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The border vidette., 1932-10-22
OCTOBER %, 1882
LOCAL ITEMS.

in Yavapai county.
Dr.. Mile A. Wilson has re
turned from California where
she visited her children.
| r. A. Crosley Of Boston and
J. F. Shaw of Hermosillo. we're
here Tuesday on their way east.
The regular weekly meeting of
the Nogales Knights of Pythias
lodge was held Wednesday night
at Castle nall.
Mayor Harry J. Karns is en-
joying an outing on the west
coast of Mexico. he is expected
home Monday.
| DR.. M. I. Merritt and Rollo
Ashby enjoyed q deer hunt last
Sunday 10 the Cataline noun.
tains. near Benson.
W. N. Puckett is q candidate
for school trustee, be being the
only person to file q petition as
= candidate tor the office.
The Nogales Masonic lodge
met Tuesday night At the Ma
sonic temple at 8 o'clock for its
reg ular October meeting.
Cicero Martin aud party spent
Tuesday deer hunting in the
Patagonia mountains, where Mr..
Martin killed q fat young buck.
Attorney Duane Bird is in
Tucson on legal business in the
Pima county superior court. be
log associated with Attorney
Leslie G. Hardy.
The annual Santa Cruz county
fair at Sonoita was q success.
| many Nogales people. including
candidates for county Office, be.
inR in attendance.
E. K. Cumming and Jim Har.
rison have returned from sue
cessful deer hunt in the Cssca
bel district east OF Tucson. The
hunters got their buck.
Mrs. Cicero Martin and Mrs.
Dave Wilkey returned Monday
from q months motor trip to
Arkansas and Missouri where
they visited relatives.
The Armistice Day committees
of the American Legion met
Tuesday night at the chamber of
commerce rooms, at the. call of
Dr.. A. L. Gustetter. general
chairman.
Mrs. Esther johnson, 86, died
Monday at the home of her son
near Vaughn. Funeral services
were held ct 2 p, N. Wednesday
at the Vaughn church. interment
ct Camille.
Lem Shattuck of the Miners
Merchant Bank of Bisbee. own.
ers Of the property in Morley
avenue formerly owned by Roy
& Titcomb, Inc., WAS q Nogales
business visitor Wednesday.
Anton Ackerman, brewmaster
at the Hermosillo brewery, has
gone to San Francisco to visit
bis son. Mr.. Ackerman's wife
died last week in the coast city,
following a short illness.
Frank Sweeney of Tucson,
salesman for the Iris Food Pro
ducts company, was a border
city visitor Tuesday. Frank is
a consistent Democrat who al
ways votes his ticket straight.
Jim Lester, we'll known mining
engineer, was visitor in No
gales yesterday accompanied by
q party of friends. Lester is in.
terested in mines in the CanaBea
district. Sonora. His home is in
San Francisco.
State Tax Commissioners e.
A. Hughes and M. A. Murphy
Of Phoenix see here on official
business. Mr.. Hughes was one
of the Democratic candidates de
feated for nomination at the late
primary election.
There will be a dance tonight
at the Calabasas school house.
Tickets for the social affair are
being sold by Mrs. F. J. Trimer
and Mrs. Herman Medlen. A
special invitation has been issu.
ed TO county candidates.
| Mrs. Joe Gross has gone to
San Francisco via Greyhound
Bus Lines. En route back to
| Nogaies-next week.-Mrs. Gross
will stop over in Los Angeles to
see her SOD, Alex, who is attend
~ kE1 ma Sk
The border vidette., 1932-10-22

many years ne mas Oeen Inter
ested in Mexican mines.
Absentee ballots have been de
livered by the Keddington Print.
ing Company of Tucson to Mrs.
Ada Jones, county recorder, and
absentee and disabled voters may
vote now. The November 9th
general election ballot contains,
besides nine amendments. six
political columns - Democratic,
Republican, Communist. Arizona
Progressive Democratic, Social
ist and Non Partisan.
General Douglas Macarthur,
chief of the army staff at Wash.
ington. 10 q letter said 10 have
been received recently by the
Nogales Chamber of Commerce.
informed the chamber that the
25th Infantry colored troops,
now stationed 1t Camp Stephen
Little, No9ales. would be moved
to Fort Huachuca, Ariz., within
the next few weeks aud the army
post at this place abandoned.
City Alderman 0. A. Smith OF
Nogales has been named vice.
president for Santa Cruz county
of the Arizona League. a volun
tary state wide organization re-
Gently formed to promote sane
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
CHIEF WAGNER
LAID To REST

