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The Washington times., 1932-05-20

me. But, in other ways, the an
noyers have continued to work.
There was, for example, the
poor dope who sent me a let
ter or a postal card each day
with three harmless words
upon it. Just three words in
a phrase that meant absolutely
nothing to me. Each morning,
for almost a year, I found that
type of note among my mail.
Imagine the nature of a man
or woman who will go to all
that. trouble for almost 365 days.
Almost Catches Up
The thing amused me so
much that I finally used the
story in my column. I quoted
the phrase-as harmless, I can
assure you. as three words like
Schultz is dead"-and pointed
out the extremes that people
will go to in order to annoy
a columnist.
A few days later I had al
most a thousand letters from
all points of the country. The
phrase l had used, it seemed,
was the punch line of one Of
the dirtieSt gags ever told!
Sometimes you almost catch
up with your annoyers. There
was a woman along Broadway
some four years ago, for in
stance, who kept telling people
that she was my secretary. She
acted as though she were a bit
cracked. they told me, so 1
made no effort to have her
apprehended. Come to think
of it, since she craved such
dubious distinction, she must
have been a bit cracked.
The thing went along for
more than three weeks. Wher-
ever I'd go, they'd tell me my
secretary had just left. 1t got
to be trifle annoying, for, un-
less I was grossly mistaken, my
secretary was not a woman.
But, because I didn't want to
hurt what was obviously an un-
fortunate woman, I shrugged
my shoulders and let it go at
that.
Just about that time I went
away on a vacation. I returned
some two weeks later to find
that my secretary" had done
very well in my absence. She
had signed checks in my name
and had taken bottles of liquor
on the cuffs in practically
every Speakeasy on Broadway!
Taking all in all. however, the
best annoyers are the anony-
nous letter writer's. After you've
been in the game as long as I
have, you merely smile a little
contemptuously and toss the
poisonous epistles away. Be-
cause they're worth no further
consideration. But when you're
new in the racket-boy, how
they can hurt!
The Washington times., 1932-05-20
.ONA MUNSON TELLS WHY
She Expects Screen to Again Woo
Music and This Time Ona
Will Be We'll Prepared

So I determined to get some more
dramatic experience.
Q.-And so you came to Wash
ington and enrolled with Clifford
Brooke as your professor?
A.-Well, not exactly. I had a
chance to play dramatic roles for
Homer Curran in Los Angeles and
with the valuable direction of
Laura Hope Crews. Miss Crews
coached Gloria Swanson for her
talking picture debut and is rec
ognized as one of the finest of
stage directors. I played in "As
Husbands Go" and in the coast
production of "The Silver Chord"
1 liked it and wired my agent to
look about for good repertoire
engagement in the East for I was
anxious to get back to Broadway.
The Washington times., 1932-05-20
Asks Experience

Perhaps the easiest way to set
down the result of this lobby in
terview is to transcribe the ques-
tions and answers as jotted down
on Mr.. Stephen Erlanger Coch-
rams scratch pad thuSly:
Q.-How do you like stock and
why did you do it?
A.-That's an easy one to an
swer. I wanted the experience.
That really tells everything. You
know I worked in pictures with
Joe E. Brown in Going Wild"
and "Broad-Minded," later in
Five Star Final and with Ben
Lyon in THE Hot Heiress." 1
discovered then that we'll
rounded knowledge of what the
speaking stage gives to an actress
is a studio asset of priceless value.
The Washington times., 1932-05-20

players of the
stock company
watching from
the wings re-
marked: You
just can't keep
that girl out of
musical COM
edy. She loves
it."
I asked Miss
MunSon about
it yesterday.
Catching her in
an off moment
bet we en- re-
hearsals 1 put
the question di-
The Washington times., 1932-05-20

asked.
"Oh, that fellow" flipped AL.
Hes one of the nouveau richie.
You know, he's got $3.50"
The Washington times., 1932-05-20

tom Legion at Bowie and last
week an afternoon at Pimlico.
With my apartment at the Hay
Adams House as a base I have
managed to take sightseeing
trips to Mt. Vernon and the
other interesting places in the
guide books. So it hasn't been
hard work.
Owe can end this little in
terview then with conventional Il
love Washington"
A.-Love isn't the word. !
adore it. That goes double for
the Washington critics. But why
shouldn't I like critics who can
act. They've really been extremely
kind to an ambitious ingenue.
The Washington times., 1932-05-20
All I'm q Day
BY
MARK HELLINGER

