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The Washington times., 1931-10-17
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The Washington times., 1931-10-17

EXPERIENCED White Chauffeurs
with Identification cards, to
drive Diamond Cabs.
Apply to Mr.. Hipson, II K st. NE.
DIAMOND SERVICE NO. 9
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Slump BGLks Raises
For Arny Officers

In announcing its policy for
economy next fiscal year, the
War Department today told Col.
Charles B. Robbins. chairman of
the National Defense Committee
of the American Legion, that
"any plans looking to a request
for increased pay for officers of
the Army have been set aside for
the time being and will be held
in allegiance until our whole eco
nomic structure is again on a
normal footing"
The Department is "now pre-
pared to forward to the Director
of the Bureau of the Budget nor
NAL estimates in support of its
military program closely follow
ing the estimates of last year
and the current yeaEs ....
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
$1,000 PAY RISE
FOR OFFICIAL

The salary of L. D. Parmelee,
comptroller of the U. S. Shipping
Board. has just been raised from
$4,000 to $4,000, it is announced.
Mr.. Parmelee who has charge Of
auditing all accounts of the
Shipping Board and allied inter
estS, has been comptroller for two
years. His predecessor was D. S.
Morrison, who held the post five
years.
It was reminded today that
Morrison's salary was $4,000,
and that Mr.. Parmelee's salary
is just being brought up TO
normal.
At the same time, the Shipping
Board spokesmen denied the cler
ical staff was being reduced.
Only routine changes and vol
untary designations are reducing
the force, and it is now about at
its minimum, it was said.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
PASTOR 5 TRIAL
TOMORROW

On the eve of the trial of DR..
william A. Shelton, pastor of
the Mt, Vernon Place Methodist
Church South, on charges brought
by his former secretary, Miss
Carrie A. williams. the entire af,
fair, which has caused a split
In the congregation, is still
shrouded in secrecy.
Trial Tomorrow
The trial is to be held in the
Methodist Church South at Alex
andria, Va, beginning tomorrow
morning, it has been learned, be-
fore a jury of IL prominent
cIergymen, who will give a yer.
Glict after hearing all the testi-
mony. Bishop E. d. MOuzOn, or
some church official whom he
may appoint, will preside. q
n Dr.. E. v. REGISTER, presiding
elder of the Alexandria district
and formerly of washington, will
act as prosecutor.
DR.. Shelton will be defended
by the Rev. j. Rives, of the Fran
els Asbury Church; the Rev. H.
n. Sheman, of the Board of
Christian Education, and Ray
mond B. Dickie, Washington at
torney.
Charges Kept Secret
The nature of the charges
brought against the scholarly
clergyman has not been revealed.
Church officials in an author
lied position to speak have con-
sistentIy refused to do so.
Many n~mbers of the congre-
CATION, their faith in their pas
tor unshaken. have sought to
1,ave the hearing opened to the
public, claiming that DR.. Shelton
will be cleared and that. in view
of the publicity already given the
affair, the facts should be dis
closed.
Thirty witnesses, it is said. will
appear for DR.. Shelton. For
several weeks his friends have
been working on his behalf and
large number of the congrega-
ton have formed the Shelton
Defense Counsel.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
VICTIM |SFOUND
IN BAY NEAR
PT, LOOKOUT
Washington Police Seeking to
Determine If Slain Man Is
Joseph Sechrist, This City

Washington and Baltimore po-
lice are puzzled in the murder
of a man, whose body, weighted
with lead and securely bound,
was found in Chesapeake Bay
Thursday night near Point Look
out, Md.
Neck First Broken
The neck of the victim was
said to have been broken indicat-
ing that the man was struck by
a heavy instrument before his
body was weighted down with
Is pounds of sheet lead and sunk.
One tooth was missing and there
were bruises about the head but
authorities are hampered in their
investigation by the fact that
the body had been in the water
three or more days before dis
covery by Sapt. w. H. Brock,
master of the power boat Clay
ton.
The only clues to the identity
of the man is a watch bearing
the initials, J. H. S., which was
found in the well-tailored blue
suit in which the body was clad
The suit bears a New York label.
May Be Navy Worker
Police of Washington have been
asked to investigate the possibil-
ity that the body may be that
of Joseph E. Sechrist, 54. of 1244
Eleventh St. N w., a buffer at
the Navy Yard. Sechrist diSap-
peared from his home last Tues
day and his description compares
with that of the dead man.
Sechrist'S clothes bore Wash
ington labels, however, and it is
believed that the chances Of con-
Meeting his disappearance with
discovery of the body are small.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
10000 PUPILS
HURRY BACK
To SCHOOL
10000 More Due in Seats BY
End Of Week; Years List
of Holidays Not So Bad

