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The Washington times., 1931-06-18
SCHOOL URGED
FOR RECKLESS

Reduction of motor casualties
and the abolition of carelessness
in auto driving is embraced in
plan being proposed by E. w.
Brown, assistant superintendent
of police in charge of Traffic
Bureau.
Brown, speaking of his plan in
an interview with The Washing
ton Times, said:
81 believe that instead of i'm
posing fines upon motorists
when they violate minor traf-
fic regulations they should be
compelled by court order to at
tend a regulated course of study
which would have a much more
desired effect upon the vioIator.
Cites an Example
For example: When a man
is convicted of speeding and
fined $40 he Immediately for
gets about it. The fine has
little effect upon his future be-
haviOr. However, if the same
man is compelled to report for
one hour at a special school
operated under the direction of
traffic officers, and is compelled
to explain where he erred to
other viOlators, and in turn
watches and listens to their
explanation he will remember
it for some time.
81 intend to confer with
court officials and see what they
think of my plan. and will, if
they approve, pass on to my
SuperiOrS."
Inspector Brown believes a
great many accidents are caused
by ignorance of regulations
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
Stocking Bank Broke,
So Robbers Slap
Her Face

Two colored men attempted
to rob Mrs. Nina Wollstein last
night in her store at AL Della
ware Ave. S. W., and, finding
no money in her stockings,
slapped her in the face.
Mrs. Wollstein told police she
was alone when the men en-
tered. AS she turned to wait
on them, one of the men
pointed to the shelves behind
her, the second seized her.
threw her to the floor. AS she
screamed and fought. the men
searched her stockings for
money.
Mrs. Wollstein continued her
stuggle and the men, fright
ened. fled from the store.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
D. C. Gets Meeting
Of Western Union

Washington was chosen last
night as the seat of the 1888 gen
eral assembly of Western Union
Telegraph employees, following
the close of their 1881 convention
in Seattle.
The selection was made by 35
delegates representing $4,000 mem
bers in the United States, Can
ada, Cuba and Mexico. Nelson E.
Ross, president of Washington
Local, No. 81. who resides at 713
Nineteenth st. N. W., presented
the cause of the Capital.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
SENATE To GET
ACE AID BILL
Times Staff Photo

Determined efforts to establish
a system of old age pensions or
relief for the aged in the Dis
trict of Columbia will be made
as soon as Congress reconvenes,
under plans being worked out by
Senator Royal Copeland CD OF
New York, a member of the Dis
trict Committee.
Senator Copeland announced
today that he is preparing to
introduce a bill setting up such
a system and said that he feels
confident of obtaining strong
support for the measure.
Regardless of economic condi-
tions, the Senator believes the
Government should take steps
to assist those who have reached
their declining years. Under the
present depression, however, he
regards such assistance as being
doubly necessary.
1t is probable the Senator's
bill will not specify the amount
of the pensions. 1t will, however,
provide for the granting of relief
to all persons more than 10
years old.
The bill will provide for the
office of public welfare Of the
District to administer its pro-
visions. In addition to granting
cash, it would provide that other
assistance, such as medical care,
be given.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
TUBERCULOSIS
IN CHILDREN
CHECKED
229 Communicable Types
Here, DR.. Learned Says in
Report; Hospital Is Urged

A large percentage of children
suffering from pulmonary or
communicable tuberculosis have
been attending the local public
schools and are now in the
homes and on the streets of the
city free to communicate their
disease to other children.
This statement was made to-
day in a subcommittee meeting
of the special committee on
handicapped children, of which
DR.. H. Barrett Learned, presi-
dent of the Board of Education,
is chairman.
Of $50 children found to be
suffering from tuberculosis, 229
are suffering from the cummuni-
cable type, the committee re-
ported.
The committee further urged
the Children's Sanitarium, for
which the money was appro-
priated more than year ago, be
completed at the earliest possible
date.
1t was suggested after the erec-
ton of the sanitarium, all chill
dren suffering from tuberculosis
in communicable form should
be excluded by law from all pub
lie, private, and parochial schools,
including the two health schools.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
TAX|CAB-TRUCK
TILT HURTS 4

