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The Washington times., 1938-01-03
Chandler Waits Two
Months to Sit Down

For two months Chick Chandler
has been keeping goth Century.
Fox waiting for one simple scene,
a sequence in Love and Kisses, -
which would merely show Chan.
dler getting up from a chair.
Having suffered a hair-line frac.
ture of pelvic bone while seated
during the early sequences of the
picture, he was encaSed in a cast
so he couldn't sit down. This
week, after special set-up costing
several thousand dollars, Chandler
sat down. got up, the scene was
filmed and Director Sidney Ian
field called out cut"
The Washington times., 1938-01-03

band Of revenue men. who sus-
pect his real identity, forms .
large part of the ingenious
story, which is filled with ex-
citement, humor and romance.
Margaret Lockwood and John
Loder head the supporting cast.
NewSreel and selected short
subjects round out the program.
The Washington times., 1938-01-03
Gle amin gs
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

On King George Wis New Year honor list was found
the name of Fields made Commander of the Order
of the British Empire. Yes, the English movie star and
stage comedicnne.
Among those leading the cheering for His Maestys Sc
lection for royal decoration Daryl Zanuck of Twentieth
Century pictures She has already completed one "a
muck feature HE Was Her Man. made at the British
studio in Denham will be on her way to Hollywood
for further pictures bearing the Zanuck label.
The Washington times., 1938-01-03

A ZANUCK GAMBLE
American movie-goers are
probably asking, Who is Oracle
Fields?" and it is fair queS-
tion. She has been seen very
little on the American screen,
though she is topped only by
Shirley Temple as a favorite
with British exhibitors.
Producer Zanuck gambled last
year with Sonia Henie and
emerged with the biggest money
The Washington times., 1938-01-03

making star of 1887. Sonia not
only cut some ice on the screen,
but better still, exclusive figures
on the box office sheets.
Will Zanuck be able to repeat
Oracle Fields? He is gambling
to the extent of giving star,
practically unknown to audi
ences in the United States, an
The Washington times., 1938-01-03

English Monarch Decorates Oracle Fields, Soon
Due in America for HoIIywood-Made Pictures
The Washington times., 1938-01-03
SUEDE FOR CAPE

There seems to be no limit to
the new uses for suede these days
This Observation-Disclosures p orts
fabric has recently been made
into a striking evening cape for
PHYLLIS Brooks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
Street Report Hits
Relief Fund Lack

Welfare Director Elwood Street,
in his quarterly report of the vel
fare boards activities, decried
the inadequancy of funds to meet
the relief needs Of the District. He
stated in the report:
THE subject of relief of the
needy is the most difficult which
the Board Of Public Welfare has
to handle. The board is faced
with the responsibility of admin
istering funds which it knows to
be inadequate to meet the
needs: with a staff which it
also knows to be inadequate to
handle properly investigation Of
those who apply for assistance
and social service and follow up
those to whom grants Of assist
ance are made"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
Careers Gone!
Folding Circus Ruins
3 Ambitions

When Col. Tim McCoy's Wild
West Show sunk quietly into re-
ownership, it left three local resi-
dents in something of a quandary
today.
Urge to join the show prompted
a 17-year-old Washington boy and
two Fort Myer soldiers to desert
home and heath yesterday. Now
the show is folded and the three
are still A. w. o. L.
Eugene G. Harris, II, of 5810
East Capitol St., left word with
his mother that he was going to
run away with the circus. Police
are looking for Eugene.
Similarly, Arthur Sentiman and
Albert Reisinger, both 20, deserted
their posts at Fort Myer, Va,
without bothering to change their
Army blue-denim working clothes.
According to complaining Major
Rem Lawrence. they were headed
for a career with the Wild West
show. They were still at large
today,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
OFFICIAL BALLOT
ON VOTE ASKED.

