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The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Siegel Is Held in $4,000
Bond on Bnbe Charge

Siegal was retained to defend
Vincenzo D'Amiani, who is shortly
to be tried in Wilkesbarre, Pa,
for first-degree murder, according
to reports, and offered Deane $3.50
to substitute his clients name on
the prison records for the name
of bona fide prisoner, who was
in the District Jail at the time
the murder was committed.
Deane is then reported to have
informed Col. w. L. Peak, Jail
superintendent, of the proposition,
and was directed to go through
with it.
He later informed Siegal that
the substitution had been made
and is alleged to have been paid
$3.50 by the lawyer who was then
arrested on the strength of
Deans report.
Siegal entered a plea of not
guilty when he was arraigned be-
fore United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage yesterday,
but his preliminary hearing was
continued until Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
2 Men Found Dead;
Believed DHeLiStS

NEW YORK, April l GN.SD
The unidentified bodies of two
men, believed to have slain each
other in a pistol duel, were found
today under a Long Island city
bridge.
Police, who found pistols at
the sides of the men, said they
thought the men had been duel,
ing, but admitted that the two
may have been taken for a ride
by gangSterS.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
List of Dead
And Injured
KNOWN DEAD


Lieut.. COmdr. Hugo F. BaSke,
U. S. N, Medical Corps.
Mrs. J. D. Murray, of Con-
cord, Mass, wife of a United
States Marine Corps major.
Chief Quartermaster Clerk
James E. Dickey.
INJURED MARINES
Major Robert L. Denig Of
Sandusky, Ohio, fractured leg.
First Lieut.. James L. Den
ham, of Chevy Chase, Md, scalp
wounds.
First Sergt. Louis ROssick of
Detroit, scalp wound and inter-
nal injuries.
Robert G. Crawford of Sum-
merville, Ga, internal injuries.
Charles Davis of Buffalo, N.
Y, injured ankle.
Sergts George OcchiOnerO of
Brainard, Mimi, severe scalp
wound and injured hip.
Sergt. Hugh A. Makus of
Parr, Ind, body bruises.
Sergt. Mckinley d. Hcskin,
of Fort Scott, Kan, head, face
and back; condition not seri-
GUS.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
ST ORN SWEEPS
EAST COAST

The Atlantic Coast from Miami
to New York, was being racked
by storms, according to reports
received by the Weather Bureau
today.
Storm warnings were ordered
displayed from Boston to East
port, Me-, as the center of the
disturbance moved northeast
ward.
The wind reached a velocity of
81 miles an hour at Atlantic City
last night and a heavy storm was
raging off Cape Hatteras today,
which may delay ocean vessels.
The storm was described as
varying from strong winds to
gales with heavy rain in most of
the Seaboard section.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
u. S. Marines to Stay
In Nicaragua for
Police Duty

Conditions arising from the
earthquake in Nicaragua and
destruction of Managua, the
capital, probably will delay the
recall of American Marines,
which had been planned by the
Administration, according to
officials today.
1t had been planned to have
all the American Marines out
of the country within a year,
but under the circumstances it
may be necessary for a small
force to remain for police
purposes until the Guardia
Nacional is able to handle the
situation.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01

my sight getting better and bet
ter. In six months, 1 should
have improved wonderfully"
At present, he explained, his
sight is about c1e-third Of
normal. He hopes to have two
thirds normal vision within six
months.
Grateful to Doctor
The boy is deeply grateful to
DR.. G. H. Moore, Philadelphia
eye specialist, who performed the
operation. He said:
"Dr. Moore is deserving of
Eluch credit. Please write
that in your story. He made if
possible for me to see. He is
a wonderful man."
Earl revealed, however, that
considerable exaggeration had at
tached to reports of the miracle"
operation that restored his sight.
II could always distinguish
daylight from darkness, but
everything was blurred-yOu get
the idea? Now 1 am able to
recognize the various shades of
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1931-04-01

