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The Washington times., 1936-10-23
LARGER i. 5.
FUND ASKED
FOR D. c.
Citizens Tell Fiscal
Hearing Of Federal
Debt to Capital

Unanimous in their belief that
the Federal Government owes the
District to a much greater sum
than the present annual grant OF
5000, 900, local citizens today
urged that the annual sum be in.
creased appreciably.
Speaking at the public hearing
in the Commercial National Bank
Building before the Committee of
Tax and Municipal Experts ap'
pointed by President Roosevelt to
solve the problem of a fair Fed
eral grant to the District budget,
the citizens declared that the fund
shortage crisis facing the munich.
pal government should be solved
by higher Federal contribution.
Tax Burden Cited
1t was pointed out that the di-
rect services supplied the Federal
Government by District agencies,
the Federal tax exempted property
and the experiments forced on the
District by Federal pressure"
place a huge burden of taxation
on local citizens.
Woven into the discussions was
the demand by several of the
citizens that national and local
suffrage be granted District resi-
dents.
The hearings were opened with
a significant remark by George
McAneny, chairman Of the in
veStigating committee, the New
York bank executive, who said:
Even at this early date, our
efforts are promising of result"
Rufus S. Lusk, secretary of the
Washington Taxpayers ASSocia-
ton, stated that the District was
being made "the political guinea
pig" of the Federal Government
and that 1T has cost us plenty"
He gave the character program
experiment as an example of what
he meant. Character education,
he said, cost the District $780, 900
in a period of two years. This
sum, he declared, was thrown out
the window"
RapS Triangle Project
Mr.. LuSk also attacked the "tri-
angle building program" of the
Federal Government which, he
said, restricted the building area
Continued on Page 2, Col. II
-NOIE AMERICAN-
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
} DIE AS AUTO
JUMPS SPAN

CRESSON, Pa, Oct. % G.N.sJ.
Three men were killed instantly
today when their automobile
plunged from high bridge" near
here and fell so to so feet onto
the Pennsylvania railroad tracks
and directly in the path of a
moving freight train.
The dead: Robert Hess, %, of
Johnstown; Cyril G. Edwards, q.
of Johnstown and an unidenti-
fled companion.
The trio was returning TO
Johnstown from a dance at Gal
litzin. Their automobile. CON-
pletely wrecked, was found wedged
between the tenth and eleventh
cars of the freight. Apparently
out of control. the car smashed
through a barricade on the bridge.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
AL SMITH HITS
u. 5. SPENDING

CHICAGO, Oct. % G.N.SO.
Millions of Jeffersonian Demo
Gratis, Democrats that believe in
the fundamental principles of the
Democratic party, that regard it
as their political bible. Democrats
who believed in the 1882 plat
form and want it enforced" will
go to the polls November 3 and
so cast their vote as to assure
"a sane. orderly, sensible, compre-
hensible administration under Gov
ernor Landon of Kansas" former
Governor Alfred E. Smith of New
York predicted here last night.
They are going to do this, the
Continued on Page 33, Col. u
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
President S Speech
On With Morqenthau

NEW YORK, Oct. % G.N.SO.
Elaborate arrangements were
made today by the Columbia
Broadcasting System for a pro-
gram tonight during which Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau and lead
ing supporters of the administra-
ton will be heard. The program
will run from 10 to 1O.45 p. m.
Eastern Standard time. The Presi-
dent will speak from the White
House.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
7 Saved From Chair
By last-Minute STAY

CHICAGO, Oct. % 0.N.SO. =.
Two convicted killers occupied
their death cells today instead of
the plain wooden coffins to which
they had been consigned.
Seven hours before they were
to have died in the electric chair,
Governor Henry Horner granted
reprieves staying execution of
their death sentences until De-
cember 4, to Peter KrisouSlas, 80,
slayer of a theater manager, and
Joseph Rappaport. convicted of
the murder of a Government in
former who was to have testified
against him in a narcotics case.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
Bishop Of Barcelona
AuCtioned As Slave,
Then Killed , Report

VATICAN CITY, Oct. % 0.N.S).
First sold on the auction block to
the highest bidder. the Bishop Of
Barcelona was shot and killed by
police, the Vatican was officially
informed today.
The bishop was auctioned off
during a mock "slave sale" the
Vatican said. He was mobbed and
seriously injured before being shot.
The Vatican also was informed
nine priests were shot by anarch-
lists at Figuera.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
LaladOn i'm Bold Bid
For Democrats

orally to follow the lead of two of
their recent party candidates for
PreSident-John w. Davis and Al
fred Smith-and vote a protest
against the attempt" made by
this Administration to change the
fundamental principles of our
American Government"
Landon spoke to thousands
jammed into the coliseum, after a
parade through downtown streets.
He was introduced by former
Gov. William H. Murray, who de-
clsred he could no longer stand
for Roosevelt policies.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
WIFE KEEPS
SECRET AS
HE SLEEPS
Refuses to Wake Him
With News; Other
Americans Listed

