Evening star. [volume], July 18, 1930, Page A-11, Image 11

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SLAIN WOMAN’S
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Mrs. K. Edith Wight, Store
Detective, Found Dead in
Saugus, Mass., Home.
By the Associated Press.
SAUGUS, Mass.. July 18. —Search
sras under way today for Bernard t
Thompson, 22-year-old nephew of Mrs.
X. Edith (Thompson) Wight, woman |
detective, whose battered body was
found in her home yesterday, with a (
bag of diamonds valued at $7,000 miss
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Police said the nephew, who had
lived with Mrs. Wight and who entered j
the house with her Tuesday, was the
last person seen with her alive. He is :
a railroad worker and moved out of her i
home a week ago.
The body was found when a neigh
bor, seeing her automobile had not been
moved in the front yard for two days,
attempted to rouse her. Blows from a
blackjack caused the woman’s death,
Dr. George B. Magrath said. The
weapon was found on a table nearby.
She was a detective in several large de
partment stores. She was granted a
divorce from her husband in 1904 and
resumed her maiden name on taking up
police work. Thompson now lives In
New York
Her brother Joseph said yesterday
She had been engaged to marrv a Bos
ton police inspector 12 years ago and !
received considerable property from him
cn his death.
HULL TO IGNORE RIVAL
Tennessee Senate Candidate Not to
Engage in Debate.-
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 18 (/P). —
Representative Cordell Hull, candidate
for the Democratic nomination as
United States Senator from Tennessee,
announced yesterday that he would
•'ignore” a challenge to a joint debate
Issued by Andrew L. Todd of Murfrees
boro, another candidate.
Todd Issued the challenge Tuesday,
specifying that two debates should be
held each day until the night before
the primary'. August 7, "so that the
people may know our political record*
first hand.”
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Poor Peasant Finds
Pot of Gold on Farm
Awarded by Mexico j
By the Assocluted Pres*.
MAGDALEN A, Jalisco, Mexico,
July 18.—An impoverished peas
i ant named Crescendo Avila,
awarded a parcel of land by the
Mexican government under Its
agrarian laws, plowed his hold
ings for the first time Monday
and unearthed a pot of gold.
His find, which was of Spanish
gold pieces, probably buried long
before the advent of the Mexican
republic, was valued at $50,000.
AMERICAN WEDS RUSSIAN
| Engineer in Soviet Union Plans to
Bring Bride to United States.
KRASNODAR, U. S. S. R„ July 18
| «P). —George A. Johnson of the Bucyrus ’
Erie Excavator Co. of South Milwau- j
i kee today was married here to Miss ;
Sophia Ivanovna Veleikaya, member of
a distinguished Russian family.
The marriage was notable because
the first in recent years of an American
to a Russian here and because the cere
mony took place in the local German
Lutheran Church. Religious marriages
are extremely rare in these days. The
couple will go to Milwaukee on their
honeymoon.
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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JULY 18. 1930.
LELAND PERRY SHIDY
HONORED ON RETIRING
Chief of Tidal Division of Geodetic
Survey Ends 57 Years’
Service.
Leland Perry Shldy, chief of the
Tidal Division. Coast and Geodetic
Survey, was presented with a basket of
flowers and a pen and pencil set Wed
nesday by his as
sociates on the oc
casion of his re
tirement after 57
years In Govern
ment service. Capt.
Paul C. Whitney,
chief of the Divi
sion of Tides and
Currents, made
the presentation.
Mr. Shidy, who
left the depart
ment on leave of
absence to extend
until the official
date of his retire
ment, July 31, en
tered the survey
service in 1873,
shortly after his
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twentv-first birthday. He was instru
mental in developing methods and ap
pliances to aid the surveys and in
extending the tide tables to cover the
world.
Records covering Mr. Shidy’s long
term of service show that he has been
absent from work only three days be
cause of Illness.
Delegates to Dresden Named.
The President ahs designated Capt.
C. J. 8. Butler, Navy Medical Corps;
Maj. George C. Durham. Army Medical
Corps, and Charles W. Stiles, Public
Health Service, as delegates on the part
of the United States at the Interna
tional Hygiene Exhibition, which will be
held at Dresden. Germany, during the
next two months.
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Br the Associated Press.
BERGEN, Norway, July 18.—An
expedition will start from here tomor
row for Greenland, under leadership of
Constantin Dombrova. doctor of mete
orology of Bucharest, to Investigate at
mospheric possibilities there with a view
to a future air route between Europe
and America byway of Greenland.
The expedition is being financed by
Le Journal of Paris and Dr. Dombrova.
The whaler. Grane, of Aalesund. under
the command of Capt. Head, is making
the trip.
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INTERVIEWS
WITH THE
KAI S E R
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| Poultney Bigelow,
famous writer and >■*
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historian, went to
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will appear in The
Editorial Section of
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Sunday, July 20th.
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