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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-07
Danrerous Ri.ibiI;tv

"If ! see anything funny, simply
can't keep a straight face"
"You must find shaving rather a
ticklish business
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-07
No Chance at All

sand did he have the dentist I'A'
an X-ray of his wife's jawT
"He tried to, but all they coulO -
was a moving picture"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-07
Feminine Independence

Feminine Independents
The Lady at No. 20-What did You
say when your husband objected to
your wearing French heelsf
The Lady at No. 22-I told him j
wasn't going to lower myself to
please any man.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-07
MonoIogue, a. IL Were

ST hear you and your husband had
some words"
HE still has his. I didn't give
him q chance to use them"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-07
ALAS, NO!

Consistency is a jewel"
'That's all right, but you can't
work 1t off on the girl instead Of q
diamond ring"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-07
Carried Game Too Far

Carried Game Too Far
stake two letters from mOns'
and only 'one' will be left"
Indeed. knew a fellow VINO wv
money from two letters, ana ny"
he's in JAIL"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-07
Refuting Rumor

"Your parson seems to be vslA
dogmatic sort OF man, Mr.. Waln1
"No, not very. Hes only got 1wS
and both Of them are mongreA
London Answers.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
ROBBERY HOAX
HOLDS 4 MEN

Ellsworth Williams, 46-year-old
colored bank runner who, police
say, confessed to a hoax to steal
$5,215 from the Southern Mary.
land Trust Company, Seat Pleas
ant, Md, today was held for the
Grand Jury under $4,000 bond
after a conspiracy hearing in
Police Court before Judge Gus A.
Schuldt.
Held with Williams as fellow
conSpirators were James A. But
Ter, Rodney r. Rice, and Cauncey
A. Rice. Bond for each was set
at $4,000 also. Williams and
the other three all pleaded not
guilty.
Williams Monday upset the
quiet atmosphere Of Fifteenth
Street and New York Avenue
Northwest, with a cry that he
had been attacked by a thug
armed with tear gas and his
satchel snatched. Confronted at
Police Headquarters with a state
ment by a physician that he had
not been gassed, the colored man
is said to have confessed that he
planned the hoax robbery with
the other three men.
The money was recovered in
the yard of a house in Fairmount
Heights, Md, where the other
three men live.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
OUTDOOR DANCE
PLANNED FOR
INAUGURAL
Entertainment Committee Dis
cusses Program for Big
Street Carnival

Plans for a carnival to be
staged as a part Of the Roosevelt
Garner Inauguration celebration
was discussed at meeting today
of the inaugural entertainment
committee.
It was proposed that several
blocks along Constitution Avenue
Northwest, be roped off, ampli-
fiers erected and the area be
converted into a gigantic outdoor
dance floor.
Concert on March 2
Huston Thompson, chairman Of
the meeting, announced that the
committee had obtained use Of
the Pan.American Building for
a concert on March 2 and it is
proposed to have one of the
service bands play for the
occasion.
An elaborate fireworks display,
an aerial exhibition and special
programs at Fort Myer and the
Washington Navy Yard also are
included in the committees plans.
Lloyd Wilson, Chairman Of the
inaugural finance committee, an
nounceG that substantial pro-
gresS had been made toward the
raising Of the $4,000 fund to
guarantee a colorful inaugural.
Brown Names Aides
Announcement was made by
George Rothwell Brown, chair
man of the historic sites COM
mittee, that the following had
been given places on the COM
mittee: John Clagett Proctor.
vice chairman; Wilhelmus Begart
Bryan, Mrs. Alexander Wolf,
Mrs. Harley p. Wilson, Miss
Jean Wright, Allen C. Clark.
Delos H. Smith, A. Smith Bow
man, jr., Frederick w. Steckman,
Henry Litchfield West and Mrs.
Daniel C. Roper.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
SCHOOL REPAIR,
IDLE AID PLAN

A request that a sum be in
cluded in the appropriation for
the District schools to keep the
maximum number of unemployed
men at work on repairs and i'm.
provementS was received today by
Representative Mary T. Norton
CD Of New Jersey, chairman of
the oHuse District Committee.
The request was incorporated
in a copy of a resolution passed
recently by the Mt. Pleasant
Citizens Association. Chairman
Norton planned to turn the letter
over to Representative Clarence
Cannon of Missouri. chairman of
the subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee for the
District.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
LIST PREPARED.
AS GUIDE FOR
DEMOCRATS
Annual Salaries for Patronage
Positions Run From $400
Up to $4,000

