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The Washington times., 1933-05-19

BROKER CALLED
. BRUTE; WIFE
To TESTIFY
Southern Beauty to Tell Her
Version of Hectic Mar
II ried Life

NEWPORT, R. l., May Is
u.N.S0 -Four months after hel
marriage to F. Frazier Jelke, So
year-old Wall Street broker, Mrs
Eugenia Mini" Jelke looked like
q whipped dog, with no red blooc
in her." her aunt, Mrs. Emerson
Morris, Richmond, Va, society
leader, testified today at the open
ing of Mrs. Jelke's counter suit
for divorce.
Unperturbed by accusations oi
her wealthy husband and hi;
witnesses that she hurled ephi
thets at him and indulged in a
romance with an unnamed
southern major" Mrs. Jelke was
In court today ready to take the
witness stand and herself bare
the secrets of her married life.
Jelke's Case Completed
Testimony in Jelke's suit had
been completed.
Mrs. Morris testified:
! mo angel in heaven could
come down and get along with
F. Frazier Jelke.
He was cruel. He was
brute. He might kill her."
She related his alleged actions
while they were at Berne,
Switzerland, in April, 1882,
where Mrs. Jelke was UNDERGOING
treatment for her health. That
was four months after they were
married. Mrs. Jelke looked SIS
instead of 27, said the witness.
In Paris. the next month, Mrs.
Morris said, while Mrs. Jelke
was confined to her bed for sew
eral weeks, Jelke was like "a lion
In a cage"
Q-WaS Jelke in an adjoin-
Ing room on one occasion?
Al understand he was
eavesdrOpping in the living
room. His one idea was to get
rid of her. He was irritable
and bored to death with her.
1 was frozen out completely.
Charges to Be Refuted
In his opening arguments,
George Paul Salde, attorney for
Mrs. Jelke, said he would intro
duce evidence refuting charges
made in Jelke's suit that Mrs.
Jelke was in company with the
mysterious major" in an apart
ment at Birmingham, Ala, and
also with a tall man with a
mustache," in New York.
Slade said he would show that
during their honeymoon, in an
apartment in Chicago, Jelke
"kicked his wife out" without any
money and told her to go to
Reno and get divorce.
The Washington times., 1933-05-19
Happy Days" to Be
Forest CQn1p P1per

Happy Days" now makes its
bow as the authorized weekly
newspaper of the Conservation
Corps. The staff which produced
The Stars and Stripes during the
war is sponsoring the new ven-
ture. The first issue of IL tabloid
pages, carrying no advertising,
will be distributed in conservation
camps throughout the country.
The Washington times., 1933-05-19
Montgomery D. A. r.
Elects Mrs. Chase

The Col. Tench Tilgham Chap
ter, D. A. R., Montgomery county,
met in the Chevy Chase home of
Mrs. Ada Cunningham last night
and elected Mrs. William H. Chase
regent.
other officers elected were
Mrs. H. C. Allnutt. first vice re-
gent; Mrs. Frank Severance, Sec
ond vice regent; Miss Margaret
Loughborough, corresponding sec
retary; Mrs. Harriet Darby, re-
cording secretary, and Mrs. Vir.
Rinia. Gloyd, treasurer.
The Washington times., 1933-05-19
Pleasure Cars Gain,
But Trucks Fall Off

Automobiles in Alexandria and
vicinity have increased during the
past year, according to c. w.
Fletcher, agent for the distribu-
ton of State tags. There have
been 900 more tags issued this
year than during the correspond
ing period of last year. Only 740
truck tags have been issued, a
decrease of about 10 per cent.
The Washington times., 1933-05-19
PITTSBURGH

IL l. OAO1SOI
Racketeers responsible for
telephoned threats of death to
Capt. Reuel w. Elton, manager
Of the Better Business Bureau,
and three bureau directors to-
day we're told plainly the Or
ganization could not be intimi-
dated.
Elton and the directors-un-
identified prominent business
men who feared publicity would
worry their ia miles es-Were
warned they would be killed I'M
less G. H. Dennison, fraud in
vestigator for the bureau, was
discharged. DenniSon will be
retained, Elton declared.
Police today probed the frus-
trated bombing attempt at the
home of a ward leader, the Sec
ond outrage of it's kind here
within 10 days. Two bombs,
one with fuse sizzling, were
found at the home of James
Bishop, Eleventh ward district
chairman, by his son last night.
The Washington times., 1933-05-19
Roosevelt to Name
Relief Dictator Soon