It's too bad, kids, but vacation
days can't last forever.
Zero hour for Washington
youngsters struck at 9 o'clock
this morning and some 10000
boys and girls trooped back to
desks and books for the scholastic
year of 1882.
Exact figures on the enroll
ment were not obtainable as the
day was Yom Kippur, most
sacred of Jewish holidays, but
public school officials believe by
the end of the week the total
will be 10000, an increase of
1000 over last year.
Not So Bad
The children took the end of
their playtime philosophically.
After all school isn't so bad.
There's recess and it's fun see
ing classmates of last year and
greeting new teachers, and all
that. Then, too, times and GUS
toms have changed since dads
schooldays when little boys and
girls were expected to sit rigidly
in their seats hour after hour
with one eye on their books and
one on the clock. New pedagog-
ical principles have made the
Schoolroom more attractive and
lessons less arduous.
Holidays Listed
Holidays to look forward to
are Thanksgiving, November 26
and 27' Christmas, December "a
to January 2; Washington's
Birthday. February %; Easter,
March 25 to April /, and
Memorial Day, May 30.
With II new projects under
way, 168 schools opened this
morning. The new buildings in
clude the Deal Junior High, Of
which Miss Bertie Backus is
principal. Others are the Eliot,
at Seventeenth and S Streets
Northeast; the Lafayette, North
ampton and Broad Branch Road
Northwest; the Horace Mann in
Wesley Heights, and the Noyes at
Fourteenth and Franklin Streets
northeast.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Police Court Mill
GrindS Fast TO
Beat Heat
Times Staff Photo
MARGARET

Police Court officials today
adopted speedy methods in try
ing more than $50 prisoners,
held in Sweltering cell blocks
. at the courthouse, Sixth and
d Streets Northwest.
Judge Robert E. Mattingly,
acting in the District branch of
the court, heard 95 cases in
less than two hours.
Extra policeman detailed at
the courthouse held the
prisoners in a large courtyard
to avoid heat prostrations.
Several prisoners we're slight
ly sickened, but none was over
come,
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Count Placed
After Auto Crash

Coming upon the scene just
after the automobile of Austin
William Browne, %, of 1445
Park Rd. N. w., overturned on
a curve near Burtonsville, Nd,
early today, Montgomery County
Policeman Laurence Dixon, OF
the Silver Spring Substation,
arrested Browne after he found
eight cases of alleged corn
whisky in Brownies car.
Browne was charged with
possession Of intoxicating liquor
with intent to sell and was trans
ferred to Rockville.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
D. c. HEADS PICK
STAPLES CASE
PROBERS
Representative Group to Act
Only If Lawyers Decide
Prosecution Is Necessary

District Commissioners today
named a civilian trial board to
act in the Orville A. Staples
"frame-up" case.
The board is composed of Will
liam Knowles Cooper, william
H. Lewis, DR.. Cloyd Heck Mar
vim, DR.. Charles P. Neill and
Rabbi Abram Simon.
Now With Brokers
Mr.. Cooper is former general
secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and
is now asso-ic with Crane,
Paris & Co.
Mr.. Lewis is colored attorney
with offices at 1901 Seventh st.
N. w.
DR.. Marvin is president of
George Washington University.
DR.. Neill is a former CommiS-
sioner of Labor and is now Q
professor at Catholic University.
Rabbi Simon is in charge Of
the Washington Hebrew Congre-
cation and is a member of the
District of Columbia School Board.
Lawyers To Decide
This trial board will function
only in the event the five lawyers
committee recommend prOSecu-
tiOn. The five lawyers commit
tee is studying the recent Grand
Jury report, which charged that
(Eanf:a..A a.. Raa Ii HaL oA
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Mrs. ". E.. r. Byrne
Seeks II. D. e.. Office

