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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-15
ALI SMITH STEALS SHOW.

One of the most important committees named specially during the last session Of Congress was the Committee on Economies and its time was largely taken up with hearing from business leaders, fnanciers manufacturers, economists and others suggestions of methods that might be used to com bat depression. In other words, the Senate, weary of drifting toward that corner around which good times supposed to be lurking proposed to do some thing to set the nation in motion if it could just find the right formula. Its work was naturally serious dull generally and drew but few auditors to the sessions.
 It remained for ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith to change the picture. That noted New Yorker with his salty humor and aggressive personality packed the committee room and in stage vernacuar "stole the show" He had program and wasn't backward about pressing it. He characterized imitation of currency as "a shot in the arm" He urged bond issue to provide work for the idle national roads program, long debt holiday, payment to veterans for afflicons resulting from service only attacked high tariffs and high income taxes
 The Senate interested in his formula, but even more interested in his personality. The New York Times described his appearance before the committee as follows:
 The appearance of MT. Smith brought
 into the minority caucus room of the Senate
 Office Building so many persons that they
 sat two on chair and stood along the
 walls Kleig lights blazed a good part of
 the time as moving picture men made sound
 records of his talk. Senators paid him the
 compliment of appearing in such number
 that day they almost surrounded the long
 table.
 The fascination which MT. Smith exerts
 on the imagination of people was never more
 convincingly demonstrated, and there
 laughter at his slightest whimsy. He was
 one-man show for the day.
 Senators listened to him attentively and
 questioned him at such length that they
 talked almost much he did At times
 he appeared little inpatient; his mouth
 straight line for change. His face
 red in the glare of the lamps, and his
 narrowed eyes steel blue and cold
 Only once did he laugh, despite the evident
 desire of his audience for humor. But if
 not amusing he caustcaly colloquial
 ever
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RESIGNS POST. AS AMBASSADOR
 FROM GERMANY
|Dr. von Prittwitz Not in Sym p hy with
 New Regime

WASHINGTON, March Is. = Dr. Frederick Wilhelm von Prittwitz, German Ambassador to the United jStates for the past five years, re- lsigned yesterday as the result of the German Fascists' recent poli- tical victory with which he is not in sympathy.
 Dr. von Prittwitz has been in the diplomatic service for 25 years and his career has been brilliant one. He has survived many changes in party control.
 The resignation has not been acted upon but his recall is ex- pected soon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-15
VALIANT DUST
 by Percival Christopher Wren BEAU oEs1E-

SYNOPSIS: A detachment of Maj. Napoleon Riccoli's Foreign Legion command is building a Post in the desert near Mekaz- zen while awaiting his return with the main body. Years be- fore Ricccli had been tested and found wanting by Le Sage of the French Secret Service, and had been forced to leave the army. He had joined the Legion, and had risen to the rank of Major. OthO Belleme and his English companions have been listening to Sailor Harris describe his part saving the life of Jules MaIigni, son of Fl Isa Beth el Ain, half sister of the Kaid of Mekazzen, years before. Otho has known Maligni in England, also the Kaid's son RaisuI.
 CHAPTER 6
 THE STRANGE BOMBELLI
 The Section had endured life al Post One for but @ brief space when the personality of a hitherto unnoticed comrade began to i'm pinge upon Otho's consciousness a man whom the four Englishmer and their friends had noticed only as one of the party whom they generally termed ''Vittorello's pets.' He had arrived, one day, with a and had remained at the post.
 Undeniably, Sergeant-Major Vit- torelli was guilty of gross favorit- ism and undoubtedly this man was a prime Notwithstanding with the Corsicans themselves in Vittorellis esteem and, with them, basking in the warmth of his approval-an that had numerous sig nificant and practical manifesto
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-15
20 YEARS AGO
From The Empire

