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The Washington times., 1938-02-22
Studios Hum
For Blau Trial

VOLS studios are hum
ming these days with the
effort being put forward to
cast the huge production Of
The Trial Of Baron Won Blau!
United states Senators,
Representatives, noted law
yers, society leaders, and
radio actors under the direc-
ton Of Ronald Dawson are
buSily reading parts before
every available micrOphOne.
Sound effect men, an
nOuncers, production m q n
ayers and even the business
office Of the station are get
ting ready for the big moment
$3.50 p. m. Monday, Feb. 2S
when X e n n e tn M. Ellis
newest radio thriller goes on
the air.
Thereafter, nightly u mt ii
March IA, you will hear the
greatest court battle ever
fought over the radio, to con-
vict or free the Baron Won
BIau Of a murder charge!
You are the jury!
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
CAPITOL PAGES
SEEK U. S. FUND
FOR SCHOOLING
Petition Sets Forth
Demand For Aid

| U.NS.) Those Senate and
House page boys who dart around
the Capitol while running all man.
ner Of errands for members are
about to give Congressional none
tary experts some worry.
Taking q cue from those they
serve, they. are circulating q
petition to relieve themselves Of
considerable expense: their con-
tribution towards their education
while Congress is in session.
Like lot Of other persons who
are reluctant to turn over money
to the Government, the knicker.
bockered boys are demanding a
new deal' as expressed In the
following petition circulated in
the Senate:
eve, the undersigned, pages
Of the Senate and House Of
Representatives, do hereby re-
Specrfully petition the Congress
Of the United States to make an
appropriation for the payment
Of salaries of teachers in connec-
tion with the education Of the
pages, for the purchase Of books,
supplies, and equipment, and for
maintenance and repairs to the
rooms in the Capitol used for
school purposes"
Wise Senators discreetly de-
chned to comment.
But the page boys who have
four signatures out Of a possible
so, and expect to get more, were
more than willing to state their
case.
It seems that they just no
longer want to contribute an
average of So per month toward
their educational expenses. The
money is taken from their $4-a-day
pay to help defray the expenses
OF the seven teachers. Neither
do they want to be bothered with
having to purchase part of their
books, pencils, and other supplies.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22

=, A liberal lawyers platform, Z"
adopted last night by the National
Lawyers Guild IN its annual con-
vention, indorsed the right of
seamen to strike on board a ship
in port and demanded congress
: Sional investigation into infringe
, .mentS of the right of free speech.
d, Organized several years ago,
the guild is composed of attor.
,neyS in the employ Of the Fed
Jeral Government. Purpose of the
guild, it was explained at the
. time, was to improve working
conditions of Salaried attorneys.
:. GUILD PLATFORM
:, The platform adopted by the
; guild last night includes:
Direct election of President and
Vice President; uniform suffrage
standards; continuation of pres.
'.ent undistributed profits tax; no
broadening of the base of the in
come tax by reduction Of personal
exemption or credit for depend
.entS; imposing additional surtaxes
son incomes above $4,000 for sup
port Of new social services; cheap
asening and simplification of natu
8aliZation and citizenship with q
provision that willingness to bear
arms in defense Of the country
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
PLAY
CAST PLEASES

Gilbert and Sullivan's "H. M. s.
Pinafore," with leading roles en-
acted by pupils of Immaculate
Conception Academy and Boys
School, showed to a capacity house
at the parish hall in the TOO block
of N st. N. W., last night.
Parts difficult even for adults
were handled in fine style by the
youthful cast, which included: !:
Bernard De Meza, as Sir Joseph
Porter Charles O'Connell as Cap
tain Corcoran; Charles Miller as
Dick Deadeye; Francis DeMeza as
Ralph Rackstraw; Louis DeMeza
as the boatswain; Catherin e
Roches as Josephine; Jean Ester
brooke as Little Buttercup; and
Helen Kennedy as Hebe.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
Foster FIuus
MussOIini,
Hitler

NEW YORK, Feb. % dNS0.
A warning that Hitler and Musso-
lini are prepared to "drench the
world in blood to attain their
ends" was sounded today by Will
liam z. Foster, chairman Of the
Communist party of America and
several times candidate for Presi-
dent.
Speaking before $4,000 cheering
Communists at the National Party
Builders Congress in Madison
Square Garden last night, Foster
warned of the danger of interna-
tional war and of the menace Of
Fascism in this country. He pre-
dicted that a Fascist triumph in
Europe would start conflict here.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
MOVE LAUNCHED.
FOR SEPARATE.
AIRMAIL AGENCY.
Boren Seeks Legislation
Asked by President
BIZ MERRILL MUELLER

