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The Washington times., 1933-08-02
DIR. E. STOLYHOWO

a woman, was as amazed as DR..
Hrdlicka and aided him in max
ing a minute inspection of the
brass necklace.
Neither made any scientific
comment, but DR.. Hrdlicka did
say:
"It just goes to show what
fools the human race can make
of ITSELF"
DR.. Stolyhwo, in answer to a
question, admitted that Mu is a
fair example of how women will
torture themselves in the name of
beauty.
Freaks Are Killed
After the. inspection was all
over, DR.. Hrdlicka reminded cir
Gus representatives who accom-
panied the Burmese woman that
the Smithsonian was an Amert-
can institution for the use of
Americans, and invited them to
bring in any future interesting
specimens of mankind they might
find.
Mu is appearing at the four
performances which the circus
will play here today and tomor-
row at Fifth Street and Florida
Avenue Northeast.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
DIR. HRDLICKA
BONDS SOUGHT.
BY MORTGAGE

A mortgage holder appeared at
the District branch of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation today
and asked to be given the corpora
tons bonds for a mortgage she
holds.
The owner Of the property, now
trying to refinance it through the
mortgage holders, did not know
the mortgage holder was making
the request the first of it's kind
to be made to any of the offices
of the corporation, so far as is
known here.
Paul j. F'rizzell, assistant man
ager of the District office, to
whom the request was made, sent
the woman to see the owner and
have him file an application for a
loan.
Mr.. Frizzell said this was in
dicative of the complete about
face being done by mortgage
holders. 1t is a foregone conclu-
sion, according to real estate eX-
perts, that the corporations bonds
will be placed on the open market
and will be in demand. Original
antipathy toward them has prac-
tically disappeared, he said.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02

cal Parisienne" will have to think up new tricks The
new law, pretending to confer right would deprive
women of their older, important rights, and if
French women want to be mysterious, seductive and
possessed of the devil they had better to it that no
more of these "rights" are granted to them
Sue and Be Sued
The privileged letter is only the thin side of the
wedge The whole idea of obedience and slavery to
husbands whims is being abandoned Women are
10 nave the right to practice profession without the
consent of their husbands and to get passports without
ms approval; they will be permitted to appear in
lawsuits, as defendant plaintiff very dubious
Egnt-and to have bank accounts in their names.
beIore they know they will have the right to vote
and all will be over between them.
1t is strange that after American got the
the energetic propaganda of the feminiss to
reduce women to the level of in industry. 1
understood the argument and it is too late now, be-
cause what we couldn't do by propaganda can, ap-
parenty, do by Codes But cannot see why femnists
chose to envy the least interesting and the least dgn
fled of rghtsthe right to work too long and too hard
For if overwork is to be thing of the past what
exactly will want next in the name of equality?
should like to know also whether French women
prefer the right to secret letters to the right to make
scene There ought to be plebscite this choice
AIso are French powerful in politics they
supposed to be-as you think they are from read
ing the scandalous histories of ministers and
presidents and generals? If they have this indirect
power, they willing to forswear it in favor of the
right to and be sued in the courts? Or would they
rather hear more about it?
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
D. {. To EXTEND
RELIEF WORK

Cheered by the promise of fur
ther Federal aid for local relief
work, the emergency relief COM
rnittee of the Board of Public Wei
fare today is going ahead with
plans for extension and coordina-
ton of its work.
The committee, meeting last
night, was informed of a second
Federal grant, of $l73,353, for To-
cal relief. The first grant was
approximately $4,000.
The committee decided to in
crease its weekly expenditures of
relief funds from $4,000 to $780,
900. Branch stations for receiv-
ing applications for relief will be
established in Georgetown an d
southeast Washington to lessen
congestion at the present office
at John Marshall Place and c
Street northwest.
These plans were suggested by
Alan Johnstone, field representa-
tive of the Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administration. Johnstone's
suggestions, all of which will be
carried out, included:
All relief administration to be
entrusted to one authority, the di-
vision of emergency relief of the
Board of Public Welfare. Work
of the committee on employment
to be covered into the relief ad-
ministration.
Local units of relief administra-
tion to be competent to do the job
of investigation and certificatiCn,
issuance of direct relief, job place
ment, supervision Of work, relief
personnel, and meeting of payrolls.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
MU KAUM
MU KAUM DR.. E. STOLYHOWO
Smithsonian Scientist, Used to Far Off Places,
Views Craffe-Necked Woman Because
Appropriation Says: mo Globe Trotting

DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, note anthro-
pologist of Smithsonian Institu-
ton, who has travelled over the
world, seeking to learn the origin
of man, had the novel experience
today of sitting in his office and
viewing something new.
Ordinarily in summer, DR.. Hrd-
licka is far from the beaten paths
of civilization, delving in the for
gotten places. This year, however,
Congress failed to appropriate
any money for scientific eXpedi-
tions, and he remains in Washing
ton.
Greatly Impressed
So today he saw something he
had missed in his travels, and he
was admittedly interested.
The something was MuKaum,
the giraffe-neck woman from
Burma, who is here with Hagen
beck-Wallace Circus.
DR.. Hrdlicka was so impressed
with the sight of the little brown
skinned woman weighted down
and distorted by her 40-pound
brass-ringed necklace he called
called in DR.. E. Stolyhwo, a noted
anthropologiSt, of the National
Anthropological Institution, War
saw, Poland, who is in Washing
ton studying with the Smithson-
ian authority.
DR.. Stolyhwo, who incidently is
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
OUTSIDE BUYING
BLOW To D, {.

Disclosing a startling leakage Of
$2O,OOO,OOO in Washington trade
money annually, w. H. Brown,
director of the Buy-In-Washington
movement, today told the Opti.
mist Club at the Hamilton Hotel
that elimination of the "outside
buying" evil would be a major
step in the restoration of prosper
ity to local merchants and bust.
ness men.
over $1,OOo,OOO is spent annual
ly outside of the District for pur-
chase of automobiles, $5,000,000
for outside printing, and $1,247,.
600 in mail orders for clothing,
shoes, etc., Brown declared.
Local contractors, builders and
supply houses reported a loss Of
$13,000,000 last year due to con-
tracts and supplies going to out
side sources which had a decidedly
detrimental effect on labor, Brown
pointed out.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
WORKS POLICIES
. .F|XEDFORD.C {.

Secretary of the Interior Har-
old L. Ickes, Public Works Ad-
ministrator, yesterday sent to the
District Commissioners COM
plete set of rules and regulations
explaining policies which will be
followed by the Public Works
Administration in dealing with
the District of Columbia.
The regulations explained at
length how the Commissioners
must apply for public works
funds and answer many impor-
tant questions as what type of
project the Administration will
approve.
The District Commissioners,
Administrator IckeS has ruled,
will be dealt with directly and
may submit public works appli-
cations without going through an
advisory board as do the States.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
JURY CHARGES
NJ M'AVOY WITH
MURDER
Ninth st. Pool Room Shooting
To Be Aired in Court;
Siuma Chi Head Held

First degree murder was charged
against Charles McAvoy, 81, OF
the 600 block Eleventh st. N. E.,
in an indictment returned today
by the District Grand Jury as a
result of the fatal shooting OF
Frank Snow, 80, in a pool parlor
in the TOO block Ninth st. N. W"
on July 18.
McAvoy and a bystander,
Charles Neil, were wounded in the
melee, which started over an ar
gunent about woman.
During an inquiry into the
shooting by a Coroner's Jury last
week, a near fist fight occurred
between Acting Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald and Attorney
Jesse C. Duke, who represented the
Snow family and who was refused
the right to ask certain questions
in cross-examination of witnesses.
Duke, seeking a Congressional in.
vestigation, charged Macdonald
was attempting to "whitewaSh"
Policeman U. F. Gail, who figured
in the shooting.
Faces Arson Charge
Arson was charged against Al
fred H. Smith, 26, president, and
Edward j. partition, %, member Of
the local chapter of Sigma Chi
fraternity, in connection with the
fire which virtually destroyed the
building in the 1900 block N st.
N. w. on July 9.
Accused of beating six boys at
the Anacostia golf course with the
butt of his revolver July Z, Park
Policeman Vernon o. Goltry was
accused of assault with a danger
Gus weapon in two indictments.
The policeman, apparently Ia
boring under a delusion that q
brother officer had been killed,
approached the boys and de-
manded to know "Who killed Bick-
ford" The boys were Mortified
and remained silent. The police
man was charged with shooting
one boy, James Ellis, IS, 1900 block
v St. S. E., in the foot and in
flicting severe head cuts on Alfred
F. Stowell, 19, 1900 block w st.
S. E.
Held In Stabbing
An indictment charging second
degree murder was returned
against Charles Thomas, 81, col
ored, in connection with the stab
(Continued on Page 19, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
'NUD|STCO[0NY'
Of ONE SEIZED

