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The Washington times., 1931-06-25
SHANE CURE"
F. To DRIVE OUT
SPEAKEAS|ES
TarrytOWn, N. T., Plans to Post
Names of Patrons in Effort
To Discourage Rum Buying

TARRYTOWN, N. Y, June 25.
1t might not work in a big city
but in this small one Mayor
Eugene Lehman is going to adopt
the shame cure" to suppress
speakeaSies and gambling dens,
by publicly posting the names of
their patrons who are seen going
in or out.
The mayor says everybody in
Tarrytown knows everybody, in
a way, and it will be easy to post
a policeman in front of a speak
easy and jot down the names
of patrons. Men who go into such
places, opiness the mayor, make a
prima facie case against them
selves. He reasons that:
"It'S a pretty sure bet that
if they are going in and out Of
these places they are not doing
SO on legitimate business. And
we have the names Of all the
SpeakeasieS and gambling dens
in town. Therefore, if a man
wants to retain his standing in
the community he won't parOn-
ize Such places. Depriving
them of patronage we'd choke
the life out of the resorts"
Mayor Lehman was reluctant
to discuss details of the plan for
what he calls a psychological
whipping post" but it is re-
vealed that the tentative program
calls for the picketing of speak
eaSies by policemen and the
posting of the names Of their
visitors in some conspicuous place.
The Washington times., 1931-06-25

FORECAST TILL 8 p. NJ. FRIDAY
For the District OF Columblt and
Maryland-Fair tonight and Friday;
warmer Friday; gentle variable winds.
Foys Enthusiastically fair tonight
and Friday: warmer in north and west
portions Friday: gentle variable winds.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Yasterdsy Today
d m m.s.. .h4 A. m.......... VI
8 n m.. 7ss a. m........ -
Midnight .. 66 Noon ........... 10
DEPARTURES PROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess Of temperature
since January l. 1881. 2s7.
Excess of temperature since June l.
1891. %.
Accumulated deficiency of precipita-
tion since January l, 1891, as
Deficiency of precipitation since June
1. 1891. 1877.
TIDE TABLE
Today-High tides at 3:43 a. m. and
All D. M: low tides 1888 q. m. and
10:42 D. m.
The Washington times., 1931-06-25
Aimee to Fight Tax
Case All Summer

Aimee Semple Mcpherson, re-
vivalist of Los Angeles. is going
to fight her income tax case be-
fore the Board of Tax Appeals
to the bitter end.
The Federal government claims
she owes $21, $40 in back taxes.
The case will be fought out dur
ing the summer months
The Washington times., 1931-06-25
Weather Details

Tomorrow-Hish tides at l:as q. m,
End S:ea , H.: low tides. 11:31 a. m,
and 1883 D. m.
THE sun AND MOON
The sun rose today 4:I2 a. m. and
sets 1881 D. m.
The sun rises Friday I:I2 a. m. and
sets 1917 o. m.
The moon rose today at 3:23 y. m
and sets at l :6 a. m
The moon rises Friday at 4:37 m
and sets las a. m
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1931-06-25
Golf Cup Presented
At ROtdrU Luncheon

A sports luncheon meeting OF
the Washington Rotary Club yes
terday at the willard Hotel was
made the occasion for the pres
entation of prizes in the clubs
annual golf tournament. PreSi-
dent Henry N. Brawner, jr-, pre-
sided and Rotarian Eugene C.
Gott distributed the prizes.
The Radcliffe loving cup was
awarded to L. j. Goode with a
score of St. Clyde Asher and
Allen Talbot were awarded golf
bags, with net scores Of IT and
72 respectively
The Washington times., 1931-06-25
STEAMBOAT SERVICE

+: RICHMOND, Va, June IS
Steamboat service on Nomini
Greek, in the Northern Neck Of
Virginia, has been resumed after
p suspension of six years. Boats
OF the Baltimore and Virginia
Steamboat Com. .1any will make
regular stops at McGuires.
The Washington times., 1931-06-25
Model Motor LGIUS
Reduce Fatalities

The enactment Of model legis-
lation governing drivers licenses,
compulsory inspection. financial re-
sponsibility and other regula-
tions in some States, has caused
a IS per cent reduction in traf-
fic fatalities, it is announced by
the executive committee Of the
National Conference on Street
and Highway Safety here.
Educational methods were
credited with having caused a
SO per cent reduction in the
number of fatalities at railroad
crossings since 1911.
Fix the car for your sumner V1Ga-
tiOn trip many AutOuNOliie Re-
pair Services are listed tNIay m the
.'@4- Hour SeVvice Directory" Published
In the Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-06-25
Seat Pleasant Store,
R1ided, Yields LiQIEOT

