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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-26
TRANSIT PROBE
RECESSED

The investigation Of the Capital
Transit Company by the Randolph
subcommittee of the House District
Committee will be recessed for
about 10 days, it developed today.
Delay in the inquiry, which so
far has resulted in clashes between
the subcommittee and company Of
ficials, is occasioned by the
absence from the city of Represen-
tative Everett M. Dirksen (RJ Of
Illinois, chief investigator of the
subcommittee.
Mr.. DirkSen also is the author
of two bills under consideration by
the subcommittee. One would abol-
ish one-man street cars and the
other would establish a 7-cent fare.
The oneman street car measure
has been under debate since the
inquiry was started Thursday
with Mr.. Dirksen leading the Of
fensive with the assistance of for
mer Peoples Counsel William A.
Roberts, and j. A. Heberle, vice
president of the company, and e.
Barrett Prettyman, company coun-
sci. attacking the bill.
Representative DirkSen has an
nounced that when the Subcom-
mittee resumes its inquiry he will
examine the entire financial Struc.
ture of the transit company, look
ing into the salaries paid to the 81
officials as well as wages of the
entire personnel.
The subcommittee Is headed by
Representative Jennings Ran
dolph CD Of West Virginia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-26
NAME TO END
W|THSLUM

Say your farewells to Pig Alley.
Director John Ihlder of the
Alley Dwelling Authority said to-
day it must give way to a new
order.
In its place the Alley Dwelling
Authority will build a group of Is
one-family, two-Story houses facing
on a shaded grass plot open to K
Street between Sixth and Seventh
Streets Southwest. The AID A.
accepted the low bid of $82, 255.
submitted by Walter B. Avery of
Washington for the job.
At this price, the houses will
cost an average of 1923 a room.
When the project is dedicated
as the fourth low-rent-housing ex-
pertinent of the A. D. A., designed
to eliminate alleys, lower the rents
Of present alley jewellers and pro-
vide them with better habitations,
Pig Alley will be given a new name.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-26
Ken Murray
Says:

The British government is mot
only ignoring the Duke Of Wind
sOr, but now it looks like they're
pretending he wasn't ever born.
Anyway, the other day when
the ex-King celebrated his 4Srd
anniversary, they didn't even
send him a postcard of con"
graduation.
Not only that, but Great
Britain has officially switched
King Georges birthday from
December to June to take care
of the early summer tourist
trade. They probably high
preSsured an affidavit from the
stork to prove they're finally
right.
Well, I see another French
government has fallen and
they've reOrganiZed the broken
pieces. When a fellow goes into
a French cabinet these days, his
position Is horizontal.
And did you see that John
Barrymore and Elaine are re-
united? Johns latest matri.
mOniaI maneuver, as / score the
play, is Hamlet to Omelette to
dOuble-yoke again. And / don't
know who the original Ariel and
Caliban were. but they must
have been the couple that in
vented SpatS.
Copyright. 1881 by McNauEht
Syndicate. Ine.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-26
D. T.. CLEANERS
FACE STRIKE
PARALYSIS
General WaIkout and
More Pickets Are
Ordered by Union

Virtual paralysis of the entire
industry at a time which normally
sees business at its briSkest today
faced the city's laundry and dry
cleaning plants as officials of Local
No. 1877, of the Laundry Workers.
Cleaners and Dyers Union, issued
orders calling for a general walk.
out in cleaning and dying plants
and additional picket lines.
With 400 workers already out,
union officials predicted as many
more would join their fight for an
$18 minimum weekly wage and a
40-hour work week unless plant
owners met demands.
Police Sent Protest
Latest developments in a situa,
ton which thus far has closed
nearly a score of cleaning and
dying firms were:
A protest by Calvin COuSens,
union president, to Major Ern-
est w. Brown against the dis
patch of a police riot squad to
Thursdays demonstration at
the Federal Cleaning plant.
COusenS branded the squads
part in the affair "unneceS-
Sary."
Registration of a complaint
with the National Labor Rela-
tiOnS Board against the plant
owners who, according to the
protest, have refused to negO-
tiate.
Possibility of wet-wash Iaun-
dry workers joining with the
cleaning and dyeing workers
out of sympathy with their de-
mands, thus precipitating a
serious curtailment of the city'S
"waShday' activities.
Low WAGES REVEALED
Revelation" by Mrs. Julia
Katz, of che WOmen's Trade
Union League, in charge Of the
organizing committee, that in
many plants workers average
So to SO for 6O-hOur week."
Persons familiar with the in
dustry's problems pointed out
that the situation is made
acute by the fact that the peak of
the years business is anticipated
annually during the weeks imme-
diately preceding and following the
Fourth of July.
Strikers "soup kitchens" and
working headquarters have been
set up at Murray's U Street Cast
no, while business headquarters
of the union are at TIT Florida
Ave. N. w.
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Tiny Beauties
GlOrify D. G.
Boys Club

