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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
FARMER GUILTY
IN K|DNAP PLOT

Jesse j. Miller. %, a Thurmont
MD farmer who wrote a letter
threatening to kidnap and kill the
IA months old child of Depart
ment of Justice aide, was con-
victed under the Lindbergh kid
nap law yesterday by a United
States District Court jury that
deliberated less than 5 minutes.
Miller's indictment was based
on that section of the law which
makes it a felony for a person to
send an extortion letter through
the mails in connection with a
kidnap plot. He had written Mrs.
Stephen McKevitt Farrand, BOIL
Gates Rd., Chevy Chase, whose
husband is an assistant Attorney
General, a letter demanding $4,000
under threat to seize and kill the
Farrand child.
The arrest and trial of Miller is
believed to have set new record
for quick justice in the District.
The letter was written to Mrs. Far
rand last June 9 and received by
her on the same day. Miller was
arrested and identified as the
writer on June 10. He was indicted
three days later and yesterday -
within less than a month-WaS
convicted. Sentence will probably
be imposed next week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
BUS RER0U7|NG
CONSIDERED

Richmond B. Keech, acting
chairman of the Public Utilities
Commission, said today that seri-
Gus consideration is being given to
a suggested change in the routing
of Capital Transit Company BUSES
along Monroe Street Northeast,
and indicated that rerouting or
der may be issued shortly.
Fred A. Sager, chief engineer
Of the commission. has been as
signed by Mr.. Keech to study the
rerouting plan proposed by Con-
rad H. Blanz, 2o12 Monroe st.
N. E.
The latest public hearing on a
rerouting petition, sponsored by
the Monroe Street residents, was
conducted Wednesday by the COM
mission. At the hearing Mr.. Blanz
suggested that one leg of the bus
line be routed over Kearney Street
from Twelfth Street to Seven
tenth Street, then along Law
renee Street to Twenty7second,
then to the terminal at Twenty
second and Quincy Streets North
Nlst.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10

Grays Would Play
Chevy Chase Grays want a game
for Sunday with an unlimited foe.
Phone Cleveland 8770.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
Bus Ventilation
Rule Stayed
ByP. u. c.

Decision to reconsider and pos
Sibly to alter the order for stand
ardized ventilation of buses has
been reached by the Public Utili-
ties Commission. The action was
taken at the request of the Cap
ital Transit Company and will
serve as a stay of the order, of
which certain portions would have
gone into effect tomorrow.
The company officials pointed
out that while the order in gen.
eral was one to be encouraged.
there were certain terms which
forbade the opening of windows
or bus windshield without a bus
driver committing violation. The
company urged the entire order
be stayed until these corrections
could be made.
Meanwhile the commission con-
tinued to delay action on the pro-
posal of Peoples Counsel William
A. Roberts to sue the company un-
der the penalty clause of 5000 a
day for violation of the recent
bus passenger limitation order.
Mr.. Roberts complained of an
overcrowded bus operated a few
weeks ago on Massachusetts, Ave
nue. Northwest. The commission
received a report on the incident
from it's chief engineer, Fred A.
Sager, but instructed him to con-
tinue his investigation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
S25O,OOO 5 E f N
NEXT YEAR BY
ALLEYGR0UP
Annual ReportOutIines
Purchase and Repair
of D. c. Property

Expectations of receiving
$250,000 from sales, leases and
other sources" during the fiscal
year, which began July L. were
outlined in the annual report of
the District Alley Dwelling Auth
GRITTY, made public by John Ihl-
der, executive officer.
Since property purchases were
instituted by the authority in
May, 1885, the report stated, ten
squares suitable for development
have been acquired. The report
stated that there are 200 squares
in the city which contain inhab-
tied alleys and the authority has
until July. 1914, to acquire them.
Estimated value of the property,
the report stated, is 100000.
Of the property already acquired
by the authority. the report stated
the following improvements had
been made: built an automobile
repair garage at Rupperts Court
between Pennsylvania Avenue, C
and Third Streets Southeast; built
two groups of storage garages in
Stanton Court, between L, M,
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Streets Northwest, and between A,
B, Sixth and Seventh Streets
Southeast; constructed an auto
mobile parking lot in O'Brien's
Court, between E, F, Twentieth
and Twenty-first Streets North
west.
Began erection of two groups Of
row houses in London Court, be-
tween K. L, Twelfth and Thir-
tenth Streets Southeast; started
reconditioning of two other small
groups of houses in London Court;
contracted for building storage
garages in Douglas Court, between
A. B, Third and Fourth Streets
Northeast; drafted plans for a
low rental apartment to be sold
to a limited dividend corporation
and started drafting plans for an
other low rental apartment; sold
site for erection of hotel for
colored; sold a site for use of q
non-profit corporation, and started
negotiations for sale of another
site to a colored boys clubs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
9 Lose Right to Drive
Because OF Speed

