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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
Pershing Rifles
To March Here

A platoon of six ,quads Of
Pershing Rifles, crack University
of Maryland drill unit. will take
part in IT, Army Day parade
April 6, the Military Order of the
World War headquarters was in.
formed today.
The detachment will be under
the command of 1t. Col. ]. D.
Patch, formerly commandant at
Fort WASHINGTON, Md.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

NEW YORK may be devouring beast. It is
Az also child-in spots. The movie and radio
audiences laugh and sigh at the most obvious
cracks Of announcerS and comedians. The Town
loves wisecrack-if its whiskers are as long as
the beard on the Old Man of the Sea. 1t is about
all hardboiled New York does love. If you were
knocked down by taxi the 100000 would leap
over your PROSTATE form and hurry on without
looking back so as not to miss chance to cross
the street on the next green light.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

While the work was being done, incidentally an
old fireplace was rediScovered behind modern
partition.
Not only is the mansion itself doing little
spring blooming but Stratford horseflesh is look
ing up. Most every day now Mai. Gen. Benjamin
F. Cheatham, U. S. A.. retired, superintendent
OF stratford takes his five young colts on tour
Of their home fields. The colts range from three
weeks to about three months old The liveliest Of
the equestrian quintuplets is grandson of
Man o. War.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
Sees Tibet in Broadcast

YOU'VE certainly heard the melodious voice
- Of Lawrence Tibbett over the air, in concert
or in opera. saw and heard the Metropolitan
hero broadcast in New York the other night. It
was my first try at this modern adventure Of
watching radio show.
Even with special cards of admission we stood
in line for long wait outside the C. B. s. theater.
The theater, built for this special broadcasting
purpose, had curious acoustic arrangements like
big wings jutting out from above its stage. The
stage floor was padded. Heavy cloths lay over the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
AnacOstia PIT. A.
To Meet April 4

The home of Mrs. Charles Foster,
2315 Thirty-third st. S. E., will be
the scene of the next meeting, on
April 4, of the executive committee
of the Anacostia Junior-Senior
High School Parent Teacher Asso-
citation. Miss E. Richardson will
preside at joint hostess during the
serving of refreshments, after bust
ness has been concluded.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

here, I decided to take a dane
ing lesson every afternoon.
Well, I went around with Miss
Todd to the studio, and the
delightful teacher told me to
do this and that; to jerk my
head this way and then jerk
my head the other way, wiggle
my knees, and goodness knows
what else I was supposed to do.
I tried it for just a half
hour and finally gave up in
despair, There's no use for me
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

widow Of one of the late lords
Of Delaware and a director of
the Robert E. Lee Memorial
Foundation, has restored the
entire first floor of the man
sion.
Mrs. du Pont was about to-
shall I say "sponsor"-a little
modern plumbing job out of
her own generous purse when
she was inspired to restore the
woodwork, ceilings and floors
and have the tearing up over
with in one general confusion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

Such people do not see how
there can be any bottom unless
something is DONE" They
seem to believe depressions
would go on forever unless
some stimulus, accidental or
planned, were provided.
To my mind, this is a
mistaken idea. Furthermore,
it is dangerous, because it is
apt to lead to government
'pump-priming" of one sort or
another, which either prolongs
the depression or ruSheS us
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
HoLTZoFF TO SPEAK

Alexander Holtzoff, special as
siStant to the Attorney General,
will speak tomorrow night before
Argo Lodge of B'nai Birth at the
Jewish Community Center. Open
forum discussion will follow his
address.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
ID. c. TAX BILL
.|SREPORTEDTO
HOUSE GROUP
Committee Meeting
Set Tuesday
RH lula A. RONWTT

