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The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Benny Worked Hard for Success

Benny Worked Hard for Success
WHERE Jack Benny made his great mistake
w was in dealing with person like Chaperau
I don't believe George Burns. Benny, or MES
Lauer were fully aware Of Chaperau's real in
tentions.
Benny Is married to a delightful woman, he
has adopted two small children. He has worked
long and hard to reach the heights he has
achieved today.
There are none with kinder hearts than the
theatrical people. They give Of their strength
and their valuable time for benefits which keep
up the Home for the Aged and Retired Actors
and Actresses; they help the poor. broken-down
people who were once stage headlinerS.
I have met a great many crooks in my life
and know how plausible they can be. There
is one thing to remember in this case-theSe
people did not have any Of these smuggled goods
ON THEIR PERSONS. We don't know what
kind of story Chaperau told them.
I sincerely hope the luck will be with these
kind amusing. intelligent people. and am sure
the court will take into consideration all the
mitigating circumstances.
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I don't know what there is about the customs
officials and Uncle Sam, but 10 out of IL times
people feel when they outwit them they have
done pretty smart thing.
I will never forget how years ago l. with great
pride, smuggled in huge diamond Believe me.
/ was sorry for it the minute my father heard
about it. I never in my life got such a scold-
ing and never was so frightened.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

chains and ropes along and hoped that helpful
farmer would be on hand with oxen or horse to
pull you out Of the mud holes In certain isolated
sections Of the West the ambitious young rural
ties made sure that those mud holes existed and
were always there when you needed them-at
from SO to $25 the pullingout
NOV our streamlined trains will deposit you
AN safely in Los Angeles three days after you
leave New York. Our spacious and speedy air
planes will transport you in from Is to 18 hours.
Often in less time. AS for the traveller by auto
mobile, everything is simplified. The A. A. A.
routes your trip on neat strippads. which even
child may follow, and every filling station has
lapful of informative literature that is yours for
the asking. The roads are wide and level and.
once you hit the open country, you may speed
along at from so to 80 miles an hour.
Still Chance for Adventures
60 this is likely to be a smooth, uneventful trip
~ which would be too bad. An uneventful
journey can be tragic if the traveller happens to
be writing fellow who depends upon what his
eyes see and his ears hear for material days
a week. writing fellow may soon exhaust his
supply of descriptive adjectives after mountain
or two or a valley. or colorful panorama; and
worse than that, may exhaust his readers. A
writing fellow should be, say in Atlanta just when
the newest successor to Dlinger is captured while
holding up bank. He should find himself help
less in Death Valley, no water, no food hope
lessly lost until some ancient proSpector comes
along just when everything seems at an end.
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to Japanese armies in China" j."
Opening sentence Of a New
York Times editorial, referring
to the Munitions Control
Board report just published.
We agree and wonder
when we shall also get out Of
the miserable business of fur
nishing war planes to Great
Britain and France?
A war plane is a war plane.
with only one intended use.
regardless Of the identity Of
&hn opaCk0S~oaT
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: in the crevice-stuffed kitchen of a
modest, pitifully modest apart
ment.
Let's take the case of Henry, the
fly, who got entangled in the web
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Cured of Desire to Sr1uggle

EATHER storned down to the Treasury De-
L partment with the diamond anc explained
to the powers-thatbe that his daughter was
not responsible and was just plain, young
fool He sent the diamond back and had it de-
clared in the proper way. That cured me
mighty quick Of any desire to Smuggle.
suppose the feeling that when we try these
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of Louis, the spider. Henry worked
in a grocery store-which is a job
at which one will never get rich.
But he was a careful lad and
Continued on Page %, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
RthWN BrOWn "POcal Parade" wH bew
Tuesduy, Thuraday and Gurdny
eeBut''-

GSFvERY American who values his country's
~ good name will rejoice that we are out Of
the miserable business of furnishing war planes
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

The conductor of this cGp0lcGde Is starting
an an ertensiUe tour of the country. The last
bag is packed, the portable typeDriter has been
oiled, the car has been creased, the canary has
been placed In boarding school, WhiSkey Is Oft
to the country and. as you read this, ne are ON
our tp1y.
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Says Boake Carter

ship and blow off the Ida prospect which
brought the Secretary Of Agriculture back into
the fold.
But it was too late! The wheat conference
is expected to produce as much as would q
dead dodo bird.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
YOU SIGN AWAY EVERYTHING BUT YOUR LIFE

