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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-28
2 Missing Goods in N. Y.
To Get "Taste of Life''
Illinois u. Students
Write Parents

NEW YORK, April % Q.N.S0.
Bored with college life, or rugged
individualists Cor both), two runa.
way goods of the University Of
Illinois were somewhere in New
York today, presumably engaged
in the great outdoor occupation
of looking for jobs.
This account of the runaway
is necessarily vague because the
goods were vague when they fin
ally dispelled the fears of their
parents by writing they were IN
the big city, They didn't say
where they were. They said merely
they had enough book learning
and wanted taste of life.
The runaways are Mildred
Cooper, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
P. Samuel Cooper, of Chicago, and
Vera Bernice Kohn, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Kohn, of
University, Mo. Miss Cooper's
father owns a large Chicago apart.
ment building.
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Motrimony
It's "MajOr" Subject,
Say These Goods

BOULDER, Colo, April %
Q.N.S0. - Matrimony is the
major" of most college women,
while a career may or may not be
a minor"
That was the general opinion
among students at the University
OF Colorado as gathered in a re.
cent survey conducted by Silver
and Gold, student publication.
Every normal girl plans to
get married and she has a bet
ter chance to make contacts in
college," Esther Lafferty, q jul
Nor, explained. II didn't come
to college to get married, but
rather hoped to meet someone"
Girls come to college to
get married because they can't
make a living anyway" was the
frank deposition of Elise Mon
landau, a freshman.
The only dissenting opinion re-
corded was that of Betty Jane
Allen, a Junior, who said:
If they wish to get mar.
ried, they can stay home and
learn to cook. It is just as easy
to get married at home as in
college,"
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COURT SPEEDS
Bennett TRIAL

Night sessions will be held to
speed the trial Of Lula Mae Ben
nett, her husband, James, and
David Pinas, 1t was indicated to-
day by Justice ODonoghue in
United States District Court as
the case began to drag.
On trial for transportation Of
more than $4,000 worth of stolen
jewels into the District, one Of
the principal defenses of the trio
is that the jewelry is worth less
than the $4,000 required to bring
the alleged offense within jurisdic.
ton of the Federal courts.
William H. Perry, gem expert
from New York, spent the entire
day on the stand yesterday as
government and defense counsel
examined and croSs-examined him
on the various elements Of ap-
praisal. So long did the examina-
ton continue that Justice O'Don-
oghue extended the court session
two hours and indicated today the
practice would continue unless the
procedure is speeded.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
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Mooney Plea
Prisoner Wanted Here
For Congress Quiz

G.N.SO Governor Frank Mer-
riam of California was urged in a
telegram today from Representa-
tive Jerry O'Connell CD of Mon.
tana to permit Tom Mooney, i'm
prisoned California labor leader.
to come here May II to testify be-
fore a Congressional committee at
hearings on a pardon petition.
A House subcommittee will open
hearings on O'Connell's resolution
to memorabilia the California gov,
ernor to grant an unconditional
pardon to Mooney.
Mooney willing to appear at
these hearings at his own ex-
pense if you will permit it,"
O'Connell said in his telegram.
"In all fairness to Tom Mooney
and his tremendous following
throughout the country, who are
convinced of his innocence, I
hope. you will permit him to
come to Washington to testify in
his own behalf"
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Va. SOrOptimists
Slate First Session

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 90
The new Arlington Soroptimist
Club will hold its first regular
meeting at 7:15 p. m. today in the
Little Tea House on Arlington
Ridge Road.
Mrs. Agnes J. Conrad, presi
dent, will announce appointment
of committees and delegates to the
regional convention at Baltimore.
Other officers are DIR. v. E. Miles,
vice president; Virginia L. French,
recording secretary; Nellie Spen,
Ger, corresponding secretary, and
Elizabeth M. Chambers, treasurer
Directors are Mrs. Pearl Sharpe
and Mrs. Mamie Middleton.
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SLUMP DRINK RISE
NEW YORK. April 28.-Upon
the moral failure of the American
people, as evidenced in their in
creasing consumption of liquor
Fred A. Victor, State superintend
ent of the Anti-Saloon League
blames the current economic re
ceSsion.
He termed President Roosevelt
a blind leader of the blind fol
asking for five billion dollars fol-
recovery when six billion dollars
is spent annually on liquor.
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Catholic U. Speeds
Plans for Jubilee

