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The Washington times., 1934-08-02
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the early days Of the Spanish
occupation, but beyond that no
one can CLEAN anything def
mite. But somewhere out in
the chapparal, one old Hasa
yampa whispers to another,
and draws a map on the sand
and off they go.
Away back in 1795, three
Colonial youths on Oak Island,
off the coast of Nova Scotia,
found the earth disturbed un-
der an oak tree. They uncov-
cred a cavity, floored with
stout boards. Under this was
another-and still another. All
summer they worked without
coming to an end of the sunken
plank compartments. Various
difficulties and hazards drove
them away. Years later others
tried to fathom the labyrinth,
but failed.
Forty years ago, a syndicate
was formed. They drilled and
professed to get bits of metal
Enthusiastically indicating treas
ure. But no one yet has either
found the last Of the boxes or
solved the mystery.
Cat Island, off the Louisiana
coast, in the Gulf of Mexico,
has it's almost annual treasure
hunt, based on one of the
durable stock legends. CocoS
Island, off Peru, still lures
young men on a shoe string
and old men on yachts. The
provinces of Chichuahua and
Sonora, in Mexico, are porous
with holes left by searchers
for Villas buried treasure.
The town of Delhi, N. Y,
is honeycombed round about
with the 75-year search for the
treasure Of a gang Of mid-cen-
tury bank bandits. For 40 years
the little town of Ozark, on the
north side of the Arkansas, has
been torn up by gold seekers
one of those gold bug map tales.
st. Louis roots into the nearby
cave on the Mermac River. In
Los Angeles a band of 80
treasure hunters follows a spirit
guide, which is going to lead
them to buried gold from the
old San Gabriel mission.
The. depression, of course,
stirred new treasure hunts, but
the good old, dependable quests
keep on. Somehow, it seems
best to keep them-with all
their properties s-"his mark
the skull, and all the rest. It
would seem too bad to have the
Cocos Island treasure all over
and done with, and distributed
in the form of debentureS by
the operating company. Per-
haps, as Stevenson said, 1T is
better to have travelled than to
have arrived"
But there ought to be an in.
junction, or something, against
Mr.. Boone, hunting King Johns
treasure. He established Fen
Research, Ltd" That's no way
to go after buried treasure.
Copyright. 1884. BY King Features
syndicate, 1nc.)
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game; but as Andy would say,
technique is the moSteSt thing
they haven't got"
A man has so many changes
of heart, that you'd fancy the
first thing he'd want to learn
is how to make a graceful exit
from q filtration, a foolish en-
tanglement or a fading love af-
fair. But the art of getting rid
of a woman gently, dexterouSly
and graciously, is seldom among
the modern mans accomplish
mentS. Falling in love is about
the easiest thing he does-but
crawling out Of it is hardest
and clumSieSt.
A girl may be just as tired
of a willing summer romance
as a man is, but she likes to
put the finishing touches on
love thoroughly and effectively.
It offendS her artistic sense to
leave any loose ends.
A man, on the other hand,
either rusheS into and out Of
a love affair as though it we're
a subway station. Or else he
leaves it hanging up in the air,
like the body after a lynchiug
party.
The average man hates to
EXPLAIN things. He hates to
talk things over" When he
knows that the affair or the
engagement is sagging in the
middle, he just goes off and
The Washington times., 1934-08-02
TakOma'S Vote
A Prophecy

