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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
LORTON PROBE
HITS DELAY

Inability of Edward Bedell, 81,
former convict at Lorton Reforma-
tory, to leave Gallinger Hospital
today caused indefinite postpone.
ment of the investigation into
conditions at the prison, it was an.
nounced by Judge M. M. Doyle,
chairman of the committee on
penal and correctional institutions
OF the Board of Public Welfare,
which is to conduct the probe.
Bedell was taken to the hospital
Saturday night after he had been
found unconscious at Seventeenth
Street and Constitution Avenue
Northwest. He told police he had
been lured into an automobile and
beaten by two men who had called
for him at his hotel.
A member of Congress today
charged that he had been marked
for a similar attack, but that he
had frightened away his would-be
aSsailants by drawing a pistol after
his car had been forced to the
curb by another car on MaSsa-
chusetts Avenue. The driver of
the other car held a drawn gun,
he said.
Bedell, who came here from Jer-
sey City to testify in the Lorton
case, will be the first witness to be
heard by the Investigators, Judge
Doyle said, and the hearing will
not begin until he is able to ap-
pear.
The former prisoner has charged
that graft, corruption and i'm.
morality are rife at Lorton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
8 DEATHS LAID
To DEFECTIVE
FURNACE
Janitor Says He Warned That
Dartmouth Frat House
Heater Was "Bad"

HANOVER, N. H., Feb. 20
G.N.SO. While Dartmouth Col
lege authorities today prepared
to send home the bodies of nine
students, asphyxiated in their
beds in the Theta Chi Fraternity
House by carbon monoxide gas
which leaked from a coal furnace,
M. D. Little, janitor who dis
covered the bodies, declared he
had warned owners Of the fra.
ternity house that the furnace
was "in bad shape"
Little told President Ernest M.
Hopkins:
81 had told them the furnace
was in bad shape, and that 1t
should be repaired"
President Hopkins, however,
issued a statement declaring:
"There is nothing that can
be said that can be of any COM
fort to anyone. The blame can
be placed on no one for this
terrible tragedy"
College officials were awaiting
the arrival of relatives or receipt
of Geographic instructions for
disposal of the bodies.
Directions From Parents
Shortly before noon, families
of five of the students wired
Dartmouth authorities inStruct-
ing that the bodies be sent home.
Baxter r. Fullerton, an under.
graduate, started for Cleveland
Heights, Ohio. with the body Of
his brother, William. one of the
victims.
The bodies of William M.
Smith, jr., Flushing, N. Y; Alfred
and Edward Moldenke, New York
city, and Wilmot H. Schooley,
Middletown, N. Y, will be sent
to their homes this afternoon.
Edward N. wentworth, Of Chi.
cago, father of another Of the
victims, suffered a double blow.
AS he started from Los Angeles
to take charge of the body of his
son and namesake, he was In"
formed that his wife had been
stricken with a heart attack at
Mt. Dora, Fla.
Shun Frat House
Eight Theta CHS who escaped
death because they had been
away from the fraternity house
on weekend visits today in.
formed college officials that they
would not return to live at the
fraternity house and would find
new residences on the campus.
The house today was darkened
and deserted save for three police.
men who stood guard over the
bodies of the dead students.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
MIRA SENDSFORD.
ULTIMA JIM
ON HEARING
Letter to EdSeI on Labor Case
Says "Cooperate" or Probe
Will Proceed Anyway
Bv international News Service

