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The Washington times., 1934-02-02
ALCORN MOVING
FOR GATEWAY
NCAUGHT
Admits Assisting In Stealing
Wealthy Denverite; Girl
Gives U. S. Agents Tip

Mighty arms of the law
reached out to Chicago today
and grabbed Gordon Francis AL
corn, last of the kidnapers of
Charles Boettcher, I'd, Of Denver,
Colo.
Government Investigators at
the same time announced a Sec
ond attempt to kidnap Boettcher
had been frustrated when they
found letter in the apartment
Of Verne Sankey, who with AL
corn admits kidnapping the
wealthy Denverite last March.
Written by Sankey
The letter, written in Sankey's
handwriting, was addressed to
Boettcher's father, and was to
have been delivered just before
Sankey was arrested Wednesday.
Alcorn was arrested early today
by Department of Justice men
IN an apartment on the North
Side Of Chicago. The kidnaper,
who had been living there under
the name of Walter Thomas, was
making moves for e getaway,
officials said.
Word of the capture was made
known here by j. Edgar Hoover,
director Of the Bureau of In
veStigation of the Department Of
Justice, who said:
'That cleans up that mob.
We were fortunate in arreSting
Sankey when we did for we
believe that the letter found in
his apartment was the fOunda-
tiOn for another kidnapping Of
BOettcher."
Traced Through Car
Investigators learned from
Helen Mattern, who was arrested
with Sankey, that Alcorn had
recently bought an automobile.
They checked on the address
given the automobile agency and
later made the raid which
brought about the arrest.
Alcorn quickly admitted his
identity and confessed to the
kidnapping Of Boettcher. A %
automatic revolver was found in
the apartment, but so sudden
was the raid Alcorn did not have
@ chance to use it. He claimed
that his share Of the Boettcher
ransom was taken from him by
Sankey.
additional kidnapping news on
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k|NGF|SH KEEPS
To H|DE-OUT

Somewhere in Washington to-
day is the Hon. Huey Long, Sena.
ator and Kingfish Of and from
Louisiana.
But where he is-that is the
mystery. At his suite in the May
flower Hotel the telephone is muf-
fled and employees announce he
is not in. At the Senate Office
Building his secretary says firmly
that he is not in.
Ordinarily Senator Long loves
the press-he is ready to talk on
anything. But just now he is
strangely reticent. Perhaps it is
because he does not want to an
swer the question Of what he is
going to do when he encounters
Mayor T. Semmes WalmSley, Of
New Orleans.
The 2OO-pound mayor and for
mer football star, is domiciled in
the Mayflower. And he has
promised that when he meets the
KingfiSh there is going to be a
battle.
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Jim's Friends Set to
Give Support if
Requested

The Ferguson "box score" on
that basis is as follows:
r--AR,An nRRs. rVnnAEo~a
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HOUSE REPORTS
FAVORABLY ON
RELIEF FUND
$50 Millions Will Be Spent in
Emergency; Charges of
Graft Are Ignored
BY International News Service

The $50 million emergency ap-
preparation requested for the Civil
Works and Federal Relief Admin
istration by the President was
favorably reported to the House
by the Appropriations COMMITTEES
today, with passage Of the mea-
sure expected before night.
In urging the fund the commit
tee warned that Federal relief for
the needy is a temporary policy
and "only the extreme emergency
justifies it,"
Graft Charges Ignored
Ignoring charges of graft in
the CWA but conceding that mis-
takes have been made, the COM
mittee praised the work of Harry
L. Hopkins, Federal Relief Ad-
ministrator. The report said:
"Considering the magnitude
of the task, the time factor, the
human element, and the other
complexities attending it, the
proportion of the total task
subject to criticism for ane
cause or another is small and
unimpOrtant in its relation
ship to the great national ac-
cOmpliShment."
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1920 two primaries have been held
to pick the Democratic nominees.
Thus the successful nominee has
his name on the ticket and in the
first and second primaries and in
the general election.
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New York City Snow
Heaviest at 10 Inches

