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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
Stun Financing
Policy Changed

Cheaper rents for future tenants
of Slum- clearance, low-rent hous-
ing projects constructed by the
Housing Division of the Public
Works Administration were en-
visioned today by announcement
of a new policy of financing.
Public Works Administrator
Harold L. 1ckes announced that
PWA will make direct grants of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
NOW
INADEQUATE,
SAYS DAVIS
Huge Crowd Jams P. U. C.
Offices for Discussion of
Local Taxi Fares

Crowding the Public Utilities
Commission hearing room beyond
its capacity and requiring the re-
moval of the public hearing to the
District Building board room,
Washington taxicab drivers and
civic representatives appeared be-
fore the commission TO-DAY to dis
cuSs a new system of zone rates.
Harry C. Davis, president of the
Independent Taxicab Owners AS
ISOLATION, which controls approx
imately 1,400 Diamond Cabs. pre-
sented data to indicate that the
only system of fair" operation
would be meter operation.
However, he stated, in view of
action by Congress making a uni
form zone system mandatory, the
lowest rate which would give taxi
cab drivers living wage would be
a schedule similar to the 20-30-50-
10 rate now being used by 1857
taXicabs.
Plans Meter Fight
Mr.. Davis indicated that his or
ganization would continue a fight
for the meter rates regardless of
the zone rate fixed by the COM
mission. He said:
"The earnings of the entire
industry are inadequate, if fair
wages are to be earned by the
drivers, and we also believe that
the system in effect increases
cruising in cOngeSted areas,
causes drivers frequently to re-
fuse Improbable haulS, and
also results in many disputes.
We further believe the long
hours seriously impair the eff
cheney of the drivers and en-
danger the public. Serious acct
dents frequently result in these
long hours through excessive
mileage caused by the present
system and low rates."
The cab company official said
two taxicabS controlled by his Or
ganization have been operating
here for an extended period on the
meter rate system for the purpose
of comparing the meter rates with
the zone rates.
This study, he indicated, shows
that the cost to the public is not
greatly increased and that the
benefits to the driver are many.
Higher Rate Asked
However, the contentious of Mr..
Davis did not go unchallenged.
Numerous hackers are ready to
fight for a higher zone rate.
Members of the Cab Drivers
Protective Association were pres
ent at the hearing and are known
70 favor a 20-40-6O-8O-zone rate.
Fight for this rate led to the
calling of a strike during the
Shrine conclaVe, and drivers were
pacified only after the public hear
ing on rates was announced.
1t was apparent at the session
today that the hearing will con-
tinue for several days.
Mr.. Davis said the number of
taXlcabS operating here is far out
of proportion to the population.
He said that there is one taXicab
operating here for every al per-
sons. This number he compared
with the number of taxicabs in
New York, where there is a taxi
cab for ever. 494 persons, and in
Detroit, where the population per
taXicab is 2,502.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
Films Destroyed
At Army Museum

Fire that followed an explosion
in the film vault at the Army
Medical Museum at Seventh and
B Streets Southwest, yesterday,
destroyed several thousand feet of
movie film valued at approx
mately $4,000.
The film, said to be of great
value to the medical profession,
was stored in a Walt on the second
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
Ken Murray
Says:

That was funny about Column
bia, S. c., having to call off its
annual beauty contest because
not a single girl showed up. ..
No wonder the song writer's
haven't written any Carolina
songs lately.
While this may sound as if
there are no beautiful girls in
Columbia, can prove otherwise,
having played there last winter
with the "Vanities". Would
the officials be interested in
couple Of dandy phone nu
berS?
You know, it's really surp,
ing these days, that all won
aren't as beautiful as Helen
Troy. 1t all sounds So ca
after listening to one of thos
cosmetic programs on the radio.
so REMEMBER:
Beauty is only skin dope.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
FUNDS AWARDED

international News Service
Allotment of $148,300 for the
maintenance of rivers and barbors
equipment in the Pittsburgh dis
trict was approved by the War De-
partment today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
MAN DYING; HUNT KIN

