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The Washington times., 1931-11-23
LAID
To PUBLIC
AUDITORS

Hundreds of millions have been
withheld illegally from the Gov
ernment through the collusion OF
large taxpayers, with the aid and
assistance of certified public &C
countants, Representative McFad'
den (R0 of Pennsylvania, charged,
as the Internal Revenue Bureau
Continued its investigation OF
alleged income tax frauds today.
McFadden is chairman Of the
House Banking and Currency
Committee.
McFadden has been conducting
an investigation of the operations
of the New York Stock Exchange
for tn past two years, with par
ticular reference to the drastic de:
cline of stock prices which ushered
in the period Of the present de.
preston. Issuance and sale OF
securities have left the country's
investors carrying great losses, ne
declared, and added:
"The bulk of this occurred un.
der the observation Of the Fed
eraI reserve management and
the New York Stock Exchange
and their various better bust.
ness bureaus and committees on
ethics and conduct.
"This exploitation Of the pub
lie applied not only to domestic
out also to international securi-
ties, under q particular group
of international bankers"
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
lpractice and then put your own
idea on paper.
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lpractice and then put your own
idea on paper.
Read the Rules
It isn't hard-just follow the
simple rules here, then mail your
sketch to the Mickey Mouse Con-
test Editor of The Washington
Times.
Amy boy or girl, under IA
years Of age, is eligible to COM
pete.
Send in as many sketches
as you wish, but be sure that
each one is on a separate sheet
of paper and your name and ad.
dress is on every sketch.
3-Artist Perlmann will be the
Judge, and his decision will be
final. In case Of two or more
sketches being equally good
enough to win one of the prizes,
duplicate prizes will be awarded.
An entries must be in the
hands of the Contest Editor before
midnight Saturday, November 2S.
Prize list:
1st prize-$5.OO cash and 4
guest tickets.
2nd prize-$3.OO cash and 4
guest tickets.
3rd prize-$2.OO cash and
guest tickets.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
) HELD IN BOLD
100000 GEM
i. ROBBERY

CHICAGO, Nov. % GN.S0,
With most Of the loot recovered
and three suspects under arrest
police of Chicago and all North
Shore suburbs pressed on today in
their hunt for the remaining mem,
bers Of a gang which raided the
Lake Forest home of William Ham
ilton Mitchell, Saturday night,
and robbed nine wealthy socialities
Of approximately 100000 worth
Of jewelry.
The recovered gems were dis
covered in the pocket Of a mans
coat which became entangled in
q barbed wire fence 200 yards
from the palatial home. The
coat was snagged on the wire
as one of the robbers fled before
Q hail Of police bullets.
Suspects Identified
The three suspects were picked
up just. few hours after the
bold robbery. They are Paul
Ross, %; Joseph Perello, 81, and
Nick MaentiS, 80. They were
brought to the Mitchell mansion,
where victims of the hold-up iden-
titled all three Of them.
William n. Mitchell, who was
entertaining a group of friends
when the bandits entered, is the
son Of the late John j. Mitchell,
millionaire banker.
The other victims Of the rob-
berry were Mrs. Mitchell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Leslie Wheeler, Mrs. Edward
A. Cudahy, jr., Ralph j. Hines,
Mrs. Louise Bowen Phelps and
Mr.. and Mrs. William McCor-
mick Blair:
Chauffeur Calls Police
Police were summoned to the
scene by a chauffeur, who slipped
upstairs while the bandits were
stripping the women's necks,
arms and hands Of expensive
ornaments and taking cash from
the men.
A few minutes after the tele-
phone call to headquarters, a
squad of police burst in and
opened fire. A gun battle ensued
in the drawing room, but the
robbers succeeded in escaping
through windows and doors.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
News Of the Skyways

