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The Washington times., 1938-10-06
NICE CRITICIzES.
O'CONOR RULING
ON PRIMARIES.
Governor Launches
Election Drive

Questionable voting practices
in Baltimore and several Mary
land counties became a campaign
issue today as Governor Harry
Nice and Republican candidates
for State Offices opened their gen.
eral election drive in Prince Fred
erick, Calvert county.
From there they we're scheduled
to 60 to Leonardtown tomorrow
and La Plata Saturday, with the
Democratic candidates headed by
Senator Tydings and Attorney
General Herbert r. O'Conor fol-
lowing the same trail Saturday
and early next week.
BLANEs O'CONoR
In a letter to the Board of Elec-
ton Supervisors in Baltimore,
Governor Nice called attention to
practices in Baltimore which gave
his Democratic opponent for the
governorship, Mr.. O'Conor, popu-
lar pluralities in each of the six
legislative districts of the city, and
which the Governor denounced AS
at variance with the requirements
of State law. Governor Nice
blamed his opponent for the in
depreciation of the law which he
criticized.
Governor Nice charged that "er.
rors, many Of them material"
were committed in 1855 out Of l78
precincts in the Fourth and Fifth
legislative districts Of Baltimore
In the primary election, and ex-
pressed the opinion that similar
conditions prevailed elsewhere.
USED NO POLL BOOKS
He also charged that election
officials, acting under ruling by
O'Conor as attorney general,
omitted the use of poll books and
clerks as required by State law,
and allowed applicants to use the
voting machines after signing ap-
plication books, without first es-
tablishing their right to vote.
Both political parties and both
candidates for governor are COM
mitted to proposals to amend the
Maryland election laws to simplify
primary elections.
Governor Nice's letter follows
disclosure that in some of the
Allegany county election districts
the number of Second-choice votes
apparently cast for governor ex-
ceeded the number Of first-choice
votes cast. There was so much
confusion in the marking and
counting Of the ballots there that
the unofficial and official counts
and a recount produced three diff
3erent results.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
TAVERN KEEPER.
READY TO KILL.
.SWOC RAIDERS.
Friends Prevent His Fir
ing Into Mob Of 500

TARENTUM, Pa, Jan. %
UNSJ.-To Martin v. Mehal, a
tavern keeper in nearby Natrona,
his home is his castle and only
the insistent Intervention Of cool
headed friends, he admitted to
day, had prevented him from
moving down q mob of 500 SWOC
members who attempted to invade
it to find and destroy back to
work" petition being circulated
by employees of the closed ALE.
gheny Steel Company in Bracken-
ridge.
His wife, who is an expectant
mother, collapsed with fright as
the cheering, hooting and yelling
crowd converged on Mehal's COM
bined tavern and residence for
the petition which speakers had
charged at a mass meeting was
being circulated by Mehal's
brother, Martin.
FRIEND WARNS HIM
A friend Of the tavern keeper
ran from the SWOC meeting to
warn Mehal, who at once closed
his establishment and telephoned
police. AS the excited mob rushed
his beer garden, breaking the
windows and tearing off the door
hinges. Mehal quickly loaded his
20 repeating rifle and leveled 1t
at the center Of the mob.
AS he made ready to fire, friends
inside the tavern pulled the gun
from his hands and the crowd was
finally driven off by Harrison
township police.
MEANT TO SHOOT
IT would have fired into that
crowd If my friends hadn't
stopped me-" Mehal said. II
was determined to protect my
family and property"
Mrs. Mehal was under care Of a
physician today.
The Allegheny steel plant was
closed after being ringed by SWOC
picketS who refused to permit
workers to enter unless they
showed certificates their dues were
paid.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
Health Aid Corps
Plans Luncheon

Members Of the Health Aid
Corps Of the District Of Columbia
chapter of the American Red
Cross, who served as volunteer
workers in Washington hospitals
and clinics, will hold a luncheon
meeting at the Highlands Apart
InentS, Connecticut Avenue and
California Street Northwest at
p. m. tomorrow.
Miss Marion Ferguson, super
visor In the Bureau Of Public
Nursing Of the District Health De-
partment. a specialist on tubercu-
losis, will speak. Mrs. Henry G..
Wood, chairman Of the corps, will
preside.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
NEW HYBRID BIRD
International News Photo

THOMPsONILLE, Conn.,, Jan.
28 Q.N.S).-James H. Bales, oi
this town. has succeeded in breed
ing something new in birds. He
has a hybrid bird that is a cross
between a pheasant and a game
cock. He says it's outward appear
ance is that of a pheasant, but it
possesses the fighting spirit Of q
gamecock.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
B.H. Frau1n Named
Bentley's Manager