Police today are searching for
relatives of Harry Saunders, 70,
colored, who was taken to Gal
linger Hospital on July 4 for OBJ
servation when he was found to
be suffering from Authorizations.
The aged man is said to be dying.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08

As per cent on such projects, and
loans of SIS per cent, under the
new regulations for the Work
Relief Act. Interest on the loans
will not exceed three per cent,
with amortization to extend over a
60-year period.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
Pet Rat Bites Boy;
Rabies Suspected

Frederick Colbert. 7. colored. of
the $500 block N. St. N. W., while
playing with a pet rat was bitten
on the left hand yesterday. He
was given two injections of anti.
rabies serum at Georgetown Hos
initial
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
SAP CAMERA STOLEN

Wilfred Offutt, 3114 Wisconsin
Ave, reported to police that a
thief stole a camera worth $42
and a flashlight from his car
when he left it parked at the
Tidal Basin Saturday night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08
COMPROMISE DISTRICT TANGLE LOOMS THIS
NOW
Another Way to
Be NOnchGLGnt
CAFESCANDAL
BY HELEN ESSARY

A Friend of Ours Who-Mostly-
Dines.Out declares he heard
this with his own ears at a
Connecticut Avenue restaurant.
Two first-term Representa-
tives from the Southwestern
friend wouldn't tell us their
names-were finishing dinner
when Ramon, the head waiter,
came to their table with this
suggestion:
"And now perhaps the gen.
tlemen would like two nice lit
tie demi-taSseS!"
Up jumped the Representa-.
tives, knocking over a water
glass, and said practically as
one mani:
"Demi tassies! Gosh, no!
We've got to meet our wives
In . few minutes"
People we know discover the
most extraordinary things.
Isabel Kinnear Griffin, for in.
stance.
She just phoned to say that
yesterday she saw turned up
side down in an automobile
a miracle. And it chewed gum!
This is her story: The bus
she was in collided with an
automobile which had suddenly
sprung past a stop sign on P
Street into Seventeenth.
The force of the collision was
80 great that the automobile
was thrown in the air and
landed 20 feet away. Quite up
side down on the asphalt.
While the passengers shuddered
in horror-one woman had hys.
terics-an excited crowd gath
cred.
Eight or 10 men apprehen-
sively lifted the car, expecting
to find the crushed bodies of
several people.
Instead, within the tumbled
cushions was one dazed man.
Sitting upright! The man
stared blankly for a minute at
the anxious crowd.
Suddenly his face lighted. He
began to search frantically
through his coat pockets.
Found a package of chewing
gum. Tore off the wrapper.
Popped three or four pieces in
his mouth. And began to chew
violently.
With the first chew he sighed
contentedly. Then started to
get to his feet. BY this time
the crowd had got the car on
its wheels. Someone was push
ing aside the glass of one
broken window. The bus driver,
taking the man by the arm,
said:
Listen, buddy, you must be
hurt. I've got a taxi here ready
to take you to the hospital"
"You go to the devil" NUT
tered the upside man through
his chewing gum. Then walked
over to his car and drove away.
We told Isabel Griffin to send
the story to a chewing gum
trust. It ought to make her a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08

Dear Congresswoman Norton:
When you, as Chairman of the
District Committee, get your
Washington subway plan
started, will you please run one
of its underground roads under
Connecticut Avenue?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08

Louisa G. says she met Mrs.
Borden Hartman shopping
and went home feeling mussed,
crumpled, and hippy. Mrs.
Hartman looked so cool in a
black and white frock and a
wide hat with tailored bow.
Her skin was fresh and her
eyes were rested. Louisa says
Mrs. H. was carrying herself
so we'll that every woman who
passed inStinctively straight
ened her own back.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-08

I Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., has
been talking about a country
! wedding she went to at the old
Catoctin Baptist Church on a
! winding dirt road outside Per-
cersville, Va. The bride and
groom were Margaret James and
Ensign John Augustine Tyree.
Catoctin is the Oldest Baptist
Church in Virginia which has
held continuous services since
1t was founded. In 1851 the
brides paternal great-grand-
father and group of his friends
established the church.
The original building was a
log house. The present brick
church, more than a hundred
years old, is Georgian. High
backed benches. Mrs. Evans
says, make one sit tall and at
tentive. Fat-bellied stoves on
each side of the church supply
the winters heating. The care
takers cottage, at the gate to
the church yard, has its origi.
nal stone chimneyS.
The wedding music was "Oh
Promise Me-" and came from
q tinkling old square piano.
The Washington times., 1935-10-17
On Sunday Program

The themes shown above from
the third movement Of Tschai-
kowsky's Pathetic Symphony" "
which will be heard Sunday after.
noon at Constitution Hall on the
program of the opening concert
Of the National Symphony Or
chestra under the direction Of DR..
Hans Kinder, sound the trum-
pet call for q rally and counter
attack against the morbid melan-
choly of the two preceding move
mentS.
The hosts of human courage
march at q quick pace to take
arms against q sea Of troubles" 3"
with temporary success. The
strings and woodwinds start the
movement in triple time with q
rustic. of foreboding activity.
Strangely enough the first trum-
pet call is sounded in the small
but penetrating voice Of the oboe.
The braSSes quickly take up
the clarion call which vitalizes
the whole movement and urges
it on to a mighty climax. There
is q persistent nervous rhythm
growing in power until the whole
orchestra bursts forth into q
bolder rhythm. The theme Is
surrounded first by inceSsant
triplets which are later discarded
for the blazing fury Of rapid
scales.
The Washington times., 1935-10-17

through which the emerald green
Of the waterfall with It's white
foam penetrates. This distant
background with the shores Of the
lake seems transfigured by a sort
Of moonlight. When the curtain
rises, youths reclining on the
rocky projections, answering the
beckoning Of the nymphs, hurry
down to them. Beside the basin
Of the waterfall. the nymphs have
begun The dance designed to lure
the youths o them. They pair
off; flight and chase enliven the
dance.
From a distant background a
procession of Bacchantes ap.
proaches, rushing through tn e
rows Of the loving couples and
stimulating them to wilder pleas
ureS. With gestures Of enthusi-
astic intoxication they tempt the
lovers to growing reckleSSneSS
Satyrs and FaunS have appeared
from the cleft Of the rocks and,
dancing the while, force their way
between the Bacchantes and low.
ers, increasing the disorder by
chasing the nymphS. The tumult
reaches its height, whereupon the
Graces rise in horror and seek
to put a stop to the wild con.
duct of the dancing rout and
drive the mad roiSterers from the
scene. Fearful that they them.
selves might be drawn into tn e
The Washington times., 1935-10-17
Wife Gets $4,000
For Death Of Mate

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-For the
death of her husband, killed in a
fall out of a Venetian gondoia at
q Coney Island amusement park,
Mrs. Catherine NevinS, of YonE'
ers, was awarded $4,000 IN
Supreme Court, White Plains.
Mrs. Nevins charged the side
Of the gondola, which ran on a
track, was not properly protected
by a guard rail. Thomas j.
O,Neill, of '405 Lexington Ave-,
was the attorney for Mrs. Nevins
The Washington times., 1935-10-17
THREE IN RACE
FOR BARNARD'S
PENAL POST

