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The Washington times., 1933-12-25
z PATROLMEN
SHOT DEAD At
CALL BOX

PROVIDENCE, r. L, Dec. IS
UN.SO-InStead Of Christmas
Joy. sorrow and tragedy cloaked
two homes today as police Of
three states cooperated in a hunt
for the slayer or slayers Of Patrol
men Edward H. Kelly and Patrick
J. Murray. who were found, each
with single .38 caliber pistol
bullet through the head, at the
foot Of an opened police call box.
Kelley leaves a widow, and Muir
ray was the father of four chill
dren.
On the theory that the officers
were killed while in the act of re-
porting the arrest of either one or
more suspects of some crime,
Rhode Island was virtually an
armed camp as police questioned
occupants of every automobile
which crossed the State line. Po-
lice of Massachusetts, and Con-
necticut aided in the search. par
ticularly in seeking a black sedan
bearing Connecticut registration
plates seen in the downtown Sec
ton of Providence; near the scene
of the shooting.
Murray was killed instantly by
q bullet that entered his right eye.
Kelly was struck above the left
temple and lived an hour but did
not regain consciousness.
Hunt for the slayer of the two
policemen, whose beats adjoined,
was spurred by the offer of a re-
ward of $1,000 by Governor Theo-
odre F. Green.
Both officers were shot by .38'
caliber pistol, apparently that
carried by Kelly. The pistol was
found near his side with two
chambers discharged. Murray's
pistol was in its holster. Police
were certain it was double murder.
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
NEGROES HOLD.
!. SPECIAL YULE
SERVICES

Several thousand colored church
communicates attended special
Christmas services at churches
throughout the city yesterday.
J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted
ruler Of the colored Elks Of the
World, was the guest speaker at
the Zion Baptist Church of Dean
wood. DR.. C. Sumner Wormley
was guest soloist, and Martin L.
jackson, newly elected exalted
ruler of Bruce Evans Lodge of
Elks, was master Of ceremonies.
The pastor, the Rev. H. B. Tay-
lor, of the Fifteenth Street Pres
byterian Church, spoke from the
subject, "Songs of the Birth 0f
the Prince of Peace" Special mu-
sic was furnished by the senior
choir.
DR.. ]. M. Ellison, Of Virginia
State College, was guest speaker
at the Zion Baptist Church, Third
and F Streets Southwest. The
choir gave a cantata, '"The Wise
Men," and holy communion was
served at night as an emblem of
the Lords Supper. Carols and
special Christmas music headed
the services at Lincoln Temple
Congregational Church. DR.. Kelley
Miller, of Howard University, ad-
dressed the Mems Brotherhood
Club.
DR.. Charles H. Wesley, head of
the history department at How
ard University, and presiding elder
of the Potomac district of the A.
M. e. Church, was the speaker at
Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. A
candle light procession was also
given. with Miss Eliza Coppage
reading "The Other Wise Man."
"While Shepherds Watched was
the title of a pageant given at
Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. The
pastor, the Rev. j. Ross Barnum,
preached from the subject, "The
Divine Human Christ"
God Is With Us" was the sub
ject of a sermon delivered by the
Rev. w. c. Darlington, of John
Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church.
"The Christmas Gift of the
Ages" was the theme Of the Rev.
E. Franklin Howartl's sermon at
Israel c. M. E. Church.
Special Christmas music and a
sermon, Christ and the Song of
the Angels" by the pastor, the
Rev. P. A. Scott, featured services
at Campbell A. M. e. Church of
Anacostia.
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
THUG S|NASHES
CAR WINDOW

Police are searching for the gun
man who broke a glass window in
william F.. Callahan's car early
today and demanded he "get the
hell out of here"
The assault, according to Mr..
Callahan, occurred in the 900
block of Twentieth st. N. w. He
was sitting in the automobile, he
said, when a young white man,
about 80, came up to the car,
broke the glass in a window, and
said:
you'd better get the hell out
of here"
Mr.. Callahan, who lives in the
500 block Peabody st. N. W., be-
gan to fight back and the man
ran. No motive for the attack
was learned. The man was armed,
Mr.. Callahan said.
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
BuNPup Wakes
Man As Chair
Catches Fire

