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The Washington times., 1938-01-18
Beard Aide,.
W.C.Carr0ll.
Kills Self

A coroner's certificate of suicide
today closed the long police record
of William C. Carroll, former aide
to Sam Beard, once the overload
of the Capitals gambling fTatern-
ity.
Carroll, who was released from
Lorton last May after serving
gambling conspiracy sentence, was
found hanged in the bathroom of
his apartment in the 2800 block
Connecticut Ave. N. w. last night.
DEAD TWO DAYS
His wife, Mrs. Eleanor Mae Car
roll, summoned doctors, who said
he had been dead for about two
days.
The death of Carroll marks the
second suicide in the gambling
crowd in the last 10 days, Carroll
"NubDy' NuchOlS naVlng SnoC hlm-
self January 8, following his al
rest in a gambling raid.
PAROLED IN MAY
Carroll was arrested in a raid
on the Beard gambling head
quarters in 1884 with Beard and
IL others. Sentenced to from one
to three years, he was sent to
Lorton in April, 1886, and paroled
last May.
Since his release he had been
working as an interior decorator,
his wife told police.
Saves steps for weary room seekers
Barbara Holmes hiEhliRhts attTac-
tive. "hOmey" rooms Ahe has seen and
recommends in preferred locations all
over town. Read her column on the
Classified Page.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
Rep. Fish Backs
Hoover on Peace

G.N.S) Representative Fish of
New York, ranking Republican on
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, has telegraphed former
President Hoover concentrations
for Hoover's peace program out
lined in a speech last week:
Glad to know you do not
endorse internationalism of
former Secretary (of State)
Stimson, who agrees with Presi-
dent Roosevelt in concerted &C
ton through embargoes and
armed force in quarantining
other nations"
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
Bus Driver Taken
For Ride, Robbed

RICHMOND, Jan. 18.-Bernard
Eudailey, 23-year-old bus driver,
went for a bus ride last night
with a bandit holding a gun at
his back. Found in his bus, half
over an embankment several miles
from the city, Eudailey told police
the bandit robbed him of $50 at
the end of the ride.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
Joe E. Browns Son
Wed in Arizona

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 ct.
PSI SD.-Following a Christmas Eve
e ngag ent announcement,
Mitchell F'rankovich and Miss
Georgiana Feagan eloped to
Yuma, Ariz, Saturday and re-
turned today to make their home
here. The bridegroom is the adopt
ed son of Joe E. Brown, film actor.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
OFFICERS PROBE.
YOUTHS STORY.
OF AK MURDER.
$500 Missing After At
tack on Snowman, Wife

HENDERSON, N. c., Jan. 18
GNSD.-A 20-year-old youth was
held in Jail here today as author
tiles checked his story that he
had killed his employer, S. c..
Good, a Snowman, and critically
wounded Mrs. Good in an effort to
save a performing bird from un-
just punishment.
The youth, Clarence Fairbanks,
after first denying his guilt, later
broke down and confessed he had
inflicted the ak wounds that re-
suited in Goods death and sent
Mrs. Good to the hospital with a
broken jaw and other injuries.
$500 MISSING
Authorities expressed doubt,
however, that Fairbanks had told
the whole story. Raleigh Bertillon
experts reported they had found
the youths fingerprints on Mrs.
Goods empty purse, and Hender-
son officers reported about $500
which Good was reported to have
in his possession, could not be
located.
According to Fairbanks confes-
sian, as announced by authorities
Good went into the trailer, where
the performing birds were kept,
to rehearse the act, but one bird
was stubborn and wouldn't per-
form.
Whereupon, Good began whip
ping it, the boy related.
Fairbank said he protested,
and a fight ensued. Then Mrs.
Good came to her husbands aid,
beating the boy over the head with
a slipper, Fairbanks said.
HIDES CLOTHING
AS Fairbank battled the couple,
Good seized an ak and broke the
handle over the youths head, the
confession said. Then the youth
grabbed the ak, swung at Goods
head and crushed his skull. Then
as he fled from the trailer he
struck Mrs. Good, breaking her
jaw.
After changing clothes and hid
ing them under a nearby ware,
house, he rushed to the sheriff S
office and shouted:
Come quick, somebody has
just killed my boss and his
wife" according to authorities.
Fairbanks at first denied any
connection with the case, but con-
fessed after officers had found
his bloodStained clothing.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
Truck Drivers
Continue Strike

