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The Washington times., 1932-03-25
Arlington Officials
To Ponder Road Bill

Merits of the Byrd Road Bill,
passed by the general assembly
last session, will be discussed at
a special meeting of the Airing
ton county board of commits
Sloners tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at the courthouse.
The Washington times., 1932-03-25
Rep. SlUick Addresses
ROunL Arch MnsOns

Representative Howard E.
Swick (RD of Pennsylvania, will
be the principal speaker on the
Bicentennial program tonight of
the Eureka Chapter, No. 4, Royal
Arch Masons, at the Masonic
Temple.
The grand high priest of the
chapter, C. C. Coombs, and j.
Claude KEEPER, grand secretary,
are also scheduled to speak.
The Washington times., 1932-03-25
EXPLORER HERE
SURE FAWCETT
TALEFAKE
Harold NOiCe, Who Filmed
Own Adventures, Familiar
With Amazon

Reports from South America
discrediting the story that the
famous explorer, Col. P. H.
Fawcett, was a captive in the
Amazon country of a savage
Indian tribe, were only to be
expected, according to Harold
Noice, himself an explorer
thoroughly familiar with the
terrain between the headwaters
of the Amazon and the Orinoco.
Mr.. Noice is here in connection
with the showing of the film,
Explorers of the World at the
Metropolitan Theater. He ap-
pears in the film, and was largely
responsible for it's production.
Commenting on the Fawcett case
today, he said:
81 know the Amazon country
pretty well, and I do not know
of any Indians down that way
who would be likely to hold a
man captive for any length of
time. They do not go to that
trouble.
"The story sounded decidedly
improbable to me when / first
heard it. There were, as / re-
call it, three men in the Faw-
cett eXpeditiOn-the explorer,
his son and another man.
Quite Improbable
"They were lost somewhere
in the Amazon country, and
the story of the Swiss. Rettin,
was that he had found a man
who represented himself to be
Fawcett as a captive of Indians
along southern tributary of
the Amazon. So far as I know,
there was no definite infOrma.
tion that the Swiss himself
spoke English"
Mr.. Noice has spent much time
in the exploration of that section
of the country, a trackleSS jungle
for the most part. The Amazon
is navigated by ocean steamers
for the first thousand miles of its
length, as far as Manaos. and
smaller vessels ply almost to its
headWaters.
Manaos was once the center of
the rubber industry in northern
Brazil, but those days, appar-
emily, are gone forever.
Reports Agree
The Manaos opera house. built
in the hey-dey of the boom times,
is now frequented mainly by
moths, and the numerous bars
where the rubber barons and
their employees once regaled their
thirst are now deserted and
glamorless
Mr.. Noice'S doubts as to the
authenticity of the Fawcett story
seem to be completely supported
by consular advices from South
America, discrediting the idea
that the explorer was still alive
STUDY CLUB TO MEET
The Child Study Club of the
Evening star., 1932-09-22

Mukden ran away and there was no gov
ernment The japanese assumed po-
lice authority and made the Chlnese
organize a new government, supervised
by the Japanese. Manchuria declared
its independence and became Manchu-
kuo. The capital was moved from
Mukden to Chang Chun, about 100 miles
north. Here plans are being drawn
up for a handsome capital city, and the
French are seeking the architectural
and building contracts.
Inhabitants Not Dissatisfied.
It Is here that Mr.. Rea acts as coun-
selor to the minister of foreign af-
fairs, Chinese whose first assistant
is a japanese. The 30000,000 inhabi-
tants Of Manchuria, seeing a chance to
sell their beans for real money again,
are not so Ill satisfied, with the excep-
tion Of the soldiers and bandits.
There are supposed to be about g.
10000 armed soldiers in China and
some 1000, 900 bandits and Communists.
The last named are led by Young Chi
Evening star., 1932-09-22

tempt 10 reopen 10 wells resulted In q
skirmish Tuesday between Guardsmen
and lease workers. Company officials
indicated they may seek Federal Court
injunction against the troops.
Added authority was given the troops
Yesterday when Gov. Murray extended
the military zone to embrace the entire
Held. It previously included only a ra-
dius Of 100 feet around each well.
The Governor declared he would seek
prosecution of officials of the Wilcox
and Blackwell oil and gas companies
on perjury charges in connection with
their reports and testimony before the
Corporation Commission in hearings on
accusations Of overproduction.
Evening star., 1932-09-22

