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The Washington times., 1934-06-21
.R. c. FLETCHER
To Be BURIED
TOMORROW

Funeral services for Richard G
Fletcher, SO, Of the 1900 block
Nebraska Ave. N. w., who died
yesterday in Garfield Hospital
will be held from his home at 1870
p. m. tomorrow and from st. Co
lumbia's Episcopal Church at
p. m. Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Mr.. Fletcher was formerly presi
dent Of the Fletcher Fireproofing
Co. here and was prominent in
contracting and fraternal circles
He was a native of New Hamp
shire and came here 80 years ago
A thirty-second degree Mason,
Mr.. Fletcher was past commander
Of Columbia Commandery of
Knight Templar, an active mem
ber Of st. Columba's Church, and
once served on the board of the
National Cathedral School.
Mr.. Fletcher served as a nom
commissioned officer during the
Philippine campaign, and the
Spanish American war.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Nellie Clark Fletcher; six
sons, George, Robert, Richard,
jr., Charles, John and William
Fletcher, and two daughters, Mrs.
John Bowling, wife of Lieut.. Bowl
ing, U. s. A., on duty in Honolulu
and Miss Betty Fletcher.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
GermUn-AmericGns
To Hold Folk Fest

More than 1000 members Of
the German.American Society
with another 1000 from the Bal
timore and Richmond societies
will participate in a "folk-fest"
July l at Walsch Grove, Anne
Arundel county, Md.
Transportation from downtown
Washington to the picnic grounds
will be provided. The guests will
participate in a program Of games
and dancing. Proceeds are to go
toward building the proposed club
house to replace old quarters on
C Street.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Business Men Enjoy
CheSUpe0ke Outing

The Northeast Business Mems
Association will hold its annual
outing today at Seaside Park,
Chesapeake Beach. A gala pro
gram Of athletic contests, includ.
ing baseball, quoitS and swim
ming, has been arranged by q
committee headed by Raymond G..
Dunn, 900 H ST., N. e. The mer-
chants will be served q chicken
dinner in the evening and will en-
Joy music provided by their own
orchestra.
The Immaculate Conception
Church held a parish outing yes
terday at Seaside Park for mem
berS of the church school.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
DIED

Lucy Brown, SO. SIT Sixth st s. ".
Margaret s. brennan. IS, Walter Reed
General Hospital.
Jennie n. Burch. 50. Georgetown
Hospital.
William o. Clark. 81. Gallingsr Hos
pital.
Lillian M. Lambiase. 90. 72a Quebec
Place N. w.
Arthur L. Brew. IS. Providence Hos
pital.
Harry F. Riedel. So. $40 Dscstus
Lyle e. Dow. 81, Episcopal Hospital.
James w. Harmon. 81, 10 Dupont
Circle.
Ernest L. Stewart ~. 1881 Nichols
Ave. s. Z.
Lorraine M Moore 20. Gallinger Hos
pital.
Lewis Mosley. SO. Freedmen's Hospital.
Henry Logan. "a. 1885 Thirteenth
Noah Anthony. 40. Sss Golden St
Robert Wood, 49, 2515 Eye st. N. w.
Martha johnson, 25, Freedmen's Hos
pital.
Charlotte C. wynes. IS, 1916 Riggs
Raymond Horton. 2s. Casualty Hos
pital.
Fannie Valentine. 25 Freedmen's Hos
william H. Scott. %. Freedmen's Hos
pital.
Charlie Cross. one month. children's
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
WILSON To GET.
TUGWELL POST
IS REPORT

DR.. M. L. Wilson, director Of
subsistence homeSteads, Is ex.
pected to become Assistant Secre-
tary of Agriculture, succeeding
Rexford @. Tugwell, who was
sworn in yesterday as the Under
secretary Of Agriculture.
Secretary Henry A. wallace has
said that he hopes to persuade DR..
Wilson to accept the post.
DR.. Wilson is noted for working
out the domestic allotment farm
control plan which proved the
basis for much of the policy Of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
1Stration.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Funeral Saturday
For Glenn WiLLett

