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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
DECIDES
FORCED NOTE
IS BINDING
Failure of Lawyer to Follow
Proper Procedure Costs
Mrs. Darby $4,000

In a 3-to-2 decision, the Dis
trict Court of Appeals today
ruled that Mrs. Bessie D. Darby,
$500 block Macomb st. N. W.,
must pay a $12,324 note even
though her signature was forged
to 1t.
The decision was rendered be-
cause Mrs. Darby'S counsel failed
to follow strictly the rules of
procedure at her trial. Her at
torney, Walter B. Guy, the ma
jorIty opinion pointed out, failed
to make a motion for judgment
in her favor and take an excep-
ton, in the event the motion
had been denied. The suit was
decided in favor of the Mont
gomery County National Bank,
Rockville, Md.
Two Attack Verdict
However, Justices Josiah A.
VanOrsdel and William Hitz filed
dissenting opinions stating, in
effect, that, although the trial
procedure had not been strictly
followed, Justice cannot be blind"
and a new trial should be granted
Mrs. Darby.
Her husband, John Gardner
Darby, was assistant cashier at
the bank. The opinion related
that a promissory note, bearing
his signature and the forged sig
nature of his wife. was presented
at the bank by him.
Husband Jailed
At trial of the case, when Mr..
Darby was asked whether the
signature was that of his wife,
he refused to answer on the
gound he might incriminate him.
self. Mrs. Darby denied the sig
nature was hers. Her husband
later was found to be short in
his accounts at the bank, pleaded
guilty and went to jail.
The majority opinion of the
Appellate Court held that al
though it worked a hardship on
Mrs. Darby, it would have to en-.
force strictly the rules of trial
procedure. The court in pre-
vious opinion also, several months
ago, refused a new trial on SINH
lar grounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
Alexandria Lions
Install NeW Head

Edgar S. Bayol was installed as
president of the Alexandria Lions
Club at the meeting today. He
succeeds Armistead Boothe. Other
officers installed include Irwin M.
Hufford, George Schlosser, and
Louis DeMoll, vice presidents;
John Strauss, secretary-treasurer;
Cary Randolph, lion tanner, and
Fred Petit, tail twiSter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
State FUUOrS Men
For Teachers Jobs

BIG STONE GAP, Va, June
27.-Efforts to put more hus-
bands in positions held by
women, and to place school
ma'ams in homes, not only proved
successful in North Carolina at
the last school session, but are
expected to prove effective in
many Of Virginia's 100 counties
this year. Such a plan has been
approved here, j. j. Kelly, jr., SUI
perintendent of schools of Wise
county, having sent out a ques-
tionnaire dealing with the situa-
ton.
The main question must be an
Swered in the negative to make
the applicant eligible for a posi-
ton as teacher.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
MORTGAGE BILL
VETO WAITED
CONTINUED from Page y

~ 0nSInUC0 Tf0E1 rage
name a group to study the prob
lems of aviation as an industry
going into air mail, military, and
commercial phases Of the indus
try thoroughly.
Also there is just a chance that
additional assignments of work
under the newly begun long
range natural resources program
might be made.
Mr.. Roosevelt plunged into this
mass of work Immediately after
he returned here yesterday from
a trip into New England and for
a brief stay in his Hyde Park
IN. " home. He was at his
desk early again today, after
1aboring far into last night and
his engagements have been cut
TO q minimum.
Veto Expected
Action on the F'razier-Lemke bill
vas slated for today. The Presi-
dent is confidently expected to
veto the measure, which would
allow farmers to go through a
special form of bankruptcy and
provide a court order giving the
property owner six years in which
to pay the appraised value of the
property into court for distribu-
ton among creditors.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, June q U.SO.
Col. Adalberto j. Tejeda, radical
candidate for the presidency Of
Mexico, wound up his campaign
here with an attack on the late
United States Ambassador Dwight
w. Morrow. He charged that Mr.
Morrow's intercesSion during the
conflict between church and state
in 1929 constituted an infringe
ment of Mexican sovereignty.
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NEWS OF THE WORLD

