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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1938-02-05

he sure TO read the Detroit Tri.
bune. Michisan's fast growing
and popular weekly.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

rooms. The new appropriation for the correcting
Of this tragic living will help but this is only the
beginning. The citizens of Washington must in
fairness to themselves no matter what street they
live on, keep pounding away and try to make
their city not only the most beautiful in the
world on CERTAIN STREETS, but the cleanest,
most healthy city in the world on EVERY
STREET.
We must keep fighting for the vote until we get
1t. Then we can say WHAT is to be done and
HOW it is to be done. We can clean up our
sewage system that we have been told over and
over again are detriment and danger to the
community.
We can double our splendid police force, which
is so sorely needed; because, believe me, know
how the poor policemen work overtime I know
how richly they deserve more pay, with more men
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

INCIDENTALLY, among the newer selling
L rackets for the boys upon whom the Vigilant
SEC has clamped down is the disposal of plots in
memorial parks. Usually swampy land. An in
teresting patois has developed as a result. For
example, the old-time stock sucker was known as
O "mooch" Now they refer to him as stiff"
A "mooch" was "squawk' when he wanted his
money back. Now he is "postmortem." Po-
tential suckers called prospects" or "leads"
In the cemetery racket he is known as a "cada-
ver." In other words, salesman will call on six
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

I shrunk almost into nothing
ness.
And I have to go up into the
torch of the Statue of Liberty!
It's inhuman!"
I think I would have turned
back had not the boat already left
the dock.
Arriving on Bedloes Island after
a stormy crossing. sought out the
superintendent of the island, Mr..
Palmer. He made the necessary
arrangements-maybe they were
funeral arrangements, I don't
know-and the next thing I knew
I was at the base of the statue,
waiting for the elevator. Just by
way of encouragement, Mr.. Pal
mer struck up some conversation.
You know we stopped letting
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
OF GUILTY
MADE BY TRIO
IN LIQUOR RING
Men Jailed on Charges
of New Activities.

Three members of the largest
illicit liquor ring uncovered in the
District since repeal today pleaded
guilty in District Court to charges
of conspiracy to violate the liquor
taxing act of 1884.
The three-two of them said to
be big shots" in the ring which
masked it's operations by renting
mansions in exclusive residential
sectionS-were removed from bail
and remanded to Jail when Justice
Bolitha j. Laws was told author
tiles believed them still engaged
in liquor activity.
TWO PLEAS UNDECIDED
Two other alleged "big shots" of
the ring, Irving Rosenberg and
Nathan CoSman appeared in court
and indicated they had not yet
decided how they would finally
plead. Justice Laws directed them
to report back to court December
10.
Sent to Jail pending sentence on
December 20 were Nazzerena Mag
naterra, Ralph Marcontoni and
Guilo Quatrini, who, alcohol tax
investigators and Assistant United
States Attorney J. w. Fihelly told
the court, we're under suspicion
for fresh liquor activities.
All had pleaded guilty today to
the conspiracy indictments. No
new charges have as yet been
placed against them.
TWO WIVES INDICTED
Constantine Marcontoni and
Helen j. Levine, wives of two of
the defendants. are also under in
dictment. They did not appear in
court, but Mr.. Fihelly indicated
that charges against them may be
dropped.
Altogether, Is persons were in
dicted as a result of the smashing
of the ring. Five previously have
pleaded guilty, three are still at
large. and the cases of the remain
der are being studied for possible
nolle PROSE- or probation.
In three raids. beginning last
January, Federal agents and local
police went into large homes in
the fashionable northwest section
and found huge stills in operation.
Large quantities of illicit whisney
and mash were confiscated.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
BY JACK LAYER
Newspaper Photographer

