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The Washington times., 1938-05-31
TWO employees.
Of D. c. KILLED.
IN ACCIDENTS.
Car Crashes Fatal
on Holiday

Two Westinghouse en-
ployeS of the District of Columbia
were killed in out-of-town auto
mobile accidents in yesterdays
holiday traffic, while the Capital
passed the day without single
serious mishap.
The dead we're: Mrs. Adelaide
E. Grant, g., of 1903 Biltmore ST..
N. W., killed in an accident near
Hollywood, Cal; a man tentatively
identified by his wife as George
Vermillion, 80. of 1929 Tenth st.
N. E., run down by car near
Charles Town, w. Va.
BROTHER is INJURED
Mrs. Grant, veteran clerk in
the District Tax Assessors office,
was on her vacation at the time
and was riding in an automobile
with her brother, John l.. Ellis, of
Hollywood, when the accident &C.
Cured. He was seriously injured.
News of Mrs. Grants death was
received here by her Son-in-law,
Assistant United States Attorney
John Wilson. Twice before
tragedy struck the Grant family.
Her husband, an engineer, was
drowned several years after their
marriage while attempting to res
cue one of his workmen who had
fallen. into sewer. In 1912 she
was assaulted by a colored man,
who knocked her down, fracturing
her jaw.
The man identified as George
Vermillion, messenger employed
in the District Building, was killed
when struck by car on the Wash
ngton-Charles Town highway.
IDENTIFIED BY PHONE
Identification of the body vas
made over the telephone by PEI
Sonal effects on the body. Mrs.
Vermillion and his brother. Steve
Vermillion, left today for Charles
Town to confirm the Identified
ton.
Mrs. Vermillion told friends
here that she, husband and an
other couple we're in Charles
Town yesterday for the races. Her
husband became separated from
them in the crowd. The rest of
the party. unable to locate Mr.. Yer
million, returned to Washington
by train, which Mr.. Vermillion
failed to catch. 1t is believed that
he had gone to the highway in an
effort to catch a ride back to
Washington.
Among the effects which made
his Identification possible was a
billfold belonging to his wife. Nora
Vermlllion, which bore the gold
lettered initials IN. "" His
pockets also yielded book of
matches with Young's Grill on it,
a place frequented by the victim.
The description of size and clothes,
given to Mrs. Vermillion by West
Virginia police tailed,
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
.PRESBYTERIANS
DR.. PUCH
STATED CLERK
Pennsylvania Given
High Office

PHILADELPHIA, May 81 G.N.
.SO.-The Rev. DR.. William
B. Pugh, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, Chester, Pa, to-
day was elected stated clerk of the
General Assembly of the Presby.
terrain Church in the U. S. A.
DR.. Pugh's election to the five
year post, one of the two highest
in the denomination, was an
nounced to the $50 commissioners
after the Rev. DR.. Paul C. Johns
ton, of Rochester, N. Y, tele-
graphed his withdrawal and urged
that DR.. Pugh's selection be made
unanimous.
NOMINATED FROM FLOOR
The Rev. Charles Anderson,
president of TuSculum College,
Tenn, nominated DR.. Pugh from
the floor after DR.. johnson had
been proposed by a special COM
mittee appointed by the General
Assembly last year.
DR.. Pugh began his career as an
office boy for his uncle, Rev. Will
liam H. Roberts, stated clerk Of
the General Assembly for 81 years.
For the last II years he has been
assistant to retiring stated clerk,
DR.. Lewis S. Nudge, who attainS
the retirement age of 10 in August.
An authority on ecclesiastical
law, DR.. Pugh also is known for
his knowledge of church history.
He is a graduate of Princeton
Theological Seminary and was or
dained in 1915. He is married
and the father of two sons.
ABILITY DEMONSTRATED
In nominating the new stated
clerk, DR.. Anderson declared the
commissioners were here not to
award plum, not to elect fig.
urehead for the ship of church,
but an active executive"
The Rev. DR.. Joseph NJ Broadly
of Birmingham, Ala, seconded the
nomination.
The Washington times., 1938-05-31

was the same story. He told it IL
times. He told it Is times.
And at the thirteenth telling it
was still the same.
BY 4:30-broad daylight-Wil
lies beige became a natural choco-
late, and he was ready to resume
his cab. But-doggone! You take
that Prospect Hill Cemetery! Yes,
sir, YOU take it!
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
MIDDIES PARADE
IN FULL DRESS.
TO Get COLORS
Drills, Band Concert,
Dances Slated

ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 81
Midshipmen at the Naval Academy
prepared to parade in full dress to-
day and watch one of their bat
talon commanders kiss his girl.
Pretty Miss Ruth Scheidinger,
of Monroe, Mich, is the girl.
Named as color girl" for the ira
ditional June week pageantry, she
will present to Midshipman Elton
L. Knapp, also of Monroe, and
coxSWain of the varsity crew, the
national and Naval Academy
flags won in the inter-regimental
competition.
DANCES TONIGHT
The presentation of the colors
was scheduled for p. m. today.
In addition, today's program in
cluded practical drills in various
phases of naval training this morn
ing, a band concert at $3.50 p. M,
and the annual IN" dance for
sport letter winners and the SEN
ior class dance tonight.
The presentation of the colorS
ceremony was rehearsed yester-
day, with the traditional kiss TAX
ing place three times. About $500
June Week visitors attended the
rehearsals.
The program provided that
Capt. Milo F. Draemel, comman-
dant of midshipmen, escort Miss
Scheidinger to the front of the
regiment. There she will transfer
the flags to Knapp's keeping, and
receive the traditional kiss.
GRADUATION TOMORROW
Graduating exercises, conclud-
ing with the traditional hat-toss-
ing after the award of diplomas,
will be held tomorrow morning.
Rear Admiral Wilson Brown,
commandant of the Academy, an
nounced yesterday commissions
as ensigns will De awarded 383 of
the 1876 members of the class.
Twenty-six will be commissioned
second lieutenants in the Marine
Corps. Twenty will receive dip
Tomas and the degree of bachelor
Of science, but will be honorably
discharged from the service be-
cause of physical disability. The
commissions of three will be with
held pending a physical eXamina-
tion in the fall. Three others
must take delayed denominations
tC determine their qualifications
for commissions. One student, a
Filipino, will graduate, but will
not be commissioned.
14O AWARDED IN"
The Academy letter 'N' was
awarded 140 athletes yesterday.
Later, Admiral and Mrs. Brown
received the graduates at a party
which was transferred to the ar
mory because of threatening
weather. The days ceremonies
were closed with the traditional
ring dance" at which members
of the graduating classes first
dipped their rings in waters from
the Atlantic, the Pacific and Gulf
of Mexico. Their partners then
placed the rings on the graduates
fingers with a kiss.
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
Great Taxi Mystery
Gives Willie Willies

You take that Prospect Hill Cemeery-and far Willie
Love- 30 dusky cab driver of 624 Columbia Rd concerned
The Washington times., 1938-05-31

For four hours, beginning at
$50 this morning, % regional
spelling champions ranging from
II to is years old are battling out
the national championship at the
New National Museum, Tenth
Street and Constitution Avenue,
The winner will receive $500, and
the smallest prizes are $25.
The youngest contestant Is Bet
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
Spoilers Spell for Long Spell
In Champ Spelling Bee Here

tie Ashton, II. of Orange, Va.
The Columbia BroadcaSting
System will broadcast the bee
from l to 1870 p. m.
First to fall was Joan Over
holser, of Des Moines, Iowa, who
slipped up on acquaintance" and
next to go was Encil Hawkins. of
Wheeling. W. Va, who failed to
spell "perspiration."
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
SCHOOL ASSN TO MEET

The D. C. Public School AsSocia-
ton will hold its regular monthly
meeting tomorrow at p. m. in
the board room Of the District
Building.
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
Park Boundaries
Get 1OO-Acre Boost

G.N.SD BY proclamation of
President Roosevelt, the bound
aries of Black Canyon of the
Cunnision National Monument,
in Colorado have been extended
by an addition of 100 acres
donated by citizens of the near
by community of Montrose.
The donation enabled the ex-
tension which will facilitate the
proper care, management and
protection of the monument,
National Park officials said.
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
Canal Contract
To Frisco Firm

I.N.S) Contract for excavat-
irg a two-and-ope-half mile Sec
ton of the Yakima (WashD ridge
canal, the artery through which
water will flow for the new Roza
division of the Yakima Reclama-
ton Project, was awarded today
to Haas, Doughty & Jones and
Marshall & Stacy, of San Fran
cisco, on their low bid of $140,293.
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
FarOuk Sisters
Engaged to Wed

