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The Washington times., 1931-04-15
Tales of Alfonso?s Reign
Reflect His Hun1or, Valor

a profuSion of glassware and
bottles.
"My private bar. What will
you have?"
When Alfonso was a little
boy much attention was paid
by his teachers and attendants
to the development of his man.
ners. At times the lessons ad-
ministered irked him. Once he
was found eating with a knife.
"YOu should not do that"
"Why not? Can't a King do
what he pleases?"
"Kings don't eat with their
knives"
"WeII, this one dOeS!'
Whatever Alfonso's faults may
have been as a King, he is most
certainly brave. Indeed, his cour-
age, which amounts to absolute
fearlessness, may be said to be
the principal reason for the popu-
larity which he enjoyed for so
many years among his subjects.
The Washington times., 1931-04-15
1900 In Hour Visit
Lincoln Memorial

The magnificent Lincoln Me
mortal is one of the most popular
of Washington's many attrac-
tions, according to figures re-
leased by Capt. Ray C. Mont
gomery, superintendent of park
police.
During the week from April Z
to April 13, there were 11,477
visitors to the Memorial. Sun
day, between 8 and 9 o'clock in
the morning, there were 1908
visitors.
The Washington times., 1931-04-15
G1nshOt Wound Is
Fatal; Opponent Held

Morris Moore. 81, colored, died
at Casualty Hospital yesterday
from gunshot wound received
at Fairmont Heights, Md, last
Sunday morning.
Bernice Beasley, %, also col
ored, who was arrested by Ninth
precinct police in connection with
the shooting, was turned over
today to Maryland authorities.
The Washington times., 1931-04-15

If the ability to inspire good
stories about himself is a sign
of greatness in a king, Alfonso
XIII of Spain is one of the great
est kings who ever ruled.
From his earliest childhood
anecdotes have sprouted around
his personality and his actions.
They have shown him to his con-
temporarieS as a human being re-
plete with charm and tact, cour-
age and humor-aS a good mixer,
a good comrade and a thorough
good fellow.
Same Smiling Monarch
And, even in the last part of
his reign, when the shadows were
gathering around his throne and
his abdication loomed ever more
imminent, he remained the same
smiling and debonair inspirer Of
anecdotes.
Breathless reporters asked the
night before the Kings abdica.
ton:
AS EAa1AS
The reply was:
"At a moving picture per.
fOrmance in the palace"
And little over a year ago,
when Madrid, Alfonso's capital,
was seething with unrest and
malcontents we're roaming the
streets shouting Death to the
King!" the same anxious question
met with the answer:
"The King has gone to the
opera"
Born a king, Alfonso felt him
self one almost before he could
walk.
Informs the Nurse
Once, when he was very little,
he was going about the royal
palace at Madrid on all fours,
since progression on two legs
was still matter of much diff
Guilty to him.
A nurse who saw him was
scandalized that the King should
adopt such an undignified method
of locomotion.
"The palace guard is drawn
up at the head of the stair
case. 1t will surely see you.
Stand up!"
Alfonso eyed her with royal
hauteur.
81 am King of Spain, am I
nOt?"
"Of course, Your Majesty"
"Then dismiss the guard"
When the time came for him
to get married he developed a
streak of independence rare in
scions Of royal blood.
Not Marrying Picture
'T insist on seeing and be-
coming acquainted with the
woman picked out to be my
wife. will not marry a photo
graph!"
Many of the anecdotes about
Alfonso are connected with him
as a sportsman.
His delight in yachting has
caused his summer capital, San
tander to be a mecca for yachts
men from all over the world.
Recently a number of Ameri-
can yachtsmen, who had crossed
the Atlantic in their boats to
compete at the Santander re-
gatta, were introduced to King
Alfonso. Like most of those who
meet royalty the Americans were
tongue-tied; the occasion prom
ised to be somewhat of a bore.
Suddenly Alfonso, turning to
the group of yachtsmen with his
most winning smile, remarked:
Look here, we have a few
minutes before the big formal
reception begins. Suppose we
go In here for a bit"
He opened a sort of secret
panel and ushered the Americans
into a small, concealed room. He
switched on a light.
His Private Bar
To the eyes of the visitors were
revealed a counter and q rail and
The Washington times., 1931-04-15
Ten Soviet Grdfters
Sentenced to Death

MOSCOW, April IS Q.N.S).
Ten officials of the Soviet federal
grain purchasing trust were SEN
fenced to death at Dnepropetrovsl
today when found guilty of sabo-
tage, theft and favoritism in the
purchasing of grain from peasants.
Fifty-eight other officials of the
grain trust were sentenced to
prison terms of from two to ten
years on similar charges.
The Washington times., 1931-04-15
Scores From y. S.
Set Sail for Russia

