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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-06
MARINE STRIKE
WILL GO TO
PRESIDENT
International News Service


Spotlight of the nationwide
maritime strike, which already
has cost a direct monetary loss Of
at least 100000 in wages alone,
swung from dock and wharf and
idle shipping to the White House
today as indications grew that
only Federal action-perhaps di-
rect intervention by the President
can break the labor-manage-
ment deadlock initiated by the
strike of 10000 ship workers.
The President returned to
Washington today. Returning to
the Capital too, after futile at
tempts to effect a truce between
West Coast workers and ship OPP
orators, is Assistant Secretary OF
Labor Edward F. McGrady, his
scheduled departure from San
Francisco interpreted as prelude
to a possible plea for Executive in
tervention in the dispute.
Arbitration Proposal
simultaneously, from Washing
ton, came word that the knotty
problem of releasing the Stemmed-
up flow of maritime commerce
along the Pacific, Gulf and Allan
tic coasts probably would be
placed in Mr.. RooSevelt'S hands by
his newly named Federal Maritime
Commission Initial peace move,
it was believed, would come in the
form of an arbitration commit
tee created by the President to
ferret out underlying causes OF
the strike and to attempt concilia-
ton on each factor motiVating the
gigantic walkout.
Meanwhile, in the mass walk
out on the Pacific Coast and
unauthorized left-wing "Sit down"
strikes spreading along gulf ports
and the Atlantic Seaboard, the fol-
lowing outstanding developments
occurred:
i. Interpreted as a peace move.
West Coast unionistS offered
ship owners crews to remove
perishable cargoeS from idle
craft-provided the operators
agreed to meet union leaders
in new conferences. Tentatively
agreeing to negotiation, the own
ers refused to commit themselves
to advance acceptance Of pro-
posals by the workers.
March on Headquarters
2. New York, where the outlaw
strike has concentrated it's
forces, faced definite possibility
of violence growing out of intra-
union factionalism. Right-wing
unionists, whose leaders not only
refused to authorize the walk
out which has crippled shipping
there but took definite stand
on the side of the shipowners,
planned to march to their head
quarters today to GUST outlaw
strikers who took possession of
the right-wing hiring hall. AS
soon as the hall opened, with a
view to providing idle ships with
loyal replacement crews, a mob
of outlaw strikers charged the
hall ard ouSted the opposing fac
ton.
3. Left-wing strikers claimed
that every American-owned ship
now in New York harbor is tied
up, to which the right-wing fac
ton retorted with the offer to
furnish a full crew to any vessel
desiring to sail.
4. Seriousness Of the situation
at Baltimore was evidenced by
announcement from the Balti-
more Mail Line that passenger
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-06
TamnIa Found

ROME G.N.S). - An ancient
Persian temple, of the cult of
Mithra, Babylonian god. was re-
Gently discovered in the garden
of an old aristocratic Roman
home.
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sailings have been cancelled I'M
til further notice.
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Here's the kind of bedroom suite that receives the hearty
pova OF all Styled to be distinctive without departing from
the conservative designing find desirable Made Of walnut
and gumWood with touch of ornamentaon
Beautifully matched br walnut fronts finished deep rich
walnut color. Three -Bed-Chest-and choice of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-06
SECRETARY:

Nothing will do more
to enhance a decorative
effect and lend height
20 q room than one Of
these fine Governor
winthrop secretaries.
Very practical too
with storage drawers,
convenient desk and
Book Section above.
Walnut and gumwood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
Gen. johnson SAYS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-1f real imitation comes.
" what should be done to save his property by
the man with little savings, or the manager of
savings bank, insurance company trust fund.- endow-
ment funds for university or hospital or by any
one interested in capital, large small in fixed
incomes derived from capital?
For practical purposes there is no mystery about
imitation" For the layn1an it crazy period
during which the price of everything that moves in
commerce sky-rockets to fantastic levels. Every
thing scars except salaries pensions wages, rates
of service, and interest These stationary or
advance slowly because they fixed by contract.
All other prices which are made in auction or
open markets go through the ceiling. This sky
rocketing ruins all classes mentioned in the first
paragraph because the values of their bonds do not
go up They are fixed by contract, as are the in
comes from them. But all other prices go so high
that their dollars Of capital income will buy little
or nothing. What can they do?
The classic answer is: Buy things" Sell mort
cages bonds, take all dollars and even go into debt
to buy commodities, common stocks dependent on
commodities (not services and real estate Then
you can sell out prices their peak, pay your
debts, and save your present values. But ele-
ment has changed this old rule If prices go 70 fam
tastic heights the government will take most Of your
profit" by the income tax
WHEREFORE whatever you buy, you must be pre-
L pared to carry through the fantastic peak, and
the subsequent crash till sanity returns in the hope
CidS Prices d1Cer L0o
boom and bust will be about what they are now
You may be able to do that by just holding your
dollars
Most commodities not good because the cost
of carrying them is too high Few common stocks
are safe because many companies can not withstand
such explosions. Small houses for renting and Al
farm land seem the safest bet.
Should one act now? That is the unknown guam
tity-unknown because price imitation is mass mad
ness panic fear that bad government fiscal policy
is going TO make money worthless Government
fiscal policy is very bad but at just what stage win
public panic set in, If at all?
Almost everybody is agreed that If there is no
prompt change for the better in the fanastical &C
eyitable
tCon2isht 1885 BY United Feature. Syndicate
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a situation which threatens general European war;
Third, because of the general uncertainty thus
provoked, nations become hesitant about going for
ward in cur program of reciprocal trade agreements
This program offers the only practical alternative
thus far devised to shift the struggle for trade from
the field of armed force into the field of bargaining
for an exchange of advantages.
Lastly in spite of this governments warning to
American missionaries to get out of Ethiopia they
insist upon staying. And now our minister at Adds
Aoaba must chase around trying to pull them out OF
trouble.
A LII of this in the face of a pledge by practically
IN all nations through the Kellogg pact, that they
will not resort to war as an instrument OF national
policy.
No wonder all of us are bewildered
1t was out of this bewilderment, probably, that
Senator Pttman let loose his sharp blast at Japan
His speech has been widely deplored Secretary Of
State Hull said he had not seen it before it was de-
lvered. Pittman, the general impression is, spoke
on his own.
Yet it would be mistake to say that he did not
a. all reflect the attitude of this government. Some
would question the wisdom of his having said what
he cid, and particularly the tone in which it was
said.
In the present disturbed world situation two fun
damentals guide the policy of our government.
l. We look with great disapproval on the violation
of treaty pledges by natons-particularly of Italy
and Japan. 1t is our purpose to continue at every
opportunity to call the worlds attention to violations
of treaty pledges We feel that if the sanctity of
treaties is rot respected, then the world reverts TO
international barbarism.
2 We insist upon maintaining rights and
maintaining sufficient armed force to make ourselves
respected in world which places military might
above treaty pledges. We are redehning our rights.
Abandon the alleged right of citizen to wild in
war zone at the risk of dragging the whole nation
into war.
DUT that is different from saying that we do no.
ID expect nation its citizens and its interests
to be respected throughout the world. And in the
present state of the world it is conviction that
we can best preserve that respect by being strong
enough to defend ourselves against any who may
violate It,
1t is grim business But in almost 20 years since
the last catastrophe efforts to settle differences
with less folly have met with discouragng failure.
In New York, DR.. Einstein visits Radio City Sud-
denly the room is flooded with light. 1t has been
turned on by some one lighting candle in London.
Yet race which can perform such miracle
can't solve its family quarres by any better method
than mass murder.
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troupes aren't exactly a regular
feature of life in Callander, or
even in North Bay.
But it is fact that during the
taking of the scenes at the hos
pital in which the babies ap-
peared, the gums themselves were
far less nervous than the veteran
actors and actresses who ap-
peared with them.
I hope I'm not giving away a
secret when I say that the first
days shots had to be taken over
again, due to the nervousness of
Jean Hersholt and Dorothy Peter
son, while the babies were quite
unruffled.
On the second day the actors
felt better acquainted with the
babies, and everything turned out
fine. 1t was on this day that the
pictures were taken which I
thought best, and on this day,
again Yvonne was the star.
She took very kindly to the new
nurse" Dorothy Peterson, tried
to stroke her hair, pat her cheeks,
and then suddenly turned around
and kissed her sister. Annette.
nURING the last day of the
~ movie-making, there was a
dinner scene, supposedly set in the
old Dionne home. The babies were
seated in row, each with a
spoon
And, believe me, it took some
fine manipulating to quiet the
sound of the five spoons, as all five
babies Immediately began ham,
mering on table or chair with
them.
In the more than two years 1
have been photographing the
Dionne babies, you might think I
would get a little tired of them,
impatient with them from time to
time. But I never have.
1t is trying work. Just like
everybody else who has had any
thing to do with the quins, I've
gone overheard" completely for
the five most utterly charming
young ladies in the world!
THE END
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN-

