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Evening star., 1933-03-12

"Pefer!~ she fairly screamed
at him. You cant do this
crazy thing
became more sure OF herself Peter! Don't
be old: fashioned. Don't you know enough about
human nature TO realize that"
Shut up, AngeH. You love me. You couldn't
have kissed me that way If you didn't"
Coed kordl Give US modern maidens cred
time ?"~ -
Around you little fool-I've been around"
well you act pretty cioistered to mel"
,"Clostered eh? C1oistered?" He kissed her
again.
= After she had caught her breath she con-
tinued:
This has gone far enough. You seem TO
forget that I am engaged to be married and
that you are behaving rather like "a cad"
Sorry, Ursula" said Peter shortly, and he
headed the little craft for home.
The next morning at breakfast. Ursula
talkative and jaunty in a primrose linen frock
gave not the slightest intimation that any
thing unusual had occurred.
There was fat letter in Peters pocket from
E. de Courcy Ravelle, IA Faubourg Saint Ger
main (grudgingly he admitted the good ad-
dress) and he vas sorely tempted to destroy
it. read it. answer it insultingly or do anything,
in fact, rather than hand it over to the girl
he was trying to win for himself.
In spite of his perplezities. however he was
not unhappy. He had his old war-horse ex-
preston and he didn't admit defeat for one
minute. Under that star studded sky. he had
thought Ursula really loved him. and yet he
had only desired her the more The old ghost
Evening star., 1933-03-12

the Curse Of Granted Prayer-had dis
appeared.
HAS anybody seen the mail?" inquired
Ursula, with extreme casualness.
Peter could have wrung her neck.
"A /HEN lunch was over, she read him ex-
w cerpts from Bduards letter. She vas
giving him-Peter Halliday! Bon vi
want! Pride Of the Jeunesse dOree!-a hes
son in the gentle art Of making love.
when remember the touch of your
hand your har-tossed by the vind-against
my check"
Her listener sighed. All We need now Is q
little incidental music"
when 1 think of the slender, fragrant
whiteness of you"
'Whiteness!' He ought TO see you now!'
Ursula not mahogany colored. like Peter.
but . lovely golden tan, glanced up from the
finely written blue sheets. She looked actually
panied.
"'-fragrant whiteness of you that Is soon
to be wholly mine"
Good Lord!" Peter thrashed out with his
arms in a wide sort OF frantic gesture. The
mans a-swine. a-ibertine! won't"
"You won't what Peter?"
And he said: Have it!' in such . chipped,
silly way. that she laughed Mt him.
1t was the last straw.
With that gay. squeaky laugh Of hers she
had taken all the jest the adventure, out OF
Evening star., 1933-03-12
"Pefer!" she fairly screamed
at him. You can't do this
zy.fhing!'

in world inter-
est and even apprehension, what
ever President Roosevelt may do
= in purely domestic problems, viii
be his course in respect to inter-
national debts. particularly the
Evening star., 1933-04-04
SENATE TO PROBE
PRIVATE BANKERS
Gives Banking Committee
Widest Possible Power,
for Investigation.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate today granted the broad
est power in It's possession for an inves-
tigation of private bankers. including
]. P. Morgan g. Co., by the Banking
Committee.
without debate, the Senate adopted
the Fletcher resolution extending wide
power to the Banking Committee to
make the inquiry into private banking
which President Roosevelt has spon-
sored.
Chairman Fletcher of the Banking
Committee called up the resolution
which he introduced, and asked for
unanimous consent for its consideration.
There was no objection and the author
ity was quickly granted.
The resolution was drafted by Ferdi-
nand Pecora, committee counsel, with
a view to obtaining all the Senate's
constitutional power over interstate
commerce, banking and tax matters for
the committee.
Pecora told the committee he had
submitted % questions to the Morgan
firm and that on advice Of John W.
Davis, its counsel, the banking house
had refused to answer one and taken
several others under consideration.
Davis, in a public statement, has
announced Morgan & Co. is willing to
cooperate with the committee In an
swering pertinent" questions.
Evening star., 1933-04-04

