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The Washington times., 1935-07-26
VILLAGERS Starred to Death

The village was dead. Going up of the shacks
looked into a window. We dead propped up
on built-n Russian stove His back against the WALL
He rigid and staring straight at with his faraway
dead eyes.
had many dead people before who had died natu-
rally But this death from definite cause with which
I associated and had been supporting.
How that deathly gaze pierced me! AS look back
think that unforgeabe had effect than any
other in deciding to do what could to rectify my
horrible mistake in supporting the Sanists of Russia and
the Third International
We found dead people in what had been their homes
Some bodies decomposed. When opened doors,
huge rats would scamper to their holes and then
back out and stare at
At one house. there sign written the door in
crude Russian letters. My friend read it:
'GOD BLESS THOSE WHO ENTER HERE, MAY THEY
NEVER SUFFER LIKE WE HAVE"
Inside and child lay dead with icon along
side Of them
There sign another door. It read:
"NIY SON, WE COULDN'T WAIT. GOD BE WITH
YOU"
The old people dead in there. We took it to
they couldn't wait for food package to arrive possibly
from Moscow from America. Maybe their had
been in the Red Perhaps he factory worker
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
ONLY $50 JOBS
0NW. B.&A.

BALTIMORE, Md, July 26
Especially Little hope of employ
ing more than $50 of the $50 EN-
ployes of the Annapolis short line,
between Baltimore and Annapolis.
was held today by its purchasers.
j. Sawyer Wilson, jr.. chairman
Of the First Mortgage Bondhold,
ers Committee. pointed out the
number of employees will depend
on how many trains will be oper.
ated between Baltimore and An.
napoliS, and several technical de.
tails.
Members Of the committee,
which is organizing the new com.
pany to operate the north shore
route, or Short Line" as it was
known, met here to discuss a
tentative charter for the new con-
Germ.
The line was purchased by the
bondholders at an auction in An.
napoliS in June. Service between
Baltimore. Washington and An.
napoliS will end August 20.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
HEWITT PROBE
W|DENED

UPPER MARLBORO, July 26.
Department of Justice officials
from Washington and Virginia
policemen have joined Prince
Georges county police in an in
vestigation Of the previous record
of George Hewitt, Arlington
county farmer, who is being held
in the Prince Georges county
Jail in connection with an al
legged holdup at Hewitt's home
Monday night.
Hewitt's fingerprints revealed
that he has already served Is
years in a Virginia penitentary
for second degree murder. He
was sentenced to serve 10 years,
but paroled two years before the
expiration of his term.
Police say they are trying to
determine whether Hewitt was
an accomplice in the holdup, in
which a lone gunman attempted
to force Homer King, a roomer
at Hewitt's house, to withdraw
$4,000 from a joint bank &C
count which he and his brother,
Oscar King, hold in the First
National Bank Of Southern
Maryland. located here.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
INCREASE SEEN
INPARALYS|S

RICHMOND, July 26.-Infantile
paralysis is continuing it's steady
spread through Virginia, health
officials revealed here today after
recording the 223d case.
In North Carolina, where the
epidemic started, health authori-
ties, who had predicted the dis
ease had run its course there,
were surprised by new flare up.
Twelve additional cases were re-
ported, bringing the total for the
month to 1872 as against 1913 in
June and A in May.
The number of cases in the con.
tagion stage has been sharply re.
duced, however, health officials
said.
Eight new cases were reported
in Virginia yesterday. One was dis
covered in Richmond and the 9TH
erS in outlying counties. Two
were discovered in Danville and
one in Loudoun county.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
PUMP MENACE
TO BE ENDED

TAKoMA PARK, Md, July 26.
The old pumping station located
on Mississippi Avenue, source Of
the water supply for Takoma
Park residents until about IS
years ago, will be torn down, Lacy
Shaw, park commissioner of the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission an
nounced today.
It's tanks have been open and
a menace to the safety of chill
dren Of the community who play
in and around the old buildings,
and the Sligo Park Hills Citizens
Association have waged a fight for
the past year to have the place
dismantled.
Mr.. Shaw said the tanks have
been sealed up and would be
barred until they can be removed.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
LEADERS DRIVE
FOR HARMONY
IN CONGRESS
international News Service


