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The Washington times., 1933-03-28

Almost Immediately they To-
Gated the cave and set to work
searching for the loot. They
had dug only a little way when
they struck a plank on which
were carved the letters w. K.
Their excitement knew no
bounds. They were certain that
the booty of a hundred success
full pillageS was slowed away
under their hobnailed shoes. All
afternoon they tunneled their
way through layer after layer
of stubborn soil only to decide
in the end that the lettering on
the board must have been in
scribed by some practical joker
who thought that couple Of
enterprising boys might be bet
ter for a little exercise. On the
way home fog set in. and it
got to be dinner time with Moth
in sight but some eggs, a chat
ing dish, and no spirits with
which to ignite the wick. Gloom
was dispelled. though, when
they discovered a flask of rum
which had been hidden away
against an emergency, and with
it they refueled the chatting dish
and cooked what must have
tasted like a veritable feast.
Bent For Seamanship
I suppose that a good many
mothers would have been nearly
frantic with worry if supper
time had come and gone and
their boys had not been heard
from. But I had no such qualms
where Franklin was concerned.
Even then he knew too much
about the hazards that went
with sailing to take foolish
chances, and delay could only
mean that he thought it un.
wise to start off On schedule.
Added to a natural bent for sea-
manship, in later years he ac-
quired a profound knowledge
of practical navigation, and al
though my grandchildren are
skeptical whenever I make the
following statement, I never.
except on one occasion, knew
what it was to have Franklin
deviate so much as half an hour
from the time he had set,
though he frequently came
from a great distance.
Charted First LinKS
The one time that occurs to
me was when he set out in fine
weather only to run unexpect-
edly into one Of the densest
coastal fogs the neighborhood
experienced in years. He put
into North East Harbor where
he had friends and telegraphed
me of his predicament from
there. He stayed a week, hav-
ing a wonderful time. dancing.
renewing acquaintances, and
playing what was then con-
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
PLAN T
BURNS, IS DIE

DIXMUDE, Belgium, March %.
G.N.SD-A giant British passen-
ger and cargo plane crashed to
earth near here during a severe
storm today with a probable loss
Of Is lives.
The plane. owned and operated
by the Imperial Airways, Ltd,
was en- route from Brussels to
London.
The huge tri-motored craft left
Haran Field. Brussels, at 1886
p. M. carrying IL passengers and
a crew of three. including a pilot,
mechanic and radio operator.
One person was seen to jump
from the descending plane with a
parachute. The parachute failed
to open and the victim plunged
to death.
The plane burst into flames as
It crashed. Peasants extricated
the charred bodies of the pilot,
mechanic, and four passengers,
including one woman,
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
RUSS COLUNBO
FINDS ROMANCE

RENO. New, March % G.N.S0.
The presence in Reno today Of
Hannah Williams, New York
singer, and Russ Columbo, radio
crooner, caused Reno to wonder
today if a new romance had
blossomed.
Miss Williams, "a cheerful little
earful," refused to verify a re.
port she would marry Columbo
after she had divorced Roger
Wolff Kahn, orchestra leader and
bankers son, next week.
Columbo has never been mar.
ried.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
Cardinal O'COnnelI
To Lead Pilgrimage

VATICAN CITY, March %
GN.SO.-Just as he did in 1925,
Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston,
will lead the first American pill
grimage to Rome during the holy
year proclaimed by Pope Plus XI.
to begin on April 2. Cardinal
O'Connell will leave for Rome
with a pilgrimage from Boston
late in April.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
GOLD HOARDERS
To Be LISTED

Lists were being prepared to-
day by the Federal Reserve banks
of persons who made substantial
withdrawals of gold during the
past two years.
They will be submitted to the
Treasury Department for such
action as Secretary Woodin sees
fit. Persons who had not re-
turned their gold certificates to
the Treasury or Reserve banks by
last night will be listed.
Exact figures were lacking but
it was understood more than
$6OO,OOO,00O in gold and gold Ger.
tificates have been exchanged for
other money at the Reserve
banks and Treasury in the last
three weeks.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
Democrats SlUGn1ped
BYHagerstOuUnG.O.P.

