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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

Late today, the body was to be
taken to New York. and is SEIZED
uled to arrive in Pittsburgh at
8:05 a. M. tomorrow.
Services will be held at 2:30
o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the
East Liberty Presbyterian Church.
DR.. Stuart Nye Hutchinson, pastor.
will officiate and interment will
be private.
UREMIA DEATH CAUSE
Death was peaceful and was
caused by uremia and broncho-
pneumonia. With him at the end
were Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce; his
son, Paul Mellon; his physician,
DR.. T. ]. Abernethy. of Washing
ton, and a nurse.
The induStrialist was taken i'll
in Washington last June where
he had remained to direct the
cherished dream Of his life-hiS
gift to the American people Of a
national art ga11ery, which is to
house his magnificent collection
of old masters, valued at S50,00O.-
900.
His illness was a recurrence Of
a bronchial ailment from which
he had suffered for two years. In
July he went to the home Of his
daughter, who had been his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Woman Is Doomed
For MassP OisOning

MOSCOW, Aug. 81 Q.N.S0.
Charged with poisoning the water
supply at Novorossik with sui
phuric acid, Nina Vedenskaya,
woman manager of the Soviet
railway water base, was sentenced
to death today.
Victims of the massacre were to
have been five trainloads of chill
dren returning from Black Sea
resorts,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
PLANE OFF ON SEA HOP

FOYNES, Irish Free State. Aug.
q G.N.SO.-The British Imperial
Always flying boat Cambria be.
gan another transatlantic survey
flight today, taking off for Bot
wood Harbor. Newfoundland. at
4:39 a. m.
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FRIENDS FEAR.
FOR SAFETY OF.
TROYANOysKY.
No News of Envoy
From Moscow
BY CARLISLE BARGERON

Copyright by Washington Times
Fear for the safety of Soviet
Ambassador Troyanovsky, who
went to Russia in July, has been
intensified in Washington.
Americans who have just re-
turned from that country say they
were unable to learn anything
about him.
In Moscow diplomatic circles
nothing was known about the
whereabouts of the Ambassador or
when and if he intended to return
to his post here.
At the Embassy it was said he
was expected back in about q
month.
RESENT SUGGESTION
Resentment was expressed, how
ever, at the suggestion the same
fate may have befallen him which
has been the experience Of hun
dreds of other Russian officials in
recent months.
It was pointed out that on
Tuesday the New York Times had
a dispatch telling Of story that
had just appeared in the Soviet
newspaper Pravda under Troya-
novsky's name. It lauded the
flights of two Russian crews of
aviators to this county.
This, however, was not convinc-
ing to the informant who could
find out nothing about him in
Moscow.
Considerable excitement was
caused among the ambassadors
wide circle of friends here when
Continued on Page 3, Col. 81
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hostess in London during his brief
time there as ambassador.
IN BED, BUT ACTIVE
Confined to the house, except
for brief walks to the village, he
continued to devote himself to the
progress of his museum. For the
last week he remained in bed most
of the time. Bruce said that for
the past two weeks, his father.in-
law, although confined to bed, had
been quite active"
(Other Details on Page A.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
FLOOD STRIKES
DISTRICT; FAIR
FORECAST HERE
Boy browns; Race
Fans MarOOned

