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The Washington times., 1937-09-17
CATHOLIC PAPER
RAPS PRESIDENT
ON BLACK CASE
AsSaiIs Failure to Quiz
Him About Khan

BALTIMORE, Sept. II G.N.S0.
Stating that even a housewife,
when hiring anyone, wants to
know something about the appr-
cant's past, the Baltimore Cath
ole Review today editoriaIy &C
cused President Roosevelt of fail
ing to determine whether Senator
Hugo L. Black was, or is, men,
Der Of the Ku Klux Khan.
During the Senate debate on
the Alabaman's confirmation to
the supreme Court, the newspaper
said, the Senators who voted for
Black shut their ears to the pleas
and statements made by some Of
their fellow Senators who wanted
a thorough investigation Of the
charges that Black had been
connected with the hooded order"
PRIESTS SOLICITED
The newspaper, which Is pub.
hshed for Catholics in the Balti-
more diocese, charged priests in
Alabama were urged to send mes
sages to the Senate urging Blacks
confirmation, but refused. The
editorial said the only Alabama
Catholics who endorsed the nomi-
nation were politicians or persons
who had received favors from the
Senator.
Signed by Vincent De Paul Fitz.
patrick, the newspapers manag.
ing editor. the editorial pointed
out that Mr.. Roosevelt should have
asked Black If there were Incl
dents in his past which might tend
to make his appointment an EN-.
barrassing one when he called
him to the White House and gave
him the appointment.
RAPS PRESIDENT
The newspaper further stated
the President should have sought
information from Black when re-
ports Of his alleged Khan affilia-
ton were made in the Senate.
"He knew what the news
papers were saying about Black"
the editorial continued. For
three full days he knew-or
should have known-what the
Senators were saying, not only
in the Senate, but in the CORR
doris, at luncheon tables, wher.
ever they gathered"
The Washington times., 1937-09-17

Congress can remove him during
good behavior on the bench.
"Klan membership cannot be
any stretch of the imagination
be construed as an overt judicial
act which violates the injunc-
ton of good behavior"
MORE TROUBLE
Meanwhile the embarrassmentS
to the President multiply. The
Khan disclosures have already
forced F. D. R. to make changes
in the speech which he will deliver
tonight in connection with Con-
stitution Day ceremonies here. F.
D. R. has been told by his advisors
that the present is not a happy
hour for the Chief Executive to
seize upon the constitutional theme
and plead for the authority to in
fuse more new blood" into the
court by increasing its member
ship.
These same advisors are sug-
costing that F.. D. R. forgo his pro-
posed trip to the Northwest for
the present.
Wheeler'S Montana, Burke's
Nebraska, McCarran's Nevada,
O'Mahoney's Wyoming, Clark's
Missouri, all were to be visited by
the President. These Senators
had violently opposed his judicial
proposals-as F. D. r. was ex-
pected to mention. But here
again, the master minds Of the
New Deal strategy board quickly
suggested that this is not the
propitious moment to punish op.
ponentS to court reform.
The White House incidentally
is piqued at the new justice for
his failure to get in touch with
any member of the New Deal in
ner circle Immediately after pub
LEGATION Of the Khan charges. II
he had done so, the advice would
have been swiftly given him moi
to dodge reporters but to an
nounce that he would have q
statement to make when he ar
rived in this country and read
the charges in full.
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
Dies In His Haste
To See Wife, Baby

CHICAGO, Sept. IT U.N.S).
A young mother awoke today and
impatiently demanded the where
abouts Of her husband, who had
failed to come and take her and
the baby home from the hospital.
Relatives finally told her he would
never come.
Leaving work an hour early,
John Kay. 81, had tried to board a
moving freight elevator and in his
haste missed his step, plunging
five floors down the shaft to his
death.
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
JURY is NAMED

A Prince Georges county jury
panel of 76 names was announced
yesterday al tt e courthouse in
Upper Marlboro, Md. R. w. Wat
kins, College Park real estate
dealer, will be foreman of the jury.
OF the first 43 names will be taken
% to act as the grand jury for the
term which conveneS Monday.
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
South to Ponder
Program of AAA

