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The Washington times., 1932-09-03
SOVIET FACING
STARVATION

MOSCOW, Sept. 8 GN.SO.-
In a final desperate effort to in
sure at least some food for Rus.
sia's millions during the coming
winter, premiums have been Of
fered by the grain commission to
state and collective farms which
fill their quotas according to
schedule.
Funds for this purpose are be-
ing set aside, and today hopes
among the peasants for meals
during the icy months are high
There is good reason to doubt
however, that these last-minute
measures will produce the desired
results, for grain harvesting is
proceeding at a snail's pace. Less
than half the amount now sched
uled for collection has actually
been stored.
The seriousness of the food sit
uation was amply Illustrated by
the announcement yesterday that
all foreign newspaper correspond
ents would be placed on a drastic
ration, although foreign diplo
mats were not affected by the
decree.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
TUNNEY READY
kFOR CAMPAIGN

r NEW YORK, Sept. 8 OSO.
Gene Tunney, former heavyweight
champion, was back from Europe
today and went into training for
his speaking tour in behalf of the
Democratic ticket by delivering a
couple of verbal leftS and rights
in the direction of President Hoo
yer and the Republican party.
He declared:
"In Europe, they think Pres
sdent Hoover and the Repub-
aicanS are up in the air over
the question of whether a man
should drink in his home, in
the street, or in a restaurant.
IThe French see no chance for
any change in prohibition if
Hoover is reelected"
, Tunney concluded with this
bpigram:
''We Americans should keep
in mind that if Roosevelt is
Delected prosperity won't be
RarOund the cOrner'-it will be
straight ahead"
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
RAIL RATE CUTS
UNDER FIRE

The recommendation of the ad-
visory board of the United States
owned Inland Waterways Corpor-
alton that the Government join
with independent boat lines in
the formation of an association
to fight railroad rate cutting
created a sensation here today.
Secretary of War Hurley, who
governs the Inland Waterways
Corporation, was expected to con-
fer with Gen. T. Q. Ashburn, its
president. All recommendations
of the corporations advisory
board are subject to the approval
of the Secretary of War.
In a statement explaining it's
decision to recommend that the
Government unite with private
boat lines in the joint establish
ment of an association for the
advancement and protection of
mutual interests" the advisory
board said it was moved by
charges that the railroads were
making persistent efforts to
destroy independent operations
through constant reduction of
railroad rates beyond reasonably
compensatory rates"
The charges we're made before
the board by A. P. Calhoun, vice
president of the American Barge
Lines Company.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
COX, DAVIS MAP
CAMPAIGN AID

NEW YORK. Sept. U.S0.
Former Governor James M. Cox,
of Ohio, and John w. Davis, Of
New York, former Democratic
presidential nominees, have def
nitely agreed to campaign actively
for the Roosevelt-Garner ticket,
it was announced today.
Their itinerary has not yet
been completed but it will be an
nounced shortly. Some of the
other prominent speakers and ad.
dresses scheduled so far are:
Josephus Daniels, former Sec.
retary of the Navy, at the Amer
ican Legion convention in Port.
land, Ore, on September IL, and
at other Pacific Coast meetings.
Newton D. Baker, former Secre.
tary of War, at a Democratic as
Sembly in Cleveland in october
and at a number of rallies in the
East.
Senator Carter Glass, of vir-
ginia, in Maryland, Virginia and
several Western States.
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to
the late President Wilson, through
out the East late in September.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
Rudy'sa Grand Husband,
But Not for Me, Says Fay

CHICAGO, Sept. 3. U.N. s.
Rudy Vallee makes a grand hus-
band-for somebody else.
That was the way Fay Webb
Vallee summed up her estimate
of her famous crooner-husband to-
day as she paused in Chicago,
Reno-bound.
"He'S wonderful. But we just
could not get along. In our IA
months of married life we Simp-
ly didn't agree on many things.
Our temperamentS claShed.
Sometimes Rudy'S engage
mentS would keep him out un-
til a. m. Then he'd have to
leave again at l p. m. and I'd
never even get to see him. What
kind of married life is that, 1
ask yOu?"
And so, she sighed, the romance
that thrilled the nation a little
more than a year ago is to be
ended in Nevada's divorce mill.
On To Reno
With her on the Westward trip
were her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
C. E. Webb. Her father is chief
of police at Santa Monica, Calf.
With them also were Is miscel-
laneous pieces of smart luggage,
but Chief Webb was much per-
turbed over the loss of a pigskin
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
R.F.C. PLANNING
HUGE LOANS

