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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-26
SPANISH CONGRESS CREST

MADRID-1n It's first year the Congress of the second Spanish Republic passed 241 laws in addi- tion to the new Constitution. Con gress opened July IA, 1881.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-26
VISIT S BRADFORDs

Harry Lucas Jr., returned this weekly from a months visit at the home of MT. and Mrs 2. M. Bradford at Craig.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-26
ENGINE WORKS 1s3 YEARS

UNNA kOENINGSBORN, Ger many,-Grlmany's oldest steam en- zine, impor1ed from England 133 years ago, has been placed on the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-26
EGYPT RESTRICTS PLIERS

CAIRO = All foreign airplanes passing over Egypt must land at the Governments A aga field. says new order.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
RECORD FL|ER
DIES STUNT|NG

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 7 QN.SO .
Participants in the all-American
air races today mourned the
death of Dale Red" Jackson,
holder of the worlds endurance
airplane record.
While stunting at the Municipal
Airport yesterday, Jackson's plane
fell 2,000 feet.
jackson was extricated from
the wreckage, his head crushed.
Mrs. Sally Jackson, his wife,
came to Miami with Jackson to
attend the races. She was not
at the field at the time OF the
accident.
Jackson and Forest OBrine
were co-pilots of the airplane
Greater St. Louis in which they
established an unofficial worlds
endurance record by staying aloft
64? hours.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
A CLEAR COMPLEXION

Puddy parking eyes
most women can have. DR.. +. Nj
Edwards for 20 years treated scores
of women for liver and bowel ait
ments. During these years he gave
his patients a substitute for calo-
mel made of few Well-kndWn veg
etable ingredients, naming them DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets. know them
bv their olive color.
These tablets are WOnder-W0rKer"
on the liver and bowels, causing a
normal action. carrying off the
waste and poisonous matter i'll one $
system.
If you have a pale face. salIOw
look, duh eyes, 'pmples, coated
tongue. headaches, a lstless, no.
good feeling, all out Of sorts. mac
tive bowels, take one of DR.. Ed
wards Olive Tablets nightly for a
time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands of women and men
take DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets
now and then to keep fit. 19c. 30c
and SOC.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
HerndOn Seeks 900
Loan for School

Legislation to permit Herndon,
Va, to borrow $1,000 from the
State literary fund for the COM
pletion of its school gymnasium
and home economics building will
be sought by the Fairfax county
J, school board.
Recently the State board of
education turned down a loan
for the new building after it had
been approved by the county
board of supervisors.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
Liquor Trips Woman
left Alone With Car

Deserted by her male com
panion when police hove into
view, Elizabeth Johnson, colored,
of Arlington. Va, bore the full
burden of being caught Decem-
ber 29 with liquor-laden auto
mobile. She was fined $500 in
Hyattsville police court for pos
session of liquor, reckless driving,
using fictitious markers, and
driving without permit or regis
tration card.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
Best Decorated
Home Wins AUdrd

A silver loving cup was awarded
to G. w. Wolfe. 43l0 New Hamp-
shire Ave. N. W., for having the
most beautifully decorated home
during the Christmas season. The
award was madG by the PetWorth
Citizens Association last night.
Other awards were made to A.
d. SartWell, 1873 Varnum st.
N. W.; John P. Gramlich, 48l6
Kansas Ave. N. w; F. B. Helm,
801 Emerson st. N. W.. and G.
S. Kendrick and A. C. Eastburne,
both of 4600 Fourth st. N. w.
The prizes will be presented Jan
uarY 19.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
DELAYED FLIERS
\ LAND TODAY
IN MIAMI
l., ssH lBlHHLHubb

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Jan. 7
UN.S0. - Nine Army bombing
planes en- route from Langley
Field. Va. to Miami to participate
In the all-American air races
there took off from Jacksonville
at 9:15 a. m. today after an all
night stop.
The Air Corps contingent, made
up of the Twenty-ninth Bonn
bardment Squadron from Langley
Field, Va, was running almost "a
hours behind schedule.
Also, the outfit was one giant
bombing plane short.
One of the ships was smashed
into kindling wood when a motor
stopped as the group started TO
Miami after refueling here. Neither
of the two pilots, Lieut.. John
BibberStaff and Lieut.. Lionel H.
Dunlap, was injured.
The nine bombers took off
from Langley Field Tuesday morn,
ing shortly after dawn. They
turned up at Savannah, Ga. the
same day, without miShap. They
left yesterday morning, when
trouble began.
First came an hours delay in
starting. due to a balky motor.
Then, with clear weather prom
1sed, the planes climbed into
sunny skies. but 20 miles out of
Savannah the heavy bombers
were bucking 45-mile-an-hour
headwind. They fought it until
they reached Jacksonville, a 100,
mile jump.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
TAX URGED TO AID IDLE

