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The Washington times., 1932-07-02
FOX whitaker
BROUGHT HERE
MANACLED
Alleged Means Aid in Hoax
SWindIing Mrs. Mclean,
Lodged in Jail

Norman T. Whitaker, the
alleged "Fox" in the CASTOR
B. Means negotiations with
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean
for the return of the kidnapped
Lindbergh baby, was taken
to the District Jail this after
noon.
Whitaker and Means were in
dicted by the District grand
jury on charges of conspiring to
embezzle $104,000 from Mrs. Nc
Lean.
Arrested in Brooklyn by De
partment of Justice agents the
first of the week. Whitaker was
identified by Mrs. Mclean as
the man who posed as the Fox"
in her dealings with Means.
Means is also at the District
jail under 15-year sentence lol-
lowing his conviction of larceny
of the $104,O00. which Mrs. Nc
Lean vainly paid out for the re-
turn of the child.
Arrives Manacled
Whitaker arrived on the noon
train from New York in charge
of Deputy U. S. Marshals Edward
Reisert and AL Davis. He was
manacled to Reisert.
AS soon as he stepped from
the train, he was taken in charge
by Deputy U. S. Marshals Gus
Ceremele and John Clarkson.
He was manacled to Ceremele.
The marshals, flanked by three
of Justice agents.
rushed Whitaker to a waiting au.
tomobile at the north entrance to
the Union Station and rushed to
the Jail.
Whitaker said that he does not
expect to post bond and that as
yet he has no lawyer.
Hides From Camera
He baffled efforts of photog-
raphers to take his picture by
screening his face with a news.
paper.
Whitaker, disbarred Washing
ton patent attorney and former
chess champion, has been con-
victed twice for violating the ma
tional automobile law. He was
sentenced to two years at Leaven.
worth and another two-year term
at the Atlanta Federal peniten.
tiary.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
CARL RULING
ON CUTSNEAR'
Times Staff Photo

Pending Interpretation Of the
Government pay cut act by
Comptroller General McCarl, de-
partmental heads today are tack
ling the problem Of reducing
operating expenses. The Comp
troller General will state his find
ings early next week.
Senator Hiram Bingham's reso-
luton, meanwhile, which would
repeal the provision calling for
dismissal of married persons in
preference to single persons, was
+ delayed.
Hoover Saves Two More
Later, President Hoover, issuing
another executive order, exempted
two more Superannuated en-
ployes from compulsory retire
ment and studied large stack
of recommendations of additional
clemency. The two saved from
discharge are William B. Hamil-
ton of the Treasury Department,
and William E. Rollins of the
Senate Office Building. The
services of both were held "in.
dispensable."
Navy Hardest Hit
The most drastic economy
measures announced so far are
those of the Navy Department.
Warning by Secretary of Navy
Adams that Navy officers will re-
ceive only payless furloughs and
receive no mileage allowance was
followed by an announcement by
Assistant Secretary Jahncke of
a. five-day week schedule, begin
ming Monday, for 4,400 civilian
Navy employees.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
Monroe Boys Attend
Camp in Virginia

The Junior Boys Club of the
James Monroe School have gone
to their summer camp at Kin
sale, Va, where they will remain
six weeks. The camp will be
under the director and sponsor,
Milton v. Rose.
Club members who will attend
the camp include Harry Sneed,
George Reed, Eugene Harvey,
Wylder williams, Warren john
son, Robert Weaver. Norm a n
Barnes. Garland Mackey, James
Riggs, Francis Mackey, Lafayette
Moore. Nathan Hart and William
Chandler,
The Washington times., 1932-07-02

Five hundred employees of the
Census Bureau will be dismissed
as of July 8, and 13 more will
be retired. OF the 500, a con-
siderable number are on leave,
and those who have remained in
Washington were informed today
that no leave with pay can be
allowed.
AS a result, eight days pay
hangs in the balance for those
who do not or cannot return to
work out the time. Some have
gone to their homes in distant
States, counting on assurances
which are said to have been
given them. that leave accrued
during the early part of the year
would be allowed.
Provides No Leave
William C. Steuart, director of
the census, said today that the
economy bill, just enacted into
law, provides for no leave with
pay during the current fiscal
year, and that he has no diScre-
tion in the matter. The bill was
approved on June 80, and prompt
ly thereafter, he said. attention
of the employees was called to it.
There will be a further reduc-
ton in the force on July 80. he
said, but he could not estimate
its extent at this time, since it
would depend on the amount of
work and the amount of money
on hand.
About 40 members of the group
that will finish service on July 8
met today, and decided to appeal
to Congress for their eight days
leave with pay.
They say they were told by
timekeepers, who got their infor-
nation froA the chief clerks Of
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
Next Inauguration
May Be Last in
Month of March

