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The Washington times., 1938-09-12
Prizes ReQdu
For Tips

Quick-witted residents Of Wash
ington, and nearby Maryland and
Virginia, who telephoned stories
Of news value to the paper last
week will receive awards in The
Washington Times Weekly News
tip Contest.
Included are: Tip on the escape
Of five young bandits from the
Warrenton Jail; tip on the divorce
granted Mrs. Malvina Schneider,
secretary to the First Lady. tip
on the plane crash in which q
pilot was killed and his ship
burned; tip on the boat which
blew up in the Potomac River and
the tip on the capture of two mem
bers of the escaped bandit gang.
Other news tips to receive cash
awards include; tip on the acci-
dent in which boy was injured
when struck with a baseball bat; +;
tip on the accident in which a
man was killed by a hit-and-run
truck; tip on the story in which
the Lewis forces demanded the
Tydings headquarters at Kensing-
ton. Nd, be broken up and the
headquarters being guarded by
shotguns, and the tip on the au-
tomobile accident in which three
cars collided.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
SETDEATH TRIAL
At ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA, Va, September
12.-This city'S first murder trial
in several years is set for 10 a. m.
Thursday, when Joseph Arnold,
q, of New Alexandria, will be tried
by a jury of the corporation court
in connection with the death OF
Elmer Lee Stallard, 31-year-old
WPA worker.
Stallard died of a fractured
skull on July 7, five days after a
brawl on the second floor Of a
rooming house in the 400 block
Cameron st.
Commonwealth Attorney AL
bert v. Bryan will attempt to prove
that Arnold knocked Stanard
down a flight Of steps following
an argument over the winnings of
a crap game, Stallard was found
lying on the sidewalk in front Of
the house.
Arnold pleaded not guilty to the
murder charge when arraigned
after being indicted by a special
grand jury of the court on July
18. Miss Ruth Bailey, %, occupant
of the house where the brawl oc-
Cured, has been held as a ma
terial witness.
Stallard, a native of Ashland,
KY, was employed by the WPA
at Fort Belvoir.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
AdOptedSO1
Gets MQd,'
Kills 3

DEER RIVER, Minn., Sept.
12.-Peace officers today
cOmbed q wooded area near
here in search of a 17.year-
old youth suspected Of sIay-
ing his foster parents and
their adopted daughter.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs.
Matt Yama and their 25-
year.OId adopted daughter
were found late yesterday at
their farm home. Each had
been slain with a rifle.
Harry YerS, the adopted
son, left a note tied to a
pump at the farm, author.
tiles said. It read:
II got mad at the folks
and killed them"
Yama's body was found in
the ruins Of the farm house
which had been destroyed By
fire, Sheriff Frank Madison
Of Itasca County said.
The bodies of the women
had been tied to a horse and
dragged into the barn.
Sheriff Madison said Mrs.
Yama had been shot once
and the girl twice.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
DRIVE
AIM OF PASTOR

The city's Christian churches
stood challenged today Ito fight
the dirty, crooked, harmful amuse-
ments in our community"
The call to unite against "the
moral plague spots" was sounded
yesterday by the Rev. William H.
Moody, rector Of st. Marks EpiS-
copal Church.
DR.. Moody told his congregation
the resorts, the bars, the gam
bling denS, and such places of
questionable amusement are be-
coming more and more plentiful
and bold in this town."
ITO root out" such places, DR..
Moody admitted, is a grim, hard
task" AS an example of what
can be accomplished, however, DR..
Moody pointed to recent activities
Of ian honest, fearless grand
jury" of New York. He said:
THE people who run these
rackets here and elsewhere are
cashing in on them in a big
way"
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
Anniversary Fete
For Federal Workers

Maryland and Virginia members
will join the District of Columbia
delegation in celebrating the
twentyfirSt anniversary of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal EN-
ployes Saturday night at the May.
flower Hotel, the organization
announced today.
Included among visitors who
will pay tribute to President
Luther c. Steward and Secretary
Treasurer Gertrude M. McNally,
are two national vice presidents,
John Fitzgerald, of New York, and
Charles L. Wiegand. of Maryland.
Arrangements are being made by
a committee headed by Henry G.
Nolda, prominent Veterans Ad-
miniStration employe.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
."PANTS" Thief
BY
WOMAN H E R E
Southeast Burglars
Hunted by Police

