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The Washington times., 1938-10-14
Saws BOake Carter

There is a perfect paralysis of business, and
everyone stands waiting to see what others will
do."-Savannah Georgian, April 49, 1887.
wall Street is melancholy All look to Wash
ington with fear and trembling. w Washington
ID. c. Daily National Inteligencer, June, 1885,
"The President has purchased all the popu
larity he has or ever had."-Connecticut Courant
Hartford, January 2, 1887
'The great danger to our system lies in the
tendency to an excess of power in Executive
hands, system fast yielding to despotism."-
New York Tribune, october II, 1841.
In those days there was neither Hitler nor
MusSolini. So everyone had to fall back on earlier
dctators, Caesar, Napoleon and their followers.
1T cannot be disguised that we have over us
worse tyrant than any of the Caesars" roared the
Michigan Argus, Ann Arbor, April 13, 1887.
"The Constitution has been trampled upon as
dust" cried the New York Daily Express, Febru-
ary, 1887
The Connecticut Courant cried aloud against
packing the Supreme Court in 1897; the New
York Daily Express inveighed against the flood
of governmental experiments.
1t is little book everyone should read But
it should also be remembered as Wilfred may
have overlooked, that while repetition Of the
same complaints has existed for 100 years, it was
the vigilance of repetition that has always kept
American democracy. Don't forget that. So
perhaps the newspapers have nothing of which
to be ashamed.
Copyright Ledger syndcate)
(Bouke Carter's opinions are his own and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TtnIeSJ
The Washington times., 1938-10-14
NeW YOrkers Prefer Steaks

NEW YORK has more different kinds of res
~ taurants and more different kinds of cook
ing than any other city in the country, but we
would say that the New Yorker's characteristic
dish is steak The wealthy New Yorker sojourn-
ing on the West Coast and down South now
has his home town meats planed to him at regu-
lar intervals.
We would not give you nickel for a steak
cooked the way the average New Yorker likes it..
We want our steak we'll done, if at all, but or
dering it that way in New York is tantamount
to insulting chef. Some of them get sore too,
if you put any sort of sauce on your steak after
it leaves their hands. They claim it ruins the
meat
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ever, is that all of his little pieces are good. His
newest one. when the Merry Go-Round Breaks
Down." is a collection of newspaper editorial
comment for the last 100 years on domestic
troubles.
Familiar PhrGsing
6S0N WHATEVER side we turn our eyes, we are
" greeted by gratifying evidence of universal
prcSperity."-New Yorker October, 1886.
"Our banks are all perfectly safe."-Bicknells
Reporter Philadelphia, March 49, 1887.
"A scene of distress is at hand for which
the history Of our commerce furnishes no
parallel. l."-Pensacola Fla) Gazette, April is,
1887.
I'VE are in the midst of a great revolution,
both commercial and political. York
Herald, April l. 1887.
I'VE ask with. anxiety where will all this
end7"-Baltimore Sun, December 1s, 1887.
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News Behind
The News
Paul MGLLOn-

(world Copyright, 1898, by King
Features Syndicate, Inc. All Rights
Reserved. Reproduction in Full or in
Part Strictly Prohibited)
1T WOULD NOT BE good for
Il anyone to talk too much
about our best defense plans
these days; but just file this sug!
gestion away for future con-
firmation:
If present programs carry
through, the United States will
soon be so far ahead Of Europe
in the air as to be an indirect
force for peace the next 20 years.
Every fighting plane in alien air
today will soon become obsolete.
BY progressive further develop
ments which now seem likely,
United States stands an excellent
chance to keep Europe trailing
for two decades.
If you do not see how this
may be a force for peace, read
again Mr.. Roosevelt's two notes
to Hitler. 1t was clear, even to
Hitler, that these documents
placed the United States against
any European war-making ma
ton. Further authentic interpre-
tation indicates there was a
specific plan of putting force
into that policy.
In word, the notes ale now
being authoritatively interpreted
as meaning the President of the
U. S. intended, in event of war,
to repeal the neutrality act and
lend active aid to the defensive
nations.
Active aid, they say, would not
mean a declaration of war this
time as it did in 1917. Aid could
be rendered more effectively by
supplying England and the de-
mocracies with superior fighting
equipment and men to man it.
Money and soldiers would not
be needed. at least at the outset.
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Unprecedented

