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Evening star., 1934-07-22

tops dogged down, steam is turned
into them. Eighteen minutes later,
the crabs are hoisted out, now a rich
red color, and they are carted to the
picking room where spotlessly clean
workers remove the meats from the
shells and pack them for shipment
all lover the United States.
That's but one phase of the crab in
duStry in that crab capital. Walk
around the water front a bit and you'll
come upon a series of huge wooden
trays awash in the water These floats
or trays contain crabs that are about
to shed their shells and thus become
soft crabs" AS rapidly as the crabs
quit their shells they are taken from
the tray and packed in sea grass and
crab paper for shipment. 1t is baf-
fling, by the way, to examine shell
out of which a crab has come. The
crustacean quits his shell so neatly
and so completely that his claws and
! even his teeth come out in their en-
tirety. The operators of these shed
ders," as the soft-shell crab packers
/ call their establishments. are glad to
/ have visitors inspect their plants.
CriSf1eld has still another branch Of
/ the marine food industry that will in
/ terest the viSitor-diamond-ba ter
rapin raising. These terrapinS, you
know. are one Of Maryland'S most
| famous contributions to American
! tables. Time was when they were
plentiful in the salt marshes of the
/ Eastern Shore. They were so abun-
dant. in fact. that an ordinance was
adopted many years ago prohibiting
shareholders from feeding the dia-
mond-back to their slaves more than
rapin is scarce and he is raised very
/ carefully i'll the kind of ''terrapin
! farm" you see at Crisfeld.
The Potato Kingdom.
That's two of the Eastern Shore
world capitals" Go now to the po-
tato kingdom at EaStville. To get
| there, you must go back to Westover
| Junction and get on United States
Highway No. Is again. At the juno
ton turn right and travel south
| through Pocomoke City and cross
| into the little bit of Virginia that got
/ itself perched out there on the tip
of this DelMarVa Peninsula. Keep
travelling on through Accomac, Onley,
! EXmore and. at last, into pleasant
EaStville. The highway on this part
/ of your journey parallels the railroad,
| and if you go now, you will pass hun
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Evening star., 1934-07-22

The annual Swiss Fair Of Agricul-
ture and Food Industries viii be held
at Lausanne from September s-23.
Side shows this year win be A books.
press and graphic arts salon: an
exposition OF handicrafts: an exposi-
ton OF horticulture and a grand
aquarium.
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First Lady Wears
MousseIine de sole

remaining in their apartment at
Wardman Park, will join them
upon the adjournment of Con-
gress.
Mr.. John j. Raskob was
glimpsed with a party of friends
in the Crystal Room of the
Willard at luncheon yesterday.
x x 4
Miss Reay Bendigo Mackay,
who recently has come to Wash
ington from Australia, enter
tanned at a cocktail party yes
terday in the MayfloWer lounge.
x x X
Mr.. Henry Dawes, brother. OF
the former Vice President
Charles G. Dawes, was seen
lunching at the Willard yester-
day.
Representative Martin j. Ken
nedy had friends dining with
him last evening at the Carlton.
X X X
Former Governor Angus w.
Mclean of North Carolina has
been joined at the Carlton by
his daughter, Miss Margaret
Mclean.
The Military Attaches of the
various Embassies and Legations
met at luncheon today in the
patio of the Carlton Hotel, when
the company numbered seven
teen. Lieut.. Col. Marco Pen
naroli, of the Italian Embassy,
was in charge of the arrange
ments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley F.
Reed will entertain at dinner
this evening.
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eMaUNm .Z0ttIMggs

occasion. In order to ship the
palms, the trees had to be cut
off flush with the ground, the
leaves removed and the logs
stacked in the first freight car.
The second car, which was air
conditioned, carried the palm
fronds. A third brought purple
hibiscus and gray Spanish moss,
to add to the beauty of this &C.
casion, which was outstanding
among fashionable nuptial
events.
Social Washington is making
the most of early summer at
Rehoboth Beach with many ar
rivals daily, among them Mr..
and Mrs. John Lewis Smith, of
this city, who opened their cot
tage, "Curlew Lodge" in the
Pines, this past weekend. Mr..
and Mrs. Smith arrived there
on Friday, and Immediately
went into a huddle over plans
for celebrating their twenty
fifth wedding anniversary.
Guests motoring down from
Washington arrived within an
hour and had the host and
hostess delayed a bit it would
have been an impromptu sur
prise party for all concerned. AS
it was "a good time was had by
ALL" the guests going so far as
to offer gifts of silver (25 cent
pieces, much to the amusement
of everyone. The guests who re-
manned for the weekend were:
Mr.. and Thomas Ship, Justice
and Mrs. Oscar R. Luhring, and
Major and Mrs. John Parker.
Mrs. Alice Nibley Smoot has
issued invitations for an "at
home" on Tuesday, June IL,
from $50 to 8 o'clock, at 1888
Connecticut Avenue.
Mrs. Hebert, wife of Senator
Felix Hebert. is leaving Wash
ington today, accompanied by
her daughter, Miss Marguerite
Hebert, and her son, Mr..
Edouard Felix Hebert, for their
home at West Warwick, Rhode
Island. Senator Hebert, who is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-06

