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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-21
ATTRACTIVE BOOKINGS
 AT n0IIGIAS COILS

Party Girr' tonight and So Long Lefty" for Sunday evening are the next attractions billed at the local Coliseum. Both perform ances have proven to be specially entertaining elsewhere shown and are certain to please local audi enceS.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27

nent in police circles in the Dis
trict. Coming to Washington as
a member of the Prohibition Bu-
reau. he later left the Govern
ment service and acted as an
undercover man for the Citizens
Service Association, a group of
drys who organized to aid the
prohibition unit.
1t was during his service here
that DOuthitt issued statement
that there were 1000 speakeasies
flOuriShing in the Capital.
Leaving this work, Douthitt
went to Arlington, Va, and pur-
chased a small newspaper. He
later sold this and returned to
Washington, where he established
''The Bluecoat," an unofficial po-
lice organ.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
GOU. Roosevelt Acts
To Prosecute LegS
On Plea of Citizens

ALBANY, N. Y, April 81
GN.SO.-Gov. Franklin D. Roose-
velt today ordered District At
torney Harrison I. Gardner, of
Greene county, to prosecute Jack
("Legs") Diamond, notorious
gangster and racketeer.
Diamond was indicted last
week by the Green county grand
jury on three counts, two
charging him with assault and a
third with kidnapping in connec-
tion with the Grover Parks case
After spending two days in the
Green county Jail, Diamond
finally was released in $4,000
bail.
Parks, a Cairo truckman,
claimed he was assaulted and
tortured by Diamond and mem
berS of his gang.
It had been hoped to bring
Diamond to trial on three indict-
ments next month but his trial
will be delayed because of the
shooting.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
DEATHS
ON INCREASE
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the person killed or injured.
These records show that mo-. = t
those killed have been ED "
persons over so years old, I. ee
under 10 and seven over 81 and
under so.
These figures were taken from
the ages of Is persons killed.
Assistant Director of Traffic M.
o. Eldridge said:
"The increase in the number
of persons killed and injured,
according to records, is largely
due to the negligence or care
lessnesS of the deceased or the
injured. OF course, there are
many cases where responsibility
rests with the mOtOriSt, but in
most cases, the blame is on the
part of the injured or dead
person."
Motorists ExOnerated
Mr.. Eldridge then examined
records which showed that in 10
cases taken at random, in only
two of them was the motorist to
blame.
Many traffic accidents were
due to pedestrians walking in
front of automobiles not in cross
walks and by pedestrians crossing
intersections against red lights.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27

quarters that following the reso~
luton submitted at. the Police
mems Association that Douthitt
had asserted that Captain Burke
would never be the chief of de-
tectives and that Lieutenant
Varney would soon be in the dis
card.
Answering the charge that more
than so gaming establishments
are being run in the First Pre-
cinct, Lieutenant Varney referred
to the many notices sent owners
and agents of premises housing
suspected gaming places.
When the vice squad was re-
organized and placed under the
direction of Inspector Thaddeus
Bean the precincts were notified
to give every help possible to the
central squad.
Douthitt has long been promi-
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
HOOVER NOTES
MONROE FETE

