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conference with Defense Counsel
Jay Fred Reeve.
They emerged later, slightly
flustered, and Reeve told the
press:
There will be no settle
ment. They won't get a cent
not a cent"
Golan, however, smiled and re-
marked that something may hap
pen SOON"
Miss F'rink went back to the
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ent at Stanford University accused
of acting as mediator between
Thompson and the japanese gov
eminent, is said to have fled
to Japan following Thompson's
arrest four months ago on a
technical charge of illegally wear
ing naval uniform.
Facing a possible 20 years i'm
prisonment, Thompson, a retiring
youth, was recalled to court today
and continued to scott at charges
that he daringly boarded battle
ships and stole away with secret
documents in his possession.
Terming the true bill against him
"a silly mess" the ex-sailor calmly
faced accusers who charged he
was retained" by Japan at
about 5000 a month"
Principal witness against Thomp-
son was Willard James Turntine,
The Washington times., 1936-07-03
He was genuinely, yes, 1 believe
he was genuinely fond of me. 1
can't believe he isn't now.

can't believe he isn't now.
Miss Frink then said she filed
suit for divorce in 1928 to "teacn
him a lesson" She said he had
at that time no ready money
though he had written Lulu
Belle" and had received an ad'
vance from the producer, David
BeIaSco
@. Do you love Charles Mac
Arthur? A. l love the memory
of him as he was when l mar
ried him.
@. Do you love him today?
A. 1 don't think like him at all
as saw him on the stand here.
@. When did you cease to love
him? A. When / saw him on
the stand.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
HERBERT A. GILL


Herbert A Gill, 80, former real
estate man and resident of Wash
ington for 81 years, who died Fri
day at his residence in the Dres-
den Apartments, was buried today
in Oak Hill Cemetery. Services
were conducted in the home of his
son, Theodore N. Gill, 1922 P st.
N. w.
Born in Brooklyn, N. Y, he came
to Washington in 1874 and matricu-
lated at old Columbian College,
now George Washington Univer-
Sity.
He was a member of the Asso-
citation of the Oldest Inhabitants,
Columbia Historical Society, Cos
mos Club and the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Science.
Husband of the late Mrs. Monita
w. S. Gill, he is survived by two
daughters, Mona w. Gill and Mrs.
Charles Edward Lyon, and son,
Theodore N. Gill, jr.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
Girl Reporter Tells Experiences
In House of Detention

. Hurley, who ran the midnight
shift with Mrs. DeKoven, came in.
I had seen her several times while
covering police. She listened to
the howls from the strong room
and remarked with smile:
"I see Jessie's back"
Perhaps the most noticeable
thing about these matronS was
their serenity. Nothing seemed to
irritate them. Mrs. DeKoven and
Mrs. Hurley were trained nurses.
The prisoners were treated cour-
teously and orders were preceded
by a please" if they we're sober.
| If drunk, they were treated like
children.
Questions-all evolving around
that important When do I get
out?' were answered with endless
patience. Sometimes they varied,
such as did you call my folks?' or
Will you send for my husband?'
The matrons made no attempt
to check conversation, didn't nag,
or resort to subterfuge. If they
promised to call a relative. bonds
man. or lawyer. they did. If it was
too late-they said so. If there was
no phone at the house they called
the precinct and sent policeman.
Nor did they lack humor. During
a lull-Which lasted ten minutes
Mrs. Hurley told about the Majors
wife.
Arrested in a liquor store when
she inSiSted-a bit too noisily-on
being waited on before everybody
else, the Majors wife almost
blasted the matrons with her
wrath. She had gone to get the
Major some brandy for his "cold."
What if she didn't wear stock
ings? She hadn't worn them in
China or India either. When the
Major arrived, she promised, his
glance would crumble the portals
of the Bureau and shrivel its in.
mates.
Everybody awaited the Majors
arrival with bated breath. Finally
he showed up. A weazened little
man, long retired, he was still
under the influence of his "medi-
cine" He left with his buXom wife
on his arm and-strange to say
the portals remained firm.
Mrs. DeKoven recalled Mary K.
who regularly occupied the strong
room. Invariably clad in a black
chiffon evening gown, black slip
perS and regal dignity, she was
one of their regular visitors. One
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
| LEAHY RITES
PLANNED FOR
TOMORROW

