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Attractions at Roxy Theatre

Friday and aturday-Dick Pow
ell, star of many musical produc-
tions, and Josephine Hutchinson,
are co-starred in Happiness
Ahead, a romantic comedy, al
though this is a straight" comedy,
there are musical interludes in
which the famous Powell voice will
be heard in Pop Goes My Heart
and Beauty Must Be Love" Miss
Hutchinson plays the role Of the
daughter of wealthy and socially
prominent family, who runs away
from her own engagement party,
in search of adventure. She en-
counters Dick Powell and his pal,
Frank McHugh, in a Chinese chop
suey palace, where the happy
throngs are celebrating New Years S
Eve.
Monday and Tuesday Return
engagement by special request
No matter how much you liked
Naughty Marietta" you're sure to
like Rose Marie even more
Again co-starring Jeanette Mac
Donald and Nelson Eddy, this
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production
now comes back as a reissue. Re-
plete with haunting music, a tender
love story, magnificent photog-
raphy and backgrounds. it is truly
the film sensation of the year.
Wednesday and Thursday Var
sity Show stars Fred Waring and
his Pennsylvanians and Dick Pow
Smyrna times., 1937-09-30

takes its name from the river that
placidly flows at the feet of these
mountains. The approach to Ash
vile is one of romantic scenery and
its surrounding is panorama of
enchanting views formed by the
majestic beauty and rockbound
heights of the grand old mountains,
as they point heavenward, like sill
ent sentinels telling us that The
heavens declare His glory, and the
Firmament show His handiwork. !"
Ashville is situated in the heart of
this lovely valley and is beautiful
for situation, and has all the evil
dences of wealth and enterprise,
being both a summer and winter
resort for the pleasure seeker and
invalid. 1t abounds in first class
hotels and good boarding houses.
All denominations of christians
have places of worship, and schools
are abundant and well equipped.
The town is lighted by electric
lights, the streets are macadamiz-
ed, and purewater is furnished by
a complete system of water works.
The people are hospitable and
courteous and a stranger soon feels
at home among them.
On account of the number of
clear days in the year and the
beautiful blending Of the azure
skies with the mountain sides, this
valley has been POLITICALLY called
THE land of the sky" and the
claim is made for it from being
vale, with the high walls Of the
mountains completely surrounding
it. The climatic changes are less
severe than where there are no
mountain guards to protect them,
and the altitude being over 2OOO
feet above sea level, the air is in
vigorating and even electrical all
the year round, and it is claimed
that the virtues hid away in the
earth impart to the waters mineral
recuperatives that give bloom to
the cheek, lustre to the eye, and
the tonic of the atmosphere
which you breathe in so deep and
full from the natural crucible,
gives strength to the faded nerves,
starts up the languir pulse, and
vigor and health comes back to the
wasted body.
It is claimed by some writer of
this region that here the Goddess
of Health" has her permanent
home, and the invalid suffering
from lung affections, the dispeptic,
the nervous and debilitated and
those suffering from malaria will
here find that relief in the sani-
tarium that nature has provided
which they have sought elsewhere.
but failed to realize" AS a winter
resort its advantages are derived
from its southern location, and the
essential advantage of its summer
GOODNESS is in the fact of its being
of greater altitude than most
summer resorts.
Smyrna times., 1937-09-30
MRS. ANNA S. BRICE DIES
ChestertOWn Teacher Had Taught
For Period of 25 Years

Mrs. Anna Smyth Brice, As. a
member of the Chestertown High
School faculty, died Tuesday morn
ing Of laast week. She was the
daughter of the late ]. L. Smyth.
one-time superintendent of Kent
schools, and had taught in Kent
county for 25 years. She is sur
vived by her husband, James A.
Brice; a daughter, Mrs Bayard
Sutton, and a son, Laurence S.
Brice. Funeral services were held
at Christ M. P. Church Friday with
burial at Chester Cemetery.
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Car Damages Five Trees

Arrested when the car he was
driving ran over the Dover plaza
Sunday morning and damaged five
trees to the extent Of $3.50, Joseph
j. Deery, Of Upper Darby, Pa, was
found guilty of reckless driving by
Magistrate w. D. Burton and was
ordered to pay the damage costs.
Smyrna times., 1937-09-30
A Doubtful Start

II trust that we shall get along
very nicely, Ada" said Mrs.
Brown to the maid she had just
engaged; for / am not at all diff
fcult TO please"
mo. ma'am," replied the maid.
that's what 1 thought as soon as
ever / saw the master. Toronto
Globe.
Smyrna times., 1937-09-30
Vacation Romance?