W.
everything You interest
permitted the District help can't
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My Say

DOOR Jack Benny I do hope he comes out
of this apparent Jam all right.
When You think how many hours Of pleasure
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

A MONG the cities hope to visit are Atlanta,
IA Birmingham, Dallas, El Paso Phoenix, Los
Angeles San Francisco. Seattle, Palm SPRINGS
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

NEON FLAME LURES MOTH-When a poorly paid
lUOrkers uUife lies desperately ILL., Oans in n,inutes
is the bait that hooks him. He usually does stop
think of exOrbitant rates. The d protects the
small borrower degree in the District of Columbia
but "ocrOss the line" he is gouged.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Early CrOss-C Country Motor Trips

ENVEN in the early days of the automobile your
~ path across the map wasn't padded down
with rose petals. When you went along at the
breakneck speed of 20 miles an hour you were
never certain that you would finally reach your
destination in the same rattlebox. You took
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rocking wagon. Later. by train, there was never
the certainty that you would arrive all in one
piece; and of course, there were the train robbers
who were an impolite and inconsiderate bunch of
fellows who kept their hats on while shooting
you dead.
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"DO YOU NEED MONEY?"-Baby coming? Just
tell your troubles the philanthrOpist behind the
counter. "Sign here"-"and here"-and your troubles
haUe trebled.
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Pitng Up Misery

If he is not able to do so he
finds himself caught in the web
and what he has to pay to. get
free is pitiful speculstion-run
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will loan you a moderate sum at
6 per cent interest. And in small
loan. being paid off in monthly
insta1lmentS, the District law per,
mits a charge Of / per cent per
month-whtch includes all
charges-and these charges can
not be deducted in advance. Pen
atty for exceeding these rates
means forfeiture Of all interest
plus one-quarter Of the principal.
One spider in burst of frank
ness told the writer that such
rates of interest wouldn't even pay
the cost Of his neon signS-bright.
cheerful, warming calls to the tenn.
porarily busted wage.earner to
come in and take whatever the
spider thinks the traffic will bear
at Sh per cent on the unpaid
balances Of the loan II the fly is
able t. lay the payments on the
line when due.
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NOHto, OUoP t7VOV ivy Fo0' 70
Said the spider to the fty."
THE FLIES, in this case, are thousands
l. upon thousands of low and medium
salaried residents of the District of Colum-
bia: the spiders are moneylenders who oper-
ate in the nearby sections of Virginia and
Maryland. Their webs cannot be woven in
the city of Washington because our laws
fortunately do not permit rates of interest
above what has been called usury. So it is
not worth the spiders while to come into
the District. Instead, he weaves his web
and calls and beckons to the fly from across
the line.
Why Not Use Banks?
If you carry an account in a District bank and
are careful not to overdraw; If you are person
of standing-even moderate standing, as vouched
for by others of repute-then any OF these banks
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
There's Dynamite Behine
Loan Made Across Line

As result of conditions umeGrthed Dur
ing the investigation aOhich preceded pub
lication of this series The Washington
Times and Washington Herald haze dis
continued publication of advertising from
all personal Loan Companies" operating
IN nearby Maryland and VirginiG.-Pub-
Usher, Washington Times and Herald.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
ARTICLE 1
BY W. A. 8. DOUGLAS

"Come, step into nay pGrlor,
Said the spider to the fly."
Evening star., 1939-11-28
Ladies of G. A. r.
Hail Founders

The Gen. William H. Beck Circle,
No. 4, Ladies of the Grand Army
OF the Republic, celebrated the oath
anniversary of its founding Novem-
ber Is at the Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines Club.
The first president was Mrs. Vir-
ginia White Speel. Those later were
Mrs. Mary Sitz Parker, Mrs. Mar
garet Hopkins Worrell, Mrs. Henry
Hunt Mckee, Mrs. Susanne v.
Meyers, Mrs. Rena Harlan, Mrs. Bess
Pearce and Mrs. w. j. Hausman.
Among the guests were friends
OF Beck Circle from Daughters of
Union Veterans of the Civil War,
Sons of Union Veterans, Womens
Relief Corps. and Grant, Lincoln,
Mckinley and Oldroyd Circles,
Ladies of the G. A. r.
There was the presentation of a
large silk flag given by Mrs. Susanne
Meyers in memory of her father,
Edgar Stevenson, Civil War soldier
and past commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic in Chester,
Pa, who died few years ago. A
dedicatory service followed, and the
service ended with the song God
Bless America"
Pupils from the Roma Lee Dane
Ing School gave dances. The Hill
Bllies" furnished music.
Evening star., 1939-11-28
New York Entertains
Latin Delegation

