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The Washington times., 1937-01-19
HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS
ON THE LEE PLANTATION

And now I carry you back to
Old Virginny and to Uncle Wes'
who's got him horse and buggy
and who's drivin' 'roun' West
moreland county like the big man
he is. Uncle WeS' is cullud quality
and lives down at Stratford, where
Gen1 Lee was born. He's got
papers to show that his pa and his
grandpa and his greatgrandpa
belonged to the Lees. Further back
his kin folk was owned by Gen'l
George Washington.
Uncle WeS' isn't ez young ez he
IlSter be. But he's pretty spry and
he's a big help to GenI BENJAMIN
Franklin Cheatham, Superinten-
dent of Stratford. The Genl
saw how Uncle WeS' was havin'
to walk from his house three miles
down the road to Stratford Hall.
So the GenI found a gentleman
who gave him some money for
to buy a horse for Uncle WeS'.
The horse jeS' stood in the stable
and got fatter and fatter, cause
there weren't no buggy for him to
pull.
But the Lawd was good. An
other rich white man gave the
GenI some cash for the buggy.
But it amt many buggies
round now. Well, sir, at last they
got one. Praise Heaven, they
didn't have no harness! The
GenT, he amt a man easy put
down. He Jest KEEP on looking and
he found a harness. Then mighty
quick the horse and the buggy
and the harness was hitched UP.
all together. Uncle WeS' climbed
into the buggy, as smilin' as any
man can be, and took holt of the
reins.
But that fat lazy horse wouldn't
move an inch! Not all day he
wouldn't move. He'd got so full Of
comfort in Stratford that he jes'
wouldn't pick up his feet to take
one step outside the new fence.
Coupla Of days later, after a
powerful lot of coaxin' Uncle WeS'
got that fat horse goin'. And now
there amt a prouder man in all
Westmoreland County than Uncle
WeS'.
Mrs. Charles E. Boiling of Rich.
mond did not tell this anecdote
In dialect at the meeting of the
directors Of the Lee Memorial
Foundation at the home of DR.,
and Mrs. Camp Stanley, on Sun.
day. She gave her own delightful
character sketch of Uncle Wes
and added to the atmosphere
which Stratford enthusiasts ere
ate whenever they talk about
their restoration project.
Mrs. Orton Bishop Brown, Of
Connecticut, who was born on a
Southern plantation, enchanted
her audience with several Negro
Spirituals
Mrs. william H. Fain, Of Green
wich, Conn, chairman of the
Stratford Fine Arts Committee
told Of the furnishing Of the Great
Hall and Of General Lees Birth
chamber.
Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham
Kentucky chairman, sent to STRAIT
ford from London where she and
her husband represent the United
Continued on Page 22, Col. q
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
Record of Convictions
Traffic Court

Abner Fades, 1884 Union st. S.
w., IS.
Edward Wright. 623 Columbia
Rd. N. w., SIS.
John F. Burgess, 1918 G st. S.
E., $5.
William H. Davis, 1884 Eleventh
st. N. W., IS.
Harry H. Gaskins, 1923 Corco-
ran st. N. W., IS.
Samuel H. Henton, 1945 Calvert
st. N. W., $5.
Patrick j. Noone, Maryland, IS.
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
Mrs. Mills to Speak

Mrs. j. Raymond Mills will speak
on 1.-THE Old Turkish Woman and
the New" at the January meeting
of the Women's Guild
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
N. H. Allen Named
Collector in Georuia

Senator Russell CD, Of Georgia,
yesterday recommended to PreSi-
dent Roosevelt appointment Of
Marion H. Allen, Roosevelt man
ager in Georgia during the recent
campaign, as collector of Internal
Revenue in the Georgia district.
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
Piniera New Head
Old. {. Filipino Club

