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The Washington times., 1934-12-04
1914 ARMS DEAL
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ment replacing old type revolvers
with automatic pistols.
Senator Nye brought up the sub
ject of a new world war.
care you aware of che race In
armaments thro ughout the
world?"
"It's the disposition Of gov
ernments to arm themselves"
isn't the situation now COM
parable to the situation exist
ing in the period Of 1908 to
1914?"
81 won't say it's comparable"
Irenee du Pont, head Of the
great du Pont concern, inter
rupted the proceedings to credit
expansion of the Colt business to
the invention of new weapon,
and not to any knowledge that
the world would be plunged into
war. He said:
There was no such increase
in our business in those days.
"Our business was almost
dead then. The increase in the
Colt Company's business simply
showed the value of a new in.
ventiOn, and not knowledge that
war was coming"
DU POINT EXPLAINS
Mr.. du Pont said there were as
many people now who say they
anticipated the market crash of
1929 as have said they knew the
World War was coming. He ex-
planned:
'Tt's due to a peculiar human
quirk, but they didn't behave
that way just before the crash"
Senator Nye then produced an
affidavit by Mr.. Stone filed in
the same tax case. In it Mr.. Stone
reported the company had begun
as early as 1908 to prepare for
an increase in business. Senator
Nye asked:
"Were you preparing for five
years or more before the World
War for a larger world market
for your weapOns?"
When Mr.. Stone sat silent,
Senator Nye added:
"YOur affidavit says you
were."
Mr.. Stone said quietly:
1--WE have to rest on the at
fidavits."
H. B. Fairweather, treasurer OF
the company, testified the Gov
ernment had claimed more taxes
from the Colt Company for the
war years, but that the case
finally was settled by a Govern
ment refund to the company. He
said the case had been very ex-
pensive" to the company, despite
the refund.
Arms Ban Urged
Trade and manufacture of mu.
nitions Of war should be con
trolled by international treaty.
Manley o. Hudson. law professor
at Harvard University. told the
committee at the opening of to.
days session.
Mr.. Hudson "a member of the
permanent committee of arbitra.
ton at The Hague, said the Brit
ish. German, italian and Jap
anese governments were opposed
to abolition of private manufac.
ture of arms. He said the only
way to handle the manufacturers
was to subject Them to rigic
license and extensive publicity,
The Washington times., 1934-12-04
RICE MEN CALLED
BY International News Service

A hearing on proposed amend
ments to the marketing agree
ment for the California rice in.
dustry was called today by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace for
San Francisco Dec. 6. The hearing
will be held at the Palace Hotel
at 1920 a. m.
The Washington times., 1934-12-04

WORLD
NEWS
ENGLAND


LONDON, Dec. 4 G.N.SO.
Hope that circumstances may per.
NIT certain modification of the
Washington naval treaty was ex.
pressed for the first time in Brit
ish circles today as the time ap-
preached for Japan to abrogate
the pact in accordance with soy.
ernment decision.
This suggestion, diametrically
opposed to the American stand
that the document has kept peace
in the Pacific for the past 1212
years as we'll as prevented a naval
race and thus should be preserved.
was undoubtedly influenced by the
certainty of Japans forthcoming
denunciation.
LONDON, Dec. 4 G.N.SO .-Prin-
cess Juliana, heiress to the throne
of Holland, lost costly diamond
bracelet near Westminster Abbey
during the wedding of the Duke
of Kent and Princess Marina
last Thursday. The loss was re-
ported to Scotland Yard, accord
ing to the Daily Mail.
LONDON, Dec. ID G.N.SD.-Ne.
gotiationS for an international
shipping conference to discuss
abolition of all subsidies are
being carried on between the
United States and European coun.
tries, Walter Runciman, president
of the British Board of Trade,
told the House of Commons to.
day.
The Washington times., 1934-12-04
MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 4 G.N.sD,
Gov. Benigno Serratos of the
state of Michoacan was instantly
killed, and his American pilot,
Charlie Drayton. formerly aviator
for the Pan-American Airways,
was gravely injured when their
plane crashed at Rosales today.
The governor was on his way to a
conference with President Car.
denaS,
The Washington times., 1934-12-04
TRINIDAD

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,
Dec. 4 G.N.SD. - The amazing
feat of two men who swan for 81
hours and finally reached land
after their fishing boat capsized
was reported today from the
lonely island of Tobago. With five
others, the men were on a fishing
expedition Is miles from land
when disaster overlook them. Five
were drowned. Tobago is gen.
orally regarded as the desert
island used by Daniel Defoe as
his setting for Robinson Crusoe.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
A. F. c. T. LODGE
FIGHTS CUSTER
R. R. SUTTLE

