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The Washington times., 1933-09-27
STUDIES OUR NRA
Sir Herbert Samuel
Talks of Recovery
With Roosevelt

Is it possible that the British
government is considering an
NRA for Britain?
Sir Herbert Samuel, member Of
Parliament, is touring the United
States studying NRA activities.
Yesterday at the White House.
Sir Herbert discussed the NRA
with President Roosevelt. but
on questioning today at the Hay
Adams House, where he is stay
ing. the former home secretary in
Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
Donald's cabinet denied that his
government was giving a thought
to the application of NRA.
British embassy attaches also
denied England is considering any
such move. The British Trade
Union Congress, however, which
met this month, adopted a resolu-
ton urging England to follow
President Roosevelt's NRA solu-
ton to unemployment.
r. A. Taylor. of the Shop AS
siStant's Union, said at the Con.
gress that the NRA was the great
est experiment in human history
ever to be attempted.
The Congress urged Prime Min
lister MacDonald'S government to
adopt workers code much along
the lines of the blanket code now
in use in this country.
Sir Herbert, member Of the
Liberal Party and an advocate Of
free trade, threatened to resign
as Home Secretary after Neville
Chamberlain, chancellor Of the ex.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
KAT4RyNS BROTHER BLAMES KELLY FOR INVOLVING HIM
Justice Agents Speed Hunt
for Kansas City Killers
Miller and UnderhiIl,
Desperate Criminals
Still at Large
By international News Service


Dramatically concluding the
roundup of the Urschel kidnapers
with the arrest of George CMa-
chine Gun"D Kelly and his wife,
Kathryn. the Justice Department
today turned it's major attention
to the Kansas City massacre Of
last June. when five were slain.
Three of the suspected Kansas
City slayers are still at large,
One of them is Verne c. Miller.
thug with a long criminal rec
ord, regarded by j. Edgar Hoover,
chief of the division of investiga.
tion, as the most demoniacal
criminal at large today. Hoover
said:
81 regard Miller as @ more
dangerous man than Harvey
Bailey. who welded the machine
gun in the Kansas City slaylng.
Miller win shoot on sight at the
slightest prOvocation.. He virtu-
ally is a maniac"
Wilbur Underhill and Richard
T. GalataS also are sought Both
these men. who have operated
chiefly in the Middle West, have
notorious records. All three have
served penitentiary terms for
various offenses.
Bailey, with Kelly. one of the
"big shot" criminals who have
been arrested in the last few
months in the Justice Depart
ment's far-reachi1g campaign, Is
on trial at Oklahoma City as one
Of ten persons charged with the
kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel,
Oklahoma oil millionaire. Hoover
said:
II expect convictions in this
case this week. Bailey will then
be taken to Kansas City to be
tried under State law for the
murders in the railroad station
there last June. Strangely, there
is no special law penaliging the
killing of . Federal officer"
In the Kansas City affair. Bailey
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bureau, is the man who took 12-
year-old Geraldine Arnold, who
revealed Kelly's Memphis hideout,
to Fort Worth, Tex, after titan
wigged Kathryn Kelly brought
the child here as blind"
To Uncover Money
Ramsey's real mission in Fort
Worth, however, Keith charges.
was to uncover some Of the Ur-
schel ransom money for the
Kellys, who were in desperate
need of funds.
Urschel's family paid 100000
for his release after the million
aire Oklahoma City oil man had
been kidnapped and held in chains
on the Texas ranch of R. G.
C'Boss") Shannon, and his wife,
parents of Mrs. Kelly.
It was Ramsey. Keith said his
Investigations revealed, who ar
ranged for the fugitive Kellys to
hide out at the home of j. r.
Tichenor here, where they were
surprised in their sleep and cap
tured without a shot being fired
early yesterday.
Will Be Charged
Kelly, Keith said. went to the
Eamsey home, where the lawyer
and his sister, Kelly's first wife,
live, and demanded they be given
haven. Ramsey was said to have
decided it would be unsafe and
then arranged for the Kellys to
stay with Tichenor. whose wife
and child were visiting in Ken
lucky.
Keith declared Ramsey would
be charged with harboring a
criminal.
Fifty policemen and Federal
operatives will guard Kelly until
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N~Ou6huuS@ EEO" rags ~
Hurney a splendid replica Of the
Grotto Of Lourdes was erected at
the church and drew thousands Of
visitors.
Stricken with illness, Father
Hurney entered Providence Hos
pital last April 26 and went into
a serious decline.
The last time he was seen in
public was last Spring. when he
left his sick bed to appear in
District Supreme Court in the
trial Of CASTOR B. Means in the
Lindbergh baby kidnapping hoax.
Father Hurney had been asked
by Means to receive the child
from the "kidnaper" with whom
Means claimed to be in contact.
The cleric agreed to cooperate.
The theater world, too, mourns
the passing of Father Hurney.
whose friendly interest in the
people of the stage had made him
venerated and beloved.
St. Patrick Players
He was chaplain of the local
branch of the Catholic Actors
Guild for many years and he also
was paid the unusual tribute Of
being named spiritual adviser Of
the Jewish Actors Guild in this
jurisdiction.
His interest in the stage was
fostered through his activity as
curate at st. Patrick's Church,
where he organized the famed St.
Patrick Players.
This organization of talented
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
OBEYED ORDERS
To GET EASY
MONEY"
Armon Shannon Testities at
Oklahoma City Trial; Given
Gun | oGuard UrScheI