Disposition Of the new local rev.
enue bill was placed in the hands
Of the House District COMMITTEES
today by the Nichols tax subcom'
mittee.
The measure, which was re.
ported to the full committee, pro.
vides for a graduated income tax
on individual and corporate In
comes, continuation Of the SITS
real estate rate and q 75-cents
per barrel tax on beer.
MEETING CALLED
At the suggestion Of Represen-
tative Jack Nichols CD Of Okla
homa, chairman Of the House Dis
trict fiscal affairs subcommittee
which wrote the bill, a special
executive meeting Of the full COM
mittee was called for next Tues.
day morning to consider the tax
measure.
The income tax, exempting
members Of Congress, the Presi-
dent, the Cabinet, members Of the
Federal judiciary and secretaries Of
Congressman who are not local
residents, begins at per cent and
scales up to 10 per cent.
PROPOSAL is CUT
Action by the subcommittee yes
terday reduced the originally pro-
posed tax on beer from 81 to Is
cents, and eliminated the proposal
to increase the liquor tax from
so cents to 81 gallon.
Declaring that "crime is on the
increase in Washington" Repre-
sentative william T. Schultz D.)
Of Indiana, who recently was the
victim of a holdup, asked the COM
mittee for an investigation Of
alleged leniencies by judges and
parole officials in meeting and
carrying out sentences for crimes
of violence.
OFFERS RESOLUTIONS
Schultz submitted a resolution
asking for the investigation, on
which action was deferred until
the special meeting on Tuesday.
I'm any number of cases." he
told the committee, where men
have been convicted Of holdup
with a gun, they have been
given 80 days and six months,
and once in a while a sentence
Of year."
The Indiana Representative said
he is drafting a bill for abolition
Of the indeterminate sentence and
parole law, which he said was at
the root Of the lenient sentences
and parole systems.
1 THE light sentences" he said,
"have tendency to break down
:! law enforcement and to attract
undeSirables to this city"
Nichols told the committee he
| agrees with Schulte's statements
concerning the weakness Of the
indeterminate sentence, and also
suggested lit is about time the
whole District Code was rewritten -
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"WEDNESDAY, MAR. 30
By E0alw Walsh Mclean

and stuck my finger with an awful instrument.
and took all the blood he wanted. When DR..
Downs arrived again he looked very serious.
He said: "You know you have a very peculiar
case, Mrs. Mclean. Your red blood cells are
way down and you have practically no white
cells. Now I don't know what's keeping you
going"
I told him that had warned him of this and
that nothing in the world is keeping me going
except black coffee and bluff" He said very
seriously: well. you must start taking liver in
jections at once"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
World of Finance By Lewis Haney

Raw material prices are bid up. Wages are high.
Inventories accumulate.
Then comes a realization of the maladjust-
ment and period of correction" sets in. We
call it a recession" It is required to readjust
prices, and to nquidate excessive inventories and
over extended credits But it gathers momentum.
and usually carries beyond a mere restoration
of normal conditions.
In fact, the more people fight against recess
sion and refuse to nquidate where necessary,
the worse the recession becomes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
BILL TO CLOSE
AIRPORT ROAD
GIVEN TO HOUSE
Measure Reported
Despite Kvale

Intimations of irregularities in
connection with the development
of the washington Hoover airport
accompanied action Of the House
Military Affairs Committee in
favorably reporting the Copeland
bill already passed by the Senate,
authorizing the War Department
to close the section Of Military
Road which bisects the airport,
and convey it by deed and lease
to the airport corporation.
The airport corporation would
be required under terms of the
measure to pay $4,000 to Airing
ton county, to be used in construc-
ton of a new highway link be-
tween washington and Fort Myer.
KvALE ATTITUDE
Representative Paul Kvale
F.-L) Of Minnesota, a member of
the committee, injected the sug-
geStion that there have been ir-
Irregularities in the past in asking
the committee not to act "pre-
ciptatively'' on the Copeland bill.
cover a long period of time,"
he said, there has been consid-
cradle unpleasantness and there
have been unverified charges
which I am unwilling to press
at this time without further In
formation. The Better Business
Bureau has some facts with re-
Spect to promotional activities
in connection with the airport
involving former members of
the House-Colleagues now in
their graves-and their families.
II am sure that the commit
tee does not want to counte-
nance anything that Smacks of
Illicit dealings or fraud, and be-
fore Surrendering the right to
control this property I think
that the committee should go
into these matters. hope that
the committee will not act pre-
| oivo;& a &ixyoIvy
BILL IS REPORTED
At the conclusion Of the hear
ing the committee reported the
bill favorably after a brief execu-
tive session.
Chairman May CD, of Ken
lucky, and other members of the
committee approved the Copeland
bill without change after Manager
Solomon of the Washington
Hoover Airport had said that he
questioned whether the airport
corporation would be willing to
pay an additional sum Of $5,760.50
to the War Department as REIN
bursement for the purchase price
of the strip of land bought by the
department in 1918 for use as a
highway, and to be decided under
the terms of the Copeland bill to
the airport corporation.
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u ments" arise. Inventories become too low in
some cases. Prices of raw materials fall below
their usual relation to prices of finished goods.
Laborers become willing to accept lower wages.
Strained credit positions are relieved by ere
organizations"
But these negative Embellishments" are just
chances to make money. They mean that some
things are "too low" and therefore are bargains.
So bargain hunters appear and begin to buy.
This is the business Selfstarter. It insres auto
matte recovery from depression.
Where there is life, there is hope!
But remember. the business self.starter won't
turn over unless the Government allows bust
ness men a chance to earn and retain profits
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

