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BANK ROBBER PAROLED

Nick Snyder Of Devils Lake, about
IS. convicted Nov. II, 1870. for rob-
berry Of the darske bank, has been
paroled from the state penitentisry.
H Vas released Wednssday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-17
Advances In Planes and Equip.
ment Took Much Of DAM
ger From Program
NIGHT FLYING BEGUN IN 20
Leg From Chicago to Cheyenne
Gave First Test to Post
office Plans

This story, written by one OF the
nations foremost aviation auth
critics. Is the second Of q series
of four on the history Of Of the
airmail. its romance, its amazing
progress, and its scandals, revela-
ton Of which threatens a great
setback to the aviation industry.
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The Washington times., 1934-03-20
STIR
SENATE FIGHT

A Senate battle over imposing
higher surtaxes on big incomes
was assured today after Senator
LaFollette (R) of Wisconsin, in
troduced a new schedule Of sur
taxes as an amendment to the
Administrations tax bill.
The LaFollette scale would
start with 6 per cent surtax
on unearned incomes between
$4,000 and $4,000. The Admins
tration bill would impose a sur
tax Of only 4 per cent on this
class of income.
The LaFollette rates would go
to a maximum of II per cent
Of the unearned income in excess
of $1,000,O00. The Administra-
ton bills maximum was SO per
cent.
Senator LaFollette also pro-
posed a normal tax of 6 per cent
on income in excess of credits.
The Administration bill would
impose a normal tax of 4 per
cent.
The Senate Finance Committee
is holding morning and afternoon
sessions in a hope Of completing
the bill this week.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
PUBLIC CPR|NTE
DUE SOON

Early action on the nomination
Of a Public Printer was forecast
today by Postmaster General
James A. Farley, chief patronage
dispenser Of the Administration.
Although Mr.. Farley has been
putting off the naming Of a sue.
cessor to Public Printer George
H. Carter, ever since the begin
ming of the Administration. he
said the nomination will come
through now sooner than !
expected"
On other local appointments
he said he is not anxious to inter
vene with District officials. 1t
was said by one of his assistants,
however, that Mr.. Farley wants
the Commissioners to "bear in
mind that this is a Democratic
Administration"
Mr.. Farley also stated that
Miss Mary w. Dewson, director
of the women's division of the
Democratic national committee
is attempting to secure the ap'
pointment of a Democratic woman
to succeed Miss Sibyl Baker, direc'
tor of District Fairgrounds. Miss
Bakers removal has been asked
on the ground that she is said
to be a Republican.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
WOMEN BATTLE
GARNETTED|CT

The Business and Professional
Women's Club Of the District Of
Columbia today Joined the fight
against District Attorney Leslie
c. Garnett, who has decreed that
he will have no women assistants
in his office because they make
him nervous.
In a letter to Representative
Mary T. Norton CD of New Jer-
sey, chairman of the House Dis
trict Committee, the club in
formed the committee head Of &C
tion taken in which the organiza-
ton favors the appointment of
IAN able and well qualified
woman assistant district attorney
for the District"
Last week the Women's Bar AS
Sociation held a stormy meeting
in which they denounced the dis
trict attorneys stand, and ad-
vocated that he follow the policy
of former District Attorney Leo
A. Rover by appointing two
women assistants.
The fight on the district attor-
ney was later Joined by Miss
Mary w. Dewson, director Of the
women's division Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, who
voiced opposition to Mr.. Gar
nett's stand as "antiquated."
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
SILVER BLOC'S
LEADERS SURE
Of VICTORY
Reconciliation Drive Pushed
In Congress on Strength
of Dies Bill Vote
By International News Service

Encouraged by their smashing
victory in the House on the Dies
bill, leaders of the congressional
"silver bloc" today planned an
intensive drive for remonetiza-
tion legislation this session.
The House vote of 257 to 112
was even greater than predicted
by the most ardent members Of
the "silver bloc" who construed
it as a direct request to the
Administration to pave the way
for silver legislation.
Reconciliation Sure
Speaker Henry T. Rainey,
whose advocacy of silver dates
back to the William Jennings
Bryan days, declared silver re.
monetization is assured.
"The vote was surprisingly
large" said Rainey. "It is an
evidence Of the overwhelming
desire Of the House to have
silver made part Of our cur.
rency system.
'Tt means that silver IegisIa-
tiOn is coming sometime in
the future"
While President Roosevelt's
action in sending Prof. James
H. Rogers to the Orient to study
the silver question was inter-
preted in many quarters as an
indirect request for Congress to
let silver alone until next year.
the agitation is expected to in
crease.
The next move of the House
"silver bloc" is to back the bill of
Representative Fiesinger CD Of
Ohio, which has been approved by
the House coinage committee.
Exchange Provided
The Fiesinger measure, more
far-reaching than the Dies bill,
which provided for exchange of
American farm products for
foreign silver at a Is per cent pre-.
MUM, is a measure to protect the
gold standard by establishing an
auxiliary reserve of silver, provid.
ing for purchase of up to a billion
and a half ounces of silver.
1--WE will ask the rules com.
mittee for a rule to bring the
bill before the house," said Rep
reSentative Fiesinger. ''The vote
in the house yesterday is an in.
dicatiOn Of the interest in the
the silver question"
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
3 3F|NANCE BILLS
REACH SENATE
By International News Service

