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The Washington times., 1935-05-11
A Crime Movie, New Style

Well worth your while is the film "GMen, now on view
In Washington
about crime But unlike many crime pictures it is true
to fact not fancy.
The "GMen you know, operatives Of the Depart
ment Of Justice.
They the who got Dnger and of other pub
lie enemies who smashed kidnapping major American in
dus who have done to make crime less profitable and
less popular than any other law enforcement agency
The fm-tense, dramatic, packed with thril-shows you
how the GMen get results
picture that every lawabidng adult and every child
should It paints crime in its true color not in those
which have been used to glorfy it in the past.
It is picture that every CONGRESSMAN should see. It
will convince him that every cent appropriated for the Depart
of Justice agents is money well spent and that
money should be made available to the department to increase
its force.
And finally it is picture that every criminal should see
Warden Lawes might find useful at Sing Sing his brass
band his football team his other noble experiments in
habatng those who think that crime be made to
(Begn the story "G-Men," in The Washington Times
tOday)
The Washington times., 1935-05-11
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWLAND

oracles, in whom she reposes her
deepest, darkest secrets and her
most sacred confessions. These
are the ones to whom she I'M
bosoms her marital woes, doubts
and suspicious, to whom she adj
mitS her weaknesses and defeats
and frankly divulgeS all her
petty DISCUSSES.
More real news passes from
the customer across the curling
tongS or over the finger-wave
than ever gets into the news
papers. And more spicy gossip
floats through the curtains Of a
hairdreSser's booth than ever
reaches the gossip columns.
Funny, but a woman who
wouldn't dream Of telling her
age, admitting her husbands
faults or revealing her past or
her love affairs to her best
friend, will unburden her soul
and practically force these
confessions" on a beauty par
Tor operator, whom she has
known for only half an hour.
No doubt she figures that the
beauty expert knows the truth
about the color of her hair,
just how she gets that school,
girl complexion, and can guess
her age within the year, any
how. And, since she knows the
worst, why not tell her the rest
and throw yourself on her
mercy?
But, if were running a con-
feSsion magazine or a gossip
column, I should simply station
a few women's sleuthS in the
towns smartest beauty parlorS,
and have all the news handed
to me on a silver platter!
And, incidentally, I'd learn the
real truth about women!
Copyright, 1875. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

4 Nv A4N0 ~ OOSNS @UG@@A
TTY.
You have many
Tough things to face,
But the toughest Of all
Is reality
It's harder for you
To face Plain Facts
Than lions or gas bombs,
Fires of floods
What kind of Plain Facts?
Any kind of Plain Facts
That affect you,
Any kind of Truth
That challenges you,
Any kind of Reality
That calls for action
From YOU
You can read about
Terrible things,
You can watch other people
Doing dangerous things,
And as long as
They don't involve YOU
You don't mind
Sticking around
But nix on situations
That put you on the spot
Nix on Plain Facts
That force you to think,
Fight, make changes,
Meet issues or take
A good, square look
At yourself,
Or anything concerning
Yourself.
You don't
Wanna be a liar
Not really!
Nor a coward
Nor a gutter
Not truly!
But you sure do hate
Facing facts that might
Get you laughed at,
Get you bawled out,
Force a showdown!
And you aim to duck
Any spot that might
Make you grow up,
Make you move on
And take chances
So whadda you do?
You do what anything does
That's trying to duck
You build walls
And make hide-outS.
Spend your life
The Washington times., 1935-05-11
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

made one OF the 7aGStieSt re-
marks about the banking fra
territy get heard in the House.
He said:
"Whenever I think Of these
racketeering bankers I am re-
minded of one Of them who was
driving his big automobile out
in the city streets. His chauffeur
ran er a little boy, and he
dumped the boy into his auto
mabiIe and rushed him to the
hospital.
"The surgeon stated that the
little boy would have to have a
blood TRANSMISSION, so they took
the blood from the banker and
they transfused the bankers
blood into the little boy.
Inside of 30 minutes the lit
tie boy frOze to death from the
bankers blood"
And the House applauded at
the conclusion of that story.
According to House Majority
Leader Bertrand H. Smell the
Republicans may get some jobs
from the New Deal before long.
Bert opines:
"Why, I don't think there are
going to be enough Democrats
to fill all the jobs in the New
Deal"
Postmaster General James A.
Farley, take note.
Members Of Congress from
rural areas and small towns are
behind the drive to reduce Dis
trict rents.
Depending on their $4,000
salaries, most of these members
find that their constituents
make tremendous demands of
them.
Not only do they receiUe hum
dredS of requests for money to
buy food and for railroad fare
home, but they are forced to
spend large sums in the normal
course OF caring for their con-
StituentS.
Representative Jack Delaney,
Of Brooklyn, contends that the
city constituent does not con-
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

