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The Washington times., 1931-03-19
KIN KEPT FROM
AUNT, 80, CLAIM

Mrs. Raymond A. Doyle, 229
Charming st. N. E., has filed suit
in District Supreme Court asking
that a receiver be appointed to
take over the $4,000 estate of
her aunt, Mrs. Mary McCarten,
81-year-old resident of the home
of the Daughters of the Euchar-
istic, Inc, at CatonSville, Md,
and further sought an injunction
to restrain the FederalAmerican
National Bank from paying any
funds from Mrs. McCarten's &C.
count pending hearing of the suit.
Yesterday, in the county court
at Towson, Md, Mrs. Doyle filed
a petition for a writ of habeas
corpus alleging that her aunt is
being held at the home and
that members of her family are
not allowed to visit her. The
writ is returnable today.
The plaintiff says that only
twice in the last three months
have members of the family been
able to see Mrs. McCarten alone
and then only for short periods
of five minutes.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Biological Surrey Pushes S
War on Rodent VandaLS

Preparations to continue the
campaign against predatory ami
mails and destructive rodents,
particularly in the Western States
are being made by the United
States Biological Survey which
has for several years been en-.
deavoring to combat the growing
menace to ranchers and agricul
turiSts of the West.
Particular stress has been laid
on the damage to live stock done
by coyotes and wolves in Wyom.
ing and other central Western
States as well as prairie dogs and
the various types of ground
squirrels.
Jack Rabbits Increase
Jack rabbits are also coming in
for attention this year as the in
creaSing numbers of these rodents
are making serious inroads on
the crops Of farmers in many
of the Western States.
An effort was made at the
recent session Of Congress to
defeat q bill which gave the
survey additional funds to
carry ON its work on the theory
that nature has a certain bal
ance to maintain and that to
destroy the beasts and rodents
tends to upset it.
Attention was called, however,
by representative Of the Western
States to the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars lost each year by
the depradations Of coyotes,
wolves and the rodent types.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
FALSE TEETH

If your false teeth rock or slip. just
sprinkle a little Killing on your plates.
This improved powder forms COM
fort cushion holds plates so snug you
can eat and talk as we'll as you did
with your own teeth. No more dis
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anything you have ever used. Don't
waste money on substitutes. large
nackage of Killing only 35c at Peoples
Drug stores. Money refunded II you
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The Washington times., 1931-03-19
HOLIDAY RULING
SUITS CLERKS

Expressing satisfaction with the
Saturday half-holiday ruling OF
the Attorney General. Gertrude
M. McNally, sceretary-treasurer Of
the National Federation OF Fed
eral Employees, today pointed out
it would be obviously unfair and
contrary to the letter Of the law
to count Saturday as a full work
ing day.. It would, she said. de
prive the employe Of a half days
annual leave for every Saturday
on which he was off duty. She
said:
"When the officers Of the
Federation wrote this bill for
introduction I'm Congress, the
second prOvisO was intended to
guard against the leSsening Of
any leave or holidays with pay
to which Federal employees arc
entitled under existing law"
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
TUSKEGEE FETE
IS ARRANGED

The fiftieth anniversary of
Tuskegee Institute, leading negro
normal and industrial school, will
be celebrated on April S, in con-
nection with the annual observ-
ance of Founders Day.
The celebration will depict the
advance which the negro has
made in America and will feature
the rise of Booker T. Washington
from a slave plantation to educa-
tional leadership.
TuSkegee Institute began in a
dilapidated church building with
less than a dozen students and
now has developed to a position
of influence in the South under
an endowment of several million
dollars.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Missouri Engineer
Amounted to PUG.

