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The Washington times., 1930-03-20
School For Illiterates
Opens in Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 20.
The city school board last night
approved the school for illiterates
which has been started in Lee
Building. Glasses will be held
four nights week. and the teach
ers are giving their services free.
The school opened Monday with
eight students, among them q
mother and daughter.
The board voted to accept the
flag for Maury School which was
offered by j. H. Trimyer on be.
half of the Order Of Fraternal
Americans.
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
Todqy;s Best
Mews Laugh

The Doheny jury is barred
from radio listening-and is
somewhat piqued about 1t.
Justice William Hitz, pre-
siding at the oil mans
bribery trial in District Su.
preme Court, before the jury
came in this morning jocu-
Iarly informed counsel that
the jury resented the fact
it had been deprived of its
nightly Amos m Andy"
The ban was put into ef-
feet to prevent the jury'S
hearing any possible infOrma-
ton about the trial over the
air..
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
Mt. Vernon Boulevard
Begun by Contractor

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 20.
The contractor, who yesterday
started work on grading for the
Mt. Vernon Boulevard, will en-
ploy 200 men when all the
machinery for the work is started.
This. it is hoped, will relieve the
unemployment situation in the
city.
The first shovelful of dirt for
the Boulevard was moved yester-
day morning with no ceremonies
and was witnessed by only a few
workmen and w. B. McGroarity,
industrial agent for the Southern
Railway Company.
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
80 SEEK BERTH.DRUNK DRIVING
ON HIGH COURT NETS 500 FINE

CONTINUED from Page I.)
Of his own State before he came
to the Senate, and there would
be no question of his confirma-
ton, a consideration that Mr..
Hoover is taking into account.
Backers Of Senator George have
the additional ground that the
appointment should go to the
South, there being but one south
erner now left on the bench, JUS
tice McReynolds, of Tennessee,
And there are but two Democrats,
McReynoldS and Brandeis, which
the Democrats contend is not
adequate representation. even
though the bench is supposed to
be above party labels.
The principal argument ad-
vanced against the Georgian. how
ever, is that he voted against JUS
tice Hughes confirmation. More
over, he spoke against it, and
it has been widely reported that
President Hoover has determined
to appoint no man to sit along
side the Chief Justice who voted
against him.
Judge Kenyon, now member
Of the Wickersham Law Enforce
ment Commission, is receiving the
solid backing of the Mid-Western
progresSives, Of whom he was one
in the Senate. AS in Georges
case, there would be no question
Of his confirmation.
There also is strong Democratic
support for ex-Secretary of War
Newton D. Baker, and John w.
Davis. the Democratic presiden-
tial nominee in 1924.
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
2 COnvicts Found Guilty
OF Staying Detective

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March
20 Q.N.S). - Watson Moulthorpe
and Leland Lalone, escoped Con-
necticut convicts charged with
the murder Of City Detective w.
D. Smith in q gun battle here
January II. were found guilty of
firSt-degree murder with q recon-
mendation ot mercy yesterday.
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
Norman Rockwell Plans
To Wed California Girl

LOS ANGELES, March 20
GN.SO-Norman Rockwell, noted
artist, and Miss Mary R. Bar
stow. of Alhambra, Calf, today
filed notice Of intention to wed.
The ceremony is planned for the
latter part of April.
RockwelrS first marriage was
recently dissolved In the Reno
diROrca courts I
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
James Dean, 62, ex-COp,
Suffers Fatal Stroke

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 20
James Dean, So, a former police.
man, died at the Alexandria Hos
pital. He suffered a paralysis
stroke while walking on North
Royal Street yesterday evening.
He is survived by a sister who
lives in Washington.
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
Capt. Robert Dollar, S6,
Works on Birthday