Money or no money, Mrs.
August Nikula wouldn't wake up
her husband this morning.
Nikula, a pressman at the Gov,
ernment Printing Office, held a
ticket on FinaliSt in the Irish
Hospitals Sweepstakes. The ticket
is worth just S2,966 to him, and
if his horse wins would bring
him about $150,000.
When newspaper men went to
the Nikula home at 1908 Benton
st. N. w. today, Mrs. Nikula met
them and informed them her hus-
band works nights, went off duty
at $50 this morning and was
asleep.
Further, she said, she Gid not
intend waking him, and that was
that. So he will not know of his
good fortune until some time later
today.
Gamblers agents, too, were as
quick as the reporters to seek out
Mr.. Nikula this morning. Two
kilograms arrived, both from New
York agents wanting to purchase
all or a share in the ticket. To
this. Mrs. Nikula said:
"Sell out? I should say not.
Why sell our good luck?"
Nor will Mr.. Nikula, who is SIS,
likely retire from the G. P. O.,
she said, adding that the money
probably would be used to pay
notes on their home and to edu.
cate a daughter who is a Western
High School student.
To Go AbrOad-"If"
She said they would like to visit
their native country. Finland, on
part of the money and might if
it is enough
The Nikula's came to Wash
ington seven years ago from At
lanta, Ga. where they had lived
since coming to this country from
Finland about IS years ago.
Mrs. Nikula said her husband
came home with the tickets two
days ago and told her he had a
feeling I'm going to win some
thing" She said she didn't know
when he had purchased the lucky
piece.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
By WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON

BY WILLIAM N. HU1C1AN0ON
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Oct,
% G.N.SD.-Charging President
Roosevelt with having forfeited all
claims of allegiance from those
who believe in the principles of
the Democratic party, Governor
Alfred M. Landon made bold bid
here today for the support Of inde-
pendent Democrats.
The Republican nominee urged
faithful Democrats to place love of
country above party fealty and re-
pudiate the Roosevelt Administra-
tion. He urged Democrats gen
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
VOTE AMERICAN
Train Kills 2 Men
BY EARL GOODWIN

If you see one of these chaps
with his pockets bulging with pads,
pencils and slide rules while he
talks glibly about "sampling," :"
proper weighting" and shifting
votes" ring for an ambulance as
quickly as possible, because un-
doubtedly he is suffering from
pollitis, a mental disease which
has swept the country of late
months.
The reason is that heretofore all
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
Horvdth and Plane
Land Safe at Buffalo

TORONTO. Ontario, Oct. %
1N.S0.-Unsighted since he left
here yesterday morning by air
plane for New York. Paul Hor-
vath, 30-year-old Miami pilot. was
reported to have landed his ship
safely at Buffalo. N. Y, in word
received here today.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
DO Polls Confuse You?
Well. Read ThiSS

the polls, straw ballots and sucn
campaign year predictions have
been unanimous. This year they
are as far apart as they we'll can
be.
Since 1920 the Literary Digest
has been sampling the country,
That word "sampling" is exactly
the word which the scientific poll
managers use. 1t hasn't been just
a straw vote, collected in smoking
cars. on communication trains. in
Continued on Page 3, Col. y
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
By KINGsBURY SMITH


LONDON Oct. % UN.S).
Statesmen of q nations squared
off today for a diplomatic battle
royal as the Spanish Noninter-
vention Commission reconvened in
the Locarno room at the foreign
office, with the peace Of Europe
possibly at stake.
Britain, stalling, and France,
pleading, played the roles of peace
makers in an effort to keep Ivan
Maisky, Soviet ambassador, from
walking out of the commission and
leaving the U. S. S. R. free to aid
openly the Spanish radicals.
Germany. Italy, and Portugal
maintained a united front, deny
ing they violated the noninterveSl-
ton agreement and presenting
formal and detailed charges that
Russia aided Madrid.
Moves Cautious
The Soviets, it was said, want
to quit the committee, but, in view
of pressure from France and the
fact that Moscow would thus be
leaving unanswered the charges
brought by the Fascist countries
after the FaScists answered the
Soviet allegations, MaiSky may re-
sort to cautious diplomatic
course.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
AirpIanes Raid Madrid
In Broad Daylight
BY THOMAS A, LOAYZA

ny A1AONAZAS IN A1OtAN A1AA
MADRID, Oct. % U.N.SO In.
surgent bombing planes swept
over Madrid in three separate
air raids today. the first carried
out in broad daylight since the
civil war began.
While damage was reported
slight, the raids caused tremen-
dous excitement and brought
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
Many Americans Hold
Lucky FoiIs in Sweeps

