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\ A Liberal and Wonderful Display Christmas Candies and Dainties Nuts, Raisins and - Fruits Foreign' and Domestic—at Attrac- tive and Sensible Prices. ALL AT N. W. Burchell 817-19 Fourteenth St. No Time CITY REORGANIZE AFTER BANK CRASH Asheville, N. C., Mayor Suc- ceeded by Commissioner of Public Safety. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE. N. C., December 12.— Reorganization of the Asheville city gov- ernment, in financial straits since the closing of the Central Bank & Trust Co. November 20, was completed last night. Mayor Gallatin Roberts resigned yes- terday and Harry Plummer, named to Loaf!! Only 10 More Shopping Days B;fore Christmas Ladies, We Have T’Iose G;fts Men Like (Where Women Like to Shog) Just Received 10,000 (Ten Thousand) Gorgeous TIES 5190 Beautr'fu”y Boxed Without Cllurgc Home of Smith Smart Shoefl THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930. Wednesday as_commissioner of public safety, was chosen to succeed Plummer took the oath of office after Roberts tendered his resignation at a conference with business men who have been seeking to rehabili- tate the city’s finances. ‘The financial troubles of the govern- ment were due to the fact that nearly $4,500,000 of municipal funds were tied up in the defunct bank. AUSTRALIA TO REWARD PRODUCTION OF GOLD Authorizes Bounty of $5 on Each Ounce Mined Exceeding Present Year's Yield. By the Associated Press. CANBERRA, Australia, December 12.—The federal government’s gold bill, providing a bounty of $5 on every ounce of gold mined in Australia in excess of production for this year and the past year, \passed all stages in the House of Representatives yesterday. — . Harem Park Becomes Playground. ISTANBUL, Turkey, December 12 (#). —Children are to play where ladies of the harem once took the air. Yildiz Pal- ace, with its park, dwelling place of Sultan Abdul Hamid, has been rented by the city for $1,000 a year. The park is to be a playground. A syndicate once went bankrupt trying to make a gam- bling casino out of the palace. === MOTORIST RESCLE FROM MOB THREAT Killing of Two Children and Injuring of Five Anger lllinois Citizens. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 12.—A mad- dened mob, which included parents of the Victlm!; threatened to lynch an autoist whose machine plowed into a group of school children, killing two and injuring five, in suburban Bellwood last night. Police rescued the car driver, F. A. Beukema of Chicago, as he was lifting the bodies into his car, and lodged him in the jail at Maywood for his protec- tion. Beukema said he had not seen the children, who were returning from a band rehearsal. Jerry Felkner, 10, and Frank Vices, 13, were killed. o 0 Hull, England, has decided to con- duct all funerals from the work house by direct labor, and will have its own hearse, coach and top-hatted pall- 35 to0 $90 bearers, Popular for Presents . —because they are practical for the ward- robe—and certain to be correct in fashion. MISS MACDONALD’S TALK INTERRUPTED BY MOUSE Woman Diners Wrap Skirts About Knees as Cat Chases Rodent Through Hall. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 12.—Miss Ish- bel MacDonald, daughter of. the prime minister, addressing a women's dinner here last night, was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a mouse fleeing from a cat. Some of the women laughed, but many hastily wrapped their long skirts around their knees and pulled their feet up under them on their chair seats. ‘The cat chased the mouse under the women’s chairs for the entire length of the table and calm was not restored until both disappeared. LOU-liGER ENDS LIFE Californian Invited to Try Skill Uses Shooting Gallery Gun. LONG BEACH, Calif., December 12 (#).—Oscar E. Mayhugh, 53, was loung- ing in front of a shooting gallery on the pike yesterday. . “Want “to shoot, mister?” the girl attendant in the ry asked, “I belleve I will/’ he answered. He took a gun, fired once at the target and then swung the weapon around and s#t two bullets through his head. He died an hour later. A very large and comprehensive assortment of exclusive effects in $6.75 to §35 They are coats of careful cut and TWO MEN ARE SOUGHT IN DOUBLE SLAYING Fugitive From Prison and His Brother Charged With Shooting Deputy Sheriff and Grocer. By the Associated Press. ARDMORE, Okla., December 12.—D. I Davis, fugitive from the. Huntsville, Tex., penitentiary, and his brother, Col- a officers in connection with the sh of an Oklahoma deputy sheriff and a Texas grocer. Con Keirsey, Carter County deputy sheriff, died yesterday of wounds suf- fered at Wirt, when he tried to ques- tion two men about a stolen automobile, Harold McCarrock, Amarillo, Tex., grocer, was shot down during the rob- bery of his store. G w, Scotland, will lend Rem- brant’s “Man in Armour” to the Pic- ture Gallery at The Hague, Holland, for exhibition. MILK FROM THE WORLD'S MODEL DAIRY Give Him Milk of Superior Quali_ty It's His Vital Health-Need at this Stage of Life . . .. For the foods he consumes now vitally affect his later growth and development. This, your dairy, has long been keenly attuned to the utter necessity of Superior Quality milk in Washington homes . .. milk extra rich extra safe. We have constantly striven to supply it. . 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