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The Washington times., 1934-11-20
Dc. UTILITIES
|. REFORMS
SOUGHT
Senator McCarran Demands
Public Ownership to Reduce
Rates in Capital

Following Immediately on the
heels of President Roosevelt'S d1'
rect advocacy of community own
ership of public utilities, Senator
Pat McCarran CD, of Nevada, a
member of the Senate District
Committee, today announced that
he will sponsor legislation in the
coming congressional session de-
signed to bring about public own
ership of the public utilities in the
District of Columbia.
The fact that President Roose'
velt as late as last Sunday, in q
speech at Tupelo, Miss, placed
himself as a strong advocate OF
municipal ownership Of public
utilities as a means Of forcing
down rates, gives Senator McCar.
rams proposal more than usual
force.
Will Copy Plan
Speaking at Tupelo, which was
the first city to acquire its own
power system and contract Tor
Tennessee Valley Authority cur
rent, the President said:
''What you are doing here Is
going to be copied in every State
in the Union before we get
through"
Senator McCarran said that he
had thought at first of proposing
an investigation into local public
utilities, as to rates, activities anc
other matters, but that he be
lieved a bill calling for public
ownership would serve a better
purpose, since there would ther
be something concrete on which
to hold the hearings. He said
"The District Of Columbia,
being the National Capital and
politically situated as 1T is, is
the ideal place for public
ownership. Politics can be kept
out of it and the people would
be saved millions of dollars
SHOULD BE MODEL
"T will sponsor legislation
designed to bring about this
purpose.
"The District is growing con-
tinually, and it should be the
model for all American cities.
It has all the facilities for Such
development, not only from the
standpoint of public utilities
but also from the standpoint OF
cleanliness.
"WashingtOn is q city where
people from all over the world
must come, and it should be q
place of which every American
should be proud"
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Nov.
2O.-The President made one Of
his best speeches in TupelO,
Miss, Sunday, he told that the
people could make their own
electric energy cheaper than
they were getting it.
And say, by Monday morning
he had the companies talking
"new rates."
They all say the Government
can't do anything toward run
ming any business, but they
break their necks to see that 1t
don't try. They never will find
out who that Vanderbilt child
belongs to, till both sides 50
plum broke.
Copyright, 1894. by McNaugh4
Syndicate
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
j. s. REVEALS
NEW PLAN
On ARMS
Details of Scheme Are Told to
Geneva Delegations BY
U. S. Minister

GENEVA, Nov. 20 G.N.SO.
Strict governmental licensing Of
all arms manufacture and export
ing forms the backbone Of the
new American plan for interna'
tional control of arms and ammu-
nition traffic, Hugh Wilson,
American Minister to Switzerland,
revealed today in outlining the
plan to the steering committee
of the disarmament conference.
The American plan, which calls
for international agreement on
the control of arms in a conven-
ton separate from any diSarma-
ment agreement which may be
reached, was opposed Immediately
by Austria and supported by
Great Britain. Italy previously
had indicated opposition to the
plan.
Highlights of Plan
High spots of the American
plan were revealed as follows:
l. Each signatory n a tion
would submit to a permanent
disarmament commission a list
of the arms-making establish.
ments within its borders, with
o full description Of the war
implements each is suited to
manufacture.
2. Copies of all licenses Is
sued would be filed with the
permanent commission.
3. Lists of all orders, from
whatever source" would be
submitted to the commission
within 80 days of their receipt.
4. An annual statement OF
all manufactures during each
calendar year would be sub
mitted by each nation to the
commission.
S. Parties to the convention
would undertake to prohibit
the export and import of GER
tain articles of arms and am
munitions except under govern
mental licenses.
6. Details would be given to
the disarmament commission
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1934-11-20

A campaign to bring Christmas
cheer into every home in the Dis
trict has been launched by The
Washington Times, working in CO.
operation with various govern
ment units and civic and fraternal
organizations.
The campaign will be run in
conjunction with The Washington
Times Goodfeuow Club, the old
est organized Christmas giving
organization in the city.
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
Fascist Coup
Plot Denied
By tBacker'