Considering the fact that it was
near nap time and that most of
the contestants ranged in age
from two to six, it was one of the
best behaved beauty contests in
history.
Held yesterday afternoon in the
gymnasium of the Boys Club at
Third and D SITS. N. w., the young
ladies who Wed for the honor of
being named Miss Boys Club of
Washington for 1887" paraded be-
fore the three judges in the groups.
The littlest, who shamelessly ad-
vanced their ages six months Che
cause one had to be at least two)
chung to the hands of mother or
dad. All were enchantingly gowned
in pink, blue, yellow or white
frocks with contrasting hair rib
bonS and socks.
Plenty Of CurIs
There were plenty of Shirley
Temple curls and couple of fin
ger waves. There was also con-
siderable thumb sucking among
the tots. Little Katherine Keene,
aged two, the youngest of 10 chill
dren, refused to pose for the
photographers, cup or no cup. She
wanted her nap and didn't care
who knew it.
Sissie, who looked like a big doll
with her great dark eyes and vel
low curlS, wept. She readily &C
cepted bride of a stick of gum
from a photographer and then re-
fused to pose.
Little Smoky, two, respondent
in yellow dress, yellow socks and
hair ribbon. stuck her little fat
tummy out and ignored her older
sisters frantic plea to Smile.
Smoky"
Elsie Fails to Show
Number IS, who appeared with
her father, looked exactly like one
of those big dolls in the shop
windows. He name, her proud
daddy said, was Elsie Morris. She
was honey even if she didn't win
a prize.
One little tot in yellow dress
and ribbon said she was "tu"
though her chubby legs looked
more like Is months.
Joe Morrison presented the cups.
There were four. One each for
the winning blonde, brunette and
red-head, and a big cup for the
final winner, who is to wear the
title of Miss Boys Club for the
next six months. But as the only
red-head was a reporter from a
local paper the blondes got two
cups.
Betty and Daphne
They were Betty Lou Postum,
6, of 800 Sixth St. N. W.,
and Daphne Joyce Fleming, 8, of
327 Third st. N. w. Daphne also
took final honors as Miss Boys
Club. The winning brunette was
Martha DinSmore, aged 2, chubby.
olue-eyed and curly haired.
Mr.. Morrison posed with
Daphne when she was presented
with the winning cup and again
when she accepted a bouquet Of
roses and baby breath.
The judges included Miss Eta
attached to the Juvenile
Court; the Rev. r. L. Gregory. of
the Temple Baptist Church. and
Policeman Robert E. Cannon.
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Camp Honors Founders

John C. Let's, for whom the
Washington Y. M. c. A. camp on
Rhodes River, near Annapolis.
Nd, is named, was eulogized last
night when this seasons program
was inaugurated. Let's died in
1885. More than 100 boys and
counselorS took part in the pro-
gam.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-26
House Group Backs
Missouri River Span
International News Service

A House interstate commerce
subcommittee has approved the
Mclaughlin bill authorizing the
construction of a bridge over the
Missouri River between Omaha.
Neb., and Council Bluffs, Iowa, at
an estimated cost of $1,500, 600.
The announcement was made
by Representative Wearin CD Of
Iowa. one of the supporters Of the
project, who declared himself
"elated and confident the bill will
be passed by Congress"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-26
Carnival July 7

SILVER SPRING, Md, June 26.
The annual carnival of st. Mich
aels parish and school will be held
on the school grounds here July 7,
8, 9 and 10, it was announced here
today. Mrs. Elizabeth Lowd is
chairman of the general commit
tee in charge of the affair.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-26
Dr.. EIIison's Farewell

