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The Washington times., 1926-02-20
q FORMER OFFICIALS
or GREECE pEPoRTED

LONDON, Feb. 20. -Obedient to
the orders of Greek court martial,
former Premier Papanastassiou and
I'll military leaders, members Of the
ex-Premier's party. were deported
today. according to an Athens dis
patch.
The deportees were placed aboard
q steamer which proceeded at once
TO the Island Of Santorin.
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Killed bN Car

CHICAGO, Feb. 20.--A man who
was instantly killed here last night
when he was struck by "A street
car, was identified today as William
e. Mcclure, president Of the Kala-
mazoo Gum Label Company. Of
Kalamazoo, Mich. :.
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dale. win give 4 dance II the
auditorium of the Firemen's Hall

Special services viii be conducted
tomorrow at the Cherrydale Metho.
dist Church by the pastor. the Rcv.
Wilbur M. snyder. Members Of
Arlington Lodge No. 1Ss win attend
the morning service IN body.
Members 81 the Junior Order
United American Mechanics win
attend the evening service
The February meeting Of the
Cherrydale League Of Women
Voters win be held Monday night
at the home Of the president. Mrs.
samuel r. Cooper
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Radios Great Opportunity

Opportunity Is banging at
radios door, with the sledge nam.
mer Of popular susceptibility
kicking 1t in with the feet OF q
public with just as great All
eageFness for new things a., love
for old things.
why do people like the old
thinEs! Because these things have
satisfied them--the public is sure
OF them. leadership by program
builders Will Taxa them into new
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Earth oetting ReaI oId

PRINCETON, ". u, Feb. 20 The
are Of the earth is at least billion
years, according TO DR.. AIRED
Church Lane, chairman Of the de-
partinent Of geology, Tufts College,
who 1ectured here.
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Astor Gives Sister Land

NEW YORK, Feb. 2O.-Vinceht
Astor has decided to his sister, the
Princess Obolensky. 90 acres of land
near Rhinebeck. n. Y. as the site
for a summer home.
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Small But Mighty

Times and Herald Classified Ads have
a tremendous pulling power and the
reason is logical. Readers of Times
and Herald Classified Ads are quick
to respond to fair appeal. The COM
bined circulations of these papers puts
your message in the hands of more
people than the number of homes in
Washington-and at small cost per
thousand readers reached.
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The identification OF one railway
in Java, has been sanctioned by
the government and plans are
under way to change others to that
power.
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Station WMAL-e12.6 Meters

ZOO p. m.-Dlnner music,
1880 d. m.-"The Father of His
Country"-Dr. Thomas Edward
Green. National Councillor, Ameri-
can Red Cross.
7:45 p. m.--"What Industrial
Progress Means to Washingtonians"
Rudolph Jose. chairman, indus
trial exposition committee, Wash
ineton Chamber OF Commerce.
500 p. m.-Dance numbers.
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II it interests anyone at ail--the
basis of this little peeve is one OF
the primary reasons for the estab-
lishment of this department OF this
newspapers public service.
"Old Crouch" has asked the most
pertinent question pertaining to
radio, which is only one OF many
meaty things in his letter. 1t is
regrettable the space placed at our
disposal won't permit printing all
of tit was just that much worth
while!
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A real sense of creative art
values and benefits. an intelligent
consideration of science. economics,
politics, and religion can d built
up by radio. The so.called drama
and lecture platform are III q bad
way these days. Most opera we
have offered us is actually CONCERT
in costume-not real opera. Most
drama presented is tailor made
situation and dialogue for press
ACCENTED personalities-not drama.
The play is no. longer the thirS
1t is the temperamental singer or
the capricious star.
Most Of the lectures one hears
are special pleading when they are
not pure piffle from pseudo s@ien-
fists or 10 o'clock scholars.
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Space before the microphOne ~
no more to be filled by rule Of
thumb measurement Of entertain
ment than the platform Of Car.
negie or Orchestra halls. The
radio station Is no garbage can
for the refuse Of entertainment
that viii go nowhere else. And
the time to recognize this fact
and require artists and SPEAKERS
to actually put their stuff over, III
addition to using material thai Is
capable Of being put Over-iS
right NOW-when the matrix of
afr line endeavOr Is yet EN-
bryOnic.
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Pet Radio Peeve No. Programs!
Is the program managers task
essentially different from the
merchants? Is il not up to him
to seek expert advice IS 70 what
music is svailable for broadcast
ing and then see to IL that his
artists present Il properly?
OLD CROUCH
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OF course, there are other things
on the air this evening. For in
stance, here are few suggestions:
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John NJ. Stewart. past master o
Columbia Lodge. No. 2S5 A. F.. ant
A. NJ, of Clarendon, has beer
appointed district deputy grant
master Of District No. 81.
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in cash, which he posted when ar
rested on charges of using the mails
to defraud. back to Indianapolis to-
day.
Mrs. Fryer appealed to Federal
Court Clerk William p Kappes for
return of the money, which guar
anteed Flyers appearance and which
pledged him to ''abide by the order
Of the court" Kappes refused her
request, referring her to the court
for an order.
Kappes believes Fryer is not en-
titled to the money in view Of his
appeal, saying that constituted a
violation of his pledge to abide by
the judgment Of the court here.
Fryer, head Of the Niles Art Com
pany, which sold stamped designs
for fancy work through the mails,
promising to buy them back when
completed. was convicted, fined
$4,000 and sentenced to serve ten
years In Leayenworth Penitentiary.
After entering prison, he and a. fell
low convict t-attorney prepared and
had filed an appeal.
Mrs. Fryer. after the refusal, left
for Kansas City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-14
OWENS GIVEN
PRISON Term
Barber Pleads Guilty to
Manslaughter.