Benjamin H. Fraum today was
appointed manager of Bentley'S,
AIT Seventh ST.. N. W., clothierS.
Mr.. Fraum Is well known in the
clothing industry. having been in
this business in the Middle West
and New England since 1922. He
recently managed a store in Hart
ford, Conn. The local Bentley
store Is one Of a chain Of IL 10
Gated in metropolitan centers.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
DR.. HILL SPEAKER

DR.. Richard Hurst Hill. execu'
tive secretary to DR.. Mordecai w
Johnson. president of Howard
University, will be the religious
speaker Sunday at the all-uni-
versity service in Rankin
Memorial Chapel at II a. m. Music
will be provided by the university
choir under the direction of Dean
Lulu v. Childers.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
!. Q.Answers
(ouestiOns on Page y

Questions on Page y
Score 10 FOR Yes ON questions
and 4, 0 for No. 5 for K. Score
0 for Yes and 10 for No on ques-
tionS 2, 8, S, 6, 7, 8. Score S
for x. Score minus for for
any Of the items checked yes
on 0. This means 1t would be
impossible to score 100, so being
the highest score.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
The Weather

District Of Columbia-Fair and
continued cold with lowest tenn
pefature about Is degrees tonight; i;
Saturday cloudy with rising tenn.
'perature, light snow Saturday
afternoon or night; colder Sun
day; light variable winds, becom-
ing southerly and increasing
Saturday.
aMryland-Fair and continued
cold tonight: Saturday cloudy
with rising temperature, followed
by light snow in west portion
Saturday afternoon and in east
portion Saturday; afternoon or
night colder Sunday.
Virginia-Fair and continued
cold tonight: Saturday increasing
cloudiness with rising tempera-
ture, light snow in north portion
Saturday afternoon or night and
probably in the interior Of south
portion Saturday night: colder
Sunday.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High tides today, 5:45 a. m. and
GIL p. m.
Low tides today, 1918 a. m. and
1888 p. m.
High tides tomorrow, 6:S1 a. m.
and 6:55 p. m.
Low tides tomorrow, 1:07 a. m.
and 1922 p. m.
THE SUN AND MOON
The sun rises today, 7:1s a. m.
and sets 5:2s p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow, 7:17
and sets 5:29 p. m.
The moon rises today, sos a. m.
and sets 500 p. m.
The moonr ises tomorrow, 5:46
a. m. and sets 1855 p. m.
TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
CONDUIT GROUP.
SEEKS INCREASE.
IN RELIEF FUNDS|
Specific Cases Cited
In Congress Plea
BY A. J. DRIsC0LL
Citizens Associations Editor

NAAAACuo SAS3OSA&sAOAS SNAOVA
The Conduit Road Citizens Asso-
citation last night unanimously ap-
proved placing school grounds,
now partly supervised by the Dis
trict Fairgrounds Department, en-
tirely under the Community Cen.
ter Department Of the Board of
Education. This action is in line
with q recommendation of the
Collins subcommittee in charge Of
the District appropriation bill.
With spokeSmen citing extreme
cases Of poverty, an appeal was
made to Congress for a substantial
increase In appropriations for
District relief.
GYMNASIUM SOUGHT
Approval was voted a resolution
by Mrs. Hans SorenSon, president
of the Hardy.Key P. T. A., request
ing the National Capitol Parks
office to erect gymnasium on
Palisades Field. The plan would
provide indoor recreation facln'
ties for 500 children.
James p. Cochran, chairman OF
the police and fire committee, de-
clared he soon will offer a resolu-
ton urging abolition Of the Dis
trict parole system and d1Scon'
tinuance Of court sentences which
run concurrently.
r, H. Blattor was elected dele
gate to the Federation OF Citizens
Associations to succeed c. A.
FRANKLIN, who has moved from
the community. An Illustrated
lecture on street safety was given
by officer BinSwanger, in charge
Of the schoolboy patrol.
NORTHEAST ELECTS
The Northeast Business Mems
Association, meeting last night IN
the Northeast branch OF the
Hamilton National Bank, elected
j, o. Cardin, president; James 7.
Rogers, first vice president;
Robert e. wilhelm, second vice
president: Louis I. Obergh, Secre-
tary; George e. Geiger, sergeant
alarms; DR.. Robert w. McCul-
Tough and James P. Bailey, gen.
eral council. Elected to the execu-
tive board were Louis L. Bowdler,
DR.. Mccullough, Curtis E. Mccall
ip, DR.. James j. Greeves and Ray
G. Dunno. Announcement was
made of the annual banquet to
be held at the Mayflower Hotel,
February 2, with William e. Dodd'
former ambassador to Germany
as guest speaker.
Asserting the District will be
provided for, Representative JACK
Nichols, chairman Of the House
subcommitte on District taxation,
yesterday warned the Central
Business Mems Association against
seeking an increase in the lump
sum appropriation. He spoke at
q luncheon meeting.
According to the Jacobs COM
mittee report, Nichols said, the
Federal Government should pay
only $2,900,000, instead Of the
5,OOU,OUO now appropriated. IL
all Federal buildings and grounds
were taxed, he declared, the total
would be only 100000.
FAVORS SALES TAX
The Congressman said he fa-
vored q general sales tax for the
District, but was outvoted by the
members of his committee, as
result, he said "you will get con-
tinuation of the business privilege
tax with refinementS."
Nichols predicted the present
real estate tax may be reduced
from its present emergency of
SITS to $3.50 per hundred valua-
tion. He added that his commit
tee probably would render a re-
port next Wednesday.
The Washington times., 1938-01-28
ROBIN HOOD

