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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-11
IN THE HALL or FAME

Like the dream Of an old pioneer,
You have repeated history.
You bIaEed q trail above the clouds
To the city Of Paree.
You have led the way for others,
And soon theregI be = line
That will rival the prairie schoOners
In the days Of fifty-nine.
As we did the heroes Of our history
We will preserve your name
For the future generations
Within the stately hall Of fame,
subdued by enthusiasm,
Welcome home Is all We can say;
Captain Iindbergh! Your mOtherIand
Ii proud of you today!
BERNARD MORRISsEY.
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Since the undertakers
adopted the title of "mor-
ticiGns" there is more on
foot on the part of boozers to
be kmoWn as boOzicions.
GUS G.
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INFOR
ANOTHER ROW

Another probe of the office of the
Director of Traffic by the Bureau
of Efficiency is looming.
The charge causing the investiga-
ton is that Assistant Director NJ.
o. Eldridge has been responsible
for the dismissal from the office
of a woman employee, Mrs. Mary
F. Kaufman, one of-the witnesses
who was called to appear against
Eldridge in the recent Bureau of
Efficiency inquiry.
Sixteen out of twenty-eignt clerks
in the Traffic Directors office have
been recently notified that their
services will no longer be required,
and those chosen for dismissal have
been selected on the basis of the
efficiency ratings compiled by
Assistant Director Eldridge, it is
said. In some cases these ratings
are not fair and just, it is charged,
and H. D. Brown, chief of the
Bureau Of Efficiency, already has
announced that an investigation will
be made.
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what fate handed out with a sigh
instead Of with an effort to defend
myself. might have skunk through
the rest of my early span like mil
lions of other women, dissatisfied,
grumbling feebly. but taking it.
Squared Off For Contest
No, when the vital matters of life
turned out to be all that / had ex-
pected they would not be, squared
off for the contest. | tried to battle
off things over which l had little
control, and to reshape with my
pOwerIess hands the unbendable
hands Of circumstance.
] was born that way.
All my ancestors on both sides
were courageous in the face of great
hardships and handicaps. They were
all either seafarers who wrunR a
scant existence out of a reluctant
sea or they were poor, small farm
ers who wrestled and grubbed
against stingy bit of ground in
cold. frosted northern countries for
their bread.
Those who gave up died.
Those who fought died. too, In
many cases. But they died fight
ing to the last.
Fighting to Save Her Soul
There is something in the instinct
for battle that sustains one, even
when downed and vanquished.
l am surrounded with steel bars
and steel gratings. Walls a dozen
feet thick and two dozen feet tall
bar me from freedom or a chance
for freedom. 1 know ! cannot win.
But still want to fight.
/ want to fight to save my soul.
want to fight to save what lean
OF my name, so that, while [ must
be charged with the sins did, I
shall not be burdened with those
did not do. want to fight to
leave some alters of decency behind.
SO that my child and my mother
may not need to bend their innO-
cent heads SO deeply in shame over
me.
want to fight for the truth.
cannot say was always a wor.
shipper of truth. But no one
serves it with such passionate rev.
erence as one whom lies have
licked. For years l wanted moth
ing less to come into the great
white light than truth; right now
l want nothing more.
Wants to Fight For Lorraine
i want to fight for Lorraine, to
see that she goes under guardian
ship OF my dear, sweet mother, who
