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Evening star., 1934-04-30
RETIRING SERGEANT
REVIEWS REGIMENT
Four Army Veterans Retire After
Serving 10 or More Terms
Here and Abroad.

Retired" was written on the serv-
ice records Of four veteran Army
sergeants today, each of whom has
served 10 or more bitches" in home
and foreign service.
One of them. Master Sergt. Thomas
D. Mofitt, Sd Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va,
was given a review of his old regiment
and the 10th Field Artillery last Sat-
urday in honor Of the close Of his
long and creditables record of service
since 1905. The other three are
Master Sergt. Harry Gins, Head
quarters Company, 34th Infantry;
Master Sergt. G. H. Montgomery
Quartermaster Corps, and First Sergt.
James T. Oliver, Company G, 66th
Infantry eight tanks, all Of whom
were stationed at Fort George G.
Meade, Md.
Sergt. Mofitt will live In Lyon Park,
Va, close to his last activities in the
Army. He was a familiar figure in
the exhibition drills and society cir
cuses held at Fort Myer.
Sergt Mofftt served with the IA
nous 1st Division in France during
all its World War engagements and
was commended by its various COM
manders for his fine war record. He
was born in Ireland and entered the
Army at 10 years Of age, In 1905.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
Prisoner Escapes, Crawling
Through Ventilator.
FIees Under Fire.
FOUR SHOTS OF GUARDS
FAIL TO TAKE EFFECT
Rives Lays Flight to Lack of
Grill on 0pening-Vows I'm
mediate Remedy.

A colored fugitive from the District
Jail, who is believed to have staged
two hold-ups last night soon after
making his getaway amid a hail of
bullets from the guns Of two guards,
was the object of an intensive police
search today.
According to Thomas NJ. Rives, su-
perintendent of the jail, the prisoner,
James H. Harley. 81, escaped by
squeezing through ventilator and
sliding from the roof on a rope
made of knotted sheets.
Harley, Rives said, while not
trusty," was assigned to special duties
in his cell block and, for this reason,
was mot always locked up"
He was last seen by the guard on
duty in his wing some time between
tbs and 7:3O pm" Rives said. "On
the o'clock cfeck-up, however, the
guard discovered the wing was one
man short. After a quick recheck it
was established that Harley was the
missing man.
Guard Shot Twice.
1.-TWO guards Immediately went
around the outside of the building,
meeting at the rear. They had just
discovered the improvised rope dang
ling from the roof when Harley
leaped from the shadow of a step and
began to run.
"One of the guards shot twice, but
apparently missed both shots The
other guard took out after the flee
ing man. flriGg two more shots, but
these also must have gone wild, be-
cause the prisoner soon disappeared
into the night"
A few hours later two colored
ley's description in every detail held
up James R. Pazata, 400 block of
New Jersey avenue, and robbed him
of S1.50 at Seventh and K streets.
Soon afterWard. men answering the
same description, held up Louis
Brown, 1900 block of Tenth street,
and robbed him of $3.50 and a watch
on N street, between Ninth and
Tenth streets. In both robberies, the
man believed to have been Harley
threatened the victims with knife.
Determined to Get Grill.
Harley, it was said at the Jail,
made his way to the ventilator by
climbing to the top of locker. Rives,
who described him as rather SLIM
said he evidently squeezed through
the ventilator and then tied the sheets
to it.
We've been trying to get a grill
to cover the ventilator for some time"
said RiveS, but there hasn't been
enough money. I'm determined to
get one now, though. no matter where
the money comes from
The escape was the first to occur
at the Jail for several years
Harley. described as an expert au-
tomobile thief, was serving a 5-year
sentence.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
MYSTERY GUNMAN
WOUNDS TWO HERE
Demented or Drunken COL
ored Man Suspected in
Shootings.

