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Rates Staff With ANY.

IT OOK at my pitchers" says Casey
with a spacious gesture. when
I copped Fred Farmhouse from right
under William Terry's nose (and VIII
liam wanted the fella very badly, I
practically presented myself with the
KEYS to the city. have as good
staff as there is in the league now,
If they work the way they should
ought to-"
Here Mr.. Stengel raped his knuc-
kles on O walnut table, by way OF
insurance.
MY pitchers are nearly all wen
trained-nice light eaters and they
do not cost much to operate. ! nave
Mungo and Earnshaw and Brandt ana
Clark and Farmhouse and Leonard
and this here now Butcher. The
other clubs In the league will be need
ing plenty Of wtata ] got next June,
and I can sell high and fix myself
up In the right spots"
TERRY has you spotted for seventh
place this year." somebody told Mr..
Stengel. "Terry says you ought to
be able to beat out the Phillies, If
you are lucky and they sell Curt
Davis"
$50 I hear" replied Mr.. Stengel,
c0ldly. ''Terry Is always debating
fan letters to me.
"He is a great admirer Of mine.
Well. let me tell you, Terry will have
to move his club very fast to beat
us out hisself. There Is only room
for four Of us in the first division.
and we are kind of exclusive about
who we let in."
Having made his reservation early.
Mr.. Stengel feels that he can sit
back with his feet on the desk and
watch the world 60 by.
For the nonce," he adds cau-
tiously. "Only for the nonce. ! am
still in the market for q good catcher
and one or two infielders."
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TotaIs----12 $50 Totals--16 16 4S
Rsferees--Messrs. Cupid and westmore-
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Tuo Theories Ahouf nodrers.

VOU win gather from the above re.
marks that there are two schools
Of thought concerning the Dodgers
destiny. One-which may be labeled
the, Stengel school-foresees . first
division berth and possibly q pen
nant putsch for the Flatbush Fugle-
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Fones Big Help to Central.

1ONALD TUNES, WHOSE bIond halr
and graceful manner remind
scholastic spectators of former Gen.
tray fash, Henry Broadbent, did much
to send Tech to the bottom spot yes
terday as Central avenged previous
defeat with a 1924 victory at the
Tech gym.
Pocketing four Of his five field goals
on sensational shots, Zones kicked
through in crucial moments to send
Central ahead.
Bill Thompson, who grabbed the
ball off the blackboard repeatedly. and
Billy Vermillion, feet guard, accord
ed Fones great support.
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TECH HELD BETTER
THAN CELLAR FIVE
Really Capable, Although
High Series Last After
Loss to Central.

~ CCUPANTS Of the scholastic
basket ball series cellar for
\ the first time in many years,
~ Techs toSsers nevertheless
are consoled by the knowledge that
most schoolboy fans rank them on a
par with Central, Western and Roose-
welt.
Hampered by injuries and the scho-
lastic ineligibility of Jimmy Vermil-
lion, which caused the forfeiture of a
game to Roosevelt, Coach Rusty
Thompson still can regard the season
as somewhat of a success.
Thompson, starting the year with
but a single veteran, nodded a club
which defeated Western, Central and
Roosevelt and gave a creditable ac-
count of itself while losing.
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FROM THE PRESS BOX
Stengel Sees His Dodgers ''Pretty Good;
First Division Wouldn't Surprise Him.
BY JOHN LARDNER

men. The other-the Terry school
envisions them jostling around the
basement with the Phils and Braves
beg pardon-Bees. To your cor
respondents one good eye, the truth
appears to lie somewhere between
these two extremities Of theory.
Chicago, Pittsburgh, st. Louis and
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Basket Ball, 1880.

Boxing line-ups at Catholic u:
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-25

When you want a job, want to hire
help, sell your business, or used
equipment. run an ad in the classified
section. 1t gets results when others
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-25