Youth-Now on this ring I should
like you to engrave: For my dar-
ling Muriel."
Jeweler-Would it not be better to
have simply: For my darling?"
You see, sir, it will be at least a
week before we can let you have
the ring.
Smyrna times., 1937-09-30
LETTER FROM A. p. GRIFFITH

LETTER FROM "A. r.. GRlFFIIH
Ashville, N. c., Sept. 20-After a
ride of twenty-six hours, feeling
very tired, as would be natural in
our weak physical condition. The
journey was one Of no special in
terest SO far as sight seeing was
concerned. We saw plenty of poor
waste land with scrub timber of
several timber kinds, but when we
reached Round Knob Hotel and
Station" which is at the foot of
Round Knob Mountain" and is
the entrance gate to the mountain
city of Ashville, then the beauty
and grandeur Of these mountains
begin, and there is no abatement
of INTEREST," the rest of the way, for
with an engine for each car we
begin to climb the mountains.
AS we ascend we look up to a
high cloff and notice the railroad
is perched up there; on we go,
leaving our starting point on our
right, then suddenly we see it on
our left and we seem to almost
come back to it again, when 10!
it is in front Of us, when behold we
are up on that high cliff looking
down on all that we have left; we
find the railroad is still built high
er up, and as we cross this defile
and shoot out that deep gorge, and
run up other numerous ledges, go
ing through five or six tunnels,
making a distance of five miles, we
find that we have ascended twelve
hundred feet, and the traveller is
filled with amazement at the won
der and sublimity of nature and
also filled with admiration for the
skill displayed in the plan of as
cent by the surveying engineer.
The whistle blows, the bell rings,
and we art at our destination,
Ashville, which is a beautiful city
of about eight thousand inhabit-
ants, located in western North
Carolina, with the Blue Ridge on
the east and the AIleghanies on
the west, in that picturesque val
ley Cor heart of the mountains)
called the French Broad, which
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Penny Wise

Mother-Come here Johnnie; !
have some good news for you.
Johnnie (without enthusiasm) -
Yes, I know; father is home again.
Mother-Yes, but how did you
known
Johnnie-My bank won't rattle
any more.-Life.
Smyrna times., 1937-09-30

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Miss Louisa Dunning, after ;
lingering Hines, died in Camden OIL
the 23rd inst, aged 49 years.
"A Wilmington merchant has in
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SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
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ry Williams and Sydney Smith, of
New York. Henry Ridgely, broth
er of the bride, and r. Bradford of
Dover, were ushers. The bride
was attired in white ottoman faille
silk, court train and point lace. A
delightful and bounteous reception
was rendered the bride at her
fathers residence on State street
Immediately after the ceremony,
and the happy couple were the re-
cipients of many costly and ex-
quisite presents. Among those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
dupont, Mrs. Ann DUPONT, Mr.. and
Mrs. Tatnall Warner, Mrs. Rum
ford and j. Polk, of Wilmington,
and many friends of the bride, who
wished her bon voyage" on the
matrimonial sea.
Smyrna times., 1937-09-30

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Turkens scarcer and Higher

Turkeys for Thanksgiving and
Christmas dinners won't be as
plentiful this year as last, Federal
economists reported last week.
They estimated the 1887 supply is
about 10 per cent below last years.
Growers intend to market their
birds earlier and at slightly heavier
weights than in 1886, the econo-
mists said.
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WOMEN'S WAYS

This paper says the average life
of ship is twenty-six years"
That's why ship is called She
for a woman never gets any older
than that
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NO WET GOODS

How did you like the banquet last
night?"
mot much. The menu was as
dry as the speeches"
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The Washington times., 1937-03-04

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for Federal Employees. Be sure
to read Mondays Washington
Times.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Lung Keeps Man Alive
After Year i'm China

