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The Washington times., 1934-10-13
How to Obtain Loans
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The Washington times., 1934-10-13
RETIRING FUND
ROW CROWS

The row over the alleged short
age in the Government retirement
fund today took on all the aspects
Of a good comedy, with the Amer
lean Federation of Government
Employees shouting on the one
hand, 1T is" and the Civil Ser
vice C o m issi IN proclaiming
equally as loudly, 1T isn't"
The Civil Service Commission
issued a statement yesterday deny
ing the allegations of E. Claude
Babcock, president of the A. F. G..
E., that the fund would be $780,
100000 short if all Civil Service
employees were to ask for their
money at the same time.
Quick as a flash, the A. F. G. E.
came out with counter-state-
ment, quoting from the commits
sion'S own report, as follows:
"The percentage of disburSe-
ments to receipts since the
fund was established has been
only so per cent, but disburse-
ments for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1884, were IS per
cent of receipts and estimated
disbursements for the present
fiscal year are SO per cent Of
receipts.
"If this progression continues
it is clear that very soon dis
burSements will exceed receipts,
possibly very greatly"
On the other hand, the com.
mission reports that every Gov
ernment worker can draw from
the fund at any time all the
money he or she has paid into 1T.
The commission admitted Shere
would be a shortage of $50, 9,l3s,.
357 if all employees demanded
the 4 per cent interest to which
they are entitled.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
NATION CHEERS
BOY KING
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doorway Of his car smiled shyly
at his subjects. He was dressed
simply in grey, with black band
on his sleeve.
General Damitrojedvich. mar
shall of the royal court, stepped
forward from the crowd of well
coming notables. and assisted
Peter to alight. Then he led the
somewhat embarrassed lad by the
hand to inspect his guard OF
honor and receive the report Of
the commandant.
Belgrade Enthusiastic
Meanwhile Belgrade, slowly re-
covering from the shock of Alex
ander's death, came back to life
again and gave way to almost
unparalleled scenes of enthus-
iasm in honor of King Peter.
Throngs in the street, hailing
brilliant sunshine after three days
of rain as a happy augury, were
jubilant. Among the thousands
jamming the streets were many
peasants garbed in their pictur-
esque national costumes. Some of
them had travelled from the most
distant parts of the country to
greet the new King.
After inspecting his guard Peter
piped in a small, boyish voice the
traditional greeting, God help
you," to which his honor guard
chanted: God help you!"
King Peter turned a solemn
face. and one also a little troubled,
to greet the crowd of generals, and
then kissed the hand of the patri.
arch, who blessed him and caressed
his head.
He was slight little figure, al
most hidden in the center of his
escort, but Peter nevertheless i'm
pressed everyone with his quiet,
solemn, and almost distinguished
bearing.
The three regents who will rule
for King Peter until he becomes
of age, Prince Paul. his cousin, and
two commoners, made a ceremo-
nial offering Of bread and salt
and then knelt and solemnly
kissed the hand of the child.
Next artillery guns thundered a
salute as the royal procession set
out for the palace.
AS King Peter proceeded toward
his automobile his troops cheered
Long live the King!" Long live
King Peter!"
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
SWITZERLAND

GENEVA, Oct. 13 G.N.SO.-The
possibility of convocation of an
extraordinary session Of the
League of Nations council as a
result of the MarSeille assassina.
tions was developing today, &C
cording to reports in Jugoslavian
circles.
These sources declared the su-
preme council of the Little En-
tente will meet in Belgrade imme.
diately after the funeral of King
Alexander. At this meeting Ru-
mania and Jugoslavia would au-
thorize Czechoslavakia, the third
member of the entente and its
representative in League affairs,
to convoke an extraordinary seS-
sion.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13

