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Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-15

WASHINGTON, May Is UP -
Congressman are contributing to
the high cost Of government by
taking home government type
writer's, pilfering house restaurant
silverware and abusing franking
privileges.
These and other facts contribut-
ing to the cost Of running congress
were revealed today as the house
appropriations committee reported
i $20,355,870 bill to cover congress
sion4l expenses.
TIE bill, last regular aprropria-
tion measure OF Tn" session pro-
vide3 salaries Of genator anG rep
reacI atives, travelling eXpe1fe5, up
k2op Cf the capitol. office buildings.
COLI pIessional hilary ana botan:cel
gardens. The total is $1,884,934
more than last year, but S2,59O14O
less than budget estimates.
During hearings on the bill, it
was brought out that:
l. Silverware from the restaurant
engraved house Of Representatives"
has been stolen in serious amounts,
apparently for souvenir purposes.
l. Government typewriterS sup
posed to rema,n in coligrcrs'' nal
offices often have been sent back
to congressman homes.
3. Congressional library officials
have had to mark off as lost numer-
Gus books which congresSmen lave
Withdrawn and failed 30 return
4. F'ranking privileges have been
abused to the extent that two un-
named members had their franks
temporarily taken away from them
by the house accounts committea.
At the request OF Capt William
S. Orthman, head of the capitol
police, the committee placed in the
bill a proviso that new policemen
hereafter must meet certain physical
standards.
Orthman complained that the
patronage policemen" he gets
range in age from 18 to 70, that
some of them are only five feet
four and weigh 1l0 pounds, while
one or two are six feet and weigh
around l25 pounds.
Chairman Lindsay Warren of the
house accounts committee said he
from two members as very shock
ing"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-15
NOTED BRITISH
AVA TOR HAS
CLOSE CALL

SYDNEY, New South Wales, May
Is. U.P)-Sir Charles Kingsford-
Smith, Australia IS great aviator
landed his airplane Southern Cross
at Mascot Airdome today after a
seven hour fight for life over the
Tasman sea against tremendous
odds.
With Capt. P. C. Taylor and j.
Stannage, Air Commodore Kings
ford-Smith, hero of a dozen air adj
ventures and twice conquercr of the
Pacific. started from Sydney on
1926 mile flight to New Zealand
across the Tasman sea.
He was carrying 398 pounds of
special "jubileeo air mail on
flight in honor of King George S
25th anniversary of the throne.
The flight was without incident
until he reached a point $50 miles
cut.
Then without warning the three
motored plane lest its Starboard
propeller.
Kingsford- Smith had to decide
whether to advance or to go back.
He was almost half way across. He
decided to make for Sydney.
From then, a series Of poignant
messages told the progress of his
flight.
The port motor began TO splutter,
and at one time Kingsford-Smith
feared it could not last Is minutes
more He even Wirelessed that he
thought ne was about to go into
the sea, But he got a gallon Of
gasoline from the useless star
board engine and put it right again.
He dumped his cargo to which he
had held to the last extremity.
He gained 100 feet altitude, a
matter then of life or death.
Ships from all over the area, in
Guiding H. M. S. Sussex, began
racing to his course.
There were long periods OF sill
ence. and for hours his fate was
not known. Then he was sighted
off the coast here. Crowds flocked
to Mascot Airdrome and at 4:10 p.
m. to cheers that echoed for miles,
he made a perfect landing.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-15
MEAN JUDGE
GREENFIELD, Mass. Ml

GREENFIELD, Mass, May Is U,R)
You kiss while you're driving
and the fine is $40 in Franklin
County.
That was the experience of Rob-
ert Denniston of Burlington, Me,
who, according TO Police Chief Ed
ward j. Redmond, kissed a woman
companion at intervals of about a
mile and a half while driving along
the highway.
Denniston was fined $40 in Dis
trict Court for driving without a
license.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-15
TWo Year Old Baby
Enjoys His Tobacco

McALESTER, OKIa., May Is U.P)--
Most babies like ice cream cones or
candy but -year-old John M
Mullican, Jr., will have a cigar, if
you don't mind.
There's nothing like a good cigar,
or even a chew of tobacco, for him.
The smoking habit isn't exactly
new" to the boy, his father said. In
fact, he said, the boy began using
tobacco at the age of seven months.
1t was his fathers pipe.
Mrs. Mullican said the habit has
rot injured the baby'S health.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-15
DESSERTS THEIR DONATION