ny AutoEuhbAOHSA CNC"D OCEEAC0
Three bills, chiefly pertaining
to financing of private business
and industry, were in the hands
of the Senate Banking Commit
tee today.
They were the Administrations
measure to set up IL credit banks
and two bills submitted by the
RFC.
One of the RFC bills would
permit loans from that body to
commercial enterprises and also
would finance international i'm
ports and exports. The other,
which has been approved in prin-
ciple by the committee, in
creases by $50,000,0OO the amount
that may be lent by the RFC
for reorganization of irrigation
and drainage projects and facili-
tates credits for railroad COM
panies which have passed through
reorganization or receiverShips.
Senator Fletcher (D0 of Flor
ida, committee chairman, said the
committee would consider the
measures at a meeting tomorrow.
The committee was expected to
favor the Administrations credit
bank program to loan money to
business and industry over the
plan Of the RFC.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
IS DOORS TO NSULL, NOW PRISONER AT SEA-
Lindys DweH
In Penthouse
Apartment
Copyright, 1894, International News
Service.)

Copyright 1884, International News
Service.)
NEW YORK, March 20.-Close
to the skies across which they
have etched their names, the
Lindberghs have established a new
home atop a New York city apart
ment house.
Several weeks ago, Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh, Mrs. Anne Morrow
Lindbergh and Jon Lindbergh,
their second son, moved to pent-
house on the roof of an upper
East Side building, International
News Service learned today.
Huskies Keep Guard
It is on the sixteenth floor of
a fashionable apartment house
owned by Vincent AStor. There
are nine rooms in the penthouse.
It is as invulerable as the Rock
of Gibraltar. There is a squad
of alert, trusted and husky attend
ants at the street entrance and
lobby to guard Americas most
famous family. There are other
precautions upstairs to prevent
unwelcome visitors.
Betty Cow, who was the nurse
for the first Lindbergh baby, is
also taking care of young Jon.
Give Up Old Home
In his new penthouse province,
Jon can bask in the sun and the
breezes from the East River in
perfect privacy and safety.
Since the kidnapping Of their
first baby, Charles Augustus, jr.,
the Lindberghs had been living
with Mrs. Dwight w. Morrow,
mother Of Mrs: Lindbergh, at
Englewood, N. j.
The Lindberghs plan to deed
their original home at Hopewell,
N. j., where the kidnapping
tragedy occurred, into a chill
dren'S home.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
Chesapeake e Ohio
To Bun EQlGipn1ent

Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Co. will spend approximately $751;
100000 in buying 1900 freight
cars, IS steel passenger coaches, II
steel mail and express cars, accord
ing to memorandum filed in chan
Gerry court Of Richmond.
Money obtained by means Of
equipment trust notes sold through
Guaranty Trust Co., New York,
will be repaid in semiannual install
ments from 1896 to 1949, Per-
mission was recently obtained
from Interstate Commerce Com
mission to add to Indebtedness
of the road by means Of these
notes.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
NEW j. U.S,POL|CY.
ON SHIPS SET

DETROIT, March 2O.-Amer-
ica's new policy of Federal pro-
lection for the Merchant Marine
was announced here today by
Henry H. Heimann, director Of
the United States Shipping Board
Bureau, at the meeting of the
Middle West Foreign Trade and
Merchant Marine Conference. In
general, it contemplates direct aid,
rather than preferences, and de-
signed to compensate American
operators for differences in build
ing and operating costs.
Mr.. Heimann pointed out that
a merchant marine has the three
functions of carrying commerce,
developing trade and aiding the
Navy in time of war.
The Merchant Marine Act of
1928 had not developed American
shipping as had been hoped for,
he said, and the need of financial
assistance to ship operators now
seems to be universally recognized.
American ship building and
operating costs are the highest in
the world, Mr.. Heimann said, and
preferential treatment, the method
adopted by Great Britain for
building up it's merchant marine,
is considered less desirable, under
present conditions, than direct
Federal assistance.
Amalgamations of ship lines
would be encouraged by the pro-
lection policy.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
j. s. IS CLOSING
/ ALL AVENUES
. Of ESCAPE
Capture of Fugitive Seen When
He Eventually Is Forced
Into Port

