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The Washington times., 1936-02-08

in pencil, on cheap ruled lettel
paper:
Dear Mary: How are you. We
are all glad to hear you have
job at last. We are very proud
Of you. Aunt Annie says say
hello to the President for her
when you see him. We are all
the same here.
"Uncle John will be out Of
the hospital soon, the doctor
says. Your father is well but
would be better II he could find
something to do. But I guess
we should be thankful it is no
worse and everything ought to
be all right now. Write soon
and tell us all about the job.
Love, Mother"
They never found the picture.
The Washington times., 1936-02-08
4 GROUPS JOIN
TO DEMAND
SCHOOL
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Association Editor

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Hillcrest Citizens Association,
Progressive Citizens Association Of
Summit Park, the Summit Park
Citizens Association and tn e
Parent Teachers Association Of
Stanton School joined forces last
night petitioning the Board Of
Education for q new elementary
school building to supply the de-
mandS Of the growing community.
Richard c. Darnell, president Of
the HillcreSt Association and
chairman Of the special group re-
vealed that the only school facili-
ties now provided for the entire
area covered by the four associa-
tions Is the four-room Edward L.
Stanton School, located at Hamil-
ton Road and Good Hope Road
Southeast.
Six grades in IL sections, Mr..
Darnan said, are now being
taught in the four-room building,
making it necessary for one
teacher to look after three and
sometimes four grades. It was
pointed out the school Is located
at the extreme west end Of Hill
crest and Summit Park which
compels children from the more
distant homes to walk between
one and one and one-half miles,
the growth Of the white commun-
ity being away from the school
rather than toward 1t, the capa-
city Of the building being reached
with the present enrolment Of
las pupils.
Others signing the petition were
William j. Smith Of the Summit
Park Association; John Wolff, Of
the Progressive Association Of
Summit Park, and Albert H. Sell
man Of the Stanton Parent
Teachers Association.
The Burroughs Citizens Associa-
ton and Chillum Heights Citizens
Association were compelled to
cancel their regular monthly
meetings scheduled for last night
due to lack Of quorum on account
Of the snow storm making it i'm
possible for members to reach
meeting places.
The following citizens associa-
tions viii meet next week:
Monday Night
Congress HeiohtS-C RreSS
Heights School.
Hillcrest-East Washington
Heights Baptist Church.
Northeast Washing gton-Ludlow
School.
Park View-Park View School.
Piney Branch-Roosevelt High
School.
Stanton Park-Peabody School;
william A. Van Duzer, director Of
traffic and William A. Roberts,
Peoples Counsel, will speak.
Tuesday night:
Burleith- Gordon Junior High
School.
Cathedral Heights, Cleveland
Park-St. Adams Parish Hall;
Capt. Rhoda Milliken, of the
Women'S Bureau, will speak.
Kalorama, 2345 Ashmead ST.
NJ. W.-PoStponed from Monday
night; Mrs. William Kittle, preSi.
dent Of the Voteless District of Co
lumbia League Of Women, and Dr.
Miriam e. Blachly. author, will
discuss the 40-hour-week bill.
North Randle Community-Free
Methodist Church, Minnesota Ave
nue. and s Street Southeast.
East Washington Heights -
Bradbury Heights Methodist
Church.
Randle Highlands-2407 Mime
sofa Ave. s. E.
Summit Park-S7OS Bangor ST.
s. E.
Wednesday Night
American University Park
Hurst Hall, American University
Bennings odd Fellows Hall
Bennings.
Rhode Island Avenue - Wood
ridge Branch Library.
Thursday Night
The WaShingtonians Brighton
Hotel.
Friday Night
Brightwood-Paul Junior High
School.
Saturday Night
Federation Of Citizens ASsocia
btionS-DiStrict Building.
The Washington times., 1936-02-08
Attorney Traffic Victim

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 8.-John
Abbott Byrd, IS, a member Of the
Accomac county bar, was killed
instantly in an ACKNOWLEDGMENT
collision near Parksley. His death
was the forty-sixth recorded In the
State this wear.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
MT. OLIVET

