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The Washington times., 1930-07-07
A. CONAN DOYLE,
AUTHOR, DIES
At I
Creator of "SherIock Holmes"
Succumbs to Bad Heart
After Months of III Health

LONDON. July 7 GNSD Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, noted
novelist and spiritualist and
creator of the world-famed "Sher-
lock Holmes" died today at the
age of II.
His passing occurred at his
country home, Windlesham. near
Crowborough. Sussex. His wife
and three children were with him
at the end.
News of Sir Arthur's death
came as a definite shock to the
country. He had been in fair
health during the last few
months, although a year ago he
was forced to take a journey
to South Africa because of mis-
general condition.
Sir Arthur's death resulted
from heart attack. It was the
generally weakening condition of
his heart which neceSSitated the
trip abroad in an effort to re-
vive his failing health. and al
though no great improvement
had been shown within the past
few months, his passing wss un-
expected.
Figure in Letters
The death of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle removes from the horizon
one of the most colorful figures in
English life. as we'll as one of the
most famous.
No English writer, with the
possible exception of Rudyard
Kipling, was better known or
more widely read. and although
during the last few years he had
definitely turned from writing
and spent his entire time in the
study and propagation of spiritu,
alism, he still remained and prob
ably always will remain known to
the world as the creator of "Sher-
lock Holmes" genius in the art of
sc'~ -; deduction and det
without . peer.
Sir Arthur was born in Edin-
burgh on May %, 1859: He
studied for medicine. and MS
learning in this science cropped
UP continually in the fantastic
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HUSTON To QUIT
BY THURSDAY

The resignation of Claudius H.
Huston as chairman of the Re
publican National Committee
probably will be announced on
Thursday-if not before-it was
learned today.
The beleaguered chairman had
a personal interview with Presi-
dena Hoover at the White House
last night, and although the
White House would not discuss
the conference today the under
standing is that President Hoover
convinced his friend that his con-
tinuance in the craftsmanship is
impossible.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
HEARST OFFERS
PUBL|CSTOCK
At S25
$50, 100000 In 7 Per Cent
New Cumulative Preferred
Put On Sale; Policy Is New

Offering today of $4,000 900 in
7 per cent cumulative participat'
ing preferred stock in Hearst Con
solidated Publications. Inc. a new
company, to employees and the
public, readers of Hearst publica-
tions was announced by William
Randolph Hearst. The stock is
priced at $25 a share to the pub
lie.
This marks a new departure in
the business policies of Mr.. Hearst,
who has taken this step after sew
eral years of study of employe-
customer ownership of industries
both in this country and abroad.
Since his entrance into the news
paper publishing field AZ years
ago, Mr.. Hearst has been the
sole owner of his enterprises.
Groups IL Properties
Hearst Consolidated Pubiica.
tions win own II of Mr.. Hearst'S
strongest newspaper properties.
These properties will include New
York Journal. Inc, publishing the
Evening Journal; American Week
ly, Inc. publishing the Sunday
magazine supplement, the Ameri-
can Weekly: Hearst Publications,
Inc. composed of the Examiner
Printing Company. publishing the
San Francisco Examiner: the Call
Printing Company, publishing the
San Francisco Call.Bulletin and
Post: the Post Enquirer Publish
ing Company, publishing the Oak
land (Calif.) Post-Enquirer: Eve
ming Herald Publishing Company,
publishing the Los Angeles Herald !;
Los Angeles Examiner, publishing
the Los Angeles Examiner; Post
Intelligencer Company, publishing
the PoSt-Intelligencer at Seattle;
the Evening American Publishing
Company, publishing the Chicago
(Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
FOUND DOOR
UNLOCKED
At 5 A. N.
When He Awoke, His Arm
Struck the Door, He Says,
and 1t Swung Open