Election of officers was held at a
recent meeting Of the Filipino Club
of Washington, Inc. at the Y. M.
C. A. The following members were
chosen: Felix Piniera, president;
Gregorio Quijano, vice president:
Vinencio Lberato, recording secre-
tary; Ididro Domingo, correspond.
ing secretary: Pastor Vallesteros,
treasurer, and Nicacio Rillon, ser"
geant.at-armS.
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
HOUSE GROUP
REJECTS JOINT
FISCAL STUDY
King Plan to Consider
Report Turned Down
By Norton Unit

Proposals that the House and
Senate District Committees hold
joint hearings on the report of the
Presidents fiscal relations com
mittee were disapproved by the
House District Committee at it's
opening meeting today at which
subcommittee were appointed to
consider the Jacobs report.
Senator William H. King (D)
of Utah, chairman of the Senate
District Committee, recently called
The Washington times., 1937-01-19

upon Represen-
tative Mary T.
Norton CD of
New j erS e y,
chairman Of he
House District
C o m m i t tee,
urging the
Join t sessions
on the fiscal re-
port. Mrs. Nor
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-04
Took Place Sat. P. M.
 Weather Cold

The Fireworks Display Satur- day night drew large crowds of people down town early in the evening to witness the many beautiful displays.
 The weather turned consider ably colder and many were fore ed to return to their homes be- fore the completion of the dis play, but all said that the many rockets, unusual pyrotechnic lights and bursting shells were well worth the trip to see.
 The display was donated by President G. R. Jackson of the Miners and Merchants bank and was originally scheduled to be shown Dec. B, then New Years Eve, but weather interfered both times. The display finally took place the evening of Jan. End.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-04
Weather Today
 GU. s. Weather Bureau)

Heavy snow, thick blowing snow made flying impossible over Seward Peninsula today. Zero ceiling and visibility were ob- served at Solomon and Nome.
 Mostly cloudy weather with good ceilings were observed in the central Yukon District and eastward to Fairbanks. Fair wea ther was the rule over the Gulf and Southeastern Alaska.
 High pressure was charted ov- CT the eastern section of Alaska and the Yukon Territory while an intense low pressure area was charted north of Dutch Harbor Barometer readings were falling rapidly over western Alaska.
 Temperatures continue above the seasonal average in most sec tions of Alaska and yesterday Fairbanks recorded the highest January temperature on record with 40 degrees above.
 It is likely unsettled weather with snoWstorms will continue over Seward Peninsula with strong easterly and southeasterly winds tomorrow.
 The lowest Nome temperature last night was 13 above and the highest yesterday 27.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-04
Successful Move
 Stopping Flow
 Obscene Matter

(Continued From Page One) started correspondence by ad- dressing "The Letter Club Differ ent" enclosing his sealed envel- ope with its obscene contents, marking the enclosure for No. - -. "The Letter Club Different" then forwarded to the person of the number so designated the inner letter and contents. In many instances, rather than con- tinue to clear their obscene ex- changes through the headquart- CTS of "The Letter Club Differ ent" the persons involved signed their own names and following receipt of the first letter they carried on direct correspondence with the person or persons they were placed in contact with orig inally through the Letter Club Different.
 Thousands of obscene cores pondence club members have al ready been rounded up by postal inspectors in every section of the country and prosecutions are to follow as rapidly as the individ- ual cases can be worked up for presentation to Federal grand juries. The Federal statutes pro vide a five-year jail sentence or a five thousand dollar fine, or both for any person found guilty of sending obscene matter thru the mails, and this penalty has been invoked on many occasions for the sending of single letter.
 A second form of obscene ring uncovered by the Postal Inspec-- tion Service in its drive on the purveyors of obscene matter are the magazine letter exchanges which have for their purpose the dissemination of obscene litera- ture and photographs and which are conducted as regular letter exchanges by the cheaper love and sex magazines.
 A third group which is being brought to justice by the postal inspectors are the dealers who distribute obscene matter direct ly through advertisements and lists purchased from the opera tors of the various obscene cor responding clubs and other deal CTS in this type of objectionable matter.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-04
House Leaders In Scrap Head
 Lower House
(By The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, - Democratic house leaders strove to agree on a floor leader, in order to permit a swift organi- zation of Congress which con- venes tomorrow.
 John O'Connor of New York and Sam Rayburn of Texas each claimed a victory on the first ballot.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-01-04
Trying To Meet
(By The Associated Press,

