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The Washington times., 1938-02-10
FridauM Menu

Tomato Juice
WheatieS
Ham Omelet Buttered Toast
Coffee Milk
LUNCHEON
Rice Creole Chicory Salad
Corn Sticks
Lemon CuStard
Coffee Milk,
DINNER
Split Bean Soup
Baked Halibut
French Fried Potatoes
Buttered BeetS
Spinach Salad
Apple Meringue Pie
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Girl Seeking
For Legs

HACKENSACK, N. j., Sept. 10
Jessie Simpson, the heroine of
Eackensack, whose triumphs
as winner of beauty contests
ended 18 months ago when
she lost both her legs in a train
accident, has started suit for $685..
900 against the New Jersey and
New York railroad, a branch of
the Erie.
The 21-year-old Jessie, now own.
er of a Hackensack beauty parlor
about whose premises she moves
on artificial limbs, charges the
railroad with negligence.
The company has entered de
nial, declaring it was all the young
woman's fault and that she ducked
under lowered gates, ran and tried
to board a moving train.
Jessie was hurrying to her job
as a stenographer in Manhattan
on April 26, 1887, when the acci-
dent occurred.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Birds wife Freed
ScOI1f 10 Minutes
Visits Mate, Then
Goes TO AnSWer
New Charge

BALTIMORE, Md. Sept. 10
Freed momentarily on the compile
tion Of a 30-day sentence for driv
ing the getaway car of her gang
,ster husband, Mrs. Barbara Bird
wife of Charles Bird, Public
Enemy No. g." was taken into
custody again by Federal investi
gators here today for extraditior
to Cleveland.
There she will face charges Of
smuggling guns which enabled hel
husband and members of his gang
to escape the Cleveland jail q
year ago.
AS she left the city Jail. Mrs
Bird was given 10 minutes to
visit with her husband. Under
the watchful eyes of guards and
matron. Bird told his wife:
"Go back to Cleveland and
do what you can for Junior.
(He was referring to their child,
a boy, aged 81 Perhaps some
day We'll be together again.
Whatever you do, I want you
to keep your chin up"
Weeping Historically, Mrs. Birc
replied:
Charley, I shall love you al
ways. I want you to take these
keepsakes as memories of me-"
The Washington times., 1938-09-19

Warner, of Toledo, and Raymond
T. Kelly, Of Detroit, followed the
earlier withdrawal of Lynn U.
Stambaugh, of Fargo, N. D., as
candidates for the national COM
membership.
Although a behind-the-scenes
battle had been raging for weeks,
the open, visual campaigns for the
national commandership hardly
had started when Chadwick was
left in possession of the field.
ALL-NIGHT CELEBRATION
Meanwhile, the rank and file of
Legionnaires looked back with a
great deal of satisfaction on a
celebration in downtown Los An
geles which started yesterday af-
ternoon and continued until close
to dawn today.
They comprised the biggest con-
vention crowd in the history Of
Los Angeles, and their antics par
alyzed traffic for hours.
They even invaded Spring
Street, gloomy financial district
thoroughfare which has a tomb
like silence over weekends, and
turned it into a gay fiesta ground.
Traction lines bowed to the
inevitable by announcing that be-
ginning today street cars and
BUSES will be routed around the
area until the playful veterans
pn home
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
BoVIIetl0r'OOf
Glass SUUeS
. Tr'oCCEc1nOenO

Two truck drivers narrowly es
capped death or injury last night
when the interstate truck they
were driving was fired upon near
Stafford Courthouse, Va, in what
is believed to be another outbreak
in the Baltimore truck strike.
Paul F. Book, %, and William j
Riggs, IS, both of Baltimore, were
the intended victims of the attack,
in which several shots were fired
and which would have been effec
tive, they said, but for the bullet
proof windows Of their cab.
An automobile containing -four
or five men drove alongside their
southbound truck, Book said, and
two shots were fired, the bullets
striking the window of the cab.
A search for the automobile con
tanning the gunmen was fruitleSs
but police escorts for other inter
state trucks will be furnished to
prevent further incidents Of this
nature.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
THREE INJURED
AT ALEXANDRIA
TORPEDO PLANT
Falling Load Crashes
Into Men on Car

