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The Washington times., 1936-02-28
Attention Secretary Hull:

Whlle you are negotiating your
reciprocal trade agreements, will
you please do something about
the tortoise shell things that I
did not get in Brussels, the Wed
wood china that still reposeS, I
am sure, on the upper left shelf
as YOU enter the door Of that
little shop on High Street, IN
Oxfords the. lacquer cigarette
case E.thaS Madame Bertrand in
Poissy would not part with for
less than 200 francs, and the
petite point bag that lies under
the counter of Frau Kellner's
place near Sacher's in Vienna?
Mrs. James M. Helm. who
tries to keep up with Mrs.
Roosevelt,s social engagements,
has a refreshing idea about
heroes and their portraits.
She thinks the great men OF
the world should have oeen and
should continue to be put on
canvas before they cut their first
false tooth. The portrait OF
General Washington she most
prefers is the one. taken when
he was young and the made.
ulIacieS of colonial dentistry had
not manifested themselves on the
noble countenance of the Father
Of His Country.
The only likenesSeS Of poets
and other heroes which should
be saved for posterity, Mrs. Helm
thinks, are those which do not
include grisley boards and bald
pates. The reason Byron, Shel"
lev and Keats we're regarded as
the great romanticistS, according
to Mrs. Helm. is because their
only pictures show them beauti-
full and young. They died in
time to save their regulations.
d. for one-how about you?-
shall not be able to rest until
I know whether the Countess
Haugwitz-R -Reventlow, the former
Princess MdiIani. the former Bar
bara Hutton, viii bring her "30
million dollar baby to America.
It was born on Tuesday as the
press of the world from Big Gap,
Va, to OmSk, Siberia, pointed out,
with benefit of three doctors, Scot
land Yard men, electricians, but
lerS, policemen, minnesingers, haut-
boys, heraldS and tap-drummers.
Just a song at twilight kind Of af-
fair, with no reporters present.
It is limited that "the countess
may not bring the child here." "
After all, he might grow up and
wed girl from the five-and-ten.
Ithas been done. And the countess
Just couldn't stand having a par
venu in the family.
BY way of leaving a happy
thought, I shall now bring up the
subject of fingerprint records. J.
Edgar Hoover, of the Department
of Justice, says that more CRIME is
committed in youth than in later
life. The 19-year-olds lead the list
The 81 and 20-year-oldS follow
close behind.
Crimes, it seems, go in seasonal
waves. Murder and aggravated
assault are highest in the hot sum
mer months of July and August
RobberieS are in direct proportion
to police protection, or lack Of it
About 80 per cent of the rob
berries occur in commercial estab
lishmentS and-think this over and
shiver-54.7 of all robberies are
committed on highways. And al
night.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
Benefit Bingo

Benefit Bingo
A benefit bingo party will be
held tomorrow night at the Pyth-
ian Temple, 1912 Ninth st. N. w.
Door prizes will be awarded.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
Discoveries

Senator Warren r. Austin, OF
Vermont, is having his portrait
painted and the artist, so I hear,
is catching that twinkle in the
Senator's eye on canvas. Mrs.
Austin, who is amusing and very
pleasant to be with, says she was
asked to write a magazine story
on "The Liabilities Of a Senator'S S
Wife" She thinks, however, that
the assets Of q Senator's Wife
would be q better subject.
Her pet theme would be '"The
Service Wife" There are no
more clever, entertaining, resource
full people in the world than the
wives Of Army and Navy officers.
Mrs. Austin thinks.
The Washington times., 1936-02-28
Now
Signs of Spring
In the Air
HERO PHOTOS
BY HELEN ESSARY
Early Spring Notes

GNA 0PAAAe ANVN~S
Half the town is taking halibut
Oil tablets. which, it seems, make
you feel not like poor fish, but
like q mountain antelope.
After trekking through the late
February thaw in garden and
lane, Samson, our big, yellow cat,
Is about to be plunged into the
family bathtub.
Daisy, our German police puppy,
this morning has shown response
to the sunshine in the air by chew
ing into two down sofa pillows and
tossing the contents thereof over
most of the lower floor.
A bluejay is now sitting in an
oak tree outside my window.
The corner drug store is sold out
Of cough drops.
After the Democratic conven-
tion, so some Knowing People say,
the Democratic National Commit
tee will move its headquarters to
New York. A skeleton force will
remain at the National Press
Building to carry on local activi-
ties.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-13
Where the Taxes
Come From
By RAYMOND PITCAIRN
National Chairman
OF the Republic

