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The Washington times., 1935-05-04
REP. COCHRAN
SERIOUSLY Ill

Representative John j. Cochran
Cd, of Missouri, author of the
controversial married pers SON S
clause of the economy act, is Seri-
ously i'll at Naval Hospital today
as the result of nervous break
down and heart attack.
The Congressman was taken i'll
Monday after he had refused to
follow the advice of physicians to
take a complete rest. 1t is said
that he will not be able to return
to his office for two months.
Mr.. Cochran recently broke into
the headlines over his defense of
Government employees following
the charge made by E. Claude
Babcock, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Government
Employees, that the married per
sons legislation had forced Gov.
eminent workers to live together
without benefit of clergy because
of fear of dismissal if it were
known they were married.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
Major BrOWn Praised
By District Taxpayer

To the Editor of The Times:
Now that the Crime Committee
of Congress has finished its inves-
tigation of the Police Department,
they want to GUST the best super
intendent the force has ever had,
Major Brown has given to the peo'
pile of Washington the best part
of his life, working his way from
a private to superintendent. To
climax his career by being ousted
is not right.
He has the respect Of the men
under his command, and 1 am
sure that not one would be will
The Washington times., 1935-05-04

fasten paper over hole in the
window pan.
Among our friends in Moscow
during that year in Russia there
was no more pathetic figure than
an eager little SwediSh-American
mechanic with whom I became &C.
quainted. An idealist, a student,
stepped in the theory of Com
muniSm.
In November, 1882. he joined a
workers group going to USSR;
contributing $4,000, his all, toward
buying farm machinery. Once on
the farm, his idealiSm suffered re-
peated shocks.
Peasants did not know how
to operate the complicated ma
chinery. The director would not
let the Swedish-American start
classes to teach them, because,
he said:
eff those men learn too
much they will leave the farm
and go to the city where they
can better their condition, and
we will be left ShOrt-handed."
OUT IN THE RAIN
Included in the purchased ma
chinery were an electric washing
machine, a clothes drier and an
electric iron. These were left
out in the rain three months.
"They would have been there
yet, if some Red Army men
hadn't been sent to push
harvesting along. Two of
them helped me put these
machines in the bath-hOuSe.
They were not used"
For six months, my Swedish
American friend watched workers
starve in leaking, barn-like bar
racks, two months behind in their
pay, while directors lived richly,
in apartments, with servants,
until he could stand it no longer.
He went to Moscow to COM
plain. The directors wired
ahead of him. He was branded
a counter-revolutionary, he was
fired, his bread-card was taken
away. Worst of all. the director
held his passport until he
stopped complaining.
Penniless, and with shattered
ideass. he was looking for work in
Moscow when I knew him.
In contrast with the pathetic
SWedish-American, Harry -
was the funniest expatriate we
knew. He was a drifter and ad-
mitted it. He's seen plenty of the
seamy side.
II was so lazy my family
threw me off their farm in Ger
many years before the war;" he
said. 81 drifted to America. I
don't like to work. / never hold
a job for long.
81 heard about Russia being
a land of no miIIiOnaires and no
beggars. That sounded good to
me. so I came over.
But / was wrong. I'd rather
be a drifter anywhere in the
world than in Russia.
"In other places when you
work you get something for it.
Here you don't even get fed"
And this was the Communism
in which we also had believed.
But we could come home.
These others cannot,
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
WELL SLAYERS
GO ON TRIAL
ON MAY a

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May
4 (SpeciaD John Shell and Joe
Jackson, under indictment for the
torture murders of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Thomas Coleman, ell
derby SpotSylvania county couple
will go on trial for their lives
at SpotSylvania Court House May
IA. Date for the trial was set
yesterday by Judge Frederick w
Coleman.
RICHMOND, Va, May 4
John Shell, colored, held for safe
keeping in Henrico County jail
with Joe Jackson, also colored
for the recent murder of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Thomas Coleman, aged
Spotsylvania County couple, made
a confession yesterday to Sheriff
Make L. Blades of Spotsylvania,
according to Blades.
Shell admitted going to the
home of the couple with Jackson
When they demanded money anC
were refused they began a search
of the house.
While he was engaged in search
for money upstairs, he said Jack
son shot the couple and after
throwing both bodies into a well
on the premises fired point blank
down the we'll.
Sheriff Blades said that Jack
son told practically the same story
except that he put the blame foI
the shooting upon his companion
Taking the gun and small
amount of cash they found in the
house. the two fled in the Cole
man car, according to Shells con
fesSion.
Shell said that Jackson killed
the couple because they recognized
him when he entered the house
jackson was arrested a few days
after the double crime but at first
denied all knowledge of the at.
fair.
Shell was captured last week IN
Haverstraw, N. Y, and was
brought back to Virginia a day OF
two ago.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
BOND PROBERS
To RESUME
HEARINGS