Adds ABABA, AbysSinia.
March 20 QN.S). After q
lengthy consideration Of all cir
cumstances involved, the Foreign
Office announced today that
Samuel insult, fugitive American
financier, would be refused an
AbySsinian visa should he apply
for such q document.
It was announced also that
20 date insult had made no ap-
plication for a permit to reside
In Abyssinia.
The announcement Of the
Foreign Office closed to insult
the borders of one Of the prin-
cipal countries considered by his
advisers as being a haven from
extradition to the United States.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
Duel
RumOrProbed
By Attorney

LOS ANGELES, March 20
T.N.S0. The district attor-
ney'S office today was reported
to be investigating rumors that
a duel had taken place some
where near Hollywood over the
past weekend.
Rumors that challenges for
the duel with sabers had been
exchanged persisted despite de-
malls.
The interest of the district at
torney's office arose from the
fact that under an old Califor-
mia law dueling with any kind
of deadly wee = ons is a felony.
Failure of a peace officer to
investigate such, a duel would
make him liable to a fine of
$1,000.
Investigation Of the duel may
hinge on whether it was fought
with serious intent, or purely
as a sporting event, in which
case it would not be listed as a
crime,
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
Linguistics Expert
Suicide in Baltimore

BALTIM ORE, March 20
GN.S0.-A coroner's certificate
of suicide was issued today in the
death of DR.. David Simon Blond
helm, 40, a professor at Johns
Hopkins University since 1917,
found locked in his kitchen yes
terday with the gas stove turned
on and the door sealed with news
papers.
DR.. Henry C. Lancaster, in
charge of the French department
at Hopkins, said DR.. Blondheim
was regarded as "the outstanding
man in this country in the field
of medieval French and French
linguiSticS,"
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
z CONFESSIONS
BRING 5 NEW
Spy ARRESTS
French Colonel, Engineer, 8
Women Added to 10 Held;
SWitzeS Admit Pant

PARIS, March 20 Q.N.S).
Five new arrests, bringing the
total in custody to IS, were an
nounced today as the result Of
confessions laid to Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Gordon Switz, young
American couple, Of their partici-
patton in an international spy
ring.
The confession Of the Switzes,
who had been held in Paris iails
since their arrest last December.
was announced exclusively yester-
day by International News Service.
simultaneously with the an
nouncement of today's new arrests,
It was revealed by the prefecture
Of police that the spy ring was
working for Soviet Russia, to the
detriment of the United States,
Great Britain and France.
MAGISTRATE Benon told Interna-
tional News Service that Germany
was not involved.
Three Women Taken
Those arrested today were:
Colonel Dumoulin, who, under
the name Of CharraS, directed
a review known as "The Army
and Democracy"
An army engineer named
Aubry, and his wife. Aubry
was employed by the powder
division of the ministry Of
war and had in his possession
100,0 900 francs (about $6,500)
when arrested.
Vatroslaw Reich, Rumanian
chemist attached to the Ma
ticnal Institute Of Biology.
Nine. Riva Davidovici, a
Rumanian dentist.
All Of these arrests were made
as a result of information given
Examining Magistrate Benon by
the Switzes, it was announced.
Documents Seized
Documents, letters and accounts
were seized in possession of those
taken, police said, and Magistrate
Benon regarded the evidence thus
uncovered as vitally important.
Switz, an aviator Of East
Orange, N. j., and his wife, a
former Vassar College student,
were hurried off to separate
prisons following their examina-
tion. They have been jailed sepa-
rately since their arrest several
months ago.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
AID OHIO CANAL,
PLEA To HOUSE
By International News Service

By International News Service
Development of the Mahoning-
Beaver canal is vital to the Ma
honing Valley steel industry,
Mayor Mark E. Moore, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, today told the House
Rivers and Harbors Committee.
He said the entire future Of that
region depended upon construc-
tion of this waterway, declaring:
"This water is our life blood.
If we don't get this aid, our steel
center, which now ranks third
in the country, with a billion.
dollar investment, cannot sur
ViVe,"
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
Movie Censorship
Seen Lost on Hill

