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Evening star., 1934-06-10
$7,0OO,OOO DEBT
DENIED BY BACKUS
Former Head Of Paper Firm Tells
Senate Probers SIC, ,000,-
600 Due Him.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Edward w. Backus. former president
Of the Minnesota and Ontario Paper
Co.. denied yesterday previous testi-
mony by receivers that he and the
Backus- Brooks Co. were indebted in
the concern for 100000.
He asserted the paper company
owes his interests more than $l6,000,-
900 In addition to common and pre-
ferred stock amounting to $22 900 600.
Testifying before the Senate special
committee investigating receiverships,
Backus said the receivers for the
paper company sold the Memphis
Commercial Appeal for figure much
lower than its actual value.
Herman Suter, New York newspaper
broker, said the publication, sold in
1888 for 100000 above its debts of
approximately 100000, was really
worth about $4,000, 900.
John B. Faegre. associate counsel
for the receiver. replied that a quick
sale had been impelled partly by a
desire to raise money to protect the
Minnesota and Ontario paper COM
panie's interest in newsprint factories,
including one in Finland.
The paper company acquired the
Commercial Appeal when the news
paper was unable to pay a debt of
$3.50, 900 owed for newsprint.
Fagre asserted that during the nine
months when Backus was co-receiver
for the paper company. he drew
$50 ,000 from the company's funds, but
Backus asserted all checks had been
signed and approved by the other two
receivers and approved by the court.
Alexander Smith of New York
investment banker whose firm had
financed the Minnesota and Ontario
company. testified the Backus interests
had furnished large amounts of cash
and credit at times when it would
have not been available otherwise.
He said Backus personally indorsed
IS 5.000.0o of the company's bonds.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
SENATOR MAY RUN
IN MARYLAND RACE
Republican Backers Ask Colds.
borough to Seek Gov
ernorship.
By STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

q
BALTIMORE. Md. June 9.-Sen-
ator Phillips Lee Goldsborough today
is giving careful consideration" to a
request made yesterday by % Mary
land Republican leaders that he be-
come a candidate for the G. O. P.
nomination for Governor.
Two prominent Prince Georges
County Republicans were among those
who called upon the Senator to run
Oliver Metzerott, minority floor leader
of the House of Delegates, and DR.!
Thomas E. Latimer. chairman Of the
Republican State Central Committee
of Prince Georges.
Goldsborough promised "a prompt
decision" on the suggestion that he
seek the gubernatorial nomination.
Before being elected to the Senate in
the Hoover landslide of 1928 Colds
borough served as Governor Of Mary
land for one term, from 1912 to 1916.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
HUGE HURRICANE
TOLL IS FEARED
Reports of Damage in Six
Provinces TrickIe in to
Ell Salvador.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador, June
9 (by Pan-American Airways wire
less) A heavy death toll and prop
erty loss. which will run far into the
millions, will be shown in the final
check-up of the damage done by
Thursdays hurricane, belated reports
from six provinces indicated today.
Still cut off from communication
with the interior and the outside
world by ordinary means. San Saliva
dor was pushing reconstruction work
in an effort to restore the light and
water systems and to prevent an out
break of typhoid or other disease.
Persons who reached here afoot or
by mule reported the provinces of La
Paz, Cabanas. Cusxatlan, Usulatan,
San Vicente and Miguel were hard
hit by the high wind and rain which
took eight or more lives in the capt.
tai and rendered 500 persons home
less.
The total number of dead, it was
indicated, will be large.
Practically every road has been
washed out, and the International
Railroad Of Central America will be
unable to restore service on its line
for at least two months.
The National Railroad has restored
service only between Del Mino and
Acajutla. the rest of the right of way
being washed out.
The army has been called out to
repair highways and railroads and
to preserve order. +
AMERICANS ENDANGERED.
Evening star., 1934-06-10

