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The Washington times., 1931-01-12
BANK ROBBERY
LAID To HEIR
International Newsreel

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II (U.so.
Philip Holden, 25, former Notre
Dame student, today is scheduled
to hear himself accused in munich
pal court of taking part in a local
bank robbery.
With Thomas Coffee, Is, anG
Delbert Hudson, 27, Holden took
part in the robbery Of the Security
First National Bank Branch last
December 4, it is alleged.
Holden has been held in the
prison ward at General Hospital,
suffering from a bullet wound in
flicted by Gordon Corson, who
aided in capturing the trio.
Holden, son of the late James
F.. Holden, millionaire manager
of a Chicago department store,
drove the bandit getaway car,
it is charged, and waited outside
while Coffee and Hudson held
up bank employees and patrons.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
u S. Unites to Pay Tribute
To Memory of Straus

NEW YORK. Jan. IL GNSD
From all walks of life today
tribute was paid to the memory
Of Nathan Straus. The beloved
leader of American Jewry died
peacefully here Sunday in his
hotel suite. He would have been
83 on January 81.
The noted benefactor of all
creeds had been i'll since last
spring, when his wife died. He
had been in a coma for the "a
hours before his death. At the
bedside when the end came were
his son, Nathan, jr., a daughter,
Mrs. Irving Lehman, wife of a
court of appeals judge, and DR.:
Leopold Stieglitz, Mr.. Straus
physician and intimate friend.
Mr.. Straus leaves another son,
Hugh Grant Straus, who is IN
Paris on business.
Heart Disease Is Cause
DR.. Stieglitz gave the cause OF
death as heart disease and high
blood pressure.
According to the philanthropist's
last wishes, his funeral services
will be devoid of display. They
will be held Tuesday at 10 a. m.
in Temple Emanuel. There Will
be no flowers.
The formal eulogy will be omit
ted and in it's place Prof, William
Lyons Phelps, of Yale University,
will give brief sketch Of Mr..
Straus' life. Burial viii be in the
family vault at Cypress Hills,
Queens, New York.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
President Indorses
Red Cross Drive

A nationwide drive for $10,-
100000 by the American Red
Cross was an immediate prospect
today following President Hoover's
approval of the plan of John
Barton Payne, national chair
man of the American Red Cross
In his letter to Payne, made
public at the White House, the
President said:
81 am glad to approve an
appeal for public assistance in
the relief work the Red Cross
has undertaken in the rural
sections.
"I am confident you will COM
mand the never-failing generous
instincts of our people toward
these who are less fortunate"
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
WAGNER ASKS
JOB CENSUS

Chargplg the Administration
with resisting plans to prevent un
Senator Wagner Cd
OF. New York, yesterday announ
ced he will ask an appropriation
of $4,000 to carry out the pro
posed monthly census of unem
pjoyed as required by law.
Wagner pointed out that the
Hoover administration has failed
to ask for funds for this purpose
He said:
"The first of my bills for the
prevention of unemployment be-
came a law on the 18th Of July,
1880, four days after the second
deficiency appropriation was
signed by the President. The
bill provided for the collection
and monthly publication of
statistics of employment III all
lines of economic activity. 1t
was universally recognized that
the possession of such infCrma-
tiOn was crucial and funda-
mental"
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
SUNDAY MOVIES
TEST IN COURT
international Newsreel

CUMBERLAND, Md, Jan. IL.
Edward K. Magruder, proprietor
of a motion picture house, was in
dicted by the grand jury on a
charge of violating the Sunday
laws.
More than a month ago Mr..
Magruder opened his place and
the first Sunday all the receipts
were given to charity. Since then
he has turned the proceeds Of his
Sunday shows over to charity,
after deducting running expense.
No other picture houses here
have attempted to operate on
Sunday. The case is seen as one
to test the local Sunday laws.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
AE Asks Recognition
Of IreLdnd'S Brains

NEW YORK, Jan. IL (U.SO.
AE, otherwise George Russell,
Irish poet and painter Of note,
yesterday was honor guest at a re-
ception here.
Russell's 19 paintings we're on
exhibit, together with Is etchings
by other Irish artists. Survey
ing the art, AE told his listeners
that the time has come for the
world to quit sympathizing with
Ireland and to recognize the ma
ton for her men of brains.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
JOHNSON TELLS
REASON BEHIND
POWER FIGHT
Voted Against Commissioners
Wher He Discovered They
"0pp sed Public Interest"
By HIRAM w. JOHNSON
u. S. Sc latOr from California

