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The Washington times., 1934-01-06
Bv Robert w. Chambers
By Tuthul
By Cliff Sterrett
By Walt Disney

and felt her; and found her to
be unarmed.
"Well, then," she said YEARLY,
what are you going to do?"
Come into one Of those
empty houses" he said coolly.
IF your police find us here
they'll shoot us BOTH"
He took her arm and they
mounted the steps Of one Of
those old Dutch houses on
Charlton Street and went in at
the open door. A gas jet in the
hallway was still burning. The
whole interior Of the house had
been looted.
"I suppose" she said, ''you are
going to knock me senseleSs and
escape. You've done it once be-
FORE"
He redeemed. II am going to
escape" he said quietly.
Copyright, 1888, International
Magazine Coz
Once again Operator 13 faces
the Ggonisipg struggle bett0eeH
her hearts desire and her dutyS
clear command. WIN she, cas-
sTte, preVert this bold and IN
gentots LoUer Of hers from
escaping to carry on hts fight
against her government?
The Washington times., 1934-01-06
Pavement Patter

After a two-week illness,
Willie Collins, the dynamic SD
perintendent Of the Senate Press
Gallery, returned to work to be
on the job for the opening of
Congress, which meant consld-
erable Of a job for him. DIR.
Billie Welsh brought that
charming fiancee of his down
to Rockville for the holidays
The depression must be over
If one takes into consideration
the fact that Ed JamiSon has
gratified the purse Of an auto
mobile salesman by buying o
new car. Hubby" Steele, the
very attractive wife Of Hub"
Steele, says that she hesitated
to tell folks that they had been
married 10 years until she dis
covered that people who knew
about marital life began to ten
her they regarded it as q great
achievement. What is this re-
port that Brad Swope and
Marian Lum notice a decided
increase in the normal pulse
rate when they are togetherR
Mrs. George Hunter is spend
ing the winter with Mrs. Charles
Holland up in Rockville. >.
Frank Hale and Lou Pritchard
were in town for the holidays
and just before he left Frank
gave q little farewell affair that
his guests won't forget IN the
near future. The foregoing
fact can be verified by Peggy
Mays, who was there and from
all reports enjoyed herself fully
:. And while on the subject o.
parties, all Of the guests who
had the pleasure Of being at
Burning Tree Club on New
Years Eve say that the perfect
host and hostess are e. @. AL
word, otherwise known as "A
and his wife, who entertained
30 excel1ently there ON that oo~
caSion. OF the gallons Of ego
nog that flowed during those
recent trying days, none was
more delectable from all &C
counts than the creamy bev-
erage served at the party given
by Baron and Baroness Won
Pagenhardt and all because the
baroness herself supervised tn
making Of 1t.
The Washington times., 1934-01-06
Around
The
Capital
B1 JOHN SNURE, b.

Bernard BroSiuS, Of Rockville,
knows his automobiles.
He also knows his horses, %
they say.
Whether he knews what thd
performance Of q horse may b
as compared to an automobile
is q question Of considerable
speculation.
Riding to the hounds out IN
Montgomery County recently,
Brosius was engrossed In tbs
chase when his mount decided
to take q jump.
Brosius and his horse failed
to cooperate.
The horse took the jump.
Brosius took to the air, and the
latter was left dangling on .
branch while his mount ran
on!
The Washington times., 1934-01-06
AItruist Lawyer

Since the expiration OF MS
term as Secretary Of War, Pat
Hurley has endeavored to prac-
tice law in the shoreham
Building.
His efforts have been Sc
verely hampered, however.
His offices are continuously
filled with persons looking
for work and the former Secre.
tary's office has been turned
into q veritable employment
bureau.
Too much Of a gentleman TO
shoe them away and too hui
man to forget the down-and-
cutters, Pat does his best to
help them.
But, says Pat, he would ike
to have an opportunity to prac"
tice lava few hours a week,
anyhow.
The Washington times., 1934-01-06
ChivaIry Is Out

The age Of ch1Valry decIme1.
One of the more prominent
women Of Washington selected
q fashionable old hotel to be
the mild scene Of her mild New
Year Eve gaiety.
In the midst Of the reverY
she was affronted by a flashy
young woman who carelessly
spilled a glass Of SpirituS fru-
menti over her new gown.
The woman walked over to
the girls gentleman friend"
and informed him that she
believed he should make some
adjustment for her ruined
gown, spoiled by the glass Of
liquor.
He murmured gently:
"Get away from here before
/ throw a whole quart on yOu!"
The Washington times., 1934-01-06

