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The Washington times., 1932-06-06
STUDYING
LOWER RATES
FOR GAS
Citizens Federation Demand
Will Be Considered;
KeeCh Plans Action

Decision on whether a pub
lie hearing is to be called to
consider an immediate reduc-
tion in rates of the Washing
ton Gas Light Company is to
be made in the near future
by the Public Utilities Com
mission.
A demand for an immediate
reduction in rates has been voted
by the Federation of Citizens AS.
sociationS on the ground that the
company, on an undepreciated
$21 200, 900 valuation, made a re.
turn of 11.24 per cent for the
year ending last April 80 and
that it's return for the first four
months of this year on the same
base was 13.47 per cent.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick,
chairman of the commission, said
today that the resolution of the
federation has no tbeen received
yet by the commission, but will
be given due consideration upon
it's arrival.
The report of the gas company
for the first four months of this
year, filed recently with the com.
mission, showed that the com.
pany's profits were approximately
$100, 900 more for the first four
months of 1882, compared with
the same period Of 1881.
Peoples Counsel Richmond B.
Keech today began a study of
the earning reports of the COM
pany, with a view to the advis-
ability Of petitioning an immedi.
ate reduction in rates.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Tech High Bog Wins
SIUarthn1Ore AUQrd

Paul Oehmann, of 1915 Morri-
son st. N. w., has been awarded
one of the five annual Swarth-
more College mems scholarships,
which pay $500 each annually for
four years. The awards are based
on the general plan of the Rhodes
scholarships, for character and
scholastic ability.
Oehmann was vice president of
his class at Mckinley High School
and a member of the football and
track teams. He won the Har.
ward Club award as the outstand-
ing boy in the Junior class there,
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
S1,500,000SUFT.
OVER LUMBER
WON BY j. 8.
Court of Appeals Holds John
L. Phillips and Others
Must Settle

The District Court of APP
pealS today affairmed the Dis
trict Supereme's Court S deci-
sion awarding the Government
more than $1,5OO,00O from
John L. Phillips, Thomasville,
Ca, their heirs of George M.
Chambers, formerly of Maple
wood, N. j., and the Fidelity
and Deposit Company of
Maryland.
The judgment grew out of the
fraudulent operation of a Govern
ment contract for the sale of
excess lumber after the armistice.
The Fidelity and Deposit Com
pany was surety on the bond of
Phillips and John Stephens, of
Jacksonville. who were appointed
agents of the Government to sell
the lumber.
In the lower courts ruling,
Stephens had been relieved of
liability, but the Court of Appeals
today held him jointly liable with
Phillips.
The penalty of the bond the
Fidelity and Deposit Company
had signed for Stephens and
Phillips was only $500, but it had
also filed a supersedeas bond Of
100000 pending the appeal.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Accountants Meet
To Hear DUiLu Editor

David Lawrence, editor of the
United States Daily, will address
the International Association of
Comptrollers and Accounting
Officers at a luncheon at the
Raleigh Hotel tomorrow. The
organization, composed of mu-
nicipal finance and accounting
officials. is holding a three-day
convention here beginning to-
morrow.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
No-Need-For-Answer
Mail Sets Record
At Garges Office

What is believed to be an
all-time record was established
in the office of Daniel E.
Garges, secretary to the Board
of District Commissioners, over
the weekend.
The mailman both today and
on Saturday failed to unload
any MALL in the office which
required acknowledgment. Mr..
GargeS said it is the first time
in his memory that such an
event has occurred. He doesn't
know whether to blame it on
the business slump or whether
to credit the public with finally
realizing that jobs in the Dis
trict government aren now
filled through the Civil Service.
The bulk of the officials mail
in nthe past has been in refer
ence to positions.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
HICKEY TAKES
PARK POST

Pinning upon the chest of Capt.
Doyle o. Hickey. the new super.
intendent of park police, the gold
badge which he has worn as park
police head for three years, Capt.
Ray c. Montgomery officially
ends his tour here today.
Captain Montgomery and his
family will leave Washington late
today for Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
where the captain will attend the
staff officers school of command,
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Triangle Residents
Open Mosquito War

Any person knowing the knack
Of exterminatlng mosquitoes will
find himself welcomed by resi-
dents adjacent to the triangle at
Michigan Avenue and Quincy
Streets N. E. They have COM
planned in a body to park police
for aid in Kidding the neighbor-
hood of the insects. District en-
gineers today are making sur
vey to find where the pests are
breeding.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Oklahoma 4-H Club
YOUNGSTERS See HYde

