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The Washington times., 1938-08-11

District Juniors of American Legion Auxiliary
Will Play Important Role at Convention Here
. .Omdn'S Pdrtu
Plans Pdrleu
In Detroit

Miss Olive Hurlburt, of De
troit, chairman Of the Michigan
Branch Of the National Wom-
ans Party, is at the headquar-
ters of the organization here in
the Alva Belmont House, max
ing plans for the purpose of the
national biennial convention,
which will be held in Detroit,
October 7-9.
Miss Hurlburt has been in
Washington since July Is, knee
deep in work in her capacity as
national convention chairman,
but hopes to have plans COM
pleted by the end of next week.
at which time she hopes to re-
turn to Detroit.
D. C. WOMEN
A number of Washington
women are working on the ar
rangements for the convention
under Miss Hurlburt's direction.
These include Mrs. Harvey w.
Wiley, the national secretary,
who has prepared the convention
call; Miss Dorothy Moncure,
chairman of the committee on
amendments to the constitu-
tion; Miss Laura Berrien, chair
man of the credentials commit
tee; Mrs. Rebekah S. Great
house, nominating committee
chairman, and Mrs. Helen Hunt
West of D. C. and Florida, ma
tional chairman of publicity.
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
Mrs. Stephen Pell, of Ticon-
deroga, N. Y, the national
chairman Of the National Wom-
ans Party, will preside at the
first business session. The
three national vice chairmen
will each preside at succeeding
sessions-Mrs. Jane Norman
Smith, Of New York city: Miss
Gail Laughlin, of Portland, Md,
and Miss Anita PollitZer, of
Charleston, S. c., and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
There are 80 State branches
in the organization. Between
three and four hundred dele
gates are expected to go to De
troit. According to Miss Hurl-
burt, the National Woman'S
Party wants to plan for the
progress of the equal rights
amendment.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11

COrcOran Gallery of Art is
completely engrossed in her
work particularly her con-
tact with creative persons in
nearly every branch of art {.
went abroad with a group to
follow the course of the Renais-
Sance visited galleries in
Florence, Rome, Venice and
Milan, then went to Holland,
Belgium and London Is
fond of travelling, particularly
if she can visit galleries and
other art museums was
born in Washington but moved
to TakOma Park IS years ago
enjoys music likes the
legitimate theater and out
standing historical movies &.
spends her spare time garden
ing and reading was re-
Gently appointed to the advisory
committee of the New York
1889 World Fair.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11

Your doctor will tell you that cup
set stomach is frequent result of
too many cold drinks.
And he will tell you that butter
milk is the healthful warm weather
drink. Because it is easy to digest
...and it helps to digest other foods.
For that summer thirst a
The Washington times., 1938-08-11

Juniors and seniors of the Aux
iliary with girls and women of
the countries that were allied
during the World War. This ex-
hibit will be presented under
the direction of Mrs. Mildred
Bell and Mrs. Mary Claphack.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
Navy Party in
Rhode Island

Mrs. John Winthrop Wadleigh
and her sister, Miss Angelica
Gear Remey, daughters of the
late Rear Admiral Remey, enter
tanned with THE Admirals An
nual Tea" yesterday aC Mrs.
Wadleigh's cottage, THE Quar-
ter Deck" at jamestown, r. I.
This yearly gathering on
August 10 is an institution in the
Naval colony at jamestown. 1t
was inaugurated a number of
years ago by the late Rear Ad-
miral George C.. Remey, and
since his death, 10 years ago. has
been held on his birthday,
August 10.
Mrs. Wadleigh's and Miss
Remey's guests included Admiral
and Mrs. William B. Caperton,
Vice Admiral and Mrs. William
L. Rodgers, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Lucius A. Bostwick, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Louis r. De
Steiguer, Rear Admiral Bradley
A. FiSke, Rear Admiral ana Mrs.
James H. Glennon, Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Julian l. Lati-
mer, Rear Admiral and Mrs.
George R. MARVEL, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Luke McNamee, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Reginald F.
Nicholson, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Joseph K. Taussig and
Commodore James P. Parker.
Many other naval officers and
their families summering in the
vicinity of jamestown and New
port were among the guests.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
Y. w. C.. A. Sponsors
Virginia Tour

