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Evening star., 1936-07-31
LAYTON HELD HERE
IN PORTRAIT FRAUD.
Bond Jumper Is Returned
From Atlantic City After
Long Search.

Returned to Washington last night,
Alfred M. Layton, bond jumper, who
was arrested in Atlantic City, after
o Observation-Disclosures Nationwide
search, probably will be arraigned in
District Court next week on charges
growing out of the notorious Gen.
John ]. Pershing portrait bust pro-
motion.
The accused man was In the Dis
trict Jail today and was being held
for want of $4,000 bond.
There was little likelihood, however,
that he could have secured bail, e;en
If 1t had been set at a nominal sum,
since his flight from Washington cost
one bondsman, Isaac B. Jones, $4,000.
Layton is charged with rising the
mails in furtherance of a scheme
to defraud. Listed among his victims
were many Of the country's leading
financial figures.
He was discovered at an Atlantic
City hotel by Elmer Bell, Washington
lawyer, who recognized him, and
called Jones. Atlantic City police
captured the fugitive and Jones and
his associate, James Conroy, brought
him back to Washington by automo-
bile last night.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

fluent French in thanking Mayor
Gregoire for the warmth of your
welcome"
Text OF Address.
Following is the text of President
Roosevelt's address and an English
translation of his address in French:
Your Excellency, Mr.. Prime Minis
ter, my friends and neighbors of
Canada:
From the moment I received the
hospitable invitation of your governor
general, I have been filled with the
most happy anticipation Of this all
too-brief visit. Canada and its peo-
pie have always had very real hold
on my affections; am happy again to
be able to assure you Of this fact in
person and to express my gRteful
appreciation of the warmth of your
welcome.
THAT am not a stranger may
be illustrated by the fact that since
the age Of 2 I have spent the ma
jority Of my Summers in the province
Of New Brunswick, and by my recent
most refreshing cruise along the beau
tiful shores of the maritime provinces
where once more I have found friend
ship, relaxation and deep content
ment.
Nor am ignorant or unmindful
Of the charms of other sections of
this great dominion-Ontario and
that great empire which extends west
of it to the Pacific.
Fascination in Quebec.
But to many Of my countrymen.
and am no exception to this rule,
Quebec has a fascination all its own
The plains Of Abraham and the cliffs
which lead to them are eternal me-
MORALS to brave French, to brave
British and to brave American Co..
onists who have fallen in battle, be it
in victory or in defeat.
yet there is nobler monument:
For on these fields Of battle was born
the living miracle which we are priv
ileged to see today-twc great racial
stocks residing side by side in peace
and friendship, each contributing its
particular genius in the molding of
nation. This is monument worthy
Of those who gave their lives: this
Is an example from which all thinking
men draw deep satisfaction and in
spiration.
While was on my cruise, read
in q newspaper that was to be re-
ceived with all the honors customarily
rendered to q foreign ruler.
Your excellency, I am grateful for
the honors, but something within me
rebelled at that word foreign I say
this because when I have been in
Canada, have never heard Q Cana
dian refer to an American as q for
eigner. He Is just an American
And, in the same way, in the United
States, Canadians are not foreigners,
they are Canadians
THAT simple little distinction illus
trates to me better than anything else
the relationship between our two
countries.
"On both sides Of the line we are 50
accustomed to an undefended boundary
5000 miles long that we ere inclined
perhaps to minimize its vast impor-
tance, not only to our own continuing
relations, but also to the example
which 1t sets to the other nations Of
the world.
Canadians and Americans visit
each other each year by the hundreds
Of thousands, but, more important,
they visit each other without the use
Of passports.
"And, within recent months, an
other significant action speaks louder
than words, for the trade agreement
which had the privilege of signing
with your prime minister last Autumn
is tangible evidence of the desire of
the people Of both countries to prac-
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Surprise Visits Ordered.

NEW YORK, July 81 P.-Deter-
mined to bolster discipline Of New
York police, Police Commissioner Lewis
j. Valentine ordered five deputy police
commissioners yesterday to make
nightly surprise visits to police stations
throughout the city.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
This is the second of q series OF
articles on drought conditions in
North Dakota.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Staff CnrreSnondent of The Star.


