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The Washington times., 1937-02-18
Face New Charges

William N. Beck, 20, Jack Jo-
seph Kurz, 20, and Paul Berger,
10, alleged members of the boots
and spurs" gang that, police say,
perpetrated many robberies and
several kidnapings during the past
CONTINUED on Page 27. Col. p
The Washington times., 1937-02-18
One Driver Loses
Permits; Is
Suspended

A motorist, convicted of speed
ing at so miles an hour over
District streets, had his driving
permit revoked today by the
Board of RevocationS, SuSpen-
sions and Restorations. Eighteen
other motorists lost their per
mits for temporary periods.
Arthur S. Finn, 1125 Tenth st.
N. w., was the driver whose per
NIT was revoked.
3O-Day Suspensions
Those who lost their permits
for 80 days were:
Nicholas Finelli, 1918 K st.
N. W.. 40 miles.
Ralph o. Jackson, 2126 Second
st. N. W., 40 miles.
Robert Mitchell, 214 D st. N. w,
A miles.
John L. Morris, $500 Perry st.,
Brentwood, Md, AZ miles.
Marvin A. Morrison, 750 Fair
mont st. N. W., AZ miles.
Leroy A. Porter, jr., 1903 Con-
necticut Ave. N. w., 46 miles.
George A. Poore, 1880 K st. N.
W., 35 miles.
Matthew T. Posey, 2729 Eleventh
st. N. W., 40 miles.
Max Rubin, 900 Columbia St.,
Alexandria, Va, 48 miles.
William Sacks, 1851 Girard st.
N. W., 40 miles.
Jerome Saltin, STA New Hamp-
shire Ave. N. w., As miles.
Continued on Page Fl, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-02-18
WOULD SAVE
TRAINED MEN
IN SERVICE
Plan Would Exempt
Older Workers From
Regular Exams

Noncivil service employees who
have held their positions for less
than six months should be re.
quired to take open competitive
examinations if the proposal for
extension of civil service through
out the Government is enacted, it
was urged today by Mrs. J. At
wood Maulding, representing the
Interior Department and the Pub
lie Works Administration.
All other employees affected by
the legislation, she urged, should
be permitted to gain their civil
service status through noncompeti'
tive examinations.
Mrs. Maulding made this sug-
geStion in her testimony before the
House Civil Service Committee
while discussing the Civil Service
extension bill. She argued that
unless such restriction is set up,
many employees might be appointed
at the last minute so as to escape
the necessity of taking competi-
tive examinations.
Trained by Government
She pointed out that those who
have served for six months or more
have been trained at Government
expense to perform the particular
jobs on which they are working,
and for that reason should be al
lowed to gain Civil Service status
through non-competitive examina-
tionS.
w. w. Richardson, chief Of per.
sonnel for the General Accounting
Office, also urged accomplishment
of extensions through non -competi-
tive examinations, relating that
the Government may lose the serv-
ice of many valuable employees If
open competitive examinations
were required.
Mr.. Richardson said:
"The particular training that
these men gained in their jobs
is valuable to our office. Such
men would be much more valu-
able than an inexperienced man
just out of college who might
make a slightly higher grade on
his examination"
SHUNS POLITICS
Attempts Of some of the Repub-
lican committee members to draw
from Mr.. Richardson an admission
that political Endorsements had
been the controlling factor in max
ing appointments outside the civil
service in the past few years failed.
DR.. w. w. Stockberger, of the
Department of Agriculture, also
indorSed the non-competitive ex-
animation procedure under the
proposed bill, asserting that if COM
petitive examinations were re-
quired, sit would wreck our per-
sonnet"
The Washington times., 1937-02-18
Admiral PettengiII
In Naval Hospital

Rear Admiral G. T. Pettengill,
commandant Of the Navy Yard,
underwent a thyroid operation
yesterday at Navy Hospital.
Admiral Pettengill is expected
to be out of the hospital within
two or three weeks. He was ad-
mitted Monday. The admiral has
been commandant of the Navy
Yard since the summer Of 1885.
The Washington times., 1937-02-18
NOW
Deep Mystery
Is Solved
ON 'DOODLES'
BY HELEN ESSARY

There's mystery in the Feb
Guary air!
Who was that fellow who went
to the Hotel Mayflower the day
after the Jim Farley dinner and
asked to see the table cloths OF
yesternight's feast? Why did he
60 on such a search?
I'll tell you. Twas Russell
Arundel, who finds deep mean
ings in the scrawls (doodles, ne
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30 BURGLARIES
CHARGED TO
MAN, Is
Dapper Youth Named
In True Bills BY
Grand Jury.