The name of Mrs. w. E. r.
Byrne, of Charleson, w. Va, has
been advanced as a nominee for
the presidency of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, by
the West Virginia division of the
organization.
Mrs. Byrne was corresponding
secretary general of the U. D. c.
in 1919 and 1920. She has been
registrar of the National Society
of Colonial Danes of America for
Is years.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Schuetz Will Speak
To Polish Women

Representative L eonard w
Schuetz. of Illinois, IS en- route
from Chicago to Washington to
address the Polish Women's Al
lance, whose convention opened
Yesterday at the Willard Hotel.
Four special trains brought 425
members to town yesterday, and
the sessions were opened with
mass at Catholic University Rep
resentative SchuetZ' address is
tentatively scheduled for tomor-
row night.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
COLOred Schools
Open; Ready for
Large Enrolment

Approximately $4,000 colored
children entered the public
schools of division 1913, today.
OF the total number. 10000
are expected to enter the
elementary departments with the
remainder registering in the
senior and junior high schools.
Dunbar High School is expected
to have a record enrolment of
nearly 1000. Armstrong will fol
low with about 1,500 and Cardozo
with 500.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Oldest u. S. Mother
Hunt SUeLLS Mail

Responses from all over the
country are pouring into head
quarters of the District of Colum-
bia Bicentennial Commission in
response to it's search for the
oldest native mother in America.
Letters have been received
from nearly every State in the
union telling of venerable
mothers, many of whom can
trace their ancestry beyond the
Revolution. 1t is the plan of the
commission to make the observ-
ance of Mothers Day one of the
highlights of the bicentennial
celebration.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
BGrgerOn Will Talk
At Ad Club Meet

Carlisle Bargeron, who conducts
the Listening Post" column in
The washington Herald, will be
guest speaker at the meeting of
the Advertising Club of Wash
ington, tomorrow at the first fall
meeting. to be held in the audi
torium of the National Press
Club. His subject will be The
Listening Post Looks at the Merry
Go-Round."
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Vegetable Poisoning
Wins Court Freedom

The claim that she was
poisoned instead of being drunk
won Lottie Green, colored, her
freedom today in Police Court
before Judge Robert E. Mattingly.
The young colored woman in
troduced as a witness in her be-
half her husband, who told the
court: that he believed his wife
sad been the victim of vegetable
poisoning." Judge Mattingly
took her personal bond.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Staples and Allen
To Address Forum

The Third Degree and Police
Brutality" will be the subject of
discussion at the first meeting
Of the season Of the Washington
Open Forum, to be held Saturday,
october 4.
Orville A. Staples. former police
man, whose dismissal was branded
a "frame-up" by a Grand Jury
recently, and Robert j. Allen, dis
missed policeman, will be speak
erS.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Rural High Schools
Held as Inefficient

Most of the rural high schools
of the country are so far behind
those Of the city that they are
actually holding back the prog
reSS of education, a bulletin by
the Federal Office of Education
declared yesterday.
The bulletin recommends as
remedies that each State should
make a careful study of its rural
high schools and that better
salaries should be paid for better
teachers.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
american Bar Plans
1882 CUDituL Meet

The 1882 convention of the
American Bar Association will be
held in Washington, September
98, 20 and 80, it was announced
TODAY at the annual convention
of the association in Atlantic
E.he decision came after local
attorneys, representa- n g the
district of Columbia bar, had eX-
tended an invitation to the ma
ifional organization to, meet here
during the George Washington
Bicentennial.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Camden Man GiUen
d. s. G.. for Services

Announcement of the award Of
the Distinguished Service Cross
to William Doyle, formerly ser.
geant, Infantry, at present living
in Camden, N. j., was made at
the War Department today.
The distinction was conferred
on Doyle "for extraordinary hero
ism in action" in France, during
the World War.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
Tired Pigeon Found
At. School for BOuS

Harold Reed, officer at the
National Training School for
Boys, today found an exhausted
pigeon on the school grounds.
The bird had two bands on its
legs-one of metal had the let
tiers and figures. BAL 1882 AU31
and a rubber band contained the
numbers 986.
Mr.. Reed is feeding the bird
and expects to let it go as soon
as it is rested unless the owner
is found.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
SCRIBE TO BE GUEST

