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The Washington times., 1933-10-05
NATIONAL PARK
JOBS OKAYED

Construction of a bridge across
Felgates Creek and the grading
of III miles Of road along the
Colonial National Monument
Parkway, Virginia, has been ap-
proved by Oscar L.. Chapman, as
sistant Secretary of the Interior,
it was announced today.
The contract was awarded to
the Ruffin Construction Com
pany, of Richmond, on its bid
of $17,876, the lowest of seven
submitted. An NRA project ap-
proved by the Public Works Ad-
ministration, the work will be
done for the National Parks Ser
vice under the supervision of the
Bureau of Public Roads.
Two other road projects were
approved by Chapman. One is
for grading 4.244 miles of the
Rim Road in Crater Lake Ma
tional Park, Ore. The contract
was awarded to Dunn and Baker,
of klamath Falls, Ore, at it's low
bid of $248,533.70.
The other contract was for i'm
provements to the East Rim
Road and South Entrance Road
in the Zion National Park, Utah.
w. w. Clyde and Company, of
Springville, Utah, was awarded
the contract at it's bid of $142,-
254.50. The contract calls for
improvement to 1923 miles.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
AIM
At REOPEN|NG
US. SAVINGS
Committee to Spurn Cooper's
Fight Against Treasury
in District Courts

A committee of seven depositors
of the closed United States Say
ings Bank, appointed at a mass
meeting at Central High School
to aid the $4,000 other deposi-
tors in having the bank reopened,
laid plans today for the pro-
cedure to be followed.
1t is believed that this group
will 60 direct to the Comptroller
of the Currency with some plan
for reopening the bank, regard
less of the outcome of litigation
instituted by Col. Wade H.
Cooper, president of the bank.
Under this procedure, Colonel
Cooper will have no voice in the
matter.
Issues Ultimatum
The Comptroller has already
told Colonel Cooper that unless
he can suggest a better reopening
plan than that which the Treas
ury has rejected. steps will be
taken to either reopen the bank
through another plan or place it
in receivership for the purpose OF
liquidation.
Mrs. Mark C. Bulls, 1900 block
Sixteenth Street Northwest, only
woman member of the committee,
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
Snakes are a hobby with him.

Snakes are a hobby with him.
Ever since college days H. P.
Harnsberger, traffic superinten-
dent of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, has been
interested in snake lore.
And today, an authority on the
subject, he raises venomous cop
perheads in the living room of his
home, 1900 block New Hampshire
Ave. N. w.
HarnSberger is a bachelor.
In the neighborhood grocery
store he has set mouse traps, for
snakes must be fed live food.
Denies Evil Intent
A connoiSseur, he gives the lie
to what he terms "stuff" or snake
stories wildly proclaiming the
vicious intent of all snakes, from
the harmless little garter to the
venomouS cobra. He said there
are no snakes in this territory
which would deliberately go out
Of their way to bite a man.
HarnSberger explained his in
terest in the serpent. He said:
when I was about years
old I captured a snake and
showed it to my father, who,
unlike most parents, was him
self interested in it,"
He attributes the common fear
Of the snake to parents, especially
mothers, who instill in children
their own dread of reptiles. He
points out that in his dealing with
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
PATIENT HANGS
HIMSELF

Joseph Schmidt, 81, a patient
at st. Elizabeth's Hospital, COM
mitted suicide in his hospital
room today by hanging himself
with a sheet tied to a window
guard.
He had been at the institution
since 1925.
Guards said they passed
Schmidt's room several times and
it appeared that the patient was
merely standing bv the window,
since his feet were barely off thN
ground.
After noticing him apparently
standing in the same position for
a long time, the guards entered
the room and found the man
dead.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05

register of the Denver Land Of
flee, Mrs. Gardner, of Colorado;
district supervisor of narcotics,
Mrs. Bass, of Illinois; assistant
collector of internal revenue,
Mrs. Jerman, of North Carolina,
and on and on"
In addition, Miss White points
with pride to the appointment in
the first six months of the new
Administration of $40 women as
postmasters, Is of them to first
class post offices.
Aids With Patronage
The office of Miss White at
Democratic headquarters in the
National Press Building acts as n
clearinghouse for feminine pa
tronage. She has on file the rec
ords of all Democratic women
who have served their party
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
Transfers to Fill
NeU Relief Agencu

