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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-21

in for trouble?"
"Hello, Ted. How are things with
the Rio Verde?"
Dunno" replied the blond giant
blandly. "Ain't workin' for 'em no
more. figger on workin' over here.
Reckon there'll be room for me-" he
added.
"Maybe not" snapped the slighter
figure.
Just in front of the office door and
face to face on the narrow board side
walk, the two stood, revealed to the
last detail by the hot, dusty sunlight.
In various doorways the populace
stopped-not for nothing was the mu-
tual dislike Of the two known from
old Mexico to Colorado.
watch 'em," grunted a swarthy
section boss. "There's liable to be
some fun. I'm a-betting on Crane"
give on the meat hunter" called
a sweaty cowboy, in to buy supplies.
"Git back thar, you" The second
speakers hand dropped to the scar
red butt Of AS and he fixed chill
gray eye upon sullen Indian loafer
who had, of late, taken to patronizing
the Two Star Drink Emporium. zone
Of Mescalero Ted's coyotes" the cow
boy explained to neighbor. well
have no back stabbin.' Ken Chester'd
better look out for him"
Meanwhile the two enemies remain
ed silent, all the while gauging each
other with tight smiles on their sun
burnt lips.
eff it's to draw dinero you come
here" Ted was drawing in that slight
ly nasal accent which marks the Tex
an, "okay. But if"
eff what?" Very calm was Ken's
voice, but the tone and strained FIRM
ges on his shirt were stirring a little.
Harsh as the rasp of file on iron
came the big mans reply. "But if
it's to hang round Miss NOVEL;, Pm
a-tellin' you here an now l got a
claim staked for all her time the A.
K & N. amt paying for"
The crescent shaped saber scar blaz-
ed red on Ken's cheek as he stepped
a little closer with a queer fear pluck
ing at his heart.
"She said she was goin' to marry
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-21
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you're not very likeable."

you're not very likeable."
Nodding, he turned and, with that
heel dragging stride so typical of the
habitual horseman, he made for the
door in a pleasurable state of confus-
ion. Behind him he heard the safe
door shutting with a gentle clang.
CAT seven o'clock sure?" he called
from the door.
"Seven o'clock sure" she nodded
with curiously tight smile that mar
rowed her bright lips rather than cur
we'd them.
Out in the bright, hot sunlight Ken
blinked to readjust his eyes to the
glare. Suddenly he was aware of the
dark figure of a man eclipsing row
of tents opposite. Instantly he recog-
nized it as familiar and one which by
no means aroused pleasant thoughts.
Beneath his buckskins, the frontiers
mans muscles tensed, for in the shade
of his black sombrero the CLEAN in
Meccalero Ted's very pale blue eyes
was direct and menacing. Queer, Ken,
reflected, Ted by no means resembled
the story-book type of william. In
stead Of being dark, he was fair, with
strong blond hair and a close clipped
blond mustache. Like Ken, he also
wore buckskin shirt and trousers,
but instead of moccasins he affected
cowboys boots garnished with enor-
nous spurs, the needle-pointed rowels
of which were fashioned from silver
dollars.
The bigger mans hands were slight
ly extended, palms downwards, before
him and fingers spread and curved in
the attitude of a gun fighter. In
stinctively, Ken had assumed the same
attitude. Such was the meat hunters
reputation that Mescalero Ted DELHI
erately and ostentatiously relaxed.
" 10 Ken," he drawled, never NOV
ing his eyes from the sinewy figure
in the doorway. "You amt changed
much since Ell Paso days. Still look
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-21

and in the empty office their merri-
ment rang so loud that Mexican pass
ing the door stopped to peer in, quite
unaware that for Ken Chester the
world had suddenly become surpris-
ingly pleasant spot.
"You still haven't told me what
you're going to do tonight" she re-
minded moment later.
"Why-why-" Flushed, half sus-
picious of his good luck, Ken rushed
recklessly on and, drawing up his long
body much as he had before the cav
airy charge at Sabine Cross Roads,
said, "I-I was figgerin' I'd stop by
tonight and" the words came out with
rush, "mebbe you'd like to go for
little pasear?"
She deliberated, while filing away
the slip, expertly delaying her reply
just long enough to set his every nerve
on edge. At last with one of those
quick, bird-like motions of hers, she
faced him.
LET me see. The theaters aren't
on tonight; there are no revivals, no
lectures and not single dance" Light
ly she enumerated the various amuse-
ments on pointed little fingers that
were nevertheless surprisingly strong
and capable looking. $50, Mr.. Ches-
ter, you may, if you wish, call for
me after supper"
"F-fine," he stammered, flushing
fiery red. "Where do you live?"
upstairs here, with Mrs. Mckenzie
she's a dear old SOUL"
While she spoke, Lucia NOVEL; fish
ed key from the end Of black rib
bon which she wore about her neck
and dropped gracefully on her knees
before battered and ponderous cast
iron safe. A moment later she was
paying over the money in cleaning
gold coins.
"There you are" she smiled. "And
be sure there are no Apaches about
tonight. When they're around-well
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-21