far cry from the aged peers descrip-
ton Of his own life in the new world.
The hale sportsman. now n years
old, had electrified 200 American COW
punchers.men and women-with the
statement that back in 1874, some
of my friends went out one day to
hold up the Denver stage. and went
with them"
Today's spectacle was not in line
with the experiences of Hugh Cecil
Lowther. which was his name back
in the days when he was himself rid
ing bucking horses and roping steers
for a living.
Like a Circus.
The performance today was some
thing like an equestrian circus. As
soon as a cowboy roped "crittur" he
let 60 his lariat so the steer would not
fall and get hurt. Announcers re-
assured the crowds that a veterinary
was in constant attendance. officials
held stop watches on bucking broncs
which were not permitted to buck
longer than 10 seconds.
But, even though much of the kick
from Tex Austin's rodeo at White City
today mad been removed by the au-
thorities, the 77-year- ex-cowboy
wasn't kicking.
Delighted by Performance.
He watched the performance with
glow of delighted Renaissance in his
eyes and he puffed away at his in
evitable long cigars with the greatest
of satisfaction.
And the $4,000 spectators looked up
at him with the same affection that
he showed for the American cow
punchers. For he is not only lord
lieutenant Cumberland Custos Rotu-
lorum, hereditary admiral of the coats
of Cumberland, Westmoreland. and
lord warden of the West Marches;
honorary colonel of the 1st Cumber-
land Volunteer Artillery; honorary,
colonel of the 3rd Battalion Of the
Border Regiment, and colonel Of the
Westmoreland and Cumberland Inn
perial Yeomanry-he is also Eng
lands most venerated sportsman.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
!. CREATES ODD MURALS.

For three years a student at Mas
sachusetts Tech before he went to
Paris to study art, Mr. Bittinger pro-
duced his iourescent color effects as
a result of the combined scientific
and artistic training. Different ele-
ments in the paint produce varied
tints under the ultra violet rays, but
present a fat, white surface In nor
NAL light
The paintings depict Franklin fly
ing a kite, to which he had attached
a key to invite a bolt Of lightning;
Franklin. as a printer and as an
American envoy being received at the
court of the French King.
Mr.. Bittinger, who lives at 3403 o
street, returned to Washington several
years ago after an extended period
of work and study abroad.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
L0UDOUN Al CLUB SETS
Achievement DAY DATE
Championship Banner Will Be
October Gully Named for
County Demonstration.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG. Va, June 8. The
Loudoun County All Club has Sc
lected October as their Achievement
day date. The program for the day
is IN charge of the Executive Com
mittee of the Council, assisted by
Miss Garner, home demonstration
agent. Margaret Grehan, president
of the council, is chairman. The
championship banner will be awarded
at this time
July 6 was named as the date for
the county demonstration, health and
judging contests, the winners from
each club meeting to compete for
county honors The county winner
will go to Blacksburg to compete in
the State short course contest to be
held July % to %.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
work on the murals

Poor Richard himself would be the
first to applaud the three vanishing
murals which a Washington artist
has created on the walls of the new
S5,000,O00 Benjamin Franklin Insti-
tute at Philadelphia.
The paintings, said to be the first
of their kind in the world, were done
by Charles Bittinger, a native OF
Washington, and depict scenes from
the life of Franklin. The method Of
their execution would surely have
excited the curiosity of the man who
experimental with lightning at time
when his fellows ascribed the pheno-
mena to the wrath of God.
Under normal daylight or the usual
electric lighting, the walls on which
the murals are painted are a fiat
Evening star., 1934-06-10
LEE-JACKSON LEADERS
MAKE OWN SPEECHES
Outside Addresses Barred as
Ranking Seniors Handle Own
Commencement.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMERON VALLEY, Va, June g..
Abandoning the tradition of outside
speakers, ranking seniors of Lee-Jack-
So. High School last night delivered
their own addresses at the commence
ment exercises, the program being di-
rected by Gordon E. Smith, principal,
who also presented the diplomas.
Weaver Doyle. valedictorian. spoke
OF. Science in Education" and
Charles Besley, salutatorian. on THE
Present Crisis in Education" Other
speakers were:
George Ayres, Lawrence Davies,
Jean Lewis, Stephen Taylor, Anna
Ayres and Ernest Mittendors.
Jean Lewis was presented the award
given by the Alumni Association to
the outstanding senior. The presenta-
ton was made by Harry Carrico, who
received like award last year.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
KOHLER REFUSES TO RUN

