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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
BAN
T0BE TESTED

Police regulations regarding dis
tIibution Of circulars in the Dis
trict will be subjected to a test
Of legality shortly by the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union, &C.
cording to plans being drawn up
today at Union headquarters.
The move was decided on,
Gardner Jackson, chairman of
the Unions Washington branch,
announced. following a decision
Of Police Court Judge Edward M.
Curran that five men who had
passed out announcements Of the
May Day demonstration at Nc
PherSon Square were guilty of
violating the regulation.
Terming the decision shocking,
NaZi and un-American," Jackson
declared it Is the intention Of the
union to deliberately repeat the
violation and invite prosecution
70 test the issue.
The case hinged on the arrest
Of Harry Blum, April 20, for dis
tributing circulars at the Navy
Yard gates. When four members
OF the committee arranging the
May Day affair attempted to bail
Blum at the Fifth precinct station
all were arrested, Gardner said,
despite the fact they had not been
engaged in the pamphlet distribu-
Gion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
DISTRICT INDUSTRY
FIGURES LISTED

ing plants. These, COM
bined. serve to employ
the greatest number of
wage-earnerS, upward of
2,100.
Then, next in size
comes the baking indus
try. This comprises SO
establishments and en-
ploys more than $500
workers. Dropping
sharply in the scale is
the ice-cream manufac-
turing industry; this en-
cages the efforts of IA
concerns and provides
work for $50 employees.
Completing the lis t
are such diversified IN
duStrieS as the making
Of sausage. Seven COM
panieS are engaged in
the task: then there is
the mixing Of concrete
for the many Govern.
ment buildings, which
requires the full time
and attention Of six
other houses.
DANTE AMBROSE.
SEQ Kennedy SC. n. w.
(Wins 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
COPY SHOULD
BETYPEDFOR
THE EDITOR
By the Amateur Section Editor

By the Amateur Section Editor
Week by week, the Amateur Sec
ton gets better and better.
It seems that the amateurs
themselves are improving. The old
stand-bys, the amateurs who send
In q piece every week, are improv-
ing their style, their selection OF
subject matter, and everything
that goes to make a good story.
The newcomers, too, apparently
profit by the example Of the 9TH
erS, and the new copy that comes
to this desk is getting better and
better.
All Of which proves that prac-
tice makes perfect. ...
We are particularly pleased with
Soday's section. It possesses orig1-
nality and news and clevernesS
IN style.
May we, however, at this point,
make a suggestion. The amateur
photographers who have sub
mitted pictures have, for the most
part, restricted themselves to wild
4Ue SupJeCCS.
There are so many beautiful
and interesting things to be pho
tographed in this city that it
seems only reasonable to request
our amateur photographers to
take q new slant.
We have no complaint to make
about the cartoons. They are al.
ways timely and well drawn. Keep
It up, cartoonists.
And don't forget the rules. All
copy must be in by Wednesday,
that is, stories, photographs and
cartoons. And the stories must all
be typed. It causes us no end Of
trouble when a piece Is written in
long hand.
But above all, remember that
"brevity is the soul Of wit"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
Mail Ship Sai|inqs

The following table shows
the name Of ships, the lines
operating them, their times of
sailing from New York, and
when their regular and sup
Elemental mails close. Time
shown Is Eastern Daylight Saw
ing Time. Dates after names Of
ports indicate scheduled dates
Of arrival. ~ Indicates mails
must be specially addressed to
this ste q mer. (f) Indicates
supplementary mails will be
accepted on pier up to 10 min
utes before sailing time.
TOMORROW
Transatlantic
CHINCHA (American-South African,
Cape Town, May %; to Betra, June IA:
Forty-first Street, Brooklyn-Mails close
South Africa; parcel post for Bechuana-
land Protectorate, Northern Rhodesias
Portuguese East Africa, Southern Rhod-
esia, Southwest Africa and Union of South
Africa Registered mail closes midnight,
May y.
WEST INDIES, LATIN AMERICA.
CANADA
No sailings to West Indies. Latin Amer
tea or Canada listed for tomorrow.
MONDAY
No mail ship BailingS listed for Monday
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D|LLINGER ROLE
CUT SHORT

