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The Washington times., 1934-08-29
II Red Parades Stir
Ire of Circus Fan

The old circus fan gazed at a
report of the police department
in which it was stated that 60
parades had been held under po-
lice permit during the year end
ing July /. 1884, and noticed that
II of these professions had been
staged by Communists. The old
circus fan said:
Il don't see why the police
balk at a real joy-giving pa
rade of elephants and clowns,
bengal tigers and sirens, that
give pleasure and thrills to TO-
600 kids and as many of us older
folks. If there can be IL Red
professions in the National Capt.
ital, I should think there could
be at least one circus parade"
The data on which the old cir
Gus fan based his complaint was
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made by Inspector L. I. H. Ed.
wards, assistant superintendent
and executive officer of the po-
lice department. It shows that
the only group of paraders who
exceeded the "Reds" in parading
activities are the fraternal and
military organizations, who staged
26 professions during the year.
There was also a National Recov.
cry Day parade; the fire and po'
lice parade, Halloween parade.
Army Day parade, Cherry Bios
som parade. School Boy Patrol
Safety parade, eight parades of
citizens associations, the same
number of parades under church
auspices, and the IL parades of
Communists against which the
old circus fan raised his voice in
QuerulouS tones.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
GRAND JURORS
|ND|CT s.,
CLEAR L
Staying, Assault and Larceny
Are Among Accusations
Reported to Court

Accused of criminal assault
upon a 13-year.old girl and of i'm.
personating a headquarters detec-
tive, Harry F. Stinson, %. first
block New York Ave. N. w., was
named in two indictments re-
ported by the District Grand Jury
today to Justice Joseph w. Cox
in District Supreme Court.
Pretending he was Detective
Sergt. Eugene Davis, the indict.
ment alleged Stinson hired the
taxicab of Percy F. Moore on Au-
gust 16 and ordered him to drive
around the streets in an effort to
make cases against women" Stin-
son induced 13-year-old Madeline
L. Cropp, 1900 block Thirteenth
st. N. w., to enter the cab, it is
charged. They drove to Stinson's
apartment, where it was charged
Stinson attacked the girl.
Gypsy Accused
Accused of mulcting Mrs. Mary
E. Tyler, of New York, of $1,000
last May, Julia Smith, alias Julia
Stevens, a gypsy, was indicted on
a grand larceny charge. The
gypsy woman is said to have told
Mrs. Tyler she would receive pay
ment of debts owed her if she
followed magic" formula. Mrs.
Tyler was then induced, it is
charged, to give her money to the
gypsy to be pinned inside her
dress. Instead of the money, Mrs.
Tyler complained she found paper
inside her dress after the gypsy
had departed.
Mrs. Dorothy v. Mintzell was
accused by the jury of bigamy.
The jury charged she married
John T. Mintzell at Rockville,
Md, in June, 1925. It was charged
also that in June, 1888, she mar
ried Lommis P. Griffin, HOO block
New Hampshire Ave. N. w., and
when arrested was again living
with her first husband in Hern-
don, Va.
First-degree murder was charged
against Evangeline C. Hill, colored,
27, in connection with the fatal
shooting, August 4, of Nathaniel
H. Galloway, colored, 30, in the
2200 block Eighth st. N. w., as the
result of a dispute over dice
game.
John Gaskins, alias doc" Davis,
80, was charged with assault with
a dangerous weapon as result Of
the shooting of Frank O'Brien,
1000 block Seventh st. N. w., July
"a, at lunch room in the 100
block Ninth St. N. w.
A total of Ct indictments were
returned by the jury and II
charges were ignored.
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CIRCLES To co
AS MENACE

Over the protest of the Mt.
Pleasant Citizens Association, the
Commissioners today ordered the
removal of the two grass-filled cir
cles on Harvard Street Northwest,
at Lanier Place and at Eighteenth
Street Northwest.
The circles are close to the Har"
ward Street entrance to the Zoo,
and in the opinion of w. A. Van
Duzer, director of vehicles and
traffic, constitute menace to the
heavy traffic on that street.
The circles have been Federal
property for several years, but
have been transferred back to the
District so that the District En-
gineer Department may erase
them from the street plan and
open Harvard Street to direct
vehicular traffic.
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Ken Murray
Says:
OH HE'LL!