BRYN MAWR, Pa. (Up = Bryn
Mawr girls gave up desserts for
month to aid the college campaign
for $1,000,000. The money saved by
not serving desserts after meals in
the six residence halls was used to-
ward undergraduates quota of 500
OO0
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-15

the story that a man named Tabor
liver near the mouth of the Toma-
hawk until the closing months of
the Civil War and appeared to have
an inexhaustible supply of new
silver
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Entertainments in
Nearby Suburbs

Mrs. Allan H. Kirk entertained at
bridge Monday afternoon in her home
in Herndon, Va, when her guests
included Mrs. Bentley Harrison. Mrs.
Ruth Keyes, Mrs. Harold F. Weller.
Mrs. Powell Summers. Mrs. Harvey
E. Hanes, Mrs. Charles Rider. Mrs.
Arthur Hyde Buell., Miss Matilda
Decker, Mrs. Roscoe Crippen, Mrs.
T. S. johnson and Mrs. Walter
Carter.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Albert Teunis Of
Cherrydale, Va, are receiving con-
gratulations on the birth of son
April Z, at DR.. Waltons private hos
pital in Cherrydale.
Mrs. Hugh g. Grant was hostess
to small company at luncheon yes
terday in her home on Glebe road in
Arlington County. Va.
Mr.. Holcomb Rogers and Miss Edith
Rogers Of Floris, Va, were recent
hosts at contract bridge, followed by
midnight supper. Their guests in
cluded Mrs. Thomas Keane Of Forest
Hills, N Y; Miss Dorothy Rogers Of
New Brunswick. N. j.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Cassius M. Lawrence, DR.. and Mrs
William Meyer, Mr.. George Ramsey
Bready and Mrs. z. Barbour Hutchi-
son Of Herndon, Va. and Prof. and
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Easter" Presented
Good Friday Night

AS an appropriate event Of Holy
week, the presentation of the Strind-
berg drama, Easter" with the music
of Haydn's Seven Last Words From
the Cross" Good Friday night at $3.50
o'clock in the Wardman Park Theater
is attracting unusual interest among
Washingtonians, especially as the pro-
ceeds from the presentation will 60
toward the much-yearned-for metal
bus top for the boys and girls of
Neighborhood House.
Among subscribers for the presenta-
ton. to be offered by the acting and
singing groups of the King Smith Stu
dio School, are Mr.. and Mrs. Rolfe
Boiling, who will have a group of
guests with them; Mrs. Tracy Dows,
Mrs. Charles w. Fairfax, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe, Mrs. Hennen jan
nings and Mr.. and Mrs. Burrows Nc
Neir from Warrenton.
The event is sponsored by members
of the Board of Trustees of Neighbor-
hood House and tickets may be had
at the King Smith School and at the
door of Wardman Park Theater Fri
day evening.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Dinners Last Night;
Luncheon Parties

Mr.. and Mrs. T. Kinsey Carpenter
entertained at dinner last evening in
their home in Wesley Heights. The
guests were Senator and Mrs. Daniel
o. Hastings, Senator John G. Town
send, jr, and his daughter, Miss Lyla
Townsend; the former Vice President
Mr.. Charles Curtis, and his sister,
Mrs. Jerome Colvin. of Topeka, and
their brother-in-law and sister. Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, and
Mrs. Edwin G. Bowman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Webb en-
tertained at dinner last evening at
the Little Tea House. their guests be-
ing Miss Elizabeth w. Clement and
Miss Julia Holland of Rutland, VT,
and Miss Marian B. Webb.
Mrs. Claude M. Houchins enter
tanned at luncheon at the University
Club today in honor Of Mrs. Law
renee Mcdaniel of st. Louis, regent
of the Cornelia Greene Chapter, D.
A. r, who is here for the convention;
Mrs. Zimmerman, wife of Represent
ative Orville Zimmerman of Missouri
and Miss Mary Ball Of st. Louis.
Miss Ball will remain in Washing
ton until early Summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Ferguson OF
Cleveland, Ohio, were the guests IN
whose honor Mr.. and Mrs. George
w. Porter entertained at dinner last
evening at the Little Tea House.
Mrs. G. H. Edgerly entertained at
luncheon yesterday at the Carlton in
honor of delegates to the D. A. r.
Congress from the State of Mis-
sissippi. The company numbered 20.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Mrs. Loose Hostess
New York Guests

Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick T. Bonham
of the Waldorf Astoria Towers, New
York, and Walhall, Riverside, Conn.,,
are at the Shoreham for a few days
to visit Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose.
Brig. Gen. William E. Horton enter
tanned at dinner last evening in honor
Of the visitors. AS the former Mrs.
Valeria Langeloth, Mrs. Bonham is
well known in Washington, where she
has visited frequently.
Mrs. Bonham established and en-
dowed the Valeria Home, at Osca-
wana, N. Y, q place for the better
class self-supporting men and women
to spend vacations and recuperate
from illnesses, and where $4,000 peo-
pie have been accommodated since II
was founded. 10 years ago.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Mrs. Roosevelt Returns
FrOmNeWY YOrk-Guests
With Her From Maine
Mrs. Garner to Be Observation-Disclosures
Hosts-News of Other
Officials.

