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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
joe louis gets lowdolUn
on those horses for sale

how do they keep that horse
so clean"
and the man asked the woman
how do you keep your clothes
clean"
and the woman laughed and
said
Il never thought of that why
you brush him of course
i thought that was pretty good
because anybody can see that
doheoS could not keep clean the
way do because his paws are too
hard and his legs are too stiff
but still and all he manages to
dance pretty we'll and he can do
more tricks by himself than any
horse in the world
poor war chief am certainly
sorry for him and all those other
circus horses though hear the
ones that got sick are being cared
for and do wish somebody would
buy war chief.
say boss where did you say that
persian cat Scheherezade lives
you know the one that wrote me
that mash note i might stop by
her house on my way in to the
office or should /
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
TEXAS STEER
SEES CAPITAL

Pleasant meanderingS of Ferdi-
nand, a Texas steer, had
come to an end today in the Union
Stock Yards, and a good section
of Northeast w n ington is
breathing easier.
Ferdinand took it on the lam
when the rest of the livestock OF
the defunct Tim McCoy'S Wild
West Show went to a local sIaugh.
terhouse. But not little FerGi.
nand.
Saturday night he was seen in
the backyard of William Gibson,
of 1923 Ruppert'S Lane N. E. Be.
fore Mr.. Gibson could believe mis-
own eyes, Ferdinand had fled to
a nearby swamp.
Yesterday, William White, a
truck driver, came upon Ferdi.
nand and laSsoed him with a bit
of towing rope and trucked him
to the Union Stock Yards. Some
time today Ferdinand will be fea-
tured in a transformation process
which ends in so much hide and
hamburger.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
TROLLEY LINE
Cut PROPOSAL
IS protested
Citizens Ask PUG
To Bar Change

Prospects of having to walk
three blocks for bus or street car
service, which now passes their
very doors, today brought q
throng Of Northeast residents to
a public hearing before the Pub
lie Utilities Commission.
The inquiry deals with a petit.
ton Of the Capital Transit Com.
pany for permission to abandon
its Eighth and F Streets North
east street car line between Union
Station Plaza and Eighth and F
Streets.
PLAN OUTLINED
The company proposes to run
its Glover rk-Trinidad bus line
out of the plaza through F Street
to Fifth, then north to K Street
Northeast. 1t proposes also to let
the existing car lines along Eighth
Street, H Street and D Street
Northeast, also care for transpor.
tatlon wants of the neighborhood.
First witness was j. B. Ecker,
principal assistant engineer of the
company. He estimated the COM
pany can save $4,000 yearly if the
petition was granted. He said the
company was ready to purchase
five new BUSES for the Trinidad
line If the increased patronage de-
manded it. He said traffic counts
between March, 1896, and Noveln-
Der, 1887, showed a patronage de-
crease Of SO per cent on the Eighth
and F Streets car line.
OPERATING COSTS
Operating expenses for a year
on the car line were figured by
the witness at $29, 200 and on the
bus line following for the proSpec-
tive increased PATRONAGE at
$25, 900. Over a 10-year period,
figuring rerailing of the line and
loop terminal to replace the pres
ent SWitchover at Eighth and F.
Streets, Ecker estimated the car
line cost at $4,000. With bus
service over the same period, he
said the cost would be $6O,500.
At the conclusion of the hear
ing on the northeast section of
the line, the PUG Immediately will
plunge into its own proposal that
BUSES be used to replace street
cars on the other section of the
car line, which runs to Cabin
John and Potomac Heights. The
commission proposed the car line
stop at Georgetown and buses be
used westward to the present
terminals.
PROTESTS READY
This brought a crowd of resi-
dents from the Cabin John and
Potomac Heights sections to raise
merry Ned" if necessary in pro-
tecting their transportation
service, to the hearing.
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Times News
Tip Prizes
Awarded

