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The Washington times., 1933-08-18
PERKINS PEPS LABOR OFFICE
New Blood, Flows in
Key Jobs; Wide
in Influence
BY International News Service

DIV NEWS ScFVIcO
The Capital has taken a great
fancy to Miss Frances Perkins,
Secretary of Labor. This dynamic
woman, the first of her sex in
this country to hold a Cabinet
portfolio, has put new life into
the Labor Department.
She has reorganized it from top
to bottom, put new blood in key
positions and is making it's in
fluence felt throughout the
country.
Farley Rebuffed
That she has a mind Of her
own was indicated when Post
master General Farley, the
official patronage dispenser,
sought to install in the depart
ment men of his own choos-
ing. Miss Perkins promptly told
him hands off," and proceeded
to pick her own staff.
Her press conferences have be-
come one of the most interesting
among Cabinet members. Dressed
invariably in black with a touch
of white at the throat and wear
ing chic hat, she talks easily
and convincingly.
It is an interesting fact that
more female correspondents attend
her press conferences than PreSi-
dent Roosevelt's biweekly talks
with newspaper folk.
Her Hobby a Secret
Born in Boston and graduated
from Mount Holyoke College, she
has devoted her life to Specializ-
ing in sociology and economics.
While New York Industrial
The Washington times., 1933-08-18
POLICE IDENTIFY.
K|DNAPER

CHICAGO, Aug. 18 QNSO
Martin O'Connor, an escaped
convict, has been identified, as
one of two kidnapers who eluded
a police trap here Tuesday,
escaping with $500 in marked
money put up by John Jake the
Barber" Factor as bait.
Two detectives who delivered to
the gangster pair a package sup
posed to have contained $50,000
kidnapping insurance" identified
pictures of O'Connor.
He escaped from the Saltwater,
Mimi, penitentiary.
The Washington times., 1933-08-18
Policeman Killed
In Bulgarian Riot

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 18
G.N.SD A policeman was killed
and 20 demonstrators were in
jured today in a clash at Philip
popolis which occurred as an after
math of a bomb attempt on the
life of former Premier Zankoff
Eighty-four persons, including "a
women, we're arrested when police
raided a Communist organization
at GabrOVO.
The Washington times., 1933-08-18
NRA IDEA works
IN GERMANY

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 UNS0
DR.. Hans Luther, German ambas-
sador to the United States, re,
turned from Berlin today on the
North German Lloyd liner Colum-
bus with a story of a unified
Germany. moving forward to eco
nomic recovery. He said:
Germany is today a united
nation. There used to be the
Reich and Prussia. Today there
is the Reich.
Unemployment is abated-
eliminated in the rural districts
and greatly leSsened in the
urban districts. A plan similar
to your NRA, except that there
were no industrial codes, was
tried out during an expert
mental reriOd in May and June
and now seems to be working
out satisfactorily.
"The cOncOrdat signed be-
tween the Hitler government
and the Vatican establishes the
position of Catholic German
and a protestant church that is
now united.
"The Jewish question is being
worked out along lines planned
to settle it as we'll as possible.
In the United States that ques-
ton has not been fully under
stood, but it was in the nature
of a revolution, with the anti
Semetic feeling as one part Of
the general movement to estab-
lish elimination of factions and
definite unificatiOn of the one
government, one people idea.'
The Washington times., 1933-08-18
81 Welfare Agencies
Meet Here Sept. 8

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 QN.SO. Z.
At President Roosevelt's invita-
ton 33 national welfare agencies
will open their 1888 mobilization
for human needs at the White
House on September 8, it was an
nounced today by Newton D.
Baker, former Secretary of War
and chairman of this years mob
1liZation. The Washington con-
ference. Baker said, will be the
first move in a national cam
paign aimed ut directing public
attention to welfare services in
each community.
The Washington times., 1933-08-18
ELKS TO FEAST

The Alexandria Lodge of Elks
will give a crab pick for it's
members and visiting Elks to-
night at the Elks Home on
Prince Street. j. Owen Lynch
is chairman of the trustees in
charge of the crab pick.
The Washington times., 1933-08-18
MICHELET TRANSFERRED

Lieut.. William G. Michelet,
U. S. NJ, whose home is listed at
the Hotel Roosevelt. is named
among so naval officers assigned
to a new class for instruction in
heavier-than-air craft being as
Sembled at the Pensacola Naval
Air Station in Florida,
The Washington times., 1933-08-18

