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The Washington times., 1934-02-08
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FROM CONSTIPATION

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The Washington times., 1934-02-08
Firen1en Seeking Lot
For NeLU FirehONSe

Members of the Upper Marlboro
Volunteer Fire Department today
circulated petitions in the town
and vicinity for signatures in their
drive to have the Prince Georges
county government give them q
lot for a new firehouse.
The department is asking for a
50-foot frontage on the parking
lot adjoining the county court
house on which to build a hall
offered by James R. Durity, Of
Bladensburg Road. Members will
present their petitions at the
Tuesday meeting of the commiS-
SionerS, it was said.
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
been wounded and two Dalton
gangsters lay dead that the way
to the gold was opened.
Loot Hidden Is Days

Loot Hidden Is Days
For IS days the loot remained
hidden in the cave while posses
combed the area, frequently
brushing past the very spot. But
it never was recovered and even
tually was smuggled into Mexico
camouflaged as groceries.
Marchetti came to this country
Italy at the age of IL in the
steerage. He studied engineering
until he was 25. 1t was the al
Turing tale of two men-members
of the Dalton gang-that easy
money could be his for the ask,
ing that led him into a life OF
crime when he was drifting about
St. Louis, broke.
Tall, slightly bald and looking
like anyone but man who has
spent his most precious years in
prison. Marchetti today summed
up his future:
I've certainly found out that
crime doesn't pay. I've served
my time; I've wiped the slate
clean, and / still want to try
to be successful in the few years
I've got left. Remember, I'm
63 years old.
81 want everybody to know
that I'm going straight. Too
manv times the authOritieS
plague former criminals to such
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
TAKOMA PARK
CLUB FIGHTS
FOR JOBLESS
Democrats Rap Town Officials
For Failure to Get All
Work Under CWA

Much bitter discussion is being
heard in Takoma Park since it
has become known that the
Mayor and Town Council have
taken steps to obtain q CWA
grant which will take care Of
only Is of the towns unemployed
for about six weeks.
In a letter Of application sent
to CWA officials in Rockville, the
Mayor and Council asserted they
had no extensive projects on
hand which would fit in with
their budget.
A. short time ago a special
committee was appointed by the
Young Mems Democratic Club OF
Takoma Park to survey the
needed improvements and submit
q list to the town officials. This
list was submitted at the last
Town Council meeting with an
appeal to the officials to take
steps to obtain CWA funds, and
give relief to the 1S0 registered
unemployed residents Of TakOma
Park.
A financial statement read at
the meeting showed the town to
have about $4,000 on hand, a
large part or all Of which could
be used for the purchase of mate
rials. In addition to this, A. w.
Mellen, Takoma Park resident, Of
fered to donate stone from his
quarry for improvements.
F. Byrne Austin, chairman Of
the special committee appointed
by the Young Mems Democratic
Club, will hold a public meeting
at his home in the 200 block Will
low Ave. tonight. He has invited
local residents and county and
CWA officials to participate in a
round-table discussion Of the un-
EMPLOYMENT situation,
The Washington times., 1934-02-08

Regular pain is out. So is even the
discomfort at this time. That's a
fact, and it's just too bad for the
girl who hasn't learned how she
can keep her dates, and keep COM
Portable. Simply do this:
Watch the calendar. Just before
YOUR time, take Midol tablet and
drink glass of water, and you may
escape the expected pain entirely.
If not, a second tablet should check
it in Sepen to ten minutes. That IS
how rapidly this remedy worksl
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
HARRY PILLEN CASHING CHECK FOR
REP. PRENTISS M. BROWN

the bank to draw on as regular
checking accounts are turning
more and more toward the latter
practice.
According to Kenneth Romney,
sergeant-at-arms, who for IA
years during Democratic and Re-
publican administrations served
as the banks cashier, the number
Of accounts has practically
doubled in the past year.
Generally speaking. it's appear
ance is similar to that of any
commercial banking house.
Romney. under whose personal
direction the bank is operated, is
from Montana. Harry Pillen, who
served as assistant cashier for IA
years and as cashier for three, is
from Ohio. John Oberholser, as
Sistant cashier, is a native of Penn
Sylvania, while Mrs. Elizabeth
Mitchell and Frank Mahoney,
bookkeeper, came to the bank
from Tennessee and New York, re-
Spectively.
The Washington times., 1934-02-08

