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The Washington times., 1935-11-27

The news that a famous French
explorer has found evidence that
Columbus built his first settle
ment at Haiti has attracted much
attention to the island. 1t is said
that Columbus built a fort at
Mont st. Michael by Cape Hal
tien harbor from the timbers of
his wrecked flagship, the Santa
Maria.
So many tourists come into
the harbor at Port au Prince and
steam away in a few hours with
out having seen really anything
of an island that has seen early
Indian, Spanish. French and
Negro occupation. Relics and
ruins of all of these occupations
remain.
The approach by sea into Port
au Prince is truly magnificent.
The contour of the bay. the color
of the water, the mountain back
ground, all make up a lovely pic
ture. Native botas swarm about
the cruise ship laden with fruits
to sell the passengers. On the
wharves cheerful natives are
busy with loading and unload
ing. q hive Of industry.
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
By Edwin C.. Hill
By T. E. Powers

next Congress, opening in Janu
ary, is a law calling for the con-
struction of six new Federal peni-
tentiaries at a cost of around
$500,000 each.
Some of the prison camps have
been abandoned, and the camp
population generally lessened, for
economy reasons. The camps,
while possibly highly desirable as
a detail of the general rehabilita-
ton program, were expensive and
it was found necessary to con-
centrate the prisoners in order to
save money.
1t was partly to meet this eX-
igency that the Department of
Justice obtained, from the War
Department. AlcatraZ Island in
San Francisco Bay in which to
lock up its more desperate and
notorious offenders, such as AL
Capone. The Government has
acquired all of Mcneil Island,
Washington. for an extension of
it's penitentiary there. Other Fed.
eral prisons are being enlarged
and remodeled.
Mr.. Bates, an enlightened penol.
ogist of long experience, is trying
to meet the emergency without
sacrificing his long-range scien'
tific program. He is not a believer
in the theory of congenital crimi.
nality and thinks many prisoners
may be reclaimed, to become use
full citizens.
Along with G. Edgar Hoover,
Mr.. Bates is an illustration of the
fact that, while local and State
law enforcement may become
enmeshed in politics, Uncle Sans
law mills are still clear of it. He
was a Hoover appointee, reap
pointed by President Roosevelt,
and Singularly successful in both
administrations.
URGENT JOB
Calvin Coolidge, proving that
the good men do does live after
them-Shakespeare to the con.
trary-was responsible for placing
Mr.. Bates unique abilities at the
service of the Government. Mr..
Bates was a Massachusetts, State
senator when Mr.. Coolidge was
governor. One day Mr.. Coolidge
called him on the telephone and
said:
"You are the Massachusetts,
Commissioner of Correction"
"Rut I know nothing about
correction. What can I say?"
replied the other.
"Say nothing" said Mr.. Cool
idge, and hung up. Mr.. Bates
took a run and a jump at the
county t'ings" in which centered
graft and corruption. He cleaned
out all graft and brutality and
effectively advanced law enforce
ment in Massachusetts, by
wrenching prison administration
free from politics. In the years
that have followed, Mr.. Bates has
delved deeply into scientific pc
nology.
Just now he has probably the
biggest and most urgent single
lob of that kind in the world. And,
with his other preoccupations, he
is faced with the reaction of or
ganized labor against prison-made
goods-a perennial issue in Amer
lea, and now warming up again.
But, if one takes a long look back,
it appears that this country al
ways has been able to Straighten
out anything once it disentangled
it from politics or rapacious self
interest.
This the nonpolitical Federal
prison administration seems to be
doing, and it is certain that no
one will be asking Uncle Sam to
slow down on his crook-catching
because of crowded jails.
Copyright. 1875, by King Features
Syndicate, Ine)
The Washington times., 1935-11-27

thanksgiving.
He was some
what doubtful
about the Warm
Springs trip
and arranging
it to fit in with
his Thanksgiv-
ing plans.
Advised that
M a arrin er s.
Eccles, governor
of the Federal
Reserve Board,
was to confer
with the Presi-
de mt. Morgen-
t h au headed
Cay,kL
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
The Greatest Show On Earth
BY John Snure, J.