you?"
Sunlight reflected from the ground
lit certain evil lines about the gun
fighters brutal mouth.
"She will-when Pm ready" Ted
promised truculently.
"That, Mister Crane, rates as mo
claim with me-" Ken pronounced with
a dangerous grin and his eyes wavered
not an inch while his body impercep-
tibly tensed itself.
cts goin' to-"
Unwisely, discounting the glare in
his eyes, Mescalero Ted's hand flash
ed to the butt of gun that bore some
ten or eleven deep nicks-and stayed
there, which was wise because the red
haired hunters gun was now out and
leveled.
"Steady!"
Ken, with the characteristic impa-
thence of a frontiersman, would have
been glad to settle the whole affair
then and there, but at the last split
second there flashed into his mind his
conversation with FELTON,. If he re-
moved Mescalero Ted, the Mescalero
Apaches who, for reasons best known
to themselves worshiped this blond
killer, would certainly come swooping
down.
"Take yore hand away, slow, and
don't make that mistake again, Ted"
he snapped cause next time 1 amt
stoppin'. Listen, hombre-I'm SEEM
Miss NOVEL; whenever I've mind It'll
you run your brand on her."
Pm tellin' you," barked Ted back
ing away, git outta Novedad if you
want to keep that dirty hide of yours
waterproof. The sun was in my eyes
just now, next time it won't be-"
Uncertainty was the dominant emo
ton of Ken Chester's being when,
cautiously making his way along
struggling groups Of tents that glow
ed like giant lamps, he at last be-
held the square black outlines of the
A. K. & N. office blocking out patch
of those stars which blazed so bright
ly above. He felt, he realized, like a
scout accommodating an unknown
country where dangers lurked on all
sides.
Continued on Page 81
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-21

All cars we're stock models. The
Sunoco products were purchased at
a regular SunOcO station and shipped
in sealed containers to the mammoth
refrigerator at South Bend, Ind. One
by one, cars we're placed i'll the cold
room, refrigerated, and started with
out trials or rehearsals. No tricks
no priming-nothing added to the
cars but anti-freeze. Supervised by
Western Union observer, timers with
stop watches clicked the elapsed
time between the push on the starter
and the firing of the motor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
Ken Murray
Says:

That warning about walk
quietly to the nearest exit evil
IDENTIFY doesn't apply to the thea
ter of war, when you hear how
the Red leaders of Madrid are
breaking all sprint records to
escape the insurgents ring OF
fire And from the way we
keep reading "Rebels Are Taking
Madrid you'd think it was some
sort of patent medicine.
Everywhere in Spain they're
chasing the LOyalists and send
ing them to their graves:
Really what you'd call running
the government into the ground.
of course, over here, the Re
publicans are finding it pretty
tough to capture the Capitol in
Washington. If those WPA
workers did nothing else. they've
certainly thrown up a strong
barrier.
BUT REMEMBER
In the Latin countries, it's
usually the president, and not
the term that expires.
Copyright, 1886 by Mcknight
Syndicate, Inc
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
OFFERS TO GIVE
DOGS AWAY

Many Washington dog lovers
will have the opportunity to own
their own pets, free of charge, with
the offer made today by j. Chris
Jensen, 45-year-old dog fancier and
authority on breeding doberman
pinSchers, who will give away 100
of his female dobermans to local
residents.
Christensen. whose dogs have
won many kennel club prizes and
championships. came here short
while ago from Buffalo. N. Y,
where he maintains a kennel. He
intends to breed his dogs in Wash
ington as soon as suitable place
can be found. At present ne is
offering a male doberman pup
gratis to persons who will take a
female pinscher and keep it for
year.
The doberman is a mixture of
Manchester terrier, German short
hair pointer, and French shepherd
dog, and has often been termed
"the dog with a human mind"
Extremely docile and responsible,
they make good coon hunters,
companions for children and
watchdogS.
Mr.. Christensen can be reached
at 1916 Kalorama Rd. N. w.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
InUaSiOn of Rats
StirS School
Officials

