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The Washington times., 1938-04-21
D. C. TAXI BILL
is AGREED UPON

Final agreement on the provi-
SionS of the taxicab liability bill
was reached today by Senate and
House conferees. The measure is
expected to go to the President
for signature within day or two
following adoption of the con-
ference report by the two
branches of Congress. 1t will be-
come effective when signed.
1t was announced House con-
fereeS had accepted a Senate
amendment requiring all cab oper-
atorS to file with the Public Utili-
ties Commission a liability insur-
ance policy in one of the stand
ard companies indemnifying pas
sengers and other persons for in
juries, death or property deStruc-
ton as result of taXicab accidents.
The limits of liability fixed by the
bill for each accident involving a
single cab are $4,000 for one per-
son, $4,000 for more than one
person and a thousand dollars
for property damage.
Violation of the law will be pun
ishable by fine of not more than
$500 or imprisonment of not more
than 80 days, and by cancellation
of license.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
BEAUTY BRINGS
BID FOR N. Y.

A twosome of pretties was
scheduled at the District Airport
at 4::20 this afternoon.
Miss New York" in the person
of Miss Jean Browning, will arrive
bearing Mayor LaGuardia's invita-
ton to the Capital to visit the
1889 World Fair.
And welcoming her will be Miss
Washington" who is Miss Kath-
crime Pearson.
Commissioner Melvin Hazen also
will be there, and after a cocktail
party and reception at the Will
lard, Miss New York" will leave
at 10 o'clock tonight for the
Azalea Festival in Charleston,
S. c.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL an
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
Trash Collector Learns
1.-THE LaW" NeUer FOrqetS!

The law, like the elephant,
never forgets, take it from Ben
jamin Porter, colored, and col
lector of trash and things.
When Benjamin was arrested
for obstructing an alley by Traf-
fic Officer w. J. Smith he begged
for just two hours to return to
his house in the 1900 block of
Second st. S. w., TO get the IS
collateral. That was last Novem-
Der. Benjamin was still out on
the 1.-TWO hours" up to yesterday.
Meanwhile, a warrant for
Benjamin was gathering dust in
the dresser drawer of Policeman
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
HOWARD CONCERT

Smith. When a trash cart called
at his home on Fifteenth Street
Northeast, with Benjamin proudly
at the wheel to ask Mr.. Smith if
he had some trash to cart away,
Mr.. Smith took Benjamin in his
car to show him where it was.
1t seemed to Benjamin they
were a long time getting to their
destination, and he asked Smith:
BOSS, do you know where
you're going?"
EYES," said Smith, "but do
you know where you're going?"
Benjamin was still bordering
the cryptic remark when they
pulled up to Precinct No. 9.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

is highly temperamental cat who
had a hand in writing a full
length (unpublisheO novel and
that putting his picture in the
paper and signing his stories had
probably given him decisions of
grandeur
anyway if somebody in the vicin-
ity Gas Of Monday night of CO.
lumbia road sees joe or hears a
meow that is like the voice of in
experience 1 will appreciate it if
they will bring him to the misSiS
at 1749 columbia road apartment
5
She Is blaming the whole bust
ness on me and any married man
knows what that can mean
yours in agony ken ellis
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
POLICE NIP GIRL
ENVOY CAREER

The ambition Of pretty 17-year-
ole BETH Ervada Gelhaus, of Sioux
City, Iowa, to visit Washington
and become "a member of the
Diplomatic Corps" ended today
with her detention at the Women's
Bureau.
BETH declared her intentions to
her parents yesterday while visit
ing with them at the Sherman
Hotel in Chicago, but they did not
take the idea seriously until they
discovered Betti was missing.
In response to a wire to police,
Detective SergeantS Guy Rome and
J. o. Curtis were on hand when
the Manhattan Limited pulled into
Union Station this morning. They
took BETH to the Women's Bureau
and notified her father, who plans
to come here today to claim his
undiplomatic daughter.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 3d.
DEMOCRATIC CARD PARTY
Michigan Democratic Club men
bers will hold a card party tonight
at 1900 Rhode Island Ave-, N. w.
There will be door prizes and
prizes for each table.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