"Taxes are paid in the stoeat OF every
man tOho Labors."
Congress, as this is written is Begin
ming to remember that profound truth
and to realize that the public remem-
bers it, too.
Therein lies headache-not only for
Congress but for all other officers Of
government, whether national, state or
local, who have spent the peoples
money at such amazing speed during
recent years.
The trouble is that in proportion to
public expenditures, there are fewer
earnings for the collectors to levy
on than there were, let's say, decade
ago.
Recently published figures have
brought this fact dramatically to the
taxpayers attention. They show, for
example, that whereas in 1929, taxes
took one-eighth of the national income
(Which means the earnings Of all the
people), by 1882, they took one-sixth,
and by 1885 more than one-f1fth.
Or put it another way! In 1928, the
average American labored one day out
of every eight to pay the costs of ma
tional, state and local government; in
1892 he labored one day out Of every six
for the same purpose, and in 1885. one
day land few hours over out Of every
five.
Yet even that didn't meet the whole
cost. If government last year had paid
all its bills in cash, nearly one-third of
all the money earned by the American
people would have been required to bal
ance the account. Instead, government
borrowed, which means that the bill
must be paid out of future earnings Of
the workers or their children-stil in
the sweat of the man who labors
Today the politicians are searching
feverishly for a method of producing
taxes without the inevitable sweat. They
find it a difficult job. Perhaps they are
approaching it at the wrong end. If
they want to make things easier for the
people, who ultimately pay the bills,
| why not turn their thoughts to the
problem of spending fewer billions,
rather than to the question of how to
collect more?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-13

A most attractively arranged sup
per party was given on Monday eve
ming by Mr.. and Mrs. G. Rust Can
by, when they entertained the fol-
lowing guests: Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Douglas Farquhar. Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Owings and Mr.. and Mrs.
HARDWOOD Owings of Howard County,
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis A. Thomas,
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Brooke, Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis Miller, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tarlton Brooke, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
Yellott Candy, Mr.. and Mrs. Mahlon
Kirk Nv, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick L..
Thomas, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hyde
~, Mr.. and Mrs. John Henderson,
of Rockville, Miss Eliza Candy of
Washington, and Miss Carrie Owings,
of Baltimore. Mrs. Canby's guests
were seated at small tables for sup
per, after which bridge was played.
Miss Mary Miller Stabler has left
for Wilmington, Del, where she will
visit Miss Mary Bringhurst and
brother, Mr.. Edward Bringhurst, of
lockwood, and her nephew, DR..
Robert M. Stabler and wife at their
home near Swarthmore, Pa.
Miss Amy P. Miller and Mrs. tan
ton Smith have had with them their
sister, Mrs. Knox Taylor of Santa
IFe, New Mexico, and over the past
weekend, Mrs. Taylor's daughter,
Miss Mary Summers Taylor Joined
the family, coming from Philadel-
phia.
Among those from the neighbor-
hood who attended the State Amer
lean Legion banquet in Baltimore,
were Mr.. and Mrs. A. Douglas Far
quhar, Mr.. Francis Thomas and
Mr.. Herbert Adams.
Mrs. Francis M. Hallowell has
been spending the weekend in
Washington at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. William HI. Hill.
A most enjoyable meeting of the
Mutual Improvement Association was
held last Thursday, when the secre-
tary, Mrs. Josiah w. Jones was host
ess to the club at The Briers. The
Association, at a meeting following
a delicious luncheon, and presided
over by Mrs. Francis M. Hallowell
voted the sum of $1,000 to the Will
Rogers crippled children of Maryland
fund. The usual roll call was re
sponded to by interesting contribu
lions from the members, including {
number of enlightening articles. Mrs
Robert H. Miller will entertain the
March meeting at "The Highlands"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-13
Sandy Spring Neighborhood

The severe weather the past week
has cancelled a number of social func-
tions, and the school at Sherwood
was closed on Friday.
Misses Kate and Gertrude Mathews
of Glenwood, Howard County, have
been guests at The Highlands, with
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Miller, Jr.,
the past week.
A number of pupils from Sher-
wood School, chaperoned by several
of the Sandy Spring ladies, attended
the National Symphony Orchestra
concert last Thursday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-13
Wednesday Club Holds
Very Interesting Meeting