NEW YORK, April Is QN.S).
Scores Of tourists who will at
tend the May Day celebrations
In Russia sailed today.
A delegation of % American
workers was among those sailing
for Moscow.
The Washington times., 1931-04-15
Failure in Riff Campaign
Led to Alfonso's Fall

" the Riffian hOrdes in the sum
baked hills above Melilla.
Ten thousand were killed and
their bodies left to rot under the
broiling sun. The remainder,
routed and demoralized, strag-
gled into Melilla. General Sill
vestre, according to reliable au-
thorities, put a pistol to his head
and blew out his brains.
The Washington times., 1931-04-15

Why pay rent when you can own
payment and paying a certain amount
each month. Turn now to the Real
Estate Columns in tOday's Classified
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-12

Many specially purchased
Friday, Saturday and Monday They bought by Pet early
mills
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
INITIALS N A !
. IDENTIFY BODY
Times Staff Photo

Yacht and other water craft
owners who travel the Chesn-
peake Bay have been asked to aid
the authorities of st. Mary's
county, Md, in their efforts to
identify the body of the man who
was washed ashore off Point Look
out. six weeks ago.
States Attorney John H. T.
Briscoe. of that county, today
again asked a New York custom
tailoring establishment to hurry
their examination of the suit the
man wore when his body was
found by a fisherman. The cloth
ing had on it a label of the New
York firm.
Yesterday experts at the Bureau
of Standards examined the mans
coat and found the initials III.
E. S." stamped on it in ink. A
watch and eyeglass case found in
his pockets bore the initials -.
H. S."
States Attorney Briscoe again
today said he believes the man
was murdered and thrown over.
board from some yacht. The
body was diSinterred a few days
ago and after the clothing was
removed it was again buried.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
PLAN SHAKE-U
Of DETECTIVES

Reorganization of the detective
bureau of the Metropolitan Police
Department with far-reaching
changes of personnel will be made
within the next few days, it was
learned.
Among the innovations will be
formation of a new lightning
squad" to handle stickups and
safe robberies.
Reduction of the personnel of
the bureau also is anticipated. It
is understood that many members
will be transferred to duties in the
District headquarters and in the
precincts. They will not suffer
loss of rank.
It is definitely known that
neither Inspector Burke, chief of
detectives, nor other high officials
of the department are satisfied
with the manner in which the
bureau is being operated. In
Spector Burke is a graduate of
Northwestern University Criminal
Research School, and intends to
place in operation many modern
police practices and equipment.
Questioned today regarding the
changes, Inspector Burke said:
81 have been working upon
reorganization plans for some
time and expect to submit them
to the District Commissioners
for approval within the next
few days."
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
OUSTEDPAT|ENT
BADLY HURT

Joseph Thompson, SIS, declared
to have been discharged from
Casualty Hospital Wednesday be-
cause he was able to walk" is
suffering from bad fracture of
his right thigh and will have to
stay at Gallinger Hospital indefi-
nitely.
Thompson, according to a state
ment he made to The Washing.
ton Times, was treated at Casu-
atty for a dislocated hip. He
had slipped and fallen in a res
taurant october Is, and had been
a charity patient at the hospital
10 days. The man said hospital
attendants placed him in a wheel
chair, took him to ground
floor, gave him an old mop stick
for a cane, and slipped a quar-
ter into his pocket SO he might
hire a taxi.
He was taken to Gallinger
after The Times had notified Dis
trict officials of his plight. An
X-ray examination disclose d
Thompson has a bad fracture, &C
cording to q report received by
George S. Wilson, superintendent
of the District Welfe1e Bureau,
today. Thompson said he was
broke, homeless and unable to
work
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
D. C.. KiuU0nis Club
NOnlinnteS Officers

The Washington Kiwanis Club
yesterday nominated candidates
for the annual election of officers,
November 10. Eugene r. WoodSon
and Edwin F. Hill were nominated
for president and vice president,
respectively, without opposition.
Others nominated were Lewis T.
Breuninger, Dewey Zirkin, Charles
w. Pinper and Stephen H. Takes
for second vice president; James
B. Edmonds for trustee, and T..
Hardy Seay, w. Seton Kent, j..
Pinckney Harman, John S. Ben
nett, Bert Brewood, Albert w,
Howard, C. G. Cappell, DR.. Paris
E. Brengle, Harold N. Marsh, Ed
ward S. Pardoe, Edmund F. Jewell.
Earl Wilhoite, DR.. o. U. Singer,
DR.. Carl Henning and George C.
Shafer for directors.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
GAS HUCKSTERS
MAPPING LEGAL
FIGHT ON BAN
Attorneys Have Until Monday
to Prepare Briefs Up
holding Street Sales

