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Evening star., 1938-08-26

Georga Lawrence canddat. .nd NAV
not appear tne least OF the three evils whom Gegans must choose
georgia nave been
county bosses OF the Cracker
situation IN Maryland looks hopeful point Of
view hopeful than possible now seems tn h
1air chance OF unseatng Milard Tydings
Inc 1oray against John OConnor guess
epuohcans to head of serious challenge He
700 ueIu man for certain
the powerful House Rules abandon him
without struggle. - "'A-
Still further Presidents own home district at Hvde PARK
there Is Roosevelt rod in pickle
SUI oououu that Mr. Fish be beaten
WILL oe 1un 10 Try and the
opponent OF the New Deal into studying the
was instrumental in
would directly have benefited the farmers his region
However, it is
men IKE ard Iydngs and John publicly idenned
tnan that they should defeated
want tory Republicans
the peoples nalenable right What future the
pracnce OF coa-dng tories nose a,
Roosevelt liberals until the then turn
ana oppose
for popular support ~ ' N
Out here in the Midwest point honestly
sb intelligent that m roncs
OF the
national ONCE
the parys indorsement in the " NV
place 1t becoming ShAarLr
practice out here "Ne1 eNe
Republicans in the wv
cratic primaries in order promote
the nomination Of
Democrats and then
the Democratic candidates In p1N.os(T~
national elections -
Is considered pretty slick politics .>>>%Nk-N * ~
out here and reprehensbe ~.-.o W. O<A
than the various by v -
ambitious business
secured managerial control
Evening star., 1938-08-26
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

by FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Rummaging through newspaper
scrapbooks and other mementos Of
pre-war Germany, I've just dug up q
picture postcard sent to my family
Evening star., 1938-08-26

secured managerial control Of other
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Evening star., 1938-08-26

Might Avoid Mistake.
1t would seem unlikely that the
President will make that mistake
again of appointing partisan minded
judges and that he will seek among
liberals some one who can really be
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
PUBLIC PRINTER
CALLS PARLEY.
IN CAFE STRIKE

Seeking to end the strike that
has closed the cafeteria in the
Government Printing Office since
September 19, Public Printer A.
E. Giegengack today called a
meeting of the heads of unions
employed in the plant to discuss
the situation.
The Public Printer pointed out
that closing the cafeteria had
caused great inconvenience, and
said that he is willing to consider
any proposal offered to settle the
problems which caused the strike.
Garland Webb, business agent
of the Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Alliance, which called
the strike, said that the organiza-
tion will welcome a conference to
end the strike.
The employees are seeking an
eight.hour day, a minimum wage
OF SIS a week and vacations with
pay.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
WOMAN GUILTY..
FORCED CHECKS.
.DEFRAUD|NG U. s..
Mrs. Fraser 20 Years in
War Department

With downcaSt eyes, Mrs. Claire
Fraser. AZ, former War Depart.
ment clerk, stood before Justice
Peyton Gordon in District Court
today and pleaded guilty to forg.
ing Government checks for $494
to pay for services of fictitious
contractors.
Attorneys for Mrs. Fraser told
Justice Gordon of her 20 years
of unblemished service before she
fell victim to temptation.
PROBATION PLEA
They told how as a young
woman she had entered Govern
ment service and by dint of hard
work acquired a position of trust,
Justice Gordon said he would
ask probation authorities to study
Mrs. Fraser's record before pro-
nounclng sentence.
ARRESTED IN MARCH
Mrs. Fraser, according to AS
sistant U. S. Attorney William
Staley Tarver, was found by Sc
cret Service agents to have drawn
spurious checks aggregating $3,-
600. The checks were to cover
allegedly forged vouchers for pay
ments to mythical contractors.
Authorities said vhe peculations
took place between April, 1885,
and January, 1887. Arrest of
Mrs. Fraser last March caused a
sensation in the War Department.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Page the G-men.