Positions under the Federal
Surplus Relief Corporation will
be filled by transfers from exist
ing Government agencies, it was
announced today by Harry l..
Hopkins, Federal relief admins
traitor.
This corporation is the new
Government agency established
to buy surplus foods for distribu-
ton among the needy unem-
ployed throughout the country.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
| His Great Snakes Add to Joy
OF Phone Officials Life

snakes he has never been bitten
by their poisonous fangs.
Snakes, in order to perform the
antics of the charmers are doped,
Harnsberger believes. He admits
however, that the real Indian
charmer Stuns his snake with
musical note, a closely guarded
secret of their profession.
This busy mans hobbies are
Diversified and include keen in
terest in radio and sound pro-
duction.
Most people being apathetic on
the subject, Harnsberger says he
enjoys his snake hobby the more
because it is unusual. In fact,
with one or two exceptions, he
believes he knows more about
snakes than anyone else in Wash
ington.
And he always has snake hunt
ing to look forward to at his re-
mote cabin retreat in the Massa-
nutten range Of Northern Vir-
ginia.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05

either before the convention or
afterwards. Her files. in fact, go
back to 1928.
Her own memory is store
house of feminine Democratic
names.
Ask her what Mrs. Blank did
in 1928 to help put over "Al"
Smith. Or what position Mrs.
Jones has taken on major po-
liticaI issues. Her files supply
the information if she can not
instantly remember it.
Her office is the court of last
resort of women's organizations
desiring speakers from among the
list of women who have "ar-
rived" The Democratic women
know "Sue," and if she asks them
prettily to speak in such and
such town on a given date,
they do it.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05

is a former employe of the office
of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency and has been active on be-
half of the depoSitors since the
bank closed.
Promises Hard Work
Following her appointment on
the committee, Mrs. Bulls said:
81 only wish to say that I will
work entirely in the interest of
the $4,000 depositOrs of the
bank, and will give them the
most intelligent and conscien-
tious service within my power"
Other members of the commit
tee appointed after a stormy ses-
sion last night include Theodore
S. Grape, AL Masters, Arthur L.
Thompson, j. E. Smith, DR.. r. B.
Tyler and Harry Kahn.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
Man Shot in Thigh
While CLeQninQ Gun

Shot in the thigh last night
while cleaning a gun at his home
in the 1900 block of Six-and- One
Half st. N. w.. John Lemon,
colored. 33, today is in an unde-
terrnined condition at Gallinger
Hospital. Lemon was taken to
Emergency Hospital and later
transferred to Gallinger.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05

moves a few ClmeS. from Cne way
they have treated recent shows in
New York you would hardly know
that Hollywood still exists. About
the Joe Cook show, "Hold Your
Horses" the prime thing to say
was that it had Joe Cook and his
usual encourage of Chasens and
mechanical appliances and insanity,
making it potentially a good anus
ing musical, which needed more
cutting than it had received on the
road in order to speed it up and
eliminate some soft and silly spots.
am as impatient as anyone of
second-rate vaudeville turns thrown
into a musical show and I know
that most ballets are too long, even
if Harriet Hoctor dances in them.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
Serious Drama

AS for going to the movies: the first serious play OF
the season was called "Men in White" dealing with
doctors and internes. 1t was done with mgh ana
boomv seriousness and Put Problem before the auo
ence: can (or shoud) doctor compromise between
love and duty? The climax was strong one:
vouno doctors fiancee quarres with him because ne
breaks an engagement with her-and his only excuse
IS that he has to do blood TRANSMISSION to save He
so he responds to the mute advances Of nurse Some
what improbably the puts herself IN the hanoS VI
hungling mal-practitioner and to save her llte an
oneraton Is necessary The doctor is ASSISTANT as the
or is wheeled n the fancee discovers the truth Inc
operation proceeds.
Now this is strong scene: it gives new anu
ucutev nanful twist to the old facing OF man. WIFE anu
mistress But most of what went before ana moSC VI
what came after is old hat in the moves saw le
con+1v dull bad long movie called Zone Mans Jour-
~" IN which the pro oblem of social engagements and
dutv in the wards was quite plainly put Inc cmaA
wos different but the theme was the same, ana Ihe
MOVIE treatment of this artificial and oea
was as GOOD as that of the play Even gIorcatcmn III
of tho nhvscian and the famous oath were presenC III
BOTH
As Real as the Movies
Mast surprising of all that for the big punch we
had all the business of preparing TOR an operation.
washing of hands, attendants like acolytes' CoWelS
hronchf m antiseptcs tacum powder before the rub
bu 99loves-the whole business which have seen SO
roor times in the movies that would contldenty go
to an oneratng room and go through all the motions
novsef And all of this flummery which IS interesting
tn watch but has almost nothing IN the Worlo 10 uo
with theatrical effect drew gasps OF greatness
+;on from the first night audence-WMch, IKE the
critics must still be unaware OF even the bad moVleS'
let alone the good ones
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
True to Type
Salary Slash for Critics Suggested
D. peDr eEINEe
-By GILBERT SELDES-