: Fire is still raging and
earthquake shocks are con-
tinuing.
Casualties were highest
among the women and chill
dren of Managua, the dis.
patches said, owing to re
fact that most of them were
in their homes for the noon.
day meal when the earth
quake struck. ,.-,
The bodies still in the
ruins are considered a grave
menace to the health of the
survivors of the city, the
dispatches said. Assistance,
however, is now on it's way
from the Canal Zone to the
stricken city.
BODIES PILED HIGH
Throughout the night and
early morning, uninjured mem.
bers of the United States
Marine Corps worked like
Trojans to aid the survivors
and extricate the bodies of
dead from the ruins.
Bodies are piled high in the
streets. No means have yet
been evolved for disposal of
the mangled forms as they are
removed one by one.
Most of the injured are
being treated at temporary
first aid stations in the streets,
for hardly a building remains
standing or not menaced by
fire.
The sole medical institution
1unCtlonlng is the railroad hos
pital. The remainder were de-
stroyed by the quake or levelled
by fire.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April /
Q.N.SO The city of Managua,
destroyed in the midst of trans
formation from a spraWling, dust.
caked tropic town to a modern
metropolis, was a blazing funeral
pyre today as uncomfortable fire
completed the havoc wrought by
an earthquake which took at
least 1900 lives and rendered
homeless the entire population
of upwards of $4,000.
Twenty-four hours after the
quake had reduced the city to
ruins, the harassed authorities
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The Washington times., 1931-04-01
FROZEN WING
CAUSE Of
CRASH
Found HaIf-MiIe From Scene
of Tragedy in Which RoCkne
and 7 Plunged to Death

BAZAAR, Kan, April Q.N.S0
The crash of the Transconti'
mental Air Lines air mail passen-
ger plane in which Knute
Rockne, famous football coach,
and seven others met their
death, was due to a "frozen
wing" investigators decided to-
day.
That cause was advanced by
aviation experts gathered here
in an investigation of the air
tragedy yesterday in which the
huge plane fell like a comet,
burying it's nose in farm near
here,
The body Of the NOtre Dame
coach was to leave here this
morning for the ROcnke home
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The Washington times., 1931-04-01
DOPE RAID NETS
8 IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, April 1 G.N.SD.
Nine persons and $4,000 worth of
drugs were seized here today by
Federal narcotic agents in a raid
on an apartment.
Names of the prisoners were
not revealed.
Because city detectives were
summoned to aid in the question
ing, it is believed the raid may
have some connection with the
Staying Monday night of Max
Tender, New York gang spy and
police infOrmer.
Tender, a Capone henchman
and leader in a nationwide drug
ring, was shot to death in front
of a hotel here by two assassins.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
DRUG CHAINS
MEN YIELD
To GUNS
Bandits Hold Up Officials in
Northeast Alley; Police
Sent on Wild Goose Chase

Three armed bandits about II
o'clock today held up and robbed
the assistant warehouse manager
and buyer for the Peoples Drug
Stores of $6,514.61, the weekly
payroll, in an alley at the side
of the warehouse at 1922 First
st. N. E.
Charles Stoutenbourgh, assist
ant manager, and Edwin Edmon-
Ston, buyer, we're returning from
the bank with the money in two
canvas bags when the hold-up oc-
CURED.
Blocked BY Trio
As the two started to enter the
side entrance Of the building, they
were blocked by the trio who,
sticking revOIvers in their sides,
demanded the money.
After admoniShing the terrified
officials of the drug company to
stand still, the three dashed
down First to o Street, where
they entered an automobile and
made their escape in the direction
of Second Street Northeast.
At the time of the robbery, the
police car of the Second precinct,
commanded by Sergt. George Hell
muth, was less than 100 yards
from the scene.
The radio broadcast of the
hold-up said that robbery was
occurring at 1922 First st. N. W.,
two blocks away, and the car went
speeding to a spot that turned
out to be a vacant lot.
Time Was Lost
Considerable time was lost as
the result of the incorrect mes
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
POTOMAC NEAR
FLOOD STAGE,

HAGERSTOWN, Md, April /.
The Potomac River and all
streams in this section are rising
today as the result of a heavy
rainStorm. The Potomac showed
a four-foot increase at noon with
the river still rising. Heavy rains
and snow reported over the Po-
tomac riverShed are expected to
cause a continued rise, with the
possibility of it reaching flood
stage.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01

