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The Washington times., 1937-05-17
CIRCUS OPENS
3-DAY STAND
IN CAPITAL
big Top" Launches
Show at Florida Ave.
and 5th St. N. E.

The Ringing Brothers, Barnum
and Bailey Combined Circus today
lifted the curtain On the first of its
three-day performances it has
slated for this city and, amid the
frantic cheers of Big Top full of
local fans, fairly outdid itself in
justification Of the cry Its bigger
n better'n ever, folks-bigger'n
better'n ever!"
Untroubled by the hint of labor
strife which threatened to mar
the opening, the performers went
about their respective tasks salts
fied-outwardly, at least-that the
only place for "sit-downers" was
the space around the huge ring
side.
Splashing superlatives all over
the place, the boys who ballyhoo
the show pointed with pride to the
program of foreign acts garnered
from the four corners of the earth
and exhibited at Fifth St. and
Florida Ave. N. E. for the edifica-
ton of Nations Capital.
The biggest big top there Is"
proved adequate to hold its first
Washington audience and the
sights it offered proved more than
adequate in keeping it there to the
final whistle.
From the Great Alloys, who dives
from the tent top with his head in
hangman's moose, to the Fac
chini Brothers, who still shoot
each other from booming cannons
its. well. . bigger'n better'n
ever, folks!
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Dawn-to-Dusk Hop
Opens New Route

NEWARK, N. j., May II.
Pilot G. w. Bransom of Eastern
Airlines set his Douglas DC-3 Ship
down at Newark Airport last night
at 6:18 p. m. (E.S.T0, completing
a dawn-to-dusk commercial flight
to New Orleans and back in IA
hours and 531a minutes. The flight
was the Inauguration of new air
route from New York to New Or
leans by Eastern Airlines.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
QUADRUPLET
STILL ALIVE

MONTREAL, May II G.N.SJ.
An infant boy, the third of the
quadruplets born to Mrs. Paul
Martel, 30-year-old bakers wife,
died here today in st. Justine
Hospital after doctors had made
desperate attempt to save its
life.
With only a boy left of the
three boys and a girl, authorities
held little hope that he would live.
He is being fed oxygen in an in.
cubator.
Although the mothers condition
is described as excellent, she has
not been informed Of the deaths.
The Martels have three other
children, Raymond, one, Therese,
two, and Roger, four. The couple
have been married five years.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
E|dredge Is Winner
Of Hearst Boat Trophy

NEW YORK, May II U.N.s).
Marshall Eldredge, SO, of East
Weymouth, Mass, exhibited the
william Randolph Hearst Perpet-
ual Gold Trophy today for bound
ing home first in the tenth an
nual Albany.to-New York cupboard
motorboat race.
No one was more surprised than
Eldredge when told he won the
marathon, negotiating the 1870
miles in 3 hours 6 minutes and
81 seconds. Clayton Bishop, On
set, Mass, finished second, 3 min
utes % seconds later. Third place
went to Ken Mackenzie, of New
Haven, while Fred Jacoby, jr., of
North Bergen, N. j., 1885 winner,
took fourth. Ted Roberts, New
York, was fifth.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
By KENNETH T. DOWNS
Copyright, 1887, by International
News Service)

MONTS, France, May II U.N.S).
AS the first step in a long-range
campaign to return the Duke of
Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield
as his Duchess to England, finish
ing touches were put on their we'd
ding plans today.
These plans include complete
understanding and cooperation be-
tween the Duke and the royal
family, with the least possible
publicity surrounding the Wind
sors at the wedding and after
ward, 1t was learned.
Obviously, it may require two
or three years for their return,
since it will not be until then that
hostility vanishes and the public
accepts their former King and his
wice-divorced American bride
whole heartedly.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Bonnet Press Guest

The French Ambassador and
Nine. Georges Bonnet, and Albert
G.. de Quezedo, psychologist and
lecturer, will be guests at the
weekly luncheon of the Women's
National Press Club tomorrow at
/ p. m. in the Willard Hotel.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
PRIVATE RITES
HELD AIM OF
WINDSOR
But Kent Is Reported
To Be Best Man; Pair
Map Program