WI lCu pIClUy AuCIdluC hOll6l
The socially prominent daugh-
ter of James Moffett, former Fed
eral Housing Administrator,
arrived in Washington today in a
prelude to becoming Queen Shen-
+andoah XIV of the Apple Blossom
Festival at Winchester, Va.-and
trailing a petition of bankruptcy
behind her.
FINANCES SHORT
Adelaide's jacket of income
earned in part as a night club
torch singer-failed to meet the
skit of expenses by some $1,000,
according to her statement of
finances voluntarily filed in New
York before she hoped a plane
for a date at the White House
Monday.
Neglecting to mention good
looks, throaty voice and a gen.
orally attractive nature, Adelaide
listed as tangible assets two Sealy-
ham dogs worth 5000 apiece and
collection of cups and miscellane-
GUS sports trophies good for an
other 500 at any "uncle's." These
and other assets brought AIDE
ladies worldly estate to a total of
1900.
Against this there are debts
totalling 1881, owing chiefly to
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
Don't Always Agree

Don't Always Agree
I DO NOT always agree with the men on the
Hill, but after all I know very little about
politics, but I sincerely admire the way they
stick. 1 have seen them many hot summer here
before that place was air-conditioned, drag out
long sessions when really don't think there
would be much choice between hell and the
Capitol the heat and humidity were so intense.
I am so afraid if McNutt gets into the White
House he is going to say: well, this is only a
little cottage. To keep up the honor of my
position it must be either torn down and rebuilt,
or doubled in SIZE" If he has to have SO rooms
in the Philippines, what in Heavens name would
he have to have if he ever got in the White
House?
OF course, this all may be politics. don't
know. don't believe it is. But if it is, it is
pretty cheap politics. So far as our high COM
missioner goes, he certainly has what looks like
perfect Hollywood face and as I said before,
If he does not get his desire to be President, if
that is his desire, he mustn't be too down-hearted
He can always go out there and make plenty of
money, so far as his looks CO.
7 HAVE never met the gentleman, and hope
I am not being unfair to him.
After all, there is nothing so beautiful in the
world as true simplicity and have always said
that it takes much bigger man to stand power
than it does to stand adversely. The human race
comes up to trouble and disappointment gamely,
but let person once have taste of power and
then is the real test of whether he can keep his
head or not.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
Policeman Gives
Blood to COmrade

Cooperation among Alexandria
police reached a new high yester-
day when Policeman Charles G..
Miller was given a pint of blood
in a TRANSMISSION by a fellow
officer, James w. Baber. Miller,
who has been i'll since the fall of
1885, was moved to Alexandria
Hospital Tuesday when his condi-
ton became acute,
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

waiter could have looked
around the gala board at Co
lumbia Country Club and not
have known that Senator
Walsh's Senatorial guests
were definitely anti-New Deal
and proud of it.
Senator Walsh let the cat
out of the bag. He said the
party was in the nature of
a farewell for Senator Van
NuyT. The gentleman from
Indiana has definitely not the
support of the White House.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

don't blame the House a bit
for it.
Ten thousand dollars for
travelling expenses looks like
a pretty big item. OF course,
the mansion he recommended
building in the Philippines is
really a joke. Most Of our
embassies abroad are not that
size, and when you take an
S6-room palace, remember it
takes a lot of money to keep
it up. 1t just might be possible
that the man who is apnOinted
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
THUGS DEFY
POLICE; D. C.
CRIME RACES
2 Bandits Beat Tn
Taxi Driver

Bandits continued their car.
nival of crime in the District last
night as police officials prepared
for a strong offensive to check
widespread attacks upon women
on the city's streets.
Most brutal crime OF the night
was the attack by two colored
bandits upon Andrew N. Richard
son, As, a taxicab driver, of 4211
Eighteenth st. N. W., who was
Slugged so viciously revolver was
shattered on his skull.
DRIVER SLUGGED
The bandits hired Richardson's
cab at Fourteenth Street and New
York Avenue Northwest, and IN
Structed him to drive to the 400
block of Franklin st. N. w. There
one of the men drew q gun and
ordered the cab driver to hand
over his cash. When Richardson
resisted the gunman began slug.
ging him with the gun butt.
Fighting desperately, Richard
son received four blows on the
head until the gun broke, scatter
ing five bullets on the floor Of
the cab. The robbers grabbed one
Of two cigar boxes from the seat
beside Richardson. 1t contained
cigarettes. The other box con-
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

fashionable modistes and dress
shops.
Mrs. Brooks was widowed four
months after her marriage to
David Brooks, when he fell to his
death from their Park Avenue
apartment in November, 1886.
Meanwhile, in the cool depths of
Endless Caverns, THE Mountain
King" who lives in regal splendor
amid the stalactites and stalag-
mites, Sunday will royalty welcome
Queen Shenandoah XIV.
In keeping with custom begun
Is years ago, Queen Adelaide Of
Apple Blossom Festival will make
her first official visit to the Shen-
andoah Valley, whose monarch she
will be crowned by Admiral Rich
ard Evelyn Byrd the following
Thursday.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
World of Finance By LEXIS Haney

