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A smart comfortable innerspring
couch! Extra comfy because the
innerspring mattress is supported
with coil spring hse. Sturdy
hardwood frame. Opens to twin
or full size bed. Three kapok
pillows.
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not been for Singshot Davey, Todd
would have won the Houston Post
award, presented annually to Tex
as most valuable college player.
Todd is believed to hold an all-time
scoring record for high school
player. for in his senior year at
CroWell, Tex, he accounted for the
amazing total of 318 points in IL
games. Forty-nine touchdowns and
"a conversions were credited to the
subsequent Aggie, giving him LOT
points more than the famed Bill
DeCorrevont scored in establishing
what was accepted as high school
record several years ago.
In three years at Texas A. and NJ,
Todd averaged nearly yards every
time he carried the ball. AS far
as is known, no opposing team ever
succeeded in bottling him up. A.
and MS couch. Homer Norton, has
predicted that Todd will make one
of pro footballs greatest running
backs and-although we've heard
this one before-should outshine the
great Cliff Battles. It's not surpris-
ing to learn, then, that the Red
skins plan to use him either as
ball-carrier on ground plays or
receiver of passes in aerial attacks.
Down at Alabama Coach Frank
Thomas will point to Redskin Rookie
Charley Holm and say, There's the
best the South has produced since
John Hurry Cain" Gains coach
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prices are very low, I think; but
it will set good many men to
work, and work is what they very
much need. In fact, it will be a
godsend to them
Il note you say there will have to
be some changes, but whatever the
changes are you should get a fair
price for whatever you do. In these
matters do not charge too much,
even If you have the power to do so;
and want you to turn out as good
or better ships of this class than have
ever been built before for the Govern
ment. Iwould rather lose money on
a first-class ship than to make money
on one that did not give satisfaction
to the Government. The yard is new,
and what I want is to get reputa-
ton for building first-class ships
and then always build ships to sus-
tain that reputation. I find there
is more made in doing things this
way, and outside of money there is a
great satisfaction in doing work
well, and it would be humiliating to
me to have anything turned out
from our yard that was not first
class.
yours very truly,
"(SignedD c. P. Huntington"
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Rose Bowl game Of January l, 1888,
and he is regarded as an equally
powerful ball carrier and blocker.
Another thing which makes Redskin
supporter smile is the report which
praises Holm's defensive qualities.
Too many times last fall did poor
defensive work in the secondary
cost the Washington pros victory.
All-American Player.
Bringing a reputation nearly as
good as Todd's is Jimmy German OF
Centre College, the quarterback on
Grantland Rice's 1888 All-America
team. If only because he has been
varsity quarterback at Centre for
the past three years, Germans COM
ing would be hailed, in as much as it
was the Redskins lack of an expert
enced quarterback last year when
Riley Smith was injured, that him
dered them at almost every turn. But
German is not signal-caller alone.
Packing plenty of speed on his 6-foot
frame, German raced to at least one
touchdown in every one of Centres
nine games last fall. He is credited
with almost single-handedly beating
Washington and Lee and outgained
every back on the field in the game
with high-powered Villanova. Rice
was not alone in recognizing his
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skins selections in the annual draft
of college seniors last falls the
greatest running back in the his
tory of the football-mad South
west. an all-America quarterback;
another back called the South's best
since the famed John (Hurry)
Cain, and a couple of iron men
who think they're being benched
if they play less than so minutes.
Indeed, according to George Pres
ton Marshall, who's revolutionized
the state of football in the Nation S
Capital, they represent the best all
around group of rockies he's ever
anticipated-and this will be his
18th year in pro football.
There may not be another Baugh
or Battles in the lot. but man-for-
man. they are reckoned far su-
perior to any previous crop of would
be Redskins. And they may prove
just the right type of new blood to
revive once-great football team
which showed definite signs of senil-
ity last fall.
Widest Reputation.
Probably the rockies with the Wild
est national reputation is Todd of
Texas A. and NJ, whose equal in
carrying the pigskin Southwest fans
insist they never have seen. The
more celebrated Davey O'Brien of
the rivaling Texas Christian team
called Todd the most dangerous
runner he'd ever faced, and had it
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Mrs. Roosevelt to Chrsten Vessel on Which
Thousands of Workers Are Engaged
in Finishing Touches

pert cabinetmaker. 1t was present.
ed to the United States Lines last
April and is now on exhibition in
the reception rooms of the lines
main office in New York City.
