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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29
Beauty
Smart Corset
For Spring
Bv DONNA GRACE

FdSQlOu IN figure symmetry mas
changed a lot since the days of
steel corsetS, but there is still the
same need for correct figure mold
ing.
No one would think of encasing
herself in the old ironsides
jackets so popular in the romantic
eras, but neither can we afford to
ignore the necessity of some firm
garment when the figure needs
restraint and support.
The modern corsets are really
beautiful and are usually designed
by artists who study the body
from the point of the scientific re-
quirements of comfort as well
as that of fashion.
The corsetless fad is no longer
smart, and we believe every figure
may be improved great deal by a
well-designed girdle.
There is no question of stout
women needing corsetS, but few
of them seem to realize they may
wear the soft, delicate materials
restrained only by the front
boning.
The intricate design of the we'll
cut girdle affords the support and
restraint they need as we'll as the
stiff, heavy materials, and they
are far more comfortable.
There should be no binding or
uncomfortable restriction in a
corset or girdle, but it must afford
an even support and figure control
that will restore the symmetry and
beauty to the form and at the same
time permit comfortable and nor.
NAL functioning of all the organs.
Try to have this smart founda.
ton for your new Spring clothes,
and if you have not been wearing
these garments before, you will be
sure to notice an improvement in
your style and charm.
"Dear Donna Grace: Will
cleansing my face with mineral
oil encourage the growth of
hair? AS / have a fine fuzz, l
take precautions against further
annOyanceS. "PERPLEXED,"
"Perplexed"-Mineral oil will
not increase the growth of hair on
the face. The fine fuzz, as you call
it, will grow on some faces whether
or not oil is used. If you would
like further advice on superfluous
hair, there is no charge for it, but
repeat the question and enclose a
stamped, Self-addreSsed envelope
for your reply.
will be glad to answer YOUR
beauty problems, if you incIose a
stamped, Self-addressed envelope
four your reply. and address Donna
Grace, Beauty Editor of The Wash.
| ingtOn Times.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29

THERE'S new idea in blouses
L for spring suits-that is fin
ishing a panel in front which you
can wear outside, then having the
back separate so you can tuck it
into your skirt. The new type
blouSeS come in white organdie in
one downtown store, and in the
most delectable styles you've ever
found at So. They're simply lovely
sheer and white, with various
trimmings in lace, ruffled and so
on. We selected one for sketching
that has only a wide ruffle of Va
lenciennes lace. Others have or
candle edged in lace, and so on
and on. They have little short
puffed sleeves. tucks down the
front, and other such fashionable
details. There's belt too, so that
you can wear the back part out,
overblouse fashion, if you prefer.
The blouses come in a full range
of sizes, and are just SO.
WE ALL have difficulty mend
w ing things that get little holes
from cigarette ashes, from tear
ing. from cuts and so on. And
often mending cannot be done
without the patch or darn being
too obvious for further wearing
of the garment. Now there's
mending agent called liquid
silk" which you can use on silk,
linen, cotton or the synthetic
materials. You can also apply
drop of it to runs in hosiery, and
the run will be permanently
stopped. Best of all, you can wash
things after liquid silk has been
applied, and it will stay fast. Two
applications are necessary if you
are going to boil the material.
You can patch hosiery by saving
old stockings for patches, and
applying patches with liquid silk.
You can mend tears in wOOIenS
or silks by pressing the frayed
edges down on the patch, on
which you have put liquid silk.
It's good for mending mems
shirts where the collar has worn a
hole. Excellent for children's
clothes, and for such household
items as table cloths. No iron is
necessary, and the patch will be
strong when it is dry. A generous
tube sells for only rs cents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29
apron STRINGS"
Dear Miss Fairfax:

