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The Washington times., 1932-10-03
~ A MISUNDERSTANDING
80 ADVENTURE GLIB
Listen to Kit KarSon over
VOL Tuesdays and Fridays at
s p. m.

We have had this picture Of
Betty Cochran. 923 North Caro-
lima Ave. S. E.. for some time,
but this is the very first oppor-
tunity we have had to use it.
The picture shows Betty with
her brother but we don't know
the latter's name as she ne
elected to give it in her letter.
She writes:
81 went to see the Isle of
Paradise. It was not only good
but very interesting.
II wish you would have
anther contest because 1 think
it is loads of fun to enter them.
..."I always listen to Kit Kar-
son broadcast over VOL. 1
wish he would talk every day
because / enjoy it so much.
read the Adventure column
every day. / enjoy the letters
very much. I am enclosing a
picture of me and my brother
taken in Miami in 1927"
Here is a letter from Marie
Murphy, 1907 Maryland Ave.
N. E. She sent us a picture
but, unfortunately it was not
clear enough for a cut. We
hope she sends us another one.
Anyway here is what she
says:
81 have been very anxious to
join your club for a long time.
1 hope I will be a good member.
am very sorry I didn't join
this wonderful club as soon as
it started. 1 am writing for my
brother and sister. 1 am gen.
orally the one that does it for
them. I sure will be glad for
, you to print this letter as am
not telling them what 1 am
saying and 1 think they will be
surprised.
81 am II years old and in the
sixth grade. My brother is IL
and in the same room. He gets
along very nice in school and
won the prize for the highest
average. / came out first in
January'S exams.
'My sister Dorothy is In the
third grade"
Elizabeth Dillon, 1914 Thir-
teenth st. N. W.:
Il want to join your club.
I have listened to Kit Karson a
lot. My best funnieS are Little
Annie Rooney, Mickey Mouse,
Tim Tyler's Luck and Blonde.
I am 8 years old and in the
third grade. I hope my letter
win be in the paper sOOn."
Beatrice Crawford, 1921 Thir-
teenth st. N. W.:
81 have wanted to join your
club for a long time. 1 am IL
years old and in the high fifth
grade at the Thomson School.
MY best friend, Elizabeth Dill
lon, is sending her letter with
mine. We both hope to see
our letter in the column soon.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
Kansan Wants Data on
States Old Sod Houses

Topeka, Kan.-Kirk Mechem, sec
retary of the Kansas State Histori-
cal society. is in a dilemma. He
wants to build a sod house and
doesn't know how.
The history books say that the
Kansas prairies were dotted with
sod houses and that thousands of
early-day Kansans lived in them.
Mechem, whose job calls for much
familiarity with the history books,
decided to build a sod house in the
state museum. But now he can't
find anyone who knows what the
buildings were like
Other states have log houses.
stone houses. and other types Of pio-
neer structures in their state mu-
seums, but Kansas wants one Of the
typical "soddies." But how to build
one is the question.
How thick were the walls and of
what were the roofs made? What
kinds of windows and doors dla
the soddies have, and were the
rooms plastered inside? What kind
Of grass makes the best sod and
what time of year should the sod be
cut?
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
Connections With Foreign
Countries Is Forecast.

Washington.-The telephone uto-
pia." or a time when all telephones
in all nations can be connected, is
rapidly nearing in the opinion Of
engineers, who recently celebrated
the fifty-Seventh anniversary of use
of the speaking device in the Unit
ed States.
Already telephone users in the
United States can converse with
users in 40 other different coun-
tries located on the six other con-
tinents. These connections COM
prise a network of 32.7500O0 tele-
phones. or more than % per cent
Of all such instruments in the
world. 1t will be only a short time
until virtually all of the remaining
connections will be possible in the
opinion of government communica-
tions experts.
Four Countries Left.
There remain only four countries
having more than 100000 tele-
phones with which the United States
does not have connections. These
are China, Japan, Russia, and
South Africa. The link with the
last named is likely to be complet-
ed within the current year and that
with Japan should require only a
relatively few months more, ac-
cording to Stanley Shoup of the
communication division of the Com
merce department.
All this development has come
since March 10, 1876, when Alexan-
der Graham Bell, then a youthful
scientist, and a companion con-
versed for the first time in this
country through electrically wired
apparatus in Boston.
Today four radio-telephone cir
cults connect the United States with
Europe, and it is expected that a
transatlantic telephone cable will
be completed during this year.
development.
Most of the international develop
ment of telephony has come since
1922. At that time there were only
two countries connected with the
United States. They were Cuba
and Canada. The United States is
now connected with virtually every
country in Europe, with Argentina.
Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, and Cuba in
Latin America; with Java, Sumatra
and Indo-China in Asia; with Ceuta
in Spanish Morocco, Africa; With
New Zealand and Australia.
During the last year communica-
tions were made with Hawaii, thus
thrusting vocal communications
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
SECRET OF BRANDS
LOVE IS REVEALED

