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Evening star., 1932-11-20
BROWN TO SEE M'CARL
ABOUT RADIO EQUIPMENT
Police Department Wants Auxil-
iary Transmitter to Guard
Against Breakdown.

Mai. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent
CT police was instructed by the Com
missioners yesterday to confer with
Controller General McCarl in an effort
to get his approval for the purchase of
an auxiliary transmitter for the Po-
lice Department Radio Station WPDW.
The contract for the purchase of the
transmitter has been held up several
months, because of the insistence of
the controller generals Office that it
be awarded to the low bidder. The
transmitter wanted by the department
is higher priced than the one offered
by the low bidder.
The transmitter of WPDW has been
in service for % months, and police
officials fear it might become disabled
at any time, leaving the department
without its radio communication system.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
lLLINOISAN ASKS POLICE
TO HUNT FOR SISTER
Betty Zeman Came Here 6 Weeks
Ago to Seek Employment.
Mother Ill.

Buck Zeman of Hinsdale, IL, has
asked police and the newspapers to help
him locate his sister, Betty, who came
here from the Midwest six weeks ago
to seek employment.
The girl, who is 25 years old, left
home, he said, after failing to find
work She wrote from Washington two
weeks ago the brother said, that she
had found a job as a waitress.
Since that time, Zeman said, his
mother became ILL He left home to
find his sister, hoping the sight of her
would bring about an improvement in
his mothers condition.
zeman is stopping at 119 Pennsylvania
avenue. He described his sister as
about 5 feet 6 inches tall. weighing
about lis pounds, with dark hair and
brown eyes.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
RoUTS BANDITS WITH GUN
Laundry Man Fires Two Shots and
Robbers Flee.

Richard Lee, laundry man in the
1900 block Of First street, told police
early today that he was forced to fire
two shots from a pistol to drive of
two would-be bandits attempting to
rob him in his establishment.
He said one of the men attempted
to pull a pistol on him when he re-
sorted to his weapon. He said his
shots went wild and the men fed.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Lusitania Survivor to Lecture.

SILVER SPRING, Md, November 10
(SpeciaD .-Risca williams, Welsh BARI
tone and survivor of the Lusitania
disaster, will give lecture and song re-
cital in the Woodside Methodist Epis-
copal Church Wednesday evening.
Mr.. Williams lecture is entitled
Saved" He will relate his rescue at
sea and his experiences following the
rescue
Evening star., 1932-11-20
COMING FROM HAWAII
Delegate to Open Fight for Con-
tinuance of Self Rule.

HONOLULU, November 10 P).-
Delegate Victor S. K. Houston sailed
today to open a fight In Congress at
Washington for continuation of self
rule in Hawaii. He will be joined next
month by a commission of territorial
leaders soon to be appointed by Gov
Lawrence NJ Judd to aid him.
Frankly perGurbed over a bill intro
duced by Quinn Williams, chairman of
the House Territories Committee. plac-
ing Hawaii under commission rule.
Houston said his most important task
during the short session will be oppo-
sition to proposed changes in the terri
torial government.
A bill proposing military rule for Ha-
waii, introduced by Representative Fred
A. Britten of Illinois, and a group of
measures recommended by the Depart
ment of Justice also are pending.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Church Plans Supper.

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Nd, November
10 (SpeciaD st. Matthias Catholic
Church will give a turkey supper De-
cember in the Parish Hall of st.
Margaret's Catholic Church, Seat Pleas
ant, Mrs. Irene A. Connor announced.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
Supper-Bazaar to Be Held.

WATERFORD. Va, November 19
(SpeciaD Circle B of the Waterford
Presbyterian Auxiliary will hold sup
per and bazaar December 2 in the
school, beginning at S pm. A display
of handmade articles suitable for
Christmas gifts will also be on sale
Evening star., 1932-11-20

Because there is not sufficient room
IN the public schools for all pupils OF
Esnao, P. l., parents have opened a
Rrvate school to care for the overflow.
Evening star., 1932-11-20

When a wild COW broke loose and
terrorized people in the main streets of
Paisley. Scotland, recently, it was
thrown by a Highlander wrestler and
recaptured.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
MASKMEN SHOOT MINER
Two Others, Brothers, En- Route
to Illinois Shaft, Also Beaten.

