davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-01-12

covered, but I seiN tell you that I've made
careful check of the bank deposits Of certain
individuals for several years. can't show
that Frank Richmond deposited sixteen thou
sand dollars around the first of June, 1882, but
l can show that between the first and the
fifth of June, 1882, Frank Richmond depos-
tied five thousand dollars. A man by the
name of Needham, who was in the employ
of Robert Helming. deposited five thousand,
and Walter Vane. who was at that time in the
district attorneys Office, deposited five
thousand dollars. These deposits weren't
listed in the income tax returns of any Of the
three men.
'Vane was interrogated concerning his 1882
income tax statement. He said the money
represented the repayment of cash loan
from friend who's since died. Richmond
said he'd borrowed the money from Robert
Helming to play hot tip On race. but had
backed out at the last minute. hadn't made
the bet, and had returned the money to
Helming. Needham disappeared. We've just
located him"
Working in roadhose restaurant for
Carl Frink." Klay interrupted.
Exactly" Underwood said drily.
Kay jumped to his feet, started pacing the
floor excitedly. Good heavensr he exclaimed,
that clinches it. They wanted to frame
Saxon. Vane was the trial deputy who prose-
cuted my brother. Richmond engineered the
thing, and Needham must have been mixed
up in it some way"
Continued on page IO
Evening star., 1936-01-12

Klay ventmed. Something to let me know to
whom I'm talking"
Underwood yawned, got to his feet and
started for the door. II thought it was Just
false alarm. he observed.
wait minute" kay told him. i've
really got something to say" Underwood
paused, with his hand on the doorknob. I'm
going to come clean," Klay said. Il have an
idea. There may be nothing to it; and there
may be a lot to it. My brother is Hugh Klay.
He was sent to the penitentiary for embezzle-
ment. The embezzlement took place on the
first of June, 1882"
Underwood released his hold on the knob of
the door, walked back to the chair he had
vacated, dropped into it, lit cigarette and
said, go on. You're doing fine"
Hugh was deputy county clerk. He
wasn't guilty of the embezzlement. 1t was
frame-up by Helmings henchman to dis
credit Saxon, the county clerk. It's occurred
to me-" Klay went on, speaking rapidly,
that, while the Helming machine wanted to
get Saxon out of Office and chose the EN-
Evening star., 1936-01-12

bezzlement of county funds and the disgrace
of my brother as the best way to accomplish
its purpose, nevertheless the money Hugh
was accused of taking actually must have
gone somewhere. The amount was sixteen
thousand dollars. have reason to believe
Frank Richmond was mixed up in it. think
there's a chance Richmond had sixteen thou
sand dollars in June, 1882, for which he
didn't dare to account, and which therefore
didn't show on his income tax return. know
you people have means of investigation which
are not open to the ordinary citizen" Klay
pulled cigarette from his pocket. "And
that's all I'm going to say"
Underwood watched him narrowly. Slowly
he reached in his coat pocket and pulled out
black leather notebook. Still speaking in a
slow drawl, he said, "You may not know it,
but you've put me on the track of something
I've been trying to run down for quite
while. Understand, lot of this stuff doesn't
regularly come within our province, but when
a town adopts the attitude toward crime that
Baxter City does, we become interested. And
we look for technical violations which will
give US a chance to take action.
I'm not going to tell you what I've dis
Evening star., 1936-01-12

of man, who quite evidently had been
eavesdropping. "Mr. klay?" said the man.
What do you want?" Klay asked.
1T was you who put in telephone call to
the United States Marshall"
Klay, instantly suspicious, said, "I'm
afraid you're barking up the wrong tree"
mo I'm not. think you want to see me"
Klay shifted his position so he could see
the mans profile silhouetted against the
street lights. He saw high forehead, a long,
thin nose, well Horned lips and determined
chin. The man was not powerful physically,
but there radiated from him suggestion of
dynamic mental force.
Listen" the man said in a low voice,
my names Underwood. want to talk with
you and think your want to talk with me.
You're probably thinking that if I'm on the
up-and-up l wouldn't have had time to get
here But just remember that the people you
telephoned to might have been working on this
thing before your call came in, and might
have been in town for month, in which event
I'd have been ordered by telephone to get in
touch with you"
Come up to the Office where we can talk"
Kay said.
The man followed him up the stairs. Klay
unlocked his Office switched on the lights,
indicated seat. "Well?" he asked.
Underwood shook his head and smiled.
"Yox do the talking
Shouldn't you show me some credentials"
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Sveu THE svoman he hves
is Keys enemy -. Can the long
arm Of Uncle Sam rescue
Ba*fer City3
by
ERIE STANLEY GARDNER
Autho, of "7,h< Case of the Cantakrrs Car
and "Fngihue Golf'
THE STORY 50 FAR
Magazine Section

