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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-05-06
Speedway Track Mecca For
SpOrtsmen Tomorrow Afternoon
Two Great Automobile Races To Be Decided Stock Car
Race Scheduled To Start at 1.3O O'clock
Big Race at 2.30

The great circular board stage
OH the White Horse pike, just this
side Of Hamsnonton, will be the
Mecca for sportsmen Of the cast
ern section of the country tomor-
row as two great automobile races
will be decided.
The first event, 75-miIe eastern
stock car championship, will be
started at 1.30 O'Clock. Virtually
all the popular motor cars of to-
day are entered in this event.
The second race, the two hundred
mile championship, will begin at
half past two. The arrangement
Of the starting time will give every
one an opportunity to reach the
track in time to witness the dual
program.
The winner Of the stock car race
will receive a silver loving cup,
valued at $1,000. with $500 in cash.
Prizes will also be given to the
stock cars which finish in second
and third place.
The championship race is for a
purse of $4,000, and awards will
be made down to and including the
car that crosses under the check
cred flag in tenth place
The stock car race will be limit
ed to cars which are, with the ex-
ception of the removal of their
windshields. tops and tenders,
identically the same as those which
are driven upon the highways. At
the wheels OF these cars, in this
added feature, will be several driv-
ers who have won national recog-
nition together with several local
boys who have served a severe ap-
premiership on the gruelling and
hazardous dirt tracks in this sec
ton of the country.
The fact that the speedway
championship has been made for a
distance of two hundred miles in
stead of a longer distance as was
the case in past races, insures one
Of the liveliest and most thrilling
speedway classics ever offered.
The stock car race. for a dis
lance of seyenty-five miles, will
show the public just what the ma
chimes, such as they daily drive
over the roads, are capable of when
driven at top speed by expert dri-
yers on a board race track.
The nations greatest drivers will
compete in the championship
speedway race, including such men
as Leon Duray, winner of the $50
mile race near Los Angeles, who
now leads by 500 points towards
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-05-06

Samuel S. Chew, of this city, for
$4,000 damages against Frank
Bloom, of 2308 Paramount avenue
and Nathan Cooper, IA N. Kentucky
avenue, Atlantic City, or, in alter
native, the Acme Bottleing comp
any. They were filed in the circuit
court.
The damages are asked for
injuries sustained by Dr.. Chew
when he was hit by truck
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-05-06

this years championship Frank
Lockhart, who just turned the fas-
test mile ever recorded by one Of
these little baby ninety-ones;
Harry Hartz, with his new front
wheel drive Erskine Miller speec-
ial; Frank Elliott with front, Pc
ter 'DePaolo, Cliff Woodbury., the
veteran Eddie Hearne and many
others.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-05-06
NO. q p. T. A. TO MEET

The Decatur avenue Parent-Tea-
cheers Association will hold their
last regular meeting of the year
Thursday at 3 o'clock. At this
time the officers for the year 1927
1928 will be elected, also commit
tees for the following year will be
appointed. There will be no en-
tertainment as plans for field day
will be discussed and committees
appointed.
-.,I o.
FILES SUIT
Suit has been filed by Dr..
The Washington times., 1927-11-26
D. c. DEFICIT IS
100000

with several changes. the de-
ficiency and supplemental appro-
priations bill which failed Of pass
age at the last session Of Congress,
will be reported at the opening Ut
Congress next month carrying ap-
nronriations for the District OF
Columbia. of about $75O.0O0.
The deficiency bill last winter
carried District items totaling 81
3ss 900. Many Of the items are in.
Guided in the 192S-29 appropria.
ton bin and are therefore excluded
from the deficiency measure.
An important item in the bill i
$40 600 for the Child Welfare Board
When the bill failed OF passage
last winter, It left the board with
out funds for the care OF children
committed to It by the courts
Four local citizens. out OF their
private funds, came forward ano
advanced the cash.
Among other items are: $22l.OOe
for St. Elizabeth's Hospital: $26,9SE
for tury fees in the District courts
500. 900 fort additional guards and
equipment at the District jail
| Si4. 600 for guards and upkeep o.
the workhouse at Occoquan: $4,000
for the policemen's and firemens
| relief fund.
Appropriation also VIII be asked
for new quarters for the. House o.
Detention and the Health Depart
ment Clinics which the Fedora
building activities will remove from
| the Mall.
The Washington times., 1927-11-26
NOTES OF SOCIETY