Dear Miss Fairfax:
Pm Is, senior in high school,
and expect to graduate in June.
The other boys call me apron
strings but it's not my fault.
My mother treats me the way she
did when 1 was five.
Il have to ask her permission
if 1 go to a party, and 1 am never
allowed to go to a movie with the
other boys, even on Friday or
Saturday night. She says she
does this for my own good. e..
But is it for the good of any
boy to have nickname like apron
string and never be allowed to
exercise his own will on any sub.
ject? RebelliOus.
"'APRON STRING"
You have my sympathy, and so
has any other boy whose mother
tries to keep him in the infant class
and will not realize her son has
grown up.
No mother would keep a child in
its crib, to prevent its physical
development by learning how to
walk. And to deprive a boy of 10
of all power of choice and thought
is the equivalent of keeping him
in a crib.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29

crossing a busy street, and if SO,
how?
when walking with girl, and
another young man passes and
tips his hat, should he tip his hat
also?
"When in a restaurant, should
the young man offer to help the
girl remove her coat?
THANK YOU"
Whether they walk or ride the
half mile to the theater depends
on the wish of the girl and the
boy should ask her preference
about this.
A man should not take hold of
a woman's arm in public. If a
woman needs his assistance q. as
in crossing a busy street, or in
walking on an icy Placement :. he
either offers her his arm. or guides
her by placing his hand lightly
under her elbow.
) Yes. When the girl with whom
he is walking bows to a man who
is passing, both men raise their
hats. (And, by the way, better
than the phrase "tip his hat" is
either the phrase "lift his hat" or
raise his hat.D
Yes he not only offers to
help her with her coat, but does
help her. Before he takes his own
seat at a table in restaurant,
he goes to her seat and helps her
to remove her coat.
And, after the meal, as he sees
her about to put her coat on, he
Immediately goes to her chair and
helps her with her coat. The we'll
bred man does this service in,
Stinctively and quickly and he
never leaves this amenity to the
waiter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29

Il could understand this If ]
had ever done anything mean to
him, but I've never given him
anything but my deepest love. I've
made over my life to please him,
quarreled with my family ON &C
count of him, and now he avoids
me-"
The above is an extract from a
letter written by "A Distracted
Girl" who can't understand why
the boy, once devoted, walks on
the other side of the street to
escape her, and refuses to come to
the telephone when she calls him.
TOO MUCH ATTENTION
She finds it hard to believe that
he's utterly surfeited with her
cloying attention. She's hurt to
the quick when someone tells her
he has referred to her as a "tele-
phone hound"
The poor kid has never realized
that if you run after q boy con-
tinually, it gives him the feeling
of hunted creature-and
hunted thing fights desperately to
escape.
At the present time, anything
even an attack of scarlet fever
would seem preferable to the boy
than dose of the girl who writes
"I've never given him anything
but my deepest love-"
Deepest love, like any other ex-
pensive food, pals if you make
steady diet of it. Corned beef and
cabbage never tastes so good as
after a steady diet of spring
chicken, varied only by pheasant
and turkey.
YOUNG MAN TIRES
Necking and hand-holding ap-
pear to have been the specialtieS
of this particular girl and boy af-
fair from first to last, judging by
the girls letter, which 1 will not
publish in full.
There was very little else, I'm
afraid, from what she says-so the
young man got tired of the too,
too easy kisses, and now crosses
the street when he sees her COM
ing, and refuses to go to the tele-
phone when she calls him.
But even those insults don't cure
her, and she writes me to ask how
she can win him back! Alas, there
is no magic formula for winning
them back. But there is a magic
formula for keeping them-and
that is, don't come cheap.
If you allow yourself to be
picked up on street corners and
taken for motor rides, or crash
an acquaintance without the for
mality Of an introduction, don't
be surprised when boy gets tired
of his bargain-counter playmate.
SPOILS BROTH
If too many cooks spoil the
broth, too much spooning is apt
to spoil the wedding cake. What
ever you do, don't sit around and
spoon all the time. It's positively
fatal! More girls have become
SpinSters from easy spooning than
from having a little stock of re-
serve on hand.
They get the name of being
accommodating, and pass from
one to another like a handed.
down garment in a large family,
which is finally discarded because
everyone has worn it.
know that manners, customs,
even morals, have changed in the
last generation, but there is some
thing inherent in human nature
that turns from what is cheap
and easy, to that which is more
difficult to acquire.
Think it over, all you boys and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29
Styles

