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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
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Walker. He is not going to run now,
no matter what the courts decide,
or ever again stand for public Of
flee. And within five years from
now if anybody says James J.
Walker" the average New Yorker
is going to mutter: Where have !
heard that name before?"
Herbert Hoover will not be for
gotten quite so quickly. The Amer
lean people manage as a rule to re-
member their eX-Presidents.
Becoming a Shade DeIphic
XXIHILE the prophetic mood is
w on me, 1 would like to set
down the prediction that Franklin
D. Roosevelt will ride home upon
a landslide. The Hoover total will
be but little better than that which
Mr.. Taft received in the Bull Moose
year of 1912.
According to my careful calcula-
tions, the Republicans will carry
Vermont, New Hampshire, Utah and
Pennsylvania. And they have a
chance in California. The rest are
Democratic.
This column will not deal much
from now on with the forthcoming
election. The excitement has gone.
BY now it's procession, and 1
have grave doubts as to whether
Herbert Hoover ever will pass any
given point.
I find myself beginning to feel
sorry for him. In the days of his
might and majesty, L did not like
the man at all 1 don't like him
now, but it would be harsh COM
mentator who had no sense of the
pitifulness of his position.
The last gesture of promised
whirlwind campaign with Herbert
Hoover speaking here and there and
every which where is too tragic to
be a subject of laughter. The fact
is that Herbert Hoover is the most
inept speaker who has li~ed in the
White House for many years.
With each address, he will sink
deeper into the slough of despond.
Radio is the ruination of the great
engineer. The acceptance grafton
had distinct merits to the reading
eye, but it was not a good broad
cast.
Franklin Roosevelt sits comfort
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
Seeing Travellers Off

.NOOD-BY, Herbert Clark Hoo
~ yer. Farewell, James j. Walker.
Though have not loved you. either
one, I think that by now you. have
both come to that state of immunity
which is the right of those who live
within the shadow of the statute of
limitations.
And my lack of warmth for these
gentlemen does not extend to any
malicious wishes for their future in
a private capacity.
In saying hail" and immediately
farewell to these two who were
giants once in the market place
there is need to utter nothing more
IMAM happy landings"
And to both I would gladly cede
the right to a chimney corner seat
a sort pillow, a good book, and the
privilege to curl up.
Copyright. 1882. by The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
How Times Do Change

The world, which has always been somewhat cock
eyed, more and more resembles Alice through the
Looking Glass Land.
Andrew Melons companies are recognizing Soviet
Russia by trading aluminium wire for oIr despite
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
A Good Speech

Roosevelts speech at Salt Lake City was the best
OF the campaign 1t frank constructive and spe-
cifc. He impressed the Importance of the railroads
difficulties upon American citizens. but he also offered
definite program for the relief of these carriers.
That there is little in this Roosevelt program
and that its chief recommendations already have
been made by the interstate commerce commission to
congress and the country does not detract from it,
If his party in the house and senate acts speedily
upon those parts of this program already recommended
by the l. c. c., and pending in the form of bills the
Democratic presidential candidate will have accom-
plished much
The Governors program is intended especially to
assist and relieve those who have invested their
money in railroads His declarations concerning those
who have invested their lives in railroads were not
equally strong
While he said that the maintenance of the stand
ard Of living of the hundreds of thousands of rail-
way workers is matter of vital concern of the ma
tonal government" his other declaration that these
men and women entitled to the highest possible
wages that the industry can afford to paw was rather
indefinite.
Roosevelts is a six-point program.
He wants the government to continue to stand
back of the railroads both for specific period during
which they must adjust their top heavy" financial
structures where necessary The c. c. is already en-
oeaVorng to do this in part by setting up conditions
to its approval of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
loans. More can be done along these lines
He wants, and rightly, thorough overhauIing of
the laws affecting railroad and other public utility re-
ceiverships This is important.
He wants T. G. c. regulation of motor carriers. a
step advocated by the commission for some time and
one that will be taken with or less speed if the
railroads themselves will get whole -heartedy behind
the task
He wants the T. G. c. to be relieved of enforcing
competition where traffic is insufficient and he wants
railway consultations to be speedily effected when in
the public interest
II the laws ruling the T. c. @. in these matters are
changed with the minimum of legislative and executive
interference the results will be beneficial.
Finally Roosevelt wants railway holding companies
placed under l. c. c. regulation and thus designated
as common carriers
There are those in the railroad industry who on
pose thS, but because the commission has recon-
enoed 1t at least twice, and because bill providing
Tor such legislation is awaiting action before the
mouse this regulation may soon come about We hone
so.
II Roosevelt expects the voters to accept him as a
leaoer ne VIII have to make more speeches of this
Speclnc type, on issues on which he is still hazy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
/. this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
Daily Thoughts

