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The Washington times., 1938-07-09

This was the indictment OF an
official of Lorton Reformatory as
he pointed out to a Times reporter
a host Of defects which daily en-
danger the lives of more than
/ 900 inmates confined at the re
formatory and the Occoquan (Va.)
WorkhouSe.
MENACE IN WATER
The official indicated two pris
onerS in the prison yard at Lorton
While one man operated an anti
quated hand pump, the othel
filled two tin pals and swung
them on yoke over his shoulders
THAT water" he said, comes
from wells which have been con-
demned.
There is a filtration plant
capable of handling a million
gallons of water from Occoquan
Creek. But there is no bacteri-
ologiSt on duty here to take
count of the bacteria in the
water. There's no money to pay
the bacteriologiS.
MUST USE WELLS
$50 the water that might
otherwise be used from the
plant for drinking purposes
must be used in the boilers of
the plant, and the drinking
water comes from the wells"
There is a sewage disposal plant
at Lorton. It is only one-third com
pleted. There is another at Deco
guam, but it has not been finished
to the point where sewage can bt
treated at all.
1.-THE incompleted Lorton dis
posal plant is nowhere nearly
adequate for the needs" the Of
ficial indicated. "And as a re-
suit, improperly purified sew
age empties into small stream.
This stream frequently runs
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dry in summer, at what result.
ant danger from germs we can
only guess"
You have only to get a good
whiff of the area around tho
stream bed to see what the Of.
ficial means. Decaying matter
makes the place pest hole Of po-
tentially malignant diseases.
When will these conditions be
abolished?
when we find the money In
the District Appropriation Bill.
CONTINUE TO HOPE
"Weve never had enough
money to do the JOB so far, but
there's always another Congress,
and there's always hope the
money may some day be pro-
vided.
But I hope it doesn't take
a plague costing the lives of hun
dreds of unfortunates here, to
bring this to the attention of
the Congressman"
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Unhealthy State

That is a very unhealthy state
of mind for growing girl, whose
mind should be full Of sweet and
normal dreams and visions.
Then, when she was IA, hel
father married again.
And when she was Is, long be
fore anyone thought of it, Ions
before most people even remem
Der it, she met Prince Alexis
MdiVani
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Chebatoris Buried
In Potter S Field

MILAN, Mich, July 9 Q.N.S0.
The body of Anthony Chebatoris.
diminutive bank bandit-killer, to.
day lay in potter's field, just out.
side the Federal detention farm.
Unclaimed by relatives, the body
was buried by prison officials last
night.
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Austria Sugar King
Commits Suicide

LONDON, July 9 G.N.SO The
London Daily Express reported
from Vienna today that George
Won Strakosch-F -Feldringer, head of
AuStria's biggest sugar firm and
husband of the American opera
singer, Renee Bullard, committed
suicide in his apartment.
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Only See the Millions

"They never see me-" she
thought, "they only see all grand
fathers millions and millions of
dollars. They never know me,
they only know all that money
I'll have some day. Nobody ever
speaks to me or writes of me with
out mentioning money"
Naturally, that had an effect
upon her as she grew up.
She wasn't half as pretty as lots
of girls she saw. She didn't think
she was pretty at all. Probably il
was true that a man would only
marry her for her money.
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(END OF PART q

what did that early meeting
1Dith AleriS MdiU1ni mean to Bar
bGrG Hutton? Did she fall in loUe,
eve7t then, 1Dith the prince she tDGS
to marry tive gears later? At Is,
Barbara Hutton began her o1Dn
life, Without restrictions OF Gny
kind, as you 1UiH see in chapter
three,)
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Family Friction

Sometimes she was welcome,
sometimes she was not.
There Was family friction and
family jealousy, as there always
must be in all families, and in this
case it was increased by Barbara'S
enormous personal wealth and hel
growing freedom.
Its just because you've got so
much money" her cousins told
her.
Already, even when she was a
child, everything was based for her
upon her money. She must be
careful what friends she made
they might be after her money
She must be careful later on about
the young men she knew-they
might want her money. Looking
in her mirror and finding herself
much too plump, a very ordinary
looking little girl, so she thought
it began to engrave itself deeply
upon her brain that the only
thing anybody ever thought about
where she was concerned was her
money.
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Pretty and LoUoble