BY International News service
Describing the Ford Motor
Company's letter of explanation
as Unsatisfactory" the NRA
notified Edsel Ford today it
would investigate charges that
his company has violated the
automobile code without his CO.
operation"
The letter followed refusal of
the Ford company to send repre-
sentativeS to a hearing held here
by William H. Davis, national
compliance director, at which
both sides were expected to voice
their arguments.
Workmen at Hearing
The workers, who made affi-
davits charging the company re-
fused to bargain collectively with
their representatives at it's Edge
water IN. j. and Chester (Pa)
assembly plants, appeared for the
hearing.
They submitted their affidavits
to William Green, president Of
the A. F. of L., who transferred
them to Recovery Administratoc
Hugh S. johnson "for action"
B. j. Craig, secretary of the
Ford Motor Company, sent Mr..
Davis a long letter in which he
denied the company had violated
anv provisions of the automobile
code or the national industrial
recovery act.
Lockout Denied
His letter declared:
THAT it has not violated any
provision either of Section ! (A)
of the National Recovery Act or
Section Z of the automobile
code.
"That it has at all times, in
this controversy, respected the
principles Of collective bargain
ing.
THAT it has never locked out
its men, but has dealt with them
Sympathetically and fairly, and
without respect to the grievOus
harm done to the Edgewater
plant"
The Ford Company commended
that the strikers at Edgewater had
called off their strike, and that
therefore the question is no longer
pending.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
CWA WORK CUTS
ALARM A. FL.
BY International News Service
Industry has showed no indica-

BY International News Service
Industry has showed no indica-
ton that it can employ the per-
sons being dismissed from the
CWA, and something must be
done to find jobs for them" the
American Federation of Labor
stated today, adding:
eve cannot hope to find
work for even half the present
unemployed unless we shorten
hours"
1t is estimated 11,69O,OOO per-
sons were seeking work in Janu-
airy. Of this number 100000
had emergency work while nearly
100000 were without the means
to earn bread"
There were 100000 fewer per-
sons unemployed last month than
in the same month last year, but
this years total still was 1900, 900
above the 1892 level, the Fedora,
ton reported.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
IS CITED
FORCONTEMPT

Joseph w. Engel, president of
Chattanooga Baseball Club and
scout for Washington team, was
cited for contempt of court by
Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue, in
District Supreme Court, today, for
failure to pay alimony to his d.
vorced wife, Mrs. Mary P. Engel.
The action was taken on petit
ton of Attorneys Raymond Neu-
decker and Jean M. Bordman, at
torneys for the wife. The court
was informed Mr.. Engel was ap-
proximately $4,000 in arrears in
his alimony.
The couple was divorced in No
vember. 1880. and under the de.
cree Mr.. Engel was ordered to pay
his wife $500 a month.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
Snake Killed
In Harlem
Ice Box

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Esau
Richards. Negro, prefers his
Harlem without any jungle &C
oesSories, he, admitted today.
Looking under his ice box to
locate the. source Of a kissing
sound. Richards saw a big cop
perhead snake, coiled for action.
He made the distance from the
kitchen to his living room in
nothing flat, sending his wife,
Adelaide, out to see the sight.
Adelaide repeated her husbands
sprint in even faster time.
A policeman killed the copper.
head with a hammer, and an
other tenant of Richards apart
ment now will have to sell his
snake oil without his principal
sales-resistance breaker-down.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
Winks Winks at Food Code;
Cleans White House Plates

The restaurant code. which went
into effect today abolishing free
lunch" has no terrors for Presi-
dent Roosevelt's newest dog.
Winks. an English setter, which
the President brought from Warm
Springs recently, got into the SER
wants dining room in the White
House basement when no one was
around this morning.
The table had been set and the
food put on-including a dozen
or so plates of ham and eggs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26

Winks cleaned them all, besides
some other odd knick-knacks,
such as toast, etc. The President
laughing, said:
"The only reason he didn't
drink the coffee was that it had
not been poured"
The cooks rushed second break
fast while Winks was held for
whatever action his master might
mete out. Meanwhile he is a
well-fed and happy pup.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
Sales Tax Rises
During December
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months of the present fiscal year, the
same as the last siv months of the
calendar year that ended at midnight,
December 81, amounted to 1851, 1872.
For the corresponding six months in
1882, when no sales tax was in effect,
total collections amounted to only
$6.788. 1853.
The sales raX collections in Decem-
Der, however, were on business done
in November, it was pointed out, and
hence do not represent the tax col
lections on the holiday trade done in
December. The tax collected on De-
cember business does not become due
until January Is and will not be
known until the books are balanced
January 81.
The collections in January are ex-
pected to be larger than in any month
so far, and for two reasons. First
they will reflect the tax collected on
the trade done preceding the Christ
mas holidays; second, they will in
clude collections from thousands of
small merchants who are not required
to make monthly returns but who
must make. returns of all sales tax
collections on all business done up to
December 81, 1888.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
THICKLY INHABITED AREA
INUNDATED BY THE FLOOD

