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their numerous ancestors and
there is always one of these who
was an English Cavalier {. 1t gen.
orally happens that each of those
families is closely connected either
to a Scottish king, an English lord
or an Irish hero!
When, after all this, you learn
that the hunt country is one of
the most select places in Ole Vir-
ginia, you will have to admit that
you get sort of impressed. It's
with a sentiment mixed with ad-
miration and fascination that you
"dare" write about those blue
bloods. But for people who have
such aristocratic blood in their
veins they are not too, too blase.
indeed!. . And that's the nifty
part of it, because you come here
and you have "keen" and "neat"
fun. and you see that the people
enjoy themselves without special
strategy or effort. When you
come down from a place like New
port where people say ooh, yes,
it wasn't bad!" when they have
been to a party they feel sure cost
over $4,000, it's refreshing to see
young and older people enjoy life
just by being together. by drinking
(well, what's bad in thatD a few
highballs and in listening to
darkey ban6!. This weekend
was a particularly merry one for
Warrenton on account of the af-
ternoon fiesta given by Mrs. Will
liam Marshall in honor of her
debutante niece, Sarah Warren,
and. of Ralph McKee's lavish
dinner for her benefit at the War
rem Green Hotel, and. . of the
(one-week-yes-one-week-n swing
session at the local country club. -.
The noblest of the mobiles came to
greet this years Warrenton
unique bud. Celeste Crosby Miller
brought with her "Let Them Eat
Caviar" and George Abel with it!
The whole Spilman clan, COM
manded by Mama" Baldwin Day
SpiIman and by the Baldwin D.
Spilmans, was there. Mrs. Ray
mond McGrath made snappy ap-
pearance Mrs. Temple Gwath-
mey was there ct comment!
John Buchanan came with his
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us mighty quickly" We saw
going through Washington that
even at the White House they were
resting" We flew down to
Warrenton just in time to witness
the official presentation of Sarah
Warren to Warrenton's elite
All the old faces again! The
same joie de vivre again! J.. But
what gets you mostly when you
come here is to know you are
mingling with the real aristocracy
of the country :. Who could be
nobler than a Virginian? {. . Don't
you know that motto that says:
Never ask a somebody where he
Is from, cause if he is from Vir-
ginia you would understand it
without asking him, and if he is not
from Virginia he would be ashamed
to confess it," 500 what can
you do when you are dealing with
such people? You just have to bow
and get it on the chin! The
people of Newport and New York
may be more blase and sophisti-
Gated :. the people of Boston and
of the North Shore may still talk
with the English accent of their
ancestors from the Mayflower
but who can beat the superior bear
ing of the Virginians who can
proudly say that they have real
Cavaliers among their ancestors?
). Because, you know, the Vir-
ginian families are all of blue
blood (more or less) There is
no house where you don't see all
over the walls the coats of arms of
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PETIT POINT - By Igor CaSSini

