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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-03
BY RICHARD D. AFcAILLAN

St. Wolfgang, Austria, May B. CUP)-The Duke of Winsor received from Mrs. Wallis Simpson today the news that they were free to marry and arranged at once to leave by train to join her.
 The Duke was to leave this after noon and is due at the Chateau de Cande, Monts, France, where Simp- son Is staying, sometime tomorow.
 Mrs. Simpson telephoned the news to him from the Chateau. There was a happy conversation during which the Duke exchanged felicitatio1s with the woman for whom he gave LID his throne, the American born society woman, twice divorced, whom he is to make a royal duchess be" cause he could not make her ms queen.
 For weeks, the Duke and Mrs. Simpson had talked cautiously for fear of wire tappers. Today they abandoned caution in their happl- ness.
 As soon as the talk ended, the Duke made good promise and sent for newspaper men to tell them ms plans. With them to the villa on the lakeside, went photographers.
 The Duke announced that he would leave by the 4:45 P. m., (l1:45 a. m., EDT) train for Tours 10 miles from the Chateau.
 It was believed likely that the Duke would leave the train at some small station in France and motor the rest of the 600 miles to Monts. He had been studying road map or France this morning as he waited excitedly in his study for the Jangie of the telephone bell and the mes sage that Mrs. Simpson was 1ree.
 1t was five months to the day since Mrs. Simpson left him at Fort BelVe-
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Maine 'Deserter' Held
As Mattson Suspect

PORTLAND, Maine, Jan. 16
QN.S0-Answering a description
Of the much-Sought "Tim" in the
Charles Mattson kidnap-murder
case, man who surrendered as
an army deserter at Fort Will
liamS. was held today pending a
grilling by G-men from Boston.
Army authorities said the man,
who admitted he had just come
from the Pacific Coast by motor
bus, was not questioned by them
concerning the kidnapping and
death of the ten-year-old Tacoma,
Wash, boy.
He said he was William ]. Gal
lagher, 80, and that he deserted
from Fort Ethan Allen, vt. A
check showed a man by that name
dishonorably discharged min e
years ago. His fingerprintS were
dispatched to Washington for a
further check.
The man was described as being
S feet 10 inches, 1875 pounds, dark
heavy beard; two toes missing
from left foot; walks with limp, as
did Tim" the kidnaper.
Officials are puzzled as to why
he surrendered.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Stun Cost Dear

There is a close interrelation-
ship between the economic and
the social aspects of the problem,
The city of Cleveland discovered
that slums don't pay when study
disclosed that in a single slum
area, where PAT per cent Of the
city'S population lived on .73
per cent of the land area, the tax
income was $225 ,035, as compared
with municipal cost of 1872, ,437
for maintenance. This meant a
net loss to the city each year OF
$1,747 ,402. Good business? Hardly!
But worse from the standpoint
of security for persons and prop
erty, to provide which govern.
mentS exist.
Much has been made by Fed,
eral housing authorities Of this
horrible example" Yet there are
many others.
In Indianapolis it was discov.
cred that another Slum area hous
ing 10 per cent Of the city's qopu
latton cost seven times as much
per capita as other sections of the
city for municipal services. This
10 per cent of the population
accounted for 26 per cent f the
money spent on fire and police
protection and sanitary services;
80 per cent of the cost Of hospital
services; SO per cent of all relief
expenditures, and 80 per cent Of
the city's arrests, trials and i'm
prisonment costs.
In South Boston the city spent
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
CONSTRUCTION
HELDF|RST

So long as wage and hour pro.
visions of the Walsh-Healey act
do not hamper Naval construc-
ti0n, the Navy Department will
support the Observation-Disclosures
tie Navy will ignore wage and
hours clauses by invoking the
emergency provision of the act.
Henceforth, this is to be the
policy Of the Navy Department as
outlined by Secretary Claude
Swanson, it was learned today.
Swanson declared:
"The Navy win 90 as far as
possible to make available the
benefits Of the Walsh -Healey
Act. But If steel companies or
other producers fail to submit
bids so that naval construction
0Ctivities are curtained, we will
invoke the acts emergency
clause"
The act provides that all con
tractors with any Government
agency for amounts of $4,000 OF
more must certify that goods sole
were produced by labor on a 10
hour work week and prevailing
wage rate and that no child labor
was employed. In cases of public
necessity, however, these provision:
may be waived and goods pur
chased in the open market, tht
act states.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
PAY RISE BILL
IN HANDS OF
MERIT BODY

