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The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Tea FOR puIa'
Bud at Club

Mrs. william Wayne Wirg-
man is entertaining at a tea
this afternoon from S to 8
O'Clock at the Washington Club
to formally present her daugh-
ter, Miss Atlee Wayne Wirg-
man, to society.
Several hundred invitations
have been sent out for this
delightful party and the club
has been beautifully decorated
with a profuSion of yellow
chrysanthemums, palms, and
ferns. The debutante is wear
ing a princes gown of deep
pink taffeta trimmed with
ruchings of the same material
and her bouquet is of TaliSman
roses and lilies of the valley.
She is receiving in a bower of
flowers sent to her on the oc-
casion of her debut. Mrs.
Wirgman is receiving in a
Molyneaux model of sapphire
blue velvet and she is carrying
an arm bouquet of yellow
roses.
Assisting the Hostess
Assisting Mrs. Wirgman are
Mrs. Owen Albright, Mrs. Henry
P. Elliott, Mrs. Virginia White
Speel, Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner,
Mrs. Edward Keys, Mrs. William
H. Holloway, Mrs. John E.
Fowler, Mrs. William B. Willard,
Mrs. A. Chester Flather, Miss
Ellen NicolSon, Miss Betty
Nicolson, Mrs. Charles Elliott,
of Fort Meade; Mrs. Horace
6. Smithy. Mrs. Randell T. FL
lott, Miss Caroline Smith, Mrs.
Fulton Lewis, Mrs. w. S.
Clarke, Mrs. F. w. Fitzgerald,
Of Milwaukee, and Mrs. John
Robert Grove. Assisting Miss
Wirgman are Miss Louise Sadt-
Ter, of Baltimore; Miss Caroline
Schulz, Miss Dorothy Fowler,
Miss Ann Pazzini, Miss Sidney
Thompson, Miss Ann Park,
Miss Winifred Jacobs, Miss
Fanella Castanedo, Miss Pansy
Bloomer and Miss Mae Harris
Clarke.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Mrs. Wilson at
dwelling Exercises

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who
Is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Benjamin Hodges Smith at
Nordley, their home, at Wind
Sor Farms, Va, will be in Rich
mond for the unveiling of the
bust of the late former Presi-
dent in the Virginia capitol at
Richmond today. The busts of
sons of Virginia who became
Presidents of the United
StateS-eight of them-have
been grouped in the Virginia
Hall of Fame, except the like
ness of Washington, which is
o full length statue by Hou.
doun. and that occupies a cen
trail position in the rotunda of
the capitol.
A number of members of the
Cabinet during President Viii
sons administration will make
addresses today during the un.
yelling exercises.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17

A wedding Of interest took
place last evening at Z o'clock
when Miss Ann Mangum be-
came the bride Of Mr.. Mark
Hanna Raspberry. The cere-
mony was performed in the
Douglas M. E. Church, the pas
tor, DR.. A. H. Mckinley officiat-
ing. The church was decorated
with pink, purple and lavender
chrySanthemums, intermingled
with palms and autumn leaves.
The bride, who was given in
marriage by her brother, Mr..
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Entertain at Dinner

Mrs. Duncan Comeron VIII en-
tertain at dinner Thursday eve
ming for her daughter, Miss
Elsie Rowland Quinby, later go
ing to the reception at the
at the Italian embassy given in
honor Of Dino Grand, foreign
minister Of italy, and Signora
Grand.
Representa- t i've and Mrs.
Richard Aldrich have returned
from Providence, r. l., where
they were the guests, for
several days, Of the formers
sister, Miss Lucy Aldrich.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Douglas M E. Church Scene Of Wedding Ceremony

Edward Mangum, jr.. Of Kew
Gardens, L. l., N. Y, wore q
gown of bridal satin, made on
princess lines. Her tulle veil
was caught with clusters Of
orange blossoms. She carried
white roses and lilies Of the valley.
Miss Ellene Mangum, sister
of the bride, was maid-of- honor,
and Mrs. Walter j. Snellings,
was the matron-of-honor. They
both wo orchid satin gowns,
made on princess lines and car
ried pink roses, tied with pink
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Women's Club
Calendar
TODAY

