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_resigned after 28 years' service. , of Commerce. A 3fiun THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1029 TOVICTIM'S “HEX" Woman, 75, Cast Spell Over Family, Man and Wife Say - [Each Claiming Guilt. Br the Assofiated Press. KALAMAZOO, Mich,, July 19—/ Eugene Burgess, his wife and their son ' and daughter are in jail here today while officers investigated what they said had all the appearances of a “hex™ slaying. The victim was Mrs. Etta L. Fairchilds, 75, occupant of a home for t-> aged here, whose mutilated body was found in a cistern shortly before mid- night. H Burgess, officers said, confessed h- had killed Mrs. Fairchilds with a lead pips and a hammer because she “had east. an evil mental influence” over his family, and that she “could kill people through her mental procsss.” ! He charged Mrs. Fairdilds’ influence | had brought about the death of his| mother two vears ago and that of her husband some 15 years ago. Burgess' wife also sought to take re- | sponsibility for the slaying, saving she | had killed Mrs. Fairchilds. Like her husband, she said the agad woman “had an evil men.al influence or ‘spell’ over the entire Burgess family.” H The slaying occurred in the Burgess | home, where Mrs. Fairchilds came to | visit yesterday afterncon. Fear that | the aged woman might exert her “in- | fluence” upon their 17-year-old daugh- ter Eugenia, seamingly unbalanced both Burgess and his wife. According to Burgess' statement, Mrs. Fairchilds was seated at the table for dinner when he struck her with a lead pipe and dragged her to the liv- ing room. Mrs. Burgess said that Mrs. Fair. childs showed her “a long list of her ‘vietims.’ " DORAN WARNS DRY AGENTS ABOUT AIDES| Armed Guards Must Not Be Em-| ployed by Federal Officers, Regulations Declare. By the Associated Press. The killing of two men in Tecumseh. Okla., by dry raiders has brought from | Prohibition Commissioner Doran a re- | iteration of instructions that voluntary armed guards must not be employed by Government, agents. In a letter to all prohibition admin- istrators and agents yesterday, the com- | missioner called their attention to regu- | lations prohibiting the use of armed citizens or unauthorized persons in making arrests and cautioned them that the regulation must be complied with. Regulations forbid agents from taking citizens or other persons not officers l"flh them in enforcing the prohibition aw. COL. LANDIS IS NAMED MANAGER OF RAILROAD Assistant Chesapeake Beach! Line President Succeeds W. J. Hayward. Col. Lee H. Landis, assistant to! George Detrick, new president of the Chesapeake Beach Railroad, has been | appointed general manager of the road ; to to succeed Walter J. Hayward, who has | Col. Landis. who today entered upon his new duties. has had extensive ex- perience as a railroad executive, having been connected with the Southern Pa- cific. Santa Fe and Burlington Rail- roads. He served as general manager | of the United States Railroad in Alaska | And later was director of public rela- | tions for the Western Pacific. The Chesapeake Beach road recently was purchased by a California_syndi- cate headed by Mr. Detrick and Eugene Fox, vice president of the road. Mr. Hayward had been with the rail- | road since 1901. Prior to his appoint- | ment as general manager he was gen- | eral superintendent in charge of main- | | tenance and operation. CAPITAL-TO-PITTSBURGH AIR SURVEY NEARS END| Lighting Contracts to Be Let by October 1, Commerce Depart- ment Division Reveals. Surveying of an airway between the | National Capital and Pittsburgh will be completed next month, and contracts | for the installation of beacon lights and | emergency landing field lights probably will be let between September 15 and | October 1, it was announced today by the airways division of the Department | The new airway will connect the Na- tional Capital with the transcontinental | airway system and will open the way | for carrving of airmail from this city | to Pittsburgh as a feeder service on| the New York-San Francisco line. The Post Office Department has been | petitioned to establish service between | this city and Pittsburgh, but not yet| has asked for bids over the route. It i understood that no action will be taken on the proposal until all requests for new air mail services have been ! considered by the newly created inter- departmental committee on airways. COUPLE SOUGHT HERE. Police Told Atlanta Home A Natives of Calcutta. The ,aid of Washington police has been enlisted in a search for an elderly eouple, born in Calcutta, India. who are | thought to be destitute and for whom a comfortable home is waiting in At-| lanta, Ga. They are Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hijo. brought from Calcutta some 40-odd | years ago as servants in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Peter Pogose, ‘who died seven years ago. A friend of the family, Miss Leo Morris of Atlauta, 1s trying to find the couple and is offer- ing ‘a reward for their whereabouts. They were last heard of in Orangeburg, N. Y, in Octcber, 1927. FINED FOR THREAT. Mre. D-ummond