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The Washington times., 1938-08-11
That Mans Back

Johnny Federal said today: My
chief got pretty mad the other
day when a junkman asked him
if he had any rags, papers or old
clothes, and to shut him up he told
the junkman that his wife was
away. But the old man aim nst blew
up when the junkman capped
back, ANY bottles?" Incl
dentally, Johnny says that when
you call messenger in a COM
manding way it's oratory. but "if
the guy comes-that's eloquence!"
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
Uncle Skins Out

Now comes an opportunity for
one of you bright but underpaid
Government accountants to step
out and get yourself real job
Because the Ford Instrument
Company of New York did not
have a cost accounting system
adequate to establish with exact
ness its expenditures in partly
carrying out Navy contract, can
celled by the latter, the Comp
troller General has held that that
firm may not collect $48. 900 which
both the company and Paymaster
General of Navy agree to be due
the former.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
RailGUay Mail Talk

Purely Personal: doc" Purdy,
Railway Mail Services banker, {"
is back from a Floridavake, reluc-
family I. . Eddie Genger, his mates
relate, has recovered from a pneu-
monic siege (he's one of Railway
Mails hardest baseball hitters)
Recent enjoyable trip to Okla
homa fell to Leo Marshall, local
"funster" Washington office
has lost r. w. Tatum, shifted to
Richmond after his Florida honey
moon.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
COMMITTEE NAMED

A committee of five members
consisting of I. Chance Buchanan,
Mrs. Ruby Simpson, Monroe
Stockett, Horace Woodward and
Commander T. T. Wright, were ap-
pointed to appear before the
county board Saturday and inform
the members of the Federation
action and score them for "break-
ing faith with the county citizens
in not giving sufficient publicity to
pending changes in coming"
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
A Strike at HOLC

HOLCees were much disturbed
Monday when they found a fan
Of their buildings air-chill system
had struck on Friday and hadn't
yet been repaired. Those in the
wing serviced by the fan found
they'd grown so accustomed to
being Comfortably chilly" during
working hours they were almost
unable to withstand-despite fans
going and Venetians drawn-the
Capitalstew so stewpidly endured
by most of us.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11

Soeakin9 Of
- <NGOVERNMENT
WORKERS
BY J. EARLE MOsER
STORY OF AN OLD STORY

He worked for the Government ten long years
With never a raise! He got only jeers
private concern then found him day
And gave him POSITION at twice his old pay!
VERSTTS
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
JAM BUILDING

DR.. Victor Meyers, president Of
the Arlington County Civic Fedora.
ton, under whose sponsorship the
mass meeting was held, presided
over the session held in the Lyon
Park Community Hall and the
crowd jammeo the small building
and overflowed into the surround
ing lawn unanimously adopting
every resolution offered for con-
Sideration.
Declaring that row house con-
struction devaluates nearby de-
tached homes, county citizens
adopted a resolution opposing the
development of Arlington County"
as a row house community and
the permiscuous rezoning by the
county board to permit this type
of construction,
The Washington times., 1938-08-11

over their Spe-
cial a ira n g e
m e n is during
r e h e a rSals in
the studios of
WJSV, there is
one q u a lity
that stands out
in bold relief
"PERS e v E R
ANCE."
Perseveran C e
is that quality
of sticking to a
thing until it is
done ana
liking it. It is
that nl1a1itv
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
ARLINGTON co.
N EETINC HITS.
ROW-HOUSING.
500 Residents Blast
Boards Action

ARLINGTON. Va. Aug. l1.-A
wrathful delegation of Arlington
county citizens will descend on
the county commissioners when
they meet here Saturday demand
ing they derry pending applica-
tions for rezouing in a number Of
sections of the county to permit
row house construction.
In one of the most militant
mass meetings in the county's
history last night more than 500
residents condemned previous
action of the county board in
permitting this type Of construc-
ton in residential areas and de-
manded that the practice be
brought to halt.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
ToIOn's fastest

Original Velati Candy
Stores today will present one
pound boxes Of their delicious
chocolates or caramels, on re-
quest, to:
Margaret Carter, Engrav-
ing Printing.
John w. Bailey, Interior.
John Patrick Walsh, PWA.
Candy will be presented at
either store, $40 Ninth st.
N. w.. or SOC Fourteenth st.
N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
A .TISKET, A-TAsKET:

Postal perseverance can be
claimed by that man in Tennessee
who regularly each month for the
last 10 years has sent q postal
card to Labor's Employment Serv-
ice setting forth reasons he be-
lieves they should get him a Job
=. He has never registered, how
ever, in his county employment
office, so perhaps, he has his
fingers crossed!
The Washington times., 1938-08-11