TORT YATES, N. OAK, July 81.
- There's boom on in Sitting
Bulls home town-with log
huts and tents muShrooming as
they did in the contrasting days Of
the old frontier.
It's a starvation boom this time for
the dust-and-gr -grasshopper- filled village
which lies around the old white brick
fort of the Indian fighters, now filled
with busy Offices where red-skinned
maidens with such enhancing names
as Blue Thunder and Indian Summer
pound out official reports on type
writer's.
Fort Yates now is the center Of a
vast desert. About the only green
thing for miles Is the purple-Stemmed
Russian thistle, which grows in lonely
patches over the sun-baked wheat
fields and grazing lands. 1t comes
with drought. Two years ago Its
tender sprouts in the early Summer
we're a salvation for white farmers
and Indians, who moved them and
fed them to their hungry cattle. This
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Vikings Crossed in Rowboats.

When the Vikings crossed the At
lantic 500 years before Columbus, ac-
cepted today as true, they performed
the feat in large rowboats, equipped
with only one square sail.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

(Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-07-31
PEACHES NOW RIPE.
Quaint Acres Orchards

1000 baskets of CHOICE, TREE-RIP-
ENED FRUIT at attractive prices. Lo-
Gated on the Silver Spring Colesyille Pike,
Route 90. only 8 miles north d. G. line.
0Nen am. to 9 pm.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

No, this isn't one of those
heart-throb things. There are
Just as many Might Have-Been-
Addicts in big busy offices, ser,
vice stations, boiler factories ana
fire houses as there are in the
love-lorn columns. And the same
thing ailS 'em all.
Jennie's an example. In her
case, it does happen to be a
wrecked romance. But it might
as well have been watered oil
stock. Any busted bubble will
serve the Might-Have-Been
Addict.
Jennie's 46-married to a nice
man-mother of three fine chill
dren. BUT way back when she
was 21-all a gigging tumble OF
peach petal dimples and silver
gilt curls-Jennie was engaged to
a Perfectly wonderful Man.
AN INSTANCE
But she wasn't quite sure. He
had a business a thousand miles
away, where Jennie didn't know
a Single Soul Would she be
happy. way off from everyone
like that? Jennie wasn't sure.
First she thought she would.
then she thought she wouldn't.
So the days went on, with Jen-
ME first on one side of the fence
and then on the other. Days
months-years. And poor Jim
wondering and waiting. Until at
last Jim decided that too much
was too many. One morning
Jennie opened the paper to find
she'd lost a lover. James was a
NewlyWed.
OF course her heart was broken.
Absolutely. And forever. She
went into a decline. Then de-
cided that she'd forget men.
all of 'em. and have a career.
Or would she? And if so, which
one?
Again Jennie was undecided.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

THE mon Edwin c. Hill
keys have no tails in Zamboanga
the monkeys have no tails, they
were bitten off by whales, etc"
The silly old song makes just as
much sense as present-day eco
Monies.
In their workmanlike way, the
Germans start a national cam
paign to make the people like
whale meat. DR.. Herm a n
Reischle, head of the national Nu-
tritive Guild, gets up a grand
whale meat luncheon at a gilded
hotel in Berlin
The generals and the great
panjandrumS of finance and Off
cialdom are there to address elo-
quent apostrophes to resurgent
Germany, to the undying and un-
conquerable spirit of the new
fatherland, to Adolph Hitler, to
BarbaroSso-the Red Beard-and
to whale meat.
With pSaltery and harp, battal-
ions of poets throughout the
realm, no longer ragged roadside
bards, but proud troops Of the
propaganda corps, sweep their
heartStrings in ecStatiC accord, to
hymn whale meat-just whale
meat.
Where, o where! in this plan
etary squirrel cage is there a gusty
Rabelais, or an acidulous Swift
to rib this world delirium into a
semblance of sanity. And I'm
not picking on Germany. Let us
remember that Milt CROSS Count
Screwloose was a critic of the
American scene.
FLOATING FACTORIES
The old peg-leg skipper who
chased "Moby Dick" the white
whale, probably would have
landed in a concentration camp
if he had been working for total
itarian Germany.
Just ramming around the South
Seas as he did was a wasteful and
dilatory business.
The Germans would have in
vented an undersea-white-whale
detector with a sensitive color
dial, and would have located
"Moby Dick" at 4.367 meters and
plugged him with a violet ray
that deSensitized the forward
ganglion, with both range
finder and a coSt-finder in the
crows nest.
Fantasy? Not bit of it. For
the last three years the Germans
have been perfecting ships that
are great floating factories
equipped not only to catch the
whale, but to render it into indus.
trial fats and bewildering array
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
For Better Health

