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Evening star., 1935-04-21

Maj. William T. Roy has requested
authority to organize the Headquar-
ters Company, 29th Division. He says
that this division Is one Of only about
three infantry divisions in the United
States without division headquar-
ters company. the importance Of
which is well known by all military
personnel. The present District of
Columbia units of the 29th Division,
he says, could in q short time fur
nish sufficient personnel to organize
the headquarters company and
training program would be inaugurated
for this unit which would make it
possible for the organization to be
prepared to carry out the vitality i'm
portant functions assigned to it.
In q letter to Mai. Roy, Lieut.. Col
George L. Byroads, adjutant general,
said that definite ALLEGATION of units
to be organized under the Army ap-
propriations bill has not been made.
However, information to the effect
that the Headquarters Company, 29th
Division, II among those Of high pri-
Evening star., 1935-04-21

Lieut.. ]. F. Fewell has been as
signed as aide to Lieut.. Sullivan
commander of the local battalion.
Evening star., 1935-04-21

n OTHERS DAY On May II
NH will be observed by posts Of
v the Americ Legion
4 throughout the country with
special exercises.
Judge Wilbur M. Alter of Denver
and Miss Emma c. Puschner, chair
man and director, respectively, Of the
American Legion's national child well
fare activities, have requested the
posts and auxiliaries to hold joint
meetings next month to work out a
program for the observance of the
day.
Evening star., 1935-04-21

Bunker Hill Post, No. 81, met at St.
Anthony's Hall, 341S Twelfth street
northeast. Tuesday evening. Senior
Vice Comdr. Chester J. Wolfe pre-
fided.
The post will hold a stag party May
d under the direction of Entertain
nent Off1cer Mack Myers and his COM
pittee.
The following have been appointed
10 serve on the post musical organiza-
ton: Chester j. Wolf, chairman;
William e. Rankin, Marion G. Schrode,
Ralph H. Thrasher and Raymond L.
Gilbert.
At the last meeting of the Boys
Squadron of Bunker Hill Post, Sons
of the American Legion, st. Anthony's
Hall, about so boys and their fathers
were present. The L-51 Club, Ladies
Club of the post, presented the squad
ron with colors for the squadron.
The L-51 Club is making plans for
Q dance at Beaver Dam Country Club
May II.
Comdr. r. r. Spriggs announced
members to serve on the subcommit-
tee of the Civic Relations Committee
as follows: Traffic, S. D. Ashford:
Streets and Avenues, Grover Tribble;
Public Utilities and Transportation,
Mack Myers; Public Order, T. G.
Baisden; Bridges, zeb T. Hamil-
ton: Municipal Finance. Thad Bean;
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
.0NG0LIANS
FLEE;2O SLAIN

HSINGKING, Mznchukuo, Dec.
20 G.N.SO.-Stating that 20 Mon
golian soldiers had been slain,
Kwantung army officials today
confirmed that Manchukuan from
tier guards yesterday clashed with
10 Mongolian troops armed with
machine guns near BUR Nor, a
lake on the Mongolian frontier.
But, differing from the official
Mongolian version released yester-,
day, they said the clash occurred
within Manchukuan territory.
The invaders" they added, were
driven off with the assistance Of
regular japanese troops. No Jap
anese casualties we're reported.
Outer Mongolia lies between
Soviet Russia and the Chinese
provinces of Inner Mongolia and
also borders on the Japanese
dominated state of Manchukuo.
It's occupation would put hostile
troops within strategic striking
distance of the Trans-Siberian
railway. which links Moscow with
KhabarovSk and Vladivostok.
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
BANK H0LDUP
NETS $4,000

FORT LEE, N. j.. Dec. 20
GNSD.-Five armed thugs today
held up four employees in the
First National Bank here and
escaped with between $4,000 and
$4,000 in a car driven by a
sixth man.
One Of the men carried a
Thompson submachine gun. With
this weapon they forced Ernest
Richter, cashier, to open the bank
safe, which they stripped of cash.
Before fleeing the men also
seized all money on the tellers'
counters.
Exact amount of the loss was
not Immediately determined. One
bank employe exclaimed:
"They got everything, or
nearly everything"
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
Debts
Owed Him
By 1000