Dorothy Switzer, daughter Of Col
John s. Switzer, U. 8. A., retired. ard
Mrs. Switzer. Mr.. Gibson is q lawyer
and is secretary Of the Vermont
Senate.
Mrs. Bland, wife Of Representative
Schuyler Otis Bland. will entertain a
company at luncheon Thursday,
April Is.
Representative Chester C. Bolton
has been joined by Mrs. Bolton, who
has been in Florida for some time.
The naval attache of the Italian
Embassy, Comdr. don Umberto Cugia,
Marquis Of Sant'Orsola, was host at
luncheon today at the Mayflower,
having as his guests the naval at
taches and assistant naval attaches
to the other embassies In Washington
Several officers of the United States
Navy also were present.
The attache of the British Embassy
and Mrs. Harold H. Sims left WASH
ington today for Montreal, Canada,
where they will spend the week with
Mr.. Sims mother, Mrs. Haig Sims.
The Assistant Attorney General,
Mr.. Frank j. Wideman, left today
for Cincinnati to argue cases for the
Government in the Circuit Court Of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Mrs. A. r. Alley of New York is the
guest of her son, Mr.. James B. Alley.
recently appointed general counsel of
the Reconstruction Finance Corp, in
his apartment at the Mayflower, and
will remain in the city until Friday.
Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie,
sixth baronet of Polkemmet and mem
ber of Parliament from Linlithgow-
shire since 1881, arrived in New York
aboard the Berengeria yesterday. He
is expected to come to the Capital,
where he was for some time secre-
tary of the British Embassy.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Church Dinner
In Parish Hall

The Rector's Aid Society Of All
Souls Memorial Episcopal Church will
give dinner and setting will be in
keeping with the Springtime, the color
and perfume Of flowers. music and
other features adding to the JOY Of
the evening.
The drawing room will provide a
charming spot in which to mingle
with your friends and to enjoy the
entertainment provided for your
pleasure.
The dinner will be held in the
Parish Hall. Cathedral avenue and
Woodley place, Thursday. April IS,
from 6 to 7:30 o'clock.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Miss Koontz to Wed
MIR. Loefher in Nav

Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Berkeley
Koontz Of 1903 Geranium street
northwest announce the engagement
Of their daughter Mary Katherine to
Mr. Andreas Lain Loeffier, son of
Mrs. Loefler and the late Charles
A. M. Loeffler of Wynnewood Park,
Md. Mr. Koontz is assistant treas
urer of the Capital Transit Co.
Miss Koontz is a graduate Of the
Sacred Heart Convent and Mr.. Loef-
fer is a graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania and the Wharton
School OF Finance In the class Of '27,
He Is o member Of Sigma Nu and
Kappa Phi Fraternities. The we'd
ding will take place May %.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

@REsIDENT and Mrs Roosevelt
have as their guests at the
White House Mr.. ami Mrs.
Il David Gay of Maine. Mrs.
Roosevelt came back this
morning from New York, where she
spent yesterday for the annual
exhibit of products from the ValKlll
factory. which was held in her New
York City home.
This morning Mrs. Roosevelt re-
ceived the Children Of the American
Revolution and later had luncheon at
the Cosmos Club with the members
of the Seventy-third Club, composed
of wives of members of the Seventy
third Congress This afternoon Mrs.
Roosevelt will receive a delegation of
farm owmen from North Carolina.
Mrs. Garner. wife of the Vice Pres
ident, will be the guest in whose honor
Mrs Robinson, wife of Senator
Joseph T. Robinson, will entertain at
luncheon Saturday.
Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, wife of the
Secretary of Commerce, will entertain
this afternoon at tea from to
o'clock in her home at 300l Woodland
drive her guests being the delegates
from North Carolina, South Carolina
and the District of Columbia to the
N. S. D. A. r. Mrs. Becker and Mrs.
Gillentine, candidates for president
general of the society will be among
the guests.
The Minister of Hungary and Nine.
Pelenyi will entertain at dinner
Friday, April 26, when the ranking
guest will be the Ambassador of Peru,
Senior Don Manuel de Freyre y San
tander.
Senator Ernest w. Gibson of Ver-
mont and his daughter. Miss Doris
Gibson, have as their guests in their
apartment at Wardman Park Hotel
the formers son and daughter-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs Ernest w. Gibson,
jr, Mrs, Gibson was formerly Miss
Evening star., 1935-04-17
PiDelta Kappa
Dance Saturday

The Pi Delta Kappa Fraternity will
hold its annual Easter dance in the
hall of nations ball room in the
Washington Hotel Saturday. The
Committee on Arrangements has pro-
vided delightful program. Among
the many prizes to be given to their
guests is a handsome silver loving cup.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
FRATERNITY BANQUET
Council of Colored College Groups
Meets at Howard.

