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The Washington times., 1938-07-15
O'Conor Busy in Montgomery
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GuberndtOriaI Candidate Calls on Leaders

ROCKVILLE, Md, July l5.-At.
torney General Herbert R.
O'Conor, Democratic candidate for
Governor, was to make an informal
invasion of Montgomery county
today and tomorrow to contact
campaign leaders in the various
election districts.
States Attorney James H. Pugh,
leader of the O'Conor movement,
said today no formal meetings
have been scheduled but that
O'Conor will confer with district
leaders in about Is impromptu
meetings.
PREDICTS VICTORY
Pugh, who has also sided with
the independent Democratic move
ment, whose members are pledged
not to take sides in any State
or national contest, declared
O'Conor's popularity is growing
hourly and predicted he would
defeat Mayor Howard W. Jack.
son, the county organization can
didate, by a generous majority.
Rumors that he would be asked
to resign as chairman of the
O'Conor for Governor Club, be-
cause Of his activities in the Inde-
pendent Democratic movement,
were Scoffed at by Pugh, who said:
The Washington times., 1938-07-15
BASIN YIELDS
BODY OF YOUTH

The body of Herbert johnson,
%, of the 200 block of G. st. N. W.,
was recovered last night from the
Tidal Basin. johnson drowned in
the Basin after a discussion with
two men as to the amount Of
courage 1t would take to make the
plunge, police were advised.
Johnson's dive almost cost the
life Of Fred Hill, "a. of the 400
block of Third st. N. w. Hill and
his companion, Herman Watson,
%, of Mayoden, N. c., dived after
johnson in attempts to rescue
him. Watson finally had to as
siSt Hill.
Both told police johnson was
stranger to them, and that he
gave no reason for the act which
cost his life.
The Washington times., 1938-07-15
!. 0. Answers
Questions on Page 81

Questions on Page 81
l. November 5, Guy Fawkes'
Day. q. Sulgrave. 3. One hun
dredth anniversary Of Ameri.
can Independence. 4. Edward
Everett Hale. S. "O'er the
ramparts we watch'd, were so
calamity streaming" 6. George
III. 7. No, civil war days. 8.
Mrs. Dolly Madison, wife of the
fourth President, first served
ice cream at a State dinner in
the White. House, 1909. 9.
Turkey cost SIS, Ducks, $3.75
each. Fowls. $3.50 each.
The Washington times., 1938-07-15

the time the office was created
were ridiculed by Pugh, who said
that while Prescott was. a State
senator at the time the fourth
judgeship was created, his term ex-
pires on election day and he can,
be a candidate. He added:
"The law specifies that no
person may resign an office in
the State senate or house Of
delegates to take a position Gre
ated during his term of office.
PreScott'S term will expire be-
fore he could possibly be elected
TO this position"
The Washington times., 1938-07-15
Congress Race Splits Va. Smiths
Cousin Dick Backs Dodd Us. Cousin H0ward

and had the check and the letter
reproduced for publication in the
Courier, with an accompanying re-
cital of the story in the editorial
column.
Just to make it stick, Cousin
Dick told Cousin Howard that he
didn't know what he was talking
about when he accused Dick of
taking a picture of Postmaster
General "Call-Me-Jim" Farley and
Willie Dodd at Charlottesville, and
that Willie really was there at
Jim's invitation and was ordered
by Jim to stand by for the news
photographers as they got off the
train and climbed on the speakers
platform.
MAY COST ADVERTISING
1t may cost Dick some adver.
tising from the county gang who
are supporting Cousin Howard, he
admitted, but it's worth it, he
said, to have the public know
what kind Of Congressman they
have in the Smith family.
Just what it all has to do with
the issues Of the congressional
campaign you can figure out for
The Washington times., 1938-07-15
Giant Tuna Landed
After 6-Hour Fioht

YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia, July
IS G.NyS0.-A 500-pound tuna.
landed after a six-hour battle by
Stanley Busek, of College Point,
N. Y, set a new fishing record
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Prosperity Means
Peace Says Beatty