A mysterious colored gunman who,
without apparent provocation, shot two
men Saturday night was the object of
a city-wtde police search today as his
victims lay critically wounded in hos
pitals.
Unable to establish any motive for
the shootings, police were working on
the theory the gunman was either
drunk or demented, and half dozen
carefully chosen headquarters detec-
tives were assigned to the case.
The victims were Newell T. Styles,
35, bank teller, and James Johnson
38, colored Styles, shot twice in the
abdomen, was in Emergency Hospital,
While johnson, also suffering with an
abdominal wound, was in Garfield Hos
pital. Although both men still were
considered in critical condition, Styles
was said to be slightly improved" and
johnson "a trif1e better"
Shot as He Leaves Auto.
Styles, whose home is at 1410 Mill
tary road, was shot as he stepped out
of his parked automobile near Ninth
and M streets.
Who do you think you're looking
at?' passing colored man asked
him, and before he could answer the
stranger opened fire.
johnson was shot by man an
Swering the same description, at Ninth
and N streets. a block away, a few
minutes earlier. Like Styles. he in
sisted the shooting was without provo
cation
Gun WieIder Suspected.
Police were concentrating on hunt
for a drunken man reported to have
brandished a revolver on the street,
not far from the scenes of the shoot
ings, earlier in the evening.
Several suspects, including an es-
capped District Reformatory prisoner,
were picked up for questioning, but,
according to second precinct police,
all denied knowledge of the shootings.
Styles, a teller at the Security Saw
ings & Commercial Bank, Ninth and
G streets, is the father of two small
children.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
LIEUT.. WILMOT ASKS
TRIAL BY COURT
Capitol Police Officer to Appear
Thursday Before Judge
Given.

Lieut.. Alfred Wilmot of the Capitol
police force, scheduled to face a police
court jury today on a charge of as
saulting George Smith, 100 block of
c street northeast early on the morn
ing of last March 18, withdrew his
demand for a jury trial in Police
Court this morning and asked to be
tried by the court.
He will appear for trial Thursday
before Judge Ralph Given.
Wilmot was tried and acquitted by
Judge Isaac R. Hit last month on a
charge of assaulting Smiths mother,
Mrs. Elsie Jardine, on the same
when the offense against her
son is alleged to have occurred. The
second charge was fled following the
acquittal.
Evening star., 1934-04-30

quired to heat the buildings in which
the clubs are to operate.
Community center activities, re-
ceiving greater patronage now than
ever before, also require more heat
and lighting than they did formerly.
But limited funds even this year
forced this department to refrain
from proper expansion of its pro-
gram. In several instances, residents
have petitioned for the establishment
of community centers in school houses
in their neighborhoods, bu. they have
had to be denied because of insult
hcient funds. With a reduction in
next years fuel and light funds, it
will, obviously, be impossible to open
any new centers even then.
And so District school officials to-
day are hoping that their appeals to
the Senate committee will be heard
and that the fuel, gas and electricity
item be restored at least to the $780,
000 which the Budget Bureau had
transmitted to Congress.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
Judge, Who Turned Composer
At 81, attends Church ParIey
Defender of Religious
Liberty Sought Hobby
After Raising Family.

A lawyer who at 81 turned musical
composer is one of the figures at the
General Conference of Seventh-Day
Adventists at Takoma Park.
Judge Cyrus Simmons of Knoxville.
Tenn, explains his avocation by saying
a man must have a hobby. He is
now 70.
up to II years ago." he said, "my
hobby was raising a family After it
was raised I had to turn to something
else. I haven't had a musical educa-
ton and cannot arrange my songs.
The melodies pop into my head. 1
whistle them to an arranger and then
they are published
Sometimes the lyrics come first and
l whistle melody to fit the words
Sometimes both come together. Some
times the melody comes and 1 write
the lyric afterward.
Il whiStled my first creation to my
daughter in barn near the home in
Knoxville and she played it on a port
able organ
The daughter, now Mrs. E F. Hack
man of 2l7 Walnut street, Takoma
Park, D. c., is hostess to her father
while he is attending the conference.
Judge Simmons has composed music
to the 23d and other Psalms. to sew
eral patriotic and sacred songs. as
Evening star., 1934-04-30

there might have been some justifl-
cation for shooting Snoodles, she felt
this should have been accomplished
In more humane manner.
"The dog was shot at least four
times and then clubbed over the
head" Mrs. Spiess declared.
Officials at the home explained the
dog was killed as quickly as possible.
They said the rule against allowing
unleashed dogs on the grounds must
be enforced because of the tame
rabbits, squirrels and birds on the
reservation.
Owners Of dogs are warned to
catch their pets and keep them on
leash, it was said, and shooting. is
resorted to only when the dogs are
destructive and cannot be other
wise stopped from coming on the
grounds.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
CHILDREN MOURN DOG, KILLED
FOR RAID ON SOLDIERS HOME

Nine-year-old Buddy Spiess and his
young brother are mourning the pass
ing of their dog, Snoodles, which was
shot to death on the Soldiers Home
Grounds Saturday by policeman who
said Snoodles had been chasing tur-
keys, rabbits and squirrels and digging
up flower beds on the grounds.
Buddy, however, who lives at 10
Varnum street, near the main en-
trance of the grounds, is convinced
Snoodles had done nothing to war
rant the death penalty meted out to
him by Policeman A. L. Gregg of the
Soldiers Home force.
''Snoodles was a fine dog" Buddy
said. "Of course, he was just mon
grel, and little clumsy and foolish
at times, but my brother and I liked
him a lot"
Buddy's mother said that, while
Evening star., 1934-04-30
DEPOSITOR LOSES
FIGHTTO SEE BOOKS
Court of Appeals Upholds Con-
troller's Right to Refuse
Examination.

