Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1935, Page 20

A—20 THRD PARTY N HOLD PARLEY HERE Progressives Take Lead in Move—La Follette Prin- ciples Talked. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 8—A definite attempt is being made to launch a progressive third party in time for the 1936 elections, It was stated here vesterday by Alfred M. Bingham, voung liberal editor and secretary of the Farmer-Laborer Political Federa- Washington Wayside | Random Observations of Interesting i Events and Things. HOMEMADE TICKET. restrictions | Your concoction of herbs and roots ITH parking what they are, ingenuity is popping out like measles amid the workaday toilers. Take a certain Govern- ment legal aide. From close observa- tion he noticed a motorist seldom gets | a parking ticket when he already has | one in plain sight. | grocer’s order book was quite similar | to the carbon-backed tickets police- | | men often leave as calling cards be- neath the windshield wipers of over- time parkers. | So each morning for about 60 days | He also noticed a slip from h'us‘ THE EVENING good for what ailed you. If you put | which otherwise tasted smooth and sweet into the quassia cup for a while, the bitterness of the wood permeated | the infusion. It made your remedy | taste bitter. Then, through the magic | of the quassia cup, it became good | medicine, | * ok % X WATERS UNDERFOOT. ENS of thousands of Washing- tonians cross Tiber Creek many times daily without so| much as suspecting its existence. The | lost creek, forgotten by all save engi- STAR, The motorman was the first off the car. But there was no accident. alert eyes of the man at the control had espied what looked like a roll of greenbacks lying about a foot from the track. It was but a step for him | to pick it up. They were greenbacks. | The motorman calmly re-entered the car as he took a glance at the money and stuffed it in his pocket. Yep—street watchers, that's what they are. * ok * % NEW DEAL SIDELIGHT. HEN Chester C. Davis, boss of the Farm Administration, has plowed under the day's work you're liable to find him playing hand ball with John B. Payne, A. A. A. controller and former District A. A. U. hand ball champion. Davis says he often heats him, too. “Maybe Payne is going easy with me,” he says. NEW ZEPHYR TRAiN- CUTS WASHINGTON, Field Artillery Since Team W as Sent Farm Boy The | D. C, MONDAY, | By the Associated Press. The Army is finding out it started | something when it sent those two horses to- the farm boy in South Dakota. Suddenly the mail of the Field Ar- have turned to the Army as a kind- hearted institution that will listen to their troubles and perhaps donate a horse or a mule or two. A few farmers have suggested that ilt would be a fine thing if the Army | would just lend them a few horses or | mules until the crops have been “laid by.” One young man asked the Army please to send him a mule to help him support his bride. The eldest of three boys, who live tillery has jumped. Young and old | tion. He disclosed that a conference, described as “exploratory” was held uietly to this end in Washington | i t galurday at the call of Representative | Windshield wiped. Nary a parking Thomas R. Amlie, Progressive of Wis- | ticket did he get. consin, and Representative Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite of Minne- | sota. | Tt was attended by two important | Western Senators, representatives of | several large labor organizations and the Socialist party. and a half dozen Congressmen from representative sec- tions of the Nation, Bingham said. Another Conference Here. A second conference has been called | for the last week of April in Wash- | ington to consider what united action | i Sive | get him now. is possible on the part of Progressives. m x 83 DALEs | and to decide if a third party can be | iDE Wworrles. Being a high-ranking ver! ye e has been tively the Government en_mlo;e. he | .!:,:',fi;dpflf,'e'?i,f“fig;"m AR TE allotted an official parking space. | In the event there is sufficient 3k | agreement on 1936 possibilities, Bing- | ENGINEERING BARGAIN. ‘ ham said. it is tentatively planned NY modern architect, asked to de- | the lawyer would leave his coupe in a “no