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The Washington times., 1933-08-23
12-Year-OId Sn1arties

The movie-masters, who invented for themselves the
excuse that their audiences "have the mentality of
12-year-old," again making one of their famous
mistakes. This time they assuming that 12year
old actually likes the smart-crackng wit of Broadway
productions (Which is true to certain point) and
allowing their writers to spoil every dramatic
in order to throw in few squbs of elaborate wit.
If you go back about 10 years you will discover in
the plays of Philip Barry trick of dialogue which
has reached the movies. 1T is unimportant
part of the equipment of Mr. Barry and his plays
best when he does not it, The trick is that two
characters suddenly pretend that they something
else if they drawing room they talk as if they
raft at sea; if they raft at sea- they
talk if they making fudge at girls school,
Briefly and smarty done, it has its points.
Synthetic Brightness
But is fireworks and fireworks should be reserved
for special occasions In Another Language" these
little displays of personal w.t. not very bright break
into the real emotion of the play-the love between
husband and wife-and break into the dramatic action
of the play In the past three months have Observed
the thing in half dozen movies. The bright
does not from the characters it tells moth
ing about them it is all applied from the outside and
it is always the
The movies have been and should remain simple
things Sophistication is unnatural and dangerous
line for them to take although the danger will not be
apparent until is too late If they want to deal with
smart, hard women, that is good enough but they
ought not to make every important character smart
and hard, with the same enamel from the pot
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
2 FACE TRIALS
IN. HUGE RUM
CONSPIRACY
With Repeal Near, Observers
Doubt Charges Will
Ever Get Hearing

With the death knell of pro
hibition enforcement tolling, dry
agents sang what may be their
swan song" today in District
Supreme Court when a special
indictment accusing % men of
conspiracy to violate the national
prohibition act was reported by
the District Grand Jury.
Although Assistant U. S. .Attor'
ney Harold w. Orcutt, who pre-
sented the case to the jury, ex
pressed the hope Of obtaining a
speedy trial of the charges, court
observers expressed the opinion
that the men will never face
trial.
Delays to Hit Trial
This opinion was based on the
fact that repeal of the dry law
appears inevitable by the first OF
the year, while attacks and other
pleas against the indictment will
forestall a trial until prohibition
is a thing of the past.
The defendants are accused OF
10 overt acts in the indictments
involving approximately 1900 VIC
lations of the law, which include
illegal possession, transportation
sale and soliciting orders fol
liquor. -,
Two headquarters in this city
and several places for unloading
and storing liquor were estao
lished by the band, the indict-
ment charges. The accusations
aver the liquor was brought into
the city from New Jersey, Baltl-
more and Southern Maryland
for retail distribution, that more
than so automobiles were EN-
ployed by the defendants ano
seized by police and that seized
shipments of liquor ranging from
so to 300 gallons were confiS
Gated over a period of seVera
months.
Seven Under Arrest
Seven Of the men were ar
rested two weeks ago. They
include Aaron Tractenberg, al
legged brains" of the band;
Charles Jones, Joseph Munitz
Meyer Belasco, Romulo Cent?
lucci, George Jones and William
j. Quirk. Two others are now
serving sentences at Lorton Re
formatory, Morris S. Beaner anc
Harry Murray.
The others, still at large, are;
Edward l.. Martin, Jay Riegel
Max Urtesky, John Scopelliti
John T. Coles, Raymond F. Hart
Murel r. Juhl, Joseph w. King
Willim Branch, Thure Wilson
Clayton Abernethy, William Stone
and Donald C. Parker.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
BANK RECEIVER
OPPOSED

Dismissal of the motion by the
depositors' committee of the Park
Savings Bank for the appoint
ment of a court receiver of the
institution was urged in District
Supreme Court today by the R..
F. C.
The r. F.. C. contends the
plaintiffs as depositors and share
holders of the bank continued to
do business with the institution
after the expiration of it's charter
in 1929, and now are powerless
to challenge the corporate exist
ence of the bank.
Regarding the securities pledged
by the bank with the R. F.. C.
for loans, it is contended that
the R. F. C. took the securities as
bona fide purchasers for value
from the bank, which had posses
sion of the securities.
The deposiCors' committee
asked the appointment of a re-
ceiver, discovery and accounting,
and challenged the corporate eX-
istence of the bank.
The R. F. C. was one Of 81 de-
PENDANTS named in the suit,
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
4 RELIEF PLANS
CARRIED OUT