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 20
G.N.S0.-At last, a real honest-to-
goodness Santa Claus.
Charles G. Armstrong, former
Knoxville clothing merchant, is
telling 1000 persons to forget the
$4,000 they owe him-aS a special
Christmas gilft. He said:
"I'm wiping the slate clean.
From now on when 1 meet old
acquaintance and patrons on
the street / want to be able to
say, old boy, you don't owe me
a cent"
Armstrong, now Know county
trustee, sold his business last
March. At that time there were
$4,000 in outstanding debts to
the company. He explained:
81 probably could sell the &C
counts for rs or 30 cents on the
dollar, btu then collectors would
hound my friends from now On"
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
Model Prison Parole
Statute Drafted

would prevent release of indi-
vidualS convicted of murder or
other major crimes after serving
only a few years. Eliminating
political and other improper in
fluenceS in parole adminiStra-
ton through establishment of
full-time Salaried parole board.
Granting Of paroles only
where adequate employment
and rigid supervision is pro-
vided.
A National Scandal
Vigorous condemnation Of the
parole system was ex
pressed by Director j. Edgar
Hoover of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation.
THE practice at present ap-
prOacheS a national scandal. 1t
seems incOnceivable that the
people should be taxed millions
upon millions of dollars which
they must annually pay for po-
lice, State cOnStabularieS, Fed.
eraI enforcement burea s
courts. penal institutions and
the like only to have this ex-
penSe become a mOckery.
Throughout America millions
of dollars are being Squandered
because of ill-cOnSidered, ignO-
rant or politically controlled
parole and clemency actions
which release dangerous men
and women to prey upon So
ciety.
The average murderer does
10 years behind the bars and
murder is supposed to be our
greatest crime. All this makes
for a CHASTITY farce and no one
knows it better than we who
are entrusted with the safe
guarding of society.
Criminal statistics revealed that
during 1884 approximately 35,,
900 convicts were pardoned or
paroled in the United States.
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
Heavy Losses for HaiIe's
Troops Reported by Rome

ROME, Dec. 20 GN.SD Heavy
Ethiopian losses in one armed com
bat and several bombing raids in
the area north of the Takkaze
River, scene of the gigantic three
day battle earlier this week, were
reported in military communique
rs today.
Marshal Pietro Badoglio tele-
graphed from the front:
sour detachments, after a
brisk engagement yesterday, de-
feated and dispersed a body of
Abyssinian troops south of Addi
Abbi.
"On our side a nOn-cOmmis-
stoned officer and one Askari
(Afican sOldier) were killed and
Is Italian soldiers were wounded.
Enemy losses were consider.
able.
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
WORKERS ASK
MORE CARS

Residents Of the M rsh al
Heights section in the vicinity Of
Chesapeake Junction have to
walk a mile to street car line,
the Public Utilities Commission
was told today by George H.
Ganaway, colored, the thirtieth
of more than 100 witnesses
scheduled to testify at the public
hearing on street car and bus
problems.
The witness insisted that better
service should be afforded to the
outlying sections of the District.
He said:
eve are all working people
out there and are entitled to
some convenience"
The hearing was held up for a
time while the commission took
under consideration an applica-
ton Of the Capital Transit Com
pany to dissolve four of its sub
sidiaries, which operate cars on
the Takoma line and BladenSburg
Rd. N. E. The company proposed
that it bear the cost of the disso,
lutionS.
The Washington times., 1935-12-20

he had received a postal card on
which was the wording:
withhold testimony or kid
nap trip"
Hounfe served cocktails to Miss
Todd and others at the party
given in the stars honor by Stan
ley Lupino. English film comedian.
Although police have discounted
as an evident mistake the story
told by Jewel Carmen, eStranged
wife of Roland West, close friend
of Miss Todd'S, that she had seen
Miss Todd on Hollywood Boule-
ward Sunday night in her car with
a dark complexioned man" Miss
Carmen maintained she believed
the girl she had seen was Miss
Todd.
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
RAS DESTA HAS
$4,000 TROOPS
NEAR D0L0
Graziano Surprised At
Size Of Ethiopian
Force in South
Copyright, 1888, by International
News Service)