George Garcia, dapper 25-year-
old alleged "silk hat burglar" who
police say obtained more than
$50, 900 in jewelry in a series of
burglaries of fashionable homes
and apartments here in recent
months, was named in 80 indict-
ments by the District Grand Jury
today.
Although the 80 true bills relate
to but 1920 worth of jewelry
and bric-a-brac alleged to have
been taken by the man who is
said to describe himself as a
master craftsman" he can be
sentenced to a total of tbs years
in prison if he is convicted on
each charge.
Praises His CaptOrs
Garcia was arrested by a Spe-
cial detective squad in the 100
block of H st. N. w. a month ago
and is said to have complimented
local police for their accomplish
ment. He is quoted as having re-
marked:
"YOu havt done bitter than
the New York police. They have
been trying to get me for sew.
eral years."
According to police, the young
Cuban usually committed his dep
relations while clad in full dress
or a tuxedo and used strips of
celluloid to open the doors of the
apartments he entered. Detectives
Joseph Shimon and Harry Britton
are credited with solution of the
cases and they were led to New
York several times in their efforts
to find the stolen jewelry.
Twenty-seven of the true bills
charged housebreaking and lar
ceny; two more charged house
breaking and the remaining one
accused of grand larce ny-the
largest single item in the entire
array of charges.
The grand larceny indictment
accused Garcia of stealing a tray
and jewelry worth $2,700 from a
jewelry store at 1906 G st. N. w.
last December Z.
Prominent Victims
Garcia picked prominent per
sonages, according to police. One
of his alleged victims was A. E.
Giegengack, Public Printer, and
another was Mrs. Lanette Hetzel.
wife of DR.. Kurt Hetzel, famous
pianist and music critic.
A total of SO indictments, one Of
the largest lists reported in recent
years, was returned by the Grand
Jury today. The list is misleading,
however, because several of the
accused are named in a large num-
ber of separate indictments.
Eighteen true bills were reported
against James E. Thornton, "a,
colored, charging him with rob
berry. housebreaking, and larceny.
Ethel Nash, SO, former domestic
employe of Mrs. Lucille S. San
ders, 2616 Fourth st. N. E., was
indicted for forgery and uttering.
She is said to have caused the
Post Office Department to change
the address of Mrs. Sanders so
that the latter's mail would be
diverted to correspond to her new
place of employment. She OBJ
tanned possession of $50 Christ
mas savings check in this man.
ner, it is alleged, and then forged
her former employees signature to
the check to cash it.
Face New Charges
William N. Beck, 20, Jack Jo-
seph Kurz, 20, and Paul Berger,
10, alleged members of the boots
and spurs" gang that, police say,
perpetrated many robberies and
several kidnapings during the past
CONTINUED on Page ~. Col. y
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c all them)
that you and
1 write on tele-
phone book S
a n d scraps Of
paper while we
are waiting for
S m e thing to
happen.
Mr.. Arundel
h a d re ad in
t his columns
7 u e S d a y ac-
C o mt of Mr..
Farley'S dinner
that Jim was
drawing forked
The Washington times., 1937-02-18
Navy Doctor Talks

DR.. P. F. Dickins, of the Naval
Medical School staff, will speak DE-
fore the District of Columbia So
ciety of Clinical Laboratory Tech
nicians tomorrow at 8 p. m. at the
Naval Medical School.
The Washington times., 1937-02-18
Floor Date Changed

American University's game with
Virginia Medical College in Wash
ington has been changed from
March 6 to March S.
The Washington times., 1937-02-18

James A. Farley pictures on CIle
table cloth while Mr.. Roosevelt
spoke his praise in a speech"
"Forked pictures! FOrked pic
tureS! Hal" cried Russell Arun-
del. Heres a story that will
tell a story!
"FOrked pictures! I began to
see! What was Mr.. Farley think
ing about himself and Mr.. ROOSe-
welt and all the other people in
the world when he was making
those telling lines? What kind
Of a man is this Farley? And
why?
"I'H see that table cloth or
my new book on DOOdleS' will
have been written in vain," Rus
sell Arundel shouted. And hied
him to the laundry room of the
hotel.
The Washington times., 1937-02-18

