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The Washington times., 1939-01-18
Women More Ruthless


Women More Ruthless
WHAT alert young FB1
" Agent D. E. Balch didn't
tell me, Clyde Tolson did, and
between the two of them these
are a few of the statistics I took
out Of the Department OF Justice
Building:
That there are approximately
4,700,000 criminals in these
United States, and Of these, as
the paragraph above told you,
$4,000 are either escaped pris'
oners or haven't been caught
but they are being caught at the
average Of 900 a month.
Close to half a million Of the
more than 100000 criminals
are women, and the Omen In
sist that Kipling was right, for
the average woman lawbreaker
of the more serious type is. be-
cause Of her emotional get-up,
far more violent and ruthless
and (this surprised me) less
likely to give a victim chance.
Incidentally, among the finger.
prints, there are more than q
million voluntarily sent in by
citizens who wanted to be on
record.
In the laboratory one OF the
bright young chemists was in
specting the moccasins, jackets.
and other wearing apparel OF
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ROllin' Along
By Louis SObOL

WE CAUGHT up with theveteran Gman Hoover, and the
w brand-new Attorney General, Frank Murphy some
where between the display of captured baby howzers
and the ngerprint asserting machine Murphy had moth
ing for he being conducted through the Federal
Bureau of Investigation for the first tme oo of
said brightly: Marvellous isn't f What chance has the
crimnalf And the Attorney General said just brghty
AM
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to be plausible arguments when
presented by dupes and agents
Of inimical outsiders, will make
us all better able to fight to pre-
serve the rights for which our
forefathers laid down their
lives. ANNA LANSBURGH.
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me is t h q t
there are still
a few banditti
around town
loose and un-
C a p tured. I
k n o W there
are because
in the 1885,
900 fin 6 e r
print c a d S,
a h e p Of
dozens carry
the little tell
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husband and wife. Naturally
they should be friends. espe-
cially if they have children,
whom the husband should be
entitled to visit. If they intend
to stay divorced she should take
her road, and he his"
Miss Doris Coffey, 2400 block
Fifteenth st. N. w., stenogra.
pher:
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stirs up past feelings. If they
failed to be happy together once,
the chances are they will have
the same trouble again. It's just
that you can't warm over cold
potatoes and make them taste
good. Going out with a former
husband is no crime but it is in
advisable"
X \
Stanley Hagen, 200 block E
st. N, E., lawyer:
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other at all. Apparently, they
couldn't get along as husband
and wife, otherwise there
would not have been a divorce.
Making dates again seems fool
ish and shows they did not
know what they wanted"
\ \ +
Miss Gladys Elliott, 1900 block
New Hampshire Ave. N. w.,
waitress:
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II suppose it
would be all right,
but l can't see why
she would want to.
If they did not care
enough for each
other to stay mar.
ried I don't see
why they would
want to see each
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mo. If she has
d a t es with him
then she ought to
live with him as
his wife. It just is
not the right thing
to do, although I
do not believe di-
vorce should make
bitter enemies of q
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ROoseUeltisn1