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 U.N.SJ.
Ten inches of snow fell in New
York City and vicinity in "a hours
ended today, according to the
Weather Bureau. A check of the
bureaus figures showed that it
was the heaviest snowfall Of the
winter.
New York turned up its col
lar and looked for more snow and
colder weather.
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Capital at Ease Again After Hours Of Struggle
Through Slippery Highways Death,
Injuries and lobs Fruits of Storm

With streets and sidewalks coat
ed with ice, the Capital today
started digging out after the
worst storm of the winter. Eight
inches of snow fell yesterday.
The temperature started to
drop as the snowfall ended early
last night, reaching a low of %
degrees this morning, nine de-
greeS below the freezing point,
turning the snow into ice.
Clear, Cold Here
One hundred men and 81 trucks
with snowplows were pressed into
service yesterday in an effort to
clear the streets and keep traffic
and several hundred more
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Friends With Him

A study Of the voting records
since 1914 shows tn at Jim's
boasted west pocket" vote has
held intact. Many Of the States
political orators who stumped for
him in 1914 are still on the Fer
guSon firing line. ready to fol-
low him should he seek any office.
This partisan support upon the
part of his followers is the basis
for believing that Governor Jim
will play a dominant role in
Texas as long as he cares to in
tereSt himself in politics.
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EXPECTS
TARIFF SHIFT
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
Consideration of tariff reci-
procity legislation in the present
session was forecast today by
Representative Byrns of Tennes-
see, Democratic leader of the
House.
The President now has before
him a report of experts urging
that he be given power to raise
and lower tariff duties so per cent
without approval of the Tariff
Commission.
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SENATE SLAPS
DEFAULTERS
BY international News Service

ny AHO0H H"U1UHII IN0WB SoEFIC0
Legal barrier prohibiting future
loans to. or sale here of securities
from, defaulting debtor govern
ments, was half-erected today
when the Senate readopted the
johnson resolution, with approval
of the Administration.
The resolution was slightly
amended to meet certain Admin
istration objections. In it's amended
form, it would apply to all gov
ernments which have defaulted on
their debts to the United States
but would not affect governments
defaulting on securities sold pri-
Vately,
Evening star., 1934-07-29
Mnsk-Oxen Plan Wins

THE Governments effort to establish musk
oxen once more in Alaska bids fair to be
a success after several years of effort. About
a hundred years ago musk-oxen disappeared
from Alaska altogether and from that time
until this year no muSk-oxen had been born
in the territory.
Back in 1927, the Legislature of Alaska
memoralized Congress requesting that efforts
be made to re-eStablish the animals Finally
in 1880 through the efforts of Representative
Dickinson and Senator Norbeck, an appropria-
ton obtained for the Biological Survey TO
try to transport some of the animals to. the
reindeer experimental station at Fairbanks.
Arrangements were made with Norwegian
collector to trap young musk k-oxen in Green-
land and "a were obtained. These ship
