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reading of reports upon the progress
of work and plans for the celebration.
These reports we're made by Rep
resentative Sol Bloom of New York,
associate director of the commission,
which dealt with the program being
made for the celebrations here and
throughout the country; T. H. McDon-
aid, chief of the Bureau of Public
Roads, Department of Agriculture, on
the Mount Vernon Boulevard; Col.
Grant, on the Arlington Memorial
Bridge; Horace M Albright. director
of national parks, on the Wakefield
Memorial, and DR.. John Fitzpatrick of
the Congressional Library on the writ
ings of George washington.
Members Listed.
The members of the commission be-
sides the associates who read reports
who met with the President today, were
Senators Simeon D. FeSs of Ohio, vice
chairman Arthur Capper of Kansas,
Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, Rep
resentative John @. Tilson of Connecti-
cut, former Representative r. Walton
Moore of Virginia, Mrs. Anthony Wayne
Cook Of Pennsylvania, Mrs. John Dick
1nSon Sherman, G. BaScom Slemp and
Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of this city,
John N. Garner of Texas, Speaker OF
the House, ex-officio commissioner, and
William Tyler Page, former clerk OF the
House, executive secretary.
Members of the party accompanying
President Hoover on the inspection trip
will be Mrs. Hoover, Vice President Cur
tis, who is an ex-oficio member of the
Bicentennial Commission; Senator
Keyes of New Hampshire, chairman of
the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds; Representative Lanham OF
Texas chairman of the House Commit
tee on Public Buildings and Grounds;
Senator Fess, vice chairman, and Rep
resentative Bloom, associate director of
the Bicentennial Commission; r. H.
Mcdonald, chief of Bureau of Public
Roads, Department of Agriculture
Lieut.. Col U. S. Grant, 3D.; Mai. D. H.
Gillette, his assistant; Walter H. New
ton and Theodore G. Joslin, presiden-
tial secretaries; Col. Campbell B
Hodges, chief White House military
aide, and Capt. Joel T. Boone, White
House physician.
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death Of WOMAN
IN PLUNGE PROBED
Mother of Three Falls Out of
Window on 18th Floor of
Press Building.

An inquest was being held at the
morgue today into the death of Mrs.
Edith M. Strout 32-year-old mother of
three children, who died shortly after
10 o'clock last night in History
plunge from a window in the Office of
the Christian Science Monitor at the
National Press Building. Mrs. Strout.
wife of Richard Lee Strout of the Moni-
tors staff here, was dead when her
body was picked up from an alley in
the rear of the building.
Mrs. Strout, police were informed.
had been in poor health since she was
overcome by carbon monoxide gas while
IN garage behind the Strout home at
3S15 Alton street.
Mr.. Strout told Coroner Joseph d.
Rogers his wife accompanied him to the
building last night about 10 o'clock and
waited in twelfth floor corridor while
he went into the Office of a newspauer
bureau adjoining the Office in which he
was employed.
Returns to Adjoining Suite.
Finding he must remain longer than
ne expected, Mr.. Strout said, he re-
turned to his wife and let her into the
Monitor office, going back to the adjoin-
ing suite then occupied by Harry F..
Williams of l405 North Capitol street
ana Arthur M. Skipper of 1925 New
Hampshire avenue.
WhlIe conversing there, Mr.. Strout
sald he heard a scream and. running
TO rear window, saw people hastening
toward body in the alley below. The
husband ran into the adjoining office
saw that his wife had disappeared and
descended to the street, where he
Identified her body.
headquarters detectives who investi-
gated were unable to say If Mrs. Strout
!eaped or fell from window which had
oeen opened above the spot where her
CODY struck. The force of the impact
tore both shoes from her feet, and the
body was badly mangled.
Heard Body Strike Areaway,
Gordon A. Lee of 1888 Monroe Street
said he was standing near the stage
entrance of the Fox Theater when he
heard the impact of a body striking
the areaWay. He rushed to the spot,
ne said, only to find that death had
been instantaneous.
The body was removed to Emergency
Hospital in the ambulance of the fire
rescue squad, where a staff physician
pronounced Mrs. Strout dead on ar
rival.
In addition to her husband. Mrs.
Strout is survived by three children,
younger, and 7-months-old infant.
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CREW DESCRIBES
DESTROYER CRASH
Disabled Coast Guard Vessel
at New London With 15-
Foot Hole in Side.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW LONDON, Conn, January 16.-
A vivid story of the collision between
the Coast Guard destroyer Herndon
and the collier Lemuel Burrows was
brought here today by officers and crew
of the disabled destroyer
The service vessel, with a jagged
15-foot hole torn across her port side
near the bow, arrived at the Coast
Guard base shortly before 8 am, in
tow of the Coast Guard tug Acushnet,
after a 60-mile journey from yester-
days collision. None of the destroyer's
crew of IT officers and 80 men was
seriously injured, but all were badly
fatigued by their trying experiences and
sleepless night when they arrived
here.
I'VE are lucky to be alive" Comdr.
Charles G. Roemer, commander Of the
Herndon, said.
1T was a most dangerous and try
ing experience, but the officers and
crew behaved admirably Five seconds
more and the collision would not have
occurred, for we would have been out
of line Of the Burrows by that time"
Lieut.. A. c. Richmond executive Of
dcer on the destroyer, said:
The men were just going astern after
lunch when we were rammed We
started lowering the boats The ward
room and the fore quarters of the ship
were flooded, but we Immediately shut
ell the bulkheads."
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GANG MURDERS LAID
TO TAPPED PHONE LINES

