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The Washington times., 1931-05-15
MISS HUHN WINS
ARMS DEBATE

Defense of Americas policy of
using armed troops to protect
American property abroad
brought victory to Miss Helen
HUM in the final debate Of the
Columbus University Law School,
last night, at the Carlton Hotel.
Miss HUM said that irresponsi-
BILE governments often made the
necessity for armed intervention
necessary. adding that self-preser.
vation was the first law of ma
tions.
She shared team honors with
Byrnes F. Bentley, while the van.
quished debaters were Edward R..
Halloran and C. A. Giblin, who
contended that the United States
should cease sending armed
troops to foreign countries ex-
cept in cases of actual warfare.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
MRS. HEARS!'S
BOOTHS OPEN
S%3 22;:;: :::::;::|

NEW YORK, May 15.-The
formal opening of the first of
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's
six milk stations took place yes.
terday at One Hundred and
Tenth Street and Fifth Avenue.
The guests of honor at the cerc-
monies were DR.. Shirley w.
Wynne, commissioner of health,
and Walter R. Herrick, park COM
missioner. This was the tenth
anniversary of the opening of
these milk booths, which have
distributed in that time 1908, ,154
Bounce bottles of pasteurized
milk.
The milk served from Mrs
Hearst's stations does not inter
rupt the distribution of milk to
the home. It is an added &C
tivity during the summer months.
This year, because of the un-
employment situation, Mrs.
Hearst opened the milk stations
one month earlier than usual.
About four years ago the sta
tions began supplying a group Of
so cardiac children with a con-
slant milk diet, affecting cures
in 80 per cent of the cases. AS a
child is cured and drops out of
the group. another takes it's
place.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
I3 Bids Submitted
On Senate Building

Thirteen contractors today sub
mitted bids to David Lynn, archi-
tect of the Capitol, for the con-
struction of a new facade along
the C Street front Of the Senate
Office Building.
The low bid was submitted by
McCloskey Company, Inc, of
Philadelphia, at a figure of $751;
100. Analysis of the bid, how
ever, which contained several pro-
posals may change the apparent
low bidder, it was announced.
The work to be done includes
the construction of a free stand
ing collonade along the C Street
front, about $50 feet.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
COUZENS AGAIN
GRANDFATHER

The birth of son yesterday to
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jefferies
Chewing, jr., at the Columbia
Hospital, made Senator Couzens
of Michigan, father of Mrs.
Chewing, a grandfather for the
seventh time, and recalled the
whirlwind, secret courtShip of Mr..
and Mrs. Chew.ling here last year
which eliminated in their elope-
ment to Baltimore on February l,
1880, where they were married by
special dispensation of Archbi shop
Curley.
The child, who weighs z pounds
and 9 ounces, will be named
William Jefferies Chewing Sd.
The father is now assistant
manager of the Mayflower.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Rockville Athletes
GiUen Sport AUdrds

The Rockville High School
Chapter of the Sportsmanship
Brotherhood will give buttons and
certificates of award to the fol
lowing athletes:
Seniors-M Margaret Bennett,
Helen Butts. Martha Ricketts,,
Margaret Huntington, John
Candy, Jack Lake, Charles Pretty
man and Karl Becker.
JuniorS-Rose Williams, Jose.
phine Keys, Natalie Hicks, Robert
Beall, Charles Ward and Mar,
shall Mason.
Sophomores-Hope Will, Janet
Ray. Theodore Pasma, Francis
Leahy and Robert Nichols.
FreShmen-Frances lie Lash.
mutt, Helen Howard, Lloyd
Brewer. William Candy and
Franklin Wilson.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Garnet Junior High
Gives 3-Act PLau

1.-THE Princess and the Swine
herd" a musical comedy in three
acts was presented last night by
the little theater of the Garnet
Patterson Junior High School.
The leading roles were played
by Jean Taylor and Maurice
Jackson. Other participants were
Ernest Marshall, Mabel Jones,
Lee Rayford. Philip Butcher,
Robert McNeill, Kermit Meh-
linger. William Daily, Woodworth
Barnes, James Henderson, Alex
ander Moore. Milton Wood,
George Minor, Frank Johnson,
Romay Lucas, Vivian Robinson,
Gertrude West, John Tignor and
Justin Plummer.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
NINE OFFICIALS
.. SUMMONED To
.. FUND PARLEY
Hoover to Question Interior
Department Heads at Camp;
Personnel Cut Is Unlikely