The report of Health officer George Rutland that during
the first two weeks Of the campaign four thousand children
were immunzed against dphtheria is encouraging.
THE EFFORT TO EXTEND THIS PRACTICAL PRE-
TENTATIVE TO ALL CHILDREN OF THE CITY SHOULD
MEET WITH COMPLETE SUCCESS.
The campaign for ctywide immunzation is continuing
various clinics being prepared to administer the mmunzng
agent without charge.
EVERY PARENT IN THE COMMUNITY IS AGAIN
URGED TO COOPERATE EITHER BY USING THE FACILI-
TIES OF THE CLINICS OR BY HAVING THE TREATMENT
GIVEN BY THEIR FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
is regrettable that many of the fine health protection
which offered free by the city by the various
hospitals not fully utilized by families which
unable to pay doctors
complete utilization Of these facilities would 60
long way toward improving the health record Of the CITY,
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

The thoughts that came often
unsought, and, as it were, crop
into the mind, are commonly the
most valuable of any we nave
and, therefore. should be secured
because they seldom return again.
Locke.
Plain truth will influence nan
a score of men at most IN
nation or an age, while mystery
will lead millions by the nose
Henry st. John.
A fervent and diligent man Is
prepared for all things.-Thomas
A. Edison.
To be able to enjoy the recol-
lection of ones past life, this is to
live twice over.-Martial.
There's a dignity in labour
Truer than e'er pomp arrayed.
Charles Swain.
Of vanities and fopperies, to
brag of gentility is the greatest
Robert Burton.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
Words of Wise Men

} Benefits are pleasing up to that
point when they seem to be ca
pable of requital; when they far
exceed that possibility hatred is
returned instead of gratitude
TacituS.
If a rich man is proud Of his
wealth, he should not be praised
until it is known how he employs
it.-Socrates.
When the people have no other
tyrant, their own public opinion
becomes one. - Edward Bulwer-
Lytton.
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies
Of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or conse-
crate a crime.
Lord Byron.
It is just that he who asks
forgiveness for his offenSes
should grant it in return
Horace.
Prudent, cautious selfcontrol u
wisdom's root.-Robert Burns.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
Three Minute Journeys

>Santa Clara valley is a great fruit
packing center, and there are
beautiful homes there, too. Close
by is Mt. Hamilton with Lick OBJ
servatory. From its summit, there
is a marvellous view. The Santa
Clara Mission, the Mission San
Jose and the San Juan Mission
are lovely relics of old Spain that
should interest you.
SANTA CLARA VALLEY
If you happen to be in San Fran
cisco in July, you will find a great
thrill at Salinas, for one of the
greatest rodeos of the country is
held there annually. Salinas IS In
the heart of a fertile country that
produces most of the worlds sup
ply of artichokes, as well as ap-
pies. berries and lettuce.
Monterey itself was the site OF
CALIFORNIA; first capital. The new
buildings keep to the same pic
tureSque theme that marked those
built by the Spaniards. Behind the
| GOWIl 1I1Sk1 WOONCO IIlOu11UdhAo cAlll4S
down on the bay and the ocean
shore. Then there is the colony
beloved by artists and writers, Car
mel-by-the-Sea. The forests offer
mile after mile of bride paths and
motor roads while Monterey Of
fers some of the best fishing in the
world.
Del Monte is one of the most
picturesque and charming OF all
resorts. The hotel there is world
famous and the four marvellous
golf courses include Pebble Beach.
Life at Del Monte is as strenuous
or restful as you like it, and it
will be one of the most delightful
memories of your trip. I can think
of no place in Europe that offers
more than does this part of the
Monterey peninsula.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