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 16.-The Herald
and Examiner said today that conf
dental telephone conversations from
the racket Office of the States attor-
ney's organization probably supplied
information which caused racketeer-
gunmen to commit several murders, in
cluding that of Benjamin Rosenberg
Rosenberg was shot to death in subur-
ban haywood last Monday night.
The newspaper said officials Of the
States attorneys staff admitted that
the telephone lines from the racket Of
fee had been tapped by gangsters.
Other slayings attributed to the tele-
phone spy system were those of Albert
Courchene, leader of insurgents in the
plumbers union, who was shot to death
last February, and Jacob o. Kaufman,
a member of the Moving Picture Oper-
ators' Union. kaufman was killed last
June.
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MILDER WEATHER SEEN.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 16 (P).--
Californians welcomed promises Of
milder weather today in the wave of
a storm which swept the State 48 hours,
leaving snow in its wake.
The Weather Bureau forecast clouds
for the northern half of the State and
clouds, with probable rain and low tenn
perature, but no probability Of snow
for Southern California.
The first snowstorm in this section
in the 81 years Weather Bureau records
have been kept here struck yesterday
An inch or more fell over Los Angeles
and other Southern California areas.
Only trace, however, remained today.
With Washington State blanketed
under the heaviest snowfall of the VIM
ter, forecasts offered little relief for the
Pacific Northwest from its present siege
of inclement weather,
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the greatest of care, the detectives took
1t to DR.. Charles E. Monroe, chief OF
the explosive division of the Bureau oi
Mines. He Immediately detected g.
strange odor from the box He said
the fumes bore resemblance to ace
tone or decomposed smokeless powder
He ordered strong twtne tied around the
package to prevent a possible spring
from setting off the bomb"
Dr. Monroe was calm and business
like He told reporters the box might
contain anything" He said 1t would
be foolhardy to open 1t without taking
every precaution to prevent any one
from being injured. He suggested that
the package be taken to the Naval Re-
search Laboratory at Bellevue, D. &C.
The detectives acquiesced.
On arriving at Bellevue the detec-
tives exhibited the box to Lieut.. Comdr
A. 3. Dorsey. He handled 1t cautiously
A detail of Marines was summoned
They carried regulation rifles. Those
in charge, followed by nearly dozen
reporters and photographers, walked to
remote spot on the bank OF the Poto-
mac River.
The bomb" was placed IN huge
foot and a half thick. A Marine then
was stationed behind an iron screen to
protect him from fragments. After
his audience retreated so feet, he
opened fire at the box through peep
hole in the screen.
The witnesses clapped their fingers
to their ears expecting an explosion
Every shot hit the target, but it failed
to explode. Still uncertain, the experts
removed the bullet-riddled package to q
laboratory nearby. A teaspoonful OF
the powderlike contents of the box was
placed on q steel drum and struck with
a sledge hammer. It did not explode.
Then another teaspoonful was igniteo
with a fuse. 1t sputtered in what the
chemists called strange manner.
At this point the box, still virtually
intact, was placed behind q steel screen
A workman adjusted mirrors so he could
see the box without being unprotected
should 1t explode. With the aid OF
pincers, he removed the top.
Then the mystery was solved. 1t be-
came evident that the box contained
no mechanism. Instead, it was filled
with tiny white tablets. Careful ex-
animation Of the tablets convinced DR.
Monroe they were not made of ex-
plostyes.
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PRATT REBUKE ASKED.
New York Group Attacks Alleged
Lynch Law" Defense.

