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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

history that will not be found pre-
served in the clubs annals.
But in the 10 or 80 volumes Of
Gridiron records, with their TO-.
900 manuscript pages of memo
rieS, brought together by Historian
Ernest G. Walker-first and only
member to hold that position,
created in 1929 on motion OF
James L. Wright, Washington cor"
respondent of the Buffalo News
there are echoes of all other events.
incidents and individual perform
ances thought worthy at the time
of a place on the gridiron.
StOfer's Song Lives
And there are memories as well
of the club and it's members, Of its
song, its development, Of its tribu'
lations, and its triumphs.
Major Alfred J. Stofer's song
classic of the old South, de Water
million Hangin' on de Vine," first
heard on his cousins farm in
Orange county, Va, and revived
and perfected by Major Stofer him.
self in the 80 or IS years when it
was sung regularly at Gridiron
gatherings. Herndon Morsell'S
singing of "The Song That
Reached My Heart" and that
other colored folk song of the deep
South, which for years now has
been sung as pictures Of members
who have died are thrown on the
screen, are all preserved in the
clubs archives, together with the
story Of their infiltration into the
clubs programs.
Those who have attended Grid
iron dinners and seen the fleeing
faces pass in review as the room is
darkened and hush comes over
the guests will always thereafter
be able to
Hear dem bells, don't you hear
dem bells
Dey's a-ringin' out de glory OBJ
de Lamb.
And there will return, too, the
strains of that other favorite, sung
at Gridiron dinners for 10, these
many years:
There's music in the air
When the infant morn is nigh,
And faint its blush is seen
On the bright and laughing
sky.
It is all there in the Gridiron
records, so far as the printed
page can preserve the flavor Of
neVer-to-be-forgotten nights.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
.ALLY PROVES
ADEPTP0KER
PLAYER
Wins 500 Francs From
Duke and Others
At Chateau
By KENNETH T. DOWNS

MONTS, France, May % QN.S0.
Mrs. Wallis Warfield, the Duke
Of Windsor's bride-to-be, is the
canniest poker player at the
Chateau de Candle.
She demonstrated her superior
ity in telling style, international
News Service learned today, one
evening this week after dinner
with the Duke and Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman L. Rogers.
In two hours Of play at the
sometimes hair-raising dealers
choice type Of poker-stud or draw
Mrs. Warfield came out the big.
gest winner.
Won 500 Francs
She won 500 francs in a game
with a 20-franc limit.
Her future husband, Rogers and
a number Of dinner guests were
the losers. Mrs. Rogers came out
slightly ahead, but well behind the
American-born prospective Ouch
eSS.
Persons who saw the game
described Mrs. Warfield's style Of
play as Intelligent and courage
GUS"
Can't Be Bluffed
She can't be bluffed, they said
and there was something like awe
in their voices when they said it,
The Duke, on the other hand,
played an cratic game, according
to witnesses, while Rogers played
steadily if not spectaculariy.
The poker session was the first
evening of cards at the chateau
since the Duke arrived. Most OF
the guests there don't particularly
care for cards, it was explained
preferring outdoor sports.
Honeymoon plans of the couple
were still undecided. Rogers de
clared today that search for a
suitable yacht was still in prog
reSs.
The Duke Of Westminster
Guilty Sark had been sought but
was found to be unavailable as
the owner had made plans for
salmon fishing trip.
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D. {. SALES TAX
PROPOSED
CONTINUED from Page ~

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sales tax be place don the retailer.
The committee recommended food
be exempted.
Sales Base 265 Millions
The report stated that retail
sales in the District in the last
calendar year amounted to $685..
000, 900 and, exempting 10000
900 for food, would leave a field
or $685., 000,0 900 for the sales tax.
In addition to recommending
the new taxes. the committee
urged that a $4,000 appropria-
ton be Authorized by Congress so
that the entire tax field in the
District might be thoroughly
studied in time to make report
to the Commissioners and Con-
greSs at the close Of the 1888
fiscal year.
HAGEN said all the bills will be
forwarded to the House tax sub
committee headed by Representa-
tive Ambrose j. Kennedy Cd
Maryland, and to the Senate APP
preparations subcommittee headed
by Senator Elmer Thomas CD
of Oklahoma, next week.
The committee recommended
that the District be permitted to
borrow from the Federal Treasury
sufficient funds to carry its rum
ming expenses until the new tax
collections are made. The COM
mittee is composed Of Auditor
Daniel j. Donovan, chairman;
Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal,
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Vernon E. West, Director Of High
ways H. C. Whitehurst, Public
Utilities Commissioner Richmond
B. Keech, Tax ASSESSOR Fred D.
Allen and H. D. Scantlin, member
Of the board of tax assessors.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
Mrs. Herman Denied
Sioht Of Wounded Son