President Roosevelt expects to
appoint an administrator for the
$500,000,000 relief fund within the
next 48 hours. Efforts have been
made to obtain the services of
Harry Hopkins, relief director in
New York State, but Gov. H. H.
Lehman has been loath to lend"
him to the Federal Government.
The Washington times., 1933-05-19
CLOTHING SOUGHT

Mrs. T. Clifton Howard, Alex.
andria public welfare officer, has
issued an appeal for clothing and
shoes for the poor of the city.
The board of united charities does
not issue any clothing.
The Washington times., 1933-05-19

Lost or Found? Hun
dreds Of articles are lost daily and the
greatest percentage of them are adver-
tised by the loser lend q helping
hand. II you've found something. read
the Lost and Found Columns Of the
WANT AID SECTION Of this newspaper
The Washington times., 1933-05-19
More Racketeering
- What Are You Going To Do About 1t? =
CHICAGO

FOLLOWING latest outstanding developments the racke
situation, indicating its spread through various cities:
The Washington times., 1933-05-19

subcommittee which will start
the inquiry to determine what
curb may be placed on rackets
and racketeers.
Evening star., 1933-01-11
A Coolidge Stamp.

The suggestion that former PreSi-
dent Calvin Coolidge should be repre-
sented on q postage stamp has certain
attraction. The officials of the Post
once Department are considering the
idea, and it is expected that their de-
cision may be one of approval.
There Is ample precedent for such a
stamp In the issues commemorating
Presidents Harding, Wilson and Taft.
The first named Of these Chief Execu-
hves died in office. and the stamp pro-
duced in his honor was q so-called
mourning stamp" The others passed
from the earthly scene after retiring
from the presidency. but public opinion
approved stamps In their memory.
Mr.. Coolidge has place in the affec-
tions of the people. That was made
manifest by the grief coincident with
his death. There is, therefore, an emo
tional background for the present de
mand for philatelic recognition Of his
career. But o better reason exists for
the issuance Of . stamp In tribute 10
Evening star., 1933-01-11
German Military Attaches.

Announcement from Berlin that Ger
man military attaches, for the first
time since the World War, will, on April
]. 90 on duty In Washington, London,
Paris, Rome, Prague, Warsaw and Mos
COW 10 highly significant sign of the
times. Due unnistakably to the strong
hand Of the soldier statesman, Gen. Won
Schleicher, who now Is chancellor the
development may be interpreted as the
hrst fruits of Germany's newly won
equality in arms" 1t bears this as
pect. even though 1t Is officially ex-
plsined that the necessary negotiations
with the seven foreign governments
concerned began several months be-
fore the disarmament conference bowed
to Germany's demand for the military
status granted her as the price Of re-
tanning her presence at Geneva.
The German government has def
mite and logical purpose In stationins
oficiai soldier observers in the leading
world capitals. The year 1888 Il
destined, 1t believes, 10 witness o pro.
gressive amplihcation of the Reich'i
lengings for a defense establishment
more in keeping with the dignity ant
needs Of q sovereign state. Liberate<
from the bondage Of the Versatile
treaty military clauses. German attache
IN washington and elsewhere are evi
IDENTIFY expected to enact the role o
eAucatins foreign public opinion a. b
Evening star., 1933-01-11
his name. There Is an element OF con-
strIictive natriottsm i1yoIved

| his name. There Is an element OF con-
structive patriotism involved.
One of the premie- tenets Of Ameri-
can democratic doctrine is the convic-
tion that poor boys may become IA
nous men; that any boy, however hum
BILE, born in the United States, may as
pare to the presidency. History records
the fact that obscurity of birth and
poverty in childhood and youth consti-
tute no effective bar against political
eminence. Jackson and Lincoln are
classic examples. But Calvin Coolidge
also came into the world under no OBJ
vious guarantee of future fortune. He
was only a Vermont farmers son, and
his whole life was long. labo-ious
struggle, commonplace in detail, to
escape from that condition.
The theory has been that what Mr.
Coolidge did lies in the power OF any
boy to do, and the theory is a good
one. II mathematics contradicts it in
some part, it confirms it in other re-
spects. Certainly, not all who would
be President can reach the White
House. but many can, many have. The
idea, for that reason, is sound.
However, like every other practical
phase Of democratic philosophy, the
concept has been under attack. Psssi-
mists and cynics have slurred it. Dis
couraged men have Knocked it. Grover
Cleveland. meeting Franklin Roosevelt
when the successful candidate of No
vember last was boy, wished for
him that he might never be Presi-
dent. There is a current bromide to
the effect that only a man extrava-
gantly dssirous of punishment would
want the Office. Granted that it is
strenuous assignment, the fault does
not lie in the position itself; its diff
Guilty arises from the ulljustly critical
attitude Of a portion of the electorate
which is seemingly impossible to
please.
A stamp In honor OF Calvin Coolidge
would be recognition Of a great and
good man, but it would be more than
that 1t would be, in effect, a recog-
milton of fundamental principle of
American life-the principle of equal
ity of civic opportunity-which has
been under inexcusable attack in recent
years. but which is deserving of pro-
lection as an integral of the patriotic
faith of the people.
Evening star., 1933-01-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