good-iooking wife. Mrs. Austin
Mcdonnell arrived, very smartly
dressed, alone. cause the Major
is still fishing up in Maine!.. ..
The Fred Hassericks had "some-
thing" to tell the Arthur Charring-
tons. while Mrs. D. H. Lawrence
conversed with all for few
seconds.
AS is natural at any tea-time
party the guests were surround
ing the d e Ii c a c es and you
couldn't reach the table for a re-
freshment without considerably
hard attempts >. The dowagers
were occupying the place as
stronghold .. and the youngsters
gave up after numerous vain as
saults :. But Ralph Mckee, that
entertaining Warrenton enter
tainer, gave those youthful crea-
lures what they had missed in the
gay afternoon Then, after
Mckee, Ned Farrar made them
enjoy for a few dollars 4 hours
of real "whoopeeing" Coca
colas were drunk by dozens (no
alcoholics allowed at the clubD
-. but a few daring young men
were seen disappearing in the
dark :. to get sip of the (fire)
water they had left in their cars!
{. If not exactly as accomplished
as Cab Calloway's band, the local
colored boys did we'll enough to
make Douglas Smith, popular AL
exandria, Va, lad, perform in
every possible dancing routine
from Suzy-Q to Lambeth Walk
.. By the way, the Lambeth
Walk version down here is quite
different from the one Prince
Serge Cbolensky imported from
England up North, but it's just as
entertaining! Rice Barrett
and Tennis Player Jerry Good
man had a lot to tell to each
other Bobby Woods, freshly
arrived from Canada, reported
that the French girls over there
are tres jolie, mpais oui, but that no
body could be compared to dev-
astating Catherine Hubert +.
Sally Appleton, all in black,
looked very cute Bill Emory,
Jr., as blond as a real Viking,
didn't make any effort with the
ladies and (Jupiter knowsD
they regretted it.
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at the Presidents abode at Hyde
Park, so Freddie and Dorothy
Storm and ourself motored up
there. It was rather like old
home week, for outside and in
side at unexpected corners
were sentry boxes and Secret
Service men, all Of them familiar
figures at the White House
here.
The house itself, Is spacious,
full Of wide windows and hos
pitable doors and looks serenely
out on acres Of clipped lawn
that rolls away and down to-
ward the river and is shaded
with trees, SO thick and so
ancient and so outspreading
that they form nearly an arbor
of heavy green boughs. A
tremendous and lofty cypress
hedge, with a graceful clipped
entrance, stands sentinel over
a flower garden that blazes in
fragrant and brilliant beauty,
with every known bloom.
Back are the comfortable, red
stables and the more modern
large garage and a curving drive
way sweeps from the stone
gates, past the verandaS of the
house and continues on its way
to the highway once more.
X X x
0NAME please" called a
~ CHEEKY laughing voice
from one of the porches, as Dor.
othy and ourself strolled across
the lawn, and there stood
"Missie" LIE Hand, the Presidents
personal secretary, with little
Mrs. Jimmie Roosevelt, the lat
ter just getting ready to hop
into her car and drive back to
Boston.
lust then, one of the Secret
u Service men, motioned all of
us back and up the drive, came
a long car, with the top down,
and President Roosevelt at the
wheel and driving with the
most pleased smile we've seen
in months. We waved and so did
he, even though he had not the
faintest idea who we could be
standing over there.
The Presidents cottage which
is nearly built and the one be-
longing to Mrs. Roosevelt, plus
the swimming pool is across the
road and mile or two further
away from the big house. We
didn't see that, because the four
twenty-seven train waits for no
one and we had to get back to
New York and back to Washing
ton. The trip took 10 years off
our life, but it was fun, So.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Gywater
of Detroit, Mich, are spending
several days at the Martinique.
X y X
Mr.. and Mrs, Maurice Sugar,
OF Detroit, are staying at the
Hay-A6ams House.
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WE got there, not one bit re-
w freshed nor sparkling after
taking the midnight train out
of Washington, arriving in
New York at the crack of dawn
and then rushing over to get a
nice friendly train which oblig-
ingly stopped at every side
street from New York to
Poughkeepsie and refused to
hurry one whit for anybody.
DOUGHKEEPSIE, in case you
l. wouldn't know, and we
didn't, is the station and the
town where you first begin the
journey which may take you
inside the gates Of President
Roosevelt's home and by the
time we got there, after viewing
historic scenery along the Hud-
son River through sleepy eyes
(though we did wake up at the
beautiful tower of West PoinO
we were practically ready to
come back to Washington with
out seeing one single thing.
MARVIN MCINTYRE, Secre-
W1 tary to the President. was
standing on the wooden plat
form obviously looking for some
one and looking himself very
elegant in a gray suit, blue shirt
and straw hat, perched at a
Snappy angle on his head.
Farther up the platform was
Freddie Storm, one of the White
House correspondents, and his
smiling wife, Dorothy, immacu-
late in white and blue linens.
&*x
MOT being completely crazy,
IN we knew no one had come to
meet us, so we peered about,
fully awake by now, and there in
front of us, towering like the
Rock of Gibraltar, was the Post
master General, James A. Far
ley.
CECRETARY MCINTYRE saw
~ us first and because he is al
ways the sweetest one, came
right up, said he couldn't have
been more surprised if he had
seen a ghost, admitted that he
had not come down to meet us.
but was glad to see us and then
fixing us with his eye, wanted to
know what we wanted. Funnily
enough we didn't want a thing.
Postmaster General Farley
stopped talking to Freddie Storm
long enuogh to greet us and
though ne never forgets a face
nor a name, he nearly did ours,
on account of the PING had
never seen us wearing a hat and
looking dignified before.
noRoTHY STORM took us
~ in hand and we took off
to the Nelson House, the hotel
where the correspondents stay
while the President in is resi-
dence at Hyde Park. It stands
on the busiest street, has the
homiest lobby, the most modern
Pickwickian tap room and every
body knows everybody else.
\ X
0ECRETARY M'INTYRE ar
y ranged for us to go through
the grounds and have a peek
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Mrs. Rains
Visits Here