Funeral services for Glenn Will
lett, Al, will be held from the s
H. Hines funeral home, Fou'
rteenth and Harvard Streets
Northwest, Saturday at 2 p. m. In
terment will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Mr.. Willett died at Emergency
Hospital Tuesday Of a heart all
ment. He was former Assistant
U. S. Attorney Of the District Of
Columbia and a member Of the
faculty of National University = He
is survived by his widow, Mrs
Martha Goebel Willett, and two
sisters.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Capt. Clark to Study
OUerlUOrk COMPLAINT

Capt. Howard F. Clark, execu-
tive officer of the emergency work
planning committee for the Dis
trict of Columbia, is expected to
make a decision today in the case
Of the complaint of Is workers
who claimed they were working
overtime without proper cempen-
sation. The man claimed they
had been taken from work paying
go cents an hour and put on work
at 40 cents an hour, working seven
! hours a week overtime.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
VICTIM Of GAS
LAID To REST .

Following funeral services at
the Thomas Sergeon chapel, Miss
Anna L. Burch, 81, was buried to-
day in Bethel Cemetery, Alexan-
dria.
Miss Burch was found dead
Tuesday night in the gas-filled
kitchen Of her apartment in the
1900 block Kalorama Rd. N. w.
She left a note, reading:
"May God forgive me. I
hardly know what I am doing"
A brother, w. C. Burch, Of the
500 block Madison st. N. w., sur
wives.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Roper Aide Quits
Ship Board Post

Henry H. Heimann, director OF
the Shipping Board Bureau, has
resigned that post, Secretary OF
Commerce Roper has announced.
He rendered his resignation, the
Secretary said, because Of pressure
of duties as executive manager OF
the National Association of Credit
Men.
Mr.. Heimann, who came to the
Shipping Board in January, will
remain a member Of Secretary
Roper's business advisory and
planning council, it was said.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Mrs. E. B. Green
Dead inn. J.
At1O1 Years

RED BANK, N. j., June 81.
Death has claimed the Oldest
resident of this community,
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Green, who
succumbed in the home Of a
daughter here at the age of
101, after a long illness.
Mrs. Green stated at the
beginning Of her fatal sickness
that she had never been i'll in
her life until whooping cough
attacked her in her ninetieth
year.
She Is believed to be the last
remaining survivor of the
shipwreck Of the New Era.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
ROCKVILLE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued in
Rockville yesterday to Herbert
Dorsey, %, and Mary E. Warner,
26, both Of Damascus, Md: James
N. Rogers, "a, Ballston, Va, and
Phyllis Marguerite Beuchert, 10,
Clarendon, Va; Benjamin Kahn,
a., and Virginia Mary Witmyer,
10, both of Baltimore, and Horace
Gion Birdsong, 43, Washington,
and Della Fuller, 81, Petersburg,
Va.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Norris Is Receiver
Of WOOdridQe Bank

e. L. Norris, former vice presi-
dent Of the Neutrality-suspicious.
Savings Bank, was appointed re.
ceiver for the remaining credits
Of the bank yesterday, following
the resignation Of Carter B.
Keene, former receiver. The
change was made through nego-
tiations between the Comptroller
Of the Currency and a committee
from the bank.
Mr.. Keene is also receiver for the
United States Savings Bank. He
was appointed to the Woodbridge
Langdon Bank receivership sew
eral weeks ago.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Rockville FirenCen
Set Date of Carnival

Rockville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment will hold its annual carnival
at the Rockville Fairgrounds from
August II to IS, inclusive, it was
announced today.
w. Valentine Wilson has been
named chairman Of the executive
committee and will be assisted by
Clarence Anders, Francis S. Lyd'
dane, M. S. Gales, Dick Hickman,
and Rev. j. Lloyd Black.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Tuberculosis Group
Elects DR.. POLUeN

DR.. Lewellyn Powell was elected
president Of the Alexandria
tuberculosis Association last
night. Vice presidents are Gard
ner Boothe, the Rev. Pierce Ellis
and Mrs. Francis Fannon. Sidney
We'll and Robert M. Reese were
reelected secretary and treasurer,
respectively.
DR.. A. T. Cooper, in charge of
Fort Meyer Hospital, was guest
speaker. His topic was "Tubercu.
loSiS."
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Births and Marriages

