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The Washington times., 1937-02-17
Postmdn's S Feet Hurt
Too Badly 10 Deliver
MoiI-So He Burns II

NEW YORK. Feb. IT U.N.S).
Henry Briggs, a postman whose
feet hurt, was under arrest today,
technically charged with delaying
delivery of United States mail.
But, according to postal authori-
ties, what he actually did was to
throw letters into an apartment
incinerator to save himself the
trouble of delivering them.
Assistant Federal Attorney Quinn
said Briggs explained:
"I'm not well and my feet
hurt"
The Washington times., 1937-02-17

that the United States plans no
departure at present from its
normal naval replacement pro-
gram.
Plans for construction Of new
capital ships at the rate Of two
a year, while a secret until today,
has been on the Navy's program
for some time, it was stated.
Funds for commencement of
the American capital ship con-
Continued on Page 2. Col, 81
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
: TOR NJ FACES
LINDBERGH

BAGHDAD, Feb. II GN.SO.
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
we're overdue here this afternoon
on a hon from Cairo.
A great desert sandstorm raging
over their route, with visibility re-
duced to 200 yards, was believed
delaying the merican flying
couple.
1t was learned here Colonel
Lindbergh had been warned not
to attempt todays flight through
the desert storms.
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
Taxi in Potomac
Gives Police
A Mystery

Reasons for the disappearance
of taxi cab early this morning
from 2423 Pennsylvania Ave. N.
W., which was later found in the
Potomac River near the Titanic
Memorial on Constitution Ave-, re-
manned mystery today after both
Park and Metropolitan police had
questioned the owner of the cab
and another man.
Adding to the mystery was the
fact that the address from which
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
Navy to Build = Ships
YearI y For 10 Years

The Navy plans constructing
two new battleships year for the
next five years, or 10 in all, it was
learned today.
This disclosure, made by a high
naval authority, came on the heels
of announcement that Great Brit
ain contemplates launching q gi-
gantic rearmament program call
ing for the staggering expenditure
of $7,500, 100000 over a five-year
period.
It was stressed here, however,
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
One Freighter Sinks,
One BeaChed in Crash

PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. IT
G.N.S0 The Italian motorShip
Feltre sank and the steamer Ed.
ward Luckenbach was beached
when the two vessels collided early
today in the Columbia River, AZ
miles below Portland.
No lives were lost, according to
reports received at the Astoria
Coast Guard headquarters. The
freighters rammed head-on as they
plowed through wind and rain
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
Court Holds a Dog
Must Have His Bark

CHICAGO, Feb. IT 0.N.SD.
The question of how often dog
must bark before he becomes a
public nuisance was settled today
by Justice of the Peace Martin
McGrath with this ruling:
"A dog is entitled to one day
week of good, vigorous
barking"
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
Actor Hart Better
After New York Trip

NEW YORK, Feb II G.N.SD.
His condition improved after un-
dergoing medical treatment, Viii
liam S. Hart, strong and silent
hero of silent movies, prepared to
head back West today. feeling a
heap better than when I came to
this town a month ago."
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
Noted BoIshevik Chief
IsOusted From Office

MOSCOW. Feb. II GN.SJ.-A
noted old Bolshevik leader, ".
KodatSky, today was removed
from the presidency of the Lenin-
grad Soviet by unanimous vote OF
that body in a plenary meeting.
Reasons given were bureau
cracy, incompetence, and refusal
to allow self-criticism, thus violat-
ing the democratic principles Of
the Soviet constitution.
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
MCNUTT NAMED
T0PH|L|PP|NES
International News Service

Paul v. McNutt, former COVER
nor of Indiana and a former ma
tional commander of the Ameri-
can Legion, today accepted Presi-
dent Roosevelt's nomination of
him as Hiqh Commissioner of the
Philippines. {
McNutt's nomination was sent
to the Senate today Immediately
after he advised Mr.. Roosevelt
that he would accept the post.
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
chang's Rights Restored

NANKING, Feb. IT GN.S).
The Nanking central government
today restored civil rights to Mar
shall Chang Hsueh-Liang, young
former Manchurian war lord who
kidnapped Generalissimo Chang
KaiShek, China's dictator, two
months ago.
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
Judge Refuses to Drop
Citations for Contempt