ACCESSIBILITY of asking Congress
to conduct an official referendum
to determine the attitude of Dis
trict citizens toward the vote will
be studied by the executive COM
mittee of the District Suffrage
Conference Saturday.
The committee will meet at
2 p. m. in room 16 of The Even
ing Star Building.
Plans for presenting records of
tie referendum last Saturday in
which $4,000 District citizens cast
ballots overwhelmingly in favor
Of suffrage to the House Judiciary
Committee on May 10 will be
discussed at the meeting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
"AII Down"
BOWLer Drops Dead,
Ball in Hand

CHICAGO, May QN.So.
Franklin Wallace, 80, superintend-
ent of a cemetery. had just fin
ished his second bowling game. He
picked up his ball and was poised
to roll the start of a third line.
I'll take you this time" he
said to his friend, Il never felt
better in my life"
With that, Wallace dropped
dead from a heart attack.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05

hands back in the horse tent and
then walked swiftly off the lot
just before the Deadwood stage
coach went out to be held up. He
was Col. Tim Mccoy, oldtime COW
hand who invested his savings in
the show from a prosperous mo-
ton picture career.
HAVEN'T LOST FAITH
Only a few moments before, it
seemed, Mccoy had been twirling
a rope while an announcer pro-
claimed that he was the only man
alive who can rope eight horses
and riders at once on the gallop.
Il don't think folks have lost
faith in the Wild West" said
Colonel Tim. II guess we are
folding because business gen.
orally is bad"
AS Colonel Tim walked off the
lot, leaving behind an investment
of some 100000, cowboys and
girls in pioneer costumes rushed
to him. The men shook his hand
ard said nothing. The girls
Rugged him and cried.
Emotion deepened the weather
beaten lines in the face of Lloyd
Belden, of Reddington, Neb.. as
he watched Colonel Mccoy walk
away.
There goes a real man all
the way through" said Belden.
I'VE used to work together as
COW punchers 80 years ago and
never would have come East
with a circus except for Tim.
Nov I'm going back to
wyoming and break horses.
There's a big demand for horses
now and you can work steady
breaking the wild ones and
maybe make 5000 a month.
Cowboys in the circus get from
$25 to $35 a week"
AL Jennings, erstwhile train
robber and general all-around bad
man in the days when men were
bad, flicked the cuff of his scar,
let shirt and reckoned he would
go on a lecture tour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
OFFICIALS DELAY
FRED FIX CASE

The case against Fred Fix, for
mer college athlete accused Of
assaulting his wife, Elizabeth, was
continued in police court today to
May II,
Authorities asked for the con-
tinuance to determine the serious
ness of Mrs. Fix condition. She
is at Casualty Hospital, her body
covered with bruises and burns.
LODGED IN CELL
Fix was lodged in an Eleventh
precinct cell last night after he
was arrested in the law office of
Samuel Beach, former assistant
district attorney here. Bond was
set at $4,000.
Mrs. Fix accuses her husband of
beating and branding her with
lighted cigarettes while she was
tied spreadeagled to her bed in
the 100 block of Minnesota Ave.
S. E., for "a hours.
At Casualty Hospital Mrs. Fix
was found to have a fractured
jaw, several teeth knocked out,
one eye blackened and her body
covered with burns and bruises.
NO EXPLANATION
Fix declined to offer any ex
PLANTATION. Beach said he never
had met Fix, but that the man
said "he had been sent" to see
the attorney.
Mrs. Fix told police her husband
had served three days in District
Jail on a charge of drunkenness
She paid his fine and he was
released, she said, prior to the
attack.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
J. F. Reilly Heads
College Alumni

j. Francis Reilly was elected
president of the Mt. St. Mary's
Alumni Association at its annual
spring banquet yesterday at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Prominent clergymen, officials
Of the District government and
members of the Senate and House
were among the guests. Speakers
were Count Robert van der Straten-
Ponthoz, Belgian Ambassador, and
the Rev. John L. Sheridan, presi-
dent of Mt. st. Mary's College,
Emmitsburg, Nd.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
HIGH PROPERTY
TAXES FOUGHT

Efforts to lift the unfair tax
burden" from property owners will
be made by the National Associa-
ton of Real Estate Boards.
That was declared last night by
Joseph w. Catharine, national
president, in an address before the
spring meeting of the Washing
ton Real Estate Board at the
Carlton Hotel.
The association, he said, will
fight against unjust taxation and
will seek a program for taxation
based on productivity Of property
and an overall tax limitation.
Morton J. LuchS, president of
the Washington board, presided at
the meeting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
COUNTY POLICE
WAMPLER
MYSTERY PROBE
Retired u. S. Justice
Tells of Hearing Row