Prize awards In The Washington
Times News Tip Contest were
shared last week by newS-conscious
men and women living in the Dis
trict and nearby Maryland and
Virginia.
Stories telephoned TO The Times
by alert news tipsters ranged from
The discovery of a woman's body
in the Georgetown Reservoir to the
establishment of a bread line for
hungry, stranded employees of the
Tim Mccoy Wild West Show.
Other stories which won prizes
for the news tipsters included
discovery of the third fire within
a week in the Brentwood School,
Brentwood, Md; joint birthday
celebration of a 1-year-old baby
and her sister who were born on
the same hour of May 4, but 10
years apart; injury of Miss Ma
talie Lincoln in a fall from a
horse and Mary Pickford's visit
to the National Archives Building.
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Says Boake Carter

A TER inducing many farmers to borrow money
from the Government, the Department Of
Agriculture has gone into the mortgage fore
closure business in Arkansas on scale that makes
the "skin-flnted" insurance companies and pri
vate bankers look like little angels in comparison
The Government saved" these luckless souls
after it deprived them of the meager living they
were making when the Triple Cotton Act took
out of production the cotton they were producing
by giving them the opportunity to borrow Federal
funds. In exchange, they had to hand the Govern
ment first lien on everything they had from mules
to empty fruit jars.
When time comes for them to pay and they
cannot (and no thoughtful person ever expected
they could under the circumstances the sheriffs
notice is tackled up and the few belongings they
did possess, but hooked to the Government on
Government encouragement, are taken away.
Leaving these people worse off than they were
may be the New Deal Interpretation of the word
rescue" but one cannot help wondering how
many hundreds of thousands of dollars of public
funds the Department Of Agriculture blew" in
this fashion.
Copyright Leger syndcate)
BoGke Carriers opinions are his o1vn and mot
necessarily those of the Washington Times,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
Vandenbergs Stand

T ADMIRED Senator Vandenberg immensely
l. when he came straight out in the Senate
regardless of politics or anything else, and said
he thought they should have the appropriation
they asked for
With all our big men up there-and there are
still plenty of them-I cannot conceive why they
do not side with the Senator from Michigan
and give the Attorney General the money he
needs to run his department.
Millions for defense to fight our enemies, but
not one cent to protect our women and our
children will soon be a motto in America,
thanks to the utter disregard and failure of
the powers that be to safeguard the FBI.
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become menace and hindrance to the progress
OF nation, the citizens of the nation can appeal
to their Government for relief and protection.
ION the other hand, if the citizens become en-
shaved to Government, history records that the
only way yet found to become free men is to
change that Government. This is one of the many
dangers continually pointed out to the plain peo-
pie OF this Nation. "A J. Johnson, president of
the Iowa Farmers Union.
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By E0alw Walsh Mclean

shouldn't have anything to do with the white
slave act and that there is too much concen
trated power in one mans hand. But what
in the world are you going to do about it? You
certainly cannot have power scattered; there's
got to be a head to everything These men don't
like to go out after the appalling white slave
cases. but under the Federal law they are COM
PEELED to do so. If they refuse to touch this
side of their jobs, the first cry you would hear
would be. "Oh, they have been reached and they
are afraid to touch it," So it looks to me as
if they are damned if they do and damned if
they DON'T
A few years ago practically every small boy
wanted to be a gun-man and murderer even
in his innocent play on the street. Today that
is all changed. Most of the boys want to be
Omen and go out and get the killer. Isn't it
much better to have our younger generation on
the side of the law than against it? If Edgar
Hoover and his men had not solved half the
cases they have handled (Which they have)-
this alone is a wonderful record-they wouldn't
have started our boys on the right track in life
to play the game straight and be within the law.
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to carry on as the utter refusal of Congress to
give the Omen ample money to work on.
Everyone saw what that remarkable young
man, Thomas Dewey, did in New York when
he took a firm stand and clamped down on the
underworld, but you cannot expect Edgar Hoover
to succeed if he hasn't the funds. If the people
of America had the faintest inkling of the really
heartbreaking work it is to run down the thou
sands of clues that are handed in on every case,
following first one blind alley after another, only
to find some crank or some outsider is trying
to muscle in! The only way they ever solve
any of the crimes is by keeping steadily at it,
never forgetting it and never giving up.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
BABY HIPPO
HAS ARRIVED