Commissioner, a post given her
by the then Governor Roosevelt,
she gave much attention to the
problem of unemployment. Since
her elevation to the Cabinet she
has devoted a large portion Of
her time to this subject.
If Miss Perkins has a hobby,
no one in Washington has been
able to find out what it is. She
once smilingly remarked she was
too busy to have a hobby.
The Washington times., 1933-08-18
Laurence Tibbetts
Shout "It's o. BOy''

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 Il.
N.SD.-Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Tibbett today we're receiving con-
gratulations upon the birth of a
7l2-pound son. Mrs. Tibbett for
merly was Mrs. Jennie Burgard,
San Francisco society woman.
The Washington times., 1933-08-18
UPHAM ASIATlC CHIEF

SHANGHAI, Aug. 18 GN.SO.
Admiral Frank B. Upham today
assumed command of the United
States Asiatic fleet. He replaced
Admiral Montgomery Taylor, who
will retire.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13
MILLIONS TO
GET TAX STAMPS
Law Requires Them To Be
Placed on Every Package
of Cigarettes
NUMEROUS INCIDENTS

Washington.-Now that the bank.
ing holiday of ten days in March is
only nightmare of memory, some
Of the humorous situations that de-
veloped have come to light. One OF
them involved great tobacco man.
ufacturing company, and the length
TO which it had to go to obtain the
Tiny revenue stamps which the man.
ufacturers are required by law to
afflX to each package of cigarettes
before the package leaves the fac
tory.
The bureau of internal revenue
can sell the tax stamps only for
cash. 1t is not uncommon for a
tobacco company to have as much
as a couple of million dollars tied
up in such stamps. But the supply
dwindles rapidly, and so during the
banking holiday every large factory
ran short of stamps. 1t also was
without money with which to buy
them from the collectors of internal
revenue.
Bureau officials here, after consul
tation with the treasury, agreed to
allow the collectors to sell the
stamps if the tobacco companies
buying them would put up govern
ment bonds in lieu of cash until
funds could be obtained. The plan
worked splendidly with all save one
of the greatest companies. 1t held
no government bonds. All of its
money was in banks and the banks,
of course, were closed. The stu
alton was dark. A new appeal was
made to the bureau. After further
consultation, the bureau agreed to
let the company have stamps with
out cash, but before it did so it re
quired and obtained a resolution
from the company's board of direc-
tors by which it pledged to the gov
ernment all of its property, cash in
bank and everything else as surety
for payment of its bill for tax
stamps. The capital stock of the
company Is well in excess of S50,-
100000.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13
Picturesque South American

Hipolito Irigoyen, earlier occupant
of the presidential chair at Buenos
Aires, was, during his incumbency,
another Of South Americas pictur-
esque executives. A scholar who
read Greek for relaxation, he
chummed by preference with boot
blacks and longshoremen. He hated
to sign his name and thus plunged
his nation into many embarrassing
situations by delaying important pa
pers, among them authorizations to
pay bills.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13
MIR. Crows Importance

1T is doubtful" states a publica-
tion of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, whether any
other bird is Of as great economic
Importance to the farmer as the
crow. In food habits it is practi-
cally Omnivorous it takes anything
from the choicest poultry and the
tenderest shoots of sprouting grain
to carrion and weed seeds. The
fact that no less than 656 items
have been identified in its food gives
some idea Of the birds resourcefuI-
ness"
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13
SAFETY
COUNCIL NEWS
CONTINUED From Page Three)

per cent of all motor vehicle
deaths were of persons Is to 10
years old. Less than half as many
deaths were reported for children
age 10 to IA. Most high school
students graduate before reaching
10 years, but if they can be thor
oughly convinced of the value of
safety, their accident record after
graduation will undoubtedly be
much improved. Eventually this
would also bring down the death
rate among persons 20 to "a years
old If the death record in the
ten years from Is to "a were as
good as it is for older people.
there would be a yearly saving of
1 300 lives.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13