TAYLORVILLE, H. November l9 (A').
Thirty masked men held up three
brothers near here today, shot one and
severely beat the others. Art and Bob
Nichols were on their way to work at
Peabody mine at Kincaid Their
brother, Byron, was driving them.
Reports to the sheriff said 80 men who
waylaid the brothers were masked and
some were armed. Three of them
were recognized by the brothers. High
way police started an investigation.
Evening star., 1932-11-20

MOBILE one-man machine-gun
" nest" which may be dropped
n from an airplane or airship
1 \ and guided to landing at the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07
Blackboard Chances

Is YEARS AGO

Miss Cora Anderson
spending their school of their
Dawson the
thereHny Charter held Friday evening bed
made the fully with baskets
other paaphernaia partyTomm Finn the
Rush Medical school at Chicago early last his
homeMr and Mrs Roland Heath Miss Rachel Ora Minneapolis
spent Christmas day with their
wood FasWih the last snowfall hitting Falls
The Gazette has its shipment the 1907 calendars
SO YEARS AGO
George Crouley married Miss Alice Camsh Kigman
the month"; herd Durhams
polls St. railroad numbers
100000 1SSThe the railroad Min
neapois Arlington offering the umberen
The meeting of the literary will held Friday
Only 81 miles between
continuous railroad line of the Chicago North railroad
panyThe commissioners regular this with
little Abbot
wood Falls the latter of weekThe total number of banks
Minnesota of
of the S
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07

winning the independence of the
Thirteen Original Colonies, although
itself, tells the tale completely. Re-
preventative James M. Beck of Penn
sylvania suggests that the commits
sioners of the District of Columbia,
select site for a de Grasse memoir
ial, which, he says, will show the APP
probation of the American people of
the service as commander of the
French fleet in holding the British IN
by blocking the entrance to Chesa-
pCake Bay in the fall of 1871.
Sixteen thousand men and women
throughout the country who desired
to take examinations for tipping and
stenographic positions, have been
dropped from the list of eligible as
pirants, leaving, however, forty-two
thousand who will be permitted TO
undergo the mental and experience
tests. And the sad feature of it all
is that even should the forty-two
thousand succeed in passing in jan
uary, there will be jobs for only be-
tween one thousand and fifteen hun
dred of them.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07

from timber taken from President
Linclon's study at the White House,
during remodeling operations a few
years ago. The work is being done
under the direction of the occupation
al therapy department of the Tuber-
culosis hospital here. Can you not
imagine what bidding there will be
for such things fifty years from now
when it is known that they were in a
measure associated with the career
of the Emancipation.
More sculptural beauty is sought
for Washington. This time it is a
$4,000 memorial to Admiral lie
Compile de Grasse, the Frenchman
who bottled up the British forces in
the York River one hundred fifty
years ago and made possible the cap
ture of the little Virginia village and
the British forces which had gone
into camp in that location, thus bring
ing about the finale of the Revolu-
tonary War.
As Americans, we are prone to
forget the part that France played in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07
Tennessee's Old Timer

~ does OlQeSC
~ man in America, A E. Cantrell of the Revilo
community near Luxembourg Tennessee, GER
tainly is of them. He is 100 years DID,
When Mr.. Cantrell born, in 1922, James Mon
roe was president; George w was King of England
and Napoleon had been dead only year. There were
no railroads in the world, revolvers sewing
machines, friction Matches electrical devices
practical The modern inventions, such as
the telephone, monograph Xray automobile airplane
motion picture, radio and television, were hardly
dreamed of.
Yet he has lived to see all these developments, and
not long ago he made trip to Nashville, where he
poke over the radio He expects to live to many
wonders, and hopes exceed the age of his
late brother, who died at the age of 49,
1t takes high-priced radio comedian to make the
old jokes sound funny again.
Associated Press says: "a woman Mrs. Mary j.
Presty, has been named city manager"
81 went to California for the winter" wrote a
Minnesotan from Los Angeles recently "and found it,
Farmers said to be split over the question of
relief But they haven't had great deal of relief to
split.
Americanism: Squad of Boston police armed with
sawed-off shotguns guarding funeral of two slain
gangsters
Japan says she is doing in Manchuria only what
did in Nicaragua. Mr.. Stmson will have to think
up an answer to that.
headline says, Coaches will consider claims that
football is overemphasized." Undoubtedly they are
open minded on the subject.
Front page in Memphis daily: Greta Carlo,
discovered staying incognto in New York hotel ad
mitted that she was Greta Carlo.
A Los Angeles preacher who has been ruled off the
radio threatens to for the Senate. He knows
where he can talk without hindrance
An exchange says: The nice thing about the
restaurant business is that it's possible to do business
with the same customers three times each day.
From reading about that Culbertson-Lentz
tract bridge tournament gather that expert is
who makes what he bids at least SO per cent of the
time
French wine makers want a law making the drink
ing of wine with restaurant meals compulsory. And
suppose drys there will spring that personal
liberty" wheeze
Pleasure of the Radio Diminishing
Headline. Except the pleasure of turning off the
advertising ballyhoo
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07
What Others Think

