The Washington times., 1937-03-12
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Court Change
Anecdotes
ROCKING HILL
Rx HELEN EssARY

by HELEN ESShRA
Here's a story which may fore
east Mr.. RooSevelt's chance OF gel
ting the Supreme Court retire
ment bill through Congress:
When q wilful Southern gentle
man who gave his enemies NJ
quarter, died, his small daughte
asked her nurse:
NANNY, do you think Daddy
went to Heaven?"
Honey, if it really was
Heaven he wanted, he's shore
arrived by now"
The foes of the presidential plar
are earnestly reading up on thI
virtues of the Judiciary. I over
heard part of a telephone conver
sation which took place at thu
Z round desk of the Congressiona
Library reading room.
Z, Said a clerk as he answered q
wall telephone:
"Did you say Nine Honest
Men by Lawrence? No, sir,
we haven't a copy in o.. Yes,
yes, / understand, you are a
Congressman secretary. Ger
tainly :. He wants to make a
speech for the Court. A lot of
them do. That's why we haven't
one copy of Nine Honest Men
left in the whole Library
Just a minute turning to an
other clerk. He wants to know
If there's a chance Of us find
ing Nine Honest Men some
time sOOn?"
mot a chance" was the un.
emotional answer.
The first clerk repeated the
discOuraging answer into the
telephone:
':NOt a chance for Mine Hon.
est Menu"
Back in 1921 the q. S. Geog
raphic Board succumbed to the
trend of the times and renamed
the. capital city of the Virgin
Islands, st. Thomas. Thus was
Charlotte Amalie, the name Of Vir.
gin Capital since 1872, abandoned
Today when curves and lure are
again smart, when women are re
discovering that femininity has its
advantages, this is what we hear.
The people Of the Virgin Is
lands, through an ordinance
passed by their Colonial Council
signed by Gov. Lawrence W. era
mer, and given final approval by
the Board on Geographic Names
(it succeeded the U. S. Geographic
Board)s have dispensed with the
Modern American designation oi
St. Thomas for their principal city
and have readopted the old Danish
name, Charlotte Alaalie."
The Department of Interior ap
proves the change.
The readopted name was first
given the little harbor town in
1873 by King Christian v of Den
mark in honor of his consort, hel
royal higfness, Princess Charlotte
AmaIie It survived with slight
variations until 1921.
The Director of the Mint. Nellie
Tayloe Ross, who has bought
Trappe, the 150.year-old Parrar
homestead in Calvert county, ir
Baltimore, the other day was
shown many Parran family rec
ords and portraits by Mrs. Francis
J. Parran. Mrs. Parran went tc
Mrs. Ross new home as a bride
and treasures the family heir
looms. She is active in the So
ciety Of Colonial Danes Of Amer
lea.
"Is DR.. Thomas Parran. Surgeon
General of the U. S. Public Health
Service, related to you?" asked
Mrs. Ross.
"All Parrans are related" said
Mrs. Parran proudly.
10 Davidson. citizen Of the
world and sculptor. who has done
statutes of Mussolini, Clemenceau
John D. Rockefeller. Chaliapir
and Rabanadrath Tagore, and
Lowell Mellett, Washington edi
tor, are about to start on a trir
around the world. They plan tt
look in on New Zealand, Scandi
ilayia, South Africa, South Amer
lea. China and points between
The globe trotters will stay away
as long as they wish-six months
eight months, year. And come
home, I trust. a highly educated
pair.
Mrs. Allen Ellender, wife o.
the new Senator from Louisiana
campaigned with her husband il
every parish in his Louisiana
district. She has kept a scrap
book of everything her husband
has said and everything other
have said about him.
+ Miss Lou, unmarried sister o
Representative Sam Rayburn
keeps house on her brother
Texas farm while Sam direct
the Democrats in the House o
Representatives. Sam says Mis-
Lou is the best cook in the Lon
Star State. If this session o
Congress is ever over. he is &C
ing back to the farm as fast a
he can get there. Two of. tn
Democratic floor leaders hobbie
are pure bred cows and Gen. Rot
ert E. Lee.
tWhat the Well Dressed MAJ