With the drum and bugle corps
of the Fire Department march
ing in the lead of the funeral
cortege, the body of Frank j.
Wagner, former chief of the
District Fire Department, left
his home at 4709 Georgia Ave.
N. w., and was taken to st.
GabrieIs Church, where mass
was sung.
A crowd of his Washington
friends, numbering about 500,
attended the services. Following
the mass, the procession went to
Rock Greek Cemetery, where
Chief Wagner was buried.
The pallbearerS included Bat
talon Chief C. w. Gill, Capt.
G. c. Meeks, Capt. o. R. Mosley,
Pvt. j. c. Statz, Pvt. B. H.
STATE and Pvt. c. S. Paterson.
Honorary pallbearers we're the
present chief of the fire depart
ment, George S. Watson; John
Darlington, deputy chief; C. C.
LAUDER, fire marshal; o. E..
Fearn, superintendent of machin-
cry, and Battalion Chiefs H. F..
Mcconnell, H. B. Barker, E. How
ard, j. R. Groves, j. B. Sims,
L. L. Woolard and A. c. Buscher.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
.D.C.DETECT|vES
REORGAN|ZED

Reorganization of the detective
bureau of the Police Department
to provide a more efficient unit,
was announced today by Inspec-
tor Frank Burke, chief of detec-
tives.
The move includes appoint
ment of supervising officers in
each of the police inspection dis
tricts. Capt. Bernard w. Thomp,
son will have charge of detective
work in the First District, en-
bracing the downtown business
area; Lieut.. Clement Cox will
have charge of the southern area
or Third District, while Lieut.
John Fowler, will have charge
of detective work in the Second
Inspection District, covering the
northern area of the city.
Assignment of 18 new precinct
detectives to serve as an adjunct
to the detective force became
effective today. This makes the
present detective force of the
city include so detective ser
geants and 80 precinct detectives
Lieut.. Fred Sandberg. inter
nationally known finger-print
expert, will in the future have
charge of all records of the de-
tective bureau, Inspector Burke
said.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21

The man who helped The
Washington Times to scoop"
the town on the arrest of Police
man Luther Cline, of the Second
precinct, and his brother, is the
winner this week of the first
prize of $40 in The Times News
tip Contest.
In the sensational story of the
assault with a hatchet on Mrs.
Anita Doyle, of Cold Springs,
Md, the tip on the capture of
the colored aSsailant won the
second prize of So. ....
Edward Frank, former Wash
irgton jeweler, serving a SEN
tence at the District Jail on a
charge of arson is just beginning
to feel the effect of the financial
situation. However, the discovery
of $4,000 Sewed on the inside Of
his shirt meant $5 to the man
who tipped off The Times.
The story that immigration
authorities had issued warrant
for Henry Red" Johnson, quizzed
ia connection with the Eindbergh
baby kidnapping, for illegal en-
try. placing bond at $4,000, was
awarded fourth prize of So.
Six 50 awards were made for
the following stories. The illness
of Sergeant Stanley. of the Metro
politan Police Department, at
walter Reed Hospital; damage
to a mailbox in Northeast Wash
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
DEATH
NOW BELIEVED
ACCIDENT
PriVats's Bicycle May Have
Hit Parked Auto, Inquiry
of DarneII Hints

, Members Of the homicide
squad today discarded the
theory that Pvt. William j.
Grissam, "a, of the park police,
was a victim of a hit-and-run
motorist, and now believe he
suffered fatal injuries when his
bicycle struck a parked auto
mobile early yesterday.
Detective Sergt. George Darnall
today made an inspection of a
parked automobile on John Mar
shall Place near Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest, and found the
rear Of the machine slightly dam
aged, apparently caused when
Grissam's bicycle struck it.
Found Damaged
The bicycle was found slightly
damaged nearby early yesterday
by a passing taxi driver, who re-
moved the poliseman to Emer-
gency Hospital, where he died.
A coroner's inquest vii be held
tomorrow at 1880 o'clock.
Hospital officials first said that
GriSsam suffered a stroke of
apoplexy, during which he fell
and injured himself. An autopsy,
however, by DR.. Joseph D. Rogers,
District coroner, revealed Girls
sam had suffered a skull frac-
ture, several broken ribs and in
jurieS to his lungs.
Sergt. L. G. Purtlebough, also
of the park police, said he had
talked with Grissam about S
o'clock yesterday morning.
On Force 16 Years
Grissam then said he would
take one more turn about the
Smithsonian Institution.
Private Grissam, who lived at
Maryland Park, Md, had been
on the force 16 years. He is sur.
vived by his widow and two
daughters.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
FILTERS
FILL CLASS

