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The Washington times., 1938-09-28
RUTLAND URGES
VACCINATION TO
HALT D|PHTHERIA
District Health Chief
Warns Parents

DR.. George C. Ruhland, District
Health Officer, renewed today his
pleas with Washington parents to
speedily immunize their children
from the danger of diphtheria.
Each fall DR.. Rutland has
urged vaccinations for children
who might be subject to the dread
disease. This year there have
been 370 cases to date and dur
ing the past week alone there
were 10 cases reported.
ISSUES WARNING
Thousands of children under
years of age are not yet i'm
munized. There should be no
delay in this work since the
diphtheria season has begun.
It takes time to build up the
necessary immunity" Rutland
warned.
Ruhland pointed out there is no
reason why monetary conSidera'
tionS should hamper the vaccina-
tions. If parents cannot afford the
services of private physicians,
Ruhland explained, clinics are
available free Of charge.
CLINIC LOCATIONS
The clinics are located at the
Addison School, P st. near Wis
consin Ave. N. W.; the Weightman
School, Twenty-third and M Sts
N. W.; 230 Third st. N. W.; Freed
mems Hospital; the Petworth
School; 518 M st. N. W.; 301 G ST.
N. W.: 900 Maryland Ave. N. E.;
the Burroughs School; the Burr
vile School; the Giddings School.
and 2237 Nichols Ave. S. E.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
HUSBAND BEATS
BRIDE TO DEATH;
FAILS IN SUICIDE
Victim Struck Down
With Rolling Pin

A bitter argument between a
bride and groom, married less
than a year, ended early today
when he beat her to death in a
p Street rooming house, then
turned on the gas in an attempt
to end his life.
The dead woman was Mrs. Viola
Nichols, 80, who operates a beauty
parlor in the 900 block G st. N. w.
Police Hold Husband
Her husband, Clarence e. Mich
OILS, 20, East Falls Church (VaO
plumber, was booked at the Second
precinct for investigation after
treatment at Emergency Hospital.
The murder took place in their
apartment at 1903 P st. N. w. At
tracted by water dripping through
the ceiling, neighbors in a lower
apartment heard means and called
police.
A Second Precinct scout car was
sent, and the officers, L. B. Sims
and F. Bones, forced their way in
t find Mrs. Nichols dead in the
bedroom, her head battered in,
and her husband slumped on the
floor of the kitchen, the jets of
the stove wide open. Water was
running in the sink and had over
flowed.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
BLIND TO TEACH
BRA|LE SYSTEM

A blind woman is going to teach
people who can see how to write
She will conduct a daytime class
in Braille transcribing.
Next Tuesday, Miss Lillian Lati.
mer, blind volunteer Red Cross
worker and an expert in Braille,
will organize the class at the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter, Ameri.
can Red Cross, 1880 E st. N. w.,
at 1:45 p. m.
Meetings will be held every
Tuesday for approximately 10
weeks. More handicapped books
in Braille are always needed, and
this need "can be met only
through voluntary SERVICE" the
announcement said.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

The man is Marshall Field Sd,
grandson of an early Chicago mer
chant prince who built a tremen.
dous fortune and then bound 1t
in a 22,O00-word, iron-clad will to
insure its remaining intact.
The will was said to be the long
est and most fool-proof document
of its kind ever written.
Just how many millions or hun
dreds of millions fall to the hand
some New Yorker tomorrow nc
one, possibly not even Field him
self, knows exactly. If Field does
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
; Youths Hunted
In Store HoIdup

Three youths about 18 years OF
age, were sought by police today
in the armed holdup Of William
Kraus, owner and operator OF a
grocery store at 315 @ st. N. w.,
last night.
Menacing Mr.. and Mrs. Kraus
and q visitor, Mrs. Cora Birch,
with a revolver, the three youths
obtained $l20 in cash and a check
and fled.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
Fordham President
AssaiIs Racial War

NEW YORK, Sept. 28.-The
totalitarian theory of racial su-
premacy was condemned in a
sermon by the Very Rev. Robert I.
Cannon, president of Fordham
University. Father Cannon de-
nounced the theory Of racialism as
an attack not only on liberty but
also on the fundamental of law
that all men are equals as per
sons"
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
President Puts Off
Action on Dirigib|e