Tremors of a political earth.
quake which threatened to tum-
bic 10000 Republican jobholders
out of their patronage positions
after March 4 were felt today.
Democratic members of Con-
greSs eagerly scanned list of the
thousands of patronage jobs avail
able.
Civil Service Makes List
The list was compiled by the
Civil Service Commission at the
request of Senator McKellar CD
of Tennessee. McKellar was
asked:
"Are the Democrats going to
fill all those jObs?"
He replied:
"We've. had the list compiled
so we could see what patronage
was available for deserving mem.
bers Of our party. We will have
it printed and distributed. Our
Republican friends did the
same thing in 1920; we're merely
following their example,"
$4OO to $4,000 a Year
Annual salaries in the patron.
age positions, the commission re.
vealed, range from $416.29 to
$20,0C0. Hundreds Of positions
pay from $500 to $4,000.
Among these are commissioners Of
numerous bureaus, assistants to
Cabinet members and counSels to
departments and divisions.
Federal Trade Commission at
torneys draw from $4,000 to
$4,000; national examiners from
$3,400 to $4,000, and assistants"
to the Reconstruction Finance
Corpora ton. $1,000 and S12.5n0.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
Dancer Arrested
In Sale of Fur Coat

A warrant charging Mary Hip.
pie, dancer, of the 3400 block
Fourteenth st. N. w., with vic.
lation of the false advertising
laws was issued yesterday by
Assistant U. S. Attorney Michael
F. Keogh. who asked that she
be required to post $500 bond
for appearance in Police Court.
Mrs. R. E. Orange, Takoma
Park, Md, said she bought a
coat which the Miss Nipple ad-
vertised as Hudson seal" for
$75 on the representation that
it had cost $275 originally. The
garment proved to be dyed rab.
bit fur, she charges.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
REP. UNDERH|LL
URGES D. laid
HOOVERF|ELD.
Believes U. S. Should Not
Enter Commercial Aviation;
GraveIy a Hazard

If an airport is to be de-
yeloped by the public for the
District of Columbia, it should
be done by the District govern
ment and not the Federal Gov.
ernment, Representative Charles
L. Underhill (R.) of Massachu-
sets, told the House Public
Buildings and Public Grounds
Committee today.
Underhill said he was a mem
ber of the joint congressional
committee which went thoroughly
into the matter in 1880. He
expressed the belief that airport
development should be of a pri-
vate nature and that the Govern
ment had no business in the
commercial aviation field.
Would Close Road
He declared that If necessary
to encourage private operation
Of adequate airport facilities at
Washington.Hoover Field, he
would support legislation to close
Military Road and deed over part
Of the agricultural experimental
farm.
The Massachusetts Representa-.
tive said that the Naval Air
Station and Boiling Field pro
vided adequate facilities for aerial
defense Of Washington.
This viewpoint was backed UP
by Brig. Gen. Oscar WeStover,
assistant chief Of the Army air
port. General Westever said that
the two service airfields could be
enlarged for military urposes If
needed, but pointed out the mad
visibility of mobilizing all air
forces on one field. The Naval
and Army air fields are united.
Would Be Hazard
General Westover said he "a
vored development Of Washing.
ton-Hoover field in preference to
Gravelly Point, explaining that
the latter location was so close to
Boiling Field it would constitute
a hazard.
Representative Fritz g. Lanham
Cd, Of Texas, chairman of the
committee, called another hearing
for next Wednesday.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
JOB SAFEGUARD
AIM Of. BILLS

Two bills designed to give
strength to the prevailing wage
law, which is applicable to Fed
eral building projects. have been
introduced in the House by Rep.
resentative Schuyler Otis Bland
CD Of Virginia.
Both bills give laborers and me-
chanics the right to recover by
legal action, regardless Of the
SmallnesS of the amount. and
specify that the actions may be
filed in forma paperis, without
necessity Of making the pauper's
oath. The bills also set forth
that all attending costs ordinarily
collected from the petitioner are
to be borne by the United States.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
Road House Pair
Held to Grand JlLru

