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The Washington times., 1931-12-29
GUN GIRLS FACE
ELECTRIC CHAIR
MARCELLA

CHICAGO, Dec. 20 1NS)
Two girls, still in their teens,
came within the shadow of the
electric chair today because they
wanted a thrill" and needed
some dough-"
The girls-Marcella Royce, II,
and Dorothy Evans, 16-sat in
q county jail cell, relating their
story of how they flung them
selves into careers Of crime,
which reached a swift climax
when Detective James j. Caplis
was shot and killed during a
cafe hold-up.
Meantime, Assistant States At
torney Harry S, Ditchburne pre-.
pared to go before the county
grand jury today and ask for
indictments charging murder
agains. the two girls and their
four jailed companions, Frank
Freeman, Jack Burlison, Nicholas
Bruno and Tony Pape.
According to the story told by
the Evans girl, who already at
the age of 16 has been married
and divorced, she was the first
of the two girls to enter the
hold-up plot and she induced
Marcella to join up.
In their statements the girls
indicated that they, too, carried
guns. Marcella named Tony
P:-za as the actual killer of the
detective. Police visited Plaza s
home, BUT foun that he had dis
appeared, leaving a rifle behind
The rife according to detectives,
was used in the holdup slaYing.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
VGILee Speaks Mind
About Old BrOadlUay

NEW YORK, Dec. 90 UN.SO.
Rudy Vallee came back to Broad
way today and he wasn't in a
grooming mood. He called Broad
wayites:
"A bunch of anglers and para
SITES"
He branded them such when
asked about his speech up in
Portland, Me-, where he was re-
ported to have told the hometown
folks that his Broadway friend" !"
were "backslapping hypocriteS," a"
and he, for one. wanted to remain
a rube and a hick Rudy said:
eyes, / said that and / meant
IT,
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
COUNTY HEADS
END DUTIES

Meeting tomorrow morning the
county board of supervisors Of
Arlington county, Va, will auto
matically turn in its uniform"
and go out of existence.
An injunction having recently
been granted preventing the board
from using any Of the county
funds to pay off notes on fire
equipment and additions to the
county building, the meeting of
the board will be only a perfume
tory gesture.
Thursday evening Edwin Dun
can, a member of the board for
IS years and defeated candidate
for sheriff in the recent elections,
will retire from public office.
Also retiring that evening will
be E. c. Turnburke, of Cherrydale.
B. H. Hedrick resigns to assume
the duties of judge Of the county
court.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
Round Table Hears
M0nchUriGn Tonic

A discussion on whether "the
organized peace movement" has
broken down in Manchuria was
led by DR.. Fred w. Perkins, Of
the Universalist National Me
mortal Church, at the Washing
ton Round Table at the Univer-
SitY Club today.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
L. Mrs. c. Mr.. j. Mr.. C.

Mr.. Culbertson's play of the
ace of clubs rather than the
queen on the seventh trick was
fine play and was the de-
cisive maneuver in the hand.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
GIRL, II, MISSING

Nellie Barnes. II. has been
missing from her home in the
$500 block Canal Rd. N. w. since
December 20, according to q 70
port to police yesterday.
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INSTALLATION

The installation Of officers Of
the Pentalpha Chapter, o. E. S.,
Of Gaithersburg, Md, will be held
Friday at 8 p. m, in the Masonic
Hall.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
Worlds Greatest Woman Bridge Player
Copyright. 1881, by International
News Servicel