The referendum which the District Commissioners have
ordered be held in the Takoma Park section Sep
tember 5, Importance far transcending the
simple question of whether that shall be wet dry
IT WILL SET PRECEDENT WHICH MAY VERY
WELL REVOLUTI0NIZE THE CONDUCT OF THE
AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND
GIVE OUR CITIZENS AT LAST AN OPPORTUNITY
TO BE HEARD EFFECTIVELY ON GOVERNMENTAL
PROBLEMS AFFECTING THEM.
The referendum paves the way and sets up pattern
for the future determination Of problems about which
there is dispute among residents.
If referendum can be held in comparatively small
community of the city there is every for believing
that it can be invoked for the settlement Of affairs Of
far wider import
The vote in Takoma Park on the question of issuance
Of beverage licenses will not be officially binding upon
the District Commissioners the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board.
It WILL however, be morally binding upon those agen-
cies because the law legang alcoholic beverages in the
District specifically provides that the wishes Of COM
unty are to be taken into consideration by the District
officials in granting licenses.
SIMILARLY REFERENDA UPON OTHER CUES
TI0Ns WOULD NOT BE OFFICIALLY BINDING
UPON THE COMMISSIONERS. BUT THERE IS
LITTLE DOUBT THAT THE COMMISSIONERS
WOULD FEEL THEMSELVES BOUND TO CARRY
OUT THE PROPERLY EXPRESSED WISHES OF
MAJORITY OF OUR CITIZENS.
That the present Board of Commissioners feels that
such referenda have force is indicated by the simple fact
that they have ordered such vote in Takoma Park.
Great care will have to be exercised by those who have
been placed in charge of the Takoma vote to that
the vote is truly representative and gives true picture
of the wishes of the residents of the area
Failure properly to conduct the referendum will give
rise to renewal of the old charge that the District would
not know what to do with the vote if it given it,
In this connection the residents of the area have
solemn duty It up to them to justify the faith which
the Commissioners have expressed in them and conduct
the poll on high plane.
If they do not do this they liable to have to bear
the responsibility of indefinitely postponing realization
of the Districts aspirations for voice in the determna
tion of its own affairs.
A SUCCESSFUL REFERENDUM IN TAKONEA PARK
WILL BE PROPHECY OF WHAT THE DISTRICT
MAY EXPECT IN THE FUTURE IN THE MATTER
OF THE VOTE
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But the curse deterS none.
Not only footless adventurers,
but the rich and great-like
Mr.. Boone-are as eager to go
treasure hunting as any pop
eyed boy who has been reading
Treasure Island.
just after the war, an impos-
ing group Of powerful New York
bankers sunk many thousands
of dollars into a syndicate to
bring up from the sea bullion
and coin sunk a century or
more ago. I happened to talk
to one Of them at the time.
There was a febrile excitement
in the man never stirred by
his work-a-day cleaning of mil
lions in the stock market.
From time to time, elaborate
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How to Keep Out of War
There Is Only One Way

The seething of Europes cauldron gives added point
to President Roosevelts recent speech board the
cruiser Houston, in which he pledged that the Navy
would be built up to treaty strength as speedily as
possible.
The American people, we believe, soidly with him
in demanding fleet second to none. Those who re-
member the events Of 1916 and 1917 know that it
chiefly the unpreparedness for which the Wilson admin
isation responsible which helped to draw us into
the Great War.
The Central Powers then reckoned on defeating the
Allies before we would be ready to play decisive part
in the fighting.
Their guess was wrong it turned out but not far
wrong-whereas if we had built up adequate Navy,
Army and air force BEFORE 1917, they never would
have risked our participation in the struggle.
We don't want such misapprehenson to arise again
In the minds Of any European Asatc power. It is
too expensive for all concerned and for ourselves
than anyone
But reassuring as the Presidents declaration is the
fact remains that Navy is in THIRD place. and
cannot be built up to its required strength in less than
three or four years.
Our Army, furthermore, is in SEVENTEENTH place
about on par in number of with that of Greece
Our military air force also has been shown by the
Baker report to have startling deficiencies, and
petey policy toward is essential if it is to fulfill
the missions to which it is assigned.
America, therefore, must not be lued into of
false security by speeches It must not think that
its defenses today strong enough to KEEP IT OUT
OF WAR.
They are not and even with the most conscientious
exerions they cannot be made strong enough until 1887
or after.
Much may happen in three years.
Much may happen, events in Austria have proved,
in three weeks-or three minutes.
Americans can merely hope that another European
conflagration will not begin until they prepared to
keep out of it; and meanwhile bend every effort to
achieve that preparedness is humanity pos
sible to do so.
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plans are formed to raise the
British frigate Hussar, sunk in
Hell Gate Sound with $4,000, 900
worth of gold brought here to
pay British soldiers in the Revo-
lutionary War. In Delaware
Bay is the DeBreak, with
$5,O00,000: off Nantucket Light
is the Republic, with $2,000,000;
in San Francisco Bay, the Rio
Janeiro with 100000.
For many years, old desert
rats have been quitting the
sagebruSh trail and .burrowing
into the Cocopah Mountains,
back of San Diego, Cal. AL
most esoteric seem the tales
which are whispered around
the treasure hunters. Some
where in the Cocopah is buried,
so runs the tale, vast loot from
The Washington times., 1934-08-02
BY John Snure, Jr.