G.N.S) A move for corrective
legislation for the nations air
ways system along the lines sug.
gested by President Roosevelt was
started in the House today.
Striking at a Senate amend.
ment to the House-approved ST.
4O0, ,OO0,00 Treasury.Post ONCE
appropriation bill to provide an
additional $985,177 for specified
airmail routes, Representative
Lyle Boren CD of Oklahoma, led
a drive for an independent body
to handle airmail administration.
He asked the amendment be de-
feated until new airways legiSla-
tion is drafted.
SYSTEM ATTACKED
In a letter to every member of
Congress, Boren said the competi-
tive bidding system for airmaii
contracts has collapsed and is
too burdensome for several OF the
airmail carriers. He said a num-
ber of air lines were hauling the
mail for as little as one mill per
mile and eight thouSandthS of a
cent per mile to win passenger
routes and agreements with the
Government, however weak they
might be.
Having gained these contracts
at rates that are prohibitive to
operation, the usual cost per air
line mile is between rs and 80
cents minimum, Boren said. These
same lines are forced to appeal
for adjustment Of the routes to
fair and reasonable figures"
ROUTES SPECIFIED
Boren hinged his attack on the
fact that the Senate, in setting up
$985,177 for the second assistant
postmaster general, specified ex-
actly what routes this appropria-
ton was to be divided among. He
said this was unusual procedure;
the first time an airmail appro-
priation listed specific routes for
bidding. In the past, the appro-
priation was approved and then
the Post Office advertised new
routes.
He requested his colleagues to
Unite. for an independent body for
airline administration. Such an
agency, Boren explained, could set
up airmail routes on the basis of
public convenience and necessity,
and set airmail contract rates at
honest prices relative to opera
ton"
-BorenN urged that the Senate
amendment be defeated on the
grounds that no new air mail
routes should be let until after q
new airways commission is ap-
pointed under new legislation.
President Roosevelt has urged an
independent body and Senator Pat
McCarran CD of Nevada, with
Representative Lea CD of Cali.
fornia. is redrafting his airlines
legislation bill to comply with the
Presidents wishes.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22

Second. they check the infection
in the system.
Third, they relieve the headache
and fever.
Fourth, they tone the system and
help fortify against further attack.
Bromo Quinine tablets are prov.
en- preparation. They have been on
the market over 20 years and are
the worlds largest-selling cold
tablet.
Bromo Quinine tablets come in
S5c and 60c sizes. The 60c size Is the
better buy" It gives you almost
20 per cent more for your money.
When you feel a cold coming on
don't wait-don't procrastinate-
but 60 right to your druggist and
get a package Of Groves Laxative
Bromo Quinine HBQ tablets.
Say "No'' to substituted
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
Don't Merely Hun1or IT,!

Deal with a cold in earnest. Deal
with it in seriousness.
A cold Is too fraught with danger
to be taken lightly. Many a case Of
hu and pneumonia has started with
nothing more than . common
cold"
Treat q cold for what 1t is-an
internal infection. Therefore, inter.
nal treatment.
Treat a cold with q preparation
made for colds and not q "cure.
all"
Groves Laxative Bromo Quinine
GBQ tablets) are what you want.
They are made expressly for
the treatment Of colds and not for
all kinds Of ailments.
They are internal in effect and
do four important things.
First they open the bowels.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
Little Chief
With Big Guns

DOVER, Ohio, Feb. 20 GN.S).
Police Chief F. H. Javens boasts
that he is not only the shortest
police chief in the country but he
Supervises as well one of the most
complete arsenal and criminal
files, for q city of 10000.
Javens is only five feet, three
inches tall. He has worked in
one capacity or another on the
Dover force for IL years.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
Raisin Producers
Get Big u. S. Loan

U.N.s) Approval Of $2,500,-
900 loan for California raisin pro-
ducers to protect their market was
announced by the AAA yesterday.
Application for the loan was made
by the producers to handle re-
naming tonnage Of the 1887 raj
sin crop unSold. The Federal Sur
plus Commodity Corporation will
buy surplus celery in Florida inn
mediately to assist the celery mar
ket and aid relief, the AAA also
announced.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
WALLACE STAND.
! PER|LS AIRPORT.

