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CHARLES F. DIGGS. Attorney,
- 24OO 18th st. n. w.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA. Holding Probate Court.
No. 46.9O6. Administration. THIS IS TO
GIVE NOTICE: That the subscribers. Of
the District of Columbia and the States
Of Virginia and Pennsylvania, respectively,
have obtained from the Probate Court of
the District of Columbia Letters Testa-
mentary on the estate of ]. Louis Loose,
late of the District of Columbia, deceased
All persons having claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned 20 exhibit the
same. with the vouchers thereof legally
authenticated. to the subscribers, on or be-
fore the 18th day of October, A. D. 1898:
otherwise they may by law be excluded
der our hands this 18th day of October,
1884. CHARLES F. DIGGS. 240O 18th
St. n. W. Wash. u. c.: CHARLES NJ
BIRCKHEAD. 1915 Farragut St. " W.:
RICHARD NJ. GREEN 1913 y. Washing
t tor st.. Alexandria. w.: IRENE RICH
THEODORE CoGswELL. Register OF wills
for the District of Columbia, Clerk Of the
Probate Court.
MARK STEARMAN and HENRY STEAR.
man, attorneys. Columbian Bldg.
SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA. Holding Probate Court.
Estate of Marion L. Ridgeway, Deceased
NO. F.lHO, Administration Docket 1O2.
Application having been made herein for
probate of the last will and testament of
said deceased. and for letters testamentary
on said estate by George Bury. Jr., it is
ordered this 18th day of October A. D.
1884. that Oden E. Tucker. Mrs. Caroline
Schwartz. Roland F. Tucker, Mrs. Della
Rooney, John l.. Tucker. Mrs. Ella Phib-
bons, Ernest Tucker. Norman Tucker, Vim
ton Tucker. Mrs. Josephine Fink Mrs.
Elizabeth Chance. Mrs. Julia Beck, Mrs.
Katherine Sauer, Clarence Tucker Mrs
Anna Erby. Edward Mayhem. Ernest W.
Mayhew, James B. Mayhem. Irving
Lottie Wedden. Norman JOY. and
the unknown heirs at law and next
of kin of Marion L. Ridgeway. deceased
and all others concerned appear in said
court on Monday, the 26th day of NOvem-
Der, A. D. 1854. at 10 o'clock a. M. to
show cause why such application should
not be granted. Let notice hereof be pub.
lished in the Washington Law Reporter
and The Washington Times. once in each
of three successive weeks before the re.
turn day herein mentioned. the first pub
LEGATION to he not less than thirty days
before said return day. O. R. LUHRING,
Justice (Seal.( Attest: THEODORE
COGSWELL. Register of Wills for the Dis.
trict of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate
Court.
MARK sTEARMAN.
HENRY STEARMAN,
Columbian Building, Attorneys.
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Judge John w. Price enter
tanned a number of friends re-
Gently with an oyster roast at
River Bend, near Mt. Vernon.
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There is much more to be said
Of Mr.. Cogswell's trip, but he
will tell the rest at the next Bar
riSters Club meeting.
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Rug Weaving
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Evening star., 1934-07-22
Birds -Unafected

THE fears of bird lovers that poisoned bats
spread around for grasshoppers might re-
suit in the death of large quantities Of birds
Lave been found groundless after an exhaustive
survey by Clarence Cottam an assistant bol0-
gist of the Biological Survey.
The only possible danger would be through
faulty methods Of spreading the bait, which is
largely bran treated with arsenicals For the
poison to be most effective it is necessary to
spread the bran thinly over wide areas. Il 10
only when the bran is left in piles that birds
can get any quantity likely to be poisonous
Another way in which the birds were be-
lieved to be menaced was in the eating OF
poisoned hoppers. This too, was found to be
a groundless fear. Birds taken for obserVa-
ton purposes were found to average IA grass
hoppers apiece when the stomachs were ex-
amined. yet the amount of arsenic present
while fatal to the hopper infinitesimalIy
small, the birds could not be affected.
Evening star., 1934-07-22
7a00 Goals Sought