A team of three All Club
young men from Oklahoma, who
will sail shortly for England to
represent the United States in
the International Dairy Judging
contest at Southampton July 6.
was received oday by Secretary
Of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde.
The secretary presented to the
youths, for taking to England,
the prize cup won at the last
international contest by the Mary
land All Club team, winning over
English, Irish. Scotch an d
Canadian youths.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Argument in Court
Nets Fines for TlUO

An argument over whether or
not w. KONG, 1000 Pendleton ST.,
stepped on the foot of George
Price, colored, as the latter was
leaving the Alexandria police
court this morning, resulted in
both being fined $25 for con-
tempt of court when they became
so noisy that court had to recess
while they argued.
KONG claimed that Price had
insulted him and called Price a
liar in the court room, resulting
in the imposition of the fine.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
REPORT SHOWS
BUILDING HERE

Admitting that the need for
suitable buildings in which to
house Government offices has
been "only partly aleviated," the
Public Buildings Commission to-
day released an annual report
describing progress made during
1881.
The report said 1881 saw pub
lie building program inaugurated
and the Internal Revenue, Agri-
culture Administration, and the
Department of Commerce Build
ings completed. The Internal
Revenue Building alone will save
the Government $780, 900 annually
in rent, the report said.
Graphs and photographs of new
and prospective buildings profusely
illustrate the report.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Gentry Animal ShOW
In Southeast TOdQy

Gentry Brothers trained animal
shows, which spent last week in
Washington, moving daily from
one location to another, closes its
engagement here with two per-
formances today on the lot at C
Street, between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Streets S. E.
The weather man favored them
with the best week of the year,
rain having in no way interfered
with their performances.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06

talizingly held off, and this interval
is filled with snips and cuttings
from future pictures, with the most
elaborate mechanics for making the
titles glow and spin and grow large
before your eyes, with descriptions
of unbelievable splendor in words,
with a few hoarse words spoken at
crucial moment, cut off just be-
fore you find out what is going to
happen. And then comes the date
of showing "at this theater." AS
the exhibitors are unwilling to con-
centrate on one following program,
they usually show two or three fea-
lures which are to come, so that at
the end you are completely confused
and do not know whether Sharks
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Eastern Star Plans
Night for "Kiddies''

The home board of Columbia
Chapter No. Is, Order of Eastern
Star, will hold a card party Fri
day afternoon and evening at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. Lyman F.
Kebler, 1922 Park Road, N. w.
"Kiddies' Night" will be OBJ
served next Monday. Children of
members and friends of the chap
ter will be special guests and
many of the children will take
part in the program.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Against Speech

A man engaged in the business of selling plays to
the movies betrayed himself the other day to by
protest against the dialogue of the takers He said
that if the speeches good, he wouldn't like
them because they spoiled his own share in the pic
lures In the old days, he says, when lover whispered
to his beloved, and you could not hear the words
might think he said, Baby I'm for you," and another
might suspect that the words Yours is the face
that launched thousand ships" But when you
hear the young man say, "How about it," you have
no choice.
Psychoogcay, this critic is right. The silent picture
allowed each spectator to frame it's sentiments in his
own words and, thereby made every one of us in a
small way creative dramatist, writing our own
speeches for situations in which identified our
selves In those days knew that we did not look
like Valentino, but imagined that we could talk
like him. Now we know that we neither look nor talk
like Clark Gable. Do you call that progress?
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
G. P. BARSE TO TALK

The Federal Bar Association
will meet Wednesday at 8 p. m.
at the University Club. George
P. Barse will speak on liquidation
of insolvent national banks and
Fred K. Nelson will speak on
Recognition"
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
GRoTTo SERVICES END

The last of the 1882 special
devotion5 in honor of Our Lady
of LourdeS at the Grotto in the
Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton were held yesterday by the
Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
True to TYPE
TRAILERS IN MOVIES
TOO EXCITING
FOR WORDS
BV GILBERT SELDES-

MIR. RUBE GOLDBERG drew comic strip few
4V1 days ago under the title of That's Life which
recommend to exhibitors of movies all the world
There comes moment in all programs when the feature
picture has been shown and the Silly Symphony is tan
The Washington times., 1932-06-06

". Va; total abStinance from
water maintained by DR.. H. T.
Dunbar, of this city; three petty
robberies in Bethesda and suicide
of Herman Coburn at Easton.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
LOSES S11O IN TAXI

