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The Washington times., 1936-08-28
Confess Sports
Capitol Subway
Romance Will
Lead to Altar

A romance that started on a
Washington subway car-yeS
there is a subway here-will cul
inmate in October when Miss Ger
trude CaStellow. daughter Of Rep
reSentative B. T. Castellow OF
Georgia. becomes the bride OF
Representative A. L. Ford of Mis-
siSSippi.
The romance started last Janu.
ary, when Miss CaStellow and her
father stepped on the Capitol sub
way. Representative Ford was an,
other passenger, and Mr.. Castel
low made the introduction.
Formal announcement of the
engagement was made today, and
the wedding will take place when
Mr.. CaStellow returns from Buda.
pest, where he is now attending
an interparliamentary conference
Representative Ford, who is 80
won denomination in the MiSsiS.
Sippi primaries last Tuesday. Rep.
reSentative CaStellow was not a
candidate for reelection.
Miss Castellow, an only child,
is % years old.
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
FEDERAL UNITS
WILL VACATE
11BUILD|NGS
Completion of interior
Offices Will Cause 10
Agencies to Move

Eight leased buildings and por-
tions Of three aforementioned
buildings which are now housing
Interior Department agencies
will be released for other use
when the new Interior Depart
ment Building, now nearing COM
pletion, is ready for occupancy,
it was learned today.
Government officials in charge
of allotting space to the various
Government agencies were un-
able, however, to disclose which
of the Government groups would
be assigned to the space which
will be vacated.
Capitalization Looms
When the new Interior Build
ing is completed agencies of that
department now housed outside
provided with space, in either
the new or old Interior buildings,
it will permit all Interior agen-
cies to be brought together. Also,
of course, since PWA is under
Secretary IckeS, that agency like
wise will be quartered in the In
terror Building group.
From the Hur1ey-Wright Build
ing at Eighteenth Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue will come
divisions of the Bureaus of Edu-
cation and Indian Affairs, and
units of the same agencies also
will come into the Interior De,
partment Buildings from a leased
building at 1778 Pennsylvania
Ave. and from the Metropolitan
Club Annex.
Others To Move
The Petroleum Administrative
Board, now housed in the Lemon
CONTINUED on Page 10, Col. II
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
Ken Murray
Says:

The IOng-missing State Su-
preme Court Justice Crater, one
of the first New York politicians
to take a walk, was rumOred to
have been discovered on Cali
fOrnia desert by an old pros.
pectOr after the police had spent
about 100000 trying to locate
him. Just another proof
that silence is golden.
Funny how an important man
can eIude the nations greatest
sIeuths for six years, when most
of us can't even escape a tax
collector for six months.
Judging from the latest
charges in New YOrk'S alleged
relief scandal, Crater could have
been right on the city's WPA
pay rolls, and nobody would ever
have found him.
While President Roosevelt has
had a lot of good breaks, he was
never lucky enough to have any
Of those Federal Supreme Court
Justices disappear. No, sir!
All Franklin had to do was to
rattle the Constitution, and he
could always find those old boys
in his hair.
Copyright. 1885, by McNaught
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
CRASH CLIMAX
OF CAR CHASE

Captured only after the stolen
automobile which he was driving
had struck another car at Four
teenth Street and New York Ave
nue. Northwest, following a wild
chase at a speed of more than 80
miles an hour, an unidentified man
was in Gallinger Hospital today,
unconscious and in serious condi-
tion from head injuries he received
in the crash.
The chase started at Fifth Street
and Massachusetts, Avenue North
west, when a police scout car saw
the machine with Maryland tags
reported stolen. AS they gave
chase the driver sped up, cut
around corners, sped down Penn
sylvania Avenue, circled the EllipSe
and finally crashed into a machine
driven by Samuel Farrar, 36, col
ored, of Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
NEW CHARGES
EFFECTIVE
TUESDAY
Annual Saving to Be
$251 300 on Bills of
1900 Clients

