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The Washington times., 1932-12-13
IS URGED
On CAR BILL

The joint transportation COM
mittee, composed of representa-
tives of the major trade and
civic organizations of the Dis
trict, today petitioned Senator
Warren r. Austin (R0 of Yer
mont, outstanding sponsor of
the street railway merger plan,
to press for immediate action
on the bill.
Senator Austin recently con-
ferred with Senate leaders and
will seek to have the merger
bill given consideration follow
ing disposal of the Philippine
independence bill.
The transportation committee,
headed by Thomas F. Littlepage,
president of the Washington
Chamber of Commerce, also ap-
pealed. to Senator John j. Blaine
R0 of Wisconsin and Senator
William H. King CD of Utah to
support the bill.
Senator Blaine pointed out
that he favored the measure but
that the present bill would have
to be amended to secure his sup
port as there were questions of
regulating the proposed new COM
pany to safeguard public in
tereSts.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
D. c. WILL SEEK
SAFETY RATING

Washington will be entered in
the contest of the National Safety
Council for Americas Safest
CITY," Major E. w. Brown, super
intendent of police, said today.
1t is probable that 900 cities,
divided into seven population
groups, will be in the contest.
Washington has been classed in
group two, comprising cities of
250,OO0 to 100000 population.
Acting Inspector B. A. Lamb
will act as laiSon man between
the District safety campaign direc-
tors and the national contest COM
mittee in Chicago, which is han.
ding the countrywide campaign
for 1898. .
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
Senate Group Set
To Reach Decision
On u. S. Pau Misl1p

The Senate Economy Commit
tee, in anticipation of approval
by the House of a continuation
of the furlough, will meet to-
morrow morning in an attempt
to reach a decision as to whether
it will recommend to the Senate
continued payless leave or sub
stitution of a straight pay cut.
Thomas E. Campbell, president
of the Civil Service Commission,
will be called before the COM
mittee to give his views on the
respective merits of the furlough
and flat cut.
The committee will attempt to
reach decision before the
House sends to the Senate the
Treasury-P Postoffice bill, the first
supply measure to be reported,
with provisions for the continual
ton Of the furlough.
4 For Straight Cut
When a decision is reached,
the committee will report its
recommendations to the Senate
for use in determining the &C
tion of the upper branch Of
Congress in effecting economies
on the Federal payroll in the
next fiscal year.
The three Democratic members
of the committee, which is COM
posed of six Senators, are said
to favor substitution of the
straight pay cut, if an equitable
rate of reduction can be agreed
upon. r.
One Republican member is also
said to favor this course.
Spreads Work, He Says
Senator Hiram Bingham R.) of
Connecticut, chairman of the COM
mittee, who was opposed to the
furlough last year and favored
the straight cut as more
equitable means of eduction, said
today that he had been much i'm
pessed by testimony given to the
committee that the furlough
spread work, as certain depart
ments were forced to hire substi-
tutes to do the work of regular
employees forced to take leave un-
der the economy act.
Although Senator Bingham said
he had reached no conclusion as
to which of the proposals he
would favor, he declared he be-
lieved it was essential to spread
employment as much as possible
and that the furlough offered an
opportunity to accomplish this
purpose, while the straight pay
cut afforded no chance to give
additional employment.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
Useful Gifts Found
Most in Demand
This Xmas

The boys and girls may be
dreaming of engines and dolls
in their Christmas stockings,
but they will be more apt to
find a new pair of shoes or
that new sweater mama has
been promising them.
The manager of a local de-
partment store says that the
Capital Christmas shopping is
being done elsewhere than in
the toy department. The less
expensive toys are selling and
a few of the more costly ones
but the buying public is taking
a greater interest in clothes.
Especially children's clothes
which indicates he said, that
the garments are being bought
for holiday gifts.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
F UT|LE BATTLE
IS PUT UP BY
I LAGUARD|A
Legislator Tries in Vain to Pre-
vent Plan Being Tackled
on Supply Bill