The newly organized council OF
colored collegiate fraternities and
sororities held its first annual ban
quet last night in the dining hall
Of Howard University. Belford "
Lawson, jr., was toastmaster.
Speakers included Hubert T. De-
laney, commissioner of taxes and as
sessments of New York, and DR.. G
Hamilton Francis. former president
Of the National Medical Association
Evening star., 1935-04-17
RUTLAND TO SPEAK
Takoma Park Citizens Also tc
Hear Miss Roche.

DR.. George c. Ruhland, District
health officer. and Miss Josephine
Roche. Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, will be guest speakers of
the Takoma Park Citizens Associa-
ton Friday at 7:30 pm. In the Ia
koma Park branch library, Fifth and
Cedar streets.
1t will be a health and welfare
meeting and among the subjects to
be discussed are improvement and
protection Of health OF school cril-
dren and care OF infants to prevent
blindness at birth.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

Mrs. Frederick Poteet Of F1oris. High
scores were made by Prof. Poteet and
Mrs. Keane.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08
LAYTONSVILLE

Adelaide and William Hodges of
Ellicott City are visiting at the home
of their aunt Mrs. Washington w.
White.
Members of the Barber family gave
Mrs. Edward Barber surprise birth
day party at her home on the Lay
louisville Gaithersburg Road on Friday
evening. Those in attendance number
ing about twenty.
Mrs. Uriah Griffith entertained with
a dinner party in her home on Tues
day in honor of Miss Margaret Naylor
whose marriage to Mr.. James Laud-
erdale takes place on August TO- The
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Dorsey, Miss Charlotte Dorsey, Miss
Margaret Naylor Of Hyattsville; Mr..
James Lauderdale, Washington; Mr..
and Mrs. Washington White, Miss
Elizabeth Griffith, Miss Virginia
Griffith of Laytonsville; Mrs. William
p. Sherman of New York.
Mrs. William P. Sherman of Man
hassett, New York with her children
Betty and Billy is spending a month
with Mrs. Uriah Griffith. Mr.. Shear
man to join them later. Mrs. Shear
man spent several days this week in
Hyattsville with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Dorsey and attended a shower and a
dinner given in honor of Miss Mar
garet Naylor whose marriage to Mr..
James Lauderdale takes place shortly.
Mrs. Howard Davis of Washington,
and her small son, Jack Riggs Davis,
are visiting at the home of her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. Elgee Riggs.
Mrs. Gordon Keys, Laytonsville,
and Miss Mary Ryon of Hyattsville,
left on Monday for week at Ocean
City, Gordon Jr., remaining with the
grandmother Mrs. Samuel Riggs.
Rev. and Mrs. w. A. Ledford re-
Gently spent several days in Richmond
Va, where they attended the funeral
of a relative. The Aid Society of
Wesley Grove Church meets in the
hall in Woodfield on Wednesday of
this week. On Thursday the Sunday
School under direction of the super
intendent Raymond Kemp will have a
picnic at Braddock Heights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Washington White,
Miss Elizabeth Griffith and Miss Vir-
GINA Griffith expect to leave on Mon
day for a trip to Norfolk by boat.
The White children will visit their
cousins the Hodges family in Ellicott
City during their parents absence.
Mrs. Columbia ]. Waters who cele-
brated her ninetieth birthday on
Easter Sunday has been i'll at the
home Of her daughter Mrs. H. Samuel
Riggs near Etchison.
The annual reunion of the King
Burdette families will be held on Sat
urday on the grounds of Wesley
Grove Church with a program in the
church at IL A. M.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08
Fossils From Patagonia
Brought to u. S. Museum