HAGERSTOWN, Md, March
28.-Making almost a clean sweep
in the heaviest vote ever recorded
here, the Republican party yes
terday elected the mayor and
four Of the five town councilmen.
This marks the C. o. P.'S return
to power after an overwhelming
Democratic rout in 1922.
When the polls closed, DR.. I.
M. Wertz emerged victorious over
Harry Reisner by nearly 1000
votes. w. Lee Elgin, incumbent
Democratic councilman, was the
only member Of his party elected.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
RYAN IS ORATOR
At DEDICATION

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March %.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. James H.
Ryan. rector Of Catholic Univer-
sity, Washington, D. c., today de-
livered the sermon at the conse-
Grafton ceremonies of the Most
Rev. Joseph Elmer Ritter as
bishop Of Hippo and auxiliary
bishop of Indianapolis.
The ceremonies were held in the
Cathedral of SITS. Peter and Paul.
In his sermon, Monsignor Ryan
outlined the history of the hier-
archy commencing with the Apos-
ties, tracing it down through the
ages to John Carroll, the first
American bishop of the Catholic
Church.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
PARTY PLEDGES
CHART COURSE
Of NEW DEAL
Roosevelt Setting Precedent
BY Building His Program
on Chicago Platform
By GEORGE r. HOLMES

BY GEORGE II. HOLMES
It is Franklin D. Roosevelt S
smiling boast that he is both a
maker and breaker of precedents.
He has added steadily to his
reputation in this regard ever
since the day he unceremoniously
flew to Chicago to accept the nom-
ination from the Democratic con-
vention, but his pace has been
greatly accelerated since actually
assuming the Presidency.
Platform His Guide
He is now engaged in establish
ing new one or breaking an old
one in the unprecedented manner
in which he is building his whole
legislative program squarely on
the planks of the Democratic plat
form. He keeps a copy OF the
platform in a drawer in his desk,
and consults it frequently.
Platform Pledges Listed
The Democratic platform was
unprecedently short. about 1000
words in all. The principal
planks, aside from those con-
demning Hoover policies, num-
bered scarcely more than a
dozen.
A list of these platform pledges,
and what has been done or is
being done to carry them out,
is interesting at this early stage
of the new Administration.
Below are given the principal
planks, and what has been done:
/. Immediate and drastic re-
duction of governmental ex-
penditures by abolishing COM
missions and offices and con-
solidating departments.
Sweeping authority to do
this has been voted Mr..
Roosevelt by Congress. He
took the first step yesterday by
consolidating agriculture credit
agencies.
2. A balanced budget.
A long start has been made
on this, through the dictatorial
power voter the President to
reduce Federal salaries, slash
veterans compensation, and the
enactment of the beer-for-reve.
nue bill.
Conference On Money
3. Sound currency. An In.
\ ternational monetary confer.
ence to be called by the United
States to rehabilitate silver.
No action yet.
4. A competitive tariff for
revenue, reciprocal tariff agree
ments, and an international
economic conference.
Discussion has been started
on the world economic confer
ence. Tariff negotiations prob
ably will await the conference.
S. Federal credit to States
for unemployment relief and
expansion of the public
works program.
A huge new appropriation is
to be asked for shortly for this.
Meantime, Congress is debating
the Roosevelt reforestation-un-
employment plan.
6. A shorter work-day and
work-week.
No action yet.
z. Restoration of agriculture
CONTINUED on Page 4, Col. y
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
Water Pollution
Denied by Officials

The Water Department has is
sued an official denial of reports
that the District drinking water
supply is polluted with a solution
of coal tar as a result of 100
gallons of that substance having
been dumped into Antitam Creek
near the Pennsylvania line Fri
day.
In view of the small amount of
the tar and the distance between
it and washington. pollution of
local water is highly unlikely, it
was pointed out. In addition,
tests have failed to show any
trace Of the substance here.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
DEFENSE FLAYS
RACIAL BANS
On JURY
LieboWitz Claims Negroes Are
Qualified Under Law to
Serve; Editor on Stand

