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The Washington times., 1935-08-14
BY EDNA LEE BOOKER
Copyright, 1895, International
News Service

NEW YORK, Aug. IA 0.N.S)
The much married and divorced
woman in America may cause her
neighbors to lift their eyebrows.
Not so in Abyssinia.
There the woman with the larg-
est number Of adventures in mat
rimony to her credit is the envy
of her neighbors. She is the
''catch" Of the village.
Perhaps there is a glamour
about this tickle descendant OF the
Queen of Sheba. Perhaps she has
q bit more cit" than her sisters.
Perhaps.
Personally, I think it is because
with each matrimonial breakup
she has acquired few more pots
and pans, additional goats and
mules, often another piece OF land.
BY her fifth or sixth venture, she
has become one of the wealthlest
women of the tribe.
And a bride with a flock OF FUR
niture-whether it is for a white
washed mud-roofed house in Eth
opia or a modern flat in America
lis quite a girl.
There's No AlimOny
There is no alimony.
A divorce is granted by the VII
lage elder. He referees the div1d-
ing of all their possessions, and II
there is an odd calf he is cut IN
two and each given half.
Then the ex-wife braids and
buffers her hair in the newest
fashion, buys herself a bright-col-
ored paraSol and struts down to
the teeming marketplace, very
much as the hometown girl strolls
down Main Street ostentatiously
for a chocolate ice cream soda at
the corner drug store. ;,
It was en- route from Djiboutl'
at present overcrowded city on the
Gulf of Alden, to the fascinating
mountain capital of Abyssinla,
Adds Ababa, that first saw an
Ethiopian bridal procession.
Bride Is Hidden
When our temperamental French
train stopped at a little town
which we never did see because OF
the hundreds of curious bushy-
headed villagers and half-naked
clamoring children who had gath
cred to see the train go by-we
noticed a newly married couple.
They were riding gaily decorated
mules and attended by a great
crowd of relatives, slaves and
friends. The bride, who was appar-
emily of high class, was completely
yelled, while a slave carried a
long-handled, frilled parasol over
her.
When she dismounted. her re-
tanners carefully formed a circle
around her by spreading their
white chammas Oong white cotton
drapes which the natives wear)
and making a curtain around her.
No one must see her mount or dis
mount-just a quaint old Abyssin-
ian custom.
Three Forms Of Marriage
There are three recognized
forms of marriage.
Free love, where the couple
simply decide to live together and
separate at will, is a custom hun
dreds of years old and extremely
popular.
The civil ceremony, which ne
cessitates the parents Of the bride
and of the groom going before the
local elders and settling all
matters relating to possessions. In
all probability the young couple
boarding the train came under
this class.
The Washington times., 1935-08-14
Devotion Meant Death

VIENNA G.N.SO.-Undying de-
votion to his master cost the life
of Peter, German sheepdog.
Gamekeepers in the Niedere Tau.
ern mountains, Syria, found high
of an old gamekeeper.
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DIVORCE WINS
RICHES IN
ETHIOPIA

WomGn'S place In Ethiopia
today. Where conditions are
much as they tDere in Biblical
times, is told by Edna Lee
Booker In the second OF a Sc
TieS of articles on Ethiopia,
Which she UiSited, on her return
to the United States from the
Far East, tDhere she tD1S a cor
respondent of International
NeDs SerUice.
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do You Remember!

(AnSwers to questions on
Page 81
The investigation Of the
mysterious death Of Mrs.
Davidson, heiress to the Stat
Ter millions, was ordered re-
opened.
Mrs. Kennedy, mother of
Evangelist Aimee Semple Nc
PhersOn, denied she would
marry a chirOpractOr.
Wells, a blind street singer,
hurled his sweetheart from a
window to her death.
Colonel Tanaka, japanese
army air corps commander,
was killed in a plane crash.
Judge Mailman was elected
Grand Exalted Ruler of the
ElkS.
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
LEAGUE
LOBBY FLAYED
BY AAA HEAD
Charges 'RiCh Minority Tries
To Dictate U. S. Policies
Affecting 100 Millions

