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The Washington times., 1939-01-07
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AtArtShOW

Washington art lovers who
have flocked to the exhibit of the
Washington Water Color Club at
Corcoran Art Gallery apparently
don't "go for" modern painting.
Visitors ballots gave the popu-
lar prize of $25 to Miss Elizabeth
Muhlhofer, member of the club,
for her painting Summer Flow
ers."
One Of the brightest and most
conventional entries in the show,
Summer Flowers" is a still-life
showing one vase filled with color
full flowers. and another smaller
vase in front of it. Miss Muhl-
hofer uses conventional themes,
eSchewing the modern, leaders of
the exhibit said yesterday.
The jury award, announced
two weeks ago, went to Glenn
Mitchell for his painting "Rubies
"A Red Chateau" picturing an
Eighteenth century red brick
house.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
COUNTY BOARD
TO PICK ROUTE
AT D. C. AIRPORT
Selection for Roadway
To Be Made Tuesday

ARLINGTON, Va, Jan. IA
route for the new highway around
the Washington Airport will be Sc
lected by the Arlington county
board at a special meeting Tues
day.
The board has two routes under
conSidera ton. Both start at the
southeast corner of Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery and proceed
around the south end of the air
port. One continues directly into
U. S. Highway No. l, and the other
connects with Columbia Pike.
AMES OFFERS PLAN
At a meeting yesterday, Board
Member w. P. Ames asked that
the road connecting directly with
No. l Highway be built with a
spur road connecting it with Co
lumbia Pike. This plan is ex-
pected to cost $32,500.
The alternate plan to connect
the new road directly with Colum-
bia Pike by use of the abandoned
electric railroad roadbed will cost
less than $4,000, County Engineer
C. L. Kinnier pointed out.
CHEW APPOINTED
F. Freeland Chew was unani-
mously elected chairman of the
county board to succeed Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Magruder, at yester-
days meeting. His nomination
was made by Mrs. Magruder and
seconded by w. A. E. McShea.
The board allocated $1,000 to
purchase rights of way needed to
straighten Washington Boulevard
at N. Quincy St., and approved ex-
penditure of $4,000 for rights of
way to connect Old Dominion
Drive with the Lee Highway at
Cherrydale by splitting the high
way around the Old Dominion
Bank Building.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Navy Asks Camps
To Train Civilians

The Navy Department yester-
day asked Congress for authority
to train $500 college and high
school students in the same man.
ner the Army conducts civilian
training camps. During the first
year, 500 Of the $500 trained
would be college sophomores who
would be instructed ashore for As
days the first year with sea train
ing given the following year.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
River Suicide Fights
Off Two ResCuers

FREDERICK, Md, Jan. T..
Breaking away from two would-be
rescuers, an unidentified man
about 80 plunged IS feet to his
death today from the Monocacy
River bridge at Frederick juno
ton. His body was recovered
about a mile down stream.
Ernest Shoemaker and Alonzo
Shoots, of Frederick, were passing
over the bridge and attempted to
save him.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Miss Clark's Eight
Rules Known to
M'Granery

The married life of Represent.
ative James P. McGranery CD,
Of Pennsylvania, should be a
happy one.
For the engagement of Mr.,
McGranery to Miss Regina T.
Clark, of Philadelphia, has just
been announced. They will wed in
June.
And Miss Clark, a lawyer, is
the author of a code of eight
simple rules for happy marriage.
8 RULES LISTED
Miss Clark, who practiced in
the Domestic Relations Court for
several years, is now a special
deputy attorney general. Her
eight rules are:
/. Yield on little points.
2. Be as fair to your spouse
as you wcIld be to your busi-
ness partn =.
3. Be sure you have common
interests and work together for
common purposes.
SENSE OF HUMOR
4. Don't conceal financial
worries or financial successes.
S. Avoid letting your family
or friends influence you against
your mate.
6. Be moderate in work and
play.
z. Respect the privacy Of
your spouse.
8. Keep a sense of humor.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
AIR RACES OPEN
TODAY IN MIAMI

