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The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
United States Can Launch
More Planes Than Any
Other World Power.

WaShington-The United States
more planes in sea combat than
any other world naval power.
From the decks of three great
aircraft carriers, and from the cat
apults of cruisers AMI hattleships,
hundreds of fighting. scouting.
bombing. and torpedo planes can
take off for an aerial offensive so
powerful that navy experts hesitate
to prophesy the effect of cOncen-
trated attack.
This development of navy air
craft strength comes as the result
of a carefully planned and well ex-
ecuted five-year building program
inaugurated In 1926 and reaching
its climax at the end of the present
fiscal year.
Cost s63,ooo,ooo.
The program has been effected
at cost of approximately $63,00O,-
600, nearly 100000 less than the
original estimates approved by con-
gress. In the brief space of five
years the navy has raised the eff
fective force of its aircraft by over
200 per cent and has increased the
number of its planes from $50 to
over 1000.
However, the completion of the
program will find no letup in navy
aeronautical activities.
Navy officials are hopeful of Sc
curiDo additional aDOronria tion .
from future congresses for at least
500 more planes and four new air
craft carriers.
In recent public announcements,
Assistant Secretary ingalls, has
stated the aircraft carrier is the
most efficient and powerful weapon
of offense and defense yet devel-
Oped by the navy.
Admiral Moffet in recent
speech declared that surface ves-
sells that put themselves within
range of aircraft will assuredly be
Obliterated unless adequately pro-
tected by aircraft"
Authoritatiyely representing the
views of a large section of naval
experts, Admiral MOffet later de-
clared that "our navy should have
the maximum possible number of
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Act Your Age!

You've seen young men with old faces.
and old men with young faces. The men
in the latter class have learned the
secret of youth.
They know that 'pep" and interest
in life come from perfect health.
Many old men with young faces have
told us that Fellows Syrup is their
standby. They take it regularly. They
wouldn't be without it.
Go to your druggists today. Get a
bottle of this valuable tonic. Take it
three times daily, and watch your
pep" return.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
MYSTERY VESSEL SEEKS TREASURE

Lindsay, Swan and Hunter, and AL
fred Lindsay is the one man who
knows the nature of the voyage,
and he has guarded his secret
through all the weeks in which the
preparations were being made and
in the face of the wide publicity
surrounding the voyage. All those
ashore know is that the ship
headed northward out of the port
and then turned southwark.
The sinking of the Tubantia was
one of the tragedies of the war,
from the German point of view.
Repeated attempts to locate the
boat and regain the gold have
proved unsuccessful. The ship was
originally sent out from Rotterdam
with gold bullion for Buenos Aires.
The money was to have been used
TO bolster up Germany's credit in
South America.
Gold in Dutch Cheeses.
The gold was carefully packed
away in hundreds of big Dutch
cheeses. and the voyage was kept
a close secret by Germany. So Sc
cret was it, in fact, that even the
German submarines did not know
of it, and so it came about that
one OverZealous submarine COM
mander tOrpedoed the ship.
If the Retainer is really seek
ing the Tubantia and retrieves the
gold, the members of the crew will
come home relatively wealthy men.
Salvaged gold becomes the property
of the government, which receives
a percentage of 1t and makes an
award to the finders, usually a gen.
erOus one
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Only Owner Knows Desti-
nation as Ship Leaves
on Secret Quest.

LondOn.-When the salvage craft
Retainer passed the hailing sta
tion of the Sutherland docks re-
Gently the only reply to the custom
ary cry from the hailing station
of Where ahoy?" was AT sea-"
The Retainer is indeed a mys-
terry ship, although it is rumored
that its closely secreted quest is FOR
S5,000,000 worth of gold which
went down in the North sea in 1910
with the Dutch liner Tubantia.
Only one man knows its deStina-
ton. and he is pledged not TO re-
veal il. The members of the crew,
all Sutherland men carefully chOs-
en- for the voyage, know neither
how long they will be away nor to
what part of the world they are
going They know only that four
expert divers are aboard, and pro-
visions for five months are carried.
Under Sealed Orders.
The Retainer is sailing under
sealed orders in the pocket of the
captain. The vessel is owned by
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Many Dangers Lurk in
Home, New Survey Shows