A young washington woman TO-
day surprised the pants burg
lars" In an attempt to burglarize
her home and thus prodded po-
lice into an intensive combing Of
the Southeast section in quest Of
the pair.
Meanwhile police were haraSsed
by q new outbreak Of taxicab and
bus holdups and a series Of house
bEeakings. A comely red.headed
girl was being sought as an &C
complice in one Of the taxicab
robberieS.
SAW MAN FLEE
Miss Clara CASTOR. Of 2l33
Thirty-second st. N. W.. told po-
licN she was awakened in her
second-floor sleeping room by the
thud Of something thrown against
a basement window.
Throwing UP her window, Miss
CASTOR said she saw q man flee
ing through the dawn gloom. In
vestigation revealed q screen had
been pried loose and Q paper
wrapped rock thrown against the
glass.
NeighborS said they saw q
colored man run to q parked car
and flee with another man at the
wheel. In q lookout broadcast to
all scout cars the men were de-
Scribed as the pants burglars"
who have kept police on the
jump for q long period.
RED-HEAD BANDIT
The red-hesd girl bandit and q
male companion hailed Henry d.
CurtiSs, 27, of the 1000 block of
George Avenue last night and
told him to drive north on Six
teenth Street Northwest. Later
they forced him at gunpoint to
drive near an isolated Takoma
Park section and there beat him
over the head with the gun. They
fled on foot with his SIS earnings.
Capitol Transit bus driver Rob
ert L. Woody. of the 900 block Of
st. s. w., was robbed of $40 in
cash, and tokens by lone gunman
who held him up in a deserted sec
ton near Eastern Avenue and
Rhode Island Avenue Northeast.
DRIVERS ROBBED
James Allen, jr., %, colored cab
driver, Of 318 New York Ave-, was
robbed Of 81 by two colored fares
who pressed q knife in his back
at Twenty-fourth Street and Ala
bama Avenue Southeast, he told
dpolice.
Another cab driver victim was
James H. Polend, 80, of the $500
block Of N. st. N. w., who was
robbed at gunpoint at Fourteenth
and @ Streets Northwest Of 50 by
two white passengers.
Numerous other minor house
breakingS and footpad robberies
occupied police.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
International Photos
JOHN DOLANCHUK-MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
He Seems Destined to Remain Aboard Ship

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.AA man
without a country-a man who
even land in France, Ger
the United States, Great
Britain or Canada-will probably
sail from New York harbor again
Wednesday after three round
trips on the same ship.
John Dolanchuk, 43, tall gray
ing man without homeland and
with a baffled look in his eyes,
PAGES the deck of the U. s. liner
President Roosevelt-wondering II
he is destined forever to remain
adrift.
Dolanchuk stands as q symbol
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
|. Q. Answers
Questions on Page g.

Questions on Page 81
l. Post card is an unStamped
card with a picture on one side.
Postal card is the card bought
at postoffice with a stamp
printed on it. 2. (a) Capitalist
who promoted submarine tele-
graphy; CD American author Of
children's poems; (c) merchant.
8. Andes. 4. (b). S. Cupfuls. :.
True. Z. Formerly distress sig
nal now replaced by SOS. 8.
(a). 9. 1t was Sunday. Two days
between Thursday and Sunday,
and between Wednesday and
Sunday. "When the day after
tomorrow (TueSday) Is yeSter-
day, today wednesday, will be
as far from Sunday, when the
day before yesterday (Friday)
was tomorrow (today was Thurs
day."
The Washington times., 1938-09-12

of the shifts in the map Of Eu-
rope, the sort Of shifts which
today threaten q conflict. He Is
a victim Of q technicality growing
out of the Versailles Treaty 19
years ago. He was born in Hatna,
then part of Austria. But he did
not apply for Rumanian citizen.
when Hatna was taken over BY
the Bucharest government. After
1888 he was unable to do so.
So he became a man without
a country, adrift between ports
at the mercy Of the map-makers
who juggle mems deStinies when
they tinker with frontier.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
DR.. Keene Awarded
Harvard Scholarship

DR.. Jesse A. Keene, member Of
the surgical staff Of Freedmens
Hospital for many years, has been
awarded a scholarship in the Har-
ward School of Public Health
through the recommendation of
DR.. Cecil Drinker, dean of Har-
ward University, and will enter
upon his postgraduate studies this
month.
DR.. Keene is a native of Wash
ington and was educated here. His
home is at 636 Twelfth st. N. E.
He will specialize in a study of
veneral diseases.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
SUICIDE PACT.
OF PAIR BARES
ILLICIT LOVE.

