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The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Warrenton Show Uncovers
Promising Hunt Stars

eshow, which was arranged par
ticularly to find the show horse
with the greatest amount of "it." "
The combination of Jack Light
ming, Vernon G. Owen, the
owner. and Miss Marjorie Lee
Mcleod. the pilot, is a potent
one. The saddle horse has been
overshadowed of recent years by
the hunter, but Miss Mcleod cer-
tainly can show a saddle horse,
and does, every time she is in the
ring.
In Jack Lightning, the proud
owner has real saddle horse, and
it will be such combinations as
Jack Lightning, Miss Mcleod and
Mr.. Owen who will keep interest
alive in this class. in this vicinity,
Queen of Sheba, like Quick
silver, is outstanding in her class
jumping ponies. Like Quick
silver. she has been lauded to the
sky, as has been Stanley Greene,
End, her boy owner and rider.
A Great Pair
Quicksilver and the Queen are
great pair, as are the two
Greenes, father and son, who,
respectively handle the pair of
show queens in the ring.
This years Warrenton show
goes down in history as unusu-
ally successful, and, like other
Warrenton shows, covered
promising stars. This time War
renton uncovered Benton Stables
Wood Fellow, in the thorough
bred two-year-old class; Meander
FARMS PillSbury, in the light
weight green hunters, and M. w.
Carter's Floris Mart, in the
middle and heavyweight green
hunters, as well as number of
others.
Mrs. Whitney's stack of blue
ribbons are much higher today
as a result of the Warrenton
show, for she won plenty of them,
besides a flock of reds and vel
lows.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
.TYD|NGS SHIFTS
On DRY UNITS

With liquor laws sanely en-
forced now, Senator Millard E
Tydings of Maryland announced
yesterday that he has reversed
his previous stand and will aid a
properly qualified person to get in
the enforcement unit.
He said:
1.-TWO years ago members of
the prohibition forces were
shooting people down on the
streets and highways, and 1
would not have aided anyone to
obtain a post that called for
such activities on his part.
"NOw such things are
changed, however, and 1 would
not hesitate in helping a prop
erly qualified person to get in
the enforcement unit"
He also denied having influenced
the appointment of a cousin,
Donald S. Tydings, as prohibition
investigator. The appointment
was obtained from outside of
Maryland, he said, as his cousin
has been living in Pittsburgh for
eight or nine years.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
SABBATH FILMS
To Be VOTED
ON SOON
HyattsViIIe Election Will Be
Held Not Later Than 0cto-
Der IS, Council DEGREES

HyattSville voters will have an
opportunity to decide the question
of Sunday movies at special elec.
ton to be held not later than
october Is, it was announced to-
day.
Mayor H. T. Willis and the city
council have passed a motion
directing the elections committee,
headed by Councilman H. A. Har-
rison, to work out details of the
referendum. Town Attorney Win
ship Wheatley, jr., has been
instructed to find out if registra.
ton and revision days preceding
the election will be necessary.
A petition asking for the elec-
ton, and presented to the council,
contains 1,O39 names out of the
approximate registration of 1,400.
Not all, however, are in favor of
Sabbath film shows.
Some members of the council
urged that the question wait until
the regular elections n May, but
majority felt it would be
breach of faith, in view of strong
public sentiment in favor of SUM-
day movies, to let the issue hang
fire so long. Cost of the special
balloting is expected to exceed
$500.
Mount Rainier officials are con-
Sidering a petition submitted by
that towns voters asking for a
similar election.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
x-Chief of Marines
Still Doesn't Like
The NAVY

Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler may
be retired from the Marine Corps,
but he still remains the stormy
petrol of the service.
For in a new book, "Old Gimlet
Eye" General Butler hits out from
the shoulder and tells his likes
and dislikes of some of the men
whose names form an important
part of American history.
The doughty general proclaimS
to the world in his volume that
the Marines are the finest people
in the world. And at the same
time he states very frankly that
he doesn't like the Navy.
Moreover he gives very per-
sonal reasons for not liking that
arm of the service and, free at
last from any danger of official
censure or censor, he mentions
names very freely.
Book Will Split City
Official Washington is going to
be divided by the book. But it
is going to enjoy it, for there are
most frank statements about
many high ranking officers who
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
URGE BLAMED
IN CAR THEFT