Appointment Of Thomas Hair
ston, of Joplin, Mo-, as an engi
neer in the valuation bureau OF
the Public Utilities Commission
has been announced. Mr.. Hair
ston will be assigned to work in
the valuation of the two street
car companies which has been
going on for four months.
Mr.. Hairston comes here from
the Missouri Public Service Com
mission. He is 33 years old and
was formerly employed by Gus
tav Hirsch, consulting engineer
of Columbus, Ohio.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
POST DIRECTOR
ONCE CARRIER

BOSTON, March 19.-William
E. Hurley is the first postal career
man" to be promoted to the post
mastership here. He takes posi-.
ton formerly held by men who
gained their prominence outside
the department. From a letter
carrier he rises after 33 years to
the highest post in the department
here with a salary Of $4,000 a
year.
He was born in South Boston in
1874. He left school at the age OF
13 and thereafter educated him.
self by studying nights. One of
his first jobs was in a shoe factory.
which he took to learn the shoe
business, intending to become a
salesman.
-aiI Carrier in 1898
In 1898 he became a mail car
rier. Two years later he married.
He continued studying and in 1907
became a postoffice inspector. His
first assignment as an inspector
was in Chicago, where he was
placed in charge Of "depreda-
tions," a phrase which meant de-
tecting postoffice robbers. Later
he was transferred to Boston as
an inspector.
Because of his efficiency and
knowledge of the department and
its problems, Postmaster Murray
appointed him assistant postmas-
ter. On the death of Postmaster
Murray, Mr.. Hurley became act
ing postmaster.
Assistant to Baker
He served as assistant under
Postmaster Baker and has been
acting postmaster much Of the
time under Postmaster Cow. the
present incumbent. It is be-
lieved in postal circles that it
will be necessary to extend. the
term of Postmaster Cow so that
he may hold over until Mr.. Hur-
ley'S appointment has been con-
firmed by the Senate.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
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The Washington times., 1931-03-19

Many of the States have offered
bounties on coyotes for years and
last year the sheepmen's and cat
tlemen's associations of Wyoming
increased the cash bounty on the
predatory types.
Crops Are Ruined
Crops have been ruined by the
prairie dogs and ground squirrels
The smaller animals tunnel
beneath stands of alfalfa and
other crops and kill off the
roots, thereby running the entire
crop.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Civic Association
Ends Annual Session

The executive board of the
American Civic Association ended
it's annual session last night with
a banquet at the Willard Hotel.
Secretary of the Interior Ray
Lyman Wilbur was the guest OF
honor at the banquet, but he was
forced to leave early to join the
Presidents party on the cruise to
the Caribbean which started last
night.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
SALE Of BONDS
SNELLS j. s.
. CASH BUDGET
Huge Balance Is Revealed in
Report As Government Gets
Ready for Bonus Demands

Uncle Sans daily balance sheet
took on a wartime aspect today
when the cash balance jumped to
$746,542, 900 as the Treasury De-
partment prepared to meet veter-
ans loans estimated at 100000, 900
this week and $100,000,000 for
each of the next three weeks.
The proceeds of $1,6S3,384,O 900
in certificates and bonds sold on
Monday appeared on the daily
statement for March II, issued
today.
At the same time $1,O15, 100000
In notes were retired. This
brought total public debt trans
actions for the year to more than
$4,000, 100000, including $4,411,-
100000 in new issues and $3,-
669 100000 in retirements, or net
increase in the debt of $741,-
000, 900.
New Issues Double
New issues were nearly double
those of the same period last
year while retirements were less
than half.
Income tax receipts on March
II amounted to $48,129,000 as
compared with $32, 1853, 900 on the
corresponding date last year. In
the first II days of March income
taxes amounted to $106, ,254 900,
an increase of $5,000,000. This
cannot be taken as indication of
the trend for the month, however,
since daily receipts fluctuate
widely.
Deficit Is Increased
An authorization for meeting
sinking fund requirements by TAX
ing up $326,66O, 900 in the retired
31a per cent notes for that pur-
pose boosted the deficit to $685.
$4,000 as compared with $685.
724.0O0 for the same period last
year.
Total Government expenditures
up to March II amounted to
1892, 100000, an increase Of
$4,000, 900 over last year while
ordinary receipts were $2,256, ,6OO,-
900, a decrease of $272, ,000, 900.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
TWO Chopped Chinese
Expected to Live

