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The Washington times., 1932-11-03
Committees Named
BH Lions Club Here

Personnel of two standing com.
mittees was announced at a meet
ing Of the washington Lions Club
yesterday by Leonard w. DeGast,
president.
Committeeman n am d we're:
Program com mittee, George
Sharp, chairman; Chester Adams,
Walter Handy, Charles w. Hoover.
Norman B. Landreau, Chatham
Towers and Herbert Poole; men,
bership, DR.. George B. Tribe.
chairman: Henry Millard, Roger
Whiteford, George Sharp and
Charles w. Hoover.
The Washington times., 1932-11-03
Mrs. Leila T. Miller
Files DiDOrce SUiE

Leila T. Miller, of the first
block Of U st. N. w., yesterday
filed suit for an absolute divorce
from John F. Miller, of Chillurl,
in Circuit Court at Upper Mari.
boro. The wife charged desertion
in September, 1929. The couple
have two children, Betty, 9, anG
Robert, 10 years old.
The Washington times., 1932-11-03

DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess of temperature
since January /, 1882, T91 degrees.
Deficiency of temperature since No
vember /, 1882, / degree.
Accumulated excess Of precipitation
since January I, 1882, 4.23 inches,
Excess of precipitation since Novefn-
ber /, 1932, 1877 Inches.
TIDE TABLE
Today-High tides, 11:41 a. m. and
10 noon. Low. tides, G:06 a. M. and 6:19
D. m.
Tomorrow-High tides. 1910 =. m.
and 12;A p. m. Low tides, 1904 a. m.
and 1922 p. m.
THE Sun AND MOON
The sun rises today at 6:37 a. m.
and sets at 5 :O6 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow at 1888 a. m.
and sets at :05 p. m.
The moon rises today at 1925 p. m.
and sets at 9:46 p. m.
The moon rises tomorrow at 1904
p. m. and sets at 1857 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-11-03
NEIGABoRHOoD HOUSE

Arrangements have been com.
oleted for the celebration of the
;hlrty-first anniversary Of Neigh
oofhood House, 470 N st. S. W.,
Saturday from 10 q. m. to 10 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-11-03
The Weather

District OF Columbia Fair and con-
timed cold. with lowest temperature
i bout Is degrees and probably light
frost in exposed places tonight. Friday
fair. with rising temperature. Gentle
northeast, shifting to east and south
east, winds.
MaryIahd-Fair and continued cold,
with light frost, possibly heavy, in ex-
posed places in north portion tonight
Friday fair, with rising temperature.
Virzinia-Fair and continued cold,
probably light frost in exposed places
in interior tonight. Friday, fair, with
rising temperature.
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The Washington times., 1932-11-03

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The Washington times., 1932-10-18
Einstein's View of Worlds
Age Goes Undisputed

NEW HAVEN, Oct. 18 UN.S0 q.
Prof. Albert Einstein's estimate
of the earth's age as 10000
100000 years is not in essential
disagreement with the estimates
now held by other geologists
and physicists, Prof. A. F..
Kovarik, of Sloan Laboratory,
Yale University, said here today.
DR.. Einstein announced his
estimate in Berlin at a popular
lecture.
Prof. Kovsrik said geologists
are in general agreement that
the age of the earth's crust is
from 1,85O,OO0,0O0 to 1000, ,00o, 900
years. The lower figure was
set with great accuracy by a
chemicai-statistical study of the
amount of disintegration in
radioactive substances in the
earth's crust.
These radioactive minerals,
from some of which radium is
produced, disintegrate atomically
at certain fixed rates. BY
figuring the total amount of
the o-active substance
through examination and study
Of the disintegrated fractions Of
any isolated deposit, 1t was
found that at least 1850, 900, 900
years would have been required
for the formation of the dis
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
MOONEY OPENS
POSTAL MEET