2 MT. OLIVET, July 9.-People
in this community have called the
Rev. ]. s. Holbert again for their
pastor. He delivered a wonderful
sermon Sunday, July 5.
= This community feels that it
now has the best Sunday school
ever operated here. with Rev. j..
=. Qsteen as superintendent.
3 Rev. Mike Lance attended Serv-
ices here Sunday.
8 Mr.. and Mrs. Lum Harmon are
visiting his mother, Mrs. Martha
Harmon, at Taylorsville.
= Mrs. A. H. Osteen recently Wis
tied her daughter, Mrs. w. B.
ReviS at the Carolina Trail, S. C..
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Connect,
Of Lima, S. c., are spending the
Weekend at their summer home
in this community.
Mr.. Wayerly ReyiS, of South
Carolina, motored through this
section Sunday.
Miss Lottie Mintz, of Big Will
low, spent last week with her
brother, j. F. Mintz.
y Mr.. II. H. Hill, of Flat Rock,
was in this community last week.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
ARE PREPARING TO
STABLE SHOW HORSES

Continued from page one)
Shepherd. Mr.. and Mrs. W. b;
Hodges, o. +. Griswold, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. E. Buchanan, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. R. Stephenson, Green
vile, A. D. Barksdale, Greenvilie,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. l.. Johnson, Lake
Wales, Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Nc
Gahey, Miami, Mr.. and Mrs. u.
Y. Brownlee.
Announcement was made this
morning that Bakers Art Gallery,
Hendersonville, had been named
as official photographers for the
horse show.
Announcement was also made
that two out-of-town firms, Noun
tain Industries, of Tryon and
Hendersonville, and Biltmore In
dustries, of Asheville, had donat-
ed homespun material to be
awarded as prizes in ladies class
eS.
Production of rayon in Britain
is near record high levels.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
NO TRUCE FOR TWO
LABOR WINGS SEEN

Continued from page one> ,
possible unemployment and had
touched the working hours and
wages of 4,576,5O1 employees.
3. Striking employees of the
Portsmouth, Ohio, plant OF the
Wheeling Steel Corp, failed to re-
mort for work under a tentative
settlement of the eight weeks dis
pute. ..;
500 employees of the Republican
Steel Corp, in Birmingham, Ala,
issued a statement condemning
"anv trespassing on our rights as
American citizens by outsiders IN
any attempt to force US into their
organization"
The department of justice has
been investigating instances of al.
legged "collusive bidding" by steel
operators on PWA contracts since
June Is at the direction Of Presl-
dent Roosevelt. The chief execu-
tive acted after the federal trade
commission reported to him that
there was reasonable ground to
believe that the antitrust laws
have been violated.
In a letter to the attorney-gen-
eral, the president asked that a
draft of recommendations to the
congress at it's next session to
meet the situation be prepared.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
Cloudburst Hits
Columbus, Miss.
50-Mile Wind Does Dam
age; No One Injured

COLUMBUS, Miss, July Q.
(UPJ-A 5U-mile windst0rm ac-
cOmpauied ny II two-inch- cloud
burst struck here early last night,
uprUo;lng hundreds Of trees and
htterlng streets with debris. No
one was reported injured here or
ut ne&roy l0iGts.
Field crops suffered consider
abel damage as me wind beat
plants to the ground. A number
of outhouses were destroyed. A
failing tree slightly dama-ed the
w. p. Pope hoUS", local show
place.
The rain fell in binding sheets
with an estimated two inches fall
ing within As MINUTES. The rain,
heaviest in months. definitely
broke the drouth in this section.
The storm swept out OF the
and blew for 20 min
utes, followed by q brilliant cleo
trical display. The only indus
trial plant Damaged was the CO.
lumbus Garment Co., where part
OF a roof was blown off Of an aux
iliary building.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
HEAT SWEEPS EAST;
NEARLY 200 ARE DEAD
CONTINUED from page one)

ia where Tom Moody peers out
from the capitol tower and says:
TwO-thirCiS of the state will
produce neither crops nor feed.
There isn't d blade of green grass
OF living spear of grain in most
of that area. Livestock can't be
kept alive. In fact, it has been
mostly shipped and the reast must
go or die.
what will be the extent of
the loss? Millions. We've lost
track"
The march goes southwest
ward into Iowa and leads up to
the gate of Grocer Mickelwaite's
farm near Pacific Junction. His
corn fields are a wonderland OF
white and he explains that he has
sprayed them with white lead in
an attempt to fight off the grass
hoppers. 1t cost him 1925 and he
isn't sure it was worth it.
THAT poison will last until the
rain comes" Mickelwaite said,
land God knows when that will
be. When the 'hoppers' eat the
poison, they drink water and
either drown OF die from the
poison" :,
He led the way to a creek
where dead grasshoDpers were an
inch and half thick on the sur
face.
Not everyone in Iowa is as
pessimistic as Mickelwaite. In
Des Moines, Charles d. Reed, fed
eral meteorologist, d he
thought the states corn CROP
could survice even without ram
for a while provided temperatures
dropped to normal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
SAND FLEA PLAGUE