It was a psychological force
which moved William Tear to
steal an automobile here and start
for Chicago to see the exposition.
Tear, who says he was assistant
to the psychologist in Atlanta
Penitentiary while serving a term
for automobile theft, sat in police
headquarters and made that ex-
planation to slightly bewildered
detectives.
Tear, his brother Ralph, and
Charles Cole, had just been re-
turned from Cadiz, Ohio, where
they had been arrested after a
State highway patrolman became
suspicious of them, and took them
into custody.
Using the diction of a college
professor, Tear explained the un-
resistable urge which motivated
the taking of the vehicle to
crafty the urge to travel. His
brother and companion had moth
ing to do with taking the car,
Tear maintained, but police held
all three on charges of unauthor-
lied use of an automobile.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Virginia Paper
Is Printed
By Hand

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 26.-Un-
able to print it's normal paper,
due to lack of electric power, the
Newport News (VaD Times-Her-
aid Wednesday afternoon re-
sorted to the hand-set type of so
years ago to give it's readers a
terSe summary of storm damage
in it's vicinity.
A four-page sheet, IL inches
long and 8 inches wide was printed
on a manually operated press.
The edition recounted highlights
of the Tidewater sector damage,
but was silent on Norfolk and
beach developments, due to in
ability to get into communication
with Norfolk,
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
SOLD|ER|SHURT
IN CAR CRASH

Charles Moorefield, soldier of
Fort Myer, Va, is in a serious con.
dition at Walter Reed Hospital
here from injuries received late
yesterday when an automobile in
which he was riding collided with
bus at the intersection of
Marion Avenue and Langhorne
Street, Clarendon. He has a pos
sible fractured skull and severe
head decorations.
Two other passengers in the
automobile were treated at Fort
Myer Hospital. They were Cor
poral Gerard Murphy, of Fort
Myur, cuts and bruises and an in
jured left hand, and Mrs. Lila
Kelly. 500 block Glebe Road,
Ballston. The car was operated
by Harold C. Otis, another soldier,
Daniel A. Childs, of Washing
ton, was operating the bus which
is owned by the Washington, Vir-
ginia and Maryland Coach Com
pany,
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
BOY WHO BEAT
. DAD JAILED

Accused of beating his father
with a baseball bat, Glide Allen,
90, son of Preston P. Allen, of Al.
ientown, Md, was sentenced yes
terday to IL months in the House
Of Correction by Judge j. Chew
Sheriff in Upper Marlboro Police
Court.
The boy is said to have attacked
his father in a fit of rage, Sc
Verely bruising him. The case was
originally set for next week when
It was thought the father would
not recuperate in time for yeSter-
DAYS trial.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
r. F. C.. Offers Aid
To Michiqan Banks

The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation acted yesterday in a
further attempt to assist Mich
igan's smaller upstate banks.
Meanwhile, the Governments ef.
forts to aid in Detroit apparently
had reached an impaSse.
The R. F.. C. agreed yester-
day to make loans aggregating
$2,8OO,0OO to SO upstate institu-
tions to enable them to reopen
on "Some acceptable reorganiza-
ton basis"
Meanwhile, the R. F.. C.'s offer
to. the First National Bank and
the Guardian National Bank OF
Detroit, made more than a month
ago, is still awaiting acceptance by
those institutions and the Michi-
gan authorities.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
ORFOLK PHONE
SERVICE On

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 26.-With
crew of 200 linemen and cable
men at work, telephone service
cut off by the terrific gale and
flood of this week is rapidly be-
ing restored, Arthur L. Brown,
commercial superintendent of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company of Virginia said
today.
More than 5000 telephones were
disabled during the storm, but
now only 4.642 are out of service,
LIZA having been repaired yester-
day. All repairs will be completed
within a week or 10 days, Brown
estimated.
The Workmen have been
harnpered because the Easements
of a number of office buildings
are still flooded and until the
water is pumped out they can
not reach the main cables.
Fifteen of the long distance
lines, connecting Norfolk with
Washington, Baltimore and other
cities were placed back in service
yesterday, leaving 16 still to be
repaired.
It is estimated that repairs in
Norfolk will cost $4,000, at
Portsmouth and Suffolk 100000
and at Newport News and Hamp-
ton, $4,000.
Service at Virginia Beach,
Ocean View and other beach
resorts is rapidly being restored
to normal.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Head of Playground
SnUeS Girl in Pool