Attorneys for street huckSters
for motor fuel have until Monday
to file briefs dealing with the
legal points involved in a contro-
versy over a regulation banning
the street sales.
Corporation Counsel william
w. Bride conducted public hear
ing on the subject yesterday after
100 of the huckSterS and 500 Of
their patrons had filed petition
with the District Commissioners
against the ban. The attorneys
for the hucksters are w. Gwynn
Gardiner, Hyman M. Goldstein
and John Paul Jones. -.
Sanctioned IA Years
Testimony was introduced at
the hearing showing that for II
years, the superintendent of Lii
censes' office has granted licenses
to the hucksterS for the street sale
of motor fuel upon payment of a
SIS fee and that until recently no
effort was made by the District
Government to stop the sales.
It was also contended by the
hucksters that a large amount
of money has been invested in
equipment by the street vendors
and that the ban will only de-
prive thousands of families of
maintenance and add to the u1l-
employment problem.
Called Fire Hazard
Fire Chief George S. Watson
and Fire Marshal Calvin G.
LAUDER testified that street sale
of motor fuel constituted a poten-
tial fire hazard. Both admitted,
however, they knew of no occa-
sion when a fire originated from
the transfer of fuel from street
vendors truck to-, an automobile.
The huckSters failed in an at
tempt to show that large oil
corporations were responsible for
the initial action taken by the
commission in amending the.
police regulations so as to ban
the street vending.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06

liquor law violations, were ig-
nored.
The horse whipping of Charles
E. Haury, official Of the Inter
national Union of Operating En-.
g1neers, last March 81, resulted
today In the indictment of one
woman and four men. They were
Mrs. Ruth Stevens, her husband,
Robert; Clarence B. Rockenbaugh
and Robert Ely. Mrs. Stevens is
accused Of the actual welding of
the horse whip.
Charges Of conspiracy to rob
against Thomas Jordan, Ralph E.
Akin and Edith M. DodsWorth
were ignored. They were arrested
during investigation Of the Jaynes
Staying in the Garden T Shoppe
last April,
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
PLAN To HALVE
D. c. PER DIEM
WORK HIT
Seven Welfare Organizations
Say Proposal Would I'm.
pose on Charity

A strong protest against the
plan to place 800 municipal per
diem employees on half-time jobs
in order to provide similar employ
ment and wages for 800 others
was voiced before the District
Commissioners today by repre-
sentatives of seven civic and well
fare organizations.
The protestants contend that
such a plan will only increase the
number of charitable cases han
died by local agencies and add to
the unemployment problem.
Resolutions adopted by several
of the organizations urged the
commissioners to appeal to Con-
gress for additional funds and
also appeal to citizens to acknowl-
edge their obligations and volun-
tarily meet necessities of unem-
ployment relief.
The delegation was lead by
Leifur Magnusson, who repre-
sented the Monday Evening Club
and the Laymen'S League Of
All Souls Unitarian Church.
Other, organizations represented
included the st. Vincent DePaul,
the Jewish Charities, the AS.
Sociated Charities, the District
Rehabilitation Service and Vote
less League of Women Voters.
The Commissioners took the
protest under advisement. Their
plan calls for putting the half
time employment policy in effect
on November l6.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
Staggered Jobs for
Federal Employees
DrULUs McCUrL Veto

In response to a query from
Secretary of the Treasury Mel
Ion, Comptroller General Ray.
mond McCarl has stated his opin.
ion that the Government has no
authority in letting contracts for
Federal construction to specify
that the winning bidders use a
staggered system of work and
thus spread employment among
as many men as possible.
The general idea of job-spread-
ing was recommended in the re-
port of the Wheeler unemploy.
ment committee of the Presidents
Organization for Unemployment
Relief, headed by Walter Gif.
ford.
McCarl's opinion finds this can.
not be undertaken by the Govern.
ment as compulsory step, and
leaves the job-spreading UP to the
contractors, as heretofore, to do as
they wish.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
SEE
ZONE METHOD
DOOMED
New Regulations Believed Due
Today or Tomorrow to
End Dispute

