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The Washington times., 1937-08-12

City Chemist Otto P. Behrer
said he. had not yet completed
analysis of the contents of bottles
found at the Hahn residence yes
terday.
Mrs. Hahn, known as the Angel
of Mercy" faced questioners with
the repeated assertion, My con
science is clear; I have nothing to
worry me-"
Two other aged persons told
how they became seriously i'll
after eating food allegedly served
them by the 31-year-old woman.
George Heis, SO, coal dealer, on
whose complaint Mrs. Hahn is I'M
der arrest, charged with larceny,
declared:
IT became ill after drinking
some beer she gave me. Then
she gave me some spinach and
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
Capt. COnkey Dies;
Veteran of Lakes

CHICAGO, Aug. IL G.N.SJ.-
Capt. Charles M. Conkey, So, vet
eran Great Lakes shipping cap
tain. was dead today of heart dis
ease. Captain Conkey, the hus-
band of Mrs. Elizabeth Conkey,
Democratic national committee
woman, succumbed to heart dis
ease last night in a South Side
hoSnital
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
Profits Fade
CantelOupe GrOwers
Feel Competition

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. IL.
Because of competition from North
Carolina and other Southern
States. Anne Arundel county truck
farmers are feeling the effects on
their canteloupe crops. Stanley E.
Day, county agent said today.
Heretofore, Mr.. Day said, county
farmers who have specialized in
the MELONS have been able to reap
substantial profits. With the ship
ping of large quantities from the
South, they find their profits con.
Siderably reduced, he said.
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
LINER RAMMED
MERCHANT SHIP
SINKS;23 SAVED
Danish Boat Goes Down
Off New England

NEW YORK, Aug. IL U.N.SO.
The Danish m e r h a n t m an
Maine sank today $50 miles
southeast Of Boston after col.
liding with the Canadian Pa
cific liner Duchess of AthOIl,
Mackay Radio reported today.
NEW YORK, Aug. IL Q.N.S0.
With water pouring through a 40.
foot rip in her steel hull, torn by
the Canadian Pacific liner Duchess
of Atholl, the Danish merchant
man Maine today was abandoned
by her crew of % about 100 miles
southeast of Boston.
The Duchess of Atholl plowed
into the 2,158-ton cargo vessel late
last night in fog.
CREW TAKEN ABOARD
Still hardly able to see the DAM
aged Maine in this mornings mist,
the Duchess of Atholl took aboard
her crew, and stood by until a tug
could arrive to tow the leaking
ship ashore. The Names forward
decks were awash.
The latest message radioed by
the master of the Canadian liner
said:
"At II a. m. Greenwich time
&c a. m. E. S. To, S. S. Maine
abandoned.
"She remains dangerous to
navigation. Duchess Of Atholl
standing by until tug arrives.
Dense fog"
BOUND FOR NEW YORK
The 20,119-ton Duchess of Atholl,
in the transatlantic service, sus-
tanned no serious damage. Neither
ship radioed an S OS. The Maine
was bound from oslo, Norway, to
New York. She is registered from
Copenhaven.
Earlier the stricken ship refused
the aid of the United States Coast
Guard.
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
Auto Trailer Fad
Gains in Sweden

STOCKHOLM, Aug. IL. - The
modernized automobile trailer has
made its triumphant entry into
Sweden. Many foreign makes are
for sale and a Swedish manufac-
turer who recently joined the
field, is doing a rushing business.
The trailerS sell for approx,
natel8 $a75.
The Washington times., 1937-08-12

said if ate that it would make
me better, but it made me
worse"
Heis, stricken with what police
called arsenic poisoning, is semi.
paralyzed.
And Mrs. Olive Kohler, 10, now
a patient in Longview State Hos
pital. said her illness started after
eating ice cream Mrs. Hahn served.
The inquiry started after the
death in Colorado Springs. Colo,
of George Obendorfer, Ct, a shoe
maker. who travelled from this
city to Colorado with Mrs. Hahn
and her son, Oscar, IL.
The carrier boy Pm your neighbour
hood will gladly deliver The Washing
ton Times, the Capitals Picture News.
paper, to your home. Call District 1000
and ask for home delivery
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
Ignored Girl Battles
For Browning Riches

NEW YORK, Aug. 12The forgotten girl of Daddy Brown
ng will settled her French heels the witness stand tossed
her auburn locks and began her fight yesterday for ST
of Gander Mans
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
Angel of Mercy Held
In Deaths of 3 Men