Three cheers for Franklin D.
Roosevelt and his new arma-
ment program! At last he's
acting as a Roosevelt should.
I'll bet good old Teddy Is sm1l-
ing in the Great Beyond.
r. VAN B.
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mo. If possible,
a divorced couple
S h ould be on
friendly terms, but
I don't see what
can be gained by
b r i n G ing this
friendship to the
point of going out
on dates. It just
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why not? After
all, if a couple be-
lieves they still
love each other,
there is no reason
why they can't at
tempt a reconcilia-
ton. If they had
enough in common
to go together the
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"It's wrong for
her to do so, unless
they definitely in
tend to remarry.
People would gos-
sip and it would
lead to much un-
pleasantness. And
if either one has
remarked, 60 in g
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first time, they might find hap
pinesS again. I have known Of
such cases where this has hap
pened. Sometimes people talk
themselves into a state of mind
that doesn't exist, and later find
they made a mistake"
4
Kenneth Gardner, Of Vienna,
Va, painter:
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them to go out on dates. Dates
might make them grow fond of
each other and this would only
lead to remarriage. Personally,
I think the woman is usually
wrong if she thinks she can win
back her former husband"
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the three Indians who had been
found dead in q ravine a few
weeks ago.
There has been some suspicion
of foul play, neither local police
nor Federal agents quite believ-
ing the story that they had
slipped accidentally to their
deaths. And so the department
is using all its amazing instru-
ments and chemicals in the
hope of locating a single clue.
One fingerprint may be suf-
ficient.
"Good Criminals"
VXIE came to the files where
w the Good Criminals" are
catalogued CGood Criminals"
according to Tolson, because
they are dead) and among
them were listed Clyde c. Bar
row, Arthur Fleg enh Ell m er
Dutch Schultz, John Dillinger,
Verne Sankey, George Baby
Face" Nelson, Charles Pretty
Boy" Floyd, and about a dozen
others.
And if you go to other de-
partments you will be shown
the guns with which they killed
(and the very bullets which
killed them in return), and
some of the clothes they wore
when death struck.
It's too bad this fellow Run
yon wasn't along because there.
in a special file, were thousands
of monikers cut to fit the kisser
of any slangster with Jack
Whites pardon). Nicknames Of
the underworld-the thugs and
the thugesses.
A few samples jotted down
from the 100000 on record:
Butterfly Billy, Apron Strings,
B. g. o. Slim, Back Yonder,
Butcher Shop Fats, Row Boat,
Cigar Kate, Around-the-W World
George, Ash Street Sam and
Merry Christmas!
y y Il
Target Practice ;
A ND so we went, from depart
IA ment to department, and
always there were dozens Of
bright young men poring over
files, examining records, mess
ing around with chemicals and
penetrating lights, until we
reached the room where student
G-men go through a course of
target practice.
Here a Paper Man, with his
vulnerable spots all marked out
neatly, was sent out on a pulley
far back on the range, and I
was handed one Of those porta-
Bile Sub-machine guns-as light
as an average shotgun; tommy
gun" If I remember, is what
they call it-and after the nice
young agent in charge had dem
onstrated on his Paper Man
around the heart, 10 hits Of the
20 fired-I pulled my own trig-
ger, and "Spat-spat-spat-spat"
went the lethal pills, and then
they pulled my Paper Man back.
certainly did for that fellow!
Right through the most vulner-
=.
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Traffic Toll

The list of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January /. 1889, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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"We.., : Go think
it Is possible for a
man and a woman
to be the best Of
friends, and yet be
unable to get along
as man and wife.
But because they
are good friends
should not entitle
The Washington times., 1939-01-18
JeuUs and Property

Father Coughlin and others
who accuse the Jews Of foster.
ing Communism should look up
innumerable passages in the Old
Testament. Biblical law COM
mands Jews to respect the prop
erty rights of others. A Jew who
follows the teachings of his Bible
may point out injustices or in
equalities in the capitalist syS-
tenn, but he will never call for itS
abolition. ALBERT ~.
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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

part of the Social Security Act the Administration
apparently wants to postpone fundamental reforms for
the time being
~, c.1, We hope the postpone
OIOW De"e' " C"eCho' ment won't be too lengthy.
Tnnoidod pro,,,1,x,e Jobless insurance needs
some revamping too.
Its administration to be imping badly in various
Sates including New York where there continual
planning about the owness with which the checks squeeze
through to beneficiaries out of work.
And the employer is still carrying the whole tax load
for obess insurance, conrasted with the employer
andemploye contributions to the old age pension funds
This cuts down the possible benefits worse cuts down
or cuts out any interest the worker may have in honest
efficient handling of jobless insurance.
We'd suggest that Congress at this session do thor
ough overhauing job the entire Social Security Act
the New orkD DaIs News>
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

HUNDRED WORDS
O. Writers will Omitted Upon Request
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EXPERIENCE
HOW to Improve
Social Security

AOW ~ "IPUOo ought to be advanced at least TWO
coo:u7 coo,,r;f,, years. to next January Though
O"''''' we think it would be better
if it could be advanced to tomorrow morning. People
IS and include high percentage of needy
among them will the contingent reaching IS three
hence.
Nor does the present Social Security Acts old age PEN
sion section all the people ought to There
several large delegations that left out-"ex-
epted" the lovely word used for it-when the law
first written.
About 100000 workers for non-profit charitable,
religious and educational organizations exempt;
50 some 100000 farm workers and domestic
ants and about 100000 sailors and national and State
bank employees.
proposed to bring in the charitable etc. work.
the sailors and the bank employees also to get busy
the bookkeeping and mechanical problems connected with
bringing in the 100000 domestic servants and farm
hands most of whom pilgrim around from job to job.
We can't close up these gaps in the Social Security Act
too soon, it. The groups now exempt from it
are unfortunately not exempt from growing older.
There is too the matter of the
The Washington times., 1939-01-18