SpeederS in crowded District
traffic today faced a new and
vigorous attack when every case
recommended by police to the
Board of Revelations and SuSpen-
sions of the Traffic Bureau re-
suited in the absolute denial OF
driving privileges of nine persons
here.
Not one citizens permit was
suspended for a temporary period.
All nine cases studied by the board
today we're permanently deprived
of their driving permits and
warned against operating vehicles
here until their driving rights have
been restored.
Persons whose permits were per-
manently revoked, and the speed
with which they were charged,
follow:
Leslie R. Anderson, is Fourth
st. N. E., SIS miles.
Lawrence j. Auth, 1913 East Cliff
ton Terrace N. w., 10 miles.
Reardon D. Goode, 1905 c st.
S. W., SIS miles.
Wallace P. Hellems, 900 M St.
N. w., go miles.
John E. Hetch. 34O3 Rodman
st. N. W., SIS miles.
James E. Holsonbake. 2910
Twelfth st. N. E.. So miles.
AdolphuS Horne, 905 Forty-fifth
Pl. N. E., 56 miles.
Paul j. Skelly, 1922 Second ST..
N. W.. 81 miles.
Andrew Walton, 633 M st. N. W.,
so miles.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10

Those convicted in Traffic Court
yesterday were:
Reckless Driving
John David Haley, 1901 Third
St. S. E., $25.
Driving While Drunk
Harry w. Smallwood, no ad-
dress, 500 or 30 days.
Second Offense. Speeding
Kenneth L. Ingram, 231 Crom-
well Tr. N. W., SIS.
First Offense, Speeding
George Harris (alias Theodore
Harris), 1902 Sixth St. N. W.. $25.
Slower L. Babcock, Maryland,
SIS.
Milton Fairman, 229 Bancroft
st. N. W., $40.
Irving C. Kendrick, 1881 S St.
S. E., SO.
Continued on Page 10, Col. 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
Ken Murray
Says:

At last, after weeks of won.
dering whether Postmaster Gen.
eral Farley would resign or not,
we finally discover that he's
merly going to take leave of alb
sence without pay. Well, that's
the trouble with the New
Dealers! It's as hard to figure
out their plans as it is their ex.
penSes.
With James holding down
triple jobs, it was beginning to
look as if he were trying to play
all the parts in the big show,
"Three Men on a Democratic
Donkey"
OF course, they ran say what
they want about Mr.. Farley
taking a vacation, but I'll bet
that boy will really be COM
bining business with pleasure.
P. Sits certainly difficult
to tell about these Democratic
big shots They're either re-
signing. mentioning, running,
or taking a walk.
Copyright. 1895, by Mcknight
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
R REGULATIONS
COVER ALL
EMPLOYEES
Fifteen Days Allowed
For Illness in New
Work Setup
BY EARL GOODWIN

