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The Washington times., 1936-12-30

John S. Langley. besides being
one of the "old-timerS" at the
Washington Navy Yard, is also
considered a veteran among sea-
faring men.
That is because Langley, now re-
tired and living at 1910 C st. N.
E., served two stretches in the
United States Navy, one from 1889
to 1892 and the other during the
Spanish-American War.
To close friends he relates eX-
perienceS of his days on Uncle
Sans cruiser Columbia" in cuba
and Puerto Rico, especially about
the time the warship was rammed
off Fire Island by a British
steamer. The latter ship, Lang
ley says left IL feet of its bow
stuck in the "Columbia's vitals:
Having been repaired at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, the cruiser
returned to active service and was
used to transport Gen. Nelson A.
Miles and his troops from Cuba to
Pouerto Rico.
Langley first entered the Naval
gun factory in 1900 working in the
pattern and joiner shop. Within
a few years he left the yard to
try three years at steelmaking and
railroading. Then he returned to
the foot of Eighth St. S. E., in
1911, remaining until he retired in
1888.
Born and raised in Washington
Langley is now living quietly with
his wife. They have one daughter.
The Washington times., 1936-12-30
New Classes Planned
In Hygiene, Si(kCare

Two new classes in home hy-
giene and care of the sick will be
opened by the District of Colum-
bia Chapter, American Red Cross,
at the Chapter House, 1870 E st.
N. W., beginning next Tuesday.
A morning class will begin at
10:30 and meet each Tuesday and
Thursday. An afternoon class will
begin at 2 and met the same day.
The classes, which will provide
a minimum of six weeks instruc-
ton, were announced today by the
Red Cross Chapter.
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MILES )
OF FILMS FOR
INAUGURAL
By EARL GOODWIN

President Roosevelt's second in
augural ceremony will undoubt-
edly be the most completely pho
tographed event ever held in
Washington, and that goes for
both still" pictures and the
Sound news reels" Arrange
ments for the camera work which
will be ceaSeleSS once the day
starts are now being made under
the direction of the most Skillful
camera men in the country-and
the lend to end" layers say that
you could surround the whole
District of Columbia with the
film that will be exposed on
January 20 in Washington, D. c.
That's lot of film . but any
how, one of the old-timers who
has followed President Roosevelt
for most of his 50,000-mile travels
says that at least 10 miles OF
movie film will be rolled through
the cameras and that's $4,000
Of raw film.
Experts on Hand
Picturizing the Inauguration IS
as much of a task as covering
it for the newspapers; hence a
special Photographic committee
takes the field to see that proper
facilities are provided; proper
camera operators are recognized
and gate crasherS tossed into the
ash heap!
That committee as now organ
iZed includes Arthur De Titta, Of
Fox Movietone News, who with
M. M. Van Tine, of International
News Photographs, will occupy the
al-important stand on the east
front of the Capitol; j. C. Brown,
of News of the Day; James Lyons,
Universal News Reels; Albert Hol-
land, Pathe News and Robert Den
ton, Paramount.
Scores of still cameras will be
set up; there will be about siA
crews from each motion picture
and sound concern; it is under
stool that an effort will be made
to produce the finest and smooth
est sound-picture results ever seen
and heard.
All Vantage Points
A special steel stand is being
erected on the east front of the
Capitol, permitting cameramen to
take pictures from 125 feet. In
addition there will be cameramen
on the roof of the Congressional
Library, several hundred yards
away for the "longshots" at the
"big Shots" This time the Pres
ident does not stand on the ex-
treme east edge of the stand, but
will be several feet back under
cover.
One special set of cameramen
will be detailed to go with the
President from the White House
to the Capitol and back again,
taking running shots of the
crowds.
There will be special stands Tor
cameras at the famous Fifteenth
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
corner, with the Capitol dome as
background; the spot famous for
pictures of all great parades III
Washington since the famouSS re-
view of the Army following the
Civil War.
A special stand is being built
for cameramen in the court Nf
honor in front of the White House.
The pictures will be taken from
the north side of the Avenue, as
the President will review the pa
rade from the stand on the south
side. He will be protected from
the weather by thin glass, but the
cameras will penetrate that with
ease, it is claimed.
The Washington times., 1936-12-30
Kin Of Mrs. Simpson
In Court Appearance
Complain Of Theft

