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Says Boake Carter

ounce per letter, to 80 letters to the pound
Black and white statistics dealing with the
Pacific air mail show that the number of letters
per pound averages between 46 and So letters per
pound.
And, Of course, the British with their I'm.
perial Airways clippers, are just going to hand
over all the mail between Bermuda and the
United States to the Post Office Departments
fair-haired flying boys. The British wouldn't
think OF being so mean as to take so much as a
postage stamp away from the American planes,
so that the latter could always be "sure" of their
300 ''poundsI"- :
Big Bill for Taxpayer
From New York to Bermuda by steamship is
7S4 statute miles. From Baltimore to Bermuda
by air is 800 statute miles. The advertisement
declares. ANY bid at rate in excess of 81 s5 per
pound for carrying the mails contained in the
specified load Of 800 pounds or all mails offered
at less amount" So. by simple mathematics, it
turns out that the United States taxpayer must
pay minimum charge of 800 pounds at 81 ,S5
per pound, which equals $1,4SO, or $2s6O per
week, just $139,Ss0 year.
The Post Office Department specifies flyins
boats. but the British are proposing land planes
Tor far longer over-water service. Which re.
vealS that the heavierthan-air people can't agree
among themselves. But in face of that fact. the
toSt OG1lce Department proposes to barge blindIy
into another contract
Not only does the Post office Department an
pear to be secretive. but it also appears ready to
set up another monopoly and take the TAXPAYERS
for another sleigh ride.
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Declaring that 60 per, cent of
the youths educated in the country
in 1920 had gone to the city by
1880, DR.. Ezekiel proposed an oc-
cupational outlook service to be
undertaken by the Government
to aid the millions migrating from
the country to the city to prepare
themselves for and to obtain jobs.
MRS. BLACK ATTENDS
DR.. Ezekiel was one of four
speakers who addressed a distin-
guished gathering which included
Mrs. Hugo Black, wife of the new
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some Interesting matters.
There is, for instance the matter of date It is
printed Advertisements for Foreign Air.Nfatl
Service, Post Office Department, Washington,
d. c., November H. 1887"
Paragraph two of the advertisement for "bids"
reads as follows: The frequency of service to
be performed hereunder shall be approximately
once week, and as much oftener as the contrac.
tors planes may be operated on this route -"
Regular SerOice-Perhaps!
What sort of an air-mail service is the Govern.
ment asking the taxpayers to pay for-an air.
mail service which is to be possibly" perhaps"
Somewhere aroAnd" maybe once a week, while
steamships already make the trip from New York
to Bermuda in two days?
pound of mail breaks down, allowing one.nal,
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trip around the world until the war in the Far
East broke out IT sort of had my hat on and
thought I'd better go somewhere" Mrs. Taft
Is rs years old.
Technique for Crusaders
I'm probably just contrary. Everybody, else
at the Town Hall last night thought Beatrice
ForbeS-Robertson Hale Simply thrilling" as
she discussed "The Womens Movement-Where
Have We Moved?" Although all the frustrated
able-bodied ladies clapped furiously while the
English actress and author destroyed the males
(poor dears) with her epigrammatical under.
standing of their stupidity the meek little gentle
men present barely blinked. And kept wonder
Ing why most women crusaders habitually carry
chip on their brawny shoulders
A flattering word is smarter weapon when
dealing with the OPPOSITE SEX than sledge-
hammer arguments The audience that Miss
Hale transfixed was awfully keen and asked lots
of GOOD QUESTIONS. eventually gathered
that what the harried world needs are "more
The Washington times., 1937-12-06

A Australasia all places. But
Why Australian" one of the
members of the Women's
Twentieth Century Club asked
her, at the recent meeting
where Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,
jr., spoke so effectively of art
in public buildings. How did
you happen to want to go
there?"
"Oh, I just thought I
would" said Mrs. Taft calmly.
The widow of the former
President had planned to take
The Washington times., 1937-12-06
BUDGET HEARING
DELAYED week
BY HOUSE UNIT
Collins Inspects D. C.
Places in Trips