rage Ul1S O-lIlC11s
Call for Scotland Yard. Get the
cops. Get Sherlock Holmes, Char
lie Chan, Arsene Lupin, Philo
Vance and any other detective
possible. There has been a terrible
theft in Rockville.
Last week The Washington
Times printed the challenge
hurled by Mrs. Beverly Wiltshire,
pretty secretary of the Montgom-
cry County police commission.
Mrs. Wiltshire, no slouch when
it comes to shooting a big As cali,
ber Colt, challenged the winner of
the Rockville police pistol team
matches to meet her on the range.
Sergt. James McAuliffe came back
from the Camp Ritchie range with
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
FAIR MARKSMAN'S
GUN DOCTORED
Washington Times staff Photo

the highest score. and Mrs. Wilt
shire got out her 'shootin' iron to
practice a bit before taking his
scalp.
And horror of horrors! She
found sabotage! Some one had
removed the trigger from her gat.
So she has sent the weapon back
to the factory to be repaired. and
the big match is off for a couple
of weeks.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

vile tragedy of 1884 could have
been the Falls Church or Alexan-
dria tragedy.
Today. heavy traffic on the
Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway
in Alexandria. the Lee Highway at
East Falls Church and the Lees
burg Pike at West Falls Church is
not protected by either traffic
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Burglars Rob
Police Basement

Washington burglars are becom.
ing bclder by the day, police were
convinced after discovering four
pressure gauges had been stolen
from the sign shop OF the Traffic
Division, located in the police
headquarters building basement.
A series of other robberies dur.
ing the past year in the immediate
vicinity of headquarters seem bold
enough. but this one, we'll. sit
takes the rag off the BUSH" as one
officec described the theft.
The gauges were reported "los:
or stolen sometime between Sep
tember 10 and the present date. -
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
GARDEN winner
Mrs. Fulton LeWis
Gets Woodbridge Prize

Mrs. Fulton Lewis, of Idylwood,
Va, was adjudged the sweepstakes
winner in the fall show of the
Woodbridge Garden Club held last
night at Sherwood Presbyterian
Hall, Rhode Island Ave. and Twen-
ty-second st. N. e.
Mrs. Lewis amassed 80 points,
leading Mrs. M. C. Kissinger, 3419
Twentieth st. N. E., who garnered
rs points. Other prize winner
were Frank Goetzger, of Mt.
Rainier, Md; George U. Graft, 342
Peabody st. N. w., and Mrs. J. A.
Gamble, 3100 Twenty-fourth St.
N. E.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

lights or gates at any of the three
railroad crossings.
Motorists face two dangers at
the Falls Church crossings. Double
tracks, one serving the main line
Of the Washington & Old Domin-
ion Railroad and the other the
Arlington,Fairfax Auto Railroad
Co., cross the Lee Highway and
the Leesburg Pike at the entrance
to this historic town.
DANGER A PARADOX
The Alexandria crossing, located
on one of the most Travelled high
ways in the United States. inher-
its its element of danger para
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Garbage Collections
Cut 10 Twice Weekly

"A semiweekly schedule for gar.
bage collection goes into effect
next Monday. William A. Xanten.
supervisor of city refuse, informed
the District Commissioners yester-
day.
The cut from three times a
week to twice a week was first
made last winter as the result Of
lack of funds due to the 40-hour
week which was put into effect
shortly before that.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Wanna BOCy
Duck? Better!
"Y'wanna buy a duck?"

"Y'wanna buy a duck?"
If you want a duck and you are
in Montgomery county you had
better buy it. G
Three colored defendants were
sentenced to serve nine months
apiece in the Maryland House of
Correction by Judge Harold Smith
in Rockville police court. They
were charged with stealing a white
Pekin duck worth IS cents. The
defendants, Lottie and Viola But,
Ter and Edward Warren, appealed.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Woman, 81, Hurt
In Fall Off Steps

