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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-19
I'D. G.. Heads Prepare for 50 500, OOODeficit
Talented WAShingt0n Matr0n
WrIteS Amid Duties of Home
Authoress Works as
She Gives Orders for
Running Of Home

Lifting in the Nations Capital
fOhich is rapidly becoming one
OF the foremost cultural centers
OF the World, are numerous So
ctety t0ome1t, tDto, rather than
conttne their activities to social
functions alone, haze gone in
for arts in q serious nay.
A fen haze turned profess
SionGl, but most of them hare
studied sculpture, painting and
ceramics, or pritten books and
toStered musical centerS for
their DUN pleasure and that OF
their families and friends.
Personality stories on these
iDonIen and their tDork lDilI be
printed in a series By The Wash
ingto1I Times. .. d
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-19

UgLON 4WLSSs
It took an attack of appendicitis
to bring out the latent author in
Mrs. Phyllis Moore Gallagher, wife
of Bernard Gallagher, Washington
attorney.
Forced spend weeks on q chaiSe
lounge recuperating from an oper-
alton, Mrs. Gallagher decided,
since she had to do something to
occupy her mind, she'd write q
love story.
Propped up with pillows, she
wrote it in longhand, had typist
copy it, and sent it off. Back
came the check with the request
for another story. ...
From then on life became just
one short story after another.
She even wrote "Short-short Stor-
ieS'' for the newspapers. For a
long time she meekly accepted the
checks that came her Way-but, as
she herself admitted:
81 ann commercial minded"
DEMANDS ROYALTIES
She demanded royalties for her
Syndicated stories and, to her vast
surprise, got them. Now those
checks go into baby's bank &C.
count because Mr.. Gallagher
doesn't care how much money his
talented wife makes just so long
as she doesn't nav the bills. So
she never spends q cent Of what
she earns. It all goes towards
Juniors little nestegg. AS his
dark-eyed mother put it:
Hell be o good catch for
some girl when he grows up"
At present this young woman,
who is in her late twentieS, is
under contract to II different
editors, which means that she is
working under a deadline and
has to produce regardless Of
how she feels. She said:
give written till 2 a. m. I've
written when was i'll with
grippe; I'VE written between
the baby's bath and his nOOn-
day airing and after TIE COM
pany has gone home"
She indicated a portable type
writer on her secretary:
81 write there. The baby's
nurse comes by and wants to
know il I think it too cold to
take him out: my maid asks
what I will have for dinner
and my kid brother calls up to
tell me he is drilling with the
High School Cadets at Griffith
Stadium and can I come?
IN A LOVE SCENE
81 was i'm the midst of o
fervid love Scene-yOu know,
when the hero has her in his
arms-and my feet were all
curled up-like thiS-when you
called.
81 write spasmOdicaIly-
sometimes for two hours
sometimes for 1O-but get
those stories cut"
It is not unusual, this dynamic
young woman with the ready wit
and vivaciouS manner said. for
her to write 200 stories a month
and they're all about love.
It may be love in cottage. or
love in a palace. Her editors don't
care as long as she keeps the ro-
CONTINUED on Page ~, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
GLEASON, Cop.
LEADER, DEAD

NEW YORK, Oct. Is (C.TP.S0.
Lafayette B. Gleason, "a, secretary
of the Republican State commit
tee since 1906, died in st. Luke's
Hospital yesterday. He had been
i'll nine weeks from complications
which followed an abdominal op-
Grafton.
Widely known as an expert in
political procedure, he was secre-
tary of every State convention Of
his party since 1892 and served as
general secretary of seven Repub-
lican national conventions. He
witnessed the nominations of Taft,
Hughes, Harding and Coolidge.
The title Of colonel" was be-
slowed upon him by political
writer's in 1898, during his associa-
ton with Theodore Roosevelt,
then candidate for governor.
He was born in Delhi, N. Y, and
graduated from Yale in 1885. Two
years later he was admitted to the
bar.
Gleason was married twice. His
only son, Gordon, was with him
when he died.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
Bike Sweep
Police Seize AU IN
Belgian Village

