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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-02-28
TO COMBINE BOYS-CIRLS
Defamation CONTESTS
To Make Changes in Boys Con-
Test-TO Be Held at Friends
vile Latter Part of April

That the Boys County Wide Dec
lamation contest and the Girls
Countrywide Defamation contest
among the high schools of Garrett
county would be held the same night
this year, and that there would be a
change made in the kind of contest
for boys, was announced yesterday by
F, E. Rathbun, county superintendent
of schools.
Instead of the contestants selecting
and practicing their declarations as
has been the case heretofore in the
boys contest, a list of eight subjects
has been chosen and any one of them
may be given to the entrants when
their turn comes to speak. The con-
testants must then give an i'm
promptu five minute talk on the sub
ject designated.
That the contest would probably be
held in Friendsville High school build
ing was also announced by Mr.. Rath-
bun, the exact time to be made known
later. 1t was thought, however, that
it would be held the latter part of
April. No judges have been selected
as yet for the contest.
Topics Are Listed
The list of eight topics for the
boys contest was selected by Delbert
Davis, cashier of the First National
Bank, Oakland, its sponsor, from a
list of "a submitted by various high
school principals. The subjects in
clude the following:
l. What is the Dawes Plan? How
has it affected our interests?
2. Should Germany continue to
make PREPARATION for the World War?
3. What is the true meaning of
Americanization?
4. What are the benefits of the
Elective System in high schools?
5. What is the Kellogg Peace
Pact?
6. How can the foreigner be best
trained to form a correct conception
of our laws?
7. What are the fundamental ele-
ments of greatness in the Constitu-
ton of the United States?
8. Effect of American Economic
Leadership on International Relation
ship.
The Girls contest, sponsored by
G. A. Fraley, cashier of the Garrett
National Bank, Oakland, will be the
same as in years past, except the
time limit will be shortened. The
duration of the declarations in both
contests will not be more than five
minutes.
To Hold Local Contests
Local contests will be held in the
various high schools in the county
to determine the principal and alter
nate speakers for the occasion. Last
year in the Boys contest, Clark Wal
ker, Kitzmiller, won first; Thomas
Gender, Oakland, second and LIE
Verne East, Friendsville, third, The
contest was held at Grantsville.
Miss Dorothy Stevenson, Oakland,
won the girls contest last year; Miss
Mabel Beachy, Friendsville, second;
and Miss Alverta Dillon, Accident,
third. The contest was held at Oak
land.
Prizes to be awarded in each case
from the two Oakland banks will con-
sist of $25, SIS, and $40, the money
to be used to purchase books for the
school libraries.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-02-28

Radio reception from England by
means of short waves, is said to be
best between and p. M, Eastern
standard time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-02-28

Substitutions, Mt. Savage, Blank.
Field Goals, Definbaugh 7, Aldridge
2, Natolly l, Houck 2, Blank 2, Stem
pie 5, Maroney 4, Sanders A.
Fouls: Definbaugh IA, Aldridge
IL, Natolly OIL, SAMSON OIL, Blank
IL, Stemple OF, Sanders 1-2, Referee
Bob Pollock. W
The Washington times., 1929-11-26
English Author
Is Honor Guest Of
Democratic Club

Philip WhitWell: Wilson, En-
glish author. lecturer and for
mer member Of Parliament,
was the guest of honor and
speaker at the Woman'S Ma
tional Democratic Clubs weekly
forum luncheon yesterday. His
subject was The British Labor
Party's Foreign Policy"
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman en-
tertained a number of guests
at the luncheon, including Mrs.
Clifford Pinchot, Lady John
ston and Ronald Campbell, Mr..
and Mrs. Michael H. Huxley
and Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Shone,
of the British Embassy group.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross was at
the luncheon aS were Mrs.
George M. Eckels, Mrs. Bates
Warren, Mrs. Frank Bright,
Miss Ruth Oberly, Miss Imo-
gene Howell, Mrs. e. B. Kay,
Mrs. Edward B. MeigS, Mrs.
Edward K. Campbell, Mrs. Basil
Manly, MRS. Harry N. hickey.
Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Kate
Trenholm Abrams, Mrs. Viii
liam Conant, Mrs. Frank West.
the Misses Connolly, Mrs. Otoo
U. Won Schrader, Mrs. Black
well, Miss Mary Edith Coulson.
Mrs. Bertram CheSterman, Mrs.
Alvin nodd Mrs 7 r. Mills
Mrs. Donald Mcdonald, Mrs.
Edward Keating, Mrs. Robert
K. Noble. Mrs. F1niS Garrett,
Mrs. Robert Lansing, Miss Flor
ence Boeckel, Miss Agnes Winn,
Mrs. Julien Mason and Mrs.
Effinghar1 Townsend.
X
Mrs. Alexander W. Weddell
has arrived from her home in
Richmond, Va. and is at the
Carlton for a few days.
The Washington times., 1929-11-26
Miss Mary Shinn
Entert0ins DebutGntes
At Tea Dance Toda,

