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Seward daily gateway., 1932-11-15
UNBEATABLE MEN

While the world prone to shower it's laures upon hose men who catch the imagination and amidst specta cuar stage settings climb to exalted heights, there others Who while overlooked deserve to be classified with 'the forgotten man..
 They are tie men who conjure up practical idea but remain obscred in the ackground while others ride 1t to success or 1t dies aboning simply for the lack of those stimuIants successful men can command but which beyond the reach of the originator.
 This is the situation faced by Donald Macdonald, father of the International Highway dea-the Pacific Yukon-Aaska prOject-and the who has kept it alive when othcrs sighting something spectacular but less meritorous, have allowed it to become dimned
 One can enviscn what it would have meant to the ton at this time he'd Mr. MacDonalds idea been speeded at its inception and forward to success Of the hun dreds ot thousands of men who would have been employ ed m creative progressive necessity erection of pub lc buildings as means of relieving dleness and distress
 Then consider what would follow after; the demand for every essential to motor travel the tapping of zion rich in god silver and copper the linking of thous ands of miles of isolated terrain to the continental Unit ed States offering vast domain to the homebuder and
 The International Highway is not a stop-gap con- cepton such many of those which have been mooted by each major political party in effort to relieve dis Tess and which at bes but transitory and leave nothing of enduring nature avenues for following Up With new enterprises.
 One often hears the words cOnstructive legislation" Too often is but te parrong of catch phrase for pol 1tca bayhoo In the Macdonald idea of the ne1nation
 
 wonderful economical force simple of understanding and carrying the fullest merit in point of it's relation to the most vital question ever confronting the nation
 Ie.ily Mark Twain was right when he said: Tt is every mans duty to agtae; they may vote you down as fool, but some day you will be hero.'
 Stick with it Nac old boy!
 What Mr. Macdonald needs is backing in his agita- ton not only CT the ukewam kind, but the real punch which puts thing over If the commission named to con- der the subject had included the originator of the idea Tn it's personnel in all likelihood the army of labor now Idle would have been ripping the sides of mountains and preparing the way for great of progress such as does not loom M any of the bag of tricks the Republican politicians have been drawing from.
 We have three suggestions to make in conclusion: D Let this be the first Alaska be acted upon by the Democratic regime which has always extended falreallng on Territorial problems. 2) Assign Donald MacDonald the originator, as chief engineer in full charge of the project, working in conjunction with Brit tsh Columbia and Yukon Territory engineers (3) And Way.'
Seward daily gateway., 1932-11-15

Seattle Purity Ice Cream; most delicious. ALASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-11-15

There is refreshing outlook in the increase in crime will not be long before every town will have eel ebrty to look at without paying four bits to one in the movies.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
D. {. WON 7 BUY.
FIREWORKS

The District Commissioners
have disapproved the expenditure
of $1,500 for Fourth of July fire
works display, recommended by
the District Bicentennial Commits
sion.
The District Commissioners
action was based. it is said. on
objection to this use of Federal
funds while widespread local un-
employment exists.
Designating the Fourth as
Home Coming Day" the District
Bicentennial Commission is CO.
operating with various citizens
associations and community
groups to make the celebration
of independence Day another
peak event" in the nine months
program commemorating the
2O0th anniversary of Washing
tons birth.
Approval by the District Com
missioners of the Bicentennial
Commissions expenditure of the
Federal appropriation of 100000
for fitting observance of the
bicentennial is required.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
UN|TES
MILLS, MACY

CHICAGO, June 16 qN.SJ.
The breach between Secretary
of the Treasury Ogden I. Mills
and w. Kingsland Macy, chair
man of the New York State
Republican committee, seemed
healed today, with the reelection
of Representative Ruth B. Pratt
as national committeewoman.
In organization harmony un-
paralelled since the open enmity
of Mills and Macy over the
prohibition plank stand, the New
York delegation then passed a
resolution to place the name Of
Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord
in nomination for the Vice preSi-
dency.
There were not even words
about it. National Committee
man Charles D. Hilles suggested
General Harbord, Appraiser Fred
erick j. H. Kracke and Warren
P. Ashmead mentioned former
Senator William M. Calder, Of
Brooklyn, but Calder's name was
withdrawn when the Harbord
resolution seemed assured.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
LEA PLEA
IS DENIED
Times Staff Photo