Byron Price, head of the Wash
ington bureau of the Associated
Press, will be guest of honor at
the regular luncheon meeting of
the Women's National Press Club,
to be held tomorrow at l p. m.
at the Willard Hotel.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
WOMAN PAYS RUM FINE

Selling a half-pint of liquor to
a colored police informer, cost
Cynthia Addison, colored, $50 and
costs when found guilty by Judge
Charles w. Woodward in Rock
Vile.
The Washington times., 1931-09-21
MISS BELFIELD

District schools opened for
the fall term today with a
record enrolment, according to
early figures received by school
officials. Miss M. B. Belfield,
teacher, with pupils in the first
grade. The pupils are Vernon
Movie, Z, 933 K St. N. W.;
Grace Mason, 6, 1877 Twelfth
st. N. w., and James Sode-
man, 7, 1919 Tenth st. N. w.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20

This financial adjustment is slow work" ob serves Mir Stimson. Yes, sir. The moratorium, the less speed.-(New York Herald Tribune9
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20
iFU NERAL RITES FOR VICTIM OF AUTO SATURDAY
Ruth Peterson Burial Sat. urday- Sister Recover
 ing Inquest Held

Funeral services for little Ruth Peterson, stepdaughter of Ed An- derson, victim of an automobile ac- cident Wednesday on Calhoun Ave- nue, will be held Saturday at 1 p.m at the Russian Catholic Church, Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, of ficiating. Interment will be made in Evergreen cemetery.
 Irene Peterson, 11-year-old sister of Ruth, who was slightly injured in the same accident, was reported to be in no danger and was today recovering in St. Anns Hospital from superficial face cuts.
 The two girls were injured by a car driven by Robert Murphy, who in statements made to municipal and Federal officials said the acci- dent was unavoidable. He first rushed the girls to the hospital and then reported to the officials. He told his story frankly to them and to reporters.
 An inquest was being held today into the death of Ruth. There were no eye-witnesses to the acci- dent other than MT. Murphy and the surviving Peterson child. Neith- CT of them were called before the inquest. After hearing Mrs. Ruth Coates, Mrs Katherine MacRob erts, Mrs A.. M. Guyer, Chief of Police G. A. Getchell, Assistant District Attorney George w. Folta and c. c. Rudolph, the jurors ad- journed and went to the scene of the accident No verdict had been returned at a late hour this aft ernoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20
FOOLISH CRITICISM.

An Outlook editorial writer planes President Hoover for the failure of This" Farm Board to induce farmers to reduce their wheat acreage That is about as sensible many criticisms that find their way into types The Farm Board did its part when it recommended that farmers should not plant so much That is as far it could go. It was another case of leading the horse to the water and inability to make it drink.
 This thing of regulating farm production by Federal agencies not what it is cracked up to be- If the farmers cannot get together and regulate these things themselves know no way that it can be done. The farmers own their lands in fee simple. They have natural and legal right to utilize their acres as they might wish
 One would think the farmers ought to be able to manage things someway. It is impossible for the Government to restrict planting on the one hand and it is ridiculous to ask the Government to guarantee a market for unlimited quantities Of wheat, corn, etc, more than the consumers want And it is very foolish for the farmers to produce a large surplus.
 President Hoover cannot do impossible things It is absurd to expect him to do
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20
PETR0LLE AND M'LARNIN WILL
 MEET TONIGHT
Bout at Yankee Stadium Is Regarded by Gamblers
 as Even Money Bet

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O-Billie Pe- trolle, veteran exponent of the sour science, is like Banquo's ghost. He will not down. He has come back to plague Jimmy McLarnin. The two will meet for their third en- counter in the Yankee Stadium to- night.
 In their first fight, Petrolle gave McLarnin a good larruping. In stheir second engagement, Jimmy .outpointed Billy, and the latter was thought to be through as a big-tine attraction. But Petrolle's recent knockout of Justo Saurez, South American lightweight of supposed champion ship possibilities, brought Jimmy tonight's bout with M Larni n. Among gamblers, the contest is an even money bet.
 Fetrolle weighs 40 pounds and McLarnin IA.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20
BAD GUESSING IN THE TARIFF.

