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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-08
TODAY'S FEATURES

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to $3.50 p. m.
TOMORROW
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to $3.50 a. m. Assistant
Secretary Harry L. ROOse-
Welt, 11:15 to 11:45 m.
WMAL-Time RadiO
News, GAS to 10 a m. Ma
tionaI Committee for Re-
ligion and Welfare Recovery
8:45 to 9:15 p. m.
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a. m.
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The Washington times., 1935-04-09
Numbers Lose Jobs
For 5 at Capitol

Five employees of the United
States Capitol have been caught
in a drive on the numbers rae
ket" and other forms of gambling
beneath the Capitol Dome. All
were dismissed.
Those dismissed, all for alleged
numbers operations, included a
page in the House of Representa-
tives, three colored employees of
the Capitol architects office and
a colored man employed in the
kitchen of the House restaurant.
Although none of those dis
charged was an actual numbers
operator, Kenneth Rorhney, House
Sergeant-at-Arms, said, it was felt
by House officials that their con,
tinued employment would result
in a much greater spread of the
game, inasmuch as they were suf-
ficiently interested to promote 1t.
Mr.. Romney, who declined to re-
veal the names of those dis
charged, said the page was in
volved in the theft of $3.50 from
Representative Cleveland Dear of
Louisiana, and that this theft was
committed in an effort to pay off
The Washington times., 1935-04-09
HEAVY GUARD
FORPRES|DENT
IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, April 9 G.N.SD.
Under close guard of police and
Secret Service agents, President
Roosevelt left for Washington at
11:4O a. m. today after attending
funeral services here for Warren
Delano Robbins, late U. S. Minis
ter to Canada, his cousin and
close friend.
The President was in New York
for two hours. He went directly
from the special train which bore
him from the South to the
Church of the Incarnation, where
the Robbins services were held.
Auto Crash PrObed
Several thousand persons gath.
cred at the railroad station to see
the Executive depart for the Cap
ital. They got only a glimpse of
him, however, so strong was the
police escort, a precaution ar
ranged after the Presidential spe
cial crashed into a stalled auto
mobile on the tracks at Wilson,
N. C.
The Secret Service is Investigate
ing circumstances surrounding
abandonment of the car in the
path of the Presidents train.
A guard of 800 policemen was
at the station and the church
where the funeral rites were held.
Detectives Alert
Among the detectives were 20
from the criminal alien bureau.
The church was guarded by 445
police in all, the station by 287
and there was a motorcycle escort
of 20. Policemen were even sta,
toned on the roofs of buildings
around the station.
Relief Data Studied
Aboard his train today the
President studied pending alloca-
ton of additional funds from the
public work-relief appropriation
which he approved yesterday
shortly after leaving Jacksonville,
In approving this bill. President
Roosevelt authorized the following
statement:
"The joint resolution making
appropriations for relief pur-
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The Washington times., 1935-04-09
RIVER FLOODS
BOULEVARD .
BRIDGE
Traffic to Baltimore Detours
Through Mt. Rainier; Rain
Two Inches for Week

Swapping the entire washing.
ton area, a week of April show
ers bringing a total precipitation
of two inches was climaxed early
today by snowfall of three
tenths of an inch.
Swollen waters of the Anacostia
River inundated the Washington
Baltimore Boulevard Bridge and
flooded the low-lying area be-
tween Hyattsville IND Bladens
burg. Traffic on the boulevard
had to be re-routed through Mt
Rainier and Rhode Island Ave
nue..
Hundreds of motorists, Bowie,
bound, were not on hand for the
first race at post time.
Rain to Continue
No let-up in the showers could
be seen by the Weather Bureau
this afternoon. The forecast was
cloudy with intermittent rain
fall" Rising temperatures are
expected, however, with a 50-de-
gree level anticipated at night
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The Washington times., 1935-04-09
CHILD BEATEN;
|. HUNT FATHER