One man is in Providence Hos
pital in serious condition with
internal injuries and possible
fractured neck and three others
received minor injuries in the col
lision of a taxicab and a truck
on the Baltimore-Laurel road near
Laurel early today.
Isidore Kuhna1a, of New Brit
ain, Conn.,, a passenger in the
cab, was taken to Providence
Hospital unconscious. Another
passenger, Vernon Jones, 209
Rhode Island Ave. N. W., was
treated for decorations and
bruises.
The driver of the taxi, who
gave his name as Bernard M.
Cady, 116 Quincy Pl. N. E., was
treated for cuts and left the hos
pital. The driver of the truck,
Curtis C. Vann, of Strassburg,
Va, received minor hurts.
The accident happened early
today between Beltsville and
Laurel. Police said Cady tried to
stop his taxi to avoid striking
an approaching car, and skidded
crossWise on the road, where the
truck crashed into his car.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
Baptists' Pageant
To Picture Months

A calendar pageant will be
given tonight at the Jerusalem
Baptist Church, Twenty-sixth and
P Streets Northwest.
The participants will include
Mrs. jeanette Holmes. January:
Mrs. Mary Goffney. February;
Mrs. Irene Walker, March; Mrs.
Sara Allen, April; Mrs. Marjorie
Harris, May; Mrs. Caroline
Brooks and Mrs. Eta White,
June Mrs. Rosa Goffney, July;
Mrs. Josephine Marberry, August;
Mrs. Mamie Gatewood, Septem-
ber; Mrs. T. Taylor, October;
Mrs. Elizabeth johnson, No
vember, and Miss Frederick A.
Lewis, December.
The pageant will be under the
direction of Mrs. Margaret Cald-
well and Mrs. Tina johnson, with
Mrs. Ora Hodge, pianist. The
Rev. Augustus Lewis is pastor of
the church.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
SCORES WALES;
EDER FACES
REPR|MAND
Latin-American Division Head
Criticizes British Efforts
For South American Trade

For heaping ridicule upon the
Prince of Wales as a trade
booster" for British goods in
South America, George j. Eder,
chief of the Latin-American
division of the Commerce Depart
ment, may receive an official
reprimand.
If the British Embassy should
take exception to Mr.. Eder's tart
remarks, published in a current
magazine, the Commerce official
is in for a peck of trouble"
diplomatic sharps said today,
intimating that strict censor.
ship should be placed on him.
Calls Trip Failure
The comment of Mr.. Eder upon
the Argentine Journey of Prince
Of Wales was anything but parlia-
mentary. He declared the princes
tour complete failure and that
all other British commercial mis-
sions to Latin-American countries
have had the same fate.
Mr.. Eder also charged indirectly
that the Britons had tried to Gre
ate boycott spirit against Ameri-
can goods in South America, but
had made only a slight impression.
His article continued:
''The anti-American slogan of
buy from those who buy from
us has been publicly sponsored
by no less an authority than the
British ambassador to the Ar.
gentine. Sir MalcOm Robertson,
while the Prince of Wales
harped on the same familiar
theme in his speech at the in
auguratiOn of the British EN-
pire Trade Exposition at BuenOs
Aires"
Call 1t "IndiscretiOn"
Commerce officials do not take
exception to the comment which
NIL EAQcT u1duG Will 1SSdLu W
the British trade methods in the
Argentine, but they indicate he
was guilty of an "indiscretion" in
airing them publicly.
In behalf of Mr.. Eder it was
asserted he published an article
as a private citizen and not as a
Government official. His piece
was not submitted to the Depart
ment for review or censorship. as
it would have been if he had IN
tended it to be regarded as the
official viewpoint. of the Com
merce Department, it was said.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Elder cannot
entirely strip himself" of his
identity as a Federal officer when
writing for publication, officials
hold, and Secretary of Commerce
Lamont may have to place
restraining hand upon such ar
ticles in the future.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
TAXI [O|TER|NG
TEST PLANNED

