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Evening star., 1939-03-11
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The Washington times., 1939-01-02
STORK IS KEPT
BUSY IN CAPITAL

The year 1899 was just so sec,
onds old when the stork made its
first appearance in the Nation S
Capital. 1t left a girl at George.
town University Hospital for Mr..
and Mrs. Clifton S. Wynn, of the
1900 block Walnut st. N. E. She
weighed 7 pounds, IA ounces and
has a swell pair of lungs.
Then the rush began. The
stork was kept busy all day and
when 1895 first day ended, 81
babies had been born in the
Washington area.
The second youngster was also
girl, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Duvall, of Laurel, Md,
who was born at Homeopathic
Hospital. The first boy arrived
at 1885 a. m. at Montgomery
County Hospital. the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Shepherd. of
the 1900 block Raum St. N. E.
Ten minutes later boy was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Robert w. Cush-
man, of the 1900 block Brandy
wine st. N w., at Georgetown
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
R. GUARDS
FEAR 'SHAKEUP'

Members of the White House
Secret Service detail are still on
the anxious set'' as rumors per
sist that disciplinary action will
result from a recent mansion
gate-crashing episode.
Joseph Measel, 16, of the 410O
block of Connecticut Avenue N
w. and Beatrice White, 16, of
the $500 block of Twenty-eighth
st. N. w., the "gate-crashers" who
have brought misery to the Sec,
ret Service detail, strolled past
guards Saturday night, reached
the second floor White House liV,
ing room. talked with members of
the Presidential family and OBJ
tanned autographs.
This incident, following closely
one in San Francisco. Cal, where
the mint was invaded by two
youthful prankSters who avoided
every conceivable protective de-
vice has brought persistent rumors
of Shake-up in the Secret Serv-
ice.
At the White House none would
comment on the reports and Secret
Service officials at the Treasury
were similarly uncommunicative
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
HELD
Constable and Son in
Jail as Slayers

BUTLER, Pa, Jan. 2 G.N.S.)
A musically inclined country con
stable who dropped his saxaphone
New Year Eve for a revolver and
shotgun was held with his son on
murder charges today after q
dance-hall feud.
Francis Mckay, 26, of Taren
tum, was slain, and six other
youths who accompanied him to a
public dance Saturday night were
wounded.
Today Constable Thomas Cal
len, As, miner, farmer and musi.
clan, and his son, Clarence, 90
we're held in Jail. Both gave them,
selves up to police after reporting
the killing.
State police said Callen told
them he found the Mckay crowd
with whom the Callens had
clashed earlier in the evening,
waiting at his farm after the
dance. The elder Callen said he
drove Mckay from the house and
then, according to the police yer.
sion, he and his son fired on the
car of the invaders. Mckay fell
mortally wounded, during the
shooting.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02

hOOkup by the National Broad
casting Company, and went as
follows:
I'VE were fishing out of New
Orleans. The boat ran out Of
coal.
Thinking quickly, as usual,
1 had the crew put some dog.
fish in = spare tank. I had
one man tickle the dOgfish
until they barked. Then we
threw the barkS into the boilers.
They burned fine and got us
back to shore.
o. C. Hullett. the perennial
president of the Burlington
(WiS.) organization claims a
membership of $1,000 and said
the $500 lies submitted this
year came from 13 countries.
BOettcher said this was tbs
first time he had ever tried his
hand at 1t.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
MOther-ln-LAw Raids Penthouse;
Finds EOldence for Her Daughter
Theater Executive
Reported
With Nymph