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20
Q.N.S.).-Capt. Robert Dollar,
dean of the Pacific Coast ship
ping industry, will celebrate his
86th birthday today. But, as
The Washington times., 1930-03-20

usual, he will
be found at
his office do
ing his cuSto-
mary work.
Is he think
ing of retir-
ing? Not at
all. He said
the word ere
tire" was not
in his diction-
ary.
II am chuck
full of en-
ergy," he said.
II like to
-..I- y A-T
The Washington times., 1930-03-20

made la n S
today to leave
Sunday or
Miami, from
where tn e y
will sail for
a scientific
cruise to the
Galapagos Is
lands.
They will
explore 1nde-
fatigable Is
! a n d, S a ! d
never to have
been pc n e
trated.
z Z L
The Washington times., 1930-03-20

sonaI appear. GAMMA WALsKA
a11ces where he sold perfumes.
He claimed in his suit the
singer invested only $50, 900 and
failed otherwise to live up to
the agreement.
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
Nine. Gamma W0Lska
IL Sued by Perfun1er

NEW YORK, March 20
0.N.S0 Entry of Nine. Gamma
WalSka into the perfumery
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
England Cuts Bank Rate
From 4 to 81 P. C.,

LONDON, March 20 QNS).-
The Bank Of England today an
nounced Q reduction Of the bank
'sate from 4 10 ~ Per ssnk
The Washington times., 1930-03-20

b u in e s S
brought her
a $4,000 dam
age suit to-
day. Emile v.
Dutcheon, q
p erf u m e r,
charged tn e
opera singer
had failed to
keep an agree
nlent W it h
him to invest
$125.000 in a
p erfu m cry
business and
m Ike err
nAAAl A~AAAA
The Washington times., 1930-03-20

Les The Times Classified Ads d.
rect you 10 your future hOma -. i.
Eead the EoR SALE 0OIumns.
The Washington times., 1930-03-20

CAPT. DOLLAR. work. I feel
as fit today as I did when I
was so years old. and I believe
I have a greater capacity for
work now than I did then"
To be fit at the age of SO,
Capt. Dollar advises:
Eat sanely, sleep at least
eight hours q night and don't
be afraid Of work"
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
the Things
They Do

AstOr and Vanderbilt Plan
Exploration of Pacific Isle
NEW YORK, March 20
QN.S0.-Vincent AStor and a
party Of explorers and friends
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
An Unemployment Answer

with the failure of business conditions to swing
sbarnv inward in Nav and the billion-dollar tariff
bill causing foreign nations to close our export mar
kets it is admitted generally that must begin to
plan now to cope with the unemployment problem OF
next fall and winter
No amount of optimistic forecasts can relieve the
country of that responsibility. Even with improved
conditions unemployment will remain serious prob
lem for some time In this emergency it is highly i'm
portant that the house pass and the President sign
the senate Wagner bill.
They provide for adequate monthly federal en-
poyment statistics, for advance planning and stag
gering of public construction works. and for COM
pete system of federal employment exchanges CO.
operating with similar state agencies
It also is necessary that individual communities
follow the example of Cincinnati and other progressive
cities in stablizng employment and caring for the
remaining labor surplus.
But in the long run the problem can be solved
under our form of government only through the
initiative and courage of industry itself Business and
labor leaders will profit by studying the experience of
the mems clothing industry.
Just before the 1922 depression, the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers Union put its research de-
partment to work upon unemployment insurance
plan. When the plan perfected it was accepted
by the Chicago employers and put into operation.
fund IL per cent of the total pay roll, making per
cent In 1929 the employers raised their share an ad
dtional 4 per cent making the fund total Az per
cent of the pay roll.
Since 1924 nearly 100000 of that fund has been
distributed as unemployment insurance in the Chi
cago market alone The plan is also in operation in
New York City and Rochester.
This system is to be extended to all the unionized
mems clothing markets of the United States and
Canada under resolution passed by the Amalga-
mated at its biennial convention just closed in To-
ronto In speaking of its success, President Hilman
Of the union said:
IF all industries in the United States had had the
same provision for unemployment insurance as we
have in Chcago-surely the automobile industry, the
steel industry and other industries like them which
count their profits in hundreds of millions of dollars
could have made at least the same provision-there
would Lave been today more than one billion dollars
IN reserve to meet the problem of unemployment. We
hen could been spared the terrible catastrophe
onfronting so many people
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23

