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The Washington times., 1933-09-13

by God, right off the very first
night, she says something that
means something"
May Mean Much
Maybe it does and maybe it
DOESN'T" said Durant. But I
called on Levitoff half an hour
ago. I wanted to look him over,
so I pretended that I wanted
a loan on a ring. And he rec
ognized me. He told me to
get out before he called the
police. He knew that I was
working in Siddall's interest.
And all I learned was that I'd
not be able to do anything with
him. I'd hoped that he'd be
the kind of man I could bribe
or frighten. But I'm afraid he
isn't.
"I couldn't make him talk,
but maybe you could. I'm in
favor of due process of law,
Tony, but when man is face
to face with the sort of thing
that you and Crelliman repre-
sent he has to step outside the
law. I never thought the time
would come when I'd ask a
gangSter to use gangster meth
ods to help me in a case. But
I have to. Levitoff will stick
to his story, so far as the po-,
lice are concerned. All the
third degree in the world
wouldn't make him change it.
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be offered a loan, but Crelli-
man didn't give her any money.
But he did suggest the name Of
a pawnbroker. And that pawn
brokers' name was Levitoff.
Does that spell anything to
you, Tony? You say Siddall
killed Montague. But the
clinching evidence, the thing
that proves generalization nd
malice aforethought, is Levi
toff'S evidence that on the day
before yesterday Siddall bought
a revolver from him. Consid-
erable coincidence, isn't it, that
Siddall should have bought a
gun from man evidently
known to Crelliman?"
Gazotti stared at him. God
knows I think you're an able
man, Mr.. Durant. I have rea-
son to know that you're an
able man, that you're the
smartest mouthpiece in Man
haitian. But I swear I thought
you were goofy with all that
chatter about the things she
didn't know she knew. I get
what you mean. You wouldn't
know how to ask her to tell you
those things. You have to wait
until they sort of tumble out
of her mouth; you have to just
chat about this and that, hop
ing she'll say something sooner
or 1ateF that you can use. And
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in the room with me, hanging
up against walls in an attempt
to get out, throws me into a
high powered panic which
makes the bird itself seem
drugged in comparison.
So I was never one of those
children who went in for bird
calls. A ruby-throated gross
beak sounded to me just about
the same as an owl. and I was
perfectly willing to let all the
birds in the world chirp their
throats off so long as they
stayed out of my hair. Live
and let live" has always been
my motto with birds.
But, out here in California.
where I am writing this, the
birds go too far. Like the
Native Sons, they pride them
selves on just being birds. You
would think that no one else
ever WAS a bird, to hear them
at their twirping.
"Boy, am I a bird" they
seem to be saying. "Just get
a load of this!" And then they
90 into a long number like the
two Dodge sisters, who used to
make vaudeville what it was IN
it's declining days. (Sometlme
I would like to go into the
mental processes Of a young
lady who decides deliberately
to be a professional whistler).
Last night I had one OF my
most unpleasant experiences
with birds-or, rather, with a
bird, I am convinced that 1t
was only one bird, for it was
sitting on a bush just outside
my window and there were no
other birds about. CThe Amer
ican Legion has been having a
convention in Pasadena, ana
most of them were over there,
I guess. They are usually ALL
on that bush outside my win
dow. It was the fact that
there was only one bird that
made the whole affair so grue-
some. It was All Birds in One.
I had decfaed to go to bed
early and see now THAT would
work, having tried everything
else to catch up on my sleep,
and had just put the light out
when the thing began. The
night was very still outside,
and I was wishing that the old
sixth Avenue Elevated would
rumble by just once. when a
shrill warble sounded in the
shrubbery below my window
sill.
STEADY, Bob, old mani" I
said to myself, as I leapt out
of bed in a cold sweat. "It's
only a bird. Pull yourself to-
gether!"
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Washington Times
Adventure Club