ing that you can hole up IN your
own backyard and tell the rest Of
the world to go to the devil.
First, you devise ball-and-chain
economy and then you start shift
ing men, money. raw materials
if you are lucky enough to have
any-land, minerals and energies
in tricky bac!zfield formations with
some kind of a Fuehrer calling all
the signals.
I am under the impression that
we felt a little foolish for having
even considered it, after making
a pass or two in that direction but
poor old Germany, disregardlng
all the romantic trimmings OF her
juggernaut state, is up to her neck
in this sort of thing.
DR.. Friedrich BergiuS and DR..
Robert Bosch are the two masters
of chemical and metallurgical
wizardry who arm and sustain the
young Siegfried of the new Ger
many against the rest of the world.
DEVASTATING CRITIQUE
Theirs is a test-tube Niebelung.
DR.. Bergius already has made
meat out of sulphur and SaWdust.
His is the process for liquefying
coal and making Germany lnde-
pendent of gasoline imports.
It was Germany's scientists who
DEVELOPED the amazing earthless
vegetable-growing, now being tried
out at Summit, N. j.
In kitchen rig not much bigger
than ice box, you conjure up let
tuce, tomatoes, radishes, onions,
or anything you want, through
light and temperature controls and
catalytic chemical processes.
They are really producing edible
food in Germany in this manner
We all remember how the Ger
mans worked up warm and SerV-
iceable paper suits in wartime.
We also remember how Ger
many, isolated. had no nltrates
and how she made them.
The great scientist, Haber
pulled them out of thin air, as no
man had ever done before.
Germany went on making her
explosives and fought the rest OF
the world to a standStill.
There is, of course, nothing
funny about a great and gifted
nation being driven to desperate
extremities to get food, fats and
raw materials.
The Gargantuan comedy of the
whole business, in world OF
prolific abundance, isn't limited to
Germany alone.
It is a devastating critique OF
our whole civilization, most ade
quately scourged by the German
own oswald Spengler.
His great book, THE Downfall
of the Western Peoples" is the
announcement of doom on a ma
ton which gets too far away from
the soil and which puts too much
faith in laboratories AND
machines. It is interesting to note
that Pearl Bucks book. 'The Coco
Earth" and Spengler's book were
contemporaneouS.
Somehow one feels that the
Chinese peasant, who knows the
feel of soft earth between his toes
may possibly be around when the
rest of us have blown each other
to bits.
| Copyright 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1AO.)
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
SAN FRANCISCO

The recent article about San
Francisco brought requests for
some more information. Appar-
emily, there are many people who
are going to travel in their own
country, seeing sights and glorious
scenery that has no equal the
world over. After a holiday in
California and then up to the
great Pacific Northwest, oregon
and Washington, you will DECIDE
that you will have to go lar to
have a happier, more delightful
holiday.
No doubt your first trip out Of
San Francisco will be the delight
full ride down the peninsula, along
the Pacific coast, south to Monte
rev where the settings OF old
Spain give poignant beauty to
modern buildings, and de luxe
hotels.
MONTEREY
Whether you take the ocean
road on the Kings highway you
will be enthralled by the ride
YOU drive for miles along a road
that is right above the ocean, OF
YOU go through lovely gardeneo
suburbs and rich orchard coun
try. Burlingame, one town tna'
YOU pass, is a millionaire colony
with a great many of California
Oldest and wealthiest families cen
tered there. San Mateo and Red
wood City are very attractive and
then there is Palo Alto, and Stan
ford University.
All around are lovely homes
and gardens that stretch into the
low rolling foothills. Everywhere
are golf courses, tennis courts anc
polo fields. Athletics and the open
air life belong to everybody.
Son Jose, in the heart OF the
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
ANOTHER MAYBE

One absentee voter from Colo.
RADIO had himself a lot of fun yes.
terday. Under the law of his
State the ballot must De marked
on the day of election. In a lot
of the other States of course the
ballots are marked before hand
and sent to the voting precinct
so they can be counted with the
others.
But not all Of them. for besides
Colorado you have six days in
which to get your vote to Cali.
fornia.
At any rate this voter kept tell
ing his friends about the ballot
he was going to mark up and
added:
Il haven't had a minute to
myself all day. Jim Farley and
John Hamilton have been ring
ing my phone every two minutes
just holding their breath to see
how I'm going to swing the
election"
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

Edward caught her, on one Of her
rebounds. And Jennie woke to
find herself Mrs. E. B. Smith.
Now for 10 years Jennie has
been happily married. Or has
she? Still it's the same old song.
One day Jennie's sure she is. The
next day she's certain that she
isn't. For still she's practically
positive that the long lost James
was the Only Man. Darling James
with his gay laugh and en-
chanting ways-if only she had
married him, how much more
thrilling life would have been.
Or perhaps. if she'd gone in for
that Career. If only Edward had
Mt interrupted her career and
cooped her up in the house
made a virtual slave of her. all
these years-she could have
made a wonderful record. She
knows she could.
And so it goes wishing .
wondering looking back at
the dear, dead Past. While mean
time, the Promising Present goes
to ShuCkS!
so 1T GOES
The Might Have-Been-Addicts-
how they love their dreams! AS
other addicts love their dope, ano
for an identical purpose-tO escape
reality.
The woman who's always
signing over her vanished youth
or her wasted talent. the man
who's always telling you of the
big chance he passed up, back
in '28. what a gorgeous time
they have signing and sobblne
and dramatizing themselves, cod
ding their laziness and crafty
ing their conceit, telling them
selves what vows they might
have been, blaming the other fel
low because they're not.
But suppose dear James came
back to Jennie? Would she want
him as he is today-with his
double chins and his bald head;
And that Big Chance-suppose il
came again, would our lamentine
brother grab it, Not on your life
For PRESENT loves and PRES
ENT chances mean work and re
sponsibility. It's better, far, tt
snuggle down in a beautiful
| rOSV dream
This column Welcomes and
requests comments. Letters
presenting personal problems
may also be sent. All letters
UiU be handled contidenttally
and answered promptly IT
stamped, addressed envelopes
are included.)
Copyright, 1896. by King Features
Syndicate, Ine,)
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