FLINT, Mich, Feb. II G.N.So.
Judge Paul v. Gadola today de-
clared that United Automobile
Workers Union officials cited for
contempt of court during recent
sit-down strikes in General MO-
CONTINUED on Page 2. Col. u
The Washington times., 1937-02-17
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair, continued cold tonight; minimum
temperature about 26 degrees; tomorrow in.
creasing cloudiness, rising temperature, fol-
lowed by rain in late afternoon or night;
gentle north winds tonight, shifting to mod
crate south tomorrow.
CWeather Details on Page 32)
Evening star., 1937-10-14

face the responsibility for use OF es-
pionage and strike-breaking agencies.
3. A request that the Civil Liberties
Committee spread its inquiry to en-
compass all instances OF the spreading
habit OF curbing civil liberties through
the formation OF vigilante organiza
tions and the use OF intimidation by
physical force.
4. An expression Of condemnation
Of the conduct of the Chicago police
in the Memorial day killing OF 10
steel strikers outside the Republic
Steel Co. plant. This resolution speaks
critically Of the failure OF local and
Federal officials to raise their voices
in protest or TO make any attempt
to punish the police killers.
S. A State legislative program sug-
gesting establishment OF State labor
relations boards, restrictions against
labor injunctions, against strike evic-
tfons. and against interference with
civil liberties Prohibition OF corpo-
rate payments to deputy sherf1s. reg
ulation of private detective agencies.
establishment Of collective bargaining
rights between States and their en-
ployes. and protection of payment OF
wages by employers to employees.
6. Condemnation OF police inactiOn
Evening star., 1937-10-14
C. l. o.
Continued From First Page.)

tCOntlnueO from F1rSt FaRe.)
tration of such - agreements" In
the past the U. A. w. has been accused
frequently Of failure to honor its con-
tracts.
Two other important recommended
tions of the Resolutions Committee
also were approved late yesterday. one
being a condemnation of the National
Labor Relations Board for recent de-
cisions favoring craft unions in the
mass s-production industries and the
other being the Endorsement of four
point legislative program which in
cludes laws for Federal licensing Of
interstate business enterprises. wage
and hour legislation, extension Of Fed
eral Works programs and extension OF
the Social Security system.
In the course of debate on the Mari
time Commission resolution Mervyn
Rathbone. secretary Of the C. 1. O.
Maritime Division, charged that the
bureau and the commission each are
under domination of the ship own
ers.'
1t also charged that both agencies
by their conduct are excluding Ameri-
can seamen from benefits of the ma
tional labor relations act.
Earlier the conference adopted a
resolution calling for establishment OF
State housing authorities to supple
ment the program under the Wagner
Steagall act.
Other proposals approved during the
morning were:
l. Endorsement of farm program
guaranteeing stabilization of farm
prices. This resolution condemns the
studied efforts to create antagonism
between these groups" springing from
sources long accustomed to the exploit
tation Of both"
2. A request that the Senate Civil
Liberties Committee pursue its inves-
legations into the steel industry with
the view of compelling Thomas P
Girdler. head Of Republic Steel, and
Eugene Grace, head of Bethlehem. tc
Evening star., 1937-10-14
Knows Tongues, Not Name

CHICAGO. october IA (P.-A WELL
dressed young man in the Woodlawn
Hospital knows four languages-but
not his own name.
The youth went to a doctors once
and complained he could not recall his
identity. He wrote answers to the
physicians questions in French, Eng
lish. German and Spanish.
On the linen of the amnesia victim
was the name clyde Butler"
Evening star., 1937-10-14

"ZiIor" the new
weove Of psbbly tex
ture, which eliminates
TO O greet extent foot
prints and markings.
The Tru Tone eoIors
ore Blue, Sond, Henno,
Burgundy, Rsssdo
Green.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
Floor Covering for the Bedroom
BroadIoom Carpet

Nothing is more appropriate and procticol
for the Bedroom, and the Alexander Smith
& Sons BroodIoonns ore the preferred by
critical judges. Two special grodes:
Evening star., 1937-10-14
CHURCH UNION VOTED

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. October IA
P).-The Tennessee Conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, voted. 1877 to 70, late yesterday
for unification Of the three branches
OF the Methodist Church.
A motion before the l24th annual
session Of the conference to postpone
the vote until 1888 was defeated. The
proposal was made by a number of
lay delegates from the Nashville
district.
Evening star., 1937-10-14

"StrotfieId"- "-A very
duroble cove ond
in the most populor
Tones-Tru : Resedo
Green, Heather Mist,
Buroun dy, Beover
Toupe, Antique Mo-
hooony, Royal Blue
9 and II foot widths.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
member Of the company Harrison