And Edna Woolworth was pretty
and gentle and very lovable. The
Hutton social position was much
more important then than the
Woolworth. And young Franklyn
was already making money in
partnership with his brother, Ed
ward F.. Hutton.
They were a very happy pair,
Franklyn Hutton and his pretty,
gentle wife. Edna Woolworth Hut
ton. And they were even happier
when in November, 1912, a daugh-
ter was born to them, a daughter
who was christened Barbara.
I don't suppose it ever occurred
to pretty Mrs. Hutton as she but.
toned Barbara'S little warm coats
combed out her pretty blond curls
tucked her in bed at night, that
her little girl would grow up with
out her, and grow up with so many
millions that her whole life would
be thrown out of balance.
But so it happened.
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Treasury Condition

Q.N.S9 Treasury balance as Of
July 7, $2,162,177,167.39; miscel-
laneous internal revenue, $10,O28r
1887; customs receipts, $3,716,-
9S6.45; receipts, $80,121, ,975; eX-
penditures, 1882 sic, ,48O.
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WooLWoRTH COURAGE I'M BABS SAYS MISS sT. Johns:
Heiress, Lonely as Child, Restless
In Social Register
b e c a u S e OF
Riches, She Says

were divided into three parts
one to Helena Woolworth Nc
Cam, one to Jessie Woolworth
Donohue, and one to the only
child of Edna Woolworth Hutton.
That made little Barbara Hut
ton one of the worlds richest
heiresSes.
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FaUOrite Daughter

That is true. Yet her mother
was the favorite daughter of
Frank w. Woolworth.
The early death of her mother
was the first tragedy in Barbara's
life.
IT never knew her-I hardly
remember her" Barbara said, but
] have missed her all my life. I
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Many, Many Millions

II never had anything to do
about all this money" Barbara
Hutton said. "It was all decided
long before I was born"
And that was true. Yet, there
it was. Barbara Hutton-and her
many, many millions.
What was she like, then?
She was a small, fat, blonde
girl. Nobody would have noticed
her, or picked her out of room
full of young girls. Her training
and schooling had been expensive
and haphazard. She displayed no
particular ability, no outstanding
characteristics.
Just an ordinary little American
girl, rather shy, quite lonely, with
out any special talents.
There had been no mother to
formulate her character, no mother
to oversee h er impresSionable
childhood days. No mother to
whom she could go with her queS-
tions and her small problems.
Would Haze Been Different
I have always thought that
Barbara Hutton's life would have
been very different if gentle,
kindly Edna Woolworth Hutton
had lived.
Yet here, by some chance, some
quirk of fate, was a little girl who
would one day inherit millions of
dollars, one day become the dollar
princess. And never again would
her name be mentioned without
some reference to all that gold, all
that money. The dollar mark was
attached to her name, to every
thing about her, from then on.
Her life was a constant round of
visits. To her aunt in Burlingame,
Mrs. Frank Middleton. To the Nc
Cams, to Aunt Jessie Donahue,
whom she adored most of all.
To her father, wherever he hap
pened to be. Already she was be-
coming restless, already the sunny,
shy, gentle little girl was realizing
that in the last analysis she was
her own mistress. Who was there
really, to tell her what to do on
when to do it?
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
L0rt0n Inmates on Verge
OF Serious Epidemic
By JOSEPH T, MOONEY

1T is surprising that, with the insanitary conditions
have here, there hasn't been a serious epidemic"
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think any girls life takes on a
different pattern when she is
brought up without a mother"
In the early part of this cen
tury, Edna Woolworth-one Of
the three daughters of the al
ready fabulously rich five-and-
ten-cent store magnate-married
young Frank Hutton. 1t was a
love match. Frank Hutton was
considered a catch, even for a
Wooworth heireSs. He was one
of the handsomest young men in
New York, and one of the most
charming.
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B BROTHER BACKS.
HIM IN BATTLE.
ASSERTS COUNT
.Court Denies Break
With Prince Henry
BY KINGSBURY SMITH
Copyright, 1898, by International
News SeryioeO

