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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

Mary Williams DeWSOn's appoint
ment to the Social Security Board i,
an apt reward for her four years
work to put across her pet idea that
womans place is in the Government
Once politicians would raise their
glasses and say, Here's to the women
God bless 'em!" But Miss Dewsor
ended all that. She taught them tC
say Here's to the women. Let's gel
their votes!"
In 1882 and 1886 she organized the
women behind Roosevelt as they never
had been organized since the nineteenth
amendment went into effect, and her
reward was having Frances Perkins
named Secretary of Labor, Nellie
Tayloe Ross, director of the mint;
Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury; Ruth Bryan Owen
Minister to Denmark; Daisy Hartman
Minister to Norway.
Miss Molly to her friends
is So. She is an economist, soci-
ologist, politician, a mountain
climber, sheep dog-raiser She calls
herself IAN old New England spinster,
but Jim Farley loves her for the votes
she has brought his boss. His enthusi-
asm overcame his inhibitions last
Spring. and during a banquet he kissed
Miss Dewson while diners clapped and
cameras clicked.
Politics But One Phase.
But politics is a phase of life which
Miss Dewson entered late, and then
only when she saw that she would have
to influence government if her eco
nomic and sociological theories were
ever to receive legislative sponsorship.
In 1900, three years after she grad
uated from Wellesley College, Miss
Dewson became superintendent OF the
Girls Parole Department in Massa-
chusetts.
There she first felt the need for a
social security program, and years
later in 1884, when her activities as
politician were bringing the results
she hoped for, Mr.. Roosevelt named
her a member of the Advisory Council
of his Committee on Economic Secur-
ity. Out of its consultations came the
social security, law.
Miss Dewson Is at her Summer home
IN Castine, Me-, now, enjoying her
sheep dogs.
Twenty-Five years ago, she wss
secretary Of the Commission on Mini.
mum Wage Legislatiou tor Maseaehu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
BULLETIN.

DN LIZ IN.
PARIS, August 18 tPl.-John
Roosevelt. youngest son of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. told the Associated
Press tonight that he did not squirt
Champagne at the Mayor of Cannes
or hit him with bouquet of flowers
at a festival Sunday.
Ey the Associated Press
CANNES, France, August 1S-Ofi-
Gals of this fashionable Riviera re-
sort reported great" indignation today
among both French and Americans
over the unceremonious twist which
they said John Roosevelt gave to
Cannes Battle Of the Flowers"
The 2l-year-old son of President
Roosevelt. they said, had cut short
Mayor Pierre Nouveau's welcome at
the height Of the fete last Sunday
night by squirting champagne in the
Mayors face and slapping him with
bouquet.
The French foreign Office asked the
French press to ignore the story but
the Cannes Fete Committee, com
posed of Mayor Nouveaus aides, saw
| the matter in different light.
They took newspapermen aside tc
make what they termed an officia
announcement on the incident.
Mayor Was Greeting Him.
1t occurred in the famous Cannes
| promenade, known as the "Croisette'
or Battle of Flowers" at the moment
| Mayor Nouveau was to deliver flower.
and pretty speech to the distin.
| guished American visitor
Roosevelt, youngest of the Presi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Mary De,cson's Appointment
Helps to Prove Pet Thesis

sets when the first minimum wage law
in the United States was passed by
that State.
Wrote Wage Law Briefs.
Ten years later, she wrote the
factual brief from the economic stand
point in the case here of Adkins vs.
Children's Hospital, the suit over the
Districts minimum wage law which
resulted in putting all such legislation
under constitutional ban until the
Supreme Court reversed itself this
Spring in the Washington State mini
mum wage case
Miss Dewson also wrote the factual
economic brief in the California mini
mum wage case in 1924, and for five
years she was president of the New
York State Consumers League. She
has accomplished so many things that
a mere catalogue of them would take
1000 words.
Since 1888, she has been an indus
trial economist for the Labor Depart
ment. When the Blue Eagle flew,
she sat on the economic advisory
board Of the N. r. A.
For three years she served as eco
nomic expert for the Womens Edu-
cational and Industrial Union in
Boston.
appeal to Intelligence"
When the World War came she
acted as zone chief of the Bureau OF
Refugees of the American Red Cross
in France.
During the campaign for suffrage
she went from door to door, through
the Massachusetts, countryside, advo-
eating equal suffrage for women.
Nobody has counted the number of
votes cast by women in the 1886 cleo
ton for Roosevelt. But it's certain
that the $4,000 reporters" sent out
by Miss Dewson-women experts in
some phase of the New Deal-to
spread the Roosevelt message to their
sisters pulled great many Of those
votes.
Here is the secret Of Miss Dewson's
success, as expressed in her own
words:
I'VE don't make the old-fashioned
plea to the women that our nominee
is charming, and all that. We appeal
to the intelligence Of the country's
women. Ours we're economic issues
and W. found the women ready to
listen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
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PICNIC SCHEDULED