Two cousins of Mrs. Wallis War
field Simpson made a court ap-
pearance in Washington yesterday
but did not appear on the wit
ness stand.
They were Mrs. Katherine Hill
and her daughter, Miss Frances
Hill, of 1928 wyoming Ave. N. w.
They were present in Police
Court to testify against Horace
Stevens, colored, who is charged
with stealing jewelry and other
articles valued at SITS from their
home.
Stevens, however, demanded a
Jury trial, so they will not testify
until the case comes up in jury
court.
The Washington times., 1936-12-30

through the heart. Some distance
from the point where Catanzaro
died, detectives found a .38 cali
bre revolver, with five chambers
empty, which was searched for
fingerprints.
The Washington times., 1936-12-30
Paddler Is Shot

NEW YORK, Dec. 80 UN.S).
Police today sought the slayer of
Tony Catanzaro, 38, unemployed
peddler, who collapsed in a street
in Brooklyn, shot in the back and
The Washington times., 1936-11-11
ROPER CENSUS
OF IDLE ET0COST
15MILL|0NS

Secretary of Commerce Roper is
drafting a request to Congress for
an appropriation of between fif-
teen and twenty million dolla-=
for a census of the unemployed,
1t was learned yesterday.
Turned down by Work Progress
Administrator Harry Hopkins, in
his request for relief funds to count
the jobleSS, the Secretary is prepar-
ing a detailed plan for congres-
Sional study. 1t will emphasize
the Importance of such a study
from a relief viewpoint, outline
the manner in which it would be
conducted by the Census Bureau
and estimate the number of white
collar workers such a survey would
employ.
The most recent report of the
Bureau of Labor statistics asserted
the jobleSS list has been cut from
100000 in March, 1888, to g..
100000 at the present time. This
would indicate 100000 hitherto
unemployed have fou d permanent
occupations.
The Washington times., 1936-11-11
0PTIMIST TALK
VIEWS CRIME

Earl Stanza, president of the
Optimist International, described
unguided youth as the largest
contributing factor to crime in
an address before the local or
ganization at a luncheon meeting
in the Mayflower Hotel yester'
day.
Mr.. Stanza said:
1--WE must assume response
bility for these boys and give
them the chance they deserve
to become good citizens. 1t is
an economic as we'll as a hu-
manitarian problem"
He pointed out the annual cost
of crime in the United States,
and said that by leading mis-
guided youths, the club could
offer a partial solution to the
problem of crime control.
The Washington times., 1936-11-11
Westminster Chorus
Opens Howard Series

Howard UniverSity's concert
artist series sponsored by the
school of music opened last night
with presentation of the West
minister Chorus in Rankin Chapel.
The chorus was assisted by
Dorothy Manor, soloist. The art
ist for December IS will be Con.
rad Bernier, organist; January s.,
Alton Jones, pianist, with Frank
Harrison, baritone; Hazel Harri-
son, pianist, and Louise Burge,
contralto, to appear later.
The Washington times., 1936-11-11
Ann Harding Given
Child Until June

LOS ANGELES, Nov. II.
Q.N.S0.-Despite objections of
Harry Bannister, her former huS-
band, Ann Harding's petition to
keep her daughter, Jane, in Eng
land with her until June was
granted here yesterday
The blonde actress, who figured
in a sensational custody battle
with Bannister over their 7-year-
old daughter, had obtained per-
mission to take the child abroad
for six months ending next month.
The Washington times., 1936-11-11
George Didn't

TORONTO, Ont. GN.SJ.-An
automobile ran driverless through
the streets here, ending up in a
brewery window after escaping it's
owner, who had been cranking it
while it was in gear.
The Washington times., 1936-11-11
Sardine Catch

ASTORIA, Ore. G.N.S). - The
largest sardine catch of the season
in this area was turned in by the
pilchard seiner. Alletta B. The
catch weighed 201 tons. The
Alletta B is the largest pilcnard
seiner ever built in the Pacific
Northwest.
The Washington times., 1936-11-11

not by burglars. The lock Of the
smaller vault jammed and all et.
forts to open it were unsuccessful.
Finally engineers we're called in
to bore a hole in the surrounding
concrete with compression drills.
The Washington times., 1936-11-11
Safe Cracked