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4, - Negotiations for a meeting tenta- lively called for today, have pro gressed, between the shipown- ers' committee, and the radio and 0Iiegraphists association, the small est of the seven unions out on strike.
 E. P. Marsh and E H Fitzgerald Department of Labor conciliat- ors, who sought it, are keeping in close touch with Washington, D. C.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
FOUR ARE PROMOTED
TO GENERALS RANK
President Nominates World War
Veteran Colonels to Be
Brigadier Generals.

President Roosevelt has nominated
four World War veteran officers for
promotion from the rank of colonel
to brigadier general in the Regular
Army to replace men retiring from
active service this Summer.
Those named in the nominations
vent to the Senate Monday were:
Col. Ernest D. Peek, Corps of En-
kineers. at present division engineer,
New York City, to succeed Brig. Gen.
Charles D. Roberts, who will retire
June 80.
Col. Frederic H. Smith, Coast Ar
tllery Corps, at present chief of staff
OF the Panama Canal Department,
to succeed Brig. Gen. Alexander T.
Ovenshine, who will retire on June 80.
Col, Philip B. Peyton, Infantry, now
commanding the 29th Infantry at
Fort Benning, Ga, to succeed Brig.
Gen. Thomas w. Darah, who will
retire on July 81.
Col. William Dryden, Field Artil-
lery. now on duty in the operations
and training divisions of the War
Department general staff here, to sue
ceed Brig. Gen. Sherwood A. Cheney,
who will retire on August 81.
The four prospective brigadier gen.
erals have long and distinguished
military records. Each was decorated
for meritorious service during the
World War.
Evening star., 1937-06-09

on her foot :. she used her fist, as
1t wasn't raining our faVor1te
comic character in the local sporting
world is reported out of town again.
sending himself kilograms like mad
to make it appear that he has urgent
business with dozens of people in
dozens of places he calls up over
long distance at night and has his
secretary read the wires to him, so
he can tell what he is supposed to be
doing next residents of a large
estate in Virginia awakened the other
night to hear a dignif1ed, white-haired
lady leaning out the window Whistllng,
but weirdly E. she explained she was
whistling at whip-poor- that had
kept her awake i. said maybe if the
bird realized what nuisance noises
like that can be, it would shut up >. :.
two times two is enough, If you're
addicted to drinking hot rum punches
in this kind of weather +. the shady
waters are cooler . the shady waters
are cooler was 1t Benchley who
used to say that he especially liked
books published by Doubleday, Doran;
Doubleday, Doran; Doubleday, Doran
-. boom!!!
Evening star., 1937-06-09
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
In recess.
Joint committee continues. hearings
on wage-hour bill
Interstate Commerce Committee
continues rail financing inquiry.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
siders Buenos Aires treaties.
Appropriations Subcommittee COM
pletes relief bill hearings.
House:
Considers minor legislation.
Interstate Commerce Committee
studies proposed amendments to 1888
securities act
Flood Control Committee continues
hearing on Ohio Basin program
Agriculture Committee considers
farm tenancy legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Miscellaneous business.
Joint committee continues hearings
on wage and hour bill.
House:
Considers nuisance tax bill
Post ONCE and Post Roads Commits
tee considers foreign airmail bill,
10 am.
Irrigation and Reclamation COM
mittee considers moratorium bill,
10 am.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
BLAME SPANISH REBELS.

