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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06
7 PALS OF READ
GET LIFE

CHARLESTON, W. Va, April 8.
Promised light sentences If they
turned States evidence in q MUIR
der case, War Joseph Kirby and
Gingell, Maryland
youths, were sentenced to life i'm
prisonment yesterday on armed
robbery charges.
They drew 18-year sentences in
the murder of w. Earl Dollman,
when they testified against Will
liam B. Read. rs, as the actual
slayer. Read was sentenced to die
on the gallows June 8.
Previously, Kirby and Gingell
had pleaded guilty, to charges of
robbing and abducting Paul P.
Wilson,, Charleston banker. Sen
tence was deferred until yesterday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06
MISSING CIR
HUNTED HERE

Washington and Virginia police
today are searching for Ellen
Rosalie Simons, 14-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Simons,
of 2O3O North Cleveland ST., Au-
rora Heights, Arlington, who has
been missing from her home since
last Friday.
When last seen, Ellen was
dressed in a blue snow suit, white
shirt, brown, suede jacket and
brown shoes. According to her
mother, she left the house about
$3.50 p. m. in her fathers automo-
bile.
The girl often expressed a desire
to go to Florida or Texas, her
parents told police.
A former student at Washington
and Lee High School. Ellen was
attending G don Junior High
School in Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06
COUNTY CIVIC
GROUPSRACK
P0LICEHEAD

SILVER SPRING, Md, April s.
With increased personnel and
greater efficiency" in the Mont
gomery County police force as
their aim several county citizens
associations have launched a cam
paign for more adequate police
protection.
Greatly pleased by a recent an
nouncement from Chief j. VIII
liam Garrett that he desired to
make Montgomery County's police
department second to none" the
Silver Spring Citizens Association
has taken the lead in the move
ment to obtain a larger and better
police force.
Suggestions Made
Chief Garrett declared he be-
lieved that now is the time to
better equip and train the mem
bers Of the force, since the growth
of Washington, like any other
large city, tends to drive criminals
into nearby suburban areas.
The Silver Spring Citizens Asso-
citation stated in a letter to the
chief today that the associations
members are heartily in accord
with his aims
Would Bar Politics
Suggestions made include:
"The establishment Of .
standard annual physical exam
ination.
"The regular inspection Of
all arms and other equipment
in the stations.
Uniform and adequate syS-
TENS of record keeping accord
ing to the latest approved pO-
police methods.
THAT all desk clerks be pri-
Yates in the police depart
ment and subject to the same
regulations regarding political
activities as any other member
of the force, now under civil
service.
FOOT PATROL URGED
"That all future appoint
n1ents, clerical and otherwise,
in the police department be
made through the fullest opera
ton Of the Civil Service Com
mission.
THAT duties Of police Of
ficers be fully defined in a
police manuel and the fullest
adherence thereto be attained
through proper inspection.
"That foot patrol be. placed
into effect in Rockville, Beth
eSda and Silver Spring as soon
as practicable.
"That the police court Judge
hold stated sessions in Beth
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06
Hundreds of Idle
Demand Jail
In Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 6
G.N.SO.-A mass movement aimed
at getting into Jail was under way
here today.
Hundreds of unemployed staged
a hunger march to the Jamaica
prison, where they demanded that
the warden admit them, give them
work, and permit them to accept
meals in payment. -..
When the warden said he could
not agree to the request, the
demonstrators marched to the city
park, where they made speeches
demanding government aid in OBJ
tanning work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06

eSda and Silver Spring, not
only for the convenience of
those having business with the
court, but also for the purpose
of saving the time Of officers
who have to appear in court
to obtain convictions during
their time off,"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06

PURE SILK: slender
heels and soles: new
est sh AIDES; classed as
slight irregulars of
81 and $1.35 quality
but try and find
the imperfections;
sizes 8 II to 10 u.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06

Fancy back coats in
smart double breasted
styles: tan or grey
mixtures; plain blues.
etc: 2 knickers or
longie 4 knicker; 8
to Is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06

