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The Washington times., 1932-11-10
LANDSLIDE HITS
REPUBLICANS
HARD BLOW
Only Two Members Believed
Victorious; Every U. S.
Agency to Be Affected

Every Federal agency will
be yitally affected in the
Seventy-third Congress by the
Democratic landslide of Tues
day which is scheduled to
force complete revision of the
House Appropriations Commit
tee, which authorizes funds
for expenditure in Govern
ment departments.
Of Is Republican members on
the committee, only two are be-
lieved to have emerged victorious
in their campaigns for reelection.
This change will neceSSitate a
complete revision of the Republi-
can membership of the commit
tee.
Out For Speakership
The chairman of the Appropria-
tions Committee, Representative
Joseph w. Byrns CD, of Tennes.
see, is an outstanding candidate
for the Speakership of the House
and his selection for that position
would probably place James P.
Buchanan CD, of Texas, in the
Craftsmanship.
The two Republicans remaining
on the committee, according to
latest election returns, are Repre-
sentative George. H. Tinkham Of
Massachusetts and John Taber Of
New York.
.... Many Are Defeated
The Republicans apparently de-
feated are Representatives Will r.
Wood of Indiana, Edward H.
Wason of New Hampshire, Burton
L. French of Idaho, Milton w.
Shreve of Pennsylvania, Frank
Murphy of Ohio. James w. Sum-
mers of Washington, Henry E.
Barbour of California. Guy U.
Hardy of Colorado, Maurice H.
Thatcher of Kentucky, Frank
Clague of Minnesota, Robert G..
Simons of Nebraska and William
P. Holiday of Illinois.
ySimons and Holiday were the
Republican members of the Dis
trict of Columbia subcommittee
and were active in District fiscal
matters.
The other members served on
the other subcommittee and
we're instrumental in shaping the
financial program of the respec-
tive Government departments.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
z BOYS CLEARED
Of KIDNAPPING

kidnapping charges against
James Wilmer and Preston Will
mer were dismissed this morning
by Judge Snow, in the Alexandria
Police Court when after hearing
the testimony of Macy Hobbs,
Is, who preferred the charges,
Commonwealth'S Attorney Albert
v. Bryan said he did not think a
crime had been committed.
Miss Hobbs testified that she
was riding with friends when
James Wilmer stopped their car,
and after talking to her pushed
her into his car and rode her
around the city. She said she
had known Wilmer for several
years and frequently had gone
riding with him.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
True to Type
SMILING CONTEST
HEADS OFF BIG
HORSE-LAUCH
. BY GILBERT SELDES-

MUST have made mistake in reading the advertise
nent when got the impression that National Smile
been arranged in order to head off any celebration of
National Horse-Laugh Week. which is usually the week
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
HH-Rlin Auto Kills
Unidentified Woman

A unidentified colored woman
was struck and killed by a hit
and-run driver on H Street be-
tween First and Second Streets
Northeast, early today. She was
taken to the Sibley Hospital ny
Stephen j. Johnson, 14OO block
N st. N. W., where she was pro-
nounced dead. She was struck
as she stepped from the curbing
in the roadway under the Union
Station railroad tracks.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10

the theory of Anthony Ludovci that we laugh either
because feel superior because feel dreadfulIy
inferior and do not want others to know it. (For ex
ample if we laugh when stumble into the best parlor
it is to make the minister's wife believe that we are
above such little embarrassments)
What strikes most about Ludovcis idea is that he
explains the contemporary popularity of the
humorous writer and artist and of the comedian and of
the wsecracker by suggesting that ilatease in
finer figure than can, give anything for
laugh do not know whether this is true but it is in
teresng and for those of who are not Intentionally
funny is consolation. We make ourselves believe
that this passion for the comic is rather low and that
IN better time serious would be more appre-
clated Which, turning funny ITSELF is another proof of
our discomfort
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
Garrison Inquest
Slated MOv1dau Ni0kt

Thomas V. Garrison, son of the
chief deputy sheriff of Prince
Georges County, will be buried
this afternoon in Ivy Hill Gem.
etery, Laurel. The funeral serv-
ices. will be held at Gasch's un-
dertaking chapel in Hyattsville at
2 o'clock.
Garrison was killed Tuesday
morning by Lee c. Watts, jailer
at Hyattsville, as the climax of
months of i'll feeling. An inquest
will be held Monday night by
Magistrate John A. Downing.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
FIRE At POLICE
IN RUM CHASE