Sponsored by the Educational
and Industrial Departments Of
the Y. w. C. A., a bus trip will
take 35 young women to Natural
Bridge, via Skyline Drive. this
week end. The party will leave
Saturday morning at $50
o'clock, returning Sunday.
Preparations are being made
for the concluding summer
event of the Business and Profes.
sional Women's Department Of
the Y. w. c. A., which will be a
picnic and dance, Friday night,
August 10, at the Palisades Field
House, beginning at 6 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11

EVEN the wives of the Ad-
II ministration officials don't
know the inner secrets. For
when Harllee Branch, one-time
Second Assistant Postmaster
General, was sworn into his new
duties, at the Bureau of Aero
nautics, Mrs. Branch admitted
that advance knowledge Of this
would have simplified matters
for her considerably regarding
calling cards for next winter.
For Mrs. Branch already had or
dered her supply of cards but ma
turally now without the proper
title. Consequently a new sup
ply Of cards had to be ordered.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
Girls Nation to
Hold Session
Saturday
BY MARY PADGETT

The Junior American Legion
Auxiliary of the Department of
the District of Columbia will
have an important part, and a
session all its own, during the
two-day convention of the aux
iliary, tomorrow and Saturday,
OF the Carlton Hotel.
Junior groups are sponsored
by each of the 20 units of the
auxiliary in Washington, and
girls Of any age up to 18 are
allowed in the membership. A
special group in the Junior
Auxiliary, called THE Girls
Nation" is made up of girls Of
high school age and its par
ticular work is the study of the
Government and its operation.
Department Chairman
The Girls Nation will conduct
q session Saturday morning at
the Carlton Hotel. All junior
members are urged to attend.
Those who register for the
session will be the special guests
Of the Earle Theater, Monday
morning, at 1920 o'clock, the
group to meet in the lobby Of
the movie house,
Mrs. Marie H. Ralph, junior
chairman of the McGroarty
Unit, will call the juniors con-
ference to order at $50 o'clock,
and then she will turn the meet
ing over to Mrs. Virginia Nc
Carthy, department chairman
Of junior activities, who will
preside. -
Newly-elected officers of The
Girls Nation will be installed
by Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper, de-
partment president Of the Amer
lean Legion Auxiliary. They are
the president, Dorothy Mace, Of
Killeen Unit; vice president and
historian, Marie Louise Ralph,
Of McGroarty Unit; secretary,
Margaret Battley, Of the Gov
ernment Printing Office Unit;
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Buckingham Photos

Nation Glee Club will also sing
at this session.
Mrs. Anna Horn, president Of
Lincoln Woman's Relief Corps,
No. g., Auxiliary to the Grand
Army of the Republic, announces
that the next business session
OF the group will be held on
September IL at her home, 146
INLAND Terrace N. E.
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"Questiorl Box"

A feature of the session will
be the Question Box" with the
entire assemblage taking part
in the asking and answering Of
questions pertaining to govern
ment.
Presentation of certificates to
the winners of the flag exami-
nation" conducted by the Ses-
quicentennial Commission of the
signing of the Constitution.
Mrs. Mary Corwin, Department
AmericaniSm chairman, will
make the awards.
Another highlight of this ses-
sion will be the Fidac exhibit
of correspondence carried on
during the past year by the
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
Sailed Today

The retiring First Secretary of
The Czechoslovakian Legation,
Mr.. Otakar Kabelac and Nine.
Kabelac sailed today from New
York aboard the Champlain for
their homeland.
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Am0ng Those PreSent---

MISS EMILY p. MILLARD,
AVA for nearly 30 years man.
0ger Of special exhibits at the
The Washington times., 1938-08-11

chaplain, Mary Catherine Ware,
of Sergeant Jasper Unit; ser
geant-at-arms, Elsie Jenkins, Of
Potomac Unit; color bearers,
Margaret May, of Nash Unit,
and Helen Sullivan, of Treasury
Unit,
The Washington times., 1938-07-07

ects, PWA prepared another large
list of Federal and non-Federal
projects valued at about 500, ,000,.
900 for Presidential approval.
While REA boasted that its al.
locations would be matched by
private capital, raising the total
to $26,OO0,O 900, and producing A..
100000 man-hours of labor and
large material orders, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics answered these
figures indicating the value of the
PWA $685., 100000 grant and $780,
900, 900 loan funds:
Contract awards to private build
ers, $1,867 900, 900; pay rolls at
construction sites, $515, SOC, 900;
orders for materials, $1,001, ,200,-
900; man-months site employment,
5,489, 900; man-months of indirect
employment, 8,736.00O at current
wage scales,
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
US. and Britain Near Accord
On Reciprocal Trade Pact

