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Single bleSSedneSS seems TO be
so far in the ascendency that it's
monotonous in this motion picture
vote business. Doesn't someone
disagree? So far, every vote re-
ceiVed has been in favor o. single
features as against double fea-
lures in the cinema palaces. Tues
days mail brought a letter, the
writer of which didn't want it
publishcd-but RR takes the lib
erty of using part of it and with
holding the authors name. He
said:
II have talked with many peo-
pie on the subject and have yet
TO find one who liked the idea
(of double featuresD Personally.
l have practically stopped going
TO our Ell Centro theater, as it
takes too much time and eye
strain to sit through two pic
lures
So far, it seems, the noes"
know.
Home To ROOst-
Fred Nebel-Thau. Sauntering a
feet. He looked down at bright
a sheet of paper rattle under his
feet. Fl looked down at bright
ly colored oblong that, at one
time, was intended to be a wind
shield sticker. 1t was dated Janu-
ary II, 1881, and showed plainly
the marks of many feet, yet it
was intact. Fred picked it up. 1t
welcomed the Western Fruit JOB
bers to their convention here
Lettuce shake your hand; Lettuce
know your name; Lettuce be yours
to command Lettuce jot down in
your memory, Your day in lettuce
land" it said. Fred smiled
He had written the little ditty
for that aged piece of paper
Can We Join?--
An Ell CenJro resident this week
received an application card for
membership in knights of the
Dog House." membership 81 per
year. The applicant must swear
that II have every reason to be-
lieve l will make good member"
Right down RR's yard evidently!
Among other enticements, men,
bers are permitted to present
facts as they should be, rather
than as they are. (Some of us
don't need memberships. We learn
ed that part earlyD
Mistaken Identity
Mrs. Katherine Hall, out Lam
tana way, nurses no grudge, but
she is nursing a sore foot. She
stepped into a coyote trap Tues
day-and if you've ever stepped
into a coyote trap, you know how
embarrassing it can be. The
neighbor who set the thing is still
seeking the marauder, according
TO latest notices.
No Envy For Him
Cal Rector, over at M. O.. Kings
undertook a job Tuesday morn
ing that RR wouldn't like o have,
thank you. Cal was selecting mi
ladys fall shce styles. After
watching just one woman choose
just one pair of shoes from linn
tied number of styles, RR advises
Cal strongly against calling on any
of the gentler sex to help Inn out,
however. Cal had about 200 styles
to pick from. Imagine your better
ham turned loose among that many
styles!
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-26
PORT or FRISCO
SWEPT By fire
District Sends For
Copies Of Decision
On Bankrupt Act
Officials Hopeful Ruling May Not Affect Valley as
Seriously as at First Believed; Concentrated
Efforts Planned by Irrigation Units
DO

Imperial Irrigation district officials teegraphed Wash
gton D. c. Tuesday for phoostatc copies OF the United
States supreme court decision declaring the municipal
act unconstitutional The actt is expected
affect district refnancng plans and officials are anxious
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-26
TOWNSEND AIDES
JOIN IN DEFIANCE

WASHINGTON, WPThe Townsend revolt against the
house pension committee spread today to sub
Francis Townsend when TWO OF MS heteahS
a subpoena
John A. cieer Chicago Clinton L. Wunder, New
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-26
Bond Issues Beaten
LEGISLATORS Threaten
TO Force Passage Of
S35 Pension for AQed
Senate Prepares to Block Measure But House Urged
To Withhold Action on Relief Act Unless
Upper Chamber Approves

SACRAMENTO May 26. (UP)-Od age pensions be-
came the biggest issue before the special legislative
sion today the senate prepared to block $5 pension
bill passed unanimously by the assembly
AS word of the preparations reached the lower
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-26
MAJOR LEAGUE.
SCORES