The District government felt
the need of an up-to-date Pied
Piper today as a large family of
rats "muscled in" on the unfin-
ished Rose Lees Hardy School in
the FoXhall Village section.
To add to the worries, the
probability is that close and dis
tant relatives of Mr.. and Mrs. Ro,
dent are likely to move in with
them.
The rats had been sojourning
in two shacks near the school lot,
but when the structure of learning
began to take shape, the rats de-
cided to go to school and give up
their old quarters.
The school and Home AsSocia-
ton of the community reported
the state of affairs to the Health
Department and the Board of Edu-
cation. The Health Department
dispatched an inspector to the
scene and a plan of destruction is
being mapped out.
But the Board of Education, un-
officially is of the opinion that the
municipality should buy the near
by land on which the ShackS are
located, tear down the ShackS and
in that manner drive out the rats.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

Sheriff Fields VelOped, no one
knows Just who favorS incorpora-
ton of Arlington county into a
city, but as far as the move has
been carried to date it is obvious
that all of those supporting the
proposal consist of disappointed
office seekers who have been un-
successful in numerous attempts
to capture public office through
election.
1t appears to me that these
same office aSpirants are enter.
tanning an idea that if the county
abolisheS the elective offices and
makes them appointive that they
may yet realize their desire to hold
a public office. l offer the follow
ing argument:
Revenue Loss Seen
Foremost is the fact that the
county would lose more than
100000 annually in it's funds now
being received from the State for
TOdO maintenance.
1t appears to everyone that I
have talked with that Arlington
county has shown great progress
under the recently adopted coun-
ty-manager form of government
and that the county stands out
prominently as the most progress
Sive one in the State.
further believe that many of
the huidreds of persons who have
moved into Arlington county
lately have done so, to a great ex-
tent, because they wanted to get
out of cities where the taxes re-
suit in high rents and increased
personal taxes.
A plan placing Arlington
county under the form of city
would result in heavily increased
taxes for all businesses and pro-
LESSONS and would work a greater
hardship on this class of tax
payers than is justified in Ar
lington at the present time.
Means More Taxes
Not only do 1 believe it would
add to the business taxes. but it
would also result in costing the
citizens more taxes. and I am of
the opinion that they are paying
Continued on Page 30. Col. 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

Five-year-old Robin Monroe
Gaardsmoe is at the parting of the
ways, but he cannot decide just
which way to turn.
Both the air waves and Holly
wood becken. and as yet he has
made no choice. Radio is his first
love, but the movies have strong
attraction.
One thing seems certain.
Robin is going places. With d
thatch of curly brown hair, a pair
of dimpled cheeks and a flair for
the Irish jig, who wouldn't.
He has the sort of smile that
tugs at the heart strings. and a
little verse that goes over big each
week in his radio broadcast with
the Joe Brown VOL program.
The thing that put him over to-
day at The Washington Times
was smile for the city editor, an
Continued on Page 30, Col. ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
; D. C.. PERMITS
REVOKED

Three Washington drivers had
their driving permits revoked to-
day by the Board of Revelations,
Suspensions and Reservations.
Twelve other drivers lost their
driving permits for 80 days and
Is permits we're suspended for IS
days. All had been convicted of
speeding.
Those revoked we're:
Clifton H. Atkins, 1909 Kane
Pl. N. w., so miles.
LaWrie Moseley, 1909 Riggs Pl.
N. w.. SIS miles.
Ivan c. Randall, 721 Luray Pl.
N. E., so miles.
Suspended for 30 Days
Harold Daniel, 1882 Ridge Pl.
S. E., AZ miles.
James Flanagan, 1903 Otis
st. N. E., AZ miles.
James Ford, 100 Banks Court
S. w.. a. miles.
Andrew Fretz, 922 Fourteenth
st. N. w., A miles.
Abraham Grotto, 40 K St.
N. E., 46 miles.
Lloyd Johnson, Sis Quarles St.
N. E., Al miles.
Frank C. Krauss, 81 R st. N.
E., ~ miles.
C. B. Mullins, 2418 Thirty
seventh st. N. w., ~ miles.
Robert w. Thomas, 1861
StuyveSant Pl. N. W., so miles.
CONTINUED on Page 81, Col. q
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
LEAVES DENIED
RELIEF ROLL
WORKERS
Comptroller General
Rules on Meaning
of 1886 Act

