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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-17

honored in history as its father
Professor Edouard Branly wa
Frances electrical wizard He had
done phenomenal work ON what
vas later called the "coherer'-ne
vas. i'm fact. ahead Of Marconi. L
vas a struggle between Two utans
far what proved to be fortune and
world fame
The French government wanted
10 see what Italys man could do.
and invited Marconi to come to
France and try his hand at wire
less. Marconi said he believed he
could send message across the
English Channel without a cable.
France laughed, and the world
laughed tGo. Prep1sterouS. 1t neV-
or mad been done, so, of course, II
could net be done,
FartY-nme years ago yesterday
Mncoai riggcd up his mast in a
IIlle town on the North coast Of
France. Directly opposite 81 miles
way. W4re the white chalk cliffs
al Dover. French officials came
- see what TINS young upstart Of
p rom italy had in mind. Not
onlr French officials. but there were
present also the high and mighty
OF France
Later Marc0ni said 4 consider
that lay the pivotal day OF my
life"
Luck was against Marconi. An
early spring gale lashed the wa
tiers. and the possibility Of send
ing a message with the elements
against it seemed hopeless.
InWardly MarcOni shook, but out
Wardly NE pretended calm. He peck
ed MS little instrument. Sparks
cracked and flashed and leapei
then silence. Would the other side
hear2 The spectators looked from
ore to the other. More silence
Then-amaZing neWs-the cable
brought back word that the mes
saee had been heard on the other
side Instantly the people changed.
Hats vent into the air, the hoity-
toitv rushed to seize his hand.
Taen Marconi made the gesture
Of his career He flashed another
aze.-to his rival, Branly:
@Marconi sends Professor Branly
fhls respectful compliments across
the Channel This achievement IS
partly due to his remarkable re
s=arches'
Naturally Professor Branly was
delighted. f1r he was being pro
claimed To the entire world by the
master From that day on he was
e#e Of Marconis staunchest SUP
Baste}s.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-17

A few years ago a young man
in HOLLYWOOD got an idea for max
me q picture out of a nursery
rhyme. lie talked it over with his
associates. They shook their heads.
didn't think much Of it. So the
Young man tried to put it out cf
has mind But it persisted in stick
ing Eventually we saw in Walt
Disney.s Three Little Pigs, the most
charming Of his productions.
Il gou have an idea you are con
Hneed is good don't let it be talked
CT Of you
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-17
one Minute Test Answers

/. Lake Champlain.
?. Yes.
3. Budapest.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-17
You re Telling Ne ---
BY WILLIAM RIFT

AMERICAN statesmen may
learn a lesson from the terrific
beating the Cambridge rugby team
gave our college squads. European
diplomacy isn't our game. either.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-17

YOU haven't read ALL the News
Until You've Read ALL the Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-17

Junior cannot understand that
news items about the three young
men who climbed a 300 foot cone
near Yosemite falls. California.
The story didn't say anything
about there being any ice cream IN
it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-17

The man at the next desk is Of
fering two-to-one that Frances
first move, after "liberating" Spain
will be to establish plenty of con-
centration camps.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-17

No, boys, let it alone.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

was able to find the daughters
address among the debris in the
room because Ella mad christened
the child La Verne, a name she
had read in a book somewhere.
She found the name and ad-
dress ScraWled on a brown paper
bag and pushed on nail in the
closet, with innumerable other
items of information similarly
ScraWled and filed. She wrote that
Ella was very i'll and might not
live through. Any one interested,
she wrote, ought to come quickly.
She little dreamed how La Verne
would interpret the phrase.
COMES TO DEATH BED
Mrs. Potter, aged "a, and Tilly,
aged 8, we're sitting watching
Elias face when La Verne came
in. La Verne's perfume came in
ahead of her. 1t was strong, jas
mine stuff. Mrs. Potter thought
it elegant for days afterward.
Somehow it clung to the room
after its wearer had gone. She was
in it. She had red
and was fat. Her skin
was red, too, and coarse. Her eye-'
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

large city in the United States.
June was a former member Of
Earl CAROLS Sketch Book,
which means an orchid-for
yuh hafta be good.
That new cocktail lounge at
Roger Smiths Powhatan Hotel,
now in the process of construc-
ton, will be ready about Sep
tember Is.
Designed in the moderniStic,
1t will be one of the hand
soonest in town. Gorgeous mir.
rors, walls in deep reds, yellows
and blues so blended as to give
an air of subdued splendor.
Larry EmmonS, New York de-
Signer who did the Shoreham
Blue Room, is responsible.
Manhattan Imports
VINCENT GALLAGHER, man
ager of the King Cole Room
at the Claridge, has booked
some Manhattan talent for the
opening of his new Hour Glass
Room in the Trans-Lux Build
ing. Understand Evelyn Knight,
who vows 'em at the King Cole,
will be in the new club.
There's to be a new master Of
ceremonies at the Casa Grande.
Name is Bobby Leonard. He
comes direct from the Torch
Club in New York.
Leonard combining his m. c.
talents with those of producer,
will have his own revue at the
Casa Grande. There will be
three shows nightly with the
last one folding at 3 a. m.
Phyllis Cremling, holding forth
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
And Hot Tunes
From Band Make
IT All EUet1