Occupants Of an automobile be.
lieved to have been equipped with
smoke screen apparatus fired sew
eral shots at Policemen r. L.
Manning and H. H. Hodge, of the
Seventh precinct, last night, fol
lowing a chase along Richardson
Street Northwest.
Police believe it is the same car
from which two colored men fired
shots at Policeman G. L. Carter
at the same place Tuesday night.
The car has a New York license
and is thought by the police to
be a liquor carrier.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
Young People Should
Help Community
Chest Ill.
TAYLOR
MISS ANSELL 3
By MARY COOK MACATEE,

By MARY COOK MACATEE,
Stenograrher, National Press
Building John w. COwper Co..
We hear and read much
about lack of food. clothing and
shelter here in Washington, so
we can all be thankful that
the Community Chest is about
to undertake the greatest drive
to relieve this suffering that it
has ever attempted.
1t seems to me that young
people, as well as the older
ones, should help the Chest
along. We should put ourselves
in the places of those who are
destitute and give, even if it
means a personal sacrifice. We
would want that much done for
us, if we were out Of jobs and
hungry.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
Football TOMORROW
For LeuiOn Charities

The Alexandria American Le-
gicn Post has arranged for a
charity football game tomorrow
afternoon between the Alexandria
Fraters and the Hopkins teams.
In the evening the annual Ar
tnistice Day Ball will be held in
GadSby's Tavern.
The city offices and banks will
be closed all day.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
ELKS TO INITIATE

The annual visit of the District
Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler will
be made to the Alexandria Lodge
Of ElkS Monday night. Several
candidates will be initiated.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10
D. c. WILL QUAFF
.BEER24HOURS
AFTER REPEAL
One Brewery Here Has Its
Plant and Equipment
Set for Expansion

Washington, eagerly watch
ing the process of knocking
out State prohibition legisla-
tion elsewhere and keenly an
ticipating the return of beer,
can have the beer it seeks
within "a hours after Congress
authorizes it.
The Washington Times learned
today that at least one local
brewery has beer now aging in
the vat, and that reepal of the
Federal prohibition statutes may
be all that is necessary to make
beer legal here. The only legal
point at issue is the status of
the Sheppard law, otherwise
known as the District of Column
bia prohibition law, which is a
part of the District code.
Repeal Is Outlet
That was superseded by the
Volstead act and the Eighteenth
Amendment, and hence repealed
insofar as its provisions conflict
with the Federal prohibitiOfi
laws. BY all precedent, it would
not be revived by their repeal,
since the Federal statutes inn
plicity state that when CONGRESS
has repealed an act, such former
act will not be revived bH the
repeal of the latter unless ex-
press provision is made for its
restoration.
The Eighteenth Amendment
was ratified January Is, 1918, ana
the national prohibition act xsVol-
stead act) became effective Jan.
uary 16. 1920. The increased pen.
alties act Zones "five-a1d-telf
law became effective March 2,
1929.
For 20 years prior to this pro.
hibition legislation, how eyer,
liquor traffic in the District Had
been undergoing restrictions.
Prior Regulation
The number of saloons here
was limited, and they could not
be located within certain dis
tanceS of schools and churches.
An important piece of anti-liquor
law was the Jones-Works excise
law, which set up an excise board
and otherwise regulated the traf.
fic. This. however, and all pre-
existing legiSlatir =. ended its ef.
fective life on March 3, 1917,
when the Sheppard law. other
wise the District of Columbia
prohibition act. superseded it.
This law, still part of the
District code, prohibited the
manufacture, sale or importation
of liquor into the District, and
defined beer as a liquor so far
as its provision were concerned.
But as Congress enacted the
Eighteenth amendment and the
Volstead act, with supplementary
legislation, the Sheppard law is
at least impliedly. repealed.
In all probability, Congress
would, if it repealed Federal
prohibition legislation, do so by
UI1C CAIdCOAAACL1O Va OU11C4
regulatory system, which would
automatically become the law of
the District. States, which have
their own legislatures, must re-
peal State prohibition legisla-
ton, where it exists, to pave the
way for traffic in liquor when
Federal legislation is repealed.
Plant is Ready
Meanwhile, one local brewery
is making beer now, and could
put it on sale within "a hours
if the signal were given. Real
beer is made as a step in making
near-beer, the brewery's. present
product, and the place is all set
for expansion.
Other breweries could offer
passable beer within two weeks.
The Washington times., 1932-11-10

preceding the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November in
presidential years. Now l discover
that l have been going about with
a foolish face for nothing, and any
efforts to make my smile betoken
something more than vacant mind
have been futile, for it is a contest,
not a week; and, unless someone
picks me out in a crowd and cries,
"Ha, the perfect smile!" (Which is
unlikely I have strained my muscles
for nothing and will promptly go
back to my usual countenance, which
is grim and forbidding. In the
course of the past few weeks l have
read somewhere that American wo-
men smile too much, and Aldous
HuxloH1 hos n.nrnon.tnd n,1ith n,,,.,,o..al
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
TARIFF ISSUE
ST|RSPART|ES

