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The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Probe Fire Hazards
At TrueSdaIe School

DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer,
president of the Districss Com
miSsionerS, today will begin q
personal investigation to deter
mine whether fire hazards and
1nsanitary conditions exist at
George Truesdale School, Ninth
and Ingraham Streets North.
west, as charged yesterday by
two witnesses who appeared be.
fore the House Appropriations
Subcommittee for the District.
Commissioner Reichelderfer was
present at the time and Repre-.
sentative Clarence Cannon Cd
Of Missouri, subcommittee chair.
man, requested that he personally
take charge of the investigation.
Mrs. FL. p. Clarke, president Of
the Truesdale Parent Teacher
Association, and Mrs. N. p. O'Con-
nell, legislative chairman, painted
a realistic picture Of conditions
at the school for the members Of
the Congressional committee.
Both witnesses declared that
hot air pipes close to rafters and
class room woodwork constituted
an ever-present fire menace. They
also stressed overcrowded condi.
tions brought about by the
presence of $40 students and is
teachers in the building, and the
fact that fumes from a faulty
heating plant endanger the health
of the children.
Mrs. Clarke brought out that q,
janitor recently was overcome BY
carbon monoxide gas and that on
another occasion gas fumes from
a washroom heater penetrated
into several class rooms.
Both women asked that O
$4,000 item eliminated by the
Budget Bureau, which would
have replaced the old structure,
be written back into the District
appropriation bill.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
POLICE SEIZE
7 'FLOATERS'

Seventeen men were arrested
on>freight trains or near the rail.
road tracks in Bennings, D. c.,
by Eleventh Precinct police to.
day in a roundup Of alleged
hoboes. staged following a COM
plaint by railroad detectives.
It was said at police head
quarters the practice of holding
floaters Of this type will be pur.
sued for several days as it is
believed some of the criminal ele.
ment has been coming into the
city by stealing freight train
rides.
One man arrested today was
said to have been just released
from a prison in Delaware. Both
white and colored men were in
cluded. The men ranged in age
from 18 to IS and hailed from as
far distant as washington State.
All are held for questioning.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24

Pennsylvania Avenue at Third
Street, west on Pennsylvania
Avenue to Fifteenth Street, north
on Fifteenth Street and west on
Pennsylvania Avenue to Twentieth
Street where the march will dis
band.
The first division of the parade
will include units of the Army,
Navy, Coast Guard and Marines
while the second division will
embrace Governors Of all states
the distinguished guests.
The committee in charge Of
the inaugural charity ball has
selected the washington Audi
torium as the scene of the crown
ing social event of the celebra-
ton. The committee had in
tended to use one of the Gov
ernment buildings but structural
handicaps make it impossible to
make such selection.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
ROBBERS DELAY
D, c. CHARGES

Two men wanted in connection
with local bank robberies have
avoided being returned here at
this time to stand trial by plead
ing guilty to robbery charges in
New York and being sentenced to
10 years each.
James Foley Il, and Joseph
Flynn, 26, were identified as men,
bers of>the gang who held up the
East Capitol Street branch of the
Washington Mechanics Savings
Bank on January Z, 1882, escap-
ing with $4,000, and the Georgia
Avenue branch Of the same bank
last June when $4,000 loot was
obtained.
Local police announced that in
dictment Of the two men will be
asked Of the Grand Jury here,
and that when they finished their
terms of 10, years in New York
they will be returned here to
stand trial on the bank charges.
Once the indictments are re-
turned detainers will be filed
against the men, based on Fed.
eral warrant. which it is expected
will give precedent over claims of
other cities for the men.
Barney Niefeld, 35, and Samuel
Rubin, 80, other members Of the
gang who pleaded guilty to the
New York charges, have not been
positively identified as members
of the local gang.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
HIGH SCHOOLS
NOW CROWDED
To CAPACITY f.
Or. Kramer Reveals That Feb.
I Will See Unprecedented
CroWding Here

Every high school in Washing.
ton faces the heaviest congestion
in history.
DR.. Stephen E. Kramer, first
assistant school superintendent,
reveals that conditions tor the
term, February /, will place every
pupil in a crowded class and every
teacher will be taxed with extra
heavy classes.
At Eastern High School, a COM
paratively new school, all classes
will be placed on a staggered
schedule because Of an unexpected
and unprecedented congestion.
The new Roosevelt High School
which opened its doors only last
September, will be operating "at
capacity" DR.. Kramer said.
It is also expected that crowd
ing at Western High School in
September will necessitate either
q staggered schedule Of classes or
part time. Mckinley High, also
a comparatively new building, 10
also overtaxed and Central has
always been crowded." he added.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Zoo Animals Require
Special Foods, Say
Their Chefs