The Navy Department may con.
tinue without q dirigible, President
Roosevelt indicated yesterday.
Mr.. Roosevelt said it would be
weeks before consideration is
given to construction Of the craft
for which Congress appropriated
three million dollars.
The matter has been discussed
with Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Edison, Mr.. Roosevelt ex-
planned,
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

know, he believes it impolite or
inexpedient to talk about 1t.
Friends say the millions which
Field has been inheriting at va
rious points throughout his life
time, have wrought change in
him.
Once he was was known as a
Continent-skipping playboy buddy
of the Prince of Wales and as q
dabbler in horse racing-a hobby
which, incidentally, returned him
$50, 900 in a futurity race.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
Used Rolling Pin

Taken to the hospital and re
Nved, Nichols told Detective Sergt
John Wise of the homicide squad
MY wife started arguing with
me last night. I wanted to sleep
and told her to shut up. Then I
hit her with my hand.
"She kept on arguing, and I
got up and got the rolling pin
and told her unless she shut up
! would let her have it.
"She kept on, so hit her with
the rolling pin. Then I went in
the kitchen and turned on the
gas"
Police found the rolling pin, Gov
cred with blood and with the
handle broken off, under the bed
Begged For Life
Mr.. and Mrs. Sillas Hawver
male, who live in the lower apart
ment, said that they heard sounds
of quarrel about $3.50 this morn
ing, and that Mrs. Nichols said:
Don't do that, Ed; please
don't do that"
Later, when the water drippec
through and they =, heard the
means, they summoned police.
Mrs. Nichols, who was married
before, was from Winchester, Va.
and a daughter by her previous
marriage lives there. Nichols wa!
also married before and has two
children.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

Plain and fancy
weaves: pastel col
ors, ecru and cream:
guaranteed fast COL
OrS,
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
At As He Receives Fortune Under
22,OOO-WOrd Will

CHICAGO Sept 28-A fortune estimated at 500 million dol
lars will fall today into the hands of retiring publicityshy
man lust reaching his fortY-fifth birthday.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

Laughs That May Make You Shed
Q Tear. Don't miss the sidesplitting
"Boners" in the odd reports by the
relief investigators. full page with
amusing drawings in The American
Weekly, the magazine distributed with
next Sundays Warrington Herald.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-18

John Sf IS and unemployed when disturb
anc at Welfare Island New York City, because he couldn't
daughter His revealed that he
Penntary Vermont where he faces
lengthy His their
above She has appealed Vermons cemency
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-18

Isn't this little bit late? Foot
ball season has ended but not for
some west coast youngsters.
among them Mickey Rooney,
screen juvenile pictured booting
one in recent game in Los Ange-
les. They say Mickey can kick
the football as well as most col
lege Dunters
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-18

-. UOeS AOToan dances
Dressed in one of the elaborate
Korean costumes she wears in her
interpretations, Sal Shoki, Korean
dancer, poses for photographers in
San Francisco, where she begins
her scheduled world tour. Miss
Shoki has been a leading theatre
cal attraction in North China,
Manchukuo and Japan.
Central Presa
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-18

tusillade of shots at him last April after he haa
sentenced Alzibu Campos, leader Of the Nation.
al1sts, and other members of the party, for con-
splracy to overthrow U. S. government rule Of
Puerto Rico. The prisoners below, were sentenced
TO serve five years each in Atlanta federal prison
Natlonallsts have protested the various convictions
@ -CeGtrG Press
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-18

Legal actlon unprecedented in u S. history is pic
tured above. U. S. District Judge Robert A. Cooper
OF Puerto Rico, top left, is shown testfyng in the
witness chair at San Juan, where ten islanders were
tried On charges of conspiring and attempting to
kill him Judge MARITIME Travieso, top right heard
MS colleague testify that the accused men fired
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-18

On trial for the Staying Of her
ninth child, a 13-month-old daugh-
ter, in a fit of rage, Mrs. Virginia
Broadway, 33, of Detroit, is pic
tured as she heard the first of six
children testify as states wit
resses in court. Mrs. Broadway,
who claims the baby died of a fall,
was arrested in st. Louis where
e fled last April. The mother
and eight children lived together,
separated from the father, Gar
field, 36, unemployed, who now is
caring for the children with well
fare aid.
Central Press
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Homer Martins View of WPA

