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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-07-25
AS WE SEE 1T
By Monroe

lF 1T ISN'T ONE THING, ~,
another. Now we have another w. w.
in our midst. At least. 50 I
Washington Post Wanderbirds SOW
These wanderbirds are specio ~
mixers which infest the countrvsiS
every Sunday. They say:
A hitherto unrepored grove =.
Ailanthus, a serious pest tree w.,
discovered by The Post WanderbirdS
on their weekly walk Sunday in H.
woods along the Potomac River bo
tween Great Falls and River BAnd
Ailanthus, otherwise known as tbo
Chinese Tree of Heaven-dubbed tbot
probably by some wag-is generallv
known by botanists as one of tbs
most potentially serious pests in this
region.
The flower of the tree gives forth
a nauseating odor. It is a menace
because it reproduces rapidly and
grows swiftly, crowding valuable
hard wood trees out of any area in
which it flourishes.
The Chinese Tree of Heaven has
a fern-like tropical appearance. Its
leaves, 8 or feet in length. arc
divided into so or more leaflets. It's
bark is smooth.
1t was brought to this country tn
plant along the streets of industrial
towns because it was the only tree
that had the strength to live in a
smoky atmosphere. It was brought
to Washington when several persons
in Georgetown planted it on their
old places as a curiosity. The tree
has done considerably damage there
by cracking old walls and fences.
The grove reported by the Wan
derbirds probably originated from an
Ailanthus jungle near Langley, Prince
Georges County. ALI the trees seen
were between two and five years old.
SPEAKING OF TREES, the
United States Forest Service has
something.
The first general report from the
U. S. Forest Service on progress Of
the western shelter belt shows that
more than 100000 900 trees were
planted last Spring covering $500
acres in so counties along the belts
1000 miles. The great belt, 100
miles wide, zig-zags northward from
the Texas panhandle up through
Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and
the Dakotas to Canada. Up to July
/ reports from the 80 counties
showed that minimum Of 10 per
cent and an average of 80 per cent
of the plantings had survived.
Trees found adaptable to various
areas include cottonwood, green ash,
red cedar, blackberry, "ponderous"
pines and Chinese elm. Black locust
trees with rapid spreading roots
were preferred for areas of soil
erosion. The belt eventually will
act not only as watershed to check
drought and floods but will provide
haunts for wild game. New patches
will be planted gradually, at right
angles to the constant wind direction.
Tall fast growing trees are being
placed in the center, smaller ones
on either side and dense coniferous
trees on the outside.
The planting is providing tempo
rary employment for several thou
sand workers taken from relief rolls.
AS to ultimate success, the Forest
Service points to several thousand
acres of national forest in Nebraska
planted 80 years ago and now
stocked with game.
AND HOW ABOUT THE VIR
CHINA CREEPER which grows wild
around Rockville and entwined
itself around our local trees? 1t IS
a beautiful vine and it's blossoms
delight us. Let us perpetuate it by
taking care of it's roots wherever we
find it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-07-25

Crete, the third largest island Id
the Mediterranean, is the place where
naval power originated. King Mlno'
Of Cnossus, in Crete, was its founder.
He was the first ruler to acquire
dominion over the sea. Civilization Oh
the island dates back to 3400 B. u
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-07-25
Meditativs Silence

Carlyle warned the word Of the
dangers of speech-making and urgeo
people to cultivate a meditative 81
lence.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
z GET DIVORCES
IN COUNTY

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Jan.
10.-Two divorces were granted
and suit for a third filed in the
Prince Georges county circuit
court here yesterday.
Alice F. Hawkins of Mt.
Rainier was granted an absolute
divorce from Carey E. Hawkins,
1900 block Eleventh st. N. w., and
custody of their two children,
Mildred and Barbara. Mrs. Haw-
kins, in q bill of complaint pre-.
viously filed by Robert w. NC
Cullough Of Cheverly. charged
misconduct.
Reginald S. Vaughn, of Hyatts-
vile, was awarded an absolute
divorce from Mae M. Vaughn, 800
block Ninth st. N. E., and custody
of their three-year-old child,
Kemper. He charged desertion in
q bill Of complaint filed by John
F.. Li!lard, of Hyattsville.
Fannie Poms, 400 block M
st. N. W., filed suit for an abso-
lutte divorce from Benjamin Poms
of Capitol Heights, in a bill of
complaint filed by Thomas j.
Luckett of Capitol Heights. She
charges deSertion.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
Fog Costs $1,000,0 900,
Holds $500 on Liners

