Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1929, Page 3

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Impressed by Fife and Drum Act to Announce Chow Was Ready. ILOUD SPEAKERS USED The crew of the Army transport, plane | Question Mark, which recently broke all |duration records for heavier-than-air | System Used to jand lighter-than-air craft by remaining | in the air for six and one quarter days through refueling process during flight. will be officially welecomed home by the | Secretary of ‘War, other high Govern- {ment officials and men prominent in | aeronautical activities at Bolling Field | shortly after 10 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. The Question Mark fivers, Maj. Carl | Spatz, Capt. Ira Eaker. Second Lieut. | Elwood Quesada and Staff Sergt. Roy | W. Hooe, will take off from Langley | Field, Virginia, tomorrow morning at | such an hour as to enable them .to ar- | |rive at Bolling Field in time for the | reception. They will be escorted by five AT-5 planes, piloted by Army airmen, | from Langley Field. | I According to the program issued in connection with the reception of the { fiyers, the arrival of the record-breaking | plane at Bolling Field is scheduled for | 10:30 a.m. After circling the field the | tp, Broadcast I " Wonderment. Note—Greater light and clearer perspective on Herbert, Hoover's trip to South America, in which. untold diplomatic advantages were recorded for the United States. are to be gained from_the_interesting story written by Rex Collier, The Star's own representative on the trip, which began January 20. The story, with all its intimate detasls, will continue in The Star until completed. BY REX COLLIER. The storm had so delayed'the Mary- | land that President-elect Hoover de- cided to set back the whole schedule 24 | Accordingly, the landing at Amapala, e first port of call. had been put off STAR,-WAS 'RANK OF “SENIOR OFFICER™ OF THE MARYLAND HELD BY HOOVER REQUIRES HIM TO SERVE AS OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER OF BATTLESHIP | Orders Another Souce of ‘ hours. H and_part | New Vi - | “Congress should consider first Y& | per continued, “the practical way of when [ escort planes will land first, and upon the landing of the Question Mark, its | crew will be presented to .the official | welcoming party, comprising: Secretary of War Davis, Assistant Secreta of War Robbins, Assistant Sccretary of War in Charge of Avia- tion Davison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Acronautics Warner, As- | sistant Secretary of Commerce Mc- | Cracken, Maj. Gen. Charles P. Sum- | merall, chief of staff; Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of Bureau of Aero- nautics, U. S. Navy; Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of the Air Corps; Or- { ville Wright, Charles L. Lawrence, de- | signer of the engines used on the Ques- | tion Mark, and Anthony H. G. Fokker, | designer of the Question Mark. | The Machine Gun Troop, 3rd Cav- | alry, from Fort Myer,. commanded by Capt. J. W. Cunningham, and the Army Band will form a guard of honor for | the flyers. Following the presentation | ceremony, the Secretary of War will | deliver a brief address to the assem- | blage. | Invitations to the reception of the flyers were sent: to- Vice President Dawes, Speaker Longworth, members of the cabinet, members of the Senate and House serving on the military af- fairs committees, officials of the na- tional advisory committee for azronau- tics, the Commissioners of the District and all foreign air attaches. The reception will be open to the | public. CAPPER SEES FARM | Sound Relief Measure Will Be Enacted Under Him, Kansan Believes. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., January 25.— Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas de- clared last night that President-elect | Hoover had told him he regarded the farm problem as the “supreme chal- lenge” of hus administration, and in view of this the Kansan said he be- lieved a sound farm measure would be enacted. Capper, a Republican, in addressing a ‘Master Farmers’ meeting here, said the new President would have the co- operation of both branches of Congress, where, he declared, there will be a gen- eral disposition to “forget about past differences” and to work with Mr. Hoo- ver on a broad basis of desire for ac- complishment, “Mr. Hoover told me not long ago,” said the Kansan, “that he would exert ture might be put on a basis of equality with other industries. Capper Wants to Help Solve Problem. “As a Senator, 1 shall-do my very best in the coming special session 1o | nelp Mr. Hoover or anybody else to | solve tne 1arm problem. And i am sure that a saie majority of otner mem- bers o1 Congress are ready to make the same pledge. ’ 3 | Senator Lapper asserted that the bill inuwoduced some weeks ago by Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman’ of the Senate agricuitural commitiee, appeared | lo meet the needs of farm reuef as | outlined by President-eleci