P. c. Carrick and Clarence Nc
Cree were hold in $1,000 bail each
yesterday by j. Frank Parran,
United States commissioner at
Upper Marlboro, for action of the
Federal grand jury on charges of
sale and possession of liquor.
They were arrested by Federal
agents in a raid on ''The Naples"
roadhouSe at Silver Hill, Md.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18

Smiths answer to the question, DO you IooK 1orWaIu
to television?" and Ed Wynn's reply to DO you like
to spin yarn, or would you rather listen to one!
AT moments the questions get personal asking whether
the stars of radio have taken an intelligence test
and 'Do you shave yourself (men only)?" Also Tell
us about your operation.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
E. d. ShaIU Is Named
To National ROdu

Edward D. Shaw, secretary of
the Merchants and Manufac-
turers Association of Washington,
has been elected a director of
the National Association of Retail
Merchants Association Secretaries.
He addressed the national body
in New York yesterday on major
problems facing merchant asso-
Citations in the coming year.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
ROsetti Manuscripts
Long Hid, Found Here

Hidden for more than IS
years, a number Of manuscripts
Of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, noted
poet Of the last century, have
been discovered in the vaults Of
the Library Of Congress, it was
revealed today. ..........
These manuscripts came to the
library with other material from
the Charles Freer collection and
are believed to be those placed
by RoSetti in the casket of his
wife as a tribute to her irlspira-
ton to him during her lifetime.
The manuscripts were later ex-
hIImed.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18

CurDeS may come, and boytSh
figures may 90, but make me like
VenuS!" is the cry of 10omen eDery-
tDhere, regardless OF t0hether the
current Venus is pleGSin0ly plump
or dthIeticGlly lean.
Thousands of these jealous
Women diet Stringently and in.
dulge In harmful exercise to at.
tain that coveted thinneSS.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
True to Type
LOTS OF QUESTIONS
FOR AIR STARS
TO ANSWER
BY GILBERT EE-DES-

SCI somebody gave you million dollars would you
i quit radio?" The question is not whether, for
million in cash Ia thousand week for life if you know
how to invest, you would turn off your radio; the
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
ROtGriaves to Stage
Meeting at Willard

The Washington Rotary Club
will have its Semi-annual night
meeting tonight at the willard,
foregoing the usual Wednesday
noon luncheon. It will be a stag
affair. Col. Wrisley Brown is in
charge of the entertainment.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18


us about your operation"
Philosophy and Cash
To begin at the beginning, there the day and hour
of birth the astrological sgn what it predicts and
are YOU influenced by numeroogy? From this high
plane the questions descend brutally to business:
'How did you obtain your first contract? but quickly
we get back to nober things How did you meet your
SCHOOL," Probing still deeper, have you ever been
psychoanayzed, and did the Big Boolu say you were
an introvert extravert! (Dcuonarles go with
each COPY of the questions
What is your pet aversion Spinach, peroxide
blondes road hogs) and have you definite philos-
ophy? Do you diet and (orl are you lucky? Your
hymn, and opera (Get out the old autograph albums
for these.) What does your immediate family think
of your work? why not ask them!) Have you ever
saved human life? Do you believe in fortune teers?
Do you read in bed? And, tucked into the midst OF
all these, "What do you think of this quesonnaire?"
It wasn't sent to me to fill out, so my opinion be
entirely impartial think it's dandy The crooner
in his hours of ease sits down and writes ove-letter
to himself, by request. He, like all of US, discourses
on his favorite subject himself The public is en-
more than they know about Franklin D. Roosevelt
the cashier of the bank where their money rests the
dustria future of America the whose probty
the weekly bills depend and Stalin But what as they
say in the movies, what about the old glamour?
All About Russia
After reading many newspapers during the past
week. have learned that Stain has relaxed the rigors
of the FveYear Plan and has not relaxed the vgors Of
the FveYear Plan; that he considers the Plan great
and not success that everything is fine in
Russia, but things pretty terrible in Russia and
that he knows that he tried to do too much, but
is going to try to do more in the next five years. To
all up, there two Stains, Stain talks
alternately out of the right and left sides OF his mouth
It appears that the Russians want shoes and bread
and few other comforts Of life and that after
heavy debate, it has been decided that they
titled to these things provided they keep building
dams and making tractors It appears also that the
peasants do not get that of elation in driving
tractor which American farmers get; they hate
chinery But they going to learn to love it. There
was movie showing the Great God Tractor virtually
receiving burnt offering from the enlightened peasany
The Usual Thing
Balancing, juggling all these reports, I gather
that Russia having troubles but is still fighting for
rtward. Why anyone should expect new economic
system to work smoothly, with human beings who
have neither training exceptional aptitude for it,
do not see. hundred and fifty years ago, Europe
looked with suspicion the experiment of democracy
IN America and after we had gone for decade or
SO, predicted that we must crash But it turned out
good thing for Europe that the experiment was made
here; and we ought to be grateful that the expert
ment in Communism is being made elsewhere for us to
watch so that there is lesson to learn we can learn
1t without running ourselves.
The Washington times., 1933-01-18