DECATUR, Ala. March %
UN.SO.-After a tiff between
counsel over the sale in front Of
the courthouse of pamphlets al
lesedly prejudicial, defense attor'
neys today resumed their efforts
to have the indictments against
seven negroes quashed.
Two youths, selling pamphlet
entitled The Unpublished Inside
Story of the Infamous Scottsboro
Case" were cited for contempt OF
court, but fled before they could
be arrested.
Question of Jury
Samuel S. Liebowitz, chief de-
fense counsel, called attention OF
Judge Samuel s. Horton to sale
Of the pamphlets. He said:
"This pamphlet states that II
these negroes receive their just
desserts, they would die in the
electric chair. "It is clearly an
effort to inflame the community
against the defendants"
Thomas E. Knight, jr., attorney
general of Alabama, heading the
prosecution, said the State would
not countenance any outside In
reference with the trial, but
that if the point were passed, he
could also cite extensive defense
propaganda in the county.
Witness Called
The defense called its second
negro witness in an attempt to
prove that many negroes in Jack
son county, Alabama, were quail
fled for jury service under the
State law, but none had been al
lowed to serve since the Civil
War, in violation of the Federal
Constitution.
c. S. Findley, a member OF the
negro school board Of jackson
county, of which Scottsboro is
the seat, testified he had never
heard of any member of his race
being called for jury service.
Seeking to develop the intelli-
gence of the witness, G. w.
Chamlee, of Chattanooga, asso-
ciate defense counsel, asked:
'What are your duties as a
member of the cOlOred school
bOard?"
"TO see that we have proper
equipment for our schools and
efficient teachers"
Editor First Witness
j, S, Benson, Scottsboro editor,
called as the first witness, ad-
mitted that negroes were not
drawn on juries in jackson county,
Ala, but justified it on the ground
that they were not qualified.
Leibowitz asked:
do you mean to say that
you don't know any negroes who
conform to the qualifications
required Of jurors in Alabama
that they shall be free holders,
of good character, between the
ages of FL and IS, Of sound
mentality"
II don't think we have any
negroes in Jackson county who
are proper jurors"
"YOu don't know any negroes
Of good character?"
"Sure, know some good
negrOes-as negroes gO-but I
don't think they would do as
Jurors"
WOMEN NOT QUALIFIED
'sWhy not?"
'"They are not trained for jury
service. I'd say the same thing
about women"
"White wOmen?"
eyes"
care there no educa
negroes in the county?"
"They might have some edu-
cation, but they might not have
the character"
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
GUGGENHEIM OUT APRIL 2

HAVANA, March % GN.SD.
Resignation of Harry F. Guggen'
helm as United States ambassa'
dor to Cuba will take effect
April 2, according to an embassy
announcement today. He plans
70 leave by airplane for Miami
Fla.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
First Lady Spends
AT Home With Son

NEW YORK, March % G.N.SO.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
"at home" today, meeting friends,
attending to correspondence and
visiting with her youngest son
John. She planned to leave for
Washington by plane tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
CHAPTER 6

o
One summer, I think it was when he 49, and
Lathrop Brown was spending weeks with us, the
two of them out for Grand Manan Island in 21fOOt
knockabout we had given Franklin. They had managed
to track down rumor that somewhere that island
buried the hidden treasure of the infamous Captain
Kidd and they bound they would unearth the pirate
The Washington times., 1933-03-28

ssMY BOY FRANKLIN99
As Told by
MRS. JAMES ROOSEVELT
70 ISABEL LEIGHTON AND GABRIELLE FORBI

(1so1sOO
for boating, and other sports
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11
ARMISTICE DAY.