Flowing under crops may be
the forte of the A. A. A., but
they are also trying to dig up a
few thousand checks these days.
They combined the contract
records and audit sections the
first Of which was under w. B.
jenkins and the latter under
John B. Payne in the hope that
it would speed up production Of
checks for the embattled farm
ers.
Instead, so much friction and
dissatisfaction has developed
that j. M. Palmer, disbursing Of
ficer, cannot send out more than
$4,000 checks a day. Heretofore,
under the old Set-up, they sent
out as many as 77,000 a day:
New orders are to hurry out
the checks to the agricultural
gentleman so that Roosevelt will
get a. better reception in the
Middle West on his way home.
But they are trying to work
so fast they are making plenty
Of mistakes.
# anyone wants a job at
$4,000 per annum they might
consult Supreme Court Justice
James C. McReynoldS. He is
looking for secretary. The only
qualifications are that the
young man must not drink,
smoke or be married, must have
q law degree and a working
knowledge Of shorthand.
Old police officers don't like
an the fanfare that has CEN
The Washington times., 1934-08-02
ARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

leaves it to come apart Of its
own accord. He stops seeing
the girl or calling her. up or
writing her, and soothes his
conscience df any, with the
hope that she'll UNDER
STAND"
Running the knife in inches
is what he calls a gentle
mans way" Of breaking off
with a woman. But a good,
swift, clean cut would be far
less painful-and far more
creditable.
There is such a thing as
painless surgery, even in love.
It is not necessary to cut love
off with cleaver. It can be
done much more effectively
with a scalpel and the anes-
thetic Of a few tender parting
words.
Some men can tell a girl that
"all is over" so tenderly and
regretfully that she feels almost
complimented. Others are so
brutal or so awkward about it,
that she feels as though she
had been blackjacked. Some
men can change partners in the
The Washington times., 1934-08-02

tered around the Department of
Justice for the killing Of John
Dillinger. They think ]. Edgar
Hoover should be a bit more
modest and that a real detective
should not become such a ma
tiOnal figure as has young Mel
vim Purvis.
Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Lawrence Wood "Chip'
Robert, is coming back to Wash.
ingtOn within a Few days after
making an extensive tour of the
United States MintS.
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According to Manila dis
patches the Philippine Consti-
tutional Convention has opened
"amid stormy scenes"
This was to be expected. It
is the inevitable result of the
legislative monstrosity under
which the Philippine people are
compelled to proceed. This
monStroSity-the So-called
Philippine Independence Act
was lobbied through the late
and unlamented Seventy-Third
Congress by the hirelings of a
coalition of special interests
dominated by the sugar trust.
Under this iniquitous law
the following procedure is
forced upon the Philippine
people:
They must first accept the
provisions of the law either by
the vote of the Philippine
Legislature or a convention
called for that purpose. The
act has already been accepted
by the legislature.
The Next Step
They must then formulate a
constitution. This is the task
upon which the convention now
in session at Manila has just
entered. There is no time limit
upon the completion of this
next step.
Having drawn up constitu-
ton and incorporated in it
certain provisions which the
law requires shall continue in
effect until the final with
drawal of American sovereignty,
ten, twenty or even more years
hence, the proposed organic
law must then be submitted to
the President Of the United
States for approval.
If he finds that it conforms
to the provisions Of the Philip
pine Act he must so certify. II
he finds it does not he must so
inform the Philippine Conven-
ton through the Governor Gen
eral and indicate the changes
which he desires made.
These exchanges between the
President and the Philippine
Constitutional Convention may
continue indefinitely, but until
an agreement has been arrived
on the provisions Of the pro-
posed constitution the status
quo in the islands must con-
tinue.
When, as, and if the Presi-
dent finally gets from Manila
a constitution that he is will
ing to approve and certify, the
Philippine people are then au-
thorized to hold an election for
ratification or rejection Of the
constitution.
Here we come to one Of the
many jokers in this inquitous
law.
The question really to be
voted on at this election will
be the ratification or rejection
of a new form of inSular gov
ernment,' not the question of
whether the Philippine people
really desire to be rid entirely
The Washington times., 1934-08-02
Pacific Situation Bungled
by James T. Williams, Jr.