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. IA New
York to Miami race for the Mac
Fadden trophy and prizes aggre-
gatinr $500 we're scheduled as
today's feature in Miami's annual
"All-American Air Maneuvers.
The race was originally sched-
uled for yesterday, but was post
poned because of bad weather in
New York.
The show, limited to stock
model machines, is dedicated to
the idea of promoting safety in
civilian aviation. Small planes,
using a minimum of gasoline and
some of them having less power
than the smallest of automobiles,
are entered in the show.
One of the entrants is Joe
Marrs, of Richmond, Va, a racing
pilot.
A bronze plaque, bearing the
likeness of Amelia Earhart, was
unveiled in a memorial ceremony
before the show began. Miss Ear
hart took off from the airport at
which the show is being held when
she started on her fatal round-the-
world flight. The memorial reads:
In memory of Amelia Ear
hart, whose courage and in
vincible spirit made her Amer
ica's foremost aviatrix, the Dade
County Federation of Women'S
Clubs commentaries this spot
from which she left American
soil on her last flight, June /,
1887"
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
F. F. Chew Elected
Arlington Mayor

F. Freeland Chew, for four
years member of the Arlington
County Board, yesterday was
unanimously elected chairman Of
the board, thus becoming "unoffi-
cial mayor" of Arlington.
He succeeds Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Ma gruder, who nominated him for
the post.
The board allotted 5000 to
purchase property to Straighten
Washington Boulevard at North
Quincy Street, and $1,000 for
property to divide Lee Highway
into two lanes around the Old
Dominion Bank in Cherrydale.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07

Adoption of a comprehensive
Civil Service program, extending
the merit system throughout the
Government, was predicted for
this session of Congress today by
Representative Robert Ramspeck
CD, of Georgia, chairman of the
House Civil Service Committee.
Mr.. Ramspeck announced that
his committee would begin work
Immediately after it is organized,
perhaps next week, to seek enact
ment of a civil service extension
law.
EXTENSION OF JOBS
A bill has already been intro
duced by Mr.. Ramspeck and is
now before his committee, provid-
ing for the extension of civil serv-
ice to all Government jobs, with
the exception of those which are
police-making.
The committee chairman'S bill
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Bishop TO 0ffidate
Al Silver Spring Rite

The Rev. Joseph A. Hauber will
be installed at 9 a. m. tomorrow as
rector of Ascension Church, Sligo
Parish, in Silver Spring.
Conducting the installation will
be the Right Rev. James E. Free
man, bishop of the Washington
Episcopal Diocese. The Rev
Hauber succeeds the Rev. James S.
Cox, first rector of the church.
The Rev. Hauber has been
pastor at the institution since last
July.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Pitching
Star Signalled
By StOrk

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 IN.S0.
Lefty Gomez and his wife, the
former June O'Dea, one-time show,
girl, will be Mama and Papa
Gomez" about the middle of this
year, friends of the New York
Yankees ace southpaw revealed
today.
Yankee Manager Joe Mccarthy
and others confirmed that Lefty
and the beauteous June, now on
q Bermuda cruise, had admitted
their approaching parenthood.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Illinois Cities
Seek Air Line

Representative Dirksen (R.), Of
Illinois, representing Peoria, and
Hugh DobbS, city attorney for
Springfield, Ill.,, yesterday de-
manded that the Civil Aeronautics
Authority require American Ai--
lines, Inc, to furnish air service
to their communities. The airline
is seeking a certificate of public
convenience and necessity for
operation of its routes under the
new Civil Aviation act.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Medical Academy
Wins Tax Battle

NEW YORK, Jan. Z G.N.SO.
The New York Academy of Medi-
cine, which has been tax exempt
as quasi-public educational in
stitution since 1847, today
emerged the winner in a disagree
ment with the Internal Revenue
Department. DR.. James Miller, re-
tiring president, reported the de-
partment at long last had been
convinced the academy functions
in the public interest.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
9 P. N. Burglars
Prove SChooIboVs

CHICAGO, Jan. 7 G.N.SD.-The
police found out today why the
nine o'clock burglars" did all their
burgling in the early evening.
Three of four arrested after their
latest robbery proved to be school.
boys ranging from Is to 19 years
of age. and all were surprisingly
conscientious about their studies.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
F. D. R., CABINET
INVITED TO C, u.
FOR RED MASS
Ancient Rite To Be Held
At Campus Shrine