TODAY
PetwOrth WOman's Club,
philanthropic section meeting
at home Of Mrs. Dewey, 4512
Ninth st.
Columbian Women 0s the
George Washington University,
meeting of faculty newcomers
at home Of Mrs. T. M. KNAPP
NOVEMBER Is
Delphian Society, meeting at
home of Mrs. Schoonma ker,
Belle Haven, Alexandria.
NOVEMBER 19
PetwOrth WOman'S Club,
meeting of art section at the
home Of Mrs. Norcross.
Baby Lovers Circle of the
Florence CrittentOn Home,
meeting at home Of Mrs.
Charles D. Harrison, 1903 First
st.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17

bride. Later in the evening Mr..
and Mrs. Raspberry left for q
wedding trip throue.l the South,
the bride travelling in q green
crepe gown, with green coat and
accessories. After November Is,
they will be at home at the
Stanton Manor apartments.
The out-of-town guests at the
wedding included Mr.. and Mrs.
P. H. Raspberry, Of Macon, Ca,
parents Of the bridegroom, and
Mr.. Philipo Iorio, Of Forest Hill,i
Long Island; N. Y.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17

ana lavender ribbon.
The bridegroom's brother, Mr..
Merle K. Raspberry, and Mr..
walter ]. Snellings, were the
best men, and the ushers were
Mr.. Philip Heishley, of Alexan-
drla, and Mr.. Elwood Cox, of
Falls Church.
There was a reception i'm
medlately after the ceremony
at the Dodge Hotel, when the
newly married couple were as
sisted in receiving by Miss
susan Mangum. cousin of the
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Southern Cruise

Miss Elizabeth Arliss and
Miss Nellie Arliss, of this city,
will sail tomorrow aboard the
s. s. Mauretania for a cruise
to the West Indies and South
America, during which they will
visit Curacao, Panama, and
Havana.
49,
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald D.
Thompson are in New York,
at the Ambassador Hotel, for
Q few days.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17

Don't remove the mOistueproOf Orapp"g from your pack
age Of CmeLs after you open it. The Camel H""dOr P0ck
is protection against perfume and ponder OdOrs dust and
germs In Offices and homes, in the dry atmosphere Of
artificial heat the Camel HumidOr Pack deUers fresh CGmeLs
and keeps them right until the last has been smoked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
DANCE FOR RELIEF
FUND IS PLANNED
Arkansas State Society to Enlist
Distinguished Backers for
Event.