nese, says Mr.. Rea. who were educated
In Moscow. The Communists are large
ly the hungry people. They are numer-
Gus through Central China, along the
Yangtze River. Mr.. Rea believes the
best thing for China would be its d.
vision into some sort of federation Of
five separate states, perhaps consisting
Manchuria and Far Western China.
1.-THE Japanese will not get out of
Manchuria," says Mr.. Rea. Should
the League of Nations make any con-
certed attempt to drive them out they
will merely consolidate their position
and withdraw from the League. When
they consider that their national safety
is at stake. they are ready to defy the
world"
(Copyright, 1882 by North American News
paper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1932-09-22
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Evening star., 1932-09-22
HULL STATES he PAID
$500 FOR SHOW BOAT
Illinois Representative Declares
He Sent Waterways Firm
Rent for Barge.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 22.-Represent-
ative William E. Hull, Peoria, yester-
day said he sent a 5000 check to the
Inland Waterways Corporation of1lce in
Washington for rental Of the SHOW
boat" barge used on the recently COM
pleted waterways cruise Of the Illinois,
Mississippi and Ohio Rivers
The barge became a center OF con-
troversy when State Democratic lead
ers asserted Republicans were using
Evening star., 1932-09-22

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Evening star., 1932-09-22

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Evening star., 1932-09-22

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Evening star., 1932-09-22

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Evening star., 1932-09-22

Among wild reindeer, it Is the leader,
female, which invariably acts as sentry
and remains standing when all the
other members of the herd are resting;
If it signifies its intention to lie down,
another female Immediately rises to its
feet.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
MURRAY EXTENDS
OIL FIELD ARMY
Entire Area Included in "Occupa-
ton" Zone After Workers Clash
With National Guardsmen.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, September a.
Gov. William H. Murray's "army Of oc-
cupation" apparently had the situation
well in hand in the Oklahoma City
oil field today. National Guardsmen
are in the field to prevent violations Of
the State Corporation Commissions pro-
duction regulations.
The next move was awaited from the
H. F.. Wilcox Oil & Gas Co., whose at
Evening star., 1932-09-22

Government property for q political
junket" The barge accompanied a
steamer on a To-day cruise of the rivers.
While several Republican leaders,
among them Len Small, candidate for
Governor, were aboard, Republican
leaders asserted the trip was not politi-
cal and merely was intended to stimu-
late interest in waterways.
Evening star., 1932-09-22

China ranks first among the countries
Of the world in antimony production.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
Fee for Ink Charged.

Public libraries now are charging
81 cent a refill" for fountain pen users.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
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Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
TOO MUCH ATHLETICS

School and college athletics have
accomplished very much for stu
dents, but multitude of boys have
been putting their real hearts into
these activities and neglecting the
things for which their parents sent
them to these schools. A serious
view of this situation was recently
taken by the athletic committee of
the California school superintend-
ents' association. 1t favored limit
ing interscholastic competitions to
local leagues, opposed long distance
travelling of high school teams, fav-
ored abolishing athletic awards, etc.
Probably the majority of educators
in their hearts would like to make
school and college athletics a less
engrossing factor But college au-
thorities are up against the intense
athletic sentiment of their graduates,
who want the teams representing
their alma matters to win, and who
may lose interest in these institu-
tions if they do not play successful
football and baseball.
Public school authorities are up
against the intense interest of the
students and the public in these
sports, and the tendency of parents
to assent to whatever demands their
young people may make.
Athletic life should not be wholly
cut out of these institutions. A rea-
sonable amount of it promotes
health, it keeps the boys from harm
full activities. What is needed is TO /
change the emphasis existing in the
minds of the athletes. Many of them
are more worried about losing a
game than they are about hunking
examinations.
Schools and colleges exist 70 i'm
part the worlds wisdom and expe-
'ience to young people. The prob
EN- is to make the lessons so ex-
remely interesting, that the stu
Ients will not give their first atten-
ion to side issues. The parents can
lelp by constantly talking with the
'oung people about their lessons,
bout matters of history and politics
nd business, to help The students
the wonderful opportuni-
les they are getting.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
SHUTTING THE GATES