Louts Owens, 81, charged with
numbering a fellow barber in Decem-
Der, 1924, today pleaded guilty to
voluntary granddaughter and received
sentence of two to twenty one
years at Indiana State Prison.
Mrs. Owens was present when Spe-
cial Judge Charles S. Whsle pro-
nounced the, sentence. Prosecutor
William II. Remy consented to let
Owens plead guilty to voluntary
manslaughter. owens was tried
twice on a murder charge and the
jury failed TO agree Charles j..
Orbison was attorney for Owens.
Owens had been in Marion County
jail since his arrest the night after
he stabbed George Robinson with
shears in the mems washroom on
fourth floor Of L. s. Ayres & Co. He
had been IL jail longer than any
other prisoner.
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JARDINE SEEKS
FARMER PEACE
Asks Leaders to Cooperate
in Solving Problem.
By United Press

BB United Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.--Secre-
tary of Agriculture Jardine today
assumed the role Of peace maker
in the rift between cooperative
marketing farmers on the surplus
crop.
While not mentioning the surplus
question in his address 60 delegates
attending the national cooperative
marketing conference, Jardine said
he was interested in not only farm
ers' cooperating. but in their lead
ers cooperating.
"A friendly attitude toward get,
ting together is necessary before you}
can draft plans that will get rel
suits" he declared.
you make and build up a programI
on facts"
Jardine said the experimental
stage Of cooperative marketing Isl
now over and that three problems
must be solved by agricultural or
ganization.
/. Adjustment of production 70
market conditions.
2. Improvement OF market condI-
tions or market technique.
3. Improvement Of bargaining
power Of producers to deal effective
ly with other groups.
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WARD RETURNS
FROM CHICAGO
District Attorney Directs
Investigations.

United States District Attorney
Albert Ward today returned trom
Chicago and took charge OF Federal
grand jury investigating.
Ward on Tuesday argued in Chi
cago against the appeal OF Meade
McClanahan, Muncie, convicted OF
misrepresenting a farm TO secure a
loan under the Federal Farm Loan
Act. McClanahan was sentenced to
nine months in jail and fined $500
by Federal Judge Robert Baltzell.
Wednesday, Ward resisted the ap-
peal Of DR.. Jacob p. Teter, 1850
w. Michigan ST., sentenced to three
years at Leavenworth and fined $500
for violation of narcotic laws. Teter
was alleged to have operated a clin-
ic for dope" addicts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-14
KETTLEBOROUGH
TO QUIT POST
Library Board Considers Di-
rector's Resignation.

Action was to be taken tliis after
noon by the State library and his
torical board on the resignation of
Charles marlborough, director Of
the legislative bureau, who filed
formal notice Of his intention to quit
last October after the State legis-
lative finance committee cut his sal
ary from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
marlborough said he would re-
main in the position. however, until
close Of the 1927 Legislature If his
old salary is restored. If not, he
will retire Sept. 80.
Shortly following reorganization
of the library board marlborough
assisted in the unsuccessful fight to
dislodge Demarchus c. Brown, state
librarian for the last twenty years.
Browns friends now are opposing
restoration of Kettleborough's salary,
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Or Spruce Up the Old Sleigh
to Take You to
Work.