Hoove Cap- | protecting those agricuitural proaucts S |now on an import or marginal basis— | corn, dairy anu beef products, live siock {and so forth. A high protective tariff jon these products would insure a do- { mestic market for competition 3f cheap | products from abroad. ! Export Basis Cited. “Then there are farm products on an export basis, such as in my own State | oi Kansas. Sooner or laier we must | 1ace this problem squarely, how to give | this class of farm producis a protected | market that will enable the farmer to | produce and sell at a price which will | allow him a profit, witaout pyramiding surpluses. [ P ke rttent ot misketing. | The present McNary bill, in my judg- ment, will assist materially in making | for orderly marketing.” Capper also said progress could be | made with transportation problems, es- | pecially in the development of rivers | and an adequate outlet from the Great | Lakes through the St. Lawrence River. THEFT OF TON OF COAL BRINGS 90 DAYS IN JAIL | Truck Driver Pleads Guilty to Lar- ceny—Unloading of Fuel Causes Rebuke of Judge. Pleading guilty to a charge of the | larceny of one ton of coal, Ciarence E. Wye, truck driver for James E. Colli- | lower Coal Co., today. was ordered to erve 90 days in jail. Testimony revealed that Wye had been ordered to deliver two tons of coal {to a house in the 1200° block of B treet southeast, but stopped at another place in the 1100 block of One-half | street and offered to sell a ton for $1. THis offer was not accepted, but it is alleged that Wye unloaded the coal. When he appeared in Police Court today. he was rebuked by Judge Gus A. Schuldt, who told him that his com- pany might be caused serious difficulty weight. i Melba Seel;{s Another Melba. Dame Nellie Melba, the opera star, | intends to establish in Paris a conser- vatoire and also a hotel for Australian girls. She is now in Europe and says that after a brief rest she will take up the projects. She is particularly in- terested in the conservatoire. I should appoint my own teachers of SiNging 2114 coach any pupils who showed deujer said. “I am trying to elba.” L HELP FROM HOOVER . his best efforts to the end that agricul- ! until Monday, November 26. The post- i ponement had been radioed to American diplomatic officers all along the line. The delay was not unwelcome to Mr. IHOU\'(‘]'. It afforded him more time in | which to prepare the addresses he was {to make within a few hours of each {other in the neighborly Central Ameri- {can republics of Honduras and El Sal- | vador, and he devoted much of Satur- day to shaping up these initial “key- note” speeches. The change in sched- ule also gave him the benefit of a rest- ful Sabbath at sea—the first since the ship left San Pedro. Although other members of the party were impatient to begin the round of visits ashore, it was plain that the fu- ture President was thoroughly intrigued by life aboard a battleship and was de- termined to enjoy every minute of it. The fact that'he had been given the rating of “senior officer on board” had served to stimulate his interest in Navy routine and Navy tradition. Official Timekeeper. ‘Tradition? The Navy is all wrapped up in it. Mr. Hoover had learned that by personal experience, while enjoying his exalted .rank of “senior officer.” Since some of these Navy customs proved so interesting to the President- elect, it might not be amiss to discuss a few of them in these reminiscences. | As “senior officer” Mr, Hoover learned to his amazement that he must serve | as the ship's official timekeéeper. Under | this custom the officer of the deck re- ports the time thrice daily to the senior officer for the latter’s consideraition and approval. If the time as reported seems satisfactory, the senior officer orders'the ship's- chroncimeters to be set accord- gly. Thus it developed that every night at 8 o'clock an orderly sought out Senior Officer Hoover, wherever he might be, snapped into a salute and announced: “The officer of the deck reports eight bells, sir.” With a twinkle in his eyes Mr. Hoover would acknowledge the salute and re- spond gravely: “Make it so. 1t is said that more than once Mr. Hoover was tempted to take out his| watch, advise the orderly that the offi- cer of the deck must be wrong and suggest that the latter make it some- thing else. He wondered what would happen in such an. event. Happily there is no case on re of a senior officer disputing the time with the officer of the deck. 3 Sometimes the orderly would vary the monotony by adding t “the galley fires are out and the prisoners secured.” Fife and Drum Aect Impresses, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover were impressed by the fife and drum act that serverd to notify them that chow was ready. One must hear the whimsical strain piped by the fifer to appreciate its appeal. The air is an old one, known a® “Rost Beef of Old England,” an its lilting rhythm and haunting mel ody carries one back through the cen- turies to the banquet halls of dukes and lords and otl of the nobility. | Mr. Hoover is known to have been | amused at some of these quaint cus- | toms, dating back to the days of Old | Ironsides and beyond that, even, to the Maryland. The President-elect, in chief petty officer’s cap and yachting attire, poses for a snapshot with Lieut. Comdr. H. W. Hill, gunnery officer of the U. S. S. by radio, in abridged form. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover were regular subscribers. The first Sunday at sea found the Maryland riding majestically south- eastward toward the Gulf of Fonsec: whose waters are touched by thre | Central American republics, EI Salva- dor, Honduras and Nicaragua. Attend Divine Worship. That morning President-elect and Mrs Hoover had joined with other members of their party and with offi- cers and crew in attending “divine wo ship” beneath the big canvas awning on the quarterdeck. Chaplain B. F. Huske, an_ Episcopalian from North Carolina, had preached a significant sermon on “good will.” Standing be- hind a portable pulpit draped with tl American colors, he had invoked divine guidance in the undertaking upon which the President-elect and his party were embarked. The Sabbath afternoon and evening dragged interminably. An air of tense eagerness hung over the party. Its members were on the eve of the first of a series of historic adventures. The ship had moved in much closer to land than at any time during the woyage, and the mountainous skyline of Central Ameri. s smallest republic, or short,” loomed rail. A dismal- too—distinguished by part of the serrated chain of rocky promontories that streiches southward to the Andes and northward to the Rockies to form the backbone of two continents. That, night the shore line faded into ollowed the splendor et. but all eyes of the party focused shoreward, where the intermittent glowing of a mushroom of golden fire told of the restlessness of an active volcano. It was an awe-inspiring sight that held the spectat their customary hour for retiripg. The beautiful spectacle served to stimulate further the imagination of those who on the morrow were to get their first glimpse of tHat land of romance and emotions and color that is Central America. (Copyrizht. 1929, by The Evening Star.) Kattileen Wheeler Tours Rac-; ing Stables to Find Old | Champions. i | |Artist and Sculptress Has| Modeled Some of World’s | Finest Racers. 1 A tour of the country’s racing stables where old champions of the track are | passing their latter years in peace and omfort has recently been completed by | Miss Kathleen Wheeler, sculptress and questrian painter, in the execution of a commission given her for a portrait of | every living winner of Kentucky Derbys Previous to the commission for the portraits, which are produced in pastel, | Miss Wheeler was given an order for a bronze to be made each year of the winner of the Kentucky Derby. days when Merrie Olde England was mistress of the seas. But he was care- | ful to conceal his mirth out of respect | | for their very antiquity. Others among | the civilian group were not so succe: ful in restraining their feelings, how ever. Turning loose an irrepressible ag-; gregation of newspaper men in such an atmosphere of hoary tradition was cer- | tain to play havoc with Navy disci- | | pline. Newspaper men have a reputa- | tion for defying traditiol | formal banquets in business clothes, | keep their hats on while noting down the fact that the mational anthem is being played, and do all sorts of un-| conventional things, according to. reli- able authority. Consider how embarrassing it must have been for the bo'sms to have a| round of civilian applause greet their little pipping act each evening at 8| bells, when the watch call for the life- | boat' crew 1s sounded. in accordance with ancient Navy custom. A quaint custom it is, too. Promptly at 8 o'clock | half dozen of the salty bo's'n mates | gather in a huddle near the lifeboats, | put curious whistles to their mouths | and foin in piping a long, shrill and | plainiive signal that begins in a low, soft note, rises to heights of real fervor and dies away again into silence. The | pipes then are dropped to the length of black ribbon suspending them from the neck,and the ‘deep-throated yoices of the tars burst forth into a chant| that goes something like this, if the memory of a wondering landlubber does fail him: . Call-1-1-1 th* watch! lifeboat crew to muste | Some of Words Slurred. | Some of the words were slured and run together, so that the civilians were completely baffied as to what it was all about, and the mystery .increased ‘Th’ watch, th’ cerem afterward te indicate that the watch or the lifeboat crew or anybody else was paying attention, The stunt was so well and faithfully performed by the sailors, however, that the new paper men insisted on giving the boy: a big hand after each evening's dem- onstration . Another source of wonderment to the | good will party during those first days| aboard ship -was the system of loud speakers