Los Angeles, Cal Jan. 1.-(AP)-
A death toll that may reach IL more
than a score injured and hundreds
homeless were counted in Southern
California today as the result of tor
rental rains, the heaviest of record.
Every river and creek bed in the
Los Angeles area was overflowing
inundating large area thickly in
habited. A number Of Southern Cali
fornia communities within so miles OF
Los Angeles were isolated. Highways
electric lines and railroad tracks were
washed out in numerous places.
An undetermined number of young
persons were believed drown late
late night when the weight of their
two automobiles broke down a wood
en- bridge over the swollen Los An
geles river.
The river, ordinarily few feet in
with and depth, was roaring tor
rent more than 25 feet deep and 175
feet wide.
Several hours after the accident
no accurate list of missing was avail
able ---..-..---....
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
Eight Inches Rain In Only
Few Hours and Still Falling

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cessful campaign for the Democratic
nomination for the United States
Senate against Senator Cameron Nor
rison also did not help him any. So
Grist is considered as being virtually
out of the picture
There are also indications that
Stedpan by no means has the ap-
pointment "in the bag" despee the
strong forces backing him. For there
is feeling among some members or
the loan fund commission the post of
commissioner should go to some one
who is willing to continue in the post
definitely ,and they fear that as soon
as Stedman could get another Job
that would pay him little more
money he would resign and they
would then have to go through the
process of getting another commits
sioner. For while it is agreed that
Stedman has the necessary ability
and background for the job there is
feeling that he might not stick to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01

TeheaTses a rooster
ing. 1t continued to annoy the fish
erman, whistling and repeating phas-
es. 1t happened the bird had been
raised with a dog. 1t associated the
dog with it's masters whistle: so, we
brought the dog on the set, and the
bird went through it's masters roper
tOire of whistles
1--WE had difficulty in getting the
bird to laugh, until some of the
sound crew laughed-and the bird
accepted the cue and laughed fully
three minutes"
Chickens, the director has learned
can be made to pose until disturbed
by stroking the back of their heads.
BOOSTERS enlivened scenes with plenty
of action. Ducks and geese are
plain dumb" And an ostrich pro-
bided some of the funniest bird
scenes ever recorded.
Ingenuity
Sandrich wanted the ostrich to
swallow tiny radio set, about the
size of an apple; but the set had to
lodge halfway down the birds neck.
Here's how it was worked: The di-
rector cut an orange square to repre-
sent the radio, tied a thread around
the birds throat about halfway
down and permitted the bird to reach
down with it's beak and swallow what
appeared to be the radio set
The orange Stuclx ar tho nrocor;hod
point. Now, the bird must open and
close its beak as though words flow
ing through the radio actually were
emitted by the bird itself. Blue,
stuck in the top of the birds bill.
failed when the otsrich wallowed it..
Spirit gum, with a strong ether taste,
lsfmilarly failed when THE ostrich
swallowed that. A rubber band around
the lower bill also went down the
throat. Then wad of chewing gum
stuck inside the upper bill accomplish
ed the result, and the ostrich talked"
during long scene.
Sometimes the veteran fowls of the
screen lose their earlier pleasing ap-
pearance. Recently a game cock.
having lost its comb, appeared with
prop tail feathers and felt comb
glued tightly in place. With new plu
mage it strutted proudly-albeit
dumbly-through several scenes, lur-
ed by grain and an antagonist on the
other side of the stage.
(AnOther Article Tomorrow
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
Sales Will Be Resumed
On Next Monday Morning
On Tobacco Market Here
Henderson Expected To Sell Three to Four Million
Pounds More Before Seas on Ends, With Years To.
tai Of 18 10 20 Million Pounds Looked For