The American Liberty League,
now opposing the pending amend
ment to the agricultural adjust
ment act, was branded today as
the most powerful aggregation Of
special interests ever amaSSed
against any legislation in the his
tory of this country" by Chester
C. Davis, administrator of the
AAA. He declared:
"The attack by the American
Liberty League on the pending
Appointments to the AAA c0nSti.
tutes an attempt by q numeri.
cally small but financially pow.
erful group Of men and corpora
tions to dictate governmental
policies affecting six and one.
half million farmers and more
than one hundred million con-
SumerS.
LEAGUE ATTACK INTENSE
ITO my mind, nothing could
demonstrate SO clearly as the
leagues attack the intensity
and character of the opposition
to the amendments that are be-
ing asked Of Congress by the
farmers and their responsible
leaders"
Mr.. Davis said the leagues ex-
ecutive committee and advisory
council includes executives or
representatives of meat PACKERS,
power companies, textile mills,
munitions makers, large bankers,
public utilities, corporation law
firms, food processing and dis
tributing corporations, steel com
panies, railroads and other large
corporate enterprises.
He cited the Chicago Journal
of Commerce as authority for a
statement that the league is "un-
der control of a group represent
ing industrial and financial organ
izations possessing assets of more
than $1,000 million dollars.
Hits Three Amendments
Mr.. Davis further asserted:
"The american Liberty
League has centerd its attack
upon the three amendments Of
fered to protect the farmer
from whom the food professors
and distributors buy, and the
consumers to whom they sell.
"Out of every three dollars
spent by consumers for food,
more than two dollars go to
the professors and distributors
and less than one dollar
reaches the farmer. The
leagues stand against the
amendments is identical with
the stand taken by big process
sors and distributors Of food
which have opposed every inn
pOrtant piece of farm legisla-
ton offered for the past 20
years."
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
BILL
OK D; ASSA|LED
BY c. O.P.
Bitter Battle Over Measure
Held Certain on Floor
OF the House
International News Service

Lines were drawn today for a
bitter Congressional battle over
control of the Nations money and
credit policies as the House Bank
ing Committee filed a formal re-
port urging passage of the Admin
istration's omnibus banking bill.
While the Democratic majority
declared the measure will assure
control Of money policies in the
interest of the Nation as a whole.
the Republican minority asserted
it paves the way for q dictator.
ship.
One Democratic member, Repre-,
sentative Brown, of Michigan.
filed q separate report in which
he asserted the bill will discourage
national banking, halt the trend
toward q unified banking system
and reverse the Administrations
previous policies.
The committee report, however.
asserted the revision of the Ted.
eral Reserve system provided in
the bill will stabilize banking and
business.
Halt Initiation
Not only is control over money
policies centralized. the report
said, but specific powers are in
cluded to halt ruinous credit In.
flation, which some experts had
predicted for the future.
Congress, the report said, will
rule monetary policies through a
provision recommended by Mar.
riner S. Eccles, governor Of the
Federal Reserve Board. The Ian
guage was approved by President
Roosevelt.
The provision required the Fed
eral Reserve Board "to exercise
such power as it possesses in such
manner as to promote conditions
conducive to business stability
and to mitigate, by its influence,
unstabilizing fluctuations in the
general level of production, trade.
prices and employment, so far as
may be possible within the scope
of monetary action and credit
administration"
The report pointed out that
specific provisions permit the Fed
eral Reserve Board, without de-
claring the existence of an emer.
gency, to increase requirements to
prevent undue credit initiation.
The Washington times., 1935-04-22

Mrs. Roosevelt
UrgesD D. for
Housing Model

Mrs. Roosevelt today revealed
she is anxious to see the District
Of Columbia made model for
the rest of the country in low.
cost housing and in slum clear.
ance.
At her press conference, the
Presidents wife, who is honorary
chairman Of a committee of q
to study the housing situation
in Washington, declared she is
keen" to have this city lead
the rest of the country in that
field.
Visitors should come here, she
said, not only to see the Ma
tional Capitals public buildings,
but also to see a model in hous-
ing. She said:
81 am very much interested
in seeing the District become q
model for other parts Of the
country. We can do o lot here
and 1t will mean q great deal
If Washington could be pointed
out to the rest of the Nation.
II am also very keen to have
the city have the very best
health service. The more we
can focus on the Washington
health situation, particularly in
tuberculosis work, the more we
can do for other cities
Mrs. Roosevelt said she was
very much encouraged by the
progress made in Washington,
adding that the trend Is up"
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
Wood Expert Reveals
Hauptrnann Probe

