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The Washington times., 1932-07-28
Dinner on Terrace

Miss Mary E. Ferro enter
tanned at the dinner dance on
the Shoreham Terrace last
evening, in honor of Senor Don
Eduaroo M. SoSa, secretary to
the President-elect of Panama,
Senor DR.. Harmodio AriaS.
Senor Sosa left Washington to-
day to join DR.. AriaS in New
York. The other guests at the
dinner were Miss Fannie M.
StaniSh, Miss Rose Ann Ferro,
Mr.. Michael J. DurSo and Mr..
Harry Smith.
Representative and Mrs.
Claude A. Fuller with their
two daughters, Ruth and Dor
othy, have closed their apart.
ment at Wardman Park and
left for their home in Eureka
Springs, Ark, where they will
spend the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maxine H.
zepeda and their daughter,
Miss Maria zepeda, are guests
at the Shoreham while in
Washington.
Il \
Mrs. c. j. Witt of Dufur,
Ore, is at the Dodge for an
indefinite stay.
4
Mr.. and Mrs. GiSt Blair of
Washington gave a small lunch
con at the Pot and Kettle Club
in Bar Harbor Tuesday after
noon.
The Washington times., 1932-07-28
DEPEND ON zEMO TO
RELIEVE ITCHING ECZEMA

Soothing, healing, invisible ZEMO
is used in thousands of homes to
bring relief from the torture of
itching, burning Eczema. ZEMO
! as been used for twenty years with
temarkable success to stop itching
and draw the heat and sting out
of the skin, and help clear away
Rashes. Ringworm, Pimples and
other annoying skin or scalp irrita-
tions. Extra Strength ZEMO espe-
cially adapted for chronic cases, All
Dealers. soc, 60c, $1.00.
The Washington times., 1932-07-28
Dance Saturday

The Carroll Springs Club Of
Forest Glen, Md, will give a
dance to all it's archery, golf,
tennis and swimming club men,
bers at it's new open-air pa
villion Saturday evening at $50
o'clock. A well-known orchestra
will furnish the music and the
evening will be further en-
livened by short program Of
songs and dances.
4 x
Mr.. Daniel Willard is a guest
at the Willard for a few days.
X
Mrs. Charles Bateson, who
with Mr.. Bateson and their
two boys. Philip and Charles.
jr., makes her home at Ward
man Park, will leave today for
Tennessee, where she will spend
the summer with her mother.
Mr.. Bateson will remain in
Washington for the present,
but may join her there later.
The Washington times., 1932-07-28
Son Of Former
Governor to
Wed Aug. ~

The marriage of Miss Flor
ence E. Watson, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel H. Wat
son, of Schenectady, N. Y, and
Mr.. Walter j. Smith, youngest
son of former Gov. and Mrs.
Alfred E. Smith of New York,
will take place August 13 in
Schenectady.
Miss Margaret Cramer, of
Watervleit.. N. Y. will be the
maid Of honor, and Mr.. Will
liam Hess will act as best man.
Mr.. Smith and his bride will
motor through New York and
Canada on their wedding trip.
Mr.. Smith was a recent stu
dent at Manhattan College.
Dinner Hosts
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert BreWood
entertained at the dinner dance
on the Shoreham Terrace last
: evening in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Dorsey. Their
other guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Chance Buchanan, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Haley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Garland Kendrick, Mr..
and Mrs. Allen MacCullen and
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon I. Rich
ard.
X X
, DR.. Castro Urena, who left
' a few days ago for his home
in Costa Rica to spend a short
vacation, will return to his
! apartment at Wardman Park
the latter part of August.
Mrs. w. H. Burns of Tulsa,
Okla, is spending a few days
at the Dodge accompanied by
her daughters. Miss Mary Ann
Burns and Miss Barbara Burns.
The Washington times., 1932-07-28
Luncheon, ShOWer
For School EmpLOye

The clerical staff of the Frank
lin Administration Building to-
day gave a luncheon and shower
to Miss Virginia Tucker, clerk
in the office of DR.. Stephen E.
Kramer, first assistant superin-
tendent of schools.
Miss Tucker will be married
August 5 to Henry Noord, 3010
Charming st. N. E. Miss Tucker
lives at 1896 Ogden st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1932-07-28
In New Zealand

