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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-21
INDIGNANT
DENIAL IS
MADE BY
DOCTOR
Committees Counsel
Says Only Part Of
Money Was Used

International News Service
A charge that the old-age pen
sion organization under com
mand Of DR.. Francis E. Town
send used the mails to defraud
its aged supporters in raising a
congressional lobby fund was
made by James R. Sullivan, com,
mittee counsel today.
DR.. Townsend Indignantly de.
MED the accusation.
AS the Congressional commit
tee turned its attention to fund
raising methods of the pension
movement which, Townsend has
admitted, brought his organiza-
ton 100000 in small contribu,
tions, Sullivan flung the first &C.
cuSation of criminal activity.
Lobby Charged
Sullivan charged, too, that the
Townsend organization raised a
special lobby fund of $23, 400 to
send a group of seven Townsend
officials to Washington to draft
and lobby through the NEGRO.
arty bill.
Only 81 ,804.96 of the lobby fund
was spent for this purpose, Sulli-
van charged, and after the. bill
drafterS returned to their homes a
second appeal was mailed to Town
send clubs in the form of Town
send-gramS' stating more funds
were urgently needed.
Sullivan charged that the Town
send organization forged the name
of Charles H. Randall of Los
Angeles, chairman of the Town
send National Strategy Commit
tee to the "Townsendgrams."
Cites Randall Testimony
He introduced in evidence testi.
mony by Randall to this effect
taken by a Congressional Subcom,
mittee on the West Coast.
DR.. Townsend denied any knoWl
edge of the matter.
Sullivan brought out that an
appeal was made through the
Townsend National Weekly for a
special congressional action
fund in January, 1885, to send
the committee to Washington.
The lobby committee, Sullivan
stated, included Glenn I. Hudson,
Daniel Carmichael, Otto Moore
and Francis Cuttle-then Town.
send officials.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-21
Ann Harding S Fight
For Child Reopened

HOLLYWOOD, May 81 (I.N.S).
Undisturbed by reopening of her
former husbands long battle for
custody of their Child, Ann Hard
ing, film actress, was preparing
to make her scheduled trip to
England to engage in picture
work.
After Miss Harding had won
complete custody of her 7-year-
old daughter, the husband, Harry
Bannister, yesterday filed suit in
Reno, New, asking the court to
grant him partial custody.
Through her attorneys here, the
actress announced the California
courts had settled the matter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-21
Mother Raps Wedding
OF |nCe and Actress

HOLLYWOOD, May 81 G.N.SD,
Richard K. Ince, 20-year-old son
of the late Thomas H. Ince, multi
millionaire film producer. and
Charlotte Tonga Buford, former
film actress were honeymooning
under difficulties today.
The difficulties were parental
objections to the couples elope'
ment to Yuma, Ariz. In a char
tered plane the pair returned to
Hollywood only to find the bride
groom's mother had strenuous OBJ
jectionS because of her sons youth
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-21
Robot Up 10 Miles
In Shakespeare Hop

SWARTHMORE. Pa, May 81
G.N.SD First of a series of
robot flights into the shakespeare
to explore conditions beyond the
earth's atmospheric limits got
off to a flying start from the
riding field of Swarthmore Col
lege today. Three hours later,
Bartol Foundation scientists an
nounced, a radio report was re-
ceived from the 1,800-cubic foot
bag indicating it had reached a
10-mile height.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-21
Californian Is Held
As Staying Suspect

SAN FRANCISCO, May 81
G.N.S).-John H. wilson, 81,
was jailed here today as a sus-
pect in connection with the kill
ing of Grant Powers on Septem-
Der 10, 1880, in Philadelphia.
Wilson was arrested at a play
ground where he was director
He denied the accusation, declar-
ing he had never been out of
California in his life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-21
Cotton Textile Men
Deny Wage-Cutting

NEW YORK, May 81 G.N.S0.
The Cotton Textile Institute, Inc,
today issued a formal denial of 'a
Washington rumor that wave of
wage cutting by southern cotton
mills has followed the Supreme
Courts decision in the Guffey coal
act case Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
NOME PIONEERS
 SEEK CHANGE IN
 CARE OF INSANE
Ask Support of Delegate s Bill for Special Oper-
 ated Hospital

