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The Washington times., 1936-02-17
Honor Chinese Envoy

The Ambassador Of China. DR..
Sao-Ke Alfred SEE, was the guest
in whose honor Representative
and Mrs. Sol Bloom entertained
at dinner Saturday night.
The other guests were the
Minister Of Austria and Nine.
Prochnik; the Minister Of Den
mark and Nine. Wadsted; Sena-
tor and Mrs. Royal s. Copeland; i;
the Assistant Secretary of War
and Mrs. Harry H. Woodring;
the Chief Of the Far Eastern Di-
vision of the State Department,
DR.. Stanley K. Hornbeck; the
Commissioner Of immigration
and Mrs. Daniel w. MacCor-
mack; Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. M.
Robert Gugge heim; Mrs.
Charles M. Lea, and Miss Vera
Bloom.
Mrs. Henry Clay RanSley will
be hostess at luncheon on Wednes-
day following Mrs. TownSend's
morning musicale at the May.
flower.
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
Dinner Honors
PoStoriZoS

The Minister of the Dominican
Republic and Nine. PaStoriza were
the guests in whose honor Col.
and Mrs. Joseph Fegan entertain
ed at dinner Saturday evening at
the Chevy Chase Club.
The guests included Nine. Es-
paillat, Representative and Mrs.
Andrew EdmiSton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Sunderland, Col. and Mrs.
Clayton B. Vogel, DR.. and Mrs.
Macpherson Crichton, MIR. and
Mrs. William Shearer, Major Kemp
Slaughter, Mrs. Newton Brewer
and Mr.. Walter Wilcox.
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
Barbara Baker
Engaged

DR.. and Mrs. John Hooe Iden
have announced the engagement
of their ward, Miss Barbara Baker,
to Mr.. Edward T. Caldwell, jr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Cald-
well, of New York.
Miss Baker, who has been q
popular member Of the Capital
younger set, was presented to
Society during the Christmas
holidays at a tea dance given by
the IdenS at the Kennedy-War-
rem, where they make their home.
She attended George Washington
University last year and this sea-
son has been a student at Rad
cliffe College. She is the daugh-
ter Of the late Lieut.. and Mrs.
Loring Baker and comes OF a
family which has long been as
sociated with the Navy. She is
the granddaughter Of the late
Admiral Nathan Twining and
spends much time with Mrs.
Twining at her home in Boston.
Mr.. Caldwell is a student at
Harvard University.
The wedding will take place the
latter part Of June.
y =
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Burns. OF
Baltimore, have come to Washing
ton to spend a week or ten days,
and they are stopping at Wardman
Park Hotel while here.
Mrs. Charles Rollin Larfabee, Of
washington. Is at the St. Regis
Hotel in New York for a brief visit.
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
Two Dinners Tomorrow


and the the Sulg1ve
The Washington times., 1936-02-17


The Attorney General and Mrs.
Homer s. Cummings have post
poned their trip to Florida until
March.
Evening star., 1936-12-13

the silence was oppressive, he said: did
you?"
She seemed to find relief in words. Il
have just killed Joe Morrison. He's back
yonder under the trees - in his car. shot
him.
II didn't hear any shot," remarked
Cyril weakly, as though seeking to prove that
she must be mistaken.
Il killed him - and if you don't help
me, they'll hang me for it."
tt it was - accident"
mo, it wasn't killed the =" And the
young lady proceeded to express her frank
opinion of the late Mr. Morrison and his
immediate forbears. Cyril was very much
distressed by the recital.
He must have been a most obnoxious
person" he stated positively.
The lady explained that he was and
again proved her command of graphic Ian
guage. Il guess you'd like to know why did
it, wouldn't you?"
why yes :. guess would"
She told him. 1t was oolorful story, and
quite heart-rending. Cyril felt himself boiling
inside. If he was to believe even a tenth
of what she said, MIR. Morrison deserved all
that he already had been given. He made it
plain that he was eager to assist in any way
possible.
But" he explained all you have to do
is to tell the authorities exactly what you've
told me, and they'll let you off,"
''They won't! You don't understand, Mr..
Cramer. You see, he was rich and prominent
and all that. I'm just poor girl well,
anyway, haven't nothing except what my
friends give me, and the police would be sure
to hold that against me. They'd think was
trying to shake that so-and-so down for
money or something. But with you to help
me
What can do?"
'You can do lots. Everybody knows you
They know you're gentleman, Harvard
man, and that you wouldn't lie or nothing
They're going to see us drive up to the hotel in
your car. All you gotta say, Mr. Cramer, is
that we've been together ever since dinner.
Then when they find Joe sitting in his car
back yonder, they'll never think I had any
thing to do with it,
Cyril admitted that this was logical. but
he feared to become involved in the affair.
His sheltered, sybaritic existence had not
accustomed him to dramatic moments or
Evening star., 1936-12-13