The House today, by vote of
220 to las, gave permission to the
House Appropriations Committee
to include the furlough system in
the Treasury-Post Office appro-
priation bill.
That was the third vote taken
on the question. The first vote
was an aye-no vote and it ap-
peared as if those voting in the
negative were in the majority.
Speaker John N. Garner then or
dered a standing vote and a count
showed the membership stood 80
to 81 in favor of retaining the
furlough. Those opposing then
asked for a roll call on the
question.
Brief debate preceded the in
formal vote, and during it Rep
reSentative LaGuardia (R.) New
York, opposed the special rule
brought in by the Rules Commit.
VNS "AA1CAA AAoAC P4AVAICSCu UI1G
amendment to the supply bill. He
asserted that the Appropriations
Committee had no legislative pow
ers, and they should not be con-
ferred by any special rule.
He pleaded that the House
membership strike all further fur
loughs from appropriation meas
ureS.
Futile Fight Seen
Most members of the Federal
employees" bloc headed by Chair
man James M. Mead, Of the
House PoStoffice Committee, are
of the, opinion that it is useless
to attempt to stop" the furlough.
They will introduce amend
ments to remedy a few of the al
legged economy act hardships.
Most of the attempts to amend
the economy act provisions will
be aimed at sections permitting
8 1-3 per cent deductions from
employees making less than $1,000
a year.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
County Club Plans
To HeLD 10 Families

The Arlington County Monarch
Club will care for 10 families in
the county during the Christmas
season under plans now being
considered. The families, which
number SO children among them,
will be feted at a special Christ
mas party several days before
the Yuletide.
It is planned to outfit each
child with clothes, where needed,
provide toys and candies for
them and give their parents
Christmas baskets.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
Xmas Seal DriUe
OPENS at HOLUGrd

The Howard University health
service is collaborating with the
washington Association for the
Prevention of tuberculosis in the
annual Christmas seal sale at the
school.
Glass competition, with lectures
by Miss Helen williams, represen-
tStive of the association, and staff
members of the university health
service, are designed to stimulate
the seal sales.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
LICENSES
LAGBEH|ND

More than 10000 motorists will
be without automobile tags when
the deadline of December 81 ap-
proaches unless the present rate
at which applications are being
made is speeded up, Traffic Di-
rector William A. Van Duzer said
today.
Up until last night $4,000 ap-
plications had been handled, Van
Duzer said $4,000 tags are yet to
be applied for.
About 5000 applications have
been held up because of failure
of motorists to note changes Of
address.
Several innovations in tag let
ters start with the new year. The
L series, formerly for hired cars,
next year is in the passenger Sc
ries, while the K series, omitted
last year, will be used this year.
Sightseeing cars carrying more
than eight passengers will use S
tags, while those carrying less
than eight passengers will use tags
lettered SIS. Buses will bear BUS
tags.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
8 TAXI DRIVERS
LOSE RECEIPTS
IN HOLDUPS
Grocer and. Motorist Also
Among Nights Victims;
Shoe Store Looted

Police reports today showed
five holdups last night. The vic
tins were three taXicab drivers, a
grocery proprietor and motor
ist.
William M. Medeiros, taxicab
driver, of the 1900 block Garfield
st. N. w., said two colored rob-
bers forced him at pistol point
to drive his cab onto a vacant
lot near Bladensburg Road North.
east, early today. He was robbed
of $3.50.
Two Others Robbed
Two other cab drivers, James
L. Dawson and James Adams, of
the 700 block Fifty-fifth st. N. E.,
said they were held up by colored
robbers who hailed their cabs.
The former lost $4.75 and the
latter 50.
Four colored men held up
Samuel Kaufman in his grocery in
the 500 block of r st. N. w. and
looted the cash register Of $40.
Isaac Chapman, of the first
block Florida Ave. N. W., reported
he was repairing his automobile
near his home last night when
three colored men overpowerec
him and robbed him of $40.
DR.. Henry c. McAtee, of the
1900 block California st. N. W., re-
ported two rings valued at $700
were lost or stolen from his home
in the past few weeks.
A thief who broke glass win
dow stole II pairs of shoes early
today from the store of Daniel
Ezran, in the 500 block Four-and-
one-half st. S. w.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
SIX NAVY DIVERS
|NE|NAL TEST
.on the bottom, chief"