NEW YORK, January Is R).-sec-
retary of the Navy Adams was called
upon by the National Association for
The Advancement Of Colored People to
rebuke Admiral William v, Pratt, chief
of naval operations, for what the as
sociation termed his defense OF lynch
law" in Hawaii.
The associations letter also censures
the Subcommittee of the, House Com
nnittee on Naval Affairs for urging COM
mendation of Navy officials involved in
the Hawaiian situation.
Mai. Granville Roland Fortescue was
reported In very satisfactory condi-
ton" by his physician at the Colum-
bia Presbyterian Medical Center Hos
pital, where he is i'll with pneumonia.
His wife and son-in-law are held
in Honolulu for the Staying Of an
Hawaiian, following an attack on the
majors daughter.
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PLANES TAKE INDIANS FOOD.
Navajos Look to Skies for Help Amid
Snow Drifts.

WINSLOW, Ariz., January Is CP).--
The Navajo Indian, who has for CEN
turies implored aid from the sun and
rain gods, looked to the skies today for
airplaneS that will bring food to his
snowbound home in Northeastern
Arizona and Northwestern New Mexico.
Hundreds of the tribesmen are with
out food, it is estimated, due to the
most severe Winter the Indian country
has known in years. Isolated Indian
villages are marooned by snow drifts
2 to 10 feet in depth.
Indian Department officials in wash
ington yesterday authorized the use Of
airplanes to take food to the snowbound
Navajos. Winslow will be made the
headquarters for the relief work, the
planes flying over the snowbound VII
lagos and dropping packages of provi-
sions. The relief work was to start with
the arrival of Government planes from
March Field, Calf.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
BLAST WRECKS HOME;
MAN BURIED In DEBRIS
Philadelphia Realty Dealer Serious
ly Hurt-Convent, Three Blocks
Away, Damaged.
BY the Associated Press.

by tht hbbOCidttO FItSb
PHILADELPHIA, January l6.-John
Zdanowski, a real estate dealer, was
buried in the debris Of a three-story
house Thursday when an explosion
wrecked the structure. Police and fire.
men searching the wreckage found him
four hours after mysterious blast had
Jared the neighborhood and demolished
the house.
Zdanowsh had recently purchased
the house and had gone there to do
some repairs.
Firemen and police rushed him to a
hospital, where his condition was said
to be serious.
The blast shook houses for more than
q mile and broke windows in dwellings
within q radius of several blocks. The
convent, school and church Of the
Mater Dolorosa, an italian Catholic
institution, three blocks away was
damaged and parishioners in evening
prayer fed in terror.
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Schwieker, whc
lived next door to the wrecked house
were slightly injured when they were
thrown by the force Of the explosion
An automobile three blocks away wa!
blown across the street.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
Judd WILL PURGE
. HONOLULU POLICE
Speeds Legislative Plans in
Effort to ForestaII Con-
uressional Action.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, January l6.-Hoping to
forestall congressional action which
might result in changing the Territorial
government, Gov. Lawrence M. Judd
today speeded completion of program
for the special session of the Legis-
lature which meets Monday to enact
measures intended to strengthen law
enforcement here.
Bills to purge the much criticized
Police Department Of politics and in
efficiency were formulated. One. pro-
vides for reorganization of the depart
ment under an appointive instead of an
elective head.
Oficials prepared TO receive Seth Q.
Richardson, Assistant Attorney General
sent from Washington to investigate
crime conditions which were climaxed
by an assault on Mrs. Thomas II. Mas
sic. wife of a naval lieutenant, and the
staying Of Joseph Kahahawai, an Ha-
waiian accused as one Of her assailants.
Inquiry Welcomed.
James F. Gilliland, city and county
attorney, labeled the visit as a move to
force him from office. Other officials
said they welcomed the prospective in
quiry.
Deputies under Gilliland prosecuted
the five youths charged with the attack
last September Oh Mrs. Massie. The
jury disagreed and was dismissed.
GiIiland's Office is expected to prose-
cute Mrs. Granville Fortescue, mother
of Mrs. Massie; Lieut.. Massie and two
enlisted naval men on charges Of killing
Kahahawai.
A grand jury, which is to consider the
case of Mrs Fortescue, Lieut.. Massie and
the enlisted men, Albert o. Jones and
z. j. Lord, organized last night. 1t took
up routine criminal matters. Authori-
ties have announced the Kahahawai
murder evidence will be presented the
grand jury early next week"
Stanford B. D. Wood, Federal dis
trict attorney, said he believed Rich
ardson's inquiry will "be good thing"
Complexion of Jury.
80 many contradictory statements
have been made regarding conditions,
Wood said, that there should be an
investigation to ascertain the facts"
AS originally drawn, the grand jury
panel consisted Of Is Caucasians,
Hawaiian, l Chinese and 3 part Ha-
waiians. One man was excused be-
cause he was supervising work under
Government contract. Another could
not be found. The remaining II COM
prise the inquisitorial body, Of which
Harry Franson was named foreman.
nArr urnIrur ASKED
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200 HELD IN PLOT
TO KILL CARM0NA
Army Officers and Former Priest
Accused of Portuguese
Conspiracy.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LISBON, Portugal, January 10
Two hundred persons, including num-
Der of low-ranking army officers, were
arrested today in connection with what
was described as a plot to aSsassinate
President Carmona and his minister of
finance. A former priest named Fuarec,
said to be the leader of the plot, was
one OF those arrested. Police said they
had found him in the home of a high
government official talking about plans
to kill the President and Antonio OIL
verla Salazar, the finance minister.
Police also seized a number of docu-
ments, from which they took the names
Of most of the others who were arrested
The former priest has been in trouble
before. The last time he was deported
to the Azores but escaped and re-en-
tered Portugal secretly.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
SCHOOL NEEDS CITED
Ballou Gives House Committee
Program in Writing.