Result-that band is nearly per.
feet.
Sammy Richardson, m. Q. at
the Bamboo Gardens, who sings
in the band as well as in the
show, is doing Night and Day"
this week. Folks liked 1t so
much they insisted upon his re-
peating, so Might and Day" has
been the chief bit of music for
three weeks.
'Snice and cool at the Cres-
cent Cafes Rathskeller. And
the foods tops.
Angie Redante-Miss Hi-Hat
to you-is all popped up. A girl
friend from Tampa, Fla, Angles
home town, is at the Earle Thea
ter this week. Name-Frances
Langford. Frances and Angie
used to WOW 'em over the radio
in Tampa.
The Nightingale lives UP to
its name. Keeps open from Q
p. m. to / a. m. It's down on
the Richmond Highway-a nice
cool drive for folks with cars.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

copy the amount from the pass
book. It's around four thousand
dollars. It's money made here
and there.
"See, I've been in the junk busi-
ness now for going on 20 years
or so. It's good business, if you
know how. You sell anything you
get, from a lampshade to q
diamond. You fill in the amount,
if anything happens that I don't
and take lilly away to the
country"
Mrs. Potter put her hand on
her heart. The doctor had warned
her that so long as no bad shocks
took her, she might live a long
time. But this made her feel
funny. In a moment she began
to calm down, though, feeling sure
that Ella was imagining such
wealth.
She wasn't, though. She died
that night, and she made out the
check in her own hand before she
went. 1t covered, with plenty to
spare, the removal of Tilly and
Mrs. Potter to a tiny house in the
country. And it bought an elegant
tombstone to put over Elias re-
mains, which Mrs. Potter had re-
moved to a corner plot in the vii
lage cemetery, under a cherry
tree, where, in spring, the birds
sang, and Tilly, imbued with new
life, blinked in the sun.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
TO CARE FOR TILLY
Daily Short Story
BY LESLIE LANGHAM y

"Well," said Mrs. Potter. "yol
won't need to worry about Tilly,
Ella. I'll take care of Tilly.
She'll keep me from being lone
some"
Ella closed her eyes. '"That'll be
nice" she said. "Tilly loves you
like she loves me-"
A FRIENDS REWARD
Mrs. Potter said nothing. For
a minute or two the room was
silent, and then Ella spoke again.
Il want you and Tilly, after I'm
gone," she said, ito go away from
here. I been reading the papers
for years, and it seems to me you
could get a little bitty house in
New Jersey, cheap.
I'm giving you the money. It's
right here in the brown paper
bag under my pillow. There's a
check, and it's made out to you,
Mary. If you get me the pen, I'll
put in the amount. But if don't
get it done, all you got to do is
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

News of Washington Mite Club Activities
Air-COOIed Clubs
Place To Be in
d. 6. Heat

NOV THAT the hot weather
~ has set in with a ven.
geance, Washingtonians are rush.
ing to the air-cooled night clubs
and roof gardens to cool off.
At the Shoreham Terrace,
where lovely ladies in chiffons
and organdies dance to the soft
strains Of Barnee'S orchestra,
Bee Starr, circus aeriaist, flies
through air like a great white
bird. Diners, who by this time
have seen everything from an
ice show to a circus act, h ave
been enthusiastic in their re-
sponse.
At the Metronome Room in
Wardman Park Hotel - air.
cooled, of course - Johnny
Slaughter and his orchestra con-
tinue to Soothe the tired busi-
ness man and his not-so-tired
lady. No blaring band to burst
the ear drums here, but a good
orchestra playing the latest
tunes with a finesse that would
please a Toscanini.
If you haven't seen the Re
nee Lamar Trio at the Mary
land Club Gardens, you should.
These three young ladies do an
eight-minute act collectively and
individually. And can. they
dance!
Joe Ferrari, tenor, still delights
his audiences with ariaS from
famous operas. And folks you'd
think would prefer jazz call for
more.
Clerical Encouragement
UNDERSTAND that June Ray,
" captain Of the Chester Do
herty Girls at the Lotus, halls
from Boston. Her granddad is
a clergyman.
Instead Of being shocked
when June announced her in
tention of tripping the light fam
taStic for shekels, grandfather
gave her his blessing-and some
cash-and sent her on her way.
She's played theaters in every
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