At a regular meeting of Igloo No. | 1, Pioneers of Alaska, held on Feb ruary 19 at Nome, a resolution was adopted unanimously for a change ir the carrying of the insane from Alaska.
 The resolution is as follows:
 That. whereas the unfortunate insane of Alaska are at present and for many years past have been com mitted to Morningside Sanitarium, Portland, Oregon: That whereas said Morningside Sanitarium is a pri- vate institution and patients admit ted there are contracted for by the Government: That this contracting of insane to private Keepers has been denounced on various occasions by the Pioneers of Alaska as a system of farming out which is an Islcen- tive to human greed and avarice, and such practice has been defounccd repeatedly by the Pioneers of Alas ka as inhuman, abominable and un- worthy Of the aims and purposes of democratic government and inssf- tutions; so strong were those pro tests voiced that a former Governor of Alaska. Honorable c org e A. Parks, had interceded with the tllcr Secretary of the Interior to have doctor from the Public Health Serv- ice in Portland, Oregon, assigned to the Morningsfde Sanitoriuin to pass on the mental status of patients and exercise general supervision over the patients, which was done and Pulp lie Health Doctor Weldon was as- signed to this duty The Pioneers of Alaska and the citizens of the Ter ritory lauded even this effort. small as it was; but we understand the Public Health Servicc has withdrawn it's representative from the institu- tion. M @te vH n'
 Therefore, Igloo No. 1, Pioneers or Alaska, in view of the above state ments and representatives of the citizens of the Territory of Alaska, do most humbly pray that the bill introduced by Delegate Dimond for the construction of a government built and operated hospital for the insane of Alaska and other gov ernment patients be passed. And we furthermore appeal to President Roosevelt and the Congress of the United States to give their support to this much needed legislation, to. the end that the farming out of in sane may be removed and a more human system adopted:
 That a copy of this Resolution be sent to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pres ident of the United States of Amer ica, Vice President Garner, Speaker Byrns of the House of Representa- tives, Honorable A. J. Dimond. Dele gate from Alaska, Honorable John w. Troy, Governor of Alaska, and every 1gloo in the Territory, the Grand President and Secretary in- cluded. The press of Alaska is re- quested to render it's assistance
 The resolution is signed by AL mer Rydeen, President of Igloo No. II, Pioneers of Alaska, and attested to by John Starr, Secretary of Igloo No. |
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10

Outdoor enthusiasts this winter awakened the charm of skiing and the sport promises number it's enthusiasts by the thousands within The York and Boston and later through Detroit Pittsburgh Cleveland Chicago and other cities Railroads have special excursion trains which give skiing enthusiasts weekend winter resort nearest their city For the little villages in the Adrondacks the White mountains the Casks SKI craze has been vabe bonanza Another which rrcted heavily the clothes designers propetors sports wear shops since tie which requires special togs thoce who have hudded in cities in winters the novelty writer excons sleigh rides and skiing has made the long
 months bearabe
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
MRS. BYRON MILLER
 PINCPONC CHAMPION

Mrs. Byron Miller and partner Dave Dishaw, won the opening g match in the Couple Club Pingpong Tournament, played last night in the Northern Light Presbyterian church parlors. Clarence Bands of- ficiating as referee. ~
 Fourteen couples attended tn e games and the 6:30 o'clock potluck supper which preceded them. Second match in the tournament will be played at an as yet unannounced date in the near future.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
PARTY OF RUSSIAN
 SCIENTISTS LEAVE
 JUNEAU FOR SOUTH

The party of three U.S.S.R. Rus sian scientists, s. Mairanovsky, me chanical engineer from Moscow; Ivan Kapein, geologist from Eastern -iberia, and Vastly Sokolov, mining engineer from Siberia, accompan- jed by their associate and interpret CT, N. Almoian, chemical engineer employed by the Amtorg Trading Company in New York City, who nave been making a study of United States methods of gold production
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
MARY JOYCE TALKING
 ON AIR IN INTERIOR