George wadsworth and Mrs.
Robert Whitney Imbrle.
~
DIR. Anita Maris Boggs will
have as her guests at the ler.
ture which Lieut.. Comdr. s. 5.
Yeandle will give before the Dis
trict League of American Pen
Women this afternoon. Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Frederick C.
Billiard, commandant of the Coast
Guard, and Mrs. S. S. Yeandle.
Judge and Mrs. John W. Ben
nett win be the guests of Miss
Patricia Poe Benhett. Others
who will entertain are Miss Alice
Hutchins Drake. Miss Elizabeth
Mallott Barnes, Miss Helen Col.
houn and Miss Evelyn Weems.
Representative and Mrs. w. e.
Evans had as their guests at din
ner yesterday Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ridge Boland, Of San Francisco.
Representative and Mrs. Evans
and their daughter, Miss Cath.
crime Evans, have gone to New
York for the Army-Navy game.
y
THE Colonial Danes win be the
= guests Of honor Of the Susan
b. Anthony Foundation at a sill
yer tea to be given at Stoneleigh
Court on Tuesday from to s
o'clock. At the tea table will be
Mrs. Wallace Grayson Orme, Mrs.
Everard B. Todd, Mrs. Edward
Payson Hall. Mrs. George Tully
Vaughan, Mrs. F.. r. F.. johnson
and Mrs. Edward Pou. A large
reception committee has been or.
ganized.
A program will be given by Miss
Ethel Ruth Grandstaff, mezzo so
, prano, of Detroit; Mrs. David
Kincheloe and Mrs. Lily Charles
McFadden, A group OF pioneer
women, who were associated with
Susan B. Anthony, will be present.
N additional list Of patronesses
"A of the Florence Crittendon
Home bazaar, which is to be held
on November % and %, in the
ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel,
includes Mrs. Dwight F.. Davis,
Mrs. Ogden Mills, Miss Mabel
Boardman, Mrs. F. Trubee Davi.
son. Mrs. Alfred Pembroke Thorn,
Mrs. John Hays Hammond. Mrs.
James A. Boorman. Mrs. Hamil
ton Fish, jr., Mrs. Robert Elem.
ing. Mrs. Thomas w. Sidwell
and Mrs. Jason n. Pierce.
X = +
TSho,.Ia. n LriIIas ~ tt,a par,,h
lcan National Committee. who is
at the Willard, entertained at
luncheon there yesterday.
The Washington times., 1927-11-26
ROCKVILLE HAS
WOMAN PASTOR

ROCKVILLE. Md. Nov. %
The Rev. Gertrude B. Ross, form
erly in charge of church in New
England, has assumed charge of
the pastorate of the Rockville Free
Methodist Church. She succeeds
the Rev. William e. Frederick. re.
signed, and is the first woman to
be pastor OF a church in Mont
gomery county.
Moses Wormsley, colored, form
erly of Washington, who pleaded
guilty in the circuit court here to
an indictment charging him with
breaking into and robbing the store
Of J. o. Thompson, on the Brooke
vile Road, near Chevy Chase, was
sentenced to the Maryland PEN
itentiary for three years by Judge
Robert B. Peter.
Reuben L. Gordon. jr., 72, under
stood to be a member of the Viz
GINA Legislature, and Miss Mary r.
Hitter, 81, both of Louisa, Va, were
married in Rockville Thanksgiving
Day by the Rev. S. J. Goode.
Licenses have been issued by the
The Washington times., 1927-11-26
What's Doing;
When, Where
TODAY

TODAY
card Party--cottag city Firs De-
partment Building, Cottage City, Nd.
Dance-Ths Ohio Girls Club, 1918 r
st. n. W.. . p. m.
Meeting-United Lodge OF Theoso'
phists. Hill Building. 10 q. m.
PIay-East Washington Community
Center. Eastern High School Auditorium
p. m.
Dance-catholic University football
hop. Washington Hotel, p. m.
Dance-EpsiIon Mu Sigma fraternity
Washington Hotel, . p. m.
Dinner--American War Mothers Asso'
citation. Hamilton Hotel. $50 p. m.
Meeting-Weekly book reveiw class
willard Hotel 1880 a. m.
Mass Meeting-Playhouse. 1914 N St
n. W.. Sis p. IN.
Lecture-National Geogra phic Society
George Washington auditorium, 8 p. m
TOMORROW
Dedlcation--Full Gospel Tabernacle
North Capitol and K Streets, AS p. m.
Rally-Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Thirteenth and " Streets, Southeast
4:30 p. m.
Dinner--Georgetown Civic Association
Francis Junior High School.
The Washington times., 1927-11-26
Bridge Party Is
In Offing for
Rescue League

