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The Washington times., 1934-08-10
IN Side Of the News - ByEdwn c. T I'LL

it hard. Others stop playing to
watch him.
For one hour he wins and
wins, and in that hour takes
from the house 100000 francs
($4O,0OO), pockets the money
and walks urbanely into the
night saying: "A very amusing
pastime." It's all like an cpl
sode from a novel by E. Phillips
Oppenheim. In fact, it is an
actual page from the life of
E. Phillips Oppenheim-for he
is the player who has just
broken the bank of Monte
Carlo.
To most Americans the name
of Oppenheim is as familiar as
it is to English people. For 40
years he has been feeding us a
never-failing supply of romance,
mystery and adventure. One
hundred and sixty novels have
been born to his fertile brain,
stories which flow along at
breakneck speed and which for
the most part are built around
international intrigue, politics
and Scotland Yard.
He is the story teller par eX-
cellence and ineXhauStible. He
loves life, and from it he draws
his characters and his plots.
Few mortals possess his gift of
imagination. and fewer have his
faculty of permitting it to run
riot. I should estimate that
the colossal total of more than
100000 words have found
their way into print over the
signature of E. Phillips Open
helm. When he was in New
York five years ago, I asked
him how he did it. Here is
what he told me:
Writing is fun for me. There
was a time when it did inter
fere with my golf and shooting,
but 1 have Strengthened all that
out. 1 work outdoors on a bal
cOny overlooking my garden and
the Mediterranean.
For about five hours a day
dictate to a secretary. And l
never know, when / have done
my first chapter, how the story
is going to end. This dictatiOn
goes on for four weeks and the
serial is finished in the rough.
Three more weeks are devoted
to correction and polish. So in
all, it takes me seven weeks to
complete novel,"
And when he is not writing
he most likely is golfing, dining,
dancing or away in his yacht
with a few friends. He was
born to the merchant class in
the middle of England, but his
fancy travelled far beyond York
shire and the counting room.
He took to writing as a young
ster, gave up the leather busl-
ness, marfled Boston glII' VIII
remains his greatest heroine,
and has since lived in the at
mosphere he writes about.
Perhaps his Dig winning Will
figure in his next story, or he
may take the experience of the
English woman who several
weeks ago at Monte Carlo
played zero five times in sue
cession and saw it turn up live
times in succession.
The odds normally are 35 to l
against the player at roulette.
This woman in blue beach
pajamaS played the 1,000-franc
limit each time and won $11, 500.
The odds against such a hap
pening were 100000 to /, and
had she been permitted to dou-
BILE each time she would have
won the whole principality with
something to spare, for her win
nings would have been more
than three billion dollars.
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and then, win in spectacular
fashion.
And here is a true tale of
famous gentleman who broke
the bank of Monte Carlo. 1t is
night and play is at full blast.
In a crowd of royalty, nobility,
millionaires and adventures,
one figure stands out. 1t is
man of 10, a stockily built,
ruddy-faced Englishman, whose
fringe of hair is as white as
the bosom of his starched shirt.
He is having great run of
luck at roulette. and is pressing
The Washington times., 1934-08-10