NEW ORLEANS, July y. (UP)
A plague of sand fleas moved in
on the outskirts of New Orleans
today. driven in. according to the
health office, by the drouth. A
32-day period of above 9O-degree
weather, broken by light rain,
has resumed with higher temper
atureS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
FLOWER SCIENCE TAUGHT

HONOLULU (UP) The garden
CLUB here is endeavoring to pass
on to the American women in the
islands of the special sciences Of
the effects of the March floods,
er arrangement.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
CHICKS HATCH IN TREE

CORVALLIS, Mont. (UP)-A
White Giant hen on the M. l..
Chaffin ranch chose the higher
branches of q giant poplar tree
for Matching II lively chickens.
A ladder had to be used to bring
the brood to earth.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
Balfour Batter
! ! Leads In League
Shuford of Industrial Loop
g Bats $50 Average

Shuford is leading the h;tte:s
on the BalfOur Industrial League
team with an average of $50, ac-
'eording to averages released by
the Balfour management today.
However, Shuford has been at
tat only four times. B. Crisp, who
Mas batted SO times and gotten 20
hits for an average of .555, is the
second leading hitter.
The averages are as follows:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
THIEFS FACE RED

TOLEDO (UP)-Police looked
for a thief with a red face when
Edith Billingslea told them she
had slapped before he escaped a
man who leaped from an automo-
bile and grabbed her picketbook.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
TOWN DRY AFTER FLOOD

CLARINGTON, o. (UP)-This
town hasn't fully recovered from
the effects of the March floods,
which left a scarcity of soft wat
er. During the week after the
high water, cisters were pumped
out. There has been only one real
rain since.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09

"Dust Bowl" farmers are turn
ing to diversified planting as in
surance against future droughts.
They are devoting increased acre
age to broom corn, kafir, milo
and other drought-resisting crops.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-09
SHIP FIRE OUENCHED

NEW ORLEANS, July 9. (UP)
boats and shore companies
subdued flames in the general
cargo holds of the rreighter
Jacok Luckenback at her dock
here last night.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
SEARCH ORDERED
FOR MISSING PLANE
Alaska Craft With IA Passengers
Believed to Have Crossed
Stormy Gulf.

- e4AS AosoSASSSu 3fSses
CORDOVA, Alaska, November 25.-
An aerial search was ordered today
for IA people missing in tri- motored
plane on q flight across the stormy
gulf Of Alaska.
Hope that the plane safely crossed
the gulf in . 500-mile flight from
Cordova to Juneau was strengthened
by q report from the weather observer
at Yakutat that he had seen q large
southbound plane at noon yesterday.
Yakutat is 220 miles north Of Juneau.
Pilot Chet Brown took OF from
Cordova at Q am. yesterday, accom-
panied by q mechanic and carrying
II passengers. Few other pilots have
dared the open water flight during
recent weeks because Of recurring
storms.
A rescue craft. piloted by Sheldon
Simmons, was ready to take on from
Juneau rs soon rs visibility improved.
Brown, an experienced Alaska pilot,
purchased the tri.motored ship three
months ago In Glendale, Calif., to
form his own comDany, Arctic Air
ways.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
Lieut.. Col. James Roosevelt
Will Act as Fathers aide
Commissioning of Son
Brings Comment in
Service Circles.
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN.