gate "the cause and circumstances" OF
the accident.
In statement Vinson said, 1.-THE Ma
ton Is stunned by the terrible disaster
which has overtaken the Akron, and by
the loss of SO many of her brave officers
and crew."
"The Navy Department, he con-
tinued. will order a court of inquiry
and the HoUec Naval Affairs Commit
tee will hold an investigation to de-
termine the cause and the circum-
stances of the accident. **
THE durability of the Akron had been
thoroughly tested out. and she had just
returned from a cruise to Panama"
Will See Roosevelt.
Vinson told newspaper men that
"since the Justice Department wound
up the case involving Paul F. Kassay
prosecuted for sabotage on the Akron
in 1880, my committee won't hear
him.
I'VE will be concerned only with the
immediate causes of the accident" he
said. There was nothing, apparently,
to the sabotage charge.
The hearings will begin as soon as
the survivors get back and have a
chance to recuperate. We should get
some accurate information from them.
And you can add this-there won't
be any more big airships built. We
have built three and lost two"
Vinson Is to confer with President
Roosevelt late today about a naval
construction program.
Later, in an address, Secretary
Swanson said it was still too earlv to
attempt to outline the departments fu-
ture policy on aircraft. He said the
air problem was still in the expert
mental stage in many of its aspects,
but like gunnery, which also has taken
its toll Of life, it would have to be
solved by the Navy If possible.
An indication that wreckage and de-
oris OF the Akron was drifting from the
scene OF the disaster was contained In
q message to the Navy Department
from the Coast Guard vessel Vigilant
which picked up piece of the Akron
20 miles east of Atlantic City, some %
miles from where the disaster occurred
Evening star., 1933-04-04
The Murder of Denver Dan.
BY. H. A. RIPLEY,

H@ DID how a murderer actu-
ally conspires with the fates
to convict himself" unused
~ Prof. Fordney as he paused
at No. 762 in his casebook.
While on hunting trip in 1881 with
Col. Wise and a guide, one Sure Shot
Joe, they had discovered Denver Dan,
a recluse. dead from bullet in his
hoorf CY1roroppiy in, y
Evening star., 1933-04-04

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Evening star., 1933-04-04

marksman, finally offering to bet him
$50 that he was better shot at a
moving target than Sam. Sam good
naturedly accepted the offer and sug-
gested that they use a coyote, which
he had trapped.
The next morning the test was held.
Sam was to shoot the running coyote
through the heart, Joe through the
eye, both firing simultaneously on sig
nal from Fordney. AS both rifles crack
ed the coyote dropped in his tracks.
Joe hit his mark all right, but as the
professor probed the bullet from the
coyote and slipped it into his pocket
he pointed out to Sam that he had
missed the heart by a bare fraction.
Sam took defeat with his usual good
nature and the incident was apparent
ly forgotten.
Before boarding the train for the
East Fordney had lengthy talk with
Sheriff Waters. Two days after his re-
turn to New York he telegraphed Wa
ters to hold Sam on suspicion of mur-
dering Denver Dan.
Perhaps you have a story or prob
lem you would like to submit to Prof
Fordney If so send it to him care
Of this paper. He will be delighted to
receive 1t.
!(For solutise see page A-1o.1 -.
Evening star., 1933-04-04

the sheriff, the trio
continued on their
way. falling in the
next evening with
Sam Slit, a trap
per and bitter en-
emy of Denver
Dan. Knowing his
reputation as a
camp cook, they
rea dily accepted
his invitation to
pass the night with
him.
AS t h e y S a t
around after a sat-
= isfying meal Sure
Shot Joe taunted
Sam with his SUI
1s- -Liltfv - -
Evening star., 1933-04-04

Or. Fordney. is professor Of criminology at
famous university. His advice is often
sought by the police of many cities when
SSnifronted nt with particularly baff1ing cases
book covering hundreds Of criminal investi-
tions.
Try your wits on It! 1t takes but ONE
MINUTE to readl Every fact and every clue
necessary to its solution in the story it
seIIand there Is only one answer. How
good detective are you?
Evening star., 1933-04-04
Gets Thief's Coat.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 4 CP.-
Frank Hershfleld, manager of clothing
store, saw a man grab two suits of
clothing, hide them under his coat, and
go out the door. He followed and
caught up with the thief. A scuffe
followed and Hershfield came out with
both of the stolen suits and the shop
lifter's overcoat as well. The thief
escaped.
Evening star., 1933-04-04

ant Secretary of Navy in charge Of
aviation.
'the unfortunate circumstance of COIN
cidencc that when both the Shenandoah
and the Akron crashed there was no
Assistant Secretary in charge of avia-
ton. think we need a man who is a
pilot in high rank in the Navy to help
some Of the admirals who know the sea
better than the air."
After conference with Navy OFF,
cials, Chairman Vinson announced that
the House Naval Committee will investi-
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Tests Reveal Speed of Light
Has Wide Variations