The District vocational educa-
ton program is insufficient to
cope with the demands of its
grown-up students, if the situa-
ton at the, Abbott Vocational
School can be accepted as an
example.
Students of the acetylene weld
ing class at the school occupy
three classes each week.
The class, composed Of 40 men,
ali of them steamfitters, has de-
manded that the school room be
made available during the other
three nights of each week and
members of the class are paying
for the services of the teacher
and for the extra materials nee
eSSary,
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Prosperity Returns,
Police Court BUSv

Prosperous times were recalled
to visitors in the Alexandria
police court this morning when
more than 80 cases were tried by
Judge Snow. Fifteen drunks were
fined or forfeited $14 each and
two men charged with possession
of small amounts of liquor were
fined $50 and costs each.
Jake Mitchell, colored, charged
with being drunk, stealing coal
and resisting arrest, was sent
enced to six months in jail. He
was arrested after a struggle in
which it was necessary to black
jack him.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Gas COMP ANY
PLAN HELD Up

A hearing on the proposal Of
the Washington Gaslight Com
pany to erect a 100000 gas
holder on Riggs Road Northwest
in the vicinity of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad tracks will be
held by the Public Utilities Com
mission.
Officials of the company have
been called to appear before the
commission tomorrow and explain
plans for the holder, which is to
be 155 feet in height. Several
citizens associations have objected
to location of the project.
A request of Robert L. May to
abandon the transfer arrange
ment between local street car
company lines and his busses COM
ing in from Alexandria was laid
before the commission. Mr.. May
contends the arrangement was
made when his interurban street
cars had their terminal at
Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue, and urges the discontinue
ance as the result of the aban-
donment of his railway line in
the city. The commission re-
ferred the request to the local
traction companies for their re-
action.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
PURCHASE ADS
IN MYTHICAL
MAGAZINES
Even Salesman EGypped,' Paid
BY Rubber Cheeks Many
Among JobIeSs Suffer

Although the bicentennial
activities in the District are
expected to bring in millions
of dollars in revenues during
the nine-lronth gram
hundreds of Washington house
wives have already been
mulcted of a large amount of
money by scheming "pro-
moters," according to the
Better Business Bureau.
Most of this money has been
pocketed by operators of "gyp"
room-liSting "rackets," who have
Skinned the cream from the
milk" and dropped out of sight.
Paid for Listings
Housewives and rooming house
operators in large numbers sue
cumbed to the lure of dummy
pubIications, according to COM
L!4i.ltS received at the Better
Business Bureau:
They paid out good money for
"listings" in these booklets or
papers, which, in some in
stances, were to be given national
circulation among motorists and
other prospective visitors to the
National Capital this year.
The money, it was said, was
collected by the solicitors.
Complaints received by Louis
RothSchild, executive director of
the Better Business Bureau, have
convinced him that the opera
tors have not only "Stung" house
wives willing to turn an honest
dollar through renting their
spare rooms to visitors, but that
their statesmen have been beaten
out of their commission in
numerous instances.
Get Rubber Checks
Many Salesmen who failed to
"hold out" their commissions from
collections were paid with rub
ber checks" returned by local
banks.
Most of these salesmen were
recruited from the ranks of the
jobless. Needing work badly they
failed to investigate the integ
rity of their employers, Rothschild
said.
The District Bicentennial Com
mission is operating a free
room-listing service, Rothschild
said, and there is no need fo1
Washingtonians to pay fees" to
SaleSmen.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
.OtGbles to attend
D. C.. Bar Bun0uet

a distinguished company from
Judicial and professional circles
in Washington will be honor
guests of the District Bar Associa-
ton at its annual banquet, April
2, at the Mayflower Hotel.
The guests will include Chief
Justice Martin and Associate
Justices Robb, Van Orsden, Hitz,
and Groner of the District Court
of Appeals; Chief Justice Wheat
and Associate Justices Bailey, Cor
don, Adkins, Lluhring, Cox, Proc
tor, Let's and Donoghue of the
District Supreme Court.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Hitch-HikerS Told
To LeGUe District