LONDON, May II G.N.S0.-All
reports to the contrary, no mem
Der Of the British royal family will
attend the wedding of the Duke
Of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis War
field early in June, the well-in-
formed Londoner's dairy of the
Evening Standard declared today.
In an article apparently inspired
by authoritative sources, the writer
said:
II must again contradict the
story that the Duke of Kent and
other members of the royal
family will attend the Duke Of
WindsOr'S wedding.
"The facts are that since the
marriage will be necessarily a
civil one, the Duke has decided
1t is to be of private character.
"A visit by any member of the
royal family at q time so close
to the coronation would be in
compatible with this privacy"
Meanwhile, it was announced by
the Daily Express that the church
still stands in the way of publica-
ton Of the engagement of the
Duke and Mrs. Warfield.
The Express contradicted a story
in the Sunday Referee saying the
engagement notice would appear
in the Gazette probably Thursday
after special request made by
the Duke to King George VI.
Objections Noted
Said the Express, editorially:
"The Duke Of Windsor returns
to the news. His coming we'd
ding makes him interesting to
the public Of the world, and
some newspapers have fOOliShly
supposed that official announce
ment Of the event would be
made by King George and pub
liShed in the London Gazette.
"ThiS, of course, cannot be
so long as ecclesiastical ObJec.
ton holds good to the marriage
Of the duke to q woman who
has been twice in the divorce
courts and has two former huS-
bands living.
ut is true that the ecclesiaS.'
ticaJ objection does still hold
good, and is sustained in the
general opinion Of the nation,
so participation of the present
King in any way at the wedding
Of the duke and Mrs. Warfield
Is impossible"
KENT TO BE BEST MAN
The Duke of Kent, however,
will be best man at the wedding,
said a news story in the Daily
Express. The Princess Royal, sis
ter Of the bridegroom, will be the
only other member Of the royal
family present.
Other guests will include Lord
and Lady Louis Mountbatten, &C
cording to the Express, Lady Diana
Cooper, Lord and Lady Brownlow,
and Lady Mendel. Invitations will
be issued tomorrow.
Westminster Abbey and other
points prominent in connection
with the coronation meanwhile
attracted immense crowds, al
though the King and Queen were
at Windsor.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Has $4,000 Applications

Andy Frain, who heads the Chi
cago Cubs natty blue-clad ushers,
has $4,000 applications a year for
the jobs ?
Evening star., 1937-10-29
NAMED ZIONIST OFFICER
Himmelfarb Made Vice President
of Regional Group.

Paul Himmelfarb of the Washington
Zionist District was elected honorary
vice president of the Seaboard Zionist
Region at the recent semi-annual
council reunion of the region in
Roanoke, Va, it was learned today.
In commenting on MIR. Himmel-
farb's election Daniel Ellison, presi-
dent of the Seaboard Zionist Region,
paid tribute to his splendid leadership
tn Zionist work.
Evening star., 1937-10-29
Rev. Mr.. Marshall to Sneak.

The Rev. Peter Marshall, newly
Installed pastor of the New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church, will speak
at IL am. Monday at meeting of the
Presbyterian Ministers Association of
Washington and vicinity in the
church,
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
South Is Angered by
Anti-Lynching Act

COUTHERN congressman found
- they were no longer in the sad
die when the house by a vote of
276 to 119 passed the anti-lynching
bill. The debate was furious and
the representatives from the South
were deeply resentful.
The bill was sponsored by Repre-
sentative Joseph Gavagan of New
York whose district includes the big
negro city of Harlem. 1t provides
that any state officer who surren-
ders a prisoner to a mob shall be
guilty of a felony and subject to
prosecution and severe penalties. In
addition, the county in which a
lynching occurs shall be liable for
$4,000 to $4,000 damages, to be paid
to the family of the lynched person.
Proponents of the measure were
greatly aided by a mob in Missis-
sippi that took two negroes from a
sheriff and tortured and burned
them to death. The local authori-
ties were supine and called the
shocking affair a "closed incident"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
Americans Want to Fill
Soviet Warship Order

COVIET RUSSIA, which recently
- was said to have asked Ameri-
can help in building a navy that
would check Japanese ambitions,
wants to buy a knocked down"
battleship in the United States, and
two manufacturers are trying to ad-
just the specifications so that they
can fill the order with the con-
sent of the State department. The
munitions control office in Washing
ton at first ruled that a license
should be issued unless military Sc
crets were involved, but the State
department objected because the
proposals called for 16-inch guns to
be manufa ctured in this country,
and because the Soviet government
specified that the guns and armor
plate be inspected by the United
States navy.
Officials of the two American
companies, it was reported, be-
lieved it might be possible to meet
State department objections by
changes in the specifications, posi-
bly, providing for 14inch instead Of
16-inch guns.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29