JUSTICE BLACK is still func-
% tioning as a separate
Supreme Court. It was un-
precedented for the court to
give out his name and Justice
Reeds as disSenters on the Ger
tiorari writ denial for Tom
Mooney. Well authenticated
court talk suggests Chief Justice
Hughes would not have taken
such a step unless Black in
sisted, and inasmuch as the
name of one dissenter was to
be given out, it was necessary
to make them both public.
OFFICIAL fixers have another
" job for defeated purger
Davey Lewis, but he will not
get it. They want Mary Dew
sons place on the Social Sc
curity Board, which shortly will
expire, but she happens to be
a Mrs. Roosevelt appointee.
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We rather fancy this idea,
and intend placing an early
order with Mr.. Grover Whalen,
the boss of the fair, for the
one speciality that we remem-
ber of our old home town of
Pueblo.
This is a steak that we
called round steak, hammered
thin and tender and fried in
o pan, with a nice thick cream
gravy and hot biscuits to come
along, with maybe a little let
tuce wilted under hot bacon
The Washington times., 1938-10-14
Don't Taste the Same

DROBABLY that is what every fellow recalls
Of q home town dish when he tries to get
It somewhere else. All famous American regional
dishes are now attempted all over the country,
but we have heard PhiladelphianS complain that
the Philadelphia pepper pot that is served them
in other cities tastes nothing like that of Quaker
town.
A Bostonian will tell you that the Boston baked
bean he gets outside New England is distinctly
the bunk and that it has none of the SAVIOR of
the genuine home town article. fellow from
New Orleans will wag his head sadly over the
Shrimps Creole or the oysters Rockefeller that
are dished up to him anywhere but in the Cres
The Washington times., 1938-10-14
Significant Dispatch

WHAT Lindbergh may have
w said about Russian avia-
ton is mild compared with COM
ment around official hangers
here. The Russian, French and
British are all rather generally
known on the inside to be too
much on the Corrigan side.
A line from London the other
day is considered in some high
quarters here to be the most
significant recent dispatch out
of Europe.
-Four Royal Air Force officers
were killed today. the force
has lost 1853 officers and 81 men
in accidents this year."
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titled Roaring Guns, in which
the author, with no apparent
concern, kills off 800 men in
one chapter alone, and in fact,
one villain is killed twice-and
quite permanently. The author
is David Statler, nine years
old, from Memphis, Tenn, and
according to the publishers,
has Just recovered from the
measles.
The other book is Aunt
Sara's Wooden God, an ear
nest. fictional history of a
The Washington times., 1938-10-14
Notice Too Short

NLAssIEsT JUNKET of all
" junkets for Government Of
ficials and Congressman is the
trip of he Government-spon-
sored Good Neighbor" ship,
Brazil, to South America. Mari
time commissioners announced
all would be allowed to take
their wives at half fare, but
some wives are complaining
that the announcement was
given out only five days before
the boat sailed. No wife could
get ready for a 38-day trip in
that time, they say, so the invi-
tation seems merely an official
excuse for taking such wives as
planned to go anyway.
1t looks like the party split
in Congress will be nothing to
this one.
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grease on the side. Probably there were other
culinary specialties of our own home town, but
they never left the same impression on our mind
that the round steak did.
For years we have tried without success to
school restaurant chefs and house cooks in the
preparation of this delicacy They never fix
that round steak so it tastes the same as it
did back in Pueblo
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produces a dictionary for
bread and butter and goes de-
bunking for pleasure.-Wilfred
Funk.
Having myself written six
books in the last three
years-the new one, by the
way, is made in U. s. Al
begin to wonder whether Will
fred isn't one Of those gentle
men who lays little volumes
like q chicken deposits eggs of
a-morning.
The aggravating point, how
The Washington times., 1938-10-14
Voice of New York By Louis SObOl