"Skippy," a diminutive two
year-old bull pup, probaly will get
from his master today the biggest
beef bone of his canine career.
Not, however, until after John
Burnett, 40, of the 1000 block
Wisconsin Ave. N. w., has pain
full burns on his hands and face
taken care of.
Burnett fell asleep in a chair
in the apartment of DIR. John E.
Heggarty while smoking. he told
police. The next hem knew,
"Skippy" woke him by marking
and he found the chair in flames.
He suffered minor burns.
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
US. TOA|R- COOL
BUILDINGS

Things will be better for Federal
workers in Washington next sum-
mer.
An allotment of $1,000 900 has
been made by the Public Works
Administration for air condition
ing certain public buildings here.
AS yet the buildings have not been
designated, but some Government
employees will be fortunate.
Permanent buildings where heat
is most oppressive in hot weather
will be selected for the improve
ment,
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
10 NEE IN GS
SLATED HERE

More than ITO conventions are
scheduled to be held in Washing
ton, including 100 to meet here
during 1884, it has been an
nounced by Curtis Hodges, direc-
tor of the Greater National
Capital Committee of the Wash.
ington Board of Trade.
Four of the 1884 meetings alone
will bring more than $1,500,O00
into the city, Hodges estimates, on
the assumption that each of the
22,500 delegates will spend $65.
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
2 Alexandria Men
Held in 81 HOLduD

William johnson of the 200
block North West st. reported to
the Alexandria police that he was
held up by two colored men at
Columbus and Wilkes Streets and
robbed Of his overcoat, his watch
and ST..
Two suspects are being held at
the Alexandria station house in
connection with the robbery.
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
Alexandria Boy, IL
Injured in Collision

Marshall Mcdonald, IL, of Duke
Street, Alexandria, was severely
cut last night when cars driven
by Melvin Wheeler, colored, of
the 1900 block F. st. N. W., and
Miss Catharine Newton, Del Ray.
collided on the River Road at
Four Mile Run. He was passen-
ger in the Newton car.
Wheeler was arrested by Alex
andria police and is being held
under $1,000 bond on a charge of
driving while under the influence
Of liquor.
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
TWO SHOT IN QUARREL

An alteration with an unidenti-
fled man sent Robert Johnson,
Seat Pleasant, Md, and Willie
Wtaers, 100 block D st. N. w., to
Casualty Hospital with gunshot
wounds. The shootings occurred
at Benning, Md.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
We Must Build Up Our Navy
An Editorial

Instead of this method Fastening disarma-
ment and the substitution Of effective peace
machinery for war preparation, it actually has
encouraged Japan and others to take the
opposite course.
Very we'll Our method having failed, we
must, as realists, try the other method. The
other method is to meet them their own
self-imposed terms of preparedness. When
the world sees that the United States is rich
enough and strong enough to play the pre-
paredness game perhaps then the other
powers will be glad to bargain for disarma-
ment and real peace treaties.
That was the costly but effective, method
by which we achieved the Washington naval
treaty-the only effective arms limitation to
date
1t is important, however, that the American
government, in being forced into it's new naval
building program, make clear to our own
citizens and to the world that only our method
temporarily is changed; that our end remains
the same.
Our purpose is a warless world. For idealist
reasons, yes But also for practical reasons.
War does not pay All lose by war.
The practicability of peace has not been
disproved by the tragic drift toward force.
The great world powers merely have proved
their temporary inability or unwillingness to
cooperate for peace.
We dare believe that this epidemic of mill
tarism and supernationaliSm is temporary.
When Japan and the other world powers no
longer misunderstood our anti-war and dis
armament program as an evidence of weak
ness, the enduring American peace policy can
be advanced with more hope of success.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
THE VALUE OF FAIRGROUNDS

A BULLETIN from the National Recrea-
tional Association hammers anew on
point which requires especial emphasis in
time of depreSSion-that lack of public funds
must not be permitted to cut down the recre-
ational facilities available to children.
To begin, the bulletin points out that
children must, and will, play. Not only their
happiness but their health and character are
bound up in their play.
Under modern urban conditions, the public
has to make provisions for Fairgrounds If
it fails, children are cheated of their rightNll
heritage.
In addition, public expenditures on play
grounds are connected directly with expendi-
lures on jails, juvenile courts prisons and the
like If we skimp on our playground expendi-
lures now, we shall pay double. in less pleas
ant ways, little later on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
Thank You