Our good little club member,
Minnie Di Meglio, 618 Girard
st. N. E., has enrolled TEN
new boys and girls in our
famous gang.
They are: Ann Krogmann,
age 2, 618 Girard st. N. E.;
Marylin Krogman, aged 4;
Rita Krogmann, age 8; Mario
Di Meglio, age 10, 618 Girard
st. N. B.: Emelia Da Meglio,
age 10 (khey must be twins);
Theresa Lusby, age 9, 1905
Fourth st. N. E.; Florence
Lusby, age IL; Warren Lusby,
age IL; Jean Lusby, age 5;
Edward Lusby, age 7.
We are very much obliged to
Minnie and hope all the little
Krogmanns, Di Meglios and
LusbyS like us. We are send
ing them membership cards.
Dorothy Hager, Mt. Rainier,
Md:
81 received your letter asking
Jean Doris LawSOn'S address.
1t is 3789 Thirty-third St., Mt.
Rainier, Md. Her birthday is
October 9. She will be 3 years
old"
Lloyd Carter, 1919 Otis Pl.
N. W.:
81 am sending you a picture
Of my pal, Andrew ClericO,
1905 Otis PI. N. w., and my
self. I have told him about
the fun we have in the club so
many times that he wants to
join. Andry'S birthday is April
2. He will be IL years old.
We are both in the seventh
grade and have stuck together
since the second"
Ruth Jones. Laurel, Md:
81 haven't written in such a
long time that I thought it was
about time wrote. The last
time I sent you a letter you
didn't put it in the paper. 1
wish you would please put this
one in soon. 70. K, Ruthie.)
81 am now 13 years old and
in the first year Of high school.
Tell the club members to write
to me. I have been writing to
one ever since May but 1 haven't
heard from her lately. Some
time soon 1 am going to send
q poem to the club"
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(continued from News Pase)


What did she know that she
didn't know she kneW?"
something that I wanted to
tell you about last night, only
you hadn't come in"
Gazotti grinned. "That was
a stall about me and Lottie
wanting to hit the hay. What
you call tact. I wanted to give
So: a break with Gertie. Me
and Lottie hit the high spots
until five this morning. Was
it pretty important, what you
wanted to tell me?"
"I don't know; it may lead
to something"
"Well, spill it," invited Ga
Eotti.
Durant puffed at a cigarette.
"Some time ago, when Mimi
Montague had quit Siddall, and
before she went back to Crelli-
man, she was hard pressed for
ready money"
Gazotti nodded. "Sure; those
gals won't put it in the bank
or in bonds. It's always in
Newelry."
EXACTLY. And she wanted to
pawn her jewelry. And she did
pawn her jewelry. She asked
Jim Crelliman who was the
most reliable pawnbroker he
knew. She was paving the way
for a touch, thinking she might
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- Bv Arthur Somers Roche
BY Milt Gross
BY Walt Disney
By Rube Goldberg

they read the papers and they'll
figure that if Levitoff was in
court it would be just that
much tougher for Siddall. Some
body wants that broker to fry.
Anything else 1 can do for
you?"
I'm afraid not" said Durant
slowly.
"Ain't it a scream?" said
Tony. 1.-The one night I ought
to be at home. I'm out making
whoopee. Why, maybe if I'd
been in when you phoned, and
grabbed Levitoff, it might have
saved Siddalls life as well as
Levitoff's. I call that funny,
don't you?"
Durant stared at him. my
sense of humor isn't what it
ought to be, Tony, I just can't
get up a great big hearty laugh
over it. And if Crelliman-
let's call him by name-would
have Levitoff killed, how safe
is Gertie WaXted?"
TO Be COntinued)
copyright, 1888, International
Magazine Coz
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screamed. And back at me
came my whistle, only just a
little bit louder.
I think that I must have
tainted, for, when 1 awoke,
the sun (adv. Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce) was
streaming through the window
and was alone. The Bird to
End All Birds had flown, doubt
less after a hearty laugh and
a couple of limitations of Fan.
ME Brice.
I am moving today to the
top floor of the tallest hotel in
town, and to an inside room.
From now on, if any birds
want to work out on me, they
will have to ask at the desk
downstairs and be announced.
Copyright 1888. King FeatuEss
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
Good Wishes

