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The Washington times., 1936-08-22
7 CONVENTIONS
V0TEDD.C.

Two additional national conven-
tions have been added to those to
be held in Washington in 1927.
Word was received from Detroit,
where the Loyal Knights of the
Round Table are now meeting,
that the organization voted Wash
ington as its next convention city.
1t is also expected that James E.
Smith, president Of the National
Radio Institute here, will be the
new international president of the
association.
The American Society of SAM
tary Engineers will also meet
here in August of next year. The
society is now meeting in Buffalo.
The Washington times., 1936-08-22
BOLTS STRIKE
CHEVY CHASE

A second thunder-shower struck
Washington at noon today in the
wake of violent disturbance that
swept the city last night to bring
a definite end to the tWoweek
heat wave.
Last night the temperature was
tumbled II degrees in half an
hour as heavy winds pushed rain
laden clouds over the area, and
today the mercury had started its
ascension to the COS again when
the second storm broke.
In the new storm several in
stances of damage by lightning
were reported, principally in the
Chevy Chase and Bethesda areas.
A barn at Wisconsin Avenue and
Ellicot Street Northwest was
struck and badly damaged by fire.
Telepho communications
throughout southern Maryland
were seriously impaired by last
nights storm, telephone company
officials reported.
Washington last night was
given TT least temporary relief
from the intense heat of the
last few days when a thunder
storm, which blew up suddenly,
drenched the city and sent the
mercury tumbling II degrees in
half an hour.
There was little damage from
the storm locally, but it left con-
siderable destruction in it's wake
in Baltimore, where roofs we're
blown from houses, a tent in
which evangelical services were
being held was blown down and
numerous places were struck by
lightning. The damage there
was estimated at about $4,000.
An Eastern Airlines transport
plane was delayed in making its
landing here during the storm be-
cause of inability of the pilot to
see the landing field through the
heavy rain. He finally put the
plane down, but was momentarily
blinded by flash of lightning and
overshot the field, slightly damag-
ing the plane.
The maximum temperature was
recorded yesterday at AIS p. m,
when it reached 95, and the pros
poets for today are that the heat
wave, broken by the storm, will
start anew.
The Washington times., 1936-08-22
TRAGEDY HITS
COUPLE TWICE

Death struck twice yesterday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Hurley, 1913 M st. N. E.
First their son, Edward Richard
Hurley, S, was struck by an auto
mobile as he ran out into the
street in front of his home. Doc
tors worked for hours over him
at Casualty Hospital, but he died
last night.
And overcome by the shock OF
seeing her grandson struck, Mrs.
Blanche Hurley, 81, mother Of
Mr.. Hurley, collapsed at home.
A Casualty Hospital ambulance
was called but she was pro-
nounced dead on its arrival. A
certificate of death by natural
causes was issued by the coroner,
and an inquest will De held rCxt
week into the death of the boy
Edward had finished lunch,
and then helped his grandmother
do the dishes, his mother said,
then went out to play. AS he ran
into the street he was struck by
an automobile driven by John
Walter Baxter, 1926 Nicholson
st. S. E.
Baxter said the boy ran out
from between two parked cars
directly into the path of the car,
before he could apply his brakes.
He was questioned by police and
later ordered to appear at the
inquest
The Washington times., 1936-08-22
D. {. RESIDENT
DIES IN CRASH

According to word received here
today, one Washington woman was
killed and two others injured when
their automobile collided with a
truck and trailer near Saco, Me-, on
the Bostop-Portland Highway.
Miss Ellen Richards, So, of 1910
Webster st. N. w., was crushed to
death by the impact. Her niece,
Miss Catherine Richards, 1929
Massachusetts, Ave. S. E., and Mrs.
Mary L. Keith, 1910 Webster st.
N. w., each suffered fractures, the
former breaking her right shoulder
bone and the latter her ankle.
Harry Richards, Navy Yard ma
chinist, living at 1929 Massachu-
sets Ave. S. E., left Immediately
for Saco,
The Washington times., 1936-08-22
Ken Murray
Says:

Whatever else you may think
Of Jack Sharkey as a fighter,
he certainly gave a dramatic
valedictOry speech following his
defeat by Louis, when he told
the radio audience youth must
be served. Previously, the old
sailor had believed that expert
ence could defeat youth, but
the bomber exploded that theory
right under his chin.
OF course, in Jacks case the
defeat wasn't entirely due to
age. 1t was really caused by
youth creeping up on him.
However, it was obvious that
an old fighter certainly needs
more sleep than a yOungSter.
Sharkey kept getting up between
8 and 10, and then he oversight.
So Remember:
Unlike other parents, Father
Time is always crueleSt to his
oldest son.
Copyright, 1896, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-08-22
Baby Smothered
Certificate Saws

A certificate of death by suffo-
cation was issued yesterday by DR..
E. A. A. Dunn in the case of 10
month-old Albert N. Denham, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. R N. Denham, POT
West Bradley Lane. Chevy Chase,
Md. The child Smothered to death
in its crib as a covering became
entangled in a cross bar.
The Washington times., 1936-08-22
APPOINTMENTS
ARE MADE BY
PRESIDENT
Report on u. S. Share
Of District Expenses
Asked by January

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. %.
President Roosevelt announced
today the appointment of J. L.
Jacobs, of Chicago, and an ad.
visory committee of three mem.
bers to study the fiscal relations
problem between the United
States and the District OF Column
bia governments and to determine
the amount of the Federal lump
sum" contribution toward mu-
nicipal expenses.
The advisory committee is com.
posed of George McAneny, Of
New York; Clarence A. DykStra,
Of Cincinnati, and James w. Mar
tin, of Frankfort, KY.
The study is to be completed
in time for presentation of
report at the start of the next
session of Congress in January.
Funds for the study were pro-
vided in the current appropria-
ton bill after bitter fight had
been waged between House and
Senate conferees on the District
appropriation bill to determine
the amount of the Federal con-
tribution.
Advisor to Various Cities
Mr.. Jacobs, director of the
study, for more than 20 years
has been advisor and conSultant
to various city. county and State
agencies throughout the country
on matters of finance, taxation
and public administration.
He formerly was assessor Of
Cook county. ILL.,, former director
Of the technical staff of the
Chicago municipal efficiency
committee, a member of the fac
ulty of Northwestern University
and member of numerous organi-
cations dealing with financial and
tax problems.
A formal statement issued at
the summer White House said in
part:
George McAneny is president
of the Title Guaranty and
Trust Company of New York;
recently served as chairman Of
the New York State commission
on State aid to municipalities;
director, New York citizens
budget commission; was for.
merly comptroller of the city Of
New York; was executive man.
ager of the New York Times
and vice president of the
American Newspaper Publish.
ing Association; was chairman
of the New York transit com.
mission; chairman of the com.
mission on city plan; vice
president of the National Mu-
nicipal League, etc.
CINCINNATI OFFICIAL
Clarence A. Dykstra, is city
manager Of Cincinnati; chair.
man of the committee ON ur.
baniSm of the national re.
sources committee; was for.
merly commissioner of the de-
partment of water and power
of the city of Los Angeles; on
political science faculties at
the Ohio State University, the
University of Kansas and the
University of California; is
now vice president of the ma
tiOnal municipal league and
member of various public ad.
miniStrative and fiscal organ.
izatiOns.
"JameS w. Martin is chair.
man of the Kentucky State
Continued on Page 10, Col. p
The Washington times., 1936-08-22

-VoTE AMERICAN-
The Washington times., 1936-08-22
Woman Hangs Self
In Hospital Bathroom

A certificate of suicide was
issued by the coroner today in
the death of Mrs. Marie C. Helm,
80, of SOC Third st. S. E., who
was found hanged last night at
st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Mrs. Helm, who had been in
the institution since last June,
was found by a nurse in a bath
room, a towel knotted about her
throat,
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27
How They Happen