is already virtually concluded.
The main points have been agreed
upon and the document is rapidly
being shaped into final form.
The chief remaining obstacles,
it was stated, chiefly concern Brit
ish demands for greater conces-
sions on woolen and linen goods,
which are now excluded to a con-
siderable extent by very high
tariffs; the matter of how far
Britain is willing to go in sweep
ing away the Ottawa imperial
agreements, under which the
United Kingdom has given pref
erences to the dominions as op-
posed to trade with foreign coun-
tries, and the effect of the trade
treaty as it concerns British colo
nies, as distinguished from the
dominions.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
GiUen Credit

CREDTT for the matchmaking
~ should go to the Republi-
cans, although they will never
get it. They rid themselves of
the Old Guard and Kluxer ma
chine which has been more or
less in control since 1924-25.
They nominated an outstanding
new candidate for the senatorial
race, Ray Willis, small-town edi-
tor, honest, clean, not too color
full or political but anti-New
Deal.
Republican legionnaires and
editors are being given credit
for the inside renovation. Their
American Legion and editorial
association experience taught
them the value of organization.
They are not the city boys or
the political slickers, but out
standing men in small COM
munitieS. They got together
and took over.
They are now working in the
same quiet way for November
and some nonpartisan authori-
ties here will not be amazed if
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
Gen. Marshall Is New
Aide TO Staff Chief

Brig. Gen. George C. Marshall,
former aide to General Pershing,
today became assistant Army
chief of staff in charge Of the
war plans division.
A graduate of Virginia Military
Institute, General Marshall en-
tered the Army in 1902. During
the World War he took part in the
st. Mihiel and Meuse- -AFgonne
drives, and was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal and sew
eral foreign decorations.
He later served on the staff of
the First Division and at AEF
general headquarters.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
BY ROBERT G. NIXON
Copyright. 1880

G.N.SD Uncle Sam is about to
complete the sharpest "horse-trade"
in his long and shrewd career. The
deal will be worth a half billion
dollars plus yearly to the Amerj-
can farmer, manufacturer and
middleman.
The long-drawn-out negotiations
between the United States and
Great Britain for a reciprocal
trade treaty to bring the two rich
est countries in the world into a
closer commercial union, it was
learned on high authority today,
are approaching their final stage.
Unless unexpected bitches de-
velop, there is considerable hope
the signatures may be affixed on
the Anglo-American trade pact
within two weeks.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
Recovery Drive
Tops Billion in
Building Splurge
u. 5. Gold Mining
Near Record High

I.N.S.) American prOduc.
tiOn of gold in 1897 amounted
to 4,8O4,54 ounces valued at
S16S,158,9OO, close to the all
time record for any one year,
the Bureau of the Mint re-
ported today.
The year of largest prOduc
tiOn was 1915 when 4,887 ,6O4
ounces were produced. Pro-
ductiOn in 1886 was 4,357,-
394 ounces. Gold currently is
valued at S35 per ounce by
the Treasury.
California with 1,169,491
ounces was the largest gold
producing State last year, fol
lowed by South Dakota with
575,814 ounces.
American silver production
last year aggregated 71,941,.
794 ounces, valued at S55..
646,978. This valuation is
based at 77-centS per ounce,
the Treasnry's price for newly
mined domestic silver. At the
start of this year, the do
mestic silver price was re-
duced to 64 cents per ounce.
Ida no, with 19,556,118
ounces and Utah with 1882
2O3 ounces, were the leading
silver-prOducing areas.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
Ship Designs
Win Prizes

Prizes amounting to $71 500 will
be awarded by the Navy Depart
ment to designers of craft for the
new mosquito fleet it was an
nounced today.
The Navy recently announced
that it will build small speed
boats, equipped with machine guns
and torpedos, similar to those now
used by several European powers.
Designers are asked to submit
plans for 165-foot steel submarine
chasers, 110-foot wood sub
chasers and 10 and 54.foot wood
torpedo speed boats.
Prizes ranging from $4,000 to
81 500 will be awarded the win
ming designs submitted.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07