Fresh revelations may be ex.
pected when the special House
committee investigating the activ.
tiles of bond holders protective
committees reconvenes for hear
ings, Representative Adolph Sab
ath CD of Illinois, chairman of
the probing group, said today.
The Illinois Representative
said hearings will be resumed
the coming week - probably
ThurSday-but that he cannot
set a definite date at present.
Details Secret
He would not disclose what
witnesses will be called, assert
ing:
1--WE have been getting up
some information for use when
we start the hearings again.
From what we have learned
it will be necessary to subpoena
some witnesses, but 1 cannot
disclose who they will be be-
cause they might become sick
or find it necessary to get out
of town if they know we want
them here"
May Call BralOve
It is believed, however, that
Harry Bralove, head of the
Shoreham Hotel, will take the
witness stand at the outset.
since when the hearings recessed
the chairman was to rule on
whether or not Mr.. Bralove must
answer question as to who
lent him the 100000 which he
advanced to the hotel receivers
to finance the reorganization.
Members Of the committee
have suggested that Mr.. Bralove
may have obtained the loan from
Henry Doherty, oil magnate, and
if it is found that this is so, it
is epected that Mr.. Doherty will
be Subpoenaed to explain his in
terest, if any, in the hotel prop.
erty,
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
SAFETY D R | \ {
OPENS MONDAY
R. H. SANGER

olive and let live" will be the
slogan of a city-Wide traffic safety
campaign which will be launched
Monday with radio addresses by
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen.
The drive to reduce the number
of fatalities and casualties due to
traffic will continue for eight
weeks and will enlist the radio
broadcasting stations, newspapers
and the forums of various civic
and trade bodies in Washington,
in an educational campaign to
make the city streets safe for
pedestrians and motorists.
Commissioner HaZen, at a meet.
ing of the traffic educational COM
mittee in the Potomac electric
Power Company auditorium last
night, called for the participation
of all District residents in the
safety effort. He stated:
81 hope everybody gets in to
make this success. We have
the President of the United
States behind us"
Among the activities planned by
the committee are talks on traffic
to school children, broadcast of
the safety slogan over the radio
six times a day, display of the
slogan on the Windshields of au-
tomobiles, movie films on safety
at theater houses, addresses to So
cial, trade and church groups and
advertisements donated by the
local newspapers.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
Double Shift Urged
To Glue 100000 Jobs

To the Editor of The Times:
If the Federal Government will
take over a few of the large bust
ness concerns, which statistics
show employ 100000 men at
eight hours a day. and put two
shifts on at four hours per day,
it will relieve the country of
100000 workers now unem-
ployed. At least that is one solu-
ton.
No overproduction would result
and 100000 unemployed would
be given a purchasing power they
do not possess at this time.
MRS. M. H. M.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
Dana Medal Given
Chicago Doctor

NEW YORK. May 4 G.N.SD.
The Leslie Dana Gold Medal,
awarded annually for outstanding
achievements in the prevention
of blindness and the conservation
of vision, will be presented this
year to DR.. William H. Wilder,
of Chicago, it was announced
today by Lewis H. Carris, manag-
ing director of the Nationa |
Society for the Prevention Of
Blindness,
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
Where Will Shriners
Room in CROWDED. D. c.?

To the Editor of The Times:
Just a thought: Where are
those thousands of visitors antici-
pated here during the Shriners'
convention going to find living
quarters?
Already we have a house and
apartment shortage and hotels are
damned with the usual summer
tourists and small convention
trade.
The Shriners' convention prob
ably will be the largest event Of
its kind ever staged in the District.
It's thought, but is there any
answer? A BOOMER.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
Mrs. Coolidge
Yields, Has
Hair Bodied

NORTHAMPTON, Mass, May
4 (U.SD Mrs. Calvin Cool
idge, who has held out against
the bobbed-haired craze for IS
years, came home with a hair
cut today.
Returning from a Southern
trip, the former First Lady sur
prised the old home town by
appearing with a becoming bob.
Her hair is clipped close in
back and smoothly waved.
Mrs. Coolidge smilingly re-
marked that she acquired the
haircut in the South.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04