Just before leaving for his own
vacation, a two-weekS' sail with
his four sons along the New Eng.
land coast, President Roosevelt
today signed the two executive
orders necessary to prescribe the
new annual and sick leave regu.
lations enacted by recent acts Of
Congress.
Twenty-six days annual leave
and IS days sick leave are the basic
provisions. However, the annual
leave may accumulate up to as
much as so days and in the case of
critical illness or accident admin.
istrative heads are given the dis
erection to extend the IS days sick
leave by 80 more days with pay.
Intricate Measures
The executive orders are unusu-
ally long and intricate, and they
cover the leave situation IN the
case of every one of the several
hundred thousand regular Govern
ment employees.
The orders provide that per.
manent employees employed con-
tinuously for one year or longer
and who do not contemplate leav.
ing the service during the calendar
year may have their 26 days with
pay at any time during the year.
In addition they may take an ac-
emulation of leave provided that
the total of this accumulation in
any calendar year does not go
beyond go days except in some
special cases. which are to be de-
cided upon by the administrative
officers.
However. the orders distinctly
state that leave should be granted
only at times as may be in the
public interest.
Annual leave does not accure
while an employe is taking leave
without pay if his absence from
the office continues for a month
or more in any one calendar year.
Regular Leave First
Leave without pay may not be
granted until an employe has used
up his regular leave. Employees are
to be charged with annual leave
only for their absence on work
days and not on holidays or Sun
days. The executive orders also
take care of temporary employees
who may have two and one-half
DAYS leave month beginning with
this year.
The sick leave order provides
leave for employees incapacitated
at the rate of one and one-quarter
days monthly. Unused earned
sick leave may be accumulated up
to 80 days and sick leave is avail
able at any time during the
month. Sick leave is not to be
granted for sick lines or indis-
position" Employees transferred
or reappointed may be credited
with accumulated sick leave from
their own offices and also charged
with sick leave already taken. The
minimum charge on account of
sickness except on Saturdays is
one-half a day.
All applications for sick leave
in excess of three days must be
supported by the certificate of n
practicing physician and tempo
rary employees are entitled to one
and one-quarter days for every
month of service.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
Woman in Hospital
From Gas POISONING

Ettye Clara Elliott, 81, of 200
Tenth st. S. w., was reported to
be in an undetermined condition
today at Emergency Hospital,
where she was taken yesterday
suffering from what authorities
said was gas poisoning.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-10
TO PAY
DEP0S|T0RS

Depositors of the Chevy Chase
Savings Bank, placed in the
hands of a receiver after the
1882 moratorium, will receive the
last 20 per cent dividend on their
deposit accounts next month, it
was announced today by Cary A..
Hardee, receiver for the bank.
An orderly liquidation of the
liquid assets of the closed institu-
ton made it possible to pay the
first 80 per cent Of dividends in
several instruments, it was said,
and the final dividend payment
was made possible through the
cooperation of a stockholders
committee headed by Attorney
Paul Sleman.
This committee, it is said,
pledged sufficient cash to make
the final dividend, thereby saving
a large amount of sound, but
frozen, assets, for liquidation on
rising market. These assets
will be turned back to the stock
holders when the final dividend
is paid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
PEACE CAMPAIGN

A WORLD troubled by talk of war and revolution
4 n is the background that will draw unusual inter-
est to the all-day forum and meeting of the
Emergency Peace Campaign here Mondsy.
In 800 cities the country the peace cam
paign is being conducted as step in the movement
to keep the United States out of future wars
The peace aims of the British Labor Party will be
outlined by George Lansbury, Labor Party leader in
the British Parliament This program advocates in
ternational cooperation as to raw materials and
markets. and fair by all nations to the worlds
raw materials
Rabbi Ferdinand M Isserman st. Louis and Ray
Newton, Philadelphia, executive secretary of the
American Friends Service Committee peace
ton. will speak Gov. McNutt Mayor Kern and
others will be on the program
One thing that will be stressed is how economic
crises bring political unrest and and how pros
perity is linked with peace. Nations can live more
easily in peace if they not torn by economic
strife.
The value of this campaign is that it centers
discussion on the finding of every possible road to
friendly international understanding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
SIMPLIFYING TAXATION-IV

