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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-16

sive tremors and a fresh nausea he
could not restrain INSTRUCTED his at
PENDANTS; but with the passing min
utes, these paroxysms ceased and a
drowsiness and lassitude lessened his
pain. Except for an accelerated but
labored breathing, he lay quiet and
inert. Muscular rightly followed !;
and gradually, as his strength ebbed,
even his respiration diminished. When
the intently awaited assistance arrived,
his stupor bordered on unconscious
ness.
Doctor Wilbur Thompson was a tall
rangy man. bald and r0und-faced.
whose keen eyes looked searchingly,
albeit kindly, through pince-nez glasses.
In his official capacity Of medical ad-
wiser of the University Of Philadelphia,
his name was well known to all en-
rolled as students.
The young master Of ceremonies,
still wearing ehis black robe, opened
the door at his ring.
swell, what seems to be the diff
CuILys OOCtUA 1HUnipSVA 6hCCLCO AAAA
briskly.
.That's just IT," the boy replied
soberly. "We can't tell what 1t is.
But one of the PLEDGES was taken
sick during the initiation; and I'm
afraid it's serious. My name is Ted
Stanton, Doctor" he added.
Briefly, then, he described the ini-
tiate's sudden attack, while they as
cended the carpeted stairs together, to
lose no time in giving the necessary
attention. There were two narrow
beds in the room, and the now insen-
sible patient lay in that against the
rear wall.
The physician barely observed his
surroundings, as he began his exam
ination. When, at length, he rose from
the bedside, his look was grim, and his
usually amiable mouth drawn into a
thin formidable line. He shook his
head slowly, his voice strangely harsh.
sim afraid I'm too late to do any
thing for him." he announced to the
president. "Perhaps treatment in the
first few minutes after his collapse
might have pulled him through; I'm
not certain. But after that, no doctor
in the world could have saved him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-16

Sigma Fraternity.
He's sinking fast now and his pulse is
barely perceptible."
Ted Stanton blanched and gulped,
his lips quiverlng In his attempt to
speak.
"You mean, Doctor, he's really dy-
ing?" The query was an appalled,
whisper.
"Just that" Doctor Thompson re-
turned austerely, she can't live more
than a few minutes"
1--WE tried our best to help him, sir"
The other seemed at loss. "And we
got in touch with you immediate
ly. =. Just what's happened to him?
It doesn't look like heart failure: that
would have killed him even quicker,
wouldn't it?"
The physician answered with ques-
ton. SLOW did he react, after you
brought him up here?" He faced the
group in the room. someone who
stood close to him all the time-did he
appear more at ease when his convul-
sions were over?"
A blue-gowned youth in the group
around the stricken man spoke up hes
itantly.
"Not exactly, sir" he said, "at least,
| thought he grew stiff and strained
as If in worse pain, still. And he kept
on painting quickly with great deal of
trouble"
"Ah, then he seemed to find 1t diff
cult to catch his breath, young mann"
"Yes, sir, until he practically became
unconscious. He breathed noisily,
with his mouth open; he almost
choked, he had such time trying to
get enough air."
do any of you know whether he
was subject to sudden attacks?" Doc
tor Thompson inquired. "Epileptic
seizures, for instances"
1t was the president who replied.
"No, sir, not as far as we could TELL
He was athletic, and always looked
to us in the best of health"
mo, l scarcely supposed that was
the cause" the physician commented
sternly, his features severe. "As a
matter of fact, it is something differ
ent and much more dreadful, like some
form of asphyxiation or suffoca-
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-16

D. Ross Lederman, who has been as
ISOLATED with Columbia for number
of years, has directed many outstand-
ing productions for the company, in
Guiding Trails End" 1.-THE Fightin'
Marshall, "Texas Ranger" Branded"
Daring Danger" "Texas Cyclone"
Speed Demon "McKenna of the
Mounted" and 1.-THE End of the Trail. F"
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
KNIFE W|ELDER
GETS 3 YEARS

Sentence of from three to six
years in prison was imposed on
Robert l.. Alexander, colored, 90,
by Justice Peyton Gordon today
in District Supreme Court for an
attack with a pen knife on Mrs.
Louise Zimmerman, operator Of a
bakery in the 100 block of Seven
teenth st. N. w.
According to the charge, Alex
ander went to the shop on Octo-
ber S under pretense of buying a
cake. AS the woman was waiting
upon him, he seized her and
slashed her throat with the knife,
severing her windpipe. He was
captured as he fled from the
store. Alexander pleaded guilty
to the Indictment charging at
tempted murder and assault with
a dangerous weapon. Assistant
United States Attorney Irwin
Goldstein appeared for the Gov
ernment.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
1000 SE 7 TIE
DELINQUENT
D. {. TAXES
Assessor Richards Expects
That 5000 Pieces Of Property
Will Be Taken From Sale