ITALIAN FIELD HEAD
QUARTERS, DOLO, Ethiopia (via
Mogadiscio delayed) Dec. 10 UN.
SO.-Tearing their way through
a dense jungle, italian troops to-
day extended their line far up the
GeStro River, straight north of
Dolo, and expect soon to meet the
easternmoSt of the three columns
of Ras DeSta Demtu'S $4,000
soldiers.
Already the impatient soldiers
of Gen. Rodolfo GRAHAM, irate
because the Ethiopians refuse to
be drawn into a pitched battle,
have established contact" with
the central and largest Ethiopian
column, but there was no word OF
q fight.
Hunt For DeSta
The Italian troops, making their
way up the Gestro, occupied four
villages, Diegan, Elbut, Barabir
and Bucarale, in their hunt for
Ras Desta, who is Emperor Halle
SelaSsie's Son-in-law. The Ethi-
opian advance guard is at LamaS-
cillindi, only a few miles above
Bucarale, and the main body is at
Elmedo.
Aerial scouts who reported the
Contact" between the Italian and
Ethiopian forces around Amino,
on the Ganale Dorya River, caused
General Graziani to revise his esti-
mates of the strength of the Ethi-
opians. Previously he thought
there were only 10000.
The extreme western division of
Ras Desta's army, the scouts re-
ported, seems to have been cut
off from communication with the
main column, and is now uncer.
tain as to what moves it should
make, sometimes advancing and
sometimes retreating. This force is
now at Sadei on the Dawa Parma
River, due west Of Dolo.
Have Mixed Arms
Eacn OF Cne enemy columns is
headed by about 1000 "Ciufta"
or "soft troops" and their arms
are mixed, some having the most
modern weapons and other old
types.
Palm-trees and underground are
so thick in these wild animal-in-
tested regions that it is possible
to progress only along the rivers,
which converge at Dolo.
ROME, Dec. 20 0.N.SO-Tn a
new Italo- Ethiopian clash south
of Addi Abbi, north of the TAX
kaze River, two Italian soldiers
were killed and Is wounded, it
was officially announced today.
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
BY ERIC FRIEDHEIM
international News Service

Sweeping revision of the ma
tons looSely-adminiStered Grim
inal parole system through en-
actment of a model Federal stat
ute was studied by the Justice
Department today for presenta-
ton to Congress in January.
The new law may embody some
of the recommendations adopted
by last years special crime con-
ference as well as those features
of European parole systems that
lend themselves to adaptation in
this country. Attorney General
Cummings made an exhaustive
survey of English, French and
B eigian criminal rehabilitation
methods last summer.
Following disclosure that one OF
the Weyerhauser kidnapers had
been paroled several times despite
a long criminal record. President
Roosevelt directed Cummings to
take steps to prevent abuses Of
paroles. especially in cases Of ha-
bitual law violatorS.
Predicted Passage
Representative Guyer CRD of
Kansas. of the House Judiciary
Committee, which framed much
of the legislation giving the Gov
ernment added powers to combat
crime, predicted any contemplated
parole measure would receive IA
vorable action in Congress. Rep
resentative Guyer said:
"The present system of parole
in many States is far too loose
and enables many dangerous
characters to return to their
criminal activities
Among the first reforms which
may be proposed in the new law
are:
Limiting all paroles to GRIM
inals whose punishment is COM
patible with his crime. This
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
SCHALL BADLY
HURT BY AUTO
CONTINUED from Page y