The Court of Appeals today upheld
the right of the Controller of the Cur
rency to refuse permission for a de-
positor to examine the books of a
closed bank while the bank is in an
orderly process of liquidation.
The ruling was made in the case of
Mary Rasmussen, who had sos "a on
deposit in the Northeast Savings Bank
and contended she was entitled to
make an examination of its books.
Her suit was accompanied by an af-
fidavit of prejudice, which figured in
the recent disbarment proceedings
against Attorney Jesse c. Duke. The
controller was represented by United
States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, his
assistant, John W. Fihelly, and Charles
E. Wainwright and Angus w. Mclean.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
GANGSTERS WHO SHOT
WOMAN HUNTED HERE
Detectives Return After Talking
to Mrs. Mary Fontaine in
Upper Darby.

Search for the men named by Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Fontaine as the
gangsters who shot and critically
wounded her in an Upper Darby, Pa,
apartment last Thursday was centered
in washington today, following the re-
turn of Detective Sergts. Floyd Trus-
colt and Elmer Lewis from the Phila-
delphia suburb.
Although the detectives were reluc-
tant to discuss the case, indication
their investigation would be concen-
trated here was given when Inspector
Frank S. w. Burke, who is directing
their work, revealed they would not
be sent back to Upper Darby for a
while, at least"
Truscott and Lewis returned from
Upper Darby early yesterday and, a
short time later, presented detailed
report of their work to Burke and
Capt. Bernard W. Thompson, assistant
chief of detectives.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
FARM AND GARDEN
DELEGATES MEET
National Capital Division to
Be Followed by Nation
Wide Convention.

Approximately rs delegates were
present today for the one-day meeting
of the National Capital Division of the
Women's National Farm and Garden
Association in the Dodge Hotel, which
preceded the opening tomorrow of a
three-day convention of the national
organization.
This morning the convention was
opened with a greeting from MIS-.
Otto L. Veerhotf. president of the Ma
tional Capital division. to the as
Sembled members and delegates.
Addresses were made by Mrs.
Charles L. McNary. wife of the Senate
minority leader; Mrs. Raymond A.
Pearson, wife of the Unive sity of
Maryland president: Mrs. Murray Bo-
cock OF Virginia and Mrs Ellis A..
Yost OF West Virginia, representing
the three States and the District.
which comprise the National Capital
Division.
Aims Outlined.
The addresses dealt with the aims
and purposes of the association.
Miss Flora Rose of Cornell Univer-
sity and Mrs, Frances King, honorary
president of the national association,
were guests of honor at a luncheon
at which Mrs. McNary was hostess, at
noon today.
A round table discussion was being
held this afternoon in which the
privileges and opportunities of the
organization and its members were
discussed by committee crairmen and
other officers.
Plans were completed for the OPEN
ing tomorrow Of the national conven-
tion at the hotel. A national exhibit
of products will also open simultane-
ously with the convention in the
garden house at the Dodge tomorrow.
Formal opening of the exhibit will be
by Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife Of the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Mrs. Ford to Attend.
Mrs. Cary T. Grayson will be hostess
at a luncheon tomorrow following the
opening of the convention by the ma
tional president, Mrs. Henry Ford.
Frederic Whiting, president of the
American Federation of Art, will be a
speaker at the luncheon.
A memorial service is scheduled for
tomorrow afternoon FOR the late Miss
Florence Ward of this city, and that
evening marketing skit with movies
has been arranged by DR.. Edith L.
Allen, cooperating with committees
on extensions and markets.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
POTOMAC VALLEY POWER
CORPORATION ABSORBED
Potomac-Edison System Takes
Over Properties in West Vir-
ginia Section Tomorrow.

