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The Washington times., 1932-08-24
DOCTOR SLAYER
CALLED INSANE

The District Supreme Court to-
day was asked by Attorney Albert
A. Stern, counsel for Frank Cas-
sci, former patient at Mt. Alto
Veterans Hospital, for permission
to bring his client before lunacy
jury to have the question OF his
sanity passed upon.
Cassel went to the hospital on
the morning of July 13 and fatally
shot DR.. Victor A. Aimone, super
intendent, for no apparent cause.
Stern stated in his petition for
the sanity hearing that Cassel is
of unsound mind, and has not
been able to coherently discuss
plans for his defense on the muir
der charge. He probably will go
before a lunacy jury Frloay.
When arraigned on the muir
der charge, Cassel, who had been
behaving wildly in the cellroom
before entering court, made sew
eral motions as if to hurl a law
book, but was restrained by four
deputy marshals SSH G n d to
guard him. When asked whether
he pleaded guilty or not guilty
he remained mute. The court
ordered a plea of not guilty en-
tered for him.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
MODEL PLANES
SET RECORDS
At BOILING
One Up II Minutes, Another
20, in Starting FLIGHTS
at Army Field

Numerous thrills featured to-
days session of the annual Dis
trict model aircraft tourna-
ment at Boiling Field, with
George Leffler still in the lead.
He shattered another record to-
day when his r. o. G. Fuselage
remained aloft II minutes and
10 seconds.
LETTERS record is more than
twice as long as the old record,
held by Everett Meeks, which
was 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
Another Broken
Another record also was estab-
lished by Blair Bennett, who flew
his helicopter plane 20 minutes
and 26 2-5 seconds. This was the
outstanding flight today.
Another meritorious flight.
which nearly established a new
record, was by the glider belong
ing to Edward Cirkin, which flew
for 38 3-5 seconds.
Three Glasses Today
The R. o. G. fuselage, gliders,
and helicopter models, were the
three ship classes tried today.
Judges in today's contests we're
Professor Louis Crook, of the
aeronautic division of Catholic
University; Paul Edward CARRIER,
of the U. S. National Museum,
who was chief judge: and Lieut..
T. F. Combs, of the Naval Air
Station.
Final events will be held Fri
day morning at the MacFarland
Community Center, where the
points received by the youthful
aviation enthusiasts through the
week will be computed and the
champion determined. A lunch
con and the award of prizes will
follow in the auditorium.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
GERTZ
FIGURES TOP
DISTRICTS
so Per Cent Increase Shown
In Totals Offered at
Hearing on Rates

A valuation of $36, ,OOS,622
was claimed today by the
Chesapeake G. Potomac Tele-
phone Company at the phone
rate hearing before the Public
Utilities Commission.
Harry C. Gertz, audito of the
company, declared that the claim
represented the company's conten-
tion of the cost of reproducing
the company's properties today
less depreciation.
Higher by S13,OOO,OOO
The claim is $13,00O,00n in ex-
cess of the valuation figures sub
mitted by Thomas R. Tate, com.
mission engineer, and other wit
nesSes of the commission. These
figures set the value OF the COM
pany at $23,00O,00O.
Included in The Gertz valuation
estimate is an item of $4000,000
for going concern value" while
no allowance for this item was
submitted in the Tate estimate.
For depreciation, the Gertz
estimate allowed $3,086, ,633,
while in the Tate schedule two
figures were submitted, one Of
$7,O0O,O0O and another Of
$9,OOO,O0O.
Both Estimates Higher
The company's central office
equipment was estimated by
Gertz at $1,O9O,605 more than by
Tate, working capital was valued
by Gertz at $682,344 more than
by Tate.
Price levels of 1882 were
utilized by the company's auditor
in most of the valuation esCi-
mates, while the commissions
engineers prices were as of De-
Cember, 1881.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
False PretenSe
Trial POSTPONED

Trial of M. o. Peed. of Ball
ston. Va, on charge of false
pretense growing out of alleged
Shakedown of a prisoner, was
continued today in the Arlington
County Court until next Wednes-
day.
Peed is alleged to have received
$100 from James Cannon, of
Franklin Park, Va, who was ar.
rested some time ago for driving
while drunk. The case was con-
tinued because Lawrence Douglas,
commemorative attorney, is oc-
cupied with the trial of William
H. Duncan, former county clerk.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
RADICAL 7 TRIED.
FOR ASSAULT

A jury in Police Court this
afternoon began the trial Of
David Budd. alledged radical. on
a charge of assaulting Francis
Hoffman, Washington Times pho.
tographer, during the attempted
march of radical bonus veterans
on the White House, July 25.
Budd has ben in the District
Jail awaiting hearing.
Judge Gus A. SChuldt asked
talismen when the jury was being
selected if any were members Of
any group having for it's purpose
the overthrow of organized gov
ernment'S." Defense counsel OBJ
jected to this.
Assistant District Attorney Mil.
ford Schwartz is prosecuting the
case while Budd is represented by
three attorneys of the Interna'
tional Labor Defense Union.
Hoffman was the first witness
to take the stand.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
Who'll March for K?