The South American women dele
gates representing Brazil, Argen-
tina, Costa Rica, Cuba and Ven
ezuela, who arrived in Washington
two months ago on a goodwill tour
OF the United States, made under
the auspices of the Peoples Man
date Committee, are now in New
York prior to sailing for their homes.
They have completed a coast-to-
coast visit under the leadership of
Miss Mabel Vernon, director of the
Peoples Mandate Committee.
While in New York the South
American women are being enter
tanned by special committee head
ed by Mrs. Gerard Swope and Miss
Louise Watson. The New York
members of tbs Peoples Mandate
Committee include Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, honorary chairman,
and Representative Caroline ODay.
DR.. Mary E. Woolley, president emer-
ita OF Mount Holyoke College and
chairman of the Peoples Mondate
Committee, will be with the delega-
tion in New York and will be one
OF the speakers at the farewell din
ner Thursday.
Evening star., 1939-11-28
u. S. Contribution
To World Declared
Proper Democracy

Americas contribution to the
world today is to show oppressed
peoples what a democracy can be
when properly operated, declared
DR.. Reuben G. Steinmeyer of the
political science department of the
University of Maryland before the
American Association of University
Women yesterday.
DR.. Steinmeyer expressed belief
the present war would not be one
of heavy warfare so much as one
of blockade, with each side trying
to starve the other. The possibility
of a German offensive against the
Maginot Line is slight, DR.. Stein
meyer believes, as it would mean
sacrifice of at least 100000 men.
This sacrifice might be made, how
ever, he continued, if Hitler's gen.
erals thought that by doing so they
might be able to invade France.
Also, he added, if Hitler feels his
powers are in eclipse, there might
be bloody warfare because, DR..
Steinmeyer declared, ''the last days
OF dictator are partlcularly cruel"
A confederation of European
states is, in the opinion of DR.. Stein
meyer, quite distant. A new politi-
cal philosophy is essential, however,
for any security or peace in the
future, he added.
THE solution of Europe's prob
lens will not be a return to the
small states What is needed is an
entirely new philosophy. AS long
as states operate on the same basis
as in the past, there will always
be wars and rumors of wars" DR..
Steinmeyer declared.
DR.. Steinmeyer's address followed
the usual weekly tea at the club
house and was attended by an au-
dlence which filled the auditorium
and lounges.
Evening star., 1939-11-28

Miss James commended the work
Of the Alley Dwelling Authority
and predicted many improvements
In the next few years.
Entertaining glimpses of early
residents Of Washington were given
by Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., who has
long contributed to The Star with
personality sketches Of interesting
citizens.
Russell w. Schneider, convention
manager Of the Greater National
Capital Committee of the Washing
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ton Board of Trade, spoke en- Wash
ington as a convention city.
The program was planned by
Miss Elizabeth Haney, chairman Of
the Public Affairs Committee, and
assisted by Clara Beetle, Rose G.
Homann, Emma T. Hahn, Ruby
Nevins and Cirena Mahoney 5.
Evening star., 1939-11-28
Entertains Guest

Miss Marguerite Thomas, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Claude E.
Thomas, who recently moved here
from Richmond, Va, had as her
weekend guest Miss Doris Roper
of Richmond. Miss Thomas and
Miss Roper were classmates at the
Collegiate School for Girls at Rich
n1ond and at Arlington Hall.
Evening star., 1939-11-28
Democrats Hear
NeWSpaperWOman

Whether one believes in the New
Deal or not, writing news in WASH
ington is fun now, especially IN con-
trast to writing in the Coolidge and
Hoover administrations, Ruby Black,
president Of the Women's National
Press Club, told members of the
Women's National Democratic Club
yesterday at luncheon.
Miss Black, who operates a news
Evening star., 1939-11-28
Dinner Is Given
By Professional and
Business Women

