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The Washington times., 1933-05-23
MINI DESERTS
COURTROOM

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for Mr.. Jelke, that Mrs. Jelke was
a visitor with an unnamed South
ern major"
Mrs. Jelke'S physician. DR.. Sgd
ney r. Miller, testified earlier on
her mental and physical collapse.
She was sent to Union Memorial
Hospital, Baltimore, october 6,
1881.
DR.. Miller said that the hos
pital bills Of Mrs Jelke we're paid
for by Mrs. Oscar Underwood,
wife of the late United States
Senator from Alabama, uncle of
Mini"
Husband Blamed
The hospital head described the
patient, three months in the in
stitute, as weighing only 101
pounds, running a temperature,
run down, generally fatigued,
highly nervous and suffering from
insomnia-all, according to the
physician, undoubtedly due" to
her married life. Mini" told the
doctor of alleged personal cruelty
and personal violence by her
wealthy 52-year-old husband, how
she was the object of constant
barrage of complaints, how she
felt as if she had been beaten
from head to foot" and how she
had been put out of his Chicago
apartment when she attempted a
reconciliation and had no money
and no place to go.
Letters introduced
DR.. Miller repeated an alleged
telephone conversation with Jelke
in which the Wall Street broker
talked for IS minutes, claiming
his wife was made sick by drink
ing and going with persons he
forbade her to go with.
Letters by DR.. Miller to Jelke
were introduced in which the for,
mer spoke of some adjustment
of her domestic difficulties" be-
ing necessary, adding II shall
leave the same to you as regards
to the time and place."
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

SAN FRANCISCO, May % GIN.
S0.-One of Americas most
famous legal dramas-the State OF
California versus Thomas j.
Mooney-takes the spotlight here
again today.
With various encum0ranceS
cleared away, Mooney is on the
calendar of Superior Judge Louis
H. Ward to answer an indictment
charging him with murder-one
of eight similar indictments re-
turned against him in 1915 fol-
lowing the fatal Preparedness
Day bomb explosion.
Six Of the original indictments
were dismissed, Mooney was con-
victed on one, and the other
one lay dormant until trial on 1t
was demanded by the famous
prisoner in the hope that an
acquittal will give him a lever
to acquire a pardon, releasing
him from States prison, where
he is serving a life sentence.
AdSk ODSGdC1C GOCAuVVCu
The last apparent obstacle OF
the trial was cleared away when
the California Supreme Court de-
MED on technical grounds an
application for a writ Of mandate
directed at Judge Ward to halt
the hearing on the ground that
all the issues had been decided.
Mooney, transferred from San
Quentin prison to the county jail
here, will go into court with an
impressive legal array led by
Frank P. Walsh.
Walsh and his associates are
prepared to go into every phase
of the original bomb case, but
Judge Ward has indicated that
he would permit no rehashing Of
the old issues.
Mooney said:
''I want to have every bit of
evidence presented against me,
SO that a jury can decide fairly
if I am innocent or guilty.
think / am entitled to a chance
to show that was convicted on
perjured testimony"
Jury To Be Selected
However, istrict Attorney
Mathew Brady, who protested
against trying the present case
and who has several times de-
clared his belief Mooney should be
pardoned, reiterated his office will
present no testimony nor wit
neSSeS.
Picking a jury will be the first
order of the day.
Two sensa ional extraneouS
matters loom-the possibility Of
another noisy demonstration out
side the courtroom such as caused
Judge Ward to continue the hear
ing a month ago, and the promise
of John Emerson, former detec'
tive, to produce the men who
actually planted the bomb"-s
promise, however, not even giVer
credence by Mooney himself.
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representatives WILL be Cnere-
some by virtue of their duties,
others through sheer curiosity.
The lawyers for big business
will be there, with their majestic
fronts and their polished Ian
guage.
The telegraph wires will sizzle
with the purport of Pecora's
rapier-like thruStS and Morgap'S
studied replies.
These two men, so utterly diff
ferent in origin, upbringing, and
point of view, are among the
most interesting personalities in
the public eye today.
Pecora, witty and resourceful.
was born in Sicily 81 years ago
and came to this country as a
boy of 4. He by no means looks
his 81 and would pass for an
easy AZ or 43, even though his
once coal-black hair is graying.
Except for his olive skin and
his flashing black eyes and his
surname you would class him
with any intelligent-looking, hand
some American type-and that is
what Ferdinand Pecora is proud
est of-being a real American.
He made a fine reputation in
the districts attorneys office in
New York, but was passed over
by Tammany when it came to
nominating a successor for Jaob
Banton, since Tammany looks
coldly upon young men who ex-
hibit too much force and indie
pendence.
And now the United States
Government, obviously bent on
finding an answer to the old
queStion-"IS there one law for
the rich and another for the
poor?"-has called him into serv-
ice to get at the innards of this
whole banking Abracadabra.
Distasteful to Morgan
AS for j. P. Morgan, who all
his life has regarded his bank
ing affairs as private and per-
sonal business and who has al
ways Stunned public appearances
of any sort, the ordeal can only
be distasteful and trying, one
which must call upon all his re-
serves of self-control and re-
Straint.
He believes honestly that his
huge bank is his business and
none of the public'S. He has
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u. s. Chemists Win
HiLLebrand AUGrd