CHICAGO, May 2 U.NSJ.-Al
Brady, an Indiana farm hand who
set out to fill the shoes Of the late
John Dillinger, police say, today
stood in the shadow of the electric
chair.
The 27-year-old Brady and his
24year-old sweetheart, Margaret
Barker, brunette, were handed
over to Indianapolis police.
Brady will be tried for the muir
der Of Police Sergt. Richard Rivers
in indianapolis Monday night,
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PENSION AID
TO MOTHERS

Public Welfare Director Elwood
Street announced today that 10
new cases Of mothers pensions to
be paid under the home care act
have been added to the 223 cases
already on this pension list. The
cost of the 10 new cases, to whom
checks will be mailed within the
next few days by Major j. r.
LuSby, District diSburSing officer,
totals 81 ,286.40 q month.
Appropriation for home care In
the current supply bill was fixed
at $50, 900, with similar amount
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
6. W. Dental Grads
To Be Feted May d

Members of the graduating class
Of the Georgetown University
School Of Dentistry are to be hon.
ored at reception and banquet
by the Georgetown Dentistry
Alumni Saturday, May %, in the
recreation hall at the University.
DR.. Dave Fitzgibbons was named
by President ]. F. Manley to head
the arrangement committee. Other
committee heads named are: DR..
A. q. Miller, essay; DR.. Francis
Price, membership and DR.. Phil
Robin, clinics. ....I.,. .
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W ALL { f
TALKS ON
FLOOD
Problem Is National
One, He Tells
Writer

It has taken the re-
cent devastating loss Of
millions Of dollars worth
Of property, wa s h e d
away, thousands Of lives
lost, shocking the entire
country, to make us real
ize that flood-control Is
q national problem, re-
quiring national conSid-
Grafton.
Land Abuse
Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Wallace blameS land
abuse for much flood
damage. He advocates
ceasing the "Savagely ex-
ceSSive" run-off o. water
from rich farm lands.
He reminds us that care
less and waSteful mining
and farming and the pol
luton of streams from
factory waste help to
muddy our rivers, to
raise their flood stages
year by year and to
make work for dredgeS
in our rivers and har-
borS.
Senator Overton of
Louisiana proposes that
the Federal Government
provide a system Of spill
ways or division chan
nels to stop flood waters
in the lower Mississippi
River Valley when the
pressure on the leveeS
reaches a danger point.
Congress Helped
In the two-day session
this week at the May
flower, the Nation Rivers
and HarborS Congress
discussed a permanent
flood control program.
It is a question, how
ever, which can only be
successfully solved with
general cooperation. The
States and municipali-
ties should be willing to
shoulder the cost of
flood control. The farm
erS and miners should
agree to be more care
full and less waSteful.
Here's to a successful
solution!
BARBARA POOLE,
441A Fourteenth st. n. w.
wins 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

The mention Of Wash
ington to an average
citizen Immediately con-
jures up pictures Of
Solons, statutes and
speakers. Seldom does
he, If ever, concede
washington to be Of
much Importance as a
manufacturing center.
Yet q peruSal of recent
Bureau of the Census re-
ports will reveal some
surprising information
on the subject.
For instanc :, did you
know that the District
Of Columbia contains
more than 700 different
forms Of business enter
priSeS? And that the
value of business done
here during one yearly
period exceeds by far
the amount done by the
entire State of Vermont
for the same period?
These are but a few Of
the facts to be found in
a report that might
otherwise be thought
dry and uninteresting.
81 Periodicals Here
Leading the District
industries is the one con-
cerned with the publish
ing of words-the news.
paper business. There
are at present 81 news
paper and periodical
establishments and SO
allied book-and-j ob-print-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
DOUG IN u. s,
MUM ON PLANS

NEW YORK, May a. Douglas
Fairbanks and his bride, the for
mer Lady Ashley, aren't saying a
word about their plans while in the
United States.
They made that clear when they
disembarked from a liner here and
greeted newspapermen with a def
mite refusal to say whether or not
they intend to remain in the
United States.
It was regarded as likely that
the couple will return to England,
however, for Doug has interests in
motion picture productions there.
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D A YLI GIL T
saw | N 6
FOR D. C.?
Extra Hour Of Sun
Would Help, This
Scribe Thinks