MARCH Is, 1913. Officers elected by the L. O. O. M. for the ensuing year included Ernest Warren, L. F. Jones, A. A. Humfrey, Arthur McKinnon, H. s. Graves, M. Sabin. J. F. Soderstrom, c. E. King, w. w. Taylor, Dr. P. J. Malone, Ernest Warren, J. Wagner, E. c. Russell and G. Blomgren.
 A son was born to MT. and Mrs. Angus Mackay at St. Ann's Hos pital.
 In response to a baseball chal- lenge issued by the c. w. Young Company the picked baseball talent of the office force of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company re- turned their challenge and asked for five games to determine for once and for all which was the better aggregation; the games to be played for fun, marbles or money. Those who signed the challenge were S. G. Holt, R. J. Wulzen, George Helleck, Charlie Root, Bob Hurley, Ed Hurlbut, Bert Sperry, Slivers Malone, Chester Hatch, Iver St. Claire, Jim Whip pie, Denny Blakeslee and Miss Jorgenson, mascot.
 Elmer E. Smith. Douglas drug gist, left for the south on the Jef- ferson. Tis store was to be in charge of his brother during his absence.
 Leo Till and Ed. Atkinson of Douglas were breaking in several dogs which they planned to use on the trail to the Lake Teslin coun- try.
 Mrs. Hazel G. Kirmse arrived in Juneau from Ketchikan and con- tinued her trip to Skagway. A stampede, reminiscent of the days of '98, was thrilling Juneau as locaf people, who had heard that George Carmack and Skoo- kum Jim Mason, his brother-in- law, were aboard the Jefferson, headed for the Lake TeSlin Coun- try, joined the stampede. It had been reported in Juneau that 200 people were aboard the Jefferson bound for the strike. Among the Juneau prospectors to join the stampede were Dan Kennedy, Phil McKanna and Fred Lewis.
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immediate predecessor-Arthu M Hyde The latter was more politically minded than agriculturally minded. He viewed farm problems and their solution not so much from the angle of permanent better ment but rather from that of obtaining the great est political benefit for his party and his chief The farmers particularly and the country in general will welcome this change.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-15
MRS. TOM GEORGE AND
 CHILDREN RETURN HOME

Mrs. Thomas George with Esther Mae and Thomas George, Jr., re- turned to Juneau on the steamer Northwestern from trip to Los Angeles, California where she visit ed with her parents-in-law, MT. and Mrs. Michael George. The children had been visiting their grandparents for some time, prev ious to her trip.
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Anyway there ought to be more wisecracks about wooden money since banks these days are scurrying to get supply of Woodin dollars from Federal Reserve centers.
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No Legislature Congress is going to vote us into prosperity. Each who gets there will travel on his own feet and no one finds safety in shaping his course with the crowd
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One of the things to be noted is that the first to quit work when the whistle blows is the last to be remembered by the boss when promotions are handed out.
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Apparently the candle of industry is about to be relighted. Once the flame is glowing, maybe we can remember that it will burn more steadily and last longer if we it with more economy.
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Make Millions Think-and Buy!
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Bombelli makes an astonish- ing proposition to Otho, tOmor-
 row.
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Mrs. Hazel G. Kirmse arrived in Juneau from Ketchikan and con- tinued her trip to Skagway.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
N. R. A. BOOSTS SUIT
CLEANING TO 95 CTS.
Minimum in Washington and Cum.
berland Areas 20 Cents Over
Three-Year Rate.

Starting today, it will cost 95 cents
to get your suit cleaned and pressed in
Washington-or anywhere hereabouts.
Th N. r. A. yesterday established the
price as minimum" for consumers in
the Washington and Cumberland trade
areas. The 95-cent minimum also ap-
plies to women's dresses, with CORE
spending raises all along the scale, from
merely pressing pair of trousers to
cleaning. pressing and repairing the
most beruf1ed dress in milady's ward
robe
For at least three years the price has
been stabilized in the Capital at rs cents
for cleaning and pressing a suit.
The action permits cleaner to charge
more than 95 cents if he wishes. and is
contrary to the policy laid down when
the President authorized local trade
groups to fix minimum prices subject to
the N. r. A. administrator approval.
The prices are effective for a period
of Is days, and are subject to further
study and hearing to be held Deem
ber g."
Evening star., 1933-11-29
WATSON DRAF TING
REPLY TO CHARGES
Chief Engineer of District Fire
Department Criticized
as Arbitrary.