The District Unemployment Re
lief Commission has carried out
four major recommendations Of
the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration, Leroy A. Halbert,
local relief director, reported to
the Federal organization today.
Halbert said since the District
Relief Office was examined by
Alan Johnston, it has taken steps
to establish five district offices.
It has prepared to take over on
September / the function of the
District Committee on Employ
ment, and it has limited manual
laborers to IS hours work a week.
The District Relief Association
has also assured itself that all
stores accepting food and cloth
ing vouchers have signed their
NRA code.
In his report, Halbert said
1874 families are either already
receiving relief or being 1nvestl-
gated.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
Hitler Assists
Cupid, Taxes
Bachelors

Herr Hitler, inspired perhaps
by his prototype, Benito Mus
solini, is promoting marriage in
Germany by government loans,
the Commerce Department
learned today.
The government will lend
money to couples about to wed,
in amounts ranging up to 1000
marks, and payable without in
terest at one per cent month.
The selfish interest of the gov
ernment is a higher birth rate;
the German birth rate is now
on the decline.
It is also pointed out that
marriage brings a demand for
furniture and other house fur
nishings, but department stores,
cooperative stores and non-Nazi
establishments are not per-
mitted to benefit from the
scheme. The money will be
raised by taxing unmarried per-
sons from 2 to 5 per cent.
About 10000 persons an
nually are expected to take ad-
vantage of the scheme.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
Insignia Lack Delays Eagle
Drive, 1O,OOOGet Stickers

The driving rain and the lack
Of Blue Eagle insignia combined
today to slow up the drive to line
up consumers under the NRA
banner.
With the 10000 consumer stick
ers already distributed to women
who have pledged their support,
the 1000 women canvassing
Washington were left today with
only a few of the Blue Eagles for
distribution.
Ready on Monday
Thomas Littlepage, general Of
the Washington NRA army, said
the stickers will probably be ready
Monday. In the meantime, the
army of women is marking time.
Although few women were
undaunted by the terrific storm,
some of the women did their can
vassing in apartment houses and
hotels.
Miss Eta Taggart, lieutenant
general in charge of the women,
said today that she lis very much
impressed" by the response Of
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
CITY To BENEFIT
BYFREEPARK

Needy families in the District
will receive soon thousands of
pounds of pork and ham from
the Federal Emergency Relief
administration under plans re-
vealed today by C. M. Bookman,
Deputy Federal Administrator.
The meat distributed will be
the Districts proportionate share
of approximately 300,000,000
pounds processed meat to come
from hogs to be massacred by the
Department of Agriculture.
The meat will be distributed
with no cost to the local Emer-
gency Relief Commission, the Fed
eral relief body assuming all re-
sponsibility for preparing, trans
porting and delivering it.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
|CKES REF|LLS
POST Of AIDE
HE DENOTED
Madigan Down, SheIse Up;
Burrows Custer Stirs
Geological Survey

Shaken by the blast Of admin
istrative wrath which yesterday
ousted one Geological Survey chief
and reduced another in grade,
Survey personnel o d a y awaited
further changes.
Today's developments include
the promotion of Rome C. Shelse,
chief of the division of distribu-
ton, to the chief clerks desk. He
replaces John ]. Madigan, who
was ordered reduced in grade yes
terday by Secretary of Interior
IckeS.
Ratings Held Changed
The upheaval followed discovery
by Louis r. CLAWS, investigator
for the Department, that service
records had been altered to show
many of the IS persons recently
discharged, and later reappointed,
to be inefficient.
The discovery led to the dis
charge of F.. j. Burrows, assistant
chief of the engraving division
and the transfer of Chief CLERK
Madigan. He will be given tne
post vacated by Shelse.
Emulates Rogers
In official circles it was ru
mored Madigan and Burrows were
taking the rap" for higher-ups
who wished the discharge of Ger
tain persons in the department.
but Burrows could not be reached
at his home early today and Mad1
gan refused to discuss his demo
ton, resorting to the excuse made
famous by Will Rogers:
Cali know is what 1 read
in the papers,"
The upheaval in the Geological
Survey office is believed to be the
forerunner of wide-sweeping in
vestigations in other departments
into methods by which employees
were chosen for retirements, fur
loughs and discharges.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
! Washington women in the drive.

