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The Washington times., 1930-08-18
D. C.. Food Prices Decline
10 Per Cent in Year
Times Staff Photo

prices will show a marked UP
ward tendency.
During the month, 26 food
articles decreased in price, with
potatoes and cabbage topping the
list with a 81 per cent decline.
Other decreases were:
Plate beef, z per cent; Chuck
roast and oranges, S per cent:
round steak, hens, flour and
prunes, 4 per cent; Sirloin steak
and rib roast, 3 per cent; leg Of
lamb, cheese, lard, onions, 2 per
cent: fresh and evaporated milk,
macaroni,. canned corn and peas,
raisins and bananas, ] per cent.
Fresh eggs jumped 4 per cent In
price, while butter increased / per
cent, and canned salmon less than
5-10 Of per cent.
The Washington times., 1930-08-18

Used cars, offering unused Transports
tiOn. can be purchased at . low cost
from dealers advertising In Classified
The Washington times., 1930-08-18
TWO FACE DRUG
SALE TRIALS

Richard Harold Epps, colored.
IS, TOO block Morton st. N. W.,
and James Everett Brawner, %,
1400 block T st. N. W., will be
arraigned before United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turn
age late today on charges Of
selling narcotics.
They were arrested Saturday
by Detective Daniel Fl. Jones and
Federal Agents II. w. Sterling
and c. D. Fortner, after alleged
purchases by informers.
Brawner was arrested at his
home and Epps in the 900 block
Of v st. N. w. Neither man
had narcotics In his possession.
The Washington times., 1930-08-18
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The Washington times., 1930-08-18
z FARMERS SHE
NAMED PUT
ON BONDS
Unity (Md.) Miss ReCounts
Strange Tale; Held BY
Woman; Prisoner 3 Days

Reading like q chapter in a
thriller" another event in the
life Of Retha Smith, 16, farm
girl. Of Unity, Md, was unfolded
last night after she had returned
to her family after being kid
naped August 8.
The girl has had a colorful
life since last July, when she
declares that she was tricked into
80 fake marriage and police are
investigating to determine il
there Is any connection between
the kidnapping and the threat
ened prosecution which followed
the marriage"
Appealed for Aid
The girl told her parents that
on August 8 she was abducted
by two men who overpowered
her near her home and took her
to . strange city In an automo-
bile. They left her at a board
? ing house, she declared, after
threatening to kill her If she
said anything about her expert
ence. She remained at the house
three days, she said, finally ap.
pealipg to the landlady to he
returned to her home.
The request was refused, &C.
cording to the girls story, until
yesterday, when newspapers car
ried stories Of the Statewide
search for her. Then, Retha
said, the landlady placed her in
"a car and drove her to a point
near the home of the Smith girls
sister, Mrs. Florence White, near
Unity, where she let her out and.
drove away. The girl said that
the men did not harm her and
that the landlady gave her a new
dress.
Retha's adventures began last
July when she charges that she
was tricked into a fraudulent
marriage with Kenneth Higgins,
%, Of near Brookville, Md. The
girl said that Higgins one night
proposed and she accepted. They
drove, according to her story, to
the home Of Jennings Bazzell, q
garage keeper. She charges that
, Higgins talked. to BazZe1l a few
minutes and then returned to
the car with a scrap Of paper.
Marriage Faxed
The girl said that Bazzell then
came to the car, "Said a few
words" over them and left.
Thinking she was married, the
girl went to live with Higgins.
Investigation by her parents the
next day revealed that no mar.
riage certificate had been issued
and had Higgins and Bazzell ar.
hreSted. They are at liberty on
bond Of $1,000 each on charges
of perpetrating q fake marriage.
The Smiths declare that threats
OF violence followed the mems
arrest, and that they were told
that Retha would never be able
to get to court" to press the
charges. The girls family be-
lieve that the kidnapping Of
August 8 is an outgrowth of the
threats, but the men whom the
girl says abducted her, who live
on q farm some IL miles away,
are not thought to be friends Of
the men involved in the alleged
fake marriage.
The Washington times., 1930-08-18
YOUTH TRAPPED
AS BURGLAR

