Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1930, Page 26

B-10 wm YOUR FURNITURE ;’-::f_!fll‘!‘:m'fif"’lflnllefllll and an u'lm-lvl Just Phone Dist. 5211 McDEVITT s s $4183 * MIAMI . Horse Racing Dog Racing Ocean Bathing Golf—Tennis Fights Sharkey—Scott Campolo—Risko Loughran—Charles Air Line Railway SEIE O FLEET {12 Vessels of Standard Oil | Co. Held for Ransom Near Canton. | - !By the Associated Press. CANTON, February 14—A gang of pirates operating in the West River delta south of here today seized a fleet of 12 | vessels chartered by the Standard Oil | Co. of New York and are holding the | ships for ransom. The vessels are Chi- | nese junks and were carrying oil worth 1$50,000 gold. The American consul here * | sent a protest to the Canton military. Seizure of the ofl fleet climaxed an outbreak of lawlessness which has been worrying the authe-tles of Kwang ! Province for e tmie ist governme\t, aroused by the extensive depredations,” 'sent an _expedition of troops and ordered five gunboats to pro- ceed against the lawless element in the province. Bandit armies are roaming through THE 'EVENING _STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY, | Hunan, Kiangsi, Hupeh, Szechwan, An- hwei and Kiangsu Provinces, pillaging towns, hampering shipping and making | travel in the interior unsafe for for- | eigners. | _Gen. Shih Yu-San, formr Nationalist | commander, who led his division in a | mutiny at Pukw, last December, was re- ported to have 30,000 men at Kweiteh, | Honan - Province, ready for a drive | 2gainst the Nationalist government. lHUMAP-I‘C-ANNON BALL | BROTHERS ARE WED | | Double Ceremony Gives Winter Quarters in Florida Ex- | citement Out of Ordinary. By the Assoclated Press, SARASOTA, Fla., February 14— Winter quarters of Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Balley circus buzzed with excitement yesterday when two of the star troupers, members of a “human ble-wedding ceremony. | Hugo Zacchini, 31, who amuses spec- tators daily during’ the circus season by permitting himself to be shot from a cannon, became the husband of Miss - | Blizabeth Walker, 21, a native of Ber- lin, Germany, while his brother, Bruno | Zacchini, who fires ‘the big gun, took of Berlin. Bruno Zacchini gave his age as 29 and his bride’s as 21. The broth- ers are from Peru. for his bride Miss Gertrude Reigel, llso‘ \LINCOLN’S DAUGHTERS | TO GET MILLION EACH Trust Fund for Granddaughters of Civil War President, Worth | ‘} $400,000 at Start, Swells. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 14.—Trust | funds for the granddaughters of Abra- Circus | ham Lincoln, established by his son, the | hands, presumably from an explosion in late Robert Todd Lincoln, in 1917 and 11920, with an original value of about $400,000, are worth well over $2,000,000 now. This was disclosed yesterday when | he City Farmers' Trust So. aied an ap- | plication in Supreme Court as trustee | for judicial sanction of its accounts in the two funds. Robert Todd Lincoln created the | funds in 1917 for Mary Lincoln Isham and Jessie =Lincoln ~ Randolph, his | daughters, with an initial investment in | cannon-ball act,” went through a dou- | | securities of about $300,000. He added | to_this $125.000 more in stock in 1920. Due to large dividends and accrued income, the combined valuation of the two trusts is $2.468,103, of which Mrs. Isham has $1.079,997 and Mrs. Ran- dolph $1,388,103. - S States exports to Latin America last yehr “were 15 per cent greater than in 192 Preliminary figures show that United FEBRUARY 14, 1930. STEAMER FEARED LOST WITH CREW IN BLAST Fishing Smack Reports Wreck of | Portuguese Ship From Explo- sion in Boiler Room, By the Associated Press. i | ALFARVE, Portugal, February 14.— | The captain of a Spanish fishing smack | reported to the Portuguese authorities | yesterday that the Portuguese steamer Tigre had gone down at sea with all th> boiler room. Warships were sent out to search for vreckage and survivors, = —— | IF YOU HAD A NECKR AS LONG AS THIS FELLOW AND HAD { SHOULD QUICKLY RELIEVE IT 880 9nd 00s. Mospiiel Sise 81.00 ALL DRUGGISTS BERLIN FIGHTS REDS. Police Open Communist Drive With Raids on Offices. BERLIN, February 14 UP)—Police opened a campaign against so-called Communist groups yesterday, raiding offices, seizing documents and dissolv- ing the organizations. The organizations are more Com- munist than anti-Fascist, police say. They declare that seized documents | prove clearly the anti-Fascist groups | are organizing a campaign of terrorism | in Germany and that they protect Communist criminals from arrest. Officers to Codify Laws. | CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., February | 14—A special meeting of the mayor and council will be held in the fire house Monday night to revise the town | ordinances and codify the local laws, it is announced by Thomas J. Luckstt, ' mayor. OPEN EVENINGS CARROLLS ORICIRAL CUTRATE ~ fumes, Jorlel. Iriicler, Cormelics 916 F St. N.W. 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