Speedy action and prompt in.
veStigation by the Public Utilities
Commission today was responsible
for cutting bills of 1909 sub
scribers of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company
$251,800 a year. New rates will
go in effect next Tuesday.
Richmond B. Keech, acting
chairman Of the commission, re-
vealed that in order to take imme.
diate advantage of the reduction,
the commission decided to approve
the company'S proposals for rate
schedule in formal order to be
dated as of Wednesday.
In June the Commission noti-
fled the company an investigation
revealed the company had earned
$250,000 in excess of the six per
cent rate of return authorized, but
in making its response and sub
mitting proposed rates the COM
pany offered the $251,6oO. The
new rates are as follows:
Residential; unlimited service
reduced from $430 to $4.20
month; a new type of two-party
line unlimited service offered at
$3.50 a month; regular two-party
line service increased from 40 to
IS calls at 1925 month and ad-
ditional messages at 4 cents each
instead of Az cents; individual
messages on residential phones
cut from $3.50 to 1925 for so calls.
Commercial rates: First so calls
cut from $3.50 to $3.50 a month;
next ITO instead of 100 calls to be
$3.50; next 40 instead of so calls
at cents; next so calls at cents
and all in excess at 3 cents.
Hand-set phone charges were
lowered as follows: Flat rate from
$3.50 to $1.50 and installment rate
Is cents a month for IL months
instead of 18 months.
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
Comdr. Alfred Wolfe
Dead al New Orleans

Word was received here by the
Navy Department today of the
death at New Orleans of Comdr.
Alfred Shepard Wolfe, As, who
was in charge of the training of
the District Naval Reserve unit
from 1925 to 1923.
Commander Wolfe, whose death
resulted from injuries suffered in
an automobile accident, recently
had served as inspector of the
Southern recruiting division, with
headquarters in New Orleans.
VOTE AMERICAN
Stamps Cancelled
Reflecting the extensive interest
in the Susan B. Anthony COM
memorative stamp introduced
Thursday, the post office here
cancelled 178,500 first-day covers,
postal officials announced.
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
1000 IN FETE
ATANAC0ST|A

More than 1000 citizens Of
Anacostia, founded 325 years age
by Capt. John Smith, participated
in the gala anniversary celebration
yesterday.
Beginning early in the morning
when a baby contest with 70 en-
trants was staged, until late at
night when a street dance was
held to the accompaniment of the
Fire Department Band, the Ana
costians kept the pace.
A picnic in AnacoStia Park
destined to be one of the most
beautiful in the country, a field
day in which old and young par.
ticipated in games of strength and
skill and a mammoth parade,
packed the day with surprises and
thrills.
Edward Simonson, chairman of
the general committee, said:
"It is the greatest and grand
est crowd I have ever seen in
AnacOStia, and it has been a
grand and glorious day, well
worth the efforts of the commit
tee which had planned the event
for months"
Preceding the dance and imme,
diately following the parade, Isaac
Cans, civic leader, presented prizes
to winners in the baby show. float
competition, field day and other
events
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
Fall Outing Planned

The summer recess of the Wash
ington Transportation Club ends
September II, when the organiza-
ton holds it's annual fall outing
at Indian Spring Country Club,
Silver Spring, Md. L. H. Curry,
president, announces there will be
prizes for winners of a golf tourna-
ment.
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
TEN WASAINGTON'S &zO
a. Heroes mBZZNQ @
Policeman Skinner Solved Family QuarreIs
Saved Many Human DereIicts, Then He
Retired After 3 Heroic Years

When William Howard Skinner
joined the Metropolitan Police De-
partment back in 1897 he acted
not only as a policeman but as
an arbitrator.
For he believed that it would be
far better for all concerned if
family cases would be settled out
of court. So when there was
family trouble on his beat, when
husbands and wives could not
agree, instead Of haling them into
court, Skinner acted as judge and
arbitrator, with a result most Of
the troubles were ironed out.
One family squabble, however,
ended in disaster when son as
The Washington times., 1936-08-28

the force, Skinner was retired. He
moved to Arlington county so he
could at last have a vote, and
spends much of his time raising
flowers in his garden.
The Washington times., 1936-08-28

saulted his father with an ak in a
fight over a piece of fish at the
dinner table. Skinner made the
arrest and the youth was sent to
the penitentiary for a long term.
After 16 years he was assigned
to the Harbor Precinct, and served
there Is years, being commended
for his rescue of several persons
who had attempted to end their
lives.
On July /, 1923, exactly 81 years
to the day from the time he joined
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
FRENCH GIRLS
TOO BUSY FOR
BEAUTY SHOPS
Guides Applaud ". S.
Opportunities; JaiIs
Too Soft"

