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The Washington times., 1937-12-15

lin, 2Z, IN SUBURBAN camp Hill.
Miss Griffin remained under
police guard in a Philadelphia hos
pital, recuperating from a beat
ing and attempted criminal assault
at the hands of a youth who, she
contends, fired two bullets into her
employer. She was Mrs. Carpen-
ter's protege and manager of her
Germantown beauty salon.
DETAILS LACKING
Both Smillie and DR.. A. j. Craig,
the first physician to examine Mrs.
Carpenters body, insisted Miss
Griffin had not given authorities
all Of the details.
'It is my belief the girl knows
more about it than she has told
police" declared DR.. Craig. In
formed of the physicians state
ment Snillie added:
II too believe Mary Griffin
has not told all she knows"
Neither Thomas McNutt nor
Emma Anderson, chauffeur and
cook, respectively, in the home of
Mrs. N. Mclean Seabrease, so
cia1ly prominent neighbor of Mrs.
Carpenter, could identify any of
the youths questioned.
Shortly before the crime Mon
day, the cook gave sandwiches to
a man said to resemble the slayer,
while the chauffeur gave him a
lift to the Camp Hill station. Both
were confident they could pick
him out.
YOUTH SOUGHT
Meanwhile, police sought an
other youth answering the deScrip-
t1cn OF the murderer whose move
ments were traced to nearby Am
bier. District Attorney Frederick
B. Smillie was informed by train
men that passenger who boarded
the train at Camp Hill resembled
the man who a half hour earlier
shot and killed Mrs. Carpenter in
her home and beat her compan-
ion.
Detectives today were to bring
in more youths living in the neigh
borhood and ask the chauffeur
and cook to look them over. Smil.
lie said he was convinced the killer
was familiar with the routine of
the Carpenter house.
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28

Hello my many neiees and ne
phews, Uncle Gil writing.
Fate seems to be working against
rs for our mammouth get to gether,
however, don't be alarmed we shall
have our picnic. Upon talking to
DR.. Floyd II. Kinyoun, city health
commissioner, recently your Uncle
Gil was informed that due to the
prevalence of Poliomyelites, better
known to the city as Infantile
Paralysis, that it would be neces-
sary to delay the picnic at least
three week, the date to be set later.
Tt is Uncle Gil's desire to cooper
ate with the health department in
it's effort to prevent the spreading
of this dreadful disease and thus
highly favor the delay of the pic
mic until such time as is deemed
safe.
Then we can get to gether and
have that wonderful time which we
are all looking forward to.
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28
A
BOX
Who Knows?

1. What is the meaning of the
word "impromptu?"
2. What is an idyl?
3. What is a march?
4. What is a noeturne?
Lost Weeks Answers
l.. The serpent is an ancient
bass wind instrument. SO named
on account Of its resemblance to
a serpent. This instrument has been
happily replaced in modern bands
and orchestras by the tuba. It is
also the name Of a reed stop in an
organ.
2. Soto voice means softly, in a
low voice, in an undertone.
B. The tenor clef is the C clef
WREN placed upon the fourth line.
4. Fine is the end or the termin-
alton of a composition.
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28
Earn Extra Money

School days have come to an
end, which means boys and girls
everywhere have the opportunity
to make merry during the three
months vacation. Here's hoping
that a majority of the Guidites es-
pecially the boys viii find jobs and
earn money so as to help their
parents defray expenses at home.
While we're on the subject of
working, perhaps it wouldn't be a
bad idea if those of you desiring to
earn some money during your
spare time, would sell copies of
THE OMAHA GUIDE.
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28
Records of the Week
-. Let's join and bout Murray
Send tie C. mp on hs WIS
.......Solid fellow,