Stepins. Vests, Pant
les. Boomers, etc. ;;
regular and extra
sizes; fine delustered
rayOn; n i c Q | Y
trimmed with i'm
ported laces,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
New York Day by Day

older heads in the rounds of the
night clubs but her celebrity is
unknown to younger folk. She is one
of the few earlier movie stars VINO
wound up on the right side OF the
financial ledger and remained there.
She made huge sums and invested
them solely in U. S. and Brltlsn
government bonds. For nine years
she was lively figure in the lie
of Paris and the French Rivera
X
One of the late William Boyce
Thompsons favorite stories con-
cerned Two workmen discussing a
third underneath his library window.
The third workman had stepped in
front of a fast automobile and was
instantly killed. At first there were
lamentations over his demise and
praise for his virtues. But after they
had exhausted their panegyricS one
of the workmen observed: "Of
course. Mike is gone now but the
low down truth is he was blankety
so and So" And No. readily agreed
and also declared: HE was blank
ETY. so and So" And No. l in a
sudden renewal of fury exclaimed !:
Indeed he was a blank, blankety
blank so and So"-then indulging
short pause added. And not the
best of they"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
News Behind the News
Purging the Democratic Ranks :.
+. r. Wants NeW Deal Party Are
We Nice or Mem?

WASHINGTON.-The fight for control be-
tween Roosevelt and Congress has now reached
the point where the President speaks privately
of purge of anti-New Dealers from the
Democratic party and where his chief opponents
in the Senate hope to humble him as Woodrow
Wilson was humbled in the League of Nations
fight
There is cockiness and grimness each side
In essence the prime issue comes close to being
a question of whether the people elcted men,
bers of Congress to do what Roosevelt tells
them to do or to use their own judgment An
increasing number OF members has begun to
chant: Are We mice or are We men?" Ever
since election Roosevelt has felt that his huge
majority was personal victory for him and his
principles expressed in the Madison Square
Garden speech, that the people who elected
Democratic senators and representatives expect
ed them to vote for his measures that the people
continued to stand with him and that as long as
he their voice and instrument. individual
senators could not stand against him.
Facing. now what is mainly conservative
effort to reduce his power Roosevelt tells friends
the court fight is good one in which to separate
sheep from goats, that the Democratic party
would be better off without some of the
tors who oppose him and that he is ready to
campaign against some of those senator's in the
primaries next year.
The courts final three decisions favoring
power companies against the New Deal were
a signal for renewed administration propaganda
against the conservative justices.
o
But the Presidents attitude is annoying
large section of Congress. The Senate has sew
era men who want the President defeated be-
cause they aspiring to succeed him, others
who don't like the court plan and believe vote
for it is politically dangerous, some who harbor
personal grudgeS a result of White House
snubs, and others jealous of Roosevelts prestige
as compared with their own lack of power.
Rebellion in the House be somewhat dis
counted a possible menace TO Roosevelt since
leaders put out what looked like disastrous
fire started in earmarking amendments to the
relief bill. Causes of the trouble still remain,
however. ssi
Many representatives feel they have been
treated more less like poems by the admins
tration. Few have any contact with the Presi-
dent. Most of them complain that patronage
in their districts has been given to senator's
Big city congressman wanted public works
money and many southern members had receiv-
ed promises of school houses and other small
buildings from PWA. So when lobbyists for the
contractors, the steel, lumber and building ma
terias interests and the building trades unions
came along, the House was ripe TO rebel and
rampage. Leaders would have had harder time
getting it back under control again if mayors
hadn't wired angrily to members and persuaded
many business men to do likewise by assuring
them that cuts in PWA funds meant boosts in
local property taxes
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09

