Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1932, Page 34

c—2 * SEARCHFOR OLD REWARDS JOBLES Youth Proud of $3,000 Check, but Many in North- west Rush Fail. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE Wash., December 16— Some of those “overnight prospectors” Who heard a few lectures and plunged irto mountain fastnesses in search of gold a few months ago have a smile or two coming. t was the sourdoughs, veterans of of Summers of prospecting, who d when the thousands of old and 3 men, women and children bor- pans, acquired grubstakes and ed into the mountains to keep out e city bread lines last Spring. Youth Earns §3,000. But today Bill Powers, a Spokane . who dropped his school books last Summer to prospect, waves a check for $3,000 which, he said, came ;m of Central Idaho creekbeds in the was one of the fortunate gold- Thousands of explorers found ough fine gold to pay for their ses’ and hundreds found less Hundreds Mose mace Wages Hundreds found no gold one virgin strike was reported to offices here as the result of the ' worl Extra crews of essay- erc kept busy with the red in from Montana, | Nevada and Washington through- the Summer. Seme Well Rewarded. Some of these contained $5 worth of gold—a week's work. Others bulged with tiny nuggets worth from $30 to $300, panned in all the way from a to a month. ch of the precious metal was ex- changed for food and supplies at stares, or was sold through banks, making it impossible to estimate the amount re- d by the amateur army. amateurs spread over the entire most of them infesting old time zas, where early day rushers found millions of dollars in gold. GIVEN 8 TO 20 YEARS FOR ARMED ROBBERY Two Sentenced in Seattle After; Admitting They Kidnaped C. L. Canaday Last Month. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, December 16—Peniten- tiary sentences of from 8 to 20 years each were imposed yesterday upon Thomas Vance Ambrose, 26, and Paul e, 21, after they pleaded guilty to | es of robbery while armed. They ped Carl L. Canaday a month ago, his car, a watch and $1.50 and ned him on a lonely rqad. Both previous criminal records, rosecutors said Ambrose began his ds by deserting from the Navy joining the Army. He deserted om the Army also. He served three s in a ‘ail at Camp Knox, Ky., caped from there last June. — ESPERANTO SESSION Auxiliary Language Advocates to Convene Sunday. Advocates of the international aux- language, Esperanto, will gather 1343 Euclid street Sunday afternoon peak the composite tongue and con- ¢ formal observance of the 73d an- rsary of the birth of its inventor, iate Dr. L. L. Zamenhoff. win C. Reed, one of the local pio- in the movement to extend the out the world, will sion, and among the 1 be J. J. Sussmuth of Fort Vorth American secretary of ation. S \ Kk 7% % X N K K TR Our Regular $9.95 Holm, Dorothy Layton. THE EVENING STAR, Ruth Hall, Gloria Stuart, Patricia Ellis, Ginger Rogers, | LL Hollywood aby stars” of 1932, chosen by Wampas, fllm‘ pub]l;l‘ty organization, are Standing, left to right: Toshia Mori, Boots Mallor; Lillian Bond, Evalyn Knapp, Marion Shockley. Seated: Dorothy Wilson, Mary Carlisle, Lona Andre, Eleanor CANADIAN WHEAT CROP VALUED AT $133,866,000 Increase From $117,890,000 Last Year Shown—Previous Year's Mark $204,6983,000, By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, December 16.—The Do- | minion Bureau of Statistics yesterday etimated the total value of the 1932 wheat crop at $133,866,000, compared with $117,890,000 in 1931 and $204,693,- 000 in 1930. The total value of field crops for 1932 | was put at $424,057,900, compared with $426,656,400 in 1931 and $662,040,000 in 1930. INVADE BERLIN HALL Working Women Break Into Ses- sion of City Council. BERLIN, December 16 (#)—Five| Communist women from the working class borough of Neukoelln broke up & session of tne City Council yesterday v crashing through attendants and invading the plenary hall with shouts of “We are working women, our chil- dren are hungry and they want bread!” The presiding officer left the chair as a signal that the meeting was adjourned and tried to calm the women, who had to be removed by attendants. AUTO DRIVERS CLEARED Exonerated of Blame in Death of ‘Woman. A coroner's jury exonerated both | Ellen C. Coxen. 