The McCarran pay raise bill for
Federal employees and the meas
ures designed to extend the merit
system are in the hands Of the
Civil Service Commission today.
The legislation was sent to the
commission by Senator William ].
Bulow CD, South Dakota, chair
man of the Senate Civil Service
Committee, to give the commfS
sion an opportunity to prepare q
report to be presented when the
hearings on the bills begin after
the Inauguration.
Senator Bulow will also send
the legislation to the heads Of the
various departments particularly
interested in the proposals and
will call upon them to present
their views at the committees
sessions.
Senator Pat McCarran DO,
Nevada, author of the pay-raise
bill, has asked the chairman to
appoint a subcommittee to con.
duct the hearings as soon as pos.
Sible.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Problem of Disease

There it is in a nutshell. There's
no difference in result between
contamination of a mountain
stream and contamination of the
social stream. Pollute them and
you have disease in epidemic form
They are safe in proportion to
their purity.
Or as it was expressed by the
Rt. Rev. John A. Ryan, formerly
rector of Catholic University in
Washington and now Bishop of
Omaha, appearing likewise in sup,
port of the Wagner low-cost hous,
ing bill:
81 wish to base my arguments
almost entirely upon the grounds
of morality. Millions of Amer.
lean families are living in habi-
tatiOnS that are nOtOriOuSIy in
sufficient for health, safety, de-
cency and elementary comfort.
This condition is a violation of
1-aturaI rights. The right to
decent housing is as valid as
the right to life, or liberty, or
bodily integrity. This right must
be urged against employers who
do not pay persons sufficient
wages to enable them to occupy
decent dwellings"
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Ohio Again Bars Pay
For Junkets 10 D. {.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 16
G.N.SD.-Members Of the Ohio
legislature met a new defeat today
in attempts to have the taxpayer
foot bills for trips to Washington.
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson
held up vouchers for $500 as travel
ing expenses for 10 House mem
bers delegated to attend the Presi-
Dental Inauguration next week.
Pending an attorney generals rul-
ing, he promised the same treat
ment for 10 State senators when
their vouchers are presented.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Leaders Agreed

Rabbi Edward L. Israel, Of the
Social Justice Commission Of the
Special Conference of American
Rabbis; Father Edward Roberts
Moore, who had Catholic par
iSh in the New York city slumS:
Walter White. secretary Of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People;
the Rt. Rev. John O'Grady, secre-
tary of the National Council OF
Catholic Charities. and other
social leaders, with broad expert
ence in dealing with the prob
lens arising from environmental
evils in the larger cities, are all
on record as supporting the
present movement to attack them
at their source. They would sub
Stitute decency for indecency. SO
far as it can be done through
environmental improvement. And
they are in agreement that the
Government should assume the
leadership and supply whatever
funds are necessary to insure its
success.
It all gets back to the PROPOSE,
ton that better housing means a
better citizenship, and that poor
housing doesn't pay dividends to
anyone, unless to the owner OF
tenementS which ought to be torn
down. And such a man OF
woman is not entitled to great
deal of consideration.
1t is that viewpoint which sup
plies the major impulse for the
coming housing drive.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
HOUSING TOPIC
OF FIRST LADY

Increased activity in the move
ments for peace and better hous-
ing was urged on the General
Federation of Women's Clubs yes
terday by Mrs. Roosevelt.
Addressing them in a surprise
talk when representatives Of the
organization were entertained at
tea at the White House, Mrs.
Roosevelt said that the women'S
clubs are in a position to do much
for the cause of both peace and
better housing.
Last night at a board meeting of
the organization in the Mayflower
Hotel, Miss AlveS Long, of st.
Louis, chairman Of the clubs in
ternational relations department,
urged program of embargo legis-
lation to replace "the old doctrine
of asserting our right, as a neutral,
to trade with belligerentS." She
said further:
Disarmament is an ideal
which must never die, and
there can be disarmament only
through international agree
ment. 1t must not be merely q
military disarmament, but a
moral and economic diSarma.
ment as we'll"
Earlier in the day, after hearing
a speech by Surgeon General
Thomas H. Parran, the federation
outlined a campaign against
syphilis.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
LAYER IS HUNTED AS SUICIDE IN MOUNTAINS
Hiqh Rentals Called
Unjust to Poorer
Class Families
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ignored, the country's philantho
pists and business leaders, as wei
as it's statesmen and municipa
executives, have been influenced
by these discoveries:
/. SlumS don't pay. When you
clean them up you have better
citizens. When you ignore them
you breed crime and disease as
certainly as if you were delib-
erately to encourage the spread
of these social sores. More than
that, slum areas do not, as a
rule, yield enough in taxes to
pay for fire and police protec-
tion, disqualification, sanitation
and the other routine social serv-
ices.
2. Low incomes and high rents
do not go together. To insure
the stability Of democratic in
StitutionS, incomes must come
up or rents must come down.
With half Of the people in the
United States living in sub
standard houses or under sub
standard conditions of over
crowding, lacking the ordinary
comforts and conveniences, or
paying rents which do not leave
enough of a margin for food,
clothing, doctor bills and recre-
alton, the groundwork is laid for
faScism, communism or any
other ISM which holds out a
hope of something better.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
TIT NED WAsHINGTON's 60
MI g. Heroes mBZz1o @
Indian Fighter; Member Of D. c.
Police Department
'oIice Department

