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The Washington times., 1934-02-02
Pavement Patter

Cold weather down in Vir-
ginia apparently didn't agree
with Roland Dawson in that
last cold spell, as he was seen
taking advantage of a warm
radiator in one Of the towns
office buildings. When Tom
Heflin was in the Senate his
activities in the interest Of cot
ton producers earned him the
nickname of Cotton Tom" and
now that Senator John Bank
head, also of Alabama, has
taken up the banner for higher
priced cotton, he is being refer.
red to as Cotton John" Mrs.
r. e. L. Smith, wife Of Bob
Smith, the probation officer
down at Police Court, suffered
no i'll effects from being fore
IDLY separated from her horse
while hunting in Montgomery
county recently. Mrs. Roose-
velt had one of the biggest
laughs Of the year at a recent
press conference when she was
mentioning the names of GER
tain people who had travelled
with the President in the 1920
campaign. who had been in
vited to the birthday ball, and
a woman asked If one of the
names referred to was that Of
a newspaper man who has prob
ably written the worst Of all
attacks on the Chief Executive
:. DIR. John Marion Barber, the
physician, lawyer, ETC., has a
dog, a Boston bull to be tech.
nical, sits around his office
quietly until he hears a patient
cough and then the pup. in
sympathy perhaps, barks to
keep him company =. Gladys
Hughes thinks that she has
reached that age when she can
decide on her own hours and,
and objects strenuously when
told that the late ones aren't
the best thing for up and com"
ing young business women.
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lust a Helper

j. wilmer RumSey is an aide
to the NRA.
When he first took his Job,
the burden of his labors forced
him to work long beyond the
hours prescribed.
When leaving the office one
night he encountered another
man, also an NRA worker, who
stated:
YOU'RE working rather late
tonight, son."
Rumsey admitted that was
true, and asked the man his
name. The stranger said it was
johnson"
Rumsey asked what he did
there.
Said the man:
"Oh I'm chief cook and bot.
tie washer, 1 suppose! I'm
Hugh S. Johnson"
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or who had any information
concerning that particular va
riety Of knot, particularly with
reference to any knowledge
Mrs. Paige might have had, Of
it, should communicate with
our paper at once.
And so as night fell all Of
Baltimore was agog with the
latest developments in the Paige
case.
Murder murder!" were the
words that people said to one
another in awed whispers. els
1t possible that Mrs. Paige was
murdered?
The autopsy was held very
quietly that night at 8 o'clock
by Coroner Mason, assisted by
DR.. Warner and Mrs. James A.
Pitt and Wallace M. Deering,
of Baltimore.
And it showed up one Of the
most extraordinary deaths in
the whole history Of Maryland
criminology.
It had almost been completed
without disclosing any new evi-
dence, when DR.. Warner, doubt
less thinking along the line he
had suggested to me, opened
the mouth and began an ex-
animation of the interior of the
throat.
There, caught into the teeth
and even under the tongue it
self, were a number of little
silk threads-yellow silk threads.
Gagged" cried DR.. Warner
and DR.. Mason in the same
breath. "Gaggedw with the
tassel of the silk cord which
was used to hang her to the
chandelier"
Then the cord itself was
rushed over from headquarters,
and there was its tassel, very
much bedraggled so that it was
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By Lyman Young
BY Walt Disney
By Herman
By Ad Carter

forgotten old times-not by a
long shot. Talk it over with
your people and see what their
reaction is. I'll have to take it
up with the commissioner, too.
If you can make arrangements,
be up at the Paige house the
very first thing in the morn
ings. But remember that if I
let you in on this there's a
lot that will have 20 be abSo-
lutely confidential"
(TO Be COntinued)
Copyright by MacRae Smith Co.; Dis
tributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
Around
The
Capital
BY JOHN sNURE, Jr.