John-Kathleen verdin, boy.
Richard-Ruth Bishop, boy.
Robert-Lillian Schools, girl.
Arthur-Sadie Kimbley, girl.
Baldwin-Elenor Cook, girl,
Robert-Julia Rivers, girl,
George-Inez Turner, boy.
Aubrey-Marie Calhoun. how.
Frederick-Dorothy Calflin, boy.
Emmett-Mariette Kitchen, boy.
Ira.Lillie Nicely, boy.
William-Ethel Walker, girl.
Gladstone-Judith Lewis, girl.
Wilfried-Lucy Rogers, girl.
James-Mary Freshour, girl.
Joseph-Bessi Walker, boy,
Sinclair-Eureka Grey, boy.
Ollie-Ellen Baber, boy.
Richard Edith Contee, boy.
Robert-Roberta williams, boy,
Louis-Bessie Dutch, boy.
Joseph-Grace Witherspoon, Rirl.
Avon-Alberta Oliver, girl,
Wtlliam-Annie Childress, girl
Earl-Theresa Dodson, girl
Jack-Thelma Walker, girl,
Thomas-Minette Wheeler, girl,
BenJamin-Evelyn Harris, boy.
Maurice-Eva Carey, boy.
Gerald-Alice Smith, boy.
Chester-Dorothy Thomas. boy.
James-Vernice Waters, boy.
Melvin-Msrgaret Cross, girl.
Thomas-Sarah Cary, girl.
Artie-Cora Brown, girl.
Ellis-Mary jackson, girl.
Herbert-ElSie Green, girl.
Ermine-Dorothy johnson, girl.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
DinWiddie Estate
Left to His WidOlU

Stating that he left nothing to
his two children because they
were able to take care Of them
selves, william Dinwiddie, late
resident of Montgomery county,
left his entire estate to his widow,
Alice Brooke Dinwiddie, it was
learned yesterday when his will
was filed in Montgomery County
Orphans Court.
Mr.. Dinwiddie also named his
widow as executrix. He died
June II,
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Hearings Proposed
On HNQe PWA Loan
By International News Service

ny AnUoE""GAO"aA news service
Further hearings before the
PWA on the 30-million-dollar loan
application Of the A1legheny
county (Pa.) authority were con
templated today by Representa-
tive Ellenbogen of Pennsylvania.
He will seek the hearings if con-
ferenceS between the county COM
missioners and civic groups over
the proposed Liberty bridge and
tubes toll charges end in a dead
lock.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
Patriotic Society
To Take Riper Trim

The 26 local councils Of the
Daughters Of America will hold
their first Joint moonlight cruise
Of the season tonight at $50
o'clock aboard the s. s. City Of
WASHINGTON.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
MOONLIGHT CRUISE

Members of the Welfare League
of the General Accounting Office
will hold their annual benefit
moonlight trip next Friday on the
Wilson Line.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
BIRTHS

Carl-Lee winecoff, girl.
Charles-Isabel Shreve. boy.
Aloert-ShlrIey LanBerman, ooy'
Levy-Thelma Grimsley. boy.
Douglas-Ruth Hatch, boy.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21

STEWART, MIRIAM KENsEY ON
Wednesday. June 20. 1884. at her resi-.
dence. sol Butternut Street Northwest,
MIRIAM KINSEY STEWART. the beloved
wife of the late William B. Stewart. and
daughter of the late Alonzo William Kinsey
and Cecilia C. Kinsey. She 10 survived BY
art. of Bethlehem. Pa, and three daugh-
ters. Elizabeth Isabel Stewart. Helen
Cecilia Stewart, of Washington, D. c..
and Sister Theretta Of st. Barnabas, Chi
cago, III. Remains resting at the ". W.
Chambers Co. funeral home, Fourteenth
and Chaplin Streets Northwest.
Funeral services will be held on Satur-
day afternoon. June %. 1884. at 2:30
o'clock, from the W. W. Chambers Co. fu-
neral home. 1400 Chaplin Street Northwest.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend.
Interment will follow in Rock Cree&
Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1934-06-21