Chancellor Hitler has In
formed Germans that they may
not marry, unless their union
is a help to the nation.
The NaZis require so many
qualifications to marry, it looks
like, instead of proposing to the
girls, German boys will have to
submit sealed bids to the gov
ernment.
Hitler claims that only par
rents of high mentality can have
bright children. Shame on you,
Adolf! Talking about your
parents that way.
RumOrs persist that the Chan
cellOr is thinking of getting
married ThatTl be nice.
Two dictatOrS in one family.
so REMEMBER
After all, only one marriage
in 10 is happy, and even this
one is made unhappy sometimes
when the husband returns unex-
pectedIy.
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Negro Baptists
Hear DIR. Taylor

The fifty-ninth annual conven-
tion of the Mount Bethel Baptist
Association of Washington. Vir.
ginia and Maryland opened yes
terday at Jerusalem Baptist
Church.
Addresses were gi,-en by DR..
w. A. Taylor, pastor Of the
Florida Avenue Baptist Church:
the Rev. Robert Anderson, presi-
dent of the Baptist Ministers
Conference, and the Rev. B. F.
Jackson, of Baltimore, acting
moderator Of the Mount Bethel
Association.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
Rise Predicted
In Products
Of Dairies

Sharp upturns in prices of dairy
products during the next six
months have been predicted by
the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomicS.
This prediction is based on the
fact that production of those pro-
ducts has been cut by the drought
to the lowest point on record and
milk consumption has been higher
than last year.
Pasture conditions were re-
ported at 43.8 per cent of normal
as compared with a previous low
of 55.7 per cent in August, 1888,
and a five-year August i average
of 75.4 per cent.
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Contracts
Awarded by D. G.

Five road paving contracts, IN
volving the expenditure of approx
imately $97, 1000, were let yesterday
by the District Commissioners as
follows:
To the MCGUIRE & Rolfe, Inc,
contract for the paving of Twenty
second St. from Pennsylvania Ave.
to I st. N. w., and the paving of
Mt. Vernon Pl. N. w., from Sew
enth to Ninth Streets; to the High
way Engineering and Construction
Company, contracts for the paving
Of Maryland Ave. S. w., from
Third to Fourth Streets; New
Hampshire Ave. N. w., from Ran
dolph Street to Grant Circle and
Fourth Street from Pennsylvania
Ave. N. w. to Maryland Ave. S. w.
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D, c. SELF-HELP
PLANS MOVE
SLOWLY
Dozen Cooperative Projects
On Paper, But Only Two Big
Ones Under Way

An even dozen cooperative prof.
ects, some of them existing on pa
per only, constitute the sum total
of the District relief units coop
erative self-help plans so far, 1t
was learned today.
Two of these projects approach
major caliber in their design ana
execution; most of the others are
neighborhood affairs and will con.
tinue to operate in that range OF
activity, it is understood.
The largest proposition is the
cattle raising and slaughtering
program of the Capitol New Deal
Cooperative, which is asking a
grant of $500 from the FERA,
through the District relief organ
ization. The money will be used
for live stock, material and the
general transportation needs OF
such a business activity.
Two rural rehabilitation prof.
ects are under way. It is planned
to start two communities of 500
families each, in Maryland and
Virginia. Several tracts have been
offered for these colonies, and
plans are being drawn to show the
type of houses and town layout
necessary.
These projects are to put city
relief clients on farms, provided
enough city families who can sup
port themselves on farms and are
willing to leave the city will co.
operate in the project.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
G.. W. u. Students
Plan New House

International House, a separate
unit of George Washington Uni
versity intended to foster better
relations between American and
foreign students. will be opened
this fall, officials announced to-
day.
The building will be located in
210O block of G st. N. w., and will
contain lounge rooms and study
halls. The building will also house
the Center of Inter-American
Studies, of which DR.. A. Curtis
WilguS is director.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
MRS. FONTA|NE
ON STAND At
MATS TRIAL
Weak After Collapse, She
Connects Defendant With
Murder Gang

Still weak and nervous follow
ing her collapse yesterday, Mary
Elizabeth Fontaine, former gang
ster's sweetheart, took the witness
stain again today as the trial OF
Robert Mais, Tri-state gang mem
ber, was continued at Richmond.
Mrs. Fontaine, who was shot by
members of the gang and left for
dead in an effort to silence her,
related again her story Of Mals'
connection with the gang, the
testimony that helped sentence
Walter Legenza, alias William
Davis, gang leader, to the electric
chair.
Killed During HOld-Up
Mais is charged with the MUIR
der of E. M. Huband, driver OF a
Federal Reserve Bank truck, dur
ing hold-up last march.
The defense scored a point
when Robert Thompson, Wash
ington policeman, was unable to
identify Mais as one of the men
on the truck in which the gang
sters escaped and came to their
hideout in the Capital.
One Gets Chair
Arthur Misunas, another mem
ber of the gang who has pleaded
guilty to the charge and turned
states evidence in an attempt to
evade the electric chair, testified
that Mais was one of those in on
the holdup and murder.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
Thief Flees, Gets
Is Cents for Job

If Miss Bertha cambridge, of
the 1900 block Seventh st. N. w.,
had returned to her apartment a
moment later last night, she prob
ably would have reported more
than IS cents missing to police
today.
Miss cambridge entered her
apartment to find a young colored
man ransacking the place. He
had selected" several pieces o.
clothing, and was prepared to
leave when she returned. He be-
came frightened, she told police.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
Street Contracts
Awarded by D. G..