IT xAMPLE GA corporation has an adjusted
~ net income of 100000 1t has as yet declared
dividends, but it decides that it wishes to retain
S22500 net in surplus Gin undistrbuted net income)
The percentage of undistributed net income to adj
justed net income is, therefore, 22 per cent Since
the rate of 221a per cent does not appear in Sched
ue II, it is necessary to apply the rule Immediately
following the table in that schedule This rule states
that the percentage is than 20 and less than
80 that the rate of tax will be g. plus sxtenths of
the amount by which the percentage which the un-
distributed net income is of the adjusted net in
come 221a per cent in this case) exceeds 90 Apply
ing this rule the rate of tax will be plus sixtenths
of ga or los per cent Then the amount of the tax
will be los per cent of 100000, or $10,500 and
the balance of the adjusted net income 100000
minus s225Oo minus s1o50o) or s67O0o must be paio
in dividends - From the House Ways and Means
Committee report, explaining the new Federal tax
bill)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
CUTTING THE PHONE BILL

TWO bulky documents which have been made
part of the record in the Federal Communica-
tons Commissions telephone investigation may save
millions of dollars to telephone users
They are reports by the commissions accounting
department license contract relations between the
American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and asso-
ciated companies. They will be available to state
regulating bodies in defending rate reductions in
state and Federal courts.
The first test of their potency probably will be
made in the Wisconsin Circuit Court, where the
Wisconsin Telephone Co. intends appeal decision
of the state commission reducing local exchange
rates $s63OOO year 4. -
The state commission found that the company
failed to prove the value of services rendered it by
the A. T. and T. for which it pays IL per cent of its
gross revenues annually.
The reports made public by the Federal Com
munications Commission, after months of work by
its accounting and legal departments, contain much
data intended to support this claim If it is sue
cessfuy used in large number of rate cases. it may
eventually cut some $13,OOO0OO year from con-
surners' telephone bills.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
VALUES THE ELDERS FOR
THEIR EXPERIENCE

BY Jimmy Cafouras
What is it that rising, growing
boy or girl wants in this life? That
is easily answered-opportunity.
What is it that an aged person
wants? Security, of course.
What does a sick individual
want? Rather, what must we give
such person-what does he need?
Comfort.
What does full-grown, hale and
hearty, intelligent, capable and re-
sourceful person want? Expression.
Now lets piece this whole affair
together.
Every child should be educated
and prepared in every way for its
brief heyday of fitness. The cap
able should be capitalized on and
exploited for the good of the whole.
That is possible only through proper
guidance and education and an ap-
propriate apprenticeship.
A lot of our self-styled progress
sive thinkers are beginning to rec
ognize the value of age and eX-
perience. Every old man and wom-
an is living parcel of knowledge
and resource. They glory most when
they pass them on to the young.
What would our race be without
the old folks to say, Hold up
there" or Easy now?" The finest
engineers are the oldest engineers.
And they're the finest teachers, too.
Just think of the information and
experience that go quietly and I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
A BETTER TAX

TINE House having tossed the mystery tax bill
Il into the Senate, Senator Robert NJ La Fol-
lette brings forward again the same simple tax
amendments which he has urged for several years.
1t is a relief to get chance to discuss again some
thing we all can understand.
The La Toilette amendments would make income
taxpayers out of about 100000 citizens who now
pay only invisible taxes, would boost the normal and
surtax rates. and would produce $4460 100000 addi-
tional revenue annually-on the basis of the pres
ent tax structure and present business conditions
More important the long-range purposes of
the La Toilette fundamentally To make visible
taxes pay larger share of the governments costs,
and thereby reduce the burden borne through in
visible taxes and thus CD to reconstruct our Fed
eral tax system on the sound and socially just
principle of ability to pay.
The present percentage is all awyy. More than
so per cent of all Federal revenue is obtained from
unseen sales and nuisance taxes. which bear heavily
upon the poor and only lightly tap the rich.
Let's get some of these invisible taxes out where
we can see them and feel their weight Let's look
at them again in the budget of that middle-class
family. the Joneses-John and Mary and son Oscar
whose financial and tax problems we have dis
cussed previously in these columns John Jones
has . good whte-collar job He earns $500
year. which means that the Joneses are better than
twice ~ well of as the average American family.
On that income, the Joneses pay Federal income
tax OF 1880.
But how much do they pay in n-ssible Federal
taxes7 We brief here from detailed table we
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TINE fathers of the Constitution would be fab
bergasted if they could make us a return visit
Imagine Thomas Jefferson being greeted at a state
border by gun-toting guards who demanded to see
his bank book!
There may be excellent economic reasons for
such high-handed procedure as that used by the
Governors OF California and Colorado but those
made public by Gov. Ed c. Johnson of the latter
state sound far from logical
The border was patrollec, we hear because he
didn't want indigents coming in who might, by Of
fering to work for lower wages, do harm to the
native laborers in the sugar beet districts But
Governor with sufficient power to call out the Ma
tonal Guard to keep such men from his bailiwick
ought to have the power to prosecute any employer
IN the sugar-beet district who paid less than the
established wage to his workers
I do not pretend to know the techncalities of
constitutional law. But I have read the Constitu-
ton, and get from it no picture of patrol which
forbds the to travel from state to state with
out moestation. 1t seems highly improbable that
tain of the pleasant and beautiful portions of
the country for the well-to-do
No one will deny that the droves of idle men
now adrift in the land are menace to those states
with pleasant climates But that's just their hard
luck, or ought to be. For what more natural than
that the jobeSs should strike out for places where
jobs are obtainable food cheap and sleeping COM
Portable under the open sky?
Aliens may be dealt with in this summary fash
ION, but 1T remains mystery how, under the Con-
stitution, American citizens can be prevented from
crossing state lines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
SATURDAY. MAY q. 1896.
PROGRESS