BALTIMORE, Jan. 7. - Miss
Jane Addams, Nobel prize winner.
proposes a Federal income tax of
1 per cent to support the nations
unemployed.
Recovering from a major opera
ton at Johns Hopkins Hospital a
month ago, Miss Adams dis.
cussed means of combating the
results of economic depression
and the destruction of the worlds
morale. She said:
The Washington times., 1932-01-07

Unlimited choice of FIELDS
9th Street stock - $13.S5.
Everything goes-nothing res
served. Every garment of
FIELDS standard quality.
COME! LOOK! BUY! You
won't go wrong.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
Shoe Dealers Name
d. G.. Man Director

Edwin Hahn, of this city, was
elected one of the directors of
the National Shoe Retailers Asso-
citation at it's annual meeting in
Chicago yesterday.
A. H. Getting, Philadelphia,
was reelected president and Harry
C. Mclaughlin, Cincinnati, wa S
chosen second vice president. j.
Gordon Mcneil, of Boston, was
named to serve on the board with
Mr.. Hahn.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
Farm Mortgage Loan
Continues to Decline

The Department of Agriculture
reports a continued decrease in
farm mortgage loans by the
principal lending companies dur
ing the closing months of 1881.
The farm mortgage situation
of recent years. according to
David L. WickenS of the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, con-
tinues to reflect events during
the decade preceding 1920, when
rising prices of farm lands led
farmers to assume obligations
they have found trouble in
meeting.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07

THE United States should
support it's unemployed by ma
tiOnal taxation.
"I would suggest a / per
cent tax on incomes of $1,000
and over as a means of Great
ing this support, with surtaxes
starting at even lower figures
than at present. But there
should be more carefully
drawn distinction between
earned and unearned incomes"
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
Burglar Gradually
Breaking Into Store

Gradual breaking and entering
is the latest method of the up-to.
date burglar.
For three mornings Horace
Soper, manager of chain store
at 1l14 Seventh st. N. W.. dis
covered a bar sawed away at a
rear window. Yesterday he re-
ported to police that just one
more bar would give the Install
ment burglar access to the store.
Police are watching the place.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
Japanese ROtdriGn
Addresses Club Here

Takaski KomatSu, member of
the Rotary Club of Tokyo, was
guest Of honor Of Washington
Rotarians at a luncheon in the
Willard Hotel yesterday. The
visitor declared Japanese efforts
in Manchuria have as their aim
the restoration of conom C
stability. and expressed hope that
America would understand his
countryS motives.
The Washington times., 1932-01-07
South African ENJOY
To Address Women

Eric Hendrix Louw, minister
of the Union of South Africa will
speak on THE Status of Women
in South Africa" and Mrs. Louw
will be guest of honor, at
tea given by the National Won.
ans Party at their national
headquarters. Alva Belmont House,
144 B st. N. E., Sunday after
noon.
Following the program, annual
election of officers will be held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
Minority Board Report Is
Accepted; Seek Quiz
of Tag Deal

Investigation by state and federal
officials of circumstances surround
ing the $82,400 contract for pur-
chase of drivers license certifi-
Gates in 1929, loomed today as the
house concurred in the minority
report of a committee investigating
charges of graft and corruption in
letting the contract.
In adopting the minority report,
the house ignored the committee
majority which sought to halt the
probe.
Calling for investigation of the
contract and charges Of corruption,
the minority report was signed by
Representative Fred S. Galloway
DEM, indianapolis, who first
brought the matter to the attention
of the assembly; Chester K. Wat
son Dem), FIT. Wayne, and Will
liam E. Wilson Dem0, Greenfield.
Representative Gerritt Bates
Dem), Indianapolis, chairman of
the investigation committee, signed
the majority report.
Information on which GalloWay's
charges we're made was obtained
from federal income tax authorities,
who reported that the printing firm
receiving the contract had not paid
tax on the full amount.
officials of the printing firm are
reported as saying they did not OBJ
tain the entire amount paid from
the treasurer's Office. The con-
tract was sub-let to the Haywood
Printing Company Lafayette, which
is said to have received $4,000 for
it's work Ohlhaver & Burkhart,
Aurora, ILL.,, was awarded the origi-
nal contract.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15

