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The Washington times., 1938-08-03
Girls 13 to 20

Jobs Daughters range in ages
from 13 to 20 years old. After
the girls reach 20 they become
honorary members. A bout 800
visitors to Washington will be
the girls, and the rest will be
parents and Bethel guardians.
In order to belong to Jobs
Daughters, a girl must be a near
relative to a member of the
Masonic Order. Each Bethel of
young girls is governed by a
guardian council Of adults, made
up of four women and one man.
The formal opening and first
business session of the supreme
session will be held Tuesday
morning, August %, beginning
at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Elizabeth L.
Warden, of Owosso. Mich, su-
preme guardian, will preside
during the convention. The
opening address will be made by
Miss Harriet Macarthur, Of st.
Louis. past supreme guardian.
The invocation will be given
by Mrs. Clara M. Beckman, Of
st. Louis.
Melvin c. Hazen, Commis-
sioner Of the District of Column
bia, will give an address of
welcome, to which Edward Way,
Of Boise, Idaho, vice associate
supreme guardian of Jobs
Daughters, will respond. An.
other address will be made by
Mrs. Helen Robbins, the grand
inatron Of the Order of the East
ern Star in the District, and a
response to h er talk will be
given. by Mrs. Grace Catterfeld,
the worthy grand matron of the
Michigan o. E. S.
At the afternoon session Of
August %, Mrs. Ethel L. Wead
Mick, founder of Jobs Daugh-
ters, will address the group.
The program arranged for this
evening will be one of the most
elaborate and colorful of the en-
tire convention. The four drill
teams in Washington and one
from Chicago and another from
Wisconsin will put on an exhi-
bition drill on the lawn of the
Wardman Park Hotel, Cos
tunes of all the girls will be
IN striking purple and white, al
though each Bethel will have
Its own style.
After the drill exhibition, an
All-States pageant will be pre-
sented, assisted by the Robert
Le Bruce Chapter of the De
Molay-a boys organization
similar to Jobs Daughters. The
pageant will depict Patience,
Faith and Reward" and will
show the relationship between
the Masonic Fraternity, the
Order of the Eastern Star and
the Jobs Daughters. The parade
Of flags, brought here from all
States by visiting members, will
be the grand finale of the
pageant.
At the morning session of
August "a, election of new
supreme officers will be the most
important business. Mrs. Vir.
ginia Thompson, of Hyattsville,
Md, now the associate supreme
guardian, is expected to succeed
Mrs. Warden. That afternoon
the national committee will
render their rennrts-
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Beauty Contest

A bathing beauty contest at
2:30 p. M, August "a, at Ward
man Park Pool, will be con-
Quoted under the direction of
Walter Fowler, an active mem
ber of the Masonic Order. Every
girl is eligible to compete. A
trip to the Lincoln Memorial
and the Congressional Library,
taken in buses, is also planned.
Another sightseeing trip will
be to Mt. Vernon, Arlington and
the Tomb OF the Unknown Sol
dier.
Two other social events will
be a banquet on the evening of
August 25, wher supreme Off
GERS will be installed, and the
farewell breakfast the next
morning at 10 o'clock.
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80 "a ~
IDEAS a d d e d
10 your think
tank? H av e
you made every
one of t h e S e
days count as a
golden oppor-
t u nifty since
your last birth
day? Have you
made each day
add to your
S t o rehouse of
knowledge?
Some pepole
live to be OVER
l 0 0 years OF
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WOmen's Club Activities:
Jobs Daughters Meet
In Capital August 18th
1,5OO Delegates
And Visitors
Expected
BY MARY PADGETT

More than $500 members,
delegates and visitors are ex-
pected in Washington from all
parts of the United States and
Canada to attend the annual su-
preme session of the Order of
Jobs Daughters, August %
through 25, at the Wardman
Park Hotel.
The six Bethels in Washing
ton will be Joined by those in
Maryland and Virginia in being
hostesses for the convention.
On the first day of the gath
ering the group will visi the
international Temple of the
Order of the Eastern Star. That
night there will be an elaborate
banquet, beginning at 8 o'clock,
at which Harry j. Smith, asSoci-
ate grand patron of the Order
of the Eastern Star of the Dis
trict of Columbia, will be the
toaStmaSter. After the banquet,
o dance Is scheduled.
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ping stones" a new novel by The
noted author, Maysie GrieE an
American Weekly feature that comes
with the Big Sunday Herald Times
and starts August Z.
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IT WOULDN'T WORK