The annual family basket picnic OF
Spalding Council, Knights of Column
bus, will be held Sunday afternoon on
the grounds adjoining st. Johns
Church, Forest Glen, Md, F.. J. NAL
10y, grand knight of the council, an
nounced today.
The Entertainment Committee
headed by Ralph j. De La Vergne, is
arranging program Of sports.
Harold N Whelan is in charge OF
accommodations, and William j. Ryan
is arranging for the prizes. The For
est Glen Council of the Knights Of Co.
lunbus is cooperating with the local
group
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
POTOMAC RIVER LINE
is SUED FOR $4,000

Alexandrian Claims Injury in
Collision of Steamer, s. S.
Potomac and Motor Boat.
The steamer Potomac and the Po-
tomac River Line, Inc, were sued for
$4,000 in District Court late yester-
day by Thomas r. Monroe of Alex
andria, who said he was seriously
injured in July, 1896, when the ship
struck motor boat in which he was
passenger.
Through Attorneys Samuel F. Beach
and Stephen P. Haycock Monroe said
he was on the boat Seabird when it
was rammed by the Potomac near
Fort Washington. He said the smaller
craft belonged to James r. Harding of
Alexandria.
Monroe asked that the Potomac be
seized and sold If his claim Is not
satisfied.
Admiralty actions, such as Mon
roe's suit, are rarely nled In this
jurisdiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
25 MILES FROM SANTANDER,
Italian Troops and German Planes
Aid Franco.

alu r TAHCO.
BY the Associated Press,
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish From
tier, August 18.-An insurgent army
described by the Spanish government
as built around the Italian Black
Arrow brigade and bolstered by 200
German planes, battered toward San
lander today in what may prove the
crucial campaign of SPANS civil war
Columns operating on parallel high
ways into Santander, the government S
last BlScayan seaport and stronghold
were reported within rs miles of San
tander's outskirts
Highway Curves IS Miles.
That was the distance in straight
line northeast, but each unit faced
the task of covering some IS or 40
miles of curving highway, fanked by
the barbed wire and concrete forti-
hcations of Santander's defenders.
The fourth day of Generalissimo
FRANCOIS big push through the sun
scorched mountain lands brought into
play yesterday large numbers of tanks
field guns and planes.
Includes 200 German Planes.
The Madrid-Valencia government
said Frances aerial armada included
200 German planes. This was taken
to mean aircraft manufactured in
Germany.
The government seemed to regard
the Santander offensive as the pivotal
action Of the 13-month-old conflict,
A communique reminded its troops in
this northern battle area, as well as
the whole population of government
Spain, that the situation was critical
because Franco had thrown the best
OF his war equipment and troops
against Santander in an attempt to
win the war there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
SINK SUBS, BRITAIN
ORDERS WARSH|PS.
Admiralty Acts to Protect
Shipping Through the
Mediterranean,
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, August 49, --- Britain
moved sternly today to protect her
"arterial road" through the Medit-
erranean with what was described as
a "shoot-to-sink" order against sub
marines that modest British merchant
men.
The dramatic order cracked from
the admiralty radio to units OF the
Mediterranean fleet and to the naval
bases at Gibraltar and Malta. It was
interpreted in London as sure indica-
ton that British patience was near
the breaking point as the result of
an increasing series Of air and sea
attacks reported in sections of the
Mediterranean far from Spanish wa
ters.
Strong Stand Held Necessary.
shipping is not safe on the whole
OF the Mediterranean" said one ad-
miralty official "On account of the
danger zone it is imperative we should
take a strong stand to insure the
safety of British shipping.
Extra ships may be dispatched to
the Mediterranean"
OF eight ships reporting attacks
since August only one was of Brit
lsh registry, however, this was the
oil tanked British Corporal and it
was said to have been the target of a
bomb and machine gun attack by
planes-not a submarine.
Franco Denies Responsibility.
The government protested to Span
lsh inSurgent authorities that the
three attacking planes appeared to
be Generalissimo Francisco Francois.
Franco disclaimed responsibility.
The cabinet instructed Sir Henry
Chiffon, British Ambassador to Spain.
now at Hendaye. France, to advise the
lnsurgent regime that Frances reply
was unacceptable
a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
ART CRITIC DIES

