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The Washington times., 1936-05-02
MODEL SHIPS
HOBBY AT II

For man who has worked
steadily for so years and then
has been retired, it's a difficult
thing ''just to loaf"
And that. according to John
I. White, Of 124 F st. s. E., is
one of the reasons he is so very
interested in his hobby Of build
ing model coaches and model
ships. Still hale and hearty and
II, Mr.. White discusses his hobby
in glowing terms:
81 was q machiniSt at the
Navy Yard and was retired be-
cause of age when I was IS,
just IL years ago. I had worked
all my life, from the time 1
was Is years old.
IF it weren't for this hobby Of
mine, I'd have, gone crazy. 1t
surely is hard to loaf after you've
worked all your life"
Mr.. White has recently COM
pleted construction Of two model
coaches, one a miniature Of the
famous Buffalo Bill coach. "
which is complete in every detail.
even to the driver and the guard.
with his gun cooked to combat
raiding Indians, two passengers
seated in the coach, the mail bags
and the luggage. The other is the
Concord COACH" a larger and
more luxurious affair. with velvet
upholstery and leather seats for
the drivers.
In addition to his coach models,
Mr.. White is expert at ship model
construction. In the summertime,
he frequently visits Fairgrounds,
where he teaches children the art
of building ship models, and when
the job is completed takes them
down to the Rejecting Pool to
sail,
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
D. {. HEADSAS
PENALTY FOR
LAWMAKERS
Use Crossings or Pay
$500, Is Gist Of
Amendment

Recommendation for an amend
ment to the traffic laws to estab-
lish pedestrian control in the
downtown congested area was
made by Traffic Director William
A. Van Duzer today to the Dis
trict Commissioners.
The proposed amendment con-
tanned no penalty and as a result
the general penalty of q maximum
fine of $500 or a ten day Jail
sentence would apply. The regu-
lation provided that no person
shall cross a roadway other than
by a croSSwalk, or disobey instruc-
tionS of a policeman, traffic con-
troll sign or signal at any inter
section in the downtown area.
Director Van Duzer during q
traffic safety campaign last fall
submitted a city-wide pedestrian
control regulation for enactment,
and this was submitted to the
Corporation CounSel's office, where
it died. In recommending the &C
ton today, Director Van DuZer
pointed out that during the fiscal
year 1885, 67.5 per cent of all traf-
fic fatalities were pedestrians. He
said that Of these deaths, 24.5 per
cent were caused by jaywalking;
1875 per cent by persons stepping
into the street from behind parked
cars; 10 per cent by playing or
walking in the street, and S per
cent by walking against signals.
Director Van Duzer pointed out
that pedestrian control has been
under consideration for several
years and that a large number Of
cities are EMPLOYING it successfully.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
PARDON FREES
WAR HERO

RICHMOND, May 2.-Alfonza
Traeta, World War hero who is
serving a 20-year prison sentence
on a charge Of criminal assault,
today was granted a pardon by
Governor Peery on condition that
he leave this country at once and
never return.
The governor granted the
pardon to protect the victim of
Traeta'S attack, now a married
woman, it was learned. Traeta
had served seven years Of his
sentence and soon would have
been subject to parole.
Decorated six times for gal
lantry in action, Traeta, a shoe
maker, was granted American
citizenship for his war service.
The victim Of the assault was only
IL years old at the time. Italian
consular officers informed the
governor that Traeta would be
allowed to return to his native
land.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
Record of Convictions
In. Traffic Court

Douglass M. Morris, 1918 Oates
st. N. W., IS.
John M. De Chauny, 2010 Third
st. N. E., S..
Joseph w. Widman, 233 Ken
lucky Ave. S. E., SIS.
Edward w. NeisS, 1912 Fourth
st. N. W., SIS.
Hugh j. Kelly, 1920 Ninth st.
N. E.. IS.
William A. Brooks, ST., II Frank.
lin st. N. W., IS.
Howard w. Nolan, 2044 L ST.
N. W., SIS.
Ralph ]. Mccormick. lbs Park
Pl. N. E., S..
Donald Mohler. 1S4s U st. S,
E., IS.
Marvin C. Bouldin, 1905 Pc.
tomac st. N. W., IS.
William E. Armstrong, 1912
Kearney st. N. E., IS.
Wilson c. Thompson, Maryland,
IS.
Pierre M. Client, Maryland, SIS.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
Liquor Sales Charges
BrinQ Fines for Three