tlcal, is understandable, ana W
per cent of the population is OF
Slavic blood.
Difference in People
Alexander's Serbs, however, are
in religion Greek Catholics and
in culture Eastern. His Croat
and Slovene subjects belong to
the Roman Catholic Church and,
as former subjects of Austro,
Hungary, enjoy Western culture.
Alexander suppressed his non
Serb subjects, and they hated
him. One of them killed him.
This, it has been assumed, might
be a signal for an uprising. II
it were, Jugoslavia naturally
would be weakened.
United Jugoslavia could mobll,
ize 2,05OOO0. Jugoslavians are
notoriously good fighters. Two
million of them are too many
for anybody to want to take on.
But, disunited, Jugoslavia might
be tempting prey. For whom?
Three Curious Ones
For three countries: Italy,
Hungary and Bulgaria. These
are the three neighbors Of Jugo-
slavia who might be presumed to
want some of Jugoslavia's terri
tory.
In the postwar treaties, Bull
garia lost a strip of land to
Jugoslavia. Hungary lost much
larger section. Both want to get
back what they lost.
Much more important, however.
is the fact that Italy was promised
at the 1919 peace conference in
Paris a long strip of territory
which at present is Jugoslavian,
namely the Dalmatian coast. and
she never got it. 1taly's claim on
Jugoslavia is more significant
than Bulgaria's and Hungary S
merely because Italy is strong
enough to make her claim felt.
Reasons for Shock
No dictator likes to hear of
aSsasSinations. but Mussolini had
many other reasons to be shocked
by the murders, which upset his
plans for bringing about a per-
manent understanding with his
one-time opponents, France and
Jugoslavia.
Despite the arguments the fact
remains that if Jugoslavia were
to crumble and Italy would be
tempted to march into Jugoslavia
to take Dalmatia, Germany, as
your correspondent learns today
from an authentic source, would
march into Austria.
Perhaps Germany would not
at first send her own army into
Austria. but she certainly would
let the Nazi Austrian Legion"
into Austria. That would mean
a full-sized, adult war with Italy
France Would March
It would also mean that France
would in all probability march
into Germany. That would mean
war for all of Europe. Nobody
wants that kind of grown-up
trouble. Nothing in Jugoslavia
is worth 1t. Hungary and Bull
garia are not strong enough TO
start it. Italy is too wise to
do it.
Nevertheless there are 26 days
yet to go. If no Italian consul
has been murdered and no Italian
citizen hanged upon a lamp-post
in Jugoslavia, and if that country
has not yet broken up into civil
war by November 8, then it will
be safe to say that this crisis has
been survived and that peace has
been preserved until the next
murder
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
Wisconsin to Give
Work to Needy

MADISON. Wis. Oct. 13.-Ap-
proximately $4,000 Wisconsin farm
families will be taken from public
relief rolls and the family heads
put to work on productive land
and in idle factories by the Wis
consin Rehabilitation Corpora
ton.
This corporation. just organized,
proposes to open long-closed fac
tories and put rural indigents to
work making chairs. beds, tables.
mattresses and similar articles
that can be used by other families
on relief rolls.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
STORY REVEALS
MOVEMENTS
Of GANG
Meant to Take Other Member
of Family, But Needed
Victims Plea, Claim
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ficed herself to save her hus-
bands life. She was spirited
from her Lime Kiln Lane home
Wednesday as a willing victim.
Thus she played a role the kid.
naper had intended to force
upon another member Of the
Stoll family.
"Other revelations were:
The $4,000 ransom de-
manded by the kidnaper was
sent Friday to destination in &C.
cOrdance with instructions in
the ransom note.
"The packet was exactly as
the ransom note directed"
"The receivers name on the
package was a fictitious one,
supplied in the ransom note.
"The note specified that the
kidnaperS-the term was plural
throughout the note, although
only a single kidnaper was seem
and the victim would agree upon
q mutual acquaintance to re-
ceive the money.
"a blank was left in the note
for the name of the city to
which the money was to be
sent, not necessarily the city in
which the intermediary to be
named would live.
CHANGES MADE
"A name and address were
written into this blank with a
pen, indicating a change of
mind on the part of the kid
naper.
"The intended victim, men,
toned several times in the note,
was neither Mrs. StOll nor her
husband, Berry v. Stoll.
"The name of the victim was
scratched out each time with a
pen and Mrs. StOll'S name writ
ten in.
"The alterations we're made
In lOnghand. Apparently
good part of the time the kid
naper spent in the Stoll home
was consumed by these changes.
"Mrs. StOll informed the kid
naper that the person he
sought did not live at her
home. He insisted the person
would be there some time
Wednesday aftern DON and
waited.
THREATS TO KILL
Mrs. StOlI then warned him
to leave, because my husband
will be home any minute
"I'lI kill him if he comes be.
fore I'm through was the re-
SpOnSe. 1t was this that caused
Mrs. StOll to persuade the kid
naperS. to take her.
Sewing in finally to Mrs.
StOll's pleas, the kidnaper al
tered the note, placed it in a
plain, white envelope and left it
on the living room floor. She
walked to the car with him and
climbed in. She was not car.
ried."
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
RUSSIA