MANCHESTER, N. H., Jan. 1S
G.N.SO-While numerous manu-
facturers announced continued
stoppage of supplies would mean
curtailment of operations with re-
sultant loss of jobs, $50 union
truck drivers today continued
their strike against IT firms, with
little prospect of immediate settle
ment.
A question of seniority and dis
pute over payment to drivers for
time while their cargo is being un-
loaded bar settlement of the dis
pute, it was stated. The firms
seek to renew the 1887 contract.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
CHINESE 10 SPEAK

Tswen-Ling Tsui, second Secre-
tary of the Chinese embassy, will
speak on the Sino-JapaneSe crisis
at the Industrial Home School.
Friday, at p. M, under auspices
Of the Glover Park Citizens ASSo-
citation.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
2 Held AS Bandits;
Guns, Nitro in Car

ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. 18
G.N.S0.-Two Detroit men ar
rested at Alexandria near here
will be questioned concerning
numerous safe robberies in this
vicinity, State police announced
today. One of the suspects, Frank
Kenmore, %, is wanted for jump
ing a $4,000 bond in Detroit on a
charge of robbery while armed.
An automobile used by Ben
more, 27, contained a complete set
of burglary, tools, one-half pint OF
nitroglycerine, three pistols and
holsters and dynamite caps.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18

Inc commission was queSClOneu
closely by members of the subcom-
mittee as to reasons for limiting
sales to the larger quantity.
SPEEDS SERVICE is CLAIM
Richmond B. Keech, vice chair
man of the commission, told the
committee that this type of sale
reduces the time of selling trans
actions and therefore speeds SER
vice. To this explanation, Repre-
sentative w. Sterling Cole (RD of
New York:
If that was the only reason.
it seems rather tenuous to me-"
Both Keech and Riley E. Elgen,
chairman of the commission, ex-
planned to the subcommittee that
the Capital Transit Company ex.
poets an increase of 100000 in
revenue because of the six for so
cents sale.
Reasons given by the commits
sion for approving the sale in
larger quantities appear to be
based on thin logic and guess
work." Representative Everett M.
Dirksen (R.) of Illinois declared.
PERSONNEL "INADEQUATE"
Members of the commission ex-
planned to the subcommittee that
its activities in regulating service
of the transit company is re,
stricted by an inadequate per.
sonnel.
1--WE have the authority to re-
gulate," Keech said, "but not
the TOOLS"
The subcommittee was told that
the present PUG personnel of 19
is the same as it was in 1918, when
the public utilities in Washington
were one-third of their present
size. 1t was declared the COM
mission needs 35 persons to carry
on competently. Estimates for
1889 carry an appropriation for
an addition of only two.
Keech, referring to his testi-
mony several days ago before the
subcommittee, said the law is not
adequate for regulation of taxi
cabs here.
WOULD REDUCE NUMBER
He declared that the Commis-
sion advocates financial RESPONSE
bility for taxicabs and regulation
of the number of cabs 80 as to
give sufficient service, but not to
clutter up the streets"
Questioned as to his views on
the service rendered by the Capt.
tai Transit Company, Elgen told
the subcommittee that transpor-
tation service here has greatly i'm
prover within the past seven years,
but I'VE cannot say that it is per-
feet"
The question of one-man street
cars was brought up by Represen-
tative Dirksen, who has a bill be-
fore the committee for their elimi-
nation. Members of the commits
sion stated they had no objection
to one-man cars, and that expert
ence in other cities show they are
as safe as tWo-man cars.
The committee recessed and an
Inounced hearings probably will be
resumed "in two or three weeks"
Alo~oI ~ D~o
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
$4,000 Pathe Blast
DESTROYS Old Film

BOUND BROOK, N. j., Jan. 1S
Q.N.SD.-Two explosions followed
by a fire destroyed one building
at the Pathe Film Corp. plant here
yesterday and $4,000 worth Of
scrap and old positive film stored
there.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18

Mrs. Harry Woodring, wife Of
the Secretary of War, was re-
ported resting comfortably" at
Walter Reed Hospital today.
Expected to leave the hospital
within a few days, Mrs. Woodring
entered the institution primarily
for a rest. A luncheon she was
to have given for Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt yesterday was can
celed.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18
House Probe Flags
Token Sales Rule
Of 6 for SO Gents
time Saving Explanation of d. c. Utilities
Board Declared SpeciOuS