NEW YORK, Dec. 90
(LN.S.).-My return to the
bridge battle Of 1,001 hands
as my husbands partner last
night was signalized by our
opponents winning the first
rubber with hands so strong
we could do. nothing against
them.
However, we made small
plus scores on the next two
rubbers and increased the lead
bequeathed to me by Theo-
dore A. Lightner by a few hun
dred points.
There were a few opportunities
for interesting bidding, but none
for especially brilliant play in the
first three ruhbers Of the night.
The session ended with a net loss
of $50 points for us.
Ossie Will Be Back
I was sorry to hear that Ossie
Jacoby had resigned as Mr..
Lenz's partner, but was pleased
to learn later that the resignation
was only a temporary withdrawal
and that he would be back later
to play in the match.
Bridge is the type of game in
which one learns to have very
sincere regard for ones oppo-
nents, especially when they play
the game so brilliantly as have
mine in this match, and while
they may have done a little bick-
ering among themselves I have
not minded it.
Chance for Ely
The first hand of the fourth
rubber gave Ely an opportunity
for very brilliant play. The hand
and bidding follow:
...-.. 49,. Mr.. Lenz
A932
v9853
1886
&75
Mr.. Mrs.
Culbertson Culbertson
AA87 AXIS
vA76 V104
4 A97 90 5 3 2
GJ1084 AQ6
Mr.. Jacoby
A. 1864
vKQJ2
-
&K932
The Bidding:
South West North East
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
ELY'S WIFE BACK
IN BATTLE Of
SYSTEMS
Opportunity for BriIIianCe
BY Husband Described
BY Mrs. CuIbertSon

FOLLOWING is a description of
features in last nights play in
the Culbertson-Lens bridge match,
expressly 1Dritten for The Wash
ington Times and international
Ne1D SerDice By Josephine CNl-
bertSon, tUife OF Ely CulbertSon.
By JOSEPHINE
CULBERTSON
The Washington times., 1931-12-29

Pass Pass FaSS 5 N. I.
The opening lead was the Six
of Diamonds, undoubtedly one Of
the most favorable leads which
could have been made, but it gave
to Ely an opportunity to make a
backward squeeze, that is, a
squeeze where the hand squeezed
plays after the hand squeezing it,
a very rare play indeed. He pro-
ceeded to develop the hand as
follows:
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-25
COOK INLET TRAPPERS PROTEST AGAINST
 FUR REGULATIONS

The members and officers of the Cook Inlet Trappers, Fur and Game Protective Association, An chorage, have sought the efforts of Delegate Wickersham to try to prevail upon President Hoover to, bv executive order, set aside and suspend the rules and regulations relating to trapping of furs in the Territory of Alaska for the season 1931-32.
 Reference is made to the issued regulations, which reveal that trappers are allowed only 60 days in which to take fox, lynx, weasel and land otter, and that the talk ing of marten and beaver is pro- hibited. It is contended that un- der these restrictions it will be inn possible for profitable trapping to continue, and particularly when so many people are unemployed and who naturally turn to trap ping for the necessities of life.
 The contention upon the parts of the Biological Survey that the region embraced within the zone of the Association is being de- pleted of beaver, is refuted by the Association and the fact pointeA to that natural protection is given by many large streams, lakes and swamps and the wide area Of their distribution. It is further set forth that it might be of interest to the President and Dr. Paul Redington to know the type of citizen who turns to the trapline during the lc;.g winters when al. other ave- nues for earning a living are closed.
 The Association numbers many young men, veterans of the World War, with families, who have created com fort ble, if crude homes, at distances from 50 to 100 miles from business settlements. They have raised gardens, possess radios, books, magazines and such refinements as their meagrc in- ccrlcs will allow.
 The President has referred the matter for the consideration. If tie officials of the Depaf al.stt of Agriculture.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-25
E|FFEL TOWER GLIDING
 ST|Rs PARIS PROTEST

PARIS, July A. (P)-The French are going to m ake the Eiffel Tower gleam like a trade mark on an electric sign.
 The tower, as much the visible symbol of France as the statue of Liberty is of the United States, is to be painted bright yellow, a shade somewhere between lemon and jonquil.
 Many PariSians cried in mental pain when the color scheme was announced.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-25
NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PETER HOROSHUFF.

