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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-20
Niqht of Reception

The first night in the new home
was an evening of all-night merri
ment-reception and welcome to
the couple. There were race-track
touts, vaudevillians, fighters, gen,
eral well-wishers, sporting editors
and artists. It was an inspiring
sight to see Mother Sharkey in
her bright green silk dress and
Father Sharkey not daring to sit
on the beautiful green plush fur
niture.
It was o'clock in the morning
and their usual time to retire in
Ireland was between Z and 8 In
the evening.
About week later, Tom came
to me again and said:
"There'S something wrong.
I've got the old folks as beauti-
full a house as know how. I've
got everything l can think Of to
make them happy, but there's
something wrong. They're not
happy"
He added: "'The old man
took . liking to you the night
you were together and ] wish
aS . favor you'd go down and
pump him and find out what's
wrong. They'll not tell me
what's wrong"
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DIARY
STUDIED IN
P0|S0NCASE

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Oct. 20
G.N.S0 With the grand jury
heaEing Of charges Of attempted
murder against Chang 500 Lee, al.
legged Korean poisoner, postponed
until Thursday, the weird case to-
day was taking on more aspects Of
a wild oriental nightmare.
Chang, butler and chauffeur Of
wealthy Mrs. Ida Churchill, 49,
year-old widow, is accused of at.
tempting to poison Mr.. and Mrs.
George Reeves. her niece and
nephew, Of Indianapolis, in plot
to get her estate.
The Reeves couple lie paralyZed
and perilously i'll in White Plains
Hospital as result of a diabolical,
slow-working poison allegedly
placed in their food at the Church.
i'll home.
Latest discovery in the bizarre
case is a diary, half in English,
half in Korean. Assistant District
Attorney Ebert T. Gallagher an.
nounced the book was found under
Chang's mattress. He said it con.
tanned the following cryptic en-
tries, interspersed with paragraphs
Of Korean
"Have had many strange
dreams. Have dreamed commit
ting a murder"
"Many dreams murder trial.
Much murder trial"
On September 10 there was the
notation:
Bought arsenic. Also potas
sum cyanide"
he grand jury hearing scheduled
for today was postponed because
of the illness Of Mrs. Churchill
-VOTE AMERIeAA-
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DAILY TIMES
TABLE

1890 p. m.-Luncheon, Credit
Men, Raleigh Hotel.
1890 p. m.-Luncheon, R. P
Andrews Paper Company, Raleigh
Hotel.
1890 D. m.-Luncheon, Better
Bushes Bureau, Raleigh Hotel.
7 p. m.-Meeting, Tall Cedars
Raleigh Hotel.
1890 p. m.-Luncheon, Opt
mistS' Club, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 p. m.-Luncheon, Lions
Club directors, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 p. m.-Luncheon, Civitar
Club, Mayflower Hotel.
ALL DAY-Meeting, Association
of American Railroads, Carlton
Hotel.
/ p. m.-Luncheon, Motion Pic
ture Theater Owners, Willard Ho
tel.
Up. m.-Card party, st. Marga
ret's Church, Shoreham Hotel.
p. m.-Meeting, Washington
Dental Society. Wardman ParE
Hotel.
$50 p. m.-Performance, Wash
ington Civic Theater, Inc, Ward
man Park Hotel.
TOMORROW
ALL DAY-Meeting, Association
Of American Railroads, Carlton.
10 A.M.-Meeting, Plymouth Mo
tor Company, Mayflower Hotel
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Electri
cal Institute, Carlton Hotel.
1890 PM. - Luncheon, Lions
Club, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Life I'm
derwriters Assn, Willard Hotel
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Rotary
Club, Willard Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, M. and
NJ, Raleigh Hotel.
8 P.M.-Washington Bridge
League, Shoreham Hotel.
Z PM. - Dinner. Georgetown
University Law School, Mayflower
Hotel.
8 P.M.-Meeting, sons of the
American Revolution. .Mayflower
Hotel.
8 P.M.-Meeting, Phi Lambda
MI Fraternity, Mayflower Hotel
8 P.M.-Buffet and Meeting, s.
Freedman & Sons, Raleigh Hotel
8 P.M.-Meeting, N. C. Demo
cratic Club, Raleigh Hotel.
8 PM. - Meeting, Washington
Philatelic Society, Carlton Hotel
$3.50 P.M.-Performance, Wash
ington Civic Theater, Inc, Ward
man Park Hotel.
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Just Plain Homesick