The mystery of how William
Wilbur Hand, bandit and safe
cracker, unlocked District cell
doors and walked out of Fifth pre-
cinct station house last october
unmolested and undisturbed has
been solved.
From Chicago, where Hand
was surprised by detective squad
last night and nabbed as he re-
clined in bed at the home Of his
sister, comes an exclusive inter
view with a Washington Times
staff correspondent, wherein the
had.boy bandit tells the tale that
clears the puzzle.
Found Way Clear
In the gunman's word, here is
the solution -
II woke up about 5 o'clock
that morning, and as
stretched out my arm, it struck
the cell door. The door swung,
open, so naturally / walked out,
but / didn't pay any $50 to
get out. Any cop that would
take that small a sum from me
ought to have his head exam.
ined."
Local police today were mum
on Hands statement, but mas
much as an intensive inquiry by
some of the departments best
investigators failed to show how
Hand made such an easy get
away from the cell, climaXed by
walking out the front door of
the station house, they probably
will be inclined to accept it.
Hand today faced possible
identification by officials of half
a dozen banks about Chicago
which have been robbed recently.
Among them are three employees
of the Plainfield State Bank at
Plainfield, Ill, who were locked
in the bank vault Saturday by a
lone bandit. He escaped with
$4,000. Hand is under sentence
of IL to 20 years in Chicago
for participating in a $4,000
bank holdup at Bucyrus in 1927.
He fled, forfeiting his bond, after
his appeal to the Ohio Supreme
Court had failed.
Hand was arrested here OctO-
ber 13 last by Policeman P. E.
Ambrose of the First precinct,
who became suspicious of the
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The Washington times., 1930-07-07
Pole Sitter Seeks
To TOP Hunter Marx

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. July 7.
Shipwreck Kelly, from his perch
atop the pole at the boardwalk
and the steel pier. sent down
word yesterday that he would re-
main aloft to beat the sky
endurance record of the Hunter
brothers, who kept their plane in
the air more than % days.
Kelly wound up his second week
on his pole, and has only to re-
main aloft eight more days to tie
his own record. as we'll as that of
the Hunter boys.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
Actor Socks Miss Duncan
OF "7opsy" Fame

Malibu, today, When she de-
manded Leases arrest:
"He sOcked me plenty"
Mr.. Lease. following his ar
rest. said:
"She kicked me in the shins."
The impromptu set upon which
the action took place was not
specified.
The entire affair is to be aired
before Judge Webster next Thurs
day at 10 o'clock. In the mean
time bail for Lease has been
set at $500, a reduction from the
$1,000 bond set originally.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
GUN GIRL APPEAL WAITS

NEW CASTLE, Pa. July 7
GN.S0 Hearing of the appeal
of Irene Schroeder, Pennsylvania
gunwoman. and w, Glen Dague,
alleged accomplice, from their
conviction of the murder OF
State Patrolman Brady Paul to-
day was further postponed until
Friday, July IL.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, July 7
G.N.SD.-Charged with battery
on the comely person of Vivian
Duncan, of "Topsy AND Eva"
fame, Rex Lease. motion picture
actor, was imprisoned in the
county Jail early today after a
progressive argument that
ranged the length of the movie
stars exclusive colony at Malibu
Beach, according to police,
The blonde Miss Duncan,
slightly The worse for wear, told
Justice of the Peace Webster, at
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
". Y. Magistrate Is
Indicted for Fraud

NEW YORK. July 7 GN.SO.
Magistrate George F. Ewald and
four others we're indicted today
by the Federal grand jury on
charges of mail fraud and con-
spiracy.
The indictment was returned
in connection with the sale Of
stock of the Copper Butte Mines.
Inc, of which the judge once was
a director, The company also
was indicted.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
AsheUiLLe Nearly
Doubles POpULdce

The total population of San
Francisco for 1880 was officially
announced by the Census Bureau
today as 625,974. an increase of
1929 over the 1920 figure OF
506.676
The population of New Orleans
was announced as ass, 1872, an in
crease of 58,473 over 1920. These
figures are final.
Other figures announced TODAY
included: Asheville, N. c., 50,167,
as against 23,167 in 1920.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
ALICE DAY WEDS C0HN
Times Staff Photo

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, July
Z GN.S0.-Alice Day. motion
picture actress. and Jack Cohn,
a Hollywood broker. were on
their honeymoon today following
a simple wedding ceremony here
yesterday. The couple kept their
honeymoon plans secret.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
Dry Agents Seize
$4,000 in LIQUORS

CHICAGO, July 7 0.N.SD -
Special prohibition agents today
seized a consignment of fine
liquors, valued at approximately
$4,000. in the Pennsylvania
railroad yards here.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
Mrs. HOOUer Back
After Months Rest

Mrs. Herbert Hoover was
back in the White House today
after a months absence spent
at the Hoover fishing retreat
along the Rapidan River in Vir-
ginia.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
KINGS PARK