An order providing rigid regula-
ton Of Washington taxicabs is
expected of the Public Utilities
Commission today or tomorrow.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick,
chairman; Harleigh H. Hartman,
vice chairman, and Assistant Cor
poration Counsel William A..
Roberts have been holding confer
ences for the past few days to
draft the order. Each carefully
guarded against any intimation
of what the order will contain.
Meter System Favored
Failure of the commission to
invite Peoples Counsel Richmond
B. Keech to the conference was
viewed as an indication that the
commission is leaning toward the
meter system of cab operation.
Mr.. Keech is strong defender
of the zone system. He filed a
brief with the commission urging
retention of this system and ask
ing for uniform rates and zone
boundaries.
Roberts Opposes Zones
On the other hand, Mr.. Roberts
favors the meter system of opera
ton. At the recent public hear
ing of the cab situation, he took
a stand opposed to the zone sys-
TEN is so far as it applies to the
renting of cabs to drivers by
companies such as the Bell and
City Cab systems.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
After Week in Jail,
SL0DDer Is Released

After remaining in jail for a
week, awaiting trial, Eunice
Robertson, alias Eunice Robbins,
%, colored, of 834 Lamont st. N.
w., today was released on her
personal bond after she had been
convicted before Police Court
Judge Gus A. Schuldt on an as
Sault charge.
The girl is said to have slapped
Loretta Garner, 1850 Randolph
st. N. w., during an argument
over 50, which the Robertson girl
claimed was due her for doing
some washing.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
HOOVER PUZZLE
FOR ARTIST

Painting Presidents is a diff
cult job.
The Baroness Violet Beatrice
von Wenner, noted Chicago artist,
here to do a portrait of President
Hoover for the Middle West Art
Association, has found him diff
cult subject.
But she is pleased with the por-
trait. now over half completed.
She says:
"The President shows the
strain of these hard times. He
IS very affabIe, but have found
1t a task toe Ntransmit to canvas
his personality. 1 have tried to
paint both the man and the
President and sometimes the
two do nOt-Oh, well, the fOrci-
BILE personality Of the former
sometimes OvershadOws the
latter"
The baroness, who before COM
ing to this country ten years ago
painted ruling sovereigns and per-
sonages of importance through
out Europe, says she prefers finan.
GERS to kings. She thinks:
"These dollar barOnS after all
created their own kingdoms,
not merely inherited them.
Their faces reflect something
besides the importance Of their
position. They are real, and an
artist loves the truth"
Her portrait of President Hoover
is to be loaned for exhibition at
the World Fair in Chicago in 1893.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
TOO Proud to Beg
Writes Bad Checks

Explaining he was in need Of
money and could not bring him
self to beg, Harry e. Hawkins,
35, Of Brunswick. Md today
pleaded guilty to three bad check
charges before Police Court Judge
Gus A. Schuldt. He was SEN
fenced to a total Of 80 days in
iail.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
Is Women Unhurt
In Fire at Bureau

Fire, starting from a short
circuit in the lighting fixtures at
the Woman's Bureau. Louisiana
Avenue and Fifth Street North
west. brought out several pieces
of fire apparatus but did little
damage last night.
A matron, Mrs. M. E. Dalton,
who was attempting to fix an
electric light, turned in the alarm
and herded the Is women, held
in the institution, into single
room for safe keeping.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
Three Robbers Take
Cider, Cash, Smokes

Lookout for three colored men
who held up the tourist camp at
Muirkirk, Md, on the Washing
ton-Baltimore Boulevard, about
1880 last night, has been broad
cast to police Of Maryland and the
District of Columbia.
J. L. Robinson, night manager,
said the men took $35 from his
pockets, stuffed their pockets with
cigarettes and left, taking all the
cider from a roadside stand in
front of the office. -
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
$50 D. C.. Employees
added to Idle List

The office Of Public Buildings
and Grounds yesterday laid off
nearly $50 per diem employees, and
IS more will be furloughed when
the construction work in Rock
Creek and Potomac parkw&ys is
completed next month.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant Sd, direc-
tor of the bureau. said that he had
hoped to keep the men,at work all
winter, but had been notified by
the Controller General that the
100000 made available for the
building of roads in the Mall could
not be used to pay per diem en-
ployes.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
Central Business Unit
Hears B0rLOW Talk

Howard w. Barlow spoke on
The Value of Aviation to Busi-
ness" at the luncheon yesterday
OF the Central Business Mems
Association at the Logan Hotel.
He said the quick transportation
Will increase sales and that sales
men will be able to cover a larger
field through the airships.
1t was reported IS per cent
OF the business men on the upper
end of Fourteenth Street have
joined the Santa Claus Lane Or
ganization this year.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
House Gets Rubber Floor
Grand Jury h,dicts Three
On Murder Charles