Consumers Division of the sup
posedly defunct NRA, calls atten.
ton in its current issue to the
fact that a special office has been
created in the Interior Depart
ment for the Consumers Counsel
to the Bituminous Coal CommiS-
sion under provisions of the Gut
fey coal act.
AS an explanation of the crea-
ton of the office, the Consumer
quotes Thomas w. Woodward,
who was appointed to the new
position.
GrayAaired Woodward said:
II don't know how else to eX-
plain the provision for such an
office except by a parallel.
"A colored community in South
Carolina was definitely startled
one Monday morning to hear that
Sam Jones had been made a dea-
con in the church. Friends came
early to his eating houSe-recrea-
tion club in the rear-to inquire
how it happened. Sam, too, was
a little puzzled. He shook his
head dubiously. He suggested:
"'I suppose that the rough ele-
ment just riz up and demanded
representation"
Woodward, by the way, has a
reputation for a record of liberal
ism in industrial fields.
He graduated from Princeton,
was an attorney, later became
connected with the Interstate
Commerce Commission, then went
with the AAA and the National
Labor Relations Board.
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
OvERCROWDED PRISONS

Everybody talkin' about jail
amt goin' there. But a whole lot
are, particularly to Federal jails;
and the National Government
faces a new and urgent problem
in taking care Of its increasing
prison population. This popula.
ton has just about doubled in
the last eight years, and the wild
ening of Federal punitive author
ity, by laws Of the last few years,
makes imminent a steady length
ening of Uncle Sans lockStep
parade.
And already the Federal jails
are bulging like a prairie grain
elevator after a fat harvest.
Catching crooks, thugs, and blue
sky operators, and putting them
away for a long spell, is one
phase of the steady liberalization
of the Government which has
brought no outcry from even the
most rampant JeffersonianS.
No States and no politicians
complain about the Washington
bureaucracy invading their con-
stitutional rights. In fact, when
one thinks of the killers muffed
by State infields, to be nailed by
the Federal outfield, it appears
that the States have been a bit
too ready to say "let Sam do it,;
and that, along with the whole
some assertion of States rights,
there ought to be equal emphasis
on State obligations.
AS a sovereign political entity.
a State falls somewhere short OF
being really a going concern, when
it has to relay an Al Capone or
a Waxy Gordon to the Federals
on some such mildly offside and
anticlimactic business as income
tax invasion-with maybe a brace
of homicides unpuniShed and un-
punishable.
CUNNING CROOKS
Since repeal, with bootleggers
still on the job on account of the
high retail price of liquor, the
revenue agents have been making
more arrests for the violation of
the liquor laws than they did in
prohibition days. Regarding this
Sanford Bates, director of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, says:
while the offenders against
the prohibition laws, and prob
ably also the new revenue laws,
were, generally speaking, seldom
desperate criminals and could be
handled in prison camps or in
stitutionS Of medium security, the
type of prisoner to be expected
under this new legislation is eX-
actly opposite. Under these laws
we may expect to receive the con.
firmed gangster, the desperate
racketeer and the rowing criminal
possessed of ingenuity, resources
and cunning far beyond that Of
the offender against ordinary
State laws"
Thus the Federal Government,
in addition to the mere concern
of Jail facilities, meets the prob
lem of new and unique villains
and villainies. The income tax law,
the Lindbergh kidnapping law, ex-
tensions and more drastic enforce
ment of the national motor We
hicle act and the narcotic drug
act, set up new offenses and yield
more prisoners.
Diligence in running down pos
tai law violators. with amplifica-
tions of laws, Tightening up on
fake securities operations and the
like, has brought an all-time rec
ord for prisoners held for these
offenSeS.
In 1909, there were 451 men
held for fraudulent use Of the
mans; and now there are 1,410.
IN the years 1910 and 1911, there
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
The Human Side of the News

Narcotic drug act violations are
stabilized at around 2,500 prison
inmates. Mann act viotators stay
around $50. The total Federal
prison population mas risen from
1903 to 13.70S this year. On the
Administration docket for the
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
Help the Rogers Memorial

Because of widespread requests from all sections of the
United States the Will Rogers Memorial campaign has been
extended to December Is.
More time money say the local committee
charmen of the drive which will aid the handicapped chill
dren of the country well erect memorial to the be-
loved cowboy philosopher
The fund is not by any large enough yet
Failure reach all quotas would slight the memory
Of Will who devoted his life the enlightenment and
ment of his countrymen.
Make your contribution today to any local bank
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
MARIHUANA

