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The Washington times., 1933-06-07
BEV|ER DEFIES
ARMY ON KIT
CONTRACT
Challenges Quartermaster to
Meet Firm on Cost; Carey .
Asks Stakeholder List

Richard B. BeVier, New York
contractor, accused by a Senate
committee of overcharging the
Government for toilet articles in
tended for issue to Reforestation
Camp workers, today fatty chal-
lenged the Army Quartermaster
Corps to come within 10 per cent
of his prices as of May IS.
He said:
eve will sell to the Govern
ment the toilet kits specified by
us in our contract at a price
10 per cent lower than the
quartermaster general can buy
those articles at May Is prices.
"The quartermaster general
has made certain statements in
dicating that he can buy the
same standard articles for a
total of IS cents a kit. I ask
the committee to call on him
to do this, based on May Is
prices and BeVier Corporation
will stand any reasonable ex-
pense in connection with the
matter"
Senator Black CD of Alabama
acting chairman, said there were
not enough committee members
present to approve this but he
personally approved the sugges-
ton.
The Senate Military Affairs
Committee, which is investigating
the purchase of 100000 toilet kits
for the Reforestation Army, has
demanded a list of the stockhold-
ers of the BeVier Corporation.
Senator Carey RO of Wyo-
ming, who made the demand, said
he did so because of rumors that
prominent persons are involved"
but declined to say who the per-
sons were or reveal the source of
the r1morS.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
District Heads
To Be Named
This Week

District Commissioners prob
ably will be named this week, it
was announced today by Post
master General Farley.
The position of Public Printer,
however, may not be filled until
some later date.
No names were mentioned in
connection with the plans to
name the Commissioners shortly.
It is expected that a consider
able number of appointments will
go to the Capitol, beginning to-
day. in order to clear up as many
jobs as possible, where con-
firmation by the Senate is need
ed, before that body adjourns.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
j, 8. SLASH HITS
ALL WORKERS

Several rulings by Comptroller
General j. R. McCarl today de-
clared the Is per cent cut applies
to all Government employees, how
ever small their salaries.
These classes include 40 or
derlies at the Naval Home in
Philadelphia. more or less infirm
who have small jobs about the
establishment; substitute mail car
riers, however little time they
work; and physicians, surgeons
and dentists called in for special
jobs at Federal prisons.
Also a steamship line operating
from Baltimore to Puerto Rico
must stand the loss Of a So tax
which it charged a Federal en-
ploye going to his duties there
Tickets of such Federal workers
are not subject to tax.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
DISTRICT HOPES
SEE FUND Of
S2,000,000
Hospital, School Additions,
as Well as Highways, Rest
With Senate Action

Consideration of the Admins
tration's Industrial Recovery Bill
containing provisions of i'm
portance to the District was
started by the Senate today.
The District would benefit
under two public works sections
of the $3,300,000,000 measure.
OF the $400,000,000 highway
development program contained
in the bill, the District would be
entitled to $4,000, 900 for develop
ment of streets and related
projects, according to estimates
given before the Senate Finance
Committee, which considered the
measure.
Hospital Addition
The committee included the Dis
trict in the highway program
benefits from which it was ex-
cluded in the bill as passed by
the House.
A second type Of public works
permitted would be for certain
necessary buildings. Testimony
before the committee indicated
that the two projects which might
be completed under this section
would be the Anacostia Junior
High School and additions to Gal
linger Hospital.
SirOvich Bill as Rider
An attempt may be made to at
tack the Sirovich bill providing
for an appellate board to which
Federal employees can appeal rul-
ingS of the Civil Service Commits
sion to the measure.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler CD
of Montana said today he would
attempt to amend some measure
with the Sirovich bill before the
session of Congress concluded and
there is a slight possibility that
he will seek to use the industrial
recovery bill as the necessary We
hicle.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
TWO CHILDREN
SPECTATORS
At INQUEST
Roomer in Wiedeman House.
hold Testifies Wife Fired 2
Shots to Kill Spouse