SADENA, CAL, Dec. IS.
Blasting the generally accepted
theory that the speed of light was
absolute, results of the Nicholson
measurements announced here
show that the speed fluctuates.
Although this result is looked
upon as almost unbelievable, even
EinStein having assumed that the
speed Of light was absolute in
working out his relatively theory
the Nicholson test instruments
show that the speed Of light APP
parently changes in cycles q n d
varies through a margin of about
IL miles a second.
New Apparatus Needed
Following the death of Prof. A.
"A. Nicholson in May, 1881, Or.
Francis G. PeaSe, Of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, and
Fred Pearson, of the University of
Chicago, carried on the work Prof.
Nicholson had started.
Pointing out that the upset
which the instruments have
shown is not entirely impossible
the scientists who carried on
MichelSon's work said:
"The observed irregularities
ere unexplained. 60. their
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elucidatiOn apparentl.s will re-
quire more sensitive apparatus,
preferably type different
from that thus far used"
They said they found an odd
periodical ryhthm in The fluctu-
atoms of the lights speed, one
period of which was l434 days
and the other enduring for about
a year.
Affected by Tidal Force
The speed of light also ap-
parently is affected, it was sug.
gested, by same tidal force which
causes ocean waters to raise and
more recently has been found
to raise tides in both the earth'S
crust and the upper atmosphere
DR.. Pease is now averaging up
the fluctuations for a new read
ing of lights speed. Before his
death DR.. Nicholson had figured
that light travels 186,284 miles a
second.
It was DR.. Nicholson and an
other professor who, in 1887,
made some famous tests the re-
suits Of which brought about the
assumption that the speed Of light
u absolute.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-16
Il YOUTHS HELD
IN DANCE RIOT

Eleven youths were held in the
Hyattsville Jail today on charges
of being drunk and diSorderly
following a riot on the Univer-
ity of Maryland campus last
night when the heavy metal
doors of Ritchie Gymnasium were
torn down.
Police said that the youths
were trying to crash" a dance
being held in the gymnasium.
University authorities have had
trouble with this before and
hence several police were on
duty.
Warned to stay away from the
gymnasium, the youths, two of
whom are said to be students
at a local university, started to
battle the arresting officers.
Two of the youths, Lawrence
Gas and Dan McCannery, we're
charged with destroying private
property. The others arrested
were John Crawford, Norman
bort, r. George, r. w. Hender-
son, Neil Sanderson, C. F.. Harter,
Bernard Timpkins. Robert Mil
Ter and Hardy Weber.
All are held in jail after fail
ing to post collateral. They face
appearance in Police Court next
Wednesday.
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HOLDUP
NETS 5000

Staging a daring daylight hold
up shortly before noon today,
two colored men, armed with PTS
tolls, made off with $500 from
the Dorsch Bakery, 600 block F
st. N. w.
Leslie Hudgins, cashier of the
baking company, had just put
the money in a bag preparatory
to. taking it to the bank for de-
post. Peter M. Dorsch, president
of the company, was to have &C
companied the cashier.
HudginS walked out a side door
of the bakery into an alley, where
he had parked his car. just as
he was about to step into the car
the colored men walked up,
whipped out pistols, and one said:
"Hand over that bag or we'll
shoot"
The other robber seized the bag
and they ran up the alley and
escaped. Hudgins ran back into
the bakery and telephoned police
of the robbery.
Scout cars were rushed to the
neighborhood, and few minutes
later two colored suspects were
arrested and taken to No. 2 pre-
clnct for questioning.
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Mystery Deepens as Officials Concentrate
On Diary Revealing Anoours Of the
Pasadena SociaIite

Dpolice that she was the slayer of
DR.. Leonard Siever, Pasadena
dentist and music lover. She
Sobbed:
81 knew him for eight years.
I shot him with his own gun
because he dOubIe-crOssed me-"
The young woman gave her
name as Yvonne Howard, "a
Rushed to the Pasadena police
station, she reiterated her story
and was held while an investiga-
ton was launched.
Officers refused to express an
opinion as to whether or not the
confession" would solve the mys-
ferrous Staying of the dentist
whose body was found near the
Sphinxes that guard the Scottish
Rite Cathedral here.
Walking in Daze
Two Hawthorne police officers
first saw the girl wandering as
though 'dazed through the streets
Though a cold wind was blowing
she wore only a thin silk dress
and a light sweater.
One Of the officers took the
girl by the arm and she i'm
mediately began to scream:
II killed DIR. Siever."
Chief of police Charles Kelley
of Pasadena, secuted the girls
statement that she was the
slayer.
The girl said she was married,
but refused to reveal her hus
bands name. She said she was
part French, and spoke French
fluently, and in an effort to
check her veracity, police gave
her letters written in the Ian
E0onaiAas& o. eGss 2, Cob G1H
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MOB .LYNCHES
EXONERATED
SUSPECT
Tennessee Jury Fails to Indict
Accused Negro; RiddIed
Body Is Found

