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The Washington times., 1935-03-20
FIXING PRICES
IN WAR HIT
international News Service

Price fixing as a means of
taking profit out Of war was
termed ineffective today by John
T. Flynn, economist and special
Investigator for the Senate NUM-
tions Committee.
Testifying before the committee,
Mr.. Flynn criticized the McSWain
bill supported by the AdminiStra-
ton, which would institute govern
ment price-fixing at the outbreak
of a conflict.
He said freezing of prices at the
outbreak of war would create a
false standard of profit for manu-
facturers.
He produced charts showing
that a few months prior to the
World War there was a small Gin
flationary period of prices that,
if frozen at that level, would have
provided the manufacturer with
an unjustified profit"
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
DARROW RAPS
NRA AS HARD
-. ON POOR
Noted Lawyer Tells Senators
/ Entire Setup Is For Rich;
E3, Wants 1t Abandoned
International News Service

i
Visibly aged, but fiery as ever,
Clarence Darrow came before the
Senate Finance Committee today
to blast the NRA.
The big committee room was
packed with spectators and long
queue stretched down the hall out.
side, Donald r. Richberg, NRA
policy head, was an interested
spectator.
Mr.. Darrow explained he was
chairman of the board named by
the President to investigate
charges the NRA fostered monop.
oily and was too hard on small
business. He said:
'T knew nothing about the
NRA, but I hadn't been in very
long until I got the idea that
the NRA made it harder for the
people who didn't have any
thing, and easier for those who
did have something.
TOLD TO HURRY
''Anyway, I'd been there .
few weeks when / received q
letter from the President which
said he wanted us to hurry up
and get through. Well, l SuS-
pected they had gathered the
impression, that they might
well have gathered. that I
wasn't very favorable to the
NRA.
'T answered the letter and
said it might take some time
to complete a report.
Altogether I think we stayed
here four months, and we were
very sure that we couldn't stay
any longer If we wanted to.
1--WE made our report to the
President, and I supposed he
would make it available to the
people. Well, we waited breath
less, and three weeks later this
report appeard on Sunday morn
ing, preceded by report by
General Johnson and followed
by one Of Mr.. Richberg.
, LITTLE PUBLICITY
1--WE didn't get much space
In the papers with our report.
I hadn't been down here long
enough to stand in with the
boys.
81 don't know whether there
was any room in the papers to
print our report.
"It was rather a cooling bus
(Continued On Page s, Col. -
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Good Neighbor' Role
olicy toEurope

for the past three days the Presi-
dent has conferred with one or
more of his experts from the
State Department, who have been
keeping close to the situation in
Europe, where the apparent in
tention is to load the nations
with a heavier armament than
that which led to the World War.
President Concerned
This Government has no inten-
ton, it is learned today, of send
ing any notes to Germany-at
present, at least. Just what the
President thinks of Herr Hitler
and his eruption from arms limi-
tations OF the Versailles treaty
(COntinued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Body Discovered
Floating in Basin

Police today were endeavoring
to identify the body of a man
fould floating in the Tidal Basin
late yesterday.
Dressed in blue trousers, white
shirt and a tan leather jacket,
the man was said to be about 81
years old and wore a ring with
the initials H. N. A. A fisherman,
Harry Williams, 200 block Fourth
st. S. w., found the body.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Weather Cancels
Robot Planes Hop

OAKLAND AIRPORT, Cal,
March 20 Q.N.S0 Unsettled
weather conditions caused can
collation. of the 1,620-mile flight
today by the Governments robot
plane. Instead, the plane may,
depending on the weather, make
a flight of approximately 1900
miles, contracting the passenger
liner Lurline, 600 miles southwest
of here and en- route to Los
Angeles.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Castor Oil Dose
For Speeders in
Hammond, Ind.