If you were to ask me right
quick I'd be inclined to give the
same answer-and what puzzles
The Washington times., 1939-01-18
Bigger and Better Social
Security

WE'VE come long way the Social Security road
w since 1885, when first Social Security Act
written into law The President summed up progress
~. date in his special Social Security message to
OHCe Congress Monday:
1875 More 100000 needy old people. needy
blind persons and dependent children
receiving assistance the extent Of
$500 100000 year.
Three onehalf million unemployed persons have
received outowork benefits amounting to $4000000O0
during the last year.
Federal age system, the largest ndertak
ing of attempted has been organized and
individual accounts covering
persons who be hkened to the poicyholdes
of private insurance company.
In addition, the splendid accomplishments in
the fields public health, vocational rehabilitation,
and child welfare and related services made possible
the Social Security Act
Fine work. call it. and Uncle Sam is entitled to pat
himself on the back on this account.
But as the President Immediately went on to say the
Social Security Act is by means perfect yet and
enough
The Washington times., 1939-01-18
Smoke Screen Suspected

Heavensl It seems were at
war and don't know it. Print
mobilization plans. Times, also
tell us whom we are fighting.
and when. where and why.
Nothing like a little blatter
about war to becloud WPA
scandals, the crumbling New
Deal, and what not, eh what?
r, A.
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HUGE RESERVE FUND

now building up under the Social Security Act Some
Social Security authorities tell you this is perfectly all
right others tell you it is great to future
economic stability.
HOW AOOHL 4HOSe Anyway the Social Secur
Dunor R;I7;ono1 ity taxes being spent for
everyday Government
penses, while the Government puts IOUs into the Treas
ury for the money; and by 1870 these IOUs will
total if they keep png up at the present rate about
$47O0OOOO0OO.
We're not financiers or insurance men, but to our
amateur eyes there does to be something funny
if not phony about that. Can't have this matter
cleared up auhortativey by this Congress? Regarding
&bo
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Montgomery County Relief

Being a working man and o
100 per cent Roosevelt Democrat
and in accord with his great
work in behalf of the under
privileged and working class Of
our country, I would like to ex-
press my opinion of the recent
motion of Watt Farmer, Demo
crat, recently elected to the
Board of County Commissioners
for Montgomery county, Md,
and passed by the board, cut
ting the daily wage Of Mont
gomery county relief workers
and prisoners from SITS to
$1.50. At the time the motion
was passed there were three
workers on relief.
Mr.. Farmer stated at the time
he could obtain all the men he
needed for $1.5O per day. Mr..
Farmer was appointed to care
for the County Poor House at an
extra allowance of 5000 per year
besides his salary as commits
sioner. Does not Mr.. Farmer
realize that Montgomery county
could obtain all the men it
needed with the same ability to
fill his position at a much lower
salary than he is being paide
This statement also applies to
the other members Of the board.
I was a worker for the organiza-
ton Democrats in this county,
and was surprised when MI.
Farmer did not carry his own
district. I can now see why
RALPH C. WARD.
Gaithersburg, Md.
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Wise Words

Real happiness is cheap
enough, yet how dearly we pay
for its counterfeit. Hosea
Ballou.
Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed. and
some few to be chewed and di-
geSted.-Bacon.
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The Inquiring'
Photographer
The Washington Times in
viteS you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Should a divorced woman
have dates with her former hus-
band?
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tale red tab on top. A red tab
on card indicates a fugitive.
To be more accurate, approx
mately $4,000.
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THE ANSWERS
Mrs. Mary Perrow, 1900 block
Sixteenth st. N. w., stenogra-
pher:
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st. N. E., lawyer:
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-09
Laughter Will
Check Waistline

A observation-disclosures last week
prescribed roughouse comedy for
what he termed a widespread
emotional jaundice and laughter
for building a Waistline.
Contrary to the familiar laugh
end grow fat" DR.. Arthur j.
Todd of Northwestern University
said laughter meant play, and
that play, especially the kind
the kind that's not self-consiOus,
was the most effective way Of
checking central expansion.
Modern life, increased leisure
and a host of pressures have
made it necessary for the Ameri-
can people to be unremittingly
Watchful of their mental and
physical health, but corrective
course do not, he said, lie in the
direction of dragging exercises,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-09
HeltOn News