THE Business of Being Chris
tian" will be the subject of the
final message of DR.. j. M. Eli
son, pastor of Zion Baptist
Church. tomorrow at II a. m.
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over the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce
and Death Valley national parks,
the Black canyon, the Kaibab for
est and other famous scenes.
There are also power boats on
Lake Mead which make scheduled
excursion trips, stopping over at
several points. It's quite a ride
around Lake Mead, 100-mile body
of water.
Lecturers Explain Dam.
The interest of government prof.
ects as incidents in a vacation is
apparent from the hundreds who
choose to include a trip through the
dam itself, under the able guidance
of lecturers from the reclamation
service. The long ride in an ele-
vator down into the dam is swift
one; to many visitors it is also
doubly thrilling for the fact that
they have never before ridden in
an elevator. The lecturer takes
them through the catacombs under
the dam, through the power plants
so large and complicated they look
like a moving picture set-as indeed
do the switchboard control rooms
and diversion tunnels.
Although there is not much in the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-01
Poor Mans Gold
Courtney RyIey Cooper '' rss s.s Cooper

think I'm crazy. But are you sure?
Are you really sure?"
The man nodded toward the gap
ing shaft.
"Get down there and shovel out
painful and see for yourself" he
answered.
They were in Jacks cabin; Ham,
mond was still shaken from the ex-
element caused by the painful OF
earth which he had taken from the
gravel of the bench-land test pit.
Kay walked about nervously. Ken
ming paved through a tin box which
he had brought down from his cab
in; Hammond likewise had taken
a bundle of papers from its hiding
place under his bunk.
cts a damn good thing we didn't
take care of that English syndicate
before we sank that test pitt" Ken
ming said.
WELL" Kay announced, eff you
had, I'd have been sunk"
"You?"
"After all the touting I did, to get
Jack to take your advice"
"That would have been hot
one, now wouldn't it?" Jack Ham
mond hardly realized that he was
speaking. He still could remember
little but that pan of gravel as re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-01
Pirate DAYS

Until 1920 Turkish warships OPP
Grating from North African ports as
pirates used to terrorize the COM
merce of the Mediterranean. Cap
tive sailors were carried off by
them to the slave market in AL
giers or the prisons in Sallee. In
the Seventeenth century Barbary
corsairs used to waylay ships in
the Bristol channel, and once Sal
lee rover was caught in the mouth
of the Thames. 1t was from NAL
ia that resistance was most effec-
lively organized by the Knights Of
st. John, who held the island until
it was surrendered by their grand
master to Napoleon in 1898. The
island passed to Britain by the
peace of the Amiens (1802) and
it is the headquarters of the Medi.
terranean fleet.
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quakes have occurred in the past,
some of them comparatively recent
ly. Scientists have wondered wheth-
er the vast weight of water which
will be concentrated along the lake
will put sufficient additional strain
on the crystal rock layers to set off
disturbances. 1t has been suggested
that seismograph stations be set up
in the region to check the earth's
slow movements there, since COM
plete data are not yet available.
Projects along the Columbia river
are also getting their share of the
tourist trade this summer, for the
Northwest has ever been a popular
vacation spot. There the throngs
are both surprised and pleased to
see that the work on the giant
Bonneville dam is being completed
on schedule.
It will be finished before the year
is out. 1t was in the summer of 1884
when President Roosevelt said, on
the scene: within three years
hope that the Bonneville dam will
be an actual fact, and that as fact
from then on it will initiate very
greatly to the benefit of the lives not
only of the people of Oregon and
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way of night life out here-there is
only one movie house in Boulder
City-there are enough natural curl
osities and marvels to make the Wis
itor lose his taste for night life.
Within 200 miles are, in addition to
the beautiful canyons mentioned
above, the Joshua Tree National
forest, the Painted Desert, Petrified
forests, the Mad Valley of Fire,
Eldorado canyon, and many other
sights, including many Indian settle
ments. Nature in remarkable mood
exists up and down as well as
across. You can descend to $50 feet
below sea level in Death Valley and,
if you are agile enough, you can get
up 1880 feet on San Francisco
peak.
The government is stocking Lake
Mead with bass, and although the
fishing is not yet quite up to par
there will be all you can take care
of in another two years. Bride
paths are being laid out and within
a short time there will also be plen-
ty of dude-ranch facilities nearby.
The building of tennis courts as well
as desert gardens is included in the
plans. There are good hotels near
Boulder dam, and there is a gov
eminent camping ground where the
visitor may camp for nothing.
Are Earthquakes Possible?
Meod 1oxa ifceIf rom aims the hio-
gest vacation attraction. 1t was
created by the backing up of Al, 5l8,-
125, 900 tons of water from the dam.
The question has been raised before
the Seismological Society of Amer
lea whether or not this great, UNI
natural body of water will cause
earthquakes. The Colorado river in
it's lower course flows through a re-
gion where many violent earth
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-01
Dean-Frick Battle
Has Made Cardinals
More Serious Outfit
q New York Post.-WNU Service