Next March 4 may witness
the last spring inauguration of
a President and Vice President.
The lame duck" amend
ment. providing that officials
elected in November take office
at once, has been ratified by
10 of the necessary SO States,
according to records at the
State Department.
AS State legislatures are
given seven years in which to
act on the amendment there is
no incentive for immediate &C
tion. The fate of the lame
duck" movement, however, it
is predicted, will be determined
before the 1886 elections.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
LICENSES To HIT
MANY LINES Of
BUSINESS
Fees Ranging From SIS to
$100 to Be Imposed
In the District

A number of businesses,
which have never been re-
quired to pay license fees in
the District will be charged
fees ranging from S. to $10O
per year under the new license
bill signed yesterday by Pres
ident Hoover.
Among other items the bill
provides that all persons, except
newsboys, who engage in selling
articles on the streets, shall be
charged a fee of $12 per year.
while house.to-house solicitors
must pay S. per year.
Hits At Apartments
Other new licenses required
under the bill include barber
shop and beauty parlors, IS;
cleaning and dying establish
ments, IS; public baths, IS; mo-
tion picture film storage houses,
sos: mattress renovators and
manufacturers, SIS; slaughter
houses, 500.
Apartment houses designed to
be occupied by three or more
families, and lodging houses,
must pay SIS per year.
Dealers in food products, such
as bakeries, bottling works, gro
Gerry stores, ice-cream dealers and
meat shops will be charged SIS
per year. Delicatessens must pay
SIS per year, while wholesale sea
food dealers will be charged $50
per year. a-
Garages will have to pay $5
per year. Regularly operated bus
lines will be charged eight-tenths
of l cent per vehicle-mile of op-
Grafton.
Fee fer Detectives
The fee for detective agencies
is set at 500 while dealers in
deadly weapons will have to pay
$50. Sightseeing guides will pay
a fee of $40.
A number Of license fees are
also increased under the bill.
These include sightseeing buses,
from $12 to $100; taxicabs, from
SO to $25, and employment
agencies from $25 to $780,
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
CARD0Z0,B0RAH
AND OTHERS
To FLEE
Many NotabIes Obliged to
Find Other Quarters While
Poison Treatment Is Used

Some of the most promi'
nent personages of Washing
ton are moving from their
apartments into hotels-not be-
cause they want to, but be-
cause that pervasive pest, the
buffalo moth, has found its
way into the building at 21O1
Connecticut Ave. N. W., and
cannot be eradicated except
by gassing.
DR.. William c. Fowler. District
health officer. announced today
that he had given permission to
the owners to give the building
gas treatment to rid it of the
pest, and that the buildings ad.
joining it on either side would
also be given a preventive treat
ment of the same kind.
NOtabIes Must "FIee''
Justice Benjamin Cardozo, JUS
tice William Van Devanter, Sen
ator William E. Borah, Senator
Duncan U. Fletcher, Judge Tim
othy Ansberry, and Maj. Gen. B.
F.. Cheatham are among those
who will go to temporary quarters
in the Wardman Park, Shore
ham and other hotels for about
three days until the buffalo moth
is exterminated.
H. l.. Rust, Jr., Of the realty
organization which has the man.
agement of the building. said to-
day it is not unusual to rid
homes and apartments Of the
buffalo moth through use of cy-
anide gas. and that the process
DR.. Fowler is undertaking is de-
ure than anything else, since the
signed more as a preventive meas
moth has entered only a few
apartments and it is desired to
keep it out of the rest.
Temporary Home
He said a considerable sum of
money was being spent to get rid
of the pest and to arrange tenn
porary homes for the occupants
of the building until the job is
finished, but that once the moth
starts operations there is no way
to get rid Of it except by the
casing process.
Since the moths can get from
one apartment to another so
readily, he said, it was desirable
to make certain that none be
left in the building.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
DR.. Moore Praises
Pharmacists Home

The Fine Arts Commission Is
guarding carefully against con-
struction of any structure which
might not be in harmony with
the coin Memorial, DR..
Charles Moore declared yesterday
at the groundbreaking ceremony
for the new national headquarters
of the American Pharmaceutical
Association.
DR.. Moore, chairman of the
Fine Arts Commission. praised
the design of the proposed new
structure.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
Next Weeks List
Of Band Concerts