Copyright, 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
Comes report from the
cleaning Riviera, playground OF
European fashion, that Frank j.
Gould, youngest son of Jay
Gould, has leased his chain Of
gambling casinos to a syndicate
of Greeks and has abandoned
the ambition to become king OF
gamblers.
Times have not been so good
along the strand of the blue
Mediterranean. T h e soaring
franc keeps American tourists
at home. The French are too
thrifty to do much gambling.
The BoIShevik revolution killed
off some of the best customers
Monte Carlo and the other ca
Sinos ever had, and Europe, gen.
orally, is too hard up and too
upset to make widespread gam
bling the chief indoor sport OF
the continent.
Frank j. Gould put, so it's
said, 20 million dollars into a
chain of gambling houses, in
cluding a very flashy one at
Juan les Pins.
But Riviera gambling will
come back with better times,
and in the meantime the whirr
of the spinning roulette wheel
still echoes through the hall
empty salons.
Old Monte Carlo Casino, dlngy
but fascinating from its superb
perch on the mountain, keeps DO
ing a good business at the same
old stand. Like a once gay and
prosperous old gentleman some
what reduced in fortune, but
with a kick left in him still, 1t
has shrewdly resisted all such
fancy improvements as Frank
Gould spent millions for. 1t IS
lust what it was when Edward
the Seventh was Prince OF
Wales, and, as such, all the more
interesting.
You walk in and pay a franc
to check your hat. A ShreWd-
eyed clerk at the entrance desk
takes your pedigree and writes
it down. You pay a fee OF 81
cents and the place is yours
the big public gambling room
where the roulette tables are
The walls of the barnlike room,
of a brown tone and gloomy
enough, except for the bright
lighting, are decorated with pic
lures of lightly-draped, hearty
ladies, climbing mountains ana
shooting arrows at a target.
At the cashiers desk you buy,
if you like, handful of bright
bronze counters, or you can use
cash. You wedge in among the
sad-faced gamblers and toss
few counters on No. 7 or II or
whatever number you figure Is
lucky.
Or you play red or black,
odd or even. At your right and
left around the tables are all
Sorts-a stout and touchy Eng
liShman, Russian princess,
Parisiennes with greedy eyes
and grasping fingers, American
tourists, Germans with math-
ematical system.
The wheel never stops spin
ming. After the ball clicks into
a compartment and the bets
are swept off the table or paid,
the croupier spins it again, al
ways in the direction opposite
to the previous turn.
The scene is decorouS and
sedate. There is no drinking in
the room. People keep tight
hold of their emotions, winning
or losing, except for an oc-
casional hysterical exclamation
from a bad loser whose nerves
are broken. And always the
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n rect Norhw Wa hingtOn
George
j
The Washington times., 1934-08-10
Let's Act American
Let's Not Meddle With Alien Isms

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Mrs. Miriam Mosse who arrived from Germany the
American ship Manhattan the other day. gave utterance
to view which all Americans would do we'll to emulate
Although she had just stepped these shores her
and her heart turned not back whence she had
but forward to the land of her adoption
''We in America and we hope to live here the
rest of our lives" she said.
1--WE will not talk about the government in Germany
or conditions there
Let all of us Americans refrain from meddling with
conditions in Germany Russia and other foreign nations
Let us insist that Fascists Nazs Communists keep their
quarres their ideas their hates and hopes out of this
country.
If we have ideas of how our Government can be
changed or improved along American lines let ex-
press them in an orderly American way
Let be Americans first, last and always. Let us
think American let us act American.
Street
4 j. Fitzpatrick
The Washington times., 1934-08-10
LHerArv Ir0nleS
By Robert BenchIey

Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
A comical occurrence, for
everybody except those con-
cerned. took place in Paris
few weeks ago. A well-known
writer of detective thrillers was
frightened to death when a
practical joker jumped out at
him from an alley.
The joker himself sounds like
Public Enemy No. l Of the
World. He spent his time jump
ing out from alleywayS at peo-
The Washington times., 1934-08-10

States mints
W ere called
upon to sup
ply an extra
ordinary de.
mand for sub
Sidiary coins
this year.
Far out of
proportion to
a ny 9TH e r
year, includ-
ing those of
war time, the
min t S were
asked to coin
a tremendous
a m o u n t of
NOhonnn -
The Washington times., 1934-08-10

man falling down on a Civil
Service examination, or Mae
West losing her man.
1t might also be pretty funny
if the author of this article got
so sick of thinking up examples
that he couldn't finish it.
ARTICLES by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday.)
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1t may be because people were
buying drinks or playing the
numbers racket that United
Evening star., 1934-07-10

Dinner, Aleph zadic Aleph frater-
nifty, willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-07-10
Marriage Licenses.