MOSCOW, Oct. 13 G.N.SO-A
special high commemoration SER
vice for the slain French Foreign
Minister, Louis Barthou, was held
here today in the French chapel,
in the presence of the entire diplo-
matte corps. Bishop Niveu, of
France, officiated. John C. Wiley,
American charge d'affaires, repre-
sented the American embassy. In
accordance with a ruling that no
official of the Soviet foreign office
can attend a religious ceremony,
there was no representative Of
that office present.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
CANADA

MONTREAL, Oct. 13 G.N.SO.
Dolores Lopez, Spanish night club
dancer, was adjudged criminally
responsible today by a coroner's
jury for the death of William
Owen, bond man for a Montreal
brokerage house who was stabbed
to death in her apartment.
A few hours after Mr.. Ovens
death the dancer was picked up
in a Montreal suburb by police,
whom, she allegedly told she had
knitted Owen in self.defence.
Owen was employed wears ago
as a clerk in the British war office.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
Hoover Is Winner
In Student Poll

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. 13.
Yale undergraduates are staunch
Hooverites. according to a poll Of
collegiate opinion of the New Deal,
published in the Yale Record,
humorous undergraduate maga-
zine released today. On the ques-
ton, How would you have voted
in 1892" the Hoover supporters
numbered 956, the Roosevelt, $40,
and the Thomas, 100. There were
557 who said they favored the
policies of the Administration and
1,006 who voted against them.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
n. C.. Club to Hear
Ehringhaus Here

Approximately 1000 former
residents of North Carolina will
hear Gov. John c. B. Ehringhaus
address a meeting of the North
Carolina State Society at the
Shoreham Hotel November 10.
Comdr. o. C. Foote, president, an
nounced a large delegation from
Baltimore will attend the meet
ing, which is in honor of Cover.
nor and Mrs. Ehringhaus.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
News Of
The World
ARGENTINA

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 13.-Ad
dressing more than 100000 Catho
lies in Palermo Park this evening
Joseph Scott, of Los Angeles, made
a stirring plea for religious unity
Scott said:
"Let us resolve that there will
be no North America, no South
America, but from the Arctic to
the Antarctic and from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic, let the
nations be united in the gIorifi.
cation of God"
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
Aged Woman Killed
By Hungry Coyotes

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 13 1.N.So.
The flesh devoured by hunger.
crazed coyotes, the skeleton OF
Mrs. Guadalupe Rotenhousler, IS.
was found on the desert near here,
it was reported today.
The ravenous animals, driven
out of the mountains by lack 0f
food. apparently had attacked the
aged woman as she walked through
a desolate mesquite region.
Sheriff John F. Belton found
the skeleton after Mrs. Rotenhous.
Ter had been reported missing for
more than week.
This is the first time coyotes
have been known to attack per
SON
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
Budget of Church
More Than Deficit

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Oct. 13
U.N.SD-The Protestant Episco-
pal Church is facing a deficit of
one million dollars but proposes
to spend $2,70O,OOO next year, &C.
cording to budget figures presented
at the fifty-first triennial conven.
ton Of the church here by the
Rev. DR.. Lewis B. Franklin of New
York, vice-president and treasurer
of the national council.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
HELD AS FORGER

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 13 G.N.SO.
James H. Langdon, AZ, who testi-
fled he served term in a Mon.
tana prison for forgery, was held
for court here today on charges
of forgery, larceny and false pre-
tense.
Police accused Langdon, who
came here from Chicago recently,
of passing eight worthless checks,
drawn for a total Of $85, on Pitts.
Iburgh stores. Al
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
SUGAR JOB FOR WELLS

Maj. Gen. Bryant H. Wells, re-
Gently retired, has become secre-
tary-treasurer of the Hawaiian
Sugar Planters Association, 1t
was announced here yesterday.
At the time Of his retirement
Gen. Wells was in command OF
the Hawaiian Department Of the
United States Army.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
GERMANY