I had some time off and I went
down to Bath Beach. I found the
old gent sitting on the green fence
looking at some pigs. He was in
his stocking feet and smoking his
pipe. He got up and sat alongside
of me. Nothing was said for a
few minutes. He was looking at
me Surreptitiously to measure
whether was fit for confidence.
Then it came out. He said:
"ThGt grand boy Tom OF ours
has fixed up this grand palace
and brought us oUer here-0n'
/ don't 1UGnt to hurt his feeltn'S
and neither does his mother,
but I'm AFRAID we're too old to
change our tO1yS to fit in Nth
this glory and grandeur. The
old hen is that hOmeSick I'm
afraid it'll be the death of her,"
and Nth a catch in his Uoice
realized the tears Deren't far
oft, as he Gdded-"I'm not so
happy n1eSeI."
Don't worry" said, well fix
things up all right" I went back
to Tom and explained the whole
situation to him, and Tom said,
"Glory be, an I wouldn't have
thought of it. Well send them
back"
So there came the glorious day
for the old folks when they were
put on the boat, needing no in
sistence nor entreaty to 60 on
board.
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PACKERS SUE FOR PERMIT

this year by the United
States Bureau of Animal Indus
try and excavation permit issued
with the result that foundations
will be completed within five days.
On October is, the petition
stated, the Gobel firm was in
Structed to deliver a 1928 fee to
the District Building and receive a
general building permit. Despite
performance by the company, the
permit was refused, according to
the petition.
v. D. Skipworth, president Of
the Gobel company, declared the
plant when modernized will af-
ford work for several hundred"
persons.
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uP WILL JOu'
Usually it takes some definite
amount of overweight-ten, fiji
teen, or twenty pounds-to get
action. And then you are impa-
tient of anything less than mira
cles. You must be slim at once!
There are no miracles in the
figure program which ia k e s
health and beauty into account.
What you want is not Just to lose
weight, but to lose it beautifully
and BEAUTIFULLY.
If you have never been able to
work up much enthusiasm about
dieting, then try eating to get
your figure in line. You can have
just as much to eat, but you must
keep an eye on the calories. You
will have to give up waffles SWIM
ming in syrup and all rich, sweet
desserts, and develop a diet resiS-
lance to social calorieS.
improbable as it may seem to
you, your palate will gradually
become accustomed to the in
nocuous low-calorie foods. Those
on the daily menus are selected
for their vitaminS, minerals and
staying qualities, so that they pro
tect your health and see you
through from meal to meal with
out too many hunger pangs.
After a time you will appre-
ciate these foods for their own
flovor, and therein lies the Sec
ret of all successful figure pro-
grams-the cultivation Of an
appetite for the foods that allow
you to stay slim.
On these menus you can be
slim by the holidays. You can lose
eight pounds the first month, and
seven pounds the second, and
there's fifteen pounds gone!
OF course, if you are larger or
smaller than the average person
you will add or subtract from the
1900 calorie average, according to
your requirements. The leaflets
Pointers to Slimness" and Gal
orie Chart" will help you to make
this adjustment.
These menus meet only two
thirds of your actual calorie re-
quirements, so that you must draw
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A rule returnable Thursday d.
recting officials of the District Of
Columbia to show cause why a
writ of mandamus should not be
issued to force the granting Of a
building permit to Adolph Gobel,
Inc, of Brooklyn, for the modern
ization of its plant here was
handed down in U. S. District
Court yesterday by Justice Joseph
w. Cox.
According to Attorneys Henry A.
Ingraham and D. Edward Clarke,
representing the meat packers, the
building, located at 3737 Benning
Rd. N. E., was erected in 1887 and
partially destroyed by fire in 1923.
Plans to rebuild the plant were
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-20

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-20

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-20
Nazi Penalties Now
Heavier on Jews

BERLIN-The Stermer, julius
Streicher'S anti.Semitic weekly,
announces that the Reich Justice
Ministry has instructed public
prosecutors to demand more
severe punishment for Jewish
race defilers" Jews convicted
of having had relations with
German women" The sentences
in the most recent Steumer list
vary from five months in jail
to two years in prison. The
latter sentence was imposed by
a Hamburg court on a 64-year-
old Jew.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-20

Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-20
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
Down Memory Lane!
BY Louis SoboI

WITH JIMMY SWANNEhAON
(The creator of little Jimmy
here continues his reUieD OF his
early days on the newspapers OF
NeD York;
Paul West, one Of the editors OF
the Journal under Brisbane, was
the first to serialize books for
newspapers. He would pick a
book and after much editing
would chop it into day by day
chapters, rewriting to suit his pur'
poses. West had the peculiar
habit Of gritting his teeth out
loud. One day at work, he was
doing this much more boisterously
than was his wont. Immediately
everybody wanted to know the
why's and whereforeS.
Investigation revealed that he
had been up town the night be-
fore and got himself in some sort
of trouble that had raised murder
GUS instincts within him, and, in
stead Of taking it out on the i'm
mediate cause, he had come back
to Park Row and had killed off all
his characters in the story, except
two servants.
It was now the next day-the
characters had been killed, and
the paper published. He hadn't
discovered his error until the
paper was on the streets and now
it was necessary for him to invent
new characters to keep the story
going-all of which caused the
loud reverberations Of teeth grit
ting.
Tom Sharkey was considered
quite a tight individual and IN
some cases this was true-in other
cases it was quite wrong, for ne
always thumbed-up for any church
need or the need Of his people. His
parents lived in Dundalk, Ireland,
and when Tom had won some
fights and was in the money, he
thought it would be great idea
to send for the old folks in Ireland
to come to this country. He had a
special place fitted out in Bath
Beach.
A select jury of sports writers,
and artists, were taken down to o K
the place. The fence was green,
the lawn was green, the house
painted green, the barn and pigsty
painted green, and inside the
house the carpets were green, the
walls were green and the furniture
was in green plush.
I looked over this artistic effect.
That was my job. I only disagreed
with one thing. He had brass bed
steads which were Of a decided
orange tint. I suggested to Tom
that he should have nothing like
that around. He saw the weight
of my idea and said:
''I'n paint them green, II they
can be painted. II they can't.
I'll take them out"
&A*
Everything was in readiness for
the old people. Tom got word from
the other side that they practically
had to use a steam wench to get
them on board the boat, never hav-
ing been out of their little village
before. They arrived and came off
the boat like frightened cattle, and
were received by Tom and brother
Jack and the newspaper con-
tingent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-20
Fewer Pedestrians
Killed in New York

NEW YORK, Oct. 2o.-During
the first nine months of the year
there have been 1875 fewer fatali-
ties and 1924 fewer injuries to
pedestrians in the city than in the
corresponding period in 1885, it
was announced by First Deputy
Police Commissioner Harold Fow-
1eR
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'Ye%%z5;#$|,mx.<1;
So Many Seek Quickest
Way to Slin1ness
By IDA JEAN KAN

please tell the quickest way take off 10 pounds Hurry
and answer for in the meantime I'll just be getting fatter
This is the desperate sort of letter you write the day
the scales discover that your Galleries have caught
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on stored fat for the other third.
A steady demand on this unnec-
essary fat will gradually bring
your weight down to normal.
Exercise is indispensable to
your well-being and particularly
important to the reducer.
1t is just as necessary to build
up firm, strong muscular tissue
as to break down the flabby fat.
Concentrate on the corrective
gymnastics you need for dispro-
portionate measurements.
You can see that a figure pro
gram is not to be hurried while
your object is to get slim, the most
satisfactory method from the fig.
ure standpoint is the one that
leaves you feeling and looking bet
ter. Neither health nor good looks
can be built in a day!
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Send for the leaflets, Point
ers to SlimneSS," "CalOrie
Chart" and General Exer-
ciSes-TO Keep You Trim and
Fit as a Fiddle" Address me
in care of this newspaper and
enclose large addreSSe d
stamped envelope.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-24
Neutrality is the Issue!

