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The Washington times., 1934-01-29
LEGAL DRINKING
MEETS WITH
DELAY
Appropriation Expected to Go
to Senate Wednesday;
Stocks Seen Scarce

The subcommittee on deficiency
bills of the House Appropriations
Committee today voted $27.713 for
operating the District Alcohol Bev-
erage Control Board for the bal
ance Of this fiscal year.
A fund Of $60,080 for operating
next year was cut from the bill
today by the subcommittee. It
will be included in the District
budget, it was explained.
The subcommittee report will be
made to the full committee on
Wednesday and this delay will
probably mean that the return of
legal liquor to the District will be
held up several days.
Must Go to Senate
The appropriation probably will
pass the House on Wednesday
and then must go to the Senate
for similar action.
The District liquor regulations
become effective next Thursday
and it had been expected that
applications for licenses would be
received that day.
But, as members of the ABC
board cannot take office until
the appropriation is passed, it
seems impossible that applica-
tions will be started until some
time next week, with another two
weeks following before sale may
start while the applications are
advertised.
A suggestion that wholesalers
be allowed to import stocks Of
liquor now and hold it until sale
is legal was froWned on by Com
missioner Allen.
No Legal Stock Here
Those favoring this pointed out
that there is no legal stock on
hand to send to retailers when
they first get their licenses.
Commissioner Allen said, how.
ever, that the two weeks advertiS.
ing is not required on wholesale
licenses, and there will be ample
time for the wholesalers to get
their liquor here.
Commissioner Allen, Major Dom
ovan, District Auditor, and Assis-
tant Corporation Counsel West at
tended the subcommittee meeting
to present the request for funds
and urge its speedy passage.
Sees No Change Needed
Chairman William H. King, Of
the Senate District Committee, ex-
pressed a view today that it will
be unnecessary for Congress to
make the notifications in the
District liquor bill which have
been recommended by Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings.
He said he will bring the matter
before his committee on Wednes.
day, but said that personally he
does not believe the committee
should recommend passage of the
proposed notifications.
In the opinion of the chairman,
the amendments would either
change the liquor act in a manner
opposing the desires of the com.
mittee, or would place superfluous
language in the act.
Choosing Board Aides
Until the appropriation has
been made the ABC board, named
last week, can not start operation.
Meanwhile, however, the machin.
cry Of handling liquor sales here
is being set up.
The District Commissioners are
considering the application Of
several hundred persons for ap-
pointments as inspectors and
assistants on the board, and these
posts will be filled within the
next day or two.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
Copper Wire Theft
Holds Man to JUrV

Emmett Richards, %, of the
200 block of Second st. N. w.,
pleaded not guilty to a charge of
grand larceny today before Judge
Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court,
for stealing 1900 pounds Of copper
wire from the Western Electric
Company, October 3, 1888.
Richards was held on $4,000
bond for the Grand Jury.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
Senate

The District Committee did not meet today
Senator King committee meeting Wednesday,
(Story Page 3.)
Senate subcommittee on the independent offices supply
bill to take action Wednesday Federal salaries (Story
on Page ~
Senator King expresses doubt that the Senate District
Committee will approve the amendments to the District
liquor bill proposed by Attorney General Cummings Story
this page)
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
WOuLd-Be Suicide
In Serious Condition

Edward Kincheloe, of Mana
Sas, Va, who shot hims elf
through the head at his home
Saturday afternoon. is still in a
serious condition at the Alexan-
dria Hospital Little hope is held
for his recovery. Dependency
over i'll health caused him to
shoot himself, he told Alexandria
policemen.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
House

The House District Committee did not meet
Bill authorizing adjustment of conflicting claims along
Potomac Anacosta and Rock Creek shore front introduced
by Representative Norton.
Appropriations subcommittee deficiencies considered
District liquor appropriations in executive session Voted
recommend appropriation of $273 for remainder fiscal
year. (Story this page.)
Bill readjusting boundaries of White Haven Parkway
introduced by Representative Norton.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
Apostolic Delegate
To Attend Meetinq

His Excellency, the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Ciognani, apo
Stolic delegate to the United
States, will attend a meeting of
the Converts League of the Catho-
lie Daughters of America at the
Willard Hotel next Thursday
night.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
HOME ROBBED