loves her and whom she loves, who
has been a mother to her more than
1 have been; l don't want her to be
raised by relatives of my late hus-
band. who, though they are estima-
bic and respectable Christian peo-
pie, will always feel that she is the
child OF the woman who slew their
kin. who will look to find in her
the inherited tendencies of a mother
they despise. and who will never let
her forget who and what her
mother was.
l want to fight to see that Ior-
-raine gets the insurance and the
house and what remains of the Sny-
der estate. Whatever her mother
has done or has not done, she is en-
titled to the Snyder assets.
Leaving out her guilty mother,
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she is still the daughter of her
father--and he has not been ae-
cused of any cuilt, so she was his
heir before she can be mine. and
from that standpoint should not be
cheated Of her rights through any
technical maneuvers of clever law
yers paid to protect big corpora.
tons.
want to fight for a retrial, 20
can fight again for my life. /
was 'fouled" in the first one: 1 am
entitled to a return match"
l want to fight for the reputa-
tlons of my attorneys, who, though
they got comparatively meager
fees, and though 1 know they went
at times into their own check
books for me, came out with only
the sting of defeat. / want to
fight to place on their distinguished
records a famous victory.
want to fight for the few-oh,
such ,pitiful few--friends and
strangers who. through the thick
fogs of prejudice, mud-slinging,
hatred, and hostility, have sent sun.
shiny rays of encouragement, sym.
pathy, and faith to cheer me and
sustain me.
want to fight for a chance to
stay on earth and atone by re-
pentance, sacrifice, and humility
for some of my errors and mis-
deeds.
Oh. yes, one can sit in the death
house with the clock clicking off
the numbered minutes, and yet
have much 10 fight for, and find
the spirit with which To fight for
them.
Believes Husband With Her
Especially with a feeling of in
justice TO prod one on and with
a dawning sense of divine under
standing to give one faith. one can
fight on to the end-and smile.
My husband, as Judd Gray swore.
died fighting. I do not know,
was not present.
" he can see from above, he
knows the truth. He will smile,
too, and, fOrgiving me for what /
did. and knowing full well what /
did not do, he will cheer on for me
to keep ON fighting.
My mother, mild but intensely
brave woman, is fighting for me
with all she has. She, too. being
of the same flesh and blood as
ann. wants to fight.
And my daughter, being of the
flesh and blood of us also, l hope
she will grow up a fighter.
Bitter Future for Lorraine
Fate only knows how IOng aud
how often and how far she will
have to face the sneers and insults
Of this cruel world for me. / hone
she will lift her pretty eyes up,
hold her sweet face fOrward--and
fight. She has a bitter struggle
against unspeakable odds before
her, poor baby. But il I have my
wish she will fight through it, not
crumple under it. Humility is God
like, but humiliation is q red hot
and soaring human weapon.
Lorraine has nothing to be
ashamed Of. She didn't pick me
for a mother. But heartless people
will try to make her suffer for my
sins. Against them / hope she will
show cOurage-n0t impairment and
fippant audacity, but true, quiet,
solid courage.
For / fear she must not only
live me down, but, IL she needs my
prayers, she must SO live that her
accounting to this world and to her
Maker may in part do penance and
make restitution for mine,
Another intensely interest
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Ruth Snyder's Final
Appeal for Public's
Sympathy and Mercy
Condemned Slayer Relates In
Detail Her Side of Tragic Story
CHAPTER lt
BvRUTH BROWN SNYDER
Copyright, 1s27l--

