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The Washington times., 1934-10-29

We hold that the most
wonderful and splendid proof
of genius is a great poem pro-
duced in civilized age.-Macau-
lay.
Take away from our hearts
the love of the beautiful. and
you take away all the charm Of
life.-Rousseau.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29

to have the
special Sen
ate Campaign
Expenditures
Committee in
vestigate cam.
p a i g n eX-
p e n S e S Of
Senator Da-
vid A. Reed
in Penn S y J.
vania made
S o m e old.
tim e politi-
clans gasp.
T n y b E.
Ii e v e M r.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
Words of Wise Men

It is the rule of rules, the law
Of laws, that every one should
observe that of the place where
he is.-Montaigne
Do not yourself do the things
which you are in the habit Of
blaming; it is an evil thing when
the fault of the teacher refutes
him.
The Washington times., 1934-10-29
There Are Times When Only
''Duty' Will Keep
You Going

What silly rot Is sometimes
written by the smartest folk.
Listen, for example. to that ia
nous philosopher. Bertrand Rus
sell, in his Conquest of Happi-
ness
"a SENSE OF DUTY IS
USEFUL IN WORK BUT OF
FENSIVE IN PERSONAL RE.
LATIONS."
Now that, I claim, is as
asinine and dangerous q state
The Washington times., 1934-10-29

Once more the "Kingfish,"
Senator Huey p. Long, has
tried to be Q big fish In . lit
The Washington times., 1934-10-29

Inc announcement made by
Senator James Byrnes CD of
South Carolina that he intended
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
FORB|DS
OUTSIDE WORK

Navy Department. and Navy
Yard workers were warned today
against acceptance of employ
ment outside of their naval du-
ties by Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy Henry L. Roosevelt.
Performing any outside work
might be in violation of NR4A
codes dealing with maximum
hours of employment, Colonel
Roosevelt informed the employees
in a letter distributed to all COM
mandants and commanding Off
GERS in the service.
The letter, pointing out that
most industries are operating un-
der an NRA code forbidding more
than 40 hours employment per
week, stated:
"EmpIOyeS shall be warned
against performing any work of
their trades or occupations for
private firms or individuals out
side of their established hours
of employment at the navy yard
or naval station which would
involve violation of the National
Industrial Recovery Act"
The letter was ordered diStrib-
uted to all branches of the naval
service throughout the United
States.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
BERRY CLARK
CASE DROPPED

Unable to obtain conviction in
four trials, all resulting in hung
juries, States Attorney Stedman
Prescott, of Montgomery county.
today nolle pressed all 81 indict.
mentS returned in 1882 against
Berry E. Clark, former clerk Of
the county commissioners, charg-
ing embezzlement of county funds
amounting to $4,000.
Each indictment was based on
alleged embezzlement of 5000 to
$500. Clark was tried three times
in Rockville and once in Ellicott
City.
After the second trial in Rock.
vile, Mr.. Prescott moved for a
change of venue, which was de-
MED. When the third trial also
resulted in a mistrial, he obtained
a change Of venue which was up
held on appeal. Mr.. Clark then
was tried in Ellicott City with
the same result.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
BOGUS MONEY
HOLDS Z MEN

Charged with passing counter
felt money, two men, arrested a
few days ago by Secret Service
operatives, were held today for
grand jury action following a pre-.
liminary hearing before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage. The case against a
third man was dismissed.
Major Montgomery, 43, arrested
Friday, was held under $4,000 bond
after being identified as the man
who passed two counterfeit half
dollars in restaurant in the 900
block Tenth st. N. w.
Walter Hardy, 80, of the 500
block Sixth st. N. w., arrested
the same day, was held under $5,-
900 bond following testimony Of
Ralph Mcguire, %, who stated
Hardy gave him $40 to buy meal.
Mcguire, arrested after the
waitress discovered the bill was
worthless, was released by COM
missioner Turnage and the case
against him dismissed. He will ap-
pear before the grand jury as a
United States witness. Hardy and
Montgomery both pleaded not
guilty,
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
NEW PURGE
REPOR7ED|N
GERMANY
230 More Are Slain BY Nazis,
London Hears, But Berlin
DiSCredits Stories