Three new members of the COM
mittee arranging Catholic Univer-
sity's golden jubilee celebration
next year were appointed today,
William L. Calvin of Baltimore,
William H. Albers of Cincinnati,
and Theodore F. McManus Of De.
troit.
Appointments were made at the
ninety-ninth annual board meet.
ing of the trustees of the univer.
'sity, presided over by Archbishop
Curley, chancellor. The Most Rev.
Thomas j. Walsh, archbishop Of
Newark, and the Most Rev. John
A. Floersh, archbishop of Louis
vile, were present as new board
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CARDINAL FLAYS
DRESS FASHIONS

BOSTON, April % G.N.S0.
Terming it horrible" to see wom-
en- dress like men, William Cardi-
nal O'Connell, dean of the Catho-
lie hierarchy in America, today,
for the second time in four days,
had flayed the modern trend in
milady's fashions.
81 don't care what the excuse
is, whether it is beach fashions
or any other type of fashions.
There is no excuse for fashions
of this type" the prelate told
1000 women members of Catho-
lie clubs at a convention.
Don't initiate the foolish
fashions. They all started on
the stage or in the street.
Create your own fashions along
sane and modest lines"
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 30
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co
. TO ISLAND SOON

SEVENOAKS, KENT, England,
April % Q.N.S0.-Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh today notified the own
ers that he is giving up the house
at Long Barn which the Lind
berghs have occupied most Of the
time during their stay in England.
They are expected to leave soon
to live on the island off the coast
of Britanny acquired by the Ameri-
can airman to carry on his scien-
tific work.
Colonel Lindbergh has notified
storekeepers at Weald to cease
supplying the house about the mid
die of May.
Although his formal notice does
not expire until the end of May,
Colonel Lindbergh probably will
depart within three weeks.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
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1000 Claims
300 Cases a Week
In NeW Court

One thousand claims have been
filed in the new Small Claims
Court.
The thousandth case was filed
yesterday, Milton S. Musswer,
clerk, said. He declared that 300
cases a week. including claims for
wages, rent, personal services and
damages to property. have been
received. The new court, a con-
citation branch of Municipal
Court, has been in operation little
more than three weeks.
The thousandth case was that of
Charles E. Kile, of the 1000 block
Of Twentieth Street Northeast,
who asks $3.50 for alleged dam.
ages to his parked automobile.
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MATES CASTLES
JUST HOT AIR.
n. Y. Wife FINDS.
Trip to D. C.. DisCIoseS
Hoax of Groom

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, April
2s.-search for a husband, a nom
existent plantation on the
Potomac river" and q fortune of
$250,000" had come to a dead end
for a pretty bride of less than a
year here today.
Sadder, wiser and considerably
bewildered by 1t all. Mrs. Mary G..
Harrison was on her way back to
New York, City. There was no
plantation. There was no money.
And now it looks as If there isn't
any husband, anymore" she
admitted ruefully.
HUNTED JUDGE
Mrs. Harrison came to Fred
erickSburg looking for a Judge
Brewer" supposed to be presiding
In the district court of Fredericks-
burg" in the case of misappropria-
ton of huge estate left to her
husband, Charles.
Charles had also confided to
her, Mrs. Harrison said, that he
was the possessor of large plan
tation between Alexandria and
this city, and that litigation in
volving an attorney, Martin
Kane" required that he leaves
New York for Virginia some days
ago.
All Of which should have crys-
tallized in a set-up of peace and
prosperity for the Harrisons on
May /, and Mrs. Harrison hap
PLY abandoned her job in New
York, work which helped the Har-
risons live while Charles went to
night law schools.
mo NOTHING"
Actually, all the factors In
volved proved to have been the
stuff that dreams are made of,
Mrs. Harrison said. There was no
such Judge, no such court, no rec
ord of a Harrison plantation, no
Attorney Martin Kane-and eli
matically-no husband Charles
to meet her at the station here.
She had met Harrison and mar
ried him in California less than
q year ago, Mrs. Harrison said. He
spoke of an aunt's legacy and "a
little plantation on the Potomac"
JUST A LITTLE BOY"
"That was fine" she said to-
day, but I wasn't interested
in the money. Even now I can't
decide what it's all about. I
guess Charlie is just a little boy
who kept building a story until
1t got too big for him."
She doesn't seem particularly
1rked at Charlie, even now.
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COOGAN RICHES
TAKE BIG DROP