The sugar curtailment program had a two
fold purpose. the raising of the price
OF sugar paid to the farmer and the other the
restoration of the Cuban market for other
American products
The loss of the American market for sugar
resulted in serious loss of sales to the island.
In 1928, the United States imported 3125 600
tons of sugar from Cuba. BY 1882 this figure
had dropped to 1736 900 tons. BY a gradual
increase in sugar imports from Cuba the ad-
ministration hopes to restore the Cuban mar
kets for other agricultural as well as manufac-
tured products.
In so far as American raiSers of sugar beets
are concerned, the Department of Agriculture
estimates that only 300 are so engaged. To
offset this business, the department figures that
the products of 8l7000 acres of farm land
which would have normally entered Cuba I'm
return for the sugar failed to reach the re-
public.
At the present time American growers of
cane and beets raise about 81 per cent of all
the sugar consumed in the United States.
On the first of the year a surplus of about
900 tons of American grown sugar existed
while the world stock of sugar was set ut
1920. 900 tons.
Evening star., 1934-07-22
q. S. Bacon Preferred

THE differing taste in bacon between Amer
leans and British consumers Is well Illus
trated by the fact that during the past year
importations OF Canadian bacon into the United
States dropped more than half. to a total sf
only $4,000 pounds,
The Canadian type bacon Is practically aT
lean, without the streaks of fat which give the
crispness to bacon which appeals to the taste
of Americans. The Canadian type is more
nearly like ham in texture than anything else
and does not have the flavor of the American
type.
Evening star., 1934-07-22

I'm Alone finally, the delivery dates set by
"Harforau" agreed with the railroad records of
the liquor shipments from Abbeyville.
The chief took the next train for New York.
where the telegraph office supplied the delivery
address of "Harforan"-the telegraph desk of
a well known hotel. After some difficulty at
the hotel it was discovered that messages to
"Harforan" were delivered to an unlisted tele-
phone number, which further Government
preSSureS traced to Paul Smith in suite
of fashionable apartment hotel
Hastily collecting a police sergeant and a
prohibition officer, to meet all contingencies
the customs officer went to the hotel where it
was aScertaned that paul Smith" was in
town-and that he answered the description of
Dan. They sat down to wait.
None of the officers, it happened, had
brought a gun along. Thus they were
too happy when Dan walked in followed by
tough companion. both of them carrying guns
barely concealed by the folds of their oVercoatS.
Fortunately. surprise attack got the guns
Dams connection with the "Corkum'' con-
spiracy the stronger case, was established by
witnesses from Louisiana and he was taken
back. tried and convicted. Let out on bail,
pending appeal he disappeared.
The chase began again, combined with one
for Big Jim, identified by this time as Dams
partner, Marvin James Clark.
Meanwhile, customs men in Louisiana tried
10 ma some way OF Tying the nquor from the
I'm Alone's burned contact boat to Dan and
Jim. At last an agent found behind the marsh
hut of a man who had been on that boat
book from New Hampshire library. After
long investigation, he learned that a seaman
from the schooner had had the book in his
bag the night the contact boat was beaehed,
and through a card in the book he located
this seaman, and thereby got evidence that
Big Jim also had been on the boat.
Then, on December "a, 1881, somebody tele-
phoned the American consul in Quebec.
Jim Clark's been arrested in New Orleans
What's the charger"
The consul, long on the alert for Jim, said
that he did not know Of 1t but would find out.
He called the Customs Bureau here in Wash
fngton.
Washington hadn't heard of 1t; so it called
New Orleans-and found, enough, that
man held on suspicion of bootlegging, under
another name. and about to be freed, was the
long sought Clark.
I'M was released on bail under close SUPER
- vision while awaiting trial; every induce
ment to make him talk failed. But he was
trieked into revealing Dams hiding place. and
Dan was arrested.
A short time afterward Big Jim was mys-
teriously shot in a smuggler'S meeting place in
Louisiana.
In June. 1888. Dan Hogan was brought from
Atlanta Penitentiary. where he was serving a
four-and- d-a-half-year term, to stand trial for
the I'm Alone conspiracy. The missing
man was the Governments principal witness.
Evening star., 1934-07-22
BY K4TH Urine 4. KELLOCK.