Extra heavy water
repellent d u C k.
rubberized inside
game pockets ; piv.
OF sleeves for arm
f = e e d o m; extra
p o c k e t IS, shell
loops.
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cestry-and maybe Carib slso-she Is
referred to as being a Creole. AS
Napoleon was born August IS. 1859,
it Is evident that josephine was six
years his senior. But with Jerome
and Miss Patterson their ages were
more nearly alike.
JEROME BONAPARTE'S only issue
by Nine. Elizabeth Patterson
Bonaparte was a son, Jerome, who
died in Baltimore. Md, June II, 1870.
1t was probably his son, Jerome Ma
poleon Bonaparte, who graduated from
West Point and resigned from the
Army in 1854 and resided in WASH
ington, at 1927 K street northwest,
for some years subsequent TO 1882.
Another descendant Of Nine. Bona.
parte, Charles J. Bonaparte. served
in the cabinet of Col. Theodore
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PEACE-PROSPERITY

land blessed beyond anything we
now know, with those things
material and spiritual-that
make mans life abundant. II
that Is the fashion of your
dreaming, then I say, Hold fast
to your dreams! America needs
it,"
"Give us peace" we ask of
our President. "Give us pros
perity." But he cannot give these
gifts alone. He needs the spirit
and faith of America to realize
them. How about giving Presi-
dent Roosevelt a Christmas gift
this season? It must be a gift
that transcends party lines, and,
as he himself said at the Jack
son day dinner last year, must
and will consider our common
problems first. foremost and pre-
eminently from the American
point of view" It IS a very simple
gift and a delightful one. 1t is
no more than a national prom
Use that we shall, indeed, Hold
fast to our dreams!"
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more to his empire. and this plan he
carried through. regardless Of all other
considerations, for had he for one
minute considered his own marriage
to Josephine. he would. undoubtedly.
have acted otherwise.
Indeed. Josephine was also Of the
rank and file, and a widow with two
children at the time of her marriage
to Napoleon. Her husband, the
Vicomte Alexandra Beauharnais, as
commander Of the Army Of the Rhine.
had been executed during the period
Of the French Revolution.
She was the daughter Of Lieut..
Tascher de IA Pagerie and was born
on June "a, 1853, in Martinique. one
OF the French West India Islands, in
the Windward group. and. because Of
the place Of her birth. and that she
was descended from European an
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IRE TWICE ILLUMINATED BY ROYAL ROMANCES
International Wedding Of More Than Century Brought Tragedy Bride Who
Was Noted for Extreme Beauty-Recaued by King
Edwards sBatle-Bodsco MARRIAGE

Roosevelt, as Attorney General, dur.
ing that Presidents second admins.
tration, and there are other American
branches of the family that carry the
name.
The most spectacular and fasci-
mating international marriage ever to
occur in this country took place in
this city on April o, 1910, when Count
Alexander de Bodisco. Russian Min
lister to the United States, was joined
in lawful wedlock with Miss Harriet
Beall Williams. Today we look upon
the intended marriage of the recently
abdicated King Of England as out Of
the ordinary, and truly 1t Is quite un-
usual, but the marriage of the count
and the youthful Miss williams surely
reads like fiction.
The Minister was q bachelor. 50 far
Of young company, though easily old
enough to have been the grandfather
of the girl whom he courted and mar
ried At his home in Georgetown 1t
was his practice occasionally TO en-.
tertain some Of his young friends,
particularly the children Of those
whom he knew or with whom he as
ISOLATED.
Among those living in the West End
at that time, and who was always in
vited to the children's parties. was
Miss Williams, daughter OF Brooke
Williams, then chief clerk Of the adju-
tant generals office. She was only
l6, while the counts age is variously
recorded as from so years up.
Russia was then on very friendly
terms with the United States and,
consequently. its Minister was more
than highly regarded.
Miss williams was tall and the
handsomest girl in Georgetown. The
count at times found 1t agreeable to
escort her to school. which she was
still attending. He proposed and she
accepted and, as true love never runs
smooth. there had to be some objec-
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was the richest man in America, next
to Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