Salvage Material.
Many of the exhibits in the mu-
scum have been retrieved from Davy
Jones locker. Such. for instance,
are the "black glass" liqueur bot
ties recently salvaged from British
vessels sunk at Yorktown during the
latter days Of the Revolutionary
War and which the action of the sea
water has turned to a beautiful
iridescence.
Housewives may think that glass
rolling pins are very up to date, but
some ships cook back In the early
10th century had one of brilliant
purple glass with the following verse
embossed in gold thereon:
From rocks and sands and barren
lands
King Fortune keep me free;
And from great guns and women's
tongues
Good Lord deliver me-"
These things and many more
make an afternoon at the Mariners
Museum we'll spent. One of the
most impressive of all exhibits are
the dozens of ships flgureheads
adorning the walls. Many of these
are ancient. Some are modern. At
the far end of the main display
room, on either side of a doorway,
are two of these figureheads. The
lady on the left is primly robed in
gray from chin to toe, and the mar
tinet expression of her face is the
antithesis of that on the buxom,
scantily garbed maid on the right
of the doorway. Whether by acci-
dent or design, these two ships
ladies" present striking contrast.
The Mariners Museum Is fine
memorial to a great man. A finer
yet is the vast industry that gives
work to thousands of men. One Of
the finest Of all is the ship that will
slip down the ways on August 81.
1899, to be christened by Mrs. Roose-
welt America"
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talents for he made the Associated
Press All-America team composed of
players from the smaller colleges
Germans also said to be a passer
and is noted for his endurance.
So far. the biggest rookie signed is
Paul Smith, little st. Benedict's 235-
pound 6-foot-2 tackle. 1t was his
play during his first year on the
varsity that proved a side feature to
St. Benedict's first undefeated-untied
team in history. Last year he was
picked as one of the best four tackles
in Kansas, a State that grows 'em
rough and tough. He must be anX-
ious to play pro football, for he was
the first rookie to sign his contract,
Holm will not be the South's only
contribution to Washington's pro
footballers this fall because from
over at Auburn comes the man who
was rated Dixie's No. l tackle last
year. He is Bo Russell, six-foot-
one 2l0-pounder, whose charge has
been most often described as ter
rife. The singular thing about Rus
sells career is that he played only
one game of high school football be-
fore entering Auburn. but his tao
king was so deadly by his senior
year of college that he was chosen
for the South's tackle in the North
South game last January l and was
on the A. P.'s second all-America.
Blocking Back.
Wilbur Moore, a rugged blocking
back for Minnesota last fall, is
another late addict to football, for
up until six years ago Moore never
had competed in a regular athletic
contest. Preferring fishing and hunt
ing, Moore was persuaded by high
school pal to give football try and
in his first year made an all-confer-
ence halfback. Although used most
ly as blocker for the Gophers last
year, Moore still found time to aver
age better than 5 yards a rush
when given the ball. A deceptive
change of pace which enables him
to twist and pivot away from a
tackler brought him many long
gains despite the fact he was run
ming from the righ halfback posi-
ton, not the spot for ball-carrier
in Bernie Bierman's system.
If the Redskins are looking for an
iron man." they'll undoubtedly have
one in Dick Tarman, one of Turk
Edwards successors as a tackle at
Washington State. Farman, who
also can play guard as we'll as tao
kle, was in every quarter of each of
States 10 games last year and was
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Nicknanes
Bestowed
On SOlOns
Legislators Find
Amusing Titles
For Friends
By Cedric Larson.

Within the halls of Congress
members of that August body could
scarcely be expected to address each
other as the Hon. Mr.. So-and-So
with starchy formality like the
ubiquitous job hunters that dog
their footsteps. On the contrary.
an easy familiarity exists between
them all, and antagonists who slay
each other on the floor of the House
or Senate in verbal debate one hour
are the best of friends in the halls
and cloakrooms when the fireworks
are over.
Thus it is that nicknames among
them. generally unknown to the
public at large, readily identify them
in each others eyes as adequately
as Slug or "One Punch" would
suffice for sobriquets in the fistic
world. The man in the street who
feels that he must address his Rep
resentative or Senator in the strict
est etiquette or be summarily eject
ed from the inner sanctums of the
House or Senate Office buildings
may therefore contemplate with a
SNUG complacency the mons de
guerre which the lawmakers bestow
on each other.