CTRATFORD HALL on the Potomac, where
~ Robert e. Lee and other Lees who were head
liners in history were born, is about to blossom
out in new spring dress Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

HOW Depressions Are Made .
ITO begin with, depreSsions are made in boom
L times. At the peak Of boom economic NAL
adjustments arise. Consumers overspend on the
instai'ment plan. Producers make more goods
than consumers can pay for within any normal
time. Untitled orders are abnormally large.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
Doesn't Feel Any Better

DOSSH EGGk ANY 0GGGST
60, here am down in this beauty spot Of the
world. being jabbed regularly every morning
with some horrible solution. So far don't feel
any better, but I'm still alive. and that's saying
something. -.,
After all, it doesn't really matter in this world
how you feel if you can just keep your chin
up and the courage to go on and face each day.
am so eternallye grateful that can still see
a little, although I know am slowly going
blind, and that am not in any terrible pain;
that have nothing in the world about which
to complain.
That, my friends, has been about the life
have been leading in the socalled gayest spot
in the world. I have had grand time with
the kids seeing them have fun, and have
loved seeing my old friends, but, believe me, I'll
be mighty glad to get back to dear old Wash
ington and Friendship" There never was
truer saying than: There's no place like home!"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

to try and act young or look young any longer.
was a wreck for the rest of the week. Don't
tell me about this fancy dancing-it takes end
less practice and one has to be pretty strong
to stand it.
Well after rested up from my strenuous half
hour of trying to act as if were 20, I called in
dear DR.. Downs and told him how felt. Now
DR.. Downs is one of the finest men and one of
the best doctors I have ever known. He has
helped me with my children year after year here
in Palm Beach, and I am sincerely devoted to
the man. He looked at me and Said well, Mrs.
Mclean We'll have your blood test taken to-
morrow" "Dr. Downs" said, you'll find
darned few red bugs and hardly any white
ones in the test, but go ahead and do it."
DOuOns Returns, Serious
lie burst out laughing, thinking was joking,
"A and the next day a delightful man came
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
My Say

= feeling tired out, decided needed little
exercise. So, like great many of my friends
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30

into short-ived boom such as the 1867 affair.
Given half chance, business will recover
from depression automatically. much as man
will recover from Indigestion or intoxication.
Always, the chief requirement is the existence
Of a chance for business men to make money.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-03-30
Huge Relief
Food Gifts
Revealed
BY KENNETH M. ELLIS

Six hundred thousand pounds
of food-ten thousand families to
eat it every month-35,0 900 kept
from starvation in the Capital
every 80 days.
And that only a part of the
picture-the part played in the
District of Columbia's relief pro
gram by donations of the Federal
Surplus Commodities Corporation
Not only does this mean life
itself to those who receive the
food-but the task of handling it
means jobs to more than 100 per.
sons-most of whom have families
too-through the WPA's project
system.
10 POUNDS EACH
General relief clients eat this
enormous amount of food each
month, David w. Miller, director
Of commodity distribution of the
public assistance division of the
Board of Public Welfare, revealed
today. It does look enormous
2,435, 900 pounds Of food in four
monthS-until you divide it BY
$4,000. Then you find that each
person, in four months, had only
10 pounds of it-or not quite 8
pound of food per day!
But, it is explained, this fooc
is intended to supplement fooc
from other sources. It is beinl
given out through the WPA Schoo
lunch project, nursery schools anc
already established Federal anc
District relief channels.
No item is more important II
the conduct of the school lunch
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NEW YORK.-A great many people have been
telling me Of their fear that a socalled
"vicious spiral of deflation" may be setting in.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