Funeral services will be con-
Quoted tomorrow afternoon at 1870
o'clock in the Hines Funeral Home
for Mrs. Mary A. S. Leahy, II,
who died after a long illness Sat
urday at her residence, 1348 Mon
roe st. N. w. Interment will be
in Rock Greek Cemetery.
The wife of DR.. Daniel C. Leahy,
retired Washington physician and
former publisher of the Milsford,
(Mass.) News, she was born in
Columbia, Pa. She came to the
District with her parents when
only two years old. Excepting a
Sojourn to Milsford, Mass, with
her husband, Mrs. Leahy has lived
in Washington since that time.
She was a charter member of the
Columbia Chapter of the Order
Of the Eastern Star.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by two grandchildren, Au-
brey Spencer and airline Spencer,
both Of Washington.
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know they're all right. Then we
put them to bed and they go
right to asleep"
With JesSie's howlS still ring.
ing in our ears, we returned to
the reception room.
The phone rang, announcing
the arrival of four colored pris.
oners. AS soon as we heard feet
shuffling on the stairs Mrs.
Cowan unlocked the gate. They
were herded in like sheep, fol.
lowed by a matron, Mrs. Mar.
garet DeKoven.
An elderly woman in a once
stylish Marie Antoinette velvet
hat. wept copiously. Her tears
continued to pour as she was
booked for disorderly conducV.
She was, she informed the au-
dience in general, a respectable
colored person who worked for
white folks and "ain't never been
in jail-no, sir!"
A big, light brown woman with
classic features. seated herself
calmly on a chair and counted
the contents of a thick wallet.
She wore a dirty white sheep
skin coat. FROM the rear she re-
Sembled one Of the polar bears at
the ZOO. Her name was Mary and
she had been giving the party"
when the police interfered.
A tiny black girl, with
thick lips and plucked eyebrows,
came into the reception room and
sat down. She smiled timidly at
me. Her name, she said, was Viola
and she worked for a white lady
who would fire her if she didn't
show up next day. Did I know how
much it would cost to get out?
Assures Fellow Culprit
The fourth prisoner, a slender
girl with a boyish bob was aSsur-
ing the weeping Susie:
"Oh, stop crying! They can't
hang yOu!"
Hardly had they all troped off
to bed, with the exception of Viola,
when Mary returned. She felt re.
SponSible for her guests, she in
formed the matron, and wanted to
put up collateral.
Susie, still weeping, was given
20 cents extra for taxi fare. Viola
had Is cents added to her $4.85
and taxi money, but the girl with
the boyish bob paid her own col
lateral.
After they had gone Mary re-
turned to bed. She was being held
for Investigation" and couldn't
make collateral.
BY now it was IL o'clock. A Mrs.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
DEATH CLAIMS
W0F|RENEN

Death, over the weekend,
claimed two District firemen,
veterans of the Knickerbocker
Theater disaster in 1922.
John F.. Nolte, of 19 Eighth st.
N. E., who died suddenly at his
residence on Saturday, spent 16
years with Number 9 Engine Com
pany before his retirement in
September and was driver of the
first engine to arrive at the
theater.
Albert F. Gauvreau, of 1442
Rhode Island Ave. N. W., who
drove the hook-and-ladder of Num-
Der 4 Truck Company through a
record snowfall to the scene of the
tragedy, had been with the Dis.
trict Fire Department for more
than 10 years when he died yes
terday.
Nolte. a veteran of the World
War, will be accorded burial in
Arlington National Cemetery on
Tuesday following a requiem mass
to be celebrated in St. JoSeph's
Catholic Church at 9 o'clock.
Funeral services for Gauvreau
will be conducted in the w. w.
Chambers funeral home WedneS-
day afternoon and interment will
be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30