CINCINNATI Ohio Aug u QN.S).-Police reported today
that quantity of poison had been found in locker of Philip
Hahn husband of Mrs Anna Marie Ham, being questioned in
the mysterious deaths Of three elderly acquainances
The Washington times., 1937-08-12

Work that must be done
carefully must have the aid
of healthy eyes. In most
cases, a weakened eye con-
dition can be corrected
through the proper glasses.
At CaStelberg's. glasses that
fit your particular needs
The Washington times., 1937-08-12

It was the opening in Surro-
gates Court of the long-awaited
battle over the riches of Edward
w. Browning, the genial man of
idiosyncrasieS and peccadilloes
whose last fifteen years were spent
in marrying girls, adopting them
or merely showing them a good
time.
Marjorie Browning, now %, was
the central figure in the action to
break the will. She, who for five
years lived as Browning's daugh.
ter after legal adoption by his first
wife, was ignored when the estate
of 100000 to 100000 was
split up.
SUNSHINE" BATTLES
The suit met stern resistance
from Dorothy (Sunshine) Brown
ing Hood, whose adoption had been
established.
Miss Browning merely described
The Washington times., 1937-08-12

will be prescribed for you.
Do not neglect your eyes:
have an early examination
made of your vision to see
whether or not you need
glasses and have the ones
prescribed that will do you
the most good.
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
ENVOY ACCUSED
.OF THREATENING
Wife, DAUGHTER
Stransky and Girl, 6,
Reported in N. Y.

With DR.. Pavel Stransky,
Czechoslovakian diplomat who
last Tuesday kidnapped" his g.
year-old daughter, Mary Peyton
Stranska, missing with the child,
1t was revealed today that he had
been accused OF threatening the
child and her mother, Nine. Anna
StranSka, with a dangerous
weapon.
In a suit to obtain custody Of
the child, filed in Arlington
county circuit court last No
vember, Nine. Stranska charged
that because of threats, British
officials in Singapore, where the
diplomat was then stationed, had
taken from him a rifle and a
pistol.
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
CRUELTY CHARGED

The suit further alleged that he
is a man "who seems to take pleas
ure in making others suffer, and
because of this trait he is cruel and
inhuman in his treatment of his
child"
Nine. StranSka further charged
that he had refused to contribute
to the support of his child.
The diplomat took the child
from the Falls Church home OF
the Rev. ]. B. Henry, father Of
Nine. Stranska. where she has
been staying since she returned
from Singapore almost year ago.
Attorneys for Nine. Stranska
admitted that since he is travelling
on a diplomatic passport and since
the child is a Czech under the
law, there would be nothing to pre-
vent him from taking the child
out Of the country if he desired.
It was reported that DR.. Stran
sky had taken the child to New
York. James R. Murphy, his at
torney, was unable to get in touch
with him.
The Washington times., 1937-08-12
PLAN CONFERENCE

Meanwhile, Charles Pickett, at
torney for Nine. Stranska, planned
to confer with Circuit Judge Wal
ter T. Mccarthy in Arlington to
determine what can be done to
restore the child to the mother.
Possibility that the State De
partment might be drawn into the
affair was seen when Attorney
Pickett conferred last night with
R. Walton Moore, counselor of the
department.
Nine. StranSka appealed for aid
to Vladimir Hurban, Czechoslo-
vakian minister here, but he told
her he had not seen DR.. Stransky
and there was nothing he could do.
Murphy said DR.. Stransky was
hopeful there might be a recon
Citation, but attorneys for Nine.
Stranska said this was "out of
the question"
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
EARLY RETRIAL
FACES HUNT

UPPER MARLBORO. Md. June
1o.-A possibility that the man.
slaughter trial of Albert B. Hunt,
jr., which ended in a hung jury
here yesterday, may be called for
retrial next week, was indicated
by court attaches here today.
The jury, failed to agree in the
case of the 22-year-old youth &C.
cused Of bringing about the death
of his aged grandfather after an
alteration in Huntsville last
Christmas Day.
According to testimony, Albert
Hunt, ST., '78, had died two days
after the alleged fight. An au-
topsy showed that he had died of
severe bruises and several broken
ribs. Young Hunt, who works at
the Washington Navy Yard, was
arrested following his grand
fathers death and later released
on bond.
Hunt told the court that he had
gone to his home to wish his
grandfather a Merry Christmas,
but that the elderly man had re-
fused to speak to him and left
the house. Hunt, said he followed
his grandfather and attempted to
demonstrate with him, but his
grandfather struck him and
knocked him unconscious. When
he revived, he said, he found his
grandfather lying on the ground
spattered with blood. He said that
he did not remember striking the
older gentleman. Mr.. Hunt, ST.,
died two days later.
The Washington times., 1937-06-10