While Capt. M. M. Barnard,
general superintendent of District
penal institutions, carries on In
definitely the race for his sue
cessor has narrowed down to
three prison officials, it was
learned today at the District
Building.
Thomas M. RiveS, superintend-
ent Of the District Jail, has come
into favor with District officials
and stood out today as the most
likely to step into Captain Bar
nard's job.
Past Retirement Age
Captain Barnard is now past
the mandatory rtire 1t ago. He
is over 10. He was sven a two
year extension during the admin
istration Of former President Her,
bert Hoover. His successor Will
be named as soon as District Of
ficialS can agree upon one.
Commissioner George E. Allen,
under whose jurisdiction are the
penal institutions, is sold" on
Captain Barnard and intends
keeping him in his position as
long as possible.
Recent visits the Commissioner
made to the District Jail on an
informal inspection tour brought
Superintendent Rives to light and
placed him in the favor of Com
missioner Allen.
Other candidates for the posi-
ton are Col. William l.. Peak, su
perintendent of the District Re
formatory at Lorton, and Harold
L. Donnell, superintendent o1
Maryland prisons.
Supported by Rep. Norton
Colonel Peak has the support o1
Representative Mary T. Norton
Cd Of New Jersey, chairman Of
the House District Committee, and
local labor unions.
Mr.. Donnell was given the in
dorSement by the oBard of PpbliC
welfare last spring. Elwood Street
director Of the board, sent the in
dorsement to the Commissioners
but they have not taken any
action on it.
Senator William H. King CD
Of Utah, chairman of the Senate
District Committee, in a public
statement last spring, opposed the
appointment other than a loca
man to succeed Captain Barnard
The Washington times., 1935-10-17

whirlpool, they turn to the sleep
ing Cupids and drive them aloft.
They flutter about, then gather
in ranks on high, filling the up
per spaces of the cave, whence
they send down a hail Of arrows
upon the wild revelers. These,
wounded by the arrows, filled
with q mighty love longing, cease
their dance and sink down ex-
hausted."
The Washington times., 1935-10-17

"a suggestion for using and
preserving the daily music
themes: Many teachers Of music
appreciation advise their pupils
to clip the daily themes, paste
them on 3x5 filing cards. place
the composers name at the top
and file them in alphabetical or
der by compoSerS0
Music that is subtle and Seduc'
tive, delirious and exuberant, &C.
stactic and raging, will be heard
when the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra under the direction Of
DR.. Leopold Stokowski plays the
"Venusberg" music from Tam
hauser," at the first concert Of
the season by this organization
in Constitution Hall, october "a.
The "Venusberg" music for the
ballet was not originally included
in the opera "Tannhauser."
When Napoleon commanded q
performance at the Paris Opera
House in 1861, the invariable
rule was that all opera perform
ances must contain a ballet to
satisfy the members of the Jockey
Club, a wealthy and aristocratic
organization literally supporting
the Opera.
Wagner's keen artistic sense in
formed him that ballet in the
first act where TannhauSer an
swered the siren call Of Venus,
the goddess Of profane love,
would add to the dramatic ef-
feet of the opera.
Vivid Picture
A vivid picture of Wagner's own
conception of the Venusberg scene
follows: The scene represents
the interior of the Venusberg in
the neighborhood of Eisenach. A
large cave which seems to extend
to an invisible distance at a turn
to the right. From cleft through
which the pale light Of day pene-
trates, a ,;reen waterfall tumbleS
over rocks the entire length Of the
cave. From the basin which re-
ceives the water a brook flows
towards the background, where it
spreads into a lake in which
naiads are seen bathing and on
the banks of which sirens are re-
cnning. On both sides of the
grotto rocky projections Of irreg-
ular form, overgrown with Singu.
lar, coral.like tropical plants.
Before an opening extending
upwards on the left, from which
a rosy twilight enters, Venus lies
upon a rich couch; before her, his
head upon her lap, his harp by
his side, half kneeling, reclines
Tannhauser. Surrounding til e
couch in fascinating embrace are
the three Graces. Beside and be.
hind the couch are innumerable
sleeping Amorettes (Cupids) in
attitudes Of wild disorder. like
children who have fallen asleep
wearied with the exertions Of a
combat.
"The entire foreground is illu-
mined by a magical, ruddy light
| shining upwards from below
The Washington times., 1935-10-17
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Themes From Third Movement, Pathetic Symphony,
By TschoikowskY
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-09-05
Juggling With McGuffey