The tariff issue today was def
nitely projected into the national
campaign as a result Of President
TIoover's veto of the Democratic
tariff bill.
Spokesman for both Republican
and Democratic parties in the
House, which failed to override
the veto, declared their willing
ness to go before the voters on
the issue.
Notice was served by Represen-
tative Crisp CD of Georgia, act
ing chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee, that general
tariff revision will be undertaken
by the Democrats if they win
the election.
Condemning the vetoed measure
as a "Popgun Bill" Representa-
tive Smell of New York, Repub-
lican leader, challenged the
Democrats to propose a specific
revision of the Hawley-Smoot
tariff law and take it to the
country.
The vetoed bill. which the
House passed 214 to 1872, provided
for an international conference
to lower tariff barriers and strip
ped the President of his tariff
making power under the flexible
provisions.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
To GE I
POST IN EAST

SAN FRANCISCO, May IL Il.
N.S)0 Lieut.. Thomas H. Mas
sic, his wife, Mrs. Thalia Massie,
and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Grace
Hubbard Fortescue, were due to
arrive here at 8 a. m. tomorrow
aboard the liner Malolo.
They will be taken aboard a
Navy launch in San Francisco
Bay and removed to secluded
quarters to escape the ordeal of
running the gauntlet of curious
persons at the pier.
Lieutenant Massie is expected
to be assigned to the Twelfth Dis
trict receiving ship at Yerba
BuenaF Island in San Francisco
Bay.
Later he may be transferred to
the naval base at New London,
Conn.,, in line with his desire to
get as far away as possible from
Hawaii.
Albert o. Jones and E. j. Lord,
the two naval enlisted men who
were defendants with Lieutenant
Massie and Mrs. Fortescue, are
aboard destroyers en- route to San
Diego.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
SKIPPER
LAUDED HERE

Lieut.. Comdr. Charles E. Rosen-
dahl, commander of the Navy diri-
gible Akron, today was hailed in
congressional circles as hero by
taking the giant airship through
violent storms to the Pacific
Coast.
Exonerating Rosendahl Of re-
sponsibility for the tragic deaths
of two members of the ground
crew at Camp Kearney, San
Diego, members of the House
Naval Affairs Committee, who in
vestigated the Akron's construc-
tion, EN- p h a sized Rosendahl's
ability and courage in preventing
a wreck Of the ship. Representa-.
tive Britten, of Illinois, ranking
Republican on the committee
said:
"It probably is due to his
great skill and courage that the.
Akron successfully crossed the
Rocky Mountains in a severe
storm and was finally tied to
what might be termed q tempo
rary mast at San Diego, without
the slightest mishap to the
great ship itself, although every
body is sorry to hear Of the two
fatalities which occurred
through the inexperience of the
ground men,"
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
BILL PUT
ON SHELF

OPPOSITION to the Glass bank
reform bill proved so strong to-
day that administration leaders
planned to Sidetrack it in the
Senate until after the revenue
bill is disposed Of.
This decision was reached when
Senator Glass CD of Virginia,
failed to win a vote on any
amendment after three days de-
bate.
The mined opposition
came from Western groups bitter.
" fighting the provisions au-
thorizing Statewide branch bank
ing by national banks.
Once sidetracked, the bill may
die ION the calender" because it
will not be called again until
after the tax and appropriation
bills are passed. With a June 10
adjournment tentatively agreed,
there appeared little likelihood
the bill can pass unless emascu-
lated to overcome all objections.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
GOWNS CHOSEN
FOR COURT

LONDON, May IL QN.S0
The American women being pre-
sented at the seasons second
royal court at Buckingham Pal.
ace tonight chose, il accordance
with the express wishes of the
Queen, gowns made Of as much
British material as possible.
Following are descriptions Of
some of the American gowns:
Mrs. Edward C. Acheson, Mid
dletown, Gonna white Greek
tunic with heavy cords Of pastel
wool with diamonds and headed
with tassels.
Miss Winifred Holt Bloodgood,
Baltimore, Md.-White Moroccan
silk with train of silver trimming
simply made
Mrs. Rufus G. Mather, New
York city-Old gold ecclesiastical
handmade Florentine lace with a
lame train with rhinestone jew
elry.
Mrs. William Lindsey, Boston
Orchid pink satin with a match
ing train of velvet and fan.
Miss Daphne Prizer, New York
city-Cream satin with cream
satin train with an inlay Of white
net and diamante halo head
dress.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
Akron Victim
waited Joy
In MOOring

