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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-30
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The Washington times., 1937-01-11

Annual dinner of the White
House Correspondents AsSocia-
tion, at which President Roosevelt
will be the guest of honor, will
be held at the Mayflower Hotel,
February 81, according to an
nouncement by Fred Storm, presi-
dent of the association.
Committees handling the dinner
and program for the evening are !:
Dinner committee, Charles w.
B. Hurd, New York Times, chair
man; Earl Goodwin, Washington
Times; Philip Pearl, Universal
Service; Robert E. Henderson,
Central News; Lee P. Hart, New
York Journal of Comerce; Frank
lyn Waltman, jr., Washington
Post; BaScom TimmonS, Houston
Chronicle; Raymond Clapper,
ScrippS-Howard Newspapers.
Entertainment mite e,
George E. Durno, International
News Service, chairman; Walter
]. Trojan, Chicago Tribune; John
ODonnel, New York Daily News;
John O'Brien, New York Herald
Tribunte; Kurt Sell, German
News Agency.
Reception committee, ]. Russell
Young, Washington Star, chair
man: Edwin w. Gableman, Gin
cinnah Enquirer; Harold Oliver,
Associated Press: Lewis Wood.
New York Times; Erwin D. Can
ham, Christian Science Monitor;
Thomas Edmunds, New York
Times; Albert L. Warner, New
York Herald Tribune; Ray Tucker,
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate; !;
Paul Mallon, North American
Newspaper Alliance; Henry L.
Sweinhart, HavaS News Agency;
Kurt Sell, German News Agency.
Decorations, Harold Oliver, AS
Sociated Press, chairman; Rudolph
The Washington times., 1937-01-11
News SCribeS to Fete
Chief Executive

de Zapp, Washington Times; Rob
ert Kintner, New York Herald
Tribune; Harold Brayman, Phila-
delphia Evening Public Ledger.
Invitations, Philip Pearl, Uni
versal Service, chairman; Robert
E. Henderson, Central News;
George E. Durno, International
News Service; Harold Oliver, AS
sociated Press; John O'Donnell,
New York Daily News; Fulton
Lewis, jr., Universal Service; Earl
Goodwin, Washington Times.
Printing committee, Claude Ma
honey, Wall Street Journal, chair
man; Sidney Olson, Washington
Post; Henry Hyde, Baltimore Eve
ming Sun; Francis McCaffrey,
Central News; Thomas L. Stokes,
New York World Telegram.
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TINES AWARD
IS LAUDED

Selecting Washington's most
useful citizen in 1885 was "one
of the most difficult yet pleasant
tasks" he has ever been called
upon to perform, J. Nelson Ander-
son, a member of the Citizens
Service Award Committee, stated
yesterday.
Mr.. Anderson, who was one Of
the group who picked DR.. CuSttS
Lee Hall for the honor Of receiV-
ing the loving cup award by The
Washington Times for the per-
son who contributed most to the
welfare of the city during 1886,
praised The Times for sponsoring
such a project. He said:
ut was an honor and a privl-
lege to serve on the Citizens
Award Committee, and I feel
that The Washington Times
should be commended for pro-
noting and sustaining such q
worthy endeavOr."
The civic leader pointed out
that the task of selecting the re-
cipient of the award was diff
cult one, as there were number
of District residents who gave
both their time and energy for
civic betterment.
He added that the committee
spent much time in its review of
the accomplishments of those
citizens whose names were sub
mitted for consideration, and that
the members of the committee
were able to arrive at a unani-
nous decision only by the Selec-
ton of DR.. Hall as the outstand-
ing nominee.
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The Washington times., 1937-01-11
Man, Woman Held

Leon Ponzie, 25, alias Rudolph
Costello, was under arrest today
on a charge of violating the
white-slave law. Jean Mabel Car
roll, 10, alias Grace Mabel
WeintZ, a Camden IN. J) girl
is being held at the Women's
Bureau as a witness. The pair
were taken into custody Satur-
day morning,
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The Washington times., 1937-01-11
Society Plans Ball

The IL newly-elected members
of the Pennsylvania delegation in
the House of Representatives will
be the guests at an entertainment
and dance of the Pennsylvania So
ciety at 9 o'clock tomorrow night
at the Mayflower Hotel.
Election of officers will be held
prior to the entertainment. The
Pennsylvania Railroad Glee Club
will present a program of songs.
The Washington times., 1937-01-11
Death Penalty Favored

