The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-20

81 WRC!
Patsy Perkins Miss Perkins
was one of the ten semifinalists
in Gordon's own Miss Washington
contest last year-and this year
so she emphatically told him
this morning-she is determined
to get into the semifinals of the
Walter Winchell Sweepstakes
and to 90 on into the finals and
win Walters personal OK" as
the girl who will spend three
glamorous days and nights as his
personal guest in New York.
Just in case you girls who are
planning to enter before midnight
of April 80, when the nominations
close, want to know what being
Walter Winchell's guest is like
lust read what Miss Kitty Carlisle
has to say about it in another
column! She has been Little
Boy Peeps" personal guest in his
famous police car-chaSing down
the story behind the crime-and
she knows it's we'll worth win
ming!
ENTRIES COME IN FAST
The entries are coming in
faster and faster as the time for
the deadline grows nearer and 1t
looks as though every department.
of the Government Service will
be we'll represented in the Wash
ington Times effort to disprove
the statement published by
Winchell in his column in the
Washington Herald, that there
are no beautiful women in Gov
eminent Service here!"
Nearly everybody knows by now
what the Walter Winchell Sweep
stakes is. All that is necessary to
enter yourself, or be entered, in
the sweepstakes is to fill out the
entry blank printed in the Wash
ington Times Cor it can be had on
application to the Walter Winchell
Sweepstakes Editor at the Times
office and send it in with photo
graph of the entrant, in accord
ance with the rules of the COM
petition.
The rules are simple, easy and
clear. Entries will be received up
to midnight of April 30.
Then, until May 4, the commit
tee of judges, whose names will be
printed in next Mondays Wash
ington Times, will select from the
photographs the girl who. they be-
lieve, best represents her depart
ment. She will be designated Miss
Interior, Miss Treasury, Miss Gen
eral Accounting or whatever the
designation of her department is.
Then on May 4 and S, at the
Capitol Theater, the Committee Of
Award will select what they con-
slider the most beautiful 10 girls
from all those who have made the
semifinals.
WINCHELL TO CHOOSE
A few days later-as soon as
Walter Winchell can arrange his
schedule-he will come to Wash
1ngton and select, in person, the
one he considers the most beauti-
full of the 10 semifinalists. She
will become Miss Washington
and she will be the personal guest
of Col. Eddie Rickenbacker of the
Eastern Air Lines aboard a luxury
air-liner to and from her three-day
visit to New York as the personal
guest of Walter Winchell.
Broadcasting with Gordon Hit
tenmark this morning, along with
PATSY" Perkins, were Miss Ruth
Chambliss, of 2032 Belmont Rd., of
the General Accounting Office,
and Miss Sylvia Weinberg, of 1926
Nineteenth St. N. W., also a Gov,
eminent girl who hopes Winchells
face will be a brilliant beet color
when he sees what his competition
proves!
Don't forget that in Winchell's
column of the air, heard in Wash,
ington over WMAL, and in his
column which appears daily in the
Washington Herald, you may FIND
other exciting news of the Walter
Winchell Sweepstakes, which is
now in full cry!
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
So you think you're too smart to b,
swindled? You wouldn't buy a gOlt
brick, of course. But you would prob
ably be an easy to some of the Cleve
schemes exposed by the National Bette
Business Bureau in The American
Weekly, the magazine distributed will
next Sundays Washington HeraId-Times