Living conditions in Washington
have greatly improved in the past
20 years, due to developments in
city planning which have given
space to recreation centers and
other needs, Miss Harlean James,
executive secretary of the Ameri-
Evening star., 1939-11-28

bureau of her own and recertly CO.
edited the book washington: Nerve
Center" stated that Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt is major channel
through which the Government goes
to the people and the people go to
the Government"
The continued that "it's fun to
write about Washington because it
is the nerve center. That does not
mean that Washington runs the
country. It means that, at long last,
Evening star., 1939-11-28

can Planning and Civic Association,
told members of the Business and
Professional Women's Club at din
ner last night at the Admiral Club.
City improvements before that
time, said Miss James. were greatly
retarded due to existing legislation
on alleys. An alley was not an al
ley before the World War, Miss
James said, unless 1t accorded to
specified dimensions and until this
law was changed nothing could be
done to improve many alleyWays.
Evening star., 1939-11-28
Morrises Entertain

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Morris we're
hosts at dinner at the Shoreham
Hotel last night in honor of the
Turkish Ambassador and Nine
Ertegun, their daughter and son,
Miss Selma Ertegun and Mr.. Ahmet
Ertegun. Other guests included
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Morris, jr.
Evening star., 1939-11-28
Mrs. Murphy Hostess

Mrs. B. Frank Murphy, widow of
the former Representative from
Ohio, entertained % guests at
luncheon yesterday at the Shore
ham. Following the luncheon bridge
was played.
Evening star., 1939-11-28

. The Smith College Club of Wash
ington at its meeting tomorrow aft
ernoon will make tour of the
Goodwill Industries plant.
Evening star., 1939-11-28
Ellithorps Guests

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ellithorp
have Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Ellithorp
of Haverford, Pa, as guests at the
Wardman Park Hotel for few days.
Evening star., 1939-11-28

the people run their own Govern.
ment."
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Three Youths Hurt
As Auto Overturns

Two Oxon Hill (Md) youths were
IN Providence Hospital today re-
covering from injuries received late
yesterday when their automobile
overturned near the District line. A
third victim was allowed to return
home after treatment.
James King, Is, suffered severe
head and internals injuries and is
said to be in serious condition
Norman Tice, II, received similar
hurts, while Wesley Stone, 18,
escaped with minor cuts and pruises
Among victims of local accidents
was Nathaniel Bacon, Al, colored,
1924 Fourth street NV, who re-
ceived cuts on his arms and face in
q collision at Blair road and Aspen
street NV.
A 24-year- old Alexandria (Va)
man was arrested today in connec-
ton with a hit-and-run accident
yesterday in which a colored child
was injured.
Jesse Bernard Britt, 9, of Alb B
street Sc, was run down near his
home and treated at Providence
Hospital for severe face injuries.
Traffic Officer Lee Hensley arrested
the suspect at Fourth and c streets
S.W. after spotting license plates
believed to be those of the car
which struck the boy. The man
was held at the fifth precinct for
questioning.
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Science Seeks Chi|b|ain
Cause in Atmosphere
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-The Gov
ernment has begun feeling the pulse
of an area in space called the Tropo-
pause, some seven miles above the
earth, to see if it has anything to
do with chillblains in the human
herd.
Four men who work for the Bureau
of Standards described the atmos-
pheric pressure waves in the Tropo-
pause in a paper today at the annual
meeting of the Institute of the
Aeronautical Sciences.
The Government began making on
January l, a record of the weather
in the little known area which seems
to be a no mans land between the
earth's lower atmosphere and its
upper atmosphere, called the strato-
sphere.
In making the announcement,
Harry Diamond, S. Hinman, jr,, A.
H. Mears and c. Harmantas said
meteorologists obtained their infor-
nation with balloons bearing ap-
paratus which sends back radio
messages on pressure, temperature
and humidity.
A. R. Stickley and P. F.. Clapp of
the Weather Bureau, and H. B.
Houghton of Massachusetts, Insti-
tute of Technology, said that if the
sizes of drops of water in the atmos-
phere could be forecast, a great
stride toward forecasting icing con-
ditions would be taken. They argued
from the premise that the danger of
ice being deposited on an airplane
in flight increases as the size of the
drops grow. Clouds, Mr.. Houghton
said. contain SO to 500 drops per
cubic centimeter and measure 20
millionths of a meter in diameter.
Fogs contain from one to 10 drops
per cubic centimeter, each measur-
ing so millionths of meter,
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Retired U. S. EmpIoye
Found Hunoed in Room