QueSClQn Is uIreCCeu 10 rdulO StdLS,
,crooners, comics, actors, lecturers,
and all the rest. Would they
theoretically earning a thousand a
week, or hoping to earn it-give
up their profession for the money
in hand; and the question is asked
by the company through which
they broadcast. 1t is one of some
200 questions, and, l gather, every
broadcasting chain has a similar
QUESTIONABLE, which accounts for
the fact that you can find out, at a
moments notice, whether Ruth
Etting thinks professional and do
mestic life run together" and
whether Burns and Allen read
newspapers and, if so, why. Some
where in the files, must lie Kate
The Washington times., 1933-01-18

Let's see how many ounces Cor
pounds, you optimists) you've lost
during the first week of training.
If you don't cheat" on the
menus and forget your exercises,
there ought to be a half-pound
difference in your weight today,
more next week. And you don't
CONTINUED on Page II, Col. y
The Washington times., 1933-01-18
DIET SHNOCK GETS 1:2 POUND OF FLESH

A UeH.proportioned figure is the
result of sane diet and sensible
exercise, says Artie McGoUern,
noted athletic trainer. The Wash
ington Times, in a series OF Grti-
cleS, of tolticIt this is the SeUenth,
presents the diet, and exercise
route to a henlthtut SlenderneSs.
Step on the scales.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-12

Madame Butterfly will be shown
Sunday at the Carolina theatre by the
Movie Guild. Joan Crawford and
Gary Cooper will appear Monday and
Tuesday in To-day We Live" Other
attractions next week are: Wednes-
day, "The Story of Temple Drake; "
Thursday, George Arliss in The
Working Man." Friday, Ruth Chat
terton in Lilly Turner" Saturday,
"Song of the Eagle" with Charles
Bickford, Richard Arlen, and Mary
Brian.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-12
Legislation

Here are some of the things that
North Cardinals 1888 legislature has
done:
1t has enacted per cent sales
tax.
1t has legalized the sale of beer.
1t has established a statewide s.
months school term and for the sup
port thereof has appropriated s16,
000,G00. Larger communities will
be permitted to hold elections to de-
eide whether or not they shall tax
themselves for school service of
quality above the state standard.
1t has called an election, for next
fall, on the question of repeating the
18th Amendment.
1t has legalized horse-racing, with
betting on the pari mutuel system, in
Mcdowell county, subject to approval
by a vote of the people of the county,
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-12
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE

Under and by virtue of certain
deed of trust executed by Jethro
Spratt and wife, Leugenia Spratt, to
r. O. Everett, Trustee, dated March
20, 1880, and recorded in Book of
Mortgages S2, page in the office
of the Register of Deeds of Orange
County, default having been made
in the payment of the note thereby
secured, and at the request of the
holder and owner of the said indebt-
edness, the undersigned Trustee Will
on
THURSDAY, JUNE 1ST, 1898, AT
1900 O'CLOCK NJ,
offer for sale, at public auction, to
the highest bidder, for cash, at the
Courthouse door in Hillsboro, n. c.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-12
Barn Owner Angry
But He Becomes Good Humored after
He Has Blown OFF Steam