r ESTER KLAY opened a law office in Baxter
City, determined to vindicate his
- young brother who had been railroaded
to Jail by political gangsters in control of the
city government He encountered Helming,
head of the machine; Richmond, his CAM
paign manager; Judge D,uane, dupe of the
corrupt politicians; and Bernice Durane, the
Judges niece.
Answering mysterious telephone call,
Klay went to the home of the publisher
Crawford, who was about to print an expose
of the political situation. He found Crawford
murdered. Klay suspected that he was being
framed, grabbed an appoint tment book lying
on the desk as possible clew, and jumped
through the window.
A roadhouse keeper, Frink, was arrested
for Crawford's murder when the gun that
had killed him was found in Frink's car Kay
was appointed. despite his protests, to defend
Frink. Because Judge Dwanes niece saw the
missing appointment book in Klay's posses
sion. he was forced to confde in her and,
later on. in Police Captain Gregg
Captain Gregg, Klay, and Frinks daughter
from Hollywood, Rose Tobin, decided that
Needham, Frink's assistant at the roadhouse,
must have helped frame Frink. And so Gregg
accused Needham of another crime and
rushed him to an outlying Jail for third
degree.
Klay in the meantime goes back to his
Office
Evening star., 1936-01-12
PART v

4 HE turned once more toward the
~ dim entrance to his shabby office
building, klay observed in the
- shadows of the doorway the figure
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
Sol Bloom 10 Track
Down Real Start Of
Revolutionary War
International News Service

Proclaiming that he has no
prejudice against any city or Sec
ton, Representative Sol Bloom
Cd of New York today an
nounced that he Is going to find
out just where and when the
Revolutionary War started.
Famous poets and past his
torians have put their own ideas
down on paper and they very
likely are wrong, says Mr.. Bloom,
who, as chairman of the George
Washington Centennial Commits.
sion, became the Capitals author.
ity on colonial history.
The Bloom quest goes beyond
the controversy started when
Senator Reynolds CD Of North
Carolina first discussed the first
shot heard round the world"
Bloom has invitations from
both Lexington and Concord,
Mass, and he plans to accept
them both. He also plans other
excursions IN New England.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
WIN
STEEL FIGHT
international News Service

In a far.reaching decision up
holding the workers in their long
dispute with the Jones and Laugh
lin Steel Corporation, the National
Labor Relations Board today ruled
that all the major steel companies
of the nation are engaged in inter-
state commerce and are thus sub
ject to the national labor rela-
tions act.
Terrorist methods" used by the
company's police to prevent union
organization, and the trivial
reasons for which skilled and long
time union employees were dis
charged, were cited in the de-
ciSion.
The corporation, the fourth
largest in the country, with plants
in Pittsburgh and Aliquippa, Pa,
was ordered to end sits interfer-
ence with the rights Of its en-
ployeS to organize for the purpose
of collective bargaining"
The board found 10 employees
were discharged for union activi-
ties and not for the alleged rea-
sons ascribed by the corporation,
and ordered that they be rein
stated to employment with back
pay.
Following is the paragraph Of
the boards statement which az
fectS practically the entire $5,0O0,-
600, 900 steel industry, many units
of which have pleaded immunity
to the national labor relations
act-aS did the Jones & Laughlin
Corporation-on the ground their
activities are intrastate:
"The interstate nature Of the
Jones & Laughlin operations,
and Of the other great steel cor.
pOratiOnS Of the United States,
are given detailed study in the
decision, which concludes that:
"The mining of materials,
their transportation to and col
lection at q point, their trans
pOrtatiOn there into pig-irOn,
iron, into steel shapes in all
stages o. finish, their reShip-
ment for further fabrication. for
use in railways, automobiles,
buildings; all this Is one giant,
indivisibI0 economic process; Il
Is commerce among the StatesUS
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
ARPCHARGED
WITH ASSAULT

NEW YORK, April 10 Q.N.SD.
The very modern Georgiana Gu
sachs Harp, whose grandfather,
Admiral Porter, played a promi-
nent role in the civil war, admitted
today that it was a different kind
of battle that led her to depart
from her husband, T. Reginald
Harp. She told a reporter:
81 didn't want it to come out,
but he did strike me-"
She said she will try to obtain
an annulment. IF unsuccessful,
she will move for divorce. They
were married here last June. She
will charge incompatibility, she
said. When she realized they
couldn't get along she asked her
husband to agree to a separation,
but he refused.
$50 I moved and that means
that T. Reginald and I are all
washed up"
Mrs, Harp admitted her mother,
Mrs. Marguerite Porter CusachS,
socially prominent matron OF
Baltimore and Annapolis, was
staying with her. Mrs. CusachS'
attempts to reconcile the Harps
were futile, the daughter declared.
Georgiana gained notoriety in
May, 1929, when her mother was
suing to divorce Commander Car.
los Cusachs, charging desertion.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
GALES
IS EXILED
TO i. 5.
Son and Four Others
<Ousted As ResuIto of
Fatal Train Crash