Band concerts scheduled for the
week beginning Monday were an
nounced today by Lieut.. Frederick
B. Butler. assistant director of
Public Buildings and Parks, as
follows:
Navy Band, Tuesday, D. C. War
Memorial: Marine Band, same
night, L'Enfant Square, Pennsyl.
vania and Minnesota AYES. S. E.;
Marine Band. Thursday. D. C.
War Memorial; Community Civic
Band, Friday, Banneker Recrea-
ton Center, Eighth and Euclid
SITS. N. w., and the Army Band,
Saturday, at the Sylvan Theater.
All concerts will be played be.
tween 7:30 and 9 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
Wilbur Begins Tour
To Pacific Coast

Ray Lyman Wilbur. secretary
of the Interior, left Washington
yesterday for a trip which will
extend as far as the Pacific
Coast. He will deliver a speech
at the centennial celebration of
the founding of Buffalo in that
city this afternoon.
From there he will go west,
his first stop being Glacier Ma
tional Park. From there he will
motor to Dixon. Mont, from
which point he will visit and in
spect the Flathead Indian Res
ervation. He will reach Spokane,
Wash, July II.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
300 Attend HOlUGrd
For Summer Course

Approximately 800 students en-
rolled at Howard University yes
terday for the summer session.
Registration will continue through
Tuesday until 3 p. m. Glasses
will begin Tuesday at 8 p. m.
AS a result of numerous re-
quests, courses in the school Of
music will be offered as usual.
The west end Of Miner Hall has
been remodeled to provide offices
for the director Of the summer
school.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
500 Employees in Census
Lose Jobs July 8

flee, that they would be allowed
leave that already had accrued.
Arthur Stockley. who will rep
resent them as attorney, said
that several hundred clerks are
affected by the denial of leave,
and that the eight days pay
would average about $40 each. He
said the appeal to Congress would
be made on the basis of fair play,
and on the ground that a law
cannot be retroactive.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
ACCIDENT SUIT

One, thousand dollars damages
are sought in. a suit filed in the
circuit court at Rockville against
Calvin P. Brockdorf. of Takoma
Park, Md. by the General Ex-
change Insurance Corporation, as
an outgrowth of an accident be-
tween the defendant and L. Wal
lis Alves, a policy holder of the
insurance company.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02

including those or the much-admlre0
Frank Lloyd Wright, seemed to me
so fresh a viewpoint, that I asked
Mr.. LARSON to develop his ideas
further. He has obligingly done so.
"a LIE Corbusier house," he writes,
"often offends me. The reason is
simple one: LIE Corbusier's, Wright s
seems to me bad house to live in.
The reasons for my reason are far to
seek. Doubtless l should find their
origin somewhere in the eighteenth
century; their chief ramifications, l
am sure, are in the nineteenth. In
the nineteenth century are discover
able two sources of contemporary
malady, which have as much to do
with the conception Of a house as
" machine to he lived in' as with those
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
HELD FOR HEARING

Charged with manufacture and
possession of liquor, Elwood Mar
shall, of Pomonkey, Md, was
placed under $1,000 bond by
United States Commissioner j.
Frank Parran, at Upper Marl-
boro yesterday. He will be given
a preliminary hearing next week.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
Boy, I3, Run DOwn
BH Car in Northeast

Joseph Moss, 13, of 31O East
Capitol ST., is at Casualty Hos.
pital with injuries received late
yesterday when he was struck by
an automobile driven by Harry
Ringley, of 3014 Benning >Rd.
N. E.. at First and B Streets
Northeast.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02

29 DAYS left to file your per.
sOnaI tax return. Persons living
in the District of Columbia on
July 1. 1882, should inquire at the
office of the assessor as to their
taxable status.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
CHICKEN SUPPE7

The Ladies Aid of the Damas-
Gus, Md. Church. will hold a
fried chicken supper at the Da.
mascus High School Monday.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
True to Type
MODERNISTIC HOUSES
LIKE SANATORIA
TO POET
Rv GILBERT SELDES-

r PRINTED a few days ago, letter from R. Ellsworth
LARSON the significant younger poets of America
in which he explained dislike Of modern skyscrapers.
This and his equal skepticism about modernstc houses,
The Washington times., 1932-07-02

subter, spiritual maladies have not yet succeeded in
defining closely than Eliot did in 1.-The Waste Land
than Spenger did; Nietzsche for that trace to
him malades of economic structure Darwin for that
Darwinian theory, feel the germ Of much of
malaise AS man.
The Washington times., 1932-07-02
Darwin and 1929