TORONTO, Oct 27. CUP)-Pros-
perity in Russia, Germany and Italy
and an improvement in general
economic standards of those coun-
tries would pave the way for lasting
and universal world peace, Sir Ed
ward Beatty, president of the Can
adian Pacific railway, told the Ad-
vertising and Sales club last night
Sir Edward sad that application
OF the sales methods practiced in
Canada could change the economics
of the relationships and Communist
states by telling the people what
they could buy if they had the
money, rather than what they
must purchase.
Il happen to be one of those who,
disapproving of the theory of Com
munism, sincerely hope Russia will
prosper" Sir Edward said. Il say
that because nothing but good can
come from the success and progress
of one Of the greatest nations in the
world"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27

gave his decision after several
months of thought, following the
maintnance trial in which both
husband and wife accused each
other of "scandalous" conduct with
other people.
Mrs. Shiffman had testified she
lived with the doctor ION and off"
for 81 years before she married
him in 1886. She told of finding
two women clad in night attire
in the doctors home, and charged
he threatened to shoot her because
she refused to submit TO his ad-
Vances.
The elderly Lothario, on the 9TH
er hand, charged his wife lived
with three other men, which she
denied. She said that before their
marriage he gave her as much a.,
$500 a month, but after the cere-
mony cut her allowance to $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Officials Censor
Relatives Passes
Over Toll Bridge

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27. UP)
The Golden Gate bridge director
ate today approved the hiring of
additional legal assistance, censored
the practice of employees issuing
passes to relatives and gave toll
collectors a $40 monthly raise to
$165.
BY vote of IA, the directorate
voted to hire Attorney John L.
McNab to assist in the bridge dis
tricts defense of a suit brought
by the federal government to COM
pei free passage on the bridge to
all government employees.
McNab is serving on three-man
arbitration board settling $270,000
worth of claims against the district
by contractors.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Kidnapped Woman
Named in Suit

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 27 UP)-
Mrs. Alice Mcdonnell Parsons, New
York socialite. who was kidnapped
June 8, 1887, and was never found
after $4,000 ransom had been de-
manded, was named a defendant
in civil action filed here today.
Bess M. Williams, Huntington,
Long Island, filed suit in superior
court to quiet title to II blocks of
exclusive residential property. Mrs.
Parsons, her niece, was one of 19
defendants named.
A petition filed with the suit
stated that Mrs. Parsons, if living
is owner of one-tighth the property.
If she is dead, her interest goes to
her husband, William H. Parsons,
Salinas, Calf, the petition said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
PUZZLED.
ANSWER:


The other evening a friend and
1 were sitting in my garden, look
ing up at the heavens trying to
locate the Big Dipper. Suddenly
she turned to me and said, Don't
those tree frogs keep you awake
at night? They would run me
crazy" Well. 1 hadn't even heard
the tree frogs. / didn't know what
time of year they began to sing
or what time they quit. Their queer
music melted into the night and
until my attention was called to
the noise. our voices were the
only sounds that broke the utter
silence of the darkness. Incidently
haven't heard a tree frog since,
except when I have tried to locate
one.
So, sister, you can get accustomed
to the croaking of your bull frog
so accustomed to it that you don't
even hear him. But you can't hush
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27

ing back and devoted his entire
energy to running.
After a quarter of mile sprint,
the roar of the locomotive grew
SO faint so he stopped and looked
around. The train had halted about
a block behind him, so he walked
back. There were the engineer and
firemen searching in the wreckage
of his truck.
Were hunting for the corpse,
they told him.
''I'm it," Barnes confided to the
startled trainmen.
He had done his running directly
in front of the engine and his es-
cape had been hidden from the
crew.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Caroline Chatfie|d Says.
Wife Of Complaining Husband Can
Become Deaf to Complaints, But
Can't Shus h Him

him. It's his nature to make queer
noises and whether it's a result
of indigestion, inheritance or gen.
eral cussedness he's a croaker.
Now then if he wouldn't ride
with anybody because he didn't
like the driving, nor play golf
because the course was too wet or
dry, nor eat the food you set be-
fore him, you should have some
thing to worry about. But as long
as he keeps riding, playing, eating
and gripping, he has fine appetite
for all of it and you shouldn't grieve
over him.
AS for his tendency to lay the
blame on the other fellow, that
is always a defensive trick, though
Lord knows it is one of the most
offensive faults man can have.
l know a woman who beats her
husband to the draw on this point.
When things don't go to suit him
she always says, Its my fault, it's
my fault, I'm sorry OF course
more than half the time she's en-
tirely innocent of blame. But what
does she care? She's discovereT
that this little ritual satisfies the
little man completely and it doesn't
inconvenience her to 90 through
with it.
Try this plan on your griper and
you will find that even when you
are mocking him he won't recog-
nize it but will be completely
mollified. Then, of course, you must
go right on as if the subject had
never come up, do the same thing
right over again. Otherwise he'll
get you down.
CAROLINE CHATFIELD.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27