Conditions in Managua will
require evacuation of American
women and children as soon as
possible. You should prepare
to give everybody transpOrta-
ton to the Canal Zone. There
are about It's women and chill
dren to be taken Immediately.
''NO casualties a mOng the
American civilian population in
Managua have yet been re.
ported"
The War Department received
its first advices from the Army
engaged in relief work
at Managua todoay.
Fire Is Still Raging
A message from Lieut.. Col. Dan
I. Sultan, officer in charge of
the battalion of engineers con-
the Nicaragua Canal sur
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
C. W. King May Get
Alexandria office

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April l.
Charles w. King probably will be
named a member of the city
council tomorrow in the event
that Mayor Pierce will not re-
consider his resignation.
The council will ask Mr.. Pierce
to reconsider his resignation as a
councilman and accept his resig-
nation as mayor.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Woman Released
In Racket KILLING

DETROIT, April l QNS0
Mrs. Gertrude Dwyer, 35, grocery
store cashier and owner of the
death car in which Robert Stan
ley, alleged racketeer, was shot
to death near Port Clinton, Ohio,
was at liberty today after three
days of grilling by police.
Sheriff Arthur Rasmussen, OF
Ottawa county, Ohio, announced
that Mrs. Dwyer knew nothing
about Stanley'S murder.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
England Australia
Solo FHght Begun

LYMPNE. England, April l
0N.SO Charles Anderson Scott,
former royal air force pilot,
hoped off from Lympne Aero
drome early today on an at
tempted record-breaking solo
flight to Australia.
Flying an all-metal plane, Scott
hopes to reach Port Darwin, Aus
tralia, in less than nine days,
the record held by Wing Com
mander Charles KingSford-Smith.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Young Hoover Quits
ASheUiLLe bV May I

Herbert Hoover, jr., who has
been suffering from an incipient
tubercular infection, has so far
recovered that he will be able to
leave Asheville, N. c., by May l
and return to California, it was
announced today.
Young Hoover has spent the
winter at ASheville, while his
young children have been at the
White House.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
'Jake' Poison Victim
Files $4,000 Suit

LOS ANGELES, April l Q.N.SO.
Claiming that he became totally
paralyzed as the result of drink
ing a poison sold him instead of
Jamaica ginger, Thomas P. Kelly
today had a $4,000 damage suit
on file against the Chambers Drug
COMPANY.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
B.. and O. VIII Build Big
Station at SilUer Spring

tiOn of the Silver Spring section
of Montgomery county.
Land Is Acquired
The plans include provision for
ample auto parking space, with
"a garage for commuters, it was
said here today.
All land, except a few parcels,
necessary for the new project was
obtained about a year and half
ago, and it is understood the re-
quired additional property has
been acquired by the railroad
company within the past few
weeks. Thus the road is enabled
to formulate definite plans.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
SOURS ACCUSED
BY LURAY BOY

LURAY, Va, April donald
Jenkins, 13-year-old step-son of Ed
ward Turacker, World War vet
eran, VINO was slain several weeks
ago under mysterious circum-
stances, took the witness stand to-
day in the trial of Dave Sours
on a charge of murder and testi-
fled that the defendant had
made threats against Buracker'S
life.
Young Jenkins also testified as
to the finding of his step-father'S
body after he had been missing
(COntinued on Page 2, Col. s.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01

Abner Siegal, prominent Grim
inal lawyer, was released on bond
of $4,000 yesterday following his
arrest by Deputy Marshals John
j. Clarkson and C. Ceremeli on
a Commissioner warrant charg-
ing bribery of prison official.
H. S. Deane, the official named
in the warrant, is held blamelesS
by Department of Justice opera
tives who investigated the case.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Maclyn ArbuckIe,
STAGE Star, Is Dead

WADDINGTON, N. Y, April l
0.NSO O.-Maclyn Arbucklc, stage
and screen star and originator
of the expression, Nobody Loves
Fat Man." is dead at his home
here.
He had been i'll for four years
after a breakdown. He was born
in San Antonio, Tex.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Is Hurt In Traffic
Accidents in Month

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April l.
Sixteen persons were injured in
35 automobile accidents Whichr oc-
Cured here last month.
This is the largest number ever
reported for one month.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-12
Debts and Disarmament