HERE is no royal road to crime de-
lection; for every gaudy break there
are 80 fruitless leads
And there is no better illustration
of this than in the story. now avail
able for the first time. of the search
for the operator of the rumrunner I'm Alone,
sunk by the United States Coast Guard in the
Gulf of Mexico March 23 1929
Government agents spent thousands of hours
in patient investigation on the without
getting single clew; success rested on a bit of
bureaucratic zeal the part of a minor rail-
way emp.oye. on the chance examination of
old library book picked up in a great swamp,
and, above ALL the intelligence of a young
woman examining a truckload of papers for
another purpose.
Although the I'm Alone had never done
a legal days work in her life she was a COM
paratively unimportant member of the rum fleet
until she went down flying the Canadian flag.
When the Canadian government demanded
heavy reparations for her sinking it became i'm
perative to find her owners.
1t was the contention of the American Gov
ernment that the schooner at the time she was
challenged by the Coast Guard, well inside
limits for such action as set by the British
American treaty of 1924; that she was taking
part in conspiracy to smuggle liquor into the
United States; that she had ignored the chal-
lenge and taken to the high seas with the Coast
Guard in hot pursuit, and that her sinking
when she overhauled was in accordance
with international usage. In addition the
American Government had a strong belief that
she was American owned.
But both contention and belief require fac
tual backing in court of law.
DROOF of conspiracy lacking. The sail
ings of the I'm Alone with cargoes of liquor
from foreign ports had been matters of mari
time record; no port had records of discharge.
The nearest the Coast Guard had come to
catching the discharge had been December,
1928, when two small boats were sighted re-
turning from her. Under pursuit the first was
able to disappear up bayou; the second. miss
ing the inlet had been beached and set afire
to destroy evidence, her crew escaping into the
swampS A Government agent was able to res
few bottles of liquor before they ex-
ploded but not a smuggler was caught to tes-
tify to its source.
After the I'm Alone was sunk and Canada
demanded reparations. the Customs Bureau at
New Orleans was told to find the conspirators.
The Customs Bureau spent long weeks of
search without unearthing a single lead to the
smuggling.
The first break came at the end of four
months. The Jealous agent of the little rail-
road station of the Southern Pacific at Guey-
dan. La, became suspicious Of car consigned
as rice hullings-he thought it contained pol
ished rice which carries a higher freight rate.
He opened the and found it fun of liquor
good deal upset. he consulted the town
constable who advised him to send word to
the prohibition agents. They destroyed all but
one case and notified the Customs Bureau.
The Government agents descended on the
shipper. who. being an amateur at the business.
fell in faint of terror. When he recovered
he told his story.
Evening star., 1934-07-22