milk truck on to a country rallroad
crossing, failing to see an approach
ing train until it had hit his ma
chine broadside.
The truck LOGGED on the cow
catcher with Barnes inside, shaken
up but uninjured, but after the
train had carried the machine a
quarter of a block it began to
slide.
Aware the truck would be crush
ed beneath the locomotive, Barnes
jumped out The track was on a
high embankment so there was
nothing to do but run ahead of
the train.
Barnes ran. Every time he looked
back there was the engine right
at his heels. Soon he stopped look
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Studio May Play
Burns as Rogers
Copyright, 1898, By United Press

Copyright, 1888, By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Oct 27 up
The publics reaction was awaited
today by Paramount Studio to a
hint that Bob Burns may appear in
a picture based on the life of VIII
Rogers, with Burns, of course, play
ing the Oklahoma humorist.
The studio admitted that it was
dickering with the Rogers family
for the right to make film based
on Rogers life and if successful
will use the story for Burns.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
4-HPis Club to
Complete Plans

The organization meeting of the
All pig club will be completed at, a
meeting in the farm advisors office
Saturday morning at $50
After a discussion of plans for
the year the group will visit the
Howe hog ranch.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27

selling vast oil supplies" to Japan.
eve will begin. to feel the first
pangs of oil shortage in this coun-
try by 1924 he asserted. why
these California companies should
ship petroleum to Japan when we
will need it desperately in a few
years is beyond all bounds of good
judgment"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:

My husband is splendid man
with one exception. He's a chronic
griper. Nothing ever suits him.
Nobody can drive car. The golf
course is either too wet or too
dry. Food is too cold or too hot.
No job is done exactly right. For
the first three years these dis
turbances almost ran me mad, be-
sides dampening my spirits con-
siderably though now don't grieve
about it as I once did. needn't
tell you that he's never been wrong
or to blame for anything that goes
awry in the home. When he's off
keel he's been pushed or showed
off by somebody, usually me. If
you know of way to change his
attitude, please tell me for I would
be much happier and I think he
would, too.
PUZZLED.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27

but I am at least brought to The
belief that the individual states
can't handle the conservation prob
lem as efficiently as the federal
government. At least, they haven't"
He said he would urge the next
session of congress to extend feder-
al jurisdiction over the entire pet
roleum industry.
Marland criticized California for
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
FiIipiinos Seek
Relative Here

Relatives I'm the Philippine Is
lands are anxious to discover the
whereabouts of Juan Orfiana. who
left the islands for the United
States in 1920 and has not COM
municated with his family for sew
eral years.
The last letter was received from
him was mailed at Westmorland.
Orfiana or anyone who knows
where he is living, is asked to COM
municate with the county welfare
office in the court house.
TO BUY or sell bargain use
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
WEDS WOMAN, 30

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct 27
UP)-Art Mix, veteran actor of
western films and brother of Tom
Mix, was married last night to
Miss Canalia Taylor, Jackson, Tenn.
Mix is so and the bride is 20. His
home is at Bozeman, :Lont.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27

Problems of general interest
submitted by readers will be dis
cussed in this column. Letters
unsuitable for publication will
be answered personally provided
they contain stamped, self-ad-
dressed envelopes. All names are
held in confidence. Write Miss
Chatfield, i'm care of this news
paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Staggering Debt
sand NeW Tax
Burdens

This dangerous proposal
would abolish the basic safe
guard requiring a tWO-thirds
UOte for bond issues!
1t makes it easier to get
into debt, but harder to get
out!
1t would permit the issu-
ance of revenue bonds, IN
ANY AMOUNT, by a bare
majority of those actually
going to the polls. In reality,
it would mean that any dis
trict, city or county could be
plunged into debt BY A
SMALL MINORITY, as on
ly a fraction of the register
ed vote usually turns out for
a bond election.
You can't afford it. Your
neighboyS cant afford it. No
city or district in California
can afford it!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Sunshine Spreader' Denied Divorce.
Must Paw Wife $3.50 Per Month

M LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27 (UP)-Dr. Adoph F. Schiff-
Man. 78yearold retired dentist who to women
friends spread sunshine denied divorce today
and ordered to pay his wife, Mrs Gloria L. Schffman AS
$50 month support Superior Judge Edward r. Brand
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Halt This
Plunge Into
Squandermaniia!

b. Proposition No. 13 on your
November ballot is a brazen
attempt to let down the bars
to wholesale public borrow
ings which would mean . =.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS, Ell CENTRo, CALF
World S Fastest Human 0ufruns
Locomotive; Walks Back TO Tell
Worried Train Crew I'm Corpse

MODESTO Oct. 27 (UP)-Weston Barnes, 26-year
old milk truck driver considered in these parts today
as the holder of the title worlds fastest human
for his feat of outrunning locomotive.
Here his story: In the grey light of dawn he drove h
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27
Federal Government Can Handle Oil
Conservation Better Than States,
Oklahoma Governor Believes

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 27 (UP)-Gov. E. W. Mar
land who led in organization of the interstate oil compac
eight years ago. today asserted that he convince
the regulatory body should be superseded by federal
troll 81 have never admitted it before Marland said
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-27

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POst-Press Want Ads!
The Washington times., 1938-09-15
Q.pc. Dining Room

. ., value If we ever saw esSs S% ehina
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The Washington times., 1938-09-15
SHOCKED
Strange Action of
Sheep Explained

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Sept. IS
UN.S.).-Although still showing q
slight tinge about the face, ears
and neck, DR.. Roy Mills, sheep di-
sease specialist in the State De
partment of Agriculture, is no
longer baffled.
DR.. Mills was sent for by sheep
men when all the animals in a par
ticular pasture seemed crazy"
They would suddenly drop to the
ground, endure a brief bit of
agony, squirm and roll for a few
feet and then suddenly recover.
At first Mills thought perhaps
the sheep had imbibed in "loco
weed" but examination of feed
brought no results. He was get
ting down to grass roots when he
discovered the ground was charged
with electricity and the sheep
were being shocked" in the wet
soil.
Investigation showed power was
leaking from a nearby transmits
sion line and Saturating the
ground.
The Washington times., 1938-09-15
Self footing Horn
Saves Lives Of Two

JACKSON, Mich, Sept. IS
UNSO. automobile tina t
tootS its own horn is credited with
saving the lives and home Of Mr..
and Mrs. S. H. Lewis.
Fire broke out in the Lewis
garage. 1t Short-circuited the
0utomobile's horn. The incesSant
Aaoting Of the horn aroused the
ta0kly.
The Washington times., 1938-09-15
WALTONS PUSH
PLAN TO BUILD.
SEWAGE. PLANT.
AIexandria's Pollution
Problem Considered