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Take it
from Phyllis Cameron, petite
blonde dancer of Broadway and
Rio de Janeiro cafe society hot
spots, when a wife in distress needs
evidence for a divorce nobody is as
competent to lead a raid on hubby
as a girls own dear, sweet mama.
The proof lies in the pudding,
according to Phyllis. Tomorrow
Supreme Court Justice Aaron
Steuer will sign an order permit
ting Phyllis to substitute a di-
vorce action for a previous separa-
tion suit against Lester B. Isaac,
Loew Theater executive and sound
engineer.
CROSS-CHARGES MADE
The reason for this preliminary
victory is that Phyllis mother
went on the war path after Isaac
had "wrongfully and falsely" ac-
cording to the daughter, accused
Phyllis of misconduct with DR..
Caio de Freitas Castro. Brazilian
surgeon and diplomat.
Following a bit of preliminary
scouting, the pretty dancer'S
mother gathered together couple
of witnesses on May %, 1888, and
at 11:45 a. m. arrived at Son-in-
law Isaac's penthouse, atop 393
West End Ave. Inside they found
that Loew sound engineer, lightly
clad, holding a tete-a-tete with an
unnamed nymph, according to
Mrs. Cameron's terse contribution
to Phyllis complaint. To quote
exactly from the legal document: !:
my mother found the
defendant with another woman,
who was undressed except for
a nightgown."
WIFE IN RIO AT TIME
Phyllis was in Rio de Janerio
at the time Of the raid, according
to the complaint, strutting her
stuff at he Urea Casino.
Isaac, in opposing his wife's petit
tion for substitution of a divorce
action for the previous separation
suit, denied all her charges-in-
Guiding Phyllis assertion that he
was friendly with other women be-
sides the penthouse nymph-and
reiterated his previous charge that
the dancer engaged in a romantic
interlude with DR.. Castro.
The dancers lawyer, Leslie Nc
Kinley Cotton, has asked the
court to award her $500 counsel
fees and not less than $75 weekly
alimony. Objecting to any in
crease over the $40 weekly he is
now paying her, Isaac has de-
clared that his wife is now in Rio,
employed in the Urea Casino and
asserted upon information and
belief" that she is being sup
ported by the Brazilian diplomat.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
CHAMP LIARS STORY
WINS PHONY BADGE

MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 2 U.N.-
S.. You could call husky
Charles BOettcher, 27, the
worlds biggest liar in perfect
safety today.
By telling the talIest story
submitted to Ghe Burlington
Liars Club during the year he
won the 1888 championship
and the right to wear a dia-
mOnd-Studded gold badge.
The badge, BOettcher found,
had a slightly braSsy ring and
the diamond looked SuSpiciOuSly
as it If it had been mined from
the bottom of a beer bottle.
"Oh, well, tit for tat"
BOettcher shrugged and went
back to his filling station to
think up one for next year.
His prize winning account was
related ut the clubs annual
meeting put on . national radio
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
Cures for Prayed Nerves:
lures ia
Movie Stars Tell Their Favorte Recipes for Relaxing

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2 G.N.S).
When you're tired, and your
brain is foggy, and things are
against you, and you're just about
to jump out of your skin, take
a tip from the movie stars and
learn how to relax.
The stars get plenty hot under
the glare of those huge set lamps,
and their brains grow foggy from
nervous tension and physical
strain. And they'd go balmy, too,
if they didn't know how to take
it easy when they have the
chance.
RAFT READS SPORTS
Every satellite, of course, has
his own way of unlimbering, but
the main idea is to get your mind
off what you've been doing, a psy-
chologically correct procedure.
Like Bing Crosby, for instance,
who paws over his fan mail dur
ing the between-scenes waits. He
jots notations on each letter as
to what reply to make, and these
replies keep two or three. secre-
tarieS busy.
George Raft brings a flock of
newspapers to the "Lady's from
Kentucky" set and relaxes by pc,
rusing the sports pages. A devo-
tee of fights, baseball and foot
bail. Raft can get completely
away from his work by catching
The Washington times., 1939-01-02

a round of table tennis. He's a
Whiz at it.
When Gary Cooper can't stand
things any longer, he rides his
bicycle around the studio Carole
Lombard wanderS around on foot.
Andy Devine can fall asleep any
time, anywhere, and he does at
every opportunity. No matter
how much noise there is around
him, Andy can snooze peacefully,
if not quietly.
Gale Sondergaard, Joan Craw-
ford and Mary Boland are indie
fatigable knit ers. Alan Now
bray sits on the sidelines and
thinks up ways to twit his fellow
players, and he always succeeds.
He is credited with the most bit
ing wit in Hollywood.
! MARSHALL THINKS
Claudette Colbert likes to sit in
her portable dressing room on
the set and talk to her two dogs
Herbert Marshall sits and stareS
into space, lost in his own
thoughts. Francis Lederer amuses
himself by making rough sketches
of the players he's working
with, then crumpling t h m-the
sketches, that is.
But whatever way they choose
to relax. they are ready when it's
time to go to work again. So take
a tip from the stars.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
BLOOD HELPS
z WITH 'STREP'

Two Washington women were
slowly winning their fight for life
in recovery from a rare blood
disease today, after they had been
given tranSfusionS.
Mrs. Edward j. Gimpel, 3700
block Twenty-fourth st. N. E., was
the donor who supplied the pre-
cious blood to Mrs. Edna Diehl and
Mrs. Walter B. Matheny, the suf-
fererS
Mrs. Gimpel answered an ap-
peal of the Patterson Newspapers
and the National Broadcasting
Company, which cooperated in To-
eating a person with the rare Moss
type 4 blood necessary for the
TRANSMISSION.
DR.. George Tolstoi, under whose
supervision the tranSfuSionS were
made, said the malady, streptococ-
Gus viridans, consists of an arte-
rial infection which permits the
blood stream to circulate the dead
ly germs in clots.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
JITTERBUCS!
HERE'S NEWS