Rockefeller Foundation hospital is
known.
It was in this institution that
the only iron lung" in all the Far
East was available. Without that,
Snite could not have survived the
day. Thankful for this gift of fate,
the elder Snite cabled to the
United States for a second cylinder
so that his son could keep his in
case another patient should need
one. Subsequently a third and
larger cylinder was shipped to
Pieping.
Visitors Wear Masks
Through valves in the wall Of
the iron lung" doctors and nurses
change the bedding and give mas
sage treatments to prevent afro
ply of the limbs. Air is prevented
from escaping at the neck open
ing by soft rubber collar about
the lads neck.
To make life bearable for the
patient, the father secured the
only air-conditioning unit in North
China and had it installed in the
hospital last summer. Because of
the danger of even the slightest
cold germ spelling death to the
paralyZed man, visitors are limited
and enter the room with masks
over their mouths.
The greatest worry to the doc
tors is the possibility of a fatal
cold should Snite be cured suffi-
GENTLY to permit life outside the
iron lung"
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
HAWAII SUGAR
MEN FIGHT
CONTROL
Bill Now in Congress
Unfair to Producers
There, Is Charge
International News Service

Hawaiian sugar intere 9 sts
launched a fight today against
the Administrations sugar con-
troll bill, alleging discrimination
against the island in favor of do.
mestic producers as we'll as Puerto
Rico, the Philippines and Cuba.
Asserting that Hawaii is an in.
tegral part of the United States,
Alexander G. Bulge. president Of
the Hawaii Sugar Planters Asso-
citation, declared I'VE are entitled
in common justice and legally -
treatment on a parity with the 48
States" He added:
1--WE should have fixed mini.
mum quota as do the producers
in the various States. We should
have exactly the same cOnsidera-
tiOn given beet and cane pro-
ducers in other parts Of our
country.
"The bill provides payments
on sugar cane and sugar beetS
harvested after June 30, 1887.
The tax on sugar manufactured
would become effective April /,
1887. April, May and June are
maximum harvesting months in
Hawaii and no payments will be
received for cane harvested dur.
ing these months, but the tax
must be paid. Other cane and
beet areas in the country escape
this injustice as their harvest
comes after July 1, 1887.
1T is not conceivable that
Americans will permit such in.
justice to any one section Of
our country.
another flagrant example Is
the fact that under the terms Of
this bill we are not permitted
to send refined sugar to other
parts of the United States.
Imagine Oregon as a territory
being told that its people could
ship rough lumber but not fin.
iShed lumber, or, similarly, Okla
hOmans that they could ship live
steers, but not dressed beef. This
bill actually requires Hawaii to
ship her sugar as raw sugar, with
the exception of three per cent
in refined form. Why?
"As against this three per
cent, Puerto Rico is permitted to
ship Is per cent of its quota to
the United States as refined
sugar, the Philippine Islands
eight per cent and Cuba, a for.
eign country, 22 per cent, or
seven times the percentage al
lowed Hawaii. The inherent fair
ness of the American people will
not cOndOne injustice and Ha-
Waii should not be asked to sub.
init to unfair restrictions which
would not be tolerated by any
State"
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
PASSES
BAR EXAMS

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 4
Q.N.SO.-Blind since a week
after he was born, Is years ago,
Melvin Fake, of Cleveland, has
successfully passed the Ohio
State bar examination. He ex-
planned:
"AlI had to do was to hire
a stenOgrapher to read the
questions to me while / typed
the answers on a typewriter"
Now, Fake, a graduate OF
Western Reserve University, in
tends to make use of his law
training in the real estate busi-
ness. He is also considering the
possibilities of a political career.
He said:
"After all, Senator Thomas
Schall and Senator Thomas
Gore went a long way with the
same handicap as l have"
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