Uncle Sans wide open gate,
through which used to flow freely all
the despondent populations of Eu-
rope! How proud we used to be of
that wide open door, and of that big
heart that could take in the poor
and suffering of the world, and plant
them amid prolific fields and gorge
Gus harvests, and give every son of
despair new hope!
But when jobs became scare in
our land, and there were no fat
farms to give away, the propriety of
thus admitting the poor and op-
pressed of all nations was question
ed 1t was still more questioned
when we learned that our beloved
country was being looked at as a
paradise for criminals. We had
plenty enough graduates from our
own prison cells, without taking in
thousands more.
So we have had immigration re-
striction, until at last it is almost
down to zero. Last year only about
$4,000 entered, while 100000 left us.
The door is narrow and quite well
guarded, as compared with that
enormous gate through which near
ly 100000 entered during six of
the years from 1905 to 1915.
But there are all the illegal en-
tries, how many, no one knows. A
steady procession of stealthy sneaks
worming their way in through our
ports or over the borders, dropped |
by airplanes, smuggled in ships, a
most unworthy accession, law
breakers from the first day. That
problem remains unsolved.
But the idea has at last penetrat-
ed the European mind, that gold can
no longer be picked up in American
streets. Nor can an immigrant start
in with a pair of overa1ls and rs
cents, and in couple of years be-
come a merchant prince. No, the
place for those poor folks is at
nome, where they can speak the
language of the land, and will not
De forever baffled by strange Gus
oms and slick sharpers.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
LOWEST FOR 55 YEARS

The Remington Rand Company,
manufacturers of business equip
ment, has decided to spend $4,5OO,OOO
in purchasing materials, noting that
many commodities are selling lower
than for 55 years. 1t seems strange
that more big concerns have not
adopted this wise policy.
Perhaps more of them are doing
so than is realized, and such action
may account in part for the recent
recovery in commodity prices. Many
of these wise buyers may be quietly
stocking up with products while so
many commodities are almost being
given away. Those who fail to do so
will probably do a little weeping in
a year or two after prices have gone
way up. Purchase of all these COM
modities means new life in the slug
gish currents of trade.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
COMMUNICATED

Milford, Delaware
September IA, 1882
The Editor of The Milford Chronicle
Milford, Delaware.
Dear Sir:
AS remedy for this or any other
depression l have long believed in
and advocated the stabilizing of the
four major agricultural crops,
wheat, corn, cotton and tobacco. All
other farm products would then
maintain a proportionate higher
level.
The unequal distribution of wealth
as between the man who actually
works and the one who profits from
any income not so earned has long
been subject that is worthy of
solution and this inequality of in
come is in fact the testing ground of
our Democracy, for on its solution
depends whether or not we are to
keep our place and maintain our
record of a Democracy that was in
tended to be as broad as humanity
itself.
Many causes have been advanced
as to the cause of the present de-
pression-Overproduction and infia-
ton probably being mentioned most,
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
GARDENERS BUSY

Only five per cent of the nations
gardeners were unemployed during
July, as reported at the meeting of
the National Association of Garden
ers. We may shut down our steel
plants and automobile factories, but
the American people eat about as
many potatoes, beans, and corn in
hard times as in good, and the folks
who know how to raise them are
rarely idle during the growing sea-
son.
Unfortunately, gardens can be
raised through the winter only in
certain states, so many thousands
of these faithful workers lie idle for
five months in the year. What is
needed is some kind of occupation
by which the people who draw their
living from the soil can keep pro-
ducing salable from October to
April.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
GOOD SCHOOLS

A town may have great advantages
for doing business and it may have
much wealth, but if its schools are
considered inferior. it can be ex-
pected to lag behind until this seri-
Gus defect is remedied.
If people are anxious to have
their home towns grow, one of the
first questions to be asked is, "Are
our schools up to date for a COM
munity of this type? Do we give as
good educatioB as other similar
towns?" If the answer to either
or both questions is Yes one of
the most essential conditions for
progress and development has been
provided. One of the first questions
that people ask before picking out
towns in which to live and do busi-
ness, is Does the town have good
schools?"
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
DESERVING GROWTH

In many communities the boosters
are struggling to produce growth
for these places. They are all the
time trying to get new residents and
new industries, but often they neg
lect to do anything to make their
town worthy of those people and in
dustries.
1t would be more effective if such
people would devote some of those
energies to efforts to make their
town such a good place to live and
do business in that people would
come there naturally for those pur-
poses. Efforts to make a town grow
without its deserving growth, are
not as apt to produce the result as
to make the town worthy of the
growth, in which case the progress
seems to come naturally and with
out incessant effort.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
WHY PARENTS WORRY