, A rescue is all in the days
work to Miss Emily Tilon, paly-
ground supervisor.
When Jane Lynch, one-year-old,
fell into the deep end Of the
Parkview Playground swimming
pool yesterday, Miss Tilon. fully
clothed, jumped in, grabbed Jane,
pulled her out and then returned
to work without bothering to
change her dripping garments.
She lives in the 1000 block Kali
Drama Rd. N. w.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Forest Corps Work
Valued at Millions

The Administrations expert
ment in sending unemployed men
into the forests is no longer that
it has passed the experimental
stage, Chief Forester R. Y. Stuart
was assured yesterday. He added:
"The actual value of the roads,
trails, telephone lines and look
out towers under construction
cannot be measured in terms
of dollars and cents. But vast
areas are being opened up and
it will now be possible to fur
nish adequate detection over
large areas upon which in the
past, fires have reached alarm
ing proportions before they
were even discovered"
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Wife Has Husband
Jailed as Drunk

Charging that her husband, Ira
E. Krouse, is drunk all the time"
Mrs. Vera Krouse yesterday had
him arrested on charges of being
habitually intoxicated and dis
orderly.
Krouse was taken into custody
by Prince Georges County Police
man Claude Reese. He lives in
Takoma Park.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
CAS- COMPANIES.
LOSE REVENUE

Operating revenues of the Wash.
ington Gas Light Company for
July amounted to 1896, a de-
crease of $4O,O66 under revenues
of July, 1882, according to the
monthly statement filed with the
Public Utilities Commission today.
The Georgetown Gas Light
Company suffered a decrease Of
$3.771 from July, 1882, the state
ment showing operating revenues
of $68,561.
Operating expenses of the Wash
ington Gas Light Company for
the month totaled $285,174, as
compared with $289,442 in July.
1892. Operating expenses for the
Georgetown Company were $69.-
143, as compared with $66,136 for
July, 1882.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
F|REMEN HOLD
FIELD DAY

Demonstration of first aid and
life saving methods used by the
various volunteer rescue squads
of northern Virginia features the
annual field day and hook-up
contest of the Arlington-Fairfax
Volunteer Firemen's Association,
which started this afternoon at
Ballston, Va.
A tug-of-war between various
fire department teams also will
be held, as will the annual run
ming hook-up contest for the
Cloth trophy. This will be a
speed contest in which six-man
crews will participate for the
trophy offered by William C..
Cloth, former Arlington county
commonwealth attorney.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
By HARRY COSTELLO

Red Tape.
Quicksilver.
Gray Knight.
Jack Lightning.
Queen of Sheba.
Four horses and a pony.
Put them together and you
have a horse show that is horse
show.
All were winners yesterday at
Warrenton, and winners of blues
at Warrenton reserve recognl-
ton.
DR.. L. M. Allen owns Red Tape.
The Allen star was declared grand
champion hunter in the conclud-
ing event of the Warrenton show,
verifying a suspicion that Red
Tape is the outstanding middle
and heavy weight hunter Of Vir'
ginia.
New to the Circuit
Red Tape, new to the show
circuit, won honors in tip-top
fashion.
Quicksilver, "the old gray
mare" once bad actor, but
for several seasons now a re-
markable performer without bad
habits, won the touch-and-out
class for the umpty-fifth time
in competition. AS usual, Stan
ley Greene, 1st, of Leesburg,
handled the mare for Miss Julia
Whiting, of Middleburg, and did
so to perfection.
So much has been written
about old Quicksilver that one
needs to say no more than,
Quicksilver won again."
Mrs. John Hay Whitney owns
Gray Knight. This gelding, a
consistent winner in the best
shows of America, is now a
hunter with a personality. While
Gray knight won the Corinthian
Glass, nosing out Red Tape, he
gained special honors by winning
the personality" feature of the
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
ENDING ABUSES
CONSIDERED
POSSIBLE
Human Factor Presents Chief
Difficulty, for Favoritism
May Be Unconscious
BY DUNCAN FORSYTH