Lee Ben Din and Tom Bow Sing,
Chinese who were "hatcheted"
Friday morning at 2127 Rhode
Island Ave. N. E., are recovering
from their injuries, it was learned
today from physicians at Casualty
Hospital.
The two men were critically in
jured when a "hatchetman"
slashed their bodies with a meat
leaver. Chin Moy Din, who is
also known by many aliases, is be-
ing held by police.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Right Way to ShOU
C1DitUL Discussed

Right and wrong ways in which
Washington residents may unVeil
the features of the Nations Capt.
tai to visitors were demonstrated
at the weekly luncheon meeting
of the Rotary Club at the Will
lard Hotel yesterday under the
supervision of Oscar r. Evans,
chairman of the vocational SER
vice committee.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
English Appointed
Commission Clerk

The justices of District Supreme
Court yesterday appointed Frank
T. English, of Silver Spring, Md,
former chief yeoman in the Navy,
to the post of additional clerk to
the jury commission,
A. Rulon Jackson, Justice De.
partment clerk, was appointed
clerk to Frederick G. O'Connell,
who soon will assume his duties
as assignment commissioner to
the court.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
WOn1an's Club Picks
State DELEGATES

KENSINGTON, Md, March 10.
The Woman's Community Club
of Kensington has appointed Mrs.
H. K. Corrick, Mrs. John T. Lewis
and Mrs. Edgar w. Moore, as
delegates, and Mrs. B. w. Kumler,
Mrs. Jack Scrivener and Mrs.
Lewis Merriam, as alternates, to
attend the annual State meeting
of the Maryland Federation of
Women's Clubs in Baltimore, on
April 14-15 and 16.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Tipsy Drivers Lose
Licenses Under Bill

ANNAPOLIS, March 19.-Revo-
cation of licenses in all cases
where the driver is convicted Of
driving while drunk would be
required of the commissioner of
motor vehicles, under bill intro
duced today . by Delegate Cline,
of Frederick.
Magistrates would be required
to report such convictions to the
commissioners. office within 43
hours after trial.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Maryland Senate
BurieS Train Bill

ANNAPOLIS, March 19.-Con-
vinced that a measure which
would require trains operating in
Maryland to carry full crews con-
tained several perniciouS pro-
visions the Senate yesterday killed
the bill. The opposition was led
by Senator Mcintosh, of Balti-
more.
Included in the bill we're clauses
specifying the exact number of
men to be employed on all trains.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
U.D.C. Asks Changes
For Veterans Home

FREDERICK, Md, March 10.
Management of the Confederate
Veterans Home, at Pikesville, was
criticized at the semiannual meet
ing of the Maryland division,
United Daughters of Confederacy
here yesterday.
The executive committee is to
request Governor Ritchie to rem
edy certain conditions at the
home following the April meeting
in Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
HONEY FOR MONEY

LANDER, Wyo., March 10
GN.sO.-Honey from the apiaries
lead over tanks, artillery, poison
its way to Eastern markets by
the hundreds of tons. Bee rails
ing has become one of the most
extensive means of obtaining a
cash income by farmers Of FIRE
mont county.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
Quartet to Be Heard
In Church Concert

The Treble Clef Quartet will be
heard in a concert tomorrow
night at the Fifteenth Street
Presbyterian Church.
The quartet will be assisted by
Albert Burgess, violinist; Mrs.
Maize Handy, pianist, and Mrs.
Ethel Gibbs, director.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
ROCKVILLE PIT. A. MEET

ROCKVILLE, Md, March 49,.
An address on Child Problems" :"
by DR.. Dexter Bullard, and a per-
formance by Mrs. Carey King
don's fourth grade "Busytown
Band" will feature the meeting
of the Rockville Parent Teacher
Association to be held tonight at
8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-03-19
WoMEN'S CLUB MEETING

BALLSTON, Va, March 10.
The Business and Professional
Women'S Club of Arlington county
will hold a special business meet
ing tonight at the home of Mrs.
Mae E. Jacobs, in Ballston.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Street Cars Necessary for
Mass Transportation

