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The times-news., 1938-11-08
BEHIND THE SCENES
5E.% m WASHINGTON
az RODNEY BUTCHER

"Well, come on up to the office
and we'll talk it over"
I'm in Milwaukee," was the re-
ply. .,
WHAT" yelled the man on this
end. 1--WE spent $50 telephoning
for a two-cent speech. ! thought
you were in Washington!'
ICE has been selling in Washing
= ton at ten dollars a pound,
thanks to the super sslesmanship
of Jim Moran, who recently pub
licized the ice business by selling
an ice-box to all Eskimo in Alaska.
Mr.. Moran brought back 220
pounds of glacier ice, which he
says is 10000, 900 years old. Every
body in Alaska laughed at him.
Promptly, however, ice-man
Moran sold two 20-pound chunks
al $3.50 per chunk. one to an ice
company in Washington and the
other to Baltimore fellow.
Then Moran decided he was a
sucker to be selling Ice at $3.50
pound and raised the price to $40.
He confidently expects to move The
rest at that figure. The idea is
that ice dealers stick their own
ice into windoN $dispays along
side Moran ice and prove by ther-
mometers and other devices that
their ice is just as good, though
younger. t3 a1H
.sf ,-, 8 - 50. aygt
CoCIAL SECURITY BOARD,
- now paying out small lump
sums in old age insurance claims
to account-holderS recently de-
ceased, recently paid identical
claims on the death of two male
twins. The record showed they
were born Sept. 2; 1904, remained
unmarried, received identical
wages and both diet Oct. 4, 1888
The only nther thing the record
said was inquest pending" posi-.
bly, indicating a fatal automobile
accident. -.
copyright. 1898; NEA Service. Inc.i
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BEREA

; BEREA. Nov. '8.-Mr. and Mrs.
Woodson Drake visited the latter's
sister, Mrs. Jane Pace, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Newell Saltz visit
ed this week at the home of Mrs.
Lockeby. ,.... 4,
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Capps and
children, and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Capps and family were dinner
guests at the home of their mo-
ther, Mrs. Volney Pace, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Camp have
moved from this community to
the Middleton place.
Mr., and Mrs. Iron Camp have
moved into the house which Harry
Camp Vacated.
Frank King has gone to Florida
for the winter, Where he has a po-
sition packing fruit.
The small son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Julian Capps, who has been ill
with flu, is improving.
Mrs, Wheeler Tankersley of
Mount Olivet, spent Monday with
her daughter, Mrs. Capps.
Mrs. Devine Camp visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Lum King
this week. I., - -
Mrs. Charlie Garren of West
HendefsOnville, made a business
trip to this community Monday.
The times-news., 1938-11-08
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service staf Correspondent

Observation-Disclosures Of
w radio for evil as we'll as good
were known to politicians long
before the "invasion from Mars
broadcast which scared so many
citizens.
One of the most recent lessons
was learned this year by Senator
F. Ryan Duffy, Wisconsin Demo-
crat.
Some nice fellows came to Duffy
and said they wanted to put him
and his family on a national hook
up in program displaying "a day
in the life of a senator" This
sounded like a good opportunity
for pleasant publicity and Senator
Duffy was up for reelection. So
Senator and Mrs. Duffy and the
younger Duffys let the boys bring
the equipment out to their Wash
ington home and graciously did
their stuff. ......
The story doubtless would have
had happy ending if the perpe-
traitors of the program hadn't
brought the family's Japanese SER
want into it.
When Duffy's Irish supporters,
backbone of Wisconsin's Demo-
cratic party, heard about the jap
anese, many were convinced the
senator had gone high-hat. Why
wasn't hired girl good enough
for Ryan Duffy? And Duffy's day
in the life of a senator" became
a net political loss. a
Is
A HIGH party official at Demo
"a cratic headquarters asked his
secretary to get an important cam
, paign speaker on the telephone
through the switchboard. The
two men differed as to where the
latter should appear next ano
argument went on at great length
and finally concluded: m..
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about. Mr.. Andrews mas thfee
square meals a day. Possibly the
$4,000 discharged persons do not.
But perhaps Mr.. Andrews never
said it.
There is the happy medium; if
you go above it or below it, you
run into difficulty. IF wages get
too high and hours too short,
there is developed an irresistible
incentive for the invention and
the employment Of more and
more labor-saving devices; and if
wages get. too low and hours too
long, human misery is multiplied.
This whole economic question is
like every other question in hu-
man lifc-it can never be worked
out to perfection; there should al
ways be flexibility-give and
take. And whenever Il fundamen-
tai principle or an established
practice is changed, look out for
unforeseen complications.
The wages may have been too
low and the hours too long in
those industries which discharged
The times-news., 1938-11-08
SHORT QUOTES: While block
By NOAH HOLLOWELL