COLOMBO, Ceylon GN.SO
One of the two government treas
ury vaults here, containing $4,000
rupees ($l8,000) and important
documents. was broken into-but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-11
Times Books

DHILIP S. VAN CISE in his book, Fighting the
Underworld (Houghton Mf1in) tells of the
campaign he made as district attorney of Denver
which resulted in the cleanup of one of the most
notorious Western gangs-the Denver bunco ring.
The founder of this gang was Lou Blonger who
came to Denver in the eighties and soon started his
activities with dance hall. To protect his inter-
ests says Van Cise Bonger resorted to brbing police
and fixing" officials. He became one of Denver's
most powerful political figures No underworlder
could operate without his permission and most Of
them had to give him cut
Van Cse elected district attorney in 1920
He studied the gang. He learned the Denver under
world. He assembled his evidence and struck sud-
denly. He imprisoned 30 members of the gang in
the basement of church before the trial He kept
witnesses from being ntinidated and the jury from
being bribed. He used policemen and agents he
could trust. Twenty members of the gang includ-
ing Blonger, were given heavy Jail sentences.
However, writes Van else, in 1894 with another
loose police administration, the underworld began to
flourish again.
Fighting the underworld" says the author "s
like fighting forest fire. Let small unco-ordi-
mated force attack huge blaze, it stops in one
place only to have it break out score of fronts
Fighting the underworld is local problem state
problem, national problem. 1t is a problem for
trained and honest officers for integrated police Of
city and state for coordination of Federal agencies
with state forces, for aroused body polite"
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A. F. of l.. leaders because it promises to add to the
powerful United Mine Workers the vast army of
steel workers. With miners and steel workers be-
hind him, Lewis will dominate organized labor,
completely overShaGowing the A. F. of l. craft
unions. In the steel industry the Amagamated
Steel Workers Union the A. F. of L. organization, is
small, lifeleSs organization, widely suspected among
non-member steel workers of playing close to the
employers Already the A. F. of L. has lost to Lewis
the opportunity to organize the steel industry.
FORMATION of the company unions by employ
Il ers played directly into the Lewis program. For
these company unions are organized as industrial
unions not craft unions. That is the workers
in given plant all belong to one union. and
not scattered among a dozen or individual craft
unions according to their different trades, they
would be under the A. F. of l. method of organiza-
tion
In a number of instances these company unions
are crowding out management influence. Employees
are more and more assuming control Furthermore
unions with each other is de ping. AT the mo-
ment err es of the various ..ts controlled by the
Carne Ms Steel Co. are working on a con-
st oh would combine into one organiza-
ito employees in these plants situated ali the
IN Pitt 'rgh to Chicago. This move is the
of ion reached three weeks ago at
Ia s meetj Il representatives of all company
unions IN Carnegie Illinois group. 1t is being
watched coGely by other employee groups and the
Lewis forces expect further Developments of the
same kind in other plants.
The best guess is that there will be no serious
strikes in the steel industry during this neriod If
organization but that after the empoye forces are
consolidated aggressive demands will be made wh;ch
will be Of major Importance in labor history
A imitation of the Townsend Plan is being
n launched under which every person would re-
ceive pension graduated according to age Month
~ payments would equal 81 for each year person
20 years old would receive pension Of SOS year
! 70, the pension would be SIS month.
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with the three of hearts. The ace
of diamonds was cashed and low
spade discarded from declarers
hand. A low diamond was played
from dummy and East, now being
down to spades and trump, was
forced to discard a spade, South
trumping with the four of hearts.
Declarer now played his last
spade and, when West ruffed with
the nine, he oyerruffed in dummy
with the king.
At this point declarer made a
very fine safety play. His own
hand was down to four trump,
but, instead of leading trump
from the dummy, he concluded
that his best line of play, since
West was marked with another
diamond, was to return low dia-
mond and trump.
He proceeded to do this and,
when East trumped with the eight
of hearts, he realized that all the
outstanding trump must be in
East's hand. He therefore over
trumped with the jack of hearts
and led a small heart to dummy's
seven; West, of course, showing
out.
East was forced to win this with
the ten and now had to lead from
his queen-deuce of hearts into de-
clarer's ace-six, thus limiting de-
clarer's loss to one trump trick,
and giving him his contract.
Copyright. 1895. BY NEA Service. Incl
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the Financial Post that the bank
ers seemed reasonable and he ex-
pected them to corporate"
1t was on this trip that he called
on the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin,
at Royal Oak, Mich, who is more
than mildly interested in Social
Credit.
The bankers "co-operated' by
recommending that Alberta hire
r. j. Mayor, an efficiency man
who had put the Newfoundland
government in a bankers strait
jacket with strings held in London,
as special financial adviser. Mr..
Aberhart agreed. Whereat. Social
Creditors in Canada and England
gasped.
COCIAL CREDIT, they cried,
- was a liberating, expansive
formula Mayors program had
, Debated Newfoundland.
Aberhart countered that the
first duty of his government was
to balance the budget, arrange for
refundings and practice economy.
Smelling salts hurriedly were I'M
corked in the Social Credit Sec
retariat in London.
The Premier added that Mr..
Mayor had been engaged for a
specific task, the completion of
which must antedate putting So
cial Credit into operation. He
reminded his critics that Maj.
Clifford Hugh Douglas still was
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WIN Take Back Talk?