HieHIoei VI ei.e eohpNAy naiinon
commanded.
Fire Chief Howard Travers promised
. thorough investigation" of the
SO, 900 blaze, which was not subdued
until five alarms, brought 81 trucks
TO battle for three hours.
Four other firemen were slightly
injured. Two pieces OF apparatus
were buried in the collapse.
Harrison was standing with two
other oficers in an alley beside the
three-story brick building when the
walls began to bulge. The others ran
but Harrison stumbled in . grating
Five tons OF broken brick fell on him
Other firemen worked an hour anc
. half with acetylene torches to Gu
through the wreckase OF = fre escap,
and reach his body.
Evening star., 1937-10-14

in connection with violence allegedly
directed by the A. F. Of L. Longshore-
mems Union along the New York
water front.
Labor Board Long Debated.
Most of yesterdays debate centered
on the resolution OF censure Of the
National Labor Relations Board and
that pledging the C. l. o. to un-
Qualified cooperation In carrying out
administration Of its contracts.
During passage of the Labor Board
resolution it was emphasized that
there is no fault now to be found
with the act, but that recent admin
istrative actions are deemed to con-
stitute a most serious threat to the
workers in their attempt to organize
on industrial lines"
Evening star., 1937-10-14
SECOND MAN DIES
AS RESULT OF FIRE
Baltimore Fireman Drops Dead
While Removing Debris
Of Fatal Blaze.

~ the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, October l4.-John
H. Summers dropped dead today while
working with other firemen clearing
up debris of Z warehouse which COL
lapsed last night, killing Fire Lieut..
James X. Harrison.
Physicians said Summers apparently
died Of 4 heart attack. He was 4
Evening star., 1937-10-14

The cost Of operating the United
States Navy last year was s5IS,625, ,222.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03
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Season Lightly - Be careful
when doubling a recipe not to
double the seasoning. Use it spar
ingly at first, then add more it
needed.
Eggs in Potatoes-Bake pota-
toes. Cut off tops, scoop out cen
tiers and season with butter, salt
and little pepper, MASKING thor
oughly. Half fill shells with pota-
to mixture and drop raw egg,
salt, pepper, little grated cheese
and one teaspoon butter in each.
Put back in hot oven for four
minutes to set egg.
Eliminating Food Odors - A
small quantity of charcoal in
container on the top shelf will help
eliminate food odors from the re-
frigerator.
Keeps Caulifower White-A ta-
blespoon of sugar in the water in
which caulifower is cooked will
keep it white.
X.
Hole in Tablecl0th-If small
hole is burnt or worn in an other
wise good white tablecloth, it can
be "n1ended" most effectively by
stitching motif in fine crochet
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03
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over it and cutting away the
spoiled fabric underneath. Add
one or two more motifs so that the
necessary one does not look odd.
This is certainly more decorative
than an obvious darn!
Glazing Liquid for Cookies-A
mixture of two tablespoons of sug-
ar and one-fourth cup of milk
makes a good glazing liquid for
cookies. Apply on the surface of
the dough with a pastry brush be,
fore baking the cookies.
Rhubarb and Figs - To one
pound rhubarb, after peeling and
cutting, add half pound good figs,
cut into snallish pieces. Place in
a saucepan with a very little wa
ter and about dessertspoon gold
en- syrup or sugar and gently stew
till tender. Serve with rice or
sage mold or hot milk pudding.
Shaping KNITTING Needle--Before
using a circular knitting needle,
immense it in hot water for few
minutes to make it pliab1e. Be
fore it cools, and hardens, hold it
in knitting position, and make any
desired adjustments such as
Strengthening the ends. This dis
penses with a long breaking in PEI
riod. si M
Unwrap Food-Food should not
be stored in the refrigerator while
wrapped in paper because the pa
per prevents the cold air from
circulating freely over it.
To Keep Frosting From Run
ning-A half teaspoonful of bak-
ing soda added to boiling frosting
will keep it from running.
WNU Service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03

and running stitch, you'll find it
fun to embroider these large and
small nosegays. Choose all the
gay colors you wish, in wool, silk
floss or chenille and know you're
in style. In pattern 1901 you will
find transfer pattern of one and
one reverse motif IA by 8M
inches; one and one reverse motif
51a by 6 inches and six motifs 31A
by 3A inches; color suggestions;
illustrations of all stitches used.
TO obtain this pattern send is
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept, 259 w.
Fourteenth Street, New York,
N. Y.
Write pattern number, your
name and address plainly.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03
Frocks Made Gay
With Stitch Flowers

Fashion DEGREES that flowers
bloom on our dresses in embroid-
cry this Spring and Summer.
Give this smart touch to that new
frock-surprise yourself and all
your friends too by what it will
do to renew that plain dress from
last year. So easily done in single
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03

WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK..
BY Lemuel F. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Temperamental Sculptor.