Street improvements costing
$93,967 were represented in con-
tracts awarded by the commits
sioners late yesterday. The High
way Engineering and Construction
Co. was granted the contract for
replacing paving on Fourth Street
Southwest from Pennsylvania Ave
nue. to Maryland Avenue. Other
contracts went to MCGUIRE and
Rolfe, Inc. for improvements on
Mt. Vernon Place, Seventh to
Ninth Streets Northwest, and
Twenty-second Street Northwest
from I Street to Pennsylvania Ave-
nile
The Washington times., 1934-08-29

q S u ID, ID
gathering material for a. new
novel which she expects to nave
finished in about a year. Tne
scene of this book is to be lalo
in Rockbridge county, Virginia.
The frontispiece will be a pic
ture of Green Forest, her an
cestral home, near Buena vista
and Lexington. Miss Glasgow
Is making frequent excursions
by motor from her home in
Richmond, visiting the Colonial
homes in this section Tor color
and material.
I hope her new book will have
many of its scenes laid IN Lex,
ington. Ellen Glasgow coulo
capture the special character OF
this small Southern town. The
home of washington and Lee
University and of the Virginia
Military Institute; the town
where Robert E. Lee and Stone
wall Jackson lived, died and are
buried-it is not merely part OF
the South-Lexington is tne
South.
People there live an unhur-
ried existence. just now tne
old families are disturbed at the
activities of the towns up-and-
coming chamber of commerce.
The chamber of commerce has
so successfully advertised Lex
ington as IAN historical center
worthy of visiting" that-so the
natives tell you sadly, "the place
is being simply over run with
tourists
A few years ago some mate
rially-minded person, a Yankee
no doubt, insisted that he would
like to put a vulgar factory back
in a valley between two OF Lex
ington's best mountains. The
toWnsfolk were outraged. What,
destroy our scenery and the
peace of our countryside with
such hideous thing! Certainly
not!"
The factory did not come.
There are many beguiling
traditions told and retold in
Lexington. Not all of them are
historical. One is the story OF
the circus and the famous COW
cred bridge at the entrance to
the township.
Ringing Brothers, it seems,
realizing the ambition of the
Chamber of Commerce if not Of
the inhabitants to make the
town "a great metropolis" de-
cided to be pleasant one spring
and send not its fourth or fifth
circus to the birthplace of
jackson and Lee-but its Sec
ond circus. The second circus
was equipped with elephants in
proportion to it's Importance.
The caravan started labo-
riously along the country roads
as circuses do after they
leave the railroad cars. At the
covered bridge, it paused. The
biggest elephant had got him.
self edged in. There he stuck
immovable. The elephant drivers
pushed and pulled and the big
gest elephant beloved. But he
could not move. Certainly not
forward.
After a long struggle the
biggest elephant was backed
out and turned away from Lex
ington. The circus wheeled
about and headed toward towns
without covered bridges. Never,
never again, did a second string
circus try to come to Lexington.
There is a fascinating church
at Timber Ridge near Lexing-
ton which should figure in Miss
Glasgow's book. She could tell
dramatically the tale of the
"heroic women" memorialized
in a tablet in the veStibule of
the church. These women car.
ried sand to be used in the con-
struction of the church dis
tance of seven miles in their
aprons. The men rode at their
sides-guns in hand to protect
them from the Indians.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
Police Hold 3 Men,
Food They Stole

The Fourth Police precinct to-
day took on the appearance of a
grocery store. In the police sta
ton were 20 rolls of cream
cheese, four crates of honey dew
melons and large sack of onions.
The edibles were recovered
from a truck parked in Cullinane
Court Southwest, by three men
who were taken in custody for
investigation. The men admitted
taking the food, but said that
they had forgotten just where
they got it.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
Workers
Must Quit Politics

Treasury officials moved today
to tighten the restrictions re-
Gently ordered by Secretary Nor
genthau forbidding employees in
his department from actively par
ticipating in politics.
Already several of the Treasury
employees have resigned their
political affiliations, but one
elected to leave the Government
and hold his political job. The
time limit on the new order to
leave politics expires Saturday.
After that date employees must
divorce themselves from politics
or face dismissal.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
MACHINE STOLEN