The fathers have eaten sour
grapes and the chiIdren's teeth
are set on edge.-Ezekiel 1872.
All power of fancy over reason Is
q mark Of insanity. Johnson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19

There being no baggageman among them. those
Missouri scientists who tested an elephant in numer-
Gus ways probably forgot to check his trunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19

ably upon the ether, but to Hoover
each wave length is bucking bron-
cho. For him there is no future on
the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19

recent prison break blamed on the fact that
white ants ate away the foundation for the bars It
won't be long now before every gangser starts carrv
ing his own ants
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19

Members of the Women's Organization for National
prohibition Reform want every home to keep lamp
hghted until repeal is accomplished Which makes us
wonder It's all right for husbands ia get lit up too
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-19
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
CAPPER JOINED
4 BY FOUR IN
INQUIRY
Real Estate Operators to Be
Questioned at Hearings
Open to Public

The investigation by the
Senate District subcommittee
of the scale of rentals prevail
ing here will start at the Capt.
tol Wednesday, following the
appointment Of the subcommit-
tee by Senator Arthur Capper,
chairman of the District group.
Senator Capper, who has re-
ceived hundreds of complaints
that rents are too high, and that
they have not come down in an
era of falling prices on many
commodities, will head the COM
mittee. His associate investigators
will be Senators King CD of
Utah, Blaine (RO of Wisconsin,
Copeland CD of New York, and
Kean (R) of New Jersey.
To Employ Counsel
The first act of the investiga-
tors, preceding the taking of teS'
timony, will be appointment of
special counsel who will be
clothed with authority to examine
books and papers and interrogate
real estate operators.
A Senate resolution authoriz
ing the inquiry appropriated
$4,000 for expenses of expert as
sistance and gave the subcom-
mittee power to compel the at
tendance of witnesses and docu-
ments and records pertinent to
the inquiry.
"TO Get the Facts"
The public will be admitted to
the hearings. Senator Capper
said:
"The primary purpose of this
inquiry is TO get the facts.
These facts will be used as the
basis for drastic rent control
legislation, if that be neces-
sary."
Senator Capper added that he
believed rents here have con-
tinued at a high level, while
practically all commodities have
greatly declined in price" He
said that recently he had been
advised of certain voluntary re-
ductionS by real estate men,
which he regarded as encour-
aging.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
Posses Mountain Hunt
Wins Newstip A1Uard

The mountain search by an
armed posse of Fauquier county
sheriffs for the colored assailant
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry BaXley,
both beaten into Inconsistencies
near their home at Markham,
Va, was worth $40 to the man
who tipped off The Washington
Times to the story, the winner In
this weeks newStip contest.
For information on the death
of rum-runner, instantly killed
when his automobile crashed into
q tree near Trinity College and
exploded, The Times awarded the
second prize of $40.
The third award of SIS went to
the man who reported that Ber.
nard l.. Mann, former teller of
the Morris Plan Bank, charged
with absconding with $4,000. had
been stricken in his apartment
at the HOO block of Conn.
Ave. N. w.
F. When Frances Price, colored,
threw an inkwell in Police Court
the other day at a witness, one
Of the spectators earned So by
telling The Times about it.
Six 50 awards we're made for
the following stories: The man
hunt for a prowler who entered
the home of Webster Owen at
Abel, Md; an attack on two al
legged reds" Of the B. E. F. by
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
D. G.. S. Will Elect
Officers TOniqht