Acting Comptroller General r.
N. Elliott today ruled that work.
ers taken from relief rolls, no mat
ter what their employment or sal.
airy, are not entitled to annual or
sick leave.
Only workers who have been
appointed as "officerS or employees
of the United States" he ruled,
come within the purview of the
leave laws passed in the last SeS-
sion of Congress.
The decision was made on a
question raised by the Treasury
Department in connection with 60
workers at the Coast Guard Depot,
Curtis Bay, Md, who were secured
from relief rolls. These employees
are paid the same wages and are
employed under the same condi-
tions as other workers on the prof.
ect who have Civil Service
status.
In his ruling, the Comptroller
General stated:
"The condition which de-
termines whether the employees
or workers are entitled to
leave of absence with pay is not
whether they have a civil service
status nor whether their salary
rates and conditions of employ
ment are the same as the regu-
lar employees of the department,
but whether the method of their
employment was through regu-
lar appointment as employees Of
the United States by, or pur-
CONTINUED on Page 81, Col. u
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Fireman Harry Clark Saved Many Lives In
Twenty-nine Hazardous Years With
Department After Navy Service

Four years in the Navy, during
which he travelled all around the
world, decided Harry Lawrence
Clark that Washington was the
best place to live.
So in 1905 he joined the Fire
Department. and performed excel
lent service for the next 20 years
until he was retired.
Several times he was commended
for heroic rescues. Once, in the
great Washington Tobacco Com
pany fire of 1911, in which two
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
ASKS So NEW
TR0LLEYS BY
NEXT YEAR
Personal Request Says
Program Of Buying
Can Be Afforded

Public Utilities Commission
Chairman Riley E. Elgen in
strongly worded letter to E. D.
Merrill, general manager of the
Capital Transit Company today
urged the company to prepare an
immediate program for replace
ment of the oldest, Slowest, least
adequate" of its street cars.
Although the note was a per-
Sonal communication and not
based on any commission action,
Chairman Elgen stated: In my
judgment such plan should con-
template the replacement of the
Oldest of those cars now in service
with the most modern type of
street cars presently available and
at the rate of not less than so cars
per year, the first so to be in SER
vice not later than the middle of
1887"
Five-Year Program
Chairman Elgen stated that,
after conferences between the
company and the commission, a
five-year track replacement pro-
gram had been worked out with
the result that some of the worst
track has been renewed and at
the present time the general
state of repair of your tracks is
better than in good many years,
although there is still plenty of
room for further improvement as
recognized in present reconstruc-
ton plans"
Regarding the street car re-
placement program, the letter
stated:
proceeding along the same
lines, it appears to me, and
l have so advised other men,
berS of the commission, that
similar plans should be pre-
pared for the replacement OF
the oldest. SIOweSt. least ade-
quate and modern of your
street cars.
There can be little question
that your company could afford
! to replace a certain number OF
these cars yearly until all, that
should be, will have been re-
placed completely. wish you
would present such a program
to this commission for COnSid'
Grafton at the earliest possible
moment. In my judgment, such
a plan should contemplate the
replacement of the Oldest OF
those cars now in service with
the most modern type of street
cars presently available and at
a rate of not less than so cars
per year, the first so to be in
service not later than the middle
of 1887.
"SOme such plan will permit
all interested parties to have
some knowledge of the future
prospects of obtaining equip
ment designed to meet present
conditions.
IL would like to have a pro-
posal from you as to your future
plans with respect to the re-
placement of the least modern
of your present equipment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
Air Line Deal Gets o. K.

The Post office Department TO-
day announced approval of the
purchase of the Pennsylvania Air
Lines and the Central Air Lines
by the Pennsylvania Central Air
Lines, a new company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

ton incorpor-
ated into a city,
l would like to
offer the follow
ing reasons why
l believe it best
that we remain
as a county. l
also want to
give what 1 be-
lieve to be the
c h lief reason
such a move is
b e in g adVO-
Gated.
Until the plan
is further de-
uoI1~ol M ana
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

men were killed, he rescued two
of his companions who were
trapped on the roof.
In a Seventh Street departm mt
store fire a few years later ne
helped rescue four men who had
been buried by falling wall, and
again rescued an engineer of a
locomotive which had overturned.
Now that he has retired, Clark
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
BY SHERIFF HOWARD b.
FIELDS