UPPER MARLBORO, Nd, May
2.-Three men paid fines totaling
5000 in Prince Georges county po-
lice court in Upper Marlboro yes
terday following conviction on a
charge Of selling liquor after mid.
night Saturday night, April IL, in
Capitol Heights.
Charles Hunt paid $50. Harry
Kans, $50, and John Luckett,
brother Of the mayor Of Capitol
Heights, was fined 500. The
Maryland law provides that liquor
stores must close at midnight on
SATURDAYS.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
Dies As He Packs
Vacation luggage

Sticken as he packed his lug.
gage for a vacation trip to Flor.
ida, John Robert Casper, jr., IS.
of GOT Gist Ave-, Silver Spring,
Md, died at his home yesterday
afternoon despite efforts Of the
Silver Spring Fire Rescue Squad
to revive him. He was pro.
nounced dead by DR.. william
Claude Mitchell.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
BRAIN TRUST
AGAIN OUT
IN0PEN
GO. P. Move Followed
By REVIVAL" of
New Deal Group
By EARL GOODWIN

Just as the Democrats were
having a laugh over the Republi.
can discontinue at its National
Committees Brain Trust, along
comes Prof. Felix Frankfurter,
main lobe Of the New Deal brain,
and has luncheon with President
Roosevelt.
That gives rise to the idea that
the White House is no longer
afraid to have its Brain Trusters
come in the front door, in view
of the fact that the public has
it's eyes riveted on the G. o. p.
Brain Trust and Is having a good
laugh itself. It also brought the
comment that President RooSe-
welt is going to have his friends
in to lunch whenever he feels
like it, regardless Of what his po-
htical advisers say about the un-
wisdom of aSsociating with the
intelligentsia.
TugweIl Goes In, Too
Moreover, Brain Truster Tug
well walks in and out Of the
White House office front door
these days just as if he was not
the main objective Of q slashing
Republican attack. That pretty
nearly closes the Democratic Brain
Trust list, which has been shrink
ing, unless one adds the recently
enlisted DR.. Stanley High, who Is
credited with being q deep thinker
and q very effective worker among
the leaders on the religious and
sociological side.
DR.. High is the brains behind
the Good Neighbor League, re-
Gently launched to attract a class
of people who have hitherto not
been riding the E0osevelt band
wagon, but who have been in the
attitude of expectant hitchhikerS.
It is understood that DR.. High
helped a lot on the speech the
President delivered to the Young
Democrats in Baltimore. That
speech has been looked On as a
washout by the old-line politicians,
but it is credited with home-run
among the folks of the Good Neigh
Dor League.
The Good Neighbors include So
cial workers, church leaders, for
mer dry Democrats like Col. Pat
rick H. Callahan, of Louisville,
KY. and many others who have
been irked by the wet stand Of
the Democratic party, but who
really want to come back to the
fold.
G. o. p. Has Dry
At the same time, the prohibi-
ton balance is maintained by the
Republican head brain.truster,
Prof. Thomas N. Carver, Of Har-
ward, who was the economic adj
wiser and mainstay Of the drys in
the prohibition era. Prof. Carver
wrote several books in which he
maintained that prohibition was
entirely responsible for the boolp
condition Of the country in the
Coolidge Hoover era. He spoke in
Washington to a group Of dry
leaders within the past few days.
Professor Carver'S name has
been in the mouths Of political
observers for the past few days,
and is in the Congressional Rec
ord at the beheSt of Senator Jo-
seph Guffey of Pennsylvania, who
inserted a copy of a news article
outlining Professor Carver's book
let, What Must We Do to Save
Our Economic SyStem?"
Among the reforms in the Car
yer program are sterilization Of
the "palpably unfit" birth control
and limitation Of marriage to
those who can afford to buy and
maintain an automobile. ProfeS-
sor Carver's plan, as reported and
placed in the Congressional Rec
ord, favorS the Organization Of
the properties class in party to
put over this program
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
Reckless Driving

John T. Saunders. 1941 Twelfth
st. N. w., 80 days and 500 or 80
days.
Leaving After COlliding
Acey Woodham, 412 Sixth ST..
N. W., $25 or 80 days.
First Offense, Speeding
Leroy w. Henderson, 1921 Wis
conSin Ave. N. W., SIS.
Curtis Mum, 1927 A st. N. E.,
$40.
Edward B. Hosey. 2O15 Douglas
st. N. E., $40.
Willie Ruth Bowen. 1924 Sixth
st. N. W., $40.
Bingham K. Mattox. Senate
Office Building, $40.
Charles c. Coley, 10 @ st. N. W.,
$40.
Leroy H. Grouse, Maryland, $40.
Edward Rathell, $40 North
Carolina Ave. S. E., IS.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
7. f. Lodge Opens
New Law Offices