Thoughts of tea and toast came into
Hope's mind. 1t was one thing to
take refuge from terrible storm
in somebody's kitchen; it was an
other to make a feast of tea and
toast and the jar of marmalade you
saw sticking from somebody's gro
Gerry order.
A resOunding knock echoed through
the house, bat it was so mixed up
with thunder that for a moment
Hope wasn't sure what 1t meant.
But it sounded a second time and a
third, and at last she realized that
somebody was pounding on the front
door knocker. Cropping through the
strange dark dining room and living
room and hall, she finally found the
door. She couldn't see clearly, and
bungled with the opening.
sThe knob sticks, Mrs. Tracy"
came cheerful voice through the
door-and Hopes heart stood still.
IT was Bob. "Give it an extra twist
TO the right and it'll come Open"
Hope twisted it smartly to the
right, and almost fell backward into
the dim hall as the door came open
in her hand.
That's fine, Mrs. Tracy. I'm Mr..
Johnson-Bob Johnson. l saw the
light in the kitchen so 1 knew you
we're here. / left the back door
open for you-had to run down to
the post Office, and got caught in
the storm. Awful good Of you to
promise to look after me. You see
I'VE been a little tired out, and my
old doctor recommended this village
and this house as a good place to
rest up, and his wife remembered
that you sometimes helped out the
summer people. So | wrote you,
and here you are. l wonder if /
could have some tea and toast-and
maybe some marmalade? 1 ordered
things at the grocery, and they're
on the table"
Hope shrank back into the dark
ness, found the door into the back
entry, and faded away into the
shadows. Once more in the bright
kitchen, she set quickly about max
ing tea-and toast. She spread the
pretty china she found In the cup
boards on a table under the window,
and as she Drowned the bread over
the Goals her cheeks flushed with
heat and excitement. Perhaps-it
hadn't been such a serious quarrel
between Bob and her. They were
both too stubborn, that was the trou-
BILE But nothing that a little ex-
planning wouldn't cure Perhaps
The door opened, and Bob came
blinking into the kitchen. He had
obviously changed his wet things for
house slippers and dressing gown.
He looked boyish and young, as he
stood there-tlred, too, and a little
pale and worn. He looked first at
the table set for two-and then he
saw Hope.
Half an hour later Mrs. Tracy
found them, with all the windows
closed, the shades down and the
lights on, though the summer show
or had passed and a brilliant late
afternoon sunshine bathed a glis-
teninS world Tea and toast and
marmalade-and something else
had ended the shower for them.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13
Rod-Riding Family
Gets Diet of Worms

Observation-Disclosures of the Ca
madam National take care of
guests" who ride the rods.
J. F. Pringle, general super
intendent of transportation, re-
ceived the following message
from the station agent at Peter
borough:
''Car No. 4O3, ,1O2 has Robins
nest on rods stop Please arrange
for supply Of worms at termi-
nails stop The mother is in
charge"
Yardmasters at the various
terminals had a supply of worms
ready to feed the robins.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13
Through the TeIeacope

"a man uses a telescope to look
for troubles" said Uncle Eben, IAN
den turns de machine de wrong way
around to make de blessin's he's en-
joyin' seem smaller"
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13
Gasoline Tax s1sS, ,569,s55

Last month 199 charters were
issued by the State Corporation
Department and the revenue re-
ceived was S11,755.24 In COM
parison with the month of July
there was a decrease when the rev.
enue was S17,718. Gasoline tax
received for August totaled S138,-
569.5 which was an increase over
July of S2O,928.23. The fines paid
for violations of motor vehicle
laws in August was S4446.50. Re-
ceipts from the State Motor We
hicle Department for August was
S33,O7O.75.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13

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ky STORY
|oHTnNDTABLE
! to While Away Tim nIms
/ the Evening lamp nana
| Days Work y DOi''
REsr1NG READING
Eu,nuR SHOWER
I ~ Alice Duane

BY AiS
nrprcK felt some
AAnI I'M AZ she settled
pg q MI and comfortable
tne q ,rrs Twickham. 1t
Nj. ana ragiop for the most
y saduit 4 felt 50 foolish at first.
Iur sops to pieces after her
I'M Bob Johnson. Perhaps
umiIy \ doctor sensed the real
Hs had known both Hope
.ince their childhood. !,
4 ', worn out, Hope" he had
[rn worn OUT she an
f.rTs been going to too many
Nh things" ...,
rsny Darties-yes. You need
n now Just the place for
4 On a farm up in the Berk.
kThe Twlckhams are old
i mine"
4, the way Hope found her
I'm il a real farmhouse.
IN after her arrival she
I'm one sultry, overcast aft
thinking motoring would be
tbless than sitting on the
korcb or under the old,
@aDule tree by the side OF
She hadn't gone far when
thunderstorm broke and she
M refuge into the driveway
sIl cottage on the edge Of a
4 i wasn't a pretentlous
i ala little white Colonial
bDe over Just enough to make
ring As Hope ran back to
use from the garage where
marked her car-she noticed
Fas a twO-car garage, 50 she
slnd monopolizing half Of It
hOught of the trees only as a
1 She was frankly afraid of
nd lightning.
1et the big knocker drop,
/ It's loud summons through
h house. Nobody answered
Ii she sounded it again and
Then, in a lull for a moment,
round to the back Of the
tried the back door, and
4 Il shut behind her as it
her push.
kitchel was in almost dead
|. Outside the black clouds
n settle closer and closer.
a cosy kitchen in which
ID erself-bright with red
e gingham curtains, clean
and gray paint. A box of
was on the table, a kettle
softly on the coal stove.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13