After z conference with Chairman
Norton of the House District Committee
regarding the legislative needs Of the
public school system of the National
Capital, DR.. Frank w Ballou, superin-
tendent Of schools, yesterday submitted
a program in writing covering four
principal measures for the attention Of
the House District Committee.
These are: Interim appointments in
the public schools; leave of absence
with part pay so as to provide opportu-
nifty for educational improvement of
the teaching force; Improvements of
vocational schools and legislation pro-
viding for a teachers college.
Mrs. Norton told DR.. Ballou that these
measures would be brought to the at
tention of the House District Committee
at the earliest possible date.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
TWO BANDITS MENACE
VICTIM AND TAKE S43
One Carried Knife, the Other
Pistol, Says c. E. sterner-Col-
ored Pair Also Robbed.

Two armed colored bandits held up
and robbed Clarence E. Sterner OF
S43.45 early this morning in the 100
block of B street, he reported to police
Sterner said one of the men orandished
knife and the other a pistol. The
one with the gun, he said, kept it
pointed at him while the other took
the money. Sterner Is foreman of a
force of laborers employed in the once
of Public Buildings and Public Parks
Two colored men told police they had
been robbed by another colored man
armed with a pistol, at Fifth street
and Virginia avenue, after a game in
which all three had taken part. The
robbed pair, George Wilson. TIA Third
street southeast and Daniel Murray,
416 Third street southeast, said the
robber got $3.50 and $3.50, respectively,
from them.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
Noted Sea Captain Dead.

MOBILE, Ala, january Is LRp.-Capt
Eldridge 3. Semmes, co. widely known
in maritime circles, died here yester-
day. He commanded the transport
Bernard, which raised the battleship
Maine after 1t sank In Havana Harbor
in 1898 following an explosion that
precipitated the Spanish American War
Evening star., 1932-01-16
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening at Stanley Hall at
$50 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant
March, "Generalissimo" ...... Lincke
overture, Light Cavalry" ...... .Sippe
Morceau, "Chanson dAmour" (song Of
Love- .............. oaaI
Scenes from grand opera Lohengrin,"
Wagner
Reminiscent, Tiger Rag" Billy Moore
Waltz song, Tell Me With a Love
song 'Allell
Finale, "I Can't Get the Mississippi Of
MY Mind. ".................. ......, Akst
"Ths Star Spengled BannerS
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Britain Bars U, S. Actor.

LONDON, January l6 R.-Ben
Welden, an American, is the latest
victim of the ministry of labor's ban
on foreign actors. Welden, who has
been acting here for Ave years and
is married to an English girl, was in
formed yesterday that no more ap-
pearances will be permitted.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
POLITICS BLAMED
FOR JOB MARCHES
Republican Clip Sheet Says Last
Unemployed Hike Was Sponsored
by Hoover Enemy.