start for the sake of the woman
they had both loved, Dut his efforts
were unavailing, and after a brief
career as an official in the colonial
office in France and Africa, the man
fell again, dragging his wife down
with him.
Both disappeared, and when they
were traced again the man was at
the point of death and the woman
was wreck of her former self.
Again Offers Marriage.
When the husband had been in
the grave year BRAND offered mar
riage, but perhaps because she had
realized the mistake she had
made in rejecting him in the first
instance, she stoutly refused his
offer, saying that she had no right
10 burden him with a woman with
a past who was an ugly shadow of
her former self and was represen-
tative of naught but a wasted life.
In any case. she said. her own
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
Premier Lived a Bachelor
After Romance Failed.

Paris.-The secret of why Aris-
tide BRAND. eleven times premier of
France, a lover of children, re-
mained a confirmed bachelor until
his death few days ago has been
solved by the story of an unhappy
love affair now being told for the
first time.
The attitude of the great orator
and statesman toward marriage
dates to the early days when he
was a struggling law student.
In his native Nantes was a Bret
on maiden who received the hom-
age of all the young men of the
best families, but this girl. Jeanne
hernandez. by name, was ambitious
and had declared that she would
only listen to the wooing Of a man
with a brilliant future.
She Refused BRAND.
She refused to entertain the i'm
pecunious BRAND Of humble origin.
anu NdcA III utI lOl with Il AbuuE
man of his own age. one of his
friends, member of a well-known
family and n brilliant star of local
debating societies for whom n great
future was predicted.
Twenty years later the man of
brilliance had emerged from prison
after serving a sentence for fraud,
and he and his ambitious wife were
reduced TO the direst straits, living
in a miserable attic in the most
squalid section of Paris.
At the time Aristide BRAND, who
had up TO then devoted himself to
the law and journalism, was just
coming into his own as a politician.
and his dazzling eloQuence earned
for him the admiration of women
of wealth and position who would
gladly have linked their fortunes
with the coming man. but BRAND re-
mained faithful to his first love, and
cherished the hope that one day
they would be reunited.
When he became premier, though
by no means rich, Mr.. BRAND ar
ranged 10 give his friend a new
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27

death could not be far off, and in
fact she died about two years after
wards.
She was buried in an unmarked
grave in the little cemetery of Co
cherel, where the remains of Bri-
and now rest.
Each year, on the anniversary Of
the woman's death, NJ. BRAND made
a point Of journeying to Cocherel
to lay flowers on the unknown grave,
and not even the most important
political engagements could induce
him TO omit this tribute to the dead
woman he had loved with such OBJ
stinacy for nearly a half century.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
Presidents 500 Trout
Put Into Wrong River

Nashua. y. H.-If fisherman Her
bert Hoover wants to catch the trout
raised for him at the local govern
ment hatchery he'll have 10 trans
fer his angling operations from the
Rapidan 10 the Rose river. The 500
eight-inch brook trout shipped to
the Presidents camp were put off
the train at Orange. Va, by mis-
take, according TO word received
here. and dumped into the Rose riv-
er by some mountaineers who were
expecting a similar consignment.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
New Hampshire Women
Win Many Town Offices

Concord. n. H.-Women have
captured many of the more impor-
tant town offices in several New
Hampshire communities as result of
the recent town meetings.
At Middleton Mrs. Ruth Kelley
was elected town clerk; Mrs. Mar
garet Kimball. town treasurer, and
Gladys WhitehOuse, town auditor.
Bessie Hayes was elected town
treasurer of New Durham; Mrs.
Ethel w. Morell, town clerk of Al
ton; Stella F. Aver. town treasurer
of Alton: Tressa Nelson, town clerk
of Strafford; Lima B. Locke, town
clerk of harrington, and Mrs. Fan
nie Whitchouse, town clerk of Farm
ingtc2-
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
MONUMENT TOTtE UNKNOWN
CIVIL. WAR DEAD

