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The Washington times., 1933-07-18
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40-HOUR WEEK

PITTSBURGH, July 18 GN.S).
Outright opposition to the ex-
pected request by President Roose-
velt that all employers institute
a 40-hour week and a $14 week.
ly minimum wage was expressed
by retail food store executives to-
day.
The maximum hour provision
was protested by the heads Of
three chain store branches on the
ground that it would require a
complete revamping of many
operations.
Kroger Grocery and Baking
Company officials here are lead
ing the move against adoption
of the 40-hour week. P. H. Butler
Stores and Mccain & Co. execu-
tives have joined the Kroger con-
Germ in forwarding protests to
Washington.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
CRIME WAR HITS
At POLITICAL
RACKETEER
Corrupt Leaders to Be Target
of Drive to End Crooked
ness, Says Cummings
BY International Newa serHica

BY international News Service
Corrupt politicians will be one
of the detectives of Attorney Cen
eral Cummings war against
racketeers.
Believing that contact made
with the unscrupulous criminal
element has contributed material
ly to the success of gangsters and
racketeers to avoid prosecution
and to escape penitentiary SEN
tence, Cummings has asked Jo-
Seph B. keenan,, special assistant
in charge of the crime drive, to
give especial attention to their
activities.
Financed by Bootleg
Cummings declared frankly that
racketeers. developed into an al
fluent group of criminals through
the vast fortunes gained from the
distribution of illicit liquor had
been placed in position to buy
more guns, provide bonds when
arrested, secure pardons when
convicted, and make contacts with
corrupt politicians.
One powerful weapon that the
Attorney General has so far held
back, but may use in the drive
to disclose what politicians. in
cluding high officials, have done
in behalf of gangsters and
racketeers would be the publica.
ton of the names of these indi-
viduals acting for the criminal
element.
When applications are made for
pardon and parole of those con-
victed of violations of the Federal
law, endorsers' names must ap-
pear. Also when letters urging
clemency are written these are
normally appended to the appli.
cation for consideration by the
parole board or pardon attorney.
Must Use Discretion
Cummings said. however, that
the issuance of these names,
especially of those who write to
or confer with the Attorney Gen.
eral in the effort to prevent
prosecutions or to bring about
clemency must be used advisedly,
If at all. He explained that in
many instances the applications
are made in good faith, without
full knowledge of the facts.
When the nature of the crime
and the charges against the per-
son sought are explained many
of the demands for clemency
are withdrawn, Cummings said.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
BRIEFS To BACK
BUS PLEAS

Peoples Counsel Richmond B.
Keech today began preparation
of a brief in support Of the petit
ton of two bus lines operating to
points in nearby Virginia seeking
to do intra-District business.
The Observation-Disclosures
ington Rapid Transit Company
and the Arlington and Fairfax
Motor Company ask the right to
take on "Short-haul" passengers at
points between their terminal at
Tenth and D Streets Northwest
and the Highway Bridge.
The move is being opposed by
local traction companies on the
ground that the bus companies,
charging a scent fare, would de-
tract from their business. Briefs
in support of the position of the
traction companies were filed yes
terday with the Public Utilities
Commission, following a hearing
several days ago on the petitions
of the bus lines.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
William A. Roberts will file a
memorandum with the commits
sion in few days on the matter.
The memorandum merely will
point out possible courses of &C
ton to be taken by the commits
sion, without recommendation as
to which course should be chosen.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
PERMIT NEEDED
To SEND GOLD

Instructions were given today
to postmasters throughout the
country to refuse to accept
articles of gold for dispatch to
foreign countries unless the
sender presents a license to ex-
port issued by the Secretary of
the Treasury.
The instructions were given by
w. w. Howes. Second Assistant
Postmaster General, in accord
ance with the embargo on the
expectation of gold proclaimed
by the President in an Executive
order in April.
Howes declared that persons de-
string to send articles of gold
through the board to foreign
countries, who do not have the
license necessary, may make ap-
plication for one through the
local postmasters.
These applications are to be
forwarded to the Second Assist
ant Postmaster General, who will
then transmit them to the Sec
retary of the Treasury for deci-
sion.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
POST I HOURS
UP On RECORD