"Toots" Griffith is in mourn
ing down at Leesburg.
Stricken with an incurable
malady, "Toots'" favorite hunt
or took to his stall and refused
to improve despite the ministra-
tions Of veterinarians, grooms
or anyone else.
TootS" was constantly in at
tendance at the bedside of his
sick mount. And stayed all
night with him until he died.
The next day, Griffith, un-
consolable over the loss of his
horse, refused to see any Of his
friends.
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No Ash Travs

When Cabinet officers hold
press conferences arrangements
are usually made to have q suf.
ficient number of ash trays
around for the smokers.
One Cabinet member who re.
fuses to have the receptacleS
furnished, however, is Secretary
Of Labor Francis Perkins.
Despite this fact the boys
continue to smoke.
Many burned fingers and
scorched cuffs of trousers bear
evidence that they would be ben.
Gifted, though, by the presence
OF a few ash trays.
An appeal to Madam Secre-
tary to have the trays provided
Is being considered.
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We nominate for president
q the Forgetful Boys Club our
old club member, Faryl Alkire,
$500 Nineteenth st. N. w.
Faryl was one of the prize
winners in the contest to see
cinderella" at the National
last month and he tells Us
that he forgot to go. Can you
IMAGINE that III!
He says:
"I have some very bad news
70 tell you (bad news for
WHOM, Old-timer?). As you
know, I won tickets In the last
contest, but forgot 10 90.
'T am enrolling my friend,
James Beauchamp, 23OS Ash
mead PL N. w., In the club.
We are both entering the
''MOdern Boy" contest and this
time, If we win, we aren't going
10 forget.
II Wrate you o letter . few
daFB ago telling you that ] was
home with q sore throat, but
/ lost the letter. I am coming
down some day soon for q
picture"
Faryl is a very bright boy
and he writes interesting sto-
ries. But one Of these days he
is going to FORGET to mail
one of 'em and then he'll be
sorry. That was one forget"
and one "lost" in that letter
Of his.
Betty o'Bannon, s25 E st.
N. E., asked us SPECIALLY to
put this letter in the column:
II am an old member. Do
you remember me? Certainly
we dO.) Look In your roll book
and you will find my name.
1--WE didn't have to, as we recOg-
nized it at Once.) 1 want to
enroll Eleanor L. WOlfOrd, 2O7
r st. N. e. The ~" Is for
Lou"
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CONGRATULATIONS

Members celebrating their
birthday anniversaries today
0re as follows: YOIanda Chez
chin and Maurice Skillman,
both Of Seat Pleasant, Nd;
Ella May Walton, 64S Z st.
~. T.: Elizabeth Hamilton, Mt.
Wilson, Nd; Paul Watson, 500
II st. N. w.; Daisy Hamilton,
Child Pavilion, Mt. Wilson,
Nd; Arthur Nelson JarbOe,
GAIA Georgia Ave. N. w.; DOrO-
thy Sieles, 1920 Tenth st. N.
g.: Haskell Clark, jr., 500 Fair
yAOnt st. N. W.; Jack ROsen-
thai, 1888 Otis PI. N. w.; Louise
Elsie Reed, S1O New York Ave.
n. w.
We wish you q very happy
birthday.
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easy to see that it had indeed
been crammed into the un-
fortunate girls mouth and used
as a gag.
"She was strangled by this
tasSel firSt-suffocated. 1t was
probably wedged well down into
the throat and held in place by
a bond Of some nature. Her
heart, in it's weakened condi-
ton, could not stand the strain.
And then the murderer strung
her up to the chandelier to
hide his crime. This is Ger
tainly a case Of murder, Cor
oner."
And murder it was!
A jury was hastily impanelled
a few minutes later from among
the Towson citizens; and the
newSies were shouting their ex-
tras on every street corner only
an hour later.
For the coroner's jury found
that Sonia Paige had met her
death by Strangulation at the
hand of a person or persons un-
known"
The Paige suicide had ended.
The Great Paige Murder Case
had just begun.
CHAPTER v
I was still at my desk late
that night when my telephone
rang. It was Inspector Ander-
son and I could tell from his
voice that he was not a little
bit excited.
How about it, Kay?" he COM
menced with a chuckle. Looks
as if Carroll had started the
real thing this time, doesn't
it?"
ANY Developments" I asked
eagerly.
''Yes-that's why I called you.
Thought you would like to hear
the latest. The commissioner
has received a request for as
The Washington times., 1934-02-02
Pony Gets Revenge

For many a day Joe Fraley
has been fox hunting with the
Redland Hounds.
And he has continuously
taxed his pony to the limit Of
equine endurance, as he prob
ably is the most active rider Of
the hunt. And when not hunt
Ing, Joe rides his pony all over
the countryside.
The other day the pony took
him to task.
Joe tried to jump his diminu-
tive mount over a log.
Joe fell.
The pony fell.
And landed on Joe.
Joe couldn't get up; the pony
refused to get up.
So Joe lay recunnbent until
the pony was sufficiently re-
freShed and arose.
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Costly Lesson