Mrs. Frances Wiedeman, 38,
was held to the Grand Jury
today by the coroner's jury fol-
lowing an inquest into the So
called "dare killing Of her huS-
band, Philip j. Wiedeman, 38,
war veteran and District employe.
The widow sat nervously in
the inquest room in the District
Morgue and heard a witness OF
the shooting, William Long, q
roomer in the Wiedeman home,
300 block Tenth st. N. E., say
she fired two shots during a
quarrel after her husband had
tossed her a pistol and dared
her to shoot.
Children At Inquest
The two older Wiedeman chill
dren, Ada, IS, and Babara, 10,
were also at the inquest.
Policeman John Sirola, sum.
moned to the house after the
shooting, testified that Mrs. Wiede-
man handed him the gun, taking
it from a bureau drawer.
Detective Sergeant John Wise,
of the homicide squad, told Of the
police investigation of the case.
W1edeman died yesterday in
Casualty Hospital with two bull
lets through his back after an
emergency operation had failed.
Up to the end, he insisted he had
shot himself.
Despite hours of grilling, Mrs.
Wiedeman stuck to her story that
she did not shoot her husband.
Mrs. Wiedeman denied ever
touching the weapon, claiming
that she did not remember any Of
the facts leading up to the trag-
edy.
The shooting occurred in a bed
room in the Wiedeman home in
the 300 block Tenth st. N. E.
After Wiedeman fell, Long called
an ambulance and then notified
police.
Wiedeman, who served 16 years
in the Navy and was decorated
with the Croix de Guerre with
Palms, had been employed by the
District Water Department.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
3 WGshingtOniGns
Get N. Y. DeQreeS

Among the graduates of New
York University today at the
university's 1O1st commencement
exercises are the following Wash
ingtonians-Belmira Nunes, 100
block T st. N. W.; Dorothy Wulf +,
American University Campus,
both receiving Master of Arts
degrees, and Mark Franklin
Thorne, 1900 block Thirteenth
st. N. w., who will receive a
Bachelor Of Commercial Science
degree.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
Grant Settles Vacation
Plans for Public, Self

Lieut., Col. U. S. Grant, Director
of Buildings and Parks, has set
tied two major problems.
First, how one can stay home
this summer and enjoy an eX-
citing vacation right here in the
district for only $40. Second,
how he is going to spend his own.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Aion idea struck the colonel as a
GOOD one and he stopped a lot
0f important work on furloughs,
n,,blic works programs, and such,
10 study in detail the home-vaca-
fion plan outlined by Frank T..
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
Forestry Recruits
Fined for Drinking

A fight between two conser-
vation corps members from Fort
Humphreys resulted in them be-
ing arrested last night for drunk
ennesS.
James MCGOWAN, of Philadel-
phia, was fined $50 and costs
for possession of a pint Of liquor
and Joseph Kelly was fined SIS
and costs for drunkenness. They
told the court that a man on
the road had given them the
liquor.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
Columbus u. Grads
Get DeQreeS TOnight

Degrees will be conferred on
1O7 graduates of Columbus Uni
versity at commencement exer-
cises in the Mayflower Hotel to-
night. The baccalaureate ad-
dress will be given by Leo A,
Rover, United States District At
torney, and the Rev. Francis x.
Cavanagh will pronounce the in
vocation.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
Day of Recollection
Planned for Center

The Rev. Urban Nagle, 0. p,
Of Saint Dominic's Church, will
officiate at a day of recollection
next Sunday at Nazereth Social
Service Center, 200 block I st.
N. w. The first conference will
be at 10:30 a. m. and the second
at 2:30 p. M, while the Holy
Hour will begin at 4:30 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07

thrown at me, Dy q UIlllldHC eConO
mist, because 1 had suggested, not
too seriously, an entirely new plan
for international trade.
My plan has the advantage of SIM
plicity, it can be expressed in a SEN
tence; but the economist was not
satisfied on account of rubber. With
out rubber, no automobile tires;
without tires, no cars; without cars,
no prosperity.
It begins to appear that my plan
defeats itself, because l am interest
ed in restoring prosperity, not In
destroying it. However, here 1t IS:
Forbid all international trade en-
tirely. offer it to the London Con-
ference. It is as practical as any
scheme the conferees are likely to
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
SENATE PASSES
ALLEY BILL

The Senate today passed with
out debate the alley closing bill
and the Capper resolution to EN-,
power the Public Utilities Com.
mission to investigate housing
conditions.
A third bill, authorizing merger
of the Washington Gas Light and
the Georgetown Gas Light Com.
panies, was passed over when
Senator Hiram johnson RO,
California, objected to its consid.
Grafton.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
FRENCHMAN LOSES $2O3