Congressional leaders today pre-.
pared a series Of compromises in
a determined effort to break the
deadlock between the House and
Senate over pending New Deal leg
iSlation.,
A large part Of President Roose.
velt's must" program, including
the social security, holding COM
pany, iva and AAA bills, is
threatened with postponement un-
til the next session of Congress
unless the two houses harmonic
their differences.
All attempts by the joint con-
ference committees on the social
security and utility measures to
reach an agreement on contro-
versial features thus far have
proved fruitless.
iva Passage Held Certain
The AAA amendments which
are expected to go to conference
Monday also face protracted
wrangling by conferees. Only the
iva legislation seems assured of
speedy disposal since the Admins.
tration is willing to accept either
the House or Senate bill.
Possibility of compromises on
the holding company and social
security bills was advanced by
members of the conference com
n1ittees handling the legislation.
Senator Wheeler CD of Mon
tana, who guided the utility bill
through the Senate, indicated the
measure may be saved from the
legislative pigeonhole. Recently
when the House refused to join
the Senate in voting for the draS-
tic holding company death SEN
tence," wheeler predicted the bill
would die in conference.
He did not disclose what form
the compromise would take, but
in any agreement must carry elimi-
nation of the death clause. Some
House leaders stated emphatically
that there was little change in
sentiment in that body regarding
this provision.
Break in Deadlock Seen
A break in the deadlock between
conferees over the Clark Senate
amendment to the social security
bill was predicted by Representa-
tive Hill DO, Washington. The
amendment would exempt large
corporations having their own old
age pension systems from the Fed
eral security program, and is op-
posed by the President.
Hill, one of the House conferees
on tie measure, said his group is
standing pat" but that the Sen
ate members asked for further
time to draft compromise.
The Senate amendment to the
AAA legislation permitting pro-
cessors to sue for recovery of
taxes paid in case processing
taxes are held unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court will be
fought by House agricultural
leaders.
Chairman Jones of Texas. of
the House Agriculture Commit
tee, termed the amendment too
''broad'' and said he will demand
its elimination or modification
from the bill.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
Cameraman Missinq
+ As Movie Ship Sinks

HOLLYWOOD, July 26 G.N.S).
One man was missing and $780,
600 worth Of motion picture equip
ment was lost when ship on
which they were working off lonely
San Miguel Island suddenly sank,
according to word received at the
Metro oldwyn-Mayer studios to-
day.
The missing man was Glenn
Strong, assistant cameraman at
work filming the story "Mutiny on
the Bounty. " Seventy-five per
sons were rescued from the wreck
age, it was said.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
Whole Soviet Towns
Found Wi ped Out
BY Starvation
By FRED z. BEAL


CLeader of the GastoniC TertIe Strike and Former
Member of the Communist Parity.
ARTICLE SEVENTEEN
In the spring of 1885, when the last of the winter
had melted away, made random visit to Ukrainan col
lective near the village of Chekhuyev.
In company with Russian-Amercan comrade from the
factory, took the train from little station of Lossevo
and rode for hours Chekhuyev From this place.
walked east for miles, We did not meet living SOUL
We upon dead horse and dead upon the side
of road The horse lay still harnessed to the wagon The
still holding the reins in his Stiff feless hands.
Both had died from starvation would SEEM The atmos-
phere itself seemed filled with death and desolaon.
We arrived village which presented the worst Of all
possible sights The only human there old woman,
who passed us on the village She hobbd along with
the aid of stick Her clothes just bunch of rags
tied together
When she came close she lifted the stick to
strike U.S. but the movement petered out in weakness She
spa US and mumbed something ncoherent something
my friend could not make out, though he knew the
language we'll. Her feet dreadfuly swollen.
She sat down and prcked her swollen feet with sharp
stick let the water out of the huge bisters There
large the top of her foot from continuous piercing
of the skin She stark mad. She laughed when she
down and screamed with pain when she squeezed her
foot. She spat again at We moved on.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
State Police Heads
Name New Officers

SCRANTON, Pa, July 26.
Frank J. Eckhart, Wilkes-Barre
police captain, yesterday was
chosen president Of the PennSyl.
vania Chiefs of Police Association.
Chief of Police George j. Shoe
maker. of Harrisburg. was named
first vice president; Chief of Police
William J. Kane, of Mount Le-
banon, second vice president;
Chief of Police George Bauswine,
Of NorriStown, third vice preSi-
dent; Chief of Poll F. B. Titus,
of Lansdowne, secretary, and M. H.
Bernhart, of Allentown, treasurer.
Norristown was chosen for the
1896 convention city.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
Ex-Army Man S Body
Identified By His Wife