FREEPORT, N. Y, Jan. IL
d.N.S0.-District Attorney Mar
tin w. Littleton was on record to-
day as opposed to abolishing capi-
tai punishment for persons under
the age of 18. He said that if MUIR
derers, of less than 18, could es-
cape execution, gangsterS would
make a practice of employing
them as trigger men,"
The Washington times., 1937-01-11
Bowler Passes Away

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Joseph
Thum, 70, widely known bowler,
and former president Of the Inter
national Bowling Association, was
dead here today. He was born in
Germany and came to the United
States in 1876. In 1923 and 1926
he captained the American team
in world bowling tournaments.
The Washington times., 1937-01-11
CITIZEN GROUP
FLAYS JACOBS
BUDGET DATA
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Association Editor

Expressing deep resentment at
the report submitted by the Fiscal
Relations Committee appointed
by the President, to study and
render a report on a just fixed
fiscal policy between the Federal
and District Governments, the
Mount Preasant Citizens Associa-
ton, at a meeting Saturday night
in the Mount Pleasant Branch
Library, passed resolutions dele
eating to it's executive committee
power to oppose the report in any
manner it may deem advisable.
Assertion was made that the
Fiscal Committee, instead OF
recommending a just and equlta-
BILE fiscal policy between the TWO
bodies had instead submitted o
report that was bound to meet
with general disapproval, and II
allowed to stand would place an
exorbitant tax on District resi-
dents.
Regarding Closed
The executive committee was
directed to have its report IN the
hands of the secretary Of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Association Tor
the meeting Saturday night IN the
United States Chamber Of Com
merce Building.
The District Highway Depart
ment was asked in a resolution to
make immediate changes in the
grade of Park Road between
Eighteenth and Nineteenth StS.,
to eliminate a nuisance caused by
storm water flowing over side
walks,
The association appropriated
IS for the D. C. Criminal Jus.
tice Commission, to be applied
to its application for member
ship.
DIR. Campbell Reports
DR., Charles B. Campbell, chair
man of the committee on public
health, reported on a number Of
pieces of legislation the associa'
ton will be asked to support
during the present session OF
Congress, among which is a new
pure food and drug act and q
bill to regulate the practice OF
pharmacy in the District.
The Connecticut Avenue ASso
ciation will meet tomorrow night
at the Mayflower Hotel. Thomas
Ellis Lodge, president of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations
will speak on Business and Citi
zens Association activities in the
city.
The Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association will meet tomor'
row night at 9 o'clock in the
Arcade Building, Fourteenth Street
and Park Road. Thomas Ganey,
Of the G. C. Murphy Company,
will be guest speaker. George A.
Ford, president, will preside.
The Washington times., 1937-01-11
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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-07-02
NAIL.- |. s

rying parsons in Elkton have won their
fight. Thus the syndicate which con-
Quoted the marrying parlors at East
Main street and Delaware avenue has
applied to the Ellston Town Council for
a permit to build a gas station And
thus the Revs. Charles M Cope. Edward
Minor and Joseph T. Baker. who did
most of the actual marrying, find that
they are now in the ranks of the un-
employed.
The funny thing is that not so long
ago these marrying parsons were nav-
Ing q good laugh at the expense Of jus
tees of the Peace in Pennsylvania S
own Gretna Green. Media, in Delaware
County. close to Philadelphia But now
it becomes the turn of Fred Cooper,
Alan G. w. Mathues, Amos A. Keiser
and William Morgan to return the hi
larity in good measure.
You see, the Keystone State, before
Oct. /. 1885, had no law about delayed
marriages. All you had TO do was to
go to the City Hall. get a license and
then take It to magistrate, judge or
minister. as you desired.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-07-02
CURTAINS 7Hs MAI
BY Madelin BIitzstein