While ithout knowledge and
without in ormation I voted for
the confir. alton of the three
power com lissioners, with what
little knowledge I acquired later
and what little information had
been derived from their acts, l
voted to recall the combinations.
did not do that upon the
theory advanced by Senator
Borah, that the Chief Executive
was going to recognize that these
men should not have been con-
firmed, for I believed he would
cling to these appointeeS.
New Facts Presented
But there was something pre-
sented to me, in my official
capacity, and that was the vote
upon the issue presented by the
action of the three appointees.
In this country today there is
the modern irrepreSsible conflict
a conflict economic in character,
and which is likewise political in
character and destined to be, per-
hapS, the dominant political issue
If any man of ordinary in
telligence says today that he does
not understand that economically
we are presented now with a
grave question concerning hydro
electric power, that individual has
little intelligence, and has read to
little advantage what is transplr-
ing.
PHILOSOPHERS At Issue
We have seen, from what has
been presented in the Senate, that
the two warning PHILOSOPHERS in
this irrepressible conflict are at
issue.
1t is up to us to determine what
side of that issue we take, and we
need not confound that issue in
the slightest degree with delicate
constitutional questions, o. with
legal niceties concerning the rules
of the Senate or with the action
of the Chief Executive.
There came to us a motion to
reconsider because of the action
of the three members of the
Power Commission in aligning
themselves on the side of the
issue that some of us believe is
contrary to the welfare of the
people of the United States.
1 quarrel with none upon the
other side. I am not particularly
interested because individuals
have been discharged. TIE indi-
viuuals merely represented one
philosophy of government and it
is with that I am concerned.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
To AID NEEDY
IN DROUGHT
SECTIONS
Action May Cause Congress
to Drop CaraWay Food Loan
Plan From Relief Measure

With President Hoover spon-
soring the appeal of the Ameri-
can Red Cross for $10,000000 to
prevent want and suffering in
drought-ridden States and the
smaller towns, congressional ma
chinery was set in motion today
to rescue the $45, 100000 seed and
feed loan bill from its week
long deadlock.
Appeal Is Approved
The Red Cross appeal was ap-
proved by Mr.. Hoover after Chair
man John Barton Payne had in
formed him the present national
disaster fund would be made
quate.
The Red Cross had already
eaten deeply into a $5,000000
fund with which it expected to
relieve suffering in more than
20 States blighted in the nations
greatest drought last summer.
Need for aid, according to re-
ports to Mr.. Payne, have become
particularly acute in Arkansas,
parts of Kentucky and Alabama.
In addition demands are being
made on the Red Cross in many
industrial sections.
Wood Seeks Rule
Chairman Wood (RO Of In
diana, of the House Appropria-
tions Committee, was to go before
the Rules Committee Of the
House asking a special rule to
send the drought-relief bill to con-
ference.
The proposed rule would not
permit a vote on the CaraWay
amendment adopted by the Sen.
ate adding $15,0O0,00O for food
loans. A vote would be possible
in the House if the Senate-House
conferees fail to agree, Wood
said.
Dole Is Fought
The House fiscal leader was
prepared to demand the Senate
abandon any attempt to make a
direct Federal loan for food on
the ground that it was a dole
and an invasion Of the work of
charitable organizations.
The appeal Of the Red Cross
was expected by Representative
Wood to result in an abandon
ment of the $15,000,OOO amend
ment.
Several Southern members, how
ever, served notice they would
fight for the CaraWay proposal
despite the Red Cross plan.
1t was indicated the Rules Com
mittee might not report until to-
morrow and that the bill would
not be taken up in the House
until Wednesday.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
Saved By Quick Thinking
Man Who Aided Girl
In Jail Break Sues

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II CU.SD.
After Jesse Carson aided in the
sensational jail-brcak here Of Clara
Phillips, notorious hammer mur-
deresS of her love rival, Alberta
Meadows, and her escape to
Honduras, his trusted friends are
alleged to have conCpired to OBJ
tain possession CT his property.
In suit on file in Superior
Court, Carson SEEKS to force Mr.
and Mrs. w. J. Bison to return
real estate which they are accused
of transferring to theu possession
or pay S9.540.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
Er-FJier Who Lost
Memory RecOUeTS

