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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-03
Secretary Of War
Leaves Today

The Secretary of War and
Mrs. George H. Dern. with their
daughter, Miss Betsy Dern. will
sail from New York today
aboard the Cristobal for the
Panama Canal Zone, where
they will spend about a month
visiting Army posts.
Mrs. Harry Baxter, another
daughter of Secretary and Mrs.
Dern. joined her parents at
Highwood yesterday, follow.
ing a stay of three weeks in
Chicago.
X
The Minister of the Neither
lands, Jonkheer H. M. van
Haersma de With, who is in
Newport, r. l., where he went
on Saturday, will not return
until the end of the week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-03
Envoy to Sail

The Ambassador of italy,
Signor Augusta Rosso, will sail
Saturday on the Conte de
Savoie for Italy. where he
will spend his summr vacation.
The Ambassador is one of
the patrons for the dance to
be given tomorrow night
aboard the ship under the
auspices of the Junior Auxiliary
of Columbus Hospital, in New
York, to raise funds for the
maintenance of an emergency
ward.
Miss Mary E. Hougland, Of
Denver, Colorado, is at the
Dodge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-03
Dinner Host

Dinner Host
DR.. Allen A. Stockdale was
host at a dinner last evening,
entertaining at the Little Tea
House. His guests included
Mr.. and Mrs. johnson A.
Haines, of Hinsdale, N. H.; Miss
Patricia Mayer and Miss Bar
bara E. Grafield, also of Hins-
dale. and Miss Amy E. Emery,
Of Brookline. Mass.
IL
Lieut.. Comdr. John N. Wal
ton, U. s. NJ, has arrived in
Washington for duty. He is at
the Martinique accompanied by
Mrs. Walton and their daughter,
Miss Mary Jane Walton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-03

but ABROAD, Wnere Lne anKeeS, as
we are most generally called, never
let this day pass without some fitting
ceremony to commemorate the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
Either banquet, at which speeches
are made and toasts drunk to this
grand country Of ours and to the
President, or private parties the world
over, where for a time at least patriot
ism reigns and memories Of previous
celebrations in their own country come
to the mind of the travellers or expa-
tiate, as the case may be.
Washington will be bit deserted
tomorrow, but many who go to nearby
resorts will return in time for parties
hnno Of ninht and n,oonoha nf the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-03
Envoy Sailing

The Minister of Sweden and
Nine. Bostrom will sail from
New York today aboard the
Swedish boat, Gripsholm. to
spend the Summer in their coun-
try. They will return the early
part of September.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-03

younger set have particularly full program planned
The debs subdebs and their older sisters in the post
deb group acquired variety of clothes to meet their
tomorrow from bathing toys formal dinner gowns
and many of these of cotton for this material
more popular.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Artful Starlings Take Oper
$lO,OOO,OO Archires Buildin Q

The disappearance" of the star
lings from downtown Washington, re-
ported by Clifford Lanham and his
balloon-waving, can-shaking aids, has
turned out to be only snare and a
deluSion.
In fact, the starlings are still very
much in evidence, as j. A. Walsh,
construction engineer in charge of the
new $100,000,000 Archives Building
will testify whole -heartedly.
Stated plainly, the pestilential
horde, driven from the battlements
in the Fourteenth and F sector, has
sought quiet haven in the once chaste
new $l0,000,000 Archives Building,
which is consequently fast taking on
the aspect of a heavily populated
rookery.
Yesterday, surveying the scene
sadly, Walsh recalled that when the
Lanham battalion stacked arms a few
days ago, the commander defied any
one to find hundred starlingS in
the business district.
Another such victory and I am
undone-that is, if I am not already
undone," retorts Walsh, as his hand
sweeps the scene with expressive
gesture.
Once stately columns are streaked
from top to bottom in a manner that
can best be appreciated by any auto
mobile owner who has been unfortu-
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Writer, 81, Says Hard Work
And Clear Conscience Aid Life
William Harrison Smith, Who Kne,U II
Presidents, Suffers Failing Eyesight