The guilt or innocence Of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, today a
question debated more hotly than
ever throughout the nation, was
reduced to a cold mathematical
problem by Arthur Koehler, the
wood expert, in an article in the
current Saturday Evening Post
and the answer which Mr.. Koch
Ter worked out gave Hauptmann
no chance of being innocent.
In one point alone, the nail
holes found in the famous Rail
No. Is of the Lindbergh kidnap-
ing ladder and checked with the
nail holes in Hauptmann's attic,
Mr.. Koehler showed there was
precisely one chance in 10000
900, 100000 that these tiny
apertures checked by innocent CO.
incidence.
The other e,99o ,999 ,999 ,999 ,999
chances, Koehler indicated, were
that the rail actually came from
the Hauptmann attic.
In the article, Mr.. Koehler gave
details and a concise word pic
ture which, to a large degree, the
limitations of court testimony pre-
vented him from bringing out in
the court room at Pennington.
One of the most striking points
which Mr.. Koehler presented were
magnified photographs of the
ladder rungs. showing distinct
series of ridges left by a nicked
plane. Beside each one was a
magnified photograph of pieces of
wood on which Mr.. Koehler had
used Hauptmann's plane. The
ridges jibed perfectly. He wrote:
Everywhere the plane was
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pushed along the surface of a
board 1t left a signature in
ridges"
Other photographs showed the
end grain of Rail No. 16-and the
plank from which the State claims
it was cut in the attic. The twist
ing line of tree growth checked
perfectly. He wrote:
g.. there was more proof. A
board is cut lengthwise Of q
tree so that the rings Of small
stuff of second growth are
curved, and several rings ex-
pose their edges along a board
in what we call the grain. 1t
is a pattern that is always va
ried, and yet the pattern of the
grain in the ladder rail and the
floOrbOard matched as perfectly
as if the interrupted curving
lines they plotted years ago had
been etched within the tree,
just to be a trap for any one
who dared so to misuse wood
as to form it into a kidnap
ladder"
Showing how he reached his
mathematical deduction, Koehler
wrote:
II worked it out that nails
of such size could be driven
into 10000 places in the sur.
face of that board without
duplicating holes. BY the laws
of chance, it would take a world
much vaster than our own to
provide a coincidence Of those
four nail holes matching acct
dentally four other nail holes
with which they had no con.
nectiOn.
LET us say no chance in.
wolves the first nail hole and
. suspected mate, but let us
further say that the chance
that q second nail hole likewise
would fit directly to another is
one in 10000. The third nail
hole to match has but one
chance in 10000 times 10000
less three-the spaces occupied
by the three nail holes, but let's
not quibble-and so forth, if it
should be linked together with
another in conjunction with its
mated companions, well that
would be the product of another
10000 minus four. Moreover,
only one board in 10000 would
have cut nails of that size in
1t. The chance of being wrong
about the identity in such a
case of circumstantial evidence
might be written so:
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
Will Rogers
Says:

SANTA MONICA, Cal. April
22.-That Europe is funny, the
leader Of one country, maybe
Hitler, maybe Mussolini, will say
something, then all the others
will run together and hold d. con-
ference. what did he say?"
do you think he meant it?"
do you think he will fight or Is
he bluffing?"
Then they all go home again,
and then in a couple Of days
somebody else will make q state
ment, then the huddle starts all
over again.
OF course before each gather
ing adjournS, it's understood and
goes on the minutes of the meet
ing automatically, that we (the
U. ST. are indirectly to blame,
that If we would just meet with
'em, they could blame 1t on
somebody else.
Copyright. Mcknight syndicatey =
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
TREASURY CONDITION