NEW ORLEANS, La. Jan. IL
GNSD.-An amnesia victim un-
der observation Of the phychiatric
staff of Louisiana State University
here for more than a year yesteT-
day revealed himself as John He
bert Lawrence. of Flint, Mich,
formerly of the British Flying
Corps and victim Of Richtofen,
the German ace.
Relatives in Flint recognized his
picture in a newspaper and ldenti-
fled 1im.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
Court Rulc8 Mayor
Cant Stop EUictionS

NEW York, Jan. = (U.SD.
Even though depression has re-
duced many families to poverty,
Mayor Walker, in behalf of his
unemployment relief committee,
has no authority to instruct a
city marshal to refrain from exc
cutting a warrant to eVict families
from their homes for nonpayment
Of rent.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
JOneses BOW in Name
To Columbia Smiths

NEW YORK. Jan. IL (U.SD
The Joneses and the Cohens bow
to the Smiths again in the name
war directory of students and
professors at Columbia Univer
sity for the winter session, 1880
1881. The Smiths number 149
their nearest rivals being the
Browns and Cohens, each 79
strong.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
U. S. Funds Now Ready
For Actual Work

A progress report on the $751;
377 400 Federal building program
in New York and New Jersey,
made public yesterday by the
Presidents emergency employ
ment committee, showed that ST.
745,00 of the total is now ready
for actual work, and $25, 900
is in the plan-draughting stage,
the work to begin shortly.
The statement, covering As
projects and showing the status
of each as of January was for
warded to the committee yester-
day by the Treasury Department.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
SKULL BROKEN IN FALL

Ellis Holmes, 42, colored, last
night was in critical condition
with fractured skull, suffered when
he fell down flight of stairs in
his home in the 100 block D st
S. w.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12
THIEVES GET CLOTHING

Thieves entered the home of
Carl C. Covington, 1900 block
Fourteenth st. N. W., and stole
wearing apparel worth $3.50.
The Washington times., 1931-01-12

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25
Ban on Citrus Fruit Off

HE care taken by citrus fruit growers Of
Cuba and the Isle Of Pines has at last
received its reward and the embargo against
shipment Of the fruits into the Southern States
mas Deem lifted. The careful packing which
mas precluded any possibility of fruit fly infes-
tatiOn ana citrus black ny has met with the
approval OF the Department of Agriculture Of
fcials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

A MOTHER stunt, that was usually tried On
the men only, was to take cup Of -four.
packed tight and turn it cut on q plate; then
to place a gold ring the top of the mound
thus formed. The guests then passed by the
table and each one cut slice CT the -four away.
and this continued until the ring fell, when
the person causing it to fall had to pick it
out of the flour with his mouth. Naturally, he
got -four all over his face, and then some one
with a concealed wet towel slapped it over his
face and added to his discontinue by convert
ing his Toured face into one of dough.
The use of ring in another way was also
popular at these Halloween gatherings. Here
the ring was put in the cake before it was baked
and at the proper time the cake was sliced in
the presence of the entire party, and the one
who got the rirg the one to be married
first, and also kept the ring as a souvenir of
the party.
The ring played important part in de-
termining ones fate. when three saucers were
used. Into one was place gold ring, indicate
ing marriage; in another ashes, signifying early
death and in the third water, denoting single
bleSsedneSs. The whose fate was to be
determined in this way was blindfolded and
turned around three times before being per-
mitted to make choice. While this was go
ing on the positions of the saucers were
changed and then the person thus hood
winked was told to put bis or her hand into
one of the saucerS and the fate of the party
was revealed.
The Redwood gazette., 1931-07-30
Last Mans Club