is Jane Clarke who is neither actress nor author,
secretary nor coutouriere. Miss Clarke is
Samaritan-for a reasonable fee. She conducts
personal service. She will pick your husbands
tie or your wifes new Baum Marten jacket, will
arrange all wedding details for your daughter or
eliminate the fret from your contemplated cruise.
She will have your dog walked, hire your personal
maid select your apartment, decorate your
kitchen, put up your drapes, select your wines or
give you massage.
If you are lonesome, you may have COM
panion to the theater or to the night club, al
though am not certain that Miss Clarke herself
will be the companion. Nor did she fail me when
in spirit of jest telephoned requesting serving
for my column II need paragraph" insisted
20 Heavens" she answered that is one service
I cannot give" But she was wrong-for here. as
you see for yourself, is the paragraph.
Bringing the NeUOs
VALUED MEMBERS Of the JournalAmerican
news staff are the faithful carrier pigeons
which have often helped the paper to scoop its
rivals with priority of news brought from incom
ing ships. When one of the birds winged in from
the Normandie the other afternoon, the city desk
feveriShly tore the message from the clasp, ex-
pecting an exclusive on Toscanini. Instead, it
carried the wall of pretty Josephine Hughes, who
was on special assignment. It was Miss Hughes
birthday and because the Normandie was ex
pected to dock at in the afternoon she had
made her hair-dressing arrangements for and
party plans for Z. But the boat was hours behind
schedule and her note begged the city editor to
notify her hairdresser she would be late, her
dressmaker to deliver her dress, her host and
hostess to delay the starting hour of the party
etc. They have renamed the carrier pigeon the
Josephine Hughes Special
The Washington times., 1938-10-14

"The Glade Of Death" Another in
a New Series of Crime Mysteries
Where II. AshtOn-WOIfe, the Famous
Agent Of the French Secret Police.
Was Assigned to Study the Scientific
Methods Of the Surete's Foreign Col.
leagues. A Double Page Illustrated
Feature In The American Weekly, the
Magazine Distributed With Next Sun.
days Washington Herald. Timess
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group of humble Negro folks. call 1t unusual
because it has been written by talented young
Negress whose only previous claim to attention
was in the role of the wife of Moses in Marc Con-
nelly's Green Pastures and later as the mother in
Mulatto. Her name is Mercedes Gilbert, she
dwells in Harlem and she is one Of the most
promising writer's the colored race has developed
In recent years.
MIR. EARL CARROLL invites me to the Christ
AVA mas Night gala premiere of his new theater-
restaurant in Hollywood, Cal. He assures me it
will have "a crystalline entrance of sparkling
glass. An invisible ray will operate the lobby
doors, which swiftly part with each approaching
car From the black-velvety ceiling of the main
dining room 5000 feet of fuorescent lighting will
hang like glowing fringe can scarcely await
the eventful day.
For a Reasonable Fee
INTERESTING YOUNG WOMAN among our
= many interesting young Manhattan women
The Washington times., 1938-10-14
''But''- 6

IT SEEMS that almost every time my mail is
L opened there is included new little book by
the man whose mind is such that evidently he
The Washington times., 1938-10-14

TWO UNUSUAL BOOKS arrived today One
= which will not reach the market until the
The Washington times., 1938-10-14
Registered United States Patent Office

Registered United States Patent Office
Copyright 1888, by King Features Syndicate. Inc.
International Copyright and All Other Rights Reserved)
NEW YORK'S World Fair is to have home
Az town restaurant where you will be able to
get the food specialties of your old home town.
The Washington times., 1938-10-14

(Boake CGrterS opinions are his otUn and not
necessarily those of The Washington TtnIesJ
The Washington times., 1938-09-09

'4O4 Hl1CAAISO NY A4C11UCLo OL GIlG
Bacon clique" in q Masonic"
code.
Also the eyes Of the Bacon
Shakespearian enthusiasts are on
the forthcoming examination of
the tomb of Edmund SpenSer, the
poet, who was buried in 1899.
When SpenSer was buried, it is
recorded. all the great poets of
the day were present and pre-
Sented odeS to SpenSer in their
own writing, which were buried
with him.
Since there are only six known
specimens of Shakespeare's hand
writing in the world, and all of
these are simple signatures, the
discovery of the poem might set
tie whether Bacons writing and
Shakespeare's are identical.
One Of the Shakespeare sigma
lures is on a conveyance of part
of the Blackfriar's property, where
his theater stood, to Henry Walker
and that part of the document
bearing Henry Walkers signature
lis in the Folger library here.
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orally $1,000 a month-had been
paid to Hines. That was a reduc-
ton because previously, when
business was good, the mob had
paid, Dewey alleged, from $500 to
$1,000 a week.
The dynamic young prosecutor
contended Weinberg had testified
the policy banks continued to be
operated until he suddenly left
this part of the country in Octo-
ber, 1886.
Dewey dug up the testimony
of big Harry" SchoenhauS, chief
bookkeeper for the Schultz mob.
He quoted Schoenhaus as saying
Ihe paid out for the mob $500
every week to Hines and some
times as much as $1,000 a week,
and that later the amount was
cut to $3.50 a week.
PAID OFF BY MONTH
after Schultz was slain
Schoenhaus said the payments
were $1,000 or so every month"
declared Dewey. "He was asked
if the payments were continued
throughout 1896 and he said
yes. He said the payments
were continued until October
1885,"
Judge Pecora informed Dewey
he was unable to recall that
Weinberg had been able to give
the address where the Schultz
banks" operated after December,
1895. Dewey replied that they
were operated in New Jersey, but
that the brains" of the Syndi-
cate was still in New York.
HAS READY ANSWERS
Judge Pecora wanted to know
from Dewey how could there be
a conspiracy in New York if the
banks" were being operated in
1886 in New Jersey, after Schultz
had been murdered in october,
1885. Dewey had a ready answer.
He said the brains" of the mob
were running things in New York
and that it didn't make any differ
ence where the covert acts" were
committed whether in New Jersey,
Mt. Vernon, N. Y, where the gang
had operated, or anywhere else.
Pecora also asked Dewey to ex-
plain why Hines had been indicted
as a principal" rather than an
accessory" Dewey had the an
Swer to that one, too. He said the
evidence showed all of Hines &C
tions were "foreSighted" rather
than "hindSighted."
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
PECORA CONSIDERS PLEA
TO DROP HINES CHARGES
Conn. Police
aided Hines.
|SHyS DeGUeeI