MOsELEY, CRYSTAL v. DAY-on Mon.
day. June 1s. 1884. at Philadelphia,
Pa. CRYSTAL v. DAY MOsELEY, the be.
loved daughter Of Sarah L. and Benjamin
Toledo, Ohio. She is also survived by two
children.
Funeral services will be held from her
parents residence, 1914 Montello Avenue
Northeast, on Thursday afternoon. June
FL. 1884, at 2 o'clock.
Relatives and friends are invited TO
attend.
Interment will follow in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Services by Chambers Co. Southeast fu.
neral home
The Washington times., 1934-06-21
DIED

BRYANT, ANN-on Tuesday, June 10.
1884, at Fort Smelling, Mimi. ANN
BRYANT (nee ButlerJ, the beloved wife
of Capt. Willis s. Bryant and daughter Of
Frederick A. andd Nellie Butler. Remains
will rest at the residence of her sister.
Mrs. Charles H. Hutton. us Latterner
Avenue. Lyon Park, Clarendon, Va. after
12 noon Friday June %. 1884:
Funeral from the above residence in
Lyon Park. Va, on Saturday, June 20.
1884, at $50 a. m. D..
Interment, Arlington National Cemetery.
Relatives and friends are invited.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
HEARST RIFLE
SHOOT DRAWS

CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-More than
500 team will compete in the
1934-35 matches for the various
William Randolph Hearst trophies
it was annouced here today by
officials in charge.
It is expected that all records
Of past competition will be
broken for the total of competing
teams.
Never before in the history Of
the rifle series has interest been
SO keen in the matches, not only
among students but as well
among Regular Army officers in
each district.
Practically every university,
college, military academy, prep
school and high school in the
country which has a unit of the
Reserve Officers Training Corps
will participate this year seeking
corps and national championships
in their particular classification.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
JONES SEEKING
RELEASE FROM
L.S.U. DUTIES

BATON ROUGE. La. Dec. II.
Unless the dove of peace makes
an early appearance the paths
of U. S. Senator Huey P. my
University" Long and Lawrence
"Biff" Jones will have definitely
parted, with the loss of a head
football coach to Louisiana State
University.
The issue between Head Coach
Jones and Senator Long arose
over who was to direct the L.
S. U. football team at Satur-
days game with the University
Of oregon, which L. S. U. won
by the narrow margin of IA to 13.
Reports persisted today that
Captain Jones had resigned his
post here as a result of the
quarrel and will ask for another
War Department assignment. He
became gridiron mentor here on
orders of the War Department.
At any rate, Jones, although
refusing to comment on his re-
ported resignation, said he was
leaving town."
Said Senator Long:
"The first / knew about any
of this was when 1 read it in
the papers. Jones is a fair
coach. Some are good and some
are not"
The "Kingfish" of Louisiana
politics, who has taken the foot
ball affairs of L. S. U. to heart
this season, stomped up and down
in front of the players bench
Saturday when Jones' team was
trailing by two touchdowns. In
loud voice he told the boys how
the team should be run to viii
games.
Captain Jones suddenly jumped
up from the bench and ordered
the "Kingfish" to leave the foot
ball coaching to the football
coach.
Between the halves, when the
"KingfiSh" tried to give the team
a pep talk, Captain Jones ordered
Long away from the locker room
and gave the players some ad.
vice of his own.
l.. S. U. came back in the sec.
ond half to win by the single
point,
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
MIAMI BIDDING
FOR BOUT

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Dec. II.
Bob Olin and Joe Knight will be
matched to fight for the light
heavyweight championship in
Miami in February, E. H. Griffith,
Knights manager, is quoted as
saying.
The match, according to the
Beacon, will be promoted by Da-
mon Runyon for the Free Milk
Fund for Babies, of which Mrs.
William Randolph Hearst is chair
man. Runyon is here completing
arrangements.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
COUNTY CUNTS
SCHEDULED