Washington women in the drive.
Business Agreement
The Georgetown business men
today we're signing an agreement
providing for the limitation Of
business hours in their commu-
nifty.
The agreement provides that
the business men, operating cloth
ing stores, shall close on weekdays
by 6 p. M, on Saturdays at II
p. m, and on Sundays at p. m.
Stores in that part of the city
have remained open much later.
The agreement goes into effect
September l.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
WNAL CLOSING
ASKED IN SUIT

Seeking to compel the Federal
Radio Commission to cancel the
permit granted the National
Broadcasting Company for opera
ton of Station WMAL, Gerald V.
Moore, a former employe of the
station, 1900 block I st. N. w.,
petitioned a writ of mandamus to-
day in District Supreme Court.
The petition alleges that the
National Broadcasting Company,
which took over operation of the
local station last February, has
been found guilty of obtaining a
monopoly for sale of radio appar.
atus by a Federal court in Della
ware. Through Attorney M. E.
Stamen. the petitioner declares
this action should void the permit.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
u. S. Bridge Contract
GiDen VirainiG Firm

Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, Chief
of Army Engineers, has approved
contract involving $97,774 to
the D. F. Tyler Corporation, Nor
folk, Va.
The contract calls for the re-
moval of existing highway bridges
and construction of two new
steel bridges across the Dismal
Swamp at Deep Greek, Va, and
South Mills, N. c., in the Norfolk
District, Va.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
FORCED To JOIN
CO-OP,FARNER
CHARGES
D. C. Inspector Kept His
Product Off Market Until
He Signed, He Alleges

Evidence designed to show that
the District Health Department
inspectors collaborated with heads
of the Maryland and Virginia
Milk Produces Association to
force farmers to join the associ-
alton was given today before the
Senate subcommittee investigating
kmilprices in Washington.
Joseph Fleischmann, owner Of
the Providence Hospital Farm, Of
Silver Spring, Md, testified that
when he first went into business
the Health Department said he
would have to meet certain re-
quirements before he could hip
milk into Washington. He esti.
mated that, to meet the require
ments, he would have to spend
$1,500.
Cost Cut to S1OO
Later, he said, he desired to
join the Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association and
they made certain suggestions as
to how he could fix his farm up
at cost of about $100, in order
to get the Health Departments
approval. This he said he did,
and he was allowed to bring his
milk into Washington.
Fleischmann also told the COM
mittee that later he started in
business for himself independent
of the association and was SELL
ing milk for 8 cents a quart.
He added:
"TwO men followed my driver
for a week and also called on
me urging me to join the
association"
Fleischmann pointed out two
field men for the association
who were at the hearing and
said they were the ones who
followed him.
He Joined, Withdrew
He joined the association, he
said. but later withdrew.
He said he went in business
for himself after meeting require
ments the Health Department
had suggested, but on the first
morning he started to make de-
liveries, a Health Department
agent stopped him, saying his
milk did not meet the proper
requirements. Later, Fleischmann
told the committee, he went to
the association officials and told
them he would join their or
ganization.
A few hours after joining the
association, he said, he went
home and found Health Depart
ment agent had given his milk
a 100 per cent rating, despite
the fact that he hadn't touched
a broom" since the other agent
stopped him from bringing milk
into the District.
His Bottles Stolen
Fleischmann also testified that
he now is in business for himself
and that he used to lose about
$50 of every 500 bottles in which
his milk was served. He said:
"Since this investigation was
started, have been getting all
the bottles back"
j. J. Ramey, producer Of
Vienna, Va, also told the commit
tee that an association official at
one time threatened to force me"
to join the association.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
Recital Postponed
At SULTAN TheGteT

A dance recital, scheduled TO-
night at the Sylvan Theater in
the Monument grounds under
the auspices of the Community
Center, has been indefinitely
postponed.
The recital, it had been an
nounced, was to have introduced
the MIRA dance. Miss Ronnie
Cunningham, local dancer, was
to have danced the feature role.
The recital will be given when
the Monument grounds are again
in condition, after the weeks
hard rains.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
Car Company Sued
Bu MarU L. Harris

