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The Washington times., 1932-12-13

The ambassador of Poland,
Mr.. Tytus Filipowicz, was the
ranking guest at the dinner
given last evening by Miss
Elizabeth Howry and Miss Mary
Howry at their home in George
town. Later the party went on
to the bachelors cotillion at the
Mayflower. The other guests
were Lady Faith Montagu,
daughter of the Earl and
Countess of Sandwich; the
Duchesse de Richelieu, Mrs.
Ralph Worthington, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hollister Sturges, General
Cooke, of Claremont-on-the-
James; Brig. Gen. Francis Lei.
Parker and Comdr. Paulus P.
Powell.
The ambassador of Great Bri-
tain, Sir Ronald Lindsay, and
Lady Lindsay were the honor
guests at a dinner given last
evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
Demarest Lloyd.
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The Ambassador of Cuba and
Sonora de Cintas will leave
Washington on December 19
for Havana, where they will re-
main until early in January.
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MIS-. Hughes, wife of the
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, held her first at home
of the season yesterday after
noon when she was assisted by
Mrs. Wilbur j. Carr, wife of
the Assistant Secretary of
State. Mrs. Pierce Butler, wife
of Associate Justice Butler, also
received yesterday from 4 to 6
o'clock, as did Mrs. Harlan
Fiske Stone and Mrs. Owen j.
Roberts, of the Supreme Court
circle.
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Mrs. Rudolph Kaufman, Mrs.
Victor Kaufman, Baron and
Baroness Won PagenStadt, DR..
and Mrs. Weller Treadwell, Mr..
and Mrs. Marcy Sperry, Mr..
Henderson Gregory, Mr.. and
Mrs. Malcolm Matheson, Mrs.
Hollister Sturgis, Mrs. Henry
Alvah Strong, Mrs. Thompson
Wales, Mrs. George A. Hey
wood, Mrs. F. P. Tams, Mrs. Os-
car Jarecki, Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Alexander, Mrs. Daniel
Stapleton, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
ConradiS, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver
M. Walker, Mr.. Clifford G.
Stokes, of Baltimore: Mrs.
Ralph w. Howell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Halkett, Mrs. Elonzo Ty-
ner, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert v.
Fleming, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
c. Waters, of Baltimore; Mrs.
David Fiske, Mr.. and Mrs. lar
old Dodge, Lieut.. Comdr. Prince
Powell and others.
Dinners Before Ball
The Minister of Panama and
Sonora de Alfaro were the
guests in whose honor Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Sim Lee enter
tanned company of 18 at din
ner at the Mayflower preceding
the ball.
Miss Louise A. Tittmann was
the honor guest at a dinner
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
er1ck r. Solger in the presi-
Dental dining room before the
ball. Their other guests were
Miss Gladys Szechenyi, Miss
Gertrude Faust. Miss Ruth
Tuckerman, Miss Elizabeth
Walker and Miss Marion
Shouse. Also Lieut.. j. Stuart
Blue, Lieut.. A. G. Stone, Lieut..
Sidney Wooten, Mr.. Gale Nc
Lean, Mr.. Daniel Fahey, jr.,
and Mr.. Ingham MAck.
Mrs. j. Thompson WALES
also had guests with her at
dinner, her company including
Lieut.. and Mrs. D. j. Ramsey,
OF Annapolis; Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald Halsted and Mr.. Max
well FaSSett.
Mrs. George Barnett, who
entertained in compliment to
Mrs. Ronald Fairfax. of Roa-
noke. Va, and her guests num-
bered IL.
Sonora de Abelli. wife of the
former Minister of Bolivia. was
the guest in whose honor Mr..
and Mrs. Robert M. Kempton
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Cabinet Ladies
Will Receive
Tomorrow .

