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The Washington times., 1934-07-12
Southeast improvements
Militant Campaign Needed

Militant Campaign Needed
It will take more than adoption of indignant resolutions
to win for Southeast section the improvements recently
demanded by the militant residents of that
The souheasterners feel that they have been Disseminated
against in expenditure Of public funds and they maintain
that their section has been neglected while other sections Of
the city obtaining numerous improvements.
AS consequence they have met and adopted program
Of fourteen points which they demand be complied with by
the District Commissioners and other officials.
The program is modest.
THE IMPROVEMENTS WHICH ARE SOUGHT ARE
VERY APPARENTLY NEEDED FOR THE PROPER DE
vELOPMENT OF AN IMPORTANT SECTION OF THE
COMMUNITY. WHILE SOME OF THE ITEMS IN THE
PROGRAM WILL NOT MEET WITH GENERAL RESPONSE
IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT VIRTUALLY ALL OF THEM
REPRESENT THE CONSIDERED OPINION OF THE RE
sPoNs1BLE ELEMENT OF THE SECTION AFFECTED
Unfortunately power grant many Of the requests
does not rest with the District Commissioners every c
Of the District demanded the improvements the Comms
sioners would still be unable comply with the request
Many of the requests will have to to Congress while
others will be referred to Federal officials
On many of the requests of the Commissioners can
be of assistance to the southeasterners
AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE AND WHEREVER THE
REQUESTS ARE MADE IN GOOD FAITH FOR THE
ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECTION THEY
SHOULD HAVE THE SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION
OF THE COMMISSIONERS
But if the program any substantial part Of it, is to be
pushed through the residents of the section will have to fight
and fight hard
THEY WILL HAVE TO URGE THEIR DEMANDS PER
sIsTENTLY AND 1Ns1sTENTLY DAY IN AND DAY OUT
IN THE DISTRICT BUILDING, AT THE CAPITOL AND
AT VARIOUS FEDERAL OFFICES
That is the price which the citizens must pay for living in
votees community where the wishes Of the residents
little nothing to Government officials.
We hope the southeasterners will carry mitanty be-
the development of their section matter in which
not only they interested but in which all residents of the
city have lively and important stake.
The Washington times., 1934-07-12
Rip Van Wrinkle Wakes Up
And Finds 1884 Like 1914

And Finds 1884 Like 1914
An Austrian archduke assassnaed obscure Balkan
town twenty years ago. The World War followed shortly
thereafter
Recently Engshman H. N Braisford has been amusing
himself by imagining that he Rip Van Wrinkle just awaken
ing after twenty years sleep.
He finds the world not very different from what
June, 1914
There are Of course few puzzling changes There
half dozen countries Europe and the boundaries of
some OF the old have moved back forward many miles
There no Gear in Russia, Kaiser in Germany, EN-
peror In AuStra-and not much Austria.
But he reads that France and Germany increasing their
armies that Prussia batting the Jews that Russia growing
triender with Franceo offset Germany that France and
England have entente to safeguard Belgium that Japan
putting the China that China chaotic as usual
that there another coup deat Bulgaria and that warfare
American custom
Little if any, difference these respects be noted from
the prewar days.
So he asks, not unnaturaly When do we fight again?
That fair question And the only to that
question that Americans offer to stay home sit tight and
keep their powder dry.
Considering what got out of the last thou
sands OF dead and wounded several billions of debts
we cannot collect and the jealousy of most Of Europe and Asia
we-we may fit to mind business this time
Unless, OF course nation Of Rip Van Wrinkles and
have been sound asleep these twenty yeaEs.
The Washington times., 1934-07-12