used to broadcast orders, an- | nouncements and calls of various kinds in all parts of the ship. The amplifi- ers werc of the old«fashioned brass horn type and the speech that came through them was just as indistinct and unin- telligible as that which thrilled those who listened to the first phonograph “How do you know what those things are saying?” a correspondent asked one of the officers. “We don‘t,” he explained. “We know tain hours, and guess they are saying it.” ‘These varied phases of Navy life, aug- mented by the special entertainment provided by indulgent officers, served to keep the party in good spirits during that first week at sea. Not the least | popular features was the ship’s mimen- | graphed paper, The' Hurricane, with morning and evening editions. It con- {ained all the latest news of the world ‘They go !n“ toga and Belmont Cup races for four Miss Wheeler has modeled over thirty of the world’s most famous race horses. | Among them may be mentioned Admiral | Cary T. Grayson's “My Own,” Samuel D. Riddle's “Man o' War,” Carl Weid- erman’s “In Memoriam.” Block’s “Morvich," Desha Brecken- ridge’s “Lady Madcap,” Hal Price Head- ley's “Chacolet,” J. N. Camden’s. “Light Brigade,” Harry F. i famous _French minator,” famous champion of the Sara- | | years running. and last, but not leas Reigh Count.” the wi entucky Derby Zev ner of the 192 Just a Pet. “You should sce Zey, now,” laughed Miss Wheeler, as she pointed fo a por- it of the famous old champion. “He is leading a placid and comfortable life on Harry Sinclair's New Jérsey place, Rancocas Farm, and looks for all the | world like a fat, well kept cart horse. He is just a pet, played with and climbed ‘over by the stable bo; “Man o War," continued Miss Wheeler, “is living in luxury down in Lexington, still demanding his tribute of praise and honor, as he is the biggest priced stallion in the country.” Miss Wheeler made two bronzes of Epinard, whom she considers the most perfect horse she has ever sculptured. “He was.most difficult to do,” she said, “as every curve and muscle was pe fect and it took me a month to model him."” Miss . Wheeler was asked which she considered the greatest of all the race horses with which she had come in contact.. She hesitated slightly before answering this question, then replie “That. is a rather difficult question, as | they are all so fine, but I should say Exterminator stands ahead of them | ali as winner of the 1918 Kentucky | when it was found that, despite all the | Derby and due to his subsequent record. | g y, nothing seemed to happen | After running away with the honors of v the year at Churchill Downs, he con- tinued for four successive years to win | handicap and stake races. | Possess. Individuality. | “In your vast experience as a mog- | | eler of horses, ¢ possess individuality?” the sculptre was the prompt answer. much individ- uality and character as human beings, | and that is what makes them interest- ing. Most of this distinction of char- | acter is revealed in the head. They | show definite characieristics by the shape of the head and the expression in the eyes. | “One of the greatest attributes to a | | horse’s success on the race track,” con- tinued this connoisseur of the equine world, “is his possession of ‘heart’ or | | pluck. O course, conformation is es but his possession or lack of pluck proves very important when it comes to the winning of a race. "I think one of the greatest examples that I have | ever seen of a horse’s pluck was one poor fellow who finished a race with a | brokeh leg. 1 think he must. have been | running the entire race with that leg broken,’ because 1 have never seen a greater look of agony than showed on KENTUCKY DERBY WINNERS 7 PAINTED BY LOCAL WOMAN Benjamin |, | Count, t | animal subject do you find that uwvih MISS KATHL ‘WHEELER, Artist and Sculptor. his face when he passed the grand- stand, vet the jockey was unable to stop him, so determined was he to win that race.” Standing on an easel nearby stood a portrait of a small sorrel colt. Look- ing toward the picture, Miss Wheeler | said: “He's a dear little fellow—Reigh he plucky winner of last year Derby. He has a wonderful heart, al though he's not so beautiful as some of the other champions. They tell me that when he arrived in England re- cently all the people asked why they had “sent over such a funny-looking little fellow. But they will not have to ask after they see him run. John P. Grier was another horse who possessed tremendous pluck. Sam Hildreth, the well known trainer. says he considered Grier one of the greatest racers he ever trained, because of his pluck In. addition to her achievements as a modeler of horses, Miss Wheeler has reproduced many beautiful bronzes of as well as some force- fully executed busts of prominent men. Clarence Darrow, Samuel Gompers an John Cowper Powys of Oxford Univer- sity are among some of the well known persons who have posed for her. Althongh Mis work with horses, she is also interested in the modeling