DR.. F. B. LaForge and Dr.
H. L. J. Haller, of the Bureau
of Chemistry and Soils, will be
awarded the Hillebrand prize of
the Chemical Society of Wash
ington at the SocietyS dinner
Thursday night.
The prize, given for outstand-
ing achievements and a me
mortal to DR.. w. F. Hillebrand'
was won by the two men for
their discovery of the chemical
structure of rotenone, a valua'
BILE insecticide, which has in late
years become the basis Of many
commercial insecticides.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
BAN
PUBLIC WORKS
BILL CHANGES
Sales Tax Advocates Set for
Showdown on Floor; Smell
Charges "Pork Barrel"

Democratic leaders Of the House
today decided to invoke a special
rule to assure speedy passage OF
the Administrators industrial re-
covery bill, embracing a $4,000,
5000 public works bond issue
and a $7OO,OOO,O0O tax program.
Representative Doughton (D0
of North Carolina, after confer
ring with other party chieftains
announced the bill will be called
up Thursday and voted on Friday
Members will be allowed probably
six hours debate but will be de
MED the right Of amendment
Doughton said.
Sales Tax Not Dead
The way will be left open for q
showdown on the manufacturers
sales tax. A motion is expected tc
be made to recommtt the bill tc
substitute a general sales tax fol
the many miscellaneous excise OF
sales taxes and increased income
levieS.
The bill will be submitted to the
House today. At the request o1
the Administration, the Ways anc
Means Committee suddenly de-
cided to include a provision con-
tinuing more than $3.50, ,000, 900 o1
excise taxes from their expiration
date July l, 1884, to July /, 1885
"Pork Barrel"-Snell
Representative Smell of New
York, Republican leader, conceded
the bill will pass but assailed it a!
"a gigantic pork barrel measure.
He said:
protest was made last year
when the Democrats proposed
the $1,OOO,OOO,O0O pork barrel
measure. Here we have one
three times as great, and the
President instead Of Congress
can say where the money is
spent.
II have thought that a sales
tax would be the fairest and
most equitable way to raise ad-
ditiOnaI taxes. l do not take
the position that the sales tax
would supercede income taxes.
When they get through with
this bill, income taxes will be at
time levels, and that Is
pretty high"
Approved by the Ways ant
Means Committee in record tim
under the guidance of PreSiden
RooSevelt'S personal representa-
tive, Director of the Budget Levi
Douglas, the bill carries a $3,300
100000 bond issue to create job
and creates a partnership be
tween the Government, business
and labor to fix minimum wages
shorten hours Of labor, and out
law "cut-throat" competition.
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Morgan hotel bill will run to
scarcely less than a hundred
thousand dollars.
These Government quizzes are
expensive things, to the QuizZed
as well as the quizzeeS tax
payers.
At all events, after the bell
rings for action today, in the
committee room of the Senate
Banking Committee in the Senate
Office Building, there will be
some real drama, even for this
center of drama, the Nations
Capital, which has had so much
of the thrilling stuff in the past
IL weeks.
For the son of a Sicilian
immigrant will stand before the
worlds greatest banker-the
man whose very name casts into
the shade the great banking
names of the past-the Roth,
schilds, the BelmontS. and the
SpeyerS-and demand an account,
ing.
Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for
the Senate committee, will seek
to WreSt from the head of the
great house of Morgan the inner
secrets of that hitherto aloof and
closely guarded private banking
house; a bank which, until the
last few months or so, was
almost sacrosanct.
Father Once Quizzed
Only once before has the
Government of the United States
had the temerity to summon q
Morgan to the witness stand, and
that was 20 years ago, under
Woodrow Wilson, when j. Pier
pont Morgan, Morgan the magn1'
ficent, took the stand before the
Pujo committee.
The committee room where the
hearing is being held, a hearing
which can scarcely fail to be
sensational, which can scarcely
fail to unearth extraordinary
angles of high finance-and
which, indeed, may prove the
death knell of private banking in
the United States-will be
crowded from wall to wall.
Newspaper correspondents will
be there ready to flash to
millions the latest bulletins OF
the give and take between Pecora
and Morgan.
United States Senators and
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WILL ROGERS Says:

NEW YORK, May 23.-The
phenomenal popularity of the
Roosevelt administration now
meets it's severest test.
Congress is starting to decide
where all this money it has been
appropriating will come from.
Now if Roosevelt can extract
this money and still receive the
plaudits, then there can be no
doubt of his being a messiah.
For taxpayers cheer, not from
the heart, but from the pocket.
book.
ID BY McNaught syndicats>
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
DISEASE PER|LS
WHOLEFAM|LY

AURORA, ILL.,, May 25 GN.SO.
A mysterious malady, contracted
on a small island in the Fox River,
challenged physicians today as
they worked to save the lives Of
four survivors of a family Of six.
Doctors at Woodward Hospital
could find no satisfactory expla.
nation for the disease which af-
flicted the family of Philip Hens
ley, 36, last Friday.
Hensley, his wife, and four chill
dren, almost destitute, had been
living on a small island in the
Fox River when they became i'll.
A 3-year-old son, Philip, jr..
died yesterday, "a hours after the
death of Frederick. S. The re-
naming two children are near
death and the parents are in q
serious condition.
Physicians began an examina-
ton of the vital organs of the
two who are dead in an effort to
diagnose the ailment.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
BANKRUPT PLEA
Of COUNTESS

The glamour of the great for
tune faded today in District Su-
preme Court.
The Countess Grace de Benque,
wife of Count Joseph Dutar de
Benque, filed a petition in vol
untary bankruptcy, listing her
debt at $54,842 and her assets at
$48,728.
The Countess, who lives in
the 2400 block Wyoming Ave.
N. W., cited her occupation as a
housewife" in filing the petit
ton.
The Count and CouneSs figured
several years ago in a police court
case here when their butler was
charged with stealing the Coun-
tess lingerie and hose.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
WOMEN'S CAMP,
NEW JOB IDEA

Reforestation camps for ur1-
employed women are being con-
sidered by the White House.
Mrs. Roosevelt said today the
suggestion that such camps be
established for women had been
made to her and she had asked
the Secretary of Labor, Frances
Perkins, to investigate. =
According to Mrs. Roosevelt,
the plan would be to send the
women to horticultural nurseries,
not to the woods.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
Flood Threatens
BeurdStOWn, I'LL,

BEARDSTOWN, ILL.,, May %
G.N.SO.-The flood-burdened Hi.
nois River today threatened to
sweep over the retaining wall
here and inundate BeardStown.
AS the water rose nearer the max
imum 26.5-foot level workmen
were busily engaged in piling
sandbags along the levee to stem
the rush of water over the wall.
Should the river rise nine inches
more the town will be flooded,
observers said.
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CROWD BATTLES
TO SEE MORGAN
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day of the year, but that for 1890
a return was made for the first
two days Of January, that is
January l and 2. Pecora asked:
do you know, that on the
income tax for those two days
the firm reported a net loss of
$21,O71,S62.94?
Morgan replied:
II don't really know"
Morgan began his testimony
with an elaborate and vigorous
dfense of the private banking sys-
tenn.
There is room, he contended, for
both the private and the incor-
porated banking systems, for the
former perform many functions
that an Incorporated institution
cannot.
Through the years, he said, the
private bankers of the world have
built up code of ethics of their
own and the penalty for violation
is the sacrifice of credit.
Admits He Made Mistakes
The financier claimed for the
private banker mo more power
Of knowing the future than any
other men," He conceded:
1--WE have made many mis-
takes"
But he added:
"WhO has not during the past
five years?
"Our mistakes have been
errors of judgmen tand not Of
principle"
Morgan appeared before a
committee chamber packed to
the doors, and with thousands
milling around outside the Capt.
tol trying to get in. Police con-
trolled the crowd with great diff
ficulty.
Denies ''Museling In
Morgan's defense and explana-
ton Of the private banking sys-
tenn precede questioning by men,
bers of the Senate committee
adm its counsel, Ferdinand Pc
cora.
Morgan said that at the close
Of business on December 81, last
year, the firm Of J. P. Morgan
and Company had on hand:
$33,00O.000 in cash.
$7,30O,000 in call loans.
$224,000,000 in Government Sc
curities.
During 1882 the company &C
cepted $340, ZOO, 900 in deposits.
Crowd Storm Doors
A minor riot occurred after
Morgan had entered the chamber.
Hundreds of spectators stormed
the doors, overwhelming two po-
licemen. It took a half hours
battling and police reserves from
the Capitol guard room to restore
a semblance of order in the cor
ridor.
In the melee, Senators and
members of Pecora'S staff we're
blocked from entering the room.
Newspapermen were forced to
fight their way in.
George Whitney and Morgan'S
son, Julius s. Morgan, were the
first members of the Morgan
party to enter the packed COM
mittee room.
After Whitney and Junius Nor
gan came Martin Egan, Morgan
publicity man, and Russell Lef-
fingwell, a Morgan partner.
Morgan 20 Minutes Early
~. p" himself came in 20
minutes before the committee got
going. He was flanked by
Thomas P. Lamont and his law
yer, John w. Davis,
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Hill, Famous News Broadcaster, "Covers'
Dramatic Morgan Hearing for Times