Cats Reject RECOMMENDATION
A Paris dispatch says the
cats there officially have re-
ceived "the practical sympathy
Of the Ligue de Defense des
Animaux." That's nice and the
cats, no doubt, will be CRATE
full. Possibly a similar friendly
gesture would be advisable in
New York If We expect to stand
in with the only rugged individ-
ualists left in America. But, on
the whole, I am inclined to
think it ought to be the other
way about.
Just the other day a Green.
witch Village friend was com.
planning to me that with the
cats starting up their backyard
night clubs, as they always do
in the spring, ne felt more
keenly the restraints and
haraSSmentS which afflict the
ordinary two-legged home-body
In a big city.
II don't mind their noise" he
said. I'VE get used to that.
But here they are having all
that fun, and / get to thinking
how we humans get the short
end Of everything. 1 set the
alarm clock so / will get up in
time kN cot into Ahn o1rhru,n~, onE
do a hard days work, and sub
way home again and read the
paper at night, and set the
alarm clOck-and 50 on.
But a fine, Independent old
bum, a brindle with a round
blob Of a face, Is the boss Of
all the midnight hOnk-a-tonks,
the cats are running in our
ailanthuS trees, and don't
know anybody that has q bet
ter time than he has. Always
on the moonlight nights, 1
hear him sing out: Give the
little girl a big paw and then
know that Minnie, from three
doors down the street, is trip
ping dainty along the fence
to get in on the party.
AN OLD SONG
ut makes me diScOntended.
I would be broke and out Of a
job in a month if 1 stepped out
like that old tramp. And no.
bOdy's going to jerk him on
his income tax or slough him
into the CWA."
My friends complaint stirred
somewhere down in the crypt
of memory a fragment of an
old song which I think the
cats must be continually Or
chestrating in their midnight
festivals in the ailanthuS trees
the only trees which have
been able to withstand the vii.
lage atmospheric blend of gin,
garlic and gasoline. It goes
something like this:
I have led a good life, full of
peace ana qUleCs
! shall have an old age, full Of
rum and riot.
I have been a. good boy, wed to
peace and study;
/ shall have an old age, ribald,
coarse and bloody.
I have never cut Threats, even
when / yearned to;
Never sang the dirty songs that
my fancy turned to;
/ have been a nice boy and done
what was expected;
I shall be an old bum, loved but
unexpected,
I'm sorry I can't help you
with the tune, but you can pick
it up from McDuff's name
band, as Variety would call it,
on any moonlight night-one
of those nights when "Troilus,
methinks, mounted the Trojan
walls" and all the world forgets
it's muddy veSture of decay"
McDuff, like Gene Tunney,
is a Greenwich Village cham
pion. BY diligent inquiry, I
identified him as the fine, in
dependent old bum my friend
had been talking about. He is
the Paul Whiteman of cat
orchestra leaders and he has
licked all the cats for miles
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

date in 1886.
There are
r e a S o n S
which observ-
ers say pre-.
clud a n y
posS i b iii t y
h a t Mills
will get the
call.
In the first
place he is
very rich.
&c ondly,
he is tn o
much Of the
I'll
The Washington times., 1935-05-11
Words

Language is but a poor Bulls
eye lantern wherewith to show
off the vast cathedral OF the
World.-StevenSon.
When you are in doubt
whether an action is good or
bad, abstain from it.-Zoroaster.
If sighted, slight the slight
and love the slighter. -Spurgeon.
Choose an author as you
choose a friend.-DilloA
The Washington times., 1935-05-11
Girls Will Be Girls

men, hold up ship, rob the passengers kill Of them and
wound three.
Then losing valuable time and ng capture they stop
give brother Of the slain passenger enough to provide
good funeral and also give all the passengers couple Of dol
lars each "for transportation"
No matter what their jobs may be- it appears that girls will
be girls and will act differently from under the
same circumstances.
The Washington times., 1935-05-11
Best Medicine for the i. S.