RIO, these scenes weren't
I'M taken in Montreal, Can, but
III right here In the vicinity Of
indianapolis, where winter sports,
now that a real supply of snow is
on hand, are on the increase.
'I don't believe that most In
dianapolis folks realize how much
fun winter sports are" commented
Mrs. c. Willis Adams Of 1852 n.
Alabama ST., Mrs. Adams skates
and skis, and with her daughter.
Louise, often sh-jors with the aid
Of George w. Bridges, Meridian
Hills Country Club riding instruc-
tor.
Many members of the Meridian
Hills Country Club have discovered
the delights OF skiing and ski-jor-
ing, skiing with a horse. Miss
Janet Holiday and her father
Alex Holiday OF 1895 N. New
Jersey ST., are among followers
Of the sport.
Sleighing would be more popular
these snowy days IL there were
more sleighs in town, Mrs. Hast
ings Fiske. Of 2933 N. Meridian
ST.. who with her saddle horse
Sheik. aare out every day now.
ITS fine exercise for the horse"
laughed Mrs. Fiske, land of course
/ enjoy it immensely. Sheik is a
Kentucky bred saddle horse, and
I'm sure had never heard the
jingle of sleigh bells before this
winter, but he never objected to
getting into harness. and seems
to enjoy the sport"
There is much skating in Indi-
annapolis these cold days. Lakes
In the parks are crowded with
small boys and many Of the older
folks are equally enthusiastic.
Among the best adult skaters in
Indianapolis are DIR. and Mrs. G.
II. A. Cloves, OF 4139 Broadway.
DR.. Cloves is bacterioligist at Ell
Lilly & Co., and learned to skate
in st. Moritz. Switzerland. He
and Mrs. Cloves do figure" skat-
ing.
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u. S. May CUT
NICARAGUA TIE
Break in Diplomatic Re-
IationS Seen Inevitable.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-United
States will sever diplomatic relations
with Nicaragua IL the Nicaraguan
congress, meeting today, accepts the
resignation of President Soloranzo
and General Chamorro constitution
ally ASSUMES office, 1t was an
nounced.
United States has decided to stand
on its policy of refusing recognition
to any Central American govern
ment which secures power other
than through constitutional methods.
Chamorro has been military master
of the country since last fall.
President Coolidge has indicated
American Marines will not be sent
there unless civic war or revolution
menaces the embassy and consulate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-14
NINE STOP AND CO.
WOLATORS IN COURT
Municipal Judges Give Fines Ranging From ST to S.
Seventeen Taken in Drive on Motorists.

Nine OF seventeen drivers arrested
in a drive started Wednesday by
Traffic Inspector Walter White
against motorists passing stop and
go" signs were fined in municipal
court today.
Fourteen were arrested Wednes-
day night and early today. White
refused motorists the right to plead
guilty in his office and pay fines at
city clerks office, the plan Of the
past administration. and ordered all
violators to face judges.
Those fined were:
Robert Burford, sos Agnes ST., So
and costs; William Tyler, 522 N.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-14
S75o,o0O LOSS
in DOCK FIRE
Four Piers Destroyed at GAL
weston, Tex.

By United Press
GALVESTON, Tex, Jan. 14.-Fire
destroyed four piers here early today
with a loss estimated at s750.O00.
Entire blocks Of waterfront ware
house facilities were burned.
The fire started in the east end
Of the Mallory line docks near Pier
%.
About $500 bales OF cotton stoIxd
near by were lost
Galveston business district was
threatened when a strong northeast
wind carried flying brands. No
serious blaze had resulted there,
however, at 2 a. m. when the water
front conflagration was finally
checked.
No lives were lost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-14
BOSSES WHO SAID PIT
WAS O. K. LOSE LIVES
Fire and Flood Endanger
Rescue Workers in All
Night Hunt-0ne of Sur
vivors Tells Story of His
Experience.

Bu United Press
WILBURTON, Okla, Jan.
IA. - The Degnan-McConnell
mine No. q today reluctantly
gave back two lives, two more
of the 101 men entombed
Wednesday by terrific blast.
After veteran miners and rescue
experts had declared there was no
possibility of any of the entrapped
miners being alive, Cecil Mckinney,
white and Burl Hollis, Negro, came
out.
Weak and trembling from twenty
three hours Imprisonment, McKin-
ney crawled out before an amazed
crowd of nearly 1000 spectators, and
was followed two hours later by
Hollis.
1t was like man returning
from the dead.
Mckinney had crawIed on his
hands and knees for twenty-three
hour-had crawled over the body
of his dead father, whom he recOy-
nized, and came out TO learn that
brother was still in the mine.
He was only slightly burned but
terribly fatigued.
The two men came out after res
cue teams conquered a fire that had
ragged all night in the mine.
PreparatiOnS to remove the re
naming eighty-five men believed
dead were started.
All night long, rescue teams
worked, their life periled by flood
and fire. Parts of the mine were
still filed with gas, but workers
curtained off these chambers and
fought the flames. Water seeped in
to the mine. adding new danger,
Most of the bodies will be brought
up today. but many which are
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Horrors Faced
By Rescuers
Described
United Press Man Braves
Fire and Gas to
Enter Pit.
By Curtis Ward
United Press staff CorresDoHdcHt
Copnri0ht. 1929. On United Press