It's q case of life IT dedthl 1t would
not be stretching q point thus to describe
the significance attached to formulation
Of q definite policy to keep our country
out Of war.
When Congress convenes in Wosh-
ington in January. it will have to face that
issue. Our present neutrality low ex-
pires on Mdy |, 1887, and Congress.
bowling to the recognized will Of all Of US,
will have to enact further lows to keep
the United States at peace.
Before the talk in Washington starts,
we won't to express u belief that the
majority Of Americans wont q mandatory
neutrality policy. Thut kind of neutru-
lity means thdt the United States will sup
port no side in q wdr. thut nc nation
which resorts to Won con look to us to sup
ply guns. goods, or gold.
Under q permissive or discretionary
policy, q president could PERM" en-
burgoes on Wdr tools to be lifted in fdv-
or Of one nation, and to allow us to take
sides in the fight. Our sdles and looms
to the Allies in the last wdr gave us q fin
dncidl stake in the victory Of that side,
meant thdt we got into the wdr~ ourselves.
killed our young men. but didn't get our
money back dnYwdY. No financial in
terest, nothing save actual invasion. wdr-
rants our going to Wdr.
This paper believes that its readers
feel that way about the neutrality issue.
We therefore will be watching Congress
to see thdt our wishes ore translated into
low.
Labor Department. NCPW
Montana labor news., 1936-12-24
Another War for Democracy?

The -democrdcies must stand togeth-
er." This phrase hos pricked our ears
during the past few months and will con
tinue to be heard from speakers Of Greet
Britoin and France as well as by some
of our own leaders Of thought. Behind
this however. is being built up q popu-
ldr slogan for another wdr A Wor in
Defense Of Democracy.
We wish to point out TO those who ore
seriously considering our participation
in another wdr in defense Of our democ-
ratio institution, thdt another war would
end democracy everywhere! While the
United States would be busilY engaged
in wdging q wdr on foreign soil for dem
ocrdcy, the machinery Of the War Depart
ment would be fu%nctioning sharply to in
stitute the proposals embodied in the In
dustridl Mobilization Plan which hos al
ready been drawn up tor passage i'm
medidtely upon the declaration OF Wdr.
Soldiers would return to the repelldnt
spectacle Of an iron-heel dictatorship!
Fdscism would be firmly established
here, for the pldns of our Wdr Depart
ment provide for fdscistic control Of the
whole nation. not only for the period Of
the war but for six months otter the Presi-
dent shall have declared the emergency.
not the WUr. to be at an end.
We protest this "pdtriotic slogdn." W.
oppose our country becoming involved
in any wur anywhere. We refuse to
give the lives Of our boys for q wur in de-
tense of British dnd French prestige and
economic supremacy Of British colonies
in Africo, munitions firms in France. and
in defense Of the Communist Russia. en-
gagged in mortal combat with her Fds-
cist foes.
All Of us must fortifY our minds and or
ganize our strength against this pretty
sounding slogan. To do this end to help
insure the maintenance of peace, let us
put our energy into securing the ddop-
ton of Strengthened mandatory neutrd-
lily legislation in the next session Of Con-
gress.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-24
Unemployment Insurance Tax Upheld

The decision Of Federal Judge George
G. Sweeney in Boston. upholding as con-
stitutiondl the right Of Congress to levy
q payroll tdx on employers for the unem-
ploYment compensation system set up
under the Federal Social Security Act is
q definite victory for the authority of the
United States Government to function in
this essentially national sphere.
The decision was rendered on the dp-
plicdtion Of q stockholder Of the Boston
& Mdine Ruilrodd for an injunction to
prevent the railroad Officials from pay
ing the tex.
The stockholder alleged thut the tax
was "cupricious ~confiscution. that it was
not uniform throughout the United States,
and that the proceeds of the tex wer not
intended to meet the costs Of the common
defense or general welfare Of the United
States.
In sweeping aside all these allegations
ds having no vdlid foundation, Judge
Sweeney said:
"lrule that the tex imposed under Title
9 Of the Social Security Act is q valid ex-
ercise under the taxing powers Of Con
gress, that it does not exceed the limitd-
ton Of uniformity, that it is to provide for
the general welfare Of the United States,
dnd it is therefore constitutional"
Observers belive thut Judge Sweeney's
decision will be affirmed by the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals for the
First Judicial. Circuit and by the United
States Supreme Court. which hos already
held constitutional the tax levied on en-
ployers by the New York State Unem-
ploYment Insurance Low.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-24

Evidences Of q return Of prosperity is
q welcome sign. Much remains TO be
done, however, in u%llevidting the suffer
ing Of the people. Many drastic changes
must be made in our social order.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-24

Now that elections are over, many
a governor will breathe a sigh of
relief. He won't have to think twice
before calling out the troops against
strikers.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-24
Another Company Union Exposed