of dogs and has num- | bered among her bronzes some famous members of the canine world. Living in a modest home in Somer- set, Md.. one of Washington's suburbs, Miss Wheeler is practically unknown to thousands of the city's residents. Miss Wheeler has exhibited her works in the French Salon, the Royal Academy an throughout the United Sta 3 King Buys Bronze. While attending an exhibit at the oval Academy, the late King Edward IT admired one of her bronzes entitled “Out Wes While negotiations for it: purchase were under way the King died, but later the piece was bought by and is now in the possession of King George V. Miss Wheeler is an Englishwoman by irth and was educated in London. From her earliest childhood she has loved to model, using red- clay as her medium and pet ponies as her subjects. “My father was in the britk; tile and pottery manufacturing busin she explained. “and from the earliest days of memory I was surrounded by red clay. My brothers and, sisters, as well as myself, loved to play with it, but in later years T was the only one who adopted sculpturing as a profession. Although happily married to a de- voted American husband, W. R. Crump of Virginia, and the mother of a 9-year- old son. Ralph, Miss Wheeler continues what they ought to be saying at cer- | sential in the make-up of a.champion, !0 use her maiden name professionally, having started her career under her own name, several years before her mar- riage. She possesses the combination of being an efficient housekeeper, at- tending to domestic duties personally, | and a talented artist, continuing her seulpiuring and portrait- work with a finesse of workmanship which continues to add to her ever TEASINEg army of patrons and admirers. El Salvador, or | pelibound until far beyond | Wheeler prefers to| FINGTON, 'D:-C.;' FRIDAY,”-JANUARY~25, - 19 CRUISER BILL VOTE | | | 1S BELEVED NEAR Senator Hale Sees Way Clear! for Final Ballot on-Measure by Tomorrow Night. I By the Associated Press. | After having had the proposed meas- {ure before it for nearly a year, the Sen- |ate has taken up the'cruiser bill in a spirit that makes its supporters hopeful {that a final vote is nearing. | Chairman Hale of the Senate naval |affairs committee, who is in charge of |the bill, was so optimistic today as to | |believe that a final vote would be| ! reached by tomorrow night, but other | Senate leaders felt, that another week | will be necessary to end the debate. | Those advocating passaz> of the measure have taken heart at the ab- | sence of any indications of a flibuster, | | but they were mindful of the admoni- | | tion of some opponents of the bill that | jany attempt to rush the legislation | through would not be tolerated. Brookhart Balks Hale Request. | Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, 'one of the Middle Western group of Senators opposed to the bill, objected | successfully yesterday to the request of | Senator Hale for an opening of -he dis- cussion at 11 o'clock, rather than the usual noon hour. ., Brookhart advised Senator Hale that | it would be better to take ample time in considering the measure, and the com- | miftee chairman said he had no op- position to a full discussion of the bill. For the first time since the bill be- came the regular business before the | Senate, a full discussion was heard yes- terday of the place the cruiser bill would ’ take in any efforts of the United States to advocate”further reduction of naval armament. The discussion centered around the speech of Senator Borah of Idaho, who proposed that there be writ- ten into the bill a provision for the | calling of an international conference Lo restate the law governing the rights | | of neutrals on the seas during a war. During the discussion yesterday, Sen- | ator Borah laid emphasis upon the posi- | | tion attributed to Great Britain that she | | would never be endangered so long as | she controlled the seas. If this was the | | Dosition of the government of the | British Empire, the Senator declared, the United States could do nothing but | | increase its Navy fo an equality with | Great Britain as soon as possible. “The sea belongs to all the nations.” Borah continued. “The idea that any | particular power can control the sea | {and command it in time of war is so |utterly at war with justice that the time | | has come to put aside this theory for| |all days. | “Great Britain will see that the old | doctrine of command of the sea will be | worked to her detriment. Conditions | | of warfare have so changed that neutral | | rights will be as essential to England as her supposed command of the sea. | “If the submarine warfare of the last | war would have been carried a little | | farther, England's only salvation would | | have been the neutral ships to carry | | supplies to her.” Robinson Sites Disarmament Parley. | The Washington Armament Confer- ence was declared by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader, to have | been. an instrument contributing to a| | naval