CoDuri0ht. 1926, on United Press
DEGNAN- MCCONNELL MINE,
WILBURTON, Okla, Jan. 14.--The
interior OF the Degnan-McConnell
mine No. 21 Is a place OF horror.
/ went into the mine early last
night with a rescue party and
stayed until John Almond, deputy
State mine inspector, ordered every
one out, shortly before midnight.
A falling wall Of slate almost
blocked our exit. A former A. u. +.
sergeant and old-time miner, stilled
panic by sheer personality.
We went 1913 feet straight down
into the earth, thence 1900 feet
deeper, down a slope to the interior
of the mine.
At the end Of this slope, just out
side a chamber door were thirty-one
miners, all dead. The first was Bar
ney Daley, one Of the mines FIRE
bosses, the men who test the mine
for gas. Daley apparently had dis
covered the danger and was leading
the men out when the explosion oc-
Cured.
A short distance away lay man
known as big Alec" the other
fire boss.
Near by lay A. II. Thomas Of
Hartshorne, civil engineer, who
had been doing some surveying i'm
the mine. The explosion had
thrown him against the ground
with terrific force. He was identi-
fed by his watch and surveying
instruments, one of which still was
clasped in his hand.
The rest were Negroes--all dead.
Three of them were in sitting posi-
ton, with backs against the wall as
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ROBINSON BACKS BILL

Urges Lowering Age for and In
creasing Civil Service Pensions.
BH Times Special
WASHINGTON, jan 14.-Senator
Arthur r. Robinson today appeared
before the Joint Postal Commit
tees Of House and Senate in support
of the bill which would lower the
age Of civil service employees eligible
for pensions, and would increase the
maximum pension from $720 to
81 200 a year.
Robinson presented petitions from
many of his constituents asking the
bills passage.
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Blackford ST., 81 and costs, and Or
vile Snowdon, 122 Fulton ST.. SO
and costs. The fines were all sus-
pended.
Costs were suspended in cases Of
A. E. Williams. lis f. Ohio st. 50;
Jessie Webb, Negro, 43 Rankin S..
50; William Bittner, 4016 Brook
vile Rd., 80; Howard Ostetter, r..
F. D. 3, box 649, 81; Eliza Edmonds,
Negro. s1s E. Twenty-F'irst ST., 81,
and Carl Kingrove. city, 81.
Others arrested, r. A. Scherer,
42s Sanders St.; F. G. Rouse. Heiers
Hotel; Loren Abbott, 913 Denny St.;
T. H. DeHart, 525 Keystone Ave.
and w. e. Fielder, 1920 N. state Ave.
The department also is making a
drive on taxi drivers who turn in
the rciddle Of the block, park double
and in other ways violate the law,
White said. Martin Hulse, 25, Of
17O6 w. Michigan ST., was charged
with improper driving near the
fractional Terminal. Wednesday
night.
Those charged with speeding were
Paul M. German. 21, of 141G n. La
Sale st Hugh Mason, 10. Of 725 w
Drive. Woodruff Place; George Burk,
hart. IS. of 20S Butler Ave; For
rest Hackley, 27, of r. r. G., Box "A
Robert Mccall. 10, of S27 Prospect
ST.; John A. Webster. 20, OF New.
castle, Ind; Morris Kritsch, 2sh Ed
wards Hotel; j. w Cochran, 20, OF
226 Orange ST.; Winifred Baird. "a
of S15 Sherman Dr.; Fred G. Spill
man, "a. of r. r. G.. Box 800, and
Louis LANCER, 2S, Of 419 w. Thirty.
Ninth st.
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FILING FALSE CLAIMS
ALREADY Is ALLEGED
Eleven Separate Counts Are
Listed - Said to Have
Concealed Shortages and
to Have Made Deposits in
Own Accounts.