With a number of the more
pressing relief loans cleared away
and with action on a PennSyl
vania loan imminent, the Recon
struction Finance Corporation to.
day was preparing for the big task
next week of making Self-liquidat-
ing loans Of many millions of dol.
lars.
Representatives of a number Of
the important self-liquidating prof.
ects, including the tri-borough
bridge in New York, the New Or
leans Belt Line and Highway, and
the Los Angeles Metropolitan Wa
ter District, were expected to pre-.
sent additional details of their
propositions to the board within
the next 10 days.
Major Key, of Atlanta, is ex-
pected to appear before the R
F. c. Wednesday to seek a loan
of $11,OO0,000 to get his city's
sewer modernization project un'
derway.
Statements by members of the
board of the corporation indi'
Gated their belief that these prof.
ects were actually of the self.
liquidating character as outlined
in the law and that they were
sound both from the engineering
and financial standpoint.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
KIN Of 'SALL|ES'
HEAD INJURED

MARBLEHEAD, Mass, Sept. 3
GN.S0 Charles Brandon Booth,
40, of New York, son of Mrs.
Maud Ballington Booth, social
worker, and grandson of the
founder of the Salvation Army,
was in serious condition at the
Mary A. Alley Hospital today fol
lowing mysterious accident
aboard a salboat at the Boston
Yacht Club.
Booth, a lecturer and head of
a Big Brothers" movement, was
found lying over the side of the
boat, his head and shoulders in
the water and his feet tangled
in rigging under the boom.
Thomas Lyons, a paSSerby,
rescued Booth and took him to
the hospital.
The sailboat was owned by
Charles McInnis, coach at the
Marblehead High School. Police
believed Booth had borrowed the
boat for a sail alone and that
he was unable to raise himself
when his feet tangled in the
rigging and threw him over the
side.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
JAHNCKE CALLS|5-DAY WEEK Up
HOOVERNOBLE IN HOOVER TALK

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Un.
stinted praise of President
Hoover and his policies during
the present economic stress
marked the speech of Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy Ernest
Lee Jahncke before the eighth
national convention of the Fleet
Naval Reserve Association here
today.
Jahncke added:
against the grim figure of
economic dislocatiOn which has
beleagured the world for the
past several years, the Presi-
dent has fought with the ut
most intellect, capacity and
courage.
His struggle to restore pros
perity and happiness to this
country has been nOnpartisan
and nOnpOlitical. His loyalty
to his post of duty and to 12O,.
100000 American citizens has
been an inspiring spectacle and
no honest man has ever at
tackled the nobility Of his mo.
tiveS.
Regardless of your political
affiliations or personal cOnvic-
tiOns it is your duty as citizens
in your own interest, and in
the interest of your country,
to consider carefully and dis
paSSiOnately the record of the
man who has navigated our
ship of state through the worst
economic storm in history"
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
FARM SOLUTION
: SEEN IN JOBS

T A new and carefully thought
out proposal to pull the Amer
ican farmer out of the hole into
which he has been sinking deeper
and deeper for a decade was sug'
geSted today by Representative
Woodruff CR0 of Michigan.
Woodruff is convinced no solu
tion of the farmers trouble is
possible without increasing de-
mand through ending unemploy
ment in the industrial and buSi,
ness world. He said:
Before the price of farm
commodities can be restored to
normal levels, we must restore
the purchasing power of that
portion of the population which
! is now unemp-Oyed and which
includes about One-fOurth of all
the wage earners of the cOun-
try"
To restore employment and
The purchasing power which goes
hand in hand with it, Woodruff
proposes spreading work-either
through shorter hours or shorter
working weeks. He said:
/ "TO completely take up the
slack that has accumulated
: and stop the depression immed-
lately it would be necessary to
Ego to five-day week with
! . Six-hGur day.
| "This would mean no reduc.
tiOn in hourly wage rates.
Wages could and should be put
back to the 1929 level. But it
would mean that each worker
now employed would work one.
fourth less time and would re-
ceive One-fOurth less income
than he did in 1929 until more
prosperous conditions returned"
The Washington times., 1932-09-03

SKYLAND, Va, Sept. 3 I.N.S)
In the quiet of his Rapidan
camp, President Hoover today re.
ceived first hand information on
the effect of distributed working
hours on unemployment.
Mr.. Hoover has as one of his
guests w. K. Kellogg, Battle
Creek cereal manufacturer, who
has instituted the reduced week
in his huge plant, and the two
spent the morning on the Presi-
dents porch discussing possibili-
ties of increased employment
through such a measure.
The President on numerous oc-
casions has urged industry to en-
brace the five day week, and in
sofar as possible under present
legislation has inaugurated it in
the Government service.
For the most part things were
quiet on the Rapidan today. Fol-
lowing an early breakfast, the
President went for a brief hike.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
z Gas COMPANY
OFFICIALS OUT

