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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-22
Skillful RaiIroading

A thrilling race between the fore
and hind quarters Of freight train
took place on steep gradient near
London, England, after the train
broke in two. The engineer, fearing
that the last half would crash into
the front part and derail it, immedi-
ately put on speed, and for four miles
there followed breath-taking race
to prevent crash. Finally, the dere-
lict cars came to standstill on
level part of the track and the engine
backed and hooked them on again.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-22

Duelists Barred From Office in Many States

lenges to duels. To prevent scandals
of this kind at least during their terms
of office, many of the states passed
laws against dueling, some inserting
these prohibitions in their state consti-
tutions and oaths of office.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-22

than that of oats, pound for pound.
Leaving machinery standing out
doors increases farm expense and cuts
down profit.
All beds for new planting should be
prepared as soon as possible. The soil
should be spaded deep and left in a
well pulverized condition.
Wisconsin's wool clip of 1881 was
100000 pounds, or 31s per cent less
than in 1880. There were 425,0O0
sheep shorn last season, 5000 less than
the year before.
During the past IA years the num-
Der of horses in the United States fell
from 21,555,00O in 1918 to 12679,0OO
in 1882.
If temperature and other factors are
the same, plant grows faster az
night than in the daytime; the differ
ence may be considerable.
With fertile soil at least 20 bushels
of potato seed may be used profitably
to the acre, using one and one-half
ounce pieces spaced 10 to IL inches
in the row.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-22
Agricultural Hints

The feeding value of barley is higher
than that of oats, pound for pound.
.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-22

Leaving machinery standing out
doors increases farm expense and cuts
down profit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20

NEXT: Hoover and Foreign Re-
latiOns, Tariff, Debts and other
issues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20
SUCCESS FAILURE WHICH Is HOOVER?
Republicans Contend; Weak, Unfit, RiUals Say

public works, Hoover created the
Arthur Woods unemployment COM
mittee to serve as a clearing house
for information and advice on I'M
employment relief.
THAT was succeeded by the more
IL ambition committee headed by
Walter S. Clifford, which put on a
high pressure campaign last year
to stimulate private charity and
other private effort.
Cahrity relief undoubtedly would
have been much smaller had it not
been for the efforts of Clifford, Owen
D. Young and others recruited for
tina task.
More recently, after the Demo-
Gratis had come forth wit han I'M
employment relief program and it
appeared that neither private char
ity. local effort or a business up
turn, could be depended upon full,
the President relented somewhat in
the face of greater emergency.
Denouncing proposals for federal
construction bond issues as pork
barrel" legislation, he supported the
proposals to allot $300,000,oO0 of Re-
construction Finance funds 2 to
guarantee direct relief loans to
states and $1,500,0O0,0Oo of such
funds for income producing con-
struction projects.
Those administration proposals
now can be cited by Republican
orators in the campaign.
copyright. 1882. NEA Service. Incl
NEXT: Hoover and Foreign Re-
latiOns, Tariff, Debts and other
issues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20

But here again Hoover and others
may be credited with bolstering the
economic structure at critical
moment.
A S early as in his message to
L n congress last December, Hoover
was urging that the budget be
balanced. He even opposed in
creasing the billion-d dollar veterans
appropriations while the depression
was on.
He had gone to the American Le-
gion convention at Detroit to throw
his influence against demand for
cashing bonus certificates, and has
vetoed veteran and pension bills
with strong messages.
His messages to congress urging
economies and speed on the tax bill
have attracted much support over
the country, as have his requests for
authority for government reorgani-
zation, although Democrats have
charged that he would not be spe-
cif1c and tell just what he wanted.
He appeared before the senate
just as it was about to pass the tax
bill, urging prompt budget balanc-
ing and suggesting the sales tax be
adopted, but the bill was passed
without a sales tax.
Farm relief was one of the very
first problems to which Hoover
turned his attention. Inaugurated in
March, 1929, he called a. special SEES
sion of congress, beginning in April,
to provide farm relief and limited
tariff revision"
Congress passed his farm pro-
gram-the agricultural marketing
act creating the federal farm board
with it's $5O0,0O0,0O0 revolving fund
and instructions to build up an eff
fective marketing system.
HOOVER consistently has OPP
4 l. posed and vetoed such ad-
vanced measures as the equalization
fee and export debenture plans,
designed to handle drop SURPRISES
and give farmers the benefit of the
tariff by artificial methods.
The farm board, judging by
present prices, has lost a couple of
hundred million dollars through,
loans and by buying up wheat and
cotton to stabilize the markets.
Farm prices have tobogganed to
their lowest levels.
Yet it is widely believed that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20