Edwin H. Tuttle, IS, retired Gov
ernment employe, whose body was
found hanged to bedpost in his
apartment at 405 Tenth street Me-
was declared a suicide today by Cor
oner A. Magruder Macdonald.
The resident manager, Thurston
Saul, entered the apartment last
night after Mr.. Tuttle had not been
seen for three days. The body was
found tied to the bedpost with a
clothesline.
Two notes were found, one ad-
.ssseo CN TO a friend In New Haven,
& Soln. Police had been unable to
today. "a "
"A suicide certificate also was
issued by the coroner In the death
OF clyde E. Dexter, 81, former
board OF Education emplove, who
shot himself in restaurant at sol
Third street NV. yesterday
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Physicists Will Open
Conference TODAY

The fifth Washington Conference
on Theoretical Physics was to open
today at pm. at the George Wash
ington University.
The sessions, sponsored by the
university and the Carnegie Insti-
tuition of Washington, will continue
through Saturday. Well-known
physicists in attendance will con-
slider the magnetic. electrical and
mechanical properties of matter at
low temperatures. They will meet
at both the university and at the
institution.
Among those present will be Niels
Bohr. director of the University In
stitute for Theoretical Physics in
Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr.. Bohr
is famous as the creator of the
quantum theory of atomic struc-
ture. He is doing research work at
the Institute of Advanced Studies at
Princeton.
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Man Burned, 7 Escape
In Roominq House Fire

One man was burned seriously and
seven other persons narrowly
escaped injury early today when fire
routed them from a rooming house
at 220 Seaton court NV.
The tWo-story brick dwelling was
almost completely in flames before
firemen arrived. It took them more
than an hour and half to get the
blaze under control.
James Covington, %, colored, was
treated at Casualty Hospital for first
and second degree burns on his arms,
back and forehead. Property dam
age was estimated at nearly $500.
Firemen said they believed the
fire started from a stove in the
basement garage.
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Worker Crushes Hand

Caught in the cable of pile driver
at First and o streets Sc, Albert
Everett. IS, of GAL H street NV,
construction company employe, suf-
fered a crushed left hand yesterday.
Casualty Hospital doctors were at
tempting to save the injured hand
TODAY,
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Fraternity PLEDGES Weiss

=, Joseph Richard Weiss of us 1rv-
ing street NE. has been pledged to
Iheta Chi Fraternity at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. it was an
nounceo here today. He is a eradu-
ate OF Mckinley High School
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01

4CWs yUu WCAC YCAACCtAy WUMUVA.
full" Sally was saying.
derous bursts of applause filed the
room. Hands clapped with vehe-
mence. Small boys made their ap-
prevail known by shrill whistling.
Ted carried the audience with
him, every step of the way. He
seemed to enter, to merge himself
completely in the character he por-
trayed. His make-believe was so in
tense in the last act, that there was
a deep silence for a moment when
the final curtain fell.
TOR the time it was no make
believe to Ted. He was living
again all the agony of parting, Of
seeing Sally Howard 60 away with
out a word. He had been sure until
her train pulled out that she would
come and say how sorry she was
for the bitter, reproachful words
she had hurled at him. Words that
had left their mark upon his soul
that had stung him into a mad, am
bilious desire to show her what he
could do.
He found no real satisfaction in
the tumultuous applause that fol-
lowed. In this hour of his triumph,
his heart cried out for Sally. If
only she was here! If only she had
cared! He scarcely knew what he
was saying in answer to the lavish
congratulations.
Suddenly small hands pressed
tightly around his arm, and a re-
membered voice spoke in his ear.
"Ted, you were perfectly wonder
full" Sally was saying, wonderful,
wonderful. I'm so proud-so proud
of you."
"But, Sally, don't understand.
thought you were in New York"
81 was, until last night. I've been
keeping track Of you. ! knew all
about the play, and-and the way
you have been working lately. /
wouldn't have missed this for any
thing in the world" .
"But the things you said, Sally?
They hurt-they still do"
II wanted them to hurt, Ted. I
know know it was cruel, but there
seemed no other way. Someone had
to give you the right kind of push
to get you going. You know you
were really lazy? But now, well,
you've really put on speed"
Nothing like the speed I'm 60
ing to show in getting ready for a
Christmas wedding. There's just
two days left. We've got to make it
a really big event. Let's give out
the announcement now-while the
crowd is still in the hail."