The First Lady wore a most
becoming gown of shell pink
mousseline de sole studded with
velvet dots of the same soft
shade of pink, at the June Ball,
Monday night, in New York,
given by a group of her friends
for the benefit of the Unem-
ployed Girls Club, in which she
is interested. The creme de la
creme of New York society sur
rounded Mrs. Roosevelt, at the
sumptuous dinner given in her
honor b. Mrs. William Ran
dolph Hearst before the ball.
The guests, who numbered a
hundred, included the Vincent
Astors, the Edward F. Huttons,
the w. K. Vanderbilts and a
Naval contingent mad up of
Rear and Vice Admirals with a
few Captains and Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Dennis E. Nolan. A guard
of honor swathed in gold braid
met Mrs. Roosevelt as she en-
tered the ballroom, and escorted
her to her box, where she re-
viewed the Guard Mount cere-
mony, and enjoyed the balance
of the evenings entertainment,
in which half of Broadway'S
talent took part.
Lady Lindsay, wife Of the
British Ambassador, is leaving
Washington today, to motor to
Seal Harbor, Me-, where she
will spend the summer. Lady
Elizabeth Lindsay, the Ambas-
sador's niece, will join her Sun
day. Sir Ronald is planning to
go abroad later in the summer.
X X
The Minister of Austria and
Nine. Prochnik, who have only
recently returned from a stay
of several months in Europe,
will spend July and August at
Rehoboth Beach, Del, as has
been their custom for several
years past.
The marriage of DR.. Seeming
SEE. son of the Minister Of
China and Nine. SEE, to Miss
Bessie Y. Ii. daughter of Ii
Ming, president of the Chekiang-
Industrial Bank and chairman
of the Bank of China, is now
scheduled to take place the first
week in July, rather than in
June as was originally planned.
\ X X
The princely tradition of So
ciety was upheld magnificently
at the wedding Saturday on
Long Island of Helena Mccain
and Winston Guest, polo star,
for it is said that no less a sum
than $150,000 was spent on it.
"Sunken Orchards" the home
of the brides parents, where
the nuptials took place, which
is a veritable paradise, lies on
the outskirts of oyster Bay, sur
rounded by lawns and gardens,
graperies and lighthouses. Sat
urday, a thousand guests assem-
bled there under swaying palm
trees brought from the Florida
Everglades especially for the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-06
Envoy Of France
Attends Dinner

The Ambassador of France
and Nine. de Laboulaye were
the ranking guests at the din
ner given last evening by the
Minister of Czechoslovakia and
Nine. Veverka,
The other guests were, the
Ambassador of the Union Of
Soviet Socialist Republics and
Nine. Troyanovsky. Senator
and Mrs. James F. Byrnes, Sen
ator David I. Walsh, the Min
lister of Rumania. DR.. Charles
A. Davila; the Undersecretary
of State, Mr.. William Phillips;
Representative and Mrs. Sol
Bloom, Representative and Mrs.
Fred Britten, Mrs. Harry Bax-
ter, daughter of the Secretary
of War and Mrs. George H.
Dern; Mrs. John Allan Dough-
erty, Miss Vera Bloom, Mile.
Nella Veverka, Mr.. Ernest Schlat-
ter, DR.. Joseph Schooner and Mr..
Otakar Kabelac.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-06
Party Given for
Bird e-eIect