WITTY continue to be embarrassed be-
w cause your skin does not have that
healthy glow so.much desired by every.
one, when S.S.S. Tonic may be just what
you need to give it new life and color9
You, too. may have restored to you
that alert feeling that will show in the
sparkle of your eyes and the healthy
glow of a dear complexion. rejecting
good health and well being.
S.S.S. Tonic. in conjunction with
well balanced diet, is especially de-
signed to aid nature in building sturdy
health 4. its remarkable value is time
tried and scientifically proven that's
why so many say "it makes you feel
and look like yourself again"
Get bottle of SS.S. at your druggist
today 3. start taking it now you
owe it to yourself to give S.S.S. trial.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
Franco Troops Gain
In Drive on Valencia

southwark toward Valencia-easy
travelling for tanks and planes
through and above the orange
groves.
Seven hundred years ago at AL.
menara, King James I conquered
the Moorish rulers Of Valencia
province, and the Romans many
centuries before knew the military
Importance Of its strategic hills.
PLANES BIG FACTOR
Airplanes were a major factor
in the victory at Mules and, &C.
cording to the nationalists, they
aided in trapping 1000 govern
ment militiamen in the mountain
pockets.
The fliers were able to to spy
out government detachments
which would likely be cut off.
On the west flank Of the double
nationalist push, Gen. Garcia Va.
limos column drove to VSthin six
miles Of Segorbe, 80 miles north
west Of Valencia.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09

HENDAYE, French Spanish
frontier, July 9 U.N.SO.-The
hard-hitting Galician army Of Ma
tionalist General Miguel Amanda
stood before historic Alme-
nara. key to a pass through the
Sierra De Cid. and known since
earliest times as the gateway to
Valencia"
The vanguard of the Galician
forces, long hardened to mountain
fighting, smashed through the
coastal town of Mules and drove
on five miles to the south.
PERIL DEFENSES
While airplanes secured the
hilly country, the nationalists took
up advance positions only two
miles from Almenara, 10 miles
from Sagunto, and % miles from
Valencia.
Capture of Alenara and it's pass
will rob the government Of its
most reliable defenses, the coastal
SierraS. Only open country lies
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
MOTOR DELAYS
HUGHES FLIGHT

NEW YORK, July 9 G.N.s).
Extensive repairs on Howard
Hughes transatlantic plane,
New York Worlds Fair, 1889"
today forced postponement of his
scheduled flight to Paris until S
p. m. tomorrow and possibly not
then. He had intended to take off
from Lloyd Bennett field at S
p. m. today.
Discovery of gasoline erosion
spots on two of the planes 18
cylinders caused Edward Lund,
flight engineer, to order replace
ment of all, a task which began
last evening. continued through
the night and still was on today.
When the work was completed
both motors had to be broken in"
by running on the ground and
then by a test flight.
There was considerable Specula
tion at the airport whether Kath-
arine Hepburn, movie star, whose
name has been linked romanti,
cally with that of Hughes, would
be on hand to bid him bon voyage.
Hughes hopes to make the first
New YorK-Paris jump since that
of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
Hughes will carry a crew of four.
Whether the trip will be extended
around the world will be decided
upon arrival in Paris.
Before the takeoff, Grover
Whalen, president of the fair, will
christen the plane. Hughes hopes
to reach Paris in % hours. Colonel
Lindbergh took 33.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
NOn-RetGLiGtiOn,
SdYS WeizMUnn

LONDON, July 9 GN.sO. Only
two days after his own brother.
in-law was slain at Haifa, DR..
Chain Weizmann, head of the
world Zionist organization, today
announced the determination Of
Palestine's Jewry to maintain the
principle of non.retaliation against
Arab terrorism.
Although subjected to an or.
ganized campaign Of violence" he
said, the Jews in Palestine ARE
conscious of their responsibility to
the nation Of which they are the
vanguard"
Tuvia Bounia, his brother-in-
law. was shot while at, the wheel
of his car,
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
Hitler Rule
Speeds Up
Divorce

