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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-21
By John O'Donnell
and Doris FIeeSon

new Senator from Alabama-spare smiling,
plainly dressed Mrs. Dixie Graves. Touted as
"the man of her family" and woman of Supe-
rior ability and brains Senator Graves ironically
is the least welcome to the Senate of any of the
four women who have come there.
The Senators resent the barefaced politics Of
her appointment They think it makes the Sen
ate look cheap. To them, it is just one more
evaporation of a per-exasperating session that
Governor Graves should put his wife into the
post for which they themselves must strive and
campaign.
Some Alabama observers in the Capital de-
clare Mrs. Graves wanted to go to the Senate
and compelled her husband to appoint her.
Scarcely less unkind is the view that the
Graveses wanted the money-which will be con-
siderable when senatorial perquisites are added
to senatorial salary and mileage. For example,
although the governor had to pay his wife's fare
to Washington, Uncle Sam will pay it back to
her home where Mrs. Graves has announced,
she will maintain an office. She will have prac.
tically no work to do during her tenure.
AIdban1anS Not Pleased
Reports from Alabama are that the appoint
ment is not considered so hot. even by tolerant
Dixie, where politicians and people alike con-
slider public office q vested interest.
Typical of that attitude, incidentally, is
Graves action in fixing an April date for the
Democratic primary to choose a Senator for the
full term. This is early enough to permit Ala
bama Congressman to run and if defeated have
time to run again for their seats in the lower
chamber. Governor Graves himself cannot run
for the Black vacancy, due to provision Of
Alabama law.
Mrs. Graves personally made favorable i'm
preston. She was poised. modest and sensible
during her first hours on Capitol Hill, but the
circumstances of her appointment initiated
against her.
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Chow Gone, Child
Faces Sadness

Unless Honey, a 3-year-old black
female Chow marked with a silver
tail, shows up in the meantime, it's
going to be a sad homecoming
from summer vacation for g.
year-old Gloria Kliban, $50 Shep-
herd st. N. W., on Labor Day.
Yesterday shortly after 8 a. m,
Honey disappeared from the
neighborhood. When she failed
to return during the day, Kliban
called upon the Police Depart
ment, the Animal Rescue League
and the District Poundmaster to
aid him in quest of the dog. He
said he would pay a liberal re-
ward for Honey's return.
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vada and he was born in that mythical mining
town, Virginia City.
Mr.. Woodbmn has suite Of offices as i'm
posing as Cabinet officer. His young son. VIII
liam, jr, graduated this spring at Georgetown
University. Has Joined his fathers firm and has
big desk Of his own.
Mr. WOODBURY. is an ardent Rooseveltian. In
deed, he nominated Mr.. Roosevelt at the Demo
cratic convention as "Nevada's candidate for the
Presidency of the United States"
Mr. and Mrs WOODBURY. have fascinating
house on one of Reno's hills overlooking the high
sierras. Here they entertain celebrities from all
over the world When Bill WOODBURY. was child
he often looked at this beautiful spot and planned
that when he grew up he would have big house
right there.
Mrs. Woodburn Is extremely pretty with black
Irish eyes, Irish wit and q knack at dressing.
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Reserve Unit Set
For Combat Test

QUANTICO, Va, Aug. 21.-The
Fifth Battalion, Fleet Marine
Corps Reserve, viii complete its
rifle practice here today and pre-,
pare for combat maneuvers next
week.
The Washington contingent set
up an entire village for the demon
stration of fire from 37-millimeter
batteries, Stokes mortars and
Browning machine guns. The en-
tire village was destroyed yester-
day in record fire.
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Heart COntractiOns
Close Stab Wound

Thomas Sewall, colored, A.,
stabbed in the heart during an
argument at his home last night,
was given a fair chance for re-
covery by Freedman's Hospital
doctors who said contractions OF
heart muscles had closed the
wound in the vital organ.
Police are holding Sewall's wife,
Mary, for investigation. SeWall
lives at 1912 Fourth st. N w.
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giving the entire income from trust fund
established by her father to the church. So a
provision was written into the general revenue
bill of that year saying that the Is per cent limit on
the amount of income that can be deducted for
charity should not apply to person who had
given his entire income to the charity for the
preceding 10 years. This provision has been car
ried in every general revenue bill since.
Applies Only to Her
Sister Mary is the only person in the country
it applies to. We understand her income to be in
excess of $4,000 year. She could not give her
estate outright to the church because it was
trust fund
Mrs. Roosevelt's case is different. She hasn't
been receiving the income from radio and other
activities for 10 years and then again she does
not give all Of her income to charity, only that
ceived from these unusual activities.
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Putnam Refused
$500 Pension