Frank Stopper and Charles
Trevery are certainly the chef
de luxe of Washington.
For Frank and Charles pre-
pare the menus for some 2, 400
guests each and every day.
And almost each guest has a
different appetite, so there
must be many different dishes.
The two chefs officiate at
the washington Zoo. and they
must be good, judging from
the sleek and contented look
of their charges.
In a broadcast over Station
WRC yesterday, the chefs re-
vealed some of their problems,
such as making custards for
the monkeys and baking bar
rels of bread for the ele-
plants, and hundreds of spe-
cial dishes for the others.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
VETO ||NPER|LS
D. {, RELIEF


CONSERVATION prevailed in Dis
trict emergency relief organiza-
tions today as word came from
the White House that President
Hoover was likely to veto the first
deficiency bill carrying an appro-
priation of $625,OOO for distressed
Of the Capital.
Should the President veto the
bill, it will seriously embarrass
local relief authorities, who have
obtained advance credit since Con
gress passed the bill SO as to con.
tinue giving aid. It would be
necessary to halt relief work until
the money was made available.
Hoover is said to object to the
McKellar amendment to the de.
ficiency bill, which would require
a joint Congressional committee
to review all tax refunds over
$4,000.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
SALESMAN HELD
FRAUD WRIT

John Eugene Garvey, 80, a real
estate salesman, was routed from
bed early today at his home in
the 5000 block Hereford Pl. N.
W.. by detectives who said Garvey
is accused of false pretenses as
. result of a transaction last
October. IL r.
The salesman is held at the
first precinct station. t
Detective Sergt. Van D. Hughes
said Harry BelSon, of the 800
block K st. N. W., claims he gave
the salesman a 500 deposit to
get, him to sell some property,
and that the property was not
sold nor was the deposit returned.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
z POUNDS OFF
IN Z WEEKS BY
DIET, EXERCISE
Important Rules in McGovern
System Reviewed; Save
Your Daily Charts
A Composite Diet!

The exercises have been
completed, but tomorrow The
Washington Times will pub
Msh . composite diet con-
tanning the foods that Artie
McGOvern has advised during
this series.
Watch for it!
II win be . guide to your
menus every day.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
BURGLARS TAKE
NIGHT OFF IN
DISTRICT.
HoIdups Cut in Half During
"a Hours; indictments Due
In Payroll Killing

|, Emergency measures Instituted
by Major Ernest w. Brown, super
intendent Of police, to curb the
crime wave appear successful, All
parts of the District reported a
quiet night.
Special details Of plain clothes
and uniformed patrolmen were on
duty throughout the District all
night, but they found little to do.
No l1ousebreakings were report
ed and the number OF holdups
dropped TO less than half the num-
ber of the previous "a hours.
AccOmpIiCes Sought
Despite the drop in crime since
the drastic measures were insti-
tuted, Major Brown announced
that the special details would be
continued for an indefinite period,
until he is satisfied that the crime
wave is broken.
With the case against the House
payroll killers complete and in
the hands of the Grand Jury,
members of the homicide squad
continued their search for mem
bers of the gang which looted a
Benning feed and coal store early
Sunday, killing the night watch
man. - ..
George Jittman, colored, ar
rested shortly after the murder,
confessed the killing, police said,
and implicated at least one ac
complice.
Indictments Awaited
If the Grand Jury returns in
dictments against the gang which
killed Edward Ecklund in the
House payroll robbery last Friday,
such action will be taken tomor-
row, the inquisitorial body having
completed its study Of the case
yesterday.
Four Of the six suspects were
investigated in connection with
first-degree murder charges. They
were the two colored men who
police say confessed to the actual
shooting, Fewell Workman and
Claude Myers, and Albert Cash
and Everett Blackwell, alleged
to have plotted the crime.
Two others held, Oscar Cash
and Claude Temrleton, were ac-
cused of being accessories after
the fact.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Two Nations