Lieut.. Col. James Roosevelt, U. s.
Marine Reserve, now aboard the cruiser
Indianapolis, will act as aide to his dis
tinguished father, the President. for
the duration of the South American
cruise-at least.
The commissioning of the Chief
Executives son. which became known
when he went ashore in uniform at
Trinidad with Capt. Paul Bastedo,
the Presidents naval aide, has caused
considerable comment, especially in
service circles. Secretary Swanson,
responding to query about the status
of the much-publicized Marine Corps
lieutenant colonel, said that he Is now
receiving active duty training at sea" !"
The cabinet officers statement fol-
lows: "Mr. James Roosevelt was sworn
in as lieutenant colonel in the United
States Marine Corps Reserve on Fri
day. November 13. Lieut.. Col Roose-
welt is now embarked in the U. S. S.
Indianapolis, where he Is receiving
Evening star., 1936-11-25
Courage of Dying Child Spurs
Rescuers Seeking 9 in Slide

cts awfully cold. Where's mother?"
She wasn't told that the broken
body Of her mother lay in the norgue.
Nor that rescuers expected to ind
her father, Joe Vanali. crushed be-
meath the rock, timbers and muck.
mo. ! won't cry" Lorraine prom
ised as they lifted her out. I'm
hungry"
They fed her at the hospital. Two
hours later she died.
"She was q patient little thing"
one of the rescuers said.
A huge mass of earth and rock
confronted rescuers who are working
night and day to find the missing
victims. The wife of James Romas
was added to the List Of those be-
heved in the ruins She was in the
Nickinvoich Apartment demolished by
Sundays slide.
Others missing are: Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugo Peterson, Pete Battelo, Mrs.
Lena Peterson, Vanah and Mrs.
George Lee, all Of Juneau. and Mrs.
Fred Matson and Oscar Laito Of sitka.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
BODY Of YOUTH
FOUND NEAR RIVER
George A. Yocum, Hotel
Clerk, Believed to Have
Fallen Into Ditch.

The body of George A. Yocurn, 20,
of 1924 Newton place northeast, who
has been missing since he left home
Sunday for hike along the towpath
of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal, was
found shortly before noon today in the
feeder ditch which leads from the
Potomac River to the canal proper
near Brookmont, Md.
Louis A. Smith, who lives near
Brookmont and yesterday found the
youths hat in the canal near his home,
discovered the body, which had lodged
against log several feet under the
surface. The water is about 18 feet
deep at that point.
The body was taken to the Pumph-
rey funeral home at Bethesda, Nd,
where it was identified by the youths
father, George H. Yocum. An inquest
was to be held by Justice of the Peace
z. A. Condor after the autopsy was
performed by DR.. A. A. Dunn.
Believed to Have Fallen.
There was no outward evidence how
his son met his death, George II.
Yocum said, but it is believed he may
have been hiking along the river or
feeder ditch and fallen in. He was
active in many sports, but was un-
able to swim, the father explained,
and might easily have drowned even
only a short distance from the bank.
Young Yocum left home Sunday
afternoon in his car to take a hike.
His car was found yesterday parked
near Chain Bridge and several per-
sons reported having seen him run
ming north along the towpath Sunday
afternoon.
Hat First Clue.
Finding of his hat yesterday was
the first indication of his fate. Smith
began to drag the feeder ditch today
and discovered the body within few
minutes.
Besides his parents, he Is survived
by two sisters, Sister Frances Marie
of the Sisters of st. Francis Convent,
Towson, Md, who was formerly Flor
ence Yocum, a well known singer here.
and Mrs. Michael Cahill of Washing
ton. Funeral arrangements had not
been completed today. Young Yokum,
a graduate of St. Anthony's High
School. was a bookkeeper at the An
napohs Hotel.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
D. c. HEADS ORDER
PARK|NGL|CENS|NG
EFFECTIVE MARCH1
Lots, Filling Stations and
Garages Affected by New
Regulation.
FEE INTENDED TO COVER
ADMINISTRATION COSTS
Rules Drafted for Commissioners
by Committee Of D. c.
Officials.