Congress yesterday denied DR..
Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Con-
gress, a $500 annual retirement
pension.
1t was argued that DR.. Putnam,
who has been librarian for SO
years, earned $4,000 a year,
draws the same salary as mem
bers of Congress receive, and that
he has never contributed to a re-
tirement fund.
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Hire Union Labor
For Basin Project

Only union labor will be used
on the new $500, 900 naval testing
basin project at Cabin John, Md.
the Turner Construction Co., OF
New York, announced today.
With preliminary excavations
ready TO begin Monday, the COM
pany said hundreds of workmen
would be used through the Mary
land State Employment Service,
which receives applications in
Rockville.
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ord Of being "the do-nothing" Congress of the
generation Facing them-at least facing those
Democrats who successfully conspired to wreck
the important proposals Of President Roosevelt
are reelection fights in the national election
next year on which their political lives depend.
None likes the prospect-and today they
showed it,
BY today the real significance of F. D. RS
fighting speech against American Tories and rule
by "select upper class" had sunk into even the
dulest congressional brain.
Will Go to the Nation
It meant-and they knew it-that the Presi.
dent intends to go to the nation and back in
their home States put the deadly finger on those
Senators and Congressman, elected as New
Dealers, who ditched his proposal to streamline
the executive branch of the Government,
wrecked his judicial reform program, and made
legislative mince meat of the wages and hours
measure, the housing bill and the Administra-
tons original farm platform calling for crop
control and crop insurance
The only focus Of real interest today was the
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in the so-called tax loophole
bill that has just been enacted.
The fact is, of course, that the
lawmakers know Of no way to
draft q provision fitting her
that will not at the same time
open up a regular Pandora's
box.
Now, they had a case much
easier back in 1924. A Miss
Drexel Of Philadelphia, mem
Der OF the prominent family
by that name, had become a
Catholic MIN and had heen
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Senate Confirms
Newman as Judge

The Senate yesterday. approved
the nomination of Hobart Newman
to be a police judge in the Dis
trict. The nomination had been
favorably reported for the Senate
Judiciary Committee by Senator
King. Newman succeeds Judge
Isaac r. Hit.
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Wide Yawn
DiSL0cQteS
His Jau

Unrestrained yawning retains
its place in the list of hazardous
pastimeS.
Victor Deveanzzio, "a, Of the
900 block Eighth st. N. W.. in
dulging in one of those prodigious
Notwithstanding yawns yester-
day, dislocated his jaw and had
to be taken to Emergency Hospi-
tai to have it put back in place.
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tizzle out to a drab and spirit
less conclusion.
Uncle Sans $4,000 a year
boys-the So Senators and 435
Representatives whose labors
in the last eight months on
Capitol Hill have failed to
bring forth one major contri.
button toward the improve
ment of the government of the
nation-planned to be home
ward bound in "a hours.
Behind them in Washington
f6a1Y 1ao,,o 1I.o ,,~nSa,,;oLI. 800
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Navy Band to Play
AtCapitOl Monday

U. S. Navy Band will give a con-
cert at the East front Of the Capt.
tol on Monday, at 7:30 p. m, it
was announced yesterday. Lieut..
Charles Benter, U. S. N, will con-
!. duct the program.
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Florida RiUal of NeUada

