davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-06-14
T|DEWATER AREA
HAS EARLY SEASON
Advance Reservations for
Boats Already Required
of Visitors.

OLD POINT COMFORT BEACH,
Va. June 13.-Tor rist travel in Tide
water Virginia has reached an early
Summer peak with indications point
ing to the biggest season in history
according to figures of leading hotels
and travel agencies.
A recent check revealed that hotel
registration is averaging Is per cent
above the first five months of last year.
Bus lines, railroads and steamship
lines report a corresponding increase.
One of the Chesapeake Bay boat lines
reported that it has reservations run
ming from three to five days ahead.
Many tourists boarding steamers for
Baltimore and Washington at Old
Point Comfort have found difficulty in
obtaining state rooms and space for
the storage of their cars without
first making reservations.
j. Wesley Gardner, manager, said
that registration at the New Chamber
lin Hotel has doubled over the same
period last year. Hotels in Norfolk
are averaging nearly 1000 more regis
trations per month than last year
Chamber of Commerce figures reveal.
Tidewater Virginia's historic shrines
are also drawing a large volume of
tourist visitors. c. M. Mark, director
of the Peninsula Chamber of Com
merce, announced this week that or
ganized tours to Williamsburg, James,
town and Yorktown are averaging
better than one day. Although no
check has been kept on private tourist
parties, there has been a definite in
crease, it is reported
Extra steamers have been put into
service between Cape Charles and
Old Point Comfort.
Evening star., 1936-06-14
ne ITdVCICT INUICIJUUh
old Worlds Queer Clocks Still Interest Tourists,
Characteristic, Native Arts Reviyed by
Trayel-Notes on the Far.

Of the Last Judgment. Since 1857
this show has been going on.
The mechanics are housed in a
gilded oak tower nearly 40 feet high,
on which are mounted ~ dialse
Toward the top of the tower is q
mechanical cock that crows and flaps
its wings. Over him is turreted
castle, and rising above is an image
of Christ, with Joseph and Mary at
His feet. Scattered about are figures
of Adam, Noah, Moses. Abraham,
Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. Thus the
stage is set for the hour of u.
Newer and relying on nature for its
novelty is the floral clock Of Edin-
Evening star., 1936-06-14

burgh, which moves while laden with
the colorful and fragrant burden Of
blooms of $4,000 plants. The clock
was laid out in 1908, but it had then
only one hand. The next year an
other hand was installed, and in 1905
q cuckoo was added Adjoining the
clock Is q monument, whose base
houses the mechanics. Underground
shafts move the hands, which are
really troughs of zinc for holding
earth In which the plants grow. The
figures, 2 feet high, also are de-
signed in fiowers-Dell's beet, blue
lobelia, green and bronze sedum, the
grey antennaria, yellow pyrethrum
and the creamy foliage of the ice
plant. The clock Is In bloom from
May to October.
Evening star., 1936-06-14

until am. :. All the displays capa-
BILE of motion (and there are hum
dreds of them) may be operated by
the spectators The Bureau of
Navigation and Steamboat Inspection
has installed complete bridge of
ship to show how vessel is navigated.
1t Is equipped with wheel, telegraph,
compass and other necessary aids. As
the wheel Is turned, the ocean" ahead
swings to give the sensation of the ship
responding to the helm A $22, 500
motorgraph, or travelling sign, IS by
10 feet, welcomed President Roose-
velt to the expedition A free
housing bureau, geared to find quar-
tiers suiting the cosmopolitan tastes
of q crowd of 100000 daily, has been
set up ). Among the cultural attrac-
tions are the Globe Theater presen-
Evening star., 1936-06-14
RESORTS.
NORTH CAROLINA.

Mount aims for your vacation. In the heart
Of the Blue Ridges Delicious Southern
Evening star., 1936-06-14

make available characteristic memen-
tos of ones travel, instead of bright,
metallic, machine-stamped thing -um-
jigs that often originate in industrial
cities thousands Of miles away, Is
being enforced under a ruling Of Sec
retary Ickes in the parks Of the South
ern Appalachian region. In the Great
Smoky, Mammouth Cave and Shen-
nandoah National Parks, only handi-
craft native to the area may be sold.
The policy is expected not only to
encourage the revival of home weav-
ing. furniture making, basketry and
metal work, but to allow park visitors
to carry home a souvenir as rugged
and honey as the region itself.
NOTES on the Texas Centennial Ex-
position at Dallas: The 200
ticket takers were trained for two
weeks in the ins and outs Of the vast
exhibition grounds to answer ques-
tions of visitors Dallas eased the
dance ban which closed establishments
at 2 am. Now night clubs stay open
Evening star., 1936-06-14
OYSTER Catches Catfish.

ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla. (P).-A cat
fish made the mistake of its life when
it swan lazily past an oyster anchored
on the seawall here. The fish slipped
its tail into the oysters open shell.
The shellfish clamped shut. The fish
was caught. Spectators pried the
oyster off the wall later. but the fish
was dead
Evening star., 1936-06-14

tations of IA Elizabethan versions of
Shakespeare's plays.
Evening star., 1936-06-14
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE.

TLABORATE ana fascinating are
l. the manifestations of the Old
Worlds hobby for building
- novelty clocks. Most Of them
were fashioned in the days when the
clock was the most popular means OF
mechanical self-expression. They dot
Europe. No mere timepieces are
they; usually puppet shows set in
motion at an appointed hour to as
tound the rural populace. And now
they intrigue travellers from all lands,
after a run" of scores of years.
Beauvais, whose tapestries also
have drawn visitors to Normandy, has
such clock. For 20 years the famous
nineteenth century clockmaker Verite
labored on this masterpiece. fashioned
and fitted together some 10000 gadgets
and figures to present each day at
high noon an automatic presentation
Evening star., 1936-06-14
NEW COLORS IN COACHES
Interior Decoration of Rail Cars
Favors Browns and Blues.

Favors Browns and Blues.
OTTAWA. June 14-The standard
sleeping and parlor cars of the Ca
madam National Railway will have a
new style of interior decoration. The
scheme favors browns and blues. In
the parlor car the upholstery OF the
chairs is a moquette with predomi-
mating colors of dark blue, shading
into light blue and rusty brown, in
a leaf pattern. The carpeting is rusty
brown, blue-black and fawn N
block color scheme. The blinds are
Of dark blue.
In the new sleeping car color scheme
the upholstery is of moquette Of
brown, fawn, light blue and plum, in
an entwining link pattern, with a
carpet of plum, fawn and black, in
small figure pattern.
Evening star., 1936-06-14

RHODE ISLAND
Evening star., 1936-06-14
COLONIAL BEACH. VA,

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22

President Roosevelt will tell
5000 schoolboy patrolmen, as
sembled in the White House
Grounds at o'clock this after
noon, the value Of safety precau-
lions in traffic which must be
adhered to in reducing the great
number of fatalities in the Ma
ton.
The boys, meeting to partici-
pate in the First National School
Safety Patrol parade down Con-
stitution Avenue tomorrow, will
march to the While House to be
greeted by the President.
Several notables will address
the boys tonight at a meeting in
the Labor Department auditorium,
Twelfth Street and Constitution
Avenue Northwest.
Among them will be Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, president of the
District Board of Education; DR..
Frank Ballou, superintendent of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
DISTRICT AIDED
BY PRESIDENT
ON BUDGET
CONTINUED from Page y

Continued from Page II
lief funds and pay the District
pay rolls, meet its obligations, etc.
This does not appeal to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. In the first place,
relief funds are for relief and not
for the maintenance Of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The President
seems to be quite sure that not
one dollar Of relief funds would be
approved by the Comptroller Gen.
erals office if it were diverted to
District purposes.
Blanton Stands Pat
At the same time that the Presi-
dent was making his position clear,
Blanton took the floor in the
House emphasizing that he does
not intend to give in to the Senate
on any fundamentals In dispute.
He was not aware, however, at
that time, of what the President
had said at his conference.
The chairman denied a news
paper story quoting him as saying
that he had voted for five uncon-
stitutional bills recommended by
the President, and that he would
not follow the Chief Executive any
further. He added:
mo man in this House Is more
friendly to the President Of the
United States than / am"
Later, Blanton, obviously an
noyed at comments from the Chief
Executive, had nothing to say
when newspaper men tried to
reach him by telephone today.
His only comment was:
II have nothing to say
sorry"
Then he hung up.
Presidents Attitude
President Roosevelt was asked
today what could be done in case
the District bill failed. He made
it clear that to let an appro-
priation bill fail because of a dis
pute or anything else is a serious
matter.
The law contemplates the ad-
ministration of the National Cap
ital in a regular and sustained
manner, and there could be no
such thing as letting a city Of
100000 people suffer because Of
a dispute between the two houses
of congress, is the Presidents
view.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
Continued from Page u