Col.s and Mrs. Edward B.
Clark left yesterday for Boston,
where they will be the guests
Of their nephew and niece, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank S. Clark, for
several days. Later they will
GO to Magnolia, Mass, for some
weeks. Before returning to
Washington they will go to
Camp Frye, Me, to be the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs, Frank
II. Briggs.
Mr.. Thomas F.. Woodlock,
former commissioner of the
Interstate Commerce CommiS-
sion, has come to Washington
from his home in New York
and is stopping at Wardman
Park for the duration of his
visit. Upon his return to New
York he will join Mrs. Wood
lock and together they will sail
for a vacation in Europe.
The Washington times., 1932-07-28
'Bavarian Night
Celebrated on
Terrace

"Bavarian Night" was cele-
brated in true fashion last
evening on the terrace of the
Shoreham and a large crowd
was present to enjoy the gay
music and draught beer served
by pretty frauleins. Among
those glimpsed at the tables
or dancing were Mr.. and Mrs.
j. BlaiSe de Sibour, the First
Secretary of the Spanish En-
bassy; Senor Don Jose Ricardo
Gomez-Acebo, the Commercial
Attache Of the Spanish En-
basSy; Senor Don Juan Ter
rasa, Miss Rose Walker Page,
Mrs. Thomas w. Page, Mrs. Ju-
liam j. Mason, Mr.. T. T. Toma-
delli, Miss Betty West, Miss
Helen Walker, Mrs. Elizabeth
ReeSide Reynolds, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Jennings Price, Mr..
and Mrs. Ferris Stevens, Mr.. and
Mrs. William D. Lynch, Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis j. Pettijohn,
Adm. and Mrs. George Clark,
and Mr.. Keith Merrill.
The Washington times., 1932-07-28
Returns to Capital

Mrs. Keith Merrill has come
from her summer home at
Prides Crossing, Mass, to spend
a few days with Mr.. Merrill,
who is detained in Washing
ton by his duties at the State
Department.
X X u
Senator and Mrs. William H.
King will be the guests in
whose honor Capt. and Mrs. c.
C. Calhoun will entertain at
dinner Saturday evening at the
Rossdhu Castle Club.
The Washington times., 1932-07-28
Bridge Tonight

Mrs. Benjamin Smith will en-
tertain eight guests at bridge
this evening at the Wednesday
Bridge Club meeting at Ward
man Park.
X X X
Admiral William S. Sims has
donated trophies for the sailing
races that will be held today
at Newport.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
CITIZENS OPPOSE
CEMETERY PLANS
Bradley Hills League Hits Estab
lishment Anywhere in
County.
,y a staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
POTOMAC, Md, May 10.-Unani-
nous opposition to establishing COM
mercial cemetery anywhere in Mont
gomery County at any time" was eX-
pressed in a resolution adopted at a
mass meeting of more than $50 citl-
zens of Potomac. Bethesda and por-
ton Of Rockville districts in the
school house here last night.
This action was taken on resolu-
ton introduced by Maj. Edward A.
Keys of the Bradley Hills Community
League, under whose auspices the
meeting was held, and amended by G.
r. Rowdybush to cover the entire sub
iect of commercial cemeteries.
The resolution also opposed the pro-
posed cemetery of Fulton r. Gordon
at River road and Bradley boulevard.
This matter is now before the Circuit
Court in an action seeking to restrain
thea county commissioners from inter
fering with its establishment.
The speakers principally attacked
the application of B. r. Parker to
establish a cemetery on land near Po-
tomac road, between Potomac and
Rockville. Parker urged favorable con-
sideration Of his project, but when the
matter was put to a vote did not OPP
pose the resolution. This project Will
come up for consideration by the
county commissioners at Rockville,
Thursday, May 10, at 2 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
SUGGESTS ISLANDS
AS DEBTS PAYMENT.
Naval Officer Would Have
u. S. Take Over British and
French Possessions.