COLUMBIA, Tenn, Dec. 16
G.N.SJ.-Mob violence today in
voked the lynch law here to mete
out death to a 20-year-old negro
accused of attacking an 11-year-
old white girl.
On Wednesday the Maury county
grand jury had failed to return
an indictment against the lynch
law" victim.
Riddled with bullets, the body
of Cord Cheek, negro farm hand,
was found swinging from the
limb of a cedar tree today after
a mysterious telephone call to
Sheriff Claude Goodwin. The
phone message said:
You'll find a dead negro at
+ the forks of the rOad-cOme
and get him."
~ No Clue Found -
Goodwin and his deputies found
the lynched negro in the Glen
dale section, scene of the alleged
attack. There was no clue to the
identity of the lynchers, he said.
Goodwin added:
"They hanged the negro
quietly. The first thing 1
knew of it was the telephone
call. There had been no dis
turbance here and the people
in the Glendale section said
they didn't know anything
about it at all"
The countryside remained quiet.
Cheek was charged with at
tempted assault on an 11-year-old
girl a month ago. Arrested, he
was rushed to a Pulaski jail for
safe keeping. Later he was trans,
ferred to the Nashville Jail.
Ordered Released
The Maury county grand jury
met Wednesday, but failed to re
turn an indictment when neither
the girl nor members of her fam
lily appeared to prosecute. The
negro was ordered released.
Sheriff Goodwin said he had not
seen him since he gained his lib
erty.
His investigation, the sheriff
said, failed to reveal the number
Of persons in the lynch mob, their
identity or details of the crime
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CONVICTION.
EXPECTED
IN SHORT
ORDER
Defense Counsel Asks MercyI
Asserts Accused Is Needed
To Convict Johnson

LEESBURG, Va, Dec. Is.
Final argument in the Crawford
trial ended at 1858 and q re-
cess until 2 p. m. was ordered
by the judge At that time
final instructions will be given
the jury and they will retire to
deliberate the verdict.
BY Times Staff Correspondent
ESBURG, Va, Dec. 16.
'T believe the Commonwealth
has shown beyond a reasonable
doubt that George Crawford
was the perpe&ratOr of this hOr.
Eible crime and q principal in
This murder. On behalf Of the
Commonwealth i ask you to
find him guilty and inflict the
death penalty"
With those words Capt. Frank
Wray, associate prosecutor, wound
up the opening address of the
State in the trial of the colored
ex-convict, charged with the MUIR
der of Mrs. Agnes Boeing IlSley,
wealthy society woman, and her
maid, Mrs. Nina Buckner.
Instructed by Judge
Wray started his address after
Judge James L. McLemore had
instructed the jury as to the vari-
Gus legal facts surrounding the
possible verdicts they might re-
turn.
commemorative Attorney John
Galleher then asked the jury to
find Crawford guilty of murder
in the first degree and set the
penalty at death.
Because he had taken the stand
as a witness, Mr.. Galleher did not
close for the State, but left the
final argument and rebuttal in
the hands of his associates, Cap
tain Wray and State Senator Cecil
O'Connor.
Two Confessions Cited
Captain Wray outlined the
States case, step by step, showing
how Crawford had been placed in
Middleburg the day of the murder
by seven witnesses.
Then he went into the two con.
LESSONS made by Crawford, the
written one he refused to sign
and the oral one made in the
presence of a Boston police lieu
tenant. These confessions are
borne out by the testimony of the
State witnesses, he said.
Leon A. Ransom, colored attor.
ney, opened the final argument
for the defense. Failure of Craw.
ford to take the witness stand
should not be taken as an indi-
cation of guilt, he said.
Ransom asserted that the
States case was purely circum-
Stantial, and he assailed the con-
feSsion as full of discrepancies.
Houston Asks Mercy
Charles H. Houston, dean Of
Howard University law school
and chief defense counsel for
Crawford, made a plea for mercy
in closing for the defense. He
said:
eff you find him guilty I
(Continued on Pare 2, Col, 81
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VANCE, WRITER,
DIES |NF|RE

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 G.N.S).
Louis Joseph Vance, noted novel;
list and creator IF THE Lone
Wolf" was burned to death to-
day in a room in the Town House
here today.
His body, badly burned from
head to waist, was found lying
on the floor beside a smouldering
chair.
He was identified by copies Of
his books in the room and by a
gold cigarette case and gold key
ring marked Louis Joseph Vance
Union League Club"-of which
he was a member.
An autopsy is to be performed
to determine the true cause of
death. While the burns alone
were sufficient to have killed him,
it is believed he may have suf-
fered a heart attack while sitting
in the chair smoking cigarette.
Ashes were found to indicate
he had been smoking.
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j. s. To LOSE
M|LL|ONS|N
RUM TAXES
Armistice Suggested to Give
BootIegger Opportunity
To LegaIize Stock