Continued fair weather was pre-
dicted by the Weather Bureau this
afternoon. following Washington's
five-day rain which was clinsxed
with a violent thunderstorm last
night.
Officials Of nearby Arlington
county, Virginia, meanwhile pre-
pared to repair broken water
mains, which cut the county'S
water supply in half.
Although the Weather Bureaus
forecast earlier in the day pre-
dicted another thunderstorm would
hit the city this evening, later
forecast said that the fair weather
would continue through tomorrow,
with the afternoons high being
about "a degrees.
CLOSE CALL
With one eight-inch water main
now serving the entire county of
10000 residents, Arlington Off
Gals explained that had the flood
waters arrived "a hours later, the
county's entire water connection
with the District reservoir would
have been cut off.
The flood waters washed out two
temporary mains which had been
placed at the water level below
Chain Bridge to serve the county
while the ancient bridge was being
replaced. The lone main that es-
capped the flood waters is that
which runs above the floor level Of
the bridge.
Meanwhile, the drowning of a
young colored boy was reported.
The lad, Orlando Reed, IL, whose
home is at Forty-ninth and Foote
Streets Northeast, was drowned
when he fell from a tree into a
small branch.
Last nights storm, which
dumped 1853 inches of rain on the
city, brought total precipitation
during the last week to 5.37 inches,
forced scores Of residents in the
Northeast and Southeast sections
of the city to evacuate their
homes and closed several roads.
KILLED BY BOLT
A Washington attorney was
killed by lightning while vacation
ing at q beach near Kitty Hawk,
N. c., and a Washington police
man was slightly injured in a
traffic accident within the city.
The lightning victim, Jefferson
T. Donnahoe, an attorney with
the Federal Trades Commission,
was killed by a bolt as he swan
in the surf with his wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth Wilcox Donnahue. His
body had not been recovered early
today.
At the height Of last nights
storm, Traffic Policeman Aubrey
Yomiski, 26, suffered bruises and
shock when struck by an auto
while on traffic duty at Fifteenth
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest.
(Other Details on Page -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Chinese Execute
Traitor Suspects

LONDON, Aug. 81 GN.SJ-Nu-
merous Chinese suspected of trea-
son are being executed in the
Shanghai area daily. Reuters
Agency reported today.
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30 Are Executed
AS Red SabOteurs

MOSCOW, Aug. 81 UN.S).
Thirty persons were executed at
1rkutsk, Siberia, today as the
Soviet government pressed its war
against saboteurs and espionage
agents.
Today's victims were accused OF
wrecking activities under direc-
ton Of the Japanese secret serv-
ice.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

Tearfully, Ethel Stayton, II, had
begged police to help locate the
MRS. Charlotte Artley" to
whom she surrendered the infant
in response to a personal adver.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

tiseTVent offering to adopt a baby.
PRINTED in local newspapers last
June. The address the woman
gave apparently was fictitious.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

A statue that fOretOld murder and
suicide. Strange tragedy Of circus. A
dramatic true life story in the Ameri.
can Weekly, with Sundays Washington
Herald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
DUcE CALLS CABINET

ROME, Aug. 81 Q.N.S0.-The
Fascist Grand Council today was
summoned to meet october 2. One
of Premier MuSsolini'S rare cabi-
net meetings will follow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Mellon Will Rest
In Pittsburgh Grave

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 (NS)-The body of Andrew W.
Mellon financial genius and Secretary of Treasury in the
administrations of three Presidents will be removed tonight
to Pittsburgh where Mellon built his great industrial empire
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Fails to Buy Back
Baby Sold for $50

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27 (IN.S)-A repentant young
mother returned emptyhanded today to her Milford De
after seeking vany to buy back the newlyborn daugh
ter she sold here month ago $50 the promise of good
home for the infant
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly
warmer today; gentle west winds. De-
tails on Page 49,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
A 35O-YEAR CYCLE

Since the president has returned to Washington
and the spirit of hospitality will be violated by
candid examination of his address at Roanoke
Island yesterday, there is one phase of it which,
without going into the whole, will bear brief
discussion. Most Of the colOniSts came to this
country in quest, he said, of opportunity freely
to exercise their own chosen form of religion OPP
portunty to get into an environment where there
were no classes. opportunity to escape from a sys-
TEN which still contained most of the elements of
feudalism They had the courage" he continued,
physically and mentally, by deed and word to
seek better things, to
=. try to capture ideals and hopes forbid
den to them by the laws and rules of their
own homelandS"
They came, in short, to get away from too much
government, from laws which irked them, from re-
straints imposed upon them. They came that they
might establish new way of living in which the
individual would have the right to hew his own
destiny out of rugged new world without let or
hindrance from his government.
Many of these governmental restrictions from
which the colonists fled were upon personal liber-
ties upon a mans intimate affairs, and it must be
conceded that those hard wrung liberties have been
preserved almost intact even unto this etfete gen.
Grafton of the New World. But the specter of too
much government, of economic regulation down to
the last gnat's heel, of laws irksome to and re-
strictive of the individual has raised its head again
This democracy has broken with its tradition of
providing simply the framework of a society in
which men might rise fall or remain stationary
according to their own talents and abilities and is
proceeding fast it can to move men up or
down in the scale according to the politicians no
tons of where they belong. The worst of it is that
there are no more New Worlds to offer an escape
Charlotte News
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HORSE TRADING BY COURT OFFICERS