Licensing and regulation Of parking
lots, filling stations and garages will go
into effect March l, under rules
adopted today by the District Commis-
sioners on recommendation by COM
mittee of District officials.
The plan as proposed by the COM
mittee, which is headed by Assistant
Corporation Counsel Edward w.
Thomas, previously had met with the
approval of the board. The licensing
system followed complaints about the
manner in which some lots were op-
Grated.
Annual Fee Put at $40.
Parking lots, filling stations and ga
RACES having space for no more than
IS vehicles, allowing $50 square feet
per vehicle, will pay an annual license
fee of $40. Places having capacity
of Is to 100 cars will be charged fee
of SIS, and places having a capacity
in excess of 100 vehicles will pay an
annual fee of SIS.
The fees. which are intended to
cover the cost of inspection and regu-
lation, also are computed on the basis
of an area used in business. Where
the area is 1000 square feet or less the
fee is $40; from 1000 to $4,000 square
feet, SIS, and more than 10000 square
feet, s25.
There is no provision for licensing
the places where there is space for
storing four or less vehicles.
Therefore, operators of parking lots
and filling stations or garages which
rented parking space for automobiles
have not been subject to regulation as
parking lot enterprises and have had
only to obtain an occupancy permit.
Approval to Be Required.
Applications for licenses will require
approval of the fire marshal, the En-
gineer Department and the building
inspector.
The regulations we're drafted for
the Commissioners by Thomas. Capt.
Hugh P. Orem, director of inspection;
Wade Coombs, superintendent OF
licenses: Traflc Director William A.
Van Duzer, Fire Marshal Calvin @.
LAUDER and Assistant Supt. of Police
L. I. H. Edwards.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
DRY GOODS GROUP
QUITS u. S. CHAMBER
Representation Held Inadequate
for $35, 5,ooo, ,ooo, 900 Retail
Business.
= the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 25.-The
National Retail Dry Goods Associa-
ton yesterday announced its resigna-
ton from the United States Chamber
of Commerce because it has not been
afforded adequate representation"
In a statement the association said
directors had decided TO resign be-
cause retail distribution representing
S35, ,00O, 100000 in sales each year at
the present time has not been afforded
adequate representation on the board
or in the councils of the chamber.
Lack of such representation in the
chamber for such an important seq
ment of American business has been
brought to the attention of officers
and directors of the chamber from
time to time, but no steps in the
opinion of the N. r. D. G. A. Board
have ever been taken to correct this
situation"
Evening star., 1936-11-25
SUIYUAN DEFENDERS
CLAIM 2 VICTORIES
Army of Mongols and Manchu.
kuoans Reported Driven From
Paolingmiao.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIPING, November 25.-Chinese
sources reported two important VIC
tories for Suiyuan defenders today.
Dispatches from Kweisui, northern
provincial capital. declared an irreg-
ular army of Mongols and Man
chukuoans- the Chinese charge
is supported by Japan-was driven
from the City of Paolingmiao.
The reports also said the suiyuan
Army scattered the invaders In the.
vicinity of wuchuan, 20 miles north
west of Kweisui. They said the attack
routed q column advancing southwark
from Paolingmiao.
Chinese capture of Paolingmiao
was not confirmed at Kweisui, al
though it was known the Suiyuanese
attacked the city yesterday.
Chinese newspapers here said the
occupation of Paolingmiao was ac-
complished after 24-hour battle, IN
which 800 Mongols were captured.
Evening star., 1936-11-25
SOCIAL SECURITY
LEv|ES DEFENDED
U. S. Files Brief Supporting
Constitutionality of Pay
Roll Taxes.

The Justice Department today filed
in the District Court of Massachu-
sets a brief defending constitution
ality of so-called pay roll taxes i'm
posed under Title of the social Sc
curity act This title concerns un-
employment insurance.
Validity of the act had been ques-
toned in the case of Davis versus
Boston & Maine Railroad Co. now
pending before Federal Judge George
C. Sweeney, presiding in the District
Court at Boston.
In the brief, the Government con-
tends the pay roll tax is "a proper
exercise by Congress of its taxing
power" that 1t Is "a true excise and
conforms to the constitutional re-
quirements that excises be levied with
geographical uniformity" that there is
no taking Of property from one class
for the benefit of another, because
no Federal system Of unemployment
insurance is set up.
"All unemployment insurance bene-
31Lo " CUlR1OySS, ti1C SNofC1 OC-
clared, ARE paid out of State funds,
no part of which ever consisted either
directly or indirectly of Federal
money"
The Governments brief also con-
tends that various exemptions from
the tax of employers of fewer than
eight individuals are reasonable and
not in violation of the Constitution.
The claim is made by the Govern
ment that the tax Is revenue
measure and that such a measure
is not invalidated because Congress
may have also had in mind nom
fiscal purpose of encouraging States
to adopt unemployment compensation
laws"