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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
D. {. BUILDING
STIMULATION
PROPOSED
EIIenbogen Claims Measure
Only Real Solution to
Housing Crisis

Stimulation of private construc-
ton of houses and apartment
houses in Washington as the
"only permanent solution" to the
housing crisis here will be pro-
vided in bill to be introduced
in the House before the end OF
this session of Congress, sponsors
of the proposal announced today.
Representative Henry Ellenbo-
gen CD of Pennsylvania. author
of a bill now pending in Congress
providing for creation of a new
Federal authority to build low.
cost housing projects with Federal
funds, will sponsor the new leeis-
lation.
PrOfiteers Raped
Washington's rent and housing
situation was described as "op-
pressive and intolerable" by Mr..
Ellenbogen last night in address,
ing a mass meeting attended
chiefly by Government employees
and trades union workers in the
Department of Labor auditorium.
With Senator Arthur Capper
(RD of Kansas, former chairman
of the Senate District Commit
tee, who also addressed the meet
ing, the Pennsylvania Represent
alive pledged himself to fight
real estate profiteers."
Tax Exemption
Under terms of the bill which he
said he would introduce in Con-
gress, private construction would
be aided by the exemption of new
buildings from all real estate taxa
ton for five years.
Senator Capper told the meet
ing that the District has never
had sufficient decent homes to
house the major part of the people
of our Nations capital" adding
that the influx of New Deal work.
ers has aggravated the situation.
He said he feels strongly" that
Congress should not adjourn until
it has done something to relieve
the crisis here.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
MARINE GETS
JURY TRIAL

Elmer Tangen, 38, eX-marine,
who, according to police, beat up
his wife and four members of
the police department who came
to her rescue Tuesday night, was
arraigned in Police Court today
before Judge Ralph Given on four
charges of assault. He pleaded
not guilty and demanded a jury
trial. Bond was set at $1,000.
Charges of drunk and disor-
derby, also lodged against him,
were continued for two weeks.
Tangen, who lives in the $500
block of Seventeenth st. N. w.,
believes in keeping up the reputa-
ton of fighting Marines" &C.
cording to neighbors, who called
police when Mrs. Tango MS
screams were heard.
Elmer is credited with having
"socked" all four policemen be-
fore he was subdued.
Policeman R. S. Montgomery,
attached to the Tenth precinct,
is still in the hospital, it was de-
clared in court today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
F OUR HOLDUPS
NET THUGS S95

Four holdups, in which two vic
tins were taxicao drivers, were
reported to police today.
Martin F. Bartsheck, a cab
driver, 300 block Seventh st.
S. E., reported three men hired
him to drive them from Eighth
and L Streets Southeast to George
town. At Ninth and C Streets
Southwest, the driver said. two
of the men displayed pistols and
robbed him of $3.50.
The other cab driver, Merel
Shelton, 800 block Third st.
S. w., said he was hired at
Eleventh Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest by two men,
who robbed him at pistol point
of $3.50 and his taxicab in the
vicinity Of Sixth Street and indie
pendence Avenue Southwest.
While parking his automobile in
an alley in the rear of his home,
Harold j. Leach, of the 1400 block
N st. N. w., was held up by a
colored man and robbed of $55,
Two men and a woman are
being held by First precinct police
in connection with the robbery of
Samuel j. Elliot, 60, of the Mt,
Vernon Apartments. The man
said he was beaten and robbed of
80 in an alley in the rear of the
First block of H st. N. E. He
was treated as Casualty Hospital
for a possible fracture of the jaw
and injuries to the face.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
HOUSING To AID.
TUBERCULOSIS
PREVENTION
Project Would Make Possible
Check on Spread Of Disease,
Provide Special Care