Members Of the Adventure
Club celebrating their birth
day anniversary today are
Eva ChumOs, 1880 Four
teenth st. N. w.; Ruth Duff,
939 New York Ave. N. w.;
Ann Winebiren, 915 New
York Ave. N. w., and LO-
retta Breeden, Alexandria,
Va.
Many happy returns, chill
dren.
The Washington times., 1933-09-13
BIRD LORE
BY ROBERT BENCHLEY-

I am not much of a boy for
birds. They frighten me just a
little. Out in the trees they
are all right, as I seldom get
up into a tree myself unless I
am very nervous; but bird at
close range has got me COM
pletely cowed. And bird loose
Evening star., 1933-10-01
ul WasI,,nasnnI..t>.

Here he must have been satisfactory. for he
to manage the Chicago Americans in 1901.
managed the New York Americans, and the
Cincinnati Nationals from 1909 to 1910. In
1895 his batting average was .3l9, and he
pitched TIA per cent Of victories in 1901 In
1902 he led the American League pitchers
fielding record with 986.
1t is further said that he was educated in
the Illinois Normal High School and in Wes-
leyan University in Bloomington. On Decem-
Der 30 1900 he married Miss Ann Robertson.
who was born In Scotland Mr.. Griffith IS the
son of Isiah Grifith a Virginian. and Sarah
Ann (Wrght) Griffith, who born In In
diana He is descended from John Grifhth, an
officer in the Revolutionary War. on his pater-
nal side, and on his maternal side is of May
flower ancestry.
Since 1911 Mr.. Griffith has made his home
in Washington and has thoroughly identified
himself with the city and its interests He is
a member of the Board of Trade, Chamber
of Commerce, Racquet Club, Columbia Coun-
try Club. Indian Spring Golf Club. Columbia
Heights Citizens Association, Harmony Lodge,
No IT, F. A. A. M and B. P. o. E.. No. Is.
TO many, Grifith's Stadium, some call
it, is merely ball field. but to the older
more for, in some cases. it carries him back
to Civil War days when Campbell Hospital
occupied a part Of these grounds. Indeed
there many who do not recall the Civil
War, but who do remember some Of the old
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higher r-placed men are involved"
\ IIXON pondered that as he drove. Il get
the general idea" he said at last. "Your
D. A. may be honest, and he may not be.
Anyhow, he's sent cut general alarm, and the
State police, naturally, the lookout,
while the city cops are doing a little prowling
for themselves.
If your nephew had stayed here in the car
the State men would have him back to Gailee
couldn't do anything else. He could be
knocked off there easy enough What's he 60
ing to do about it? Take it lying DOWN."
Hardly. I'm getting him out of harms
way, and I'm visiting my cousin, Senator
Booraugh, for a conference. Well see that
change of venue takes the case away from Cali
lee. Four men are involved now, and when
once have them safely out of town. some one
will be sure to break and turn States evidence.
That will end the gang rule that we've had for
I don't know how many years.
You're an optimist, ma am. But I can
you stand good chance to get this chief and
his pals, if the Senator agrees"
He'd better she said, grimly.
"Yesm, I think so myself You know, you
could have been suspicious of me, and won-
dered whether wouldn't see chance to turn
you over to the chiefs mob. There'd be
lot of money in it for me-
II hadn't thought of that" the dowager
snapped. Then, after pause II forgot you're
not really one of my people-just pickup.
I ought to be frightened" i. !tI-t
Nixon chuckled. 'Yes'm. but you're not"
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Napoleon
Continued from Third Page.