International News Service
Treasury balance as of April 10,
$2,103, 292,046.34: Internal Rev.
enue, $3,952,737.79; Customs re-
ceiptS, $21,194,452.76.
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
DEFENDS
RULE Of STATE
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on good roads and found
enemies" protesting it would
lead only to graft and corruption
He asserted:
"Ry their words, they confessed
that was how they had spent
the SCI, 100000. Then, on the
urgent demand Of bankers, Of
newspapers, of chambers of COM
merce, or civic bodies, we pro-
posed to write into the consti.
tuition of the State a board to
prevent the Squandering Of
funds. 1t was applauded by
every Long and every anti-LOng
group in the State. That board
guaranteed the proper expendi-
ture of public funds and it was
approved by a 3O-tO-l majority
in the constitutional elections"
Huey said the board included
seven elected State officials, foul
of whom were then Senator Longs
enemies; a police official elected
by police juries. which govern the
parishes of Louisiana, and II
public spirited citizens" He
added:
eve made the elected Off
Gals the minority so the ma.
jOrity could be bankers and
business men, who would not
become involved in politics. Not
a dime of public expenditures
can be made in Louisiana now
unless this board has approved
them and protected us against
fraud, graft and corruption"
ASSAILS FOES
Then Huey described how his
political foes had been given con
troll of Federal relief expenditures
by Mr.. Hopkins and Secretary
IckeS.
He called his foes "that gang Of
brigands, the most repudiated men
IN our state.
The Louisiana "Kingfish" re
ferred to the Roosevelt Admins
tration as the third year of ou1
reigning empire of st. Vitus." He
listed some high Administration
officials as:
"Prime Minister, James Alloy
sius Farley; the Lord High
Chamberlain Hopkins, that
chinch bug from Illinois; the ex-
pired and lamented Hugh Sit
ting Bull johnson, who now de-
scribes himself as the new La-La
of Oklahoma; and that lord
almighty destroyer, the High AL
mighty Wallace, an ignOramOus
from Iowa."
Senator Long charged Secretary
Ickes and Mr.. Hopkins with Civ
ing control of Federal expendi
lures in Louisiana to a politica
group, who had plunged the State
terrifically into debt without pro
ducing public works. He said both
men had sent warnings to the
State legislature, telling of the
dire distress they will impose
upon the State if it does not obey
them"
A huge crowd damned the gal
leries to hear Senator Long. An
hour before the Senate met. there
were extra police details to con
troll the crowds.
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ASSA|LS
'DEMAGOGUES'

CONTINUED from Page -
mellifluOusly into the ether for
the enhancement of mankind.
r "Yet if I were clothed with
deSpOtic powers, I would not
crook q finger in abridgement
Of the right Of demagOgue or
visionary or poet to disseminate
whatever views he might have.
The right Of free speech means
the plain intentment of the Ian.
guage in which it is written, or
it means nothing"
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
He assailed city officials who
deny permits to speak on public
grounds; universities and schools
which deny the same right, and
declared that officials who broke
up with tear gas bombs Norman
Thomas meeting lin the State of
Abraham Lincoln" a few months
ago had violated their oaths of
office in denying the right Of
peaceful assembly to Mr.. Thomas,
Socialist leader, and his friends.
Mr.. Ickes compared the present
Administration to "a storm at
sea-" He said:
"The spring of 1888 was like
the sinking Of a great liner in a
hurricane. A nervy skipper in
a rescue cutter stood by. There
was no partisanship then; no
criticism of him for the cold
and the wet and the danger.
Everybody took that skip
per's orders because no one else
knew what to do or dare to
take the responsibility for doing
it.
"Not a single rugged individ.
ualiSt even peeped about letting
nature take its course, or about
the survival of the fittest.
"They grabbed at the lifeline
extended to them without ask.
ing where they were being
taken, and that line held in the
hour of need.
"But now, temporarily safe in
a calmer sea, they are quarrel.
ing over what port it shall be-"
The Washington times., 1935-04-22

LADDER rail No. 16 tipped
back on floor board from
Hauptmann's attic so as to
show end grain of both. Note
similarity in curvature, num-
Der and width of annual
growth rings.
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GETS
THIRD PARTY

CHEVERLY. Md. April %.
The formation of a New Deal'
Progressive party has been an
nounced here, with L. c. Rose.
krans as the party's candidate for
mayor in the approaching cleo
tions on May 6.
MIR. Rosekrans will oppose
Mayor Fred Cast, who is seeking
reelection after being petitioned
to run again by a number of town
residents. Included in the new
party's ticket for councilmen are
G. w. Lambert and Nelson G..
Tayman, while Alfred j. Owens
and r. H. wentworth will run
with Mayor Cast.
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
World News
AUSTRIA

VIENNA, Austria, April %
U.PO.-The Austrian radio last
night broadcast a report that for
mer Premier Alexander Zankoff's
supporters were rioting in the
streets of Sofia, protesting against
the Bulgarian governments re-
fusal to release Zankoff and
other leaders opposed to the pres
ent ministry. Zankoff, seized last
week, is interned at Bourgas, on
the Black Sea.
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
VATICAN CITY

VATIAN CITY, April % Q.N.SO.
Millions all over the world today
bore the apostolic blessing-voiced
Easter Sunday by the Pope to
more than 100000 kneeling in St.
Peters Square, and to the greater
audience by radio.
Easter ceremonies included the
sending of the first pontifical
high mass by short wave wireless
to the United States, where it was
rebroadcast. American audiences
heard the Pope sing the "Our
Father"
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p Err F E G T matching of
hand plane marks on parts of
kidnap ladder and on lum-
Der planed by Hauptmann's
plane, according to MIR.
Koehler.
The Washington times., 1935-04-22
100000 900, 900, OOO."