All of the following nicknames are
in fairly current vogue. and need
not be taken with a grain of salt,
as they were obtained and vouched
for by a prominent congressional
official who has been on the Hill
for many, many sessions. Not all
legislators have nicknames, Of
course, and the following should be
considered as typical and by no
means exhaustive in scope.
Upper House.
Commencing with the upper
house, Senator Henry Fountain
Ashurst of Arizona is called THE
Fountain" by many of his colleagues,
owing to the smooth and even way
in which the oratory gushes and
flows from his lips. Hattie w. Cara
way of Arkansas, who despises idle
ness and frequently carries her
knitting about with her to ward of
inaction, is sometimes dubbed
knitting Hattie" Former Senator
William Gibbs McAdoo of California,
who was Secretary Of the Treasury
under Wilson, was known widely as
"The World War Croesus," and, due
to his marriage with Wilson's daugh-
ter "The Crown Prince" AS an
engineer he was called Bill the
Builder" and owing to his intense
activity during the war as INC
Adoodledo."
William E. Borah of Idaho is
known variously as "The Lion Of
Boise "The Silver-Tongued Ora
tor" "The Lone Wolf" THE Idaho
Lion" 'The Lone Lion" and The
Lion of the Senate" His independ-
ent nature and leonine characteris-
tics seem fairly well reflected in all
Of these titles.
The late Senator James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois was commonly ac-
costed by his intimates as Jim
Ham," and due to his immaculate
dress sometimes was called Fash
ion Plate" and Beau Brummel." His
geographical neighbor. Senator
Sherman Minton, is often called
King of New Dealers" due to his
(see NICKNAMEs, Page C-7J
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Framed copies of this letter are
still hanging on the walls of some
of the "old-timers' Offices. The
policies of the founder, as we'll as
the motto which he wrote, are i'm
pressed upon every employe until 1t
is we'll understood that it is far
cheaper to do job once and do it
right than to do it wrong and do it
twice. An anonymous Workman's
Morning Prayer, published in Ship
yard Bulletin Is apparently the sub
conscious motivation of the men in
the yard:
Nov get me up to work;
pray the Lord I may not shirk.
If I should die before tonight,
I pray the Lord my works all
right"
About 10 years ago Archer P.
Huntington, son of the founder OF
the company, established the Mari
ners' Museum as a memorial to his
father. Situated in a beautiful park
S miles north of Newport News on
the road to Williamsburg, this mu-
scum has become a living history of
the development of shipbuilding and
resting place for nautical souvenirs
of all kinds-a Mecca for thousands
of tourists each year.
Its walls are lined with hundreds
of colored Autographs depicting
clipper ships and old and modern
steam vessels, as we'll as ports and
harbors of the United States from
the earliest days down to the pres
ent. Its library of shipbuilding
lore and kindred arts Is one of the
fines in the country.
Full size whaling boats, with all
their accoutrement, Chinese SAM
pans and Portuguese fishing boats
are here. together with superb mod
els of almost every conceivable type
OF ship, many of which were built
in the completely equipped model
shop connected with the museum.
In this shop was built the Is
foot builders scale model of the
America. The model weighs over
800 pounds and to build 1t required
5000 working hours Of five men
machinists, mechanics and an ex-
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a stand-out in the East-West game.
Like his predecessor, Edwards, Far
man is said to be great at block
ing punts although his 205 pounds
is some so pounds lighter than Turk.
Washington State rotated its cap
tains last year. but his teammates
thought so much of Farman's lead
ership that they made him one of
the two honorary co-captains at
the end of the season. Revelling in
rough and tough play. Farman an
swers to the nickname, Muscle"
Good Lineman.
A neighbor of Farman also is
counted upon to make the Redskins
another good lineman. Steve Sill
vinski. like Farnam, an all-coast
selection, was University of Wash
ingtons crack guard for three years.
The veteran coach, Jimmy Phelan,
says Shvinski is the best running
guard he ever coached. His 2l5
pounds qualities him for the pro
league in this position.