At the request of President
Roosevelt the Aviation Commis-
sion, which he prevailed upon
the last Congress to authorize,
has begun it's labors by meet
ing in joint session with the
Presidents special air corps
committee, which Mr.. Roose-
welt had his Secretary of War
convene last April.
The purpose of these joint
sessions was to enable the
Aviation Commission. of which
the well-known editor and pub
Usher, Clark Howell, of Georgia,
is chairman to become &C.
quainted with the extraordinary
work that stands to the credit
of the committee of which
President Wilson'S Secretary of
War-Newton D. Baker, Of Ohio
is chairman.
Baker Report Soon
The Baker committee began
its study of aviation in its re-
lation to the national defense
and of military aviation in par.
ticular last April. It's work will
be completed within a fort
night. It's work will not be
taken over by the Howell COM
mission or by any other COM
mission, board or committee yet
to be appointed.
The report of the Baker COM
mittee will be submitted to the
Secretary of War and by him
turned over to the President
upon his return from Hawaii.
Just before leaving the White
House to start upon his At
lantic-Pacific cruise, Mr.. RooSe-
welt sent for the Baker COM
mittee to convey to them an
official expression of his deep
appreciation of the public SER
vice which has been rendered
by its distinguished chairman
and by the entire membership
of the committee, a majority
of whom are civilians.
The records Of the Baker
committee, including a mass of
highly confidential testimony
taken, which for national de-
fense reasons cannot be pub
lished, will be available for the
study of the Howell commits
sion.
The creation of the Howell
commission is due to the Presi-
dent. He preferred that the
last Congress should not enact
any new legislation governing
the operation Of the Federal
airmail. He preferrc to have
a comprehensive study Of this
and other aeronautical activi-
ties made by a commission on
orders to report to the new
Congress next year.
But the politicians who
wrecked the Federal airmal.
crippled American air transport
and wound up their reckless
venture by1sending 12 Of the
The Washington times., 1934-07-12
Sixteenth Federal Agency
Is Surveying U. S. Aviation
By James T. Williams, Jr.

best and braveSt military pilots
in the world to an unnecessary
death, were eager for a po-
litial alibi to use during the
congressional campaign.
These politicians, led by Sena-
tor McKellar Of Tennessee and
Senator Black of Alabama, in
sisted upon permanent legiSla-
tion and in the same measure
in. which they provided new
methods for the permanent
operation of the Federal airmail.
they provided also SIS, 900 for a
commission to be appointed by
the President to report recon.
mendationS next February for a
permanent aviation policy.
This was one Of numerous in
stances where the late and un-
lamented Seventy-third Congress
legislated first and investigated
afterward.
Senators; McKellar and Black
got their So-called permanent
airmail bill and President RooSe-
velt got a commission to inVesti-
gate the feasibility Of the main
provisions of the legislative mon
strosity which Mr.. McKellar and
Mr.. Black put through Congress
at the last session.
Had the Presidents wishes
prevailed, his Administration
would have been left with the
power to make nine-monthS con-
tracts by extensions and then
await the report Of the Aviation
Commission next February, be-
fore recommending to Congress
any further changes in existing
airmail laws.
Since Great War
The personnel of the Howell
commission bears witness to
the fact, however, that although
. Congress ignored the Presi-
dents wishes by legislating first
and providing for subsequent
investigation of the wisdom OF
its legislation afterward, Mr..
Roosevelt refused to submit to
the dictation of those legis-
lators responsible for this alb
surd situation.
Senator Black failed to get
his candidate for chairman or
member of the commission ap-
pointed either as chairman or
to a place on the commission.
And Secretary Roper's political
wrecking crew in the Bureau
of Aeronautics Of the Depart
ment Of Commerce failed to
prevent the unsuccessful can
diate of Senator Robinson Of
Arkansas for the dictatorship
Of that branch from being ap-
pointed secretary Of the PreSi-
dents Aviation Commission.
The Howell commission will
be the sixteenth Federal agency
to make q survey Of American
aviation since the Great War
ended in 1913.
Copyright, 1894, The Washington
TimSs)
The Washington times., 1934-07-12

ing to her vanity If he would
just try to ACT unhappy until
the front door clicked behind
him or until he had gotten his
car out of her garage.
A woman likes to finish things
off neatly and gracefully. She
doesn't want to be rushed
through anything-even a fight.
She wants to put on all the
finishing touches" She wants
to dramatic the parting and to
return the ring with a grand
gesture.
But your modern lover won't
even give poor old Love a few
last rites. Just filings a shovel
full of earth on the coffin and
rushes off to order the flow
ers-for the NEW heart"
It's premature burial-THATS
what!
When a man knows that he's
got to go through with some.
thing disagreeable. he wants to
get it over and done with as
quickly and painlessly as pos
Sible. And then he wants to
FORGET it! Next" as they
say in the barbershop.
In the good old sentimental
days when they pressed flowers
away in books and wept & er
The Washington times., 1934-07-12