Ding to lose him in favor of a CT
villain superintendent or outsider.
To appoint an outsider to the
post would only lower the morale
of the force.
With his limited personnel and
finances Major Brown has di-
rected the department to the best
of his ability. 1 am a resident
and taxpayer of Washington, not
on the police force, and for one
have the greatest confidence in
Major Brown and only hope for
the benefit of the citizens of
Washington that he may be able
to continue at the head of the
force for many more years.
H. COLVIN,
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
AMERICAN REDS
D|S|LLUS|ONED
BY RUSSIA

r. H. Sanger, author of this
series of articles, is the son OF
Col. William Cary Sanger, tDho
as Assistant Secretary of War
under Theodore Roosevelt.
The family is one of the
oldest and best knoWn in NeU
York State, hGuiug resided at
Sangertield House, Sdngertield,
N. Y, since 1881. On the ma
ternGl side he is also the grand
son of the late William Earl
Dodge. eminent philGnthropiSt.
Mr.. Sanger lDdS graduated from
st. Marks Preparatory School,
HARVARD University and HGr-
UGrd Business School.
Mrs. Marion Child Sanger is
the granddaughter of the late
H. w. Child, president of the
Yellowstone Park and TrG1lSpor-
tGtion Company, and of George
r. James, of Memphis, a men,
Der of the Federal ReSerOe
Board in Washington. She is
a graduate of Wellesley College.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
County Official
Short in Accounts

RICHMOND, Va. May 4 (spe-
ciaD Il. Mccarthy Downs, State
auditor Of public accounts, re-
ported today C. B. Hall, treasurer
Of Hanover county, has been
short in the accounts of his of.
flee at the end of each of the last
three fiscal years and the short.
age has been progressively mount,
ing from $1.678 on June 30, 1882,
to $2,328 the next year and to
$4,6l2 on June 80, 1884.
Hall, however, had reduced the
shortage and on March 8, 1885,
the day the audit began, they had
been cut to $32732.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
Baltimore Girl
Queen of the Nav

COLLEGE PARK, Md, May 4.
Virginia Ijams. 5000 block Car
Isle Ave, Baltimore, was selected
Queen of the May at the Univer-
sity of Maryland today.
Six maids selected to attend her
we're: Barbara Lee, Landover,
Md; Helen Klinghoer. New York
city; Mary Stallings, Dupont Cir
Gle Apartments, Washington; Polly
Ensor, Sparks, Md; Hazel Spicher,
Accident, Md; Eleanor Boyd, Pitts.
burgh, Pa.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
Rhodes to Offer
King Henry WIZ

Civic and educational leaders
will attend the presentation May
9 at 8:15 p. m. at Roosevelt
High School Auditorium of Shake
speare's King Henry VIII"
Arthur Rhodes is the director and
producer.
The Shakespeare Society of
Washington and the Community
Center Department are cooperat-
ing in the presentation.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
SentinelS to Hear
Gore, Mccormick

STON, May 4 GN.SD.
United States Senator Gore of
Oklahoma; Col. Robert R. McCor-
mick, of Chicago, and Raymond
Pitcairn, national chairman of the
Sentinels of the Republic, will
speak tonight at a mass meeting
sponsored by the Sentinels in
Faneuil Hall.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
CHALIAPIN UNCHANGED

PARIS, May 4 G.N.SD.-Feoder
Chaliapin, Lifted Russian basso
suffering from influenza and
bronchitis, is still running a high
fever, his physician announced
today. His condition, it was said,
is UNCHANGED,
The Washington times., 1935-05-04