Revision of the system of eff
cheney ratings in the Government
service is under consideration al
the Civil Service Commission
and the recent disclosures of an
alleged "frame-up" at the Geo.
logical Survey are expected to
lead up to a general Tightening
up in the ratings, it was learned
today.
Some months ago the Federal
Personnel Officers Association
worked out a series of proposals
for changing the scope and char
acter of the ratings, and these
were presented to the commits
sion. It is understood that they
will be Scrutinized with extreme
care. in view of the developments
at the survey.
Commission Has Jurisdiction
The present system of eff
cheney ratings was worked out by
the Bureau of Efficiency, now
1fonexiStent, and it's adminiStra-
tion was entrusted to the Per-
Sonnel Classification Board, which
last october, was merged with
the Civil Service Commission. AS
a result, the commission now has
jurisdiction over the ratings,
though until last fall it had no
control over them except insofar
as it's own employees were con-
eerned.
The ratings differ, naturally,
for each class of employees, since,
for example, accuracy will be-
more desirable in one job than
in another, and speed possibly a
more important factor in the Sec
ond job. Such personal qualities
as integrity, reliability and readi-
ness to cooperate are also taken
into account, and trouble-makers
find their trait recognized in
their ratings.
Human Factor Enters
Naturally, the human factor en-
Eers largely into any such system
of ratings, and the way is always
open for favoritism, conscious or
otherwise. Indeed, some Govern
ment officials have strongly ex-
pressed the feeling that no eff
cheney rating now existing is
worth much except those for jobs
that can be rated on purely rou-
tine basis.
# one postal employe can punch
q certain number of cards daily,
and another only two-thirds as
many, there is a sound basis for
efficiency ratings, they explain,
but so many factors creep in
where discretion is permitted on
the part of the rating officer that
there will inevitably be COM
plants, some of them just.
I It is known that the Civil Ser
vice Commission has been conSid-
ering the proposed revision Of
ratings, but no information is
forthcoming as to the nature OF
the changes.
It is confidently expected, how
ever, that improved efficiency rat
3ngs, plus the creation of an ap-
pellate body in the civil service,
will do much to lessen the num-
Der of complaints and the number
Of existing abuses in the system.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Squads From Capital to Aid
In Maryland Dry Raids

That raiding squads of pro-
hibition agents from Washington
will supplement the two agents
left in Southern Maryland by
the dry law reorganization, is
in prospect with the transfer of
the State headquarters to Wash
ington.
The two agents are finding it
difficult to fight the many
whisky runners and distillers who
separate when being chased so
that the purSuerS are unable to
capture more than one at a time.
The headquarters is to be
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Profit on Less Mix
Hone Held for Diaries

The prospect of more profit on
less milk was held out to dairy
farmers yesterday by the Federal
Bureau of Dairy Industry.
This possibility exists, it was
pointed out, whether a nation
wide control program is put into
effect or not.
Feeding experiments and obser-
vations have convinced the bureau
that farmers would benefit by
keeping most of their land in per-
manent pastures and legumes and
feeding very little. if any, grain.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

changed within few days, Lowell
R. Smith, senior Investigator at
Baltimore, said.
Agents stationed at Washing
ton can supplement the Upper
Marlboro staff for big raids, it
was said, after the two agents
there have gathered sufficient
information to warrant a raid.
The move will not affect the
Federal court hearings and trials
of liquor violators from Southern
Maryland, which are bound over
for court action by U. S. Com
missioner J. Frank Parran at
Upper Marlboro, it was said.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Woman Loses Purse
To Circle SnatcheT

Another purse-snatching was
reported to police last night in
Alae Chevy Chase district.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ralph, of the
$500 block Rittenhouse st. N. W.,
reported she was walking at Chevy
Chase Circle when a white man
seized her purse and fled in a
waiting automobile.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
I,4OO Cheer Center
International Night

The Community Center held its
international Night" last night
with the Americanization School
Association Band, the Zalipsky
Opera Club and the Bekefi Instt-
tute of Dance participating.
More than 1,400 persons at
tended the affair, which included
a Blue Eagle dance set to Chopin
music. 1t was said to have proved
the most spontaneously received
festival Of the center this sum-
mer.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26

are now here or have been sta
toned here.
General Butler charges directly
that the political crowd" went
to the late President Coolidge
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-04
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE PIGS
WHISTLE