ARLINGTON COURTHOUSE,
Va, Oct. 23.-Replying to previ.
Gus published reports favoring the
plan to have the county of Airing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
FIELDS SCORES
ARLINGTON
CITY IDEA
Says Proponents Are
Mostly Disappointed
Office Seekers

This article, the third of Sc
rieS dealing lUith the proposal to
incorporate Arlington county
into a city, is by Sheriff Ho1OGrd
B. Fields, Ueteran head of Ar
lington county'S police depart
ment and one of the oldest res
identS of the county.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

and his wife reside at 1903 Massa-
chuSetts Ave. N. E., in winter, and
spend the summers at Cobb Island,
Md. But they are considering pur-
chase of a trailer and setting out
to tour the country,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

w q s n / n g ton
permanently in
December. That
he will return
with his family
to China and
eventually to
another diplo-
matte post is
part of the
prosp e C t / We
change.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23
NOW
Chinese EnUOy
May Leave
NATIVE SON.
BY HELEN ESSARY

Washington is discussing the
possibility of the Chinese Am
baSsador, Alfred SEE, leaving
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

The Chimes
A m b a S S a do
has lived s.
long in Wash
ington that the
ko- AI:~Ir, .F
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

Mrs. Jacobs founded and main
tanned the Hospital for Children
and also six free clinics. She was
Continued on Page 80, Col. q
The Washington times., 1936-03-12
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP.
MoWIE VI

FOX-Bing Crosby in Anything
Goes" 10:45 a. m, 1880, AIS,
7:05, $50 p. m. Stage-12:30,
3:15, 800, $50. p. m.
EARLE-Paul MUM in "The Story
of Louis Pasteur," II a. m, 1885,
Ais, 7:10, 9:55 p. m. Stage
12:40, 3:25, Sis, 900 p. m.
PALACE-Clark Gable in wife
Versus Secretary" 11:15 a. M;
1:15, 3:2o, 5:25, 7:30, 9:35 p. m.
COLUM MBIA-Nelson Eddy in
Rose Marie" $50 a. M; IL,
2:20, 4:45, 7:05, $50 p. m.
KEITH'S-Ginger Rogers and
Fred Astaire in Follow the
Fleet" $50 a. m, 1882, 1874
3:36, 5:38, TAO, 9:42 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Gail Patrick
in "The Preview Murder MyS-
terry" 11:10 d. m, 1855, 2:45,
4:30, $40, sos, 9:55 p. m.
LITTLE-Victor MacLaglen in
THE Informer," at 1925. 1886
3:29. $40, 1888 and 9:44 p. m
HOWARD-Ann Southern in You
May Be Next" 1890, $3.50, $50.
900, 11:00 p. m. Stage-Claude
Hopkins and his Orchestra,
200. 500, 800 1000 p. m.
The Washington times., 1936-03-12
L Cover HOLLYWOOD

enot least, got her hair dunked a
new color. She's a serious woman
you said it!
Freddie Bartholomew has been
cleaning up lately in the East, Civ.
ing out over the ether. He gets
two thousand for a position of
any Importance on a program and
five hundred if he just runs in
with a sort Of spear and says
How'd ia do"
For the last musical number Of
THE Great Ziegfeld," they EN-
ployed a group of U. S. C. foot
ball players as chorus men. But
what a rigorous training they
underwent before getting the job.
After being selected for their
manly beauty, they were taken
in a body to the home of the
dance director each day'f for weeks
and taught how to act gracefully
while dancing.
It's amazing the career Of Bob
Burns. who is enacting the second
role in Rhythm on the Range" ."
At the same time last year he
couldn't get a look-in at any OF
the studios, but at the moment he
has radio and picture contrats to
burn, and with it all he's still the
nice gent he always was.
The Washington times., 1936-03-12
"BugIe Ann" at
Fox Friday

"The Voice of Bugle Ann" based
on MacKinlay Kantor's famous
novel, has been converted into a
gripping screen drama which will
be shown at Loew's Fox Theater
this Friday, together with the per.
sonal stage appearance of Jack
Benny.
One of the most amazing and
dramatic court cases in history
comes to life in this Gold.
wyn1Mayer film which is said to
offer Lionel Barrymore his finest
role since The Free Soul"
Richard Thorpe directed this
picture and critics say that he has
done this with such deft skill
that he brings out all the human
touches and shows the human at
tachment between the hill people
and their hunting companions.