Let's change Depression to Press on.'-Wabasha
Herald Standard
What fine time the executor must have had in
winding up the estate of the London who left
hundred cocks.-Christian Science Monitor.
j
depression is low spot that collects water.
The water sometimes from the clouds and some
times from stocks.-Dunbar's Weekly, Phoenix, Ariz
81 can't see what good commercial club is in
small town." said citizen last week. Well it's just
the difference between collection of broom straws
md broom-The Baudette Region.
We do not know much about world affairs and all
this talk about ability to pay but it to that
when France withdrew $3.50 900 in gold from
this country in single month"; they not broke in
Europe yet. Most of that talk is just childish whine
to shift the debt from their shoulders to We
do not expect Europe will pay her obligations to
u.s. but would never cancel another dollar The
world needs to get the notion out of its head that
United States is big Santa Claus always to be impos
ed upon.-Tracy Headight-Herald
The federal department of agriculture has at last
come with suggestion that we are will
make hit with all farmers and their wives. One of
the professional thinkers in that department says that
the wives and children of farmers be well dressed
at little cost by making garments of -four sacks and
gunny sacks. Thus simply is the problem of proper
clothing for Minnesota: wintef to: be: solved The
bulletin contained suggestions for clothing the old
We hasten I'd Supplement- the hepfd Suggestion
by reminding farmers that MANY an Old .hosse blanket.
has lots of service in it after the horse will longer
wear it, and can be made up into pants.-Mille Laos
Messenger.
Tuning Out
h Radio stations are losing in popularity through
overdose of advertising. Listeners become digusted
with frequent and lengthy interruptions of programs
for the purpose of ntrudng sales talks No objection
is offered to the brief of sponsorships
but complaint arises when this is overdone, it has
been in recent months The result is a growing num-
Der of silent radios There is difference between ad
vertsing the radio and in daily other publica-
tions The newspaper reader is not compelled to read
the advertisements must he his reading for
time because of the presence of advertising. He
can read the advertising when and if he pleases. On
the RADIO he is forced to take the advertising whether
he wants to or not. And, by the way advertising
that is forced person doesn't find him her in
particularly receptive friendly mood-Soux Falls,
s. D., Argus-Leader.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07

Let's change Depression to Press on.-Wabasha
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07

on there viii be
a greater appre-
citation of the Cap
ital City by the
people throughout
the country, and a
wider interest In
it S development.
Such a thought
has been in my
mind since first ]
began writing a
column for this
paper, and l trust
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07
Coping With Crime

Minnesota must be provided with state con-
stabulary force if the rural sections of the state
to be properly protected against the gunman and
gangster The sooner the governor and members of
the legislature stop dealing in generaites and come
down to specific facts the sooner they will have to ad
init that this is the only sound and constructive method
of dealing with the present crime problem in the
state" says the Mankato Free Press
The state has SHE'D from the constabulary idea,
because of the expense involved and the fear it would
mean another political tool. However, the state high
patrol has worked satisfactorily its limited
field and it would not be too wide step to commits
sion this body with greater powers and increase it's
numbers to effectively cope with such gangs as ter
rorized Pine River last week. It will prove economical
in the long run.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-01-07
by J. TED BEATTY

Senator j. Ham Lewis of Illinois,
in recent speech in Washington, ex-
pressed the hope that as time goes
Evening star., 1932-07-21
AIR DERBY PLANS
MADE FOR CAPITAL
Four.Day Program to Pre-.
cede Start of Contest for
Cord Trophy.