Rockville, Takoma.Silver Spring
and Bethesda-C Chevy Chase, leaders
of the Montgomery County Scho.
laStic Basketball League, each
plays two games this week
Rockville meets Bowie tomorrow
and Friends School on Friday
night.
The Taksils play the Kendall
School for the Deaf at Silver
Spring tomorrow and oppose an
alumni team Friday night.
Bethesda visits Roosevelt High
for a game against Roosevelt to-
morrow and meets an alumni five
Friday night.
Gaithersburg, Damascus and
Sherwood will be idle until the
New Year. PooleSville also will
remain idle until after January !.
Basketball coaches from Silver
Spring, Hyattsville, Alexandria
and Washington and Lee High, of
Ballston, will confer this week to
formulate plans for the intersu-
burban league season that opens
January 4 with Hyattsville meet.
ing Washington and Lee High.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
PURPLE FIVE
To BATTLE
EASTERN

No less than % interscholastic
basketball games are scheduled
in the District and vicinity over
a period Of five days this week.
Only four of the 13 schools
engaged n the % contests will be
opening their seasons.
Two contests are scheduled for
decision today. The first pits
Central against St. Johns and
Washington and Lee High against
Falls Church. The first will be
played at Central, the other at
.3allston, Va.
Six Tomorrow
Six games are scheduled for
tomorrow.
Central m eets Georgetown
Prep. at Central; Western op-
poses George Washington Frosh,
at western; Eastern clashes with
Wilson Teachers, at Eastern:
Tech meets Charlotte Hall, at
Charlotte Hall; Takoma-Silver
Spring High takes on Kendall
School, at Silver Spring, and,
Rockville faces Bowie, at Rock
vile.
Three Wednesday
Three contests will be played
Wednesday,: Western VS.. st.
Johns at Eastern; Roosevelt VS..
Mt. Rainier. at Mt. Rainier, and
National Training School VS..
alexandria, at National Training
School.
Twelve games, six on Thursday
and six on Friday, mark the
windup of the busy week of
basketball.
Thursday
Eastern VS.. GoDzaga, at Eastern. 8
Eastern Alumni vs.. Tech Alumni, at
Eastern, 10 p. M.
Western VS.. Washington.Lee, at West
ern, $3.50 p. m.
more.
Friends VS.. Rockville High, at
Friends, $3.50 p. m.
HerndOn High VS.. Falls Church, at
Falls Church, $3.50 p. m.
Friday
Tech VS.. Baltimore Poly. at Tech.
$3.50 p. M.
Central vs. Calvert Hall. at Central.
Bethesda. Chevy Chase VS.. Alumni, at
Bethesda.
TakOma. Silver Spring vs.. Alumni, at
Silver Spring, 8 p. m.
Mt. Rainier VS.. Alumni, at Mt.
Rainier, 8 p. m.
AIexandria VS.. Mt. st. JOseph'a. at
Alexandria.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
Garden Arranges
Elimination Meet

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Madison
Square Garden has arranged a
lightweight elimination boxing
tournament involving four leading
contenders-Tony Canzoneri, for
mer champion: Frankie Klick,
San Francisco; Lou Ambers, Her.
kimer, N. Y: and Sammy Fuller,
the Boston battler who beat Ed
die Cool Friday night.
Fuller meets Ambers December
% and Canzoneri fights Klick
January II. The survivors then
will clash for right to meet Bar
ney Ross in a title match.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
: CENTRAL QUINT TACKLES ST. JOHNS TO-DAY
I \ORlJMS
G . r NJ ER
BY BILL CORUM
Next War VIII Be HNO Country EUer Had
Fought By Boys NOU Worse Or Better
Interested in SpOrts Soldier Than NIP.