Bones of an extinct f1esh-eating ami
NAL related to the kangaroo but much
bigger than grizzly bear, fossil frogs
remains of totally new kind Of fOs.
sill browsing animal five feet high. are
among the scientific trophies brought
back from South America to the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History here.
by DIR. George Gaylord Simpson, as
ISOLATE curator Of vertebrate paleon-
tol0gy, says the Kansas City Stars
Science Service.
Doctor Simpson and his associates
made actual a semi-legendary 'place
of bones" deep In the interior of Ar
gentina's wild South" Patagonia, as
the result of a chance sight of a fos
sill jawbone in bank in Buenos Aires
They went through adventures of an
: almost Marco Polo type, including a
brief sojourn at the ranch of verita
BILE ogre of a bushy-eyebrowed killer
known as the Terrible Turk, and pas
sage through a land where the ma
tives valued money at nothing, but
"OoaN 0Sh JOo uhJ JOu WdnLCu
for an empty tin can.
Finally, after disappointing search.
ings in the region to which they had
been directed, they found, in a fissure-
sided hill, tremendous deposit of
bones, believed to be one of the rich
est fossil mines" ever discovered.
The deposit appears to be the silted-
up bottom of an ancient lake that
formed In the crater of an extinct vol
cano. Apparently animals coming
down to drink were overcome and
killed by poisonous fumes from cracks
In the earth, which were the dying
gasps Of the old volcano itself.
The bones were SO thick, where
they had been weathered out In the
course Of ages, that they cluttered the
ground, and the explorers stumbled
over them.
The big, hitherto unknown herbivor-
GUS animal they found has been named
Scarrlttia, in compliment to Fl. 8.
Scarritt sponsor of the expedition.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08

N.''' Ms VI JVui pVilSn. vail
this TO be good,"S
Long SET to work deftly.
In fifteen seconds the camera was
ready on its tripod.
He handed Garrison loaded powder
trough. took quick slight, and an
nounced: "All ready-let 'er 60"
AS Garrison prepared to touch the
flash Off. a violent jolt from behind
sent it spinning from his hand
Recovering balance, he saw vol
luminous female figure In soiled ging-
ham gown heading straight toward
Myra Drexel's table.
Then, before he could move, she had
planted herself in front of the Baron
and launched shrill trade
you goot-for-n holdings loafer" she
cried, wagging vehement forefinger
in his face; why you shouldt be cam.
ing here to cut up foolitchnesses, helm?
Maybe you tell your new lady friendt
What you vas big shoot, ia? Veil.
yoost run along home and putd on dot
janitor's uniform before 1 gift you a
smack in der shnoot~
The mans face had gone slowly ma
genta.
His jaw worked spasmodically, but
only cultural Germanic sounds re-
suited.
Suddenly the woman seized both his
shoulders and began to shake them
violently.
People we're quickly gathering
around.
With an anguished moan Myra Drexel
sprang up and started to push her way
through them. Then out of the melee
doomed Steve Crandall's flaxen head.
Myra clutched him and buried her face
on his shoulder.
"Oh, Stevie!" she murmured tear.
fully; its so awful Why did you
run away and leave me with that
fake"
The boy chuckled as he led her away.
"As / recall it, darling" he an
swered gently, sit was you who did the
first leaving. But we won't worry
about that now"
They went out through the lobby and
waited a moment while the doorman
called a cab.
AS 1t drew to the curb, a figure
emerged from a door near them and
started to waddle hastily away. Steve
called: "Good night, Kate-and thanks 7"
Myra shrank closer to him, gasping:
"Why, it's that horrible wife of the
man who pretended to be baronw
The taxi door was open. Plotting
her in, Steve followed and took his
seat before replying.
My dear" he said then, smiling into
the girls upturned, wondering face.
that particular phase of the lady's
existence is at an end. l was sure
that in the excitement you wouldn't
recognize Candy Kate, the woman who
has that little stand on the corner
But say-can you feature it?-she
staked that swell act for me for only
five dollars, and the same accent gets
Carlo five thousandw
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08
Gaithersburg News And
Social Items

The regular monthly meeting Of
Archbishop Curley, Catholic Daugh-
tiers Of America, (Gaithersburp
Branch) has been announced for Tues
day evening, August 10, 8 o'clock in
st. Martins Hill, this town. Mrs
Mary Gartner, grand regent, will b.
in charge.
The Montgomery Council No. 1928
Knights Of Columbus with Abel Nor
ris, Jr., Grand knight as the presid-
ing officer will also hold their month.
lily meeting in St. Martins Hall, on
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brawner G. Harding
spent the week end at Atlantic City.
Mrs. Hugh Carter paid a recent
visit to relatives in Wildwood, N. ].
Mrs. Howard Salter and daughter
of st. Petersburg, Florida, are spend.
ing some time with Mrs. Salter's par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. D. Schwartz.
Little Helen Housley, daughter of
Mrs. Alverta Housley, this town who
underwent an operation for appended
tbs, at the Sandy Spring hospital, is
reported very i'll at this writing.
Mr.. Edward Harrison, of Virginia,