KOHLER. Wis, June CP.-For-
mer Gov. Walter ]. Kohler, who re-
Gently declined the Craftsmanship Of
the Republican National Committee,
today discouraged a movement to
draft him for political Office with the
announcement that under no condi-
tions would he be a candidate for
Governor or United States Senator
next Fall
Evening star., 1934-06-10
EARL OF LONSDALE'S HOLD.UP
STORY IS BACKED BY LEGEND
Tale Says He and Co,Uboys Simulated Stage
Coach Robbery as Joke, but Fled When They
Found U. S. Mail Wds Being Carried.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER. June 9.-Lord Lonsdale's
story of helping stick up a Denver
Stage coach in 1874-told at a cow
boys banquet in London today re-
vived tales of an era when outlaws
roamed the Eastern slope of the Rock
les, and scalp-hunting Indians lurked
in thickets.
Denver had three railroads when
the British Earl started riding the
Western range, and progressive road
agents, sensing the trend of the times,
turned to train robbery But there
were a few stage lines left and plenty
of narrowing stories of days when the
driver carried a rifle across his knees.
Jim Reynolds Gang.
Outstanding among the Colorado
desperadoes of the period just before
young Lonsdale put on chaps and a
six-shooter, was the Jim Reynolds
gang of land pirates, mounted and
al IlCu W IllC GCCIll, W1lO SW al AAOo dP
the Arkansas valley in 1854, capturing
wagon trains. robbing stages and VOW
ing to burn and sack Denver as Law
renee, Kans., had been burned.
They claimed to be confederates. but
actually were guerrillas.
Word of their threats flashed on
ahead of them and by the time they
reached the South Park country cat
tlemen had organized to hunt them
down.
One band of ranchers, under sick
sparks. sighted the land-pirates
camped in a remote section of the
park. They stealthily advanced within
gunshot and let blaze altogether.
One Outlaw Killed.
One outlaw, named Singleterry, was
killed. Reynolds was wounded, and
the band fled, leaving their plunder
and one captured.
Next day, with the captured outlaw
as a guide, under promise of death
If he misled them, the ranchers start
ed after the band again.
This time they were reinforced by
a company of Cavalry. a United
States marshal and a judge. Rey-
nolds and four others were given
secret military trial in Denver and
ordered taken to Fort Lyon, Colo.
With an armed escort, the five pris-
oners started for the fort. On the
way they all were killed-how is a
matter of doubt, since the officer in
charge declined to be interviewed"
on his return to Denver.
Swift Punishment Usual.
With such swift and final punish
ment routine treatment for outlaws,
it seems not unreasonable of Lord
Lonsdale to have kept a guarded
secret for go years his own participa-
ton in a stage robbery, whether a
prank or not.
There is no record of stage rob-
berry in 1874, but Western legend
has it that a party Of English land
owners coming to Denver by stage
were held up as a prank by young
Lonsdale and some cowboy pals. The
stage coach unfortunately carried
limited States mail as well as Eng
lishmen, and the pranksters could
never admit the joke for fear OF
prosecution.
day seemed disinclined to reopen the
case. As a matter of fact. their rec
ords don't go back that far.
WATCHES TAME RODEO.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
AMERICANS ENDANGERED.
Fruit Company Plantations in Hon.
duraS Flooded.

Fruit Company Plantations in Hon.
duras Flooded.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 9
R).-Uncounted deaths from drown
ing and survivors clirging to tree tops,
awaiting rescue from food waters 6
feet deep were described today in re-
ports from Honduras East Coast.
Plantations of the American-owned
United Fruit Co. were reported under
water in a wide area surrounding
Pimienta. Property losses in the city
alone we're estimated at S500,000. The
city is under water.
The flood followed torrential rains.
All rail traffic to the banana region
on the Atlantic Coast has been sus-
pended, owing to floods. Prices of
foodstuffs in Tegucigalpa are increas-
ing rapidly.
Many foreigners, including Ameri-
cans, live in the Pimienta district,
where casualties are expected to be
heaviest. Lack of communication made
it impossible to determine their fate.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
CHlLDREN'S DAY
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSvILLE, Md, June o.
Children's day will be observed to-
morrow at IL o'clock at the First
Baptist Church of Hyattsville. A pa
geant cantata, "A Carnival Of Flow
ers," will be presented. All depart
ments of the Sunday school will be
represented in the cast, approximately
so of these costumed to represent
June flowers. Mrs. Ethel Manning
and Mrs. F. H. Spencer are In charge.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
CLUB H0N0RS INGLING
Corinthian Yacht Members Give
Dinner for Worker,

In recognition of IS years as chair
man of the Corinthian Yacht Clubs
Entertainment Committee, c. E. Ing
ling was given a dinner at the Ken
nedy-Warren Thursday night by off,
GERS and members of the club.
Mr.. Ingling received small gift
from each member and also was pre-
sented water color of Gunston Cove
and a wrought-iron weather vane. DR..
Roy Lymon Sexton presided.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
BERWYN EXERCISES
TO BE HELD JUNE IS
Prof. S. S. Steinberg Will Deliver
Address at Elementary School
Commencement.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BERWYN, Md, June 9.-Prof. S. s.
Steinberg, head of the department OF
civil engineering of the University OF
Maryland, will deliver the address at
closing exercises of the Berwyn Ele-
mentary School in the school audito-
rum June Is at 8 p. m. Twenty-Five
are to receive certificates. They are
Allen Baker, Richard Brelsford, Lu-
ther CLANCY. Richard Davis, Charles
Dunn, Hudson Evers, Earl Hall, VIII
liam Graft, Angus Macdonald, Neal
Mahoney. David Sampson, Carey Sim
gleton. Billy Sherman. Raymond Tay-
lor. Hammond Wood. Catherine Arm
strong, Gladys Beveridge, Betty
Boughton, Mildred McManus, Doris
Millard, Aileen Miller, Helen Bell,
Margaret Staley, Leona Seaton and
Bernice Wood.
Evening star., 1934-06-10
WATCHES TAME RODEO.
77-Year-Old Sportsman Finds English
Performance Denatured.