William J. Leary, 214 Massa-
chusetts Ave. N. E., reported to
police that while driving in a taxi
to Griffith Stadium yesterday aft
ernoon he dropped a wallet con.
tanning $110 in bills.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06

Blood" is week from next IueSoay or FaSSIoH ) rOHV
three days ago for matinees only
Nothing Doing
Goldbergs cartoon shows two peope-man and wife,
I suppose because they have the look which Goldberg
always manages to give devoted couplessittng before
a screen. In successive pictures they read:
Tues. & Wed-Powerful Emotional laundering Drama
of Passion.
Thurs & Fri-A Woman Bares Her Soul-Lfe in the
Raw-a Thrill a Second
Sat- & Sun-The Climax of All Creation Startling
Sight Never Before Behed by Human Eyes.
Then they go out and the man says There doesn't
seem to be anything very exciting for next week. And
his wife answers eve can stay at home for change
On the strip itself comment is superfuous. can only
add my experience which is that have never in fifteen
years. been attracted to picture by the traers shown
for the specific purpose of exciting interest All de-
scriptions are naturally bunk The movies advertise
themselves in circus terms, which are peculiarly map
propriate except when they doing circus stunts
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
iTarzan Was Good

incidentally, they do not do circus stunts often
enough. One of the current successes is "Iarzan,
which such stunt, and is extremely good entertain
ment. From the moment Johnnie WeiSsmuler begins to
yodel as swings from amazingly convenient branches
in the Jungle the picture is conceived as sheer fun
No is asked to believe that it taken in Africa
or anywhere but Hollywood. There is shot of Tarzan
swimming faster than fotlla of crocodlles which is
manfesty absurd-and just as you are about to say
"hey can't put that on me-, the director inserts
vast hippopotamus which swims up, lets Tarzan climb
on his back, and manages to escape.
Crunts Are Enough
One great advantage of "Tarzan' is that for the
most part it cannot high-flown language. Tar
zans communications with his brother-apes is all in
foreign tongue (the talkes like to throw bit of unim
portant dialogue in French Spanish, why not
little pure chmpanzee? and the love making is almost
all in action. There is comedy in making love-
when Tarzan gets the idea that the girl is giving her
own name and wants to know his She touches her
breast and says, "Jane,' or whatever her is
Presently he smites his chest and says Tarzan" Then
he begins punching her and himself alternately, and
more and more rapidly as he shouts, "Jane-Tarzan-
Jane-Tarzan-" and the effect is quite good the
elaborate love-makngs of a Lonsdale, Coward,
Barry. That is, for the screen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-13
MUSTACHE CLUB
AWAITING VOTE
Court Employees Not to
Shave Till Fall.

Formation of an organization to
be known as the Amalgamated
Order of Amateur MuStache Grow
ers was announced today in Grim
NAL court.
The bewhiskered orders ideals,
strictly on the sub rosa, is rallying
around two battle cries, Roosevelt
for-PreSident" and Beer Some
Day"
Roy Lowe, court bailiff, with his
toothbrush growth, is President of
the Lip Pop-Overs." Charles Ste
ger, court clerk, is Head Whisker
Trimmer. John w. Freeman, bailiff
is Royal Stropper of the Razor, and
Thomas D. Doyle, deputy county
clerk, Guardian of the Mustache
Cup.
The bristles are to be worn until
the rooster crows Democratic VIC
tory in the fall election.
Wives of some Of the members
have threatened to bolt to the Re-
publican ticket if the soup-strainerss
are allowed to mature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-13
PAY BOOSTS SOUGHT
County Chiefs Shocked by
Budget Requests.

Asserting all county departments
must cut expenses for 1888, county
commissioners today declared they
we're shocked by budget requests,
asking thousands of dollars in in
creased appropriations"
The board criticised officials for
seeking budget boosts lin times like
these"
With few exceptions, department
heads who submitted budget eSti-
mates Monday and today, asked for
salary increases for their employees.
Commissioners indicated they
would oppose attempt of Sheriff
Charles L. Sumner to get an appro-
priation of $4,000 to restore his
road patrol, abolished by the coun-
Gil last year.
Additional help, as we'll as in
creased pay for employees, was asked
i nthe budget request of Juvenile
Judge John F. Geckler.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-13
Wife Sticks to Husband
Accused in 7-Year- 0Id
Murder.