Dismissal of two officials Of the
Washington Gas Light Company
gave rise today to reports of a
general shake-up in the CON-
pany's personnel.
Walter M. Russell, chief engi-
neer, and Charles P. Balsam, di-
rector of sales, were the two dis
missed. The dismissal of Rus
sell is regarded as the completion
of the custer of officials put in
office during the reign of George
A. G. Wood, who was removed
as president last April.
A report that Marcy Sperry,
the new president, was to be re-
placed by Wood was vigorously
denied,
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
Mass Meet Closes
Missionary PGrIey

A missionary mass meeting con-
Quoted by DR.. J. Harvey Ran
dolph, corresponding secretary,
featured the closing session Of the
35th annual convention Of the
Lott-Carey Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion Society of America at Shiloh
Baptist Church last night.
Among the farewell speakers
were Mrs. Cora Pair Thomas, Of
West Africa, and DR.. B. A. Har.
ris, of Haiti. Music was furnished
by the choir of the Third Baptist
Church.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
Nonsense Praised
Blu Mrs. Roosevelt

Praise for nonsense stories as
Of value to children is given by
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife
of New York's governor, in an
introduction for the National
Home Library Foundations jacket
library edition of alice in Won
derland." Mrs. Roosevelt said:
Nonsense may have a mean
ing when you grow up unsuS-
pected in our youth, but charm
ing nonsense helps to form
taste, and our children will
find certain quotations staying
with them all their lives"
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
Suspect Arrested
In HOLdup Probe

Police of the Third precinct
are holding James Howard. %,
colored, of the 1000 block Alex
andria ct. N. w. for inveStiga-
ton. They say he answers the
description of a man who yester.
day attempted to hold up Miss
Emma S. Trainer, of the 3700
block Garfield st. N. W., while
her machine was parked near
Seventeenth and I Streets North
west. Miss Trainer later today
will try to identify the man.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
2 Policemen Hurt
In Auto Collision

Patrolmen r. N. Finch and F.
j. Noble, of the Traffic Bureau,
we're cut by flying glass when
the automobile in which they
were riding collided with another
driven by Robert Kelsey, Of the
1900 block Longfellow st. N. W.,
during the, storm yesterday. The
machines came together at Thir-
teenth and Farragut Streets
Northwest. Both cars we're badly
damaged. The policemen were
not badly hurt.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
Federation Officers
Will Return Shortly

President Luther C. Steward,
of the National Federation of
Federal Employees, who is out in
the field on matters pertaining
to his organization, will return
to his office about September Is.
Reports from him indicate that,
in view of salary reductions and
other factors. Federal employees
everywhere are taking a new in.
terest in organization if only to
promote their own interests
through legislation.
Miss Gertrude McNally, ma
tional secretary, who is spending
a few days at her summer home,
will return after Labor Day.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
WALES GAMES
W|THU. 8. GIRL

BIARRITZ, France, Sept. 8
G.N.S0 The Prince of Wales is
going American"
The heir to the British throne,
preparing to end his informal va
cation at this resort today, has
spent nearly the entire holiday
learning backgammon from a
New York girl.
Nearly every day he also has
taken swimming lessons, learning
American strokes from a hard
boiled American instructor who
frequently calls him down" for
mistakes.
His backgammon teacher is
Miss Beth Leary, a brunette, who
frequently has spent the entire
day playing backgammon with
the Prince and his brother, Prince
George, alongside the swimming
pool.
The American swimming in
structor is Aaron Banks, for eight
years a life guard at Long Beach
New York, where he is reputed
to have saved almost a thousand
lives
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
MANS Leg Broken
Bv HH-RUn Auto

Struck early today by a hit-run
driver while fixing a tire on the
Baltimore boulevard near College
Park, Edward Curlett is in Casualty
Hospital with a compound frac-
ture of the right leg. He was
taken to the hospital by the
BladenSburg rescue squad. Police
are seeking the identity of the
hit-run driver.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
FINDS MAID DEAD