NRA lodge, No. 81, today was
preparing to fight to retain it's
harter after being threatened with
expulsion from the American Fed
GRAFTON of Government Employees
on charges of disloyalty to the
American Labor movement.
Dispute on the right to picket
Government buildings led to the
custer threat, after a controversy
between the militant lodge and E.
Claude Babcock, president of the
A. F. G. E.
Friction between the lodge and
President Babcock developed last
summer during the battle for re-
instatement of John L. Donovan,
NRA employe dismissed by Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson. The lodge in
dorsed picketing Of the Commerce
Department Building, where John
sons office was located.
A letter was written last night
at meeting of the lodges execu-
tive committee and sent to PreSi-
dent Babcock asking for a bill of
particulars, a public hearing be-
fore the national council and 80
days time after receipt of your bill
of particulars before being g
brought to trial"
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
c. O.P. TOF|GHT
HOLT SEATING
BY International News Service,

BY International News Service,
Rush D. Holt, elected to the
Senate from West Virginia at the
age of 20, may run into a storm
of Republican opposition when he
attempts to take his seat.
Republican leaders were con-
ferring today on the appeal Of
Walter S. Hallanan, Republican
national committeeman from
West Virginia, to make a fight
against his seating on the ground
that he is under the prescribed
constitutional age.
Senator McNary of Oregon, Re.
publican leader, who received Mr..
Hallanan's appeal, may place the
question before conference of
all Senate Republicans Just be.
fore Congress opens.
Mr.. Holt, who will be 80 next
June. is confident that there are
precedents enough to entitle him
to his seat.
Mr.. Hallanan. however, not
only contended he should not be
seated now, but that he should
be deprived of his entire six
year term. The Constitution, he
contended, required Holt to be
30 years old when he became a
candidate.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Bronx Cheer
Giiuen d. s.
On Debts
By International New. Service

BY lnrofnaC1OnaI News service
Europe's payday to the United
States today found this Govern
ment short more than half a bill
lion dollars of the amounts due
it from the debtor nations.
It was a lonely day for Uncle
Sam at the paying.teller's window.
Out Of all Europe, only one little
republic figuratively trudged up
to the window to deposit any
money. That was Finland, which
continued to pay in full and in
cash the money borrowed from
this Government at the close of
the World War to help it establish
itself as an independent nation.
The great creditor nations of
Europe, Great Britain, France and
Italy, defaulted outright again,
along with Poland, Belgium and
CEechoslovakia.
Great Britain and Italy de-
faulted outright for the second
time. France and the others for
the fifth time.
None of them took advantage
of Secretary of State Hull's offer,
made last June, to consider pay
ments in kind, or in goods.
Three of the debtors, Rumania,
Latvia and Estonia, were yet to
be heard from. However, it was
considered a foregone conclusion
that they, too. would serve notice
of default.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
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the murder and disposition of the
body.
Albert F'ish's story has struck
horror in the hearts of thousands
of parents, but it has struck
stark terror in the hearts of
scores of paTengs whose children
are "unsolved cases.
Mysterious Gases
Where are their boys and girls.
who slipped alnlaStV rom under
their parents eyss neyer to be
Bill Gafney is one. Billy 4,
disappeared from his Brooklyn
apartment. Moe than 1900
clues from coaS, +, coast were
run down, scores Of suspects were
Quizzed, but Billy Is sCill missing.
The case is almost e-gnt years
old. but Billy's motner still hopes.
Brutality Unbelievable
Then there is the murder of
Mary Helen O'Connor, Is, who
dropped from sight while en-
route from her home to a
friends home nearby. Her body
was found 20 miles away a
week later~a mile south of
Farmingdale, where Fish told
Grace Budd's mother he had a
farm"
Joe Varotta, age S, was found
slain in Manhattan in 1921, vic
tim of gangsters; Blakely Cough
lin, 18 months, snatched from
his crib in Norristown, Pa, in
1920, and smothered to death.
The babys body, said to have
been thrown into a river, never
was found.
What Suffering
Still another was baby Lloyd
Keet, also kidnapped from his crib,
found in a we'll after dying from
drug administered to keep him
quiet.
What is the fiendish capacity of
the murderer of six-year-old Dor
othy DiStelhurSt, who could scar
her face and body beyond recog-
milton with acid while her father
paced restless at the ransom rem.
devious?
Throughout the Nation scores
of mothers and fathers have suf-
fered anguish of uncertainty at
the hands of kidnapers. Children
lured away and never found-are
they still alive? Children found
dead. Innocent victims of slayers
still at large. what did they suf-
fer before death?
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
BACK D 'C0NNOR
AS SPEAKER
BY International News Service