Proposal for Government
armistice with bootleggers, during
which they could transfer their
huge stocks of illicit liquors to
the so-called whisky trust, today
drew sharp opposition from con-
gressional leaders.
The plan was advanced as a
''feeler' by one high Administra-
ton official. It was prompted
By the Governments intense de-
sire to drive the bootlegger out
of business and to increase the
greatly restricted stores of legltl-
mate liquor dealers.
Means Heavy Revenue
One congressional authority
estimated that bootleggers now
cid between 10000, 900 and 50,-
100000 gallons Of liquor. Gov
eminent officials placed the;
quantity at a far lower figure.
In either case, the armistice pro-
posal -7ould permit the boot
leggers to sell their supplies to
legitil ate dealers. The Illicit
liquor then would be taxed and
placed in regular trade channels,
if it passed a chemical test.
The proposal would enable the
Government to collect huge sum
in taxes-as high as 500, 900 600
if the Federal liquor tax is 81 a
gallon and the bootleggers' supply
is as large as is estimated IN
some quarters.
Rep. DOughtOn Opposed
Congressional leaders, however,
objected to the procedure, and
their opposition may cause its
abandonment, although the Gov
eminent faces a stiff task in
routing the bootleggers.
Rep. Doughton CD Of North
Carolina, chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee, said
he had heard of the plan but
opposed it.
Senator Harrison CD of Missis-
sippi, chairman of the Senate FL
nance Committee. also was hostile
to the plan. He said:
eff the Government tried to
deal with bOOtIeggers, it would
be subjected to the grOssest kind
of criticism"
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ROBBERS TAKE PAY ROLL

DETROIT. Dec. 16 Q.N.S0.
Three armed bandits robbed Mo
tor Specialties Corporation Of an
$1,879 pay roll here yesterday.
It was the first pay roll robbery
in Detroit in more than a year,
police said.
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.R,W.CHAMBERS,
NOVELIST, DIES

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 Q.N.S).
Robert w. Chambers. famous nov,
elist. died at 100 this morning
at the Doctors Hospital after a
protracted illness.
Hospital officials said he had
been confined there for some time,
but referred all inquiries about
his death to his physician. DR..
Douglas Quick, who could not be
reached.
Chambers, perhaps the most
popular of Serialists up to the
time of his illness, was SO years
old. He was born in Brooklyn,
N. Y, and started as an artist
and illustrator for the old Life,
before, in 1898, he wrote his first
book.
He wrote SO novels during his
prolific career, in some years turn
ing out as many as three full
length books.
He also wrote a drama, 1.-The
Witch of Ellangowan," for Miss
Ada Rehan, and "Iole," musical
comedy.
Among his best-sellers were:
"The Dark Star" The Cambria
Mask" THE Girl Philippa," In
Secret" THE Drums of Aulone, :"
THE Maid at-Arms." "OutSiders, 4"
"The Firing Line" THE Com
mon Law" "Athalis," who Goes
There" and 1.-The Restless Sex"
He was a member of the Union,
Century, Metropolitan, Authors,
Saratoga Golf Club, and made
his home in Broadalbin, N. Y.
Operator Is, one of Cham
berS' latest novels, is now ap-
pearing serially in The Wash
ingtOn Times.
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MISS LOHMAN

PASADENA, CAL, Dec. 16
1.N.SD.-After having been led
on a false trail by a hysterical
young woman who dramatically
informed police she was the
slayer of DIR. Leonard Siever,
Pasadena dentist and musician,
and then denied she had ever
know him, authorities returned
to their search for q woman of
mystery from the dead mans
past.
PASADENA, Cal, Dec. II
U.N.S0.-Found wandering in
the streets of Hawthorne, a Los
suburb, at dawn today
a tall, slim girl with reddish
brown hair Historically Informed
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Thug RObS Woman
Of JeUeLS In Hotel

CHICAGO, Dec. 16 GNSJ.-
Mrs. Thomas H. Booth, IS, no
titled police today that a we'll
dressed gunman had robbed her
of $4,178 worth of gems in her
hotel apartment, leaving her
bound and gagged on the bed
after threatening her life. She
is the wife Of IL executive of
the Columbia Steel and Skating
AComnanvrof Pittsburgh.