: Ralph Sparks, who operates a
grocery store on Carmody Road.
Seat Pleasant, Md, was released
ON $1,000 bond, after Prince
Georges county police raided his
establishment last night and
Seized 10 gallons Of liquor. The
raid was led by Sergt. Arthur
Hepburn.
The Washington times., 1931-06-25
Girl Seriously Hurt
In Automobile Crash
Photo by International

Elsie Lula Bryan, %, of 1911
Thirtieth st. N. W., was injured
while en- route to Georgetown
Hospital early today in sn auto
mobile accident, at Thirty-fourth
and N streets Northwest.
She was treated for cIts and
bruises. Her condition IS serious.
The Washington times., 1931-06-25
OUTING TO BE PLANNED

Details of the proposed incor'
poration of the Business Mems
Association and plans for an out
ing, will be discussed at a lunch
con in the Hotel Logan at noon
today,
The Washington times., 1931-06-25

4s1 In the preceding week. and
comparing with 466 in the cor
responding week of 1880, accord
ing to Bradstreet's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
SENATE TO REOPEN.
BILLBOARD HEARING.
BackerS of Maryland Bill
Confident Measure Will
Be Reported.
EY GEORGE PORTER.
SAL Correspondent of The Star

ANNAPOLIS, Md, April despite
an unexpected delay, caused by the de-
ciSion of TIE Senate Finance Committee
to hold public hearing this afternoon
on the bill tc regulate and tax Mary
lands billboards, proponents of the
measure today were mistaken in their
confidence that the bill would be passed
by the Senate.
The hackers of the bill are counting
heavily on the obvious merits of the
measure. SO reasonable in every respect
that the billboard companies themselves
have stepped lobbying against 1t. to win
the support of the upper branch.
Passed by House.
The House considered the bill such q
necessary piece of legislation last week
that it pas~ed it through both the Sec
ond and third reading without dis
senting vote.
Another factor expected to carry
weight with certain Senators who
Thowed reluctance toward approving the
bill in committee yesterday is the back
ing 1t has received from Senator Lans-
dale G. SaSscer of Prince Georges
County, chairman of the Finance Gem
mtttee, and majority floor leader.
Today's hearing will be conducted by
the committee for the benefit of both
the representatives of the signboard
companies, and the many civic or
CARNATIONS that have sponsored the
measure.
Tax Opposition Halted.
The representatives of the signboaro
companies opposed the bill as first In
troduced. on the ground that the Scent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
PLOT TO SACK TOWN
IN MEXICO is NIPPED
Starving Miners Planned Coup, but
Drunks Barred Plan-Ringleader
and Two Held.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MEXICO CITY, April 1.-Famished
miners, made desperate by hunger,
plotted wholesale robberies at Concep-
cion del Orc, in the State of Zacatecas,
according to press dispatches from Sal
tillo. The conspiracy was discovered
through the indiscretion of two drunken
soldiers in discussing plans to disarm
the military garrison to facilitate sack
ing of the town.
Conception del Orc is an important
mining center. where large number Of
men were left without work when the
MaZapil Copper Co. decided to close
down, in view of the impoSsibility to
operate on a profit
The plans contemplated the looting
of all the stores. However, the conspir-
acy was nipped when an army lieuten-
ant overheard the soldiers, who were
arrested They revealed the name of
the ringleader, Juan Hernandez, who
was Jailed shortly afterward, but stub
bornly refused to make known his plans
or to name others in the plot. The three
were sent to the Saltillo Military Courts
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01