Two books coming to at the time, suggest the
confusion of the age In Germany Puts the Clock Back
Edgar Mowrer surveys the political and social life of the
country which defeated in The Decade of Illusion"
Maurice Sachs describes through personalities the artistic
life of the country which have out the
only victor France One the work of trained journalist
the other of dettante Read them after the other and
you will say Were these two countries in single world,
or one earth and the other in Mars?
One thing only connects them the Of breakup The
politicians and undergraduates Of Germany vigorous to
the point of voence the artists and celebrities of Paris
active to the point of hystera neither group do you
any of quiet strength of of mind of certainty
Like ourselves they going somewhere changing direction
at moment notice. driven by necessity whim first
direction, then in another.
Wizards Demurrer
Mr.. Mowrer, his title indicates reaction in Ger
many The past fifteen years have been he thinks limp
ing compromise between the former Prussan autocracy and
the somewhat ShopWOrn parliamentary democracy Of the
West Oswald Garrison Willard with feeling for de-
mocracy is far sympathetic in The German Phoenix,
and the books should be together Both
lacking in enthusiasm for Hitler whom Mowrer calls show
of genius and the greatest contemporary of
mob psychology" and Willard thinks of him "a cheap
advertiser
Nations falling back each itself but what happens
in other lands still affects What happens in the art of
other lands is not Immediately when
worried by taxes lack of jobs but the America of 1888
shows signs Of the impact of Jean Coceau and Jacques Mari
tain and Pablo Pcasso These and dozens Of Others
not notable fill the pages of Mr. Sachs book book writ
ten with melancholy backward glance happier age
know how Mr. Sachs feels happened to be in Paris
of the high points, when the Cgae Theater and the Russian
Ballet producing when you could Pcasso James
Joyce and Strawnsky in lobby which Dahew the
presiding genius when excited and enthusiastic
and gay Now either you cannot them would be
thrilled if you did. That too, is part of the breakup
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Today's the last day!

Today's the last day!
For two weeks you've been diet
ing and exercising toward a per-
feet figure under Artie McGov.
ern's tutelage-and this is the
day of reckoning with those sur
plus pounds and unwanted
Inches. -
IA pound week Is the average,
according to Artie McGovern, and
that's all you should lose, for
health. But that's more ounces
than it sounds, and you can roll
off a lot of inches in a few
months.
Paul Whiteman went on SIM
liar schedule for a year, and lost
an average Of two pounds a week
slow. but sure, and you can
whittle off the avoirdupois in the
same manner.
So don't write "finis" to your
daily routine of diet and exercise
Just because the articles are no
longer appearing in The Wash
ington Times.
You have saved your daily
charts and become accustomed to
the proper food and exercise. Re-
member you can easily gain back
the weight you worked hard to
lose if you relax your vigilance
over the cream puffs and let
chocolate cake take the place OF
spinach in your diet.
Let's review the important
points expounded by Artie NC
Govern:
| 1. Stay away from fats,
starches and carbohydrates in
selecting your foods.
2. Eat plenty of foods that
contain cellulose, vitamins and
minerals.
| 3. Drink six to eight glasses
of water each day, between
meals. Do not drink water with
the meas.
4. Get an average of seven
hours of sleep each night.
De DUM pUG An @M SVUE CA~
erciSe over week-ends and in
duce autO-intOxiCatiOn.
6. Exercise q half hour each
day.
=. Set q regular hour for ris-
ing, and . regular time for all
your meals. Eat slowly.
s. Walk every day, systemati-
Cally.
8. Get out in the open as
much IS possible.
10. Maintain . correct, erect
posture when sitting, standing
and walking.
That's all! But it goes for every
day, all the time, as long as you
| still want that lovely figure!
The Washington times., 1933-01-24

promptly. Snouid ike TO know What
name historians will give to the PERIOD
if historians are going to give names at
all, and if they are more imaginative
than ourselves who speak of the ''post-
war epoch" The period has been
treated for America in Frederic Allen IS
"Only Yesterday" in similar British
book, and in addition to works cover
ing the whole time special phases have
already been worked over and clapped
between covers. 1t was a great time and
it ended badly; and now we look back
and try to discover where the fault lay.
While it was going on we were all con-
vinced that we were doing the right
thing and that we had miraculously es-
capped paying the penalty for the
most stupid and most criminal enter
prise in history.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Fruit, Milk Urged
As Diet for Sailors

The modern sailor. thanks to
declining vogue for the holystone
and coal-bur1ing vessel, needs less
bread, meat and potatoes and
more fruit, vegetables and milk.
Secretary of the Navy Adams
suggested these changes in Navy
rations in a report yesterday to
the House.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
to VieuO
TeLeDhOne ErcIlan0e

Subscribers in the Silver
Spring Shepherd area of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company will be given an
opportunity to see how the wheels
60 round in a telephone ex-
change tonight and tomorrow
night at the telephone building
on Falkland Drive and Georgia
Avenue.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Page Boy Is Hero
OF Fire in Senate
Fire Bal the Capitol!"