LONDON, July 9 U.N.S.0
the first statement he has given to
any newspaper or news agency
since his arrival in England, Count
Court Haugwitz-Reventlow today
emphatically denied that his quar-
rel with Countess Barbara had led
to any split between himself and
his elder brother, Count Henry.
Informed a story had been
printed in the United States re-
porting family rift, the count
authorized International News
Service to say for him:
Reports that a disagreement
has occurred between myself
and Count Henry are not true"
Brief Denial
Owing to the fact that charges
brought against him by his Amer
ican-born countess are pending in
Bow Street court, the count felt
compelled to confine his state
ment to that brief, but compre-
henSlVe denial.
AS he is remanded prisoner,
free in 10000 bail, the Dane is
virtually in the custody Of the
court, and therefore liable to pun
ishment if he publicly comments
on the case.
Prince Henry remained in Lon
don until Thursday night discuss
ing the case with his younger
brother, before leaving for Paris.
Talk Amicable
International News Service was
assured that their talks were per-
fectly amicable, with no SuggeS-
ton of a brotherly cleavage. In
fact, with the exception Of his law
yers and one or two others, Count
Court has received no one but his
brother in the luxurious hotel
where he is quartered.
Prince Henry, being the elder
brother, felt it his duty to consult
with Court relative to the latter'S
defense against countess Bar
bara's charges.
Henry also wanted to learn
Courts future plans in view of
Barbara's refusal up to the pres
ent to listen to the pleadingS Of
mutual friends to consider any
patching up of their bitter quarrel.
Heiress SuppOses
While it is said the many
mooded count is open to a
peace" arrangement, the Wool
worth heiresS remains cold.
She is prepared to take the
stand Wednesday when his trial
is resumed ON charges Court
threatened her with bodily harm.
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IN BABs, SAYS MISS ST. JOHNS
Proud of Ancestors, She Discliams
Social Ambitions, Cites
Purchase of Position

quirk of fate-dn old mans failure to make OI-
made Barbara Hutton "dOUdr princess"
Todau the yoUng beautiful and 2nhdppy Countess
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Hauqwitz- -ReUentlou feels That # she had
less 1ceolth, she might hare more peace and
contentment, might not be acaging bitter
fiqht uith her noblemdn husband over the
custody of their child.
What 1rds Bdrbard's childhood like
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her and her father. I doubt very
much that with all her money
Barbara Hutton has ever had a
real home, Perhaps that was why
she bought Winfield House.
1t is a vast place. but it is home
like, and it has about it an air of
permanence that old English
houses often have, it suggests that
it has been there a long time and
will probably continue to be there,
a sort of foothold for a lonely
young woman without a country.
What was to become of the little
girl Edna Woolworth Hutton had
left motherless? Where should she
go? Who would bring her up?
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Near the Dishpan

AFTER all" she said, I'm only
two generations removed from the
dish pan and it's a favorite delu-
sion of mine that if I had to go
back to it could do pretty good
job. I'm very proud of my ances-
tors, you know"
She said all that knowing that
It would find its way into print.
Said it in the only interview she
granted to any representative of
the press. Yet she is accused of
marrying two foreign titles for
social preStige-a Georgian prince
and a Danish count; of liking to
be called your highness and
nilady.
That wasn't why she married
them, as you will see.
There is still lot of the Wool
worth spirit and purpose in Babs
Hutton. That is one reason for
her separation from Count Kurt
HaugwitZ-Reventlow, I think.
II am very proud of my ances
tors" said the countess.
Most Famous Ancestor
Her most famous ancestor, oI
course, was Frank w. Woolworth
who came from a Pennsylvania
farm. with a few dollars in his
pocket, to start the chain of five
and-ten cent stores that piled w
the millions Barbara inherited
Pioneer farm stock. A young mar
without any influence or capita
who succeeded in the good Ole
traditional American way--be
cause he had an idea.
DO people realize that I havt
no more to do with running tn,
Woolworth stores than have with
running the British Empire?
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow SAT-
to me. why, if I so much as pu
my nose inside the offices of tn
men who run that company dare
say they'd ask me to leave a
quickly as they would ask anybod.
elSe-maybe quicker"
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Only on Visits