guitar. All of which peps up
the music even when the nights
are not as cool as they should be.
Musical Bulldog
THAT English bulldog, one
- Terry, who hogs the spot
light in the Spanish Ballroom at
Glen Echo. Md, has an ear for
music. Jerry can spot a sour
note quicker than the late Vic
tor Herbert. And when the
SaXophone or the trombone goes
off key Jerry howls in protest.
Even his boss, Director Dave
MacWilliams can't hush him.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

brows were a thin line, arched
fantastically on the big face. Her
hair was bleached and curled into
tight little sausage curlS that
stuck out complacently from
under a brand new hat. Her feet
bulged from tight, fashionable
shoes.
Mrs. Potter, after the initial be-
wilderment had subsidized, said, in
a thin, old-lady voice: you must
of took after your father, mustn't
you? You don't look much like
a child of Ella!"
But La Verne was thinking
about money. who are you," she
asked, suspiciously.
Tina friend" said Mrs. Pot
ter.
And at that moment, Fortune
stretched out a hand and shielded
two old ladies and a grimy little
female dog. Ella slipped back
into the land of the conscious and
opened her eyes. She saw La
Verne standing there, and knew
at once what was in her mind.
"Ah," she said, in a tired voice,
"it's my daughter, La Verne. She's
come to help me. She's come to
bring me some money, so I can
have the doctor. How kind! Give
the money to Mrs. Potter, La
Verne! She's done so much for
me! She's been so kind!"
La Verne stood there, staring,
her mouth set in a tight, cruel
line; her eyes narrowed, her cor
seted fat putting from quick
breaths of disappointment and the
exertion of climbing four flights
of filthy and rickety stairs.
LA VERNE is VEXED
eff it hadn't been for Mrs. Pot.
ter" said Ella, I'D have died here
alone. I'd have starved. She's
brought me food-she's fed Tilly-
she's my friend. Give her some
money, La Verne"
1t embarrassed Mrs. Potter. For
one thing, it wasn't quite true,
and for another, she didn't really
need it.
Its all right, Ella" she said
II got four dollars a week of my
own, you know got enough to
live Oh"
YES" said Ella, IT know. But
La Verne will go away, and maybe
won't come back, and maybe I'll
die, and I'll have to be buried
Therel be the money to bury me
And Tilly-I want Tilly to have a
good home-I want some money
to pay for food for Tilly-"
There was no need to say any
more, because La Verne turned
then, and left the room. The two
of them heard her small heels
clucking her big weight down tt
l the wooden stairs.
Ella was still strangling fol
0 breath, but she smelled the jas
+ mine. Nice perfume La Verne
had on her" she said. But
l. found half bottle of heliotropt
T. once, in a trash can, that had i
e beat. 1t was awful nice" But
T. Mrs. Potter was still amazed a.
e La Verne. why did she go Of
e like that" she asked.
Because she's mean," saiC
e Ella, and then she told, in stumh
S ling sentences, the story of he
o children'S perfidy. You wer
n wrong to write her." she SAID
d though you meant it for tn
!. best. She and the boy are hk
r their father"
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

nightly at the Mayfair, has some
beautiful new gowns which she
wears during her numbers.
Phyllis, an accomplished singer,
dazzles the customers with one
new creation after another.
Understand the Show Boat
on the Baltimore Boulevard is
packing EN- in. Doc Clements
broke out with a new vibraphone
and Ray Donahue has a new
Evening star., 1938-10-24
AUTHOR TO ADDRESS
ALLIANCE CONGRESS
New Thought Delegates to Hear
the Rev. J. S. Garns-Sessions
to End Thursday.