mittee was to resume its session
this afternoon with DR.. James E.
Pope, leader Of another old age
pension movement on the stand.
Beyond stating that I'VE shall
have to await recommendation Of
counsel before proceeding fur
ther," Chairman Bell Of the COM
mittee would make no comment
on plans for asking the House to
cite Townsend for contempt. Rep
resentative Lucas CD Of Illinois,
a committee member, said:
at will be impossible to bring
it before the House today. COun-
sci will not be ready"
Friends of Townsend said:
ct will mean his death If
they cite him and arrest him."
DR.. Townsend had been late in
returning for the afternoon ses-
sion yesterday. Recalled to the
stand to explain his absence, he
insisted on introducing a written
statement.
DNnied Permission
Permission refused, DR.. Town.
send shrugged his slender Shout
ders and said:
Gentlemen, have q state
me1t to make. Gentlemen, lis.
ten to this statement.
I'm view of the apparent un-
friendly attitude of this COM
mittee and the unfair attitude
it has shown to me and the
members of my organization. I
deem it my duty to say that
/ shall no longer attend these
committee meetings. / am re-
firing from this sort of inqui-
sition and I do not propose to
come back again except under
arrest.
II absolutely refuse to make
any further statements con-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
Secretary Closes
Rep. Andrews Office

Ernest Ingersoll, secretary to the
63-year-old Representative An
dreWs, said today that he was
closing up his office on Capitol
Hill to go to the bedside Of the
stricken Representative. He has
kept in constant contact with the
Congressman home and last night
was informed Representative An
drews had taken a turn for the
worse.
Representative Andrew was
named in a special election to fill
the unexpired vacancy of former
Representative Wilfred w. Lufkin,
who resigned to accept the post
of collector of customs for Boston,
Mass, in July, 1921. Mr.. Andrew
has been reelected seven times.
Mr.. Andrew, whose nearest
relative is Mrs. Isaac Patch, wife
of the former mayor of Boston,
has never married. His father,
who lived to be nearly 100 years
old, died last spring.
He was stricken here on April
Is after suffering a heart ailment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
Staying LAID
TO CLAM; Is
MEN HELD
Continued from Page II

Irwin Lee, Urban Lpps, George C.
johnson, Paul r. Edwards and
Edgar Baldwin.
Sixteen men were rounded up
On a blanket charge of murder,
but after grilling them and obtain
ing confessions from four, police
said it was decided thus far to
charge only II with murder. AL
Is were still held, however.
A death procession" Of the
BLACK Legion" was interrupted
August IL, last year. when Albert
Bates, superintendent at Ford Mol
tor Company, was scheduled to be
the victim, police further revealed.
At the time. Col" Harvey
Davis, IS, purported commander
and Lowell Rushing. under arrest
for the killing of Poole, were ar
rested. Police said they were then
released after Bates refused to
swear out a warrant against them,
Police Were BAffled
The fantastic climax to the
Staying Of oPole came after
police were ready to admit them
selves baffled. Poole, former resi-
dent of East st. Louis. was be-
lieved victim of a gangland STAY
ing.
Poole remained unidentified for
man yhours after the Staying.
Because he wore a suit bearing
the label Of a Meadville (Pa.O
tailor, police at first believed he
was from Pennsylvania, but his
wife later said Poole had bought
the suit Second-handed.
The former WPA worker was
found with five bullet holes in his
body in roadside ditch, near here,
May 10, and police were baffled
by his death until Navarro learned
Of the secret organization, which,
he said, was the offspring Of a
neighborhood political club.
Poole, according to Navarro, was
condemned to die at a secret meet.
ing of the "Black Legion"
81 Attended Rites
Navarro said SO members at.
tended the rites. and that 16 were
now in custody and charged with
murder. The "a others are being
sought, and also will be charged
when they are apprehended, he
said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
Character Studies of Anne M. LyddIame Who rs Ac
Citation i'm Contempt
Facing Townsend