ing the bank door: Harry Buc-
hanan expresses the hope that
business houses will close and OBJ
serve Armistice Day when every
body seems to want to fight but
America" Ross Sutherland
tells Mr.. Buchanan movies are
showing better pictures than dur
ing tourist season; admitted with
explanation that good pictures are
released according to seasons -.
Mr.. Sutherland suggests that this
department join the big Pisgah
Forest hunt for something worth
writing about Columbia Broad
casting System is preparing to
broadcast the hunt E. Jimmy Dun
planning to sell more Purol prod
ucts with Dale Carnegie's famous
book about making friends and
infIuening people under his arm.
Mr.. Duff doesn't fancy some
The times-news., 1938-11-08

900 employees be-
cause, they say,
it is more eco
nomical to in
stall to b a c c o
stemm in & m a
chinery than to
have the work
done by hand,
under the terms
Of the wage-hour
law. Mr.. An
d r. e " 8, W a & e.
hour administra-
tor, is reported
to have said that
he sees nothing
to get excited
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can give him the most for his
money. The least efficient will
not be employed. What is to be-
come Of them? If I am too old or
infrm to earn the wage prescrlb,,
ed by law, who will hire me? And
if no one will hire me at the
wage prescribed by the govern
ment. then will the government
take care Of me?
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CoRRECTS PROSECUTOR

. DALLAS, Tex. (UP)-Police
for years have been arresting mo-
florists for. driving their automo-
plies through filling station drive
ways. The other day, an alleged
,Woiator" of the Claw" demanded
that the city prosecutor show him
the ordinance. The prosecutor,
unable to find the ordinance, ad-
mitted that it was not on the
The times-news., 1938-11-08
BIBLE THOUGHT
"SMALL THINGS. Czech. 4:l0)

It is the little words you speak, the little thoughts
yon think sre little things you do or leave uhdone,
the little moments you waste or use wisely the
LITTLE temptations which you yield to or overcome
the little things of every day that are making or
m.rrinr your future life.--The Pilot.
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Those dictators who won't play with the
muitiiateral trade treaties OF, the United
States should know there will be no half
way measures. It's the Hull way or moth
ing.
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DICTATOR WARNING TO WEAK MAY
, - LATER INCLUDE STRONG NtA "
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,.,,,raso,tod nv tho trn,nph of the Fascist
-, - E,,roro has baen cbautes q, much
Ia.oI,, tbot a number of good Americans
orc octtino 2 hit weary and are asking why
soroaone doesn't put on a new record. a-
That reaction is onlv natural. 1t is nat
praI too for Americans 10 wonder if the
nar;I isn't nrettv much exagperated. After
alI tbe Atlantic ocean is still wide, and
what goes on inside the borders of such a
country as Germany, for instance, isn't any
of our business; why should we lose any
slcep over the fact that Fascisrn grows
stronger rather than weaker on its own
houR. oround.o
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The times-news., 1938-11-08

The first day the new wage
hour law went into effect, 10000
persons were discharged. Tobacco
stemming factories are said to
The times-news., 1938-11-08

Thomas E. Dewey promises to provide
food, homes and work for everyone. If
he'll deliver on the first two promises, he
might be permitted to forget the third. -
The times-news., 1938-11-08

Thanks to the recent publicity given the
cause of Mayor Hague, the men from Mars
were able to avoid Jersey City in landing
in New Jersey.
The times-news., 1938-11-08

A New Jersey society protests swinging
Bach music, thus starting Bach to nor:
halcy'' movement. o..,..t ...
The times-news., 1938-11-08

Dalrymen of Argentina have
asked government aid in selling
butter abroad. -. s...r
The times-news., 1938-11-08

D. Hartley W. Barclay. Editor Mill and Factory,
Magazine Of New York City. 81.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
PED mExico's PROGRAM