Two young hitch-hikers who
were hailed before Traffic Court
Judge Gus A. Schuldt today for
standing on the highway to solicit
rides on private vehicles were re-
leased on their personal bonds
when they promised to leave the
city at once.
The boys, Peter Capulto and
Abraham Kaplowitz, both of New
York city, were arrested yesterday
on Bladensburg Road Northwest
by Ninth Precinct Policeman B. A.
Lemon,
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
2 Children Injured
When Cars Collide

Two children were slightly in
jured yesterday when cars driven
by F. E. Powell, 1401 Columbia
Rd., and Robert Howard, 300 Ray
mond Ave-, Alexandria, collided
at King and Lee Streets in Alex
andria. Jane Howard, l year old,
and Susie Morrison, Is, Of 300
Raymond Ave-, were badly cut.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Brig. Gen. Richardson
To GiUe PIT. A. Talk

Brig. Gen. George Richardson,
U. S. M. c., will be speaker at the
monthly meeting of the Parent
Teachers Association of the Nellie
CustiS School, Aurora Hills, Va
He will talk on Military Train
ing for Boys and Girls in the Pub
lie Schools"
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
MANY PAY-CUT
PLANS DUE
IN HOUSE,.
La Guardia Ready to Stage
Fight Against Reducing
Federal Clerks Pay

The House economy subcom-
mittee will report many" pro-
posals for Federal pay reduc-
tion to the full committee this
afternoon, Representative John
McDuffie (D.) of Alabama
said today.
The subcommittee of three
members who were selected to
draft pay-cut bills failed to reach
a definite agreement by the close
Of the morning session today, and
will go in to the full committee
to submit proposals and allow the
larger group to make a final de-
ciSion, he indicated.
Variety Of Provisions
1t is understood that the pro-
posals will carry varied provisions,
suggesting reductions ranging
from l to 20 per cent from the
lowest to the highest brackets;
exceptions under salaries OF
81 800 or $4,000, and flat rate re-
ductions Of 10 per cent for all
salaries.
All salary-reduction proposals
are expected to meet with q
storm of opposition when they
reach the economy committee,
as Representative John j. Coch-
ran CD, of Missouri, chairman
of the Committee on Expendi-
lures has expressed his decision
to fight such measures.
He has led the pay-cut opposi-
ton on the Democratic side Of
the House.
Representative Fiorella H. La
Guardia (RD of New York, who
has championed the cause of the
Federal employees on the Repub-
lican side, today received a let
ter criticising him for his "au-
dacity'' in seeking pay increases
when the United States is in q
terrible state of depression"
VacaCAOn suggested
The letter, sent by Anthony J.
Grasso, president of the Italo-
American National Association,
suggested to LaGuardia that
members of Congress and Off
cials of useless commissions
would take a five-year vacation
without pay, the American peo.
pie and the United States Treas
ury would be in fine shape"
The subcommittee reviewed
the testimony of Herbert Brown,
chief of the Budget Bureau, who
presented additional tables that
indicated savings which might
be effected by various methods
of reduction.
Brown is believed to have ad-
viSed the subcommittee that flat
reductions in the lower brackets
would meet with disapproval in
the House and endanger the pos
SihilitieS Of passage of a pay cut
bill.
Will Be AS Rider
Representative Joseph w. Byrns
Cd of Tennessee, chairman Of
the economy committee, and also
chairman of the House Appropria-
tions Committee, said that the pay
cut bill which was finally agreed
upon by the economy committee
would probably be attached to the
legislative appropriations bill as
rider. This procedure would
force a vote in both houses of
Congress on pay reductions, Byrns
said.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Police Are Ordered
To Watch Gaming
Machines

Police have been directed to
visit establishments where
games of chance are operated
to ascertain if gambling is be-
ing indulged in.
A survey showed that 563
machines are in operation. A
recent opinion by the District
Attorney said their use is legal
if not used for gaming pur-
poses.
Police have been instructed
to arrest both the operator
and players if evidence of gam
bling is uncovered.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Policen,ans Arrest Wins
Times .$2O Ne1ustip Prize

ington which melted residents to
believe it had been stolen; wreck
of the B. & o. Capital Limited
at Weverton, Md; injury of a
7-year-old boy who suffered burns
while playing around a rubbish
fire; attempted burglary of an
apartment, and an automobile
wreck on the Highway Bridge.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
SL0sher Fined $40,
Admits His Guilt

Said to have cut another man
on the arm with an Army bayonet,
Albert Wilson, colored, 80, of 121
P st. N. W., today pleaded guilty
to an assault charge before Police
Court Judge Isaac R. Hit and
was fined $40.
Wilson said he cut Edward
Dyson, colored, 1913 P st. N. W..
because the latter tried to get
my wife drunk so she would spend
all the money I had saved"
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Police TrGnsnlitter
To Cost S7,488 Asked

