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The Washington times., 1937-10-23
2 MEN SOUGHT
TO TESTIFY IN
DAVIDSON CASE
Marine Admits Killing,
Policeman Asserts

Two important witnesses wert
being sought by police today in
connection with the murder Of
Elmer j. Davidson, 52-year-old at
torney for the United States Cham
Der Of Commerce.
These are the driver Of a car
and a truck driver who gave rides
to Walter L. Ross, 18-year-old
Marine held in the post guard
house at Quantico in connection
with the Staying.
WARRANT ISSUED
A warrant charging Ross with
the murder has been issued, but
not yet served by Virginia Stats
police who are in charge of the
investigation.
Sergt. E. J. McDermott, police
officer assigned to the case when
Ihe oooy OF the attorney was
found shot and stabbed on the
morning of October 4, a few miles
from Quantico, declared that Ross
has made a complete confession"
claiming he killed Davidson in
Self-defense.
Sergeant McDermott is now
seeking the two drivers who gave
rides to Ross that day, from Fred.
erick, Md, to Baltimore and from
Baltimore to Aberdeen, Nd, Ross
home.
PISTOL is FOUND
In the Ross home police found
a .3s-caliber revolver, the same
size as that used in the killing,
Washington police last night fin.
ished balliStics tests on this gun
and forwarded their findings to
Sergeant McDermott.
The case will be presented to
the Stafford county grand jury on
November 8 at Stafford Court
House, police announced.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
WalkerLegiOnP Post
Elects Its Officers

j. Franklin Wilson has been
elected commander of the James
E. Walker Post of the American
Legion, succeeding Louis H. Rus.
sell.
Other officers include P. Y.
Hamilton, senior vice commander;
Cecil Butler, junior vice COM
nander; M. S. Sumner, sergeant
alarms; S. R. Woodfork, color.
bearer; the Rev. Edgar Love,
chaplain: DR.. George Johnson,
post surgeon, and John Sweeney,
uuartermaster,
The Washington times., 1937-10-23

I will never forget the day ]
brought them home and Mr..
Mclean was sitting on the
front porch. When I explained
to him who our guests were,
his mouth dropped open and
he said: my God, who is COM
ing to this house next?" I told
him right out that anyone who
needed a home or a little help
was coming into this house
and that if he didn't like it he
knew what he could do.
Fannie and her mother
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
PIT. A. TO CELEBRATE

Members of the Cottage City
Parent Teachers Association will
change their executive committee
meeting, scheduled for Monday
night, into a Halloween party.
Members will meet in the audi
torium Tuesday evening. Parents
and teachers are requested to ap-
pear in masquerade costumes.
Ginger bread and cider will be
served.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
TOURNEY OCT. 25-26

The annual District Govern
ment golf tournament will be
played October p and 26 at Wash
ington Golf and Country Club. Ap-
proZimately 10 players including
Commissioners Dan Sultan and
George Allen, are entered.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23

Court or about the President
or what Mrs. Roosevelt is up to,
or what that So-and-so Con-
gress is going to do. or how
SHE ever managed to get her.
self invited THERE. This
weekend while the Inter-Amer-
lean Horse Show is on at the
Meadowbrook Saddle Club in
Washington you have to talk
about horses.
You have to talk about Bel.
gian horses and American
horses. About Ibrahim, about
The Washington times., 1937-10-23

died; IN the Secono, 1ougLlC
with pen, ink, paper and ideas,
men lied."-Will Irwin in his
Propaganda and the News"
From the New York Times,
october IT, 1887.
Tokio-Japanese propaganda
in the United States has been
completely knocked out by
Chinese reports, according to
Premier Konoe's brother, Wis
count Hidemaro Konoe, SYM
phony conductor, who has just
retI1r.oed after c0nd1Ictinp at
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
Mrs. Robert Missing

You will talk only about people in their relation
ship to horses this weekend. About the way beauti
full "Liz' Whitney ONrs. John Hay Whitney,,
whose stables at Llangollen seem to have pro-
duced half the horses shown. About Miss Char
lotte Noland, headmistresS at Foxcroft and mas
ter with Daniel C. Shields of the Middleburg Fox
Hounds E. About the smooth looking Belgian
and American officers who ride like they were
born in the saddle.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23