Well, here's great news for the
jitterbugs!
Jack Butler and Grace Baker
Of Fredericksburg, down in Oh
Virginny, who walked off with
Saturday nights SIS prize; Ray
Johnson, of C Street Northeast,
and Mary Moore, of L Street
Northwest, who copped the SIC
second prize, and Bill DoWling, OF
F. Street Northwest, and Juanita
Young, of Seventeenth Place North,
east. who smashed through some
mighty tough competition for the
third money of $5, surely did
themselves proud!
In fact-So insiStent were the
alligators and the ickies out front
and so disappointed were scores
of contestants who yearn for the
$100 prize money in the Grand
Finale of the Washington Times
Capitol Theater Jitterbug Jam
boree, that
THERE WILL BE STILL AN
OTHER SEMIFINAL RUN OFF
NEXT SATURDAY!
YoWzah!
And the grand final finale oi
the finals will be run-jumped anc
skip-hopped to the hot licks of the
Lampkin lid-lifters Saturday night
January IA!
An extra show for the alligators
an extra SIS, $40 and SIS fol
the best of the contestants who
were eliminated in the first five
semifinals- an extra hot fin,
ish to the most exciting carnival oi
swing the Capital has ever seen
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
Is PLANES QUIT
COLLEGE PARK,
HEADED SOUTH
Miami Air Races Draw
Record Flight

Like birds flying South for the
winter, rs civilian airplane pilots
Zoomed their ships out of the
College Park Airport this morn.
ing to join 400 other fliers bound
for Miami, Fla, in the largest
mass flight in civil aviation his
tory.
They will participate in the All.
American Air Races, starting
Friday at Miami, in a program
designed to stimulate interest in
private flying and to develop
civilian pilots for national defense
purposes in emergencies.
FLEET TO GROW
The avalanche of planes that
dropped out of the sky for an
overnight stop at the nearby
Maryland air field late yesterday
headed for Raleigh, N. c., today,
with a short stop scheduled for
Richmond, Va. They will be
joined by additional civilian flierS
on each stop southwark.
In other airports from the
Great Lakes to the Southwest
light planes were preparing to-
day to join the air parade at
Orlando, Fla, before the complete
cavalcade descends on Miami.
Pilots of the tiny planes that
darkened the sky over Washing
ton yesterday afternoon flew here
from Pennsylvania and New York
by practically every known form
of navigation. Some were guided
by road maps, others by the sun
and some by compass. Few were
equipped with modern inStru-
mentS.
DELAYED BY SNOW
More than score of "lone
eagles" were delayed at Buffalo
and other New York fields by 18
inches of snow. Nine of the de-
layed group arrived this morning.
Leading the Eastern caravan
were the youngest and oldest
pilots, flying together in a ship
with one of the new single blade
propellors. Helen Jones, 16, Of
Lancaster, Pa, a veteran of 240
hours in the air, had Howard
Pop" Brown, 66, of Red Bank,
N. j., as her navigator. Brown,
who holds pilots license No. So,
was flying back in 1911.
Miss Jones was followed in by
her father, Jesse Jones, operator
of the municipal airport at Lam
caster. Both will pilot similar
planes equipped with the new
Single-blade props" in the Miami
races.
The planes, all popular light
weight ships, included the three
major types of small civilian air.
craft, Taylor Cubs, TayIorcraft,
and Aeroncas. Frank Dove, Of
Summit, N. j., flying the oldest
'jallopy," sits in an open cockpit.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
Holiday Quiet
For F. d.