HAMMOND, Ind, March 20
0.N.SO Like castor oil? Of
course not. Well, then be care
full when you drive through
Hammond because City Judge
Joseph Stodola has inaugurated
a new remedy for reckless driv.
ing.
He administers three ounce
doses of castor oil to traffic
violatorS and supplements the
dose with one hours sentence
in the city bastile.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
France Drafts Strong
Protest to Germany

PARIS, March 20 GN.SD.
Seeking universal European con.
demnation of Germany for Chan.
cellor Hitler's decree re-establish.
ing compulsory military service,
France today decided to appeal to
the League of Nations, drafted q
sharp note of protest to Berlin, ar
ranged for a tripartite interna-
tional consultation and strength.
(Continued on Page 4, Col. -
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
CHARGES STABBING

LOS ANGELES, March 20 GIN.
).-Maurice KuSel, studio dance
director, today charged his wife
Jayne Manners, stage actress, with
stabbing him during an argument.
He seeks a divorce. The couple
married at Harrison, N. Y, Sep
tember q, 1884.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
Tough Guy Dies
In Chair Tonight

CHICAGO, March 20 QN.SO.
Chester Novak, 3o-year-old self
confessed tough guy" is sched-
uled to die in the electric chair
at Cook county Jail shortly after
midnight tonight. He was con-
victed of killing one of his vic
tins in a holdup.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

CHICAGO, March 20 GN.SD.
Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins was en- route to San Fran
cisco today after refusing to &C
cept a petition from Northwestern
University students protesting the
arrest for deportation of Evelyn
John st. Loe Strachey. British
author.
Plainly displeased last night
when a student spokesman at
tempted to hand her the petition
purporting to bear 468 names,
Miss Perkins said:
81 will not receive your petit
ton or discuss the matter in
any FORM"
Miss Perkins had just addressed
the Council of Social Agencies OF
Chicago.
BALTIMORE, March 20.-Eve.
lyn John st. Loe Strachey, visiting
British author, whom Government
agents recently took into custody
as an alien Communist. will lee
ture Saturday night at the Work
mems Circle Lyceum under au,
spices of the Maryland branch OF
the American League Against War
and FasciSm.
Mr.. Strachey will talk on the
HNEonona of 10 oSniSnn
Sam Swerdloff, executive Secre-
tary of the organization sponsor
ing the lecture. said that some
difficulty was experienced in ar
ranging for hall.
After preliminary arrangements
had been made for the use of the
Auditorium Theater, the plan fell
through.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
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The Washington times., 1935-03-20
International News Service

Acting in concert following def.
mite word from Washington that
the United States would keep it's
hands off what it deems a purely
Europea problem, Britain,
France and Italy arranged for a
tri-partite conference today as
France protested to Berlin over
Chancellor Hitler's CONSUMPTION
decree. Developments in leading
capitals:
PARIS--France decided to ap-
peal to the League of Nations
and strengthened her bond with
Soviet Russia as a note of pro-
test over Reich rearmament was
drafted and arrangements con.
cluded for a meeting with Britain
and Italy.
BERLIN-Nazi circles unrutfled
by Frances decision to appeal to
League of Nations.
GENEVA-Rumanian Foreign
Minister Titulescu enroute to
Geneva carrying message re-
ported to threaten immediate re-
armament by the Little Entente
if Hungary revives conscription.
MOSCOW-Press charged Brit
aims policy in crisis directed
toward aiding Germany's plans
for a war of revenge"
LONDON-A Reuters dispatch
received in London said Italy was
sending a note of protest to Ber-
lin couched in terms almost
identical with those of the
French note.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
SEES
WAR THREAT
|NREARM|NG
Peace of World at Stake
French Premier Tells
: Chamber of Deputies

PARIS, March 20 I.N.SD.
France is convOking the League
of Nations Council to consider
Germany's rearmament as an
issue comprising ga threat Of
war;" Premier Pierre-Etienne
FIandin declared in the Cham
ber of Deputies today. He
said the step was being taken
under Article XI of the League
covenant.
"The peace of the world is
at stake" Landin declared in
revealing Article XI was being
invoked.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

Emanuel Sapourn, M. Glover, E.
Stone and Hollis Smith. All gave
Washington addresses,
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
WASHINGTON FORECAST

OccGsiOn0l rain tonight and
Thursday: slightly Wormer tonight.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