Operator 13" Is the type Of
story that appears regularly
In tano Cosmopolitan Maea-
nina.
The Washington times., 1934-01-06
Mad Halter at Work

Up at the Roosevelt Hotel
for their New Year Eve party,
the Fred A. Rittenauers were
among the guests that selected
the customary hats to be worn
on the festive occasion.
Through some error, Fred
selected a bonnet that did not
conform to his masculine fea-
lures.
A reveler strolled UP and
rasped:
"SiSSy!"
He was asked what business
1t was Of his what type Of hat
it was that Fred wore.
Said he:
"WelI, that hat on you just
upSetS met"
Evening star., 1934-06-23
ECONOMY STRESSED
IN HOTEL OPERATION
Russell A. Conn Tells Training
School Graduates Method
Must Be Continued.

Economical methods Of operation.
inaugurated during the depression,
must be continued in these times of
economic reconstruction, Russell A.
Conn, manager of the Ambassador
Hotel, told the graduating class in
hotel management of the Lewis Hotel
Training School at commencement
exercises.
Clifford Lewis, president of the
school, presided and spoke briefly.
Others making addresses we're Henry
j. Staley. registrar, and Mary Cath
crime Lewis, vice president.
The graduates included the follow
ing: Helen D. Bevier, Katharine S.
Brooks. Laura K. Collins, Mary M
Dunn. William G. Elliott, Lima G. En-
ders, Ruby P. Fitzgerald, Margaret j.
Flood. Virginia B. Frey, Byron Har-
well, ELY Heidereich, Frederic H. Hol-
lister, Esther E. Klopp. Lawrence Lar
more, Edgar S. lockwood, Vtnco F.
Moore. Ruth w. Neff. Linda A. Peter
son, Lucille H. Reeves, David l.
Richardson, Iva M. Sheppard, Edna
M. Slocum. Kathleen S. Stewart, Ann
w. Stoy, William Straubhaar, Lucille
NJ. Treichler, Rose A. Willgoose, w. F.
Young, Ruth M. Ziegler and Lesta
Zimmerman.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
A.A.A. EXPECTSFEW
COTTON APPEALS.
10,460,251 Bales Is Quota
Allotted 19 Southern and
Western States.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration, which has just told 1000
counties In 10 Southern and Western
States Just how much cotton they
may grow for tax-exempt sale, expects
few appeals.
The quotas promulgated Thursday
by Secretary Walla.e limit total pro-
duction to l0,46O,251 bales under the
terms of the sweeping Bankhead con-
troll act. The quotas were based on
past production.
Boards to Allot Quotas.
"No appeal will be entertained ex-
cept upon a showing by sworn state
ments, accompanied by evidence and
reference to published records, so con-
vincing as to lead to but one conclu-
sion-that serious injustice has been
DONE" Gully A. Cobb, chief Of the
cotton section, said.
State boards will allot individual
planters quotas. County committees
will make quota application blanks
available to growers within a few
days.
The State boards decisions will be
final unless proof of unfair discrimi-
nation, based on records of past crops,
is presented.
Texas Gets Largest Quota.
Texas received the largest State
quota, 3,237,530 bales. Mississippis
was 1,098,728 bales. A Mississippi
county received the largest county
quota, 87,825 bales.
Farmers will receive taX-eXemption
certificates for the number of bales of
cotton their quotas called for. All
cotton produced above that amount
will be subject to a sales tax of so per
cent.
In establishing, the quotas, the ad-
miniStration reserved 10 per cent OF
each States allotment for later dis
tribution among farmers who do not
raise cotton as a principal crop. first
year producers. those whose crop has
been previously injured by natural ad-
versity and those who have voluntarily
reduced production in the past three
years.
Approximately half of the 10 per
cent reduction was cancelled. however
by a so-called Joker" in the Bank
head act, which set the total produc-
ton at 100000 bales of 500 pounds
weight.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
FLYER DIES IN CRASH
ON BURBANK STREET
Transport Craft Falls in Flames.
Was On Way to Pick Up
Passengers.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GLENDALE, Calf, June 23.-An
eirplane crashed in flames in the
heart of Burbank, Los Angeles suburb,
shortly before dawn today, carrying
the 26-year-old pilot, c. L. Bucher,
to his death.
Police, who saw the wreck, said the
plane was one of the feet of craft
operated by Aerovias Centrales, air
service flying between Mexico, D. F,
and Los Angeles.
The officers said they saw a flash
of flames in the air. A moment later
the big monoplane dropped into
street. Bucher was burned beyond
recognition. The cause of the crash
was not Immediately determined.
The plane had been flying low,
presumably because of a heavy fog,
officers said, and may have struck a
wire or telephone pole. Bucher had
left the Grand Central Airport here
for Sangus, in the mountains to the
north, to pick up several passengers.
1t is customary to send passengers to
Saugus by bus when atmospheric
conditions are poor and take of with
them from there.
The baggage of the passengers was
scattered about the street.
Bucher had been flying for seven
years.
Evening star., 1934-06-23

