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The Washington times., 1938-02-09
Gle a min g S
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

For II years Director Clarence Brown of MetroGodwyn
Norrows novel of the Civil War era Benefits Forgot"
Finally the front office approved his cast and production
plans and said "Go ahead"
As the picture neared completion, of HolJywoods
syndicate writers called up studio publicity: ANY news
today about Benefits for God This no Joke 1t was
how the title impressed itself upon the coumnst in casual
mention
Metro-Goldwyn-May decided Benefits Forgot must
have new title the radio and through 5000 theates
$4,000 contest held for namei 264,oIO entries
were
The Washington times., 1938-02-09

Another Washington play
wright will soon see her first
play given professional perform
ance. Miss Pauline Parent. of
2017 o St.. who wrote Her
Manager" in collaboration with
Anna Gordon, theatrical critic
of the Russian newspaper Rus
soviet, has had her drama &C.
cepted by the United Group
Theater of New York.
Miss Parent is hopping back
and forth between New York
and the Potomac, assisting in
the casting, and advising Gallo
Alvarez in the direction. First
performance is scheduled for
late this month in a Broadway
playhouse.
Pauline Parent was born in
France, but is now a natural.
lied American. She studied dra.
matte art at the Comedie Fran.
caise. Her local experience in.
cludeS two seasons as director
and poo-bah of the French The
ater. Author of a number of
plays, "Her Manager" described
as a lively farce, is the first to
be accepted for professional pro-
duction.
CLEVER BOW WOW
John T. Mcmahon, of Annap-
oils, Nd, brought his Kerry
blue terrier, Mickey" to town
yesterday, guided him to the
editorial desk, where his bark.
ing set the copy desk wonder
ing whether the drama depart
ment was going to the bow
vows.
Mickey" has some ambitions
for doing his tricks in Holly
wood. He can throw a ball
with his mouth and has done it
at the ball park for Nick Alt
rock. Nick calls him a pitching
WOW.
He has other cute accomplish.
ments such as walking upstairs
backwards and locating lost ar
tlcles in your desk. Yes, Mickey
is a smart pup, but I wouldn't
advise taking him to Califor-
mia yet. There are too many
still growing for Rim Tin Tins
place in the lights, and some
with more tricks than Mickey.
The Annapolis barker left our
desk to show off some for Man
ager Eddie Plohn, of the Ma
tional Theater. "A fine dog"
said Eddie. He reminded me
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
Traffic Death Toll
Rises, Police Hunt
Hit-Run Motorists
TUO Killed as Car
Hits Va. CuLUert;
d. C.. Total II


Two men were instantly killed
and another slightly injured when
their car sideswiped a culvert near
Staunton, Va, early today, and
was wrecked.
Lieut.. Charles Roller, jr, 81,
athletic director at Augusta Mil
itary Academy (Fort Defiance,
VaJ, son of Major Charles Roller,
president of the school.
James Weaver, 40, Of Mount
Sidney, Va, a companion Of Lieu
tenant Roller.
Injured was e. w. Hanger, q
cook at the Augusta school, who
is under treatment at a Staunton
hospital.
ROLLER AT WHEEL
The accident occurred about
1870 a. M, State Policeman D. R.
Haskett reported. and preliminary
investigation Indicated Lieutenant
Roller was driving the car.
Death of an SO-year-old woman
today carved another notch on the
Districts 1898 traffic toll as police
Of washington, Maryland and
Virginia sought two hit-and-run
drivers, one Of whom struck and
killed a local man yesterday near
Tysons Corner, Va.
Mrs. Frances Johnston, 1887 H
st. N. w., was the latest death
victim of District traffic. She was
hit Monday night by an automo-
bile police say was driven by DR..
Ernest L. Morgan, prominent local
physician, 1909 Pennsylvania Ave.
N. w. The physician was held by
Police Court in $1,000 bond on a
charge of failing to report an &C
cident.
DR.. Morgan was taken into GUS
tody by Third Precinct police this
morning and booked as held for
the coroner's jury"
SAMARITAN KILLED
John N. Kidwell, so, of the 24O0
block of Third st. N. E., died in
Georgetown Hospital early yester-
day, and Dowell Thompson, 35, Of
Herndon, was in a critical condi-
ton as the result of their attempt
to play the good samaritan.
Both had stopped to aid another
motorisss Lewis Robey, AZ, OF
Herndon, Va, whose. car. was
ditched. Another car sped by
moving down Kidwell and Thomp-
son.
Russell Downs, 81, of the Bur.
lington Hotel, was painfully in
jured when hit by car on Four
teenth Street near Thomas Circle
yesterday.
DRIVER DISAPPEARS
A truck driver disappeared yes
terday after taking William John
son, 50, of the TOO block Of Thir-
teenth st. N. E., to Gallinger Hos
pital suffering injuries received
when struck by motor vehicle at
Laurel, Md. johnson was said to
have decorations, conclusion Of
the brain and other injuries.
Three Georgetown University
students were hurt and another
youth was injured when car
they were riding in crashed into
q light pole in the $500 block Of
Wisconsin Ave. N. w., yesterday.
Treated at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital were Harold
Slick, 25, Of the 1900 block Of
Chesapeake st. N. W., broken
nose, possible internal injuries;
Oliver Gray, %, Of the 1900 block
Of Rhode Island Ave. N. W., teeth
knocked out, lacerations; william
James Hunter. "a, Of the 17OO
block Of Rhode Island Ave. N. w.,
teeth knocked out, lacerations, and
Nathaniel Page. Is. Of the 100
block Of East Bradley Lane N. W.,
decorations and fractured leg. The
latter three are Georgetown stu.
dents.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
POL|CEPUzzLED
BY CANS OF GAS