NEW YORK.-Mr. Wallace, Secretary of Agri-
d" culture and prominently mentioned as a New
Deal candidate for the Presidency in 1910, has
been doing some talking He advocates pump
printing and crop insurance.
The first point that strikes one is his com.
plete assurance that everything is different from
what used to be. He says: 1--WE are in a new
world, and are not going back to the old world
that existed before the war"
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

For sheer bunk, that no
ton is about the limit.
L challenge anyone to find
a single new idea in the whole
New Deal mess. Much of what
they are up to went on under
the mercantilistS in the Six
teenth Century. Mixed with
this, is lot of medieval stuff.
If times are different, why
don't they try something new?
Why think all this old stuff
will 60 now?
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

ne has d1Sap-
peared and i
think the rob-
bon he won as
champion ca t
re p or t er has
g on e to his
head
Now a man
can be put upon
just about so
far and when
it comes to put
ting ideas in a
cats h e a d j
think that point
has been reach
ed V0II do nnt,
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
Dear Washington

HE Rebel yell may have been slightly soto
Voce when Senator Walsh Of Massachusetts
gave his Tuesday dinner in honor of Senator
Van Nuys But the spirit Of independence was
in the hearts of the twelve diners Not even
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
THURSDAY, APRIL q
My Say
By E0alw Walsh Mclean

7 SEE they are after Pretty Boy" McNutt High
Commissioner of the Philippines. Well, if
all the things printed in the paper are true,
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

them hollering and saying: "our pay must be
raised so we can live in big houses and keep
up the dignity of our office"
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
joe louis the cat answers
call of spring or something

dear boss you know my cat joe
louis ellis who was on the payroll
to report the cat show well dam it
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
Apple BlOssOmQueen
In D. c., Bankrupt

If Bobby Burns had written "a queens queen for a that
he would have been neatly paraphrasng the situation in
which pretty Adelaide Moffe Brooks finds herself today
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

tanned IS and in the cab drivers
pocket was $40.
BOLD ROBBERY
Boldest robbery of the night &C.
CURED when Anthony Binco, rs,
of the 500 block of Seventh st.
S. w., grabbed $57 from the ticket
Continued on Page 22, Col. 81
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
HOWARD CONCERT
The Howard University R. o. T.
c. Concert Band of so musicians
will give symphonic program in
Andrew Rankin Memorial Chaple
of the university, Sunday at 4 p.
m. Students, faculty member
and friends of the university are
invited to attend.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

IS Lnere anything new IN Prof Lewis Hanev
depressions? Is there anything new in crackpot
schemes of social reform? Are we ahead of the
Roman Empire in our distribution of Iargesse
among ''the masses?
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

soon, and that the recession" followed (Evi-
IDENTIFY, times are so different that he can't see
a depressionD
This is interesting 1t proves that he admits
the responsibility of the New Deal for the recess
sion 1t also shows that the New Dealers recognize
that we have now become dependent on the
dope" of Government spending, and can't stop
without collapse.
Indeed, he goes on to state positively that
pump printing must" continue until "the Gov
eminent" has assurance that business will re.
place Government spending with flow of CAPT
tai But if that were true there would never be
an end.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

The real purpose of the party was to show the
folks back home that, although their Mr. Van
Mugs was not exactly bosom friend of Mr..
Roosevelt he had some pretty friendly colleagues.
Said colleagues were Senators Connolly, Byrd,
McCarran, Lonergan, Gerry, Copeland, Adams,
Miller. Bailey and George.
About the "DarLing DGughters''
VTHESE are my first annual words about the
- Darling Daughters. . So many waving
flags, so much love of country, such yards of
lowered chiffon and pounds of feminine beauty
would make even an anarchist suspect that great
thoughts were on the rampage in Constitution
Hall.
This morning one Darling Daughter busily
wrote a note on slip Of paper. Added on the
outside Important, Urgent" Called a page,
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