Mrs. Gam, sister Of the Vice
President, will receive tomor-
row afternoon in her apartment
at the Mayflower when she will
be assisted by Mrs. William
Howard Taft, Nine. Prochnik,
Nine. Bachke, Mrs. Frederick
H. Payne, Representative Ruth
Bryan owen, Mrs. Arthur H.
Vandenberg. Mrs. Warren r.
Austin, Mrs. Mark L. Bristol.
Mrs. Homer Hoch, Mrs. Daniel
Anthony, Mrs. Jacob Leander
Loose, Mrs. Charles P. George;
little Miss Anne George, the Vice
Presidents granddaughter; Mrs.
Donald w. Sawtelle, Mrs. Paul.
inc Hanson, Mrs. U. S. Guyer,
Mrs. Alice Nibley Smoot, Mrs.
Philip Campbell, Mrs. Harry
K. Daugherty, Mrs. James G..
Strong, Mrs. Walter Sullivan,
Mrs. Haworth, Mrs. William
AyreS and Miss Margaret Ayres.
Mrs. Adams, wife of the Sec.
retary Of the Navy, will be at
home tomorrow afternoon when
she will be assisted by Mrs.
Ernest Lee Jahncke, Miss Adele
Townsend Jahncke, Miss Irene
Boyle and Mrs. Eugene Meyer.
Mrs. Wilbur Will Be at Home
Mrs. Wilbur, wife Of the Sec.
retary of the Interior, will re-
ceive. assisted by Mrs. Hamil.
ton Fish, jr., Mrs. Atlee Pome.
rene, Mrs. James M. Beck, Mrs.
owen j. Roberts, Mrs. Mark L.
Bristol and Mrs. Charlie Rhoads.
Mrs. Hyde, wife of the Secre.
tary of Agriculture, will have
Mrs. Joseph j. Manlove, Mrs.
David Hopkins, Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Mrs. Joel T. Boone, Mrs.
Walter Hughes Newton, Mrs.
Stark McMullin, Mrs. William
Kinnan, Mrs. Ernest Hall, Miss
Elizabeth Fuller and Mrs.
Charles S. McClung assisting
her.
Mrs. Stimson, wife of the
Secretary Of State; Mrs. Mills,
wife Of the Secretary of the
Treasury; Mrs. Mitchell, wife
Of the Attorney General; Mrs.
Brown, wife of the Postmaster
General; Mrs. Chaplin. wife of
the Secretary of Commerce,
and Mrs. Doak, wife of the
Secretary of Labor, will also be
at home tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. Hurley, wife of the Sec
retary of War, will not receive
tomorrow, but will be at home
on Sunday at her estate. Bel.
mont, near LeeSburg, Va.
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Floor Committee
Members of the floor commit
tee, who wore red and white
bouttonnieres to distinguish
them from the officers Of the
cotillion with white gardenias
in their lapels, included Sen
ator Arthur Capper, Maj. Gen.
George Owen Squier, Brig. Gen.
Francis Lei. Parker, Brig. Gen.
Matthew A. Delaney, DR.. Josef
Nemecek, Mr.. Otaker Kabelac,
Col. M. Robert Guggenheim,
Col. John P. Hams, Col. Regi-
nald L. Foster, Col. Frederick
E. Johnston, Lieut.. Col. Charles
H. Patterson, Capt. Frank B.
Goettge, Lieut.. Alexander Ma
comb, Lieut.. Fletcher Cole,
Lieut.. Don E. Lowry, Lieut.. Sid
ney c. Wooten, Lieut.. Raymond
Waller. Mr.. william Phelps
Emo, Major Ennalls Waggaman,
Mr.. Herbert c. Hengstler, Mr..
Robert F. Kelley, DR.. Stanley
F. Hornbeck, Mr.. jefferson Pat
terson, Mr.. c. Bascom Slemp,
Mr.. William Bowie Clarke, Mr..
William Jeffries Chewing, jr..
Mr.. Archibald c. v. Wells. Mr..
Victor Kaufman, Mr.. Fulton
Lewis, Col. Wade H. cooper,
Mr.. Wilton j. Lambert, Mr.. J.
Donald HalSted, Baron Won
Redlich, Mr.. Edward Burr Pow
ell, Mr.. Waverly Taylor. Mr..
Hugh S. Cumming, jr., Mr.. Al
exander Lee Craighill, Mr.. Will
liam D. Cheatham and Mr.. H.
Prescott Galley, jr.
Diplomats Present
Among those present, in ad.
dition to those mentioned above.
were the Polish Ambassador
Mr.. Filipowicz, the Minister of
Hungary, the Albanian Minister
Mr.. Konitza, the Egyptian Min
lister SeSoStriS SidarousS PaSha,
and the Minister Of Panama
Also the Secretary of Com
merce and Mrs. Roy D. Chaplin,
Lady Faith Montagu, Duchess
de Richelieu, Representative
and Mrs. Clay Stone Briggs, of
Texas; Representative Edward
W.. Goss, of Connecticut; Mrs.
Allard H. Gasque, the Military
Attache of the Cuban Embassy
and Sonora de Prieto. Admiral
Cary T. GraySon, Mrs. George
Barnett, Mrs. j. Wilmer Biddle,
of Philadelphia; Mrs. Alicia Du-
pont Glendenning. Mr.. and
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SOCIAL NOTES