yond resuscitation.
Il Il
There is merit in the suggestion
by one Of the paragraphers to be-
stow upon Amelia Earhart's hus-
band. George Palmer Putnam, The
Distinguished Medal For Self
Effacement.
And there might be added to the
list of -Effacing Husbands:
Harrison Gray Fiske, Guthrie Nc
Clintic. mate of Katharine Cornell,
Fanny Hurst'S husband, Jacques
Danielson. DR.. Henry Smith, spouse
of Helen Menken, Mrs. Harrison
Williams mate, Grace Moore'S hus-
band, also Doris Dukes. Then there
is Bob Winans, the millionaire i'm
porter husband of the novelist,
Katharine Brush.
Edgar Bergen has an affection for
his ventriloquist dummy, Charlie
Mccarthy. similar to that Of a
young girl for her favorite doll. ii
he goes on short trip with no
entertainment engagements to fill
Charlie goes along. And he frequent
ly amuses himself when alone talk
ing things over with the dummy
When Bergen went to his new
broadcast job in Hollywood lately
he had great fun logging up Charlie
for the trip. He had belted camels
hair coat especially made, also
iaunty beret and Charlie was also
adorned with one of those neck
handkerchiefs in the manner OF
cinemaland. Bergen also refuses to
have his picture taken unless Char
lie is included.
II Il
Pearl White, whose name so long
packed the silent movies and now
was the last of the American eX-
patriates to leave France, turns
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK. June 9-Most of
us, and that includes the expert
enced traveller, get the fantods
from the time We begin packing
our duffle bags until we finally get
a leg through the gate at Grand
Central. 1 often see travellers pull
in at the terminal in a sweat,
although they have a half hour
to spare.
RedcapS say everybody grows
nervous the minute they step inside.
Not many really relax on the start
of a journey until they have passed
YonkerS. There. for the first time
since arising in the morning. they
begin to breathe normally and
murmur, by gosh. they made it,
So the New York Central folk
have found a way TO smooth down
the hair. They have installed an
organ in the vast station, an electric
one that gives forth all the swelling
and wavering notes that come
rolling so soothingly down church
nave at Sunday services.
From noon until 2 O'Clock and
from four to Six-the buSineSt hours
it turns out soothing melodies.
And the effect is magic. People
who used to bolt for the trains
now walk slowly and thoughtfully,
completely unlaxed. Station attend
ants say fewer are missing trains,
X *
Only four theatres around New
York now play established vaude-
vile. These are Music Hall, Loew's
State. Roxy and Paramount. If a
performer plays in any one of
them he cannot appear in any of
the others for year, That means
that the best he can get in vaude-
vile in New York is one week a
year. And art cannot survive on
such thin fare. Thus vaudeville
and what a pityl-seems dead be-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
Bruce Cation Says:~
Tax Probe Will Test Our Equality in Law

/ lawyer, who can juggle figures
until vast income looks like no
| income at all, the fairness of this
| system goes out of the window. 1t
| then becomes tax which is levied
! only on those who are not rich
| enough to escape it.
When this happens, and when
| everybody in the country knows that
it happens, what is the result?
| * 4
First of all, the government loses
some much-needed ncome-which
it ought to be getting from those
very people who are making the
most noise about the necessity for
balancing the budget.
Secondly, the rich man feels
and has some reason to feel-that
he stands above the law: that the
government at Washington may have
power over lesser folk but that he is
in a class by himself
Thirdly, there develops through
out the country general feeling
of these can, and do, justify their
are not smart enough to evade
that laws apply only to people who
them. The swindler, the racketeer,
the CRATER, the muscle -man-all
! deeds by pointing to the richst and
most successful mem in the COM
munity, who, like them, are engaged
in dodging through the loopholes
in the law, for profit.
That is why this investigation oi
tax evasions is so important. 1t is 9
test of the governments power tx
make the law apply equally to all
Until that power is firmly establish
! ed our democracy cannot be perfect
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09