parking” space, bristling with a “counterfeit ticket” stuck under the No use, traffic patrolmen, you can't | He no longer has park- neers and old-timers, has a flow about equal to Rock Creek and passes under Pennsylvania avenue near Third street on its way to the water front. ‘The creek once meandered pleas- antly between grassy banks about Cap- itol Hill until the growth of the city | consigned it to a subterranean conduit. The vanished creek, however, is still | a live issue with Federal and District | engineers. | * ox o STREET WATCHERS. with their widowed mother, wrote: | “We have one old blind mare that | CHICAGO-ST. PAUL TIME, 431-Mile Run in 5 Hours and SSTHREE FAC'NG HEARING Minutes Is Average of 77% Miles an Hour. APRIL 8, 1935. ’s Mail J umps | can‘hardly do one-half day’s work. If |we had a team we could make a| pretty good living.” “Our horse died about a month 2go,” another fatherless boy wrote. | “And it leave us really bad as I don't | see how we are going to live.” An old woman in Evansville, Ind., | wrote to ask if the Army had any chickens. She said she could make a | 8o of it if she had a few. | " To_all of the horse-seekers, Lieut. Col. R. M. Danford of the Field Ar- tillery is mailing this letter: “Only a comparatively few Field Ar- tillery horses are condemned and sold | each year. Most of the animals that | have to be discarded by the Army are | mercifully destroyed because it would be cruel to sell them into old age slavery.” Artillerymen recently took up a col- lection to buy two Army horses for | Le Roy Johnson, a South Dakota 12- | year-old boy, who had appealed for | help. Hf Your Dentist Hurts Youn Try E'VE often wondered what street car motormen think about all | 4 day as they stand up there | in the prows of the careening street dinosaurs. Now we have an idea. They're street watchers Several weeks ago we told of a mo- torman who stopped a car near the Treasury to pick up a shiny object which he stuck in his pocket before it could be identified. And now— By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 8.—The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad claimed a new speed record between Chicago and the Minnesota Twin Cities Saturday night after one of the road's new zephyr streamline trains made the 431-mile run to St Paul in 5 hours and 33 minutes. The train, which on April 21 will be joined with its twin in inaugu- rating regular streamline service be- tween St. Paul-Minneapolis and Chi- cago averaged 77': miles an hour on the speed test, including two stops, officials said. Albert Cotsworth, jr., trafic man- IN KING’S ASSASSINATION | By the Associated Press. AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, April 8.—Three alleged terrorists, accused | of complicity in the assassination of King Alexander of Yuguslavia, were brought here today from prison in Marseille for hearing on their request for admission to bail. | They were accompanied by Georges || ¢ | Desbons, the French lawyer whom | American Croats hired to defend them. The attorney based his appeal | |on alleged irregularities in the pre- liminary investigation of the connec- tion his clients allegedly had with the | Marseille crime. | He stressed particularly the role play- DR. FIELD Plate Expert Guarantee 3 Perfeet Any Mouth or I Refund Y. | 1 Give Violet Ray Treatments for Pyorrhe; | Extraction $] ana $2 Also Gas Ext. Plates $10 to HOLMES Homemade BREAD More Food Value in this better HOLMES BREAD. 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The seat of the Federal $35 Gold Crowns up Pillings. $1 up | ager, said the fastest dash was made |ed by the Croation interpreter whom | between Prairie Du Chien and La | police called in to take what they | Crosse, Wis,, when the train hit 104 | termed the alleged terrorists’ confes- | miles an hour for 5 miles. sions. Desbons has contended the in- | Plates $7.50 Repaired vention and for the launching of a Government, complete in all its gen-| The average speed to St. Paul, he |terpreter was a functionary of the | DR. SHIELD campaign. Not Opposed to Long. It was understood that the third party movers were not opposed to Senator Huey Long or Father Charles E. Coughlin, although they did feel strongly