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Sept.
9.-District Attorney Dewey
of New York has complained
to Gov. Wilbur Cross that
Connecticut State troopers
aided investigators employed
by the defense counsel for
James J. Hines in attempts
to intimidate Dudley o.
BrOthwell, Fairfield riding
master and important wit
ness against the former Tam
many chieftain.
Governor Cross ordered an
immediate investigation. An
thony Sunderland, Connect
cut commissioner Of State
police, issued a statement In
which he declared he was
satisfied that no trooper was
involved.
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NeC6uL4y- D. Hldu CaHC LII W
Solemnly explain that he had
found a cipher which revealed
that not only were Shakespeare S
plays written by Bacon, but also
those of Poole, Marlowe, and the
poems of Edmund SpenSer. He
'proved" by his cipher that Ed
ward VI had not died, as was
supposed, but disappeared, to re,
appear as Francis Bacon, under
which name he wrote the great
works Of the day.
Another visitor-a woman-said
the eiphers were all right-most
of them-from IgnatiuS Donnelly's
"word" cipher, and George With
ers' point cipher-and the "bi
lateral" ciphers-but they were
really only keys" to a Great
Cipher, which she had herself
Sdecoded."
All this was brought up by the
recent uncovering in Williamsburg
va, Of the site of the old Brutor
Parish Episcopal Church by Mrs
Marie Bauer, Of Glendale, Calf.
as . result. she says, OF a search
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Citizens Assdil Speed of Motorcycle Police

quested in another resolution to
authorize needed sewage connec-
tions in the 370O block Wheeler
Rd. S. E., which will prevent
drainage from Alabama Avenue
flowing onto the property OF resi-
dents in the block.
Inauguration Of an "owl" bus
service from the downtown Sec
ton to Congress Heights was re-
quested of the Capital Transit
Company.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Boy, 9, Is Injured
FaIIing on Piece Of Tin

John Scanlon, 9, of 239 Six
teenth st. S. E., was treated for
a laceration of the knee at Gal
linger Hospital last night, received
when he fell on a piece of tin
while playing an an alley in the
rear of the 200 block of Fifteenth
st. S. E. He was later returned
to his home.
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Meeting for the first time this
season in the Congress Heights
school, the Congress Heights Cit
izens Association heard j. Louis
Gelbman describe the speed by
motorcycle policemen and revenue
agents along congested streets Of
the section in their patrol duties.
A resolution by Gelbman, which
described the speed of motorcycle
policemen on Nichols Avenue,
The Washington times., 1938-09-09

called upon Major Brown to in
vestigate the complaint.
Gelbman also fostered a resolu-
tion which requested Corporation
Counsel Elwood H. Seal to investi-
gate q recent fatal automobile
crash at Sheridan Road and
Nichols Avenue, when q bootleg
car, pursued by revenue agents,
crashed into an automobile pull
ing away from the curb.
The Commissioners were re
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Woman Editor
Enters Politics

Miss Bertha Gray Robinson,
former owner and editor Of the
Orange (Va) Observer, yesterday
announced she will be a candidate
for the city council of Orange in
the forthcoming municipal elec
tions. She is a member of the
Pen Women'S Club Of Washington
and OF the National Press Club Of
New York.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
BY A. J. DRIsCOLL