Damages of $4,000 were asked
by Mary L. Harris. 800 block
Ninth st. N. w., against the Capt.
tai Traction Company in a suit
filed today at District Supreme
Court as the result of traffic
mishap last June 16.
The plaintiff declared she was
riding in an automobile at New
Jersey and Massachusetts, ave-
nues northwest, when the vehicle
was struck by a street car and
she was severely injured.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23

few of notable skill and integrity, will survive.
Then husbands who have married by mistake will
hear less about the voice" (for some singers
speak of the voice. instead of my voice considering,
perhaps that their vocal sounds the better part of
all the voice in the world gift to humanity,
speaks of the church and the Administration. And
girls who have studied under Signor Pantaletti will
bring back photostac copies of his diploma instead of
clippings proving that they sang Cat what priceD at
the Opera Comique and praised by the French
musical critics (also at what priceD.
Clever MussoIini
With every month of Hitler, Mussolini endears him
self more and more to humanity at large but seldom
has he done shrewder stroke of business than this
one. There sections of every large city through
which the passerby proceeds at his own risk
not from soft shoulders but from 'the voice" ardu
ously and persisteny running up and down the scales
There concert halls into which you enter, leaving
all hope behind And all of this misery rises from the
fact that Italians have had, for century, reputation
for singing 1t is we'll deserved. But it is, like many
good things, not transferable.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
Worker Loses Leg,
Falls Into Big Fan

Charles H. Beach, 80, of the
100 block Wolfe St., Alexandria,
a sheetmetal worker, lost his
right leg today when he slipped
while working in a book stack at
the Library of Congress and fell
into a ventilator fan. His leg
was cut off below the knee. He
was taken to Casualty Hospital
in serious condition.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23

AREN'T but because they are bad
teachers. That is what, in effect,
Mussolini has accomplished, al
though his orders do not say 80
per cent. So far, it will be enough
that Italian maestros without
diplomas from recognized acade-
mics will stop encouraging young
American girls to believe that they
can take the place of Mary Gar
den, Lily Pons, or Kate Smith. But
this is only the thin side of the
wedge, for one thing leads to an
other and presently Mussolini will
look into the academies which turn
out bad teachers, and invite them
to shut up shop; and finally the
teachers who have survived will,
am sure, be examined, and only
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
D. c. MAY LOSE.
SEWERFUND

Possibility that the $1,759,500
allotted to the District for sewer
extensions yesterday by Public
Works Administrator Ickes might
prove to be Of no use at all was
foreseen at the District Building
today.
The money would provide work
for approximately 1000 men for
a year, but officials see "string"
to the grant in the order, which
reads:
Congress will determine the
division of this fund as to the
revenues of the District and the
Federal Government"
The District Commissioners re-
fused to comment on the pro-
vision before they receive an
official communication from the
Public Works Administration, but
it was pointed out that Congress
does not convene until January.
In the meantime the District has
no appropriation for the sewer
work, and the law forbids enter
ing into obligations which may
create deficiencies.
If the money should be spent,
it was pointed out, and Congress
later should decide that the
District was not to use the fund
as it had, the law would have
been violated and the District
would lack the necessary funds
to return the money to the
Treasury without robbing other
appropriations for the next year.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
Blue Eagle VetOes
Denied Local Units
BY International News service

By International News Service
Local recovery boards have no
authority to take the Blue Eagle
emblem from anyone, T. S. Ham
mond, executive director of the
Blue Eagle division of the NRA,
said today. The statement was
prompted by reports that local
boards in some sections had set
themselves up as courts to en-
force the recovery act.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23

"Help" "HeIp" "HeIp" How
often have you heard those cries when
you couldn't render the services neces-
sary to relieve the situation? Keep in
formed as to dependable services avail
able at a moments notice read
the Business Service Directory of the
WANT AID SECTION of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-08-23
True to Type
II Duce Cuts Down on Vocal Output;
Too Smart Movies
BY GILBERT SELDES-

It must be pleasant to be dictator and to put about
80 per cent of the vocal teachers of your country out
Of business, not because they Jews (Which they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-03
STATE set FOR
REPEAL FARLEY
Senate Passes Measure to
Provide for Convention;
Goes to MCNutt.