TIME new traffic rules in New
Il York for pedestrians are less
onerous than I feared. Nothing is
said about the wearing of a red
light, nor is there nay provision that
we can be hauled off to city garage
if we park for more than five min
utes.
AS a matter of fact, most of the
changes in the daily life of the
town which are hailed as extremely
radical make little difference in the
end. It is customary to talk of the
mad pace of the city and OF the
constant stream of innovations.
Structurally, to be sure, the as
pect of Manhattan does shift about
with great rapidity but essentially
things go on much the same.
The man or women who has been
absent for ten years or so will mo
a different skyline. Some restau-
rant has been closed and moved
around the corner. Two or three
theaters have been torn down and
many more changed into picture
houses.
Still. the returned traveller need
have no great difficulty in orient
ing himself. There always will be
Grants tomb, the aquarium, and
Texas Guinan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
Questions and
AnS7OeYS

Where does the Western Union
obtain its standard time for the
clocks it operates?
From the United States Naval
Observatory. The time is obtained
by observations of stars from a Sc
lected list of about $50 clock stars.
These are stars whose positions are
known to high degree of percision,
and whose apparent places from
day to day are given in the Ameri-
can EphemeriS, and are therefore,
readily obtainable. Only stars which
cross the meridian within 20 degrees
of the zenith are included in order
that the azimuth error may be
small. The observations are made
with a transit instrument, six stars
being observed each night, three
north and three south of the zenith.
The standard clocks at the observa-
tory, three in number, are mounted
on separate brick piers in the clock
vault. Each pier weighs approx
mately 1000 pounds and rests upon
a solid concrete base extending
some distance into the ground.
Why do clouds seem to move in
a direction different from that in
which the wind is blowing?
Because, while the current of air
at the earth's surface may be NOV
ing in one direction, at higher al
titudes it may be blowing in the
opposite or different direction.
Sometimes it is even observed that
a low lying layers of clouds may be
moving in one direction, and an up
per or higher layer Of clouds will be
moving in another direction; more
often they are moving in the same
direction, but an upper layer may
be moving much faster or slower
than a lower layer.
How can Fahrenheit temperature
be reduced to Centigrade and Cent?
grade to Fahrenheit?
To reduce from the Fahrenheit to
the Centigrade scale, first find how
many Fahrenheit degrees the given
temperature is above or below the
freezing temperature and then null
tiply by f1ve-ninths. To reduce from
Centrigrade to Fahrenheit, first
multiply by nine-fifths in order to
find how many Fahrenheit degrees
the given temperature is above OF
below the freezing temperature
Knowing no war it is from the
freezing point, it viii be easy to fine
how far it is from Zero degree
Fahrenheit, which is 80 degrees be-
low Fahrenheit freezing point.
How much would an airplane
capable Of crossing the Atlantic and
the Pacific cost?
The minimum price of an airplane
capable of crossing the Atlantic is
about thirteen thousand dollors. TIC
cross the Pacific ocean it would bs
necessary to have a plane costing
about sky to seventy thousand
dollars or more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
REASON By Ff kERPFs

TENHERE may be some provocation for a Iynching
after the commission "a heinous crime in a
region where laws are not enforced but there not
the shadow Of provocation for this mob in Sherman
Tex, for there was not possibility of the victims
escaping the electric chair.
1t was reversion to barbarism pure and simple
The p'Ince of Wales is soon to be made major
general also q admiral
When such battle-scarred hero gets his reward.
all who love sublime courage should remove their
millinery.
FUDGE WILLIS B. PERKINS of Grand Rapids
d Mich is entitled to the thanks of that part of
the human residing in the United States because
he sent to the penitentiary for term of fifteen to
thirty years drunken driver who killed girl
If the people of New York City not happy it is
their fault, for there is lawyer for every 300
inhabitants.
Count Kokovtycff former prime minister under
the OF Russia that the Soviet govern
ment's aim is the eradication of God
This is more absurd than if louise suffering from
total paralysis should undertake the destruction Of the
United States
ONE CT the war lords of China has been banished
~ but permitted to take with him twenty-five
wives.
They ought to be able to stage enough combats tc
keep him from getting homesick.
One OF the best results of our motorized age and
good roads / the ability of rural commGr isies to pro-
tect themselves from fire by the purchase Of township
fire fighting equipment.
Knure Rockne. Notre Danes great coach, is re-
covering from his leg infection but without any legs
he could 60 farther than any other football wizard
in America
Peggy Joyce complained she sailed for Europe
because her admirers completely had filled her state
room with orchids
We know exactly how she felt, because we've had
the experience right here 1t home. only in
case it was dandelionS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
A Real Probe