A robber entered his home while
he was avail over the weekend and
stole jewelry worth $37, Bernard B.
Cabiston. of the 540O block of
Thirty-Second st. N. w., reported
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
ROOF BLOWN OFF

The roof of vacant house at
1916 Prince St., in Alexandria,
was blown off and into the street
last night. blocking traffic for a
short while, and an awning on a
store at 423 King st. fell, break
ing a show window.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
SWAIN, LONG CORONER, ILL

DR.. H. B. Swain, for many
years coroner of Arlington County,
is seriously i'll at the Alexandria
Hospital following an operation.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29
.iStrictLOS
AND PAINTING

daily resume of all action in the House and Senate
dealing SOLELY with the District of Columbia, and all
action by the House and Senate District Committees
and Board of District Commissioners.
The Washington times., 1934-01-29

To be grown up, psycholo-
gists tell us, is to understand
reality. To be mature is, in
Bacon's words, to contemplate
things as they are. 1t is prob
ably the hardest thing in the
world, but there is one thing to
be said for it: In the rare mo-
n1ents when we practice this con-
temptation, it is even a greater
pleasure than any illusion.
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
CLUB WOMEN OF
STATE END MEET
Mrs. F. L. Reynolds, Former
Smyrnian, Elected President
at Closing Session
NEXT MEETING, NEWARK

Mrs. Frank L. Reynolds, of Will
mington, formerly of Smyrna, a
past president of the Wilmington
New Century Club, who has served
as recording secretary of the Fed
Grafton during the past year, was
elected president of the State Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs at the
closing meeting of the annual ses-
sion Friday morning at Lewes.
Mrs. Reynolds has been a club wo-
man for more than 25 years, and
is well fitted for the position. She
is a member of the Delaware So
ciety of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, the Whining
ton Chorus, the Oratorio Society
and the Wilmington Society of the
Fine Arts. Other officers elected
were: Mrs. ]. Paul Green, of the
Washington Heights Club, Will
mington, vice-president of New
Castle county; Mrs. L. A. Drexler,
of Wyoming, vice-president from
Kent county; Mrs. Elmer Hoch, of
Bridgeville, vice-president from
Sussex county; Mrs. Walter T.
Massey, of Dover, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Herbert S. Drew, of
Wilmington, treasurer; Mrs. Floy
E. Booth, of Wilmington, State
parliamentarian; Mrs. w. O.Covey,
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14

back about seventy-fve years.
While some changes had been
made, it looked quite natural.
II was also quite interested in
seeing the Odd Fellows Cemetery,
as I had not seen it before. 1t is
a fine, well-kept burial place. My
parents being buried there, made
it more attractive to me, naturally.
Would have been glad to have gone
through Glenwood Cemetery, too,
but did not have time to do so. 1t
was a great pleasure to see Asbury
M. E. Church, Smyrna, again. We
were all through it and I saw
where your father and mother sat
at the services and also where I
usually sat, and much else that
was of special interest to me, in
GLIDING the hallowed rooms. My
daughter, Mrs. Anna P. Tunison,
of New York, esteemed it a great
privilege to go into the church of
which she had heard her father
speak so often. 1t was through
the kindness of Mr.. Cole that we
were able to get in the church. I
had hoped that I might hear the
old bell again, but did not get to
have that pleasure. Wishing you
continued success, I am
Sincerely yours,
w. c. BENSON"
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14