NEW YORK, May 90
Yesterday afternoon when l walked into my office, my
secretary looked up at me- don know how he happened
to be there but guess because he thought WASH
coming in
'You had lot of calls he said. First Buddy Rogers
called Then Paul Calico Then Lupe Velez Then--"
The phone rang. He picked up the receiver.
The Washington times., 1932-05-20
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

Petite Ona Munson sang and
danced with such enthusiasm on
the stage Of the National Theater
last Sunday that one of her fellow
The Washington times., 1932-05-20

rect. Are you going to stick
with the legitimate or are you
going back to the girl and tune
shows? And what about Holly
wood?
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
MILFORD BUGGY WINS DERBY
Car of Pierce and Atkins Travels
81 Miles in Seven Hours

A 'one-lung' Cadillac. of the
vintage of 1905, entered BY Fl. j.
Pierce and E. B. Atkins, of Mil
ford, won the Antique Automobile
Derby staged Wednesday in con-
nection with the Philadelphia Au-
tomobile Show in Convention Hall.
The towering chariot gasped and
came to halt in front of Conven-
ton Hall, Philadelphia, at 1215,
having covered the 97.2 miles from
Milford in exactly seven hours and
two minutes. Ornate with brass
trapping, and suggesting to some
interested onlookers the caliope of
an earlier day, the one-cylinder
car might not have figured very
prominently at Daytona Beach, but
it did win the cup in the unique
race staged for cars 20 years or
older. The winning and ancient
vehicle was second to arrive, and
its average speed was not the
highest but with distance and
elapsed time, road conditions grad
es and age all taken into account,
it rated highest in all-round per-
Torrance. A 1903 Jones-Corbin,
owned by Charles r. Strong, Ard
more, made the trip from Coates
vile in three hours and 13 minutes.
The one-cylinder car Travelled I'M
der its own power to the City Line
and had to be towed the rest of
the way, but won the second prize.
Other cars which figured among
the winners in the one cylinder and
more than one cylinder car contest
Of a by-gone auto era, included a
1910 four-cylinder Ford, a 1907
Buick, which latter won the
'booby" prize, 1907 Ford, and a
1900 Renault Freres, sporting two
cylinders, the oldest car in the race
which made the trip from Atlantic
City in four hours.
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27

Albert Griffin, 10, Dies of Heart
Trouble While Playing

Albert Griffin, 10, who was six
feet and eight inches tall and
weighed about 240 pounds, fell
dead in the yard of a neighbor
where he was playing with other
boys in the moonlight. Death was
attributed to heart disease, al
though he was apparently in good
health and had not been sick for
seven years. He was the oldest of
four children of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
d. Griffin, who live on a farm near
Denton. Complaining to his moth
er of hunger late Friday afternoon,
she suggested that he eat some of
the canned peas which she had just
opened for supper. When she went
into the kitchen she found that he
had eaten nearly all the peas. At
ter eating a hearty supper and
feeding the stock for his father, he
spent the evening with his friends
on the nearby farm, where he died
suddenly at H. Funeral services,
conducted by the Rev Harry H.
Zeigler, of the Reformed Church
of Ridgely, were held at the home
at 2 on Monday. Burial was at
Greensboro cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
Corporations Turning
to Air Transportation

Chicago.-Need for air travel by
executives and business men is in
creasing. Sixty per cent of 7S4
corporations capitalized at 100000
or more have executives and repre-
sentatives using airplanes regular
ly, shows a compilation of United
Air Lines.
Executives of 7S4 corporations in
cities on It's transcontinental, Mid
die West, intermountain and Pacific
coast routes reported:
Four hundred and seventy-seven
now have executives and representa-
tives travelling by air and 301 have
not and an average of four men in
each firm use planes on company
business.
OF 7S4 reporting firms, 37S re-
ported need for air travel is increas-
ing.
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27