to follow pretty Boy Paul" might have simpler
tastes and he also might not have the fortune
to keep it up.
Here is one Of our so-called candidates for
the Presidency wanting to build palace on
an island that we are going to give over in a
few years. if things work out the way the treaty
IS signed-and by the way, have always been
dead against this treaty. I know we have spent
millions in the Philippines but they are beginning
now to return some revenue.
No, this doesn't sound any too good to me,
when think of the unemployed in this country,
the starving women and children and men.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
By Helen ESsar"

asked her to take the message Immediately to
certain delegate in the third row Of the gallery.
The page came back with the note unde-
Hvered. She couldn't find the person for whom
it was meant. And now she discovered that the
sender had vanished.
The little page looked anxious. Then decided
to read the message and give it to the proper
convention department, if not to the proper in
dividual.
The vital message said: my dear, do look at
Mrs. Magna's hat Isn't it too lovely!"
Mrs. William Russell Magma, a former presi-
dent general, wore a dark blue straw with a
perky bow of yelling at the side back. Selah!
The Chaplain General opened the morning ses-
sion Of the D. A. r. Congress with this prayer:
This afternoon our chairman of national
defense is going to give her report. So I think
we had better pray for nation and its safety"
The CeIlophane Menace
NEXT to the lowering evil Of communism the
Az Darling Daughters find cellophane modern
menace. So many of the bouquets borne proudly
to the stage by the sprightly pages are wrapped
in cellophane. How can any lady, even Pres
ident General, cope with roses. gardenias and
an oldfashoned bouquet, each wrapped firmly
with cracking, stiff paper? Nobody can deli
cately inhale the fragrance of dollhouse blossoms
when the Revolutionary nose comes suddenly
against something as unyielding as isinglass.
Personally hate cellophane. I'm sure it was
invented by the same man who thought up paper
napkins.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
ave Do Not KnOw"

SPEAKING Of crop insurance. Wallace says:
I'VE do not know how it will pan out" That
is one true statement.
In reality, crop insurance isn't insurance at
all. Nobody. not even Lloyd's, will insure the
profits of a business enterprise. Why then,
should farmers be fooled into expecting
guaranteed income? The only answer can see
is that farming is going to cease being bust
ness, and the farmer is going to be supported
by the state.
If an ordinary salesman were to try to sell
stock in such scheme. he would probably be
put in Jail.
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

Are Times Different?
Mr.. WALLACE naively states that the New
AVA Dealers stopped Government spending too
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
"Why Not Go in MoUies?"

F pretty Boy" McNutt wants to spend money
= why doesn't he resign his job in the Philip
pines and go out to Hollywood and get in the
movies? He could make plenty of money then
so far as his pictures show and build himself
all the palaces he wants without making the
American taxpayer pay for them.
Take our Senators here in Washington, who
have really hard long hours. You don't hear
The Washington times., 1938-04-21
SKIPEOY

seem to appreciate that joe louis
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

news tips phoned to The Times Tip Editor at
Republic 1884. There will be given SIS weekly
The Washington times., 1938-04-21

Do you want money? The Washington
Times is offering $50 in prizes each week for
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

GRAHAM '33 Sedan-A-1 shape. 500.
Coast-In, 9Th and Florida Ave. N. E.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

HUDSON 1885 Model "64" 4-Door Trunk
Sedan: built-in radio: low mileage. $495:
terms. Barnes Motors. 1929 14th.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

WHY PAY RENT?
70 250-5-room bungalow. Nearby Nd.
$3.50 down. S26 month.
"a Q50-5-room row brick. N. q. Wash.
$500 down. $35 month.
AZ 260-NEW. 8 large rooms, full base
ment h.-w.h. Lyon Park. Va.
$3.50 down. S45 month.
4cCLAINE. 200 Wilson Blvd. ClaF.. We.
walnut 9292. Sun. day. ewes.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30
LINCOLN

LINCOLN 1885 7-passenger Sedan. dark
blue finish. 8 wheels. fender well and
front rack. white sidewall tires, This
ST. 575. G c. c. guaranty. Open evenings
and Sundays. Capitol Cadillac Co.. 1929
22d St. N. W. National $500.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30
HOUSES FOR sALE-COLORED

OoLoRED-2 Or 3-RooM HOUSES for
sale in D. C.. Large lots: small down
payments: monthly payments as low as SIS
mo. David Cooper. 500 St. N, ".
Room 407. Nal: 1850.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30
AUTO LOANS