Fifteen years ago today guns that had rever- berated from the North Sea to the Swiss border suddenly ceased their laundering, the saccato stut- tering of machine guns was silenced ana the most cruel savage and devastating war in clVihzauohS history was ended in an armstice that was followed bv peace that was heralded then as the beginning of the end of all wars. It was with high hopes that the terms of the armstice were signed and that conditions of peace later formulated after months of dispute, at Versailles.
 The coming again of Armistice Day once more gives occasion to measure the progress that mas been made since the laying down of arms and the resultant peace It is true that probably at no time since 1918 has seemed so likely. No Armlstice Dav since then has found so much uneasiness and fear of conflict abroad in the world. Europe IS caldron Of hate and dissention. The figure of Mars again casts it's shadow it's confines And while nothing is bad as it first seems no lover of peace can view the situation without qualms
 Yet the Is years since Armageddon have not been without their achievements. We have witnessed the creation of the International Court of Justice the first steps in limitation in 1921 at Wash ington and later in London; the Locarno treaties and the Kellogg pact; settlements of numerous minor disputes by the League of Nations which Tn other days might have led to actual hostiites The record is not barren. We have made some progress toward the elimination of war
 Many of these steps seem to have been lost sight of in recent months Efforts at disarmament have begged down. Germany welcomed into the family of nations in 1926 has given notice of with drawal. Japan has done the same thing. It seems as if we yet place faith in the stability O. sanctions and treaties. Human nature has not yet progressed the state where navies be scrapped and the sword turned into a plowshare
 There are, apparently hordes of the earths population who not willing to pay the price of peace and desire it not unless it be imposed by racial supremacy and enforced by the brutality of against progressive units of the world We forced to the conclusion that the peace Of the world can rely only upon the proper preparedness of nations protect themselves and to compel order in all threatening lands.
 This fact sure, is recognized by the Roosevelt Administration It is evidenced by Secre- tary Swansons insistence the immediate con- struction of treaty" navy and the initial allotment of funds to bring that about. We paid heavy price in the World War for unpreparedness We owe it to those paid the supreme sacrifice then, to those who survived and to those who would have to bear the brunt of any today, to keep our selves fully prepared against another evil day of conflict
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11
American Justice.
Boston Herald.)
written.


 Americans if anything too ready to admit the imperfection of their machinery for the ad- lminstration of criminal justice. They are prone Ito agree that they do these things better in Eng land, and point to the expeditions work of the Canadian courts in favorable contrast to the ldilatoriness of their
 It has remain for English author to remind us that system is not bad after all c. E. Bechrofer Roberts's '"The New World of Crime Iof self depreciation, might have corrected our lselves.
 The Loeb-Leopold made a bad impression both in many quarters in this country and abroad MT. Roberts points out that everything connected with the trial perfectly regular In England la sentence of death, following a plea of guilty to willful murder, is automatic In Chicago it is not and the presiding judge has discretion which he exercised in favor of the two young men.
 MT Roberts disposes of impression prevalent in England that American justice is merely matter of barter. In most if not al of the cases he sum- marizes the English courts would have come to the decision, though they possibly would have come to it sooner
 It is well to get these things straight. There is plenty of room for improvement in our judicial methods; but let be that we are dealing with the real defects in the machinery Otherwise we wasting time. Our magistrates are able and learned; laws are excellent The trouble seems to lie chiefly in the slowness of the pro- ceedngs and possibly exaggeration soicitude for the interests of the accused
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11
THE GOLD EXPERIMENT, AND NRA.

MT. P R. Bradley, for whose judgment we have the highest respect, was right in describing the current monetary policy of the Government as an experiment. It is just that and more. We think he unduly hasty in labelling it silly and futile His caustic comments NRA with which we most heartily disagree, rather themselves.
 Since President Roosevelt launched the latest gold buying and selling movement a means Of managing and controlling Americas dollar value, financial authorities have been chary about predict ing it's outcome. But few of them even profess to understand the policy. It is true, however of that few majority do not believe in it. Despite this, the general disposition has been and seems still to be to await results before rendering judgment. If it is successful well and good If it fails, then no great harm will have been done and try something else That seems to us to be a more reasonable attitude than to condemn it as inn practical and silly and futile
 MT. Walter Lippmann, writing in The Empire few days ago. very carefully analysed the policy. He listed several considerations which indi- cated the wisdom of withholding conclusions
 1. The Government in it's initial price fixing of gold showed a moderation that is convincing that it intends to feel its way rather than plump for doctrinaire solution" Its action in fact far less violent than that of internal spectators during the preceding four months.
 9 In taking control of the gold value of the dollar the President has removed it from the hands of specuators put it in the hands of the Govern ment which s therefore able introduce order and purpose where there has been disorder and chance
 g. It tends to counteract the effects of fear and bewilderment, as the premise of such policy must be an intention to return to currency convertible in gold. This is not an adventure into fiat money.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11