BERLIN, July 9 0.N.SO.
Five thOus a n d Austrian
couples, long separated, to-
day were expected to rush to
divorce courts to take advan.
tage Of a Reich decree max
ing divorce easier.
In Adolf HitIer's decree,
which also covers Germany,
the principle was set up that
"the state has the right to
take care Of marriages-tO
prevent certain marriages
and destroy undesirable mar
riageS."
Divorce will now be faciIi.
tated, especially for childlesS
couples.
Girls must be 16 and men
FL before they may marry,
the proclamation provided.
The highest ideal covering
marriage laws was described
as unions between healthy
and racially and morally val
liable partners, promising
many healthy children.
Fifty thousand special dis
pensatiOn" marriages, which
followed theoretically illegal
divorces of Catholic couples,
shortly will be legaliZed.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
.E.DR. Rolls West
After Ky. Talks
Aids Campaign of
Barkley Against
Chandler
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page II
invasion of this red-hot Kentucky
primary fight.
Mr.. Roosevelt's final speech In
Kentucky was made late last
night at Bowling Green, the home
of Kentucky's other Senator
M. M. Logan. Before a crowd of
thousands there, the President
paid tribute to Senator Logan
as a man who refused to drag
the Federal judiciary into a poll
tical campaign"
Special Effort
This was in reference to a bit
of unwritten history that ante
dated the current hectic campaign
in Kentucky. Months ago it was
suggested that an easy way out
of the Kentucky situation would
be to appoint Senator Logan to
a Federal judicial post, which
would clear the way for Governor
Chambers appointment to Sena-
tor Logan's unexpired term. The
matter reached the stage of letters
and Logan turned it down. There
are letters, it is reported, in the
White House files to support the
story.
In any event, Mr.. Roosevelt went
out of his way, not only to cam
paign for Barkley, but also to
praise Senator Logan. To the
home town people of Bowling
Green, Mr.. Roosevelt had this to
say about this particular bit OF
unrecorded history:
Il am going to tell you some
thing that perhaps is a little
premature, but which you will
know about some day. Some
day. when history comes to be
written, there will be recorded
an episode in the life of Senator
Logan-an episode that took
place in the year 1898. Unhesi-
tating, clear-cut action on the
part of Senator Logan whereby,
at possible personal sacrifices.
he stood square, like a rock
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
NEAR-TRAGEDY
Sister of Slayer
BdreLU Escapes

NEW YORK, July 9 Q.N.S).-
The family of Death House Mike
Alex, 27-year-old convicted muir
derer, nearly had double tragedy
on its hands today as the result OF
the jury's verdict.
Mikes mother collapsed when
the foreman announced the de-
fendant had been found guilty.
Police dragged his sister from in
front of an auto after she dashed
from the court room in Mysteries
The verdict makes the electric
chair mandatory. July 13 has
been set as the date for formal
sentence. Oreste Grassi, 10, CO
defendant in the $12 holdup slay
ing of an insurance collector last
December, was acquitted. Alex
stood trial five times on the same
charge, in which a mistrial fol
lowed two reVerSalS.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
8 Workers Retired
AT PRINTING Bureau

Six employees were retired by
the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing during June, it was an.
nounced today, most of them with
more than two decades of service.
Ranking in service was William
H. Lowder. distributor of material
and collector of printed work, who
had 80 years to his credit. Robert
Taylor. spreader, had three less
Others retired were Louis F.
Rohne, jr., William Terrell. Mary
Guckert and Mrs. Anna J. JOY,
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
RFC LOO SEM S
PURSE STRINGS
TO HELP RAILS
BY HARRY WARD

u.N.S) A loosening of Fed
eral purse strings, increased car
loadings and a prediction by RFC
Chairman Jones traffic will con-
tinue to improve, combined today
to brighten prospects for rehabili-
tation of sadly ailing railroads.
Coupled with recent Inter
state Commerce Commission or
ders for increases in Pullman and
coach passenger fares, these fac
tors brought unexpected cheer to
rail executives who recently failed
to win congressional approval of
their proposals for monetary aid.
LOAN FOR SOUTHERN
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion approval of proposed $13,-
100000 rail equipment loan by
the RF'C to tho Southern Railroad
gave evidence the Government
was swinging into line in an aid
the-railroads move. Jones called
it the first Of a series of work
loans" the RFC will make to
roads certified by the ICC.
Car loadings jumped upwani
for the fifth successive week. with
an increase of 5.4 per cent, or
10,725 cars above the preceding
week, to a new high for 1888
Totals were still 26.6 per cellt
before the same week in 1887, how
ever.
Jones called the car loadings in
crease moderate Improvement"
and observed that he believed cit
will continue to improve"
$500 FREIGHT CARS
The Southern Railroad will buy
$500 freight cars with the money
loaned by the RFC. The COM
mission determined the road could
reasonably be expected to meet
fixed charges without reorganiza-
ton before conSenting to the
loan.
The ICC must okay all proposed
railroad loans, but, after that, the
RFC, which makes the loans, may
go over conditions with the rail
executives.
The increased coach fares will
go into effect on interstate routes
in the East July 25.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
SunflOuerS
Fade,SayS
F. DR..