Some of my best friends dramatic critics and
feel like traitor to suggest that it would be good
thing for them to take cut in salary and go to the
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
Sylvia Returns With Jewels
And $95; Spent sos

r. was grand and glorious$eft home because she Iu
re while it lasted But funds loved to travel alone"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

include his name on a long printed list which was mailed to a number of concerns with which he had no connection or agreement.
 Mayer, incidentally, had been a professional mail-order swindler for several years. Any intelligent and properly caution applicant for employment could have learn ed Mayors record from the Chi cago Better Business Bureau.
 By no means are all of the vic. Thirty school teachers recently Institute of Ortho- -Dietetics," ir tion and the promise of jobs. One promoter of the fraud was con. victed.
 Men without jobs, but with say. ings which they are anxious to in. vest in some enterprise that prom ises a livelihood, are the special prey of the "agents-wanted" brand of racketeer. For 8 payment of e few hundred to several thousands of dollars, prospects are loaded ur with merchandise of doubtful value and assigned exclusive terri. tories in which to sell the product Entering the field with no knowl. edge of competitive conditions the new salesman is likely to find himself enormously undersold bJ rival products. Then, failing to dispose of the quantity of gods specified in his agreement, he is busted from his territory, which then is resold to another sucker.
 Two other practises fattening
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

Not all homework plans are selling-agency and employment illegitimate. And there are many plans which are operating entirely within the law. But the large numbers of reports circulated by the National Better Business Bu- reau and it's 52 local agencies, and the fraud orders issued by the U. s. post office department, show that there are hundreds of gullible thousands who fail to investigate before investing their money with swfnd1ers.
 Tn Chicago, for instance, Charles Egolf promised big money to home workers for addressing envelopes and mailing circulars. In three weeks, 5000 men sent him $1 for materials and instructions" Each victim was told to mail circulars to friends, and If any of the friends thus solicited sent $1 to Egolf he would pay the original employe 25 cents commission. The promotion literature, by the way, cautioned that Most homework schemes are fraudulent" Egolf's was too; he never paid.
 Still more common are fraudu- lent offers to buy homemade prod ucts such as aprons, shirts and children's dresses. In practically every case e deposit" of several dollars is required for samples and materials worth a few cents. After that, no matter how expert and patient the seamstress, her work never is found acceptable by the crooked promoters. Such a con- cern was the Restwell Pajama Co.,, of New York, against which a fraud order has been issued by the government. When they were put out of business the operators. Jack Lester and J. Krasner, were re- ceiving approximately 100 letters a. day from women victims.
 Similar schemes havt to do with the coloring of greeting cards and the tinting of photographs. Ac- cording to the Better Business Bu- reau, Q million dollars has been contributed by approximately 25,- 600 people during the past three years to the Irving Vance O., Ltd, and the Menhenitt Co.,. Ltd, both of Toronto, Canada, and both,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
Norman HI. Davis Is Not Pleased At The
 Disarmament Delay
He Appealed For Less Procedure and More Action Davis is Much Disappointed and Angry at the Dilatory Tactics and Affront to U. s. Offers