When William Riley came to the
United States from England he
wanted excitement. And he found
it in 10 years in the cavalry and
then 33 years as a member of the
Metropolitan Police Department.
But he thrived on excitement,
and today, at IT, is able and
hearty, and still an excellent boxer
and all-around athlete.
Out in the West, as a soldier,
he fought the Indians, and recalls
Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face and
other chiefs. And he recalls guard
ing the railroad builders against
Indian attacks, with the mercury
40 degrees below zero, out in
North Dakota.
After 10 years of this, he Joined
the police department in 1885, and
achieved fame, not only as an ex-
cellent officer but as an athlete
as well.
He pitched on the police base.
ball team and at the age of Sc won
a gold medal for beating all con.
tenders in a 50-yard race.
He was commended for jumping
into the frozen river and saving q
drowning boy who had broken
through, and also for the capture
of a gambler on F Street who had
killed a man and wounded a DO
iceman.
Since his retirement he resides
with his daughter at 8 Adams St
/ N. W.. and his chief hobbies are
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
HOtbeds of Crime

In these and other cities where
similar studies have been made
the truth his dawned that the
saving in municipal services alone
in many slum areas would build
decent living quarters for thei1
populations, wholly aside from the
other social gains to the communi'
ties cleaning them up.
1t is from these areas that most
of the juvenile delinquents come.
The Wickersham report of 1881
showed that in Philadelphia and
Cleveland almost half of the de.
linquents came from 9 and II per
cent, respectively, of the city's
area. In Baltimore the crime aver
age is 81 per thousand for the city
and from 24.9 to 1876 per thousand
for its SlumS.
Infant mortality has been shown
to run five times as high in the
slum areas of some cities as in
districts occupied by families which
are better housed and have higher
incomes
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Hoover for MOUe

In Buffalo tuberculosis was
found to exist in one blighted
district at the rate of 81 per 1000,
as against less than three pei
thousand elsewhere. Scarlet fever
typhoid and diphtheria epidemics
commonly originate in Slum dis
tricts and spread through con
tact in the schools and elsewhere
to other parts of the city.
So runs the story, chapter after
chapter, Of Americas neglect to
clean its own house, and Of the
consequences in crime and disease
Director j. Edgar Hoover, Of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
has estimated the country'S crime
bill at Is billion. He declared
most of it is piled up by the ma
tion'S youth from the Slums.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
DR.. Hdring 10 Talk
On Spanish America

DR.. Robert C. H. Haring, profes-
sor of Latin American History and
Economics, Harvard University,
will lecture on Colonial Civiliza-
tion in Spanish America" Febru-
airy 4 before members of the Har-
ward Club of Washington, it was
announced today. The lecture is
to be held in Hall Of the Americas,
Pan-American Building.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Must Be Ended