JOLIET, ILL.,, August 18 R.-Mrs.
Adele Fay Williams, n, staff artist and
art critic Of the Joliet Herald-NeWs
since 1915, died at hospital last night
after years illness.
She also had done feature writing
and art work on the New York journal
and the World, the Washington Times
and the Pittsburgh Spectator and the
Gazette.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
MARCONI MEMORIAL
Dickstein Urges Monument IL

Dickstein Urges Monument in
House Resolution.
Erection of national memorial to
Marconi, inventor of an apparatus
for wireless telegraphy, and man
who should be remembered by all
mankind" was proposed in the House
yesterday by Representative Dick
stein, Democrat, of New York. He in
troduced resolution calling for the
designation OF an appropriate site to
be set aside for such a memorial.
Dickstein explained the memorial
will be erected by voluntary contribu-
tons. He added that a committee
has been organized for this purpose
in New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Theater Bans Shots
Of Ardent oy,Fans
To Aid Screen Hero
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, August 1s-
Park your shootin' irons at the
door" is the rule at an Indianap-
oils neighborhood theater, all be-
cause the small boy patrons were
too anxious to help the hero.
Every Saturday afternoon the
youngsters turn out for a Western
thriller. For a time they were
content to boo the villain, but
recently they started bringing
their toy pistols, and the pop of
cap guns resounded throughout
the theater as they fired from
the hip at the villain.
The little girl patrons protest.
ed, and the theater manager is
sued hts edict that guns must be
LETT at the door.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

When he sat down to dinner, he
leaned across the table, stared in the
face of Chinese gentleman and said ::
Say, you spikka de Inglish?"
The Chinese gentleman was much
too polite to take exception to this
gaucherie. He merely turned to the
lady next him and began a con-
YerSation.
Somewhat later he was called upon
to address the gathering he being
apparently the most distinguished of
the company present. He arose, made
a charming speech in flawless Oxonian
English, bowed and sat down.
Then he leaned across the table,
smiled at his young American friend
and said gently, How va likka da
spich?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
AIR CL|PPERFL|ES
OLD SAILING ROUTE
Takes Advantage of Tried
Winds in Hop From Ber-
muda to England.

The trail blazing Pan-Amer,cdn
Clipper III, Which made tUo
round-trip surrey flights to map
passenger air SerDtce betWeer Neto
York and London Ola NeWtound-
land and Ireland, is nOtD speeding
toUdrd England oper the southerly
transatlantic route-pin Bermuda
and the Azores. Completion OF this
hop UiU make the commander OF
the clipper, 1Uto tells here the story
OF his present fight, the first person
to hare couered BY air a great circle
oper the Atlantic Ocean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
WE!RTON WORKER
TELLS0F OFFER"
Says Whisky and $40 Was
Proposed to Go and Get
Organizer.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW CUMBERLAND, w. Va,
August ia Weirton Steel Co. en-
ploye told Labor Board hearing to-
day that he was Offered whisky and
$40" and told by the chairman of the
Plant Employe Representative Plan
to go out and get an organizer"
The witness. Francis Moore, about
35, said John Larkin, chairman of the
representation plan at Weirton, or
dered the trip" and that second
time he sent Moore to Steubenville,
Ohio.
There was a union organizer over
there and he told us TO go and get
him" Moore testified
Allen Head, Labor Board attorney,
questioned:
Did you get him?"
yep" answered Moore
Informed that he had been sub
poenaed to testify at the Labor Boards
hearing on charges of terrorism"
against Weirton Steel, Moore said Russ
Congleton, An employee representative,
came to him yesterday and said:
Why didn't you come to us sooner"
Still in the employ of the company,
Moore said he found "a little more
than usual in his pay check after the
Steubenville trip, although he was
away from work several days"
Beaten by Gang.
Curly haired Charles Schroyer. for
mer Weirton employe, testified today
that a union organizer was beaten by
"hatchet gang which the S. w.
o. C. charged the company sponsored
to oppose organization of its 10000
men.
organizer for the S. W. O. c., came
into the Committee for Industrial
Organization headquarters last Win
ter covered with blood" and said
the Ratchet gang beat him up"
Coatless steel workers filled all
seats and crowded onto window sills
in the little Hancock County Court
House room for the third day of the
hearing called by the National Labor
Relations Board for its own complaint
that the company intimidated en-
ployes.
Company Badges Displayed.
Badges bearing the E. R. P. in
sigma of the company employe rep
resentatives' plan were displayed for
the first time along with c. I. o.
badges.
The millmen had come from the
nearby Ohio Valley steel town of
Weirton. w. Va, to hear the con-
tinuation Of witnesses stories that
the Ratchet gang was organized
to drive union agitators" out of
Weirton
Clyde A. Armstrong, chief counsel
for the company, insisted upon the
removal Of spectators from behind
the witness stand before the hearing
resumed.
Offered $40 a Day.
Schroyer asserted yesterday that
Claude Conway, chairman of the
Weirton Steel Security League, Of
fered him $40 day to walk around
the streets (of Weirton, w. Va..) and
keep your eyes open for agitators."
Conway told him, Schroyer averred,
that "Weirton Steel, the lawyers and
the money back of us" would protect
him if he encountered any difficulties.
Schroyer said he refused the offer
and ignored Conway's suggestion that
he become member of the employees
league, an insurance and social
organization.
John w. Porter, chief of the boards
counsel, asked the black haired
worker:
DO you know whether the group
which Conway invited you to join
was actually formed?"
Yes, it was called the hatchet
gang" Schroyer replied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
Of Interesting Events
and Things.
SPICH

