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The Washington times., 1936-12-19

lot of famous men to history,
finance and the realm of arts
and letters.
Did you ever stop to think
how many Smiths there are
in this world7 Why, the
Smiths hold the undisputed
telephone book championship
of all times, and that's not
including the Smythes, the
Schmidts or even the Gold
smiths.
There are no less than eight
pages of Smiths in the Los
Angeles telephone book alone.
And that tops even the Co.
hens, the Joneses, the Whites
and the Blacks, not to speak
of the Taylors, the Gables,
the CARLOS and the Kelleys.
Several million Smiths
would probably be very
grateful to have attention
called to the Smithian accom-
plishments. And don't think
there aren't plenty.
For instance, here are a
few facts about Smiths that
| didn't know myself until I
started to check up. Pass
the red apples.
It was John Smith who sue
cessfully made eyes at Poca-
hontas. Eli Smith, a mis-
sionary and scholar, devoted
his life to translating the
Bible into Arabic. And Sir
Francis Petit Smith got a
patent on the screw propul-
sion of steamboats, six weeks
ahead of Ericsson.
Francis Hopkinson Smith
designed and supervised the
building of the foundations
of the Statue Of Liberty. He
also wrote famous books.
John Bernhardt Smith, en-
tomologist, inspired the $685.
100000 campaign to eradi-
cate the Jersey mosquito.
Jonas Waldo Smith supplied
the plans for the $17O,00O,-
900 aqueduct that brings
500 mn 0O0 0a11onS of water
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THE SMITHS ARE MIGHTY PEOPLE, SAYS PETE OF MG WHO Loo
From Capt. John Of Pocohontos
Fame to Brown Derby Al
They've Made History

From Pete Smith, the M-G-M short subject commentator.
The armchair athlete of Hollywood speaks for the AU-
American Smith of all time.
Dear Andy Kelley:
There's lot to the old saying that the Smith mighty
is he
But too few people inclined to give US common
ordinary everyday Smiths credit for having contributed
The Washington times., 1936-12-19
Throat Bothers

Suffering from a throat all
ment, Alice Brady was confined to
her home today following COM
pletion of her final scenes in
Paramount's Mind Your Own
Business"
The Washington times., 1936-12-19

posed Of all her Christmas hand.
kerchiefs and had, in return, a
check bearing the famous Garbo
signature.
The Washington times., 1936-12-19

tically in her favorite bone burial
ground.
More nursery rhymes" scoffed
Asia. THAT bare cupboard story
is getting worn to the bone"
Mrs. Asia Snuggled up to her
husband. then shifted.
49," she declared, with asper-
ity, "Myrna 10y has been putting
more perfume on YOU"
Asia appeared uncomfortable
for a moment. He had q guilty
look.
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The mere thought made Asia
scratch his ear.
"You know" suggested Mrs.
Asia, IT think it would be a good
idea to stay right here at the
studio. These new star dressing
rooms are certainly doggy"
Maybe you're right" yawned
Asia. Besides, we can see Bill
and Myra every day.
"Swell performances they gave
Ia After the Thin Man. Even
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05

down for too long a time in the fu-
ture and the tendency to require
indefinite extension of the inflexible
gridiron as is now the case in many
metropolitan areas, are cases in
point, where planning has actually
aided in destroying the type of sta
bility vital to cities
There is not city in the country
for which such a program as 1 have
outlined is not needed. It would
prevent the loss of value in real es-
tate and at the same time create
confidence among, and provide com.
fort, safety and health for urban
dWellers."
To protect real estate values. he
added, and to support the vast in
duStry of building and selling houses,
the housing administration wishes
to see the insured mortgage widely
adopted and the insurance cost re-
duCed to minimum. AS long as the
risk remains in the mortgage bust
ness, he said, the cost must be alb
Sorbed, and to achieve a lowering
OF the cost of insurance, the houS-
ing administration seeks the assist
ance of every force which may serve
to eliminate risk.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
Southern States Scene
OF Preliminary Battle