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Man and
boy, I've been a news photogra-
.pher for nearly 20 years. I've COW
cred fires, earthquakes, floods,
strikes and afternoon teas, but I
think I've just finished the tough
est assignment I ever had.
I have just come down from the
torch of the Statue of Liberty,
and believe me, I'm still shaking.
My city editor, always on the
alert for good news pictures,
called me to his desk and, with
out so much as a greeting. told
me to go up into the torch of OLE
Miss Liberty and get some un-
usual shots. Some WPA men had
just finished painting her innards,
and this was justification enough
for the pictures.
NOT A BREEZE
On any other day the assign
ment would have been a breeze.
But yesterday it seemed all the
evil gods of weather were unleash
ing their mightiest efforts just for
my benefit. 1t was raining buckets
full: the wind howled up South
Street, and I could almost hear it
whisper. rather devilishly:
Layers in for it :. .. Whoooooo
=. Layers in for it"
Well, there was no backing out.
II gathered up my equipment and
made for the Battery. The boat
for Bedloes Island was just leav-
ing, so I got on and made for dry
spot below deck. BY this time the
rain had ended, but the wind came
on stronger than before. To make
it much worse, I heard the captain
of the boat remark to one of his
men:
"She's blowing UP pretty bad.
She may reach a gale"
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Bedrd Renews Fight for Freedom
Imprisoned Gambler CHARGES Double Punishment

A new effort to free Sam Beard,
convicted local gambler, from At
lanta Penitentiary, was begun in
New orleans yesterday.
Through his attorney. James
J. Laughlin, Beard filed a petit
ton in the Federal Court for a
rehearing of the habeaS corpus
proceeding at which he was unsuc-
cessful in Atlanta.
Laughlin, who contends Beard
was convicted on two counts
which covered the same offense,
said the Atlanta court was in
error in refusing to grant the
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
LION FETE
Clubs Honor Head of
international

Members of the District of Co.
lumbia Lions Clubs last night
feted DR.. Walter F. Dexter, inter-
national president, at a dinner at
the Mayflower Hotel. Forty-two
clubs, comprising Washington,
Maryland and Delaware, were
represented.
DR.. Dexter, State superintendent
of instruction in California, is the
first educational leader to be
elected president of the Lions In
ternational.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

Ell. o. Henry's boy friend
didn't ride Bolivar, I didn't
ride the Ell. Can't say I'll miss
the odd overhead structure.
Spread such gloom over the
street. Made it an avenue of
pawnshops, auction stalls, back
magazine places, penny ar
cades, shooting galleries. In
Wall Street they tell Of a new
lone wolf. He is said to have
made millions recently by
operating contrary to the popu-
lar oninion among five lead
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Rain Is Forecast
For Next u Hours

Rain for the next "a hours"
was the weather mans forecast for
Washington and vicinity today.
The dripping skies are not expect
ed to clear before tomorrow noon,
when the mercury will take a
slight tumble. Near freezing tenn
peratureS will prevail over the
weekend, the Weather Bureau
forecast said.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

everything else, it has its sordid
and pathetic side. What a
mighty good thing it is when
visitors come. they only see the
beauty. They see the lovely
wide streets, the trees, and the
new marble buildings on Con-
stitution Avenue.
Tucked away safely where
no one can find them, unless
they are looking for them, are
the wretched slums, the poor,
miserable homes, where large
families live in one or two
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

more discretionary power to
do what he pleases in matters
Of foreign policy, charge that
the act has completely broken
down in so far as the Far
Eastern war is concerned.
They say the act, in its first
test, has been proved not only
futile but also dangerous.
On what grounds those
charges are made. no one ex-
plains.
The act has not yet been
invoked Whv9 BecallSe there
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

writ. The error, he said, was in
holding that all questions concern
ing the matter had been decided
in District courts.
Boards conviction was on two
counts, % that he set up a
gaming table, and 90 that he kept
certain place for the purpose of
gaming. His attorney holds he suf-
fered double punishment. Laugh
lin said:
Since the sentence on the
first count has been served by
Beard he should be released at
once"
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Says Boake Carter

China herself has refused to admit official
war is in progress. China has never broken
off diplomatic relations with Japan. That is
because the Chinese understand they would be
at greater disadvantage under official decara-
ton of war than otherwise.
When and if China or Japan declares an
official state of war exists and exercises legal
rights to interfere with American and other
foreign shipping, then and only then, would it
be both necessary and wise to invoke promptly
the neutrality act.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

ing stockexchange houses as to the future trend
of the market; thereupon he buys or sells in the
opposite direction. They call him Nick the
Greek (not to be confused with the Nick the
Creek. and hear he halls from the Philippines,
where he is something of textile king.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