An indignant group Of citizens
last night demanded that Major
Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
of police, compel motorcycle
patrolmen to stop speeding
through the Anacostia and Con-
greSs Heights sections.
The group also condemned ex-
ecutive speeding through Congress
Heights streets by revenue agents
while chasing bootleggers.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Heated Argument
BetWeen DeWey
And Judge
By JAMES L. KILGALLEN

NEW YORK, Sept. N1.N.S.J
Judge Ferdinand Pecora today
studied the motion OF defense
counsel to dismiss the charges
against Tammany leader James j
Hines, who is accused of having
conspired with the Dutch
Schultz mobsters to run the $40,
600 .000-a-year policy racket.
Court reconVeneS at 2 O'Clock
this afternoon when Judge Pecora
will hear any further arguments
which either Prosecutor Thomas
e. Dewey or chief counsel for the
defense Lloyd Y. Stryker have to
offer.
TUSSLES WITH DEWEY
Judge Pecora gave Dewey quite
O tusSle when the nations No. l
rackets' prosecutor argued against
Stryker's motion to dismiss the in
dictment. The defense moved to
throw out the first count, charg-
ing conspiracy, on the ground that
the two-year statute of limitations
operated against it, and moved to
dismiss the other IL counts on the
ground that the prosecution had
failed to prove conspiracy to oper-
ate lottery.
Pecora debated the issue with
Dewey until 9 o'clock last night.
This was long after Stryker had
Contended the indictment was
'tricky" and "phony" and would
not stand up in a court of law
under close scrutiny. In reply,
Dewey made q strong show of sim
cerity and definiteneSs as regards
the facts in the case.
RECALLS TESTIMONY
Judge Pecora raised the ques-
ton of jurisdiction in the case by
recalling the testimony of George
Weinberg, henchman of Schultz,
that the policy banks moved to
New Jersey in 1885 and remained
there, and that Weinberg himself
quit the business in 1896.
It was Stryker's contention that
the statute of limitations obliges
Dewey to show that Hines had
been a party to overt acts after
May "a, 1886. He insisted Dewey
lad not done this. He maintained
that the Schultz policy racket
ended when Dutch" Schultz was
shot to death in a Newark chop
house on October %, 1885. Hines
was arrested on May "a, 1898.
HEATED ARGUMENTS
Judge Pecora and Dewey bat
tied that point out at times
heatedly and in great detail long
after most spectators had left the
courtroom.
Drinking one glass of water
after another, Dewey Strove to set
the judge right" He pointed out
that Weinberg had testified that
he had paid money to Hines seven
or eight times" during 1886. This
was designed to show that the al
legged conspiracy continued long
after Schultz had been "liqui- |
dated" by a stream of bullets.
TELLS OF PAYMENTS
Dewey informed Judge Pecora
that in 1896, long after Schultz
was dead, Weinberg said on the
stand that sums of money-gen-
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Here Again

editions in old types-some of the cphers depend the
itacs-and refresh themselves the word cphers the
blaeraP cpher the ky word cpher and other varieties
which experts" have laboriously put into print.
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Ciphers Flood Folger
veg w%M M%~
Bacon7Shakespeare Theories Abound

Up at the Folger Library they expecting flood Of
glassy-eyed cryptoogists
The that every time BaconShakespeare cipher is
printed enthusiasts comb the reprints Of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Boniemeir
of Metre Grove VISITED at the Mr..
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-21
St. Rose

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wollerchein, Of
Minneapolis, visited Easter Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Fox and
family.
Mrs Earl Holsing, Of Howard
Lake, visited the week end with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Sill
bernicl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Dufner and
family were Sunday afternoon
visitors at the John Altman home
at New Munich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Silbernick and
spent Easter with Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Rolfes at Freeport.
Sunday visitors at the Joe Aust
ing home were: Mr.. and Mrs. Leo
Solarz and family, of Little Falls,
and Miss Alma Austing, of Mimi
eapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Silgernick and
Irene Silbernick motored to How
ard Lake Friday.
Miss Margaret Silbernick, who
is employed at the Elmer Stammes
home at Freeport, visited Satur-
day and Sunday with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Silbernick.
Miss Olivia Bertkowski, who
was employed at st Joe, returned
home this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfred Schiller
and family and Miss Elizabeth Sill
bernick. Of st. Anthony, were Sun
day evening visitors at the ice
ilbernick home.