More than 1000 pieces of real
estate which were advertised for
sale for delinquent taxes will be
withdrawn from the lists because
tht taxes have been paid, it was
said today by Assessor William
P. Richards.
Mr.. Richards said that, in cases
where the taxes were paid after
November 25, the property ap-
peared on the advertised lists,
which were made up prior to
that date. This property will
not be put up for sale, however.
More than 10000 pieces of
property were included in the
sale lists, and Mr.. Richards ex.
poets that approximately 5000
of these will be redeemed by pay
ment of the back taxes before
the sale, which will be held the
first week in January.
The advertisements. which ap-
peared Wednesday, will be re-
peated December 13, and again
will contain those pieces of prop
erty on which taxes were paid too
late to stop the advertising.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
AD BAN
HELD INACTIVE

Enforcement Of the R d
amendment. which prohibits use
of the mails to newspapers and
magazines carrying liquor adver-
tising, was declared impossible to-
day by First Assistant Postmaster
General Joseph O'Mahoney in pre-
dieting repeal of the amendment
during the coming session of Con-
greSS.
O'Mahoney. recently appointed
to a seat in the United States Sen
ate by the governor of Wyoming,
and now Acting Postmaster Gen.
eral in the absence Of James A.
Farley, said:
with the demise of prOhibi-
ton the Reed amendment be-
came unenfOrceable. feel GER
tain that it will be repealed i'm
mediately after Congress con-
veneS next month"
O'Mahoney lauded newspapers
and other periodicals for their ef-
fort to observe the regulations,
pointing out that it is practically
impossible to observe a law of this
kind under the circumstances
that are now prevailing"
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
DISTRICT SEEKS
NEW SCHOOL

Efforts to persuade the Bureau
of the Budget to reinstate in the
District estimates. for the fiscal
year 1885 an item for the COM
pletion of the Anacostia Junior
High School will be made by
the District Commissioners.
This was made clear today by
Melvin C. Hazen, president of
the Board of Commissioners, and
Commissioner George E. Allen,
both of whom said they will try
to have the item restored to the
budget estimates.
The District now has available
an appropriation of $225,000 to
begin work on the school. The
authorized cost of the building is
$405 900, and it has been esti-
mated that it can be built for
$390,O00.
Funds for completion of the
building were stricken from the
budget some time ago by the
Budget Bureau, although the Dis
trict Commissioners had urged
such an appropriation.
To the suggestion that work be
started on the school, using the
available 1925, 900 and banking on
an appropriation by Congress for
the completion of the job, the
Commissioners have turned a deaf
ear.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08

Needing pleas for leniency
voiced by Miss Ludema Sayre, so,
formerly postmistress at Fairfax,
Va, and by her attorney and by
Sterling Hutcheson, newly-appoint.
ed United States attorney for the
Eastern District of Virginia, Fed.
eral Judge Luther B. Way placed
her on two years probation to-
day.
Miss Sayre pleaded guilty in
United States Circuit Court at
Alexandria to embezzling $3,372
in postal funds.
The former postmistress, a
clasSmate of Mrs. Herbert Hoover
in college, and a friend of the
former President, had a good
previous record, her attorney,
Hugh Marsh, of Fairfax, told the
court. He said she suffered a
stroke of paralysis about three
years ago and that the shortages
occurred subsequently.
She must report to the Federal
probation officer in Los Angeles,
where she will make her home.
Judge Way said at the end Of the
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
FAKE $40 NO TE
JA|LS MAN

Declaring counterfeiting is on
the increase in this section, Judge
Luther B. Way, in United States
circuit court at Alexandria, today
sentenced Ambrose Collier to 80
months imprisonment at Atlanta
penitentiary.
Collier. who described himself
as a Washington newspaper CORE
spondent and whose home is in
Hyattsville, pleaded guilty to pos
session of a $40 counterfeit note.
He was arrested in Alexandria
when he attempted to pass the
note on merchant.
Federal agents subsequently ar
rested Mrs. Louise Zimberg, Den
mis- Mallory and Sol Zimberg, and
they will be tried later today on
similar charges. They pleaded not
guilty. Mrs. Zimberg is said to be
the wife of Soils brother.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
CRUSADE
CONTINUES To
NEW YEAR
Special Gifts and Government
Units Hope to Reduce
$450,000 Deficit