To raise funds for the stricken peo-
pie of Arkansas a charity ball and en-
tertainment will be held at the Willard
Hotel on February 3, under auspices
Of a distinguished special committee
headed by Representative Claude A.
Fuller of Arkansas, president of the
Arkansas State Society.
Plans for the ball were inaugurated
at meeting Of the officers of the So
ciety Friday and arrangements are be-
ing made for an elaborate program de-
signed to attract throngs.
The hotel has made special conces-
sions with a view to aiding the cause
Music will be furnished by Horace
Happy" Walkers Orchestra and the
local theaters are being asked to do
nate the services of some of their en-
tertainment staff.
Ten thousand letters are being
mailed to Washingtonians in the IN
terest of the entertainment and it is
announced that tickets can be obtained
at the Willard Hotel, the A. A. A., Will
son Greene Theatrical Agency and
Droops Music Store.
A distinguished list Of patrons and
patronesseS will sponsor the ball The
President and Mrs. Hoover are TO be
waited upon by the congressional dele
gates to appeal for the Presidents
patronage. The General Committee
and committee chairmen are as fol-
lows: Representative Fuller, general
chairman: Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
vice chairman: Mai Gen. Douglas Nc
Arthur, Partons: Harold r. Young. Re-
ception Maj. Robert w. Brown, floor;
Mrs. j. L. Homer, Entertainment: j.
@. Whiteside. publicity, and Hugh
Brewster, Finance
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Der of the Wickersham Commission
and the one member who came for
ward with q positive idea regarding
new liquor control system in definite
substitution for the eighteenth amend
ment. Mr.. Anderson. If his State of
Virginia were Republican State.
would undoubtedly be United States
Senator
He can and does talk in public and
crate in private without pause on the
race problem. the experimental popu-
lar democracy of ancient Athens. the
place of TartarS in the scheme of
existence. literacy tests for the exer-
else of the suffrage, the origins of
written constitutions, railroad con-
solicitations, the rights Of minority
stockholders. the geological experiences
of the Appalachian Mountains, and any
other subject that may occur to him
or that may occur to anybody else
who incautiously mentions it. Mr..
Anderson at once takes 1t up and
makes an admirable speech about 1t
till somebody thinks of another sub
ject on which he tfen makes an ad-
mirable speech.
Senator Dwight w. Morrow Of New
jersey does the same thing-as an
individual off-stage though not yet
as a Senator on the floor. Mr.. Nor
row must be suffering intensely. Being
a new Senator, and having sense. he
sits at his desk on the Senate floor
hour after hour and day after dav.
saying nothing. Accordingly. off the
floor. he now discourses on all problems
within the range of human intelligence
or aspiration with a continuity which
no woman can break Mr.. Morrow is
pretty nearly omniscient and also pretty
nearly omnilOuuent
Thinking and Studying.
His family have to turn him in the
right direction in which to go when
he leaves the house to go anywhere. He
goes abstractedly thinking and study
ing and probably preparing what to say
next. He is sublime clue to the rea-
son why possibly the women in Wash
ington get out-talked.
The men here want to talk about all
sorts of vague, lofty generalized public
problems in their most technical as
poets and they soar straight of into
the blue::N and the women, being prac-
teal. Just get left on the ground, watch
ing them Back in their home towns
they could break in and talk about
something right at hand. Most men
here are interested in nothing right at
hand. They want to talk about the
tariff duty on potassium permanganate.
never having seen any Of the stuff, any
more than the women have. but having
had all Of the statistics Of it hurled
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!. C. C. WOULD QUIT
RAIL EXCESS PLAN
Recomm ends Abandonment of
Effort of U. S. to Collect
Surplus Earnings,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Abandonment by Congress of the
Governments attempt to collect excess
earnings from the country's railroads
and a revision of the present legal
standard by which the level of all
transportation rates is determined was
recommended yesterday by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
In letter to the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee, signed by Joseph
B. Eastman in behalf of his colleagues,
the commission said there was the
menace of extensive and prolonged
litigation" over the recapture situation
and that railroads are now faced with
continually increased competition from
other forms of transportation
An acceptance by Congress of the
policy proposed would wipe of the rec
ords claims based on present law by
which the Government has been in the
DRY endeavoring to collect about $780,
600, 600. This amount represented one
half the earnings the country'S more
prosperous railroads have obtained dur
ing the last decade in excess of per
cent of their valuation.
All of the commissions attempts to
fx valuations on particular railroads
which would allow recapture proceed
ingS however, have been entangled in
litigation, which still is unsettled.
In its proposals to change the legal
basis for rate fixing, the Eastman let
ter outlined two amendments to the
Howell bill, now pending before the
Senate. They would direct the rate
regulating body to TX schedules that
would enable railroads Ito establish
and maintain a credit suf1icient to at
tract the capital required to meet
transportation needs" and to furnish
transportation service to shippers and
travellers at the lowest rates consistent
with adequate service"
The present legislative rule requires
the commission TO maintain schedules
which would enable the railroads to
earn under 534 per cent on their de-
termined valuation.
The commission amendment. while
proposing that a fair return on rail-
road property should be sought, would
allow more than this amount to be
earned in prosperous periods and less
in depressed periods without necessarily
shifting rates. ...-
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LOOUACIOUS CAPITAL MEN END
MYTH OF TALKATIVE WOMAN
Only Member of Fair Sex on
Wickersham Body Is
Example.
Sisters in Public Life Ap-
parentIy inundated by
Male Speakers.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