last June, when I was at the Lon don conference. I wrote an arti- cle suggesting that a depreciation of ona-third was as good a guess as any. The next day I received a tremendous cablegram from an organization of monetary enthus- iasas in New York telling me to look out, and that the dollar must be devalued to 62 and a fraction cents. They had it fi- gured out exactly But only last week these same enthusiasts in- formed me that the dollar ought to be 50 cents. Again they had it figured out exactly.
 Well. I do not think they have figured it out exactly because I do not believe that it can be fi- gured out exactly.
 The conclusion I draw from these two ideas is that the Admin istration will obtain all the bene- fits that can be had from a change in the value of money by proceeding now to fix an upper and a lower limit of devaluation. The benefits of devaluation will develop only over period of time, the exact amount of benefit can not be calculated in advance. In short a defacto stabilization in relation to gold and to sterling within a fairly wide range will produce in the course of time and in. an unpredictable amount about all the rise of prices that can be induced by manipulating the val de of the dollar. There are tech nical reasons why final Stabiliza- tion is probably undesirable now but fixing the limits within which stabilization will eventually take place will not deprive us of any of the advantages of devaluatior and will of course, contribute greatly to the feeling of certain ty and confidence upon which ar economic recovery unquestionablJ depends.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11
Today and Tomorroao -~~~-~- By WALTER LIPPMANN ~~~~~~-
Money Policy

Copyright, 1893. New York Tribune Inc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11

The relationships of gold and currency and credit and price are obscure. They are so obscure that one is entitled to suspect any one who pretends that money is the subject of an exact science, and that he knows that science. Math- ematical equations and so-called economic laws do throw light on aspects of monetary situations, but in the framing of a particular pol icy there are no exact rules. For that reason it is best to keep continually in mind a few simple ideas. They are a protection against becoming dogmatic or a crank
 Perhaps the most important of these simple ideas is that there is no instantaneous connection be- tween money and the price level. Any one, for example, who thinks that you can change the gold con- tent of the dollar at 10 in the morning and produce a correspond ing change in the price level by 5 in the afternoon is bound to be disappointed. The price level is a complicated average of millions of particular prices, for example, of cotton on a plantation in Texas, on a plantation in Georgia, at a ware house in Galveston, on an ex- change in New York, in Liverpool of a shirt in Massachusetts, of pair of shoes in Missouri, piece of land in Minnesota, of a tooth brush in Chicago, and so forth and so on. It is absurd to sup pose that you can name figure for the gold value of the dollar in Washington and automatically and immediately alter all the mil lions of prices of goods, and land and securities. Such an lnstan- tneous response can be produced only temporarily for few things which are highly sensitive to spec ulation.
 On the other hand, 1t is almost equally absurd to argue that a change in the value of money has no effect on the price level. There is every reason to believe that 1t has. But the effect is produced only over a period of time. If, therefore, we recognize this fac- tor of time we shall be bound to conclude that the effects Of a change in the value of the dollar will be realized only gradually and that. for example, with the dollar depreciated 35 per cent, we nave still to feel the full effects on our prices.
 There is another important and simple idea. It is that no one can predict exactly how much the aV- craze of prices, much less how much particular prices will rise as the result of a certain amount of devaluation. Therefore, there is no point in pretending that the exact amount of devaluation can be scientifically ascertained. A dollar between 60 and TO cents gold will probably raise most prices very considerably in the course Of time. But nobody knows Wheth- CT a 68-cent dollar or a 63-cent dollar or a 61-cent dollar will pro duce the exact amount of increase in prices that he happens to think desirable.
 There are some who think there is a mathematical formula. Thus
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11

Whatever else it may be, it is policy designed to reestabsh gold currency. The currency is to be revaued gradually but the end aimed at is a stabilized and convertible money.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11

J. J. Meherin, E. McKanna and Dave Dunbar were among the Ju- neau arrivals aboard the Alameda from Skagway.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Starting November II, trucks will be hauling rock to make fill in the alley in the rear of our prop erty on Front Street, also to fill under the building. We will not be responsible for any damage that may occur to buildings abutting this property
 adv. GEORGE BROTHERS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-11-11

Col. William Vim, Mrs. Vim and their son Burdette took pas sage for the south on the Ala meda. They planned to spend the winter in California.