He wrote such letter the night before
Scott's men stormed Chapultepec. After that
his mother watched eagerly for the return of
his father from the daily trip ta- the village
store where he went to get the mail. But every
time the father shook his head sadly.
Today in the enyirons of the City of Mexico
there is a little cemetery in which stands a
small granite shaft bearing these words: ITO
the memory of the American soldiers who per-
ished in this valley in 1S47, whose bones col
lected by the countrys orders. are here buried
75O."
And so this Unknown Soldier Of the Mexican
sleeps among the seven hundred and fifty,
far from his native land where flows "the Beau
tiful Ohio"
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
PHONE UTOPIA SEEN
RAPIDLY NEARING

nearly 1000 miles out into the Pa
cific on the way to the final goal of
China and Japan.
The telephone industry now ranks
as one of the leading ones in the
United States in point of assets.
Its investments amounted to S5,25O,-
100000 in 1890 and officials of the
Department of Commerce estimate
that 1t spends S5OO,OO0,OOO a year
in improvements alone.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
Boston Man Keeps Faith
With City's Directory

Boston.-The Boston city direc-
tory of 1881, through a Topographic
cal error, listed Superior Judge
Charles Henry Donahue as a Su-
preme court justice. The directory
seems to have been prophetic, for
Judge Donahue was elevated to the
Supreme court bench.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
Electric eyes" to
Guard Lift Riders

Pittsburgh. Pa. Electric
"eyes" will guard users of ele-
vators in Rockefeller Center,
New York.
Light beams are to be pro-
jected across elevator en-
frances in such a way any per-
son intercepting them will cast
a shadow on a photo-electric
cell.
The cell controls operation
of the doors and the falling
shadow will keep them open
or shoot them back if they have
started to close when a passen-
ger is stepping in or out of the
car.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27

ed States regular army, another boy, who had
never before been beyond the confines of the
rock-strewn acres of his New England birth
place, was on his way to the western frontier.
there TO serve in lonely outpost called Fort
Dearborn
Here it was as though he were on another
planet so far as communication with the world
he had known was concerned. But somehow he
managed to survive through the cold, desOate
winters and the hot, fever-breeding summers
amid the swamps along the Chicago river.
The summer of 1912 came and with it the
news that we must fight Old England again.
More alarming stil, there was the threat of an
Indian outbreak, for the oratory Of Tecumseh,
the great Shawnee had been heard among the
wild trbesmen throughout the Mississippi val
ley. Then a courier speeding along the wilder
ness trail from Detroit, brought orders to
evacuate Fort Dearborn.
One hot August day the retreat began. South
ward along the sandy shores of Lake Michigan,
Capt. Nathan Heald led his little army, all too
few In numbers for its precariOus task of safe
convoy for the wagons where rode the women
and children Of the garrison. From out of the
sandhills swooped the frece POttawatomies.
short, desperate fight-and the Fort Dearborn
massacre was history
That night there was a helish orgy in the
Indian camp and the ptying stars looked down
upon a writhing figure at the stake. What If
this was one of the acts in the mighty drama
called "the Winning of the West? What il the
future was to see one Of the worlds greatest
cities rise on these sandy shores?
Could that knowledge have been recompense
for the fiery agony Of this New England lad
above whose unmarked grave the hurrying feet
of Chicago's millions beat endless requiem
today?
Who he?
An Unknown Soldier of the War Of 1912!
- "a p
"HOUGH some of his neighbors denounced
it as "an unholy war" into which Presi-
n dent James X. Polk was leading the ma
ton a boy on a middle western farm one
of the first to respond when on May 13, 1916
the President called for $4,000 volunteers to
drive the Mexican forces back across the Rio
Grande
SO he was among those who landed with
"Old Fuss and Feathers" Scott at Vera Cruz
and started toward the City of Mexico. To his
parents back in Ohio came cheerful letters
from the boy telling of the rapid succession
of victories won by the American army, assur-
Ing them that the war was almost over and
that he would be home
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27
4 NATIONS SHR1N1

Note: The following article was written FOR
Memorial Day in 1929. Because of the number
of requests for copies of it which the author
has received, it is herewith reprinted.
Rv ELMO SCOTT WATSON
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27