Hartford, COnn.-The dangers OF
remaining at home are described in
a statistical report of the Travel
ers' Insurance company on personal
accidents.
The statistics show more than A
per cent of the adults injured in
home accidents in 1880 were vic
tins of falls, p per cent were cut
and per cent suffered burns. The
familiar 81 walked into a door in
the dark" is more than just an alibi
for a black eye, for the survey
shows Z per cent were hurt in such
collisions.
Figures for five years show one
fifth of all accident victims have
been injured at home.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Prices for Sheep

Gull the sheep flock down to
the best ewes and raise only the
best lambs and use good quality
rams, is the advice to sheep grow
ers, in view of low prices for wool
and mutton, by w. f. Renk, COM
missioner of agriculture and mar
kets, Wisconsin.
While many farmers sell sheep at
the first evidence of lowering
prices, Renk advises keeping some
sheep on the farm as scavengers of
rough feed that would otherwise be
thrown aside and finally lost.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Cathedral to Seat 10000

Liverpool, England, has just sold
to the Roman Catholic church site
on BrOwnlOw hill for a proposed
cathedral, which is to cost $15,-
100000 and will have a seating ca.
pacity of 60,00O The site cost
S50O,00O. The construction will
start within two years.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Politeness Causes
Man to Break Leg

Toronto, Can.-POliteness
resulted in a broken leg for
Frank Twining, thirty-fve. OF
Owen Sound. Stepping off
plank sidewalk at the edge
of an excavation to allow
two women to pass. Twining
slipped into the ditch, broke
his leg and bruised his hip.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Round Trip Tickets to Helle

Berlin.-A ticket can be pur-
chased from the village Of Helle to
Paradise (Bahnhof. Jenal and vice
versa.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17

Never in this world will a big fail
be the exciting place it was wher
you were fourteen years old.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17

ST RUP
Juvenile Deduction

Pop, am | human?"
"Why, of course you're human"
"Well, the hired man said yOU
weren't human, and if you're not
don't suppose | am either"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17
Thirteenth Infant
Born on Thirteenth

Wheeling. w. Va The
stork brought the thirteenth
child to Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
Peabody on the thirteenth of
the month. Little No. 13 was
boy.
The stork's selection broke
a tie of six boys and six girls
in the Peabody family.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-17


sociation convention last month in
Los Angeles. Mrs. H. F. Brock, for
mer county superintendent of schools
of Mckinley County, and state director
for New Mexico in the National Edu-
cation Association, assembled the In
dian collection in Gallup.
Fora Neal Ross, found guilty in
Prescott of manslaughter in connec-
tion with the fatal stabbing of Earl
Martin Hyde, world war veteran and
former Whipple patient, at her speak
easy in Miller Valley, was sentenced
to serve not less than five years nor
more than ten in the state penitentiary
at Florence, when she appeared in
the Superior Court in Prescott before
Judge Richard Lamson for imposition
of sentence.
Fire, believed to have been caused
by cigarette carelessly tossed aside,
swept more than 5000 acres of timber
land twenty miles east of Ramah,
N. M
The body OF R. D. Wilson, home
steader, who was shot to death by
Hugh Moore, prominent stockman at
Trechado, N. NJ, was brought to Mag
dalena for burial at his old home. The
shooting followed quarrel over water
and range rights, and Moore surren-
dered to the officers at Los Lunas,
driving there Immediately after the
killing
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

Pattern 2111 is obtainable
only in sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and II.
Size 4 requires 112 yards of &c.
inch material and 3s-yard Of 27-
inch contrasting. Yardage for
every size, and simple, exact in
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making experience is necessary
to make this model with our
pattern.
Send Is cents, coin or stamps,
for each pattern, giving name,
address. style. number and size
wanted. Send for fall fashion
book. Price, Is cents. Book
with pattern, 96 cents. Address
Washington Times Pattern Bu'
reau, 243 w. Seventeenth St.,
New York city.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
RELIEF VIEWED.
BY FIRST LADY

All relief work planned to aid
the unemployed and distressed
should consider not only tenn
porary help but a safeguard
against the return of the condi-
tions in the future, in the opinion
of Mrs. Herbert Hoover.
The First Lady's ideas on the
national emergency are inter
preted by Mrs. John F. Sippel,
president of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, in an
article in the ClubWoman.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
TAX T|NKER|NG
RULED OUT BY
. PRESIDENT
Hoover, Mellon, Other Leaders
Agree Rate Boost Would
Be "Bad Politics." Indeed
By GEORGE r. HOLMES