A quiet day marked the begin
ming of the New Year at the White
House yesterday.
Surrounded by members of his
family, President Roosevelt spent
the day at home. He worked on
his message to Congress part Of
the day and spent some time with
his relatives.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her son
John went horseback riding for an
hour during the morning, then
returned to join the rest of the
family at quiet midday dinner.
Thousands of kilograms con.
tinued to pour into the White
House, offering the President good
wishes for the coming year. No
estimate could be obtained of the
number of wires received thus far,
but 1t was stated that they were
still coming in.
Among those staying at the
Executive Mansion over the week
end were the Presidents mother,
Mrs. James Roosevelt, his son
and daughter-in-law, John and
Anne Roosevelt: his sister-in-law,
Mrs. j. r. Roosevelt; his daughter
in-law, Mrs. James Roosevelt, and
her two children, Kate and Sara.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
Auditorium Drive
Will Be Renewed

Remembering the favorable re-
port made by a Senate committee
last May, efforts to push through
a bill providing an auditorium for
the District will be renewed during
the coming session of Congress, it
was announced by Senator Tom
Connally CD Of Texas. Although
the bill providing for such a build
ing to meet the needs of the Ma
tional Capital had almost clear
sailing through the Senate COM
mittee during the last session of
Congress, it was not placed on the
calendar in time for action.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
Twin Boys Born
In Different Years

CHICAGO, Jan. 2. Twins
born in different years were
left by the stork in a Chicago hos
pital. One Of the twins, sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stop
anski, was born at exactly 1855
p. m. New Year Eve. The second
boy made his debut in 1899,
exactly 80 seconds after midnight.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
SLUMS
Families Aided
Bu u. S. Housing

More than 10000 American
families deserted their former
Slum dwellings, and Occupied safe
and sanitary public housing prof
ects administered by the U. S
Housing Authority, it was said
today by Nathan Straus, U. S.
H. A. administrator.
In 1899 thousands more will
migrate from the slums into
decent loW-rent homes" Straus
predicted.
Projects for construction of
5000 new homes are under con.
tract, he said and during the year
1889 approximately 10000 new
homes will lbe completed.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
Barton to Push
'LaW Repeal

Q.N.S.) Representative Bruce
Barton (RD, of New York, who
was elected to Congress a year
ago, has reiterated his pledge to
wage a "repeal-a-law-a-week" cam
paign.
Nothing has come up to
make me change my mind" the
noted author and advertising
executive said. THE statutes
are still cluttered with useless
and unavoidable laws. With
the political complexion of the
House considerably altered,
hope for more support than I
received in the last session."
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
Mexico Honors
Army Officers

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2.-Follow-
ing recent efforts to keep the
army's support, which led the gov
ernment TO increase the pay of
the rank and file, the promotion
of II brigadier generals to gener-
ais was announced.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
Auto Leaps Span;
Driver Drowned

RED BANK, N. j., Jan. Row
land Atkinson, 36, of River Plaza,
N. j., was drowned when his auto
mobile crashed through a bridge
railing and plunged into the
Shrewsbury River. Five other occu-
pants of the car swan to shore.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
CHARTS
CITE'STARV|NC'
FAMILIES HERE
Most Need Age Relief,
Others Don't, He Says

While public assistance officials
begged for more relief funds,
Burdette G. Lewis, District relief
investigator, author of charges of
chiseling and inefficiency in the
local relief Setup, today offered
charts to justify some of his al
Legations.
Lewis report on Washington's
relief problems, to be revealed
piecemeal, began yesterday with
his charges that many were re-
ceiving relief who didn't need it,
others were receiving in excess
of their needs, and, in some cases,
insufficient relief was being given.
FACE STARVATION"
Today's charts tend to show
that 6l.4 per cent of households
in which old-age pensions were
being paid have incomes rang
ing from $40 to $50 a month and
are continually facing starva-
tion."
In the group having incomes
from $50 to $119 month are 25.6
per cent. These, he said, are
fighting poverty" The remain
ing groups are comfortable mid
die Glass;" with incomes from $12G
10 $249, 119 per cent, and liable
to afford luXuries," incomes from
$3.50 and over, IL per cent.
There are 81 families" he
said, having income from other
sources of over $500 per month,
who also receive old-age grants
in the household, averaging SIS
per month approximately"
"GREED AND HATE"
A bit of Lewis "own philosophy"
as he described it, was contained
in the rather factual and statiSti-
cal report made public today.
Says Mr.. Lewis:
with a feeling that greed
and hate have been much over
worked. and are too rapidly
bringing certain chaos in their
wake, we have hoped to indi-
cate how cooperation and
feeling of brotherhood, guided
by the findings of science, may
reverse the trends and save this
civilization from the menace of
diStempers and of unfortunate
misfitS."
Lewis explained the methods
employed during his investigation
of case loads and the information
be used in arriving at his con-
cluSions on the adequacy of relief.
PERSONNEL FUNDS SOUGHT
One of the charts published to-
day, which Lewis used as guide,
shows 100000 American families
continually facing starvation;
II 100000 fighting poverty;
100000 in the comfortable mid
die class" and 1,585,OGO "habitual-
ly able to afford luxuries."
Immediately on publication of
the first section of the report,
with its charges of fraud and
chiseling and inefficency, public
relief officials here responded with
a plea for additional personnel
funds, declaring that with a proper
and adequate staff, the evils
charged by him would be elimi-
mated.
Lewis made 19 recommends
tions, among them the proposals
for a thorough reorganization of
the relief administration by Gre
alton of a consolidated Depart
ment of Employment and Social
Security to take in the existing
Board of Public Welfare, United
States Employment Service, Dis
trict Unemployment Compensa-
ton Board. Works Progress Admin
iStration and Self-Help Exchange.
The Washington times., 1939-01-02