BY Times Reader.
II AM afraid the working people
l. little realize how much they
are obligated to your paper.
read the editorials of the three
papers each day or at least 1 read
the headlines of the articles in
The Star and The News, but usu-
ally they are so uninteresting or
far-fetched that I get disguised
and quit.
The Times editorials always say
something. And it surely is a
brave bunch of employees that do
some of the things that you do.
It's almost like conceling your
salary.
The most supplemented can
see that you lose the big advertis-
ing on account of your hard
shooting. And we who appreciate
you have nothing to help with
except buying the paper, which we
realize is a very small item.
Do you know that firms in In
dianapolis are paying as little as
1912 cents an hour and working
eighty-four hours straight time
for $12?
The managers of this company
still buy new ve-cylinder ma
chimes, play golf half their work.
ing hours, drink high priced whis-
ky and eat at the Columbia Club.
We still need a Patrick Henry
along with this new deal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08

THE world for the moment has strapped
the anti-war treaties and blocked disarm-
ament. We are forced TO build up our navy
to quota strength. The decision has not been
made by us, but by the other powers.
The decision is not irrevocable. 1t can
be reversed by the other powers whenever
they willing to abide by the anti-war
treaties and to accept our repeated and stand
ing disarmament offers Meanwhile, we shall
arm.
Japan broke the anti-war treaties. The
other powers were unwilling to do anything
about it. In our attempts to uphold the
treaties, the United States was isolated. We
were the goat.
Japan now holds the conquered territory
Following the initial failure of the powers to
stand by the treaties, Japan was encouraged
to go farther. There she will remain. Nothing
short of war, if that. can displace her. And
the United States certainly has no intention
of going to war with Japan on this issue.
Whether we like it or not, that is the situa-
ton. Japan defied the treaties and got away
with it. Any other strong nation can do
likewise
Nevertheless, we were willing to go on with
disarmament plans Japan was not. The
European powers we're not. Together they
just have sunk the Geneva disarmament con-
ference and are increasing their navies That
is the net result of more than a decade of
American effort for disarmament.
Our method of achieving an end has failed.
1t was long and fair experiment. We did
more than talk and beg. We acted. We de-
liberately held our naval strength far below
treaty quota limits as an evidence of our good
faith. All to no avail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
REVIVE THE PROHIBITION PARTY

MRS. IDA B. WISE SMITH of Des
AVA Moines who succeeds Mrs Ella A.
Boole as president of the National Women's
Christian Temperance Union, says she will
be Carrie Nation type of leader if necessary
and that her political utilization is 1.-THE Pro-
hibition party. when there is one"
Well, there is one still, albeit of late
much attenuated, and has been right along
since the national prohibition convention at
Chicago in 1869, which resulted in the first
appearance of Prohibition party and plat
form in the 1872 presidential campaign
We hope repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment is going to mean reinstatement of the
Prohibition party as the natural and proper
refuge for all ardent prohibitioniSts who still
think this the paramount national issue
We hope the long and painful bedevilment
of the two major parties by the Anti-Saloon
League is definitely over.
Since 1920 the Prohibition party has hung
on chiefly by abusing Republican and Demo-
Gratis for qualification. corruption, and
maladmnistration" under the eighteenth
amendment and the volstead act
The Prohibition party platform of 1924.
1923. and 1882 secuted the possibility of any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08

mountains, their bases already were
crumbling. 1t is no wonder they
fell.
But man saves himself at the last
because he falls. And now Admin
istrator Hugh S. Johnson announces
that in the future when a corpora
ton makes profits these profits shall
not be put into the building of
larger plants for the making of even
more profits, but instead will be di-
rected into wages and dividends.
until wages and dividends are stable
and equitable again.
And here is an even more revo-
lutionary statement NO business
that depends for its existence on
paying less than living wages to its
workers has any right to continue
in this country"
Do you know who said that? The
President of the United States. To
me it has mighty, singing sound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
Lost IN the R0uqh