Fire IN the CapltOI!"
This cry caused excitement for
a few moments today in the Sen.
ate wing. The fire was in a waste
paper basket in the exclusive
Senatorial corridor in the rear Of
the Senate chamber. Some one
dropped a match or cigarette in
the basket and the papers blazed
to the ceiling.
Attaches grabbed a fire extin,
guisher, but before they could use
it, a page boy, Richard Ridelb
stamped out the blaze.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
TO TALK ON BOOKS

Mrs. Howard D. Dozier will
speak on "A Few Books" before
the Forest Glen Home Interest
Club tomorrow at the home Of
Mrs. H. II. Hewlett, Silver Spring.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
ATTORNEYS SEE HOOVER

BALLET II. Wilson and Edward
M. Bratter. New York attorneys,
held long conference with
President Hoover yesterday. They
declined to reveal the nature Of
their mission.
The Washington times., 1933-01-24
True to Type.
GERMANY AND FRANCE
SHOW SIGNS OF
BREAKDOWN
By GILBERT SELDES-

DROBABLY the ten years after the mot the
greatest most confused exciting and most inter
esng decade in the history Of the world but quite few Of
us who in possession of faculties at that time
going to think So unless something stupendous happens
The Washington times., 1933-01-24

CurUcs may come, and boytsh
figures may 90, but Make me
like VenuS!" is the cry OF tOome1
everywhere. regardless of tDhet11er
the current Venus is pleGSingIy
plump or GtItleticGlly lean.
Thousands OF these jealous
women diet stringentIy and In.
dMlge In harmful oUer-ererctse to
attain that c0Ueted thinneSS.
A DelI-pro roportioned figure Is
the result of sane diet and sensible
exercise, says ATtie McGoUern,
noted athletic trainer. The Wash
inoton Times in q series OF articles
OF Which this is the ttDeltth, pre-
Sents hts diet and exercise route
to a heGlthful SlenderneSS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-18
Middle Aged Get New
Deal, in Federal Jobs
Limit Is Raised to Give
Work to Applicants
Over 40.

Persons of middle age are to re-
ceive a new DEAL in applying for
jobs under the civil service COM
mission it was learned today.
Due to the difficulty of older per-
sons in finding employment, regu-
lations recently passed by the COM
mission are to give special consider
alton to applicants between the ages
Of forty and fifty-three.
In the examinations for positions
Of stenographers and typists soon to
be held. no applications will be con-
sidered from persons under forty
The closing date on these two CLASH
fications is Nov. 80. The salaries
range from S1.260 to $1,62O a year.
The aeg limit on the positions Of
teachers of home economics il
senior and Junior high schools has
been extended to f1fty-three years
These positions pay salaries rang.
ing from $1,620 to $4,000. The clos
ing date for applications is Dec. l.
The minimum age limit for teach.
erS in junior high schools formerly
was thirty. This has been raised
however, to forty in orde rto accomo.
date more persons Of middle age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-18
Ambassador

The Ambassador will offer tomor-
row for a four days engagement a
twin feature program in Above the
Clouds" starring Robert Armstrong
and Dorothy Wilson. and The Big
Executive. with Ricardo Cortez
and Richard Bennett, a story of a
powerful executive who controlled
high finance, but who had no power
over women. A large Paramount
cast supports the stars.
above the Clouds is an aviation
story of a newS-reel camera man
who risks life and love for his COM
pany. Robert Armstrong is cast as
the ace camera man, who steals
news ms from friends and takes
the C lit.
WI 1 he attempts the stunt on
a Close friend he is discovered and
r ed to his boss. Armstrong
oil smartS his friend and causes the
unfortunate fellow to lose his own
job.
A girl enters the picture and ex-
poses the shady practices of the ace
camera man. doing so to defend her
victimized lover.
A daring scene takes place aboard
a dirigible which cracks up in mid
air. In addition to The two features
will be a comedy cartoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-18
BATTLE
MAY Be WACED
ON SCHOOL TAX
Property Owners Group of
Realty Board Opposes
99-Cent Rate.