Two local taxicab companies
were named defendants in six
test cases filed in Police Court
today by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Edward w. Thomas.
The papers name as defendants
Charles o. Orr, manager, and
william L. Browning. president,
Of the MayflOwer Taxicab and
Sightseeing Company, and Viii
liam J. Brown, president of the
Black and White Taxicab Com
pany.
The papers charge operating
taxicabs without proper licenses.
lettering and parking away from
a hackstand. Mr.. Thomas
charges the companies are operat-
ing cabs. with 81" livery tags from
hotels and believes they should
be compelled to carry H"
Chacker's) tags. The law. he
says, specifies that livery tag
cabs should operate only from a
garage in response to calls.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
ERNEST
WomdnAdor11sD Dead Dogs
In Her O1un Dresses

Dead dogs shrouded in women's
dresses have been discovered at
the rest farm of the Humane
Education Society, near Potomac,
Md, according to a statement
today by James P. Briggs, presi-
dent of the society.
Mr.. Briggs disclosed that the
urge to dress dogs in women's
clothes when they die has caused
Mrs. Amelia Ludwig, 62-year-old
dog lover, to divert to this pur-
pose dresses purchased by the
society for her personal use.
Ordered to Leave
Mrs. Ludwig, who was ordered
to leave the farm, where she has
resided two years, and return to
her native Chicago as a result
of investigation of Chief Alvie A.
Moxley, of the Montgomery
county police, has refused to
bulge.
, Accompanied by her pet dogs,
she was forced out of Chicago
when love for them transcending
all other loves, compelled her to
occupy a one-room apartment
over the market place with the
string of 48 huskies. She is said
to have obtained bones for her
family of 48 by washing the large
white aprons of the market men.
When the nightly serenades of
the canine warblerS were re-
sented by the neighborS, Mrs.
Ludwig sought shelter here. And
here she intends to remain.
Denies She's Manager
Flat denial of published state
ments that Mrs. Ludwig is, or has
ever been, manager of the farm.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
SEES No REASON
IN BURDEN|NG
MOTORISTS
District Committee Member
Favors Income and Inheri-
tanCe Assessments Here

Proposals of the House fiscal
relations committee that the
gasoline tax be doubled and that
automobiles also be taxed by
weight were opposed today by
Senator w. H. King, of Utah,
ranking Democrat of the Senate
District Committee.
No Reason for Increase
Senator King said that he can
see no reason for increasing the
gas tax from 2 to cents q
gallon, as recommended by the
Mapes committee, adding:
There is too great a dispO-
sition to increase the tax
burden of the motorists.
Throughout the country motor
lists are now paying a great
amount of tax and do not
feel that they should be further
burdened."
Senator King asserted that
other sources might be tapped to
increase the revenues of the city
and pointed to the fact that he
has long advocated an income
tax and an inheritance tax for
the city. Both of these taxes
also we're recommended by the
Mapes committee.
Stand Is Significant
Senator Kings opposition to
the increased taxes on motorists
was regarded as particularly sig.
nificant in view of his influence
on the Senate District Committee,
which would have to consider
the new tax bills before they
could receive Senate action.
Bills setting up an income tax
and a levy upon inheritances are
now being prepared by Senator
King. and probably will be intro
duced as soon as Congress is
convened. 1t is the intention of
the Mapes committee to intro
duce similar bills in the House.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
Young Engineers
At ArnaU'S School

More than 1900 college stu
dents from Carnegie Tech, M. I.
T., Virginia Tech and other en-
gineering schools are attending
the r. o. T. C. school for en-
gineers which opened Monday at
Fort Humphreys. They will be
at the fort for six weeks.
Alexandria patriotic and social
organizations are planning a Sc
ries of affairs for their enter
tainment..
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
Cafe Manager Held
In sos SnLdru Case

Charged with embezzlement of
approximately $68 from Charles
T. Hunter, 113 Pennsylvania Ave.
N. W., Walter Hinton, of 644 H
st. N. E., was held for the action
of the Grand Jury on $500 bond
by Judge John P. Mcmahon in
Police Court today.
Hinton, manager of a lunch
ROOM and ice cream parlor owned
by Hunter, is accused of having
left the city on June 2 with $68
more than the salary due him.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18

was made today by Mr.. Briggs
He declared:
"a Washington attorney nOti-
fled me that he had been au-
thOrized to file suit against the
society for salary due Mrs.
Ludwig. She is charity pa
tient, who with her 48 dogs,
costs the society approximately
SIS monthly"
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
Pearson Again Heads
D. C.. Drug Exchange