The Public Utilities Commission put the carpet today
by the House District Public Utilities subcommittee for fail
ing to give local riders the benefit of of three
tokens for 25 cents instead of six for 50 cents.
The Washington times., 1938-01-18

Saves steps for weary room seekers
E. Barbara Holmes highlights attTac-
tive, "hOmey" rooms Ghe has seen and
recommends in preferred locations all
over town. Read her column on the
Classified PAGE
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
Bruckart's Washington Digest
President Irked by Ceorgia's
Refusal to Alter Constitution
State Will Get No More Money From Federal Govern.
ment; Possibilities of Staggering Burdens of
Taxation Pointed Out by Hoover and Byrd
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg Washington D. c.

WASHINGTON. - The state of
Georgia has a provision in its state
constitution that effectively prevents
an accumulation of state debt. 1t is
one of the few states having such
a constitutional inhibition of that
kind. But the fact that such a pro-
vision exists in Georgia suddenly
has become momentous in the eyes
and minds of the New Dealers
headed by the President, himself.
Because it is in the news, however,
Mr.. RooSevelt's criticism of the pro-
vision forces a review of the facts
and implications flowing from that
charter provision.
Mr.. Roosevelt said recently while
sojourning at Warm Springs, Ca.
as he does frequently, that Georgia
Will get no more federal money.
His particular peeve at Georgia re-
suited from the fact that the state
has not amended its constitution to
permit it to borrow directly from
agencies of the federal government
as most other states have done
with federal money flowing like
streams at flood. The President was
disgusted with Georgia's attitude;
hence, the federal government is all
through with giving the state more
money.
Of course, it is only my opinion
the opinion of only one observer
but it nevertheless strikes me that
in years to come, the citizens of
many states will have cause to re-
gret the absence of such provisions
from their respective state>constitu-
tions. 1t is only a question of time.
Politicians and over-zealouS advo-
Gates of improvements and the
like have been rushing to the fed
eral feed trough in droves, carrying
away checks. They have borrowed
billions from the national govern
ment; they have received grants or
gifts of other billions for the coun-
try as a whole on condition that
they put up additional funds to
match or equal the federal gift, and
they, in consequence, now are load
ed down with debt. So, 1 say there
will be cause for regret that so few
states have the same provision as
Georgia has when the time comes
for payment. There must be taxa
tion if the debts are paid, or there
must be that awful thing, repudia-
ton.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08

which organized the bulk Of steel
plants, was defeated 1,200 to 400
in one American Rolling Mill labor
election.
If profit-sharing could be extend
ed. most U. S. industrialists believe
employees would be better salts
fed, employment would become less
huctuant, and our national financial
picture would be improved. In
Washington, a senate finance SUBJ
committee investigating the plan
was recently told it would be IAN
unbeatable defense of the capital
istic system"
Members of this committee are
Michigan's Sen. Arthur Vandenberg
and Iowa's Sen. Clyde Herring.
Their purpose is to unearth facts
about proft-sharing merits and find
methods of expanding it. The long
range ambition is to make the work
ing man more prosperous and more
able to bear a share Of the U. S. tax
load. Thus, by splitting its profits,
industry would help itself by win
ming a more equitable division Of
tax burden.
But an expansion Of proft-sharing
must come either voluntarily or
through government insistence, and
voluntary adoption of the plan by
industry would be long. discour-
aging battle of coaxing and educa-
ton. Though neither committee
member yet advocates it. both SEN
atorS Vandenberg and Herring have
been feeling out sentiment on an
incentive taxation" plan. Under it
the government would give tax cred
its to profit-sharing concerns, mean
while penalizing non-conforming
firms. Tax credits might be given
on employers social security pay
ments, though the mere mention of
such tampering with social security
has already aroused protest from
administration sources.
Most of the committees wit
nesses have gone on record oppos-
ing the incentive tax" because it
would impose either reward or pen
atty for an employers decision on
a matter which should be entirely
voluntary. Loudest supporter has
been Walter D. Fuller, president of
the Curtis Publishing company, who
wants more liberal tax treatment
to stimulate re-employment He
also thinks industrial plant expan-
sion will follow if employers are al
lowed to charge off more on depre-
citation than at present thereby en-
coura ging early replacement of pres
ent obsolete equipment.
Labor's opinion has been ex-
pressed by William Green, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, who naturally favors profit
sharing provided it does not tend
to replace collective bargaining.
This issue may be the battle-ground
on which proft-sharing plans rise
or fall. since collective bargaining
is based on compulsion rather than
cooperation. Before adopting the
proft-sharing principle. many indus
trialists would demand that the
threatening club of organized labor
be removed.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
Presidents Statement May
Be CleUer Political Moue