man in the nearby town of Abbeyville had
sent stranger to him-known only Jim
who had offered to pay him well to act as
consguor of a carload of goods from his siding.
Times were bad and he had fallen.
Through him the men who had brought the
liquor for loading were found. They, too, were
frightened and talked. The man Jim had
hired them to go out to the Clark L. Corkum
take off liquor and bring it to the siding With
Jim had been man called Dan.
THROUGH the penitent shipper in Gueydan
! the Government found the man II Abbey
vile, well respected citizen, VINO likewise be-
came i'll from fear when he was approached.
The man Jim had come to him in the pre-
viouS December with promise Of big pay for
the use of his warehouse siding and he had sent
off four carloads under false billings Through
the leaders and boatmen it established that
the Abbeyville shipments had been taken from
the I'm Alone.
There the investigation sagged Nothing
was uncovered at the places to which the liquor
had been shipped. towns scattered through the
Middle Atlantic States.
In early November the New Orleans Gus
toms Bureau turned its attention to another
conspiracy. The chief had learned that an
examination of radio-telegraph messages sent
through New Orleans in the previous year
would give him some information he needed
in codes other than the known commercial
ones he sent to Washington to borrow Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith Friedman of the Coast Guard
Intelligence Service.
Mrs. Friedman, a retiring little person who
looks much too young for the Is years of i'm
portant service she has to her credit, is a
genius in the code-breaking field. When
cryptanalySts in other Government services fail
they send for her.
Setting to work with two stenographers she
sorted the great mass of messages and decoded
them. Some were simple enough-family and
commercial communica tions; others gave the
information she seeking. But in addition
there was one set clearly separated from the
others by the pecuiarities of its code. 1t was
this set that she tackled.
Under the code name "Harforan" some one
in New York had been cabling instructions to
some one in Belize British Honduras, for de-
livery ION position" at given dates, of GER
tain quantities of "Yicky, Yedeb and Akbuz."
1t might be a legal transaction but Belize was
a well known source of bootleg liquor and the
"on position" was suggestive.
Mrs Friedman translated the lot and sent
them to the New Orleans customs chief
One short look at them brought him out OF
his chair with a whoop That afternoon he
had been joined by State Department oficial
assigned to the I'm Alone case and together
the I'm Alone sent by the consul at Belize.
THE cabled sailing orders of Harforan and
the departures from Belize Tailed per-
fectly. The ordered quantities of ''Ycky, Yedeb
and Akbuz" agreed with the quantities of al
cohOl bourbon and malt in the manifeStS of the
Evening star., 1934-07-22

Elizabeth Smith Friedman, Government
cryPtdnalyst, and lat right copy of
one Of the ''Hdrforan" messages and
her translation of il.
Evening star., 1934-07-22

kIHnS They t0ere none
~ too pleased when
Dan roaIked in, ac-
comPanied by tough
~ companion, both carrying
guns. Fortunately, a surprise
attack got the guns.
Since ne had been on the destroyed Cheri
from which the liquor had been salyaged by
the Coast Guard, and could testify that it was
smuggled from the I'm Alone. operated by the
Americans. Dan Hogan and Jim Clark. the
Governments circle of evidence was complete.
Evening star., 1934-07-22

HERE is no royal road to crime de-
lection; for every gaudy break there
are 80 fruitless leads.
And there is no better illustration
of this than in the story now avail
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-12

OFD. A. v. WILL
CLOSE TODAY

SACRAMENTO, May IL. W.H -
Disabled American Veterans were TO
hiring their 18th annual state con-
yention here to a close late today
with election of officers and selec-
tion of the 1885 convention city.
Support of Charles j. Mccarthy,
Fresno for the office of state COM
mander was believed sufficient to
assure his election over Robert Ri
lev. Oakland. Hugh Harold OF
huntington Beach was the leading
candidate for senior vice command
er. with the chief opposition fur
nished by Joe Kramer of Hollywood.
Santa Monica probably Will be
chosen for next years gathering.
Aliens were the center of attack
in resolutions before the conven-
ton. Foreign agents of Nazi, Fas-
cist and Communist beliefs found
guilty of stirring up discord against
the government would be expelled
from the United States, under
terms of one resolution approved
by the delegates. Spreading of arms
limitation propaganda in schools
and colleges was severely con-
demned, and an adequate national
defense advocated.
Speakers expected to address the
convention today included Frank
Mcqueen, Kansas City, national
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-12
SUNDAY NIGHT
DEADL|NE SET
FOR RELEASE
Huge Army To Take Up Search
If Victim Is Not Returned To
Family Unharmed.
NO CONTACTS YET MADE
Efforts To Negotiate Ransom
Said To Have Met With No
Success.