NEW YORK, May % U.N.S0.
Mrs. Helen Herman, accused of
the torch and ak Staying Of her
seven-year-old daughter, today
begged authorities to let her see
her four-year-old son, Jimmy, re-
covering from wounds police say
were inflicted by his mother.
1t was the first time she ex-
pressed concern over her boy since
her arrest earlier in the week. Dis
trict Attorney l.. Barron Hill re-
fused to grant the request, as he
prepared to bring the Long Island
Staying case to a quick trial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

Mark Sullivan, newspaper writer and his
torian and member Of the club, has covered
substantially the same field in his series Of
books. In doing so he has managed like
wise to bring back the movement, color and
pageantry of the days with which he deals.
Yet the Gridiron records in review, it
examined Understandings, tell their own
staccato story of period in which America
has Advanced to first rank as q world pOMer
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
HON CABLES
BUZZ WITH
APPEALS
Filipino Boycott For
Consular Dinner Is
Threatened

MANILA, p. l., May % Q.N.S0.
Gables buzzed here today as for
eign diplomats cabled their home
offices frantic appeals for advice
in the face of q diplomatic crisis"
growing out Of High Commissioner
Paul v. McNutt's determination
that his office will take precedence
over that of Commonwealth Presi-
dent Manuel Quezon.
McNutt issued a warning to all
foreign consuls that in accordance
with terms Of the Philippine in
dependence act all communities
tionS must be addressed to him
rather than to President Quezon.
At the same time McNutt is said
to have demanded that at all diplo-
matte dinners President Roosevelt
be toasted first, McNutt second,
and President Quezon third.
Boycott Likely
Offices of the consuls were non
commital today, but most indi-
Gated they had asked their home
countries for advice.
Manila officials, however, indi-
Gated they might boycott the
forthcoming foreign consuls ban
quet if McNutt insists he be
toasted ahead Of Preside en- t
Quezon.
No objection was made to toast
ing President Roosevelt first.
Neither McNutt nor Quezon,
between whom observers believe q
Showdown" is looming, had any
comment to make regarding the
expected diplomatic crisis"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

Americas war policy was con.
cerned. Not until he returned
from Paris with the peace treaty
did the tide turn against him.
When the Teapot Dome scan.
dial broke over the heads of the
Harding cabinet following his
death, and the country learned
for the first time some of the
things which had been whispered
or observed in Washington for
months past, the denouement was
so tragic and in its implications
so fraught with danger to the
Government, that the Gridiron
Club decided to ignore it entirely.
This is one episode in American
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
Movie Contest Films
Sent to HOny wood

Hundreds Of feet Of movie
film arrived in Hollywood, Calf,
today for developing and print
ing at the Metro oldwyn-Ma
studios after 16 young men and
women appeared before the cam
era this week on the Capitol
Theater stage in The Washing
ton Times and M-G.M quest for
talent"
Somewhere in this film is the
winner who is to be sent to
the film capital for a chance to
make good in the movies.
After the films are developed,
they will be previewed by pro
ducers and casting directors be-
fore being rushed back, to wash.
ington by plane. It is expected
the film will arrive next Tuesday
or Wednesday at, washington
Airport.
The four tests selected from lie
16 will be shown on the Capitol
Theater screen on the first three
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