RALEIGH, N. c., June 16.
Col. Luke Lea, publisher OF the
Nashville CTennJ TennesSean and
former United States Senator,
today is long step nearer the
penitentiary and a siX-to-ten-year
sentence.
The North Carolina Supreme
Court has found mo error" in
Lea's conviction, with his son,
Luke Lea, jr., and Wallace B.
Davis, former head of the now
defunct Central Bank and Trust
Company, of Asheville, N. c., of
a conspiracy to defraud the
bank of $1,000. They were SEN
fenced August 25. 1881, in Bun
combe county superior court.
Only possible rehearing of the
case by the State supreme court
remains open to the defendants.
When informed of the highest
courts upholding of his convic-
ton, Colonel Lea ordered his
paper to print an extra featuring
the news.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
HOOVER SILENT
BUT PLEASED
EVERETT

Although immeasurably pleased
by the action of the Republican
National Convention in adopting
his hand-hewn plank on prohibi-
ton, President Hoover today re-
mained secluded in the shell of
silence in which he has lived since
the convention opened.
There was no semblance of the
victor's camp about the White
House. The President declined all
comment. lis secretaries did
likewise. No visitors were on Mr..
Hoover's program.
The action of the convention, it
was said, has now made it possible
for Mr.. Hoover to stand for re-
election on a platform which will
not embarraSS him.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
Hoover Parade
Has Maryland
Delegates

CHICAGO, June 16.-When
the demonstration-parade for
Herbert Hoover was staged
around the convention stadium
floor here, enthusiastic mem
bers of the Maryland delegation
got into the cheering line of
marchers, carrying the Mary
land standards.
Even the loyal shout, "Hurrah
for Ritchie!" from Will Rogers
as the Marylanders passed the
press box did not deter them.
w. David Tilghman, Elkridge,
Md, former State legislator,
and Clarence Burrier, of Balti-
moe, secretary of the State Re
publican convention, carried the
standards.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
CHASED DRIVER
CUTS OFFICER

Following a 10-block chase in
which he drove his automobile
into two other cars and at
tempted to slash two detectives
and two civilians, Richard Allen,
colored, 81, of 2O2 I st. N. W., was
captured today in an alley near
Second and L SITS. N. E. by Detec-
tives F.. M. Alligood and j. E..
Kenny.
He is held charged as hit-and-
run driver, with unauthorized use
of a stolen automobile and as
Sault with knife.
The detectives recognized the
stolen car and started the chase
at First and L Streets Northwest.
Two other colored men were IN
the car with Allen. During the
chase Allen sideswiped one car
and ran into an automobile
driven by James Mangum, 1926
Seventeenth st. N. w.
Jumping from the car, Allen
tried to cut Mangum and a few
seconds later Slashed at Donald
Garner, GIT Quincy st. N. w"
who attempted to grab him.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
!. NJ s. Predicts
Closely on
Dry Poll
INSPECTION

CHICAGO, June 16 QN.SO.
The International News Service
predicted the outcome of the
Republican national conven-
tons action on prohibition
within 81 votes, it was revealed
today after the State delega-
tions balloted on the party plat
form.
William K. Hutchinson, in a
story yesterday, copyrighted by
the International News Service,
following a poll of the State
delegations, predicted that 619
votes would" be pledged to the
Administrations plan on pro-
hibition.
Early today the convention
upheld the Administration by
voting 681 to 472 against a mi
nority repeal plank, within 62
votes of the poll secured by
Hutchinson.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16