Those who were tuned in at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon heard Mary Joyce, dog musher from Taku to Fairbanks, talking on a test broad cast from the PAA plane flying over Fairbanks. Another broadcast was to be arranged for later in the after noon. KINY station picked up the broadcast in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10

during the last two months in Colo rado, California and Alaska. sailed for the States on the Alaska. The four men arrived here on the Alas ka on March 3.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
JUNIOR PROM TO
 gla BE ON MARCH 20

The High School class of '37 has issued invitations for the Junior Prom to be given in the High School gymnasium on the evening of March 20. The event honors the class of '36. 7
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
REDLINGSHAFERS
 HONORED TONIGHT

MT. and Mrs H. L. Redlingshafer, who leave shortly for Washington, D. C., will be honored tonight at 6:30 covered dish supper, to be served
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
MRS. PAINE ARRIVES

Mrs. V. A. Paine and Miss Eileen Schneuer are registered at the Cas- tineau. They arrived on the Prin- cess Norah and will leave soon for their fox ranch on Keku Island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
MRS. MORGAN RETURNS

Mrs. Thomas A. Morgan and son arrived home on the Princess Norah. They have been visiting for several months in Arkansas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
HOLDEN AT FAIRBANKS;
 FLIES PLANE FROM SOUTH

The PAA Fairchild Il plane flown by Pilot Alex Holden enroute from the Sta tes to the Interior, left Whitehorse yesterday morning and arrived in Fairbanks yesterday afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
WATSON FOR CAKCRoss

Mathew Watson, Careross, Y. T., merchant, was passenger aboard the Princess Norah enroute to Skag- way U.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10

hy members of the Eastern Star in the Scottish Rite Temple.
 Eastern Star members and their husbards are invited to be present.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
SAILS ON ALASKA

F. A. McCloud, Swift and Con- pany representative, sailed for Ket- chikan on the Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10

Sam Baker, representing Walton N. Moore, sailed for Petersburg on the Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10

Lena Elder underwent a major operation in the Government Hos pitaf today. She is reported recov- ering nicely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10

SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE FIT
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10

Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood Major General Johnson Hagood has been relieved of his command of the Eighth Corps Area at San Antonio Tex, and ordered to his home by Presidential direction to "await
 orders"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10
WYNN COMING

WYNN COMING
 Attorney Grover c. Winn, who has been south for several weeks, is re- turning to his Juneau home aboard the Northland.
 Examination and vaccination, when necessary, of all cannery workers coming to Alaska totaled 7,500 last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-10

SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-26
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ME mind of the petty politician, Il he has any,
must forever remain mystery to yours truly.
The other day attended a luncheon meeting of
Wonan's Democratic Club to which all the county
candidates had been invited
They came, 100 per cent strong. Men who were
running for commissioner and judge and court clerk,
sheriff and Congress; the usual array of individuals
smelling Office salaries from afar. Presiding was
wel-known woman attorney and the main speaker
was woman who had been invited from neigh
boring city because she considered authority
on legislation affecting women and children.
The affair proceeded in the customary manner.
After the dining done the gentlemen running
for office all introduced publicly to the fair
ones whose votes they solicited. Their faces beamed
with good will; couple of bald heads glowed their
owners pleasure
Then up rose the speaker of the day, who, it
had been announced, would make 15-minute talk.
And with her rose up also every mothers sen of
the candidates. They walked out on her in body.
think this incident illustrates exactly in what
contempt the average political aspirant holds the
feminine intellect. Evidently it did not occur to
these dozen men that their behavior was boorishly
rude. Their mental capacity unable to grasp
the fact that the IS present might resent
the slight put upon them and their guests. The
candidates would have some uneasy nights if they
knew what of the women were saying about
them. take special delight in saying it in print.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-26
HELP THE PENNY ICE FUND