Charges Man Thraati-ned Life Second Time. For the second time in two months Earnest Mothershead, 1000 block of Nineteenth street, was arraigned in Police Court today, charged with threat- ening the life of Gladys Drummond, 1500 block of Kearney street northeast. The_ first time Jadge Gus A. Schuldt l‘:l“m him under a suspended sen- \ce. According to the testimony of Mrs. Drummond, Mothershead was formerly & boarder at her home, but during an uummem nt yesterday he threatened to T, Judge Isaac R. Hitt ordered him to nt bond of $100 or serve 60 days in jail. —_— bridge and tunnel costing more 47,500,000 are to be ted at | drunk Chicago Sea Scouts paused here today to call on Secrelary of the Navy Adams. They are en route to England. center of the group, Lewis Oloff and Secretary Ada In the “SUCKERS GEN. LOGAN FELAND GETS D. 5. M. STAR |Decoration Is Awarded for Service WithMarines in Nicaragua. Brig. Gen. Logan ,Feland of the | Marine Corps, the senior brigadier gen- | eral on the list, has been awarded the distinguished service medal star for | recent services performed while in com- mand of the Marine brigade in Nic- aragua. | Gen. Feland, who'left Washington & { few duys ago afier a tour of duty at | Marine Corps headquriers to ssume | command of the Department of the | | Pacific at San Francisco, already wears | both the Army and Navy distinguished | service medals for his World War serv- | ice while in command of the 5th Reg- | iment of Marines at the front. In lieu | of a second, distinguished service medal. | the star is awarded to Gen. Feland and will be worn on his naval decoration. | General's Citation. Secretary Adams has transmitted to Gen, Feland a _letter informing him that President Hoover has nulhorlzud! this decoration. This citation is con- | tained in the Secretary's letter: For exceptionally meritorious serv- | fce to the Covernment in a duty of ! great responsibility as commanding general, 2nd Brigade. U. 8. Marine | Corps, in_the Republic of Nicaragua - Star Staff Photo. Buyers of Fake Medicine, Worthless Stocks and “Genuine Solid Liquor™ Often Are Convinced of Merits. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | Victims of mail order frauds seldom | protest. It is only through ©fulness of the post office inspectors that the per- petrators are brought to justice. This is true especially. it is learned at the office of the solicitor of the Post | Office Department. in cases of medical frauds, where cick persons not only will furnish glowing testimonfals for the most ludierous nostrums, but actually will testify on the witness stand that they have been the beneficiaries of miracles. So the authorities discount such testimony entirely and consider only expert medical and pharmaceutical withesses. | Covering a Range of Maladies. An outstanding case was that of the “doctor” who _advertised nostrums covering almost the entire range of hu- man maledies. He supplied a mixt of one-fourth alcohol, one-fourth and one-half olive ofl varied with vege table ofls to suit different conditions. Thus this mixture with a trace of spear- mint and clove was advertised as an in- fallable cure for cancer, tumor, ade- noids, asthma, catarrh, goiter end typhoid. With clove and peppermiit it was guaranteed to cure stomach trouble, | black plague and leprosy. With clove | and anise it was infailable against eczema, pimples and smallpox: with spicuard, against insanity. fits. paraly meningitis, mad dog and snake bit with cinnamon, anise and clove, agatust | blindness, cataract and deafness. i The prescription was one full bottle conce a week, swallowed all at once. It would make any patient pleasantiy whose stomach was able to hold the reixture of olive ofl and alcohol. The prescriptions, the “doctor” said, hes been revealed to him in a vision. “Our medicine 13,” he declared, “will actually grow new eyes in heads where they have run out. “How can medicine grow a new eye where the surgeon has taken one ou he was asked at the hearing. Blood Making Eyes. “When you were born into this world you had two eyes didn't you?” he re- plicd. “Well, your mother gave you your eyes, h her blood didn't she? Now T dont see why your blood wouldn't make another eye it it was good. There | are only two ways of making an eye, | one with glass and one with blood. | We're all cqual'in this world. Your body is not better than mine because there’s | nothing in either of them that msn't" been made with blood.” And he actually produced a witness who said that she had been born blind but that she felt the doctor’s medicine was “growing new eyes in her head.” But the fraud order was issued just the same. Not only in fake medicines, but in land, ofl stocks and nearly every- thing else victims seem to demand the right to bs swindled. The person who | has been cheated once is easlest to| cheat again, according to fraud experts in the office of the solicitor of the Post Office Department. and a “sucker list” is a valuable bit of property. Thus one oil stock promotor. now in jail, devoted | years of labor and a great deal of money to securing such a list of 350,000 names. It included practically every