The proposal to construct an
airport at Gravelly Point, on the
Potomac, was placed in jeopardy
today following refusal of Secre-
-tary Of Agriculture Wallace to
stop construction of the nearby
Bureau Of Public Roads research
laboratory.
This construction, according to
testimony before the House Com
mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, which recently COM
-pleted hearings on the Gravelly
Point airport bill, may hamper
splans for an airport.
= In a letter to Representative
Fritz Lanham Cd. of Texas, COM
,mittee chairman, Secretary Wal
lace said he would not order sus-
pension of the work until he had
a clear mandate from Congress.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
SOCIETY ABUzz
OVER BLAU CASE.
AS TRIAL NEARS

washington is certainly con-
cerned about the fate Of its
famous dinner host-the Baron
Won Blau!
Society is abuzz with excite
ment ever since it became known
that Mrs. Louis G. Caldwell and
Miss Ruth Overton were ready to
tell all'' regarding the baron's
goings-on about those mysterious
plans which, according to Ken
meth M. Ellis story, were the cause
of the fictional murder of Ronald
Brooks.
The night clubs are adither, be-
cause of the revelations being
made-or at any rate, promised
by Ruby Robert, former premiere
danseuSe at Pasquale Mazzini'S IA
nous night club, the Purple Aster,
"out Maryland way" AS q mat
ter of fact, Pasquale himself is
reported ready to go back into
business just as soon as he can
get himself a new sign painted!
TAXI DRIVERS TALKING
Taxicab pals of Tom Wilton
have been chatting about the case
with fares-artists are muttering
for vengeance on the slayer. The
whole towns talking!
For the newest developments OF
the story you will find Carol
Peeke'S report in another column.
This is just to tell you to join the
growing crowd of listeners to the
newest radio trial-by the author
of the famous trials of Vivienne
Ware and Dolores Divine-over
VOL for II exciting nights be-
ginning February % at $50 p. m.
For you-the readers Of The
Washington Times and listeners
to WOL-are the jury that will
decide whether the Baron Won
Blau is guilty" or mot guilty" Of
this fictional murder. You will
cast your verdict after you have
heard the testimony and the evi-
dence-just as though you were
REAL jurors in a REAL MURDER
CASE. And you will draw "jury
pay" too! For The Washington
Times and VOL are offering won
derful prizes for the best verdict. -
CITIZENSHIP LESSON
You do not need to be a lawyer
to win these awardsl No knowl.
edge of law is necessary at all!
The trial itself is an educational
feature from which you will
LEARN how to serve on a jury
That is what moved Senator
David I. Walsh to consent to
"Serve" as Chief Justice of the
radio jurisdiction-and swayed
Senator Robert F. Wagner tc
preside" and deliver the charge
to the radio jury-the belief that
q valuable lesson in citizenship
would be possible.
You'll laugh over Juror Levine
over Witness Mehitable Larkin
over Eucalyptus Gibbs, the colorec
moving man, and even at those
two baffled reporters, Harry
Baker and Bill Dale! You'll have
a little lump in your throat ovel
some Of the witnesSeS-and you'll
simply hate others.
And for these emotional re
actions, you will be better able tt
tell-in less than 900 words
WHY you vote the Baron vol
Blau "guilty" or mot guilty" Re
member, fancy writing does no
count! REASONS count. Ant
you'll find a full account Of al
the awards in next Sunday
Herald Times. Be a radio juror
Prepare by reading the storie
now running in the washington
Times.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
D. c. GIRL HoNoRED

Miss Hilda Rupert, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rupert,
2602 Connecticut Ave. N. W.. has
received honor for scholastic
achievement at st. Mary's College,
Notre Dame, Ind. She is secretary
of the Sister Madeleva Poetry So
..ciety, secretary-treasurer of the
Blue Pencil Club, and a member
of the Calumbine Dramatic Club.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22