DUT it may not work out like
~ this at all. In the beginning
golf was no more than a means to
an end. I dedicated myself to it in
a sacridcial spirit. When a fellow
is all dressed up in three sweaters
and a rubber shirt, he needs some
where to go. mean somewhere in
the great outdoors.
And so I sunk the coffee cans
into the earth merely to lure my
self into greater reducing effort. I
realized that to be of any use as
a radical agitator I must provide
myself with look more lean and
hungry. 1 was growing a little
weary of the role of being a speak
easy pink
But I must not let this new in
terest in golf become a passion.
Heaven deliver me from the gospel
of sport for sports sakel I don't
want to swap the speakeasy for the
locker room.
And so have framed a little
prayer to be said by myself every
night at 9, just before going to bed.
1t runs: please don't let me be-
come too good at this game. and
lead me out of the temptation Of
trying to be Sarazen or Walter Ha-
gen."
Copyright. 1888. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
AN ELECTRIC YARDSTICK

IN May, 1882, the labor departments whole
i sale commodity price index, based on 1925
prices represented as 100, was 644 On the
same basis, electricity prices were fixed at
1861. Thus, general commodity prices de-
creased 1856 per cent while the power price
had increased 61 per cent.
In April of this year, the general wholesale
price index was 60.4, a decrease of per cent
compared with year ago; and the electricity
index had decreased 7.8 per cent to 983 But
the general index figure still was 1916 per cent
below the base year, while the wholesale cleo
tricity price index was merely 1T per cent
below 1926
These figures stress only one of the unique
price phases of this depression: How cleo
tricity rates have been maintained while all
other prices, to say nothing of all other buy
ing power, have dropped drastically
Through the years there has been no ma
tional yardstick against which electricity rates
could be measured accurately But one has
been provided in the New Deal This is the
Muscle Shoals-Cove Greek project, just get
ting under way
AT its own power plants, within short time,
the government, through the Tennessee VAL
ley Authority will manufacture power. and
over its own transmission lines it will make
this energy available to towns and cities with
in the 10000 square miles of the river basin.
In this we will have the power yardstick
needed so badly.
Chairman Arthur Morgan of the Tennes-
see Valley Authority recognizes the vital func-
ton of this boards operation, and he and his
associates are to be congratulated on their
announced intention of instituting from the
outset system Of cost accounting squarely
comparable with that used by the private
power companies.
The price of electricity should not be so
far out of line with the prices of other neces-
sites.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
Aunt CANDLES

BY NELL MACE WOLFGANG
My Aunt Mary's very pious,
Also very sedate-
She wouldn't gamble on anything:
Oh, no, nor speculate!
She says it's wrong to bet on things
When We don't know how twill
end
She wouldn't draw baking powder
Even to please a friendl
And she thinks it wrong at parties
To give away a prize
But she doesn't know what she's
missed,
Sometimes it's a surprise!
Lately I've been watching Aunty.
She does one thing I know
She sure CANDLES on cantaloupes
From early spring till snow
But she wouldn't call that CHANGING;
I know better than that
Sometimes they're good, sometimes
they're not
And that is gambling flatl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08

improvement $50 long as friends of prohibi-
tory law divide themselves among political
parties seeking the votes Of the law violators
and the nullidcationists" and stressed the
need of "a party thoroughly committed to
the maintenance and enforcement of prohibi-
ton law"
There was logic in this. There still is
place and function for a Prohibition party
in which die-hard prohibitionists can con-
centrate their efforts and work off steam.
The Anti-Saloon League and the w. c.
T. U. should go back to the Prohibition
party and leave Democrats and Republicans
free to rejoice over their deliverance Mrs.
Smith is entitled to her affiliation She should
regain and revive it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
Adding q Little Gristle

VET, since newspaper columnists,
Il even more than novelists
write out of themselves, it NAV be
that the point of view and the man
ner OF this strip will undergo
subtle change. The very KEYS NAV
respond to the def putting touch.
1 may from now on occasionally
sink an idea instead of merely curl
ing around the cup. Perhaps NV
somewhat obvious sentimentality
was less a matter of heart than Of
superfuous flesh. A fat man loves
everybody. He is afraid to deal with
the world on any other basis.
Bring Shaw up to Chesterton'x
glrth and he, too, might grow whin-
steal. 1 have always thought that
charm increased in direct ratio
with blood pressure.
If I can only lose another thirty
i've pounds, I'll have a civil word
Tor no man. mean metaphorically
to get myself nibIick and risk ex-
plosion shots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
Something for Memory

