The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-16
NOW
RiUGL SherLOcks
Become Allies
RAT PROBLEMS
By HELEN ESSARY
They tell me that

soon be leaving washington
permanently.
They will give up Woodley,
the estate for which they paid
almost a million dollars, and
settle definitely at their home
on Long Island.
Committing from washington
friends to New York clients and
back again, the former Secre-
tary finds too difficult to con-
tinue longer.
Also I hear that Mrs. James
F. Curtis may continue the 1925
F Street Club which she made
such q brilliant center for smart
Washington life. She may not
close its doors July l as she
first planned.
When the two authors met, a
spontaneous combustion was
expected-instantly!
And why not? One Of the
two was Leslie Charters, young
English author of 20 detective
stories (good and best sellers,
starring 1.-THE Saint, an Adven-
turer in Modern Crime"
The other was Jonathan Lati-
mer, whose first book, Murder
in the Madhouse," has been
flatteringly reviewed and has
brought sales that demanded a
successor.
We waited for the sparks to
fly. There wasn't even a
tremor. The young Sherlock
Holmeses, on the contrary, took
a likin' to each other. Sat
down for an amiable hours dis
cussion of kidnapping, Scotland
Yard and the Department of
Justice. And parted allies in
the pursuit Of crime.
Leslie Charters, whom Spec
1al Assistant Henry w. Suydam
introduced to Attorney General
Cummings records, found that
the D. US office had on file
the histories of IL public
enemies with nicknames "The
Saint" Mr.. Charters is Won
dering if the American public
enemies went their evil ways in
imitation of his prize bad man.
Or II bad men are generally
saints in this country.
This being America and not
the London which Mr.. Charters
knows best he isn't sure of the
answer.
Since writing a noble treatise
on rats, I have discovered that
a $3.50, 900 contract is just about
to be let to rid the Treasury Of
rodents
The rats of the Treasury De-
partment must have been grow
ing ever since President Andrew
Jackson struck the pavement at
the corner of Fifteenth Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue with
his walking stick and said put
the Treasury here"
Treasury rats, T understand,
are so big that employees fire.
quently mistake them for
small dogs, And get pretty an
noyed when they find the rats
running off with their lunches.
The House Of Commons in
England trusts to nature and
not an exterminator to keep it's
rats scarce. On the English
treasury budget there is a con-
slant allowance for rations "for
the upkeep of two feline
mousers and their progenies."
There's probably a guild of
ancient mousers at this very
moment taking part in the
royal jubilee in London.
The uncertainties of diplo.
nnacy-in two parts.
When the Irish Minister,
Michael MacWhite, was about to
go to Minnesota a few days
ago to make speech, he asked
bout the temperature he would
find around the Great Lakes.
Oh, about the same as Wash
ington, he was told. To be on
the safe, and warm, side, how
ever, Mr.. MacWhite did take an
overcoat.
It was well he did. An un-
timely freeze hac. Stiffened the
neighborhood of st. Paul and
Minneapolis. Minnehaha Falls,
usually a babbling shower of
water, was frozen in midair.
The Minnesota River wasn't
flowing. It was a cake of ice.
Mr.. MacWhite said it was the
coolest reception a cheerful
Irishman ever met.
When William Duncan Her.
ridge, the Canadian Minister,
who, like Mr.. MacWhite, is
very popular diplomat, came to
Washington not long ago, he
found it was customary Tor a
new minister to wear his
medals when presented to the
President Of the United States.
Wear his medals, said Mr..
Herridge. Well! He had some
medals. But for the moment
he couldn't remember where
he had left them. He thought
for q while. They were in q
safe deposit box thousands of
miles away! If he had to have
medals, perhaps he could bor-
row some.
A former sergeant in the Ca
madam army, now on duty at
the legation, offered his medals.
The minister accepted them
happily.
The sergeant's medals were
ansn~a. oud more numerous than