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must be made applicable to the entire
citizenship regardless of their classi-
flcation."
Except for the men under arms
and fewer factories belching forth
munitions" Baruch said, "the world
is as great an armed camp as it was
in the World War.
Each government sits behind a
bristling fortress equipped with ter
rible economic weapons of destruc-
ton, instead of mere guns. Shells
are not fired, but peace, which means
harmony, is even farther away than
If blood were shed.
Planes and navies are being in
creased and from some far distant
places we can family hear the tramp
of increasingly greater masses of men
under arms Surely in these circum-
stances you must study well the forces
at work and be ready If the dreadful
day comes to meet it.
There is no doubt that peaceful
as may be their intentions and their
avowals, either Stain, Hitler or Mus
solini can plunge the world into o
war that could not be localized"
Evening star., 1934-06-23
$5,OOO,OOO TANGLE
FOLLOWS 2 DEATHS
Mrs. Sarah E. Smith-Scollard's
Disappearance" Cleared by
Ashes in Urn.
BY the Associated Press.

by inc hSSOClbIeu EIcoo.
YAKIMA, Wash, June ga maze
of legal tangles, such as the late Mrs.
Sarah E. Smith -Scollard, wealthy &C.
centric, knew frequently during her
lifetime, remained today after the
strange mystery of her years of dis
appearance" had been solved through
an urn containing her ashes.
Her fortune, estimated from S5,000.-
900 upward, attorneys said, had Eeen
woven almost inextricably in recent
years with that of Reese Brown,
Yakima capitalist and adviser, killed
in an automobile accident last Spring.
A sister, Mrs. Katherine Kirkpat-
rick, last heard from at Oakland,
Calf, survives. but long litigation was
apparently ahead before she might
claim the estate.
At a dramatic court hearing yes
terday, when the urn was produced.
Attorney George Rummens, on behalf
of the estate, protested against
Browns widow, as an unbonded execu-
trix of the Brown estate. He de-
manded that the bond be made $780,
900. II believe every cent in his es-
tate belonged to Sarah E. Smith,
Rummens said
Mrs. Smith-Scollard was sought
literally around the world on income
tax evasion charges against her and
her friends. She died of pneumonia
at Montreal July "a, 1882.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
GERMAN EMBARGO.
CUTS j. s. TRADE
Stricter Ban on American
Goods Is Admitted by
Officials.
BY Radio TO The Star.

BY Radio TO The Star.
BERLIN, June 23.-While Germany
Is bowling against the boycott of Ger
man goods in the United States and
other countries, 1t is quietly imposing
an embargo on imports of American
goods.
German officials frankly admit their
intention of reducing imports from
the United States more than from
any other country. These have al
ready fallen of by millions Of dollars.
Imports from all countries are lin
tied by the Reichsbanks restriction Of
foreign exchange.
Barter Built Up.
Through the ministry of economics,
the government is building an elabo-
rate system of barter with individual
countries. A committee already has
approached representatives Of the
American Government with a pro-
posal to trade $25 900, 900 worth of
nails, steel plate, wire and tubing for
an equal amount of American lumber.
The German government anticipates
that, rather than lose the German
market, American exporters Will De
forced to accept proposals for barter.
Warehouses Crowded.
The Reichsbank will not give for
eign currency for the import of auto
mobiles, machine tools, Office equip
ment, toilet articles and other things
which can be produced in. Germany.
American tobacco is barred.
Warehouses in the free ports Of
Hamburg and Bremen are filled with
cotton, lard, copper, rubber and SINH
lar commodities. Authorities declare
that Germany has enough cotton for
six months, but do not disclose that
two-thirds Of the stock. while actually
in Germany, is owned by importers
and will be trsns-shipped to other
countries unless they are paid in for
eign currency.
(roprrirht 1Q34O
Evening star., 1934-06-23