returned from Cincinnati for the Dem
ocratic circus, she attended it only by
proxy, with the aid of a radio set In
her apartments at the Blackstone.
White House attaches close to Calvin
Coolidge, especially his friend, Col. Ed
Startling Of the Secret Service squad,
remarked that the last act in the drama
OF the Vermonter's career-his burial
at Plymouth on January Twas almost
the only important episode In 1t that
was denied sunshine. The weather
seemed to have an incorrigible habit Of
turning out sunny and bright wheneyer
President Coolidge was to be the star
Of an occasion. though his Inauguration
ON March 4. 1925, took place under
darkened skies. One of the best of the
10000 Coolidge anecdotes extant con-
Germs the weather. A friend was walk
ing With the lamented Gal" and re-
marked: Mr. President, looks as IL il
might rain" Coolidge said nothing
Five minutes later his companion OBJ
served: Mr.. President, looks now as
II 1t might clear up" To that he
drawled in reply: What are you trying
to do? Commit me?"
Diplomatic illness is q malady long
known in European politics, and evil
dence Is now forthcoming that it is not
unfamiliar in the Orient. At any rate,
Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, former foreign
minister of Japan and one-time Am
basSador to the United States, has post
poned "on his doctors orders" his pro-
jected trip Of good will to this country.
He had expected to sail for Europe and
America about this time, but is not now
planning to leave Toxic until next
Spring, arriving in the United States
not earlier than May. Whether Vis-
count Ishii's indisposition was brought
on by recent operations of the Japanese
army at Shanhaikwan is not definitely
known.
Senator Key Pittman, Democrat, of
Nevada shares with Vice President Cur
tbs a passion for the ponies. He is
still telling how he backed his hunch
Of impending Democratic victory on
election day last November by going
to Laurel and putting his money on
horse named Bandwagon. The nag
won.
Rear Admiral Grayson, who is now
devoting himself to keeping democ-
racy safe for Inauguration day, spins
a yarn about a recent visit to the
Kentucky blue grass for the purchase
Of horses. Grayson became impressed
by the fact that all the colored gentle
men he encountered insisted on ad-
dressing him as colonel" Finally he
decided to inquire how come, and par
tieularly what a man had to do In
Old Kaintuck to become o colonel.
We'll" replied one of his dusky guides,
"yoli gets to be q cunnel in three WAYS.
Some folks is bon cunnels. Others dey
gets to be cunnels by fightin'. And
some gets dat way by givin fellers like
me dollar"
Il
Our most air-minded diplomat Is
william S. Culbertson, Ambassador to
Chile, who has just flown back to his
post from Washington on a six-day
flight. BY ship the journey takes 20
days
Copyright, 1933)
Evening star., 1933-01-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