NVHE danger is that as we go on month after
L month and year after year, piling up debt
and unemployment we will lose our sense OF
direction and our morale. Before we know it, we
will come to regard the WPA as regular part
of our economic life, and when that time comes
we will all be on the way to the WPA rolls
Ominous are the recent words Of Homer Mar
tin, CLIO leader: 1.-THE WPA must more and more
be regarded as an industry in itself, and not
form of charity" By this he means that he pro
poses to- Organize" them and collect dues. Then
these Government relief workers will strike for
higher wages, and you and will have to pay
more taxes as result other workers in real
industries will resent having to contribute to
support this WPACIO industry" which, of
course, can never pay its way.
Finally, some dictator's government will
have to clamp down on this, for the sake of main
tanning order. Then we will find ourselves
marching around in regiments, with our democ-
racy and our freedom gone
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Says Boake Carter

fully underway, will be in the financial handout
business to the tune of better than SIS ,000,.
900.
Not day passes that some Representative or
some Senator does not announce that some Gov.
eminent agency has approved either loan or
some construction project for constituents in his
State.
Typical is the announcement of Senator
schwellenbach that the RFC approved million
dollar loan to apple growers of the State Of Wash
ington This million SuperimpoSes previous
million loan to other apple growers in other
Washington State counties.
PWA Lays DOUn LaGV
IT IS safe to say that there is hardly one Of
the 10,474 PWA projects in which the PWA
did not lay down the law as to how the project
was to be built and managed. PWA takes mu-
ncipal State or school district bonds security,
then resells them But STILL it is holding $218.-
100000 worth of such securities. All told the
Hopkins agencies have spent approximately
So, 600, 900 900.
Prior to 1888, there were less than 1000, 900
families dependent on the Government for their
living, including employees, military forces and
pensioners. Today it is estimated 100000 out
Of 100000 families in the nation are de-
pendent on Government handouts. Then there
are the 100000 farmers who have received
crop-control checks; the drawers of unemploy-
ment insurance, Hole, FILA borrowers, and on
down the line until some have figured that more
than 100000 individuals are helped by the
Federal Government today.
The elections outcome appears to depend on
just how well the New Deal can continue to
purchase the public.
Copyright, Ledger Syndicate)
The opinions expressed here are Boake CarterS
otDn and not necessarily those of The Washington
Times.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Golden Mirror
Contest Rules

/. Pictures must be &C
companied by entry blank
stating age, address, school
attended, and class in
school.
2. Entries must be made
by the girls themselves,
their parents, friends or
relatives.
8. Pictures will be re-
ceived up to midnight of
June 5.
4. Pictures m u S t be
mailed or left at the
Herald Times Building in
care of the Golden Mirror
Contest Editor.
5. Judges are Coun t
jerry Potocki, Count Igor
assini, Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh M C L can, Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, Mrs.
L. M. Leisenring, Eben M.
Comens, Mrs. Martha Blair
and Mrs. Evie Chip"
Robert.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

loaned 5000 10000.
The total loans of these agencies OF the Gov
eminent, plus PWA, REA, CSC and several
others. totaled as of April IA, the date when
these figures were printed in the Congressional
Record from survey made by the National
Emergency Council, the shocking figure OF
$11,115,918,000.
Housing Loan Guarantees
NEXT comes the Federal Housing Act under
IN which the Government guarantees loans
made. by banks. insurance companies. building
associations and similar organizations to people
who have attempted to improve their homes.
The total of these Governmentguaranteed
loans amounted to $1.4S3.977.OOO at the begin
ming of this year-which makes grand total of
more than twelve and half billions Of dollars!
new bill permits the RFC to lend another
one and half billions.
The Government, when the new program is
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

depressing. Even the Govern Prof. Lewis Haney
ment reorganization bill may be exhumed And
To can the climax, the Presidents aides have be-
gun shipping at the Supreme Court.
You may believe that American business men.
big and little are all wrongheaded or bad. You
NAV believe the Administration is right in every
thing it does except when it tries to pack the
Supreme Court or to turn Congress into rubber
stamp. But surely we can all agree this is no
time to force on business those political schemes
which make it impossible for business men to go
ahead.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