SPICH.
~ UTTING aside more serious
- matters pertaining to the
clever Chinese, we refer you
to story told by gentleman
who attended dinner party in Wash
ington where many of the more
scholarly and important Orientals Of
this city were honor guests. Young
American lad at the affair took a bit
too much aboard before dinner.
Might have been the rice wine got him,
or something.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
DIAGNOSIS.

DIAGNOSIS.
yellow down in Virginia wants
to know just what medical science
will invent next. Says a friend OF
his suffering from rheumatism was
first advised to have his teeth out
He did, but didn't feel much better
Next doctor he consulted went into
brown study, decided to clip the
patients toenails for analysis. Hasn't
heard from the analysis yet, but he'c
like to know in advance what theory
is back of it all. So would we.
X
WHOOPS.
NlGN in the court of the old De.
partment of Interior Building
where there is a space marked of
with white painted lines:
For Trucking Only"
What, no big apple?
X
POSSE.
The detectitit department of the
Roadside Theater reports that
Harry Macarthur, Which is a cat,
has been missing more than a
fortnight. Disappearance ,cus
Kept a secret until today on the
theory that maybe H. M. uould
sho,D up again NTH teu uouno
H. Ms to sho1D for time out. No
such luck.
MacArthur's last appeurance
7oas in IN Miszoura," uhen it
played around atop the melodian.
Was supposed to return in time to
haunt 1.-THE Haunted Mill" but no
make the first curtain. A posse
OF cotnip has been sent out on the
trail. The theater MANAGEMENT,
furthermore, ,Dtll pay a reuard of
Jelly beans for the return OF anu
thing answering to the name OF
Harry Macarthur.
X X
STARS.
% BRING meteors down to the
public level, a professor at Har-
ward has classified them as commuters,
dinners and milkmen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
LITERALLY.

Department OF Personal Obserpa-
ton and Advice:
Neuer let anybody tell you it
isn't literally, tactually possible to
sneese your head of. Almost did
1t ourselves this morning.
We had an attack OF hay teuer
uhl'c getting shave in a barber
shop.
The Fort Peck press., 1937-04-22
Midway wreck inquest held Tues, April 20

The body of Althea H. Dove. who
was killed in an automobile accid-
ent at Midway. Saturday morning.
was taken from the Holland Chap
ell TO Malta, Mont, Sunday after-
noon where services will be held.
She was "a years old and is sur.
ived by her father and mother,
one brother and three sisters.
An inquest in connection with
her death was held Tuesday at
three O'clock at the court rooms.
Julia Moravac and brother,
Chrres, both were hurt in the ac-
c!dent. Miss Moravac seriously,
and Is reported still in q critical
condition he driver Of the car,
l. o Paniap. was less seriously in
Jured.
The car was badly damaged
and said TO have left the road aat1
crashed into a cellarway at 1;30
Saturday mrrnine.
The Fort Peck press., 1937-04-22