which he gave to his wife on their
engagement.
But his melodies in the recently
mothballed Face the Music
particularly "A Castle in Manhat-
tan"-are extraordinary show
music, to be reckoned with.
Of a less intense Alley clan is
the veteran Joe Young. Young
can turn his melancholy eyes from
a Broadway surface car Strug-
Cling to reach Columbus circle by
the cocktail hour to sheet of
paper and produce a lyric in less
than no time.
He has struck off actually thou
sands of words to music in his
twenty years of rhythm, many of
them to great songs.
His How're You Gonna Keep
'em Down on the Farm After
They've Seen Paree?" received a
sharp rebuke from Washington,
which had little else to worry
about since a war was in progress.
He wrote I'm on My Way to
Mexico" at the height of revo-
luton, much to his sorrow, was
killed off shortly and hurt the
sheet music sales.
Of course, Young also has writ
ten with Walter Donaldson such
a hit as Nanny" which Al Jol-
son at first wouldn't have nohow,
and innumerable others. He is
frank to admit that fequently he
makes errors in grammar. But he
is writing for sounds rather than
for Harvard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
SURVEY STARTS
TO DECIDE ON
PUBLIC WORKS
Program in Relief Bill May
Be Launched Soon by
Government.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The
administration will decide in a few
weeks whether public works in
cluded by congress in the relief bill
shall be undertaken at once.
An interdepartmental survey to
determine if this construction work
could be started advantageously at
present is being made by the di-
rector of the budget. He will make
recommendations to Secretary of the
Treasury Ogden Mills, and Mills
then will report to the President on
the financial problems involved.
The relief act provides that no
part of its public works appropria-
ton, except that for road construc-
ton, shall be expended IF the
secretary of the treasury certifieS to
the President that the amount
necessary is not available and can
not be obtained upon reasonable
terms"
Part of Sum Allotted
A total of 1922, 224,OOO is con-
tanned in the relief act for public
works, of which $12O,OOO,OOO is ap-
portioned to the states and may be
used by them to pay their share OF
federal aid road building costs.
The governments share of this
work was provided in one of the
regular appropriation bills.
Another $16,OO0,00O for road con-
struction is to be spent as follows:
For national forest highways,
100000; for roads, trails, bridges
and fire lanes in national forests,
$5,OO0,000; for roads, trails and
bridges in national parks and to
monuments, $3,0O0,0OO; for Indian
reservation roads, $1,OOO,O0O; for
roads through other public lands or
reservations, $2,000,000
Some for Federal Buildings
Of the remaining $186, 224,OOO APP
propriated conditionally, now wait
ing recommendations by the direc-
tors of the budget and Secretary
Mills, $1O0,0O0,OOO is for construc-
ton of public buildings, postof
fees and custom houses.
The treasury and postoffice in
terdepartmenta1 committee is 60
ing over the situation determining
how long it will take to procure
land, prepare plans and receive
bids, and will recommend if new
work can be started advantageously
in addition to that already under
way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
House Votes for Probe
Of Printing Contract
On DryS' Side

Prohibition may be a soap
box for political orators,
disease, or a quadraped with a
blue nose, but whatever it is,
James c. George, of 622 South
East street, has got it and
Municipal Judge William H.
Sheaffer, gave. it to him.
Sheaffer attempted to take it
away from George, when he
was arrested on a drunk
charge.
Judge, haven't been drink
ing. I haven't drank a drop
since you put me on prohibi-
ton" George pleaded tearfully.
Put you on prohibition?"
queried the judge.
Probation" amended a
court officer" he's out on pro-
baton on another case of in
toXication in your court"
ooh! Charge dismissed. See
that you stay on the prohibi-
ton side" the judge ordered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
ARMY DIVISION WILL
BE REVIEWED FRIDAY
Indiana Residents Invited to Event
at Camp Knox.

Indiana Residents Invited to Event
at Camp Knox.
By Times Special
FIT. KNOX. Ky, Aug. 15.-Gov-
ernors and the people of the three
states represented in the thirty
eighth division, Kentucky, Indiana
and West Virginia, are invited to
visit here next Friday for final re-
view of the division, Major General
Robert H. Tyndall, division COM
mander, announced today.
A special feature will be a DEM
onStration by a detachment of the
First cavalry (mechanizeO. They
will maneuver their vehicles, includ-
ing the new Christie combat car or
tank, between the line cf spectators
and the troops as formed for the
review. The demonstration will be-
gin at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
the review following Immediately.
Planes of the One hundred thir-
teenth observation will be in the
vewing, flying low
Major General Hugh A. Drum,
Fifth corps area commander, will
receive the review, along with dis
tinguiShed guests. General Tyndall
will command the troops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
Dorothy Fields, Iyricist for a few
you'll remember.