Preliminary program plans for the
great four-day aviation demonstration
which will precede the start Of the At
lantic wing of the transcontinental
sweepstakes air derby for the Cord
E. Trophy from the National Capital, Au-
gust 81, were announced yesterday by
the Greater National Capital Commit
tee
The program so far arranged is as
, follows:
Opens Thursday.
Thursday, August 18. 9 am, regis
tration Of delegates and guests of the
National Aeronautic Association at
the Mayflower Hotel; 10 am, first
convention meeting OF the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association; 9
Of contesting aircraft participat-
ing In the air derby at Washington
Hoover Airport: 1890 pm. reception
by President Hoover to delegates, guests
and contestants at the White House;
] pm, luncheon to delegates and guests
of the National Aeronautic Association,
Mayhower Hotel; 8 pm. second con-
vention meeting of the association and
night flying from Washington-Hoover
Airport.
Friday. August 10. George Washing
ton Bicenternial aviation day: $50
am, third meeting of the National
Aeronautic Association; am to 1890
pm. inspection and flight testing of
competing aircraft. Neutrality-suspicious.
Airport; pm, Orvil!e Wright testimo-
nial dinner. Mayf1ower Hotel; $50 pm.
presentation of award of the Federation
Aeronautique Internationale to Comdr.
P. V. H. Weems. N S. N; pm, Wash
ington Aero Club dance, Mavflower Ho-
tel, and night flying over Washington
Test Flights Slated.
Saturday. August 20, will be devoted
TO test flights of the competing planes,
which will be checked for assignment
of handicaps number of flying DEM
onstrations and other events will take
place at the airport throughout the day.
Sunday. August 81, will be given
over to final flying demonstrations at
the airport eaching a climax with the
take-off of the competing derby en-
trants at about Il noon. Some 80 to
70 planes are expected to respond to
the starters flag.
Evening star., 1932-07-21

Snecial Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, July 20.-With 48
hostesses-one representing each State
plus a dozen assistant hostesses rep
resenting the foreign colonies round
about, not to mention scores OF other
hostesses representing various COM
mittees. the feminine side Of the Olym-
pic games Is In q fever of activity at
Los Angeles. 1t looks as though the
tenth Olympiad would be as famous for
its social contests as for any other
kind
Sponsored by Mrs Herbert Hoover
as honorary chairman and by Mrs.
Arthur Wright as active chairman. the
first big doings on the official program
will be the international Olympic ball
on the evening of August S at Shrine
Auditorium.
Invited for First Time.
1t is the first time in the history OF
the Olympics that the public has been
invited to attend this traditional event
which, when the games have been held
abroad, has been attended only by the
athletes and by royalty, nobility and
important dignitaries.
This year a selected portion OF the
public Is receiving invitations from the
hostesses. who are the medium through
which visitors to the games obtain a
chance to attend this dance and supper.
incidentally, the money received from
ticket sales for this occasion Is to be
used in paying for some of the other
social activities now in view. The
executive board of hostesses has been
working on plans for the dance for
more than year. 1t begins with an
Evening star., 1932-07-21
SOCIAL EVENTS AT OLYMPICS
KEEP WOMEN FEVERIST1LY BUSY
1882 Games Expected to Be as Famous for
Whirl of Entertainment as for
Sports Contests.

international grand march and includes
numerous entertainment numbers.
Besides the dance. excursions have
been planned to the seashore, to the old
missions, to the one street left in Los
Angeles which Is still representative OF
the ancient Spanish town and to the
motion picture studios Of Hollywood.
Follow Old Trail.
Visitors of an historical turn Of mind
who want to traverse the old Spanish
royal head from here to Santa Barbara
and San Francisco, road which began
as q trail travelled by the padres, will
be given facilities for doing so. If
they wish to travel it on foot, how
ever, as the padres did, they'd better
watch out for traffic. It's nice little
jaunt for 458 miles.
Meanwhile, the newborn palm trees
are growing fine and tall In the village
built for the Olympic athletes some
miles from the stadium. The bunga-
low town. made of composition, with the
average bungalow containing two rooms
and bath, is not regarded with too
Evening star., 1932-07-21
HELD FOR GRAND JURY

Robert Council. colored, So. was held
for the grand jury under bond of
$4,000 yesterday following a hearing
before Police Court Judge Isaac r. Hit
on charge of mayhem.
Police allege Council shot John w.
Ma-bury. colored, of the 900 block of
Forty-third place northeast, in the
face with shotgun during an argu-
ment several days ago. Marbury may
lose the sight of both eyes, it was said.
Evening star., 1932-07-21

much enthusiasm by local hotel men
who had cherished hopes Of housing the
athletes themselves, but with its palm
trees and landscaping it forms pretty
patch on the local scenery. Visitors
o. natives-may take away bungalow
for souvenir If they desire. At S140
or SO, many of these shelters have al
ready been bespoken for future beach
cottages or mountain camps.
(Copyright. .932)
Evening star., 1932-07-21
D. c. MAN BEQUEATHED
ALL FUNDS OF WIFE
Frank Lawson Receives More Than
$4,000 According to Will Filed
for Probate in New York.