Miss Mary Bennington Shinn,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Thornton Shinn, who
was presented to society in
Washington last season by her
aunt, Mrs. John B. Semple, is
entertaining at a tea-dance to-
day in the Chinese room Of
the Mayflower in compliment
to this seasons debutanteS and
some Of the young girls who
were presented last year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Morse,
RI, who formerly lived in Wash
ington, are passing several days
ct the Mayflower Hotel, before
leaving for Philadelphia for
Thanksgiving. They are now
making their home in Los An
geleS. Mr.. Morse was on the
staff of the Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
n n -
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Fitzhugh
Talman and Miss Marjorie Tai
man have sent out invitations
for Sunday afternoon, .Decem-
Der l, from 4 until T. o'clock, at
their home 2010 Hillyer Pl.
The Washington times., 1929-11-26
The Pinchots Return
From Picturesque
Cruise in South Seas
Underwood Underwood.

Former Gov. Clifford, Pinchot
and Mrs. Pinchot have returned
from their romantic cruise to
the South Sea Islands on a
three-masted topsail schooner.
They, with their only child,
clifford Pinchot, jr., another
boy about young Pinchot's age,
a tutor and a crew sailed away
from New York early in the
summer.
Mrs. Pinchot will go to Con-
necticut 20 pass Thanksgiving
with her son, who is in school,
Then she will rejoin Mr.. Pinchot
in their home here for the
winter.
Mrs. Pinchot was the only
woman who made the trip, but
she was not the "petticoat" in
the party. She wore dungareeS
or breeches most of the time.
for quarters where cramped and
laundry facilities few and far
between.
H. L. Rust, jr., entertained a
small company last evening at
the Club Chantecler supper
dance.
The Washington times., 1929-11-26
TO
OCCUPY
HOUSE
Orme Wilson, Jr., of State
Department, Leases Place
on California Street

Mr.. and Mrs. Orlne Wilson,
IT,, who recently came to
Washington from Buenos Aires,
have leased the house at 2415
California st. and will take
possession December /. Mean
while they are staying at the
MayfIower Hotel. b
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin s..
Minor, who own the house,
have taken an apartment at
the Carlton Hotel for an indeti-
mite period.
Mr.. Wilson Is now assigned
to the Latin-American Division
Of the State Department. Be
fore this transfer he was serv-
ing at the United States EN-
bassy in Buenos Aires.
Addresses Press
Mrs. Franklin Adams. wife Of
the counselor of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union, who writes under
the name of Harriet Chalmers
Adams, was the guest Of honor
today at the luncheon hour Of
the Women's National Press
Club in the clubhouse Of the
American Association Of Uni
Yersity Women on ! Street.
Mrs. Adams is president Of the
Society Of Women GeographerS.
The Washington times., 1929-11-26
NAVALOFFICER
AND WIFE
ARRIVE
Admiral and Mrs. Bristol
Return From China and
Open House Here

Admiral and Mrs. Mark
Bristol have arrived in Wash
ington and have opened their
residence at 1921 Massachusetts,
Ave. For a year or more
Admiral Bristol has been in
command Of the Asiatic Fleet
and Mrs. Bristol has been in
China, following his flagship,
the U. s. s. Pittsburgh, when
ever practical.
Before going to China, Ad-
Iniral Bristol commanded the
United States naval forces in
European waters and was
United States Commissioner to
Turkey. He was on duty in
ConStantinople for q long
period, where he perhaps
achieved his greatest dis
tinction. He was assigned to
the Navy general board a few
months ago.
v
Honor Guests
The Chief Justice and Mrs.
william Howard Taft will be
the guests Of honor of Mrs.
Frederic Keep at luncheon on
December 8.
Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberley
has as her guests Mrs. Lawrence
Carson, widow of Col. Carson,
u. 8. A., and her son, Lawrence.
Mrs. Carson has been passing
some months in Charleston and
Fort Sumter as the guest of the
late Col. Carson's family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. Robb
will have with them for Thanks
giving and the weekend, their
daughter, Miss Cecilia Calbert
Robb, who will arrive on
Wednesday from Bryn Mawr
College.
Debut Date
Miss Margaret l.. Olmstead,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter G. Olmstead, Front Royal,
Va, will be presented to society
by her uncle and aunt, DR.. and
Mrs. Henry Cook Macatee, at
a tea-dance to, be given on
December II in the Chinese
room Of the Mayflower for the
debutante group. The Misses
Mary and Gertrude Macatee
made their debut at q tea
dance given last season at the
Mayflower by their parents,
DR.. and Mrs. Macatee.
The Research Assistant to
President Hoover and Mrs.
French Strotler have with
them at the Wardman Park
Hotel the latter's sister, Miss
Clark Farley, Of California, who
expects to pass the winter
with her brother-in-law and sis
ter.
The Washington times., 1929-11-26