The New York Tammany con-
gressional delegation has indorsed
Representative John j. O'Connor
for Democratic floor leader Of
the House, Representative Bloom
(DD of New York, announced to-
day. Representative O'Connor is
member of the so-ca1led Tam
many group.
In addition. three other Demo
cratic members of Congress in the
New York metropolitan area and
an upstate Democrat, Represent
ative Sisson, have joined the
O'Connor forces. Representative
Bloom said:
with the other support
which O'ConnOr has received
from all parts of the country,
this united backing of his own
delegation should assure his
election"
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Mail Flooding
Arizona T0un,
Christmas

CHRISTMAS, Ariz., Dec. IS
G.N.SJ-Mail from all parts of
the United States is flooding
into this little settlement, a
rival to Santa Claus, Ind, for
Yuletide postal business.
Because a prospector struck
gold lodes near here on Christ
mas Day in the 'So's and named
the town Christmas, thousands
Of boys and girls. and also .phila-
telists. annaully send letters to
the postmaster for remailing
with the postmark of Christ
mas"
The village hasn't much of
Christmas about it. Old settlers
can count the number of SHOWS
in the last quarter century on
their fingers.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Five Suggestions
Given to Shoppers

Forecasting the busiest Christ
mas shopping period Washington
has ever known, Edward D. Shaw,
secretary of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, today
offered five suggestions to shop
pers to facilitate the movement of
goods.
He urged shoppers to Cd study
the newspaper columns and make
out tentative shopping lists; (2)
get downtown early in the day to
avoid the rush 60 carry home at
least small bundles, to prevent
delivery delays; (4 have a re-
Sponsible person at home to re-
ceive parcels which must be de.
livered, and (5) make every posi-
bic purchase during the next few
days.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
BETTY COW DUE
HEREFOR TRIAL

TRENTON, N. j., Dec. Is
O.N.SO Betty Cow, Scottish
nursemaid, who was in charge of
the Lindbergh baby when he was
kidnapped, will arrive here for
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's trial
between Christmas and New Year
Day, Attorney General David T.
Wilentz said today.
Miss Cow will come here from
Glasgow at the expense of the
State to testify regarding events
on the night of the kidnapping.
Mr.. Wilentz said he would an.
nounce on Monday his decision on
whether he would grant a request
of Hauptmann defense lawyers to
have experts examine important
exhibits which will be used
against Hauptmann at the trial.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
LEADERS
CALLED UPON
FOR DETAILS
Patriotic Groups Also Ready
to Bare Evidence of Com
muniSt Plotting

Evidence of increasing Com
munist activity throughout the
country will be unfolded in public
hearings to be opened by the spe-
cial House Propaganda InveStigat-
ing Committee next week.
Leaders of labor, heads Of pa
triotic organizations and represen-
tatives of Government depart.
ments will be called before the
committee, headed by Representa-.
tive John W. Mccormack CD, Of
Massachusetts,.
After having gathered evidence,
through secret investigation, Of
methods used in Communist
propaganda, the House body plans
to present a public picture as a
means of obtaining restricting leg.
islation from Congress.
President William Green, of the
American Federation Of Labor;
Matthew Woll, A. F. of L. exacu-
tive; representatives of the Amer.
ican Legion, Disabled American
Veterans, Veterans of Foreign
Wars. Daughters of the American
Revolution and others are ex-
pected to testify.
Efforts of Communist con-
trolled unions to muscle in"
on the Americen Federation Of
Labor, the part played by Com
munists in the San Francisco
general strike and Communist
propaganda in schools are among
subjects to be investigated.
Representative Dickstein, of
the committee. has charged that
Communists have a we'll financed
propaganda organization, includ-
ing a school for the training of
organizers.
The committee virtually has
concluded investigation of Nazi
propaganda. Members believe
the German Nazi movement in
this country has been broken.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
SA[[|ES' stone
SET IN PLACE

The corner stone Of the new
Social Center Building of the
Salvation Army, to be located at
First and F Streets, was placed
at p. m. today by Alexander
Damon of Atlanta, commissioner
in charge of the Southern ter
ritory of the army.
He was assisted by District
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen.
Brig. j. G. MCGEE, who is in
charge of the center, introduced
Commissioner Hazen, and DR..
Frederick Brown Harris, pastor Of
Foundry Methodist Episcopal
Church, offered a prayer for the
success of the new building and
its enterprises.
The building will house the ad-
ministrative offices and sleeping
accommodations for IS men, with
dining rooms and recreation
rooms included in one wing of
the structure.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
9 Men and Woman
Jailed edinDOpeDrive