Excerpts from Mr.. Koehler'S
article are reprinted here By
special permission of Saturday
Evening Post, copyright 1888,
By the Curtis publishing Com.
pany.l
Evening star., 1935-05-21
Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.

enclosed seems to me to have the ring
Of truth about 1t, and X true 1t repre-
sents a real outrage. Make no effort
to find out who wrote 1t, but send
some able and discreet man to make
a thoro (sic) investigation of the COM
plant.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
NO RED INK HERE.
VXIH1LE some business houses have
w seen expenses mount and in
come dwindle during the years
of the great depression, there is one
group in Washington that has thrown
away its red ink and Is experiencing
boom.
This is the quasi-public corporation
known as the Welfare and Recreation
Association of Public Buildings and
Grounds, Inc, which operates news
stands and cafeterias in Government
buildings, as well as some So Of the
80 tennis courts, four large swimming
pools, an 18-hole golf course, a tea
house. located at Hains Point, in East
Potomac Park, the Tourist Camp and
a boating center, on the shores of the
Tidal Basin.
The influx of thousands of Govern
ment workers under the New Deal has
sent business skyrocketing for the
association.
The purposes of the association,
organized in World War days, as set
forth in its articles Of incorporation.
include: To operate cafeteriaS and
newsStands in Federal buildings for
Federal employees: to render first aid
in case of sickness and accident; to
assist Government employees in cases
of emergency or distress along rec
ognized lines of welfare work; to con-
duct tourist camps, bathing pools and
provide lunch and refreshment stands
and recreation facilities of all kinds.
In West Potomac Park the asso-
citation has operated canoes, 18 elec-
trio self-operating boats. rowboats,
] Speedboat and the swan boat.
Profits up to certain figure are
used to extend the associations facili-
ties. Any above that figures goes to
the Treasury.
TOMORROW'S ADULTS.
DR. DON JOHNSON'S beautiful
- little daughter, Marjorie. aged
Az. rambled down the street
to ask her boy friend, Tommy, to at
tend a dance.
Tommy" she said, I'VE got a new
Evening star., 1935-05-21

Before long contest-entering prob
ably will GO on the vocational guild
ance list and there may even be cor
respondence schools on how to be a
successful contest enterer.
REVERSE ENGLISH.
CHE was portly and the car was
- full when it screeched to stop
at the loading platform. The door
opened and over the heads OF the
massed humanity she called to the
conductor:
Does this car go to Georgetown"
mo MAN." the conductor replied
in his best voice.
Still the lady came on. Does this
car 60 to Georgetown"
mo, lady," came the f1rmer and
louder voice of the conductor. Still
the lady came on, wedging her way
between all before her. The con-
ductor was exaSperated.
"I said, madam. this car does not
60 to Georgetown"
With one final surge into the midst
of the car, the determined passenger
mingled the remark:
II don't want to go to Georgetown"
X X X X
ROOSEVELT MEMENTO.
A NEVER-FAILING attraction at
~ the Civil Service Commission
Is the chair and desk at which
Theodore Roosevelt worked when a
Commissioner. Roped of in the
rotunda of the old patent office,
where the commission is housed, these
articles, now showing the wear of
years. invariably provoke comment and
questions.
Under the glass top of the desk Is
a self-explanatory note. illustrative of
Roosevelt's intense interest in the
under dog" which he sent the COM
mission when he was in the White
House.
It reads: "I do not usually pay
heed to an anonymous letter, but the
Evening star., 1935-05-21
WHITE COLLAR JOBLESS
GROWING, SAYS BOOTH
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, May 21.-Gen. Ball
ington Booth, commander of the Vol
unteers Of America, yesterday told the
organizations Grand Field Council
that the growing number of "unem-
ployed white-collar workers" is a new
depression-born problem for charity
workers.
He urged special efforts to relieve
the distress of middle-class workers
whose needs are kept obscure by
their own pride"
Four new trustees were elected at
the opening Of the four-day session.
They are Col J. H. Berry of Jackson
vile, Fla; Col. William M. Hughes
Of Los Angeles; James w. Merrell of
New York and Col. Alexander Wright
OF San Francisco.
New directors are Col Walter Dun
can Of Boston and Col. ]. T. Foulkes
of Omaha. .