The survival of the fttest likely responsible for
contemporary mania for sports and exclusively physical
could dzzy build itself the sepucre of the 1929 debac
Darwnlsm as much for the disease of with himself
as for what might easily be escapean outlet for that
disease IN the accumuave force Of excessive and ponss
activity Somewhere here feel has the real genesis
OF the idea of house machne-of man as a machine
to be housed in machne-shed These offer only as
SuggesonS not arguments have checked step by STEP
Houses or Hospitals?
But to return to LIE Corbuser to Wright to almost any
and every modern archtec BEST their houses suggest the
sanatorum They the outward manifestation of the NAL
ady OF man. This admit just of LIE Corbuser than
OF Wrgh Wrghts minute embroderies suggest alas the
tasks dispensed the herapy department of good
institution.
But if the house machine seems misconcepton and
that argument ilhed return my other this aphor-
ism has resulted precious little distinguished accomplish
ment In the entire exhibition including know how
many architects of how countries held last winter
the Museum OF Modern Art house alone seemed from
an ingenious model truly hababe Ironically, it the
work of Hoander. Its forms balanced its proper
on accepabe the point one could conceive within
1t something could recognize life not activity pre-
scrlbed by posters sporting the La Palma hour
something even of distinguished lifefor having devel
oped the still sound and basic structure of the
bourgeoisie, the family.
Chairs for Operations
The machine concept u.s. me- as napposite as that bug
bear OF the apoogts of unctonalm the telephone booth
designed fourteenthcenury confessional True tee
phone booth designed confessional an example of an
other contemporary amen confusion through mconceved
analogy offends Nevertheless less abhorrent than
the mechanical contrvances insane between den
lists chair and operating table-Le Corbusier offers
chair.
Le Corbusers chair defeats efforts to achieve COM
fort in it, it embarrasses rrtaes The function of
chair s first to afford place comfortably to Sit it
cannot be Said unless chair be said entertain
malignant spirit to be to embarrass dscomft to rritae
If it does these things is the fault of the designer in mis-
constituting the function of a chair.
"Functonasm 'the house a machine does that; it
msconstrues function
"But that suppose is best blamed the nineteenth if
not the eighteenth century,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
NORMAN THOMAS
 IS COMING HERE
 TO MAKE SPEECH
Socialist Candidate for Presidency Will Be Here on Sept l6-Will Visit Two Other Conn Cities

Norman Thomas of New York the socialist candidate for presi- dent, will visit Waterbury on Sep tember 16, 1t was learned to-day Local socialist leaders are now pre- pairing preliminary plans for the reception that will be rendered MI Thomas, who is considered an au- thority on government throughou, the country.
 While details of MT Thomas pro. posed visit here are quite skimpy at the present time, 1t is likely that he will deliver an address before an open gathering, possibly in one of the large halls in the central part of the city.
 The visit of MT Thomas to Wa. terbury will be the first of any presidential candidate so far thls year. It is not expected that Pres. ident Hoover, the g. o. p. candidate or Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt the democratic nominee will come to Waterbury. Therefore, interest
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
WAR SECRETARY
 HURLEY MAKES
 GREAT MISTAKE

Albany, N. Y, Aug 29-UP)- Charges by Secretary of War Pa trick Hurley that Governor Roose- welt failed to enforce the states fraudulent securities sales law were denied today by Attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr. Bennett ex- pressed "sorrow" that Hurley "es- says to speak about the law of New York regarding the fradulent sales of securities without knowing that law" He explained that only the attorney general is empower ed to enforce the law.
 He pointed to the large number of injunctions against fradulent securities sellers obtained by the attorney generals office since the governor assumed office in 1929, to refute Hurley's allegations. He also said that three amendments, designed to strengthen the securi- ties law, were passed by the legis- lature and approved by Roosevelt during the latter's tenure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
Five Daring Flyers
 Speeding Eastward
 For Cleveland Port
They Are Touching Close to the 300 Miles an Hour Mark-One FOrc- ed Return as Leaking Tank Drenched Him and His Machine-Rain May Stop Events To-day