Of the protection Of American
sovereignty.
But under the law lobbied
through Congress by the sugar
trust and it's sordid allies it is
provided that "this vote" which
is vote for new form of insu-
lar government, shall be
deemed an expression of the will
Of the people of the Philippine
Islands in favor of Philippine
independence"
AS a matter of fact, the new
form Of inSular government for
which the proposed constitution
will provide, gives the Philip
pine people more autonomy
than they now have. This would
involve less American control
than is now exercised over their
affairs. For example, they
would be permitted to elect their
governor general, who is now ap-
pointed by the President.
The ultimate issue which will
be determined by this vote for
more autonomy will be that Of
complete independence from
the United States in the in
definite future. No more dis
honest and unfair plebiscite was
ever forced upon a dependent
people by the government
pledged before the world to
protect them from such injus-
tice.
Future Uncertain
Under this crooked procedure
forced upon the Philippine peo-
pie by the lobby-ridden Con-
gress which passed this law the
average island voter cannot fore
see the ultimate economic con-
sequences Of complete divorce
from the United States in the
indefinite future.
He cannot possibly anticipate
what a majority vote for the
constitution providing for a new
form of insular government,
pending final separation, will
finally indlict upon the Philip
pine people in the years to come.
This cowardly procedure is no
less unfair to the American
people. It condemns them to &C.
cupy for an indefinite number
of years position of response
bility in the Far East beyond
their authority to discharge.
Throughout the time that will
elapse between the setting up OF
the temporary insular govern
ment, for which the proposed
constitution provides, and the
final withdrawal of American
sovereignty from the Philippines,
the United States will be wholly
responsible for the conduct of
the Philippine government, for
the defense of the Philippine
Islands against revolution from
within or aggression from with
out but it's authority to dis
charge that responsibility will be
very much less than it is today.
The stormy scenes" with
which the Philippine convention
has started will doubtless prove
to be only the shadow of more
serious storms yet to break.
Copyright, 1884, The Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1934-08-02

ings. johnson entrained after
the last time down..
Senator Pat Harrison, in town
on a quiet mission recently,
visited the Home Owners Loan
Corporation and broke up q
board meeting when he thrust
his head in the door and the
members recognized him.
Copyright. 1884 The Washington T4mesI
The Washington times., 1934-08-02

Gen. Hugh
S. johnson Is
one Of the
most frequent
users Of air.
planes in the
pre- sent Ad.
m niStraMon,
but he became
rather tired
Of flying on
his recent trip
West W hen
he Arm y
plane in which
he was riding
m q d e three
fOrNnd land
The Washington times., 1934-08-02
This Way Out-Of Love

This Way Out-Of Love
The air has been filled with
the fragments of broken engage
ments this past season - and
most of them were smashed
with as much noise and as little
technique as a small boy uses
in smashing his Christmas toys.
Men pride themselves on
their technique" in the love
The Washington times., 1934-08-02

love-game as gracefully as
though it were a Paul Jones
but most men tread all over a
woman's vanity in the mad
rush to get to the next woman.
Getting rid of a loving
woman has never been an easy
job-but let no man boast Of
his technique as a lover, unless
he can make a graceful and be-
coming exit from a romance.
And THAT requires all the
nerve Of a Dillinger and all the
skill Of a Houdini!
Copyright, 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-08-02

WASHINGTON every
ID. @.
). j.. TfSpaFick. managing OdlOh
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
HIT.
OPTIMISM
Of DAWES
New Dealers Would "Tame
Down" Joyous Forecast of
1885 Prosperity
By FRANKLIN G. sARTWELL