Q.N.S.), The AAA today called
a meeting at Memphis october 1
of Southern State committeeman
and farm leaders to discuss the
1888 agricultural conservation pro
gram drafted here at a three-day
conference which ended today.
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
President Gives
Zoo POrcupines

Two baby porcupines weighing
less than one pound each, pre-.
sented to President Roosevelt by
R. ]. Lepow, will be turned over
to the ZOO, the Chief Executive
said today.
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
Italy Denies Sale
OF Subs to Rebels

ROME, Sept. II QN.S).-A
Paris newspaper report that Italy
sold IL submarines to the Spanish
insurgents was denied officially
today as "mischevious, absurd,
anti-Fascist propaganda"
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
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PRECEDENTS CITED

Investigation of House prece.
dents already has convinced sew.
eral members that an inquiry
could be staged if Justice Black
failed successfully to answer the
charge or voluntarily resign from
the court.
The House, while having no
voice in the confirmation of Fed
eral judges, this power being con-
fined to the Senate, repeatedly
has authorized investigations to
determine whether or not impeach-
ment proceedings should be insti-
tuted against Federal jurists.
The usual procedure is for a
member to introduce a resolution
citing charges against a judge and
calling for an inquiry to deter
mine whether he should be i'm.
peached. Almost invariably such
resolutions are referred to the Jul
dietary Committee with inStruc.
tions to report back to the House.
TRIED BY SENATE
If the committee feels that a
preliminary investigation warrants
impeachment it usually asks for
broader authority to make a fur
ther inquiry before a judge &C
tually is impeached. Once i'm.
peached by the House, the judge
is tried by the Senate.
Senator King, one of those who
opposed Blacks confirmation, ex.
pressed belief that the Senate
would overwhelmingly oppose the
nomination to the Supreme Court
Of a former Klansman.
Senator Carter Glass (D0 OF
Virginia, who opposed Blacks con.
firmation, issued a caustic state.
ment from his home in Lynch
burg, saying:
Il must say that my vote in
the Senate against the confirma.
ton Of Senator Black for the
Supreme Court bench reflected
my opinion then and now of the
utter unfitneSS of the nomina-
ton, regardless of the Ku Klux
Khan charge. However, am
in no degree surprised to find
it definitely stated that former
Senator Black was a member of
the Khan"
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
Black Resignation
Regarded Unlikely

Mr. Justice Black and Mr. Justice Black alone holds the
final power to determine how long and how bitterly the Khan
furore raised by his appointment to the Supreme Court will
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
INQUIRY
LOOMS IN HOUSE
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page II
charge that Black holds q life
membership in the Ku Klux Khan
appeared probable today.
AS reverberations continued over
the Justices alleged connection
with the hooded order, Senator
William H. King Cd, Utah. de-
clared Blacks nomination would
have been rejected by the Senate
if it had been known that he was
a Khan member.
The Washington times., 1937-09-17
GRAND CANYON
ISLAND SHOWS.
AMIN AL SIGN S.
Life Without Water
Puzzles SaVantS

GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Sept.
II G.N.SO Signs of animal life
on SILVA Temple, lofty plateau
isolated from the mainland since
the Grand Canyon was gouged
out by the Colorado River some
thirty thousand years ago, was
sciences newest enigma today.
The amazing discovery was
made by men who probably were
the first to scale the precipitous
cliffs and set foot on the biological
island. DR.. H. E, Anthony and
members of the American Museum
of Natural History, of New York
expedition.
ANTLERS FOUND
No animals have yet been seen,
but the discovery of deer runs and
antlers was astonishing enough in
itself, M. P. Tillotson, superin-
tendent of the Grand Canyon
National Park, radioed the scien-
tific party's headquarters at the
base Of SILVA Temple.
It is incomprehensible how deer
could have scaled the sheer cliffs,
hundreds Of feet high, which the
expedition succeeded in climbing
only after long hours of struggle
in which every vile of mountain
eering was used, TillotSon de-
clared.
No water has yet been found.
1t was believed possible that ami
mails isolated on the sky island
may have gradually evolved into
types requiring little moisture to
live.
TRAPS SET
Traps have been set and the ex-
petition will begin a thorough
search Of the wooded plateau, a
mile long, less than half a mile
wide and comprising only 275
acres.
If such life is found, the scien.
fists expect it will be similar in
many respects to that on the ad-
jacent rims of the Grand Canyon.
It was stated certain types of
animals elsewhere have acquired
the ability through evolution to
live on water from plants.
When the explorers complete
their camp, they will be supplied
with food and water from an air
plane.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
THE RATS START A FIRE