up on the latest in these sports.
Martha Raye, playing opposite
Bob Burns in Never Say Die, -
sets her phonograph going.
COOPER BIKES
Madeleine Carroll goes for mu-
sic, too, except that she repairs
to her dressing room and turns
on the radio. Fred MacMurray
,drOps over to the gymnasium fol
The Washington times., 1939-01-02
KING! HONORS
BRITONS WHO
AvERTED WAR
Creates Only a Peers'
Wallis Snubbed

LONDON, Jan. liking George
VI, in New Year honors list, has
scattered decorations Of various
degrees on Britons who helped
steer the country through the
September crisis when war seemed
only a few hours away.
The British Ambassador to Ber
lin, Sir Neville Henderson, was
made Knight of the Grand Cross
Of st. Michael and st. George.
COUNSELORS HONORED
William Strang, who flew to
Godesberg and Berchtesgaden
with Prime Minister Neville Cham.
berlain on the latter's historic
'peace flights" to Chancellor
Adolf Hitler, became companion
in the Order of the Bath, as did
Frank T. A. AShton-G Gwatkin, who
accompanied Viscount Runciman
when the latter went to Czecho-
Slovakia as a neutral adviser.
Both Strang and Ashton-Gwat-
kin are counSelorS Of the foreign
office.
Among those singled out for
honorS were Harry Dean, porter
on the London, Midland and Scot
land railroad; Tommy Rankin,
riveters' foreman on the liner
Queen Mary; Charlie Fraser, GlaS-
cow policeman, and Dorothy
Mann, telephone operator at the
admiralty office. They were made
members of the Order of the Brit
iSh Empire.
Conspicuously absent from the
list was the Duchess of Windsor,
who was expected to receive the
title of Royal HighneSS. It was
anticipated that she would receive
the title later in the year and end
the exile of her husband, the
former king.
ONLY FOUR NEW PEERS
Many of those who received the
Order of the British Empire in
the New Year honors were re-
warded for services in developing
Britain's air raid precautions
service during the September
crisis.
There were no women among
those receiving high honorS to-
night, although 13 women, includ-
ing Florence HorSbrugh, conServa-
tive member of Parliament, were
among the 100 persons receiving
the Minor Order of the British
Empire.
Among SO persons who were
made members Of the British En-
pire order there were % women.
Only four new peers-all barons
were created by the new list OF
honorS which was described as
''the skimpiest in years."
Sir Maurice Hankey, former
secretary of the cabinet and
friend of the late King George
v, Edward VIII and George vi,
was made a baron. For nearly
a quarter of a century he has
been known as "the keeper OF
Britain's secrets ="
OTHER BARONS
Sir Arthur Greer, retired mem
Der of the Court of Appeals, who
for years has advocated abolition
of cumbersome laws and who con-
tends that life-term prisoners have
it "too comfortable" in Britain,
also was made baron.
The other two new barons are
Cecil Bishop Harmsworth, former
member of the cabinet, and Sir
Laurence Richard Phillips, philan-
thropist.
Two new privy counselorS were
named: Parliamentary Undersec-
retary of State Richard Austen
Butler, who speaks for Chamber
lain in the House of Commons on
many occasions, and Capt. R. H.
Crookshank, member of Parlla-
ment.
Two men received Britain's
coveted honor, the Order of Merit.
They were Sir James Jeans, noted
physicist and a member of the
post-Einstein group of Fourth
Dimensioners," and Admiral Of the
Fleet Chatfield
The Washington times., 1939-01-02

It's Time for the Worst Of IT."
Helpful article for those who like
sausage and wurst. Only one Of the
interesting features Of the New House,
wife's food almanac. There are also
unusual facts about food, an amusing
astronomical calendar for the month
Of January and four prize-winninR
recipes. Do not miss this page in the
tributed with next Sundays WaShin~-
ton Herald-Tlmes.