Ed, Courtney Barker filled his
regular appointment at the Chap
ell Church last Saturday.
Vilena FISHERMAN has returned
home after having spent several
weeks in Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. John L. Davis has been ill
for a week.
Alta Paisley and Dora Tester
man spent one night last week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Kyle Tester
man at Rugby. Va.
Mr.. Bryan Pennington made a
business trip to Glade Springs,
Va. last week.
Kent, son of A. D. FISHERMAN,
is recovering from measles.
N. L. Cooper spent the past
week end with his brother, Dun
can Cooper of Volney, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Davis
and son, Keith visited Mrs. Reece
Jones over the week end.
Eli FISHERMAN and two chill
dren, Laverne and E1oise, of
Troutdale, Va, visited in the
home of Daniel Blevins Saturday.
Ford Davis spent the week end
with relatives at Rugby, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-09

ers broke into the show business
He married Miss Betty Blake
a girl who was born in Arkansas
The first time he ever saw her,
she was sitting on a front porch
Fin Claremore, Oklahoma, drink
ing lemonade He had just bought
a new bicycle and wanted to
show off; so he tried to do a bit
of trick riding and fell off and
hurt himself.
Miss Blake rushed out and
picked him up and helped wash
a cut on his hand. That is the
way he met Betty Blake.
There were many astonishing
things about Will Rogers: he met
kings and queens and was enter
tanned by the high and the
mighty of the earth-yet he new
err owned a long-tailed coat.
He wore old, dilapidated cloth
es and he frequently drove into
Hollywood or Los Angeles with
out a necktie and wearing boots
and old, blue denim overalls with
brass rivets in them.
He was proud of his Indian an
cestry. He said, my folks didn't
come over on the Mayfower, but
when the Mayflower landed, we
were there to meet them"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-09
WILLIAM PENN ROGERS
He Was Paid 1888 A Minute
To Talk On The Radio.

Who do you suppose was the
man who, a few years ago, made
the largest income of any in the
United States merely by use OF
his own talents, without any
business, without any investment
without having a lot of other
! people working for him.
Charlie Chaplin? No! Greta
Carlo? No! Amos n Andy? No!
Rudy Vallee? No!
No, this biggest money-maker
was man who never. had very
much education. He used bad
English. He wore old clothes, he
was lazy, he was almost always
late to an appointment, and he
loved to chew gum. His name was
Will Rogers.
He got $375,00O year for max
ing three pictures; and he got
$500 a day or $4,000 a week for
his Newspaper column. He got a
thousand dollars for merely max
ing a funny speech He got 1888
a minute for talking over the ra-
dio. Why, he could just pause
between sentences and make ten
or fifteen dollars.
He was born on Election Day
and he made half a million dol
lars cracking jokes about Con-
greSs.
He was born in the Indian Ter
ritory near a little place called
Oologah.
During the first part of his life,
Will planned to go into the min
iStry. His mother was a great
admirer of William Penn, so she
named him William Penn Adair
Rogers.
Both of his parents were part
Indian-hiS mother One-fOurth,
and his father one-eighth. For
years his father sat in the coun-
ellis Of the Cherokees as one of
their wise men.
The first time Will came to
New York he rode a freight train
with a load Of cattle. He fed and
Watered the cattle and slep sit
ting up in the cabOOse of the train
all the way from Oklahoma to
New York City.
He walked up Broadway with
his cowboy boots and his country
clothes and of course people
laughed at him. One man snatch
ed off his hat and jeered at him.
The last time he came by air
plane, stopped at the Waldorf
Astoria, and when he walked
along the street, people stopped
and stared at him and crowded
around him, begging for his auto
graph.
When he was a young man,
Rogers wanted to see the world,
so he went to South America,
travelling Storage to save money.
He got a job there punching cat
tie at four dollars a month.
When the Boer War broke out,
he went to South Africa on a
cattle boat and got a job break
ing wild horses for the British
cavalry.
When the war was over, he
was so hard up that he had to
live with the soldiers in the army
barracks and eat handouts that
the cook gave him. Wanting to
get back to America, he Joined a
small travelling circus as trick
rider and rope-spinner under the
name of 'The Cherokee Kid"
And that was the way Will Rog-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-09

faddish diets and "quack right
thinking" formulas.
Exercise is medicine" DR..
Todd asserted. "The word is ster-
lie. But play is difficult. Play
as play Eliminates all life. It
should invest our work, making
it a joy instead of dreadful ne
cessity. I strongly recommend
more of the play-spirit in our
jobs"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-09