WASHINGTON, March s. UP
The conservative Democratic cam
paign to stop Roosevelt echoed to-
day from Georgia and Maryland
pre-convention backgrounds.
A snap primary in southwestern
Seminole county, Georgia, gave the
first pre-convention prize to the
New Deal. President Roosevelt
polled a to l victory over Gov.
Eugene Talmadge who had promis-
ed to raise 100000 southern boilers
and "bust the New Deal"
Col. Henry Breckenridge, New
York lawyer who served in the Will
son administration little cabinet
with Mr.. Roosevelt, opened his pres
idential primary campaign in Bait
more, Md, last night.
Breckenridge has announced he
will oppose Mr.. Roosevelt in the
Maryland primary, May 4, and in
Ohio May IL. He may enter other
primary states. The Breckenridge
candidacy interests politicians be-
cause the lawyers poll will give a
fairly accurate measure of the ex-
tent of the Democratic bolt after
three years Of the New Deal Breck-
inridge is little known except as
lawyer for Col. Charles A. Lind
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05

the President proclaimed was to be
"a new order of things Yet today
the entire nation is indignant and
disillusioned. It's faith has been
betrayed"
Said Robinson,
why, conditions have so mark
edly improved that even the blind
the politically blind-could see
the light"
Dickinson charged that the
money changers defy expulsion
from the temple that monopolies
are better entrenched than ever"
that 100000 are still unemploy-
ed; that the relief administration
has sunk to the level of political
panhandling," and that $4,000, 000,-
900 has been "squaundefed."
Robinson retortedsthat the coun-
try as a whole is prosperous.
MANY businesses boast of their
prosperity" he said. THE country
is fortunate in having at its head
man who stimulates and inspires
confidence"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
DUPLICATE
PORTRAIT
Glab Attorneys
Will Discount
State Evidence

LOS ANGELES, March 5. UP
Sheer stockinged ankles and suede
shod feet of Hazel Bedford Glab,
red-headed widow, were put on
display in superior court today to
discount the states effort to iden-
tify her as the murderer of her
husband, John I. Glab, seven years
ago.
According to testimony of wit
nesses present after the shooting,
Woman's heels were heard clicking
down the sidewalk.
Mrs. Glab'S heels were exhibited
TO the court after Mrs. Esther Will
son, former maid at the Glab home
testified that the red-headed wild
owls heels always clicked when
she walked.
Mrs. Glab was asked to walk
back and forth before the jury
box in her natural gait, and Mrs.
Wilson admitted that the walk
was the habitual one. Defense at
torney S. S. Hahn is expected to-
attempt to prove that this gait
was not the one heard after the
fatal shooting June 10, 1928.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
Surprise Witness
Takes Stand In
CIaw-Hammer Case

LOS ANGELES, March S. U.P)-
Mrs. Maude Hammond Welsh, sis
ter of DR.. Walter Forest Hammond,
62-year-old dentist beaten to- death
with a claW-hammer, Wednesday
took the stand as surprise wit
ness in defense of Frances Mabel
WHY'S, charged with the murder.
Her brother was an "habitual
drunkard and turbulent, fighting
man." Mrs. Welsh told the court.
Mrs. Welsh was the first defense
witness called after the prosecution
rested it's case against the alleged
"clawhammer murderess" who as
sertedly beat Dr. Hammond'S head
in after a two week drinking bout.
MY brother began drinking in
$780," Mrs. Welsh testified. my
Younger brother wrote me in 1911
and told me to come to California
at once if I ever expected to see
Walter alive again, because he was
drinking himself to death. came.
During the ensuing years DR..
Hammond went on periodical
DRINKS from two to five times
year. Twice took cures, and was
refused admission to a liquor cure
hospital as a hopeless case, Mrs.
Welsh told the court
Frances never took a drink"
she testified in behalf Of her sister,
in-laW. 81 always found her taking
care of him."
The slain dentist always kept
gun under his pillow, and once
gave his common law wife a black
eye, she said.
Previous to her testimony, au-
tops ySurgeon A. F.. Wager told
the court that the brain of the
slain man contained 20 hundreds
percent alcohol, an amount that
necessarily Supplied him
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
CROWN BEGINS
CASE TO HANG
YOUNG KILLER