Postmaster william E. Mooney
delivered the welcome address at
the opening of the annual con-
vention of the National League of
District Postmasters at the Will
lard Hotel today.
E. A. Meeks, of Nicholas, Ga,
league president, responded.
More than 600 members are at
tending.
Delegates from Maryland, Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania elected
State officers yesterday. w. C..
Dempsey was reelected president
of the Maryland group, R. l..
Griffith, president of the Virginia
group, and o. K. Beach, pres
ident of the Pennsylvania group.
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
ADVISERS
END PARLEY

The legal advisory council of
the Veterans Administration
opened its second session of its
two-day conference today with
Gen. James A. Drain. Of Spokane,
Wash, presiding.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, admins
traitor of veterans affairs, in
vited attention of the council
to problems confronting the ad-
ministration with particular ref
erence to the enormous growth
of litigation in the courts in con-
nection with war risk insurance
suits.
Those present at the conference
were Joe Mcqueen, Kansas City;
Bruce w. Sanborn, st. Paul;
Hazen I. Sawyer, Keokuk, Iowa:
Theodore Stitt, Brooklyn. and
Paul c. Wolman, Baltimore,
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
COUNTY DRIVES
ON v|OLATORS

A campaign against oil and
gasoline companies alleged to
have persistently violated the law
requiring them to obtain permits
before they erect signs was
opened today by @. A. Adams,
Prince Georges county building
inspector.
Adams said that verbal notice
to the offenders had failed to
produce any results and that he
now intended to give them a 10
day written notice. At the ex-
piration Of that period, he de-
clared, he will proceed to swear
out warrants for the guilty
parties unless they have taken
down their signs or obtained per-
mits. The penalty for the Of.
tense is a fine of $500 or a jail
sentence of 80 days or both for
each violation.
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
H:SSirMcOtine
NOw as Women
Puff dndPuH

BOSTON, Oct. 18 UN.S0.
Women of the United States are
smoking more cigarettes than
men, Christopher S. Stephano
said today.
He should know, for the Phila-
delphian is head of one of the
big Turkish tobacco combines.
He said:
"Only a few years ago, it was
not considered good form for
women to smoke. Today, they
dominate the cigarette indus
try. The figures are in my Of
flee in Philadelphia"
Smoking among women, said
Stephano, is not confined to a
certain class, or age, but from
working girl to society deb, and
from f6 to go.
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
P.-T.A. Campaigning
For NeU Loan Fund

Proposing to devote 30 per cent
Of membership dues to a stu
dent loan fund, the Parent
Teacher Association of Central
High School is conducting a
membership campaign this week.
The fund, established last year,
is found inadequate. The stu
dent loan committee is composed
of DR.. John C. Eckhardt, preSi-
dent of the association; r. M.
Ferguson, Major Julius 1. Peyser,
Mrs. Bertha Saunders and DR..
Harvey A. Smith.
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
SCHOOL FUND TALK

Mrs. Alexander Macdonald, of
Linden, and member of the Sill
yer Spring High School faculty,
will speak on "The Value of a
Scholarship Fund for the Silver
Spring High School" to members
Of the Woodside Home Interest
Club at their meeting tomorrow
afternoon
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
Fall Foliage at Its
Peak in Public Parks

Brilliancy Of fall foliage in the
public parks has reached its peak.
Areas where interested persons
can find unusual autumn splen-
dor are Rock Creek Park, West
Potomac Park, the Rock Greek
and Potomac Parkway, the Mall
and the Mt. Vernon Highway.
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
Young Democrats Set
For 'VictOrU BGLP

The victory ball Of the Prince
Georges County Young Mems
Democratic Club will be held at
the Beaver Dam Country CLUB,
November 3, Walter L. Green,
chairman of the social committee,
announced today. All prominent
county Democratic leaders will be
invited, he said.
The Washington times., 1932-10-18

integrated products. DR.. Kovarik
said:
"This method of estimating
the age of the earth's crust,
however, only tells us how
long the planet has existed in
q cool enough state to permit
sOlidification of the outer
surface"
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
40 CHICKENS STOLEN