An unusually interesting program
os o;ven at the Wednesday club,
rhen on Wednesday, Mrs. Roderick
adams entertained the club at Com
unity House, with Mrs. Mahlon
kirk Nv, the president, presiding.
Mrs Douglas Whitlock, introduced
CON Miller of Lutherville, who now
hos the "Attic Book Shop" of Wash
;noton and who gave some of the
h;9b-lights on rare books and showed
nun,ber of old editions of great in
forest. with the prices which some of
Tho valuable editions bring.
In business meeting following, the
olub voted to contribute individually
and as a club to the "Will Rogers
crippled Children of Nd" fund, the
amount to be decided at the next
meeting.
Tn a discussion over the program
for next year, it was the general
oninion of the club, that much the
same order of program be continued,
with Mrs. P. Garland Ligon added to
the committee.
Announcements were called for,
with that of the P. 7. A. dance at
Sherwood school on Valentines day,
Feb. 18th. from 9 until IL at the
school, with five piece orchestra for
music. floor show, and refreshments.
Mrs. Charles Ray will entertain the
next meeting at Charlie Forest.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-13

West Virginia Admitted in 1868
The state of West Virginia was ad
mItted to the Union June 20, 1863.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-02-13

Natural Gas in 177S
Natural gas was being mentioned as
early as 1775, but was first used as
fuel in 1921.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

than a millimeter, about one-sixteenth
of an inch in diameter.
DR.. Curtiss came to the Bureau Of
Standards in 1924 after two years Of
study at Cambridge, England. He Is
a graduate of Cornell University,
Ithica, N. Y, and was born near there.
There are two great dangers in
handling radium, DR.. Curtiss ex-
planned. THE most obvious one Is
the radium burn, received when very
close to radium for or 10 minutes" !"
he said. This often is not noticeable
until week or so later because there
is no immediate discomfort. At first
what appears to be an ordinary burn
proves to be much deeper and ex-
tremely difficult to heal. In the
early days of radium these burns were
very frequent.
The other dangerous effect of ra-
dium is the change it may cause in
the blood stream. a type Of anaemia
which appears months later and is
very hard to treat. In this case, the
victim must be removed completely
from exposure and trust to natural
processes for recovery.
The best protection" said DR..
Curtiss, "is to keep away from radium
as far as possible. We always are try
ing to increase the distance between
the operator and the radium with
which he is working. Ordinarily we
keep several feet away except when
transferring it from one place to
another.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

~ EVELOPMENT Of a unique
pair of forceps for protection
of scientists in handling
- radioactive material was
announced today by DR.. L. F. Curtiss,
chief of the radium division OF the
National Bureau of Standards.
DR.. Curtiss perfected the forceps
during the past year. The instrument
is more than a foot long, with a
bakelite handle to be gripped by the
hand, an aluminium barrel, and phos-
phor bronze jaws to grip the speci-
men.
1T keeps the hands of the operator
away, as much as possible. from the
radioactive material" said DR.. Cur
tiS, "and has proved both convenient
and safe. Its use will be explained
soon in scientific journals. In order
to get people to use it. We had to make
it convenient as well as safe. Too
often there has been a tendency to
follow unsafe methods for the sake OF
convenience"
DR.. Curtiss explained that hereto
fore he had used old-style forceps with
lead shields in laboratory work with
radium.
He has received several inquiries
from various parts of the country
about his invention. the most recent
one from the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology. The instrument has
been made in both right and left hand
models and can pick up specimens less
Evening star., 1936-07-26
KEYSTONE RELIEF Il
STILL DEADL0CKED
"Hunger Marchers" Camp
in Capitol as Legislature
Takes Recess.
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, July 25.-
Hunger marchers" camped almost
unnoticed in the capitol yesterday,
while the Legislature, deadlocked over
unemployment relief, adjourned over
the week end.
Angry marchers, shortly after the
legislators left for their homes, tried
to take over the Senate chamber to
hold a mock session of the Legis-
lature Of the unemployed" but were
elected by State police.
A dozen troopers herded so of the
jobless to the doors after they slid
down ropes from the Senate gallery,
where they had camped all week hoot-
ing and jeering the Senators. The
marchers returned quietly to the gall.
lery where most of them spent the
night. Others slept on the floor in
the rotunda and corridors.
John Muldowney of Wilkes Barre,
one of their leaders. protested to Gov.
Earle against what he termed this
brutal and humiliat.ng treatment by
the police" He demanded the right
to use the Senate chamber"
The adjournment of the Legs-
lature came abruptly, shortly after
House and Senate appointed a con-
ference committee to try for a COM
promise on proposal to appropriate
100000 for immediate relief and
to sell s4s,5O0,000 worth OF notes to
carry relief through to the first of the
year.
The Senate passed the bills amid
boos from marchers IN the gallery.
The House refused to approve the
measures. The bills went back to the
Senate.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
KENNEDY IGNORES
WARNING ON BOOK
Braves Business Reprisals
to Give Opinion of
New Deal.
Ps the Associated Press.