DUBLIN, Oct. % GN.SD.
Nine American holders of Irish
Hospitals sweepstakes tickets won
Lady Luck's greatest prize in the
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. 81
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
4 MEN SEIZED
IN DOPE RAID

Four Chinese were arrested and
a quantity of narcotics was con-
fiscated when Federal agents and
District detectives raided an es-
tablishment in the 400 block of
H st. N. w. late yesterday.
Those arrested gave their names
as Lee Wing, alias Joe Lee, A;
Tip Wong, 40; Mark Cling, 20, and
Chen Han, 35. The warrant on
which the raid was made charged
Joe Lee with the sale of opium.
In gaining entrance to the es-
tabliShment the officers were COM
PEELED to smash two barred doors,
and enter the second floor of the
building by forcing open a win.
dow from the roof of the adjacent
structure.
VOTE AMERICAN
Train Kills 2 Men
TEANECK, N. j., Oct. %
Q.N.S) Two men were killed TO-
day when hit by an automobile
while standing on a roadway be-
side another machine. They are
George Murray. so. of Arkville,
N. Y, and Bruce Archibald, 36, of
Margaretville, N. Y.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
UTRALITY
PACT NEAR
COMPLETE
COLLAPSE
Russian Ships Load
War Supplies; Await
Final Decision

PARIS, Oct. % Q.N.S.).
Fifty fighting planes from Soviet
Russia reached lOyallSt forces
in Spain yesterday, it was as
serted today in an inSurgent
radio broadcast. Sixty more are
expected today.
LONDON, Oct. % 0.N.SJ.
Twenty-Six Soviet ships in Black
Sea ports are ready to steam to
Spain with munitions the mo-
ment the news is flashed that
Russia has abandoned the nOn-
Intervention agreement, said the
Daily Express today in a Warsaw
dispatch.
LONDON, Oct. % (I.N.S.).
In a desperate attempt to pre-
vent the collapse of Spanish
nOn-interventiOn, French Am
baSSadOr Charles Corbin today
conferred with Lord Plymouth.
chairman of the nOn-interven-
ton commission, at the foreign
office.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Rain probable tonight and Saturday;
tonight; fresh northeast winds.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1936-10-23

.NoIE AMERICAN.
Evening star., 1936-11-09
HE GRINNED.

before that Dog should catch up with
him. He had not grinned then.
Presently that Dog burst into view.
Bobby stopped grinning. He still
showed his sharp teeth, but not In
o grin.
IF I wasn't so tired and out of
breath I would fight that Dog right
here" though Bobby. II would like
nothing better than to set my teeth
in him. I would like to throw him
of this ledge, and I believe I could
do it."
The sound of mems voices put an
end to these thoughts. He glanced
back at black opening just behind
him, the entrance to passage that
led far back and down in the ledge.
Then he once more faced the Dog.
The latter had begun to climb up the
ledge and was making hard work of
1t. Bobby Coon watched him slip
and slide, but still persist. A gr. l
rumbled steadily in Bobby's thu I.
He longed to fly at the throat Of that
Dog. Yes, sir, he longed to do Just
that.
The Dog was almost to the little
shelf Of rock on which Bobby sat
when the hunters appeared below.
Evening star., 1936-11-09

nothing. nothing at all, to worry about
now. He would lie there and rest
until they gave up and went away.
He found q sort Of little room just
big enough for the purpose and there
lay down for the rest he so much
needed. The Dog had stopped bark
ing, but Bobby could still hear the
voices of the hunters. He wondered
what they were doing. Why didn't
they go away, now that they knew
they couldn't get him? Well, they
could stay ss long as they pleased,
for all he cared. There was nothing
for him to worry about.
Bobby was half-asleep when he be-
came dimly aware that something was
wrong. He stirred uneasily and q
moment later was fully awake. There
was a strange smell. yet somehow it
seemed familiar. His nose began to
sting and his eyes to smart. He
Evening star., 1936-11-09
Bedtime Stories
A New Worry.