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Sept. 19.
Three men were injured, one seri-
ously, when pinned under a large
piece of sheet metal they were
unloading at the naval torpedo
plant here today.
Russell Fields, Hagerstown, Md,
was rushed to Alexandria Hos
ital, where, pending X-ray examt-
nations, it is feared he is suffer
ing from internal injuries.
Alvin Mills, Of Waynesboro, Pa,
and william Simms, Of Ingleside,
Va, were less seriously hurt.
According to police, the men
were unloading from a flat car
huge sheets of metal plate to be
used in remodelling the torpedo
factory. AS a sheet nearly as
large as the flat car was being
hoisted by derrick, the cable
slipped and the plate fell back
into the car.
Fields, directly under the hoist,
was caught by the falling metal.
Mills was brushed by the falling
piece and received cuts on his
arm.
Simms, standing farther away,
saw the slipping cable and
1eaped from the car. He sustained
cuts on both arms.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
CHICAGO CHOSEN
AS CONVENTION
CITY NEXT YEAR
$27,5OO Checks Stops
Race for Honor

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10
GN.S0 Two of the foremost is
sues OF the American Legion's ma
tional convention appeared to have
been settled before the formal
opening today of the business ses-
Sions.
Through the withdrawal Of rival
candidates, Stephen Chadwick.
Seattle attorney, was assured Of
election as the 1899 national COM
mander of the legion.
CHICAGO NEXT
Chicago was reported to have
disposed of competition as the city
for next years annual gathering
of the veterans. Phil Collins, q
leading legionnaire Of that city.
displayed a certified check for
$27 500 toward expenses Of the
1899 convention if held in Chicago,
as a convincer it was the logical
site.
Following a closed-door meeting
of Legion chiefs yesterday, Milo ].
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Divorce Refused
On New Deal Row

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 10.
Judge Thomas M. Marshall has
denied a divorce decree to
Charles A. Meyer, steel man. who
based his suit on the fact that
his wife had praised the New
Deal. In his request for the de-
cree Mr.. Meyer, who is director
of the Spang- -Chalfant Company.
said: my wife continually
praised the New Deal. That was
more than I could stand and ]
can no longer remain with any
one who will approve Of that doc
trine."
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
S1IOoC1 White
SlOoUn'1OS Prince,
Left In LOGrch

BROCKTON, Mass, Sept. 10
G.N.SO.-Snow White was hurry
ing to New York today in an ef
fort to overtake her seven dwarfs
aboard a show-train bound fol
Allentown, Pa.
She is not Walt Disney's Snow
White, but dark-haired Lorraine
Frank, 81, of South Slocum, On
tario, who played the role in
midway attraction at the Brock
ton fair last week. She told police
an ungallant prince showed her of
as the train was leaving because
she rejected his romantic atten
tionS.
Police brought her to hote
where guests, hearing of hel
plight, pooled enough money tt
buy a ticket for New York.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
RAINIER DIVORCE
HEARING NEARS
International News Photos

LOS ANGELES, September 10
G.N.SO.-Any day now, Luise
Rainer may appear in court and
ask for a divorce from playwright
Clifford Odets as their spiritual
romance" hasn't been mended
since it collapsed.
Attorneys for the film star in
dicated several days may elapse
before presiding Judge r. s.
Schmidt is asked to call her di-
vorce suit for trial, because Odets
has failed to answer the action
within the legal deadline.
Last June Miss Rainer was per-
mitted to serve the writer of the
stage successes, Waiting for
Lefty" and Golden Boy" by pub
lication because he had shaken the
dust of Hollywood from his feet
for employment in England. The
time limit expired today.
The playwright'S alleged ungov-
ernable temper was one of the rea-
sons the romance crashed, accord
ing to the actress.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Reese Europe Post
Elects Harvey Bean

Harvey L. Bean has been elected
commander Of the James Reese
Europe Post of the American
Legion.
Other officers elected include
Harry Wilson, William Kelson and
Reuben Hammond, vice COM
Joseph Hall, chaplain:
George Jones, historian; Richard
Jones, maSter-at-armS; Mason
Fields, sergeant-at-arms; Wardlow
Walker, senior color-bearer, and
Columbus Burton, junior color
bearer. Installation exercises will
be held at the Garnet-Patterson
Junior High School, october II.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
FLOOD PERIL
Threat Increases IN
Wisconsin Area

PRAIRIE DU CHEN, Wis,
Sept. 10 QN.SD.-Heavy rains
over southern Wisconsin today in
creased flood threats along a score
of streams already coursing over
their banks in low lying areas.
The Mississippi here already
was racing above flood stage with
a threatened crest of 10 feet late
today. The island section Of town
was submerged in many parts and
more than a score of families were
forced to move to higher ground.
All available boats were being
recruited to bring out marooned
families in the lowlands.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Suns Temperature
Only 8,1OO Degrees