Looking back over span of nearly a
century, William Harrison Smith is
convinced that clear conscience and
hard work are necessary for the best
life affords.
Tomorrow at his home, 1418 Perry
place, Mr.. Smith will celebrate his
9th birthday. His years have been
crowded in peace and in war.
THE man who is idle is the man
who dies early" he philosophers.
God takes care of the man who
works"
Mr.. Smith has lived in conformity
with this belief.
"a veteran in the newspaper world,
he wrote on Lincoln for a New York
paper as late as last February. Right
now, handicapped by failing eyesight,
he is debating an article to his wife.
Coincidentally, Lincoln was the sub
ject of one of his earliest journalistic
efforts, for as a cub" reporter, he
covered a campaign in which Lincoln
took part several years before his elec-
ton to the presidency.
Met Taylor First.
Lincoln, incidentally, was one Of II
Presidents Mr.. Smith has met The
first was Zachary Taylor, who occu-
pied the White House when Smith, as
boy, visited the Capital with his
father, Rev. william Smith, Meth
odist circuit rider of the Middle West.
A native of Indiana-he was born
in Noblesville-Mr. Smith naturally
Evening star., 1934-12-16
PARK COMMISSION
APPOINTS BROWN
Named as Assistant Land Pur.
chasing Officer With Nor
sell Loaned"

Norman G. Brown, local real estate
man, yesterday was chosen assistant
land-purchasing officer OF the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Thomas S. Settle, the commissions
secretary, explained that inasmuch as
T. Tudor Morsell. the organizations
regular land-purchasing officer had
been loaned" to the Public Works
Administration to assist with low
cost housing developments, work will
now be pushed to acquire areas for
park and playground projects here.
The Bureau of the Budget recently
released the commissions impounded
funds, enabling the land-purchasing
activity to get under way once more.
Brown will have his office at room
1921 in the Navy Building, Eighteenth
street and Constitution avenue, at the
commissions headquarters.
Evening star., 1934-12-16

tened against the wall. 1t is said that
some enterprising young man obtained
the bullet, which he claimed fashioned
itself into a profile of the assassin, and
made a modest fortune selling repro
ductions Of it.
Native Of District.
Watson is a native of the Capital
and started with the transient COM
pany as a helper to the veterinarian
at the Southwest barn.
He. too, drove horse car. He was
operating one Of these contraptions
when the Johnsoown flood inundated
the city. Water was up to the horses
flanks when Watson, sitting atop his
car, drove from the Smithsonian up
to Pennsylvania avenue.
Watson's route was from Seventh
and P streets southwest to Seventh and
Florida avenue. He made good time in
those days, he said, despite the fact
that the car stopped at the passengers
front door to let them of and take
them on.
Watson, who lives at 1866 @ street
southeast, was with the company more
than 81 years, not quite as long as
Solari, whose home is at 4733 Ninth
street.
Evening star., 1934-12-16

took to politics as we'll as writing. He
was at one time an adviser to Presi-
dent Benjamin Harrison. Long before
this, in 1875, he was secretary of the
State Legislature in Indiana A me-
mento of this service is a gold headed
cane, the gift Of associates.
After the Civil War, in which he
fought with the 18th Indiana Infantry
and rose to captaincy, Smith came
here as bailiff in the United States
Supreme Court. At later date he
held another Federal post, this time
as chief clerk in the Foreign Mails
Section. Post Office Department.
Prolific Historian.
Mr.. Smith has been a prolific writer
and has turned out several volumes,
including History of Indiana" His
tory of Cabinets from Washington to
Mckinley" The Political Life of
Charles w. Fairbanks" and Speakers
Of the House"
Mr.. Smith comes of a long Lived
family. His mother was SO when she
died. He was married twice, his first
wife dying many years ago. The pres
ent Mrs. Smith was the daughter of
Col. w. w. Frybarger. a Union cav
airy officer. William Wolff Smith, To-
cal attorney, is a son.
Mr.. Smiths only hobby has been to
be good newspaperman," and, OF
course, he's firmly convinced that the
reports of the present have things
a lot easier than they did in his early
Gays.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Driuers Who Serued 100 Years
On Capital Streets Retired
Pair Will Not Spend
Time Going for Ride,
They Say.
Experience Ranged
From, Horse to ELec.
trio Cars.

HAT tale about the motorman
going for ride on lis day of
is based on fancy rather than
i fact.
If there was any truth in
the story, Benjamin Solari and Jacob
Watson, who have Just hung up their
gloves after serving more than 100
years between them as horse-car driv-
ers, cable-car gripmen and electric
car motormen, would certainly know
something about it.
These two veterans-Solari Is rs
and Watson Is 67-will have plenty
of opportunity to take ride now that
they have been retired by the Capital
Transit Co., but neither intends to.
Solari would rather walk than ride
the street cars. and besides it makes
him nervous when somebody else Is
doing the driving. Watson knows
every uneven rail in town, every bump
in the track, and doesn't care to go
over them again.
Started on Horse Car.
1t was in 1882 that Solari took up
the reins and started down Pennsyl-
vania avenue to take fares at 3 cents
a head for the old Washington &
Georgetown line. He would trot his
team up to Capitol Hill, draw up on
a turntable, and swing back for the
home trip.
Working sometimes 18 hours day
on an open platform with rain and
snow whipping into his face wasn't
much fun, Solari recalls, but it was
easy compared with the hardships he
went through a few years before when
he went to Wyoming with the 5th
United States Cavalry, under Gen.
Phil Sheridan.
Sleeping didn't come easy out there
when the Indians hung around wait
ing to lift your hair, Solari recalls,
and he was quite pleased when he re-
turned to his home in Philadelphia
shortly after he helped bury the re-
mains of Clusters last men.
Guarded Assassin.
Unable to find work in the Quaker
City, Solari came to the Capital and
re-enlisted in the Army. He was sta
toned at the barracks here when
President Garfield was assassinated
and he was one Of the detail that
did sentry duty at the jail where the
ASSASSIN was imprisoned
A member Of the guard became dis
gruntled about having to stand in the
cold and rain night after night at the
Evening star., 1934-12-16