The Administration realizes the
desirability of stimulating the
country's heavy goods industries
as a step toward economic recoV-
cry, as has been demanded re-
Gently in speeches by several ma.
tional figures, but it is doubtful
that those industries can be given
at this time the amount Of Stlln-
ulus which would be necessary to
make them, of themselves, the
determining factor in bringing
back prosperity.
This, in brief, is the view ex-
pressed by New Dealers here after
the recent speech Of Lewis w.
Douglas, former director OF the
budget, in which he severely at.
tackled the recovery program OF
the Administration.
Offsets Dawes Prediction
1t also is the view with which
the Administration would tame
down the joyous prediction made
recently by Charles G. Dawes,
former Vice President, that pros
perity is coming back next spring
and summer with a tremendous
rush.
The Administration would like
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the stand, will be asked to explain
g. note that Viola Jones, Mrs.
Bells nurse, says she found in
Deacon Bells coat.
Mrs. Jones, the most damaging
witness the State has yet placed
on the stand, testified that she
read the note twice and commit
ted it to memory. 1t was signed
by Mrs. McMullin.
A cryptic message, it stated that
it was a true confession" and
asked forgiveness. The note
stated that Il done it for financial
reasons" Just what this means
Mr.. Bryan will ask Mrs. McMullin
to explain on the witness Stand.
The greatest sensation of the
trial came late yesterday when
Miss Ruth Hill, Mrs. Bells second
nurse. testified as to an alleged
confession made by the church
man the day following his arrest
on a charge of poisoning his wife.
Guilty As Can Be"
Her voice trembling with emo
ton, Miss Hill told of the church.
man breaking down after break.
fast and shouting:
"I'm guilty, guilty as can be-"
The churchman then begged
her to help him, she said, and
asked what had been done with
the various bottles of poison
which were found concealed IN
the basement.
The defense was visibly agi-
tated by this testimony and at
tempted to break it down by
attacking the private life of the
nurse,
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TR|STATETHUGS
FLEE GORDON
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tured two men and woman and
seized a quantity of arms and am
munition, part of which was stolen
from the Pennsylvania National
Guard Armory at Norristown,
Wednesday.
The woman arrested was Mrs.
Beatrice Wilkinson and the men
were Charles Zeid. hunted for
months as the slayer of Detec-
tive William Feitz. in Camden,
N. j., and Frank Wiley, one of
two convictS who last summer
escaped from the Eastern State
Penitentiary by crawling through
sewers for many blocks.
Mrs. Wilkinson, who was grilled
severely by detectives after her
arrest, is reported to have given
information to police that con-
vinced them Weiss has been
killed. A detective. who refused
to permit use of his name, was
reported to have said:
1--WE know now definitely
that Weiss is dead"
Mrs. Wilkinson was reported to
have said that Mais led the gang
that kidnapped Weiss in front of
his palatial Overlook Hills man
sion last October and held the
wealthy gambler for 100000
ransom.
Weiss Dead, Belief
From Mrs. Wilkinson, it was
said. investigators elected infor-
nation that Weiss was held for a
time in house in Philadelphia S
Tacony district, then killed and
his body thrown in the Delaware
River.
A short time after the raid in
Philadelphia the police an
nounced two other men had been
arrested. They are Harry Seidel
and a man whose name was not
divulged.
Officers who took part in the
battle with the two gunner at
Wayne Junction about a half
hour before the raid here are
sure the men were Mais and
Legenza. Hunted throughout the
Eastern Seaboard. both des-
peradoes were traced to Philadel-
phia after their spectacular
escape from the Richmond Jail
on Saturday, September 20.
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Cost -of-Living Figures
Arriving in Capital

Holding the fate of proposed
presidential action on restoration
of Government salaries to nor
NAL January l, reports of eX-
pert investigators of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics began arriv-
ing in Washington today from
So key cities.
While officials of the bureau
held the reports in the StricteSt
confidence. there was every rea-
son to believe that the figures
thus far sent here would not
show sufficient increase in the
cost of living to warrant Presi-
dent Roosevelt in ordering that
the salaries be restored by their
final five per cent on the first
of the year.
On the other hand, it was in
dicated the reports already in
and those which are expected
shortly would show a large in
crease in the cost of living over
the so-called base period of 1923.
This increase, it was held in
some quarters, would be shown
to be sufficiently high to form
the basis for action by Congress
which would restore the salaries
as of January /, although to do
this, the bill would have to be
retroactive.
Thirty experts of the Buerau
of Labor Statistics have been at
work in the field for the last
month, making sample purchases
of commodities and testing all
the items on the list which the
bureau has found to be the basis
of the living costs of those en-
rloyed by the Government.