French women spend little time
in beauty shops, American women
have better business opportunities
and women in the jails of this
country are treated "too SOFT"
These are the surprising revela-
tionS made and impressions gained
by six French Girl Guides (corre-
spending to our Girl Scout
leaders,, who were sightseeing in
Washington today as a part of a
whirlwind tour they are making OF
this country.
They Are Too Busy
Noticing that none of the tour.
lists had a permanent or finger
wave, inquiry was made as to just
how much time the French women
spend in beauty parlorS. The group
went into a huddle, jabbering ex.
citedly in French. Finally, their
guide, Nine. Germaine Beneteau,
replied:
THE French hairdreSSer would
starve to death in Paris, so he
comes to America to get rich.
The French women do not go in
for facials and finger waves
they are too busy"
1t was during a conversation
with Armelle RouvilloiS, a student
at the Saculte deS Sciences, that
it was disclosed that the girls be-
lieve that America affords its
women better business opportuni-
ties than France. However, she
added:
France is waking up"
ENTIRELY TOO SOFT
A criminal lawyer in Toulon,
France, Mile. Gineth LorenS, natur-
ally has made it a point to visit
jails in Washington and New York.
She has gained much important
knowledge about the jail system in
this country, she says, but is con-
vinced that we treat our women
prisoners entirely too soft"
Others among the group had
only praise for the American art
galleries, portraits and libraries,
explaining their interest in some
certain type of profession or type
of work because in France every
girl starts studying for a profes-
sion as soon as she finishes
school,"
But blonde Mile. Marguerite
Faure couldn't get over the fact
that so relatively few Americans
have servants. She calculated:
"Why, in France everyone has
a Servant-even the SO-called
white collar class"
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
Record Of Convictions
In Traffic Court

, Edward E. Brown, Blue Plains,
D. c., $40.
James w. jenkins, Virginia, SO.
John R. Dorsey, 7O4 Third St.
N. W., $40.
Joe Porto, 401S Chesapeake st.
S. E., $40.
Harry M. Beane, Maryland, $40.
Robert M. Allen, Maryland, $40.
Louis I. Wagner, 1922 Concord
Ave. N. w., $40.
William E. Johnston, 1908 Penn
Sylvania Ave. S. E., $40.
The Washington times., 1936-08-28
Second Offense, Speeding

Second Offense, Speeding
William Walker, 1921 Third ST..
N. W., $25 or 80 days.
Herbert o. Eby, 2034 Pierce Mill
Rd. N. W., SIS.
First OffenSe, Speeding
Charles w. Carben, 912 G Pl. N.
w., SIS.
Ambrose E. Parks, Maryland,
SIS.
David S. Schwartz, Wardman
Park Hotel, SIS.
Leo w. Myer, 2150 Pennsylvania
Ave. N. w., $40.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-14
Protecting Your Community
Bv WICKEy WAMBOLDT

are yourselves, and you are the
ones who must be directly con-
cerned with protecting your own
lives, your own property, and the
happiness and welfare of your
own families by a militant atti-
tude against any set of conditions
which can aid or assist this invad-
ing army of criminals.
"The problem of protecting
your community is not one which
requires more laws OF different
laws or new laws, it demands only
unceasing vigilance and pertina-
cious and continuous inquiry by
men and women directly concern
ed with making their community
one that is free from crime.
"You may be sure that the only
way to combat vicious influences
in the control Of law-erforcement
officials is by the unceasing ac-
tivity of a local law and order
committee which will bring about
continuous and critical publicity
for the forces which are stultify,
ing the protection of your city.
"In your own community, what
do you know about law-enforcc'
ment; the proper methods of ap'
prehension and detection; the
tricks and wiles of crooked attor.
neys; the political appointment OF
unfit men as deputies or wardens
of penitentiaries, or directors OF
reformatories, OF of guards Of pc,
nal institutions? If you ever have
had q prison escape OF Jail break
in your community have you &C,
cepted the story that this jai
break was arranged by super
criminal brains, able to accom-
plish the seemingly impossible II
rending steel bars apart or climb
ing high stone walls? Or have you
investigated, inquired, dug deeply
into the causes behind that jai
break and found it to be what II
must be, the result of nonfeasance
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-14
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS : {
A CAMPAIGN SPEECH SUGGESTION

