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The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Pre-Presidential Years
Participation of Washingtonians in Gossip

If there anything Washington people do get enjoyment
out of it is the flow of political gossip in the years
Just before presidential elections.
In fact much of this gossip originates right here among
national political leaders who frequently come here get an
"earfu and among those wise Washington correspondents
who keep their papers posted as to political trends
One bit of gossip be most interesting that Senator
Swanson of Virginia to manage the campaign of Governor
Roosevelt for Southern delegates in the next Democratic
national convention.
Mr. Swanson is lust about as much of Washington
as Virgnian He has, in fact spent years here as
statesman than he has in his home State.
The Virginia Senator man Of courage and good com
mon but is not the aggressive figure that Senator Glass
iG He is dry personally and politically AS Rooseves
manager the South he likely be successful in lining up
the dry below Maryland and the District because
he will keep down friction. 49,,
It is but little than year to the two great national
nominating conventions and talk going to be plentiful
Washington people but they sure do get into all
the gossip that is going
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
LISTEN, WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

that's because they are afraid
of the Little tags"
And then she proceeded to
prove (as if it were necessarily
that "for ways that are odd
a2d tricks that are strange"
the average woman driver has
the "heathen Chinee" backed
off the boards.
And you haven't heard the
half! Dear Mama-who is, ira
ditionally, as exempt from criti-
cism as the Sacred White Cow
then proceeded to get hers.
"The present disrespect for
law is not the fault of educa-
ton, but of the home" said
Mrs, George Parsons, Of Los
Angeles. Its the intoxicated
mother with nicotine-stained
fingers who has the delinquent
child"
Mama with a bun on! Ten
years ago you'd have been run
out of town if you had even
hinted at the possibility. But
remember the Ladies en-
trance" door back Of the OLD
corner grocery?
Dishonesty Of Women
Speaking of dishonesty,
contributed Mrs. Edward Dex'
ter Knight, of San Francisco
"club houses used exclusively
by women have to chain down
toilet articles in rest rooms 10
keep them from being ~carteo
away"
And, lest there be any linger-
ing delusions that maybe the
girls have brains even If they
are short on ethics, listen to
tis-
Women are snobby and SEN
timental when considering
public problems. Anyone who
has served with them on a
jury knows that. Their mirds
are too often on the run IL
their new silk hose instead OF
on the criminal at the bar.
Suave-tongued attorneys wind
them around their fingers with
touching tales Of the bootleg
er's dear old mother or the
grief-stricken old father of the
boy murderer!"
So there you have 1.-THE Of
ficial opinion of the ladies AS
Is, as expressed by the Calitor-
mia State Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs. Now YOU tell one!
one!
Copyright, 1881, King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Stadium for Washington

The first tangible indication of suitable stadium for Wash
npon wherein athletic and other specacles be
staged and wherein great audiences might be invited from
every quarter comes with Coyd Heck Marvin
men that George Washington University will have
than half million dollars with which to foster permanent
athletic plant
Washington has talked" of stadium for many years
Everyone has admitted meantime that the city needs
Int until Dr. Marvin sanguine that George
Washington is to take the lead in the building Of stadium
with moneys wled by the late Richard Paro who had the
vision as we'll as the bring such structure within
the reach of Washington the plans have ended in talk
Every cvcmnded organization in Washington should get
behind George Washington stadium hopes make the
stadium an actuaity, DR.. Marvin said, by 1873"
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Says Rats Are Deadly
Menace to City