The young people of today have
few fears. They do not believe in
worry, which on the whole is a use
full attitude. They enter without an
anxious thought on adventures which
their parents would never have at
tempted. Usually they come out all
right, smiling and joyous. But some
times perils they had ignored prove
too much for them. That is why
parents lot is not always a happy
one in these times.
Such reflections might be melted
by the tragic fate of Jerane Iber-
shoff, a charming Cleveland and
Smith college girl, whose body was
recently found in the Swiss Alps,
through which she had been cycling
with her sister. She is supposed to
have been assaulted and then stoned
to death by wandering vagabond.
Innumerable young women do just
such things, and come out unhearm-
ed. But youngsters who have been
surrounded by affection and respect,
do not always realize how many
beasts are loose in this world.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
GIRL TRAMPS

The horde of young men and boys
roaming about the country, hitch
hiking, stealing train rides. is said
to include good many girls dressed
as boys. What can these little flap
pers be thinking of, to join this
wandering crew? What dreary cir
cumstances led them to forsake the
safety of home for this life of peril
and perhaps disgrace?
Slack, vicious, inattentive parents
probably account for many of them.
If the old folks will scrap and quar-
rel, they can't expect the young peo-
pie to walk the straight and narrow
path. But the independence of youth
is an equal factor. 1t used to be con-
sidered that young people were able
to go on their own at 81 years of
age, but they claim that privilege
five years earlier now.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
NATURE THE GREAT ARTIST

People travel across the seas to
observe the work of great painters
in the art galleries of Europe. But
even these superb masterpieces can't
rival the pictures which Dame Ma
ture paints every day in the orch
ards and harvest friends on a trip
by auto in the State of Delaware;
especially the sunsets of autumn.
The yellow pumpkins, the purple
plums, the pink peaches. the apples,
the scarlet beets, the deep red cher
ries, these are but few notes in
this marvellous symphony of color.
Add the golden tints of oranges, lem
ons, bananas, ETC., and every city
fruit stand is color harmony mar
vellous beyond words.
1t is hard to look at nature as an
machine, when she turns
out pictures of such loveliness, so
restful to the tired human eye,
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
THE PUTTERERs

Ihe worlds workers are divided
into two classes, those who work en-
ergetically and effectively, and those
who fuss and putter over their tasks,
and take an inordinate amount of
time. Times like the past year have
constituted temptation leading
many who ordinarily are good work
ers, to become mere putterers.
A putterer might be defined as a
slow and dawdling worker who di-
rects the motions of his hands in an
aimless and incompetent way, vast
ing time by feeble and ill directed
motions, failing to give due atten-
tion to his work, letting his mind
wander while the work drags along.
People have often remarked dur
ing the past year or two, that good
energetic man could do as much
work as several out of the gangs
they have seen. Many people seem
to fear that if they work hard, they
will work themselves out of job.
When men are put to work to pay
for the relief money they have re-
ceived, some of them are so consti-
tuted that they do a lot of this put
tering.
The putterers have to stop fire.
quently to watch cars or trains go
by, or to light their pipes, or see
what their neighbors are doing.
When men have been out of work
for time, there is a tendency to
lose working power, and the task |
that would seem fairly easy in ordi-
nary times really seems hard.
Normal people hate idleness, and
if they once get a job they will put
in some big licks to show they ap-
Dreciate the chance, and are deter
mined to give their moneys worth
of effort. A time when jobs are
scarce and many are idle is a time
when the people of Delaware should
)e thankful for any work they can
ind, and anxious to do their gest at
t. That attitude promotes recovery
rom depression, since it reduces the
.ost of labor, and encourages folks
o start out on new projects.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
SHAKING UP THE POLICE

If people want to know one rea-
son why it is so hard to put down
crime in this country, all they have
to do is to note how often the ad-
ministration of police forces is
changed. The Wickersham report
presented last year showed that in
10 of the largest cities, the average
term of the police chief was only
about two and two-fifths years. No
wonder it is hard to get consistent
work out of forces which change
bosses so often.
How long would factory make
money, if it changed it's superintend-
ent every two years and four
months? The American people will
have to cut politics out of the police
business, if they really want to
come somewhere near stopping
crime.