MEXICO CITY, April 10 U.N.S).
Former President Plutarco Elias
Gales. once Mexico's strong man, -
his son and four of his associates,
were seized in surprise raid by
government agents today and
exiled to the United States by air
plane.
The quartet were arrested and
deported on suspicion OF being re-
sponsible for the bombing Of q
Mexican railway express train
Monday night at Paso del Macho,
near Vera Cruz, In which more
than . dozen passengers were
killed. rs, >-e,
The enforced exile Of Gerieral
Gales climaxed series Of poIlti-
cal quarrels centering around the
former strong mans" return to
Mexico last December. He had
in California in voluntary exile.
Three Others Exiled
Exiled with General Gales were
Luis Leon, former publisher of
the government newspapr Ell Ma
cional; Luis N. Morones, head Of
the Mexican labor organization
Crom, an dformer minister of in
duStry and commerce, and Mel
Choir Ortega, former governor Of
the State of Guanajato; Alfredo
Elias Gales, youngest son Of the
former president, and Manue
Fuente, an aide.
One hundred soldiers closed in
on General Gales house in the
Anzures section Of the capital at
They permitted no one
to enter or leave the grounds,
keeping General Gales a prisoner
until z a. m.
Then. under heavy guard, he
was taken to the central airport
with his three associates. He pro-
tested vigorously, but in vain. See
ing his protests were futile, Gen.
eral Gales took his arrest in ap-
parent good humor. Leon ap-
peared upset and Morones was
furious.
Told to Stay Out
The quartet were kept under
close guard and secluded at the
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
PACT ASKED
TO DEFEND
AMERICAS
Proposal Is Submitted
to This Government
By Guatemala
BY KINGSBURY SMITH
Copyright, 1885. by International New
Servicel

By k1NGSbUkY SMITH
Copyright. 1885, by International News
Service)
Creation Of an American League
of Nations has been proposed to
the United States Government by
Guatemala.
The proposal was made in 9
letter President Jorge Ubico wrote
President Roosevelt in accepting
the latter's invitation to attend
the forthcoming Pan'American
peace conference.
The Guatemalan proposal calls
for conclusion Of "a general
treaty of solidarity and mutual
cooperation" under which the
United States and the nations Of
South America would give mu-
tual assistance in event any one
Of them was attacked by a nation
Of the old world.
Terms Of Proposal
It also calls for q multilateral
declaration on the part of all the
South American nations to the
principle Of the Monroe Doctrine,
under which the United States op.
poses territorial aggression on this
hemisphere by any foreign power.
Under the terms of the proposed
treaty the republics of the Amer.
cas- would stand united in their
determination to preserve peace
among themselves and keep out OF
the Old Worlds political squabbles.
The Guatemalan proposal also
calls for establishment of a per-
manent court Of justice for the
Americas, to which all disputes in
volving the danger of war between
the American nations would be re-
ferred.
That part Of the proposal which
calls for a mutual assistance pact
reads as follows:
considering interventiOnS or
aggresSiOns by an outside for
eign) power against any Of
them. as q danger to the integ-
rity and sovereignty Of the ma
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. y
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
INJURIES
MINE LEADER

WILKES BARRE, Pa, April 10
Q.N.S0.-A bomb received by
parcel post today seriously in
jured Thomas Maloney, former
insurgent mine union leader and
his two children in their home in
Wilkes Barre township. police and
postal authorities reported.
The blast wrecked the kitchen
of the Maloney home, shattered
windows in the district and
brought neighbors rushing to the
scene.
Maloney, his daughter, Mar
garet, 16. and a son, Thomas, jr.,
S, breakfasting in the kitchen,
were hurled to the floor.
All were rushed to Homeo-
pathic Hospital, where their con-
dition was reported as serious.
Maloney, it was said by hospi-
tai attaches, was perhaps fatally
injured although it was difficult
to ascertain at once the exact
extent Of his injuries.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
FRAUD IS LAID
WAR HEADS
international News Service

