Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1930, Page 20

B4 CRIMES OF VIOLENCE DROP IN NEW YORK ‘Whalen's Report Places Figure at 74.1 Per Hundred Thousand Population. Sy the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 12.—Police Com- missioner Grover A. Whalen's annual report, issued yesterday, said that crimes of violence in New York in 1929 totaled 17,009, & reduction of 11 rr cent from the total of 7,878 for 1928. Murders, however, from 339 to 357. The came in the other classifications of violent crimes, assault -numrobbery. burglary and felonious as- sau In a table headed “New York Free From Orime,” the commissioner gives the following statistics, the figures sig- nifying crimes of violence per hundred thousand population: New York, 74.1; Chicago. 306.7; Philadelphia, 110.5; De- troit, 282.4; Los Angeles, 535.6; Cleve- land, 467.5, and St. Louls, 705.7. ¥ —_— The British government will collect $1,000,000 in death taxes from the ut,‘!w of F.'G. Nutting of London, who Itft $4.425,000. THE EVENING 3,000 REINDEER DRIVE Await Strength of Young. By the Associated Press. Victor Ross, Colville River section until the end of the fawning season. ‘The herd will wait there until the new born deer are strong enough to join the| in improving its roads. STAR, WASHINGTON, drive, which follows & route north of the Arctic Circle across Alaska to the HALTED FOR FAWNING | Hias ommge s Bestm on the Cana- —_— A surgeon who was accompanying m Herd on Way Acrom “Top of| Reri€ied D% Coon. Yom what was World” for Delivery to Canada to | believed to be frozen lungs, after being brought to Nome in a plane piloted by Th:”:eer are bfl"‘t d:livg‘ed x'f’ lh; Canadian government by the Lome: NOME, Alaska, May 12.—Three thou- | Reindeer ngrporltlon. They are taken sand reindeer, being driven across “the| from the company's herds on Kotzebue top of the world” into Canada on order | sound, It has been only about a quarter of the Canadian government, have halt- | of a centruy since reindeer were intro- ed their long march in the Hunt and| guced in Alaska from Siberia. Denmark plans to spend $20,000,000 D. C, MONDAY, CREATOR OF ROVER BOYS DIES AT HOME IN NEWARK Edward Stratemeyer Enown as Arthur M. Winfleld and Capt. Bonerhill. By the Associated Press NEWARK, N. J.,, May 12.—The cre- ator of “The Rover Boys” died Saturday. He was Edward Stratemeyer, but to millions of American youths who de- voured his narratives, he was “Arthur M. Winfleld,” or “Capt. Ralph Boner- hill.” He was 67 years old and had been ill MAY 12, 1930. with for & week. NHe was T prament 7 8 Mr, Stratemeyer wrote his first long story when he was 26. -It ran 18,000 words—on m rm—ana was against the ad is father, who considered it a waste of time. 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