Hollywood California, and elsewhere.
II have told my brother" he said, "that opin-
ion in America is much worse than people here
know. The newspapers are filled with Shanghai
dispatches, whose theme is fnhuman Japan and
Japanese atrocities The Chinese propaganda
by cinema is specially clever.
The Build-Up Hurts
"For example, cinema house gives an all
China program. First comes Pearl Bucks The
Good Earth which shows the Chinese at their
best-polite diligent and honest. Then comes
film called The March of Time showing the
Nanking governments earnest efforts to estab-
lish cultural institutions.
"Then comes the bombing of the Cathay Hotel.
The bodies Of Chinese are seen strewn on the
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
Building Permits

Chevy Chase Park and Shop stores,
| 443S-65 Connecticut Ave, stores, $3.50, 900.
@ F. Mikkelson, 1884 Stephenson,
dwelling, $10,50O.
Frederick Fowler, S2Os oliver. dwell
Thomas Bates. 64OS D st. S. E.. addi.
| ton $50
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
My Say

Presidents, diplomats and some Of the most
powerful characters in the country have visited
us at Friendship" but two of the finest
people have ever met here were Fannie, the
circus rider, and her mother, Cora.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23

stayed at Friendship" for several weeks and
have never known more refined and delight
full women. When they left to rejoin the
circus I tried to go with them as I had always
wanted to mngle with circus people in their
own sphere. But my husband and my children
firmly scotched this proposition and, as result,
still have a terrible yearning to travel with
the circus.
Met in Tragic Manner
met Fannie in a very tragic manner
was talking to Mr.. Ringing, to whom I was
devoted He told me that one of his young
actresses had been knocked from pole, on
which she was standing on her head, by a
terrible windstorm which blew the canvas top
against her.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
EEBut-" !"

From the beginning Of 1915 until the Armi'
stice there ragged two parallel wars In the first
fought with shot, shell and poison gases, men
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
Natalie Is Gone


And now to different theme To mood that
happily seldom governs this column. To lovely
Natalie Pritchett, now being brought home from
Wyoming where she was killed in an airplane
crash and who tomorrow will play her last Wash.
ington role in the Bethlehem Chapel Of the Ma
tional Cathedral
It is impossible to think Of Natalie as dead
Tomorrow when Canon Lucas, head master at st.
Adams School, where Mrs. Pritchett's son is a
student, reads her funeral service. her hundreds
of friends will still think of her as vivid with lfe
beauty and kindness.
The last time saw Mrs. Pritchett was at a cock
tail party Any party was gayer and more success.
full because Of her presence She had on a very
smart severe black dress and an absurd little hat
that shot up on one side. She always wore
absurd hats that would destroy most women and
always managed to look beguiling in them. We
found a quiet corner in the midst of cocktail
party and had a cup Of tea. Natalie never drank
anything alcoholic. think this was probably
one secret OF her endurance and vitality She
never had mornings after to recover from
She told me she had suddenly made up her
mind that morning to fly to California The Aus.
trian minister, Edgar Prochnik had been trying
to persuade her to go by train She was in hurry
to see her father, who had not been well and she
wanted to be back in Washington again before the
season was too far under way. She would go
quickly. Poor Natalie! Or maybe, lucky Natalie
But she has left rare memory behind her.
The memory Of a woman who always made you
more cheerful for having seen her, and whose
graceful zest for life was an inspiration.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
The Build-Up Hurts
Dear Washington

At certain seasons Of the year. in certain places
you have to talk about certain things In Wash
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
Red Hair Catches Husband

When the girls were bidding me fearful
farewell, Cora took me aside and said with q
desperate look on her face, Mrs. Mclean, I
not one but three husbands already and think
my pretty red hair will get me fourth"
told Cora I thought. she was foxy old
woman and was delighted few months later
to receive note from her. informing me that she
had captured her fourth husband. am sure it
must have been that beautiful red hair!
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
SKIPPY