-. Let's join and bout Murray
Send tie C. mp on hs WIS
....solid fellow,
All round good fellow
that's Joe the Bomber"
Inspired, written, arranged, re
hearsed and recorded within TWEEN
ty-four hours after joe Louis had
annexed the fistic title of the world
by virtue of a sledge-hammer
right, the platter side, Joe the
Bomber" now riding the disc cir
cult. remains one of the most uni
quo testimonials ever accorded to
any public figure.
To Billy Hicks and his Sizzling
Six go the plaudits for the record
ing of Joe the Bomber" and to
these colored swingsters it surely
must have been a labor of love.
The Joe Louis paeon is backed by
what is labeled a ''hot dance with
the suggestive title OF fade Out
-whichc is the nice way the boys
pay their respects to his former
majesty of the square ring. This
platter has been acclaimed by Har-
lem discophileS as a natural"
Paging the sultan of secatl Mr..
Cabell Galloway makes his appear
ance on the platter circuit with
the song hit from Broadway's eur
rent 1.-THE Show is On" backed by
congo" The Hi de no Man does
rot turn on the acrobatic vocals
in the latter selection thereby CIV
ing the Galloway orchestra chance
to show off their unappreciated
instrumental v%irtuosities.
Teddy Wilson, with the usual
Billie Holiday vocals, does his best
to appease the waxhounds in Easy
Living" and "Folllng Myself"
Waxcutter Wilson borrowed sever
al Count Basic aces for this re-
eording.
The Duke is always with US. This
week Ellington sends to the fore
Barney Bigard and his Jazzopaters
who surrender to the platttrways
Get It Southern Style" and IF
You're Ever If n My Arms Again"
The first selection is, instrumental
" speaking, devoted exclusively to
the top-noteh elarinetting of reed
man Bigard, but is opposite offers
an Ellington pot pourri with all
the soloists showing to excellent
advantage.
From the brassman's bluebook
comes Henry (Red) Allen with a
handpieked crew to beat ont the
two pop ditties, Don't You Care
What Anyone Says and Meet Me
In the Moonlight
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28
Board of Health POstpOres Guidite Picnic

Those who have seen the Marx
Brothers current ilmfarce, "A Day
at the Races will recalls Ivie An
derson's singing of "All Gods Chill
lun Got Rhythm as one of the
highlights of the picture. This
week the famous Ellington song
stress offers the same number to
waxhounds with the choral as well
os arcchestral assistance of her
Boys from Dixie. And from the
"cotton Club Parade chauntress
Anderson takes as backing, "old
Plantation" for a really distin-
guished disc.
Enter Fats Waller Tor a Victor
double, Lost Love" ard Don't
You now or Don't You Care?" The
hefty vory-pounder has a little
trouble inserting his Wallerisms in
the sob-ballading of the first sci
ection, but in the latter tune he
falls in the groove with his beat
W treatment.
It's a roaring, smash banging
vindstorm and it's headed straight
for dance popularity at a mile an
hour clip. Forgive re hyp rholes
but that's just the kind of a gale
Jesse Stone and the orchestra
transfer to wax in Stone and the
r~hastna's original, "Windsforsn."
This is accomplished with a light
ening tempo, unrestrained swing
ing, and clever scoring by Maestro
Stone. Side number two reveals
"Snakey Feeling" a slower tempo'd
bur equally torrid study of low
down swing. Who Knows? This
platter may be another Swamp
Fire Rigmarole" combination.
Discophiles will like Andy Kinks
platter duo of "Worried Over You"
and "wednesday Night Hop Only
compliant is hat there is not en-
ough piano whippings from Mary
Lou Williams Mrs. kirk.
The first disc to roll from the
platter mill by Jim Mundy and his
Swing Club Seven bears the fam
liar song duo, 4 Surrender Dear"
and "Ain't Misbehaving." Though
jim Mundy and his sextet ride high
on these Jazz standbys. they ride
off the beaten track for a differ
ent" rendition of the selections.
with some above temperature vo-
calising by Walter Fuller.
Lest we forget, the melliflous
tenor Of Orlando Robertson is spot
ted for plenty of heart appeal
when hs orchestra goes to Holly
wood for the newest platter with
waikiki Weddings" Sweet Is the
Word for You and Just a Quiet
Evening" from Ready, Willing,
and Able Recommended for those
who like to combine their love-
making with their dancing.
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28
History Questions
Fill Each Blank
club.