These four words, uttered by
each of six Navy divers as their
lead shoes hit the bottom of the
experimental diving tank at the
Navy Yard today, will mark the
successful elimination of years
training in deep-sea diving.
Today'S dives are to an equiva.
lent depth of 300 feet under water,
the greatest depth to which the
Navy intrusts it's divers.
Donning their deep-sea diving
outfits, the men will descend into
the water in pairs. They reach
the bottom in 10 minutes, carry
out telephone commands, and per-
form routine work with under
water torches and drills. The
ascent requires 80 minutes to pre-
vent the much-dreaded bends"
Those of the six passing the
300-foot depth test will be grad
uated from the school as full
fledged divers Sunday by Lieut..
Norman S. Ives, inventor of the
Navy water lung, who is in COM
nnand of the school.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
DC. RENT PROBE
REPORT To Be
DELAYED
Brinkman Submits Document
But Sen. King Requests
Time for Study 81

Extension of time in which to
submit the findings of the Senate
District Committee investigating
rents will be requestd, it was
agreed today following submission
of a report by Oscar H. Brink
man, committee counsel, pertain
ing to an alleged rate-fixing com
bine.
Brinkman's report was submit
ted to the committee today, and
it was decided to keep the docu-
ment secret until it could be
studied by the full committee.
which will probably meet Satur-
day.
Findings Are Withheld
Senator william H. King CD
of Utah asked that publication OF
Brinkman's findings be withheld
today when only he and Senator
Arthur Capper (Ro Of Kansas,
chairman, appeared at the meet
ing. King suggested:
''In view of the vOluminOus re-
port which contains very i'm
pOrtant findings, which 1 wish
to verify, 1 believe we should
withhold further consideration
until q full meeting Of the
committee can be had"
For Open Session
It was agreed that when Brink
mans report is made public the
committee will be in open session
and members OF the Washington
Real Estate Board, with their
counsel, will have an opportunity
to answer any allegations made in
the findings.
b AS it was pointed out that the
committee could not make it's re-
port to the Senate by December
Is, as ordered in the resolution
permitting the investigation Of
District rents, it will be necessary
to ask that time for submission
of the report be extended TO
January 10 and Senator Capper
will make such a request of the
Senate probably today.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13

man publishing house, the article was
printed in America and exposed to
the eyes of people who knew their
way around. ct was exposed to
their eyes, but, fortunately, most of
them didn't look at it; in any case,
/ was not lynched.) The whole sub
ject is supposed to be pitfall; it is
considered "a little indecent if you
say that you laughed and then pre-
tend to know why you laughed; al
though you may write whole books
to explain why you cry, if you cry,
at the performance of tragedy, or
why Leonardo da -Vinci is great
painter or Sir Walter Scott a great
writer. In practice / agree that
the best thing is to say, Gosh, that's
funny" or merely to laugh. But
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
FALL HURTS SHOULDER

Miss Bertha Wilson, SIS, a
trained nurse and sister-in-law of
DR.. j. w. Bird, of Montgomery
County General Hospital, fell
downstairs last night at the home
of DR.. Bird and sustained a posi-
BILE fracture of the shoulder, for
which she is being treated at the
hospital.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
SHOW PARK FILM TONIGHT

A new film, Future Parks Of
Washington and Its Envirops," :"
will be shown the TaEoma Park
Citizens Association tonight at the
local branch library.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
CITIZENS WILL ELECT

The Parkview Citizens Associa-
ton will hold its annual election
of officers tomorrow night at q
meeting at the Parkview school.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
True to Type
ONE SMALLy IDEA
ABOUT HUMOR
OFFERED
BY GILBERT SELIDES-

A BOUT two years ago was invited to write short
"A piece about American humor which would to
explain that interesting subject to foreigners; imagine
my embarrassment when, owing to the failure of Ger
The Washington times., 1932-12-13
Both Kinds.