is missionary station for some
denomination, and the work of
outstanding the people is rapidly
being pushed inland and wherever
they go to effect is beneficial on
the wretchedness and idolatry of
the people. Their most effective
laborers were now the native
preachers, who exhibited not only
unusual earnestness in spreading
the gospel, but mental ability of
a superior order. The pastor, Rev
Mr.. Rigg, remarked in the closing
of the exercises that he did not
know whether DR. Baldwin was
not doing as much for the cause
of missions in this country as if
he were in China. The exact
amount of the collection for the
church and school is yet to take
place but it will be about thirty
per cent in advance of the past
several years and considerable
ahead of the Conference apportion-
ment.
Personal - Ex-Governor Ponder
and wife of Milton spent Saturday
last with friends in this town.
Daniel B. Cummins, Esq, of
Philadelphia, spent Saturday and
Sunday with relatives in this town.
George w. Taylor of the firm of
g. w. & S. Taylor is on a visit to
Ohio, guest of the Champion Reap
er Company.
Mrs. Jennie Brisbane and daugh-
ter, of Camden, N. j., are visiting
Mrs. ]. H. Bewley.
Miss Addie Hoffecker of Will
mington, is the guest Of Mrs. RID.
Hoffecker.
Miss Hettie Megear is visiting
friends at Doylestown, Pa.
Miss Sue Bennett of Easton, is
visiting Miss Kate Douglass.
Miss Emily Gregg of Newport is
the guest of Mrs. j. D. Rigg.
Joseph NJ. Reynolds for several
years in charge of Adams Express
delivery for T. B. Megear, has been
appointed express messenger be-
tween Harrington and Philadelphia
and entered on his duties Monday.
Levi Anthony and wife, return
ed last week from a visit of sew
eral weeks to New York State ac-
companied by Miss Alice Hurd of
Johnsonville, in that State who
will be their guest a part Of the
winter.
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
RECENT DEATHS IN VICINITY
Harry C. Willis, 81, Dies at Della
ware Hospital, Wilmington

Funeral services for Harry c.
Willis, 81, fomer member of the
Maryland House of Delegates and
one of the leading Democrats in
Kent county, who died in Delaware
Hospital, Wilmington, Saturday
evening, January 16, were held
Tuesday of last week from the
home of his sister, Mrs. Jesse H.
Usilton, near Fairlee, by the Rev.
]. Lee Marker, pastor of st. James
Methodist Protestant Church. In
terment was in Chester Cemetery.
Mrs. Ida V. Hubbard, HurIoclx, Md.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday for Mrs. Ida Virginia Hub
bard, 20, wife of James Hubbard,
at her home at Hurlock, Md. Mrs.
Hubbard leaves, besides her nus
band, the following children: Mrs
H. D. Hurpin, Mrs. J. w. Todd and
Miss Edna Hubbard all of NAL
vern, Pa; t. w Hubbard of Oak
dale, Pa; L. C. Hubbard of Hur-
lock; James G. Hubbard of PhiIa-
delphia, and Ross and Philip Hub
bard of Baltimore. Burial was in
Mount Washington cemetery, Hur-
lock.
Hold Mitchell Rites at Denton
Funeral services for Mrs. Mar
tina Mitchell, II, wife of George F.
Mitchell, who died at her home
near Denton, Thursday, were held
Friday at the Pilgrim Holiness
Church, Denton, conducted by the
Rev. H. E. Uhrig, pastor. Burial
was made in Denton cemetery. The
following children by a former
marriage survive: Miss Ida Arder-
son and Arthur ]. Anderson, of
Denton; Mrs. Albert Dennis, Of
Marcus Hook, Pa; and William H.
Anderson, of Ocean City, Md.
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
Trio Kill 81 Rattlers
in One Hours Time

Great Falls, MOnt.-Three young
men recently killed 81 rattlesnakes
within an hour in the hills four
miles north of Vaughan near here.
Many of the snakes were from
five to six feet in length and some
of them were ten years old. The
snake hunters said there were prob
ably 500 of the reptiles in a small
area. Most of them were found in
rabbit holes.
1t was believed that the snakes
were preparing to 'hole-up" for the
winter when they were found by the
men.
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
PLACE 10000 TREES IN STATE
22 Planters During Year; $4,000
Planted Along Canal Banks

State Forester Taber in his an
nual report to the government on
forestry in Delaware for the year
1881, states that 10000 trees
were disposed of in Delaware dur
ing 1881, including mainly the lob
Jolly and Scotch pines, the trees
from seedlings selling for $3.50 per
thousand and the transplants at SIS
per $1,000. State Forester Taber
also states that here were % tree
planters in the State during the
year, the largest number being
from the Engineering Department
of the U. S. Navy, who planted
$4,000 trees along the wash banks
of the Delaware and Chesapeake
Canal at Summit Bridge. During
the year 81 acres of land were re-
forested. The planters of the trees
from the State Forestry include
well known Delawareans: Charles
z. Huber, F. w. Pickard, E. du-
Pont, A. L. Lauritsen, Lamont du-
Pont Copeland, S. Hallock DUPONT,
B. G. DUPONT, Neal Gladish, Son.
men Krebs, E. B. Sandelands, all of
New Castle county; E. R. Long
necker, S. c. Crook, William Haas,
all of Dover; Zera Richardson,
Camden; w. B. Downing and
George c. Hudson, Milford; II. H.
Dickinson, Laurel; J. Lawrence
Wiley, Harry A. Webb, Milton
Fike, Greenwood; Oliver A. New
ton, Bridgeville; M. G. Vaughn
LeWes.
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
Turkeys Reported to
Be Increasing in Size

