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The Washington times., 1936-08-20
TEACHER PAY HALTED

public school system by Represent
alive Thomas Blanton. of Texas
must be signed by all teachers
before they can be paid. 1t says,
in part, that they will neither
teach nor advocate communism in
the schools. Several pledges were
made out wrong and had to be re-
turned, Mr.. Holt said. The pay
roll, he added, has already been
made out and will be sent to the
District Commissioners as soon as
the corrected pledges are sent in.
The Washington times., 1936-08-20
ConCIdVe Studies
ExtraditiOn Laws

BOSTON, Aug. 20 G.N.SJ.
Discussion Of a uniform law
throughout the United States for
extradition of criminals from one
State to another, today featured
the third session of the 46th Ma
tional Conference Of Commits
sioners on Uniform State Laws.
The Washington times., 1936-08-20
LAND0N SPEEDS
EAST TO PUSH
CAMPAIGN
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
ESTES PARK, Colo, Aug. 20
ON.S0. - Governor Alfred M.
Landon, Republican nominee for
President ended his brief vacation
here today to depart on a cam
paign tour through eight States
to deliver three major speeches in
the East.
Speeding Eastward, he will
make appearances from the OBJ
servation platform of his special
train on scores of stops through
Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
New York. His major speeches
will be delivered in West Middle
sex, Pa, his birthplace, Saturday
afternoon; at Chautauqua, N. Y,
next Monday night, and at But
falo next Wednesday night.
En- route, his itinerary called for
his appearance before Republican
rallies in Grand Island, Neb.;
Omaha, Cedar Rapids, Iowa;
Dixon, ILL.,, and Conneautville, Pa.
On the way home next week he
will lay wreath on the tomb of
Abraham Lincoln at Springfield,
ILL.,, and visit with Republican
leaders in st. Louis.
Americanism, education and re-
ligious freedom and governmental
finances will be the topics of his
three major speeches. He will re-
serve constitutional questions, the
farm problem and the rights OF
labor for speeches later in the
campaign.
The Washington times., 1936-08-20
Man Is Hurt in Crash,
Auto Driver Charged

COLESVILLE. Md, Aug. 20.
Rodney Didawick. Rockville, Md,
was painfully injured when his
automobile was in collision with
one driven by Chester S. Ellis,
1896 Irving St. N. W., Washing
ton. near here last night. Didawick
was treated at the Montgomery
county hospital for decorations
and bruises.
Ellis was charged with driving
while under the influence Of
liquor, and later released under
$500 bond. He will be arraigned
in Rockville police court Au-
gust %.
The Washington times., 1936-08-20

Approximately 230 SUI m m r
School teachers are minus their
pay today because some of them
failed to fill the Communist
pledge out correctly.
This was learned when r. w.
Holt, chief accountant for the Dis
trict public schools, confirmed re-
ports that the teachers had been
awaiting their checks since tn e
schools closed August S.
The pledge-injected into tn
The Washington times., 1936-08-20
HaVeI, Lawyer,
Fatally Stricken

George Havell, an attorney Of
3817 Beecher st. N. W., died sud-
denly at his home late last night
of a heart attack. A native Wash
ingtonian, Mr.. Haven was a mem.
Der of the law firm of Hawken and
Havell.
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
Paris Bank Rate Cut

PARIS, Jan. 9 GN.S0.-1ndi-
eating an improvement in the
problem Of French gold exports,
the Bank of France today lowered
the rediscount rate from S to 4
per cent.
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
MISSING GIRL
FOUND, REPORT

Alva Carmen Thyrring, 15-year-
old girl who has been missing
from her home, AIT Oglethorpe, St.
N. W., since October, Is, today was
believed located In Oliver, Ga.
Capt. Bernard w. Thompson, of
the Detective Bureau, received q
letter from &C. B. Pryor, q farmer
living near that place, describing
q girl the detective is confident is
the missing Thyrring girl.
Pryor said he met the girl at the
Savannah farm market in Novem-
Der aud she asked him for a lift,
explaining she was going to Au-
gusta in search of a job. He gave
her a ride and she agreed to work
on his farm, where she now is.
The girl said she was Mary
Antoinette Kent and that she was
10 years old. Her parents were
killed in an automobile accident,
she said, and she had left her
home in Silver Spring, Md, be-
cause she didn't like her guardian.
Captain Thompson said he could
find no records of any Kents killed
in such an accident as she de-
Scribed to Pryor.
The description Of the girl given
by Pryor TALES closely with that
of the Thyrring girl. Captain
Thompson wired Georgia police
asking them to hold the girl and
is sending pictures of the Thyrring
girl by air mail.
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
| ITALY SENDS
MORE TROOPS