T., conn.e,ion With John L. Lewis and the New
Deal - %
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
Crippled
Judge Reads Traffic
Story to Court

The poignant story of a 49,
year-old mother whose 4-year-old
son, victim of a reckless auto
mobile driver, will never walk
again, was read to a room full of
traffic ViolaterS by Judge John P.
Mcmahon in Police Court yester.
day.
1t was a condensed magazine
article entitled crippled" Deep
silence prevailed in the courtroom
as the judge read the 700-word
story describing the suffering OF
the young mother and her child
"This is just one example,"
Judge Mcmahon concluded, "of
the misery and suffering caused
by thoughtless and careless
motorists"
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
Tornado Death List Grows

Owen J. Mullins, boilermaker,
dove into the firebox of the engine
he was repairing and slammed
the door after him.
The black twister spun out Of
the Southwest into Illinois and
struck first near Timewell and
Mt. Sterling. Roaring up the
Illinois River valley it tossed a
car bearing two women into a
ditch near Deer Creek, bowled
over the chimney of the hospital
at Rushville and scooted through
Liberty, Kellerville, Morton and a
number of other small villages,
inflicting a varying amount Of
damage.
With power lines d own and
many of the roads blocked by
fallen trees, information as to the
extent of the disaster filtered out
slowly,
The Washington times., 1938-03-31

wore and in many cases these had
been battered by the screaming
wind.
The tornado struck in South
Pekin with sudden fury. The first
many knew windows crashed in
and bricks began tumbling about
their heads. 1t was almost as if an
earthquake had struck.
QUICK HAVOC; LONG WAIT
The wild sweep of the twister
took it across the town in little
more than five minutes. Lines of
communication were snapped and
it was nearly an hour before word
Of the disaster reached surround
ing towns and aid could be mus
tered.
A company Of $50 National
Guardsmen and police reserves
from Pekin and Peoria hurried
there to maintain order and pre-
vent looting. Automobiles still in
commission were Communicated
to rush the injured to hospitals.
The public hospital at Pekin was
quickly filled and the overflow
were put on mattresses in the
halls.
CRUEL FREAKISHNESS
AS weird as fiction were the
tales of the storms macabre
whimsy. A country school house
near Mt. Sterling was lifted 100
feet from its foundation with a
teacher and IL children inside.
None were seriously injured when
it crashed back to earth. One
child was whirled nearly quarter
of mile and dropped near the
site of his own home, which had
been scattered piecemeal.
In South Pekin, workers in the
Chicago and Northwestern Rail
roads roundhouse saved them
selves by crawling under the
locomotives. Even these heavy
monsters shook and trembled.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
POLAR EXPLORER.
IS ACCUSED OF.
TAXING RECORDS.
Papanin Reported Ir
Disgrace in Russia

OLSO, Norway, March 81
G.N.SO.-The Afterposten leading
Olso newspaper, reported today
that Ivan Papanin, leader of the
Soviet meteorological expedition
recently rescued after being ma
rooned for a year in the Arctic, is
"in disgrace"
The newspaper said Papaniu
had been accused of taking" IS
per cent of the scientific data sup.
posedly accumulated at the polar
station and of failing to take
proper steps to prevent the ice
floe on which his party was based
from floating toward America"
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
REPORTS DIFFER

The report appearing in the
Oslo Aftenposten created sur
prise and was directly at variance
with recent dispatches from Mos
cow telling of an investigation
into the Soviet Northern Sea
Route Administration, which con-
trolls all Russian activities in the
Arctic.
At that time, it was stated
Papanin had been honored by ap-
pointment as chief assistant to
Professor Otto Y. Schmidt, noted
explorer and scientist and direc'
tor of the administration.
BUNGLING CHARGED
Schmidt himself was not men
toned in connection with the in
veStigation, but the council OF
peoples commisSars charged that
the administration was shot
through with anti-Stalinist wreck
ing activities.
Members of the administration
were accused of grave nisman-
Iagement," as a result of which half
of the Soviet polar fleet was
threatened with destruction be.
cause it had been dispatched, will
fully or negligently, into danger.
GUS ice-locked areas.
Papanin and his three compan-
ions were accorded a tumultuous
reception when they returned to
Moscow recently after their rescue.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
APARTMENT LOOTED