Florida RiU0l of NeU0dd
Florida is stealing some of Nevada's good
cases." Good in this instance means well paying.
Although it takes six months to get divorce in
Florida. any householder may spend an agreeable
winter there at her own estate at Palm Beach or
Miami and emerge neatly divorced.
Idaho also is hoping to steal some of Nevada's
divorce cases. The State has passed six weeks
divorce law. One Of the big railroads advertises
the joys of taking the cure on "Sun ranch"
But complacent Nevadans say Idaho hasn't yet
had one case.
But to return to the personalities who make
the Reno divorce mill move smoothly. Former
Republican Lieutenant Governor Morley Girls
void, large handsome and artless as a child. has
many clients who'd like matrimonial change.
Governor GriSwold adores fishing with his small
ness is over, you may see him leaving his office
with fishing pole under his arm. He's out for
some real fun, batting the mountain trout
Governor Griswold has the biggest straw hat
in the world grateful patient had ten-gallon
hat copied in Panama and sent it as tribute of
appreciation. The Governor wears the hat where
ever he goes.
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The lawyers who prescribe
the medicine for "the cure"
don't advertise. Their reputa-
ton gets itself known. Their
satisfied clients go trotting
back home and spread the
name of "the best man to see
If you're getting a divorce"
One Of the best is a former
Washingtonian - VILLA m
WOODBURY.. Mr.. WOODBURY.
studied law at Georgetown
University. His father was q
member of Congress from Ne
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Stuff

Hot, weary and Sullen, the members Of the
seventy-fifth Congress of the United States
were today letting their historic first session
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The Listening Post By Carlisle Bargeron

So the Treasury is just going along on a ruling
which Bob jackson, gallant young assistant
attorney general, says he rendered when he was
in the Treasury. This is to treat her the same way
a church bazaar or baseball game for charity is
treated.
The cases are not exactly comparable, though
Because although Mrs. Roosevelt makes nothing
out of her activities several Of her friends do For
example, Ham Fish brought out before the
Joint Tax Committee that Mrs. Roosevelt's long
time friend and companion, Nancy Cook got $40O
a week from her broadcastS for the Shelby Shoe
Company and that her agent, Myles F. Lasker,
got $500. Lasker is not in the charity business
and the $500 week Nancy was pulling down.
would seem to put her in the Economic Royalist
class.
Her Friends Cash In .-..~
Incidentally, Laskers name figured in charges
brought several days ago by House Republican
Leader Bert Smell, which the newspapers figured
to be unprivileged and which they therefore didn't
print. Mrs. Roosevelt made known at the time
that she had dismissed him before the alleged
episode of which Smell complained. It is a fact
that several of Mrs. Roosevelts friends have
cashed in on her activities. She's not only done
lot for charity, but lot for these friends.
The whole business is highly involved. Two or
three years ago-we have an elephantlike mem
ory-there was discussion at one OF Mr.. RooSe-
velt'S press conferences about tax deductions
being permitted businesses for donations to char
ity. He was against it. He said the only reason
they gave to charity was for advertising. Well,
noW-oh, let the matter drop.
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In view of all the controversy there has been
about Mrs Roosevelt's tax returns, it was sur
prising that her case wasn't sought to be covered
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BED, Board and Horse" So the roundabout
ranches advertise their charms to seekers after
the cure"
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TRAFFIC TOLL
SCARS TO SO
AS MAN DIES
P. J. Allen Latest
Auto Victim

Death of Paul j. Allen, 81, Of
1905 Tenth st. N E., in Casualty
Hospital, last night, brought
Washington's traffic fatality list
for the year to SO. The death toll
last year at this time was So.
Allen was MORALLY injured in a
collision at Thirteenth and Emery
Streets Northeast, Wednesday.
Arthur Leith, Al, of the 400 block
Thirteenth st. N. W., described as
the driver of the other car, is be-
ing held pending action of the
coroner's jury at the inquest to-
day.
TWINS IN CRASH
Graces Gates, %, of Colesville,
Mo, injured in a collision at
Logan Circle, was treated at Gar
field Hospital yesterday for lacera-
tionS on the face. Her twin sister,
Bessie E. Gates, was operating the
car in which. she was riding.
Joseph White, "a, colored, of the
400 block M st. N. w., was the
driver of the other machine, police
report.
Struck from the rear while he
was talking with the operator of a
truck which he had stopped on
BladenSburg Road, near Queens
Chapel Road N. E., this morning,
Motorcycle Policeman Conner H.
Gould, of the 18th Precinct, is in
Casualty Hospital with chest and
possible internal injuries.
CAR RAMS TRUCK
Gould was injured when a car
operated by Tamas Boselli, SIS, of
the 200 block I st. S. W., rammed
into the truck owned and operated
by Joseph u. Thompson, Al, of
Fulton, Md. Gould lives in HyattS-
vile, Md.
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SATURDAY, AUG.
Seeing America Last By Helen Esury

