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The Washington times., 1936-02-27
ABC POLITICAL
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VA. SENATE

RICHMOND, Feb. 27.-Follow-
ing q heated hearing before the
general laws committee Of the SEN
ate, it was expected the Muse bill,
prohibiting employees of the Vir-
ginia Alcoholic Control Board from
soliciting votes for candidates for
office would be favorably reported
today.
During the hearings Capt. T.
Mccall Frazier, member Of the
board, said that two employees have
been discharged for undue politi-
cal activity. At the same time a
Bristol newspaper, with which
Senator Charles J. Harkrider is
connected, demanded that Captain
Frazier apply this ruling to himself
and resign from the Democratic
committee in the Ninth Congress
sional district.
Captain Frazier, who was active
in Senator Byrd's gubernatorial
campaign several years ago, said
the board had adopted a rule
against political activity on the
part Of its employees.
Appropriations Bill
The senate finance committee
resumed consideration Of the gen
eral appropriations bill today. The
measure as ad0Dted in the House
contains several amendments
Teachers pensions were increased
from $l7,0 to $165 900 a year.
A measure yet to be considered
by the senate finance committee
is a bill introduced by Senator
William M. Tuck, authorizing the
State sinking fund commissioners
to issue, with the approval Of the
governor, bonds Of the par value
Of $11,750, 900 in connection with
the wiping out Of State debt
of $4,000, 900.
Tuck said the measure has Gov
ernor Peery'S approval.
The house is expected to vote
tomorrow on the passage OF the
bill creating the Virginia Racing
Commission. The measure Is
companion Of the one already ap
proved in the house to legalize the
pari-mutuel system Of wagering on
horse races. 1t is reported that a
majority of members Of the sen
ate are opposed to the measure.
The Washington times., 1936-02-27
RELIEF
TO BE TOPIC

ROCKVILLE, Md, Feb. 27.-Re.
lief problems Of Montgomery
county win be discussed here to-
day at a conference between Off
cials Of the local welfare agency
and members Of the board OF
county commissioners.
Faced with q direct relief roll
loaded to a maximum, and with
insufficient funds for the current
month, Miss Dorothy A. Everson,
executive secretary Of the county
welfare board, appealed to the
commissioners for approximately
$4,000 to carry the relief load until
April /.
The Original estimate for Febru-
ary and March, as submitted to
the Maryland Board Of State Aids
and Charities several weeks ago,
totaling approximately $4,000,
was cut in half by the State
agency, due to lack of State re-
lief funds, she said.
Miss Everson said today that
due to the limited number OF
Works Progress Administration
projects in Montgomery county, 1t
is practically impossible to place
many Of those classified as en-
ployables on work relief.
Despite this, she said. there are
many persons in dire need.
Welfare officials said today that
unless the county appropriates
funds necessary to care for the
needy during the balance Of Febru-
ary and March, they will be forced
to halt further direct relief
The Washington times., 1936-02-27
Clues i'm DiItZ Case
Are Lacking

lis Of the opinion she would not
voluntarily leave home.
During the IL days she has
been missing. police have busted
themselves chasing the slimest OF
clues in the case. Yesterday,
more than 1000 descriptive circu-
lars were dispatched to police in
principal cities.
Although Miss DiltZ was well
liked by her fellow employees, she
was described by them as ere
tiring," and despite the length
of time she had been connected
with the radio research firm, her
personal habits were not well
known to them.
Suicide Secuted
Mr.. Birrel said she rarely men,
toned her home life, but he knew
she sent money regularly to her
aged father in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, whence she came about 10
years ago.
Miss Diltz roomed at 1713
Eighteenth st. N. w.
She was a talented musician
and had been studying to be a
teacher of the piano. Scouting
the theory of suicide, Miss Loela
Diltz said:
"She had never been a strong
girl and had recently been in
poor health, but there are any
number of reasons why / am
positive she would not resort to
taking her own life"
The Washington times., 1936-02-27
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The Washington times., 1936-02-27
RICHIE RITES
STIR WRITER
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infantile paralysis. And now Al
bert Ritchie was gone!
Two men half turned ahead
of me in the pew. They were
Preston Lane and Maj. Gen. Mil
ton A. Reckord. Back my mem
ory jumped to Yorktown and the
centennial celebration and Albert
Ritchie receiving his friends and
the friends of his State on The
Tech" given to Maryland by the
widow Of T. Coleman Dupont.
Women had adored Albert
Ritchie, I thought, as I looked
at the troubled faces Of many
women in the church. Many
would have married him If he
had asked them. I knew four
who were quite in love with him.
But a second wife did not inter
est him. He was smiling, enter
tanning, very charming and al
ways q little detached with
women. That was why he died
alone, except for his secretary,
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. who came
when he called in his last ILL.,
ness. Just as she had for 20
years when he pressed a button
on his office desk and she
answered to take a letter.
Now the service was over. The
chimes were sounding Lead Kindly
Light" Maryland's most dramatic
governor had ended his last public
appearance on the shoulders of
eight old friends. I wondered as
the chimes changed and the final
notes Of Maryland My Maryland"
sounded If by some wise chance
Albert Ritchie ever read the lines
Abraham Lincoln had one of his
secretaries repeat to him every
night:
1--WE are things that dreams
are made on
And our lives end in q fitfuI
Sleep"
The Washington times., 1936-02-27