MAH-JoNG will be featured,
AVA as wen as bridge. at the
benefit for the Animal Rescue
League to be held at the Wash
ington Club on Wednesday, De-
cember 7. and tea will follow the
game.
Mrs. Coolidge, who is honorary
president Of the league. is a
patroness for the card party, and
among the distinguished women
who have recently been added to
this large group are Mrs. Thomas
F. Bayard, Mrs. Truxton Beale,
Mrs. William j. Boardman, Mrs.
Frederick H. Brooke, Mrs. James
+. Curtis, Mrs. Stephen b. Elk
ms, Mrs. Frank b. Freyer, Mrs.
Charles c. Glover. Mrs. William
Corcoran Eustis and Mrs. Clifford
Pinchot
The Animal Rescue League,
whose work is too well known tn
need advertising, is wholly de.
pendent upon the public for sup.
port.
MISS MARION GRIMES viii
4VA give a luncheon in honor Of
Miss Sarah Major on Monday at
Rauschess. The guests will In.
clude Miss Dora Catalani, Miss
Lila LaGarde, Miss Caroline
Dodge Wilcox, Miss Alice Abadie.
Miss Laura Lejeune, Miss Eu.
genia Lejeune, Miss Elizabeth
Glenn, Miss Idanthea Moffatt, Miss
Alice Cults and Miss Florence
Stokely.
Miss Louise Shirley and Miss
Betty SHIRLEY, with their cousin
Miss Virginia Belt, have gone to
New York to attend the Army.
&. Navy game.
The Monday Bachelor Club,
which met at the Carlton Hotel
last year, will meet at the
Chanticler this season. It's first
meeting will be Monday night.
MRS. WILBUR JOHN CARR
AVA has called a meeting at her
residence, the Dresden. to ar.
range for a Christmas market at
Neighborhood House. The com.
mittee in charge are Mrs. Carr.
Mrs. Porter Human Dale, Mrs.
Charles DENLY. Mrs. Frederick ].
Horne, Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard.
Miss Ellen A. Vinton. Mrs.
The Washington times., 1927-11-26
WASHINGTON STATUE

, Both these works of Mills have
been the subject of much discussion.
Artists. politicians and the public
generally have heaped Goals on
Mills head.
Four years ago the statue was
taken down and moved to Brooklyn
where 1t was repaired. By some
freak of nature many holes had
developed in the bronze permitting
the seepage of rain and consider.
able damage was done. 1t was re-
finished over all.
The head. which was insecurity
attached to the horse, had for years
threatened to fall off. This was
remedied.
Repeated efforts have been made
to have the Washington statue and
Jackson statue in Lafayette Square
change places. President Harding
was the last President to prevent
such a move.
The Washington times., 1927-11-26

Paying tribute by memorials and
monuments in other years was by
slow process. A statue to George
Washington was not erected here
until 1857. 1t was the second in
the city, the first being the An
drew Jackson statue, which was
erected in 1858.
The sculptor in each case was
Clark Mills. The Washington statue
Is in Washington Circle on Penn
sylvania Avenue, at Twenty.third
Street northwest.
Mills, a plasterer by trade. was
is Charleston. S. c., when he saw
notice in the paper that Congress
wanted a statue of jackson. He
came to Washington with a few
busts he had made of plaster on his
days off, and got the job.
1t was such a success that he
was commissioned in 1883 to make
the statue of Washington.
The Washington times., 1927-11-26
Boxes Snapped Up
For Opera Ball.;
Artists to Attend

THE Opera Ball at the May.
4 flower Hotel on Wednesday
evening, December Z, promises
to be the most brilliant event
Of the season. Those who have
already taken boxes are the Am
bassador of Belgium, Mrs. Stephen
Elkins. Mrs. Henry Dimock, Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs.
Frances B. Moran, Mrs. Bowie
Chapman, Mrs. Daniel Stapleton.
Mrs. Karl d. Klemm, Mrs. George
Mesta, Leander McCormick. Good
heart, Mrs. Harold walker, Mrs.
Edward e. Gam and Mrs. Charles
8. Deneen.
The artists of the Grand Opera
Festival will be the guests Of
honor.
The Washington times., 1927-11-26

clerk Of the circuit court here for
the marriage Of Carl o. Crosse, %.
OF Hot Springs, Va, and Miss Lola
FANNIE Taylor. IS, OF Bocova. Va:
Louis s. Ballif, 80. OF Whitney.
Idaho, and Miss Helen j. C. Bar.
nett, 70. of Boston, Mass; George
Wanaan, 80, and. Miss Eunice b.
preston, 70, both Of Washington.
The Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, Of
washington, officiated at the mar.
riage at Silver Spring a day or two
ago OF Harry j. Trainor, and Miss
Gertrude M. Cutter, both of Silver
Spring.
The Washington times., 1927-11-26
Child Bandits Hold Up
Girl, IL, to Buy Toys