Charged with being a zone man
nudist colony" August A. Bret
scher, of the 21OO block of H st.
N. w., who was arrested yesterday
afternoon in Beverly Hills Subdivi-
sion, near Alexandria, Va, by Pa
trolmen McClary and Stuart on
formal charges of indecent con-
duct. was given a 60-day suS-
pended Jail sentence and ordered
to stay out of Virginia by Judge
w. S. Snow in the Alexandria po-
lice court today.
According to the policemen,
they found Bretscher naked in the
woods. When he appeared for
trial in police court today he was
cald only in a bathing suit. One
of the policemen took him to the
home of a friend where he OBJ
tained clothing.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
All CauI Is Divided

In Chicago the Belgians have just celebrated an in
vason of their countrynot the invasion by the Ger
in 1914 but the invasion by the Italians in the
year 81 B. C. This last is better known to boys and
girls part of the Gallo undertaken by Caius
Julius Caesar, and it to that if the to
be commemorated (by the defeated nation) the
dispatches which Caesar wrote and which children
have to translate ought to be celebrated also. 1t is
question whether high school students
suited when the Begians decided on their festival
Out of Caesar the Belgians derived their first and
best recommendation: "Of all these the bravest
the Belgians 1t took 1871 years before the world
recognized the simple truth which Caesar recorded
but when we got round to did it with greater ad
vanages of publicity than Caesar had, and it is
hard now to write Belgium without throwing in the
word "heroc' or, for second best, "starvng Caesar
may have exaggerated the proWess of his enemies in
order to make his work appear pretty good but
our modern report the Belgians pure admira-
ton and sympathy.
Brief and Good
Yet the chances are that in few centuries Caesars
brief remarks will be remembered and millions of
words will be forgotten. In spite of what the school,
boys think Caesar wrote simple, clean report of what
had occurred (not forgetting the part played by Julius
war correspondents could accomplish AS for the gen.
erals, they too busy apologizng to give
rative which boys in Teheran so generations hence will
have to read-cursng under their breath at the beast
illness of the strange foreign language known English
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
FUND INCREASE
SAVES JOBS IN
COMMERCE
Coast and GeodetiC Enabled to
Keep 1000 Employed in
Its Field Work
By DUNCAN FORSYTH

More jobs will be made avail
able in the Commerce Depart
ment, it was announced today,
trough a slight increase in the
budgets of the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce,
the Census Bureau and the Bu-
reau of Mines, and through allot-
ment, it was announced today,
the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
The Director of the Budget
has permitted the expenditure
of $4,000 for the three bureaus
first named over the next six
months, saving the jobs of about
100 employees. Possibly SO more
in Washington, and nearly 1000
in the field, will be retained in
their jobs through a $2,500,000
allotment of Public Works
money to the Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
The $4,000 allotment to the
Census Bureau, Bureau of Mines,
and Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce was made at
the instance of Gen. Hugh S.
Johnson, recovery administrator,
it is said, because he considered
their statistical work too import.
ant to be allowed to lapse. Di-
rector Willard L. Thorp and AS
sistant Secretary John Dickinson
are now working out a plan for
better utilization of the depart
ment's commodity divisions by
General Johnson.
The allotment of $2,500,000 to
the Coast and Geodetic Survey
will be made primarily to survey
the tributary waters of the At
lantic and Gulf coasts and to
modernize charts.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
True to TYPE
French Freedom, Heroic BeIgians and Caesar
BY GILBERT SELDES-

If the of France aren't careful they will soon
lose all their most cherished liberties and sink to the
level Of such uncivilized women as Americans A med
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
COngresSn1dn's Pen
Stolen From Auto