The administration drive to lay
a restraining hand on the shoulder
of the wealthy tax dodger ought
to provide the citiZenry with the
best show that has been put on in
Washington since the midget sat
in p. Morgan's lap.
For it is going to be funny: make
no mistake about that. When a
multi millionaire forms a holding
company to own his private yacht,
rents the yacht from that holding
company and then uses the device
to Whittle down his income tax, he
provides a rich spectacle for his
humber fellows, and the congress
sional committee that is going to
look into such things can be ex-
pected to make the most of it.
But there is grim side to it,
too. For this sort of thing conSti-
tutes just about the most refined
and subtle form of diSrespect for
law that can possibly be imagined.
Nothing else could do SO much to
make ordinary folk feel that there
really is a privileged class in this
country and that that class is above
and beyond the reach of the govern
ment.
y i
The income tax, to begin with,
is the fairest OF all taxes in that it
is based squarely on the citizens
ability to pay. II a mans income
is very small he pays no tax at all.
If it is little. larger, he pays a
moderate tax. If it is very large,
he pays very heavy tax.
SO far. so good. But if the man
in the highest braket is able to
command the services of slick
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
on Sol
CRANK WATANABE
SCHOOL DAYS
ny Ep HOLDEN


Are female teachers obsolete because
they falling in love or get marry? This
seems be question from assorted cities.
A Oklahoma City Doctor say more bet
ter to having school teachers which is
in love. Because not so cranky on kids.
Affirmative | rebarkl In grammar
school | was in 4th grade for five years
and same teacher was having. First two
years very unpleasing, because teacher
too crankily.
OF sudden she falling in love to the
principal. Then all kinds was gave AA
marks. Gleeful erasers was flung at
each other, and all sorts of fun. And
teacher never see it. Of sudden she find
ing that principal had a unused wife!
Then we got the dickens worse as before.
School room was heck on earth.
SO l thinking if teachers falling IN
love, no kay-but not OUT again please
Thank you please
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
Hints. on Etiquette

H1ntS on EtiqucItc
Comfort and case of movement
should determine woman's dress
for golf and tennis. Loose-fitting
sports dresses or the new shirt-and-
shorts combination are both accept
able.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
WRITES CORONER,
DRINKS POISON

RIVERSIDE, Cal, June o. WR)-
Anthony Stewart, 70, of Blythe,
Cal, wrote a letter to Coroner b.
F. White telling him where to find
his body, then went to an improvis-
ed camp on neighbours ranch and
drank poison, the coroner disclosed
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
Looking Backward
.-00---
FIVE YEARS AGO
June o. 1892

Savings to Ell Centro Taxpayers
received added impetus last night
when the city council, meeting in
special session, listened to an offer
by the chamber of commerce to
take a IS per cent reduction in
its budget for the coming fiscal
year, and after lengthy discus
sion voted 80 per cent reduction
in funds of the music, parks and
advertising tax funds. s'fi j'i
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
June 8, 1922

Finances of the countys schools
are declared to be in excellent
condition.
Supervisors have arranged TO
have a burglar alarm system in
stalled at the treasurer's office at
the court house at a cost of $500.
1t will be connected with the sher-
ifs office and the chief of police
office.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
June 0, 1912

1t is q shame that more people
did not attend the apricot fair
yesterday. Seventy eight exhibits
of apricots of seven different var
ieties were displayed.
A second sleeping car recently
was made part of the regular ser
vice on the night train between
the valley and Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
TOday's HOrOScOpc

TOday's Horoscope
Persons whose birthday occurs
today are precise In their decisions.
Of. shrewd nature, they are never
satisfied with imperfection.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

1. Name the five largest states in
area in the United States.
2. How many United States SOL
diers died in the World war?
3. Who is Spanish ambassador
(of the Madrid governmenb to the
United States?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09

One Minute Test Answers
l. Texas, California, Montana
New Mexico and Arizona, in the
order named
2. Approximately 10000.
3. DR.. Don Fernando Gle los Rios.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-09
Words 0r Wisdom

Words OF Wisdom
The smallest worm will turn. be-
ing trodden on; and doves will peck
in safeguard of their brood. -
Shakespeare.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Give the Boy Chance
by GEORGE E. SOKOLsKy

