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The Washington times., 1934-12-11

The Park Savings 1t Will be recalled, was one OF the most
garng instances bank failures Washington at the termna
tion of the Presidents bank holiday
It found AFTER the holiday that the Park Savings
Bank had been miked of about million and half dollars
JUST ABOUT HALF OF ITS TOTAL DEPOSITS.
Although there is of litigation and although lot
of charges have been made has yet been able to dis
anything about the missing million and half
Because of that huge shortage looked for time though
the depostor in the institution would lose everything they had
put The 20 which is about to be paid AND WE
HOPE THAT WON'T BE ALLY just about twice what
of the med deposors thought they would get back total
The approaching pay of this hundred thousand dollars
needed fight which Representative Clarence Mcleod
of Michigan and The Washington Times made at the last
sion of Congress for legislation behalf of the vicmized
bank depostors of the nation
The Park Savings Bank pay off, small is is made pos
sible as A RESULT OF THE LEGISLATION WHICH WAS
ENACTED BECAUSE OF THAT FIGHT.
Because of the provisions the socaled McLeodSteaga
BILL the Reconstruction Finance Corporation able to
praise the assets of the bank at higher value than they had
been held formerly.
The bill authorized the Corporation to take cognzance OF
the likelihood of values of bank assets improving over period
OF years as the recovery movement progressed
The Corporation did that in the of the Park Savings
Bank and the payment has resulted.
This not the only local bank which has benefited from the
provisions of that law Several other dvends have been
made possible through its operation.
We believe that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
could be STILL MORE LIBERAL in its appraisals and
stay well within the appraisal provisions of the Mcleod BILL
More than that believe that the in which the
and the benefits which have resulted the people through
that administration should impress the Congress with the
desrablity of making those provisions MANDATORY the
Corporation and upon the receivers of the closed banks
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Words of Wise Men

The sense of sight is the
keenest of all our senses
Cicero.
Those who consent to the
act and those who do it shall
be punished eQually.-Coke.
Wit Is the most raScally, con-
temptible. beggarly thing on the
face of the earth.-Murphy.
Whoever is not too wise, Is
Wise.-Martial.
A cunning woman is a knaV'
ish fool.-Lyttleton.
It is only those who possess
firmness who can possess true
gentlenesS.-La Rochefoucauld.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

used to work
ourselves up,
of a stormy
n i 6 h t, over
the B o o g i e
Man.
w e knew,
of cour S e,
even at five,
that t h e r e
W a S n t any
Boogie Man.
But when the
n i G h t shut
down like a
great, b a tx
bat, and the
wind began to
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

I forget who
it was, and it
m ay h a v e
been 80 years
ago for all I
k n o W, b u t
that certain
c on d e seem
sion on the
part of for
e i g n e RS to-
wards Ameri-
cans" S till
c on ii n ueS,
a n d j t h a S
rarely mani
tested itself
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

stepped on and my ribs poked
and my eyeglasses knocked off,
did I go home and complain?
Did I write you letters saying:
II attempted to buy some mer-
chandise at your store yester'
day and today, but the crush
was so great that I could not
get a clerk to what on me. I
shall not pay you a third call
unless you send me a formal
notice of your January White
Sale, with the price of sheets
engraved on it in Illuminated
letterS?"
Two can play at this game as
we'll as one. you know.
(CopyriUht 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Hendrix Willem van LOOn--

official foolscap, and that all
the utterances of all the chan
cellories count for absolutely
nothing, compared to the news
which we are in the habit of
getting from our own CORE
spondents. 1t is true that be-
fore the war, when Europe was
very far away indeed, we were
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Americans Will Form OlUn
Opinions About Europe

often woefully misinformed
about the true state of affairs
over there. We have learned
our lesson at the expense of
thousands of lives that will
never come back and billions of
dollars worth of property that
we had better forget.
To the average American
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

Alth o u 6 h
the voters Of
tn country
might some
times doubt
tn cir accu-
racy, o h e r
govern m e n t
officials ap-
parently d o
n OF question
their integ-
rity.
Secre t ary
of Agriculture
H e ry A.
Wallace ap-
naarnd before
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

Some 80 years ago somebody
wrote an article on "a Certain
Condescension on the part of
Foreigners Towards Americans.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
Another Bank Pay-Off
Result of the Mcleod Bill