} see his shoes for the mud that
was caked on them, extending
on up over his ankles. This
made it difficult to get the shoes
off, so he let that detail go. His
uniform never carried more
than the absolute minimum of
buttons required by a rather
loose wartime decency. Both
jaws bulged at all times, night
and day, with a wad OF eating
tobacco that gave him the ap-
pearance of trying to swallow a
pair of boxing gloves.
Bottle of Pop"
His instructive reaction to a
quart of cognac was that it was
just a bottle of soda pop or
tonic as they call it in Boston.
There was mud in his gun
barrel, as well as his ears, and
what he couldn't do to a COM
pany on dress parade or in
Spection has yet to be dreamed
of by guardhouse lawyer. His
platoon sergeant, whose hair he
turned grey in three months.
always insisted that in two
years of service, Perkins was
never known to have been in
step.
1t was only natural that the
guardhouse should have been
his second home. It was. He
claimed he liked it in there be-
cause he could have his rlsals
brought to him and served in
bed" And there was the night
in the dead of winter in 1917,
when he smuggled gun into
the guardhouse of the Reveral
barracks of Neufchateau and
shot out all the windows and
the skylight on the grounds
that the place was overcro wde'1
and the ventilation was bad.
His fellow-inmates nearly froze
to death before the French, hor-
rified at zee crazee American"
and burning in their thrifty
souls, could be induced to put
the glass back-at four times
the customary price. But Mickey
Perkins loved it.
Fought for Fun
He, was a South Boston Irish.
man who was a throwback to a
generation that fought for fun.
He was born for war but not for
discipline. He was perfectly
willing to die for his country.
AS soldier he could never have
learned to live for it. What he
did before a civil life, or would
have done after, had he lived,
deponent sayeth not.
But if you think there is any
exaggeration in the above, there
are plenty in Boston who could
tell you different. Along side
what he really was before the
front line fighting took him
over and remade him, the above
makes Mickey Perkins look like
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
There is a square in Boston
named afteI him-the Michael
j. Perkins Square-and he has
been called "one of the 10 out
standing American heros of the
war"
Tomorrow we'll tell you, more
briefly, how he got that way
and then come back to the
point that even for the born
warrior, there is no profit in
war.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17

Ormont, Azucar and Khamseen
were scratched.
Dspite sky dripping with rain,
the last day of the meet was at
tended by 10000 racing enthusi'
asts who wagered more than
$250,000 on the eight races of the
day. About $4,000 went through
the mutuel windows on the fea-
ture event.
During the 4o-day meet at the
new Bay Meadows track. the bet.
ting averaged approximately
100000 daily. bringing the total
nearly to the $4,000,000 mark.
William P. Kyne, the head man
of the California Jockey Club,
which operates Bay Meadows, was
well satisfied with the results Of
his first meet here. The next
meet at Bay Meadows will not be
held until after the 1885 football
season.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-In
spite of the same old trouble in
the Balkans and the rising tide
Of empire in the Far East, our
next war probably will be
fought, or avoided, by boys who
are today more interested in
sports news than they are in the
Washington dispatches. Posi-
bly, everybody is until the Wash
1ngton dispatches start hitting
close to home.
Which is why I feel it is
excusable now and then to
write a piece of this kind in a
sports column. Sports are not
much good if they don't teach
something more than how to
throw an outcurve, and a sports
column should strive to be both
as interesting and as valuable
as it's subject
Except for a random para
graph or so, I did not read what
the thoughtful editorial writer's
had to say about the Presidents
dramatic move toward a more
lasting and secure peace. MY
own reaction was that it must
have set the dead leaves rus
ting with excitement over the
graves of the American boys
who sleep in France.
If spirits whisper in the win.
ter winds that blow down the
valleys of the Meuse and Marine,
there must have been great talk
that night among the crosses of
SureSnes, Romagne and Belleau.
The chances are that the
bones of Michael j. Perkins rest
in that big one at Belleau,
though that is no more than
guess. OF Michael J. Perkins,
buck private in the rear rank,
D Company 101st Infantry,
26th Division, and Congressional
Medal of Honor man, to give
him his full and exact dues.
1t is doubtful if any country
ever sent to war a worse and
better soldier than the United
States sent to France in the per-
son of Mickey Perkins.
Could Believe It
Stewart Edward White, the
author, once asked for material
out of which to write an article
about him, but didn't. Probably
Mr.. White couldn't believe any
such person ever existed. You
had to see Mickey Perkins to
believe him. He was the DR..
JeEyll and Mr.. Hyde of the A.
E. F.
Mickey was a dollar-a-day
man, of course, and at such
times as he was not fighting,
he was 80 per cent overpaid, not
that this was any great drain
on the United States Treasury.
Before his company ever got up
the lines, Perkins had had so
many fines plastered on him
that when he was killed, 10
months later, he still owed the
Government money.
It was approximately the same
thing Mr.. Baruch wants to do
with the munition makers,
though naturally on a slightly
smaller scale.
The only way to get Private
Perkins to indulge himself in a
haircut or shave in a training
or rest area was to throw him
down. It was never possible to