talked twice by long distance
telephone with his 1910 presi-
Dental campaign manager in
Indianapolis, Frank McHale.
THEREIN lies another angle.
l. The acceptance Of Van Nuys
as Democratic senatorial candi-
date means McNutt will keep
the State organization fairly
we'll lined up for himself for the
presidential nomination. 1t will
keep peace in the family. Nc
Mutt, therefore. is pictured here
as having been more interested
in the match than the groom.
Mr.. Roosevelt became involved
in the purge Of Van Nuys only
by proxy also.
Governor Townsend emerged
from the White House and an
nounced Van Nuys was unac-
ceptable. The announcement
seems to have been wheedled out
of him by a sharp Indiana news
man. Townsend friends now are
saying he did not mean to go as
far as his words carried him
then and later at the French
Lick party meeting.
All that Mr.. R. told Townsend,
according to the Democratic
oracles, was: You fellows in
Indiana do whatever you think
best"
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
Farmers Aided

On the American side Of the
ledger, this country's negotiators
are holding out for heavy increases
in export Of farm products and
beef to the United Kingdom.
However, on these controversial
phases virtually all the conflict be-
tween the negotiators has been
ironed out and the meeting of
minds is very near
The Washington times., 1938-07-07

the bride or Mr.. Roosevelt, the groom. Nor
was there any real question of White House
compassion for the wavward Indiana Sena-
tor who strayed on the Supreme Court
fight.
No matter how the event is advertised
in the social columns, it is generally recog-
nized here as a business proposition based
on the fact that the New Dealers discovered
they could not win without Van Nuys. They
had to take him or let Republican get that
senatorial seat
The groom was involved in the betrothal
ceremony only by proxy. His procurator
Governor General Paul McNutt, who is sup
H., Jor
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
Van Wy(k Hearing
Waits Till MondaV

HARTFORD, Conn, July 7
1N.SD The hearing scheduled
for today on the application for
appointment of a conservator for
Prescott Van Wyck, 38, prominent
New York sculptor, confined to a
mental institution here, has been
postponed until next Monday.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
Many Await Blessing

Mr.. Roosevelt thus reserved for
himself the right to classify candi
dates for public office, Democratic
or Republican, according to his
own concepts of liberalism VS.. con-
servatisn1, and to extend to them,
or to deny to them, his political
blessing.
In his leiSurely, Today c. oSsing
Of the continent, some of them
will be blessed, certainly. And
some will be ignored, with all that
that implies. And some, perhaps,
will be made to feel in more direct
ways Presidential disapproval of
their records.
The Presidential special prom
ises to become a political cara
Vansary, with Democratic candi-
dates for office hopping off and
on the train all the way across
the country. To get around the
potential embarraSSments involved
In inviting this candidate and not
inviting that candidate to board
the train in their respective terri
tories, the White House has
simply mailed the itinerary to all
congressional and State candi-
dates whose territory is invaded.
Thus, if they come all right; if
they don't come, it is presumably
all right, too.
One thing is certain-Mr. Roose-
welt is going to see and to talk
to a great many Democrats on
this midsummer trek from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
Obstacles Listed

At the same time, persons close
to those negotiating the trade
agreement admit technicalities of
a minor nature might delay the
agreement until early August.
In the main, International News
Service was informed the treaty
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
The News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON

Syndicate All Rights Reserved
n Fu Prohibed)
THE wedding of the Van Nuys thistle and the New Deal
Il rose in Indiana was marriage of convenience. No
affection was that by either Senator Van Nuvs
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
HOUSING SPURTS

2. Repeatedly indicative of the
interest of private capital in
housing, Federal Housing Admins
traitor Stewart Mcdonald an
nounced that the Governments
housing mortgage bureau had
done a total of $90,734,185 worth
Of business for June, IS per cent
increase over May, 1888. A total
of 11,196 housing mortgages were
issued valued at $73,363, 400, and
34,46S improvement loans totaled
$17,S70,785.
3. The Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics placed a 81, ,000, ,000. 900 value
on the $1,365, ,000,0 900 PWA pro-
gram, currently getting its second
wind for new rush Of publicwork
ALLEGATIONS.
While WPA plodded along daily
with its small but steady stream Of
work-relief grants, the United
States Housing Authority and
PWA, the Governments two big
gest recovery spenders, rested on
their respective $400, 100000 and
$405, 900, 900 earmarking laurels
this week.
The Housing Authority will an
nounce shortly Presidential ap-
proval Of almost $50,000,O00 in
slum-clearance, low-rent housing
contracts for IL cities.
NEW LIST READY
AS administrator and Secretary
of the Interior IckeS labored over
policy on municipal power prof.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
Vital Interest