CHICAGO, Dec. Is GN.SO.
With nine men and a woman SEN
fenced for violation of Federal
narcotics laws, Government Off
cials today announced that los
have been indicted in the past two
week of the war on dope traffic.
Raids by Federal agents and
police continued, with the result
that 100 other cases, addictS for
the most part. were disposed of in
police courts. Sentences ranged
from 80 days to two years.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Beer Flow So Free
It Causes Flood

Beer flowed freely today at a
lunchroom in the 1900 block of L
st. N. W.-So freely. in fact. that
it seeped from under the doors and
generally flooded the establish
ment.
Emanuel Vidos, the proprietor,
blamed it all on lowly thief, as
he vigorously pushed mop about
his eating place. The thief. after
helping himself to several cartons
of cigarettes and a small amount
of cash in the register, opened
three beer spigots that were still
squirting an amber foam when Mr..
Vidos put in his appearance soon
after o'clock.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
RUINS Of HOTEL
FIRE YIELDS
18TH BODY
Wrist Watch Identifies 1t as
That of Charles o. Gum;
Probe Opens Monday

LANSING, Mich, Dec. Is.
0N.S.). - While church bells
tolled solemnly and the entire
city paused in five minutes Of
silent prayer for it's so or more
fire victims, a twenty-ninth body
was recovered today from the
huge rubbish heap which was
once the Kerns Hotel.
The charred body was identi.
fled by means of a blackened
wrist watch as that Of Charles O.
Gum, Of Bay City. It was be.
lieved that approximately 30
more bodies lie in the tangled
ruins, left by flames which swept
the four-story hotel Tuesday
morning.
Probe Opens Monday
Prosecutor Dan D. Mccullough
announced coroner's jury would
begin investigation of the disaster
Monday. A special investigating
board has already returned YER
dict blaming the holocaust on care
lessness-a dropped cigarette in
the room of David Monroe, the
manager, and 20 minutes delay in
sounding an alarm. Mr.. Monroe
was among the dead.
Mr.. Mccullough said the coro-
ner's inquiry probably would take
two weeks, and he will decide then
whether evidence will sustain Grim
inal charges of negligence. He re.
vealed he had signed subpoenas
for IS witnesses to appear for
questioning.
Search the Ruins
Meanwhile, 200 welfare workers
continued to search the ruins of
the 300-room hotel for additional
bodies. Twenty-nine bodies have
been recovered thus far. One
body was identified yesterday as
Mrs. Elsa Robbins, 80, matron of
the State capitol. She is the sec
ond woman known to have per-
iShed. Two others are in hos
pitals, seriously burned and in
jured.
Fire officials said they hoped
to complete sitting of the ruins
by Monday night.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
3 Youths Arrested
AS Theft Sluggers

Two colored boys, both under Is,
were under arrest today in con-
nection with the slugging of three
women with an iron pipe while al
legedly trying to steal their pocket
books.
One of the victims, Mrs. Louise
Lieutaud, so, of the 1000 block Of
Harvard st. N. w., was reported
in a serious condition at Emer'
gency Hospital. Mrs. N. E. Wal.
lace, Of the Fairfax Apartments.
and Mrs. Harriet Jacobson, Of the
1900 block of Euclid St. N. w.,
were the other victims.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
McCarl Says US.
Must Do Printing

A pointed reminder that print
ing for emergency conservation
work must be done at the Govelr-
ment Printing Office was given
government officials in the field
by a decision handed down today
by Comptroller General John R.
McCarl.
Refusing to approve an expendi-
ture of $75 by a State forester in
Alabama, the Comptroller General
pointed out that all printing shall
be done in the District of Colum-
bia except when the joint commit
tee on printing declares the work
too urgent to have it done here.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
EDITOR s WIFI {
HELD SUICIDE

A suicide certificate was issued
today in the death of Mrs. Juanita
Borah. 80, wife of Leo A. Borah.
associate editor of the National
Geographic Magazine.
Mrs. Borah was found dead in
the gaS-filled kitchen of her home
in the 14O0 block of Whittier st.
N. W., late yesterday. The hus-
band and their son, Leo, jr., found
the body of Mrs. Borah when they
returned from downtown.
A note written by Mrs. Borah
expressing desire to die was
found, according to police. The
note, police said, declared she was
depressed and too tired to 60 on"
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Building Contract
Awarded dD.C. Firm