schooI. A total of 146 pupils were
enrolled in the elementary school
and 107 in the high school. Last
year on the opening day of school
the enrolment in both the high
and elementary schools was 233, or
20 less than recorded Tuesday.
How one transportation system
supplements another was revealed
here today in the statement by
the Chevrolet Motor Company
that in the first six months of
this year the company moved by
railway freight 69,596 full car
loads of incoming materials and
outgoing finished parts and auto
mobiles. This represents an in
crease of 38 per cent over the full
carload movement in the same
period last year, according to c.
r. Scharff, Chevrolet Traffic Di-
rector, and does not include r.
100000 pounds of railway freight
carried in ss-than-carload lots,
an additional 100000 pounds
moved by railway express and a.
100000 pounds by freight for
warders. Millions of dollars have
already been paid to the railroads
this year by Chevrolet for the
traffic hauIage essential in the
of parts and raw ma
terials to the company's twenty
domestic plants, and the outbound
carriage of parts and finished
automobiles to dealers and zone
warehouses, Mr.. Sharff pointed
out.
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Smyrna times., 1933-09-13

The enrolment in the Delaware
City Public School Tuesday of last
week, the opening cay, was 253,
the largest in the history of the
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13

DR.. Alex. D. Cobb, Director of
Agriculture Extension in Delaware
was called to Washington last
Wednesday for a conference on the
wheat adjustment program. DR..
Cobb is the only representative of
Delaware at the conference, called
by C. B. Smith, Assistant Director
of Extension for the Department
of Agriculture. All states had re-
presentations there.
Smyrna times., 1933-09-13
BRIEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
Brief News Items of People
We Know in and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Rev. R. K. Stephenson, D. D., of
Smyrna, retired district superin-
tendent of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, addressed the first fall
meeting of the Ministers Associa-
ton of the Middletown District,
last week at Hillsboro, Md. Dr.
Stephenson replaced DR.. Clarence
True Wilson, of Washington, who
was unable to be present.
Evening star., 1933-02-05

Gay, colorful prints, made
up in the most adorable of
puff sleeve, shocked yoke
styles.
Evening star., 1933-02-05

at
ct More Attractiuely I
Babies $I.OO Knitted
ShawIs, 69c
ALI wool and silk and wool mix
tures-with and without fringe.
Sizes 3Ox40 in pink and blue.
81 Knitted Sacques, CSC
White with pink or blue ribbon and
embroidery trimmings.
Knitted Moccasins, 3Sc
Trimmed with pink and blue hand
embroidery.
SOC Knitted Bootees, 2Sc
Y-White, trimmed with pink and blue
hand embroidery.
ACC White Sateen Bloomers, 29c
Rubber at waist and knees.
Babies Soc Silk Shoes, 3sc
Pink and blue crepe de chine, with
touchcs of embroidery.
Baby Walking F-ocks, 4Sc
White nainsock with deep hens and
embroidery. Sizes to 3.
Babies Silk Coats, $1.S8
Silk lined. Some with bonnet to
match.
81 Silk Caps, CSC
Pink, blue and white, with lace at
face and ribbon trimming.
Children's Silk Slips, CSC
Lace trimmed, or finished with en-
broidered edge. Sizes to H.
Children's Muslin Panties, 27c
Straight leg style, trimmed with
lace. Sizes to 8.
29c Flannelettes, 4 for SIC
Babies gowns, gertrudes and XII
monoS with pink and blue edge.
Reyon-Covered Rubber Pants, 18c
Medium and large sizes in white and
flesh.
Red Star Diapers, 75c doz.
Size 27x27.
Baby Buntings, SIC
White eiderdown trimmed with
pink or blue.
Silk Carriage Set, $1.49
Robe and pillowcase in pink, blue
and white. Silk or sateen lined. Orig.
$1.95 to s2.95.
81 Baby Powder Set, 88c
2 cans CT Laco powder, bottle of olive
Oil and bar OF soap, for 8Sc.
Csc Baby Powder, zoe
4Ox6O-in. Patchwork Quilts, 74c
Dainty combination coors
Handmade Pillow Slips, 1Sc
White with appliques in pink and
blue
36x50 Crib Blankets, CSC
Bound all around with satin. Nur-
sery designs. Orig. $1.59.
3Ox40 Wrapping Blankets, 19c
Lightweight cotton in woven stripe
and check patterns Orig. 39c.
36x50 Candlewick Spreads, 79c
Green, yellow, pink and blue designs
on unbleached muslin. Orig. $1.00.
Muslin Sheets, 1Sc
-36x54-in. size-with colored borders
and hemstitched hens
Pillow Cases to Match, lie
Rubber Sheets
Originally 29c. Double faced. Eye
let corner. Size 27x36
Csc Diapads-l9c
-Throwaway paper diapads-24 in
package.
1sx27 Stockinette Sheets, 3sc
Originally soc. Eyelet in corner
36-in. Rubber Sheeting, 45c yd.
Double faced. White and maroon.
Cotton Wrapping Blankets. .3sc
17x1S Quilted Pads. ads..............9c
1sx34 Quilted Pads. .lSe
The Washington times., 1933-07-13
Valuation Hearings
/ On Cast Listed Oct. 2