There was plenty of competi-
ton for the job. The Woolworths
wanted her, wanted to bring her
up their way. Aunt Helena Wool
worth Mccain, who had married
into the most exclusive inner so
cial circles of New York, wanted
her. Aunt Jessie Donahue, who
was to Barbara the most enchant-
ing person she knew, wanted to
bring her up with her own boys.
Out in the magnificent house at
Glen Cove, Long Island, her grand
father and grandmother lived
and there was even a little talk
that the motherlesS child might
go there. But her grandmother
wasn't well, and the illness made
her forgetful, and so it was deem
ed best that little Barbara should
only go there for visits.
Her father settled the matter
without any argument. He had
lost his adored young wife. He
didn't intend to give up his daugh-
ter. He was quite capable of bring
ing her up himself. He and his
wife had talked about Barbara S
future many times. He knew what
she wanted for her little girl. He
would take Barbara with him.
Very soon after that they start.
ed for California-the handsome
young widower, whose very real
grief for his wife's death still
could not altogether dim his ex.
uberant spirits. Frank Hutton
loved life. He loved excitement
and companionShip and people
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; and making money in the stock
market. They must have been an
interesting pair, the tall handsome
young man and the round, ador-
ing small girl with her blond curls.
Go to Coast
First they went to Los Angeles,
where her father was opening up
western territory for the firm of
E. F. Hutton. Then they lived in
Santa Barbara for a while. Then
young Mr.. Hutton was too busy
to give the little girl the attention
she needed and she went to live
in Burlingame with her fathers
sister. Went to a fashionable
school in that very fashionable Sec
ton of San Francisco suburbs.
Little Barbara had grown fatter
and she wasn't so pretty when she
was 10. The awkward age. And
she was never quite happy away
from her father. Aunts were all
very well, but she was always
lonely for him.
She didn't, it seemed, really be-
long anywhere. The other girls
had mothers and homes and set
tied lives.
They had backgrounds. And
small Barbara listened with silent
longing when they talked about
their mothers and their homes.
NeUer Had Real Home
For from the time of her
mothers death she literally never
had real home, not one that she
could count on, one that actually
belonged to her, one that was al
ways there. Her father loved her,
came to visit her often, even in his
busiest times.
And she looked forward to those
visits hungrily, looked forward to
the vacation trips with him.
But she was very lonely child
living strange nomad existence
And then came the strange Sc
quence of events which were tt
make her the dollar princess, one
OF the richest girls in the world
The strange sequence of events
which were to give her more
money than she knew what to dC
with, more money than she coulc
spend or give away. If it had beer
a million dollars, or five millior
dollarS-Barbara Hutton nigh
have been a normal, happy youns
woman, might have married 6
clean young American, had ar
American home and an American
family.
GrosOs to $5O,OOO,OOO
But 20 million dollars that wa
to grow before she was 81 into al
most SO million dollars.
you can't imagine" Barbari
Hutton told me, what so milliol
dollars does to your life. OF cours
I love having money! love buy
ing beautiful things-being abl
to travel-but-it has its burden
and its drawbacks, though peopl
never seem to believe that"
The Shrewd man of business
the genius of the chain stores
Frank w. Woolworth died maxim
a will. 1t was incredible, unbt
lievable, but it was true. TIL
only will existing was one he ha
made when he was a young ma
and it left all of which he die
possessed to my beloved wife
Jennie Creighton Woolworth."
Vast Empire
But times had changed great
since he made that will. Hi
possessions had grown to be
vast empire. He was many time
a millionaire. And the girl
had married, the girl Jennie, VIII
had helped him to amass tha
great American fortune, who ha
always stood by during goo
times and bad, was an old lad!
so i'll that she scarcely recognize
her daughters or her small grant
daughter when she was brougt
to see her in the gloomy quie
mansion on Long Island.
So, when she went to join HI
husband, she could make no ne
Twill and the Woolworth millior
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NO longer can size CIdln Iue
protection of her own country, the
land where she was born and
where the millions that made her
the Dollar Princess were made.
She is buying the best legal talent
in England, but 1 have a feeling
that she must feel very lonely
and very far from home.
ave Will Go Home"
II have discovered" count
Haugwitz-Reventlow said to me,
"that my wife loves America very
much. If Barbara wants to go
home-and home to her will al
ways be America-we will go
home"
But that was two years ago and
that promise was never fulfilled.
Instead, by some unbelievable
pressure, by some startling Sc
Quence of events, Barbara came
home only to turn her back for
ever upon the country her huS-
band told me she loved.
Yet she's still an American girl,
fighting among foreigners, to pro
tect her only son and the millions
left her by an American pioneer.
Strange Predicament
How does it happen that the
granddaughter of Frank w. Wool
worth-who is after all only ar
American girl in her twenties-
finds herself in so strange a pre-
dicament?
Much is said today Of Barbara
Hutton'S social ambitions, of hel
desire to conquer the innermost
portals of London society. 1t is
alleged that she bought Winfield
House, one of the most famous
and magnificent mansions in Lon
don, because she wanted to en-
tertain there and make herself
an important London hostess
spending her millions upon Socia
conquest.
Yet Barbara Hutton once sale
to me, Il don't give a hoot about
social position. We haven't any
social position, really. How coulc
we have? If we didn't have al
this money We wouldn't be in the
social register" And a funny
very honest little smile came ovel
her face,
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
By ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Copyright, 1888 by United Features Syndicate,
CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER IWO
Somewhere TODAY In London girl named Barbara Hutton
Haugwitz- Reventlow.
Around her head gather startling Within few
days she will stand court and her own husband has
stated that he will produce evidence against her.
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hOlC dld 1t 1nJtne1lce heT JbUTe:
Adela Rogers St. Johns noted screen C77ter ana moVe-
tst tells you Chapter of the STORY behind the head
lines in the life Of Barbara Hutton.
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international News Photo