A prologue to what may be 8
policy of drastic retrenchment ir
the civilian departments of the
Federal Government is seen in the
conference to be held by Presi
dent Hoover with nine officials OF
the Interior Department at his
Rapidan camp over the weekend
Although the Interior budget al
ready is "cut to the bone." accord
Ing to officials, the President is
determined to see If further saw
tngs cannot be made.
Others to Confer
Rumors have been current that
the White House hopes that a 10
per cent cut will. be effected in
virtually all the civil budgets
These reports. however, have not
been confirmed.
The heads of the Treasury and
Agricultural Departments prob
ably will follow those of the In
terror Department in Rapidan
conferences with the President
within the next few weeks, it was
SAID today.
Whatever cuts are made in the
Interior estimates it is not likely
that they will fall heavily upon
personnel, it was said today.
Personnel Already Cut
The roster of workers already
has been reduced to such a point
that virtually no other decreases
can be made without curtailment
OF work.
Among the Interior Department
chiefs to confer with the Presi-
dent are Assistant Secretaries Jo-
Seph M. Dixon and John H. Ed
wards; National Parks Director
Horace M. Albright; Indian At
fairs Commissioner C. j. Rhoades;
c. c. Moore, chief of the General
Land Office; w. C. Mendelhall,
director of the Geological Survey;
w. j. Cooper, director of the
Bureau of Education, and DR.. El-
wood Mead, director of the Rec
1amation Service.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
IS, DIES
AFTERF|GHT

ST. LOUIS, May IS 0.N.SD.
John Paladin, 18-year-old amateur
boxer, died at his home here
today, just a few hours after he
had won a decision in fight
last night.
Paladin engaged in bout
with Jack Richards on a benefit
boxing show, the proceeds Of
which went to the family of Bill
Kardinski, amateur heavyweight
who was. also fatally injured
while in a training bout.
Police are investigating the
circumstances of Paladin'S death.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
ON DOUBLE
PAYROLLS GET
FAT SUMS
Wolff Smith Tops List With
$1,000 Salary and $1s7
Pension; rs Others Listed

In preparation for a legislative
attack at the next Congressional
session upon the practice Of re-
tired emergency officers holding
lucrative positions in the Vet
eranS' Bureau while drawing re-
tirement pay, Congress has just
compiled and published a COM
plete list of the officers.
rs Employees on List
The list, which will figure I'M.
portantly in the battle which Sen
ator David A. Reed (RJ Of Penn
sylvania is waging on what he de,
scribes as a Shocking and scan
dalouS" condition, shows that 20
employees of the bureau in Wash,
ington are drawing retirement
pay as we'll as salaries from the
bureau.
The local men on the list. with
their monthly retirement pay ano
annual bureau salary, are:
Charles Lotus G.. Anderson,
S24O and $4,000.
Joseph v. Byrne, $3.50 and
$4,000.
George Francis Cook, S165 and
$4,000.
Ernest r. Decker, S1O6 and
$500.
Stanton L. Dorsey, SIPS and
$4,000.
James Gordon DOnneIly, $125
and $500.
Richard D. EngeI. S1O6 and
$4,000.
Charles T. Felter, $3.50 and
$4,000.
Thomas c. Foster, $3.50 and
S5,40O.
Raymond Kennedy FoxweII,
SIPS and $1,000.
Jesse Lee Hall, $3.50 and S5,4OO.
Edwin Martin Johnson, $50
and $4,4OO.
Edward Martin Jones, no re-
tirement pay, but $4,000 annual.
Kenneth William Kinney, $3.50
and $1,SOO.
John M. Ladd, $3.50 and $4,000.
Cyril Ambrose Liberty, $1O6
and $4,000.
Bernard Chester MacNeiI, $125
and $500.
Bernard Anthony McDermott,
SIPS and $4,000.
Edward Mason Parker, $1S7
and $4,000.
Charles Edward Ralph, $lSS
and S4,4OO.
Charles Edward Schaeffer, $3.50
and $500.
George Coleman Skinner, $3.50
and $500.
Albert Smith, SIPS and $4,000.
William Wolf Smith, $187 and
$4,000.
Walter B. Swackhammer. $3.50
and $500.
Emil Walter, $3.50 and $4,000.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
CHILD, z, VICTIM
Of AUTO CRASH