The trend of business during the last year has again demonstrated what vain thing is prophesylng A year ago last March President Hoover declared that all the needful remedies had been applied and said the depression would be over in two months Two months later pleading with Senators to vote for the Hawley y-Smoot Tariff, Senator Watson pre- dicted that the turn in business conditions would occur within month from the passage of the measure and that within year the country would again be at the peak of prosperity
 However while the Republicans over-estimated the effects of the Hoover remedies and the tariff, the depression has taught the Democrats a lot about high tariffs In the last campaign they con- fessed the wisdom of the protection principle by, in effect admitting that the tariff ought to be high enough to the difference in the cost Of production at home and abroad. Their objection to the Hawley- Shoot measure that the schedules were too high. They are now acting a lot as though they would like to have the old Under wood tariff again.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20
BROWN BEARS NOT BEHAVING FOR
 BENEFIT OF ENTHUSIASTS.

Probably the most dscouraging thing met with by the Alaska brown bear enthusiasts who have over-run the Territory this summer is the behavior of the brown bears They have performed as usual They have attacked tourists, they have treed Gov ernment employees and chased Alaskans. They have continued their attacks domestic animals. The Farthest North Coegan, publication of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, gives the following heretofore unnoted account ot Alaska bears in the Interior of Alaska:
 bear and two cubs have been ruth
 lesly destroying Biological Survey property
 on Goldstream Hill
 A reindeer and a Muskoxen have been
 killed and partially eaten. Fences have been
 broken and few people frightened
 It is believed that these animals have
 acquired the meat habit and are killing
 to satisfy this hunger.
 Word comes from mines and other settlements that the brown bears thick that miners and other inhabitants are afraid to spend their spare time picking berries. Farmers in some sections take rifles with them into the fields, it is said.
 This all suggests that before Congress establishes more sanctuaries for brown bears in Southeast Alaska at least the Geological Survey ought to be given the money and men and directions to make very careful Investigation of the before it is set apart We do not object to- reservation for brown bears if country that is not valuable for other and are kept on the reservations The more the people who go into the forests and hills the greater be- comes the brown bear menace to development.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20
Demanding a Plan.
(New York Times.)

(New York Times)
 One of the we-balanced passages in ex-Secretary Bakers speech at Wiamstown that in which he discussed the possibility of economic plan for the United States While admitting that conditions in several of our industries chaotic he pointed to certain lessons of history which the mpeuous planners too often overlook Our economic progress in the past has been an evolution" It has been marked by daring experiments rather than shaped according to a fixed program We have witnessed mighty changes and astonishing inustrial results which were not planned and could not possibly have been planned. No attempt to put econ omics in a strait jacket has ever succeeded and there is no probability that it Mir. Baker sententously and truthfully remarked that "the perience of the ha sshown us that progress is a function of freedom"
 His way of looking at this question is not very different from that of another former member of President Wilson's Cabinet, now at the head of the Mutual Life Insurance Company In address which he recently made at Colorado Springs, Presi- dent Houston referred to the frequent demand that we must have national plan and national plan ming board" His pungent comment was
 What folly What men, group of men,
 in this country would know how to direct all many of the leading activities of this great nation; and who is so innocent as to
 assume that if they to make plan, i our people would follow it. unless they could be made slaves? Certainly the Federal
 Government could not formulate direct
 such plan. It is too successful
 in discharging it's constitutional functions. It cannot even run a routine business like
 the Postoffice without a huge deficit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20

Pliers going to Japan ought to do some negotiat- ing before they reach that country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20
DO-x FLIES OVER. .ST.LUC|A ISLAND.

PORT CASTRIES, St. Lucia Island, West Indies, Aug. 20.-With all machinery apparently function ing with the greatest efficiency, the giant German seaplane Do-X, on her way from Berlin to New York City, passed over St. Lucia Island today.
 The aircraft's first objective in the United States is Miami, Flor ida. From there she will fly to her scheduled destination, New York.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-20

Those warke preparations in Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska might be notice to the Latin Ameri- cans and North Irish partisans that the United States must be counted in on any sort of game that is played.