Representative Charles D.
Truax CD, of Ohio, has asked
police to find his fountain pen
and to apprehend the person who
stole it from his car parked in a
garage in the first block OF Third
Street Southwest yesterday.
The pen is valued by Mr.. Truax
at $3.50.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
OPTIMISM SEEN
AS INSIGNIA
ARE TAKEN
Retail Hardware Association
To Discuss Code Friday
At MayfIoWer Hotel

AS more and more washington
employers pledged allegiance to
the Presidents recovery program
today, more and more persons
who have been jobless for months
were going back to work.
At l o'clock it was estimated
that 400 blue eagle insignia had
been distributed since $50 A. NJ,
when the special window In the
Postoffice Department Building
was opened.
These added to yesterdays esti-
mated 800 brought the total
number of Washington employers
pledged to obey the national re-
covery code and all it signifies
to 1900, one-tenth of the total
anticipated.
Ugly Rumors Heard
Ugly rumors were in the air
today as the employers and their
representatives passed before the
window. Some charged that
competitors were obeying the
spirit of the code in taking on
extra workers, but were cutting
wages of old employees.
These charges, however, could
not be pinned down and on the
whole the adults in the line were
optimistic of better times. Most
seemed enthused with the spirit
of the new deal.
Announcement was made today
that the Retail Hardware Asso-
citation of the District, branch
of the national organization, will
meet Friday at 9 a. m. at the
MayfloWer to discuss code.
Taxicab Code Seen
It also was announced that
W. w. Cloud, of Baltimore, presi-
dent of the National Association
of Taxicab Owners, submitted the
taxicab operators code to Brig.
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA di-
rector, during the morning.
Throughout the city yesterday
the coveted blue eagle insignia
were displayed in show windows
an more were appearing hourly
today.
Just how many persons we're
employed by the 300 employers
who signed the pledge of ale
glance and obtained the emblem
of their act yesterday was not
known.
It was pointed out, however,
that if each employer took on
only one unemployed person 300
persons were put back to work
yesterday.
$4,000 Is Estimate
The Washington Post Office,
which is handling the distribu-
toin of the emblems at the Ben
jamin Franklin station in the
Post Office Department Building,
estimates that there are 10000
employers in Washington and
the area served by its branches
who come under the scope of the
National Recovery Administra-
tons code.
1t was pointed out, however,
that the full effect of the code
operation in Washington will not
be felt until after September
when many department stores
and other business establishments,
now operating on the 40-hour
week because of Saturday closing,
will resume full time business on
52-hour week basis.
In the grocery business, how
ever, the expansion of employ.
ment already is under way. An
index of the scope Of this was
given by Edward G. Younger,
president Of the Sanitary Grocery
Company, Inc, in the announce
ment that between 800 and 400
clerks are to be added to the
1900 now on the payroll.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
PURSE IS STOLEN

Miss Sarah Frances Mckee,
1900 block Mckinley st. N. W.,
told police her pocketbook con-
tanning $25, was stolen late yes
terday while she was in a rest
room at the Potomac Boat Club.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02

dlesome senator has introduced a
bill giving French women the
fright" to receive letters through
the mails without having these let
ters opened by their husbands. The
senator is we'll meaning and has
probably heard a great deal about
the freedom" of Anglo-American
wives, but if French women are as
clever as they seem, they will fight
to the last ditch against this out
rage. The fun of getting letters
which husband may open, and of
seeing that he never gets a chance
to open them, will be gone. The
whole system of social life will be
wrecked.
The drama will suffer and for
OF to 41,Vo;
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-11
UNCLE WIGGILYS STICKY
TRICK

Where are we going, Uncle Wig
gily?" asked Molasses Molly, the
little monkey girl, as she hoped
along beside the rabbit gentleman
through the woods, over the fields,
up hill and down hill one day.
You are coming to stay for a
while in my hollow stump bunga-
low" said Mr.. Longears kindly.
You are coming to visit me and
Nurse Jane, and Mrs. Longears
and all my bunny boys and girls. y
And Baby Bunty?' asked Molly.
"Oh, yes, Baby Bunty!" chuck
led Mr.. Longears. Il am sure you
and she will be great friends
YES" said Molasses Molly, and
she was feeling so jolly about going
on a visit to Uncle Wiggily that
she never though it strange that
a monkey girl should go and live
with some rabbits.
But it was a bit strange and the
reason Molly was coming to visit
Uncle Wiggily was that the rabbit
gentleman hoped to cure Molly of
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-11
BEDTIME STORIES
By HOWARD e. GARRIS
Copyright 1892, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)