Editor, Times:
OF all the senseless, silly, SEN
timental piffle, which has been
printed in many a day the let
ter of "a Lover of Animals"
on behalf of the rat deserves
first prize.
This anonymous correspo1-
dent glaringly betrays his or her
total ignorance of the rats ma
tSure in general when endeav-
oring to tacitly convey the i'm
preston of their harmlessness.
There is no more deadly carrier
of disease known to medical
science than this same limo
cent" Harmless" little animal.
One of it's favorite sports be-
ing the playful scattering OF
the germs of deadly bubonic
plague.
No one that I am aware OF IS
advocating any unnecessary or
unusual uelty in exterminat-
ing these pests, but are we to
infer that our animal loving
correspondent rather than see
them suffer pain as the result
of poison would continue letting
them run at large as meas
ure of kindness?
Perhaps, he or she would nave
us gently approach the dear
creatures individually and after
catching and humanely caress-
ing them, mercifully administer
chloroform accompanied by our
sincere apologies for our bru'
tality. ,
Our unknown writer infers
that the rat is really a C:od
injured, harmless sort OF a
chap and never molests any one
or any thing if abundantly sup
piled with food. Any person
having had experience on the
farms of the midwest as l
have had will pardon me II at
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pains of the most drastic poison
seem mild by comparison, And
mind you, the rat did this not
merely to obtain food, but much
more for sheer deliberate dia-
bolical cussedness, and this is
only one of the many ways
they have Of showing their
harmlessness, especially to farm
ers.
The single word quite fitting
ly describes this persons entire
letter Bunk"
MYRON CRAIG.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
SuperstitiOus Jockeys
Several of Them Will Ride Kentucky Derby Horses

Sports writers tell story about George Ellis the jockey
o rode Mate victory in the Preaness at Baltimore last
Saturday. ~
Just before mounting the horse Ellis walked up to R.
Simpson one of the few successful coored jockeys in this
country and rubbed the colored boys curly head in search
for good luck Then he promised Simpson 500 if he
He paid and is carrying Simpson to Kentucky sort Of
iuck piece when he again rides Mate there next Saturday
Maybe Simpson carries rabbits foot around with him
s rather lucky and Ellis just wanted to rub of this
luck ONO himself There gamblers galore with this
Of superstition and many Of them intelligent people So
nobody blame Ellis for his belief that Simpson brought
him good luck and will do so next Saturday Other jockeys
in that race will have their superstitions
Gambling does pay anybody and superstition play
no part in what Damon Runyon calls "hawss Emi-
nate crookednes and ckry and the best horses and best
Jockeys win, provided there is interference
AT time in this country, many great jockeys
coord boys brought up around racing stables and generally
faithful to their Bosses
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
TIMES TEST

Match correctly:
1. The Diverting History OF
John Gilpin.
Southey.
2. Songs of Innocence.
Burns.
8. The Cotter's Saturday
Night.
Cowper.
4. Battle of Blenheim.
Wordsworth.
5. Lucy Gray.
Blake.
Mark -ach statement as True
O.. False:
6. The Adriatic Sea is east OF
Spain.
Z. Macaws are parrots.
8. In the Bible the coat OF
many colors was made for Abel.
9. Pointed arches are the
principal characteristics OF
Greek architecture.
10. The Anvil Chorus occurs
in "Lohengrin."
II. salmon travel upstream.
IL. The most famous church
in Venice is st. Peters.
13. A f.otilla is a small fleet.
IA. Ananias was turned into a
pillar or salt.
IS. A javelin is a military
hat.
(Answers on Magazine Pagel
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
.'UnwrittenLa Law Again Holds

District grand jury has reiterated former verdict that
the unwrtten law is to be upheld here when circum
stances to justify it.
Philosophers fe affairs hold that is always the woman
who pays but the unwren law holds the man to be the
guty party and ustifies his killing Sometimes guilty
also pays with her @ but her punishment most severe
Is generally in the attitude of others toward her.
Men the chances they in meddng in the homes
Of other men, the fault wholly theirs and in
of this kind the unwrtten law will often be sustained
by juries.
This country today suffers from serious dsrespec the
written laws and jurors too often fail their sworn duty
these in thousands Of of unwrtten law type
When jures virtually set aside their country and
bring verdc in accordance with their feelings preudcs
precedents established that arreachg in their
quences upon society.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
ONCE-OVERS
After a Salary Cut