Grant Lumpkin, 1S, colored, Of
the First block Myrtle st. N. E.,
was arrested early today by De-
tective Sergeant John DalgliSh,
who lay in wait for the prowler
on the third floor of the VentoSa
Apartment house, at First and v
Streets. Northwest.
Dalglish visited the apartment
house following reports Of tenants
that apartments had been entered
during the night by q sneak thief
who had made off with $40 in
money and personal effects Of the
tenants.
Dalglish's vigil ended shortly af-
ter midnight when he says he
caught Lumpkin in the act Of
opening an apartment door.
The Washington times., 1930-08-18
Dr0pery Workshop
PrOLideS $500 Fire

A fire Of undetermined origin
broke out last night in a drapery
establishment conducted by Phil
lip Marlowe, 700 block Tenth st.
N. W., and wrought damages
estimated at $500.
The flames were discovered by
Marlowe and were confined to the
workshop rooms on the first floor
Of the threestory building.
The Washington times., 1930-08-18
First Plane ArTiUeS
In NeU Air SerDice

The Eastern Air Transport, Inc,
today began a new daily paSSen.
ger service between Washington
and New York. The first plane
brought six passengers.
A committee Of the Washington
Chamber Of Commerce, consisting
of Rudolph Jose, Charles n.
Frame, Lieut.. Walter Hinton,
Greed w. Fulton, c. w. Creitag
and Paul j. Leberone, met the
plane at Washington Airport.
The Washington times., 1930-08-18
P.U.C.LET7ER
COMES BACK
IN MAILS
District Heads to Be Asked
To Tighten Up on Issue Of
Tags as. Public Protection

OF 1901 H-tags issued to taxi
cab drivers here, Is per cent
were found today by the Public
Utilities Commission to be listed
at false addresses
This announcement, after city
wide protest that the commission
cannot assume more power in
regulating taxicab policies in the
District, followed the sending .
short time ago Of blanks for the
owners to fill out and calling for
financial statements.
Monthly Reports
Although the Public Utilities
Commission has been checked in
forcing taxicab owners to comply
with the entire code passed q
year ago, it is endeavoring to
establish it's rights in enforcing
certain sections, one Of which is
that cab drivers must furnish
monthly statements Of operating
expense and income" and OF
accidents.
Superintendent Of Licenses
Wade CoombS supplied the COM
mission with names and ad-
dresses of all cab owners, and
1000 letters we're sent out by the
utilities body.
The names Of all delinquent
taxicab owners will be turned
over to Sergt. Joseph D. Har-
| rington, of the Traffic Bureau.
| for investigation, and legal ac-
ton will be taken where neces-
Sary.
Check on Licenses
Indications are that the COM
mission will appeal to the Dis
trict Commissioners at once and
ask that measures be taken in
granting n tags so that such a
condition cannot exist.
A week ago Sergeant Harrirng-
ton and Vice Chairman Harleigh
Hartman, of the Public Utilities
Commission, agreed to cooperate
in the granting Of further tags,
and the present move will be to
check the issuance Of any licenses
from CoombS' office without the
sanction Of police officials.
The Washington times., 1930-08-18
Community Sing
Set for TOninht

There will be a community
sing and moving picture enter
tainment tonight at o'clock in
the Rock Creek Parkway, Twenty
seventh Street between N and o
SITS. N. w.
The Washington times., 1930-08-18
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.@.< RETHA AND FLORENCE SMITH
CHARGING that she abducted by two men and
held in strange city for three days Retha Smith, 16,
returned to her sisters home at Unity Nd, yesterday.
Here she is with her sister, Mrs. Florence Whoit.
Retha will appear in court next month against two
charging she had been tricked into fake marriage.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13

an organization write to w. M. Mccall, Paul Jones, Edward Rid ley or Patrick Gildea, Ketchikan and they will take steps to give further information. These men are the Committee on Organ.za tion Of this Association.
 It is we'll to remember that it was this organization which at tempted to present it's objections to the "hook-of" rule promul- gated by Henry O'Malley. And it was the snubbing they received at his hands that forced the Czar of Alaska's fisheries into a de- fensive position and which forc- ed the resembling of the rule. l. is not large in numbers-yet- but what it lacks in size it makes up in determination. In organ zation there is strength. It is time the fishermen gained their full strength and fought their own battles instead of leaving It to the Alaska Native Brother hood and it's auxiliary, the Sis terhood. There are many prob lems coming up in the immedi- ate future. These will have to be met and only through directed and united effort will any good be accomplished.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13
4 Worthy Organization