Low cost housing as a means OF
checking the spread of tuberculo-
sis and other communicable dis
eases in Washington is being stud
led by District health officials, it
was learned today.
tuberculosis here, it was pointed
out, is most heavily concentrated
in the area bordered by North Cap.
itol Street, Tenth st. N. w., H
Street and Florida Avenue.
DR.. James G. Cumming, chief
of the Bureau of Preventable Dis
eases, said a loW-cost housing prof.
ect could be tied in effectively
with disease control. He said:
'1n the cases of tuberculosis
where persons with active Symp-
toms have been hOspitalized, the
family could be moved to the
new quarters to minimize
chances Of becoming infected"
The disease, he said, is highly
concentrated in crowded sections
of the city. Tenants for low cost
housing projects will probably be
selected from these sections, and
a certain percentage naturally
will be infected, he said.
DR.. Cumming pointed out that
families, one of the members of
which has been hospitalized for
active tuberculosis, could be quar-
tered in the housing development
and given careful medical super
vision.
Special nursing and health pre-
cautions could be applied, thus re-
moving the danger of infection.
Presence of these families in
the housing development, he
said, would not jeopardize other
tenants. In addition, the crowded
areas would be relieved and dis
ease control there would be more
effective.
The District tuberculosis NOR
tally rate continues to be higher
than that in cities of similar size.
During the first three months of
this year there have been 159
deaths from the disease. Of this
number 104 were colored persons.
Tabulations prepared by the
Vital Statistics Bureau indicate
that the tuberculosis death rate
exceeds that of Baltimore, Bir-
mingham, New Orleans and In
dianapolis.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
Dinner to Honor
Rep. GreenWay

Representative Isabella Green
way, of Arizona, will be guest Of
honor at the Muster Day dinner
of the General Nelson A. Miles
Camp, United Spanish War Vet
Grams at the Pythian Temple at
8 p. m.
Comdr. W. G. Stirk will pre-
side. Other guests will include
Capt. Sidney j. Marks, Capt.
Richard A. Mansfield, of the Po-
lice Department; Capt. c. Ham
ilton Anderson, U. S. A., and
ladies of the auxiliary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
Sons of Union Vets
To Meet Tomorrow

Subjects closely related to the
Constitution will be discussed at
a meeting of the Sons of Union
Veterans of the Civil War to be
held in the District Building
tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. Eldon P.
King of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue, and Jerome F. Barnard
and R. j. McElroy, attorneys,
will speak. A round table discus
sion will follow. The meeting will
be held in honor of Gen. U. S.
Grant.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
Employees Union
Elects Officers

The newly created Mechanics
branch of Federal Employees Union
No. 2 elected the following officers
yesterday.
William Newell, president; r.
H. Howe, vice president; E. C.
Wolford. secretary-treasurer, and
Lewis OFT, w. B. King, Charles E.
Jarboe and C. w. Floyd, executive
committee. Members of the or
ganization are employees OF the
mechanical departments of the
National Park Service.
$1,000 PIN LOST
Mrs. Willoughby Chesley, 1913
Cliffbourne Pl. N. w., reported
to police she lost a $1,000 plati-
mum and diamond bar pin near
Fourteenth and G. SITS. N. w.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
PAIR HELD HERE
IN GEM THEFTS.

An attractive 22-year-old blonde
matron and a male companion
were held for Grand Jury action
by Judge Ralph Given today on
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny charges
in connection with the operations
of ring of jewelry thieves which,
Sixth precinct police say, has per.
petrated more than score of
jewelry thefts in recent months.
The woman, Mrs. Alma G.
ShrieVeS, was held under $1,000
bond and John T. Gilbert, her
companion, %, under $4,000 bond
in connection with recent jewelry
burglaries of a residence in the
400 block of jefferson st. N. w.
and the 600 block of Nicholson
st. N. w.
According to Detective Thomas
Nally, police traced the pair to a
house in the 900 block K st. N. w.
The first raid on the house was
fruitless as far as arrests were
concerned, Detective Nally said,
but police found a bushel basket
filled with gold and silver mount
ings and other jewelry from which
the gems had been removed. A
later raid resulted in the arrest Of
the two defendants.
Detective Nally stated his opin-
ion that the woman, who ap.
peared to be preparing food for a
large group at the time of her
arrest, was apparently the dupe of
others, and the master mind" of
the ring has not yet been appre-
hended.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
BRAGG HEALTH
TRIAL TODAY