LONDON, June 8 R.-The Earl OF
Lonsdale, quietly amused by shocking
every one with the revelation that he
participated in a stage coach hold-up
so years ago, listened with mild as
tonishment today to the delirious
cheers of $4,000 cQmpatriots Witness
ing an American rodeo.
For the rodeo had been denatured
in conformity with English ideas. no
blood was spilled, no cattle were hurt,
and the spectacle in general was Q
Evening star., 1934-06-10

n I tenary celebration sched-
wv uled to open in old St.
' Marys City this week, resi-
dents of Washington and
vicinity are becoming more interested
each day in the historical significance
of the many ancient landmarks with
WHICH the Free State abounds.
Scattered throughout Maryland
and particularly in ST. Marys, Mont
gomery and Prince Georges Counties
are hundreds of old homes which,
despite the passing of the years. re-
main much the same as they were in
pre- e-Revolutionary days. Some, of
course. have fallen into state of dis
repair; but, even so, there is little
about them to indicate the number of
years they have withstood the ravages
of time.
Many of these old residences-ap-
proximately 500 of them, in fact-are
pictured and described in detail in
Early Manor Houses and Planta-
tions," a book recently published by
Henry Chandlee Forman, prominent
Philadelphia and Easton, Md. archi-
tect. With an introduction by Lei
cester B. Holland, chief of the Divi-
sion of Fine Arts of the Library of
Congress. the volume contains draw
ings as well as photographs, many Of
the latter made by the author on a
Statewide tour that took him to
about 1900 old houses.
Illustrations Important.
The book contains Just about enough
text to explain the illustrations, and
only a few times does Mr.. Forman,
who was a White prize man in archi-
lecture at the University of Pennsyl-
vania. resort to the use of the anec-
dotal. One of these occasions is when,
in describing the Fassit House in
Worcester County, he pauses to re-
mark:
In 1872, they say. a basket of sill
yer was buried nearby. This accounts
for the present large holes"
The oldest of the dwellings, Mr.
Forman declares, is Kent Fort Manor
in Queen Anne County. built some
tinguishing feature of the house is
the stairway. which, according to Mr.
Forman. has only four feet and five
inches headroom."
The farther from Tidewater," says
Mr.. Forman. "the later the houses
we're built; and the hitler and more
rugged the countryside. the more
stone was used in place of brick.
James Brooke Called Pioneer.
''One of the Colonial neighbor-
hoods of the western shore of Mary
land is Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County. Here were the seats Of many
early Friends, or Quakers. James
Brooke, of the De La Brooke Manor
family on PatuXent, built the pioneer
house. Charley Forest, in 1928, ir
Sandy Spring. Charley Forest
was a small. frame one-and-a- half
story house. destroyed long ago.
Other Montgomery County resi-
dences described or pictured by Mr.
Forman are Harewood, "an old Stablel
homestead of friendly dignity" which
still stands beside the Sandy Spring
Meeting House; Brooke Manor, for
merly known as Cherry Grove, also
in the Sandy Spring section. and Bel
mont, or Thomas Waters Place, ole
home of the Waters family. The
oldest of these is Brooke Manor
which, although erected in 1928, still
is in good condition.
Many in Prince Georges.
Among the Prince Georges County
Evening star., 1934-06-10
Many in Prince Georges.

Among the Prince Georges County
dwellings described in the volume are
Mount Calvert Manor, built for Philip
Calvert in 1857; wyoming, built in
1850 and now owned by William L.
Marbury, chairman of the Tercenten-
ary Commission: Dumblane, 1923;
Sasscer's Green, 1900; Bellefield, 1875;
Evening star., 1934-06-10

w YITH the Maryland tercen-
tenary celebration sched-
wv uled to open in old St.
' ' Marys City this week, resi-
The Washington times., 1934-01-05
CHANGE SOUGHT
IN CRIMINAL
CODE HERE