(Confinued from Page y
from Minneapolis, James Laugh
lin and Harold Birkeland.
1t was about $40 when they
stopped in Cottage City and the
Senator said he wanted to make a
few purchases in a store across the
street.
UnaccOmpanied by Lux
He was unaccompanied by Lux.
4 his Seeing Eye" police dog,
equipped with a special harness
to lead him, and Leen got out Of
the car to assist the Senator
across the road.
AS they reached the center of
the highway speeding sedan
narrowly missed them, the driver
shouting to them to keep out of
the way. Then the car operated
by Humphries came over the crest
of a slight rise in the road and
struck them.
The fender of the machine
knocked Leen down first, and
Senator Schall received the full
impact of the car and was hurled
to the pavement.
Wife and Son at Bedside
Horrified by the suddenness of
the accident. Birkeland and
Laughlin rushed to his side
Laughlin, a war veteran, placed
his coat under the Senator's head
and then telephoned for the am
bulance.
Mrs. Schall and their son, Rich
ard, a senior at Georgetown Uni
versity, were notified and went to
the hospital where they remained
throughout the night.
The Senator, who Is SO years
old, has been a familiar figure in
Washington for many years. Over
coming the handicap of blindness,
he served five terms in the House
before being elected to the Senate
in 1924, and again in 1880. Cover
nor Floyd Olson had announced
he would oppose the Senator at
the election next year.
Although he started out as an
independent, Schall came to the
Senate as a Republican. and has
been a bitter enemy of the Admin
istration. He was closely allied
with the late Senator Huey P.
Long, and helped Long during his
famous one-man filibuster.
Despite his blindness. Senator
Schall is an ardent sportsman. On
his Maryland estate he has d
pistol range, and is a familiar
figure on the bride paths, being
a good horSeman.
The Schall family has been
"jinxed" by accidents lately.
Richard was injured in an air.
plane crash last summer. An
other son, Thomas, was injured
in an accident at Annapolis and
forced to leave the Naval Acad-
emy, and their daughter, Padget
Ann, has also suffered several
major injuries.
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
Princess 10 Divorce
RospigIiosi, Rewed

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 20 Il
N.SO LESS than a half hour
after she had denied she contem-
plated marriage to Louis F. Reed,
jr., socially prominent New York
business man, Princess Marian
Snowden RoSpigliosi telephoned
International News Service today
to assert the opposite. She said:
II wish to confirm Mr.. Reeds
statement made in New York
that we will be married as soon
as get a divorce.
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
Smallest Borough

PHIlADELP HIA 0N.S).
Milburn Borough, between this
city and Upper Dorby, is the
smallest borough in the United
States. 1t covers exactly ~ of
square mile, has a population
of 396
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
NRA WORKERS
NOW FACE
TRANSFER
President Bares Plan
to Shift Employees to
New Department

In a surprise statement today,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
admitted he probably would"
transfer the remnant of NRA en-
ployes to the Department Of Com
merce and one or two other
agencies.
This revelation came at press
conference, during which the
President said an executive order
making the change had already
been prepared, but that the final
draft was not yet ready.
From sources outside OF the
White House, it was learned the
tentative executive order is now
being studied by experts of the
Department of Justice.
The move will not affect the
fact that the remaining employees
on the NRA rolls are due to be
joblesS when the organization
goes out of existence by law next
April /. The move to place the
Scanty NRA duties under other
departments, it was believed. is
more or less of an administrative
measure.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
George L. Berry, industrial coor
dinator in charge of the NRA
has conferred with the President
on possibilities for bringing labor
and industry together in some
sort of cooperative program. Be
lief was current that Berry will.
call another industrial confer
ence," like that broken up BY
hard words on both sides early
this month, in an attempt tc
find out what industry wants
The Washington times., 1935-12-20
TODD PHONE
CALL TRACED
(Continued from Page y
Canyon home where the cocktail
party was in progress.


HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20 GN.SD.
Kidnap threats have been hurled
against a witness in the Thelma
Todd death mystery, detectives re-
ported today.
Alex Hounie, head waiter of the
exclusive TroCadero Night Club,
where Thelma attended a gay din
ner party Saturday night preced-
ing her strange death, told police
two men in a fast automobile
forced his small car into the curb
early today.
Hounie said one of the men
shouted at him:
you got your warning; better
beware"
Hounie revealed that yesterday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-18
Impiacable Critics.
(New York Times.)