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 Q.N.SO
A gray, clammy fog, which envel-
oped the Atlantic seaboard today
from Wilmington, N. c., to Cape
Race, Newfoundland, brough t
losses by shipping interests to more
than $1,000,000, marooned more
than $500 passengers on incoming
liners within 10 miles Of New
York's skyscrapers, and continued
to keep most planes, passenger and
mail, grounded at Eastern airportS.
A Chicago-bound United Air
liner took off from Newark Airport
today in defiance of the fog.
No quick lifting of the fog, now
in it's fourth day, was expected at
the New York weather bureau.
The reason is that fog conditions
stretch far across the country.
Cities as far west as Kansas City,
Mo-, reported fog today.
If the fog continues until 1890
tonight it will equal the longest
fog New York has known in 20
years. In December, 1888, there
was a fog which lasted over four
days. The longest fog on record
here occurred in January, 1914,
lasting over five days.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
JOHNSON SHUNS
'35PROPHECY

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 G.N.S).
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, former
chief administrator of the NRA,
sat in his hotel suite and said:
Recovery is certainly making
fine progress. But my fingers
are crossed so far as 1885 is
concerned. I'm going to be one
of the few who will venture no
prophecy as to the immediate
present"
General johnson was in the city
today in connection with his mem
bership on the War Policy Com
mittee, by which group a report
is to be made shortly on taking
the profits out OF war"
He added that except for the
service" codes and general pub
lie enthusiasm the NRA is as
alive today as it was in
the days when he was operating
as it's administrator.
"Unless the popularity with
which the codes were first re-
Ceived is revived however. Then
the NRA is doomed, except as
to highly organized industries
like steel, coal, petroleum and
oil, where it has been q saliva
ton"
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
COLD SNAP DUE
To END FOG
TONIGHT
Murk Blamed For Cab Crash
Into Pole, Injuring Man;
Rain Expected

Poets may call it one thing or
another, but to Washington it was
just one more nasty day Of fog,
the third in row, that began this
morning. There may be drizzling
rain before night.
It will be q gloomy, warm day,
but the air will have q colder
snap in it tonight. Lowest tenn
perature last night was 81 de-
gress.
Washington's heavy blanket Of
fog was blamed today for an accl.
dent in which one man was in.
jured. He was riding in taxicab
that ran off the street into an elec-
trio light pole.
The accident occurred at Cen.
trail Avenue and Forty-ninth Street
Northeast, and the victim was
Everett Edmond, 26, of the 5000
block Ellicott st. NJ. w. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital for
cuts and bruises and removed to
his home.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
Leader SCOffs
At Club Politics

newspaper, Labor.
Denying the charges, Mrs. Keat-
ing said today:
"How perfectly silly! The elec-
tiOn was not fought along party
lines at all.
"The truth of the matter is
that Mrs. Crowther lost her tenn
per and didn't. We elected a
good president, and that's all
there is to it.
"PEEVED," SHE SAYS
"Mrs. CrOwther was Just
peeved. Many Republican wO-
men voted for Mrs. Whiting"
ton, and I guess some Demo
cratic women voted for Mrs.
CrOwther. Party politics did not
enter into our club election. The
matter is closed"
But some members say 1t is not
closed. There were threats made
by Republican women that they
will resign from the club.
To which the Democratic mem
bers blandly reply that the Demo
Gratis are running the rest Of the
nation, so why not the club?
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
"Tt's just to silly for words"

"Tt's just to silly for words"
That was the retort today by
Mrs. Edward Keating, wife OF a
former Representative from Colo
RADIO, to the charge by Mrs. Frank
Crowther, wife of a New York
Representative and defeated Can
didate for the presidency Of the
Congressional Club, that MIS-.
Keating had used threats and
intimidation" to bring about Mrs.
Crowther'S defeat for the office.
Mrs. Crowther, whose husband
is a Republican, polled Sc votes
as against 10 for Mrs. William
B. Wilmington, whose husband is
a Democratic member of the
House from Mississippi, in yester-
days club election.
Threats Charged
The defeated candidate for the
presidency of the exclusive wom-
mems club, charged that Mrs.
Keating threatened to have her
husband oppose any Congress.
man whose wife did not vote for
Mrs. Wilmington. Mr.. Keating
is now the editor Of a weekly
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
LOANS BY RFC
FREE CASH IN
SHUT BANKS
Receivers Already Advanced
$780, 100000 and $780,.
100000 More Is Available