DORCHESTER, N. B., March 5.
UP)-The Crown late WEDNESDAY
began carefully building up the
case with which it hopes to send
Arthur Bannister, 10, to the gallows
for the bizarre murders of Philip
Lake, Lakes common-law wife and
their son in a crude plot to kidnap
Lakes baby.
Arthur's brother, Daniel, 90 will
be tried separately on similar
charges of murder and kidnapping
and their mother, Mrs. Mae Ban
mister, 40. will be tried for kidnap-
ing. The Crown alleges that the
three sought to secure the Lake
baby SO Mrs. Banni5ter could palm
it off as her own to extort money
from her lover.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
RAH SUPPORTS ROOSEVELT ON CORPORATE SURPLUS TAX
REPUBLICANS FLAY
ROOSEVELT POLICIES

WASHINGTON March 5. Up
Republican regulars celebrated Pres
1dent RooseveIt's third anniversary
in office Wednesday with attacks
accusing him of political exploita-
ton of a nation in distress" and
sponsoring trade program based
on 'fallacies."
Shortly afterward, Secretary of
Commerce Daniel c.. Roper released
figures claiming an increase of 300
per cent in corporation earnings
under the New Deal, a 81 per cent
rise in retail trade, and a $780,
100000 jump in farm income.
White-haired Sen. l.. J. Dickinson
of Iowa who, while not actively
seeking convention delegates, would
not object to being Mr.. Roosevelt's
opponent in November, led the sem
ate attack. In the lower chamber
Rep. Allen T. TreadWay of Massa-
chusetts directed his fire exclusively
at the reciprocal trade pacts.
The house listened to Treadway
with its usual inattention. but in
the senate Majority Leader Joseph
T. Robinson. always alert in de-
Tense Of his chief. challenged Dick
inson's analysis of three years of
the New Deal Their debate gave
condensed version of the conserV-
alive objection to Mr.. Roosevelt.
Said Dickinson:
Three years ago a spirit of high
national eXaltation uShered in what
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
Principles
'OfPrograrn
HeldSOund


WASHINGTON, March 5. UP
Sen. William E. Borah, Republican
presidential possibility, today sup
ported the sound principle" of
President Roosevelt's proposed cor
porate tax as house ways and
means committee members studied
the program for increasing federal
revenues by $620,00O,000.
Borahs statement came as the
treasury presented first details to
the subcommittee of two other tax
proposals contained in President
Rpsevelts suggestion to congress
The treasury estimated that a
maximum of $2oO, 100000 could be
raised through the presidents pro-
posed "Windfall' tax to recapture
impounded or unfollected process
ing taeXs.
The treasury recommended a tax
on gross income of those who ben
efitted by return Or non-payment
OF processing taxes in order to re-
cover the $200000,000 sum.
Earlier the treasury had recon-
mended a tax averaging l-3 per
cent along a graduated scale on
undistributed corporation profits to
raise 5000, 100000 to 620,000,000.
Borah's statement came as Sen.
William King, D., Utah, and
number of Republican members at
tackled the proposal.
While Borah cited the Sound
principle" of the proposed tax
change, re coupled his praise with
demand for 'retrenchment" in
government extravaganza and
waste"
The proposed undistributed cor
porate income tax, Borah said in
statement, may be carried to the
point where it will be destructive"
But within proper safeguards"
he added, Il am prepared to con-
slider this proposition with entire
sympathy as TO its soundness."
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
Mothers Battle
Over 3-Year-OId

YAKIMA, Wash, March 5. up
Patricia Josephine McRee, aged g.,
today was the unwilling basis of
a bitter court suit between two
women, each claiming to be her
mother.
Hearing of the action was post
poned by Judge A. w. Hawkins,
while authorities attempted to To-
cate the childs father.
Mrs. Madelyne McRee, 90, of San
Diego, Cal. filed the suit against
Alpha Cress, rs, of Yakima, who
now has Patricia Josephine.
Neither woman knew where thu
father was.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05

LOS ANGELES, March 5. up
Amelia Galli-Curci, internationally
famed opera singer, and her hus-
band Homer Samuel, Wednesday
faced a S54570 damage suit filed in
superior court today by Mrs. Gladys
Kuenster for injuries sustained in
an automobile crash.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
ARIZONA CITY
CENSURES L. A.
HOBOCAMPATGN