Emergency Hospital has a
speedy, new streamlined ambu-
lance-thanks to the Variety
Club.
Members of the club presented
a $4,000 checks for the ambulance
yesterday to Major GiSt Blair,
president of the hospitals board
of directors. The presentation
followed a luncheon meeting Of
the club at the Willard Hotel.
This was the first charitable con-
tribution of the club this year but
more than $4,000 is expected to
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
MOTHER LET'S
HER COMPETE
IN BEAUTY LIST
Patricia Stewart Is
Identified

The girl whose ethereal beauty
inspired the Golden Mirror Con-
test sponsored by the Washington
Times and Washington Herald
and whose identity has heretofore
been a mystery, has been found.
She is Patricia Stewart, 16-year.
old daughter of Mrs. Grace Stew.
art, attorney and private secre-
tary to Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Thurman Arnold in charge Of
the Anti Trust Division of the De-
partment of Justice.
Interviewed yesterday, Patricia,
junior at Western High School,
is prettier than the picture taken
on Junior District Day as she
stood in the grandstand with other
students.
CHARM LIKE GISH
She possesses that same elusive
charm which made Lillian Gish
the darling Of the silent movies.
Her mother has kept her a little
girl. She is shy and very sweet,
And she moves with a willowy
grace.
While the Times photographer
was taking her picture yesterday at
the high school, her classmates
gathered around offering advice
and teasing her.
POPULAR AT SCHOOL
Patricia took it good naturedly.
1t was evident she is popular. She
said:
"Of course I get a lot of teas
ing now. Everybody tells me 7
think I'm beautiful. But it's all
in good. fun"
She hopes, Patricia said, to be-
come a teacher. She is one Of the
honor students at Western,
When she was small she studied
toe dancing and piano. She plays
tennis but is not particularly inter.
ested in athletics.
MOTHER APPROVES ENTRY
She hadn't thought, she said.
about entering the contest, add.
ing,
"Ill have to ask mother"
Mother" an attractive, slim
person with red.gold hair, was at
first afraid her baby will grow
up overnight" However, after
thinking it over, she consented to
Patricia entering the contest.
Patricia lives with her mother,
and her ten.year.old sister, Bar.
bara, at 2601 Calvert st. N. w.
MRS. ROBERT A JUDGE
Mrs. L. w. Robert, jr., has
agreed to serve with the board Of
judges. Mrs. Robert, known as
"Evie" to her Washington friends,
is one of Washington's outstanding
beauties.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

A man with no address at all,
who has handled millions of ad-
dresses as his business, today ad-
dressed himself to the city editor,
to tell him of the most unusual
collection of addresses in the
country.
He is Harry A. Zehrung, former
postal clerk, now 81 and retired,
who is visiting Washington.
Zehrung has a unique collection
of fantastic addresses, such as
used to drive the post office nuts
before they began the policy of
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Visitor Has No Address,
Yet He Has Many of EN-

just dumping 'em into the dead
letter office.
zehrung has "a Of these which
he plans to leave to the Post Of
flee Department for its museum.
One reads:
I'VE sat on the bridge at sunset
Watching the beaver play,
While John was thinking of Ada
Who lives at Winchester Bay.
Now Ada's name was Mercer.
So please do not delay,
But deliver to my only
Who lives so far away"
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
ID. C. BILLS UP
IN SENATE UNIT

Senate District Committee &C.
ton on several local bills SEIZED
uel today.
The committee, which will meet
late today, Is expected to report
the bill granting authority to the
District to participate in the ma
tional low-cost housing program.
This measure, which already has
received committee approval in
the House, would involve a build
ing program Of approximately
SIS 900, 900.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Trust Busted
Turtle SnGtchers Are
Held by Police

The turtletaking trust" which
harasSed dealers at the municipal
fish wharf was believed broken
today with three youths in the
custody of police.
According to police, the youths
made off with two turtles weigh
ing rs and 100 pounds by simply
Tipping their prey on their backs
and carrying them off in an auto
mobile.
Later, the youths are alleged to
have attempted to sell the turtles
to the chef Of sea food establish
ment.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Club Gives $4,000
For Hospital Ambulance

be turned over to, ,philanthropic
enterprises before 1889.
Earl Goodwin, radio commenta-
tor and White Hpuse correspond
emit for The Washington Times.
was guest speaker at the luncheon.
Honor guests included Harold
Brayman, president of the Ma
tional Press Club, George R..
Holmes, president of the Gridiron
Club and chief of the Interna-
tional News Service Bureau here;
Erwin D. Canham, correspondent
for the Christian Science Monitor,
and Laurence Todd. correspond
emit for the Soviet Telegraph
Agency.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

passed over. Also, the poorer
the individual, the greater the
tendency to vote for the Roose-
welt pink-pill doctors.
Let us take a superficial
peek at some of these Federal
handouts:
The Farm Credit Admins
tration has $3,264,6 42, 900 out
standing.
The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation has loaned $3,O12.-
$4,000 to railroads, banks,
corporations, States and cities.
Tu,a Home Owners Loan
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