23, and George J. Jones, | | 39, colored, drivers of two automobiles | that crashed at Fourteenth and F streets northeast on December 11. re- | sulting in fatal injuries to Hilda Peter- | son McCarthy, 39, colored, 2007 Thirteenth street. | Miss McCarthy was a passenger in a | | taxicab driven by Jon who lives at /1836 Oregon avenue. She died in | Casualty Hospital the day after the | accident. Miss Coxen lives at 331 Seventeenth street northeast. WASHINGTON, Hollywood’s “Baby Stars” Get Together SEI:ECTED BY WAMPAS AS OUTSTANDING FOR 1932. shown in this group. —A. P. Photo. Shirt—'n Cap $|.OO SET OF “EIDERKNIT” . . SMART. FI Y.SOFT AND WARM! With raglan shoulde: rose-red, mai blue, Pastel beige or white, with white knitted turtle neck, cufis and band; matching cap. Sizes 12 to 18 and sizes 38 to 42. “Re app. for. Sports Shop. Third Floor.) . €. FRIDAYV. 16, 1932. JOBLESS MEN BESIEGE SEATTLE RELIEF DEPOT Police Disperse Demonstrators After Manhandling or In- timidating Attendants. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, December 16.—A crowd of 100 unempioyed demonstrators laid siege to a county relief depot Wednes- day, manhandling Walter S. Johnson, the district supervisor, and intimidat- ing his assistants, they said, until police arrived. Leaders of the demonstrators had presented written demands for more wood and other concessions. One of them, Johnson said later, seized him and threw him into a chair, demanding: “Get that stuff—we'll give you half an_hour to get it.” Police nearby saw the crowd and dispersed it. No arrests were made. Srlanter st Pacific Glaciers Grow. Glaciers in Yosemite National Park, Calif., are increasing in size, Bert Har- well,” park naturalist, says. Heavy snows during the lest few seasons ac- count for the increase. Congréss to Get .- :Only Three Days Off for Yuletide "B9,the Amociated Press. Oongress is not going to have much of a Christmas vacation this year if plans of party lead- Three two weeks' rest appears the most the Senators and Representa- | | tives will get. The reason—too much business to be done and the House Demo- | crats want to put their beer bill through before the recess. Some grumbling is heard, but most of the members are in gen- eral agreement to stay in session until Priday before Christmas day—Sunday—and to reconvene the following Tuesday. Washington Honored. Iron markers bearing a bronrze figure of Gen. Washington on his horse, Blue- | | skin, has been erected in Washington, | N. H., said to be the first incorporated town in America to be named for the father of his country. BANKER’S WIDOW DIES Mrs. Adeline Burroughs of Chicago Suffers Florida Stroke. FORT MYERS, Fla., December 16 (). —Mrs. Adeline H. Burroughs, widow of {N. T. Burroughs, Middle Western banker and capitalist, died here last night after & brief iliness. She suffered a stroke Tuesdey. Mrs. Burroughs arrived at Fort Myers two weeks ago from Chicago to spend the Winter at her palatial home. She is survived by ‘wo daughters, Miss Jettie Burroughs and Mrs. Mona Wandrack, both of whom are here. Her husband died several months ago. Survivors also iriclude two sons, Roy and Raynor. The my WLl be sent to Cherokee, Iowa, for al. Recalls Hungry Exile Days. MADRID (#).—Marcelino Domingo, minister of commerce and agriculture, | likes anecdotes of the lean and hungry days in Paris when he was an exile from the monarchy. One day, he re- Iates, a fellow countryman invited him to lunch. After they hed eaten with relish, the acquaintance s3id, “I hope you will eat with me agal Replied Domingo: “Right now, if you like. CARDIAG ASTHMA FATAL TO VIRGINIA PROFESSOR Dr. Ludwig R. Geissler of Ran- loph-Macon Founded Journal of Applied Psychology. By the Associated Press. LYNCHBURG, Va., December 16.— | Dr. Ludw!g Reinhold Geissler, professor of psyehclegy and philosophy at Ran- ‘\dolph—Mscon Woman’s College here | since 1920, died of cardiac asthma at his home here yesterday. He was a native of Leipsic, Germany. He was founder of the Journal of Applied Psychology, and was its editor from 1916 to 1920. He was a bacheior of literature, graduate of the University of Texas, 1905, and took his doctorate at Cornell in 1909. Church Lacks Money, Not Men. LIVERPOOL, England (%) —Holding that Church of England curates should sty single for at least five years efter ordination, the Board of Ministry of the Livernool Diocesan Confere: clared that “the problem conironting the church today is not the lack of men to staff the parishes, but the lack of | money to maintain the staft.” Just in Time for Christmas! NN A XA A K e K W o ARG T N X e O X e XNy A timely and important clearance of our nationally famous radios. floor samples and demonstrators. 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