The oldest mention Of Robin
Hood appeared about 1877, in the
second edition Of Piers Plowmar.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
&c. C. WILL HOLD
FIRST INSTITUTE

A series of weekly institutes on
vocational guidance will start to-
morrow evening at the Jewish
Community Center, with DR.. Sc
bastian N. Littauer, mathematics
professor at the U. S. Naval Acad-
emy, as the speaker.
The series of four talks ar
ranged by the educational COM
mittee of the center, is designed
to appeal particularly to young
people preparing to embark upon
their careers. Invitations to at
tend have been sent to members
of the various boys and girls clubs
Of the center.
Other speakers in the series of
Wednesday night institutes will
be Joel D. Wolfsohn, secretary of
the National Policy Commission;
Harry A. Jager, of the Bureau of
Education, and Max F. Baer, head
of the B'nai Birth Vocational
Guidance Bureau.
David Bornet will preside as
chairman of the meeting tomor-
row and will lead the discussion.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
ENGRAVERS TALK.
SHOP AT PARLEY.

Technical discussions relating to
the photoengraving business, fea-
lures of the Social Security Act
and relations between employer
and employe are scheduled today
to occupy the second day of the
forty-second annual convention of
1t he American photographers,
now in session at the Mayflower
Hotel.
One of the outstanding features
Iof the opening days conclave was
discussion of natural color pho
Biography. This is made possible
by a new camera which makes
natural color photographs. The
new camera is not a color separa-
ton camera, but a device which
takes direct color shots, produc-
ing three different negatives in
one exposure. This process enables
the amateur to produce finished
natural color prints in his own
dark room with no equipment
other than that used for the ordi,
nary black and white film.
The convention will adjourn
tomorrow afternoon with a dis
icussion on the United States
Secret Service and its relation to
the photoengraving industry. Fol
lowing the discussion resolutions
will be adopted and reports from
the committees submitted.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
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SORE FEET and BACKACHE

misery-when muscles are sore and
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Every druggist in America sells Omega
Oil-he knows that it's great and effec-
tive for the relief of the pains of rheu-
matism, sciatica, neuritis, neuralgia and
lumbago-he knows It's good-yes-35
cents is the price.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
Md. u. Roll Up l9 Pct.

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Oct. 18.
Student enrolment at the Uni
versity of Maryland this term
showed a 10 per cent increase
over last year. according to fig
ures compiled by Alma Princkert,
university registrar.
Enrolment last year was 1896,
and this year was 2,851; an in
crease of ASS. These totals include
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
Posses Hunt Trio
Lost in SnOWstOrm

DENVER, Col, Oct. 18 Q.N.S0.
Peace officers, boy souts, CCC en-
rollees and forest employees today
resumed search for three persons
missing in a snowstorm which
swept over Montana and Wyom.
ing. The missing persons are Mrs.
Ann Reilly, so, of Butte, Mont, a
WPA employe, Guy Pizer, of Poca-
tello, Idaho, and James Cummins,
%, of East Helena, Mont, hunters.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
PWA Grants
$157,5OO to
Md. County

Two Prince Georges county
public works projects total
ing $3.50, 1000, have been ap-
proved by the Public Works
Administration, it was an
nOunced today.
Construction OF two news
wings to the present court
house at Upper Marlboro and
a building to house county
officers in Hyattsville are pro-
vided.
OF the total expenditure,
the Government will make an
outright grant of $157,5OO,
while the remaining funds
must be raised by the county.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
PLAN TO CLOSE.
KEY BRIDGE TO.
AUTOS WEIGHED.
Construction of New
Span Is Reason