Do you want money! The Washington
Times is offering $50 in prizes each week for
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
By Helen Essary

missed Evie Walker Robert CGrs. "Chip"
RoberD at the Horse Show. She is now adding
dash and color to the Atlanta landscape.
The most beautiful sables in Washington are
owned by Mrs. Emlen Davies and her daughters,
Mrs. Millard F. Tydings Emlen Knight Davies,
and her daughter-nlaw Mrs. Raoul Davies
Emlen Knight Davies, who by the way, has
sympathetic little poem, Surrender" in the No
vember Good Housekeeping. bought the furs in
Russia when she was visiting her father, Joseph
E. Davies, U. s. Ambassador to Moscow.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23

news tips phoned to The Times Tip Editor at
District 1000. There will be given SIS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08

The Bridgeport Times-Star thinks that Senator Lawlor's bill which makes the State Highway Department take care of maintaining two through routes in every city and town should be passed. And what city or town official doesn't think the same. But the Times-Star argues the matter just the same we do and have been doing for some years past. Not one cent of state revenue, realized through gasoline taxes, automobile registrations, and motorists licenses, is allocated to cities or towns for repairs or main tenance of streets. We're not forgetting the dirt road fund. That's ear1parked. It's supposed to be used in caring for such roads as otherwise wouldn't receive at tention from the town or city. In short it's for the backwoods roads But the main streets which get the brunt of all motor traffic must be cared for by the city or town by money raised from property taxes. It isn't fair; it isn't logical. That's why we support bills like those Senator Lawlor proposed this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
BOOKKEEF rS SHOULD NOT TRY TO CUT UP
 OUR GREEN

ApAA [, AUCts Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Knowing your paper to have in- fluenee in city government affairs, may appeal to you to. join in the campaign to save the Green from being torn-up according to the plans of James Purcell, a bookkeeper at city hall? Thanks in advance for space.
 In another paper drawing by MT. Purcell shows how he recom- mer1ds chopping up the Green to make a bus terminal of 1t. He would replace the trees, the grass, the flowers and the birds with smokey, noisy and greasy busses.
 From time immenlorial there have been suggestions on how to rid the city of its beauty spot. Many times we have tossed these off as pipe-d dreams. or brainstorrns but when a person at city han talks and draws the plans and gives them to the press, there may be more to it than we think. I think 8 few pa- triotic editorials might scare MT. Purcell off.
 Bcokkeepers are bookkeepers and they can do a lot of funny and strange things with figures and who can tell but what he might succeed in doing the same thing to our beautiful Green? a,.
 I know The Democrat stands for everything that makes Waterbury
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
HOW ABOUT LAY-OFFS? NEWS TOO, AS MUCH AS
 RAISES.

Apr1l 5, 1857 Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Will you please print something about layof1s the same as you print about raises and hirings? Take 8 local Clock Co, who recently had a strike for higher pay and time and a half, they just laid of about 800 people, mostly old reliable help while new inexperienced workers are kept. Is this reprisal for the strike? Seems to be a scheme of some sort for a week ago they were flooded with orders. It looks like 8 plain lockout. Tickets should be placed around the factory.
 Whats the matter with the c. I. O.? Here's 8 chance for them to assist the workers and advise them, or too bad the workers don't organ ize and put in their funds together and start 8 new clock factory in this town, run by the workers. It can be done.
 Manufacturers that can't keep 8 factory going properly should go out of business and let someone else take it over. There is no respect for workers at the Clock Co.,, who have served there for years. They are given no warning and something should be done about 1t now.
 Yours truly,
 DISCARDED.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
Time We Got Wise

Recent comment in state newspapers on the fact that the new Connecticut River bridge between Middletown and Portland will not be given any other name than that designating the two communities it links makes us wonder if Connecticut will ever realize that it may be imposing a heavier burden on it's motorists than it actually should. We refer to the growing custom in other states of making all such structures toll bridges. There are even numerous toll roads. Right from the very mention of the Merritt Parkway we have We don't think it is a bit out or order, despite the fact the road is to be me morial to Schuyler Merritt.
 Approaching New York city now by any of the several arteries of travel you have to pay tolls. From the New Jersey side, it's either the Holland Tunnel the George Washington Bridge or the several ferries. All cost the motoriSt something. And the recently opened Harlen River bridge is also toll structure. Certainly If any, body should pay for such conveniences as these it is the motorists who make use of them. If you drive your car across the bridge or along the highway you contrib ute to wear and tear on it.
 There is no good reason why tolls should not be collected on the Connecti-. cut River bridge at Middletown, thus aid- ing in paying off the $3,000,000 raised by sale of bonds to finance this project. Once the cost of construction is cared for, the need of tolls would be removed. The same is true of an expensive parkway like that one we are building down in Fair field county at cost of some $15, 100000. We like to see the costs apportioned where they belong. Certainly if man pays for the use of something, even if it is road, it's square deal all around.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08