(Left) Model of the 65-foot
stotue Of George Washington, BY
Jones EorIe Froser, the foir's
dominont piece Of stotuory. The
opening dote is the anniversary
Of Woshineton's first inou9"Io-
tion at New York
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Building the
big Show''
of 1889

THE New York Worlds Foir. promising
to surposs any Of its forerun"ers :"
moonitude ond moenificence, is roP'd'y
emerqinq from the drowing boord and
model stoee. With thot important
groundwork laid, as shown in these PIC
lures, the greet project moves o'o"9 on
schedule toword the opening doy OF
ApriI 80 next yeor 1t will be s'9n't'-
cont doy, soy the promoters, tor the
fair will be an inventory Of oil we have
lecrned and all we hove done in the lost
$50 yeors." More thon Sl25. 900, OOO
is being spent to lure q hoped for oo.-
100000 people through the 9otes I"
1889.
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'MerriIy' Goes
ToCoIumbio

For the cast to support Con-
stance Bennett and Brien Aherne
in "Merrily We Live" which
opens Friday at the Columbia
for a repeat engagement, the
Hal Roach-M.G.M. studios raided
Hollywood's talent market and
secured a list of stellar person
alities.
The merry-mad antics Of the
Kilbourne family and their asso-
ciates are played by Alan Now
bray and Billie Burke, remem-
bered for their hilarious por-
trayais in Topper: Patsy Kelly,
the inimitable Irish comedienne,
Ann Dvorak, Tom Brown, Bo-
nita Granville, Marjorie Ram
beau, Clarence Kolb and Phillip
Reed.
The actions Of 'Merrily We
Live" revolves around the antics
of the Kilbourne family, as mad.
fantastic and carefree a group
as were ever assembled under
one roof.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

Wcll-plduucu CllIHdA.
He will begin with the sturdy
Brandenburg concerto No. 3, by
Bach, asking his soloist, the ia
nous Richard Crooks, of the
Metropolitan Opera, to sing an
aria from one of Bach's secular
contatas, love song, IF Thou
Be Near" and Beethoven's
Adelaide" another love song.
He will follow these with the
variations on a Haydn theme by
Brahms, recalling Mr.. Crooks
for the interesting contrast
offered by Gluck's 20 del milo
dolce ador" and the Prize
Song" from Wagner's Master
singers" To close the program
DR.. Kinder will offer his own ar.
rangement Of excerpts from
Moussorgsky's opera Boris
Godounoff.
A select company Of musical
amateurs assembled in the Phil
lips Memorial Gallery last night
for the second of Henry Gregor'S
lectures on Music, New and
Old" This gifted commentator
discussed design in music, sug-
costing modern composers had
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KeIIeygroms
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ton to the latest Eddy-MacDon-
aid picture landed on the cut
ting-room floor. He did a num-
Der with a tenderfoot dance
called ION the Avenue"
NATHAN LIKES KITTY
The imminent approach at
Easter time of the ShubertS'
operetta, Three Waltzes," re-
minds that Prima Donna Kitty
Carlisle, who sings much Of the
Strauss music, is a Hollywood
star who shows no intention Of
going back to the studios.
After reaching Stardom with
Paramount, Kitty Carlisle
picked up and left to take the.
prima donna role in last sea-
sons Radio City spectacle,
"White Horse Inn"
Last Carlisle picture was "a
Night at the Opera" made for
MG-M in 1885. Since then she
has preferred Broadway, must
have made a definite impression
upon the eminent George Jean
Nathan, for that critic has this
to say about her in the current
ESQUIRE:
"A word about Kitty Carlisle,
whose singing presence in this
Three WaltzeS,' along with the
Strauss music and its deriva-
lions, made me oblivious Of the
spoken words. Here, I think, is
the most likely female voice,
the best singing actress and.
certainly and by long odds, the
comeliest woman on our pres
ent musical show stage. She
never made any such impress
sion upon me in her previous
manifestations. Something has
happened either to her or to
me. Maybe she has improved,
or maybe I have. I am impolite
enough. I fear, to suspect that it
is she. But, whether it is the
great improvement that has
come over her or whether 1 in
the past have been a defective
critic. the fact remains that she
now takes the palm from her
muSical-stage sisters
NEXT DE MILE
Cecil B. De Mile has an
nounced that Union Pacific"
the story Of the railroads build.
ing, will be his next, supplant-
ing the previously announced
Hudson Bay Company"
This will be the producers
gixty-fifth film. Jack Cunning.
ham and Jesse Lasky, jr., are
preparing the screen play and
shooting will start in July. vii.
liam LETTERS, president Of the
Union Pacific, has offered the
use Of the company's records,
equipment and museum.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30
BY I'd SULLIVAN