George S. Watson, chief engineer of
ject of complaints filed with Repre-
sentative Virginia E. Jenckes. Democrat.
of Indiana, tomorrow will complete
statement of reply to- be placed in the
hands Of Commissioner Melvin c.
Hazen.
Watson has been furnished with
copies of the charges. drawn by Paul E.
Jameson, attorney for the City Fire
Fighters Association.
Mrs Jenckes has asked for a joint
investigation of the matter by the Sem
ate and House District Committees.
Hazen has promised full cooperation if
the investigation is to be made. Watson
is making his reply h response to
decision by HaZen to make an inde-
pendent investigation to determine
what basis there may be for the COM
plants.
The substance Of the complaints is
that Watson has been arbitrary, dis
The complaint was made also that
Watson was made chief of the depart
ment without having served actively as
ically incapacitated.
A closed meeting of members of the
Fire Fighters Association was held last
night. Jameson, whose brother is
president of the association, said the
members present unanimously approved
p resolution OF confidence and thanks
to him for bringing the charges.
Jameson said there were more than
200 firemen present and that it was
the largest attendance of any meeting
since the World War. He said there
was comprehensive discussion of the
subject of complaints, but declined to
say who the speakers were.
The attorney said the meeting was
called because friends of Chief Watson
had intimated there was q connection
between the filing of the charges and
the reported ambition on the part of an
official of the department to succeed
Watson in his job as chief engineer.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
ARMED HOLD-UPS
NET ROBBERS 1915
$12 Worth of Liquor Included
in Drug Store Depre.
dations.

Three armed hold-ups last night net
ted bandits 1868 and $12 worth of
bonded whisky. The victims Of the
depredations included drug store pro-
prietor and the manager of gas sta
ton.
Dr.. Winslow Gauley, who runs q
pharmacy at 4501 Wisconsin avenue,
reported he was sitting in his store with
his clerk. Paxton Roe, about 1890 pm,
when two men entered with drawn
guns. Both he and Roe were forced
into a telephone booth while the ban
dts took 500 from the cash register
and the whisky.
Just after he closed his gas station
at 210l Georgia avenue for the night
Hasker Jones was held up by two armed
colored men and forced to give up $2l0
in cash and a Sc check.
Henry NJ Robbins, 812 Twelfth street,
said he was forced into an automobile
by three men in front of the Annapolis
Hotel They drove to Pennsylvania and
Branch avenues southeast, he told po-
lice, and there took $50 from him.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
CIVIL WORKS Jobs
FOR $4,000
Officials to Put On Unem.
pIoyed or Those Receiving
Aid by End of Week.