III the Crldl OF baron Won bldu.
Saturday night the Baron was
arrested, as you know, and charged
with the fictional murder of Ron
aid Brooks. On Sunday we were
told he had waived a hearing, thus
paving the way for the calling Of
the Special Grand Jury which is
to convene next Monday night to
hear the case and indict him or
set him free.
CAB DRIVER SOUGHT
Yesterday it was learned that
Mrs. Louis G. Caldwell, prominent
society leader, and Miss Ruth
Overton, daughter Of the distin-
guished Senator, were being in
terrogated with a view to bringing
them before the Special Grand
Jury as witnesses.
Police began a search for Tom
Watson, the missing cab driver
whom Neudecker is most anxious
to question regarding the gun
found in his cab.
Today I have learned that
George Lewis, the boat salesman,
is to be called, and that old Capt.
zenas Crosby is also to be asked
to testify. AS to what? I cannot
say.
But the baron owned a yacht
that could have been used for a
lot of things.
And why should they have sub
poenaed that colored Maryland
farmer from down Chesapeake
Bay-Eucalyptus Gibbs? Was it
because he was once engaged as a
moving man? And what did he
move that was so important to this
case? It looks as though Gibbs
would aid in convicting the Baron
in some Way-else why call him ?
MRS. LARKIN CALLED
Mrs. Mehitable Larkin, who
bought the estate next to thai
occupied by Ronald Brooks Severa
years before the architect wa!
slain last December S, will bt
called, too. A neighbor who livec
as close as she did must have seer
or heard something which will
draw the moose more tightly
about the Baron's neck!
These are all the facts I car
dig up today. OF course I am tc
go before that Special Grand Judy
too! That's the rub!
But I do know that a certain
United States Senator, not yet
named in this case, has been ap
preached by persons high in the
Capitals social whirl, and powerful
n the HILL" to undertake to de-
fend the Baron Won Blau if he is
indicted! A certain party whom
Ruby Rober3 and I have trailed
for months, was seen last night
coming from that Senator's house,
and he went directly to the Dis,
trict Jail where Detective Sullivan
delivered message for him to
Won Blau!
SUCCESSFUL DEFENDER
Today's new angle is simply the
entrance into the case of the
Senator who may be Won Blau'S
defender. We looked up his record
today. I can tell you about that
He has been a very successful.
criminal defender. He has wor
% of "a murder cases in which
he acted for the defense.
I intend to spend most Of the
day watching who goes in anc
out of that Senator's office-anc
who goes from there to visit thu
Baron, or to communicate with
him. It looks like a hot tip.
hope to have a real break on thii
thing for tomorrow's early edition
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
Sending Students
To College Raped

DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 20 G.N.SO.
Don't send your children to col
lege," DR.. Edward Howard Griggs,
lecturer, advised here.
'If they don't go to college of
their own accord, they'll be vast
ing time there" he explained.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
ASKS FLAX AID

GN.S.) An amendment to the
farm credit act authorizing $685.
600 for the development OF fiber
flax was introduced in the Senate
Yesterday by Senator McNary
(RO of OREGON.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
Ruby Waits
Hours at
Jail
BY RUBY ROBERT

=. Everyone has been so kind!
I had hoped all the horrible
memory of poor Ronald Brooks
murder would have been forgotten,
and that I could just 60 on doing
my work as a reporter. Then, as
you know, Carroll Peeke began to
dig up the story and the facts be-
gan to come out.
never really dreamed I would
be mixed up in it!
EoURS AT JAIL
But now I am spending hours at
the District Jail watching to see
who goes in and out-who might
have seen the Baron Won Blau.
And today several people did go
to see him. They were people
who had known the Baron well
socially.
saw Erich Holbein, his secre-
4tary come in, with a big smile on
his moon face-I couldn't help but
remember how he used to stare at
me when was dancing i'm Pac-
quale Mazzini's Purple Aster." I
know Erich was full of good news
for the Baron. That's bad news
for all of Ronald Brooks friends.
! was one Of those.
!: CON. AVE. ADDRESS
= I don't suppose there was any
thing really significant in Erich's
seeing the Baron. After all he IS
his secretary. But when he came
out he didn't look so good! Erich,
! mean. He took a taxicab and
gave some address didn't quite
sget-but it was on Connecticut
Avenue.
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
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The Washington times., 1938-02-22

Special Prosecutor Raymond Neudecker IS moving like
nanher in his swift maneuvers in the trial of Baron Bau
The Washington times., 1938-02-22
Neudecker Speeds
. Won Bfau Trial by
Calling Witnesses
Society Leader, Senator'S Daughter QUizzed;
: Cab DriUer Sought; Farmer SUbpOenGed

i IThe foHowing story by Carroll Peeke concerns the
tctionaI trial of Baron von BIau 1Dhch Is to be pre-
sented by Radio Station VOL and through the columns
of The Washington Times. In any oOhere ictiona
character appears the of the of IiUng
son is purely coincidentdL)
:, By CARROLL PEEKE
Snenial RAYMOND Neudecker is moving like
Evening star., 1938-04-05
LAWRENCE TO BREAK
SILENCE ON PRIMARY
Democratic State Chairman to
Give Pennsylvanians Facts
Tonight.
BY the Associated Press.