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26.-Re-
turning homo from an errand,
Adela Wakowska. IL, of 1853 East
Thompson ST.. was suddenly con.
fronted last night by two boys who
jumped from a dark alley, knocked
her down, seized her purse contain
ing So. and ran. The boys. John
Shoman, II. Of 1880 Bermuda St.,
and Chester Deptulo. 10. of 1916
Bermuda ST.. were captured less
than a block away when Policeman
The Washington times., 1927-11-26

Dubock. off duty. heard the girls
screams and collared the boys.
When the two were captured,
however. the purse was not in their
possession, one of them having
thrown it into the street. It was
recovered few minutes later but
the money had disappeared. The
boSs were taken to the Belgrade
and Clearfield Streets station.
"We wanted the money to buy
toys" they told police. They were
taken to the House Of Detention
and will be given hearing this
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31

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SIPS to SI.65 Silks

All the o id 7OoYd.
pieces of Summer ! ~
Silks, Satins, Tub Silks, Rayon
Striped and Plain Crepes and
Celanses Veiles. Not every
color in every material, but
!. good selection in the lot.
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17
ONE-HALF FARE TO CHICAGO!

Join the Northern Pacific Montana
Stock Show Special to the Chicago
international Live Stock Exposition,
Hay and Grain Show and sales of
pure bred breeding stock, Nov. % to
Dec. 8. Special low rate of one fare
for the round trip. Rate good all
points from Missoula east including
Bitter Root and Flathead branches
Passengers from west of Billings will
take North Coast Limited on Nov
26, arriving at Billings 7:O5 p. M,
where special will be made up to
regular G. B. & @. and N. P. trains
by midnight Dec. 6. Your opportu-
nifty to visit the worlds greatest Live
Stock Show at an unusually low cost.
For particulars see your local North
ern Pacific agent 36-1t.
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17
POULTRY SHOW

Announcement is made that the
Carbon County Poultry Growers as
sociation will hold the annual poul-
try show in this city on January II,
IS and IA. John Rook is president of
the association and John Sim is secre-
tary and arrangements are already
being made by them and by the men,
bers of the association that the Janu-
ary show will be the best ever held
here. Interest and attendance in these
exhibitions have increased each sue
ceeding year, which would indicate
that poultry growers and people of
the county generally. are being edu-
Gated thereby and that they owe
debt of real gratitude to the members
of that association for being the in
spiration that has raised the quality
of the poultry Of this county to its
present high standard.
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17
EDUCATIONAL. WEEK

Education Week closed last Friday
and without doubt. the observance
that was given to it will bear fruit.
Parents showed a commendable inter-
est by visiting the schools and able
addresses were delivered to the pu-
pills. That is as it should be, because
there must be the closest cooperation
of teachers, pupils and parents to in.
sure for schools, the highest measure
of success.
Of course it has been well said that
the public schools are the foundations
of this Republic and that the high
est degree of education is necessary
to maintain our institutions. That is
only partially true for education alone
may even be dangerous quality for
without the development of the high
est degree of character in our chill
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17
Great Falls Woman Captures
Queen of PickpOckets, Paris

Melina Maitre, known in Paris
France as "queen of pickpoekets,' and
notorious felon, was arrested dur
ing the national convention of the
American Legion in Paris, due to the
presence of mind of Mrs. Walter Nc
Callum of Great Falls, it was learned
on the return of Mr. and Mrs. Mccall
lum from France.
The arrest of the Paris pickpocket,
according to an English newspaper,
published in Paris, was primarily due
to Mrs. McCallum, a member of the
American Legion auxiliary. The Incl
dent as related by the paper follows:
Mrs. Walter McCallum, member of
the American Legion auxiliary and
staying in an Avenue Kleber hotel,
was instrumental in capturing the
queen of Paris pickpockets' yester
day
Mrs. MeCallum was shopping in a
large department store on the Right
bank. Suddenly she felt hand in her
purse. She quickly seized the hand.
The owner was large woman in her
40's. She was arrested and proved to
be Melina Maitre, Al, who had been
arrested for the same crime innumer-
able times and who had been banished
from the city for total of 20 years"
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17
BON VOYAGE