LOS ANGELES, April % G.N.S)
Jackie Coogan said today he was
more determined than ever to
gain an accounting of his film
earnings as a child star, as he
surveyed an auditors report which
stated that of the $4,000, 900 Jackie
claims to have earned, only $685.
294 now remains.
It want to know what has be-
come of the money" he declared,
land am going to find out.
The report shows that virtually
all Of my earnings excepting
those invested in real estate
have been dissipated."
ABSOLVES MOTHER
He added that his mother, Mrs.
Lillian Coogan Bernstein, whom
he is suing for the accounting,
must not be blamed" for the
shrinkage of his earnings.
Coogan demands the accounting
from his mother and stepfather,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur L. Bernstein,
on the grounds that he found him.
self pennilesS on reaching his
majority despite the promises Of
his late father, John Coogan, ST.,
that a trust fund would be estab-
lished for him.
The report of the financial con-
dition of the Coogan Productions
Corporation, the Coogan Finance
Company and the BernSteins was
submitted to Superior Judge EN-
NETT Wilson by Attorney John E.
Billy, temporary receiver appointed
at the time "The Kid" brought
the accounting suit into court.
NO IRREGULARITIES
The inventory showed:
Jackie Coogan Productions, In
corporated has gross assets of
$696,304 against which there are
liabilities of $150.380.
In his report Bilby declared:
II found no evidence of IT.
regular transactions, but I am
at a loss to explain wherein is
the differential between the
amount Jackie claims he made
and what is left"
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GEN, HAGGERTY
FIGHTS DEATH

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, April %
G.N.S0.-Aided by blood donated
by an Army sergeant, Brig. Gen.
James A. Haggerty, 81, World War
hero and commander of the
Eighty-fifth brigade of the Forty
third National Guard Division, to-
day carried on a stubborn fight for
his life at Grace Hospital.
Following a chest operation, his
condition was reported fair by hos
pital authorities.
Blood for the TRANSMISSION was
donated by Sergeant Frank
O'Brien, instructor for the 102nd
Infantry, one of a score Of Army
men who volunteered.
General Haggerty was admitted
to the hospital here following a
pneumonia attack in Putnam sew
eral weeks ago.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 3d.
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Just a trifle exaggerated" was
her comment on a report cir
culated after she kissed the ex-
fighter au revoir when he sailed
for Europe aboard the lie de
France yesterday.
JUST A GESTURE
She considered her farewell Just
the customary bon voyage, she
said.
Miss Leiper, who enrolled at
the American Academy of ORA
matte Arts in New York shortly
after the first of the year, said
she will continue her preparations
for the stage.
Fiermonte sailed without pre-
vious announcement and his pres
ence on the boat was discovered
only after it had left quarantine.
CASH EXCHANGE HINTED
One report said that he had re-
ceiVed cash settlement of $3.50 900
and that his wife would seek a
divorce in Florida within the next
few days.
| --VOIE EOR suEEnAcE ApRu an
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Thrift, Spending,
Topic for Debate

Old-faShioned thrift and new
fashioned spending policies will be
debated May at the Department
of Commerce Auditorium by David
Cushman Coyle, noted economist,
and Representative Short (R.) Of
Missouri.
The debate, under the auspices
of the Thrift and Security Founda-
ton, will be presided over by Al
bert w. Atwood, Washington
writer.
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Pershing Better,
Officials Report

Further progress was reported
today in the condition of Gen.
John j. Pershing, wartime com.
mander Of the A. E. F., who en-.
tered Walter Reed Hospital this
week for a checkup following his
recent serious illness.
An official statement by the
War Department said General
Pershing looks better and feels
better" than when he entered the
hospital.
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SimOne Goes
TO Court

HOLLYWOOD, April % Q.N.S).
Petite Simone Simon, the actress,
was to make another personal ap-
pearance tomorrow, but without
spotlights and such.
It will be in a superior court
room, where she will appear as
complaining witness against San
dra Martin, 80, her former secre-
tary, charged with misappropriat-
ing $4,000 of the stars funds.
Miss Martin is to be arraigned on
10 charges of forgery and 10
charges of grand theft.
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Wife Divorces
John r. Hearst