LONDON, Dec. q G.N.S0.
Two reports possibly from the
same source, stating that another
Nazi blood purge" had taken
place in Germany appeared in
London today.
Execution of 230 storm troops
and special blackshirt guard lead
ers during the first two weeks of
December, was reported in a
story in the Prague, CzechoSlo-
vakia, Waltbuhne, and quoted
in a Reuter- telegram from Paris.
The second account also came
through Paris, and was Splashed
over three columns in the London
Daily Herald, Socialist, anti
Fascist newspaper.
The Herald asserted that Major
Walter Buch, allegedly acting for
Gen. Herman Goering, head of
the Reich secret police, conducted
the purge, with Chancellor Hitler
remaining in the background.
Among those executed were the
recently deposed Governor H.
Bruckner of Silesia, according to
the London paper. 1t was stated
that Heinrich Himmler, leader of
the SIS (guard troops) had been
deposed, but it was not known
whether he was. executed.
Seventy-seven, hx Hitler's own
announcement, died in the purge
of June 30.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
j. s. ENVOY
DEF|ES 80
THREATS
Jefferson Caffery Still Rides
In Open Car, of a Bright
Color, in Havana

HAVANA, Dec. 27 QN.S).
More than so threats of violence
or death have been directed
against American Ambassador
jefferson Caffery in the past six
months, International News Ser
vice was reliably informed today
In recent weeks, the majority OF
the threats, obviously of Commun'
ist origin, have revolved around
the case of the ScottSboro negroes
in the United States, although
other matters also are involved,
with the Communists threaten
ing tn, envoy both if he should
act or if he should fail to act.
A few days ago five members
of the Cuban National Labor
Defense League were arrested on
the charge that they threatened
to bomb both the American EN-
bassy and the American Consul
ate if the ScottSboro prisoners
were not released.
Mr.. Caffery's life has been
threatened with the demand that
he bring about United States
Intervention to "save" Cuba, and
at the same time other factions
were threatening his life if he
did intervene. Yankee ~inperial-
ism" charges have been behind
Against the advice of friends,
Ambassador Caffery continues to
use his own open car Of a con-
Spicuous color in travelling about
Havana, although alarmed ma
tional police have provided one
of their new radio pursuit cars
to follow him wherever he goes.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

good husbands. He had taken
issue with the statement by DR..
Ida Spellman, British Phrenologi-
cal Society librarian.
They're Both Wrong"
Then DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, of the
Smithsonian Institution here,
comes into the picture and calls
both wrong. He chuckled and re-
marked:
"Of course, an idiot would
make the best husband because
he has nothing to say"
But DR.. Hrdlicka has gone into
the subject of the human head
(COrtinued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
IS KILLED IN ". VA. TRAIN BLAST
Rep. Bhnton
Says Police
Take Graft

Some members of the Metropol-
itan Police Department are tax.
ing graft from gamblers.
That statement was hurled to-
day by Representative Thomas L.
Blanton, CD), of Texas, and a
member of the District subcom'
mittee of the House Appropria.
tions Committee. He said:
"OUr Commissioners and our
Metropolitan Police Depart
ment should devise some system
that will definitely determine
what officers and what men on
the force are granting prOtec-
ton to the viOlatOrs of the law,
not only with respect to gam
bling, but as to all violations,
and remove such offenders i'm
mediately."
The Representatives charges
were made as a concerted effort
was being launched by Police
Chief Ernest w. Brown and mem
berS of the House District Com.
mittee to strengthen the District
gambling laws.
A movement was under way
today to have inserted in the Dis
trict gambling laws a provision
that possession of gambling para
phernalia is prima facie evidence
of guilt.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Problem Killers
Locked Up ByState

CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 27 G.N.S0
Willard Tschan and William
Lloyd Gruber, the problem" boys
who last July shot and killed
Ernest Schwartz, Pittsburgh gold
buyer, today were sent to differ
ent State institutions.
Tschan was sentenced to an in
definite term in the State Indus
trial School for Boys at Lancaster
and Gruber was committed to the
State Hospital for Criminal In
sane at Lima for one year.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Talking Movies
Credited to
u. s. Genius
By International News Service


American inventive genius
alone is responsible for the sue.
cess of sound motion pictures,
counsel for the Altoona Publix
Theatres asserted in a brief
filed in the $10O,OO0,O0O motion
picture patent suit in the Su-
preme Court today.
The brief was filed in an ap-
peal from a decision of the
Third Federal Circuit Court,
which held valid German pat
ents owned by a holding COM
pany of William Fox, former
motion picture theater mag
nate.
The appeal is backed by vir.
tually all major motion picture
companies which use sound
apparatus based upon Ameri-
can inventions.
The real basis of the suit,
counsel asserted, is a flywheel
device for regulating sound and
photograph speed.
The United States Patent Of
flee, it was asserted, refused
Thomas A. Edison a flyWheel
patent in 1879 when he was
improving the phonograph.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
:42|NJURED
AS ENGINE
BLOWS(P
Steam ScaIds Passengers;
Locomotive Boiler Hurled
Back on Coaches