MORT SUMTER had been fired upon. In the
II North a mighty chorus was swelling from
N thousands Of young American throats "We
Are Coming, Father Abraham" In the South
the rollicking strains of Dixie" were firing
thousands of other young Americans to an al
most religious ecstasy.
In the Upper Shenandoah valley of Virginia,
a father was bidding goodby to his two sons.
Pray God, you two never meet in battle!' he
said
For one rode north to wear the Federal Blue
under General Patterson. And the other rode
south to become a member of Gen. Thomas ].
Jackson's "Stonewall Brigade" Whether or not
his prayer was answered, the father never
knew. He never saw them again.
Perhaps in some Valhalla two warrior spirits
reminisce of Charlottesville and Antietam, of
Manassas and of Malvern Hill. But there is no
bitterness now in their tones as they call each
other "Yank' and Johnny Reb"
The crumbling dust which once housed these
spirits rests under a great monument of rough
hewn granite and polished marble in Airing
ton cemetery near Washington. On this monu-
ment is an inscription which reads:
Beneath this stone repOse the bones of Iii
unknown soldiers gathered after the from
the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rap
pahannock. Their remains could not be identi-
fed but their names and deaths are recorded in
the archives of their country and its grateful
citizens honor them as of their noble army of
martyrs. May they rest in peace"
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27

Canada that dreadful winter. He was on6 of the
tattered remnants of that tragic expedition
which finally staggered back homeward from
its heroic but futile adventure.
Then wearing the Continental Buff and Blue
he fought under Washington at Trenton and at
Princeton, and In the summer of 1777 he was
one of the picked men who went with Danl
Morgan, "the Old Wagner" to help repel Bur
goynes invasion of New York At Saratoga the
bayonet thrust of a Hessian grenadier struck
him down.
What If the historians of the future were to
call this conflict, whose din was now sounding
family in his ears one of "the fifteen decisive
battles of the world? What comfort was 1t to
him to know-if he could have known-that he
had been of the pawns in the life-and
death game of matchmaking? For he con-
scious only of the torture of thirst as his life
blood ebbed swiftly away until death came at
last to still his pleading cry of Water Water!'
and to ease his pain-racked body.
A great monument now stands on this spot
which once witnessed the 'pomp and circum-
stance of war'--the surrender of a British
army. But, nearby, the smooth. green sod gives
sign that the soil beneath holds the dust
of a young Pennsylvania backwOodsman who
had died in defense Of American liberty
Who was he?
Just an Unknown Soldier Of the American
Revolution,
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27

month later he was on an army transport
that steamed through the Golden Gate into the
broad Pacific. The next year he was one of a
detachment which set out from little Philip
pine village in pursuit of a party of Moro
raiders
There was deathlike hush as they pushed
on through the steaming heat of the jungle.
moment later its stiffness was shattered by the
sounds of men engaged in furious hand-to-hand
combat-bayonet against bolo-a of little
brown men clawing at group of swearing,
desperately y-struggling khak-clad figures and at
last bearing them down to earth by sheer force
Of numbers.
few months later, back in the Colorado
mining camp which clung precariously to the
rocky slope of the mountain, band play
ing necessarily "There'll Be a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight" For the troop of "our boys"
was home from the wars.
But out in the province of Sulu rusted Krag-
JOrgensen rifle and a webbed cartridge belt al
ready nearly hidden by the lush jungle vegeta-
ton, marked the last resting place of one who
didn't come home-an Unknown Soldier of '98-
90.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27

7 T WAS the spring of 1898. A Colorado miner,
coming off the night shift joined a group
~ of his fellows gathered about who held
in his hands a Denver newspaper. One look at
the screaming headlines told the story: "War
With Spain"
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-05-27