places a campaign was launched
here today to keep the populace
quiet and check any extraordinary
purchasing waves which would
inaugurate an era Of boarding.
Because Of the tottering financial
structure the most stringent
orders were issued, cutting down
the imports of almost everything
into Germany. Food prices, in
anticipation of the governmental
decree, had advanced and are ex-
pected to continue to advance,
with prices of other things follow
ing suit.
BERLIN, June 27.-Germany's
note to Great Britain yesterday
fatty rejected the British view re-
garding the Reich'S moratorium
on foreign debts and called it the
result of misunderstanding re-
garding the German situation"
The note expressed regret over
the British threat to inflict repriS-
ais "in view Of the heavy damage
which would be inflicted upon the
Reich"
BERLIN, June 27.-In the very
heart of this NaZi nation. United
States Ambassador William B.
Dood issued a yelled criticism of
the Hitler regime when he eX-
tolled free political thought and
speech in an address before
graduates of the American School
here. The students were urged
to uphold democratic ideas Of
government as represented in the
theories of Thomas Jefferson.
MUNICH, June 27.-Bachelors
and spinsters will contribute more
heavily to Germany's revenue I'M
der a new tax plan for encourag-
ing population increase. Married
persons with one child will be ex-
empt from all levies if the family
income is not more than 100 marks
monthly.
SWINE1IUENDE. any,
June q CU.SO.-At the request
of the Polish government, the
Baltic secret state police have
arrested Eugen Skyba, 26-year-old
Pole, suspected of completely in
the assassination of Premier
Bronislaw Pieracki. Skyba, on
his arrival here on the steamer
from Zoppot, denied having had
anything to do with the assassi-
nation, but was Immediately
transferred to Warsaw in a Pol
ish airplane.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
ARGENTINA

BUENOS AIRES, June 27.-Vic-
tory was claimed today by both
Bolivian and Paraguayan forces
in a battle that has been raging
in the Gran Chaco for two weeks.
A Bolivian communique asserted
that a Paraguayan attack against
Laguna Loa, in the Ell Carmen
district, had been repulsed. A
Paraguayan statement reported
that forces of that country had
pushed forward five kilometers in
the same sector.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
Miss Martha Bean
NelU Tau Phi Head

Miss Maria M. Bean, $500 block
Georgia Ave. N. w., was elected
president of Tau Phi Sorority at
the convention of the sorority in
Atlanta, Ca, it was announced
yesterday. It also was announced
the 1895 convention would be held
in Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
INDIA

CALCUTTA, June 27.-Reports
have reached here that a river
steamer, loaded with persons flee
ing from floods in the province Of
Assam, has sunk. Many are be-
lieved to have been drowned.
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FRANCE

Copyright 1884, by International
News Service)
PARIS, June .27 GNS.).-Swift
and simultaneous action by Brit
ish, French and Belgian air
forces in the event of an air at
tack by Germany is provided in
a plan worked out with British
army leaders by Gen. Maxim E.
Weygand, inspector general Of
the French army, during his
weekend visit to England. Inter
national News Service learned
from an authoritative source to-
day.
PARIS, June q U.SJ.-
Highly placed personages today
discussed possibility of a mar
riage between Sir Basil Zaharoff,
aged munitions king and reputed
Millionaire, and Princess Char
lotte of Monaco, and the mat
ter is being talked of quietly in
aristocratic drawing rooms
The report is based, appar-
emily, on the fact that both love
the principality of Monaco, of
which Princess Charlotte's father,
His Serene Highness Louis de
Grimaldi, general in the French
army is the reigning prince.
PARIS, June 81 (U.S0-Presi-
dent Lebrun has signed a new
motion picture decree, effective
for six months after July /, linn
iting the number Of film irnpor-
tations to "a and requiring trans
lation or clubbing" of foreign
films in France.
TORRENT, France, June ~
(U.S0 AT least six and perhaps
10 persons were drowned last night
and half a dozen others were seri-
ously injured when the pleasure
launch Prosperite with ITS pas
sengers collided in L'Orient Harbor
with the transporter Marteange
I PARIS, June Fitzpatrick c,
Walberg, a young American, is still
in France today, having been
saved from deportation at the last
minute yesterday by the interces'
sion of two deputies. Accused OF
participating in street fights, Mr.
Walberg had packed his bags and
was waiting for two detectives
scheduled to conduct him to the
! Belgian border.
PARIS, June 27-Harold Smith,
representative of American film
producers, is authority for the
statement that his clients will be
'hamstrung" under new quota and
tax rules laid down on American
motion pictures. Only 81 pictures
may be imported during the last
half of this year, and the levy
per meter has been increased from
three to five francs.
MENTION, June 27.-Althougf
police were on hand to prevent 6
disturbance, 20 persons were in
jured here when a group of Com
muniStS waited for a Nationals
youth meeting to finish and ther
attacked the participants. Tit
fighting took place near a beach.
and hundreds of pieces of equip
ment left by bathers, including
chairs and tables, were hurled dur
ing the fracas.
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ENGLAND