MO DOUBT the real facts in the
Y case are merely that Dizzy
Dean has recently happened to have
some of his best days while ill-luck
has been continuing its overdue
catching up with Carl Hubben.
Maybe that isn't the whole expla.
nation, though. Certainly a change
has come over the Cards dugOut
since the st. Louis representatives
were training in Florida and since
the season opened.
During the training period
frankie Frisch's young men were
more concerned with the lighter as
poets of life than with the business
of baseball. Having read in the
newspapers that they were due to
win a pennant they let it go at that
and devoted their more diligent
attention to guitar concerts on street
corners. Once the National league
season had started there was no
greater concern over frequent de-
feats. Somehow the athletes seemed
to believe that such rebuffs could
not happen to them in real life and
that they would wake up almost any
morning to find they merely had
been victims of bad dreams.
Captain Leo Durocher, having
played with Yankee team or two
that similarly misplaced its conf
dence over portion of the season,
was one of the few who had a cor
rect line on the situation.
"Yeah, we've got a good team
but it's a young One," he explained
when the Cards were moving blithe-
ly and none too adeptly through
their early season exercises. "a
team like that can win a pennant
and it also can finish away down
with the Dodgers. It's all how the
breaks fall or, rather, how things
click. Something's got to wake us
up and start us going. What? How
do 1 know? How does any one know?
Those things just happen.
Remember that time in Cleve-
land when Mike Gazella, just SUBJ
stitute, practically browbeat a Yam
kee team into swapping out of it
and grabbing the flag? Nobody told
him to do it. He just happened to
touch off the spark when too many
great players were feeling low or
acting careless. Something similar
can happen to us. Then watch"
Viewing the Cards in the dugout
before a game recently, I remem-
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peated washings slowly carried
away the dross, at last to reveal
the heavy sediment of golden glob-
ules. eff we'd signed away that
land-and then this crooked Eng
fish outfit had come along and made
ten-strike-''
''Not much danger of that" Ken
ming answered. 81 told you in the
beginning that they never intend to
work it. Three years from now,
we'll be able to buy back any land
we sell them at our own price-if
we want it."
"And the problem is" Kay broke
in, "to find something they don't
want" She turned again to the
window. Looking for me, Mrs.
Carewe?" she called. The maid of
all work came nearer the cabin.
TEAS about ready, Miss Kay"
she announced.
Thanks, I'll walk up with you"
She turned, at the door. Good
night, Jack"
"Oh - good night, Kay - good
night"
Aren't you going to kiss me?"
He dropped the bundle of papers
that he might rush to her.
"That COLDS made an idiot of
me-" Suddenly his hands clenched.
Gee, Kay! We've found i'll"
'For all the good it does me-"
That's out" There was a drive
to his voice. 81 give the orders
from now on"
She kissed him and patted him on
the cheek.
$50 that's what a few nuggets
can dol"
But he would not let her 60. I'M
pulsively he seized her, kissing her
dozen times, hugging her until
she protested.
"That's it" he said huskily. "I'll
give the orders. I'm boss-I'H tell
you how to be happy. You can't
imagine what this strike has done
for me, Dearest!"
Laughing, she pushed him away.
''I've a fair idea," she answered,
and calling goodnight to the OBJ
sessed Kenning, went forth to join
Mrs. Carewe. Hammond watched
her until she was lost in the twist
of the ascending trail.
"Kay's been swell about not want
ing to marry me-just because I
had money" he said brusquely, as
he rejoined Kenning. ''But she's
really didn't have much to offer her
before = just those Loon creek
claims"
you've got plenty now"
Sand some to spare. That re-
minds me. What are we going to
do now about that English syndi-
cate?"
eyes, we ought to get that out
of the way" Kenning consulted the
list of their holdings. 81 don't
see anything here that can come
out of the stuff 1 threw in the pot"
cts all on the course of that
gravel bed, isn't it?"
"If that stream came down from
the hills the way we've got to fig
ure, all the claims I staked are
right in line"
''What about giving those leases,
over where we've been digging the
big bunch of test pits?"
Kenning wrinkled his brow.
''No. l still think that lands good.
There's an explanation"
81 don't see it."
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bered that converse
ton. The collection
of babbing, care
free young men who
were more con-
cerned with carry
ing on feuds among
themselves t h a n
with doing serious
damage to the oppo-
sition a month ago
had changed. The
Cards were not the
hard = bitten Gas
HouSo Gonucforc Of
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two or three seasons ago but Meth
er were they jOy-riding youths.
More than anything they were like
the Giants who sat in the dugout
across from them. Serious athletes,
that is. Young men not given to
too much carvings on but intent
upon giving the fans who crowded
the stands a fair break for the at
tention lavished upon them.
Even Dean, ordinarily a gentle
man who could give ten-mile start
to Tennyson's famed brook in any
babbling contest, was as silent as
Hubbe1 across the way. Only once
in the 80 minutes Immediately pre-
ceding game time was there any,
thing like the celebrated Dean wit
and humor. Then some stranger
intruded to ask for the classic Dean
signature on a baseball.
"Shucks," was the reply then.
"Get away, man. The only way I'll
sign anything with that guys name
on it is with a bat.''
Since the name of Ford Prick,
president of the National league and
the recent spanker of Mr.. Dean, is
prettily written on all the league
baseballs before they leave the fac
tory, there seemed no doubt about
who "that guy" was. Also the
chOrused amens which followed this
fervent announcement seem now to
indicate what has converted the
Cards into a team.
Definitely, the ST. Louis represen-
tatives continue to chafe under the
reprimand of the league president
who was only doing his duty. Frick
revealed to them that they were not
quite the objects of popular adora-
ton that some of them had con-
ceived themselves to be. Since the
truth hurts worse than anything else
the young men were bound to get
even.
Dean pitched as he can pitch when
he remembers he is no longer a
barefooted kid in an Arkansas cot
ton patch. The Cards played the
ball of which they are capable and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-01
By WILLIAM c. UTLEY