visiting George Bond Cochran
at his home on Nineteenth
Street. Mrs. Kuhn's sister, Miss
Anne Squire, makes her home
with Mr.. Cochran, who is their
cousin.
The Washington times., 1929-11-26
JUST AuTTLE
POSLAM ENDS
THAT ITCHING

Wash all the itching places
thoroughly with PoSIan Soap and
hot water, Then dab them over
with just a little Poslam. Poslam
is. such CONCENTRATED relief
that the very first touch stops
the itching and burning and lets
you sleep the whole night through
SOC at all druggists.
- - N Write fer special test Aox
P0SLAM CO.
" 2A West S4th Street
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The Washington times., 1929-11-26
INFWS AND GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY
Concert of Ldtin-American Music
Is Postponed Until Christmas Week
Nine. d'Alvarez Will Be
Guest Artist as Origi-
nally Planned

The concert Of Latin
American" music, which was
on the calendar for the eve
ming Of December Is, just
comes, by two days, within
the period Of official mourn
ing, and so DR.. Leo S. Rowe,
director general Of the Pan
American Union, has post
poned it. Though the new
date has not been announced,
1t viii be given during
Christmas week and, as usual,
Vt the Pan American Union.
This concert promises, no
matter when it takes place,
to be one of the most brill
liant, according to the num-
Der of acceptances. Nine.
Margarita d d'Alvarez will be
the guest artist, as had been
planned.
Many LaurelS
This famous Peruvian con-
traIto, who has won laurels as
an opera and concert singer
all over the world, is we'll
known in Washington as the
sister of the, first secretary of
the Peruvian Embassy, Alvarez
de BuenaviSta. And from time
to time his friends have had
the opportunity of hearing
Nine. d'Alvarez sing at in
formal recitals at his apart
n1ent.
The artist will be assisted
by the United Service Orches-
ira. The Pan American Union
sponsors these concerts as a
means Of familiarizing the peo-
pie of this country with the
music Of Latin America, ana
the programs are always broad
east.
Holiday Hosts
The Attorney General and
Mrs. William De Witt Mitchell
will entertain at dinner, Thanks
giving evening, the Assistant At
torney General and Mrs. G. A.
Youngquist and their four chill
dren. William De Witt Mitchell.
jr., and Bancroft Mitchell will
Join their parents here for the
holiday. Bancroft Mitchell
will come to Washington later
to spend q Few days with the
Attorney General and Mrs.
Mitchell.
George w. WickershaIn, chair
Man Of the National Con1rrlis-
sion on Law Observance, and
Enforcement: entertained a com.
pany of five at the dinner
dance last evening at the Carl
ton.
X X
Representative Isaac Bach
arach of New Jersey will arrive
tomorrow and will open his
apartment at the Mayf1ower for
the season.
X \ X
Miss Helen Clifford enter
tanned a group. of IL guests st
luncheon today in honor of
Miss Mildred Huston. debut
tante daughter Of Claudius Hus-
ton, chairman Of the Repubn-
can national committee.
The Washington times., 1929-11-26
In New York

Mrs. Henry F. Dimock is pass
ing a few days in New York,
where she is staying at the Am.
hassador Hotel.
The Washington times., 1929-11-26
From California

Maj. Gen. Joseph Z. Kuhn,
U. s. A., retired, and Mrs.
Kuhn, who now make their
home at Coronado, Calf, are
The Washington times., 1929-05-23
so u T H E R N
SOCIETY
MEETS