LONDON, June q CU.s)-The
italian government has rejected
the British plea to postpone con-
structioh of two 35,00o-ton battle
ships. Premier Mussolini, in re-
Spouse to British representations,
replied that Italy must go ahead
with construction of these ships.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
GERMANY

BERLIN, June az U.N.S.A
Indicative OF anxiety In high
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CONDITION OF TREASURY

BY International News Service
Treasury balance as of July %,
$2,62S, 478,283.05; internal rev.
enue-$5,615,956.6 custom re-
eeiptS-$17,101,514.95.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27
FATHER HUNTS
MISSING BOY

George Ogden, IA, Monday left
the school he attends on Nichols
Avenue, Southeast, and has not
returned to his home in the 5000
block Of Eleventh Pl. S. E. Police
and The washington Times were
asked by his father. Joseph Og-
den, welder, to aid in locating
him.
The boy wore a tan shirt, gray
trousers, and was barefoot. He
has blue eyes and light hair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
AVOIDING DISILLUSION

nNE thing, at least, occurs to any one who
~ meditates over the tremendous federal
budget that recently was unveiled in Wash
ington. 1t is extremely unlikely that it will
contain any unpleasant surprises for anybody.
BY using the lowest estimate of govern
ment receipts and the highest estimate of
government expenditures, the President gave
us as dark picture as he possibly could have
given.
If everything goes badly things will be
just as he presented them; if, on the other
hand, the government spends a little less
than the maximum, or receives a little more
than the minimum, they will be a good deal
better.
Probably it is just as we'll that we look at
the darker side first. Whatever happens. we
at least have no false hopes
The governments finances for the coming
year won't disillusion us. The only possible
surprise will be pleasant one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
SATURDAY. JAN. 10. 1893.
WINGS OVER THE PACIFIC

WHEN Lieutenant Commander McGinnis
W and his crews landed their six great
navy seaplanes on the water of Pearl Harbor
after twenty-four- hour mass-flight from the
Golden Gate they did more than write avia-
ton history. They proved to America, as
Balbo did to Italy, that wind, fog, darkness
and other scoYls of the elements can be con-
quered by men of science and men % action
Captain Cook. it will be recalled, dscov-
cred the Sandwich islands for the whites 1856
years ago largely by accident. There was
nothing accidental about this navy flight
Through the darkness for fifteen hours,
with nothing to guide them but their delicate
direction finders they made straight for the
eight specks on the vast blue map Of the vast
Pacific. Only Lieutenant Perry's plane was
separated for a few hours from the flock and
its commander was so little worried that he
turned the controls over to an assistant while
he shaved himself. To these Vikings of the
air, the record breaking flight, so stirring to
the rest Of us, was just "a routine hop"
The navys feat is being heralded as dem
onstration for defense. When the planes
landed they had Travelled without stop 1476
miles in twenty-four hours and forty EIGHT
minutes. In their tanks was fuel enough to
have taken them 1900 miles farther to the
Midway islands.
More significantly it is a demonstration for
commerce and peace. 1t will draw the moth
erland closer to these Coral islands. BY ship
the islands are nearly week away from Cali
fornia. Some day the tired business man and
his wife may reach Nirvana by commercial
plane in the time it takes him now to travel
by train from New York to Miami. For the
Hawaiian it will stir new dreams of state
hood.
America once more doffs its hat to avia-
ton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
TIMELY WARNINGS