l am in no position to know wheth-
er the failure of Georgia to obey the
Roosevelt command entered into the
discourse that has since become an
issue. Nor am I well enough ac-
quainted with New Deal plans to say
whether the President has taken his
first step for 1910 convention dele
gates in this way. 1t is possible,
obviously, that the Warm Springs
statement may be a clever politi-
cal move. Think of it this way: by
starting row, the President posi-
bly, could be laying the groundwork
for uniting the anti-George forces.
If they are united and fighting, it is
within the realm of possibilities that
they could take the Georgia delega-
tion out of Senator Georges con-
troll in 1910. That would be great
victory for the radical element Of
the Democratic party.
Then, too, the Warm Springs dec
laration may be designed to have an
effect on the forthcoming congress.
l think it goes without saying that
the new congress is going to be
very much different than that which
it supplants. For one thing, there
will be less-very much less-mon-
ey voted for the administration to
use as it sees fit. There will be a
bloody battle before congress again
writes out blank checks for Hopkins
or Harold Ickes to use. 1t is likely,
indeed, that there will be some rath-
er rigorous investigations of things
already done under the blank check
appropriations of money. If the in
vestigations are thorough, there will
be a stencil rise from the committee
room where the job is done. Thus,
if Mr. Roosevelt hopes, by the Warm
Springs statement, to awaken a
fresh thirst for money among local
politicians throughout the country,
it may be piece of clever politics.
Whatever the purpose of the criti-
cism of the Georgia prohibition
against borrowing, it can not alter
the fundamentals of the situation.
Georgia, as a state, is better off. 1t
will be far better off 10 years from
now when the country has sorted out
the good things of the New Deal and
put them to proper use. Its citizens
will be happier and less burdened
with taxation at a time when the
people of Pennsylvania, for exam
LIE, are using profane language
about paying for needless and use
less improvements" a state of
mind they surely will reach as soon
as they have forgotten the mouth
ings of politicians and have begun
to pay through the nose.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
International

One day lis years ago, President
James Monroe stuck out his chin
against the "holy alliance" then
threatening the world in general and
South America in particular. His
statement: I'VE could not view an
interposition for expressing them
(the Spanish-American republics) or
controlling in any other manner
their destiny, by any European pow
er, in any other light than as a man.
Hesitation of an unfriendly disposi-
ton toward the United States"
In the century that followed, the
U. S. has clung tenaciously to its
Monroe doctrine, sometimes blush
ing guiltily at charges of dollar
diplomacy" in South America. But
in 1893 there has arisen a threat far
greater than the holy alliance,
namely, the Fascist-Nazi trium-
virate of Germany, Italy and Japan.
How far these nations have pene-
trated into South America is debata-
BILE. but few observers deny the
threat. Though the triumvirate may
have no territorial ambitions in Pan
America, it is significant that Nazi-
Fascist foreign trade success runs
hand in hand with political success.
Diplomat and commercial salesman
are often one and the same person.
U. S. weapons to fight this ag-
gression are trade agreements, a
Pan-Amrican league of nations"
and co-ordinated Western hemi-
sphere defense. To offer these weap-
ons, U. S. delegation is attending
the eighth Pan-American conference
in Lima, Peru, which opens stra-
logically at time when American
nations are anxious to air their trou.
bles. Notably included in the U. S.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
Foreign

= Snugly ensconced in his Bavarian
mountain aerie at Berchtesgaden,
Adolf Hitler can await Christmas
morning knowing his stocking will
be full. Established in 1888 as the
master of Europe, Der Fuehrer is
now able to sit back and watch the
spoils of his diplomatic and military
conquests mount throughout Eu-
rope. Among the latest spoils:
Cd Little Czechoslovakia, reduced
to vassaldom, has agreed to let Ger
many build two canals and a super
highway across her, connecting Ger
many proper with Austria via a new
short route. Both canals Zone on
the Moldau, the other on the ODER
will join with the Danube river and
furnish an unbroken waterway from
the North and Baltic seas to the
Black sea. Thus will Hitler's eco-
nomic grip on central Europe be
strengthened.
CD With Great Britain definitely
frightened, Hitler has won a peace
treaty with Britain's ally, France,
whereby a barrier is erected be-
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
Can Washington Horn in
On a States Policies?