United Airport. Los Angeles, -UP)-Five of the nations most daring airplane pilots rock eted eastward to-day at speeds ap- preaching 300 miles an hour in the $15,OOO Bendix trophy race to Cleveland, o.
 Claire Vance, who started first in the slowest plane of the group. returned unexpectedly to this air. port at 5:11 a. m., PSF.
 Leaking gasoline which drenched him and flooded the cockpit forced Vance to return, it was learned.
 Ut was like sitting on ton of dynamite, Vance said.
 He said he was nearly drowned in the flood of fuel and in imni- nent danger of fire and explosion.
 The mishap eliminated him from the Cleveland race.
 Three entries were trim, stream- lined little Wedell-Williams mono- planes, just large enough to hold the pilot. They were flown by Jimmy Wedell, Patterson, La, de- signer of the planes, Jimmy Haiz- lip of St Louis and Colonel Ros-a COG Turner of Los Angeles.
 Claire Vance, Great Falls, Mont, flew a two-tailed Flying Wing of new design, and Lee Gehlbach, Springfield, Mass. took a Gee-Bee Special into the air, but Vance ex- expectedly returned to United air.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
REGIONAL BANKS WERE NAMED IN
 TWELVE CITIES
Financing of Those Banks By the Federal Home Loan Bank Board Has Become Great Task

Washington, Aug 29-UP)-Ft- nancing of its 12 regional banks has become the major .task of the Federal Home Loan bank board. Stock in 12 district institutions can be purchased by building and loan associations, and by certain types of insurance companies and sav- ings banks. In the event the elig- ible institutions do not provide the entire required starting capital, the board has authority to borrow s125,OOO,000 from the Reconstruc- tion Finance corporation so the banks can start functioning for the benefit of the small home owner, harassed by mortgage payments problems.
 The board, in designating the IF cities where the banks will be lo- cated. chose cities in states where there are no legislative restrictions which would prevent eligible groups from purchasing stock. The cities selected as bank sites were: Cambridge. Mass: Newark. N. J.; Pittsburgh, Pa; Winston-Salem, N. O.: Cincinnati, O; Indianapolis. Ind: Evanston. Ill: Des Moines, Ia; Little Rock, Ark; Topeka, Kan: Portland, Ore; Los Angeles, NCal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
Young Desperadoes
 Trained Their Guns
 On Geo. Sutherland
Captain Mollison Almost Ready For
 Hitting Atlantic
DEATH TOOK BROTHER OF MAYOR WALKER
 THIS MORNING

Saranac Lake, N. Y., Aug 20 -(UP)-George F. Walker, AS. brother of Mayor James J Walker of New York, died early to-day after a long, losing battle with tuberculosis.
 The mayors brother passed away peacefully at 12:3O a. m. with his wife, and his two daughters, Dorothy and Helen. at the bedside. He had been in knabe's sanitarium here two months or longer.
 Mrs Walker immediately talked to Mayor Walker and made arrangements for sending the body back to her New York home, 9S Riverside drive, Tucs- day night.
 Walker had been sufferer from the fatal disease for many years. He apparently had stopped it's progress, but a few months ago suffered relapse. He came here for treatment.
 Mayor Walker made hur- rietf trip here to sec his brother about a month ago. He then was reported recovering, but suffered another relapse last week and never recovered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
MAYOR CURLEY
 DEFENDS CITY
 WELFARE BOARD
Claim Was Made That There Had Been $2,= 0OO,OOO Stolen From the Funds of That Board

Boston, Aug 29-CUP)-Mayor James M. Curley has asserted his complete confidence in Boston's public welfare board, and has as- sailed as gross exaggeration the statement that $2.0oO,000 was be- ing stolen from the city treasury annually through fake welfare claims.
 The mayor said he had "every confidence" in Chairman Simon D.. Hecht and other members of the welfare board. "They have big duty that they are determined to do, and that is that no one in the city of Boston shall go hungry. There is no reason. in my opinion. to question the manner in which these people are doing their duty"
 Meantime Deputy Police Super intendent Thomas F. Goode said reports that 71 fraud cases were found among 500 welfare cases in- vestigated by police were ''very much exaggerated. He said that only three names of dead persons were found on the welfare rolls. whereas it had been reported that 10 were found.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
Is At St John, New Bruns- wick, and Will Beat It for Harbor Grace If Rain and Fog Will Let Him Gets Message From Wife

St John, N. B.. Aug 29.-(UP)- Captain James A. Mollison return ed to Nerepis. 15 miles from St John, early today and awaited fa- yorable weather to continue his flight to Harbor Grace. Rain and fog continued here and at St Johns, Newfoundland, but fine bright weather was reported from Harbor Grace.
 St John, N. B., Aug 29.-(UP)- Captain Mollison, who took a look at the bright, sunshiny weather when he got up in New York Sum day and decided at once to start back home" planned to go to Har- bor Grace today for the take off.
 The little Scot flyer who is the first man to make the hazardous east-west flight over the Atlantic alone, flew his tiny Puss- Moth monoplane from New York yester- day, landing in a meadow at Nere- pis, about IS miles northwest Of St John. He then motored here
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