]. A. Porter is the proud owner
of the first lambs to arrive in the
community this season.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

Marriage begins oeoin for
tennis queen. Helen Wills
Moody Roork and her husbond,
Alden Roork, polo player ond
screen writer, ore shown on
their return TO Hollywood short
ly otter their surprise morrioee
at Los Veeos. New.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

Without benefit Of tro-
peze, this dorine young man
flies through the Dir on q
perfect horizontal. He is
Jack Decker Of Philadelphia,
eoptoin Of the University Of
Pennsylvania soccer teom.
II you're soeeer-wise you
know thot the object OF his
flight is to butt the boil
with his heed which he hos
already done.
Wide World Photos.
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-06
MASTODONS ON WAY
 BACK TO TREASURE ISLE

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Ian tern-jaWed mastodons which plodded over desolate marsh land wastes of San Fransisco Bay a million years ago will return to that ''wasteland" in 1889.
 The "wasteland" of the masto- don era, scientists have determin ed, was the section of San Fran cisco Bay from which men and machines of today have raised picturesque Treasure Island, site of the Golden Gate International Exposition.
 And the mastodons of tomor- Tow-the ones which will return no the area of their former hauntS-will not be the bulky, unwieldy animals of yesteryear, but accurate reproductions in clay and plaster, molded by Uni versity of California paleontol- -ogists preparing an exhibit for the Hall of Science.
 The black pliocene morass which later became San Fran cisco Bay has provided the back ground for six dioramas being prepared as part of the Univer-
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-06
2 ABOVE SHALLTTSON 2

Beginning at Cor No on line 2-3 of 1 Above Shallitson l plac- CT, this survey, 4" post in r mound, mkd 2A-SH- H-2-1-1A-SH- 2-4-1886, from whence USLM No 2 bears S 33 deg AZ E, 1o,052.75; thence N 45 deg 5914' w, 900.0' to Cor No'2, a 4" post in r mound, mkd 2A-SH-2-2-1A-SH- 2-3-1886; thence N A deg 121s' E, 969.7' to Cor No 3, identical with Cor No 3 Shallitson No 4 placer, this survey; thence s 45 deg 46' E, 900.1' to Cor No 4, identical with Cor No 2 Shalht- son No 4 placer, this survey; thence S A deg 13' ", 966.r to Cor No 1 and place of beginning, containing 19.999 acres.
 1 ABOVE SHALLITSON 9
 Beginning at Cor No 1, . {" post in IS" mound mkd LASH.
 21--1A--SH-1-2-SH-1-S. SH-2-4-1886, from whence U- SLIM No 2 bears S 39 deg 1872 E, e,895.96'; thence N 45 deg AT W. 900.5 to Cor No 2, a 4" post in 18" mound, mkd 1A-SH-2- 2-SH-2-3-1886; thence N A deg 141s' E, 965.4' to Cor No 3, identical with Cor No 2 of 2 Above Shallitson 2 placer, this survey; thence s 45 deg 69h' E, 5000 to Cor No 4 Identical with
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-06
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

sity's $200,00O exhibit in the Ex- position's $50, ,0OO fair. Each will show in miniature some phase of paleontology.
 Besides the mastodons, sabre tooth tigers, horn nosed synth- eotoceros Cor deer) and other mammals will be modelled. Eos silized bones taken from Ven tura, San Joaquin Valley, St. Johns Ariz., and the Craddock bone beds of Texas will be the basis of the reproductions
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-06
Santas Turn

Uncle John had sent father a pipe for Christmas. But father never smoked a pipe As it came from long distance it could not be changed The family was dis cussing the problem of what to do with it when fve-year~ old
The Nome nugget., 1939-01-06
WARNS SWING DANGERS
HOLLYWOOD, Dec

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. - Amer icas younger generation has been warned by Dancer-Actor George Murphy to beware of 'watermelon" knees if swing dancing stays in vogue much longer. He says the continual kicking of the heels against the floor injures the patella and liga- ments of the knee joint produc- ing a result like water on the knee.