It's no use trying to get along
without at least one gray outfit
this spring. A youthful model is
in gray lightweight wooden, the
jacket fitted, with a blouse of
white pique whose little pleated
peplum shows below the fitted
jacket. Skirt hem and jacket
sleeves are edged with stitching.
1t doesn't matter how it is
worked in, but there must be a
bolero if the frock is to be smart.
A frock of black silk crepe has a
bolero only in back; in front, the
waist is fitted. Red crepe de
chine and white groSgrain edge
pockets and neckline. The bodice
has buttons extending to the high
waiStline.
Dancing evenings mean chiffon
frocks. A new beauty is in beige
with an apparently endless scarf
of turquoise blue chiffon that is
wrapped intricately around should
ers and bodice to form long, train
like panels in back.
New alliances will be discovered
in the ensembles prepared for
spring holidays. Something per-
hapS, on the order of white wash
satin skirt with q tailored red felt
jacket.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29

A T last-a corset for the woman
"A who is not so slim, for the
new princess costumes that are
so fashionable this season. It's
easy for the young and slim to
wear them, but a real princess
foundation garment for a heavier
figure has been IeXt to impossible
to find. This new garment is
made by one of the better manu-
facturerS, and is really thing Of
beauty, as we'll as an excellent
foundation. 1t is of brocade and
lace with the high point under
the bust for the slim waistline
necessary with princess costumes.
1t is we'll boned for sturdy sup
port. and gives a heavier figure
q very youthful line. 1t comes in
types for shorter women, and
longer cut for tall women, which
Is unusual. The elastic in the
sides is hand knit, of finest grade.
It will be a boon to any fashion
ably inclined woman of larger pro-
portions. 1t is SIS.
For names of stores showing
the items described here, call
District 1000, Extension 459,
during business hours, or write
Miss LaviIle at The Times, en-.
closing stamped, self addressed
envelope.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29
Escort Should Not Hold
Girls Arm in Public
By MRS. CORNELIUS BEECKMAl

Dear Mrs Beeckman:
When boy taking girl out for the first time and she only
lives about half mile from the theaer necessary for him
to take her via street car? He has no automobile.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29
WIDOWS SIGNATURE
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
"My husband passed away
last month. 1 always did all his
correspondence, and naturally
signed his name, or, more often
1 signed my own name-MRS.
THOMAS BROWN. I never, ex.
cept to near relatives in Eng
land, write my first name, which
is Jean. Is it correct for me to
sign myself as usual-MrS.
Thomas Brown?
READER"
You should sign your name
just as you did when your hus-
band was living. Your formal
name is Mrs. Thomas Brown
and this is the form for you to
use in your visitingcard, in your
listing in the telephone-book, and
so forth. All letters, business as
we'll as social, should be ad-
dressed to you as Mrs. Thomas
Brown.
There are three forms of sig
nature for your letters. To your
relatives and close friends, you
sign only your first name. To
people whom you know not very
well, but who still know your
formal name, your letters should
be signed:
Yours very sincerely,
MARY SMITH BROWN
(Or MARY BROWN.
Business letters, professional
letters. and all letters to people
who must be informed of your
formal name. should be signed;
Yours very truly,
MARY SMITH BROWN.
Tor MARY BROWN.
Mrs. Thomas Brown.
Never, never, never should you
sign a letter like this:
Yours very truly,
MRS. THOMAS BROW1&
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29
Unusual, DeliciousDishes
OF Breakfast Cereal
By JEAN GREEN

For special treat cook with breakfast cereal. Many unusual
dishes be concoctd by using prepared cereal for part
the flour the recipes for hot Breads cakes and cookies
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29

A Steady Diet of Necking
Causes Him to Tire
Of Attentions
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Famous Authority on Problems of Love and Marriage
don't seem to be able to keep from running after him.
though he avoids and will walk on the other side the
street when he sees coming
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29
WEDDING DETAILS
ear Mrs. Beeckman:

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
as it correct form for the groom,
best man and uShers to wear
TuxedOeS at 4:SO wedding? What
color ties should they wear?
rs it necessary to have an usher
for the bridesmaid if the best man
walks down the aisle with the maid
of honor after the ceremony?
IF the reception is held at a
restaurant or hotel, is it permissible
for the bride to wear her veil to
the restaurant, or should the veil
be removed before entering the
place where the reception is to
b" heId?" "P."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29

No, it is not proper for men to
wear Tuxedo suits at a 4:30 we'd
ding. A Tuxedo suit is for eve
ming wear, shouldn't be worn be-
fore 6 o'clock at the earliest.
If the 4:30 wedding is q formal
one the men would wear formal
day attire cutawsy coats dark
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29

girls who are interested in this
series, and let me know your re-
actions to the rule: Please don't
be cheap"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-29