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his plane was being refuelled. He
spoke briefly as he ate, praising
the receptions he was accorded
here and in Moscow by willing
and efficient airport officials and
mechanics.
Someone in Moscow had writ
ten on the tail of the Winnie Mae
the words:
Greetings from the workers
Of Moscow"
ROBOT PILOT REPAIRED
When this was called to Posts
attention, h said:
"Nice gang. They did a good
job in repairing my robot"
Post said his robot pilot worked
well along the route from Moscow.
Post has slept less than eight
hours and flown $500 miles since
his take-off from New York at
4:10 a. m, Saturday, Washington
time.
Khabarovsk is Posts last
planned stop on this continent.
From there he hopes to fly direct
to Fairbanks, Alaska.
Post was guided here by beacons
from Soviet radio stations along
the route. These signals, in
terpreted by his robot pilot, kept
him on a straight course all along
the way, except for those spots
where he had to leave the path
for slight meteorological disturb
ances or to avoid the brunt Of the
head-winds which slowed him up.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
VENDORS FIGHT
SUNDAY BAN

Test of the validity of a recent
order of the District Commission
ers forbidding ice cream cendors
to sell their wares from trucks on
Sunday will be decided in Police
Court.
Pending the filing of brief by
Martin O'Donoghue, cases against
more than half a dozen vendors
were postponed by Judge Ralph
Given today.
O'Donoghue, representing the
Good Humor Ice Cream Com
pany, said that the allegations
against the defendants would be
admitted, with the outcome of
each case depending upon the
court ruling on the validity of the
Commissioners order. All the
defendants are employed by the
company.
O'Donoghue contended that the
company is licensed to have it's
trucks deliver and. sell their ice
crea msix days week over speci-
fled routes, and that the Com
missions Sunday order is dis
crirninatOry."
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
Evangelist Plans
To Star in Own Film

PARIS, July 18 G.N.SD.-Mrs.
Aimee Semple Mcpherson Hut
ton, Los Angeles evangelist, who
yesterday was sued for divorce,
hopes to star in a film on her
return to the Pacific coast.
This was learned from friends
Of Mrs. Hutton today after she
had departed for the United
States aboard the liner City Of
Havre.
The evangelist is in need Of
funds, these friends said, and
has interested Los Angeles pro-
ducers in a scenario on which
she and her husband collabor-
ated. 1t deals with the career
of an evangelist and she expects
to play the leading role.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
Hutton Says He's Tired of
Being ''Pet Poodle"

were in Central America the
last time, we had a long talk and
I demanded she let me go to work,
and she agreed. 1t was all set, but
when we came back to the tenn
pile, she got sick almost right
away, and SO I gave up my own
plans and continued my work at
the temple.
So I just kept playing the pet
poodle.
1 am not only quitting because
of humiliation and trouble, but to
protect my own financial interest.
Here I might say that I don't
want any money from Aimee, nor
do I expect to get any.
I am about to embark upon a
vaudeville career in which my
weekly salary amounts to four
figures.
Incidentally, I am not being
billed as Aimee Semple McPher-
sons husband" I have no wish
to exploit her fame in my own
behalf. Nor am I out to sling
mud. I am simply seeking my own
future happiness, and in so doing
I wish Aimee-or Betty" as I
have always called her-God-
speed.
Married Angelus Temple
I wish her all success and hap
piness and I do not want ever
to wreck the faith Of the few
loyal and true followers she has
left at Angelus Temple. I have
no spirit Of revenge.
That's all, I guess, except one
thing
I thought I married Aimee
Semple Mcpherson. And that
was all right. But I found, in
stead, that I married Angelus
Temple, and that wasn't so good.
In a cablegram to Los Angeles
from the steamship Mrs. Hut.
ton expressed amazement that
Hutton had filed suit to divorce
her.
She radioed:
reports concerning divorce
are prepOsterOuS. My husband
and I love each other with
deepest devotion and UNDER
standing. God brought us to
gether. We expect to labor
side by side in Christian work
while we live.
"Mr. Hutton sent me abroad
for my health. By his request
1 hasten to return to his home.
His letters and cables brim
with love and confidence. My
husband knows how ill I have
been and if he is able to meet
me in Baltimore, then these
heartbreaking rumOrs will be
at an end.
MRS. DAVID HUTTON"
Hutton shrugged his shoulders
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
Howe!sNewHat
Giiues His Boss
4 OuckR.
BY International News Service