is not superintendent who will tell his fishermen what he WILL pay. When approached, his an SWer always is: T will pay just as much as "-" cannery will pay" And the boob fishermen go off and fish at that price.
 The Seiners' Association is not one to merely blackjack the can her into paying prices out of pro
 portion to cost of production. All
 they ask for is a decent living
 wage and to that they are en-
 titled. Every fisherman should
 join this organization and give it
 his support. The packers have
 their "canner's association" and
 they work in unity and harmony and they have assessments for lobbying and other reasons. They have found that united effort pays them dividends and it is time that the seiners took a leaf out of the packers book.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13

enclrcling nets, consisting of 9 webbing Of network provided with corks or floats at the uppe edge, and with leads of greater or less weight at the lower, and used to inclose a certain area of water, and by bringing the ends together, either in . boat or on the shore, to secure the fish in closed. The present day seine is limited to 10 fathomS in depth and 25O fathoms in length over all. Purse lines, to close up the seine as ''zipper" on a bag, is and must be used under the re- gulations.
 A gillnet is one which catches fish by the gills. A gillnet is set in the form of curtain, sus- pended vertically from floats on the surface of the water by means of lead weights. The meshes are of such size as to catch by its gills a fish which tries to force it's way through, the fish being prevented from ad- vancing by the narrowness of the meshes, and from backing out by the impossibility of working the protecting plates over the twine iof the meShes.
 It is a physical impossibility to make 9 seine out of a gillnet Such nets have been used .n the catching of salmon by encircling the fish and splashing in the
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13

circle and driving the salmon into the meshes. But to purse, a gillnet is an impossibility from the very nature of the net.
 So that the understanding of gillnetters is that only purse seines prescribed by O'Malleys regulations may be used in the taking of humps, dogs, echoes and sockeye in waters otherwise open to other gear.
 Tn all of his contentious, in his administration of the fisher ies of Alaska, OMalley declares that kind of gear has no part in the question of conservation of fisheries. Either he has deliber- .ately lied about the matter or he is ignorant of the effect of his regulations. For limitation of .seines as to depth and length is ia prohibition against a certain kind of gear; prohibition against the use of gillnets in taking of the different species of salmon is restriction of another class of gear; limitation of the catching, taking or killing of salmon under ISiX pounds by troll is a decIara- tion against another kind of gear.
 Bear in mind that the seiner, Ithe gillnetter and the troller is forced to carry full burden of all conservation measures. The trap is not prohibited from taking
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13

In the spring of 1929, the seiners of Ketchikan formed an organization for the purpose of benefitting and assisting those persons engaged in that branch of the fishing industry. Bliefly the aim and object of the asso- citation is To protect the resi- dent seiner, as far as possible, by means which will enable them to get better prices for their fish; To improve conditions generally and establish uniform prices for seine fish in the different dis tricts.
 Under the present system, the prices vary in each district; in no district save Ketchikan, do the fishermen know what they are going to get until after they have brought in several loads of salmon and sometimes not until the season is over do they know what they are working for.
 There is not one cannery su- perintendent that does not know at this time what he will pay for salmon this summer; BUT there
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13
Don't Fight, Gentlemen

iron hued mess that ill befitS ;.ny
 self-respecting man
 What then will we do about it? Why not protest as a Chamber of Commerce, as individual business houses, as individual citizens? Petersburg is entitled to more roads; the West Coast needs a road from Craig to Klawock; !; a road is needed across Prince ol Wales Island from certain stra- getic points to Obviate the ne- cessity and rig0rs of travel around Cape ChacOn or the long, CT trip around the north end Of this same island; Rake needs a road from town to the cannery. and the list can be made longer.
 Passive resistance to the au- tocratic government by bureaus has not gotten the smaller com munities the benefits from tho forest funds. Active insistance by the two larger towns secures for them the major allotments for their highways. It is time that the people awakened to the discriminations practiced and set forth their objections like men.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13