About year ago, after Hoover S
prospects Of reelection had reached
perhaps their lowest ebb, it seemed
as if break might come, when he
announced his moratorium plan for
war debts and reparations.
The whole world cheered then.
Hoover was its hero. Stocks and
other prices moved up. Republic
ans shrieked with delight. Demo-
Gratis despaired.
Hoover, in advance, carefully had
lined up most of their leaders in
support of the debt-reparations
holiday.
But in about a month the "re
covery" had turned out to be a
false alarm and We were sliding
downhill again, although it seemed
as if the moratorium had averted
some extremely serious events.
XXTHEN the present congress as
w sembled last December with
the Democrats in control of the
house, the President was ready with
an extensive program of recon
Struction."
Already he had assembled bankers
who agreed to form a credit pool to
support banks and theoretically in
turn enable them to extend credit to
commerce and industry.
The Presidents program as pre-
sented to congress called for a new
finance corporation designed to boil
ster banks, railroad companies, in
surance companies and other cor
porations which appeared to be
threatened by frozen assets, credit
stringency or both; for changes in
the federal reserve law, which would
give still further liquidity to bank
assets and help remove threats
against the gold standard caused by
foreign gold Withdrawals and addi-
tional capital for the Federal Land
Bank system.
Despite Democratic control, both
parties generally co-operated on the
Hoover program and we have new
credit structure of which the main
pillars are the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and the Glass
Steagall act.
The chief obvious effect has been
sharp drop in the number of bank
failures, Of which there already had
been thousands and which had been
on the increase.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20

farm board saved many co-opera-
tives and farmers from bankruptcy
when it temporarily held prices
above world levels until crops were
disposed of.
Demands for unemployment re-
lief have been constant for the last
two years and Mr.. Hoover was con-
sistent in his OPPOSITION to direct
federal aid and insistent on pre-
servation of THE American system
of individual initiative and in
dividual and community response
bility."
He denounced "the dole" He
vetoed the Wagner bill for federal
aid employment agencies.
After the first increase of federal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20
ASK CITIZENS
COk.SInE
IN TAX FIGHT
Legislature Group Cites
Efforts to Slash
Expenses.

Appeal for patriotic, nonpartisan
consideration by intelligent citizens
to the vital questions facing the
legislature" at the special session
july T was made TO-DAY in the name
OF the senate and house co-opera-
ti-c co-.T.i.tec-
The appeal accompanied an an
ncanccmrh5 IRON a subcommittee
he, dcd by Senator Joe Rand
Beckett which declared that bills
for taxation economy. based on the
fourteen point program of the joint
committee, arc prepared, and being
studied by the subcommittee.
Bills Will Be Ready
The bills embody changes touch
ing all governmental spending agen-
cies within the state, designed to
open the way for a $45,000,000 to
$50,000000 reduction in public ex-
penditures," Beckett asserted.
These bills will be in final form
ready for passage when the legis-
lature convenes, he said.
Other members of the sub-com-
mittee to which they have been as
signed for review are Senator ].
Francis Lcchard, Milan, and Rep
resentatives DELPHI McKesson, Ply
mouth. and William c. Babcock Jr.,
Rensselaer,.
AicKcsson and Lochard are Demo-
Gratis and Beckett and Babcock, Re-
publicans.
Two Other Steps Needed
This is the first step in any tax
remedial effort" Beckett explained.
LAS the senate-house cooperative
committee visions the emergency
tax relief needed by the people at
this time, there are two other steps.
Second, the active interest Of
the mass of citizens in actual tax
reduction, as opposed to continuance
of the present inflated level of gov
ernmental costs, and third, the ac-
tive, wholehesrted cooperation of
public officials who must take adj
vantage of present opportunities to
cut costs and capitalize the new
avenues Of reduction, which will be
opened If the general assembly car
ries out the point cooper
ativc program.
The program does not touch
upon the important subject of poor
relief, which is a matter of admin
istration of almost equal promi-
nence with the subject of taxation
relief.
Ask for Consideration
This subject best can be ap-
preached by those organizations
which have had experience in and
have made a particular study of
this large and distressing problem.
I'VE appeal for patriotic, nom
partisan approach by intelligent
citizens to the vital questions fac
ing the legislature in this special
session and for calm and unbiased
consideration of the proposals in
this joint legislative program, which
comes from men of experience in
legislative matters and from
well-deflned sentiment throughout
the state"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20
MISHAP CAUSES ARREST