The National Labor Relations Board
hos performed q distinct public service in
exposing the real character Of the Plan
of EmploYe Representation which the
United States Steel Corporation imposes
on its employees and the employees Of its
subsidiaries. The dutocrdtic character
of this company union was revealed by
the Board in q complaint charging the
Steel Corporation und its whollY-owned
subsidiary, the Curnegie-lllinois Steel
Montana labor news., 1936-12-24

Corporation, with having interfered with
the self-orgunizution Of their employees in
the lutteris 81 plants.
The Board specifically charges thdt the
u. S.. Steel Corporation and its subsidiur-
les dominate and financially support the
Plun Of Employe Representation.
The complaint asserts the Carnegie
Illinois Company insisted thdt represen-
tOtives OF the representation plan Gp-
prove q wage contract prepared by the
company without submission of its terms
to the employees affected.
EorlY in November, the Board asserts,
q Pittsburgh District Council was created.
the delegates TO it consisting Of two en-
ploYe representatives. dnd two manage
ment representatives from each of the
compdnYs plants in the Pittsburgh Dis
trict. The expenses Of the Councils meet
ings were paid by the company. No
Provision wds made for collective meet
ings in the vdrious plants to instruct dele
gates.
The Board declares thdt during the es-
Enlistment Of the Pldn Of EmploYe Re
presentation in 1888 the U. S. Steel Cor
pordtion dominated its employees and in
terfered with their rights TO orgdnize I'M
hdmpered by management.
The Boards general indictment of the
Representation Plan as an instrument to
provide expression Of employee opinion
includes the following defects:
There is no provision for collective
meetings and no opportunity for en-
ploYes TO cast votes on wugeu agree
ments or the submission to urbitru-
ton and similar problems.
The Steel Corporation beers oil ex-
penses OF the plan.
Newly hired employees dutomoti-
cullY become members Of the plan.
Incumbent employee representa-
lives are permitted to cumpuign for
reelection during working hours and
at company expense.
In elections employee representa-
tives oct as tellers und compile the
returns. with their wages puid dur
ing such periods.
Foremen and superintendent.
having power to hire and fire. open
lY ascertain the names Of employees
~ iiaFC ioilC0 ~ VOtG III GlGIiOilS
under the plan.
Bulletin boards ore used to influ-
ence employees regarding wage pro-
posdls.
The minutes Of employee represent
tution meetings ore edited so that the
full proceedings Gre not known to the
general run of employees.
The National Labor Relations Act out
laws as an "unfdir labor practice" this
dntisocidl monstrositY which the United
States Steel Corporation and its subsidi-
cries call the Pldn Of EmploYe Represen-
tdtion. The constitutiondlitY Of the Act
is being challenged before the United
States Supreme Court by the Associated
Press and other corporations.
Undoubtedly the inquiry regarding the
plan undertaken by the National Labor
Relations Board will throw more illuminQ-
ton on the subtle attempt Of the Steel Cor
pordtion to scuttle bona fide labor organ
izdtions with the notorious company I'm
ion dominated by the corporation.
Evening star., 1936-12-13

wood Rountree, of Houston. Tex. were
convicted last night by Federal Court
jury on 13-count mail fraud indict-
ment.
George N. Nay, co-defendant and
attorney, was acquitted.
The jury denberated sz hours.
The brothers, who will b sentenced
December IS. each face . possible 81
years In prison and fines totaling
$4,000.
IN the trial. lasting I'VE weeks.
they were charged with swindliny
Evening star., 1936-12-13

introduced TO millions OF radio lfs-
teners as Prince Edward" probably
has been heard for the last time.
The government-controlled British
Broadcasting Co. made q special
request of cooperating networks to
refrain from making recordings Of the
retiring Kings farewell.
One rebroadcast of the speech. In
Edwards own voice, was made for the
British Empire alone, three and one
half hours after he was heard In the
United States,
Evening star., 1936-12-13

The banks, the N. v. Anglo Cont.
nentale Trust Maatschappij of Rotter.
dam, and the Mondiale Handels- Und
verwaltungs A. q. Of the principa!ity
Of Liechtenstein, gave no reason for
the withdrawal.
Bethlehem offered to pay the tn-
terest In American currency after the
United States left the gold standard
in 1888. but the banks contended pay.
ment should be made on q gold value
basis.