LA PLATA, Md, May 5.
Charles county authorities today
continued their search for EVIL
dence against T. Morris Wampler.
former Washington attorney, his
wife, Mrs. Wyvil Wampler, and
Alan Buck, young author Of fairy
tales, who have been charged with
the murder of Charles Adams, s.
year-old handy-man on the Wamp-
Ter summer estate.
The three were ordered held for
action of the grand jury following
a hearing before Justice Of the
Peace Walter H. Gray last night,
at which details Of a fight, in
which the State contends the el.
derby man was beaten to death,
were revealed.
CASE PRESSED
States Attorney Edward Edelen
said the case will be among the
first to be presented to the grand
jury when it convenes on May 16,
and that if an indictment is re-
turned he will seek trial at this
term OF court.
Judge Gray ordered the trio held
without bond, although Joseph
Turco, Washington lawyer engaged
by the Wamplers, sought to obtain
their release.
Testimony of a fight at the
Wampler summer place at Fen
wick last Friday was given by
Lieut.. William Feehly. Baltimore
detective who has been assisting
Sheriff Russell Howard in the in
vestigation of the case.
TELLS OF ROW
Lieutenant Feehly said that
Buck admitted there had been con-
siderable drinking, and that .
"free-for-all" started after Adams
had made an insulting remark to
Mrs. Wampler.
Daniel Thew Wright, retired
Justice of United States District
Court, whose summer home adj
joins the Wampler place. also APP
peared as witness for the State
last night.
He declared he heard Mrs.
Wampler attempting to quiet q
disturbance late Friday, and that
later when he was summoned to
the place, he noticed blood on the
bench where Adams body was
found and blood on a broken glass.
BLOOD ON FACE
There was smear Of blood ON
Mrs. Wamplers' face, he said, but
later this was washed oft.
DR.. George C. BicKnell, county
coroner, testified that Adams
death was due to conclusion Of
the brain, and that he had SUI
fered cuts and bruises.
Wampler, who was a noted Grim
inal attorney before he was con-
Victed of violation of the income
tax law and sent to Federal prison
for Is months, took no part in the
cross-eXamination of the wit
lnesses. and did not take the stand.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05

BY midnight everything NOV
able except the Indian epees had
been carried to the railroad train.
Most of the circus workers as they
loaded the train whispered that
the receivers intended to allow it
to go to Baltimore
But the receivers spiked the
Fumor when they opened the pay
window. Overdue salaries had
been scaled down to the point
where only top riders received a
living wage last night.
Most tragic figure on the circus
lot was handsome gentleman in
a neat fitting blue suit, who shook
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
Victims Mother
Recalls Tragedy

Memories of her first-born,
whose strange murder 10 years ago
at Bremerton, Wash, was recently
solved when an aged woman con-
vict confessed her life-termer son
committed the crime, flooded Mrs.
Marion Bassett today.
Of all her three children (she
has another son and a daughter)
Gene" as she called him, was
her favorite.
Mot" Mrs. Bassett said, be
cause he was my son, but be-
cause he really was a fine boy"
Gene, she said, was so proud of
the $1,000 blue automobile, pur.
chased in Annapolis, which was
the cause of his death. She said |:
Gene was visiting my daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Comdr. Theo-
dore Hugh Winters, in Bremen
ton. He had driven out there
from Annapolis. stopping at
their home en- route to his new
position as secretary to an ad-
miral-I forget his name-in
Manila.
ADVERTISED CAR
my daughter suggested Gene
sell the car, because it was too
fine to take to Manila. The eli
mate there is hard on automo-
biles. And this man, Earl De
castro Mayer, who later MUIR
dered my boy, answered the ad-
vertiSement."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-05
.BASSETT KILLER.
SLEW 3 OTHERS,
MOTHER ADMITS.
Victims Mother, Living
Here, Recalls Murder