Special Dispatch to The Star @
NEW YORK, N. Y, July 21.-Frank
Lowson OF 815 Fifteenth street. Wash
ington, is bequeathed all funds Of his
late wife, Mrs. Grace Roberts Lowson,
on deposit in the Riggs National Bank
and the American Security and Trust
Co., both Of Washington. under her will
which was filed for probate in Sur
rogate's Court here yesterday.
Mrs. Lowson died here July II, leav-
ing an estate Of more than $4,000 ac-
cording to the formal estimate in the
petition for probate.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, 81 1882

a telegram from Ziegfeld and his wife,
Billie Burke. He accepted "as any
friend would do" he said, and will be
in charge only until his friend Is able
to return to his desk.
The current Ziegfeld production,
"Show Boat" will be the principal re-
sponsibility of Blumenthal.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
Court Tuesday on a charge of

Court Tuesday on charge of black
mail In an attempt to extort $4,000
ransom from Col. Charles A. Lindbereh
Jasewich pleaded not guilty and his
case was continued until July Is. He
was alleged to have mailed a letter TO
Col. Lindbergh demanding the ransom
on penalty Of injury to the Lindbergh
baby, who had been kidnapped and who
later was found dead in New Jersey.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
Condition Improved.

HOLLYWOOD, July 81 R.-Con-
tinued slight improvement was reported
last night in the condition of Florenz
Ziegfeld, New York theatrical producer
who is suffering from pleurisy and
lung congestion.
Evening star., 1932-07-21

People who call up one large phono-
graph company's Office in London are
now invited to listen to music while
waiting, if the person they wish to
speak to Is engaged
Evening star., 1932-07-21
ZIEGFELD ASKS FRIEND
TO HANDLE BUSINESS
Producer, Ill. Shows Slight I'm
provement in Condition in Los
Angeles Hospital.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 21.-A. c. Blum
enthal, banker and movie magnet,
yesterday assumed temporary control of
the business affairs of FlorenZ Zieg-
field, who Is Ill In a hospital In Los
Angeles.
Blumenthal, close friend of the Fol
lies" producer for the past 10 years,
said he was asked to take control in
Evening star., 1932-07-21

To provide the poor families. Maiden,
England, may order tenants of council
houses whose weekly incomes are $40
or more, to move.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
HELD IN LINDBERGH CASE
Vermont Man Alleged to Have De-
manded $4,000 in Letter.

FRANKLIN, N. H., July 81 R.-
Adam Jasewich, IS, Of Springfield, VT,
was held in $4,000 bail In Municipal
Evening star., 1932-09-29
NEW YORKER MADE HEAD
OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES
Msgr. Keegan Is Choice at Omaha
Session and John A. O'Grady,
D. c., Again Secretary.

BY the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr., September %
Msgr. Robert F. Keegan of New York
was elected president of the National
Conference Of Catholic Charities at the
closing business session of the group
here yesterday. He succeeds J. F.
Murphy of Detroit.
New York was selected as the site
for the 1888 convention, which will
open the first Sunday in October. Di-
rectorS accepted an invitation to take
the 1884 meeting to Richmond, Va
Msgr. James H. Ryan rector Of Cath
olic University at Washington. was re-
elected honorary president and William
P. Lynch, Omaha, was named first vice
president. Other vice presidents in
cluded Anthony j. Bodie. Detroit: Jack
J. Spalding. Atlanta, Ga; Miss Mary
c. Duffy, Newark. N j.. and Rev. Ed
win l.. Leonard, Baltimore
Thomas F. Farrell, New York. and
Rev. John A. O'Grady. Washington.
D. c.. were reelected national treasurer
and secretary, respectively.
Msgr. Keegan, the new president, is
secretary OF charities to his eminence
Cardinal Hayes of New York
AS directors, the conference selected
Richard H. Farley, Brooklyn; Rev. Will
liam Keane, Albany; Rev. Thomas R.
Reynolds, Boston: Miss Teresa r.
ODonohue. New York, and John E.
Rohleder. Baltimore. Committee heads
were named.