A unique ceremony, centuries
old, to which the President, the
members Of his Cabinet, diplo-
mats and the Members of Congress
have been invited. will take place
at the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception on the campus of
Catholic University tomorrow.
This is the celebration of the
"Red Mass" by the Very Rev
Robert j. White, dean of the Law
School of Catholic University.
COURT SESSION
The "Red Mass" originated in
France, and was inaugurated by
the French lawmakers at their
own request for divine guidance
during their court session. The
tradition Will be repeated tomor-
row as coincident with the new
session of Congress.
The ceremony derives its name
from the special red robes worn
by the priests officiating at the
mass; the color is symbolic of the
flaming fire of Divine love and
wisdom.
ADOPTED IN ENGLAND
Following the French custom,
the Red Mass" was adopted by
members of the judiciary and bar
of England, and is celebrated in
New York today by the Guild of
Catholic Lawyers at st. Andrews
Church in the shadow of the Fed
eral Court Building.
In addition to Washington, the
''Red Mass" will be celebrated in
churches tomorrow in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Cali
fornia.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Mine Union Leader
Philip Penna Dead

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan.
G.N.SD.-Coal miners and opera,
tors today mourned the death OF
Philip H. Penna, 81, pioneer labor
leader. Penna was a former in
ternational president of the
United Mine Workers of America
and also served as an executive
of the Indiana Coal Operations AS
sociation.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Government Office
Hell p Sets Record

There were more workers en-
ployed in the executive service Of
the United States Government in
November, 1888, than in any other
period in the history Of the Serv.
ice, according to a report made
yesterday by the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics. The bureau estimated
the number Of employees at 119, 9,034.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Group Will Study
Jewish Problems

Organization of a group to
study Jewish world problems and
the history Of Zionism was an
nounced yesterday by Mrs. Dave
Alpher and Miss Yetta Dobkin.
The group will hold its first regu.
lar meeting in the Ambassador
Hotel tomorrow at $3.50 p. m.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Hawaiian Court
Extension Asked

Secretary Of the Navy Swanson
yesterday asked Congress to ex-
tend civil jurisdiction of the
United States Court at Hawaii
over Midway, Wake and nine
other tiny mid-ocean islands.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07
Business Men to Meet

Southeast Business Mems As
sociation will hold its monthly
meeting at S:15 p. m. Monday at
1914 Pennsylvania Ave. s. e.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07

Warner Bros. Theaters
AMBASSADOR - sunday. Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday: BinE Crosby
The Washington times., 1939-01-07

PENN-Sunday, Monday and Tues
day: Luise Rainer and Fernand Gravel
in The Great Waltz" Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday: Drums" Sat-
urday. Heart of the North" in tech
nicolor with Dick Foran, Gale Page
and Gloria Dickson.
The Washington times., 1939-01-07

COLONY-Sunday, Monday and Tues.
day: ANGLES with Dirty Faces" star
ring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.
Wednesday and Thursday: Joan Craw-
ford, Melvyn Douglas and Margaret
SULLIVAN in The Shining Hour;
March of Time. friday: Anne Shirley
Greene and Nancy Kelly in Sub
marine Patrol"
Evening star., 1939-08-06
us al Work on Dam;
Strike Zone Quiet
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
GREEN MOUNTAIN DAM. Colo,
August Screws totaling ITS men
worked at the Green Mountain dam
project today as National Guard
officers reported "all quiet" In the
strike zone where seven men were
wounded.
A. K. Anderson. project superin-
tendent for the Warner Construc-
ton Co. of Chicago, said no more
men would be hired until reor-
ganization plans were completed for
the Job, Shut down from July IL
until yesterday by a strike Of five
American Federation of Labor crafts
seeking recognition by the contrac-
tor.
About $50 men were employed
when the strike began at the $4,-
100000 project.
Gov. Ralph l.. Carr declared guard
troops would be withdrawn as soon
as peace and order were re-estab-
lished fully.
About 225 guardsmen moved into
the zone Thursday after shooting
clashes between union pickets and
armed deputies of back o-work"
force that smashed through picket
lines Tuesday night.
Gov. Carr said troops probably
would not be withdrawn pending a
Colorado industrial commission
nearing into the dispute Monday.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Japanese Enjoys Talks
Abruptly Terminated
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VILLA DESTE, Italy, Aug. S.
Japan's ENJOYS to Italy and Ger
many today ended unexpectedly
conference here at which they were
reported to have considered Japa-
nese adherence to the Italian-Ger-
man military alliance.
No reason was given for the sud-
den termination of the talks, two
days ahead of schedule. nor was
there any statement regarding the
outcome of the meeting.
Shortly before noon the Japanese
announced they were departing after
having said previously they would
remain until Monday at this resort
on Lake Como.
1t. Gen. Hiroshi Oshima, AM
bassador to Berlin. left to return to
his post and Toshio Shiratori, Am
bassador to Rome, departed for
Genoa, presumably en- route to
Rome.
The possibility of increased COL
laboration by Japan with Germany
and Italy, her partners in the anti
Comintern pact, is to be explored
with Fascist and Nazi leaders by a
Japanese delegation which is due
August 26 in Naples.
In view of this, the conference of
the ENJOYS was seen as laying
groundwork for possible extensive
military, political and economic dis
cussions upon arrival of this dele
cation.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Wedding Defies Flood