The Communists are enthusiastic enough to riot
against general injustice and against bad economies
(Which they call the imperiastc capitalistic system)
Most of us, less intellectual require person and
specific act The Bonus Army had old scapegoat,
Congress, and its refusal to give what the Army de-
initiation going off the gold standard great
pertinent in housing Five-Year Plan? That the
jobess do not march for DOLE surprises me; but
they want jobs more than they want doles and they
must have the hopeless feeling that the business of
creating jobs is impersonal the forces which
initiated jobs three years ago.
That is why this is a bad time for any man in the
public eye to make Mistakes especially in communica-
ton with the unemployed. If it found that jobs
could be had but being held up because some one
was waiting for bribe, the spirit of 1901 might
vve Otherwise, resentment turns inward, is nour-
ished grows fercer simply because there is outlet
because not only chance of victory is missing but
chance to fight. And that, also is dangerous
frame of mind in which to leave ten million people,
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
PRINTERS PICK
OLD OFFICERS

Fred J. Hagen. of Chicago,
was today reelected president of
the international Association of
Printing Craftsmen at it's final
session at the Wardman Park
Hotel.
Others reelected were: Thomas
E. Cords, of San Francisco;
John B. Curry, of Boston, and
Clark R. King, of this city, vice
presidents; L. M. Augustine, of
Baltimore, secretary, and Harvey
H. Weber, of Buffalo, treasurer.
The delegates planned to visit
Mt. Vernon and other points
late today.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
BODY Of WOMAN
PLANE LEAPER
NOTFOUND
Men on Foot and by Air VainIy
SCour Wooded Section
For Teacher
pictures on Page 81

Authorities of Anne Arun-
del county, Md, and officials
of the Washington-Hoover Air
port today continued search
for the body of a woman be-
lieved to be Miss Marjorie
Fletcher, 35-year-old school
teacher, who yesterday plunged
from an airplane which she
had chartered.
Pilot Roger Scott and Jack
Wynne, manager of the airport,
will return over the route taken
by the plane from which the wo-
man leaped. Scott was at the
controls and although he re-
turned late yesterday with Wynne
was unable to select the spot in
the desolate country where the
woman fell.
Search All Night
Anne Arundel County authori'
ties under direction of Sheriff R.
Glenn Prout conducted an all
night search for the body, but did
not find it.
Hope of finding the body to,
day depends almost entirely on
Scott's ability to pick the approx
innate place where she leaped. The
section he picked out yesterday is
desolate, heavily wooded and p@ac'
tically uninhabited.
Scott told his story today to
States Attorney A. Theodore
Brady, and was exonerated from
all blame.
The search is being centered
between the South and Severn
rivers, and some authorities be-
lieve that the body may be in
one of the streams.
Tells of Fall
Scott who previous to the
woman's leap had flown 34.974
passengers without mishap. said
"We were about three miles
outside of Annapolis and the air
was smooth and calm. Miss
Fletcher, sitting in the cockpit
in front of me, had looked back
twice since we took off and
smiled. She had an attractive
smile.
81 looked over the side tn get
my bearings and when 1 raised
my head again saw Miss
Fletcher stepping off the other
side of the plane. AS she stated
down, her body half turned and
saw her FACET had the
tense. anxious expression ike
you see on parachute jumpers
when they go over the side.
"Then she reached out.
dropped the controls and
snatched for her arms. Only
a few feet separated our hands
and couldn't reach any
further. She was dropping
straight down and 1 was going
ahead. Looking back / saw
her body turn over and start
toward the ground head first"
Was Guest Here
The woman, believed to be
Miss Fletcher, had been a guest
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
c. McConaughy, of the 4700
block of Forty eighth st. N. w.
Dependency over the death of
her mother and inability 10
obtain another position was be-
lieved to have motivated the
leap. A pocketbook found in the
front cockpit by Pilot Scott con.
tained Mrs. McConaughy's name
and led to the partial identifica-
ton.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
Takes First Vacation
In 10 Years and Has
His Car Looted

