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The Washington times., 1931-02-07
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minutes later many lives uI1-
doubted would have been lost, as
the stars and audience left the
theater, police said. The film had
been finished and Fred Niblo, mas
ter of ceremonies, was introducing
members of the cast when the
blast rocked the theater. Scores
of persons were waiting outside to
see the brilliantly dressed stars
leave the theater.
NibIo Saves Day
Niblo was first to speak:
Don't get excited, folks.
Everything's all right. They're
just taking a flashlight out
side"
McWade, who had a comedy
part in the picture and had just
been introduced. shouted:
ITS just part of the celebra.
tiOn for mel"
Their "wisecracking" diverted
the audience to laughter, order
was restored, and in a few minutes
police and firemen orderly direct,
ed the crowd in it's exit through
side and rear doors.
A taxicab standing over a man
hole received the full force Of the
blast, and George Delk, the driver,
suffered a fractured leg and other
injuries.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
ROBBERY FAILS;
z MEN HELD

Two Washington men are
being held on charges of investi.
cation at Precinct station No. 2
in connection with an attempted
holdup this morning on the
Baltimore Boulevard near Cot,
tage City, Md.
The men, Harry Udell, %, who
gave his address as the Metro
politan Hotel, and Alton Cissell,
27, who is said to live at 3209
Thirteenth St. N. w., were
picked up here by Second
Precinct policemen after a look
out had been broadcast. The
police here were notified Of the
holdup by Thomas Garrison,
deputy sheriff Of Prince Georges
county.
Joseph Flaherty and Randolph
Smith, both of Washington, were
ordered to pull over to the curb,
according to Garrison. After
searching the men and the car,
the holdup men found no loot.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Educator in Asylum
For School Threats

GREEN LAKE, Wis, Feb. Z
Q.N.S0.-Willard Wagner, 25
year-old science instructor in the
MarkeSan High School, was COM
mitted to the State Hospital for
the Criminal Insane today after
admitting the authorship Of
threatening letters received by
other instructors and school board
directors.
Messages we're found scrawled
on school blackboards threaten
ing to have the school blown up
with dynamite. Wagner ad-
mitted writing these, according
to authorities,
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SENATE FAVORS
3 D. {. BILLS

With reports expected to be
made today on three local bills.
the Senate District Committee
has, virtually concluded its &C
tivities for the present session.
Sanatorium Site Favored
The District Commissioners
would be allowed to use part Of
the 216-acre tract which they
have acquired on the Defense
Highway at Randall Station as
a site for an adult tuberculosis
sanitorium under one of the bills
expected to be reported today.
The measure received the ap-
proval of the committee yester-
day afternoon. The site was ac-
quired for a children's tuoerculo-
sis sanatorium and the Commits
sioners feel that both institutions
can be accommodated on the
site.
Barber Bill Sanctioned
The committee decided to re-
port favorably the Copeland bill
closing barber shops in the Dis
trict on Sunday. Senator Cole
Blease, Of South Carolina, who
opposes the bill, declared that
he would not let it pass while he
is in Congress.
Another bill favored by the
committee would authorize an ap-
preparation of 100000 to defray
expenses of the local celebration
of the George Washington Bicen-
tennial in 1882.
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Rum SALE NETS
2-YEAR TERM

Aaron Tractenberg. former tire
dealer at Rhode Island Avenue
and Tenth Street Northwest, to-
day was sentenced by Justice
Peyton Gordon in Criminal
Court to serve two years in prison
and to pay a fine of $50 as the
result of his recent conviction on
charges of illegal sale and pos
session of Intoxicating liquor.
Earl Mullen, colored assistant
of Tractenberg's, was sentenced
to serve IS months in prison and
to pay a fine of $50 in connec-
ton with the same transaction
The pair were arrested by
members of Sergt. George Little's
liquor squad last November 5,
when they sold case of whisky
to a policeman for SIS. Trac,
tenberg is said to have a long
record of liquor law violations,
Assistant United States Attorney
Walter M. Shea conducted the
prosecution.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
'|LLEGAL" RAID
NETS LIQUOR
Photo bV International