Police were uncertain today
whether an arson plot had been
nipped in the bud, or whether a
gasoline thief, preying on cars
parked near the Navy Yard. had
been frightened from his loot.
Carrying two five-gallon cans Of
gasoline, a man was seen last
night entering frame building
in the 800 block L st. s. e. The
same man, police were told, had
been seen in the vicinity of the
house for the past several nights.
Robert johnson, third floor resi-
dent. investigated and found the
man hiding on a rear porch. The
man claimed he was a detective
hired by the owner to guard the
house. johnson called police and
by the time they arrived the man
had fled.
Police found the cans of gasv.
line in a cellar, one nestled in a
pile of shavings. The authorities
said if the fuel had been ignited,
the whole block, mostly frame
dwellings. would have gone UP in
flames, including the neighboring
Receiving Home for Children.
Police said numerous car owners
have reported gasoline siphoned
out Of their cars by thief oper-
ating near the Navy Yard.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
DR.. Townsend
Will Spurn
Pardon

CHICAGO, Feb. 81 Q.N.S0.
DR.. Francis E. Townsend is going
to Jail whether they want him to
or not.
The founder of the old age
pension plan bearing his name,
was in Chicago today for a brief
visit before continuing to Wash.
ington where he faces a 30-day
term for contempt of the House Of
Representatives.
He was sentenced in a hearing
before an investigating committee
in May, 1886.
Commenting on reports that
Senator Burton K. Wheeler had
written President Roosevelt asking
clemency for him, the elderly re-
tired doctor said:
I'm going to serve my SEN
tence even If President Roose-
Velt does grant me a pardon"
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
Lewis Is Speaker
At Crime Clinic

Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington
correspondent of the London
Times will be guest speaker tV
night at the Crime Clinic Of the
Institute of Criminal Science at
Friends Meeting House, 2111
Florida Ave. N. w. at $50 o'clock
This will be the seventeenth in
a series of discussions presented
m Washington during 1898. The
panel discussion following Sil
Willmott's address on THE Press
and Crime" will be led by Frank
Waldrop Of the Washington Her
aid and B. M. McKelway. man
aging director of the Evening
Star,
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
SLAIN DENTIST.
limited VICTIM
|OF NAzI F 0 { S
Pamphlets Are Clues
In Sammet Death