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Nellie D Collier, 20. same address,
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SEATS RESERVED
At MORALS TRIAL
Women Flock 10 Hear Testi-
mony About wild"
Movie Parties.
b. TIE Asseelatsd Pr.ss.

b the Associated Press.
Los ANGELES. July 10. - Court
room seats we're reserved today for
representative Of the Womens Chris
tan Temperance Union and the
Epbebian Society as the trial Of Dave
Alien and Gloria Marsh on morals
charges entered its second day.
The request for reserved seats was
granted by Forrest BlsyIock. bailif
who was pressed yesterday 10 find
space for the throng, mostly women
which crowded into the court room.
Indicted Following Party.
Allen formerly was head Of the Cen
trail Casting Bureau. Hollywood agency
which sends thousands Of extras 10
various motion picture studios. Miss
Marsh is a film extra. They we're in
dicted by the county grand jury fol-
lowing an allegedly wild party
Each of the prospective jurors was
asked by Defense Counsel Jerry Gels
Ter whether he or she was a member
of any group or organization now en-
gagged IN the Nation wide drive 10 i'm
prove the morals Of the films.
Five men and seven women we're in
the fury box as court adjourned yes
terday. but they had not definitely
been selected as jurors.
Allen listened intently from his
chair at the counsel table to the
lengthy questioning. Frequently he
glanced around the court room.
Miss Marsh Sober-Faced.
Miss Marsh. comely and titan
haired. sat at the opposite end of the
counsel table. sober-faced and staring
straight ahead
Another OF Geisler's questions,
which received a monotonous no" for
answer was:
Would 1t prejudice you against
counsel II. during the course of the
trial, 1t would become necessary for
him 10 ask of the various witnesses
questions of an extremely intimate
nature?"
Evening star., 1934-07-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

AcOA
Card party, Bell Club, benefit st.
James Catholic Church, auditorium,
Thirty street and Rhode
Island avenue northeast, 8 pm.
Meeting Washington chapter. Cath
olic Daughters of America, Willard
Hotel, 1880 pm.
Dinner. Aleph zadic Aleph frater-
nifty, willard Hotel, 80 pm.
Meeting. Women's Union. Bureau of
Engraving and Printing Local los,
", F, F. E., Willard Hotel 8 pm.
Meeting. Alcantara Caravan. order
OF Alhambra, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Columbia Heights Busines
Mems Association, Riggs Bank Build-
ing, Fourteenth and Park Road, $3.50
pm.
Meeting, National Association Chiefs
of Police, Mayfiower Hotel, pm.
TOMORROW,
Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel. 1880 pm.
Luncheon. District Bankers Associ-
alton, Willard Hotel. 12:45 pm.
Luncheon, Soroptimist Club, VIII
lard Hotel, pm.
Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayflower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, National Gamers Associ-
alton, Mayflower Hotel, 10 am.
Evening star., 1934-07-10
u. S. C0NSULS DEMAND
DOLLARS IN GERMANY
Exchange and Transfer Difficult
ties Halt Acceptance of
MARKS for Fees
By tsse Assoc atea Press

By the Associated Press
American oousulstes in Germany
row demand that all consular fees
oe paid In dollars instead Of marks
because 0f the exchange and transfer
difficulties resulting from the German
moratorium.
state Department officials explained
yesterday that the nev regulations,
effective July !. are expected to re-
main tn force until the entire ex-
change problem has returned TO
normal.
Similar regulations we're In force in
Germany in 1922 and in several other
countries during periods when eX-
change problems existed.
Germany has declared six-monthS'
moratorium on transfer Of foreign
exchange.
Evening star., 1934-07-10
Navy Orders
Bureau Of Navigation.