Prof. Alphonse Tricot, of the
Catholic University in Paris, lost
a billfold containing $203 while
en- route from the Mayflower
Hotel to visit the French En-
bassy, he told police today.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
Prize Winner Rebels

A novelty almost equal to Danas biting dog
occurred in the the other day. One of the winners
of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes announced that ne was
Going to spend part of his loot buying all the beer he
could drink and would for time after that take
things easy What is he is going to give up his job
This is refreshing Most winners of prize money make
little speech, which has become haowed by tradition
about the money making difference to them and stick
ing to their jobs with the dear old company which has
underpad them for the past so years and putting the
money in savings bank and perhaps giving lot to the
moor You may do all that with earned money but money
won on 1OOOto1 shot wants to be spent And usually
Sc
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
Memorial Services
Honor Mrs. ROrke

Brief memorial services by the
Capitol Hill History Club in men,
ory of Mrs. lamar F.. Rorke, a
past president. who died last
week, were conducted yesterday at
special meeting called by the
president, Mrs. Daniel S. Shook.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
PHARMACY GRADUATE

Benjamin Parson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Abraham N. Parson,
1900 block Spring Road N. W., is
among the graduates of the Phila-
delphia College of Pharmacy and
Science receiving degrees at the
commencement exercises there to-
night,
The Washington times., 1933-06-07

Gartside, chief horticulturist.
That's fine. he said. People
can stay right in Washington this
year and enjoy a healthy and
thoroughly exciting two weeks for
only $40.
AS for his own vacation. Well,
he plans to sail late this month
for Europe for a six-weeks tour
abroad.
The Washington times., 1933-06-07

try again" An age-oid saying. but ever
true. If you haven't been able to To-
cate the apartment you want, read the
timely selection offered daily in the
The Washington times., 1933-06-07
True tOType
Restore Smuggling; Break in Nerves Averted
By GILBERT SELDES'

SSXXTHAT you going to do about rubber?" The
w answer for most of us, is that going to
nothing whatever about rubber but the question
The Washington times., 1933-06-07

discuss and it is likely to be aoopteo CiaH @nS
scheme they will offer. 80, 4;ee
Instead of fidding with international trade tarIIs
gold standards, and the like, let them crop :ee MEe
subject. Without international trade no tarllI vans
without tariff walls no quarres; without quarres no
wars. And-a great advantage TO conSluer-lioi ~
nents in Peruvian bonds
Hidden Black Man
Lawrence Dennis is the to consult on the connec
ton between foreign bonds and domestic depresslons
Mr. Dennis does not get enthusiastic the idea OF sell
ing $50 worth of machinery to Peru and floating $lO
bond issue so that Peru pay for the machinery ana
the "cost of selling the bonds. Mr. Dennis IN ms DOOR,
Is Capitalism Doomed?" gave the impression that there
was ngger in the woodpe if the bonds dldnt Sink
from 100 (dolars) to u "a cent?.
There are of course many ways to keep out OF the
foreign bond business but the best one is not TO nave
any foreign trade at all. In that case you, VINO own
pants factory make enough pants only for your 1renos
in America you do not manufacture million pairs OF
pants to sell to the Tmbuctooers-n competition with
German and Japanese and Turkish pantsmakers.
Bootleg Rubber
It is at this point that my economist friend brings up
rubber and threatens with all sorts OF pains and
penalties 1t is quite clear that he thinks am mentally
deranged quack, and dangerous citizen 10 me II is
equally clear that, he is economist ne does not
know human nature. Forbid foreign trade and you Will
get rubber if you need rubber exactly you have been
getting Scotch when you needed Scotch-by smuggling
am therefore, making desirable suggestion, which
will put an end to foreign entanglements and restore
SMUGGLING to the noble position it held about 2OO years
ago. Looking back, the Eighteenth Century seems
fairly decent time and most of us would be glad TO get
back to it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30