ELKHART, Ind, May IL Il.
N.S.).-"BOy! 1 sure hope we
get to help moor the Akron!
That's something to write home
about"
These words were read by
Mrs. Lottie Edsall, gray-haired
mother here, in a letter from
her son, Robert Edsall, 20, just
a few hours before a Navy tele-
gram arrived with the news of
Roberts death while helping in
the attempt to moor the giant
dirigible at Camp Kearney,
Calf.
The letter was written by
young Edsall to his mother on
Mothers Day and just arrived
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
BUILDING GRAF 7
JOBLESS OVER
50PER CENT
Stability of Federal Pay,
However, Helps Ease
ldIeneSS Effect

Federal payrolls in Wash
ington, as. The Washington
Times showed yesterday, have
been retained fairly intact
during the present period of
economic Stress-more so, per-
haps, than has been generally
realized.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
has compiled figures for indus
trial employment, excluding any
Government services, which also
show conditions much more
favorable than are encountered
elsewhere situation due to the
stability of the local business
structure because Of regular
federal disbursements.
However, 10 per cent Of all
union men in the District were
unemployed in April, 1882. This
represented an increase over
March.
In the building trades, which
have been hardest hit, So per
cent were unemployed here in
April-hkewise an increase over
March.
1t is the widespread unemploy-
ment in the building trades that
has affected union employment
here so seriously. In other trades,
unemployment of union men is
only per cent locally, though
that too represents an increase
for April.
The number Of part-time en-
ployed in Washington is given as
10 per cent.
The aim of the statistics
bureau is to gather data from
industrial establishments over
the nation.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
PEGG|NGDO[LAR
ADVOCATED

Appearing before Senate COM
mittee in support of his dollar
pegging" bill, Representative
Goldsborough CD of Maryland
declared today there can be no
sound economic recovery until
commodity prices are stabilized.
The measure was passed over
whelmingly bye the House over
the opposition of the Admins
tration. It directs the Federal
Reserve Board to stabilize COM
modify values at the average
price level prevailing from 1921
to 1929. Goldsborough testified:
There is nothing imprac-
tical about it. 1t does not
mean initiation. Its passage
will mean the greatest advance
America has made in fiscal af-
fairs during the last so years.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
By WINIFRED BLACK

Copyright, 1882. by San Francisco
Examiner g. Universal Service, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, May IL,
America is coming back!
Lord Rothermere, publisher Of
the London Daily Mail, sees it
and knows it and says it, in good
plain English, in good plain print.
America coming back?-why
of course it is. How can it do
anything else?
Accomplishments of the Past
Look at what we have done,
in the last 100 years. We took
a wild untamed, uncultivated
country of agricultural commune
ties and turned it into the rich
est, most powerful, busiest and
happiest country in the world.
We turned small isolated rural
towns into great manufacturing
centers. We built railroads, fine
railroads, too, remember that.
We made highways through the
Swamps and the forest and over
the mountains. We built up the
finest school system in the world.
Not BY Magic
The common everyday American
has more comforts and more lux
uries today than most of the
well-to-do people in other coun-
tries.
Are we going to give them up
just because we've been through
a little spell of hard times?
Don't you believe it.
We're calling the roll right
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
Plight of Jobless in u. S.
Stirs Demand for Action

now, and every State in the coun-
try is answering here" and an"
swering in a good clear, loud,
confident, courageous voice.
The board of aldermen of New
York city adopted a resolution
yesterday asking Congress to put
that prosperity loan through and
put it through without a days
delay.
KeIIer'S Measure
The American Legion is swing
ing into line, demanding the
same thing.
The good plain American citizen
has begun to realize that he's in
an emergency-now watch him
rise to it with a song in his heart,
and laugh on his lips.
Depressed-Lord Rothermere-
not so you'd notice it. Not now.
We're good and mad, we
plain Americans, and our heads
are up, and our shoulders are
back and we're going to fight
this fight and win just as we
have won every war we ever en-
tered.
We can't expect our just debts
to be paid-we're almost through
hoping for that, but we do eX-
pect our own good staunch old
ship of state to weather this
storm, and we're going to weather
it all by ourselves. We Ameri-
cans, and the Congress and the
Senate of the United States will
put through that five-billion-
dollar bond measure-or maybe
some of us will ask some very
uncomfortable questions, when
our representatives adjourn in
Washington and come home.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
Of WIFE
HINTS PACT