Bobby took one good look at them, a
look in which fear and hate were
mingled. then turned and entered
that passage that led down into the
ledge. He was no longer afraid. He
no longer worried. Even If that Dog
should follow him in there he would
have to crawl fiat on his stomach in
some places. There would be no room
for him to fight. The advantage
would be all with Bobby and he
knew 1t.
He slowly made his way along that
passage. The barking of the Dog at
the entrance sounded queer down here
underground. Then Bobby heard the
voices of the hunters who had climbed
up to join the Dog. Bobby grinned.
They would have their trouble for
nothing; he was safe. There was
Evening star., 1936-11-09
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Who is from worry wholly free.
Old Mother Nature,

IN THE moonlight Bobby Coon sat
on little shelf Of rock part way
up the ledges which really were
i the beginning of the Great Noun
tain. Bobby was painting for breath
He had had hard. long run and,
being fat, he had been in no condition
to run.
From below, where the Black
Shadows were blacklist in the Green
Forest, the excited. eager barking of
Dog came up to Bobby. He grinned.
He could afford to grin now, for he
had reached the ledges, and the ledges
meant safety. That barking had
sounded very differently short time
before, when Bobby had not been
sure that he could reach those ledges
Evening star., 1936-11-09

choked when he drew . long breath.
Now he knew what the trouble was;
1t was smoke made by the Red Ter.
ror which men call fire. He remem.
bered how once there had been . fire
in the Green Forest and how all had
fed before it. the little and big, the
weak and the strong. Bobby shifted
and choked again. His eyes and his
nose smarted more than ever. Was
he so safe, after all? Here was q new
worry.
Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-11-09
Texas "Settled" in 1920.

The first European attempt to set
tie Texas was in 1920 by Alonzo AL
varez de Pineda, according to evi-
dence unearthed by DR.. Carlos Z.
Castaneda. Latin American librarian
Of the University Of Texas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
PURDUE LOSES
COURT BATTLE
School Denied Collection of
$47,073 From State
Sinking Fund.

Purdue University today was de-
MED collection of 47,073.03 from the
state sinking fund by a decision Of
the Appellate Court.
In a suit filed against Atty. Gen.
Philip Lutz Jr., State Auditor Lau-
renee Sullivan, State Treasurer Pc
ter Helm and E. H. Dehority of the
State Banking Department, Purdue
sought to be reimbursed for funds
on deposit in the Fowler Bank City
Trust Co., Lafayette.
The bank was closed June 2, 1884,
at which time the university had on
deposit $33,622.46 in a residence
hall development fund and $13, 409.57
in a fund for retirement of teach
ers.
The Tippecanoe Circuit Court held
that the university was entitled to
reimbursement from the sinking
fund established to protect public
funds in closed banks.
The principal question involved in
the suit concerned "old" and new
money, the Appellate Court holding
the university was not entitled to
reimbursement because the funds
were "old money" and did not come
under the sinking fund act of 1882.
The Appellate Court ordered the
lower court to sustain the states
motion for a new trial and judg-
ment against the university. Pur-
due will be forced to accept divi-
dends on their deposits in the reg
ular course of liquidation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
WELL-TRAINED /
WORKERS FIND
JOBS IN STATE
Employment Director Says
Skilled Craftsmen
Easily Placed.

The Indiana State Employment
Service has no trouble finding Jobs
for persons we'll trained in trades
work, Martin F. Carpenter, director.
told the National Emergency Coun-
Gil this afternoon in the Washing
ton.
Naturally" he said, "the place.
ment of unframed youthful appli-
cants and the placement of people
who have followed occupations that
are obsolete present serious prob
lens.
I'VE find that % per cent Of the
applicants are under rs years, and
"a per cent over As years.
There has been an unusual de-
mand for domestic workers in pri-
vate homes, and this demand is
responsible for great number of
the placements of women. The
manufacturing industries in the
state also are providing a great
amount of the employment. During
December, January and February
200 men were placed in manufac-
turing industries and 11.9 per cent
of the total number of men were
highly skilled craftsmen.
During the same three months
commercial and professional services
used 1910 people or 8.5 per cent Of
the total people placed in jobs dur
ing the period"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
CHURCH CONFERENCE
To END HERE TODAY
Delegates to General Synod
Named at Session.