Passive under the heavy hand of
tragedy, Mrs. Darrell Dodds, 785
Lynn street, believes her husband
innocent of a murder he is &C
cused of having committed in Do
Ian, Ind, seven years ago, and lays
her hopes for his freedom in the
One Great Judge.
Of the details of the crime
charged to her husband, and for
which he was arrested and returned
to Bloomington Tuesday night, she
remembers little. But she knows
that loyal wife and a three
months-old son, Thomas Darrell
will stick by Dodds until the end
cts been so long ago I can't re-
member about John Campbell be-
ing killed." she said. But I know
Darrell didn't do it. We weren't
married then, and I never knew
much about the killing. thought
it was on account of jealousy"
Dodds was arrested while making
plans to hitch-hike with his fam
lily to Jackson, Mich, where his
wife said he worked six or seven
years. He had been unable to find
employment here.
st don't see how they can do
anything to him." she said. "They
arrested him once and let him go.
He didn't do it. But, after, all,
there's only one Judge, and He
knows who did it. The guilty one
always gets found out"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-13
Will for VIII
Humorous Rogers Is Back
of Teacher Rogers
Candidacy.

By United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 10
~ William Cornelius Rogers, a
small town schoolmaster, today
had the Endorsement of Will
Rogers, the humorist, in his can
didacy for the Democratic nomi-
ton for congressman-at-large
from Oklahoma.
Teacher Rogers used the name
of Humorist Rogers on the ballots
in the state primary election, and
ran first by wide margin.
One opponent protested Teacher
Rogers had tricked the voters, but
the state supreme court refused to
rule on his action.
When supreme court justices
noticed the real VIII Rogers in
dorsed Teacher Rogers in his
syndicated newspaper column, they
refused jurisdiction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-13
7 INJURED IN
AUTO ACCIDENTS
Three Children Are Hurt in
City Spills.

Seven persons, including three
children, we're injured in automo-
bile accidents Tuesday night.
The most seriously injured are
John Jackson, 70, of 956 South Cap
itol avenue, who incurred a deep
scalp wound and probably skull
fracture, and Charles Orr, 80, of
2141 North Riley avenue, who suf
fered several broken ribs.
Jackson was injured when an au-
tomobile in which he was riding
with Frank Masstroeni, %, of 626
Stevens street, collided with hay
rake being drawn by team of
horses driven by L. A. Plummer,
R. R. 2, Greenwood. Masstroeni
suffered a cut on a shoulder. Plum
mer was not hurt. The accident
occurred on State Road 81 about
two miles south of the Marion
Johnson county line. Masstroeni
faces a charge of reckless driving.
An automobile driven by Orr COL
lided with one driven by DR.. Will
liam E. King, SO, of $40 Buckingham
drive, at College avenue and Fifty
second street.
In addition to Orr three children
riding with him were hurt. They
were his son, Thomas Leroy Orr, 3;
Mary June Cox, IL, of 1888 Rowland
avenue, and June Harrison, 10, Dan
vile, Ill, guest at 671 Arch street.
They suffered cuts The injured
were taken to Methodist hospital
by DR.. King.
Kate Johnson, 43, Negro, of 1905
HlaWatha street, was injured slight
ly when struck by an automobile
driven by Karl Knapp, %, of 1902
olive street, at Fall creek and In
diana avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-13
BY EVELYN SEELEY
Times staff Writer

NEW YORK, July 13.-Sophisti-
IN cation, in the words of Mae
Murray, is like bird seed in an old
and empty cage.
What people want really" said
Miss Murray, lis pictures and plays
with old-fashioned happy endings
1.-THE sophisticates have decided
that beauty and happiness and love
are illusions, not realities. I'm not
sophisticated person. think that
all these handmade miseries are il
lusions. 1t all depends on your def
nitionS."
Miss Murray "just Sneaked into
New York" she said, for business
reasons. Two radio propositions,
one of them concerned with tele-
vision; new picture-an unsophis-
ticatedly romantic and lovely one,
she hopes.
Recognized by Old Friends
She came alone and she thought
that in the anonymity of Park and
Fifth avenues and the great open
spaces of the Waldorf Astoria she
would remain obscure.
But as she walked across Central
park and down to her hotel-she
walks everywhere in New York
within twenty blocks-taxi drivers
and messenger boys, middle aged
and young couples strolling stopped
and smiled at her as at a suddenly
seen friend.
You know what they're think
ing?" she asked They're remem-
bering the Merry Widow Waltz
They always think of me in that
role because it's glamorous and ro-
mantle and familiar.
That's why, although I've done
a lot of pictures before and since,
they remember me in that one.
Thrilling, but "Scary"
"It's a thrilling thing, you know,
but frightening. After they've seen
you in pictures for while, you be-
long to them. That's why I think
pictures ought to be idealistic and
fine; they influence so many lives"
Miss Murray does not worry her
platinum blond head or wrinkle her
smooth white forehead over the de-
preston.
1T was absolutely inevitable" she
declared emphatically. People had
to be shaken out of their money
worship. 1t won't end until it has
transformed the philosophy of the
whole social structure.
And even if it shakes those at the
bottom first, eventually it will shake
those at the top out of their ma
terialistic complacency."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-13
ORDERED
into DRIVERS
LICENSE DEAL.
Galloway Demands Inquiry
in Effort to Recover
$72,400 for State.