per square foot annual tax authorized
On each sign would put them out Of
business and throw men out of work.
AS they repeatedly asserted they would
welcome some form of regulation. they
halted their opposit on when the tax
feature was reduced to one-half cent
per square foot
When the amended bill, as passed
by the House last week, came before
the Senate Committee yesterday, oppo-
sition was voiced by some members from
the rural counties on the ground that it
might adversely affect the revenue now
received from billboards by farmers.
1t was pointed out, however. that a
careful study of the bill itself would
show no such effects.
Although no record vote was taken
in the committee yesterday, the oral
vote was reported to show six Senators
in favoring an unfavorable report and
six approving favorable report
Senator Sasscer could under those cir
cumstances have cast the deciding vote
for favorable report, but rather than
have such small majority, 1t was voted
to hold a hearing at 3 O'Clock this
afternoon, to convince the skeptical
Senators of the actual need, as well as
the desirability, of the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
ROBSON rendered
RECORD FAREWELL
Retiring Naval Academy Head
Honored by Annapolis and
MidShipmen.
enecial nisnntoh 10 rhe STAR.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, April For thu
past "a hours Rear Admiral Samuel S.
Robson, who today will retire Sas head
of the United States Naval Academy
and from active service in the Navy,
has been meeting officials and friends
who have come to pay their respects to
him for his distinguished career as an
officer, extending over 43 years, in
which time he has filled every high
post the service offers. His farewell
honors are surprising any ever accorded
an academy superintendent.
Late this afternoon Admiral Robi-
sons long tour of duty marked by "a
years at sea, will have been concluded
although he'will not actually retire until
June /. Having reached the age Of
compulsory retirement, 81 years, Rear
Admiral Robson, from his new home
near the academy, will begin we'll
deserved vacation.
Praised by Annapolis.
Early this afternoon Mayor Walter E.
Quenstedt of Annapolis headed parry
of civic club heads, who called upon
the retiring academy chief and pre-
sented an official resolution from the
city council in which the past admin
istration of the academy was praised
Last Summer, when Annapolis faced
the prospect of a water famine, Rear
Admiral Robson made the academy
supply available to the public and had
100000 gallons of water from the Navy
wells pumped into the city mains daily.
His cooperation at a critical time
probably saved the populace from being
tx-if
Brown, president of the Annapolis
Water Co.
At 3 O'Clock this afternoon the Of
fetal Navy farewell to Rear Admiral
Robson will take place in the admin
iStration building Of the Academy.
Rear Admiral Thomas c. Hart, mis-
successor, will not arrive until May l..
Capt. Charles p. Snyder, commandant,
will be in full charge until then.
Corps Marches to Cheer.
Last night probably the most touch
ing farewell of all was accorded the
retiring chief, when the entire regi-
ment of midshipment, 1000 strong,
marched to his quarters shortly be-
fore 7:30 O'Clock and gave him several
lusty, heartfelt cheers, which pleased
Rear Admiral Robson, as his smiles
showed. In addition, the regimental
commander, Midshipman Maurice w.
Hibschmann, made an appropriate adj
dress, in which he stated that the regi-
ment had enjoyed and profited by its
years under Admiral RobiSon's super
1ntendence.
Hundreds of friends, both civilian
and naval, will make the departure one
of great pomp. At O'Clock this after
noon Rear Admiral Robinson is expected
to toss out the first ball opening the
base ball season, as the "Middies" clash
with Vermont. This toss, whether it
is a strike or a ball, will likely be his
lest official act in the service to which
he has given the best days of his life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
FRANK B. GORMAN
KILLED IN CHICAGO
Man Described as Veteran
Congressional AttaChe Sue
cumbS to Injuries.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy bIle ASSOCldbeu FTeSS.
CHICAGO. April Frank B. Cor
man, so, for As years an employee Of
the House of Representative and the
Congressional Library at Washington,
died in a hospital today of injuries
which. police said, were received either
in robbery or an accident.
At the time of his death he was in
charge of the congressional reference
room in the Congressional Library. At
the age of IA he had begun serving as
a page in the National House
A coroner's inquest was ordered.
He came here week ago to visit a
brother, Phillip. Monday he was found
on a sidewalk apparently beaten and
robbed.
German was known as Senator" by
his friends at Washington through his
long years of Federal service He was
page, master and clerk in the
Senate and secretary to Senators Will
liam Lorrimer and James McAndrews.
A 81 500 diamond and sapphire ring,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Meeting, Kenneth Nash Post, Hamil-
ton Hotel.
Meeting, women's Auxiliary, Master
Plumbers Association, Hamilton Hotel,
8 pm.
Meeting, the Texas Co., Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Ladies' Auxiliary, Kenneth
Nash Post, Hamilton Hotel.
Meeting, International Association OF
lrt and Letters, 725 Twentieth street.
8 pm.
Meeting. west virginia Society.
Washington Club, 8 pm.
Meeting, Warrington Philatelic So
:iety, 1913 H street, 8 pm.
Lecture, DR.. Nina e. Pickett, Wash
ington Lodge, Theosophical Society, 8
pm.
Dinner, 9Th Regiment, u S. En-
gineers. Sd Division, A. E. F., University
Club, $50 pm.
Presidents day tea, women's City
Club, pm.
DR.. George w. Cooke, evangelist, and
Harold Vigneullee, singer, will conduct
evangelistic services at the Petworth
M E. Church tonight at 8 o'clock.
FUTURE.
Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Washington
Hotel, tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01