Starting drive to eradicate
what Health Officer Ruhland
terms serious menace" District
officials today will bring to trial
Prof" Paul C. Bragg-possessor
of the South Sea secrets of health
on charge of violation of the
District healing arts practice act.
Prof" Bragg was arrested in
the Masonic Auditorium Wednes-
day night just before he was to
start a series of free lectures on
health.
His custom is to give a free series
police say, and follow this by class
lectures which cost $40 series.
Several hundred of these students
are expected to take the stand as
witnesses for their teacher at the
hearing.
Commenting on the case, DR..
Rutland said:
"PeOplc in this country waste
about S5O,OOO,OOO year on this
type of treatment, and, in many
cases they are seriously injured
through failure to have their
ills cared for by a reputable
practitioner.
Il intend to investigate the
situation in Washington veky
thoroughly"
professor" Bragg, who is free
on $1,000 bond, did not appear at
the class meeting last night, but
his financial secretary" Miss
June Day was there, and she col.
lected quite a sum to be used in
his defense.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
Slightly
Hurt in Collision

Roger Doyle, 20, 1900 block
E st. S. E., escaped with a
slight cut last night when his
car and a Capital Transit Co.
bus crashed at Eleventh and D
SITS. S. E. The bus. driven by
Francis Auth, "a, of the 1900
block of Massachusetts Ave. S..
E., hurled the car across the in
tersection. None of the bus pas
SengerS Was injured.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26

Clarendon Man
Survives Leap
From Bridge

Henry Leonard, So, a painter
of Clarendon, Va, fell 1875 feet
from the Key Bridge into the
chilly water of the Potomac to-
day and lived to tell about it.
Passersby who saw him go
over the rail called the Fire
Rescue Squad and within 10
minutes Mr.. Leonard was be-
ing given first aid.
He refused to tell his res
cuers why he leaped. His con.
dition was declared not serious.
He was taken to his home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
Police Boys Club
Plans May Outing

Athletic events and entertain
ment are on the program of the
Police Department Boys Club out
ing, scheduled May 4 at Glen
Echo Park. The facilities of the
park will be turned over to the
boys. Among the prominent club
sponsors expected to attend are
Wilton J. Lambert, Ray T. Baker,
Robert V. Fleming, Major Ernest
w. Brown and William Shelton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
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HERE FOUND
STR|CTEST
Study Reveals States Grant
DEGREES on Many Grounds;
Only One Basis in D. c.

While proponents and oppon-
ents of the bill now pending in
Congress to liberalize divorces in
the District girded themselves for
fight before congressional COM
mittees, a study of divorce laws
elsewhere revealed today that
passage of the bill would wipe out
the country'S stricteSt restrictions
on divorce.
Under the existing law, the
only ground for absolute divorce
in the District is adultery. The
pending bill seeks to add cruelty,
deSertion, drunkenness, and con-
viction of a felony to this sole
ground. The bill also proposes to
do away with the restriction
which, under the current law, pre-
vents a guilty party in an abso-
lutte divorce action from remarry-
ing in the District. The ban runs
against the guilty party for life.
Remarriage Ban Omitted
Members of the District Bar
Association committee, headed by
George C. Gertman, and their adj
visors have made no provision IN
the pending bill to continue this
ban, feeling it worked too great a
hardship on the divorced party.
The committee members also
pointed out a recent opinion of
the United States Supreme Court
under which a guilty party may
contract a valid marriage in an
other jurisdiction, which the Dis
trict must recognize.
Next in line to this strict prohl-
bition is the divorce law of New
York State, where a guilty party
in a divorce action based on adul-
terry is banned from remarrying
during the lifetime of the plain"
tiff, although this prohibition may
be set aside by the court three
years after the divorce.
In drafting the bill for the Dis
trict, members of the committee
made a thorough study Of divorce
laws throughout the United States.
They found that in 46 of the 48
States absolute divorces are
granted for the same grounds
they propose in the pending bill.
"Trick" Laws Discovered
The committeeman also found
a number of "trick" laws in the
various States. In North Caro-
lima, the committee discovered,
a man may desert his wife and,
even though guilty of desertion,
obtain a divorce from her. The
law governing this merely states
that a divorce will be granted if
the husband and wife have been
living apart for two successive
years.
Although considered by the gen.
eral public as ground for di-
vorce in a number of the more
liberal States, incompatibility is
a ground in only one State-NeW
Mexico. The customary complaint
in Nevada is cruelty, which has
been known to cover multitude
of real or alleged sins.
Louisiana has a law permitting
divorces from a husband or wife
W h habitually INDUCES in
~ i oil n and ungovernable
tempers."
Kentucky and New Hampshire
allow divorces if a spouse joins
a religious society requiring
remuneration of marriage conve-
nants or forbidding cohabitation
Hawaii grants divorce for deser,
ton for so months, non-support
for 60 days, or leprosy, in add
ton to other grounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
SUBSCRIPTION PARTY