Was it the sting of a comic
Valentine, sent to Ella Diltz in
fun the day before she vanished
that caused her to sever ties SC
completely that a 12-day search
has uncovered no clue to her
whereabouts?
Could the fact that the 31-year
old private secretary carried more
than $50 in cash have prompted
thugs to waylay her and after
wards dispose of her body?
Or was the pretty brunette a
victim of that dread disorder OF
forgetfulness-amnesia?
Annoyed by Valentine
Gordon Birrel, office manager
Of the National Radio Institute
at Sixteenth and U Streets North
west, whose secretary Miss Dilt2
had been for seven years, Saio
the girl was of the methodica,
type and one who worried ovel
trivialities. She had evidenced
he said, no untoward actions on
the Saturday she disappeared.
On Friday, however-St. Valen
tines Day-MisS Diltz received
in common with other office
workers, a Satirical greeting card
twitting the Serious-minded Secre
tary on some foible. Instead of
laughing the matter off, as did
her fellow workers, the girl
burst into tears and tore the card
into bits. That would seem to
indicate, Mr.. Birrel believes, that
the girl was unusually nervous
the day before she left.
Meanwhile, local authorities
were seeking the answers to the
above questions and getting no
where in their quest.
Police Widen Search
Miss Loela Diltz, Elias older
sister, an Internal Revenue EN-
ploye, has been devoting nearly
all Of her time to the search
She has told police she fears her
sister has met with foul play and
The Washington times., 1936-02-27
DR.. MARSHALL
REELECTED
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Association Editor

The Rock Greek Citizens ASso-
ciation last night in Ebenezer
Church reelected DR.. C. Herbert
Marshall, president. Other Off
GERS elected were Mrs. o. N. But
Ter, vice president; Mrs. Eleanor
Ricks. corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Foster, recording secretary;
DR.. Joseph N. Dodson, financial
secretary; Clarence Warren, treas
urer, and Richard N. Carter, whip.
A vigorous protest regarding
poor service on the LIE Droit Park
bus line resulted in the appoint
ment of a special committee to
confer with the Public Utilities
Commission on the subject.
Another committee was ordered
appointed to study and report on
a proposal of the District Highway
Department for an overpaSs
through West K Street, or the
erection of a bridge over the aban-
doned Georgetown Canal as a
means Of solving the problem Of
traffic on M Street west Of
Twenty-ninth Street.
BY resolutions adopted, the Com
misSioners were asked to increase
the street cleaning force assigned
to the Georgetown district.
The association reaffirmed q
former stand opposing the Guyer
bill, that would return prohibition
to the District.
Urge Parking Limit
A one-hour parking limit on
both sides of Connecticut Avenue
between Calvert Street and the
Klingle Bridge was urged by the
upper Connecticut Avenue Busi.
ness Mems Association, which met
last night at the City Bank, 3401
Connecticut Avenue.
President Napoleon Van MeerS,
DR.. Bernard Berman, secretary,
and Wilbur L. Gray, association
counsel, form a committee to pre-
sent the recommendation to the
director of traffic, along with other
pIOHOoCN CA1oA4SCo al pal h4L1B AI1IlIOd-
tionS.
Unanimous Endorsement was
given a bill sponsored by Repre-
sentative Better to license each
coin-controlled amusement device
in the District. The bill is being
amended to increase the proposed
tax from $40 to $25 to be collected
annually. and they be not per-
mitted within two blocks of either
a public or parochial or private
school.
DR.. Berman was elected perma-
nent secretary succeeding Rugh H.
Garvin, who resigned to continue
as a member of the board Of
directors.
The Northeast Business Mems
Association will meet tonight in
the northeast branch of the Amer
ican Security and Trust Company,
Eighth and H Streets Northeast,
James P. Farmer, secretary, an
nounced.
The Washington times., 1936-02-27
$25O,OOO BOND
ISSUE TO Be
LAUNCHED

