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The Washington times., 1936-10-02

OpuHtSH OuCCGC yIOHI Wy IL Az
Knickerbocker, famous roUtno
correspondent OF International
NetDS Service.
By H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
copyright. 1885, by International
News Service)
OROPESA Oct. 2 U.N.S0 BE
fore dinner last night l went to
church. This is always a useful
occupation for a newspaper man
in Spain. The church was that OF
the Compania, principal house OF
worship in Oropesa.
It's interior had been given the
usual Red treatment-absolutely
wrecked-but evidently there had
been too little combustible material
in the church to burn it properly.
for a big tapestry of the Virgin
Mary still hung on the wall. tat
tered to bits by bullets.
One feature, however, which I
had not observed in the other
wrecked churches, was the plum
dered tombs, very old ones. saw
one tombstone, which must have
weighed half a ton, about a foot
thick, of solid marble, dated 1547,
cast aside from the tomb which
had been rifled, probably for COW
eted gold or silver.
Dinner a Treat
Dinner was a treat. One Of our
legionnaire friends had picked up
a couple of turkeys somewhere and
invited us to come to a certain
house in the village. We arrived
after dark and our legonnalre
friend was not yet there but we
were made welcome by charm
ing old lady who loved to talk and
had something to tell.
There we're present the old lady
and her nephew, the local charcoal
dealer, a leader of the Phalangists,
or Spanish FaSciSts. two artillery
men, later our legionnaire, who
came in with two bottles of wine
also picked up somewhere, and
Arthur Menken and Myself. The
old lady had the two turkeys stew
ing on the stove with a marvellous
mixture of tomatoes and Spanish
peppers.
We were hungry as wolves and
ate ourselves full on the turkey.
The next dish was as bad as the
first had been good. 1t was a
cold soup, made with rancid oil
floating in patches on it, and with
stale bread broken up in the mix
ture. Absolutely impossible to
eat, but the others put it down
gustily.
Old Lady's Story
We took this opportunity to get
the old lady's story. Whenever I
asked her a question everybody
else tried to answer but 1 finally
convinced them I wanted to hear
nothing but her own story. She
related
Give ladies of good family
were held prisoner by the reds
here for Is days before the
army arrived. I was one of
them. They kept us in the
same place with men, and every
morning the Reds came to us
and said that day we would be
shot. One of the ladies was
the wife of a civil guard and the
Reds had already shot her hus-
band and son, so you can
imagine how we felt"
1 asked her if she knew person
ally whom the reds had shot.
ooh yes. There was first Don
Caesar EusebiO, the priest and
the local chairman of the AcciOn
Popular, the Catholic OrganiZa-
ton, Don Pedro Hija. These two
they took right away from the
Jail to the roadside and shot
them there.
"Then on the fifth Of August
they took poor old Don RestitutO
MedierO, curate, who was so i'll
of drOpsy that he had already
received the last sacrament any
wav. and he was so weak he
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Removal Reported

PARIS. Oct. 2. G.N.S).-Le
Matin today credited Moscow
diplomatic circles with unverified
reports that Maxim Litvinoff
shortly will be removed as COM
miSSar for foreign affairs due. said
the dispatch, to the opposition"
of Klementi VoroShilov, commits
Sar for defense.
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Ken Murray
Says:

Mr.. Burton Marsh, one Of
the head officials of the Ameri.
can Automobile Association.
says that if a prospective bride
wants to learn the true Charac-
ter of her fiance, let her ride
with him through a traffic jam
Il suppose if he never gets to
the corner on a green light,
the girl should realize he can't
make a go of it.
However, this seems like tax.
ing an advantage of the young
man He can't very well ac-
company his sweetheart when
she tries to get waited on in a
crowded beauty parlOr.
Personally, 1 think the fellow
who allows himself to be Steered
into any such situation de-
serves to be found out. What
kind of a guy would take his
best girl out driving where the
traffic is thickeSt?
At any costs, it's better for
a young lady to marry a fell
low who owns a car in prefer
ence to a pedestrian AT least
her chances of becoming an
early widow are certainly less.
Copyright, 1895, by McNaught
o(ouI slsoIpuGS
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SHOOTING WINS
NEWST|P PRIZE