nize her as strong and unified
country under the leadership of a
man who has the courage and the
wisdom to lift it out of a grave
emergency.
MY chief aim during the four
years l have spent in the United
States has been to give your people
a better understanding of mine,
their homes, and their ambitions.
But recently have been made mel
ancholy by suggestions I have read
and heard of political disunion in
my fatherland.
Nothing can be farther from the
truth. Germany today is a nation
actuated by single purpose, which
is to recover from the fetters
placed upon her by the treaty of
Versailles. Germany wants to live
in friendliness and amity with other
nations of the world But such a
peace must be constructive peace if
we are to achieve the friendly CO.
operation among nations which you
seem so much to desire here"
Over in Germany the anti-Jewish
crusade seemed to be growing more
intense. The latest instance reported
is the dismissal of Leo Blech, a
Jew, who has been conductor of the
Berlin State Opera house since 1906
when he was appointed by Kaiser
Wilhelm II. Hermann Goering,
Prussian premier and reich minister
Of aviation, has been a strong sup
porter of this accomplished artist,
but pressure from the anti-Semites
grew too powerful and Blech was
ousted.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29

of new safeguards for industry to
balance the gains achieved by la
Dor under the Wagner act. Among
those Madame Perkins invited were
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor;
John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton; Myron C.. Taylor, board chair
man of United States Steel corpora
ton; Gerard Swope, board chair
man of General Electric corpora
ton; Harper Sibley, president of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, and government officials.
Certain of the Presidents advis-
ers have told him a law requiring
the incorporation of labor unions
should be passed. or that at least
there should be law similar to the
British trades union act which pro-
vides that all union funds must be
accounted for to the government
and that unions cannot participate
in sympathy or general strikes.
Organized labor always has op-
posed any such legislation and prob
ably would continue to fight against
it.
John L. Lewis thinks one result
of the Wagner act decisions may
be the abandonment of the sit-down
strike, though this, he says, depends
on the attitude taken by employers
in the operation of the act. Under
the courts decision" says Lewis,
workers now have machinery for
adjudication of disputes and the
making of contracts with employ
ers. Everything depends on the at
titude of employers, who showed no
disposition to be generous although
the right of labor to gather together
for its protection had been conceded
for a lifetime"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
G--0--0
By Elmo @ Western
~ r, Newspaper
CCOCL " ULSOU Union
"Liberator of Bulgaria"

LIS name was Janarius Aloysius
l. l. MacGahan and that fact alone
should be enough to make him an
uncommon American" But he
had other and better claims to dis
tinction.
Born in 1874 in the little town Of
New Lexington, Ohio, young Mac
Gahan grew up into a mild-man-
nered, timid youth, which was
strangely in contrast to his char
acter later. At the age of seven
teen he tried to become a country
school teacher but his application
was rejected on the grounds that he
was too young and inexperienced.
Deeply wounded by this rebuff,
MacGahan left his native state and
never returned to it. He went to
Huntington, Ind, where he was
given a school and taught it sue
cessfully for two years, then to ST..
Louis, where he studied for four
years and wrote for the newspapers,
all the time preparing himself for a
career as a lawyer.
Next he decided to finish his stud
les in languages in Europe before
starting his law career. But just
as he was preparing to return to
America, the Franco-Prussian war
broke out and the New York Her
aid engaged him to accompany the
French army as war corre-
spondent.
If he had been shy as boy, he
seems to have gotten over that.
His new job took him into the thick
est of the fight and there lie wrote
his dispatches while the bullets
whistled around him. His graphic
reports from the French trout won
him a position with the London
News as well as the Herald.
In 1876 he went into the Balkans
and his exposures of the Turkish
atrocities in Bulgaria not only
stirred England to the depths but
led to action by the European pow
ers which won for MacGahan the
title of 'Liberator of Bulgaria" His
untimely death, caused by fever
which he took from a friend whom
he refused to leave in CONSTANT
nople, brought to a close brilliant
newspaper career. He was buried
first in the Turkish capital. Six
years later his body was brought
back to his native town of New
Lexington, where thousands united
in honoring the "home town boy"
who had made good in other fields.
Today his is one of the names hon.
ored in the Hall of Fame in the
school of journalism at Ohio State
university.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
Swindler of Millions