Ketchikan is to receive this year from the Alaska Forest Fund, $115,OOO out of $20O,000; Juneau is to receive $75,000 and the balance of the Territory is to receive $10,000.
 One would believe that Ket- chikan and Juneau were 90 per cent of the Territory and entitl- ed to all of the forest funds save the chicken feed that has been allotted to the rest of Alaska.
 Is 1t Bribery
 When told of the distribution of this money from the national forests, an old Alaskan asked: "Is the $115,OOO to Ketchikan and $75,OOO to Juneau grease" to get the influential citizens to support the bureaucratic system in Alaska? If it isn't, then what is it for"? There are citizens in Peters burg who object to any aggress- i've effort towards securing mon ey for Petersburg projects. They prefer Ghandi's passive resist ance. Sizing some citizens up in the light of events, it strikes one that this passive resistance is nothing more than a smelly saf-.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13
Thou Shalt Not

Thou shalt not use a gillnet as 3 seine, is a recent prohibition set forth in O'Malley's Alaska bible.
 When is a gillnet used as a seine, asks a gillnetter? When is gillnet and when is it a seine asks another?
 A seine is kind of net used in taking fish; one of the class
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13
Fishermen and Friends Should Read Betueen
 The Lines Of the Unfriendly Paper

The plunderbund of Juneau with it's ''blOc" of federal mass voters whipsaw the residents of the Territory to any tunes they desire. On the one hand they take credit for the passage of the Alien TrOller tax and on the Oth- CT hand, they are opposed to it.
 An editorial in the Empire un- der the caption Power to Tax is Power to Conf1scate" that paper said" Tax laws may be and often are in practice noticeably in equitable and at the same time unaSsailable on the ground of violation of constitutions limita- tiOnS."
 The power of the Alaska Legis- lature to impose taxes is very broad. And it is a power that can easily be abused to the dctri- ment of the whole community. For that reason, it behooves the responsible citizens of the Terri tory, people who own property or have ambitions to become property owners, to exercise the greatest possible care in the se- lection of their legislators to the end that the taxing power be wisely exercised"
 This statement was made in connection with Judge Harding's
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13
Ethics Of fife Empire

Tt (the Juneau Empire) vii. mot throw mud at any candi-
 date"
 Considering the private life o1
 the editor and the managing ed ltor, this is a very wise resolu-
 Jion. And yet, considering tnt fact that the people of Juneau know the sort it is, we are con-
 oinually aStoniShed that these cultured people of Juneau (we mean those who live on ChicAel. -tidge) should accept their po-
 iCIcs from that source.
 Tt has always objected tt mudslinging"
 That may be as to the printing part because of the laws of libel. But the managing staff of the Empire has not heSitated to spread islander.
 From the tenor of the .poIit- ical diatribeS in the Petersburg Indian organ, it's organization may not be so scrupuIouS."
 We remember very we'll that the Empire printed Con the eve of election) in big scare lines that WickerSham and Suther- land had endorsed William L. Paul as the next Delegate to Congress-a fact that the Elm pire knew to be deliberate fa- orication. In a conversation with 2. L. Bernard, part owner of the Empire, he made the excuse that the "He came from Ketchikan and we gave him (the sender) h-ll for doing so." He was then asked 'SWhy didn't you correct the lie? You had time before electioh"? To which MT. Ser hard said that he thought that it should have been done but T am not the editor"
 The fact remains that the Elm pire violated the code of the pro- fession in deliberately publish ing a lie to accomplish a polit- lcaI purpose. Granting that it had an excuse, that excuse is Of no avail because after it knew the truth it refused or lacked the honor to correct it's prevarica- ton.
 And yet the Empire draws the line at "mudslinging." It will stand for the publication of lies, but not for mudsIinging which may be true but too revealing.
 The Lie Is 3 Habit
 Another lie that is well re- membered relates to the special | which that same notori- ously unethcal publication print 7d the day before the last gen. 7ral election, charging that Will jam L. Paul had betrayed" his people for $6,OOO. ]
 This was and is dirty, de- iberate and a contemptible lie The honorable staff of the Ju- leau Daily Ethical publication < that there was no betray- I. s
 The thing that Paul proposed i Q do did not and does not touch 3 ny of the issues involved in the of his people, but merely il
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13