Salem, Ore.-Train Oregon tur-
keys to be halter led. That's the
suggestion of Edward Shearer,
poultry raiser. eff Oregon turkeys
continue to grow" he said, sit will
soon be necessary to have them
halter-broke and lead them around
their stalls like cattle. Many of the
Oregon toms are so pounds or
more. To handle them is not a job
for weal1ling."
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
SMYRNA FIFTY YEARS AGO AS
REVAMPED FROM OUR FILES
ITEMS ABOUT SMYRNA FROM
SMYRNA TIMES, JAN. 25, 1882
Notes of Marriages, Deaths, Real
Estate Deals and Matters of In
terest of Half Century Ago

1.-THE Smyrna Times has started
to look back over its files and tell
what happened around the correspond
ing date of this issue. half century
ago. We hope to make this a regular
weekly feature. If it does nothing else,
1t will call to mind people and events
of that day that should be interesting
to the present generation. We hope
our readers will find it interesting and
that it will make the Times more eag-
erly sought and read-Editor.l
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
Arkansan Is Sure Wife
Is Not Going to Vote

Bentonville, Ark.-Ralph Miner
of Pan Ridge Is determined that his
wife is not going to vote.
Called as a witness in a trial here,
Miner, in answering a question as
TO whether his wife had a poll tax
receipt, told Judge w. A. Dickson:
"Nope, nor will she ever have one.
I'll see TO that. Women haven't
got any business voting"
Smyrna times., 1932-01-27
Felt Hat Materials

Fine felt hats are made of the
fur of rabbits and comics; cheaper
grades Of felt contain considerable
wool or cotton.
Nogales international., 1932-04-09
Weather To Suit All

Americans who tire Of the weather as subject
of conversation would be delighted with tour Of
Colombia, the nortlermost nation of South America,
set squarey across the Equator and of the most
interesting.
There live the descendants Of the Spanish con-
oistadores who found gold, fame and territory for
their king in "New Granda," the original name of
Colombia, which is concentrating the centen-
NAL of it's constitution as republic.
Modern Coombians never mention the weather,
it is said They select what kind they like best and
live in it the year round. Or if wealthy, they keep
various ''haciendas" in various climates and move
from one to the other as they choose.
Colombia has every type of climate from the
hottest tropics to eternal snow, and Coombans have
their homes III each variety
At Buenaventura for example, where Grace Line
ships arrive twice week, travellers will find the
jungle-grovn tropics Of the story books. They can
climb higher and higher into the interior Of Colombia
through and across the Andes mountains to find the
climates and cloudless skies which they desire.
They can mount to the national capital Bogota,
where it is cool i'll the daytime and cold at night And
they can attempt, although one has ever succeed
ed, to climb the perfect cone Of Mount Toma where
snow has stood eternaly since the creation
Nogales international., 1932-04-09

An exchange tells of an electrician named Sparks.
being charged with battery and placed in drv cell,
Nogales international., 1932-04-09

Eve never tainted Adam about the mum
len VINO had proposed to her.
Nogales international., 1932-04-09

ing office on platform Of revision of the banking
code, will have embarrassing moments when voters
with long memories question them to why they did
not support Governor Hunts recommendations on
the same subject when they sat in the state legislative
halls little over year ago.
Nogales international., 1932-04-09
BUYING CATTLE

j. H. Benson, manager Of the
Kemper- California Ranch in the
Imperial Valley, is here buying cat
tie.
Nogales international., 1932-04-09

Mr.. Hoovers suggestion to get rid of depression
by means of song is belated most Of his
other proposals. 1t was famous vaudeville artist who
remarked q long time ago that prosperity is just
around the crooner"
Nogales international., 1932-04-09
Greatest B{under