disc: he would go home. 1t
was then that he learned for the
first time that $400, in foreign
money, was necessary for a visa.
He was trapped.
He would go to Moscow, where
conditions were better. He had to
wait three weeks to get railway
ticket. Then his brigade fore
man" and a OGPU agent came to
his room and advised" him to
stay in Cork and help build so
cialism. He understood. He
stayed.
In Stalingrad, tractor capital of
The promised socialist apart.
ments" were unfinished. He
lived, with 100 other men, in a
leaky barracks. But, he said, he
was lucky, many slept in dugoutS
and caves.
He was told that this condi-
ton was temporary" BY spring
of 1888 conditions were worse. Two
workers died of starvation in his
barracks in single night.
He Was Trapped
When his best friend died Of
typhus, because the hospital was
too crowded to take more pa
tents, Kivowitz decided he had
seen enough of "proletarian para
the U. S. S. r., a tired-looking
man of As, an electrician, Social
list since the World War, said:
II would give my right hand
to 20 back to America, but my
passport is lost. When my wife
inherited 500 we decided to
take a look at Russia. En- route
from ROstOv to Stalingrad, we
were in a train wreck, and our
passports and money burned.
We had brought our daughter
along to finish her education.
1t was finished, all right. We
are caught here, imprisoned for
life.
"The missus and 1 have given
up hoping; but couldn't you lend
our girl money for an exit wise.
If you'll only take her to Amer
lea, she'll work five years as
your maid to pay it back"
Most of these Americans had
gone to Russia because they were
unemployed. MCGEE (Which is
not his real name) was different.
Long a socialist, he left a Birm-
ingham, Ala, lathe and $40 a
week, on promise of a foreman's
job at Magnetogorsk at big in
crease in pay.
One Chair In Apartment
MCGEE and his wife and baby
lay upon a homemade bed. I
occupied the only chair in their
eight-by-eight cubical. Locale, a
cold and drafty barracks on a
State farm six hours out of Mos
COW.
81 came on ahead of my
family" he said. II wasn't
made a foreman. wasn't sent
to MagnetOgOrSk. / was sent
here, where my knowledge was
wasted. 1 found that my $50
rubleS a month had value of
about $5-2 cents each.
81 wrote to my wife telling
her not to come. The letter
was censored. She arrived
about three months ago, bring
ing the baby and our oldest boy,
who is 16. The Communists
promised her he would have
good schooling; there would be
plenty of milk for baby. There
is no school, no milk, we sold
some furniture my wife brought,
to keep the baby alive.
BARGAIN NOT KEPT
"The director said that if I
would install two latheS in the
machine-shOp before tractors
came in for repair he'd send my
son to Moscow to school. I've
done m. part, but the boy is
still here. We can't 60 on much
longer. But our savings are gone
and we can't get home without
money. To think that 1 gave up
a job in America"
-
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
US, SECURITIES
At PREM|UN
international News Service


For the first time in many years
Government securities were Of
fered for a premium today.
Secretary Morgenthau an
nounced that the issue price of
the 27s per cent bonds callable in
1855 and maturing five years later
will be increased to 10012, effec-
tive as to subscriptions rendered
after midnight May 7.
The result will be yield on
these bonds of slightly more than
234 per cent.
The bonds were rendered in ex-
change for the First Liberties, of
which 1898 100000 were out
standing at the time of the offer.
The Treasury also offered a five
year note bearing ia per cent
interest in exchange for the Lib
critics. Owing to the quick re-
Spouse by holders of the Firsts,
books on the notes were closed.
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor should ordS Then must
signed the Writer NTH address, These will
held confidential and initials
degnnteS Readers nvited to
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
BY r. H. SANGER


Terrible establishment h S
been the portion of American So
cialists and Communists, usually
skilled workers, who have gone to
live and work in the Russian
Utopia, in the new "proletarian
paradise"
OF dozens we met during our
year in the United Socialist Soviet
Republic, four out Of five wanted
to return.
But they were penniless, with
utterly no chance of saving the
price of passage home. Or they
were penniless, half-starved and
in their earlier zeal had torn up
their American passports to be.
come Soviet citizens. For these
the cost of an exit wise is $400 in
foreign money. They are trapped.
Slavery, Says Worker
It was an American worker in
Q giant tractor plant, a preferred
industry"-as to privileges, pay
and food-who said to me:
"When a man can't decide
for himself what kind of work
he will do, or how long his
hours will be, what wages he
will work for, and what food he
will eat; and when a man can
not go ON strike IT, protest wages
50 low that 10 per cent of the
workers in his actOry die of
starvation, that's not labor,
that slavery"
1t was an American worker on
a state farm - another type of
''preferred" Soviet project-who
said:
81 often worked Is hours at o
stretch last summer, and even
now we average more than 10.
I am too weak for such long
hours. Recently ! had nothing
but cabbage and water to keep
me going for three whole days.
The crowd that are running this
country don't seem to realize
that a man can't work without
food. I worked for some hard
bosses in the States, but never
anything like this"
Typical Request
A typical request to us was:
"Tell the workers of America
not to believe what the Com
muniStS say about Russia be-
ing a workers paradise"
We understand their bitter dis
alluSionment, because we also had
entered Russia as believing Com
munists. But we could go home.
The case of Jake Kivowitz Che
Is a real person, but that is not
his real nance, whom I knew at
Cork, was typical of that of
dozens of American workers we
met in different parts of Russia.
Born in Poland IS years ago,
he had been brought to America
when very young. He had a
grammar-school education, be.
came a. carpenter and had saved
$4,000 by 1881. Then he was job
less and half his savings were
lost in bank crash.
Things in America looked bad
to him. A Communist friend pic
tured Russia as paradise by COM
pariSon.
Promised A Job
A high-up member of the Com
munist party promised him a job
in one of the new Soviet industrial
cities at the equivalent of $3.50 a
month. He withdrew the re-
mainder of his savings and went
to Russia in the spring of 1882.
His Moscow reception exceeded
his widest dreams. He was given
a nice hotel room, cheap. AS
guest of honor at a workers club
he was toasted for his wisdom in
leaving "the land of capitalist ex-
ploitation."
In a front row place of honor,
opposite Stain himself, he watched
millions march through Re d
Square on May Day.
He was carried away with en-
thuSiaSm. He gave the rest of his
savings to the Soviet for tools for
the shop where he was to work. AS
a sign of complete liberation, he
tore up his passport and applied
for citizenship in IJSSR
The Washington times., 1935-05-04
AMELIA DELAYS HOP