HAVING admitted that much see no particular
reason why should take mucn PACK CsiA rom
a CORRESPONDENT who is not well-informed. Ger
tainly l never made any assertion that was
MARTYR or that all my waking hours were devoted
to the betterment of mankind.
OF course I've wasted time, but the boy grew
older In the last two years I've spent more time IN
labor activities than in night clubs This has not
been a sacrif1c I did it because 1 wanted TO- IL
seems to me that the labor movement is much more
interesting.
I've been a member of the American Federatlon
of Labor for Is years and for more than two years
I have been the president of an active labor union
1t isn't whim.
1t is entirely possible that I was more popular
once upon time, and certainly it would be no
great trick if I wrote better than do now. All l
know is that get much more fun out of my writing
now than used to-
Some years ago was a nervous invalid, and peo-
pie said that Broun man who never said an
unkind word about anybody That's why 1 was
nervous invalid Now I am proud to say that L
have quite nice collection of people who hate me
cordially. know which side am on.
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royal autographed suite at
the legislative building, or
Capitol. Pointedly, they left
cards.
AS the portly statesman, main
tanning the mon touch,
thoughtfuiiy toted his luncheon
tray past the steam tables in the
cafeteria of this outpost metro
polls swagger hotel, he might
have been pardoned for contrast
ing his present state unfavorably
with his past.
The lot of a statesman, by all
accounts, is more onerous than
that of prophet.
A FEW short days before and
L n scarcely a Social Credit party
chairman, rising to introduce him
in one-street prairie town, over
Swallowed by its grain elevators,
but hailed Mr.. Aberhart as the
Great Liberator," who assuredly
would break the private monopoly
of credit"
Today, as the head of state
charged with preserving it's credit,
he was faced with the necessity of
going hat in hand into the hostile
East to beg for loans and refund
ings.
Otherwise, bankruptcy-or re-
pudiation. Mr.. Aberhart travelled
East and returned with his Social
Credit shield still bright. P. s.
The East wanted bankruptcy or
reputation as little as Aberhart,
and the schoolmaster-p preacher
had mentioned those alternatives.
The Eastern money centers, To-
ronto and Montreal, as we'll as the
city of London, accepted the land
slide triumph of Social Credit in
Alberta with something less than
good grace.
Although no other banker or
gan" matched the Financial
Worlds open contemptuousness,
the general tone was disdainful.
A IL concurred in suggesting
L Athat one means or another,
constitutional, injunctive or finan-
cial pressure, would bring Mr..
Aoerhart to his senses before he
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
--BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