Interesting as political conflict between
officials may be, the PEOPLE are only inter-
ested in knowing whether there is to be
real investigation of the recent primary
vote. They want to know whether their
votes were counted as cast. They have
right to know whether ire nominees received
a majority of the votes or were elected by
stub pencils and faxed returns.
Elections in this state have not been
above suspicion. In the district adjacent to
Illinois there has been repeated evidence OF
importation of voters rom across the line
and no prosecutions. II Marion county there
has been repeated suspicion of fraud and no
real inquiry.
The amazing situation of member of
the grand jury serving as an election official
in violation Of law is presented as only one
phase Cf the problem.
Defeated candidates have asserted that
there were frauds. AND the response is
turbulent and wordy conflict between officials
with little prospect of real inquiry.
Election frauds arr the highest crime
that can be committed in times of peace.
Such frauds overturn the very theory of our
government. They produce anarchy, not
government. They amount to a revolution
by fraud instead of a more courageous revo-
luton by force.
That these frauds occur and go I'M
scathed of justice mems that self govern
ment has become a farce.
OF course, the poGtica; machines have set
the stage to make frauc possible. The legis-
lature contributed to easy frauds when it
abolished the registration act so that repeat
ing at polls is made difficult to detect. The
decision of the supreme court in the case of
Willoughby that mistakes can not be cor
rected even when admi ted was another step
toward taking the government away from
the people.
Now, after serious charges have been
made, the people get Only the spectacle of
fight, perhaps a fake fight, between officials
charged with the duty of prosecuting and
disclosing frauds.
One of the oldest tricks of burglars is to
start fake fight to distract attention from
their looting. There are signs that this IS
occurring now, politically.
Nothing less than 2 real probe of the
primary vote by those who are beyond sus-
picion Of desiring to protect frauds should
satisfy the public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
Slaves Of Machine

MO doubt the stock market crash
1 y of last fall helped to boost the
suicide rate, as DR.. Hoffman points
out, but what about the steady in
crease since 1890?
We have had stock crashes be-
fore, some of them more serious
than that of last fall, but we never
had one which left people feeling SO
powerless to take care OF them
selves.
Slowly but relentlessly, we are
being chained to giant mechanism,
growing dependent on work which
we have no part in providing, liv-
ing by pay envelopes that come
only if the mechanism remains in
smooth running order.
The individual has become a slave
to organization, system and ma
chinery, not only as toiler, but as
a member of society.
On every hand, he beholds signs
and traffic signals, telling him when
to stop, when he can go ahead, and
what direction he must take.
If all lights turned red at once,
what is there left?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
How WeUDON0u
KnOwBW.Rbh?
FIVE QUESTIONS A DAN
ON FAMILIAR PAS SAOES

1. What medicine was found in
Cilead?
2. Who was Ananias?
8. What was the massacre of the
lnnocents?
4. Complete the verse: when my
father and my mother forSake me. :"
5. Let my people 60" Who said
it, and to whom?
Answers to Yesterdays Queries
l. Because people began speaking
many languages, according to the
biblical account, while attempting
to build a tower as high as heaven,
and thus were prevented by the
Lord from combining to rival him.
Genesis 11:1-9.
2. GLORY to God in the highest,
and on earth peace. good will to-
ward men," Luke 2:14.
3. A goat over which the peoples
sins were confessed so that it might
bear their guilt away into the wild
erness; Leviticus 1910. q.
4. Among the musical inStru-
mentS were the harp. cornet, flute,
sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer;
Daniel 3:5.
5. a little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump" Galatians SO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
Hard to Convince