President Roosevelt's recent
cruise to his New Brunswick
summer home had perma-
nent effect upon summer at
tire Of his chief secretary, Louis
McHenry Howe.
Howe did not go with the
President but met him at New
Brunswick, and, noticing Mr..
Roosevelt wore white sailor
hat, Louie" tried one, too.
While almost everyone who
wears the white sea going hats
either turns the brim up or
down all the way round. Howe
made it a snap-brim affair,
with the front down and the
back up.
Since then, every time Howe
has been seen motoring or
week-ending on the water. his
rather odd looking white hat
has been etched upon his
head. It's effect is rather
startling and while Louie"
seems to peek out from under
the tiny brim in front, a rear
view presents him as a Navy
"gob."
"It's comfortable" he COM
ments when the President or
others jokingly call him "ad-
miral."
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
BOND|NGF|RMS
AGREE TOPAY

ANNAPOLIS. July 1s.-An
agreement has been reached with
10 of the IL surety companies
bonding Maryland deposits in the
Union Trust Company, Baltimore,
under the terms of which a cash
payment of $994,000 will be due
on the 100000 deposits as soon
as the institution begins to oper-
ate on it's reorganized basis.
The bonding company will
guarantee to the State another
$594,OO0 on the $2,OOOO0O for
period of five years. The State
also will hold claims of $412,000
against two surety companies in
the hands Of receivers.
Governor Ritchie revealed that
similar agreements have been
made concerning $574,873 of
State funds on deposit in the
Baltimore Trust Company.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
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a wonderful and dynamic woman.
She is probably the greatest
evangelist in the world. But she
is also a straw in the wind
sometimes-blown whichever way
the pressure is the greatest.
Hits Religion ExpIOiterS
I tried my best to help her as
I said. I tried to work always
for her best interest. But all I
got was diStrust from her asso-
ciates. They were suspicious and
jealous of everything I did.
There are some fine, true, God
fearing people in Angelus Tenn
pie, and there are others who
are working purely and simply
for their own interests-exploit-
ing the religion that built the
institution.
The whole world knows the
fact that Aimee has been de-
fendant in a dozen suits or more.
It seems as though someone is
always trying to take her for
money. Most of those suits have
been settled out of court in order
to avoid publicity.
That is another policy I
haven't agreed with. Aimee
wanted to settle my own suit
the one Miss st. Pierre brought
against me-but I wouldn't do
it. I don't think it is Christian
like to payoff.
Glad He Fought Case
OF course, this may not be the
case always, but in lot Of in
stances it is. And so I fought
my suit because I wasn't afraid.
And even though Miss st. Pierre
got a judgment, I am glad I
did fight. Incidentally, in re-
sponse to many questions, I have
announced I will settle that
judgment with her probably
sometime this week.
AS for my own career, it be-
came practically negligible with
my marriage with Aimee.
At the time, I was given over
100 voice lessons a week, con-
ducting voice clinic, and con-
Quoting additions for radio and
motion pictures. I was making
more money than was ever paid
as Angelus Temple business
manager. But all that went by
the board. I kept on singing,
it is true, but for nothing.
Later I was offered vaudeville
and screen contracts, making a
career such as now contemplate
possible. But was allowed to
accept them? I certainly was not.
It wasn't fitting" for a man
identified with evangelism to have
anything to do with a theater,
Angelus Temple officials told me.
Another thing, when Aimee and
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
To SPEED
PUBLIC WORK
PROJECTS
State administrators to Be
Named This Week; Jobs
Provided $4,000
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
Public works sufficient to pro-
vide one years work for $4,000
men directly and indirect en-
ployment to thousands of others
has been authorized by the
Federal Public Works Board.
The job-creation projects al
ready approved will be in full
swing within 80 days, officials
said, following announcement Of
the distribution of $64,425, 900
public works money for Federal
projects and additional highway
allotments.
Greater Speed Promised
The cabinet board still is far
from the goal Of providing work
for 100000 men directly and
indirectly by october /, but
greater speed in the allotment of
money was promised upon COM
pletion of State organizations.
At least 100000 men will be
given direct employment on high
ways, 10000 more in forest trails
and roads, 18,400 in naval con-
struction, and 21,500 on other
Federal projects. The peak Of
the jobs will find far more than
$4,000 at work, the total being
based upon an even spread OF
employment for year.
The Federal public works pro-
gram is expected to be definitely
settled within the next two
weeks.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
administrator of public works, eX-
poets to name regional admin
istrators and State advisory COM
mittees this week.
S1,5OO, 100000 Available
The board then will consider
disbursement of $500, ,000, 900 for
useful public works in all parts
of the country, including State,
county and municipal projects.
Additional highway allotments
for nine more States were an
nounced, bringing the total al
located to $166,532.363. The al
lotments follow. Idaho, $4,486,-
249; North Dakota, $5,084, ,448;
Maine, $3,369,917; West Virginia,
$4,474,324; Delaware, $1,8l9,088
Louisiana, $5,S2G, ,591; Florida,
$5,231,8 1884; New Hampshire, ST.
9O9, ,839; Montana, $7,439,748.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
MATE MAY LET
AIMEE GET
DIVORCE
Hutton'S Attorney Authority
for Report; Word Awaited
From Evangelist