Due to the inability to get all
estimates for the District budget
to the House Appropriations Com
mittee in time. hearings scheduled
to start this week today we're post
poned until next Monday.
Tomorrow, however, the COM
mittee will swing into action on
certain unofficial and confiden-
tial" estimates now ready.
COLLINS THOROUGH
Representative Ross Collins (D)
of Mississippi, chairman of the
District subcommittee Of the Ap-
preparations Committee, an
nounced that he will start his
own investigation of District in
Stitutions tomorrow, so that he
may report to the committee on
what he has found.
Mr.. Collins declined to say just
which institutions he intends to
visit first, but it appears it is his
intention to go thoroughly over
the Districts needs.
Although the Presidents mes
sage outlining the annual budget
for next year will not reach Con
greSs until the regular session, gen.
eral outlines for the city'S expend-
itures will be well fixed in the
minds of the subcommittee by that
time.
COLLINS KNOWS GROUND
In order to speed up congress
sional action the Budget Bureau
will send their tentative recon-
mendations to the House Appro-
priations Committee, in confidence
and subject to instant change. Due
to the fact Mr.. Roosevelt usually
accepts these recommendations it
is expected the budget will in all
reality be written before it formal
ly reaches the Hill.
1t will not be handled in a hap
hazard fashion, however, as Rep
resentative Collins, wholly IA
Continued on Page %, Col. u
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set up a ten-year monopoly for
one private outfit and (2) com.
mitted the United States to
ten years operation of one
type OF aircraft over an oce.
anic route.
The Post office Department
is about to pull the same trick.
There has just been released
to the press mimeographed
forms of the advertisement for
the proposed air-mail route
from the United States to Ber.
muda and return, It reveals
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Supreme Court Justice; Senator
Dixie Bibb Graves, Senator Arthur
Capper, Representative Caroline
O'Day, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, DR..
Louise Stanley, DR.. Chester W..
Holmes and John A. Lang.
The meeting was called discuss
plans for enlarging opportunities
for the rura YOUTH of the nation.
The selection of Mrs. Henry Graf
tan Dolye, president of the District
school board, as president of the
committee, was announced at the
meeting.
Mrs. Blair Bannister, sister of
Continued on Page 20, Col. A.
The Washington times., 1937-12-06
Man IS DROWNED
AS CAR PLUNGES
INTO RIVER HERE
Several Others Hurt
As Traffic Toll Rises

One person was drowned as
the result of an automobile acci.
dent and several others were in
ured in other mishaps in the Dis
trict's weekend traffic toll.
The man drowned, whose body
was not recovered for several
hours following the accident which
occurred near the Navy Yard, was
identified as James S. Thomas.
81, colored, of 1915 Sixth st. N. w.
FOUND AT WHEEL
Private j. C. McCrae, Marine
guard at the Navy Yard, told po-
lice that he saw a car going south
on Second st. S. E., near the Yard.
and later heard a loud splash.
This report was made to police
shortly before 6 a. m. yesterday
and it was not until about II
o'clock that Harbor Police, using
cranes from the city sewer de.
partment, were able to recover
the machine. The mans body
was found slumped over the whee!
as the car was pulled from about
20 feet of water.
Capt. John Meade, Of the U. S.
A, and his wife, Mrs. Eudora
Hummer Meade, were injured yes
terday when their automobile over.
turned near Vienna, Va, as the
couple were returning from meet
at the Fairfax Hunt Club.
AT WALTER REED
Taken to the Walter Reed Hos
pital. Mrs. Meade was found to be
suffering broken ribs and internal
injuries, while her husband sus-
tanned dislocated shoulder. Hos
pital attendants said today that
their condition was Satisfactory. A
third passenger in the car, another
Army officer. escaped injury.
Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, 80. OF
1923 Newark st. N. w., suffered
shock and a possible fracture of
the arm when struck by an auto.
mobile in the 34O0 block of Con.
Continued on Page 22, Col. u
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MONDAY, DEC. 6, 1887
By E0alm Walsh Mclean