BERLIN, Oct. 13 G.N.SO.-In-
dicative of apprehension over a
possible attempt on the life Of
Chancellor Hitler. the government
today banned gatherings in front
Of the Fuerher's office in the Will
helmstraSse.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
By H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright. 1894. by International
News Service)


ROME. Oct. 13 1.N.SO
"Twenty-six days. Wait until No,
vember g."
That is the only possible answer
to the question every foreign min
lister, every hotel porter, every
head of a government, and every
taxi driver in Europe is asking
today.
They are all asking. will Mar.
seille be another Sarajevo?" They
are all asking, will war come be-
cause King Alexander and For.
eign Minister Barthou were killed
at Marseille October 9, 1884, as
Archduke Francis Ferdinand was
killed at Sarajevo June 18, 1914?"
Close Comparison
Always the comparison is made
between Marseille and Sarajevo
because it was an assassination
that detonated the great war and
this year is the twentieth ami.
verSary of that dread event and
every assassination of this tragic
year has inevitably evoked the
same question.
But those who ask the question
today forget that 80 days elapsed
between the murder of Francis
Ferdinand and the outbreak of
the war. Only four days have
elapsed since the murder Of Alex
ander and M. Barthou. Sarajevo
in 1914 established the principle
that 80 days is the period of gesta-
ton for modern war. TWenty-six
days must yet go by before one
can predict with a reasonable de-
gree of assurance what will come
out of the crime at Marseille.
The events of these four days
cannot possibly determine whether
war or peace will ensue. The
bodies of Alexander and M.
Barthou are not yet in their
graves, and already the voices
which shouted, This means war;"
on the day they were killed. are
today declaring, mo war will
come" Neither prediction can be
JuSC1lleQ AT IIllS LlOulcuC.
Peace Seems Logical
Nevertheless, the weight OF
logic is on the side of the pres
ervation of peace. This is be-
cause of the following: If Italy
marched, Germany would march
If Germany marched. France
would march. italy does not want
Germany to march. Germany
does not want France to march.
Therefore, if the nations con
cerned are governed by national
consideration, nobody will march
and there will be no war.
This is the set-up that could
lead to war:
Alexander was a Serb. He was
dictator over a country about
half divided between the Serbs
on the one side and Croats and
Slovenes on the other side. The
chief tie among these people is
language, which, though not iden'
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
RULES
ON MUTUAL
MORTGAGES
$4,000 Limit Set on Loans;
Setup to Be Complete
BY November

BY November
This is another of a series OF
articles on the Federal Housing
Administration. The Washington
Times is the only newspaper IN
the United States giving complete
information about this project.
BY JOHN DEAN MILLIGAN
Requests have been pouring in
for a recapitulation of the infor.
nation that has been published
in this series of articles on the
mutual mortgage plan"
Here goes:
The rules for the mutual
mortgages" will be announced by
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton during the first week of
November. This date is many
weeks earlier than most observers
believed would be possible, and is
another proof of the efficient and
capable organization with which
Federal Housing Administrator
James A. Moffett has surrounded
himself.
$4,000 Limit Set
The national housing act pro-
vides that the mutual mort
cages" shall not call for an
amount in excess of $4,000 or
in excess Of 80 per cent Of the
total valuation of the improved
property upon which they are
placed.
It is also provided that they
shall not bear more than per
cent interest. except when the
housing administrator rules that
they may call for 6 per cent in
specific localities; that they shall
be amortized over a period not
exceeding 20 years; that they
shall be involved only with eco
nomically sound purposes. and
that they shall be repaid in peri
odic installments.
In connection with these in.
stallments, the Federal Housing
Administration will issue regula-
tions that the payments shall Ee
paid monthly.
Further Definitions
To return to the national
housing act: 1t further states:
"(a) The term mortgage
means a first mortgage on real
estate in fee simple or on a
leasehold ~ under a lease for
not less than 80 years which is
renewable, or ~ under a lease
having a period of not less than
so years to run from the date
the mortgage was executed,
upon which there is located a
dwelling for not more than four
families which is used in whole
or in part for residential pur.
The provisions above the tenure
which the mortgagor-the person
upon whose property the mortgage
is put-must hold upon the prop
erty are obvious. The provisions
about the dwelling for not more
than four families" will. however,
be interpreted as follows:
A residence as such is applicable.
So is a building, containing not
more than four family dwelling
units, in which there is both a
home and business property. Busi-
ness property not under one roof
with a bona fide residence is out
laWed.
Whether or not an individual
apartment may be bought under
a mutual mortgage" in a cooper
ative apartment has not yet been
ruled upon.
Mondays article Uill continue
this recdpitulGtion OF the intor-
nation The Washington Times
has been publishing on the
mutual mortgage plGn." The
Washington Times is the only
publication in the United States
Which has giUen authoritative
adudnce information about this
plan, and future articles 1DM
continue to proUide information
that is available noDhere else.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
TREASURY CONDITION