Special Dispatch to The Star
WINCHESTER, Va, April 30.-The
Potomac Valley Power Corporation,
serving towns and rural communities
of the Moorefield Valley in West Vir-
ginia, will pass into hands of the Po-
tomac- Edison System tomorrow, ac-
cording to word today from Moore
field. Negotiations for the merger
were completed recently, it was stated
Meters were read today for the last
time by the Potomac Valley Co. prior
to turning over the properties to the
new owners.
The Potomac Edison System and its
largest affiliate, the Northern Virginia
Power Co., winchester, now own and
operate virtually all the electric power
and lighting plants In a large terri
tory in Maryland, West Virginia and
Northern Virginia.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
Filipinos Plan Dance.

The Publicity Committee of the
Filipino Center will hold a dance
from to l o'clock tomorrow night
at the New Amsterdam Hotel, 2705
Fourteenth street. N. P. Donesa is
chairman of the committee in charge.
The entertainment program will in
clude many novelty and surprise
numbers.
Evening star., 1934-04-30

well as songs dedicated to his wife,
for many years an invalid, and to
Helen Keller.
Most of his legal work has been in
defense of religious freedom. He re-
calls with pride that he won for
Adventists in Oklahoma the right to
work on Sundays in the face of State
law prohibiting all civil or secular
work on that day.
Evening star., 1934-04-30

r ULTIMATE replacing Of all
standard class room furniture
with a new-type desk and
~ chair set designed by Jere j.
Crane, school system business
manager, is anticipated in the pend
ing contract for this new type of
equipment for the Districts three eye
sight conservation classes
In the eyesight conservation classes
every effort is made to relieve strain
on the weakened visual equipment of
the pupils.
Mr. Crane conceived the idea of re-
Evening star., 1934-04-30
All BOYS CLUB ELECTS
Bernard Hale President of Fran
coma (Va.) ORGANIZATION,
Correspondent of The Star.

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
FRANCONIA, Va, April 30.-Tht
following officers have been elected By
the recently organized Franconis
Boys All Club:
Bernard Hale, president: Richard
Highham, vice president; Elmer Hall,
secretary; Stephen Dodd, treasurer:
Leonard Conley, song leader. anE
Howard Nelson, cheer leader.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
Dies From Eating Lye.

Burned when he attempted to eat
some lye from glass jar last Janu-
airy, Hispano James, colored, 18-
months old, 200 block of G street
southwest. died today In Gallinger
Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-04-30

verSing the tops Of the most modern
types of class room desks so that with
the inkweu and pencil rack held sta
tionary at the edge Of the desk near
est the pupil the main portion of the
top might be elevated in easel fash
ion for the benefit Of the pupil.
Shown in the picture is one Of the
sample desks and chair in actual
operation The book-supporting rack
may be adjusted to suit individual re-
quirements, or 1t may be removed en-
tirely according to the demands of
the moment.
Evening star., 1934-04-30
Get Coal WithrNets.

Men are using nets in fishing for
coal being washed up on the North
umbrian coast of England.
Evening star., 1934-04-30

Irish Open Factories.
Several new factories are being
opened in the Irish Free State.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06
AMERICAN LEGION Y WINS, MEMBERSHIP
 MEET. WITH 40-S

Members, of. Juneaafs Afford John Bradford Post No. 4, Of the Afnera ican Legion, are looking forward with pleasant anticipation to the free feed" which Juneau's 40 and 8 Voiture must give them. z. '
 It was announced today that the winner of the American Legion 40 and membership drive contest, which closed Monday, was the Am erican Legion team led by R. J. McKanna. So. now, it's up to the 40 and 8 squad, whose captain was Homer Nordling, to provide the prize-a free feed"
 Legion officials also said today that another similar contest be- tween the two organizations was already under way and would last until the first of the next year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06
SUIT IS FILED AGAINST ESTATE OF F. W. BRADLEY
Oregon. Attorney Wants to Collect Over $8,OO0
 Plus Interest s1

f SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Dec. G. Carl Logan, attorney of Warrenton. Oregon, has filed a suit in the Federal Court for $8,187 against Mary Parks Bradley, as executrix of the estate of Frederick w. Brad- ley, Alaska mining engineer.
 Logan's suit set forth that Brad ley employed him in January, 1928, to keep him in touch with the proposed gold tonnage tax, assert edly agreeing to pay him 5000. 19
 Logan said he recently learned that Bradley died July 6. 1883.
 The suit asked for $8,f87 plus interest. -e @ tssV''-'s S'l VI
 The agreement specified ac- cording to Logan's suit, that should Bradley die, Logan would receive $125 monthly and a like amount would go to Eogan's estate if he died. A~ .S''S
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06