When Uncle Wiggily hoped out
from beneath the tree from which
had dropped what he thought was
an April shower, the RABBIT gentle
man heard a funny noise.
MY goodnessl What's that?" he
whispered watching the drops of
water dribble off his umbrella.
Again Mr.. Dongears heard the
strange noise. 1t was whistle.
Il never heard of whistling April
showers baore," said the bunny
uncle. The wind whistles when it
blows around the corner of my bun
galoW but there is no wind blowing
now. And I don't see how it only
rains when l am under tree and
when the sun is shining"
OF course, you know how 1t was,
for I told you in the story last
night. Buster, Custer and all the
brother rabbits had hidden up in
trees, with low branches, beneath
which Uncle Wiggily would hop on
his way to seek adventure Each
rabbit boy had rubber ball filled
with water and as Uncle Wiggily
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-04

lecture is futile and unfair. 1t is re-
called, however, that at the time the
Akron was supposed to take party of
government officials aloft before the
craft had been formally accepted by the
government, it was so unmanageable in
slight storm that the senators and con-
gressmen were unable to make the trip.
Loss of the Akron itself is something
that can be charged off to experience if
necessary. But the lives of the 70 men
aboard are not SO easily forgotten For
them and those depending upon them,
the nation is plunged into grief.
If out of this grief comes the determin-
alton that no more American sailors and
officers shall be asked to risk their lives
in such craft, the deaths of the Akron
crew will not have been wholly in vain
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-04
BEDTIME STORIES
By HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1892 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

could twist his tail very fast, which
VISA why he was named Twistytail,
and the faster he tWirled it the
louder blew his whistle.
Say! That's great!' cried Uncle
Wiggily.
mot half pad!" agreed the pig.
I've always wanted to whistle" he
explained, but my mouth doesn't
seem made for it. I tried and I
tried but I never could. And then,
all of a sudden, this morning,
happened to think that if tied a
wooden whistle on my tail and
twisted it very fast it might work.
And it did Listen!"
Once more the jolly, fat pig
tWirled his tail and again the loud
whistle sounded. The bunny boys,
hiding in the trees with rubber balls
filled with water, wondered what it
was all about.
"I wish Daddicums would hep
; along under my tree SO I could
sprinkle water on him. said Mus
ter. Duster. Custer, Fuster, Wuster
and all the other trick playing rab-
bits said the same thing. But Uncle
Wiggily had forgotten all about the
strange April showers. He had even
let down his umbrella and was look
ing at the pigs whistle carefully.
do you know what, Twisty!
said Mr.. Longears.
mo. What?" asked the pig.
I'm going to get whistle for my
tail" said Uncle Wiggily. Come on
and help me PICK 1T out. Wen both
go on a whistling adventure!"
| So the pig and the rabbit went
away together, Mr.. Twistytail max
| ing loud Whistling sounds.
well, l guess this is the end OF
cur April shower joke" said Buster
as he and his brothers hoped down
out of the trees, with the rubber
balls still filled with water, and
hurried on to school. "Daddicums
fooled US instead of us fooling him
although 1 did shower him a little.
And what happened next I'll tell
you tomorrow night when the story
will be about Uncle Wiggily's whist
! ling class. and 1 hope the carpen-
/ ter will go down to the and 7-cent
store and get a new hat for the
head of the nail. That is if he
can find one small enough. And
now we shall say good night and
happy dreams and get all ready foi
/ the next story.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-04
CHEST CLINIC
WILL BE HELD
AT BRAWLEY

Under the auspices of the Imper-
ial County tuberculosis and Health
association, diagnostic chest clinic
will be conducted by DR.. F. M. Pot
tenger of Monrovia, at the Wom-
ems club, Brawley, Calf, April IA,
from a. m. to p. m, and by
appointment only. DR.. Pottenger is
an internationally known specialist
on tuberculosis and has held many
high offices in scientific societies.
He has been president of the Cal
ifornia State tuberculosis associa-
tion and the American College of
Physicians.
At the fall clinic conducted by
the local association, in Ell Centro,
65 persons were examined. A great
deal of interest was shown in the
clinic and many doctors from all
over the county attended. Physi-
clans are urged to make appoint
ments with Mrs. Jack C. Hill, tel
ephone Brawley 109, as a limit of
40 persons to be examined has been
set by the local committee.