LONDON, June 9 GP).-The British
government today blamed Spanish in
surgents for the mine which the
British destroyer Hunter hit off Al
meria last May l3, with loss of eight
OF her crew and injuries to "a A
formal protest was dispatched to
GerenaliSsimo Francisco Franco.
The foreign office instructed Sir
Henry Chiffon, British Ambassador
to Spain who is now at Hendaye
France. to relay the protest to the
1nsurgent headquarters at Salamanca.
1t termed the Hunter explosion an
"accident,' but a spokesman said re-
ports to British authorities indicated
the insurgents had laid mines in the
high seas off Almeria and elsewhere.
One of these. it was asserted, caused
the Hunter incident.
At the time of the H. NJ S. Hun
ter incident there were some reports
the destroyer had been torpedoed.
These were subsequently dispelled upon
investigation
In today's move the British reserved
the right to claim remuneration for
damage to the warship.
Sir Henry's protest reminded the
insurgents that Great Britain pre-
viously had advised both sides in the
Spanish civil war that mine laying
on the high seas was not legitimate
since London has accorded neither
side belligerent rights.
He pointed out that 1t was i'm
probable that the mine that the
Hunter hit was floating mine But
even so. he declared, the Hague con-
vention provided that anchored mines
must become harmless when they
break from their moorings and un-
anchored mines must become harm
less an hour after they are laid.
FORTIFY NEW POSITIONS.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
NORRIS, COPELAND
|NFL00D BILL ROW
Nebraskan Charges Utilities
Are Behind Plan to Switch
Committees.
By the Associated Press.

Senator Norris, Independent, OF
Nebraska charged in the Senate yes
terday that private power companies
are trying to block the administrations
flood controlT. V. A. bill by remov-
ing it from the control of a favorable
committee.
Norris, who introduced the bill,
strongly opposed an effort to transfer
it from the Agriculture Committee to
the Commerce Committee. The Ne
braskan engaged in q clash with
Chairman Copeland on the latter
group.
Foes of the proposal, Norris asserted,
were trying to get it away from a
committee which has studied the sub
ject for 20 years and has favorably
reported bills which have not suited
the private power companies"
Copeland Starts Row.
Copeland started the dispute when
he informed the Senate his committee
had voted unanimously to report that
the measure properly belongs to the
Commerce Committee He denied he
was committed in any sense" to op-
pose the legislation.
Norris said the Agriculture Com
mittee already had taken steps to ar
range hearings, and ironically asked
whether it should now stop opera
tions" to permit the measure to be
taken up by committee dealing with
everything from medical subjects to
farming operations"
The real ISSUE" he contended, was
the opposition of private utilities be-
cause Of the power provisions.
Would Set Up Agencies.
The bill would set up agencies, like
T. v. A., to develop Government power
and other resources along most OF the
Nations major rivers.
When Copeland objected to Norris
implications and said Il know Moth
ing about the power companies" Norris
exclaimed:
Well for Gods sake, why not refer
this bill that has power features in it
to committee that does know some
thing about power?"
Evening star., 1937-06-09

rect. incidentally, while We had no.
ticed a definite increase in radio sta
tic as totality was approached and
passed, We were unable to measure
any drop in temperature, it remain
Ing steadily at 20 below zero during
the entire phenomena.
At 5:45 We were over Mount Mon
gon and had begun our return toward
Lima. AS We cruised southwark along
the coast over broken and well-scat-
tered clouds, we made a more orderly
check. Stevens, after a careful ex-
animation. reported all four of the
cabin cameras had functioned with
out hitch and that undoubtedly we
would have complete record of the
progress Of the suns eclipse, then of
the swift advance and recession of its
shadow across the earth, the first
ever taken from an airplane and, IN
Maj. Stevens estimation, an inval-
liable contribution to science well
worth any effort we had gone to to
secure it,
At pm. we circled once more down
onto Limatambo Airport with the
memory Of an almost indescribabl
adventure still thrilling us to the
tips OF our fingers.
(Copyright, 1887 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-06-09
SHADOW Of MOON
RACES BEFORE SUN
Observers in Plane Witness
Eclipse Phenomenon in
Cold Atmosphere.