one | who ever had bought any fake oil stock i in the past. He figured that they were the “easiest to sell again.” Letters as Key to “Honesty.” A Washington man, who had been | mulcted out of the savings of a life- time in oil stock schemes, recently call- ed at the solicitor’s office to protest against a fraud order which actually had saved for him a small part of his investment. out of the wreckage. He ad- mitted that all the evidence was against the company and that they had no as- sets and no prospects to back the enor- mous amoun of stock they had placed oh the market. “But,” he said, “no man who was dis- honest, could write such nice letters.” A-other man called to inquire about a2 status of a cheap oil stock which he had bought from some wildcat brok- | ers. He was paying for it on the in-| stallment plan. Examination of the records showed that this company had been put out of business by a fraud or- der several years before, But he was still hard to convince. As he turned to leave he remarked doubtfully: “Maybe I'd better stop pay- ing on this stock, but I'll think it over.” The Pest Office Department made its big drive against fake oil stock pro- moters in 1923, with the result that the worst offenders in the Texas and Ar- kansus. fields were put out of business and sent to jall. Since then there has not been a great deal of this type of swindling. But now the jail terms are expiring 2nd there has been a consider- able revival. As a result, a large force of inspectors is working from the Fort Worth office. Prohibition Swindles. Prohibition has brought its share of mail-order swindles, headed by that in- genious Canadian who offered “two quarts of guaranteed Canadian rye sent by mail for $10.” He fulfilled his con- tracts to the letter. His customers could do their own dlstl‘ll;:_lg‘ A succession of fraud orders has been issued against swindlers in Cuba, Ger- many, France and Austria, advertising “solid liquor” by mail—that is, tablets which could be dissolved In water. One | Austrian firm offered capsules, whicly according to the amount of water used, would produce “whisky, brandy, gin, grog, Madeira, malaga, Mosel, port, Rhine, sherry or toka) . The primary objection is not that the prohibition law_is being violated, but that it isn't. If “solid liquor” was a possibility it would be the subject of another sort of Jegal action. The fraud .orders aye issued when the Bugeau .of | B Mex| | Other fakirs offer *big p: | for Chemistry says that the tablets will not | do_what is claimed for them. Foreign lotteries operating in the Uniled Siates are the objects of a long | serles of fraud orders. 'The headquar- Spein. ters usually sre in Germany or Austria. Americans are so- licited to buy chances by mail. As a rule, of course, the y non-existent and the operators simply pocket the money. raud orders issue automat- ically sgainst such scheme as soon as il comes to the attention of the so- licitor’s office. 3 Such swindles, however, are difficuit to deal with. The fraud order can only prohibit mail being sent from the United States to the operator, but some of it Is bound to get through elween the United States, Canada and ico there is an agreement so that postal authorities in any of these coun- tries will not deliver mail to a person ainst whom a fraud order has been ssucd in any of the others. Begging letters soliciting money for | cripples, orphanages, missions, etc., are | a continual source of irritation to the | post office inspectors and the solicitor's Some are genuine appeals for But a great many of them who obtain as the membership rolls of church socleties. labor unions and fra- ternal orders. It is one way of making comfortable living until you get caught. i “Work-at-Home” Schemes. [ “Work-at-home” schemes are & fa- | vorite method of swindling the poor and helpless. Fhe customary_victims are | poverty-stricken widows, Who part wiih | some of their painfully hoarded savings for material “at cost.” Their work | almost always is rejected and sent ~ WHO WILL BITE AGAIN JUrE DOLLAR BOUGHT | SELDOM PROTEST MAIL FRAUDS MORE THAN 3 YEARS AGO | By tne Ascoctatéa press. back to them and they are out what | they inv . It is simply a clever and unscrupulous salesmanship scheme, Everything with a “halo” around it in the public imagination is taken ad- | vantage of by the mail order swindlers. Diamond mines and gold mines offer what scems to be an irvesistible appeal. g jobs in It is only a scheme obtaining registration fees. The me i5 true of many correspondence etective schools, etc.” | But the “sucker” list is long and the “suckers” themselves continue to| bite. As fast as one scheme is put out | of existence another takes its place, | MOTOR BOAT IS SEIZED WITH $100,000 LIQUOR /| Captain and Nine Men Held at At- lantic City Say Contraband Was Picked Up at Sea. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 19.