self. FRANK W. ~
Mrs. Martha B. Wilson, who
lives in Ashton Heights, got up
from a sick bed to cast her vote.
When she got to the polls with
her husband she had to stand IN
line behind Is persons who pre-
coded her. Finally she reached
the desk. A ballot was handed
to her.
She went into the booth and
Immediately overheard snatches
of conversation in which her
name was mentioned. After mark
ing up her ballot she stepped out
to find that her vote had been
challenged on the ground that she
hadn't paid her taxes.
Her husband protested this
charge vehemently. He told the
men in charge of that voting pre-
cinct that he had not only paid
the taxes for last year but that
he had paid them for 1886, and
they aren't due until December 5.
1t was no go, however. They
told Mrs. Wilson that her poll tax
had not been paid and that they
would hold her ballot until Mr..
Wilson produced his tax receipts.
Mrs. Wilson refused to go home
but stayed right by the voting
booth until Mr.. Wilson returned
and presented the receipts.
A search of the records showed
that a mistake had been made
and the tax sheet showed Mrs.
Maude Wilson instead of a Mrs.
Martha Wilson.
It's mistakes like these that en-,
courage eligible citizens to vote, I
don't think.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

ow penSive
around twilight,
and a lit t | e
teary? And does
she just sigh
and gulp when
you ask her
what's the mat
ter? Yes?
Then you're
probably u
a g a in S t a
M / G h TIL a We
B e e MA d d i ct
and had better
learn promptly
what it's all
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
A LONG MEMORY

guess after all it doesn't make
as much difference as we thought.
At the Speakers office at the
Capitol, recently they got a letter
addressed to Bennett c. Clark, par.
Humanitarian of the House. He's
now Senator Clark, and he hasn't
been parliamentarian since his
father, Champ Clark, was speaker.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
ANXIOUS MOMENTS

There's a lot of crashing Of
teeth and a lot of signs of relief
filling the air in the Capitol CORR
doris today.
Every two years the secretaries
and the clerks to the members of
the House of Representatives must
60 through a period of suspense
while their bosses run for reelec-
ton.
In some cases their financial
situation is such that it means a
darn sight more to them to have
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
CONSOLATION?

At least there is some compensa-
ton for living in the District on
election day, even if you can't vote.
No one went around and closed
up the drinking establishments or
the banks.
In New York city the bars were
closed from a. m. to 9 p. m.
But then, a benevolent group of
city fathers decided to let the
cafes remain open past the regu-
lar 4 a. m. dead line. 1t just
seems that when they celebrate
up there they celebrate and no
fooling.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
OH, WELL

Here are a few Of the things
the members of the House of Rep
resentatives are going to get be-
sides their $4,000 a year salary
when they take the oath Jan
uary 5.
They get mileage to and from
Washington; Thanking privileges
which lets them send all their
mail free of charge; free bulletins
from all government departments;
free telephone service; $4,000 for
clerical help; free transportation
and expenses on junkets-and are
guaranteed immunity from arrest.
And after voting to give them
all that their constituents don't
like them enough to keep them at
home but will unload the whole
caboodle here first thing 1887.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

of useful by-products, utilizing
everything down to the whales
last eye-winker-if this happens
to be standard equipment on
whales.
There seems to be no doubt that
when their whale armada gets
going, it will get plenty of whales
Germany is certainly efficient
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

and it won't be surprising if they
tame flocks of the larger whales,
have Krupp equip them with steel
shouts and train them for sub
marines. It's all part of the new
and imprisoned German erSatZ.
We. particularly in the depth OF
the depression, toyed with the idea,
calling it "autarchy," the idea be-