construction of a sewage treat
ment plant in Alexandria will be
stimulated tomorrow and Satur-
day by convention there Of all
Virginia Izaak Walton League
chapters.
Plans for the Statewide gath
ering, to be held in the George
Mason Hotel, we're outlined last
night at a meeting of the Wash
tngton chapter of the league In
the Raleigh Hotel.
ACTION SOON
A solution of the Potomac River
pollution problem insofar as Alex
andria is concerned will be con-
sidered at a special meeting OF
the town council to be held within
two weeks.
Unofficial estimates of the prob
able cost of one or two sewage
treatment plants for Alexandra
have ranged from 100000 to
more than $1,OOO000. Proponents
of the improvement program en-
phasized that As per cent OF the
cost probably could be obtained
as an outright grant from the
PWA.
L. S. McNemar, president of the
Falls Church, Va. chapter OF the
league, outlined the plans for the
Alexandria convention to the
Washington SportSmen.
SURE OF CONSTRUCTION
ct feel sure" he said. that this
convention is going to encourage
the growing public sentiment in
favor Of immediate construction
Of a treatment plant for Alex
andria."
He reported the list of conven-
ton speakers would include Tal-
bott Denmead, law enforcement
executive Of the Federal Bureau
of Fisheries; DR.. William B. Hol-
ton, president of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase chapter OF the
league: DR.. George T. StarneS OF
Charlottesville, State president;
and Frank T. Bell, commissioner
of the Federal Bureau of Fisheries.
NAME WORST SPOTS
Meanwhile, Judge William S.
Snow Of the Alexandria chapter,
made public a letter from DR..
Lewis Radcliffe Of washington,
president of the IZaak Walton
League regional council for the
District, Virginia and Maryland
in which he urged action by Alex
andria to clean up its section G.
the river
'"The three worst spots along the
Potomac at present" DR.. Radcliffe
wrote, "are Cumberland, Md; the
area adjoining the city Of Wash
ington in Maryland and your city
Of Alexandria.
THE successes we have had in
our anti-pollution campaign in a
little over two months have been
amazing.
ICKES INTERESTED
If the three areas we have men
blO11SO Coll HC N4CoA4C0 Wy W. "@AA
have gone long way toward puri-
flying the Potomac.
please remember that Secre-
tary Ickes is deeply interested in
this cleanup drive and has opened
PWA pursestrings for its accom-
plishment.
Under the unusual PWA terms,
outright grant of As per cent OF
the total cost is made and IS
per cent is loaned over period
Of 20 to 40 years at a low rate OF
interest.
Unless Alexandria takes advan-
tage Of this opportunity before
September 80, the deadline for
applying to the PWA, it may find
itself compelled by law to take
such a course of action within
the next two or three years and
may have to bear the entire fl
Oancial burden "
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-04-14

Sunday at the Helmuth Manecke
attended a wedding shower in
Franklin Wednesday evening at
the home of Mrs. Helen Brown
Jennings Petit residence.
Renetta and Ruby Mae Mattke
and family drove to Gibbon Sat-
urday to spend the day at the
residence in honor of Leona Theel
of Fairfax. Alexander Wolling
of Franklin was among those pre-
sent.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lichten-
eyer and Mrs. o. Doering, accom-
panied by Violet Firegge, all of
Gaylord spent Saturday at the
c. H. Lichteneger residence.
Mrs. Mary Clancy, Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Clancy and children,
all of Olivia, were Sunday guests
at the Joseph Chisholm residence
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-04-14
Chocolate Beans Burned
To Raise The Price

Washington-(P- Housewives
may like their cocoa cheap but
African Gold Coast farmers who
raise it are mighty sore about
present prices.
Cocoa has been the real "gold"
of the Gold Coast until recently,
says the National Geographic So
ciety. In the 18th century Portu-
guese discoveries of the region,
north Of the equator, hoped real
gold dust would be their reward.
But the golden beans of the cacao
trees, introduced from the Amer
icas, proved more valuable than
gold itself.
Now with prices running again
st them Gold Coasters are burn
ing their chocolate crops by the
ton. They expect it to make a
difference in prices since almost
40 per cent of the worlds choco-
late comes from Gold Coast
beans.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-04-14
Women Welcome
School of Cookery

make the piecrust that men love
to eat? How to give first aid to
fallen cakes.
1t won't be necessary to ask the
questions, for expert home spec
ialists have anticipated these very
problems. They know what both
ers many an experienced house.
keeper, because it is their job to
know and to counsel helpfully.
Fun, novelty and entertainment
are joined throughout the feature
picture, for it is always fair
weather when neighborly cooks
get together. Home-making has a
universal appeal and every
woman is eager to learn the new
est news of her craft.
Cooking, romance, modern kit
chens, and clever actors and act
resses do not tell the complete
story of this 1938-model cooking
school. The picture is whole
laboratory of modern ideas and
wise counsel, touching on latest
developments in home equipment
and accessories, including laundry
methods, ways to prepare left
overs, beauty secrets, hints on
saving time and labor, and fresh
suggestions on how to entertain
graciously, as well as how to be
thrifty.
1t won't be necessary to carry
pad and pencil and try to scribble
measurements in the darkened
theater, because free recipe sheets
with complete formulas for many
of the delicious dishes prepared in
this motion picture cooking schoo.
will be distributed daily.
Surprises in store for readers Of
The Gazette will not be limited tt
free entertainment and instruc-
ton, since there will be daily
gifts, many of which will bring
pleasure and renewed apprecia'
ton of school days" long aftel
the final graduation on the clos
ing day.