Verna williams, of 1927 Twenty
eighth st. N. w., told police today
that $235 worth of clothing and
jevelry was taken by thieves who
jinmied the door to an apartment
she shares at that address with
Louise Stitch. Part of the loot,
she said, was the property Of her
roommate.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
ADVERTIsENGENT
Don't Neglect a Cold

Rub soothing, warming Musterole
well into your chest and throat
Musterole is NOT Just . sslye. It's
a ~cOunteT-iFFitaRk'e containing.
good old-fashioned cold Ternedies
oil of mustard, menthol, caEnphnR
and other valuable ingredients
That's why it gets such fine rslilts
better than the old-fashioned mus
tard plaster. Musterole penetz
stimulates, warns and soothes, Aelp
full in drawing out local cong non
and pain. Used by millions t0f NJ
wears, Recommended by many doe
tors and nurses. All druggists ~
three strengths: Regular Stren
Children's (mildl, and Extra StEDn&
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
Summon Steals
Officers Summons

The summons that U. S. Mar
shall Gordon B. Green can't serve
just can't be found-and neither
can Marshal Green's overcoat.
The overcoat, containing the
unserved summons, was stolen by
summon" who broke open the
lock on Marshal Green's automo-
bile which he told police he parked
on lot at John Marshall Place
and Indiana Avenue Northwest
late yesterday.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
They Tell How
To Live Long

BALTIMORE, March 81
U.N.S0.-Keep away from
energy.yielding calOries when
you are young and you will
live 80 years beyond the
three score and ten, Cornell
University scientists told the
American Association of Nu-
triton today.
Drs. c. M. McCay, L. A.
Maynard and c. Sperling
based their prediction on ex-
periments they conducted
with white rats.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
SUDDEN DARKNESS

afternoon.
SUDDEN DARKNESS
One instant it was day. The
next it was night. The wind began
to screech and the children to
whimper with fear before could
get the lights on.
never had a chance to. Rain
beat against the walls with clat-
tering noise like pebbles, but the
sound was drowned out almost as
quickly as though by the roaring
rush of the wind.
The walls began shaking and I
told the children to lie on the
floor. Everything was happening
too fast for me to be greatly
frightened.
And then the whole building
lifted right into the air!
The roof tore off and the walls
splintered. The roaring was all
around us. An instant later we
fell back with a terrific jar.
I pulled myself from the pile of
debris. We were nearly 100 feet
from the foundation Of the school.
I was terribly shaken, bruised
and cut, I found out later, but I
didn't realize anything then. The
first thing thought Of was the
children.
Broken desks, chairs, the black
boards and other stuff was all
around me.
The children started popping up
out of the wreckage and from
the field as far as 1000 feet
away.
NONE BADLY HURT
1t seemed incredible they had
lived. But it was a miracle that
none were badly hurt.
We started counting noses and
I could only account for IL.
tried counting again, but there
was still one missing. 1t was
little Noriand Hatch. He's IL.
We searched everywhere but he
couldn't be found.
BY a freak he had been carried
nearly a quarter of a mile and
dropped on the ground almost
without harm just a stones throw
from where his own home had
been. It was scattered over 80
acres, but his mother and three
other children were safe in the
cellar.
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muSh. An instant later the
roof was swept away.
SSEIUTTT 0ES NST UHMYC FNRFWNY<S 60
GULL OF FLYING

II decided to try it outside
again-I felt it couldn't be any
more dangerous. But the street
was filled with flying things. Au-
tomobiles were being tossed and
banged into buildings. Parts of
houses, chairs, lamps, beds and
all manner of furnishings
bounced along the street or
literally flew through the air."
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
DEATH TOLL MOUNTING

DEATH TOLL MOUNTING
The death toll already stood at
81, with hundreds more injured,
many of them SO seriously it was
feared they could not survive long.
By States the dead were:
IllinoiS-11.
Kansas.
Arkansas.
Missouri.
Nearly a score were injured in
Oklahoma, but none fatally.
Property damage, spread over
flattened 70-mile strip in Illinois
alone, was incalculable for the
time being.
The little town of South Pekin,
where eight died, was literally
blown off the map. Out Of ap-
proximately 80 buildings there
only two were left upright today.
Stores, homes, churches, schools,
all were a jumbled mass Of brick
and splintered timbers, shattered
glass and twisted steel.
Nothing worse than this was
ever seen overseas" said Richard
Apsel, commander of the Pekin
Post of the American Legion, one
Of the many groups taking part in
the rescue work.
With all light poles down the
feeling of utter desolation was
heightened for the uninjured
townspeople returning during the
night to salvage what few belong
ingS they could.
Farmhouses for miles around
were crowded with the refugees.
They poured into Pekin and even
in Peoria for shelter. They had
nothing left but the clothes they
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
Gale Survivor
Sees Friend
Killed