LONDON, May 81 GN.S0.
The London Daily Mirror reported
today that two young sisters of
King Farouk of Egypt are en-
gagged to be married. Fourteen
year-old Princess Faiza, the paper
said. is betrothed to a son of King
Ibn Saud of Saudi, Arabia, and
Princess Faika, IL, is engaged to
marry a son of King Chazi of 1raq.
The Washington times., 1938-05-31

nomination
The Washington times., 1938-05-31

Portals Of Illusion" Romantic mo-
ments in history when destiny hung
on a wOman'S love for Jewels. Second
Of q series of thrilling new stories of
love and mystery In many lands and
in many ages. by H. BedfOrd-Jones, the
American novelist. Read 1t in The
American Weekly. the magazine dis.
tributed with next Sundays Herald.
Times.
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
Firemen Find
JanitOr's Body

Thomas H. Young, So, for 10
years janitor of No. 2 Fire Com
pany's engine house in Alexandria,
was today found dead in his bed
by two members of the company.
DR.. Llewellyn Powell. coroner, laid
his death to natural causes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
We Could Use One

We noted in Saturdays Democrat that Superintendent of Police William Roach is seriously considering proposal of a low speed-linit for Waterbury. This would follow the example of New Haven, where after the 18th of this month motorists will be forced to drive at 25 miles per hour According to the proposed ordi- nance that we read and which Mayor John w. Murphy had approved only fire and police cars were exempt from the speed-limit In way this might impose a few hardships on certain few other drivers who might be making emergency calls but we don't doubt but what the police would use good judgment if situation should arise of that nature.
 Personally we would be in favor of speed-limit similar to New Haven's. But it might be necessary after certain period of time to change it around for better results. In the Elm City the limit is 25-mileS per hour. At one time that was a reasonable rate of speed for city driving; today it doesn't seem so to the average driver, who possesses car that is equipped with good lights, good steer ing apparatus, and quick-stopping brakes. This speed to many would be mere crawl And in time it might become so to all drivers and result in movement to raise the limit
 We would be inclined to agree on a definite speed limit for the city limits, but we think that some careful study should be made of our streets and oper- ation upon them under all conditions and at all hours before the limit was set. What might be reasonable speed limit in New Haven could we'll be unreasonable elsewhere Once the limit is set, the next thing to do is to see that it is observed. This can be done in many different ways. You could name hundred policemen to patrol the streets or you could simply have the present force redouble it's efforts to bring in violators. Specific violations could only be charged when patrol car, however, had pursued and observed them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Bustle And Hustle.

All is noise and fury in Waterbury and Fairfield County. The relation between the two is slight, mostly geographical, but right now there is close affinity. Watrbury buzzeS as G. O. P. Siege-gunS endeavor to knock the Democrats off their embellishments. Whether or not they will succeed depends on their pa tience. After being strongly entrenched for sixteen years few missiles, such as the G. O. P. is now casting, won't do an awful lot of harm to the Democrats. It may dent armor here and there, but it's not of too solid stuff. Down in Fairfield County Republicans are not battling with Democrats, but with themselves. It was an inter-party row that set off the Merritt Parkway fracas and resulted in such close scrutiny of prices paid for rights-of-way, details as to construction of the road itself, etc. It is row to determine leadership in the county and perhaps eventually in the state. Water bury is involved, because Fairfield County Republicans were interested in the out come of our city election last October. So much were they interested that they are listed as contributors to the COP. campaign fund.
 Hence it is significant that the louder become the shouts from Fairfield County as all hands now try to uncover some thing that might be considered damaging evidence against the State Highway De- partment the more strenuous become the local efforts to besmirch the Hayes regime and in particular the manner the outgoing Controller conducted his office. Of course, regardless of the Fairfield County mess there would be earnest ef- forts made to "pin" everything imagin- able on the Hayes administration. Let loose with books and figures imaginations and minds are now working overtime. We sincerely hope that the business of the city won't be overlooked in the anxiety to make political snowballs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
New War on Polio