Down at Wilson last Friday the high sheriff was
let off three serious counts by the horse trading
method which is sometimes reverted to by courts,
and which is big reason why respect for courts
is on the wane
This particular case was nolle pressed by the
solicitor after the sheriff had rendered his resgna
ton. The sheriff was charged with two cases of
drunken driving, and another of assault upon the
arresting officers
Evidently the sheriff is a big wig in the political
world of Wilson county, and very probably the
good of the party was considered in the trade
that was made
If the charges were not true, the sheriff ought
to have stood trial and let the courts clear his
name of the stigma which had the precedent of
having been removed from office a little less than
year ago by the superior court after he had been
charged with public drunkenness.
If the charges were true, (and the presumption
of most people will be that they were) then there
is no legitimate reason under the sun why the high
sheriff should not have been tried and sentenced
like any other criminal.
Looks fshy from this long distance. And it GER
tanly does not make the average person look with
any greater favor justice it is meted out in
this day.-TransyRania Times.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
TWO MORE COUNTIES VOTE DRY

Stokes and Alamance counties decided TUESDAY
as consequence of elections, that they VIII "o'
egalize liquor under the control plan MADE posi-
bic by the 1887 legislature. Instead the people
of both counties voted for prohibition.
Whether they will get what they voted for re-
mains to be seen. Certainly the electorate Is en-
titled to the sort of enforcement which is desired
Jones county, where an election was recently
held and the people rejected ABC stores, borders
three wet counties-Craven, LenOir and Onslow'
The New Bern Sun-Journal made some editorial
comment in that connection which ought to De
generally dgested and considered. Admitting that
it is not usually very difficult to find booze IN
areas where it has legal existence as all Of US
know, the New Bern editor has this to say for the
county which elects to continue the dry expert
ment:
ION the other hand there is much to be said for
the decision made by the good people of Jones
county and their manner of looking at the propo-
sitOn. In view of that decision such methods Of
control as are legal and fair night be exercised
with propriety by Jones neighbOr counties which
have legal liquor under system of liquor control.
If control means anything, it might mean Il bit OF
respect for the decision of majority of the voters
of a neighbor county.
THAT, Of course, is difficult matter. 1t may
be possible only to exercise some degree of con-
troll in exceptional cases. But even that would be
accomplishing something commendable."
Likewise, The Record suggests, if dry major
ity in a given county means anything, it should be
a mandate to the officers that the people want en-
forcement of existing prohibition laws.-Hckory
Record.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
RECORD MAKING SCALES;

The scales occupying u position
Immediately within the front door
Of the Gregg Bros. hardware
store likely hold the Henderson
Vile records for age and the num-
Der of people who weigh on them
"You have as many as 30 per-
sons weight here in Il day, don I
you?"Mr. Gregg was asked;
eve have that many before
breakfast or after supper, the
proprietor responded. A stream
of men, women and children come
and 20 all day. Weighing is Tree.
The most of the scales in the city
require a penny to perform. MI
Gregg says the scale are more
than 90 years old. He bought
them from Mr.. Bland, the lattef
from Mr.. Clarke. He bought them
with stock of goods from Mr.
Juytus, who had them in ms mar
ness shop. The factory advises
that the scales were made more
than 60 years ago. But what dis.
appointments they have brought
to those who wanted to grow rat
and those who Overate and want
cd to slcnderi2e!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
YOUTH INTERNATIONAL