Mrs. Nina Stacks, ST, Of 1870
Thirty-Fourth st. N. W., is being
treated at Emergency Hospital for
injuries sustained late yesterday
when she fell down a pair of steps
while visiting friends in the 1700
block Of Wisconsin Ave. N. W.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Washington Times staff Photo

who also will be blissfully un-
aware of that. sinister line OF
freight cars until it is too late.
City Manager Carl Budwesky
recently asked the Southern Rail-
way Co., which operates a belt line
around Alexandria, to install traf-
fic signal lights at this treacher-
GUS crossing. The Federal Govern
ment, however, provided for an un.
derpass one-half mile south of the
present crossing when it built the
Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway.
Because relocation of its tracks
would involve expenditure of a
large sum of money, the railroad
has never taken advantage of the
underpaSS.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
100 YEARS old
Church to Celebrate
Its Anniversary

Plans are being completed at
Metropolitan A. M. E. Church for
the celebration beginning Sunday,
of the Tooth anniversary of the
founding of the church.
Bishop M. H. Davis, of Balti-
more, will be the opening ami
versary speaker. Other speakers in
clude DR.. Charles H. Wesley, dean
of the graduate school, Howard
University; the Rev. H. M. Shields,
and George H. Singleton.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Ice Cream Store
Is Held Up Again

For the second time in 48 hours
Highs Ice Cream store at Tenth
and C. Streets Southeast was held
up and robbed, police report today.
Madelyn Orris, of 225 Eleventh ST..
S. E., reported white man entered
the store about 10:30 o'clock last
night and told her to face the rear
wall. The man Kept his hand in
his coat pocket and pointed it at
her as though he held pistol. AS
she stood against the wall he
robbed the cash drawer of $40 and
escaped in a waiting car.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

''The Girl From MarseiIles." An.
other cOlOrful portrait by Henry Give.
distinguished painter of beautiful girls,
in new series in which he pictures
types of beauties from many lands.
And that famous poet and novelist,
Carolyn Wells, writes a charming
verse to go with each painting. See
the front color page in The American
Weekly, the magazine distributed with
next Sundays Washington Herald
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

TWO AT FALLS CHURCH
Two of the hazardous crossings
are at the entrances to the fast
growing town of Falls Church. The
other Is in the heart of Alexandria.
All three should be eliminated
by underpasses if additional lives
are not to. be sacrificed on these
altars of negligence. The Rock
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

highway without a warning sign
at night.
It is true that a brakeman steps
down in front of the engine to
signal traffic, to a halt before the
train proceeds across the highway
but his momentary signalling did
not save the life of DR.. Amos. It
will not prevent a recurrence Of
another such tragedy, particularly
on the part of a visiting motorist,
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Margaret Sanger
Speaks Here OFT. &

Margaret Sanger, international
birth control leader, will speak at
an open meeting OF Barker Hall,
Y. w. C. A., at 8 p. m. on october
S, under the auspices of the
Mothers Health Association OF
the District Of Columbia. The
meeting is open to the public and
is frAA,
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

doxically from the fact that it is
not used at all hours of the day.
Here DR.. Chester A. Amos, be-
loved philanthropic surgeon of Alex
andria, crashed to his death be-
side a slow-moving freight train
because he, like thousands of.other
Alexandrians and tourists, had no
idea that a dark line of boXcars
would be moving across the main
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Relief Statistics Are Assailed
Yes, Girls
Will. Be
Girls