Proudly bearing the distinction
of being the only institution in
the country which offered COM
plete banking facilities during the
banking holiday last March, the
disbursing office Of the sergeant
alarms of the House of Represen-
tativeS is one of the most popu-
lar places on Capitol Hill.
Originally intended to issue only
salary checks and mileage to the
members of the House, their in
creased confidence in it combined
with it's extreme convenience have
gradually built it into a bank of
the first magnitude.
1t now offers them nearly every
facility that is presented by a
commercial banking house and all
at no profit or loss whatsoever.
Sums aggregating more than 10
million dollars pass through its
windows annually.
Representatives who are given
the choice of receiving their
salary checks or leaving them in
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
LEADING FARMS
REPRESENTED
At HEARING
Measure Would Assist State
Schools and Eliminate
"BookieS" at Meets

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 8.-Vir-
ginia horse breeders flocked here
today to attend hearings on the
pari-mutuel horse racing bill in
troduced by Delegate Wilbur C..
Hall. of Loudoun. The hearings
are to be held this afternoon by
the combined house and senate
finance committees.
Out of the pages of the social
register came some of the best
known persons in the country.
Among them are:
William Dupont, jr.. whose
farm in Clarke county is show
place: Raymond Belmont, son Of
the late August Belmont, a men,
ber Of the New York Jockey Club,
and owner of famous estate near
Middleburg: Arthur Hancock, Of
Charlottesville; Major Louis
Beard. representing the John
Hay Whitney "Greentree Stable"
and William Lipscomb, of Lees
burg.
OESCu ny DACCuCAO
One of the unique features OF
the bills introduction is that it is
being urged by the horse breeders,
and not by the promoters of race
tracks.
Daniel C.. Sands, Master Of
Hounds, of the Middleburg hunt,
also is here to urge passage OF the
act. He pointed out today that
$19,320,000 is invested in breeding
farms in Virginia. and that there
are $3,418,000 worth of thorough
bred horses on these farms.
There is bookmaking at all OF
the hunt races and at the races
held at county fairs, Mr.. Sands
declared, and the State is getting
none of the benefits Of it.
Mr.. Halls bill specifies that IS
per cent of the States revenues
be turned over to public schools,
and that IS per cent go to the
purchase of premium awards for
agricultural and I've stock exhibits
at State and county fairs.
Three-and-one-half per cent OF
the pari-mutuel machine "pooP
would be paid to the State.
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
JOSEPH MARCHETT1 IN HIS PRINTING SHOP

q point that they go out and
commit crimes all over again.
They put youngsters in peni-
tentiaries and force them to live
with hardened criminals. Ere
quently the yOungSter, instead
of coming out Of prison re-
formed, faces the world with
stock Of crime knowledge they
couldn't get anywhere else.
But all that's a matter for
SOciOlOgistS. From now on I'm
sticking to legitimate business.
The 'heist' guys can still try to
buck the law. And they'll fail
as always. I'm now Joseph
Marchetti, citizen"
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
WITNESSES HIT
GAS TAXES

Admitting the District already
has a revenue surplus, RepreSen'
tative Howard w. Smith CD Of
Virginia, nevertheless today urged
passage of a bill raising the gaso-
line tax here from to 4 cents
per gallon.
Mr.. Smith made his appeal be-
fore subcommittee of the
House District Committee, which
is holding a hearing on the
measure.
The District government was
not officially represented, but the
proposed tax was assailed by sew
eral witnesses. including Theo-
dore F.. Behler, of the A. A. A.;
T. j. Keefe. of the American Mo-
torist . Association; william Ken.
nedy, and Charles Upham, engi-
neer director of the American
Road Builders Association.
Representative Smith declared
responsibility for the revenue sur
plus should be laid at the door of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee. He said the present 2
cent gas tax here inflicts a great
injustice upon gas dealers within
a wide radius of Washington.
The Washington times., 1934-02-08

Midol helps those who have al
ways. had a difficult time. And the
relief is lasting; two tablets see you
through your worst day. Yet they
contain no narcotic, nothing in
furious. They're as harmless as the
aspirin you take for an ordinary
headache. But don't be fooled by
ordinary pain tablets offered as a
specific for such sufferingl Midol
is special medicine, for this special
purpose. Your druggist has it on
the counter-or just ask for Midol.
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
SCHOOL PARTY

BaileyS Cross Roads (Va)
School League will sponsor a nen.
eft card party tomorrow night
in the school. Refreshments and
prizes will be furnished. The COM
mittee in charge consists of Miss
Elizabeth Martin, Mrs. Gerbridge
and Joseph Hummer.
The Washington times., 1934-02-08

He Once Stole a Million, Yet He
Cries "Crime Doesn't Pay
Famed Dalton Gang
Chief Reforms After
18 Years in "Pen"