is the fact that Standard Oil in
terests are for him.
y n
HNE of the biggest laughs
~ around Washington these
days comes from watching anti
New Deal Democrats come home
to roost. There has been a steady
stream of them of late, protesting
deep affection for all the Presi-
dent stands for.
Reason-Some of them are up
for election. and in their par
ticular districts Roosevelt is too
strong.
Most comic examples are Sena-
tors Carter Glass and Harry Byrd
of Virginia; the eminent Josiah
Bailey of North Carolina, and So
cialite Willard Tydings, Maryland.
Last session they stormed and
ragged against the Administration.
Today they've got religion" and
got it strong.
Copyright. 1895. by United Feature
Syndicate Inc
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"rTHERE is no logic in your popping off about the
Il Park-av apartments" continues M. w. D.. IF
you not trying to make the strikers think you
were all for them. If you you would little
common sense and realize that no strike can sue
coed without popular support. Furthermore, you are
not one of them. You have long since left the class
of laborers'
I've never been laborer. All my life I've been
whte-colar worker and that is one of the very
reasons why I'm for TIE strikers. Langdon Posts
suggestion of a tenants union is excellent
Many tenants have suffered hardships But should
they give their support to the workers union which
has offered to arbitrate to the landlords union
which has refused to discuss either the closed shop
a revision in hours and wages? Are tenants to
clap their hands with Joy at the announcement that
The from the strike breaking agencies are to be
taken on as permanent employees? To me the strike
breaker is the greatest anti-socia force in America
If one believes that reasonably decent life can
be lived only when decent hours and decent wages
can be maintained by strong trades union organlza-
TONS he is not necessarily humanitarian. 1t SO
happens that one of my remote ancestors attended
BeIshazzars feast. He at the press table When
the hand wrote mystic words upon the wall he said,
This is peculiar guess I'd better mention it in my
story"
Copyright 1885,
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under contract as Chief Recon-
struction Adviser to the Alberta
government.
But Douglas was not on hand
and, in December, Mayor, sound
money man and pet of the char
tered banks, was. Orthodox So
cial Creditors charged that Aber-
hart had sold out to the bank
ers.' In reply, the premier urged
the Province to give me time
and please be patient"
The keynote of government ut
terances from henceforth would
be patience" 1t was at about
this time that Aberhart an
nounced so all could hear that 18
months, at least, must intervene
before issuance of the first $25-a-
month credit slips.
AS the weeks heightened into
months between election and the
first Social Credit legislative ses-
sion, which opened Feb. 6, devout
AberhartiteS might have wondered
If Social Credit or Liberalism were
in power. The beginnings of an
uninspired, business government"
were emerging.
And of the $25 monthly for
which the evangelistic host had
"stompeds the. prairie' there was
no more sign than of roses in an
Edmonton January.
TomOrrow-Aberhart tells For
rest Davis how he expects to pay.
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Literary Notes

William Philip Simms, scripps- Howard foreign
editor and S. Fowler Wright, British novelist seem
to agree that there will be in Europe in 1888 A
dispatch from Smns the other day to the effect
that: Europe More Jittery Than 1t Was in 1914:
War Machines Geared for 1888" Wrights new novel,
The War of 1888" predicts that the coming
fict will start with Germany invading Czechosovakia
by air and completely controlling the country in less
than IL hours without so much as one foot soldier
Katharine Hamill, of the staff of Fortune Maya
zine, has had her first novel, Swamp Shadow" ac-
cepted for publication in May by Alfred Knopf. 1t
deals with the poor whites Of the Gulf Coast Ct
Mississippi. $1,000
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In Vienna, however, they are
much more explicit, for the pos
sibility that the new Nazi civiliza-
ton will sweep down from Ger
many without warning. according
to Gen. Ludendorff' plan, is ac-
cepted as an imminent risk to the
civilian population. For this rea-
son the government has issued in
structions governing individual
conduct in many phases of such
an emergency.
One of the posters which
Viennese are invited to study
contains 80 pictures, acknowledge
ing the danger of gas and high
explosives, and illustrating the
wrong and right things to do
situations
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Solution to Previous
Contract Problem
BY w. e. M'KENNEY
D1 W. Il 1I hLININLI
SecretarY American Bridge Lea gil


CITUATIONS often arise at the
~ bridge table in which part
ners, as result of optimistic bid
ding, find themselves in contracts
that are too high. However, it
often happens that, due to the
fortunate lie of the cards, the
contract can be made
A good player is inclined to be
optimistic when opposing weak
players, since he feels that he can
always manage to get an extra
trick out of the hand.
In today's hand. which was
played by Jackson Snyder of New
York, very fine result was OBJ
tanned because of optimistic bid
ding, which was justified by the
declarer's capable playing.
Against the six heart contract,
the king of spades was opened
and won by dummy's ace. The
queen of clubs was cashed and
low diamond was played to de-
clarer's king. The ace and king
of clubs were played and two
spades were discarded from the
dummy.
A low spade next was trumped