Such, in epitome, is the social
aspect Of housing as seen in Wash
ington and reflected in the. bour-
geoning of a housing program
whose chief objective is a correc-
ton of these conditions first, by
clearing away the Slums, and sec
ond, by providing good houses at
low cost for families with low in
comes.
In some instances the end will
be achieved by private philan-
thropy. In others it will be ac-
complished through governmental
subsidies. But it will be done
the condition will be corrected.
That is the big news of 1887, to
date.
Louis J. Horowitz, of New York,
has been one of The country's
biggest builders. AS head of the
Thompson-Starrett Company for
more than 80 years, he di-
rected a construction program
running into the billions. Sky
scrapers, tenements, vast projects
Of all kinds came within his pur-
view. A hard-headed business
man, and a successful one. But
a business man who fought his
way up from the bottom. Out of
his long experience he declared
before the Senate Committee on
EdunotiOn opd Toh0r.
There are those who argue
against Government interference
with private enterprise, but 1
believe that it is just as i'm
pOrtant for Government to do
away with inSanitary housing
and provide decent housing as
to do away with a polluted water
system and supply pure water"
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
.HARVARDJ0|NS
HEARST SHOOT
BY LIEUT.. COL. JESS KRUGER
SDeeiaI to Washington Times

Special to Washington Times
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Harvard
University's official entry into the
seventeenth annual Hearst rifle
matches today shattered an all
time enrolment mark for this
greatest of interscholaStic events.
It was number $50.
The previous high total for par.
ticipation in the shoot, which in
cludes r. o. T. C. teams, high
schools, military academies and
colleges and universities through
out the United States and posses
sions, was 558 in 1886. In 1921,
when the event was inaugurated,
only 43 teams took part.
Immediately following the reg.
istering of the entry from the
Harvard University naval unit
came those of Northwestern Uni
verSity, from Evanston, H.; Uni
versity of Delaware, Lafayette
College, Eastern Pennsylvania,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Uni
versity Of Florida, North Georgia
College, Virginia Military Insti-
tute, Augusta Military Academy
and Robert E. Lee Institute. The
largest enrolment from any single
city comes from Chicago where Is
high schools are entered.
There seems to be little doubt
but that more than 900 teams will
be registered to try for sectional
and national honors.
The Hearst matches are con-
Quoted under the supervision Of
the United States Army and the
Naval Bureau. Firing is com.
pleted on the indoor ranges Of
participating schools, each team
consisting of five sharp-shoo ooting
cadets,
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
6 AutOists Victims
OF Pipeline Blast

PRYOR, Okla, Jan. 16 (1.N.S0'
Six persons were dead ard four
others were suffering from seri-
GUS burns today as the result Of q
pipeline explosion.
The dead: Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Gillian, of Stroud, OKLA; Mr.. and
Mrs. Currie Barnett, Guthrie,
OKLA: Mrs. John Lamb, Seminole,
Okla, and Mrs. John Estes, Avant
Okla.
The men were attempting to re-
pair a leak in the Gulf Oil and
Refining Company line last night,
according to officers, when the ex-
plosion occurred. The women were
seated in an automobile near by.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Sanctuary Created
For MARYLAND Game

Wild turkeys, ruffed grouse,
white-tailed deer, beavers, musk
rat and other wild life which
once swarmed in Maryland's his
toric Patuxent River valley, will
again find sanctuary in a 1900
acre wild life refuge to be super
vised by U. S. Biological Survey
scientists.
The refuge has been estab-
ished by Executive order. It is
part of the National Agricultural
Research Center Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture at Beltsville,
Nd. Is miles northeast Of Wash
ingtonA
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
COLLINS TAKES
D. {. FUND JOB
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Collins today would not admit as
high a figure as that should be
placed on the Governments real
estate holdings here.
He said he has not had oppor
tunity to study the report and rec
concentrations of the Presidents
Fiscal Relations Commission, but
that before long he will make a
careful study Of the document. He
added:
"While was q member Of
the subcommittee before, 1 was
a member of the MapeS COM
mittee which made what / con-
slider to be as thorough a study
of the fiscal Set-up here as the
Presidents committee or any
other committee that has sur
veyed the situation"
The MapeS committee recon-
mended to Congress that the
Federal Government should con
tribute not more than Sc, SOC, ,00C
tao District maintenance.
Collins AffabIe
Collins is an affable man, al
ways hospitable and with a pleas
ant smile. He is eaSy-going, but
makes detailed studies of queS
tionS.
About a week ago, when it was
rumored that he might be placed
at the head of the sub committee
he said:
II don't want it. 1t is worse
than the Itch"
Today he explained:
81 know what this job means
and / know that it is a lot Of
trouble. People in Washington
always are wanting to see you
with this request or that or to
talk over some District matter.
/ don't blame them. 1t is the
place for them to come. But,
nevertheless, a Congressman
has SO many other duties that
this District appropriations sub
committee job makes his bur
den so much more difficult.
81 am familiar with most Of
the problems here though, and
intend to try to get an equit-
able bill through the House
without all the disturbance that
usually attends considerations
of this measure"
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
DATA
STUDIED BY
SENATOR'S
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service