You have probably received a
cut in salary or wages.
When you first learned Of re-
duced income you wondered how
you'd get on.
Up to this time your salary
has only just covered require
mentS.
Now you have to make reduc-
tions and you will do it.
Many expenditures that have
seemed necessary to you will be
reduced or abandoned.
You did not watch the small
sums closely enough.
Some comforts and some lux.
uries you won't be able to enjoy
now, but if you look up where
and how you spent certain sums,
you may find out that you can
still be comfortable though you
do without few things you had
in the past.
When you begin to make these
reductions, necessary now, you
will doubtless come to realize
how much you might have put
into a savings account if you
had made your own cut long
ago.
In your sensible moments you
wanted to accumulate a bank
account.
Your reduced income will have
one good effect-it will impress
you with the Importance of hav-
ing a regular savings system.
Even though your income Is
reduced you may save more than
you have ever laid aside.
copyright. 1881. International
Features Service Inc.l
The Washington times., 1931-05-15

Are women the lying sex?
Are they the fundamental
lawbreakers of society?
Are they trivial minded, shall
low hearted?
Is the derelict mother di'
rectly responsible for the delin-
quent child?
In short, are most Of our
sweet theories about the Dear
Little Woman a lot of hooey
and should something be done
about it pronto?
A large convention of indig-
nant and influential citizens
has recently voted that they
are and there should. Meeting
in Fresno, Calf, they spent an
entire day in telling the world
what they thought about
women. They thought plenty.
And very little of it was COM
plimentary.
"That's just like men!" you
say. Getting together to SIAN
der women, and every one Of
them dependent on some
woman"
Taken For A Ride
Yes? Maybe. But, as a mat
ter of fact, these speakers were
not men. They were women,
attending the annual conven-
tion of the Federation of
Women's Clubs. And the first
thing they did before they
had discussed a report or
passed a resolution was
to roll up their sleeves, square
their pretty, manicured fists
and take their sisters for a ride.
Observation-Disclosures
arguments? They all we're
out. WHAM-BAM-zOWIE!!
They went to it!
Women are fundamental law
breakers, liars and the untruth-
full members of society,"" said
Mrs. Sydney Exley, of Los An.
gele'. And, to the last lady,
they applauded!
Next came a few remarks
that will make every male who
reads them bust into big, wet
tears of gratitude:
The Woman Driver
Consider the woman driver"
says She. And who hasn't! THE
majority of them haven't the
slightest respect for the law.
They are given the credit of
being the lesser offenders un-
der the motor vehicle act, but
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Drawn by Hal Coffman

This interesting but uninping situation put into picture
by Mr.. Coffman gives married people food for thought.
Wives especially will think about it. Perhaps few who
will themselves drawn here Others will not them
selves, but may recognize friend acquaintance
The moral of s of course that husbands easily fooled
you want fool them but that is far easier fool YOUR
SELF.
The first part of that moral needs demonstrating The
second, however, may not have occurred to you.
By YoU is meant only the few. It does mean, need
less to state nineynine out Of hundred which is
indeed fortunate for dear country.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

A good character, when estab-
lished, should not be rested in
as an end, but only employed
as a means, of doing still further
good. -Atterbury.
It is easy-terribly easy-to
shake a mans faith in himself.
To take advantage of that to
break a mans spirit Is devils
Work.-G. B. Shaw.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15

If she do frown, 'tis not. in
hate Of you,
But rather to beget more love
in you.
Shakespeare.
Hardly is there a similarity
detected between two or three
facts, than men hasten to eX.
tend it to all others.
Hamilton.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Would Eliminate
Grade Crossing

~ CSSeS
Editor, Times:
The Government is spending
quite a few million dollars in
building the Memorial Road
from Washington to Mt. Yer
non, and in Alexandria, at the
corner of Washington and
Wilke Streets, there is a railroad
crossing which originally. I un,
derstood, was to be eliminated,
giving free traffic on the Memo
rial highway.
You can readily understand
that if this crossing is left as 1t
is, the peril it will cause the
many motorists that traverse
this celebrated highway.
Three and four times a day,
train service crosses that par
ticular section and traffic is
held up each and every time.
I think it would be a worthy
cause if you would devote your
attention to this matter and use
every effort to have this smoky
and continual nuisance elimi-
mated, if possible.
A SAFER ROAD BOOSTER.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

during a single night by this
same frightened" little animal.
Many were killed outright,
but others were chewed and left
to suffer agony and torture
which must have made the
The Washington times., 1931-05-15

this point I give voice to a
rather rude guffaw at our kind
hearted friends expense. have
seen as many as 100 baby chicks
which had been brutally mutt
lated in every conceivable way
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
s., 500 BONDS MISSING IN
STATE INSURANCE OFFICE