Strange how the words Of q
magnificently simple ceremony
should come back to her now
stripped of their beauty, stark. al
most sinister in their meaning.
Yet she really was not so dread
fully afraid. It was more anxiety
than anything else, an eager
search for a way out. She most
assuredly did not want to die.
Perhaps she could talk him out
of it-tell him she knew of Felice
Harding and was ready to give
him his divorce. But that idea
slipped quickly from her mind
without effort on her part to hold
onto or develop it.
She could too clearly picture
Thornton's reaction to her open
ness. The skin of his lean face
would grow taut as he set his jaw
the firmer. In his mind he would
pay tribute to her gallantry, and
pity her.
And aloud he would say, laugh
ing easily, What an idea! Felice
Harding? Attractive. yes, but be-
side you, my dear. she is nothing. "
So honest, but also so kind, so
horribly, unshakably kind.
And eventually she would find
herself dying and be able to do
little about it. Perhaps he had
already started; perhaps there
was something now in her coffee
cup or blended into the pat of but
ter on her plate.
She glanced across the table.
He was finishing his breakfast
with no apparent concern, idly
turning the pages of his news
paper. But the calmness of his
strong mouth, the serenity of his
high, wide brow. subtly but con-
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Kinder to Kill.
By Roy HilligOSS,

Thornton Ross going kill his wife Helen. And Helen
knew She could tell from his eyes and from his voice Not
anything that hem but because of something
that not in them Yet all he had sad was Good
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He had been saying that at
breakfast for five years, but never
as he had said it this morning.
Nor had he ever looked at her as
he looked this morning.
LOVE FOR HER GONE
For four years and six months
he had spoken that sentence casu-
ally, and his glance across the
table had been brief, yet his love
for her had been obvious even in
his seeming nonchalance..
Then, for five months, though
his greeting had been the same
simple, Good morning, Helen" Z"
and his glance as fleeting, love
had given way to furtiveneSs.
And a month ago there had
been another change:-to indie
ciSion. That is why, when Helen
Ross heard and felt neither love
nor furtiveness nor indecision, she
knew her husband had finally
made up his mind to kill her.
1t was a shock but not a sur
prise. She knew too many things
about the past six monts which
his attitude of this morning but
brought to a conclusive head. She
had been told of some things by
friends; the rest she knew because
she was able to read Thornton
like book.
She knew he was in love with
Felice Harding. She knew that
Felice would never consent to an
interminable affair, but would,
evidently with success, demand a
divorce and consequent marriage.
And she believed that Thornton
would believe it kinder to kill his
wife in some subtle, painless way
than to tell her he no longer loved
her and wanted to live with an
other woman.
ETERNAL LOVE-OR DEATH"
But he complete understanding
of what was now in his mind
went back even further;-to the
days before their marriage, to the
breathless moments Of his ardent
courtShip.
You'll always love me, Thorn?"
she had asked the night they be-
came engaged. Yet, even at such
a time he remained one of the
most honest men she had ever
known.
II think I will always love you.
Helen" he had said. II hope so.
should hate hurting you. You
have a damnable susceptibility to
pain. but such a limited capacity
for 1t. II should ever stop loving
you, believe I would rather kill
you than tell you."
Then he laughed shortly and
said, But don't let that frighten
you. Forced dramatics Of a mo-
ment too big for me, I guess"
But even then Helen found his
mind so open to her that she
knew he had meant it-that
him, then losing his
love, could actually be a death,
sentence.
Yet, because she was young and
and in love, she had for
gotten what he had said in the
thrill of a diamonds sparkle and
the beauty Of the pledge. "Till
death do us part"
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WRITE TO HIM:
OLD SKIPPER PLANS
TO MARK BIRTHDAYS
All Shipn1ateS Who Notify Him To Be
Rewarded by Congratulations
WRITE TO HIM:
By DON HIX

HeghHo Shlpmates One of the features of the "Od
Skppers Club will be birthday congratulations for every
youngster who takes the trouble write his birth
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
IMPERvIOUs TO PAIN?

For the first time she began to
realize what q maddeningly help
less position she was in. She
could not even tell him the truth
that she would rather live with
out him than die.
Then she laughed, inwardly, of
course. For it had suddenly come
to her that she was not hurt
that she was not angry with him
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vincingly dramatized the finality
of his decision.
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What does your birthday mean
to you? Are you just one year
older, or does it mean 365 more
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
TACKLE DEBIT
BRITAIN URGED