Two arreSting facts spring
instantly from the passing of
that noble woman, Nine.
Marie Curie. The first was
that she was permitted to live
and die in poverty. The Sec
ond was that she was a martyr
to her own scientific labors. If
the head of the hospital in
which she got through with
life is to be believed, she was
killed by the very mysterious
element she, herself, discovered
-radium.
We learn that her only
means of support consisted of
a grant Of $2,500 a year from
the French government, surely
not a princely pension! The
woman who brought great glory
to France was rewarded with
a pittance, and even this pit
tance she spent mostly in her
scientific researches. She knew
that radium was killing her
so at least, says the physician
who treated her-but refused
to give up, treating her life
as of no Importance compared
to the possibility of some fasci-
mating discovery in her chosen
field of physics.
Great Scientist
And now she will lie in the
Pantheon, with her husband.
Pierre, peaceful and happy for
the first time in 80 years; for
the first time since her young
husband stepped out into the
street to have his life crushed
out by a passing vehicle.
Nine. Curie belonged among
the 10 greatest scientists Of the
world. She was the number one
woman of her generation. Even
at 81. little, white-haired Marie
Curie, clad in her neat, straight,
tailored suit of black, with white
blouse and black four-in-hand
tie knotted close to her slender
throat, worked IL hours day,
patiently delving into the myS-
terry of life.
She was not a French woman
born, for she was born in War
saw, Poland. Her amazing apti-
tude for physics and mathe-
maticS came from her father,
who was q professor in the Uni
versity Of Warsaw. An interest
ing example Of the workings Of
heredity.
AS a young girl she lived in a
Paris garret while she toiled
away at her studies. And one
day, at the home of her pro-
fessor. she met a rising French
physicist and chemist named
Pierre Curie.
It was one of those cases of
love at first sight. which sweeps
all obstacles from the path of
lovers. A year later they were
married. Both were as poor as
church mice. They had just
500 francs to the name. With
The Washington times., 1934-07-12
BIZ John Snure, J.

Uncle Dan" Roper, Secre-
tary Of Commerce, might find
it wise to hasten home from
the Pribilof Islands.
For, while the Secretary is
on the island famed for fur
bearing seals, it is reported
some Of his trained seals down
at the department are getting
out Of hand.
Assistant Secretary Of Com
merce John Dickinson Is said
to be teaching ROper's gang
some new tricks.
In the first place, DR..
Claudius T. Murchison, direc-
tor of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, is be-
ing left out of the show. When
Dickinson has some order or
communication to give to divi-
sion chiefs under the efficient
DR.. Murchison, he seldom con-
suits the director, but merely
deals directly with division
chiefs.
That may be proper accord
ing to DickinSon's views, but
DR.. Murchison thinks other
wise and being a canny Scot
may have something to say
about the matter sooner or
later.
In his capacity Of Assistant
Secretary, Dickinson has super
vision of the Foreign and
Domestic Commerce Bureau.
And takes full advantage of
the fact.
On the other hand, Assistant
Secretary Ewing Y. Mitchell
should have supervision of the
aeronautics branch. Ordinarily,
Director Eugene L. Vidal would
work hand in hand with Mitch
ell, but, from all reports, Vidal
prefers to work with Dickinson,
so that Mr.. Mitchell is left out
in the cool, if not out in the
cold.
It is also reported that some
thing is Matching in the Blu
reau of Fisheries other than
fish eggs.
Throughout the entire De-
partment there is evidence of
lack of cooperation among
those men who should cooper
ate and it is expected that the
lid will be blown off the place
before long.
So "Uncle Dan" Roper might
do well to hasten home for the
big show.
One Of the best known fig
ures around Washington in this
Administration is Admiral Cary
T. Grayson, former physician
to the late President Woodrow
Wilson.
Considered as likeable a man
as there is in the town he is
an able politician and a ia
vorite of both men and women.
Throughout the country he
is known for his love of horses.
Senator William Gibbs Nc
Adoo says that Grayson once
said:
"The outside of a horse is
good for the inside of a man."
And he didn't mean riding
on the Democratic donkey
necessarily.
The Washington times., 1934-07-12