Boat Overturns; Swimmer Goes
Home in Cab; No Cash; Call Cops.
By United Press
NEW YORK, June 20. - Robert
Wheeler went to Jail because his
motor boat overturned.
Wheeler was swimming in Long
Island sound when it happened.
He swan to shore and took a
taXicab to his home. Nobody was
home.
His keys and money were in his
suit in the overturned boat.
The taxi driver turned Wheeler
over to the police for not paying
his fare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20

This is The FIRST Of three stories by
Rodney butcher. Washington correspond
ent for The Times and NEA Service.
presenting an impartial review NJ Her
bert Hoover's record a. president and
outlining the issues upon which he seeks
reelection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20

DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES
TO STATE CONVENTION
EAT HERE
Evening star., 1932-01-26
Prague Pawnshops Prosper.

Business is liyelier than in some
years at the pawnshops in Prague
Czechoslovakia, where pawnbroking is
a government function. On the average
$4,000 objects are being pawned month
ly for about Sl50,000, while article,
valued at about $4,000 are redeemed
each month. Unredeemed goods or
hand in the two government pawnshops
are valued at nearly 81 900 900.
Evening star., 1932-01-26
This Is Cricket in Tonga

Back in London from the Pacific
Islands, Comdr. Sereld Hay points one
Of his lectures with the story of a
cricket game he witnessed in Tonga. A
native batsman knocked a ball into the
top Of a cocoanut tree. 1t could not be
reached by climbing and before an ax
could be obtained and the tree felled
the weary and psrspiring batsman has
made 81 runs,
Evening star., 1932-01-26

Across
/. Pack down.
S. Pat.
10 Soil lump.
IA Musical composition.
IS. Rustic.
Is. Pelt.
IT. Dregs Of wine casks.
18 Turkish decree.
19. Soon.
20. Army water flask.
%. Room appendant to church.
"a Sea eagle.
26. Magnificent.
27. Vote
80. Portable lights
34 Unit.
35. Shiny cloth.
81. Prim.
SO. Tail South American Indian. q.
80. A fundamental.
~. Recline.
43. Bird abode.
As Afghanistan ruler.
46 Night before holiday.
Al. Practice.
So To sway.
So. Boring implement.
3 Color
54 Hair wave.
ST. TO take form.
81 Funeral rite.
81 Basket willow.
65. Govern.
Sc Kind of voice.
81 Rowed.
6s Indian tribe.
So Never: poetic.
10. Stalks.
IL Molds.
The Washington times., 1932-08-06

WagglSh enter
tainment. It is
one of those
wild comedy
yarns without
rhyme or rea-
son, with every
body acting Just
a little bit
Zy. Jack
Oakie and w.
C. Fields are
the I e q I u req
lunaticS in a
S tory tn a t
sounds like one
of Grou c h o
The Washington times., 1932-08-06
Chevy Chase Has
Newton Piano Art

Many Washngtonians remember
JACK Newton as the popular piano
player at all the great high
school dances and many of the
evening functions of the years
between 1912 and 1919.
After leaving Washington Jack
spent many successful years as
an entertainer of class and dis
tlnction. He enjoyed popular
runs at the Gateway Cafe in
ocean City, N. j., and at other
places Of music and mirth in At
lantic City, Cape May, and AS
bury Park. He was later featured
IN vaudeville tour of the entire
country by Brooke Johns.
At present Jack Newton Is the
manager at Chevy Chase Lake,
which this summer is one of the
most popular dance resorts around
Washington.
The dance music at Chevy
Chase Lake is furnished by
Barnes Thompson and his radio
Ambassadors, and genial Jack
Newton entertainS his hosts of
friends by playing the piano dur
ing the intermission between
dances.
The Washington times., 1932-08-06
All In q Day
-By-
MARK HELLINCER
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.