Dear Kendall Bannngs "West Point Today"
those Listen, Kids
letter of father to his the week
OF his entrance into West Point between an
Thoroughbred the he takes the
the hard the ordinary horse will balk or
thoroughbred will straight at the hurdle and
though breaks his neck in the attempt
Sincerely Wayne Norris
MY dear recently to give
Hatt0n boost In column the
interested that when the picture played here
HattOn Week to pride in
good We that
recognition of him in the column
Best wishes always.
Sincerely r.. e. L. Chancey,
Mayor Tampa, Fla
Mayor: have down home good
HattOn, send 'em along. E. s.
Street Boys giving birthday party
Bill Robinson April I'm that you'd attend could
knowing that impossible would like to have greetings to
Bill from you for the souvenir program Deadne this week
J. Goldstein
Judge of backbrds
flown star high in the theatrical SeBer Williams Florence
performer much and his profession
Bill Robinson. Bill isn't
dSmay think that the beat Of those talented will
the stage Tops taps tops charity tops with the girl he
married vaudeville dates grander
honored by the Grand Street E. S.
Sullivan: system What
does MM intend to do with Allan after
Opera Fefy? his mistake being under
the studio which Nelson Eddy
buried under pictures idle?
and hundred times appealing. Eddy splendid artist
Margaret Lindsay? Warmers aren't doing right by
L. M, Dubuque Iowa.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

ADVERTISEMENT
The Washington times., 1938-03-30
LIQUOR STOCKS
CORNER PROBED

NEW YORK, March 80 G.N.SO.
Two New York curb exchange
brokers who traded in Distilled
Liquors Corporation stock will be
the next witnesses in the State
attorney generals investigation
of the collapse Of Richard Whit
ney Co.. big board" brokers, it
was indicated today.
Richard Whitney, waiting sent
ence on two counts of grand
larceny, has attributed the col
lapse of his financial house partly
to an attempt to corner the stock
Of Distilled Liquors.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30
DeviI-May-Care Doug

In the role Of an unconven-
tional young man who uses a
tramp steamer as his private
yacht, Douglas Fairbanks, jr.,
has q feverish romance with
Irene Dunno in THE Joy Of Liv-
ing" new RKO Radio musical.
Jerome Kern composed the
tunes for this Tay Garnett pro
duction:
The Washington times., 1938-03-30
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turned back to the preclassic
era to fashion new patterns in
sound, not to express new emo
tons, there being none.
It is Mr.. Gregor's especial
talent to make a quasi-technical
analysis of his art in terms that
the non-technical music lover
can appreciate. Many impor.
tant and famous commentators
could learn from him the values
of simplicity.
They also could learn how to
make piano illustrations exhibit
only those values which the lee
turer elects to stress, though
his keyboard mastery must
tempt him. from time to time,
to make the sort of technical
display one hears so frequently.
AnuEnrUcrNETNTEa
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

"Ark Of Fire" stirring story Of the
year 1880 by John Hawkins. Mystery,
novel of the warped genius who decided
to wipe out war, crime and disease BY
q flood of solar flame. Start this new
novel in The American Weekly, with
Sunday's KaahingtOn HeFald.Timee.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30
Crooks to Appear
In Concert Tonight
By WILLIAM NEWMAN

The last of the National Symptoms Wednesday night
concerts takes place tonight in Constitution Hall and Dr.
Kinder has made program that to be model of the