Weather. cloudy: track. good.
FIRST observation-disclosures Bright
Orb.
SECOND RACE-PitChfOrk. Single
Pip, Gold Bells, Lady Sphere. Top Cloud,
Jungle Imp, Marjorie.
THIRD RACE-Lang SyRP, Light
Mower, Flora. Benny Rubin. The An
geluS.
FOURTH RACE-Ace of Aces End.
Jimmy Finn. Max Day VtGleta, Bea.
FlOraxetta. Arant Jade. Floss.
SEVENTH RACE--San De Orc, For
nOvO. Nine SIXTY, Dough Nut. Shepherd
of the Hills. ROckdOr, Beaumont.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
T0DAY'S SCRATCHES
FORT ERIE

FUhT FhIF
FIRST RACE-Peter Whffle. Ran
lana, Poor Rube. Hazel Gumberts, Fair
Vagary, Sidney W.
SECOND RACE-At Random.
FOURTH RACE-Omareen.
SIXTH RACE-LittIe Scout Dance.
North Breeze, Meander, Sinaste, Wrench
Support. ThestyIis.
Weather, clear track. good.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
T..ATONIA

FIRST RACE-Laughing Girl. Prudy
Basil. smyrna. Princess Peggy. Donna
Ulrica. Frances e.. Annawan.
,.S EI. go T' pP' "a; unIor
King.
THIRD RACE-Red Cactus. Running
Water, Pere Noel, BOreaIis, Sunny Basil.
Thistle Duke.
FIFTH RACE-Aimee Goldsmith, Sly
Polly. Spot Light. Your Flay.
SIXTH RACE - Yen. Princess Donna.
SEVENTH RACE - Birdie Wrack :,
Bunch of Lilies, Head Pin.
Weather, clear; track, fast.
The Washington times., 1930-07-07
W z A T n e r

Fair tonigh and tomorrow; not quite so warm
tonight; gentle to moderate northwest and north
winds. Temperature yesterday-HigheSt, 81;
lowest, So.
Full wcather report page IL.
rhe Wasbnglo IImss Is the on, HIirrnoon paper IN
this city publishing the dispatches OF international
News Service and Universal seryire
The Washington times., 1930-12-19
ALFONSO, KING OF SPAIN tAr THIS wRITNG,.

As this is written King Alfonso still his throne ust
flying again title Of the worlds greatest royal tghtrops
walker.
He has arranged however to leave Spain quickly If he
slips Probably he will go to England where his wife was
born or perhaps to Florida where he owns home
he here he would also visit California which, like
Florida belonged his ancestors and where he could
make living in the movies. Being good king ne is
good actor Moreover he has been bombed shot at eight
times boyhood and might find Hollywood more resu
than Madrid
SPAIN which tried unsuccessfu ago to be republic
has been fairly happy under Alfonso He kept his country
ont Of the war advertised its attractions doomed the tourist
traffic did other useful things His worst mistake was IN
permitting himself 60 with the Riffs in Morocco
hev made incemeat Of his soldiers and monkeys out
Of his generals They also Spain millions Of pesetas,
which Spain could not afford.
The worldwide business slump has affected Spain SINCE
and as always happens depression the has gone up
change of That explains the latest Spanish
crisis well anything else. .
Spain may play with republic she has played with
dictatorship Getting rid of Alfonso however, will not help
much In fact in country where the majority OF people
can neither read write nothing will help but education
and that takes time. w
-Four per cent of our own adults erate and at least
per cent barely educated It is these that cause most
of our troubles
Spain will many revolutions until each child 10
educated Meanwhile intelligent and able king is proDapy
better than political and therefore partisan president
The Washington times., 1930-12-19
Annuities for the Widows of
!. Retired u. S. Employees

Senator Brookhart in offering amendment to the civil
service retirement giving widows Of retired employees
xreeourths of the annuies Of their husbands introduces
into Congress proposition that will be bitterly assailed at
The beginning but in the end will receive favorable
consideration.
The strength Of this particular proposition will lie mainly
IN the growing feeling throughout this country that pensions
ust be provided for the aged that may do away with
poor houses institutions that furnish sustenance for the
HELPLESS but in which there loving associations Of
home or dear ones nothing but the knowledge Of proongng
life until the final dissolution.
In the District Of Columbia this matter Of civilized care
For the dependent aged must be settled properly and will be
settled that way Human fairness and sympathy calls for
such settlement.
The civil service act does not pay pensions It does
nav "annuie in the main provided by deductions from
The nav Of employees These annues do not to those who
viii long enjoy their benefits Retrements take place at 66
wears Of age, instead Of much earlier.
The who retire at that generally have
wives or husbands The annuies support both The actual
beneficiary may die in short tme leaving his or her aged
companion without any of support dependent upon
relatives or upon charity.
There will be strong disposition to transfer the annuities
Al cases Of that kind especially where the widows widow
0s are at an age that does render them helpless and depen
dent ANY law should apply to both widows and w1dower
The old abuses Of pension laws be prevented BY deny
inc the benefits survivors who not physically helpless
This would prevent young marrying aged men to
become beneficiarie young men marrying aged women
&or the same purpose.
The Washington times., 1930-12-19
WISE MEN