VXIASHINGTON, Feb. 49,
W There are a lot of highly
interesting factors behind these
constantly recurring rumors that
Henry Morgentnau will resign as
Secretary of the Treasury.
One significant sign is the con-
sistency with which the rumors
crop up. First, Henry is sched-
uled to go to Spain as ambas-
sador, then to Paris, then to some
other place. There is a new batch
of rumors almost every month.
This is shopworn but some
times effective strategy. In the
game of politics, such a rumor
may "get" a man in the end.
And because OF the consistency
of these reports, some quiet but
efficient sleuthing was done to
track them down. The trail led
to the door of one Boston banker,
one Wall Street banker and two
officials in the Treasury.
There seemed to be reasonably
good evidence that these sources
were waging a definite campaign
to discredit and GUST Morgenthau.
AT the height of this campaign,
Morgenthau received little
scratch-pad sheet of paper such
as that on which the President
scribbles memos. 1t bore the single
word "UNPACK" and it was mi
tailed IF. D. r."
Puzzled as to what this was,
Morgenthau called up Secretary
Marvin Mcintyre, asked him for
an explanation.
"Oh. don't you know that
famous phrase?" joshed Mcintyre.
That was the message Al Smith
was supposed to have cabied the
Pope after his defeat in 1928:
sUNPACK'"
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That is nice road now. 7
know all the trees along it by
name. But last winter was driv-
ing along it very casually in a
SnoWstorm. Suddenly I hit soft
spot, and before I knew what had
happened, I was off the road, into
the ditch, up to my windows in a
Snowbank.
AS far as I could see, nobody
was on that lonely road. Looked
like a cold tramp to the nearest
help. Suddenly 1 saw car COM
ing. 1t was DR.. Dafoe's car, glory
be! I signaled frantically in the
snowstorm. But the car went
right by.
Judge Battle was in the car with
the doctor.
THAT looked like Davis" ex-
claimed Judge Battle, as they
sifted past me, sunk in the ditch.
"Pfft," said DR.. Dafoe, Davis
wouldn't be in a ditch!"
And so 1 was left.
II Il Il
TT is against the etiquette of the
Il game to quote nurses. The
American newspapers, the fifth
day, quoted Nurse Leroux as say
ing she had faith the babies will
live"
L She has had that faith from the
start. She was the six-month
graduate nurse, called to her first
case, who came, that May morn
ing, to try to save five tiny prema-
ture nestlings from a universally
predicted death. She has been
with them ever since.
There is not the slightest doubt
that large number of visitors to
Callander really believe they are
being shown the same baby five
times instead of the five babies
one after another.
have heard dozens of people
insist this is SO. They think it is
done with mirrors. It's a fake,
they say.
The crowds are sometimes per-
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fectly quiet. They just stand and
stare. Usually they clap and
laugh. Often they become very
noisy, cheering and calling to the
babies.
There was quite a row from the
local merchants when DR.. Dafoe
decreed, half way through the
summer, that instead of four
shows day, there would be only
two.
The local merchants set up a
great howl. But the crowds came
as usual. Nobody was ruined. The
babies were better off.
TINE second Christmas celebra-
Il ton was more elaborate
than the first, of course. Mem
bers of the Dionne family ar
rived at the hospital from their
home across the road about 2
p. m, bringing with them their
maid.
linen everybody sat down to a
big turkey dinner, the two
nurses experimenting it's prep
aration and serving.
Of course the usual Christmas
tree stood in a corner. There
was huge box of presents for
the mother, the father, and their
five older children.
Mother and Father Dionne
went into the nursery and showed
the babies to the other children
through the window. DR.. Dafoe
took no chances of infection, and
would not permit the older chill
dren to mingle with the quins for
fear some outside germ might
thus stray into the nursery.
The party lasted until about 5
p. NJ, when the Dionnes went
trooping back to their own house
across the road.
n g
DR. DAFOE'S calm has set an
~ example which seems to be
rejecting itself in the children.
For instance, when the movie
company came to town to make
scenes for 1.-THE Country Doctor"
there was naturally considerable
hustling and bustling about. Movie
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get revenge for the way I have
been treated" That letter is laid
carefully aside for the special at
tention of the Secret Service.
White House mail today is not
as heavy as in 1888, when the
staff worked overtime every day
for weeks to get clear of the
deluge.
Also, the Christmas mail was
lighter this season. But not very
light. The number of cards re-
ceived by the President was too
great for him to look through per-
sonally. They were packed up and
sent to an orphan asylum for the
pleasure of the children.
Mrs Roosevelt's mail Is saved
from the knife and shipped un-
opened to the fourth floor, where
it is handled by special staff.
Copyright. 1886, by United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
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White House Mail

Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt
- writes a letter to her son in
the White House, she takes the
chance of having it stacked with
the thousands of other letters in
the morning mail and run
through an electric cutting ma
chine to have its edge chopped
off.
But there are two men in the
White House Offices who know
her handwriting and try to de-
liver the letter to the President
unopened. They are I. r. T..
Smith and j. H. Sherrere, who look
at every piece of first-class mail
to ferret out letters from the
Presidents personal friends and
save them from the knife.
All others-no matter if marked
Special, Personal or Private-go
into the hopper and are dealt out
to the Is readers who make up
the staff.
The staff works in the base
ment room of the White House
Offices, and most of the Presi-
dents mail never gets any closer
to him than that. A reader sees
the phrase. 81 want my boy to
go to Annapolis"-and zip, the
letter goes into the pouch marked
U. S. N. Or he sees the phrase:
mortgage on my farmland the
letter is tossed into the Farm
Loan pouch.
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EIZnough.
by
WESTbR0Ok PEGLER

+ ONDON, Feb 13-Some of the labor members of
- the British House of Commons have been giving
serious consideration to the idea that statesman
wabhiing to his feet in plastered condition and
sounding off on foreign relations like Saturday
night hero in crowded saloon may be greater
menace to the welfare of his people than a drunken
bus driver.
This is not thought in the English para-
ment Tor 1t has been customary for some years Tor
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The author of these remarks was merely a poli-
tlclan on his own home grounds where all his utter
ances were subject to liberal discount but in for
elgn lands he was regarded as a public officer of
some responsibility and the press accounts unfor-
tunately carry no printers dingbat, star or other
typographical symbol to indicate that the speaker
was drunk at the time.
The incident in question caused no serious results
ana was soon forgotten but the temperance move
ment in the House of Commons plainly takes notice
of a well-known reality.
In the present House 70 of the 154 Labor mem
bers are total abstainers, and the leaders of the
movement are glad to accept part-time recruits who
will merely bind themselves to keep strictly sober
during the debates
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13

puSlllllS OuO oSoAAioV VIZ
frontier and south in China. The
chairman of our Senate Foreign
Relations Committee says Japan
will go to war to drive us and
any one else out of China.
Mussolini sends his troops to
Ethiopia and Immediately dan
gers spring up all around which
concern us.
Within "a hours after his
troops start, Japan, under cover
of the excitement in Europe, re-
sunes her drive to dominate all
Asia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13

LII was an AWFUL
road t h e n. A
nightmare road.
I do not even
remember driv-
ing it. I only
remember float
ing over it in a
sort of frantic
dream.
1t was just
another of the
bad spells Marie
used to take in
the early days.
She turned blue.
T h e doc or
came. All was
we'll
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
DEMOCRATIC CLUB TO
MEET AT 8 TOMORROW
New Officers of Sixteenth Ward
Group Are to Be in Charge.