WALLA WALLAH, Wash, May
S GN.SD In a new confession
today Mrs. Mary Eleanor Smith,
70, admitted she and her son not
only murdered James Eugene Bias
Sett 10 years ago, but also killed
three other persons, police said.
The BaSsett case has been one
of the most mysterious Sayings in
American crime annals, md de-
tectiveS declared Mrs. Smith told
them the approximate location of
the body. A hunt over two States
was started to locate the remains
Of all four victims.
VANISHED IN 1928
Mrs. Smith is serving an 18-yaar
sentence for robbery in the Bas-
sett case, and her term is virtually
up. Her son, Earl DecaStro Mayer,
is serving a life sentence as q
habitual criminal. They were ar
rested in Oakland, Cal, with Bias
Sett's car and other possessions a
month after he vanished in Sep
TENDER, 1928, in Seattle, Wash,
while visiting his sister.
According to Mrs. Smiths first
confession, brought about by state
ments she made in letters, the
woman said her son beat BasSett
to death in their home in Seattle.
KILLED THREE OTHERS
Mrs. Smith later added Mayer
killed Mrs. Dorothy LacaSse, of
Butte, Mont, 20 years ago and also
killed Ole Larson and a man
named Randall in Idaho.
The latter two, she said, were
buried in an Idaho stone quarry.
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TRIPLES

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Green, R.U., School, l4ook
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DOUBLES

DOUBLES
Bouor, G. and Haley, Els.
l3ossnor, Schof e Las Jror, Tho
Krobs, Glilds, Brocl1on, P3olo
Stark, and Rronon - 2
The Washington times., 1938-07-14
News Behind
The News

Editors: Here is something
the tOorld has neDer seen before,
q column about columniStS By
one Dhonr they most frequently
GccuSe-one of the top Govern-
nlent economists, Leon Hender-
son, WPA GdUiSer, the only GoD-
ernment economist IDho called
the turn on the current depres-
sion Str months before it deuel.
oped. Here Mr.. Henderson pre-
SentS his UieDS and lays doDn
nine cardinal principles of the
beliefs tOhich form his tDorki1g
creed.-Paul Mallon, Washing
ton.
The Washington times., 1938-07-14
ICKES CREDITS
RISE IN STOCKS
TO PWA GRANTS
Building Regarded As
Trade Stimulus

UN.SO PWA heads from Ad-
miniStrator Harold L. Ickes down
believed today that the stock mar
ket rise was due chiefly to the
release of Federal loans and grants
for a 100000 building pro-
gram all over the country.
They said all PWA construction
calls upon the heavy industry for
materials and upon the rails for
transportation of those materials.
WORK PROVIDED
For every hour of work a man
puts in on a PWA site another
worker puts in two and one-half
hours somewhere in the back.
ground to supply the materials.
1ckeS made his first public re-
fusal of a works application when
he informed Mayor Evans of Riv-
erSide, Cal, that because of the
use of certain lobbyist that city'S
application had been suspended.
WARNS OF LOBBYING
Tckes had warned that no lob
bying would be permitted. He
also charged the mayor with TAX
ing a joy-ride to Washington on
the city's money for the purpose
Of pushing" the application-an
action which he deems along with
wholly unnecessary"
The Washington times., 1938-07-14

one ruins the myth.
But they are touchy about
their personal beliefs. Nearly
every one has tried to carve out
some little portion of general
theory which gives him what
ever private satisfaction an eX-
pert is supposed to enjoy. Just
let some columniSt fail to make
the delicate distinction, and the
written-about squeals like a
stuck pig.
I know. have suffered four
times.
I COULD explode in a minute
Il Paul's myth that I am one of
the Presidents chief economic
advisors, but as long as Steve
Early and Colonel Mcintyre
don't get too mad about it, I'll
keep on hunting for good clip
pings. Besides, the President is
entitled to get some fun out of
the newspapers.
While I was in the hospital
last winter, Frank Kent implied
that I was entering the back
door Of the White House every
day. Did I let Frank and me
down? Certainly not.
And Dorothy Thompson pro-
NOTED my Importance while I
was away by using me as a flog
for some White House policy she
didn't like. 1t was a good col
umn, even if eight out of nine
statements about me were
wrong.
The Washington times., 1938-07-14

national thinking" He has
again been ringing the changes
on the notion that ne must
spend money or do something
for this or that section, be-
cause what he wants to do
is for the good Of the nation
aS a whole.
We should remember that
there are two F. D. Roose-
velts, besides all the others.
One is the President, and the
other Is political boss Of the
New Dealers. Mr.. Roosevelt
The Washington times., 1938-07-14
Embarrassing