BOWLING GREEN, Ky,
July 9 Q.N.SD.-The SuggeS-
tion that poor choice of a
party emblem may have had
something to do with the Re-
publican party'S defeat in
1886 was advanced today by
President Roosevelt.
A basket of roses was
handed the President when
he made a rear platform ap-
pearance here last night.
81 thank you for these
roses" Mr.. Roosevelt told the
cheering crowd.
'In campaigning for re-
election in 1886 for the sec.
Ond time / recall that the sun.
flower was the Republican
emblem. That was a great
mistake.
Roses bloom all through
the year-but nobody ever
heard of a SunflOwer bloom.
ing in the first week of
November"
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
20 PWA Projects
Approved as Cost
Hits Billion Marx
Ickes Paves Way
For Start of
Power Work

0.N.S) The outpouring of Fed
eral money to spur national recov-
cry flowed past the billion mark
today with the announcement Of
Presidential approval of 10 Federal
and non-Federal projects for which
allocations will total $18,273,672.
Thus far. $1,030.000, 900 has been
earmarked for outlay by the Fed
eral Government.
LARGEST PROJECTS
Largest projects on today's list,
made public by PWA Admin
istrator Ickes, are new air base
at Scott Field, ILL.,, and criminal
courts building for New York city
The total construction cost of
the new projects will be about
$32,000,000, which includes the
part to be paid by the communi-
ties and other agencies.
A Federal grant of $4403 400
was alotte dto the quartermasterS
corps of the War Department for
complete modernization of Scott
Field. East St. Louis, ILL.,, which
will be the future home of the
United States Army Air Corps
GHQ force. This move from
Langley Field. Va, was recon-
mended to President Roosevelt
and approved less than week ago.
However, PWA officials could
not explain why the grant was
more than a $1,00O.OoO under the
$5,500,000 requested by the War
Department for the project.
NEW YORK GRANT
New York city was given an
outright grant of $8,325,000 for
construction of the new court
building. This project was the
largest on the list of so non
Federal projects valued at more
than $26,300,000, of which PWA
will put up $11,890,272. There
were no loans on today's list,
local municipalities putting up the
balance of construction costs.
The Scott Field project led a
list Of 20 Federal projects, with
complete construction cost covered
by $6,383 400 in PWA grants. The
lighthouse service of the Depart
ment of Commerce was given ST.
$4,000 for 18 projects and the
Bureau of Mines was given $780,
900 for Salt Lake City project.
2.27S APPROVED
The new list raised to 2,778 the
number of projects approved to
date with total construction cost
of $690,794, 1872. of which PWA has
allocated $428,279,811 in loans and
grants for the Federal and non
Federal projects.
In a carefullyworded statement
Of policy yesterday, PWA Admin
istrator Ickes gave the go ahead"
signal for all but % public power
projects on PWA books.
The policy statement reiterated
and interpreted the so-called
''honor policy" established by Sen.
ate Majority Leader Alben w.
Barkley when the new spendlend
appropriation was on the Senate
floor. This provided that no
PWA-financed public power prof.
ests would be approved until the,
private utility facing competition
refused fair and reasonable of
fer for its facilities"
But the PWA announcement
went further. and determined
what constituted competition, in
effect considerably narrowing ap-
plication of the fair and reason
able offer" provision in the honor
policy"
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
Freed Woman Gets
Free Rent All Of Life

OLD BRIDGE, N. j., July 8
G.N.SO Mrs. Nora Wilson Boyce
was to return today to a home she
may occupy the rest of her life
rent-free. The generous offer was
made by the owner while the
woman, mother of six, rested from
a strenuous trial in which she was
acquitted on a charge Of Staying
her husband. Her married life was
20 years of torture, testimony
showed.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
Radio Singer Ends
Life With Poison

ATLANTA, Ga, July 9 Q.N.SO.
While a close friend sought to
stop her. Florence Bridges. widely
known in the South as Dixie Lea
Southern, radio singer, yesterday
drank fatal dose of poison. The
companion. Miss Edna Turner.
had previously frustrated suicide
attempt. The girls father. j. v.
Bridges, quoted Miss Turner as
saying that Miss Bridges had de.
clared she was unhappy"
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
25-Year-0Id Cat

SACO, Me. July 9 GN.SD.
Babe, 25-year-old tiger cat belong
ing to F. S. Church, claims to
be Names oldest cat. Recently
she gave birth to three black kit
tens, raising the number of her
to nearly 200, according
to Church.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
Pimp|e Infection
Causes Girls Death