Senate opposition to the Presidents proposal for re-
vival Of war debt commission to consider adjust
ment or revision of foreign debts reflects national
sentiment.
This issue is not to be confused with the separate
Hoover proposal for ratification Of the one-year debt
moratorium in operation since last summer There
virtually is opposition to that 1t will be ratified
though the Presidents refusal to call special session
of congress for the purpose has made action by Dec
Is impossible. There thus will be short technical
delay which, however, is Of no grave Importance.
On the other issue of actual debt revision or adj
justment, the President calls it, the senate very
wisely intends to look long time before leaping. 1t
is significant that the immediate opposition to the
Presidents plan comes from no one party or group,
but includes Republican regulars, progressives and
Democrats
Republican administrations have done so much for
so many years to muddle this situation that it now
is almost impossible for the public to get clear I'M
Outstanding of the facts. For more than ten years
the government tried to maintain the official fiction
that there was connection between war debts and
reparations Now, at last Hoover has admitted the
close connection. But he still maintains the fiction
regarding no cancellation.
AS matter OF fact We already have Cancelled
the debts from 25 to 80 cents on the dollar total
cancellation of about $7OOO00OOOO That $7OOOOoO-
600 does not grow trees it was to be paid bv the
hard-pressed American taxpayer, by the mortgage
ridden farmer by the wage-cut worker and the near
bankrupt business man.
When the American taxpayer consented to take
that $7000000000 load off the European taxpayer he
assumed that the European taxpayer was too poor to
pay for the luxies in the form of giant navies and
armies. But since that debt cancellation Europe has
gone on spending on ornaments. Those Euro
pean ornaments in effect, being paid for by the
American taxpayer. And in the case of Great Brit
tain, the American taxpayer not only is paying for
large British navy, but in turn, is paying more for
an American navy to compete with that larger Brit
ish navy.
We believe congress and the public would be
willing to cancel the remaining foreign debts or at
last reduce them, if such sacrifice by the American
taxpayer could be applied directly to Fastening
world prosperity and world disarmament But we
do not think there is any chance of the United
States cutting another penny from the foreign debt
IN order to boost European ornaments again.
When European nations cut armament extrava-
ganceS they can expect America to cut their debts
but not before.
We hope there will be speedy ratification of the
existing one-year moratorium but that no further
action regarding foreign debts will be taken until the
February disarmament conference dscloses the real
attitude of Americas debtors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-12
ThA EASY Wav

The postof1ce department has a deficit for the
year 1sSO31 of $146O0O0OO or about one-sxth of the
total treasury deficit.
Postmaster General Brown, seeking the easy way,
proposes emergency SO per cent increase in first
class non-loca postal rates Scent letter stamp for
the period of the depression, dropping back to 215
cent stamp after the hard times are over.
OF the deficit, the department assigns loss of
100000 annually to the mail shipping subsidies;
s1700OOOO to loss from air mail 100000 for publ
cations specially favored such religious, educa
Jonal agricultural, labor and blind matter; 100000
to the cost of franked matter.
While savings could not be made under the last
two categories, they could under the first two Much
criticism has been directed against the government
for its overly generous air mail contracts to alleged
monopoies To add cent to the postal rate for first
class mail would be a further subsidy for shipping
interests, now heavily favored by the taxpayers.
First class mail is the only class on a profitable
basis Good business does not dictate that the one
profitable branch of industry shall be overloaded
to carry the less profitable At least this should not
be done until every economy and reform is practiced
One suggestion for making money is that the depart
ment expand its parcel post business
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The Sunny Mr.. DOak


Secretary of Labor William N. Doak reveals him.
self Falstaf in politics by the bubbing good nature
of his annual report
depression with 100000 jobess, hunger marches
and bread lines? Tut, tut
"our own government is seemingly doing all it
cam within the limits of its authority and resources
to restore the conditions which existed in other and
more prosperous years." he says.
Star-chamber practices, illegal raids, warrantless
arrests yrannical and oppressive" methods in alien
deportations, as charged by the Wickersham commits
sion against his department? Three tuts!
"At this time, the humanization of the application
of the immigration laws has been accomplished"
he says
The need of an adequate federal-state employment
service? He boasts of his service which has failed
so completely to touch the problem.
The need of hating the useless sacrifice of babies
and mothers through enactment of maternity and
infancy case law?
'The depression through which passing
has given new emphasis to the Importance of COM
munity Cnote that provision for eliminating child
labor, preventing delinquency and dependency
and safeguarding the health of mothers and childrent
he says
Only once does he lose patience That is with
those ignorant immigrants. Aliens. seeking naturazs
ton, should have their ngerprnts taken and placed
upon their papers, he says
Otherwise I'VE have ample resources" I'VE feel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-12