Mrs. Stuart Walker was host
esS at a delightfully."- appointed
luncheon at the Shoreham
yesterday in honor of Miss Vir-
ginia Stokes, daughter of Col.
and Mrs. Marcus Butler Stokes,
who will be married tomorrow
to Lieut.. Homer w. Jones, U.
S. A.
The guests included relatives
of the es-to-be, and men,
bers of the wedding party.
Among those present were Mrs.
Marcus Butler Stokes. jr., of
Fort Bragg, N. c., who will be
matron-of honor for her sister
in-law, and Miss Elizabeth
Lewis, of Chester, S. c., cousin
of the ide-to-be, who will be
maid of honor; also Mrs. Stokes,
mother of Miss Stokes; Miss
Phoebe Fuller, Miss Katherine
Martin. Mrs. Francis Hagner
and Miss Alethea Anderson.
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other guests formed in line the stairway at the right
side The Charge stood first in ne with Sonora de Sacasa
his right Sonora de DeBayle next and Senorita Maria
Sacasa last.
The guests who numbered thousand representative
of the smart world of the Capital and many known
the guest of honor who caeane of the Ncaraguan
Legation here, while her husband Minister.
Two buffet tables arranged along the West side in
front of the windows overlooking the Aztec garden They
filled with all kinds of delicaces ices, sandwiches
and cakes; and small tables on the opposite side held
bowls of punch and trays of cigarettes There dancing
throughout the reception tangos rumbas we'll watzes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-06

DeDdylc was HeIu Ill CHo Hall VI Ch0
americas at the Pan-American Union.
The flags Of the Central and South
American countries bordered the ter
ace in front of the building, and
upon entering the center doorway
'veryone was greeted by the Director
General of the Pan-American Union,
DR., Leo S. Rowe.
In the Patio beyond, which is filled
with palm trees and tropical foliage,
plants, Marimba band played a pro-
gram of Latin American music as the
guests assembled, and parakeets with
their gayly-hued plumage, added a
colorful note.
The Diplomats approached the ball
room on the second floor by the
marble stairway tn the left while the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-06

picture in her rose-pink crepe
gown with a large black lace
hat ornamented with pink flow
ers. Senorita SacaSa wore pale
blue striped organza with a
hat of the same material, and
a bouquet of gardenias.
i.mong those glimpsed were:
(contAnYFd o" Page II. Col. 3
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-06
Receives Degree

The Secretary of State, Mr..
Cordell Hull, will receive the
honorary degree of doctor OF
laws at the one hundred thlr-
tenth commencement at George
Washington University today, in
recognition of his outstanding
contributions to world accord,
and friendship and understand
ing between the nations of the
Americas.
Nine. SEE, wife of the Minis
ter of China, with her daughter,
Alice, sailed from New York
today aboard the S. S. Washing
ton, to spend the summer in
England. The Minister, who
accompanied them to New York.
will return to the Capital this
evening.
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White Chiffon Gown
Sonora de Sacasa wore a
lovely gown of white chiffon,
sprinkled with gayly-colored
flowers, which matched. the
cluster on her broad-brimmed
white chiffon hat. and her bou-
uuet was of gardenias. Sonora
de DeBayle made q charming
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-06
Wife Of President Of Nicaragua
Feted at Reception Given by
Charge D'AHairs and Wife
q 9@Y ee"'''"'

The reception given yesterday afternoon IN honor OF
Sonora de Sacasa wife of the President Of Nicaragua by
the Charge d'Affares of that country and Sonora de
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-06
Chief Executive
To Fete Visitor

President Roosevelt will en-
tain at stag luncheon at the
White House on Friday in
honor of the President of the
House of Peers of Japan, Prince
Sumimaro Konoye, who will ar
rive in the Capital tomorrow.
Mrs. Roosevelt will take the
midnight train tonight for FL
kins, w. Va, where she will de-
liver an address tomorrow at
the thirtieth annual commence
ment exercises at Davis-Elkins
College. The event will take
place in the great natural am
phitheater on the campus, and
the other speakers will be Gov.
H. G. Kump and Representative
Jennings Randolph. Mrs. RooSe-
welt will return to the Capital
on Friday.
Among those VINO will &C
company the First Lady to
Elkins and Reedsville are Mrs.
Harold L. Ickes, wife of the
Secretary of the Interior, Mr..
Bernard Baruch, Miss Nancy
Cook, Judge and Mrs. Lacey, of
Detroit, Mr.. Jacob Baker and
Mrs. Malvina Thompson Schei-
der.
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Reception June IL