Folks, step UP and meet the man
who thinks AL Capone is a sissy.
He's Joseph Marchetti, soft
spoken, cultured leader Of the
notorious Jack Dalton gang, whose
exploits, inspired by both fact
and fiction, have rivalled the
Justly famed Jesse James outfit
and made many youngster
yearn to buckle on q couple OF
six guns and go out and conquer
the wild and woolly West for
himself.
f. Maybe it isn't quite fair to say
that Joe thinks AL is a sissy. AS
a matter of fact, he thinks AL Is
a pretty swell guy. And Joe
ought to know, for both he and
AL were guests, of the Govern
ment in Atlanta, and had many
an opportunity to debate the age
old question: Does Crime Pay"
But underneath his unassuming
mien one can easily read the con-
tempt in which Joe holds the
modern gangster. And he ought
to know if there's q difference.
BY sheer force Of daring and
proof that he could handle a
job by himself" he won through
to leadership of the st. Louis
Dalton gang, as hard-bitten q
group Of desperadoeS as the
Mauve Decade.
Arrives in Washington
Joe has just arrived in Wash
ington and right now is kept busy
proving his contention that Crime
doesn't pay" He's bought a half
interest in a printing shop in the
1000 block H st. N. W., and is
going to celebrate his newly
found freedom from prison walls
by going straight for the rest OF
his life. He just finished serving
18 years and nine months in vari-
Gus Federal penitentiaries for a
$4,000 payroll hold-up in Okla
homa in 1915, and he'll tell you
that freedom is a precious thing.
Even the fact that he once
stole a million dollars in gold
bullion from a railroad train
doesn't alter his belief that the
straight and narrow" is the
only pathway to tranquility in
life. This crime went down in
history as one of the greatest on
record, and was planned and ex-
ecuted with an acumen that
would make even a modern stock
market manipulation envious.
It was in 1914 that Marchetti
learned the United States Gov
ernment was shipping a fortune
from Oklahoma City to Washing
ton on a Santa Fe train. For
three months details of the dar-
ing holdup were worked out. A
hidden cave in the Ozarks, be-
tween Oklahoma City and Reno,
Okla, was picked out. Seventeen
horses were bought to cart off
the loot.
Led Gang Of Twelve
Marchetti, as leader of the
gang of IL desperadoes, gave him
self the hardest task-that Of
stopping the train. It was $50
p. M, and an early autumn dusk
was gathering as Joe and five of
his henchmen boarded the Santa
Fe express, ostensibly passengers.
They neared the designated spot,
where the six other men waited
with horses, and Marchetti stole
softly forward to the engine.
The flash of his pistol and
menacing command to halt the
train brought the engineer and
fireman into submission.
AS the train stopped, the other
desperadoes quickly cowed the
passengers and started toward
the special car which housed the
fortune. But here trouble devel-
oped. Three men who guarded
the treasure elected to shoot it
out, and it was not until all had
The Washington times., 1934-02-08
CLUB ENTERTAINED

Neighborhood Club of Living
ston Heights, Va, was entertained
yesterday at the home of Mrs. A.
B. Moore. She was assisted by
Mrs. J. w. Wideman, Mrs. Per
kins Coville and Mrs. c. l.. Har-
Ian.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

USS Minneapolis about June; to VS.
Sqdn. los CUSS Houston).
Fitz, Lieut.. Harold c. Det. Harvard
Univ, Cambridge, Mass, about 16
July; to USS Texas.
Foley. Lieut.. Joseph H. Det. USS
Arizona about / June: to Navy Yard,
Boston, Mass, as radio material Of
ficer.
McMenemy, Lieut.. Edward H. Ors.
16 April modified. To duty USS Al
tair instead as nav. officer.
Murray, Lieut.. Arthur D. Det. USS
Hannibal; to 1st Nav. Dist, Boston,
Mass.
Pomeroy, Lieut.. Joseph G. Det.
Nav. Research Lab, Bellevue. DC;
continue duty Navy Yard, New York.
Smith, Lieut.. Arthur C. Det. Rec.
Sta, Pudget Sound, Wash; to con-
tinue duty USS Vestal.
Strauss, Lieut.. Elliott B. Duty as
executive officer of USS Manley.
Wilson. Lieut.. Ralph E. Det. as
Asst. Sqdn. Engr. Officer, Dest. Sqdn.
l, in June; to Bu. Engr, Navy Dept.
Adkins, Lieut.. James A. Det.
Subm. Base, New London, Conn. in
June; to Asiatic Station for assign
ment with submarines.
Blinn, Lieut.. Wexford c. Det. Ford
Inst. Co., Long Island City. N. Y,
about % July; to USS West Virginia
Hank. Lieut.. William E. Det. Nav.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