District Civil Works Administration
officials today continued their efforts to
map out more worthy improvement pro-
grams to provide additional work for
the unemployed. The objective is to
have at work by the end of the week
approximately $4,000 men and women
who formerly were either unemployed or
on the District relief rolls.
1t is estimated that all the men and
women formerly engaged on made"
work projects under the District emer-
gency relief plan will have been trans
ferred by the week end to steady jobs
under the c. w. A. employment pro-
gram.
5000 Additional Jobs.
Capt H. c. Whitehurst, director of
highways, said 5000 additional workers
would be engaged Friday on highway
Improvements. Some 1000 already have
been assigned to such jobs
The Work-Planning Committee of the
c. w. A., headed by Capt. Howard F.
Clark, yesterday approved a number of
new projects to provide additional work
for men and women in the white collar
class. Upon the request Of DR.. Frank
w. Ballou, superintendent of public
schools. approval was given to the en-
ployment of SO additional clerks in
compiling of school records. These are
new statistical projects and not those
of routine nature conducted in the
past.
More Smithsonian Places.
Some additional workers were assigned
to the Smithsonian Institution. Ten
additional craftsmen and others With
knowledge of engineering subjects are
to be assigned to map-making projects
of the Park and Planning Commission.
Others will be assigned to organize
great mass of statistical data gathered
and Assistant Corporation Counsel VII.
liam A. Roberts, who are making a study
of the reorganization Of the District
government for the Senate District
Committee.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
BOARD ORDERS CUT
IN PHONE CHARGES
81, 200, 900 Annual Reduction
Of Maryland Revenues
to Be Effected.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, Nd, November ga
general reduction in telephone rates in
Maryland and specific reductions in toll
charges In four communities adjacent
to Baltimore were ordered by the Public
Service Commission yesterday, Harold E.
West, chairman, announced.
The new rate schedule which the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
was ordered to file with the commits
sion, will make reduction of $1,000, 900
annually in the company's gross reve-
nues, or S1,000,0N0 in its net revenues.
OF this amount approximately $85, 900
will be involved in the reduction Of
toll charges from 10 cents to cents
in the exchanges at Towson, Cations
vile, Pikesville and Woodlawn. As q
result of the increase in rates following
the 1924 case, these toll charges were
raised from 5 to 10 cents.
Generally, speaking. the reduction
amounts to 10 cents on ST." Mr.. West
explained, but added that "the rate
schedules of the telephone company
are so complicated that 1t is impossible
to say at this time just what form the
reduction will take or in what degree
it will affect the average consumers
bill"
The telephone company must decide
within 10 days whether it will accept
the reductions.
In its order, the commission says
that If the usual methods of determin-
ing value by inventorying and ap-
praisal had been followed, it would
have taken at least two years to COM
plete the case To follow such a plan
would have cost the telephone COM
pany approximately 100000 and the
State a correSpondingly high sum, the
commission pointed out.
Instead, the commission pursued the
method used by the Statutory Court in
finding the value of the company's
property in the 1924 telephone case.
In that case the court took the value
found by the commission in what is
known as the 1916 case, with net addi-
tions at cost to December 81. 1928, and
applied to the total thus found all the
commodities index of the United States
Department of Labor in order to bring
the total of value to the high price
level Of December 81, 1923. The value
found by the court was S29,507 $50.
Certain additions were made to this fig
ure in order to bring up the value as
of December 81, 1924. The value of
that date was fixed at $33,399,530.
Starting with this value, together
with net additions to the company's s
since 1924 to December 81,
1882, at cost. a value Of $48, ,073 435 was
found. To this value 18 separate indices
were applied to show the present-day
value OF the company's property.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
GEORGE RILEY NAMED
MANAGER OF HOTELS
Washington Properties Names
Wardman Park Official to
Succeed Allen.

George " Riley, resident manager of
the Wardman Park Hotel for three
years, has been named to succeed Dis
trict Commissioner George E. Allen, re-
Gently resigned, as manager of hotels
Tor Washington Properties, Inc, Thomas
D. Carson. president OF the company,
announced today. Frank Mayer, who
has been with Wardman Park Hotel for
TWO years, will become resident manager
Mr. Riley has been in hotel business
since demobilization following the
World War and has been connected
with hotels in the United States, West
Indies and Canada. During the IS
years OF his experience Mr.. Riley has
handled all divisions of hotel work.
Mr.. Mayer. who succeeds Mr.. Riley
has been in hotel business for 20 years
and has been connected with Wardman
Park 1or two years. He is an English
man by birth and served as an officer
in the British Navy.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
SALESMAN IS JAILED
ON CHARGES OF GIRL
D. C. Man Is Held at Sixth Pre-.
cinct Station on Complaints
Lodged With Police.

Robert Hicks Afford, 2s-year-old
salesman of the 100 block Eighteenth
street. was being held at the sixth
precinct police station today fo- in
vestigation on complaints lodged by
Miss Dorothy Sammons, 81, of 2894
Fourteenth street.
Miss Sammons told sixth precinct
officers that Afford called for her to
take her to a downtown night club
last night, but drove instead into the
country Returning to Washington, it
was reported to police that the couple
stopped at q barbecue stand on Georgia
avenue and Miss Sammons left the
machine to telephone her mother, Mrs.
Agnes E. Sammons, with whom she
resides at the Fourteenth street address.
Afford, meanwhile. drove away and
left her, Miss Sammons told police, and
she went to the sixth precin-t and
made charges, acting upon which
Patrolmen August R. He.w.g ana
Charles E Riley took Alfcrd into Gus
tody At his home a short time later
and he was identified by Miss Sam
mons.
admitted having been MISS Samm0nS'
companion, but vigorously denied the
charge she made against him
Evening star., 1933-11-29
PUBLIC'S VIEWS ASKED
ON MODES OF TRAVEL
By the Associated Press, /,