1t was easy to see that the
G. o. P. family didn't relish his
homecoming. James R. Garfield's
resolutions committee-that's the
one that made the platform-put
him way down in the list Of the
country's problems.
He was mentioned only after
kidnapers and gangsters had been
read out of the party. the Kellogg
pact had been discussed, the
World Court settled, the farmers
promised relief and ex-soldierS,
starving, were told that unless
they contracted their troubles i'll
the war, they're out of luck.
Troublesome Words
Mr.. Garfield made good
show of it. After he had listed
all the things the country will
not have to worry about if Mr..
Hoover is reelected, he just stop
ped a second, looked the micro
phone in the eye and said:
"The Eighteenth Amend
ment."
The Ohioan is short, grayish
haired, spare, square jawed and a
typical simple life liver. You
could tell how dry he was by look
ing at him. You could also tell
that he knew he was walking
right into the face of the guns
when he jerked out those words
"the Eighteenth Amendment"
Those blue shirted electricians,
Sweltering in the control boxes
heard it. They jerked back the
levers and the spots roared down
with the ferocity of MONDAY sun
light in July.
Cheers roared down from the
galleries and up from the wet
delegations from Illinois, Wis
consin. Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut-Indiana.
The reading went on. It fin
ished with the plank shipped in
excelsior from washington, with
orders to put it over, no matter
how.
A roar of boos went up. The
wet States milled and swung the
beer pals and stems they had
waved in the face of the Admin
istration cohorts on the platform.
Repeal or Victory
Senator Bingham, champion of
the vets, sprang up, white-haired
and SuaVe. Slammed his short
absolute repeal plank on the desk
and drew cheers. But the wet
CONTINUED on Page II, Col. p
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
US. Launches Fight
On Coaching Schools

A Nationwide drive against
coaching schools which hold out
false hopes of Federal employ
ment to perspective students has
been launched by the Depart
ment of Justice and the Civil
Service Commission. The first
indictment was obtained yester-
day against an Iowa advertiser
who indicated men who enrolled
in his school would obtain civil
service positions.
No further examinations will
be given until the termination of
the next fiscal year, it was ex-
planned yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16

years ago. And like that historic ma
tional bust, the thing that kept all those
boys and girls out on West Madison
Street most of last night was liquor.
Old John Barleycorn showed his face
in polite company for the first time i'll
years when those delegates came in from
supper. Yes, sir, he got cheers. Yes,
and boos, too. But he was the most i'm
portant person at that stadium party.
Anyway, all of those delegates had re-
morse this morning. Part of them were
sorry they didn't throw old John out be-
fore he got a grip on the speakers plat
form rail. Others feel he ought to have
been given still better break. And the
rest of them-the friends of the Admin
stration-are sorry they ever brought up
the subject at all.
ty, any way you take it.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
Alexandria Council
To Hear Petitions

Alexandria city council this aft
ernoon will receive the city's fl
nancial reports for May.
R. L. May, operator of the A.
B. & w. bus line. will request
council to mark off so feet on
each block OF King Street for bus
stops.
Council also will receive peti
ton from E. J. Treger, asking for
permit for a gas station at
Washington and Franklin Streets.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
Bunker Hill Battle
BringS Celebration

The MASSACHUSETTS, Society Of
Washington will observe Bunker
Hill Day with an outing. chicken
dinner and dance at Olnay Inn
Saturday. The anniversary of
the battle is tomorrow, June II,
but the observance will be on
the following day, and busses will
leave the south entrance of the
Treasury Building at 2:30 p. m.
DR.. Allen A Stockdale will speak.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
Baltimore Concern
VIII Build Schools

ANNAPOLIS, June 16.-Con-
tracts calling for expenditures of
over $4,000 in Anne Arundel
county were let yesterday by the
county school board to the Cata-
lano Construction Company, of
Baltimore, calling for schools at
Mt. Zion and Severn.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
I Fined, Other Freed
On Dumping Charge

Prince Georges county police
yesterday arrested Edward Whalen
and Chancellor Jackson, both
colored. for dumping trash on
University Drive near Hyattsville.
Judge j. Chew Sheriff, in the
HyattSville Police Court, fined
Whalen ST and costs and dis
missed the charge against Jack
son
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
BY ELSIE ROBINSON
Copyright. 1882. by International
News SerYiCel.