I'll admit this farm relief bill sounded pretty
good when Secretary Wallace told us we were
going to have under it the kind of ever normal
graneries Joseph set up in Biblical times and
which the Chinese established before Christ.
But Senator Borah certainly blasted that
myth in his great speech in the Senate the
other day. He SO clearly pointed out that the
ever normal granaries in ancient times we're
used to encourage production in the good years
so there would always be enough on hand to
feed the hungry. Never were they used, as it
is proposed we use ours to discourage the pro.
duction of foodstuffs in good years so prices
would stay up.
Urges Use of Idle Gold
hope the day will come when our statesmen
return to common sense legislating, instead of
getting themselves all wound up in red tape
until they are as helpless as flies in a spiders
web. Sometimes they remind me of children
building block houses higher and higher until
they fall and then they rush off to make fiery
speeches and attempt deals behind closed doors
With 100000 people ill fed, ill clothed and
i'll housed in this country there is plenty of
work for our farmers to do. The big problem
is distributing their products to the people who
need and want them. 1t seems to me our Gov
ernment might well use some of its idle gold
buried in that hole in the ground in Kentucky
to solve this problem.
We certainly cannot long preserve a Govern
ment "of the people, by the people AND FOR
THE PEOPLE" if we start cutting down on the
food supply in a Nation where one-third of
the people are underfed
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wolf who was scratching at al
most every door would scramble
after the pigs and then every.
body would be very very happy.
But it didn't work out that
way because the big bad wolf
refused to bulge from most Of
the doorsteps and his appetite
was only sharpened by the
sight of all those little pigs
going to waste, so he is still
with us bowling louder than
ever before.
Now the "Snart" rnen arc
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;"

The Post Office Department is up to its old
tricks again..
Two years ago it handed out contract for
Trans-Pacific air mail which did two things. ~
The Washington times., 1937-12-06
Training
Called Rural Need

Nonagricuura vocational education must be provided for
increasing number of rural youths Dr. Mordeca Ezekiel
economic adviser the Secretary of Agriculture told the
Washington Committee the Alliance for Guidance of Rural
Youth organization meeting Saturday night Is Dupont
The Washington times., 1937-12-06
My Say

off to slaughter because some men who told
us they were very very smart said the big bad
The Washington times., 1937-12-06
Dear Washington

Mrs William Howard Taft has lost none of
the taste for travel she developed when her bip
joVial husband set Presidential pace for iunket.
ing. Mrs Taft is about to leave soon -,
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The Washington times., 1937-03-17
PAY
PARLEY HERE

Representatives Of 81 States met
today for an interstate unemploy-
ment compensation conference at
the Mayflower Hotel. The meet
ing will continue for three days.
The purpose of the meeting, &C.
cording to j. A. Marshall, direc-
tor Of the District Unemployment
Compensation Act and presiding
officer atthis meeting, is to achieve
uniformity Of administration for
the 81 State compensation acts.
He added:
1--WE do not have at present
any way of continuing benefits
for people who have worked in
one State and moved to another.
Nor do we have any system for
taking care of people whose work
is exclusively inter-State-rail-
road workers, for instance"
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen
addressed a welcome to the dele
gates at the opening session this
morning. Tomorrow the meeting
will hear a talk by Representative
Sam Rayburn, House majority
leader.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
6,O45 VOTERS
ELIGIBLE

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March II.
A total Of 6,045 persons are eligi.
BILE to vote in the city council pri-
mary April 8, when a mayor and
two councilmen will be nominated
for the general election in June,
election officials announced to-
day. This is an increase OF 243
over last year.
The list shows there are 5,735
white persons eligible, 2S7 colored
persons and 73 young men and
women just of age. The fifth
ward continues to have the city's
largest voting population, with
1888 qualified. The second ward
has the smallest, with only 729
voters.
To be eligible to vote in the
April primary and June election.
citizens must have paid poll taxes
prior to December 7, 1895. Sev'
eral hundred who have paid since
that date may vote in the August
and November elections.
Candidates for the mayor and
two councilmen posts in the April
primary are Mayor E. C. Dawson,
Councilman A. Slater Lamond,
Richard L. Ruffner, William T.
wilkins, David E. BayliSS, jr. Le-
roy Bendheim and william J.
Greeman.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17