the forms with two large rollers,
while some one else manipulated
that primitive piece Of machinery
which did the printing. Your
uncle, Joseph H. Hoffecker was
the editor then, and Robert
Smith, the foreman. / pre-
sumo that I am the only one now
living who had anything to do with
the working of that old press while
in the Times office. That was when
the Office was on the second floor
of the building of DR.. Collins, now
owned by DR.. E. S. Dwight. It
was just across the alley from the
old Foxwell Hotel later The Smyr-
ma House. Two or three years
later we moved to the second
floor of the Johnson (now the
Tucker) Building on Commerce
Street. I think that was when
your Uncle Joe sold the Washing
ton press and bought a cylinder
press, which was then run by man
power. Billy Kenton, a colored
man, being "the engine" for sever
al years. A year or two after that
Mr.. Smith left and went to Phila-
delphia, when George M. Stevenson
was given charge of the mechan-
ical department of the paper and
the job work. Of course, I set
type for the paper when not en-
gagged otherwise. Thus the work
continued in the two departments
till I left for Ohio in March, 1879,
which was six months or more af-
ter your father again became the
editor and publisher, on account of
your Uncle Joe's illness. When
your father assumed control of the
Office I went to board at your faith
er's home until left Smyrna. You
had a good father and mother, and
/ look back with great pleasure to
my stay in your home and the
kindness of your dear parents to
me. When / was in Smyrna in
November last I wanted to see
your printing plant, but owing to
the brief time we had in town,
about five hours, did not get to do
so. Was glad to see Walter Hof-
fecker in his Office before leaving.
We were boys together, he being
about a year my senior, and we
both went to the old No. 5 Brick
School," as well as to Asbury M
E. Sunday School and Church. But
l was impressed from his appear
ance that there was not much
more Of life for him in this world.
But he was full of life and jovial
as usual. We were at his home,
and Mrs. Hoffecker was exceeding
ly kind, taking US through what
had been my Grandfather Benson's
residence. which remembered
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14

of Seaford, auditor; Mrs. A 6
Beck, of Milton, trustees for Kent
county. Mrs. William H. Beacon
of Wilmington, retiring president
of the Federation, was elected d.
rector to the General Federation
The next annual meeting of the
Federation will be held in Newark
with the Newark Century Clubs a
hostess. The invitation was given
by the president, Mrs. F. A. Wheel
ess. The meeting will be held in
June next year. At this time the
Woman's College of the University
will celebrate its 21st anniversary
Presidents Night was observed
Thursday evening when the presi-
dents of the clubs were honored.
The organization heads formed in
a line and marched to the front of
the room where they were greeted
by Mrs. Beacon. Mrs. Annie f.
Watson, of Dover, 80 years old, the
past president of the Presidents
Club of the State Federation, was
at the head of the parade. Mrs.
A. D. Warner, honorary president
of the State Federation, followed
After taking their places the presi-
dents were introduced by Mrs.
Covington NJ Giles, of the Junior
Section of the Womens Club of
Claymont. Each president carried
the flower of her CLUB. Each spoke
briefly about the activities of their
respective groups and when they
had concluded they presented their
club flowers to Miss Margaret
Wehrheim, also of the Junior Sec
tion of the Women's Club of Clay
mont, who formed them into a
bouquet.
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
SWIMMING CAMPAIGN JULY o
Large List of Beginners This Year
to Learn to Swim at Lake Como

The 18th Delaware Red Cross
Swimming and Life Saving Cam
paign for Delaware school children
which will be carried on in Smyrna
the week of July 9, has large en-
rollment Last week was printed
the names of those in the swim
mers and life savers classes. The
following are those in the class of
beginners: Page Bartlett, Mary
Emma Bell, Francis Bramble, Billy
Broadway, Pauline Bickling, Eddie
Burris, Marian Chester, Andrew
Chester, Dorothy Chester, Stimson
Carrow, Robert Clough, Catherine
Connell, William Cox, Lillian
Craft, Betty Clough. Louise Davis.
Edna Davis, Thelma Davidson.
Walter Downs, Mary Louise Dea-
kyne. Marian Dulin, Curtis Dyer,
Jimmy Edmondson, Gertie Ed
mondson, William Edmondson,
Ashley Elliott, Pauline Elliott.
Barbara Ann Eichholz Betty Jane
Ennis, Raymond Engrim, Peggy
Ennis, Milton A Emerson, Lex.
FAIRIES, Alan Ford, Dorothy FAIRIES,
James Ford, Ruby Green, Jeanette
Green, Dot Green, Sylvia Harris,
Edith Harry, Richard Hammond,
William Harris, Mable May Hart,
Tommy Lamb, Jamie Lamb, Mary
Ellen Miller, Carolyn Mae Miller,
John B. Mood, Russell C. Moore,
William III. Minner, Doris Jane
Palmer, Billy Palmer, Betty ].
Phillips, Eleanor Pierce, Lorraine
Pleasanton, Betty Robinson, Alden
Robinson. William Reynolds, Elean-
or Sklut, Elaine Senger, Fiji
Schantz, Eta Sklut, Leonard
Springer, Margaret ]. Springer,
Jay Smith, Billy Short, Frannie
Slaughter, Sarah Stevenson, Fred
erick Stevenson, Nancy Stats,
John Edward Tucker, Jean Truax,
Betty Van Pelt, Ethel Van PeIt,
Marie Walls, Leon Windal, Laura
S. McNatt, George Hammond, Re-
becca Wilson, John Richard Franc
is, Jimmie DeFord.
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
MISS RASKOB BRIDE FRIDAY
Becomes Bride of L. ID. Parkman
at Ceremony at Centreville, Md