All was serene at the pachyderm
house of the Zoo today; Hanna
the hippo and her newborn baby
we're both doing well. Father Bill
Hippo was handing out the hay
and carrots.
Mothers Day was brought off
in the best tradition, and Head
keeper William H. Blackburne said
the hippos would be on view to the
general public today.
Apprehension that Hanna would
do the baby in-as she did her
other three offsprings, vanished
today.
"She'S a changed animal
since we moved her from the lion
house." explained Keeper Ralph
Norris.
Naming the baby hippo will be
delayed until its sex can be deter
mined.
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pill doctors in Washington:
ct have pointed out the
folly of so many our our peo-
pie getting the attitude that
a Government loan is any
different than a private loan,
if they fail to meet the stipu-
lationS required.
81 would rather be enSlaved
to a private monopoly than to
a Government agency that
follows the same methods as
private monopolies practice.
when private monopolieS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
LAW DISCUSSION

Problems of international law
will be discussed at a meeting OF
the Section of International and
Comparative Law of the American
Bar Association which opens
Wednesday at the Mayflower
Hotel.
Among the speakers will be the
Cuban Ambassador, DR.. Pedro
Martinez Fraga, Senator Key
Pittman and former Senator
George Wharton Pepper.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
MISS ROCKFORD
NAMED QUEEN

Miss Jane Ann Rockford, IT,
senior at Notre Dame High
School, has been chosen Queen
of the May this year, the faculty
announced today.
CARRIED in flowing chiffon and
wearing a crown, Miss Rockford
will preside over the May-day
festival today at the school, at
North Capitol and K Streets
Northwest.
Miss Rockford, who graduates
in June, lives with her parents
at 827 Twenty-second st. N, w.
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necessary for it to drop one
third of its force in the FBI.
The country doesn't realize
that we are being far more
stupid in this matter than we
were even in prohibition days.
One Oman has been killed
since wrote my last article
on this subject and another
one barely escaped with his
life. There is nothing in the
world that will give the crooks
and the underworld characters
the announcement and nerve
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09

closed at a level between 2 and
4 points higher than a week
ago.
The bond market did rela-
lively better. Aided by better
sentiment toward utilities, and
the general search for invest
ment opportunities that has
been intensified by the accu-
mutation of excess bank re-
serves, the market for medium
grade corporate bonds showed
considerable gains.
All the most active stocks
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
TRIP AWARD

The Washington Animated Car
toon School student receiving the
highest marks during the course
will DE awarded a three-day trip
to New York with all expenses
paid, school officials announced
today.
The three days in the metrop.
oils will include an entire day in
the major animated cartoon stu.
dos where every phase of the art
and business will be exnlained.
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- - ~ ~ O4AC
wonder horse
and i find that
nobody is 60
ing to buy do
heos because
it is tim nc
coy's own horse
war chief that
is for sale and
not doheos
doheos is not
owned by the
circus and was
not hard hit
when the sher-
if blew the
sidewalks down
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
They "Get Their Man"

TNALK about the mounted police in Canada
l. always getting their mani think our G.
men right here in this country have shown as
gallant and determined spirit as the Mounties
or any other body of men in the world today.
There are whispers on all sides and in fact,
I have seen few editorials on the subject, that
the Omen are overreaching themselves-they
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09

like war chief was ana so was tim
me coy
While l was standing under
doheoS who is a very big and
white horse a woman was asking
the man who takes care of doheoS
for mr. ostermeier who is doheos
owner
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
World of Finance By LEXIS Haney

NEW YORK-The stock market last week
just about regained all the ground lost in
the preceding week. The composite averages
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
!"