Whipped into Inconsistencies
by a leather thong with a ring
on the end of it, Norma E. Green
spent her third birthday in Cas-
ualty Hospital today, while police
and citizens beat about the
swamplands of Ardmore, Md. in
search of her father, Robert
Green, 26. said to have flogged
the child on two successive days.
Just because the child could
not spell patty" the father,
whom District police records show
to be a former convict, beat
Norma numerically Sunday and
again on Monday, the child's
mother, Mrs. Marie Green, told
officers.
Talk Of Lynching
There was talk of a lynching
today should Green be captured
known as a bad man" to his
neighbors, Green was feared to
be armed. One officer said:
81 don't know how it would
be if we caught him today, but
they would have made short
work of him last night"
First information of the case
came last night when Mrs. Nora
McGrain. a neighbor, called
Bladensburg Rescue Squad. Then
it was revealed that Mrs. Green,
who is expecting another child, had
pleaded with her husband, a two
termer in Lorton Reformatory,
to be allowed to call doctor. He
refused, she said.
Throughout Sunday night
Norma moaned in her suffering.
The whipping was renewed the
next day, the mother said. In
the afternoon, Green left the
house and Mrs. Green fled to
Mrs. McGrain with her story.
Wife Destitute
At the hospital, Mrs. Green, %,
declared that she was destitute
and probably would go to the
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The Washington times., 1935-04-09
\ Fl P REACHES
SINKING SHIP

NEW YORK, April 9 GN.s.)
Two ships rushing to the aid Of
the stricken British Freighter Ba
dagry, several hundred miles off
the coast of st. Johns, NeWfound
land, halted their rescue trips
when the S. S. Newfoundland
another British freighter. arrived
alongside the distressed vessel
shortly before noon today.
At 7:24 a. M, the master of the
S. S. Scanstates relayed an SOS
from the Badagry. which reported
it's hold rapidly filling with water
The Newfoundland arrived in
sight of the Badagry and sent out
the message:
Distress now clear"
The message indicated the New,
foundland had the situation in
hand. There were no details.
While northeaster whipped
the Atlantic Ocean into a fury
and brought serious damage to
many communities along the
coast, several men battled for
their lives in Long Island Sound
in cabin cruiser, reported at
the mercy of the waves for Is
hours. Coast Guard boats were
not able to find the craft imme'
diately,
The Washington times., 1935-04-09

or cover up his losses on the num-
bers game.
According to Mr.. Romney, the
boy had been taking sums of
money from the Representatives
clothes while he was engaged in
exercising in the gymnasium of
the House Office Building. The
thefts had covered a period of sew
eral weeks and were discovered
after Capitol police had planted
man in the dressing room to
watch Mr.. Bears locker.
The other employees, Mr.. Rom
ney added, were engaged in vari-
Gus capacities with the numbers
game. He said:
THE dismissal of these five
employees , is merely a precau-
tiOnary measure we have taken
in an effort to stamp all
gambling, and particularly the
numbers game, out of the
Capitol Building, as well as the
two legislative office buildings.
"Others who are engaged in
similar pursuits here in the
building can be certain that the
same punishment will await
them should they be dis
covered"
The Washington times., 1935-04-09

listed the Reich's proposals and
suggested contributions to interna-
tional undertakings. This list was
featured by a determined opposi-
ton to any mutual assistance pact
involving Soviet Russia and flat
exclusion of Lithuania from any
non-aggresSion agreements:
l. If an arms limitation agree.
ment is reached, Germany will
accept permanent and auto
matte supervision if applied to
all equally.
2. Germany favors the sug-
gestion for an aerial pact be-
tween the Locarno Signatories.
Shuns Eastern Pact
3. Germany favors bi-lateral
non-aggression pacts and would
consider a Central European
treaty, but is not prepared to
sign an Eastern pact by which
the Reich would be bound to
mutual assistance. --
4. Germany proposes interna-
tional consultation in the event
of aggression, with contracting
powers bound not to support an
aggressor nation.
In his review of the German
position, Simon revealed Hitler
had told him Germany required
So divisions of land forces, total
ling $4,000 of all arms. He
said:
Germany claimed to possess
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The Washington times., 1935-04-09
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The Washington times., 1935-04-09
Hauptmann Rode
Only Hobby Horse

NEW YORK, April 9 G.N.S).
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann today pro-
fessed amusement at the state
ment yesterday by Rev. M. J..
Kallok in Milwaukee that he had
seen her husband, Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, at a riding school
near the Lindbergh home before
the kidnapping. She said:
"The only time Richard was
ever on a horse was when he
rode one on a merry-gO-rOund".
The Washington times., 1935-04-09
Babies TO Wear
Gas Masks in
Next War