POWELLTON. w. Va, Dec. q
GN.SD.-Disaster struck at an
isolated spot in Southern West
Virginia's mountain region today
and took q toll of 13 lives and
AZ injured when the locomotive
of a coal mine worktrain, loaded
with $50 coal miners, exploded.
The blast occurred as the train
was slowly chugging from Powell
ton to Medium along Armstrong
Creek, picking up mine employees
en- route to work in the No.
mine of the Elkhorn-Piney Coal
Mining Company.
Scalded by Steam
At least IL of the ~ injured,
most of whom were caught in a
gush of live steam belched from
the engines boilers, were not ex"
pected to live. First estimates
placed the immediate death toll
higher but only 13 bodies were
counted in the morgue at Mont
gomery, Is miles from here, where
the bodies of the victims were
taken.
Those in the Montgomery morgue
were identified as follows:
Bill Blankenship, engineer OF the
locomotive; Delmar Oxley, Jess
Persinger, William Haynes, Tom
Craft, Sam Runyon, Herbert
Leach, Steve Kozma, Bill Turner,
Pat Murphy and Rome Walton.
Two were unidentified.
Blast Hurled Boiler
C. R. Stahl, division superinten-
dent of the Elkhorn-Piney Mining
Company, who rushed here follow"
ing the explosion, said the tragedy,
which was marked by two blasts
in succession, was caused when
the cover of the firebox in the en-"
gine buckled and pulled loose the
boiler tube.
The boiler was ripped completely
off it's hinges and was hurled with
terrific force through the air,
hurtling down on top of the first
coach.
Most of those killed outright
were in the first coach, witnesses
said.
AS the boiler blew loose, steam
shooting back into the other
(Continued on Page 3, Col -
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
8 KILLED, AUTO
HIT BY TRAIN

ENFIELD, N. c., Dec. q GIN.
SD.-Death rode the rails here
last night, grinding out the lives
of three persons in a train-auto
crash at a nearby "blind" cross
ing.
The dead, instantly killed when
an Atlantic Coast Line passenger
train crushed their car into scrap
iron, were:
Mrs. Mary Woodward, Willie
Shaw, of Weldon, and Robert E.
Land, Is.
Edith Woodward, daughter of
the dead woman, was believed
dying from multiple injuries.
Wandell Lowe, 81, was less seri-
ously injured.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Are Flat-Heads Best
Lovers? Yes, and No

From Cleveland to Washington
to New York today there flared a
good-natured controversy on the
question:
Resolved: That fIatheadS-
real flat-headed men-make the
best husbands because they're
most romantic and most docile;
whereas their more athletic
brothers of higher intelligence
are more unstable emOtiOnally."
DR.. Louis j. Karnosh, noted
Cleveland psychopathologist, has
taken the affirmative. He con.
tends that flatheads make the
best lovers and are the most kind.
ly and comfortable; hence are the
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Report of Executions
DiSCredited in Berlin

ERLIN, Dec. 27 G.N.S0
Best-informed circles today dis
credited Paris and London re
ports of another Nazi purge.
A story of wholesale arrests and
executions of SA and SIS leaders
was branded a fake" possibly
growing out of more authentic ac-
counts of possible forthcoming re-
organization of the Reich standing
army.
Power of the storm troops has
been waning steadily and, accord
ing to the plan of Chancellor Hit
Ter, revealed yesterday by Inter
national News Service, it is
planned to merge them all with
the Reichswehr and police.
Three thousand picked special
guardsmen would remain as Hit
ler's guard, and 5000 to 10000
would form a Hitler division in
the ReichSWehr.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Charge of Beatings
Results in Divorce

BALTIMORE, Dec. q G.N.SO.
Mrs. Mabel v. Miller had won an
absolute divorce from Frank S.
Miller, jr., today and custody Of
her son, 4. She told the court
every time she asked her husband
for money he beat her, once on
the head with one of her shoes
"and broke the heel off,"
She testified she didn't leave
Mr.. Miller until 1931-two years
after their marriage, when he
hurled an iron at her.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
4 Children Die
In Fire at Home