American Horizons" in six cpl
sodes, (a) Early Settlers, CD Early
Builders, Co Machines, Cd West
ern Pioneers, (e) Machines, Cd
Pioneers of Today, proved to be
a series of movements with stern
facial expressions that no pioneer
would ever recognize, with the pos
Sible exceptions of the pair that
initiated the use of a croSscut saw
and the use of the ak. Others
seemed to be throwing the discus,
while others may have been scat
tering seed with wild gestures
(maybe they were wild OATS, or
welding a scythe. After spending
most of the day actually welding
a hoe. scattering garden seeds and
swinging a sickle, this reviewer
was hardly in the mood to accept
these free-wheeling motions as
part of the labor of tilling the
soil, or were they?
1t was probably good modern"
dance Interpretation, but we are
still a little too close to the soil to
appreciate American Horizons. !"
The Sleeping Beauty" interpre-
tation, while differing materially
from the classical, had much Of
the fairyland spirit that made a
delightful production. Jarnefelt's
"Praeludium" was interpreted as
a scene just preceding a rustic
wedding with some comic Situa-
tons. The "Bolero" choreography
had much of classical ballet in it,
making a colorful and varied
dance Of singular appeal.
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
By CARL L. DENIES

/
From the pen of the late music
critic of the New York Times,
Richard Aldrich, we quote fur
Their: They may be leaders, and
often are, of somebody. They may
have enthusiastic followers who 90
not dare express an opinion TILL
they have read next morning S
paper, a well-known cohort and a
practice condemned, at least pub
licly, by the leaders themselves.
But what they say is not the last
word always. Is there a last word?
Even the most authoritative
and the ableSt of these gentlemen
have been known to change their
minds. Indeed, some would be
disposed to say that those who do
not find it necessary or inevitable
to change their minds, or to
modify their opinions in some
degree, in the course of a lifetime,
have very little mind to change.
A change of mind is not sign OF
weakness but of strength.
Some will deny that there are
fixed principles in art, maintain
ing that art is man-made thing
and that what man has decreed,
man may change. 'Modernist'
thinkers may hold fast to this
idea. But if there are immutable
laws that govern art, there are
undoubtedly areas of doubt, queS-
tionable fringes, areas open to dis
pute. The Constitution of the
United States has to be inter.
preted. In how many thousand
cases has the Supreme Court not
had to adjudicate what was the
law? And, still more disturbing,
how many times has that august
tribunal completely reversed it.
self? Shall music critics of the
highest flight have a greater i'm
munity from changer"
Marian Chase and her dance
group gave pleasing and diver
sified recital last night at Central
High School which was highly ap-
preciated by the audience. The
duet, Conversational Piece"
danced by Marian Chace and
James Kelley, the modernistic in
depreciation of several scenes from
Sleeping Beauty" (Tschaikow-
SKYE, and the choreography and
costume devised for Ravel's DO
lero" are deserving of special men
ton.
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
MRS.R00SEVEL7
TELLS STORY OF
ROMANCE

NEW YORK, June 10 GN.S0
In her autobiography, This L
My Story" Mrs. Eleanor Roose
welt tells for the first time the
story of her romance with Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt.
She IS probably the only woman
in America who met her future
husband at the age of two year:
and took ride around the nursery
on his back. little dreaming he
was to become President Of the
United States.
First Visit
This is the way the First Lady
of the Land" relates the nara
tive in the current issue of Ladies
Home Journal:
when / was two years old
my father and mother took me
to stay at Hyde Park with them.
"My mother-in.law says she
remembers my standing in the
door with my finger in my mouth
and being addressed as gran
ny by my mother, and that
Franklin rode me around the
nursery on his back.
This visit, however, is pure
~ a matter of hearSay to me.
My first recollection of Frank
lin is at one of the Orange
Christmas parties. Later l had
. glimpse Of him in the summer
/ came home from school wheH
was going up to TivOli in the
coach of a New York Central
train.
RESENTED INTERFERENCE
HE Spied me and took me to
speak to his mother, who, of
course, was in the Pullman car.
1 never saw him again until he
began to come to occasional
dances the winter l came out,
and was asked to house party
at Hyde Park where all the other
guests were mostly his cousins.
I'm the autumn Of 1903, when
Franklin Roosevelt, my fifth
cousin once removed, asked me
to marry him, it seemed an en-
tirely natural thing and, though
i was only 10, l never even
thought that we were both
rather young and inexperienced.
my mOther-in-law had sense
enough to realize that both of
us were very young and very I'M
developed, and ir spite of the
fact that she thought 1 had
been well brought up, she ue.
cided to try to make her son
think this matter Over-Which,
at the time, 1, of course, re-
Sented.
DIDN'T CHANGE
Gas he was well ahead in his
studies, she took him with his
friend and roommate, Lathrop
Brown, on a cruise to the West
Indies that winter, while 1
lived in New York with Mrs.
Parish Franklin's feelings did
no: change, however.
Admitting that she did not
dance well, Mrs. Roosevelt saio
of herself:
II knew / was the girl in my
mothers family who was not a
belle, and, though 1 never &C
knOwledged it 10 any of them
at the time, I was deeply
ashamed
The Washington times., 1937-06-10