strated in the o~vercrowded condi-
tons of both clubs.
Only twenty-four boys were to be
given opportunity to be in the
cooking club" When Mrs. Eliza
beth Witt, principal, went on a
tour of inspection of the club work,
during the first week Of school, she
found the class was over-crowded,
and she had to use her best "sales
talk to persuade a group of the
boys to join another type of club.
The same situation existed in the
manual training department. The
girls showed a marked preference
for working with pieces of wood,
nails and varnish brushes to raising
their voices in the chorus club.
There was a decided lack of a de-
sire for such a lady-like procedure.
I'VE want them all to be happy
in this club work." Mrs. Witt eX-
plains. after all, it doesn't make
SO much difference what you choose
to do, just SO you get to exert that
right to choose once in a while. For
that reason, we dislike to influence
any of the boys or girls to change
their course, unless it is necessary.
So far as possible, we shall let them
retain their membership in the club
of their choice"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
Heaven?
when Dollar Goes to
HE'LL New Line.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-Na-
tional issues are as a rule pretty
heavy stuff for musical comedies.
But one of the heaviest of them,
imitation, inspires a series of ap-
preciated gag-lines in one of this
falls most ambitious productions,
In a revue of current affairs just
opening in Philadelphia the God
dess of Liberty chants to an as
tonished array Of foreign diplo-
mats that America will be in
Heaven when the dollar goes to
hell"
This same revue sets another
precedent for the American the
ater-ridicule of an American
President. Herbert Hoover and
Mrs. Hoover are the target for
satire, with Ogden Mills, Andrew
Mellon, Henry L. Stimson and
Dolly Gam figuring in it.
The President and Mrs. Hoover
are shown preparing to leave the
White House on the day before
Inauguration. Mrs. Hoover argues
in favor of taking some souvenirs
from the White House.
We'll never be back here
again." she says plaintively, and
t he audiences in conservative
Philadelphia, that gave Hoover
one of his few majorities in the
November election, cheered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
IMPORTANCE OF LARGE
X-RAY DOSES Is CITED
Small Amounts Injure Cancer, Is
Warning of Scientist.
FL Science SerUice

FL Science Serrice
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.-The i'm
portance of using large doses of
X-rays or radium in treating can
Ger Of the lip was emphasized by
DR.. Charles L. Martin of BayloS
university medical school at the
session here this week of the
American Congress of Radiology.
The danger of giving small doses
of radium or X-rays lies in the
fact that the tumOr soon becomes
so radioreSiStant that radiation is
no longer effective, DR.. Martin ex-
planned. The surgeon who must
then be called in can not under
stand why he was not consulted in
the beginning.
DR.. Martin cited statistics show
ing encouraging results with this
type of treatment he recommended.
In one group of forty-twO patients
treated between 1925 and 1928.
forty-one were alive at the end of
FIVE years. The n who did not
survive died of a recurrence of the
disease in the glands of the neck.
DR.. Martin also described methods
of treating cancer inside the mouth
with radium needles, and tumorS
glands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
Red Cross Membership
Drive in State Mapped

organization reached wartime pro-
portions. More than five hundred
delegates attended.
Among the speakers at the con-
ference were Miss Mabel T. Board
man, Washington, national Secre-
tary of the Red Cross, and a men,
Der of the central national COM
mittee; William Fortune, chairman
of the Indianapolis chapter, and
also a member of the central ma
tional committee and William H.
Book, director of the state n
employment relief commission.
State activities closed Friday.
Home hygiene instructors were to
hold a conference today, under the
direction of Miss Margaret E.
Dizney, nursing field representative,
and Miss Helen Teal, executive Sec
rotary of the Indiana State Nurses
Association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
TALMADCE,
MOTHER OF 3
STARS, IS DEAD
Woman Who Led Norma,
Constance and Natalie
to Fame Is Taken.

BIZ United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 3O.-Mrs.
Margaret Peg Talmadge, who
guided three daughters to motion
picture fame, died in Hollywood
hospital of pneumonia.
The mother of Norma, Constance
and Natalie Talmadge vas stricken
last week at her Santa Monica
beach home.
Her three daughters were at her
bedside. Norma, estranged wife Of
Joseph Schenck, motion picture
producer, arrived Wednesday by
plane from the east. Constance,
likewise, cut short a Chicago visit
to rush to her mothers side.
Mrs. Talmadge, while never a
professional herself, played a large
part in the screen success of her
daughters. She started them in
motion pictures, Norma in 1914, and
Constance and Natalie a year later.
From the outset of their careers,
she refused to be separated from
them.
Natalie, the third daughter, is
known to screen fans as the former
wife of Buster Keaton, the COM
edian. Constance is married to
Townsend hatcher of Chicago.
Mrs. Talmadge "a a former resi-
dent of Niagara Falls, N. Y, and
Brooklyn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
BY L LINDSAY
Times staff Writer