First prize for the best tip Of
the week in The Washington
Times NeWstip Contest went to
the person who phoned in the
story of the man who shot his wife
and then turned the gun on him
self. He died shortly after in
Georgetown Hospital
Second prize went for the tip on
the boy killed in a collision be-
tween two trucks and an automo-
bile.
Other prizes went for the tip
on the 3-year-old child who
boarded a Chevy Chase street car
alone stating he was going to the
library; the tip on the man who
picked a fight with Sheriff How
ard B. Fields of the Arlington
county police force and got the
worst of it; the story of the
woman killed by a taxicab at Cali
fornia and Eighteenth SITS. N. w.
and the tip on the bus crash at
Thirteenth and Que SITS. N. w.
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II OTO WASHINGTONHS G@2N
&sI5 Heroes 1nBZzNQ @
Coleman R. Brown Proud of "a Grandchildren
and Record Of q Years on Same
Police Beat | n Anacostia

Coleman R. Brown, retired SER
geant of the Metropolitan Po-
lice Department, challenges any
one to better two of his records
the length of time spent on one
beat and the number Of grand
children he has.
Sergeant Brown is proud OF
his "a grandchildren, all resi-
dents of Washington. And he
is also proud of the 81 years and
six months he spent on one beat
in Anacostia.
And another thing he is proud
of is that he never had to use a
pistol or night stick. Being a
Skillful wrestler, he used a flying
tackle to bring down his man.
A noted detective, he solved
scores of cases, usually Disgusting
himself, going out and getting evi
dence. One of his noted captures
was that of a highwayman and
recovery of thousands Of dollars
worth of loot.
But one night he was much
chagrined when he went out tc
trap a milk thief and returned to
his own home to discover the thief
had been there and taken his own
milk and bread.
On his retirement from the
force he could not bear to leave
Anacostia where he had served Sc
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PUG. HEARING
ON GAS PLANT
SALE OPENS
Roberts Opposes Price
As Too High; Will
estify Later

With Peoples Counsel William
A. Roberts prepared to oppose
the outlined purchase price, the
Public Utilities Commission today
opened the public hearing on the
petition of the Washington Gas
Light Company to buy two neigh
boring gas plants for $1,375, 900.
Weakened by an appendicitis
operation less than two weeks
ago, Roberts today surprised at
tendants at the inquiry by
making his appearance.
He contends that the proposed
purchase price is between $780,
900 and 100000 too high and
said he was prepared to offer
evidence later in the hearing to
support his view.
Common Law Trust
The companies which the local
concern proposes to buy are the
Washington Suburban Gas Com
pany of Hyattsville, Md, and the
Alexandria (VaO Gas Company.
Both of these companies, as well
as the local concern, are con-
trolled financially by the Wash
ington and Suburban Companies.
Massachusetts, common law
trust.
Shortly after this common law
trust notified the Securities and
Exchange Commission several
weeks ago of its intention to di-
vest itself of ownership in the
Washington company by public
sale of securities, the local COM
pany advanced the proposal of
buying the two neighboring
plants.
First witness at the hearing was
E. j. Boothby, who is a vice preSi-
dent and general manager of all
three companies. He described
the physical properties owned by
each of the neighboring compa-
nies, He described the physical
properties owned by each of the
neighboring companies, the terri
tory which each served and the
capacity of each plant.
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TRAFFIC court
CONVICTIONS
Second Offense Speeding
Robert C. Brown, 922 Twenty.
e fAl c. NJ Hrr n1s

Second Offense Speeding
Robert C. Brown, 922 Twenty.
fifth St. N. W., SIS.
First Offense Speeding
Rollin P. Collins, 3418 -Four.
teenth st. N. w., SIS.
William A. Jones, House of the
Good Shepherd, $40.
Arlton C. Murray, IL Nicholson
st. N. w., $40.
Henry C. Horan, Maryland, $40.
Bennie Goldman, Alb F st. s.
w., $40.
James M. Howell, 1916 Kilbourns
Pl. N. W., $40.
Glenn Elliott, 513 Eighteenth
st. N. w., $40.
Lawrence C. Stimson, Maryland,
$40.
Walter D. Gray, Virginia, $40.
William B. Persons, 1922 Jeni.
fer st. N. W., $40.
Albert B. Parks. 1914 Legation
ST. N. W., $40.
Joseph Hammock, 1929 Ninth
ST N. W., $40.
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MANY IN i. 5.
OFFICES HEED
ROLL CALL
Plea for Larger D. c.
Chapter Is Voiced by
Admiral Grayson