Descending into the cellar Of
her home in the $500 block of
South Dakota Ave. N. E., today,
Miss Ruby Smith found her maid,
Florence Hawkins, colored. dead
on the floor. Her death was at
tributed to natural causes,
The Washington times., 1932-09-03

overnight bag, the gilt or the
noted crooner to Fay.
Rudy and Fay will always be
friends, she insisted. She added
1--WE separated on splendid
terms. Rudy shook hands with
me at the station when 1 left
New York, and a substantial
cash settlement has been
made"
MUM ABOUT CASH
But Mrs. Vallee was strictly
mum as to the extent Of the set
tlement. She said:
81 am under oath not to
divuIge the amount"
"The grounds on which I
shall apply for a divorce will
merely be incOmpatibility, and
1 hope to get my decree in six
weeks"
Asked about her future plans,
the olive-skinned Mrs. Vallee said
"1'm going back to the Cali
fOrnia 1 love. / wish I had
never left that State. Sooner
or later, of course, 1 hope to
return to the movies. What
else is there for me? 1 have no
voice for radio and 1 do not
care for the stage"
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
Car Skids Off Road,
/ Woman Iniures Hin

During the storm which swept
Montgomery county yesterday,
Mrs. Nell Hawthorne, "a, of Ken
Eington, received a diSlocated hip
and other injuries when her car
Skidded off the road into tele.
phone pole near Gaithersburg
She was taken to Montgomery
County Hospital by passersby.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
DRUGSTORE LOOTED

Thieves yesterday entered a
drug store in the 1900 block Eye
st. N. W., and stole merchandise
valued at $40, according to re-
port made to police by Dr.. Frank
L. Linton, 1898 Harrison st. N. W.,
proprietor.
The Washington times., 1932-09-03
LIBRARY OPEN MONDAY

The Library of Congress will be
open Monday for holiday service
from 2 p. m. until 10 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-02-01
SHOPPINC--Wth Alice and EveI Iyn

There's a thrill to buying
your first spring hat that
nothing else quite equals. It's
more than new bonnet. 1t
means that the winter hasn't
been too long and hard to re-
aliZe that springtime's not far
away. 1t really does your own
morale more good than finding
the first crocuS-bud! Besides,
every one of us needs a spring
hat to help out our winter
wardrobe, and we ought to buy
it before January disappears
completely. We've sketched
three outstanding types of hats
for early wear already in the
stores-but only three just be-
cause of space. Here's a tur-
ban, an up-in-thc back line, and
a sailor with a new-fashioned
upturned brim. But side brims
rolled, with flanges to the side
or back, draped or sectioned
crowns and other flattering
ways OF working straw are JuSC
as smart and new. And in
teresting other strawS besides
the ones we've shown, but these
are what we've seen most often
this past week.
First is one of the seasons
newest turbans. You don't no.
tice what's so new Well, it very
plainly has a three-cornered
feeling that's Colonial in every
line-and this is the American
Colonial year. There's width at
the sides, you see, and over one
eye. It's done with a fancy
banding called roughette-al-
most strawlike in appearance.
The two bands that wrap and
drape are tucked lengthwise,
and there are tiny radiating
tucks on the crown. With the
baguette rhinestone clip in
cluded, this love of a turban
just costs around $40.
One type of hat that easily
The Washington times., 1932-02-01

By MAY CHRISTIE
CHAPTER 81

rs is that you, darling?"
These were the words that
Laurel spoke, returning slowly
to consciousness from her dream
of shock and pain that had ter
minated the evening.
Bruce Harvey moved his head
back from hers. Had she recog-
nized him?
Lie still. I'm going to give
you something in a. minute
that'll do you good"
His tone was professionally
cheerful. A little tinge of color
crept to her cheeks.
Where on earth AM I?
What's it all about? My neck
aches ouch!"
Now be a good girl and don't
move"
Something happened
my dress took fire."
But you're okay now." sooth-
ingly.
"Dr. Harvey" $50 she rec
ognized him, thenO "am I bad
ly hurt?"
mot a bit of it. Just gave us
a nice fright"
Her eyes strayed suddenly
down at herself he made a
quick move to draw up the
sheet.
But not before she'd seen that
that she was lying there practl-
cally naked.
How COULD you? OH" She
made swift grab at the Gov
ering, turning her shamed, face
away from him as though.she
would hide it in the pillow. But
a pang shot through her neck
like a flame of fire. She gave
a moan.
Didn't I tell you to be a
good girl and lie quiet?" he
contrived to say in a matter
of-fact tone.
Laurel burst into tears of
weakness and shame. She
sobbed: "Bruce-oh, Bruce"
The woman who had helped
to bandage Laurel returned
The Washington times., 1932-02-01