MISHAWAKA, Ind, Dec. q
Q.N.SO.-Three children were
burned to death today when fire
destroyed the home of Harry
Harmon here. Mr.. Harmon, a
truck driver, put the oil in the
cHank case of his truck on the
kitchen stove to warm it. The
oil exploded and flames swept
the house. Betty, a; Esther, 2,
and Mayme, six months old, were
the victims.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Will Rogers
Says:

SANTA MONICA, Cal, Dec.
27.-WeII, Xmas is all over and
they say there was more buying
and more money spent than any
time in four years. Now comes
New Years, and along with 1t
comes New Years predictions of
our leading men. This year they
will read as follows, all Of 'em,
81 am an Optimist, and always
have been, but we must be as
Sured of no initiation and .
fair return on our investment.
If the Government will just lay
off us, everything will be fine"
Now watch New Years and see
how far this misses 1t. Yours,
WILL.
Copyright, 1894, by Mcknight
Syndicat0.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Leaves
For Home in West

PHILA DELPHIA, Dec. q
G.N.SD D.-Following touching
au revoir to his players and his
audience, Leopold StokowSki to-
day prepared to journey to his
California home, thence to the
Orient, with the future of his as.
sociation with the Philadelphia
Orchestra still in doubt.
Only one thing W. certain. The
veteran, blond-haired maestro will
return in September to act as a
guest conductor. The question of
whether he will negotiate q con-
tract for the 1867 season re-
mained dependent on the pro.
posed reorganization of the orches'
ira associations board of direc-
tors.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Two Probes Are On
In Crime Syndicate

TULSA, Okla, Dec. 81 G.N.SO
City police and county authorities
today were conducting independ.
ent Investigations of the youthful
"crime syndicate" brought to light
with the Staying of John Gorrell,
jr., by Philip Kennamer, son of a
prominent Federal judge.
Questioning of two witnesses
brought no apparent progress,
Sheriff Charles Price reported, in
the attempt to link the supposed
suicide of Sidney Born, jr., with
the Thanksgiving night Staying of
Gorrell and a fantastic extortion
plot in which Gorrell was said to
have been involved.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Price Fixing Ruled
Out By u. S. Court

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. q
G.N.SO.-Neither Congress nor
the President has the authority tc
fix or approve prices under the
NRA, even where interstate COM
merce is involved, Federal Judge
Merrill E. Otis ruled today in the
case of the Sutherland Lumber
Co., against which United States
District Attorney Maurice M. Mil
ligan sought an injunction for al.
legged violations of the price fixing
provisions of the lumber code Of
the NRA,
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
BETT TY Cow
QUESTIONED
BY JERSEY
Former Lindbergh Nurse to
Aid Prosecution in Case
Against Hauptmann
By DOROTHY DUCAS

ENGLEWOOD, N. j., Dec. ~
TN.SO.-Betty Cow, nurse to the
first Lindbergh baby, is back with
cher" family-the IindberghS and
the Morrows-becauSe in the
words of an intimate: They're
genuinely fond of the poor girl"
The pretty Scotch nursemald is
living in the great house on the
hill here until time to testify at
the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, &C
cused kidnaper and murderer. She
belongs there. At least, "her
family thinks so.
Proof of Faith
Nothing mysterious attaches to
the presence of the girl in that
home, according to a friend OF
the family. She is here as she
was once before, following the
birth of Jon Morrow Lindbergh.
second son of the famous tlier
and his wife. Whenever she
chooses to work as nurse maid,
she can find a place with them.
Proof of the family'S faith was
offered when Betty remained
through the months preceding
the birth Of Jon, to become joins
first nurse. She left the Lind
bergh employ only because she
herself was unhappy, obsesSed
with futile imaginings, worn
down with worries that all began
the same way: IF"
May Stay After Trial
It was strongly intimated by the
friend of the family that Betty
might remain on in EngleWood,
even after the trial. Perhaps her
nervousness will disappear if she
feels the kidnaper is no longer at
large.
Christmas with the Lindberghs,
in spite of the tree and celebra-
tion for Jon, was a quiet and far
from joyous occasion.
The crime of little Charles Aug
ustus' abduction and death and
the approaching trial never have
been discussed by the Lindberghs
or the Morrows in the presence
of anyone outside the family. But
said the friend:
1 won't say they don't think
about it. 1t was in evervOne's
mind ON Christmas Day. You
knew it, felt it, but it was not
mentioned. Nothing was done
to show that thoughts of the
trial were present at all"
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Airline Pilot Sets
New Speed Record