his watch and SIS to 500 cash were
reported missing after his death.
When the police found German lying
in Stupor they assumed he was in
toxicated and placed him in a cell for
As minutes without medical attention.
A policeman noticed he had fallen to
the floor. His brother was called and
German was taken to a hospital. DR..
Arthur Metz said he died either of a
fractured skull or severe conclusion of
the brain. Phillip German said he
would ask the coroner and States at
torney to investigate the circumstances
Of thA attack and death.
German began his career as a boy
as personal page TO Gov. Shelby NJ
Cullom of Illinois.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
BAD CHECK PASSER
SOUGHT BY POLICE
Merchant Says Bank Declares
Certifcation Was Stolen-Two
Purses Snatched.

An alleged check swindler, said TO
have been operating in various Eastern
cities. is the object of city-wide search
by local police following the passing Of
a worthless check on Joseph Helbing, in
business at 1859 U street. recently.
The merchant informed police yester-
day that he learned from the New York
bank upon which the check was drawn
that credentials and certification stamps
had been stolen from the hank and that
worthless checks bearing the name of
Max Kronheines were being passed in
various cities.
Helbing gave police a description OF
the man. He is alleged to have given
Helbing check for $40 in payment fol-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
Hero Several Years.

Frank B. German had been employed
at the Capitol many years ago in sew
eral capacities, it was learned there to-
day. He came here at the beginning of
the Forty-ninth Congress with Repre-
sentative Frank Lawler OF Illinois. He
is said to have resided here in the
Ambassador Apartments.
There was no record of Mr.. German
ever having been employed at the Ii
brary of C-ngress, it was stated there
today. Attaches at the various branch
libraries at the Capitol also said they
had no record of him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
CHAIRMAN APPOINTED

BY STAFF Correspondent of The star.
: ALEXANDRIA, Va, April l.-Presi-
dent Luther H. Dudley of the Cham
Der of Commerce, today announced ap-
pointments of chairmen of the five
msjor committees of the organization.
The new chairmen will meet with
President Dudley at the chamber to-
night to. plan activities for the coming
fiscal year. and to discuss the personnel
OF the committees and the chairmen of
the subcommittee.
The new committee chairmen are
Public relations, Harry Hammond;
civic development, w. Du Brookings;
finance. George F. Downham; trans
portation and communications, William
Buckney McGroarty, and industrial and
trade relations, G. Page Waller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
Iothine and to have received SIS IN

clothing and to have received s25 IN
change.
Police today were also on the lookout
for persons believed responsible for the
purse -snatching incidents yesterday.
The victims in the two cases were
Katherine Beach, 3l6 s street northeast,
who reported her pocketbook, containing
81. was snatched from her by a COLI
ored man while in the 1900 block Of
Fourth street northeast. The man fed
in an automobile.
Mrs. Katherine Gray OF 1915 Kill
bourne place informed police a pocket
book valued at IS was stolen from her
at Park road and Seventeenth street
last night by colored man, who quick
ly escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
Licenses to Marry.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. April /
(SpeciaD. - Marriage licenses issued
here within the past few days follow:
Charles r. Drexilius, 30, Of 442 Manor
street, Washington. D. c.. and Dorothy
Wade, IS, Of Braddock, Alexandra, Va,
issued March %.
Charles A. Braden. SIS. Of Hyattsville,
Md, and BERTHE Isgett, so, of Hyattsville,
issued March rs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
Sentenced for Fraud.

CARLISLE, England, April P.-
Henry Carlton Carlyle, Sc, a tailor, who
is said to have posed as "Sir Henry
Stirling" in America, was sentenced to
IL months imprisonment here yester-
day for fraud. Police said he was SEN
fenced for fraud in New York and de-
ported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
Churches to Give Pageant.

MANASSAS. Va. April Especially -
Eight churches VIII be represented, in
Manassas in the fellowship pageant of
color tonight The program will consist
of numbers from each church repre-
scented in the pageant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
G. OPP. WOMEN TO MEET
Montgomery County Federation
Will Convene at Bethesda.