Another air connection 70
Chicago is announced by the
United Air Lines. The new
line will operate planes from
Chicago to Cleveland and trans
fer passengers to trains for an
overnight ride to washington.
Westbound passengers leave
Washington by plane in the
early forenoon and land in Chi.
cago six and one half hours
later. The service will be
operated jointly by the Penn
sylvania and United Air Lines.
It is likely that the tri-motored
Stinsons will be used and the
service will start before the first
Of the year.
The Eastern Air Transports
new automatic pilots make the
human pilots work a lot easier,
but I'd like to see any pilot let
q piece of machinery handle
his plane in foggy weather.
E. A. T. starts another branch
line December /, this time be-
tween Atlanta and Savannah
.. This will give the E. A. T.
a complete coverage Of the ter
ritory south Of this city.
Colonel Ira Longnecker, Army
Air Corps head Of information,
goes to Fort Sam Houston in
the near future. his successor
will have quite task to equal
the long record Of splendid
service the Colonel leaves be-
hind.
The new Airplane Food Trans
portation Company, headed by
Jack Stuart, contemplateS a
banquet December 10, inaugur'
ating their first affair express
between Florida State points
and markets along the Eastern
Seaboard. this banquet will
consist of foods gathered on the
farms the day preceding the
meal. This is one venture that
will be very closely watched, not
only by the aviation industry
but by farmers and market
men.
Extra sections are still the
The Washington times., 1931-11-23

order Of the day with the Lud-
ington Line, seldom a day pass
ing but what one or more extra
planes have to be put into use
to accommodate the requests
for passage to and from New
York. wonder when Gene and
Paul will start flying to New
York every half hour?. that is
coming just as sure as taxes.
A heavy rumor has it that the
Masonic order will soon start a
movement to raise $15,000,O00
which will be devoted to bring
ing back to this country the air.
speed record,
The Washington times., 1931-11-23

Next S best guest tickets
each.
Next 10 best guest tickets
each.
The winners will be the guests
Of the RK.O-Keith Theater when
Mickey Mouse comes to town on
the screen Immediately after the
contest closes.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
II Miners to Stand
Trial for Murder

MT. STERLING, KY, Nov. %
1N.SD.-With Communism and
the I. w. w. expected to figure
prominently, legal lines were
drawn here today for a series Of
murder trials growing out Of a
coal mine clash near EvartS, Har-
Ian county, last May when four
men were slain.
More than 100 miners uncon-
cernedly loafed around the court
house awaiting start of trials
Eleven are defendants in the muir
der trials. The others have been
summoned as witnesses.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
DR.. Klein Stresses
AdUertiSinq Virtues

Citing instances Of spectacular
expansion in individual concerns
during the depressed year Of
1881" DR.. Julius Klein, assistant
Secretary of Commerce, in a
radio talk last night said pub
lcity, personnel and progress are
the key words to success.
There is no magic formula for
success in business, he said, but
those who have used advertising
intelligently have profited.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
RubinOW to Speak
Before B'nGi Birth

Representative Sol Bloom, di.
rector of the United States Bi-
centennial Committee, and DR..
I. M. Rubinow, of Cincinnati,
Grand lodge official of B'nai
Birth, will speak at the Jewish
Community Center. December /.
Officers will be named for the
coming year.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
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The Washington times., 1931-11-23

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The Washington times., 1931-11-23
CONFER ON zEP SITE

Business Manager Hollenga, of
the Alexandria Chamber of Com
merce, will go to New York and
confer with officials of the Inter
national Zeppelin Corporation
with reference to the Hybla
Valley site of the proposed air
terminal.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
Feminist Directors
To Meet on NOU. 81

A meeting of the board Of di.
rectors Of the National League of
Women Voters yesterday was
called for November 80 to Decem-
ber S, inclusive, to compile a pro-
posed program for the 1882 cam
paiRn.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
EDITH CALLED
F.. DANGEROUS
=. CHILD.
Senators. and Representatives
Get Anonymous Letters
Defending Stepmother

A movement is under way to
turn public sentiment against
Edith Riley, 13-year-old cup
board child, who is recuperat-
ing at Gallinger Hospital from
the effects of her alleged con-
finement in dungeon like
closet.
The person responsible for the
attempt to turn the sympathy
for the child into compassion for
tE' stepmother and father, under
Indictment for cruelty in connec-
tfon with the case, is not known,
but letters are being circulated
making charges against the child.
Child Called Dangerous
At the Capitol, Senators and
Representatives are receiving
niissiyes charging Edith with.
being q dangerous character"
She is accused Of being a
pyromaniac. Of turning on the
gas in her home and other ma
hcious conduct. The letters also
say the stepmother, Elsie Riley,
locked her in the closet only
when necessary. They are di-
rected to those Congressman who
take an active interest in Dis
trict affairs.
They do not explain the wan,
emaciated body, however, or the
thin legs that were almost un-
able to support the child'S sub
normal weight of 38 pounds.
They do not explain the scars
on her body or why it was
necessary to keep her, as alleged,
without proper food or water or
without toys or other amuse-
mentS.
Two Rooms of Toys
While these letters are being
directed to members of Congress,
Gallinger Hospital authorities re-
port that never in the experience
Of the hospital has there been
received as many letters of SYM
pathy as are coming to the in
Stitution for Edith. From almost
every State in the country the
letters are directed to the child
and hospital authorities.
Two rooms at the hospital are
now filled with the many toys
and Edith wanders about playing
with first one and then the other.
She has more than 20 dolls and
seems to enjoy them ALL
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
SteWart Appointed
In ReD1r1tiOnS Probe

BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 81
G.N.S0 S0.-Formal notification of
the appointment of Walter w.
Stewart, of New York. as the
American member of the CON-
mittee to investigate Germany'S
capacity to pay reparations was
received today by the Bank tor
International Settlements. Since
Stewart will be unable to ar
rive here by December l, the
first meeting of the committee
will be postponed to December
3 or 4.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
P.L A n SALVAGE
Of LUS|TAN|A

LONDON, Nov. 81 G.N.SD.
The wreckage of the liner
Lusitania, torpedoed off the Irish
Coast 16 years ago, will be
examined within the next few
months by an American salvag-
ing expedition, it was learned
here today.
Capt. H. H. Railey. British
representative of the American
Syndicate planning the salvaging.
said the British admiralty and
foreign office, as we'll as insur-
ance companies, had agreed to
permit the operations, and thai
permission was now awaited
from the British Board of Trade.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
N METHODISTS
CAN'T LOSE,
|SDOPE
Georgetown Playing ViIIanoVa,
Washington-Lee to Give
Maryland a Battle
By HARRY COSTELLO
Georgetown BackfieId Star 101O-13)

Many different styles Of
football will be offered today
to followers of the gridiron in
the District.
From New England comes a
giant Providence College team
to do battle with an alert,
clever G a t h holic University
eleven.
From or Virginia comes Wash
ington and Lee to make an effort
to spoil Maryland's homecoming
MethOdists vs.. Navy
From way down in the South.
west comes that team Of teams,
Southern Methodist, to show Navy
what it's All about. -..ts.-s.
Prom west Virginia comes
Shepherd College TO match ability
with Gallaudet.
Virginia jeminary, with a tricky
offense, steps onto the Howard
Stadium to oppose the Bisons, Of
Howard.
Actually, eight different types
of football are involved in the five
games listed above. Providence Of
ferS type Of game typical Of New
England teams. c. U. plays the
Rockne-Notre Dame style. Wash
ington and Lee plays the Warner
system of single and double wing
backs. Maryland has system
more or less original with its very
successful coach, Byrd.
Varies Warner Style
Southern Methodist, with a
double wing back system departs
in so many ways from the War
ner type of play that the Mus
tangs may be said to play a Nor
rison type of football. Ray Nor
rison, former Vanderbilt star,
coaches the team from the South
west. Navy offers the Rockne-
Notre Dame style. Howard plays
an eight-man offensive shift, after
the style of Dick Hanley's great
Northwestern team. Virginia Sem
mary plays the half-punt forma-
ton of the Missouri Valley.
Georgetown, as yet far from
it's full strength, is in Philadel-
phia for clash with the strong
Villanova team, coached by Harry
Stuhldreher, famous as one of
the -Four HorSemen of Notre
Dame"
Night Indoor Game
American University is in Ash
land, Va, ready to absorb anoth-
er trimming this one from Ran
dolph-Macon. It is American US
final game of the season.
Quantico Marines, colorful as
ever, meet the high scoring and
only once defeated DaviS-Elkins
eleven, indoors, in the Auditorium,
at Atlantic City, tonight.
George Washington played its
regular weekend tilt last night
at Griffith Stadium with Butler,
from Indiana, as the foe.
Naturally, and because of the
attractiveneSS of the visiting
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The Washington times., 1931-11-21
GandhiShockedatNudity
OF Mayfair Women

LONDON. Nov. 81 GN.S0.-
Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, known
as well for his lack of clothing as
for his efforts in behalf of Indian
independence. launched an attack
today upon the nudity" of Eng.
liSh women.
With only a loin-cloth about his
scrawny body, Gandhi told the
Manchester Guardian that "the
people of India would be shocked
to see women walking about the
street half nude, as they can be
seen in London"
The interviewer challenged the
Mahatma's statement. Gandhi
amended:
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
hoy SUSPECTED
|. Of MATR|C|DE
international Photo
wv Ar MT