NATIONAL
BROOKLYN -. 600 GOO O12-3 /
New York .....1O3 200 O1X-7 II
Clark, Butcher, Baker and Phelps;
Phelps; Gumbert and Mancuso.
Pniiadelphia .. $50 100 O1x-7 II l
Benge, Smith and Lopez; Jorgens
and Grace.
Pittsburgh .OO2 600 600 0
ST. Louis 900 032 01X-6 9
Blanton Bush and Padden; j.
Dean and Ogrodowski
Cincinnati ....1O1 600 200 4 10 .
Chicago ........O07 020 01X-1O Is
Stine, Brennan, Frey ana LON
bardi; Henshaw and Hartnett.
-OO
AMERICAN
Cbicaen CffSt Gn''e' ne. OF 100 O24- Q 15-2
Detroit ......223 500 0Ox-12 16--1
Whitehead, Brown and Sewell,
shea; Crowder Kimsley and Coch-
raue.
New York .....1O1 00O OO2-4 Is !
Boston 4#.,....0 .001 200 O2X-5
Ruffing and DickeN Glenn; w.
Ferrell aud Berg.
ST. Louis ....... 200 600 114-S II /
cleveland ......0 600 800 002--5 I >
Hogsett and Hemsley: Harder,
Lee. Galehouse and Pytlak.
philadelphia ....O1 600 1902 8 4
Washington .01O 022O 03X-S 13 0
Whitehill, Bolton and Miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-26

MNHNLTS IN HhIhF
Butteri Los Angeles 291ac, butter
fat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
Grade 4. 371sc; manufacturing milk.
J2c; route gathered cream. 2Dc.
l.. A. hay-U. s. No. I, extra Ieafy.
S17-IS; L. =. No. 1, S14.5O; L. =. No.
leafy, S14-14.5O: T. =. No. .. SI3.J0-
~. Minneapolis flax I59a4- 164al.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-26
BANK CLEARINGS
BUILDING PERMITS

sl04,G40
To Date This Year
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-05-22

Mrs. Arthur r. Mills has returned
home from Wilmington, Del, where
she underwent an operation for the
removal of tonsils and later received
throat treatment. While there Mrs.
Mills visited in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hobson Davis.
A birthday party was given to Mer-
vim Doughty at his home in Green
backville, Va, on May Is, the occas-
ion being his tenth birthday. The
guests included Eta McCleary, Fran
ces Bundick, Doris Pennewell, Esther
Fay and Bobbie Marshall, Eleanor
Brimer, Norma and James Marshall,
Helen Doughty, Phyllis and Margaret
Doughty. Mary Frances and Betty Lee
Hall, Lucille Justice, Kenneth Sturgis
Junior Crowley, Robert Kelley, Billie
Pollitt and Mrs. Harold McCleary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold McCleary en-
tertained at their home in Greenback-
vile, Va, on May in honor of their
daughter, Sara LOUIS fifth birthday.
Those present were Margaret and
Phyllis Doughty, Erma Brimer, Nor
ma and Verna Skeeter, Norma Ellis,
Jacquelyn and Patricia Sturgis, Betty
Jean Sharpley, Catherine Taylor, Geo
Lee Dooling, Corbin Mason, Frances
Bundick, Page and Byard Cherrix,
Edwin Ellis, Lorraine, Eleanor and
Beatrice Brimer, Eta McCleary, Mrs.
Linwood Doughty and Mrs. Samuel
Rundick.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-05-22

This isn't "chip-on-the-shoulder"
challenge, but a friendly invitation.
Make this test with a Hudson ".
over any route you pick. Make it
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I0OK!-Let the style of this 1896
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STRETCH!-You'lI have to 90 $40
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son in size (wheelbases up to 127 in.)
and all-around roominess.
Something brand newhere
=. Tru-Line Steering and Radial
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Both exclusive on Hudson.
RIDE!-We'll back Hudson's Rhyth-
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Eight.
GO! You can't match Hudson's
power for nearly double Hudson's price
...or Hudson SmoofhnesS at any price.
STOPPING other Eight gives you
finest hydraulics sCith separate safety
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-05-22
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we'll k4+-tt&kM IKE cat
HUDSON


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CHECK SAFETY!-N No other
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CHECK LONG LIFE!-WeIl show
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Come in today for a discovery
Drive" Judge Hudson by your
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other Eight.
Hudson Dealer
Evening star., 1936-03-10
RACE TRACK BACKED
BY BUILDING MEN
Trades Department of A. F. L.
Favors Norton Bill-Sees
Jobs Created.