ses!' thought Molly to herself. Il
can't wait another minute. But how
can I get away from playing tag
long enough to sneak into Uncle
Wiggily's pantry and get some of
his molasses? I know! I'll start a
game of hide and go seek. And
when I run away to hide I'll hop
into the pantry and stick my paw
in the molaSseS jar
Poor Molasses Molly She didn't
remember that she had promised,
not only her father and mother,
but also Uncle Wiggily, never to
take molasses in this way. Molly
was SO hungry for molasses that
she didn't much mind what she
did.
So she said: Lets play hide and
go seek instead of tag" and they
did and when Jangle closed her
eyes and counted, away the animal
children ran to hide, Molly ran
straight for the pantry and, seeing
the molasses jar, she stuck in her
paw to get some of the sweet stuff.
1t was easy enough to put her
paw into the jar, but when she
tried to pull her paw out she
couldn't! Her paw was stuck fast
to the bottom of Nurse James mo-
lasses jar and, pull as she did, Mol
ly couldn't get loose.
Forgetting all about hiding in the
game, Molly began to chatter and
cry and out of the pantry she ran.
She almost ran into Uncle Wiggily,
who, thinking something like this
might happen, was waiting outside
the door.
whats the matter, Molly?" ask
ed the rabbit gentleman, trying not
to smile as he saw Molly with her
paw stuck in the jar What is it?"
"Oh. l wanted some molasseS SO
much" cried Molly, that I couldn't
wait and stuck my paw in Nurse
James jar, but now I can't get it
cut. Why is that, Uncle Wiggily?"
Because I played a sticky trick
on you," said Mr.. Longears. Il put
some glue in the jar instead OF
molasses to catch you. Oh, Molly!
It's too badi"
Cant I ever get my paw out of
the jar?" asked Molly.
"Oh, yesl" said Uncle Wiggily "It
you promise never again to take
molasses I'll help you. So Molly
promised. Then Mr.. Longears pour
ed warm water into the jar and
this softened the sticky glue SO
Molly could pull out her paw which
she washed in the bath room. Then
she played games with the rabbit
children and her name was changed
. back to Matilda and after that
whenever she wanted molasses, she
asked her mother, who gave her as
much as was good for her.
And if the can opener doesn't
pull off the rag dolls stockings to
make roller skates for the gold fish,
I'll tell you next about Uncle Wig
gily flying high.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-11
Editorial Page
and
Features
THEY WILL BUILD ANEW

Asst night as the sun sank into the
Il Pacific, its parting rays shone over
the metropolitan area of Los Angeles,
where thousands were sitting down to
their evening meal, or hurrying home
ward, bothered by nothing more than a
temporary shortage in money and ac-
cepting that situation in the fine spirit
that the American people have shown
in the past 10 days.
This morning the same sun rose on a
scene of utter desolation and havoc. with
hundreds killed, thousands injured and
property damaged to the extent of un-
known millions.
The few short hours between sunset
and sunrise saw nature, mans best
friend and most terrifying enemy, in one
of her latter roles, as she unloosed her
fury in a series of spaSms that shook the
earth again and again, toppling buildings
as though made of cardboard, and
spreading death and destruction.
Few though the hours were, they were
hours of terror as men and women
rushed to and fro, seeking for loved ones,
trying to salvage something from their
homes, and through it all inwardly
stricken with horrible fear as they
were overwhelmed by the awfulness of
it all.
To say that the rest of California and
the entire world sympathize with the peo-
pie of the stricken area is not necessary.
At such times men are brought to a
common level. With the first shock of
their terror moving into the past there
comes, even among the victims them
selves, splendid effort to help. This
effort is contagious, spreading far and
near as men rally TO the aid of their
stricken fellows, backing up their SYM
pathy with material assistance.
Disaster such as the present one brings
out the noblest traits in men and women.
There are a few cases where it brings
out the worst, but such instances are SO
far in the minority as to be inconse-
quential.
Mans ability to rally from such trag-
edy is indeed remarkable. Sorely strick-