The first warrantless raid
since the recent furor over this
practice of police came to light
today in Police Court when two
men were arraigned on liquor
charges as result of a raid at
216 Sixth st. N. W., yesterday. .
The two men charged with
possession are Wayne Albert
Clark, "a, and Joseph v. Nc
Caffrey, q.
Detectives william r. Laflin
and w. C. Grooms yesterday
entered the place which is known
as "the smoke shop" and found
Clark behind the counter. In
the rear of the place was an
electrically controlled, locked
door.
The officers seized Clark and
took him from behind the cour-
ter while one of them pressed
the button, concealed behind the
counter, which controlled the
locked rear door. Upon entering
the rear room they claim to have
found McCaffrey in the act of
selling q drink of whisky. A
small quantity of whisky was
seized and McCaffrey slammed
shut the door of a safe.
Up until this point the officers
were without a search warrant.
They placed the two men under
arrest and then obtained a war
rant from Commissioner Need
ham c.. Turnage.
The men plead not guilty to-
day and demanded jury trial.
Officers claimed tot have found
about a quart of whisky after
working for an hour to force the
safe door open.
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CANNON s FATE
DUE TO-DAY
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several counts. If, in the opinion
of the clergyman jury, the bishop
is guilty on any one charge he
will be suspended until the next
meeting of the general con-
ference of the denomination. A
two-thirds vote is necessary to
"indict."
While the clergymen making
up the jury are eager to finish
the case and return to their
homes in time for services to-
morrow, there is little likelihood
of this taking place, it is
thought, as their deliberation
and voting is expected to take
many hours.
Bishop Own Counsel
If the prosecution offers rebut-
tai evidence the case will probably
go into next week. The bishop
carried on his defense lone-handed
yesterday. His son, Prof. James
Cannon Sd, of Duke University,
and the Rev. Sid Peters,. a close
friend and ally Of the bishop, sit
with him but take little part in
the case.
During the long hours of yeSter.
day and last night the bishop
launched an attack on the accu.
sations brought by the four elders
He admitted, it was said, that they
were sincere in their charges, but
declared they had been n1iSled.
The sources of much Of their in.
formation was attacked by the
bishop.
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MOVES To STOP
BUTLER TRIAL.
REVEALED
Italian Ambassador Said TO
Have Asked Hoover to Stop
Court-MartiaI OF Marine

By International News Service
Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler
had four.man legal staff today
to prepare his defense before
court martial in Philadelphia
February l6.
His counsel chief. Major Henry
Leonard, announced from Phila-
delphia the Marine who must
face charges growing out of his
reference in a speech to Premier
Mussolini of Italy, as a hit-and-
run driver had added three at
torneys to his staff.
They are Roland S. Norris. oi
Philadelphia, a former ambassa-
dor to Japan and a vice-chan-
cellor of the American Bar Asso.
citation; Col. A. M. Holding, of
Chester, Pa, and Lieut.. Col
Jesse F. Dyer Of the Marine
Corps.
Butler at Quantico
Leonard may remain in Phila.
delphia over the weekend round
ing up witnesses for the Butler
court martial. His client is at
Quantico, Va, Marine Barracks,
under arrest.
Pleas for brakes on the Butler
court martial were reported from
two quarters today, one of them
tangible. the other intangible
and impossible to confirm. The
first came from members of the
Philadelphia commission which
once placed a tablet in the Navy
Building testifying to the '"impar-
tiality, courage and incorruptibil-
ity" of Butler. They petitioned
President Hoover to call off the
court martial.
Legate Asks Dismissal
The other report was to the
effect a flying visit the italian
ambassador to America, Mobile
Giacomo de Martino, paid the
Secretary of State was for the
purpose Of asking that proceed.
ings against the Marine be
dropped,
italian embassy officials said
the ambassador went to see the
Secretary to discuss some mat
terS," but would not disclose
what was discussed.
Trial to Be Colorful
The defense today cast several
monkeywrenches into the Navy
Departments plan of making the
trial brief and colorless.
Unless Major Leonard Is dis
Suaded, the cOurt-martial will be
one Of the most picturesque and
hardest fought in service annals,
Some of the leading military
men and civilians of the nation
including Gen. j. J. PerShing and
Major General Harbord-are to
be called as character witnesses
for General Butler.
Not since Washington Army
groups we're split wide open by
the trial of Gen. William Mitch
ell, advocate of a separate aviation
department, some years ago, have
they been in such a state OF ex-
citement as they are over the
Butler court-martial, which is
expected to result in new prece-
dents as to the speech.makine
and Interviewing conduct of
ranking service officers.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Forced to Swallow
Cigarette, Wife
Gets DiUOrce