Thomas Ellie Lodge, former as
sistant United States attorney, an
nounces the removal of his law
offices from Columbian Building,
416 Fifth st. N. w., to the Ma
tional Metropolitan Bank Build
ing. 631 Fifteenth st. N. W. Mr..
Lodge will be associated with Rush
L. Holland,
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
Contract Bridge Class

Formation Of a class in contract
bridge was announced yesterday
by the Community Center Depart
Inent. The class will be held Mon
day evening at Central High
School under the direction of Dor.
Othy M, Johnston,
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
Wheeler to Speak

Consumers cooperation" will
be discussed at a luncheon meet
ing Of the Peoples Lobby this aft
ernoon at the Cosmos Club. Sena-
tor Burton K. Wheeler, Montana,
will be principal speaker.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
v. M. |. Luncheon

The Washington Chapter Of the
Virginia Military Institute Alumni
will hold its regular monthly
luncheon at the Army and Navy
Club on Monday at 1890 p. m.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
Attention, Beautiful La dies!

: Those figured and lowered
dresses look spring-timey and gay,
but they kill individuality. Only a
vivid personality can emerge un-
dimmed from their spots and
freckleS.
Sometimes a hat and bag, &C.
centing the SharpeSt color of the
print, will save the costume. But
not too often.
The Washington times., 1936-05-02
Pleasant AfterthOught

I shall long remember the we'd
ding Of the lovely Mariana Ar
mour Dunn and Count Guy de
BailletLatour-the solemn and
beautiful nuptial mass at st. Mat
thew'S Church, the charming
house Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Clement Dunn, the garden bright
with flowers, gypsy music and
Viennese waltzeS drifting over
lilac bushes and all the amusing
and best dressed people in town,
happy in the atmosphere of ro-
nance and perfect hospitality.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
LIGHT AND LIFE

The hazard of night driving, according to r. f. Simpson
of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters,
is "A time as great as the hazard of day driving. Threefourths
of all accidents occur in the day time-yt. last year there were
1860 fatalities during the daylight hours and 21400 during
the hours of darkness. In other words, fewer crashes occur at
night, dueto lessened traffic-but the results Of the accidents
that do occur are much worse,
The seriousness Of night accidents is caused by the inability
of drivers to see hazards The headlights of the average car
leave much to be desired, and the use of larger and more pow
full bulbs is prohbitd by lawn most states because they would
blind oncoming drivers and pedestrians, making matters worse,
not better. The one solution to the night driving problems, Mr..
Simpson points out, is highway illumination.
Mr.. Simpson has made an exhaustive survey of lighted high
ways and finds that the number of accidents is greotly reduced
and that the average accident is less severe in injury to per-
sons and property. He has lkwise found that the cost lighting
the highways and maintaining the system is far oyerbalanced
bp the economic saving that follows accident prevention. In Mr.
Simpsons own words: "It has been said that community pays
for good street lighting whether it gets it or not This same
truism may be applied to a larger rritory~~~~Citiz can
provide sufficient funds to insure adequate lighting and en-
joy the benefits thereof, or they can refuse to take such action,
and then later be forced to pay a much larger amount in money
and suffering ~~
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
VOTE YOTEl YOTEI

The greatest possession of a free people is the ballot
he right to vote. 1t is a defender of our liberties and a wea-
D On against injustice.
Yet that Invaluable heritage is not priced by millions of
therwise good citizens. Poof of this statement can be found
n undeniable statistics. 1t is exceptional when an election
rings to the voting booths more than fifty per cent of enfran-
6hised citizens.
- One result is that the public officials are elected by minor
vote of the majority is silent. Another, and worse re-
suit, is a tagging of interest by the people in a thing that af-
fects us all-our government.
This year, there are great issues before us. No matter how
we stand, it is our duty as we'll as our privilege to mark an X
pposite names of our choice on the ballot. Only by this course
can we have popular government.
In Germany the right to vote has bees practically abrogated,
at the last election citizens had a choice of endorsing Hitler or
fleaving the ballot blank, there being no opponent. That is true
of Italy, of Russia, of Greece, and of a dozen other powers. And
here in America, where we still have that right which preserves
our freedom, half of us do not trouble to exercise it.
So-yote on November Bird. Vote for Roosevelt or Landon,
Iemke or "Thomas-whoever you think is the best man for Pres
ident. Do the same for other offices. 1t is your inalenable right
to vote for whomever you please. And only by voting on the
men and issues of the time can that right be preserved.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
BY RAILROAD