We hung up the phone abashed.
There wasn't anything we could
do but feel sorry about our choice
of columnar words. And that
wasn't much in such a crisis.
Still, Mr.. Arundel (this occurred
to us later is there no significance
in those marks on the eight table
cloths, even if they were not made
by Mr.. Farley?
The Chamber of Commerce also
sees handwritings on the wall and
turns statistics into morals. Some
times it tells a light-hearted tale
without a moral.
This is a pet story of Mr.. Harper
Sibley, who directs the affairs Of
the U. S. Chamber from that big
white building opposite Lafayette
Square.
/. A small, nervous woman went
into the Bank of England in Lon
don. She presented an armful Of
bonds to a clerk.
Said that gentleman:
"DO you wish them converted
or redeemed, Madame?"
"Oh, OH" replied the nervous
woman. Don't tell me I've got
into a church by mistake"
The Chamber of Commerce is
where the home of Daniel Webster
once stood. Almost every time Mr..
Sibley passes through the hall
some stranger asks, "Is this where
Webster wrote the dictionary"
A relic, treasured in the U. S.
Chamber, is Daniel Webster's desk.
In February it's hard to like any
body-especially ones own broken
down self. Dearest friends bark
at each other. You'd discharge
your cook most any breakfast time.
Mr.. Melons gift of the art gallery
is very fine,
But I wish scne philanthropist
Would leave a few millions to be
spent on research
On the common, all too, too COM
mon
Code
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"TelI me-" his agonized voice
soon begged over the wire, "tell
me. did you see what kind Of
forked lines Mr.. Farley made on
his tabIecIoth the night of his
testimonial dinner?"
"Oh, we weren't close enough.
He just sort of zig-zagged
around with a fork"
with a fork" mOaned Mr..
Arundel. 81 thought when you
said fOrked lines you meant
pencil lines shaped like forks.
Sort of sinister, you know. .
Heck! This story isn't break
ing like 1, thought it would.
And all my work lost. GOOd.by!
GOOd-by!"
The Washington times., 1937-02-18