AUTO LOANS IN MINUTESl $26 70
$500. Open evenings. AUTO MART.
2S05 Georgia Ave. Columbia 1910.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

CHEvaoLET-Privateiy owned 3-DanelIed
1888 light deliveries; guaranteed: excel
lent shape: sacrifice for cash. Phone Dist.
5000 or GE. 9244.
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

BUSINESS PROP'TY FOR RENT
Z ST. N. W.. 605-10, 600 "a. IT,. I'd floor
Formerly occupied as night club. Amply
Penn Realty Corp. 474 ''K'' St. n. ".
The Washington times., 1938-03-30

PLYMOUTH 80 Sedan-Close-out, 500.
Coast-In. 9th and Florida Ave. n. z.
The Washington times., 1938-07-26

present vaults to the new Archives
Building.
OF course, divorce being quite
an innovation in the District in
1860, there wasn't stampede to
take advantage of the new law by
diSgruntled couples, but by Octo.
Der Of that year George w. Clarke
decided he had had enough of his
wife, Charlotte, living with an
other man in Brooklyn, and filed
SUIT. He got mis- decree May 10,
1861.
Absolute divorces. as against
limited divorces, or legal separa-
ton, as they are now known, were
taVorlteS in the halycon days of
1850, but the latter gradually in
creased in popularity until late in
1885 the old divorce law was
amended to permit absolute di-
Vorces TO be awarded on grounds
that previously supported only
limited actions. These included
desertlon for more than two years: :
voluntary separation for more
than five years and conviction of
felony by the defending spouse.
Until then, limited divorces out
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
PALMIsANO IN DOUBT
MARITAL RIFT HISTORY Barred:
How D. c. AIimony Club Was Born

1t was 78 years ago that the
District of Columbia, slowly but
surely growing out of its swad-
ding clothes, decreed that any
married couple, one of whom
found love outside the marital
state, would theme eforth be
allowed to separate according to
the due processes of the law,
1t was on June l9, 1860, that
the Congress, in special session
assembled, authorized the old cir
cult court TO grant absolute
divorces on grounds of adultery.
And 1t was just a few months
later that aShington's first
Allmony Club was established, un-
officially, maybe, when one James
Mackhall decided he would rather
go to Jail than pay his spouse the
alimony ordered by the court.
After while Mackhall gave in
and got out, out his Stubborness
set the precedent for New York S
famous Alimony Club
All this came to ligt in a review
OF the more than half-century S
history OF the Districts divorce
courts, occasioned by the an
nounced transfer of the ancient
hand'written records from their
The Washington times., 1938-07-26
Draft Economic Trinity
Many Call IndustryS Labor Policy Obsolete

Bank; Charles A. Cannon, presi-
dent, Cannon Mills; Walter ].
Cummings, chairman, Continental
Illinois National Bank g. Trust
Company; Frederick H. Ecker,
chairman, Metropolitan Life In
surance Company.
Also John M. Franklin, preSi-
dent, International Mercantile
Company; Robert M. HaneS,
Wachovia Bank and Trust Com
pany; Robert Wood johnson,
president, johnson & johnson
Corporation; Thomas I. Parkin-
son, president, Equitable Life AS.
surance Society; William C. Pot
ter, chairman, Guaranty Trust
Company; S. Clay Williams, chair.
man, R. j. Reynolds Tobacco
Company; Clarence M. Woolley,
president, American Radiator
Company; owen D. Young, chair
man, General Electric; Robert H.
Cabell, president, Armour g. Co.,
and Edward D. Duffield, presi-
The Washington times., 1938-07-26

In 1895 the stampede was on.
Hundreds of abandoned SpouseS
asked severance Of their marital
ties. Many of these had won linn
tied DEGREES; now they wanted alb
solute divorces. The fiscal year
ending June 80, 1885, showed 1918
suits for limited and absolute d.
vorce on file, the former being
only one-eighth of the total.
In 1887, 1873 suits were filed,
approximately in the same proper
ton.
And in the present year of grace,
1888, of l,728 divorces filed, 1923
were for absolute severence, the
remainder divided between lin.
tied actions and annulmentS.
And so 1t goes. More tahn 81 per
cent of all suits filed in equity
involve domestic litigation. Gard
ner's report reveals. and the pro-
portion is on the increase.
It's love that makes the world
go round, the old adage says, but
love. especially when flouted, also
provides a lot of oil for the divorce
court machinery.