Delegates to the International New
Thought Alliance Congress, converting
through Thursday at the Raleigh
Hotel, were scheduled to hear a talk
by the Rev. John Seamon earns,
author and lecturer, at the afternoon
meeting today.
Earl Goodwin, Washington newspa-
perman, will discuss current events
at the same meeting, and Miss Helen
Sewall of Washington and Mrs. Esther
Carr Gerber of Buffalo, N. Y, will
also deliver addresses.
The evening meeting will feature
Emmett Fox, New York author; Eleanor
Mel, Boston radio lecturer, and Villa
Faulkner Page of New York.
Other speakers during the confer
ence will include Henry Victor Nor
gan of Tacoma, Wash; Dr. Brown
Landone of New Jersey, Raymond
Charles Barker of Buffalo, the Rev.
Charles Sheldon of the Unity Society
here and Gladys c. Grier of New York
A young peoples forum is scheduled
Wednesday afternoon. In the evning
a banqut will be held, with James A.
Edgerton, president Of the alliance
as toastmaster. Miss Florence E.
Frisbie, a Washingtonian, is chairman
of the committee in charge Of arrange
ments.
Evening star., 1938-10-24
CARAVAN TO ARRIVE
IN D. C. TOMORROW
Worlds Fair on Wheels Will Be
on View to General Public
Seven Days.

Residents of the District of Columbia
tomorrow at 2 o'clock will witness the
entry of the caravan of IS streamlined
highway transports bearing the prop
critics of General Motors Parade of
Progress Exposition into the National
Capital from Philadelphia, where the
fleet will spend tonight, en- route from
the last showing, in White Plains, N. Y
The caravan. led by John M. Jerpe
director, and Joseph P. Dever, will be
met on the Bladensburg road by del
egation of public officials, civic leaders
and business men and be escorted by
District police to the exposition
grounds, at Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue, where the Wash
ington Board of Trade will present the
world fair on Wheels" free to the
general public for seven days, begin
ming on Wednesday evening at 7.
Preceded by police on motor cycles
the procession will proceed into the
city along H street, on Massac achusetts
avenue to Sixth. on Sixth to F., on F
to Fifteenth, on Fifteenth to Treasury
place, where, rounding the Sherman
statue. it will enter the exposition
grounds from E street. Mai. Ernest
Brown, superintendent of police, and
Inspector B. A. Lamb have DESIGNATED
this route to interfere as little as DOS
sible with the normal flow of traffic
at this hour.
Evening star., 1938-10-24
U.S.. Victor II, Inter-American:
Luck Deserts Foreign Riders
Army Team Outjumped by Mexican,
and Chilean Entrants, Nosed Out
as They Get Bad Breaks.

jumper stake. and Mrs. D. N. Lees
DR.. Yates the $500 hunters stakes.
Merry Prince also won the conforma-
ton hunters championship and Sandy,
Fort Myer Horse Show team, the jump
er championship.
Last Day Summary
Governors Cup Interstate jumpne)-
Won by virginia Team No i. Morris Clark,
captain t2ll4 FAULTS; second. District Of
Columbia team: Margaret Cotter captain
N. Fadeley, captain 153s. faults fourth, iiii,
New York team, Donald Sutherland. Sd.
captain t41a4 faults,
halsh, ridden BY Mrs. JACOB Wetherai;
Stables; ridden by Mrs Cary jackson: third,
pr Pr Yates. owned BY Mrs. D. N Lee, ridden
Choice Au15ey asged FShDaGk isl ls fourth Hunter
winse $500 Jump jumpers stske,Won . BY Clipped
@ Do oVned 6 Fort y0hn Mye4 Horss sho
Team Team RIDDEN by Capt Henri Luebberma n:
United United IS States Army Horse Show Team.
ridSsn ssno BY y Capt Royce Drake,
owned by Mrs. D N. Lee ridden by Aubrey
55ishbaek Fl H2ae = second, Hunters Choice, owned
Carlton Eacho ridden by Charles Carrico:
fourth Brown Bruin. owned by Mrs. Green
:. Herald d-Times Trophy international mil
itary jumpinel-Won by United States
Army Horse Show Team, Mai John T
Cole. captain 40 faults): second. Mexican
Army Horse Show Team Capt Armando
Vlllarreal, captain (4Oi2 faults; third. Chill
can Army Horse Show Team, Mai Eduardo
Yanez captain al faults)
Champion iumper-Won by Sandy,
owned by Fort Myer Horse Show Team.
reserve. Clipped Wings, owned by Fort
Myer Horse Show Team
-, Conformation hunter championship
Won by Merry Prince, owned by Mrs
George P. Greenhalgh. Reserve. Chelsea
Ruscus. owned by Nydrie Stable.
Evening star., 1938-10-24
CHINESE HEROINE
WILL LECTURE HERE
Miss Pearl Liu Will Speak
November 4 During U. S.
Goodwill Tour,