IN my story, Rip will return after
l. twenty ''--'-~ to the haunts where
he slept awayya couple of decades.
And in this version of the tale he
will remain convinced through
many days that it was no more than
nap People will argue with him.
And Rip will reply with fire and
with logic.
Don't be silly" he might say, "I
went to the Metropolitan opera
house last night. 1t was the same
opera house. That proves I can't
have slept twenty years, because the
very day before I went to bed I read
in papers that new one was going
to be built almost any minute.
1.-THE opera wa ne. Butterfly.
Nothing particularly new about that
is there? More than that, the girl
who sang the role of Clio Clio San
was the same one saw just week
before I had this nap you tell me
lasted for twenty. Surely she did
look a little too old for the role and
quite bit too big, but she always
did"
Nothing being settled by this ar
gument, Rip will turn the knob of a
radio and out will come the voices
of Amos N Andy.
And then he'll pick up a news
paper and turn by coincidence to a
daily column largely concerned with
the conductors opinions and COM
ments on current events. And now
BRIGHT and happily light may be
seen in the old mans eyes.
Thrusting the paper into the faces
of his astonished friends and rela-
tives, Rip Van Wrinkle shouts,
Don't you try and josh me any
more. I've been asleep Tor twenty
years and everything's brand-new
Don't be silly.
"Everything'S brand-new is it?
Just take look at that it seems to
me- column. Look at that story Of
the doughboy and the four mules.
1 read the whole blame thing in the
same place last Thursday"
Copyright. 1880. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
SCIENCE
Astronomer Believes Light OF
Distant Stars Is Cut off By
Vast Dark Clouds of Cos
mic Fog.
THAT vast dark clouds Of cosmic
BY DAVID DEFY

THAT vast dark clouds Of coSmic
Il fog drift through outer space,
cutting of the light of distant stars,
is one of the recent findings OF
modern astronomy, according to
DR.. Harlan T. Stetson, director of
Perkins observatory of Ohio Wes-
leyan university.
Until comparatively recent years,
astronomers, observing the unequal
distribution of stars in the sky, be-
lieved that many of the sparSely
populated regions were actual va
cancies in the universe through
which the observer could look into
the empty space beyond" DR.. Stet-
son said.
Modern telescope astronomy
together with the ability of the
spectroscope to analyze starlight,
has revealed that in all probability
many of these dark regions in the
sky are the results of vast quanti-
ties of mountainous gas coming
in between us and the light of the
stars beyond"
DR.. Stetson not only believes that
such coslnic fog-gaseous material
of a nebulous nature-is to be
. found in the distant portions of the
Milky Way but that considerable of
it may also exist within our own
solar system.
An investigation is to be started
soon at the Perkins observatory to
find out just how extensively the
solar system is involved in such
fog, DR.. Stetson says.
BY the solar system, the aStron-
omer means the sun and the plan
cts, including our own earth,
which revolves around the sun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
A Mechanical Band

The United States army is experimenting with
mechanical music box mounted three-quarter
ton truck 20 see if it not replace the traditional
army band and army bugler and if the army is wise
it presently will report that the whole scheme is i'm
practical ano visionary.
Imagine a stirring military review led. not by a
quick-stepping. inspiring band but a magnavox on a
truck! Imagine the plaintive, haunting notes of
Taps" sounding an encampment-nct from a
bugls at the lips of immobne trumpeter but from
tin horn connected with set Of electrical gadgets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

of a pound day for fifty-nine days.
1t was the belief of the investi-
gators that the excess weight repre-
sented fatty tissue composed mostly
of fat and water and that the de-
posit of fat is controlled by the ex-
cess of food taken into the body
over the body's needs.
They therefore tried to use a
minimum diet which would supply
fifty-eight grams of protein, four
teen grams of carbohydrates, and
eight grams of fat per day, and an
energy value of $50 Galleries.
The diet included 100 grams or
little more than three ounces, of
lean steak for each of the two
largest meals during the day. Egg
white was given and on alternate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-23
TIN OTENTC TO MT ~ HAYWOOD
L / OLL4VAO l. ~ AVA0 10y BROUN

over the beaches and washed away
the old litter.
Transportation, clothing, economic
structure and sex morality are in
variably finished in brand new
styles to amuse the man thrust into
time.
I doubt if that is fundamentally
true. A great deal of squirrel rae
ing is accepted as progress. There
is feeling that because we have
radios and talking pictures and air
planes the quality of living has al
tered essentially from earlier days.
We think that if George Washing
ton came back he would be as
founded by the growth and the new
blooming in the country which he
knew. I rather think he might take
it calmly enough.
Possibly Jefferson would be bet
ter subject for the experiment, as