Why sh ould not
Washington citizens be
allowed the pleasures
which result from pro
ceeding on a schedule
Of daylight saving time?
washington is a m On 6
the few major cities
which do not use this
system during the sum-
mer season.
BY this system the
clock is moved so that
rising an hour earlier
than usual, we are able
to enjoy an extra hour
Of daylight.
The benefits derived
from daylight saving
time are manifold.
Workers returning
home in the evening
could enjoy an extra
hour of daylight which
they otherwise would
be denied. With day
light saving time. stu
dents would atten d
classes for four hours
in the cool Of the morn
ing and for only one
hour in the hotter after
noon. Children would
be able to play in the
suns beneficial rays for
a longer period. Almost
everyone re APPS bless
ings from daylight saw
ing time.
Why should we Of
Washington be denied
this privilege?
CHARLES DEXTER,
1905 Arkansas Ave.
Twins SD
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
MAY FIRST
ANCIENT
HOLIDAY

May the first is now
celebrated by labor
demonstrations, health
compaigns, Com mu-
nistic parades, and col
lege girls tripping over
the campus in filmy
white stuff, swinging
daisy chains.
Obsolete are all those
picturesque old customs
which once made May
Day one Of the most
joyful of the year.
Goddess Flora
Flora, GOODIES OF
flowers, was honored on
the first day Of May by
the ancient Romans,
who dedicated the Flo
ralian games to her,
Barbarous Celts built
huge bonfires on hill
tops the same day 70
commemorate the festi-
val of Beltein.
In medieval d a VS.,
bringing in the May"
became an English ira
dition. At dawn, youths
and maidens went forth
into the woods a-Maying
a d returned wit h
branches of white haw-
thorn and festoons Of
flowers. with these
they decked every door
and window in the vii
lage, as well as the May
pole that stood in the
middle of the green.
Custom Survives
Although this gaiety
is no longer enjoyed by
English hamlets, a few
quaint towns in Bavaria
still erect a Maypole.
Not content with a May
bush" stuck with flags
atop their Maypole, the
peasants nail wooden
figures upon it. These
effigies may represent a
man and his wife climb
ing the pole, or even a
stag hunted by dogs.
In Night Clubs
Until night clubs ele-
vate modernistic black
and silver Maypoles in
the middle of the dance
floor, and until park po-
licemen let Sandy-eyed
celebrantS deSpoil public
property of tulips and
cherry blossoms at 6
o'clock in the morning,
the sentimentaliSt might
as well sigh and admit
that the May Day of
poetry and legend is
gone, never to return.
SARAH ANN RAPP,
727 Quebec Pl. n. W.
wins 81
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u. :. TO KEEP
NAVAL PARITY,
V|NS0N
BY ROBERT G. NIXON
Copyright, 1885, By international
News Service

NCWs BeEVlcO
Congress today served firm
notice to world powers that Amer
lea is prepared to build battleship
for battleship to maintain naval
parity as a guaranty Of peace.
Defining Americas naval policy
in an interview with Information.
al News Service, Representative
Carl Vinson CD Of Georgia,
chairman of the House Naval AT.
fairs Committee, asserted:
"The strongest and sOundest
guarantee for world peace Is
adequate preparedness.
"If you leave the lock off
your door you invite trouble.
We are going right ahead with
requirements to build the Navy
up to treaty limits.
U. S. to Keep Pace
eff Great Britain, Japan or
any other world power begins
building new battleships We
will build right with them.
IAN adequate national de-
Tense is the best surety for the
world peace America hopes for"
America, Vinson said, at the
Washington and London naval
conferences, made a sincere at
tempt to effect world disarma-
ment, Scrapped ships and halted
building for 10 years, only to
find that some other world pow.
ers were going right ahead build.
ing up powerful navies. He said:
"We're not going to be taken
in again. We are determined
to maintain the 5-5-3 ratio and
q navy second to nOne."
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Arrest May Solve
$4,000 Gem Theft

DAYTON, Ohio, May 2 (I.N.SJ.
Police here expressed belief the
arrest of Alfred Brady and other
members of a gang that killed an
Indianapolis policeman after rob
bling a Lima jewelry store will lead
to the solution of a $50, 900 jewelry
theft here. Sol Partner, proprie-
tor Of the store was unable to
identify Brady from a police photo
graph,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02

when he and members of his gang
are said to have shot their way
through a police ambush.
Brady was identified late yeSter-
day by Miss Wanda Voorhees,, "a,
of Lima, Ohio, as the leader Of the
gang that held UP the Kay jewelry
store, in which she Is employed, on
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
GIVE GRIFF
CREDIT