OF much interest was the we'd
ding at o'clock Friday morning
in the Mother of Sorrows R. c.
Church, Centreville, Md, of Miss
Elizabeth Ann Raskob, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John ]. Raskob, Of
Pioneer Point" Centreville, Md,
and Timothy D. Parkman. of
Brooklyn, n. Y. Miss Margaret
Lucy Raskob was her sisters maid
of honor and only attendant, and
the best man was James Donohue.
of New York Following a we'd
ding breakfast at Pioneer Point
the couple left for wedding trip
and upon their return will reside in
Brooklyn. The bride, who is the
second daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Raskob, is much interested in star
boat racing. Mr.. Parkman is also
much interested in yachting and is
secretary of the international Star
Glass Yacht Racing Association.
He is lawyer, associated with the
firm of Redding, Greely, O'Shea
and Campbell in New York.
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
Auto License Fees @a

Revenues received by Id
Automobile Department |.
May shows a total Of SSzl
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
Child Injured Crossing Street

Audrey Alfree, the seven-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jehu
Afree of the Levels" was injured
while crossing the road in front of
the Middletown school last Wed
nesday at noon. The child was
struck by an automobile driven by
DR.. James Of Selbyville. She re-
ceived a bad laceration of the right
foot.
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
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Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
MY ON
SMYRNA TIMES
Walter @. Benson, who Learn
ed His Trade IS Years Ago
Gives "reminiscences
WORKED OLD TIME PRESS
''Mr. r. D. Hoffecker,
Publisher Smyrna Times.

PuDllSher smyrna IlmeS:
81 have been away from Smyrna
years and I still enjoy the
news from my home town as you
give it in The Smyrna Times. The
items under the heading Smyrna
Doings of Fifty Years Ago" are
among the most interesting to me,
as 1 recognize more names of that
period than those of the present.
And it seems but as yesterday
when I worked in the Times Office.
But it was sixty-three years ago
the past month when I began to
learn my trade there. Being the
Printers Devil" at that time, one
of my duties was to stand behind
the old Washington press and ink
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14

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Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
FREDERICA H. S. ENpn,
Myrtle COverdale yaledias
Class of Fourteen Gr,sus

me Commencement eg
the Frederica High scsa I,
held Tuesday evening Of as
The valedictorian was HHsi
redale and the salutato7 i
was given by Jane C.g
graduates were: Myrtle Clls5
Jane, Gross, Bertha ca.
Margaret Hart, Lucle ?.
Sallie Lofand, Virginia s,lEs
Van Hoy, Dorothy Corii!-
ME Belts, Willard Bett
Woodall, Howard Carpens
Emmett Pleasanton.
Smyrna times., 1934-06-14
SMYRNA DOINGS.
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths,
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF JUNE nth, 1884