TWO OUT of every three automobile &C
cidents last year involved mistakes by
drivers. That fact, supported by stat
istics, indicates to just what extent acci-
dents might be eliminated could the care
less and incompetent driver be reformed or
forcibly kept from behind the wheel.
The old bus may do 70 or 80 but re-
member when you are testing it out that
81 per cent of the accidents last year were
the result of fast driving. The right side
of the road is the accepted path of most
drivers and any fool should tumble to the
fact before driving long, yet II per cent of
the accidents were due to disregard of the
rule
Fifteen per cent were caused by driv-
ers "barreling in" when they did not have
the right of way, IA per cent just drove off
the roadway and % per cent of the acci-
dents were caused by the classifications
known as reckless and miscellaneous
apparently for want of better name.
These figures are based on ,72O ac-
cidents in which 23,570 died and 705,44C
were injured-not the complete toll but
enough to indicate why we have accidents
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27

4 LTHOUGH the series of hearings be-
~ fore the Interstate Commerce COM
mission will undoubtedly be carried
out, the feeling is increasing among friends
of the Minneapolis and st. Louis railroad
that the dismemberment plan militantly op-
posed in towns served by the road is licked.
The 1885 earnings statement showed a
remarkable gain as compared with state
ments of previous years. Careful operation
resulted in profit, the strongest possible
argument that the line is needed, used and
worthy of continuing.
The statement argument doubles in
value when compared with reports of some
of the competing roads which fathered the
dismemberment idea and planned to use
parts of the line as additions to their exist
ing systems. Some of the buyers had less
healthy reports for 1885 than the weak"
NJ and ST. L.
This news is good news for the busi-
ness men who have invested in towns Serv-
ed by the road 1t is equally welcome anon
farmers who depend upon the road for
shipping. Most directly concerned are the
employees who would be thrown out of work
should the plan be approved
While the victory appears to be within
the grasp of the towns which have united
and fought a good fight, it is too early to
withdraw the front line forces. There are
many slips possible yet but with the road
back in the black, the best possible ammuni-
ton for whipping the dismemberment
scheme is at hand.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27
A Welcome Event

4 N ANNUAL EVENT to which Red
~ wood Falls looks forward as a willing
host is the Class A high school basket
ball tourney, an event which this weekend
brings players, coaches and fans from
neighboring towns to struggle for the right
to represent the group of smaller schools in
the district meet at New Ulm.
Here is fair competition. The schools
are comparable in size and facilities, con-
dition seldom found in Journeys. Loyalty
for the team that has been frequently
trounced through the season is as sincere
as that given the tourney favorite. Conso-
lation games, so often listless in bigger
meets, are as earnestly played as though
all honors depended upon them.
Yet behind all the eagerness to win is a
feeling of friendliness and good fellowship
which overshadows rivalry and bitterness.
Many come knowing their chances are slim
but determined to make the best of them.
Each game is a new game and season s
records are all wiped off the scoreboard at
the start.
Redwood Falls is proud and anxious to
play host to such an event.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27
Liberals In Race

WITH A. ]. OLSON of Renville county,
w until recently president of the state
Farm Bureau Federation, definitely
candidate for congress from the seventh
district, prospects are bright for an inter-
esting battle in the fall election.
Paul Kvale undoubtedly will be a can
didate for reelection and the filing of o.
son will place, two liberals in the field, the
incumbent on the Farmer-Labor ticket and
Olson under the Republican banner. AL
though the new seventh includes some nor
mally conservative counties, the bulk of the
district remains frankly liberal.
Should the Democrats find a strong
standard bearer, the competition might be-
come three-cornered, possibly giving con-
servative some hope but the chances of the
district continuing to have liberal repre-
sentation appear to be strong.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27
Paying High For War

THE ADMINISTRATION at Washington
estimates that the American govern
ment, to date, has spent 81 300 100000
on it's World War veterans. The new bonus
will add substantially more than $2,OOO,-
100000 to that. And if pensions ever come,
the figures will become astronomical.
But it is too late for us to start weeping
about it now. The time to have worried
about all this expense was in the spring of
1917, when our participation in the World
War was still ahead of us.
The lads who went to fight the Ger
mans for us in 1917 and 1918 didn't invent
the pensions-and- bonus system; neither, it
should be added, were they the ones who
thought up the idea of drawing cards in the
World War.
In other words, this colossal expense
that goes dragging on and on long after
wars dead bones have been laid to rest-it
just comes with the bicycle. Declare war,
and this is what you get.
And if we don't like it, there is one fool.
proof way to avoid it; by staying out of war
-Belleville, Illinois, Daily Advocate.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27
Winter Resorts At Home
IN THESE DAYS of che