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla,
Sept 27. H.N.SD SD.-AttOrney
for Harvey J. Bailey. Albert L.
Bates and the three Shan
mons from Texas-Mr. and Mrs.
r. G. Shannon and their son,
ArmOn - rested their case
shortly before noon today at
the trial in Federal Court OF
ten defendants accused Of con-
Spiracy in connection with the
100000 KIDNAPPING of Charles
r. Urschel, Oklahoma City oil
millionaire.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Sept.
~ GN.SJ.-Armon Shannon. %
year.old son of r. G. CBoSS"
Shannon, Texas farmer, took the
witness stand in his own behalf
today and blamed George c"Ma-
chine Gun") Kelly, the desperate
now under arrest in Memphis,
as the man who involved him in
the kidnapping of Charles F..
Urschel, Oklahoma City oil mil
ionaire.
Urschel was held a prisoner at
Armon Shannon's farm near
Paradise, Tex. while the kid
napers were conducting 100000
ransom negotiations.
Has Own Farm
Young Shannon, very boyish-
looking on the stand, is one Of the
10 defendants charged with con-
spiracy in connection with the
abduction.
He gave his age as % and said
he had lived in Wise county.
Texas, all his life. He had a
little farm three-quarters of a
mile from his fathers ranch.
His counsel. M. w. Burch,
asked if he could recall a conver-
sationn he had with Kelly prior
to the Urschel kidnapping on
July %, last. He could. 1t was
= "about four or five days" before
Urschel was brought to the Shan
non place by Kelly and Albert
Bates. another of the defendants.
Agreed to 1t
Relating the conversation with
'Machine-Gun" Kelly, Armon
said:
"Me and Kelly we're sitting
on the back porch. He turned
to me and said, 'Armon. do you
want to make some easy
money! l said yes, l did. He
said, I'll take care Of you, Ar
mon. All want you to do is
. to do just as / say. Do you un-
derstand?' I said it was o. X.
with me-"
Armon said Kelly did not re.
veal at that time what he wanted
done. But when Kelly and Bates
brought Urschel there a prisoner,
he was told what to do. He was
givenn a gun and told to guard
, Urschel, which he did.
; Harvey j. Bailey. another OF
;. the 10 defendants in the Charles
. F. Urschel kidnapping trial, will
not take the stand, it was an
nounced toda byy his attorney
James H. Mathers.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
KELLY CAPTUR
DUE To W|FE'S
SCHEM|NG
Kathryn's Efforts to Help Her
Parents Puts U. S. Officers
On Trail of Couple