D ATS are born thieves. They not
N only steal food, but they carry
off many other things, things for
which they really have no use at
all. Now it happened that one OF
the young rats in the farmhouse
found some matches and took them
to his nest under the floor of the
shed. There, having nothing else
to do, he nibbled at them to see
what the queer stuff on the ends
of them might be. His sharp teeth
caused one of them to light, and of
course that instantly lighted all the
drest of them. With a squeak Of
fright the rat ran away, for like all
the little people of the Green Forest
and the Green Meadows rat fears
the Red Terror, which we call fire,
more than anything else.
Now that rats nest was made
chiefly of chewed up paper and
old rags. Nothing could have been
better for the Red Terror. It blazed
instantly. The floor just above was
of very, very dry wood. for the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
There's No Harm
Asking Questions
Nor AnsWerin' En-
q New York post.-wNu Service.

THERE'S. no harm in asking:
L Who held the featherweight
championship of the world for elev-
en- years? .-'- r. 20.
What celebrated American sports
man was expelled from France
when only sixteen years old?
Who were the two men who per-
suaded the Football Rules commit
tee to adopt the forward pass?
When? What major eleven first
made the best-publicized use of the
pass?
What wrestling match created one
of the most enduring Of all interna-
tional sports controversies?
What was the youngest combina-
ton of golfer and caddy ever to
win a national championship?
Can you name the infield COM
bination that had the greatest sue
cess for the world famous Old BAL
timore) Orioles?
Who was the American who won
an olympic championship In an
event in which he never had COM
peted previously?
What tennis playe4 was rankeI
among the first ten during nineteen
of the twenty years which elapsed
between his first ranking and his
retirement from major tournament
play?
And probably there's even less
harm in answering:
Johnny Kilbane. He won tho title
from Abe AtteIl on February 22,
1912, and lost it to Eugene Criqui
on June 2, 1923.
Willie Hoppe, the billiard cham
pi0n, who then was making the first
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:

NO1 LIN 1 he oOA 0SON1s
ID OSTON experts are tabbins
II young Austie Harding, Har.
wards soph forward, as the best
prospect in the Three Eye unter.
national intercollegiate Ice) Hockey
League. Toronto is doped as
the team that will win the leagues
first pennant. The besetting boy
hood ambition of Freely Steele was
to become racetrack starter. In
stead he useG his strong arms to
become middleweight champion Of
the world. HI. w. Wendler, who
trains Major Ralph Sasse's very
good Mississippi State football
team, starred for three years on
Ohio States elevens. :. Jockey Sam
my Renick is an accomplished
swimmer. ~.
Hockey is not a major sport at
Detroit university and letters are
not awarded. Yet there are more
candidates for the ice squad than
there were for Gus Dorais' football
outfit last fall. AL G. Werly, as.
sistant manager of Tropical Park,
who helped break the Jockey Don
Meade case when he was on the
Florida racing commission, was
born and raised in Brooklyn's own
Bensonhurst. When the Ameri-
can Bowling Congress held its first
tournament in Chicago in 1901 only
forty-one teams entered. Next
spring more than 10000 bowlers
will participate in the big event
in New York city.
Tom Thorp is doing SO nobly as
. Tropical Park steward that he is
being doomed for a similar job on
metropolitan tracks. =. The bookies
who were screaming about the
tough going at local courses last
summer now are dining upon ca
War and pompano in Miami's
swankiest spots.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
Twas This Way
g
By LYLE SPENCER
The Cure for ricketts,
g Western Newspaper Union.