OO44t . l IL 3 SPS"AOH OSAHS
with some of colleagues and
House attaches.
Someone remarked:
"That was some talk you
made!"
Someone else asked:
DO you think it did any
good?"
The Speaker announced:
81 should say it did do some
good. They quit ten minutes
earlier that day than they did
the day before"
Clerks in the House Appro-
priations Committee are some
what disturbed these days by
horse racing.
It seems that Jack McFall,
one of the clerks, was recently
entrusted with the sum of 81.
The money was given to him by
Clerk Robert williams who,
knowing McFall was on the way
to the track, told him to play
it on certain nag.
When McFaIl returned he ad-
viSed that he had forgotten
which horse to bet on.
But Williams pony had won
and paid some $40.
Mr.. Williams wanted the $40.
Mr.. McFall said he didn't
have it.
The other day House Ser
geGnt-at-Arn1S of the House Gp-
peGred in the committee room.
He aVGS accompanied BY a lieu
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

Elsie Robinson Wnat Cnen
Is this important fact?
Merely that
WOMEN, AS WOMEN,
ARE NO TREAT.
In themselves,
Women are nothing extra.
Women say they want
Equality
But, just between us,
That's the last thing
Women want.
Women don't believe
They're "equal'' with men
Or want to be
Treated equal.
Women believe they're
BETTER THAN MEN.
Women have no special virtues,
No unique, mysterious powers;
Femaleness has no
Peculiar sanctity-
A woman's flesh and spirit
Are no finer than
A mans flesh and spirit
A woman is
No more sensitive
Than man
There is no woman nature"
Nor man nature
There is only
HUMAN NATURE.
Women have no more
Intuition than men,
Likewise this notion
That a young man
Should "prove himself worthy"
Of a young woman,
And be everlastingly grateful
If she permits him
To pay her upkeep-
That's dangerous rubbish!
It's as much up
To a young woman
To "prove HERSELF worthy"
AS it is
To young man,
And she makes
No greater sacrifice.
And renders
No greater service,
When she accepts him
Than does he
When he accepts her,
The greatest aid
A sensible woman
Can give a sensible man
Is to mind her own business
And have faith that he
Has brains enough
To mind his.
A woman was intended to b
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Protect Our Needs
BIZ James T. Williams, T.

or indifferent to the lesson
which they teach.
Surely these politicians know
enough to realize, if they take
the time to think and are capa-
BILE of thinking straight, that
the American people cannot at.
ford either in time of world
peace or in time of war in the
world, to be dependent upon
foreign ships to carry the bulk
of these vitality essential foreign
products upon which American
industry is so dependent.
AN EASY PREY
If the world again goes to
war, either in Europe or in
Asia, which the proponents of
these quack schemes for the
Europeanizing of American neu-
trality seem to expect, why
should they wish to scuttle our
merchant marine, reduce our
Navy and cripple our foreign
commerce by abandoning in
advance all our national claims
to rights and protection of
American citizens and American
sea-borne property?
Such an abandonment would
pave the way for the European
nations to declare the Atlantic
a war zone and for Russia or
Japan to declare the Pacific
a war zone. Having done that
these foreign nations could
fight their war upon the aSsur-
ance that they need not re-
spect the right of the United
States to obtain across either
ocean, even in it's own ships,
those foreign products upon
which the very life of many
American industries and the
prosperity of the American peo-
pie in peace time and their
national defense in war time
are dependent.
Apparently there are far too
many politicians in public of.
flee today who are afflicted
with a national inferiority COM
plex. Their chief aim appears
to be to abandon in advance
American rights and the means
to defend them and thereby
make American institutions
and even American independ-
ence an easy prey to alien ag-
erosion.
These political quacks would
have Uncle Sam change his
name to Uncle Easy Mark"
Copyright, 1895, The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

of love-making, she is perform
ing an act of charity-charity
to the next woman on whom he
will practice what she taught
him.
A man can get awfully "fed
up" just by feasting his eyes
on the same woman for too
many evenings in succession.
The best thing to give him for
"that tired feeling is a little
distance.
A marriage is bound to sag
and fall apart when both the
love and the money are all on
one side-as many a wealthy
bride of forty-five summers has
discovered.
Nothing makes a woman so
indignant as to have you agree
with her that the husband she
happened to draw is as "impos'
Sible" as she says he is.
Copyright, 1888, by King Features
50 Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
May We Play?