The forty-seventh Indiana dis
trict conference of the Evangelical
and Reformed Church is to close it's
four-day meeting today in the Zion
Evangelical Church with an address
by the Rev. Elmer G. Hon1righau-
sen, Carrollton Avenue Reformed
Church pastor.
Six ministers and SIX 1aymen were
elected yesterday as delegates to the
general synod. Ministers elected
are the Revs. Frank Pullman, Cum
berland; G.. w. Grauer, Cincinnati,
O.; F. A. Meusch, New Albany; T.
o. Keller, Evansville; w. Scheer,
Louisville, KY. and Robert G.. Kueb-
Ter, indianapolis.
Laynen named are L. G. Brandt,
Indianapolis; j. C. Fischer and H.
w. Goebel, Evansville; Fred Diehl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
CYMNAST|C NORMAL
CLASS TO GRADUATE
Exercises Tomorrow Night
in the Athenaeum.

Commencement exercises of Nor
NAL College, A. G. u, are to be held
at 8 tomorrow night in the Athen-
aeum. Walter B. Harding, United
States Tire Co. president, is to
speak.
Howard A. Clark, Buffalo, N. Y, is
to receive the degree of bachelor of
physical education. Those to receive
diplomas as teachers of physical
education are Alvin Baer, Clinton,
Mass; Miss Pearl H. Barnekow,
Wesley R. Benzee, Frank Milford
Emerling and Fred A. Flessa, all of
Buffalo, N. Y; Miss Catherine
Agnes Fitzgerald, Bayonne, N. j.;
Miss Frances Harriet Kochendorfer
Menomonie, Wis; Miss Ruth Isa-
belle Lorentz, Peoria, ILL.,, and Ru-
dolph Louis Memmel, Rochester, N.
Y.
Miss Estelle Poe, Marion; William
Otto Ruedlinger, st. Louis, Mo-;
Miss Eleanor j. Seymour, Ebenezer,
N. Y; Robert G. Shoemaker. In
dianapolis, and Marvin E. Steuer-
nagel, Milwaukee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
HAUPTMANN EXPERT
LOSES JOB IN WPA
Court Record Disclosed by
Attendant Publicity.

BY Scripps-Ho1drd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, May 10. = The
Hauptmann case, which has woven
web of misfortune for many in adj
dition to the late Bronx carpenter,
claimed another victim today
Arch w. -Loney lost his job with
the Public Works Administration
here as the result of-though not
because of-his efforts to save the
Lindbergh murderer from the chair.
Publicity revolved around Mr..
Loney when, in the final effort to
save Hauptmann, he appeared as a
wood expert with the claim that
the famous rail 16" of the kidnap
ladder did not come from the
Hauptmann attic.
That publicity brought the dis
closure in Pittsburgh that he had a
court record there which he had not
mentioned in applying to PWA for
employment.
Administrator Harold S. Ickes dis
missed Mr.. Loney, effective May Is.
The dismissal, it was explained, was
based solely on the Justification of
personal statements in his applica-
ton for a job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
BOARD ACCEPTS
GYRO CLUB GIFT
To new SCHOOL
Society to Furnish Stage
Curtain Equipment for
Roberts Building.

The Board of School Commission
ers last night accepted from the
Gyro Club the gift Of complete cur
tain equipment for the auditorium
stage of the new James E. Roberts
School for Crippled Children, now
under construction at 10th and
Oriental-stS.
Cost of the equipment will be
several hundred dollars, according
to the board.
This gift is extremely crafty
ing" Carl Wilde, president of the
board, said. Anything given to
this school, in which we are so
much interested, is very pleasing to
this board"
Officers of Club
The offer was contained in a let
ter from Fred K. Sale, Gyro Club
secretary. Other officers are Ralph
G. 1ttenbach, president; Walter L..
Brant, vice president; Arley H.
Crowley, treasurer, and Joe Goode,
Sergeant-at-arm
Schhedules for summer school
were announced at the meeting by
superintendent Paul G. Stetson.
Summer classes for sixth, seventh
and eighth grade pupils are to be
at School 2, 700 N. Delaware-st.
Negro pupils in the same grades are
to attend CriSpus Attacks.
Summer high schools are to be
conducted at Shortridge, Manual
Training, Technical and Crispus At
tucks. The schools are to begin
June 8 and end July "a. The hours
are to be from to II, six days a
week.
Cost Exceeds Estimate
Elementary school tuition is SO
for one subject, Sc for two and 81
for three. High school tuition is SIS
subject.
Business Director A. B. Good re-
ported that the cost of the Roberts
School would De about $21 900 more
than the estimate.
The board authorized Mr.. Good
to apply for a grant of IS per cent
of this amount from the Public
Works Administration, which al
ready has made a grant of $98,214,
or IS per cent of the original esti-
mate.