with their daily problems.
 By 1909, when he was knighted, he had become one of the most influential personalities in London journalism and after the outbreak of the world war he became the chief publicity link between the press and the government. In this capacity he represented the Brit ish press at the peace conference in 1919 and at all important allied conferences subsequently,, including the Washington conference on dis armament in 1921.
 Raised To Peerage
 He was created a baronet in 1918 and in 1920 his war services were rewarded by his elevation to the peerage as Baron Riddel of Walton Heath.
 George Allardice Riddell was born May 25, 1865, in London, son of MT. and Mrs. James Riddell. He married Annie Molison, daughter of MT. and Mrs. D. w. Allardice. They had no children.
 Though he was frail in appear ance he was an indefatigable work CT not only in the publishing field but in authorship of books and in hospital interests with maternity welfare commanding leading at tention.
 When he was 68, he said T work all day because I like it bet ter than anything else.' He was non-smoker and a teetotaler.
 Behind the scenes in so many world-shaping events because of his wartime and postwar connec- tions with British government lead CTS and foreign statesmen, Lord Roddell produced an intimate work in 1883. his war diary, and then set himself to the task of giving an inside story" on the Versailles treaty.
 Active in Hospital Work
 He was a liberal donor to hos pitals and served as president of the Royal Free Hospital from 1925 onward, as president of the Med
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06

co-Legal Society, 1930-33, and as chairman of the London Voluntary Hospitals committee from 1930 on- ward. He was an honorary member of the British Medical association and an honorary fellow of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
 He held variety of posts in oth- CT fields while in the journalistic world he was chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors' association; president of the Periodical. Trade Press and Weekly Proprietors' as- sociation; and president of the Advertising association, 1928-30.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06

Miss Agnes Mantiley, of Milwau- kee, was selected Wisconsin's most beautiful waitress at a beauty con- test of waitreSses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06
RAINBOW GIRLS TO
 GIVE TEA SATURDAY

With the members of the Eastern Star as their guests, the Rainbow Girls will give a tea Saturday af- ternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock in the Scottish Rite Temple The girls are giving the affair as an express sion of appreciation to the Eastern Star for the aid given them at various times.
 After being a medical patient for a few days. Emmett Coombs left St. Ann's Hospital this morn ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06
LORD RIDDELL
 IS DEAD FROM
 EFFECTS, COLD
Outstanding Figure, British Journalistic World,
 Passes Away

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06
DRESSES

You will find the new metallics, velvets, crepes, satins here in a great profusion of styles suitable for dinners, cocktail parties, dancing, afternoon and the informal and more formal styles . our sizes are complete and most reason able.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-07-05
EAST OF BRUNO

Mr.. and Mrs. N. G. Patties and chill
dren of Redwood Falls visited at the
Charley Southerton home over Sum
day, a week ago.
A few neighbOrs and friends gath
cred at the Wernowski home last
week to help Mrs. Wernowski cele-
brate her birthday.
Mrs. Joe Kvasnicka is staying with
Mrs. Nellie Johnson who is very sick
and Mrs. Kvasnicka appreciates very
much that neighbors come in and help
her evenings and nights.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. o. Billman and
children spent Sunday at the Plumb
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mach gave a
party Saturday evening to a few of
their friends and neighbors, it being
Bill lacks birthday.
Ada Miller spent Friday afternoon
at the Billman home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Berglund were
callers at the E. j. Miller and C. o.
Bllman homes Monday evening.
Mr.. Plumb and son, Merritt, were
callers at the Billman home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Berglund were
callers at the Gebhardt home Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. Miller called on
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Rydell Monday
evening in Bruno.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-07-05
KERRICK

A number of fans jOurneyed to
Moose Lake Sunday to root for the
team. The decision on a play at the
end of the game was ruled against the
N. P. S. Club, but the umpire, after
getting home and looking up the rule,
discovered his error and changed the
ruling. 1t was an honorable thing to
do. Most Jumps" will never admit
they are wrong, but he did and did it
frankly. Such acts must be appreci-
ated.
Remember the 9th of July. Mark
it down as the day we are to meet at
the school house and try to show
Jim Hill" that we still need the
depot.
Frank Gockowski has rented the old
Potter" place in Section 1 and ex-
poets to move his family here this
fall. Frank is a son of Bernard Goo
kowski who farmed for a year or
more on the place now occupied by
H. w. Green near Duquette.
The directors of the local bank met
Saturday in their annual meeting.
There will be a canning demonstra-
ton at the school house July 10th
from to p. m. Everyone interested
in canning should attend. Perhaps
you know all there is to be learned
about canning, but there may be a
few new things that have come up.
Anyway come and visit with the other
ladies and make it a pleasant after
noon.