nate enough to leave a highly polished
car parked beneath the trees on
Pennsylvania avenue where the birds
SO long held forth.
Moving toward completion Of the
building, these massive pillars only
recently had been cleaned at a cost
of several thousand dollars, but
the starlings took no cognizance of
the economics of the situation, and
the work will have to be done over
again-when and if the squatters can
be dispossessed.
But that is only part of it.
Freshly laid flooring also has Of
fered target, and in consequence
future generations, in search of an
archive or so, will tread on concrete
OF futuristic Easter-egg design.
Meantime, while wondering who Is
going to foot the bill for the unwel-
come visitation, Walsh and his asso-
ciates and representatives of John
Russell Pope, the architect, are con-
sldering various ways and means sug-
geSted for routing the guests.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
DISMISSAL OF BOARDING
CHARGE TO BE ASKED
Treasury Instructs q. S. Attorney
at Syracuse to Drop Action
Against jewelers..
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
SYRACUSE, December 15.-The At
torney Generals Office in Washington
has advised Oliver D. Burden, United
States attorney for the Northern New
York district, to ask for dismissal of
an indictment against Nathan, Philip
and Otto Some, Utica jewellers, who
we're accused in December of boarding
coins in violation of the gold reserve
act.
In the same letter. Mr.. Burden was
informed that the Treasury Depart
ment has instructed the United States
Mint to cancel the license issued to
the three brothers to buy scrap gold.
The Some brothers were indicted
after William Karp, secret service
agent, seized several old coins on dis
play at their store. Nathan Some
later wrote letter to President
Roosevelt asking him to order the
agent to return the coins and to
direct newspapers to retract stories of
the case.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Marriage Licenses.

Frederick R. Reamy. "a. Alexandria. Va.
10; SaSrss 1a?e @ SOY Sth zss ss s9
Rev w. 3. Abernethy.
Leo Rubinowitz, "a, Brooklyn. N. Y, anc
Ida chernikoff. 90. 51S 4th st. ne,
Sullivan, IS, both Of Capitol Heights
John ma " Kev squire. G e A9ss.n IS, and Eunice c
Pritchett. 81. both Of Danville, Va
Alvin s. Lehigh. 80. and Viola A. Miller
=; both OF Hanover "a rev. d. M
John roberts Fl, 4eo1 DssHs s5s fys ssfo s.
ne: Rev: j. E. Roberts, 49,.
Sis sssIEs; %iia;a e: 92s: ls14Is 9th st.; Judge
'0Ha ggns.t!: Sss g: both Of Baltimore; aa'i Rev
y.Res Reseys " s EdSsTss sssnss ae r,eeton Va and
Virginia ASEAtIha v. Hipscomb, coz; % g. ssndstOn
Lewis A; Philips; s.; Little Falls; N; cY. z;
William I; Carter. 90. and Leila o. Green
ga,t2o1 II; both OF llos 9th ST.; Rev. Preston
George r. Woodward. 40, Detroit. Mich
ssa ssS4 Cna6otse IS
H. L. Chamberlsnd, "a, FAN River, Mass.
and Anna G: SPAIN, "a, 3sI7 18th St;
Thomas w. orme. 90. a71e South pakots
aye; ne, and Evelyn A. Ross 10, 3212
william w: White. 90. and Nellie C
BRYANT. 25, both of Fredericksburg. Va;
Paul 6. Peitz. 80. and L. A. LIE Blanc, a.
both of Detroit. Mich; Rev. H M
william 6. Rindso, 10, 1919 7th st. se
and Mary z; foyer. Is, l414 Ord ST.;
Rev. j.; J: Albert
scrugss; %, 1900 Connecticut ave;
Herbert A. A. Harrison. ~, 1916 18th st.
and c. ". Patrick. 81, 134 r St: Rev
Howard Z. Hollis, "A, Highland Park
Mich. and Carol M: Harsen. 20
Lynn M. Harriss, 81, Los Angeles. Calf.
and Gladys Brdbaker, "a, Luray. Va.
william A. Power jr:. 90, Anderson, s. e.
and Helen A. Noelson, 25. Minneapolis
Mimi; Rev. J. H. Dunham.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Puts on 3 Pounds in Two Weeks, Sher.
iff Announces.