working building site in Atlantic City discov-
cred that rheumatism with which he afflicted when he
began seemed to get better he toed City officials had
analyses made of the mud with which he spattered and
found that it had curative properties
We hope the Atlantic City mud turns out to be pay dirt
and brings health to visitors well cash to the city treas
y But venture to believe that the Of the working
may prove nothing than that the best for
lot Of aches affecting American workingmen is job
The Washington times., 1935-05-11
Human Side of News
Cats Reject Regimentation : and U
BIZ EdWin C.. Hill

and undomesticated cats, who
are the only ones who dare mix
with him.
The census gives New York
city a cat population of 1900.
900. Greenwich Village is a
sort of stump between encroach-
ing skyscrapers to the north
and south, and there the cats,
fleeing the advancing walls of
masonry, adapt themselves
nicely and get more or less per-
manent jobs policing the rats.
Several years ago, the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals was gathering them
I'D at the rate of 1000 a day
and sending them quietly to the
cat Valhalla. But that didn't
seem to hold down the popula-
ton. Cats survive by quantity
output, and they just reared
larger families.
One to whom MuSSolini and
Hitler surely would give an an
nuity was Minnie of the Artists
and Writer'S Club, who spent
most of her time around the
Metropolitan and knew intim.
ately Caruso and all the other
great stars of her day. She
lived to a great age and had
just 10 kittens.
Cats, unlike humans, don't
seem to have much of period
of senesence, and they don't
have to pass a social security or
old age pension bill. 1t is
astonishing to see the number of
rowdy and raucous old timers
still registering around on New
York's back fences.
The old fellows are good fight
ers, too. Luis Angel Firpo, the
Argentine Behemoth who
knocked Jack Dempsey out of
the ring, knew that. He learned
to box by studying cat-fights.
At Jimmy De Forests training
camp in New Jersey he caught
a lot of fish, lured 40 or so cats
into a corral and got them
fighting for fish. He would squat
on his heels and make swift
pencil studies of their blows
and footwork.
Day after day he did this.
And he said the best model and
the best fighter he ever had was
a cat, who loked as old as
Methusaleh.
TNDIVIDUALISTS
This may seem a long way
from cats-the main idea of this
piece-but it seems to this
writer that what this bedevilled
country needs just now is a few
easy-going essayists like Addi-
son and Lamb. Here, all over
the world, is the menacing en-
croachment of governments on
individuals, and here, solvent
and with an increasing birth
rate, is a race which asserts and
maintains the stand-out of the
individual against regimenta-
ton.
The dog has become pretty
much of a trimmer and a me,
too" fellow-like his human
masters; but there are no Eyes
men" in that subhuman spring
Saturnalia on New York's back
fences. I offer, without charge.
a subject for a timely thesis for
any young man or woman get
ting a college diploma this
month: urban Feline Back
Fence Bahvior in the Human
Incidence of Alphabetical Regi'
mentation."
The trouble with our latter-day
essayists is that they get all
steamed up about their own
opinions instead of maybe just
watching a cat, like Luis Firpo.
Lamb or Addison wouldn't
work with statistics. They'd just
take a look around and poke
into this and that, and I'd stake
my new gold tooth against a
burnt match that they'd turn
up a whole lot more than most
Of the deep-dishers we have on
the job nowadays.
Copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate Incl
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

Y o nd b e
pie n ty
peeved-
Yet every day.
You b u m p
yours e If
off,
Blot yourself
AS surely as
though
You'd be e n
muir d e r.
ed,
And n e v er
ba t a n
eye!
All for why?
wxTNR~ NM
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

slider that 1t
is necessary
for his Con-
gresham to
b u y lunches
or d i n n err S
W h e n tn e
v o t RS are
around Wash
ington.
The rural
ties like to
h q We their
G ongreSSman
% a Y t h e
checks, how
ever.
The Washington times., 1935-05-11
The Truth About Women

The Truth About Women
If you want to know the real
truth about a woman, don't ask
her husband or her doctor or
her best friend-or even her
psychoanalyst.
Least of all, her husband!
Because, all that he has ever
learned about her is what he
learned by accident, or what
she couldn't manage to color up
for him. And men are noto-
riouSly bad gueSsers when it
comes to deciphering a woman.
Almost any woman can con.
vince her husband that she is
thrifty. clever, kind-hearted,
domestic wonder. and easily "im-
posed upon," if she works at
it-anything she thinks she
thinks she OUGHT to be!
I know at least half a dozen
men who believe that their
wives are marvels of thrift and
economy, and martyrs to the
cause of housekeeping. Whereas,
said wives spend their days JOY.
ouSly hanging round the "bar.
gain counters" and are just nat
urally "too tagged out" to rustic
up a decent dinner when they
totter back home.
A woman's doctor may guess
a little more accurately, in sizing
her up; and her best friend
may be "onto" lots of her little
camouflages and idosyncrasies
that she has never confessed
even to her God.
But, If you are really anxious
to know the truth about any
woman, cherchez her hair
dresser. Or her manicurist!
These are the confidantes and
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

usual request came recently to
Mrs. Mary T. Norton, chairman
of the House District Commit
tee.
A once wealthy woman, now
penniIesS, wanted Mrs. Norton
to pay for her newspaper each
day.
And Mrs. Norton took care Of
It.
Copyright 1895, The Washington Ttmes)
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