1.--- was the founder of
Pennsylvania.
2. The Milesians were on the in
Vading people in --
3. Robert Williams was banished
l. the year --
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28

Stepin' Fetchit. Hollywood's
slowest motion and the man who
made a million dollars through his
ability to portray "doin' nothin,
expressed his sincere regrets at not
being able to meet the hundreds of
Guidite club members last Friday
meaarg at Miller park, the party
having been called off after a
lei Z one call from DR.. 7. H. Kin
youn to Uncle Gil, advising against
the gathering due to the spread
ing of Infantile Paralysis among
the children of Omaha.
Mr.. Lincoln Perry lstepin' Fet-
chit, expressed his wishes to meet
the club ON his return to our city,
and asked Uncle Gil to urge upon
each member, for him, to remain
to the principles of the Guid-
ite club.
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28
Parents Should Study
A Child Who Fears
To Face Reality
By S. Edward Gilbert

Fate had not been TOO KIND 10
IBarbar in those first impresslonable
years, between five and ten. Her
family had broken up, and Barbara
mad been sent to live with Uncle
George and Aunt Mary; a well
meaning enough pair, but not the
u pc that could make any child
feel at home.
Uncle George beloved and
Aunt Mary was always distant and
dignified. Barbara a sensitive child
was afraid of both of them. They
always appeared Disappearing.
Then too, the new school vas rather
appalling; much bigger than the
school at home and full of strange
new faces. 1t frightened Barbara.
Her classmates leased her. | guess
laughed at her, perhaps prosecuted
her. New Girls, especially new
girls like Barbara are always per
secuted.
Built a World of Her Own
As a defense and a compensation
against a strange, fearful and un-
friendly world, Barbara built her
self a world of her own No one
shaed it with her except a group
of delightful imaginary folk, whom
Barbara ruled with an iron hand.
Most imaginative children create
worlds of their own to which they
do not yet really belong, becomes
too overwhelming, too confusing
too fearful, or too tiresome.
It is natural and normal, and TO
be expected as long as the child
does not show indications of taking
up a permanent residence there, as
long as he does not discard the
real world altogether, and lose all
interest and curiosity about it.
viii Usually Discard 1t
A well adjusted child eventually
discards his imaginary world for
the real one. Slowly, year by year,
he acquires more interest in the
real world, becomes less absorbed
in the world of fantasy.
His growing need for friendship,
responsibility and manual creation
is better satisfied by the real
world. By 10. usually, his faneiea
play only a small part in his life
Without aid or guidance he has
made the adjustment.
But if a child las Deen brighten
ed by reality, as Barbara Ind been,
he will not go back by himself. A
handicapped child, a child who has
long been i'll, one who has been
forced by Circumstances to spend
100 mucc time alone, one who has
been prosecuted by other children
or one who is too sensitive to take
it" does not find the change from
urreality to reality easily.
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28
The Guidite World
of Music
By Miss Ethel Jones
The Kettle Drum
The Kettle Drum
Arabian Music
BY Miss Ethel Jones

Arabian Music
Music in the Mohammedan lands
is ever in spite of their religion
and is never as in the case of
Christianity, gostered by it. By
the iron law of tradition music is
considered at least among the
doubtful amusements Of true be-
levers.
And yet Arabia has had its mu-
sic and song. Among the arc ea
Arabs, poetry ard song were close
ly related. The poet recited or
chanted his own compositions in
the evenings or at public fairs and
festivals. There We're also the early
war songs of Omar and Khalid and
the sinbad sailors tune as they
sailed down the Persian Gulf.
The people of Jauf in Northern
Arabia are at the present day most
famous for music. They are espe-
cially adept at playing the Rebaba.
This is considered their national
instrument of music. The drum or
table as it is called is common
among the town Arabs and is
used at their marriage feasts. But
all over the desert one hears only
the rebobo.
This instrument is simplicity it
self in construction. A box frame
S made ready, a stick is thrust
through and in this they pierce an
eyehole for a single peg. A kidskin
is then stretched upon a hollow
box; the string is plucked from a
mares tail and with a bent twig
the instrument is ready. Another
instrument used is the Arab a
VOL
The singing n commonly hears
is very monotnous and the tune
nearly always depends upon the
whim of the singer. Autar, n of
their own poets, has said that the
song of the Arabs is like the hum
of flies. Antar lived in the times
of ignorance, however, and since
that time some very beautiful mu-
sic has been heard in Arabia.
The Omaha guide., 1937-08-28
Who?