Ps the Associated Press.
HYANNIS, Mass, July 25.-Joseph
P. Kennedy, former head of the Sc
curities and Exchange Commission,
ignored protests of friends and went
ahead today with plans to publish a
book on the New Deal, knowing well
it will probably get my head
kicked off"
"If you shove your neck out you're
bound to get slapped" the vacation
ing New Dealer asserted, but can
stand it,"
The book, Kennedy says, will give
his opinion of what the New Deal
has accomplished,
Tired Of Presidents Critics.
I'm sure it will get me in wrong
with some people. Some of my friends
in the business and financial world
have told me I might as we'll make
up my mind I have had my last job
from any one in the business world,
once the book is published.
But I am tired of hearing rich and
powerful men express their hatred for
the President and seeing them ignore
the new social trends which are
obvious.
II stand to lose as much as any of
them in the immediate future of the
country. My money is to be consid-
cred as well as theirs and I am just
as concerned about what is to happen
to my children as they are about
theirs. And because of my children
I am a stronger Roosevelt man than
ever before"
Racket Halt Credited to S. E. C.
Here on Cape Cod Kennedy plays
tennis in shorts with son. one of his
nine children. swims with his wife
and circles golf links frequently.
Proud of the S. E. c., Kennedy says
it stopped many rackets and saved
many millions of dollars.
There was absolutely no political
interference You hear a great deal
of talk about Jim Farley and his
wrecking the civil service and his
allotment of spoils, but he never asked
me to put any one in the S. E. c.
Every employe had to stand on his.
own feet and stand the test"
Evening star., 1936-07-26
Floods Menace Hondurans.

TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras, July
Is (Pl.-Omcial dispatches received
here today said the Ulua River, in
Northwestern Honduras. had over
flowed in the Santa Barbara zone,
doing considerable damage and alarm
ing the residents.
Inhabitants of the region were in
structed to be ready to face any emer-
gency. Serious floods in that district
last October we're estimated to have
taken $50 lives.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
HE|RESSOF GOULD
MILLIONS TO WE'D.
Helen Anna Shepard to Be
Bride of Newspaper Ad
Solicitor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROXBURY, N. Y, July 25.-The
engagement of Helen Anna Shepard.
q prospective heiress of the Jay Gould
millions, and Arthur Harris Gaines,
newspaper employe, was announced
today.
Miss Shepard is one Of the three
children adopted by Finley Johnson
Shepard and his wife, the former
Helen Gould, daughter of the man
who was born here 100 years ago and
became the foremost builder of
American railroads in the nineteenth
century.
Michigan u. Graduate.
Gaines, son of Mr.. and Mrs. lie
Grand Abner Gaines of Texarkana,
Tex, Is an advertising solicitor on
the New York Daily News. He was
educated at the University OF Mich
igan.
His fiancee was graduated from
Oldfield's. exclusive New York finish
ing school, five years ago.
AS trustee of her fathers estate,
Mrs. Shepard was in and out of court
continually before compromise set
tlement of the s80,OO0,000 left by the
financier was effected.
Under terms of an agreement
reached in Supreme Court in 1927
Mrs. Shepard was granted the in
come from $13,000,000 Of the Gould
estate.
Missouri Pacific Official.
Her husband, Finley johnson Shep-
ard, became associated with the
executive offices of the Missouri Pa
cific Railway in 1911 and serves as
director of numerous banks and rail-
roads.
After their marriage in 1913 the
ehepards adopted three children
Olivia Margaret Shepard. who mar
ried John Read Burr of San Fran
cisco in 1890; Finally Jay Shepard,
jr., who married Lorrain Sheldon OF
Yonkers, N. Y, in 1888, and Helen
Anna Shepard.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