ARLINGTON COURTHOUSE.
Feb. 27.-Plans for the new junior
high school in Arlington county,
submitted by r. v. Long, State
architect, have been approved by
the Arlington county school board,
It was learned here today.
The plans are a combination Of
seven other tentative layoutS. ac-
cording to school officials. Twen-
ty-three clasSroomS, a gymnasium,
cafeteria, home economic kitchen
carpenter shop, labratory and an
auditorium to seat TOO, are includ-
ed in the plans.
$25O,O0O Bond Issue
The board has also definitely
set the amount of the proposed
bond issue at $3.50, 900. OF this
amount, it is estimated between
S175,0O0 and $4,000 will be
used for construction Of the build
ing and the remainder for the
purchase of land and equipment.
Not less than six acres Of land
will be purchased for erection Of
the new school. While no options
have been made by the board,
members agree that the school
shoulded be located near Airing
ton, in the central section Of the
county.
Awaiting only passage Of an
enabling act by the State senate
the board will begin circulation OF
petitions seeking signatures Of IS
per cent Of the qualified voters
Of the county to present to Cir
cult Court Judge Waite. T. Nc
Carthy, who will set q date for
the bond issue vote.
Under Way, April Is
One member of the school
board said today the petitions will
be circulated for one week only.
Construction Of the school should
be under way by April IS.
The movement for q new Junior
high school in the county was
begun six months ago, when it
was revealed that conditions at
the washington Lee High School,
the lone high school in the
county, had become "deplorable. "
The new school will accommo-
date approximately TOO students.
The Washington times., 1936-02-27
Two Get Jail Terms

CUMBERLAND, Md. Feb. a..
Two men, found guilty Of drunken
driving, were sentenced to terms
in the House of Correction today.
David E. Grapes, found guilty on
the charge for a second offense,
was given six months. Fred E.
Crabtree was given 80 days in de-
fault Of a fine of 500 and costs.
The Washington times., 1936-02-27
Fredericksburg Adds
Y Rooms 10 School

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Feb.
27.-The City Council, at a special
session, authorized the erection Of
q new l2-room addition to the
present high school. 1t is for the
Junior high school grades and to
make additional room for present
high school classes.
The Washington times., 1936-02-27
Named Postmaster
International News Service

Internat1OnaI NeWs Service
Bearing the name of the twenty
third President of the United
States, Bejamin Harrison today
was appointed acting postmaster
at Boyce, Va, a town few miles
south of here,
The Washington times., 1936-02-27

nhFEt8-EWluB EnOtO
ROBERT Il. JACKSON,
Assistant Attorney General,
is Government counsel in the
suit between the U. 8. and
the Electric Bond and Share
Company, to test the consti-
tutionality Of the Public Util-
ity Holding Company Act Of
1885, a case now pending in
a New York Federal court.
The Washington times., 1936-02-27

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had been listening to the SSS Radio Program and began
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change i followed directions faithfully tablespoon
full before each meal
began back skin felt better II did
easily felt that those redboodces back to
so-called fighting strength
The confidence mother has always had in which still her
standby convinced ought to try this
great feel strong again and like old SELF
the SSS Tonic Treatment decades Of
popular acceptance and enthusiastic words OF praise users them
selves speak louder than the scientific appraisal
n of the progressively improved SsSS. product which
N& has caused millions to say to their friends-"SsS
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~ has helped millions Of people rebuild
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Evening star., 1936-10-22
Bethesda Club Holds
Party Tomorrow

The Woman's Club of Bethesda
will hold the first Of q series Of card
parties to be given during the Winter
months on Friday evening at the club
house on old Georgetown road. Ar
rangements for the party are being
made by Mrs. T. Delos Paxman and
reservations may be made through
her or any member Of her COM
mittee.
Some Of THOSE who have taken ia
bles for the party are: Mrs. Gilbert
Grosvenor, Mrs. N. F. Rabner, Mrs.
Edward Garlock, Mrs. Thomas E. Cas-
sew. Mrs. e. M. Willis and Mrs. George
E. Pariseau.
Attractive door prizes will be given
and refreshments will be served.
Evening star., 1936-10-22
MARYLAND Dance.