Sisting to myself that I was the
man who went through floods,
hurricanes. etc. 1t worked for ex-
actly one minue-I was right back
in the old feeling.
The elevator must have gone up
about four stories. After that,
they told me, I would have to
walk. The circular stairway, about
II stories worth, was next. I fin
ished that and already I could
feel Miss Liberty swaying in the
breeze.
So far, it wasn't so bad, but the
worst was yet to come. I was led
to a trap door and told that on
the other side l would find lad
der that would lead right up into
the torch.
UP THE LADDER
1 had to take off my coat and
hat for this because the opening
was very small.
started climbing up the ladder.
l hadn't passed three rungs
when I suddenly felt the whole
torch itself swaying-no, no, that's
much too mild-jerking in the
wind. I managed to hold on, but
4 think I left my heart on the
fourth rung.
Reaching the top, I peered out
Of the small opening and all I
could see was a cluster of huge
spears coming at me. Recover
ing temporarily, I realized it was
nothing more than Miss Liberty'S
crown. gathered little courage
and, holding on with one hand, I
proceeded to work my miniature
camera with the other.
think I took shots of every
thing; they tell me some were
poOd
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
FRIDAY, DEC. 9, 1893


on the force, so they won't have to work like
slaves.
Cites Need for Stadium
TT is an imperative and crying need that we
= have stadium and an auditorium erected as
quickly as possible. Here is where the visitors to
the city could be treated as they should be- The
Inauguration ball could be held there and the
Army and Navy game. Think what this would do
for the merchants of Washington
Think of the hundreds of thousands of people
every year. young and DID, who would come with
pride and joy in their hearts to their OWN CAPI-
tai and have a comfortable, safe place to use
while here.
have been in most of the cities of the world
and I don't believe there is one that has any
more statues and memorials than we have right
here. So, instead of putting up useless monu.
ment to Jefferson, why not use the money set
aside for this purpose for a stadium and name it
for Jefferson?
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
MIND A BLANK

He said other things. I'm sure,
but from that point on didn't re-
member. My mind became a blank.
I think I tried to cheer up by in
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

the public up into the torch-too
DANGEROUS.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
TTBut''

They Estate Department officials cited the sino-
Japanese Spanish cases in point says
Washington dispatch Mona ppcaton of the act
China and Japan, they said, generally approved
though the Presidents policy at variance
with the spirit of the act"
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

CALENDAR OF a GoTHAM1TE: Think I'll
lay claim to title. Only New Yorker who
did not ride on the last run of the Sixth Avenue
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

cadavers, knock off one stiff, getting him to dig
down in his coffin and pull out six worms for-
merly "grands'D, and pay him off with ticket
to heaven (deed to burial plot).
MOT many old buildings in midtown Manhat-
~ tan have survived the invasion of the sky
scrapers Occasionally, when come across one.
I feel like saluting for the good fight it has put
up. On West Forty-third Street. between Broad
way and Eighth Avenue, there is an oldie dhree
stories high and prim) set so far back from the
street had never noticed it before.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Would Not Help China

WHAT would be the effect of its invocation
w in China and Japan? Despite popular
opinion Caused mostly by false propaganda) it
would neither help nor hurt the Chinese directly.
The naval blockade which Japan could estab-
lish easily if official war were ever declared in
the Orient, would cut China off completely from
trade with the United States-even if we had
no neutrality act of any kind whatsoever!
AS for Japan contrary to popular opinion, it
would hurt rather than help-chiefly because
with Japanese control of the seas, Japan could
obtain much more from us without the act than
she would be able to do if the act were invoked
With the exception of munitions, which Japan
does not vitality need, the act does not cover
embargo of any kind on the shipment of other
materials. At the worst, Japan would have to
buy these materials on a cash-and carry basis
provided the President of the United States went
deliberately out of his way to invoke this special
provision of the act-a matter already left COM
pletely to his discretion
Copyright. Ledger Syndicate)
(Boake Carriers opinions are his otDn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TimeSJ
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Ten1pestuOus RiUals