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 81
Q:N.SO Arrested while attend
ing his mothers funeral, Homer
Lawrence, 25, said to be a son of
Mrs. Willis Dickey. Ct. former
Atlanta (Ga.) society matron, to-
day was being grilled by police
here as a suspect in the fatal
clubbing of the woman.
Mrs. Dickey was. beaten into
Inconsistencies last Saturday
night and died Wednesday with
out regaining consciousness.
She was the third victim in
less than a week of what police
believed a maniac clubber.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
CHILD
k|LLER,PLEA
Of CROSBY
Creator of 'Skippy' Appeals to
Governor to Parole Boy
In Care of Priest

NEW YORK, Nov. q
GN.S.) "Aw, give him a
chance!"
It is Skippy who speaks,
Skippy the round-faced boy
of the comics. He is plead
ing for Herbert Nicolls, the
.12-year-old lifer i'll Walla
Walla, Wash.
Through his creator, Percy
Crosby, of Mclean, Va, skippy
has asked Governor Hartley to
parole Herbert in the care of the
Rev. Father E. J. Flanagan, OF
Overlook Farm, Omaha, Neb
Father Flanagan is a personal
friend of Crosby's. and under his
guidance, Herbert, a. murderer
would become "a credit to so
ciety," Crosby believes.
He wrote: VIZ
II am fully conscious that q
crime has been committed
against society. Even so, l
have faith that society will
eventually be the gamer, if this
boy is awakened by being given
the privilege of his freedom.
BIameS Society
"T firmly believe that this
misguided boy would never have
committed the crime, if it had
net been for the exploitation of
gunmen as heroes. Society, by
its winking attitude at gunmen
murderers, really brought the
tragic plight this child is in to-
day."
Father Flanagan has made an
effort to obtain the custody Of
Herbert, believing that there is
hope for him even though he has
blood on his young hands. He has
taken homeless boys under his
care for years, developing them
into fine, outstanding, self-support-
ing citizens, Crosby said.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Mystery Microscope
Magnifies Objects
1900 Times

PASADENA. Calf, Nov. 81
ON.SO.-After IA years of Sc
cret testing, a mystery micro
scope described as the most
powerful in the world, today
was reported perfected by DR..
Royal Raymond Rife, of San
Diego.
DR.. Arthur Isaac Kendall, of
Northwestern University has
been using the instrument
which he believed would vastly
widen experiments in the bac-
THEOLOGICAL field.
The new microscope was said
by scientists here to have a
magnifying power of 1900 di-
ameters. DR.. Rife used quartz
prisms to break up light waves
and view the most minute
objects,
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
"Well, let's say three-quarters

"Well, let's say three-quarterS
nude"
The Guardians reporter was not
satisfied, and he pressed Gandhi
for further details. He asked: .
"Where have you seen women
three-quarterS nude in the
streets of LOndOn?"
"Well, let us say in music
halls"
An investigation followed, with
the revelation that Gandhi had
attended a number of ultra-smart
evening receptions in London's
West End, where the non-existent
back of evening gowns and ex.
treme decolletage caused him tc
lower his eyes.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
SchOOLbOy SUccl1n1bs
To Football Injuries

OSCEOLA, Neb., Nov. 81
U.N.SO Less than week after
he gave a pint of his blood to
save the life of a team-mate,
William Wood, an end on the st.
Edward High School football
team, was dead today from an
injury received in a game. The
youth died in a doctors office a
few hours after he had received
a skull fracture in a game be-
tween his school and the OSceola
High School.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
KELLOGG RAPS
PARIS SECRECY
international Photo

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 81 s1.N.
Pressure Of public opinion
should be applied on China and
Japan if present negotiations to
bring about a peacefyI settlement
of the Manchurian dispute fail,
Frank B. Kellogg, former Secre-
tary of State and co-author of the
Kellogg BRAND peace pact, de-
clared here today.
He sharply criticized secret ne
diplomacy in the international ne
gotiations aimed at ending the
Manchurian crisis.
Only through open proceedings
could the desired peace be effected,
he declared.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Is DIE, 29 HURT
IN MINE BLAST