In q discussion of base
ball moguls let us not
overlook the Sage Of
Florida Avenue, other
wise known as Clark
Griffith, president Of
Washington Senators Of
the American League.
Mr.. Griffith Is prob
ably the most nationally
known figure Of any of
the 16 executives Of the
major leagues. Endeared
to many thousands Of
baseball followers for
his many and often sue
cessful attempts at re-
form of conditions in
the American League
and respected by his
business associates for
his Shrewd manipulating
of player deals, this man
has probably contributed
as much to the advance
ment of our national
paStime as any other one
parsonage.
His most recent con-
tribution, W hich has
been temporarily check
mated, is the battle
which ne has waged to
lower tn e admittance
charge into major league
ball parks for the youth
Of the Nation under II
years of age, a note
worthy achievement in
deed and one very fit
ting and proper for this
grand old warrior.
WALTER A. STROUD,
A7l3 Eighth st, n. w,
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yg ~ an many ppI conduct
TimsW Write eAna~re Section Editor oa
TOdaYes ROOndOsgIe

If the WPA continues its present course Engewood
Co.. destined become of the best bedded and clothed
communities in the entire State. -
Although the population of the is less than SOO the
President has authorized the expenditure of of Federal
funds there the sewing of garments mattresses bedding
etc. and this according to WPA records merely for the
continuation Of the project which operated for time
under the late lamented administration of the FERA.
(COpyrgh the New OrkS un
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
R f N E N BE R
MOTHER

Mothers Day again!
Soon we will be securing
the shops ip search of
something particularly
alluring to heron this
one day in the year.
Mothers Day was
every day for her chill
dren. She knew no one
particular day in her
care for us. What would
have become of us for
the other 1854, had she
picked out one day to
remember us, I wonder.
Even now, grown up as
We are, did We still
need her, she would
us the best that she
has, 365 days a year.
Too, / would make it
Mothers and Fathers
Day, for Father seems
in all this one-day fuss
about Mother to have
been relegated to the
woodShed. His day
S h ould be part Of
Mothers Day, and not
several weeks later, as
it is now.
Mother and Father!
To them all honor is
due. Together ey
loved and sacrificed for
you and me-every day,
and not just one day
in the year.
MRS. r. w. BAUMANN,
IFS " st. n. r.,
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Monday. Held by police for in
vestigation to determine If they
are fences for jewel thieves are
Jack Becker, 81, in whose room
police found loot valued at $4,000,
taken from the Lima jewelry store;
his wife Laura. 81. and William
Geftman, 26.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-02
TRAVELLER

Because I left my
worlds behind
And journed into
lands afar,
To search for Joys
that I may find
Far beyond the farth-
est star.
/ find myself without
q sou
A million miles from
where I'm known,
And wonder when,
and why and how
I missed the joys that
were at home.
SIDNEY r. BAYNE.
6O4 E. WOOdbine ST.,
Chevy Chase, Md.
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SKIPPER
BUILDS
SHIP

Out at 221 Vine st.
N. W., is a sprightly old
gentleman who builds
models Of giant ocean
liners so well that his
model of the French
liner Normandie W a S
among the 100 selected
from 1000 entries from
every State Of the Union
and 10 other countries
for exhibition at La
Maison Franchise in
Rockefeller City.
With miniature blue
prints spread before him
and the rhythm Of the
sea in his bones, c. r.
Normandy, rs years Ola,
who has taken up ship
modelling jince his re-
tirement, attempted to
capture the zest Of his
younger days when he
skirted the coast Of
Nova Scotia in sail boats,
yachts and schooners;
when he SKINNED the
frozen waters of Lake
Superior in ice boats.
L. ALBERT GEORGE.
129 Randolph Pl. n. W.
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Amateurs

Anyone Of any
age uDhO 10 not en-.
plOyed prOfessiOn-
ally az a sUriteT 10
qualified to Orite
for this page. De-
tevT1ine your anna.
teuP status accord.
ingly.
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NJ 0 M AN USCRIPTS
RETURNED

Besides news, send in photographs,
Washington and HumoF Columns, fea-
lures, reviews, sports stories and cartoons
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NEXT WEEK
In
HISTORY

May 1O-Kentucky, North
Carolina and South Carolina
celebrate Confederate Memorial
Day.
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included in the 1897 bill pending
in Congress. One-third of the
money spent for these cases is re-
imbursed 70 the District by the
The Washington times., 1936-08-19
MD. DEMOCRAT
CLUBF0RMED

