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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-21
RISE IN TAX
SEEN IF AID
CONTINUES
Lusk Says Depression
Over Here; Cites
Business Gain

Liquidation of the entire local
relief Set-up by June 30, 1896, was
recommended to the Commission
ers today by Rufus s. Lusk, secre.
tary Of the Washington Taxpayers
Protective Association, at the
opening session of the public hear
ingS on the District 1887 fiscal
budget estimates. "a
Expressing fears that taxes
would have to be increased here
If relief spending continued, Mr..
LuSk said: -
"This Recommendation Ia
made with No ifs or ands At
tached to it. In our Judgment
there 10 no more need Of relief
In the District today than there
was five years ago.
SUBMITS STATISTICS
Mr.. Lusk called on the Commits
sionerS to "set an example to the
country" by being the first city to
eliminate relief. He stated that
there is no depression here and
that "timeS are normal"
He submitted statistics colnpar-
ing business operations during the
first six months of this year with
the same period o. 1888.
Residential building operations,
he said. have increased by 311.8
per cent, the dollar value of new
residential buildings in 1888 hav-
ing been $1,61O, 100 compared with
$6,631 ,09O this year. New non.
residential buildings were valued
at $2,277,531 in 1888. and $685.
799 during the first six months of
this year.
The number of passenger auto
mobiles sold increased by Ills per
cent, bank clearing by 44.2 per
cent, hotel occupancy by 40 per
cent, office occupancy by 1876 per
cent, apartment occupancy by 1876
per cent and employment of Fed
,eral employees here by So per cent,
Mr.. LuSk said.
Relief Costs Mount
He declared that costs of relief
administration have mounted and
urged the number. Of case work
ers employed in the relief organi-
zation be reduced Immediately
by so.
William A. Maio, chairman of
the Southeast Council of Citizens
Associations, requested the Com
n1issioners to include a number of
improvement projects in the 1887
fiscal budget. Among the requests
were:
Replacement of Pennsylvania
Avenue bridge; transfer of garb-
age plant in southeast section;
Continued on Page 2. Col. -
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ROGERS RITES
TOMORROW

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 81 I.N.SJ.
Plain blue suit, soft white shirt,
black bow tie-a simple bronze
casket.
In death as in life, no ostenta-
ton will be Will. Rogers.
The beloved cowboy humorist
and philosopher, crushed to death
with Wiley Post in a northern
Alaska plane crash, today lay in
the Wee Kirk O. the Heather, at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Chapel,
as friends waited for the arrival
from the East Of his family to
complete arrangements for his
funeral tomorrow.
Mrs. Rogers, with the children,
Mary, James and Will, jr., are due
late today on the Santa Fe Chief,
CONTINUED on Page S, Col. ~
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D0HERTY'S
LOBBYING
Barred
Senate Probe Shifts
To Cities Service
Utility Empire
International News Service

The Senate lobby committee to-
day began an investigation into
the far-flung corporate empire of
the Cities Service Company.
Meanwhile the so-called Asso-
ciated Gas and Electric Com.
lpany'S master mind" Howard c.
l5HopSon, sat on the side lines. He
was questioned briefly before the
Cities Service probe started.
With the Cities Service Comp
troller, william 2, S. WinanS, on
the stand, the COMMITTEES called
for all records bearing not only
on the company's fight against
the pending utility bill, but also
all data concerning the details Of
the corporate structure.
WinanS said he thought" the
organization embraced about 100
companies in all.
Under questioning he revealed
also that the Cities Service head,
Henry L. Doherty, owned an in.
terest in the Kansas City Journal.
Post.
Objected to Probe
From the tone of the questions
shot at Winans, it was apparent
that the company had objected to
examination of some of its data.
The committee chairman, Senator
Black CD of Alabama, explained
that his committee had "all neces-
sary authority" to look into any
and all the records of the COM
pany.
Winans said he could not say
off-hand what the Cities Service
companies had spent fighting the
utility bill. The top company in
the structure, he added, spent
100000 in the campaign. Sena-
tor Black observed:
'The company has not CO.
operated. Do you know that
Your filling station employees
all over the country have had
form letters opposing the utility
bill. to which they were in
structed to get signatures?"
"NO, i didn't"
The witness said his company
employed John w. Davis to write
an opinion on the constitution.
ality of the utility bill, and that
he found it unconstitutional.
Mullen Employed
Arthur Mullen, formerly Demo-
cratic national committeeman
from Nebraska, now a practicing
attorney here, is employed by the
Cities Service Company here,
WlnanS~ said, and receives a re-
tainer of $25, 900 a year.
~ The witness also said that Joseph
P. Tumulty, secretary to the late
President Woodrow Wilson, also
was retained, and received a fee
Of $12,500.
The New York law firm of
Frueauff, Robinson g. Sloan was
also employed, and received $50.
600. he said. Also, a Washing
ton lawyer, Wade Ellis, has been
an attorney for the company for
years.
Senator Black had the witness
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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CITIZEN SHIP
REFUSED HER