LONDON, Nov. 81 GNSO.
Twenty-Five men were killed and
20 were injured today by an ex.
plosion. followed by fire, in one of
the pits of the Bentley coal mine
near Doncaster, Yorkshire.
The injured men we're trapped
half a mile beneath the surface.
The fire and the danger of
further gas explosions hampered
rescue efforts, but firemen and ex.
pert rescue crews were endeavor-
ing to reach the entombed men.
There were pitiful scenes at the
pithead as scores of wives, chill
dren. and other relatives waited to
claim the bodies of the dead.
Approximately 1000 men we're
in the pit at the time of the
explosion.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Princes Hand Broken
As Car Strikes Tree

VIENNA, Nov. q uNSJ.
Prince Nicholas Of Rumania,
whose elopement recently caused a
sensation, narrowly escaped death
in an automobile accident yester'
day, according to an announce
ment broadcast over the radio
from Bucharest.
The prince was driving alone in
his automobile when it skidded
and crashed into a tree. His hand
was broken and he was severely
! bruised. /
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Will Rogers Is Off
To "P0cifU Orient

VANCOUVER, B. c., Nov. 81
G.N.S0 will Rogers, who will
sail from here today for the
Orient, said:
when left Los Angeles
was figuring on getting the
boys out of the trenches by
Christmas. Before / was half
way here 1 heard that an armi.
stice had been signed. That
was going some. No word comes
that the armiStice was called
off, so I will have to continue
the trip and pacify all ASIA"
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Gloria and Husband
Sail on HOneUn1OOn

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 81 0.N.S0
Gloria Swanson, film star, and
her fourth husband, Michael
Farmer, Irish sportsman, planned
to sail today on the President
Mckinley for New York city and
then leave for honeymoon in
Europe. The pair arrived on the
vessel from San Francisco as Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Foster"
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Millionaire Cleared
In Policeman Killing

CHICAGO, Nov. 81 G.N.SO-
Frederick Guy Sprague, formerly
a millionaire stock broker, today
was free of charges that he MUIR
dered Policeman Patrick j. Gal
lagher. A jury late last night
pronounced Sprague not guilty of
the States accusation that he
had "cold-bloodedly shot and killed
Gallagher when the officer came
to the former brokers' apartment
to silence a gay party.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Death Farm Hunted,
2 Crimes Admitted

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 81 UN.S.)
Search for a wholesale murder
farm" was in progress today fol
lowing the admissions of Gilbert
Francis Collie, 81, a blacksmith,
that he had murdered George
Walker, 33-year-old Santa Rosa,
Calf, World War veteran, and
Dale Slater, 20, The Dalles, Greg,
for their money.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Lindy, in Cuba, Hops
For Jamaica TODAY

CIENFUEGOS. Cuba, Nov. 81
G.N.SO. With the 80 passengers
whom he piloted here from
Miami, Fla, in the airplane,
American Clipper, Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh prepared to hop off
today for Kingston. Jamaica, next
stage of his flight to Barran-
quilla and Bogota, Colombia.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
BGIIOOnist, Missing
IS Hours, Is Sought

CLEVELAND, Nov. 81 QN.S).
Aerial searching parties were to
be organized here today to seach
for Milford Vanik, Is, Cleveland
balloonist, who has been missing
for more than IS hours since he
started an all-night solo balloon
flight Thursday night. It was
feared his 35.000-cubic foot bag
had been. swept out over Lake
Erie,
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
John W. Pope Dies:
WQLL Street Bear

NEW YORK, Nov. 81 G.NS0-
John w. Poue, 30-year-old bear"
member of the New York Stock
Exchange, died in st. Luke's Hos
pital today after an operation.
Pope was one of the few to call
the turn on the 1929 market. He
emerged with millions from the
bear side.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
GOU. DIUight F. Davis
Sails From Manila

MANILA, Nov. 81 G.NSO
Governor General Dwight F..
Davis, accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Cynthia, sailed today for
the United States on the steamer
President Lincoln. The chief
executive of the Philippines has
been granted a leave of alb
Eence.
The Washington times., 1931-11-21
Garner Sees Cannon
And TGnanaav1y Boss

John F. Curry, New York's
Tammany boss. and Represent
ative Jack" Garner of Texas,
Democratic choice for Speaker of
the House, held a breakfast con-
ference today-and both denied
politics was discussed. Garner
disclosed that Bishop james Can
non, jr., had called on him.