The property owners division of
the indianapolis Real Estate Board
may appeal to the courts to reduce
the 99-cent tax rate approved for
the indianapolis school city by the
state board of tax commissioners.
The tax board approved the rate
yesterday.
1t is believed that the board also
will approve the civil citys tax rate
of S131.
Drop Reduction Theory
Until yesterday. the tax commits
sioners had considered a Accent cut
in the school city's rate.
"A study of the situation" &C
cording to Gaylord S. Morton,
member of the board, resulted in
abandonment Of the cut"
The realty boards division had
urged that the school city reduce its
levy $324,000 by using in the pres
ent fiscal year S324,000 that will
come to it from the state in July.
A. B. Good, school business direc-
tor, opposed the plan, contending
it would work a hardship on the
school city during the following
year.
Sees S1.5O Cut Ignored
Il do not know what form the
case will take said Lawrence G.
Holmes, secretary of the realty
board, in commenting on possibility
of an appeal from the state tax
boards approval of the rate.
The decision of the state tax
board merely confirms the belief
that none Of our tax officials in
tends to observe the $3.50 tax law
in spirit or purpose" said Mr..
Holmes.
Mr.. Good said the state boards
action would prevent the necessity
of the school board shortening the
ensuing term or further cuts in
salaries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-18
a RI1K
IA DAY
BY BRUCE CATTQN

A RED-HEADED Irish sailor
L n jumped ship in sun baked
Mexican town late in the eight
zenith century, married a dark
haired senorita, and then sailed
away few years later. He left
her with red-headed son and
memories of a FOSTERING husband
who sang Gaelic love songs be-
meath Latin windows and fought
perversely with his fists instead OF
with knives.
And in 1910 this son-whose
name, John O'Brien, had been
changed to Juan Obrigon-sought tc
better the family fortunes by at
taching himself to the train of a
Spanish inspector general and
making trip by mule-back from
the tip of Lower California to the
town of Monterey, in what is now
the state Of California.
The story of all this is told in
"The Juorney of the Flame" by
Antonio de Fierro Blanco, who got
it from Juan Obrigon's lips when
this red-haired Mexican, cele-
brating his 102d birthday, told the
tale of his life. It has been trans
lated by Walter de Steiguer, ano
whether it be chiefly fact or chiefly
fiction, it is vastly interesting
book.
Its picture of the proud and vio-
lent life of the CALIFORNIA; in 1906
is unforgettable. If you amounted
to anything you wore two knives
and never hesitated to use them.
The more you hated a man, the
more polite you were to him. You
knew that the only food which gave
strength was bulls flesh, the tougher
the better.
Juan Obrigon himself was quite
a lad, and his trip was a great
one. He rode a mule that chewed
tobacco; he routed hostile Indians
by setting the grass on fire. He was
nicknamed "The Flame" He found
pearls in the eye-sockets of fossil
skeletons in Snake-haunted cave
The book is as entertaining and as
slyly humorous as anything you are
likely to read in a long time.
Published by the Houghton Mifflir
Company, it sells for So.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-18
AUTO ACCIDENTS
CAUSE INJURIES
TO 4 PERSONS
MotoriSt Is Arrested on
Drunkenness Charge
After Crash.

-Four persons incurred injuries in
traffic accidents last night and early
today
Ed Miller, 81, of 932 Hervey street,
suffered a cut lip when his auto
mobile struck a safety zone guard
at Arsenal avenue and Michigan
street. He was treated at city hos
pital and taken home.
Alvin Burton, %, of 1918 Colo
RADIO street, suffered a scalp wound
when the car in which he was
riding crashed into a parked car in
the 500 block, North Gray street.
Morris Henry, 81, of 1902 East
Seventeenth street, driver of the
car, was arrested on a drunkenness
charge and failure to have a
drivers license.
Morris Zimmerman, 81, of GA
East Twenty-ninth street, suffered
chest injuries in an auto collision
at Tenth street and Capitol avenue.
He was treated by a physician and
went home.
Ernest Griffin, Negro, SO, of 2810
Highland place, suffered head
decorations when he was struck by
a car driven by Gordan Barker, 81,
of 1913 Graceland. avenue. Griffin
was taken to the city hospital.