The Minister of Czechoslo-
vakia, Mr.. Ferdinand Veverka,
and Lieut.. Col. M. Robert
Guggenheim, will leave Sunday
for the latter's shooting box,
Curricock, near the Penny Hill
Club, in North Carolina, where
they will remain a week.
The Minister of Railways and
Canals and Mrs. Manion, of Of
tawa, Canada; Col. George Drew,
of Toronto; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Mcdonald and Mr.. and
Mrs. George Currie, of Montreal,
have left for their respective
homes, following a visit OF sew
eral days with the Minister OF
Canada and Mrs. William Dun
can Herridge at the legation in
Massachusetts Avenue.
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Sonora de Alfaro, wife of the
Minister of Panama, was the
guest in whose honor the mem
USIS VI GI1C NdC1OIld1 VNAAAoAA
Country Club entertained at
luncheon today.
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The Charge d'Affaires Of Mica
ragua and Sonora de Debayle
will motor to Baltimore today to
spend the day.
DR.. Bedrich Kalda, the Czecho-
slovakian consul general IN
Cleveland, motored here accom-
panied by Nine. Kalda, and
they are at Wardman Park
Hotel.
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Gen. John j. PerShing enter
tained informally at luncheon
yesterday at the Carlton. His
guests included his sister, Miss
May Pershing; Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Callan OLaughlin.
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Miss Robbins Is
Dinner Hostess

Miss Helen Robbins, daughter
of the chief of Protocol Division
of the State Department and
Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins,
entertained at dinner last eve
ming in honor of her house guest.
Miss Lila Fisk, of New York.
The guests numbered IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robbins Will
have as their guest. for the week
end Mrs. L. Havemeyer Butt, OF
Tuxedo Park, N. Y, who will ar
rive in the Capital on Thursday
and will attend the diplomatic
reception at the White House
with her hosts.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur N. Pack
of Princeton, N. j., are at the
Carlton for a short stay.
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Envoyin Company
at Theater

A notable audience assembled
at the National Theater last
evening for the second play to
be presented by the American
Theater Society. There Is Al
ways Juliet" in which Violet
Heming and Roger Pryor were
co-Starred.
Among those glimpsed were,
the Ambassador of Germany
and Frau Won Prittzwitz; the
attache of the Swiss legation,
Mr.. Pierre de Sails; Major and
Mrs. Ennalls Waggaman; Major
and Mrs. Henry Leonard; Mr..
and Mrs. Warren Delano Rob-
bins, who had a party of guests
with them; Mr.. Pembroke
Jones, Mr.. Thomas Flaherty.
Miss Katherine Judge, DR.. Ed
gar p. Copeland, Mr.. Carl w.
Corby, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Hartman Rapley. Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl H. Drop, Mr.. and Mrs. s.
Say Harper, Commodore Har-
Ion, Mrs. E. E. Rapley, DR.. and
Mrs. Luther Reichelderfer, Mr..
Waverley Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Viner, Mr.. and Mrs. DON
aid Woodward, Mrs. E. D. Hood,
Miss Gretchen Hood, Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Harrison, Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Caswell, Miss
Helen Strauss, Representative
and Mrs. Robert Low Bacon,
Miss Eleanor Morse Ryan and
Mr.. Henry Bean Gwinn.
Sponsor Plays
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roose-
velt and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
are on the advisory council of
the Children'S Theater Com
pany, of New York, which is
bringing "Huckleberry Finn" to
the National Theater next Sat
p urday.
Mrs. Roosevelt became inter-
eSted in the Children's Theater
years ago, when the idea of
adults playing exclusively for
children was new and untried.
Her own children were among
the first supporters of the
Children's Theater, in the days
when its plays were given only
in New York, at the Princess
Theater.
Mrs. Coolidge, too, has been
interested in the Children'S
Theater for several years. She
and Mrs. Coolidge head the list
of patrons in their home city,
Northampton.
Mrs. Bertha Gerli, of New
York, and Senorita Elvira Con-
zalez-Zeledon, daughters Of the
charge d'affaires of Costa Rica,
and Senor Don Manuel Con-
zalez-Zeledon, will sail from
New York, December "a, aboard
the Rex, on a Today cruise to
the Caribbean Sea.
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Mrs. Fish Gives
Tea Today