MTLLERSBURG, Ohio, May IL
UN.S0.-Possibility that the
murder of Gertrude Meeker, 81,
was the result of "sort of
family agreement" was limited
today as county officials pre-
pared charges of first degree
murder against her 23-year-old
husband, Herbert.
Sheriff John Stevens revealed
that Meeker told him that it had
been agreed in a talk with "an-
other member of the family"
that something's got to be done
to get her out of the way"
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
SAW z TUMBLE
T0DEATH,B BUT
HELD ON
Robert 'Bub' CoWart, 19, Had
Nerve; Held on Because
He Had Orders to Do 1t
CAMP KEARNEY, SAN
DIEGO, Calf, May 12
(I.N.S.).-"I had orders to
hold on So 7 held m -

DIEGO, Calf, May IL
(I.N.S.).-"I had orders to
hold on. So I held on"
His brevity matching his non
chalance, Robert "Bub" Cowart,
10, "nervieSt" man in the United
States Navy, so disposed today
of his feat of hanging for an
hour and a half in mid air like
a plummet on the end of a
three-quarter inch rope dangling
from the dirigible Akron.
"Bub," Tulsa Oklahoma farm
lad, but eight week a sailor, was
one of four men carried aloft
when the Akron lunged upward
during an attempt to moor her
yesterday.
Two Fall to Death
Two of the four fell to their
death. Another received a
broken arm.
For an hour and 35 minutes
Cowart hung on the brink OF
eternity, swaying peIldulum-like
Rescued at last through a
hatch in the side of the Akron
after being drawn up inch by
inch, Cowart remarked:
"Whew! I'm all right but 1
wouldn't do that again for a
million dollars"
"Bub" was more concerned to-
day in Scraping the greases of
his uniform with worn jack
knife than he was with the
plaudits of his buddies and the
cheers of the populace. He said:
4 had orders to hold on,
so 1 held on and was whisked
off the ground.
Seeing that the ship was
evidently out of control, I was
going to let go and drop, but
1 saw too many Of my buddies
underneath.
81 was rapidly being carried
upward and when it was clear
enough below to jump, I was
too high up to jump.
SCARED, BUT HUNG ON
clinton and Edsel (whO
were kiIIed) and Walkup (whO
was injure6 were all on the
rope below me. I saw them
fall. / felt sick and scared,
but I hung on.
"After they had left the
line, 1 found I was standing
on the top wooden tOggle in
the spider line and was grasp
ing the rope with both hands.
1 straddIed the tOggIe and as
the rope was greasy and slip
perry, / tied q couple of bow.
line knots around my waist.
Several times the wind blew
me back and forth underneath
the AkrOn'S gOndOlaS.
Z didn't know whether the
rope would hold out but
didn't have much time to think
about that. I was too busy
wondering what would happen
next.
'T'm sure glad made it. You
know want to win the all-Navy
welterweight boxing champion
ship"
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
Golf Star
Pleads for CrippLed

Tom my McAuliff, armless
golfer, sports writer, typist and
penman, yesterday concluded a
weeks visit here in behalf of the
rehabilitation of the disabled in
the District.
McAuliff yesterday addressed
the student body of Stuart Junior
High School and the Washington
Kiwanis Club at the Raleigh
Hotel.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
GrOener Quits
As Defense Minister

BERLIN, May IL. qN.S0.
General Wilhelm Groener today
'tendered his resignation as Reich
Minister of defense as a result of
political opposition. He did not
resign as Minister of the Interior,
however.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
CARS RECOVERED

Three automobiles stolen from
the garage of the. Trew Motor Co.
in the rear of 1872 w st. N. w.
early yesterday, were recovered
last night by police. The ma
chimes were abandoned on the
streets.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
ENGLISH CUT BANK RATE

LONDON, May IL. QN.SO.
The Bank of England today re-
duced the bank rate from three
to two and one-haf per cent.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
COnstGbLes' Trials
Set for Next Term

Trials of two constables sched-
uled for the current term of Cir
cult Court at Upper Marlboro
have been continued to next
term.
The officers, Harry Sweeney
and William Hendley, were in
dicted for taking fees for keeping
order at a dance hall near OXon
Hill.
The Washington times., 1932-05-12
N. J. Governor Calls
PurLey on JObLeSS

TRENTON, N. j., May IL
Governor Moore, with legislative
leaders, today issued a call for
q conference next Thursday of
the States industrial and social
leaders to discuss unemployment
relief
The Washington times., 1932-05-12

BARBARA MOREHEAD
THIS Carnegie Tech student
has been missing since last
Friday when she left her Pitts.
burgh home apparently bound
for her classes. Her father is
a professor at the university.
This photo by international
News Photographic Service.