/ What SO many of these super-solernn
persons ought to have, for their own
| good and the benefit of others, Is just
a touch of the cynic in their mental
makeup.
Then they would realize that there is
a certain vigor, joy and sprightliness in
! just being alive. =,
If one does not find it so. then one
has not studied life as one should.
Ones feet hurt?
| What of it? The hurt shows that the
feet are alive and kicking. II they oia
not hurt under the circumstances, one
would feel sure that they were para
| lyzed.
Ones plans went awry?
Then there is opportunity for new
plans
Il am an old man and I have had
many troubles. most of which never
So goes the saying, admitted to be
the truth by countless persons.
| If 1t were not so life would be poor
thing indeed.
| The truth is that many of the things
we fca- in this world never happen
and actually are never in any danger of
happening.
| When the blight Of worry is added
| to these impossibilities, vicious circle
is formed, which no doubt accounts for
most, if not all, of the woeful faces
which one gees everywhere.
Depression?
Why, it has caused more worried talk
among those who are not in the least
depressed" than it has among those
who have felt its worst effects.
The pressure" as the old colored
woman calls it, has made its force felt
all along the line. But here again
worry does no good. What would do
good is sensible optimism and a sane,
cheerful spirit. Such things are con-
taeious, too.
The doleful habit of worry. in any
one of its multitude of branchee, has
been inveighed against thousands OF
times, so that it would seem, offhand,
as If 1t were sheer waste Of time to
say anything about it.
Just the opposite Is so.
The truth is mighty and will prevail,
at least some of it will.
never any telling when a sentence, q
word even, will strike home to some
body or other.
Any one who at any time, in any
place, utters words against worrying is
doing some good in the world.
This is not the same as to say that
a reader will stop worrying just because
he reads statement that he should not
do so.
The matter is great deal more COM
p1ex than that.
What may happen, however, is that
an impression may be made upon him,
and perhaps unconsciously, as it were,
without him in the least realizing that
anything has happened.
An electric button has been pressed,
however, which will start bell ringing
somewhere far back in the mind.
The mind will begin to do things to
itself, and at last. perhaps months or
years later, there will come to the per-
son vital response.
He will stop worrying, or at least
stop worrying as much as he did. He
| may call it religion, or fatalism, or will
power, or anything he chooses, but the
fact remains, whatever and however he
may call it,
He may never be able to put his I'm
ger on the "doorbell' again. or even re-
call that any outside finger once
pressed 1t.
1t makes no difference.
He Is better off than he was before,
and chance word or two, read in a
newspaper, or magazine, or book,
did it.
Evening star., 1933-01-11
''Buy American" Is Declared
Closely Linked With Tariff

asserts that British policy has been 10
call our hand" with the result thus
described by the Star Telegram:
They had colonial possessions for q re-
serve connmisSary. They are buying
British wheat from Canada, and their
famous tweeds' come from the backs
Of Australian sheep. Minnesota and
Texas used to compete with Canada
and Australia In the English markets.
Not ever any moreI We started them
on on the general idea of walls and
they showed us how to build one and
live behind 1t. Buy America means
the reduction Of every acre of agricul-
ture In America from rs to rs per cent.
1t means the reduction of the output
of our factories in the same ratios. We
have not been q home consumption
nation in more than a century. Our
prosperous years were those wherein
our cotton, wheat and automobile
exports, among hundreds of others,
were the volumes of business which
protected our trade balances with
Europe and South America. Through
q misguided sense of the tariff we may
have mistreated our own consumers at
the same time, but the measure of
prosperity was with our exports and
suppression Of them would have
wrecked us then even as now"
y + y
we are not sure" remarks the
Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader, that
the influx Of foreign goods is entirely
harmful. One good emanating from It
is the realization that some tariff pro-
lection Is required In this country in
order to maintain standards above
those prevailing in foreign nations. To
attempt to correct this situation, how
ever, by sentimental Buy American
scheme Is not sound. While spending
their money, people are cold and hard.
They purchase where their dollar
SPEAKS the loudest. If they are asked
TO pay 10 cents more for an American
made product than q foreign one, they
VIII buy the importation. The only
practical way to promote Buy Ameri-
can Is through tariffs"
The Glendale News-Press commends
the movement, but suggests that "in
the effort to live up to the principle,
the buyer is entitled to the aid and
cooperation of the merchant and the
manufacturer" It holds that the for
ner should not emphasize the desir-
ability of purchasing articles because
they were made In Europe" and that
the latter should make goods as fins
as those that are imported.
The movement Is called patriotic by
the Hamilton Evening Journal, In that
its purpose Is to increase employlnent
by American factories" The Union
town Herald believes that 'ft Is tina
for the United States to protect its
interests" and that restrictions shoud
'be. effective In protecting American
workmen."
Evening star., 1933-01-11
Grateful for Treatment
At Emergency Hospital