There is yet another element in
volved in the situation precipitated
by Mr.. Roosevelt's Warm Springs
statement. 1t involves the question,
directly, whether state shall de-
termine its own policies or have
them dictated from Washington.
Only few days ago, the depart
ment of labor disclosed that it was
trying to persuade all of the states
to paS legislation exactly like the
federal law governing wages and
hours of workers. The departments
bureaucrats have drafted model
law which they are trying eagerly to
get the states to adopt, so that busi-
ness within a state will be subjected
to the same provisions as business
operating across state lines. That
same course was pursued when NRA
was young and bfore it was discov-
cred that the blue eagle had more
feathers in one wing than it had in
the other.
These things are dangerous. Once
such tactics are successful, they are
followed by demands and commands
of broader scope.
G Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08

group is Alfred NJ. Landon, 1886
Republican presidential nominee,
which indicates that political par
ties are willing to confne their op-
position to domestic affairs when
Western hemisphere security is in
volved.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
has already memorized his propos-
ais, but his presentation will be
staged so elaborately that South
American nations themselves will
voice the plans. Reason: If the
U. S. were to take outright lead in
defending the Western hemisphere,
the dollar diplomacy" charge
would again appear. That Mr.. Hull
will succeed in solidifying Pan
America is conceded by most OBJ
servers, who recall that in 1888 he
injected an incredible spirit of opti-
mism into the forlorn Montevideo
conference.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
Must Be Additional
Taxation, or Reputation

Former President Hoover has had
much to say about the waste that
has been going on, and has coupled
those observations with the posSibil-
tiles of staggering burdens of taxa
ton. So has Sen. Harry Byrd, Dem
ocrat, of Virginia. Mr.. Hoover's
criticisms have been laughed off by
the administration here because Mr.
Hoover is a Republican. Senator
Byrd's jibes have been pooh-poohed
because he has insisted on sound
government and has been frequently
anti-New Deal. But Mr.. Hoover and
Senator Byrd each have stressed a
little noted phase of potentialities
inherent in the situation. They have
talked about moral codes.
Now, it appears, as 1 said above,
there must be additional taxation to
meet these loans whether from the
federal government or from private
borrowers) or there must be repudi-
alton. Reputation is simply and
plainly refusal to pay a debt. Re-
fusal to pay an honest debt makes
deadbeats.
In the light of these facts, l want
to make ? little prediction. 1 am
going to predict that there will be
movements in many states within
10 years to have the federal govern
must relinquish its claims against
those states; to have congress pass
legislation that will say to the states,
in effect, "Just tear up the papers
and we will tear up your notes and
bonds and forget about the whole
thing" Politicians of the unsavory,
demagogic type will leap onto such
a thought and shout from the house
tops of every community in the state
that the federal government-tha
great and rich government-ought
to forego collection. They will have
all kinds of arguments why it ought
to be done, but their real reason
for doing so will be to obtain votes
for their own election to office. They
will be saying to the people that it
will not be reputation if the fed
eral government says it does not
desire to collect; yet, it is my con-
tention that such proceedings will
be thoroughly dishonest. 1t will be
exactly the same as if the state had
said: | won't paw,
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
Lonely North Carolina Tonon
Marks Christmas January 5

p ODANTHE, N. c.. easternmost
IN town in America, celebrates
Christmas twice each year. New
Christmas comes December 25 but
just as regularly on January the
inhabitants of this isolated town OBJ
serve "Old" Christmas, a carry-over
from the days before our current
calendar was generally accepted.
Christmas trees must be imported,
for Rodanthe has only one tree (see
below, gnarled oak. But the kids
enjoy this plan, because Santa Claus
visits them twice. Their parents,
fishermen and coastguardsmen on an
island that is little more than a shift
ing sand dune, participate enthusias-
tically in both celebrations. But
around Old Christmas centers most
of the tradition