500, 900 Suit Says Film Head
Beat Up Gentili, Operate Singer
COhn Under DeIusiOn
about Family Eric.
ti0n," Is Charge.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 25.-Pietro
Gentili, film operate singer, accused
Harry Cohn in a 100000 damage
s,lit today Of helping beat him up.
Retorted the president of Colum-
bia Pictures Corp:
I'm not a regular attendant at the
opera, so don't know II this Gentili
person Is q tenor or bass, but do
know he sounds very much of key"
Gentili, SO, charged that Cohn. Ia
boring under the delusion and halluci-
nation that the plaintiff caused fric-
ton In the defendants household "''
maliciously and brutally pounded and
battered him last August l at the
Gentili home"
Cohn ordered two unidentified COM
panions to kill" him, Gentili's COM
plant declared.
Gentili alleged that Cohn accused
him of causing friction" in the Cohn
family and told him:
"You are through with pictures
I'll see to that
Thereafter, the complaint contin-
ued, Cohn "blacklisted" him at mo-
Evening star., 1936-07-26
DESERT TOWNSEND
PROPOSAL QUOTED
Smith Says White House
Representative Offered Him
Statue of Liberty.
Py the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
NEWARK. N. j., July 25.-Rev.
Gerald H. K. Smith, leader of the
share-the-wealth movement founded
by the late Huey Long, told a press
conference here tonight:
"A representative Of the White
House, from the Attorney Generals
Office, approached me while I was in
Washington and offered me every
thing from the Goddess of Liberty to
Catalina Island If would give up DR..
Townsend"
Mr.. Smith and Dr. Francis E. Town.
send old-age pension sponsor. were
in Newark for speeches in behalf Of
the Townsend movement and the
Union party. which is running Rep
resentative William Lemke for Presi-
dent
II am convinced" Smith said, that
any man who can split or cause a
split in the Townsend-Lemke-Long-
Smith group can have any gift he
wants within the power Of the present
administration"
Townsend declared that 1--WE expect
to elect Lemke, but in the failure Of
that we hope to poll enough votes to
throw the presidential election into
the House Of Representatives"
Mr.. Smith, in his address, described
himself and Townsend as merely the
symbols of a great fomenting and
fermenting state of mind that is using
us as a voice."
Il am here to tell you" he said,
that the people of America are about
to seize the Government"
AS evidence of pressure" against
the movement, Mr.. Smith said his
life had been threatened at least eight
times in II months.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

smack Barbara, had not heard of the
intensive search for the Nunoca, which
sailed from Grand Cayman Island
July 4 with % persons aboard.
Coast Guard headquarters here
planned a careful patrol over wide
area, because of the possibility the
wreck may have drifted.
The Nunoca was due here July 9.
1t carried provisions for about six
days.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
Will Buy T. v. A. Power.

ALCOA, Tenn, July rs R.-The
Aluminium Co. of America, an official
said today, plans to increase produc-
tion in its Alcoa smelling plant with
electricity purchased from the T. v. A.
at Norris Dam, beginning June /,
1887.
The contract with T. v. A., which
will run four to six years, permits the
concern to buy power in blocks not to
exceed 10000 kilowatts demand. The
rate will be 22757 mills at SO per
cent load factor.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
CHICAGOAN IN COURT
FOR SHOCKING LANDLADY
Accused of Using Electric Chair"
to Settle Personal Griev-


Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 25.-Alfred NJ. An
derson, 38, appeared in Town Hall
Court today to answer charge OF
assault by using an electric chair" to
settle a personal grievance.
The accuser was his landlady, Mrs.
Henrikke Nordberg, "a, whose hands
were bandaged She told Judge Leon
Edelman they were badly burned by
the chair.
Anderson, a radio engineer and an
invalid, admitted rigging up battery
and non-insulated copper wires to a
broken chair and then waiting for
Mrs. Nordbergs curiosity to assert
itself. She picked up the chair and
was shocked.
Anderson said he didn't expect any
one to get hurt He said he did it in
protest against Mrs. Nordberg's prac-
tice of keeping the door and windows
of his second-fioor room open as a
fire escape.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
BARB-W|RE PICKET
LINES INCREASED.
Company Charged With Vic.
Iating Truce by Employ
ing More Men.
Pv the Associated Press.

Pe the Associated Press.
STERLING, III, July 25:-Picket
lines around the Northwestern Barb
Wire Co. plant, site Of the first strike
attending the Nationwide drive to
unionize the steel industry, were
strengthened today. Strike leaders
said the step was taken by them on
reports they had received that the
company had violated q temporary
peace pact by employing more men.
Company officials denied the reports,
which said about 20 workers had been
added to the force that has been
keeping the plant going at half its
normal production since the strike
began July Z.
The increase in the picket lines
brought that force to about 100 men.
Between Is and 80 deputy sheriffs
stood guard for several blocks along
the route by which non striking work.
ers approached the plant.
Roofing nails were found strewn
along this path today, apparently in
tended to puncture the tires Of work.
ers' automobiles.
The nails were discovered after a
night Of renewed violence.
pREJIIDVCE CHARGED.