Because of the employment possi-
bilities of race track in the District.
the Building Trades Department of
the American Federation Of Labor has
voted to favor legalized racing in
Washington. -
J. w. williams, president, and Her
bert Rivers, secretary. issued a joint
statement today pointing out two
reasons for supporting the Norton bill,
now pending in Congress.
First" the statement said. "it will
give employment to a great number
Of building trades mechanics and la
borers who have been unemployed for
a long time and who are badly in need
Of work.
Second, if unemployment is to be
relieved, it is necessary that funds
from private interests are expended
and it is our understanding that this
project will be financed from privately
owned money and will cost in excess
Of $2,000,0 1t will further give per.
manent employment to q great num-
Der Of workmen after construction Is
completed"
Evening star., 1936-03-10
CHERRY FESTIVAL
REVIVAL DECIDED
Hazen and Committee of
Citizens Plan Blossom
Fete for April.

Revival Of the Cherry Blossom
Festival is being planned by Commits
sioner Melvin c. Hazen and a citizens
committee who hope to bring thou
sands of visitors here in April, when
a three-day program would be staged
at the time the trees are in blossom.
Two years ago a festival attracted
a throng of District residents and
visitors estimated at nearly half
million Hazen hopes the program this
years will bring out an even greater
number. The event was not held last
year because of the Shrine convention.
Decision to proceed with plans was
reached yesterday at conference
between Hazen and civic and business
representatives. Among those attend
ing we're President Thomas E. Lodge
of the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, Robert j. Cottrell, secretary of
the Board of Trade, and spokesmen for
the Washington Hotel Association.
A meeting for an enlarged commit
tee is planned for next Tuesday.
Thousands of visitors in this region
would be urged to come here to wit
ness programs which would include
horse shows, parades, pageants, a
regatta and other athletic events.
Evening star., 1936-03-10
S238, 900 ESTATE LEFT
BY MRS. JENNIE TORRE
Son and Daughter Request They
Be Named Administrators in
Absence of Will.

Mrs. Jennie E. Tore, 5401 Connecti-
cut avenue, who died suddenly March
l, left an estate valued at about
$2sS,500, it was revealed in District
Supreme Court today, when her son
and daughter, Andrew D. and Beatrice
Tore, asked to be appointed admins
traitors.
There was no will, and the estate
will 60 to the children in equal shares.
Through Attorney Godfrey l.. Munter,
they told the court their mother left
$500 in personal property and real
estate assessed ct $233, 900, including
two apartment houses, about 80 pri-
vate dwellings and two large unim-
proved lots.
Mrs. Tore was a lifelong resident
of the District. Her son Is in the real
estate business here, and her daughter
is employed in the ONCE Of the con-
troller Of the currency.
Evening star., 1936-03-10
H0LD-UP SUSPECTS
HELD FOR D. C. POLICE
Detective Goes to Chicago to Quiz
Pair Said to Have
Confessed,

Detective Sergt. Frank o. Brass was
in Chicago today, questioning two men
alleged to have confessed staging sew
eral hold-ups here.
Meanwhile, local police claimed to
have identified the men, through
photographs. in the robbery of three
liquor stores and a taxicab driver.
The prisoners, paroled convicts from
Joliet Prison, were held in Chicago in
connection with several robberies
there. They are Raymond Agnew, %,
and Richard Breen, 25.
Chicago authorities also were hold
ing two women, who claimed to be the
wives Of the alleged bandits.
Those who identified the men
through the photographs are Frank
Deiveccio, 1908 Eleventh street south
east; Harry Dovkin, 2300 Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast. and Charles
MCGEE, 1919 L street. liquor dealers,
and Leonard Scott. 2118 Alabama ave-
nue southeast. taxicab driver.
Evening star., 1936-03-10

issued following an autopsy at the
District Morgue today.
Miss Trathen was still breathing
when found. DR.. r. r. Stevenson of
1854 Columbia road was summoned
and she was pronounced dead shortly
after his arrival.
Police notified the girls brother and
a sister, Mrs. Loyette Beall. of the
1900 block of Massachusetts, avenue.
The men said that Miss Trathen
seemed respondent after she made a
telephone call before dinner to a boy
friend"
Miss Trathen asked one Of the men
on the party to telephone for her be-
cause the boys parents objected to
their romance. When the man got
the youth on the telephone he turned
over the instrument to Miss Trathen
Homicide squad detectives this
morning questioned the youth, John
Hallett, of 81 L street northeast. Hal
lett said he had gone out several times
with the girl, but was not in love with
her. He explained they had slight
misunderstanding at dance Friday
night.
Hallett said the girl had invited
him to join the party last night when
she called him but that he was un-
able to do so.
The girl was the daughter of Will
liam H. Trathen OF Tuxedo, Md.
Evening star., 1936-03-10
TONS OF DEAD FISH
TAKEN FROM BASIN
Week More Will Be Required to
Clean Up Heavy Run
of Shad.