NEW YORK, Nov. 20 Q.N.SO.
A published charge by Maj. Gen.
Smedley Butler, former Marine
Corps commandant, that he had
been requested to set up Fascist
dictatorship in the United States
with the backing of New York
financiers, who offered him $3,-
900, 900 to finance the move, was
denied flatly today byy Gerald
p. Mcclure, of Grayson Mp.
Murphy & Company.
Mr.. MCGUIRE was reported to
have been named by General But
Ter as one of the financiers who
had asked him to raise a Fascist
army of half million men,
march on washington and seize
control of the Government by a
coup d. etat.
Mr., MCGUIRE hotly declared he
never had approached General
Butler with such a proposal; that
he never had assured the ex-
Marine commandant that New
York financiers had 100000
ready to start organization of
such an army, and that he had
not offered General Butler $4,000
to deliver speech favoring a re-
turn of the United States to the
gold standard before the Ameri-
can Legion convention in Chicago.
Mr.. Mcclure apparently was
astonished to hear General But
ler's reportd charge that he (Mr.
McGuire) had said:
1--WE might even 80 along
with Roosevelt and do with him
what MusSolini did with the
King of Italy"
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
Max Baer Seeks
Doctor in Texas

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 20.
G.IN.S0.-With his infected left
arm in a bandage, Max Baer left
Mexico City by plane today for
Ell Paso to undergo medical treat
ment before proceeding to Chi
cago and New York. He said:
81 will soon begin night train
ing for my fight in June. / feel
fine except for these arms"
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
Lunatic
Seized as Burglar

JACKSON, Mich, Nov. 20.
U.N.SO.-Charles Albino, 80, relig-
ious cult leader held for breaking
and entering, had been identified
as George Nickolopis, escaped in
mate of the Ohio State Hospital
for the Criminal Insane at Lima,
police said today.
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
j. 8. MOVES
To SOLVE
CRIME
Weiss, Reputed Racket Chief
in Philadelphia, Abducted;
Gang War Blamed

PHILADELP HTA, Nov. 20
G.N.S).-Balked by an apparent
scarcity of clews, Department Of
Justice agents today intensified
their hunt for underworld kid.
napers who seized William Weiss,
reputed big-time racketeer and
gambler, demanding 100000 as
the price for his safe return.
Whether the ransom has been
paid and whether Weiss has been
slain or is still alive remained
battling elements of the abduc-
ton mystery.
Staying Feared
Reports flew thick and fast
up and down the corridors of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Some rumors had it that Weiss
family feared the 01Vear-old
night club impressario had been
murdered after payment Of the
ransom.
All such reports both the family
and the Federal authorities work.
ing on the case refused to discuss.
One agent said:
"All we know about it is that
last Sunday night the kidnap-
ing of Weiss was reported to US,
1--WE have been working on
the case constantly since that
time. We know nothing about
the ransom having been paid.
"And we have said nothing
about fears that Weiss may
have been killed. We are not
working on that theory"
Family Secretive
From the palatial Weiss home
in the fashionable Overbrook sec"
ton came not an inkling Of in
formation concerning whether the
100000 ransom had been de.
livered to the abductors.
r. George Harvey. chief Of the
local Department of Justice Blu.
reau of Investigation, admitted
the Weiss family has received
"about half a dozen" notes de-
manding the 100000 ransom for
the return of the kidnap victim.
The Government undercover
men, working on the mystery,
were reputedly hampered by the
reluctance of Weiss family and
friends to divulge any informa.
ton which might prove helpful.
1t was said the kidnapped mans
relatives and associates fear their
cooperation with the authorities
might bring down the vengeance
of gangland, endangering Weiss
life.
The missing sportsman was a
"par' of Max C"Boo Boo") Hoff,
named as the kingpin of racket"
eers in Philadelphia by the spe"
cial grand jury in 1928. Friends
of Hoff disclosed he left this city
recently for a tour Of the West
with three boxers.
Rumors were current in sport.
ing circles, however, that Hoff
was originally the intended
Snatch" victim and that the
kidnapers grabbed Weiss when
Hoff supposedly fled. Hoff was
last heard from in Los Angeles
several days ago.
Both the Department of Justice
and members of Weiss family re"
fused to divulge any details Of
the kidnapping. According to un'
confirmed reports, the ransom de-
mands were met and the fact that
Weiss was not returned led his
relatives to seek the Department
(Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
Gu1ndrOp ChOkes
Baby; Nearly Fatal