An additional Indictment
alleging the embezzlement of
$17, ,225.71 of State funds was
returned by the Marion county
grand jury today against Harry
B. Smith, 343S Brentwood Ave-,
adjutant general of Indiana un-
der former Governor Warren Il.
McCray.
This is the second indictment re
turned against Smith. The first was
filed Dec. 81, alleging he filed false
claims with the State treasurer and
collected the money. He is to be
arraigned on the false claims indict-
ment Monday before Judge James
A. Collins in Criminal Court.
The embezzlement bin contained
eleven counts, each specifying a
certain sum which Smith is charged
with misustng.
IN 1921
The first count charged Smith
with the embezzlement on Sept. /,
1921, of $500 belonging to the State
which had been paid him and was in
his possession for safe-keeping for
the state. 1t is alleged that he
"unlawfully, feloniously and wilfully
embezzled, converted and apppro-
priated the same to his own use" =
The count further alleged that he
concealed the fact that the crime
had been committed, by making
false statements to persons engaged
in examining his accounts, by the
conduct Of his office; by depositing
the funds held by him as adjutant
general in various banks and draw
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RAILW WAY ASKS
BUS LINE spur
Extension Of Keystone Ave.
Route Is Plan.

Indianapolis Street Railway Com
pany today filed a petition with the
public service commission asking a
spur to the KeystoEe Ave. and
Thirty Eighth st. line, now pending
before the commission.
One-half Of the busses on the pro-
posed line would turn east at Thrift
eth st. and Cornell Ave. to Sherman
Dr., under the plan. Returning the
regular route will bo followed. after
joining the main line, to the Circle.
Two additional busses would be re-
quired.
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Stands By His George

stunned a patriotic dinner given
by the Sons of the Revolution,
by his characterization of the
Father Of his Country.
Washington never favored or
meant to fight for independence,
according to Hughes, who called
the revolution "a Civil War"
The first President loved to
dance, said Hughes and on
occasion danced for three hours
with the wife of his principal
general. He never prayed and
consistently avoided participat-
ing in communion" The tragedy
of Valley Forge, he said, was
due to profiteers as much as to
tie rigors of winter.
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EDUCATION CAMPAIGN
TO BE CARRIED OUT
Last Minute Additions to
Force by Retiring ExeCu-
tive Would Not Take Place
Under Business System,
Says Beckett.

Manager form of city gov
ernment, proposed for Indian
apolis, received another boost
today from Joe Rand Beckett,
one Of the four deputy at
torneys general appointed to
assist Prosecutor William H.
Remy in Marion county liquor
prohibition enforcement.
Beckett said the suspension of four
Indianapolis policemen on charges
Of accepting bribes from bQotleggers
was natural consequence Of the
political form Of municipal rule.
The merit system police force pro-
vided for by the manager form in
sures efficiency, and, above all,
honesty, in this important arm of
city government, Beckett declared.
To Expose Weakness
One Of the reasons we got those
statements from those poolroom
operators was to publicly expose the
Weaknesses of the system we have
now" he said, adding that the
charges and suspensions didn't ac-
complish any specific purpose in en-
forcing the liquor law.
AS long as beotleggers, poolroom
owners, and law violators contribute
to political slush funds Beckett
said, conditions will remain bad.
Now the fellows that made these
statements said .Ney contributed to
both parties campaign funds. AS
long as the police must take orders
from political superiors about who
to raid and not to, Wen have hard
time keeping down corruption"
Beckett is a member of the exec
utive committee formulating plans
for far-reaching educational cam
manager form over the political Gys-
tenn.
Administration Move
It was pointed out also that the
addition of more than 100 policemen
to the force by the last administra-
tion just before it relinquished
governmental control to Mayor
Duvall and his department heads
was a farce that never would have
occurred under the manager form.
The purpose Of the additions was
to give jobs to friends of the former
administration. All of them were
suspended when Police Chief Claude
r. Johnson assumed office.
Plans are being made for meet
ing soon of the executive committee
Of the manager drive to lay concrete
pIans for the educational drive.
When the drive was dropped tempor-
arily little more than month ago
it was said it would be resumed
after the first of the year. Charles
r.. Coffin, vice president and gen
eral counsel Of the State Life Insur-
ance Company is committee chair
man.
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By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. A.
Rupert Hughes. novelist, stands
by his description OF George
Washington as a "distiller Of
whisky, a great card player,
and a champion cursor" no
matter how much the Sons of
The Revolution may fume about
it.
George Washington was all
these things called him." he
said today. ''I stand by my
guns. 1 stand on the historical
record"
Hughes. who is taking special
work at the Army War College,