corning this movement to this
committee.
"Thank you, gentlemen. and
goOd-by!"
His followers rose to cheer the
70-year-old physician and escort
him to the door, which Chair
man Bell CD, Of Missouri,
shouted to guards to close.
Guards Dazed
The dazed guards, however.
unable to hear amid the Juror,
merely opened the portals wider
as the gray-haired. 70-year-old
man strobe majestically through
them. He walked out Of the
House office building to a wait
ing cab and drove away sur
rounded by his friends.
DR.. Townsend's exit came
after he had heard his leaders
accused of using the mails to
defraud aged persons on relief.
inmates Of homes for the in
digent and drought sufferers.
James R. Sullivan, counsel for
the investigating committee, in
troduced evidence which provoked
the charges Of violation Of the
postal laws following disclosures
that an appeal had been issued
by the Townsend group for funds
to defray expenses Of q "uSeless"
congressional lobby after the
lobby had ceased its functions.
It was shown that the lobby,
while active, had expended only
$1,804.96 of a $23,490 fund, ore-
viously collected, but that the
Townsend organization demanded
more money and collected an ad-
ditional $11,490 for the organiza-
ton which members admitted had
accomplished nothing"
District Attorney Leslie C. Gar
nett has not yet been requested to
take any action on DR.. Francis E,
Townsend, who yesterday walked
out" on the House committee in
vestigating his old-age pension or
ganization, it was learned today.
Legal authorities pointed out,
however. that there are two
methods the House may use to cite
DR.. Townsend for contempt.
The first would be for the
sergeant-at-arms to arrest DR..
Townsend and bring him before
the House which would sit as a
court. This procedure was fol-
lowed by the Senate in the case of
William P MacCracken, jr., former
Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
The second, which was used by
the Senate several years ago in the
case of Col. Robert w. Stewart, OF
the Standard Oil Company. would
be to have the House send the Dis,
trict Attorney a certified copy of
the facts and ask him to determine
if the statutes had been violated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
Day Nm Congress
SENATE
Not in session.
CNNo Noikkoac.

MOI IN session.
Committees:
10 A.M.-Finance; taxes, execu-
tive.
10A.M-Conference on agricul-
ture bill.
1890 AM. - Interstate Com
merce; long and short haul, open.
10:30A.M. - Military affairs:
executive.
1890 neutrality-suspicious. sub
committee; deficiency bill, execu-
tive.
HOUSE
Meets at noon on flood bill.
Committees:
10 A.M.-Interstate; motion pic
lures, executive.
10 A.M.-Agriculture; miscella-
neouS, executive.
10 A.M.-Public lands; routine,
open.
1890 A.M.-Rules; four minor
bills, open.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
COURT BARS
LYDDANE'S
TESTIMONY
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
this. But we believe that it Is per.
fectly permissible but not COM
pellable for a husband to
testify"
Judge Wagaman demanded:
"Have you any Maryland
authorities to support your con.
tention?"
Prescott replied:
"Your honor, we are not pre-
pared for this. If we could have
a recess to discuss the matter.
There was an act of 1864, which
believe covers the point"
There followed a short confer
ence at the bench, and then Judge
Wagaman declared:
we are of the opinion the
witness is incompetent"
Prescott replied: y
'Tn that case, the defense
rests"
The objection of the States at
torney followed the refusal Of
Sion" to appear as a State wit
ness after he had been subpoenaed
taking refuge in the common law
which grants a person the right
to refuse to testify against a close
relative.
Clashes With Expert
Earlier the court clashed with
Baker during his cross examina'
ton.
John E. Oxley. assistant prose
cutor, was conducting the exam
nation. He sat down at the
typewriter and wrote the word,
"Googy," several time s. with
various pressures on the keys
then handed the paper to Baker
and asked if there was any ap-
parent difference in the words
The expert hesitated a moment
and then replied:
at is very unWise to express
an opinion"
Judge Wagaman looked at
the witness and rebuked him
saying:
ct is not for the witness to
decide what it unwise or not"
There was curious Grove
around the courthouse today seek
ing seats. hoping to hear more Of
the sensations which the few WHIT
obtained places heard yesterday
They heard Mrs. Lyddane take
the witness stand and admit hel
affair with Arthur Beall, barnes
town garage owner and father o,
three children. She admitted
trysts with Beall in tavern room
of CARMEL.
Claims BlackmaiI
While admitting the Beall affair
Mrs. Lyddane used that as the key
stone for her defense, contendine
that she had been blackmailed by
underworld characters who threat
ened to expose her.
She feared she would lose hel
job in the bank if this were known
she explained, and so she paid va
rious sums of homeopathy sums
ranging from so cents to $6-tc
CARMEL, but 5000 to a mysterious
stranger who has yet to be iden
titled.
CARMEL tried to get ST, 900 "hush
money" from her. she testified, ano
when she told him she did not have
the money he demanded a dia
mond ring she wore.
All during her testimony Mrs
Lyddane was a cool and composed
witness. At times, when asked
searching questions about her re
lations with Beall, she dropped hel
eyes AID flushed. But she re
Sponded to every question without
hesitation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
California Convict
Stabbed 10 Death