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. Sept.
81 QNSO.-It was Kathryn
Kelly's burning desire to help her
mother that directly led to her ar
rest and that of her husband,
cMachine Gun'D Kelly.
Kathryn made the mistake of
enlisting the aid of Luther w.
Arnold, of Ardmore, OKLA, whom
she employed as contact man"
to get in touch with a lawyer in
Oklahoma City for the purpose of
aiding the defense of her mother,
Mrs. r. G.. Shannon, on trial in
connection with the Urschel kid
naping.
Arnold. caught in Govern
ment trap. turned the Kellys
in" His 12-year-old daughter,
Geraldine, disclosed the location
of Kelly's hideout in Memphis
Monday night and the raid fol-
lowed.
Secretly Guarded
Today, Arnold is under guard
and his whereabouts kept secret
by Federal authorities.
Federal agents almost caught
Kelly a week ago in Chicago. They
were only three hours behind him
when he checked out of a hotel
on South Michigan Boulevard in
Chicago which is frequented by
racketeers and gangsters.
With a lot of hot money" in
his possession and the Federal
agents on his trail, Kelly decided
to clear out of Chicago and
headed for Texas.
Meet In Texas Town
It was in Texas that Kathryn
ran across Luther Arnold. who,
with his wife and 12-year-old
daughter, Geraldine. were moving
from place to place trying to
make a living.
Kathryn Kelly, distressed by
the plight of her mother on trial
in Oklahoma City, was scheming
way by which she could help
her legally.
She met the Arnolds at the
little town of Itasca, Tex. They
were hitch-hiking to Arnold's
home in Ardmore, Okla. Kathryn
gave them lift, became aC-
quainted with Arnold, and finally
decided to enlist his aid in con-
tacting a lawyer to assist in the
defense of her. mother.
Arnold said he would contact
Attorney John Roberts, of Enid,
Okla. Kathryn furnished him a
car and expense money.
Arnold drove to Oklahoma.
At Enid, Attorney Roberts was
employed to assist the Shannon
defense. Meanwhile, little Geral-
dine was with Kathryn Kelly, who
had moved on to Memphis.
The Plan Worked
Federal officials learned of the
contact Arnold had with Mrs.
Kelly. They had refused to make
any IDEAL" with Mrs. Kelly regard
ing the Shannons.
They arrested Arnold on a
Mann act charge. They. claim they
have evidence to support this
charge. ' Through Arnold they
learned that Geraldine was in
Memphis. Geraldine returned to
Oklahoma City Monday night
and, with her back from possible
harm, the Government moved in
on the Kellys and arrested Kath-
ryn and her machine gun" pal.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
.SLEMP NAMED
IN SHIP QUIZ
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chasing lots during the land boom
in Florida.
Besides Herberman, O'Connor
and herself, she brought out the
name of E. A. Kelly. then with
the Clyde Mallory Steamship
Line, and later an employe of the
Shipping Board. Kelly and O'Con-
nor pooled their money in the
Florida real estate operations,
Mrs. Irvine said, but none Of
them realized a great profit.
The novel situation of Sen
ate investigation reaching rela-
tives of Chief Executive arose
because of the prominence Of
Kermit Roosevelt, cousin of the
President and son Of the late
President Theodore Roosevelt,
has taken in rebuilding the
American merchant marine.
O'ConnOr To Be Called
While the company has been
subject to criticism, it has been
vigorously defended in Congress
for it's part in extending Ameri-
can ships to the seven seas.
Senator Black said:
"Our investigation has COW
cred the Roosevelt Steamship
Company"
He declined to say whether
Kermit Roosevelt would be called
to the witness stand.
Former Chairman O'Connor
Is slated to be called to answer
testimony linking him with Her,
herman.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
BuLbO Air Armada
To Fly to MOsCOIU