There was wedding here the other
day The high contracting parties
were promising young man of
twenty-four and a girlish appearing
young woman with the bloom of
nineteen summers on her cheeks. It
was indeed the elimination of a ro-
nance wherein youth and beauty had
woed and won and Love had been Civ
en- her scepter and been crowned queen
of two young lives. 1t was but the
placing of the seal of holy matrimony
on the golden cords of confidence,
hope and fidelity already binding two
trusting hearts.
At the moment the solemn words
were spoken pronouncing them man
and wife, life spread before them like
a flower bedecked pathway leading
through sunlit days clothed in sublime
majesty and nights serene crowned by
a galaxy of jeweled stars where hope
hung a rainbow on the bosom of the
darkest cloud
Of course, you read in the local
papers of the showers and receptions
and banquets rendered them by their
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17

train had gone. They were mourning
the loss of a loved child. Neither spoke
for their sorrow was too deep for
words but each was wondering what
the future had in store for her-if she
realized what she was leaving if she
made a fair exchange when she gave
up her quiet country home, her old
neighbors and friends, her parents
and her girlhood associations for the
bright lights.
| fear not. Maybe when she is a
city woman with her retinue of SER
wants pressing buttons to wash her
dishes she will realize the vanity of
some of the dreams that glowed in the
eyes of the girl bride and when she
walks through crowded city streets
she may see the dirt and meanness of
life. Possibly not, but one thing IS
certain, the influence of her girlhood
training and associations will abide.
The winds of the wheat will be all
about her and with her she will carry
the great silence of the prairie.
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17
Huge Stone Lantern
Gift to Mayor Conley

The Japanese are quick to recipro-
cate when they bestow favors on their
American friends, no present is too
fine in choosing a token of appreeia-
ton.
To Deer Lodge as a gift to Mayor
Frank Conley comes priceless Ian
tern from the land of the mikado.
The Conley home at the old Irwin
Lake is famous for it's hospitality, and
among those who did not forget a
cordial welcome there was Baron
Uchida, ulti-millianaire silk king of
Japan, who, after he had been enter
tanned in a manner befitting his royal
connections, expressed appreciation to
his host, and told him that he would
send him a lantern as an earnest OF
his sincerity. Mayor Conley replied
that he never accepted anything in re-
turn for his hospitality, and that his
friends were always welcome without
gifts. But the little baron did not for
get his promise.
Three weeks later the lantern ar
rived. 1t was not made Of silk from
the silk magnate's looms, nor yet of
paper, as one would expect, but of
solid stone. The massive gift came by
freight-not C. o. d., but prepaid-in
eight sections, each of which weighs
over 100 pounds. The pieces are
carved and decorated in the mimi
table style of the japanese cutters,
whose art was handed down from the
seventh century Of the Christian era.
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17
Montana' Gas
Tax Is Average

Popularity of the system adopted
by state legislature of increasing the
gasoline tax as a means of providing
additional revenues for highway inn
provement is shown by information
secured by the Montana Automobile
association. Montana is one of %
states that added to its gasoline tax
this year as means of building roads.
Sixteen states have higher taxes
on gasoline than Montana, which at
present imposed 8 cents. Five south
'ern states, Arkansas, Florida, Ken
lucky, New Mexico and South Caro-
lima top the list with cents a gal
Ion. This charge at the current rate
of motor fuel represents tax from
25 to 80 per cent and in few cases
35 per cent of the cost of the fuel
itself.
While in majority of states the
gasoline tax averages from 2 to 3
cents gallon, there appears to be a
tendency among legislatures to in
crease the charge each year until the
highest possible revenue is attained.
So far no effort has been made to
go beyond 5 cents gallon.
The Carbon County news., 1927-11-17
Snow Drives Wild
Mountain Sheep to- Valley

With the last storms on the high
peaks in Glacier park, the mountain
sheep are coming down to get the hay
that the park service puts out for
them.
Ollie Steen, who has been watch
man of the big hotel at Many Gla-
cier for the last five years, has
counted as high as lao sheep on the
feed ground at one time.
Thirty-five died last winter from
an unknown disease. Among them was
Battle AK, big ram with a long
scar across his forehead, which was
boss of all the sheep that came IN.
About five years ago there We're
some guides at Many, Glacier IN the
late fall. One Of them caught Battle