was the richest man in America, next
to Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
THE wedding Of the prince and the
lovely Miss Patterson took place
In the old Patterson home at South
and Gay streets. Baltimore. on Christ
mas eve, December "a. 1903, the bride.
groom being at the time q little over
10 years Of age, the bride nearly three
months younger. The ceremony was
performed by the Right Rev. John
Carroll, Bishop of Baltimore and
primate OF the Catholic Church In
America. Jeromes costume included
a purple coat Of satin. skirt lined with
white satin reaching to his heels; knee
buckles and diamond buckles on his
shoes, and he wore his hair powdered.
The bride, we are told. wore a gown
that had done service before, for she
wished, to use her own words, Ito
avoid vulgar display" and she said
further, And, truth to say, there was
little as possible Of any gown at all,
dress in that day being chiefly an aid
in setting of charms to advantage"
Few Of the contemporary papers
even mentioned the wedding, and it
was with difficulty that the following
announcement was found in the Fed
eral Gazette and Baltimore Daily Ad-
vertiser OF December ~, 1908:
Married on Saturday evening last
by the Rev. Bishop Carroll, Mr.. Je-
rome Bonaparte, youngest brother Of
the First Consul of the French Re.
public, to Miss Elizabeth Patterson,
eldest daughter of William Patterson.
esq, of this CITY,"
YOUNG BoNAPARTE and his
bride started out upon a honey
moon. and among the places they
visited was the Federal Capital, where
Jerome is recorded as having stopped
at the old Union Hotel. just the other
side of Rock Greek, in Georgetown,
where Louis Philippe, another noted
Frenchman, stopped upon one or more
occasions while he was exiled from his
native country.
Here Nine. Bonaparte entered into
the activities Of Washington's gay
society and probably went them one
better, If early reports are true. In.
deed, upon one occasion, in 1904, ac-
cording to Mrs. Samuel Harrison
Smith, she almost created q riot by
the scantiness Of the costume worn
by her at q select party given In her
honor. OF this event, Mrs. Smith
says:
But of Nine. 7 think It no
harm to speak the truth. She has made
a great noise here and mobs Of boys
have crowded around her splendid
equippage to see what hope will not
often be seen in this country, an al
most naked woman. An elegant and
select party was given to her by Mrs.
Robert Smith. Her appearance was
such that it threw all the company
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This sums up few Of the counts un-
fortunate characteristics.
On the other hand, the bride was
q great favorite with her schoolmates,
handsome and amiable. Some said it
was the bringing together Of May and
December, while others, less gener-
Gus, compared the contracting parties
to the Beauty and the beast"
The wedding took place in the home
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the youthfulness of Miss Williams
created more gossip than any marriage
which ever took place in the District
Of Columbia.
II all the things said about the
count were true. to many his looks
must surely have been repulsive: Old.
ugly, stout. with a broad Kalmuck
face. much wrinkled. prominent eye
brows and shaggy whiskers; his bald
pate covered with q shiny brown wig
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Of age and at His death was only
Continued From First Page.)

80. Christianity began with
youth and through the last 1000
years the spirit Of youth repeat
edly has revitaliZed 1t. Be wise
enough and tolerant enough, you
who are young in years, to re-
member that millions of older
people have kept and propose to
keep these qualities Of youth.
"You ought to thank God to-
night If you are young enough
in spirit to dream dreams and
visions about greater and finer
America that is to be; If you are
young enough in spirit to believe
that poverty can be greatly les
sened; that the disgrace of in
voluntary unemployment can be
wiped out; that class hatreds
can be done away with; that
peace at home and abroad can
be maintained; and that one day
a generation may possess this
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ton, which was supplied by Miss Will
liams' family. They said the count
was too old and too ugly. However,
Harriet was willing to accept his offer
and his looks.
QODISCO was one Of the brainiest
~ diplomats ever sent to this coun-
try, although in appearance he was
far from preposSessing, and this, and
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"Souvlaki,", nainstay Of the Greek
travellers diet, consists Of a split bam-
boo stick about Q foot long on which
tasty pieces Of pork and lamb are
roasted and served On abort order.
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Accounting Office
Workers Warned
On Wasting Time
ResignationsE1 Expected of
ThoseN Not Giving Full
Seuen Hours.