L EMPLOYERS who try to use company
~ unions to budgeon workers into submits
sion or intimidate them by other coercive
methods should heed two recent warnings.
One is by Walter c. Teagle of Standard OIL
the other is by John P. Frey NRA labor
advisory board member and head OF the
A. F. of L. metal trades department.
Mr.. Teagle, in his capacity of chairman
of the industrial relations committee of the
business advisory and planning council, de-
tends company unions. or "employe repre-
sentation." But ne warns employers that
company unionism must not destroy labor
uniOniSm. If any employer seeks to use en-
ploye representation as means Of taking
advantage of his workers "he will find that it
will not work" No wise employer, he says,
has made an effort to weaken the status of
unions in his business"
Mr.. Frey says: With millions still unem-
ployed clamoring for work, and driven by
desperation to work under almost any con-
ditions which will keep them from starvation,
large numbers who are employed have not
dared to oppose anything the employer de-
sired, and employers have taken full advan-
tage of this condition" He adds that company
unions are being put out of business on the
railroads, and may have the same fate In
the manufacturing industries.
The new deal way is the cooperative way
IT, instead of dealing with organized
workers as equals, employers resort to CO.
ercon and intimidation they court disaster
and eventual intervention by government.
Humanity is tired of strife" Mr.. Teagle
said. 1T long has called for peace-not the
peace imposed by victors upon vanquished
but the reasoned agreement of equals Such
agreements in the field of industry will go
far to eliminate the wastes inherent in con-
fict and to build the returning prosperity of
the country on a firm foundation"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
A Woman's Viewpoint
. By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WE have had countless books
w whose heroes died splendid
ly in the cause of war. Now Sir
Philip Gibbs, reporter on many a
desolate battle front, gives us a
novel in which the hero dies for
peace-and that, my friends, re-
quireS greater courage.
THE Cross of Peace" Is the
novels name. Such title almost
tells its own story-the story Of a
French veteran of the war,
wearer Of the Croix de Guerre, the
Distinguished Service Gross, and
the Legion of Honor ribbon, who,
after a great deal Of fighting for
France, decides to fight for youth
and a better world.
Obviously the book Is propa-
ganda, but what fine propaganda
And it deals with occurrences so
recent that one feels as if one
might be reading a newspaper.
We move to the Rhine country
with the army of occupation, into
a beaten, Inundated Germany,
and we remain to watch proud,
starved and sullen Germany de-
velop into the half-mad country
Of today. =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
LATE HOUR DANGERS

ONE of the odd things which the Ohio
~ state highway department has discov-
cred is that the accident rate on country
roads is highest between the hours of and
a. m.-precisely the moment when the
stream of traffic is at its thinnest.
Part of this is due to theSfact that GER
tain percentage of intoxicated motorists is
found on the highways at that hour; and an
intoxicated motorist who is out driving at
$3.50 in the morning is apt to be very badly
intoxicated, indeed
Partly, also it is due to the toll of fatigue.
Motorists frequently fall asleep at the wheel.
IN the course Of an all-night drive, with dis
astrous results.
And partly, too, it is due to the fact that
the empty roads tempt many drivers to in
dulge in dangerously high speeds.
In any case, the survey is worth little
thought All Of us. ct one time or another,
have occasion to drive ali night.
When We do, We might remember profit
ably that those pre-dawn hours, when the
roads are clear and driving seems so simple.
are really the most dangerous of the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