Treasury balance as of October
II, $2,112,216,OSo.11; internal
revenue, $4,S71 ,246.43; custom
receipts, $12,O62.056.57.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13
VORTEX OF HATES, FEARS
FOLLOWS ASSASSINATION
Of KING ALEXANDER

Editors Note: The question
will War Gomez" discussed bril-.
HGntly By H. R. Knickerbocker,
International NeWS SerUice staff
correspondent, in a recent series
of articles coDering all of Europe,
again is thrust before a shocked
1Uorld by the assassination OF
King Alexander of JugoSlGviG at
M1rSeille this week.
"WM MGrseille be another
SdrGjeUo?" Twill War Gomez"
These questions occur to US 1u.
tonGticGlly as a result OF the as.
S1SSin1tion. Mr.. KnicEerbocker
discusses them today.
The Washington times., 1934-10-13

This is another of a series OF
articles on the Federal Housing
Administration. The Washington
Times is the only newspaper in
the United States giUirg complete
information about this project.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
A Serious Word to the
Socialist Party
By EARL BRoWDER

General Secretary Communist Party u. A.
THE Communist Party recently addressed letter to the
Socialist Party Convention at Detroit proposing imme
date practical steps for the formation of the United Front
on tine life and death questions that confront the work
ing class
1t defend and advance the best interests of the
working class that this proposal made to the Socialist
National Convention.
But the convention did not answer this proposal In
stead referred the matter to the newly elected National
Executive Committee
Up to the present moment, however this newly elected
National Committee consisting of people under the leader
ship of Norman Thomas and considering themselves left
wing contrast the Wadmans Cahans Pankens of the
"Od Guard this committee has also fit to wholly
ignore the United Front letter of the Communist Party
Thus far there has been answer either positive
negative.
THE Revolutionary Policies Committee in the Socialist
Party which declares itself to the left than the
Thomas wing supporting the Declaration of Principles
has eveed stringent criticism against the Communist Party
for united front policy
This group accused of fighting solely for united
front from beowwthou the Socialist Party leaders and
against these leaders.
If by this is meant that oppose that specious and
false kind of united 'front.' which consists merely of endless
Continued Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
Protests Balk
Jersey City
Cop Terror
Acting Mayor Comedies
Right of Workers
To Picket

JERSEY CITY, N. j., July 49,
The crushing effectiveness of mill
tant, well-organized mass protest
again become evident when Acting
Mayor Arthur Potterton announced
today that the city administration
had decided to modify its policy"
toward the pickets of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union and other
organizations now conducting strikes
in the city.
This policy has consisted so far
in ruthless arrest of pickets or other
workers who dared to engage in any
open action to defend their working
conditions or their right to organize.
Potterton admitted that the ad-
ministration's reluctant about face
which he accompanied by hypocri-
teal denials of police terror, was the
result of barrage of postcards sent
to city hall from all parts of New
Jersey.
The postcards were printed and
issued ly the New Jersey State
Committee Against Terror and for
Workers Rights organized by the
International Labor Defense and
other local New Jersey workers
organizations.
The rank and file of American
Federation of Labor unions in New
Jersey, added their weight to the
campaign by compelling the Gen.
trail Labor Council to pass resolu-
ton against Hague's police terror.
Meanwhile members of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers are
planning to. set up pickets at the
factory Of the Globe Shoe Company
As Morris st. Members of the Up
holsterers International Union, Local
90 and those Of the international
Wood Carvers Association have
Joined the Furniture Workers In
dustrial Union in their strike.