sides / and Joe - Joe is my regular boy
friend we had sort of had tiff. But we
made it up before dinner and Joe says he's
gonna take me riding tonight himself. Well.
l break the news to this sap here, and he
says he amt gonna stand for any two timing,
and that there1l be trouble if 60.
well, Mister Chief. l can't figure this
bird making trouble for fine, big feller
like Joe 50 don't pay him no heed. and we
CO. Well, we get to that place was telling
you about - way north of here - and some
thing gets the matter with Joe's car, 50 he
pulls up under the trees to fix it. We amt been
there hardly an hour when car comes along.
filings its headlights to where we are f.
and then Mr.. Cramer gets out.
''I1l say this for him; he don't do much
talking. He asks me rough am gonna keep
my date with him or amt l. Joe starts to
argue, and Mr.. Cramer says Keep your
mouth shut, you big slch-and-such.' With
that Joe makes motion to get out of the car,
and Mr.. Cramer shoots him dead. Bang! just
like that. Joe just slumps forward and fall
out of the car and faint.
Next thing l know I'm in the car with
Mr.. Cramer, here. driving back to town, and
he's telling me had better pretend like we
didn't see nobody on the ride, or he'll bump
me off just like he did Joe. I might look
like goof, he says, but I amt. I'm dam
gerousv That was why when we come into the
hotel pretended like had been with him
all the time. But Mister Chief, the minute
I could get away from this little louise,
telephoned you and told you the whole truth.
And that's all"
Cyril was spellbound. He didn't quite
understand what it was all about, but he
knew that something very terrible was in the
process of happening to him. As from great
distance he heard Mr.. Rudd's voice.
What about it, Mr.. Cramer?"
II don't believe word of it, stated
Cyril.
''You see," said Iris triumphanty: II told
you he'd lie about it"
Cyril was doing his best to think.
'Am I-am to understand that am
being accused of killing Mr.. Morrison?"
'Uh-huh, Mr.. Cramer. You sure are"
But that's preposterous! give you my
word never killed anybody in my life This
lady killed him or at least she claims to
have done sc."
Il told you he'd say that, sfrilled Miss Vail
CCeatisvsd on pogs 12)
Evening star., 1936-12-13

feller you hired that airplane for when Ma
was sick. Ernie Rudds the name"
Cyril again nodded.
Il hate to come official-like, MIR. Cramer;
but got to. l got to ask you few questions,
see."
Cyril saw, and waited - helplessly.
'Where.was you tonight, Mr.. Cramer?"
Cyril moistened his lips. Out driving"
"Alone?"
"N-n-no. That is, not exactly"
who was with you?"
Cyril hesitated, and Ernie Rudd hastened
to relieve his embarrassment. "Ain't no need
of tellin' me that, Mr.. Cramer. Lots of folks
seen you and Miss Vail come IN from your
ride. She was with you all evenin. wasn't she?"
"Y-y-yes."
Did you see anybody else while you was
ridin'?"
Cyril shook his head, and Ernie leaned
forward earnestly.
Believe me, Mr.. Cramer - this is tough
job for me. I'm your friend. see - and I
amt the kind of guy that ever forgets the
sort of favor you done me. But, Mr.. Cramer,
things amt locking so good. and"
The door flung back and woman entered
the room. Cyril looked up and blinked.
Iris looked neither gentle nor romantic.
She seemed taller and straighter and very
much harder. Her eyes glittered like the
tips of icicles, and her voice was sharp as the
edge of razor.
Has he finished lying?" inquired Miss
Vail coldly.
well, ma am, he says"
Sure, he says he was with me all evening;
right from dinner. He says he didn't see
nobody else the whole time we were out. Well,
Mister Chief of Police, told you he'd say
just that Now femme tell you just what
happened
She stood firmly in the middle of the floor,
and Cyril, looking up at her in tongue-tied
bewilderment, decided that he had never IN
all his life encountered female whom he
disliked so intensely.
This bird Cramer has been on the make
for me - all the time running after me and
all that. He's been trying to take me out
riding in his car, but l wouldn't 60 be-
cause l got sense enough to realize that
rich men amt ever got very honorable
intentions. Well anyway, today he's been
pestering me, and finally I says all right
I'll 60 driving with him tonight / didn't
want to go, but he'd been after me, and be-
Evening star., 1936-12-13