Another Boy Scout Jamboree has just closed at
VOgelenzang, Netherlands, where $4,000 Scouts
from hundreds of nations all over the world got
together.
Because they were boys, the Jamboree was
peaceful happy and friendly.
Austrian Scouts admired the American Indian
regaa of the United States delegation. English
lads camped by Italian boys with no hint in inter
national ih feeling.
Throughout the encampment there wasn't sim
gle dispute tent stake lines, precedence at
the mess hall.
The boys will grow up in few years and then
it will all be changed. They'll become statesmen,
grocers, brokers, plumbers, bankers and soldiers.
Personal interests and race prejudice will claim
them, along with distrust. That shouldn't happen
but it almost always has. BOD.
Boys can take things at face value.
Men, it seems can not.-Greenville Piedmont.
In the 18th century thieves were put to death.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
THE NEW EAL
IN WASHIN GTON
.RY RODNEY BUTCHER.
by RODNEY butcher
Npa Saryice Staff Correspondent

Four years ago the Senate Voteo
income tax publicity in an effort
TO plug income tax leaks. Today
Congress is still trying to plug the
same leaks.
TT would not be fair, of course
Il TO overlook relief, Social Secur-
itv soil conservation, Hole, FCA,
hank deposit insurance, the Wag-
ner Act, SEC, IVA, the Maritime
Commission, and other definite ac"
conplishments. But it is inter.
octino TO notice on how many OF
his proposals Roosevelt is still
waiting to get them into concrete,
normanent form through legisla-
fion On very few of them has nc
been able to get what he wanted
rrom Congress without major al
terations and great delays.
The odd part of it is, that his
greatest defeat may turn out &c
have been his greatest victory
That is, through the Supreme
Court reorganization campaign, ir
which he got the worst licking {
president has suffered since Will
con and his League of Nation!
0ght Roosevelt seems to have
achieved a change of view by the
court majority toward New Deal
Legislation. -,
In short, the court fight, failure
though it was, was like a pistol
pointed at the courts head. Anc
fberr is reason TO believe that the
iusticcs, especially Hughes anc
Roherts saw the pistol and paic
attention. Whether this gun
WELDING also wrecked Roosevelt'
own prestige and prospects Of flu
I,me bower is matter OF dispute
Bnt the change in attitude OF the
Sunreme Court, If permanent anc
consistent, may well turn out C
be the major achievement of tn
New Deal to date
,Convrisht. 1851. SEA Service. Inc }
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
STAGE LEPER STORY

DARWIN. (yP). - Australian
policemen enjo. even more pubic
confidence than the London bob
bies." An aboriginal named Kan
cubina staggered into the Roper
river police station with a leper
boy on his back whom he had car
ried from water hole to water
hole over a period of nine months.
The object of the trek was to al
low the leper to see a policeman
who had once employed Kancub-
ina, who was convinced the officer
could cure the boy. He was re-
moved to a leprosarium.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
A LOOK AROUND
4 NATIONAL CRISIS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT =

"That there is a national crisis
few will deny" declared a recent
speaker.
That there has often been a
national crisis no one will deny
who has studied our national his
tory. The story Of our nation re-
cites one national crisis after an
other. Whenever n national crisis
arises it is our job to meet it. So
far we have been able to meet
successfully our national crises.
If we always have what it takes
we shall always meet them.
Should the time ever come That
we are incapable of meeting ma
tional crisis it. will be just too bad
for us.
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Members Grow Festive; Borah
Disputes Wagner

But there is something notable
,bout the headline just the same.
Il is the fact that it is from the
New York Times Of June o, 1888,
Just four years ago.
And il carries the suggestion
that some of the GREATNESS speed
at which the New Deal has been
moving has been on a circular
course. In some respects that
headline is a landmark showing
familiar territory which we passed
through four years ago.
THE New Deal program is again
l. being trimmed to hasten the
end of the session." and trimmed
savagely, at that. The mutilated
wage-hour bill designed TO end
sweatshopS, spread work, and in
crease the purchasing power OF
millions, has just died for this
session. Efforts to get crop con-
troll legislation, aimed at keeping
farm prices up and eliminating
huge SURPRISES, have also been
trimmed" for this session.
Four years ago, in the full tide
Of New Deal enthusiasm, the ma
ton was starting out with NRA
and AAA, respectively designed &c
accomplish those aims. But both
acts were killed by the Supreme
Court. II is noteworthy that to-
day, four years later, the effor'
to legiSlate on the same subject!
is. tor this session at least, stymied
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
REALLY SEE SNAKE