ped To Norway. returned across the Atlantic
to New York, held in quarantine and then sent
to Alaska by way of Seattle
This year for the first time. swo young were
born TO members Of the herd and this indi-
cation that the animals will reproduce in
Alaska has given rise to great hopes that the
project win be successful
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place without long coat-tails, plug hat and
boiled shirt.
All cabarets and night clubs in this Paris
of the ORIENT with less than half dozen k
ceptions, employ dancing partners for the
amusement, entertainment and frolicsome
pleasure OF customers These dancing partners,
'taxi-dancers,"- comprise all nationalities,
creeds and colors with the Chinese, Russian,
Japanese and Korean femmes taking the lead
in popularity.
Japanese and Korean partners are most pop
ular in the majority of cabarets in Shanghai's
famous Hongkew district, while Russian girls,
exiles from their own country by the fortunes
of and revolution, the favorites in most
places in the Yangtzepoo and Rue Chu Pao San
districts. Elsewhere, with few exceptions, the
Chinese beauty Is the reigning queen among the
cabaret patrons
In the cabarets of the upper social crust
three dance tickets for q doilar-a Chinese
dancing girl may earn as much as $500 or 5000
Mex on good nights and it's cash business. too.
1t Is not uncommon for rich taipan or wealthy
Chinese to spend two or three thousand dol
lars on some sloe-eyed parchment skinned
princess during one evening.
So lucrative is the business of dancing in
one of these smart places that the night clubs
and cabaretS are Turing the finest talent and
the most gorgeous beauty from the famed sing
song houses-an institution which the govern
ment has never frowned upon. Trained from
infancy in the arts of entertainment a. la sing
song. these girls find pleasure and more
money in the WeSternized cabaret, and as
result the day of the Sing-song house is now
the wane
One reason for this wholesale desertion from
the sing song house is the old custom of de-
ferred payments. In the cabarets, the dancer
gets cash every night. In the sing song houses
she is not paid until the next settlement day,
which occurs three times year, the Spring
n.an Rna Qnh
Festival.
THUS is China being mOderni8ed in the
treaty ports. The infiltration of Western
ideas and customs is much slower in the
interior, of course, where eabarets, dance halls
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and night clubs, modern theaters and other
forms of Western entertainment are unknown.
These things steadily encroaching upon eli
parts of the Celestial Empire and 1t won't be
long now.
This dissemination of the Chinese Sheba Is
not confined to the matter of dress and social
activity alone, but has spread to the field Of
her thought and philosophy
According to custom. the Chinese wife calls
her husband my lord" the more simple
term OF master" as if she we're his chattel
slave. If he went out for evening of relax
alton and amusement, he wouldn't dream Of
taking his wife along. 1t would be unchink-
able for her to appear publicly.
But not 50 today, in the treaty ports. Hhe
demands an even break She demands to see
her betrothed before she marries him. She
wants to know where he is going, when he
leaves the house, and where he has gone. when
he returns. She demands, in short, the free
dom of the Western girl
Evening star., 1934-07-29