Investigation of the sS2, 400 state
contract. awarded in 1929 for print
ing 100000 automobile drivers
license certificates. was ordered to-
day by the Indiana house, without
dissenting vote.
introduced by Fred Galloway
Dem0 Indianapolis, the resolution
was approved, with ninety-three
ayes and three abSentees. Speaker
Walter Myers announced he will
name the probe committee of five
Democrats and three Republicans
Thursday morning
Federal authorities have been
probing the contract in Indiana
and Illinois.
Galloway'S resolution alleged that
the Haywood Company of Lafayette,
holding the general state contract,
received $4,000 as its share of the
contract, and paid income tax on
this amount. The Ohlhaver & Burk-
hart Company, Aurora, H., which
received the contract, on which
Haywood did the work, received
$40 400, he says.
The committee, to be named by
Myers. will have authority to ques-
ton witnesses during the special
session.
Galloway charged, This is the
biggest little steal ever perpetrated
in the state"
State officials, after rawarding
the contract to the Aurora firm for
S82, 400, permitted the Haywood
Printing Company of Lafayette to
print the certificates for $4,000, and
the Illinois men later paid that
company an additional $4,000, it is
alleged.
Otto G. Fifeld was secretary of
state at the time
1--WE should recover the So, 400
in the interest of saving the tax
payers money and returning it to
the state treasury" Galloway as
serted.
Representative James M. Knapp
(Rep), Hagerstown declared: Cal
loWay has made some very serious
charges against state officials and
I wonder if he would say these
things if he did not have the legis-
lative immunity granted all mem
berS.
Il wonder why he does not file
an affidavit against these men,"
Il WILL" shouted Galloway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-13
HAMILTON ALIBI
IS UPHELD BY
FATHER, SISTER
Defense Opens Court Fight
to Save Alleged Killer
of Jackson.
R.y Science Service

RB Science Service
LEBANON. Ind, July 13.-Father
and sister of Louis E. Hamilton
were the only witnesses during the
morning session today of his trial
in Boone circuit court here on a
charge of numbering Lafayette A.
Jackson, Indianapolis chain grocery
owner.
The father, J. H Hamilton, and
the sister, Mrs. Margaret Krupp,
testified in support of an alibi to
the effect that on May 81, 1881,
the day Jackson was shot fatally
in his main store at Indianapolis,
Louis Hamilton was in lola, Kan,
his home town.
Letter Stirs Battle
Witnesses stated that Hamilton
arrived in lola the afternoon OF
May 81, accompanied by couple
then known as Mr.. and Mrs. Car,
Irwin, but who were Charles Vernon
Witt and wife. Witt is awaiting
execution Aug. l for the murder Of
Jackson.
Testimony of the elder Hamilton
and Mrs. Krupp corroborated thai
of other witnesses to the effect thai
they fix the date of Hamilton's ar
rival in lola by the fact that it wa
the birthday of his brother. Max
oVod aaloI,.o fiOY, xxyo1
Testimony of another sister of the
defendant, Miss Grace Hamilton, II
along with a love letter she hac
written to her sweetheart IN Cali
fornia, provoked legal argument
late Tuesday
Hints Eye Was Wounded
Dressed III sport suit of red ant
white, Miss Hamilton, who has beer
working in Columbia City, Ind, a
stenographer, appeared in court.
She was the eighth defense wit.
ness. Floyd Mattice, deputy prose
cutor, flashed two of her love let
tiers on cross examination.
These, the state contended, f1xet
the date of Hamilton's arrival il
lola, Kan, his home town, as tn,
afternoon of May 20, two days afte,
Jackson was killed in his Indian
apolis store.
One letter also suggested thai
Hamilton'S right eye was wounded
presumably in an automobile acct
dent, as he told his family.