Gn1peStuOUS NIO0LS
TWO J1TTERY ERRATICs of Gotham are rival
restaurateurs, and am not too certain that
they will speak to each other at 10 paces sand
wiches in hand. I am referring to Arnold Reu-
ben and Leo Lindy) Linderman. Each is stormy,
petulant moody. excitable, gentle, tyrannical,
unreasonable. tolerant; in brief, men who would
drive you mad if their moodiness were not tenn
pered by such great charity of heart and in per-
formance. I haven't been to Lee Chumley's in
too many months and I wonder if Gil (Burt L.
Standish) Patten Harry Kemp, Chess Champion
Lasker Novelist Leane Zugsmith and Writer Lou
Wedemar are still nightly habitues Lee, him
self, gray-haired poetgiant, is gone. and with his
passing have never been able to bring myself to
return, for the place is redolent Of too many
pleasant memories of days when labored on an
automobile trade paper and knew nothing of
Broadway, the theater, and the unhappiness there
is in turning out daily column seven days
week.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

GAN FRANCISCO.-The groups and minorities
~ which are striving to vitiate the neutrality
act, by forcing its revision to give the President
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
My Say

WASHINGTON is undoubtedly one of the most
" beautiful cities in the world today, oeautnul
to visit and beautiful to live in. But, like almost
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
A Thing of Beauty

A THING OF BEAUTY is always a joy to be.
hold, but when you can make beautiful
thing useful as well for human needs how much
better it is.
What tragic condition of affairs when any
thing is so near perfection as the District of Co
lumbia is that it just misses, through government
for which it is not responsible, being absolute
perfection.
Fight first for your vote. Then the beauty and
safety of your city will be entirely up to you.
You, the interested people, will be able to govern
what is rightly yours instead of having lot of
disinterested people make mess of it.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

has been no sound reason to invoke it, if the
fundamental intent of the act is kept in mind,
The provisions of the act are designed to be
effective when a situation rises which might
draw us into war through shipments or travel of
citizens to war areas.
Despite the large-scale warfare in China, none
Of the dangers which the neutrality act itself is
especially designed to cope have appeared.
President Refuses to InUoke
Neutrality Act
CONTRARY to all the false propaganda being
~ put out to drag this nation to the brink of
war. Mr.. Roosevelt has not only been funda-
mentally sound by refusing to invoke the act, but
also he has acted legally and in complete accord
with both the letter and the spirit of the act.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

(Boake Carriers opinions are his oUn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TinneSJ
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02

Asheville, April baskerville will en-
terrain the 18th annual convention of
the North Carolina Association OF
Jewish Women and the eighth annual
convention of Jewish men on May 1
and 2.
The two-day joint session will hold
most of it's activities at the George
Vanderbilt hotel while the main event
Sunday night, May l, will be held at
the Biltmore College Auditorium.
Several notable speakers will be on
the program Sunday afternoon and
night, while Monday will be devoted
to business sessions, sconic ride,
breakfast, luncheon% dinner and a
bridge tournament Monday evening.
Sunday night after the meeting at
Biltmore College there will be re-
ception at the Vanderbilt Hotel for
the honored guests and delegates.
Marvin Lowenthal will be the Sun
day luncheon speaker and the Mems
Association will have charge of this
event while. the members of the Tenn
pie Sisterhood will act as hostesses.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02

75mm pack howitzers, 75-mm guns,
155-mm guns and 240-mm howitzers.
The Field Artillery Board, which tests
experimental equipment, and the 1st
Observation Battalion Sound and
Flash Ranging), are located at Fort
Bragg.
The 10th Observation Squadron and
End Balloon Squadron of the Air
Corps are located at Pope Field which
is the Air Corps Station at Fort
Bragg.
The garrison of Fort Bragg also in
cludes various detachments of the
services such as Medical, Signal, Ord
nance, Quartermatser, Veterinary
and Finance.
Each summer, training camps are
conducted at Fort Bragg for reserve
officers, National Guard regiments
and the G. M. T.. G.
Headquarters for District CA,
Civilian Conservation Corps, which
administers some 80 camps located
throughout North Carolina, is also
found at Fort. Bragg.
Visitors are welcome to visit thu,
post at any time. On Army Day, mil
itary events will be conducted for
visitors.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02
ANSWERS