= OF 81 indictments reported to
Justice James H. Proctor in Dis
trict Supreme Court today, three
were for first-degree murder.
Charges Of various kinds which
had been made against 2S other
persons were ignored by the
Grand Jury.
Capt" William Owens, 7O-year-
old barge skipper. was re-indicted
for the firstdegree murder of
Elsie Louise Bryant, Il, whom
he fatally shot July 2 when
she repulSed his advances. Her
sister, with whom she lived at
f456 M st. S. W., also was shot
at the same time. but not
seriously.
Case Presented Again
Owens was indicted by the
July term Grand Jury, but the
acts of that body were declared
voidable and it was necessary to
present the case again.
William Watkins and Alonzo
Dunbar, both colored, were the
other two indicted for firSt-degree
/ murder. Watkins Is accused of
fatally Stabbing Wesley Phillips,
also colored, in a fight at 1911
Sixth st. N. w., October 25.
Dunbar, the jury said, shot Cicero
Dodson, colored, to death at 1913
6chott's Alley N. E., September 10.
DR.. Bittle c. KeiSter, 346l Four.
teenth st. N. W., was indicted for
violation Of the Harrison narcotic
act. Federal agents testified that
he bought 5000 morphine tablets
between July II and September
1 2. The physician, they said, sold
them 1856 tablets at one time,
and later sold them 833 more.
When arrested September 4 he
had 1882 tablets, they testified.
Embezzlement Ignored
A charge of embezzlement
against Alexander D. McKinnon,
policeman whose dismissal was
recommended by the police trial
board. were ignored by the Grand
Jury. It had been charged that
he converted to his own use $500
of the funds of the Police Relief
Association, for whom he was a
collector. y
The association reported to Dis.
trict Attorney Rover in a letter
that McKinnon had returned the
money and that "it was not in
clined to prosecute"
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Jet, for
nier police telephone operator
was cleared of charges Of violat
ing the dry laws, but her hus.
band, Jay Franklin Jet, 54, was
indicted for possession of liquor
! and having in his home property
designed for the manufacture OF
liquor. John Tyler Gill, 81, a
roomer at the Jett home, 37Ol
Seventeenth st. N. E.. was cleared
by the Grand Jury.
ExtOrtlOn Charge Fails
Charges made by Lieut.. Oscar
J.. Letterman, night inspector of
the Fourth precinct, that Police
men Edward w. Gore and Frank
j. Hospidor extorted $40 from
Frank Adams, colored. on threat
, Of prosecuting him for alleged
The Washington times., 1931-11-06

chairs showing plenty OF signs OF use ana
age but servceabe comfortable the less They
and the long desk been replaced with smart mahogany
furniture unquesonaby serviceabe and neat but not OF
the comfort of the old.
The bulky old yellow telephone booths also have been
done away WITH replaced by trm compact mahogany cab
inets Under the arrangements additional booths are
possible distinct improvement. But the old boxes were
part of the old atmosphere and, like the rest will be
regretted by the old-timers.
Jim Remains the Same
Interestingly enough the improvements and modernza
tlon is not the work of newcomer James Preston for
than thirty years superintendent of the gallery and
known newspapermen and notabes everywhere the
innovator. ''Jim decided that and speeder
accommodations in demand and during the
Congressional reequppd the press which
he has presided for so long. ....,
Jim a great golf fan and is the playing partner
Senators When Senator JONES' of Washington
years ago went in for sunrise golf Jm his partner
They would meet break Of day the golf course and
play nine holes before having breakfast 'Jim'' was
favorte golf partner of General Charles g. Dawes when
he Vice President.
House Gets Rubber Floor
No changes being made in the House press gallery
but the chamber itself is undergoing big Improvement
1t IS being refloored with patented rubber material
Previously the large hall covered with CARPET The
new flooring is light gray color and will lend itself to
ready mopping every day.
Both chambers have arcoolng systems thus greatly
adding to the comfort of the members
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
Thousands to Get
Jobs ODer Holidays

Americas Christmas shopping
probably will put more than a bill
lion dollars into circulation to aid
in the present general uptrend of
business. the Commerce Depart
ment estimated today. Hundreds
of thousands Of persons will be
put to work in stores, post offices
and factories, it was stated.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
ANNA COOPER TO TALK

Miss Anna Pearl Cooper, aSSo-
ciate professor Of English Of
George Washington University,
will jpeak at a meeting of the
civics section of the Women's
Club Of Chevy Chase, Md. at
the Chevy Chase Library today
at 11:30 a. m.
The Washington times., 1931-11-06
GUILTY-O OF POSSESSION

Convicted before Police Court
Judge Charles w. Woodward in
Rockville of having in his pos
session intoXicat:sg liquor with in
tent to sell, Robert Linton, of Sill
yer Spring, was order to pay a
fine of $100 and costs or serve
six months in the Maryland
House of Correction.