Despite the recent activity of fisher
men hauling thousands of Winter
shad from the Tidal Basin in Potomac
Park and the fact that hundreds of
sea gulls feasted upon the fish, c. Mar
shall Finnan. superintendent of the
National Capital Parks announced to-
day that there are still many tons
Of dead fish there.
The fishermen, he observed, might
we'll have caught thousands more of
fish and still not have exhausted the
supply.
They didn't even dent the surface"
he said.
The sea gulls, which were depended
upon in a measure to aid in cleaning
up the fish after the warmer weather
came were "a bitter disappointment"
declared the parks chief.
AS result. park workmen are TAX
ing tons of dead Winter shad out of
the Tidal Basin down to Four-mile
Run, on the Mount Vernon Memorial
Highway, where the old refining plant
existed, and burning them there. The
job,, he said, will take a week and a
half more before the waters will be
cleared. Mr.. Finnan asserted that the
fish cannot profitably be used as fer
tilizer in the park system.
Evening star., 1936-03-10
March IS Last Date for General Relief Cash Unless More Granted
Girl Shot at Cay Dinner Party
Believed to Haze Killed Self
Edna Trathen Found
Dying in Hosts Room,
after Leaving Table.

A coroner's certificate of suicide was
expected today to tell the sequel Of a
gay dinner party last night in the
home of a middle-aged jeweler at 1920
Walbridge place, climaxed when q
17-year- girl slipped upstairs to
her hosts bed room and shot herself
through the stomach with gun she
had found in compartment of spe-
cially- y-designed bed.
The girl was Edna Trathen, an at
tractive brunette waitress, who had
roomed with chums at 14l8 w street
after coming to Washington several
months ago from her home at Chew
erly, Md. Her host was Bernard Liv-
ingston, Washington jeweler, who lives
at the Walbridge place address.
Miss Trathen was having dinner
about GAS o'clock with Livingston
and two other couples. The additional
girls were Miss Trathens roommates,
Anne Portell and Eleanor Shearer,
while the men we're described to po-
lice as Harry Lasoer of the Chastleton
Apartments and Ernest Hammersla, a
travelling man."
The girl was said to have excused
herself after the soup course and as
the flet mignon was being brought in.
She ran upstairs to Livingston's bed
room and a moment later the guests
heard the muff1ed report of the gun.
Lasoer, police reported. found the
girl stretched across the bed beside
Livingston's .38-caliber revolver, one
cartridge of which had been fired. Miss
Trathen had been shot in the stomach.
Police said the girls and two of the
men came to Livingston's house yes
terday afternoon while the latter was
still at work. At that time, according
to Officer R. F. Goodwin of No. 10
precinct, Miss Trathen showed one of
the girls the cabinet built into the
head of Livingston's bed. She pre-
sumably knew where the gun was 10
Gated.
The girls right hand was stained
by powder marks, police said. Fol-
lowing an investigation, DR.. A. Ma
gruder Macdonald, coroner, said
certificate of suicide probably will be
Evening star., 1936-03-10