PEIPING, March 4 G.N.S0.
For nearly year, electric pumps
working day and night empting
and filling an iron cylinder with
air have kept life in 26-year-old
Frederick Snite, jr., of Chicago.
Snite has lain on his back, unable
to move any part Of his body, en-
cased in a giant iron lung" since
the last day Of March, 1896, in a
room of the Peiping Union Medical
College Hospital.
Only Mr.. Snite's head remains
out of the cylinder. but he is able
to talk and otherwise carry on a
normal life so long as the pres
sure of the Iron lung" forces his
own paralyZed organs to function.
Recently the doctors tried the
radical experiment of keeping the
young man out of the cylinder for
five minutes. He was able to speak
without the artificial respiration.
However, a temperature followed,
and further long tests have been
abandoned for the time being.
Stricken On Cruise
The young man, with his par.
ents, sister, and a college mate,
was on a round-the-world cruise
when he contracted poliomyelitis,
or infantile paralysis. The dag
nosis was made by the United
States Navy doctor of the Ameri-
can embassy guard, and he was
rushed to the Peiping Union
Medical College Hospital, as the
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Bicycles Placed
On Par With Auto
Under Illinois Bill

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March 4
GN.SO.-An ordinary bicycle in
Illinois will vie with an automo.
bile under a bill introduced by Ed
ward P. O'Grady in the house Of
representatives.
If the bill passes, every bicycle
not only must have adequate
brakes and steering mechanism,
but a horn, bell, or other de-
vice" a head lamp and front
reflector and rear reflector.
The horn or bell shall not be
used other than as a warning,
nor be unnecessarily loud or
harsh"
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Moderation, Sato Policy

TOKYO, March 4 G.N.SD.-A
more moderate japanese attitude
toward China was foreseen today
following appointment of Naotake
Sato, ex-ambassador to France, as
foreign minister in the new
cabinet of Premier Senjuro Ha-
yashi. Informed circles pre-
dicted Sato would attempt to
end Japan's isolation in interna-
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
SENATE PROBE
IS BLOCKED
International News Service


For the third time since 1894,
a Senate investigating committee
today launched an inquiry into
the Federal Laboratories, Inc, Of
Pittsburgh, dealers in sub-machine
guns, bombs, ammunition, tear
and sickening gas, and armor
plate.
And for the third time Senate
investigating committees inquiry
was blocked or hampered by de-
struction and hiding of sub.
poenaed records, and the failure of
witnesses to remember details of
business transactions.
This time the company's officers
were called before the Senate Civil
Liberties Committee, headed by
Senator La Toilette (PD of Wis
consin. 1t is investigating indus
trial warfare.
They were questioned concern
ing the concealment of important
data in anticipation of the La
Toilette committee subpoena and
those of the Senate Munitions
Committee on two
previous occasions.
John w. Young. of Pittsburgh,
president of Federal Laboratories,
Inc, admitted freely that he had
withheld records from the LaFol-
lette committee investigators be-
cause:
81 wanted to keep them from
falling into the hands of people
who would misuse them as they
were 1nisused by investigators
during the two times l ap-
peared before the Nye muni-
tiOns committee"
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
CHECKS
FLUCTUATI0N
OF FRANC
To Peg Unit at Present
Value, Says New
Envoy to u. S.
BY ROBERT G. NIXON
Copyright, 1897, by International
News Service

Easing grave international fl
nancial tension, Georges Bonnet,
new French ambassador to the
United States, today declared
that France would not further
revalue the franc.
The Blum government, he dis
closed, will propose to the United
States that the franc be stabil.
lied permanently at its present
value in relation to the dollar.
When the franc toppled last fall
and threatened to drag the dollar
and pound after it by upsetting
the delicate world financial equi-
librium, the United States and
British treasures rushed to the
rescue with the famous tripartite
stabilization agreement. With sup
port of the worlds two richest ma.
tions, the franc ceased its down
ward plunge and French financial
chaos was averted.
This tripartite agreement, Bon.
net said today, was temporary. He
will not propose that it be made
permanent.
Reveals Critical Phases
In an extraordinarily frank in
terview, Bonnet, who has held II
posts in French cabinets and is
regarded as Frances outstanding
financial genius, discussed many
critical phases of world financial
and economic conditions. Among
them he revealed:
l.. That the question of settle.
ment of Frances r-billion-dol-
lar war debt to the United States
will be considered during his
six-month visit.
2. He will seek to negotiate a
new Franco American trade
treaty Immediately on
broader basis"
8. The financial crisis which
has threatened fall of the Blum
government has been relieved by
a 50-million pound loan by
Great Britain.
France Is eager to settle It's
long-standing war debt, Bonnet
declared, and an attempt will be
made to find a basis for payment.
In this, he said, the Franco
American trade pact is expected
to play a large part. One of the
chief obstancles to payment Is
finding a basis of dollar transfer.
New Pact Necessary
The present trade pact was
negotiated nearly year ago and
was to run indefinitely until one
of the governments gave six
months notice of intention to end
it. Negotiation of a new pact has
been necessitated, it was learned,
because of inequalities brought
about by the fall of the franc
and the resultant tripartite agree
ment.
significance of the huge British
loan to France becomes apparent,
observers said, in the light of the
fact that conservative elements
had been seeking to cause the
leftist Blum government to fall
by wholesale flight Of the franc
to the United States.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04
Horses Die in Fire