VT AI ' I1V IIOICOOI1UE
 DECEASED Notice is hereby given to all per- sons having claims and demands against PETER HOROSHUFF. late of Atka, Alaska, deceased, to pre- sent such claims to the undersign- ed at Unalaska, Alaska, within six months after date of this notice.
 R. w. WYE,
 EXecutOr. Unalaska, Alaska, May. 20. 1O31. Publish: July IT, A, 31, and Aug ust 2, 1881.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-25
LIGHTHOUSE INCREASES BEAM

WASHINGTON, p. C., July 24. (P)-Wood Island Light, the pie tresque stone tower which has stood at the entrance to the Saco river. in Maine, for some 125 years, is to have it's power in creased to 3O,OO0 candle power four times it's present strength.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-25

Science of Trapping, S1.5O; Fox trapping, S1.5O; Fur Buyers Guide, S2.5O; Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins, S1.75; ALASKA SHOP
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-25

The best ice cream yet! HOR LUCKS Danish Ice Cream Cand, Cottage, sole Seward agent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23
"A NEW NOTE"

The following editorial appearing in the Gu
Bank Pioneer Press, from the facile pen of Da
milestone, reproduced in the editorial col
umn of Harry Folks Herald last week-we coul
not believe our eyes:
"The traditional notion of the personality of
country editor is that of a fellow who is
meek, forgiving and grateful for the favors of
the corner grocer; grateful when accorded
small patronage and hot in his devotion if
larger patronage is given him; forgiving when
the grocer uses stationery printed by bak-
ing powder company and sale posters printed
In Muscatine, Iowa. He may scold the farm
er for sending to Montward for his goods but
he remains silent when the grocer transgress-
eS the code.
"But sometimes one encounters an excep-
ton. One in mind is Charley Taylor, former
senator from Sheridan county and editor of a
weekly paper in PlentywoOd. In the last issue
OF his paper Taylor printed story under box
car headlines, telling of the invasion of that
section by three big mail order houses. Then
he went on to quote comparative prices show
ing the catalOg prices as far below those of
the home merchants Said he: "The mer-
chants here are playing into the hands of the
mail order houses by maintaining prices with
out regard to replacement COSTS" He urged
the farmers of his section not to pay pre-de-
preston prices with their 50-cent wheat
Here IS new and strange note in country
journalism. How will it react on brentwood
merchants? How will it react on the weekly
paper of Plentywood? There is little in the
way of precedent to guide us to a conclusion,
as the vast majority of weekly papers remain
loyal to the business men of the community
IN which they printed regardless of the
patronage accorded them
We wonder if the Herald is beginning to see tn,
light or whether it did not quite get the idea o
the editorial We notice the local merchants ar,
not flooding that paper with patronage
And for the benefit of Editor Milestone we will
remark that we doing fairly well, thank YOU
We may have to do without few flapiacks bu
we don't have to publish the "flapdoodie' abou
buying at home by the farmers Tor the benefit O.
the prune merchants who never buy anything herr
they can buy elsewhere
1t sure feels fine to be free of these manderins
Come on in the water is fine. It's great to tel
your readers the truth once in while
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23
JUSTICE M'REYNOLDS RAILS AT
new SUPREME COURT MAJORITY

Washington FTP Justice Nc"
Reynolds, extreme reactionary, be-
came so agitated while reading his
dissent to the opinion of the new
majority of the supreme court on
January 6, upholding the New Jersey
law regulating payment of commits
sions to insurance agents, that he
tore off his spectacles and used Ian
guage stronger than has been heard
in that chamber in many years. Ac-
cording to a witness of un>> scene
McReynolds exclaimed that mo ra-
tiOnal person" could uphold such a
law as the one which Chief Justice
Hughes and Justices Holmes, Bran
deis, Stone and Roberts had just UP
held. When the printed proof of Nc
Reynolds talk appeared next day,
however, the offensive phrase did
not appear in the record.
What this new liberal" majority,
speaking through Justice Brandeis,
had declared. was that the New Jer-
sey Legislature was within it's con-
stitutional rights when it enacted
panieS to pay commissions lin ex-
cess of a reasonable amount" and
forbidding payment of a higher COM
mission to one agent than to anoth-
er Walter Gordon Merritt, counsel
for the secret anti-union Organiza-
ton of employers known as the
League for Industrial Rights, waS
one of the counsel who appealed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23