The conference, confronted first
 with one disagreement then with
 another, decided yesterday to draft
 a prliminary disarmament agree
 ment, based on Ramsay MacDon-
 aids British plan. then to adjourn
 until June 27, while the world
 economic conference is meeting at
 London.
 It was decided that the commits sion's steering committee, during the adjournment, should attempt to whip into shape the preliminary draft.
 When the commission met to-
 day, revolt broke out against this procedure-agreed on hardly 16 hours before. France and Norway objected to adopting the British plan as a basis for an unwritten new draft.
 Arthur Henderson of Great Bri- tain, permanent chairman of the commission, tried to halt the re- volt of the small nations against the agreement. He suggested that he be authorized to negotiate re-
 visions in the draft during the ad- journment, thereby eliminating the
 steering committee. He suggested also that the ad- l journment be extended to July 3,
 to give more time.
 Jugoslavia, Turkey and Holland agreed.
 It was then that Davis inter- vened, and In supporting Hender- sons proposal gave voice to the
 United States disappointment that President Roosevelt's gesture in offering Europe United States CO., operation against any aggressor na- tion that attacked another should go for nothing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
CRASH RECALLS
 lST SHIPS FATE

Atlantic City, N. J. = (U.P.) - While the search continues along the coast for the portions of the naval airship Akron, which crash- ed off Barnegat Lightship, res- idents here recall the disaster of the first dirigible Akron.
 It was more than 21 years ago when Melvin vaniman and five members of his cSew lost their lives in a trial trip, which was to have been the preliminary to the first attempt crossing of the Atlan' tic by dirigibie.
 Compared with the lost naval air cruiser, the first Akron was a mere toy ship. She was 25S feet long, with a diameter of 45 feet, while the second Akron was 7S6 feet long and had a diameter Of 132 feet. Powered. with four mo- tors, the 1912 model weighed 14,- 900 pounds and carried 8,00O pounds of gasoline.
 Just before vaniman took off he declared that his ship was one that "could not fall"
 Asked what would happen if the dirigible struck a storm, he replied it would ''fiy as fast as the wind carried it."
 He never had a chance to prove his theory, because the ship ex- ploded a few minutes after it left the ground in full view of thou- sands who had gathered to watch the start of the final trial flight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
offering courses of instruction and paying jobs in picture coloring.

offering courses of instruction and | paying jobs in picture coloring. "An American manufacturer in Poland desires to have his g. year-old son grow up in America; 1; offers $50,000 to an American re- spectacle family able to assure him flrst-rate nursing, board and education.-White to /. (n ad- dress in Warsaw)."
 Hundreds of persons answered that advertisement, and were asked to remit $5.60 to cover the cost of Investigating their refer ences. Hundreds paid the amount and, of course, heard nothing more of the matter.
 A heartless and widespread em- ployment racket was broken up in New York when the courts ruled that no agency would be allowed to collect fees in advance. But laws are lax in many other cities, and there are devious ways of dodging existing statutes.
 A common one is to request a registration fee of from $2 to $20 to cover the cost of putting the applicants name and qualifica- tions before possible employers. For example, when postal authori- ties stepped into the Chicago office of Charles F. Mayer, they found he was receiving a daily average of 1,76O pieces of mail from men who had read his advertisements offering all manner of jobs at large salaries in South America, with transportation furnished" |" All that Mayer did, though, was collect $5 from each applicant and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
NEW GAS DEATH | URGED FOR STATE

Reno, Nev. = (UP) = Execution by carbon monoxide gas was sug- gested today by Anthony M. Tu- rano, Reno attorney and student of penology, as an improvement over Nevada's "painless execution" by hydrocyanic gas.
 Nevada's lethal gas execution chamber, the only one in the world, has been in operation since 1921. Six persons have been exc cuted by the sweet-smelling hy- drocyanic gas.
 Prior to passage of the gas exc cution law. prisoners were execut- ed by firing squads.
 The original purpose was to provide a painless death.
 After consulting doctors and witnessing an execution. Turano has concluded that a gas execu- ton carries no humane advantages over well-performed hanging. or electrocution and that Q certain amount of pain ana mental tor- ture precedes the ordeal.
 There are many kinds of lsthal ga sthat are well-known to pro- duce painless death by inducing preliminary sleep" he said. "The handiest of them. in fact, if not the least expensive, is to be found in the prison kitchen.
 Probably the most painless viaticum. however, would be af- forded by carbon monoxide, be- cause 1t is odorless, and has the dual quality of narcotic and as- phyxiant," Turano declared. Time of death could be fixed indefinite ly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
RESTRICTION OF NEWS IS BEING
 FOUGHT TO-DAY
Resolution Concerning the Distribution of Official Govt. News to Be Dee bated at Vienna