It's an old legend in the coffee
bars of the alley that no writer
tolls more earnestly than the for
mer Izzy Balm, singing waiter in
a Bowery spot opposite drug
store run by the Schenck brothers.
He locks himself like a prisoner
in a room. He pecks painfully at
a piano, originating melody and
lyrics at the same time-an I'M
usual method
Sometimes he has remained
forty-eight hours, convict for
the sin of creating, and finally
when he has come downstairs for
his bun ind jelly he has lost sew
eral pounds.
Yet as a result his greatest
songs always have been pure mel
ody, and his rhymes bloSsomed
into lyrical poetry.
He never completely destroys a
line he has written. Take the
example of What Does 1t Mat
ter?" When Berlin first played
it, the manager of his publishing
firm, Max Winslow, had no yearn-
ing just-for-you for the lyric.
Whereupon Mr.. Berlin happily
bumped into his chauffeur, was
driven home, sweated out a new
idea and the next day, after his
matutinal hair combing, appeared
with his tremendously successful
Russian Lullaby"
IT'S true that Mr.. Berlin has not
L created any terrific popular hits
in the six years since his lovely
Always" the 100000 royalty on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
JOHN DIS KIN
is NEAR DEATH
Family to Be Reunited at
Mrs. McCormiCk'S Bedside.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-The Rookie
feller-McCormick clan prepared to-
day for a last sad reunion at the
bedside of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller
Mccormick, who is so critically ill
that physicians virtually have given
up hope of saving her life more
than a few days longer.
Harold F. Mccormick, whose
marriage to her joined two of
Americas greatest fortunes and
whose divorce created one of the
countrys greatest social stlrs, visit
ed at her bedside in the Drake no.
tel again Sunday.
With them were their son, Fowler,
who married Fiji Stillman, and
their daughter, Muriel, the wife of
Elish Dyer Hubbard.
Mrs. McCormick's second daugh-
ter, Mathilde, who married Max
Oser, Swiss riding master, will ar
rive in New York Tuesday from
France.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., is ex-
pected to accompany her to Chicago.
Friends said Mrs. Mccormick
father, 93-year-old John D. Rookie
Teller, probably would not come, be-
cause of his advanced age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
Daughter Dies in Dentist
Chair; Fatal to Mother
Mooney Dash
By United Press

By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Aug. IS
Six men and two women were
held today after creating a dis
turbance during the closing
ceremony of the Olympic
games in an effort to stage a
Free Tom Mooney" demon
Stration.
The crowd booed four men
and two women who ran out
on the field dressed in track
suits, and shouting at the top
of their voices, and followed
by two other men bearing a
banner, Free Tom Mooney
An official jerked the sign
from the two men, but the
other six ran around the track
to the Olympic peristyle, where
police arrested them. The
sign bearers also were taken
into cuStory.
The Olympic program con-
tinued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
9 P. M. CURFEW HIT
BY JUDGE GECKLER
Law Too Drastic Asserts Head of
Juvenile Court.

Law Too Drastic Asserts Head of
Juvenile Court.
While bemoanlng a movement of
the Indianapolis Federation of
Community Civic Clubs to enforce
the p. m. curfew law, boys and
girls of indianapolis today found a
friend and champion for their
rights in Juvenile Judge John F.
Geckler.
BY denouncing the curfew law as
too drastic" Geckler became the
leader of the children in their fight
against the early to bed edict.
Members of the club group will
confer with Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan Tuesday to discuss en-
forcement of the old law.
Geckler declared he believed that
10 p. m. would be early enough for
children to vacate streets. He fur
ther stated the claw should apply
to those under 49,"
He urges parents to know at all
times where their children are"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
End Comes to Parent 80
Hours After First Trag-
edy; Both Here 10 Years.