eNew York Times)
 The Presidents "stop-gap" plan abandoning all attempts longer to enforce any of the provisions for working conditions or fair-trade" practices former fly existing under the MIRA codes has had a strange effect upon the opinions of of his critics Those who had lately seen the NRA only as tyranny, la nightmare" an unmitigaed obstacle to recovery, are indignant because the President is rejecting lit completely This is downright "unsportsmanlike," and it is leaving business in the lurch Why didn't the President salvage every scrap and splinter of the MIRA that the Supreme Courts decision per mtted him to? One can understand the bitter cry of General Johnson that the Presidents new scheme is nothing at all" but how one comprehend the statement of Representative Shell, Republican leader in the House, that it is certainly surpris- ing" 10 have the MIRA abandoned without any effort at preserving those parts of it that are ad- Imtted to he of benefit to the people and probably could be taken of within the limits of the Supreme Court decson?"
 It is doubtless true that the President has abandoned of the MIRA than the courts de- icison made strictly necessary He could have asked that MIRA labor and tradepractice standards should still be maintained for activities which directly laffect" interstate commerce. But if provision to do this adopted it's most probable effect would be to give rise to deluge of lawsuits for it would be impossible to know in advance exactly what ac- tivities covered by it. As the courts decision remarked while there is necessary and we'll established distinction between direct and indirect effects on interstate commerce, HJne precise lns can be drawn only individual arise" Apart from this uncertainty of application it would ob- iviously inequtes and confusion to compel some firms in certain industries to abide by stand ards which other firms, at least partly in compe- titon, would not have to maintain.
 Another criticism of the Presidents pro- posas is that his skeleton fact-finding NRA ganzation, if retained, would function a huge propaganda machne-that the bulk of the statistics it published would be designed to show how bene- ficial the MIRA in it's lifetime, and how un- successful the country managing to get along without it. These fears seem premature. They will be disspated, however, only if the statistical ganization is as careful to point to the gains to the through the restoration of competitive prices as to any temporary losses to producers Tiff it is careful not to imply that the immediate results of code abandonment are the same as long run results; and if, in addition to reporting the
 immediate i'll effects for some workers of any ductions in hourly wage rates increases in hours, lit reports also any increases in volume of employ ment which follow the restoration of competitive price structure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-18
GOING PLACES BY AIR.

Reports from Washington indicate that much lesser amount for airport development in Alaska is being considered under the new public works pro- gram than originally proposed but the fact that something in the way of expenditure for air trans portation is likely to be granted is mighty good news for residents of the North country.
 Reads, trails and harbor facilities are all an important part of our transportation problem in the Territory but the real key to getting from one place to another is in the air and it be overlooked that have long way to go in Alaska Calling on a neghborng city means spanning hundreds of miles in many instances, thus the airplane has filled a niche that other mode of transportation has yet been able to offer-speed.
 The reported amount being considered at the present time for air field development only $371,- 000 but this will mean the fixing up of many landing field and the spotting of others that can be used, though perhaps they should not actually be cassed as arports, rather pastures gone air minded. However they most important pur- pose and will be the foundation which req, aviation is bound to develop. A semblance of ar airfield is better than no landing spot at all sc it is that while limited funds may mean little development it will follow that a great many tenn porary fields will be staked out which will serve purpose until further facilities be afforded
 If the proposed program goes through some $ villages and mining camps will be included in the airfield program. Not much perhaps in country Of 6Oo,0oo square miles but a starter from which the aerial development of the North is sure tt follow It mustn't be overlooked that the Army anc Navy are vitaly interested in Alaska from ail standpoint in connection with the air defense pro- gram and linked together-military and commer. cia.-
 It locks as if we were going some place in tht air after all
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-18
What Is So Rare?
(New York Times1

tNeW 4OTK 1lmeS.)
 June has been paid many compliments before and since James Russell Lowell asked what is so rare day in it. And it will be paid many more every year, for it is the month of the year that crystaizes sentiment solidy and sweetly as rock candy, and compliments fly to it bees to red clover. It is the month of the bride and the girl graduate It smells of neW-mown hay in it's later days among them that longest of the year when spring and summer rresponsiby meet and part. And these only few of the freshly per- fumed attributes of June that make the month beloved of all but the coarest cynics.
 Even more than January, June is month of beginnings. Hundreds of thousands of parents gulp cough and view mstily their male or female off, lsprng at the beginning of marriage or the begin ming of life. baccalaureate speeches term it. for which in both roll of parchment is the pass port, and God give them at least third-class fare for the first leg of the journey. But most of all land most practically, June is the month when summer vacationing commences, and those enslaved to the time and space of town life swarm out along the beaches and into the woods and mountains.
 Do the extra rations of ultraviolet rays and oxygen accorded in June sweeten the blood and tempers of mankind that as when the quality meet, compliments fly around altar and platform and the boss sends the first of the office help off for two weeks vacation with paternal grin?