That District Recreation Commission which
Is to coordinate the cys playground facilities has already
demonstrated just how much thinks of the citizens who pay
the bills for the establishment and upkeep of those facilities
It creating with what authority nobody seems to know
fat $4,000 year job Of "coordnaor or director Of the
fairgrounds 1--WE already have two three such directors
but the commission has to have its own)
Is there any likelihood of this job going to Washingtonan
who might know something about local conditions and local
needs? >,
Not at ALL The Commission" has invited five experts
from out of town to here be looked by the
mission and announced fatty that Washngtonans haven
the slightest chance of winning the post.
All Westinghouse can do is pay the bill ~
If the commission continues it has started we Will begn
20 wonder if Wasngonians will be permitted to play under
the direction of this imported expert
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Marry-GO-ROund
Blu Helen ROWIand

mans heart, however battered,
springs right back into action!
Some bridegrooms try to look
cheerful-but most of them
have the trapped" expression
of Junior being led to dancing
school, or Fido being dragged
to his bath.
A woman gets the same
purely academic joy out of an
afternoon of window-shopping
as a man gets out of looking
over the pretty women on the
beach-but try and make your
husband believe that!
Some men kiss a girl as
though they were determined
that, not by the widest stretch
of the imagination, should she
mistake their caresses for any
thing so serious as love.
When you read of a woman
getting her second divorce, you
don't know whether to think of
her as a "disillusioned woman"
or as a bright little optimist
starting out on brand-new love
quest.
The average man is so uncom-
municative, that all his wife
knows about him when he dies
is that he was a good provider,
hard on his socks and liked his
eggs boiled three minutes. His
lawyer has to tell her the rest.
When a sophisticated woman
teaches a young man the art
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
An Unsuitable Ship

The prov and equally blunt stern OF the new float
ing hospital St. Johns Guild in New York have nothing IN
with Sleek beautiful lines of the cruise ships which
proudly pass the numbering hospital ship IN we lower
But there's one thing about the hospital ship which far
more all the beauty and comfort Of the seagong
palaces.
It's unsuitable
Every waterht compartment in the hull can be flooded and
yet the ship will keep afloat.
wish engineers would devote much attention 70
Tho nrolem of safeguarding the lives of the millions of
gers who the designers of the new ship
have given to the thousands of children who will use for
harbor cruising.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

Before Congress tempers
with the traditional American
policy of neutrality, under the
pretense that all traditional
American policy in the field OF
foreign relations is obsolete and
ought to be Europeanized, these
salient facts should be faced:
That the United States is
wholly dependent on certain
articles which must be trans
ported by ships overseas from
the countries where these arti-
cleS are produced.
That the United States uses
about one-half of the more i'm
pOrtant raw materials which the
whole world produces.
That 80 per cent of the ferrO-
manganese used in the United
States, where it is absolutely
vital to the life of the steel in
dustry,. must be transported to
this country over thousands Of
miles of sea lanes.
ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS
That the United States uses
almost 10 per cent of the worlds
rubber supply and that almost
all of it must be carried thou
sands of miles across the sea.
That tin, which is absolutely
essential to the life of our ire
mendous food preserving indus
try, must be transported by ships
from Bolivia and the Strait
Settlements. The same is true
of chromium, an essential fire
resistant for steel furnaces.
That the American glass in
dustry is dependent on foreign
produced antimony.
That Manila fibre and Sisal
for rope and cord, as every
Ar erican farmer well knows,
must be imported.
That half of the raw wool
used in this country comes from
foreign countries.
That the greater part of our
sugar supply comes from out
side of the United States and
our coffee, tea and natural silk
are shipped from thousands of
miles away.
The politicians in Congress,
who sheer at the traditional
American policy of neutrality,
and those politicians who are
attempting to torpedo the Ameri-
can merchant marine, are either
ignorant of these salient facts
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Greatest Show On Earth
By John SnUre, T.