An airplane flight. $4,000 feet
dboue the coastal plateau OF Peru,
to obtain the first complete photo
graphic record OF an eclipse OF the
sun from an airplane is described
here by the planes pilot. Capt.
Disher is a peteran OF tiue years
seruice on the regular Pan-Anleri-
cdn-Grace AirUays cross-Andcs
route.
Evening star., 1937-06-09

Tenn, advises us that we can get an
annual subscription to the "Tulla-
homa Guardian" in exchange for:
One bushel Of corn, rye, sweet pota-
toes, Irish potatoes or apples; fresh
meat at the market price, 100 pounds
OF walnuts, two bales Of hay, three
quarts canned vegetables, three quarts
canned fruit, one bushel corn meal,
one peck chestnuts. 'one-haH bushel
peanuts, two large hens, two roosters,
three guinea hens, two ducks, or
one small turkey.
And here we are, caught with moth
ing In the barn, nothing In the eel
lar, nothing in the smoke house but
= couple Of pigs feet. with ingrown
NoerhiA
Evening star., 1937-06-09

or fright, DR.. Freeman explained, is
great decline in the blood pressure
1t was supposedly due to relaxation
of the blood vessels and such stimu-
lants as adrenalin, strychnine or caf-
feline were given to revive the patient.
These acted upon the sympathetic
vessels which, DR.. Freeman's experi-
ments show. was the worst possible
thing to do.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
POST VIGILANCE FLEET.
Spanish Government Acts to Protect
Northeastern Coast

VALENCIA, June 9 (P)-The Span
ish government posted today a special
vigilance fleet and an anti-submarine
defense on the Catalan or Northeast
ern Mediterranean coast after BARGE
Iona. capital of autonomous Catalonia,
reported that two cruisers were harass-
Ing shore points for the second sue
cessive day.
The warcraft were chased to sea by
government planes after shelling Pala-
mos and San Pol without serious dam
age.
Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto as
serted that new Italian seaplanes had
arrived Monday to reinforce the Italian
squadron already in Mallorcan waters.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
MARSHAL is KILLED

Gun Battle Takes Place In Shaw.
Miss, Drug Store.
SHAW, Miss, June 9 P).-Night
Marshal E. c. Harrington was killed
late last night in an unexplained
pistol battle that took place in the
drug store Of Claude Vance, 40-year-
old member Of prominent Bolivar
County family.
County Attorney E. H. Green said
Vance shot the marshal, but refused
to make any statement Vance's
daughter Grace, a Louisiana State
University coed, was wounded in the
hip during the exchange of shots.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
Loyalists Strengthen Ground Gained
Northwest of Madrid.

MADRID, June 9 LP).-Governmen
troops fortified newly-won positions
today along the Coruna road, at the
northwestern edge of Madrid.
The operations, near Aravaca and
Las Perdices Hill. threatened to sever
communication between units OF Cen
eralissimo Francisco Frances besieg-
ers at Aravaca and Las Rozas.
Madrid itself relaxed only after mid
night from three insurgent shellings
In which at least 20 persons were killed
and 10 injured.
POST VIGILANCE FLEET.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
GETS MEDICAL DEGREE
Lendall c. Gay Is Alumnus of
Central High.

Lendall c. Gay, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Julius B. Gay Of 1850 Jonquil
street received an M. D. degree from
the Medical College of Virginia. Rich
mond, at recent ceremonies there, it
was announed today.
A graduate of Central High School,
young Gay took his pre- medical train
ing at George Washington University.
At the Virginia institution he was a
member of Theta Kappa Psi National
Medical Fraternity, Brown -Sequard
Honorary Medical Society and Sigma
zeta Honorary Scientific Fraternity.
He plans to become a resident in
terne at Gallinger Municipal Hospital
July |.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
CALOR.