Representative Ruth Brya
owen and Princess Dolgorousky
were the centers Of interest and
attention last evening at the re-
ception and ball given BY the
Southern Society in the ballroom
Of the willard Hotel in honor Of
the newly elected members Of
Congress from the South.
Mrs. Owen Is honorary vice
president OF the society, re IRE
senting Florida. Every State in
the membership of the society has
a member Of Congress holding
this honor.
moner's daughter was surrounded
ali evening by adInirlng groups
between dances. For the latter
she always had partners many
wishing for the pleasure that had
to be turned down. not being
enough dances to go around.
Princess Dolgorousky, whose
hair Is very blonde, occupied a..
prominent place in the box of
Captain and Mrs. C. G. Calhoun.
The adjoining box was occupied
by Mrs. Francois Berger Moran.
who entertained the Princess on
her visit to washington q year
or two ago. This time. how.
ever, Mrs. Moran and the sister
in-law 0f the late Car OF
Russia seemed TO have little in,
common.
!. Others noted in throng were.
Miss Anna MarcelIa Robbins,
charming young daughter Of Col.
Charles B. Robbins. former As
sistant Secretary Of War. who
was being escorted by George
Cunningham; Mrs. Maud Howell
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Dexter
North, Mr.. and Mrs. John d.
Little. Miss Mildred Brown, Miss
Fannie Dial and Miss Dorothy
Dial. daughters of former Sena-
tor ana Mrs. N. B. Dial. of South
Carolina: Mrs. Robert Love Tay-
lor, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Brown.
Captain and Mrs. HaFrance,
Captain and Mrs. McNeely, and
Captain and Mrs. McSherry.
=
Welcome
The American Association OF
University Women win give q tea
Monday at o'clock In honor Of
the newly elected officers. who
are: Mrs. Karl Fenning, preSi.
dent; Mrs. Paul Howe, vice presi.
dent: Miss Elizabeth Eastman; cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Alan
Gray. recording secretary: Mrs.
Howard Nichols. treasurer; Mrs.
Alan Barber, Mrs. Cloyd III. Mar
win, Mrs. John J. O'Conner and
Miss Grace Abbott, directors.
The present officers will be
the fostesses. Mrs. James K.
McClintock. DR.. Lois Meek, DIR.
Esther Caukin and Mrs. Fred G..
Tryon viii preside at the tea table.
The Washington times., 1929-05-23
Plan Experiments to
StOn Film Explosions