BOSTON. Mass; Aug. 21,-Re-
fusal to take an oath to defend
and support this country in event
of war has definitely barred Mrs.
John w. Annas, jr., from Ameri-
can citizenship.
A daughter of Scotch mission
airy and the wife of a Corning,
N. Y, clergyman, Mrs. Annas
served as a nurse in the World
War. Citizenship has been denied
in court here.
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til the White House Is habitable
again, probably in October.
Mrs. Roosevelt talked to news
paper men about her trip with
Colonel Howe:
II left him happy and COM
Portable. The first thing he
said ut the hospital was where
are my bells?' He has had o
lot of bells In his White House
room to call people, but ne will
have plenty Of attention ut the
hospital and will mot need all
those bells"
Colonel Howe has been steadily
improving. There Is no reason to
believe that his temporary stay in
the hospital has anything to do
with his health.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-21
D. {. Prison Inmates
Up 500 in 7 Months

Increase in the population Of
District penal institutions by 500
in the past two months was re-
ported today by Capt. M. M. Bar
nard, superintendent of local
prisons
The population at the Lorton
Reforrhatory is 1920; Occoquan
Workhouse, 1850, and District
Jail, 749.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-21
Howe Misses Bells
At Naval HOSDital

Col. Louis Howe, the Presi-
dents secretary, who has been
convalescing in the White House,
had to leave his comfortable
room in the executive mansion
today and take up his home tenn
porarily in the Naval Hospital.
The reason is that water and
electricity in the White House
are being cut off room by room,
while PWA workmen install a
new $1,000 electric stove in the
kitchen.
They got around to Colonel
Howe's room today. and Mrs.
Roosevelt led him downstairs to
her big White House limousine
and drove with him over to the
hospital where he will remain un-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-21
Tugwe|| Explains
Resett|ement Plan
international News Service

The Administrators plan to
take a million farm families off
relief and place them on produc-
tive land was described to a Spe-
cial Senate committee today by
DR.. Rexford G.. Tugwell, Under
secretary of Agriculture and head
of the Rural Resettlement Ad-
miniStration.
Tugwell appeared before the
committee headed by Senator
O'Mahoney Cd Of Wyoming, ap-
pointed following adoption of a
special Senate resolution calling
for a survey Of the land and
other policies Of Government bu-
reauS,
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Kills Girl and Self

BUFFALO, Aug. 81 GN.s).
Corinne Bowin, 20, Sheriff., N. Y,
domestic, died today of q bullet
wound suffered last Wednesday.
She was shot by Edwin Brown,
when she fought his advances. He
killed himself after shooting the
girl,
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Two Die in Plane Crash

TULSA, OKLA, Aug. 81 O.NS),
Fred G. Hill, %, a flying student
of six months, and Ward Craw-
ford, 26, an aviation instructor,
were dead today, victims Of a
plane crash. A small cabin plane
piloted by Hill fell from 400 feet
late yesterday,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-21
SENATE PASSES
NEUTRAL BILL
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international News Service
Racing forward in q new
burst Of speed, the Senate to.
day passed with little debate
and without amendments the
neutrality legislation favOrably
reported yesterday by its For.
eign Relations Committee.
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-05
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
FALL COMES AUsPICioUsLY