1nUOFOat1OnaA news SOEVAC0
A charge that the War Depart
ment, by withholding from the
House Military Affairs Committee
information of a conspiracy to
purchase surplus Army goods, sold
to the State of Michigan to be
given away for charity, but di-
verted to commercial sale at huge
profit, aided the plot, was hurled
today by members Of the commit
tee.
After Lieut.. Col. William r.
Gruber, assistant to Assistant Sec
rotary of War Frederick Payne
during the Hoover administration,
told the committee that facts
about a conspiracy in 1881 to de-
fraud the government through
fraudulent diversion of surplus
goods purchased for relief activi-
ties were "well known in the War
Department, Representative Will
cox CD of Florida, declared:
''It looks like somebody bAS
sold this committee down the
river"
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
Judge Curran Tells
81, Go, Sin No More

that a visit to a church on this
most holy day of all the year might
redeem these wayward souls.
Looking down at these men
men who probably hadn't entered
the doors of a church in years
he said:
eff each Of you will promise
not to repeat the Offense for
which you are here-and If you
will promise to spend Is minutes
in any church you may decide
On-then / will release you"
Astonished at this-for most OF
them expected a Jail term-they
were quick to agree and fastened
out-perhaps for a church as they
had promised.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
WAS TEFUL
AND STUPID.
CRUELT|ES
CHARGED
State Administrators
Discouraged and
'BeWiIdered'
BY ROBERT A. McGILL
NCOpyright, 1886, by International New
SaRv1eaN

SeFvice)
Brig. Gen. Hugh S. johnson,
while relief administrator for New
York City last year, branded the
Works Progress Administrations
relief program as ''wasteful, cruel
and stupid" in bristling report
to Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins, International News Service
learned today.
The johnson report was never
made public by Hopkins, although
the former MIRA ezar asked that
it be.
johnson charged that 60 per
cent Of the WPA projects were q
''needlessly expensive and fatuous
gesture"
'BewiIdering and DiscOuraging"
The Hopkins policy of denying
relief to any person earning an
outside dollar was described "as
cruel as it is stupid" He said
the vast waste occaSioned by this
ill-informed dogma subjects the
whole Government to amply jus.
titled ridicule.''
Hitting at divided and shifting
responsibility within the WPA,
johnson branded the situation
as "bewildering" to himself and
extremely "diScouraging" to State
administrators having less au-
thority than he had been given
by the President.
johnson charged there existed
q line Of broken communications
between State administrators and
Hopkins, thereby defeating every
effort to bring order out Of
chaos in the WPA. He declared
it required a ':riot call" for even
tim-tte New York city admin
istrator-to get in touch with
Hopkins.
sabotage General
johnson wrote the report Oc-
tober 20, 1885, after completing
his term as New York city ad-
ministrator from July / Of that
year.
johnson told the WPA chief
tain that under his policies
which remain unchanged-that
WPA had no definite plans. He
johnson announced he would
(COntinued on Page 2, Col. II
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
Youth, IS, Struck
By Bus, Improved

Physicians said today the con-
dition of Gardiner Darby, 10. of
1910 Macomb st. N. w., struck
and dragged several feet by a
Capital Transit Company bus
yesterday, was improved after a
''restful" night in the George
town University Hospital.
The accident occurred at wis
consin and Nebraska Avenues
when the youth darted into the
path Of the bus. Paul L. Hughes,
of 1922 Wisconsin Ave-. driver Of
the bus, was not held.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
FAIR WEATHER
DUE EASTER

Easter Sunday probably will be
'sfair," Weather Bureau forecast
ers announced today.
Showers are expected to con-
tinue today and tomorrow, with
the temperature climbing tomor-
row.
The forecaSterS were reticent
about going into details of Sun
days probable weather. In fore
casting "fair' weather, the
Weather Bureau came through
with the first good news would-be
Easter paraderS have had to date.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10

DETROIT, April 10-Kathryn
Crawford Edgar, 26, former actress,
probably will recover from an over
dose of a sleeping potion, hospital
authorities said today.
The former screen and stage
star was still conscious while au-
thorities sought an explanation.
She took the potion in her hotel
Wednesday.
It was reported Mrs. Edgar is
planning a suit against her hus-
band, James Edgar, sugar fortune
heir.
Her attorney, s. Arthur Click
stein, of New York, is said to have
talked with her Wednesday after
noon.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
go, and sin no more. "

UU, .1AU SAA uO AAVACs
He whose crucifixion is being
mourned in churches throughout
the world today, said those words
to a sinner almost 1000 years ago.
And in q foul-smelling Washing
ton police court-crowded with the
dregs of humanity-a judge re-
peated the same sentiment today.
There were IS in the dock when
Judge Edward M. Curran mounted
the bench-drunks and beggars
and Migrants, a miserable looking
crew who had spent the night in
jail.
Judge Curran looked on these
Sinners-and perhaps he thought
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
7 OF SHIPS
ANCHORS
DISABLED
Great AirIiner Linps
Across France on Way
From Maiden Trip