| A suggestion that Great Britain turn
over to the United States Bermuda,
Trinidad and the Solomon Islands in
the Pacific, and that France do like
wise with the MarquesaS Islands, in
consideration of the war debts owed
! to this Government, is made by Capt
Dudley w. Knox, u. S. N. retired, writ
ing in the May issue of United States
Naval Institute Proceedings.
Capt Knox, the officer in charge Of
naval records and library, holds the
economic value Of these islands is small
but that they would be of great strate-
gic value to the United States In his
article entitled Some Naval Aspects
of the War Debt Question" Capt. Knox
! asserted:
THE United States, having come
into world power very late, finds her
self possessed of very few outlying in
sular positions, which are SO necessary
for the efficient protection of her i'm
mense overseas commerce. This def
cheney even seriously handicaps us in
the ability to protect our vital coastal
| and intercoastal shipping lanes"
Pointing to an advantage in British
naval bases, covering the worlds prin-
cipal trade routes, Capt Knox main
the British under the treaties are able
virtually to blockade the United States,
while we have no power seriously to
threaten any essential British traffic
lane" He added that it is not neCes-
sary to assume war between Great
Britain and this country in this COM
parison.
"Of the British possessions" Capt.
Knox wrote, Bermuda and Trinidad
would be of the most value to us by
reason of their splendid harbors and
strategic location with reference to
special American interests. Bermuda is
close to all our main trade routes to
Europe and South America, and is an
ideal location from which either to raid
or to protect shipping bound in or out
of our greatest home ports. 1t is also
close enough to constitute serious air
menace.
In American hands neither Ber-
muda nor Trinidad would offer any
corresponding menace to important
British interests anywhere"
Dealing with conditions in the Pa
cific, Capt. Knox wrote:
lone Of the peculiar consequences OF
the World War was to weaken the
United States in its ability to protect
the Philippine Islands and to protect
maritime commerce in the Orient, be-
cause of the acquisition by the allies
of all the former German colonies"
Guam, he described as now COM
pletely surrounded and isolated by Jap
anese islands" He pointed out that
while theoretically these are man
dates in practice the japanese have
recently felt sufficient ownership to re-
fuse permission for American ships to
visit them" A much better route to
the Philippines from Panama, he holds,
would be to the Marquesas Islands (now
French) and thence to the Solomon Is
lands (now British), as this would give
a slightly shorter distance than by the
Hawaiian route.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
DRIVER SAYS CAR FAILED
AT CRUCIAL MOMENTS
Each Time He Tried to Drive Some
thing Went Wrong, Owner
Tells Court.

The story of his car, Edward Ayers,
colored, told Traffic Judge Isaac R.
Hit yesterday, is tragedy In three
acts.
The first time he took the machine out
for a trial spin wheel came of, he
informed the judge. The garage fixed
this, so he set forth again, SO ne IN
formed the judge. A short distance
from base the rear end fell out,
ut took them month to put all the
parts back" Ayers related.
The climax came Sunday night, on
his third trip, when the generator went
bad and policeman picked him up
for not having lights and two other
traffic charges.
"They can have that car and the
money too" Ayers announced. 1T
caused me plenty of grief"
Judge Hit continued the case for an
additional witness. Police also accuse
Ayers of failing to secure new title,
and driving with dead tags on his
machine.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
SPANISH FLYER DELAYED

RANGOON. Burma, May 10 (P0.-
Fernando Rein, Spanish aviator who
is flying from Madrid to Manila, ar
rived here today at IL am.
He was forced to land on Ramree
Island, lonely spot, on his way here
when water seeped into the gasoline
tank.
He will stay here today to have some
minor repairs made on his plane to
prevent leakage of oil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22

By United Press
GAN PEDRO, CAL, Oct. a.
~ Puzzled as to the identity and
intsnt of strange, unnamed ship
which, for days, persiStently has
trailed the Pacific fleet, naval
officers today planned new secre-
tive strategems to conceal feet
movements.
Never venturing inside the
twelve-mile limit, which would
make it possible for officers to
question her crew, the mysterious
vessel has refused to be shaken
from the trail of the feet.
When the feet steams into
port, the ship, which some believe
to be reconditioned destroyer,
at once anchors just outside the
limit.
When the fleet puts out for new
maneuvers, the speedy, black boat
follows.
A T first officers believed the
n ship, which resembles tank
er, was standing by to refuel the
vessels.
Oil company officials, however,
have asserted that they know
nothing Of the ship, and it has
been said that navy barges and
tankerS alone distribute fuel to
the fleet.
The strange ship, which carries
no flag, is not registered at any
coast port, investigation showed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Teacher Wins 12-Year
Fight to Regain License
Took Up Study of Law, and
Battles Long TO Be
ReinStated.

A school teacher, who took up
study of law so he could fight
through court a decree revoking his
teaching license, has won a twelve
year battle when his permit was
restored.
Fulfilling a mandate of superior
court, George G. Cole, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, issued
an order reinstating Florus w.
Shady, 2012 Caroline street.
Shady fought his long battle
single handed. When his license
as teacher in Whiteland school was
revoked in 1920, he set out to right
what he termed a "greivous wrong
He spent long hours scanning law
volumes. In his preliminary
skirmisbes the court decisions were
against him. He went back to his
law books and started again.
At last Superior Judge Clarence
Weir upheld his petition, giving
Shady victory over trained, ex-
perienced legal authorities.
Judge Weir inundated the state
board to grant Shady all licenses
for which he had prepared.
AS a result he will receive first
grade high school certificate, and
principals, grammar and rural
licenses, all effective for life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
STATE GROCERS
HERE SUNDAY
Several Hundred Dealers to
Attend Convention.