from the New Jersey courts which
upheld this law.
What Brandeis and his four asso-
ciateS ruled was that insurance is
80 far affected with a public inter-
est that the states may regulate the
rates and hence he states may pre-
ven the payment of excessive com
missions, which are an important ell
ement in rates, or discriminatory
commissions, which likewise would
affect rates. Life insurance commits
sions have long been regulated for
this reason. The measure was found
to be clearly within the scope of
the police power" of the states.
The attack on the law was based
on the argument that it was an at
tempt to fix maximum wages for
insurance agents; that in the decf-
sion which nullified the women's
minimum wage law for the District
OF Columbia the supreme court held
that minimum wage laws implied the
possibility of maximum wage laws
and that maximum wage laws would
be utterly unconstitutional.
1t appears pissible that upon the
basis of this BrandeiS decision in the
New Jersey case which has so dis
turbed Justice McReynolds, the new
majority in the court may start to
build line of presidents which will
bring other industries under the
protecting wing of the charged with
public interest" rule From that
point they may proceed to revive
minimum wage legislation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23

mond quality Csc. Plentywood IGA
Rolled oats, regular and quick lee;
Savage 9-lb. sack, Diamond quality,
soc. Plentywood IGA spices, any
kind cents, ad does not tell amount
or size of can; Savage, ground k-lb.
can best imported spices 18-19-2O-21
cents depending on spice.
Savage allows TO discount in gro
ceries when accumulated orders a.
mount to $50. This will more than
pay the freight.
Another thing Plentywood mer-
chants do that is not done other
places, and that is, they take two
profits: they pay farmers five cents
less than market for butter and eggs
when paid for in trade. The mer-
chants do not do this other places,
not even in Sheridan county towns.
In regard to hardware prices: A
farmer came in and told us that
wise for work bench which he bot
from mail order house cost him
$2.75, which was priced $7.25 in
Plentywood.
That is the way the boosters boost
Plentywood.
A comparison of the above prices
indicate that there is plenty of room
for reductions yet to get down to
the level of 50-cents wheat.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23

her warrant cashed without a discount? Well.
with the county treasurer, the county commission
ers and the banks working in cahoots against her
1t is probably the best she could do She might
even be thankful she got as much as she did But
at the time Dan Olson was county treasurer things
like that did not happen.
A school warrant could always be cashed at full
value then matter if the school district was in
the hole or not. Dan simply invested the sinking
fund money in the SO warrants instead of lending
it to the banks at A%6-but Dan was elected by
the farmers and looked after their interests. Ev-
cry banker voted for HOLMAN and he is serving
them, and those who voted with the bankers can
help pay for the fun until some day they get sick
of it.
The worst of it is that those who did not vote
that way as well as those who did not vote at all
will have to pay as WELL
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23

East st. Louis, Asheville, Des
Moines, Greenville, S. c., Newark,
Buffalo, Chicago, were first on the
long list of cities whose central
labor bodies reported dire need OF
the work. Watson. Watson inter
rupted occasionally to register
anxiety that Col. Woods commit
tee be informed of the facts, so
that private charity could be slim
ulated. He said six salaried men
from the department of commerce
are now travelling around, looking
for the places of need. LaFollette
read a report from indianapolis
and suggested that Watson had
better have one of those depart
ment of commerce scouts examine
the situation in Watson's home
state" Then came Kansas City,
st. Louis, Mobile, New York CITY,
Providence, and many more from
coast to coast. James C. Quinn es-
timated that there were 100000
unemployed IN New York City and
much distress"
Watson reported later to the
White House.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23

The following is a comparison be-
tween prices advertised by Plenty
wood grocers last week and the
prices quoted by the M. w. Savage
catalog:
Plentywood: IGA I-Blend Coffee,
pound 35 cents; NJ W. Savage, Dia-
mond blend, their best, pound 30
cents, pounds for $1.45; Plenty
wood G. Blend pound Csc; Savage,
fancy Peaberry, pound 24c, North
ONE Blend, pound zoe; Plentywood
A-blend 23c.
Plentywood candy bars, for 10c;
Savage 16 bars for 29c. Plentywood
Palmolive Soap for zoe; Savage,
Aloha Palm, same thing as PALM
olive, IL bars for 4Sc. Plentywood
IGA Peanut butter, fresh 16 OF. for
23c; Savage 16 o. glass jars for Tic,
5-pound pail sc.
Plentywood 1S-K grape fruit, fan
cy Florida for SIS; Savage one for
22c, for SLIT. Plentywood IGA
Cornflakes, 2 for % cents; Savage s
for 40c.
Plentywood: SeedIess raisins, 2-lb.
pkg 17c, Alb. pkg. 33c; Savage, Bib.
for Is C. IGA baking powder lib.
can 21c, Royal Baking powder ~ OF.
can 43c; Savage, pound can, Dia-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23
Glasgow Pair Get Prison
Terms In Old Wyoming