CHAMBERsBURG. Pa. July 26.
(SpeciaD II ntified by his
clothes and personal effects, by
his wife. the body of Fred Mart
solf, Philadelphia securities sales.
man, and former Army officer.
was shipped to his former home
for burial yesterday. The body
was found Sunday in his parked
auto in the mountains near here.
Mr.. Martsolf had been missing for
80 days. He committed suicide.
Relatives said he was respondent.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
HUEY: TAX TRAIL
TAKEN UPBY
W00DC0CK

While Senator Huey p. Long of
Louisiana was headed for the COOL
ing breezes Of a Maine seashore
resort, it was learned today that
Col. Amos w. w. Woodcock, presi-
dent of st. Johns College, is in
Louisiana for the Federal Govern.
ment to make it hot" for several
of the Senator's close political al
lies.
Aide to Cummings
Colonel Woodcock has been en-
listed by Attorney General Cum
mings as a special assistant to di-
rect the prosecution of income.tax
violation cases.
There has been considerable
speculation for some months on
whether or not the "Kingfish" will
eventually be drawn itno the mat
ter.
Colonel Woodcock was National
Prohibition Administrator during
the Hoover Administration and
was special assistant to the At
torney General for some time
prior to his acceptance of the posi-
ton as head Of the Annapolis
college.
For some time the Department
of Justice, at the suggestion Of
the Treasury Department, has
been investigating the income and
tax returns of Louisianans promi-
nent in the State government.
Former Gov. Dan Moody Of Texas
some time ago was designated as
a special assistant to prosecute in.
come tax cases in Louisiana and
Colonel Woodcock Is to cooperate
with him.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
Chinese Ends Life

NEW YORK. July 26.-For the
first time within the memory Of
veteran policemen of the West
Thirtieth Street station, Chinese
has committed suicide in that dis
trict. On Lee, 80, was found dead
in the living quarters behind his
laundry. A gas tube extended
from wall fixture to his mouth.
Ill health was blamed.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
Alma Lloyd Signs Up
Iona Film Contract

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, July 26.
Alma Lloyd, 21.year-old daughter
of Frank Lloyd, director. has been
signed to a long-term contract by
Warner Bros. and will be groomed
for eventual stardom.
Miss Lloyd's film opportunity is
due to. her own initiative. She
signed the contract before she in
formed her parents.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
COUNTY ROADS
UNITS MERGED

ROCKVILLE, July 26.-Mainte.
nance forces of Montgomery
county roads will be consolidated
into q single unit in the future, it
was announced today following
the appointment of the Rev. Henry
H. Nicoll, Kensington, Md, as
maintenance engineer Of county
roads.
Reverend Nicoll, who will oper.
ate under the Hyattsville, Md, Of.
flee Of the Maryland State Roads
Commission as q county unit in
District 3. headed by Edward G..
Duncan. replaces three county and
State roads inspectors. Thomas
e. Shaw, Silver Spring; E. Frank
Ricketts,, Rockville, and Andrew
M. Nelman. Chevy Chase, super
vised State road work in the
county under a former setup.
Mr.. Nicoll announced today that
his office will have complete
charge over maintenance of all
Montgomery county roads, includ-
Ing State roads, dirt and secon-
Diary roads and lateral highways.
The creation Of the Montgomery
county unit is the first step in a
new State plan to divide Maryland
road work into % county units,
he said. w. Windsor Hodges,
Dickerson. Md. was appointed to
act as his assistant.
The new maintenance engineer
was born in Baltimore, Md, but
has made his home in Montgomery
county for the past IS years. He
has been engaged in general en-.
cheering work, especially along
construction lines, for a number
Of years.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
CORN LIQUOR
TAKEN IN RAID

Police raided a house in the 900
block of Navy Pl. s. E. last night
and seized one of the largest hauls
of illicit liquor taken in Washing.
ton since the repeal of prohibition.
Nineteen cases of bootleg corn
whisky were taken to the Fifth
precinct station after the raid, but
no arrests were made.
No one was near the house at
the time, police said. ~
The seizure was made by Sergt.
George s. Walrodt and Policemen
C. r. Burr and H. L. Pearson.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
Elk Grove Outing

Colored social and athletic
workers of the various play.
grounds of the city will hold their
annual outing and picnic at Elk
Grove, Md, tomorrow. Special
entertainment has been arranged
for the day by the Pyramid Club
and the Bison Athletic Club.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26
Firemen's Carnival