STADIUM, CHICAGO, June
16 (I.N.S. .).-The big story
about this convention is that
there isn't any big story.
That's the honest low-down
and the most loyal Repub-
licans themselves admit it. In
fact, they even boast about it.
FOR THE REPUBLICAN DEL
EGATES ARE NOT HERE TO
FURNISH BIG STORIES-OR
LISTEN TO THEM. THEY ARE
NOT EVEN HERE TO NOMI-
NATE A PRESIDENT. THEY
ARE HERE TO MAINTAIN THE
STATUS QUO. AND THE BEST
THING THE STATUS QUO
DOESN'T WANT IS A BIG
STORY MESSING UP ITS PRO-
GRAM.
Hunger VS.. Status Quo
Big stories there are-the Ma
ton is rocking with them-big
stories of hunger-desolation-
empty homes and deserted towns
and ragged thousands on the
march to find relief.
But you won't hear any OF
those big stories here
Even though millions of Repub-
licans are suffering from that
hunger-are joining in those
marches-are looking to this con-
vention for relief-you'll not hear
their story here.
FOR THE STATUS QUO
MUST BE MAINTAINED
AND HOW CAN 1T BE MAIN
TANNED IF SOMEONE GETS UP
AND BLURTS OUT THE GOSH
AWFUL TRUTH?
It can't. That's the answer.
And so no one is.
And so instead, they've busted
off all the good, ole shibbolethS
-. taken the tried n true slogans
out of the moth ballS-draped
them up with bunting-tuned IN
the bands-and there you are.
Still Nothing Done
And in the meantime, what's
happening outside? You know the
story as we'll as I. Whether you're
a Republican, a Democrat or
nature-food-nudist you know that
story by heart. You've been read
(Continucd on Page s, Col. y
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
GRAY VETS SONS TO MEET

Camp 305, Sons of Confederate
Veterans, will hold an open meet
ing tomorrow at p. m. at 1922
Vermont Ave-, N. w. A program
of music and dancing will be
given.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
PLANK IS A SAD WEAKL|NG,
BUT HOOVER GRAMS It
DOWN THEIR THROATS
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter" of the Radio

CHICAGO, June 16 GNS.).-Hello, everybody!
WE'LL you back home those 1000 delegates and alter
mates you sent the Chicago convention made night of It,
They came rolling back their just before daylight
today It biggest night since the country went dry Il
The Washington times., 1932-06-16

But it some party any you take it.
That mliondolar stadium all lit up with Keg lights spot
lights and oodghts-wired with loudspeakers and ampl
fers-was ammed the roof when the started old
Johns relationship to the Republican party.
The Washington times., 1932-06-16
G,O.P.STRATEGY
MASKS ONLY
PT|NESS
Pretty Phrases, Gay Bunting
But Multitude Still
Remains Hungry

Here is hoW Elsie Robinson,
famous newspaper feature tOriter,
whose column, Listen, WorldF"
is printed in The Washington
Times and other Hearst neDS-
papers, sees the Republican NG-
tiondl Contention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-25
The Presidential Outburst

The senate Thursday afternoon passed a bill in
tended to provide some relief for starving American
men, women and children and at the same time to
ala the recovery of American business and industry
1t was bill that does not, in all respects meet
the views of President Hoover-as we'll as his waver-
Ing views on the subject of relief can be understood
Yet 1t came so near to doing so that even his sun
porters in the senate did not feel they dared to vote
against it.
They recognized that the time had come to end
debate on this difficult question; that relief can NOT
be delayed longer.
friday the President Embossed sweeping state
ment against the bill passed "A pork bill OF
gigantic proportions" he called it, although the onIv
part OF the measure that could merit such label is
mat providing for payment through bond issues OF
public work projects already authorized bv congress
ana recommended for construction in 1888 in the
Presidents own budget
mat Is political work, shouted the President He
had no such word for the vastly greater sums to he
loaned by the Reconstruction Finance Cornoratior
composed Of men of his own choosing
Will ne veto the bill if it is accented b +h ho..o
he asked.
One does not answer such questions in advance -
he replied. '
But, IN our opinion, it answers itself No President
would dare withhold from a distressed country the
assistance it so soreIy needs
ana In our further opinion, it is poor time for
'ne FreSloenC 70 even intimate that he might do 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-25
Protecting the DOdger

