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The Washington times., 1930-07-11
new VICE SQUAD.
RAIDS, NABS 5

The reorsanized police vice
squad, headed by the new COM
mander. Sergt. John r. Leach,
today went into action against
numbers" racketeers Of the Capi.
tai. The raids conducted on
reputed numbers establishments
in the vicinity of the Center
Market netted the squad five
prisoners and a quantity of al
legged numbers slips.
Invading an establishment In
the 900 block Louisiana Ave.
N. W., Detectives F. A. TruScott.
James A. Mostyn and c. L. Van
Meter arrested Pete Mathos, ~.
alleged proprietor, TOO block Sixth
st. S. W.: Peter Poulos, 80. 400
block Pennsylvania Ave. N. W..
and John Drosso. 90. first block
Of K st. N. W.. on charges of
permitting gaming. A small
amount of money and a quantity
Of slips were reported seized.
The squad next visited q cigar
store at Seventh st. and Penn
sylvania Ave. N. W., across from
the market. where Lorenzo Tan
ner, %. and Henry Mahoney, %.
both colored and Of the 500 block
Second st. S. w.. were arrested
on permitting gaming charges
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
Faro Agha, Turk, Due
Here With u. S. Visa
Giving Age 155

That age-mellowed citizen of
Turkey, Faro Agha. who Is to
visit modern America, win
bring with him a visa giving
his age as 1SS years.
The question of doubt about
Faro Agha'S exact age is
still unsettled. but the State
Department has been informed
that a physician in Turkey gave
the much married old chap the
once over and pronounced he
was well over a hundred years
old.
His Turkish passport gives
Agha's date of birth as ITS,
one year before America started
caring about the Fourth of
July. and so this figure was
placed in his visa.
Agha, it appears, has given
little attention to his diet dur
ing the century and a half of
life he has lived. but does claim
to have scorned alcohol and
tobacco.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
BARRERE CLUES
SPUR HURT IN
Z Va. TOWNS
Fredericksburg, Whitewater
Reports Say Baker Case
Fugitive Seen in Vicinity

Whipping the Virginia country
side to a high pitch Of excite
ment, the search for Herman
Barrere, the rowing house.painter
wanted in connection with the
Staying Of Mary Baker, has cent
cred In Fredericksburg and Wide
water, Va, in the past "a hours.
A report that Barrere was hid
ing In a Fredericksburg boarding
house brought Commonwealth At
torney w. c. Cloth Of Arlington
county and Detective Thomas
Sweeney of the local police to
that city last night.
No real clue was found, how
ever. and the rumor about a
strange man secreted in q
room" proved to be baseless. The
trail at the same time led to
Whitewater, where the farmers
were aroused over persistent
stories that a man looking like
the published photographs OF the
elusive painter was reported to
be prowling about.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
SENATE APATHY
To D. c. PROBE
IS TOLD
Plea for Senate Quiz Termed
"DupIication" Of the House
Inquiry, Bingham Remarks

Although skeptical that the
House investigating committee, as
constituted, will bulge one iota
from the House position that an
annual allowance of $4,000 900
from the Federal Government to
the Districts expenses Is enough,
If not too much, Senate leaders
are averse to starting an inquiry
by the Senate itself.
Regardless of the outcome Of
the forthcoming investigation of
fiscal relations between the Fed.
eral and District governments.
Senate opinion is that it would
be a duplication of work to have
two Investigations running on
the same subject. The House,
ordering Its own committee of
seven members, ignored sugges-
tions for a joint committee Of
Senators and Representatives,
aided by executive department
experts and civilian appointeeS.
Senator Hiram Bingham (R)
Of Connecticut, chairman of the
District subcommittee of the
Senate Appropriations Commit.
tee. who led the effort to in.
crease the lump sum allowance
from 100000 to $4,000, 900,
with compromise at last on
So. 100000 for this year only. will
adopt an attitude of "watchful
waiting" as the House inquiry
gets under way. When the
House investigation will start is
not known, as practically all Of
the investigators are out Of the
city temporarily.
Senator Bingham said today:
"There appears no dispOsi-
tion to have o separate Senate
investigation of the fiscal rela-
tiOns controversy. It would be
a duplication of effort, al
though it had been suggested
that since the Senate is not
represented ON the inquiry
board it could order q probe Of
its OWn."
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
WRANCLE ST|RS
COURTS WIT