In THE romantic days of Queen
L Elizabeth, courtiers and wealthy
citizens went to church wearing
boots and long coats because they
were ashamed to show their crooked
bow legs. Their crooked legs and de-
formed bodies were caused by rick
cts. s rs
We know now that ricketts, come
from lack of sunlight and good food,
but up until about 1900 its cause
was unknown. Most people thought
it was a visitation from the devil,
and doctors gave hot mud baths to
children to avoid it. Another stand
ard remedy was to wrap babies in
swaddling clothes. Although over
half the children treated in this way
died in the first year of infancy, it
was supposed to be good remedy.
Women were especially hard hit by
ricketts,. It malformed and contrac-
ted their pelvic bones in a way
which made it almost impossible
for them to have children. DR.. Ed
wards. an Englishman, was one OF
the first to show the connection be.
tween lack of sunlight and ricketts,.
He noticed its absence among even
the poorest Mexicans who lived re.
gularly out in the sun.
Later, scientists showed that the
actinic rays of the sun, the same
rays which cause sunburn. can pre-
vent ricketts,. This is one of the rea-
sons why children and adults alike
should keep out Of doors as much
as possible. In the wintertime when
we can't get out. good substantial
food, especially when supplemented
by animal products like cod-liver
oil. serves much the same purpose.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
FEEDING THE FAMILY

THIS seems to be the principal
L work of at least twenty million
housewives. but feeding the family
on the proper food is not light
job to be undertaken with no
thought.
Food is not necessarily nutritious
in proportion to its cost. The high
priced foods appeal to the eye and
imagination, SO they seem most de-
sirable.
Going marketing is wonderful
education as well as a great devel-
oper of will power, or resistance to
temptation. for it takes real self
denial to pass by the crisp and
green cucumber or the box Of straw
berries, when the price is beyond
the purse.
The mother of family should, of
all people, understand food values.
for she is in a position to build up
or tear down bodies and ruin diges-
tons. bad habits ruin life as do
weak bones the body"
The protein foods such as meat,
eggs, fish, cheese and milk are
the most expensive and complex.
Carbohydrates are the starches and
sugars; potatoes. rice. macaroni
are our principal source of starch
and the sugars we get from various
sources = honey = from fruits and
such vegetables as beets.
An excess of meat is very bad
for il clogs the system and causes
self-poisoning.
Brain workers and the young as
well as aged need easily digested
foods. Active muscle workers need
coarse foods, which are better for
their needs; however, all need
roughage to give bulk and increase
the intestinal activity.
The growing child needs milk,
butter, eggs, green vegetables and
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
'S ls @29 B& Sage
UpSp Thornton w Burgess

boards of that floor had been there
many years. In no time at all that
shed was afire.
All the rats under the floor fed
in terror into the house. Smoke be-
gan to pour out of the open door
of the shed. The farmer at work
in the barnyard saw it and ran as
fast as he could to try to put the
fire out. For while the farmer
and his wife had hard fight with
the Red Terror. They pumped wa
ter as fast as ever they could and
carried it in pals to throw on the
fire. At first it looked as If the Red
Terror would be too much for them
and their house would be burned
up, but after a while the water
was too much for the Red Terror
and drowned it out.
'.sWhew!" exclaimed the farmer
as he and his wife sat down to rest
for a moment. THAT was a mar
row escape. How under the sun
could that fire have started?"
81 haven't the least idea," replied
his wife. ST was upstairs at the
time. There wasn't thing in that
shed that could have started it. Do
you suppose anybody could have
set it,"
The farmer shook his head. "No,"
said he, ''that fire started under the
floor" Then sudden thought came
to him. 81 know how il startedi"
he cried angrily. 'It was those
pesky rats! It was those pesky
rats as sure as live. They must
have found some matches some
where and taken them to a nest
under the floor. Then while they
were nibbling at them they set one
going. We've got to get rid of those
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21