Closing of Key Bridge to private
automobile traffic for a year, be-
ginning about December is loomed
as an ominous possibility for thou
sands of Arlington suburbanites
today.
The possibility Of such action
was intimated by C. Marshall Fin
nan, superintendent of National
Capital Parks, who said the pro-
posal is now being considered by
the Bureau of Public Roads and
the District Highway Department.
PARKWAY PLAN
Closing Of the bridge to private
ears may be necessary when con-
Struction of new span is under
way, in connection with the ex-
tension of the George Washington
Memorial Parkway.
The parkway will be built be-
low the bridge and a new span is
to be added to the bridge under
q PWA allotment.
In the event it is decided to
close the bridge to motorists, cars
will be re-routed over the Airing
ton Memorial Bridge, which traf-
fic surveys show is already heavily
congested during rush hours.
OPEN TO TRUCKS
1t is contemplated that during
construction work on Key Bridge,
half Of the bridge would be closed
to traffic, the other half being
used by trucks, buses and street
cars.
Intimation of the possibility of
closing the bridge to private cars
was made by Mr.. Finnan ct
hearing yesterday of the Public
Utilities Commission.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
Bethel Lodge Guests

Members of Bethel Lodge No. S
Jobs Daughters, will be guests OF
Myron M. Parker Lodge, No. 81
tomorrow evening and will present
their degree work for benefit OF
their hosts. A short social hour
will follow.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18

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some modern set that gives you
everything you need In radio at a
new low price!
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The Washington times., 1938-10-18
In Many Cases Overnight
Results Make
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What you want is relief from aches,
pains, soreness and lameness in. joints
and muscles and speedy relief Is what
you may expect when you use power
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The Washington times., 1938-10-18

Believe It Or Not" Ripley
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in his newest contest starting
Monday in the Washington Her.
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The Washington times., 1938-10-18

graduate students who numbered
1877 last term and 312 this year.
OF the student body, 1854 are
men and 897 are goods. Freshmen
total 1859.
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
Amen Turned Loose
To Purge Brooklyn

NEW YORK, OCT 18.-John Harlan Amen, son-in-aw
of President Cleveland went into action today special
racket prosecutor superseding District Attorney William
F. x Geoghan of Brooklyn in the investigation of alleged
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
corruption.

An ace Federal rackets
buster often enlisted by
Attorney General Cum
mings, Amen was ap-
pointed last night by Gov
ernor Herbert II. Lehman.
Lehman asked Attorney
General John J. Bennett,
jr., to designate Amen to
take charge of the pro-
tracted investigation in
Brooklyn after the De-
partment of Justice re-
leased him for the appoint
ment.
The Investigation was
The Washington times., 1938-10-18
International News Photo
JOHN H. AMEN

prompted by undercover inquiry conducted by William
B. Herlands, city commissioner of investigation.
Within six years Amens investigation and prosecution
has smashed rackes the artchok butter and eggs salt
and fresh fish markets. pier loading, package de-
livery and fur industry rackets
ADVERTISENTENT ADVERTTsEMENT
Nogales international., 1938-08-06
The Third Term

WE hope that President Roosevelt will not seek a
" third term in 1910.
George Washington declined third term so did
others. Only two have sought it. They were Presi-
dent Grant and Theodore Roosevelt. Both were de-
feated.
Should he seek another term, Franklin D. Roose-
welt would lose the support of thousands of loyal
Democrats who have stood by him since he was nom
mated the first time and he would probably be de-
feated. If Roosevelt should not seek another term,
and his choice is nominated at the 1910 convention
the next President will most certainly be Demo
crat.
Third term or no third term Roosevelt will go down
in history one of our greatest presidents
Loyalty is fine quality. Indeed it is rare quality
to find among and women who have been in pol
itics for very long. Glendale News)
You accomplish very little by denouncing the mo-
tives of individual; if there is something wrong
why not say what it is?
Nogales may not be the largest municipality in the
nation but it be the BEST far as it's people
concerned.
A man, to have friends among thieves, must be
willing to do as the thieves do
Nogales international., 1938-08-06