President Hoover yesterday
sent bouquet of roses and
carnations in connection with the
one hundred and seventy-third
birthday anniversary of President
James Monroe, at the ceremony
conducted by the National
Women'S Party in Fredericks-
burg, Va.
Although Monroe's birthday
does not occur until tomorrow,
the women'S organization cele
brated the occasion yesterday
with the unveiling Of a tablet in
front of the old brick capitol,
where President Monroe was in
augurated.
The capital was removed TO
Fredericksburg during the War
of 1912, when the capitol in
Washington was burned.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
NAVY CONTRACT.
HIT BY NJ CARL
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The Workington Pump and Ma.
chinery and Industrial Develop
ment and Machinery Corporation
submitted bids. Both bids con-
tanned conditional clauses,
The Navy ruled out the Inter
national bid and accepted the
Worthington offer, contending it's
conditional clause did not in
validate the bid.
McCarI Enters Protest
McCarl, in a letter to Secretary
of the Navy Adams, April 8, said:
"The procedure followed by
the Navy Department in this
matter is not such as to encOur-
age the confidence of American
business men in, the fairness of
their Government.
"Such procedure not only
tends to weaken the confidence
of the people in their Govern
men, but it diScOurageS bidders
from entering into competition
for Government contracts, with
the result that the cost of Gov
ernment must necessarily in
crease for lack of such LOmpeti-
tiOn."
He said there should have been
an advertisement of all proposals
and added that instead of doing
this, the contract was cOnSllm.
mated with unusual haste.
Mr.. McCarl said that "as the
acts appear, the Navy Depart
ment has so conducted this mat
ter as to have failed to save ap-
proximately $19,375 in public
funds"
Pyne Defends Contract
Acting Paymaster General F. G.
Pyne, of the Navy, in a letter to
Beedy, maintained that the
Worthington bid conformed to ad-
vertiSed specifications "in essen
tis respects" and therefore it was
awarded the contracted as the
lowest bidder. Said Representa-
tive Beedy:
81 expect to bring this matter
to the attention of the Com
mittee on Expenditures and re-
quest an investigation of it and
other contract awards. am
making investigations of my
own at the present time"
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
GIRLS CLEANED
At POKER
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eyes. He blushed. He was al
most as much surprised to see
the occupants of the car-or,
rather, to see so mucll of them
as they were to see him. The
girls were practically bankrupt.
The boys had lost some of their
apparel, too.
Policeman TOIand pOndered.
Playing strip poker in the parks
was a new one on him. To arrest
or not to arrest, that was the
question. But the park police pol
icy is, when in doubt, don't ar
rest. Policeman TOland took the
boys and girls hOme-and told
their parents.
Well, eating breakfast from the
mantlepiece isn't as bad as eating
it in a station house.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
KILLER BURKE
PLEADS TODAY

ST. JOSEPH. Mich, April 81
GNSO Fred killer" Burke to-
day faced the beginning of the
end with his arraignment on a
first degree murder charge in
connection with the Staying OF
Patrolman Charles Skelly mere.
The reputed killer Of 81 men,
Burke was to be escorted under
heavy guard to the courtroom
of Judge E. CI White, where
the super-assassin was expected
to enter a guilty plea.
Date for hearing Of testimony
to fix the degree of the crime
then will be set. Burke is re.
ported to have said:
81 want to ge this over with"
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
CHAIRMAN
W|DENS SCOPE
Of STUDY
Col. Arthur Woods to Start
For Europe Next Week to
Survey Conditions There

Col. Arthur Woods, chairman
of President Hoover's emergency
employment committee, said to-
day he is going to sail for Europe
next week to make a general
study of the unemployment situa-
ton in England and Germany.
He expects to return to the
United States in July and condi-
tions here at that time, he said,
will govern whether he will re-
main as active chairman of the
employment committee. During
his absence Fred C. Croxton,
Columbus, Ohio, will head the
committee.
To Study Insurance -,
While abroad Colonel Woods
said he would study the various
systems of employment insur-
ance, the efforts being made. to
maintain employment and other
phases Of the worldwide depreS-
tSion.
A number of the committees
members whose services had been
loaned the Government by Or
ganizations with whom they are
connected, have retired to an ad.
visory rather than an executive
basis. They include:
Douglas Brown, of New Jersey;
James C. Lawrence, of Minnesota;
Porter Lee, of New York; Frank
lin Bayne, of Virginia; Bryce
Stewart, of New York; Mrs. Alice
M. Dickson, of New York, and
Mrs. Lillian M. Gilbreth, of New
Jersey. Roland Baynes, secretary
of the University of Chicago, has
been appointed to an active posi-
ton on the committee.
Colonel Woods said there had
been a perceptible improvement
in conditions, although not suffi-
cient to justify the ending Of the
committees activities.
Response Satisfactory
There has been much more
satisfactory response to the ef-
forts of the committee during the
present emergency than in the
depression of 1921 when it did
similar work. The committee,
Colonel Woods explained, has
been in touch with hundreds of
industrial concerns most of which
were held to have been cooper
ating to the extent of their
ability to maintain employment
and wage scales.
In former depressions the first
move of industries had been to
discharge as many as possible,
cut wages, postpone repair and
construction work. and take other
action which would increase the
difficulties of business and wage
earners, Colonel Woods said:
"Wages have been held up
as never before, employment
maintained to surprising ex-
tent, and every effort made to
improve the conditions of many
industrial concerns.
Loans have been made with.
out interest by some concerns
when it was found necessary to
discharge employees"
Contracts Total Billion
Contracts for public and semi
public construction work amount
ing to 100000 were reported
to the committee last week, bring
ing the total since December /,
to $1,284, 100000
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
$4,000 CARGO.
OF LIQUORS
SEIZED
Vintage Wines, Champagne
And Scotch Beer Grabbed by
US. Agents in Atlanta Yard