Brig. Gen. David l.. Brainard, the
last survivor of Greely's tragic ex-
pedition to the Arctic in 1881-84,
who was recently named by the
American Polar society to be its
first honorary member. The Polar
society presented General Brainard
with scroll on his eightieth birth
day recently.
Our deeper thoughts are best
when written; hardly ever as i'm
pressive when spoken
The proudest agnostics are those
who do not go out of their way to
tell anybody that they are.
Emigration from the old home
town is often one of the very first
steps in getting up IN the world.
The Fort Peck press., 1937-04-22
CHURCHES
Fort Peck Lutheran Church
Sunday. April 18th, 1887

Sunday. April 18th, 1887
Morning worship in FIT. Peck at
II. Afternoon Service in Park
Grove at 2. Muther League in
Fl. Peck at 8. The Wolf Point
Luther League will present the
program All are welcome.
The New Deal Ladies Aid meet
with Mrs. Moody in Midway on
Friday. April 20 at 2:3O p. m.
The Fort Peck Ladies Aid will
meet at the church on Wed, A
pril %. at 2 p. m. Mrs. NJ. c. Mel
Son will serve.
The Wheeler Ladies Aid meet
ON Thurs. April % with Mrs. T.
Thompson, 2:30 p M.
O. N. Rue, Pastor
The Fort Peck press., 1937-04-22
Don't Stop My Paper

| Don't stop my paper, printer.
Don't strike nv name off, YETI
You know the times are stringent
and dollars hard to get;
But tug little harder,
Is what l mean to do.
And scrape the dimes tcgether,
Enough for roe and you
can t afford to drop it;
l FIND it doesn't pay
To do without a paper,
However Others may
| hate to ask my neiRhborS
To give me theirs on loan;
They don't just say, but mean it,
Why don't you have your own?
You cant teIl how We miss il,
II, it, b, an, fate
Shoujo h ppen LOT 10 reach US,
or comes d ;ittle iale;
Then ali is ia hubbub.
And things go all awry:
And, printer, if your married
You know the reason why
cannot do without il,
Ii is no use 10 try,
For other people take it,
And, printer, so must
|, too, must keep Inc posted,
And kow what's going on,
Or fsel and be accounted.
A fogy simpletOn
Then take it kindly, printer.
If pay be somewhat slow:
For cash is not so plenty
And wants not few, you know.
But | must have my paper, T
Cost what it may to me,
I'd rather dock my sugar
And do without my tea.
So, printer, don't stop it,
Jnl1 So YOU want my frown.
For here's my year. subscription
A nd credit il right down,
And send my paper yrOmptly
And regularly on,
And let II bring us weekly
is welcome benson.
The Fort Peck press., 1937-04-22
Theatre News
Wheeler Theatre

Saturday, April "a
Peter B. Kyre's Dodge City Trail
| A stirring musical saer of the
west: set to he pounding beat OF
guns and horsesi Thrill with the
sons of the saddles singing new ry,
thms of the range. as Starret,
leads the Texas plainsmen over 9
battle blazed trail! Here is an out
door musical Drama filmed again
st tremendous background el
flaming action. glorious romance
and swinging melody.
As the second big feature, Gene
Autry in another Of his musical
hits "Oh Susannah"
Sunday & Monday. April rs 26
General Spanky with "Spankv'
alfalfa" AMI Snow ball" of Our
Gang fame, ably assisted by Phil
lips Holmes, Ralph Morgan and
Rosina Laurence. A full length
feature by that well known COM
edy director Hal Roach.
Tues g. Wed. April 27-28
Hurled into the jaws of death by
a woman's lir-he faces her alone
in the desert mite! The Legionnares
charge again! Cay. reckless devil
dogs of the Sahara. Numbering a.
cross the screen into roaring battle!
With savage death waiting be-
hind everv sand dune, the lost pa
troll charges into the trap! Two |
fisted Jack Holt in a new swash |
puckline role as he smashes re-
volt in the desert.
Jack Holt in Trouble In Morocco"
Thurs. & Fri April $3.50
Another big double feature pro-
gram with those mirth provoking
COW boys The Three Musketeers
in "HIT THE SADDLE'
The second feature is thrilling
jewel mystery. When is thief
not a thief? A lovely girl steals a
rare jewel and yet She is not a
thief! How? Why? This crooks
tour of scheme lined excitement
is solved after she matches wits
with the perfect sIueth on mile
cross country chase.
When these TWO tangle; the fun is
furious, the action swift! In this
hour of gay and reckless sdven-|
.ure you'll live q lifetime of thrill
nR chill. See Counterfeit Lady"