For the first time in ten
years. Brooks Walton. of Will
Transport, Md, a New Jersey
school teacher, started on a va
cation yesterday.
His pleasure was short-lived,
since his automobile parked on
I Street Northwest, near Frank.
lin Park was rifled by thieves.
Walton's baggage as we'll as
that of his wife and mother
in-law.
Walton in reporting the mat
ter to police, said:
Fine luck when a man takes
a vacation only once in 10
years and then has his vaca-
ton clothes stolen"
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
Gave Same Answers,
Lose Ac1demu Rtqht

Because they gave identical
answers to questions during their
examination last April at Colum-
bia, Mo-, when applying for ad-
mission to the United States
Naval Academy, II Missouri
youths have been adjudged guilty
of collusion by the Navy Depart
ment and forever barred from fur
ther examinations or chances to
enter the Academy.
Secretary Adams has approved
the decision, and the Senators and
Representatives who sponsored
the youths have been notified.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
TOBACCO CROP CUT

Damage by wildfire, blue mold
and insects will reduce Mary,
lands tobacco crop this year to
about 26,000,000 pounds, approx,
imately 19 per cent less than in
1881, according to the Maryland
crop reporting service.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
MELON CROP GAINS

Despite a nationwide decrease
in the watermelon crop. a fore
cast made by the University of
Maryland's extension service pre-
diets that the States crop will
be 945,000 melons. nearly a fourth
more than last year.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
GONZAGA OPEN HOUSE

. Visitors are invited to a public
inspection of the new science de-
partment of Gonzaga High School
Friday night at 8 o'clock. An en-
tertainment program and refresh
ments will be provided.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
GETS 30 DAYS VACATION

billiard Poindexter, colored, Of
1921 Marion st. N. W., was fined
$100 and costs or 80 days on the
charge of driving while drunk
before Judge Charles w. Wood
ward at Rockville police court
Yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
TALK OF ADVERTISING

"Why Newspaper Advertising Is
Best" will be the topic of discus
sion by newspaper men at tomor-
rows meeting of the Advertising
Club of washington at the Raleigh
Hotel,
The Washington times., 1932-08-24

detled the ponce ana IHe City SoN
ernment and won a great victory,
of which in my experience they
make little use. They won the
right to sit on park benches, free OF
charge. From the excitement gen
Grated in the scandal, which Mr..
Asbury regenerates in his narra-
tive, you would guess that three or
four million people want to sit on
park benches every day of summer.
AS they do not, l have to believe
that in 1901, at any rate, the people
of New York were willing to tlght
for freedom and for principle.
Spate's Idea
A Mr.. Spate had the bright idea
The Washington times., 1932-08-24
True to
ROCKING CHAIR RIOTS
SHOW CHANGE
SINCE 1901
nv GILBERT SELDES-

TN recent issue of the New Yorker, Herbert Asbury
i tells the story of the Rockingham Scandal IN
1901 story of skullduggery graft and riots IN when
the citizenry of the metropolis rose IN thelr wratn
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15
THRILLS ABOUND IN "SKY RAIDER"
 NOW AT CAPITOL
Play with Lloyd Hughes and Marceline Day to
 End Tonight

sky Raiders" starring Lloyd Hughes and Marceline Day, will be shown for the last times to- night at the Capitol theatre. It is a Columbia picture and is fill ed with thrills.
 The story revolves around Pat Rogers and Jimmy Devine, two pilots for the o. & P. Aerial Ex- press. One night, Bob and Jimmy are sent out on mission together Bob, depressed after a quarrel with his sweetheart-Jimmys sis ter, Grace-tries to drown his sor- rows in liquor.
 Gives Controls to Jimmy
 He turns over the controls of the plane to Jimmy, who has just received his flying license. There is crash for which Bob takes full blame.
 Realizing that he must pay the penalty by losing his license, Bob escapes in an old plane to Mex ico. There he is pressed into service to act as pilot for a gang of robbers who plan to rob the O. & P. Express.
 Escapes in Parachute
 When he finds out what their game is, he makes thrilling es- cape in a parachute, brings the gangsters to bay and saves the day for the O. & P.
 Hughes gives an excellent DOT trayal in the role of Bob, the dare devil pilot, while Miss Day makes a fascinating heroine. Excellent support is given by the rest of the cast, which includes Wheeler Oakman, Emerson Treacy, Ed Le Saint and Walter Miller.
 Christly Cabanne directed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15
Income Taxpayers, Small and Large,
 Curry Big Load Under Ne,v Tas Blu