The story of how frozen assets
in the banks which were closed by
the depression are slowly melting
into depoSitors' money was
learned at the White House today,
where President Roosevelt has re-
ceived information from Carroll
Merriam, a director of the Recon.
struction Finance Corporation.
The information states that the
RFC set up an inside organization
especially designed for the benefit
Of depositors in closed banks and
to permit the RFC to lend money
direct to the receivers of closed
banks, so that depositors could
get their money at an early date
instead of waiting for the ordi-
nary business processes to turn
some Of the assets into cash.
The White House information is
that 1,100 million dollars has been
authorized and allocated for this
purpose and that 300 million dol
lars has been actually loaned to
the receivers of closed banks, and
that the balance of more than 700
million dollars has been allocated
and authorized and will go out
very. rapidly.
The RFC officials, it is said at
the White House, are of the opin.
ion that if any other course had
been pursued in dealing with the
cash in closed banks that not half
as much of this frozen money
would have been paid out. The
Administration is inclined to use
these facts as justification of it's
policy with respect to the assets
in these banks.
White House officials said today
they were not informed as to the
details of the Presidents policy
with respect to unemployment in
surance and particularly old-age
pensions. They would give no au-
thoriay to the published statement
that the President would recon-
mend old-age pensions of $40
monthly.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
PAYERS To TALK
MARYLAND TAX

LAUREL, Md, Jan. 1O.-Kent
r. Mullikin, Democratic floor
leader in the Maryland Assembly,
will be a guest speaker at the an.
nual meeting of the Prince
Georges County Taxpayers Asso-
citation at Upper Marlboro Satur.
day afternoon.
The association will name new
officers and discuss tax, assess
ment and road problems confront
ing the county's delegation to the
Legislature.
Joseph Blandford, of Brandy
wine, retiring president, and Prof.
Paul Walker, Of the University Of
Maryland, will speak.
The association will be asked to
favor retention of the county tax
rate below 81 and to complete the
reasSessment ordered by the last
Legislature, despite agitation in
other counties to delay reassessing
for several years.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
Planes Resume Runs,
Chicago Mists Clear

CHICAGO, Jan. 10 C.N.sO.
For the first time since Ehe fog
Of record duration settled on
the Middle West SUM by, air
transport schedules we're being
resumed today in and out Of
Chicago.
AS northwest winds were clear
ing the dense mists the first
plane to arrive since Sunday, a
United Air Lines ship from the
Pacific Coast, reached Chicago
airport late last night with nine
passengers aboard.
Regular schedules also were be-
ing resumed between Cleveland
and Chicago.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10
G.N.S0 Heavy rain, which has
fallen almost uninterrupted for
the past several days, blanketed
the entire California coastal re-
gion today while blizzards ragged
in the high SierraS.
Snow, rain and hail pelted Ore
gOn ana washington.
One woman was killed and two
other pedestrians injured in Bay
region traffic accidents attributed
to the storm.
PH1LAD ELPHIA, Jan. 10
QN.S0.-Fog played havoc with
boat, train, airplane, and highway
traffic throughout Eastern Penn.
sylvania, Southern New Jersey and
Delaware today.
Regarded as the worst in years,
the murky mist crippled naviga-
ton, disrupted train and bus
schedules, and halted airplane
movements throughout this area.
Weather bureau officials said in
dlcationS are the fog will endure
for another day or two.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
LIBRARY SPACE
NEEDSTRESSED

The need for additional space
in the Congressional Library,
which will be provided by the
annex now under construction
was stressed in the annual re-
port Of the Librarian DR.. Herbert
Putnam, made public today.
Pointing out that 983.045 per-
sons visited the library during
the year, the report says:
Gas in most American II.
braries, the depression has in
creased the general and more
serious use; and the multi
fariOus problems confronting
Congress and the executive
agencies of the Government
have greatly enlarged the de-
mands which it is the special
duty Of the library to meet"
The report explains all of the
services and facilities of the IL
brary were taxed to capacity
throughout the year.
A total of 172,17O volumes and
pamphlets were added to the
library during the year, bringing
the total of separate items in
the library to nearly 100000, ex-
cluding manuscripts.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
Table Rests
In White House

That old familiar figure of
the headlines Of IS years ago,
Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, who
headed the Filipino insurrection
for two years and kept the Amer
lean Army on the jump most of
the time, has sent to President
Roosevelt an enormous circular
mahogany table around which
the cabinet could sit if the thing
wasn't SO big it can't go through
any door or window of the cabi-
net room.
The table is a beauty, carved
of two sorts of Philippine hard
woods. It's four legs are ornately
fashioned to represent the we'll
known carabao, a sort Of Philip
pine buffalo; there are IL drawers,
each carved to represent a branch
or department of government.
Each drawer marks a place for
the President, members of the
Cabinet and the vice president.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10