Theft of a claw machine valued
at $40 from a parked automobile
was reported to police early to-
day by John Whip, $500 block
New Hampshire Ave. N. w. The
machine was taken from his car,
parked in the 1000 block Seventh
st. N. w., he reported.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
SNATCHER FOILED

Mis- Viola Sharp, colored, Of
the 21OO block Twenty-ninth st.
N. w., reported to police today
that she had fought off a young
man who attempted to snatch her
purse from her. She said the man
accosted her near her home and
asked for directions.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
CHICKEN SUPPER

The Adult Bible Class at Liberty
Methodist Episcopal Church in
Burtonsville, Md, will hold it's
annual chicken supper from S un-
til 8 p. m, Friday evening, Sep
tember 7, in the church basement.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
ROAT STILL MISSING

No trace of the American fish
ing boat Belle Isle, missing since
it left San Diego June II for
the Galapagos, has been found,
the State Department was in
formed yesterday by the American
legation in Ecuador. The ship
carried a crew of IL men.
The Washington times., 1934-08-29
Now
Miss Glasgow Writes
A Believing Elephant
Oddities in Epitaphs
BY Helen ESSary

Late summer wanderings
have carried Isabel Kinnear
Griffin to the Shenandoah Val
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Ellen Glas.
gov, whose
Sympathe t | C
in t erp reta-
t / o n S OF
Southern lie
delight and
- \ - - fr
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ley. She sends
to me some
impressions of
Lex i n g t o n,
Va, and the
people whose
personaliti e S
emphasize the
quality of the
pleasant old
town.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-24
BAY STATE JURYMEN
VISIT CRIME SCENE

DEDHAM, Mass, April "a
(UP).-The II men who will de-
eide the fate of the Millen broth
ers and Abe Faber yesterday in
spected the scene of the SIS, 200
Needham Trust company holdup
during which two policemen were
slain.
Faber and Irving and Murton
Millen, charged specifically with
the murder of Patrolman Forbes
Mcleod; did not accompany the
2O-car motorcade Of jurors, Off
Gals and reporters as they viewed
the principal scenes connected
with the crime.
Besides the bank the itinerary
included the Dorchester garage
where the defendants allegedly
kept their bandit-car and an arse
nal of stolen firearms, the Millen
home, and the spot on Lily-pond
road where the Packard automo-
bile allegedly used by the killer
bandits was abandoned after an
unsuccessful attempt to burn it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-24

to invite the press men to come
to Hendersonville the last of May
or first of June for 4 weeks stay.
Invitations will be extended to
newspaper men in the Carohnas,
Florida, Georgia, alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana.
A cleanup campaign, in prepa-
ration for the summer season, was
endorsed and a resolution wa$
adopted calling on ali citizens and
the city administration to unite
in promoting this campaign, TO
begin at the earliest possible date.
The campaign will promote clean
ing of public and private propeT'
ty, painting and repairing and
general preparations to improve
the appearance of the community.
President Strong appointed q
special committee to direct this
work, urging that contact be es-
tabliShed with the other organiZa-
tons and clubs Of the city and
that all cooperate in the enter
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-24
LOCAL CHURCH
PREPARED FOR
$50 DELEGATES

Continued from page one.)
perintendent of study, Mrs. J.
Frank Spruill; committee on
spiritual life groups, Mrs. c. f.
Exum, chairman, and treasurer,
Mrs. p. n. Black.
The presidents message will
be delivered at II a. m. by Mrs;
C. C. Weaver of Asheville, and
greetings from Brazil will be
brought by Miss Leila Epps, a
missionary to that country. A
message scheduled to be given by
Mrs. J. Dale Stentz has been
changed due to the absence of
Mrs. Stentz, and Miss Amy Hack
ney will be on the program IN
stead of Mrs. Stentz.
Services will continue through
the afternoon and service will
also be held at 8 p. m. in the eve
ming.
Services on Thursday will be-
gin at 9 a. m. and will continue
into the afternoon when an adj
iournment will be taken.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-24
BIGGEST PROGRAM
EVER STAGED HERE
PLANNED BY c. OF {,

CONTINUED from page one.)
and South Carolina.
In appreciation Of the good
work done for the town and sec
ton by President Strong, the di-
rectors unanimously voted resolu-
tions of thanks, expressing SIN
cere appreciation Of his extensive
and faithful efforts to promote
business for Hendersonville and
this section.
Thomas d. Clark, chairman Of
a special committee, was author
lied by the directors to have a
large road sign erected at Bat
Cave at the intersection of high
way No. % with highway No. 20.
This sign will direct travellers on
No. 20 to Hendersorville.
f. r. Sutherland, chairman Of
the advertising committee, re-
ported on plans for entertainment
of newspaper men of several
Southeastern states. 1t is planned
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-24
B. W. Williams
Quits Race For
Commissioner