She says she wouldn't live any place in the world
but Reno because 'you meet such interesting peo-
pie here"
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Evening star., 1937-08-19

tyranny of capitalists and usurers and
asking why anybody should be permit
ted to drink champagne and to ride in
carriage while thousands of honest
people are in want of necessities
Which of the two candidates is likely
to be preferred by a workingman who
hears his children cry for bread?
mo Anchor" in Constitution.
seriously apprehend that you will
in some such season Of adversely as
l have described do things which will
prevent prosperity from returning:
that you will act like people in a year
OF scarcity-devour all the seed corn
and thus make the next year not one
of scarcity but of absolute distress The
distress will produce fresh spoliation
There is nothing to stay you. Your
Constitution is all sail and no anchor
As I said before, when society has
entered on this downward progress
either civilization or liberty must per-
ish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon
will seize the reins Of government
with strong hand or your Republic
will be as fearfully plundered and laid
waste by barbarians in the twentieth
century as the Roman Empire was in
the NTH; with this difference. that
the Huns and Vandals who ravaged
the Roman Empire came from without
and that your Huns and Vandals will
have been engendered within your
country by your own institutions.
Thinking this, Of course, I cannot
reckon Jefferson among the benefac-
tors of mankind.
Evening star., 1937-08-19
% CITIZENS OF u. S.
EVACUATE NANkIkG
16 Go to Hankow on British Ship.
Others Go to Kuling by Way
Kiukiang.

b. the Associated Press.
The State Department announced
yesterday that 70 American citizens
had left Eanking on instructions OF
American consular representatives.
Sixteen left for HankoW on the
British ship Woosung They were
Doris Drake, Montclair, N j.; Cath
crime Fellows, Coldwater, Mich: Mar
garet Higgins, Kansas City, Mo: Mrs.
Robert M. Lancaster and daughter
Doris, Clifton, N. j.; Mrs. Alma Mead
and children, Donald and Rodney,
Santa Ana, Calf: Arthur Rugh, New
York City; Mrs. Jane Sherwood, Nc
Graw, N Y; George Seybold, Elk
Ridge, Md, and Connie Adrus, Mrs.
Marie Butler. Mrs. Francis Nickels
Mrs. Martha Pickelson and Mrs. T. c.
Tang. whose addresses were not given.
The others left Marking by the way
of Kiukiang, for Kuling. They were
Mrs Edna Brady and children, Neal,
Joyce and Marylin, Oklahoma City;
Ellen Drummond, Bethlehem, Pa.
Anna Moffett. st. Paul, MINI. Ethel
Taylor, Pasadena, Calf Mrs. Mar
jorie Wilson and daughter Elizabeth,
Santee. Calf. and Mrs Edna Mish
and Eugene Lee and son Eugene, jr
whose addresses were not given.
Evening star., 1937-08-19
BRENT PRESSURE
CHARGE IS Denied
Wife of Star Says He Re-
peatedIy Urged Her to
Marry Him.
By the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, August l9-Con.
stance Worth, Australian film actress
denied yesterday any pressure" wa,
used TO persuade Actor George Brent
to marry her, and challenged him tc
explain the word which he used or
the witnes stand.
Il hope we can limit this trial II
the legal points on which have basec
my suit for annulment," Brent saic
when informed Of his wifes state
ment.
However, if she wants to make thi
a mud-slinging contest. 1 can giv'
her all the dirt she wants"
The remarks Of both parties ver,
made informally, outside the cour
room where Brent, under cross exam
ination last week by Miss Worth
counsel, said he agreed to the elope
ment to Tia Juana, Mexico, last Ma,
because Of the pressure He was no
allowed at that time to explain wha
he meant.
IT Mr.. Brent is gentleman" Mis-!
Worth said, "he will explain what h,
meant by pressure When a mar
repeatedly proposes marriage. as HI
did to me, do not see where the pres
sure comes in. I have no idea wha
he meant by using that word"
Brent based his suit on contention!
he and Miss Worth did not compl,
with Mexican legal requirements.
Manuel Ruiz, jr., Mexican law ex
pert. testified, however, there is m
Mexican law which would invalidat,
the marriage
Evening star., 1937-08-19
ocrats divided fiercely over anti-lynch-
ing legislation.