If a man will begin with GER
tainties, he shall end in doubts;
but If he will be. content to
begin with doubts, he shall end
in certainties. Bacon.
BY agreement small things
grow, by discord the greatest
60 to pieces. -Sallust.
However we toll, or whereSo-
ever we wander, our fatigued
wishes still recur to home for
tranquility. Goldsmith.
A nation with whom senti.
ment is nothing is on the way
to cease to be a nation at all.
-Froude.
The shortest answer is doing.
Herbert.
Mans inhumanity to man
makes countless thousands
. mourn. Burns.
For whoever meditateS a
crime is guilty Of the deed.
-Juvenal.
What you see, yet cannot
see, ever, Is as good as in
finite. Carlyle.
I am ashes where once I was
fire. Byron.
Our life Is but q chain Of
many deaths. Young.
Debt IS the prolific mother Of
folly and Of crime. -DisraeI.
Life is much flattered: death
is much traduced. Young.
It Is as natural to die as to
be born. Bacon.
The Washington times., 1930-12-19
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

arrives-not by feeling flighty
but by sitting tight and going
through the motions. Ninety
nine out Of one hundred Of the
words are a mess. But little
by little you build-the thought
takes shape-f you can stay
on that chair seat long enough,
you're bound to win.
And that, I suspect, Is the
secret Of all serious achievement.
Which is something the present
generation has yet to learn.
Time was when the first thing
humans learned to do was to
sit tight. Grandma at six bent
over her sampler, with q crick
in her neck and rebellion in her
young soul. The sampler was
rarely worth while but the sit
ting was. She had 70 years Of
diSagreeable jobs ahead Of her
but they weren't going to get
her goat. She had learned to
sit tight through disagreeable
jobs.
She had sorrow ahead Of her
too, pain and confusion and
cruel tests and, what, Is much
harder to bear, grinding mon
otony. She would often be bewil-
dered and desperate-yet she
would carry on and win out,
somehow: For she had learned
to 60 through the motions.
But nowadays the emotions,
not the motion, is the thing.
Unless we can feel excited and
whizz-bang about a job, we're
off it. Away we go, looking for
something new-dropping it the
moment our enthusiasm wanes.
Which is, Of course, the most
5onehead play we could possibly
make. Enthusiasm never stays
at flood tide in any job. Nine"
terths Of any work Is cold
blooded plugging. And the ma
jority of the time a genius gets
no more kick out Of his pro-
gram than q dish washer.
Copyright, 1880. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1930-12-19

"How do you manage" says
she, "to write with the same en-
thusiasm?"
That's easy, lady-I don't!
There are days and days when
I haven't any more enthusiasm
than a bread poultice. I'm not
sad. I'm not sick. I'm just
flop-that's all. Which is q
perfectly natural condition for
all healthy live stock. But
when I first began columning,
this condition threw me into a
panic. I had the usual ga
ganideaS about authors. I
thought they had to be vibrat-
ing with the creative urge or
they couldn't write for shucks.
And had to go through plenty
Of grief before I realized that
writing was a job like any
other and that, regardless Of
my moods, 7 had to keep plug.
ging and go through the
motions.
Just what does that imply?
That implies that rain or
shine, peevish or palpitating, I
sit down at my desk at $3.50
a. M, and stay there until
$3.50 p. m.
isn't it perfectly wonderful
to sit down all day and just
write Lovely Thoughts?"
It's Quite Revolving
Stop it! One more word like
that outta you and I'll scream!
It is not lovely to stay there.
It is maddening and revolving.
I could murder, from sheer
envy, those lucky ones who
earn their three square digging
bitches or sweeping streets.
Anything to move around. I
could, and do weep, big, wet
tears Of self-pity all over
myself. But-no matter how I
seethe or sob-there sit until
my job Is done.
For that's the way writing
The Washington times., 1930-12-19
ONCE-OVERS