building race because it did not | limit the tonnage of cruisers. { "I cannot understand.” he said, “how ! any one thinks the Washington confer- | ence_established any great benefit to | the United States by virtue of the fact | |that we destroyed a number of first-class ships when the. conference left the cheapér and more destructive forms of battleships wholly unlimited. Any one could anticipate just what did happen. | We entered the conference as the great est naval power of the world. wel emerged as an inferior.” | Robinson took exception to a state- (ment of Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana, that Great Britain had not acted 1n good faith either in letter or spirit of the conference agreement by her recent building of cruisers. Senator Robinson declared that cruisers and, submarines had been specifically ex- cepted from the pact and that England | was wise enough to know that by ex- cepting them, she could easily make herself a superior naval power to the | United States. Senator Borah asserted that no one | should be misled by “superficial discus- sion” that the United States and Great Britain are not engaging in a naval | building program. Every argument in favor of the cruiser bill, he said, was underlain with a fear of the naval strength of the British for defense | | rather than in the spirit of competition. | This argument, he added. ran through | the speeches in the Parliament of Great | Britain and the Reichstag of Germany | between 1905 and 1914. ‘This theory of the need for the com | mand of the sea by Great Britain, Bo- rah went on, is a threat to American | commerce and thus to the safety of the | Unite¢ States, because the demand for | protection of commerce by force would determine this country's course during nternational difficult: | Senator Metcalf, Republican, Rhode | Island, contended that the need for pro- | tecting Americ#n commerce was just | | the contingency which demanded prompt | construction of the cruisers. “We all know,"” he said, “that peace between nations is to a great | extent dependent upon conditions with in nations. There is not a man, wom- an nor child in the United States who would not be directly affected by any serious interruption of our for- | eign commerce. | Senator Borah also asked if it was | not_incumbent upon_the United Stats to inquire,if Great Britain “intends to recognize the rights of neutrals? “Unless some agreement is reached jrrgardmg the rights of neutrals on the seas, I venture to predict,” he added, “that in 1931 the last vestige of the disarmament conference of 1 will be wiped out. and unless we reach an understanding a superhuman burden of taxation will be imposed on our people in a new race of armaments.” BRIEF SESSION HELD. Gibson Subcommittee Surveying Municipal, Admi}listration. The "Gibson subcommittee, which is | making a survey of the municipal ad- | ministration, held a brief session today | because Chairman Gibson had to hurry | away to attend the executive session of | the civil service committee on the Fed- | eral pay relief bill. 2 | Mr. Gibson announced, however. that | he expects to hold an important hear- ing tomorrow morning. when Herbert Brown, chief of the Bureau of Effi- ciency, members of the jury commission |and Frank Cunningham, clerk of the | District Supreme Court, will-be invited S witnesses. * offers ‘ 1926 Ford Tudor Sedan, $195.00 1926 Ford Coupe....... 1925 Fordor Sedan. 1926 Touring Car.. 1926 ‘Ford Coupe Al Chevrolet—Chrysier—Dodge—Willys HILL & TIBBITTS Oven Sundays 301 Fourteenth St. | The manager gave him § [7TTH STREET STORE | LOOTED BY BANDITS | Several Customers Unaware of Hold-Up—Manager’s Money Given Back. - Two debonair bandits, who worked so | smoothly and quietly that several cus- tomers in the Atlantic & Pacific Store | at 1519 Seventeenth street did not know the place was being held up, covered Manager Julius Owens with an auto- matic pistol late yesterday and escaped after rifling both cash registers. An elderly woman saw one of the bandits going through the cash register and thought he was the company's collection agent s Walking up to him, she proffered a | $20 bill and asked for change. The | man threw the money on’ the floor. | warning her that he was a bandit and that she had better keep her money | out of sight. The woman was too| | startled to make any outery as the man walked from the store. Leaving his companion on guard at the door, the other bandit walked up to Owens, who was standing behind the | cash register. “Keep quiet,” he sai “and give me all the money you have. 2 from the cash register and $4 from his own pocket. The stranger returned the latter. remarking that he wanted only | the company’s money. He then walked across the removed about $15 from another cask register. By this time the three other clerks and several of the customers were aware that a hold-up was in progiess, | but the two bandits kept them covered | Wwith their pistols. 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