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 5. U.P)
Phoenix city council today vot-
ed censure of Los Angeles for the
latter city's current campaign
against transients.
The resolution, suggested by a
letter from Ralph c. Clyde, COM
missioner of public utilities of
Portland, Ore, asserted; Travel
lers have been hauled out of buses
and lined up for the third de-
gree, then ordered to keep out of
the state. Inoffensive families and
others have been dragged out Of
private automobiles and refused
entrance to California. Foot travel
lers have been stopped" The cam
paign, can we'll cause our Amer
lean people to bow their heads in
shame" the resolution said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
Woman Gives Life
In Fighting Fire

VERDUGO CITY. Calf, March
5. UP)-A desperate attempt to save
her home proved fatal for Mrs.
Kitty Forbesh, 48, today when she
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05

was burned to death in a fire that
destroyed the frame cottage.
Her charred body was found in
the kitchen, one hand clutching a
dishpan she evidently had used in
attempting to extinguish the flames.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05

bergh. Any votes cast for him viii
be interpreted as Roosevelt
rather than pro-Breckinridge bal
lots.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
Required to Stop
WastefnL Development

WASHINGTON, Mar 5. (SpeciaD
Because cities, like living beings,
have ricketts," and cannot stand Vio-
lent distortions or dislocationS. city
planning must ultimately come to
check the Wasteful development of
existing services and utilities and 30
make possible economical municipal
administration.
This is the opinion of Miles l..
Colean, director of the large scale
housing and technical division Of the
federal housing administration, in a
recent discussion on community
planning as it relates to mortgage
insurance. COlean advances five en-
deavors which he considers vital to
the Well-being of cities and their
populations. They are:
1.-The reconsideration of the ele-
mentS which make up the city: the
amount and character of its indus
try; the extent of its commercial en-
terprise, with the probable growth
and direction of growth OF these; The
distribution OF residential areas.
with especial consideration to the
requirements of the various econo-
mic groups, to density, to recreation
al facilities, and to the possibilities
OF special treatment for OUTSTANDING
sites.
1.-The reconsideration of coming
ordinances based upon the above.
and the relating of zoning to prac-
tical possibilities.
Traffic System
3-The development of compre-
hen5iVe traffic systems which will
allow for SWift-moving through
travel, which will outline neighbor-
hoods and discourage the intrusion
into them of unnecessary traffic.
and which will provide for ample
auto parking in areas Of business
and dense residential use.
1.-The coordinated planning of
undeVeloped, outlying areas destined
for future urban use and the devel-
opment of the means of control of
these areas.
5-The coordinated replanniug of
areas blighted by deterioration of
speculative selling.
Planning" he said, which pro-
duces straitjackets has defeated its
purpose. Real estate subjected TO
restraints which stifle normal eX-
pansions must suffer as great con-
tortions as when it is allowed to suf-
fer from too loose or too little plan
ming.
Rigidity Cited
"The rigidity of many plans laid
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is not too apparent and does not
dwarf the older and, of course,
much lower buildings all around.
The cathedral on the GroenplaatS
must be seen to be appreciated.
as must the beautiful church Of
st. Charles BorromeuS.
In the Groote market Of the
old city one comes upon one Of
the finest groups Of Gothic and
Renaissance buildings to be found
anywhere in Europe. The town
hall, the various guild houses and
the Brabo fountain make up an
exquisite picture. The burgomas
ter's room in the town hall with
it's carved beams, freScoeS and
marvellous carvings gives a good
idea Of the spacious days Of yore
and the art and beauty that has
always been part Of Antwerp.
But the city has other jewels
far more valuable and beloved
than any diamonds, no matter
how flaWleSS. These gems are the
old paintings in the Royal Gallery
Of Art, ...
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Raw Deal Opposition Grows

MANY SMILES will to the thoughtful Raw Deaer as no
cans the Literary Digest and notes the mounting TIDE OF
fermentation for Mr. Roosevelts remarkable policies
Forty-eight States heard from.
Only t.OelUe all Southern except Utah. fGO0T00te'
NerO York IS per cent AGAINST.
Pennsylvania, IS per cent; NeW Jersey n per cent
national "NO" of more than so per cent or three
hostile Doters to every tuUO uOhO friendly. 80
entlemen of vision in Washington must feel like Macbeth
when Banuuos ghost insisted coming to dinner IKE
amocles with the sword suspended over his heao IKE
hazzar when his Babyonan feasng was marred Oy the
writing on the wall. =, ... mL
Of course there bright spot in the returns The
so1ts rive the Raw Deal their enthusiastic Endorsement
are s rer cent stronger than the other yesen
noled to date This is only doubt since Mr. RooSe
ve decided to dsmane the Democratic platform and stand
ON the Socialist platform instead
Mr. Farley ought point with pride to this gratifying gain
Up to press time though, he hadn't
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Bv Eduin C.. Hill