BY lnteFnatiOnaI News Service
Congressional approval of legis-
lation giving the Government CEN
sorship over motion pictures ap-
peared unlikely today despite
charges that 80 per cent Of the
American cinema output features
lawlessness, liquor and boudoirs.
The House Interstate Commerce
Committee has before it a bill by
Representative Patman CD Of
Texas creating Federal commits
sion to weigh the merits Of film
plots.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
U. S. in Touch With
Extradition Nations
BY KINGSBURY SMITH
International News Service

BY K1NGSBURY SMITH
International News Service
Steps were being taken by the
Government today which, II sue
cessful, will make Samuel insult,
former Chicago utility magnate, a
virtual prisoner aboard the Greek
freighter Maiotis in the Mediter-
Tanean.
Efforts were being made
through diplomatic channels to in
duce the governments of prac-
tically every nation bordering on
the Mediterranean to agree to
detain insult if the freighter
Olters their territorial waters.
Would Bar An Escape
The plan is to close every pos
Sible avenue Of escape for insult
in the hope he eventually will
agree to return voluntarily to the
United States and stand trial at
Chicago in connection with the
collapse Of his former middle west
ern utility empire.
Under international law, the
Omitted States can request any
foreign nation with which it has
an extradition treaty to hold a
fugitive from justice in the event
he enters within that nations
territorial Jurisdiction.
This Government has eXtradi-
ton treaties with practically every
nation bordering on the Mediter-
ranean with the exception Of such
little states as Monaco.
American diplomatic repreSen-
tatives abroad have been instruc-
ed by the State Department to
request the Mediterranean nations
with whom this Government has
an extradition treaty, to agree
to hold insult for extradition pro-
ceedingS if the Maiotis enters
their territorial waters.
Strict Watch Not Asked
It is not intended that the va
rious nations should agree to
maintain strict watch over their
territorial water boundaries, which
vary from three to six miles, but
merely give assurances they will
hold him if his ship comes into
any one Of their ports.
This would leave the aged fin
0ncier only two avenues Of es-
cape from the Mediterranean, the
SueZ Canal into the Red Sea, or
the Straits Of Gibraltar into the
Atlantic.
The Suez Canal is an interna-
ti0nal waterway, while insult
could pass through the middle of
the Straits of Gibraltar without
entering any territorial waters.
In both waterways he would be
considered on the high seas and
therefore free from any territorial
jurisdiction.
However, officials here cannot
conceive that insult will attempt
escape by either Of these outlets.
The Greek freighter is known to
be an old tramp and it is doubted
whether its crew would dare ven
ture out into the Atlantic.
Ship I'm Bad Repair
Passage through the Suez Canal
would take him into the Red Sea.
with the exception Of those ports
under the influence of the big
powers, the shores Of this sea are
lined on one side by the wildS Of
darkest Africa and the other by
rowing bands Of fanatical Arab
tribes.
It is believed insult will have lit
tie alternative but to sail the
Mediterranean until he becomes
wearied of life aboard the tramp
or the latter is forced into port
for repairs.
Either course is considered like
" in a short space of time. since
the MaiotiS is considered far from
being a pleasure yacht and expert
enced a motor breakdown while
taking insult away from Greece.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
Called to Jury Duty,
He FOrQetS: Fined $40

Robert Benner, Of Silver Spring,
was found guilty of contempt of
court and fined $40 by Judge
Charles w. Woodward, in Mont
gomery County Circuit Court yes
terday, when he failed to appear
after being summoned for jury
duty.
Mr.. Benner pleaded that he had
forgotten that the March term Of
court began yesterday. Later he
was eliminated from duty.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
Thugs Break Poet
To Return TQxiCUb

Two thieves failed to keep
their promise and leave Preston
e. Laws taxicab at Fourteenth
and l. Sts. N. w., today.
The two armed men engaged
his cab last night and told him
to drive to Walter Reed Hospital.
Near the institution. they drew
guns and ordered him from the
cab, saying they would leave it
at the downtown intersection this
morning. They took no money.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
PARKS, LECTURE TOPIC

Randall Jones, of Cedar City,
Utah, will lecture on Zion and
Bryce Canyon National Parks
Thursday night in the auditorium
of the Interior Department build
ing under the auspices Of the Ma
tiopal Park Service
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
MISSING MAN SOUGHT

Police today were asked to
search for John Frye, who has
been missing from his home in the
100 block New Hampshire Ave.
N. w since March II.
The Washington times., 1934-03-20
PATENT AIDE NAMED

Bryan M. Battey, of New York,
was nominated for Assista n t
United States Commissioner of
Patents by President Roosevelt
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
How to Spell 1t
When The Feature Is
Shown on The Screen