vital decisions. He was distinctly perturbed,
and preferred to let well enough alone - but
when the young lady - who gave her name as
Iris Vail - reminded him that he had given
his word of honor, he was helpless.
They rode toward the great hotel. Cyril
felt quite uncomfortable. He kept thinking
of the ex-Mr. Morrison parked out yonder
under the palmettoes, and the thought was
not pleasant. Also, he was commencing to
doubt the essential femininity of any young
lady who could thus casually shoot her gentle
man friend and then think such clear thoughts
concerning her own safety.
Iris engineered her alibi excellently. She
escorted Cyril through the lobby of the hotel
and ostentatiously bowed to a half dozen
persons she scarcely knew. She took great
pains to explain to the hotel clerk that she
and her jinmpman friend had been riding
together all evening, and she virtually forced
the dazed and bewildered Cyril into con-
firmation of her story. Then she bade him
good night and went to her room. Cyril half
walked, half staggered, into his suite and
collapsed into chair by the window.
He tried to convince himself that he should
feel like hero. Hadn't he just rescued a
damsel in distress? Hadn't he interposed his
sterling reputation between a poor girl and
the possible buffetings of cruel fate?
Away from the moonlight, the grand ex-
panse of silver beach, the drumming of the
surf and the exotic perfume and earnest
oratory of the young lady, Cyril Cramer
doubted the wisdom of his course. Trouble
was that things had happened too fast and
dramatically for one who never before had
met a single actuality face to face.
He slipped glass of sherry and found it
fiat. He paced the room nervously. He
darted quick glances behind him, as though
fearful that the end was not yet.
He was right. There was knock on the
door and the knob turned before he had
chance to whisper Come in"
Cyril breathed sigh of relief at sight of
his visitor. Ernie Rudd was short and stocky
and very tan. He was also decidedly un-
comfortable.
''Evenin', MIR. Cramef."
Cyril could not tear his eyes away from
the official badge which cleaned from Mr..
Rudd's great chest He bowed weakly and
indicated chair
you remember me, don't you, Mr.. Cramer?
I'm the police chief here, and I'm also the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02
Cokesbury News

The Epworth League members gave
surprise party to Miss Anna Lee
Long last Thursday evening at the
home of her parents. Games were
played after which ice cream and cake
we're served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Taylor are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth
of a son, Tuesday, September 22nd, at
the Peninsula General Hospital, Sal
isbury, Md. Both mother and baby
are doing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Harris and chill
dren and Mr.. Dave Harris of Upper
Darby, Pa, spent the weekend here
with relatives.
Mrs. Ernest Long and daughter,
Miss Anna Lee motored to Westmin-
ster, Md, last Tuesday, where Miss
Anna Lee enrolled in Western Mary
land College as student for the COM
ing year.
Mrs. Wallace Covington spent last
Wednesday at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. E. W. Long. It was the
first time Mrs. Covington had been
out since the first of June, and her
many friends were glad to know she
was well enough to be out again.
Miss Ruth Beauchamp spent the
weekend with Miss Francis Nord-
wall, of Princess Anne, Md.
Mrs. Harry c. Adkins and daugh-
ter, Eleanor Francis, of Salisbury,
Md, spent last Monday with relatives
here.
The Ladies Aid will meet next week
Thursday, October 9Th with Mrs. Rob-
ert Dennis.
Miss Anna Lee Long spent last Sat-
uray as the guest of Miss Amanda
Evans of Williams vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Harris and
children of Pocomoke City visited rel
atives in our community last Sunday.
Mrs. Edgar Atkinson spent last
Wednesday afternoon with her sister,
Mrs. Fred Hill of near Pocomoke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Birmingham
and children and Mrs. Gray of POGO
moke City were visitors at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Long Sun
day night.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02
AccOnlac News

Mrs. Bidwell c. Cranage and daugh-
ter, Mary Bidwell, returned to their
home in Baltimore, Md, Sunday, after
having spent several weeks with Mrs.
Cranage's father and sister, Mr.. Joe
Oliver and Miss 10 D. Oliver.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert P. Coleburn
and son, Mr.. Alphonse Coleburn have
returned from a visit with relatives
in Blackstone, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Vessels and
daughter, Marian Jean, of Pocomoke
City, Nd, spent the past weekend
with relatives here.
Miss Marjorie Custis Fletcher spent
the past weekend in Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Mallory have re-
turned to their home in Richmond,
after having visited the Rev. and Mrs,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02