The United States Chamber of Commerce. at its recent annual
convention reached the positive conclusion that street cars are
necessary for transportation and that they should be given
adequate returns that they may all times be prepared to
render efficient service
There nothing particularly this view Of ransporta
On problems except here elsewhere have been and
who think that may replaced by buses
In this city the street companies have had difficult JOB
f making halfway reasonable returns due to the compe
Hon Of private automobiles and tsxs Their troubles have
been increased because their have failed to join
gscay and frankly in efforts for merging Like all corpora
on they have wanted the best Of any legislation to that end
Before the companies here do attain salts
factory conditions there must be that will include not
ony the lines and bus lines but public ta that all means
Of transportation may be in concern easily controlled by
and responsible to the Public Utilities Commission
The United States Chamber of emphatic its
opposition to irresponsible fatrate axicab operation of
essened the street of Wash
lngton.
Taxicab conditions bad many other points than
that Of hang the finances Of the street railways and buses
belonging to the railways.
There are now approximately 5000 operating in this
city largely fatrate basis This exceeds the total
year ago by 1900 The great majority Of them without
financial responsibility of any kind They carry insurance
covering property damages personal injuries They are
darng and there business their right but
tributng to constant traffic dangers.
These carriers practically without control from
the Public Utilities Commission which does control street
and bus lines.
Il is wise for the nation business regard with
serious view the future necessity of efficient street lines
not only for transportation but for public accommoda
take of the large part Of cltys population
that unable to bear the cost of transportation that is
costlier.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Coal Price-Fixing Here Up
To Attorney General

The District Commissioners have asked the Attorney Gen.
oa look into charges that coal prices in this city fixed
by wholesale Dealers for whom they fixed by the mine
owners.
Just where the request will wind up for the future but
the matter is Of greater Importance than the Commissioners
seem to think in their letter to the Attorney General
Under decisions of the United States Supreme Court
manufacturer owner dealer seller has right fix prices
which his particular goods must be sold to the public but
II Is violation of the laws Of the United States there is
combination in restraint of trade.
The Department of Justice the Federal Trade Comms
sion should have little difficulty in finding that there is
combination in the matter of fixing retail coal prices here and
in practically every other city in the United States
The controlling forces in that combination the coal mine
owners who have open or secret agreements and permit
competition among themselves Neither do they permit
petition among their wholesale Dealers and the latter bun
tell retail dealers that if they sell below certain prices for
Many in the Senate thoroughly aroused food
and other necessities Of life falling into the control of big
trusts and is certain that at the coming session of Congress
there going to be some fireworks this question
The Washington times., 1931-05-06

The great Napoleon knew as all intelligent do, the
power of free press He said that he allowed the freedom
Of the press his government wouldn't last six weeks There
fore he did NOT allow it.
government lasted longer than six weeks but he wound
up the Island of st. Helena Perhaps would have been
better for him had he allowed young French editor to
think the situation and tell him and the public what
coming
This interesting picture shows Mussoin who has all the
energy of Napoleon, who also Italian plus certain
kinds of intelligence that Napoleon lacked directing the
policies of Italian newspapers.
Mussolini for many years newspaper man. an ex-
tremey radical editor that of his conservative nan
admirers in Wall Street today would have called "a rabid
Bolshevist, dangerous a mad dog"
But conditions change, and with them
When Mussoin was OUT and others IN he criticized
power.
Now he is IN the others OUT the power is his And
he regulates criticism firmly.
does say that newspapers express opinions
them that it will be healthy
opinions too energeticaly.
The other day. for instance Pope Plus published in the
Roman newspaper OsserUatOre Romano letter severely
rprmandng the Fascist for its lack of obedience
to the Church in certain directions.
Musson did not forbid the distribution of the paper
stop its publication simply arrested newsboys
shouting brief the Popes letter
they sold the paper They told they could continue SELL
ing the paper, but that they must not shout about it
Above you Italian leader absolute power
than any earth possible exception Kennel
Pasha in Turkey regulating freedom of the press in his
way
The young opposite him. the left is Senior Ferett
chief of the newspaper service in the Fascist government
Mussoin has read the morning newspapers carefully as he
does every day. realizing that they important to him
the steam pressure to engineer.
Having read the papers, Mussoin tells Senior Fere what
he likes and dskes Feret tells the editors and everything
goes along nicely.
long will continue depends probably the length
of Mussolinis life He has enemies and bitter.
Italians pray that nothing will happen to him. They had their
choice between Musoni and anarchy at the end Of the big
With Mussoni they got order born terrific energy
in government that couneraced largely the evil mpoversh
ing effects of the
They hope he will live many years. we'll they may.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Can't High-Hat the World
(Reprinted From the New York Mirror)