couldn't see he was a policeman.
she replied haughtily:
"TO get cab, FreSh!"
The man gallantly offered to
get her a. cab which, strangely
enough, turned out to be a pa
troll wagon.
The matrons listened sympa-
thetically, booked her, and outside
of taking her bag, gave her time
to hear from her friends.
In few minutes the phone
rang, and, informed her friends
had arrived, the girl, chirping like
bird in her excitement and
thanking everybody for their kind
ness, was released.
The next prisoner was a
drunken colored girl found dead to
the world, by radio patrol police
men in an alley. Her shoes were
gone, a heavy sweater completely
covered the upper part of her body,
including her head, so that when
the painting policemen dragged
her up the Detention House stairs
she looked like a sack of meal.
Tomorrow Miss Oldfield con-
tinueS her experiences as
guest of the House of Deten-
ton over the weekend.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
Today's Foreign Short-Wave Radio Schedule

BERLIN-5 p. M. - Friedrich
List, a German fighter. DJD,
25.4 M, lit meg.
ROME-6 P.M.-News in Eng
lish. Operatic Selection. Italian
Federation of Business and Pro-
fessional Women. Pianist De
Anduaga Andolfi, EROS Mail
Bag" 2RO. 31.1 M, 9.63 meg.
LONDON $50 P. The
Beggar Student" A Comic Opera.
GSP. 1876 m, 1881 meg: GSD,
25.5 M, Ills meg; Csc, 31.3 Ill,
9.58 meg.
Moscow P.M.-Review of
the Week. Russian Lesson. RAN,
31.2 M, 9.6 meg.
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, PARIS-7:15 P.M.-Theatrical
Program. TPA-4, 25.6 M, 11.72
meg.
CARACAS-S:45 P.M.-Amateur
Hour. Yv2RC. SIT M, So meg.
LONDON Pm. est. An,
drew's Day, 1886" A Scottish Con-
cert. GsD, 25.5 M, 1175 meg:
Csc, 31.3 M. 9.58 meg.
TORONTO-9 p. M. - "Melodic
Strings string orchestra, direc-
ton Alexander Chuhaldin. CRCX,
1872 m, 6.O9 meg; CJRO, 48.7 M,
6.15 meg; CJRX, 25.6 M, 11.72
meg.
BERLIN-9:15 F. M.-Concert
of Light Music. DJD, 25.4 m,
11.77 meg.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
MRS. ANNIE MERKEL

mhSs ANNIE WEnNCL
Mrs. Annie Merkel, 40, of 303
Fifteenth st. N. E., who died Sat-
urday after a brief illness in Sib-
ley Hospital, was buried today in
Cedar Hill Cemetery. Services
were conducted in the Zurhorst
Funeral Home.
Born in Cincinnati, Mrs. Merkel
came to Washington in 1917. A
member of the Order of the East
ern Star, she was the wife OF
George H. Merkel, a machiniSt
at the Washington Navy Yard.
Surviving besides her husband
are two brothers, Harry Greaves
and James Greaves, both OF
WASHINGTON,
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
MERCER B. MAYFIELD, Jr.