ROME, Jan. 8 0N.S0.-Italy's
reply today to British and French
collaborative fleet movements was
the posting of sailing orders for
5000 more men to be stationed
in north and east Africa.
The next big development in
the European scene is now ex-
pected at Geneva January 20
when the League Of Nations sane
lions committee meets to consider
further measures against Italy,
just after 90 French warshipS are
stationed in or near the Mediter
ranean, and Is British ships are
sent south to replace four with
drawals.
Italian Somaliland will be the
destination of at least two of the
five additional divisions, it is un-
derStood, making them available
for the major offensive predicted
for that front, as well as action
against Britain'S Somaliland and
Kenya in the event that Africa
becomes the theater Of an Italo-
British conflict.
In Libya, next to BritiSh-pro.
tected Egypt, the Italian mobil-
lied forces are reliably reported
to have been strengthened in re.
cent weeks by the addition of a
large number of whippet tanks,
armored cars, and trucks.
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
DEMOCRATS
HEAR FOES
ASSA|LED
ATMEET
Party Heads Warned
defamation and Lies
Will Be Spread

Marshaling its forces for the
November elections, the Demo
cratic party today officially
launched its 1886 campaign with
a warning that the presidential
campaign will be dirty" one,
based on Misrepresentation,
defamation and outright lies"
Postmaster General James A.
Farley, chairman Of the Demo
Grafton National Committee, so
predicted at the opening Of the
meeting Of the committee in the
Willard Hotel. The meeting, the
first since 1892, was called to
make plans for the June nomina-
ting convention.
ASSailS League, G. o. p.
Tearing into the Republicans
and the American Liberty League,
Chairman Farley assailed "our
foes" among whom he named
1.-THE financial gangsters whose
eXtortionS were so largely respon.
sible for bringing on the Hoover
panic. ---.
A highlight of the opening
session of the committee was an
impromptu campaign speech by
Senator Kenneth Mcclellan, ma
tional committeeman from Ten
neSsee, who drew copious applause
and much laughter when he
named former President Hoover
as the Republican nominee for
President in 1886. He told the
meeting:
"The Republicans have no
candidate. By their own ad.
mission, they have no candi-
date. But I might suggest one
to them. 49, 49,.
''FOr the first time in all my
career in politics, find myself
able to name q candidate for
the Republicans. I am in favor
Of Herbert Hoover.
NOMINATES HOOVER
''Let them nominate Herbert
Hoover. He carried six States
before, and now I don't believe
he can carry a single State.
'It has been unaIterabIy
proved that he represents the
Old-time type Of reactiOnary.
81 nominate Herbert Hoover
for the Republican candidate"
Senator Mcclellan delivered an
eulogy on the Roosevelt Admins
tration. He was followed by SEN
ator Robert j. Buckley of Ohio,
who predicted a big Democratic
victory.
The Democrats appeared headed
for Chicago for their convention
city, although Pennsylvanians and
others who want Philadelphia,
until now considered as the most
likely city, were busy lobbying in
the halls and in the convention
hall itself.
Coupling a Slashing attack on
the opposition with a lengthy and
detailed defense of the Roosevelt
record, Farley urged the commit
tee members to study closely and
instil into every Democratic cam
paign worker.
This campaign, Farley said, is
going to be different from all
others. He said:
theoretically, the combat
Continued on Page 3, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
GLAM0R0US
LIFE ENDS
AT 80
Real Name PrineIe; 4
Times Wed; Heart
Attack Fatal