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. 1s
U.N.S0-The sun isn't so hot
but it isn't so cool either. Latest
temperature readings, taken with
improved instruments, show Old
Soils fever raging at about 8,1OO
degrees Fahrenheit which is al
most 5000 degrees cooler than
previous readings.
The discrepancy. it was pointed
out by the Drs. Robert King, OF
the Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology, and Arthur S. King,
of the Mt. Wilson Observatory,
who took the new readings, is not
because the sun is cooling but be-
cause the instruments were Of a
higher quality.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
BrOtESerIay Bite
Costs Youth $l4

ARLINGTON, Va, September
19.-Norman Williams, %, of 1922
South Washington Boulevard, was
only playing the role of mediator
when he bit his brother, o. w. Will
liams, in the arm, he told Judge
Clarence Ahalt in County Court
today.
Williams had bitten his brother
so severely that eight stitches were
required to close the wound. He
explained that he was only trying
to keep his brother from abusing
his wife. Judge Ahalt fined Nor
man IS and costs, bringing the
total to $14.25.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
UTOPIA VOTES
GreenbeLt Ballots on
. TOUn Council

GREENBELT, Md, Sept. 10.
From field of 16 candidates, one
of them a woman. residents Of
Greenbelt tomorrow will elect
new town council for the coming
year.
At its first meeting, the new
council will elect one of its five
members to serve as mayor. It
also will appoint town manager.
Roy S. Braden is the incumbent.
-Four of the five present council
men are candidates for reelection.
Next year, the town will elect
officials for a two-year term. I'm
Ger the town charter, the residents
are to elect officials for one-year
terms for two years and there
after for two-year terms.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
4 Saw Clipper
Fall Into Sea

MANILA, Sept. 10 G.N.SD.
Four separate persons saw the
missing Hawaii clipper burst into
flames and sink into the sea of
the western coast of Samar
province, authorities were in
formed today.
Pan-American Airline and Gov.
eminent officials stated they would
attempt to verify the report, made
by Jose Cruz, Samar province
postal inspector. The huge flying
boat vanished mysteriously with
Is persons aboard last July 20 on
a westward flight from Guam to
Manila.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Gu1lmlam RObS
Gas Station

BRENTWOOD, Nd, Sept. 10.
Prince Georges county police have
posted a lookout for a youthful
armed bandit who early this morn.
ing held up and robbed gasoline
station in Brentwood, Md.
Michael J. O'Brien, manager of
the Lord Baltimore Station at
Eldridge and Rhode Island Av.
enues, reported at 1928 a. m. that
a man, about %, armed with a re.
volver, entered the service station
and robbed him of $685..
O'Brien described the gunman
as being about S feet. 6 inches
tall, weighing about 160, with red
hair, and was dressed in khaki
trousers and gray sweater.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Farm Tenant Aid
Rules Are Revised

(I.N.S.) The Farm Security Ad.
ministration announced today that
all farmers participating in the
tenancy program must have writ
ten leases carrying out the fea'
lures of their contracts.
At the same time, the FSA an
nounced that it had drafted "iln-
proved" lease forms which will be
sent to district offices Immediately.
C. B. Baldwin, acting adminiStra-
tor, said more than 100000 bor-
roWers now have written instead
| of oral leases.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
JobIess Bicyc|ist
Pedals WAY TO Job

Chester Burke, q, Of the 200
block K st. N. w., literally
''peddled" his way into a job
yesterday. Arrested by Fifth
precinct police for riding a
friend on the handlebar of his
bicycle and taken to the station,
Burke was ordered to deposit 50
collateral.
When the youth said he was
broke and without job, Robert
Smithwick, 300 block T st. N. w..
q builder, stepped up and paid the
money. SmithWick then told
Burke to see him today and he
would find him a job.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
| Dead, Al Stricken
By Strange MaIady y

CHICAGO, Sept. 10 Q.N.S).
With one man already dead, the
number of persons stricken with
a mysterious form of food poison
ing rose to ~ today in suburban
Elmwood Park and it's vicinity.
LaboraticianS for the Chicago
board of health said they be-
lieved the trouble was due to
tainted pastry.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
|SH|P GOURMETS
DEVOUR GS
BOUND FOR zoo
DR.. Ditmars Yields to
Companions Pleas