~ Mans Club of Civil War veterans organized at
Saltwater, Minn, than half century
ago, is in the formation of club of World War
veterans in Edgar county, Illinois.
The Saltwater group put aside bottle of wine to
be drunk by the last survivor of the club 1t is
renty reported that when the "last man. opened his
bottle found that the wine had turned to vine
gar, probably in Difference to the Prohibition law.
Somewhat different is the scheme of the Illinois
veterans Their Last Mans Club starts off with 100
members, each of whom is to contribute dollar
year to the clubs treasury. When the roll has been
reduced to ten the fund thus created is to be divided
among these survivors.
From insurance company statistics it is estimated
that this division of the "jack pot" will about
the year 1881 The ten survivors at that time would
probably be between 80 and 80 years old.
Advancement in medicine and surgery in the
meantime may possibly be the of extending the
lives of these veterans that the fund being created
may not be distributed is estimated
1t is likely that of them will still be alive when
the year 2GQ0 rolls around.
TT is we'll known that the most hardened criminals
| sometimes have decidedly religious tendencies.
= Many stories told of bandits praying for
cess before starting out robbing expedition and
the like.
story is told of "Two-Gun" Crowley, New
York youth of 19, who recently shot five times by
policemen before he arrested for killing one of
their number. In the hospital he unrepentant and
defiant. He said:
"Of course killed that cop. I don't like cops
No, don't want lawyer: get it over with Repent?
He'll no! My conscience never clear in my life.
What want is square meal"
When the district attorney asked if he would have
nice beefsteak Crowley Indignantly replied: "No, sir.
No meat for Don't you know this is Friday?"
So out of respect for Crowley's religious scruples
he served fish.
Hearst
RECENT publication features group of pic
~ lures of William Randolph Hearst's 100000 acre
"ranch" in California where the publisher lives
and entertans in fashion which would shame king
Whatever we may thing of Mr.. Hearst's news
papers, they seem to be what the people want The
publisher sensed what the majority of city readers
would buy and hired men to produce it.
Journalists tell many stories of Hearst's human
qualities including this One of Hearsts faith
full employees had been at his desk for years without
vacation because he thought the paper couldn't be
published without him. Rather than order the veteran
to take time off, Hearst wired him from California
scheduling an interview there and agreeing to pay
expenses of the trip. The travelled across th'
country and spent month more at the Hears
mansion while waiting for the interview, which wa
nostponed regularly Finally Hearst called the maj
in. paid him and sent him back to work.
The use Of more toothpicks is being urged as .,
aid to the lumber industry.
The Redwood gazette., 1931-07-30

pay for that time also. We get every
Saturday afternoon throughout the
year for bit of recreation. Further
more our pay-master makes US save
money whether we have the will so
to do or not, for he withholds from
us three and one-half per cent of our
salaries and keeps it for US. And
then, if we serve long enough, he will
retire us on a portion of our pay.
There are nearly 10000 of US so
treated here and personally I wish
that all the rest of the citizens of
this country, in these times of de-
preston, had worries so few as gov
ernment employees have, and / am
thinking especially of our farmers,
who deserve the most and sometimes
get the least.
The Redwood gazette., 1931-07-30

sort Of living surroundings, with an
ample yard to the front and sides,
with trees and flowers and shrubbery,
and with a space in the rear for play
purposes for the children, if need be.
In large city ones life is too cir
cumscribed.
Evidently, however, there are many
people throughout the United States
who are anxious to come here and be
small fish in big pool, for announce
ment is made by the Civil Service
Commission that approximately 25,-
600 men and women have made appli-
cation for the privilege of taking the
file clerk examination.
There never has been a time in
history of the country when so many
people have manifested an eagerness
to get on the government pay rolls
and come to Washington to make
their home and to be sure of re-
gular income handed them in BIZ
monthly installments from the most
regular pay-master in the world
Uncle Sam. Well, it is not so bad
at that. We get paid on the first and
sixteenth of each month. We get 80
days a year vacation on pay. We
bay be sick 80 days year and receive
The Redwood gazette., 1931-07-30
269 CIVILIAN PILOTS

Minnesota's civilian air fleet now
comprises 269 pilots and 191 crafts
Although the state lacks an industrial
pilot, there are 113 transport bird
men. There are 1876 mechanics to
care for the ia licensed and n un-
licensed planes. There are two glid-
er pilots and % gliders.
There are 1928 civilian pilots and
7,458 aircraft in the United States.
The Redwood gazette., 1931-07-30
What Others Think
This Applies Here Too