With the campaign but a few
hours old, the 1887 Red Cross Roll
Call today announced an enroll
ment of over LOO, as first returns
were reported by sections of the
army Of 1000 volunteer workers.
The 19-day campaign, the goal
of which is an enrolment of IS, 900,
began in several Government
offices and real estate concerns
today.
A large number of subscriptions
was reported from the Govern
ment division, under the chair.
manship Of Gen. Fred w. Boschen,
chief Of finance, U. S. A., with
reports coming in from the Rail-
road Retirement Board, Public
Works Administration, Veterans
Administration, District Refuse
Department and Resettlement Adr
miniStration.
Many Seek Flags
At campaign headquarters it
was stated that numerous requests
have come in from business houses
for Red Cross flags. It was an
nounced that all persons desirous
of obtaining flags should call head
quarters, at 1416 H st. N. W., Ma
tional 1905.
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, head
of the national Red Cross, ex.
planned the purposes of the cam.
paign in a speech broadcast last
night over three local radio sta
tionS. He declared
MANY cities the size of Wash.
ington have a larger member.
ship than we have. Our Wash.
ingtOn chapter is excellent and
most active but we want to make
it a model chapter. To do this
we must make it larger.
"The tradition that neighboR
CONTINUED on Page IA, Col. u
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MA-JA WINNER
OF PRESIDENT
CUP REGATTA
Hearst Trophy Taken
By Betty V After
Thrilling Race
Complete regatta results on
Page 22.)

Calm settled over the Potomac
River today as drivers of scores of
speed boats, which have churned
the waters of the river the last
two days, departed for their homes,
with the 1886 Presidents Cup Re
gatta a matter of history.
It was the greatest regatta in
the history of the event, with
more than 100000 persons witness
ing the running of the finals yes
terday.
The Presidents Cup, one of the
outstanding trophies in the speed
boat world, was taken by an "out-
sider," the Ma-Ja, owned and
driven by John M. L. Rutherford,
of Sand Point, L. I.
Not considered by experts to
have a chance, the Ma ia took the
trophy by defeating the Notre
Dame, the powerful racing ma
chine which won the cup last
year.
Another thrilling event on the
final program yesterday was the
victory of the Betty v in the
American Speedboat champion
ship event, and this victory
brought to Driver Melvin Crook
the William Randolph Hearst
trophy.
Crook drove his boat better
than 4 mile a minute to win the
event for the third successive
year, and was closely pressed by
Rutherford, who stepped out Of
his Ma ia to drive the Jay Dee to
finish second in this event.
The greatest thrill of the regatta
came on Saturday when in the
view of close to $4,000 spectators
the Delphine VIII, one of the
Dodge entries in the Presidents
cup event, leaped high out Of the
water, overturned and crashed,
beaking in two.
The driver and mechanic we're
thrown clear and escaped with
Continued on Page Is, Col. A.
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NOW
Hat Purchasing
TribUL1tiOnS
SHOP TRIALS
BY HELEN ESSARY

She put on the hat as the un-
blushing saleswoman brought the
next. 1t was the fourteenth of the
afternoon series. She looked at
herself in the mirror. in three mir.
rors to be exact-than which moth.
ing can be more disheartening.
She studied the hat-the alleged
hat. 1t had a jockey cap brim. The
rest of the chapeau, except for a
broken down cornucopia above
the left ear, wasn't there at all.
She said:
Il feel like a jockey who's
just taken the water jump at
PimlicO."
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long, so drew plans and now lives
in a charming home at 1905
Twenythird St. s. E.
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News With Meals
Provided in Paris

Paris restaurants are now pub
fishing up-to-minute news on their
menus. The Menu Journal has
the bill of fare on one side and
while the waiter is getting appe-
tizer or between courses, the Gus
toner can turn over and get the
news. Some 1000 such menus are
printed daily.
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MELVIN E. CROOK of
Lake George, N. Y, receives
the William Randolph Hearst
Trophy from John A.
Remon, general chairman of
the race committee of the
Presidents Cup Regatta,
Mrs. w. F. Crook, the win
ner's mother, is a pleased
spectator. Mr.. Crook drove
his Betty V to victory in the
event for the third consecu-
tive year.
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Said the Sa,cswoman firmly:
Zone must get used to hats"
The customer answered bitterly:
Every time I buy a hat you
tell me 1 have to get used to it.
Last year / had to get used to
crowns so flat that 1 seemed to
have no top of the head. Now
you bring me disSipated Towers
Of Pisa. BlObS of cloth Stuckup
with quills and things and tell
me / must get used to them"
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PLAYING INDIANS, BOY SHOOTS FATHER