Resumption of sales on the Hen
derson and Oxford tobacco markets.
following the year-end Christmas and
New Year holidays, has been chang
ed from Tuesday, January g. to Mon
day, January 3, and growers over the
territory are being urged to take
notice of the date change. AT meet
ing of the officials of the Hender-
son Tobacco Board Of Trade Saturday
morning 1T was decided to resume
selling the first instead of the second
day of the week. Durham is expected
10 reopen on the same day. although
definite word had not been received
from officials of that market.
The markets i'm these three cities
as well as most of the others over
the State, closed on Friday, Decem-
ber Is, for the holidays. AT that time
it was not definitely known which
day the markets would resume
though it was thought likely the date
would be January 8.
Opinion of tobacco men is that
about three-fourths of the 1888 crop
in the Middle Belt territory has been
sold In Eastern Carolina probably
HlOIc AHii llldl mas DecH DIOuSHl "
market already, while hardly more
than half has been sold in the Old
Belt or at least not much more than
that.
Middle Belt markets usually close
their season around the end of Feb
uary or the first of March, and will
probably follow that course this year.
Up to the suspension for the holi-
days the Henderson market had sold
nearly 100000 pounds, or. to be
exact 1570f756 pounds, for a total
Of $2S70,S91.19, at an average of S18.-
% per hundred pounds. To the Christ
mas holidays in 1882 the local mar
ket had sold 11,874,758 pounds for ST.
l9971.64, at an average of $1271
per hundred pounds. In 1881 at the
close for Christmas, the market had
sold l7.l29,9S0 pounds for $1,509,8 ,853.-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
CWA Gives
Middleburg
$3.50 Aid
Money Will Be Used:
In Labor for Com
munlty H O. u S e
Building There

AN allotment of $3,379 of Civil
Works Administration funds to aid in
the erection of community house at
MiuoieDurg was announced today by
MRS. w. B. Waddell, administrator for
this county
The fund is divided with $2,e04 go
ing for labor and SITS for materials
to be furnished by the CWA, and an
additional $1,000 to be given by Mid
oleourg citizens, mostly in materials
The project will furnish work tor
one foreman and % laborers. most of
them skilled.
The work is to get under wav in
the near future, and will furnish the
prosperous Middleburg community a
structure that can be used for com
fnunity purposes, including meetings
OF the National Grange chapter there
There has been some planning for
similar project at Townsville, but
no allotment made as yev.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
Scramble On For
Veteran Loan Job
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reason Stedman is anxious to get this
appointment is that the Raleigh of
flee of the Regional Agricultural
Credit Corporation is likely to be dis
continued at any time and it's func-
tions transferred to the main office
in Columbia, S. c. Stedman, who was
appointed State treasurer by former
Governor o. Max Gardner to succeed
the late Captain Nathan O'Berry, and
who was then elected State treasurer
without opposition, resigned this Of
flee to accept his post with the agri-
cultural credit corporation.
Clark is also Legionnaire and has
been active in the American Legion
for many years and is understood to
have a strong following, Grimes is
also Legionnaire, it is understood,
although he has not been active in
Legion affairs for some time, 1t is
reported, however, that Grimes has
the support of state Commander Tom
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
BY ANDREW r. BOONE

BY ANDREW r. BOONE
Hollywood. Cal, Jan. Twelve
chickens, sitting austerely in min
iature jury box, nodded silently in
agreement when asked whether the
accused rooster was guilty. An os-
trich opened it's mouth as though
carrying on conversation with a
white trader. A myna bird shouted,
Hello, how are you?" to a fisherman.
A rooster dashed into a scene, stop
ped and crowded. A crow with split
tongue talked with apparent intelli-
gence for the sound camera.
Mark Sandrich, a Hollywood direc-
tor who has put many birds through
their PAGES for the screen, has learn
ed that birds are the dumbest actors
ever to show their faces to the cam
era! yet, because they lack intelli-
gence, frequently they will perform
their bits better than the more in
telligent animal family, he declares.
Teaching Birds
Direction of birds for the talkies
requires a combination of patience
and resourcefulness," Sandrich ex-
planned. "It involves a knowledge of
mechanics and animal psychology .
Some birds are directed by purely
mechanical means.
"The twelve chickens nodded when
two long wooden strips, on which
were tackled II grains of corn, sud-
denly were turned over. The chick
ems pecked at the corn. Others are
cued by surprises. The rooster dash
ed across the scene, making for an
other game cock: but they were not
permitted to meet, and the first one
crowed because it found itself un-
injured.
'"The Austrian magpie," said Sand
rich, "is the most intelligent bird with
which we work. Yet, it's criminal
tendencies make it a difficult subject
The magpie like the myna bird and
the parrot, can be taught to repeat,
sounds; and as the parrot talks with
no intelligent knowledge, so with the
other talking birds.
Recently we had a set wherein a
fisherman was shown in the middle
of a small stream. From a nearby
twig the myna bird shouted a greet
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
Recorder
Tried 673
Last Year
Fines Were $l,354.75
and Costs $2,O18.63
for Year, Total of
$3,373.37