A modern steam locomotive pulling a train of 10 Pullman
as can be accelerated to 50 J lies per lour in about tire min
ties. With lss than six per cent of the worlds land area an6
opulaton, the United States has - per cent Of the worlds
abroad mileage.
The railroads buy more than 10000 individual commodities,
angling all the way from pins and needles to bridges and To-
omotives.
Many freight trains are now operated on schedules almost
S fast as passenger trains.
These facts, issued by the Association of American rail
Dads, give an idea of the astonishing progress that has been
made i'll railroad transportation. The chances are that more i'm.
,rovement has been achieved in operation following tho war
han in any like period since the industry's inception.
When you take a trip on a modern railroad today, you use
he highest developed media of transport the world has yet
cen. 1t may be hot and humid outside, but inside your err
pring weather ~revails-because the rails have spent $4,000,
70 on airconditioning since 1882. The train is practically 81
emit and yibrationless-and 1t can carry you through a dust
torn without soiing your white sui. 1t will take you to your
estimation in a remarkably short time, and at very low cost.
Should you eat meals enroute you will find that dining cars
70 longer practice the robbery of which they used to be ac-
eused-the cost for meals is the same as amy good restaurant.
More Americans are travelling by rail now than in many
they have discovered that no other kind Of trav-
is as comfortable, as certain, and as economical in the light
Of service received.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
A NATION OF LITTLE BUSINESSES

America is primarily a naion of little businesses in spite of
bl the talk We hear about "big business" This is especially
rue of the retail trade. According to DIR. G. w. Dyer, Professor
kf Economics, Vanderbilt University, in 1929, there were 1880,
90 independent stores in existence and 1A,598 chain stores.
he Independents employed more than 100000 persons while
he chains employed over 100000.
Exact figures are not available for later years, but it is the
concensus of ounion, based on various surveys, that the situa-
ton has not changed greatly. Chain systems have grown and
expanded-and so have independent stores. A great spur to in
dependent store growth and betterment has been organization
of large scale buying, patterned after the chain systems, which
enable their members to reduce the buying costs and so sell
goods cheaper.
In no country in the world are there so many opportunities
open to the little fellow as in the United States. Even during the
depression, a host of small businesses, retail and manufacturing,
were started and though the going was hard, many of them
managed to pull through and are now ON the way to prosperity.
They are succeeding because they give good serviee-small bus
mess can often get the jump on big business by providing a
personal service that a large organization cannot-and because
they meet a public need.
There are no signs that the day Of the small store and the
small factory is over. There are signs that these small enter
prises can look forward to profitable futures. That is as it should
he. Here in the United States, as in nowhere else in the world
the small business and the big business exist side by side, and
are a testimonial to the soundness of the American way of life
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
THINGS ONE REMEMBERS

Reading III dell news, one cannot help but be impressed
b. the simlarit letween civil was and tie wcrs between ca
ital and labor, in their waste and barbarism.
For the moment the Spanish civil war is a ease in point
If the government wirs, Spain will be subjected to an iron
In ed conmunistie dictatorship. If the rebels are victorious,
4 T scist military dictatorship vi be established, according TO
rel leaders, and all newspapers except Fascist ORGANS will be
Suppressed. and all civil liberties will be abrogated.
Thus the old story is repeated-the common people will be
the losers. No II after how the war turns out, constitutional gov
eminent and fire.. dom in Spain will end. Leaders the world over
are med for power, as press dispatches from Leading nations
disatc.
With such examples to 90 by, we are threatened with a
labor war between workers and employers in our own Unit
ed States. If it comes. both sides will lose no matter who seems
to twin . Lost wages, lost opportunities, lost good will and lost
morale are never returned. When humans sidetrack intelligence
for tactics Of barbarians, the world loses.
Yet, with the horrible examples of folly of blind strife all
around rs, extremists in our country, on both sides Of the
labor question, are tanning the labor war flames. Their actions
remind one Of a couple of dogs eircling around TO r a chance to
fly at each others Threats. There is some excuse for the dogs.
There is no excuse for humans today who have every facil-
ity at their command for Investigating, arbitrating, legislating
and settling their differences in an orderly and intelligent man
ner. That old quotatio, "The more | see of humans, the better I
like dogs becomes more impressive every day.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24