PALACE-Miriam Hopkins in
Design for Living" at 11:4O a. M,
1:40, $40, $40, TAO and 9:4O
p. m.
COLUMBIA-El Brendel in
"Olsen's Big Moment" at 1920
q. m, LOS, 2:5O. 4:4O, 6:25, $40
and 9:55 p. m.
FOX-Will Rogers in "Mr.
Skitch," at II a. M, 1870, 4:2O,
7:1O, 1905 p. m. Stage shows at
1925, S:15, 6:1O and 9 p. m.
EARLE-Adolphe Menjou in
"Easy to Love-" at II a. M, las,
4:25, tbs and 1905 p. m. Stage
shows at 12:40, 3:25, 6:15 and 9
p. m.
KEITH'S-Francis Lederer in
Man of Two Worlds" at 1884
q. m, 1:25, 1886, 5:37, 1888, 9:39.
RIALTO-June Knight in
'*Cross Country Cruise" at IL
O. M, 12:47, 2:34, 4:21, sos, 1855
and 9:42 p. m.
Observation-Disclosures Arm
strong in "Son of Kong" at II
o. m., 12:45, 2:35, 4:20, $40, 1855
and 9:45 p. m.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29

Odlhd V4CL GC4 dIlN Leu DlIILlShy
have written an original South
Sea yarn, for which John Far.
row has fashioned the script
And as soon as SelZnick gets
Viva Villa" previewed and out
of the way, he will send com.
pany headed by Johnny Weiss
muller to Tahiti TO film scenes
for the new production. If the
Jean HarlowMGM dispute is set
tied in time, the platinum blonde
will be the leading femme in the
film.
Chauffeur Cargan
Leslie Howard mas a very
fancy chauffeur-for a week any
way. William Gargan, actor,
and best pal of Howard, lost q
fight bet to him the other night,
so now he has to drive him
around for seven days. Howard
is finding excuses for some hectic
shopping around Hollywood
and the feller he orders around
is Gargan-all dressed up in
the uniform and everything.
Howard really got break-be-
cause neither he nor Gargan is
working this week.
Una Merkel gave dinner
party for eight lonesome wives
the other evening all of whom
thought their husbands were
working at the studios" which
is the old alibi standby. Before
the evening was over six of the
spouses were discovered to have
been at the fights at the Legion
Stadium-and the other two
caught you know what when
they got home anyway.
Charlie Ruggles says that
"even though this is definitely
the machine age-there's still
plenty of talking done by hand!"
The town was buzzing today
about the rudeness of Director
Josef Won Sternberg to Marlene
Dietrich, even though it is we'll
known that he and Marlene
have staged a lot of arguments
during the making of catherine
the Great" (still in production q.
Yesterday Marlene came into the
studio lunch room and pro-
ceeded to the same table that
has been reserved for her there
ever since she has worked on
the lot.
She usually shares this table
with Won Sternberg, and it's
table for two. When she reached
the customary spot yesterday he
was already seated at her table
with Gail Patrick, young actress
whom he probably intends to "dis-
cover" any minute. The director
didn't so much as rise when Mar.
lene reached the table! She took
it all in with one glance, and pro-
ceeded to look for another spot
to lunch.
Sister Is Success
Sylvia Thalnerg, sister of Irving
Thalberg, famous young produc-
ton head of MGM is certainly
proving that you can be genuinely
successful on your own, even if
you have famous relative, which
is usually considered a handicap,
especially in Hollywood where
most of the kidding concerns one
relative or another employed in
the various studios by whoever the
head relative" happens to be.
Sylvia has come right along as a
scenario writer in the past year,
besides which, her new novel, TOO
Beautiful" has sold out it's first
edition and is now in it's second
printing. She is now scripting
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
By RONALD THORNE

John Powell, playing his own
"Rhapsodie Negre," appeared as
soloist yesterday afternoon at the
National Symphony Orchestra's S
concert in Constitution Hall, a
concert whose program included
several novelties, among them
works by two composers now liv-
ing in Washington.
The Powell work and the sym.
phonic poem Francesca da
Rimini" by Tschaikowsky, we're
the most ambitious offerings Of
the afternoon. Although "Rhap-
sodie Negre" has been played fire.
quently by symphony orchestras
in the last decade, it is unfamiliar
to Washingtonians, and Powell
was accorded a tremendous ova-
ton at it's conclusion.
Its atmosphere of voodoo and
the jungle is Interestingly depicted
in the orchestral coloring. From
time to time the old hymns,
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and
II Want to Be Ready" mingle