always discouraged interviews and
intervieWerS, though not quite so
militantly in recent years as his
choleric father was wont to do.
And to be placed upon the
stand, in front of gaping crowds
and popping flashlights and a
nervous liberation of rapid pen
cils will be hard for this man to
endure.
He is a man of extraordinary
determination and known cour-
age, who probably cares little
enough what anybody thinks Of
him, so long as he is not forced
out into the limelight.
He did not hesitate to sell his
fathers great art collection to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
but he did not even take the
trouble to explain that the sale
was necessary in order to provide
very large sum in cash required
to pay inheritance and other
taxes.
Reveres Fathers Memory
He reveres the memory Of his
father, and is passionately de-
voted to the prestige of his bank,
and at sc he retains the rugged
health built up by a lifetime Of
careful habits.
He retains, also, the principles
upon which his banking career
have been moulded.
That duel today and in the
days following likely will cause
the sparks to fly upward.
Many shall run to and fro
and knowledge shall be in
creased"
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

able practice ADMIRAL I'EI''H
of using profanity and OBJ
Scenity.
Sailors and officers in the
U. S. Navy, according to the
admiral, are supposed to act
like little gentlemen, but lately
he has noticed, through per
sonal observation, that afloat
and ashore, in motion picture
houses and on trolley cars and
buses, some individuals use Ian
guage that "sullieS the reputa-
ton Of their companions and
ShipmateS."
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

cause OF tenn
p e r a n C e .
should S ii
beer, accord
ing to Pierre
S. dupont,
czar of the
States liquor
control COM
mission.
In a letter
10 RepEeSC1I-
tatiVe Robert
G., Houston,
C a m p a i g n
manager for
the anti-re-
~ao1;eta Cy%N
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words usually
described in
C o nventional
literature a S
"blank, blank
ETY. b l a n k''
will be severe
ly punished.
Admiral r.
H. Leig h,
com mander-
in-chief of the
United States
fleet, issued
, an order to-
day tabooing
the "undeSir-
able nracticp'
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

criticized the new act, dupont
suggested that temperance lead
ers should apply for beer dis.
pensers' licenses in a number OF
communities, adding:
81 cannot believe that any OF
the evils of the liquor business
would be tolerated under such
management. The demOnStra-
ton would quickly disclose the
possibility of reform and lead
to elimination of the undesira-
bleS in the business"
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

be a Bile to
see a horse
on W h i c h
he h a S bet
c m e down
t h e h o m e
stretch, b u t
he can hear
him.
That's why
t h e S e n
ator, accom-
panied by his
StalWart son,
Thomas, jr.
is a regular
h a b i tue OF
M arVla d
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

General SahdihO InlS VlSlC II
the first time General Sandino
has been in Managua since Feb
ruary.
He seemed satisfied with the
progress of his "muchachos," or
former rebel soldiers, who are
now engaged in clearing land
and planting crops.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

race tracks. out at Bowie re-
Gently, he said:
ITS better than a play. I
hear the horses hOofS, but
mostly catch the frantic pleas
of the betters to their entries"
The Washington times., 1933-05-23

now SuperviS-
ing the agri-
cultural COL
ony at Bocay,
has arrived in
M a n a 6 u a
W / tn h i 5
father to con-
+ er W / t h
P e S / d e n t
S q c a S a re-
garding t h e
i n t e preta-
ton of the
peace pactS
signed in Feb
ruary.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
Virginia Youth, 22,
Tries to Kill Self,

Frank Snow, %, of Standards.
vile, Va, late yesterday attempted
to end his life by drinking cam
phor in room in the TOO block
of Eighteenth st. N. E., where he
was staying, say police.
He was taken to Gallinger Hos
pital.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
Du Pont Urges Drys
To Sell 3.2 Beer