FREDRICHSHAFEN, Ger.
many, April 10 U.N.S.).-The
giant German Zeppelin Won
Hindenburg arrived here safely
tonight, ending her maiden
round trip to Brazil after engine
trouble forced her to follow .
course up the RhOne Valley in
France at q low altitude. The
huge airship, carrying 80 pas
sengeFs, landed here at $50
p. m.
BERLIN, April 10 U.N.SJ.
Limping ho1neward on the last
stretch Of her maiden round trip
to Brazil, the huge dirigible Won
Hindenburg droned at a low alti-
tude up the Rhone River Valley
in France today, with two Of her
four 16-cylinder Diesel motors out
of commission.
AS she approached the French
coast shortly before 10 a. M, her
second engine gave out, IL hours
after the first broke down over
Morocco.
The Won Hindenburg flew over
Montelimar, well up the Rhone,
at 1920 a. M, heading for Basic
and her base at FriedrichShafen.
French Aid Prompt
At 8 a. m. she was off the
Catalonian coast Of Spain, just
east of Barcelona, and then, keep
ing close to shore, the huge
dirigible Skirted the Gulf of Lyon.
Speedily acceding to an emer.
gency request from the Zeppelin
for permission to fly over French
soil, previously withheld because
of Franco German i'll will, the
French government DRAMATICALLY
reinforced the friendly gesture by
ordering all military and avia-
ton units in southeastern France
to be on the alert to aid the
Won Hindenburg.
"AIl Well Aboard
Capt. Ernest Lehman radioed:
"All is well aboard"
Trouble developed late yeSter.
day over Morocco, when one Of
the Is light aluminium alloy pis-
tons of the forward Starboard mo.
tor broke down.
Capt. Hans Won Schiller, now
preparing to take the Graf Zeppe.
lin from FriedrichShafen to Rio
De Janeiro, explained that any
two Of the four 1,000-horsepower
motors could easily carry the Won
Hindenburg across the ocean.
It would be dangerous, how.
ever, to attempt to soar some
10000 feet over the Alps on three
engines, so the radioed appeal
was sent to France. This is the
first time, said Captain Won
Schiller, that Diesel engines have
been used in q Ighter-than-air
machine.
Forgetting in the emergency
the fact that the Won linden
burg was used in Adolf Hitler's
plebiscite campaign to win in
dorSement Of his remilitarization
of the Rhineland, the. French
government posted military look.
outs all along the Rhone River
route,
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
Ohio on Rampage
In Louisville Section

LOUISVILLE, KY, April 10 Il.
N.S0 THE Ohio River was on a
rampage here again today, with a
31-foot crest, or three feet over
flood level, predicted by tomor-
row. The present stage is 29.9
feet.
While no serious damage Is an
ticipated here the flood water Is
expected to be felt in the Padu.
cab Cairo area near the MiSSis-
sippi River where all streams are
reported out of their banks.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
Most Markets Close,
Due 10 Good Friday

NEW YORK, April 10 G.N.S0.
The New York Stock Exchange
and financial and most commodity
markets, here and abroad, were
closed today in observance Of Good
Friday. The New York poultry,
dairy, foreign exchange and potato
markets remained open.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
German Ambassador
SuCCumbs In London

LONDON, April 10 U.N.S).
DR.. Leopold Won Hoesch, German
ambassador to the Court of st.
James since before Adolf Hitler'S
chancellorship, died here suddenly
today Of a heart attack.
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
GoIfing City

Columbia, s. c., is well repre-.
sented in tennis and golf with vii.
mer Hines, Davis Cup hopeful,
and Kathryn Hemphill, senSa-
tional girl star who recently de-
feated Mrs. Glenna Collett Ware
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
Mrs. Rinehart "Fine"

NEW YORK, April 10 Q.N.SO.
Mary Roberts Rinehart'S condi-
ton is "just fine" physicians at
the Medical Center declared to-
day. Mrs. Rinehart, famous au-
thor ana playwright. underwent .
minoe Oneeation yesterday
The Washington times., 1936-04-10
TODAY's
BEST USED CAR BUYS

Best bargains in Used Cars
at reduced prices and terms
to suit you win be found
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umns. These cars are Of.
fered by reliable Washing"
ton dealers and have been
thoroughly reOonditioned
and are ready to roll. You
viii find that bargain
you've been looking for In
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