If you cannot go home Christ
mas write a letter to your folks.
Your presence Is most desir.
able, but If you can't visit the
old home, at least write q
Christmas letter.
If it is pleasure in the city
where you are located that
keeps you from going home, you
are selfish and unkind.
There may be little Of interest
to you in the old town.
From the standpoint Of social
incentive there may be no salts
faction for you in the entertain
ment provided in the old home
place.
But family ties should be
stronger at Christmas time than
your desire for entertainment.
What is giving up the social
diversion of your city crowd
compared with the comfort it
would be to your parents and
relatives TO nave you nOIneE
You owe the homefolkS more
than you can ever pay-dollars
won't pay.
But to be with them on
Christmas Day, when their
strongest thoughts are going
out to you, when their greatest
desire is to see you-that pays
them.
Your parents look back to the
past ChristmaseS when you were
a child and long to be able to
give again the pleasure they
once saw in your face.
Go home If you can. II not,
write Q letter.
The Washington times., 1930-12-19
Battle of the Physicists
By Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., DEL, LID,
Famous Scientific Authority

day, the Michael Pupin to
Thomas Edison.
He invents the ether to carry
light waves; just as the geo.
grapher inventS imaginary par.
allels of latitude and meridians
of longitude. He is conc ;-ned
with the Interpretation Of lis
equations. once he is sure that
the equations will preserve the
realities-or as we say, save
the phenomena.
Newton had his equations Of
motion in interstellar space.
He interpreted them in terms
of physical force: bodies pull
each other, literally, in accord
ance with a law, directly as the
product of their masses, and
inversely as the square of their
distance apart.
Einstein has his equations for
the same motions: but the mo-
tions, as he interprets them,
are not due to the effects Of
physical attraction or pull.
Space Is conceived to be of a
peculiar, crinkly nature, and
bodies merely fall through
space, following as it were the
line of least resistance, picking
out the easiest way through the
irregularities and obstacles II a
complicated space-time universe.
The mathematical formulas
are the representation Of the
laws Of physical behavior.
These formulas do not and can.
not tell us that a body is q, GER
tain thing, platinum or wireless
waves or light quanta.
It simply tells us how the
body acts. Mathematical formu-
lations of physical laws are
criteria Of manners. They are
the rules of behavior, the codes
of conduct Of physical phe-
nomena. Mathematical equa-
tionS embody the laws Of phySl'
Cal etiquette.
After all, then, we can inter
pret these equations in any par
ticular imaginative way, con.
sistent with themselves. The
equations show that light con-
siSts Of particles, since under
this Interpretation the equa'
tionS are satisfied, and the
truth is not violated. =
We may with equal plausi-
bility and logic interpret light
as consisting of waveS-Since
the equations lend themselves
equally well to this imaginative
Interpretation.
Copyright, 1880. International Feature
Service. Ine.l
The Washington times., 1930-12-19
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland

money that men work so hard
to make goes to buy the things
that women use to catch them
with. 49,,
The modern man appears to
take merely q speculative inter
est in a kiss, a sporting inter
est in love, and an academic in
tereSt in marriage.
This is the magic, mystic mo-
ment of the Winter Solstice,
when even a professional cynic
must put aside his mask, and
admit that lisa gay, good old
world after ALL. And that there
rs a Santa Claus!
Funny: For eleven months of
the year we may laugh satiri-
cally, at love, life and the world;
but, just about NOW, some
thing gets into the dullest imagi-
nation, the bittereSt heart or
the weariest pulse, quickens its
tempo and stirs it to a joyous
rhythm. That's the ". K.
Christmas spirit"
(CopyriEht. 1890. King Features
NyndieatA IAcl
The Washington times., 1930-12-19
They Must Like to Play
Conductor, Mr.. Bradford

OOuUuCLVGJ NA4' ia oUAAVAA
Editor, Times
Referring to the bonneville
Trolley going out Mt. Pleasant
way, officially known as the
washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company, it seems to the
writer that it is up to the Off.
cials Of the company to at
least make some effort to get
passengers who insist on crowd
ing the back platform to move
up front.
Standing on the platform at
Seventeenth and H Streets last
evening waiting for a Mt. Pleas
ant car, the writer counted
seven cars pass that it was i'm
possible to board, on account
of the crowd on the rear plat
form who absolutely refuse to
move to let passengers on, and
in each Of these seven cars
there was sufficient room for
at least IL or IS more pas
sengers in the front. ,
The platform was crowded
with people waiting for Mt.
Pleasant cars, but it was lmpos-
sible for any Of them to get
aboard. Last evening was no
exception, for it happens daily.
OF course, the main fault lies
with these selfish birds who re-
fuse to move up and load the
back platform reading their
papers. The. rear Of these cars
are usually packed to about
the third seat leaving the front