The Sixteenth Ward Democratic
Club is to meet at p. m. tomor-
row in clubrooms at State and Hoyt-
avs. New officers are to be in charge.
They are Ray Herner, president;
Fred Snyder, vice president; Miss
Helen Raftery, secretary; Herman
lansing, treasurer; Ernest Medcalfe,
sentinel; James Mccarthy, conduc-
tor, and Mrs. Elizabeth Wheatley,
Mrs. Elizabeth Ward and Hugo
Somrners, trustees.
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Fair-Haired Boy
ID EAL fact is that there is
~ about as much chance of
Morgenthau resigning as there is
of Roosevelt himself.
No one stands stronger at the
White House. No Cabinet member
confers oftener with the Presi-
dent. Henry is one of the few still
privileged to attend early morning
bedside conferences.
AS Secretary of the Treasury,
young Henry has been as efficient
an executive as he has been hated
by Wall Street.
RumorS about his resignation
probably will continue. But they
will not be fulfilled.
Periodic designations of his I'M
dersecretaries also will continue.
ReaSon-It is impossible to find
an undersecretary who has the
support of the bankers and at the
same time believes in Roosevelt's
monetary policy.
In the long run, young Henry is
going to have to be his own un-
dersecretary.
Repdrtee
Senator Cotton Ed Smith,
chairman of the agriculture COM
mittee, was making warm de-
Tense of the new farm relief
bill.
I'VE must not lose sight of the
fact" he grated, that this is a
Soil-erosion and DEMONSTRATION
bill"
will the distinguished Senator
from South Carolina" broke in
Senator Charley McNary, keen
witted Republican floor leader,
please look serious the next time
he makes that statement"
Il must admit" replied Smith
as he joined in the laughter,
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Pittman Talk Laid
to General Unrest

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Great Britain's cab
w met sits down to consider $1,500,000,000 de-
tense program One of her goals is reported to be
$500 planes IN the next year. Germany and France
are in break-neck arms race. Russia has the arg-
est standing army in the world with nobody knows
how many reserves. Our own immediate goal Is
1000 planes by 1858 and an increase in the battle
power of IA of our Is battleships japan isn't con-
tenting herself with merely preparing. She is
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Jon. It contains a good deal
of lively and interesting read
ing. 1 will admit that most
of the jokes are not so good.
Thumb down a page to identify
the lines preceding daughter
and you can not escape the con-
clusion that Congress is the
easiest audience in the world. 1t
is a gag mans paradise. Where
but in the House of Representa-
tives would there be roars Of
merriment for such quip as
1.-THE Democrats have taken the
Jack out of Jackson?
stop me if you've heard it," is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13

Working With Babies ProUid Thrills Galore Dazs Admits

With an oppe rtunity given no other
news or camera man to observe the
quintuplets' daily life, Fred Davis, their
photographer, has jotted down many in
teresting facts about the babies. In a
series Of three stories, of which this is
the last, Davis tells hitherto unrevealed
incidents in the Dionne babies lives.
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BY FRED DAVIS
NEA Service staff Phnfnpra nh,

THE greatest scare l have
had was the day, more
than a year ago, while the
Dionne babies were still in
the parents house, when
Madame de Kiriline came
rushing from the house,
crying, Quick, Marie is dy-
ing! Get the doctor!"
No telephone in those days.
drove the two miles to Callander.
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oOIIIC U1 UIIt IIItIHUtIS 10 TtCUgIlIZe
the risks of overspeaking and to
pledge themselves to abstinence
during parliamentary hours.
1 do not believe, however, that
either the American Senate or
House has ever acknowledged the
need of similar precaution, and
pass the idea along merely as
suggestion.
Americans who lived on this
side of the water a few years ago
still remember warlike threat
to a foreign nation which was
uttered by Washington states
man once upon time and printed
in the press of at least three con-