One of the towns pugilistic
gentlemen hit on the idea that
members Of the House should
be given physical training.
He consulted a few Repre-
sentatives on the advisability Of
starting a physical culture class
up on The Hill.
He was told:
Zone Of our last physical
culture directors, borrowed
$1,000 from his class and
skipped town."
It was decided that one such
lesson in physical culture was
sufficient!
The Washington times., 1934-02-02

A MERRY youngster, full Of
pep, is Helen Brooks, 1922
Eleventh st N. w. She goes
70 the Thomson School and is
tan years old. Her birthday
anniversary Is June IA.
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REPAIR AIDS LABOR

livery time jobless member Of the build
II ing trades is put to work family Of
four persons is taken of the public relief
rolls.
This is the estimate Of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration and it emphasizes only
one angle Of the important new housing drive
which the government Is inaugurating.
Eighty per cent of the building trades
workers are out of jobs. according to A. F.
of L. figures. Many Of them have been out
of work for years. In a dismaying number OF
cases the task Of keeping them and their
dependents from starving has had to be
shoudered by the government.
If it had nothing else to recommend it,
then. the housing campaign offers chance
to attack the problem of unemployment on
one of its most difficult fronts.
And yet that is only part Of it.
You need more than workers to build or
repair house. You need materials-lumber,
cement, bricks, nails, shingles hardware, cleo
trio fixtures, plumbing fixtures, and so on.
Every contract that is let for construction
or renovizing of a dwelling is stimulant for
the industries which make and sell those
commodities.
These things need to be carried from the
site of manufacture to the place where they
are to be used. Railroads, barge and steam
ship lines, trucking concerns-au these will
share in the revival that comes to the indus
tries involved in rehousing.
Then there is the idle money in banks
money which lies a dead weight when 1t is
not working Rehousing means loans, loans
which, in this instance, bear moderate inter
est rates and are guaranteed up to 20 per
cent of their face value, by Uncle Sam him
self, and which require no collateral beyond
the borrowers ability to pay his monthly in
stallments.
Such loans mean that this idle money goes
to work, to help spread prosperity across the
nation.
Lastly, there is the householder himself.
Perhaps he owns a lot, on which he plans to
build his own home when times are ripe;
perhaps he already owns home, and has
deferred needed repairs during the hard de-
preston years; perhaps he would like to do
bit of remodeling to bring his place up to date
and give it better market value.
In any case, the housing campaign is made
to order for him. BY taking advantage of it,
he not only can help himself, but his whole
community as well.
The campaign offers us great opportunity.
1t gives us a great chance to revive the whole
building industry. Once that is done. full
recovery will not be far away
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MORE REVENUE, AT LEAST

IT is gratifying to note that beer and liquor
l. revenues are reaching high level. so that
federal treasury officials now estimate that
Uncle Sam will receive fully half billion in
taxes from this source during the current
fiscal year.
One of the arguments most often heard in
favor of repeal, a year or two ago was that
legalizing the sale of alcoholic drinks would
prove an excellent thing for federal finances.
1t looks as if it we're going to work out that
way
Unfortunately. not all the other optimistic
forecasts made about the benefcent effects of
repeal have been fulfilled. The bootlegger
hasn't been banished precisely from the land,
illegal manufacture and transportation OF
booze still is going on. and alcohol as a social
problem remains just about as pulling as it
ever was.
We are still long way from satisfactory
solution Of the whole difficult issue.
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WEDNESDAY. AUG. 70. 1894
REPORTING PROGRESS
PAGE s
"a soRIPPs-HowARD NEwsPAPERl

THE Richberg report TO the President on
Il relief Of agricultural distress sheds credit,
II not luster. upon the Administrators efforts.
Largely through the AAA adjustment pro-
gram and marketing agreements, the prices Of
seven basic commodities. plus benefit pay
ments. by Aug. had risen to IS per cent of
their pre-war parity. This reflects also the
drought's effect But Mr.. Richberg thinks
that when both high prices and smaller sales,
from the drought, are taken into account 1884
farm income Will exceed that for 1888 by about
10 per cent Here's progress. even if the fg-
ure still is far below the 1923-l929 levels.
The report brings out what Secretary Wal
lace has been repeating, that the drought, far
from solving the surplus problem, will stimu-
late another overproduction jag next year
unless there is government control. Next 1t
hammers home the truism that farm prosper
ity still depends on city buying power. The
wage and salary workers that make the bulk
OF the farmers market still are, despite all ad-
ministration efforts. unable to pay the prices
our farmers must get TO prosper.
Perhaps the only serious weakness of this
report is its failure to observe that the adj
ministrations farm credit policy largely trans
fers the huge mortgage burden from private
to government creditor without appreciably
scaling down the debt or interest costs The
billion dollars loaned by the government in the
last year for refnancing farm debts have re-
suited in only $50 10000 in scale-downs and
only S15719,OOO interest savings.
Otherwise there has been substantial prog
ess And in this most battling of all of Amer
icas economic problems any progress is cheer
worthy.
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BREAD AND BUTTER