One fact that ought to have been by this time firmly
bedded in consciousness of this nations representatives in
Washington that despite wealth and resources
it is mighty poor ball to hghhat the rest of the world.
Although President Hoover condesended to address the first
meeting Of the international Chamber of Commerce Washing
ton the Administration went to considerable pains in making
known that would take official part in activities Of the
gathering would maintain observant attitude toward
them
this gathering congegated representatives of industry
shipping and banking from all Of the globe
for the purpose of discussing economic and financial problems
that be solved before international business be
normal is incomprehenble that this country
official heads should decline confer matters in which
so vtaly interested.
Pertnax in Paris em Gallo guffaw at what he declares
the American hautan demeanor toward all things of
American initiative To this writer the Hoover attitude is
mystery Necessarily he points out there will be talk
debts tariffs and the gold supply These be TOPICS says
tnax which tabu Washington officiadom Therefore
Washngon ostrich pokes its head the desert of depression
and, facing the worst, hopes for the best.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
ONCE-OVERS

Do you consider advancing
age as tragedy?
Have you cultivated this
thought so thoroughly that you
see little in the present or
future to interest you?
Your thoughts, perhaps, re-
vert so often to this subject
that you cannot think very long
on any other subject.
Always that thought Of death
just around the corner.
You look ahead a few years
and picture yourself a helpless
invalid.
You consider your savings
and how little they will do
toward supporting you through
the years when you are unable
to work.
Perhaps your mental picture
includes some institution sup
ported by the State.
Why draw such drab pictures?
That others have been Grip
pied or practically helpless does
not prove that you are bound to
be afflicted in the same way.
Why not get a more cheerful
outlook on life?
Get joy out of the present
you are not sure Of the future.
Joy soothes the nerves and
puts health into your veins.
Anxiety poisons and brings
on the very thing you fear, so
why worry?
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The Washington times., 1931-05-06

decency, I venture to predict
that the poltroons who perpe-
trated it. will go unscathed, as
they always do. The Waldorf
man, lying mutilated on his cot
in Georgetown Hospital, may
have the personal satisfaction
of knowing that he had the
fortitude to endeavor to pre-
serve for himself the personal
rights that he is entitled to
under the now extinct Bill OF
Rights, but that's all he will get
The Scoundrels who so grossly
and inhumanly attacked him
and, indeed, his wife, as well,
will probably be out scouting
for new prey within month.
In years past, before the in
stigation of the noble expert
ment, the police were relatively
harmless. Their dull stupidity
was amusing, even pathetic. 1t
evoked pity more than anything
else. They were, Of course.
utterly useless and inefficient
in enforcing laws or preventing
crime, as they are now; but, at
least, they were not licensed
killers and snooperS, blacklegs,
and butchers, as they have be-
come under prohibition.
It appears, Of late, that the
majority Of these crimes on the
part of the police in this part
of the country have arisen in
Virginia, ordinarily a civilized
and respectable State. Unless
some kind of a stop is put to
this CORY array of massacres,
Virginia will sink to the barbaric
level of such primitive settle
ments as Illinois and Pennsyl-
vania, where it has truthfully
been said that the private citi-
zen has no rights whatever that
the police are required to re-
Spect.
WAsHINGTON1AN.