A daughter and mother died
within period of thirty hours dur
ing the weekend.
Mrs. Mary Emma Stovall, 80, wife of
Roy Stovall, TOT Mozart avenue. died
Friday in a dentists office after gas
had been administered for a tooth
extraction. She had been in poor
health.
News of the death Of Mrs. Stovall,
when carried to her mother, Mrs.
Laura Patterson, 70, of the same adj
dress, fastened death from heart
disease. Mrs. Patterson had been
i'll for short time. She died thirty
hours after her daughter.
Both mother and daughter were
born in Colesburg, Ky. The two
families came to Indianapolis nine
teen years ago.
Mrs. Patterson aided her nus
band, James Patterson, in the OPP
CREATION of a grocery business at
Emerson and Orion avenues until a
year ago, when they retired.
Both women were members of the
First Nazarene church, Washington
street and State avenue.
Double funeral services were to
be held at today in the Stovall
home. Burial was to be in Me-
mortal Park cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
OFFICERS CAMP OPENS
Use of Infantry Weapons to Be
Stressed at Fort.

Reserve officers training camp,
which opened Sunday at Fl. Har-
rison, to close Aug. 81, will stress
the use of infantry weapons during
the first week of the session. Com
mand post exercises will be given
intensive study during the second
week.
Lectures on the subjects will be
given by the regular army officers
on duty at The fort.
Thirty-six airplanes will be sta
toned at Schoen field for duration
of the camp, to be used in instruc-
ton Of the eighty reserve air corps
officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15

Irving Berlin, king of Tin Pan
Alley.
wrote a song about Pretty Pup
Ply" because they sell hot puppies
to visitors with freezing dogs on
the Boardwalk.
Al Jolson heard the song and
like it, paid him $500. It was pub
lished. 1t sold eight copies.
Have you noticed how seldom
thus far the names of women.
have appeared? Except for that
blond it's been virtually stag
party.
Well, as a matter of fact, very
few talented women have devel-
oped into great song writer's, just
as there have been no outstanding
feminine composers of classical
symphony and only few sig
nif1cant painters.
Among exceptions are Dorothy
fields, daughter of Lew Fields,
who wrote the lyrics Of i Can't
Give You Anything but Love,
Baby" Lew Leslie'S "Blackbirds"
and Rube Blooms "Soliloquy";
Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ra-
mona; Jessie L. Deepen, of Jap
anese Sunset; and Dana Suesse,
the 2O-year-old author of Jazz
Nocturne."
Next: Music makers for revues
and OperettaS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
TOrtureS Self

DENVER, Aug. Is. The
grewsome story of a man
watching his own death by
Self-inflicted torture was barred
today at the coroner's inquest
into the death of DR.. Hugh A.
Powell, 80. Denver dentist.
With a mirror before him.
DR.. Powell slowly had strangled
to death, hanging by the head
rest Of his dental chair. a
towel twisted around his neck.
The body was naked, except
for pair of women'S silk
stockings and a pair of wom-
ems slippers and the lower
part of the body had been
tightly bound with a rope.
The case was attributed to
a mental disease which causes
self-inflicted torture to hold a
fascination for the victim, said
DR.. B. B. Jaffa, deputy cor
oner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
Faces Intoxication Charge

Police who said they found Emil
TroXel, "a, of 2101 East Garfield
drive, asleep in his automobile
parked in the center of the inter-
section Of Capitol avenue and Forty
second street Sunday night, ar
rested him on a charge of drunken
ness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
BY JACK FOSTER
Times stan Writer
1892 BY the New York World
Telegram Corporation)

Telegram Corporation)
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Irving
IN Berlin doesn't comb his hair
himself He puts on his hat in
the morning and is driven to
barber shop near his Office on the
Alley of Crazy Rhythms, where he
is shaved and combed for the day.
He is as absent minded as last
years girl friend. He instructs his
chauffeur to be waiting at des-
ignated place at a designated
hour, but, if he finishes work
ahead of time he steps into a cab
without considering and waves
the taximan to hustle him to his
country home
Or if the chauffeur does meet
up with him, frequently at the end
of their journey he reaches into
his jeans to pay him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
SLUG ATTENDANT, FLEE
Bandits Attack Gas Station Man,
Escape Without Loot.

Running into the street as two
bandits assaulted him with black
jacks, Lowell Shanklin, 90, of 3247
College avenue, attendant at a fill
ing station at It's East Washington
street, Sunday night saved himself
from probable serious injury, and
caused the bandits to flee without
obtaining any money.
Shanklin was sent to city hospital
for treatment of head decorations.
He told police the two men, one
carrying a suitcase, entered the sta
ton, and, without warning, began
striking him with blackjacks.