The unfortunate depoors of the Park Savings Bank
AT LAST going to get of their money back.
isn't great DEAL but beginning next week the depositors
will get 20 per of the they had deposit when
the institution blew up.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11

The veracity of Cabinet Off
GERS must not be doubted in
certain Washington circles.
The Washington times., 1934-12-11
The Truth About Capitalism~

Copyright 1894. by King Features
Syndicate. IncO
I'm getting sick of these
yawps about Capitalism. They
remind me of the way we kids
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
STATES ASKED
. To BEAR PART
Of EXPENSE.
$4,000 Sought for PreIimi-
nary Study of Project;
! Wide Benefits Cited

Virginia, Maryland and the
Federal Government will be asked
70 contribute to the cost of a new
high-level Chain Bridge if such a
bridge is approved, by the Bureau
Of the Budget, it was said today
by Melvin c. Hazen, president of
the Board of District Commis-
sioners.
The Commissioners are having
prepared a supplemental estimate
of $4,000, which they will seek to
have included in the 1885 District
appropriation, for a preliminary
study Of the bridge project.
Should this item be granted,
Mr.. Hazen said, the report Of the
Commissioners to the Budget Blu
reau asking for the bridge on the
basis of the study will contain
q recommendation that the Dis
trict bear half the cost and that
the other half be divided equally
among Maryland, Virginia and
the Federal Government.
Virginia will benefit directly by
the bridge, Mr.. Hazen pointed out,
since it will provide a shortened
approach to washington for a
large section of the State. Mary
land will benefit because the
bridge will provide a bypass
through Washington for south
bound traffic. -,
The Federal Government should
bear a share, he believes, because
the project is of benefit to the
general public.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
CITIZENS TABLE
RUM REPORT
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question of fire house for the
neighborhood.
Due to overcrowed conditions
at the A. R. Shepherd School,
where 173 pupils are assigned to
four rooms, the Board of Educa-
ton will be requested to furnish
two addition rooms in the eight
room building.
Sewer improvements Sought
The District Commissioners will
be requested to make sewer con-
nections at Twelfth and Juniper
SITS. so that water and mud will
not wash over the pavement.
The coming membership drive,
under auspices of the Federation
of Citizens Association, was in
dorsed. The editor of this col
umn, chairman of the drive,
urged all members Of the associa-
ton to cooperate.
New members elected were Jos.
W. Kinghorn, Leroy Russell, Mil
ton r. Baker and w. C. Bergman.
oliver r. Sweet, president, pre-
sided.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
ALT|MORE GIRL
KILLED IN TAXI,
D. {. BOUND
Car Crashes Into Truck Near
BeItsviIIe; Identified By
Phone Numbers

Through telephone numbers
found in her pocketbook, a we'll
dressed, attractive young girl
who died in a crash on the Wash
ington Boulevard near Beltsville,
Md, last night, was identified IS
Mabel Miller, missing from her
Baltimore home since yesterday.
The girl was riding in a TAXI
cab, driven by Albert A. Reed,
3400 block Be! Air Road, Balti-
more, toward Washington, when
the cab crashed into logs pro-
jecting from a lumber truck. She
was rushed to Casualty but died
during the night while the drivers
was taken to Providence Hospital.
The truck driver, Francis
owens, $500 block Ninth st. Sc,
was charged with failing to ex-
hibit a rear light on an object
projecting more than five feet
beyond truck.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
RED TAPE JAMS
MARYLANDP PNA

BALTIMORE, Jan. 10.-Only
200 men have been placed at work
in Maryland under the PWA. due
to red tape and local politics, it
was charged today,
With an eleven million highway
program drawn up, no work has
been started because Of a dispute
over the new Philadelphia road.
Certain politicians and political
interests, it is charged, claim
there is no necessity for the new
road and have been opposing all
plans for it.
Coupled with this is the action
of the State Roads Commission
in postponing plans several times
on the ground that there has
been no definite assurance that
a four million dollar loan will
be made by the Federal Govern
ment.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
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The Washington times., 1934-01-10
PNA PROJECTS
SEEN LURE FOR
MONTGOMERY
County School Superintendent
Says Requirements Met
Inside To-Day DeadIine