HYATTSTOWN, July 26.
Members of the Hyattstown Vol
unteer Fire Department will hold
their seventh annual carnival
August / to 3, inclusive. Features
of entertainment for the three
days will include ball games.
carnival attractions, dancing and
competitive hook-up and athletic
contests between rival Mont
gomery county fire departments.
The Washington times., 1935-07-26

(Leader of The GastoniG TertIe Strike and Forme
Member of the Communist Pdrty).
ApTTrT U CEVENTEEN
Evening star., 1935-12-22

is unquestioned that Henry Mill, an
English engineer, was granted a patent
in TIA for IAN artificial machine or
method for the inpressing or transcrib-
ing of letters singly or progressively one
after another, as in writing, whereby all
writing whatever may be engrosSed in
paper or parchment so neat and exact
as not to be distinguished from print"
The first American patent on a type
writer was conceded to william Austin
Burt of Detroit in 1929; the first French
patent to Xavier Progin of Marseille
in 1888. Then came Charles Thurber
of Worcester, Mass, 1843; Littledale at
York, England, 1874; Foucault of Paris,
1849; Oliver T. Eddy, Baltimore, 1850, and
a dozen other innovators and reformers
each contributing some value of his
own toward the efficient models in use
today. Gradually, the pace of keys and
bars and affiliated gadgets has quickened
until at last prodigious speed has been
attained. That problem solved for all
practical needs and purposes, it may be
hoped that attention may be diverted to
accuracy. A typewriter that will not
make mistakes is sorely wanted.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Christmas
RIGHT REV JAMES E. FREEMAN D. d, Ii. d. D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON

The most extraordinary thing about
the first Christmas Is its commonplace
ness. Every detail that is told concern
: ing 1t comes within the range Of our
experience, and is related to incidents
that are made familiar to us day by
day No incident recorded in the litera-
ture of the world has produced a more
universal effect upon the human mind
and heart than that which Is recorded
in the Second Chapter Of st. LukeS
Gospel. In lowliness of circumstance
child is born in a stable and laid in a
manger, because there was no room
for them in the inn" An overcrowded
town denied hospitality to the Blessed
Mother of Christ.
This very incident is suggestive of a
condition that has prevailed and still
prevails throughout the world, namely,
the incapacity of men, by reason OF over
crowded lives, to recognize the sublimity
and import of the most notable birth that
has been recorded in the long annal OF
history.
Related to this Incompatible story, the
simple narrative tells us that, there
were in the same country shepherds
abiding in the field, keeping watch over
their flock by night" 1t was while keep
ing their vigil as guardians of the flock
committed to their care that the humble
shepherds heard the message: Fear not,
for behold, 1 bring you good tidings of
great joy, which shall be to all people"
Thus to lowly shepherds was impaired
the most momentouS announcement that
had ever been given to mankind.
The brief but simple narrative as re-
corded by st. Luke more than any other
like narrative has laid a firmer grip
upon the human mind than all other
like incidents, and still continues to give
to this latest recurring anniversary OF
the birth of Christ distinction and an
appeal that makes the day the most
significant in all history. Unlike all
other human events that mark the be-
ginning of epochal and far-reaching
changes in human thought and action,
this one has about it that which brings
it within the range of our everyday
Evening star., 1935-12-22

observation and thus it Is related to the
most intimate concerns of our life. With
reverence we affirm that the honey
scene in Bethlehem is within the COM
prehension of men the world over. 1t
is this that has given to Christmas day
a quality all its own; it Is reinterpreted
in every home where the spirit of child
hood expresses itself in ways that are
common to the most intimate and ap-
pealing things in life In rebirth of feel
ing, in the happy exchange of loving
greetings, in the deeper and finer eX-
preston of a refined sentiment that dis
closes itself in manifold ways, we dis
cover anew the real purpose of life.
Joy is the central note of the Christ
mas story and it is JOY brought to men
in the ordinary experiences Of life. There
is nothing difficult or abstract about
this manifestation of divine love. There
is nothing in it that puts it beyond the
intelligence of the average man or
woman. Men have speculated concern
ing its deeper meaning, the schoolmen
have sought to interpret it in ways that
put it beyond the reach of the common
people, but nothing that they have con-
tributed has rendered the story more
the simple language in which the gospel
clothes it. 1t is simplicity in the recital
of the birth of Christ that makes it so
universally appealing. Unadorned, save
in language which all may understand,
it holds its supreme place as the greatest
story ever told and continues to hold
the attentive vision of men and to pro-
woke their deep and reverent interest.
How silently, how silently,
The wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings Of His Heaven"
To a world distracted and confused
by conflicting motives and purposes the
message of he ,lding angels comes with
new emphasis: GLORY to God in the
highest and on earth peace, to men Of
good will" This, too. bears a vital rela-
ton to our commonplace lives and their
deepest concerns.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Typewriters.