Who!
Is the author of The American
Commonwealth ?"
2. Employed Henry Hudson to
find a route to India?
8. Were three American Com
missioners who made the treaty of
peace with Great ritain?
Answers
/. William Penn
.. Ireland
8. 1896
Who
l. James Bryce.
2. Dutch East India company.
8. John Adams, Benjamin Frank
lin, John Jay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10
Closing the Period

Maybe it was not altogether without significance that Amelia Earhart turned up missing in the Pacific on the very day that Pan-American and Imperial Airways began work on the establishing of com- nercial transatlantic air service The old eras and the new, in ocean flying, thus overlapped very neatly.
 Miss Earhart, gallant lady and gifted flyer, was perhaps the last of the free lance trail blazers. That is to say that she stood for the old era in ocean flying - the era of high adventure, danger, and high-hearted romance. It was great era and it had some great names on it's rolls: Miss Earharts, Lindbergh's, Byrd's, Chamberlin's, and all the rest. But it was an era which ended Gas you might say, if you wished to be fancifuD when Miss Earhart's radio went silent somewhere off Rowland Island.
 As it ended, a new one began. While Miss Earhart's big plane was coming down somewhere on the surface ot the Pacific, an even larger plane was taking to the air at Port Washington, Long 1s-. [ setting forth on the first leg of projected flight to England At the same time, the Imperial Airways ship Caledonia was get ting ready to take off from England for America.
 V There is no Hone wolf" angle to either of these flights. They are the fruits ot years of research. Their object is not to take risks but to avoid them; not to show what one man in plane can do, but to demonstrate that the cooperation of many men, prepared as carefully as the operations of railroad are prepared, can span the ocean with regular, passenger carrying commercial service that will be safe and uneXciting enough to pay it's own way.
 So say all of this is not to cast the slightest aspersion on the free-lance tribe, as represented by Miss Earhart. The free lancers blazed the trail. With out them, Pan-American and Imperial would not be doing what they are doing. The free lancers were the pioneers, so to speak, who went on ahead and Spied out the land; the commercial companies are the city planners, the immigrants, the people who took the frontier the pioneers had discovered and made it cease to be frontier.
 For that, after all, is what is happen ing. We have passed one more frontier we who in century and half have passed so many frontiers. And the pass ing took place in a singularly dramatic way. One plane missing, far out on the lonely Pacific. Another plane heading into the dawn, half world away. And the day of the ocean pioneers is closed!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10
Bear With Them

These are hard days for motorists to contend with the vast amount of con- struction work that is taking place in this city, but there should be much conSola- ton in the fact that before the summer has departed we will be gliding over fine thoroughfares, no longer criss-croSsed by trolley rails. The jobs that were started this week will more than improve the ap- pearance of our main streets. They will cause the city to be congratulated roundly by the visiting motorists who are uuick to notice when main streets are bumpy and in need of repairs.
 The road construction program that has just been launched and which will be spread over a period of several months now is the most suspicious one that this city has probably ever attempted We are glad to see it off to such good start and to see that the initial project will be right iii the center of the town It means that everything will then radiate from the center of the city. There was some talk last winter and spring when the city was talking about floating bonds for such Improvements as these, but now that the work has actually started you'll find gen. eral praise for the scope of the endeavor.
 It is fortunate for the city that it will be able to secure federal and state aid on some of the paving jobs. This means, of course, a big saving to the taxpayers. At the same time we should be apprecia- tive of this financial support we are to re- ceive and act accordingly. The size of the paving program and it's ultimate cost also makes us call attention once again Co the fact that cities and towns are obliged to outlay tremendous sums an- nually in street upkeep. yet they fail to lealize very little in return from the motor cars responsible for the wear and tear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10
Military Rule. in Japan