Paul Pearson was reelected
president of the Washington
Wholesale Drug Exchange last
night at Alexandria, Va. Other
officials named are: w. P. Herbst,
first vice president; F. B. Upton,
second vice president; A. V. Bur.
dine, secretary; N. D. Parker, as
sistsnt secretary, and obert N.
Harper, treasurer.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
ASK PARKING BAN LIMIT

Two petitions regarding the
one-hour parking limit on King
Street, Alexandria, asks that the
limit be lifted on Sundays and
holidays and that the time limit
be extended to other blocks now
in the unlimited zone.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
CHILD BREAKS ARM

Ruth Hallock, 10, 13 Rideout
Ave-, Alexandria, suffered a
broken arm yesterday when she
tripped over a stick in her yard
and fell.
The Washington times., 1931-06-18
Times Staff Photo
MISS BENENSON

WIoS BENENSUN
MISS MARTHA BENENSON, of $500 Conduit Rd
member of the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority, at George
Washington University awarded cup as the out
standing senior The cup is given for superiority in
scholarship, leadership and sportsmanship She has
received awards in basketball hockey and rifle
proficiency.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-04

ceived by the office In former in
stances a similar procedure was fol-
lowed on many of the petitions and
Attorney General James Morris has
not been asked for any legal advice
in the matter, but indications are
that his office will be called into the
caSe should it be thrown into the
courts. Simon gathered data today
on the matter with q view to hav-
ing the information available in the
event of such action.
Roherty said information had come
to the state highway department that
some persons who signed the petitions
were under the impression that the
law provided a four-cent increase In
the gas tax, instead of a cent in
crease over the present three-cent
tax. He said he vas told by some
signers that they did not object to
a four or five cent tax" but that
they were opposed to a four-cent in
crease over the present tax.
Highway officials said today that
should the petitions be accepted the
road construction program would be
greatly hampered, through the loss Of
revenue resulting from suspension of
the one-cent increase. The increase
was to become effective July /, but
In the event the petitions are ac-
cepted, will be suspended until after
the election. If the voters sustain
the law the increase becomes opera
tive after the state canvassing board
certifieS the election returns.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-04
STORY Of STRANGE
ROMANCE REVEALED
BY DEATH OF MAN
]. L. Mott, Once New York's
millionaire Reporter Gave
up Fortune for Love

Los Angeles, June 4.-(P)-A life OF
strange adventure and romance lead
ing half way around the world at the
price Of forfeiture Of a fortune OF
$25 ,000, 900 had ended with the death
Of Major Jordan Lawrence Mott, ST.,
once New York's millionaire re-
porter"
In late years q Acknowledgements
sportsman and author, Major MOTT
had lived on Santa Catalina Island.
He spent the summers at a camp on
the north Umpqua river near Rose.
burg, Ore, where death occurred
Wednesday.
At his bedside was his widow, the
former Francis Hewitt Bovine, once a
light opera singer, for whom he for
sock the fortune of his father, j. l.
Mott, New York iron manufacturer.
Had Imported Limousine
Shortly after his graduation from
Harvard, Mott went to work as a re-
porter in New York. He covered
his assignments In an imported
limousine driven by a chauffeur.
His first marriage was unhappy and
during his domestic difficulties he
met Mrs. Bovine, who like himself,
had experienced an unfortunate mar
ital life.
In May, 1912, they eloped, although
neither had been divorced, and as
they later told the story, they defied
conventions and sailed for Europe
on q tramp steamer, the Indrideo.
The departure was followed by a
frantic effort by Motifs father to
make his son give up the romance.
Mott refused to acxede to entreaties
and he lost his right to his fathers
fortune, estimated at SIS, 000, 900. To
earn q living he worked at odd jobs
in the far corners Of the world while
Mrs. Bovine gave concerts.
Both Obtain Divorces
In 1920 Mrs. Bowne's husband, a
millionaire, obtained q divorce and
seven years later Mrs. Mott divorced
the adventurer.
BY that time the couple had re-
turned to the United States, and they
were married. A year before Motifs
mother died, leaving her son but
$685. 900.
Mott then was earning $40 a day
renting boats and catching swordfish.
In his spare time he wrote fiction.
Besides his widow, his father and
two children by his first marriage
are left.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-04
Bismarck Is Host
To $50 Attending
Lutheran Meeting