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
April 2S.-With T. Dennis Board
man I'd and Jay O'Brien as
socialite witnesses, Mrs. Gretchen
Wilson Hearst obtained a final
decree of divorce yesterday
from John Randolph Hearst, son
Of the publisher.
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; Youths in Net
For Wild Parties

ROCKFORD, Ill, April %
GNSO.-Eight youths face ar
raignment today on morals
charges after a series of weekend
parties with two high school girls.
Complaints against the eight
were signed by parents of the two
girls, one of them an expectant
mother, who tried to leap down
the stairwell in the court house
after being questioned by author
tiles, but was seized as she climbed
the railing.
-VoIE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL "a
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Fleet Due Home
After War Games

LOS ANGELES, April % GIN.
SD.-After six weeks of strenuous
maneuvers at sea, the Nays
$500 officers ana $4,000 men were
due home today. The fleet-140
shlps-will drop anchor at normal
bases in Los Angeles Harbor and
San Diego, thus completing the
most extensive maneuvers since
the World War.
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Peace PI eo
British ENJOY Urges
Pact With Reich

HAMBURG, Germany, April "a
G.N.S0.-Sir Neville Henderson,
British Ambassador to Germany
was on record today with an ap
peal for an Anglo German agree.
ment as a bulwark of peace.
81 can imagine nothing more
appalling, more hateful and
more disastrous for Germany
and England than a war between
our two countries. A mutual
understanding is not only indiS-
pensable, but ultimately inevi-
table in the interests of our
countries and of world civiliza-
ton"
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Balloon Picked Up
$4,000 Miles Away

MONTREAL, April 28.-An air.
line journey of $4,000 miles in AZ
days was accomplished by a hydro
gen-filled rubber balloon, released
in Verdun, Montreal suburb. on
March l, and picked up in Singa-
pore, Straits Settlement, on April
II. Word Of the finding Of the
balloon was received in Verdun
this morning.
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'HeireSS Gives Kiss
To FiermOnte AS
He Sails in Rift
SOcinLite Denies Romance as DiUOrce by
Mrs. AstOr Is Seen Near

PHILADELPHIA, April % GN.S).-Caroyn H Leiper,
21yearod art student and member of socially prominent
Philadelphia family denied today she will wed EMO Fer
monte, former Italian heavyweight boxer after his divorce
from thrce-marred Mrs. Madeleine Force Aston Dick
Fermonte.
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Reports
 From Hurricane
 Most Horrible

UNDATED, Sept. 3, (R)-The northeastern corner of the Unit ed States counted nearly four hundred and fifty dead as the toll of Wednesdays savage hur- ricane, while rescue workers tackled the double task of succor ing the living and raising bull warks against new food terrors.
 In seven stricken states, dread triclole reports seeping through walls of silence, imposed by the shattered communications sys- temS, swelled the roM of victims until now the disaster stands as the worst hurricane in the Unit ed States since 1928, when a storm from the Carribean Sea scourged the State of Florida with a loss of two thousand lives.
 Damage running high into the millions is mounting under the depreciation of streams which are spilling out of bounds by the mceasing rams, even as rescue workers rallied under the i'm petus and direct orders from President Roosevelt, which threw all government agencies into the fight against post, hurricane men aces from famine and disease.
 Rivers in New England, New York and New Jersey inched to- wards the devastating peak of 1886 floods.
 The flood threat is particularly acute in Hartford, Conn, with ten percent of the city's twelve hundred acres already under water.
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First Reports of Dead--Damage
 From Hurricane