Humor invaded the bench
when Judge Isaac r. Hit. at
Police Court today, told e. viii
Hams. colored. that Bertha
Shorter. also colored, would be
after him with a rolling pin if
he did not behave circumSpectly.
Williams seemed to sense the
merriment and told the court
that Bertha had already chased
him with such q weapon many
times before.
Lewis and Bertha were on the
stand as a result of an alterca
tion over a third party. a woman
in this case, with whom Lewis
had been keeping company. Ber-
tina charged. Bertha resenNng
this, wrangled with Lewis and
he is alleged to have threatened
her life.
Judge Hit seemed to enjoy
the case immensely and told
Lewis that he had better watch
out for Bertha's rolling pin. He
said:
That woman can certainly
take care of herself"
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
WOMAN IS HURT;
DRIVER HELD

Mrs. Ruth w. Bagnall, 81. Of
the 200 block Massachusetts, Ave.
N. W.. was still being held at the
House Of Detention today after
her auto struck and critically in.
jured Mrs. Catherine MATHEWS, so,
of the 800 block B st. S. E. The
injured woman is in Casualty
Hospital suffering from a frac-
ture Of the skull and internal
injuries.
The aged woman was alighting
from a street car at North Capt.
tol Street and Massachusetts
Avenue last night when hit. The
injured woman. it was reported,
was severely hurt in an automo-
bile accident three years ago and
was going to a physicians office
for treatment when the accident
occurred.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
Wilson Completes
30 Years of Service

Thirty years of service in the
District government were COM
pleted today by George S. Viii
son, director of Public Welfare.
At a gathering in his office a
group Of his fellow workers pre-
sented Wilson with a desk set
and q. basket of flowers.
Considerably fluStered, Wilson
asked his associates II he were
TO resign. as he had long made
1t a practice not to accept pres
ents.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
PLANE DROPS
WINGS IN
M|DA|R
Passenger Dies With Former
Student When Craft Strikes
Fence Near Gaithersburg

While his parents and neigh
bors looked on in horror Leonard
Sabine, "a, of Gaithersburg, Nd.
plunged to his death with his
plane and a passenger, Myron
Bennett, 20, of New Haven, was
also killed in a corn field half q
mile from the Sabine home, near
Gaithersburg yesterday.
The Maryland flier and Bennett
had made the trip from Hamilton
Airport, near New Haven, Sabine
was a pilot at the port and he
and his friend Bennett were on
their way to spend their vacation
at the Sabine farm. .
Storms had delayed the trip
several days but yesterday prom
ised ideal flying weather. AS the
blue plane neared the farm where
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester r. Sabine.
the father and mother, waited,
the young pilot diverged enough
to fly over the home Of Seth
Warfield, where lived Eugenia
and Rachel Warfield.
Salute to His Girl
The salute to his boyhood
sweetheart executed, young Sabine
scared towards home. Suddenly
the wings, both upper and lower
of the biplane, dropped off.
With only a portion of the left
wing and his roaring motor sup-
porting him the flier raced his
engine and maneuvered in an
effort to land.
AS the ship touched the ground
its tremendous speed shot it into
fence. Sabine was thrown
from the plane, and when found
was dead.
Bennett, who was riding in the
front cockpit, was crushed to
death as the heavy motor was
showed back upon him.
Among the first to reach the
plane was Sabine'S father and
brother, George. They had heard
the motor as the ship neared and
later the terrific cash as the
plane hit the fence.
Former Tech Student.
Neighbors took the father to
his home and then carried the
mangled bodies to an undertakers
in Gaithersburg.
According to those who wit
messed the rnishap the plane ap-
peared to have broken itself up in
the air, as though from an ex-
ploS1on.
Bits of the ship began raining
on the ground Immediately after
the right wing folded up and fell.
Young Sabine graduated from
Tech High School here in 1928.
He won his letters in football and
baseball at the school and was o
member of the rifle team. He
learned flying at the Dallas (TexD
Flying School.
Besides his mother and father
and brother George, another
brother, Walter, survive.
Funeral arrangements for Sa-
bine will be completed sometime
today. Undertakers are awaiting
a message from BENEFITS parents
In New Haven before making ar
rangements for his funeral. Both
hN6ieS are at fhe R0V RarlAAP
funeral parlors at Laytonsville.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
Boys Club Expects
Bio CrOlUd at Camp