MARION, III, Feb. 7 0.N.S0.
Testimony that she had been
forced to swallow a lighted
cigarette today had won a d.
vorce decree for Mrs. Burwell
r. RAIDER, 80. of Herrin.
Appearing in circuit court
here Mrs. RAIDER testified that
her husband, Robert RAIDER, be-
come enraged because she
smoked a ciragette and forced
her to swallow one that was
lighted.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
PetrOLLe X. O's
jackie Moore

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Feb. Z.
Billy Petrolle, Fargo, N. D. light.
weight, today had knocked out
Jackie Moore of Chicago, in the
first round of their ten-round
bout here.
Moore went to the floor three
time under Petrolle's blows past
night before he took the final
COUNT.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Woman, I'LL, Shoots
Self: Likely to Die

GREENCASTLE, Pa, Feb. 7.
Believed to be respondent over i'll
health, Miss Evelyn Shoup, %,
shot herself at her home here
today with a .32-caliber pistol
Taken to the Chambersburg
Hospital, it was said she is in a
critical condition.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
All CLUBS PLAN FETE

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Feb. Z.
Plans for the spring banquet of
the Montgomery County All Clubs
and the Rockville Fair exhibits
of the clubs will be discussed at
the regular meeting Of the All
Federation of Montgomery County
to be held at s p. m. Wednesday,
in the office Of the County
Agent.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury statement as of Feb
ruary 5: Treasury balance. $le9,-
707.Sl828; expenditures, $ll,0eS,-
487.53: customs receipts, $4,476,-
o79.56.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07

WHEN THE flash of a dagger
precipitated a riotiouS melee in
the japanese House of Repre-
sentatives, Baron Shiderhara,
Japanese Foreign Minister and
acting head of the government.
withdrew under heavy guard
and escaped injury. Several
persons involved in the mix-up
were injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04
Mussolini Music
United States

Mussolin got excited some months ago over the
adverse publicity he received in this country from
speech by General Butler of the marines II Duce
had enough bluff to make the state department bow
to him.
But how is Mussolini going to censor American
opinion Of the Toscaini incident? That has revealed
the Fascist dictatorship i'll all its cheap and cruel m
tlllty Many Americans, especially Of the wealthy
class which has tended to admire the dictator. ere
more enraged by the mStreatnent of the great con-
ductor than by all the Fascist murders of labor lead
ers and liberals
AS conductor in New York and on tour Signor
Toscanin has the admiration and LOYALTY of tens
OF thousands of music lovers in the United States
They resent the indgnitieS which he has suffered
from the dictatorship Of his own country
Because he exercised his right as a free man anc
as musician, in declining an impertinent demand tc
add taWdry. Fascist anthem to his concert a.
Bologna he was knocked down by Fascist official
N1uSsolini, instead of Furnishing the subordinate
has sanctioned the assault by withdrawing Toscanin
passport and holding him virtual prisoner
Serge koussevitsky, conductor of the Boston
Symphony, has Cancelled a concert engagement ir
Milan IN protest against this unbelievable outrage
against the whole artistic world"
1t Is hardly to be expected, however, that such
ooycotts and bad publicity will change the nature OF
the Mussolni dictatorship. The moral apparently. is
that those who wish to retain their self-resuect and
freedom should stay away from Fascist italy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04
Read EN- and Weep