Gay bantering voices Of girls
echoed from the sorority rooms
at George Washington University
and made a listener forget for
a moment that there was war
brewing, Just around the curve of
the globe.
The girls were busy, doing what
would be work at home but what
was fun in the sorority house
dragging chairs and tables around,
running the carpet sweeper and
stacking dishes in the kitchens.
At the same time yesterday
afternoon, other students were
strolling along the sunny streets
nearby, immersed in the business
of registrations-but sometimes
pausing to scan a newspaper with
Hitler's latest speech in it.
WAR FAR AWAY
But indie the sorority house in
the 21OO block of G street, war
seemed far away. A piano tinkled
in one of the sorority suites. but
only momentarily for there was
work to be done.
The girls in the Pi Beta Phi
rooms were doing the last bit OF
Strengthening before they could
plop into chairs and contemplate
the achievement of orderly cozi-
ness.
But you should have seen the
rooms when we started cleaning
up last week. We almost had to
climb over the furniture, one OF
the girls declared.
Virginia Tehas, president OF the
ri Beta Phi chapter, perched on
the bench at the grand piano and
pointed out how the rooms had
been re.arranged. Another girl
led the way to the kitchen to show
the new creamy china, stacked
on the cabinet shelves.
HUSKY GIRLS. THESE
Upstairs in the Zeta Tau Alpha
room four girls we're engaged in
the task of pushing piano-a
small one but worthy of a little
heaving on their part.
Jane Coulter, vice president OF
the chapter. temporarily put aside
the dignity that goes with that
title and put her bright-sweatered
shoulder to the task. The girls in
this chapter have new refrigera-
tor, new day-bed and new dishes
to make fixing up more fun this
fall.
For the moment. war was some
thing shut up in the history books.
To the girls who clattered up and
down the stairs, it might come
closer some day-but not yester-
day when the most immediate task
was to plunge into college life
again.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
.PROBER CHARGES
GERATION
.OF LOCAL NEEDS
Public Welfare Uni
Policy Denounced

Burdette G. Lewis, head of the
local relief investigation ordered
by the last Congress, gave vent to-
day to a scathing denunciation Of
the manner in which the Districts
relief organization complies sta
tistics.
Lewis charged the Public AS.
sistance Division of the Board of
Public Welfare has pursued q
deliberate policy of exaggerating
relief needs through the medium
of reporting large number Of
intake reflections"
He said his statement was made
with the hope of ending the
stream of phony statistics fur.
nished to the Social Security
Board and other agencies by the
Public Assistance Division.
CITES EXAMPLE
AS an example Of the workings
of the relief division, Mr.. Lewis
cites a memorandum furnished
him by William Karpinsky, super.
vising senior analyst, of an in.
vestigation made of the northeast
relief office.
From September / to September
II, the report stated, a total Of
100 applications for general relief
were rejected at the office be-
cause of insufficient funds.
Elwood Chisolm. Investigator, in
an endeavor to locate the rejected
applicants, reported he found no
records at all Tor 13 cases and the
remaining 81 reflections repl sent
ed only so families.
EXPLAINS DISPARITY
ut is the policy Of the Pubic
Assistance Division" Lewis SAID.
"to consider each refused appli.
cation as a rejection, no matter
If the applicant has made re.
peated applications within the
same period.
'"The workings Of this policy
Is illustrated in the following
case: A client made four appli.
cations for general relief be-
tween September and II, which
resulted in three reflections and
an acceptance on the fourth at.
tempt The records reveal that
this one case has been consid.
cred AS three rejected cases and
one accepted case in the report
of the Northeast office.
This policy explains the 42.S
per cent disparity between the
number of reflections and the
number of families actually ap-
plying for assistance"
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Washington Times staff Photo

intersections, but Virginia authorities continue lock the
other way when money being allotted and shake their
heads in momentry when prominent physician crashes
to his death beside a freight train.
The Washington times., 1938-09-27
Thousands Endangered:
RAIL CROSSINGS
ARE UNGUARDED
But Still Virginia Authorities
Seem Merely Sorry
Seem Merely Sorry

The lives of thousands of motorists train and bus
being eopardzed day and night by three
protected railroad crossings main highways in nearby Vr
gna Fatal accidents periodically these dangerous
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-04
THE HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT

At Evian in France, on the border of Switzer-
land, conference of % nations is being held
for the purpose of trying to find some way of
providing homes for several millions of people
who can no longer live in peace and safety, if
at ALL in their native lands
1t is the most humanitarian convention of
nations ever held, and it faces one of the most
difficult problems the world has ever faced
Most of the refugees who can no longer live
in Germany and Austria, where they were born,
are Jews. Italy has lately begun to persecute
the Jews also. But among the refugees who
must find homes in new lands are hundreds of
thousands of devout Christians who are no long
er free to worship in their churches. Add to
them some hundreds of thousands who cannot
bear to face what amounts to slavery for them
selves and particularly for their children, and
we have literally millions of people seeking re-
lief from the tyranny of dictators.
Needless to say, the nations represented at the
Evian Refugee Congress all countries which
are founded upon and profess the democratic
ideal The initiative in calling the Congress
came from President Roosevelt The chairman
is an American, Myron c. Taylor, head of the
u S. Steel Corporation. The purpose is to ex-
plOre the pOSS1b11tleS OF moving vast numOer
of persons into new and unfamiliar surround
ings and their prospects of survival in any place
to which they might be moved.
Most of the nations represented are in North
and South America. Some of them have an
nounced that they will welcome Jews immi
grants. Others are hesitant about adding that
particular alien element to their population.
Under our quota laws not more than $4,000 i'm
migrants from Germany may be admitted in
any one year.
The prospects for immediate relief of these
prosecuted peoples are not bright but if out of
the Evian conference some international plan is
evolved whereby the way will be opened for
their gradual resttlement in nations which need
new population to develop their resources,
great humanitarian work will have begun.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-04
FARM POWER FOE ASHE

Ashe, which is one of the progressive noun
tain counties of the Northwestern North Caro-
lima sections, may obtain the benefits of rural
identification at very low cost to the farmers,
according to officials of the Caldwell Mutual cor
poration, which is in position to extend it's cleo
trifcation program into that county.
No doubt the proposed extension will be made
fcation is hardly one that is destined to stop
short of its goal Progressive, business minded
farmers are quick to appreciate the added adj
vantages which are brought to the farm and
rural home by electricity, and as more and more
rural customers are secured the easier it be-
comes for the companies to extend the lines.
Rural identification should be especially bene-
fetal to the Northwestern area, which is we'll
adapted by nature to dairying and poultry rails
ing In these industries electric power and
lighting facilities are very important factors.
The dairymen need electric lights and power
pumps, ETC., and the poultrymen need the "arti-
fetal sunshine" provided by current to light
their memories in winter months, thus material
ly increasing egg production.
The advantages, of course, are in addition to
other more obvious ones which enable the farm
ers and farm wife to iberate themselves from
many forms of inconvenience and druggery.
Hence, rural eelctrifcation promises to play an
important part in the program of Northwestern
North Carolina during the next few years-The
,Winston-Salem Journal.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-04
THE AsHE COUNTY COOK BOOK

Ashe countys first Cook Books are now off
Of the press and are ready for distribution.
Needless to say, we are proud of these books
and feel confident that every hsme- maker in the
county would like to have copy. It contains
sixty pages of excellent cooking suggestions
from many of the county's best cooks
To the winners of the recipe contests, we offer
our congratulations and we also thank everyone
who entered recipe in the contests.
Our appropriations also go to Mrs. p G. Wright,
who ably edited the cook book and served as
chairman of the judges committee. Editing this
booklet was big task and required much time
and work We are also grateful to the other
two members of the judges committee, Mrs.
E. c. Francis and Mrs. Robert G. Barr and to
Mrs. j. A. w. Davis, who assisted in selling adj
vertising
And last we want to thank our loyal and pro-
gressive merchants whose advertisements really
made the cook book possible and to urge that
you patronize each one of them
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-04
A LESSON FROM THE CHINESE

There is lesson for all Americans in the
facts brought out by legislative committee in
New York Investigating juvenile delinquency.
Among all the thousands of Chinese living in
the metropolis, only two cases of Chinese chill
dren or youths accused of lawbraking have
ever been brought into court, and one of those,
turned out, thought he was playing game.
The Chinese interpreter in the New York
courts gave the explanation He quoted max
i'm of Confucius, ''the misconduct of the child
is the fault of the parents" as being the moral
code under which Chinese children reared.
The child is taught reverence for it's parents.
Whenever Chinese boy or girl is guilty of mis-
conduct in public it is disgrace not only to
himself or herself but to the family. If some
Chinese boy committed the most minute crime,
the whole community would know it and he
would be losing face.
aAmong the young" said the interpreter, "the
most severe punishment is to lose face It is
most serious in the minds of the children, be-
cause it is sort of discrimination against him.
Chinese children are not punished physically;
they are denied movies or new shoes or new