When floods marooned the priest
IN his automobile between two swol-
len rivers a wedding party waited
several miles away In Serutle, South
Africa. After a wait of several
hours they learned Of the priests
plight and the bride and bridegroom
were carried over the flood waters to
the priests car, where the ceremony
was performed.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
u. ). Health Service
Warns Of Possible
Smallpox Outbreak
Check Is Ordered Made
On Ships Passengers
After Case Develops
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The United States Public Health
Service yesterday warned health au-
thorities throughout the country to
be on guard against possible out
break of smallpox.
DR.. c. L. Williams announced that
health authorities in the home towns
of $50 passengers who landed in New
York August ! aboard the S. S. Sat-
turnia of the Italian Line had been
notified to examine the passengers
for smallpox. One of the passengers
Of the vessel developed the disease
Friday at his home in Jamaica, Long
Island.
He had acquired it at Lisbon,
Portugal, before the vessel sailed
Since the incubation, or develop
ment, period of the disease is IA
days, he did not show signs of it
until after he reached home.
The case was reported to New
York health authorities and to the
Public Health Service. Because it
was considered possible, although
not likely, that some other passen-
gers had contracted the disease, the
Health Service took the step an
nounced yesterday. 1t also radioed
the Staurnia, now en- route to Eu-
rope, and the entire crew of 400 are
being vaccinated No anxiety is felt
for the passengers on the ship, it
was stated.
The Health Service stipulated that
all passengers embarking from Lis
bon must be vaccinated against
smallpox until further notice. Thir-
teen cases of the disease have been
reported there.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
JOY Reiqns in Toxic

Defying the governments frowns
on levity and reckless living, during
the national emergency caused by
the war in China, people of Toxic,
Japan, are spending more than ever
on light entertainment.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-24
ACTION AGAINST THE RAILROADS

It recently announced that the United States Attorney
General writ charging long list of railroads with vo
ation the Sherman Act The president OF the
Association American Railroads. of the defendants mmed
lately said release Il appreciate the spirit which the
has approached this question and welcome
suit order that there be and for all
authotatvey determined to what extent the railroads are per-
itted existing law to declare sound policies consistent
with the public interest"
Curousy enough, the alleged offense which the suit is
resulted from the efforts of the railroads to maintain the
of present regulatory laws and at the time to
properly discharge their public obligation More than two
ago Association stated that the public interest will be
the integrity and credit of the railroad industry
proved maintained if the railroads refrain from establishing
with through joint rates and fares which
territory not served by such railroad and which already
served by more other railroads"
The establishment of through routes joint rates not
unless the effect railroad to enter
others territory And under existing law, railroad not
operate the territory of another with
securing permission from the c. In the light Of
this fact president of the railroad association also berv
cit obvious that railroads and motor carriers to esta
h through rates under which the territory of railroad
another the intent of the would be defeated
The question will be settled by due process of law.
Whichever the decision it will to help clear inn
portant question of public ps And it ronica fact that
the the result of action by the railroads which
purely obey existing law they understand it, and to
the public with maximum efficiency.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-24
HITLER'S BIG DRIVE