This year finds the fight on infantile paralysis carried forward by new foun- dation to which all the funds raised by the birthday balls'' will go. Formerly such funds were divided between the Warm Springs Foundation and the local committees, the latter getting 70 per cent of the total.
 What will the new foundation do? Paul De Kruif, in a long article on the subject, says first that it will carry on the fight against infantile paralysis in way unique in American medical history. Its work will be national and planned, not scattered and helter-skelter. It will have adequate means for research. Doctors will be taught prompt diagnosis of the disease, before paralysis sets in, factor which greatly facilitates treatment and prevention of defornity Communities that lack orthopedic facilities will be helped with financial grants from the foundation.
 There will be a research-planning board of top-ranking scientists whose purpose is to assist, financially and otherwise, researchers all over the coun- try. Public health authorities and pri- vate physicians will share new informa tion as fast as it is discovered. Here is a thrilling, concerted national attack on great and hitherto baffling human Scourage. It is the sort of war civilized people can engage in with self-respect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

ished. You're taking an unfair advantage of me-" StOoges
 Going the rounds sub rosa in the Maritime Commission is 8 hilarious cartoon of dynamic Chairman Joe Kennedy and his four fellow board members.
 It pictures Joe sitting at his desk with his colleagues clustered on his knees in the shape of Charlie Mccarthy. Joe is saying: "The meeting will come to Order."
 All the commissioners except Carl Moran pipe a dutifuI, "Aye, aye, Sir!"
 Moran, the lain-talking dis senter of the Commission, yells, Not by jugful!"
 Merry-GO-ROund
 By personal trade agreement, the U. s. Ambassador to Poland, Anthony J. Drexel Riddle, Jr., has leased the hunting preserve in Poland that belongs to Poland's ambassador to Washington, Count Jersy Potocki. Republicans claim they used the phrase Good Neighbor" before the New Deal. But a Canadian used it on June IA, 1886, when Sir Wilfred Laur- fer, Dominion prime minister, wrote a note to the U. s. about fisheries, saying that Canada was trying to be a good neighbor."
 Copyright. 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

nue-mad bunch of office-holders to throw around" He is moving to Nevada. Like wise a retired chain store executive from California, who says: "I sold all my houses in Los Angeles don't wan to own anything down there. Here my estate will be safeguarded, so can give it to my children and grandchildren" And so it millionaires, too, with less than one per son per square mile.
 It does seem as if Florida will have to look to her laurels in the matter of col lecting millionaire residents. Both states, though, still suffer one serious handicap. Their wealthy recruits can't get away from Uncle Sam.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Current Comment

You know, copper, the only kind of policeman that's good police man is dead one. You're all rats. Paul Reeder, 18, Chicago, accused of murder.
 I don't know what it is-I happen never to have come across it before. -Dr. William Beebe, scientist, who failed to identify strange fish found near Baltimore.
 Never again! The cost is pro- hibitive.
 Tommy Manville, New York city, married and divorced four times, who says he will never marry again.
 Everyone in the United States, except perhaps our State Depart ment, knows that a state of war exists in China. u. s. Senator Arthur Capper, Kansas.
 Our ranks are now thinned down to the veterans who can take pun iShment.
 Representative John Martin, Col orado, after a five-hour congress sional debate reduced attendance from 534 to 21.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

One Connecticut industrialist brings up thought that might have been ex- pressed before. w. J. Wilcox of Meriden speaking on unemployment conditions last week in connection with the con- mentS of other businessmen throughout the nation pointed out that wages paid by the WPA don't offer any inducement to the individual to leave the WPA and seek private employment. In some re- spects he may be right, but there are, no doubt, thousands of men and women on WPA jobs who would welcome the chance to get jobs they had prior to depression days. Still the longer people work on relief jobs the harder it will be for them to drop this mode of existence, provided, of course, they are able to exist and enjoy some of the luxuries of this modern life. MT. Wilcox said, in part: e.. The wage per hour is set so high that there is no real incentive for the man to leave WPA and go into private employment. ." This, of course, is purposeful, as the gov ernment seeks always to raise wages, so that all costs can be maintained at higher figures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Van DeUanter StiU Or Bench Ex-Supreme Court Justice Moves Cases Along in Federal District Court-His First Ap-
 pearance in Criminal Trial
 Since 191O
Since 1910.
NEW LONDON DAY