-HE other day was thinking of
poor George Gershwin, who died
before he was 40 but who left
behind him such a memory of
melody and usefulness. George Gersh-
wins short life was rich in this: He
gave more to the world than he took
out of it.
He and |, as children, lived on the
same street - Grand Street, on the
East Side of New York - where par
ents were poor and strange to this
land. And he and went to school on
the same street - Rivington Street.
remember Rivington Street so well.
Pushcart peddlers lined both sides of
the street, and they shouted their
wares and haggled and bargained and
fought each other. And occasionally a
horse and wagon would make it's way
through the crowd Of housewives and
market women, and the driver would
shrek and curse.
That was the Rivington Street that
George Gershwin knew as schoolboy.
Lots of weeds grew up in that soil, but
so did lots of roses and violets, too.
| remember that at least two Of my
classmates were pickpockets, and they
used to show US all sorts of tricks And
they were rich and we were poor.
Yes, for millions of American boys,
the streets of the large cities are the
principal educational and recreational
institutions, and it makes little differ
ence whether it's Rivington Street in
New York or in Chicago or in Cleve-
land or elsewhere. The street is not
good school for most boys.
Every boy is Columbus. He must
90 through all the motions of finding
out for himself why things are as they
are, and how they work. And if they
don't work, what happens? Parents
and teachers may talk all they please,
but every red-blooded boy must take
a watch apart at least once in his life.
And the moral issue arises of whether
the boy has to pick apart someone
else's watch and do it, stealthily, or
whether he has right to the thing and
can do it with sympathetic guidance.
And there is another thing about
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Magazine Section

ROLAND BARKER was born
aboard the square-rigger British
Isles during a raging westerly
gale off Cape Horn. Before he
was FIVE years old, he accom-
panied his father on four voyages
to Chill and Peru, by way of
Cape Stiff" Except for inter-
mediate sessions ashore for school
ing, he continued to sail the
seven seas with his father, master
Of the full-rigged ship lamar, un-
til his family moved to Westheld,
New Jersey.
Since then, as sailorman in
the American Merchant Marine,
Barker has been to Honolulu, the
Far East, and the west coast Of
Africa. In 1923 he was appointed
third mate Of the last of Americas
square riggers, the Tusitala, which
his father commanded until she
was laid up in 1883.
Roland Barker's sea stories are
famous for their salty tang -
their breath-taking realism -
their fidelity to day when the
square-riggers were queens of the
sea. Don't miss his sea-thriller
in this issue:
"THE COURSE is WEST
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Acme Photo

boys that SO many parents and teachers
forget. Healthy boys must belong to
gangs The boy who grows up alone,
among adults, will never be real man.
He will be hnicky and petulant; he will
never know how to get along with
other men. He will be lacking in
sportsmanship.
Gangs are as natural to boys as
playing with dolls is to girls And par
ents who tell their son, "Be careful.
Don't play with those boys" are doing
their youngster grave injustice. Give
your boy real chance to grow into
real man by making it possible for him
to learn from other boys how to live
like man.
But put the gang under the right
supervision. In my day the Settlements
offered and still offer splendid op-
portunities for supervised gang play.
The Boys Club movement is probably
even better than the Settlement in this
respect, for it seeks to give the boy the
sense of owning the place. He is not
only part of the gang, but he owns the
building which the gang uses as its
headquarters.
That is why the Boys Clubs of
America are so important. These are
not adult organizations; they belong to
the boys The adults provide leadership,
but the boys own the clubs. They have
to pay srsall dues - and therefore feel
that they are independent.
And for that they have their club
and vocational training, gymnasium
and a game room, theatricals and
library - and perhaps a summer camp.
Altogether, there are nearly 800 of
these organizations, to which 255,OOO
boys belong
When | was boy, the Kid Twist
gang was situated south Of us i
think it was on Pitt Street. The Car
barn gang was little north Of u.s.
And to the west, across the Bowerv,
was the Paul Kelly gang.
Many boys found their way to these
gangs. Many boys rose to be "big
Shots in the gangs. But the boys who
went to clubs in the Settlements turned
out to be mostly hrst-rate citizens