Mrs. Hamilton Fish, jr., wife
Of Representative Fish, of New
York, will entertain at the
third of a series Of teas she is
giving in honor Of her debutante
daughter, Miss Susan Leroy
Rogers, this afternoon. at her
residence in Ashmead Place.
Countess Szechenyi, wife Of
the Minister of Hungary. will as.
siSt Mrs. Fish, as will Mrs.
James E. watson, Mrs. Charles
L. McNary, Mrs. Hamilton Fish
Kean, Mrs. Reynolds Hit, Miss
Josephine Patten and Mrs.
Franklin Ellis.
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Commerce Sec'y
AndWife Feted

The Secretary of Commerce
and Mrs. Roy D. Chaplin were
the guests in whose honor Sen
ator and Mrs. Arthur H. Van
denberg entertained at dinner
last evening in the Willard
room of the Willard Hotel
Christmas decorations of red
and green effective garnished
the long table and the guests,
who numbered so, included the
President of the University of
Michigan and Mrs. Alexander
Ruthven and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
son B. Mills, of Detroit. Mr..
and Mrs. Mills are house guests
of the hosts and with DR.. and
Mrs. Ruthven will remain to
attend the diplomatic reception
at the White House on Thurs
day.
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Diplomats to Be
Guests

The ambassador of Poland,
Mr.. Tytus Filipowicz, and the
ambassador of Brazil and Nine.
de Lima e Silva will be the rank
ing guests at the luncheon which
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend will
give tomorrow following her sec
ond morning musicale at the
Mayflower, when the artists will
be Nine. Guiomas Novaes, Bra
lillian pianist, and Mr.. Paul
Kochanski, noted Polish vio-
liniSt.
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nave attracted the elite or washington
society since their Inauguration by
group of local bachelors" in the
winter of 1928.
Countess Szechenyi, wife of the Min
lister of Hungary, stood at the head
of the receiving line in the Chinese
room of the hotel, and the guests
were presented by Brig. Gen. Will
liam E. Horton, U. S. A, who has
proven to be a very capable president
of the cotillions for the last three
years.
Others in line were Mrs. Hamilton
Fish, jr.; Mrs. j. Wilbur Carr and
Mrs. Cary 7. Grayson.
Miss Gladys Szechenyi, daughter of
the Minister and Countess Szechenyi,
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To Join Children

Senator and Mrs. w. Warren
Barbour, of New Jersey, will
leave the latter part Of next
week for ''Hilden," their home
near Locust Point, where they
will spend the holiday season
with their three children, War
rem, Elizabeth and Sharon.
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Holiday Guest

Senator and Mrs. Key Pitt,
man will have as their house
guest for the holiday season at
Ridgelands their nephew, Mr..
Pittman Gates, who is a stu
dent at the Georgia Institute
Of Technology. Mr.. Gates will
arrive in the capital on Decem-
ber 18.
Mr.. Kurd Won Hardt, Of
Switzerland, has arrived in
Washington and is at the Carl
ton for a few days.
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MANY DINNER PARTIES PRECEDE WASHINGTON BACHELORS G
-Four Hundred Guests Attend First
Bachelors Ball Headed by Brig.
Gen. William E. Horton
. q 8'97 co"l'"