NTEALTHILY sneaking into various smaller cities
\ throughout the state go of high-powered
statesmen, mulcting the public of its loose change
and good feeling by selling it various and sundry
ferior articles of merchandise Merchants are aware
of this fact and look rightly toward the newspaper
for leadership in fight against wandering and
scrupuous salesmen who sell their goods in house
toulouse campaign for several days, grab their de-
posts and leave. Perhaps the goods thus purchased
never arrive; if they do, it is certain they will be in
way comparable with quality products in local
stores.
And yet, even though merchants feel the fight
against such activities for the newspaper print
ing statesmen for firms situated in Nebraska New Zea-
land or Hongkong into community and
sell local merchants five ten year supply of sta
tionery, debit and credit slips and letterheads of all
descriptions He may underse the local printer but
the chances are more than likely that when the mer-
chant compares the quality of the paper, the printing
job done and the time consumed in listening to smooth
tongued orators and waiting for the printing to be
shipped, he is not saving money Incidentally, he
is taking away from of his fellow townsmen a
source of income, and is weakening the very weapon
which he depends to aid him in his fight against
house-to-house canvassers-Ortonville Independent.
o. %
Advertising and Prices
x yAST sums spent by large manufacturers and
" merchants for advertising responsible for
popular superstition to the effect that advertised
goods higher in price than they would be if they
not advertised The word Superstition" is used
advisedly, because it has been demonstrated many
times that advertising lowers instead of raises prices
Advertising campaigns costly and the con-
sumner must pay for them, but they paid by new
business the advertising attracts. There is nothing
paradoxical in situation where manufacturer or
merchant adds extensive advertising appropriation
to his budget and then turns around and cuts prices
Million-dolar advertising programs make it possi
BILE for the manufacturer to lower his prices by so
creasing his production that he effect real
omies through mass production and spread his
profit over greater number Of sales.
Advertising enlarges demand and thereby make.
it possible for the retailer to buy stocks in larger
quantities at lower cost Moreover, goods well adver
tsed are more than half sold before the customer
the store which lowers sales resistance and sales
cost.
j The price tags advertised commodies are, il
themselves proof that business money for it
customers by spending millions for advertising
er, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
The Redwood gazette., 1931-07-30

Not all cigar wrappings are edible, an evidently
brilliant scientist has discovered, according to the
headlines Oh WELL not all Of the cigars they contain
are smokable, either.
A Minnesota editor who was married recently
announced in the next issue of his paper that his poll
cies would remain unchanged. Which led neighbor-
ing editor to Observes To married editors it is obvious
that this is his first matrimonial venture
Traffic problems are greatest in large cities but
the comparatively quiet country roads frequently
the of terrible accidents such the one which
happened near Wabasso last week. We know of no
absolutely safe place, especially when one is driving
car.
The year of marathons is well past, but now comes
Louisiana preacher who spends So hours and 20 min
utes discussing whats Wrong With the Church p"
One exchange says it could the pastors aues-
ton in two words, marathon preaching" but from
what we have heard of southern churches we wonder
if it isn't that failing of being several years behind
the times
Bank robbers were altogether too close to Redwood
Falls again last week when they called Cottonwood
and departed with considerable lit to us) cur
rency. Perhaps unlucky day such gang will
visit here but feel bit safer since we heard two
Second street business discussing what part of
the body they would shoot at should the occasion arise
Both for aiming at vital spots and one of them
owns young arsenal.
There is new racket in Minnesota. Solicitors
making the rounds in the state asking signatures
to petitions demanding lowering of the state
bile tax rate fee Of 25 cents is asked of the sign
to assist in the campaign, and it is estimated that
thousands of dollars have already been contributed
this fund in the form of 25cent pieces by unsuspect
ing contributors. 1t is small fee, but taken in the
aggregate the promoters reaping a fat harvest.
The author of Happy Married Life" is said to be
using his royalties to pay alimony.
o
Pathfinder thinks Business Blues are more dan
gerous to this country than Russian Reds.
dog went Niagara Falls and lived, which
is bigger that if it had been cat.
Speakeasy walters in Detroit have formed a
Possibly it unemployment that impelled the
serpent to sell Eve on that apple proposition
While viewing the struggle between Fascism and
Bolshevism prefer to stick to Americanism.
Mr. Coolidge recently photographed raking
hay. But perhaps that has political significance"
Humorists can't always be good. The later Wick
ersham reports nearly so funny as the one
Prohibition.
The Redwood gazette., 1931-07-30

People whoh live in small cities and
villages, / do contend, have the best
The Redwood gazette., 1931-07-30

guide books of the
nations c a it o |
George Washing
ton did not pre-
side at the corner
stone ceremony at
the White House.
He was in Phila-
d e | p h j a at the
time, it seems, and
it remained for
members of Ma
sonic 10 d g e S Of
Alexandria a n d