Red-headed Leslie Craven,
general counsel to Joseph East
man, coordinator of railroads,
probably wears one Of the big
geSt hats in town.
His head size is of the type
that would give any halter
trouble when finding a suitable
adornment for the general coun-
sci who now holds forth at the
Interstate Commerce CommiS-
sion.
One thing may be said about
Craven. Unlike the usual man
with a big head, he has the
brains to fill it.
There was some speculation
about Craven when he was ap-
pointed to give aid to Eastman.
1t was believed he vas a dyed
in-the-wOOl railroad man with
the interests of the railways
predominant in his mind.
At one time he was counsel
for tie Railroad Presidents
Conference on Valuation and
it was believed that he was
thoroughly STEPPED in the ways
Of the common carriers.
A suggestion Of government
ownership Of the common car
riers probably would have sent
him into mysteries.
Times change, however, and
with such changes mems views
are altered.
Although Craven even now
would hesitate to advocate gov.
ernment ownership, he is some
what more agreeable when such
o suggestion is made.
In times of great national
stress, members of Congress
seem to forego a bit of their
personal ambition in the in
terests of public welfare.
In the recent Seventy-third
Congress only 9,968 bills were
introduced, which was the small
est number since the Fifty-third
Congress of 1893-1895.
The decidedly small number
of bills introduced shows plainly
the complete subsection of men,
berS of Congress to the Admin
istration. They knew they had
little chance Of passing bills not
approved by the President, so
failed to introduce them.
There is one thing the boys
did, however. They took care Of
those bills, called private bills,
which benefit some individual
or individuals in their districts.
They passed 436 private bills as
compared to 104 in the War
Congress.
A few years ago Republican
Congresses passed SIT private
bills, so perhaps the Democrats
were not so bad after all.
OF the bills introduced, how
ever, 976 laws and resolutions
were enacted. This number
greatly exceeded the total of
sos which passed the Congress
in the trying session Of the
Sixty-fifth Congress which de-
clared war and necessarily was
forced to pass wartime meas
ureS.
Copyright, 1894. The Washington
Iimes)
The Washington times., 1934-07-12
The Human Side of the News
Nine Curie Was Martyr to Science
BIZ EduUiH1 G.. Hill

a hundred of this combined CAPT.
tai they bought two bicycles
and spent their honeymoon dis
covering the outskirts of Paris.
They lived in a three-room
flat, blissfully happy, and
there the daughter, Irene, was
born. These were the happiest
days of Madame Curie's life. It
was in 1899 that Pierre and
Madame Curie discovered the
mysterious force which they
named radium.
The Nobel prize in physics
was awarded to them-in fact,
it was awarded twice to her
and for Madame Curie was
created a special chair in
physics in the Sorhonne, the
great, university of Paris.
And three years later came
the tragic blow which robbed
Marie Curie of her happiness.
Pierre was killed by a truck
as he started to cross a street
"a terrible stroke of fate to
this woman who was both a
distinguished scientist and a
loving wife and mother.
Nine. Curie paid two visits
to the United States, the first
in 1921 to receive a gram of
radium purchased for her by
the women of this country for
500, 900, and the second time in
1929 to receive a second gram.
In the eight years intervening,
her work had developed econo-
mics in production that reduced
the cost of a gram to $4,000.
Upon this latter occasion. she
was received at the White House
by President Hoover.
Dreary Days
She disliked romanticizing,
either her life or the dreary
days which she spent in patient
research with her husband. OF
those years, Paul Appel, presi-
dent Of the Academy of Paris,
wrote as follows:
IN. and Nine. Curie, not being
able to pursue their chemical ex-
perimentS in a school room
which had been placed at their
disposal, arranged for these in
a sort of abandoned warehouse
opposite their atelier. In this
place, with its asphalt floor, its
broken and patched glass roof,
hot in summer, heated by a cast
iron stove in winter, they per-
formed their wonderful work.
The equipment consisted Of some
old and worn deal tables, upon
which Nine. Curie prepared the
material for the production Of
radium.
The time has not yet come to
measure the Importance of
Marie Curie's principal dis
covery. Will radium or some
adaptation of its use eventually
end one Of the greatest scourges
Of humanity, cancer?
Copyright. 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.l
The Washington times., 1934-07-12
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

Byron. and kept locks Of hair
in the backs of their watch
cases, men were different. At
least they had a different tech
niQue.
In those times a romantic
young man positively reveled
in the role of a broken-hearted
swain and went about trying to
look as aggrieved as possible
and as sad as a funeral urn.
1t made all the other women
so kind and sympathetic and
understanding" 1t was a pic
turesque pose. His heart was
'in the grave" and every
woman had snatched a spade
and was digging around for it.
Many a hard-shelled bache-
lor went all through life posing
as the victim of a broken
heart; whereas, if you had put
a stethoscope on him you'd
probably have found that what
he called his heart" had no
more palpitation than a cold
boiled potato.
But love has no graveyard,
any more, where a damSel or
lover can go and weep bitter
sweet tears amidst the myrtle
and the rue. Lovers keep their
letters, their mementoes and
their old engagement rings in
the family safety vault.
And when a man is in the
marrying mood he isn't going
to let a little thing like the
loss Of ONE girl stop him.
The Washington times., 1934-07-12
Painless Heartbreak