The Ambassador of Japan
and Nine. Saito have issued in
vitations for a reception at the
Embassy, Tuesday Afternoon,
June IL, from S until 7 o'clock,
in honor of the President of the
japanese House of Peers, Prince
Fumimaro Konoye, who will ar
rive in the Capital tomorrow
for a weeks visit.
x X X
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Fowler
will leave tomorrow by motor
for Virginia Beach where the
former will attend the Virginia
State Bankers convention. They
will return to the Capital Mon
day.
Mrs. Fowler and their daugh-
ter, Miss Dorothy Gould Fowler
returned yesterday from a few
days visit at West Point.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
BY JAMES E. ABBE

papers. It's held in EPSON, England, on
a horseshoe shaped turf track, and it
was started 100 years before America
showed her independence of England
by starting Derby of her own. And,
because of the Irish Sweepstakes and
the Calcutta Sweepstakes and the other
sweepstakes that had been hitched onto
it, the English Darby probably evokes
more genuine interest in America than
the classic that is run in Kentucky.
- Now, I'd been coming to England, off
and on, for 20 years or more, and still
had never seen the worlds greatest
horse race. had taken in the Grand
Prix at Longchamps, the green course
at Deauville, the races in Havana
(where the grandstand is filled with
New Yorkers), the tracks at Seville and
Belmont Park and I had actually seen
the Soviet Derby and wagered few
rubles at the beautiful Moscow Hippo
drome. And still had seen nothing.
So took the EPSON road.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

The Spread Eagle Hotel, Epsom's
most exclusive hostelry, has only four
rooms-but Bedford, my valet, wangled
me in. I'd picked up Bedford in a road
side "tea" on the way down, where he
seemed to be waiting for me to come
along and pay his check; and by the
time we drew up in front of the Spread
Eagle I had found that this hitherto
unemployed cockney knew races, race
horses and stables, tipsters, jockeys, odds
and whatnot. He also told me that he
knew his way around Epsom"-and
when I was settled in one of the four
huge, ax-hewn-raftered rooms of the
Spread Eagle, and Bedford was laying
out my clothes (the other suit), I
opined he knew what he was talking
about.
I began to have some suspicious about
Bedford, however, when he led me into
the bar downstairs, and the drinkers
and barmaids all stopped drinking and
barmaiding at mention of my name.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

the only racing stables located in
EPSON, Victor Smythe's an honor that
is about as accessible as presentation
at the Court of st. James. Bedford
said that the two Scotland Yard men
had helped to turn the trick, and that
I would be the only photographer
allowed inside the stables!
VICTOR SMYTHE'S stables front right
on a shaded sidewalk of an incon-
spicuous street in EPSON Town. The
entire $4,000 Derby day visitors could
pass right by the door without sus-
pecting thing. A family might live
across the street for years without
knowing what sort of place it was
or who lived behind that brick front
which gives no clue to the clustered
horse business which goes on in absolute
secrecy.
When we drove up there wasn't a
person in sight, Bedford descended and
rang a bell. After long wait small
door was opened crack; Bedford con-
versed in whispers with somebody. Then
the door was closed, and could hear a
bolt shot.
1t was nearly five minutes before the
great wooden castle looking gate in the
Evening star., 1934-06-03

they'll do with the $150,000, $4,000,
even $500 If they win. High as the
feeling is in other countries, however,
the Darby week atmosphere in England
is out-and-out feverish; the English are
the worlds greatest gamblers, bar none.
They simply pay no attention to Ramsay
MacDonald's warning that suddenly
acquired riches are bad thing" They
wisely know that gambling can't be
killed, because it's universal; even in
Russia, where everything is regimented
and nothing left to chance, an excep-
tion is made at the race track, where
legalized betting on the ponies is the
only way the poor proletarian can pos
Sibly get out of his financial rut.
THE Darby isn't merely race for the
purpose of finding out which horse
runs faStest-it's a blinkin' British in
stitution, a pagan festival which every
year is blessed by the Christian Church
of England! A festival dedicated to the
horse, an animal which the English
regard in the same awed manner that
the natives of India regard their sacred
COW. And it's not held in Kentucky,
as reported by upstart American news
Evening star., 1934-06-03
AN "EXPERT" AT THE "DARBY1
To the Millions I'LL O0r the World Who 4e Holding Sweepstakes Tickets the Famous
Horse Race England Is 'Rae to Rnhs'-Here an american
Describes the and the Classic

The barmaids began
pumping me about
horse racing in Amer
lea, and my opinion
on the Darby-me, a
rowing photographer
who knew so little
about horses that I
had picked up Bed
ford to help show me
around. The buxom-
est of the barmaids
introduced me to a
couple of friends of
hers, and when I
learned that they
were Scotland Yard
men and when they
asked me what I
liked for the Darby I
decided that I had
better make a clean
breast of it. II know
absolutely moth ing
about horse racing"
I said truthfully. The
Scotland Yard men
81 lie d knowingly,
and the more I en-
phasized my own ig-
norance of horses the
more knowingly they
smiled. But when I
walked into the din
ing room and the
brawny W a / tress
greeted me by name
and began pumping
me for tips, my sus-
picions of Bedford
became certainty. .
After dinner I got
him in a corner, and
it developed that he
had quite innocent
ly" dropped the in
formation that I was
"a famous American
racing expert"
When B e d t ord
turned up n e K t
morning he informed
me that everything
was arranged" for us
to settle down be-
hind the scenes at
Evening star., 1934-06-03