TERNATH, Belgium, Oct. IS
QN.S).-Every bicycle in this lit
tie town has been seized by the
police-they were all stolen in
Brussels.
But it did not come about be-
cause Of any vigilance on the part
Of the police.
George Mourote owned the
towns largest garage. He also ran
a bicycle store on the side. His
bicycle business prospered more
than his garage.
A competitor became curious.
He learned that Mourote obtained
bicycles from Brussels and that the
bicycles were stolen.
But the competitor did not tell
the police. Instead he found q
place in Brussels where he could
buy stolen bicycles cheaply. He
began to cut in on Mourote'S
business. Mourote sent an anony-
nous letter to the police.
The second garage man was
arrested. But as he had not yet
received his "Stock" the police
found nothing.
But they did find a great guam.
tity of bicycle parts and re.
painted bikes when they raided
Mourote's place after a tip from
Mourote's competitor.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25

none the less determined to go
through with his now slightly com
plicated scheme, WEIGH took his
team off to Williamsburg, Va, to
face william and Mary today. His
kicking coed" did not accompany
the team.
IT wouldn't be able to come
back if I took her, I'm afraid"
Welch said. But next Satur-
day against Dickinson, or GER
tainly by homecoming game a
week from then against Ran
dolph-Macon, our girl kicker
will be ready.
"And we should have a better
one than ever, with the fine
turnout we're having Monday.
Girls are naturally more accu-
rate and graceful kickers than
men. That long follow-through
they have, you know. like the
high kick dancers on the stage,
gives them this accuracy"
The Washington times., 1937-10-25


Gus Welch, star Carlisle Indian
quarterback for Pop Warner 25
years ago, now head coach at
American University, knew he was
in for fireworks when he began
training q coed to boot points
after-touchdown for his Eagles.
HE'S WHIPPED
He met the onslaught of report
ers and cameramen Stoically, he
meticulously answered the flood of
kilograms and letters he received
when his plan came out, but the
strident cacophony of half the
female student body that there
were half a dozen of their mum.
ber who could outkick, outrun and
outpass his personal protege,
floored him.
The diminutive Indian, who
laughed in the teeth of stalwart
gridiron juggernautS Of the Flying
Wedge Era, blanched and buckled.
IT guess" he faltered, well
have to give them all a tryout."
OFF FOR w. AND M.
So this afternoon. in tn e
natural bowl which houses A. us
football field, the sextet will slip
into moleskins and thunder forth
to do or die" for the right to be
the first girl ever to compete in
Q collegiate football game.
Shaken by his experience, but
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
His Break
Wne's Plea SGUes
Man from Jail

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 25.-Mrs.
Evangelia Bispo's earnest plea for
her philandering husband won
him freedom.
Arrested for desertion and non
support, Alex BiSpo, 81, was in
Judge Clifford Baldwin's Camden
Court with the "other woman. :"
He was sentenced to one year.
But, Your Honor" Mrs. BiSpo
said, "he really loves this woman
and he's so happy with her. I
don't want to interfere"
Judge Baldwin suspended the
Jail sentence. But ordered Alex to
pay his wife SIS weekly and give
up the "other woman"
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
IMMORAL ORGIES.
OF STUDENTS At.
OXFORD U. Barred
Rigid Restrictions Are
Blamed in Book
BY DAVID DARRAH

copyright, 1897, by c. T. p 81
LONDON, Oct. 25-Student
"orgies" and spreading immortality
in Great Britain's most famous
university are charged by Keith
Bryant in a book entitled "oxford
Limited" published today.
Bryant, who last year was the
editor of the oxford University
journal, "ISis," asserts that many
girl students have sexual expert
ence" during their university
careers. He estimates the proper.
ton at about one in five, and
states that every year there are
a few who become especially no
torious.
BIG LIQUOR SUPPLY
Bryant describes what he calls
a typical party in a dimly lit room.
More than an ample supply Of
liquor is stocked, he says, and adds
that "if the males want to load
the dice, some particularly potent
drinks are ordered to which the
girls are not likely to be accus-
toned"
One such party, he writes, ended
in a "shambles," with most of
the participants either lying drunk
on the floor or having to be car
ried to bed. The windows were
shattered, the floor bespattered
with blood and whiSkey, and the
noise was deafening, according to
Bryant's account.
RESTRICTIONS BLAMED
The author attributes "furtive
immortality" at oxford to rigid re-
strictions maintained by univer-
Sity authorities on the mixing of
sexes. "The chief cause of the
trouble" he writes, "is the female
don" He adds that girls colleges
are governed by "spinsterocracy, !"
which among its mass Of restric-
tionS bans more than a bare min
imum of public dances.
The official view, according to
Bryant, is that dancing is neceS~
sarily SINFUL" with the result that
notorious river hauntS, road houses
and unrestricted parties in private
rooms flourish behind the scenes.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
GIRLSSTERILIzED
FOR own GOOD,'
WOMAN CLAIMS
Ex- Superintendent OF
School Defends Acts