SALINAS, Cal. IUPJ.-BlDuI-
Gus participants in recent rodeo
had reached a point where when
a snake appeared in the middle
of the street, they were not sure
it was really a snake or that they
were lust seeing it," While the
discussion was in progress an au-
tomobile came along, ran over
the lucklesS snake, and settled
the question"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
WELL, WHAT OF 1T?

Alarm is being sounded that 40
many of us are dying of heart
trouble. Since we must die Of
something, why not heart trou-
BILE? 1t is likely TO be as satisfac-
tory 4 way out rs many.
A friend of mine who has low
blood pressure, when told by his
physician that he could comfort
himself with one thought - he
would never die of paralysis, re-
piled "Well, what Of it? If that
doesn't get me something else
will"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
STOLEN TYPEWRITERS 50

CLEVELAND. (UP).-Before
Ii of SO stolen typewriters were
recovered here, police learned
that their purloiners had sold
most Of the machines to mer-
chants in suburban Garfield
Heights for as little as SO each,
rcciting that they wanted money
10 repair their truck.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
LITTLE CAUSE
FOR ALARM

When we see intelligent, honest
persons on both sides of "A qucs-
tion we can feel reasonably sure
that it doesn't matter vitality
which way the thing goes, Of
course we may have our cOnvic-
tions and stand by them. But
such a situation doesn't call for
anybody to kill anybody.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

RLUE-EYE ELI yelio"-Nalreo' o
- daughter was born 20 Ananias
and Eleanor Dare on lonely
Roanoke Island just $50 years ago.
In honor of her birthplace, her
parents christened her Virginia.
She was the first child Of English
lineage born in the New Wcrld.
Members of Sir Walter Raleigh's
second colonial expedition to
America, the DareS landed at
Roanoke Island in the summer Of
1887. On Aug. 10, Virginia was
born. Mrs. Dare was the daugh-
ter of Henry White. governor Of
the colony. ..t
Nine days after his grand
daughter was born, White re-
turned Ia England to seek addi-
tional supplies and equipment for
his colony. And there history
takes leave of little Virginia. To-
day she is still the mystery child
Of North America.
When. Governor White landed in
England, he found the Spanish
Armada threatening the country
and he was obliged to postpone
his return voyage. When he
finally returned to Roanoke two
years later and anchored opposite
the fort he had helped build, no
sign Of life greeted him. A search
revealed nothing of the hundred
odd colonists. Carved upon a tree,
instead, was the single. word
"Croatan." Thus was the fate Of
Virginia Dare sealed. So it re-
mains sealed $50 years later on
her anniversary as the United
States honorS her with a stamp.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
NOT WORTH A HOOT

The complete indifference OF
certain great nations like Italy,
Germany and Japan to their
pledges is diSQuieting; for it in
dicates a sad state of moral ilre-
sponsibility. Japan has calmly adj
mitted that she recently broke her
agreement not to bomb China
from the air, but explained that
the circumstances warranted her
doing it. In other language, ia
pans word is good only so long
as she thinks it. to her advantage
to keep it.
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job right thru
the heat Of sum-
mer until they
get so hot, sticky
and tired they
won't care what
they put thru So
long as they get
thru and, away,
A shrewd knowl-
edge Of pSychnl-
ogy is II big help
TO 4 man in get
ting his Ow n
way.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
SINGING LESSONS

An unframed voice is more TO
be desired than a voice improper
ly trained. Many naturally good
voice has been ruined by wrong
training.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE

Science in the News, comment
ing on the complaints against the
recent heat wave, says we should
be glad that we are living on Il
planet where life is possible.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
FOOLISH AS A FOX

One way for a chief executive
to get a law he wants passed,
whether or no, is to keep the leg
islative body considering it on the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

Some people might say that lacking the
anti-lynching rider to freight car bill was
an attempt to railroad it.