Continued from page one)
Helsem, Grafton, district president,
presiding.
Taking as his subject 1.-THE Church
Militant" Rev. Lutness asserted that
the church is passing through a
"crisis as pregnant with calamity and
death" as any in the past because Of
the hectic intellectual development
of the American People"
The advanced speed at which life
moves, the speaker asserted, has
caused a change in the fundamental
outlook on life and has eliminated
the deliberate thinker and philoso-
pher as society's balance wheel. AS
a result, Rev. Lutness said, there is a
great deal Of confusion. Some con-
s~ervatives cannot differentiate be-
tween Gods mandates and mans
rules; they make custom identical
with the worship Of God and will not
change.
Others, he said, are afraid Of be-
ing called old-fashioned and pursue
every new innovation, thereby losing
the respect of the thinking man.
The answer of the church to this
problem, Rev. Lutness said, Is to keep
the church a holy thing instead Of
attempting to mix it with the world
because the world will draw it down.
He also warned against beclouding
the way to salvation with too many
man-made rules and against a let
down in the fight to have the church
stand without reservation for the
teachings Of 1.-THE Master" The
church is beset with strong and per-
sistent enemies on the outside, he
said. but expressed confidence that
these will make no Roadway as long
as the church keeps its feet In the
pathway which Christ marked for it.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-04
Battle in Supreme
Court Threatened
By Fargo Attorney

Continued from page one)
also an amendment to prior statutes
which come INTO force should the
present referendum be allowed to
stand.
In addition, senate bill 100 con-
ferred on co ,lnty commissioners a new
administrative power, namely the
legal right to use one third Of the
gasoline tax money reverting to them
for use in matching federal aid in
construction and maintenance pro-
jects.
Should Be Concise
It Is Judge Fuller'S belief, which
he said is kased on prior decisions of
the North Dakota state supreme court
and upon the state constitution, that
the ballot title should be in such con-
else and clear language as to give the
voter a clear idea of the referred bill
on which he is balloting.
He points out that the petitions, as
filed, make recital of the fact that
the referendum seeks to annul the
legislative act which in the express
ed language Of the petition describes
senate bill 100 as IAN act to amend
and reenact sections two, three and
five of chapter l66 of the session laws
of 1929 providing for a tax of four
cents per gallon upon motor vehicle
fuels and further providing for dis
tribution Of the revenue derived from
said tax"
This, Judge Fuller states, while Civ
ing some description of the measure
affected, will not be before voters at
a ballot, not being a part of the bal
lot title"
IT hope" said Judge Fuller, that
Mi. Byrne will take c~ognizance Of
what to ne is a very obvious error
and which would not let voters of the
state have a full picture of the mea-
sure on which they might be asked
to ballot. However, should he pass
on the petitions as sufficient. we will
ask that the question be heard by the
state supreme court
Lemke Is Retained
william Lemke. Fargo attorney,
former North Dakota attorney gen.
eral. said there Thursday that he
would take up the defense of the re-
ferendum petitions.
Lemke, author of the initiated con-
stitutional amendment which prevails
for the state initiative and refegen-
dun, asserted that opponents had no
ground or which to contest the petit
lions.
Lemke was preparing a letter to
Secretary of State Robert Byrne
which is to be placed in the mails
late today. setting forth the views Of
the committee for the petitioners.
which Lemke claims, are "the views
Of IS per cent Of the voters Of this
state"
In official circles here the general
opinion was that the petitions would
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-04
Quotations

Recent to q Britisher Is five years
ago. Recent to an American is five
minutes ago.-William G. Fern, Brit
ish author.
4 a
Only a lunatic could be an opti-
mist in New York.-Dr. Stephen wise.
4 4
To every soul comes at least one
great dramatic event, death.-Isabel
Paterson.
There are three sorts Of people
during periods Of depression; those
who have too little; those who have
just enough: and those who have
more than they require.-Mary Rob-
erts Rinehart.
Advertising has proved itself the
greatest single ~civilizing factor in the
history Of the world since the be-
ginning Of time.-Professor F. Allen
Burt.
Many law enforcement officers
stoop to means as illegal as the acts
they seek to punish or SUPPRESS
George w. Wickersham.