MOSCOW, Sept. 81 GN.SD.
Marshal Italo Balbo, Italian air
chief, who led his Seaplane ar
mada across the Atlantic from
italy to Chicago. and back, plans
to head the armada on a flight to
Moscow, according to reliable re-
norts received here today. Ac-
cordins to present plans, the Ital-
ian airmen will make the flight
during october.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27

towns too close together.
Railroads are finally waking
up. They are building a new
train now that wasn't modelled
in the '90's.
But we have to take the bad
news with the good: Ring Lard
ner died. You can always get
better planes, better trains, but
we can't get another Ring Lard
ner.
What a privilege to have
known him since those good old
days when he wrote sketches for
Mr.. ZiegfeId's "Follies. In
years to come, when libraries
put just books in one wing, a
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
Silver Spring NRA
Check-Up Ordered

The Silver Spring Chamber of
Commerce last night named a
committee to survey business
houses of the community, TO be
used as a NRA check.
The committee consists of H. j.
Donnelly, jr.; Walter Funder-
burk, @. T. Day, Winship Green,
and Charles s. Miner.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27

and his gang attacked a party
of peace officers in an apparent
attempt to rescue Frank Nash,
their prisoner.
Opening fire with machine
guns, Nash, a Department OF
Justice agent. an Oklahoma chief
of police, and two policemen were
killed. Two Justice Department
agents were wounded. The killers
escaped but since then most Of
the gang members have been
identified.
On october 3 Federal authori-
ties will help prosecute a deputy
sheriff and another man who per-
mitted Bailey to escape from Jail
at Dallas, Tex, Hoover said.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
Jobs in IL States
ADDrOUed bUPWA

The longest list of nonfederal
public works projects yet Gp-
proved was announced today by
the Public Works Administration.
They are scattered through IL
States and include school build
ing, sewers, streets, waterworks,
municipal buildings, and other
programs aggregating $2.332 ,260.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
2 Drainage Boards
Are Named bu PWA

BY International News Service
Appointment of two commission
ers for the Arkansas Basin, and
one for the Red River, to make
recommendations on all proposals
for these areas to the newly-cre-
ated Mississippi drainage area
board, was announced today by
the Public Works Administration.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
Rev. Francis Hurney, Noted
Washington Priest, Dies

amateurs graduated many to the
professional stage, its most dis
tinguished star being Patricia
Bowman. now ballerina at Radio
City Music Hall
AS an amateur. Helen Hayes
played in one of Father Hurney's
acting companies and upon her
elevation to stardom on the legi-
innate stage he gave a reception
here in her honor.
Discovered Kate Smith
The st. Patrick players offered
annually sacred dramas and their
performances were enjoyed in At
lantic City, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York.
It was Father Hurney who
brought directly to Eddie Dow,
ling's attnetion the budding talent
of Kate Smith. AS result. that
producer put the famous Wash
ington singer in Honeymoon
Lane" an engagement which led
to her eventual radio eminence.
Father. Hurney is survived by
six brothers, Joseph, Thomas,
John. Paul, Alfred and Leo.
Father Hurney was the son OF
the late Thomas and Mary E.
Hurney. His father died in 1913,
shortly after his ordination, and
his mother in 1920.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27

chequer, attempted to put through
q tariff budget"
Sir Herbert will leave Washing
ton tomorrow evening for Phila-
delphia and New York City to
study NRA activities there.
The Washington times., 1933-09-27
WILL ROGERS Snvs:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL, Sept 27-Roscoe Turner
crossed the country in 10 hours That's bringing
The Washington times., 1933-09-27

put just books in wing, and literature in the
other, you mighty likely to find Lardner's writ
ings right in with the literature.
Copyright 1884, b. syudioahss
The Washington times., 1933-09-27

CONDITION OF TREASURY
Treasury balance: $1,175,767,'
1904.
M. I. r.: $4,3O5, ,86S.45.
Customs: $27 ,O14.73.
The Washington times., 1933-03-13