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 9 Q.N.S0.
John Gilbert, who thrilled mil
lions as "the great lover Of the
SCREEN" died at his home in Bel
Air Of a heart attack today.
Death Of the 39-year-old movie
actor was revealed when the fire
department was called to his
home in an attempt to revive him
with an inhalator.
GIamOrOus Figure
Four times married, and for
many years one Of the most
glamorous figures in motion pic
lures, his name had been linked
economically to those OF many Of
the most prominent women Of the
screen.
Gilbert, whose real name was
Jack Pringle, was born In Logan,
Utah. July 10, 1897.
When Gilbert was discovered
apparently unconscious, fire de-
partment inhalator squad was
summoned but their efforts to re.
Vive him were in vain.
But when the fatal seizure
came this morning, only the hired
servants of his magnificent house
hold and a trained nurse called
q few days before when physi-
clans pronounced his illness dan
gerous-were present to attend
his last moments.
At z o'clock this morning Gil
bert's personal physician, DR.. Leo
Madsen, was called, when the pa
tents condition became alarm
ing.
Shortly afterward he was pro
nounced dead.
Firemen Called
But even then, DR.. MadSe1
didn't give up. Modern medical
science has revived dead men be-
fore, and there was a chance this
time.
A call was sent to the West Los
Angeles Fire Department, and
there began a drama as tense
and poignant as any Gilbert ever
portrayed on the screen.
Careening along the curviug
tree-lined avenues Of the fashion
able suburb where the actors lived,
the red fire truck with its in
halator sped on its mission OF
mercy.
Capt. A. A. Peterson and his
men dashed up the steps with
their apparatus, and hastily set
it up in the bedroom, at DR.. Mad
sens orders.
Tirelessly the rubber bellows Of
the machine rose and fell, as air
was forced into the lungs that
had ceased to breathe.
Powerful "shots" Of adrenalin
were forced into his veins.
But it was Of no avail. After
an hours work DR.. MadSen gave
the word for the firemen to cease
their efforts.
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
BONUS BILL
DEBATED IN
HOUSE
Passage Tomorrow Is
Assured, and Veto
Is Promised
By ERIC FRIEDHEIM
international News Service

Moving smoothly behind o har-
monious majority Of SympathiZers,
the compromise bonus bill reached
the House floor for debate today.
Only the formality Of q vote,
scheduled for tomorrow after
noon, blocked the measures swift
course to the Senate.
Under an agreement among
Representatives Vinson Cd Of
Kentucky, Patman CD Of Texas,
and Mccormack CD Of MaSsa-
chusetts, Joint sponsors Of the bill.
md House leaders, debate has
been limited to four hours ii
Few Amendments Expected
While no ''gag" has been APP
piled by the Rules Committee IN
giving the legislation privileged
status, few aTnendfmentg are ex-
pected to be written into the bill
on the floor.
, The measure merely authorizes
immediate payment Of the full
face value of adjusted service
certificates, but does not provide
any method Of payment.
Any proposal setting up mach
tnery for payment will be ruled
out of order, sponsors Of the bill
having agreed to leave this ques.
ton for determination later in
the session.
VetO TS PreSaRed
AS the House prepared to de-
bate the measure one Of its spon-
SorS reported an official high in
Administration councils had in
formed him the President would
veto it If passed.
At the same time, the President
was reported willing to accept a
substantial" compromise bill
which does not provide for full
payment Of the bonus imme-
diately.
Information transmitted to
House leaders indicated tt PreSl-
dent would not only veto this bill
but the Byrnes-Steiwer proposal as
well. The latter plan, drafted by
Senators ByrneS CD of North
Carolina and Steiwer (R0 of Ore
gon would pay veterans approx
mately SO per cent of the face
value of their certificates. Mr..
Roosevelt rejected 100 per cent
payment in his veto last session.
Chairman Harrison OF Missis-
sippi, Of the Senate Finance Conf
mittee, who proposes to pay the
bonus now but deduct interest
charges incurred by veterans who
borrowed on their certificates.
claimed his plan has the best
chance Of meeting White House
approval.
The compromise bill pending in
the House cancels all interest
obligations, q provision estimated
to cost the Treasury nearly $780,
100000.
Opposes New Taxes
House veterans leaders also said
they were given to understand
that the President opposes any
additional taxation to provide
funds for payment Of the bonus.
CONTINUED on Page 8. Col. II
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
HITS
NEUTRAL BILL
international News Service

The Administrators neutrality
bill would brighten the world"
make for war, and impair Ameri-
cas- foreign trade, Edwin Borchard,
professor of international law at
Yale University, told the House
Foreign Affairs Committee today.
The measure, which attempts to
control or embargo shipments to
foreign nations, abandonS the ira
ditional policy of the country. he
added.
Assistant Secretary Of State r.
Walton Moore, took sharp issue
with Prof. Borchard, declaring:
"The public wants legislation
to prevent war and to prevent
enormous prOfiteering. That
was the object Of the State
Department in drafting this
legislation"
FISH STARTS TILT
The House committee engaged
In a brief tilt when Representa-
tive Fish (RO Of New York, OBJ
jected to Secretary Moore asking
questions of Prof. Borchard. He
said:
"I've never seen such q prOce.
dure in IL years."
Chairman McReynolds CD Of
CONTINUED ON Page 3, Col. q
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
PRESSED
BY PRESIDENT
By GEORGE r. HOLMES
International News Service