Forty chickens were stolen
from the hen house of Mrs. c..
L. Bladen, Bashford's Lane, Alex
andria, according to a report she
made to the police.
The Washington times., 1932-10-18
CHURCH DINNER

The annual kick off" dinner
of the Takoma Park Presbyterian
Church Brotherhood Club is to
be held Thursday evening in the
church, it has been announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
TIPS
FAIL TO
PRODUCE
Lindbergh kidnapping Is
Still Complete Mystery
To Authorities.
CLUES FALL FLAT
New Leads Given Police
Prove To Be Entirely
Worthless.

HOPEWELL, N. j., March II.
U.P)-State police reported today
new encouragement and the blast
ing of what had seemed three
promising leads to the kidnapers
of little Charles Augustus Lind
bergh, jr.
The forenoon bulletin to the
press was entirely negative. Col.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, from the
Lindbergh home, tersely acknowl-
edged the failure of three more of
the Scant stock of leads which po-
lice have unearthed in their in
vestigation of the kidnapping.
G. Leandro Lightfoot of Frank
lin Park, N. j., reported that he
had found the chisel which had
been missing from his tool chest
and which police thought might
have been used by the kidnapers.
Col. Schwarzkopf, while not defi-
nitely abandoning the evidence of
fered by Lightfoot, indicated he
did not consider this lead of great
Importance.
Lightfoot had reported his two
German servants disappeared the
night of the kidnapping under pc
culiar circumstances.
The hope that the baby held in
Creston, Ia, might be the missing
Lindbergh baby, was definitely
disproved by Colonel Schwarzkopf
The lark blue" sedan clue was
also reported as a dead trail Po-
lice having heard that a sedan
with New York license plates and
carrying four men and had been
seen in suspicious maneuvers at
Donnellan the day before the kid
naping, discovered that the car
and the men had been seen there
repeatedly since.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
M<& R1a<.
a isss. hsNsusht syndlssss. hs
INDEPENDENCE OF
GREAT BRITAIN
IS irish GOAL

DUBLIN, March IT. U.P)-The
18th century of the landing of st.
Patrick in Ireland found the gov
ernment of the Irish Free State to-
day pledged to the establishment
Of an Irish republic"
Eamon de Valera, Republican
leader and president Of the execu-
tive council, told foreign press rep
resentatives in the first interview
since his election that an Irish re-
public was his goal but that he
did not propose to denounce i'm
mediately the existing treaty with
Great Britain.
Previously, at a private meeting
of the Republican Fianna Fail
party, De Valera had said that the
removal of the oath of allegiance
to the British crown would be the
first business considered when the
new dial reconvenes.
Removal of the oath will be a
purely domestic matter, De Valera
said, and he did not propose to en-
ter into negotiations with Britain
obOuU ~ i1io Pel W 10 PiCdSCo w
remove the oath from the Free
State constitution.
De Valera said the government
proposed to suspend operation of
the public safety act at the next
dali meeting The act was estab-
lished by the government of Will
liam T. Cosgrave to curb political
terrorism. After suspending oper-
alton of The act, the government
plans complete repeal.
Land annuities will be withheld
from Britain, De Valera said, be-
cause they are not legally DUE"
He contended it was up to the
British government to prove the
contrary.
The government aims ultimately
to asSimilate the governor general,
representing the British crown, with
the presidency of the Free State,
De Valera said, but added, I'VE had
no mandate from the people for
that at the last election" This in
dicated further developments in the
assimilation would be submitted to
popular vote, possibly through dali
elections.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
DOCTOR STARVING SELF AS
PROTEST ON UNEMPLOYMENT