NEW YORK, March 4 GN.s3.
A fire in a stable at Belmont Race
Track today had caused the death
of three thoroughbred horses,
valued at $4,000. The horses,
owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Arden
Lewis, were Leading Lady, Old
Gold and Lady in Black.
The Washington times., 1937-03-04

the crowd realized what had hap
pened.
OdOr of Drug In Car
1t was only then that Common
wealth's Attorney w. o. Fife an,
nounced the reasons that had led
to the arrest of DR.. Miller late
yesterday.
DR.. Miller had borrowed a car
from j. Hubert Carver, local au-
tomobile salesman, on Monday
night, the night Cleo disappeared
from her home, he announced.
Carver was questioned for sew
eral hours yesterday. Later he
admitted that when the car was
returned to him he found cot
ton in it-cotton similar to that
found stuffed in the girls
mouth and nose. Also, he said,
he found a decided odor Of
chloroform in the car.
Carver was released after sew
eral hours questioning but DR..
Miller was still held, and after
hearing the evidence of the in
vestigators, Sheriff Smith asked
Justice of the Peace w. B. Colt
hurst to issue a warrant charg-
ing DR.. Miller with the murder.
A removal order was immedi-
ately issued and he was rushed to
Richmond under a heavy police
guard. His wife, informed of this
by The Times, said:
"He is innocent of this charge.
I cannot say more than that az
this time, but 1 will say that I
am engaging counsel for him,
and I hope at the proper time
to produce definite evidence
that he is innocent Of this
charge"
AS he left the jsil en- route to
Richmond, the dentist muttered:
"It's a frame up. I'm not
guilty. I'm being framed"
It was when the doctor and his
guards were about 80 miles from
Charlottesville on the trip to Rich
mond that he is reported to have
begun telling his story.
Details Withheld
A girl friend, Marguerite Ham
ilton, told police yesterday of hav-
ing met Cleo in the dentists office
about 3 o'clock Monday afternoon,
but in response to question, Cleo
declared she didn't have a date
that night
Another girl friend told police
that she had seen Cleo in an auto
mobile Monday night with q man
I didn't recognize in the dark"
Tuesday morning Cleo's body
was found propped against brick
wall that borders a cemetery on
the University of Virginia campus.
Her mouth and rostrils were
stuffed with cotton and a chloro-
form can was held in place over
her face with newly purchased
hand towel. Her underclothing,
hat and gloves were found about
Is feet from the body but other
wise she was fully clothed.
DR.. Miller, prominent here for
many years, is the father of two
children. His wife is choir
singer and DR.. Miller is active in
sports and fraternal circles. He
has large professional clientele.
Last rites for the dead girl
were held this afternoon from her
mothers 'home-the home from
which she disappeared Monday
afternoon. She was buried in
Riverview Cemetery.
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The Washington times., 1937-03-04

MAN INJURED AT JAIL AS
TOWN IS AROUSED
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nothing to do with her condition agreed perform the
operation at her solicitation"
Briefly the bespecacled dentists story Of the girls death
this
He had consented to perform the operation when Cleo
informed him that she expectant mother He bor
rowed the automobile of friend and drove with Cleo
secluded spot the soney Point Road about eight miles
from the University of Virginia campus cemetery where
her body was found Tuesday morning.