Although the 1888 campaign of
the Community Chest fas for
mally closed at luncheon meet
ing yesterday in the Willard Hotel,
Chest leaders today announced
most of the volunteer workers
will continue to work separately
for new pledges.
The drive finished with a def
cit of more than $450,000, the
quota this year being $1,945,000
of which $1,492,732 was contrib
uted.
100000 Contributors
Total number of contributors
this year was more than 100000
which figure, compared with
donors of previous years, was
gratifying to Chest workers. 1t
was pointed out, however, that
the per capita donations were far
below those of last year.
Frank j. Hogan, chairman Of
the campaign, praised the workers
for their efforts. He said. the
deficit was in no way their fault
but rather to be blamed on hard
times and a general apathy Of
the public.
Elwood Street, director of the
Chest, said today that unless
much more money is brought in,
needy persons in the District will
suffer this winter.
Solicitation to Continue
Members of the special gifts
unit expect to bring in more than
$40, 1000 between now and Janu-
airy. The governmental unit
.eached only 81 per cent of its
quota and it was said today this
unit would continue working an
other month to bring up its total.
While men held the key posi-
tions during the drive, the cam
paign would have been COM
plete failure without the women
volunteers, Chest officials said
today. Many women gave up
whole days of housework to
trudge from door to door. Many
too, worked late into the night
as secretaries and stenographers.
While the campaign was Of
ficially opened II days ago, the
original time of 10 days being
extended another week, many
workers started as early as last
August.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Pennsy to Resume
Pay Dispute Efforts

Pennsylvania railroad officials
today will show renewed energy,
it is believed, to effect settle
ment with the P. w. A. over
wage scales following an open
threat by AdministrataS Harold
L. Ickes late yesterday to cancel
the pending $84,O0O,000 Federal
loan unless wage differences were
settled within 10 days.
The money is to be used for
electrifying the Pennsylvania
railroad system between New
York and Washington and re-
pairing rolling stock,
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
To GIVE
THIEF A RIDE
Is Assistant District Attorney
KnnnL,c fonn rod fndou0

Is Assistant District Attorney
Keogh's face red today?
Keogh is assistant United
States Attorney at Police Court,
and is in charge of the prosecution
of most cases sent there.
The reason for Keogh'S indigna-
ton is because his automobile was
stolen last nisht while he was
working out" at the Jewish Com
munity Center. When Keogh fin
iShed exercising he stepped outside
to get his car. 1t was missing.
Keogh call police headquarters
and requested search be made
for the car. Today he said:
II am ready to take somebody
for a really big ride and it
won't be the kind of a ride he'll
enjoy.
IF police arrest the person
who stole my car 1 shall prose
cute the case myself with ut
most pleasure"
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
MountRainier
First to Lose
PWA Grant
GRIFFITH

Mt. Rainier, Md, today has the
questionable distinction of being
the first town to have a PWA
allotment taken away from it be-
cause of it's inability to meet the
original requirements.
The allotment, which was re-
scinded late yesterday by the
Federal Board of Public Works,
was for $4,000 and was made
last October for street improve
ments. Since the allotment was
made, lega technicalities and
other causes have made it impos-
sible for the town to accept the
money.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Col. Ralph Harrison
Dead in California

Col. Ralph Harrison, U. S. A.,
retired, died at Santa Monica, Cal,
Wednesday, the War Department
announced today.
Colonel Harrison was born in
Richmond, Mo-, March "a, 1865,
and served in the Spanish-Amer-
ican War, in the Philippines and
Hawaii. He was retired at his
own request after 40 years service,
November 20, 1926.
Colonel Harrison is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Helen E. Harrison,
of Santa Monica.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Puerto Rico Schools
Will Be SurDeUed

DR.. Ernest M. Hopkins, presi-
dent of Dartmouth College, at the
request of Secretary of War Dern,
has left for Puerto Rico, where
he expects to spend several weeks
for the purpose of making sur
vey of the educational system.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Prizes for
Newstips