BALTIMORE, Nov. 20.-Chok-
ing on a gumdrop, a 9-months-old
baby narrowly escaped death here
yesterday. Only the fact its
mother, Mrs. Robert Garnett La
Mont, was passing the South Bal
timore General Hospital at the
time enabled her to reach ply.
sicianS in time to save her baby
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
3 Held for Refusal
To Paw Taxi Bill

Three men are being held by
Third precinct police today on dis
orderly conduct charges after the
men are alleged to have refused
to pay a $14 taxicab bill and
a SIT bill at a local supper club.
The men gave their names as
James Fuller, "a, of New York:
George E. Rodman, of High Point,
N. c., and Eric Zepht, of Roches-
ter. N. Y.
The Washington times., 1934-11-20
NOW STUDIES
MASS Of
FIGURES
Return of Million, BY Court
/ Order, Expected to Give
E, Subscribers $12 Each

Public Utility Commission Off
cials are today scanning the mass
of telephone figures on which are
based the telephone company offer
of rates that the company claims
is a 10 per cent reduction.
This offer, made yesterday after
noon and announced by the Public
Utilities Commission, is taken to
mean that the company is ready
to quit fighting the commissions
rate reduction order in the courts
and is ready now to hand back
about million dollars to local
telephone users, as ordered by the
court.
No matter what happens to the
company's offer in rate reduction,
the company must sooner or later
begin to refund the million dollars,
which will amount to about $12
per user, and which can be given
in cash or credit on bills.
Are Not Satisfied
It developed today that the
Public Utility Commissioners and
Peoples Counsel Roberts are not
entirely satisfied that the rates
offered by the telephone company
are an actual reduction in every
instance. The proposal Of the
company is not a 10 per cent
horizontal reduction, but includes
several changes in the amount OF
service to be given at a given
rate.
A further executive session with
company officials will be held
Friday. Peoples Counsel Roberts
will be present with his analysis
of the proposed rates. It is
understood that he does not favor
the entire telephone proposal but
has stated that in general the
company has made a good offer.
Some rates that would be
raised are to be analyzed by Mr..
Roberts and the members OF the
commission.
Raise of 50 Per Cent
On one class of business service
in which there are approximately
10000 merchants involved, there
would be a raise in rates amount
ing to so per cent under the tele-
phone company's plan. This is
accomplished by raising the base
rate from 81 to Sc, but increasing
the number of permitted calls
from SO to 100.
Telephone experts have said
that under this rate there would
he a heavy increase in telephone
income. So while the So-called
reduction" in this case might
give half the business men in
town more calls for their money,
the other half might be paying
more money than ever before.
There is considerable interest
in the matter of unlimited house
rates, now $4.75 per month,
which would be reduced to about
$4.28 if a horizontal 10 per cent
reduction is to be followed. The
probability is that something like
$4.35 would be the figure to be
expected.
Acted in Good Faith
Peoples Counsel Roberts said
today that he believed the tele-
phone company had made an
offer in good faith, but that he
is not satisfied that the theoretical
reduction would work out on all
the rates. He said:
"In any event, the million
dollars will be returned to the
telephone subscribers. That is
an order of the court. 1t is
no time to compromise, because
we have won the case. AS to
the rate reduction, we must
analyze every figure in the rate
structure to see how it works
out when applied to actual
Oractice
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-09-21
PATTERN 1909