DR.. and Mrs. Francis M. Muir
ray had as their house guest for
several days at their residence
on Legation Street, in Chevy
Chase, Mrs. Dudley Rains, of
Buffalo, N. Y, formerly of Wash
ington. A number of informal
parties were given in honor of
the visitor.
Mrs. Rains has left to
join her infant son, Wilson Hill
Rains, at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G.
McFall, in York, Pa. Mr.. Rains
will join his family in York for
the week end.
DR.. and Mrs. Murray, with Mr..
and Mrs. David Thompson,
whose home also is in Chevy
Chase, returned the latter part
of last week from a five-weekS
sojourn in England, Scotland
and France.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell E. Hart,
of Battle Creek, Mich, are at
the Shoreham for several days.
X y
Miss Jean Potter Stafford, Of
New York City, is at the Hay
Adams House.
X + Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis BrownloW,
of Chicago, are at the Hay
Adams House.
X X X
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. SaXton, OF
st. Petersburg, Fla, are at the
Hay-AdamS House.
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Couple WU
Marry
Today

Masses of vari-colored dahliaS
will adorn the Bethesda Presby-
terian Church this afternoon at
$50 o'clock when Miss Ruth
Bosworth becomes the bride of
Chester Hustead. Miss BoSworth
is the daughter Of DR.. and Mrs.
E. c. Bosworth, of Bethesda,
Md. The bridegroom is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Hustead.
Of Uniontown, Pa.
The bride, who will be given in
marriage by her father, will
wear a frock Of white lace made
over taffeta. It is made with a
deep V-neckline, long sleeves
and train. Her tulle veil will fall
from a coronet of pearls. She
will carry a bouquet of gladioli
and lilies of the valley.
WEARS PEACH ORGANDY
Miss Emily Horton Of this city
will serve as maid Of honor. Her
full-skirted frock Of peach Or
CANDY has short cap sleeves. She
will wear a matching bonnet and
carry a mixture Of garden flow
erS.
The bridesmaids will be Miss
Louise Watkins, of Somerset,
Md; Miss Lucy Hull, Of Char
lotte, N. c., and Miss Ernestine
Bailey of Lancaster, S. c. Both
Miss Hull and Miss Bailey were
classmates of Hiss BoSworth
when she was a student at Frs
kline College.
They will wear frocks made
like those of the maid of honor
in various pastel ShadeS-blue,
green and pink.
TO PLAY HARP
Miss Barbara Kohman, Of
Moorestown, N. j., resident OF
Battery Park before she moved
to New Jersey last year, will play
several selections on the harp
before the wedding.
Ralph Hustead will serve as
best man for his brother. UsherS
will be Dean Cooper, Daniel Mo-
sier, of Uniontown, Pa; Daryl
Dawson, Charles Rider and
Robert Laughed.
After their honeymoon on
Nantucket Island the young
couple will make their home in
Philadelphia.
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Marriage Told

Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuel Car
michael are returning today
from their honeymoon, a motor
trip throughout the South. The
former Alice Phillips, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Phillips,
was married in the Petworth
Methodist Church on August
IA at 4 o'clock by the Rev. JUS
tin Smith.
X y X
Mrs. A. E. Cook, of Miami,
IS staying at the Hay-Adams
House. She is accompanied by
Miss Betty Danks.
X X 4
Mrs. Irene Johnson, of Miami,
Fla, is at the Hay-Adams House.
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CubanEnvOy
Dinner Host

The Cuban Ambassador DR..
Pedro Martinez Fraga enter
tanned at a dinner party last
night for Col. and Mrs. Joseph
Fegan who are leaving for
Shanghai very shortly.
Guests included Sonora de
Carrabia, the Ambassadors
sister and her daughter Senorita
Carrabia; DR.. oscar Albertini,
Senorita Mercedes Guerra,
Sonora de Eckert, the Counselor
of the legation, Senor DR.. Vim
cente Valdes Rodriguez and the
Second Secretary of the Embassy
and Sonora de Herrera-Arango.
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ham! :. What
a brus SOU e but
pleasant change
to come from the
land of the Puri-
tans to the terri
tory of the Cav
alters! We
! e f t Yankeeland
with regret, but
h e hospitality
and the charm
of the S u n n y
S ou t h consoled
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
Brazilian Arrives

The Ambassador of Brazil,
Mr.. Mario de Pimentel Brandao,
arrived in the Capital last even
ing after a stay of several
months in his homeland. He
came to the United States by
way of the West Coast Of South
America via the Panama Canal
and disembarked in New York
yesterday morning.
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Bridegroom in Group