ROCKVILLE, Md, March IT..
Montgomery county's proposal to
work short term jail prisoners on
the county roads today received
the approval of DR.. Homer E.
Tabler, Of the State Roads Com
mission, and Herbert r. O'Conor,
attorney general for Maryland,
and will be placed into effect i'm
,mediately.
This was announced by County
Commissioner Charles e. King, ap-
pointed to work out the details
connected with the proposal, dur
ing a meeting Of the county board
here yesterday.
Commissioner King said that
under the present plans an en-
ploye of the State Roads Commits
sion will be sworn in as deputy
sheriff and placed in charge OF
the workmen. In this capacity
he will serve as a foreman, time
keeper and guard.
Tools for the men to work with
will be furnished by the State as
well as transportation to and
from the project. The problem Of
serving the workers with lunch
is still to be worked out, King
said.
The policy to work prisoners
was adopted by Judge Harold C.
Smith, of the Rockville police
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
SPR0USE CASE
BILL RETURNED

CHARLOTTES VILE, Va,
March ia bill Of particulars
charging premeditated murder and
while committing a felony in the
chloroform murder Of Cleo Sprouse,
high school junior, was returned
against DR.. r. G. Miller, Char.
lotteSville dentist yesterday in cir
cult court OF Albemarle county.
The bill was filed by Common
wealth Attorney William o. Fife
as the customary procedure after a
blanket Indictment by the grand
jury, which placed the murder OF
the 18-year-old girl between the
hours of 4:30 and 8 o'clock p. m,
Monday, March !.
Fife, in his bill, charged that
"the killing was done by use OF a
poinSonouS substance, towit, chic
roform wilfuIly, deliberately, and
with generalization administered
by r. G. Miller to Cleo Sprouse
in a manner and with intent to
cause the death of said Cleo
Sprouse."
He further charged the 53.year-
old dentist was engaged in the
commission of a felony, towit, an
attempt to produce an abortion" |"
Miller, who confessed Cleo died
when he administered chloroform
in an attempted illegal operation,
was indicted with first degree muir
der which carries the death perl-
atty. Under Virginia law, he is
charged with a second degree muir
der until the State proves murder
in the first degree.
E. v. Walker, chief defense
counsel, stated he and his partner
Robert E. Taylor, would leave
Charlottesville tomorrow to confer
with Leith Bremner and Harold
M. Ratcliffe, other defense attor'
neys in Richmond, to map the &C
cuSed mans defense.
Commonwealth Attorney Fife
will be assisted in prosecution by
Tinsley T. Coleman, Of LovingSton,
who has been retained by mem
bers Of Sprouse family. Coleman
is Commonwealth Attorney fol
Nelson county. Also aiding Fife
will be his assistant, Jack Maury
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
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The Washington times., 1937-03-17
7 Million Fewer Cows
TabuIated in ; Years

Decline Of Z per cent In the
milk COW population during the
last three years was reported yes
terday by the Department Of Ag-
riculture. The decrease amounted
to nearly 100000 COWS.
The department, not alarmed
at this trend, looked for some in
crease in the birth rate in the next
two years and q more marked
rise in 1899.
By January Of this year the COW
population had dropped to a five.
year low of 25,040,000 from an
all-time peak Of 26,931 900 at the
beginning Of 1894.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
Montgomery to Work
Prisoners ON Roads

court here, more than a week ago
as a possible solution to repeated
minor violations by the same per-
sons. Violators now sentenced to
the county jail for 80, so or 80
days will be placed on county
highway projects to work for the
duration of their sentences and
will receive rs cents per day for
their work.
Commissioner King said today
that a plan is now being studied
to ascertain If the county has the
proper authority to take wages
earned by the prisoners and use
it to provide for their families. If
the prisoner has no family the
money will accumulate and be
paid to them at the expiration Of
sentence.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
n RTN WAsHINGTOA's 90
Ssl5 Heroes mRZUe ~
Wallace w. Rollins, Hero in Rescue Of Woman,
Once Fell Into Theater Basement Of Icy Water