WAKEFIELD MOTOR co.
2625 Sherman Ave. n. ".
1927 Connecticut Ave. n. W.
FRANK NJ MCLAUGHLIN
31O3 Rhode Island Ave. N. e.
CAPITOL MOTORS, INC.
216 Pennsylvania Ave. Q. z.
GAL Water St. 8. ".
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
70 RID VS.

TAKOMA MOTOR co, INC.
81 Carroll Ave.
TakOma Park, Md.
4th and Blair Rd. n. W.
WALSH MOTOR co.
5000 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, Md.
BILLHIAIER & PALMER
2 Spencer st.
sofa Rhode Island Ave.
HyAttsVille. Nd.
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
World Of Music

Muzurku Theme From "Roymondo," Bolet by Gluzounow

Muzurku Theme From "RuYmondu," Ballet by Glozounow
"A suggestion using preserving the daily music theme
teachers music appreciation ddDSe their pupils to CUP ana
paste q card Nth composers name at the top
and file them in alphabetical orderO
By CARL L. DENIES
"he gentlemen take themselves the title Of critic
have conferred upon them by the editors of newspapers and
gladly acclaimed by the public leaders of opinion
observed studied and followed Tor else denounced and declared
incompetent by dssden properly be regarded and in
would regard themselves merely contributors to
the general mass of opinion, not dictators"
The Washington times., 1937-06-10

CHERNER MOTOR co.
1881 Florida Ave. n. W.
Conn. Ave. and Nebraska
1919 14th st. n. w.
NORTHEAST MOTOR CO.
go Bladensburg Rd. n. z.
ARLINGTON MOTOR CO.. NC.
RosSlyns Va
The Washington times., 1937-06-10

LOGAN MOTOR co.
iii 18th st. n. w.
2O17 Virginia Ave. n. W.
CARTER MOTOR CO.
113 N. st. Asaph
Alexandra, Va.
PARKWAY MOTOR CO., INC.
5O4O NJ 81. n. W.
1850 Wisconsin Ave-
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
+ THE FoIlowINe AU1HoRIzED FORD DEALERs

ANACOsTIA MOTOR co.
1925 Good Hope I'd.
TRIANGLE MOTOR co.
New York Ave. ana
North Capitol
NORTHWEST M0ToR co.
6T2O wisconsin Ave
Chevy Chase. Ia
Evening star., 1937-10-04
s'Cimmies'' at Kenfeld.