Montgomery county will beat
the Today deadline, set by Public
Works Administrator Harold L.
Ickes for States, counties, towns
and cities either to "take or
leave" the allotments made to
them for building projects.
It was revealed today by DR..
Edwin w. Broome, county superin-
tendent of schools, that the delay
in Montgomery county was first
occasioned by being forced to wait
for the State legislature to ap,
prove the project, and later by
the fact that the PWA cut the re-
quested allotment from $234,000
to 100000.
The money called for work on
Is schools and when $4,000 was
cut off. plans for the work had
to be redrawn, DR.. Broome said.
He added that plans have already
been approved for the Chevy
Chase Elementary School and
Eastern Suburban Junior High
School, and that advertising bids
for work on the other 13 schools
have been placed with State PWA
board in Baltimore. DR.. Broome
continued:
There has been no delay by
the county. There were many
technical details to be considered
before it fulfilled the require
ments set down by the PWA.
These will be irOned out within
10 days."
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
4-H Girls Postpone
Election MeetinQ

The annual meeting Of the All
Girls Federation, usually held in
January, has been postponed un-
til later in the spring, according
to announcement made by Of
ficials today. The exact date of
the meeting has not been agreed
upon. Election of officers for the
next two years will be held.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
C. HEADS TO SEEK FUNDS TO BUILD NEW CHAIN BRIDGE
4SPied Pipers
Doom Rats In
Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Jan. 10.-Pied
Pipers-475 of them-are about
to launch a drive against Balti-
more's rats.
The men have been recruited
under the CWA program and
will be directed in the campaign
by the United States Public
Health Service.
The city will be divided into
five zones for the war, which
will be carried on until every
rat is exterminated. More than
$4,000 steel traps will be placed
to catch the rodents.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
Silver Spring Club
To Hear Police Head

Women's Improvement Club Of
Silver Spring will meet Thursday
evening in the fire hall. A. A.
Moxley, chief of the Montgomery
county police, and Sergt. Guy
Jones of the police force will talk
on law enforcement.
Mrs. Archibald Small, promi-
nent club woman of Woodside,
will be the guest of honor.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
STREET CAR TIED UP ON MORNING RUSH

>street line. Special police details
were called out to handle the traf-
fic jam that followed. The cars
moved about half an hour after
the start of the tie-up.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10

Thousands of Government en-
ployes and other workers were
late today when downtown street
car traffic was tied up for more
than half an hour.
Cause of the tie-up, which also
jammed automobile traffic, was
the dropping of an underground
conductor rail on the line at
Fourteenth Street and New York
Avenue northwest.
This blocked off the Fourteenth
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
COLLEGE PLANS
ARBORETUN

Plans for the establishment of
an arboretum at the University
of Maryland are being considered
by college officials.
DR.. Raymond A. Pearson, presi-
dent of the university, made
known that the board of regents
had taken up the question of the
tree plot.
If established, the arboretum
will be used for experimental pur-
poses solely. Five hundred varie-
ties Of trees will be planted lip~ it.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
Hy0ttsUilLe ShOWs
Surplus for Month

Hyattsville is financially sound,
report of Town Treasurer Will
liam A. Shepard shows.
Receipt for December were
$7,067.65. Expenditures we're only
$1,861.94, leaving cash balance
in the bank of $5,205.71.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
Clarendon to Hold
First Aid Glasses

First aid classes for white
women above the age of II years,
will open tonight at the Claren.
don, Va, health center at 7 p. m,
according to Mrs. Bertha Kelly,
chairman of the Arlington county
Red Cross Chapter.
Red Cross certificates will be
given those passing the course.
The Washington times., 1934-01-10
WEDDINGS SET RECORD

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Jan.
10.-Ten divorces were granted
here in 1888. Marriages registered
sharp increase and established
a new local record, rising from
112 in 1882 to 165 in 1888.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Z HELD To JURY
IN HOLDUP

Two men, arraigned before JUS
tice Robert E. Mattingly at a
preliminary hearing in Police
Court today on charge of rob-
berry at the point of gun,
pleaded not guilty and were held
for Grand Jury action under
$4,000 bond each.
Harry Alexander, 81, of the
$500 block Thirteenth st. N. w.,
and James Cole, %, of the 1900
block L st. N. w., were accused
of holding up Harry Hazel, clerk
in a store in the 2400 block
Eighteenth st. N. w., and fore
ing him to hand over $40 from
the cash register. According to
police. Alexander remained out
side in a taxi while Cole and
third man. who is still at large,
went into the store.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
GORDONOUSTER
DELAY ASKED