Despite the shock of a two
billion-dollar deficit in the Treas
ury-a billion last year and an
other billion estimated for the
current year-the Administration
is going to oppose any extensive
tinkering with the general tax
structure at the next session of
Congress.
The bond issue of 81 100, ,000. 900
announced Monday by the Treas
ury, will carry the Government
along and permit income and cor
poration taxes to remain at their
present rates for another year.
Fear Bad Politics"
Administration leaders, among
them Secretary Mellon, are agreed
that it would be bad business
and bad politics" to increase in
come taxes in time of business
depression and upon the eve of
Q national election.
The new bond issue comes on
top Of the issues of last March
and June. The March issue was
$500, 100000 and the June issue
was $500, ,OOO, 200, making a grand
total of $2,4OO, 100000 in six
months.
Both the earlier issues were
greatly over.subScrib, and con-
fidence is felt at the Treasury
that the current offering will be
snapped up. too, despite the low
interest rate of per cent.
Delaying a Dark Day
It is recognized that unless
there is a decided pickup in busi-
ness, taxes will have to be in
creased. But the present policy
is to put off that dark day as
long as poSsible-certainly beyond
next years election.
Increased revenue must be
forthcoming from the present
rates, or these rates must be in
creased. The alternative is to
find new and hitherto untapped
sources, which is not an easy
task.
Secretary Mellon thinks the
whole Fe deral tax structure
eventually should be revised. But
not now.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
P POLITICS TOPIC
Of NEGRO MEET

The local colored American Le-
gion posts are planning meet
ing of delegates from Maryland,
Virginia and the District of Co
lumbia to consider position re-
specting the coming Presidential
campaign.
Prof. Charles M. Thomas will
speak on Peace Time Protection"
More and more colored leaders
and organizations are beginning to
take an active part in the politi-
cal activities of both parties.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
DodO Birds Hopeful
Since BuStleS
Are Due Back

LONDON, Sept. l U.N.SO.
The Mid-Victorian age, with all
its frills and furbelows, came
back into it's own today at the
opening of the Olympia fash
ion show.
Bustles, steel hoops, masses
of hooks, buttons, snaps and
buckles and mutton-leg sleeves
were much in evidence.
Even pajamaS succumbed to
the neW-old mode, with the
latest models ending in button
up CATERS at the trouser legs.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Bar to Urge Better
Student Contacts

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1.-The
American Bar Association, which
will convene in Atlantic City Sep
tember Is, has issued report
urging that law students be given
wider opportunity for social and
professional contact with judges
and lawyers of prominence.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Veteran Postmaster,
IS, Dies at StGlklltOn

STAUNTON. Va, Sept. 1A-Mil-
lard Fillmore Johnston, rs, \post-
master of the Mt. Sidney office
Tor the past 18 years, is dead at
his home near here. Surviving are
his widow, one daughter, and one
sister, Mrs. Redone B. Hamrick, on
Washington. \
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Y. M. C. A. TO SEND
IS TO CONFERENCE
Capital Delegation to Attend Ses-
sion for Older Boys at Hagers.
town Dec. 4, 5 and 6.

A delegation Of about IS Washington
youths will represent local organizations
at the ninth annual interstate older
boys conference Of the Y. M. c. A. at
HagerStown, Md, December 4, and s,
according to an announcement by j. c.
Ingram, Boys Department director Of
the Washington Y M. c. A.
Topics for discussion at the confer
ence are How to Know God" How to
Choose the Right Life. Work" and How
to Choose the Right Life Mate" Ad-
dresses on these subjects will be de-
hvered by DR.. Boyd Edwards, president
Of the Mercersburg Academy, and C. c.
Robinson of New York, an officer Of the
National Vocational Guidance Associa-
ton.
The local contingent will be led by
Director Ingram and two of his asso-
ciates, John F. Bergner and Marinus
DeGast. The conference has been ar
ranged by the Y. M c. A. Interstate
Committee and the Older Boys Council
OF the Y. M. c. A. in Maryland, Della
ware and the District of Columbia.
Hugh A. Thrift Of this city is chairman
OF the Interstate Committee and James
thompson Of Baltimore is president of
the council. Local members of the
council are Albert Muehlaus and Will
liam FURNACE, jr.
The delegates will represent local
Hi-Y clubs, Boy Scout troops, church
groups. fraternal organizations e.,
other bodies.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
FORCED TO MOVE OFFICES
Vacates Headquarters Near octa-
gon House, Occupied for
80 Years.