HERE'S bit of farmer philosophy, homely in
= its simple truth, that ought to be pasted in
the hats of every one of the socialpanacea, pink
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
My Say

GO far as I can see in the papers, there hasn't
yet been a nickel given to the Department
of Justice to help it carry on and not make it
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
COunsels Caution in Buying

Counsels Caution in Buying
THUS would not be in hurry to buy at the
moment, but would continue bargainhunting
tactics-I mean cautious outright purchases of
carefully selected stocks during weak spells.
AS yet there is no clear indication of an up
turn either in business or in commodity prices,
and the motor and steel industries are obvi-
ously backward.
1t is apparent the problem of business re-
covery is becoming separated from unbusiness-
like schemes of social reform, and is being given
first place. The President appears to be recog-
nizing the advantages of "appeasement" Thus
it seems probable that enough will be done to-
ward restoring a basis for business confidence
to allow the Government spending that is COM
ing to give some stimulus to business.
The tendency of strength to develop in one
group and then in another is, at this stage, a
favorable symptom.
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moved up. These included more aviation and
utility issues than any other Sorts These did
about the same as the average for all stocks,
moving up 2 to 4 points.
The question that arises now is has a def
mite upper resistance level been reached? Can
the market go ahead on the upside or must
1t go through further period of irregularity,
in keeping with the numerous uncertainties
that still affect private enterprise?
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the bottom at the end of March. Now the
averages have rallied to point about half way
between the low and the high for the year.
Furthermore, they are very close to the last
preceding peak touched on April %.
But probably the most important point is
that various individual stocks Of importance
show that they are at or near critical upper
resistance levels. It seems to me that there is
a good chance that another point or so may
be gained, but that further backing and filling
are then likely for week or two.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
ACCIDENT TOLL
up AS | DIES
over WEEKEND
Score Hurt in D. G..
And Nearby

One person was killed and more
than a score injured, several OF
them seriously, in traffic accidents
in Washington and nearby Mary.
land and Virginia over the week.
end.
John Gedgate, Is, of 1915 Otis
st. N. E., died in Sibley Hospital
yesterday from injuries received in
collision on the Baltimore Boule
ward near Beltsville.
CARS COLLIDE
The victim was a passenger in
a car driven by Bernard Brough-
ton, 81, of the 1900 block Of
Twelfth st. N. E., which collided
with another driven by Leonard
Behrems, Is, of Baltimore.
Broughton and Behrems were
treated at Washington Sanitariurn
for shock and cuts.
John Greenleaf, 20, of Philadei-
phia, suffered conclusion of the
brain when his car crashed into
a bridge on Defense Highway near
Bowie. His condition was de
scribed as undetermined at Cas-
ualty Hospital.
John J. Burrows, "a, Of 500
North Carolina Ave. S. E., is in
Providence Hospital in a serious
condition from skull injuries re-
ceived when struck by an automo-
bile a. Sixth st. and Pennsylvania
Ave. s. E.
THREE IN HOSPITAL
Three persons are in an unde-
termined condition at Casualty
Hospital from injuries sustained
in collision on the Marlboro Pike
in nearby Maryland. All suffer
ing from head injuries, they are:
Doris Willard, 16, of Branchville,
Md: Raymond Embrey, 10, of.
Riverdale, Md, and Walter Proc
tor, %, colored, of 2915 Pennsyl-
vania Ave. S. E.
Pushed into the path of an on
coming car during an alteration,
William C. Watkins, 38, colored, of
Glenmont. Md, is being treated at
Freedman'S Hospital. Police are
holding his aSSailant, also colored.
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BY JOE LOUIS" ELLIS

NIHHFs UHHmpIOh Alley Cat RepOFteFl
we'll boss i beat it out here to
where the circus was and tried to
ind out who was going to buy
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Due to illness Helen Essa mas been forced discontinue
Of
Times will be resumed when Mrs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-09
At Halfway Mark NolD

AT HQHsWQy WAR NOW
GENERAL reasons make it seem important to
sum up the market problem in the fore
going terms just now. The decline week ago
was checked at point appreciably above the
Evening star., 1938-11-13
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
THE LAST RIVER
A Short Short Story
bY Clements Ri pleY