Over hundreds and hundreds of
cloths spotted with remember
there were eighteen hundred guests
and they ate welD gravy and green
turtle soup and sherry and lobster,
did Russell look feverishly for the
fatal forked lines.
"AH-H." Suddenly our hero came
upon one cloth criSscroSsed with
pencil pictures.
"Here it's" he shouted in glee.
'But no! Stop! Dear Heaven,
here's another marked cloth!
And another! And more-stiIl
more! Eight in all! Eight with
pencil tracings. Which, which
were the hierOgIyphicS Of Biz
Jim? They should be in green
ink.
"NO I'm thwarted FOiled,"
cried Russell, and was about to
bury himself under the highest
pile of sOiled linen and end it
all when he thought Of phOn-
ing US.
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uncovered a 5000 nugget. They had in
different luck afterwards in that par
ticular spot, but they got q claim OF
their W and worked It for three years.
They also ran 2 toll bridge, which
proved to be q losing venture. They
went to various mining camps IN Ore
gon, and in 1861 to Florence, Idaho.
In Florence, House made money,
and he remained there a year. Then
he cleaned up, went to Sterling, Ore,
bought a group of claims and settled
down to work them. He remained there
until 1867, making money. In that year
a scarcity of water forced him to quit,
and he started for Montana. On the
way he stopped at Lemhi, Idaho, and
explored the diggings there, but with
in q short time continued on to Ban
mack. where he arrived one evening in
May, 1868, just after the Vigilantes
had strung up several road agents.
He headed from Bannack to Deer
Lodge by way of Highland City and
from Deer Lodge went to Helena, where
there were 200 persons living at that
time. He worked ground up the gulch
above the town for several weeks, but
it was no good, so he went to the In
dian creek diggingS, to Boulder, and to
Thompson gulch across the Missouri
river, There he mined for two years
Then with three other men House
went into the prairie country with a
bull team and II head of horses, on
a trapping expedition and to trade with
the Indians. They arrived o n Mus
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Of st. Louis in 1866 were length, 164.5,
width, 27.4, total tonnage 263 tons. A
passenger who was on the decks at st.
Louis saw at least 100 barrels of liquor
go into the hold and vouched for the
fact that almost all the Leadorais cargo
was whisky.
One thousand miles upstream the
boat was in shoal water and, sounding
Tor the channel on the Dakota side,
grounded on a bar The water was fall
ing and so it was decided to use spliced
lines from a tree on the Nebraska side
and pull off with the niger engine into
deeper water. During, the noon hour,
captain ordered a hole cut owe it and
then had the crew scuttle the vessel
at the water-line ahead of the wheels
so as to a v the cargo from fire for
the insurance company. The stern was
sunk in 10 or II feet of water and when
water through the hole in the deck.
Nearby settlers took the officers and
passengers to Sioux City where the
! captain secured an old ferry and started
for st. Louis. Enroute, they met the
Nellie Rogers, bound for Fort Benton,
and arranged for her to take the trav-
I elerS to their destination.
Leadora's captain that the cargo had
consisted of dry goods, groceries and
whisky, also a large iron safe. Wenner
found the latter under the surface 100
feet from the bow; it was standing on
the deck about five feet above the
bottom of the hull and As feet ahead
Of the stern. That same year, with
friends, he uncovered part of the boat
and secured a bale of Sisal rope which
was made into souvenir brooms and
kept by western friends for years. In
1911 a good share of the boat had been
uncovered and the Kate Swinney,
wrecked nearby, had also been located.
But the river has several times been
SO e the wreck that it could not be
reached on land and the ownership of
the cargo had to be settled. 1t now be-
longs to him, Wenner says the courts
have decided, by right of discovery and
possession.
The point at issue whenever the final
salvaging is discussed is whether the
cargo would be in disable condition
when 1t is obtained. Wenner declares
that buried cargoeS deep under the
sand and water remain at a tempera-
ture of about 43 degrees Fahrenheit
and do not deteriorate. He cites the
evidence of residents Of the vicinity
who have had a sack of nuts, coffee,
sauerkraut, tallow, j~ackknives, and
other articles which showed no effects
of the long immersion, As years at the
time they were recovered.
If the Leadora is ever completely SAL
vaged, it may start a long series of such
projects for there are many steamboat
wrecks in Dakota and Montana waters,
some of them said to contain gold dust
from Montana mines.
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around Inc DendS, Wnere some opJecC
in the stream had DETECTED the current
from one side to the other. With the
channel anywhere between the bluffs,
many landings were left high and dry
as the years passed and many a farmer
lost acres of land, only. to get it back
some spring when he least expected it.
Snags caused 24O wrecks out of Nc
Donald's list, with ice jams, fire, bridge
collisions, and explosions responsible in
that order. Many wrecks were never
satisfactorily explained; others. involv-
ing bridges owned by the steamboats,
rival and final Nemesis, the railroads,
caused long and bitterly fought Itiga-
ton. OF the total, Y wrecks were listed
as being of miscellaneous origin and
with some of these interesting tales are
connected.
The OsceoIa, so the story goes. was
purchased in 1877 by Gen. Mark D.
Flower for a trip up the Yellowstone.
On board were some cowboys and their
ponies, a preacher and his family, and
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that has come to be such an integral
part of his life.
1t was in August, 1893, that Wenner
and a friend drove to Ponca City on
business; the friend remarked that they
were passing over a steamboat wreck
at about that location in the great
sand bar. Wenner, later a surveyor and
engineer, had been a lead miner in IL
linois and began then to secure infor-
nation about the wreck. One man told
him that he had a pair of red-top, cop
per-toed boots salvaged from the boat.
Another said he had helped shove the
purser's safe overheard Shortly after
the wreck and that there had been
plenty of liquor in evidence at that
time. Someone else had seen a double
box wagon lead of gin taken Off after
the boat had burned. Another old
timer had been a passenger on the boat
and knew both its history and the eX-
tent of its cargo.
The Leadora, built at Crooked Greek,
Ill. in a grove of white oak timber, was
originally a railroad tow-boat 1O7 feet
long. Sold to st. Louis people, it was
cut in the center and added to so that
the official measurements at the port
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Profits of is Years Made i'm One Days Trading
Wiped Out i'm Another When Reds Attack Party