Shortage OF $500 in Liberty
bonds, which we're deposited as col
lateral with John c. Kidd, state in
surance commissioner, was disclosed
today in report fled by field ex-
aminers of the state board of &C
counts.
Special report covering the short
age was given Lawrence F. Orr,
chief examiner, who announced he
will place it with Attorney General
James NJ. Ogden for action on col
lection or prosecution.
Kidd asserted that the shortage
remains as stated, but that he ex-
poets to collect from a surety COM
pany.
The report sets out that when ex-
aniners checked liberty bonds on
file with the insurance commission
er, two $1,000 bonds put UP by the
American Income Insurance Com
pany were missing from the vaults
leased by the commissioner in an
indianapolis bank Coupons valued
at S42.50 remained unsolicited from
the missing bonds, the report sets
out.
Another $500 liberty bond was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25

found missing in the deposit with
the commissioner Of the Security
Life Insurance Company, according
to the report
It is explained that Charles
Unger. securities clerk of the de-
partment, assumed responsibility for
the missing bonds and is charged
as owing the department a total
of $2,542.50.
Unger told IRE M. Frazer and
E. P. Brennan, who made the re-
port, that he had stuck the bonds
in his pocket while clipping coupons
and inadvertently carried them
home where they were lost
Unger resides on a farm outside
Indianapolis
Kidd replaced him as securities
clerk by appointing Herman P.
Gray, assistant secretary of state
in the Schorteneier administration
He said fingers position was pro-
tected by a SIS, 1000 surety bond.
Friends Of Unger explained that
he is World war veteran and sur
fers at times from memory lapses.
Kidd admitted he knew nothing
of the shortage until the field ex-
aminers made the checkup,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
Pe1@petrntO1' of I
Hoax Sentenced
in Larceny Case

By Times Special
GOSHEN, Ind, May 25.-Enter-
ing a plea of guilty to larceny,
Charles Trimmer, Is, was sentenced
by Judge L. L. Burris to from one
to five years in the state reforma-
tory. The charge was based on a
theft committed in June last year,
in which the loot was five gallons
of oil and eight gallons of gasoline,
taken from the Elkhart county high
way department, at a time when
Trimmer was in its employ.
Arrest of Trimmer followed an es-
capade in which he said he had
been kidnapped by a gang which also
threatened to abduct a grandson of
A. z. Kunderd, florist. He finally
admitted the whole story was false
and he had told it with the hope of
financial gain and of being classed
as q hero.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
Nineteen CARS
QUALIFIED FOR
SPEED CLASSIC
Dozen More Are Expected
to Make the Grade in
Tests Today.
FLAMES MENACE PAIR
Sparks and Mechanic Jump
From Blazing Mount
After Crash.
FLAMES MENACE PAIR