Bureau Of Navigation.
Staley. ir., Ensign Poyntell C., to
duty Naval Air Station. Pensacola,
Fla.
Supply Corps.
Hutchison, Lieut.. Comdr. Percy j.
detached U. s. s. Argonne in August;
10 home. relieved all active duty.
Warrant 0ffieerx
Martinson, Chief Boatswain Gus
tave b, detached Naval Proving
Ground. Dahlgren, Va, about Au-
gust /; to U. s. s. New Mexico.
Evening star., 1934-07-10
WHEAT PROCESSING TAX
CONTINUED BY WALLACE
IS Per Cent Acreage Reduction
Also Decreed for Next Year
by Secretary.
sy The Associated Press

81 The Associated Press
Secretary Wallace today proclaimed
a continuance OF the 30 cents a bushel
wheat processing tar and Of the is
per cent acreage reduction for another
year. Likewise, the same rate Of
benefit payments will be continued for
another year. These are 20 cents a
ousheI and will be made in two in
stallments, the first beginning Octo-
Der. 1884 at the rate of 20 cents per
oushel and the second next year after
proof Of compliance with terms Of re-
duction contracts has been submitted.
Evening star., 1934-07-10

Meeting. Alcantara Caravan. Order
OF Alhambra, Willard Hotel pm.
Evening star., 1934-07-10

Meeting. womens Union. Bureau of
Engraving and Printing Local los,
", F. F. E. Willard Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1934-07-10

Meeting. Columbia Heights Busines
Mems Association, Riggs Bank Build
ing, Fourteenth and Park Road, $50
pu1
Evening star., 1934-07-10

Meeting, National Association Chiefs
of Police, Mayflower Hotel, pm.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13
IS YOUR COMPLEXION
 BLOTCHY AND PIMPLY

If your complication is dull, mud dy, sallow due to clogged bowels take Adlerika. Just one dose rids your system of poisonous wastes that cause pimples and bad skin. For sale at leading druggists. (Adv.)
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13
SMITH HAS GOOD WORD FOR
 WRANGELL WHILE IN SEATTLE

The Alaska Weekly last week gave an interesting write-up to J. Smith of Wrangell while he was business visitor in Seattle. MT. Smith says that the reporter misun- derstood what he said about the light and water systems. He told the reporter that the town owned both of the public utilities and had acquired the light plant less than four years ago but that already It is practically paid for. The item follows:
 J. c. Smith of Wrangell, a real Sourdough of Alaska, having first gone North in 1891, is ill Seattle on visit relative to his mining claims in that vicinity and to have some dental work performed. The oldtim- CT declares Wrangell is the best town in the Territory and has de- veloped wonderfully during the past ten years, each year during that period having shown gain in business of 50 percent over the preceding year. During that time the schools have advanced to a high state of excellence, water works and electric light systems have been in stalled and two salmon canneries, two crab canneries and two shrimp canneries are in operation, the crab and shrimp canneries giving em- ployment for eleven months each year. The cold storage system has been enlarged and the sawmill has been working two shifts during most of the present season.
 Not only is the town progressing with leaps and bounds" MT. Smith said when he visited the office of The Alaska Weekly, but the citi- zens there are law-abiding and have the highest respect for the deputy United States marshal stationed there and the city officers"
 MT. Smith and his son operate fox farm a few miles from Wrangell as we'll as being interested in min ing claims nearby, and to have samples of the ore assayed in Se- attle was the primary reason for his trip Outside at this time.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Rev. Russell F. Pederson, Pastor 10:30 am. Morning Worship: Staff
 Captain Acton will conduct the
 service
 12 Noon Bible School: God cares
 for Elijah" I Kings, 17th
 chapter
 The evening service will be omitted There will be a special service while the Prince George" is in port, It will be conducted by the members of a Christian Endeavor party from California. Bring your friends and give the visitors a hearty welcome. There will be special music furnished by the tourists Everyone is invited.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13
FLAYoRING lvaniIlal: 2 quarts.