ATLANTA, Ca. April 81
IN.SD.-Swooping down on a.
freight train in a railroad yard
here today, Federal prohibition
agents confiscated a carload of
vintage wines and liquors valued
at more than 100000 retail.
They found the shipment to
contain 1000 gallons of liquor,
so cases of champagne, Is cases
of wines and IS cases of Scotch
beer.
The shipment, billed from
Savannah, Ga, to club in Chi
cago, was labeled as a consign-
ment of hardwood building
blocks.
The liquor was said by prohi-
bition agents to have been
shipped from Canada and France,
landed on the south Atlantic
coast, shipped to Savannah and
reconsigned from there to Chi.
cago.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of April
"a, $396,134,276.55; expenditures.
12,612,756.36: customs receipts,
$26, 300, ,997.84.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
ThieUes Take Safe
And Cart 1t AU1u

HAGERSTOWN, Md, April 81.
Unable to force the lock on a
huge safe in the American Oil
Company station here, robbers
loaded the safe on a truck and
drove away with it to open it at
leisure.
The robbery was discovered
when the station was opened for
business this morning. The safe
contained SITS in cash and about
1000 in checks.
The same gang is believed to
have entered the grocery store of
Charles E. French, taking food,
Stuffs valued at about 5000.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
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900 annually from liquor sellers
and farmers.
He said that most Of the huge
sum came from farmers Of
Greene county, who had com
planned that Diamonds hench-
men demanded tribute of so
cents a barrel for cider they
sold.
The cider, Cook said, was
bought by bootleggerS. who dis.
titled the liquid into applejack.
The Washington times., 1931-04-27
BRITISH BUDGET 7
SAVED BY TAX
ON GASOLINE
German Loan, FIuctuation
Deposit, New Income Tax
Plan Win SnoWden Praise

LONDON, April 81 GN.S)-
lacking up the price of gasoline
another four cents per gallon,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Philip SnoWden today presented
his budget for 1931-1932, reliev-
ing general fears that widespread
taxation increases would be neces-
sary to give Great Britain a
favorable balance.
A windfaII of $45,OOO,OOO from
the German mobilization loan,
conversion of $1O0,OOO,0OO of an
exchange fluctatiOn deposit now
lying in New York and an added
$50, 100000 to come from a new
method of income tax payments
will supply the country with the
extra $500, 100000 needed this
year, the chanceIIOr's speech re-
veaIed.
Thought Impossible
With the exception of the gaso-
line tax, making this commodity
now susceptible to a total tariff
of IL cents a gallon, Snowden,
the master economist, virtually
drew this extra income "out of
hat" accomplishing what many
critics had declared to be an alb
solute impossibility.
SnOwden estimated the years
revenues at $3,9O5, 100000 and
expenditures at S3,9O4,358,7 $50,
leaving the Scant balance of
$651,24 but at least it is a
balance.
Flatly turning down all sug-
geStionS for a revenue tariff,
Snowden said no attempt would
be made to make up last years
deficit by immediate taxation.
He admitted his budget pro-
posals were temporary expedien-
cies to meet a temporary emer-
gency. He said:
Unfortunately, the depreda-
tiOns of my predecessors left
few henrOOStS to rob-"
Left Bed to Talk
Snowden announced a plan to
tax land values at the rate of
two cents in the pound sterling
($4.86), stating he considered this
the main feature of his budget,
although valuation Of land values
first will be necessary. This pro-
cess, he said, will require two
years.
The chancellor spoke for one
hour and ten minutes, standing
throughout the ordeal
Despite the fact he virtually
climbed out of sick bed to make
the speech, he finished fresh and
was greeted with a SalvO of ter
rifle applause from all parts of
the house as he hObbled back to
his seat, acknowledging the Ova-
tiOn with a slight smile.
Only twice during the speech
did he stop, and then only long
enough to take a sip of water.
Cheered By Tories
Immediately upon conclusion of
his address, Neville Chamberlain
arose and a delivered a glowing
personal tribute to Snowden on be-
half of the Conservatives to the
accompaniment of Tory cheers.
In the gallery, in addition to
doctors and nurses on hand to
treat Snowden if necessary, was
United States Ambassador Charles
G.. Dawes, who listened intently
to the address.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03
S25 a Call
Fire Chief Warns Village about
Unnecessary Alarms