The three holes are named visit
fully after old cronieS of mine whom
I probably shall never see again.
The pitch across the Stag pile I've
named after Barney. Tony is a
sporty half mashie shot down to the
foot of the big tree, and you have to
cross two flower beds to get to Jack
and Charlie.
The record for nine holes chats
three times around the course) is
thirty, held by me. I also hold the
eighteen-hole record, the thirty six
hole record. the amateur and pro-
fessional titles. Mostly I play by
myself.
People who thought 1 was a bore
before I took up golf should hear
me now. l can talk for hours about
how got a one at Jack and Charlie
when there was money bet upon
the round and of the manner in
which I saved my championship
after being two down and two TO
go.
The match, which was played at
6 in the morning, is a whole chap
ter, and 1 can draw out endlessly
the episode in which Captain Flagg
saved me from going out of bounds
by allowing my overStrong approach
to hit him in the hind quarters and
bounce upon the green. He always
was the most intelligent of Aire-
dales.
But am interested in the larger
aspects of the situation. I am
wondering what happens to a slug
gard when he suddenly becomes
lean and hard and artfully co-ordi-
mated. That hasn't quite happened
yet. will still be stoutish for an
ether six months, and even after I
am down to bone and muscle the
myth of corpulence will linger on.
see Paul Whiteman has been
compelled to write a book to inform
people that he is no longer fat.
suppose shall have to advertise nv
new build in some way. But I
hardly can see it as a book-"From
Broun to Drawn" Maybe I'll lust
40 1t as couple of columns and
keep my secret to myself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
Phone-RIley 1851
SATURDAY. JULY 9. 1888.
LIFE IS SAFER
PAGE a
A STRAIGHTFORWARD NEWsPA

TN spite Of the fact that ITO persons gave
up their lives on Independence day, an
Americans chance of dying with his boots
off continues to grow, as the result of crusades
by safety workers
The National Safety council reports that
deaths from accidents in 1882 numbered only
$4,000 This sounds large, but in 1880 the
number was $4,000.
Last year motor accidents killed %, 500
persons, or more than homicides and suicides
combined. Next to streets and highways the
most perilous spot in America is the home.
Home accidents are increasing and last year
accounted for $4,000 lives
Occupational accidents, even in a depres-
sion year, killed $4,000 Public fatalities out
side of auto Deaths totaled 10000 Only
twenty -eight passengers were killed in rail-
road accidents, a remarkable record, COM
pared to railroading's early years. And out
of 365 deaths from flying, 1876 were those of
pleasure fliers.
The drop in motorists deaths since 1913
has been noteworthy particularly in recent
years In 1881 deaths from auto accidents
totaled 33675. Last years percentage of de-
crease was double the increase in motor
travel.
The occupational death rate also is de-
Ginning, having dropped from 10000 in 1929
to $4,000. Mining, numbering and construc-
ton are most hazardous. Industrial acct
dent frequency rates have declined 61.5 per
cent since 1926.
The safety movement just has completed
its twentieth year. In it's two decades the
American accident death rate has declined
from 885 per 100000 persons to 7O.5. Had
the 1918 death rate continued 175,000 persons
now living would have been killed.
Collective effort is saving lives. 1t also
can make those lives more livable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-08
A WOman's Viewpoint

TINE cult of the greedy capitalist
L was the lowest form of folly
as time has proved. And a social
conscience is the most important
asset for government.
Things are looking up today, not
only because it was time they
should look up, but because there Is
evidence that the powers are pre-
pairing to put into practice some
sound, unselfish theories Of eco
nonic planning.
I predict without hesitancy that
in another quarter century, we shall
regard as an enemy of his country
the man who can hold ir private
possession billions of the nations
wealth, and at the same time have
power TO close his factories at will
and put thousands Of meni out Of
work. - nsa.