The table top is a perfect
circle, about II feet in diameter:
the center portion is one piece of
wood, about 91a feet in diameter.
Outside that is a rim made of a
wood known as camagon, from
the Island Of Luzon.
The table is the product of
prison labor. made at Bilbid
prison at Manila. It arrived in
Washington May IL, 1884, shipped
in three crates by Army trans
ports from Manila to New York.
AS the White House was about to
undergo repairs the table was
placed in storage.
This morning the front doors of
the White House offices had to be
taken down to admit the table,
which is now in the center of the
office lobby. It can go no fur
ther, unless the doorways are en-.
larged.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
ADULT CLASSES
ARE URGED

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Jan.
10.-W. R. c. Connick, of Baden,
in charge of adult education
classes in Prince Georges county,
financed with Federal funds, to-
day sought a conference with
State leaders in Baltimore to in
sure continuance of the classes
through the coming summer.
Present funds will carry the
work through February, although
sympathy for continuance of the
classes until June has already
been manifested, says Mr.. Con-
nick.
With emphasis on vocational
subjects, so that the results of the
work will be of permanent value,
Mr.. Connick said he hopes the
classes can be continued until
fall, dependent on whether funds
are available.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
Officers Retained
For NeighborhoOd

Miss Ellen A. Vinton, honorary
president, and Mrs. Wilbur j. Carr,
president of the Neighborhood
House, yesterday we're reelected at
a meeting of the board.
Other officers elected: Mrs.
George C. Thorpe, first vice presi'
dent; Alexander B. Trowbridge,
second vice president; Mrs. Frank
Conger Baldwin, third vice presi-
dent; Frank Conger Baldwin, sec"
retary: Mrs. Clara D. Neigh, ex-
ecutive secretary; George E. Flem-
ing, treasurer, and Irving Zirpel,
assistant treasurer.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
SENATE EACT|ON
HELD Up BY
PRESIDENT
White House Fears Bitter
Battle Over U. S: Entry
May Peril Program
BY International News Service

by international news SofV1CW
"A reservation stipulating that
America adherence to the
League of Nations World Court
would not involve the United
States in "any entangling ALI
ance" was introduced in the
Senate by Senator Vandenberg
(RO of Michigan, today, stimuli
taneously with q formal report
from the Foreign Relations Com
mittee urging ratification.
Under instructions from the
White House, Senate leaders to-
day planned to sidetrack the
League Court resolution tempo
rarily for fear a bitter battle over
its ratification would endanger
enactment of President Roose'
velt's recovery legislation.
Although the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee reported a
resolution of adherence yesterday,
with recommendations for its
ratification, a report probably will
not be submitted to the Senate
for another week or 10 days. It
will be prepared by Senator Joe
T. Robinson CD Of Arkansas,
majority leader, and he declined
to say when it would be ready.
Bitter Fight Looms
A tremendous contest will be
waged over ratification. The prin'
cipal battle will come over the is
sue of joining a tribunal set up
by the League of Nations. One
procourt Senator said the issue
would be to decide whether we
will be a party to decisions Of a
court on questions affecting Eu-
rope, Asia, or South America, in
which We have no direct interest
and which may be contrary to our
views of Justice
Administration Senators showed
extreme reticence in discussing
the subject of Senate action. Sen
ator Pittman CDO Of Nevada,
chairman of the Foreign Rela-
tionS Committee, said the decision
was up to Senator Robinson. Sen
ator Robinson said he could not
now fix a time for opening the
debate.
Way to Be Cleared
They know the Court issue will
be fought by Senators johnson
,(R.) of California, Cutting (RO
Of New Mexico, La Toilette (R0 of
Wisconsin, Copeland DD of New
York, Lewis CD Of Illinois, Gore
,(DO of Oklahoma, and Shipstead
(F.-L.) of Minnesota, who have
supported the Administration on
nearly all it's recovery measures.
There were indications the Ad-
ministration would seek action
first on all of President Roose'
velt's proposed social secueity bills
before calling up the Court. This
would mean a clearing of the legis-
lative calendar before the Court
battle is opened.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
RUSSIA