eventually crowned her as Empress Of France.
and made her, SO to speak, the first lady Of
all Europe. But their life didn't run smoothly
D AFFLED by her caprices, Napoleon got to
y casting rowing eye about among the fair
women who were constantly ready to throw
themselves at the feet of emperor, and his
love affairs became a minor scandal jose
phne was wildly extravagant and the people
of Paris used to remark that it cost more to
keep her clothed in style than it did to sup
port an army corps in the field.
At last the break came 1t was caused not
so much by personal differences as by Ma
poleons desire to make a marriage which
would cement his dynasty, and to get a male
heir to his throne-Josephine having no sons
Josephine was divorced, and Napoleon married
Marie Louise of Austria.
There is in existence pathetic letter. writ
ten by Josephine to Napoleon at the time of
their final separation. Napoleon had evidently
just written to her Josephine's reply reads:
"A thousand, thousand tender thanks for
not having forgotten me. There is not q
word in it which does not make me weep :.
Be happy! Be it as much as you deserve it;
it is my entire heart that speaks to you. You
have also given me my share Of happiness
and share very wildly felt; nothing can
equal the value for me of a mark of your
remembrance.
"Adieu, my friend; I thank you as tenderly
as I shall always love you"
Years later. his empire and his love affairs
all swept away by the overturn that followed
Waterloo. Napoleon lay dying on distant g..
Helena He was in delirium, his ebbing
mind had wandered back to the great old
days; and he raised himself on his bed toI
last desperate gasp
France! Armee! Tete d'Arn,ee!
Josephine!" Then he died
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his remarkable constitution intact to the last.
of any dog He went for 2o-mile rambles
along the banks of the Potomac and the old
c. & O. Canal, and was an enthusiastic search
er-out Of hidden wild flowers 1t was said that
he knew every arbutus plant along the river
banks for miles. Much of his money went in
helping out his cronies who lived on the river
and canal banks. In all his life he never fished
or killed any game
A least near old-;imer is William G. Belts,
WaShingtons we'll known National League
umpire Of 1894 1895 and 1899 who served with
the American League in 1901. Billy" as his
friends call him, still l-oks good, even if he
has been retired for age from the Navy Yard
where he was employed for many years when he
was not umpiring games the circuit For a
long time after giving up professional umpiring
ne was frequently to be seen serving in SINH
lar capacity for Washington amateur teams
and Is still as enthusiastic over the game as
any one could possibly be. The chances are
that he and Billy Wise will take in the world
series and root for Washington as Justify as
any two youngsters there.
Perhaps just word about Clark Calvin
League base ball club, might be interesting
First OF all, he was born on November 20, 1869
IN Vernon County Mo. and therefore we could
hardly consider him along with the early ball
Players mentioned. although he did break into
professional base ball as far back as l893 when
ne began pitching for the Chicago Nationals
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Their lane came out of the hills to a paved
road. She called to him sharply. Wait!
Look here we're back on the Galilee turnpike.
Did you know that?" Her voice was definitely
accusing
. QEFORE he could reply motor cycle head
y light appeared around nearby curve and
charged toward them. Nixon switched on his
searchlght and the beam fell brightly upon a
khaki-clad policeman, bent low over handle
bars. In the side car hatchet-faced man
in civilian clothes half stood with heavy
weapon supported across his chest
"A tommy gun!' Nixon yelled. "Duck!"
He gave the car all the speed it had. For an
instant Nixon saw the fellow in the side car
trying with panic-struck haste to get his gun
into position The next instant the motor
cycle crashed into ditch and overturned, and
the heavy car swept around the bend and
by a miracle of driving kept on the asphalt.
Il like your driving, Alfred" the dowager
was saying. The other Lawdry is a turtle.
I'll keep him for fashionable calls, but you'll
drive me South this Winter"
Nixon came back to normal life with a
start "Yesm. I need job
you've got one. Runnymede is just ahead.
Slow down."
You didn't duck. maam,' he said re-
proachfully
"Duck!" She laughed I'm too old for
acrobatics. Besides, wanted to see. There's
State police station at Runnymede Porter
Stop there and tell the men that Walter Was
serman ex-chief of the Galilee police, must