field, Jr., 43, former washington
ian and graduate of Maryland
University in 1918. Interment will
be in YonkerS.
At the time of his death, May
field was with the Allied Chemis-
try Co. Shortly after his gradua-
ton from the U. of M. he was
employed as a chemist with the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
He is survived by his mother
and father, Mr.. and Mrs. Mercer
Brown Mayfield, of 1920 Decatur
st. N. W.; his widow, Mrs. Ruth
Galloway Mayfield, of New York; {;
a brother, Robert E. Mayfield, OF
Chevy Chase, Md, and a sister,
Miss Mary Mayfield, of Wash
tngton.
MRS. MARY SLATTERY
Mrs. Mary Slattery, 88, mother
of Harry Slattery, personal Secre-
tary to Harold IckeS, died yester-
day in Greenville, S. c., it was
learned here today.
Besides her son in the Interior
Department here, Mrs. Slattery is
survived by a son, L. P. Slattery,
and two daughters, Miss Mary
Slattery and Mrs. jenkins Mikell,
all of Creenville.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted in Greenville tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock.
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Continued from Local Page)

L
until we are ready to take you
to headquarters to be photo
raphed and fingerprinted.
You're being held for inveStiga-
tiOn, you know, so you can't
make bond.
Through the open door I could
see all that went on. Things
seemed peaceful enough-too 20
peaceful if I was to get any kind
of story.
Prisoners are always curious over
their fellows and I was advised to
say-in case anybody persisted in
more detailed explanation of in
vestigation" I was supposed
to know about the O'Brien shoot
ing.
I watched several colored pris-
onerS-looking like Gabriel's black
angels in Green Pastures"
back and forth to the lavatory.
daintily lifting their ankle-length
gowns as they tripped up or down
the three stairs leading TO the col
ored dor1nitory Sometimes-a lit
tie the worse for "sweepStakes"-
they hugged the wall but generally
they made it unaided.
Someone HOWlS
Suddenly the stiffness was shat
tered by the most blood-curdling
howls, followed by the rattling of
iron. I looked so startled Mrs.
Cowan laughed:
That's Jessie. One of our
best Saturday night customers.
We had to put her in the strong
room. She's just come to.
Would you like to see her?"
We tiptoed down a darkened
passage, pausing below a window
covered with heavy wire. It was
so high above our heads that Mrs.
Cowan helped me onto a wooden
bench so could see better. Jessie
had her back to us. She was
pounding with both fists on the
opposite grating, shaking her mat
ted gray curls and bowling. She
was naked. However. due to the
high walls we could only see her
bare shoulders and arms.
AS if sensing our presence, she
turned and lurched drunkenly TO-
wards our window. Her jaw hung
down; one eye was blackened, her
mouth was bruised and dry blood
still clung to her chin. Her hair
half obscured her face which vas
greeniSh white. Silhouetted against
the brilliant light she looked like
some terrible etching of evil.
Reaching the window, she
grasped the grating with both
hands and shook it. Then she
cooked her head on one side,
opened her mouth and howled like
a wolf. 1t was so animal-like
gaSped. Mrs. Cowan whispered:
"It's terrible to see a woman
fallen so low. Would you believe
she is only 40? If I went in
there now she'd tear me to
pieces"
i ShuQQereQ:
Did you have to take her
clothes?
1--WE always dO-sOmetimes
they try to commit suicide. See
that heat pipe? Well, you
wouldn't think a naked woman
could climb 16 feet of pipe,
crawl across those on the cell
ing, swing from them by her
hands and kick the transOm
Out-wOuld you? 1 saw one do
it."
In First Stage"
Jessie, she explained, was in
the first stage of incubation. They
always go through three-the last
weeping one. She added, with
a smile:
when they reach that we
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
R0HDES VISIT
WASHINGTON
IN TRAILER