n TOVEAIBER II, 1922. In Arlington ceme-
terry a great throng stood with barred
- heads as a bugler blew 'STaps" over a
new white marble tomb in which had been
placed the body of a dead warrior.
Who was he?
No one say. For his is the eternal mys-
terry.
The lettering on his tomb betrays no word of
his identity. 1t says simply: Here rests in
honored glory an American soldier known but
% Cod"
He is "The Unknown Soldier" of the World
war.
He is the man whom we have exalted out of
humanity into sainthoOd"
Since that day ten years ago when they en-
shrined his dust in marble at Arlington and his
spirit in the heart of America, men and women
of every station in life have bowed their heads
reverently in the presence of his last resting
place. To it have come the great of other
countries-the queen of a European royal house.
princes, field marshas, lord admirals states
men. None has been too great to pay him hon.
age.
Orators and poets have tried in all-too-inade-
quate words to pay fitting tribute to his men,
ory. But the only real tribute to him is the
voiced in the hearts of his felowAmer-
leans. To them he has given Memorial day
new meaning For on that day their thoughts
TURN u HIS touo dS the Shllhe upon "Hlch ls
offered Americas tribute to her soldier dead
and more especially to the Unknown Soldiers
Of all her wars.
We cannot decorate their graves in accord
ance with the Memorial day custom, for they
.are scattered far and wide over the face of
the globe Some of them fell before Indian bull
let and lance on the wind-swept plains of the
Great West. Some of them died in China in
Cuba, in the Philippines, in Mexico. Some of
them went west on the battlefelds of France
and Belgium.
SO in alien soil they keep their lonely "bivou-
ac of the dead" and while we cannot pay them
the same honOrs Memorial day that we do to
the others who gave their lives for their coun-
try, we can offer up to them our tribute Of
gratitude by remembering on that day what they
did even though we do not know who they were
% by Western Newspaper Union.)
Evening star., 1932-01-01
OIL AND RAILROAD
GAINS FORECAST
Industrial Leaders See
Promise of Better Times in
Present Conditions.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO. January 1.-The new
year brings promising prospects Tor at
least two lines, leaders Of the oil ana
railway industries said.
Edward G. Seubert, president OF the
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, said the
demand for oil products had been
relatively well sustained" and that
the "difhculties caused by oversupply
have continued, but progress has been
made in meeting them"
Public sentiment is turning strong
"" he said. against further increases
In gasoline taxes and gas tax evasion
is being combated.
Adjustments Stul Needed.
'There are still some adjustments to
be made in the worlds economic ma
chinery before 1t can be set hummlng
again" he concluded. For this reason
the prospect for immediate improve
ment in general business is not overly
bright. but after two years on the
doWngrade il Is certain that business
must be someWher near the bottom.
The Railway Age was even more op-
timistic in its forecasts for the new
year in the rail world.
Sees Gain in Wage Cut.
In view Of the possibilities Of 10
per cent rail labor cut and because OF
the increase of 100000, 900 or more
annually in freight rates, the magazine
predicted that this aggregate of $3l5,-
o00,0 and a slight improvement in
freight business actually was occur
ring" will aid business enormously.
r. H. Ashton, chairman Of the As
sociation of Railway Executives, in a
statement said that any one who is
pessimistic as to the railroads future
is lacking in confidence in the future
of the United States"
Evening star., 1932-01-01
La GUARDIA OUTLINES
LEGISLATIVE PLANS
New Yorker Declares Restoration
of Prosperity in U. S. Is Up
to Congress.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January Assert
ing that business, unhampered by legls-
lative bodies, had failed 70 restore pros
perity, Representative Fiorella H. La
Guardia Tuesday outlined congress
sional legislation which he said would
relieve economic adversely.
The New York Republican said the
Government should do everything in
its power" to standardize a five-day
week. To this end he suggested that all
Government contracts specify five
day working week, that all Govern
ment buildings and banks be closed on
Saturdays, and that all railroad en-
ployes be placed on fve-day basis
He advocated the purchase by con-
aressional appropriation OF clothing and
coal for distribution; vocational train
ing for 100000 jobless miners, TO whom
would be given food rations in amounts
provided the Army, and the care OF all
unemployed seamen at marine hospitals.
His program would rush the public
building program alreauy authorized
out Of the blueprint stage and IN con-
struction."
Finally, he would establish national
unemployment insurance rund.
Representative La Guardia promised
10 submit all these measures for con-
areSsional action.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
THREAT TO BLAST BANK
FOILED BY PRESIDENT
Executive Knocks Down Man Car
rying Suit Case Filled With
Dynamite Bomb.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, January IAN at
tempted robbery of security-First Ma
tional Bank failed here yesterday when
Tracy o. Hall. president, knocked down
Timothy P. Blevens, "a, who threatened
to discharge bomb if the bank otfclal
failed to give him 100000.
Blevens, an unemployed Kitchen
worker, then vainly attempted to ex-
plode a dynamite bomb, ran from the
building, and was captured by police:
The bomb, in a suitcase, was declared
by police to contain enough dynamite
to destroy a city block.
Blevens said he had worked montn
on the construction of his bomb.
"I planned to rob the bank the day
before Christmas" he said, but l
didn't think the machinery was IN good
working order. I felt sure 1t was today,
but must have been wrong