NEW YORK, Sept. IL 0.N.S).
Clandestine love that couldn't sur
mount the obstacle of an eStranged
and ailing husband today was
believed responsible for a suicide
pact that left the bullet-torn
bodies of pretty Bronx librarian
and her athlete-admirer lying on
the sands Of Long Island beach.
A rustic cabin at Peconic Bay in
which the couple apparently
toasted death with liquor, pro-
vided the background for the
tragedy in which Mrs. Jeneau
Weed, 20, and B. N. Klante, 20,
have been identified as the vic
Tins. The dead woman formerly
lived in Boulder, Colo.
IN BATHING SUITS
Clad in bathing suits. the bodies
rested side by side in front Of the
cottage which the couple rented
Saturday night.
Across the mans knee was a
.22-caliber rifle. Clutched in the
right hand of the girl was a box
Of cartridges for the weapon. And
nearby were empty bottles, indi-
eating to authorities that the sui
eide plotters carried iquoI with
them for final fortification.
The young woman was shot
three times, twice in the leg and
once in the head. A single shot,
preliminary examination revealed,
ended the mans life.
WOMAN MARRIED
Discovery that Mrs. Weed was
married provided police with a
theory as to the reason for the
tragedy.
Her husband, a musician, is
socially prominent Harvey Weed,
jr., son of socially prominent Mrs.
Harvey Weed, of Stamford, Conn.
Weed, it was indicated in papers
found in the young woman's suit
case, is confined in a Connecticut
Institution.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
Briton Will
Seek Accord
With Henlein
Lord Runciman To
Confer With Leader
of Sudeten Group In
Czechoslovakia

Praha, Czechoslovakia, Aug. 49,
(AP)-A foreign office official dis
closed today that meeting had been
arranged between Viscount Runciman
unofficial British mediator in the
troublesome Czechoslovak minority
question, and Konrad Henlein, leader
of the autonomy-seeking Sudeten Ger
man minority.
It will be the first direct contact
between Henlein and Runciman. Il
was understood Lord Runciman would
plead that the Sudeten Germans take
less uncompromising attitude in
negotiations with the Czechoslovak
government over demands for au-
tonOmy.
It was revealed the matter of pres
tige featured feelings to bring about
the conference, which would be Sc
quel to the manifesto the Sudetens
issued yesterday, expressing dlssatls-
faction with the present procedures
which "lead nowhere"
Henlein took the attitude that as
leader of the Sudetens he should not
make the first call on the head of the
British mission, because one of Lord
Runciman's first acts here was to
make a courtesy call on President
Benes.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
Says Negroes
Mistreated In
TVADam Jobs

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 18.-(AP)-
Negro workers on the TWAS CHI
camauga dam have been kicked.
cursed and treated "brutally'' by their
foremen and walking BOSSES witt
ness charged today before a congress
sional committee investigating the
IVA.
The appearance of IVA Director
David Lilienthal to testify IN the
Berry marble case was delayed while
the committee listened to a detailed
account of alleged abuse from Char
les Houston, Negro, special counsel lot
the National Association for the Al
vancement of Colored People
The committee considered the slt-
uation serious enough to warrant IN
vestigation, and ordered IVA FER
sonnet Director Gordon Clapp to pre-
pare a report on complaints.
The committee has spent seven days
in hearing testimony regarding the
Authority's handling of mineral ana
marble claims filed by Senator Berry,
Democrat, Tennessee, and associates
v. H. Graves, East Tennessee
preacher. and notary public, testltlec
Yesterday he told 'ssome land owners
in the Norris dam basin that mlnerai
leases on their lands would increase
in value if flooded by a government
project.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
Japs Still Unable
To Smash Defense
Hope To Make Head
way With Heavy Rein
forcements ID o w n
Yangtze River