A Chinese school teacher who con-
Quoted herself heroically while
Hankow was being bombed Miss Pearl
Teh-wei Liu, will lecture here No
vember during a goodwill tour of
the United States.
Her lecture has been arranged bv
the Washington Council of the Amer
ican Youth Congress, of which Howard
Ennes is chairman. 1t will be given
at the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, 1410 Columbia road NV,
at pm.
Miss Liu led her class of children
to the safety of the dugouts when
Hankow first was raided from the air,
but later when the bombings became
routine" she continued her classes by
making her pupils sit on the school
building hallway floors, where there
was less chance of them being wound
ed by shrapnel.
DR.. Pao-yu Yin, American educated
political attache of the Chinese govern
ment, who also survived the Hankow
raids, will accompany Miss Liu on
her tour. Miss Liu represents the
Chinese Y. w. c. A. and DR.. Yin the
international peace campaign in
China.
Sponsors of the Washington council
OF the youth congress include Jessie
La Sale, assistant superintendent of
schools; Katherine Lenroot of the
Children's Bureau, Labor Department;
Newbold Noyes, Homer P. Rainey,
director of the American Youth Com
mission; Rabbi Abram Simon, Mai
Hewey S. wilkins and Herbert L.
Willett, jr.
Evening star., 1938-10-24

such a rule, Maj. Brown pointed out
that with the present limited force it
would be impossible to station at
least one uniformed officer at each
important intersecton-a move he
feels would be necessary for proper
enforcement.
On the other hand, the superintend-
ent emphasized he believes that few
arrests under pedestrian control law
probably would have a psychological
effect on other pedestrians, with the
result that the policemen's burden Of
enforcement would be lightened. .
A pedestrian who had witnessed the
arrest of fellow walker by a uni
formed officer probably would stop
and think twice before starting to cross
against red light himself. Maj.
Brown believes. BY that time, the
light would say go"
And the person who defies a stop
light. successfully eludes one stream
OF cars and stands in the middle of
the street muttering uncomplimentary
things about all drivers while watt
ing for an opening in the next line
of cars would have the added problem
OF eluding the nearest policeman.
Would Not Be Given Ticket.
As Maj. Brown explained, it would
be necessary for the officer to make
physical arrests. The pedestrian
would not simply be given ticket
and told to appear in court. The
offending walker would be arrested
and taken to precinct station to de-
posit collateral on the charge.
Maj. Brown said he is convinced
that If the District adopts some form
OF pedestrian control, the cooperation
OF the public will be needed to enforce
it successfully.
Pedestrians, Maj Brown said, should
need no greater warning of the haz-
ard which they face in the improper
use OF streets and highways than the
appalling record of pedestrian deaths
in the District during the last several
years.
Six pedestrians killed this month
Fifty-four since January /, and 79
last year. During the last six years,
there have been more than 200 persons
on foot fatally injured in trafic
crashes in Washington.
Statistics don't lie They are proof
that careless walkers constitute the
largest number of Washington's trafic
fatality victims.
Evening star., 1938-10-24
ACCORD REACHED
0NBUSEXTENS|ON
Residents, Transit Officials
Agree on Glover Park
Route Proposal.
Residents OF Glover Park and off,

Residents Of Glover Park and off,
cials of the Capital Transit Co. were
agreed unanimously today on a pro-
posal to extend the Glover Park
Trinidad bus line to serve additional
territory at its western terminus.
There was no opposition expressed
at hearing conducted by the Public
Utilities Commission. but there was
some variance of opinion as to the
route to be followed
Transit company spokesmen pro-
posed that the route in Glover Park
be north on Thirty-seventh street and
TunlaW road. west on Calvert street,
south on Fortieth street, and east on
Benton street, to Tunlaw road The
new western terminus of the line
would be established at Fortieth and
Calvert streets.
The present route. serving a much
smaller area, is from Tunlaw road,
west to Huidekoper place. north to
Beecher street, and returning east to
Tunlaw road
Maj. F. M. Dawson. engineer Of
maintenance of the Highway Depart
ment, told the commission, however,
that II buses are routed on Fortieth
street it will be necessary to resurface
that street at cost Of approximately
$4,000. At present. he said. the street
could not carry heavy bus traffic.
Commission officials later said they
would take up this problem with the
Highway Department.
A petition was filed with the COM
mission by Mrs. John H. Mott, 1852
Thirty-ninth place NV. opposing
routing the buses on Thirty-ninth
place. This route was not suggested
to the commission by any witness.
however.
Daniel j. Locke, staff engineer of
the transit company, testified the
growth of the Glover Park section and
indications that the improvement in
the area will continue justify extern
sion of the bus route. He said any
additional cost which the change
might entail would be borne by the
addition of new passengers
Mr.. Locke said one bus probably
would be added to the service during
rush hours and emphasized that the
present schedule would be maintained.