CAION.
r YEAT waves: No one has as yet
sent in story about man
frying an egg on the side
4 4 walk, but a friend of ours
found piece Of sidewalk in his fried
egg on Monday morning :. he thinks
maybe he swallowed cement mixer
over the week end chap who
groWls all Winter about getting poked
in the eye by ladies carrying umbrellas
got poked in the eye on street yes
terday by a lady -. he had stepped
Evening star., 1937-06-09
ALL ABOARDERS.

Latest urinkle in boarding houses
here Is up near Twenty- first and
P streets northwest. Chap there
claims he runs the largest room and
board establishment in the District,
and as an added feature OF super
scrWce no1o has bicycles deliuered to
the door on Sunday morning, for
such guests as 1Uish to 90 out and
stretch their legs.
Last week the cyclists toured
Rock Creek Park. Nert ueek,
Hams Point.
The starting hour, if perchance
you contemplate moving to room
,Cith bath, kitchenette and uheels,
IS 7::30 am.
X
SUBSCRIBERS.
FELLOW here who keeps in touch
with affairs back in Tullahoma
Evening star., 1937-06-09
Three Films by Prof Smiley

HUARAz, Peru, June 8 P).-The
greatest eclipse of the sun in 1900
years was captured in three films by
Prof. Charles H. Smiley of Brown
University.
"The sky in the vicinity of the sun
was perfectly clear" said Prof. Smiley,
who hopes to obtain from the films
evidence of how far from the sun the
corona extends, and whether its light
is emitted or reflected.
Smiley said that although the films
were not developed, he felt certain his
observations had been successful.
Smiley believes he has the fastest
astronomical camera ever developed
He has been encamped for two days
between Callan Peak and the village
Of Pira, about $4,000 feet above sea
level Ia the coastal Andes.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
PASS.


One OF the bright young State
legislators oUer in Maryland has
pass on a terrybodt used en-
route to q 1pell kno1Un seashore re-
sort tNdD, 1De are not going to
use any names at all. When he
approaches the ferry, accompanied
by brother and q cousin on q
1Deek end 1dunt, he stufs then, in
the rumble seat of his car and
closes it. All three ride across the
udter that 10Gy. On the far side,
he opens the rumble seat (ue
trust, untolds his relatives, sits
them up in the car and dripeS on.
MIX-UP.
CTRANGEST heat case we've heard
about yet is the lady whose re-
action to the weather has been am
nesia with reverse English. Instead
OF forgetting things, she remembers
them at the wrong times. Went down
to the Traffic Bureau and stood In
line for an hour to have her permit
renewed. When she reached the win
dow they told her the permit didn't
expire until October.
Called up an insurance agent and
begged him to be sure to give her
insurance beginning June
l. Then started to throw away an
old policy with another company, and
found it would expire on June is.
Wrote an aunt letter congratulate
ing her on birthday. The aunt
replied that in the first place she had
stopped having birthdays several years
ago. In the second place, when she
did have them, they came in De-
cember.
We suggest the only cure for upside
down amnesia is little practice at
mirror writing, sport that will stand
you on your head for good.
HEADQUARTERS.
THIS is not intended as tip-of to
angry lnduStrlallSts, but II by
chance you are looking for John L.
Lewis, the shaggy lion of labor, don't
bother to go to C. I. o. headquarters
In the Heurich Building here. Mr..
Lewis hangs out up at the Tower
where the United Mine
Workers have much more spacious
offices than = n fopou eu,;toh
BOARD for telephones, pretty and eff
clent stenographers, and walls deco
rated with scores of cartoons depicting
John L. in various moods poses and
characters. Daughter Kathryn is
secretary to the U. M. w. boss. She
calls him Daddy" and offers you
only one brand of cigarette, because
It's union made.
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