MOT only do some of the vast
1 ~ government dam projects
provide subjects for controversy
in political circles, irrigation
for desert wastes and electric
power for vast producing areas.
They are assuming new i'm
portance in the lives of our peo-
pie, especially at this time of
year. They are becoming ma
jor attractions for summer va
cationers.
Mr.. Average American, with two
weeks out of the year for his vaca-
ton, likes to cram just as much into
that fortnight as he possibly can.
His mountains must be gigantic, his
vistas colossal, his waterfalls ter
rife and his automobile trips long
and rapid. He is usually somewhat
impressed by the Grand Canyon.
Small wonder then, that sights
such as Boulder dam, the Grand
Coulee and the Bonneville dam prof.
ects interest him. They are big,
scenic and wonderful. And because
they are government projects they
have that patriotic appeal which is
Enthusiastically American.
The United States government
hardly planned Boulder dam as
summer recreation project, and it
is not yet as well equipped to enter
tain the thousands of tourists now
visiting the dam as it will be in the
near future. But in great throngs
the vacationerS come and after their
souls have been satisfied with the
enormity of it all they find they can
have one whale of time in, on and
around Lake Mead, above the dam
and the largest man-made body of
water on earth.
Will Develop Appeal.
After all, swimming in the heart
of a desert is a thrill that should
appeal to the American tempera-
ment. The clear blue water in the
shadow of the mountain peaks and
LllS SlSdL odIll c1loO q
setting for boating, fishing and aqua
planning.
In an effort to encourage the
movement already started the gov
eminent has ordered the national
parks service, together with the bu-
reau of reclamation, to launch a
program designed to make the Boul-
der dam region more attractive
than ever. First of all a number
of public bath houses were built on
the beach, which is artificial like the
lake and a short distance from Boul-
der City, home of the workers on
the project. Floating RATS have
been provided, and life guards sit
upon high seats to guard the safety
of bathers, just as if this might be
Coney Island.
Excursions over the surrounding
area by air are popular, too, with
the vacationers. There is a govern
ment-built airport at Boulder City
from which several planes take off
daily on these trips. Planes of the
most modern type, equipped with
two way wireless, wing the visitors