Diplomatic official and residential Washington bril-
antly represented the first Washington Bachelors Co
lions of the given last night at the Mayflower
with attendance of nearly AGO. This marked the begin
ming of the fifth for these very popular balls that
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debutants Washington this season. the partner of Mr.
Herbert Hengser who led the figures that directed
in very admirable manner by Mr. George II. Calvert, r
vice president of the "baehelors"
Immediately preceding the dancing of the figures which
began IL o'clock miniature brass pirate chests suitable
for use iewelry cigarette boxes presented to
all the ladies dancing in the figures by their escorts and
they in turn given attractive flashlights which they
flashed and off during the dancing of intricate numbers
when most of the lights in the grand ballroom turned
off to give more effective setting
The washington Bachelors Cotilon March, written
especially for the occasion by Sidney played during
the dance.
Prominent Matrons Act as Chaperones
The chaperones for the occasion included Sonora de
Alfaro Sonora de Abe Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose Mrs
Wilton j. Lambert Mrs Ralph Worthington, Mrs. Edwards
Shouse Mrs John Allan Doughery. Mrs Ronald Fairfax,
Mrs Robert Edward Lee 3d. Mrs. George H. Calvert jr.
and Mrs Henry L. Doherty. '''.
Among the debutantes participating in the figures were
Miss Peggy Barker Miss Mary Lee Bell, Miss Elizabeth
Ball. Miss Edith Bull Miss Betty A. Burke, Miss Elizabeth
Burke Miss Anne Daingerfed, Miss Catherine Dubois
Miss Madge Ely Miss Gertrude Faust Miss Laura Katherine
Field Miss Helene Fortescue Miss Lydia Lane Foster Miss
Osra Ann Gaplt, Miss Virginia Hail. Miss Florence Hall,
Miss Margaret Mckinley Miss Helen P. Manley, Miss
Helen Mark Miss Julia Matheson, Miss Margaret Nixon,
Miss Janet Patterson Miss Marguerite Prescott Miss Susan
Rogers, Miss Marion Shouse Miss Frances P. Smonds,
Miss Dorothy E. Smith, Miss Nal Sykes Miss Ethel Mae
Taylor Miss Louise A. Tttmann Miss Jane Tewksbury
Miss Helen Tewksbury, Miss Ruth Tuckerman Miss Louise
Tompkns Miss Elizabeth Walker and Miss Priscilla Watson
Among others dancing the figures Miss Elizabeth
Howry, Miss Helen Lee Doherty Miss Beatrice Patton,
Miss Patti Warfed Edmonston, Miss Anne Wyant Miss
Miss Dorothy Gould Fowler, Miss Frances Walker Miss
Helen Walker Miss Elizabeth Harris of Tennessee Miss
Isabel Fiske Miss Gladys Wood, Miss Virginia Fleming
Dickns and Miss Annabele Essary.
The Washington times., 1932-03-01
Miss GessfOrd First
1882 Leap Year Baby

While unfortunate Cor fortu-
nate, depending on your point OF
view, babies Of yester-leap-year
we're celebrating their birthdays
yesterday, a Miss Gessford, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. hewitt Cess
ford, 1903 Perry ST., Mt. Rainier,
was winning the honor of being
the Districts first 1882 Leap
Year baby. She was born in Sib-
ley Hospital at 2:05 a. M. three
minutes before Mr.. and Mrs. Ken
meth Woolsender. 1875 Bay st.
S. E., were parents of a boy at
the same hospital.
The Washington times., 1932-03-01
MOOney's Mother
To Be Here Thursday

An 8O-year-old woman will ar
rive in Washington Thursday to
plead with President Hoover for
the unconditional pardon Of her
son. She is the mother OF Tom
Mooney, California labor leader
serving a life sentence in prison
at San Quentin. Calf.
She plans to spend an active
three days here, from the time
of her arrival at the Union Sta
ton at 7:45 p m. Arrangements
are underway for her to visit the
Capitol and the White House on
Saturday. A mass meeting will
be held Friday evening at Arcade
Hall, Fourteenth and Park Rd.
N, w.
The Washington times., 1932-03-01
ANNEX
!. JOBS IN DRIVE

NEW YORK, March / UN.S0.
Alabama, reporting 2,282 persons
back to work, today helped swell
the grand total of jobs supplied
through the national unemploy'
ment campaign to 117,535.
The largest number of COM
munities heard from since the
start of the drive sponsored by
the American Legion, the Legion
Auxiliary, the American Fedora
tion of Labor and the Association
of National Advertisers reported
activities for the day. .
In all. l53 communities In AZ
States indicated progress.
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CINEMA Benefit

A movie of "Alice in Wonder.
land" for the benefit Of the New.
comb Club Public Library will be
given tomorrow in the State Thea.
ter. Bethesda, Md. There will two
performances, one at 2:45 and the
other at 4 D. m.
The Washington times., 1932-03-01
Episcopal Mission
Films to Be ShOJUn

Motion pictures of the work of
Episcopal mission3 in japan,
China, the Philippines and Alaska
will be shown tonight and tomor.
row at II a. m. in Epiphany Par
ish Hall, and later in other
churches of the local diocese.
They are shown under the au-
spices of the woS1en's auxiliary Of
Episcopal churches.
The Washington times., 1932-03-01