TILGHMAN, Md, March 49,
Pressure exerted by State Con-
servation Commissioner Swepson
Earle has averted a threatened
"oyster war" between the State
and tongers who had refused to
take out licenses.
AS the result of the action of
the commissioner in ordering the
arrest of hundreds of oystermen
who had neglected to pay the
required $5.25 State tax, practi-
cally every tonger in the county
has now complied with the law.
A serious situation developed
early in the year when an in
vestigation revealed that a scant
200 of the more than 500 tongers
had secured licenses. Captains
of police boats operating in the
Choptank and Miles Rivers re-
ported that the oystermen had
ignored repeated warnings. The
tongers declared that the scarcity
of the sea food in local waters
and the condition of the market
made the tax almost prohibitive.
Several hundred tongers were
arrested and arraigned before
The Washington times., 1933-03-13
Quake Zone Shocked Anew
AS Rebuilding Begins

at around $45,000,000, with Long
Beach damage believed to be
more than $25,O00,000.
Navy and military patrols were
being withdrawn from Long
Beach today and it was an
nounced the business section was
being reopened.
With DR.. William De Kline,
national Red Cross disaster relief
director, en- route here from
Washington by airplane, authori'
ties asserted that the situation
was well in hand.
Ample food has been obtained
for several thousand homeless,
who slept for a third night in
parks or on the beach, and sew.
eral hundred physicians and
nurses continued vheir unceas.
ing ministrations to the injured,
Col. Charles S. Henderson has
taken up his duties as virtual
dictator of the devastated region,
coordinating relief and assisting
in the rehabilitation plans. He
said: y
when the extent of the
damage has been determined
by survey, an appeal doubtless
will be made to the proper Fed
eral agencies for financial
help to provide relief for in
dividual home owners and pri-
vate business interests"
Precautions also were being
taken to guard against an out.
break of pneumonia among the
injured and those that were suf-
fering from exposure.
Gov. James Rolph,. jr., of Cali
fornia, gave Mrs. Rheba Craw-
ford Spilvalo, State director of
public welfare, virtual unlimited
powers to organize relief units in
all stricken areas of the country.
Men and officers of the United
States fleet remained in Long
Beach patrolling all areas.
Forty-seven men arrested Satur-
day as looting suspects either
we're held in Jail or released when
they gave proper accountings.
The Washington times., 1933-03-13
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NNOUSEVUG0 HEV" q 0&S ~S~/
gate reported falling of loosened
bricks, also.
The shock was generally felt
throughout Los Angeles, Pasa-
dena,> 1nglewood, San Pedro, San
ia Monica. and Compton. In
some sections the shock was de-
scribed as the strongest since the
original shocks Friday.
Death of the fourth Los An
geles victim of the earthquake,
Henry Ufen. As, in General Hos
pital today, brought the toll Of
death in Southern. California to
116. Five others died of heart
attacks. Ufen was struck by fall
ing debris and bricks Friday and
a moment later was knocked
down in the street and mortally
injured by an automobile.
So Dead In Long Beach
Long Beach's death toll was
announced as So.
Final official count of the
death toll today had decreased
the count considerably from Sat
urday. It was explained that
during the early confusion there
was considerable duplication of
reports on deaths in the various
stricken communities.
Property damage was estimated
The Washington times., 1933-03-13
WITNESS
HERE To SEEK
FEDERAL MD
Culver City Resident Describes
Conditions; Colonial Beach
Man One of Victims