Said the policeman on the beat:
mice trailer you have,
madam. I'm going to get one
next su m m er. You know,
there's nothing like 'em."
"Yes, it's really lovely, and
they're just the things to have
on q vacation. I've had mine
for seven years now. So sorry
/ can't tell you more about
mine, but we're in a hurry to
leave for New York"
While the coupe pulled away
from the curb with the de luxe
trailer swinging along behind, the
officer murmured:
Gee, I don't know who she
is, buddy, but she sure is charm
ing"
OF All People!
She, Policeman F. ]. Adams,
was Mrs. Ruth Bryan owen
Rohde and her Danish husband,
Captain Boerge Rohde, of the
Danish Royal Guards, who SO un-
assumingly and unobtrusively
slipped into Washington yester-
day and then just as quietly left
today for New York in their
trailer caravan.
The silver.haired Mrs. Rohde
and her husband have just re-
turned from a typical American
tourist vacation on wheels that
has taken them into the Middle
West, where Mrs. Rohde deliv-
cred so speeches in the pre-elec-
tion campaign for President
Roosevelt.
The trip was broken up, that
is. the trip by trailer, in Wash
ington, Ind, where MRS. Rohde
accidentally fractured her left
leg while alighting from the
trailer doorstep. She and her
husband then continued the tour
by airplane. They returned to
the Indiana town to pick up the
camp on wheels several days
ago.
Returning to Denmark.
Interviewed just before they
left for New York this morning,
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. B.
B. Armstrong, jr.. 2818 Wisconsin
Ave. N. w.. the couple said they
would leave New York for Den
mark in about two weeks, in
order to spend Christmas in Cap
tain Rohde's native land. They
will return to this country in the
spring to attend the graduation
of Mrs. Rohde's daughter, Helen
Rudd, from Miss Bent'S School.
The former Ruth Bryan, daugh-
ter Of William Jennings Bryan, has
enjoyed the pleasures of trailer
travel for the past seven years, she
said. Her own outdoor home on
wheels, nicely equipped with kitch-
en- and spacious sitting room, was
designed for her by Glen Curtis,
famous airplane designer, seven
years ago, and she has used it to
travel in throughout Europe. 1t
was the first trailer to be admitted
into Yellowstone Park.
Likes to Tour
The blonde and youthful-looking
Captain Rohde, who has been the
pilot on the motor trip in the
United States, was enthusiastic
about it, and mis- wife called him
an accomplished tourist"
With. the Rohdes at the Arm.
strong home this morning to see
them off we're Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Bride, 1854 Columbia Rd. N. w.
Mr.. Bride, one OF the "old COM
moner's" trustieSt friends, was
with Mrs. Rohde's father during
the 1896 campaign and subsequent
years in Congress.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
In First Stage"

Jessie, she explained, was in
the first stage of incubation. They
always go through three-the last
a weeping one. She added, with
a smile:
when they reach that we
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
TWO ATTACKS
LEVELED AT
RED RIDER

Repeal the "red rider" which
bans teaching or advocacy of
communism in District public
schools was urged before a large
audience yesterday in The First
Congregational Church. William
G. Carr, research director of the
National Educational Association,
condemned the two-year-old meas
ure as an invasion of the rights of
the public to have an effective
school program and urged its re-
peal at the coming session of Con-
gress. Meanwhile, Mrs. William
Kittle, president of the District
League of Women Voters, hearing
reports that Chairman Mary T.
Norton, of the House District
Committee, was planning a COM
promise in her fight against the
rider, stated:
There can be no compromise.
The only way to repeal the red
rider is to repeal it. Repeal of
this vicious statute will be one Of
our first Objectives at the next
session of Congress and we do
not propose to depart from our
determination to insist upon
outright repeal"
The reports concerning Mrs.
Norton were to the effect that she
planned introducing a bill that
would take the teeth out of the
red rider but would provide penal
ties for teachers advocating COM
muniSm.
To the church audience, Carr
declared that the requirement of
making teachers take an oath that
they had not taught or advocated
communism was useless, unneceS-
Sary and insulting" He urged a
four-point program for citizens and
groups to follow for the protection
of the rights of children to
learn" The program includes:
Granting complete freedom to
competent teachers to present
facts and encourage unbiased dis
cussion concerning social, econo-
mic, biologic and other issues; re-
peal of the red rider and all "other
legislative attempts to regiment
schools; aiding teachers to be-
come even more competent to ex-
ercise leadership toward higher
standards of public-spirited and in
telligent citizenship; and assisting
teachers to protect their civic and
professional responsibilities in
connection with academic freedom.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30