WILMINGTON, Del, May %.
Women of the w. C. T. U. and
men who are interested in the
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
Sandino Consults
President Sacasa

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May
23.-The former rebel leader,
Gen. Augusta Sandino, who is
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
Blind Senator Hears
His Horses Come Home

Senator Thomas P. Gore
CD. of Oklahoma, may not
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Commander of Fleet
Puts Ban on Profanity

NORFOLK, Va, May 23.
Henceforth the COB who pune
tuates his conversation with
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Terasury balance $387 ,6OO''
801. "a; expenditures, $4,19l ,337 20;
customs receipts, $14,250,274.20.
The Washington times., 1933-05-23
MOONEY TRIAL
GETS UNDER
WAY TODAY
Famous Prisoner Expected to
Be Principal Witness; Con-
fident of AcquittaI

Read interesting interview
With Tom Mooney by Elenor
Meherin, author of "Chickie"
and other popular nOVelS-
on Page 3.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-05-26
NONRESIDENT GILL NET TAX
ATTACKED BY FISHERMAN

Suit was filed in the District
Court at Juneau recently by Hiding
Anderson of San Francisco, Cali
fornia, against Walstein G. Smith,
as Treasurer of the Territory of
Alaska, for the purpose of enjoin-
ing the treasurer from collecting
the tax imposed on nonresident
gill net fishermen by the provisions
of House Bill No. 10. recently pass
ed by the Territorial Legislature.
The suit was filed by H. l..
Faulkner, attorney for Mr.. Ander-
son, and, in speaking of the case
today. he said that in his opinion
the Circuit Court of Appeals had
already passed on this question in
the case of Wood Freeman vs. Wal
stein G. Smith as Treasurer of the
Territory of Alaska, and had held
that the Legislature had no power
to discriminate between citizens of
the United States who are residents
VI aIdShd anu LnOSS WIN HVS DO0~
residents.
Mr.. Faulkner pointed out that
the alleged act of the Legislature
in question increases the taxes that
must be paid by salmon packers in
Bristol Bay by something over $685.
600 per annum based on last years
license collections He said that the
Alaska Packers Association alone
paid directly to the Territory in
taxes last year over $174,OOO. and
in addition thereto, paid in the Ter
ritory indirect taxes which brought
their total tax to $4,000, in the
face of a net operating loss of over
$1,500,000. Based on last years
license fees collected, the Alaska
Packers Association would be re-
CURED to pay an additional tax of
$3.50 per annum under the recent
act of the egislature-Juneau EN-
pire.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-05-26
vided for in this ordinance.

vided for in this ordinance.
Section 6. 1t shall be unlawful
to permit any female dog, any
habitually vicious dog, or mad dog,
or any other dog, dangerous to life
or health, to run at large within
the Town of Wrangell. Alaska. II
the necessity of the occasion re-
Quires it, the City Marshal or any
deputy shall at once kill any fe-
male, vicious or mad dog dangerous
to life, health or morals.
If, however, the public health
safety or morals shall justify it,
it shall be the City Marshal's or any
deputy's duty to notify the owner
or keeper, forthwith, to take said
dog at once and keep it in a secure
place, or otherwise dispose of 1t. Ii
any such notice be given and the
owner fails, neglects or refuses to
obey such notice within twenty
four hours thereafter, and the said
dog is still running at large, the
City Marshal, or any deputy shall
kill or otherwise dispose of said
dog as provided for in this ordi-
nance, provided that If the public
good requires it, any such dog as
mentioned in this section shall be
killed or disposed of, forthwith, by
the Marshal or any deputy with
out giving previous notice to the
owner or keeper thereof.
And provided, further, if any
such dog has not been licensed as
in this ordinance provided for, the
City Marshal or any deputy shall
kill such dog forthwith without no.
tice to its owner or keeper.
Section Z. All dogs found run
ming at large without license tags
as in this ordinance provided for,
or without being securely held I'M
der leash in the hands of some suit
able person are hereby declared
public nuisance and 1t shall be the
duty of the City Marshal or any
deputy or some person appointed
by them to distrain and impound
such dogs thus found, and when
so impounded the owner or keeper
shall be charged one dollar ($1.OO)
for the release of such dog, together
with fifty cents $50 for each
and every day such dog shall be
kept in custody; provided that no
dog need be kept more than tweh-
ty-four hours, and at such time it
shall be discretionary with the
City Marshal or any deputy wheth-
er such dog shall be sold to defray
the expense of keeping it, or wheth-
er it shall be killed or disposed of.
Section s. Any property owner or
lessee within the Town of Wran-
CELL who has suffered any damage