land, wrote me to come, but l
hung on. 1t had to rain some
time. 1t was Emily who decided
it, After we lost the wheat crop.
and took such loss on the lambs,
she just decided it was never 60
ing to rain again!
"So we held an auction and left.
/ took the Ford truck and $124
in cash.
1--WE headed for the Yellowstone
Road, and it was a kind of ad-
venturous feeling. 1t took us about
two weeks to get to. Spokane.
1--WE stayed around Spokane a
few days, but l couldn't help out
the family budget much there. So
we filed up the truck with gas and
went down to the Yakima Valley.
I'VE went to the nearest town
and started looking for work.
Any kind of work. The trouble
was that about a thousand other
men like me from the drought
states were looking for work. too.
Our money went down and down
- eighty dollars, fifty, twenty.
81 told the people at the relief
ofcce about my farm in South
Dakota, and my experience. They
sent me over to the Resettlement
Administration outfit now it's
called the Farm Security Admin
iStration.
"Wen. signed some more
papers, and the Resettlement Ad-
ministration made me a loan OF
$2.1OO.
I'VE worked out the first years
budget to the penny.
THAT agent certainly knew how
to figure. He'd done a lot of it
for other folks like me. He knew
didn't know much about farming
in a mountain country with lots
cake country with no water. So
he gave me a lot of suggestions,
and ! wasn't too proud to take
them.
1.-The other day sold some lambs
and l made my first payment on
the loan Then | knew | was out
of the charity class and standing
on my own feet again. tell you
l felt good! But where Id been
if hadn't got that loan / don't
k~0w
This is a great country out
here" says Carlsen.
Here the wasted food waters
and thekwasted desert soils are
brought together. Here power will
lie so cheap that houses can be
heated by electricity. Here thou
sands of westward-moving wan
derers who have been burnt out.
blowed out. ct out may some day
find a promised land"
Nogales international., 1938-08-06

! They have been rafting into
California, Oregon. Washington,
and Idaho. Not all have for I'd
! What are these people going to
dor Most of them can never go
back to their old homes.
In the September Issue of Co.'S
mopolitan Magazine, Stuart Chase,
famous American author. has
taken the typical story of a man
who has made this historical trek.
Harry Carlson has not found a
promised land. but he has found
a farm and water instead or dust.
His rented place is in county
in Washington and he is forty
three years old. His wife. Emily,
Is forty-one, and their eldest boy,
Frank. is eighteen. Laura, fifteen,
and Warren, twelve, are the other
children. He has forty sheep. five
cows, and thirty-six lambs already
on the new place.
my folks came originally from
Sweden" Harry Carlson relates In
Cosmopolitan's Autobiography of
America: 1885," They went to
Michigan and numbered until the
trees were all gone, and then they
farmed. Later my father went out
to Minnesota, where my mothers
father had land. There were
eleven children in the family alto
gether. Emily was a school teach
er when | first met her-at a All
Club meeting in her country
schoolhouse."
The Carlsens were soon mar
ried
81 had saved up little and l
borrowed some more and bought
us a 64O-acre wheat farm. My
folks thought it was a 6ne thing.
But then dust storms began in
earnest in 1882. In the spring of
"a, l seeded three inches deep, by
May tenth it was all blown out of
the ground. In '35 got wheat rust.
what the drought and rust
didn't get. the grasshoppers did.
'I'll never forget the first real
duster. A great black cloud came
crawling up the sky from over
FORTIFIED way.
'In the summer of '35 it was
1J70 in the shade, if you could find
any. Feed burned up and the
sock kept getting thinner and
thinner.
"Trees began to die. and trees are
mighty scarce on the plains. Peo-
pie got tired of eating meat from
stock that got so thin they had to
De butchered.
T hated to leave. had a good
house, a nice farm, lot of ex-
pensive machinery and 800 head
of sheep.
my uncle, the druggist in Port
Nogales international., 1938-08-06
Thickness. of Earth's Crust

The thickness of the earth's
crust has been variously computed
to be ten, twenty or more miles.
Observations on earthquake motion
by Milne and others indicate that
the rock material may extend for
some thirty miles. Researches in
regard to the radioactive sub
stances present in rocks suggest
that the crust is not more than fifty
miles thick
Nogales international., 1938-08-06
DirtCheap At That

I'm 1850, a person who took
railroad train on Sunday in Massa-
chusetts was liable to a fine of $1O."
Meaning to say that if a person
took one on weekday it was
theirs.
Nogales international., 1938-08-06
A Scarce Article

Senator LaFollette is seeking
the truth" Man, oh man! he sure
has a tough job on his hands.
Nogales international., 1938-08-06
From Singular To Plural

Joe Louis to defend title for the
fifth time with Max Bear as the
party of the second part" Max Is
liable to finish up as the parties
composed of good many parts.
Nogales international., 1938-08-06
Copyright 1888 by HI. Painter)
If They Could

Republicans would take So seats
from Democrats if election were to-
day." Because the Democrats are
on vacation and can't be bothered.
Nogales international., 1938-08-06
Extremes

Latin American clubs of Ari-
zona will pick slate" They should
try cotton-the pick's are softer.