HOSSIP is going around that
u Van Nuys is Just being lured
into defeat in the Democratic
convention, but no one here
puts any credence in that idea.
The imaginary story is that after
decoying Van Nuys from his in
dependent movement, the con-
Vention will fall few votes
short of nominating him. The
vital interest of both McNutt
and the White House in Demo
cratic success in November
seems to disprove the story ef-
fectively.
A MOTHER GROUP which has
"A recently learned the value
Of organization is the court
rebels crowd in the Senate. Sen
ators Burke, Wheeler. Gerry
and others had personally prom
ised Van Nuys they would go
into Indiana to help him if the
purge effort continued.
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u. S. MUST FIGHT
TO KEEP Trade.
INSTITUTE TOLD.
Competition Increasing,
Says Commerce Aide

RSITY. Va, July
U.N.SO The United States mus
be prepared to cope with in
creased competition from Europe
and other continents in Soutf
America, but it has advantages
that, if exercised, will keep its
South American trade ahead oi
any commerce that other nations
can develop with that portion o1
the world.
So declared Alexander v. Dye
director of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce for the
Commerce Department. Address
ing the Institute of Public Affairs
today, he emphasized that despite
the feveriSh development of South
America as market by German
Italian and British firms, the
United States can keep ahead if
she will vigorously develop closer
relationships with Latin-American
countries.
SOUNDS A WARNING
In the past, the United States
has been South Americas best
customer, Dye pointed out, and, in
turn, the nations to the South
have purchased tremendous guam
tity of United States manufactured
goods. That is true in present
days, he went on, but warned:
Despite this favorable show
ing, I do not mean to suggest
that we should rest on our
laurels. On the contrary, we
appear to be entering a period
of severe competition for the
Latin-American markets.
Furthermore, the situation
has been complicated by rising
costs of production in the United
States and by subsidized exports
from certain competing coun-
tries"
MACHINES NO PERIL
Dye said one Of the most i'm
portant factors now making for
an increase in trade between the
United States and Latin America
was the mechanization of those
countries. Contrary to general be-
lief, he contended, increased use
Of mechanical methods of manu-
facture in Latin America will not
reduce the Latin American mar
ket, but will expand it.
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STATEMENT DUE

He added that he will issue a
formal statement late this after
noon.
Senator Van Nuys only a few
weeks ago had left Indianapolis
for his summer cottage at Wal.
loon Lake. Mich, determined TO
stay away from the State conven-
ton after his own party leaders
had rejected him.
At the time he said it would be
suicide" to attempt to become a
candidate because the governors
''hand-picked" delegates were in
overwhelming majority. He de-
cided to wage an election cam
paign as an independent.
WHEEL TURNS
Then the wheel Of political for
tune turned in his favor. Party
leaders conferred and decided it
would be folly to face the Repub-
licans with faction-torn party
front this fall.
Forgotten were the governors 5
plans to punish" the Senator for
his anti-Administration votes. At
the same time, State House poll
ticians were nervous as to whether
Van Nuys would forget so easily.
The Washington times., 1938-07-07
affection '

Philippines Governor General Paul McNutt, who
posed be running Hooser democracy from Manila The day
before the amazing Glove match" announced, McNut
The Washington times., 1938-07-07

joined Democrats.
CroWded Back
THE Indiana retreat means the
L end of National Chairman"
Thomas Corcoran's committee
to-get-everyone- e-who-voted-against
the-court-program-or virtually
the end.
Chairman Corcoran has been
crowded back into about one
State, Maryland, from the nine
he might have entered with his
purge list.
The move to get Senator
George in Georgia has begged
down. Astounding as it may
seem, Senator Cotton Ed Smith
of South Carolina is now being
also characterized by the New
Deal politicos here as kindly
man who means well also. In
fact, some of the Wallace agri-
cultural politicoS are murmuring
that if Smith is purged, they
will get Senator Thomas of Okla
homa as chairman of their Sen
ate Agriculture Committee. They
would rather have Smith.
Whole story of the purge
movement now is that they will
purge only where they think
they have a chance, and they
do not have very many chances.
X
Note-Another purge which
quietly washed out was that
against Representative Martin
Dies in Texas. He was on the
list, but the only candidate who
filed against him was one who
is opposed TO the New Deal.