Condemned death Nth Henry Judd Gray for n,urderins
her husband
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SYNTHETIC BABIES
There's bad neUs for the stork
again. Scientists again assert
that it is only matter of time
achen human life 40iH be pro-
duced By synthetic methods.
Then father WiIL say to his
little daughter: Here's a fine
baby brother / brought yolt from
the synthetic laboratory. They
made him out of the best ma
teriat they had, and he ought
to be a pippin."
JUMBO JAKE.
HOW HE SUFFERS!
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knight of Today" Play
Given at Grant School

"A knight of Today" portraying
the life of Colonel Lindberg, was
enacted by the fourth grade pupils
of the Grant School yesterday at
a school assembly.
The play touched on his take-off
at New York, his reception at lie
Bourget Field, the visit to Madam
Nungesser. the balcony scene at
the American Embassy, the decora-
ton by King Albert of Belgium,
and the reception by President
Coolidge in Washington.
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Iuey go nome aIIeF their Gay
or nights work. They are rea-
sonably contended with life-if they
weren't, they'd rebel against theirs
as did against mine when I was
disappointed and dissatisfied: they
still CAM can't. Yet 1 smile and
they do not. The sour air, the
spirit of degradation and of misery.
depress them, they who are used
to it, who each day can shake it
off, and who don't have to breathe
it unless they so choose.
They can't understand why / do
not sit all day with my head on
my hand lin the death house we
are aristOcrats and do not have
to work. and why l do not moan
all night or start Historically out
of a fitfuI sleep to shrek at the
horror, the humiliation, the hope.
lessness of it all.
!, myself, am not surprised. No
one expects this. sort of finish, so
no one prepares for it or gives
much thought to anticipating it.
But, had l ever contemplated such
a position, I know I would have
known how I would take 1t.
VIII Go To Chair With Smile
And / will carry it to the seat
of that deadly electric chair II 1
must go there, too. And-with n
smile.
1t will not be smile Of mock
cry, defiance, or insolence 1t will
be smile of mingled resignation,
faith, and courage.
Death will not be by far the
most painful blow that ever was
struck at me.
In Queens Jail. one night. the
matrOns rushed to my cell and tore
a blanket from my hands. They
thought ] was choking myself on
the corner of it. That was before
1 was convicted.
There 1 was, not saying boo, rum
ming a great many things over in
my head. 1t was cold and it was
exceedingly damp. had drawn
uncomfortable body and had curled
the end of it around my sensitive
neck. Nothing was further from
my mind than putting that dirty
thing between my lips.
Gave EN- ROusing "Ha-Ha"
But the matrons were super-care.
full, because in their short-sighted
way of reasoning I had every
temptation to do away with my
self, and therefore they were sus-
picious of my every move to that
end.
i gave them a loud and rOusing
ha.ha. l sat up in my bunk and
let them know that there was no
yellow" in Ruth except in her
hair land even that has been queS-
toned by some of the repOrters).
Certainly not during that trial, to
let Judd Gray have the field all to
himself, to end my life as a last
gift to him and by so doing proba-
bly, save his and most certainly
give validity to all that he was
lying about.
My mother didn't raise that kind
of children.
The impulse of fight always was
and will be to the end in my blood.
1t was one of the elements that
helped destroy me. Had I been
sickly, weakly individual who took
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-11
SCHOOL OFFICES CLOSE

Offices of the superintendent Of
Schools and other officials in the
Franklin administration building
viii close at noon today in honor Of
the reception rendered Colonel
Lindbergh. The closing is in ac-
cordance with a resolution adopted
by the Board OF Education at Wed
nesday's meeting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-11

FORBIDDEN FRUIT
apers I have read.

IN the papers i nave read,
Those who teach psychology,
Kisses shorten life. they said:
Each one costs you minutes three.
Shall I now 20 maldens say.
Take your tempting lips away"
IT'S n matter Of concern.
Men. who in ''theIr second youth"
For sweet ardent kisses yearn
Should forbear. and face this truth
Tho sweet kisses be sublime,
should one trifIe thus with Time:
! am an old "Cupid's vet"
hut l really must confess
That I'm fond Of such thIaKs yet.
And 1 love sweet lips to press.
Shall I now to maIdens say
That embrace cost me a day."
No. I'D rather pay the cost.
'Tfa, indeed, sweet penalty,
Time well spent, cen tho tits lost,
ShOrtens life by years for me.
Old age caused by THAT is bliss.
Let us, darling. kiss and kias.
EDDIE CLEMENS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-11

A "buIr' 1ChGIe and a lot
of lady t0hGles followed Lind
berg on the cruiser Memphis,
at sea. Lindbergh 'front.' find
1t so easy to escape the "bulI"
that 4eiH now fOlIoD him all
over this country.
BUCK 3.
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WELCOME HOME

Hello: Indy. we're glad to see you
back,
And hope you will stay. on this happy
track;
We have read the papers day and
night,
And how they've filled ms with delight,
To know you landed safely there,
On wings that fIOated through the air.
We welcome you and glad you're home
From far across the sea and foam.
e. M J.
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lE6 SAE ID MTM

HERE'S HOW TO LIVE
The busy bee 10 no Crouch.
He never kicks at working;
He's always on the job.
And there iS no Sinking.
He never whlnes nor grumbIes,
He never makes any money.
But he lays aside whats to him
The same thing-plenty Of honey.
That's n lesson in industry
Which human beings might follow.
An aim In life, work. aCeum uIation,
And not q single kick or hoIler,
GRANDPA.
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GIFT OF SCULPTURE

Mrs. Evangeline Lindber@h,
mother of the celebrated flier, will
be presented with the sculptured
head of her son today at the White
House reception. The head was
done by Miss Isabel H. Mitchell of
the Northumberland apartments.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-11

ing installment of Ruth
Snyder's Own Story in The
Washington Times on Mon
day! Watch for it!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-11