With nineteen cars already quail
fed to start in the 500-mile race at
the indianapolis speedway next
Saturday, an even dozen more we're
expected to go through their four
lap qualification tests this after
nOonS
Thrills of speed and crashes gave
$4,000 persons Saturday and another
$4,000 Sunday something to talk
about at home. On Saturday Louis
Meyer, 1923 winner here and the
heavy pre-trials favorite for the
pole" position, crashed into the
south turn at 40 miles an hour, but
escaped uninjured.
Floyd (Sparky) Sparks and his
mechanic, Dick Crombie, were
forced to leap for their lives Sun
day, when their machine crashed on
the north turn and burst into
flames. The car was burned badly
and is out of the race.
Russell Snowberger Of Philadel-
phia will sit at the pole" position
next Saturday as a result of his
qualifying his home made" Russell
Eight Saturday at speed Of 112.796
miles an hour. Those already quail
flied:
FIRST ROW
Driver-Car Speed
Russell Snowberger Russell Eight 112.796
Bill Cummings Empire State Spl) 112.56S
Paul Bost Empire State Spl.) ...... 112125
SECOND ROW
Deacon LitZ (Maley Specially ..... 111.531
Ernie Triplett u'keye-Duesenberg) 111.OS9
Babe Stapp (Rigling, HenninE Spl) 11O.125
THIRD ROW
W. H. Gardner, Nutmeg state spl) lOe.s2O
Fred Frame (Hartz-Duesenberg) -. 1Oo.273
Stubbleaeld (Jones-Miller Spl) 10S.797
FOURTH ROW
Ralph Hepburn Harry Miller SpI) 107.933
Phil Pardee (Duesenberg) ........ HOTTIE
Luther Johnson Orchards Spl.) -. 1O7.652
FIFTH ROW
I. Schneider (Bowes Seal-Fast Spl) 1O7.210
Cliff Bergere CLEO RoyaIe) .... 1O67S1
Chef Miller (Marr Specially ...... 1o61S5
SIXTH ROW
Joe Russo Unnamed carr ........ 1O4s22
Dave Evans (Cummins DieseD . 96s71
Billy Arnold (Hartz-Miller spl.) 11eOso
SEVENTH ROW
Tony GuIotta Hunt Specially .. III. 725
Arnold and Gulotta were the only
two qualiflers Sunday, A. A. A. Of
f1cials calling off further trials for
the day after Sparks car had struck
the wall and burned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
SAW, | Know I'm Gonna
Burn, Get 1t Over
Says Crowley.
By United Press

29 CUttC@ : 1905
MINEOLA, N. Y, May 25-Fran-
els (TWo-Gun) Crowley, whose cap
ture was the most spectacular police
display in New York in years, went
to trial today on a charge of muir
dering Frederick Hirsh, patrolman,
in q Long Island lovers lane.
|. The trial was a triumph of speedy
justice. Hirsh was killed early in
the morning of May Z, as he &C
costed Crowley and Helen Walsh
in q, parked motorcar near North
Merrick.
Late on May 8 several hundred
police surrounded a building on the
upper west side of New York City,
fired many rounds of shots into an
apartment building, tossed in tear
bombs and then entered to arrest
Crowley, Miss Walsh and Rudolph
Duringer, the latter wanted for a
charge Of killing Virginia Rrannen,
q "10-cent dancer"
The following day Crowley was
Indicted, moved to Long Island and
since has fretted at the delay in his
trial because he claimed he knew he
was to die
cav, I know I'm going to burn and
I want to get it over with right
away" Crowley said. I'm poison to
those guys who'll be on the jury.
They'll give me the business for
killing that cop if it's the last thing
they ever do. I haven't a China
mans chance-not a prayer-of get
ting a break from them, so why
should 7 kid myself"
Crowley, only 20, curly haired and
weighing 10 pounds, was led into
the courtroom today shackled to a
deputy sheriff He smiled as he
glanced around the crowded court
rcona-s crowd made UP largely OF
girls and women
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25

The report said Governor Horton
must be held responsible for the
administration of state affairs, and
charged that the Bank Of Tennes-
see, a Caldwell controlled institu-
ton, "was operated by designing
nanipulators for the sole use, bene-
fit and advantage Of Caldwell &
Co."
Other Charges Made
Among other charges the commit
tee made, we're:
That Colonel Lea, associate of
Caldwell, and friend of the Gov
ernor, was present with Caldwell at
state funding board meeting when
a $21, 100000 bond issue was sold
to Caldwell & Co.
That a second bond issue Of $29, :
100000 was attributed to the needs
of those political friends of the
present Governor for more funds
to place in their financial institu-
lions to prevent their collapse"
That Governor Horton appointed
D. d. Robertson whom he had
never met" superintendent of banks
on recommendation Of Colonel Lea.
Robertson was charged with de-
hnquency in examination of the
Caldwell financial concerns.
Submit Minority Report
The minority report attacked the
conclusions reached, charged the
majority report sis unjustifled," and
too severe in it's criticisms of some
Of the officials named and that too
much weight was given to some of
the testimony before the commit
tee.
1t also recommended termination
Of the work of committee auditors.
whose report, also made public to-
day, suggested drastic reforms were
necessary in the budgeting and &C
counting systems Of the state gov
eminent.