—A Diesel motor boat with a cargo of liquor aboard valued at $100,000 was seized vesterday by Special Federal Officer | Luther Sterner and Coast Guardsmen | from the Great Egg Harbor station. The >aptain and nine men were arrested and | brought here. The cfficers said the cargo was picked | up on the high seas and both the mani- fest and log of the vessel had been de- stroyed. ‘The boat was said to have cleared | irom Halifax several days ago. The bulk of the 1,000 cases found on board was said to have contained choice | champagne and high-priced liquors. The | boat is valued at $30,000. PRINCE GEORGE IS ILL. LONDON, July 19 . (#)—Prince George, youngest son of King George, was unable to keep an engagement to attend the Kent County agricultural show at Folkestone today, due to ill- ness. The Duke of Gloucester, who took his place. said his brother might have to go away and take a brief cure. Prince George is 26 old foreign countries.” It is not necessary to have had an Account at this Bank to Borrow EASY TO PAY Monthly Deposit THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U, S, Treasury 1408 H Street N. W. from 15, February. 1928, to 26, March. {1929. During this period Brig. Gen. Feland and his command were en- gaged in protecting American and for- lives and property against the st- s of hostlle bandit forces und in rving order throughout the public. He furnished, from his | the majority of the personnel ihat suc- | | cessfully conducted the presidential election during this period. His under- takings required great encrgy, de- termination and discipline within his force and_the exercise of justice to all. “Gen. Feland displayed exceptional | qualities “of - leadership, patience and judgment. and it was largely due to his soldlerly knowledge, ability and per- formance of duty that the policy of our Government _has been successtully cer- ried out in the Republic of Nicaragua.” Also Has D. 8. C. * @en. Feland is the only Marine offi- cer of high rank to hold the Distin- guished Service Cross as well as both | distinguished ~ service medals. The cross was awarded for extraordinary heroism quring the World War, and Gen. Feland also holds a number of foreign decorations. A native of Kentucky, Gen. Feland is a gradua‘e of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is expected to at- tain the rank of major general when ! Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandent of the Marine Corps, re- Dureau of Laber Statistics Show Purchasing Power 103.7, Com- pared to 100 in 1926. The dollar bought more in June than it did three years ago. | The Bureau of Labor Statisties an- nounced today the purchasing power of the June doilar was 103.7, &S com- pared with 100 in 1926. It purchesed less meat. butter and cheese in June than it did three years ago, the bureau said. but in other foods it répresented 113.0 in purchasing power as compared with 1926. The biggest change in the purchas- ing power was in rubber, of which more than twice as much could be bought for the same money. In drugs the dollar could get almost half as much again. Fuel and lighting materials led the price increases in June over May; with advances reported for California and Kansas-Oklahoma crude petroleum, fuel oil and gasoline Among farm products, price increases " rted for wheat, corn, e Tt o e o e | tires from service early in November. onions. were decreases for hogs. | - . — sheep, live poultry, hay and Belfast, Ireland, is making & collec- ! wool: tion of historic Irish relics for its new muscum and art gallery. GEO. W. SPIER JEWELER 29 Years at 310 0th St. N.W. Now Located at 806 14th St. N.W. Laborite M. P. Fights Tipping. LONDON, July 19 (®).—Jack Mills, borite member for Parliament, is llating a petition for the abolition of tips in the House of Commons re. taurant. Waliters are paid $8 & week and provide their own uniforms. But a_ deflcit committee and the committce in charge 5 adverse to mak- ng salaries large enough without tips. 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SATURDAY TROUSERS for HOT WEATHER ‘4—_6_—5mdup | every effort will be made to effect re- former | b AMERICAN PARTY PLANS CAMPAIGN Old Organizations Scored in| Cal'—Program Friday Is “Opening Skirmish.” “Never, in the history of the United States, was there ever a greater need | for a real American party than the present time. “More and more the two old parties have drifted into procrastination, vac- cilation, indecision, vain promises. bureaucracy, autocracy, hypoerisy and outside meddling, doing nothing, until even their leaders are becoming dis- | gusted and see that they have outlived their usefulness, and now. on every hand, one sees and hears the growing demand for a third new party which will be truly American—truly a vehicle for the expression of real American will in Government affairs.” Thus, in part, reads the militant call | sent out by the American party | through its District of Columbia com- | mittee, of which E. N. Bomar is chair- | man. The committee today announced | that a “four-in-one” lecture and en- tertalnment would be given in the Washington Auditorium next Friday | exening, at which “nationally known” | speakers would usher in “the opening | skirmish of the American party in the political arena.” | Local headquarters of the organi- zation are for the time being at & small table in the entranceway of 816 F| street, behind which Harold