OSSINING n Y June 1.-THE matrons in Queens county
Jail used marvel at because through the days and nights
during my fierce trial. before it and after my conviction and
that Friday the Thirteenth when Judge
Scudder read the death penay-I smiled!
Here in Sing Sing where the atmosphere is grim
where everything supposed to be settled and beyond
the thrill of suspense the inspiration Of hope the hardened
attendants again shake their heads that this
SNYDER smile
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wind az she ran down the stairs "a
the floor below.
Well, here ] ami" she greeted
Monica with q laugh that had q
note OF pure happiness In It. Moth.
ing makes q girl feel half so light.
hearted as the knowledge that she
Is looking her very best-and Bob.
bic was.
Stage No. 8 was very dark and
gloomy except for the one bright
spot where Roy Schulz was direct.
ing scene from THE Dryad In
the Dale" starring the famous
Joan. Joyce.
That spot was very bright in.
deed. The set was part Of a sup
per room showing 4 long table
a-glitter with glass and silver and
tall candles.
The extra girls in their evening
dresses. and several good. looking
extra men, were sitting at it. At
one end. lolling In q high-backed
chair, sat Joan Joyce herself.
"O-o-oh? breathed Bobbie, when
she caught sight OF her. Joan
joyce
whats so wonderful about
herr" asked Monica with a bored
air. II think she looks like 4
hunk Of ice, myself"
But Bobbie couldn't take her
eyes from the famous star. She
didn't know then hat joan
Joyce's golden hair was a wig,
and that heaven-blue grease paint
gave her eyes that lure and
mystery.
She simply knew that she was
looking at the real Joan Joyce
whom she had watched on the
silver sheet for years. And in
her own eyes, as she went for.
ward, was the starry look Of a
child that sees its first Christmas
tree!
She stood just within the white
circle Of light. poised like
flower on it's stalk, lips half
parted with a wistful smile, and
one hand held against the spray
Of tawny silk roses on her breast.
That was the way Angus Mac.
Cloud saw Bobbie for the first
time in makeup.
He was standing back in the
dimness behind the four clicking
cameras when she came on the
set. 1t was the fourth time he
had seen her in the four days
since she had come to Holly.
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berry sauce which has been
rubbed through a sieve. Stir and
serve at once while the color Is
bright on hot toast with curls
of carefully broiled bacon.
Another good hostess dish in
which the cranberry plays a novel
part is one of those new hot
sandwiches. In 1t slices OF cold
boiled ham are Drowned in a little
butter or other fat and placed on
slices of hot buttered toast. Add
hot cranberry sauce, sprinkle with
Parmesan cheese, garnish with
parsley and serve at once.
In many homes this season
cranberries will be seen in the
breakfast rolls, In the bread, and
rice pudding, and in sherbets and
ices.
A particularly nice variation of
cabbage salad uses cranberries to
give sparkle Of color as well as
flavor. A pint Of finely shredded
cabbage, three-fourths Of q cup of
shredded pineapple. third Of
cup of chopped nuts and half q
cup of jellied cranberries are
lightly tossed in mayonnaise dress
ing and served in cups Of lettuce
leaves.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-05
BY Hannah Wing