There is considerable talk
these days about the possibility
Of Ogden Mills, former Secre-
tary of the Treasury, being the
Republican presidential candi.
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

when the Republicans do
choose their candidate it is un-
likely that they will select an
fastener Of Mills type.
Thirdly, Mr.. Mills is TOO
CLOSELY allied 1Dith former Pres
ident Herbert HooDer.
The G. o. p. is not anxious
to have any connections with
its former Chief Executive
these days and would like to
devise some way to make him
the forgotten man in 1886, they
say.
Like David A. Reed and
others, Mills is of the Hoover
fraternity and for some reason
he apparently cannot get
away from it.
Talk that he may be the
candidate is like most OF the
rest of the speculation con-
corning the man the Repub-
ncans may pick.
None knows, all would like
to know, but they don't seem
able to find any man at the
moment who could ride the
G. o. p. pachyderm in even
what might be called a good
race.
One of the best ways Of ap-
pealing to the down-trodden
these days seems to be attack
ing the bankers. At least so
thinks wild-haired Representa-
tive Charles v. TruaX, Demo-
crat member-at-large from Ohio.
In recent statement, TruGE
The Washington times., 1935-05-11

OOA4N44AS W@44o1
Making hide-outs;
Big, high walls
OF fear and prejudice:
Soft, thick walls
OF sentimentality;
Snug, warm hide.outS
OF silly habits,
Senseless bonds
And Smothering notions
Spend your life
In hiding behind 'em,
Ducking Truth
And lodging Reality.
Best of all, though,
Are two hide-outs
That you never think
Are hide-outS-
Two escapes from
Pesty Plain Facts
Ones THE FUTURE,
Ones THE PAST.
Whadda you do
When you don't
Want to THINK.
Whadda you do
When you don't
Want to ACT?
Whadda you do
When you don't
Want to BE
Something new,
Something better
Than you've always been?
Do you
Roll up your sleeves,
Spit on your fists
And tackle
The Status Quo?
No, you don't!
You DUCK!
You start REMEMBERING
Or begin DREAMING!
You start telling
What a Swell Egg
You used to be,
Or begin thinking
OF what a Swell Egg
You're going to be,
And the devil with what
YOU-OUGHT-TO.BE
RIGHT-NOW!
YESTERDAY and TOMOR.
ROW.
DREAMING and REMEMBER
ING
Two escapes for towards
Two hide-outs for CUTTERS
They've spoiled more lives
Than bullets,
Broken more hearts
Than fires,
Wrecked more hopes
Than earthquakes.
If somebody shot you
You wouldn't like it
If somebody buried you alive
You'd be plenty peeved-
Yet every day,
You bump yourself off,
Blot yourself out
AS surely as though
You were laid
In a tomb
All for why?
Looking back YESTERDAY,
Dreaming Of TOMORROW
That's why
DON'T DO IT!
Copyright 1888. by King Features &
Syndicate, InS.l
The Washington times., 1935-05-11
Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson
Two ESCAPES

Two Escapes
If somebody shot you
You wouldn't like it
If somebody buried you alive
Evening star., 1935-02-18
RESERVE OFFICERS
MAPPING POLICY
Notables Will Speak Tonight at
Mayfower Hotel Dinner,
Featuring Session.

Prominent Reserve officers from 43
States will attend a meeting of the
National Council Of the Reserve Of
ficers' Association which opened today
at association headquarters, 1858
Pennsylvania avenue, for three-day
session.
The council meets between conven-
tions of the association as whole.
The meeting will consider matters
Of policy and pending legislation on
National defense and the Officers Re-
serve Corps. Lieut. Col. Frank E. Lowe
of Portland, Me, is national president.
A high light Of the meeting will be a
dinner at the Mayfower Hotel tonight.
Speakers will be Harry H. Woodring,
assistant Secretary of War; Senator
Morris Sheppard, chairman of the
Senate Military Affairs Committee;
Representative John j. McSwain,
chairman Of the House Military Af-
fairs Committee; Representative Till
man B. Parks, chairman of the House
Subcommittee on War Department
Appropriations; Maj. Gen. George s.
Simonds, deputy chief of staff; Brig.
Gen. Charles D. Heron, executive for
Reserve affairs in the War Depart
ment. and DR.. Thomas H. Healey,
chairman Of the National Defense
Committee, American Legion, who will
act as toastmaster.
Evening star., 1935-02-18
Farmers Sleeping
In Chicken Houses
To BaIk Thieves
Loaded ShOtguns AtUait
Marauders in St. Marys
After Many Raids.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, February
l8.-"Going to bed with the chickens
is more than figure of speech In st.
Marys County.
Recently increasing thefts from
roosts in the farms and village have
brought chicken owners from their
beds and they are sleeping in or near
the chicken houses alongside loaded
shotguns.
Officials lay the wave Of thefts to
residents Of the county, and, accord
ing to reports, Sheriff j. Bernard
Love is investigating all loads of fowl
taken to Washington and Baltimore
markets by certain of the suspects.
David Dean. Hollywood, shortly to
be sworn in as deputy Of the sixth
district. has warned farmers to be on
the lookout for the thieves and is
credited with having started the prac-
tice Of sleeping on guard. Merchants
have reported an increase in ammuni-
ton sales,
Evening star., 1935-02-18
W., B. G. A. Train Kills Boy.