EOR the sixth year, the Salvation Army
Penny Ice Fund is starting drive for contri-
buttons to provide needy families with ice during the
hot summer months.
Last year, $617474 was given to the fund and
1916 families were registered the Salvation Army
list for ice Deliveries during the summer totaed
190970. The needy who receive ice at the trucks
on regular routes pay cent chunk for the ice.
These pennies totaled $1,000 last year and paid for
the deliveries. Nnety-three shut-ns received daily
deliveries at home
Through the Penny Ice Fund ice is supplied to
hundreds of families who otherwise would be unable
to afford it. The Times urges citizens to cooperate
to make the drive a success again this year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-26

worthwhile dreams which are I'M
materialized because modern life
and the demands of the older envir-
onment will not give them a chance.
Is it any wonder younger minds
are filled with cynicism and I'M
belief? Is there any motive for
evil thoughts or stunted lives? Dare
there be an exclamation at free love,
last driving, reckleSsness, or strange
emotions? There need be no ex-
clamation but there certainly is an
explanation and a definite reason.
AS previously mentioned, it is the
older folks who are mostly to blame.
Young people are not machines.
Some people seem to think so. They
vainly imagine young manhood and
young womanhood to be incapable
OF fine progression, economical home
life, happy marriages, or as sincere
students of life's deeper problems.
The panorama of human history
viii be degraded to the base of
puppetry within the next few gen.
erations. And the only glimmer of
hope or escape that young people
have is the thought that history
Will be kind enough to record it in
this manner: 'The youth of 1886
were helpless, despaired, haunted
and underprivileged they were
pitiful Punch-and- Judy dolls. but
their elders held the strings that
manipulated their actions. This
was. unquestionably, the cause of
their defeat"
Bewail our plight, you who are
older. Try to understand that there
are some young people with reason
and good mentality left. Realize
that we have dreams just as YOU
did and try to help us, I pray. to
break the shackles of slavery with
which you have bound us down to
earth.
When you do this the clarion call
OF youth will echo throughout the
nations.
America needs more National
Youth movements. There should
be fort in Indianapolis for the
youth who are discouraged. Is
there another fellow or girl that
shares this opinion?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-26
A BIG OVERLAPPING JOB

THE best news of all the Congressional fussng
- the tax bill is the announced intention of
Senator Pat Harrison to ask creation of special
Senate House committee to consider the whole ques
ton of overhauling tax legislation.
1t would be this committees duty to conduct
exhaustive studies and advise the Congress next year
on how to simplify and codify our tax laws to the
end that they shall be made scientific and under
standable to the public"
Certainly the present conglomeration of tax laws
contains little that is either scientific understand
able. Year after year Congress has Tapped COM
promise tax law another, plugged old loopholes
and opened ones, keeping always few steps
behind clever tax lawyers. Congress has not yet
learned how to collect fair assessments from tax
payers who hde behind corporate f1ctions, yet in
trying to do that Congress has passed laws which
penalize legitimate businesses.
Corporate taxes are not alone in the need of
drastic revision Taxes individual incomes do
not produce the revenue which the rates indicate
should be Forthcoming. The high rates on upper
bracket incomes are mere paper assessments, due
to many weaknesses in the law, not the least of
which is the exemption granted to income from
government securities.
Estate taxes likewise are discriminatory; for the
levy is the whether the deceased's property is
divided among dozen relatives or goes in toto
to some person not related. graduated in
heritance tax, with rates and exemptions favoring
the widow widower and direct descendants would
be more equitable Even more important is the
development of some plan for orderly instalment
collection of taxes where the estate consists of non
liquid properties.
Last but probably the most difficult to straghten
out is the vast accumulation of special sales and
nuisance taxes, from which the government gets the
bulk of its revenue-eves which take no account
of ability to pay. Substitute schedules raising the
same amount of revenue by visible taxes, proper
toned to ability to pay, would be great advance
toward scientific tax system.
These changes can not be accomplished without
long and careful study We hope that before ad-
journment Congress creates this special tax-reorm
committee and directs it to start work at once
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-26
HALF A LEAGUE-ONWARD