Michael J. Fitzgerald, 49-year-
old Clinton (MdD bricklayer, was
in a critical condition in Casualty
Hospital today, a bullet wound in
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the abdomen, suffered yesterday
while playing cowboy and In
dianS" with his young sons.
His 10-year-old son, Bernard,
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pointed the gun and said bang"
as he pulled the trigger, and a
cartridge exploded, according to
Prince Georges county police.
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Plml1cO."
Said the Sa.cswoman firmly:
"One must get used to hats"
The customer answered bitterly:
Every time I buy hat you
tell me 1 have to get used to it.
Last year / had to get used to
crowns so flat that seemed to
have no top of the head. Now
you bring me dissipated Towers
Of Pisa. BlObS of cloth Stuckup
with quills and things and tell
me / must get used to them"
Said the SaleSwoman, Sweetly
tranquil:
Perhaps you need something
youthful, like this"
This was a skull cap with a big
butterfly bow center front. A GER
tain jauntineSs is desirable, she
thought, regarding this new offer
ing, particularly after ones vaca-
tion personality has wilted in the
domesticity of pantry shelf paper
and attic moth balls.
But it needed strength to change
the mood so violently. You al
ways hoped, naturally, that hat
would at once conceal and reveal
the better nature. Would give an
adventurous touch to noble de-
pertinent. But these offerings of
1895 were too utterly joyous and
abandoned for anyone this side
of Hollywood to live up to.
While the saleswoman was look
ing for other little models, she who
was buying a hat, leaned back in
her chair and surveyed the mil
linery salon.
Half a dozen other women we're
suffering as she was. Two nus
bands were sitting in Judgment.
Two harassed wives tried on
things that weren't hats at all.
Just whims. Pigments OF a mil
liners dream.
One husband, less appreciated
by the shopkeeper than four bulls
in one china store. had jovial
nature. He placed on his own
bald head the hats that his wife
was struggling over. And laughed
and laughed with superior male
gusto.
Before a long mirror paraded
a tall, grim woman in a pale yel'
low suit with an end-of-the-sea-
son sag) and what is known this
September as an "Alsatian vel
our" A velour made extra elegant
by a Paradise plume.
Asked the tall woman anXiouSly:
"DO you really think that this
Is too dreSSy for ordinary wear?
You know what mean, suits
and things"
Answered the saleswoman:
"Oh no, Madame. 1t is ex-
tremeIy smart"
The heroine, or the victim, Of
nv story was now presented with
more milliner's whims and fig
ments. In an off-the-face model,
she looked like bald eagle. A
semi-military felt had an apollo
getic air. A sort of a "She Don't
Belong To The Regiment, She's
ONLY a Volunteer" manner.
Another hat was the size of a
postage stamp. A small stamp Of
the type in vogue before the Mr..
Farley introduced memorial issues.
Said my heroine, regarding her
hair, dropping beneath a Latin
Quarter beret:
"But here is the choicest Of
ALL"
"You can't expect hat to
make you look pretty"
The saleswoman snoothed ner
own orderly head:
''I beg your pardOn!"
81 mean, Madame, that hats
aren't meant to be flattering.
Maybe summer hats. But never
winter hats"
"But why nOt?"
Because one hopes to look
smart. One must wear a hat
that calls attention to ones
chic and good grooming. Some
ing dashing. This fall-SOme-
thing extreme and angular. But
not becoming. The day for that
Is over"
Answered my heroine Imply:
every well, send me the Latin
Quarter model. I'll be smart if
1t kills me-"
VnTR AuEpIcAN
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-15
Hoey Group
1t
Must Fight
Will Work Just AS
Hard as if Hoey
Were Runner Up,
One Manager Says
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
I'm The Sir Walter Hotel,
w II q RASW< L,UNUUU

Raleigh, June 15.-The campaign
managers and workers for Clyde r.
Hoey know they have a hard fight
ahead of them if they are going to de-
feat DR.. Ralph w. Mcdonald for the
Democratic nomination for governor
in the second primary July 4, it was
indicated today. Nor are they going to
be misled into the belief they are go
ing to have a push-over in the second
election because of the enthusiasm
for HOey shown in the State Demo-
cratic Convention last Friday. They
are fully aware of the fact that out
Of the more than 100000 votes cast in
the June primary, Mr.. Hoey receiv-
ed only 1882, that Dr. Mcdonald
received only about 1000 votes less
than Hoey and that the combined vote
of DR.. Mcdonald and Sandy Graham
was 321 ,256. So the Hoey forces know
they have a battle on their hands in
which they cannot afford to take any
thing for granted.
1--WE are going to conduct our sec
ond primary campaign on the same
basis we would if DR.. Mcdonald had
led Mr.. Hoey $4,000 votes in the first
primary, instead of on the basis of
Mr.. Hoey's lead of 1000 votes" one Of
those closely connected with the
Hoey organization said here today
For while we believe there has al
ready been big swing away from
Mcdonald to Hoey, we are going to
proceed on the theory that there has
not been any such swing and that Dr.
Mcdonald is in the lead at the present
time. We are not going to let our
managers and workers get over-con-
fident, but, on the other hand, are
going to impress them with the fact
that they have a real battle on their
hands from now until July a."
Mcdonald in Fighting Mood.
That the Mcdonald forces are in
fighting mood is generally conceded
They are also thoroughly mad and
are promising that the fight in this
second primary campaign is going to
be far different from the one in the
first. DR.. Mcdonald already served
Continued on Page Threa.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-15
Eastman s
Rail Post
Continued