WASHINGTON, June 15.-In- come tax payers in all brackets, low, middle and high, will have to contribute several times as much money as they do now for gov ernment support, if the increased levies on income voted by the Senate are finally enacted into law. The Senate rates were agreed upon by House and Senate con- ferees.
 Besides giving big boosts to the income tax rates, the Senate bill eliminates the substantial deduc- tions for earned income allowed under both the old law and the House measure.
 This year married man with no dependents and a net income of s3,0Oo paid no tax because of the married persons exemption of $500. Under the House bill he would have paid S25O next year but under the Senate bill he would pay $20
 A married man with a $5,000 net income and no dependants this year paid a $1688 tax. Under the House bill he would have paid $37. 50 In 1883 and under the Sen ate bill he would pay an even $100.
 The House measure provided for a S2,50O exemption for all mar ried persons regardless of size Of income but the Senate bill stipu- lates that married persons with net income of more than S5,O0o get only $2,000 exemptions. So Bill Smith married, no dependants and an income of $10,000, who contributed $101 25 in 1882, would dig down for $210 under the House bill and $52o under the Senate provision.
 The exemption of a single per- son under the old law was $1 800. Both House and Senate measures permit $1,00o exemption for the unmarried. A single man, with a $2,500 earned net income and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15
Pes Are Mingled With Laughs Local Theatre Programs
M'LACLEN PLAY TO GIVE WAY TO
 AIRES DRAMA
Annabelle's Affairs to Be Concluded at Coli
 scum Tonight

With "Annabelles Affairs" star ring Victor McLaglen and Jean nette Macdonald, showing for the last times tonight at the Coli scum theatre, ''The Doorway to Hell" featuring Lew Ayres, will be presented regularly tomorrow night. The Doorway To Hell" will be previewed at 1 o'clock to- night.
 "Annabelle's Affairs" is based on Clare Runners successful farce so popular on the stage.
 Drama and Comedy
 In film form, it embraces drama as well as laughing material.
 The supporting cast includes such well known players as Rol- and Young, Ruth Warren. Will liam Collier, Sr., Sam Hardy. Joyce Compton, Sally Blanc, George An dre Beranger, Ernest Wood, Wal ter Walker, Hank Mann, Jed Prouty and Wilbur Mack,
 Doorway To Hell
 The Doorway To Hell" tells the story Of a dethroned king of the underworld whose young broth- CT is kidnapped and accidentally killed by gangsters who think the former leader has double-crossed them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15

Mrs. Edwin Bahre, 36 years old, died at Seldovia.
 Miss Margaret Mackenzie, pri- mary teacher in the Seldovia school for two years and recently engaged for next year, has given notice that she will not return to Seldovia next fall. Her successor has not been chosen.
 Twenty-Five men are employed in the sawmill of the Independent Lumber Company at Fairbanks. Fifteen others are at work in get ting out and driving saw logs.
 Marion Dunn, In charge of the Pfaffle and Company store at Coun- cil, died at Nome He was an old timer in the Nome country.
 William O'Neill, son of MT. and Mrs. H. I. ONeill, of Cordova, is foreman at the Chititu Mines op- erated by Charles Cramer, and will be there for the summer, as will his brother, Patrick.
 Anybody Knowing of workable placer ground near Hyder should communicate with the Hyder Her aid which has received letter from Robert A. Heavenston of Port land, Ore, asking If there are any streams not less tan five miles from Hydar that show good results with placer mining by hand meth ods or sluicing," and inquiring if it would be profita ble to dig straight down to the bedrock on the possibility of finding good quartz vain"
 John "Rusn-cd> Ketooroky is the head of party of four that will prospect the beaches of the Lower Cook Inlet country, says the Seldovia Herald. Those with Rush On" are Michael zadorico, Michael Ageef and Harry Sherz.
 Recent flood waters at Fairbanks formed new pools and destroyed , the efficacy of oil sprayed on old pools to prevent them from becom- ing breeding place of mosquitos, but at the direction of the Fair banks City Council all new pools
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15
BARRYMORES HAVE
 BABY SON, BORN IN
 LOS ANGELES, JUNE 4

IA boy baby was born to MT and Mrs. John Barrymore at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, at 3:45 o'clock on the afternoon Of June 4, according to announce ments received in Juneau. Mrs Barrymore, the former Dolores Cos tello, and the tiny infant are in the best of health.
 The Barrymores have little girl, Dolores Ethel Mae, born in April, 1880.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15

in the very high income brackets will contribute from 30 to more than 55 per cent of their net in- comes to the Federal treasury. A married man with a net income of $100,000 and no dependents would pay $30,l40. With a S90O,- 900 income The would pay S144,640; with a s50C,000 income, 263 $40 and with a million dollar income, $571,- 40 or more than half of it.
 A married person with a S3,00C net income and two dependent children would pay otax. If he ha done dependent child, his tax would be s4.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15

no dependents will pay a $60 tax if the Senate's provisions prevail in the law as it finally is en- acted. Under the House bill his tax would have been $23.75.
 The difference is due to not only the higher rate of taxation but to the elimination by the Senate al- so of the earned income credit. The House tax rate for the first S4000 was ? per cent while the Senate rate is per cent. The House measure allowed 12ls per cent deductions for earned in come.
 Under the Senate bill persons
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15
BORDER DRAMA WILL PREVIEW AT
 AT 1 TONIGHT
'Lasca of the Rio Grande' Comes Soon to Capi-
 tol Theatre