Do you want to make some
money for being alert? II so,
The Washington Times pre-.
sents the opportunity to you.
Every week six cash
prizes are being given for
newstips teIephoned in to
the Newstip Editor at DIS.
trict $3.50. Phone them
any time between $50 a.
m. and 6 p. m.
And what is a newstip? It's
the information that something
Of interest to Washingtonians
has taken place or will take
place. An accident. a rescue.
a deed of heroism, an ap.
pointment to public office.
bank merger. a crime, a scien
tific discovery, an unusual
new invention, an unusual oc.
currence-each is a example
Of a good newstip.
Remember-six cash prizes.
each and every week.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08

est class to the workers. The laboring
classes have always been close to the
theater in Germany, and in many
olaces under their influence you could
find, in the old days, Peoples The
ater or a Workers Theater, but this
new development goes further, and is
part of an elaborate plan which makes
all our planning for "the uses Of
leisure" seem trivial
For the new plan is intended, it ap-
pears, to make up to the German la
borer for the great organizations he
had built up in the past generations,
and, as such, he will 60 to see the
greatest artists or ELSE. Films and
music will also be provided and travel
will be thrown in, whether as compul-
sorv pleasure or not, | do not know.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
ThieUes Break Glass,
Loot CLOthinq Store

Breaking the glass of the sky
light on the roof, thieves last
night entered a clothing store in
the 1900 block of North Capitol
st. and made away with mer-
chandise and cash valued at $105,
Joseph D. Coblentz, manager of
the store, today reported to police
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Firemen Auxiliary
To Pick NeLD Officers

Officers will be elected at a
meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary
of the District Fire Department
in the board room of the District
Building at 8 o'clock tonight. Ar
rangements will also be made for
the distribution of Christmas
baskets and toys for children,
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Bdldridge Resigns
ReDpnue Office Post

P. R. Baldridge, special deputy
commissioner of internal revenue,
has resigned effective December
81. it was announced yesterday.
From 1921 to 1926 Baldridge was
chief deputy collector in Iowa. He
will practice law here.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
TOURNEY FOR ACTORS

Annual District of Columbia
one-act play tournament, con-
Quoted by the Community Gen.
ter Department of the District,
will be held at Roosevelt Com
Center, beginning Febru-
ary 6. Groups desiring to enter
the 1884 tournament should regis
ter now,
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
PHOTOGRAPHY. TOPIC

Washington Photographic Soci-
ETY. will meet Wednesday night
at its headquarters. 900 block
Twenty-third st. N. w. Francis
Marston will discuss the mathe-
mates of photography.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
OK AND OYSTER ROAST

International Brotherhood of
Bookbinders of the District will
hold an OK and oyster roast at
the oyster Club, 1900 block
Rhode Island Ave. N. E., tomor.
row.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08

The financing of these pleasures Of the workers will
from the treasures of the labor unions which by
unfortunate necessity appropriated when the Nazs qui
dated the organizations.
Taking 1t Easy
When I made plea, short time ago, for midness
the part of those who preparing to make enjoy
leisure didn't know that of the responsible in
vestigators dr. Fosdick beleve) had already said the
most important thing the fact that is doing nothing
proof that he is wasting his time imagine society
in which the balance between sense and lunacy was
delicate that all citizens would have to be instructed in the
of their leisure time to prevent the State from col
lapsng But do not think any civilized nation has com
anywhere that condition, so far.
By the experiments in Germany Italy and Russia-and
by the lack of experiment eewherewe ought to learn
great DEAL We ought to learn, chiefly, what things
the whole State and therefore legitmatey to be
controlled by the State and what things chiefly per-
sona and therefore, ought to escape the large heavy hand
of State interference. The line is not always distinct and
things from side of it to the other with the
progress of time. But for each generation the line
can be drawn.
Drinking Shifts
We have instance just decided that the right to
drink should be regulated by small communities not by the
National Government When the Mississippi overflows its
banks the central authority goes to work The Federal
Government however, neither supports national theater
(Which many people wish it would) moving
pictures (Which most of the people glad doesn IT,
There people who want kidnapping made national
crime, if it entirely within the boundaries of
State and others who want national anynchng law
with the rrefutable argument that a lynchng in
State especially if be defended by authorities to
prevent lynchng tends the ofene elsewhere
Just present in full swing toward Federal
troll of industry and finance should think this
would be good tme therefore, to decide that certain
other thngs-such the amount OF time must give
to golf singing, crossword puzzles and the likedo not
belong to any central authority The Government may de-
eide to let put poison eyeashes but it ought
rule the number of times shave per day. There
ought to be- in short, rreducibe minimum Of private
right-and terrible thing is that may not be reduc
bic unless pass law preventing the lawmakers from
crowdng u.s.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
True tOType
Compulsory Joy Not Yet Needed in u. S. A..
BY GILBERT SELDES