Trunk loads of documents, Z"
taken from the files Of the New
York Stock Exchange, were stud
led today by experts Of the Senate
rail inquiry for use later in the
drive Of Senator Wheeler CD, Of
Montana, to outlaw railroad hold
ing companies.
The inquiry recessed until jan
uary 25, has revolved thus far
around the frenzied financial
operations Of the late Van Swer-
ingen brothers in creating q col
ossal three billion dollar rail en-
pire. The Van SweringenS were
pictured as ex-newsboys VIII o
takes Wall Street bankers into
huge loans to finance their vast
sprawling rail operations, only to
have the empire collapse on the
hands of the bankers.
The public, meanwhile, took a
terrific financial loss.
The files Of the stock exchange
were to be used to show how some
Of its officials warned against
listing the securities Of railroad
holding companies on the stock
exchange. This warning was de-
livered by J. M. B. HoxSey, execu-
tive assistant to the listing COM
mittee, before that group listed
stock Of the Allegheny Corpora
ton, giant Van Sweringen rail
holding company. Many invest
ors later lost fortunes in this
stock.
Wheeler meanwhile charged his
investigating committee had trou-
BILE getting the stock exchange
files. He said exchange attorneys
had kept him from obtaining the
papers earlier.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Temple Forum 10 Hear
J. 6. M'DonaId Talk

James G. Mcdonald, who was
high commissioner for German
refugees for the League of Ma
tionS, will speak before the Ma
tional Temple Forum of the Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation at
Eighth and I SITS. N. W., $3.50
p. m. tomorrow.
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld,
junior rabbi of the congregation,
announced tht Mr.. McDonald's
topic will be "TodayS Threat to
Freedom"
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
TOOK OWN LIFE
AS0NLYWAY
OUT, BELIEF
Kidnaper Trapped by
Dragnet, Now Dead,
Is Theory
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AAO4A u @HN ~
$4,000 ransom, killed him and
heartlessly tried to collect after
death had made it impossible for
him to return Charles alive and
well.
Believed Suicide
The officers frankly said they
believe Tim" has committed sui
eide because he was definitely
placed in Everett a few hours be-
fore the boys body was found and
has been unable to run the block
ade which was Immediately eStab-
lished by a small army Of law en-
forcement agents after the grue-
some discovery.
The conviction was growing also
that the Omen established the
identity of the kidnap-murderer
to their satisfaction soon after the
boy disappeared and started press
ing so hot on his trail around
Everett that he fled into the will
derness and, knowing certain death
awaited him either at the hands
Of grim captors or in the courts,
took his own life.
The opinion that G-men decided
quickly on the fiends identity was
strengthened by the fact no at
tempt has been made to have the
three children who saw the abb
ductor identify pictures of known
kidnaperS.
The children, William MattSon,
jr., and Muriel Mattson, brother
and sister of the slain boy, and
Virginia Chatfield, their friend
from Seattle, have been available
at all times to look at rogueS gal
lery snapshots, but from a source
close to them came the informa-
tion they have been asked for no
identifications.
While the hunt was pressed, new
details were revealed here of the
negotiations btween Tim" and the
murdered boys father.
Uses Pay Phone
The kidnaper called the physi-
clan twice from a pay telephone
in a Seattle service station. He
entered the station by smashing
the glass in the door, the same
mode of entrance he used when he
went into the Mattson home after
his little victim.
The last time he called, January
Z, II days after the abduction, he
: spoke to the doctor in a deep,
husky voice, obviously disguised,
and asked for rendezvous where
he might collect the ransom.
DR.. Mattson asked:
How can / be sure I'm not
dealing with hijacker?"
The voice asked:
ASK us something to make
sure"
The physician asked that a mes
sage be reIayed to him from his
son as to what persons were at
the MattSon home on ThankSgiv-
ing. The voice replied:
1--WE can't do that. The boy is a
hundred miles from here"
The boy at that time had been
murdered, an autopsy revealed
when the broken little body was
brought back to Tacoma.
The latest suspect was reported
here. It was said the Omen were
trailing a known moron and ex-
pected to take him into custody
for questioning.
Suspects eliminated included
Fred Orrin Haynes, an ex-convict
from California, and a mail rob
ber, convicted in Aberdeen, Wash.