killed another now has his chance
to pay the price"
You see. the fault lies so close to
our own home. The failure of the
criminal always is joint stock en-
terprise. We mark him as unfit to
live among civilized human beings,
but it follows logically that we were
lnept IN fitting this cog into the
machine we built. Repair shops
have been built for motors. but we
scrap men.
II 1t were compulsory for every
citizen to attend an execution once
a year we would be done with capi-
tai punishment. We-and 1 mean
all of us-are content to be hang
men because we walk softly and do
not talk of rope at our parties. We
neither see nor hear nor feel. damn
our eyes And damn our hearts and
heads and the life force within us.
too!
Out OF the all but eternal ages
comes a human being delicatelv
knit. Even though moronic. there
is the wisdom of the centuries in his
spinal column. God has Joined to-
gether cell and muscle. and this we
tear aSunder.
And I have come to think that
perhaps I have at last identified
That mysterious crime which wor-
RED me when was a child. This
supreme impudence of conduct well
may be the sin against the HOLY
Ghost.
Copyright. 1881. by The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-12
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ONCE little Edith Riley was found imprisoned in
~ closet in her home there has been started an
other barrage against the Stepmother.
She always has shared, along with the mother-ir-
law, the role of great American buggaboo And stories
ike this appear to justify all the traditions. Those
who have been reared fairy tales and witch leg
ends carry about with them awful visions of the sim
lister who, for cruelty revenge marries the
father of the innocents
Before we begin her defense, may we not point out
that if this Riley story of miStreatment is true, then
the father and not the stepmother should share the
larger responsibility for the crime?
AS child I always wondered at the miserable lack
of spirit exhibited by the father of HanSel and Grete
who, at the inStgation of his bad second wife, sent
his babies off to die in the great wood This aspect Of
the case however seldom lessened hatred for the
stepmother who has been used for a long time to
;ypfy the forces of evil
TSOR that reason, perhaps countless women have
led miserable lives at the hands of their adopted
families and their friends. Yet there is dSput-
ing the fact that there many good bad STEP
mothers in the world. I sure you have known
many such, as have.
The stepmother has a difficult job and it is made
often doubly hard by this silent but crushing antag-
oniSm that society holds against her. WckednesS is
expected to begin with. Unless she prerequisites
kindness and spoils the children she need not hope
for encouragement or commentator.
The use of a reasonable amount of common sense
in rearing her family means that she certainly will
be called harsh and even cruel
SO let us take of our hats to all the good step
mothers of the EARTH women who are to be found
in every locality and whose praises are sung too
infreuuently
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Medicine Has Conquered ROundworm
ALLY HEALTH SERVICE

into the soil they resist cold and
drying and in case they happen
to be present in water or on food
they are taken into the body.
When the eggs hatch the embryos
penetrate the walls Of the inteS-
tines, get into the blood and reach
the lungs. From the lungs. the
embryos pass to the air passages,
the throat and the stomach and
thus get into the intestines.
The worms spread more readily
under conditions of poor household
sanitation and bad personal hygiene.
It also is quite likely that the in
fected material is carried from one
place to another on shoes of human
beings and on the feet Of animals.
AS long as there are live female
worms in the intestines of the HUI
man being. the possibility of eggs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-12
What We Read

The cynical American who said that what scent
cigar needs is good country be answered by a
number of arguments to prove that this land has not
entirely gone to the dogs One answer is that Amer
leans now are reading good books.
This falls lists of best sellers contain little trash
Such books as Villa Gathers Shadows on the Rock
Galsworthy's Maid in Waiting" Wapole's Judith
Paris Shella Kaye-Smiths Susan Spray Pearl
Bucks THE Good Earth James TrusIow Adams
Epic of America" Stuart Chases Mexico" Dorseys
Mans One Show Civilization" and Adlers What
Life Should Mean to YOU" the Strawberry letters
and Steffens autobiography, Bertrand Russes "Sci-
enti1c Outlook and the two books on the national
political scene, Washington Merry Go Round" and
Mirrors of 1882" the many good biographies-these
indicate that men and women of the United States
thinking.