just shown
me his Irish
Hospital Sweepstakes
ticket for the Darby
(spelled ''Derby"). 1t
cost him $3.50. 1t
may bring him $780,
600; but I doubt it.
He doubts it, too.
And yeti has hap
pened before. Seems
like every year this
time, in one country
or another, I run
across somebody who
hauls out a long-shot
ticket to wealth and
tells me about the
Darby, and how it
may provide him
with all the things
he couldn't hope to
get otherwise. Nor do
any of the millions
scattered about the
earth who hold the
precious pasteboards
give a hoot that IS
per cent of the take"
(after deducting ex-
penseS) goes to main
tanning hospitals in
that land of people
who put each other
in the hospital as a
matter of course.
What's a hospital or
two in far-off Ireland
to a peon in sunny
Mexico or a coolie in
Shanghai who may
win some of what's
left?
This week millions
of relatively law
abiding citizens all
over the world, per-
haps 100000 in
America alone, are
fondling their sweep
stakes tickets and
lying awake nights
figuring out what
theX'll do with the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-30
CHAMBER To
PREPARE FOR
HOME SURVEY.

The chamber of commerce lunch.
con. to be held tomorrow noon, will
be devoted to discussion of the
Federal Housing Act, and the can
VaSS to be commenced next week in
FL Centro to ascertain Ell Centro's
remodeling needs and to urge those
whose homes need remodeling and
repairing to take advantage of the
Federal Housing Act which makes
possible loans at a low rate of in
tereSt announced w H. Tyler. Jr.,
president of the chamber.
The local federal housing commit
tee, Of which NJ. o. King is chair
man, will meet at the chamber OF
commerce tonight to perfect plans
for the survey of the city which IS
to commence November ?, and con-
tinue until every home in the city
has been visited and its occupants
acquainted with the provisions OF
the act by which they can make
necessary repairs to their homes. A
recent ruling made by the admins
tration makes it possible to secure
loans even for electrical, gas, and
similar equipment, provided these
appliances are attached permanent
ly to the building. These matters
will be discussed at the luncheon on
Wednesday.
Women are particularly invited
to attend the Wednesday luncheon
President Tyler state
"as after ali, the woman domln-
ates the home and she should be
most interested in learning about
this plan for remodeling, repairing
or enlarging the family domicile.
1t had been hoped that George
Stinson, famous tenor OF the Cali
fornia Highway Patrol, would be at
the lunceon to provide a musical
program. He wired Capt. Frank Os-
walt of the highway patrol that 1t
would be impossible for him to
reach FL Centre tomorrow in time
for the luncheon. However, his pro
gram over the NBC tomorrow from
% D. m. will be dedicated to the
Ell Centro Chamber OF Commerce
and the local housing survey, and
he will tell over the air some inter
esting facts about this city and I'M
perial Valley. Capt. Oswalt hopes TO
have Stinson present at some tu-
ture meeting of the chamber OF
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-30
NEGRO RALLY
To Be HELD
HERE FRIDAY

Because Of greater convenience
TO those whom it is desired to
reach, the countrywide political
rally for Negro voters will be held
Friday night at Second and State
street, instead of at the Imperial
county fair grounds as at first plan
ned, it was announced today.
The rally is sponsored by the
county council of Negro voters.
cooperating with the Republican
county central committee, and ar
rangements have been made for a
rally that will be entertaining as
well as instructive.
Prof. w. A. Easter, Negro edu-
Gator identified with the Los An
geleS school system, will be the
principal speaker, taking for his
subject, why the Americanism of
the Negro Voters Should Prompt
Them to Support the Republican
Ticket in the State Election" Pro-
fessor Easter is a gifted orator and
is recognized as being exception
ally well-informed on political
matters, particularly as concerns the
Negro.
He will address the meeting from
the balcony of the colored Elks
temple, and State street will be
roped off to provide adequate space
in safety for those attending the
rally. Candidate for county office
will be permitted to speak. however
a time limit will be placed on each
candidate.
Entertainment will be provided
before and during the rally by Bill
Payne's orchestra, the Brawley male
quartette and Miss Jane Hampton
Of Calexico, a talented little dane
er.
Refreshments will be served on
the lower floor of the Elks temple