The Archaeological Society of Wash
ington. which for 80 years has made its
headquarters in or near the Octagon
House, Eighteenth street and New York
avenue, has been forced to move from
the .neighborhood through the acquisi-
ton by the Federal Government of
property there, and will open new Of
fees tomorrow on the fifth floor of the
Southern Building
The move also will affect the national
headquarters of the Archaeological In
stitute of America and of the illustrat-
ed monthly, Art and Archaeology, oper-
ated in conjunction with the Offices of
the local society.
The monthly meeting of the society
will be held at the Willard Hotel
December Is. with the new pres
ident, Wade H. Ellis. and Mrs. Ellis as
hosts. In January Maj. and Mrs. Henry
Parsons Erwin will entertain the men,
bers and in February the society will ne
the guests of Ambassador SesoStris Sid
arousS Pasha of Egypt, on the occasion
of his celebration of the birthday of
Prince Farooq, the heir to the Egyptian
throne The discussion at the latter
entertainment will be devoted to Egypt
and the more recent discoveries there.
Speakers for the meetings have not
been announced,
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COURTS BUILDING
'|NCENTERpROCRAM
TWILL Be DELAYED
D. C.. Heads Seek New
Financial Arrangements to
Escape Complications.
TREASURY AGAINST
ADVANCING FUNDS
Legislation May Be Required and
Full Information Will Be
Given Congress.

Construction of the courts building,
the first unit planned for the municipal
center area, will be delayed until the
Commissioners work out a new arrange
ment for financing the 100000 prof.
ect, it was disclosed yesterday at the
District Building.
In the meantime, acquisition of all
property in the four-square area will
be completed, the site will be graded
and new sewer and water mains will be
installed.
Postponement of construction of the
courts building, it was said, is due TO
recent complications which precluded
the Treasury Department from advance
ing to the District Government approx
imately S5,000,000 the Federal Govern
ment had been asked to pay for the
District Building.
Fund for Courts Building.
The current District appropriation
act contains $1,500,000 for beginning
construction of the courts building. This
appropriation, it was declared, was
predicated on an advance from the
Treasury.
Negotiations with the Treasury
reached a point where it was believed
the money would soon be available, and
plans were made to proceed with con-
Struction of the building Legal ex-
perts at the Treasury, however, blocked
these plans with opinions that legisla-
ton would be necessary before the
money could be advanced.
The total cost of the courts building
is limited in the District appropriation
act to 100000. The initial approp-
ration, now available, 1t was pointed
out, would do no more than provide a
start on the building. Rather than
proceed with It's construction with
means Of raising the balance needed to
complete the project In doubt, the
Commissioners decided to wait until
Congress has been advised of the sit
uation.
A feeling prevails at the District
Building that even though legislation
is asked to authorize an advancement
from the Federal Government, there is
little likelihood Of its approval at this
time. due to the existing financial con-
dition If the National Treasury. The
only other alternative thus far adj
vanced, Is to finance the project out of
current revenues.
Congress First to Be Told.
The Commissioners, however, do not
propose 10 decide on any plan until
Congress is fully informed Of the per-
picking problem. It is their intention
to open the discussion during hearings
on the 1888 appropriation bill before
the House subcommittee on appropria-
tionS.
The courts building, when completed,
will house the Municipal, Police and
Juvenile Courts. and the office of the
recorder Of deeds. This building Is to
be followed by a general administration
building. estimated to cost about $l0,-
100000.
With the funds now available for be-
ginning construction on the courts
building, the District, it was said, could
award contract for laying the founda-
ton, but purchase of the remaining
land in the area and grading of the
property will be done instead, because
of the puzzling financing problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-29
TWO AUTO VICTIMS
DIE FROM INJURIES
Fractured Skull Is Fatal to Street
Car Conductor-Woman
Succumbs.