LONGVIEW, Wash, Oct. 25
U.N.S0-Sterilization Of girls at
the Beloit CKan) State industrial
school between August, 1885, and
March, 1897, was for their own
good and not as punishment, ac-
cording to Miss Lulu Coyner, for
mer superintendent there.
Editors Note: A major scandal
in Kansas penal circles tOGS
stirred Dhen a former representa-
the, Mrs. Kathryn O'LoNghlirl
Mccarthy, charged that 81 girls
had been SteriIized, and eight
others "unSered" under Miss Coy
7rer'S administration.
CITES 1884 LAW
"Only those girls unfit for
motherhood were Sterilized,"
said Miss Coyner. Punishment
was not connected with any
cases.
Doctors made a thorough ex-
animation of each girl before
the operation was ordered.
'"The SterilizationS were per.
formed under the Kansas law
Of 1928, which provides for
sterilization of certain inmates
of penal institutions, including
girls training schools.
They were performed only
upon advice of the three mem
bers Of the board Of adminiStra-
ton and with approval of the
secretary of State, board of
health and school Of physi-
Clans"
PARENTS NOTIFIED
Miss Coyner declared parents
were always notified, and their
requests given full consideration
before the operations were per
formed.
In frequent cases, their
pleas against sterilization were
granted" Miss Coyner said.
Miss Coyner declared she was
informed by Miss Blanche Peter
son, who succeeded her as super
intendent when the State admin
istration changed, that the sterili,
zation hearings would be con
tinued.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
Press Sensations
Blamed on Readers

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-If blame
must be allotted for sensational
treatment of sex crimes in news
papers, it should fall on readers
who demand such news, DR.. Ray
mond F. C. Kieb. superintendent
of Matteawan State Hospital, said
in testifying before the joint legis-
lative committee on law enforce
ment. DR.. Kieb said:
1.-THE press has it's problem. It
is endeavoring to give the people
what interests them. So, if I
were to place the blame for play
ing up this type of news, I
would place it on the people
themselves. I can't blame the
press"
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
NiceCotch!
But Boy Falls Out
5th Floor Window

NEW YORK, Oct. Is G.N.SJ.
But I caught the ball." 9-year-old
Matthew Gallop whispered to a
nurse in Fordham Hospital today,
The lad is near death from a
fractured skull suffered last night
when he fell from a. fifth floor win
dow of a Bronx apartment. Mat
thew was playing with friends In
doors. The boys were tossing a
football back and forth between
them.
One toss was a little wild" and
Matthew reached out to snag it.
He did, but in SO doing lost his
balance and tumbled out the win
dow,
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
Mrs. DeFOrest
Buried in West

PALO ALTO, Calf, Oct. Is
G.N.S0.-Funeral services will be
conducted t o d az for Mrs
Lette west DeForest, rs, wife Of
Alfred T. DeForest. retired presi-
dent of the Columbia Steel Com
pany. Mrs. DeForest. a native Of
Put-in-Bay Island, Ohio, died at
her home here Saturday after a
long illness.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25

ADVERTISEMENT
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
Barton Purchases
Recreation Park

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-James
Barton, actor, has purchased Rec.
reation Park, at New Hyde Park,
L. I. The purchaser plans to i'm
prove the property with an in.
door and outdoor athletic arena
with facilities for football, base
ball, miniature automobile racing,
boxing, wrestling and ice hockey.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
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The Washington times., 1937-10-25
2 sPEEDERs KILLED

MONROE, Wis, Oct. 25.-Wal.
ter H. Wyss, "a, of Monroe, and
Elmer Bavery, so, of Basco, Wis,
we're killed when their speeding
automobiles collided near Paoli.
Wis. Wyss was decapitated.
The Washington times., 1937-10-25
Goods Have a Kick,
A. u. Coach Harried

Once upon time there Indian football coach who
wanted coed to kick touchdown points for his team He
wanted one, and he got six
Evening star., 1937-03-25