ITO suspend the writ Of
habeas corpus.
"To declare martial law.
"TO override the Supreme
Court.
"To declare war.
ITO raise the ante"
SUPPORTED TEDDY
Just as it put the emphasis Of
the clubs programs back Of VII
son during the period Of the
World War, the Gridiron mem
bers expressed their friendship
for Theodore Roosevelt in 1901
with this song:
'Wall Street may say it's against
you, but don't you mind;
wall Street il not the whole
country, as it will find.
There's q few Of us out in the
suburbs who'll have q say;
Wen have q chance to vote for
you when comes election day."
As long ago as January, 1907, the
club built a program around the
coming Capitalization Of power II
Washington, picturing Theodore
Roosevelt as the last President
The Republic was to perish final!
in 1917. The President was to be
succeeded by an emperor.
T. R. was present and enjoyed
it hugely. He had already told the
members of the club and theil
guests that II reelected that veal
he would not be a candidate fol
a third term in the White House
In the following years the EN-
phaSis shifted to the trusts, the
tariff, the North Pole controversy
the Bull Moose campaign Of 1912
frenzied finance and prohibition
Finanlly came the war-al
though there was not line in thu
Gridiron dinner program OF tn
spring OF 1914 to suggest its i'm
minence, nor for that matter wa
there any warning or premonitior
of it in the publications of that
period, up to the month Of July
The war programs were marked BY
an intense patriotism. These were
great days, when the temper o.
the country was at concert pitch
and events played on human emo
tionS in a way made possible only
when a peoples destiny is in thu
balance.
When Tide Turned
In those days President WilSo-
had the csnacity to arouse hi
audiences, including the guests a
Gridiron dinners, to fervor which
left no room for dissent wher|
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
TO SLASH.
RELIEF SHIFTS
TO SENATE
House Bill as Passed
Calls for Sum Asked
BY President
International News Services


The battle to slash the Admins.
tration's proposed 1,500-million-
dollar relief program shifted to
the Senate today after the House
had registered emphatic approval
of the sum recommended by PreSi'
dent Roosevelt.
While the House postponed until
Monday final action on the relief
measure, there was admittedly
little chance of reversal Of the
210-to12S test" vote for the 1900
million-dollar fund.
Approves Rider
A closer vote in the House on
cutting the appropriation for
WPA and other relief activities
to $500 million dollars indicated
the possibility Of a final compro.
mise under the Administration
figure If the Senate carries out
the proposal Of Senator ByrneS
CD Of South Carolina, to reduce
the fund to an even billion dollars.
The House, in approving the
1,500-million dollar fund, also
adopted a rider" directing the
Administration to budget its relief
funds so that the amount will last
for the entire IL months beginning
July !. During the last three
years, deficiency appropriations
have been sought for relief after
funds provided for a whole year
ran out before the year was }.
Fights for PWA
When the House convenes on
Monday, Representative Better
Cd, of New York, planned to lead
a fight to allocate $500, 000, 900 Of
the $1,590, 100000 for the Public
Works Administration.
With the support of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor, he
planned to demand continuance
of PWA, with abandonment Of the
present requirement that only re-
lief labor be used on projects.
Other amendments allocating
large sums of the relief fund for
road building. flood control and
similar activities are to be thrust
before the House.
The House Swamped proposals
Of liberals to increase the fund to
from $4,000, 100000 to 1000, 0Oo,.
600.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
NNUTT PRECEDENCE DECREE STUNS MANILA DIPLOMATS
u. s. Rise to World
Power MiIrOred i'm
GridirOn Records
By r. A. HUNTLEY

In the Gridron Club records deposited the Library
Congress have been brought together spot the
hghghts of half century of Americas advance along the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
MORE PLANES
IN POLE HOP
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
follow. Four occupants of the
plane that landed yesterday will
remain on the floe for a year, en-
gagged In scientific research while
their base drifts about the pole.
Although there have been other
expeditions to the North Pole, the
Soviet venture is the first Of its
kind ever accomplished.
Study Air Route
The party flew $50 miles from
the temporary base in a multi
motored plane to the landing place
beyond. the pole in little more
than six hours after taking off.
M. v. Vodorianov was chief pilot.
In addition to Professor Schmidt,
other members of the party were
Copilots Spirin and Babushkin,
both famous Russian airmen, Me-
chanic Bassein, Radio Operator
Krenkel, Camp Chief Papanin,
Hydrobiologist Shirshov and Mag
nitologist Federov. The latter four
intend to spend a year on the floe.
They will study meteorological
conditions in connection with the
soviet governments plan to
launch an air service to the
western hemisphere over the top
of the world instead of around
the world.
Excellent Site
Schmidt radioed Dictator Josef
Stain and Premier v. M. MolotoV
telling them of the party's sue.
cessful landing and declaring the
site was excellent for a permanent
Arctic scientific station.
He explained the landing was
accomplished Is minutes after
the Pole was reached but that
news could not be sent out i'm.
mediately owing to difficulties
with the planes radio apparatus.
The explorer said his compan-
ions were clearing a space to per.
NIT the expeditions other planes
to land with supplies and equip
ment.
FOrty.twO Men in Party
The professor in his message
to Moscow apologized for the
lapse Of time occasioned by the
radio breakdown. He said:
1--WE feel that by the interrup.
ton Of communication we have
inadvertently caused you alarm.
We are very sorry. Hearty greet
ingS. Please report to the party
and to the government the full
fiIlment Of the first part Of our
task"
The expedition plans to plant a
red silk flag bearing a picture of
Stain, another bearing the Soviet
hammer and sickle and a third
blue flag, emblem Of the northern
sea route, at the top Of the world
The entire expedition consists
of AZ men, most Of whom will stay
at Rudolf Island.
During the coming year, If
planes are unable to land at the
polar base. men and supplies will
be dropped there by parachute.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