President Roosevelt sent the
Democratic campaign Of 1886
away winging today on a militant
note:
1--WE viii not retreat"
AS the Democratic national
committee gathered today, a hun
dred strong, the President seized
upon the historical significance Of
Jackson Day to declare that the
problems that he faces are CON-
parable to those that faced Old
Hickory a century ago, and to re-
affirm anew his, defiance Of his
critics.
Draws Many AnalOgies
The frequent analogieS that
Mr.. Roosevelt drew between his
own Administration and that Of
Andrew jackson evoked applause
and laughter from the nearly
1000 Democrats who Clipped in
$50 a plate last night to inaug-
urate the Democratic campaign
Of SO. The Washington dinner
was the headliner of the Demo
cratic show, but its smaller couI4
terpartS were staged throughouS
the country in hundreds of cities.
Andrew Jackson had difficulty
Continued on Page Is. Col. u
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
HAUPTMANN
PLEA IS
DENIED
Pardons Court Refuses
to Let Prisoner
Appear Before 1t

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. . GIN.
S.).-Bruno Richard Hauptmann
win have to sit in the death house
of the State prison Saturday while
the State court Of pardons passes
final decision on whether he
must die In the electric chair for
the murder of baby Lindbergh.
His fond hope Of being able to
address the court personally to
plea for his life viii be coldly
dashed.
These were the emphatic state
mentS today Of q State official
connectedr with the Haptmann
case. The official said:
saIIhe Court of PardOElS posi-
aaNeaf wilt mot meet In the
state prison to consider Haupt-
mann,s case. The court has mot
even asked whether there might
h6 suitable accOmmaod ations for
such 8 hearing In the prison.
~The court will meet in the
state House Saturday, and this
means that Hauptmann win not
be heard. The governor has
said the prisoner can not be
taken away from the prison ex-
Cept on . court order from the
trial judge"
CONFIRMS IT
Gov. Harold @. Hoffman par
TALLY confirmed this information.
He said he considered it mot
likely that Hauptmann would be
permitted to break a precedent by
appearing in prison before the
court. He said:
"In any event, he will not be
taken out Of the prison. / will
not be ready to announce until
Friday evening where the court
viii meet. I designate the
place."
Meanwhile, State officials con-
tinued their close check-up Of
each recurring bit of alleged new
evidence" the defense might pro-
duce in Hauptmann'S behalf.
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck
has ordered that David Moore,
aged farmer who is reputed to
have declared he saw Hauptmann
and a woman in a car near the
Lindbergh home 10 months before
the kidnapping, be brought to his
office today for questioning.
The governor disclosed Haupt-
mann had written the court more
than a week ago, asking permits
sion to appear before it when his
mercy plea comes up.
While Hauptmann has counted
eagerly on the chance to tell his
story in person to the Court Of
PardonS, and has spent lOLg
hours preparing an Grafton to
save his life, he apparently sus-
pected he would be turned down.
He worked at the same time on a
written statement which, in his
own handwriting, he will ask ais
lawyers to take to the court.
Hoffman said only Hauptmann'S
lawyers, lawyers for the State, and
police and other officials who
Continued on age 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
Banks Fight For War
Business Revealed

company the French agency for
the purchase Of supplies in Amer
lea.
Young Herrick, however, was
careful to say that this ''help"
would be mostly in the nature Of
an endorsement of the firm as
sound. The J. P. Morgan firm,
now on the stand before the COM
mittee, finally got the agency, and
bought great amounts of supplies
for the French in the United
States.
The letter of Parmely Herrick to
his New York headquarters fol
lows, in part:
at was really excellent news
to hear that the French govern
CONTINUED On Page 3, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
By EDWARD B. LOCKETT
international News Service