Largely attributable to the
efforts of the government, 36
states have adopted laws regu-
lating sale and possession Of
marihuana-a drug which the
Federal agencies have been un-
able to control.
Strangely enough, the Federal
Bureau Of Narcotics has never
been successful in securing the
authority to regulate this drug
although its control over sale and
possession of other narcotics is
complete as far as law is con-
cerned.
Years ago, Harry ]. AnSlinger,
chief of the Federal Bureau OF
Narcotics, joined with others in
pointing out that marihuana was
one of the most dangerous mar
cotics but that the authors Of
the Harrison Narcotic Law had
failed to include it among the
other drugs which that act was
designated to regulate.
He sought adoption by the
states of a uniform law controll-
ing narcotics and thus far more
than 80 states have adopted the
bill.
Because of the fact that it can
be used in various forms, mari
huana is almost impossible to
control by Federal regulation in
its production according to Ans
linger. Consequently the matter
has been turned over to the
states. They in turn, becoming
educated to the dangers of the
narcotic have ordered it banned
generally.
One of the difficulties in getting
legislation giving the Federal Gov
ernment control has been the pro-
test that it was used for legitimate
commercial purposes.
While such propaganda may
have convinced certain legislators
that control was difficult, investi-
cation discloSeS that the principal
commercial use Of the dangerous
drug is strange one.
It is used in the manufacture
of certain corn plasters.
The Washington times., 1935-11-27

The conference will not prevent
his New York journey, however,
and he is expected to go to the
New York farm with his family
after a brief stop in Washington.
Once at the farm, it is antici-
pated that Mr.. Morgenthau will
have ample opportunity to observe
Thanksgiving Day without any
hesitancy caused by the Southern
conference,
The Washington times., 1935-11-27

was only one man held for VIOLA
tion of the Interstate Commerce
act. There are now 400. Coun-
terfeiters were 2So in 1909. There
are now 1,271. Homicide prison
ers rose from 81 in 1927 to 25S
today,
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
A HOLDOVER

Boyd Craig has temerity seldom
withstood among the majority of
the New Dealers.
AS one of the assistants to Her.
bert E. CASTOR, Assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury, it is Craig's job to
assist in the dissemination of
propaganda.
Whether it is to cause his writ
ings to have a conservative trend
or not, Craig will not say.
But on his desk the large leather
blotter holder bears the gilt in
Scription ogden F. Mills" It is
one of the few remnants of the
regime of the former Secretary
of Republican days.
The Consumer, organ for the
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
ON SCHEDULE

Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr., is in Warm
Springs, Ca, with the President.
but will return in time to head
for his New York farm for
The Washington times., 1935-11-27

WHEN ONE APPRECIATES the tOide Uariety of
serOices GOhich newspaper performs for the public
has direct intimate, regular and penetrating
contact GOth the people than any other medium.
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
They're Always Blondes

Some going to win undying fame for herself
day She'll be the brunette who shoots the that done he
wrong
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
OLD FAVORITES

George Eliot

Ny sheep neglected, broke my sheep-crook,
And all the gay haunts of my youth forsook;
No more for Amynta fresh garands wove;
For ambition, said, would soon cure me of love.
Oh what had my youth with ambition to do
Why left Amynta? Why broke I my vow?
Oh give my sheep, and my sheep-hook restore
And I'll wander from love and Amynta no more.
Through regions remote in vain do I rove,
And bid the wide me from love!
o, fool! to imagine that aught could subdue
love we'll founded, passion true!
Alas! tits too late at thy fate to repine;
Poor shepherd, Amynta be thine:
Thy tears all fruitless, thy wishes vain,
The moments neglected return not again.
Re0ders Vited to send to the editor their suooes
tons of old tGVorites among the for reprinting
this sDnce.)
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
To Discuss Naval Plans With Great
 Britain Also Air
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 BERLIN, June 10, - Joachim von Ribbentrop, elevated to the rank of Ambassador extraordinary went to London to reassure the British they would have free hand on the high seas as far as Germany is concerned.
 With rear admiral Schuster and two assistant, von Ribbentrop will unfold to the British, der Fuehrer's paper navy for which he is seeking Britain's blessing.
 Von Ribbentrop, Hitler's expert on disarmament affairs also is expected to discuss in London a proposed air pact. Hitler by his own public an- nouncement has no intention of re- newing the former Kaiser's era of challenging Great Britain's sea pow CT. It was indicated Germany's na- val proposals will follow the lines Hitler laid down in his Reichstag speech May 2l.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
Both Men We're Criminals Served
 Terms In Prison
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 WASHINGTON, June To Mahan was described as 32 years old and blacksmith and mechanic, by off cials who are now searching for him.
 The Department of Justice said that Waley was sent to the reform school at Chehalis, Washington in 1929 for burglary. A year later he was sentenced to serve from one to fifteen years on a similar count. In 1881 he received a suspended sen- tence of from two to fifteen years for second degree burglary. Three months later he was ordered to ser ve a similar term for grand larceny.
 His name next appears on char ge of stealing an automobile. The charge was changed to vagrancy and he was sentenced to six months as floater. Waley was described as resident of Salt Lake. He was born at Puyallup in 1911.
 Mahan was born at Cando, North Dakota in 1903. He was listed as being wanted in Idaho and Washing ton on charges of assault and bank robbery. He served part of one pri son term.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
Third Kidnaper Escapes Capture At Butte Montana
Prosecutor Will Ask death Penalty
 For Kidnapers
(By The Associated Press)