emerged from stronger than before, and recap
tured along the way something of the solidarity of purpose
which gave birth the Republic and carried it through the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
FrdnConia Firemen
Seek New Apparatus

FRANCONIA, Va, May 90.
Members Of the Franconia Fire De-
partment today were soliciting
funds from residents of the Mount
Vernon district Of Fairfax county
for the purchase Of a new fire
truck.
The truck, already ordered, will
be equipped for use in rural areas.
It's 300-gallon booster tank will give
it the largest water carrying ca
pacity Of any engine in this sec.
ton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

days in June and the winning
test will run all week, starting
June 4.
If the film arrives on time, a
sneak" preview will be held for
contestants in the 11ovie contest
at 1880 p. m. mex Wednesday,
when the is young men and
women will remain after the regu-
lar show to see hoy they look
under the critical eye Of the
camera.
v Watch The Times for further
developments in this quest for
talent"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22

guest list grew, the fame Of the
club grew with it. Gradually the
organization acquired its present
character as a dining club which,
patriotic to The core, employs
against cant, pomrosity, pretense,
charlatanisln and questionable
public policies the most effective
weapons to be found-truth and
rioicule, crysta.lise6 in satire.
Nobody Sacred
It has laugh d at Presidents, at
Congress, at the Supreme Court,
at events, at individuals, at poll
cies. When the country's life or
the national honor have been at
stake it has stood squarely behind
the nations leaders, as when it
sang, introducing President Will.
son in 1916, a year before the
United States entered the war:
All through the land they're
talking,
Wilson, of you:
And eUerytDhere they're calling,
Calling for you."
But when the crisis was pas the
club offered as President Wilson's
favorite poem--this was during
the long Senate fight which ended
in rejection of the Treaty Of Yer
sailles, with Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts, as leader
of the opposition: "Oh for Lodge
in some vast wilderness"
One of the dinners which stand
out in Gridiron history was the
Army Dinner of December 8, 1893,
with President Mckinley and Vice
President Hobart as guests. The
dinner was attended also by Presi-
dent Don Raf;.el IglesiaS of Costa
Rica, by Admiral Schley and by
half a dozen g nerals who had
fought in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Although Admiral Dewey was still
with re fleet, the other war
heroes were received with plauditS.
and a current congressional inveS.
tigation into the conduct of the
war was burlesqued first by a
song
"HuSh, hush, hush,
Here comes the bogte man."
and then the findings" IF the
committee a. reported at the din.
ner:
First, we find there has been
a war: Second, we find that
Spain has been licked; Third,
we find that all AnglO-Ameri-
cans stood together"
COURT ISSUE OLD
Today's Supreme Court issue Is
not new. The present contro-
versy and Mr.. Dooley's remark
that 9TH Soo-preme Court fol
lows tn elections" are recalled
by the Gridiron clubs answer in
1901 to the question: I'm whom
is the Judicial power of the United
States vested?" The answer
"Tn the Supreme Court Of
the United States when it does
rot run against the Chicago
platform, and in such number
of inferior courts as may be
necessary to provide places for
extinct statesmen"
Poker playing Gear" Cannon
in the days when he ruled the
House with a roc of iron, before
the Rules Committee was created
to take over this function. was
made the butt Of these jibes:
"AlI bills raising revenue
and all bills disSipating the
same shall originate in the
Speakers chair.
"The Speaker shan have
power:
ITO alter any Of these rules.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-22
State Department Dodges
New dolly Cans" squabbIe
BY ROBERT G. NIXON
International News Service