Valuation hearings Of the
Washington and Georgetown Gas
Light companies yesterday were
postponed until October 2 by the
Public Utilities Commission.
The proceedings originally were
scheduled for last Monday. At
that time they were deferred for
. month after the commission
decided to grant demands Of the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tionS for inclusion Of the Wash
1ngton and Suburban Company
and other owners of the gas firms
as parties to the proceedings.
When the hearings begin Will
ham A. Roberts, commission coun-
sci, is expected to seek a valua-
tion Of $23,000,000. while oppo-
sition attorneys want a $30,000,.
900 figure.
The Washington times., 1933-07-13
Roosevelt Drops a Third
Of That Extra Weight

President Roosevelt is doing
pretty well at the job of cutting
off those excess seven pounds Of
weight he picked up during his
yachting vacation.
The President came back to his
desk and work the night Of July
4, and to date he has dropped two
and q half of the surplus pounds
He jumped from 174, his normal
weight, to 181, while vacationing
aboard the schooner Amberjack
II. His present weight is 178.5
pounds.
White House kitchen officials,
and the Presidents personal
"brekfus suhver," Mac" are
The Washington times., 1933-07-13
BASIN DRAGGED
FOR SUICIDE

Harbor and park police were
dragging the Tidal Basin today
for the body Of a reported sui
eide.
According to a telephone call,
there was a scream about 2
a. m, as a man or woman
plunged into the basin from the
Fourteenth Street Bridge. A
board, barrel and a plank had
been rescued" by police today.
but no body.
The Washington times., 1933-07-13
TETANUSFATAL |
To GIRL, Il

Eleven.year-old Ruby Cordell,
Of Herndon, Va, is dead Of an
injury received eight days ago
in what was at first thought q
trivial mishap.
On July 3 Ruby was playing
in the yard of her home when
she ran q silver Of wood in one
foot. The accident was not
thought serious but tetanuS de-
veloped and the child was
brought to Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital where she died yes
terday.
The Washington times., 1933-07-13
Sidewalk Loafers
Placed Under Ban
In HyGttSUille

An effort to remedy pedes-
trian congestion on the side
walk in front Of the police head
quarters building in Hyattsville
was made by municipal officials
yesterday, when mo loafing"
signs were painted on the side
walk.
Mayor H. T. Willis said he
had received complaints from
residents. some of whom re-
ported that they had been
forced to walk through an alley
to reach stores on the other side
Of the building because Of
crowds on the sidewalk.
The Washington times., 1933-07-13

chiefly responsible for the execu-
tive's loss Of weight. Mr.. Roose-
velt announced confidently '.hen
he returned to the White House
after vacation that he intended to
eat less.
A good intention, thus, but the
President somehow forgot to
voluntarily put it into action.
Mac" did it for him. One morn
ing he appeared with an abbrevi-
ated breakfast tray, and presented
his boss" with one egg, one slice
Of bacon, one piece Of toast and
one cup of coffee, half the pres
ident's usual ration. This has
been Mr.. Roosevelt's breakfast
menu for about q week.