The menace of the grass fire
is upon us, and Fire Chief John
Foister urges Chapel Hill resi-
dents to have care.
1t is estimated that every
time the fire truck leaves the
station it costs the city at least
twenty-five dollars, not to speak
Of the trouble placed upon vol
unteer firemen.
Chief Foister suggests that
those citizens VINO desire to
burn the brush and dead grass
around their houses in their
spring cleaning notify the
fire department the day be-
fore, and he will be glad to send
d man out to supervise the
work.
The best time to burn brush
wood is in the morning SO that
it will cool before nlghtfall, and
this time is most convenient for
one Of the fremen to come out.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03
Blah on the Radio

("Girdrd." in the Philadelphia
Inquirer)
A bunch Of college professors
register a kick against long
Winded advertising talks via
radio.
The professors demand that
the blah be cut out, Amen, yell
ten million radio fans.
Announcers speaking to what
they call their unseen au-
diences' indulge too often in too
much blah. The audience simply
shuts off and tries something
else Or puts on d favOrite record
on the phonograph.
In that way blah is likely to
nullify the ad.
You remember that tale in
your old fourth reader. The
greedy boy tried to take too
many filberts from d jar at one
sWipe and got none.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03

petitor of Reno in the growing
American separation industry.
Worst Of all, look at South Caro-
lima, citadel Of the old and mel
low graces and, under Governor
Richards, stern enemy Of Sun
day golf, enacting a boxing
law, under which local commits
sions may authorize professional
slugging matches on the basis Of
a paid gate.
There are no doubt other ex-
amples of state descents from
grace the past few months, but
these are enough to give our
moralists pause. There is an
impish and reckless spirit
abroad in the family of states.
What has caused it? WEAKNESS
with the prolonged Hoover pros
perity? Discouragement over
the benefits of prohibition? The
apparent breakdown of law and
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03
Norfolk Virginidn-PaOt)

Norfolk Virginidn-Paot)
Nevada's return to legalized,
wide-open gambling represents
the farthest north in this
years State adventures in sin,
but there are other instances
comparatively as distressing.
Who would have thought that
North Carolina, gimlet-eyed
enemy of dalliance in every form
t these rfahy years, would wotHfd have have
come within an ace of establish
ing Asheville in the pari-mutual
business And look at Arkan-
sas, chastened with a drought
visitation that should make for
piety, enacting a divorce law
frankly directed for establishing
Hot Springs as an effective COM
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03

stretched out upon it, and pre-
pared for a nights rest. Just
as he was dropping off to sleep
the numerals 105 somehow float
ed into his consciousness. He
arose. walked to the desk,
climbed over it, and looked into
the box of pigeon-holes against
the wall. Was 105 his room
number? He wasn't sure If
pigeon-hole 105 had a key in it,
the key was 2probably his. If
the hole was empty. his memory
had tricked him. He reached in,
and the key was there.
Even so, he could not be sure.
No. 105 might be somebody
else's room. When he opened
the door he might be greeted by
the shrieks Of an outraged
maiden lady. SO it was with con-
siderable trepidation that he
mounted the stairs and proceed
ed to 1O5. He turned the key
in the lock, pushed the door
open. and switched on the light.
The bed was empty-and on the
floor We're the four pieces Of
baggage.
And 50 the poet went to bed
and sank into peaceful slunber.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03
Poe I'm American"?
(New Freemun) J

The latest addition to the list
of un-Americana is Edgar Allan
Poe. Those of us who have
hitherto felt inclined to be
rather proud Of Poe as one Of
the earliest men Of authentic
genius in our literature must
restrain our unbecOming en-
thusiasm. At the annual con
vention Of the New York Asso-
citation Of Teachers of English
last week, Professor Rollo l..
Lyman, Of the University Of
Chicago, who is president
of the National Council Of
Teachers Of English, declared
that Poe was "un- America" be-
cause he used narcotics, and adj
vocated the removal of his
works from the school syllabus
on the ground that he did not
set a good example for public.
school pupils.
Our amaZement at this peda-
gogue's zeal is inspired by Sew
eral considerations. We are not
aware that it has ever been
proved that Poe was drug ad-
dict; we are aware of the fact
that drug addicts are real,
pitiable and one hundred per
cent. American phenomenon; we
doubt whether reading "The
Raven" for example, would in
spire children with an uncon-
trollable desire for dangerous
narcotics.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03