B. w. Williams, a candidate Tor
the Democratic nomination fo,'
county commissioner, announced
today that he had withdrawn
from the race. =,
"After careful considerations
said Mr.. Williams, 81 have decld-
ed not to be candidate for cout-
ty commissioner. In reaching this
decision I was influenced solely
by personal reasons, and | wish
to assure the party that | shall!
support its nominees in Novem-
Der and shall do all in my power
to help elect them"
Mr.. Williams was the first can
didate to oppose the present COM
missioners, who are seeking. re-
nomination and election, and his
withdrawal leaves them without
opposition. Mr.. Williams said he
wished to thank all who promised
to support him.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-24
PRUlAL
pnPQCRnPAr

The Rev. James P. Pressly. D.
D., and Mrs. Pressly. and Mrs,
Fannie B. Brownlee, Of Due West,
s. c., arrive today to be the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. o. Y,
Brownlee during the A. r. P. Sy-
nod at Bon Clarken. Mr.. and Mrs,
]. 1. Brownlee, of Spartanburg
are expected on Friday to visit
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Raymond,
who have spent several months at
"Sun Rock" on the Henderson,
vile road, near Asheville, have
opened their home near Davis
Station. Their daughter, Miss
Mary Elise, student at st. Gen.
evieve of the Pines, will be with
DR.. and Mrs. A. L. Fitzporter in
Forest Hill until school closes.
DR.. Robert Gilreath, of Toledo,
Ohio, who has recently spent some
time in study and travel abroad.
is the guest of his parents, Nj.
and Mrs. P. ]. Gilreath. DR.. Gil
reath is thinking of locating some
where in the South.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Stanton and
sons have returned to their home
in Wisconsin after spending sew
eral months here.
Mr.. and Mrs. James l.. Taylor,
Jr., had as their weekend guests
the latter's niece and nephew,
Miss Margaret Hines, of Mars Hill
College at Mars Hill, and Hugh
B. Hines of N. c. State, Raleigh.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McDuffee
and daughter, Carolyn, left yes
terday for their home in Roches-
ter, n. H., after being guests of
DR.. and Mrs. ]. L. Wellington for
about two months.
Mrs. E. NJ. Salley returned yes
terday after spending about ten
days in New York City with her
daughter, Miss Mary Salley.
Mrs. Fred Sudduth returned
yesterday after a delightful visit
to her parents, Judge and Mrs.
F. A. Irwin, in Cedartown, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. NJ. Dietz, of
Chester, S. c., are at their home
in Mount Royal for awhile.
Miss Myrtle Bennett has re-
turned home after visit to Mr..
and Mrs. CurtiSs Russ in Waynes-
vile.
Mrs. Lee Osborne and infant
son, Thomas Lee. Jr., have re-
turned to their home on the Flat
Rock road from Patton Memorial
hospital.
Friends of Mrs. Woodrow Shi-
tie will be sorry to learn that she
is seriously i'll in the Mission hos
pital, Asheville, but IS thought to
be a little better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Tillotson
and tiny daughter, Laura Yir-
ginia, spent Sunday in Anderson,
S. c., with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Williams.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-24
Misses Gillespie
To Give Recital
Fruitland to Present Ex.
preston Students

Miss Evelyn Cornelia Gillespie,
assisted by Miss Freida Gillespie,
both readers, will be presented in
recital at Fruitland Institute on
Saturday evening at 8:15 at the
Fruitland auditorium.
Ushers will be Miss Doris New
brough, Miss Erma Smith, Edgar
Sinclair, and John Ross.
The program will he as follows:
Patsy " Virgins
Mia CarOlotta ---- ---- DAILY
Miss Evelyn Gillespie
The Highwayman -.---- Noyes
Did You Expect Humming Birds?
Anon
Ballad of Trees and Master
Lanier
Miss Evelyn Gillespie
Her Grandmother's Way; Stanton
Mr.. Rabbits Love Affair; Stanton
Miss Freida Gillespie
Her First Ride in an Ottymobile
(Hare)-Miss Evelyn Gillespie.
Our Hired Girl Riley
Miss Rreida Gillespie
Yeorpc WASHINGTON Kirk
Madame butterfly ------- Long
Two Young Frogs Anon
Miss Evelyn Gillespie
Bobby Shaftoe Greene
The House by the Side of the
Road ------ Foss
Miss Evelyn Gillespie