Even the weather has been
against business of late. Some
crops will benefit by the
cold rainy period, but mems
straw hats have not been bios
soming and the movement Of
seasonal merchandise has been
slowed.
With the cold rains there
came the chill of renewed ef-
forts in washington to put
through the radical reform"
measures that have been so
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
TUESDAY, MAY "a
By EQalw Walsh Mclean

woman came out and had lunch with me. have
been trying to reach her recently, but I cannot
locate her. She had lived many years at the
Panama Canal, and her stories even then Of the
spies tnfesting our territory were appalling They
made no pretense Of being anything else. They
would have little stock in their stores which
they wouldn't even try to SELL and they made
no secret about their shops being meeting places
for the paid agents of other countries who were
watching closely every move we made in that
vicinity.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

man, and up into the trees for
Q little yellow man peering
down with binocularS-but I
haven't yet looked under my
bed at night.
In my secret heart-and
there is no use fibbing about
tt have always admired
spies. Every country is against
them. Their own nations will
not even try to protect them
when they are caught. They
must walk a lonely life and
die a lonely death if they
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

But how despise the ones that steal their own
governments Secretsl
It Is q great thing to go out and risk your
life singlehanded for your own home land, but
when you are open to the highest bidder of any
country for the knowledge you possess-that is
Q horrible thing
Everyone in this country should be really
serious in regard to this situation. We are such
eullible people! We trust almost anyone who
seems frank and charming. Our faith in human
nature is wonderful and touching. But just let
the Americans once get aroused, and oh, boy
look out!
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
37,615 JOBLESS
REPORTED HERE

A total of 37,615 persons are
totally unemployed in the District
Of Columbia, according to the
final report of the employment
census Of 1887 compiled by Ad-
ministrator John D. Biggers.
BY far the largest number OF
these unemployed are between the
ages of 20 and "a and next largest
number of jobless are between Is
and %.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Wenchel to Talk
To Federal Bar

Charles P. Wenchel, chief coun-
sci of the Bureau Of Internal Rev.
enue, will speak on tax-exempt
privileges at the annual spring
dinner of the Federal Bar ASSocia-
ton tomorrow night at the Con-
greSSional Country Club.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

Here's an excellent cure for spring fever:
Purchase q GOOD used car (any one listed
in tOday's Classified Section will d0) and
visit some Of the FUN spots near WASH
ingtOn you have never seen before which
you'll find on the Weekend Vacation Tour
Maps printed each day in the Herald and
Times Classified.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
51But-"

nR. GALLUP reports that the fall elections
~ are likely to find the popular vote closely
related to Federal spending.
His study indicates that persons who have
been given handouts by the Government are
more pro-New Deal than those who have been
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
My Say

T HAVE heard and dreamed so much about
i spies in the last few days that find myself
looking behind screens for q pale dark, desperate
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
High Time to Be Firm

High Time to Be Firm
TAKE the witnesses in New York who are
l. disappearing day after day-and even the
man on the Bremen whom the captain refused
to give up. AL this doesn't sound very innocent.
I have found out in this world, if you have
nothing to hide you certainly don't run; you stop
and face the music.
1t is high time our Government took firm
stand in this regard, and only hope they stick
it out and expose every single person that is in
any way connected with the spy ring.
may be wrong in this but, as understand it,
even if we do catch spy we rarely do anything
but deport him. 1t does seem to me we ought
to do more than this because, after all, don't
imagine if man or woman has got what he
or she came for, or has even failed, they would
mind much being put on a boat and shipped
safely home.
Why can't we lock them up for period of
years?
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
World of Finance By LeeOis Haney

Haven't we had enough of reforms. Govern
ment waste, and piling up of debt for one short
administrations