The Fellowcraft Club of King
David Lodge No. %, F. A. A. M,
will sponsor a subscription card
party and dance tomorrow night,
in the Masonic temple at Twelfth
and Monroe Streets Northeast.
There will be prizes for every
table of cards. Music for dancing
will be furnished by the Graham
Crackers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26

workers are being cared for there.
The soldiers have their own
library and their own service club
where they entertain their friends.
The few wooden buildings left
are used for storage purposes.
More money is needed before they
can be torn down and new build
ings erected in their place.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
DR.. Luther Rents
Virginia Estate

One of the show places of
Loudoun county, Ophir, the es-
tate of Mrs. John Duval Tyler,
two miles west of Leesburg, has
been leased by DR.. Hans Luther,
German Ambassador, for his
summer home. DR.. Luther is ex-
pected to occupy the estate on
June IS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
PLAN WOMEN'S DAY

Mrs. Arthur W. Mitchell, wife
of Representative Mitchell of Illi-
nois, will speak at Israel Baptist
Church Sunday, at II o'clock,
when a special women's day pro-
gram will be presented.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
FIREMEN ATHLETES

BLADENSBURG, Md, April 26.
Members of the local fire depart
ment will organize an athletic
club tonight and make plans to
establish training quarters in the
basement of the fire house.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26

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SHOOTERS OF THE TOWN AAD NOTHING ON
THEIR NINOS BUT 70 LO0k. THROUGH a
1ELESGoPG UP IN THE SKI, AN AWAY UP
THEY SAW A MOTH FLOAT1N' AROUN'. The
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THROUGH THE TELESCOPE. AN FOLLOWS
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losses TIE PISTOL 6AcE TO NE a. M&
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Milford chronicle., 1935-12-20

FOR RBNT-HOuse. sos South Wall
nut street, Milford. Phone 367. ns-tf
Milford chronicle., 1935-12-20

mittees for the ensuing year: Pro.
gram, c. Russell Snyder. chairman
H. Milton James and George ~ Da.
Wis; finance, Edward Higgins, chair.
man, Nathaniel NJ. Conaway and
Glen NJ. Huston; music, Paul We'll
chairman. C. r. Snyder, William
Torbert and Charles Van Leer: nm
der privileged children. W. b. Thorn
buTgh, chairman, b. j. Winder. JOS
eph II. Cox and r. NJ. Kaufman: ag-
| riculture, Samuel Sloan, chairman.
franklin Gordy and W. Fred Bur-
ton; boy scouts, Robert Rubenstin.
chairman, George Search and Win
field Scott; attendance, Harlan Will
len, chairman, ElwoOd NJ Cook and
VIM. H. Parsons; publicity and pub
lie affairs, H. Milton James, chair
man, George N. Davis and Leroy B.
Hurley; boys and girls work and
vocational guidance, William L.
Torbert, chairman, Paul II. We'll
and Norris Kitchens; inter-club re-
latiOns, Nathaniel NJ. Conaway,
chairman, Edward Higgins and Dr..
l.. J. MOnague; house and reception,
Edward J. WindeT, chairman, Ed
ward Higgins and Ray Leach and
Nathaniel NJ. Conaway; Kiwanis ed
ucation, DR.. L. J. Montague, chair
man, Harlan A. Willin and H. Mil
ton James; classification and MEM
bersship. Nathaniel NJ. Conaway,
chairman, c, r. Snyder and Glen NJ.
Huston.
Milford chronicle., 1935-12-20
RAISE YOUR OWN POTATOES!