"Comic Relief" collected by R. n Lnscott is cross
section of American humorous writing from Mr. Dooey
to Ogden Nash which, think, upholds the distinction
/ made between the older humorists who looked up
and laughed and the younger who look down ana
shall say smile or sneer? The better ones SMILE
was glad to renew acquaintance with Looy dot
dope and Mrs Feitelbaum, because, deeply as ad-s
mire Mit Gross fantastic comic strip, still yearn for
his violent writings; and little bewdered to
find an entirely different personnel in the tractor bus
ness. run by William Hazlett Upson, because am
familiar with his current statesmen and vice presidents
and like them. There are also archy and Mr. Dooley
and pieces by Perelman and Lardner These are for
variety.
Not Group.
Most of the other contributors people who might
iustfiably throw brick if you called them "Ihe New
Yorker group because people who write for the
magazine are sensitive about suggestions that they
write in much the way. see the point, although
it occurs to me that if people wrote anything
like E. B. White would enjoy reading print more
than do. However, Mr.. Linscott has made clever
selection that you have Mrs Parker and Frank Sui
Ivan care they alike?) and Corey Ford and Robert
Benchley and Donald Moffatt and Marc Connolly and
my favorite blind-spot Will Cuppy and prose (and
even drawing by the Mr. Thurber, whose Sea in the
Bedroom" has been recommended to you.
The Washington times., 1932-12-13

financially It pays better II you can give IeasoH Wlcl
your publisher is willing to bind into book
Up or Down.
One thing discovered about American humor seems
to me innocent enough it is that SO or 70 years ago
American humorous writers were, pretending to be-
simple uneducated guys who looked at the inteectuals
and the fright people, and laughed at them They wrote
in slang or misspeIed-Ward and Nye and Mark IVAN
and F. P Dunno were among these writer's, and their
influence is still felt And roughly since the war; great
deal of American humor has been written by people
who stand on top, think they do and look down at
the uninteli9ent mob and laugh at them
This annlies more to written humor than to drawings
although the fat ladies and the pretentious ignorant men
of the New Yorker certainly fall into the second category
The wit is more biting and little meanand II you get
it. it gives YOU warm feeling of superiority.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

The Leslie Plumb plane was wrecked near Chase early in the month while returning from a
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14
INDIA'S BOARDED GOLD NOW
 FLOWING TO GREAT BRITAIN

India has for centuries, been re- garded as a bottomless sink for both gold and silver, importing yearly large quantities of both these met als, but rarely exporting any. Pro- ducing no silver at all, her gold production has been limited to five mines in the Kolar field in the na- tive state of Mysore. This field. though small in extent, has proved particularly rich during the last sixty years, paying regular divi- dends and large to it's British share holders.
 Just so soon, however as Great Britain went off the gold standard, the relative price of gold increased jumping from S5 shillings to 125 shillings an ounce in violent fluc-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

tuations. and remaining around a hundred and eighteen shillings to- day. With such a high price pre- vailing in London, the Indian own CTS were quick to take their profit and during this last year, over $300,000,000 worth of gold has flowed back to Great Britain from India, every P. & o. steamer leav- ing Bombay having several million dollars worth in her strong rooms. Every increase in the London price of gold accelerates this flow and with every drop it diminishes for the time being.
 After being hoarded in immense quantities for generations by the native Indians, Britain's necessi- ties are bringing the actual metal back into circulation and into more profitable use as a basis for national credit. And at that, the huge quan- tity already exported from India is held to be but a fraction of the quantity still in possession of the native races of India, who wisely or otherwise, prefer the actual metal lie gold to credit at the bank, or the paper promises to pay, repre- scented by bank notes.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

Dr. Aubrey R. Carter, who, with Dr. L. L. Huffman, returned to Fair banks recently after a hunting trip around the Healy river country, denied the report that a big grizz- ly he shot was toothless as had been reported. Dr. Carter has a pie ture of the bear and also of the only tooth he possessed to prove the truth of his statement.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

Miss A. Kathleen Thompson, teacher at St. Marks Mission at Nenana for six years, was made a deaconess of the Episcopal Church recently at services held in Nenana. She will remain there.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

muskrat which had strayed far from it's usual haunts almost put a stop to work on the new Federal building at Fairbanks recently. The muskrat had in some manner be- come imprisoned in the concrete hopper and was unable to escape. When helped out, it lost no time in trying to get away as fast as it's short legs would permit but it was out-numbered as we'll as out-speed- ed and it's course was directed to- ward a five-gallon can in which it was carried to the river and re- leased. +
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