a ROUND the turn of the GEN.
n tury, when Americans were be-
coming accustomed to the idea of
big Business" in finance and in
dustry, Cassie L. Chadwick taught
them that big" might be applied
to swindling also. Born in Canada
of poor parents, Elizabeth Bigley
soon decided that she didn't want
to remain poor.
After getting her out of forgery
scrape, her father sent her to live
with a sister in Cleveland. There
she represented herself as an Eng
lish heiress and married a young
doctor named Chadwick but he soon
divorced her. For the next four
years she supported herself as a
spiritualist, clairvoyant and hypno-
tist under a variety Of names in
the Middle West. In Toledo she
was arrested for forging a draft
for $4,000 and sentenced to the
penitentiary.
Paroled in 1893, she started out
to get money in a big way. She
let it be known that she was re-
lated to Andrew Carnegie and that
the facts of that relationship could
only be whispered. After a trip to
New York to visit her father" she
came back to Cleveland and turned
over to the president of bank
trust fund agreement and notes
amounting to more than 5000, 900.
Since these were apparently signed
by Carnegie himself, the banker
readily gave her a receipt for them.
With her credit thus established,
Mrs. Chadwick started on an orgy
of wild borrowing and spending.
Once she bought $1,000 worth of
handkerchiefs from a Cleveland
store. She sent grand pianos to
eight friends as little surprises"
She chartered a special train to.
take her friends to New York.
Then suddenly her bubble of
prosperity was punctured. An en-
terprising Cleveland newspaper
printed a eull-page story revealing
the details of her past life. She
managed to put off the anxious
bankers who were demanding re-
payment of their loans and fled to
New York. Arrested and brought
back to Cleveland for trial, it was
revealed that her liabilities were
more than a million dollars. Sew
eral banks failed as the result of
loans to her.
Moreover, Andrew Carnegie, who
had examined the documents which
she had deposited in the Cleveland
bank, pronounced them forgeries
and Mrs. Chadwick an impOster.
She was sentenced to the Ohio peni-
tentiary again, this time for four
years and there she died in 1907,
leaving an estate of only $l4, 900.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
International Patrol of
Spain's Coasts Begins

DATROL Of the coasts and bor-
ders of Spain by the navies and
land observers of Great Britain,
France, Italy and Germany, as ar
ranged some time ago by the in
ternational non intervention COM
mittee, is now in effect.
Under the command of British
Vice Admiral Godfrey Blake,
aboard the battle cruiser Hood, the
British fleet patrols the northern
coast on the bay of Biscay. Ger
many patrols the southwestern
coast while France guards Spanish
Morocco and the Balearic islands
and Italy the eastern Mediterrane-
an coast.
Merchant vessels of the commit
tees 27 members entering Spanish
territorial waters must first call at
specified ports and take aboard non
intervention committee supervisors
who will have the right to examine
the cargo, inspect ships papers and
question passengers. After their
vessel leaves Spanish waters the
supervisors will be disembarked at
some convenient port.
The patrolling warships also have
been empowered to halt and exam
inc the papers of any ship coming
from a country not participant in
the scheme, such as the United
States.
Neither land nor sea observers
have the authority to turn back vol
unteers or shipments of ammuni-
tions. Their functions are limited
to observation.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29

Astaire or Rogers that players are
willing to give up better roles in
order to be with them.
ODDS AND ENDS Dick Fornr
,con't finish any more pictures ,Uith
an embrace. 1t seems that the iuue-
nile audiences iUhO so enjoy his pic.
lures shrieked in derisiOn t0hen he
rUent romantic . M-C-M has th,oart-
ed Elisa Ldndi'S plan to ride in the
hunters trials at Palm Springs. They
tcOn't let her risk her neck ,oEile she
is making ''Thirteenth CHAIR for them
Claire Windsor, too long absent
from the screen, ,oiU return in support
of Constance Bennett in "Topper" . :.
LuiSe Rainer has dyed her hair bright
red for "The Emperor's CandLeSticks"
and likes it SO iOeH she is going TO
ledue it that tCdy . Whenever 10th
Century-FOn needs Wallace Beery for
scenes OF Stare Ship" they page him
at the circus. Euer since the DAYS UIien
he raueIed With circus as eLephant
ralet, he has loued hanging around the
Sa,Cdust tent.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
Auto Strikers Lose
S65,OOO.OOO in Paw