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 21.-A
plea that DR.. Douglas Huntly
Gordon, discharged president of
st. Johns College, be retained
for the remainder of his academic
year, despite his summary dis
missal, was forwarded to the
board OF visitors and governors
of the college by the faculty
today.
The faculty maintained that a
single, responsible head of the
college is necessary at this time.
They asked that Gordon be re-
tained IF no executive officer
can take charge"
DR.. Gordon is to be succeeded
by Amos w. w. Woodcock as
president, July l. Mr.. Woodcock
will be here Friday for a meet
ing with the faculty. He may
not be able to assume duties
until July.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
JAPANESE FAIL.
To CURB TALK
Of NEW WAR
Crisis Seen In 1885 or 1888
After Navy Treaty Dies;
Propaganda Grows

TOKYO, Feb. 81 G.N.S0.-De-
spite the Japanese governments
efforts to soft-pedal all talk OF
war in the Far East, a survey by
international News Service today,
disclosed % articles in current
magazines, some discussing pros
poets of early conflict with Russia
in Siberia and others accom-
panied by fanciful pictures Of q
naval war in the Pacific.
Publication by international
News Service of an article by
Admiral Suetsugu, commander Of
the Japanese fleets, in which he
discussed possibilities of imminent
war in the Far East with utmost
franknesS caused the government
to urge all military and naval
leaders, as we'll as prominent fig
ures in the Diet, to refrain from
such discussions.
Foreign Office Hindered
It was pointed out that the for
eign office was being embarrassed
in it's conversations with other
countries.
At the same time a censorship
was imposed upon newspapers and
magazines which had been filled
with what the Government de.
clared we're inflammatory articles.
Nevertheless, Vice Admiral va
sunni has written an article now
appearing in Japanese magazine
entitled, Naval Armament" and
Lieutenant General Haraguchi has
written a similar review of Mill
tary Armament" which make no
attempt to avoid discussion of war
possibilities.
Crisis Seen in 2 Years
Newspaper and magazine writer's
are talking about a crisis in 1885
and 1886 when the Washington
naval disarmament treaty will
have expired. Their most popu.
lar subjects are the fighting abil-
ity of the Russian army and the
question whether Japan will be
amply supplied with fuel. A lead.
ing question is:
"Tf we fight Russia, what
part will America pIay?"
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
STAV|SKY CASE
WITNESS SLAIN

PARIS, Feb. 21-G.N.S0-The
mysterious murder of one of the
principal witnesses in the inves-
tigation of the 40 million dollar
Stavisky financial scandal was
disclosed today on the heels of
the charge that the sWindler Sta
visky was also an international
spy.
The body of Albert Prince, A.
year-old counsellor of the Court
of Appeals, one of the highest
judicial posts in France, was dis
covered this morning on the rail
road tracks between Paris and
Dion.
The head was severed. A bloody
butcher knife and Woman's
powder puff were found nearby.
Counsellor Prince was to have
testified today before one of the
numerous commissions appointed
by a parliamentary committee to
take testimony in the StaviSky
affair.
He was to have revealed the
names of prominent persons, it
was understood.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
FURLOUGH OUT,
RULES ROPER

Administrative furloughs in the
Department of Commerce are
eliminated, effective today, ac-
cording to announcement by Sec
retary Daniel C. Roper.
In addition to all other econ
omies effected at the Department,
as a means of keeping its expen-
ditures within it's allotted budget
of $29,00O,OOO, the Department has
imposed administrative furloughs
totaling Is days a year, to be taken
at the rate of one or two days a
month.
Now this practice will be dis
continued, and all employees of the
Department will receive full pay,
subject only to the IS per cent
reduction now in effect, or such
part of it as may remain after
Congress acts on the Independent
Offices Appropriations bill.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
ONE THUG HELD
IN SLUGG|NG

CHICAGO, Feb. 81 GN.S).
E. P. Adler, publisher of the
Davenport Gowa) Times and
president of the Lee Syndicate
of newspaper, was slugged by
two men in a Loop hotel today in
what police believe was an at
tempt to kidnap him.
Alder escaped the thugs only
after he had lodged the full ef-
feet of the blows and ran down
the corridor from his room.
One Of the men, whose identity
was not Immediately revealed,
was captured by the police.
In the next room to Adler's,
investigators found a large trunk
which had been punctured, it is
believed the assailants intended
putting Adler in the trunk so
they could carry him out Of the
hotel. The holes were believed to
have been put there so that the
intended victim could get air
while in the trunk.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Storm Delays Death
Of 3 Condemned Men