Jean Gray, 2, is in a serious
= condition at Emergency Hospital
with a skull fracture received
when his parents automobile col
ided with another near Accotink,
Va, last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Gray,
escaped with minor injuries while
Mrs. Louis Farrell and her two
young sons, Douglas, l year old,
and Darrell, 2, were not hurt.
According to Mr.. Gray an au-
tomobile going in the opposite
direction Skidded off the road
and crashed into his car.
The Grays live at 1909 Nichols
Ave. S. E.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Speedy Divorce Danish
Quaint Reno Customs

of Signs" which spans the Truckee
River, divorces would symbolic
their freedom by dropping their
wedding rings into the swirling
waters below.
But now that the speed age has
produced siX-week divorces, these
old customs are more honored in
the breach than the observance.
Even the long established prac-
tice of coming out parties" is
being overlooked by many of the
42-day "termers."
"The graduation corsage," worn
by divorces just after getting
their papers alone survives as
general practice,
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
DR.. White Addresses
Medical Arts GrOUu

Technical aspects of the re-
lationship between mentality and
organic diseases were discussed
last night by DR.. William A.
White, head of st. Elizabeth'S, in
an address at the annual dinner
of the Medical Arts Society at
the Mayflower.
Guests included DR.. Carl Hen
rich, DR.. Harry Kerr, DR.. Arthur
Christie, DR.. Joseph Wall, DR..
Coursen Conklin and DR.. Francis
Hagner.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15

RENO, New, May IS. = Six
week divorces are playing hob
with Reno's time-worn customs.
Once upon a time when six
month divorces were considered
the ultimate of speed, certain ira
ditions were established.
One called for fair Divorces to
plant a kiss upon the massive pill
lars of the WaShoe county court
house as a fond farewell upon re-
ceiving decree of divorce.
Another quaint unwritten law
observed in the good old days was
the ring ceremony. Passing from
the court house over the Bridge
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
WAR HERO H0NORS

Following a custom which has
been observed since the founda-
ton of the Henderson-Smith.Ed-
monds Post of the American Le-
gion at Rockville, the graves Of
Montgomery county world war
heroes will again have floral trib-
utes placed upon them on Memo
rial Day. The American Legion,
at special meeting, appointed
several delegates to visit the ceme-
terieS on behalf of the post.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Graduating Nurses
To Attend Services

Between 500 and 900 nurses
representing graduating classes
of the various Washington hos
pitals will attend services Sunday
night at the Foundry Methodist
Church, when the pastor, the
Rev. F.. B. Harris, will preach a
baccalaureate sermon.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
MOVE To PLACE
LEGS IN JAIL

CATSKILL. May IS GNSO
A move to have Jack Legs" Dia,
mond transferred from Albany
General Hospital into a cell in
Greene county Jail here is to be
made today, when a physician de-
tailed by the attorney generals
office examines Diamond at the
hospital.
Meanwhile, reports were re-
ceived that Marion Roberts, 0ia-
mond's eX-showgirl sweetheart,
has been seen at several hotels.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Cummings Inducted
As CLERK

James w. Cummings, jr., 209
East Thornapple st. Chevy Chase,
Md, nephew of Andrew ~CyD
Cummings, was today sworn into
the office of deputy clerk of the
Montgomery county circuit court
by Clayton K. Watkins, county
clerk.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
HORSE SHOW MONDAY

LEESBURG, Va, May 15.-The
eighth annual Unison-Bloomfield
High School horse show will be
held on the school grounds Mon
day. A total of % classes are
listed, including events for heavy
draft horses, hunters and ponies.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Seek Richmond Boy
As RLLnalpnu Here