IN THE last five months strikes IN
l. the automotive industry have
cost the workers between $65, ,000,-
600 and $7O,OO0,0O0 in wages. And
still, at the behest of John L. Lewis
and his c. I. O., they are planning
further strikes. What they gain,
beyond recognition of their union
which probably could be obtained
by negotiation wherever it is de-
served, is problematical. The fig
ures are from Wards Reports, Inc,
which says of losses to companies
affected that the net volume of busi-
ness delayed" by the strikes would
approximate 5000, 900, but what
proportion of this actually is lost
cannot be calculated.
Let me tell Lewis here and now
that he and his gang will never get
their greedy paws on Ontario as
long as I'm prime minister" said
Premier Hepburn.
He thereupon let it be known that
he was prepared to push through
legislation that would exclude the
c. l. o. from Ontario if this be-
comes necessary to save the pulp
wood and mining industries from
G. l. o. control.
General Motors of Canada offered
the strikers at OShaWa various con-
ceSsions but not recognition of the
union. Hugh Thompson, U. A. w.
A. organizer, advised that the offer
be accepted, but the strikers re-
jected it as insufficient.
The executive board of the union
at a meeting in Washington decid-
ed to postpone until November the
drive to unionize the Ford company
plants.
Hepburn forced two of his min
listers 10 resign, charging they were
not supporting the government in
its fight against the inroads of the
Lewis organization and communism
in general" They are David A.
Croll, who held the labor, municipal
affairs and public welfare portfo-
lios, and Attorney General Arthur
w. Roebuck. Axel Hall, young ma
yor of OshaWa, who has been friend
ly to the strikers and critical of
Hepburn's action, sent an ultima
tun" to President Martin of the
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29

thing to do with this.
One witness heard in support of
the bill was Smith Wildman Brook
hart, radical former senator from
Iowa. He said the Presidents pro-
poSal was an issue in the campaign
because the opposition declared
what he would do to the Supreme
court.
1T was specifically made an is
sue in the campaign" said Mr..
Brookhart. ''The President himself
did not so urge it because he prob
ably had not fully made up his
mind, but former Senator James A.
Reed, the ablest, most brilliant and
most forceful opponent the Presi-
dent had in the whole campaign,
did present in detail the Presidents
plan upon accurate information. He
dared the President to deny his
statement.
There was no denial because
Senator Reed was telling the truth
and the President was content to
submit the issue upon the violent
arguments against it alone"
Judge William Denman of the
United States Circuit Court Of Ap-
peals at San Francisco, an ap-
pointee of President Roosevelt, ar
gued against Chief Justice Hughes
contention that a Supreme court
working in two or more separate
panels would be unconstitutional.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
ut%t o
GYNAln
O.0lobb
W1UvhD about
A YeS-Man's Paradise.

CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ If, as, and when the Pres
ident puts over his scheme
for reconstructing the Su-
preme court nearer to his
hearts desire, the question
arises-in fact, has already
arisen-as to where he's 60
ing to find members who will
keep step with the New Deals
march of triumph.
Might this earnest well-wisher
make a suggestion? Let the Presi-
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
Army's Huge Bombing Plane
Is Given Test Flights

TEST flights by the army air
l. corps new big bombing plane
were being made at Seattle, Wash,
where it was built by the Boeing
Aircraft company. This machine
is the largest military airplane in
the world, with an all metal fuse
1age 100 feet long, Widespread of
105 feet, and a cruising range of
5000 miles. 1t weighs about 49, 900
pounds unloaded and $4,000 pounds
when carrying full complement of
fuel and armament. It has four
twin row engines of a new type
which will deliver l 400 horse power
each for takeoff. The speed is about
$50 miles an hour. There are five
streamlined blisters on the new ma
chine which are emplacements for
small, quick firing cannon, instead
of machine guns. These cannon will
outshoot any guns mounted on any
other military airplane in the world
and make the great machine virtu-
ally impregnable.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29

Automobile Workers of America de-
manding that members of the union
in the United States strike in sup
port of the Oshawa local. The lat
ter body adopted a resolution de-
manding that Premier Hepburn
withdraw from the negotiations to
make way for intervention by the
dominion authorities.
In Montreal 5,5O8 women garment
workers, members of the c. l. o. in
ternational union, employed in u
plants, started a strike for higher
wages; and in Fernie, B. c., 1000
c. l. o. miners threatened to strike
for union recognition.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-29
Mrs. Hartman Nominated
Minister to Norway

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent
to the senate the nomination of
Mrs. Florence Jaffray Hartman of
Washington as minister to Norway.
She is the widow of ]. Borden Har-
riman, New York banker, and has
been active in politics for num-
ber of years. Anthony J. Drexel
Biddle, Jr., who now holds the Nor
way post, was nominated to be am
baSSador to Poland.