Baker | passes out circulars advertising the | “four-in-one" entertainment. This meet- ing, Baker said, is only the forerunner | of & great campaign for members in the District. Later natiohal headquarters of the organization are to be moved here | from New York, Bomar and Baker said. | The chalrman of the American party’s | national committee is former Gov. Wil- | liam Sulzer of New York, the organi- zation members here said. Mr. Sulzer | is being advertised as the principal| speaker at the Auditorium, but Bomar | said today that pressing business in| Alaska made it impossible for him to be i here on that occasion. “Because of lack of interest,” the statement says, “the American party :as been dormant for some time, but is now being actively reorganized and re- Juvenated by the injection of new blood 2nd pledges of real assistance. “An aclive campaign for new mem- bers and for funds is under way and organization in every State and Terri- | tory and insular possession in time to | participate in coming State, congres- sional and national elections.” { England’s Caterpillar Club, composed | only of thcse whese lives were saved | achute. owin TIGER ™ NONE BETTER A. G. HERRMANN 750 Tenth St. Southeast Phone Lincoln 1981-1882 New Comfort for Those Who Wear FALSE TEETH No longer does any wearer of falte teeth to uncomfortable. . pas et Fasteeth tod Siores or any othe Advertisement. Proples Dru 00d drug_store.- PRINCE’S YACHT SINKS, DROWNING CARPENTER Party Thrown in Water Picked Up by Passing Steamer Near Coast. Dy the Associated Press. OSLO, July 19.—Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and a party of friends narrowly escaped death today when their gple: ure yacht steaming along the ccas ran on the rocks and sank within minutes after grounding. ‘The party, including three women. jumped into the sea and were rescued in an exhausted condition by a steamer bound for Trondjhem. The yacht's car- pe?’”' who drowned, was the only cas- ualty. WOMAN LAWYERS PLAN FARCE ON BAR TESTS Play Will Give Suggestion of What Male Candidate Might Expect From Female Board. A suggestion of what the man lawyer could expect if he had to apply for ad- mission to the bar before an examining board composed entirely of women will be furnished by the National Woman's Party next Tuesday evening in a farce written by Mrs. Rebckah Greathouse, | assistant United States attorney. Mrs. Greathouse has named the farce “It Might Have Been,” and members of the Woman's Party speak lines calculat- ed to show in amusing light the attitude of the legal profession toward women: | that s, before so many women turned | to_the law as their lifework. ‘The young women's council of the ‘Woman’s Party will present the farce &s the first of a series of entertalnments to be given in the garden of the Old Brick Capitol, at 21 First street north- east, the party's headquarters, Parls will be played by Miss Nita Hindman, Miss Helen Jamison, Mrs. E. Lockwood, Mrs. Mary Linkins, Miss Alma B. Partridge, Mrs. Greathouse, Miss Ellen Love, Miss Mary Boggs and Miss Madge Guard, 211 of whom are lawyers. ‘The series of entertainments is being planned by a committee of which Miss Mable Van Dyke, Miss Angelina Cara- belli, Miss Faith Binkley, Miss Lelia Engleberger and Miss Louis¢ Wier are ‘members. Taken from a sacrificial house at | Benin, Nigeria, a solid brass figure of a mounted man weighing 56 pounds has just been presented to Harrow School, England. OFFGERSTOSTUDY AERIALMANEUVERS | Army Moves to Familiarize All Branches With Aviation Corps Tactics. In an effort to familiarize officers of all branches of the Army with the | problems and advantages of aviation in | military operation, the War Department | today issued instructions to all Corps | Area commanders that whenever Air | Corps units engage in maneuvers in their areas in connecticn with ground | forces, officers of other arms who volun- | teer for such duty be attached to the air units for duty as observers. | The order came as a result of the | Ohio maneuvers last May, in which the first large scale joint operations between | the Air Corps and ground forces took place. These maneuvers, the War De- partment announced. demonstrated that more detailed knowledge of the tastics and operational technique of the air forces s needed by officers of field ranks of the other Army services. “It is considered that the best methoé of imparting such knowledge is by the | attachment of field officexs of other arms to the air units during maneuvers or exercises,” ii was announced by the War Department. . Today's instructions provide that the number of §,ound officers to be assigned | to the air 1 ¥ ces shall be determined by the corps area commander after con- sultation with the commander of the air units engaged, and will be governed by the size and scope of the exercises, the number 2nd type of air units par- ticipating and the availability of suif 2ble officers volunteering for this duty. AVIATORS’ BODIESHIEOUND. Two Mexican Flyers and Wrecked Plane Are Located. MEXICO CITY, July 19 (#).—The bodies of the civillan aviators. 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