You just can't fool these McGuf-
feyites. Print the smallest error in
quotation from one of the texts that
once appeared in a McGuffey reader,
or credit it to the wrong author,
and it won't be Is minutes after the
paper is out before McGuffey DEL
egation will wait on you and point
out your blunder.
Or, if a speaker or preacher mis-
quotes anything that has been print
ed as a McGuffey selection, the
audience may or may not stop him
before he is through, to tell him of
his error. For the McGuffey read
ers somehow or other so worked in
to the heart, mind and spirit of the
pupils who had those readers in
their school courses, that no matter
how old they grow they always
know their McGuffey stuff.
This newspaper printed an editor
ial in which it was said that Alfred
Tennyson wrote that poem about
Maud Muller and her hay-raking
experience. Of course it was not
Tennyson, but Whittier who wrote
that gem, and the error was mex
cusable The writer was immedi-
ately reminded of the faux pas by
visiting and writing-in McCuffeyites
and. the McGuffey Society, which
meets on the fourth Tuesday even
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-09-05
Sharp Ridge

York township school opened
Tuesday, Sept. 3.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer ,Revenaugh
and son Edsel and Mrs. Ida Rev
enaugh of Blue Rock, visited Sum
day at the H. B. Snyder home.
Ida Wilson of Duncan Falls spent
the week end with her sister, Mrs.
II. B. Snyder, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Durant and
ton and Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Du-
rant of Akron visited Saturday and
Sunday with Mrs. Mary Dickson.
Will Cunningham and family of
GAINESVILLE spent several days at the
Cunningham farm and Ribble home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lindimore
and daughter of Eagleport and Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Rambo dorothy
Ribble) spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Ribble.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Snyder and
three sons were in GAINESVILLE, Sat-
urday.
Annie Nutter spent the past week
with Stella Eye.
MI. anu MIS-. CldFeHce Riddle at
tended the state fair.
Arthur Fouts lost a horse last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Snyder and
daughter Ethel were in GAINESVILLE,
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Nutter and
daughter spent Tuesday with her
father, Sylvester Fletcher, Of Blue
Rock.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-09-05

why some folks read our penciling.
Don't sing that way. When you
meet to wonder why we died at
that time-and not before. We for
get that we are writing church his
tory. Anyway sing something ap-
propriate, like "On Jordan's Stormy
Banks I Stand" We feel this would
suit our case, as much of pleasure
in life has been seeing the glimmer
of something we wished for, some
four jumps ahead-but Billie Cham
bers, our story would not be COM
plete did we not tell you more about
this man coming to Morgan from
Belmont county back when every
thing was different. Coming in
time to help build churches, schools
and lodges. Mr.. Chambers was not
only devout Christian, but loyal
member of the I. o. o. r. Attend
ing his lodge on Saturday night and
his church on Sunday was a part of
his life as much as his meals We
well remember seeing him riding his
old ssway backed horse. In fact it
was so much SO that when he was
seated he not only had windshield
before, but behind also.
His death came sudden and unex-
pected-though old he continued to
work about the farm. On the day
of his death he was engaged in
fence along the lane that
leads to the house where his son-in-
law Geo. Wilson and family had
lived. When the dinner hour came,
the daughters sent a granddaughter
now Mrs. Fauna Wilson, GAINESVILLE,
to tell him to come to dinner. On
her arrival at the place where he
had been working, she found him
dead. Hurrying back to the home.
then without telephones as now,
someone hurried to Abe Hayes home
(Wilson place., then Mr.. Hayes on
horseback came to the j. w. Par
miter saw mill in Big Hollow, say
ing he knew he would find four of
is there. The four, as we remem-
Der, J. w. Parmiter, Tom Knox,
was in the spring of 1900. Mrs.
Chambers died several years before
Mr.. Chambers.
Writing only as names come to us
Ind from families come to us, we
Will probably skip around quite a
bit.
The DeVittS
Robert Dewitt and wife, or rather |
wives, lived near by the church, |
n the home now owned by a grand |
son, Carl Dewitt. Their children
James, Finley, Alexander, John, |
William, Ellen Henderson and Belle |
Walker The Devitts were a mu-
sical bunch, their home was always |
open to the preachers. Like the |
Chambers, the Devitts are all gone. |
Not having any of the old class !