Justice in Chicago and New
York? Take your choice and
add other causes to individual
taste. What is fairly apparent
is that an increasing number of
American commonwealth are
in more or less open rebellion at
the austerities-are either firt-
ing with sin or already on the
loose.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03
" hen a Nation Is Poor

In an essay in the Baltimore
ErcninQ Sun Gerald Johnson,
formerly professor Of journal
ism in the University here, com
ments upon Henry Ford's re-
cent statement to the effect that
times in this country are really
pretty good if only the country
could persuade Itself that they
are good.
what Mr.. Ford overlooked, =
writes Mr.. Johnson, is the fact
that poverty bears a relatively
unimportant relation to the
of money in ones posses
sion. 70 a large. in fact to con-
trolling. degree poverty and
wealth are dependent upon psy-
choloyical. not economic. factors.
If 4 nation thinks itself poor. it
is poor; 50 Henry's utterance,
properly construed boils down
to the sapient statement that
times in this country would be
good if they were good-truly,
an unassalIable position.
II know and without doubt
Won know a man who got along
admirably when his income was
81 500 A wear but VITO has to
work desperately to make ends
meet now that his income has
risen 10 $4,000 a wear The
answer is that when he made
S3 500 a wear he Travelled with
= SET whose average income was
around 81 900. but now that he
is making $4,000, he travels
with set whose average income
is probably $4,000 or better.
so he has ceased to be affiuent
and has become poor, as his in
come has increased.
~ am not speaking ironical-
" The man is poor. He has
not eno,gh income to meet what
ha ,aoards * absolutely neces-
sarv expenses OF course he
and his family are in no danger
of starvation or death bv freez-
mo. b,,t he is harried and wor-
ried anxious and blue He suf-
fers nreciselv the same mental
torture that is experienced bv
the man who is tramping the
streets looking for 4 lob
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03
PERCY MACkAYE.
ON A VISIT HERE,
HAS ADVENTURES
Loses His Baggage and Barely
Misses Spending Night on
Sofa in Hotel Lobby
SHADES TONGUE Is CUT

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greet his friend and exclaimed
What on earth are you doing
herer'
Looking for Archibald Hen
derson." Mr.. Mackaye's reply
betrayed no uneasiness or irri-
tation. He is easy-going and
takes things as they. come with
out complaint He has been to
strange places all over the
world and has developed a phil
osophy of patience and trust
fulness if you stand quiet and
bide your time. and ask Ques-
tions Of passers-by, YOU will get
on the right track al last.
Now, Barrett Clark had long
ago qualified as an expert in
finding Archibald Henderson.
When he was here two or three
years ago he was stranded at
the bus station in Just this same
way. He hailed a farmer driV-
ing wagon eastward the
farmer took him aboard the
wagon, and drove and drove,
past the Henderson house and
down the long hill 10 the creek,
and across the creek and on
toward Durham. He got d ride
on another vehicle and finally
reached the Hendersons
Follow me Mr. Clark bade
Mr.. Mackaye, and Mr.. Mackaye
obeyed.
Mr.. Henderson, his own house
being all occupied, has arranged
to quarter his guest at the Inn.
Well enough, but when they got
tothe Inn the question Of the
baggage arose Where was it
Could it be found and fetched? ?
Mr.. Mackaye didn't seem to be
worried, but he would like to
have his bags if it wouldn't IN
convenience anybody too much.
1t was then that Paul Green
entered into action. He declared
that now was the time to bring
into service the great modern
invention Of the telephone. He
rang up University station, and
after voluminous conversation
with the person at the other end
of the line-in the course of
which the person seemed deeply
puzzled as to why he should be
asked about suit-cases and
satche1s-Mr. Green discovered
that he was not talking with the
railway station but with the
Duke Power station in that
vicinity. The man in charge
there was prepared to give IN
formation about voltage but not
baggage.
Communication with the rail
way station was impossible, for
it was closed tight on Sunday.
A trip over to Hillsboro, to
see old houses and box bushes
and George the Thirds clock,
had been planned for the visitor;
and so the genial and accommo-
dating hotel clerk agreed to take
over the job of telephoning to
Durham, Raleigh, Goldsboro,
and other cities. and inquiring
about the baggage.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03

How about getting one of
those IL persons who under
stand the Einstein theory to I'M
dertake an explanation of the
Wickersham report?-L LWch-
burQ NeUs.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-04-03

The Russian workman, forced
to quit a job he likes and work
where the bosses need him,
must rejoice in the fact that he
is no longer slave of a car
Brooklyn Times.