LOS ANGELES, July 18 (I.NSO.
Dave may let Aimee get the
divorce, very quietly, so the dove
Of peace again can call Angelus
Temple home. This is the latest
development in the flaming
divorce row between David Hut
ton, jr., and Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson-Hutton, his evangelist
wife.
Jerome Mayo, "Iron Man"
Dawes attorney, was authority
for the report, declaring it was
quite possible such action might
occur if Mrs. Hutton desired to
obtain the divorce quietly, and
there were no complications.
Await instructions
That the blonde evangelist is
eager to be the one to obtain the
divorce appeared to be substan-
tiated somewhat by a report at
the temple that Mrs. Hutton is
prepared to fight Hutton's suit
with counter suit in which she
will ask for the decree.
Her attorney were awaiting
instructions from Mrs. Hutton
who is on a steamship enroute to
America from Paris.
Hutton has threatened to file
suit against certain leading
Angelus Temple officials for alien
alton of affections.
He revealed that Mrs. Hutton
had threatened to commit
suicide if ever he divorced her.
Charges Cruelty
Hutton charged his wife with
mental cruelty, declaring her
"baby hoax cablegram from
Paris had made him ridiculous"
Hutton Smilingly displayed
cablegrams showing that a
battle of wits and a transatlantic
game of hide-and-seek were be-
hind the scenes, and that he
and Mrs. Hutton were trying to
get each other into their reSpec-
tive Jurisdictions.
The exchanged cablegrams
were filled with endearments
and requests that each imme-
diately go to the other.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
WAGE CODES UP
At PARLEY
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VIZ -
opinion will be thrown behind
the effort to bring about volun-
tary action by industry.
That the general code will
limit the work week to IS hours
is regarded as foregone. Tenta-
tive studies have convinced John
sons assistants in the matter that
any longer schedule will seriously
curtail the number of jobs avail
able.
4O-HOur Week for Steel
Many of the major codes now
pending, notably that of the iron
and steel industry, provide a 40
hour week, but specify this must
be the average over a six months
period, so there is leeway for con
siderable variation in employ
ment. That these longer-hour
codes will be attacked by labor
and from other angles as well, is
regarded as certain.
Steel, lumber, and other codes
pending which adopted the textile
codes 4O-hour work week are
slated for attack therefore as
soon as their hearings start.
Tomorrow hearings will begin
on codes of the electrical manu-
featuring industry and on the
regulations for the shipbuilders.
Thursday hearings will be started
on codes for the women's cloak
and suit trade and the lumber
industry.
During the rest of the week
JohnSon's staff. augmented for
the occasion, will hear experts on
conditions in the mems clothing
industry, and early next week for
the petroleum industry.
johnson announced his or
ganization has added a total OF
174 people since it started, averag-
ing $4,000 per year. He limited
his own salary to $4,000, and an.
nounced that the top, which will
be paid only to one man, Donald
Richberg, counsel, will be $4,000.
The maximum for others will be
$4,000.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
DUTY FIRST

BRISTOL, Conn. G.N.SO AS
William S. Gilbert wrote in "The
Pirates of Penzance," a police
mans lot is not a happy one.
Sergt. Henry Jeglinski subscribed
to that thought when he had to
arrest Clement La Combe, his
lifelong friend, and former fellow
workman, with whom he fought
side-by-side for months in France
during the World War. The
charge was non-Support.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
POLICE PROBING
! STRANGE CALL
ON PHONE
Inn Proprietor Reports Voice
Like Bankers Asked for
Dinner Reservation