PENNINGTON, N. j.. December IS
Rp.-Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
Lindbergh hdnap-slaying suspect, has
gained pounds in the past two
weeks, Sheriff John H. Curtiss said
today.
The prisoner is eating we'll, the
sheriff asserted, and a minor internal
disturbance has completely disap-
peared now that the carpenter is in
ured to his surroundings in the Hun
terdon County Jail.
His wife Anna and son Mannfried
visited him today.
At Trenton high State official to-
day characterized published reports
that traces of human blood had been
found in the trunk on back Of Haupt-
mann's automobile as "a fairy tale. "
Prosecution officials, on the other
hand, declined to comment on the
story from West Palm Beach, Fla.
that DR.. John F. Condor, the "Jafsie"
of the ransom negotiations, had ex-
pressed the opinion Hauptmann will
not be convicted of the murder charge
on which he will be tried
Evening star., 1934-12-16
|CAPONE REV0LTED,
CONVICT DECLARES
Recaptured AIcatraz Pris.
oner Tells Other Alleged
Secrets of Island,
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 15.-
Some of the alleged secrets Of Alcatraz
Island, including an asserted hunger
strike by AL Capone and other prison.
ers, were disclosed today by John Sta
dig, young counterfeiter, before officials
clapped him back into the Govern
ment's carefully guarded prison for
arch criminals
I'D rather die than 60 back to AL
catraz. That's q hell hole" Stadig
told Constable. John OFT Immediately
after being captured near Martinez.
Calf, yesterday. The 26-year-old
counterfeiter escaped recently while
being returned to the prison from
Portland, where he had been taken
to appear in court.
II got a 15-year sentence at Port
land through a frame-up," Stadig
said. 1.-THE warden, Attorney General
and Portland court framed me be-
cause had written a letter to the At
torney General criticizing the prison.
"Threw Us in Dungeon"
my pal and I had asked the war
den to allow us some newspapers and
motion pictures in the prison once a
month. He shackled US and threw us
in the dungeon for this, and If We got
two slices of bread a day we were
lucky.
"Al Capone and other prisoners went
on strike and refused to eat or come
out of their cells, and in three days
We were released from the dungeon.
1t was after that I wrote to the At
torney General"
After a nights sleep in the Marti-
nez Jail, Stadig told less harsh story
of his experience during four months
in the island prison.
"Capone, Machine Gum Kelly and
Harvey Bailey are confined to sep
arate cells like the rest Of U.s." he
said. Their routine life was much
the same as mine. Each man Is locked
in his solitary cell at 4:30 pm. and
stays locked up until $50 am.
Guards "PIenty Strict"
1--WE wear gray uniforms during the
week and change to blue ones on
SulIOdy. AlC Sudlu uS dlc plcIlty SCIlCL,
but the treatment in the main isn't
so bad. We don't get much exercise,
only six hours a week. spread over
seven days.
There are 253 convicts in the
prison and despite the elaborate pre-
cautions to segregate them, there are
a number OF informers. Roy Gardner,
q train robber and escape artist is
the dean of these. But even with this
internal problem there haven't been
any rows between convicts. No one
has been sent to the dungeon for
fighting.
Another thing in contrast to many
other prisons IS that there are abso-
lutely no narcotics on the island.
There is not much diversion for us,
but there is good library and plenty
Of books to read"
Federal officers declined to COM
ment on Stadig's story.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
JAFS|E HAS NEWS"
FOR MRS. CAPONE|
Condor Bears "Good" It'd.
ings to Gang Leaders
Wife in Florida Home.