BETHESDA. Md, April l Especially -
Quarterly meeting Of the Federation of
Republican Women Of Montgomery
County will be held Thursday, April 8,
ct 8 pm in the woman's club house, old
Georgetown road. here
This will be an open meeting and
men and women who are interested in
county affairs and county legislation
are invited to be present.
Walter w Dawson. Republican mem
Der Of the House of Delegates from
Montgomery County, win be the prin-
cipal speaker.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-16
Mail Order Love

A little common sense would prevent so many trag-
edles. The five murders which Harry +. Powers, of
harrisburg, w. Va, committed wouldn't have taken place
If two women had refused to let his f~lattering phrases
play upon their vanity. They might have known that adj
vertisements inserted in matrimonial papers aren't tased
on a certain mans reaction to a certain woman. They
are founded on a wholesale interest in any daughter of
Eve who is curious enough to send her name and address
and volunteer for a correspondence course in %courtship.
But somehow or other there is a woman now and
then who has an idea that she is really the woman of his
imagination for which the man who advertises is search
tainly won't unless she tells him about ii. When an
answer comes she can't base the sudden flair of his inter-
est on the light in her eyes or the smoothness of the COM
plexion that he has never seen.
When she finally meets the man and the romance
takes q personal turn, the fact that its foundation has been
built on shifting sand doesn't give it much room on which
to stand.
Powers, who preyed upon a foolish sentimentalism
which some women have, in order to obtain their property
it is hard to realize just what charming words the erst-
while Don Juan must have written in order to make women
believe that he was a pearl of great price.
There have been pitiful stories told of women who
have been afraid that their communities would think that
they were unsought because they hadn't married, and
who pucked a Beau Brummel from any tree.
But the two women whom Powers confessed that he
murdered weren't the only two who were gullible. Scores
of letters from others are pouring into the Clarksburg
p~ostoffice in which others admit that they, too. received
long distance thrills from the matrimonial advertisements
of the slayer.
Now and then someone criticizes the younger gener-
alton. Heads are shaken because the girls of today are
supposed to have considerable more knowledge of life
than their grandmothers had at the same age. But it is
fairly safe to wager that a far smaller percentage of the
worldly-wise teen-age group will ever chase a thrill
through an advertising agency.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-16
New York
Letter

NEW YORK-Opening OF a Broad
way theater season presents scenes
strangely akin to those found on the
fair ground during "old home week.
To be sure. the ladies and gentle
men who get together on the curb
stones and sidewalks, In the foyers
and the theater aisles are dressed n
toppers and evening clothes, IN sum-
mer furs and Eugene hats.
But after the passing OF q sum-
me- during which everyone has loSt
track of everyone else. the CONVERSE
ton goes something like this:
40 there Gus" -. "H'lo your
self" Where va been all sum.
mer?" .Oh. took the wife and
kids and went down to the Hamp-
tons" Look swell. -. The vile
looks grand" "All sun-tanned. err"
sHow many fish ia catch?" -.
whats been going on while ] was
away?" How should / know. I
just got back myself. LOOKS
ike a good show yea"
And 50 forth and 80 on.
Now this Is not an unfamiliar Inc
Of chatter. And perhaps us not
exactly what you'd expect 70 rear
from gents standing about IN SIX
But listen to George Jean Nathan
and John Anderson and GilDe1L
Gabriel and the various "highhat'
critical gents on their first get-to-
aWhen did you get back?" -.
"Sav. did you catch that new Paris
show while YOU were over there? -.
They saw It's swell" whats the
low-down on that London job yol
tell o a frnny one on Glutz-'.-
You're looking grand" You
don't know how I needed a Few
weeks Off" "Garland's down n
Bermuda. isn't hep" what do
Won hear about his marrying Queenie
Smith? Did he or didn't hep
And, again, so 1t goes. Small tax,
patter and "old home week gossip.
The boys are back in town.
Then. II 0 scanned the audience,
yDu might see several actresses who
had been out in Hollywood; others
who had been out Of work for
mouths: others who expected SHOWS
later In the year.
How did the Warner contract pan
out? .. Did you see Ethel out
there?" rs that so Well,
Helen always did get the lousy
breaks" mo. those new hats
don't agree with me ... I hope they
kill the style quick" -. $50 do L.
Little bv little, II one turns caves
dropper, it's possible to learn about
Atlantic City and Paris. the lie de
France and the vaudeville situation
the fishing in Maine and the surf
riding on Long Island: the sum-
mer stock season and the art colon
les.
For. as has been said before. the
New York cliques. whether IN the
world of the theater. In the world OF
OF books, Of art or OF music are even
as the ~congregated ru-alites around
the country store at Skagg Centers.
The first few events OF a theater
season offer an opportunity for re-
unions. They meet and kiss. like long
lost relatives. They gush and they
chatter. Between curtains they
ramble out reams OF gossip.
Well. after all, Brock Pemberfon,
who opened the Broadway season,
was an Emporia. Kan. lad