PARIS. April 9 G.N.SD.-A
special gas mask for new born
babies was among the novelties
pictured and described in the
newspaper Figaro today.
Transparent masks and gas
proof clothing also were de-
scribed in the full-page article.
The Washington times., 1935-04-09
DEPOSIT.
PROBED IN
PLOT
Mrs. Lyddane's Account Faces
: Subpoena; Attorneys Clash
III On Confessions Release

VA4Sh dAu 4@SV VV$A~y AN "~~
Lyddane murder plot case.
The highlights were:
/. The prosecution revealed 1t
was preparing to ask a subpoena
for a bank account in Rockville
of which Mrs. Anne Lyddane
was said to be the guardian, to
check up on deposits and with
drawals.
2. Investigators asserted that
o "stOOI pigeon in washington
was first to tell them of the al
legged plot to slay two persons
and rob a Rockville bank. Prev
iOusly it had been understood
that John CARMEL, one of the
men held in Rockville Jail, had
been the tipsteF. Police said
their informer declared he had
been offered the job as "gun-
man."
8. State Senator Stedman D.
Prescott, chief defense counsel
for Mrs. Lyddane, went to An
napOlis to place before Attorney
General Herbert d. O'COnOr a
request for the purpOrted con-
LESSONS of some of the men
held.
{. States Attorney James III.
Pugh threatened to "knOck the
block off" Senator Prescott.
Defense counsel in the Mont
gomery county death-plot case to
day carried their fight to Annapo
lis, where State Senator Stedmar
D. Prescott, chief defense attor
ney for Mrs. Anne Lyddane
sought to prevail on Attorney
General Herbert R. O'Connor tt
force States Attorney James H
Pugh to hand over to the defenSt
the purported confessions of some
of Mrs. Lyddane's codefendants
Meanwhile, with politicians o.
all persuasions in excited mood
fist fights were threatened ane
bitter comments were exchanged
between prosecution and defense
Pugh Speaks Out
Although Senator Prescott, il
Annapolis, asserted I'VE had NJ
difficulty whatever, States At
torney Pugh, in Rockville, Wa!
quoted as saying:
1--WE are going to come to
blows over this case vet. If he
tries to intimidate me, I'll
knock his block off. I'm the
prosecutor, not he"
Highly nervous, Mr.. Pugh re
fused to discuss the case furthe
with reporters. He cried:
"DOn't bother me. You are
driving me wild. haven't time
to talk. I'm too busy"
Mr.. Pugh's outburst followed
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The Washington times., 1935-04-09
Car in River Dive
browns 4 Persons

NEW YORK, April 9 GN.S).
While a milkman. lone witness.
looked on Mortified, an auto
mobile loaded with early morning
jewellers today plunged into the
East River from Brooklyn
street end drowning, police be-
lieve, at least four persons.
Joseph Weiner. the milkman,
dashed his horse and drove fran"
tically to the nearest police sta.
ton to give the alarm. The car,
he told police. hurtled low para
pet at the end of the street and
plunged into the river about so
feet deep at that point.
The Washington times., 1935-04-09
GERMANY WILL RENTER
|. LEAGUE IF STATUS AS
INFERIOR IS LIFTED
The Crisis i'm Europe:

LONDON, April (INsy.-The "equal-
ity" demands of Nazi German military,
naval, colonial and in the field of interna-
tional relations were placed before the
House of Commons officially for the first
time today
Outlined by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon in his
first full and comprehensive report his recent
ventions with Chancellor Hitler in Berlin the demands
were follows
1. An army of $4,000
2. A navy of 405530 TONS
Right to construct and possess all types of
by other countries.
Return to the League Nations only Germanys status
INFERIOR wiped out-with the Reichs present lack
colonies example of inferiority
5. Aerial parity with Great Britain and France
The Washington times., 1935-04-09
POLICE PROBE.
ORDERED BY
DC. HEADS .
Shake-Up Expected to Follow
Study of Reports; Bean
Asks Morgan Be Shifted