Clyde Shugart. the tackle from
Iowa State, seems to be another of
the Iron man variety, as he played
every minute of six games last year
and missed only 40 minutes in total
playing time of $40 minutes. Lead
ing lineman of IoWa's team, which
won all but one of its games, Shu-
CART was unanimous choice for tackle
on the all-Big Six eleven. Shugart
showed so much drive and speed
that Iowa used him as a back dur
ing his sophomore year. Not fashy,
the 205-pounder is the kind usually
found at the bottom of every scrim-
mage.
One Redskin recruit will report
to training camp bearing the per-
sonal Endorsement of Frank Dob
son, veteran coach of the Univer-
sity of Maryland and dean of 80
years in college athletic wars.
Steve Uhrinak, guard at Franklin
and Marshill. was called the best
lineman to face Army last year, and
when it's remembered that the SOL
diers faced such opposition as Notre
Dame, Harvard, Columbia and Navy,
with others, that's a pretty good
recommendation. Uhrinak led the
interference on every one of F. &
Ms running plays and took care
of blocking outthe opposing end
single-handedly, a job usually ham
died with the help of back. Ac-
cording to Dobson, who say the
Army-F. and M. game, he's just the
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Players Who
Won Records
Join Team
Rated Best Group
OF Rockies Ever
Shown Here
By Bill DiSmer, J.

Football chatter a bit premature?
Perhaps. But when 1000 Washing
tonians already have season tickets
to the Redskins six home games
next fall in their pockets and you
realize that training for the 1889
campaign begins just two weeks
from today, it's not surprising that
terms like touchdowns, punts and
tackles are drifting into daily con-
versation.
Even now the Redskins have sold
more books of tickets for this fall
than they sold for either the 1887
Or 1888 season. That despite the
fact that professional football no
longer is novelty III the Capital
and that this citys grid fans can
not now boast of the worlds pro
champions or even the Eastern title
holders.
And week from Wednesday some
60 present and future Redskins will
start converging on the most dis
tant field a pro team ever has
trained from its home base, for
the Capitals pro grid moguls long
since have contracted to train at
Spokane, Wash
So with public interest unprece-
dented and the show about to begin
let's hop behind the scenes for
quick previeW of what's in store.
What are the Redskins prospects?
How have they been strengthened?
Whom have they lost?
It's easier to answer the last
question first, for absences of such
standouts as Quarterback Riley
Smith. considered the brains of the
Redskins on the playing field for
the last three years, and Halfback
Bill Hartman, a great competitor.
who was a sensation in his first
year, are bound to be felt. Both
quit the Redskins for coaching
careers.
Await Final Verdict.
AS for the prospects, they're an
swerable only in the potentialities of
the new faces with whom the Red
skins again will charge to the top
or remain an also ran. It's with
these freshman" personalities that
this piece proposes to deal, al
though naturally the final verdict
cannot be arrived at for several
months.
Dick Todd, Charlie Holm, Bo Rus
sell, Jimmy German, Wilbur Moore,
Dick Farman, Clyde Shugart. Steve
Slivinski. Ever hear of EN-? Not
50 familiar, eh? But included in
this group-representing the Red
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and lines of industry. Had 1t not
been for this versatility and adapta-
bility. the Governments telegram to
the company, after the Naval Arms
Conference of 1922, canceling $685.
100000 worth of contracts at one
fell swoop, would have been death
blow to the company.
OF course, many men were thrown
out OF work and the town of which
this is the leading industry was i'm
poverished. But the plant has never
closed its doors and has gradually
staged a complete comeback. 1t is
the Oldest shipbuilding company in
the country engaged under the orig
inal ownership interests, and its
present president, Homer L. Fer
guson, is affectionately known as
the dean of American shipbuilders.
In 1893 c. B. Orcutt, then presi-
dent of the company, received a
letter from the founder of the COM
pany which read as follows:
"23 Broad Street,
New York, December 6. 1893.
&C. B. Orcutt, esq, New York.
MY dear sir: Yours of the 5th
Is received, and I am glad that you
have got the work, although the
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College Fame
Raises Hope
OfPrOStars
All.American PLAY
Represented in
New Talent

type to make good as professional:
typical small college player un-
recognized.
Local College Man.