VERY few people know why they
v buy this thing or that thing. They
often rationalize afterward, and
give what they think to be the rea-
son, but the true reasons are al
ways in the subsconscious mind-in
the instincts - says DR.. Donald
Laird in his valuable book what
Makes People Buy" Clothing and
personal adornments are sold on the
instinct to be admired and to at
tract attention; insurance on the
instructive fear Of death; travel
tours on the instructive craving for
romance; and automobiles on the
instinct to show power and exhibit
it through possessions. Everything
we buy has an instructive basis for
its appeal, and most of us never
realize this. An intelligent sales
man studies these instincts and
makes use Of them.
@-WNU Service.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
Elevators

ELEVATORS are SO common
IL place to most of us that we sell
dom stop to realize what tremen-
dously important part they play in
our modern life. Without elevators,
no skyscraper, no tall office build
ing or hotel could exist. Even ordi-
nary apartment houses over four
stories in height would be imprac-
teal.
AS matter of fact, no tall build
ings did exist in America until about
1870. when the Singer building was
erected in New York. The inven-
ton of the elevator itself dates from
1850, when Henry Waterman built
crude platform hoist operating be-
tween two floors to move goods in
his warehouse. Soon after that Eli
sha Graves Otis began manufa ctur-
ing lifts in Yonkers, N. Y. Largely
through his Improvements, the first
passenger elevator was constructed
in 1857 and the first passenger ele-
vator in an office building in 1869.
Many important improvements
have been made since that time,
such as the electric elevator in 1889
and the automatic elevator in 1924.
These have all stepped up speed and
efficiency until today, modern types
can make 1000 feet per minute and
could go even faster if necessary.
Engineers say that when speeds go
above 1000 feet minute, passen-
gers complain too much about that
sinking feeling in the pits of their
stomac chs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
Eve Greatest Marvel

OF all the human organs with
which nature equipped man. the
eve, perhaps. is the greatest mar
vel of all. None of mans other
senses is so keenly developed or SO
necessary to him. A man can De
deaf, lose his sense OF taste ana
smell and even his sense OF toucn.
and still lead an active life. BUT
when his eyes go bad ne is practi-
caIly helpless. Scientists tell US
that we get about 81 per cent OF
our impressions Of the OUTSIDE
world through our eye. Our ears
bring us only 2 per cent, our noses
3.5 per cent. our sense OF toucn 10
per cent, and our sense OF tas1e :
mere ! per cent.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
Where the Whangdoodles
Grow

a WHANGDOODLE is an animal
"A that habitually associates with
pink elephants and orange-eyed al
ligators. 1t is most frequently seen
late at night seated complacently
at the foot of beds where bibulous
gentlemen are trying vainly to get to
sleep.
AS a matter of fact, no sober per.
son has ever seen whangdoodle.
So the descriptions of it naturally
vary according to what one has
had to drink and how much. In q
general way it can be described as
a tremendous animal weighing at
least fifteen tons and having thir-
teen eyes, eleven ears and seven
noses. It has the head Of unicorn.
the shoulders of a rhinoceros. the
hips of lion. and the whiskers OF
a cat.
Only male whangdoodles ever
grow to maturity because the fe-
males are unable to stand the siren
uous night life. In the daytime.
whangdoodles live on steep noun
tainsides. and since their legs on the
right side are longer than those on
the left, they always climb and
descend mountains in clockwise
direction.
Full grown whangdoodles come
equipped with slender, hairless tails
and cast iron ball on the end. The
iron ball can be used either to swat
flies or to crack ice.
The origin Of the whangdoodle is
lost in the smoky mists of genera
tons of morning hangovers.
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fruits to supply all the food prin-
ciples and the vitamins which pro-
mote growth.
The diet should be varied as well
as mixed. Substitute rice and mac
aroni for potatoes. not serving any
two at the same meal.
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