pulled it back A man could make
himself take it AS the day wore on.
the horse began to stumble - stop.
1t carried its head low. When he
walked, to rest it, the heat made his
head reel and the sand burned through
When, at last, his tired eyes caught
faint patch of green, his hands
fumbled at the canteen. He drained it
to the last drop Il did it!' he said
aloud. and to the horse, "You wasted
yours, like a sucker
A dozen ravens tapped off. squall-
ing as he came up through the waist
high scrub that fringed the waterhole.
He saw that they had been feasting
on a dead COW - two of them. A
desert man would have known. Moran
had to see it to understand.
The waterhole was dry.
He stared. hump-shouldered. The
mud was hardly moist, even when he
dug with his hands and put cakes of it
to his tongue. The horse licked at it
and tried feebly to roll.
He stared at the jagged, purple
horizon - at the buzzards, black, still
dots in copper sky He grmned with
twisted lips, then went off and lay
down.
Dawn found the horse stretched
on its side. breathing heavily. He
hauled at it. booted it, got it somehow
onto its feet. 1t weaved there an in
slant and crashed down again. Its
eyes rolled. Even he could see that it
was done
Thirst went down suddenly from
his throat to the midst of him. He
could feel it in his fingers. Then his
mouth hardened "A man," he said.
''ain't like a horse Or Red Gantz.
He can stand what he has to-"
From the saddle bags he took ten
packets, thousand dollars each, and
stuffed them into his pockets. He took
Evening star., 1938-11-13

out a heavy pistol. The horse watched
with patient, frightened eyes. But he
put it up again. One clip of shells left
might need them. "If you was
man," he said, you wouldn't be
lying there. But you can't keep your
head, and you can't take it." He set
his face toward the blue, jagged line
of hills.
An iron sun bore down. The money,
bulging his pockets. hampered him,
and the weight of the pistol increased
with every hour. And then, totally
unexpected, he caught the far-of
glirnmer of water.
He blnked. Say! That damn Mex
whyn't he tell me?" He pushed
forward at stumbling run. "A lake!
Must be two miles wide!' He
could taste it on his tongue now -
feel it. He'd wallow in it - spend half
day lying in it, Judas! Water -"
He broke off short. The trail, in
stead of ending at the edge, went right
through it, a dark ribbon. cutting
the simmer.
"Alkalir' His shoulders sagged.
lust alkali" He plodded on
again, plowmg through the sliding
sand. coughing in the hot, white dust.
Two hours later there was river.
But this time it was no white gleam of
alka!i. You couldn't fool Moran with
that twice. 1t had green trees along
the bank. 1t flowed quietly. parallel
to the trail, a couple of miles off.
Houses, too the fiat 'dobes the
Mexicans built.
Moran was cautious. You couldn't
fool him twice. But nobody would
build a house in this Codforsaken
place unless there was river, would
they? All right, there was river. He
loosened the clip in his gun and struck
off the trail toward the greenness.
Quietly this time. He'd need his
strength. Make himself take it
easy Judas, this heat! Drive a
man nuts! An hour. maybe -
He sweated, his feet sliding in the
sand. He plowed on. Suddenly the
(Costisusd a. poss ~
Evening star., 1938-11-13

dried mud, but he took a hard pride
in drinking from the waterhole and
saving his canteen. He could take it
According to the Mexican it was
eighty miles to the next water - a
tough two days pull for any man and
horse.
The heat surged up from the dry
earth. There was no sound but the
soft, ceaseless f1ick-and- hiss of sand
beneath the hooves.
At intervals he wet his lips, glanced
at his watch Well, man who
couldn't make himself take it, better
get into something besides robbmg
banks. He wasn't like Red Gantz.
And they'd get Red, while he - we'll,
the ten grand in the saddle pockets
would buy a lot across the line. A man
could take a lot for ten grand "a
man who could keep his head and
not play the sucker.
He made the expected dry camp
that night - two swallows of water
and no more. And when he woke,
tired, from dreaming of cool springs
and pitchers of hotel ice water, to find
the sun already crawling across the
sky, he held himself rigidly to another
two.
Measuring every drop, he poured
share into his hat for the horse The
beast gulped avidly and flung its
head. The water tipped out in
precious shower In sudden rage,
Moran smashed his fist into the honey
face. and, as the horse reared back,
he hit it again.
Then, while the animal nosed the
damp hat, he remembered that this
horse had to see him through. Tight
mouthed. he poured more He wasn't
like horse; he could do with less if he
had to.
The sun rode high, malignant,
changing triumph. A dozen times his
hand went to the canteen. But he