Neutral military authorities extremely skeptcal OF the
persistent ors effect that the big German push against
the Allies will be through Belgium Holland Swtzgerad Their
doubts are based tactical not moral large part OF
Holland for instance be flooded "a step which has already
been taken on limited scale) depth of about five six
which would make the going impossible for either mecnanzed
equipment stable boats The Swiss have their natural defense
of great mountains which have been fortified on big
the Swiss alpine troops supposed to be unequaed And all
far better shape to resist invasion now than
thew were in 1914 attack against Them the
perts would inevitably result in terrific make the
hausted army finally through prey for fresh
waiting French and English
Far more likely experts continue the supposition that
Hitler his big push and when he does above the
clouds and the So far the gigantic German air
force has hardly wing Those in the know that Ger
man establishments able to turn out two or three u
boats If the Germans have military
Allies it in these two fields and it is certainly reason
able to expect submarine and the bombing plane rather
than artillery and infantry will German hopes Recent re-
abroad lend creence to this theory They say most
Uboa have been called home and the planes grounded
Deduction ships and planes being refted and recon-
dtioned possible big drive against Allied shipping and Al
lied ports, cities and manufacturing centers.
In the meantime Allied buying has started here, with
planes demand everyone expected The plane makers
working "a hours day. planning ambitious expansion
projects And they getting highly profitable prices for what
The American planes for the most part seem 10
compare well with what Europe the exception
secret ships manufactured in small quantity by both
sides of which fabulous performance tales are told,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-24
THIS COUNTRY NEEDS ECONOMY

the majority of states and cities who orders
restaurant hotel finds that there is item OF
one their bill called the tax If buy some
thing at shop there will still be item the bill called
the tax the service station the cigar
ter liquor fact everywhere The Old World
has followed of taxation for Apparently
country is becoming Europeanized
greatest business the United States has draft
ed headquarters Washington forty
changes laws It would like to have it's
gestions taken up by Congress.
The big Chamber of Commerce not buttng n this time
with proposals but it states that it presenting the
composite of of business response to
quest from the United States Treasury for suggestions on how
the tax laws could be improved"
the only of these forty recommendations worth
mentioning the of them from four to six
% the proposal eliminate double taxation of dividends
big organizations supported by brilliant leaders in
business and political world All too often they sdetep the
questions In odfashoned English the real remedy most
needed is ECONOMY.
In years the National debt has been multiplied several
times the end of each fiscal the deficits of the Govern
ment have greater by millions of dollars than they
the wear before has simply wild
spending spree after another. . .
It is beside question lay all the blame the President
Congress the and Congress not prof
gate Roosevelt could splash around with all these billions
of money The voters down their cand
dates 1910 and pledge them to In the days when Cal
Coolidge President of the United States the national debt
reduced 10 billion dollars It can be reduced again.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-24
N. CAROLINA
COLORED FOLKS
CHOOSE NAMES
Petty Larceny Attracted The
Attention OF Parents For
Their Offspring

What's in a name? There's lot
in the flamboyant ones some North
Carolina Negroes have given their
children.
DR.. A. P. Hudson, Of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, in a paper,
Science of Naming Negro Babies"
has traced the bizarre naming back
to Reconstruction Days, when newly
freed Negroes jumped at the oppor-
tunity to exercise hitherto unknown
privilege.
The imagination, humor and signi-
ficance of these names, he said, sham
ed the more prosaic ones of the whites.
"Petty Larceny" the name record
ed for one pickaninny, for instance in
dicated weakness of the child's faith
er.
Names cited as illustrating the par
ents' yen for the scriptural includ-
ed "Image of Christ Lord God Brown
81 Shall Rise and Go to My Father
Smith," and "And Seven Times Shalt
Thou Walk Around Jericho called
"Thou'' for short.
Institutions and things familiar to
the parents were freely drawn upon
for names such as Gree Press" "Sea-
board" and methodist Conference
South"
Appreciation Of economics led one
family to name it's baby dollar" and
another is going through life called
"Nary Red"
Medicine made deep impressions on
mothers, who called their offspring
"Delirious" and "terilizer."
Twins often were given such names
as "Nicknack and Bootjack" matters
and Taters" and Gasoline and Kero-
sene."
Many are named after Presidents
or other public leaders, and one lusty
infant was found to have been NAM
ed Lightning Twice" by his father
in the hope he would grow up to emu
late Jack Johnson, one-time famous
Negro boxer.