Rawlins, Wyo.-Five days after
they held up an Encampment, Wy
oming hardware store, Frank
Charles and Joe Welch, both OF
Glasgow, Mont, were in the Wyo-
ming penitentiary Thursday.
The two men were given SEN
fences of from four to nine years
when they pleaded guilty to charg-
es of aggravated robbery.
The pair was arrested shortly
after holding up w. H. Englehart
in his hardware store at Encamp-
ment. They cut the telephone wires
leading to the town but the wires
were hastily spliced by officers
and authorities at Saratoga were
notified. The men were arrested by
deputy sheriff there.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23
RED CROSS INCOMPETENCE SHOWN

Washington-FP- Gross incompe-
tence in the handling of the relief
work for more than one million
American farm families suffering
want because of the drought Of 1880
was disclosed when a Senate COM
mittee examined John Barton Payne,
head of the national Red Cross o.
ganization, Jan. 6. Payne, an old man
who appeared to have only a vague
idea of the extent of suffering a
mong the farmers, admitted that on
ly about $4,000 had been expended
by the American Red Cross since
last summer in feeding 100000 peo-
pie who applied for help in the II
drought stricken states. This meant
that the average person received
from the national organization only
81 in that entire period.
What astonished even such
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23

hard-boiled cynics as PhiDn. -
Colorado was the fact that NJ
Payne seemed satisfied with A..
showing, and insisted that az
Red Cross could adequately mr.
VIDE Tor any need which InjorT,s
ARISE IN the coming months r.
quoted the expenditures OF -.
additional 100000 by local E,oS
Cross chapters for further aid or
the farmers. Some Of this mons1
was used to purchase seed foS
the coming year. When pressed
by questions from Bratton and
Copeland, Payne stated that The
American Red Gross relief fun0s
might get down TO only 81 .O00
600 but he said he would nn+
worry until that happened.
Chairman Smoot of the fip.,
committee. defending Payne, ASH
about the reports of hunge, riotinO
at England, Ark. Payne declared his
information was that mo such coz 1S
dition exists" as the hunger of gree.
numbers of farmers in that region
when asked what the Raa
Cross is doing to feed tina mil
lions Of unemployed, Payne an
swered Nothing" He explained
that unemployment is the prob
lem of the cities and industria;
centers and that the Red Cross
leaves to local charities and oth-
er agencies the relief Of all suf-
fering from unemployment. II
assumes responsibility for relief
work only in tina farming re-
gions.
On account of Payne's age and the
close relation of the American Rod
Cross to the federal administrator
the senators interested in securing
immediate food relief for the unano
ployed and for the farmers did NOT
cross-eXamine him as sharply AZ
they wished. But the impression
made by his testimony was that he
was seeking to cover up an, appaIIinS
lack of preparation, and even of con-
Germ, for the. nationwide emergency
of cold and hunger. President Hoov.
er's boast that the Red Cross wouId
adequately" take care of all cases
of need was exposed as a fraud upon
public confidence, since it was clear
that the Red Cross does not intend
to do anything for the hungry unem-
ployed and will dole out only a few
mocking crums to the farmers WHOSE
crops were destroyed by the drought
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-23

WTE can never be sure just what
wv makes an infant restless, but
the remedy can always be the same.
Good old Castorial There's comfort
in every drop of this pure vegetable
preparation, and not the slightest
harm in its frequent use. AS often as
Baby has a fretful spell, is feverish,
or cries and can't sleep, let Castoria
soothe and quiet him. Sometimes it's
a touch of collie. Sometimes constipa-
ton. Or diarThea-a condition that
should always be checked without
delay. Just keep Castoria handy, and
give it promptly. Relief will follow
very promptly; if it doesn't, you
should call physician.