MAN is the only animal that
1V1 continues to take revenge
upon whipped enemy. We are
not really noble creatures so long
as we pound the fellow who al
ready is PROSTATE, and that's
what we do after we become VIC
tors in any great war. The long
shameful enmity between France
and Germany is an ignoble story
of mans inability to think wise
" upon a subject so vital to his
own and his children's welfare.
Do you know Vera Brittain's
definition Of war? 1t, I think,
touches the truth. She says
WAR, especially if one is the
winner, is such bad form. There
is a strange lack Of dignity in
conquest; the dull accomplishing
endurance Of defeat appears more
worthy of congratulation. Modern
war is nothing but a temporary
but how Observation-Disclosures
by neighbors that they are gentle
men"
All the great writer's Of the earth
and how many of them there
are-send forth new challenge
to the trsly brave. Are the de-
cent, kind, intelligent men and
women courageous enough to die
for peace?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13
SEA SERPENTS GALORE

DRESS associations and special CORE
spondents seem to have gone in for an
orgy of competitive search for sea serpents,
their efforts yielding Bobby the twenty-foot
girlish-eyed monster Of Loeb Ness Scotland;
Amy, the camel-headed wonder of Vancouver
Island. and also the reputed shark OF spitaI
Pond, near Liverpool. The latter, however,
was exposed as red-painted rocking horse
covered with marshweeds
These studies prudently did not begin until
AFTER the death Of Louis T. Stone, the beloved
naturalist who put Winsted Conn, on the map
with his barking fish and tobacco-chewing
squirrels. If he ever had gone looking for sea
monsters we suspect he would have found Just
as good ones at Winsted as ever swan in salt
water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-13

into the hands Of the masses to enable them
to go into the market as adequate purchasers
Of American products 90 Too much money
of every sort went into the debts which grew
out of wild speculation and the orgy of in
stallment buying
The current and relatively superficial
monetary reforms will have at best only a
very slight effect in eliminating these two
basic evils Of the old order.
The gold buying policy, which at present
figures so prominently in the bread lines, can
hardly achieve anything Of fundamental and
far reaching import. AT best, it can only
raise domestic prices thus providing mild
infationist measure. But rising prices, unac-
companied by comparable increases in wages
and farm income, will only further check the
buying activity Of the masses.
Even the debtor classes will profit only
slightly by a price rise. They will gain. in
sofar as they pay off some of their debt in
terms Of cheaper money but their living costs,
which absorb a far larger proportion of their
income, will increase in direct proportion to
any increase in prices.
Therefore, decisive rise in domestic COM
modify prices would not go to the bottom of
our present industrial impasse But, as the
editor Of Facts for Workers does well to point
out, it is very doubtful whether the present
gold buying policy can even produce any such
spectacular price rise as is hoped for.
Too, little newly mined gold is produced
in the United States to make its purchase by
the RFC Of any material significance Main
dependence is placed upon buying gold in the
world market To get this gold we send dollars
abroad. This increases the number of dollars
in circulation abroad and thus depresses the
value of the dollar in the foreign exchange.
1t is expected that this will then boost our
foreign trade, since American goods can be
bought more cheaply by foreigners when meas
ured in terms of our cheapened dollar.
pound or franc or mark will buy more in
terms Of American dollars. This increased de-
mand for American products, raw and manu-
featured, will, it is hoped, boost the prices of
such products in the United States
In theory, this is probably sound But the
results, if obtained in practice, are bound to
be extremely slow in manifesting themselves
in period Of economic depression. Moreover,
oPkCoAo
OF foreign buying on large scale, the foreign
countries, which see their home market thus
placed in Jeopardy, likely are to protect them
selves and upset the applicant through the
imposition of high tariffs and embargoes
Above all, the uncertainty and indecisive-
ness OF the gold buying policy possesses most
of the disadvantages of overindation without
the positive stimulus of the latter to feverish
industrial revival.
Had the gold buying policy been kept
quietly in its place as subordinate feature of
broad campaign against the depression, 1t
might have achieved some of the good results
expected without producing the evils which
have followed upon the grotesque exaggera-
ton OF its role both by the administration
and some of the American press.