Report comes from Buffalo that Uncle
Sam is having his troubles as landlord
A low-cost housing project near that city
known as Kenheld, consisting of 658
apartments and row dwellings. built
around Handicapped courts is sufficiently
completed to be ready for occupancy.
Now the Government agent in charge is
placing tenants on the properties, and he
is running up against the disposition to
get the best for the least money which is
prevalent throughout society. Most of
them want more in the way of accom-
modations than has been provided,
without any increase in the established
scale Of rentals. One of them was great
ly disappointed when he found that lace
curtains did not 60 with the house which
he selected, Another was aggrieved when
he was told that he could not get gar
dener and janitor service along with the
house on which he had set his heart
Another demanded that tools be pro-
vided for garden work. Again, there was
protest that the bath rooms did not in
clude showers along with tubs In one
case the prospective occupant found that
the sun did not strike the kitchen at the
right angle. Another objected that the
house he wanted was too close to play
ground. At one of the dwellings the
driveway did not suit
This is old human nature at work. 1t
manifests itself most decidedly when
something is being offered at public ex-
pense. 1t is not rapacity, precisely-just
the disposition to make the most out of
benefaction. These tenants are not,
of course, obliged to take whatever the
Government agent offers, however better
their prospective quarters may be than
those they have been occupying hereto
fore. And probably there will be those
who will be glad to take the Govern
ments gifts as they stand, at the estab-
lished rates. without more than passing
demur at the deficiencies.
1t is quite possible that some of these
housing projects have not been as we'll
planned and constructed as they might
have been. Complaints of faults of mass
production have been heard in other
cases than the Kenfield project Some
thing Of the sort has been heard, GER
tainly, at Greenbelt in Maryland, and
it is whispered that many misfits in con-
struction have developed that make the
dwellings, whatever the rate charged for
purchase or rental, not altogether suit
able. Certainly there has been vast
outpouring of money upon these colonies
and much has been said regarding the
lack of strict cost keeping.
Lace curtains, shower baths, free gar
dening and janitor service, if granted,
would assredly make for the more
abundant life, and the taxpayers of the
near future would foot the bills And
those enjoying the benefits would share
in the ultimate expense in the form of
higher costs of living. Sooner or later
the bill must be paid.
Evening star., 1937-10-04
President Green Should
Have Invited Miss Perkins

To the Editor of The Star:
1t is regrettable that President Green
did not invite Miss Perkins. Secretary
OF Labor, to the A. F. of L. convention.
1t is an injustice to the rank and file
who appreciate the fairness of the Pres
ldent and Miss Perkins in their dealings
with labor laws, especially the prevailing
wage requirement on all Government
projects
Miss Perkins has the most unthankful
position In the Cabinet, one that no man
could handle as gracefully as she, with
the A. F. of L., the C. I. O., man.
ufacturers and other interests hiring
thousands or workers and each wanting
the opposite in hours and working con-
ditions
Government projects are curtailing.
bumper crops will bring reduction of
buying power, the tide of prosperity
is going out difficult problems face all
OF us, and labor, like all, will need
friends.
President Green should overlook his
grievance and invite Miss Perkins to
the A. F. of L. convention. an honor
justly due her. JOHN RIGGLES.
Evening star., 1937-10-04
Taxpayers Want. to Know
What Became of Millions

To the Editor Of The Star:
In the first days of the depression,
American short-time, listed and un-
listed and other listed American securi-
ties were at acceptable, favorable figures
on the New York Stock Exchange.
Then without hint or notification to the
United States Government, or the New
York Stock Exchange, London, through
New York dual international bankers,
dumped $4,000 100000 of these American
securities upon the New York Stock
Exchange for sale through the inter-
national bankers. This secret action
caused panic on the stock exchange.
Payment for these London dumped
American securities was in gold at it's
then American price per ounce. The
United States Treasury, then and now,
holding England's promise to pay notes
OF $4,000,000 each upon demand by the
United States, could and should have
paid England for her dumped American
securities in her Englands) 100000
promise to pay upon demand by the
United States notes and not in American
gold. England did not have shipped
to London the paid United States gold,
but reinvested it in falling prices of
same American securities, and today
owns, with her affiliated Europeans,
about $1,000 10000 of American securi-
ties; the same $1,000 100000 investment
in amount as she dumped without notice
upon the stock exchange. Now with
England selling again 81 000, 100000 Of
American securities, let Uncle Sam pay
the ST 900 900, 900 in Englands promise
to-pay paper on demand. Why should
Uncle Sam pay England 81 900 100000
now for her this and that" reason?
England owes the United States s500o,-
100000, plus principal and defaulted
interest thereon. Why should we Ameri-
can taxpayers hand over 81 900 0OO,-
600 in gold to $4,000 OOO, ,0OO plus princi-
pal and defaulting interest paying
Britain? Now let the United States
Treasury pay England 81 900 000,0O0, or
any part of it, in her renewed American
securities, dumped with notice this time,
on our stock exchange, in her promise
to-pay-on- demand in the strong box"
OF the United States Treasury. The
Treasury invested $4,000 900 of American
taxpayers money in English pounds!
Upon what, whose authorization? Not
dollar or cent of United States money
can be invested or paid out except by
act of Congress. Then on what money
flesh did the Treasury feed to pay out
s5,00000 for English pounds without act
OF Congress? What has become OF that
s5,000,OO0 Treasury transaction of the
taxpayers money without act of the
Congress? 1t is time the Treasury let
the taxpayers know the status of that
transaction. w. E. RYAN.