IN THESE DAYS of cheap, rapid travel,
the most common remark heard in the
fall is: II wish I could go away for the
winter" And always this means, to go to a
land with warm climate where we can be out
of doors all we want to, and escape two Win
ter bugbears: the discomfort of actual cold,
and the monotony and WEAKNESS of being
shut in for weeks.
After digesting all this, it is worth
while to give a moments thought to some
thing refreshingly and startingly different
Newspapers of New England states have
joined in an advertisement in a trade jour-
nal, with this heading: New England-the
Greatest Winter ResOrt-and Greatest Win
ter Market for Cold Weather Goods" The
theme is developed in part as follows:
New England already is the nations
leading winter resort and a substantial por-
tion of its tourist visitors and their New
England spending is derived from the long
winter tourist season, now getting into full
swing. Thousands of winter pleasure seek
ers are arriving at New England resorts
via the famous ''Snow trains" cars and
buses. Taking leaf from the registers of
many successfully operated hotels during
last season, "a hostelries closed in "a will
stay open. Over 80 winter carnivals are
planned for different towns, more than
twice last years number-all of which will
accelerate present cold weather buying pow
er.
And so, resourceful New England peo-
pie do not propose to sit back and let the va
cationists and pleasure seekers all go to
Florida or the West Indies or California
but will entertain them with the invigora-
ting sports of the north It is a splendid
spirit, and encourages us to make the most
OF our many winter attractions-Enter
prise Oregon, Record Chieftain
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27

The mass demand for economic securi-
ty will grow louder and louder MY fear
is that the politicians will hear it, while the
business men, industrialists and financiers
will not. If this happens, we shall be in for
generation of legislation that will level the
men and enterprises of the United States
down to slimly secure but uninspiring and,
in my judgment, ultimately unproductive
life even for the masses. l refuse to believe
that we are doomed to a destiny of fairly
well-clothed and fairly well-fed puppets of
an all-embracing state. And yet it is to
just this that political pressure from the
masses will drive us unless business and in
dustrial leadership promptly and effectively
develops workable and widely effective
economics of plenty. l want security for
all as ardently as any Stain wants it, but
l want it in terms of civilization that
knows how to correlate security and free
dom. AS watch the relentless encroachment
of the state, in one European nation after
another, upon private enterprise and polite
al liberty, want more than ever to be able
to will to my son AN America in which a
great economic leadership has made possi-
BILE the preservation of the inspiring ad-
vantages of private economic policies for the
distribution of wealth in the light of its
technical process for the production of
wealth-Glenn Frank
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27


such legislation as will make
secure the modest possessions of
the populace won by honest effort
and earnest toll. In short, prevent
the economic war, not rest with
means of caring for its ravished
victims.
Can farm program such as
herein outlined be enacted into
law? Not without several years
intensive and concerted action by
all farmers and farm organiza-
tions. Are farmers and their
leaders mentally big enough to
set aside their organization part
isanship and move toward COM
mon goal with concerted action?
If We are not. nothing better
faces us than to exist as voting
machine to be sold for a subsis-
tence subsidy to the political par
ty offering the highest bid.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27
91fary's S
Little foam
Irony of Fate Department

VI otO DOPo1 tAuCht
Mrs. E. M. Appleton's much
discussed lawn was never so love-
ly as the night she hung it round
with Chinese lanterns and invited
half the women in town to a fussy
party THE purpose of which
was to aid Stafford Kings cam
paign for state auditor.
$3.50
Two of the towns free speech
advocates have discovered that the
paternal instinct can be aroused
even in such unexpected places as
hotel lobbies.
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H. G. Werder who LANDED in
Redwood Falls 81 years ago" has
never seen such protracted spell
of severe weather. "The probable
reason behind it," says H. G., "is
to prepare the Democrats for cold
storage as it looks like there
won't be any call for them for a
long time to come"
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Pansy of The Week: Claire
Hauck, so-called male of the spec
les, who emerged with Redeemed
eyes from showing of "Rose
Marie" Sunday, whimpering that
he "never could take The Indian
Love Call".
49,
Roger Hassinger captains the
Nighthawks, whose basketballing
members named the team after
the leaders old man.
49,
Hot Poppa of The Week: Glib
Carruth, who found a burning
glove in his pocket Sunday.
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Runner Up: Palmer Kise who
left Redwood Falls in 80 below
zero weather for Duluth where
the mercury shivered at 40--and
held a cool blondes hand when he
got there.
49,
Well, George (Florence Night
irgale) Smiths career as a nurse
ended abruptly the other night
when he let his patient, Tobe Naf-
singer burn up the bed.
That shadow of doubt so many
people have thought they noticed
on Bert Scott is really a mus
tache, la Flu Manchu.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27