WASHINGTON, March II.
U.P)-Dr. Frederic +. Walter,
Ma, MA, Ltd, is starving
himself. He says it will con-
tinuc until death, as a protest
against general unemployment
conditions.
Doctor Walter has not taken
food for Is days, since Febru-
ary %. He is 81 years old and
hopes his self-imposed fast will
call attention to the plight of
men of high scholastic attain
ments who are unable to find
work.
Fearing that he would be
considered insane when news
of his fast became public,
Doctor Walter had himself ex-
amined by DIR. Samuel A. Silk
of the staff of st. Elizabeth's
hospital.
81 could not regard Walter
as insane although he may be
abnormal in some respects"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
MEXICAN TROOPS
CALLED OUT BY
ELECTION RIOT

MEXICO CITY, March II. (U.P(-
The newspaper Universal reported
today that federal troops were
called out after one person was in
jured seriously and several others
slightly at Cuidad Madero, state of
Tamaulipas, in clashes between
supporters of Parties Gil and
Villa Real, opposing candidates in
the gubernatorial campaign.
VERA CRUZ, Mex, March II
U.Py-Ships were sent from Puerto,
Mex, today to assist the Nor
wegian steamer Gansfjord, a
banana boat from Mobile, which
went aground Sunday west of
zapotitlan. 1t could not communi-
cate with other ships until it was
sighted by the steamer Juan Fer
nando. The ship was not believed
in danger.
MEXICO, City, March II. U.RE-
The Federation of Industrial
Chambers of Commerce today sug-
gested governmental representa-
tives to Washington protesting the
one cent duty on petroleum i'm
ports which the federation said
would kill Mexican export to the
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
Crew OF Fishing
Vessel Rescued

NORFOLK, Va, March II. U.PD-
The master and crew of the fishing
schooner Ruth Mildred were
brought safely ashore today from
their craft which caught fire and
burned to the waters edge last
night.
Other vessels from the fishing
fleet operating out of Hampton,
Va, went to the Ruth Mildred's
assistance Immediately after the
fire broke out. Half an hour after
the fire began, the master of the
Ruth Mildred and her crew of five
were taken aboard the schooner
Ariel which came into port this
morning.
The Ruth Mildred caught fire
about rs miles east by south of
Chesapeake lightship off the en-
trance to Chesapeake bay. The
passing tank Sunoil reported the
fire to the coast guard. which dis
patched three cutters to the vi
cinity. One of these cutters
reached the location at dawn and
reported no Wreckage in sight.
Meantime the Ruth Mildred's crew
was being taken safely ashore BY
the Ariel
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
Report Airplane
To Have Crashed
On Mountain Top

Searching forces mObilizcd
swiftly this afternoon as sec
ton foreman for the San Diego
and Arizona railroad reported
to authorities that he saw an
airpIane nose into Sugar Loaf
mountain about / o'clock today,
and feared the plane had
crashed on the rocky peak.
A hasty checking up dis
closed all planes of the Century
Pacific lines accounted for.
One pilot, leaving for San
Diego Immediately after the
crash was reported, was in
structcd to look for the sup
posed wreckagc.
A department of commerce
inspector in one plane, and a
navy ship were sent into the
air to search the neighbOrhOOd
about Sugar Loaf mountain
from the air, while Undersher-
iff Rodney Clarke and Lloyd
Castanien, deputy, speeded to
the mountain by automobile to
conduct a search of the ground.
Hurried efforts to find any
report of missing airplane
were fruitless. The plane may
have been a private one, flying
from San Diego or some north
ern field, il was believed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
ROOSEVELT HAS
LARGE MAJORITY
in PRIMARY RACE