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you wear it time and again because
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-09-21
S}iiilG74ag
UNHAPPY HOMES

"Would you marry man for
money!"
"No," said Miss Cayenne. 'Tve
seen too many homes spoiled by hus-
bands who were perpetually worry
ing about their income tax"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-09-21
That Needless Letter

Little Edith-Say, mamma, want
to know something?
Mamma-What is it now, Edith?
Edith-When the first man started
to write the word psalm" with 'p"
why didn't he scratch it out and start
over again?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-09-21
Open Wide, Now

"Goodnessl Have you had another
tooth pulled?"
eyes. have a regular drawing ac-
count at the dentists
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-09-21
Close Tongue

Florist-Want to say it with flow
ers? About three dozen roses, say?
Cyril-How about ski don't want
to say too much!
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27
TYPEWRITERS
Professional

Hutchinson and Company
Certified Public Accountants
INCOME TAX CONSULTANTS
H. L. Soper, Mgr, Ell Centre Office
ia Rehkopf Bldg, Phone SIS
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Large six-room home,
furnished or unfurnished, south
part of town. See Imperial VAL
ley Building g. Loan, Sixth and
State SITS. tf-dh
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27
CUT RATE
LIQUOR SPOT
447 MAIN STREET

Largest Stock In the Valley of the
Best Bonded Whiskies, Wines, Gins.
Nips, Glover Club, 2 OF. ........ 25c
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS

ASTURE FOR SALE-80 acres
)corn stalks with some barley near
~ Centre. See Gilbert Bros, ~
PIE south and u mile west of
(Meloland. 23t5
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27
HELP WANTED

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|tailoring houses, has opened
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broadway Arcade, 542 So. Broad
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Write or call on Geo. w. Weldon,
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dress. 27t1
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27
FOR RENT

Or RENT-Cornstalk pasture two
|miles east, north of Star Camp
| |Ground. Mexican joe. 27t1
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27
SITUATIONS WANTED

lANTED - BY middle" aged WON =
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27
Y y Weather:

Los ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair tonight and Sunday: con-
tinued moderate temperature with
little change; rather low humidity;
gentle to moderate wind, mostly
from the interior.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-27

Largest Stock In the Valley of the
Best Bonded Whiskies. Wines, Gins.
Nips, Clover Club, 2 OF. ............. 25c
Whisky, pint .......................... SOC
Clover Club, pint 81, - u pint SOC
Whisky, quart ............................ S1.75
Blackstone, pint .......................... S1.50
Meadow Brook, pint ............. S1.50
Monticello, pint ................... S1.75
G. g. w. Bottled in bond, pint $500
Val Bros. Grape Brandy, SIS. S1.75
Tulare Grape Brandy, pts. -. S1.25
1O1 Proof Grape Brandy, pts. S1.00
Val Bros Sherry Wine, gal. SITS
Val Bros Muscatel, gal. ......... S2.75
Val Bros. Port, gal. =. .......... S2.75
Val Bros. Angelica, gal. .......... S2.75
Elena Bros. Burgundy, GAL. $500
Elena Bros. Sauterne, gall. $500
ELENA Bros. Claret, gal. 1900. S1.50
SIS in Sweet Wines ...................... 85c
SIS in Sour Wines ................... 75c
Clover Leaf Gin, pint ........ $1O0
400 Club Gin, pint ............... S1.00
Hollywood Gin, 10 OF. .............. $1.00
Gin, pint ................................. Csc
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
Songs Nearly Sung Don't Count