NEW YORK, July 18 Q.N.S0.
Search for Joseph w. Hartman,
indicted banker, who disappeared
for the second time from a
Sanitarium, today turned to
Long Island, where he attempted
suicide the first time he escaped.
Harry Bigg, owner Of the
Stage Coach Inn, at Locust Val
ley, Long Island, said a man
with a voice like Harriman's
telephoned him. The voice said:
"Are there a lot Of news
paper reporters there expecting
anybody? I'd like to come
out to dinner"
It was at this inn that Har-
riman stopped the first time he
fled. Later he stabbed himself.
Seen at Lunch Wagon
The missing banker was also
reported to have fingered around
lunch wagon on the New York
river front all last night.
Thomas Walsh, proprietor of
The lunch wagon, said he was al
most positive the man was Har-
rinan. He said:
"He was wearing glasses, but
otherwise perfectly fitted the
description of Hartman. I didn't
think anything Of it at the
time. The man asked me for
a glass of water. He came
back an hour later for another
drink. He kept saying he Was
horribly dry"
Later, according to Walsh, the
man returned again and bought
a bottle of sarsaparilla. Toward
dawn he reappeared and bought
another bottle.
Traced to FerrybOat
Detectives yesterday traced Har'
riman via a taxi ride to a
North River ferry slip. From
there they learned he made two
trips to the Jersey side and re-
turned, and both times attempted
to leap from the boat. Restrained
by deck hands, Hartman left the
ferry as it reached the Manhat-
tan side, boarded a taxi, and
there his trail ended.
But member of the bankers
family, gathered at the nursing
home, were sanguine.
DR.. Smith E. Jelliffe, noted
psychiatrist who appeared be-
fore Federal Judge Francis CAT
fey as an expert witness in the
sanity hearing ordered for Har-
riman prior to his trial on
charge of inspiring false entries
in the bank books, declared the
banker has no continuity OF
thought.
Hartman, DR.. Jelliffe said,
may have fled the nursing home
with the idea Of ending his life.
But the psychiatrist expressed
belief his inability to maintain
continuous thought would defeat
his purpose.
Judge Caffey today forfeited
the $4,000 bail of Hartman
when he failed to appear for
continuance of his case.
The judge ordered a bench
warrant issued for Hartman.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
Campaigns
To Reduce Noise

ROME G.N.SD.-Rome is now
said to be one of the noisiest
cities in the world and prominent
citizens are getting up a deputa-
tion to see Prince Boncompagni,
the governor, to ask what meas
ures he will take to enforce laws
against needless noise.
Even the rule that loud hooting
is taboo between one and six in
the morning has become a dead
letter.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
LONG ISLAND EAlNTS SEARCHED FOR MISSING HARRkAAl
Cold Confines
Roosevelt
Second Day
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
President Roosevelt today was
confined to his room with a
slight cold for the second sue
cessive day, but had improved
slightly.
DR.. Ross Mcintyre, a naval
physician and friend of the
President, visited him this
morning.
He said the Presidents cold
was better but that he would
not advise the Executive to go
to his office.
Mr.. Roosevelt has no fever.
He attended a sizeable batch of
urgent work in his room.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18

The phantom Sir Francis
Drake "estate" swindle cropped
up again today as Karl A. Crow.
ley, solicitor of the Postoffice
Department, and @. B. William
son, an inspector, set sail for
London to track down British
evidence in the famous case.
The solicitor and inspector
will confer with British officials
on the angles there of the gi-
gantic fraud which has been
used to exploit gullible Americ-
ans.
Oscar M. Hartzell, who is alleged
to have perpetrated the fraud,
comes up for trial in Iowa soon
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
T. RS Veteran Guide
Meets First LndY

ISLAND FALLS, Me-, July 18
G.N.SO Bill Sewell, guide to
the late President Theodore
Roosevelt on the latter's trips to
the Great North Woods of Maine,
today greeted Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt. The wife of the Pres
ident and a woman companion
made a short stop at the Sewell
residence while returning from
motor trip through Quebec
and New Brunswick.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
Regret About BGlbO
Restores Newspaper

BERLIN, July 18 Q.N.SO-The
German government today lifted
the ban against the newspaper
Deutsche Zeitung after the pub
Usher expressed regrets for an
article which declared Gen. Italo
Balbo, leader of the Italian air
armada, was of Jewish descent.
The Washington times., 1933-07-18

rOplng calves. Bill is DONG
fine on the calves. We had a
hard day.
Jack Dempsey may get mar
ried in Nevada today. There
is an idea for Nevada. If it
could build up its marriage in
dustry like it's divorce business,
what would be the matter with
guaranteeing everybody a wife
or husband after six weeks
residence?
Much = interested in Wiley
POSTS trip from Berlin to Mos
COW. Eight years ago I made
it with a Russian pilot. He
The Washington times., 1933-07-18
Postal Officials On T rail
Of Famous Swindle

and the Postoffice Department
men are on the trail of evidence.
The alleged swindle revolves
about a phantom estate said to
be valued at more than $5,000,-
100000 and purporing to repre-
sent the spoils accumulated by
Sir Francis Drake during his
privateering expeditions more
than 300 years ago.