Within a short time political orators will start
campaigning in every section of this great Land of
ours advocating the candidacy of Roosevelt or
Landon for the presidency of the United States.
For the most part, these speeches will consist en-
tirely of hot air and will be devoted to generaties
Of the broadest possible nature For instance, here
is what you are likely to hear
my friends if you elect our candidate pres-
dent of the United States you will be assured of
four years of happiness, PROSPERITY and content
ment. He promises you an economical efficient
and honest government. If elected our party chief
tains will espouse those things which stand for
genuine Americanism in every sense of the word
There will be no class discrimination, and the poor
will share the same privileges with the wealthy"
And so on. 1t would be grand and glorious
thing if every political orator who tried to fool the
American people with that kind of speech-making
were given the raspberry which he so richly deserves
What we would like to hear would be speech
something like this:
my friends, if you elect candidate to this
great office lean assure you that an honest effort
will be made to reduce the expenditures of govern
ment. We promise to put end to the construc-
ton of new buildings in Washington, D. c., for
the housing of departments which are non-essen-
tial We promise to get rid of the thousands OF
men and women on federal payrolls who have no
business being there and who are merely political
appointees. We promise to do away with the, nu-
merous duplication of activities which now exist in
so many departments In other words, my friends,
we promise to run the government of the United
States as though it were private business, cutting
out all unnecessary overhead expenditures and
eliminating the shameful waste and extravaganza
which has been so much in evidence in past years.
We promise to take care of those who, because OF
old age or nfrmty cannot take care of themselves,
but we're going to make the ablebodied folks get
out and work for living, instead of existing on
the taxpayers money. re. .,!,.,us q ...l. =
However, it is needless to say that. you won't
hear that kind of speech from either Democratic
or Republican orators. They won't make any del-
mite promises, but when it comes to dealing with
just wait until you hear the old
eagle scream as the campaign gets under way
State Magazine. ...,. .. %. g. :
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-14
PWA IN HOBBIES

Not merely 40 nor go but full leo per cent Oh
the labor involved in PWA projects under the new
81 425 900 900 work relief appropriation must come
from the relief rolls, under rule repeatedly ap-
piled to approval of these projects by President
Roosevelt. ..,....,,, p. ..r ..-..s.,..,. ..
Such limitation, imposed even upon the S3Oo'-
600 900 which Congress specifically allotted to
PWA instead of WPA in hope of obtaining some
more substantial and permanent product for its
money. tends to perpetuate and intensity condi-
ton that has been complained of even in WPA
work .... ;",' - 49,.
In its earlier appropriations, the PWA under
Secretary Harold Ickes placed in its contracts with
builders stipulation that 40 per cent relief labor
should be used This worked satisfactorily.
Then when WPA under Administrator Harry
Hopkins placed work through various government
tai agencies such as the Bureau of Public Roads,
Forest Service or Army Engineer Corps, require
ment was written in that 80 per cent OF the labor
must be from relief workers enrolled prior to NOV
/, 1885 That arrangement has worked badly.
Contractors report that labor of this description
often is not available in the community where the
lob is to be DONE though other workers equally de-
serving and perhaus now on the relief rolls, are
eager for employment, ....,.,..- a,a..-
1t is we'll enough to favor work relief over cash
or food relief This newspaper has consistently
taken that position as to general policy But II
should be recognized that both types of relief nave
their spheres of usefulness and that made work CAL
defeat its own purpose when it becomes more
made" than 'work" ..... g.. -.
Useful projects on which a man can give an hon
oct davis constructive work are fine. But when al
overbalance of attention is given to merely invent
ing Jobs instead of seeing what work needs to DC
done, the result is employment which any sell
resnecting workman knows is largely waste motion
That has little more value in morale than the dole
The PWA, as distinct from the WPA has peer
thus far one of the most substantial of New Dea
recovery agencies, with probably greater truitage
than any other in permanently useful public I'M
provements Unless the president shall modify the
present rule however, there is the unpleasant pros
lpect that PWA may be tapered off into gortet
Observation-Disclosures Science Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-14
wHIskEY TAKES ANOTHER LIFE
, were all full of Ticker"