THE state department is somewhat naive
in announcing that there appears little
hope of a settlement resulting from the Rus
sian trade negotiations 1t is the job of the
state department to get settlement-not
Stalemate.
Published reports indicate that the chief
issue is not whether the Russians will take
care of the Kerensky debt and private claims
they seem to have agreed to do that by
paying extra interest rates on credits-but
whether the Russian credits for trade shall
be intermediate or long term.
That is not the type of dispute which should
be allowed to block American-Russian trade
revival Russia is doing fairly we'll buying
from other countries-our competitors Con-
tinued stalemate of American trade negotia-
tions does not hurt Russia much. But it does
injure us.
The state department should not forget
that there are still millions of Americans out
of work and thousands of American factories
closed or on part time For them this is not
a matter of diplomatic bubble and jockeying
delays but of immediate bread and butter.
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Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

IMPRESSIVE ceremonial marked the formal
Il signing of trade treaty between the United
States and Cuba.
The diplomatic room of the state department
where the ceremony took place was ornamenteG
with palmS-a real Cuban touch New Venetian
blinds were draWn-for there was no sunshine.
Portraits of statesmen, Sedately robed and digni-
fed, peered gloomily down from vast gold frames
on the walls
Secretary of State Hull, gray-fanne1ed and
looking rested after brief vacation in the Vir-
ginia hills, was the first American dignitary to
sign the treaty He motored to town for that
purpose.
Radiant with health and deeply tanned by
the tropical sun was debonair jeff Gallery,
American ambassador to Cuba, another Signer
for the United States.
jeff looked like a picture from Havana
white suit and shoes, even his socks were white.
He left his Panama hat in an outer Office. The
drizzle of rain falling outside made his warm
weather attire seem perhaps trife incongruous.
His famous opal ring cleaned ftfully on his
finger as he signed.
What on earth are you doing, Jeff, to look
so good?" queried a friend admiring his bronzed
appearance.
Swimming and horseback riding" quoth
Jeff.
TALL, distinguished Sumner Welles, assistant
Il secretary of state for Latin American
AFFAIRS, uOUeSGly SlSueu Ulle uOCuILeIC d1GSI IlIS
chief Mr. Hull, although he really has en-
tirely free hand in his Latin-American policy
He was as usual impeccably groomed-com-
bining formaity with informally by wearing a
dark linen suit
TINE Cuban contingent of Signers, hanked by
i an equally resplendent array of secretaries
and attaches, appeared on the scene attired
with the nth degree of formality.
Frock- coated Senior De la Torriente, Cuban
secretary of state (who is widely known in the
United States, bounced into the conference like
a rubber ball. curling his long white mus
tachios and looking as pleased as punch.
After adjusting his cuffs, his starched collar
and his eye glasses, he tweaked the ends Of his
mustachios and signed with a great flourish:
"COSAE DE LA TORRIENTE."
A AMBASSADOR MARQUEE STERLING of
n Cuba (miraculously without his habitual
atomizer) looked exceptionally neat in his cut
away-a garment which he does not favor as a
rule.
He signed his name slowly and carefully to
the document incidentally, there we're two
copies of the treaty-one retained by the United
States and the other by Cuba.
Veteran Sidney Wise Smith, who has been
with the state department fifty-three years, and
has seen more treaties signed than most per-
sons have seen stars, performed the role of af-
fixing the great crimson wax seals Then there
was oratory-a nice little talk by fatherly Mr.
Hull booming passionate speech by Senol
Cosme de la Torriente, first in Spanish, then
politely in English.
After that, there we're silent pictures anc
movietone and the treaty became history.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-29
IMMIGRATION REFORM