Others who make their way
out pretty regularly to Woodley
are the assistant to the Secre-
tary, Harry A. Mcbride; the
Safe Department advisers on
political relations, James Clem-
ent Dunn and DR.. Stanley K.
Hornbeck, and the chief of the
Division of European Affairs,
Jay Pierrepont Moffat.
DR.. Hornbeck has but recently
returned from Colorado, where
his marriage to Mrs. Vivienne
Barkolow Breckenridge took
place at her parents home in
Denver.
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Host At Race Meet Sept. II

She accompanies the gentlemen the and keeny
follows the baggng of each bird. The StimsorS
peced Highold their West Hills Long Island)
month and September II will be hosts at the
West Hills meet they have been in previous years.
In the meantime their Washington estate Woodley,
which day according the will of Mr. Snson will
be the property of Phillips Andover Academy is not exactly
deserted For these fine afternoons find State De-
parment and those wives who have stayed close to
home enjoying croquet on the wide, rolling lawn
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PETER CARTER
Former State Secretary and Wife in Scotland ++* PETEF
Says:

ND you have the feeling that you wanted very much
~ to do something but couldn't find good excuse for
doing and then suddenly with at ALL just
off and did itH Naturally. Well that is just the way
felt about going up Hyde Park while President Roosevelt
there With every hghpowered newspaperman already
up there, would be about necessary fifth wheel to
wagon, but-we got there nevertheless.
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
Department Officials Gather Daily
At Stimsons' Estate, Woodley,
For Game Of Croquet
By Flora Macdonald

The highlands of Scotland have been the for in
Vulnerable Americans these last few weeks and that the
grouse shooting is the many will be home
ward bound during September
The former Secretary of State and Mrs Henry L. Smson
sailed for Europe the middle of July and have been at their
shooting lodge beyond Inverness from where Mrs Smson
writes that their stay has been most happy with the
weather beautiful
The Washington times., 1938-08-30

WARRENTON, Va, Aug. 80.
THIS chapter is dedicated to the
L real Virginians and to the
lovers of chicken and Virginia
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ORION NEWS

Mr.. Oscar Lambert, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Lee Lambert, has re-
turned home from Montana for
the winter. He has been en-
ployed as sheep herder out
there.
Miss Mable Lambert spent the
week end with her home folks.
Mrs. Annie Lawson is spending
some time with her sister at
Grassy Creek, who has been ill
but is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Lambert
and son, Jerry Allen, spent the
week end with Mrs. Lambert's
home folks in Virginia.
Miss Mable Lambert will re-
turn Monday to Mouth of Wilson,
Va, where she is employed.
Mr.. Lloyd and also Ulyess Yates
spent a few days the past week
with their sister in Wilkes coun-
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growers can market as much to-
bacco as they could without the
program and they can sell at
higher prices. Without the pro-
gram years of heavy production
would be followed by years of
small crops because growing to-
bacco would not be profitable to
producers.
Marketing quotas are designed
to prevent these violent swings in
marketings and prices. When
paintings and yields push sup
plies up over the marketing quo
tas available to turn supplies
downward and prices upward.
Polling places or the December
II referendum will be set up in
the various communities of each
county. Any farmers who grew
hurley tobacco in 1888 can vote.
Regardless of how many farms
he operates, each man will have
one vote. All voting will be by
secret ballot and the polling plac-
es will be open all day.
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~ The FEUD at :
&3u2 SINGLE SHOT :
NMT ! .ur.~.- By Luke Short 2
ByLuke Short