OCl hbS ulPlONO liSASCly oNSl ISi0
ing legislation.
Privately, leaders Of both factions
have agreed the differences were too
fundamental to be so easily smoothed
over. But few have been willing to
forecast the outcome OF the split.
Observers have talked freely OF 4
new political alignment resulting from
the situation There has been talk of
4 coalition between conservative DEM
ocrats and Republicans, and OF re-
prisals by the administration against
Democratic revolters.
Perhaps the difference can be ironed
out President Roosevelt in his address
yesterday. however, gave no sign Of
surrender.
Evening star., 1937-08-19
Sand Yields Iron.

Iron ingos are to be made from
the iron-bearing sand of Patea Har-
Dor, at North Island. New Zealand, at
the rate OF $4,000 4 year.
Evening star., 1937-08-19
BLACK IS INVITED
TO WHITE HOUSE
New Court Appointee Is
Expected to Receive Conn.,
mission Today.

Senator Hugo L. Black Of Alabama,
newly-confirmed appointee to the Su-
preme Court, was invited TO luncheon
conference with President Roosevelt
At the White House today with pres
entation OF his commission to the
court post expected at that time.
Meanwhile, speculation continued
over the identity OF Blacks successor
in the Senate, with Gov. and Mrs.
Bibb Graves in the Capital but avoid
ing any positive statement whether
he Is to name her to the Senate seat
as soon as Black takes the oath Of
ONCE as \ Supreme Court justice
The Governor and Mrs. Graves ar
rived in Washington by plane last
night. About . am. today they visited
the White House of11ces, where they
conferred At some length with Secre-
tary Marvin Mcintyre.
Gov. Graves hastened from the
White House shortly after noon.
L did not see the President. I
haven't got thing to say he said
Talking About U. S. Projects.
He almost ran past waiting photog-
raphers, who got no pictures OF his
departure from the White House. 1t
was learned, however, that he was talk
ing with Mcintyre about Federal prof.
ects In Alabama
In the event Senator Black re-
ceives his commission from the Presi-
dent today and Immediately thereafter
takes the oath of ONCE. Gov. Graves
might then announce his choice for
the Senate vacancy.
II Mrs Graves is named, the Gov
ernor could see her sworn in in the
Senate before he leaves by plane to-
morrow afternoon for the national
convention Of Young Democrats in
Indianapolis. Pitt Tyson Maner. his
secretary, Is candidate for president
OF the Young Democrats.
Date Is Governors Choice.
BY terms of Alabama law. Gov
Graves must call a special election
Immediately on creation of a vacancy
in either of their senatorial offices. bu,
hexibility of the law allows him to set
the date whenever he wishes. In view
OF this circumstance, it was reported
from Montgomery, the State capital
that the special election proba bly, will
no be held until next Summer.
Meanwhile, opposition to the Black
appointment continued in the form
OF request by Albert Levitt, former
Federal Judge in the Virgin Islands, tc
fle petition with the court reouir.
ing Black to prove his eligibility
Levitt contended Black had dsqual-
ified himself by voting for the court
retirement pension bill.
Evening star., 1937-08-19
HOUSING MERGER
PLAN HIT BYFAHEY
Brookings Proposal Held
"ImpracticabIe" by Loan
Board Head.
BY the Associated Press.

Chairman John H. Fahey OF the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board con-
demned today as wholly impractic-
able a program suggested by the
Brookings Institution for merging
Federal housing agencies.
He told the Senate's Committee on
Governmental Reorganization the Re
search Institutions estimate of saw
ings was obviously unsound" and the
plan actually would cause the Govern
ment large losses.
Experts Urge Consolidation.
Brooklings experts, planning broad
governmental reorganization. urged
consolidation OF the Home Loan Board
and the Federal Housing Administra-
ton
Fahey asserted also that the Brook
ings suggestion for selling Fedora
home mortgages to private lending
agencies was "a practical impossi.
bility."
Savings from such q liquidation
600, instead Of the $4,000 900 esti
mated by Brookings. This would b.
more than Offset, he declared, by {
$21 500 900 loss, caused by the sale O.
the sgency's best income producing
loans.
No Drain on Treasury.
Fahey added that If his agency!
present mortgages are undisturbed
the agency will suffer little, il any
loss, and there will be no drain upor
the Treasury"
Under present market condition!
not more than one-third of the HON,
Owners Loan Corps 100000 mort.
cages could be sold. he said. and thu
disposal Of all the agency's best loan!
would save very little" in admins.
trative expenses