September is usually regarded as ushering in the
seasonal fab Improvement in business activity and
it is encouraging to observe that the month opens
under very suspicious circumstances from an eco
monte standpoint ..... .....''- ... .'..
induces of business volume, weighted for sea-
sonal variations continue to show substantial I'M
provement over those of last year at this time,
with an apparently rising trend. Railroad freight
car loadings, which have Jagged in this respect up
to the last few weeks, have maintained the gain
over year ago. . "s,.'.ti ... -... 81.
Notable gains in business activity were shown
during the past week. says the weekly letter issued
at the close of last week by the Administrative and
Research Corporation of New York. 4notwithstand-
ing the fact that there is usually decline during
the weeks Immediately preceding Labor Day. The
organizations weekly index of business trend aid
yanced to 1875 for the week ended August "a, as
compared with 69.8 for the immediately preceding
week and 61.9 for the corresponding week of last
year Most business indicators displayed gains for
the week. r,-.-aa. .- a."
In its monthly summary, the National City Bank
of New York points out that "the reports from
business during August have continued of en-
couraging nature. Industrial operations, according
to preliminary figures, have made more than the
usual seasonal advance, and markets of all kinds
gave evidence of a further strengthening of con-
fdence in the fall outlook" The bank points out
that retail business is running steadily ahead OF
last year, and that undoubtedly the general view
is that fall merchandise trade will show an increase
Of fully ten per cent over last year and that the
gains in many of the industries will be even larger
With seasonal preparations going ahead on that
basis, advance buying has been the best in five or
six years, except for the speculative movement Of
1888, which merchants do not propose to repeat ,
-Greenviue IS. c. News.
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SUPER TROOPERS


"Wobbly" drivers will first be taken for walk,
along chalk line, and then for ride straight to
the nearest jailhouse, according to Captain Chas
d. Farmers explanation of his new state patrol
and their rules and regulations. AS his revised
crew taxes to the highways he makes suggestions
to the motorist, including this
do not drink any liquor, not even beer or ale
while driving an automobile Drivers of 'wobbly
cars will be stopped and given the walking test
right on the highway and if they 'wobble' will be
arrested Immediately for driving while drunk and
their cars taken and parked
Skipping over eight other pithy rules of the road
we come to No. TO- which carries the final punch
and, indeed, may mean something business il
nothing else:
"When patrolman signals for you to stop, stop
as soon possible 1t is also better policy not to
argue with patrOlmen and especially not to resist
them. Most of the patromen are six feet tall or
more and weigh from IT'S to 225 pounds are ply
Isieally fit and able to take care of themselves"
That's all right Cap'n Charlie! We won't hit
'em! Are you plumb sure you made it plain to
them not to hit us?-Charlotte News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-05
POLITICAL rTwo-BY.FoURs"

!" During the worst of the depression in recent
years small political "two-by-fours" in various sec
lions of the country, having gained an office and
received little publicity, have reached the conct'l-
sions that they are presidential timber, or almost
But the time is rapidly returning when some OF
these cyclists will be permanently consigned to tae
tall tbnbers the best interests of which they have
so selfshly claimed to represent. Such a lot OF
politicians reminds of the political two-by-four
who, when asked how he stood on a certain "phar-
maceutical bill' replied that he was "for anything
Cor the farmer" Such small man is for self ag
grandizement rather than for the people, More big
and competent men are needed for offices. With
the country in its straits of the last three or four
years, there has been far too great trend to-
ward following something new, following the selfish
nolteian who has taken adyantake of the stress OF
times to promote. his own narrow interests. But
truth, fair dealing competency and S:atesmanship
always win out in the end. And for that matter
aud luckily for our democratic form OF government
there are always enough honest, conscientious men
in public office to offset the most sanguine and am
gitious efforts of the political "two-by-fours
derson IS. c.. Record.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-05

Congressman Doughton of this State is
quoted as saying, "We must get back to
more self-relance and help ourselves.
Otherwise, the government will fail" In
view of Congressman Doughton's valiant
efforts to aid the administration in leading
the country away from self-reliance, hon
est citizens are bound to come to the con-
clusion that he, like the President and
many of his other supporters, talks one
way and acts another.
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robodv else is TO blame.