The Birchett and Atkins Con-
struction Company of this city
were the successful bidders for a
contract to construct temporary
addition to the Munitions Build
ing, it was announced today. The
amount involved is $14,986.
A contract amounting to $2,O53,-
1905 for the construction of a
dam on the Mississippi River at
Rock Island, ILL.,, was awarded to a
Davenport, Iowa, firm.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Lindbergh's Line
Ready to Dissolve

NEW YORK, Dec. IS G.N.SO.
TranScontinental Air Transport,
Inc, known as the Lindbergh
line, and the oldest cross-country
air line, will dissolve, stockholders
were notified today. The action
is in compliance with the 1884
mail act and follows similar
liquidation by Western Air Ex-
press Corporation.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Sd. Men Named
Reserve Officers

Three Washington residents
have been appointed officers in
the Army Reserve. it was an
nounced today. They are First
Lieut.. Bernard Berman, 1900 block
Taylor St. N. W.; First Lieut.. Ed
win Grattan Kerans, 1900 block
Kennedy st. N. W., and Second
Lieut.. Elery Webb, 1900 block
Nineteenth st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Company Union
Banned by Order
By International News Service

BY InternatiOnaI News Service
Secretary of Interior Ickes to-
day approved an order by the
Petroleum Labor Policy Board
that the Texas Company must
dissolve a So-called company
union" formed at its West Tulsa
(Okla.) plant.
Chairman George w. Stocking,
of the board, reported that "em-
ployes were coerced into joining
company representation plan
for collective bargaining, con-
trary to the terms of the NRA
and oil code"
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
Thieves Get $495
InLOOt From Auto

Clothing, jewelry and personal
effects valued at $495 was the loot
of thieves who early today broke
into a parked automobile in the
1900 block of Fifteenth st. N. w.
Charles Baker, owner of the car,
residing at the Colonial Hotel, re-
pOrted the loss,
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
TREASURY CONDITION

BY International News Service
Treasury balance, $1,608, ,597,,
960.9O; internal revenue, $4,159,.
273.9l; custom receipts. $13,969,'
SALTS.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
FOUNDERS DINNER

The annual Founders Day din.
ner of Kappa Beta Pi Fraternity
will be held at $50 p. m. today
in the Dodge Hotel.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
FRANCE

PARIS, Dec. IS G.N.S).-Cleo.
patra, the most famous of all
vampS, is buried in Paris.
At least this is the theory ad.
vanced by Nine. Myriam Harry,
French writer, who has just COM
pleted a biography of that mys-
terious Queen of Egypt.
She bases her assertions on the
fact that when Napoleon invaded
Egypt he was accompanied by a
committee of Egyptologisis who
brought back a large number of
mummies to France and Nine.
Harry is convinced one of these
was that of Cleopatra.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15

For the correct time telephone
the office Of THE WASHINGTON
TIMES. District 1000, ut any
hour Of the "a.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
LICENSED TO WED

Marriage licenses have been
issued at the Arlington County
Court House to Leonard Andrew
Cramblitt, %, and Clara Lillian
Hiatt, 81, both of Washington;
and Lee Raymond Burch, "A, and
Gertrude H. Chisholm, 80, also
The Washington times., 1934-12-15

For the correct time telephone
the office of THE WASHINGTON
TIMES, District 1000, at any
hour of the "a.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
ENGLAND

LEWES, England, Dec. Is
G.N.S0-A jury yesterday &C
quilted Toni Mancini, a former
London waiter, of the trunk mur'
der" of Violette Kaye, a dancer.
LONDON, Dec. IS G.NSD.
In an attempt to discover what
can be saliva ed from the present
naval conversations, it waS an
nounced today, representatives of
the United States, Japan and
Great Britain will have luncheon
together today, and play golf at
Walton Heath.
Discussing naval problems
around the table and on the
green's will be Norman H. Davis
and Admiral William Standley
for the United States, Ambassa-
dor Tsuneo MatSudaira for ia
pan. and Foreign Minister Sir
John Simon for Britain.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
CANADA

MONTREAL, Quebec, Dec. is
0.N.S0.-A verdict of guilty on
all counts against them was re-
turned here by the Court of
Kings bench against William
Fraser, president of the Eastern
Equipment Company, and Amedee
Brabant, contractor, accused of de-
frauding the government of ST.,
100000 by bringing liquor into
Canada from Newark, N. j.. in oil
tank cars.
The Washington times., 1934-12-15
World News
AUSTRIA

VIENNA, Dec. Is UN.S).
Robert Lee Fraser, four.year-old
nephew of George Messersmith,
American minister, is dead
from an infection resulting from
gland ailment.