and making money in the stock
market. They must have been an
interesting pair, the tall handsome
young man and the round, ador-
ing small girl with her blond curlS.
Go to Coast
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. II. CUP
Eight aliens, charged with illegal
entry into the United States were
sentenced to the Mcneil Island
prison by Federal Judge jeremiah
Neterer, as he opened the January
term of the u. S. district court
here today.
Sentences in the immigration
cases ranged from one to five years
with Jesus Gutierrez, arrested in
Calexico, receiving the stiffest sen
tence. He was given severe treat
ment because he changed his name
and reentered the United States
after having been deported to Mex
leo, officers said.
A civil action set for Jan. IA en-
titled United States VS.. a Cadillac
Automobile" involves seizure OF an
automobile said to be owned by
Alejo Alexandra Editors note;
Alexandra is the Alexandra Vega
who spent a brief time in the I'm
perial county jail in connection
with failure to pay income tax
on sweepstakes Winnings)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
MAIL THEFT
JUST LOVE
lContinued from Page

AA5OllAIAAuGA
snatehed at his wrist and held
it. Searching Adviento. he found
a So calibre revolver in the inside
oyercoat pocket.
At the police station the Fill
pinos denied any intention to rob
the mail truck, but failed TO give
any adequate reason for their pres
ence at the depot They were lodg-
ed in the county jail
Wednesday morning Desk Ser
geant Stark. examining reports for
the night before. came across Per-
atlas name. He remembered that
Miss Tracy had appealed to the
police department two times for
protection, declaring Peralta had
threatened to kill her if she left
town.
The first time Stark went him
self to the bus depot to place the
woman safely on the bus. The
Filipino was there, but fled when
the officer approached. The girl,
however. missed the bus. She at
tempted to take the bus again in
the afternoon but again the Fill
pino Was there, she said, and she
went back to her hotel She tried
the third time to leave on the night
train. she said but was frightened
when she saw the Filipino and his
friends there again.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
Candy Salesman Sells
Wares avith Wie's Body
Crammed Into Trunk

WALESNBURG, Colo, Jan. Il
0UP)-As a candy salesman, Eve
rett Hughes was reliable enough
that homicide could not delay him.
Even the Staying of his wife. So
he loaded his automobile with
samples of his sweetstuffs, cram
med his wife's body into the cars
rear trunk, and went out as usual
TO call on his customers.
Between towns, after his days
work was done, he found a likely
place beside the road and buried
his wife. She was a writer and
poetess.
Then Hughes returned to his cam
dy route He couldn't disappoint
his customers.
II was nine days ago that he shot
his wife, after an argument about
money and divorce. 1t was Hughes
own son who trapped him. Mrs
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Continued from Page y

tCO0Inueu from rage i
the secretary said Interest Of
young farmer groups is responsible
in part for the growth, he said.
Director Earl Northrop stressed
the Importance of the fair to the
Imperial County Farm Bureau and
various farm eenters. declaring
there is an urgent need for various
farm centers to begin now the
preparation Of their exhibits for the
fair.
Livestock shows at the county fair
have done more than any other
one thing TO encourage farmers in
building up good livestock herds.
Northrop said.
History of the county fair organ
ization was reviewed by speakers
who pointed out that the fair was
$4,000 in debt at the end of the
1881 exposition At that time the
board was reorganized and directors,
headed by Ben Hulse. signed per-
sonal notes at the bank to cover
the debt. Since that time. the
speakers pointed out, the fair has
paid off its debt and become a