Shanghai, Aug. -(AP)-Japanase
warships and war planes bombarded
stubbornly-held Chinese positions on
the south bank of the Yangtze river
today in redoubled efforts to break
through to Eankow Chinese reported
strong Japanese reinforcements land
ed 12O miles down-river from Hankow.
Japanese expected the arriving troops
to revitalize their drive toward the
provisional Chinese capital, in virtual
stalemate since the invaders occupied
Kiukiang July 25.
A point 25 miles north of Kiukiang
was the spearhead of sanguinary bat
ties, in which the primary Chinese
aim was to prolong the stalemate
through persistent counter attacks
Chinese sources reported their bat
teries mounted on hilltops overlook
ing the Yangtze succeeded in dis
aiding numerous Japanese trans
ports and warships.
After many previous assertions that
they had conquered Shansi province
in the north, Japanese military au-
thorities admitted today that the Chi
nese had established strong 45-mile
defense line linking two points which
are the southern termini of the ShanSi
railway thus blocking one gateway to
Shansi.
Japanese columns advanced today
toward that region.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
Nation Will
Aid Against
AnAggr'essor
"Good Neighbors and
True Friends," Presi-
dent Says at Dedica-
ton of Bridge Over St.
Lawrence; Sees Com
plete Isolation AS I'm
possible

Kingston, Ontario, Aug. 18.-(AP)-
President Roosevelt said today that
citizens of the United States will not
stand idly by elf Canada is threaten
ed by foreign aggression"
The President made this frank
foreign policy statement in an address
in the stadium of Queens University
here. Beside him were Premier Mac
kenzie King, of Canada, and Lieute-
nant Governor Albert Matthews of
Ontario.
Mr.. Roosevelt repeatedly emphasiz-
ed that strong bond of friendship
exists between the Canada and the
United States.
"The Dominion of Canada is part
of the sisterhood of the British En-
pire" the American executive said. II
give to you assurance that the people
of the United States will not stand
idly by if domination of Canadian
soil is threatened by any other en-
pre-
The speaker was warmly applauded
when he moved to the speakers
stand in the stadium. American and
British flags waved in a cooling
breeze.
1--WE as good neighbors are. true
friends" the President told his au-
dience, because we refuse to accept
the twists of secret diplomacy, be-
cause we settle our disputes by con-
.z7s-.4ss( COntinued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
FDR Pleads
Waterway In
St.Lawrence
Says Private Interests
Will Develop 1t If u.
S.-Canada Do Not Do
So

Thousand Islands Bridge, Canadian
United States Border, Aug. 18.-(AP)
President Roosevelt made a vigor-
Gus plea for the long-debated st. Law
renee waterway treaty today, and said
that unless the United States and
Canada take joint governmental ac-
ton, a group of American interests
may gain a monopoly in developing
the river.
Mr. Roosevelt spoke at dedication
ceremonies for the bridge across the
st. Lawrence connecting Ivy Lea, On
tario, and Collins Landing, N. Y, a
few hours after he had assured
Kingston, Ontario, audience that citi-
zens of the United States would mot
stand idly by if domination of Cana
dian soil is threatened by any other
empire" =
The President, in his prepared ad-
dress here, outlined the potentialities
of navigation and power development
in the boundary-line river, and then
added:
1.-THE development of natural re-
CONTINUED on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
RALEIGH MAN SHOT
AT MYRTLE BEACH
Miami Man Held for Serious Wound
ing of John S. Mclean Over
Domestic Matter

Myrtle Beach, S. c., Aug. 18.-(AP)
"A man booked by Police Chief A.
C. Russell as Jimmy Roberts, %, of
Miami, Fla, was held today in con-
nection with the serious shooting OF
John S. Mclean, 80, of Raleigh, N. c..
Chief Russell said he shot Mclean
over a domestic difficulty.
Roberts was being held in the Con-
way Jail today, pending the outcome
of McLean's wounds. Mclean, taken
to a Conway hospital, was reported in
an extremely critical condition.
Russell said hospital attaches inform
ed him the Raleigh man was not ex-
pected to live.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
New Dealer
Is Sought By
Youth Group
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, August 18.-North Caro-
lina's Young Democratic club may not
have such a conservative, not to say
Anti-New Deal, complexion to the
contest for it's presidency after all,
according to reliable reports reach
ing this bureau.
It has been freely predicted that
the race will be between George
Hampton, Greensboro partner of arcn
enemy of the New Deal, G. L. Shup-
ing, and Winston-Salems publisher
Gordon Gray who is by reason of his
raising and environment hardly class
ed on the liberal side of the slate. +.
Late reports are, however, that
friends of Haywood Robbins. emerge
tic end able Charlotte man who was
largely responsible for President
Roosevelt's appearance at the Green
Pastures" rally there in 1896, are urg-
ing him to enter the lists in order
Continued on page six)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
Canada Put
In Doctrine"
By President