MOSCOW, Jan. 10 G.N.S).
Bringing the death toll in railway
accidents within a week to 20, six
persons were killed and IA injured
in a collision on the North Cau-
casian railroad between Koyshug
and Kayal, near Rostov-on-Don,
January 8, it was revealed today.
Ten railroad employees involved in
the Caucasian Smashup were
placed under arrest on charges of
riminal negligence-an offense
punishable by death before a firing
squad.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
Roper Assures
Business World
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
Secretary of Commerce Roper
assured the business world today
the Administration is steering a
middle course and has no inten-
ton Of veering to the left.
He declared initiation is out of
the picture and things are going
to be worked out on regular
lines; the capitalist system, or
preferably the personal property
system. is in no danger funda-
mentally" Adjustment of in
comes, or net profits, is the
administrations aim, Mr.. Roper
stated.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
Bring a Brick
Party to Build
Stars Home
Copyright, 1885, International
News SerVice)

HOLLYW OOD, Jan. 10
U.N.SD.-Two motion picture
fans gave Claudette Colbert an
idea when they sent her auto
graphed bricks through the
mail.
The donors of the Irish con-
fetti" are admirers Of the star
and suggested she use the bricks
"for luck" in her new home,
now being constructed in Bever-
" Hills.
Claudette will do just that
what is more, she'll invite her
Hollywood friends to come to a
building party" with the re-
quest each guest bring a brick.
The star expects to collect
several hundred bricks in this
manner, but doesn't care If she
gets enough to build the whole
side of the house.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
$85-MOnth Porter
Dies, Has $69,319

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 G.N.s0.
The strange story of an $85-a-
month porter at the Bankers
Club, who died and left bank &C
counts totaling $69,319, was being
investigated by police today.
The porter, John Telga, died
by gas in his two-room flat on
the East Side on Saturday and
his body was discovered yesterday.
He had been employed at the
Bankers Club for ii years and
had never been absent a day.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
$4,000 Sought
For Lees Home

Members of the Robert E. Lee
Memorial Foundation, Inc, today
issued an appeal for $4,000 to
clear all Indebtedness on Stratford
by October IL, the sixty-fifth an
niversary of Robert E. Lees death.
Contributions are solicited to
complete restoration of the home
of the great soldier-Statesman-edu-
Gator. The name of each con-
tributor will be recorded in the
contribution book, to be preserved
at Stratford Hall, Westmoreland
county, Va.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 10 G.N.SD.
Gen. P1utarco Elias Gales, former
President Of Mexico and long a
leader Of the nations affairs, is
gravely i'll at his estate near Gu
liacan, in the State of Sinaloa, it
was stated in official quarters to-
day. Five prominent doctors, in.
Guiding DR.. Lucien Miner, of Los
Angeles, were rushed to his bed
side,
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
z of Family Killed
AS Fire Races Home

SOMERSET, KY, Jan. 10
U.N.SO.-Seven members of the
family of Othel Harper were
burned to death early today when
their two-room cabin near Pubic,
is miles east of here, burned. No
members of the family were saved.
The dead are Othel Harper, IS:
his wife, "a, and their children,
Milton, 10; Wanda. 8; Elmer s.;
Denver. 8. and BerYl. l.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
DelanO to Oppose
Capitol Gas Pump

Chairman Frederic A. Delano,
Of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, has lined
up with Representative Virginia
Jenckes, member of the House
District Committee, in opposing
construction of a gasoline filling
station opposite the Capitol
grounds, she revealed yesterday.
Mrs. Jenckes, who started her bat.
tie last year said she would peti.
tion the Commission on Enlarg.
ing the Capitol Grounds, of which
Vice President Garner is chair.
man, to sustain her objection.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
FRANCE

PARIS, Jan. 10 GN.SO.-The
council Of ministers today ap-
proved the agreements reached by
Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and
Premier MussoGni at Rome, and
authorized Laval to place them be-
fore the Chamber of Deputies for
ratification. A Franco-Italian con.
sultative understanding, a settle.
ment Of African questions, and a
proposal for a Central European
non-intervention pact resulte e d
from the Rome conversations.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
LEAGUE COURT RESERVATION BARS ENHANCING ALLIANCES
World News
CEYL0N

COLOMBO, Ceylon, Jan. 10
U.N.S0.-A malaria epidemic has
taken a toll of 1000 lives in the
Kengalle district during the past
five weeks, according to reports
received here today. Two thou
sand victims were children.
The Washington times., 1935-01-10
HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The meeting of the Columbia
Historical Society will be ad-
dressed by Fred A. Emery on
washington Newspapers" at S:15
p. m. Tuesday in the Mayflower