FLAYORING (Yanilla): ? quarts.
 This huge delicacy was baked in sections and put together. It was on a large truck and perfectly sealed in eellophane, to protect il against any specks of dust during the great parade Total weight of all ingredients, cream and so on, was a little more than four thou sand pounds"
 And as proof that all hls earlier fears for my future happiness had vanished from his forgiying heart, MT. Pederson eXcla imed, How wish 1 had been here at that time!" So we had strawberry shortcake ten by twelve Cinches) for supper, and by the small por- ton that remained at the close of the meal l was fully satisfied that the Board made no mistake in choosing my successor.
 The Rev. MT. Pederson has been duly authorized to convey to Wran- gell assurance of unchanged affec- ton and esteem, from both Mrs. Diyen and myself; also to invite you all to come to Lebanon next June and sample the shortcake.
 Very truly,
 Robert Joseph Diven
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

l. A. Wellons, who visited his brother, H. Wellons, for a week last month while on his way to Valdez to take charge of the owen B. Means Transportation Go. gar age, writes his brother that there is much mining activity in that dis trict but that the curtailment of Alaska shipping has hurt all lines of work. A food shortage exists, which caused some uneasiness but had not become acute at the time the letter was written.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

H. R. Coulter last week retired from active duty at the City Meat Market to take a vacation from work of any kind before entering upon his duties as jailer at the Fed eral jail in a few weeks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

c. E, Moore of Bedding, Califor- mia, who spent five seasons some years ago in developing mining properties in the Cassiar, is a Wran- gell visitor this week
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

Mrs. H. Wellons went south last week to visit her daughter Elouise who has spent the past two years with Mrs. Wellons mother at Kent, Washington. MT. Wellons intends to take a vacation in September and the three will return north the fol- lowing month. Elouise will It. tend school at Wrangell during the coming year.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

Mrs. Janet Deville of Cordova, ac- companied by her son., Alfred, stopped off on the Yukon Tuesday to visit in the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs Henry Nettleton, until the arrival of the Aleutian the first of next week. They are returning home from a trip to Mayo Bros. at Ro- chester, Minn., made in the interest of the young mans health.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

Capt. Sam C. Scotte, well known Cassiar mining man and discOverer of the Arctic wilderness Tropical Valley, came north this week to make another trip to his properties on Thibert Creek. He is accompan- jed by P. A. Rokne, mining engi- neer of Baker, Oregon.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13
Local Items

J. G. Grant wired his family last Thursday that he had arrived at his old home, Scotburn, in Pictou Coun- ty, Nova Scotaia, on July 5 and that he had stood the trip well.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13
CATHOLIC CHURCH

JULY Is The Eighth Sunday After Pentecost 7:30 am. Communion Mass. 10 am. Parish Mass, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Daily Mass at 7;30
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

Mrs. H. Olson and son Charles, returned on the Yukon Tuesday from a visit with her parents at Anacortes, Washington.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13
At the Churches
THE SALVATION ARMY

Sergeant Major Joseph Thomas
 Commanding Officer
 FRIDAY 6:45 pm. Band of Love. 500 pm Public meeting.
 SUNDAY 11:00 am. Holiness meeting. 800 pm. Sunday School. 7:30 pm. Salvation Meeting.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

MT. and Mrs. Harry Nettleton, their young son, Bill, Mrs. H. Kit tilsby and Shirley A. Baker were guests of A. B. Anderson on the gasboat Mavis last week on a trip to Ketchikan where they spent the Fourth. Jacqualyn Nettleton, who had intended to spend the summer vacation with her aunt, Mrs W. c. Mcdonald, at Ketchikan, could not bear to see Dad and Mother and Bill leave fo home without her, so cut her visit short and returned )n the Mavis.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-07-13

Miss Beryl Cunningham who has been employed for some time at the Wheeler Drug Store in Petersburg, returned home this week and will spend the summer here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14

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