CHICAGO, Feb. 81 G.N.S).
Authorities today searched
through a trunk of documents
Nazi and anti.NaN literature in
an effort to solve the murder OF
DR.. Max Sammet, said to be a
Jewish refugee from Germany.
DR.. Sammet, formerly a wealthy
dentist, was found shot to death
late yesterday under steps lead
ing to an unoccupied residence on
the West Side. 1t appeared also
he had been slugged on the head
LITERATURE FOUND
The trunk containing German
political literature was found in
DR.. Sammet's room in a neighbor
hood hotel not far from the scene
Of the Staying.
The doctors wife, Mrs. Anga
Sammet, a dental assistant, was
reported to have said in New
York:
"I can't understand it. He
was peaceful man and avoided
trouble of any kind"
The victim, a war hero and @
practicing dentist for is years
in Germany, came to Chicago las.
September and had been studying
dentistry at the University of Hi
nois Dental School to acquaint
himself with American methods
In his hotel room an iron cross
and five other medals of war
service in the German army were
discovered.
ROBBERY NOT MOTIVE
Robbery apparently was not the
motive for the Staying. DR.. Sam
met still wore his expensive fur.
lined overcoat when his body was
found, and a wrist watch and
wallet containing $14 had not
been touched by his assassin.
DR.. Sammet made few friends
here. He was not on the German
|consulate's list of nationals here,
and DIR. Hans strack, German vice
consul, said he would request a
full report from police.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21

Can You Guess What These Micro
scOpic Photographs Really Are? An In.
teFesting study Of Familiar objects
Pictured As They Would Appear to the
Eye Of an Insect. Feature Page In
The American Weekly, with sunday'D
WaShingtoA Fald.Times.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
VANISHED Girl.
FEARED IN Peril

Fears for the safety of 16-year
old Frances Marie Hooper in
creased today as the mystery sur
rounding her disappearance here or
February IL remained unsolved.
The only child of Mr.. and Mrs
William E. Hooper, of 1890 D st
S. E., Frances left her home aftel
supper to take short walk, tell
ing her mother she would be bach
lin time to help wash the dishes
She carried no money with hel
and no extra clothing, her parents
said.
Since then no word has beer
received from her, and police, CO
operating in the search, have OBJ
tanned no clue as to her where
abouts. Her father, a member ot
the park police, has telephoned
daily to the girls grandmother in
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, but nothing has
been seen of her there.
He described his daughter as
5 feet l inch tall, weight 12C
pounds, with dark-brown curly
hair and dark-brown eyes. At the
time Of her disappearance she
was wearing two red sweaters, q
red skirt. plaid coat and brown
oxfordS.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
1st 100 Years
NOtTOOHGrd

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. 81
Q.H.SO.-The first hundred years
were hard, but not too hard. on
John M. Horan.
Horan died recently after he
had observed his Tooth birthday
still in the employ of the Mil.
waukee railroad, for which he
went to work as a boy of II.
After SO years OF continuous EN-.
|ployment. his will today disclosed
he had accumulated no estate.
but neither had he any debts
when he died.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
COMMISSIONERS.
RENEW LUNCH H.
APPEAL TO BELL
Hazen Reveals History
of District Efforts

In a renewed effort to sever
red tape, which threatens to choke
off free school lunches within two
weeks, the District Commissioners
have made a new appeal to Daniel
w. Bell. acting director Of the
Budget Bureau, that estimates Of
supplemental appropriations be
submitted to Congress to continue
the lunch program for needy chill
dren.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen
disclosed today he launched this
move February 10, in answer to
a Bell communication of February
IT, which passed the buck" on
school lunches to the District
Building.
CITES BACKGROUND
The commissioners asked the
Budget Bureau on January ~ for
the supplemental appropriation,
HAGEN said, but Bell ignored the
request and suggested last week
that funds for the lunches be
sought from relief appropriations.
Hazen told Bell an informal
contact" with the General Ac-
counting Office by District Au-
ditor Daniel j. Donovan showed
the emergency relief appropria-
ton was not available. The 1888
appropriation for relief is not
even sufficient to care for unem-
ployment distress here.
EXHAUSTED MARCH
Hazen estimated $4,000 would
be needed to carry on the lunch
program for the rest of the
current fiscal year. He said
$68 900 would be needed for this
purpose next year.
Otto Cass, local deputy admin
istrator of the Works Progress
Administration, which is super
vising the expenditure of relief
funds under which the current
lunches are being furnished, said
the $4,000 now on hand would
be exhausted March Z.
Meanwhile, District Auditor
Donovan was searching for a
possible solution in the form Of
any additional unexpended relief
"odds and ends" on the District
books, which might be used
beyond the March deadline.
NOT INVITED
It was Donovan who discovered
some weeks ago that $4,000 Of
FERA, CWA and other funds were
available from other years to car
ry on the free lunches.
In discussing the financing Of
the lunches out Of current relief
appropriations, Com m issioner
Hazen took the opportunity to
deny charges he and the other
commissioners were remiss in fail
ing to attend the Saturday con-
ference Of civic leaders on the re-
lief problem.
I'VE weren't invited" he said,
and the fact we asked for more
relief funds than the Budget Bu-
reau recommended speaks for it
self"
The Washington times., 1938-02-21