FEDERAL immigration Commissioner D. w.
MacCormack announces that the govern
ment will seek modification of existing immi-
grafton laws when congress conveneS, and
the news points to a reform long overdue.
AS things are now. it often proves impoS-
sible to deport a man whcsn the country can
get along without very we'll indeed. Among
those Who slip through the net. as Mr.. Mac
Cormack points out, are men accused OF
homicide. counterfeiting. offenses against the
moral code-and. as a matter of fact prac-
tically every crime on the calendar
The loopholeS in the law are numerous, and
it is precisely the most undesirable aliens who
take advantage of them.
On the other hand. rigid technicalities
often compel the deportation Of aliens who
would make excellent citizens.
A little revision that would let US keep the
good ones and expel the bad ones would be
very good thing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-29
HE WOULD PROTECT
FEMININE FIGURE
By H. S. Osgood.

BY H. S. OsgoOd.
The Message Center is a capital
clearing house in which to make
suggestions and to expose humbugS,
plenty of which exist.
The billboard bread advertisement
has properly drawn severe criticism
from some reader because, doubtless,
being a woman of modeSty and re-
finement, she resents the modern
idea that female personality is
nothing but a joke for men Of lewd
conceptions.
Most men and quite few women
recognize no standards of purity or
moral decency, but brutally force
their corrupt Installations, no mat
ter how vulgar or obscene, on the
public in advertising.
The same law that protects the
United States flag from profana-
ton at the hands of the advertising
f1end also should include the female
person from imnodest exposure in
public prints or actual defnonStra-
ton by corrupt members vi the sex
who flaunt their Sun-tanned mulat-
70 hides in public before children
and young boys, regardless Of de-
moralizing influence.
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DEBTS AND CREDITS

CECRETARY MORGENTHAU may be overly
- optimistic in his prediction that govern
ment losses on recovery loans and invest
ments Will not be substantial" But on the
whole his accounting to the American people
last night on the state of the governments
finances was candid and reassuring.
His promise of a monthly statement of the
governments balance sheet to keep the public
informed is especially comforting, for in past
years complicated treasury statements too often
have been confusing if not misleading
Secretary Morgenthau does not need to take
the defensive in the campaign controversy
over the rising public debt. Americans know
they have been going through the nations
worst depression. which makes lower revenues
and higher expenditures inevitable. They know
that this administration did not cause the de-
preston which increases the national debt.
1t is important. of course, to learn that the
gross debt since March of last year has in
creased 5000 100000 and that the net in
crease has been s4.4OO,OOO,OOO against which
may be offset S2SOOOOOOOO profit" in the gold
fund and 81 O95 100000 in increased assets.
But we are lucky that the current deficit is
sound personal and corporation finance, re-
quires the building up of reserves in lush days
to take care of rainy days. Instead. through
the boom period. We followed the Mellon policy
of cutting taxes.
Nor did the federal government recognize
that rainy days had come until after the peo-
pie had been drenched in more than three
years of misery, and after private financial
and industrial institutions had failed utterly to
prime the economic pump. and municipal and
state governments had demonstrated their in
ability to keep the people from starving
Mr. Morgenthau was justified in stressing
the investment side of New Deal expenditures
the increase in the real wealth of the coun-
try in the form of better roads, new dams,
power plants public buildings. forests, land,
and the like.
He might have gone farther and stressed
those Intangible assets of renewed courage and
confidence that have contributed so much to
the morale of the people. They are the human
credits that more than balance the dollar
deficit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-29
LIFELONG DEMOCRAT
; DEFENDS ROBINSON
BY John A. Perkins.

BY John A. Perkins.
AS one of the many readers of
The Times, I wish to express my
views. 1 want a few words in &C.
tense of Senator Arthur R. Rob-
inSon.
First, I voted the straight Dem
ocratic party ticket last election,
because the party promised us the
sun, moon and stars. We were in
formed that if beer came back,
taxes would be reduced greatly. But
what are the facts? We now have
gas tax, oil tax, sales tax. tobacco
tax, income tax, Cancelled checks tax
and carpet tackS.
The Democrats passed the econ
omy act and went on the worst
spending spree the country ever
has known. AS a lifelong and faith
ful Democrat, 1 break loose. The
last convention was enough for me.
The, knitting McNutt and the bunch
gave Louis Ludlow and R. Earl
Peters was enough for one day.
I will not say one word for or
against Sherman Minton as man.
But he is not the choice of his party
but of the McNutt clique. defend
Robinson. He is outSpoken, but
states the truth.