TNHoSE who have believed in the League of Ma
tions or league of nations have prepared
themselves. no doubt, since the triumph of Musso-
lin to take the taunts of non-believers with such
fortitude as they could muster. But judging from
editorial and other public expression there is not
much disposition the part of the non believers
to celebrate this seeming vindcation of their opinion
Apparently nobody is happy over the successful
Haunting of the Leagues authority Even those who
sneered at the League may have entertained a
sneaking hope that it would be able to defend the
hapless Africans from the invading Italians.
In any the popular state of mind at the
moment is one of questioning. What can be done
now? Is there any way through increasing
ornaments already grown excessive, to assure the
safety of peacesbly inclined nationP
The League of Nations Association of the United
States organization which favors our joining the
League, offers plan. Believing, in spite of certain
signal failures that in the l6 years of its existence
the League actually has accomplished great deal,
this Association proposes
/. Acceptance of the Kellogg Pact as the funda-
mental and guiding principle of universal league
q Establishment within the orbit of this universal
league of arrangements for peaceful modification of
the status quo and for the advancement of social
and economic justice;
3. Graduation of obligations for maintaining COL
lectve security in accordance with the geographical
position and special situation of states;
4. Separation of the covenant of the League of
Nations from the Treaty of Versailles
The kellogg pact-an agreement by sgnatories
that war shall not be used an instrument of
tional pocy-is natural basis for any society of
nations. Certainly it is sounder basis than the
Treaty of Versailles. The unfairness of the latter
document and the inequities it set up are largely
responsible for most of the present Leagues difficult
ties Arrangement for peaceful modification of the
status quo" would more than anything else
arrangement for erasng the unfair provisions of the
Versailles Treaty.
The third principle listed above may be subject
to debate those seeking to rebuilt the present
League build new league, but hardly the first
second and fourth principles Those three cut the
ground from under Hitler ano Mussolni while
serving the true interest the German and Italian
peoples.
The important thing is to clear the field of the
false foundations OF which the present League rests
This done. it then can be determined whether it is
best to attempt system under which neighboring
nations would accept special responsibility for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-26
TUESDAY. MAY 2s. 1895.
PAROLE CONFERENCE

COME spectacular crimes by paroled convicts in
recent years have brought new criticism of the
parole system, of the least understood phases
OF the campaign against crime.
On the other hand, publicity is not and can not
be given TO the large number of parole successes
Little was heard of the SO per cent of released
from Federal prisons in 1888 who successfully COM
pleted their parole terms OF the remaining per
cent about half committed new crimes; the others
violated parole regulations
The spotlight, however is on the parole breakers
These cases to illustrate one abuse of the
parole system the Central States Parole and Pro-
baton Conference opens here today to consider this
and other problems
Parole authorities in the states have been the
targets for most Of the criticism The Federal Board
has been remarkably free of criticism
We believe the difference is due to the difference
Of methods. The Federal board is free from DO
litical domination that undermines many state svs-
TENS The spols system too often enters the selec-
ton of personnel in the states The Federal
authorities are less subject to pressure by relatives
and politicians. In general, they have perfected
better investgative methods for getting reliable in
formation on which to act. Another weakness of
the many unrelated state parole systems is lack of
coordination and cooperation.
CRITICS then, may look with hope upon the
~ program of the Parole and Probation Con-
ference here for many of these specific weaknesses
are to be considered Representatives from 40 states
including six Governors, are expected to attend
Prominent students of crime prevention will speak
The conference is expected to back a uniform
system of parole supervision in the states uniform
eXtradition law uniform system for selecting
competent persons for parole work. and civil serv-
ice system to protect from spoils politics those en-
gagged in parole and prison supervision
Steps of this kind would raise the standards of
state parole systems Judges, prosecutors police
and parole authorities will make mistakes of iude-
ment but the mistakes will be fewer if officials have
all the facts
parole system is no cure for all crime ills. 1t
seeks to help and put back into society the human
material with which other agencies have failed We
know it is dangerous to turn out a prisoner
without restriction at the end of fixed term than
to put him under parole supervision Most of those
now in prison will be released again Certainly it is
desirable that they be given intelligent direction
The Parole and Probation Conference can help
make the parole system function without many of
the handcaps which now permit the occasional
parole of Dlinger to shake confidence in a sound
principle of human rehabilitation