At a meeting tonight of pro-
prietors of the District Grocery
Stores, in the Jewish Community
Center, officers will be elected for
the coming year.
The nominees for offices are as
follows:
I. jacobson, the incumbent, for
president; Philip Cohen, D. A.
Miller, L. R. Fields, F.. Cliccer and
M. Kay, out of which three vice
presidents will be elected; F. A.
Golden and s. Fig, for treasurer;
D. Ceppos and A. kaufman, for
secretary.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
MANY RACKETS.
PRACTICED BY .
BONUS VETS
Extra WatChmen Engaged BY
Wholesale Houses to Put
End to PanhandIinq

Since the Bonus Expedition
ary Force has been in Wash
ington its members have prac-
ticed many rackets through
which Washingtonians have
been fleeced
Since the recent edict Of the
District Commissioners, police
are expected to enforce regu-
lations where veterans are in
volved just as they do with
others.
So persistent have the veterans
become around wholesale houses
that extra details of watchmen
have been put on as special
officers.
Many of the veterans have
been ringing doorbells and in one
day more than $50 complaints
were received from housewives
who said they had been annoyed.
Hold Up Customers
Another racket complained of
frequently to police is where a
group of five or six veterans
march into a store, usually run
by a foreigner, when no custom
ers are present and demand food.
In each instance police say the
veterans have been given what
they wanted by frightened pro
prietors.
Panhandling is reported on the
increase and one man told police
today that in walking from
Thirteenth and H Streets to
Eleventh and E Streets Northwest
he was accosted eleven times.
Postcard vendors, flagpin sales
men and other hawkers continue
to harass women shoppers but
police expect to put a stop to this
practice by enforcing the pro-
vision requiring a license for
peddling.
A new racket Sprang up dur
ing the week when veterans
began to picket grocery stores.
Their procedure is to say to a
woman leaving the store with
bundle of groceries:
Lady, you wouldn't take all
that food home when we are
starving"
Divide Her Groceries
1t was estimated that about
one woman out of six would open
her package and divide it.
Even the "hot stuff" racket is
being used. One policeman was
approached by a man selling
cologne, which he said was
worth $40 but which he was
willing to sacrifice. The vendor
finally lowered his price to IS
cents, whereupon the policeman
gave him a warning. The
cologne, it was said, was the
cheapest variety sold by the
"5-and-10" stores.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
HOM|C|DESQU
PROBES DEATH
Of CHINESE
Drawers of Clothes Chest
Ransacked; Police May
Hold Inquest

The homicide squad is in.
vestigating the shooting of Lee
Lin, 35, whose body, a bullet
wound through the stomach,
was found on a cot in the back
room Of his laundry, SOP
Twelfth st. N. E., early today.
While indications are that Lin
fired the fatal bullet himself, &C"
cording to Deputy Coroner A. Ma.
gruder Macdonald, a verdict will
not be issued until after police
have investigated further. It is
possible that an inquest will be
held Wednesday.
Cousin Finds Body
Lin was found by Lee Thick
Kee, 26, of 1904 Fourth St. N.
W., a cousin, who told police that
he went to Lin's laundry at $50
a. M, to help him with the work,
as Lin had been i'll more than a
week.
The body was lying on a cot
in a rear room, a 80 caliber pis-
tol on the floor as though it
had been dropped from the right
hand. One bullet had been fired
from the gun.
The fatal shot passed through
the body, coming out the back
and passing through the mattress
on the cot and through q tele-
phone book propped beneath the
cot.
Chest RanSacked
The bullet had been fired from
close range, powder marks show.
ing on the body, and there was
distinct odor Of burned powder
on Lin's right index finger.
The drawers Of a clothes chest
were opened and the contents
were in confusion. The cash reg
lister was also found in the rear
room.
Lin, it was said, had been in
this country several years and
had operated the laundry two
years.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
PARADE TODAY
CARNIVAL LURE
Times staff Photo