To the Editor Of The Star:
NY enforced stay in Emergency Hos
pital for month and a half has been
of such nature that I desire publicly
to acknowledge my gratitude. and !
know of no better way than to ask you
to publish this letter In your paper.
On November Is, 1899, as the result
of an accident while working on the
new Senate Office Building. I was taken
to Emergency Hospital and operated on
by a member of the hospital staff,
remained there until my discharge. on
January l, in one Of the wards.
Throughout my illness and recuperation
I received the most wonderful treatment
from everybody who came into contact
with me-from the superintendent.
surgeon. other staf doctors and nurses.
including those who had no connection
with my case. This was not because I
was wealthy or young, because have
nothing on earth and am q. middle
aged man. MY treatment came from
the devotion OF everybody to the well
fare OF the patients. I cannot let the
opportunity pass without thus express
ing my heartfelt gratitude to Emergen-
cy Hospital for its unceasing and de-
voted care and attention.
WILLIAM A. MANUEL.
Evening star., 1933-01-11
Washington Not Hit
By Johnstown Flood

| To the Editor Of The Star:
In the magazine section Of The sun
day Star Of January /. 1888, Dick Mans
field, in his memory test" asked the
question, What food once swept wash
ington?" Patiently I waited for the
next Sunday issue, for I felt it in my
bones" that the answer was to be q
which have had to contend ever since
came to Washington, nearly 20 years
ego. And, sure enough! The Johns-
| town food" was the answer.
| Well. 1T did not-was not-could not
be! If anybody Is interested enough
! to get out good map and look over
the situation, he will find it is a geo.
, graphical impossibility. The topography
| of the country would make the task of
| Kate Smith getting the moon over the
mountain mere child's play in compari-
son! The watersheds of the Allegheny
Mountains never seem to intrude, in the
conception Of those who have been Ia
boring under that impression, and more
than once have had quite time cor
recting such persons Of their erroneous
| Idea.
Just because there was a high stage
of water here at the same time, they
| jumped to the conclusion that 1t waj
which horritiei the Nation.
| Now for few facts to rectify thiS
too general impression:
Jcnnstown lies in little valley ON the
western slope Of the Allegheny Noun
tafns at an altitude of about 1,500 feet
and nearly 200 miles from Washington
| by the latest best route, with mountains
towering nearly 1000 feet higher than
Johnstowns elevation lying between
here and there! The Potomac River
rises on the eastern slope Of these
mountains Tin Pendleton County, w. va,
think, while the Little Conemaugh
River down whose bed the waters Of
the South Fork Dam were hurled on
their death-dealing wave, rises in Cam
brie County, Pa, and flows westward-
ly to join the Stonyc-eek River and
form the Big Ccner7 ugh, and 1t is at
this junction that Jo,1nstown is located
At Salisbury the Loyalhsnna Greek
joins it and then 1t is called the Kis-
kiminitas, which flows into the Ale
the old 'Monongahela at Pittsburgh to
form the Ohio, which goes on-still
westward!-to meet the Mississippi
then south to the Gulf Of Mexico. The
people OF New Orleans can, with more
truthfulness, claim to have stood on the
banks of the Father of Waters and
caught relic from Johnstownl
More than once I've had such q
statement made to me here in Wash
ington, in reference to some "authen-
ticated" relic of the time, why, my
father pulled it out of the Potomac
himself" oh, yes! Well, it may have
come out Of the Potomac, but It never
f1cated down that river from Johns
towni
For the benefit Of the Baron Nun
chausens who may ask, "Vas you dere?"
II can answer "Yesp'-most decidedly,
for was born and raised there; was
in my 18th year at the time Of that
disaster which put the place on the
map forever, and do not have to draw
any on nv imagination to remember
that terrible experience. Also, I have
articles In my home here which we
recovered after the waters subsided, and
some of them still bear the imdisputable
evidence Of their bath of nearly A
wears ago. am genuine Johnstown
flood relic r. B. WOOD.
Evening star., 1933-01-11
Farm Relief Will Add
To the Cost of Living
TO the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
At this time, when there are
100000 men out Of work in the
United States, when most Of them
have cifiiculty In obtaining the barest
necessities of life, when the only thing
which saves many Of them from ac-
tual starvation is the fact that food
costs have somewhat deprecated from
the terrific point they reached a few
years ago, bill is being rushed
through the Senate to increase tre-
mendously the cost of the basic neces-
stiles of life for the benefit of the one
class Of men, who, however small their
income, never face starvation - the
farmers.
God bless our generous Senatorsl
Help them to raise the cost Of living to
the destitute Help them pile taxes on
depressed business for the benefit of
one single class of menl Three cheers
for another gang Of farm relief ad-
ministratcrs, not to follow, but to add
to, the Farm Board business wreckers!
Wheat is to be guaranteed at 500 per
cent above its present price; cotton,
pork and other necessities to be pegged
up similarly. And this by the same
men who are mortified" at the idea
Of per cent sales tax on other ar
ticles than food. Sure, soak 1t to the
people who are starving. They aren't In
shape to fight back. J. RICHARDS.