Nothing seems to heal more
quickly in these days of light
ning-change love than a broken
heart. No matter how badly
lacerated a young mans affec-
tions, they appear to recover
and to be in perfect working
condition in a week or so.
No girl actually wants to make
a man unhappy by throwing
him over; but, after a bitter
quarrel and a smashed engage
ment, it would be more flatter-
The Washington times., 1934-07-12

published 1917
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The Washington times., 1934-10-20
POISON CHARGE
BEFORE JURY

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. Oct.
20.-The grand jury, in special
session today, took up the case Of
Edward C. Bell, church and civic
leader, charged with attempting
to poison his wife, Mrs. Madge
Bell.
DR.. John E. Cole, Mrs. Bells
physician, was the first witness
called by the jury, and was fol-
lowed by Mrs. w. A. Jones and
Miss Ruth Hill, nurses attending
Mrs. Bell.
commemorative Attorney Al
bert Bryan, of Alexandria, who is
conducting the case for the
State, presented the witnesses to
the grand jury.
Other witnesses who will be
summoned are C. P. Rector, Fred
erickSburg druggist; Thomas
Balthis, of Richmond, State chem
list, and Rebecca BurruS, colored
cook in the Bell household.
Mr.. Bell, who is at liberty I'M
der $4,000 bond, has been in
structed to remain away from his
own home and has been staying
with his brother.
Mrs. Bell has visited him there
several times, it was revealed, and
the family declared they are con-
Vinced of his innocence.
The Washington times., 1934-10-20
WIN
BRIDGE MEET

LONDON, Oct. 20. 0.N.SJ.
Ely Culbertson's team of Ameri-
can contract bridge experts
emerged today with a we'll
earned victory over a British
team at the end of a five-day
match for the Charles M.
Schwab international trophy.
The final scores for the 300
hands played were, United States
91,650; Great Britain 88,050.
Most Of the American winning
margin, $500 points, was amaSsed
yesterday. At one point the
Americans, defenders of the
trophy, were more than 5000
points behind.
The American team was COM
posed of Mr.. Culbertson, Mrs.
Culbertson. Theodore A. Light
ner, and Albert Morehead. Their
British opponents were S.
Hughes, H. Ingram, r. Lederer,
and r. Rose.
The Washington times., 1934-10-20
By DAVID P. SENTNER

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 20 GIN.
S).-The amended 'Lindbergh
law" the Governments big stick
to club down the kidnapping racket,
was used for the first time today
when a special grand jury con-
Sidered a joint indictment of the
Robinson family, Thomas H. jr.
and ST., and the formers wife,
Frances, for the kidnapping of Mrs.
Alice Stoll.
The law provides a maximum
penalty aaf~the event a
victim suffered injury during an
abduction across a State line. Mrs.
Stoll was struck by young Robin
son when he abducted her from
her home.
Among the witnesses called into
the grand jury chamber was Mrs.
Stoll. It was her first excursion
into the outside world since she
was safely returned Tuesday after
six days captivity in an Indian
apolis hideaway.
Melvin Purvis, Chicago ace Fed
eral agent, directing the hunt for
the younger Robinson, also was a
witness. Mr.. PurviS is the man
who "got" John Dillinger, another
Will-o':the:Wisp.
The Washington times., 1934-10-20
Appeal Right Held
Barrier. to Justice

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 20 U.N.S).
The right of appeal yesterday was
declared by Federal Judge Faris
to be lone of the greatest evils
of all courts" He said:
ut does more than anything
else to delay the administration
of justice"
Judge Faris declared right of
appeal from trial court decisions
should be determined solely by
higher courts instead of being au.
tomatically allowed as at present.
He allowed an appeal by the ST..
Louis Can Company on dismissal
of a reorganization petition, he
said, so higher court could de.
termine whether the Ease was ap,
pealable.
The Washington times., 1934-10-20
Coroner Probing
Bathroom Death

Death of Randolph Thomas
Johnson, 81, butcher shop oper-
ator, in his home in the 5000
block Fourth st. N. w., was
under investigation today by the
District of Columbia coroner.
Mr.. johnson was found dead
in the bathroom of his house,
pistol in his hand and a
bullet through his heart.
Mr.. johnson is survived by his
widow and two children!