At the time of the worst industrial depression
and largest unemployment and largest federal deficit
in our history the Hoover higher tariff has destroyed
our richest foreign market and strained the friend
ship of our best neighbor. That is the significance
of the new Canadian tariff wall raised in retaliation
against U.s.
Last year, Canada. our largest and friendlest
customer, protested against the proposed tariff in
creases Of the Hoover administration. The admin
stration ignored that just warning Today its folly
has returned to torture it.
Three times in little more than year, Canada
in self-protection, has struck back at us-in May,
$780, in September and on June l. And now there
is a prohibitive tariff virtual embargo on many
of our exports which in 1920 totaed almost one bill
lion dollars Now the total is cut almost in half
In the last twelve months our Canadian exports
have dropped from S847OOOOoO to $584,0o00OO year
Thus the Hoover higher tariff, touted to protect
American industry and wage earners, has closed or
put on part time many American factories and added
to the 100000 unemployed
To evade the retaliatory Canadian tariff wall many
American plants have moved to Canada-throwing
more Americans out of jobs permanently. Premier
Bennett announced on Monday that since the Sep
TENDER tariff increase, seventy-fve new American
industries had moved to Canada. That in addi-
ton to the 389 American subsidiaries, valued at
s4S5OOOOOO. already operating there.
To hasten and increase that flight of American
capital and industries to Canada, the Ottawa gov
eminent now has provided only low per cent in
come tax on Canadian investments of non-residents
OF course there is nothing new and unexpected
about this higher tariff boomerang, which has de-
sroyed foreign markets essential to prosperity
cut our customs receipts and deprived American
workers of their jobs
Many American business men, most of the Amer
lean press and more than 1000 leading economists
warned the administration when it forced through
the bon-dollar tariff grab year ago that precisely
his would happen
But not interested in "I-tod-you-so'
1t is the future that matters The Hoover admin
lstraon might with great charity be excused for the
costly bunder of raising the tariff. But-now that
the results of its folly clear every discouraged
stakeholder and every joblesS worker-there will be
excuse for the Hoover administration if it refuses
to help the country by lowering the tariff it raised
If not at a special session before then congress
when it meets in December must cut the tariff to help
revive prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04
The Fathers and the Racketeers

Racketeerng and lawlessnesS IN America today
are not primarily due to the invasion Of America by
the scum Of Europe" They the perpetuaton
Of the lawless heritage of the fathers who subdued
100000 square miles Of forest and river and mine
such is the contention of Professor William E.
Dodd one Of the most competent Of American his
torians and publicists writing in the New York
Times, Professor Dodd holds that are in 1884 pay
ing the price Of lawless behavior in 1884, 1871 and
1881.
The small fry"-capone, Rothstein Diamond ct
alony are learning the LESSONS taught them by the
behavior Of "tn> great the GOOD and the wise"
throughout American history
Professor Dodd does not rest content with blanket
charges He provides long bill of particulars
First our ancestors disregarded the treaties with
the red men and massacred right and left from the
days of Massasoit to those of Sitting Bull.
Next, they violated the British navigation acts
through wholesale smuggling This lawlessness
among the high and mighty. Meanwhile, the OPP
pressed masses were making their contribution to
laWessness through breaking their contracts as in
dentured servants and redemptioners.
The very framing Of the Constitution was a law
less act since the delegates had authority to make
a new Constitution.
After 1907 it became capital crime to import
Negro slave into the United States. Yet 10000 were
brought between 1907 and 1851 and the first
hanged for the ofense in 1852 southerners Haunted
the law spite Of the fact that it the work Of
Thomas jefferson.
This prompted norherners to disregard the fugitive
slave law requiring the return Of runaway slaves to
their owners The latter form of awlessness one
of the major causes Of the Civil war.
Immediately after that the northern carpet
baggers and the southern scalawags and galvanized
When this ceased the south proceeded to ignore the
intent and letter of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments.
The Sherman antitrust law was passed in 1890,
but it never has been honestly consistently en-
forced The fiction of good and bad trusts soon
arose Moreover, this law was perverted and turned
against labor-quite contrary to all intent of the
trainers The Pullman strike and the Darbury hat
ters' cases are but two conspicuous examples.
Then along came prohibition. which has been
challenged joyfully by rich and poor alike and has
opened the way for vast development of racketeer-
ing. The contemporary racketeer thinks it is the
turn of the poor and low-born to cash in on the law
lessness racket.
IF the great may ignore social restraint and
positive law why may not Lesser folk do likewise, or
worse?"
Professor Dodd closes with the sagacious observa-
ton that "the great and the wealthy must obey the
law if they wish not themselves one day to become
the victims Of lawlessness This is perhaps dark pic
ture, but it is no darker than the facts"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04