You could do lot of arguing on the bill passed by the Senate this week which reduces the license fee for dogs that are trained for use by blind persons. These are female German police dogs, raised and trained at an institute in New Jersey. They have become very well known in the last few years and are being made use of by more blind people who are in such professions or trades that demand con- siderable travel about their respective communities. The bill sets license fee of 25 cents year for them. Other fe- male dog licenses are $10.25, compared to that for male dog of $2. Personally we think an equalization in this discrepancy of fees should have been made, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
Has a Familiar Ring

John Day Jackson, publisher of New Haven newspapers, appeared before the finance committee of the General Assem- bly, this week to oppose the bill calling for establishment of state income tax. Yesterday in these columns we uttered similar complaint and criticism. To our way of thinking, and it seems to be MT. JackSon's, too, there would be no need for 8 state income tax in Connecticut, if there was more regard for the present taxes and some attention was given over to the task of providing more econom- ical form of state government.
 For the past six years we have endeav- ored to suggest this way of aiding in tax and departmental reforms. So little came of the proposed tax reform that the findings of the special commission might almost be said to have been worth less. That's not quite true, of course, be- cause some of it's suggestions were adopted. We are tempted to predict that the reorganization of the state govern ment will meet the same fate, judging by what you read and hear how the recommendations are being received in Hartford.
 But the fact remains that revenue of the state from taxes that have been pro- vided in the last few years, notably liquor, cigarettes, and gasoline, has steadily in- creased, even beyond official estimates. MT. Jackson stressed this point as one reason why 1t was unnecessary to con- sider a state income tax today. He fur ther showed how once established in- come taxes, imposed by the state, become burdensome and tend to drive people out
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08

New York, chairman of the rules committee, are both down on the big broadcasters.
 More fundamental, however, is the fact that all the other big public utiliteis have come in for recent investigations, though ra- dio has escaped. There have been recent Investigations of the bank CTS, power companies, railroads, airlines, shipping companies, and the telephones.
 A lot of congressman feel that the big broadcasters have escaped too easily and that there is much in the radio game that should see the light of day.
 NOTE-For the apparent pur- pose of convincing the public how open-minded it has been, the Ma tional Broadcasting company has just issued a pamphlet showing how much time it has given to both sides in the Supreme Court debate.
 Merry O-ROund
 Social Security Boar dpublicists are preparing a series of radio broadcasts to explain the opera ton of the old-age pension and unemployment insurance system. .. There are 59 electrically op- erated traffic signals on Capitol Hill. Their maintenance cos.s, $l9.78 each year, with most of the money going for electricity =. With 70 per cent of its loans liquidated, the REC is beginning to lay off clerical personnel in large chunks. Those with wives or husbands holding down other gov erliment jobs are being let out first The battle over the Presidents court bill has reached the pamphleteering stage. Labor's Nonpartisan league, now waging a nationwide drive to rally sup port for Roosevelt, has issued a 31-page booklet assailing the su- pysS1e court and its defenders Title of the document is 'The Supreme Court vs. The People"
 Copyright, 1887, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
A Book a Day
A Grand Old Lady; a Grand Old Town
By BRUCE CAPTION