Capacity attendance at the
Boys Club Camp on the Wi
comico River, Mt. Victoria. Md,
is anticipated for the second
period which opens Monday.
Boys between the ages of 8 and
IA may attend.
During the first period. which
started July l, track meets. swim
ming contests and Fourth of
July celebration we're among the
features on the program.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
d. c. Youth Awarded
Alumni Scholarship

Raymond H. Meiners of the
$500 block Georgia Ave. N. W.,
has been awarded an alumni
scholarship to Union College at
Schenectady. N. Y. by the Wash
ington Alumni Association Of the
college, it Was learned here today.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
MESSEBERG PROMOTED

George M. Messeberg. who, for
the past year, has represented
Franklin Surety Company, of
New York. as midtown borough
agent. is to take charge of the
department at the home
office. 123 William st.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11
Phone in News Tips to The TmesWin $50 Weekly Prizes

Do you want to make money for being alert?
If so. The Washington Times presents the oppor-
tunity. Every week total of $50 in prizes will be
given for tips telephoned in to the Newstp Edi-
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The Washington times., 1930-07-11
Senate EvapIOye Is
Sad. NeU Car Gone

Leo RiscaSsi, of the 200 block
Delaware Ave. s. W., employed in
the Senate Office Building, is a
mighty unhappy man today.
Last night he realized one of his
ambitions by purchasing a new
Ford coupe. This morning when
he went to drive the machine to
work he found it had been stolen
from his parking place in front Of
his apartment house.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11

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The Washington times., 1930-07-11
Mode To HAVE
SEA BURIAL

Complying with his dying re-
quest to be buried at sea, the
body of Midshipman Francis H.
Worthington, U. S. NJ, who died
from self-inflicted gun wounds in
a Paris Hotel, July /, will be
buried with appropriate cere-
monies off Cherbourg, France,
from the deck of the battleship
Utah on July 81.
Notification to this effect was
received today by the Navy De-
partment from Rear Admiral w.
r. C1uverius, commander OF the
battleship division now in Euro
pean waters with the midShip-
mems practice cruise.
The Utah has been ordered to
Cherbourg July 80 to receive the
body and rejoin the division at
sea the same afternoon.
Mids p man Worthington's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank H.
Worthington, of Grover, Col, ad-
vised the Navy Department they
concurred in their sons wishes.
The Washington times., 1930-07-11

Twenty-One days left to file your
Personal Tax Return. Army and
Naval Officers should inquire at
District Building as to their tax
able status. ...
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27
Incorporate Yourself

Income tax returns will be due soon. Filing a
return involves valuation of ones self In this proc
eSs it's too bad that citizens not avail themselves
Of the method used by public utilities in determining
the rates they charge.
Say your salary is $4,000 year. If you weren't
caught in the Wall Street crash, $1,000 of this may
have gone into savings payments on the house. or
other investments
The $4,000 is operating expenses and therefore
doesn't count income if the public utility rule is
followed
You entitled to net return of tx or Der
cent according to the supreme courts decision in the
Baltimore street car case SO you'd better capitalize
yourself on the $1,000 net at figure of $125oo
Under the Baltimore precedent you are entitled to
an allowance for depreciaton-for replacement of
yourself We won't apply here the $4,000 figure, how
ever. 1t cost perhaps $4,000 to bring you up put
you through school, and prepare for productive life
Some one else paid the $30,0OO but what of it? We
will figure our depreciation allowance on a Cougar
lie expectancy and productive expectancy remaining
OF about thirty years One thousand dollars is rea
sonable figure. Deduct that from your income
This wipes out your income. You virtually are a
bankrupt. You have none of that surplus over the
regular interest rate to which the supreme court said
the Baltimore company entitled.
This ridiculous calculation is one of those used by
the utility corporations in proving to federal courts
that they need Decent fares and higher water and
electric rates.
Don't try this system on your income tax If YOU
spent as much on lawyers the utility companies do
you would end up real bankrupt, anyway The uti-
es however, charge their lawyers fees to Operating
expenses" along with the cost of fuel and labor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27
Severity or KindneSS2