I will be glad to answer your
beauty problems, if you incIose a
stamped, Self-addresSed envelope
four your reply. and address Donna
Grace, Beauty Editor Of The Wash.
ingtOn Times.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-17
TROUBLE FOLLOWS
WAGNER LABOR ACT
Struggle More Intense Than
Ever Since Valuation
of That Law
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, June IT, Supreme
Court valuation of the Wagner labor
relations law may not have aggravat-
ed labor troubles throughout the Unit
ed States, 5ut it is fact that such
troubles have been getting worse
since the law was judicially upheld.
At least the law hasn't prevented
this aggravatiOn.
There was no reason to expect that
it would. All it seeks to do is to en-
title labor to negotiate collectively
with employerdom. 1t doesn't specify
that they must come to terms. If,
after negotiation, no agreement is ar
rived at, a fight remains, as much as
ever, the only means by which a de-
cision can be arrived at.
Kicking Up Dust.
If anything, the law has helped to
precipitate a struggle.
It definitely has aligned the OPP
posing interests.
Employerdom, to be sure, was in
a stand-pat position already. Labor's
consolidation, however, was not so
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-17
WILL INVESTIGATE
VETERANS HOSPITAL
Need Will First Be Determined, Then
Location, Congressman Ora
ham Barden Says

Washington. June 17.-(APO-Rep-
rosentative Graham Barden, of New
Bern. N. c., said today he would con
fer with Dr. Thomas Parran' IT,
sometime this week on procedure to
no followed in determining whether
tbere is need for a veterans hospltal
facility in Eastern North Carolina.
DR.. Parran. the surgeon general, is
chairman of a special subcommittee
named by Veterans Administrator
Erank Hines to look into the matter.
Barden said the subcommittee
fret would determine the need FOR
facility in Eastern North Caroilna
and then consider the location.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-17
NAMING OF CHERRY
GREATLY PLEASING
State Committee Will Fol-
low Wishes of Cover
nor for Chairman
Daily Dispatch Bureau
In the Sir Walter Hotel
w j. G.. BASKERVILLE

Raleigh, June 1.-THE recommen-
dation that r. Gregg Cherry of Gas
tonia, who was speaker Of the House
in the 1887 General Assembly, be
elected chairman Of tire State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee to Sic
coed j. Wallace Wirhorne. who will
become a justice on the State Su-
preme Court July l, is meeting with
almost universal approval and &C m
mendation in political circles here. 1t
is generally conceded, of course, that
the committee will elect Cherry, since
it is customary for it to elect whoever
is recommended by the governor.
Since it is also customary for the
party to recognize the work done BY
committee chairmen and eventually
to reward them, good many believe
that the elevation of Cherry to chair
man of the party definitely puts him
CONTINUED on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-17
us. Seeking
Limits Upon
Guns
New Move on Part of
Government Aimed
at Obtaining Japa-
nese Assent

Washington, June 17-(AP)-State
Department officials disclosed today
the United States has asked the main
world naval powers if each would
agree to limit the calibre of the big
guns on their battleships to ID inches.
This represented new move on
the part of this government to per-
suade Japan to enter an international
agreement of this character, which
that country has previously categori-
cally refused to do.
The disclosure came almost stimuli
taneously with the opening of bids
at the Navy Department for the con-
struction of one of two new battle
ships for the American fleet.
On instructions from President
Roosevelt, the navy high command
has withheld a decision on whether
to equip these ships with IA or 16-
inch calibre rifles until Japan could
make known her final stand on the
matter.
Meanwhile, keepers of the govern
ment's money told Congress millions
could be gathered into the Treasury
by revising tax laws.
Secretary Morgenthau asked joint
congressional tax committee to throw
publicity on tax avoidance so the pub
lie might know the means used to
circumvent taxing laws and then en-
act remedial measures.
Under Secretary Magill deplored
community property laws of eight
states, which he said deprived the
Treasury of millions of dollars a year
He said laws such as these allow in
equities in distribution of the tax
load.
Neither official named tax dodgers
to whom President Roosevelt refer
red in his recent message to Congress
asking the present inquiry.
Other developments in the capital
CONTINUED on Page Twnl
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-17