PEKIN, ILL.,, March 81 QNSo
The devastating tornado which
ripped through the little town of
South Pekin left the walls of only
two buildings upright today. One
was the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroads roundhouse, the
other was the community building.
Scores of homeless vic tim S
sought shelter in them both
during the night; but, at the
height of the storm, they seemed
as precariouS as any other Struc-
ture.
UNDER LOCOMOTIVES
Leroy Lock, 20, an apprentice
machinist, was at work in the
roundhouse when the twister
struck. He said:
eddie Fieffer. the foreman,
and IS other men were there
with me. Eddie saw the storm
coming and he yelled at US all
to get under the locomotives.
We dived for it.
"Hillie johnson was en- the
other side of the room and
couldn't quite make it. The
roof came off and we saw Hillie
20 down under a falling beam.
The lights went out and it was
almost pitch black.
1.-THE locomotives shook as II
they were travelling 80 miles an
hour. I thought sure ours was
coming over on top of us.
guess you know it didn't, or I
wouldn't be here.
VICTIM FOUND DYING
1--WE crawled out when it died
down a mite and dragged Hillie
out. He was dying. Men and
women were running around
outside like they were crazy.
They were bleeding and Stagger-
ing and some had their clothes
mostly ripped off but didn't
seem to realize anything"
What happened in those five
minutes" he said, will always
be just as clear as picture to
me. I can never forget the in
describable horror.
II went back inside when the
wind began to blow so hard it
was difficult to stand against it.
ROOF TORN AWAY
But no sooner was I within
than the windows popped out
like bubbles in a bowl of boiling
The Washington times., 1938-03-31

Beginning Sunday In the Washington
Herald-Times lark OF FIRE"
Hawkins MYSTERY. THRILLS,
TERROR CALI. RE. 1894 for
Home Delivery Of the Sunday Herald
Times containing The American
Weekly.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
By MRS. ELIZABETH PEACOCK
AS Told to International News Servic

MT STERLING, ILL.,. March 3-It doesn't seem real yet;
can hardly believe all alive
was with my II pupils in the little schoohouse
six miles southwest of here when the tornado struck yesterday
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
Teacher Describes
Wild Ride on Wind
With Her II Pupils
Twister Carries SchOOLhOuse 100 Feet,
And Dumps 1t WITH None Hurt

~ Editors Note: Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock country
school teacher RUed through yesterdays tornado to tell
of the srGngest stories related by Victm of
the freak storms Her account of fve minutes IN the
grip of the raging aUindS folIoaOs.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31

The new novel in the Americas
Weekly starting Sunday. ARK Of Fire.
by John Hawkins. "A story ef the rear
1880 about q genius who decided TO wtpS
out war, crime and disease By hoot
Of solar flame Don't miss this faset
mating story. Cell RE. 1894 fer HoIns
Delivery. ~
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
CONTINUED from Page u

ICOnLInueu from Page II
Of searching debris-choked build
ings for the bodies Of additional
victims.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
Moore HOnOred
By Hotel Men

Washington Hotel men met AZ
the Carlton Hotel last night u
honor L. Gardner Moore. who has
headed the washington Hotel
Association two years.
Col. c. C. Schiffeler, general
manager of the Raleigh Hotel. was
POSTMASTER. A pair Of binoculars
was presented to Mr.. Moore.
The Washington times., 1938-03-31

New in conception, it
embodies many of the
principles used in the ia
nous General Electric Oil
Furnace. It burns oil in a
better way. 1t works
automatically. Its safety
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
MwmZam1m mz3HdamA~</

HON'T fail to investigate the amazing
- new General Electric Oil Burner.
1t is a radical improvement-the fruit of
FIVE years of research plus FIVE years of tests.
Atriumph of General Electric engineering skill
The Washington times., 1938-03-31
VICTIM FOUND DYING
ROOF TORN AWAY

But no sooner was I within
than the windows popped out
like bubbles in a bowl of boiling