Employees Of the General Accounting
Office have got to quit knocking of
before 4:30 pm. to pretty-up-or
else.
This terse warning went out today
to the heads of divisions from Acting
Controller General Elliott, who said:
"It is quite apparent that many of
the employees of the General Account
ing Office are not giving, full seven
hours time to duty. Every day con-
siderable number stop work by or be-
fore AIS and repair to the wash room
and do no work thereafter.
"The law requires seven hours Of
duty from all employees, and those
who are not willing to comply there
with will be expected to hand in their
designations.
Further, says Elliott, whose duty it
Is to see that the Government gets
all that is coming to it, all super
visory officials "are expected to be at
their desks by am. and will be
held responsible for having all their
employees render the services required
by law" -.-s-.
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dancer. That's how I make my livin',
tap dancin'. I dances better when !
drinks"
"A tap dancer with no shoes?"
The policeman cut in here to say
that the boy was dressed in rags and
tatters over fairly good clothes, pre-
sumably as begging front" The
judge gave the youth suspended SEN
tence and advised him to look for
work.
Various Terms for Sundry Characters.
A colored youth in a bloody coat,
another with a bandaged head and
fist, white tramp with a huge black
eye and a ragged vagabond with a
luxurious beard were brought up,
heard and sentenced. The vagabond
got six months for vagrancy, the
youth in the bloody coat received q
suspended sentence when he explained
he was celebrating his birthday. and
the tramp drew q 20-day sentence.
At least nine-tenths of the de-
PENDANTS were ''repeaters." with from
one to a hundred previous arrests
against their records. Yes-l00-
count them! Some of the most badly
shaken were given terms ranging up
to a month at Gallinger Hospital.
At least 10 men asked for hospital
treatment, and this was granted, al
though the hospital is badly over
crowded.
The District Jail. too, Is over
crowded, as is the work house at Deco
guam and the reformatory at Lorton.
All four Police Court judges are In
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STUDENT OVERCOME
BY GAS RECOVERING
Wilmer Scott Victim in Apparent
Accident in Room of Friend
in Massachusetts,.

Wilmer Scott, 10, son Of Mrs. Rus
sell E. Sard, TIT Nineteenth street,
and grandson of the late DR.. william
Holland Wilmer, was recovering in the
Cambridge, Mass, City Hospital today
after being overcome by illuminating
gas in the apartment Of Harvard Law
School student, according to the Asso-
ciated Press.
Young Scott, a student in the exclu-
sive Brown and Nichols Preparatory
School. was studying in the rooms OF
John T. Binkley, jr.. of Pasadena,
Calf. who found him unconscious and
carried him from the apartment.
He was revived by the Cambridge
Fire Rescue Squad and was rushed to
the hospital. There his condition was
described as not serious.
Police said apparently Scott acci-
dentally opened a gas jet while in the
apartment kitchen, later smelled gas
and turned of the jet. He knocked
telephone from a stand and crawled
toward q door before losing conscious
ness, they asserted. He was found on
the floor by Binkley.
This is SCOTS first year at the
preparatory school.
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COURT DENIES DONOVAN
WRIT TO REGAIN PAROLE

Justice Joseph w. Cox Of. District
Court today refused to free James F..
Donovan. now serving a 1o-year rob-
berry sentence. Donovan had at
tempted to regain parole through
habeas corpus proceedings.
Donovan had charged that sun
fair criticism Of the Parole Board by
the various newspapers Of the Dis
trict" caused the revocation of his
parole.
This was the second attempt by the
prisoner to obtain his release on a
habeas corpus writ. At the first
hearing, several months ago, the court
was told Donovan was innocent Of
any parole violation. but was returned
to the District Jail because irate citi-
zens of Flora, Ind, where he was en-
ployed on q farm, drove him out Of
town. =
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MAJORITY LEADER
FIGHT CONTINUES
vinson Announces Majority Of
Democratic House Members
Pledged to Rayburn.

Dy the Associated Press.
/. Candidates for the important post
Of Democratic leader Of the House
continued to night 1t out with state
ments yesterday.
Representative vinson, Democrat, of
Kentucky. campaign manager for
Representative Rayburn. Democrat. Of
Texas, asserted:
"I can now state that more than q
majority of the Democratic members
Of the House are pledged to support
SAM Rayburn for majority leader"
Asked what he meant by pledged"
vinson replied that the commitments
were in writing.
Hearing Of that claim, Representa-
tive o'Connor. Democrat, Of New York,
another candidate, issued this state
ment: .s.s
ut would be interesting to know
from what States they come, North,
East, South or West. It is not even
true Of Pennsylvania" -
The Rayburn camp Is counting on
the Pennsylvania delegation voting
20 10 sor RaybHsn.
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$6,500,000 GAS co.
BONDS ARE RETIRED
Step Toward Later Sale Of Add.
tional Stock, Securities Com
mission Told.