NEW YORK. = "a very
~ tenperamental sculp-
tor" says A. E. Demaray,
associate director of the ma
tional park service, in ex-
planning to the house appro-
priations subcommittee how
difficult it was for his depart.
ment to estimate the degree
of progress on the Mount
Rushmore memorial at Rap
i'd City, S. D.
Commenting on Mr.. Demaray's
statement, the sculptor, Gutzon
Borglum, ever pungently articulate,
remarks that the memorial is not a
road contractors job nor one that
can be measured by the engineers
rule and compass.
In both thrust and riposte are
marked a certain nildness usually
not observed in Sculptor Borglum's
controversies, wherefor it may with
confidence be assumed that the cur
rent issue is of minor character,
with little or no chance Of its de-
vel0pment into some such contre-
temps as that between the eminent
master of chisel and hammer and
the Stone Mountain Memorial as
sociaton in Georgia.
That ended ,forlornly with the de-
struction by the sculptor Of all
plans, models and work in the carv-
ing Of heroic figures Of the Confed-
eracy on the face of the mountain
outside Of Atlanta and his with
drawal from the enterprise.
Temperamental? Yes, quite so.
But, as well, a thinker, man
of original views and conceptions,
and physically as powerful as he is
mentally dynamic.
It was Borglum who startled the
country back in the early 19OOs
when, i'm the course of an embattled
interlude with critics of some of his
ideas concerning sculptural embel-
Iishment of the outer walls of the
Cathedral of st. John the Divine,
ion Morningside Heights, New York,
HE announced that all angels were
male; that a female angel was I'M
known in the heavenly phalanstery
as set forth in Bible or religious
rubric.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03

ment following the recent nniniste-
rial crisis. is not included in the
new cabinet formed by DR.. Juan
Necrin, former finance minister.
Thus Spain's fourth premier since
the outbreak Of civil war last July
passes from the official life Of his
enbattled nation.
But those who know this militant
Marxist, this man Of courage and
deep social convictions, have no
idea he will disappear as a national
force of immense influence. He was
one Of the leaders responsible for
the overthrow of the Spanish mon
archy and establishment Of the re-
public in April, 1881.
The key to Largo Caballero's
character lies in the fact that he
was a typical child of the poverty
stricken Spanish masses. AT the
age of seven he began long strug-
gle to earn his living and at the
same time to educate himself, cir
cumstances which explain his fiery
adherence to socialist doctrines
from his early youth.
Learning the trade of stone ma
son, at which for many years he
worked, he was in 1917 tried and
sentenced, to life, Imprisonment for
his share in the organization OF a
revolutionary strike. His election
as socialist member Of the Cortes
! saved him from his sentence. Ar
rested and imprisoned thereafter at
various ii me s. and on various
charges, he was at liberty when the
present civil war broke out; he
rushed to the Guadarrama front and
participated in many actions.
Holding for united front of Span
iards of all parties and affiliations
against the forces of the insurgent
General Franco, the premier was
willing to grant representation in
the government even to anarchists,
for whom het has no regard, as well
as to communists, to whom he is
not warm. But in the end. his plan
for himself to take over the port
folio of national defense, with the
aim of imparting new vigor and bet
ter direction to the war, was not ac-
ceptable to opposing factions. So
| he retired.
4
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03
Spain's Strong Man.

FRANCISCO LAR GO CABAL-
LERO, who handed in his man.
date as Spanish premier because of
communist objections to his pro-
posal Of plans for a new govern
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03
SS5;'Ii%5,!{{|2|%s}.e!
about:
Poor Los Revival.