Punishment for persons con-
victed of first-degree murder in
the District would be fixed by the
jury at either life imprisonment or
electrocution, under the terms of
a bill now pending before the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee.
The proposal was offered in the
Senate yesterday by Senator Will
liam H. Thompson, Democrat of
Nebraska, and would amend the
District criminal code which now
provides that when a jury brings
in a verdict of guilty where the
charge is first-degree murder the
Judge must either sentence the
defendant to electrocution or set
the verdict aside.
Senator Thompson said:
"The jury should be given
discrimination in these cases.
Often there are circumstances
which would make it advisable
for the jury to have discrimina-
ton as to whether the defend
ant should be sentenced to life
imprisonment or electrOcuted.
"The method / have proposed
for the District has been
tried in other States, and I
know in my State, where I was
on the supreme bench, we have
found that this method comes
the nearest to giving Justice"
The Washington times., 1934-01-05
PASTOR'S LIFE
THREATENED
BY JAN|TOR

PIGGOTT, Ark, Jan. 5 GIN.
S0.-Testimony given by a de-
fense witness that John Mac
Murdo, slain janitor of the strife
torn Jonesboro Baptist Taber-
nacle, threatened to kill the Rev.
Dale s. Crowley If he ever en-
tered the church, caused a sen.
sation today in the pastors trial
for murder.
Homer King, nonmember of the
two warning church factions,
scored heavily for the Rev. Crow.
ley's defense when he took the
witness stand and stated that
MacMurdo had told him he
planned to kill the pastor If he
"ever came inside the tabernacle
door,"
Gun Parts Bored
Five days prior to the fatal
shooting of MacMurdo, King went
to the tabernacle, he said, and
the aged janitor showed him
three holes that had been drilled
| in the wall. MacMurdo placed q
pistol in one of the apertures and
told King that he could "pick
Crowley off" from any part Of
the auditorium, the witness testi-
fled.
King stated that MacMurdo
showed him several clubs in the
tabernacle that defense attorneys
have contended were meant for
Rev. Crowley. King began his
testimony at the night session
shortly after the State rested its
case at 9 p. m.
Defense attorneys questioned
State witnesses concerning a loose
board in the tabernacle wall be-
hind which q supply Of ammuni-
tion was assertedly kept.
Pistol Identified
Walter Montague, a deacon
under the faction Of the Rev.
Joe Jeffers, took the stand to
identify a third pistol that played
a mysterious part in the shooting
of MacMurdo.
The Washington times., 1934-01-05
POWER THE KEY
To TENNESSEE
VOTE SCANDAL

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 5 U.
S0.-The hand Of power interests
is back Of Tennessee's new political
sensation just brought to the sur
face by the arrest of Paul M.
Davis, banker-brother Of Norman
N. Davis, Americas Ambassador
at-Large.
This was admitted by j. I.
Reece, former State commissioner
of insurance and banking, who
was arrested with Davis, Vance
Alexander. and A. V. Louthan on
charges Of conspiracy to defraud
the State of $22,8O0.
Reece is said to have told the
grand jury that he borrowed the
money from State funds and that
it was used by the alleged con-
spirators to elect Gov. Hill Nc
Alister in 1882.
Move to Name Senator
McAlister was their choice,
Reece is said to have revealed, be-
cause he would appoint Nathan
L. Bachman, an attorney for
power interests, to the United
States Senate to succeed Cordell
Hull, who became Secretary OF
State.
Before Reece would go into the
agreement, he is said to have told
the grand jury, he exacted a
promise that none Of the money
would be used to knife his brother,
Carroll Reece, member OF the
United States House Of Repre-
sentatives.
Reece's statement to the grand
jury also said, according to re-
ports, that the other men promised
to refund the money before an
audit of his accounts could be
made.
Money Not Restored
In fact, they all agreed, Reece
is said to have told the grand
jury, that the money was to be re-
turned.
But the money was not restored,
it was pointed out in letter from
Homer K. Jones and Company,
who made the audit. This letter is
on file in the attorney generals
office here.
The fact that the alleged con-
spirators discussed the return OF
the money was also pointed out by
Miss Hilda McCray, confidential
secretary to Reece, who says she
sat in at some Of the conferences,
In her statement to the grand
Jury, she is reported to have de
clared the conference "was fol
the confirmation of the finance
committees promise Of refunding
the money of the back tax &C
count, which had been used by
the said committee in the Nc
Alister campaign"
The Washington times., 1934-01-05
COlInciLmen ShIIn
Second Candidacy

Although the Democratic pri-
mary to nominate an entire slate
of city councilmen is scheduled
for April 3, none of the present
members of the Alexandria Coun-
Gil have announced their inten-
ton of seeking reelection.
Election of three members to
serve at large, the one receiving
the largest number of votes being
elected mayor, is causing more
speculation than any other phase
of the coming election.