Several hundred grocers and meat
dealers from all sections of Indiana
are expected to attend the second
annual state convention of the In
diana Retail Grocers and Meat
Dealers Association, which opens
Sunday with registration.
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will
deliver the address of welcome at
Monday mornings session, which
will be featured by an address by
c.. H. Jansen, st. Paul, MINI, sec
reary of the National Association of
Retail Grocers.
The convention delegates will be
the guests of Kingan 81 Co. at a
noon dinner at the packing plant.
j. Ralph Corbett, nationally
known marketing expert and author,
will be the speaker at the Monday
night session at the SEVERN.
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he couldn't have inflicted the
wound himself. said it was
murder.
eAnd fancy my surprise, old man
when found that the district at
torney and the police were de-
termined to believe it suicide"
II Il
THERE was plenty of social
i pressure, one may believe, to
have Joseph ElweIl declared
suicide, Within a week, a whole
directory of important names was
glittering on the edge of the TO-
cused tloodlightS. Pressure kept
many of the names from ever be-
coming public.
The clews ran all the way from
Belmont park to Palm Beach to
Carlsbad. Corporation presidents
were drawn into the middle, on
medicinal discovery that one of
Elwell's secretaries had sold them
cases of whisky. So
It was one of those rare cases
that touch off a whole social
scene, sociological document as
well as a classic murder mystery.
But the important thing, as you
talk to Chief Norris, is how he
proved it to be murder.
That new chapter is this
When he became medical ex-
aminer he discovered there was
little data on gun wounds.
He proceeded to collect every
known make of weapon in the
world. He and Captain Corne-
Illus w. Willemse, the detective,
spent weeks shooting into every
available type of material from
every conceivable angle and dis
tance.
The result was compilation
that has been used by detectives
all over the world.
II
"TT took me six weeks to make
i that a murder" grumbles Doc
Norris, still angered about it.
"They wouldn't believe it until
Captain Willemse got hold of an
army officer, an expert on revolt
vers, and proved to the district at
torney that no man could shoot
himself that way with a AS"
We'll, you proved it, Doc"
"Yes, and If they had believed it
earlier they might have gotten the
murderer. I've always believed I
knew who murdered Joseph Ell
we'll"
"Who?"
whats the use of asking, old
man? Even if I told you, you
couldn't print it. It's a classic
mystery, Let it stand that way"
Next: DIR. Norris will discuss the
queer case of a man with a wom-
ans leg.
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from his wife, had lived in ele-
CANT freedom.
Many of the women had widely
known names. They apparently
had thrown themselves at the
bridge expert without minding the
crush.
Upstairs police found a complete
gaming room, including a faro
table and a roulette wheel. There
was a wealth of evidence that FL
we'll had lived a high stake life,
both at cards and at love.
?" A VERY difficult case, old
IA man." grumbled DR.. Charles
Norris, chief medical examiner,
looking back at it from the want
age point of twelve years. 81 got
the call at home about 9 in the
morning. BY the time I got to the
house he had been removed to the
hospital.
HE still was alive, you know.
Didn't die until around noon. He
didn't regain consciousness.
Il always wished I had gotten
there before they took him away
They found him sitting at a table
on the first floor, you know.
HE was in dressing gown, and
he had left his false teeth and
toupee upstairs. Must have looked
a bit strange. He was only At, but
I guess he had led a hard life.
"All those women, they didn't
know he had lost his teeth and
his hair, guess,
THE fact that he had left his
hair and teeth upstairs was quite
a point in the case, proof that
he hadn't expected to see any one.
Or, if he did expect to see some
one, it was person who knew him
intimately.
The postman, remember, had
left some letters in the outside box
at 7:45 Q. m So, Elwell appar-
emily came down, got the letters
and sat down to read them. The
letters were lying on the floor near
the table, soaked in blood.
One of them, from his horse
trainer, had been opened. He had
a fine string of horses down in
Kentucky, you know.
THE housekeeper and a detec-
tive or two were in the house
when I got there. The scene had
not been disturbed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
Frontispiece of Joseph b. Ell
wells book on bridge.