Deloria, Private first class Nicasio
Field Artillery.
Guillermo Private first class Teles-
poro, Cavalry.
The following enlisted men are tc
be retired at Fort Mills. P. l., May 81
Lombang, First Sergeant Antonio
Coast Artillery.
Gallardo. Staff Sergeant Manuel
Coast Artillery.
Callejas, Private First Class Felipe
Coast Artillery.
NAVY ORDERS.
Bureau of Navigation.
Conan, Comdr. Robert G. Det
Nav. War College, Newport, RI, about
Is May; to instr. Army Industrial Col
lege. Wash, DC.
Lando, Comdr. Ellis. Det. 1st Nav
Dist, in August; to command USS
Oglala.
Logan, Comdr. George c. Det Nav.
Intelligence, Navy Dept, about l June;
to duty as Cdr. Dest. Sqdn. 10. Ors
81 March revoked.
McGlasson, Comdr. Archibald. Det
Nav. Exam Board, Navy Dept, in
May; to USS Richmond as exec. Of
ficer.
Cooper. Lieut.. George R. Det. as
Asst. Nav. Inspr. of Machy.. Bethle-
hem Shipbldg. Corp. Quincy, Mass,
in June; to Asiatic Station.
Felt, Lieut.. Harry D. Det. C. +. o.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

Academy about 6 June: to USS
Badger.
Luongo, Lieut.. Frank p, jr. Det.
Subm. Base, New London, Conn, about
% May; to USS Argonaut. Orders
Is April revoked.
May, Lieut.. Eugene F. Ors. IS
April modified. To c.f.o. USS Ranger
g. on board when comm. instead duty
USS New Orleans.
Medical Corps.
Wildman, Lieut. Comdr Otis. Det.
USS Beaver in June: to 4th Nav.
Dist, Phila, Pa.
Vilar, Lieut.. Rafael A. Det. USS
Mississippi about S June; to Norfolk
Navy Yard. Portsmouth, Va.
Supply Corps.
Boggs, Lieut.. Comdr. Verne v. M.
Det. USS Wyoming in May; to trtmt.
Nav. Hosp, Phila.. Pa.
Sorrell. Lieut.. Comdr. Thomas l..
Det Navy Yard. Phila., Pa, about 26
April; to USS wyoming.
Briggs, Lieut.. Percy. Det. USS
Argonne in July; to home, relieved all
active duty.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
SCREEN COMEDIAN
and INVALID WE'D
Conklin and Bride Transported
to Their Home in Am
bulance.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, May 5.-A romance
that triumphed over tragedy was cli-
NAKED in the marrisse today OF
Margherita Rouse and Chester Conk-
lin, film comedian.
The bride was on an invalids bee
as Bishop Irving S. Cooper Of the
Liberal Catholic Church performed
the ceremoney. She wore a brida
veil.
For % years the new Mrs. Conkln
has been helpless.
A physician has promised her sh'
may soon walk again.
Beside her, Conklin, knowr
throughout the world as a funny maj
of the movies, knelt with bowed head
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CAROLlNAS RESUME
BLUE LAW BATTLE
Amusement Interests Voice Pro.
tests Against Ban on Sab
bath Fun.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., May 5.-The
Carolina perennial battle over the
blue laws" is flaming again. threat
ening even to push the Palmetto
States prohibition referendum out Of
the spotlight.
The Columbia Piedmont League
base ball team announced it would
defy South Carolina's ban on Sunday
base ball and engage the Norfolk
nine tomorrow afternoon. Protests
from the clergy and a ruling by the
State attorney general brought with
drawal
But Mayor c. c. Fuller of Barn
well. club president, carried on the
fight and said he would move to close
every swimming pool and other
Evening star., 1934-05-06

Gone, too, was his ridiculous mlstache
of the movies.
After the wedding Mr.. and Mrs.
Conklin drove away in an ambulance,
converted into a marriage coach, to
their mansion on one of Hollywood's
highest hills.
The invalid and the comedian met
two years ago and he, attracted by her
courage and spirit, fell in love with
her.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Meeting OF POHICK
AUXILIARY WEDNESDAY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
POHICK. Va, May 5.-The local
branch of the Women's Auxiliary, will
meet at the Pohick Church vestry
house at 11:15 Wednesday, at which
time they will be addressed by Mrs.
Gertrude Barton of Winchester and
by Miss Mary Hutton Of the Blue
Ridge Industrial School,
Evening star., 1934-05-06
places If Sunday base ball

amusement places If Sunday base ball
Is banned.
Meanwhile, in other Carolina cities
the amusement interests" were con-
tinuing the. battle for more fun" on
the Sabbath.
Base ball was 1egalized two years
ago in Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro,
Wilmington and other North Carolina
cities and in Asheville this year.
The Charlotte fight now RACES over
motion pictures. with pool room pro-
prietors demanding equal rights.
Both States have strict regulations
against Sunday business and disturb
ing gatherings, sale of milk and medi-
cines alone being permitted.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
MUST SERVE TERM
Federal Judge Denies Druggan's
Plea for Release.