1. Governor John C. B. Ehringhaus
served the First Judicial District as
solicitor from 1911 to 1923.
2. Families of three persons. The
last census showed 1883 families of
this number, representing 10 percent
of all families in the State.
8. Gabriel l.. Hardison, of Thur
man, North Carolina. Legislator
Eardison was a farmer and merchant
at Thurman. In 1896 he invented a
self oiling device which came into ex-
tensive use
4. DR.. E. McKee, Goodwin has serv-
ed the State for more than so years
BY special act the legislature recog-
DR.. Goodwin retirement on salary
of $4,000 per year for the remainder
of his natural life. AS further recog-
milton the act designated DR.. Good
win as superintendent emeritus OF
the Morganton institution.
5. Prior to Governor Archdale il
1855 members Of the English church
bitterly opposed citizenship to the
French Huguenots who settled in the
colony. They would not allow them
citizenship and being aliens they
were not allowed to own land Their
marriages were not recognized as le-
gal and their children Legitimate.
6. Editor r. p Waring, of the Char
lotte Daily Times, tried in Raleigh in
the fall of 1865 on a charge of trea-
son for publishing a vigorous edito-
rial denouncing the carpet bag.
pprS"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02
Crits and Gravel
DIR. c. j. H. w. HESTER
(By +. MOSES JONES. }

More than a hundred years ago,
about the year 1881, baby boy was
born. / do not know his parents
names, except their last. I suppose
he was born in Vance County. Meth
err you nor myself can imagine what
his parents and himself went through
for him to learn enough to be doc
tor. The cause Of this write-up was
the chance mention of her grand
fathers name by Mrs. Hugh Peed,
who works at E. T. Hester"s store,
Hiss Ruth being manager of the
ladies' department in that store.
Three initials placed before a per-
sons last name is quite unusual. The
late Peter l.. D. Hester of Henderson
was a mail carrier friend of my
fathers. Robert E. Lee Farmer, also
a friend of my father, now lives in
Florida. DR.. c. D. H. Fort was a den
fist in Oxford until his death several
years ago. ]. M. M. Gregory, Jr., is
now a tobacconist here ]. H. l..
Myers is one of the firm of the Jeff
reys-Myers Company, whose big plant
is. situated here. But when Miss
Ruth spoke of my Grandfather, DR..
c. J. H. w. Hester" the name made
a deep impression down in my ears.
On Monday night, April S, 1875,
DR.. FIester's short and useful life
came to close, as he died in the
night with heart trouble. He rode
his faithful horse, Bob Telegraph,
miles and miles, from far and near,
to relieve the suffering of the we'll
TODD or the poor. 1t is said that Mrs.
Eulys Woodlief of near Bearpond now
has a hand painted picture DR.. Hest
or painted of Mrs. Hester riding the
horse
It was also told me that the late
Dr.. Gill began his practice under Dr..
Hester and that Mrs. Dixie Bobbitt
was one of his Sunday School pupils.
DR.. Hester cut out letters and paint
ed them various colors to make mot
oes and write Bible verses on the
'--alls4 of the church with them. He
played the organ at Sunday School,
composing the words and music of
the songs, teaching them to the chill
lren, besides playing the violin.
On each Sunday, the children
yould write letters to the absent
members and place them in little pig
'son-holes which they called the Post
Office. Then the next Sunday the
s5sentees attended, they would get
their letters out of the post office
and read them. Miss Ruth now has
hat little post office.
DR.. Hester died at the early age of
forty-four years, and was the first
cne to be buried in the Union Chapel
cemetery wish some member of
hat church would send me the in
scription on his tombstone. His
~aby girl, age three at the; time OF
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02
TO-DAY IN HISTORY

1S18-Tne American Farmer, pio-
neer Americana agricultural journal
which lasted till 1897, began issue in
Baltimore.
1902-First all-movie theatre, the
Electric Theatre, opens in Los Ange-
les.
1917-Pres. Wilson'S historic "The
world must be made safe for demo
cracy" in war message to joint night
session of Congress-.
1918-United States warns Mexico
that proposed oil confiscations by
means of excessive taxation may
lead to "interposition."
1932-Dr. John F. Condor hands
over 1000 Lindbergh ransom money
in Bronx cemetery.
1937-Pres. Roosevelt states time
has come to stop Government buying
of durable goods and begin spending
on consumers goods.-More than
100000 on strike country over.