuths Hired.
Ryt,,cA rsoc.ated Pregs.

BY IT, Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March THE case of
Vivian Gordon, garrotted vice graft
tipstress, moved today toward dusty
pigeonhole marked unsolved''-there
to rest with the portfolios on Dorothy
King and Arnold Rothstein.
In spite of the employment of private
detectives, the slayers apparently were
as far from justice as when her body
was discovered nine days ago. Fifty
three witnesses have been examined by
the Bronx grand jury; two have been
arrested as material witnesses Neither
her $500 diamond ring nor the mink
coat has been found. No trace of her
movements during the two days before
the crime has been uncovered.
Inquiry to Continue.
Although said District Attorney
Charles B. Mclaughlin. I'VE have made
no Roadway of any great Importance
there will not be the slightest let-up in
the investigation. Time will mean
nothing"
The possibility of an open break over
the engagement of detective agency
loomed today between the district at
torney and Police Commissioner Ed
ward P. Mulrooney. At the conclusion
of protracted and turbulent meeting
of all investigators, each of them was
asked whether the private detectives
had superseded the police.
See Mr. Mclaughlin" said Null
rooney as he drove away.
Mclaughlin refused to answer.
Miss Gordon and her daughter, To-
year-old Bonita Bischoff, who commit
ted suicide in shame over the revelations
concerning her mother, were buried yes
terday-the former in Mount Hope
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 3D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
EXILED INDIAN TRIBE SELLS
WIVES, CANDLES ANYTHING
Strange People, Banished From Mexico,
Hate White Man and Destroy Weak
Children-Re to Mix Blood.

revolution in 1749, in which they we're
involved, the Spanish viceroy exiled
them to Tiburon, miles from the
Sonora mainland, and there they have
remained since. keeping their blood pure
and keeping others off their island.
Col Juan Masturzi, Italian explorer,
and Nine. Titayna, French writer. ar
irving here from a perilous sojourn on
the island. declared that the Seris still
live as savages. do not have houses, eat
much raw meat, wear only skins and in
some cases loin cloths for covering.
They live outdoors in all weather. and
are tanned to deep brown. looking
Continued on Page 2, Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY. March IA strange
tribe of Indians, who believe the pelican
created the world. who worship the sun
and moon. who gamble habitually, auc-
tion of their manageable girls and
who destroy their weak and deformed
offspring, has been found on Tiburon
Island, 200 miles south of Arizona in
the Gulf of California.
The Indians are the almost forgotten
remnants of the Seris Tribe. who num-
bered 10000 at the time of the conquest
Only 1874 are alive today. After the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
ACTOR caught WITH GOODS"
FLEEING DELICATESSEN KEEPER
II Can't Understand Why Did That" Says Hollywood
Prisoner in Arms of Policeman.

pursuer, H Lippsrt, a delicatessen shop
keeper
Police said Marlow's pockets yielded
eight cans OF sardines, two cans OF
brussels sprouts, four bottles of picked
onions and a jar Ct blackberry jam
He took 'em while ! was filling his
order for some pickles" said Lippert
Il can't understand why ! did that,
said NARROW.
NARROW was charged with petty theft
He will be given sn opportunity TO ex-
plain further. ct his trial, March 30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
INFLUENZA OF SNOWDEN
TAKES TURN FOR WORSE
Specialists Bulletin on Condition of
Chancellor of Exchequer
Eagerly Awaited.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
LONDON, March Phillip Snowden,
British chancellor CT the exchequer who
has been I'll fer several days with in
huenza, was understood today to be in
more serious condition that was at
first supposed
His advisers have called in Sir John
Thomson-Wslker. Harley street sur
geon. An official bulletin will be issued
this afternoon as soon as Sir John has
seen Mr.. Snowden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
MAsARYK is 81 TODAY
Prague Marks Birthday of czecho-
slovakia's President.

PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, March z
(R1.-Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, Presi-
dent of Czechoslovakia since 1918, was
81 years old today. Messages of con-
graduation poured in upon him from
every part Of the world and from
Czechoslovakia, where the President,
serving his third term, enjoys tremen-
dous popularity. Despite his advanced
age he is in the best of health.
The city was gaily decorated and dele
cations representing the government
and the Parliament went to the palace
in the morning to present their con-
gratulstions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
Ry the Associated press.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, March Tt
To- ked pretty much like acting of a
movie sequence as Frank NARROW, 81,
film actor, raced along Hollywood bouie-
ward pockets bullying, but Offlcer Britelle
was taking no chances Some che else
was chasing NARROW.
Risking the wrath OF director. the
officer seized MARROW and wanted to
know what the rush was While the
actor was explaining a drunk" was
chasing him, the pursuer cried out:
Hold him, that's the guys yelled the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
Open Parliament Building.

HELSINGFORS. Finland. March z
up. Finlands new Parliament Build
ing which took four years to build
and cost the equivalent of S2,500,000
was inaugurated today in the presence
of the chsirmen and vice chairmen of
the Esthonian, Swedish, Norwegian,
Danish and Lettish Diets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
Mexican Wreck Kills z Soldiers.

MEXICO CITY. March 7 Seven
soldiers Of the LIST Artillery Regiment
were killed and many injured. six SRI
olsly, in train wreck yesterday be-
tween Mexico City and Queretaro.
caused by spreading rails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
PROCTOR TO TAKE OATH
New D. C. Supreme Court Justice
to Be Indicted Monday.

James NJ Proctor, the new justice of
the District Supreme Court, will be in
Quoted into Office Monday morning at
10 o'clock at general term session of
the court. The oath of Office will be
administered by Chief Justice Alfred A.
Wheat in the presence of the other JUS
tices of the court. A number of law
yers and friends of the new justice are
expected to attend the ceremonies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
CRASH CUTS SHIP IN TWO
Considerable Loss of Life Feared in
Danube Collision.

BELGRADE. Jugoslavia, March 2
"a considerable loss Of life was
feared TO have taken place today in coll
lision OF a ferry boat and the river
steamer Frenchet d'Esparey on the
Danube River.
One Of TIE vessels was cut in two and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07

Radio Programs! on Page BIZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
WEATHER.

90. s. Weather Bureau Foreeast3
Rain tonight and tomorrow morning;
slowly rising temperature tonight, with
lowest about 40 degrees: colder tornor-
row night observation-disclosures At.
at 2:15 pm. yesterday; lowest 38, at 7:40
am today. Full report on page 16.
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Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1931-12-23
You Are Invited
to Join Us IN
Singing
Christmas
Carols
Tomorrow Morning
S:45 AM.
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