+ 'They were all full of Ticker"
. John stanci, testifying at the inquest over the
body of his son, summed up long and narrowing
story with those six words-"They were all full Oh
Ticker" ....
Plato, the mans son, had been drinking Tor
months The dead mans friend, Clarence Stamey'
had been drinking more than any sane man should
Lester Bowen, another member of the trio, mao
been drunk One of the three is dead and buried
and the other two are in jal, all because they
were all full of ticker" ,a -. .- g..
As it now looks, the courts will charge Clarence
Stamey and Lester Bowen with Staying Plato Stan
ell. The man died after ne had an aitercatioh' OF
several rouns with the two men. Knife wounds
uere the actual cause of Plato Sancis death, SC
the doctors testified at the inqhest,but the rea
reason Plato stancil was buried last Sunday after
noon was summed up by the old, broken-hearteo
fatber-"They were all full of licker."-Brevaro
News. - II. ...... .
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-14
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON $685..
BY RODNEY. BUTCHER.

bushels in 1888 to 43,242,OuO in
1895; and butter from l,0l4, 900
pounds in 1882 to 22,675,000 in
1885.
Many farmers feel that these
and other considerable quantities
of imported food should have been
raised and bought in the United
States. They are being told that
it is all a direct result of planned
scarcity"
The New Deal is in no position
to say that its agricultural adjust
ment programs had nothing to do
with the reductions in food sup
plies which preceded the big rises
in imports, except as it may point
out that there were no curtailment
programs for such commodities as
cattle, dairy products, and eggs.
:" Of the drop in wheat produc-
ton in the 1934-35 crop year from
normal, about $40 million bushels
is attributed to drouth and 81 mil
lions to acreage reduction.
In corn the proportions were
1908, 100000 bushels below nor
NAL as a result Of drouth and 1872
600, 900 because of the AAA. -...
= +
ON the other hand, imports in
omost cases are lower in, guam
tity than in various pre-depression
years. AS against 378, 600 imported
head of, cattle in 1885, about $685.
600 head were imported in 1928.
Not so much butter has been
imported as in 1885 since 1928 and
wheat, and corn imports have
reached new highs. But COMPETE
tive agricultural imports were
valued at $1,O17,O00,0 in 1929, as
against 1928 100000 in 1885.
Imports always rise VIII e n
American prices are high and de-
cline when they're low. Higher
consumer purchasing power also
stimulates imports and, more i'm
portant to the farmer, farm i'm
ports and farm income tend to rise
together. -.
! Copyright, 1886. NEA Service. Inc.}
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-14

.crime IS being committed; .cease-
|lessly hour after hour, and day at
ter day, and month after month
100000 major crimes year are
being rolled up into horrible to-
tai of plumber and pillage.
"These murdererS and their
victims, these robbers and thieves
and hold-up men, are not persons
who live in some far away coun-
try, but who exist in your own
communities, thereby presenting
a problem which can and must be
solved by the law-abiding citizens
of the communities. There has
been too much Of a lackadaisical
attitude on the part of the aver
age citizen, who believes that
crime can be solved by some mag
| ic formula. The only solution
must be that of the active inter-
| est and the insistent vigilance on
the part of the persons who are
lin constant danger of becoming
victims of this marauding army of
criminals. Those potential victims
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-14
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NFA Service staff Correspondent

NfA Service Staff Correspondent
WTASHINGTON-The admins
w tration is seriously worried
by the extent to which farmers
are resenting the increase, under
the New Deal, of agricultural inn
ports.
Evidence that some of the large
western farm states are veering
toward Landon is attributed in
large part to Republican success
in publicizing recent statistics. Six
months ago it was commonly be-
lieved that benefit payments and
higher farm prices would deliver
nearly all these states to Roose-
welt.
Officials are meeting in secret
huddles to determine the best way
of convincing the farmer that the
import figures are merely an indi-
cation of his increased prosperity
and not of a diabolical plot to en-
compass his ruin through planned
9 arcity." ..-...
AAA men insist they have a
good argument, but that it's diff
cult to translate into an emotional
appeal. s o. IL.
The present drouth makes the
imports question important aside
from its political aspects, since il
seems bound to result in further
increase of purchases of farm
products abroad, although the i'm
port curve this year has been
generally downward. ..i
| =
WHAT bites the farmers is that
y" competitive agricultural i'm
ports increased from value OF
1926, 100000 in 1882 to 1928 ,OOO, OOC
in 1885 ,(this includes about sc
millions in alcoholic beverages)
cattle imports from $4,000 head in
1884 to $4,000 @ in 1885; canned
beef from 1855, 900 pounds sir
1881 to 76,263,000 in 1895; wheat
] from 5000 bushels in 1892 to a.
100000 in 1885; corn from 10000