Aby lne hSSOCldIeQ HTeSS)
 TACOMA, June 10, - The law says death and it's death we'll de- mand, was the promise of Prosecut- ing Attorney Harry H. Johnston of Pierce County regarding the capture of the kidnapers.
 He said they would probably be tried at the September term of court. Johnson declared there will be no compromise on a lesser pen alty in return for a plea of guilty. He referred to the woman in the case and said he could see no reason why the woman, if she's a principal in such a case, should expect great CT leniency than the man who com mits such a ld-blooded and dast- ardly crime.
 The Washington law under which they will be prosecuted provides life Imprisonment for Kidnapping for ransom, with a provision that the jury may inflict the death penalty.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
Let Out Union Now Charges He
 Was Framed Out
tBy The Associated Press)

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, - Ousted from membership in the sea- mems union, Paul Scharrenberg, previously mentioned as a candidate for international president, struck back with charge he had been framed by the henchmen of the all fen communist. He declared his ex- pulsion here last night by the Sail or's Union of the Pacific, a branch of the International Sailors Union was based on accusations framed by Harry Lundberg of Seattle, Presi- dent of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Scharrenberg asserted in Sacramento that Lundberg was the henchman of Harry Bridges, militant longShoremen leader here.
 He also denied the action auto matically removed him from the office of secretary treasurer of the California state federation of labor, a post he has held for years.
 It was learned that Scharren- berg's busting was based on accuSa- tions that he illegally called the walkout of tanker sailors by failing first to submit the strike question to the membership and that he once expressed a wish for a war with Japan, because then the seamen would get everything they wanted, and that he attempted to foster or ganization of a company longshore- mems union.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
s S NORTH WIND. AND. $ s VICTORIA AREINPORT'
s s Northwind Arrives, Fol- lowed Closely By s. s.
 VictOria-Ice Battle

The s. s. Victoria of the Alaska Line and the s. s. NorthWind under charter to the Arctic Transport Co. were witnessed by Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow Air Service, and his passenger Curtis Jacobs, who will be opening developing and print ing shop soon, this afternoon as they fought their way through the ice about 25 miles Southeast of Nome.
 The Stinson plane flew out over Bering Sea and saw both vessels headed for Nome at pm. The pilot reported the NorthWind about eight miles ahead and just emerging from the ice, and the Victoria with sever al miles of ice to go through yet.
 Radio reports from the Victoria in- dicated she would probably arrive at Nome about six o'clock.
 At the hour of going to press, smoke from both vessels could be seen. Undoubtedly the ice through which they have had to pass is from the Yukon River.
 The Nome Brass Band was prepar- ing to go out to the Victoria aboard the Nohalico lighterage and welcome the incoming passengers. There is no doubt they will receive a big hand, as what they lack in the finer arts of music, they make up for in ambition and volume.
 The vessels were due to arrive ear ly this afternoon but due to ice con- ditions were delayed.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
Announces Arrest
 Of 2 Kidnapers
 C. Weyerhaeuser
(By The Associated PresS)