That is the story, the whole story,
and nothing but the story behind the
announcement by Treasury Secretary
Morgenthau that he is buying silver
enthusiastically, that he Is going to
bid up silver prices gradually by pur-
chases until he he's 25 per cent
silver backing for the currency.
No one can dispute any part of
Mr. Morgenthau's announcement, ex-
cept possibly his use of the word "en-
Enthusiastically" He may have differ
ent conception of his own energy than
other people would have
But no one ever can find out about
that now because no one can find out
how much silver Mr.. Morgerthau IS
really buying. The operations of his
stabilization fund are secret.
Regarded Insignificant.
The marketwise experts in silver
say that, whatever the amount is, it
cannot be very much. They think the
Treasury bought one fairly large
chunk of silver and then made numer-
! GUS smaller purchases. However, the
currency to be issued against it, in
any event, is not enough to be small
change in comparison with the total
amount of money II circulation.
In other words, it does not mean
| imitation.
There has been a story going around
on the inside that the President, hav-
ing dropped the fruitless effort to in
crease commodity prices by buying
gold, will now try to accomplish the
same purpose by buying silver.
President Roosevelt is quoted In
| senatorial circles as having said to a
| certain Senator:
We'll, now that the gold policy
failed, we might as well see if silver
will fail"
The President may hare been
quoted accurately. but still that
does not make Mr.. Morgenthdu's
enthusiasm, any more significant.
The Treasury did not buy enough
gold to fill an elephants moldrs.
There is not enough purchdsdble
| StlUer available to permit force
| Jul effort to influence general COM
modify prices, or to establish a
25-75 siluer-gold ratio during this
| generation.
There was some real imitation from
the Treasury announcement, but 1t
lasted only about Is minutes.
In commenting on the announce
ment verbally, one Treasury official
said that the silver had been bought
at so cents an ounce, but the money
to be issued against it would be based
on the old silver value Of s129 an
! ounce The inflationary prospects of
a policy like that a-e enormous.
Announcement Error.
After Is minutes Cf f1uttering among
Treasury experts, it finally developed
that the announcement was erroneous.
| The policy in that respect had not
actually been determined.
When it is determined, it will pro-
vide for issuance of the currency on
the value of the purchase price. The
difference between that price and
! S1.29 will be carried on the Treasury
books as an unvalued commodity, like
Office furniture.
You have to be magician to keep
Treasury books these days.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
IS HURT AS TROLLEY
PLUNGES DOWN HILL
Controls Damaged in Crash as
st. Paul Car Goes for
Ride.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL. June 23.-Fifteen per-
sons were injured today when a st.
Paul street car out of control plunged
four blocks downhill into the Loop
district.
The street car hit coal truck, in
Turing the motorman, and thus Grip
pied started on its wild ride.
Down the main street it rushed
across heavy traffic intersections,
stopping only after it jumped the
track.
E. ]. Bison was the hero of the
ride He heard the motorman
screaming to persons in the street
to get out of the way, and ran behind
the car, finally pulling the trolley
from the wire.
He was dragged. still holding to
the rope, for about a block. The
front of the car was smashed in by
the impact with the truck, damag-
ing the car controls.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
LUTHER TO RETURN.
DECLARES CHARGE
Trip to Germany, Planned Weeks
in Advance, Mere Routine,
Embassy Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Rudolf Leitner, charge d'affaires Of
the German embassy, denied yesterday
reports from Berlin that DR.. Hans
Luther, the German Ambassador,
would not return to Washington.
DR.. Luther sailed from New York
this week to report to Berlin officials
on general American-German politi-
cal and financial relations, particu-
larly on American reaction to the
German moratorium, and on his
efforts to secure negotiation of a new
reciprocal trade agreement between
the United States and Germany.
His return to Germany was planned
several weeks in advance of his sail
ing and was considered at the en-
bassy as routine trip to confer with
foreign Office officials.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
VETERAN KILLS SELF
AFTER SHOOTING WOMAN
Confederate Soldier Wounds
Matron of Atlanta Home After
Aiming at Nurse.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, June 23.-An elderly
Confederate veteran today shot and
critically wounded Mrs. Mary d.
Goudelock. superintendent of the
Georgia Confederate Soldiers Home,
and then killed himself.
Shortly before 9 am. j. A. Blount,
81. an inmate of the home which is
supported by the State for veterans
of the War Between the States, sud-
denly began firing an old model pistol.
Home officials said he had been in a
feeble mental condition for some time.
The first shot was fired at Miss
Leona Moore. a nurse, but the bullet
was wild. Blount then turned and
fired two shots at other veterans.
Mrs. Goudelock. hearing the shots.
started up the steps to the second
floor of the home where Blount was
and as she reached the head of the
stairway Blount fired one time and
the bullet entered her right breast.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
465 ALIENS GRANTED
DEPORTATION STAYS
Have American Wives and Are
Proven Desirable as
Citizens.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Because they have American wives
and children, 465 aliens subject to de-
portation have been granted an extern
sion of their stay in this country until
the next session of Congress
The group consists of men and
women who came into the country H.
legally for some reason or another
and who have proved, according to
Labor Department officials, their de-
STABILITY as citizens. They were to
have been deported July /.
The action was taken, Daniel w.
MacCormack, commissioner of immi-
grafton and naturalization, announced
yesterday, because the House Immi-
grafton Committee passed a resolution
asking it.
Evening star., 1934-06-23
SLAYER OF RANCHER
EXECUTED WITH GAS
100 Persons Watch as Colorado
Prisoner slumps on Death
Throne"
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CANON CITY. Colo, June 23.-An
obscure grave on "Woodpecker Hill, y
at the Colorado Penitentiary, awaited
today the body of William Cody
Kelley, who paid with his life in the
prisons new lethal gas chamber last
night for killing a rancher to steal
two cheap pistols
While about 100 persons watched,
Kelley walked into the death house,
disrobed of all but shoes and shorts"
to keep his clothing from absorb
ing any of the death-dealing gas
fumes. Wearing a black mask. he
was strapped to the death throne" ="
The witnesses stared through long
rows of windows at the prisoner
Guards released II acid capsules
costing 90 cents-into a crock under
the death throne"
Whitish fumes rose as the capsules
struck a mixture of acid and water.
The prisoner slumped forward,
gasped two or three times, and was
still.
Evening star., 1934-06-23