EORTY years ago the leading classes at the Young
women's Christian Association were embroidery
and needlework
Members of the board were board ladies'" and
far removed from the Secretaries" and other work
ers in the organization.
There was the Lady Bountiful idea, with women
of leisure doing something for the working girl.
EVENTS of the last few days show the progress
~ made by the Y w. c. A. and other women's or
CARNATIONS.
In Colorado Springs the biennial national con-
vention of the Y. W. c. A. is talking of dropping the
requirement that members show some church affilia-
tion This strict rule already has been liberal
lied in Indianapolis without losing the original spirit
of the association.
Members now attend industrial girls classes
They discuss politics, economics and other current
problems One member spoke before the General AS
sembly this year on the Social Security Act.
The gulf between the board of directors and
members has disappeared There is free express
sion of ideas, democratic working together. Work
ing girls have representation on the board.
TN Cincinnati the League of Women Voters con-
vention adopts program calling for better
schools, old-age pensions, unemployment insurance,
child-hep measures and reciprocal trade agreements
III Coral Gables, Fla, the seventeenth national
council of the General Federation of Womens Clubs
asks Congress to establish national academy of
public affairs.
Women giving serious consideration to major
problems of the day.
Certainly these activities show an intelligent
approach to vital issues They are evidences of good
citizenship
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
BY DIR. NORRIS FIsHBEIN

MOT long ago man listed the
4N superstitions of the people in
Adams County, ILL.,, associated with
various conditions of life and liv-
ing. Among the most common SUI
perstitions in that section, all with
out any truth or reliability, are the
following:
1. A woman, on first visit to a
newly born child, should not hold
it in her arms or she will become a
mother.
2. A woman who lays her coat
and hat on strange babys bed
will get baby.
8. If outgrown baby clothes are
given away, the mother will need
them again.
4. If couple get married and go
to a picture show within the first
three days, they will have twins.
S. Girls count apple seeds to dis
cover the number of children they
will have.
s. A poor man is certain to have
many children.
T. When a boy is born, the man
has more strength than his wife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
HEARD IN CONGRESS

y EP' TREADwAY OR.. Masso This complicated
legislation (the tax bilD was originally worked
out with agebraic formulas. The present tables of
rates will prove 70 be more Greek than algebra to
the unfortunate taxpayers
CENAToR REYNOLDS Cd, N. c.: There are
- $1,000 tobacco farmers in North Carolina, and
know personally about $4,000 of them used
to chew tobacco. We all have to learn the ways of
cur friends With every chew of tobacco took
however, made a vote or two and have not for
gotten how to chew tobacco. Gaughter0
10 EP. DoUGHTON Cd, N CO: If it takes So
college professors or brain trusters or bone
head trusters, whatever you call them. to tell the
Republican Party how to select candidate and write
platform -. how many would it take to conduct
Republican administration daughter and ap-
plausel