Strange Echo from Sir Walter
Raleigh's Lost Colony. Tragic Fate OF
the Little Band Of First English Set
tiers at Roanoke and the Cruel Murder
Of Virginia Dare, the Governors AmeFi
can-BOrn Grandchild, Told at Last Dy
q Message Carved On a Stone S4S Year
Ago, But just Discovered. An Illustrated
Feature in The American Weekly, witt
Sundays Washington HeFaId-Times.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
Storm Victim
Found in Field

The body Of Walter Jackson, 81,
Laytonsville, Nd, was found in a
field half a mile from his home.
Montgomery county police said
jackson apparently fell, and. I'M
able to get up, was lashed by the
rain and snow during the night.
His death was attributed to ex-
posure.
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
Fuel Strike Halt
Called in Toronto

TORONTO, Feb. 21.-A 15-day
truce in the strike Of 1,50O Toronto
coal handlers has been signed
and deliveries to homes and build
ingS, cut off since Friday, were
resumed. To refill thousands Of
empty bins. Mayor Ralph Day au-
thorized emergency" deliveries Of
coal On Sunday
The Washington times., 1938-02-21
Rep. Aliens Wife
And Son Injured

Mrs. Addie Allen, wife Of Repre-
sentative. w. F. Allen, Of Seaford,
Del, and their son, w. Franklin
Allen, 80, were injured when their
car skidded off the highway at
GrasonviIle, Md. and smashed into
teIenhone mole.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-31
Vets Handicraft Work
To be Sold by Auxiliary

Handicraft articles made by disabled
veterans will be sold throughout the
country this year by the American Le-
gion Auxiliary, according to Mrs. Marie
Buckley, rehabilitation chairman of the
Ely Auxiliary unit. The articles are
made largely in the occupational Their
apy departments of veterans hospitals
as part of the hospital treatment and
the work is of great benefit in pro-
noting recovery of the disabled men.
High degree of skill is developed by
the disabled veterans, and many articles
of beauty and utility are produced.
Weaving, brass work, leather work,
basketry and pottery are among the
crafts practiced by the men, Articles
are decorated with original designs and
made with painstaking care.
Sale of the articles by the Auxiliary
has been well organized in many states.
Last year $32,726O9 was returned to
the veterans from occupational therapy
sales and the amount is expected to be
increased during 1888 Assurance that
the articles they make will be sold gives
the veterans greater interest in and
more benefit from the work.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-31
Growing With Your Child
University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Welfare

rocking chairs and the lullabies could
be stored away in the attic, for all
they'd care.
Suppose, in short, that these lively,
troublesome, naughty, adorable young
sters were suddenly transformed, so that
they made no more trouble, and never
caused any worry. What would they
be like? Somehow it sounds as though
life might not be half so interesting.
Without the experimentation that is
natural to childhood, wouldn't we have
many fewer things to laugh about? If
Henry never tried to curl his sisters
hair, if Alfred never put bonnet and
sunglasses on old Rover, if Helen never
thought of putting lighted match I'M
der the thermometer, to see what would
happen when the mercury got to the
top?
Without the constant questions
children ask, would we have half the
chance to feel Importantly superior in
the way of knowledge? Without child
rem to correct and reprove, how would
we get the satisfaction that comes from
being in authority? Without children
to comfort and care for, to battle and
feed and protect, how would we develop
the gentleness and sympathy and
patience that such things call out?
No, I don't believe we'd want te
change our children If we could!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-31
Drugs Not Substitute for
Determination in DIETING.