UNDATED, Sept. g, (P)-At least 243 persons lay dead in the twisted ruins of a Tropical hur- rican that sideswiped the North Atlantic seaboard with devastat- ing force.
 The loss from smashed homes wrecked boats and crippled com munication and transportation lines, including other property ran into the millions.
 Fears increased as the death told mounted steadily as hum dreds of persons remained unac- counted for. Both at sea and on shore-fire and flood added to the terror of thousands left home less by the storm, which is con sidered the worst that has hit the Northeast Coast in the past cen tury.
 The known dead by States fol- lows: Massachusetts 5l; Connec- ticut 22; Rhode Island 32; New York 20: New Hampshire '; New Jersey l.
 After hours of silence concern ing the fate of Cape Cod inhabit- ants, the U. S. Coast Guard re- ported that it had received word that eight persons perished near Buzzards Bay and six others at or near Woods Hole.
 Swilling up from the South the hurrican swept in from the sea late yesterday smashing shippe ing and shore resorts with waves lashed to tidal power, then roar ed on into Canada.
 The hundred miles per hour gale dealt it's most tragic blows along the islands of the fashion able South shore, where at least eighteen persons are dead and one hundred missing. !. In the flood which hit Connec- ticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Is- land, it left it's mark also on New Jersey, Vermont, and New Hampshire The storm flooded hundreds of miles of rich farm lands, ripped out bridges, rail- roads and highways, demolished buildings, sank boats, destroyed lives, took and tore down tele- phone and light wires, and left scores of communities isolated in chaos amd fesr. ' ~T
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Election Results Nome, Fairbanks, Juneau Divisions
Official And
 Unofficial Votes
 Election Todate

With the receipt of the unotfic- ial returns from Utica and Hay cock, in the general election held Tuesday, Sept 18th, all precincts have now reported. A week from the receipt of the official returns from all precincts, an official count will be made of the absentee ballots cast throughout the Second Division.
 Democratic candidates Howard Lyng, Garnet Martin, Walter J. Dowd and Wallace Porter are definitely elected to the House of Representatives.
 Republican candidate Leroy M. Sullivan is now A votes in the lead of democratic candidate Geo Laiblin for Senator.
 At present twenty-six Absentee Ballots have been received by the Clerk of the Court, and it appears now that Laiblin cannot overcome Stlllivan's lead with perhaps only 26 votes left to tou''@' --- EMIL
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Chamberlain Wants Assurance
 Europe's Peace

GODESBERG, Sept. 23, (Po- British Premier Chamberlain sent Sir Neville Henderson, Am bassador to Germany, across the Rhine, to confer with Hitler'S Lieutenant, Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, but the two principles suspended the Codes berg Conference. and remained apart.
 The Envoys are to consult on future negotiations which are to assure peace in Europe. Tender son said he didn't know whether the postponed meeting between Chamberlain and Hitler would occur tcni ght.
 Negotiations { lnued in a state of tense s.-. enSe half an hour before he was to meet Hit Ter at the Hotel Dresser, which are designated as the headquar- ters, when Chamberlain sent a letter calling off the meeting. Authoritative sources said that Chamberlain made up his mind not to go any farther to appease Germany and her Sudeten Ger man friends until he was assur- ed that the German troops and the Sudeten free-corps, would keep the peace.
 News, to the Free-Corps and Czechoslovakia, was drawn up on war like lines on the border to give urgency to Chamberlain's letter.
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King Islanders to
 Vote, Home Rule

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. g (P)-The Indian Bureau disclos- ed today that Secretary of the Interior IckeS has approved of form of Charter which may be used by the King Island Eskimos in establishing home rule on the island. A vote on the Charter is to be taken before October Is with balloting on the mainland.
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Prague Govt
 Reorganiziing Its New Officials

PRAGUE, Sept. 22, (P)-Gen- eral Jan Syrovy, aged 50, inspec- tor general of the army, emerged almost certain for president. Benes, head of the new military government, is replacing that of Premier Hodga, resigned.
 Syrovy emerged as the strong man of the Republic after Hodza stepped out in the face of rising indignation over equalization of the angry French proposal to cede Sudetendand to Germany.
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 Following are the totals from all Precincts, official or unofficial todate, including Utica and Hay cock, the last two precincts to ar rive, of the Second Division: For Delegate-Dimond 750; Grigsby 1858; White I'll. For TreaSurer-ChaSe 324; Ol- son 635.
 For Senator-Laiblin 533; L.M. Sullivan 557.
 For Representatives Anderson, ind. ........ ................196 Continued on Page Two)
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Seward Gets Funds
 For Fire System

WASHINGTON, Sept. g, tP,- The PWA approved the alloca- >tion of seventeen thousand dol lar loan, and thirteen thousand nine naught nine dollars grant fof- TSeWs4Vr =1hse. systesns:-s--
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