All you had to do in the Sacro-
sanct halls of the State Depart
ment today to make strong he
man diplomats turn deathly pale
and shake as with the ague was to
mention the name of McNutt.
Not one was left among all the
hundreds of dashing foreign Serv.
ice officers who carry American
traditions into the faraway places
of the earth who could summon a
brave smile, a casual shrug OF the
shoulders and retort:
"McNuttS to yOu."
For, 5000 miles away, in Manila,
the new United States high COM
missioner to the Philippines, for
mer Governor Paul c. McNutt, Of
Indiana, had raised the sacred and
controversial subject Of protocol,
and the State Department, remem-
bering the famous Dolly Gam row,
was suffering a first-claSS case Of
filters.
Starts Row Promptly
Scarcely had the tall, handsome
and ambitious Indianan set foot
in the Philippine Commonwealth
than he began to put his new
political household in order.
The cables buzzed hotly with
news that High Commissioner Nc
Mutt was proceeding in character
istic American go-getter fashion
to put the FilipinoS in their places.
At official functions, so a Nc
Mutt edict addressed to officials
Of the PHILIPPINE Commonwealth
and heads of the missions Of for
eign nations in Manila, when
toasts are drunk, they must be
in this order:
First, to the President Of the
United States; second, to High
Commissioner McNutt, and last,
to President Manuel Quezon Of
the PHILIPPINE Commonwealth. :.
And was that all? Not by a
hatful.
ENJOYS In Turmoil
To the foreign legations, over
McNutt'S Furnishing signature
also went peremptory notice that
hereafter when foreign diplomats
had something to say to the
Philippine Government, they could
take it up with McNutt, or not at
all.
And the proud and excitable
FilipinoS, who are just beginning
to feel in their breasts the sweet
surge Of freedom, promptly went
into high dudgeon.
The upshot is that High Com.
missioner McNutt'S official func-
lions are threatened with colder
shoulder.
The State Department protocol
office, which determines just who
should sit where and to whom
toaStS and other honorS should
be accorded in their proper order.
was asked for a ruling on Nc
Nuts ediet.
Protocol officers sideStepped the
issue as deity and swiftly as Joe
Louis lodges haymaker to the
Jaw. They dropped it ker.plunk
on the doormat Of the War De
partment, which divides with the
State Department official atten-
ton to American rule over the
commonwealth.
First to Raise Issue
But, privately, they recalled that
no such offenSe to the pride Of
the Filipinos was committed by
previous high commissioners. They
simply tactfully ignored the issue,
it was said.
In the War Department, how
ever, spokesman insisted McNutt
was within his rights under Amer
lean law and precedents. The Phil
ippineS, they pointed out, are still
under United States jurisdiction.
The high commissioner is the high
est ranking American official
there, the Presidents own personal
representative, and should be
treated as if he were the President
in person.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-20
WHAT YOU SHOULD
KNOW ABOUT
FACE PIMPLES

These disfguring little spots often
result from slight, temporary dis
turbance, or merely from incorrect
cleansing, or sometimes they are
more persistent due to deeper in
ternal causes.
While properly treating the I'M
DERIVING cause, you can relieve the
itchy, burning soreness and help
your skin by using an ointment that
viii keep the medication in contact
with the pirnply spots. Apply it
every night and leave it on all
night. It does a world of good.
For more than 40 years people
have used Resinol Ointment to fill
this need. It soothes the Irritation
and aids healing. It also treats the
oil pores where many surface PIN
pies start. Washing first with
Resinol Soap quickens the pleasing
results.
Buy a jar Of Resinol Ointment
and cake of Resinol Soap from any
druggist. For; free sample write
Resinol. Dept. 10. Baltimore. Md.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-20
MORALES RITES
HELD in MIAMI
FORMER KEY WESTER DIED
IN THAT CITY ON
MONDAY

Funeral services for Edelmiro
Morales, who died Monday in
Miami following a long Illness,
were held yesterday from a Mi
ami moratorium. Interment was
in Woodlawn cemetery.
The deceased was, for many
years, a resident of Key West and
conducted a coffee shop at the
corner of Fitzpatrick and Greene
streets. He moved to Tampa and
later took up his residence in Mi
ami.
Survivors are: his widow. Mrs.
Margarita Morales; two sons,
Edelmiro, Jr., of Tampa, and Mes
tor, OF Miami. one daughter Nora,
OF Tampa and two sisters, Mrs.
Rose Valdez and Miss Eduina
Morales. of Havana.