tenant of District police. They
both Were Uery formal.
Mr.. Romney presented Mr..
McFall with a warrant charging
ENLIGHTENMENT.
Mr.. McFall, somewhat of a
lawyer, looked over the docu-
ment, found no official seal,
and said:
cit is a fake"
Mr.. Williams is still out SO.
When that great statesman
from Louisiana, the 'Kingfish,"
Huey P. Long, made his attack
on Secretary Harold L. 1ckes
the other day he made a mis-
take.
1t 1DaS on that day that he
appeared in his StraW hat and
other summer attire.
After Huey delivered the blast
that he thought would jolt Mr..
Ickes and the Nation, neWsooyS
demonstrated their views on his
craftsmanship. outside the
Capitol, they shouted:
"Huey voted best-dressed man
in Senate"
It was at one of the press
conferences of FERA Admins
traitor Harry Hopkins the other
The Washington times., 1935-04-24

Hiram Percy Maxim to show pale
white at high noon-if one is
clever enough to find her. AS
this is being written she is radi-
ant in the western sky immedi-
ately after shutdown. She is so
bright and large that she shines
out even when the after-glow is
quite strong.
Venus is called Earth's twin
sister because she and Earth
seem to have been born under
almost identical conditions.
Venus is 7,700 miles diameter,
while Earth is 1927. Her gravi-
rational pull has disturbing
effect upon the orbits of Earth
and Mars which, when meas
ured carefully. indicates that
her mass is 81 as compared
with Earth's .88.
Venus is our neighbor on the
side toward Sun. Mars Is our
other neighbor, on the side
away from Sun. Venus averages
67,2OO,OOO miles distant from
Sun, while we average g.
100000. She makes one cir
cult around the Sun in 225 days,
while we, being farther out,
require 365 days.
BATHED IN CLOUDS
Like Earth, only far more so,
Venus is perpetually bathed In
clouds. We have never seen
her surface. We can see only
the tops of her highest clouds.
We have tried every kind OF
light from infra-red to ultra
violet, but have found nothing
which will penetrate the clouds
and show us the surface.
Seeing no part of the sur
face, and only the tops of
clouds, we have no knowledge
as to the time Venus takes to
rotate one revolution on her
axis. We make one revolution
in "a hours, Mars in "a hours
and 81 minutes; but what
Venus day is like, we do not
know.
The favorite estimate, owing
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Half a Loaf

The District Commissioners have weakened in their effort to
obtain complete authority the government which they
supposed to direct
AS result they have ordered revision of the bill which they
prepared earlier and which would have given them control
various boards and commissions existing within the local gov
eminent but less independent of the Commissioners
Apparently the Commissioners have decided that half loaf
Is better than bread They will therefore, get through
smaller things which will preciptae the controversy
that fell on the first draft.
The bill will at least permit the Commissioners to author
lie dnterment bodies and their removal from
terry another Heretofore such matters these have
STATED action by Congress and the approval
of the President
That of course is an absurd way conduct government
and it would be as ADVANTAGEOUS FOR CONGRESS to get
rid of these little details would be advantageous to the
people the District be able to obtain speedy action through
local officials such matters
The first bill of the Commissioners went far toward giving
the District centrally local government that it frightened
many of our citizens of the powers which would have
been conferred by earlier bill possibly would have given the
Commissioners too much authority along certain lines
But the basis of the bill unquestlonaby sound one IS
willing believe that members OF the present ana future
of Commissioners protected by the fveear residence qua
cation would have any sympathy respect Tor the Votees
men and women they govern.
The powers of the Commissioners and of all other bodies
involved in the government Of the District are 1t snoud De
borne in mind, largely A MoCKERY OF THE WORD
POWER They exist only by the will and sufferance OF
Congress and be taken easily as they were ganeo
Nevertheless Congress- for the sake of saving It's own t
might grant the powers which they seek IN
the bill undergoing revision