The Kensington Chamber of
Commerce, at its meeting last
night at the Kensington School,
went on record as favoring the re-
zoning of Connecticut Avenue
from the Chevy Chase firehouse
to the Jones Bridge Road so that
business enterprises and apart
ment houses can be erected.
A new board of directors. cen
siSting of D. d. Bohanan, r. H.
The Washington times., 1932-03-01
MOtOrist Gets 3ODdyS
For Drunken Driving

Convicted Of driving while un.
der the influence Of liquor, Elka.
nah Fletcher, colored, Of Rock
vile, was sentenced to serve 80
days in the Montgomery county
Jail by Police Court Judge Charles
w. woodward in Rockville. He
also received sentences of 10 days
for having no permit and no regis
tratic1 ard.
The Washington times., 1932-03-01
III Years on Time,
Clerk Gets O. Watch

For Al years, Albert B. Clark,
lock foreman in the Post Office
Departments mail equipment
shops, arrived to work on time
each day.
Yesterday he retired and friends
we're puzzled about the kind OF
a farewell gift to get him. After
much discussion a decision was
reached and he was presented
with a watch!
The Washington times., 1932-03-01
You Can Help in Drive
To Assist Unemployed

United action for employment is succeeding. Daily the
wires bring reports of gains-more and women
going back work and wages back to sefrespec and
hope and feeling that again they belong in the
scheme of things.
The goal of this great national campaign is million
Jobs for workers unemployed.
Twenty million organized Americans committed to
the program sponsored by the American Legion, the
Association of National Advertisers the Legion Auxi
ary and their allies.
A million wage back at work will turn the
tide.
Every person in Washington should join in this
pagn of united action for employment,
The Washington times., 1932-03-01
CHAMBER ASKS REZONING|

Chappell, r. F. Green. ]. T..
Lewis, Harry M. Martin, H. w.
McGinniss, Wilson L. Townsend
and william A. Wagner, was
elected.
w. 1. Cleveland served for the
first time last night as president.
The Washington times., 1932-03-01

Home seekers who want TO establish
themselves in n home Of their own Will
find a timely nome selection In the
Real Estate for Sale Columns Of the
Classified Section
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-02-18
TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE
AMERICA LOSES A FRIEND
Bv O. FL. 2. Shelley

On February twelfth at seven in the evening at his
home in Muncie, Indiana, the life of George B. Lockwood,
one OF the nations most interesting and well-known men
came to an end.
1t seems to his scores of friends, that his nassino was
nntimely, and therefore, sad and tragic, since there was
SO much that he had planned to do and so much that
filled every hour OF his busy, active life. In his prime
and IN less than a week from the day he was stricken,
it was the will of the Almighty Father, that he leave his
work and family and friends. Goods finger touched
him and he slept" But perhaps he does not sleep. but
goes on, to accomplish even more and greater things
than he was able in his limited time to accomplish here.
As editor and owner of the Muncie Press over a per-
iod OF thirty years and as editor of the patriotic monthly
magazine, the National Republic, his expressions and
sane, deeply-American views on questions of national
and international purport, were widely read and appre-
ciated by true red-blooded Americans the length and
breadth of our wonderful land.
1t is a coincidence that he, who held in deepest rever-
ence the names of Washington and Lincoln, should have
passed away on the birthday of the latter.
Not only was Mr.. Lockwood known thru his writings
and his career as ~publicist and author, but thru his poll
teal activities of the Republican National Committee
and during the Roosevelt administration, as secretary to
Nlce-President Fairbanks, he gained the admiration and
friendship of men prominent i'll public life in the national
capital.
AS a man Of delightful personality possessing all the
qualities of a fine, honorable American, he will be miss
ed by his friends in Washington, and especially in his
nome state. LII his lie he enjoyed the pleasures of home
and family and it is this family who is bereaved in his
sudden and untimely passing. 1t is the nation, as well,
which suffers a loss almost equal to theirs.
| count it one of the most interesting experiences of
my life, as well as an honor and a privilege to have num-
beed among my friends, a man of the nobility of char
acter and soul possessed by George B.. Lockwood.
Nh. Lockwood was proclaimed by many of the most
able newspaper editorial writer's Of the country, as the
ablest newspaper editor of this age.
The readers of the News have had the opportunity of
reading many of his splendid editorials which have ap-
peared from time to time in these columns, but the pen
of George B. Lockwood now forever rests. His utterances
were an inspiration to all earnest-mined Americans, and
it is this which we will miss, and | personally feel keen
ly the loss of a good friend.
There will appear, however, a number of editorials
prepared for the News by Mr.. Lockwood just before his
death.