MEXICO CITY, May U.PO
Amelia Earhart again postponed
the take-off of her solo nonstop
flight to Newark, N. j., today,
after studying weather reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-18
Business Sign Location Problem Due
For Solution Here Following Letters

Regulations governing the placing
of signs over city streets which are
also used as state highways are once
more brought to the attention Of Ell
Centro city officials through a state
communication received here this
week.
This is in the form of a letter from
C. H. Purcell, state highway engineer
to E.E. Wallace of San Diego, district
engineer, a copy Of which was sent
to city engineer Phillip w. knights.
In his letter Purcell points out
that it is satisfactory for cities hav-
ing arcades to proceed in passing
ordinances ruling that the sign may
extend the maximum four feet be-
yond the arcade over the street area
with the minimum 16 feet clearance
under the sign.
OF utmost Importance, however, Is
the paragraph which states that "in
all cases the city is TO assume all
liability for damages, and when such
ordinance has been passed and that
portion of it over which the state
has jurisdiction is approved by the
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-18
Ne " ORE: MILL.
NEARLY READY

Construction of a 100-ton mill
five miles below Yuma in south
eastern Imperial county is nearing
completion on the property of the
| Holmes & Nicholson Mine and
Milling Co. at an expense to date
of $4,000 according to q prospector
who called at the Chamber here
yesterday.
This firm was recently the owner
of the famous Silver Queen mine at
MohaVe which a few months ago
sold for three and one-half million
dollars
The present plant is now in full
operation and is engaged in work.
ing the tailings of their own mines
with a daily output of 60 tons
daily. At the present price of Sill.
ton. the mill is doing a profitable
daily business, according to the re-
port
So far the mill has handled no
custom ore, but it is expected that
crusher will be installed in the
near future to accommodate miners
in that territory. The mill is reput'
ed to be the most modern in the
state and is at present working
night and day, with a large crew.
Within the next six months. the
company expects to be mining and
milling to the full capacity of its
machinery and equipment.
Since the price of gold has gone
up, miners have found it profitable
to work the tailings of placer min
es which had been abandoned years
ago, and there is much activity in
the Yuma and Ogilbie districts. The
mining industry promises to add
to the prosperity of Imperial coun-
ty,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-18
Imperial Church

Sunday Bible school at 9:45 a. m.
Good classes and a big welcome for
all H. c. Worthington, superin-
tendent.
Morning preaching service at II
a. m. Rev. H. Fravel, pastor, will
speak on the subject, True Dis
cipleship."
Christian EndeaVor for all young
people. Good things are in store
for the young people Of Imperial
this year under the leadership Of
Mrs. Ramona Du Bois, our new
president. A Junior c. E. for fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth grades
will be sponsored by the pastor,
and will meet for the first time
Sunday night.
Evening preaching service a t
7:30 p. m. The pastors sermon
topic will be. The Mysterious
Presence of God" Come out Sun
day night and refresh yourself
spiritually
Bible studies in II Thessalonians
Wednesday night at 1880
The Fireside fellowship radio
broadcast Thursday night at 7:30.
The Fireside fellowship radio
broadcast Thursday night at 1880
over KXO. Listen to, pray for, and
help support this gospel on the
air" ministry,