FOLSOM PRISON, Calf, May
22.-John Beebe, serving a life
term for bank robbery, was stabbed
to death yesterday by Tom Kelly,
convicted murderer. Beebe was
killed in a quarrel caused when
a baseball was tossed on plants
attended by Kelly, Warden Clar-
ence Larkin reported.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
DOCTOR RACES
TO ANDREW
CONTINUED from Page ~

Gloucester were instructed to keep
the roads open for the party.
At the Gloucester line a detail
of Gloucester motorcycle officers
met the party to lead the physi-
clan to the Eastern Point home
of Congressman Andrew.
Stricken with influenza in
Washington six weeks ago, the
congressman apparently was on
the road to recovery when pneu-
monia developed. Last night his
condition was so grave the emer-
gency call was sent to the New
York specialist.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
BOYS TO HEAR PRESIDENT

schools; Major Ernest w. Brown,
superintendent of police; H. H.
Clegg, assistant to j. Edgar Hoover
in the Federal Bureau of Investi.
cation; Walter johnson, big
league pitcher; Charles M. Hayes,
president of the Chicago Motor
Club, and Thomas P. Henry, presi-
dent of the American Automobile
Association.
District Commissioner George
E. Allen has been named grand
marshal of the parade.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
HaIf-Century Vacation

SACRAMENTO, Cal. G.N.sD.
John Peavy, Sc, has come back
to his Sacramento home after a
vacation" Fifty-five years ago
Peavy left, telling friends he was
going on a vacation. His trip
took him to Siberia, Japan,
China, Australia, Asiatic ports,
Italy, France and England.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-05
News Behind the News
NeU Dealers On Vacation But
Not Ed McGrddy :. He Has
Strike Troubles -.

WASHINGTON.-New Dealers seldom have
been scarcer in Washington than now. Nearly
all Of them are having their vacations.
But not Ed McGrady. It doesn't look as II
he would get any vacation at all.
Most lately McCrady has been down in Saw
annah, Ga trying to head off strike of long
shoremen. Before that he was sitting in, un-
Officially, at conferences in Washington between
the A. F. of L and the Committee for Industrial
Organization.
month ago he was trying to do his job as
an official at the Democratic national conYen-
ton and mediate the strike Of RCA workers IN
nearby Camden N. j.. at the same time
Before that. it was long string of other
labor difficulties including the btuminous coal
mines settlement, to which McGrady applied
the important finishing touches.
He has played a unique role as the admin
iStration's trouble shooter and conciliator par
excellence He also has his position as assistant
secretary of labor plus direct authority from
the president. whose name he uses for all it's
worth in the pinches.
Most of those who see McGrady are aston
ished to learn that he is ga years old His hair
and mustache are black and his body is hard
He dresses snappily.
He was born in Jersey City and his formal
education ended with high school course in
economies and business management in Boston
First a newsboy, he became a newspaper press
man AZ years ago, then head OF the newspaper
preSsmen'S union, the central labor union, the
Massachusetts Federation of Labor.
He went into Democratic politics, too, serv-
ing in the Massachusetts, legislature In his
earlier days he was amateur boxer.
During the war he recruited skilled labor
and investigated War Department contracts In
1919 Samuel Gompers hired him as a lobbyist
for the A. F. of L. on Capitol Hill and he
served in that job fer IA years, making many
friends and also a few enemies.
He led labor's drive for the Morris-LaGuar-
dia anti-injuncton act and for defeat of the
nomination to the Supreme Court of Judge
john j. Parker, who had upheld so-called "yel-
low dog" contracts.
He went into the campaign for Roosevelt
in 1882 When NRA formed, he became
Gen Hugh JohnsCn's labor aide and friend.
Roosevelt and Farley wanted to make him
assistant secretary OF labor, but Secretary Per-
kins couldn't see it.
McGrady performed valuable services. 1t was
he who got the Pennsylvania captive mine
coal miners to call off strike when he prem
ised them, The president intends that you
shall get a square deal"
After that, Miss perkins told Farley: Il was
wrong about Mr.. McGrady" Today McGrady
and his female boss have strong respect for
each other.