Washington police have been
asked to be on the alert for
Roger Adams. a 14-year-old ad-
venturer, who rode away from
his home in Richmond on his
bicycle.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Times staff Photo

MILDRED O'BRIEN
THIS 9-YEAR-OLD MISS was one of the $4,000 school
children who participated in the essay contest sponsored
by The Times. She interested that she sent her
essay into The Times early this week However, since
all essays had to be turned into class section
room teachers today, her essay transmitted the
Woodbridge School where she is pupil of Grade 4-A.
Miss OBren lives at 3OO7 Franklin St. n E.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-12
Doctors Invited To
White House Confab

NEW YORK-The National AS
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People has been asked to
suggest the names of $50 leading
Colored doctors to be invited to the
Section on Medical Care of the
White House Conference which is
to hold its final meeting February
10 to 81 in Washington it was an
nounced today. The 500 members
will hear and discuss reports deal
ing with maternal, infant and child
care, as well as reports on the ex-
listing knowledge in regard to
growth and development"
1.-The officers Of the Conference"
said DR.. Fleisher," have asked
whether the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
people would secure the cooperation
of the leaders of the Colored medi-
cal profession.
The N. A. A. C. P. has forward
ed the request to DR.. Peter MUIR
ray, of New York, president of the
National Medical association: to DR..
W. G. Alexander, Of Newark, N. J.
General Secretary of the National
Medical association, and to DIR.
Louis T. Wright, New York City's
first Colored police Surgeon, attend
ing Surgeon at Harlem Hospital and
member of the N. A. A.7C. p. Board.
requesting these doctors to forward
to DR.. Fleisher the names of leading
Colored practitioners who should be
invited to attend the White House
conference.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-12

it amt so"-but that all the varie-
ties of skin color harbor the same
thing: that men and women. in the
essence, are colorless. All of them
are the same color in the dark any,
way. At any rate the white race is
learning that when one builds fence
around himself" and around "his
own kind" he always fences out a
darn sight more than be fences in.
The whites have been the builders of
these fences; and it is amusing to
observe how many are beginning
very regularly and skilfvlly to Jump
the fence"
Finally, there is nothing new or
otherwise noteworthy in our being
informed by this anonymous writer
that preachers and lawyers can he
plain humans or even sub-humans.
What this woman found to be almost
devastating, if are to judge from her
manner of telling it, most of the
achieving women of the world are
ignoring and 'thrusting out of their
paths with admirable courage and
high mindedness.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-12
Preacher Acclaimed
Hero, Saves Two Lives

RALEIGH, N. C.-"Here is a he
no and gentleman in black, deserv-
ing all honor and Carnegie Medal. -
Thus the Raleigh News and OBJ
server, daily paper edited by Hon.
Josephus Daniels, paid editorial tri-
butte to the heroism of Rev. John H.
Charlton, Of Conway, S. c., Colored
preacher who saved the lives of two
men about to be burned to death in
an auto wreck. The story was broad
cast by the Associated Press and was
published in hundreds of papers.
Commenting on the incident under
the title Negro Shows Heroism,"
the News and Observer says:
"Giving up thought to the peril
to himself, Rev. John H. Charlton,
Negro preacher of Conway, S. c.,
leaped from his own machine and
plunged straight into The flames that
enveloped burning car and
brought to safety the unconscious
forms of A. H. Powell, Jr., and C.
A. Horne, of Whiteville. Columbus
county, The preacher suffered
badly burned arms. but summoned
aid, saw that the two men were
taken to the Fayetteville Hospital
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-12
Blaming The Preacher