WASHINGTON, June 10, - John Edgar Hoover, Director of the Bur eau of Investigation of the Depart ment of Justice, Sunday night an- nounced the arrest of two persons in connection with the Weyerhaeus- CT Kidnapping, who are said to have made a full confession.
 He gave their names as MT. and Mrs. Harmon Valley of Salt Lake, Utah. Hoover said the pair made a full confession involving William Mahan, for whom a nationwide search was started last night.
 He further stated that Mahan was the owner of the automobile aban- doned at Butte, Montana today, which contained fifteen thousand dollars of the ransom money.
 The Department did fine; that's good news, exclaimed J. P. Weyer- haeuser Jr., father of the boy in Tacoma when informed of the cap- ture of the two by the Associated Press. Salt Lake authorities said that Valley who was arrested Sun day, stated his home was at Puyal- lup nine miles from Tacoma.
 When asked whether the trio now known to be involved in the Weyer- haeuser case, were the only ones in- volved in the Kidnapping, John Hoov- CT hesitated and then declined to give the information.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
Places Blame On
 Roosevelt Bank
 Panic March l933
(By The Associated Press)

(6y The ASSOclateQ PreSS)
 PHILADELPHIA, June 10, - Re- sponSibility for the bank panic of March l933 and for continuation of the depression is laid upon Presi- dent Roosevelt in a series of articles begun Saturday in the Saturday Ev- ening Post by Walter H. Newton, once secretary to President Herbert Hoover, and Professor William Starr Movers of Princeton University. The authors accuse Mr. Roosevelt of recovery they say had be- gun before the 1892 election They charge that fear of tariff changes curtailed the production almost ov- CT night of millions dollars. Whis- pers of imitation promoted the flight from the dollar, and that MT. Roose- velts aloofness from the Hoover ad- ministration induced fear of his pol icies.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10

Mahan, the third member, in Butte Montana, deserted his auto down town and fled lOs when he cognzed by City Detective Mooney. vicious dog saved Mahan from capture but he left fifteen thousand dollars in ransom bills behind him in the
 Detective Mooney halted abruptly in pursuit of Mahan when dog between him and the fleeing the latter eaped fence and escaped
 Two Salt Lake policemen credited with the capture here of Harmon Waley and his wife. They w. M Rog- CT, detective and L. B. Clifford patrolman
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10

Following the discovery here Friday night of twenty bills of various denominations in the receipts of the Walker Bank Trust Company detectives placed in ious chain Mrs Waley appeared dressed house dress at Il A. M Saturday and offered five dollar bill in payment for small purchases which she made.
 The bill proved to be part of the money. She arrested and broke under the quesonng conessng her part in the Kidnapping She told officers where they would find Valley He picked up where he and his wife had been living. He broke down last night and confessed his part He implicated Mahan, and the man-hunt has on him.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10

The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar ed to do your job printing.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
Woman In Case
 Not Yet Twenty
 Years Of Age
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 SALT LAKE, June 10, - Mrs Waley is the daughter of George Thulin of this city, and one of 14 children, and according to her fam. fly had never been in trouble be. fore.
 She married Valley against hel family's wishes, when she was 1S years old. She now is near her 2Otf birthday
 The girls father said that after marrying Waley, Margaret went with her husband to Tacoma where they resided until July last year They then moved to Camden, N. J and all trace of the couple was lost by the girls parents until she call ed last Wednesday to pay brief visit to her former home.
 Her husband the son of the fore man for Weyerhaeuser, never work ed for the company as his father objected to hiring relatives.
 Two ransom bills were found in Valleys pockets when he was ar rested.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10

Both Valley and Mahan reported to be former in- mates of an Idaho state prison and hardened criminals
 Plans for the removal of Valley and his wife to Wash ngon State will be speeded tonight. Officials said he could not prosecuted in Utah any charge Extradition pap filed immediately. It is believed that Mahan came here and purchased and then left for Butte where he was seen, but escaped.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-10
TWO OF KIDNAPERS N ENTERTAINERS CASE
 ARRESTED SALT LAKE
Passing Of Ransom Bills Followed By The Arrest Of Young Woman Who ImpIicat-
 es Husband And One Other Man
(By The Associated Press)

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. June 10, - From all fronts Department of Justice agents pressed the search for the oh person of the Weyerhaeuser kdnap gang after Harmon Waey good-oo<ng blond sel of Wcyerhacuse1 Lumber Company foreman and his good-ooking wife Margaret the retiring and dmunitve daughter of old Salt Lake City ing.