There is no short cut to shorter
weight, according to a bulletin issued
today by the Public Health Education
Committee of the Minnesota State
Medical Association.
New drugs are constantly seized upon
to tempt the overweight who wants to
take off pounds but does not want to
exert himself in the process.
Anti-fat drugs are usually either inert
and without any effect whatever or they
are actually dangerous to life and
health. Except in a few cases that need
exceptional medication, the only way
to reduce, according to the doctors, is
to cut down on food and to increase
physical activity by moderate exercise
so as to burn up excess fat. Just how
much the food intake should be cut de-
ponds upon the individual dieter and
his own needs. Ruthless dieting with
out regard to a balanced diet is frowned
upon, Also as dangerous.
The way of the reducer is hard, the
physicians bulletin admits; but there
is no short cut by the drug route. On
the contrary, many deaths and a good
many cases of permanently damaged
health are on record that can be traced
directly to irresponsible experimenting
with new drugs. These drugs are use
full for other purposes in expert hands;
but they cannot be used as substitutes
for individual will power and deter
mination in the business of weight
reducing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-31
Bucket Brigade
For Farm, Fire.

Hoffman-Again the once famous
bucket brigade held its own when a
hastily organized brigade quenched a
fire at the Edwin Hanson place in
Ely Lake township. The blaze, start
ing from an overheated kitchen range,
spread through the interior of the first
floor rooms and only the highly eff
cient work of neighborS who came to
the scene saved the house from burning
to the ground. Being home alone when
fire broke out, Mrs. Hanson was forced
to walk half mile to a neighbor to
summon help by telephone. About a
dozen farmers living in the vicinity
hurried to the Hanson farm and in a
short time had the flames under con-
troll. When the Hoffman fire depart
ment arrived, the blaze had already
been extinguiShed. Walls and ceilings
of the first floor room, especially the
kitchen, were badly scared.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-31
Highway Patrol Add to
Fame in February.

Adding to its record as courtesy
service" as well as law enforcement
agency, the highway patrol of the Min
nesota Highway department during
February assisted in various ways 1924
users of the highways, according to the
reports of the patrolmen.
In the same month, 800 arrests were
made and resulted in $3,69460 in fines
Improper equipment and improper
registration led in the causes for arrest
with Sc violators of each apprehended.
Twenty-eight drivers were arrested for
careleSsness and II for driving while
drunk. Driving while drunk accounted
for 1925 in fines.
First aid was given to nine injured
motorists by the patrolmen, while 928
vehicles were given minor adjustments
or repairs. The patrol pulled $50 cars
out of the ditch.
The guardians of the highways were
busy during February warning border
line offenders, and 6,719 drivers who
flirted with the traffic code received
| their attention AS usual, improper
parking led the list with 1878 repri-
mandS.
The must repair" tag total decreased
from previous months, but neverthe-
less 1911 vehicles We're herded into
garages for repairs and adjustments.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-31
TUUinS Observe
10th Birthday.

Round Lake-Twins celebrating their
10th birthdays together is an event that
occurs rather rarely, but just such an
occasion took place here last week.
Henry M. Diehn Of this village and his
twin sister, Mr.. Christina Stoltenberg,
Of Davenport Iowa, commemorated to-
gether their birthday anniversary at the
home of their sister, Mrs. Minnie
dchwarting. Mrs. Stoltenberg had
come from Iowa a few weeks previous
in anticipation of the event, which had
been planned as a celebration at the
legion hall. A recent severe illness Of
Mr.. Diehn made such a program in
advisable, and a birthday dinner was
given at home. During the day the
twins received greeting cards, flowers
and kilograms with good wishes from
children and other relatives living in
distant places.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-31
WPA Districts Changed
To Cut Overhead Costs

WPA district offices in Minnesota on
April l will be reduced from seven to
six to promote efficiency and economy in
operations, it was announced this week
at the st. Paul office of Victor Christ
gau, state administrator. District &C
counting and clerical work that has
been carried on at Brainerd will be
transferred to other districts. An area
office in charge of construction oper-
ations will be continued at Brainerd.
The consolidation includes the trans
fer of A. T. Gilbertson, formerly at
Brainerd, to Duluth as district director
Details of the change were worked
out at conference of the district di-
rectors affected, held Tuesday of this
week in st. Paul. The change will in
no way affect the practical operations
of WPA locally, Mr.. Christgau said
1T may take week or ten days to
perfect the new procedure, but we hope
there will be no inconvenience to either
workers or project operations. The
change is the result of the constant eff
fort to increase the efficiency of WPA
as the agency grows in experience" he
said.