LONDON, July 26 G.N.SO.-A
plea that Great Britain seek a
closer understanding with the
United States and tackle the war
debt" was made in the House of
Commons today by Sir Archibald
Sinclair, Liberal.
Don't let it (the debit lie
fostering under the bandage of
polite diplomacy" he said. "Cau.
terize it even if it hurts a little
and AngloAmerican friendship
will be all the healthier and
stronger for the part it will have
to play in the preservation of
peace and freedom"
LET no one either in this coun.
try or elsewhere" said Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain in reply,
imagine for a moment that
though we seek peace we are will
ing to sacrifice even for peace
British honor and vital interests. -
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
|Ckes Will Confer
On Chicago Subway

PWA Administrator Ickes and
his project engineers prepared to-
day for a comprehensive review
of the proposed $5O,OOO,O 900 rapid
transit subway system for Chi.
cago. PWA has received an appn-
cation from the city for loan Of
27,5OO,OOO and a grant of $22,-
100000. Administrator Ickes an.
nounced yesterday that he would
confer with city officials here
Thursday afternoon, and in the
company Of engineers, decide the
fate of the project.
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phone and Rudy didn't love me,
but loved him. This is the
end"
The note was signed "Marlene"
and was written in pencil on the
back Of a birthday card which
neighbors said she had bought for
her husband, Rudolph F. Vier,
buchen.
NeighborS said the couple came
to K Street about a month ago.
They had been married about a
year. and they were happy. Three
days ago, they said, he went away
and did not come back.
Last night, while walking with
a girl friend, Mrs. Vierbuchen saw
a colored man murdered on Fifth
Street Northeast and made the
remark about death being a good
way out.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
SELLING HALTS
STOCKS CLIMB

NEW YORK, July 26.-The
upward surge of the stock market
was halted this morning as specu,
lators began to sell for profit.
Leading issues dropped from l to
2 points on a broad front.
The market began to gather new
strength, later in the session, how
ever, and ChrySler, which had
dropped more than 2 points at
one time, recovered about half its
loss a few hours later.
United States Steel preferred
opened up u at 10 after yester-
days rise Of ~, the advance COM
ing in the face of a drop of al
most two points in the company's
common shares. American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company
jumped close to two points.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
z FLYING BOATS
ON RETURN HOPS
pictures on Page y

HORTA. the Azores, July 26
GN.SO.-The British flying boat
Mercury, transatlantic "picka-
back" plane, arrived here at 1870
p. M, local time QO:30 a. M,
E.S.TD, today from Botwood, New
foundland, en- route home to Eng.
land.
NEW YORK, July 26 ON.S0.
The German seaplane Nordmeer
was over the Atlantic today, head
ing for the Azores on the return
leg of an experimental flight to
New York last Friday.
Before the Nordmeer left the
Port Washington base, its sister
ship, the Norwind, landed here
after a 16-hour flight from Horta
Azores.
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RUSSIANS LOSE.
5-HOUR BATTLE.
IN MANCHUKUO

TOKYO, July 26 G.N.SD.-The
Japanese newspaper Nichi Nichi
reported today that 800 Soviet
troops and Manchukuo frontier
guards fought a f1ve-hour battle
along the frontier last Friday.
The report of the engagement
was not confirmed by any other
source.
According to the paper, the
battle broke out after the Soviet
troops landed from four gunboats
on the Manchukuo side of the
Assuri River. 1t was claimed the
Manchukuoan forces repulSed the
attackers. No casualties were men.
toned in the dispatch.
Nichi Nichi also stated the
Soviet troops allegedly set fire to
the village of Yaglintze after land
ing on Manchukuoan territory.
Later Japanes press reports said
Soviet troops crossed the Manchu.
kuo border south Of Hunchun
yesterday, but were repulSed by
border patrols.
A ew hours later, it was claimed.
20 Soviet infantrymen and 80
cavalrymen crossed the frontier
and penetrated Manchukuo to a
depth of 100 yards. They also
were said to have been driven
hocL
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She left him on the doorstep of
st. AIMS Infant Asylum, on Wash,
ington Circle, while the rain beat
down on her babys face and
drenched the meager clothes he
wore.
Today, he has a home and q
name. although his age remains
in doubt-perhaps he is two weeks
old, maybe more and maybe less.
But his home is st. AIMS and
his name is James Knight-JameS
because it was abandoned on the
Feast of St. James, and Knight
because it was a nighttime de-
Sertion.
Last night, after the babies and
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
STAGE FIGURES
DEATH PROBED