pECENTLY the press and
~ other publicists began re-
ferring to me as planner.
Kiplinger, among others, had
me card indexed as a planner
and I almost had to get down
on my knees to Kip to get my
card changed. I expect I could
have gone to law to establish
an economic principle by fol-
lowing Walt Lippmann's pro-
posal in the good society, but
the barb would have still been
under my hide while the case
rushed madly at Snail's pace
through the courts.
I might have cured the mis-
conception by getting the Grand
Order of Lofty Planners to say
that I had no union card, but
this would have been embarras-
sing because the order hopes I
will some time repent of my
quaint, old-fashioned notion
CIldL COI1pcClVAOL1 10 4CdA1J I1lC
life of trade.
I got the matter Strengthened
out with Fortune but I think
I must have over-sold them be-
cause they endowed me with
an entirely new school of
economics and have not yet
explained away some of For
tunes delicate delineations
which, of course, got me all
wrong.
1 poured out my heart to
Baruch and he said, why don't
you make a speech?" I found
something better in the form of
this column.
The Washington times., 1938-07-14

d e v o t e d to
them or their
ideas. F &C t
is, m st of
them love it.
Th ey never
throw down a
s t ory that
blows up their
importa n C e,
e v e n if tn e
writer is in
d u l G ing in
ivory t o W e.
DIRE a ming,
They Snirk a
bit, act coy,
and honn M
The Washington times., 1938-07-14

WHILE I was at NRA a
w smart A.P. man lured me
into a prediction that business
conditions would be better in the
fall. told him why I thought
so. Consumers had caught up
with their depression debts.
They had paid their taxes, sal
vaged some of their property
and were spending more for
amusements. More people were
getting married. More furni-
ture was being sold.
I was accused of pulling a
Julius Klein and baSing my fore.
cast merely on two facts: That
the country was getting more
rugs and fewer bachelors. What
made me so damn mad was that
after things did get better in
the fall none of the gang that
covered N. <R. A. could see
story in the fact that the pre-
diction came true. If they had,
my fragile standing with the
academicians might have i'm
proved, because for many years
I had been saying that the cur
rent spending of consumers was
a better indicator and forecaSter
Of business activity than the
past record of prices, the pro-
duction of durable goods, the
activity of capital markets, etc.
I had gone so far as to say
that my fellow digit hounds,
who rely on past records, were
like the ousel bird which flies
backwards because it's more in
terested in seeing where it has
been than where it's going.
The Washington times., 1938-07-14

has emphasized this fact, and it is in his capacity
Of political boss that he is now "stumping" the
Southwest. Accordingly, we may assume that
his talk about national thinking" really means
"New Deal thinking"
The head of his party really means the party
when he talks about the nation.
When Is a Problem National?
A NYHOW, what we want to know is when
IA does problem become 'national?" Is a sit
down strike in Oshkosh a national problem? Is
the price of rice, or peanuts, or tobacco, mat
ter which requires that Mr. Roosevelt pass upon
it? Are the unemployed artists of New York
city to be cared for by the taxpayers of Chicago?
National thinking may be all right, if we
know what it is to be about, who is to do it, and
The Washington times., 1938-07-14

men Of America have to be
thankful for. This Is the ex-
ample and the outstanding
ability of the three men who
are looked up to, respected
and admired by every citizen
IN the country today. Edgar
Hoover! Tom Dewey! How
ard Hughes! Now let us take
each one Of these men sepa-
rately and see exactly what
they have done and how they
have done it.
Edgar Hoover. started in the
The Washington times., 1938-07-14
Calls 1t Remuneration

Calls 1t Reginentation
S6NATIoNAL thinking" as Mr. Roosevelt calls
it, means regimentation. What sadder
spectacle can there be than everybody goose
stepping in the rhythm of the Roosevelts or any
other national" leaders?
When the day of national thinking" comes,
there will be no freedom.
1t is fine to think as social individual and
citizen But when it comes to Furnishing one of
our Senators because he opposed the bill to
pack the Supreme Court, I think that national
thinking" goes way too far.
Again, what is everybodyS business is nobody's
business. Just so, If each Of us tries to take
care of everybody else in the nation think what
a mess we will make Of it! (And think what
an egotist any man is who has the gall to pro-
pose that he be allowed to do the thinking for
the nation)
That sums up Mr. Roosevelt's national think
ing.'
The Washington times., 1938-07-14
My Say

l world today, our budget may be unbalanced,
but there is one great thing that you young