In all probability, the special session of the legis-
lature will give immunity to all those who have
lodged taxes on intangible property during the last
few years,
Under the rather strange theory that the way to
make citizens honest in regard to hidden property
is to brbe them with special privileges it is seriously
urged that those whose wealth is in cash and stocks
instead of real estate and machinery and goods should
be permitted to list their holdings at onefourth of
their value.
That sounds bad enough But added to it is the
suggestion that all those who have evaded taxes in
the past be given a fresh start and forgiven their
crimes.
That is the part of the suggestion which interests
those who fear that after their death or by
cident they may be forced to pay what they owe.
The truth is that the farmer and the small home
owner would not be in difficulty if all the wealth of
the state taxed.
In recent years most fortunes consist of intangible
property which does not hit the eye of the
The owner of farm or home rot escape.
His property is sight. 1t is there for taxation or
confscation
But the person who hides stocks and bonds in a
safety box can, and many of them do, falsfy con-
corning his wealth Many have lodged. Now it is
proposed to let them get away with it by having
them pay fourth in the future and forget the past
What is needed is not law to aid tax lodging
but law to catch tax dodgres.
The federal government forces honest returns on
incomes by severe penalties and prison sentences.
A state law that would provide as severe pen
alties for false statements given in federal
courts for similar crimes against the income law
would bring not bride the hidden wealth the tax
rolls
And if that wealth were on a parity with real
estate there would be no need of placing limit
of taxation.
To bride one portion of a community to be as hon.
est as the rest is poor morality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-25
A Roosevelt Trick

Roosevelt has been slipping fast. So he
and his managers once more have resorted to
trickery. The effort now is to change the
rules in the middle of the game.
And the action promises to be the end of
the presidential ambitions of Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Certainly it is the end of Roose-
velts reputation as liberal and a reformer
in politics. For the trick is one that even
ward-heelers would scorn. 1t is play that
Gust isn't DONE"
AS things appear now, the trick has sick
ened enough Of Roosevelt's own followers to
cost him the nomination-and, if not that,
his election. There are too many millions of
American voters with feeling for sports
manship to trust that kind of a leader.
That feeling runs deep in the American
consciousness whether the affair be a base
ball game, boxing match, tennis, golf, or
politics.
The issue is not the two-thirds rule which
the Roosevelt, forces are trying to change.
Whether the rule is good or bad is beside the
point. The question is whether any candi-
date, for personal gain, has right to change
any rule after play has begun.
The rule is party matter 1t is not the
affair of any candidate in a contest.
Because of that, many of the oldest lead
ers of the Democratic party fear the trick. 1t
contains within it all the forces that make
for a boomerang. Those leaders know that if
the trick works within the party, it may split
the party and throw the election in Novem-
Der to the Republicans.
This view is not confined to Roosevelts
critics. 1t is shared by leaders like Senator
Harrison and Senator Glass.
The trick was to be expected, considering
the source from which it came. 1t is alto
gether in keeping with Roosevelt's stiffness
in handling Tammany corruption. It follows
naturally his breach of faith, after agreeing
to the choice of Shouse as permanent chair
man Of the convention.
For hundred years every Democratic
presidential candidate has been nominated by
two-thirds vote. The rule is not sacred, but
it is the rule until it is changed by common
agreement and in adVance-and not in the in
terest of any candidate.
The rule was not made to hurt Roose-
velt it should not be changed to help him.
If Roosevelt will not play fair in his own
party, he can not be trusted to play fair in
the White House.