%w@ IIOUGH everyone knows that
eloping couples always seek out
d Gretna Green where the mari
tai knot can,be tied with a mimi
mum of red tape, not everyone knows
why these hasty marriage Meccas are
called Gretna Green.
The reason is that when, in 1854,
eloping English lads and lassies were
prevented from having the ceremony
performed. as IL had been previously, IN
the Fleet prison IN London, they had to
look for hospitality elsewhere.
The cordial reception these runaway
pairs sought was offered to them Just
across the border in the nearest village
on the Scottish side, there. at Gretna
Green or Graitney Green as ii was
often called, all they had to do to be-
come man and wife was to declare their
wish to marry in the presence of wit
nesses.
The ceremony was usually performed
by the village blacksmith, but the toll
keeper, the ferrynaan, or any other
adult might ofIiciate
As many as 200 couples were mar
ried at the dollhouse in single year
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-07-02

ANOR II years. reformers had been try
ing to put legislation through for de-
layed marriages; the lobbyists for the
Justices of the Peace and marrying par
sons managed to defeat the bills
Finally Anna Brancato, the only
woman in the Pennsylvania Legislature,
and a bachelor girl herself, sponsored
the bill which became a law on Oct 1.
1898: it requires three days notice be-
fore the issuance of a license to wed.
Thus almost two years ago Media was
ruined as marriage mart
The, marrying parsons OF Elkton, sew
eral OF whom were employed by the
taxi syndicate. started on large adver-
tislng campaign The Rev. Edward
Minor. who, after nine years as a mar
ryIng parson had been defrocked by
the Baptist Church, helped to proclaim
the wares Of the Rev Joseph r. Baker,
who split the fees with him. And the
taxi company. for whom the Rev. C. NJ
Cope worked at salary of $4,000 per
annIlm. refurbished the billboards in
bigger and bolder type
But in Elkton itself there were ele-
ments opposed to the marriage traffic
The Town Council issued an edict for
bidding all advertising billboards and
signs Men were sent around to take
down the signs and several tussles en-
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-07-02

Alan Eathues, one of the former
marrying justices of Media, Pa.
who now has the laugh on the Elkson
parsons who last year were laughing
at him.
ILKTON got its first chance in 1913,
when both New Jersey and Della
ware tightened their marriage laws. AS
matter Of fact, Maine was the pioneer
for all delayed marriage legislation
when 1t passed a delayed marriage law
as early as 1853 number Of states
followed, but four Of them Colorado,
Iowa, Wyoming and Tennessee later
repealed their DELAYED marriage legis-
lation
In Delaware, where once marriage
was easy and Wilmington was the scene
Of midnight weddings, licenses are now
issued by Clerks of Peace and Justices
of the Peace in the various counties
They must be obtained "a hours before
the certificate if either party is resi-
dent Of the state but il both are nom
residents, then 96 hours must eIapse
between license and altar
Ii Philadelphians want a hasty we'd
ding. their best bet is Washington, d
c., where, with the consent of parents
or guardians, boys can marry as young
as l6 and girls as early as IA. Notice or
residence il not required; licenses are
good Immediately after issued
From Philadelphia il is l42 miles to
the nations capital with stop-offs, if de-
sired at Pimlico, Laurel and Bowie for
the races these warm days
This delayed marriage idea seems TO
be catching on very quickly; Washing
ton may soon become the center for
hasty weddings just as it is for many
other quick changes, New York, where
one could always gst license and get
married with it the same day, resident
or not, recently adopted law requiring
a 72-hour interval West Virginia.
which had little Gretna Green of its
own in Welisburg, has Just passed d
new law similar to MaryIand's
The future looks dark for marrying
parsons. II promises even more strin-
gent laws requiring afIidavits and
health examinations. Since Connecti-
cuts required blood test marriage
law" marriages in that state dropped
by two-thirds and Greenwich, the Com
necticut Gretna Green, suffered d total
and probably permanent eclipse IN that
capacity.
In the meantime, EIkton is little more
than a historic landmark as far as mar
rage is concerned The gravy from
Pennsylvania has evaporated. The theme
song is not wedding bells but the blues.
It's curtains for the marriage mills un-
less Would-be elopers raise such hue
and cry that the delayed marriage laws
get repealed.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-07-02