Two victims of recent traffic accidents
Andrew Gravatt, 31-year-old con-
ductor for the Washington Railway &
Electric Co., and Mary Jane Tate, COL
ored. 80, Of 31-A M street southwest,
died at Casualty Hospital Friday
night.
Gravatt who lived at 5000 Foote
street northeast, suffered a fractured
skull early Friday when an automo-
bile operated by Wilson N Krahnke,
IS, of 1884 Irving street, knocked him
down while he was throwing a switch
in front of the Columbia car barns on
Benning road northeast.
The driver of the car, who was ar
rested on a charge of bad brakes and
held pending the outcome of Gravatt's
injuries, was released in custody of his
attorney shortly after the conductor
death. An inquest was being held this
afternoon at the District Morgue.
The Tate woman was hurt last Sum-
day in an automobile accident on the
Fort Washington road near Marshall
Hall, Md.
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Cabby Who Elected
Fare Bent on Long
2O-Cent Ride Fined

A taxi driver was fined IS in
Police Court yesterday for re-
fusing to accept fare.
A section of the police regula-
ticns which has had little or no
use in recent years was dug
from the books to bring Taxi
Driver John l.. Dorsch, ~, to
court after a policeman had ar
rested him on complaint of the
Would-be passenger.
Police said Dorsch responded
to a pedestrians whistle near the
Willard Hotel, but when the man
asked to be taken to Wisconsin
avenue and Macomb street,
DorSch refused to take him. The
passenger was told to get out of
the cab.
Dorsch pleaded that he had
had several long hauls" in sue
cession Friday, having lost
money on each, so when this
man asked to be taken to the
limit of the 20-cent zone he
didn't feel like taking 1t on the
chin any more"
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POLICE: TRANSFERS
ORDERED TUESDAY
Promoted Officers Will Take
New Posts in Person.
mel Shift.

Orders for the transfer of half
dozen members of the Police Depart
ment were prepared yesterday by In
spector L. I. A. Edwards, personnel
officer. The changes, marking the cul-
mination of the first step in pfoposed
extensive personnel reorganization, will
become effective Tuesday morning at
O'Clock.
Five of the men involved were pro-
NOTED about 10 days ago to fill vacan-
cies created by the retirement of In
spectorS William S. Shelby and Louis
j. Stoll. Heading the list is Capt. James
F. Beckett commander of the third
precinct, who becomes an inspector
December /. The others are:
Edward j. Kelly, veteran criminal in
veStigator and assistant chief of the
Detective Bureau, who becomes cap
tain and will succeed Beckett as COM
mander of the third precinct; Lieut..
Bernard w. Thompson who becomes an
acting captain; Frank Varney. who be-
comes a lieutenant Sergeant Emil
Desh, who becomes a lieutenant. and
Pvt. j. M. Larkins, who becomes a
sergeant
AS an acting captain. Thompson will
succeed Kelly as assistant chief of de-
tectives, and Varney will take Thomp-
sons position as liaison officer for the
Police Department at the Civil Service
Commission.
Beckett will be shifted to police
headquarters to take command of the
special liquor and vice squad, relieving
Inspector T. r. Bean, who will take
command of the first inspection district.
a position left vacant by Inspector
StollS retirement.
A number of other changes in as
signments had been contemplated, but
will be held in allegiance pending a
further personnel study by Brig. Gen.
Pelham D. Glassford, major and super
intendent of police. Considerable pres
sure also has been brought to bear on
police officials to delay a proposed ex-
change in the commands of two cap
tainS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-29

Above: The room at Stratford, ances-
trail home of the Lee family of Virginia,
where Gen. Robert E. Lee was born.
The small bed at the end Of the four
poster is the "trundle bed in which
Lee slept as baby.
Below: Richard Henry Lee, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Casenove Lee, jr., and
Cary T. Grayson, jr., standing beneath
a portrait of Richard Henry Lee, signer
of the Declaration of Independence.
The Lee child is a direct descendant
of the famous Colonial gentleman whose
name he bears, and the lineal ancestors
of both boys were the first Senators
from Virginia.
Many interesting possessions Of the
Lee family will be exhibited here Deem
Der and 10 at the Textile Museum
to raise funds for the purchase of Strait
ford The Robert E. Lee Foundation
proposes to make the house a national
shrine.
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decanter stood on the sideboard at
Sabine Hall, Carter estate, also bears
out this theory of eighteenth century
social customs.
A telescope through which Jefferson
watched Tarleton's raiders approach
Monticello likewise will be loaned by
Gen. Kean. It is known that the author
If the Declaration remained at his house
until the last minute before British
raiders descended upon it. He then
made his escape through the woods
on horseback. just before Jefferson
galloped off to safety he placed his
cherished silver under a loose plank
in the front porch of Monticello.
His old body servant stayed behind
standing on this plank as the Red
Goats approached. Fascinated and
amused by the darkys conversation,
they failed to notice his immobility, and
passed on into the house. They never
discovered the cache.