DANVILLE, Va, July 9.-Elsie
White, 10, daughter of E. M. White
and member of the high school
graduating class, was dead today
because she tried to remove a
pimple from her face Saturday.
Streptococcic infection was the
cause of death.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09


pointed for his unexpired term,
and thereby remove the governor
as an opponent to Barkley.
LETTER TO LOGAN
The Presidents letter to Logan
follows:
My dear Logan: I want you
to know how fine I thing your
statement of Monday was. The
governor put you and Alben and
me into most disagreeable
situation and wholly without
any necessity therefor.
Il want you to know that the
governor came to see me yester-
day, repeated the same PROPOSE
ton and seemed surprised when
1 told him that you and I would
be the last people in the world
to traffic in judicial appoint
mentS in order to satisfy the
ambitions of one office-seeker.
You deserve all the credit in
the world for the splendid and
unanSwerable and unselfish
position you have taken.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
BACKS BARKLEY
Logan. in New York visiting
with friends prior to going tc
Kentucky to make several
speeches in support of Barkleys
campaign. said that the conver.
sations which resulted in his re
fusal to resign from the Senate
took place at the White House
several days prior to the Presi
dents letter.
The President wrote me a
Letter in which he took occasion
to thank me for the position
I had taken.' was the only
comment he would make on the
letter.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
WEBB, TYDINGS
PROTEGE, FIRST.
TO GET The AK
New Deal WhetS Blade
For 4 Others in Md.
BY THEODORE HUNTLEY

-
A bloody knife hung high on
Maryland'S political guillotine to-
day, waiting for its next victim.
The first head rolled into the
basket yesterday. Henry w.
Webb, Federal Housing admins
traitor for Maryland and politl-
cal protege of Senator Millard
Tydings, goes down in the history
of the 1888 purge" programs of
anti.New Deal officeholders as the
earliest Maryland martyr to feel
the New Deal ak.
If current reports are borne out,
he will not be the last.
Webb's story is short and sim
Iple: Senator Tydings sponsored
him. He says the Senator told
him not to play politics with his
job after he got it, and he didn't.
He says the first thing he heard
after the New Deal declared war
on Tydings was that he was to get
the axe. The next was a telegram
sent in the name of Big Chief Ad-
IminiStrator Stewart Macdonald in
Washington demanding that he
appear here.
RESIGN, OR ELSE"
When he did, he said he was
told by Deputy Administrator w.
B. Flanders:
'The best way out for you Is
to resign and make statement
that you wish to return to pri-
vate business as your reason for
doing So"
He walked out minus a job he
had held satisfactorily for several
years.
"Political persecution!"
shouted Senator Tydings.
"Inefficiency-" retorted the
FILA.
And the headsman waited for
the next victim to be led to the
chopping block.
WILL AID TYDINGS
Webb announced that now that
he is out, he will get actively into
the campaign for the Senator's re-
nomination and reelection. But he
will not be able to put pressure on
the hundreds Of FILA employees in
Baltimore and elsewhere in Mary
land-and someone else will. His
successor, as yet unnamed, will be
friendly to the candidacy Of Rep
resentative Davey Lewis, the man
from the mines," as against
TydingS.
Four other key men in Tydings
Maryland organization face a
similar fate unless they turn on
TydingS, who sponsored them, and
get back of Lewis. They are:
Gilbert Bailey. collector of Gus
toms in Baltimore.
Bernard Flynn, United States
attorney.
August Klecka, United States
marshal.
]. Hampton Magruder. of Marl-
boro, collector of internal revenue
and a power in Princes Georges
county politics.
THREE ARE CARRY-OVERS
Flynn, Bailey and Klecka are
being carried along in their jobs
while awaiting decision on their
own reappointment or the naming
of their successors, following ex-
.piration last spring of the four
year terms for which they were
appointed in 1888.
Magruder, named a year or two
later to succeed the late j. EnoS
Ray, still has a year or two to
go before his term expires, but
can still be removed for "ineffi-
ciency," or other causes, consider
ing Supreme Court decisions con-
firming the Presidents power to
remove officers whom he appoints.
Only the President, however, could
remove him, whereas the others
could simply be dropped and their
places filled by successors salts
factory to the New Deal and to
Lewis.
The Washington times., 1938-07-09
Child Accused

Arabs said the child was carry
ing white bag from which a Jew
accompanying her took a bomb
and threw it at the bus.
British authorities, however,
seemed inclined to the belief that
the girl was merely walking with
her father at the scene of the out
rage, and had nothing to do with
the bomb.