Chinas towering womanhood.
1t isn't question of votes for women, no.
body, man, woman or child has vote in this
Chinese republic" but the battle goes on
none-the-less around such hot issues bobbed
hair, public dances, open companionShip with
young men, selection of their own choice for q
partner in connubial bliss and other such ques-
tions.
In many ways the struggle continues with all
the gusto and vehemence and noise that char
acterized the Inauguration of the "1apper era"
in the United States just after the war-but
with several Oriental trimmings, such as acid
throwing and deportations.
The customs and traditions that surrounded
the Chinese maiden during the days of the
Celestial Empire the Flowery Kingdom. widely
varied with the different provinces, but all were
centered upon the idea of excessive modesty.
In most sections no self-respecting girl ever
dared appear on the streets alone or with
man. even her husband If she wished to travel
through the streets of a city she carried in
an incloSed sedan chair on the backs of coolies
She could peep through Slitted apertureS in
the covering of the sedan chair and see out
without being seen. Women of the Iaboring
classes were bound by no such inhibition but
virtually all others were.
THESE customs prevail in the interior to n
considerable degree today, but Western
ideas are slowly but surely creeping into the
accessible districts by way of the treaty
ports-not, however. without a struggle The
introduction of foreign-Style clothes and the
employment of Chinese dancing partners and
hosteSseS in night clubs, cabarets and dance
halls are the two chief points of contention and
dispute at the present time.
Eoreign-style dress finds favor with
Chinese ofhcialdom today as the government
the people more race and nation conscious,
in this program.
From the central headquarters of the
National Bloody Group for the determination
of Traitors" in Hangchow recently came the
edict that members Of the organization, which
has branches in most cities of North China,
should throw acid upon foreign clothes
posed mostly of fanatical patriots, has caused
more than a little CONSERVATION among the
frail sex with its edict.
The modern Chinese girl however. prefers
her own costume to that of the weSterner,
jacket and pants has disappeared largely from
the treaty ports and in its place has come
modern Chinese gown of grace and beauty
long shnky. Oriental affair reaching down to
the ankles with very high collar. extremely
Of the body and acCentuating every curve and
dimple
III has Sits on each side reaching Up. in some
cases. 10 the calf. and. in others, to a point
or inches above the knees. Soft velvet.
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CvEN this modernization has not been ac-
- complished without trouble
In Peiping authorities issued an order
forbidding Chinese women to bob their hair.
In Shanghai Province. the provincial governor.
Han Fu-chu, went even further. He ordered
the immediate arrest OF all women with curled
hair on the grounds that curled hair has a bad
moral effect upon youth. Women thus caught
within the tolls of the law were given head
shaves and turned out, bald-headed.
In Canton the form fitting dress was barred
from the streets under the penalty of arrest.
But with all these threats and official
orders Chinas flaming youth" has progressed
along its road to modernism. With a defiant
sparkle in her dark eyes and stamp of her
velvet -Slippered foot, the Chinese girl con-
tinues her defiance, and is slowly winning her
right to curl her hair, powder her amber cheeks
and rouge her bee-stung lips
In the matter of working in cafes and caba-
rets she is finding a difficult wall of op-
position to hurdle. Chinese girls are forbidden
to act as hosteSSes or dancing partners in the
old capital, Peiping, and many militant and
defiant girls have been deported to Tientsn
and Shanghai for disobeying the official orders.
There such restrictions in most of
the treaty. ports and none in the foreign con-
ceSsions of Shanghai, Hongkong or the out
ports. Dance halls and cabarets may be the
pet anathemaS OF OrnclaIQOm IN ChlneSe terr1-
tory. but not so in foreign controlled
Numerous appeals have been made to the
authorities of Canton for permission TO hold
public dances in that city. second largest in
China, but always the answer is thumbs
down" Chinese authorities assert that young
Chinese frequently exercise insufficient self
control and that they spend their hard-earned
money in cabarets, indulging in resultant follies
that often lead to suicide
They state that young folks should con-
tribute their cash to the government for the
determination of the enemy If surplus funds
are burning holes in their pockets And when
the matter is thus placed, the youths are made
to feel they are traitors to China when they
trip the light fantastic to the waing of the
Saxophone and the humping of the piano.
THERE are several hundred cabarets and
dance halls in Shanghai alone, ranging from
the "jointS" in Rue Chu Pao San in the French
Concession. varioIsly known as Blood Alley"
skull Orchard" and the "Sawdust Trail" to
the swankier cabaretS where man is out Of
Evening star., 1934-07-29
SHANGHAI, July IT, 1884.