A desire to emulate the heroic
deeds of a brother who was a fire
man prompted Lieut.. William w.
Rollins to leave the family farm
at Seat Pleasant, Md, for the ex-
citing life of District fire fighter.
He spent "A years in the service
until forced to retire in 1911 be-
cause of the loss of an eye in a
tobacco warehouse fire on Penn
Sylvania avenue.
Among the outstanding blazes
he recalls was the Academy OF
Music fire 1T which he fell through
a trap door in the building to the
basement. 1t was in the dead OF
winter and bitter cold. He almost
froze to death in the icy water be-
fore being rescued.
On another occasion he carried
a 30O.pound woman down Shaky
ladder to safety in an apartment
house fire.
Lieutenant Rollins lives with his
family at Capitol Heights, Nd,
and is a former member of the
town council there.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
Jew Killed in Riot

JERUSALEM, March II I.N.S).
The sixth young Jewish victim Of
Arab outbreaks in northern Pales-
tine within the last four days was
dead today, victim of bullets fired
when he was entering his home in
the Roshpinah colony near Safeo.
He was identified as Samuel Gott-
fried, 27,
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
Bolivia Will Cancel
Standard Oil Lease

LA PAZ, Bolivia, March IT
GN.S0.-Authorities today moved
to enforce q government decree or
dering cancellation Of the Stand
ard Oil Company's concession and
confiscation Of the company's
property.
The decree was promulgated
amid government charges that
the company exported petroleum
without paying royalties allegedly
due under terms Of the conces-
sion.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
Flood LiberaIizes
Disaster Loans

The RFC has liberalized rules
for disaster loans to flood suffer
ers, Representative Citron Cd,
OF Connecticut, told the House
Banking Committee yesterday.
Citron asked the committee to
bring 1885 flood sufferers under
terms Of the twenty million dollar
disaster loan fund recently author
lied by Congress following the
Ohio Valley floods.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
Prisoner Too Cautious

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Q.N.S).
The joke is on the prisoners of
the New Haven county jail. They
have been living behind . wall
that has been condemned as being
too weak. Recently o truck backed
into it and demolished q large part
of it. Officials Immediately made
plans to tear down tie entire wall
and replace it with q steel wire
fence.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
biodO Is 51SHFR HFREssvRE:|
Premature Aging?

sIuEgishnes slipping dizzy spells frequent
etales OF
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fo against the onslaught Of old smens
in of Gosewschs
spark plugs motOrke Ue
sead-blood
bghtennew is replenished Yes
Garlic Tablets Its superiority cannot
tsbletnote purity
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES adueraed obnoxious
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supply saving in Sold
Whelan's Liggetts and Unity Drug stores.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-18
STRAND

Camille" with Greta Carlo and
Robert Taylor as It's sensational CO.
starring team, Is to be enjoyed to-
day, tomorrow and Saturday at
Warner Brothers Strand theater.
The notable supporting cast In
cludes Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth
Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniel.
Lenore Uric and Laura Hope Crews,
and there is not o performance
among the group that does not de-
serve praise.
The Dumas love classic Of "rhe
Lady OF the Carnellias" provides o
peculiar brilliant vehicle for the
glamogous Carlo. She gives an un-
forgettablo intensity to the most
dramatic role Of her brilliant career.
Taylor, whose amazing success In a
brief two years on the screen has
made him an international figure,
comes into his own a. q dramatic
actor OF rare talent In the exacting
role Of Armand.
The story 10 too we'll remembered
to require description, but the glory
OF Paris In the period Of Dumas 10
recreated with magnificent artistry
and the dramatic love OF Camille
and Armand Is portrayed with oil
the power OF the original.
The companion feature Is sin
ner Take Ar with Bruce Cabot,
Maygaret Lindsay and Joseph Cal
Ieip In TIT leading roles. A beau.
tjfuI heiress marked for death--ai'd
o teadiine-huntcr who didn't be-
lteve In signs. It's the romantic
kick OF O lifetime as they match
wits with the mysterious kjller--for
the highest stakes OF all
Sunday brings Gary Cooper and
Jean Arthur In "The Plainsman",