A Bicentennial parade, featur.
ing IS floats. four bands, and 300
children and young women in
Colonial costume, will open the
Holy Comforter Bicentennial car
nival at Fifteenth and East Cap,
itol Streets, tonight at 7 o'clock
Lieut.. Col. William L. Peak,
superintendent of the District
Jail, is chairman of the parade
committee, and Joseph L. Gam
nell, president of the Lincoln
Park Citizens Association, is gen.
eral chairman of the carnival,
which will be on the church lawn.
Starting at Seventeenth and E
Streets Southeast, the parade will
move west to Kentucky Avenue,
thence to Thirteenth to B Street
Northeast, east to Fifteenth, then
south to Massachusetts, Avenue
Southeast.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
Drug Bureau Warns
Against Pain Pills.

Warnings against indiscrimi.
nate use of headache powders
and tablets and other temporary
reliefs from pain, we're issued
yesterday by the food and drug
division of the Department of
Agriculture.
DR.. F. j. Cullen, chief of drug
control, said he had on file rec
ords showing that serious con-
sequences have followed careless
use of medicinal pills or medi-
cines containing such dangerous
drugs as acetanilid, phenacetine,
opium, cocaine and chloral by.
drate."
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
SCHOOLS WAN 7
S13,500,00O

Hopeful that the 1884 school
appropriation may revert to the
normal budget of two years ago,
District school officials have sub.
mitted estimates this year for
slightly more than $13,500,000, it
was learned today.
The estimates, submitted by
the Commissioners to the new
District economy commission
amount to practically the same
appropriation allowed in the 1882
appropriation.
Although pared to the bone,
according to DR.. Stephen E..
Kramer, first assistant superin-
tendent of schools, who repre-.
sents the school system on the
economy board, the new esti.
mates are approximately $780,
900 more than the present ap-
preparation.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
2 Programs Planned
At lexington Center

Community programs, to which
the public is invited. will be held
Tuesday and Friday at 1880 p. m,
at lexington recreation center
under auspices of the Community
Center department of the public
schools. The stadium at new
Eastern High School will be
opened daily for track, baseball
and other events under direction
of Mrs. Ella Scott. An eXten-
sion course in social, tap and old
fashioned dances is being carried
on at Thomson Center, Twelfth
and L Streets Northwest, under
direction of Mrs. A. C. DriScoll.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
With Odd Key
Find Lost House
and Are Content

It is bad enough to lose a
house key, but it's more en-
barrassing to have a house key
and lose the house, park police
decided today.
Discovering a key at park po-
lice headquarters today tagged
"Observation House." police
were non-plussed. Where and
what was the building?
Frank T. Gartside, chief hor-
ticulturist, came to the rescue
by opining it probably was the
little watch-tower built into the
new underpass bridge at Rock
Greek Parkway between Massa-
chusetts Avenue and Q Street.
It was.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
Malicious Arrest
Charged by Attorney

Charging malicious prosecution,
Sylvester L. McLaurin, colored at
torney, today filed suit in Dis.
trict Supreme Court for $4,000
against Howard H. Long, 1112
Girard st. N. w.
McLaurin informs the court
that Long accused him of steal
ing some examination papers
from the Franklin School and
had him arrested on July Is,
1881.
After trial on the charges, a
jury exonerated McLaurin Of
guilt on March II last. Attorney
William H. Richards represents
the plaintiff.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
SNAPPED CABLE
INJURIES 3
ELIZABETH