LOS ANGELES, May IL. U.H =
Admitting that ransom negotiations
had failed to date, authorities an
nounced today that 5000 peace
officers will be thrown into the
search for William F.. Gettle and
his kidnapers in event the veal
thy retired oil man has not been
freed unharmed by Sunday night.
Unless the kidnaper'-l release
Gettle by tomorrow night, or give
us definite proof that they intend
to do SO speedily, the signal will
be given for a manhunt that will
reach every house in Southern
California, if necessary" said Bis
cailuz, actin gas spokesman for
the law enforcement heads.
Authorities have shown every
disposition to cooperate in the safe
delivery of this victim, in view OF
requests of the family and Get
ties sick wife.
Intermediates for the family
have announced through the press
their utter willingness to pay $75,-
900 in ransom for the freedom of
this man, without questions asked
nor delay.
THE kidnapers can expect no
more.
They have until tomorrow night
to acti"
LOS ANGELES May IL. U.R) -
A new contact between the kidnap-
ers of William F.. Gettle and rep
resentativeS of the wealthy oil mans
family was expected momentarily
today, District Attorney Buron Fits
announced.
I'VE are pulling our punches tenn
porarily," Fits said in explaining
the inactivity OF law enforcement
bodies in the case. 1--WE believe
new and authentic contact will be
made shortly with the kidnapers by
ransom Intermediates
Contact Net Made
Fits, in stating he was certain
a contact would be made soon, said
his belief was founded on facts
picked up by my own investiga-
tors"
He said he knew of no letter writ
ten by the kidnapers or Gettle to
Noon or any of Gettle's friends.
Such letter had been reported
in existence but Noon, the sheriff's
office and department of justice
agents joined Fits in denying the
report.
1t was believed by many that
Moons conversation yesterday was
not terminated as abruptly as au-
thorities claimed and that, instead.
an arrangement had been made
then for a meeting today.
This, it was pointed out, would
explain the confidence Noon and
authorities had in the belief that
/ contact would be made today and
also in the conviction they have
that Gettle still was alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-12
STOCK MARKET CONTROL BILL
GIVEN APPROVAL BY SENATE
Regulation Of Securities Exchanges Provid-
ed For In Measure Which Was Bitterly
Fought

forcing listed corporations to make
periodic public disclosures of their
financial condition and the status
of their business affairs.
Inspired by disclosures of the
senate banking committee investiga-
tion which started as a hunt for
stock exchange bears" and extend
ed into a thorough probe of prac-
tices and malpractices of Wall
Street and the banking world, the
issue of stock exchange regulation
came to a climax at the present SeS-
sion of congress.
Against it was directed what was
described as one of the most pow
erful lobbieS in the capital in re-
cent years. Public feeling was ap-
parently so insistent on passage,
however, that these lobbying acti-
vities we're scarcely reflected on the
floors of congress.
The senate bill makes individual
ViolatorS of the act liable to five
years Imprisonment and a $4,000
fine. Exchanges would be liable to a
$50OO00 fine. Rules of the commits
sion would carry two year and $10,-
coo penalties for individuals and
100000 for exchanges.
The house bill provides for lesser
penalties for individuals for viola
tion of either lules or the act and
$5O0,0 900 for exchanges.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-12

WASHINGTON, May IL. UP
The senate passed the stock market
control bill today assuring that, for
the first time in history, the nations
securities exchanges will be subject
to rigid regulation and control.
The measure now goes to confer
ence with the house, which has
passed a similar measure. The i'm
po9tant differences, affecting the
choice of an administrative body
to supervise exchange operations
and establishing the method of con-
trolling margin speculation, will be
ironed out.
AS passed the bill carried with it
several amendments to the securi-
ties act of 1888 liberalizing that Of
ten criticized law. The house bill
had no such amendments and the
exact form of these also will be set
tied in conference.
The Slight opposition which had
prevailed against the bill crumpled
in the closing hours of debate when
Charles L. McNary, Republican
floor leader, announced he would
support the bill and oppose any
move to delay action on it.
Few outright attacks were made
on the measure in debate. Attention
was directed chiefly at amendments
seeking to meet criticism, particu-
larly that leveled at requirements