MISS ADA IL. COnSt0Ck SCOreQ great
victory for the so-called garrulous
, womanhood of the world in her report
as a member of the Wickersham Com
mis- sion.
1t took Judge William S. Kenyon.
a representative of the supposedly sue
cinct sex, 40 pages in the Wickersham
volume to express, as member OF the
commission, his views of liquor and of
law enforcement and of the enforce
ment personnel and of politics and of
civilization and of other topics. without
| arriving at any instant positive recipe
| for improvement except that of a refer
endum through which everybody else
would be asked to express some views
also.
1t took even Mr. Newton D. Baker,
briefest of all the men members of the
commission, a full page to state his
convictions Mrs Comstock stated hers
in four sentences, and in those four
sentences contrived to express a COM
plete argument and a complete con-
clusion.
The conclusion happened to be for
the revision OF the eighteenth amend
ment, but the true merit of Miss Com
stocks performance is held here to be
the lesson 1t conveys to the laxative
males who dominate Washington.
May Have Been BIuffed.
The theory is also held here, how
ever, that Miss Comstock may possibly
be thoroughly talkative back in her
home town OF Cambridge, Mass, and
was simply intimidatqd and over
borne by the superior talkativeness of
the variety of masculine human being
that. arrives and thrives in Washing
ton.
Speaking generally. Washington con-
sists at its core of politicians and jour-
nalists and both types got here by
singing words. This town contains a
larger proportion of professionally
wordy men than any other town in the
country. Here woman has just really
hardly any chance at all
The women in the House Of Rep
ressntatives bow before this fact Any
one of them has the same right to
talk to the House as any man member
has. Yet they talk to the House very
seldom: and, when thev do talk. they
talk very concisely. They listen to
Representative La Guardia of New
York, for instance, and apparently they
just give up.
Mr.. La Guardia can talk. and talk
WELL and does talk, and talk every
few minutes. on almost any topic of
legislation before the House or not
before the House. There is not a
woman in the House who has either
his versatility of legislative interest or
his voluminousneSS of linguistic ca
pacity. Moreover, he has several men
rivals. In the face of such COMPETE
ton. overwhelming and unmatchable
the women sit for the most part stun
ned and silent.
Anderson Talks Well
Miss Comstock may have succumbed
to this environment. Perhaps in par
ticular she succumbed to her proximity
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UNIFORM LABOR
PROTECT|ONURG
Governors See Equalization
of Industrial Taxes as
Employment Aid.
Nv tn. Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ALBANY, N. Y, January 24.-Uni-
fornity of protection to labor and
equalization of industrial taxes have
presented themselves to the Governors
of seven Northeastern industrial States
as steps toward solution of the unem-
ployment problem.
Concluding the second session of a
conference called to consider unem-
ployment as a longtime problem, the
Governors or representatives OF the
seven States decided to make COM
plete examination of their labor and
corporate tax laws through series OF
meetings of representatives of the sew
eral State departments having to do
with those laws.
Today'S executive conference was at
tended by Cows White of Ohio, Larson
of New Jersey, Cross of Connecticut
Case of Rhode Island, Ely of Massa-
chusetts and Roosevelt of New York
and by DR.. Charles Ritell, representative
Of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania.
During the session small parade Of
unemployed workers bearings placards
demanding relief appeared in the street
outside the executive mansion. Later
the Governors received two delegates
from the group to hear their requests.
The unemployment demonstration,
staged by a group of fewer than 20
persons, was orderly.
Two delegates visited the Governor
later, telling Gov Roosevelt they
requested cash relief, no evictions for
non-payment of rent and free shelter
in State armories.
Gov. Roosevelt explained the confer
ence was called not to consider imme-
date relief. but to prevent future I'M
employment periods He called their
attention to a clause in the State consti-
tuition prohibiting the use of State funds
for direct aid to persons or corporations
and told them that last December he
had written the mayor of each city in
the State, offering the use of State
armories if municipal facilities were
Inadequate.
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slightly Injured in COllision.

George c. witherill, rs years old. Of
2s7l woodland drive. was treated At
Emergency Hospital for minor injuries
yesterday after his automobile was in a
collision at Fifteenth and II streets with
q washington Railway & Electric Co.
bus operated by John d. Meyers, rs
wears old of 227 Bates street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
WOMEN DEMAND JOBS
Party Urges Gov. Roosevelt Not to
Make Discrimination.

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt OF New
York, who has called Conference OF
Governors on Unemployment, was urged
yesterday by the National Woman's
Party TO consider married employed
women on the same basis with married
men.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, national chair
man of the Woman's Party, forwarded
copy of resolutions adopted at the
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100000. There is an appropriation Of
$250.00o now available for start on
the work and a request is before Con-
gress for the balance in the 1892 APP
preparation bin. There will be no in
terruption to traflc during the taking
down Of the old bridge and the con-
struction of the new.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

While the use of electricity is in
creasing steadily in the Union of South
Africa, progress is slow in the sale Of
domestic appliances because OF the
ample supply of low-wage servants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

You will find it very useful and
economical! Simply make the
down payment-the rest IN small
monthly payments. A1so-there
are no interest or extra charges
added!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

at them by an expert from the Tariff
Commission.
The female sex. which has q concrete
intelligence, comes off second best for
loquacity in this abstract climate. There
may thus be a double reason for Miss
Comstock's triumph of compactness in
her report. She was concrete and con-
elusive being woman, and she was
brief, because the men here won't let
any woman be anything else, compar-
atively speaking.
Copyright, 1917
The central highway in Cuba is to be
completed in February
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BRIDGE BIDS TO BE ASKED
Steel Span to Replace Present
Klingle Valley Structure.