Retirement Of $6,500,000 Of bonds
underlying the ownership of the
Washington Gas Light Co. Is . step
toward later sale of additional stock,
was announced in a declaration filed
today with the Securities and Ex-
change Commission by the WASH
ington and Suburban Companies, the
ownership trust.
Specifically, the trust proposed the
issuance Of $6.662 500 in demand notes
to not more than four: banks, these
notes to cover the retirement Of the
outstanding bonds Of the trust.
Washington and Suburban Compan-
les Is q Massachusetts, common law
trust, representing the Chase Bank
of New York and associated financial
interests. It holds approximately "a
per cent of the common stock IN the
Washington company.
Under O. covenant in the agreement
between the trust and the Washing
ton company the latter has been for
hidden to issue any additional voting
stock unless the trust bought enough
Of the stock to maintain its present
majority control.
Hearing on the Application was set
for December II.
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coal truck?"
The Judge said mo"
well, then you don't know how
coal dust gets in a mans throat.
When my throat gets all full Of coal
dust, there's just one thing will clear
it up, your honor-beer"
Another defendant asked the court
if he had ever suffered from arthritis.
Because if you have" he con-
tinued. you'll know that only whisky
will kill that pain-whisky and
quinine, judge, that's what have to
take for arthritis."
A partially paralyzed ex-soldier,
whose wife said he spends his pension
money on whisky. bitterly declared
that alcohol and alcohol alone kills
mis- pain.
Look at him now, your honor" the
wife said, docs he look like alcohol
has cured his pain?" The man was
shaking like a leaf and his face was
flushed a cherry red. The court pre-
scribed 10 days at Gallinger Hospital.
The "AlcohoI Doctor"
A repeater" told the judge he
should not be sent to Jail because three
invalids depended on him to treat
them for their ailments.
You're no doctor" the judge said,
"how do you treat the sick persolls?"
Il rub them, judge" said the de-
fendant.
With what?"
The spectators laughed when the
prisoner replied. with alcohol, your
honor"
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WALLACE FORESEES
FOOD PRICE RISE
Warns 10 Per Cent Increase Is
Likely Early Next Year
Because of Drought.
8y the Associated Press.

D the Associated Press.
Secretary Wallace warned yesterday
that food prices may climb 10 per cent
early next year.
In his annual report to the Presi-
dent, he said effects of this years
drought on the cost of living will
probably be similar to those produced
by the drought of 1894"
Supplies OF meat, some fruits and
vegetables and dairy products will be
below average, Wallace added, with
greater consumer buying power causing
prices to move upward.
He recalled that after the 1884
drought retail food prices as a whole
averaged about IL per cent higher" in
the first half of 1895. But he pre-
sented brighter side of the picture
also. pointing out that 10 per cent
rise In the cost of foods tends to pro-
duce rise of only about per cent in
total living costs.
The Secretary said that for city
dwellers and employed workers this
will be Offset substantially by recovery
In urban buying power.
He reported present food prices are
Is to 20 per cent below the pre-depres-
sion level.
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INAUGURAL VIEWS
Of CITIZENS ASKED
Admiral Grayson in Parley
With D. c. Heads and
Civic Leaders.

With a view to "gauging the senti-
ment Of the people" regarding inaugu-
ration plans, Rear Admiral Cary T.
Grayson will confer late today with
the District Commissioners and civic
representatives at the District Build
ing.
Admiral Grayson, chairman of the
Inaugural Committee, said he wished
to get the views of local citizens and
officials prior to discussing the inaug-
ural program with President aoose-
welt at the White House tomorrow.
Among those invited by Chairman
Grayson to attend today's informal
executive conference, he said, are
Waddy B. Wood, architect assigned
by the President to design the pa
rade reviewing stand in front of the
White House; Lloyd B. Wilson, presi.
dent Of the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co., who had charge of
raising funds for the last inaugural
celebration; Corcoran Thorn and Rob-
ert ". Fleming, bankers; Melvin T..
Hildreth, attorney, and Robert M.
Cottrell, secretary of the Washing
ton Board of Trade.
No effort will be made at today's
meeting, Grayson said, to adopt any
plans. as these must await decision
by the President as to the scope Of
the ceremonies. The group will con-
vene at pm.
It is believed Admiral Grayson will
lean heavily on the Commissioners
for aid in carrying out the program,
once 1t is approved by the President.
Arrangements will have to be made
for financing the celebration, probably
through q special civic committee.
Chairman Grayson will appoint a
finance committee for this purpose, it
Is understood.
Appointment of the Inaugural Com
mittee and of numerous subcommit-
tees will await action Of President
Roosevelt, however.