nobody else is to blame.
I know Of several boys where
the parents have full knowledge
that their boys drive reckless, but
nevertheless permit these boys to
drive and to drive the family car.
The parents also permit their II,
Is and lG-year-old daughters tc
attend dances, and these dances
generally do not end until some
time the next morning. Oh no
there may be nothing wrong in
this, but would it not be better II
the parents would see what their
children are doing and not just
trust to luck?
Yes the church can perform an
invaluable service. by making
their members realize that with
out the proper homciifc, without
the proper discipline, no nation
can exist. but above all the par
ents must be made to realize that
the parents and nobody else are
responsible if these children in
later years will be useful citizens
or Just criminals.
LUDWIG SCRALLER.
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THEY MUST WANT IT
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

untecrs-as they should be.
A certain amount of paid exc
cutive and secrctarial assistance
may be necessary in a good gov
eminent movement; but | am OPP
posed to hiring automobiles and
Salespeoplc to push and pull the
voters to the polls.
A public that has to be cajoled
and bulldozed into supporting
good government, is not ready for
good government, and does not
deserve it.
1t is a mistake to worry ones
self over the misfortune of peo-
pie who are entitled to their mis-
fortune and need more of it to
bring about their development.
1t is too bad when an cnlighten-
ed minority is held back by an
unenlightencd majority. The only
thing left then for the minority
to do, is to set about diligently
enlightening the majority.
People who are pushed into a
condition to which they have not
been educated mentally and spir-
itually, will not maintain that
condition. They will change it or
they will retire from it as soon
as the pressure on them is remOv-
ed.
Voters should be enlightened.
They should not be manipulated.
The voter who casts his ballot &C
cording to the principles of good
government because he was skill
fully managed into doing so, can
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-05
HITcH.HIKER IS MENACE AS WELL AS
NUISANCE
(By BRUCE CATION

1t is impossible to drive anywhere q
America today without encounterng a pa
tient, droop-shouldered chap who stands
by the roadside and continuously jerks his
thumb across his chest.
He is the hitch-hiker, one of the strang-
est products of the auto age, and he is get
ting to be a prominent part of the Ameri-
can landscape. He is also getting to be all
intense pain in the neck. ...
Just why it should be considered proper
for man to stand by the roadside and beg
free transportation from total strangers is
something of a mystery. If he should am
BILE up to pedestrian and say Il want to
take the next train to Bingville-would
you mind slipping me three ninety-five p,
the pedestrian would lose no time in telling
him where to go; but put the pedestrian
behind the wheel of a car and let the hitch
hikcr make a request which amounts to
precisely the same thing, and neither party
sees unything especially odd about it.
Eu, the hitch-hiker is something more
than a nuisance. America is full of NUS
ances anyway, and one more or less hardly
makes enough difference to be worth talk
ing about. There are times and places
when the hitch-hiker is an actual menace
to public safety. -...
For instance the police at Wichita, Kan,
got curious recently and took all the hitch
mixers they could find down to headquar-
lers to be ingerprinted. They found that
two of every five had criminal records.
- For another instance: murders of motor
lists by hitch-hikers have been recorded re-
Gently in Oregon, Virginia, Nebraska, New
Mexico, and Oklahoma. Oklahoma, as o
matter of fact, ascribes more than half a
dozen recent killings to hitch-hikers, while
Oregon has had three.
It might also be remembered that when
Pretty Boy Floyd was finally hunted down
and killed in Ohio he was in the process CT
-hitch-hiking across the country.
The ordinary American is pretty good
-natured sort of person, and it is this fact
that the hitch-hiker trades on. He collects
"a, great deal Of free transportation, pro
NOTES the existence of vagabopd class
which does the country no good, and ere
ates fine opening for lot of old-fash-
Toned highway robbery.
As an Individual, the hitch-hiker may be
a hkable chap. As an institution, he is get.
= ting to be pretty trying. One wonders JUS,
how much longer the American motoris!
g, will put up with him.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
az RODNEY BUTCHER