(copyright, 1884, by the Associated Press0
MIAMI, Fla, December 15.-Dr.
John F. Condor, "Jafsie" of the Lind
bergh kidnapping, today brought good
news" to the wife of the imprisoned
former Chicago gang leader, AL Ca
pone.
Tell Mrs. Capone I have good news
for her-unusually good news"-the
retired New York educator and Lind
bergh intermediary told servant who
informed him Mrs. Capone was tempo
rarily away from her Palm Island
home here.
Arranges to Return.
DR.. Condor, who came here by au-
tomobile for q personal investigation
Of several unrelated clues" made
tentative appointment to return to see
Mrs. Capone before he leaves Miami
for New York next Wednesday.
He declined to reveal the exact ma
ture of the good news" he had for
Mrs. Capone, whose husbands name
for time figured prominently in the
Nationwide efforts for return of the
kidnapped child.
1T is based upon a letter." said
Condor, that I received from a wom-
an, whose identity cannot make pub
lie at this time
The man who handed over $4,000
Of Col. Lindbergh's money to ransom
the child refused to discuss New Jer-
sey's case against Bruno Richard
Hauptmann.
Silence Requested.
"At the request of New Jersey au-
thorities, I have refrained from max
ing any statement, that might be con-
strued as an opinion of the guilt or
innocence of the prisoner" DR.. Con-
don said.
However, I can say that Haupt-
mann has sent for me on several oc-
casionS."
He revealed he has received more
than 2500 letters since his part in
the ransom payment became known
and he was catapulted into prom
lnence.
Many of these contained informa-
ton, and I am checking some of these
statements on this trip into Florida.
talked with one man at West Palm
Beach yesterday, and will try to con-
tact several in the Miami area.
II am here searching out evidence,
for every link, I believe, will make
the State case more evident, stronger" !"
"Jafsie's" presence on the streets
here brought scores of persons who
sought his autograph, or shook his
hand.
He was the luncheon guest today of
Rev. Father Florence O'Sullivan in
the Catholic Church rectory, and re-
manned closeted with him for two
hours afterWard.
HAUPTMANN GAINS WEIGHT.
Evening star., 1934-12-16

Jail and determined to put an end to
the cause.
One night, as they left the barracks,
says Solari, the soldier confided his
plan to him, which was something like
this: Guiteau, the assassin, had a
habit of standing at the window of his
cell, gripping the bars and looking out
when the guard was changed. That
night he would be shot through the
head and there would be nobody to
stand guard over.
A headache saved Guiteau. When
the soldier fired through the window,
Guiteau was lying on his cot with a
throbbing head, and the bullet fiat
Evening star., 1934-12-16
MRS. |. A. B0RAH DIES
IN GAS-FILLED ROOM
Wife of National Geographic As.
sistant Takes Own Life
at Home Here.


Leaving a note in which she said
she could mot go on" Mrs. Juanita
Borah, 80, wife of Leo A. Borah. an
editorial assistant of the National
Geographic Magazine, was found dead
in the gas-fllled kitchen of her home
at 1415 Whittier street Friday eve
ming by her husband and son. A GER
tihcate of suicide was issued by Coro-
ner A. Magruder Macdonald.
Mr.. Borah and his son returned
from downtown about 8 o'clock and
found Mrs. Borah unconscious in a
chair in the kitchen. Efforts of Fire
Rescue Squad officers and Emergency
Hospital attendants failed to revive
her.
DR.. Howard H. Hewlett. family ply
sician said that Mrs. Borah had been
under his personal care for some time
suffering from nervous disorder.
A graduate of the University of
Washington, Mrs. Borah was a-native
of Spokane, and had been a professor
OF classical languages in that uni
versity prior to her marriage.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
CONDITION is CRITICAL
Admiral Coontz's Life Despaired
of by Physicians.

BREMERTON, Wash. December Is
R.-Victim of two heart attacks,
Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N,
retired, was in critical condition at
the Navy Yard Hospital here tonight.
Physicians despaired of saving the
life of the 70-year one-time chief
Of naval operations and former COM
mandant of the Puget Sound Navy
Yard. He is a past commander Of
the Veterans of Foreigns Wars.
Admiral Coontz established his home
here after his retirement in 1928.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Claims Self-Defense

A neiD picture OF Phil
Kennamer, 19, taken in
the Tulsa, Okla, jail,
1Uhere he said that he
had agreed to take part
in a plot to kidnap Vir-
giniG Wilcor, or ertort
money from, her 1Dealthy
father, only so he might
th,Dart the scheme. One
OF the plotterS, he said,
10ds John GorreH, lDhom
Kennamer says aDaS
a0ounded fatally 10hen
they argued about mo-
testing the Wlicores.
"A. P. Photo.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
DIPLOMATS SUPPORTING
CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
Purchases Here Impress Fact
Stamps Are Distributed in
40 Different Countries.

Checks from the Ambassadors and
Ministers of many foreign countries
have been coming into headquarters
Of the tuberculosis Association here
in the past week, drawing attention
to the worldwide use of tuberculosis
Christmas seals.
Although the fact is known to few,
Christmas seals or stamps sold wholly
or in part for sustaining tuberculosis
work are in circulation in more than
40 different countries besides the
United States.