Taken from our old files OF
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tion.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
OUTSIDERS TELL
OF PLANE MERITS
Two Who Never Got U. S. Con-
tracts Describe Products
at Hearing.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Two men-who say they can do it
were called before the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee today to tell
how they would improve American
aviation
One. T. A. Wells. represents a
Wichita. Kans.. company. which says
it can build faster airplanes than any
the Army or Navy now use. The
other, Alexander P. De Seversky,
makes the same assertion. but refers
particularly to amphiblans.
The subcommittee headed by Rep
resentative Rogers. Democrat, OF New
Hampshire, called the aviation ex-
perts. They were the first to answer
the committees wide-open invitation
to submit ideas on the problem.
Wells is chief engineer of the Beech
Aircraft Co. Walter H. Beech, presi-
dent of that company, already has
told the committee he could build a
plane that would fly 275 miles an hour
at sea-level, about so miles faster
than any now in service.
The committee wanted to know
what changes Wells would like to
have made in the basic law to assure
him a chance to compete for Govern
mental business.
The same proposition was put up
to De Seversky, a Russian who won
a string of decorations from his coun-
try for flying achievements during the
World War. Since then. he has
started building amphibians and equip
ment, but never has succeeded in SELL
ing a plane to the United States al
though it did pay him $4,000 for
the right to use bombing sight he
invented
Evening star., 1934-03-28
PRIVATE LOANS
PLAN DISCARDED
Senate Committee to Con.
slider Glass Bill and
R.F. Proposal.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Banking Committee
today discarded the Federal Reserve
Board plan submitted by President
Roosevelt for loans to private in
dustrv. and substituted bill offered
by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vlr-
ginia.
The committee did not finally ap-
prove the Glass bill, however, but will
consider it at a meeting Saturday
along with the alternate proposal sub
mitted by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
Under the Glass proposal, Federal
Reserve banks would be empowered to
make direct loans to industry in eX-
ceptional circumstances up to five
years. The money would come from
their surplus funds.
They also would have the power
to make such advances through prl-
vate banks. with the latter bearing
90 per cent of the risk.
Each bank could make such loans
up to six times its surplus, which is
estimated would make more than
$500 900 900 available for advances.
Senator Glass told the committee
the Reserve banks would have total
surplus of about $l40,0O0,000 after
paying the last installment due next
month to the Federal Deposit 1nsur-
ance Corporation.
Under the Federal Reserve Board
plan, a system of II credit banks
capitalized by the Government would
be set up in the Reserve districts.
Evening star., 1934-03-28

Continued From First Page.)
final determination, however, in view
OF the fact that a Federal Judge in
another Jurisdiction has disagreed
with him and held that liquor SEN
tence is valid even though continuing
after the date of repeal.
Justice O'Donoghue rendered his
decision Immediately after listening to
a brief argument by William B.
OConneH and Harry Whelan, attor-
neys for O'Hearne. He decided the
case without hearing from Assistant
United States Attorney William A.
Gallagher, representing the Govern
ment, stating he had made a thorough
investigation of the law on the ques-
ton himself.
Although OHearne was sent to iail
for contempt of court, it was pointed
out that the contempt arose out of a
section of the Volstead act rather
than the inherent power of an equity
court to punish for contempt. The
commitment papers in his case stated
specifically that the sentence was
being imposed under the Volstead act.
The way for today'S decision was
paved several days ago when Justice
ODonoghue ordered the release Of
Harry T. johnson, who had pleaded
guilty to the illegal transportation of
liquor. In deciding O'Hearnes case,
Justice ODonoghue said he was fol-
lowing his decision in the johnson
case
1t is known that his rulings in the
two cases have caused some concern
at the Justice Department, and
representative of the department was
in Justice O'Donoghue's court this
morning when the decision was rem
dered.
One of the better known speakeasies
with which O'Hearne had been con-
nected was the so-called Pirates
Den," in the 1900 block of New York
avenue. Other establishments the
Government contended he had op-
Grated were in the 800 block of Yer
mont avenue; the TOO block of Seven
teenth street and the 1900 block of
Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
BYRD TO STUDY POLAR WEATHER
SPENDING WINTER in ANTARCTIC

the snow surface, snow will have COW
cred all but the wireless antenna, the
spinning thermometer cups and the
silver weather vane.
In this worlds southernmost me-
teorologica1 station, Admiral Byrd
plans to keep a complete record of
polar weather.
Food and fuel tunnels will connect
with the single door in the shack
leading to supplies for the long stay.
Only handful Of men were at the
plane when Admiral Byrd left the ad-
ministration building where he had
been living in Little America. The
others were working on dog tunnels.
It was 80 degrees below zero. He
almost froze his nose in the few min
utes he paused to talk.
please explain to the other men,"
he said, that have not said good-by
to them individually because I never
say good-by."
With Pilot Bowlin at the controls,
the plane was just clearing the ridge
to the south of Little America when
Bill Haines came flying into the radio
shack.
In his hands he had a fur mukluk
(moccasin) belonging to the admiral.
It had been sent to the expeditions
tailor for repairs.
my God!" said Bill, 'he's gone on
without this and ii will take me seven
months to delfser it."