The medical boat Martha Ange- line operating under the Bureau of Indian Affairs. has recently gone into winter quarters at Nenana fol- lowing a very busy season along the Yukon. Dr. c. c. Carter, in charge of the floating hospital and medicinal dispensary. has taken charge of the government hospital at Nenana.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

Under the new management it now becomes necessary for all air plane pilots of the Pacific Alaska Airways, to understand the Inter- national telegraphic code and to op- crate. So at Anchorage, Signal Corps operator has called a class to order and started pilots off on their first lessons. All planes of the com pany will be radio-equipped, as a safety factor.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

Joe Sterling, son of H. w. Sterl- ling, Alaska Road Commission Su- perintendent for the Kuskokwim district, who entered the Fairbanks high school early this month as a freshman, is a much travelled young man. In the four years he spent away from the Territory, he was in Colombia, South America for a year, travelled to New York and across the continent alone, and has been in Oklahoma. Last November, he and his mother joined MT. Sterling at Takotna.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

'*stops at Sitka and at Vancouver Southbound
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

The annual catch of salmon along the Yukon was above the average during the past season and all of the Indian communities are we'll supplied with dried and salted fish. The unfortunate feature of the fish situation is that there is not much of a market for dog fish in these days of air transportation, but the abundance of fish at least will be be help to the Indians during the coming winter in keeping them sup piled with food
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

The Panama Valley chapter of the American Red Cross, George Pres ton. chairman, has AT sacks or 115O pounds of flour to relieve the des- titution among Indians in the upper Tanana river country. One hundred and sixty 24 F pound sacks were kept at Fairbanks for local use.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14
ALL ALASKA REVIEW

Pierce of the Alaska Road Commis- sion were witnesses. The bride was returning to Fairbanks from a va cation trip outside and had been ac- eompanied north by MT. Nash s mother They were met at Valdez by MT. Nash and the wedding re- suited
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

flight to Fairbanks and MT. Plumb and Pilot Jack Moore had a narrow escape from injury. The plane was flying at an altitude of about 2OO0 feet when motor trouble developed and a forced and very difficult landing was. made on bar of the Susitna river. When the plane struck the bar it nosed over throwing the men into the water. Lower and up per wings of the ship were demol- ished and other damage done but the motor was saved All that could be salvaged of the plane was ship ped back to Anchorage.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

An Alaska Road Commission gray el truck netted it's driver $50 in bounty recently when it struck a pack of wolves on its way in from Mckinley Park to the station, kill ing two of the animals. A third wolf was wounded but escaped and .ould not be overtaken.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

new airplane landing has been finished recently at Mckinley Park between the depot and the fox ranch.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-10-14

ence Frank Nash, superintendent of the Alaska Road Commission for the Fairbanks district, surprised many of their friends when they were married at Valdez recently. United
 States Commissioner George Love officiated and Mrs Nora Nash, mother of the groom, and Vincent
Nogales international., 1932-12-28
Wealth Everywhere But No Money

In world full of wealth we have no money That,
u.s. up the present economic situation OF
United States and of most of the rest of the nations
so far as we know anything about them.
It doesn't take much actual money to transact the
worlds business when people anxious to buy than
they are to sell Money faster and does work
der those conditions dollar that changes hands ten
times in year is as useful dollars that only chang
hands year.
We didn't need so much money when everybody had
confidence in the banks Checks did the work of currency
In these times with money moving slowly with SELL
ers than there are buyers with thousands of banks closed
and public confidence in all banks still severely shaken we
find ourselves without enough to do business The
natural result that basic god has gone up SO
high in price that people have difficulty In converting
their labor and commodities into gold Gold is the basis OF
our money that of the other principal nations And
increasingly clear that there is not enough gold IN the
world to meet the worlds need Of money.
Many able economists and statesmen say that large
part of this money trouble due to the fact that silver
has been almost abolished money since the They
say that monetary position of silver which is the
money basis than half of the worlds population,
could be restored to what in 1914 there would be
plenty good money available for all the worlds needs
Few want to revive the old scheme of the free and
limited coinage of silver at any fixed ratio to gold, but
we see no why silver should not be used again as
freely as it the years before the by all the ma
ons of the world for money. We think the world eco
nonc conference which going to meet and discuss this
subject has been too long delayed and hope that when
it held American delegates will insist upon the re-
habilitaton Of silver.