turned with a sheet of loose-leaf
paper. Pearson handed it to
Quinn. The gambler scanned it
swiftly.
''He banked twenty-five a week
for three months, then stopped.
That was two years ago. He was
married about that time, wasn't
he?"
"Some time around there" the
banker said.
Quinn rose. much obliged,
Pearson. "Pd appreciate it if
this''-he tapped his billfold-
didn't get around"
81 understand perfectly" Per-
son said.
Outside again, Quinn hesitated
a moment, then walked to the
Free Throw.
He strolled through the main
room to the dance-hall beyond.
He strolled behind the dance-hall
bar and gossiped with the bar
tender.
He had idled away a half hour
this way before he saw Winters
come in and walk over to the faro
table. Quinn caught the eye OF
one of the house men.
''Mix around at Joe's table and
see how big Winters roll is, will
you, Tom "
The house man nodded and left.
In five minutes he was back.
Hes got wad so big he can't
get it in his billfold."
Quinn left and walked down
toward the station. At a shoe
shop a doors below the bank, he
entered and was waited upon a
near-sighted and be-aproned old
German.
"Anybody called for a pair of
ridin' boots during the last hour,
Dad?" he asked him. Il mean
riding boots, army boots"
The old German shook his head.
"Is there another shoe store in
town."
"Dere ISIS man from me four
doors down who sess he rebairs
boots"
Quinn thanked him, suppress
ing smile, and went down the
street to the other boot shop. He
asked the same question of an old
Mexican who assured him f1uently
that he had not seen such pair.
Outside again, Quinn rolled a
cigarette and crossed the street
to the barber-shop where he had
seen Winters. Sam, the negro,
was seated in an empty chair. He
got up Immediately, broad grin
on his face.
mo. I don't want anything,
SAM" Quinn assured him.
"Where's Winters room?"
A slight change came over the
negro's face.
"He lives on a ranch, don't hep
Sam asked.
"He lives here" Quinn said
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he closed the door behind him
and went downstairs.
Sam was waiting, his face
sweating. "Boss, what am All
goin' to tell Mistuh Wintuhs when
he comes in?"
Tell Winters you smelled smoke
and had to break down the door
to put outa the fire."
He gave Sam another ten. "Buy
new mirror, Sam. And just for
get that I was ever in here"
When they awoke Dave it was
by sticking a gun in his midriff.
"You got the hobbies off you.
Come on" Reilly grunted.
'You're goin' to take a trip,
Turner"
Dave extended his hands to be
bound.
AS Sayres reached out, Dave
lunged for his throat, wrapping
his long fingers around it, his
thumbs at the windpipe. Sayres
slid off the table, clutching with
his big hands at Dawes wrists as
Dave felt a skull-shattering blow
on his head. He held on logged
ly, feeling another blow on the
other side of his head, and yet
another, as he sank into uncon-
seriousness.
It was daylight when he re-
gained his senses, brought back
by the steady jogging of his horse.
He realized his head was lolling
from side to side, in the name of
his horse. His head throbbed
maddeningly. About to look up,
he suddenly checked himself.
Around the saddle-horn his wrists
were laced tightly.
/. Relaxing, he let his body sway,
as if he were still unconscious. He
dinly realized that he was
mounted on his own horse.
Continued Next Week)
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quietly.
! The Negroes mouth gaped open.
,, Here? He don't live here, boss.
No one lives heah but me an the
missus. Upstairs"
"He had slipped on, SAM"
'Yassuh. Them's mine All give
him to wear. His boots was pretty
thin and he asst me to send 'em
out an git fixed while All, was
bargerin' him."
"Where'd you send them?"
"That old Dutchman fella," Sam
i! replied glibly.
81 asked there, SAM" Quinn
said patiently.
"Ah sent 'em out by that littlest
kid of mine. Mebbe he took 'em
over to Garcia's."
II asked there too. He hasn't
seen them either"
The negro fiidgeted nervously.
Quinn regarded the negro
dreamily. "Sam, where did you
come from?"
"Texas, Boss"
"Then you've seen hard-cases
hurraw the town, haven't your"
"Yassuh. Too many times"
did you ever see one huGrah
a colored mans barber-shop,
SAM" Quinn regarded the black
man with a slow smile, extending
in his other hand a ten-dollar bill.
What about it,"
Sans hand reached slowly for
the bill. "You 60 upstairs and
turn to the right. It's the back
room. All amt got no key"
Quinn found the stairs to his
left and mounted them. The
door to the room was locked. He
put his shoulder to the door and
broke the lock.
His experienced eye noted a
shoe-box that was used a a waste
basket. It was full.
He dumped the contents on the
floor near a window and began
to sort out and smooth the crump-
led pieces of paper. Half way
through, he rose with a paper in
his hand and went closer to the
window.
The letter was sent from a
well-wnown smelling company in
Tucson dated two days ago.
Enclosed are banknotes as
you always direct with your
shipments, $4,000 in pay
ment for twenty-seven ounc-
| es of gold, quoted at the cur
rent market, refining costs
deducted.
Quinn let the paper slip from
his hands. $50 that's it. Gold,'
he muttered.
Putting the paper in his pocket,
he glanced around the room. CT
/ garettes Uttered the floor and
rug, even the dresser top. Quinn
lighted a match, touched off the
paper in the shoe-box and waited
for it to burn down. Finished
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DAMAGES XED
AT $27,111.72 IN THE
PARK WAY CASE

Raleigh.-An Appraisal commit
tee has reported that the Little
Switzerland company, whic h
owns a development in Western
North Carolina, should receive a
ret Of $27,111.72 for land taken
by, the state for the Scenic Noun
tain Parkway.
State highway and public works
commission officials here received
notice today Of the appraisal. The
three-man committee assessed to-
tai damage OF the development of
$4,000 and found there were
benefits of $6,88868, leaving net
damage of 27,111.72.