total of 673 arrests were made
by county and township officers dur
ing 1888, as shown today by a COM
pilation of the records of the record
er's court. That is more than twice
the number shown for 1892 The
school fund benefited to the extent of
$1,354.75 in fines that were assessed
against violators of the law. and $z.-
O18.62 was collected as fees and costs.
The court handled a total of $3.373. 81
during the year.
shown in recorders court records.
and fines amounted to $1,O1765 and
costs $2,24530, for a total of $3,262. .95.
November was the biggest month
for 1888 with 80 arrests, but Feb
ruary, with Sc arrests yielded the
largest amount of money as fines.
that figure being $373.5O. 1t was the
biggest month for fines since May,
1881, when the total was $3.50 even.
The smallest month of 1888 for ar
rests was March with %, with June
close second for the fewness of ar
rests, with just 81. Only Sc in fines
SoAiS AlOAi lCSOAUC . COuLI CdScS III
May, 1888, although the records show
ed 81 defendants tried.
During December II defendants
were tried, with fines of $1O9.4O, and
costs and fees of $157.57, a total of
$26607 Ten of the defendants were
sent to the roads, II were taxed with
the costs, IS were discharged, one
took an appeal and four were bound
over to superior court and will face
trial at the January term of criminal
court starting next Monday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01

Men of imagination have and will
always suffer from serious neuras-
thenic disturbances.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01

% at an average of 1881 per hundred.
More than 20 IA million pounds had
Deen sold for an average of S14.84 at
Christmas in 1880, and a trifle more
than $3,OOO,OO0 had been paid for it.
Not since 1929 has the current years
record been equalled. To Christmas
that year Henderson had sold 49,
1O6.6SO pounds for $3,733,34l17 at an
average of $19.98 per hundred, For
the entire season that year the mar
ket sold slightly less than "a million
pounds to1 season average OF 1912
per hundred. II is estimated that
sales here This year from the 1893
crop will be between l8 and 20 mil
lion pounds, which means that pro-
badly three to four million pounds
more will be sold before the present
seasons cnGS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
NRA Begins Task For Regi-
menting Wages and Hours
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and that "gainful wages had been
raised and maxium hours reduced in
industries employing between 18, and
&c million people.
This, said MIRA, the 1872 blue eagle
codes thus far granted over the big
gest part of the most important in
dustries, while the hundreds of codes
remaining to be prepared are centered
mainly upon less important groups.
Ten of thousands of blue eagles
continued on display today despite
the expiration yesterday of the orr
ginal Presidents unemployment
agreement, under which some 3,OOO,-
900 employees won the right to fly
the insignia.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01

Daniels.
Although Frank Grist had a good
deal to do with getting the Veterans
Loan Fund of $2,OOOOOO set up and
was member of the commission as
lon gas he was commissioner of labor.
few here believe Grist now has a
chance to be appointed to succeed
Colonel Manning: Grist lost much
prestige here during the last few
years he was commissioner of labor
and the 1881 General Assembly strip
ped him of virtually all the authority
that once belonged to the office, leav-
ing him little more than his salary,
desk and a stenographer. His unsuc
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01
PAGE THREE


While Heber Clark admittedly does
not have as strong political backing
as some of the others, there is
feeling both in Legion and other cir
cles that he would make an able
commissioner and that his experience
in the State AuoIUors, oIrlce has given
him the necessary background for
handling the job.
1t is expected, however, that there
will be many more applications for
the job before the time comes to fill it
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-01-01

of the historic tournament of roses
and Rose Bowl football game between
Stanford and Columbia. Both events
were still on the schedule.