TN the papers yesterday find a still more alarming
competitor for the title of all-America prodigy.
This is a little girl called Theresa McGinty There
is nothing in the story to indicate any kinship to
the gentleman who went to the bottom of the sea.
Nevertheless without wanting to seem unchivarous
would be inclined to put the little lady at the foot
of the whole class of aggressive infants.
According to statistics produced by her proud par
ents Miss McGinty could "recite 10 poems and sing
nearly fifty popular songs when she was two years
of age"
I think the word nearly" is a dead gveaway.
Who wants to hear a song nearly" sung or poem
Appropriated. Even if Miss McGnty could do
Trees" completely at this early age I doubt if
would be amused There isn't much fun in listening
to a childs assertion that Gunga Dhin is better
man. There isn't much fun any more in hearing
anybody recite it. In fact, would hardly pay
as much as 5 cents to be auditor if Mr.. Dhin
himself could be raised from the grave in order to
tell us all about his exploit.
If too much bitterness seems to creep into these
remarks I must fall back upon the photographed
assertion that realize how much pain and anguish
afforded to all concerned in my own infancy. Each
Christmas from the age of l year up, was trained
to deliver at the foot of tree short poem in
German. I didn't like it, and with a few election
districts missing neither did anybody else. But it
was rule and a tradition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
Hill Billy Stuff No improvement

THE homespun drama offers little in the
Il way of illusion. There is one interior with a
kitchen table, baking-powder calendar, a bird
cage, stuffed squirrel climbing branch under a
glass globe and few ears of hanging from
a rafter The women wear Mother Hubbards
motions of mixing up bowl of batter. and the men
go around in faded overalls muttering dang" an6
"you-an" until one Of them finally gets balled up
with neighbor's daughter who is inclined to frisk
a bit. There is then shooting and that is supposed
to be your moneys worth.
What your correspondent wants in the theater
is not realism but make-believe of the kind which
used to be provided in THE Roundup" Across the
PaCi1s," Monte Cristo" and The Lighthouse Keep
er's Daughter" Those were plays with scenery.
There were mountains and explosions, gun-fghts
up and down Dead Mans Gulch with the bullets
kicking up dust not fifty feet away shipwrecks on
the rockbound coast and, even in one unforgettabe
drama, a terrible crash, flames and the screams
OF the injured as the limited crashed head-on into
the fast freight.
In the honest theater of the day before the age
OF frugal realism, if was bound hand and
foot tied in sack and thrown off the cliff into the
sea, there was no off-stage evasion. The drama
lover saw the sea breaking the rocks and heard
1t roar. Lightning flashed thunder doomed and
when the man cut himself loose from the sack
and swan for his life you didn't have to take it on
faith, but saw him with your own eyes swimming
through the breakers And when he dragged him
self up on the rocks exhausted but defiant to shout
1.-THE world is mine"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
Frozen Corpse Is Right

or course I always got stuck after the second
~ line and had to be prompted, which didn't help
the general hilarity very much. And to my dying
day I will remember the peculiarly bleak Christmas
festival at which Jack Kirk, neighbours boy
stung by professional jealousy in the attempting
THE Wreck of the Hesperus" his own account
Nobody asked him and nobody could stop him.
It was the impulse of the moment and he was less
than completely prepared. Still he did get through
several stanzas and then foundered the phrase
"A frozen corpse he" He paused for 80 seconds
and repeated. "A frozen corpse was he
Some kindly elder tried to get the party going
again by applauding and shouting, THAT was fine,
Jack" But the determined little lad not to be
pushed into the past like that He had started
his poem and he going to stick to it, For the
third time ne repeated "A frozen corpse was he"
1t sort of put damper on the whole proceedings.
got a sled. an orange and stick OF candy
and vet went TO bed that night without much of the
usual elation connected with Christmas. The sound
of the reindeer and the jolly laughter of the fake
Santa Claus. who turned out to be Uncle Fritz, did
not ring in my lay in my tiny crib Il re-
quired a 14-yearod size) and waited for the sand
man.
He was tardy He was kept away by another in
dividual who seemed to be clanking up and down
the corridors "A frozen corpse was he"
Copyright 1880