BY HELEN LINDSAY
Times staff Writer
1t isn't a battle of the sexes" but
it's something bordering on that
idea.
For boys and girls in junior high
school departments in the public
schools have been given an oppor-
tunity to change places at the Cal
vim Kendall school, East Tenth and
Wallace streets, in the choice OF
their club work.
Manual training work, long recog-
nized as the young males own par
ticular hobby, has been offered as
an elective subject for girls in the
seventh, eighth and ninth grades,
while the boys are given an oppor-
tunity to don cooking aprons and
headbands, and learn the culinary
art.
When the selection first was sug-
gested, school officials did not know
just how much appeal there would
be in this exchange.
But boys do yearn to cook and
taste, and little girls want to know
how to use a hammer and saw with
out calling in the help of the man
Of the family. This was demon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
CITY TO LAUNCH
PICK Up DRIVE
ON STRAY DOGS

Campaign to reduce the number
Of stray dogs, without city tags.
running over lawns and through
streets, was started today as result
Of numerous complaints.
The action was taken follow
ing a conference between Captain
Otto Ray, city license officer, and
DR.. Elizabeth Conger, dog pound
superintendent.
Police have received many COM
plants about stray dogs, and a
number of persons have been bit
ten by dogs in the last few weeks.
The number of dog licenses issued
this year is less than half the num-
Der issued last year. Captain Ray
said.
From twenty-five to fifty dogs a
day are being destroyed at the
pound, DR.. Conger said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
Moving Day
Negro Valves Squat
terS' Rights in Court.

MFRS. ETHEL LYLE, Negro,
4VA SAB West North street, "jes'
moved in in May" she admitted
today when she was arraigned in
municipal court three before Judge
Dewey Myers on charges of tres
pass.
Ethel was accused by Bert F.
Callahan. 1886 North Illinois
street, rental agent. with taking
possession of the house at the
North street address without the
formality of obtaining consent or
paying rent.
This was true, Ethel admitted,
but she explained that an ac-
quaintance of hers on Indiana
avenue told her lit would be all
right"
Would you like to move before
Tuesday or go to the women's
prison?" asked Judge Myers.
Judge, I'll move if I have to
find a coal she'd" promised Ethel,
and Judge Myers confined the case
to Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
SHOCKS SHAKE
R PACIFIC BOTTOM
s. Scientists Report Tremors
Near Aleutian Islands.
Science Scrrics

III NGttNtt StfANf
WASHINGTON. Sept. 30-The
sea bottom Of the North Pacific
near the Aleution islands, region Of
frequent severe earthquake activity,
was shaken by a sharp shock on
sunday, Sept. "a. scientists Of the
United States Coast and Geodetic
survey announced after studying
data gathered Geographically from
a number Of archaeological observa-
tories BY Science Service.
The tremors began at 9:l5 a. m.
central standard time).
stations reporting 10 Science
Service were those of the Dominion
observatory. Ottawa: Georgetown
university, Washington: ST. Louis
university. st. Louis; Fordham uni
versity, New York, and the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey
at Sitka, Alaska, and Honolulu, a.
II.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
FILM COMPANY USES
SHIP RICH IN HISTORY
Log of Nanuk Includes Voyages in
North and Hospital Service.

By United Press
SEATTLE, Sept. 30.-After years
of fighting storms in the Alaskan
waters, breaking through treach-
erous ice foes to carry food to
starving Eskimos and acting as a
hospital ship, the Nanuk, former
Siberian trading vessel, has turned
Hollywood.
She made her first movie bow in
the far-north thriller THE Eskimo"
and now will sail for Los Angeles
where she will be made ready for
the filming of the picture Treasure
Island" The Nanuk was brought
by Metro-G G. ldWyn-Mayer.
The veteran vessel is commanded
by Captain E. Prestrud, who was
with AmundSen in the exploration
ship Fran in 1910, when she cruised
to the Antarctic and in 1911 made
her way to Buenos Aires and Argen-
tina.
The vessel will be re-rigged to re-
semble n of the seventeenth
century. The winter will be spent
filming Treasure Island" and in the
spring the Nanuk will be rerigged
to resemble herself. She will then
head north to film the sequel to
The Eskimo"