day, however, her costume varied.
She wore a pair of mems long
Woolen drawers.
The telephone interrupted this
story. A few seconds later slen,
der blond girl, remarkably pretty,
and modishly attired in black
was led weeping into the hall.
Amid sobS she protested that
she wasn't drunk. She had dined
with friends, she said, and had
some beer. She went for a walk
in the fresh air. A man stopped
her:
"Whither gOest thou, my
pretty maid?"
Her little nose so high she
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
Fall Kills Youth

Injuries suffered when he fell
from a four-story building in the
$500 block of Eastern Ave. N. w.
Friday. resulted in the death of
Elmer johnson, 19, of Alexandria,
Va. He died in the Washington
Sanitarium.
The Washington times., 1936-11-30
TODAY'S RADIO FEATURES

EARL GOODWIN, Times Radio News.(
heard daily except Sunday, Q to
o:15 .. M. WMAL.
6:3O-WMAL Dinner Club. ..... .WMAL
s:30-MelOdiana .WMAL
s:15-Stamp Club ..............W VOL
10 O:OO-Wayne King ............W .WJSV
CONCERTS
3;OO-Rochester Civic Orch. WMAL
S:SO-MarEaret Speaks. Richard Crooks,
with VIM. Daley's Orch. WRC
1O.OO-WOL Concert VOL
TALKS
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-05-08
A NEGLECTED STORY

The following information was re-
ceived directly from REA-rural
electrifcation administration. BY all
the rules which guided Greeley and
Pulitzer and Scripps and Dana in
their selection of news, this is good
story, perhaps a big story. But you
will look for it in vain in the columns
of nine out of ten daily newspapers.
Here it is:
over 700 farm families in Holmes
county, Ohio, will receive central sta
tion electricity for the first time over
PA miles of new rural lines to be
built with $269, 900 borrowed from the
rural electrifcation administration,
announced Administrator Morris L.
Cooke today as he signed loan-con-
tract with representatives of the
Holmes Rural Electric Cooperative,
Inc, of Millersburg, Ohio.
"Today's contract brings the total
amount contracted or definitely ear
marked for "A REA projects to over
eight and one-half million dollars, to
build $500 miles of line to serve
nearly $4,000 new rural customers"
In other words, the living conditions
of 700 farm families will be vastly i'm
proved in the next year or so by sin
gle project which is only one of a great
many. Also, the REA and its work
are new things in America. One would
think any editor would jump at such
story; but as matter of expe-
rience, only labor editors do.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-05-08
BRINGING SOUND RISE IN
STOCK VALUES

According to one of the few men
who has proved his ability to judge
the market, business has improved in
the last six months about 18 per cent
Stocks on the New York Exchange in
the same time have gone up about AT
per cent. Obviously, two-thirds of this
rise has no basis in existing fact. 1t
rests on hope and ballyhoo, especially
ballyhoo. 1t is another effort to un-
load on the investor at more than the
securities are worth; and in view of
the recent sharp drop in stock prices,
apparently that effort has failed, for
the time being.
If the fnanciers who run the men
agerie on Wall street want steady,
dependable rise in stocks which have
something back of them more tan
gible than wind and ink, the way to
gain their desire is plain. Let them
find ways to put the ten million idle
men and women TO work Let them
insist on the highest wages that any
industry can pay, instead of follow
ing the rule which has guided them
hitherto, that of gouging the worker
to the limit. Let them slash the out
rageous salaries now paid to corpora
tion magnates. Let them cut out just
half of the waste and graft in busi-
ness which they have been fostering
for years.
If high finance will do these things,
it can make good times permanent,
and that would help the stock market
as well as more important industries.
But they won't do it. They haven't
brains enough to see that it would pay.