Completing the trio of measures
dealing with alcoholic beverages, the
bill providing for a state convention
to vote on repeal of the eighteenth
amendment today is on its way to
Governor Paul V. McNutt for APP
prevail.
BY a vote of 35 to 7, the state SEN
ate, acting under suspension of rules
late Thursday, adopted the house
measure setting up machinery for
the constitutional convention.
Conference committees today are
ironing out discrepancies in Ian
guage, preparatory to formal enroll
ment.
Delegates to the convention, to
be called by the Governor this
spring, must declare in advance
whether they are for or against
repeal and file formal declarations
with the county clerk.
One delegate will be elected from
each of the ninety-two counties,
with another delegate representing
each 10000 of population. Total
number is Ala.
Wet leaders wanted fewer dele
gates and the drys wanted more.
The plan, as set forth in the new
law, is a compromise.
Passage of the bill in the senate
was uneventful, the few dry sena-
tors apparently believing that
further opposition was useless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-03
GARNER WILL
KNOCK ON WOOD
TO KEEP ORDER
Promises Democrat Sena-
tors GaVeI No Longer
viii Pound Rock.

81 Scripps-Horqrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, March 3.-speak-
or John N. Garner already has
agreed to a f|ar-reaching reform in
his conduct of the senate as Vice
President.
He has promised Democratic SEN
ators to use a wooden instead of a
stone base on which to hammer his
gavel in pounding for order.
The confusion worse confounded
by Vice-President Charles Curtis
use Of stone has, the senatorial
committee told Jack" almost
ruined their health and frayed their
nervous system.
The stone sounding board was a
gift to Curtis when he assumed Of
flee four years ago, and he immedi-
ately put it in its present place.
His predecessors always were con-
tent with hammering on wood, but
the man from Kansas wanted to be
different, and do things in a big
way.
He meant to have order even if
he had to resort to a rock pile to
get it. And he did-that is, resort
to the rock pile, not get order.
Curtis Pounds on Rock
Members of the senate often have
commented sharply on the Kan
sans popularity in this respect.
Time and again, in the midst of a
noisy debate or set-to, the hammer
ings and ponding of the Vice-Presi-
dent have upset senate proceedings
more than supplementary proceed
IRE and language on the floor.
Even after some SemblanCe of
peace had been precipitated by his
stony Intervention, Curtis did not
quit his belaboring Of the boulder.
Uncle George Norris showed his
dislike for the ice-presidential dis
order in a debate with Senator Otis
Glenn Q~llinois).
While they argued the merits of
the Barry case so vehemently that
it became almost a curbstone quarrel
between the two men in the rear
Of the chamber, the gavel began to
ring out its anvil chorus. In a
temporary lull several senators
sought to PROFOUND questions to
Norris.
Held Peril to Health"
will the gentleman yield?" asked
the presiding officer as he gave a
last hammer.
The Nebraskan whirled and re-
piled: mo, not even to the chair"
5 So a solemn group of Democratic
senators waited upon Jack"
They explained that in these crit
ical times nothing was more essen
tial than health. They estimated
that the rock pile must have robbed
them of several years of life.
And Jack with a twinkle in his
baby-biue eyes, promised to go easy
on them when he mounts the ros-
trum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-03
In the Air

Weather conditions at 9 a. m:
North northwest wind, 10 miles
an hour; temperature, 80; baromet-
ric pressure, 1890 at sea level; gen.
eral condition, overcast. hazy; CELL
ing, 800 feet; visibility, 6 miles; field
good. $50 "a as9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-03
COMEDY RELIEVES DR.
LEGISLATIVE ROUTINE
House Wits SOlemnly Delay Action
on Bill for Two Years.

The house Of representatives set
a new high for Glowing Thursday
when it made a bill a special Or
der Of business two years from now
at 10 a. m"
The motion came as the house
considered a bill providing for cleo
ton of a nonpartisan county educa-
tional board of five members to adj
minister and supervise education,
including the appointment of coun-
ty superintendent. The bill, also
abolished township advisory boards
and gave the education board the
right to employ Or discharge teach
ers and set salaries.
Representative j.. Clayton Hughes
(Dem., Elkhart) moved for inded-
mite postponement and Representa-
tive j. CHM Ellyson Dem, Ham,
mond) made the two-year motion.
Since a motion of that kind takes
precedence over poStponement, the
house solemnly adopted it.
The veteran Representative Mar
tin T. Kruger Dem, Michigan
City, dryly suggested that "the
Governor suspend the next legisla-
tive election for two years" to the
accompaniment of applause.