oy kilC ASStt1dIeQ ETeSS.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April 5.-Dem-
ocratic State Chairman David L. Law
rence's first public expression of his
views on Pennsylvania variegated
political situation was awaited today
as anti-State Committee candidates
assailed campaign practices of the
Democratic organization.
Mr.. Lawrence has had nothing to
say since the State Committee selected
slate headed by Gov. George H.
Earle and Charles Alvin Jones OF
Pittsburgh for the United States SEN
atorial and gubernatorial nominations.
The people Of Pennsylvania are
entitled to know the facts. and I am
going to tell them the facts" said
Mr.. Lawrence last night in a state
ment from the Earle-Jones headquar-
ters. announcing his speech tonight.
The latest candidate to charge ad-
ministration leaders with political
abuse of State employees was State
Senator John J. Haluska of Cambria
County
He asserted highway department
worker in his county was dismissed
for refusing to support DR.. Leo c.
Mundy, Mr.. Haluska's opponent for
Lieutenant Governor.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
TOXIC PRESS SEES
U.S.P[ANN|NGWAR
Does Not Think Large Navy
Will Be Used to Defend
This Country.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
TOXIC, April 5.-Japanese news
papers virtually were unanimous today
in interpreting Secretary Hulrs objec-
ton to setting limit on United States
naval activity as signifying America S
intention Of building the worlds larg-
est Navy to attack Japan.
Mr.. Hulls letter to the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee opposing stay-at-
home policy for the American Navy
apparently capped mounting Japanese
apprehension.
Such feeling has increased since the
United States. along with Great Brit
ain and France. requested information
concerning ,Japan's naval building
plans.
War Preparations Enumerated.
Expanded scope of the United States
fleet maneuvers this year. passage of
the naval appropriation bill by the
House and notification that the United
States will exceed the 35,o00-ton bat
tleshlp limit of the London naval treaty
all have convinced the Japanese the
United States is preparing for war in
the Orient.
The newspaper Asahi said Mr.. Hull's
letter expresses in positive terms
Americas ambition in the Western Pa
cific and her determination to speak
with a loud voice on Oriental affairs"
One naval source said apparently
there no longer is any doubt Of Amer
ica's Intentions"
Not Believed "Self- Defense"
-. "She seems bent on building the
worlds biggest navy in order to domi-
nate the Pacific. 1t is hardly plausible
to describe the present program as
'self-defense.
THE United States is the worlds
most self-suf1cient nation. Hardly has
she trade routes which are necessary
to protect. What other conclusion is
possible?"
Newspapers said abandonment Of
stay-at-home policy showed the United
States has reversed completely her
traditional attitude"
Evening star., 1938-04-05
VETERAN ACTOR DIES
James Carew Was Third Husband
of Ellen Terry.

LONDON. April 5 @.-James Ca
rev, 81, veteran American actor and
third husband Of the late Ellen Terry,
died here yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
WORKERS FR|G|D
TOARMSPROGRAM
British Engineer Union
Refuses an Immediate
Pledge to Aid.
Ey the Associated Press.

LONDON, April 5.-Prime Minister
Chamberlain's government, an easy
victor over the Labor party in a for
eign affairs debate. ran headlong
today into union workers frigid at
titude toward the rearmament speed
up drive. +
Some political commentators be-
lieved Labor members Of Parliament
would modify their attacks on the
Prime Minister'S foreign policy after
their defeat, 359 to 152, yesterday tn
the thirteenth debate on foreign af-
fairs IN nine weeks.
In the armament situation, officials
of the Amalgamated Engineering
Union, representing $4,000 workers,
refused to make an immediate pledge
to the government yesterday after a
long meeting with Sir Thomas Inskip,
minister for coordination Of defense,
and Labor Minister Ernest Brown.
J. c. Little, president Of the engi-
neering union, said, 1--WE are not COM
mitted to anything"
The engineers. key workers in the
armament industries which the gov
ernment seeks to speed by relaxing Of
regulations pertaining to apprentices
and semi-skilled workers, asked:
The purpose Of rearmament?
Whether skilled labor at present is
being utilized to its fullest capacity =?
Whether private profits from arms
manufacturers would be limited?
What government guarantees would
be given in exchange for union con-
ceSsions?
Opposition sources said the engi-
neers also demanded that the gov
ernment permit the Spanish govern
ment to buy British arms and opposed
the sale of munitions to dictators.
In some quarters it was believed
the engineers would not decide whether
TO cooperate with Chamberlain until
after the meeting Of their National
Committee early in June, although
Sir Thomas asked an immediate de-
cision.
Sir Thomas, accompanied by Labor
Minister Brown, conferred with the
Management Board of the Engineering
Employers Federation and explained
the governments program of arma-
ment acceleration. The employers
promised full cooperation.