Apparently there are still people in this country
who are afraid that We are treating our criminals
too gently.
Judge Edwin O. Lewis of Philadelphia, deliver
ing his charge to the January grand jury, warned
the jurors not to be too sentimental when they paid
their regular visit to the countyS penal institutions
A prison. he said. must be strict and hard in order
to cure robbers and murderers of their criminal
leanings.
"A prison sentence of even thirty days is intended
to teach man lesson so that he will not commit
crime again." said the judge
we do not send men to prison to have a happy
holiday. So many of those who have been recently
released have been committing crimes of violencs
that We are more than disposed not to relax
in our duty or to show sentimental tolerance and
sympathy for criminals"
This is all very well, and certainly will
eny that want to protect ourselves against rob-
,ers and murderers in any way we can. The only
rouble is that present regime. which is at least
airy harsh, isn't doing it very well.
Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck of Harvard recently
ded the careers Of 500 criminals in Massachusetts
penal institutions They made interesting dis
coveries among them. the discovery that so per cent
of $40 men discharged from the Massachusetts,
lormatory went right committing crimes after
heir release. And DR.. Richard c. Cabot of Harvard
ommentS on that fact follows:
why should this regime reform anybody? In my
experience there are few tougher and more unyield-
ing structures in the world than bad habit. It does
not change as the result of few months of forced
unpaid and unpaatable labor"
The one essential condition to reformation of
criminal, he says. is:
THAT some one should come to know and to
understand the man in so intimate and friendly
way that he comes TO better understanding of him
self and to a truer comprehension of world he
s1ves IN"
FOR the criminal says Dr.. Cabot, must have q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27
REASON By Ff IaSBIS

a FTER all, it may be that those senators and
L n representatives who sought to tie to the
eighteenth amendment on the tenth anniversary of
its adoption were only striving to observe in ap-
propriate fashion the tin wedding of Uncle Sam
and prohibition.
1t is very appropriate for Will Rogers to attend
the naval disarmament conference at London for it
is all joke, since aviation already has scrapped the
very ships which the visiting statesmen propose
to scrap.
This parrot fever has been deadly because
something must be terribly wrong with a fellow be-
fore he's willing to have parrot about the house.
THIS kidnapping of Admiral Yang Shu-C huang
i from a dinner in Foochow must fill Mrs Gam
with horrible fear of what the followers of Alice
Roosevelt Longworth may do to her
The criminal lawyers of the United States will read
with unspeakable indignation that five bandits were
shot in Mexico Immediately after they hac held up
number of tourists
These ex-nayors who have recently returned to the
practice OF law will find their libraries dusty their pre-
cedents overrued and their clients hopelessly scat
tered
Law and politics do not go together
health authority announces that all money is
full of microbes and that almost all of our diseases
caused by the handling of it.
If this be true. what cinch it would be TO organ
ze life insurance company and issue policies to
nobody but farnersl
D REPRESENTATIVE JAMES NJ BECK of Ptila-
~ delphia informs the Indiana Bar Association
that the United States senates refusal to admit
Smith of Illinois and Ware Of Pennsylvania the
most deadly blow dealt American liberty
Yep, as result of that action. millions of us
are going around dragging our chains.
Jacob Gould Schurrlan cur retiring arnb.s sado-
Germany, has just been elected an extraor5inar.
senator of the German academy
We hope hen hurry home for we have very few
extraordinary senator's In this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27
A Sure Test

NOW, surely, most of this is a
~ little out of proportion, and I
think I know the reason. 1 am
strengthened in my feeling that
many people in the south are wrong
on many phases Of the Negro prob
lem. People who know down deep
in their hearts that they are right,
could never be so touchy.
There was one letter from south
ern woman quite different in its
tone:
IT didn't know that you were an
enemy of the south; in fact, I don't
believe It," writes Miss x, "but do
think that probably you don't en-
tirely understand them-their shah
by gentlity and their bitter pride.
"It must be that any conquered
people, assuming that they possess
spirit, gather some remnant Of their
past about them, to clothe their self
respect. When I first came to New
York to live, several years ago, the
city seemed SO much more vulgar
and raucous than it seems to me
now. I used to pity the rich har-
nessmakers and their wives. loaded
with diamonds, because their grand
parents were not the Is Of Viz
ginia or the BIS of Kentucky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27
The Better Politics