NEW YORK, July 26 G.N.SJ.
After an autopsy performed on
the body of George Crossmen
Sedley-Brown revealed invoIments
of the heart and lungs, the med
ical examiners office today sent
the vital organs to the toxicology
bureau for analysis.
An investigation was ordered
after Sedley- Brown, former stage
and screen actor, was found dead
and fully clothed on the floor of
his apartment.
The coproducer of the radio
skit, Husbands and Wives" which
concluded a three-year run last
December. is believed to have
stumbled in the dark after taking
an overdose Of opiateS. A wound
on the side of his nose indicated
Sedley-Brown had tripped over a
chair or stool and struck his face
against q Wrought.iron
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
Bride Sees Murder,
Then Kills Herself

Surrounded by the pictures OF
the ones she loved, a pretty 90
year-old newlywed took her life
today because Rudy didn't love
me-"
The girl was blonde and blue
eyed Helen Marlene Vierbuchen,
known by her middle name, who
last night witnessed a murder, and
remarked to a companion:
That's a good way out"
This morning, an odor of gas
came from her apartment at 456
K st. N. W., and she was found
seated at a kitchen table, the
pictures before her on the table,
and gas coming from two burners
On the stove.
Il called him two times this
morning" her last note read,
Grandma answered the tele-
The Washington times., 1938-07-26

the sisters and the nurses at St
AIMS had gone to sleep, there was
a terrific scream and commotion
at the front door. A crowd was
there and mingled with the loud
screams from an infant throat
came the shriekS from the street.
There's a baby at your door,"
"A woman just left a baby
there"
Within a few minutes, the tele.
phone rang. 1t was the baby's
mother.
1--WE left my baby on your
front doorstep" And she hung
I'D.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
STATE PUSHES.
GOV. CHANDLER
POISON PROBE
Deliberate Attempt
on Life Charged

FRANKFORT. KY. July 26
U.N.S0. k Kentucky'S State
Bureau of Investigation today
launched an inquiry into what 1t
considered a deliberate attempt
to poison Gov A. B. Happy
Chandler.
Chandler, who is waging a
battle for the Democratic
senatorial nomination against the
Senate majority leader, Alben w.
Barkley, became suddenly i'll Fri
day after drinking from pitcher
of water in a Louisville hotel room.
Not First Time
Major Joe Burman, head of the
State Investigation Bureau. said:
This is not the first time this
has happened during a cam
paign.
I'VE frankly are suspicious
and We have opened an inquiry
to determine who is responsible
for the attempt on the gov
ernor's life"
Burman said his agents were
searching for some tangible clues
as to how the stuff was planted. u
Governor Chandler refused to
comment on the charge but his
wife said she was convinced he
had been poisoned deliberately.
Ignores Charge
Recovering at the governors
mansion today, Chandler said he
expected to resume the stump in
his campaign for nomination to
the United States Senate against
the incumbent and majority
leader, Alben w. Barkley, by
Thursday. He delivered a radio
address from his bedside last
night, ignoring the poison charge.
DR.. Bryan, a resident physician
at the hotel in Louisville where
Chandler was stricken last Friday,
said his investigation convinced
him that strong metallic poison
had been placed in the pitcher of
ice water taken to the governors
room.
Although he declined openly to
charge an attempt on Chambers
life, he said the pitcher had diSap.
peared shortly after Chandler COM
pleted his talk and that no other
residents of the hotel had suffered
i'll effects, although the water had
been drawn from the same tap.
Taken off Rack
Clifford Barry, IS, a veteran
employe of the hotel, who took
the pitcher to the governors
room, said he had picked it from
a rack and, after filling it, took
it directly upstairs. It was i'm
possible for anyone to have
dropped poison into the water en-
route, he said.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
N EW LIABILITY
INSURANCE LAW
HELD TO Blame
Diamond to Fight
Limitation Order

Prediction that Washington
soon must pay increased taxi fares
because of the compulsory liability
insurance law came today from
Ringgold Hart, counsel for the
Diamond cab Co., largest taxi
concern in the city.
At the same time Mr.. Hart an.
nounced his company will sue the
Public Utilities Commission in Dis
trict Court to prevent it from limi.
ting the number of members in
any cab association.
PUG Refuses ReUiew
The PUG, battling against a
monopoly control of the Districts
cab business, turned down a peti.
ton from the Diamond company
to review its recent order limit
ing the number of cabs. Com
menting on this, Hart said:
Eve do not believe the utilities
commission has the power to
enforce this order. Nor do we
believe that 1t is in the public
interest.
AT the last session of Con-
gress a proposal was made to
limit the number of taxi cabs
but Congress declined to act on
this legislation.
Now the PUG is trying to do
indirectly by its limitation order
that which Congress refused to
do directly"
81 a Day Burden
Hart recalled that at hearings
in connection with the taxi Iiabil.
ity law it was estimated an oper-
ator would have to pay 81 a day
to carry an insurance policy on
his cab.
Because Of this added expense,
Hart said, it was inevitable" that
Continued on Page 2. Col. 81
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
Robert Lewis Returns
From Auto ParIeV