BISMARCK, N. D., March II.
U.Pl-A United Press tabulation of
votes from 1178 North Dakota pre-
cincts today gave Gov. Franklin
d. Roosevelt of New York a COM
manding majority in the Demo-
cratic presidential preference pri-
mary over his Oklahoma opponent,
Gov William II. alfalfa Bill
Murray.
The vote, as reported TO the
United Press from more than hall
of the states 2192 precincts, was:
Roosevelt, 29,967; Murray, 17,261;
majority, 12,7O6.
The first test of the New York
executive against the grass roots"
candidacy of Murray indicated
strong Roosevelt sentiment even il
rural sections of this wheat grow
ing state which had been counted
as favorable to the Oklahoma
governor.
The independent Republican
delegation to the Chicago conven-
tion which is expected to support
President Hoover was apparently
elected as was William Stern, Re-
publican national committeeman,
favorable to the President.
The Republican preference pri-
mary to which small interest was
attached apparently returned for
mer Sen. Joseph Orwin France Of
Maryland, victor over General
Jacob S. Coxey of Massillor, o.
The preference vote is not bind
ing on delegates to the party
convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
RECEIVERS FOR
MORTGAGE FIRM
LOSE POSITIONS
Further Investigation To
Be Made In Connection
With Gifts.

LOS ANGELES, March II. U.P)-
Two receivers for the American
Mortgage comapny, a defunct $18,-
100000 corporation, today had been
succeeded by w. w Mines, a prom
inent real estate man, as another
step in an investigation of alleged
gifts and loans to several superior
judges of Los Angeles.
Charles F. Allison and A. P. Sho-
walter, original receivers of the
mortgage company were dismissed
at special session of court called
last night by Superior Judge Walter
S. Gates.
Judge Gates declared there was
mo evidence of criminal intent"
on the part of Allison and Showal-
ter, but that he did see indications
of gross mismanagement'
The investigation so far has
brought assertions that Allison gave
suits of clothes to Judges Caryl M.
Sheldon and Walter Guerin, and
! that the receiver advanced a small
loan with which Judge Daley Staf-
ford paid a department store charge
account.
1t also was charged by Frank C.
Mortimer, federal receiver, that
strangers attempted to bribe friends
to proposition" him on certain
matters pertaining to the receiver
ship. When the propositions
were turned down, according to
Mortimer, a mysterious shot shat
tered a window pane of a neigh
bor'S house. The federal receiver
said the neighbor resembled him
and had been seated at the window
/ few seconds before the shot was
fired.
| The names of Rev. r. P. Flight
ing Bob" Shuier and the Rev. Gus
tav A. Briegleb also were brought
into the case. Shuler declared that
loan his wife accepted from Alli-
son was Legitimate" and was
backed by the proper collateral.
Rev. Briegleb said that checks
sent to him by Allison were in full
fillment of a $100 pledge made by
the receiver to Rev. Briegleb's S
church building fund.-
Rev. Shuler also admitted that
Allison had supported him with a
small sum of money in the minis
ters campaigns for the U. S. senate
A $100 reward for the selection of
a campaign slogan was paid by
Allison, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
Lengthy Bath
Is Profitable

LONDON, March II. UP
Nathan Maissell, a retired
diamond merchant, has just
spent six months in a bath.
Maissell was worried because
a newspaper had stated that
there had been 100000 acci-
dents to people in baths. He
was more worried when soon
after he had one himself.
So he decided to do some
thing about it. Every day,
except for meals, he has spent
in his bath. The results of
his experiments, after spend
ing nearly S3500, are a nom
slip rubber bath base, a soft
rubber seat and back rest, and
a spongy rubber pillow. An
adaptable chin rest is fixed
to the pillow for bathers sub
ject to fainting fits.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
GERMANY
THWARTS
PLOT TING
PruSSian Police Head Off
Alleged Civil War Plans
OF Hitlerites.
EVIDENCE CAPTURED
Mobilization Of Big Army
To Seize Government Is
Frustrated.