Politicians see some significance in the invitation
to Governor Leslie to attend a reception at the
White House and glibly surnise that the President
intends to transform the Governor and two senators
into a harmonious triumvirate to rule Repubhcanlsm
in the state out Of a querulous trio lighting 1or
power.
The chances are that the President would be the
most surprised at such an Interpretation OF an IN
itation to high state official in whom he probably
fnds an interesting and congenial companion
Were he to interest himself in the state of his
arty in Indiana his engineering mind would I'M
uestionably lead him to a much more scientific Solu-
on than merely trying to compose the conflicting
spratons of ambitious
II there is danger to his party in this state, ne
ould know that it did not from any lack OF
arrnony among the leaders, but from more deep
,ated cause. And he would look for the cause.
He would discover for instance, that the misuse
f such power as has been held by the Republican
achine its lack of courage or conscience in repelng
lsidious venal influences its marriage to Stephen
1nism, had caused great and wide distrust.
The mind of Hoover would inevitably lead him to
n effort to bring back the to the party through
,reater public respect and confidence and not by
cabling high officials whose grip leadership is
more than doubtful into good humor with each other
The best politics would lead to vigorous in
vestigaton of election conditions in the Calumet dis
trict.
Thus far the efforts of the federal government have
failed most amentaby in the prosecution of patent
and open corruption Of the ballot and the overthrow
Of the representative form of government through
fraud.
The fact that the government did convict Off
Gals of of the Calumet cities for conspiracy to
protect bootleggers will hardly suffice to draw atten
ton from the fact that the inquiry demanded and
forced by public opinion directed to the introduce
ton of truck loads of imported voters from Chicago
not truck loads of beer from Detroit
If there to be political clinic Indiana let it
be hoped that the President will ask cooperation of
the senators and Governor in tracing down the cleo
ton crooks and in restoring popular government to
the state. Such effort would rehabtate the party
and the voters would accept without protest lead
ership that would sincerely devote itself this
Such decision would than agree
ment the appointment of the next internal
collector.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27
A Consumers Victory

Shoes and hides will remain the free list in the
new tariff bill, the senate has decided
The 10 per cent duty hides and the 20 per cent
duty on shoes voted the house and approved by the
senate finance committee have been rejected on the
senate floor.
Senators from eastern industrial states insisted that
hoe manufacturers, confronted with overproduction
and ruinous competition from Europe must have pro-
lection to survive They wanted little or no duty on
hides
Senators from the agricultural west insisted that
the 10 per cent duty hides would be of little or no
value to farmers but that the duty on shoes would In
crease their cost materially. They recalled that the
primary purpose of the tariff revision was to aid
farmers and sought to double Or treble the rate This
the eastern senators would not agree to.
Seldom have the renconciable differences between
industry and agriculture been outlined so clearly Each
sroup was fearful that tile other would gain at its ex
pense Neither could have profted materially without
hurting the other
The net result is that the vast mass of consumers
Tor once are the gamers. AS consequence of the
deadlock the nation will be saved some 500 900 900
or Sl500O000O year In its shoe bill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27

Communism Is the Jungle
Come to Judgment, the
Caveman With q Club IN
HIS Hand.
SAYS:

GONE ten days ago, Steve Ka-
~ tovis, a young Communist, was
shot by New York police during a
riot in connection with the Bronx
market strike.
Last Friday he died.
AS a tribute to his "martyrdom.
the Communists decided to stage a
demonstration in City Hall park
the following day.
They arrived just before l o'clock
three or four hundred strong, &C
cording to some reports, but as
many as a thousands, according to
others.
The discrepancy is explained by
the fact that even the police
couldn't tell Communists from
spectators, and that the latter out
numbered the former by fifteen or
twenty to one.
The presence of so many spec
tators speaks for itself.
1t generally was understood that
the demonstration would be staged,
and that trouble would result.
The size of the crowd caused the
police, of which about $50 were on
the ground, to swell with both
with pride and alarm.
A writer in the New York World
describes the finale as the greatest
show in City Hall park since Lind
bergh came home.