Robert L. Lewis of the Steuart
Motor Company returned here yes.
terday from a two-day factory
dealer conference held in New
York city. Attending the meet
ings were three department heads
of the Ford Motor Company and
is dealers. Various subjects re.
lating to new and used car sales
methods were discussed.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
Farmers Worried
10 DAYS STRAIGHT

Since the present rainfall start
ed on July II, BAL inches of pre-
cipitation have been recorded,
Weather Bureau observers report
ed. More rain will fall today and
tonight, forecasters predicted, but
there is little chance the old rec
ord for quantity will be exceeded.
Total precipitation for this
month has been 3.98 as compared
with the normal figure of 3.64.
Farmers in nearby Virginia and
Maryland faced with losses of mil
lions OF dollars in crops unless
their corn and tobacco fields are
given a chance to dry have been
besieging the Weather Bureau
with queries as to when sunshine
can be expected.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
Thieves Get ST Cash
In Robbery Of Church

Frank Williams, of 1910 w st.
N. w.. told police today the Bap-
tist Church at GIT N st. N. W..
where he is sexton, was robbed
last night of about ST in cash.
Williams said the thieves en-
tered through the pastors study,
which was ranSacked.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26

Speaking from his bed at Emer-
gency Hospital, where he is recov.
ering from an appendectomy,
Mayor Diego said his statement
was based on long distance tele.
phone conversation he had with
Ponce city officials this morning.
These officials, Mayor Diego
said, promised to give him COM
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
Sing Sing Warden
Heat Stroke Victim

NEWPORT, r. l.. July 26
U.N.S0.-Several days rest at
Newport Hospital was the "sen.
tence" passed upon Warden Lewis
E. Lawes, of Sing Sing prison, who
is suffering a severe sunburn and
heat stroke.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
DoWager Countess
OF Warwick, 76, Dies

LONDON, July 26 Q.N.S).
Frances, dowager countess of War
wick, a noted authoress, horticul-
turiSt and leader of many public
movements, died at her Essex
home today at the age of 76.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26

plete reports by cablegram later
today.
The attack on Winship occurred
yesterday at Ponce-"to the
shame of my city," as Mayor
Diego expressed it.
The bullets aimed at Winship
Continued or Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
LOST

BLACK cane, lost Monday evening, en- route
to Gallinger Hospital in Diamond cab. Re-
ward Offered. Phone Decatur 1890.
FOX TERRIER, male, brown, white, black:
Skipper; tag 1867. RE. 1920. Br. 2O53.
FRATERNITY PIN, black and gold ini-
tIals; u. H. L." on back. MA. $3.50,
Apt. l3O.
LADY'S diamond Wrist watch, Sat. noon,
vicinity Calvert St. Bridge. Liberal re-
ward. Call AID. 3926-W, hrs. 9 to 8.
(Other Lost and Found Ads ON
Page "A, Col. n
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10 RAINY DAYS.
BREAK Record.
RELIEF IS NEAR
Sun Expected tC
Shine Tomorrow

The sun will shine tomorrow!
This prediction came today
from the Weather Bureau after
the record for continuous rain
fall in Washington in July had
been broken.
Sometime tonight" the fore
caster said. "the wind will shift
and we will begin to get dry
air from the northwest. To
morrow will be clear and we'll
get q chance to begin drying
out"
10 DAYS STRAIGHT
Showers which fell early this
morning marked the tenth success
sive day of drenching for the
waterlogged Capital. Previous rec
ord for July was established in
1919 when the skies wept for nine
straight days and $50 inches of
rain fell. In 1885, however, the
Weather Bureau pointed out. it
rained continuously for II days
from March 81 to April 16.
Washington is on, the northwest
edge of the rain area today and
it is impossible to estimate how
much water viii fall before north
west winds blow the clouds out to
sea tonight. the Weather Bureau
said.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
Meet
MARY
PADGETT

who. unknown almost to every
body, is The Times 'Inquiring
Reporter" whose questions find
ready answers from hordeS Of
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
Mother Leaves Infant
At 0rphanage Door

Wrapped in damp clothes, his small body trembling with
hunger sobbng tiny boy deserted last night by the
woman who brought him into the world
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folks who want
to be in t er-
vi e W ed and
then read what
they have said
in The Times.
That is only one
of M airy Pad
gett's newspaper
tasks, for she is
also Woman'S
Club editor and
finds time also
to write feature
S t orieS an d
n e W s stories,
and at tend