Johnstown, Pa, June 17.-(AFD-
An undetermined number of steel
workers returned to work today in
the embattled Cambria plants of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation. There
were no disorders.
Non-strikers slipped into the huge
works as Washington pondered APP
peals to intervene in the labor con-
troversy which has made 100000 idle
in a steel workers strike to enforce
demands for signed contracts cover
ing wages, hours and working con-
ditions.
The strike is directed against the
Republic Steel Corporations, Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube Company, Inland
Steel and the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration.
Before President Roosevelt today
were appeals from Mayor Daniel
Shields, of Johnstown, and Governor
Martin Davey, of Ohio, who failed to
bring the union and corporations to-
gether.
Lieutenant Charles Cook, officer
of the State police guard, who have
taken over patrolling picket lines at
Cambria, said many non-strikers en-
tered the plant during the calm that
followed a quick furry of violence
last night in which two pickets were
stabbed.
Company police asserted virtually
the entire normal day shift entered
the mills unmolested.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-17
Treasury Chief Finds Many
Consider Tax Dodging
Legitimate and
Honorable Aim
NO NAMES READ AS
HEARING is BEGUN
List Has Been Compiled,
However, for Later Sub
mission to Joint Senate
House Committee; Rich
Taxpayers Hire Big Law
yers To Evade Levy

Washington, June 17-(AP)-Sec-
rotary Morgenthau told a congress
sional inquiry committee today he
hoped continued publicity" on meth
DDS of alleged tax evasion and tax
avoidance would help to stop tax
lodging.
Morgenthau, first witness at the
Joint Senate and House investigation
into evasion and avoidance, asserted
"a variety of devices to avoid taxes"
have been used in recent years. 1.-The
situation calls for remedial legisla-
ton he said.
Morgenthaus statement contained
no names of asserted tax evaders or
tax avoiders. Treasury officials, how
ever. reported that list of names has
been compiled for later submission
to the joint committee.
In a statement read to the COM
nittee. Morgenthau struck repeatedly
at rich taxpayers who he said "em-
ploy expensive attorneys to avoid
taxes.
The secretary expressed concern
over what he termed an attitude of
many that tax avoidance is "a legiti-
mate and honorable aim"
Nevertheless, he continued, II
am hopeful that the continued pub
lefty which hearings of this sort give
with respect to the game of tax
avoidance may help to create an at
mosphere in which men will hesitate
to use these artificial devices to avoid
the payment of taxes, just as today
they hesitate to uses UGH devices to
escape the payment of private debt. y
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-17
(By The Associated Press.)

Insurgent General Frances insur-
gents pushed nearer into Bilbao to-
day, occupying the international air
field and climbing the last two hills
at the western end of the entrance
to the Basque capital.
The invaders slowly closed the last
gaps in their plan of enlightenment and
mapped new drive on Santander, As
miles west of Bilbao.
Indications were the march on San
lander would begin at nightfall should
Frances soldiers succeed in bottling
up Bilbao and occupying it by that
time.
There were rumors the Basques
and their Asturian allies were plan
ming to dynamite the rich industrial
capital rather than let it fall into the
hands of the insurgents.
Insurgent shock troops, fully equip
ped to cope with the Basuues in last
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-17
Sitd0WnerS'
Threatening
Ohio Region


Cleveland. Ohio, june II lap
The threat of s;r5 ~wr strike in the
great steel mills of the Mohoning Val
ley in Ohio developed today as Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins announced the
appointment of a thrne-maE board to
mediate the long-fought strike dead
lock-
The Federal beard will conduct its
fact-finding investigation in Cleveland
The White House move to end the
bitter "battle of STEEL" the clash be-
tween John Lewis CIO and four IN
dependent steel companies, who have
fatty refused to sign labor contracts,
followed an urgent telegraph appeal
to President Roosevelt by Governor
Martin Davey, of Ohio, and similar
appeal by Mayor Daniel Shields, Of
Johnstown, Pa.
The choices of Mrs. Perkins in
cluded Charles Taft, Lloyd Garrison
and Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed
ward McGrady as a Federal media
ton board authorized to investigate,
conduct hearings, make findings of
fact and act as voluntary arbitrator
Continued on Page TWO.)