Ia a recent survey of the Hoover Administration,
critic fixed upon the enactment Of the Smoot-Ha
ley tariff its greatest bunder
That tariff was not demanded by the American
people in the election of 1928 1t had the disastrous
effect of disappointing hopes elsewhere for revision
downward for the promotion of international trade
and thus It melted othcr countries pursue the same
course and establish III all directions still higher bar
Ilefs to the movements of commerce
Bones Of q camel dug up in Montana said to be
original "dly'
Eve never tainted Adam about the number of
men WHO had proposed to her
An exchange tells Of an electrician named Sparks
being charged with battery and Placed in dry cell
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-21
MASS MURDER OF THE
CIVILIAN POPULATION
IN THE WORLD WAR

number OF deaths from tuberculosis were the
consequence of undernourishment and over
eXertion, mainly Of women in the armament fac
tories. AS compared with 1913, the cases Of
death from tuberculosis in the year 1918 in
creased in the various countries as follows: in
France by Is per cent; in England, Denmark
and Spain by "a per cent; in CzechoslovaEIa by
A per cent; in Italy by so per cent, and in
Germany and Austria by so to 81 per cent. IN
Germany alone the total number OF deaths as a
result of tuberculosis, exceeded the pre-war
mortality by 10000 Of whom 100000 were civil
persons, of which last three-fifths we're women.
Not only the belligerent but also the so-called
neutral countries suffered greatly on account
Of the world war Nearly 100000 more persons
died in the neutral" countries during the war
than. in The pre-war time. In Sweden, for in
stance, the highest number OF deaths since $50
years was recorded in 1918.
According to the calculations OF the Swiss
statistician Professor L. Hersch, the world war,
according to incomplete figures, cost the lives
Of 28,379000 civil persons. If we put the NUM-
Der of soldiers who fell at 13050000, we see that
the number Of lives destroyed during the war
amounted to Il 600. In Europe alone Is mil
lion people died-a number exceedinT the CONF
bined population of Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Holland and Switzerland. 1t is not yet gener-
ally known that the world war took toll Of just
as many victims from among the civil popula-
ton as from among the armies Of all the i'm
perialist robbers. But what will it be in the
coming war, when the towns and villages Of Eu-
rope will be bombarded with air bombs and gas
shellsP
The working masses Of the whole world
must oppose with all their might the i'm
perialist war which has been going on already
for months in the Far East, and which is direct
ed not only against China, mot only against the
Soviet Union, but also against the toilers of all
countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-21
The Dictatorship OF the United
Fruit Company

the Communist Party. The leading working
class and peasant militants are being bounded
and prosecuted with the utmost violence and
brutality. Yankee imperialism and its puppet
government in Honduras are carrying on this
wild white terror against the struggling masses
in order to forestau and check the coming new
struggles of the workers and toiling peasants
against the robbery and exploitation OF the Uni
ted Fruit Co.
But the brave and courageous workers Of the
banana zone will not be cowed by this terror.
They will continue to build their revolutionary
unions into powerful mass organizations roofing
them on the plantations and in the ports as
well as the organization Of the Committees of
Unemployed Learning from the shortcomings
and errors Of the January strike, especially the
lack Of preparation and failure to build up wide
rank and file strike committees on each planta-
ton, the revolutionary workers will more than
ever before concentrate on the banana zone as
the most important field of their activity, pre-
pairing the coming struggles of the workers
against the wage cuts, Isy-offs unemployment,
ETC., combating mercilessly the legalsm and sur
render to compulsory arbitration of the right
opportunists and the sectarian putchist distor-
tons Of the cleft" opportunists. The organiza-
ton Of the small poquiteros and toiling peasants
generally into Peasant Leagues, struggling joint
y W-UA4 O@4G WO+AO40 cSG444SO UIlC OIllUSO rIulU
Co. and its native supporters remains one Of
our chief tasks in Honduras.
Against the dictatorship Of the United Fruit
Co. and the rule Of Yankee imperialism in Hon
duras we must arouse the widest mass anti
imperialist movement of the workers, peasants
and poor Electromagnetic Of the cities. The
situation now is highly favorable for the devel-
opn1ent and organization of such movements,
also because OF the sharpening danger Of a new
world war and especially the immediate danger
OF war against the Soviet Union for which the
Collindres government is preparing under the
direction Of Yankee imperialism. We must
place on the order Of the day the organization
Of League Against Imperialism in Honduras,
based upon the workers and peasants and in
GLIDING all militant anti-mperialist elements, to
unity and intensity the struggle against Yankee
imperialism and the United Fruit co. and for
the defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet
Union