NEW YORK, Aug. B.
D "An right Let him 60"
In the entrance the kitchen Frank heard the words
they fell careesy from the lips of the restaurant owner
His eyes closed. He shivered.
Surely it WASH his fault that the dishes had fallen from
his tray True his hands weren't steady they might
have been-but they had given him greasy tray.
The cook walked in. He seemed highly annoyed.
The Washington times., 1932-08-06
Record Painting
Draws Crowds

Pantheon de Ia Guerre," the
largest painting in the world,
now on exhibition at the Pano-
rama Building for a limited
period has established itself as
one of the show places of Wash
ington.
The name Pantheon" was
we'll chosen for this great work
OF art. 1t is from the Greek
and signifies temple or memo
rial to all the immortals of the
World War. Time has changed
the faces Of many of those still
surviving who appear on this
great canvas; we see them as
they were when the war was
still raging.
To the American spectators it
is of especial interest to COM
pare the pictures as they were
then of such men as Mr.. Hoover,
Mr.. McAdoo, Mr.. Baker, Mr..
Daniels and others with their
appearance now.
Six thousand life-size portraits
OF World War heroes and lead
ers appear IN the foreground
OF the great painting, with a
correct landscape of the battle.
1ieIdS OF France and Belgium as
they appeared in 1914-1918. The
magnificent painting deserves to
enjoy full measure of praise and
patronage.
The Washington times., 1932-08-06
Caynor-FarreII
Film Held Over

A sweet story that starts at the
altar and tells the story of
welded bliss during the first II
months, Frank Craven'S famous
stage play, The First Year." has
entered it's second week at Loew's
Palace.
And without a doubt. it is pe-
cause of it's stars, the two dar-
lingS of the screen, Janet Gay
nor and Charles Farrell, that it
has been held over.
Janet and Charlie encounter all
the trials of the first year and do
it with an innocence and charm
characteristic of themselves.
All goes well with Tommy
fuckers, as the story goes, until
Mrs. Tommy prepares an elabor-
ate dinner for a big shot business
man and then-whan1-the col.
ored maid, who washes better
than she serves, brings out the
cocktailS-bathtub gin!
But Tommy makes a lot Of
money and as the curtain rings
down, a blessed event is in the
offing.-JAB.
The Washington times., 1932-08-06

hands. he had gaZed at the 20
ledgers in front of him; each
page filled with the neat figures
that marked the patient spirit
of the man who had written
them. He knew that night, as
he realized now, that the last
page had been written. Except,
perhaps, for a few entries on
the red side.
The Sad Finish
OF course he had made the
rounds. Agencies. Offices,
Municipal employment bureaus.
How old was he? Almost so
now. Tch, tch, tch. Too bad.
A little too old to be sent any
where, really. Sorry.
For the last six months he
had slept in flop houses. He
had panhandled and stood for
long, weary hours in breadlines.
Every once in so often, a small
job that ended in failure. Only
an inherent religious fear kept
him from suicide.
Frank arose from the bench.
What was the use of going into
further thoughts of the endless
phrase? He had a dollar in his
pocket now. That would keep
him for a day or so. A week
or so. A month or so.
Winter passed. Winter with
all it's agony Of hunger and
misery. And spring arrived.
Spring with all it's beauty,
ironically bringing new life to
almost everything but Franks
wasted frame. For the man
lay dying in a city hospital.
And what would you have me
give you now? A happy end
ing? Should we have Frank
recover, find a job and settle
down to a happy, old age?
Well, I'm sorry--but I can't
do it. This happens to be a
S1lCC VI 11C. AI1O 4OI CNCAJ
handshake it extends, life makes
things even by giving some
one else a kick in the pants.
Frank died-and in his case,
death was welcome. For the
man had been patiently await
ing the last call.
So it was that, just as the
flowers were Springing into love
illness, Frank took the exit cue
and passed on. Just another
unknown. unclaimed bum who
was marked for burial by the
city in that curious hand
maiden of Fate-Potter's Field.
They were preparing to lower
the rough box. Two hefty
gravediggers lifted the box over
the six-foot hole. And as they
swung it to the center of the
opening. One called to the
other:
"All right, Joe. Let him CO."
The Washington times., 1932-08-06
Picture
Supplements
Keith's Film