Federal Reserve and Reserve
bank currency ceased to flow in
to the agricultural community by
this method. In fact so far as
the farmer was directly concern
ed the Federal Reserve banks may
just as well not have existed. It
is not my intent to accuse the
Reserve board of ulterior motives
in taking the action they did, but
who is to deny that agriculture
was victimizedS by the banking
system. If not by despotic act
of those responsible for its activi-
tives, then by the very nature of
the bank act, the psychological
effect of which is to feed credit
money lavishly to an already
gluttonized spending populace, or
financially starve them to a point
of utter wretchedness.
1t would seem then that using
short time farm paper as basis
for currency issue is a means of
agricultural destruction as we'll
as a national hazard. This leads
to the following proposal: Place
the Federal Land bank on the
same basis as the Federal Re-
serve Bank. Give the Land Bank
access to the same source of cur
rency supply as has the Reserve
Bank. Issue currency against a
resource that is permanent; that
is not speculated in on the ex-
change and that is not subject to
sudden fiuctuations-farm land.
An act such as this would not eff
feet the investment market mas
much as farm land mortgages
constitute only small portion of
the nations total investments. The
interest charge could be placed at
two per cent which would pay ad-
ministrative costs and build a re-
serve. The rate of principal pay
ments should not be a fixed an
nual charge but should vary be-
tween zero and three per cent
The object thereof is to reduce
land Indebtedness during periods
of high prices while at the same
time using principal payment
money to retire Land Bank cur
rency from circulation.
During periods of low prices,
no payments should be made on
principal thus leaving more
money in the community. By the
settling of estates, purchase OF
farms by tenants, ETC., the amount
of Land Bank currency would,
over period years vary but lit
tie. A limit, of course, should be
set at one such mortgage per
farmstead owner. The producing
capacity, I think, and not the dol
lar value of such produce should
be the basis for arriving at loan
values in order to prevent, over
a period Of years, excess, up or
down, in appraisals, and enact
ment of state laws prohibiting
the recording of second land
mortgages in excess of a fraction
Of the first would ply break on
speculation. High land values
should not be an objective of
farmers. Assurance of a home
and an adequate income should
be the goal.
Since it is obvious that deple-
tion of our soil fertility is men
ace both to the farmers financial
welfare and the nations future
food supply, soil conservation
should be dealt with under this
plan. The Land Bank could ac-
quire farms by purchase on
which, under proper tenantry,
soil conservation or land retire
ment could be practiced. Further
more with a mortgage contract as
outlined above no farmer should
object to a reasonable mortgage
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27
To Spend 100000
On Shetek Project

Tracy-The establishment of a
national park at Lake Shetek at
this time appears to be a surety,
since the project was approved a
short time ago.
Ninety-three acres of land have
been secured along the east shore
line of the lake on which work is
expected to start in the spring. A
large crew of men will be put to
work in building the picnic
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27

passed down from father to eldest
son in the family for 225 years at
least, and possibly longer. Mr.
Rasmussen has no certain know
ledge which one of his several
great grandfathers was the orig
inal owner of the pipe, but he val
ues it highly and expects to pass
it on to his eldest son.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-27
Pipe 225 Years Old
Is Family Heirloom

Lakefield-How long will a man
keep his pipe? In the case of
most men probably only a year or
two. But Henry Rasmussen of
Lakefeld has a family heirloom in
the form of meerschaum pipe,
Is inches in length that has been