Frontispiece of Joseph b. FL
wells book on bridge.
came down on his vest front with
a sort of plop. There was very
special CLEAN in his old eyes.
He grumbled something in Ger
man. Then he added, "a difficult
case, old man. I had to fight six
weeks to make that a murder"
1t was the morning of June II,
1920, that Joseph B. Elwell,
sportsman and expert at bridge
and love, was found sitting at a
table in his home a bullet
through his head, But the story
should begin long before that.
THIS Joseph Elwell was the IA
L. ther of modern bridge in
America. He was the first bridge
tlaor in New York City, the
prototype of a profession, the in
stigator of a social revolution, a
man who by his life and death
summed up an entire era.
He appeared obscure and un-
known as the gaslightS were be-
ing turned down on the mauve
decade. BY the turn of the CEN
tury he had played his way to
power, had gained entree to the
best homes in the citv
He, moreover, had founded his
fortune at $40 an hour, and later,
as the new gambling game be-
came a social institution, at 81 a
point.
BY 1901 bridge whist had be-
come such an institution that the
pulpit and press were baying in
alarm.
THE rise of Joseph EIwell was
l. signalized in such newspaper
headlines as Bridge Whist the
Bane of the 400" -"Clergymen
Now Up in Arms Against Gam
bling, to Which 1t LeadS"-"ClubS
Given Over to the Game and So
ciety Matrons Have Glasses in It's
Art" Names of the players were
printed, Society Women Who
Play Bridge Whist: Mrs. Ogden
Mills, Mrs. T. j. Oakley Rhine
lander, Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt Jr.;
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, etc.
The suggestion everywhere in
those days was that bridge whist
was an instrument of the devil
and that very interesting things
were happening in the social
back-stage if only the scenery
could be removed for inspection.
The town had to wait twenty
years for that. The curtain was
not raised until that morning in
June. 1920, when Mrs. Marie Lar
sen, housekeeper, ran into the
street screaming, Get a police
man. Mr.. Elwell has been shot"
Within twenty-four hours the
city was rocking with the sensa-
ton. For it soon came out that
Joseph Elwell had lived just as in
tereSting life as the editors and
clerics had suspected.
Seventy-five photographs of
women were found in that art
cluttered house on West Seventh
eth street, where Elwell, separated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22

There was an empty cartridge
on the rug, from a .45-caliber
army revolver. I noticed there was
no revolver, however.
I turned to the housekeeper.
Where's that gun?' I demanded.
She said she had never seen any
gun. She said she had arrived at
the house at $3.50 a. %. and found
him sitting there unconscious,
groaning.
"HE next thing I noticed was
l. that the telephone on the
table was broken. 1t was an old
fashioned wooden piece.
"'Who broke this telephone?' I
asked. The housekeeper said she
didn't know it was broken. But it
was, old man.
VERY peculiar. The wood was
cracked, and it wouldn't work for
an outgoing call. I always at
tached a great deal of Importance
to that. There was some sort of
a struggle before Elwell was shot.
I'm sure of that.
HE was taken by surprise,
perhaps, while he was reading his
morning mail. Possibly he didn't
realize his danger until he saw
the revolver. Then he tried to
seize the telephone and it was
knocked from his hand.
well, I ordered that his body
be sent to the morgue as soon
as he was dead. 1 made the
autopsy that afternoon.
He was drilled through the
head, right in the center of his
eyebrows. He never could have
inflicted that wound himself.
There was about three inches of
powder burn around the wound.
THAT indicated the revolver had
been held at least four or five
inches away. No man could hold
a As that far away and shoot
himself straight through the head.
ut can't be done, old man. Even
a contortioniSt couldn't do it. You
can do it with a 80 or a SO, but
not with AS, old man.
THE revolver was missing, but
that wasn't the main point. Many
a time someone interested has
hidden the revolver in cases of
suicide. That's the insurance
angle.
But that wasn't the main point
in the Elwell case. The point was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
MORE JOBS, is
COAL OF HOME
LOAN BANKERS
Patriotic Duty to Extend
Leaning Power, Building
Association Told.

1T is the patriotic duty of build
ing and loan associations to take
part in the functioning of the home
loan bank in order to resume their
loaning power to their individual CHI
ents,'' Morton Bodfsh of Chicago,
member of the federal home loan
bank board, said in an address Fri
day afternoon at the Lincoln.
Bodflsh was the principal speaker
at the annual convention of the
Building and Loan League of IN
diana.
Speaking on the subject, Hard
Times and Mortgages" Bodfish de-
scribed workings of the home loan
bank as it effected the individual
association and the citizens of their
communities.
THE public has right to expect
the building and loan associations
to arrange their affairs in such
manner that they can continue
functioning as lending agencies, ="
Bodfish declared.
There are enough jobs in Indi-
ana Illinois and Michigan for
painters, carpenters and roofers to
solve the unemployment problems of
these trades for the next three
years." he declared, IF money can
be obtained to finance the work. 1t
is to supply this money that we have
set as our goal"
Second objective will be to care
for the refinancing needs of home
owners which require assistance in
carrying their loans and saving
their homes from foreclosure, Bod
fish said.