J ngland which IS strongly Republican, matters are chaotic in
he extreme. 1t used to be that the Republicans could count on
he far western states, with almost absolute certainty. Today the
iacifie coast states, aon gwth several bordering states, are
enerally conceded to Roosevelt by mprejudiced analysts.
1t also used to be that Democratic eandidates-dismissing
ampaigns such as 1920 and 1924, in which the Republicans had
he election cinched before the nominations-could count on car
ying some of the big seaboard industrial states. Today most
Ills show Roosevelt trailing in such states, and some think
that he has a better chance TO carry Pennsylvania, which has
OF cast its electoral vote for a Democrat in generations, than
New York or New Jersey
10th Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Landon are seeking to appeal
o voters in all camps, are trying to make their campaigns as
lon-partisan as possible 50 far as old-time party divisions are
onceIned. That is also true of platforms-the old Democratic
lea for states rights, etc, has been pretty we'll dropped, and
and the Rpublicans, who once stood for more centralized gov
nmeet, are now standing for less centralized government.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Reducing Safely

Or Milton Bridges, diet of Col
umbsa university, speaking before
the Southwest Clinical Society re-
Gently, denounced freak reducing
diets. No food in itself, says the
doctor, will reduce the body so
much as a thousandth of a pound.
However, the withdrawal from the
diet of certain fat-producing foods
will naturally, by this absence,
not develop any fat. The body then
devours that already accumulated.
Hollywood beauties put them
selves into the hands of fi~rst-class
diet specialists (most dietitians
still speak in terms of calories, an
outmoded way of considering food
values) and reduce without running
their health. The average woman
tries first one reducing fad after
another, from bath salts to thyroid
extract, and gets either anemic,
neurotic or both. For many years
I've been in the habit of reducing
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
BY L. T. WHITE
Highway Safety Expert

no you drive a closed carr Do
u you keep your windows closed
during the chilly days of fall and
the cold weather months?
If you do, you II probably driv-
ing with an extra passenger. a pas
senger who is colorless-odorless-
tasteless-who may strike you dead
or let you Off with an attack Of
drowiness or headache that may re-
suit in a fatal or costly accident
a passenger who rides unknown
with more than a million drivers
every day of the year!
His name Is Carbon Monoxide;
his presence can be detected only
by periodical tests Of your motor,
since maladjustment of a dozen
different parts of your moter al
lows the formation and seepage OF
this deadly gas.
A typical case Of the effect OF
this friend Of death is that of the
driver who headed his car off a
perfectly straight road into the
ditch. While %endeavoring to regain
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24
Breadless Meals

Americans r so accustomed to
having bread with meals that to
criticize the custom seems acre-
ligious. l first heard of breadless
meals from Fanny Ward, ex-movie
star and one of the few women |
have ever known who could really
look thirty at sixty She revealed
how a European doctor had cured
her of chronic constipation and ov-
erweight by breadless, pastry-less,
fruit vegetable and lean meat me-
nus. The Japanese, Chinese and
Hindus do not eat bread, neither do
most Africans. They eat a grain,
true, but it is far healthier to eat
fresh, whole grain, Impressed ex-
cept for a few minutes boiling,
than to eat a synthesized bypro-
duct of a grain, over-stored and
overlooked and mixed with dubious
chemicals as is all bought bread
today.
The Omaha guide., 1936-10-24

the highway. he collapsed at the
wheel and was later found dead.
A test showed that when travelling
on the highway there was sufficient
carbon monoxide within the car to
account for the driver going to
sleep; and when the car was sta.
tionary, the mixture was heavy
enough to produce death.
The cause? Not unusual-a HAY.
wire repair OF a leaky gasket,
poorly fitted floor boards, and ex-
cessive monoxide in the engines
exhaust"
Inia one-month safety campaign
conducted recently, more than 81
600 wise motorists had their cars
tested by the Power Proven, sci
ence's contribution to the fight
against monoxide. This set of in
struments analyses the exhaust
gases and reveals whether or not
poisonous fumes are present in
dangerous quantities. Proper motor
adjustment then eliminates this
menace, to which can be traced
thousands Of unexplained" acct
dents when drivers have suddenly
become dizzy or ~nauseous.