(Contlnued From First Page)
before his arrest. The letters re-
ferred to women as sovereign
queens" and to himself as a slave"
of love.
Coupled with the letters was the
evidence Of the apartment itself, the
furnishing of which disclosed its
owner as definitely and abnormally
erotic, police said. One room Of the
apartment, police noted, was elabo-
rately equipped and indicated, they
said, "sadistic tendencies"
Books Are Revealing.
In the room police found a library
the books of which, hardly without
exception, were erotic. Various draw
ines gave further evidence Of the
owners sadistic interests.
The "Telegraphen Compagnie" re-
ported from Ljubljana, Yugoslavia,
that Poderjay had swindled people
there years ago by securing advances
of many thousands of dollars under
the pretext of developing patents.
Then he disappeared, the report said,
and was not heard from afterward.
New York police, who have searched
unavailingly for Miss TufverSon's S
body, asked Scotland Yard to locate
the two witnesses to Poderjays mar
riage to Mile. Ferrand.
Should the witnesses consent to ap-
pear a charge of perjury will be filed
against Poderjay. This was a move
touord hiS avtro difjoy, fo Ayoarina
Miss Sally Tufverson, sister Of the
missing woman, said descriptions of a
woman believed to be Miss Tufverson
seen in Boston cleaning establish
ment this month was not her sister.
Evening star., 1934-06-23


intention of volunteering as witness.
He already has been before the COM
mittee in connection with the study
"a system later condemned in the
special report demanding removal of
Maj. Gen. Foulois.
The Assistant War Secretary said
Col. McMullen testified correctly, in
general, as to the revisions made in
Silverman's contract for purchase of
surplus Army underwear.
"Silverman wished to break the
contract" Woodring said, but I in
sisted upon him taking delivery of the
goods. Under the terms of the con-
tract he was forced to export the
surplus stocks and could not sell
them in this country.
Change Authorized.
Some time after I had forced him
to accept the goods, Silverman came
to the department and explained that,
because of depressed conditions 1t
was impossible for him to sell the
goods abroad. He asked that the COLI
tract be amended so that he could
sell the goods in this country and, in
accordance with our practice at that
time, and the administrations desire
to assist depressed businesses, au-
thorized the necessary change In the
contract"
Mai. Gen. Louis H. Bash. quarter
master general of the Army, was ques-
toned by the committee yesterday
afternoon about his opinion on the
offering of discounts on AUTOMOBILES
to Army officers-a practice the COM
mittee has found to exist at Camp
Holabird, military testing ground for
motors.
Gen. Bash said he saw no objec-
ton to an officer paying the I. o. b.
price for an automobile if he takes
delivery at the factory, but he did
not approve any discount below that.
Representative James, Republican,
of Michigan, told of testimony that
Army officers had been given a "A
per cent discount and he condemned
this practice as against the public
interest.
Department of Justice agents are
known to be investigating the dis
count system and other practices
complained of by the committee.
Bash told the committee he favors
competitive bidding on all Govern
ment contracts.