Vienna, June 1 = (U.P.) = A resolution concerning distribution !! of official news, of vital importance to newspapers and to the public, was scheduled for discussion to-
 day before the International Chamber of Commerce, holding it's
 biennal convention.
 Due to be debated yesterday, the
 resolution was put over until to- day because Italian representatives objected, largely on legalistic
 grounds.
 Independent news agencies, re- presented principally by the United Press, Exchange Telegraph and and Central News, believe they will be successful in effort to have in- cluded in the news resolution guar antees which will safeguard news papers and the public against un- fair distribution or improper re- striction of official government news.
 Karl A. Bickel. president of the United Press; Webb Miller, Eu- ropean general news manager and pr Edward J. Bing, general con- tinental manager; E. M. Anderson 4AA 0SSVA 0VA&CA6 6A VA tAAO 4IACu0h6C Telegraph and Andre Glarner, his aide, and Levi Pool, managing edi- tor of the Central News, have con- ferred frequently regarding the text of the resolution.
 They have agreed that any reso- lution passed ought to include the complete text of the League of Na- tions resolution of 1927, which de- clared strongly against restriction of or preferential treatment in ac- cess to, transmission or publica- ton of official governmental news.
 This text was not included in a resolution suggested by some Eu- ropean ofIicial and semi- ofilcial news agencies.
 Tn an effort to agree on . text, meetings have been held by rec presentatives of the United Press, Exchange Telegraph, Central News. Agence Radio, Nippon Dem- DO and Reuters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

today on the desire of idle people to turn their spare time into cash are the ''song publishing" and story and scenario" rackets Harold B. Kohler, conducting the Equitable Music Corporation in New York, took $700,000 from amateur lyricists before he was halted by a government fraud or der. His scheme, one of the elab- crate ones, was to offer a $500 prize for the best parody written to some popular song. To those who submitted verses, he replied that the words would be suitable for a new song, and that he would have the music written, and would handle the publishing, for a mere $60. No copies, of course, ever were sold.
 
 . Last month the National Better Business Bureau assigned an employe to compose the most in- ane, illiterate, garbled and plotless story within his power. The result was titled Home From the South Sea Islands," and concerned the adventures of one "Wm. Jackson :. who was one of the very best workers in the factory wher he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
BY STEWART BROWN

l \OHtCu IEcSS 0tuA SOTCESpOAluCutI Geneva, June 1.-(UP)-Striv- ing once more to save the disarma- ment conference on which depends the hope of the world for speedy relief from top-heavy war organ izations, Norman H. Davis, chief United States delegate, appealed to- day for more disarmament and less procedure.
 Davis, disappointed and angered at a decision to adjourn the confer ence for weeks, said sarcastically:
 T am not interested in proce- dure, but in disarmament. find we spend more time discussing the way we should do things than we do in discussing what we should do.
 "Let us have more disarmament and less procedure"
 Refusing to concede in his ef- fort to jolt Europe into action on disarmament, Davis is trying to ar- range a conference at Paris to- morrow with Joseph Paul-Boncour, French foreign minister. and Sir John Simon, British foreign minis- ter.
 simon is in London, and appar- ently his government has not de- cided whether to let him join the others.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

worked but they layed him of be- cuase the forman was down on him." And so on, until "the butiful girl through her arms arond his neck and creid 'myHero'."
 The story was submitted to three widely advertised literary bureaus" First to respond was the Writers Placement Bureau, of Omaha, Neb. They congratulated the author and offered to revise, criticize and correct the story for $3. Next, the Daniel O'Malley company, of New York, found the story original dramatic, colorful and lending itself to talkie dia- logue adaptation" Their services were offered for $21.50. Not to be outdone by Omaha and New York, Hollywood followed with an order from the Universal Scenario com pany. This concern was somewhat more critical. It believed the story needed whipping into shape before being submitted to Q select list of magazine and book publishers. And 1t stood ready to do the whip- ping for only ss5:
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