Mitchell, Huron, Pierre and Aberdeen
were cut OF when . 50-mile-an-hour
wind and snow snapped wires.
The Aberdeen American News re-
ceived Associated Press news reports
by short-wave radio. Schools were
closed in . score Of communities.
Drifts In Minnesota ranged up to 10
feet. Snow plow crews rescued 20 bus
passengers marooned near Faribault.
The storm dipped into Wisconsin,
Nebraska and Illinois. Highway traf-
nc in Western Nebraska was at a
standstill. Chicago got a mixture OF
bad weather, including rain, sleet and
snow.
Tornados swept parts of Alabama
and Kentucky. Two were dead at
Ozark, Ala, and at least 80 persons
were injured in . twister at Win
chester, KY.
A dust blizzard descended on Okla
homa, Kansas, Missouri and the Texas
Panhandle, while q combination OF
dust, snow and rain produced "red
snow" at Ames, Iowa. The "duster'
cut visibility to less than 100 feet at
Guymon, Okla. Schools were closed
at Woodward and Boise City. Okla.
Forecasters reported rainfall at Los
Angeles for the season totaled 21.86
inches, highest since 1914. Rangers
rescued IA scouts stranded in . truck
by mud and snow.
Evening star., 1937-03-25
MRS. NIKAS DENIED NEW
TRIAL IN RELIEF DISPUTE

Mrs. Anastasia Nikas, who was con-
victed last week of 10 cases OF false
pretenses involving STAT in funds Sc
cured from the public assistance
division, was denied new trial yes
terday by Judge Walter J. Casey.
The court agreed to defer sentence
until March 81, and the case will be
investigated by the probation office.
The defendant was arrested when
her husband notified authorities that
his wife had a bank account. He
admitted on the stand that he took
this action after his release from
jail, where he served q term for non-
support.
Through an interpreter Mrs. Nikas
told the court that the money in the
bank was a dowry for her daughter,
established by Mrs. Nikas' uncle in
1922 and added to from time to time
by the uncle Rather than touch
this money, she said, the family had
submitted to eviction from their
rooms upon three occasions and had
suffered other privations.
The Government contended that
since the money was in her own
name she had made false state
Evening star., 1937-03-25
ablaze and ran almost q block while

ablaze and ran almost block while
villagers tried to help him.
"He looked like a human torch"
one witness said.
At the end Of the block, he STUN
bled or threw himself to the ground,
neighbors said and they were able to
extinguish the fire by throwing water
over him.
The garage owner was given first aid
at Burkittsville and brought to the
Frederick City Hospital, where he died
last night.
Rohrer's widow and one daughter
survive.
Evening star., 1937-03-25
BRITISH AlRLlNER
FALLS IN FRANCE
Company Denies Report Three
Killed in Crash on
Maintain

Mountain.
By the Associated Press.
LYON, France, March PA British
Imperial Anyways flying boat was re-
ported today to have fallen into deep
snow on Sid Beaujolais Mountain, nea.
the town Of Ouroux. Rhone Depart
ment.
Reports differed on the casualties.
Advices from near the scene of the
crash said three persons were believed
killed and two injured when the plane.
bound for Alexandria on its maiden
trip from Southampton, fell from q
height Of 1000 feet.
Imperial Always, however, said In
Paris that it was informed none was
dead, but that several OF the crew Of
i've and one passenger were hurt.
The plane, local advices said, was
discovered by parish priest.
Qn London it was stated the plane 4
one passenger was Miss Betty Coates
The craft, Capricornus, left Southamp-
ton at 1880 am. for Alexandria,
Evening star., 1937-03-25
70 IDLE AS BUS HITS
BRIDGE, EXPL0DES
Only 3 Survive Crash InvoIv'
ina Professional Roller
Skating Troupe.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SALEM, ILL.,, March 25.-Three men
remained alive today, survivors Of one
OF the Nations worst motor bus acci-
dents, which claimed the lives Of 20
members Of professional roller
skating troupe.
With two others, they were hurled
through open windows by explosions
following the crash Of the privately
owned vehicle into bridge abutment
near here yesterday.
Their clothing af1ame, they stood
by helplessly as 18 others burned to
death in the inferno of blazing
wreckage.
At the Salem Community Hospital
two Of the survivors-Mrs. Emily
Thomas. Chicago, wife Of the driver,
and Ted Mullen, Portland, Greg, an
rouncer-died early today.
Three Taken to St. Louis.
John L. "Schoolboy" Creekmore,
Miami, Fla; Dick Thomas, Chicago,
the driver. and Don Flanery, Kansas
City. Mo-, were transferred to a St.
Louis hospital today. Creekmore's
condition was critical
Six bodies, one that of 4-year old
child, had been tentatively identified
carly today. The remaining IA were
80 badly burned that intimate friends
and fellow workers found it impossible
to identify them, Richard S. Kaplan,
Gary, Ind, general counsel for the
Transcontinental Roller Derby Asso-
ciation, Inc, said
The party was en- route from St
Louis to Cincinnati when the tragedy
occurred on U. S. Highway No. so,
just two miles west of the city. The
bus was going down grade when its
right front tire blew out. The heavy
machine was hurled on its side across
the highway and burst into flames
when the gasoline tank exploded
Flames leaped 40 feet in the air,
turning the bus into funeral pyre
for its trapped victims.
Survivors said the bus appeared to
explode and then there was fire all
over and all were caught in it,"
stated DR.. H. L. Logan of the Salem
Hospital staff.
States Attorney Ward Holt said
today he had conducted partial in
vestigation" of the accident which
clearly indicated its cause to be the
blowout of the right front tire" He
said there was little to be gained by
examination of the wreckage-a small
ugly pile Of bent metal.
Coroner S. B. Carrigan of Marion
County said an inquest will not be
held for several days. 1--WE hope by
that time some Of the injured may be
able to testify" he added.
Evening star., 1937-03-25
STEAMER FOUNDERS