BY the Associated Press.
The views of the travelling public on
improvements they would like to see in
passenger transportation are being So
licited by Joseph B. Eastman, Federal
co-crdinator of transportation, who
yesterday began distribution of 100000
ballots covering travel by train. motor
bus, airplane and private automobile to
representative American travellers.
The co-ordinator said he wanted to
ascertain whether travellers want faster
trains; whether they want Transports
ton so co-ordinated that one ticket will
cover all service. including taxicabs or
other transportation from home to the
train and from the train to the final
destination; what changes they feel
necessary in present rail equipment and
to what extent travel might be in
creased II railroad fares and service
we're adjusted in better accord with
the needs of travellers.
Among other things asked in the "a
page ballot was how travellers rate the
advantages Of various forms of paSSen-
ger transportation. the cost Of operat-
ing private automobiles, whether they
travel by airplane, bus or train and
what they think of excursions and spe-
cial tours.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
MAN, rs, is DISCOVERED
DEAD NEAR EASTPORT
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ANNAPOLIS, Md, November 29.--
Deputy sheriffs today are investigating
the death Of Solomon Armatraut, IS,
whose body was found early today near
the rear steps Of his home on the Bay
Ridge road near Eastport. The man
was found lying face down with a
brllise on his head. Police believe he
was murdered.
A junk dealer found the body today,
but Armatraut apparently had been
waylaid and killed last night as he re-
turned from buying groceries. His par
GELS were scattered near where the
body was found and his pockets we're
turned inside out. A lone pen was just
beyond the reach of the mans out
stretched hand.
Armatraut Is a retired brick mason
and has been living q hermit's life for
several years. The motive for the muir
der theory is believed to have been
robbery. II Is said that Armatraut had
a wife and daughter living in Bali-
more.
Evening star., 1933-11-29

their fire hose. While this houseclean-
ing was in progress, the starltngs few
ir great circles, returning from time to
time to see how the firemen were max
ing out. This went on for hours.
The starting offensive was planned
by Clifford Lanham, superintendent Of
District trees and parkingS, who re-
Gently was appointed by the Conlmis-
sioners as chairman of Starting
Nuisance Abatement Committee. The
idea Of sending men into the treetops
came to Mr. Lanham after he had ex-
hausted other resources in three-year
battle against the birds.
The men mounted into the trees on
ladders supplied by the Sewer Depart
ment. Each carried a tin can hlled
with stones and was instructed to WELD
this rattle as long as a starting re-
mained in sight.
Pedestrians passing along the Avenue
paused in amazement, from Seventh to
Fourteenth street.
What's up" they shouted, IN
the name OF heaven, what's up, fel-
ioWS?"
Ignore Wise Cracks.
The men were under instructions to
ignore wisecracks and concentrate on
Evening star., 1933-11-29

starlings, but many could not resist the
opportunity of explaining that they
didn't go around climbing trees for
nothing.
One settled himself on a limb and
told wondering spectators between
rattles that it was his first job in three
years, this thing Of chasing Starlings
from tree tops, and that he expected to
make good in a big way.
Another civil works employe, who
weighed almost 200 pounds, climbed
higher into his tree, than was wise
and, upon descending to a safer level,
became wedged in the crotch of the
tree. 1t took three other employees and
several ladders to get him to the ground
and he was sent home to rest.
One of the most efficient starting
chasers was a man with a cork leg.
He mounted almost to the top of a
tall sycamore near Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and E street and stuck it out to the
end.
Last nights proceedings vii be re-
ceated tonight when the starlings
come back from their feeding grounds
along the Potomac to roOSt in their
chosen city. 1t seems likely they will
be back early. in view of the entertain
ment last night.