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 G.N.S0.
Twelve giant frogs who were on
their way to the New York Bronx
Geological Park will never croak
again.
DR.. Raymond L. Ditmars,
curator of reptiles at the Zoo and
frog chaperone on the trip from
Stheir native Trinidad, admits
shamefacedly that he ate them!
DR.. Ditmars, who arrived on the
Furness Liner Nerissa, admits that
his scientific integrity might have
triumphed over his appetite had
not one Of the frogs injured its
neck.
DEAD FROG NO USE
News of the disastrous accident
was brought to DR.. Ditmars by the
ships butcher with the sly sug-
gestion that the frog would make
fine eating.
The frog was a leptadactylus
fallax. known in Trinidad as
mountain chicken"
But a dead frog is of no use,
DR.. DitmarS reasoned.
Living up to its astronomical
reputation, the frog was delicious.
He shared Is with his table mates,
who in turn Smacked their lips.
DITMARS WEAKENS
He was man Of strong con-
science but table mates continued
to talk of the ecstatic taste and
plead for more.
Six frogs would make a nice
exhibit, DR.. Ditmars concluded, so
five more graced the table that
night.
One thing led to another and
DR.. Ditmars found himself ex
planning to customs officials why
he had an empty box marked
frogs"
He returned with nest OF
atlas or parasol ants no one
wanted to eat them.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19

NcCI1 lO"dEu SSS - ~
too, live in England" said the
actress. I'VE are likely to go
over there to be married, but
will be coming back to Holly
wood, because I'm going right
on with my career; also because
we both like it here"
likely to go over there to be
married, but will be coming
back to Hollywood, because I'm
going right on with my career;
also because we both like it
here"
At the moment, Miss Drake
said, her fiance is in Chicago
out some business
affairs. After this is done, she
they'll probably set a
definite date for the wedding.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Long Time No See

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10
U.N.S.). Two World War
buddies, separated for rs
years, were reunited today
at the American Legion con-
ventiOn.
James Demarest, Of Ink
crafts, Inc, New York. who
Is national director Of war
orphans education, and Harry
Birdie, national committee
man for the Legion Depart
ment Of Mexico, who lives In
Los Angeles, met for the first
time since the war at q cock
tail party here.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
1ad.uick Wins Legion Command As Ras Withdraw From Race
Gold Star Mothers Honored

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.-Gold Star Mothers
those ooko lost in the World War-M be homored
throughout the American Legion National Convention.
Special haze been made for their presence
at all major eUents Yesterday the main attraction for
them 1Oas vsit to the MetroGodoOyn-Maye StudioS
1vhere Singer Jeanette Macdonald 1Uas hostess.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
Briton Wins Actress:
Camerat Romancet
FLASH! FRANCES DRAKE
TO WE'D CECIL HOWARD
Rv HARRISON CARROLI

International servce)
HOLLYWOOD, Sept 19-Some time before the end of the
Frances Drake British film actress will be married to
Cecil Howard brother of the present Earl of Suffolk.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19
KiWanians Plan
Mayf|ower Lunch

The Kiwanis Club will give a
luncheon at the Mayflower at
1890 D. m. Thursday.
The Washington times., 1938-09-19

W a S ru
nored en-.
G a g e d to
H o W a I'd
H u g h e s,
m illionaire
flier.
IN o st
o f m y
f a m lily
and Me.
HoWard'S,
The Washington times., 1938-09-19

The ceremony probably VIII
take place in England, it was
declared today by Miss Drake,
who is well known for her work in
Hollywood pictures and who once
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-23
Price of Three Meuls Cut
From Mattresses Wages

Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).-
The District of Columbia Minimum
Wage Board has ruled that restaurant
employers may deduct the price of
three meals per day from the legal
wage paid mattresses under the de-
cision of the board provided the en-
ployes working hours are between
a. m. and p. m. The legal wage from
which the price of the meals will be
taken is $13.25 per week.
The decision of the board climaxed
several weeks of complaints from
mattresses charging the employers
with making illegal deductions from
pay envelopes. After considering the
matter the board rescinded previous
order and permitted the reductions.
The ruling stipulates that where a
waitress works beyond 9 p. m. or be-
fore a. m. the employer may not de-
duct more than the price of two meals
from her wage. With regard to en-
ployes who work part time employers
may deduct one meal for each full
three-hour period of employment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-23
Workers Back PdY
Secured By State