Charges of incompetence and
graft in the Police Department
officially were taken up by the
District Commissioners today with
the appointment of an impartial"
committee to investigate the al
legations and make recommends
tions for a reorganization of the
departments high command.
Three District officials will
serve on the committee. They are
Corporation Counsel E. Barrett
Prettyman, Capt. Howard Clark,
assistant Engineer Commissioner,
and George w. Offutt, chairman
of the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board.
Action of the Commissioners
today was the first official step
taken by the local government
heads toward correcting condi-
tons disclosed before a House
crime investigating committee,
during which scores of witnesses
testified.
Bean Makes Report
simultaneously Assistant Super.
intendent of Police Thaddeus
Bean, assigned to probe charges of
the "tip-off" in connection with a
raid on a gambling establishment
in the Fifth Precinct, reported
that "for the good of the force"
Capt. Joseph Morgan, commander
of the precinct, should be trans
ferred to some other post.
At the same time he criticized
the administration of Inspector
Albert J. Headley, who, he said,
failed properly to Superintend the
district assigned to him.
It was this criticism which led
to the appointment of a commit
tee, District Commissioner Mel
vim C. Hazen said.
Inspector Headley, it was
charged during sessions of the
House crime investigating CON-
mittee, sought to displace Super
intendent Bean through a "gen.
tleman's agreement" entered into
between Superintendent of Police
Ernest w. Brown and REPRESENTA-
tive Thomas Blanton 3D. of
Texas.
Changes Slated
Findings of the committee will
cover the possible displacement OF
Captain Morgan, and retirement
of both superintendent Bean and
Inspector Headley.
However, it is expected that a
general police shakeup will result,
with complete revision of police
precinct commands in prospect.
Although Assistant Superin-
tendent Beans report stated that
no immediate evidence of a Tip
off" could be found, the commit
tee will review both his findings
and the testimony presented be-
fore the House crime committee.
Assistant superintendent Bean
justified his recommendation that
Captain Morgan be relieved of his
command by the statement that
the precinct commander had dis
rupted the morale of the members
of his command.
"Tip-Off" Case Cited
1t was pointed out that an evil
dence of the lowered morale of
the precinct was the charges and
counter charges of Captain Nor
gan and Detective Watson Salkeld
in connection with the alleged
"tip-off."
Captain Morgan accused Detec-
tive Salkeld of revealing informa-
ton about raid on a suspected
gambling house in the 100 block
B st. S. E.
In reply. Detective salkeld
stated that Captain Morgan knew
as much about the "tip-off" as
he did.
The Washington times., 1935-04-09
2 Flying Students
Defy Bad Weather

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, April
g G.N.S.).-Despite adverS
weather and a 9OO-foot ceiling
two Purdue University students
who were forced down at East
Liverpool Airport, Sunday, took
off today for Lafayette, Ind. The
two, Robert Hiatt. "a, and Jack
Asire, %, were flying in Asire's
fleet, Tinner-motored open cockpit
ship.
The Washington times., 1935-04-09

Sir John lost no time in in
forming the House the German
demands met with little British
sympathy and that he had so in,
formed Hitler in Berlin. He
added:
''It must not be supposed that
the British ministers did not in
dictate strong disagreement. At
the end of the Berlin converse
tiOnS 1 expressed disappoint-
ment at the difficulties dis
closed in the way of agreement"
Against these demands, Sir John
The Washington times., 1935-04-09
German Film Star
Jailed After Crash

LEIPZIG, Germany, April 8
U.N.S).-Brigitte Helm, beautiful
German film star, will be making
a personal appearance for the
next two months-in jail.
The German Supreme Court
sustained a lower courts verdict
sentencing Fraulein Helm to two
months for injuring a woman
pedestrian while motoring.
The Washington times., 1935-04-09
ChicagO's Housing
Probe Under Way
International News Service

International News Service
An investigation of the Chicago
west Side slum clearance, low
rent housing project is under way
Public Works Administrator 1ckes
revealed today. He said:
"That is one reason why /
went to ChicagO-that and to
get some new teeth. There may
have been some chiseling-I
mean on the housing project.
/ will have something to say
about that in a day or two"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-25
NRA Future
 Rests With
 In q u str,
What Happens Depends Upon Activity of Chiselers
 Says Pres. Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Upon industry itself, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to place the basic responsibility for the future of the NRA
 What happens" ne said, de pends upon the activity Of chiselers in industry and what, if anything, industry wants done about them"
 It was his last press conference hefore starting for the Pacific Coast.
 He was generally optimistic. He said that most major industries have shown. however, that their at tempt now is to find out how far chiseling extends.
 He emphasized that the result Of his survey must be obtained before the future policy of the NRA is outlined.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-25
NAME CONTEST
 IS NEAR CLOSE
Deadline Hour Approaches
 Pusich $l0 Award Announced Thursday