BALTIMORE, February Is R).-A
Washington. Baltimore & Annapolis
Railway train struck and killed Otto
L. Lieban, IA, of Anne Arundel County,
as he was walking along the tracks
with two companions last night.
Evening star., 1935-02-18
Mother Accused of
Burning Son, S, for
Talking Too Much
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
IRONTON, Ohio, February IS.
"A mother is in Jail here, &C
cused Of beating her 5-year-old
son and applying q hot poker to
his feet because he talked too
much"
The woman, Mrs. Emma
Thompson, 80, will be given a
lunacy hearing today. police said.
Mrs. Thompson was charged
several months ago with fatally
shooting her brother, Ed Thomp-
son, 80, but was released after
testifying at g preliminary hear
ing the man attacked her and
that she fired In self-defense.
Evening star., 1935-02-18
ARLINGTON HALL GIRLS
WILL DANCE MINUET
Virginia Group on Colonial Ball
Program of State Society
Tomorrow Night.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON HALL, Va, February
ia group of students from Airing
ton Hall Junior College for Girls will
dance a minuet at the Colonial ball
of the Virginia Society tomorrow night
at the Willard Hotel in washington.
Miss Louise Lund, head of the Ply
sical Education Department, will di-
rect the dance. participants in which
will include Misses Virginia Harris,
Mary Farley Ames, Dorothy Pentz,
Kathryn Riggan, Carol Coffin, Maize
Ballard, Louise Hampstead, Betty
Hargett, Sarah Perry, Lorene Mecca
vock, Betty Spengeman, Grace Sulli-
van and Jane Taylor Seng.
Evening star., 1935-02-18
BYRD WELCOMED
TO CIVILIZATION
DR.. Poulter, Second in Com
mand, Marries as Ship
Returns.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, February
l8.-Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
and the members of his Antarctic ex-
petition returned today to civilization
in an aura Of romance.
After the expeditions flagship ar
rived here Admiral Byrd's second in
command, DIR. Thomas c. Poulter. and
Miss Helen Gray were married. Ad-
nairal Byrd gave the bride away.
ARRANGEMENTS for the wedding were
completed by wireless. DR.. Poulter
first met Miss Gray when ne was a
member of the faculty Of Iowa Wes-
leyan College. She later assisted him
in scientific work, and during the time
DR.. Poulter has been in the Antarctic
has been caring for his three children
by a former marriage.
Admiral Byrd's first word was one
Of thankfulness that he had succeeded
once again in leading his party home
ward entirely safe and sound.
Given Bill of Health.
Many Of the ships personnel were
heavily bearded and crowned with
flowing locks. Lined up at the deck
rail, they deftly caught a fusillade OF
peaches and apricots tossed by well
corners in small craft.
The formalities of the official well
come were discharged speedily after a
medical inspection gave the crew a
clean bill of health.
Describing the expeditions work,
Admiral Byrd said the primary pur-
pose was to discover whether
there Is q connection between Marie
Byrd Land and the main Antarctic
continent.
AS a result of the expeditions OBJ
servationS, he said, it has been def
nitely established such a connection
exists.
Results Delayed.
Byrd said great deal of scientific
work of considerable value had been
accomplished by the experts who ac-
companied him, but that the full re-
suits of these investigations will not
be known for three or four years
The information must be collated
carefully and studied.
The leader related that large guam
titles of food and housing material
had been left behind at the Bay OF
Whales and would be available fol-
any future Antarctic expedition. He
said he did not know whether he
personally would undertake any
further explorations.
The admiral will go to Auckland to
meet Mrs. Byrd, who is expected to
arrive Thursday.
The Bear of Oakland, the expedi-
tion's supply ship, is due here tomor-
row or Wednesday.