TUUT LU s hcVIVHIs
CANTA MONICA, CALF.
~ Despite the blessings of
civilization which we have
bestowed upon them, includ-
ing diseases, whisky, soda
pop, and So overalls, the
American Indians are in
creasing.
This should give our red brothers
cause for worry. Suppose they got
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03

SO uuIllSIOuS A1ot
we gave this, coun-
try back to them? j.
Already we are in
debted to these orig
inal inhabitants for
quinine:, /. cocaine.
e otto n, chocolate El,
t Q b a 6 c 9, 9 Or =,
b e a n $, squashes,
pumpkins, !: grape
fruit, huckleberries
and hundreds Of. 9TH
err remedial drugs
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03
Award for Merit.

ITO DR.. James Lewis Howe, dean
i Of the school of applied science
and head of the department of
chemistry at Washington and Lee
university, goes the 1887 award of
the Herty medal, which, symbolic
Of outstanding work in southern
chemistry, is annually bestowed by
the southern division Of the Ameri-
can Chemical society.
DR.. Howe, however, is a New
England importation, stemming
back to Newburyport, Mass, where,
in 1859 he was born. Graduated
from Amherst in 1880, he took de-
grees as master of arts and doctor
of philosophy at Gottingen after a
course of study in Germany ending
in 1882.
g Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03

s||R pumpkins, grape
fruit, huck1eberries
and hundreds Of 9TH
irwin 8. Cobb err remedial drugs
5ef <f or foodstuffs. More
over, an eminent authority says the
curative methods Of the old medi-.
cine man had values which in many
respects excelled that the white
man has produced and suggests our
scientists might well adopt certain
aspects of the aborigine's plan.
What if we did that very thing and
then, by the way of exchange, invit-
ed the tribesmen to take over such
trifing problems as an unbalanced
budget, our European debts, sit
down strikes and the younger gen,
GRAFTON?
Cleaning Up the Stage.
IT AVING lost their licenses, four
IL teen burlesque houses in New
York won't ever get them back if
the officials keep their word about
it. Z,
With this example to 60 by, au-
thorities might next try the idea of
cleaning up the legitimate stage
there - the spawning place and
breeding ground of shows in which
filthy lines and flthier scenes are,
freely offered to pop-eyed audiences
recruited from what we call our
best families. Poisoning the moral
atmosphere of the (theater appears
to be the favorite sport Of a new
school of dramatists who, when they.
were little boys, had their mouths
washed out with soap for using dirty
words, yet never got over the habit
The Fate of Beauty Queens.
lust as the weather gets warm so
- the contestants won't catch any
thing worse than sunburn, that out
break of annual monotony known as
the beauty contest will stir the popu-
lace to heights of indifference.
And then when Miss Cherokee
Strip or Miss Clear View has been
hailed as Americas prize package
of loneliness, she will, if she runs
true to form, put her clothes back
on and catch the next train for Cali
fornia with the intention Of starting
in the movies.
| On arrival, she will be panied to
note that none of the studio heads
is waiting at the station to sign her
up; also that practically all the star
ring jobs are being held by yoiing
ladies who, in addition to good looks,
have that desirable little thing
called personality. And next fall
She'll be dealing EN- off the arm in
a Hollywood hashery.
"A Sense of Hum0r.
HAMON RUNYON, who being
~ wise, should know better, re-
opens the issue Of whether many
people have a sense of humor. This
provokes somebody to inquire what
| is humor, anyhow?
stand by this definition: Humor
is tragedy standing on its head with
its pants torn.
Lots of folks think a sense Of hui
NOR is predicated on the ability to
laugh at other folks, which is wrong.
A real sense of humor is based on
our ability to laugh at ourselves.
You have to say, not as Puck did,
what fools these mortals be-" but,
what fools we mortals be-"
IRWIN s. COBB
] @-wNU Service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-06-03

the seventh Mr. Mrs Headrick
parents wanted Finding
Ellen tried to live
TIT
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-10-01
Student of
Race Problem
Visits Here

Mrs. C. H. Springer (white) of
Mitchell, South Dakota, travelling
on her own resources, gathering
data on the American Negro, visit
ed this newspapers office Tuesday.
Mrs. Springer is personally in
terested in a closer relationship
and racial understanding between
Negroes and whites and is con-
nected with no organization. Her
interest was aroused a few years
ago when a young Negro boy at
tending the South Dakota Univer-
sity lived at her home as one of
the family. She was further in
spired by replies to questionnaires
sent by her to both Negroes and
whites throughout the United
States.
From here Mrs. Springer will
go to Chicago, Detroit and Fort
Wayne, Indiana, where she will
live among Negroes and study
their problems and mannerisms.
Thus far her study has been con-
fined to the situation of the Ameri-
can Negro in the north.