The Senate District Committee
was petitioned today to provide
deficiency appropriation for
the purchase of a duplicate radio
transmitter. The duplicate set
would cost $7,488.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Paid Income Tax
Drops n Per Cent

Income tax collections for the
fiscal year through to March 18
were about A per cent below last
year. Collections for the July l.
March 10 period were $81O, ,549, 900,
down $60O,O00,000, while March
receipts were 152,428,000, a drop
of $87 ,OOO, 900.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21

bihation is novelty, but DO not
think that Representative Fish would
stand a chance in America even if
he added Gandhi's loin cloth to Har-
old Lloyd's spectacles; even in poll
tics you have to have something the
people think they want. Hitler,
obviously, has it. He has the su-
premely attractive quality of being
against the government, which
means, at the moment, that he can
pose as the savior of Germany,
since the government in power is
merely trying to solve its difficult
ties and Hitler proposes to ignore
them.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
True to Type
MUSSOLlNpS SALUTE AND
CHAPLINS MUSTACFE
MAKE A HITLER
BY GILBERT SELDES

ENHERE must be something in Adolf Hitler which the
= newsreel hasn't managed to convey to US; it isn't
reasonable that eleven million Germans should vote for
a whose only attributes a Charlie Chaplin
mustache and Mussolini salute Of course, this
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
LEAGUE MEETS TONIGHT

The League of American Civil
Service will meet. tonight at 8
o'clock in the Interior Depart
ment auditorium. Several mem
bers of Congress will speak.
The Washington times., 1932-03-21
EASTER MONDAY DANCE

The Sacred Heart Council of
Knights of Columbus will hold a
dance in the White Marsh, Md,
hall Easter Monday night.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21

you amt gettin' nothin' more
outa me-"
They quizzed him, of course.
at length. They asked him
where the other man lived. He
said he didn't know. They did
everything possible to get con-
fession from him. But they
got nowhere.
Everything pointed to the be-
lief that this husband had muir
dered his wife. The neighbors'
testimony about the violent
quarels. The husbands I'M
savory past. The blood stains.
The complete disappearance of
the wife. The stiffness after
the last terrific shrek. Yes,
everything was present for a
murder charge. Everything but
the body. And without that,
where we're the police? 1 ask
you. Don't ask me.
They held the husband for
some time while they searched
and searched. They let him go,
and then they picked him up
again. And just about four
months after the first quiz, they
found a woman's body in the
tiny garage in the rear of the
frame house.
They Find the Body
The body had been hacked
tc bits. Nobody was willing
positively to identify the Te-
mains. 1t was in such state
that identification was almost
impossible. But the police dug
up a distant relative and
brought the lady on. She look
ed-and she nodded. Yes, that
was Susie. Susie had had a
mark on her left hand just
like that. Yes, she was positive.
Milton was tried for the MUIR
der of his wife. He was lucky
enough to have a conscientious
attorney assigned to him, and
the evidence against him was
purely circumstantlal, He fin
ally wound up by being con-
victed of the murder and ''as
sent to the penitentiary at
Joliet, Ill, for some Is years.
He had been let off, I guess,
comparatively lightly.
The man served IA years
before he was again turned
loose in the world. He skipped
the big city this time and wan
dered into one of the smaller
towns in the Middle West in
search of job. He was sitting
in a beanery and gazing gloom
lily through the window when
he saw his wife walk by. She
had been alive all this time and
had made no effort to save
him from the murder rap. And
all she would have had to do,
of course, was to walk into the
courtroom.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
Film Ends Play

Metro oldwyn Mayer controls
the stage production of Grand
Hotel" as we'll as the picture.
But the play must get out of the
way for the film although next
week in Philadelphia the movie
and the stage production will pro-
vide opposition for each other.
Boston will lose the stage
production since Grand Hotel
on the screen will open a two
a-day engagement there Saturday.
There is good possibility that
L. Stoddard Taylor's pleadings to
have the play end its road tour
in Lafayette Square may be
answered favorably for the book
ing of the picture here has been
delayed.
The Actors Equity Association
has consented to let the pro-
ducers close the play without the
customary two weeks notice. At
the same time Equity CaAos the
opportunity to point olt that
something really ought to be done
about this business of selling
movie rights before the stage
possibilities of play have been
fully realized.