"Lasca Of the Rio Grande,' Uni versals straight-shooting Spanish favored romance of the Mexican border, will be previeved at l o'clock tonight and shown regu- larly tomorrow night at the Capi- tol theatre Included in the cast are Leo Carrillo, John Mack Brown Dorothy Burgess and Slim Sum- merville.
 Dary Eyed Sen0rita
 Based upon the Frank Desprez poem, "Lasca," the story concerns dark-eyed Senorita of the dance halls, a tenderly murderous half breed cattle owner who likes his women beautiful, and handsome Texas Ranger in love.
 The picture is packed with hard riding, believing guns, lifting Span- ish melodies and romantic scenes Thrilling Cattle Stampede
 There is thrilling cattle stam- pede. rousing gun-fight between the hall breeds none-too- careful sharpshooters and the Rangers and some choice comedy, furnished by Summerville and Frank Cha peau.
 Carillo, suave star of the stage and screen, appears as Jose Santa Cruz, LstSca's half Portuguese, hall Indian admirer, and Dorothy Bur- gess is Lasco.
 John Mack Brown, Is seen as the strapping Texas Ranger.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15

are being sprayed and old pools resprayed with oil.
 Several Eskimos lost their lives in a flood that destroyed their habitations on Nelson Island, which is east of Nunivak Island, just prior to last Christmas, according to a letter received by the Nome Nugget.
 One thousand and sixty cases Of canned clans constituted the first shipment of the season from the North Pacific Packing Company of Seldovia. Destination was Seattle.
 Livengood offers no opportunl- ties for men seeking employment, according to a communication from residents of the town to the Fair banks Chamber of Commerce. MlS. OOotpit OoiuId, Wiiu Wltil her husband keeps a roadhouse a; Big River near Nc Grath, was brought in an ailing condition with her two daughters, one 9 and the other 8 years old, by airplane from Big River to Fairbanks for hospital treatment. One of the daughters also was ill. A baby of the Con- dras had died few days previous ly at the roadhouse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15

served three months for her acti- vities in Mahatma Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign, SC m 6 d more impenetrable than ever.
 Daughter of the late Rear-Ad- miral Sir Esmond Slade, command CT of British Naval forces in East Indian waters, she abandoned her identity as Madeline Slade and her high social place in London and Bombay to become a humble dis ciple of Gandhi.
 Her reasons have been known
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-15
OLD DONNA LANE BRINGS $16,O0O
 IN OPEN COURT
(Setatle Times. June D


 Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer yesterday found himself playing the role of auctioneer when he took the bench after noon recess. Several attorneys were in the courtroom as the Federal jurist came to case on his calendar entitled, "The Don- na Lane admiralty matter"
 The Donna Lane, as all Seattle waterfront men know, is a motor fishing schooner, well known in Alaska and Puget Sound ports. She is equally well known in legal circles, having been subject to numerous libels. Unite d States Marshals Deputies say her cabin walls at times have resembled bill poster boards from the many legal attachments.
 Auctioneer FCrestalled
 United States Marshal Charles E. Allen informed the court he could get $7,000 for the Donna Lane at a marshal's action sale, but when Judge Neterer took the bench At torney Dan Trefethen appeared be- fore him with an offer of $l0,000 cash Judge Neterer asked if any, one else was bidding.
 Yes" said Attorney F. B. Fite, Jr. My client, MT. Nils Fauchald will bid $1l l,oo0."
 Twelve thousand" said MT. Ire fethen.
 "Well meet that" retorted MT Fite.
 Sold for S16,000
 The bidding went up thousand dollars at time, until MT, Fite': client was awarded the Donna Lane for S16,000.
 MT. Fite said MT. Fauchald plan! to take the Donna Lane to tn. Alaska fishing banks again as soor as the court dispose of exceptions to the libel, still awaiting hearing on Judge Neterers calendar.
 The Russian steamship, Andri Marti. is carrying 13,000 barrel f.1,1, U,,or1o,,J +1 NE,,,