BOSTON, Feb. 81. 0N.SD.-An
extra day of life, literally a gift
from heaven, came today to three
young men condemned to die in
the electric chair at CharleStown
State Prison.
Herman Red" Snyder, John A.
Donnellan and Henry Clay Bull,
the latter of Brooklyn, N. Y. had
been scheduled to be executed
shortly after midnight, but Exc
cutioner Robert Elliott, of New
York, was stranded at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, during the blizzard which
swept New England yesterday.
Warden James L. Hogsett was
forced to postpone the execution
"a hours until midnight tonight.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Pat Grove, Once Kidnaper,
Has Cure for Crime

Pat Grove, one of the two men
who staged one of Americas
earliest and most spectacular kid
napings, that of Edward Cudahy
early in the century, has his own
ideas of the modern snatch
racket" and also has his cure
for crime.
He has written President Roose-
welt asking him to appoint a
commission to study the advisa-
bility of putting the thousands of
young men who are unemployed
on homesteads and making self
supporting citizens Of them.
When it comes to modern kid
napings, Mr.. Grove thinks little
of the gangsters' technique. Com
menting on the Cudahy kidnap-
ing, he said:
The Washington times., 1934-02-21

1--WE (he and Jim Callahan)
just locked him up. We posed
as cops and told him he was
under arrest as an escaped re-
form school inmate. We took
him from near his home in
Omaha to a house in MelrOSe
Hill, near South Omaha, and
made him our star bOarder.
"The board and room we
charged amounted to $1,000 an
hour and we had him for "a
hours. We charged an extra
$1,000 for cigarettes and got
the money in gold, five sacks
of it, the ante being $25,OOO."
Ironically, Mr.. Grove never
served time for the Cudahy kid
because Nebraska hac
no law on it at that time. He
served plenty of time for Other
things, however, after he gave
himself up to police. Now, he's
lecturing on the folly of crime.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
F FARLEY DENIES
PARTY LACKS
HARMONY
NO Vendetta He Wires to
Florida Session; Sees Only
Roosevelt Democrats

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. 81
0.N.SO.-Despite the factional
fights which characterized the
last Democratic convention in
Chicago, there is no vendetta in
the Democratic party, Postmaster
General Farley, as chairman OF
the Democratic National Commit,
tee, told a meeting of the Florida
Democratic executive committee
in a message read by William
w. HoWeS, vice chairman Of the
national committee.
Roosevelt Democrats Only
Mr.. Farley was unable to at
tend the meeting, although he
had planned to do so. His mes
sage said:
'Tn fact, there is only one
kind of Democrat and that is a
Roosevelt Democrat"
Admitting there had been some
"grouching" over a few of the
Presidents policies, Mr.. Farley's
message said:
'VariOus politicians writhing
at the spectacle Of partisanship
disappearing before the surge OF
a tide of resolve that the PreSi-
dent should not be hampered
in his effort to effect national
salvation, have raised their
voices in clamOr that the Con-
stitutiOn is being violated and
that the Congress has abdicated
in favor of a dictatorship.
CHARGES "ABSURD"
"The answer to these absurd
charges is simple: Nothing has
been done or attempted by the
Roosevelt administration out
side of the Constitution. The
President has assumed no pow
ers except those Congress has
delegated to him and he can
exercise those powers only until
such time as Congress elects
to deprive him of them"
The message said further:
"There is, in some quarters,
a baseless notion that in some
mysterious fashion the President
is brow-beating the Senators
and Representatives, forcing
them against their desire to do
his will. But most members of
Congress of every party realize
that this is no time to play
politics"
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
FACTOR NAMES
8 k|DNAPERS

CHICAGO, Feb. 81 G.N.SJ.
John wJake the BarberD Factor
today identified Roger Touhy,
Gus Schaefer and Albert Kator
as three of his kidnapers. He
also identified a photograph of
the dead Willie Sharkey.
Factor told the same story he
told during the first trial of the
Touhys for the kidnapping which
occurred last July and cost the
stock promoter $4,000 in ran
som money.