The story Of the frantic
scramble among American bankers
for foreign business at the outset
of the World War drew into the
Senate Munitions Committees j.
P. Morgan inquiry today the name
Of the late Myron T. Herrick, who
was United States Ambassador to
France in the early years Of the
war.
A message from Herrick's son,
Parmely Herrick, q member Of the
Cleveland branch of the william
M. Bondbright banking house, adj
vised his New York office that his
father, the Ambassador, would
gladly help" in getting for the
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
Farley Afraid
To End Sessions

both the United States and Great
Britain openly recognize the Nip
pom empires right to possess a
navy fully as powerful as either
the American or British fleets Is
held responsible for the failure Of
the conference.
Conference Futile
The Japanese delegation, acting
on explicit instructions from
Tokyo, is demanding Anglo-Amer-
lean recognition Of that right to
parity as the price for its willing
Continued ON Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
Dying Woman Sues

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Jan. 8
Q.N.S.)-Only an hour before she
died Mrs. Martha E. Lookabaugh,
SO, had counsel file a $35, 900 dam
age suit in common pleas court
here, in which she predicted that
injuries received in an auto acct
dent would cause her death.
Mrs. Lookabaugh'S suit named
as defendant Mrs. Bertha Schrei-
Der.
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
Maid Admits Kidnap
Plot Just a Dream

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. 9
U.N.SO.-A maid whose identity
was withheld, today admitted to
police, they said, that her story
Of an attempted invasion Of the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
AShbaugh was a hoax. The &C.
count given by the maid had led
to fears of q kidnapping plot, but
when questioned further she said
it was "just a dream"
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
Storm Blocks Liner

Cobb, ireland, Jan. 9 U.N.S0.
A strong gale today forced the
United States liner Manhattan to
pass Cobb Queenstown and pro-
coed direct to Plymouth, England.
This was the first time in IL
years that a United States liner
was compelled to miss the south
ern Irish port.
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
BY KINGSBURY SMITH
copyright, 1886, by International
NAWa SarXiceN

A comic opera situation in which
the American and japanese
delegations want to leave for their
respective homes but are afraid to
do so has developed at the London
Naval Conference.
This was learned here today
along with disclosures that the
Naval Conference is viewed as
definitely on the rocks and ex-
pected to founder any day.
Japan'S adamant demand that
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Rain this afternoon, ending early tonight; to-
morrow fair; not much change In temperature;
lowest tonight about So.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-09-18

What holds that quartz together so
tight?
4 cubic foot Of quartz weighs 165
pounds
4 similar quantity Of ice weighs
only 57.2 pounds
That measures the effect Of gravity
upon those materials
We sometimes speak Of these facts
as expressing dead weight"
While the actual fact is that there
are live forces at work
An active power pulls all matter,
including air, toward some center of
gravity
To smash piece Of quartz you must
overcome millions of gripping fng-
ers-
Scientists tell US that in some sub
stances this force producing hard
ness
Is 1900 times the power which is
measured by the force Of gravitation.
Men have been taking quartz, and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-09-18
TEACHERS CHEER
ATTACK ON OAR.
AS Enemy of Free Public
Schools

Philadelphia, Pa. (ILNS)-The
Daughters of the Revolution were de-
scribed here as "busybodies," witch
hunters" and "the most dangerous
enemies of the free public schools"
These unfattering remarks were
made by Louis NJ Hacker, lecturer
at Columbia University, to the an
nual convention of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Teachers.
1T is high time" said Mr.. Hacker.
that this organization stopped its
witch hunting, and its terrorizing of
teachers by its campaigns for loyalty
oaths.
Revolution Workers Uprising
1T is time that these busybodies
and witch hunters were told what
their ancestors fought for. The
American Revolution was a popular
uprising of the workers. The labor
unions of today are the true inheritors
of this tradition.
"The members of the D. A. R. are
unfaithful to the memory of their
ancestors" said Mr.. Hacker. "Many
of the members of today, had they
been alive in ITS, would have been
tories, and would have connived with
the British for the suppression of the
rebels"
The assembled teachers not only
gave Mr.. Hacker rousing applause
but voted to send copy of his ad-
dress to the D. A. r.
Court Curb Asked
A demand that the supreme courts
powers be curbed SO that congress
might pass laws affecting the work
ers was made by John A. Phillip.
president of the Pennsylvania Fedora
ton Of Labor, who said system of
special privilege" had encouraged
the justices of the supreme court to
nullify legislation enacted in the in
terests of the common people"
The convention applauded speech
by Lewis G. Hines, American Fedora
ton Of Labor organizer, in which he
pleaded for the support of William
Green, president Of the federation.
and criticized the methods of John
L. Lewis and his committee for in
dustrial organization.
Earlier, however, the teachers had
decided to request the A. F. of L. not
to suspend unions in the CIO.