Bids for the new Klingle Valley
Bridge, steel span to replace the pres
ent structure, will be advertised for on
January 80. according to Roland M.
Brennan. chief clerk of the District En-
gineer Department. The bids will be
opened March and the contract will
probably be let and work started shortly
thereafter
The job will cost, 1t is estimated,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

recent washington conference Of the
party. protesting against the dismissal
Of married women.
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NEW AID RUSHED
. TO HELPLESS SHIPS
Coast Guard Destroyer
Speeds Out Into Atlantic
With Huge Tow HaWser.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January 29.-Upon a coil
of l2-inch hawser slowed aboard the
Coast Guard destroyer Jouett as 1t
raced out of Boston Harbor late yester-
day may hang the fate of the freighter
Effingham and the 35 souls she carries.
With the departure of the Jouett, the
Coast Guard sent its fourth vessel into
the battle it has waged to save two
helpless steamers since it first flung
down the gage to the Atlantic ocean
two weeks ago.
More than $50 miles out of Halifax,
the cutter Tampa has been pushing
slowly to port through mountainous
seas with the 6.000-ton Effingham roll
ing at her heels on a tow rope steadily
weakening under the continuous strain
Freighter Drifting North.
Some 300 miles farther out to sea
drifts the Shipping Board freighter
West Kyska, battered slowly by westerly
gales in the general direction of Iceland
as she heaves helplessly up and down
with her propeller lost.
One days steaming distance out of New
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pany was paying out 90 cents of every
dollar to salaries and promotion.
Miller was to have been paid 5 per
cent of brokers' commissions for adj
vertising in his magazine, Lewis said.
Evidence before the grand jury in
cluded a letter, purporting to bear Wal
toms signature, to prospective Gus
toners.
"As Governor of Oklahoma" it stated,
81 came into close contact with the
secret workings of that mysterious
machine which determines the desti-
MES of nations and institutions.
A smoke screen of propaganda is keep
ing the outsider misinformed, while
the insider is grabbing billion-dollar oil
and gas structures defined by scientific
research. To gather portion
of this wealth from oil and gas few
of my business friends and myself are
organizing an oil and gas company. We
have acquired refinery and producing
property with a potential value of $10,-
900 900. We would like to
have you with us"
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10 ARE INDICTED
ON FRAUD CHARGE
Ex-Gov. Walton and r. {. En-
right Among Those Ac-
cused by Jury.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, January pa
pamphlet Why Investors Lose in OH
has led TO the indictment of an ex-
Governor, a former New York police
commissioner, an editor and stock
promoter on charges of using the mails
to defraud.
J. C. Jack" Walton, impeached as
chief executive of Oklahoma; Richard
E. Enrigfnt, the ex-commisisoner of po-
lice Henry Knight Miller, editor OF
Psychology, and S. E. j. Cox of Ok
lahoma City were among 19 persons
formally accused by a Federal grand
Jury here yesterday.
They face charges in the operation OF
the defunct Universal Oil & Gas Co,
which went into receiverShip last year.
The trials may be held at the May
term of Federal Court in Guthrie, Okla.
Now Running for Mayor.
Roy st. Lewis, district attorney, as
serted the pamphlet, written by Walton,
assisted in building up confidence
through which the public was defrauded
of $750,000. Walton, now a candidate
first chairman of the pre- organization
board, the district attorney said.
Cox. recently acquitted of mail fraud
charges in Texas after serving a pre-
vious term with DR.. Frederick A. Cook,
Arctic explorer ard oil promoter, was
said to have been the unofficial head.
Cox and eight others have been free
on bond for months. Walton, Enright
and Miller have not been arrested.
Enright previously had been ques-
toned in connection with letter pub
lished over his signature by the COM
pany The letter, purporting to be the
report of an investigation said the
company was lone of the most prof1ta-
BILE in America"
Lewis said at that time the COM