, the unearthly screams Of the mad
woman left aboard to burn to
death.
And so, as the years passed, the
tradition arose and became abso.
lutte belief on the part of many Of
the Block Islanders that the blaz-
ing Palatine, like the Flying Dutch
man. was doomed to sail the seas
forever.
The strange story Of the Pala.
tine and her ghoStly cruises can
be read in brakes New England
Legends and Folklore" Hundreds
have claimed to have seen the ap-
partition, and the "Palatine Light"
became a well-known phenomenon
along the New England coast.
There is apparently some kind of
light-Strange, mysterious, inex-
cable-Seen moving out at sea
where no light ought to be, but no
one has ever solved the mystery.
EYE WITNESSES
AS far back as 1911, DR.. Aaron
Wiley, who had observed the
strange apparition on numerous
occasions, described it as re-
sembling a blaze of fire, varying in
size from that Of a lamp in a
window to that of a burning ship.
It was DR.. Wiley who asserted
that the apparition has been seen
at all seasons of the year.
One resident of Block Island told
the doctor that the light from the
blazing ghost ship was bright
enough to illuminate the walls of
his room.
The poet, Whittier, heard the
tale from a Mr.. Hazard, of Rhode
Island, who claimed to have seen
the ghost Of the Palatine with his
own eyes. And Whittier put the
strange story in his poem, THE
Palatine."
"Still on many a mOOnlesS night,
From Kingston Head and from
MOntauk Light,
The spectre kindIes and burns
in sight. ..."
And there are people living this
minute on Block Island who will
tell you that they have looked
seward in the blackness of the
night, startled by a bright radiance
far out at sea, and have watched
with straining gaze, while the
Palatine, blazing from truck to
keelson, swept along the horizon;
while the screams of the mad
woman came down the wind to
curdle the marrow in their bones.
Copyright 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
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President Roosevelt's resort to
the radio for the broadcaSting
Of his annual address to the
Congress is a deliberate departure
from precedent. 1t is also highly
significant of the general trend
of his Administration toward per-
sonal government and away from
the American system Of Govern
ment.
The American system Of gov
eminent, Of which the Federal
Constitution is the cornerstone,
is "a government Of laws and
not Of men," 1t is a government
representative in form and limit
ed in powers.
There is provision in the
Constitution which requires the
President to report to Congress.
1t is found in Article II Section
8, of the Constitution, which re-
quireS the President to communi-
cate to Congress and reads as
follows:
"He 1.-THE President) shall
from time to time give to the
Congress information Of the
state of the union and recon-
mend to their consideration
such measures as he should
Judge necessary and expedient."
There is nothing in the Con-
stitution which authorizes the
President to broadcast by radio or
otherwise, simultaneously, to the
country any information and rec
concentrations which the Con-
stitution requires him from time
to time" to "give to the Congress. !"
GETTING EVEN"
Mr.. Roosevelt's purpose in re-
sorting to the radio for transmits
sion to the country Of this con-
stitutional communication to the
Congress doubtless has a political
purpose.
It is his way of opening his
campaign for reelection. It is his
way of getting even" with the
newspapers, which he believes are
hostile to his reflect IN because
they have ventured to criticize
some of the things his Admins
tration has done, some of the
things his Administration has left
undone, and the methods by which
it has attempted to attain its
detectives.
It is Mr.. Roosevelt's belief, &C.
cording to common report, that
80 per cent of the daily news.
papers of the United States are
hostile" to him. BY hostile" he
means newspapers which have not
hesitated to criticize his attitude
toward the American system OF
government, his seeming diSre
gard for the Constitution on oc
casions, and his unfriendly com
ment regarding the Supreme
Court of the United States, when
it decides against the position
which his Administration takes
BY utilizing the radio for the
broadcasting Of his annual mes
sage, Mr.. Roosevelt was able to