hair, but he sat there, staring
straight ahead. as though OBJ
livious to everything.
THE dirty, double-croSsin'
snake" he muttered,
Daisy locked at him for a
moment more, patted his head,
pecked at his cheek and then
got up and went over to the
dresser. She began to arrange
her white-gold hair, twisting
her head from side to side as
she looked at herself in the
mirror. Finally she turned
toward Ed, who was sitting in
the same position, staring at
nothing.
You'll go to the blowout
tonight-you know the boys
are celebratin' your release"
she purred.
mo! exclaimed Ed, kicking
the rug with his feet and glar-
at her. How can you ask me
to mix in with those crooks?
It's the straight and narrow
for me from now on"
But, listen, Ed, darling" and
Daisy went over and flopped in
his lap, her bare arms about
his neck. "Belmonte works in
other towns besides this. I've
never asked favor of him and
I'm gonna ask one now. We
can lam out of here-he'll stake
us, and after we've made our
bankroll We'll ditch the racket.
Believe in me, sweetheart"
He'll Be There
will Cholo be at the party?"
asked Ed in a hollow voice.
"Yes-sure-he'll be there
There's only one way an
Irishman knows of gettin'
even."
"-lll right" said Ed, with sud-
den decision, It'll go-you say
it's at Cells? Come on, toss
on your things, I'll CO."
And you'll be a nice boy?"
"Uhu."
X X X
Giuseppe Belmonte, who had
come out of hiding on the find
ing of the verdict, took over
Celli's restaurant for the night.
It would be a party that the
mob would not forget for some
(Continued on End Comic Page
The Washington times., 1932-02-01
Your Health
And Diet
By Logan Clendening, NJ. D.

ONLY a sore throat
the emphasis on the only!
1t is the little things that
count. If medical schools would
teach medical students nothing
but the little homely things for
a while many of the complaints
you hear about doctors would
cease. But, no! They learn
about achondroplasia and myo-
sits ossificanS traumatica and
how to remove the entire stom.
ach, and it isn't until the poor
student gets into a hospital or
out in practice that he learns
by bitter experience about
quinsy and ingrowing toe nails
and warts.
One may almost tell how good
a surgeon or specialist man is
from the title of the papers he
reads at a medical Socity. The
bigger he is the smaller his sub
ject. One of Americas leading
surgeons consented to read a
paper before a medical society
the other day. He announced
the subject would be "Corns."
It goes for dentists, tool AS
a fellow medical practitioner
said to me not long ago. when
I had sent him into consulta-
ton on a tooth extraction case.
"If theSe birds would only learn
the simple fundamental things
instead of the brand new shining
technique! If they would just
learn not to stir up an acute
infection-not to curette the
socket of an infected tooth, it
would be so much easier on all
of u.s."
The Washington times., 1932-02-01
For Early Spring Hats

becomes most any age at all
is that high-rolled back brim
sketched next to the right. The
narrow, slightly dipping brim
in front makes this particular
model more wearable than most.
The straw is that new shark
skin you'll see so much this
spring-rough and lumpy-look-
ing, and shiny. The brim in
back is held up with a large,
flat bow of felt, matching the
color of the straw. And above
the bow, five little tucks start
to radiate through the crown.
A grand first spring hat" for
about $40.
At the right we have hat
that's already so much-talked-
about it has several names! It's
really the Breton Sailor-with
The Washington times., 1932-02-01
Our Rhymins
Q Optimist
BY ALINE MICHAELTS

Dy tAA4GNE V41O14&AG4A40
Belief
Belief is mans surprising power,
Belief is his most splendid dover,
Belief in good
The souls rich food
To nouriSh hope through every
hour.
Belief that, somehow, right pre-
walls,
Though each dear, earthly prom
Use fails,
Will lend new strength,
Until at length
Men glimpse their dreams long
waited sails.
Though scoffers raised their
cruel mirth
When every heaven-sent thought
had birth,
Despite their scorn
Of hopes like morn,
Belief has given new worlds to
earth.
Would you aspire? Would you
achieve?
Then, though men question,
flout, deceive,
Let no faith wane;
You must believe. believe, believe
Through loss, through pain,
The Washington times., 1932-02-01

that even, up-all-around brim.
But it's also called the COB hat
for obvious reasonS-and even
the chin-chin-from it's sugges.
ton of a Chinese effect. It's a
marvellous in-between hat-in
between those often unbecom-
ing brimless things and a brim
that's always in the way! And
even if you've never worn q
sailor, get under this one and
you'll love your looks! The two
feather quills, pointing toward
the front, suggest that import.
ant forward feeling. Sharkskin
is the material, too. And the
price is no more than the others
about $40.
X 4
For names of stores where
you can find these hats, write
or call The Washington Times
Fashion Department.