Col. George H. Calvert, jr., president
of the Maryland Society Of Washing
ton, and Mrs. Calvert will be among
those receiving guests at the dance to
be given by the society this evening at
10 o'clock at the Kennedy-Warren.
Col. Calvert, Maryland and Washing
ton attorney, has been widely Endorsed
for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Maryland In the next
gubernatorial campaign.
Evening star., 1936-10-22

Mrs. Tuckerman will remain In Balti-
more for the luncheon tomorrow,
which Mrs. williams will give for her
debutante daughter, Miss Alice Tuck
erman.
Miss Tuckerman and Miss Ethel
Worthington, debutante daughter Of
Mrs. Ralph Worthington, returned yes
terday from Charlottesville, Va, where
they were members Of q house party
entertained over Sunday by Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Short.
Evening star., 1936-10-22
Residential
Washington
Social Notes
Miss Annie Burr Jen-
nings Here From
Fairfield.
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weeks visit with relatives, after which
she will spend week at Atlantic City
with Mr.. Bean, who will attend the
American Gas Association convention.
DR.. William Gerry Morgan Is back
from his Summer home in New Hamp-
shire, where Mrs. Morgan and their
daughter, Mrs. Myra Morgan Stump,
will remain until they vote in the
election.
Mrs. Frank Mersch and Mr.. and
Mrs. George O'Connor sponsored
successful card and bingo party Friday
evening in their respective homes on
Kennedy street. The proceeds will 60
toward the remodeling of the chapel
at the home for the aged conducted by
the Little Sisters of the Poor at 220
H street northeast. Father Di Maria
Of st. Aloysius Church was present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Clarendon
Smith had as their house guests last
week end, Comdr. and Mrs. Robert
Ellsworth Thomas and their daughter,
Miss Lorraine Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlos c. Van Leer
were hosts at dinner last evening at
the Shoreham for Miss Grace Beaman
and their son, Mr.. Anthony Wayne
Van Leer, whose marriage will take
place this evening.
The guests included Mr.. and Mrs.
Carlos c. Van Leer, jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
George Winchester Stone, jr., Mr.. and
Mrs. T. Gerard Lee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenton Jamaker, Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard w. Sharpe, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Bea-
man, mother of the bride; Miss Leila
D. Van Leer, Miss Charlotte Beaman,
Mr.. Charles B. Bishop, Mr.. Robert E.
Lee Hall and Mr.. John r. Beaman.
DR.. and Mrs. S. M. Bageant an
nounce the birth of daughter, Anne
Corella, october 10. at Georgetown
Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur B. Cahill have
come to the city from San Francisco
and are spending few days at the
Willard.
DR.. and Mrs. c. w. Trexler of Hon
olulu, Hawaii. are stopping at the
Dodge while in the Capital.
Mrs. Lillian S. Trueworthy Of Alta
Vista, Md, has returned from a vaca-
ton spent with her son, Mr.. Thurston
c. Trueworthy, and his family at his
Summer home, the Pines, on Mystic
Lake, Cape Cod, Mass.
Mrs John Lyons and Mrs. R. G.
Rennolds plan to be at the Willard for
several days before returning to their
home at Richmond.
Mrs. Cecil Steinhart. who is return
ing to her home at Lansdowne, Pa,
from Havana, Cuba, is in Washington,
stopping at the Willard.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. McCor-
mick and their daughter, Miss Mary
Mccormick, who have been stopping
in New York, are in Washington and
are at the Shoreham. They will leave
for st. Louis, Mo-, on Saturday, where
they will make a brief visit before
returning to their home in Santa
Clara, Calf.
Evening star., 1936-10-22
Artists Arriving.

Miss Aletha Harcourt and her
younger sister, Miss Anne Harcourt,
are sailing from England Saturday
and plan to spend the Winter in
Washington, where they have taken
an apartment at 1926 N street, in
Georgetown. The two sisters spent
last season here, where they did a
number of portraits and were most
popular with the members of both the
diplomatic and residential set. Mr..
George Harcourt, royal academician,
is their father.
Evening star., 1936-10-22
Miss Newman Here.