zach year the cranberry sea.
~ son gets q little longer. An
unusually large crop, and i'm.
proved storage facilities, will give
III tine, sound berries well into
April this year. In fact, the Gran.
berry retiring from the market
win meet the strawberry coming
In. For the last taste Of the fresh
tart flavor OF the cranberry. we
offer these suggestions.
IA CRANBERRY stuffing that IL
mQually nice with roast pork, veal
SOr mock duck roasts Of meat is
made this way:
Mix three tablespoons Of melted
butter with two cups OF soft
bread crumbs, add q well-beaten
egg, q teaspoon OF salt, q half
teaspoon Of poultry seasoning and
tWo.thirds Of q cup Of cranberry.
sauce. "A half cup Of, seedless
raisins or. one tart apple finely
chopped may be added to the
etuffing when desired.
The young hostess who serves
. Sunday might rarebit can give
her guests q pleasant surprise IL
she varies the contents as well
az the color of the dish by using
this recipe. which also includes
cranberries:
Heat oneshalf cup of milk In a
double boiler OF. chatting dish or
grill. Add one-half cup OF grated
cheese and two tablespoons Of but.
ter. When these have melted,
beat IN egg and mix with it half
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woodruff he never had . good
look at her until that moment.
The other three times she had
been. for him. just an extremely
pretty girl who would do much
toward decorating . picture or
who would do for . small flirta-
ton. A drive up in the hills,
supper at Montmartre. Some
thing about her that he hadn't
seen before-so ON ething that
touched him deeply. Perhaps II
was the wistful little smile that
lifted the corners Of her mouth.
Or perhaps 1t was the eager look
In her big eyes. Al look that was
almost pathetic in its eagerness.
At any rate, there was some
thing about the slim poised pink
figure that stirred him as the
sight Of no other woman ever
had-and he had seen nothing
but beautiful women for 10 or
IL years. Ever since he had
been working around studios, a.
= A1dIJSE OF LAcLs
There Is an emotion that We
call "love at first sight" The
French people cali It a Flash Of
lightning" But whatever its
name Is, 1t Is certainly the most
dangerous kind Of human affec-
ton. For it can lead to almost
anything.
Sometimes It il over almost 40
soon as 1t begins-like a flash Of
lightning. Sometimes it lasts, and
while it does 1t is a very real
ard powerful thing.
And that was the thing that
happened to MacCloud as he
stood in the dimness beyond a
movie set on a September after
noon, and saw Bobbie Ransom
walk into the brilliance of the
Klieg lights.
His eyes stayed on her face az
she turned to say something to
Roy Schultz, who came walking
up to her the minute the lights
flashed off.
I'm all right now. thanks, = was
what she said, and MacCloud found
himself tensely listening for the
sound Of her voice.
It was q lovely voice, and II aid
lovely things when Bobbie was
happy ana excited as she was now.
1t seemed to rise like wings and
to hutteis like them. before it fell
to low note.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
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Making Career for Ones Self Is Not All Peaches and
Cream as BObbie Ransom Found Out When She En-
tered the Movies at Hollywood

tell how = girl is going to photo
graph.
Bobbie smiled serenely. She
knew she would not look like
can Of paint! She knew that her
photographs were always natter-
ing.
just inside the doorway Of the
building was q small White-painted
office. In the middle OF It sat q
woman all in black. Her white
hair lay In smooth scallops around
her face and she wore glasses on
tho bridge Of q high aristocratIc
nose. This was Mrs. Hammond.
the wardrobe mistress at the Mag
mica Studios.
Morning. Mrs. Hammond" said
Monica, who seemed to be on "a.
miliar terms with everybody in the
place. This Is q new girl that Mr..
Schultz sent over. He wants you
to fit her up with one of the pink
ballet costumes that he used for
the dancers in 'Ruffles.' .
Mrs. Hammond stood up and
beckoned Bobbie to follow her.
They went upstairs to a great
barn.like room where racks and
racks OF brtght-colored dresses
hung In rainbow-coIored rows.
Velvets all spangled with silver
and gold, gaily colored hoopslSirts,
Red Cross uniforms, chiffon
dresses Of the last century, and,
finally, on q rack in dark corner
the pink ballet dresses.
There was not much to them.
just wide bodice with spangled
shoulder straps, and q puff or
short, airy tuIle skirts.
Principally Feminine
Mrs. Hammond ran her ewes
over Boobies slenderness, took q
measurement here and there, ana
then handed her one of the cos
tunes.
II think you1l be able to get into
this one, Misa--er." she said in q.
voice that made Bobbie think Of
Aunt Gertrude. "And here are the
tights and the ballet slippers that
belong with it."
She opened q door and left Bob
bic alone in q room with walls OF
whitewashed brick. There was
nothing in It but q long mirror and
q cluster Of electric lights.
You can try them on In here"
she told the girl. and closed the
door.
When Robbie opened il five min
utes later she felt az light az q
feather. And she looked like q
pink feather blown along by 4
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BY Lucy Lowell

CIxTEEN college students, up
~ to the time Of this writing,
have taken their own lives.
The first Of the suicides, an
honor, student 30 years old, left
a note explaining that he wished
to find out ''how things are over
there" And he set definite
time when he would communicate
with q fraternity brother, pass
ing along the news OF what he
found on the other side Of the
grave.
The fraternity brother waited
long and eagerly. but there was
no communication.
And there will be none.
Spirit, the essential part OF the
ego which lives on after the body
has become cold and dead, is not
interested in the things that seem
all important to the human self
brain, and between that and the
soul there can be no contact.
The fraternity brothers there
/ fore would not be able to under
stand the language which their
friends spirit, forced out into