F. W. England
Mrs. Ralph Chamblin, of Herndon,
Va, spent several days this week at
"Drummondtown Tavern"
Mrs. John D. Grant, Jr., Miss Mil
bred Grant, and Mr.. Wilson Grant
spent several days this week in Roa-
noke, Va. They were accompanied
home by Miss Elizabeth Grant, who
had been a patient at Catawba SAM
forum.
Mr.. James Shrieves of East Orange
N. j., spent the past weekend with
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
Smith Milliner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles U. Ayres and
son, Charlie, moved today, Friday, in
to the home recently vacated by Mrs.
L. K. Evans and daughter.
Miss Jessie Martin is spending a
week in Richmond with Mr.. and Mrs.
William G. Stevenson and Mr.. and
Mrs. William A. Penick.
Mr.. Lee Hickman of Baltimore,
Md, spent several days last week in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy D.
White and DR.. H. D. Lilliston.
Mr.. ]. Revel Nelson of Newport
News, spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Nelson.
Miss 10 D. Oliver spent the past
weekend with Miss Mary Virginia
Byrd at Pastoral.
Mr.. Roy Litleton left Tuesday to
spend six months in Baltimore, Md.
Mr.. Sam Stevenson has returned to
his home in Richmond after spending
several weeks, here, with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. L. Douglas Milliner and Mr..
Milliner.
Mrs. L. K. Evans and daughter,
Manly Lee are now making their home
with Mrs. Evans parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. C. Nelson.
Mrs. John w. Edmonds and sons,
Franklin and Jack have returned, af-
ter spending a month in Richmond
with Mrs. Edmonds' parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. T. Spicer.
Mr.. Nelson Werner of Newport
News, spent the past weekend with
his father, Mr.. Harry Werner and Mrs.
Werner.
Mr.. Cecil Fletcher of Virginia
Beach spent the past weekend with
his mother, Mrs. Edgar D. Fletcher.
Mrs. Carrie Mapp Oliver is spend
ing two weeks with relatives in Nor
folk.
Mrs. A. P. Johnson and daugh-
ter, Miss Jessie Parker johnson of
Norfolk spent the past weekend with
Mrs. Johnson's brother, Mr.. Harry
r. Parker and Mrs. Parker.
Mr.. Billy Bel has resumed his stud
les at Stuyvesant School. Warrenton,
Va. 4sISs
Mr.. Harry L. Jones has returned to
his home in Salisbury, Md, after
spending several months in Accomac.
Mrs. George Thomas East is pa
tient in Memorial Hospital, Nassawa-
dox, where she is receiving treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred H. Milliner,
Mrs. Edward S. Young and son, Ed
ward, spent Monday and Tuesday of
this week in Norfolk.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02

We have one of the finest equipped
plants on the Shore for turning out
high class printing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-15
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
LESSON FROM SPAIN

Commenting upon the trouble in Spain, the At
lanta Georgian gives the following which is food
for thought:
America has the opportunity to profit tremen-
dously by the disorders in Spain.
"The profit will not be measured in commercial
terms. 1t has nothing to do with markets the
selling of goods. .y, ,.Aat
at is the profit of example. 30" 3'r.'&t
1.-The tragic doctrines that have led the Spanish
people into this bloody reign of Red terror, have
been preached in America. - ...af "
Americans, listening to them, have been told
these doctrines would free the people of this cOun-
try of all the evils that afflict them.
"Spain tells US different story.
Communism, applied to the lives and affairs of
the Spanish people, has led them blindly into a
hopeless chasm of despair They will salvage moth
ing from the bitter experience but human misery
Americans, watching the grim spectacle from
affair." turn from it with sick hearts. BY comparison
with it, our own troubles appear of little conse-
quence.
Certainly there is nothing in that spectacle to
commend itself to our intelligent people as sou-
ton of any problem now, or ever confronting our
country.
"Spain, embracing Communism, will put all hopes
of happiness for its people to the sword The final
ity of death will settle upon the miserable land,
amid indescrbahle scenes of desolation and suffer
ing.
Americans unite in the great determination that
this must never happen in our country. "-Ruther-
fordton News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-15
NAKED FACTS


There, is temporary prosperity in South Carolina
among those who have farms, cotton tobacco, other
things to SELL Prices good, and checks are COM
ing for non-production.
In South Carolina is prosperity among merchants
and other people who trade with the prosperous
producers
There is prosperity among $4,000 or $4,000 Of
fce-holders and employees of government
These classes together are about one-thlrd OF
1.7S8. 765 men, women, children, white and black
in South Carolina.
The condition of the other two-thirds, unless
helped by money from the United States treasury
is no better than it was in 1882 and, IN the ap'
proaching winter, may be worse. The turning out
of lands has, of course, turned a proportlonate
number of them out of jobs. They will have 10 pay
twice as much or more for food this winter than
thew paid before recovery" set in. They have
made less food than IN 1882
Such are the naked facts. Who will dispute
them charleston News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-15
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
by hUDNEf BUTCHER
NEA Scrylce Stnff ('orreSnnud..nf

BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service StaT Correspondent
WASHINGTON-One of the big
" laughs of the summer in
Washington is the way the radi-
cal boys and girls in the New
Deal ranks have taken Mr.. Roose-
welt to their bosomS and pro-
claimed him as their hero and sole
hope of salvation. T.
What I mean is the rather large
sprinkling of minor officials and
rank and file employees making
from $4,000 to $4,000 year-and
in some cases little more-who
were hired for the new agencies
though their views were more So
cialistic than otherwise.
They owed their jobs to friends
higher up in the New Deal who
considered them relatively bril-
liant or able and took them in
without regard to their politics.
A year or two ago most of them
were damning Roosevelt all over
the place, accusing him in their
private sessions of being a stoosc
for Big Business, of being hypo-
critic 'nasquerading asia true lib
cral, Of taking the conservative
path rather than the road to the
left in an major. pincbes. =
To-day the. very same crowd is
almost unanimously declaimine
that Roosevelt istthe only alter.
native to stark reaction and early,
FasciSm; that he is carrying the
torch OF progressivism with a
vigorous stride; and that Governor
Landon is a tool of Wall Street
and Hearst.
Their vicious verbal attacks
have been transferred from one
man to the other. = . q
y
MOST of this amusing conver-.
sion probably can be attrib-
uted to a desire to hold onto Jobs
Federal employees outside civil SER
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-15

UNCLE IKE WALTON, THE
happy-go-lucky fisherman, sitting
comfortably on the creek bank,
paused between batting his hook
with a worm and biting off a fresh
chew of Browns Mule to comment
on our recent remarks about the
long number of years required to
acquire an education, and ex-
presses the hope that we may keep
up such utterances.
Uncle Ike wants a more prac-
tical education for the children.
He also thinks it well for them to
do a little Sweating of the
brow" along with their training.
Don't kill time teaching a coun-
try girl how to milk by a Latin
book. Let her specialize in the
practical things unless she wants
a college education for profess
sional purposes or personal salts
faction. Uncle Ike doesn't think
a child should spend II years in
public school before somebody dis
covers it's bent and assigns to it
studies calculated to be of most
value in after years.
We are so deep into an educa-
tional rut it will take long time
to get reorganized but occasional
ly some fellow cries out from the
creek bank to the hill top that edu-
cation in one of its many branches
will finally be fitted to the needs
and capacities of the child. DR..
! Clyde M. Hill, chairman of the
department of education at Yale
University, discussing impractical
subjects this week said: "They
will have their place, but only as
they relate themselves directly
and dramatically to the interpre-
tation, the comprehension and the
eves-varying adjustments of So
cial living"
l would like to hear Uncle likes
views on the personality of teach
ers. l believe schooling is losing
much of its effectiveness because
of a lack of strong personality on
the part of many teachers.
How many teachers can you re-
call whose every utterance made
a lasting. impression because of
their lives, their experiences, their
observations and their ability to
interpret such with touch of hu-
man interest as they related them
selves. to the text book under
Study?i
A teacher ripe in experience,
noble living, extensive travel and
college education unless he has
certain credits is penalized and
not permitted to teach. His in |,
spiration is lost or the school child |
is deprived of it. On the other
hand, a girl not out of the gig
Cling age with no training other |
than that of the. college mill and
the art of entertaining gasoline
burning tea hounds and drug store
cowboys, gets on the payroll, be-
cause she has technique. The
srandest experience she can bring ,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-15
TT SEEMS TO ME
Ry WICKES WAMBOLDT

cable and more deadly than physl-
cal diseases.
There was day when the very
meagerness of means of COM
munication tended to confine in
furious thoughts to the localities
in which they originated. But to-
day with our unlimited facilities
for spreading ideas there is no
possibility of quarantining harm
full thoughts. They are broadcast
along with good thoughts through
out the world.
Most constructive instrument
talitieS have destructive potential
ties. The communication system
70 the world are in that class.
If we are not to be infected
and reinfected by harmful
thoughts and ideas we must learn
how to protect ourselves from
them. We must learn thought con-
troll; thought publication; we
must learn what constitutes good
thoughts; how to sift the bad
from the good and how to keep
and use the good.
., Every advance we make in
science and inventio ncalls on us
for more wisdom, knowledge and
understanding.