decision in the tax case inStitut-
 ed by the Seattle TollerS' Asso-
 cation. It is as plain as the administration" organ dares be on this subject but it is plain to anyone reading it carefully that tax laws are noticeably INEQUITABLE and at the sam time unasSailable on the ground of violation of constitutional linn itations." The Empire is opposed to the trollers' tax and only fear of political reprisal by the elect crate prevents them from com ing out in open opposition.
 At this time, in spite of the de ciSion rendered by Judge Hard ing and in spite of the fact thai we are not lawyers, we assert that the tax on alien (non-resi- dent) trollers is unconstitution~ al, notwithstanding the recent decision upholding the law.
 The decision as applicable to the law introduced by William [. Paul in 1925 would hold-but not under the law introduced by Senator Benjamin and amended by Representative ziegler. That law will have to be rewritten and it will be an issue in the next campaign.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13

concerned a struggle between quarreling trap owners.
 When the Ethical Editors with their Ethical publication SUD- ported John Rustgard's candi- dacy and printed and published his platform, why didn't they publish the fact that Rustgard on the question of the trap lease endorsed the position that the leases be given by the govern ment with the power to regulate reserved to the government. Paul assumed that same position last year with the further prohibition that the government reserve to itself the right to further re- strict, regulate or abolish the fish trap"
 It is 3 matter of peculiar ethics which condemns Paul as being a traitor, but praises Rustgard as 9 statesmen that does not touch the question of the traps abol- iShment.
 If a trap site were leased, is there anything to hinder the government, if it wished, to abol- ish the trap? Absolutely nothing. Wherein does the betrayal come in?
 It does not come in except as bait to the minimizing.
 Just Plain Annanais
 Another instance relates to the false presentation of political issues. To the Federal Daily, the issue is the race question. On this issue, the people of Juneau seem to respond.
 But Is it the question?
 How can a 100 per cent Ameri- can say that it is
 Does an issue become bad when by Indians?
 Let us be Americans III!
 Let us discuss ISSUES.
 The chief difference between the denunciation of Bureaucracy by MT. Coolidge, MT. Hoover and Mir. Lamont is this-we are will ing to abolish particular bureaus at once while MT. Coolidge, MT. Hoover and Mir. Lamont are sat sf1ed to denOunce the system and then resist it's application.
 Is the issue our fisheries? hi which the Indians of Alaska have consistently charged MT. Henry )'Malley with discriminatory lcti0ns to the detriment of ALL .esident fishermen? MT. O'Mal- ty himself answers the charge md admits his guilt in official publication. Tn his reports he | leclares that in 1924 the seines lsed by all classes of resident lshermen, caught 38 per cent of he total salmon catch while the raps (gear used by MT. O'MaI- ey's patrons) caught 51 per ent. FOUR YEARS LATER. MT )'Malley reports that the resi- ent seiners caught ONLY g ger cent of the total pack while he trap catch INCREASED to l per cent BUT the average 'ack remained the same, 5,3OO.- % eases. Tn other words, while he obnoxious regulations were 'ublished ostensibIy in the lame of CONSERVATION" yet here was no curtailment in the ack-theaverage pack for the our years preceding Year I of >ing O'Malley's reign is within O,0OO cases of the pack of the f the subsequent four years fol- owing the reign of his lordship.
 Wherein is the conservation?
 Who is being deceived? And y whom?
 The Indians were hurt first. he resident white fishermen
The Alaskan., 1930-06-13
Are you Interested?

If you are interested in such
New Britain herald., 1930-01-09

A light broke over his face. on. oi course - youn have to forgive me. I'm afraid I'm terribly crude But here's Douglas" He touched her hand: for q moment their eyes met and Clung.
 Anne turned away little dizZily from that long glance, as the at torney came up and Glenn released her hand. The men bowed, not any too cordially, She guessed that they were already acquainted.
 "A thrIsand thanks for the waltz" Glenn murmured 10 her. then with q brief nod Of farewell to Douglas, moved off across the porch.
 Unmindful of the presence of her official escort, Anne watched un-!I he disappeared in the darkness.
 Copyright, Ruth Cross) Stirred by old impulses Anne for gets her promises and seeks q "her, mit's hut Continue the story 10. morrow.