Much may be learned about
strange animals-human and
otherwise-this week at Keith's.
In THE Cock-eyed Animal
World" Craveth Wells, famous
explorer takes the movie audience
on an imaginative journey to
Australia and introduces them to
some beasts as queer as any
Gulliver saw in his travels, crazy
shaped marsupials that lay eggs
and feed their young like humans,
kangaroos that climb trees, live
teddy bears. possums that do
acrobatic stunts, web-footed
animals, sea COWS and scores of
weird mammals in this upside
down country.
The strange human animals
may be seen in the weeks feature
attraction, THE Man Called
Back"
There is the well-known London
surgeon who because of over in
diligence in liquor ruins his
career and runs away to the
South Seas to drink himself 10
death. There is the immensely
wealthy English playboy husband
who makes his wife publicly
apologize for being rude to his
actress inamorata. Then there
is the spiritless wife, herself, who
because of repeated humiliations
and indignities flees to the South
Seas with the intention of end
ing her life. There she meets
the outcast doctor. Strange
people indeed.
Back in London, the playboy
husband dies of poison and the
wife is placed on trial and of
course, suffers the usual fate of
beautiful women on trial for
murder.
Some of the episodes in this
story are none too plausible but
the film manages somehow to
hold the interest. Conrad Nagel
as the doctor gives his usual
earnest performance but Doris
Kenyon as the wife does little
more than look beautiful. The
husband is played by John
Halliday.
The newsreel this week shows
the first pictures of the Olympic
events. Very INTERESTINGLY. K.
Many Automobile Repair Services are
listed today In the Business Service
Directory published In the Classified
The Washington times., 1932-08-06
Wesley Eddy to
Quit Fox for
Vaudeville

Wesley Eddy will complete his
master of ceremony engagement
at the Fox Theater on Thursday
night, August 18, after IA weeks
at the Loew cathedral. He will
enter vaudeville with a 1O-piece
band, two girl speciality dancers
and an act which has been as
sured IL weeks of bookings as a
headline feature in the Loew
theaters. Additional time of 20
weeks has been promised by the
RKO-Keith theaters.
The Fox change in policy in
September will not require a
permanent master of ceremony.
At that time the stage will re-
vert to straight vaudeville shows,
dropping revue units. The change
will force the dropping of five
The Washington times., 1932-08-06
Conrad NaseI Is
Film Veteran

Conrad Nagel, starring in THE
Man Called Back" the current
screen attraction at RKO Keith's,
is believed to hold all records for
length of popularity and contin-
uous appearance before the mo-
ton picture camera. Except for
the recent break running almost
to a year during which period he
was making a tour of personal
appearances throughout the coun.
try, NagelS record carries him
back to the silent days and
through that period of transition
which caused the downfall of so
many of the popular players Of
those good old days"
Nagel, however, came through
the ordeal with colors flying. To
give the actor due credit he was
practically the mainstay of every
studio during the changing period
from silent to talking pictures.
Regular movie patrons will attest
to that.
AS to the actor, himself, he is
the son of a concert singer and
concert pianist. He was born in
Keokuk, Iowa. He was graduated
from the High Park College, Des
Moines, with the degree Of bach
elor of oratory.
The Washington times., 1932-08-06
Late Stage News
Direct From
Broadway

NEW YORK. Aug. 6.-Willian
A. Brady announces that Marce'
Achard's comedy Domino" vii
open at the Playhouse Tuesday
evening, August 16, instead o.
August Is, as originally an
nounced. The play opened
try-out engagement in Atlantic
City last Monday and will bt
performed next week in Asbury
Park. The company includes
Rod La ROGUE, Robert Lorraine
Jessie Royce Lands, Geoffrey
Kerr and Walter Kingsford
Grace George has adapted the
comedy and it has been directed
by Stanley Logan.
Lodewick Vroom has acquired
the Erlanger Theater, in West
Forty-fourth Street, and will re-
name it the st. James. The
theater, which was constructed
some four years ago, will be
redecorated before opening under
its new name. Mr.. Vroom was
formerly general manager for
Gilbert Miller ard had managed
both the Empire and Henry Mil
Ter theaters. In addition ia
operating the st. James. he Will
make three productions this sea.
son, two comedies and a drama
Harriet Hoctor has been en-.
gagged by Earl Carroll for
leading role in the tenth edt
ton of "Varities," which goes
into rehearsal next week. Miss
Hoctor recently appeared in
Bow Bells" in London and was
last seen on Broadway in Sim.
pie Simon"
Harry Wagstaff Gribble, play.
wright and director, will pro.
duce a drama by Saxon King
this fall called Beyond the
Night" He will stage the piece
in a few weeks. At present he
is engaged IN motion-picture
work in HOLLYWOOD.
Casting has been completed
for the principal roles in "Bally.
hoo of 1882" the musical show
which Anthony, Gensler, Con
molly and Patterson will bring
to town in October. Willie and
Eugene Howard head the list,
and the others are Lulu McCon.
nell, Vera Marshe, Bob Hoe,
Gloria Gilbert, Tom Harty, the
Hartmans, Ralph Sanford, Don
aid Stewart, Grace Kay White,
Jack Stillman, Priscilla Gurney,
Eugene Wendell and Lucille Os-
born.