Washington. June Is (APD-The
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee today approved a joint con-
gressional resolution to continue
Joseph B. Eastman as coordinator of
transportation for one year.
At the same time it voted to strip
the office of regulatory powers.
Approved by vote of nine to seven,
the resolution would limit the au-
thority of the coordinator to the max
ing of studies in the transportation
field.
It would provide for the assessment
of a 81 a mile annual tax on rail
roads.
Whether Congress could act final
ly on the measure in time to keep
Eastman's job from expiring tomor-
row, as scheduled under existing law,
remained uncertain.
Eastman was named cOOrdinator
of transportation by President Roose-
welt after the emergency transporta-
ton act of 1888 was enacted.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-15
Supreme Court Rules State
Has Right To Collect
$40 on Purchases
Out of State
NOT AN ADVALOREM
AND NOT SALES TAX
Issue Brought Up on Suit by
w. Powell, of Rockingham
County, on Car Bought In
Danville; One Condemned
Man Gets New Trial, Three
Are Denied

Raleigh, June 15.-(AP(-The NORTH
Carolina Supreme Court this after
noon upheld as valid and legal "ust
tax" levied on automobiles purchased
in order states and used by a North
Carolina resident in the State.
The court decided A cases, incluc-
ing four in which defendants had
been sentenced to be executed.
Associate Justice Michael Schenck
wrote the courts opinion uphOldine
the 1885 tax of up to $40 on auto
mobiles bought in other states by
North CarOlinianS.
The levy, the opinion said, sis
neither an ad valorem tax nor a sales
tax upon extra territorial transactions
but it is an excise tax or use tax
levied and collected for the privilege
of operating automobiles on the
streets and highways of North Caro-
lima"
w. A. Powell, of Rockingham coun-
CONTINUED on Page Five1
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-15
MANY PEOPLE NARROWED
IN SOUTH FLORIDA AREA

Fort Myers. Fla, June 15.-(AP)-
Residents of many south Florida
cities were marooned by high waters
resulting from n tropical storm which
ere sed the State and went out on the
Atlantic ocean today.
There was heavy rainfall through
the hight but no material wind dam
zee was reported
Sheriff Bob King said he was in
,ormed by residents of Bonita Springs
o miles south of here. that the waters
there wsre the highest they had Teen
IL aout ten years
King said there was no damage in
Fort Myers, although the highway
south of the city was covered by
water.
Fred A. Flanders. government
weather observer at Moore Haven, re-
ported rainfall in the 48-hour period
prior TO a. m. today. was 933 inches,
the heaviest since the 1926 hurricane
when il was estimated between II and
IS inches fell.
Flanders said "a inches fell be-
tween 80 a. m. Sunday and 8 a. m.
today
Nartahle cloudbursts preceded the
storm and Naples reported a fall of
p inches in the past u hours.
Southeast winds bringing high tides
aggravated flood conditions at coastal
points
Many bridges were washed out in
the flooded area and many highways
were closed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-15
ENGL| SH TEXTBOOK
WILL Be ADOPTED
Report Expected in Few
Days on New Series For
State High Schools
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter HOteA.

Raleigh, June 15.-The report of the
State High School Textbook Commit
tee on a new series of English texts
to be used in the high schools of the
State is expected to be received either
today or tomorrow, State Superinten-
dent Clyde A. Erwin, of the State De-
partment of Public Instruction, said
today. The committee has been study
ing some eight or nine series for sew
eral weeks From these it will select
three series, published by three diff
ferent firms, from which the State
Board of Education will select the one
to be used in the high schools for the
next five years.
Before even considering the adop-
ton of this new English literature
series. we notified the commission
and the publishers hiatt we would con
slider only a compendium of approx
ed works in one volume" Superln
tendent Erwin said. "This was be-
cause the cost would be less to the
students, also to the State in those
units in which the textbook renta
system is being used, since it is much
easier to keep track of one large BOOK
than four or five smaller books. sc
these new books will contain, as near
ly as possible, all of the standard III
erature needed for each grade fo1
each grade Of the four years OF high