Miss Acadia Newman Is In Wash
ington stopping with her sister. Mrs.
John Edmund Cammack. at Rock
Greek Manor, their family estate. Miss
Newman, who is an artist of note. has
come from New York. where she has
a studio, and from Washington will
20 to st. Louis, where she has several
commissions to execute.
Evening star., 1936-10-22
Mrs. Tuckerman
Guest at Lunch

Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman went to
Baltimore this morning and was the
guest of honor at luncheon today Of
Mrs. George Huntington Williams.
Evening star., 1936-09-29

more than trebled the size Of the sur
plus Of his predecessor and also has
kept the expenses about $380,000 be-
low the 1882 budget.
Landon has a reputation for good
business sense and frugality. The
stories they tell about him are very
much like those that have grown up
around the life of Calvin Coolidge.
Landon has sought constantly to cut
out the waste and to eliminate those
who sponge" or graft" on the State
government. 1t is said, for instance,
that he found certain State employees
who were engaged in field work had
developed the habit of remaining in
the field and charging their lunches
to the State when, BY a few minutes
effort, they could get to their own
homes. Landon called some Of them
on the carpet and insisted this wasn't
fair to the State.
Landon is popular even among his
political opponents, but the size of his
majority will not show it this year
because he has an opponent who is
popular, too. having set In motion a
flow of checks and subsidies that are
bound to weigh more heavily with
some of the voters than intangibles.
like State pride in q favorite sons
ascendancy to the nomination by q
major party for the presidency Of the
United States.
(Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-09-29

cure for farm tenancy-and one day
before Mr.. Landon makes his speech
Mr.. Roosevelt writes q public letter
to Speaker Bankhead Of the House,
telling him to get busy with a New
Deal remedy for farm tenancy-al-
though the House does not meet TIL
next January, and although conceiv-
ably Mr.. Bankhead may not be Speak
er and conceivably Mr.. Roosevelt may
not be President.
Mr.. Roosevelt hears that William
Randolph Hearst Is going to print
articles charging him with having the
support of ComMunists--and Mr..
Roosevelt, day in advarce of the
anticipated publication, gives out
through his secretary q statement
that the expected charge will be "con-
ceived in malice and born in political
spite" This, though, was probably
not an example Of Mr.. Roosevelt cool
and gaily adroit; one suspects that on
this occasion Mr.. Roosevelt was angry,
and therefore did the wrong thing.)
And II there is public suspicion that
the administration may be too inti-
mate with Russia, how better dissi-
pate that impression than by having
the Secretary Of the Treasury spectac-
ularly attack the Soviet government,
upon a charge that the Russians are
trying to sabotage o currency stabili-
sation agreement recently effected by
Mr.. Roosevelt with Britain and
France?
Tax Views Given.
The country becomes restless about
Government expenditures. tends to
make extravaganza campaign issue:
the country becomes "tax-conscious"
and the administration gives out q
statement that no tax increases or
new taxes will be levied next year.
A meeting of Jeffersonian Demo-
Gratis is held at Detroit to urge Demo.
Gratis to oppose the New Deal-and
Mr.. Roosevelt asks the greatest anti
New Deal Democrat of all, Senator
Carter Glass, to visit the White
House; Senator Glass, Of course, com.
plies and at the White House door
tells newspaper men that he expects
to vote for Mr.. Roosevelt.
That sort Of thing, the strategy Of
indirection, has created the atmos-
phere of the campaign SO far, without
the public realizing how 1t was being
done. 1t has prevented the country
from thinking about some matters
upon which the administration Is
glaringly vulnerable. II the campaign
IS to be fought on the really serious
issues. some one opposed to Mr..
Roosevelt must develop a strategy su-
perior to the latter's. Gov. Landon
may accomplish it through sheer
earnestness, even though he utterly
lacks Mr.. Roosevelt's agility. Per-
haps ex-Gov. Smith may help with
his speeches beginning next Thursday
night; he knows Mr.. Roosevelt's
curves.
tCopyrisht. 1860
Evening star., 1936-09-29

quy about gold order to
ede the of worked out
between Washington, London Paris. ~
treasury OFFICIALS
aduo task successfully aeued Mooenhou but also on the
Jdct Hdt this country poution
under Hoopers gold standard of cold in Sem
tenber. =" ' "
linen nere was nothing much could
reserves draining undersod British
wares and our farm prices doing a anspin.
While the franc obviously
sernng directly affects British further
70 dauste the dollar and Secretary sbza
ton fund with necessary defend our
domestic prosperity against (Domc prosperity
the escaaor clause in the currency agreement)
French money has been exchange
fen an unnaturay high level for the in
egsng the franc anywhere the 25 francs
e oo ana l2o to the pound everybody will
will
However European politics insert
pctWe NO knows
PROVE to De In the face OF the
continent Ana
satisfied wh New Deal insist
on Whole hog imitation.
ne latter situation should
40 something about it, by further
oeValuation or by silver purchases by both.
The crisis OF the franc commentary on the
adosdnon proposals OF the socoed bankers uho
dominated the World Economic uhoe
scheme Dds blocked BY Roosepels telegram
to the conference.
For French devaluaion monetary