The Negro preacher is being
severely criticised for the present
status of the Negro. Complaints are
being made against the beautiful
church edifices and magnificent or
gans which pour forth music on Sun
days. But the sole blame can not
justly be placed at the door of the
Negro preacher. He is equally
guilty with the rest of US, but not
more so.
Let us face the facts, whether we
he preacher, doctor, lawyer, baker or
candle maker.
The foundation upon which the
Negro must build his future is the
mass of Negroes who are struggling
toward the light. If they are not
carried forward the preacher, the
doctor, the lawyer, the baker and the
whole Negro group must stay down
among the dregs of civilization. That
who are only about six years re-
moved from scrub brush can turn
up their noses as much as they
please, but if they hope to make
progress they had better get their
noses out of the air and begin con-
stuctive work among those who toll
with their hands.
tcon-nosse GU ifyoks T
Thousands of honest, sincere souls
have migrated north from the South
Many of them are honest, upright
and law abiding. They yearn for
an opportunity to live. There is no
agency here with the proper attitude
toward these people. The churches,
fraternities, social agencies of all
classes and kinds permit these unfor-
tunate victims of circumstances to
drift for themselves. There are rare
exceptions to this rule. But no single
preacher or church, or doctor, or law
yer or social worker can carry the
burden alone. The public must
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-12
Negro History

The Importance of Negro History
Week should be more appreciated. 1t
is commonly said that all the Negro's
problems are economic: but that is
not true. Without belttling such a
fundamental factor as economics, it
may be said that large part of the
problem is psychological. The aver
age Negroes feeling of inferiority is
due, not only to his economic plight,
but to the idea, dinned into him
throughout his school days, that he
has no background, no traditions
that his people have never been any,
thing. Like everyone else he reacts
to his training.
Nor is this feeling confined to the
ignorant Negro; indeed, he is less
liable to it that the Negro who has
received the higher education. High
School or college education general
ly means so many more arguments
for inherent white superiority. Ex-
posed for four years to carefully,
too carefully, compiled data adverse
to the Negro and kept from favor
able data, the college Negro is likely
to be graduated with a contempt for
his race, and desire to get away
from it; he too often becomes an ex-
FOUNDER of Caucasian superiority; his
education has made him less of a
man.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-12
N.A.A.C.P. Changed
Sentiment In j. 5.
By William Pick.n.

The work of the National Associa.
ton for the Advancement of Colored
people has changed public sentiment
in the United States in the field of
race relations.
The influence of the association
on public opinion, or public senti-
ment, has been its most far reaching
contribution to the forward struggle
of the American Negro. 1t has even
become respectable to belong to the
association after 20 years--every-
where outside of Mississippi and a
few other places like that.
Twenty years ago it was almost
universally disreputable to be con-
nected with tn organization, and
the more cautious members of So
ciety were disposed to lose faith in
those of us who joined the associa-
ton then, just as now some members
of the association may be disposed
to lose faith in us because we take
an interest in some still more for
ward movements.
So it always was and ever will
be; every change is radical. every
distinctly forward step raises doubts.
Today the association claims and
fights for far more than it claimed
in the beginning, and vet today the
association is not felt as being 50
radical and anti-customary as it was
felt to be 20 years ago.
There is no reason for fear or hes.
itation. We must still go forward.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-12

interest itself in this kind of work.
It has got to be done before any sue
cessful attempt can be made for the
equal participation of Negroes in the
civic and industrial life of the State.
There are thousands of people
who are helpless simply for the want
of proper direction. The preacher
gets his collection, the doctor his fee,
the lawyer his retainer and the So
cial worker his salary and their in
terest stops there. What happens
to the underprivileged class interests
nobody. But the day of reckoning
will come. The toiling black hordes
are finding it more difficult to exist.
Daily they are losing their jobs
through ignorance and prejudice.
They are being robbed, cheated and
defrauded while their brothers and
sisters join in skinning them or else
watch afar off.
If the bottom drops from under
those who cook and wash, scrub and
clean, dig and push wheelbarrows
great will be the crash of the upper
strata. A person with a small de-
gree of intelligence can see the need
of Strengthening the foundation upon
which the structure rests. For purely
selfish reasons, the trained Negro
of every profession had better plan
and work for the adjustment of those
who are less fortunate.
This burden falls more heavily
upon the shoulders of the clergy
than upon any of the other profess
sions. Through the pulpit the minis
ter can reach the ear of the masses.
It is his duty to make his message
vital, modern pattern of guidance
to enable the masses to cope with
the everyday problems of life in a
Christian manner, and not slide
lazily along depending upon an our
NODDED form of church ritual.