and CONSUMPTION. The House added
an amendment conscripting war
profits.
THE neutrality battle found them
in the van of the effort to get
an effective bill as against the adj
ministration's mild measure and
next winter they'll he fighting for
an even stronger one.
Maverick, badly wounded and
decorated for gallantry in the war,
has neutrality bill-prepared with
the aid of 80 professors and inter-
national lawyers-which would con-
fine the army and navy to defense
Of American territory; prohibit
contracts to supply munitions or
other things designated as contra.
band 20 warning nations, and oan
such exports as we'll as loans and
credits and casual passports to war,
ring countries and war zones.
TT was the Texan who exposed the
l. navy's official memorandum
branding the Federal Council Of
Churches, National Council for Pre-
.vention of War, and Women's In
ternational League, Jane Adams
Clarence barrow, and Sherwood
Eddy as CommuDistic or Com
munist-minded."
MARCANToNIo was campaign
I'A manager for Fiorello LaGuar-
dia when LaGuardia was beaten
for reelection to Congress in 1882
Then LaGuardia ran for New York
mayor and Vito ran for Fiorello's
old House seat. Campaigning for
each other, both won and Marcan
tonic is regarded as a worthy sue.
cessor to LaGuardia, who became
the most effective Independent
leader in the House.
A member Of the Labor commit
tee. Marcantonio is radical in his
demands for labor. He led a
brilliant but unsuccessful battle
against compulsory military train
ing in colleges and managed to
block the Dickstein alien deporta
ton bill. He led the unsuccessful
revolt for a tax bill soaking all in
comes above $4,000 and raising the
administration ante on big inherit
ances, incomes and corporations.
If there's a future for radicalism
Marcantonio has a big future.
'Cnnvrieht 1895 NEA Service. Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-05

TN a beautiful square at New.
burgh, N. Y, stands the famous
old Mansion House of Jonathan
Hasbrouck. where. on April Is.
1883, Gen. George Washington
signed the proclamation ordering
cessation of hostilities between the
United States and Great Britain.
Here Washington maintained his
headquarters from April /, 1882, to
Aug. IS, 1888. Here, too, Col.
Lewis Nicola rendered the great
general the crown as king of the
United States. and Washington re.
fused it,
Finally, it was here that Wash.
ington wrote his famous address to
his officers in which he outlined
the principles upon which the new
government was to endure.
On the 150th anniversary of
Washington's peace proclamation,
the United States issued a com.
memorative stamp. which had its
first day of sale. April 10. 1888, at
Newburgh.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-05
RY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. The House of
w Representatives is a place
for all but a few-where obscure
politicians go and lose their iden-
titles.
Those who stand out from the
mack are almost invariably elderly
gents who have time-seryed their
way to positions of power through
the seniority system, which some
times is called the senility system.
Yet today it's most outstanding
members in point of independ-
ence, aggressiveness, ability, in
tegrity, and future promiSe-seem
to be a couple of fellows who have
been there only eight months-Mr.
Maury Maverick, 3S, of Texas, and
Mr.. Vito Marcantonio, 80, of New
York.
A burly, bull-voiced son of the
plains, whose ancestors were big
shots in early Texas days and in
colonial New England, and
swarthy. keen-eyed, vigorous little
Itallan-American from one of New
York's toughest districts. You
wouldn't think they'd have much
in common.
But they share a passion for free
speech civil liberty, underdogs. so.
cial and economic justice, national
peace and most of those other
things that go to make a comnlate
progressive.
Each happens to be a smart noli.
sH:an with a sense of humor wbicb
has enabled them to obtain a lot
OF co'operation-even from the old.
line leaders-and to assume an mn.
ofhcial leadership of the most effec.
1--WE liberal bloc the shackled House
mas seen in many years.
THE liberal House bloc inc,rdos
Carl Moran of Maine and Otba
Mearln of Iowa. with whom Maye,
~ -, ana Marcantonio co-operated
u the brilliant fight those two
s .Eiu against the Bland.Copeland
snip subsidy bill; Paul Kvala of
minnesota, Eicher of Iowa Citron
.! connecticut, Lister Hill of Ala
Oaa IA, and most of the Wisconsin
and "a, Washington delegations.
,od lie hrst revolt Maury and Vito
rrc, vas against the McSwain. Ba.
~ .uen war profits bill, which seemed
~ 'nem to guarantee war profits