Columbus, O. (OLNS).-During the
first four months of 1888, the Minimum
Wage Division of the Ohio Department
of Industrial Relations secured the
payment Of $16,S54.5S in wages due
women workers in three industries in
which mandatory minimum wage laws
are in force in this state.
Under the direction of Miss Elaine
Shelter, chief Of the Minimum Wage
Division, 635 women employed in the
food and lodging industry received
$15,921.35 in back wages from their
employers who had been paying less
than the minimum established under
the Ohio law.
Twenty-three employees in the
laundry industry received $5S1.19, and
II employees in the dry cleaning indus
try were paid $352.O4 in back wages.
Since the Ohio minimum wage law
went into effect in 1884, and although
enforcement was not pushed until in
1886 when the law was declared con-
stitutional, a total of $43,148.04 in
back wages have been collected in the
three covered industries.
Lack of funds has prevented O. B..
Chapman, director of the Department
of Industrial Relations, from extend
ing the minimum wage law into other
industries, including retail stores and
the beauty culture field.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-23
GLASS CUTTERS ELECTION

Columbus, 0. (OLNS). - j. r.
Mayeur and Harry Nixon were re-
elected president and secretary-treas
urer respectively of the Window
Glass Cutters League of America, af-
filiated with the A. F. of L., in the
annual election of the Union.
President Mayeur will begin serv-
ing his third consecutive two-year
term at once, and Secretary-Treasurer
Nixon is beginning his seventh term
in that office.
Four executive board members also
elected for two-year terms are Joe
Taylor, Charleston, w. Va; G. M.
Thomas, Clarksburg, w. Va; Earl
Daniels, Fort Smith, Arkansas, and
Marcel Boucher, New Kensington, Pa.
Other executive board members in
office for another year are William
Brust, Clarksburg, w. Va; Joseph
Michaux, jeanette, Pa; William
PHILIPPE, Henryetta, Oklahoma, and E..
w. Hart, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Headquarters Of the union are To-
Gated in Columbus.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-23
$500 N. Y. Women Would
Sport Police Badge

New York, N. Y.-More than $500
young women in Greater New York
are eager to become policewomen with
salaries of $4,000 year. This was
revealed in the mental test eXamina-
tion staged here for this type Of po-
lice work. Of those passing the ex-
animation, only 3C0 will be added to
the eligible list, and from this list
only 27 will be appointed to antici-
pated vacancies in the Police Depart
ment in the immediate future. But the
list will be kept intact in expectation
that others will be needed The women
were all between the ages Of "a and
20.
The examinations were held as the
result of the need for women with
more formal education and diverse
training and experience than the pres
ent type of policewomen which be-
came apparent during the investiga-
tions of Thomas E. Dewey, now Dis
trict Attorney Of New York County
when he was special prosecutor inves-
tigating business rackets.
Mr.. Dewey wanted a young woman
who could get a job as hat check girl
in racketeer club, but could not find
one in the available correctional and
investigating services available to
him. The present civil service exam
nation was designed to remedy this
deficiency.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-23
RundwdY Ships Hit
By Court Decision
Judqe Forces Manufacturer
To Live Up To Pact
After Moving

New York City (ILNS).-A decision
which was hailed by President Max
Zaritsky of the United Hatters, Cap
and Millinery Workers International
Union, as creating precedent of
great value to labor in coping with
runaway shops" was handed down
recently in St. Louis when Circuit
Judge Robert j. Kirkwood ordered a
millinery manufacturer to live up to
his contract with the union despite
the fact that he had moved his plant
from st. Louis to avoid union condi-
tions.
The Schieber Millinery Co., the firm
against which the union brought suit,
was a member Of the St. Louis
millinery manufacturers association,
which had a collective agreement with
the union providing for union shop
and union scales and hours. The firm
moved to DeSoto, Mo-, to evade the
contract and opened a shop there
with non-union workers to whom it
paid wages far below the union stand
ards.
The hatters' union, contending that
the firms action in closing down its
St. Louis plant and locking out it's
workers there constituted a violation
of the contract, brought suit. The
court upheld the union in its conten-
tions, characterized the firms move
as lockout, ordered it to observe all
the terms of its contract with the
union through it's St. Louis office.
The court further ordered the mil
linery concern to offer reinstatement
to it's former st. Louis employees in
the DeSoto plant.
The net effect of the courts deci
sion is that the firm will be compelled
to operate it's new plant as a union
shop, with union wage and hour stand
ards.