Grandmother Flannery is in her ninetieS now, and she lives in what is left of Virginia City, Nevada, and reflects anniably that she has out lasted the pioneers (of whom she never entirely approvedD. She ar- rived in Virginia City in the 1860's, a young bride fresh from Boston, and she has. lived in it ever since. She saw 1t in its incredible youth, in its lusty manhood, and in its dod dering old age-and if anyone can tell the whole story of. this most famous mining town, she can
 Her grandson tells it for her, and tells her own story as well, in a fine, richly favored book called Suns Go Down. (Macn1illan; $2). The granson is Flannery Lewis, and his book is valuable, eminently readable contribution to western history.
 Mrs. Flanriery was hailed by the pioneers as "tie first decent white woman on the Comstock lode." She knew Mark Twain when he was a young reporter on the Virginia En- terpriSe knew him, and was Some- what linimpressed; to the end of his life she referred to him as that printer fellow, Clemens" She saw Virginia City pour out wealth for decade after decade, saw its gaudy and boistrous pageant from start to f1nish-and lives on now in a ghost city, contemptuous of the tourists who roam its sunken and deserted streets.
 MT. Lewis has Skilfully caught the zestful exuberance of that old pioneer boom town. It was Virginia City that, swept by ruinous fire, held a mass meeting to discuss re- building and turned the meeting in- to a dance; that impartially and gaily enlisted both northern and southern regiments when the Civil war broke out; that boasted its first two dozen graves were filled by homicides; that sported highwayMen who served champagne to their vic- tims; that never dared hold funerals at train time, for fear the pall- bearers would set down the casket and rush to see the train come in.
 It make 8 fine book, and you will be the poorer if you miss 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
This Is Age of Figures

A mathematician recently wrote book asserting that this is the Age of Figures (Arabic, not feminine) and that the man who hasn't speaking acquaintance with mathematics has precious little chance of understanding what is going on. TO test his assertion, all you need to do IS apply it to such current news develop ment as President Roosevelt's statement that recovery in durable goods produc- tion is outstripping recovery in consumer goods. Before you can even begin to understand what that is all about, you have to digest all sorts of statistics, skim through divers sets of graphs, and un- derstand what people mean when they talk about index numbers.
 But it is in the field of high finance that the Age of Figures comes to its tull- est flower Consider, for example, the most recent development in connection with the great Trail empire" left by the late Brothers Van Sweringen. This "emprie," consisting of railroad and real estate securities supposed to be worth something like $3,OOO,OOO,O ,OOO, passed out of Van Sweringen control shortly before the brothers died. Keeply in debt to Wall Street, the brothers saw their securities put up at auction An out fit named the Midamerica Corporation was organized to buy up the empire; slightly more than $3,000,000 was put into it, and boss holding company of the entire outfit.
 The ingenious Van SWeringen brothers were out but the door was left open. For they held an option to purchase 8,25O shares of common stock in Midamerlca within period of 10 years, provided that the owners of Midamerica = George A. Ball and George A. Tomlinson = were satisfied that the brothers had discharged their indebtedness If the brothers should exercise this option they would pay the original cost of the stares plus 5 per cent interest a year. The 8,250 shares in- volved constituted 55 per cent of Midam- erica's common stock; and the original cost is understood to have been $1 share.
 The Van Sweringens died before they could exercise the option. But now the re- ceiver for the partnership estate has noti- fled Ball and Tomlinson that the estate considers itself entitled to exercise this option. And it is right here that the higher mathematics of American finance are revealed in their dazzling beauty and richness.
 Midamerica itself bought control of this vast empire for about $3,OOO 0OO-an em- pire, remember, supposedly worth three billions in good times. If the partnership estates right to exercise the option should be upheld in court, and if that basis of purchase were confirmed, control of Mid america itself would be bought for $8, 8,25O, plus interest In other words, control of a $3,00O, 100000 industrial empire would sell for something less than $10,000. What chance has a non-mathematical citizen of keeping abreast of the world of high finance in this Age of Figures?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08

bigger and better and a good place to live in. Why not urge your readers to interest themselves in Bookkeeper Purcell's plans so as to be able to defeat the plan to kill the Green.
 Can we count on your support? And in an editors footnote will you inform your readers if MT. Purcell is an artist or if his pen-sketch of proposed changes on the Green has an official authority?
 MT. Editor, give us a hand.
 BARBARA FRIETCHIE". <
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08

While Emile Pathe was not as well known as his brother, Charles, still he belonged to the family which gave us the first screen news films. You remember them in the good old days of picture houses. But perhaps you don't know that the Pathe enterprise was established in 1898 in France and originally dealt in cameras and films more than taking pie lures of current events. Emile died in Pau, France, last Saturday at the age of ".