A news dispatch from Tokio few days ago said: "The government today intens- flied Japan's war preparations by crea- tion of planning board to control and mobilize industry for defense activities, establish a public health law to produce harder soldiers, and change the election laws to curb the power of political parties that oppose army domination"
 This was done after a national election in which the present government was beaten about 40 to one. Still the militar- ists seem to think they can bull it through as usual. Changing election laws to put the army in charge of the government may look all right to the military men. But history shows that in the long run it is simpler to let civilians run the army. That way, governments are likely to last longer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10
Serving the Public

The news that WATR, Waterbury's oldest radio broadcasting station, had been granted full-time privileges was well received here this week. It is high time that this broadcaster which has been serving the public of Waterbury so well and faithfully for the past three years received the recognition to which it was justly entitled. We don't recall that in it's three years of broadcasting it ever failed to offer it's services to the many worthy causes that solicited this means of publicity and carrying message to the people.
 We can expect more from WATR with it's extended privileges and it's plans to build transmitter out on Baldwin ave- nue. But whatever the station may do in the years to come it can never erase from peoples minds the excellent service it maintained in it's early years nor the means it found to constitute real community broadcaster. We don't doubt but what when the Federal Communica- tionS Commission was considering the stations application it regarded as i'm portant the many fine testimonials that were given by local citizens.
 The Waterbury Democrat is proud to have had WATR so close to it in the past three years-on the upper floor of the Democrat building. We hope that the added broadcasting rights will only make the station bigger and better means ot aiding our city and it's citizens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10

They say that Albert Levitt of Bedding, stormy petrel of republican politics in Connecticut several years ago, is on the way cut as member of the New Deal. He is not going to be reappointed to gov ernment post by Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, the latest stories from the Capitol assert. That would leave him with so much time on his hands that he might be tempted to come home to Connecticut to indulge in some polit- ical maneuvering here. However, there's no state election until 1888 so he prob- ably won't waste his time around this state until then.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10

It may not have been the result of the tragic bus accident on the Waterbury, Cheshire road last fall but at any rate for several months now the Public Utili- ties Commission has had men out in the state checking up on bus schedules. The purpose of this checkup was to find out how fast busses were being operated along city streets and state roads. Noth- ing has been left undone to get all the available facts on bus speeds and run ming schedules and there may be some thing forthcoming in the immediate fu- ture if the commission decides that it's data calls for action. The commission, it is learned, has about decided that a maximum speed limit of 35 to 38 miles should be enforced with, of course much lower speeds in congested districts. It must be mentioned to the credit of all companies operating busses in the state that they are showing complete willing ness to cooperate with the commission in following it's recommendations on sched- ules and speed limits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

O. Can a person. six-feet tall see his entire length in vertical mir TOT two feet tall?
 A. No, the mirror must be at least half as tall as the person.
 o. When did "F. P. A." author of the newspaper column Coming Tower" in the New York Herald Tribune, quit writing for that paper?
 A. Franklin P. Adams (F. P. Al left the Herald Tribune upon the expiration of his contract on March 1, 1887.
 e. What is the origin and mean ing of the surname "Serrill?
 A.. English from Anglo-Saxon, meaning, "arms," "armor." Serle is another spelling.
 @. When did the government first coin large one-cent pieces?
 A. Coinage commenced in 1793, and was discontinued in 1857. None were coined in 1915.
 e. Was Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of the ex-mayor of New York, formerly married to the musical comedy headliner, Eddie Bowling?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-10

New Hampshire is said to be the only state in the Union now that hasn't a lighted airport. There are 18 landing fields in the state, but evidently all of them close up shop at sundown. After all, we don't imagine that many planes would be contemplating landing in the White Mountain state after dark. There's always the chance of winding up in Franconia Notch or some such scenic wonderland where planes shouldn't venture.