Speaking of Dobson reminds that
one Of his own products, not drawn
by the Redskins in the regular draft,
will be one OF the biggest centers
OF attraction when camp opens
August 6. He is, of course, jarrin'
Jim Meade, the only local June
college graduate deemed promising
enough to warrant tryout. Accord
ing to Owner George Marshall,
Meade is the best back Washington
college has produced since Tuffy
Leemans. Strong and rugged,
Meade is particularly effective both
running and blocking and any doubt
about his ankle injury, sustained
last fall, was dispelled by the recent
vigorous lacrosse game Meade played
for Maryland last spring. Meade
also should give the Redskins a
great kicker. He not only boots for
sizable distances, but had only one
kick blocked on him during his COL
lege career.
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before Holm. Thomas should know
whereof he speaks. 1t is matter of
record that Holm was the most i'm
pressive Alabama performer in the
Evening star., 1939-11-12

patrol both sides of large liners
carrying soldiers and supplies, in all
kinds of weather and through the
war zone, is a story in itself.
detected small bit Of pride when
dad said, Eyes, I was a tin can
sailor" The name was started dur
ing the war, because on long convoy
trips, those small destroyers pitched
and rolled so much that it was al
most impossible for the chef to pre-
pare any food. Most of the food
was canned because it took up less
space and was easy to prepare, so
that's where the name originated.
When those destroyers returned to
port, dad said, the sailors made up
for lost time. They bought the best
food they could find.
He also related that during the
round-the-world fight Of the NC-1,
NC-2 and NC-4, which were sea-
planes, his ship was stationed at the
Azores Islands. When the NC-4 fell
in the water, they were detailed to
pick it up. What a job they had, as
the water was rather rough, and they
drifted around, keeping the wreckage
In sight, until the sea Gained.
Dad said he saved the pilots seat
and the pilots log. which were given
to the captain to turn over to the
Navy Department.
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their places. In this way we feel
that each boy receives the best
training he can get.
The 1899 class is four times as
large as that of 1898. Each year
We have added something new to
the shop. This year a supply room
has been added, to be operated az
is the supply room of a large COM
mercial plant.
Each boy serves one week In the
supply room for experience. 1t is
necessary that every boy know the
prices and kinds of lumber, screws.
hardware, stock sizes, doors and
window glass, the price of turpen.
tine and its uses, the different kinds
Of finishes and which is the best
to use on various kinds Of wood,
and what colors stains, shellac, var.
nish and paints come in. In addi.
ton every boy who takes vocational
shop must have taken or be taking
related mathematics or science, be-
cause both subjects fit into the
course.
The class makes for the county
such things as tables for the gram.
mar and high schools and this year
we are scheduled to make tipping
tables, tables for the school, book.
cases and ofhce-type desks.
The school is very proud of its
vocational shop and the boys have
worked hard to make the school
proud of 1t.
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month and serving the same neigh
borhood.
Arthur, who lives at PAIL Four
teenth street NE. and goes to Lang
don School, started out in the news
paper business at the age of 8, when
he lived in Scranton, Pa.
".Yes," said Arthur, bright, brown
eyed boy who takes his business
seriously, 1--WE been doing this for
two years now. My Scranton news
paper was the Neighborhood Cos
SIP"
Last June young Williams moved
from Scranton to Washington and
settled in Brentwood Village. The
journalistic urge was too much for
Arthur, and now he is up to his
elbows again in printers ink-or
typewriter ink, in this case.
The Brentwood Junior Gossip is a
weekly paper that sells for a nickel
Arthur goes from house to house in
the neighborhood collecting tid-bits
of news, visits the merchants to sell
them ads and then goes home to his
typewriter to work up the copy. He
makes several copies at a time
staples the pages together. and
when the paper Is ready, delivers 1t
to his subscribers.
Figuratively speaking, Arthur
cracks the whip on his typewriter.
There's a personal touch to his news
squibs and something really snappy
about the ads he writes.
Here are a few sample ads from
the Brentwood Junior Gossip:
Barber shop-"We really cut your
child's hair with care"
Grocery-"For meats, fruits and
vegetables which are better than
those you thought were best, call
Market"
Dry cleaner-"Watch for the.-
man, To keep your clothes spic and
span."
Most everybody In the neighbor-
hood knows Arthur now, and often
his friends, young and old alike.
write out their news items and drop
them into the mailbox in front of
his home.
TITS not the money" Arthur de-
clared. "It's the fun I get out of it. II
With real pride, he pulled from a
big brown envelope big sign that
a neighbor painted for him. 1t
reads:
"Mr. Arthur Williams.
Special Correspondent
brentwood BrevitieS.
publisher, Brentwood Junior
Gossip"