MANILA, March 25 (P)-The Chi
nese steamer Cheong On, rudder
gone, foundered in stormy East
China sea today of Shanghai await
ing response to her SOS for "imme-
diate aid"
Word Of the Cneong On's plight
was intercepted by the steamer Tau
rus, which gave its location as near
the Chinese vessel, but did not indi-
cate if it were proceeding to the help
less carriers aid.
The l,483-ton vessel is owned by
the Zin Kong Steamship Co. of
Shanghai.
Evening star., 1937-03-25
FLYER WILL MARRY
Capt. Bellande to Wed Molly La
mont, Screen Actress.


LOS ANGELES, March IS OP.-
Capt. Edward A. Beillande, transport
pilot, and Molly Lamont, screen act
ress. announced yesterday they would
be married next Tuesday.
Bellande five years ago was pre-
sented the airmail medal of i,onor by
President Roosevelt for saving the
lives Of passengers by successfully
landing = burning plane at Bakers
Field.
Miss Lamont has played in Jungle
Princess" "A Woman Rebels" and
Mary Of Scotland" She gave her
name as Marjorie Edith Lamont, rs.
Bellande said he was SO years old.
Evening star., 1937-03-25
Glass Auto Displayed,

A glass automobile revealing every
detail Of the construction was shown
ut this years Berlin motor show.
Evening star., 1937-03-25

freezing temperatures plagued a wide
expanse Of the midcontinent.
A 22-inch snowfall deluged Brook
ings, Watertown, SHseton and the
Black Hills territory Of South Dakota.
Evening star., 1937-03-25
Jewish Home Plans Celebration.

Former residents OF the Jewish
Foster Home, 32l3 @ street, will at
tend the celebration OF the Seder at
the home tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1937-03-25

ment to relief authorities when she
failed to mention a bank account
when she applied for relief.
Evening star., 1937-03-25
MAN DIES OF BURNS
AS DUNGAREES IGNITE

Garage Owner Runs for Block
With Clothing Ablaze Before
Neighbors Quench Flames.
BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICK, Md, March 25.-Ray
Rohrer, 24-year-old Burkittsville ga
ragAowner, was fatally burned yes
terday when fire ignited his oil-soaked
dungarees. Witnesses said Rohrer
rushed out Of his garage, his clothes
Evening star., 1937-03-25
Weather

Continued From First Page.)
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"Nder Of the Snake "
Rv MARIE BRETT.PERRNG

SNAKE once helped me bring off spectacular coup"
"A in secret Service work Not that the snake wished to
helm me but it lust happened that way.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-11

FhANI1C NO1CE
It was then that became aware
Of footsteps pounding the road
and Of a voice calling frantically
to me: the man I had noticed on
the street car was running in my
direction, waving his arms and
shouting something that sounded
like stop! Stop!"
I turned round and looked at
the oncoming figure in amaze.
ment. What did he want? To help
me? To warn me? Very chivalrous
Of him, but as it happened, I had
solved my little problem without
his help.
The snake was lashing very
weakly now and I laughed as
pointed to it and announced
proudly: II believe have broken
its back"
The man took no notice Of me;
he knelton the dusty road, a large
Evening star., 1937-01-17

Soft, absorbent towels -. just the
right size for guest use and hands
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