There is great rumpus about
whether the AAA is to enforce the
Potato Control Act or not.
Just what discretion has the AAA,
or any of its officials, to do other
than enforce the law? They have not
been given the power to nullify. or
change any law.
II is not the function of any board
or bureau charged with enforcement
duties to say whether it will or will
not administer an act.
The courts still have the duty of
deciding on the legality of the acts
OF Congress and this constitutional
provision of our government has not
yet been abrogated.
The quickest way for our citizens
tc break the Legislative program to
drive up potato prices is for every
citizen with back or front yard, to
raise potatoes for his own use.
That would also be an expression
Of disapproval of the new doctrine of
food scarcity that is advocated to
raise prices. Every family raise its
cwn potatoes" may become a nation
u slogan.
Milford chronicle., 1935-12-20
SEAFORD

Funeral services were held last
Saturday afternoon for Mrs. May
Stack, age So years, wife of Charles
w. Stack, at Reliance. The services
were conducted by the Rev. G. j.
Hooker, pastor of the Gethsemane
Methodist Protestant Church, at Re-
lance. Interment was made in the
Odd Fellows cemetery.
Mrs. Joseph H. Cox and sister-in-
law, Mrs. Mary A. Fine, made bus
mess trip to Philadelphia last week.
Mrs. l.. Avery Hobbs was a guest
last Sunday of her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs o. w. Nc
Williams, of Rhodesdale, Md.
Mrs. J. j. Thompson, Jr., of Clay
ton, spent Monday with Mr.. and
Mrs. James B. Thompson, Sr.
Theodore Gleason who has been
seriously i'll, after having undergone
several severe operations at Della
ware Hospital in Wilmington, is
slightly improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Parsons of
West Seaford made a business trip
to Philadelphia on Monday of this
week.
At the annual installation of Off
GERS recently held by the American
Legion, Nanticoke Post, No. 6, the
following officers were installed:
George E. Warrington, commander;
DR.. J. A. Wilker, first vice COM
mander; w. Winfield Scott, second
vice commander; ]. Halbert Robin
son, service officer; Charles e. Daw-
son, finance officer; George N. Da-
Wis. historian; Wilbur Fryling, ser
geant-at-arms.
At a meeting of the SeafOrd Co
tillion Club. held in the Firemen's |
Hall last week, arrangements were
made to hold a Christmas dance
during the holidays or around the
first of January. George II. Culver
was named general chairman; Clar-
enCe C. Allen was again reelected
treasurer for the third consecutive
term, and oris Wright was appoint
ed as head OF the music committee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huey Jackson cele-
brated their 29th wedding anniVer-
sary at their home in West Seaford
last week.
At the weekly luncheon of the
seaford Kiwanis Club, held in the
Hotel Sussex, President Elwood NJ.
Cook announced the following COM
Milford chronicle., 1935-12-20

FOR RENT-Furnished apartment,
heated 201 East Front street. Milford.
1tp
Milford chronicle., 1935-12-20
rue.daY.. peeember Il, l935,

At t2 O'Clock noon. the following per-
sonal property. to-wit: One Good Mule.
Farming Utensils. Three Stacks. Of
Long Fodder. lot Of Clover Hay in loft.
Household Goods and Antiques.
At the same time and place VIII OIL
fer NV Farm of 100 Acres for sale,
improved by a two story dwelling
house, barn and other Outbuildings
TERMS made known on day Of sale.
1t JAMES e. SAMM0NS
Milford chronicle., 1935-12-20
AND NOW POTATOES

The potato now goes under Fed
eral control Every bag of potatoes
must carry a federal tag or stamp
Every farm that grows potatoes COM
mercially will have quota assign
ed and any farmer who exceeds this
quota will be fined at the rate of As
cents per bushel. Furthermore, any
person who offers to buy potatoes
not properly packaged or stamped
will be liable to $1,000 fine. For
the second Offense there is imprisOn-
ment.
While this will help single group
OF farmers, it will raise the cost Of
living for everybody else. The po-
tato is one food staple on which the
poor have always relied. A family
can go without bacon and ham,
bread consumption can be reduced,
meat substitutes can be found, but
it is almost impossible to eliminate
the potato from the family diet.
Two results are sure to come from
this law. Almost everybody who has
small patch of ground will raise
their own potatoes, neutralizing in
some measure the objects of the bill.
A small army of inspectors will be
employed to visit the farms and
check past production records and
assign future quotas.
AS with all New Deal measures,
the theory Of the law is absolutely
perfect. The trouble is that drought,
human nature, and the old law of
supply and demand are quite likely
to punch the program full of holes.
Carroll County, N. H., Independent.