Catastrophes similar to the Grille
Sanatorium disaster In Cleveland
will be prevented In the future II
experiments now being conducted in
the Chemical Warfare Laboratory at
EdgewoOd Arsenal, Nd, are sue
cessful.
Maj. Gen. Harry T.. Gilchrist, chief
OF the Chemical Warfare branch al
the Army. made this announcement
yesterday. He had visited the
scene OF the Cleveland disaster soon
after the explosion and on his re-
turn here announced he would con.
duct experiments designed to pre-.
vent explosions of this nature in
the future.
The Washington times., 1929-05-23
W RS. HOOVER
TO ATTEND
MATCHES
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Continued from Page %
certainly be represented by the.
guests staying there. For the
Misses Huston Mildred. Alice and
Katherine-will be among the.
eager onlookers
The President and Mrs. Hoover
entertained at luncheon yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs. william Randolph
Hearst, who returned to New
York later in the afternoon.
-
The Theta Chapter Of the
Theta Sigma Sorority win enter.
tain at a Founders Day banquet
tomorrow evening at the Ward.
man Park Hotel. There viii be
IS guests at the, dinner and
others will attend the dance FOL.
lowing Miss Rebecca Troth 4
In charge Of the arrangements.
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was look of ineffable gratitude in her
eyes as she turned toward me.
And now" she insisted, after had
concluded a discussion with the waiter
on the subject of caYiare, tell me every
thing"
1.-The whole affair really worked out
very simply" explained. MY Italian
chauffeur, Luigi NeSsi, happened to be
still in the Queen Victoria Hospital with
broken leg, after the accident had
on the Corniche road a month ago. 1
borrowed his passport bought another
car, engaged room at the Hotel de la
Principalite, on the same floor as de
Preuil'S, went in to see him when I knew
the coast was clear, took him some
chauffeur's clothes, and made him up as
we'll as my experience in amateur the
atricals enabled me to. Fortunately he
was the, same height and complexion as
Luigi, and 1 was able to turn him out
near enough to the photograph to es-
cape questions. We left the hotel early
on Wednesday morning. From then on
there was never hitch. And with
you?"
1.-The telegram from Paris, for which
I had arranged, duly arrived" she con-
fided. THE police got hold of it as I
thought they would, and there were two
men watching my apartment from z
in the evening until the next
morning When they found that Armand
did not come they appear to have made
up their minds that he must be still in
Paris. The papers this morning an
nounced that he was there, and already
under surveillance. Look" she went
on, you see the man who Is taking
table ODpOSite-the man alone?
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Tune came, however, when his confrere
was free. I presented our passports.
My own passport he studied for some
moments; the passport of Luigi NesSi,
my chauffeur he glanced at only cas-
ually and returned them both without
comment. We touched our hats and
moved on another blessed SO yards to-
ward safety. There seemed something
less menaclng about the Italian uni
form, yet it was here that our worst
moment arrived. Our luggage gave
little trouble; it was carefully selected
and harmless. My companions pass
port, however, remained in the hands
of the examining gendarme for fully a
minute. He glanced twice at the pho
tograph and read the text as though
every word of it were of interest. FL
nally, as though we we're not being
sufficiently tortured, tall figure passed
the car and the French gendarme join
ed his italian confrere. What they said
to one another was inaudible, but, with
out any word to us. they turned around
and disappeared inside the italian pass
port office.
MOT a word passed between my COM
panion and myself. His left hand
was resting calmly upon the wheel, but
his right hand, I noticed with a little
SILVER, had crept into his coat pocket.
They came out together-the French
gendarme and his italian confrere-
and, for no reason that could gather,
their interest in us seemed to have
evaporated. The GARDINER folded up
the passport he had been carrying and
prepared to wave us on. Yet even
then came one final shock that plunged
me once more into despair. With his
hand resting upon the side Of the car
the Gardiner leaned over and addressed
the pseudo Luigi Nessi in fluent Italian.
The words Streamed from his lips and
I found myself in a turmoil of appre-
hension. Most Frenchmen, especially
southerners, speak italian, but suppos-
ing that de Preuil were an exception
Surprising! Then my suspense
came to an end. The Italian ceased.
De Preuil replied in italian, which he
seemed to speak even more huently
than his interlocutor. The Gardner
an hour before either of us spoke. Then
I noticed that we were slackenlng
speed. MY companion addressed me In
his ordinary tone:
us it fancy, dear friend, or did I
hear you demand OF Monsieur de FRO
prietaire a bottle of his best wine?"
I produced it. We drew up by the
side of the road, and nlled Two tum-
blers. drained mine almost at gulp.
De Preuil drank his with the apprecla-
ton of a connoisseur.
Excellent" he declared.
We moved on again, bought lunch at
a shop in Alassio, having the instinct
to avoid hotels, and passed into Genoa
with the shades of evening. A few hours
later I stood upon the quay. watching
the great steamer in which de Preull
had embarked back slowly away from
the dock.
T MET Madame. on the evening after
l. nv return from Genoa, in the hall OF
the Negresco and led her to a table. We
delayed any effort at serious converse
ton. but at the first opportunity. I
pressed into her hand the few lines writ
ten in great haste on the steamship note
and slipped them into her bag. There
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Some Real Highbrow Reading

ready to take out a stack in anything
that come along from Scuttling snip
to poisoning the ocean.
The Book had a time table on its
folder and it told just when profanity.
and Sharks insides, and murders, would
be run onto, at each Is minutes as you
read the Book.
Got little leary right from the Jump
as to how a Mother could part with
eleven month old Baby Girl. But not
knowing sea people much, thought
well maby they part with their young
young. When she would pull an extra
scary one that might arouse your doubt,
why she would drown you in Latitude
and Longitude, so fact you would over
look whether the thing could happen
or not.
Well anyhow I got through it, and
I was saying to myself that's a pretty
good tale even for a Able Bodied Male
Seaman to go through. I was just a
complimenting myself on what a great
mental improvement 1t is to read Books,
and that I must read more of these
real life experiences. And the next
across the page that they had just dis
covered the Boat out in Frisco tied up
and rottening at the docks there, the
one where she said it sunk off Aus
tralia and she swan with the cats.
They found the Log of the boat. that's
sort of history of it. Her Father had
been Captain but he seems like he al
ways had a weakness for a family of
Females at sea. Her Mother and sis
tiers had travelled on the boat more than
she had, for they was older. Seems like
it used to ferry parties of Girl Scouts
from Frisco to Honolulu, and Sydney.
Why from what the log said it was
men that would get lonesome on there
for the companionShip of other men.
This old stitches" why they find out
now that he was an old Dame, kind of
Hostess" She was the Texas Guinan
of the Pacific.
So its been an awful blow to me.
Here I start in on my literary career
End have my hopes shattered right on
the first jump. How am I to know
anything if ! am not able to rely on
the Publishers? How do I know that
Shakespeare had beard and wore knee
Brooches? I can only go by the pic
lures on the front of his books. Now
wasent that funny that should have
my ideals shattered right on the first
book read? So me back to the Cor
gressional Record. am going to look
mighty thoroughly into Coolidge's life
before ] start reading it.
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