SHANGHAI, July II, 1884.
HINA has been the battle-ground be-
tween the old and the new, the East
and the West, for many years, but
the battle is now entering q new
field with the emancipation of
China's Towering womanhood.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

W. we
little tots, eager for the mo-
ment when they should sing
about peace on Earth"
A few minutes before we had
heard the stately bells of the
church of Saint Sebaldus. They
had brought tears into my eyes,
for I had not realized until
that moment how dreadfully I
had missed my bells. I come
from a country of bells. Their
sound was so thoroughly dinned
into my ears that even now.
after almost 80 years, I some
times seem to hear them as
if they were calling us to-
gether for either church or a
fire.
LOST ART
And America is not a land Of
bells. Here and there we have
tried chimes. But the art of
the carlton maker seems to be
a lost art. There is something
lacking in the alloys; perhaps,
they contain too much brass.
They remain tinky-with the
exception of that church of
Brother Fosdick on Riverside
Drive. But in his case 1t may
be the maestro who plays
them. For he is a great man
and he does to his bells what
Harold Bauer does to the bits
of ivory and the steel strings
that go to make a pianoforte.
All that, however, is by way
Of a detour. I must return to
my machine guns for nice little
boys that go ra.ta-ta.ta.ta!
Of course I do not blame the
good city of Nuremberg. Any
body as fond as I of Lebkuchen
and Hans Sachs will never blame
Nuremberg for anything, if it
were as full of Hitlers as the
roofs are full of slate with
apologies to the late DR.. Martin
Luther). We live in an age Of
buying and selling. Nuremberg
makes and the world takes, and
the Nuremberg merchants, being
as good merchants as their
Hanseatic ancestors, will make
whatever the world shows a de-
sire of taking.
If there were no demand for
machine guns for nice little boys
that go ra-ta-ta-ta-ta! Gust
like the real thing, they would
be making toy harvesting ma
chimes, or miniature locomotives,
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In an ill-advised moment last
night I began reading an article
called Three Months in a
Haunted House" I merely
wanted to find out why anyone
would stay three months in a
haunted house, or three minutes,
for that matter. We are sup
posedly free agents.
The whole thing ended by my
putting on my clothes and go
ing over to spend the rest of
the night in the waiting room
of the Grand Central Terminal.
Even over there I had to ask
the man to put on a few more
lights. They start cutting down
on electricity along about 3 a. m.
and it gets a little gloomy.
While I was tagging along at
the heels of the cleaning men,
from one side of the room to the
other, I got to thinking in a
more or less sane manner about
the difference between modern
ghosts and those which haunt
castles in Europe, or drift up
and down deserted wings OF
large estates in Scotland. Mod.
ern ghosts are so rowdy.
At just what ages does a
ghost stop being noisy and
settle down to dignified haunt
ing? It must have something to
do with immaturity in the ghost
world, for only the youngsters
seem to take delight in crashing
about as if they were drunk.
You never hear any of the
ghosts in the Tower of London
behaving like hoodlums. OF
course, it may be a matter OF
breeding.
Ghosts who have died within
the past fifty years all seem to
have had grudges against peo-
pie or else a tendency to prac-
tical joking. They all seem to
have been people who, when
they were alive, went around
pushing other people off RATS
into the water or putting rub
Der frogs into beer glasses.
You don't catch any of those
nice people who haunt GlamiS
Castle putting on acts like that.
They take a little stroll up and
down corridor or along a bat
tlement. sometimes they just
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and fraud" because Congress
bound this country to member
ship in the International La
Dor Organization, he speaks no
news.
Far.sighted members Of Con-
gress denounced the measure
that put the United States into
the labor organization when 1t
came up for passage in both
House and Senate.
1t Wds said at that time that
membership in the 1nternG-
tionnl Labor Organization WnS
a step into the league, but the
resolution W1S coated oUer and
passed.
Secretary Perkins wanted the
resolution adopted and the boys
passed it on the Hill.
SO Mr.. Tinkham makes no
new charge.
Mr.. Tinkham, however, does
recall the original charges con-
Cernine the resolution and may
remind certain members who
voted for it that 1t is often wise
to investigate measures Of this
type before agreeably passing
them without knowing to what
they may lead.
The announcement made BY
Representative Samuel B. HUI,
of Washington, ranking Demo.
crut of the House Ways and
Means Committee, that he does
not believe the tar on bank
checks wiH be continued comes
as we1come news to the bank
ing fraternity.
Since enactment Of the check
tax, criticism has been wide
spread.
The nuisance levy has been
fairly important. bringing $4O,-
100000 into the Treasury last
year, but attacks have been 50
sustained that Representative
Hill does not look for its con-
tinUa11ce,
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them, they will be so unirn-
pressive that the ghost-racket
will be spoiled for them and
they will be kicked out into the
yard.
Maybe I have gone a little
too far. Mind you, don't say
that there can't be ladies and
gentlemen among present-day
ghosts. I am sure there are.
I certainly meant no offense to
modern ghosts as a class.
They're the ones I'll have to
deal with, and hope that they
haven't got me wrong in this
little article.
Copyright. 1894. By King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
ARTICLES BY Robert BnnchleI
appear each Monday, .Wednes-
day and ThurSdau.
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or flying machines that dropped
mail bags instead Of bombs.
But the parents are delighted
to train them with all the MUIR
derous instruments with which.
when they shall have reached
the age Of discretion, they will
be able to dispatch their fel.
low-citizens into Kingdom Come.
Now I have lived much too
long and I have written too
many books for children tS have
any exaggerated notions about
the sweet lovableness of the lit
tie darlings. I have absolutely
no enthusiasm for the senti'
mental nonsense about His Maj
esty the Child. Calling him
that, and acting as If he were