washington yesterday received
it's first eyewitness account of the
California earthquake, and learn
ed simultaneously that T. H.
Massey, a native of Colonial
Beach, Va, is among the dead in
the great disaster.
Word also came from a Wash
ington girl, now on the stage in
the Golden State, to the effect
that she is uninjured but that the
quake provided a thrilling ex-
perience. She is Miss Beulah
Hunter, 10. daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. D. Hunter, of the 1900
block Madison st. N. w. She was
appearing in the Paramount The
ater, Los Angeles, when the quake
started.
Family's Fate Unknown
Massey, killed at Long Beach,
was the son of the late T. H.
Massey, Of Colonial Beach, and
was 40 years old. He moved to
California about seven years ago.
His three sisters. Mrs. Lucy
Massey Bennington, of the 200
block Farragut st. N. W.; Mrs.
Gertrude Malcolm, of Ballston,
Va, and Mrs. Susie Leizar, OF
Cherrydale, Va, have been endeav.
oring to learn whether his wife
and five children escaped un-
harmed.
The first direct account Of the
disaster was brought to Washing
ton by w. H. Evans, of Culver
City, who flew here to seek aid
for his State.
Evans said he was in the Hotel
Biltmore in Los Angeles, talking
with a Boulder Dam contractor,
when the ground began to trem-
BILE. They ran to the street but
plaster was falling from the walls
before they were clear of the
building.
He soon found that Los An.
geles was not much harmed, and
drove to his home in Culver City.
That community, too, had been
spared any greater damake. But
when he drove later through the
stricken territory he saw many af-
fecting sights.
The high school building at
Huntington Park, near Compton,
was ablaze. At Compton he saw
father and son taken from the
ruins and a little later he met a
13-year-old girl, whose mother
had been killed and whose father,
dazed by injuries, had disap-
peared.
Mrs. James F. Kennedy, of the
Gordon Hotel, was much relieved
last night to learn that her
daughter, Mrs. Alexander Hamil-
ton Jones, and her son, Alexander
Hamilton Jones, jr., are safe. They
were in Long Beach, but ran to
the hills as soon as the first
tremor was felt.
Fears For Her Family
Fear for the safety of men,
bers of her family who were liv-
ing in the section of Long Beach,
where the most damage was done
by the earthquake was expressed
here today by Mrs. Frederick
Borey, 5000 block Dent Pl. N. w.
Mrs. Borey's step-daughter,
Mrs. Russell Noble and her two
small children, Coralie, 8, and
Charles Frederick, 112, have been
living at 625 Locust ST., Long
Beach, a section badly damaged
by the quake.
The Washington times., 1933-03-13
R|T.CH|E PLEADS
FORU. 8. A|D.T0
STATE BANKS
Message to White House Asks
Amendment of Emergency
Banking Measure

BALTIMORE, March 13
GN.SD.-A m n d m ent of the
Presidents emergency banking
act was asked by Governor
Ritchie in a telegram sent to
the White House today. Ritchie
asked that State banks not men,
bers of the Federal Reserve syS-
tenn be treated on the same basis
as national banks.
Rtichie explained his request
by saying:
1--WE think it (the emergency
banking act) should be amended
SO that the small State banks
would not have to put up Gov
ernment bonds in exchange for
the emergency currency, but
could put UP, instead, other
securities which may not be
really convertible now, but
which will be good in the long
rum"
The Washington times., 1933-03-13
RE|CHELDERF En-.
FROWNED On

Local Democrats today frowned
on the campaign to keep DR..
Luther H. Reichelderfer in office
as District Commissioner.
While Senator Royal S. Cope
land Cd. of New York, himself
a physician, has Endorsed Reichel-
derfer for another term, Demo
cratic leaders voiced opposition to
this action of support being given
a Republican for the important
District post.
So far, President Roosevelt.
with the national banking crisis
on his shoulders, has had no time
to consider the local situation.
John w. Childress, j. Leo Kolb,
and John Norman are regarded
as active candidates for the COM
missionership, while a score Of
others have been mentioned for
the appointment.
The Washington times., 1933-03-13
st. Michaels Group to
Hold Annual Dance

Under the auspices of the
Silver Srping Social Club, mem
bers of which are parishoners of
st. Michaels Church, will give
their annual st. Patrick's Day
dance at the Manor Golf Club,
Friday night, March II.
The funds derived from this
affair will be used in the church
building and school fund and is
sponsored by the Rev. Thomas
Calnan, pastor of st. Michaels.