BERLIN, March IT, W.P)-Prus-
quarters and branches today on in
formation alleging that the Nazis
planned to mobilize their storm
oattalions for civil war.
An official Prussian government
statement said the raids we're in
tended to Illustrate Fascist prepar-
ations to grasp power by violence.
The raids were made through all
Prussia by the efficient Prussian
police force. The Nazis had hoped
to control that police force by WIN
ming control of the PrusSian diet
in the April "a elections.
The search was ordered by the
Prussian ministry of the interior.
Defeat of the Nazi leader, Adolf
Hitler, in the presidential election,
and rumors of an attempted Fas-
cist coup published abroad, pre-
ceded the raids.
Hitler was defeated Sunday by
President Paul Won Hindenburg in
sensational election, with the vet
cram soldier-statesman piling up
record vote but not a clear major
ity.
The Paris newspaper lie Matin
today published what was purported
to be a circular distributed secret
ly from Hitler's headquarters at
Munich, before the presidential
election. The circular outlined plans
to seize power in Germany by force
if Hitler was beaten for the pres
idency
The finals or runoff election had
been set for April 10 with Won Hin
denburg and Hitler the contestants.
According to the alleged Nazi
plans published by LIE Matin, the
Fascists had a force of $4,000
storm troops They were ready
to be moved to any part of Ger
many. The Nazi heavy transport
corps was instructed to maintain
wagons and trucks in good condi-
ton, ready for action
Orders Quoted
lie Matin charged that men
trained to handle machine guns
would join the Nazi general staff
and regional groups Immediately.
The newspaper alleged the Nazis
were ready to have an important
military force in any part of Ger
many within 48 hours.
The Paris newspaper quoted the
alleged secret orders as stating:
I'm the event that Hitler is not
elected, chiefs of the storm cectionS
shall order their men to remain
tranquil and avoid provoking men,
bers of the opposition parties.
During 1882, Hitler will certainly
assume power. If the legal method
is impossible, force will be en-
ployed."
LIE Matin further quoted from
the alleged Nazi orders
THE storm troops reserves will
seize various public services, in
cluding posts, telephones and tele-
graphs and will occupy town halls.
The technical corps will destroy
railway lines leading to military
garrlsons six hours after they re-
ceive their orders"
There we're numerous reports
during the presidential campaign
that the Nazis planned violence
They were denied emphatically by
Hitler.
Never at any time has ou1
Continued On Page q
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
SOVIET PLACES
BAN ON INFLUX
OF FOREIGNERS
BY EUGENE LYONS
United Press Staff Correspondent


MOSCOW, March II. - The So
Wet government banned lone way
tourist tickets to Russia today in
an effort to end the influx of
Americans and other foreigners
who arrive as visitors and remain
as workers or at the expense of
charity.
1t was ruled officially that for
eigners who came in as tourists and
are working here would be allowed
to remain, thus avoiding wholesale
exodus. But no others will be ad-
mitted without round trip tickets
or unless their plans to work here
have been endorsed officially in
advance.
Existing regulations prohibited
tourists from accepting jobs al
though enforcement of the ruling
has been very lax. There are many
Americans and other foreigners
here in desperate circumstances.
The Americans plight is more
serious than that of hundreds of
Germans and others. They are
thousands of miles from home, and
have no consular protection be-
cause there are no diplomatic re-
lations between the countries.
Many of the Americans had been
unable to find work here and sub
sisted on charity. The shortage of
hotel accommodations made the
plight of the stranded foreigners
worse. Some were forced to sleep
eight or 10 in one room.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17
Approve Plan For
Improving Bay

WASHINGTON, March II. U.HJ-
Secretary of War Hurley today
transmitted to congress a favor
able report by Major Gen. Lytle
Brown, chief of army engineers, on
a half million dollar project of the
improvement of lower San Francis
co bay and the Guadalupe river,
California. Government sanction
of the project was made condition
al on local cooperation.
Brown reported that the engi-
neers approved of channel
through San Bruno Shoals 500 feet
wide and 27 feet deep and also
channel 300 feet wide and 27 feet
deep from Dumbarton Point to the
mouth of the Guadalupe river. The
project also provides for turning
basin 600 feet wide, 1900 feet long
and 30 feet deep at the lower end
of the channel.