when you come to the one and two
room houses in the city it is differ
ent story.
1T amounts to a scandal that the
Federal employees who come here can
not live decently or get place to
cover their heads for less than $50 q
room in any decent, respectable COM
munity in this city. That $50 room
includes one room with Murphy bed
bath and a small kitchenette.
"I leave it to the members of the
House who come from big cities to
say whether the rents in their respec-
tive cities compare with rents in WASH
ington. There is no question about
it. They cannot. There is not city
in the country where rents are higher
than in the city Of Washington, and
know something about the situation" "
Clashes With Blanton.
There was an outburst of applause
when Mrs Norton finished, but again,
only few minutes later, she clashed
with Blanton.
Mrs. Norton wanted to ask ques-
tion. but Blanton declined to yield
unless she would agree to permit him
to read a telegram he said she had
sent from Boston in February.
Although Mrs. Norton said she did
not remember the particular wire,
she gave permission for its reading.
1t was a message to Dr. Sterling Ruff
fin, president of the District Medical
Society, urging Congress to grant ade-
quate public health appropriations.
II sent that telegram and I am
very proud of it," declared Mrs. Nor
ton. IF members of this House only
knew Of the conditions in hospitals
here they would arise and denounce
any one who refused adequate appro-
priations for health needs"
Representative Dirksen, Republican,
of Illinois, member of the District
Committee, opposed the bill on the
ground that it is not only uncon-
stitutional, but that housing emer-
gency does not exist in Washington.
Representative Ellenbogen insisted,
however, that the measure is consti-
tutional. 1T is clear as a bell" he
declared.
Ellenbogen also explained that the
bill had been demanded by 95 per
cent of the residents of Washington
and that it is supported by the Gen.
tral Labor Union and organizations of
Government employees.
Evening star., 1936-03-10
HUGE PARACHUTES
FORPLANES URGED.
Senate Committee Told
Lives Could Be Saved by
Lowering Compartment.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The equipping of transport airplanes
with huge parachutes, which in en-
ergencies would lower the entire pas
senger cabin to the ground. has been
suggested to Senate committee study
ing aircraft hazards and accidents.
The proposal was presented to the
committee, headed by Senator Cope
land, Democrat, of New York, by S. l.
Van Meter, jr, of Lexington, KY,
former lieutenant in the Army Air
Corps and an inventor of parachutes.
Van Meter, who has two patents on
parachutes for individual use. has
asked the committee to consider a
further development of his device for
lowering an airplane cabin and its
entire load with one big chute.
He contends cabin parachute would
have been effective in saving lives in
several recent ariplane crashes and
the authorization of govern
mental experimentation to develop
standard equipment of that kind.
Given choice of two planes iden-
tlcaI IN appearance, one equipped with
a chute which would lower the loaded
cabin safely to the ground in an emer-
gency. and the other not so equip
ped, air travellers would unanimously
choose the former" he wrote the COM
mittee.
Under Van Meters plan, the para
chute would be slowed in the fuselage
back of the cabin and the plane would
be equipped with a table device to slide
the cabin off into the air.
Government experts say they are not
sufficiently familiar with the Van
Meter device to pass judgment on it.
It is their policy to keep an open
minded attitude toward proposals to
the safety of air transport.
They say transport planes would
have to be redesigned for such equip
ment. Government tests, they contend,
probably would entail years of expert
mentation at tremendous cost.
Evening star., 1936-03-10
BUREAUS ACTION:
. ON S6(6,O)D FUND
EAGERLY AWAITED
Welfare Check-up Shows
Less Than 100000 Will
Be Available April |.
WIDESPREAD SUFFERING
FEARED BY OFFICIALS
Nearly 10000 Cases Here Not
Eligible for Jobs on Works
Projects.

Budget Bureau action on the Com
missioners' urgent request for approval
of $60S,000 supplemental District re-
lief appropriation was being awaited
anxiouSly today by welfare officials,
as a check-up showed the March Is
disbursements will be the last general
payments to needy families under
present finances.
These checks are intended to cover
the needs of more than 5000 relief
cases to April /. 1t had been calcu-
lated the dwindling District relief
funds would meet needs to about April
Is, but the financial review today
showed an advance of the date.
There will be insufficient funds left
on April /. according to Board of
Public Welfare officials, to meet the
relief payments to all on the list.
Less Than 100000 Available.
Elwood Street, welfare director, es-
timated there would be available for
disbursements to families on that date
less than 100000. He emphasized it
would be necessary for the District to
meet out of that sum the cost of rental
OF properties used for relief stations
and the necessary accounting and
auditing force charged with respon-
sibility for use of the funds.
The review stressed the urgency OF
prompt action by the Budget Bureau
and Congress to prevent collapse ID
emergency relief. Oficials are con-
cerned over the definite expectations
Of immediate widespread suffering that
would result from the impending ex-
haustion of relief funds.
Many Are Unemployable.
While operation of Works Progress
Administration projects has taken
some 10000 persons off the relief rolls,
there still remained subject to District
aid last month nearly 10000 cases Of
families and unattached individuals
who were not eligible for assignment
to jobs under w. P. A. Oficials say
they can expect only a comparatively
small decline in the relief load in the
next several months, even allowing for
some further assignments to w. P. A.
They are anticipating early action
by the Budget Bureau. since the facts,
in their opinion, are conclusive as to
the need of the additional sum at an
early date.
After Federal grants for relief, other
than the w. P A. program, we're Aalted
last November, Commissioner George
E. Allen turned direction of the relief
administration back to the Welfare
Board, where it had rested prior to the
starting of the large Federal grants.