The midnight deadline hears and still the new night club in Doug las is without a name. Each mail brings dozens of letters with scores of suggestions, for there is also a prize of Sl0 to be given by Mike Pusich, owner, for the best name submitted. The name for the elab- crate night spot now being built on the Pusich property in Douglas will be announced in tomorrow's Empire.
 The novel and spacious hard wood dance floor was completed this week by Garland Boggan and the Kraft Cabinet Shop is now at work installing booths, tables, the decked orchestra pit, and fixtures.
 An orchestra consisting of piano, drums, marimbaphone, trumpet, violins, clarinets and saxaphones is arranging the smartest in late dance music for the big opening.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-25
HUFFMAN BODY COVERED AGAIN
 BY HIGH TIDE
Authorities Attempting to Relocate Spot Where Pio-
 neer's Remains Buried

James c. Huffman, pioneer rancher whose body was found on the Eagle River flats last Sunday, has disappeared again.
 When authorities, headed by De- putty Marshal John Mccormick, went out yesterday to bring the remains into Juneau they found the tide had moved the sand in the area, leaving no sign of where the body might be. The day before McCor- mick had set stakes to mark the spot but the tide which washes with great strength at that point had removed all marks and covered up the remains.
 Charles Jenne and John Krug- ness, who found the remains last Sunday, will be taken out again today in an effort to relocate the place where they found the foot prctruding from the sand.
 In a letter to Robert Coughlin, Clerk of Court, James w. Huff man, a nephew of the dead man, and an attorney in Columbus, Ohio, had asked about his uncle as re- suit of mail being returned from Douglas marked deceased" Attor ney Huffman, who is son-in- law of former Governor Victor Dohaney of Ohio, was here himself in 1919 and is close friend of Coughlins In the interesting letter the nephew refers to his Uncle Jim" as the last "prototye of rugged individual ism" and a real sourdough." Be- sside the nephew, Huffman also has a niece, Mrs. Howard Keener in Evansville, Ohio.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-25
Ethiopio's Terrain It's Best Defense Nation Confident of Victory in Event of War with Italy
By CHARLES NORMAN
Associated Press Staff Writer

Associated Press Staff Writer)
 A land with an area greater than England, France and Italy combined listens for the beat of the war drums it feels will sound soon from over its borders.
 It nstens-and feels confident of the issue.
 Ethiopias terrain has provided the empire of Halle Selassie with a natural stronghold. It contains the greatest mountain area on the Af- rican continent, steep, inaccessible ranges that hem the Abyssinian tableland, giving that fertile DOT tion of the country the appearance of a turreted castle surrounded by meats that are mountains.
 A race that has fought against foreign aggression and as conquer DTS for centuries has produced, like the country's abundant crops, a superabundance of redoubtable war riors.
 Every Man A Soldier
 From the earliest times to the present day, no foreigner visiting the ancient empire has failed to remark on the warlike attributes of the population.
 It has been said that every Ethi- opian is potential soldier with rifle an indispensable piece of civil ian equipment.
 The men are great horsemen, and Ethiopia's cavalry, whether armed with spears of the nineteenth cen tury, or the rifles of the present, present an awesome spectacle as they wheel through maneuvers. They ride with only the big tee in the stirrup.
 They are of consistently tall stat ure and splendid physiques. In northeastern Abyssinia they are all most white-skinned, but toward the south this color gives place to black. with the prevailing skin tone of the country described as copper eolored.
 Many of them are at present equipped with rifles taken from the Italians, Egyptians and Sudaneze, whom they have defeated.
 Kind to children - cruel to beasts" has been applied to the men of Ethiopia.
 Few Ethioprans Work
 Half of the ab'e-bodied men have no productive occupation. Attirej in picturesque -hammas. standard garb of the cof ntry, they are to be seen always with rifle slung over the shoulder and colorful cartridge belts around the waist Now they are being mustered into a fighting force as Italy's modern legions mass on their borders.
 An ample food supply leaves lit tie ambition for commerce ana trade, which is chiefly carried or by foreigners. Tn times of peace the