ATLANTA, May S (P.-The ap-
plication of Terrence j. Druggan.
former Chicago beer baron, for re-
lease from the Atlanta Federal Penl-
tentiary on the grounds that he mad
been punished twice, today was de-
MED by Federal Judge E. Marvin Un-
derwood.
Judge Underwood ruled that there
was no double punishment in Drug
gan's case and that a writ of habeas
corpus offered no remedy for the al
legged wrongs he claimed to have suf.
fered.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

Road Accidents Few.
Hartlepool, England. boasts 1t had
no fatal road accident last year and
only one in three years.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
MINIMUM PRICES
SET on TIRES BY
DOHNSON'S ORDER
Emergency Clause invoked
for First Time on Ma
tionaI Scale.
EDIcT TO BECOME
EFFECTIVE MAY H
No Guarantee to Be offered Pub
lie Except ao-Day prouise
Against Defects.

BY the Associated Press.
Hugh S. johnson today issued an
order declaring existence of sn enler-
sency In the retail tire trade, reqatr-
Ing establishment Of minimum prices
on tires and tubes. The emergency
will start May Ia when the already
approved code for the trade goes into
effect.
An important provision Of the order
was that no warranty or guarantee
could be offered tire buyers except .
so-day guarantee against defects in
material and workmanship. This $s
understood 10 be an alternative to
agreement within the industry as to
what form of warTanties should be
applied.
With the order. N. r. A. issued a
bottom price scale for every size and
grade Of tires and tubes manufactured
and sold at this time. The prices
begin with aasomohale balloon castings
at $e7e for class A, $s.iG for class B
aud tS.2H for class c. These prices
afe for size 2Sx4. ISIS. Tubes for
that size tire rnust0 be sold at or
above 3i.48. $i.2s and Sill for the
three grades.
The expectation Of N. II. A. Oft
ctals ts that rising raw material prices
and other causes will tend to bring
the emergency arrangement IN the
tire industry TO an end within o rea-
sonahle time.
The prices, johnson's order said,
shall be the net realized price,"
meaning the actual sum realized from
tils transaction after any trade-in al
lowRnce or any other form of allow
arce or Rsly cash or trade discount.
There 8 no prohibition on selling
above the prices set and the admin
tstrattOn believed figures above the
minimum will prevail generally since
they we're calculated on q basis that
would not even return the average
dealer al OF his operating expenses,
let alone profit. but would serve to
prevent mail order and other mass
distributors from destroying the busi-
ness Of sHAG dealers by drastic price
reductions.
Truee Now In Eject.
The entire tire trade now IS oper-
ating under . price sterilization truce
which expires May Il and will im- <
nedtaaely be suppiRnted by the new.
order.
Evening star., 1934-03-26

at the factories in Detroit, Flint,
Pontiac and Lansing, where only a
few days ago workers were ending q
days work without knowing whether
they would return in the morning.
The center of interest shifted today
from Washington to Detroit where an
N. r. A. board is to be set up to pass
on questions of representation, dis
charge and discrimination.
1t was the concensus of union meet
ings in four cities last night that
labor's demands had been met salts
factorily.
At Flint, union workers cheered as
they heard the text Of the agreement.
The executive council of the locals in
that city promptly voted to accept the
terms.
Union officials at Lansing received
the news without surprise.
I'VE never believed there would be
strike once President Roosevelt
took up the matter" said John Reid
president Of the Lansing Federation
of Labor.
Union workers in Detroit and Pom
tiac expressed similar opinions.
Both manufacturers and workers
contemplated the future hopefully
The former saw a healthy demand for
their products, with no strikes on
the horizon. The latter found salts
faction in the fact hours are being
reduced and wage rates are being
raised in many factories. Thus far
Ia of the Al nember firms of this
National Automobile Chamber OF
Commerce have adopted the cham
ber's recommendations of a 36-hou,
instead Of a 40-hour week with COM
pensating wage increases.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
DETROIT GOES TO WORK.
Auto Men Expect Best Season
Since 1881.

DETROIT, March 26 P1.-Em-
ployers and workers in Michigan's
automobile factories drew together
under a presidential peace pact today
and looked ahead to what promises to
be the best season since, 1881.
Business as usual Was the order