have broken out of Jail, because he's in the
ditch behind us. saw him fall out OF the
side car"
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tions having been perfected. the word was
given to play, and the boys went at it in fine
style. The playing was good on both sides,
many fine strikes runs and catches being made.
On the part of the Potomac Club, MesSrs.
Wood, Trook, Hartley and Bigger batted ex-
ceedingly well, and Mr. Mitchell exhibited
splendid running often making base while
the ball was passing from the thrower to the
catcher
"Of the National Club Messrs Wright, Hibbs,
German and Brown made excellent strikes and
very fine runs The best catch of the day
made by Mr.. Dooley of the Nationals fly
catch in the left field from a splendid strike
by Mitchell Messrs. Hibhs and Bigger won
golden opinions on all hands as easy and even
pitchers: while the catchers-Messrs Smed-
berg and Gorman-occupied their difficult posts
with honor"
ONE of the outstanding players in Wash
~ ington's early base ball history is Henry
Harry w. Berthrong a departmental clerk.
who played here on the White Lot during
the COS. He was an outnelder and could
run like a deer. Indeed before me is an item
which states that on July g. 1868. on bet
with Congressman John Morrissey of New
York-who. by the way, was the champioa
heavyweight boxer of the world in 1858-he
ran the bases from home to home. 800 feet
In 14H seconds. Further, 1t Is said he was
never beaten in Is 100-yard foot races He
was q member of the Washington team that
made the famous western tour Of 1867. Ouf
distinguished citizen and grand old man. John
Joy Edison, married Elizabeth, sister to Harry
Berthrong, and tells me that Harrys brother
Is visiting the East and will probably be in
Washington soon. The new building Of the
Department of Agriculture at the southeast
0f nd
covers the site of the early Washington home
Of Mr. Edison, which the city dh ectory Of many
years ago gives as 1870 street.
In the early days music had its charms,
just it soothes and pleases today, and SO.
when the National Club made its famous tour
in 1867, when it lost but one game, Mrs.
Bodell of Washington composed a piece called
the Home Run Polka" A picture Of the dia-
moud, the club house. and what then
probably the dugout is shown on the title
page Mrs. Bodell could not be traced in the
city directories. However, the picture is es-
pecially interesting since it probably shows
the earliest views of a Washington ball field.
Joseph J. Gerhardt another native Wash
ingtonian. born here in 1885, distinguished
himself the diamond in the early days
During 1869 to 1872 he played with the
Creighton Juniors Of this city and went with
the Nationals the following year. He was with
the Lord Baltimores in 1874, the Mutuals
IN ", 1875; Louisvilles, 1851; Cincinnati,
1878-79; Scanlons team Of Washington, 1880.
and the Detroits 1881. In 1883 and 1884 he
played with the Louisvilles, with the New York
Nationals in 1866; the Metropoitans, 1887;
Hartford. 186s-S9; St. Louis, 1890; Brookland
part Of the same year. and Albany 1891. His
highest batting average seems to have been
.3O3. which he made in 1878
little over three years ago Washington lost
one Of its old landmarks" in base ball when
Robert McC!elland Barr, or Bob" Barr, as he
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was called. passed into the great beyond
His base ball history began with the Ale
gheny team in the American Association in
1885, from there he went to Indianapolis. and
thence to Washington, which he reached in
1884, and remained here until 1888. In 1889
he went to Rochester, where he remained until
1890, and this seems to have ended his pro-
fessional base ball career. At the time of his
death The Star said:
Bob was born en- December %, 1856, and
he was in his 74th year when he lost his last
decision. He had been given two extensions
OF the regular retirement age account of
his extraordinary abilities as research clerk in
the Engineer Department. He had photo
graphic memory for handwriting, and could
identify ancient documents with unfailing ac-
curacy frem any few lines of writing whether
there were any signatures or other identifi-
cation marks. He would have been automat-
eally retired, under the present retirement law.
next December 28 !. 49, i' a. 3D.
AN extremely active. outdoors man, he kept
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PICKUP -Cmt;nued From Fourth Page

Thomas. But neither of us believes the pro-
lection that even an honest official could give
would be adequate We think that other and
higher placed men involved"
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