Md, by runner for the ~nsar-
riage syndicate"
In 1855, however, this romantic traffic
came TO a sudden end when the law
suddenly was revised 70 require that
one of the contracting parties be q
resident of Scotland for at least three
weeks prior 10 the event.
And just as 1856 spelled doom for the
marriage business Of Gretna Green. the
summer Of 1887 has written large and
ominous Finis over the lucrative elope-
nent business which served to bring
countless dollars into the little town OF
Elkton, Md
While the Scottish Green counted its
clipping couples in the hundreds, the
allied as they were with the taxicab
syndicate and street arnnners." all
equipped for fast service, figured their
trade in the thousands
Last year. as a matter of fact. this
town Of 1891 population bore witness to
1852 marriages. il was estimated that
the town made between 100000 and
SI50,000 year out of these clipping
couples. And the state. in its turn, took
in revenue of two bucks a couple
making $4,000 in all in 1885.
RUT today all that glory is a thing OF
the past. The hasty wedding in
dustry has been ruined by the passage
Of Maryland's gin marriage act. !" which
Senator W. f. Davis of Denton intro
duced last February, and which went
into effect on June 1.
Thus the marriage reformers who
sought for. years to do away with the
evils of bargain matches and mar
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-07-02
riage mart.

sued. The signs did come down in the
fall of 1888.
With their signs barred in Elkton, the
marrying parsons erected their outdoor
advertising paraphernalia in Delaware,
just across the state line, four miles
from Elkton. Business doomed. Penn
sylvanians nocked and Quaker City IN
habitants found the distance of 40 miles
to the first county seat over the Mary
land state line pleasant motor trip.
But all that is story of past gran
deur and Elkton. ike Media, is today a
city Of sadness where the marrying
gentlemen" have had to return to what
eyer prosaic jobs they could find.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-07-02

Alan Mathues one of the former
marrying justices of Media, Pa.
who now has the laugh on the Elkson
parsons who last year were laughing
at him
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-30

Reports from Washington say thai
all western senators are united in
opposing the proposal of Secretary
Ickes of the Department of the In
terror that leasing system on pub
lie lands shall replace the long es-
tablished method of locating mineral
and proving up claims.
Discovery of minerals in the open
public domain has always been es-
sential to the establiS hment of a
valid claim giving the discoverer
a right to and control over a tract
of land 1900 feet long by 60 feet
wide. superior to all others, insuring
the prOspetor of a reasonable mea-
sure of tha fruits of his toll and
return for years of sacrifice.
Repeal of this principle would
abrogate and set aside the mining
laws, rules and regulations built up
in three quart ers of a century, the
western representative agree.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-30
1t Sounds Like
Fairy Tale But
We'll Print IT

Construction of a plant to take
oil out of the famous Athabaska tar
sands, near McMurray, Alberta, has
developed a gold mine, although it's
said shat gold and oil don't mix.
The sands are washed with hot
water and the oil floats out of the
pump in a quiet-zone flotation cell
Discovery was made that in the pro-
cess of washing the sand, gold was
appearing in the bottom of the
equipment. 1t is reported, without
confirmation. that the gold recovery
Is 25 cents per yard, which makes
of it a highly profitable gold OPP
Grafton with the oil recovery
thrown in" The plant was fl
nanced and constructed by Max
Ball of Denver.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-30
FAIRvIEW Mine
PICKS UP RICH
25-FOOT LEAD

The main ore body of the Fair.
view mine, near Sheridan, Mont
object of half century of prospect
ing-has been encountered by a
1200-foot tunnel driven by C. M
RoOs and associates.
The tunnel tapped the ore 500
feet below the outcropping on the
surface and it showed $24.25 per
ton of silver and lead across a face
of four feet. A streak of high
grade showed $50.27 per ton. The
lead is 25 feet wide, as shown by
a cross-cut.
The ore body was located as a
result of the engineering work of
L. s. Ropes, Helena mining engin-
eeI. who figured out the effect of
faulting to find the lead, the ore
of which is EXPOSED on the surface,
asgaying $3.50 per ton at grass
roots.
The strike came on the day of
ROOs' 25th wedding anniversary
which was. he said, a golden"
rather than a mere
silver anniversary.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-30
State Miners Oppose
Bill To Change Claim
Filings On u. S. Lands

Objection any alteration of the laws pertaining fiji
ing of mining claims emphatcaly voiced by Montana
miners in the sessions of the Mining Association of Montana
in Helena Thursday
The meeting the largest the history of the organ
zaion and gave the industry opportunity get acquainted
with members of the state legislature nearly all of whom
attended the banquet Thursday evening Shrine Temple
where Dr. Francis A. Thompson, president of Montana
School of Mines told the large assembage that Montana
rich mineral will produce wealth in the future
tlan thev have in the INST