a few other passengers. Below Glen
dive the boat passed a band of wild
horses, among them a beautiful white
stallion. The cowboys, excited by the
possibility Of capturing the animal,
persuaded the captain to tie up. Need
less to say, the whole party was so alb
sorbed by the chase: the roping and
they did not notice either the passage
of time o the threatening sky. Two
hours had elapsed before they started
on, and a terrible cyclone had come up,
striking the boat and carrying away
all the superstructure from the hull.
Flower and his wife, the preacher
and his family drifted downstream on
the wreck of the cabin, landing, after
some two hours, in a bend. The COW
ponies, loose in their stalls, escaped
but the beautiful white stallion, roped
and tied to a stanchion, went down
with the hull.
Bad Luck Signs
The two hours lost in his capture
would have taken the boat well beyond
the storm. Superstitious boatmen laid
the disaster to the presence on board
of a preacher and a white horse, sure
signs of bad luck.
The Boreas No. 2, wrecked farther
downStreams at a much earlier date,
AldO Sl1NCI OuA11OAl d11O N1CA1Cd11 A1lO1lCy
aboard. One passenger was carrying
a good deal of gold dust but was never
seen afterward. It was supposed that
a fire had been set. The boats bell was
salvaged and is now owned by a fam
lily in the old MasSie home at Hermann,
Missouri. Other steamboat bells now
ring out the hour of church service,
that of the Red Cloud, lost at Fort
Peck, in the Episcopal church at Bis
marck, N. D., and that of the Inflated
Saluda in the Christian church at S:a-
vannah, Mo.
Bill Massie himself was at the wheel
when the Twilight struck a snag in
September, 1865. Because the cargo
wa said to be excellent whisky, many
efforts at salvage were made. One Party
built a cofferdam around the hull,
pumped 1t out, and recovered a barrel
of whisky. Then, say the story-tellers,
all hands proceeded to get drunk. BY
the time they had Sobered up, the river
was rising and the cofferdaln washed
away. Similar efforts had been made
in the case of the Arabia, sunk prev
iously on the lower river. But salvage
operations were always hampered by
changes in the stream and often by
~encroaching sand.
Salvage Work Slow
One of the most persistent salvage
projects has to do with the sunken
LeadOra, now embedded in sand on the
Nebraska-Scuth Dakota line. To recov-
ering it's large cargo of whisky and
other goods, E. E. Wenner, well known
at Helena and other Montana points.
but now a resident of Elk Point, S. D..
has devoted most of his life. Many
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Montana State Fair
Educational Opportunities
Greater Than Ever i'm 81

will bring the visitor in line to sue
cessively view displays in the agricul-
tural building, the new home arts
building, All club building, poultry
and his choice of the livestock barns,
midway, automobile building or grand
stand.
Every indication is that many of last
years records will fall during the 1887
show. The increased interest and re-
sulting participation of all Montanans
explains the continuous and phenom-
exhibits were in place from 40 counties,
20 states and 2 provinces. Individual
exhibits numbered 69,179. People at
tended the North Montana State fair
last year from Sc counties, Al states,
2 provinces and the territory of Hawaii.
Educational opportunities such as
j jSdefng d eoPptests, a a5t t sxhi sahsrai St9 aes
tivities Of School Day will interest
every child and parent. And the high
lights of the perfectly balanced en-
tertainment program include many
other educational features such as
fireworks displays, balloon ascensions.
famous artists in the fields Of music
and dance.
Community fair booths are being
arranged by all the organized COM
munities in the Treasurebelt area, and
planned exhibits are expected from
ever more individual counties in the
state than Last year.
Schedule of the 1887 North Montana
State fair at Great Falls will be much
the same al in former years, con-
tinuing for six days and nights from
Monday through Friday, August 2 to
z. Admissions remain at the same low
levels, with strips Of five tickets for
one dollar being available up to the
eve of the fair. These low price tickets
are good for general admission to the
fairgrounds any afternoon or evening
Of the exhibition. Bleacher seats, grand
stand reservations, season reservations
and season automobile stickers cost no
more than IN former years, even though
terially increased.
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selshell river Oct. l, 1869. There they
ran across a camp OF Crows-400 lodges
They traded n day with the Indians
then loaded their wagon and animals
with furs and started across the Judith
Basin for the mouth of the Musselshell
Redskins to Breakfast
They camped for a night at the
lower end of the basin. The next morn
ing Is Crow Indians drove their oxen
into camp, then retired and sat down
on a hillside SO yards away. The In
dams didn't ask for anything and made
no threats. The white men didn't know
what to do, so they cooked breakfast,