The progress of civilization, it may be,
could be measured in terms of increasing
speed in the business Of communicating
ideas by symbolic representation. No
body knows how long ago the story
began, but it is generally agreed that the
starting point was in remote antiquity.
Archaeological research probably will
push the date back by thousands of
years. Yet the credit due to the un-
guessed genius who first invented writing
will be all the greater for the enhanced
distance by which he is separated from
modern times. He was the sponsor of
the most useful artificial endowment
possessed by the human race.
Certainly, his work has been improved
upon by innumerabIe successors. The
designers of the photographs of Egypt,
the cuneiform texts of Babylon, the
unresolved Inscriptions. of Crete and
Etruria, and the still mysterious hero
glyphs of pre-Columbian Mexico, not to
mention the contrivers of the so-called
'Phoenician" alphabet, the beautiful
Greek, noble Latin and poetical Arabic
styles Of chirography, were in his debt
and he in theirs to the equal benefit
of generations of which they did not
dare to dream.
And the end is not yet. In Milwaukee
just now, according to the Associated
Press, Carl .. Dietz, city alderman,
is endeavoring to complete collection
of no less than six hundred and forty
different kinds Of typewriters. all manu-
featured since 1873, when c. Latham
Sholes and Carlos Glidden perfectei the
machine which bears their corporate
name in the files of the Patent Office.
Mr.. Dietz, however, would be obliged
to pursue his quest to a much earlier
period if he wished to display in his
museum the entire evolution of me-
chanical transcription. For example, it
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Dean of DictatOrs.

Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez, late Presl-
dent of Venezuela, held autocratic sway
so long that he ranked as dean of dicta-
tors. For more than twenty-SeVen Of his
seventy-eight years he kept his people in
the hollow of his hand, suppressing enc
mics with iron relentleSSneSS. Long be-
fore the Stains, Mussolinis, Pilsudskls,
KemalS and Hitlers pranced onto the
world stage, Gomez was the unchallenge-
able monarch of all he surveyed. Among
living heads of states only the democratic
Kings of Sweden and Norway acceded to
power before him. OF Latin American
rulers, Porfirio Diaz of Mexico alone
rivaled the Venezuelan strong man in
length and firmness of tenure.
Despite the mailedfist tyranny by
which he maintained himself, Gen. Co.
mez converted his little realm into one
of the richest countries in the world.
Constitutional liberties like freedom OF
the press, political opposition and other
rights supposed to flourish in repub-
lie, long since passed into the discard
under the Gomez despotism, but Vene-
zuela the while experienced prosperity
on a fabulous scale. Its annual exports
reached a total of $3.50, 100000. Today
Venezuela has no foreign debts, domes-
tic debt of only s10,OOO0OO and treasury
surplus of more than S300OO,O0O.
Gomez died many times millionaire.
He became the largest land owner in the
republic, possessed numerous large cof-
fee estates and ranches, was an extensive
breeder of live stock, and held immense
blocks of securities in electric light, power,
oil and railroad corporations. In the
course Of amassing huge personal for
tune by methods that were doubtless
easy under his system of one-man gov
ernment Gomez remade Venezuela. He
developed oil fields, built automobile
roads, enlarged. modernized and beauti-
fed the capital city and extended the
public school system. To that degree the
country had its being under benevolent
autocracy. Oil is Mother Natures lavish
gift to Venezuela, the supreme source OF
its opulence. 1t equals Russia as the
second petroleum producing country in
the world, next to the United States.
The industry owes its growth largely to
American capital investment.
Gomez achieved power by revolution
after overthrowing a preceding dictator,
the famed Cipriano Castro, in 1908. A
dozen counter-revolutions failed to dis
lodge him. He will live in South Ameri-
can history as stern and ruthless ruler,
yet withal as one of the constructive per-
sonaIities of his time. Venezuela is likely
to experience tumultuous days before it
knows another such stabilized reign as
Juan Vicente Gomez, the Caesar Of
Caracas, gave it for the better part of
generation.