at the back Of the eye. A machine
is used by experts in diseases Of
the eye for measuring the field of
vision and charting it.
The distinctness of vision varies
with different parts of the retina.
The condition of the retina changes
after one has been a long time in
light and then is exposed suddenly
to- darkness.
AS one passes from daylight into
dark room, vision at first is very
bad, but after some minutes rapidly
improves.
The famous prisoner, Caspar
Hauser, was supposed to be able to
see stars in the daytime because he
had lived so many years in black
dungeon that his eyes had changed
in their visual ability.
The retina has the power to
adapt itself to correspond with
variations in the intensity of
illumination. Various parts of the
retina vary in their ability
1t sometimes is possible to see
very faint star in the twilight when
looked at from one point of view
and to fail to see it entirely when
looking at it from another angle,
so that the image falls on a differ
emf part of the retina.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04
a. ~~A AO/4 Lands

A T Decoration day services this wear there was a
IA great dramatic interest dua IN the noesinr ~
the Boys in Blue"
AT some meetings there were only one or two sur
VVors and at others only handful
There was q. thoroughbred note struck at several
places by the c. A. R. survivors who had taken into
their fold the one or two exConfederate soldiers Who
lived in the community
With this spirit existing all over the country there
should be joint reunion of the Blue and Gray at
the Chicago worlds fair in 1888
If the politicians only had kept out of the mess
alter Appomattox there would have been little trouble
The soldiers always managed to get along with
each otner and Mckinley once said that all OF the
hard feelings between the sections was due to those
VINO never smelled gunpowder
MISS HELEN STONE of Colorado fell from q
Iva seventy-foot cliff into Boulder creek. then was
carried over twentyfoot dam, after which she was
rocks, but she will recover
With such record Miss Stone even might sur
we IN the sea of matrimony
You have to take your hat off to President Hoover
for one thing and it that he has protected lis from
continuous stream of foreign immigration It is one
OF the biggest things any President has done in long
time but little has been said about it.
Congress failed to enact any legislation to save US
from foreign Job hunters when jobs were scarce for
our own people but MIR. Hoover instructed the i'm
migration authorities to exclude all those who had no
definite assurance of employment and who therefore
would become public charges.
S result of this executive action. our incoming
IA tide of Europeans is more than ten thousand
less every month than it one year ago. And as a
result of the depression almost twice as many foreign
ers have gone back home have entered
But, Go not become respondent, for when times
pick up the dear fellows viii all return
The other day in Germany the Labor Institute
advertised FOR official beer drnksr and the number
OF applicants great the police had to be called
OUT but if anybody in this country should advertise
for suds consumer. we would have to call out the
army and the nav. FL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-It is quite evident
that prohibition and unemployment
will be the political issues of the
next campaign. Prohibition of
what, liquor or labor? Why obscure
the paramount issue with idle talk
about prohibition when six millions
or more are iobless and undernour-
ished?
A man without job is like a man
without a country, which is one of
the most fruitful causes Of revolu-
ton. America, with all her vast re-
sources and money power, is not
immune from such crisis. If the
financial interests can not solve the
problem through a more equitable
distribution of the wealth of the
United states, why not abandon po-
litical fiction and make the neces-
sary adjustments by taxation?
The purchase Of bare necessities
by the commonwealth viii not re-
instate prosperity.
A letter written by Thomas Paine
in 1888 to a Mrs. Few in this
country described the conditions
which he hoped never would exist
IN America. E. .. BRECOUNT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-04

known Of the nations most aggressive liberals
quarter century passed. In February, $780, for
the second time Charles Evans Hughes appointed
TO the United States supreme court Bitter opposi-
ton arose-on the ground that Hughes was a reac-
tionary.
Time apparently had worked its customary spell
But today, once again. Charles Evans Hughes is
hailed as liberal In decisions as vital to the future
Of the nation the writing of the original Con-
stitution he appears the aggressive champion OF
civil liberties He stands with Holmes and Brandeis
This newspaper was one that opposed the con-
hrmation Of Hughes. 1t believed-on his record as
secretary Of state-that he would put his weight on
the side of property rights as against human rights
1t believed that age and an environment Of cor
poration law had changed him into different man
than the Hughes Of quarter century before 1t
could see the dangers Of court lopsided in behalf
Of property and Of conservatism.
That having been our position then it is only fair
that now We should express our sncerest adrnira-
ton for the recent decisions Of the man we opposed