Washington, Aug. IS (AP)-State
Department officials interpreted
President Roosevelt's speech at Kings
ton, Canada, today as an extension of
the Monroe Doctrine to Canada.
Hitherto the famous doctrine has
been interpreted as applying solely to
the Latin-American republics. It
states the United States determine
ton to oppose aggression by an out
side power in the Western Hemis-
phere.
When the doctrine was originally
stated by President Monroe in Deem
Der, 1928, Canada was mercy a colony
of Great Britain. Monroes declara-
ton excluded the colonies already es-
tablished in the Western Hemisphere
by European powers. Now, however,
Canada has become an independent
dominion, with it's own foreign offices
and diplomatic representatives abroad.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
No Change In
Market Dates

Fairmont, Aug. Is (AP)-Ralph
Garrett, chairman of the sales
committee of the United States
Tobacco Association, said here to-
day opening of Eastern North
Carolina tobacco auction markets
would remain set for August rs.
WarehOusemen in the Eastern
North Carolina belt had petition
ed the committee to permit houses
to open August % for sales, but
a majority of the members voted
last night at Florence, S. c.,
against any change, Garrett said.
No effort has been made to
change opening dates set for Mid
die and Old Belt markets in the
State, Garrett said.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
Testimony Admitted
Over Protest of Coun-
sci for Defendant
James j. Hines

New York, Aug 18.-(AP)-Wilfred
Brunder, 43-year-old West Indies Ne.
gro, once operator of a $1,00O,O 00-a
year Harlem policy bank, testified in
supreme court today that when he
came out of prison in 1892 he learned
that Dutch Schultz had taken ovel
control of the lucrative game anc
made it an "airtight" racket.
On the stand as a witness in the
trial of James j. Hines, Tammany dis
trict leader, on charges TO conspiracy
in connection with the racket case
Brunder said another Harlem policy
banker Joe Ison, told him Schultz hac
squeezed out small individual opera
tors. Schultz has got cold mono
poly," Brunder quoted Ison as telling
him."
AS Brunder began his testimony
Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker, in
terrupted with frequent objections
Leaping to his feet, the tall defense
counsel called loudly:
81 object to it as incompetent, ire
relevant and immaterial, not ger
name to the issue; hearsay, no foun.
dation laid, not in the presence O.
the defendant"
When he had finished, out of breath
Justice Ferdinand Pecora said dryly
COLLECTION overruled."
Exception" scowled Stryker, ane
the testimony went on.
A policy, or numbers, banker II
Harlem for seven years, Brunder had
begun a detailed description of the
lottery yesterday when his testimony
was interrupted by a defense demand
ICnntinrad ON Page EiYel
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18
Three Negro
Convicts Flee
Prison Camp

Raleigh, Aug. 18.-(AP)-Three con-
victs serving terms for second degree
burglary and robbery with firearms
escaped from Perquimans county pri.
son camp yesterday and were still
free today, attaches at the office of
Oscar Pitts, State Prison supervisor,
said.
The escapes, all Negroes, were
listed as George Saunders, 80, serving
an 10 to 20 year term imposed in
March, 1885, in Forsyth county, for
robbery with firearms; Thomas Mad
den. 26, sentenced in Surry county in
February, 1888, to IL to 25 years for
second degree burglary.
Also Jimmy Walker, 81, serving five
years for second degree burglary con-
viction in Guilford county in Septem-
Continued on Page Four)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-18

are a constructive, not purely de-
structive, family.
Method.
And when they go after causes, they
get Them
For example, in the recent course
of young Bob's" investigation a state
of affairs was revealed which harrow
ed up the feelings Of
Whom would one think? Ardent
civil liberty-ites? Folk in sympathy
with the inquiry? Oh, yes, of course,
but who else? Why, they narrowed
up the feelings of Tom Girdler of cit
tie steel. They uncovered stories of
employer espionage on labor, of en-
ployer tinkering with publicity and
even with the clergy, of employer re-
lance upon gas bombs and firearms
that Girdler, hard boiled as he is,
literally could not permit to go un-
challenged.
He was not subpenaed. He had to
ask to be permitted to come and
testify.
Sure said the committee. eve
will hear your SIDE"
But when Girdler did come he was
not overly convincing.
His account was that, if all these
goings-on actually had gone on, he
did not known it. Girdler, himself, did
not defend such activities. He pleaded
ignorance Of them only.
In effect, he admitted the necessity
of regulation.
Coming from Tom Girdler, this was
quite an admission.
Practical.
La Toilette regulative proposals are