Former Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, who retired" from the supreme court bench last spring and whose exact status has since been a matter of much dispute, re-. turned to the bench the other day in federal district court in New York city. For the first time since 1910 he presided at a criminal trial. And for the first time in many years he had to deal with a jury, witnesses, wrangling lawyers who sought to phrase questions to wit- nesses as trickily as possible, etc. He seemed to enjoy it immensely. Right at the start he assumed firm hand in the proceedings, and took over the questioning of pros pective jurors when the lawyers seemed disposed to delay the pro- ceedings. Finally he said, address ing the attorneys with 8 frosty smile: T don't want to push you gentlemen, but let's move along here".
 When the selection of the jury had been completed-taking only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
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PARKWAY PRICES IN
 TRUMBULL
Bridgeport Times-Star)

The prices paid for Merritt Park way land in Trumbull are as sensa- tional as the early figures of prices paid for land down the line-but in different way.
 For some of the Trumbull prices seem as low as those in Westport and Stamford and Greenwich seem ed high.
 In fact, if those Investigating the matter of land purchases want a guide to what might have been a fair price for Merritt Parkway land, it would seem that they have that guide right at hand-in the prices paid Trumbull property owners.
 There, the average price paid by the state was some $500 an acre. Down the line, the average was more than twice that.
 Why the difference?
 Was the purchase of land in Trumbull handled on a different basis, or by 8 different agent, than the purchase of land in the other towns the Parkway traverses? Down the line, property owners could get prices as high as $7,000 an acre for large tracts. In Trumbull, they seemed lucky if they got $10O an acre.
 The Trumbull prices, it seems to us, afford ample proof, of them selves, that other prices were ex- travagant. Here, it seems apparent, the right hand of the State High way Department didn't have the slightest idea of how generous its left hand was being.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Prosperous Nevada

While other states are having their ups and downs - mostly downs lately the Sage Brush State seems to be sitting or top of the world. You can take it from the civic leaders of Reno that thers's one solvent state. Information from the Reno boosters is that Nevada owes nobody dollar, and is heavy creditor of other states, and doesn't need any state income tax, sales tax, tobacco tax, chain store tax, inheritance tax or other such imposts as are breaking citizens backs elsewhere.
 "Nevada is the only sane state in the, Union," boasts broker frorp Denver, who says he made money in Colorado and doesn't intend to turn it over to "a reve-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
Nook a Day
The American Novel" Still To Be Written
BY BRUCE CAPTION

There is fertile field for the nov elist in the amazing and discon- certingly rapid changes in American life in the last hundred years. Up to now, and this unfortunately in- cludes "The Long View by Hilda Morris (Putnam: $25O, no writer has made the most of this material.
 "The Long View" tells, pleasant ly enough, the story of Asher Allan, a Quaker, who twas just too young to fight in the battle of Antietam but lived to see his family fortunes wiped out in the financial crash of 1929"
 There are three parts to the story. Asher's youth in a New Jersey Quaker village; his marriage and his life with his wife and two sons in the manufacturing town of Ho- ratio, N. r., and his experiences in Dune Harbor, Mich, where his sons come to maturity. The story ends with his return to the village of his youth, financially ruined, with all his hopes pinned on his grandson, another Asher Allan.
 From this rough outline, it is ob- viouS that the author had the op- portunity to produce a stirring book. And it must be admitted that the work is sincere in purpose and exe- cution, that the star was reacher for even though it was not attained.
 Lack of freshness in the percep- tion of the writer, a willingness to see only the conventional aspects of the situation and to be satisfied with surface observation, are the short comings. There are times when Asher Allan becomes almost 8 stock character, dangerous enough in the minor personages of novel but fatal in the principal.
 When the reader is over certain of the reactions and movements of the hero in the book he is read- ing, much of "the illusion of the first time" in fiction is lost, as some times acurs in the theater. Neither the flavor of the past nor the savor of the present is in this book E. M. T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10

Connecticut responded very well to the Jackson Day Dinner call. In New Haven Saturday night were Democrats from every section of the state aiding in the campaign to retire the national party's deficit. Republicans were wont at one time to make fun of this $25-a- plate banquet that Democrats hold annu- ally, but there isn't so much said about them any more, for republicans realize that ammunition for political warfare is being piled up. And Republicans realize how badly they need that. Keen political observers saw in some of Saturdays re- marks the trend the 1888 political cam paign in this state may take.