When Mrs. Felix Grisette went
out last week to do battle with the
signs along the approaches to
Chapel Hill, she found one man
who accused her and her fellow
beautifers of being nosey.
She was careful to ask every
landowner for his permission be-
fore removing a sign. But towards
the end of the expedition, when she
and her helpers, two men obtained
from Colonel Pratt's unemploy-
ment relief organization, came upon
a barn on the edge Of the highway,
they couldn't find the owner. After
diligent scouting, she commanded:
"Go ahead and clean it, and III
take the consequences.
So the men proceeded to take down
pictures Of a man-eating Bengal
tiger, two bareback riders, and the
remaining half of the Worlds Lar
gest Hippopotamus.' While they
were engaged in the task, up came
the owner, scowhng angrily and
bent on putting the whole crew in
Jail.
For few minutes it looked as if
the civics department of the Com
munity Club might have TO bail out
its chairman. But Mrs. Grisette
succeeded in modifying the man with
soft-spoken apologies. II developed
that he did not object 10 the signs
being taken down, but he did want
to be asked.
What makes me mad" he said,
"is that you town folks are always
trying to run the country folks
business. But will the town folks let
the country folks poke their noses
into their business? No, sir!"
After he had blown off steam he
volunteered the opinion that the
barn did indeed look better without
the signs; and when he and Mrs.
Grisette parted they were on the best
Of terms.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-12
Wilson Clan Gathers

#. J. Wilson, 3rd, came from
New York at the weekend to
take home with him his wife
and son who had been here with
Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Wilson, Jr.
There was gathering Of the
clan Sunday. Mrs. Dewey, Mrs.
Wilson's sister, came from Will
mington. Marvin, with his
wife and children, and Walter
came from Raleigh. Pete came
from Winston-Salem. Hubbell
Young of New York was a
guest Of the family.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-12
Blake's Knee-Cap Broken

John Blake, University policeman,
was standing at the corner by the
Carolina Inn, about two feet out from
the curb, last Friday afternoon. An
automobile swept out of the Inn drive
way, and, instead of keeping to the
right, made a rapid turn, on the left
side, into Cameron avenue. 1t struck
Blake and knocked him down. He was
taken to Watts hospital with brok-
en- knee-cap.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-12

All kinds of printing done prompt.
In at the Orange Printshop on Rose
mory lane, Chapel HUI.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-12
NeighbOrhOOd Notes

Mrs. James Wearn of Knoxville,
Tenn, is here with relatives
Cyrus Bazemore of Mt. Airy was
in the village at the last week end.
Lamar Stringfeld, Mrs Fred Nc
Call and Ralph Weatherford gave a
concert Wednesday evening in Rocky
Mount and are giving one this eve
ming in Ellerbe
Mrs Fred w. Cole Of Atlanta will
come tomorrow for a stay Of a few
weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Milton
Heath. Milton, Jr., who has been
visiting her, will come with her.
Henry Johnston, Jr., was the guest
of the Grahams at the weekend.
Miss Grace Richardson, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Richardson Of
Green's Farms, Conn, is visiting Miss
Ann Mebane.
Dr.. William deb. MacNider came
back yesterday from Washington,
D. c., where he attended a medical
meeting. Mrs. MacNider, her daugh
ter, Miss Sally Foard Mae Nider; and
her nephew, Graham Trott, spent
Sunday in South River.
Mrs. Toy attended a gathering Of
st. Mary's alumnae in Sanford Tues
day.
Rev. and Mrs. r. B. Owen left We'd
nesday after visit to the Toys.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Coates of Ra-
leigh visited relatives here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Foushee were III
Greensboro Sunday
Mrs. F. 0. Bowman is out after a
two weeks illness.
Mrs. A. NJ. Jordan and Mrs. j. V.
Jordan gave tea for Mrs. W. W,
Lear one day last week
Mrs. A. w. Hobbs, Mrs. F. W.
Hanft and Mrs. S. f. Leavitt were
the delegates from the Chapel Hill
Community club to the Federation OF
Women's clubs conference in Raleigh
last week.
Mrs. f. c. Metzenthin, Mrs. Ray
mond Adams, and Mrs. Griffith attend
ed the education group meeting OF
the Federation of Women's clubs.
Mrs. Collier Cobb, Mrs. g. X. u.
Henry, and Mrs. G. A. Harrer gave
a garden party last week and
bridge party this week.
Mrs. Larry Finn gave a tea yes
terday afternoon in honor OF her
mother and Mr.. Films mother.
Rev. Robert B. Drane left for
Edenton Wednesday after a visit OF
three days with his daughter, Mrs.
Frank Graham.