POTOMAC, Md, Aug. ia
new Young Mems Democratic
Club was organized in Montgom-
cry county last night when more
than go residents gathered at the
home Of Francis o. Day, at Po-
tomac, Md.
Day was elected temporary
chairman Of the new organiza-
ton, to be known as the Young
Mems Democratic Club Of Poto-
mac and Cabin John, and a com.
mittee composed of Sheriff G..
Eddington Bell, Walter Collins
and Frank Sullivan was ap-
pointed to prepare a constitution
and bylaws.
Speakers at the meeting in.
cluded State Senator Stedman
Prescott, Sheriff Bell, County
Commissioner Robert D. Hagner
DR.. Benjamin c. Perry, former
president of the county board; j.
Somervell Dawson, James w.
Cummings and James C. Christie
pher, of the United Young Mems
Democratic Clubs of the county.
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NEW ASSAULT.
IS LAUNCHED
UPON run
Insurgents Reported
Within 300 Yards
of Outskirts

HENDAYE, France, Aug. 10
GN.SD. - Span S h inSurgent
forces launched a violent new at
tack upon the strategic border
city of Irun today, capturing a
government artillery battery on a
hilltop commanding the town
and reducing the radical defend
ers to desperate state.
Reliable information here indi.
Gated the town would fall mo-
mentarily, with San Sebastian
equally threatened and likely to
capitulate.
Seizure of the hilltop battery
put the attackers to within 300
yards of the outskirts of Irun. A
single radical post was reported
holding out against the on
slaught.
Persistent Smelling crippled the
Guadalupe fort into silence. In
surgent warships in the Bay OF
Biscay participated in the bonn
bardment.
A terrific battle was in prog
ress and artillery and musket
fire could be heard across the
French line.
Scores of frightened women
and children from Irun fled to
the protection of French soil.
Other insurgent columns con-
tinued to fight toward San Sc
bastian, but no naval lombard
ments were reported today.
VOTE AMERICAN
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OLYMPIC CHIEF
IN AUT0CRASH

BERLIN, Aug. 10 QN.S0.-Wil-
liam M. Garland, American Olym-
pic official, and Mrs. Garland
were involved in an automobile
crash Monday which resulted in
the deaths Of two Nazi Storm
Troopers, it was learned today,
the Americans themselves narrow
ly escaping injury. Mrs. Garland
was badly shaken up.
The accident occurred during
ceremonies dedicating new
stretch of highway between Berlin
and Magdenburg, 20 miles from
the capital.
The GarlandS' car, an official
automobile with other Olympic ex-
ecutives, sideswiped truck loaded
with Storm Troopers. Two Of a
group of Nazis lining the road were
killed, and several aboard the
truck were seriously injured.
Garland was absolved Of all
blame, but his German chauffeur
was expected to be summoned.
-VoTE AMERICAN.
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.F|REMEN PUMP
T0C|TY TANK

FALLS CHURCH, Va, Aug. 10.
Firemen have been pressed into
service to keep this village in water
during the present drought.
With its $50 water subscribers
using much of the town supply to
water their lawns, the 200, 000-gal-
lon town tank which is fed by
three wells has been running low
for the last week.
Mayor L. D. Daniel asked Ar
lington county authorities for part
of it's supply, which is drawn from
the Districts reservoir at Dale
carlia. After receiving the consent
of Arlington county officials to
tap their supply, local firemen
were summoned to pump water
from one of the Arlington county'S
mains to the towns water tank.
Town officials here have an
nounced plans to tap fourth well.
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| KILLED, 4 SHOT
IN HARLEM

NEW YORK, Aug. 10 G.N.SD.-
Guns blazed in Harlem today,
hours after police were satisfied
there would be no disorder fol-
lowing Joe Louis victory over
Jack Sharkey, leaving one Negro
dead and four others wounded.
The sole fatality occurred
outside Harlem night club where
two Negroes brawled. One pulled
a gun and shot down his opponent
an unidentified man, and fled.
The other four casualties result.
ed when an automobile loaded
with Negroes celebrating Louis
victory pulled up to a corner
where four Negroes, two of them
women, were leaving a drugstore.
A volley of shots rang out from
the car and the quartet slumped
to the street. None of the four
was injured seriously.