Their thirst sent three men to
Emergency Hospital today, when
a temporary elevator cable broke
at the new Gospel Mission Build
ing, 812 Fifth st. N. w., hurting
one of them SIS feet to the
ground.
holland Patterson, 13, of 406 H
st. N. w., a lahorer, is in Sc
rious condition from injuries re-
ceived when he stepped on the
hoisting elevator to reach for a
bucket of water and fell from
the fifth story to the ground.
The elevator hurtled downward
just as Adam Horn, colored Ia
borer, 139 B st. N. w., was about
to step out to reach for another
bucket. Horn clung to a rafter
and then fell to the floor below.
Brooks 2ierson, 80, another col
ored laborer, who was standing at
the bottom of the shaft, was in
jured when a piece of broken
wood flew and struck him in the
head.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25

Whlcn l am preparing 10 oEuer Lhe
incredible dishes other travellers
have told me not to miss. AS in all
manuals of conversation, in all Ian
guages, breakfast comes off rather
we'll, with choice of tea, coffee
or chocolate, although, following
the universal custom, "this cream
is sour" (den har gradden ar SURF.
But lunch and dinner are meager
festivals.
Even the technique is faulty.
After demanding the bill of fare
the bright lexicon of Swedish ad-
vises you to ask What have you
ready?" a betrayal of all the finer
instincts of the gourmet, who
knows that the only food worth
eating is the food which is not
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
2 Policemen Pass
Around the Cigars

The police Of Montgomery
county were increased by two
yesterday when the wife Of
County Police Sergt. D. L. Snyder
presented him with an 812-pound
girl, and Mrs. Frank Lane, wife
of Takoma Park Policeman Lane,
gave birth to 912-pound boy at
Columbia Hospital. Both mothers
are reported doing nicely.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
Public Works Delay
AssaiIed by Lobby

"A Wicked Hold-up" in the pro-
gram of public works this year
was charged in a statement is
sued yesterday by the Peoples
Lobby, of which Prof. John Dewey
is president. The statement said
NEARLY $4,000, 100000 more
of public works should be car
ried out this year than the
actual construction will amount
to, unless there is an imme-
diate acceIeration in the rate
of construction"
Contracts have not been
awarded, it is charged, for many
projects which were contem-
plated.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
Horse Dies in Fire
As Stable Is R1zed

Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed a barn at First and K
SITS. S. E. yesterday. A horse
stabbed in the shelter was burned
and had to be shot by police The
animal was owned by Arthur
Rawlings, colored, of 1875 Boule.
ward Rd., S. E,
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
FAIL TO FIND BODY

Reports that the body of a
woman wearing a white dress was
floating in Washington Channel
close to the Haines Point seawall
early today led park and harbor
police to hunt for a drowning
victim. The search was fruitlesS.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
Purple Heart GiUen
District WntcEln1un

Lloyd E. Henry, SO, witchman
at the District Building, today re-
ceived a Purple Heart" medal
from the War Department for
military merit during the World
War,
The Washington times., 1932-07-25

the regulars, the anchoring Of
Admiral Byrd's Eleanor Boiling"
at the Seventh Street Wharf;
safe blown at SO G st. S. W.;
woman struck by street car in
Bethesda, and Amelia Earhart
Putnam'S arrival in Washington.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
CONCERT TONIGHT

A band concert will be played
tonight at Montrose Park, Thirty
first and r SITS. N. w., by the
Army Band from 7:30 until 9
o'clock.
The Washington times., 1932-07-25
TruetOT
TOURISTS LIMITED
AT DINNER TO
GRAVY SOUP
Rv (SHLRERT SELDES-

THAT the Swedes nation of epicures is appar-
J. emily known to all men, with two EXCEPTIONS
Messrs C. A. Thimm and Carl Cederof, and, by CO.
incidence these two have prepared the manual from