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. q
G.N.SO.-Flying on the wings on
a gale, Pilot Alfred S. Kalberer to-
day had set new Chicago-CleVe-
land air-speed record.
Clipping two minutes off the old
record, Mr.. Kalberer brought his
United Airlines plane with 10 pas
sengers, a crew of three, and sew
eral hundred pounds of express
aboard, from Chicago here in one
hour and 26 minutes, or an aV.
erage Of 222 miles per hour.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
First Lady Heads
KermeSS Program

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
head the list of patronesses for
the kermess to be held by the
knights of Columbus at the club
house next February, John Fran
els Hillyard, chairman of the pa
irons committee, announced to.
day.
The kermess will be one of the
outstanding events of the new
year and will be featured each
evening by the presence of famous
personalities as guests of honor.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Mother an Heiress;
Must Not Know It

BOSTON, Dec. q Q.E.S0-
Mrs. Mary w. Ireland, 7s, was
$4,000 richer today, but because
Of her infirmities she must never
know, by order of her physicians,
that it was because of the death
of her son, Chandler Wright Ire
land, New York interior decorator.
He was killed in an automobile
accident at Miami, Fla, Decemb ::
IS. His will was filed for probate
yesterday in New York.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
TO POWER POST

FREDERICK, Nd, Dec. 27 (spe
ciaD appointment of Walter E.
Sim, retiring States attorney for
Frederick county, as justice of the
peace to succeed Justice Sherman
P. Bowers, who will retire Decem-
ber 81, was made known today by
Governor Ritchie.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Liquor Wedding
VOided By Court

BALTIMORE, Dec. 27 0.N.SD.
Robert Fallano received an an
nullment of his marriage to De-
lores Fallano in the same court
when he said he didn't know he
had married her until a taxicab
driver congratulated him. He
testified he went out on a drink
ing party last September, met
the girl in a tavern and didn't
know he married her.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Chicago Jails 113
In Raid on BOOkies

CHICAGO, Dec. 81. G.N.S0.
With 113 men already under ar
rest, raiding police squads to-
day enforced the order of Com
missioner James Altman closing
all bookmaking establishments.
Patrons and employees alike
were seized in two alleged hand
books in the Loop district. All
were taken to police headquar'
ters for fingerprinting and photo
graphing. The two places were
running wide open, police
charged, in violation of the COM
missioner's orders.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
DRUNKS ON INCREASE

BOSTON, Dec. 27 G.N.S0.-
Police Commissioner Eugene c.
Huffman in his annual report to
Governor Joseph B. Ely today re.
vealed that 43,825 persons were
arrested for intoxication in Bos'
ton during the year ending No
vember 30, an increase of 1884
over the preceding year.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Carlin Doomed
For Postmaster

Among prominent Democrats
mentioned for the $500 job of
postmaster of Alexandria is C. C.
Carlin, jr., chairman of the Dem
ocratic committee of the city,
lawyer and publisher.
Postmaster Ferdinand Clinton
Knight has served since 1922.
His last appointment was con-
firmed by the Senate January Z,
1881.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
STAR VISITS WRITER

BOSTON, Dec. q G.N.SO.-In-
cognito, Frances idol of the
theater, Yvonne Printemps, came
to Boston from New York, spent
hours here as the guest of the
playwright Noel Coward, witness.
ed his latest play, and then de.
parted, it was learned today.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

If you wish to know the correct
time of day or night telephone
THE WASHINGTON MES,
District 1000,
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

Whenever you wish to know the
correct time of day or night tele-
phone District 1000, the office Of
THE WASHINGTON TIMES.
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Whenever you wish to know the
correct time of day or night tele-
phone District 1000, the office Of
The WASHINGTON TINES.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

Fair and continued cold tonight;
Friday ineTs0sing eIoudiness and
wdrmer, followsd by rain at night.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
Evening star., 1934-01-11
CARD PARTY ARRANGED
Southeast Citizens Benefit Will Be
Tomorrow Night.

Southeast Citizens Association will
hold card party tomorrow night at
w. W. Chambers Hall, SIT Eleventh
street southeast, for the benefit of the
associations exchequer. B. @. Ladd Is
chairman of the committee in charge
Future meetings Of the association
will be held in Chambers Hall, 1t has
been announced by William A. Maio
president of the association. The Exc
cutive Committee will meet January %
a:-d the regular association meeting will
be January 80, Mr.. Maio said.