While American actresses beabor their apparently nno
cent audiences and generally give the impression that the
player not only than the play but than the
audience and the box office theatrical artists Of Ger
many being drafted to afford entertainment of the high
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Classmate of Mrs. Hoover,
Embezzler, on Probation

two-year period he will determine
if any other sentence is to be I'M.
posed upon her.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Snnugness Rebuked

magnificent example of hypocrisy exposed few
days ago during argument in England on the unfair
competition of the Japanese The statement made by
fairly prominent man. that the the Japanese
driving out the British in certain markets because the
japanese willing to turn goods of inferior quality
which the British wormen too proud to manufacture
It was not Japanese but Brton who replied that this
was balderdash that the who ddn consider the needs
of his market fool and that British workmen wereA
willing turn out any goods in competition with
It is quite true that the Japanese manufacture cheap
articles but what has beaten them-n such things
cameras and light bulbs for nstances that the dearer
product is economical That is mercantile ground
which you meet mercantile problem The intrusion
of high moral attitude which happened not to have
particular basis in fact particularly dspleasng be-
you could people trying to make the British
worker suffer his msfortunes by telling him that his
tstc conscience was finer than that of his rivals
The Washington times., 1933-11-08
Dr.. Rove Host al
Pan American

The Director General of the
Pan American Union, DR.. L. S.
Rowe, entertained at luncheon
today in honor of the delegates
of Argentina, Brazil and Colon
bia to the Reciprocal Trade
Conversations.
His guests were Senior Don
Orestes Cuccarese, of Argentina
Senior DR.. Sebastiao Sampaio
and Senior DR.. Flavio Penna, OF
Brazil; Senior Don Francisco
Restrepo Plata, Senior Don Ar.
turo Hernandez, Senior Don Mi
guel Lopez Pumarejo, and Senior
General Alfredo de Leon, Of
Brazil.
Others present included the
Ambassador of Brazil, Senior
DR.. R. de Lima e Silva; the
Minister of Colombia, Senior
DR.. Fabio Lozano; the Assistant
Secretary of State, Mr.. Jeffer-
son Caffrey; DR.. Wallace Nc
Clure, Mr.. H. Freeman Mat
thews, both of the Department
of State; Mr.. Walter j. Don
nelly, of the Department of
Commerce, and Mr.. William A.
Reid, Foreign Trade Adviser Of
the Pan American Union.
The Washington times., 1933-11-08

Mrs. Roosevelt
In New York

Mrs. Roosevelt was the guest
of honor at a luncheon given
by the New York Junior League
today at its clubhouse in East
Seventy-first Street.
She is an honorary member
of this organization, to which
she has belonged since the sec.
ond year of its existence. The
League was founded in 1901
by Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey,
then Miss Mary Hartman, and
the following year the former
Miss Eleanor Roosevelt. one of
that seasons prominent debu.
tantes, was elected to member
ship. She continued her con.
nection with the organization
until the retirement age, and
last June the League gave her
an honorary membership. AL.
though she has always taken a
personal interest in its activi,
ties, her daughter. Mrs. Curtis
B. Dali, never became a men,
Der of the Junior League.
The Washington times., 1933-11-08
Chief Executive Honors Russian
Foreign Minister at Luncheon

President Roosevelt was host
at luncheon today at the
White House, when he enter
tanned in honor of the Soviet
Commissar of Foreign Affairs,
Mr.. Maxim Litvinoff, who is in
this country to negotiate diplo-
matte recognition of his coun-
try.
The guests included: Mr..
SkvirSky, Mr.. Bogdanoff, Mr..
Divilkorsky and Mr.. Umansky,
who are in the Commissar's
party; the Secretary of State,
Mr.. Cordell Hull; the Secretary
of the Interior, Mr.. Harold L.
Ickes; the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, Mr.. Henry A. Wallace; the
Secretary of Commerce, Mr..
Daniel C. Roper; Senator Key
Pittman, Mr.. Lewis w. Douglas,
Col. Louis NIGH. Howe, Mr.. Will
liam Phillips, Mr.. Dean G.
Acheson, Mr.. R. Walton Moore,
Mr.. Jesse H. Jones, Mr.. Henry
Morgenthau, jr., Mr.. William C.
Bullitt, Mr.. James C. Dunn, Mr..
Robert F. Kelley, Capt. Walter