(From the $50 Edition of Yesterdays starr
BY the Associated Press.
The Republican National Committee
clipsheet today carried statement that
the recent unemployment marches on
Washington had their inception in poll
tics and not in economics.
The statement said ANY child should
know that the first one was inspired
by Communistic agitators and the sec
ond one had its genesis in the activities
of q powerful political figure opposed to
President Hoover.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
TWO MILLION PERSONS
KISS FEET OF ST. XAVIER
Body Replaced in sarcophagus
After 4O-Day Ceremonies.
Miracles Reported.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GOA, Portuguese India, January 16.--
The embalmed body of st. Francis
Xavier was replaced in its silver sar-
cophagus yesterday after having been
exposed for 40 days, during which O.
000 900 pilgrims from all over the world
filed past it and kissed the feet.
Thousands of miracles were reported
to have occurred during the 40 days,
and the church officials will publish a
full list of them after veriflcation.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
NAVY MEN SEEK
TO PROTECT WHITE
FAMILIES IN HAWAII

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plans for the Justice Department In
ouiry.
do you think these Navy people
Oieut MasSie and two enlisted mem
will get a fair trial If tried In the civil
courts?" asked Senator Robinson, Re-
publican, of Indiana.
Il wouldn't like to discuss that,
Mitchell said.
Preparedness" Hearing.
Todays hearing was described as a
preparedness affair. to collect informa- =
ton against the possibility Of having TO
deal later with a resolution by Senator
McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, for
direct Senate investigation Of island
conditions.
Chairman Bingham was responsible
for having the justice Department
undertake an inquiry after widespread
agitation over the Massie Fortescue as
sault and murder case.
The Justice investigation will get
fully under way when Seth w. Rich
ardson, Assistant Attorney General,
who is in charge, sails for Honolulu
late this month.
Evening star., 1932-01-16

Japan Is considering an upward re-
vision of its tariff.
Evening star., 1932-01-16
JAIL 7 FOR TREASON
Havana Police Link Youths With
Slain Student.

HAVANA, January 16 Op.-The Sc
cret police. headed by Capt Miguel
Calvo, raided a dairy shortly after mid
night and arrested seven youths who,
they said. are members OF the 1927
student directory and former associates
of Julio Mella, student who was assas-
sinated in Mexico City three years ago.
The seven were taken to Principe
Prison on charges of military treason
and conspirtng against the government.
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WEATHER "WHIMSIES"
CONTINUE PULLING
U. S. METEOROLOGISTS

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HOOVER TO INSPECT
MEMORIAL BRIDGE
AND NEW HIGHWAY

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bomb" FOR DR.. KLEIN
SENT BY HUSTON, G. 0. P.
FORMER CHAIRMAN

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no explanation of the WITNESSES wealth.
er is indulging in
1T just can't be explained" they say.
Evening star., 1932-01-16

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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
Cut Out The Weeds
In Lespedeza Fields

One sure way to lower the quality
of lespedeza hay and to make it hard
er to have the seed certified by the
North Carolina Crop Improvement As
ISOLATION is to permit weeds to grow
in the field without interference.
"Lespedeza has come % be one Of
our important and valuable crops"
says Enos c. Blair, extension agrono-
mist at State College. For that reason
we should give attention nov to the
condition of the fields. If weeds are
allowed to grow, they will certainly
lower the quality of the hay and where
the lespedeza is to be harvested for
seed, the weeds will also be a great him
drance both in making it more diff
cult t get all the seed and in requir-
ing more recleaning to separate the
lespedeza seed fxom the weed seed"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
Matthew Locke devoted friend to-

Matthew Locke devoted friend to
the rights of the people was born in
1880, was a member of assembly,
member Of Congress at Halifax, which
formed the constitution. He died in
1901 leaving a large family.
Spruce McCay was judge Of Su-
perior Court.
Joseph Pearson, member Of House
Of Commons. Lawyer by profession.
member Of Congress from 1sos-1S15,
He fought a duel while in Congress.
over political matters with John J.
Jackson. He was married three times,
leaving seven children; he died in Sal
isbury October, 1884.
Archibald Henderson, an outstand-
ing lawyer, had a venerable appear
ance, excellent character, always po-
lite.
Charles Fisher, a lawyer, was sena-
tor from Rowan in 1918, member of
House of Representative in Congress
in 1920; member of House of Com
mons in 1921; delegate to help amend
the Constitution of the state in 1885.