that they overdid the matter of “personal leadership.” Much of the talk Saturday. Bing- ham said, ran to reviving the move- ment launched by the late Senator La Follette in his presidential cam- paign of 1924, and sounded notes heard in Upton Sinclair’s California “Epic” campaign and in the Farmer- Labor and Progressive parties of Min- nesota and Wisconsin. MOUNTAIN YOUTHS IN D. A. R. BENEFIT 75 Boys and Girls Pr_\mmpate in Scholarship Fund Event and See Sights. | eral details and still judged to be a work of authentic genius, was laid out by Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant. the French engineer, for an inclusive fee of only $2,500. That included costs| of surveying and all overhead. * % * % IF BITTER. 'TIS BETTER. HREE “old-time"” doctors, the pro- With a creaking of brakes the wheels of the street car came to such | a sudden stop on Pennsylvania ave- | prietor of the oldest drug store nue opposite the White House that quassia cup was. Do you? For your information, then. the one this moment under the writer’s nose is about 4 inches high, goblet-shaped, | dark browp and turned on a lathe. It has been in the family of the wife of Jesse C. Suter, District of Columbia civic leader, for more than 75 years. Quassia cups are made of the in- tensely bitter wood of the Bitter of Ash of Jamaica, the Caribbean Islands, or Surinam, or the Bitter Damson of the West Indies and South America. |Once upon a time they were as in- | dispensible in the family medicine | chest as a bottle of castor oil. | The theory was, and it is still prev- | alent, that any remedy that tasted | By the Associated Press. good was no good. If it tasted bitter, | NEW YORK, April 8—Some 75 | the bitterer the better, then it was! boys and girls from the Southern | mountains and Middle West arrived | — l in New York yesterday. Not only to | &ee the metropolis but to be seen by it. Y I“mmfl‘; WHo “m i ¥SEVTER Luggicamon. | They will all take part in a benefit %‘,}" !hfl‘ hearsals and a reception in their honor, wor2 out various guides show- ing them the sights. Most strenuous of all were Marie | Hudgens and Imogene Whittaker, aged 6, of the Kate Duncan Smith | School—established by the Daughters | —at Grant, Ala. Imogene and Kate ring and dance. Sitting up in bed. where they had | finally been stowed against their will, the two laughed as they related how Imogene had fallen out of bed. and how Marie didn't want to get her dress wet when the train went under the river. “That’s a Danish dance they do, but they take it as a song and act it out,” sald Denver Collins of Omaha, Ky., the serious dancer of the group. Denver, who is 23 and in the Carr Creek High School, leads the “Ken- tucky running set.,” a square dance older than the oldest known English folk dances, which lasts four-and-a- half hours if you do it all PREVENTION, TOPIC OF SURGEONS HERE American College Will Hold Sec- tional Meeting Thursday and Friday. which the D. A. R. are giving today MOTOR OIL for their scholarship fund. Renmsylyanial Ranging in age from 6 to 23, young visitors romped through re- ! 'BAYERSON OIL_ WORKS COLUMBIA 5228 Prevention of sickness and disease will be the keynote of a sectional meet- ing of the American College of Surgeons here Thursday and Friday. “Physicians and surgeons recognize that their biggest job tcday is one of prevention,” it was explained by Dr. Robert B. Greenough of Boston. presi- dent of the college, in announcing the fundamental theme of the meeting. “Regardless of his specialty, every doctor is an agent for preventive medicine and the promotion of per- sonal health.” It was explained that the greatest progress of modern medical science has been in thwarting “the wear and tear” diseases. It is being proved that a large number of diseases, particularly those which are causing a majority of the deaths today. are preventable, it was explained. Dr. Greenough will discuss the cause and curability of cancer at a community health meeting Friday eve- ning at Constitution Hall. Band Concert Canceled. The Patriotic Shut-Ins Dream Hour concert by the United States Marine Band, scheduled for tomorrow morn- ing at the Marine Barracks, has been nceled. WHERE TO DINE. Tuesday Dinner Special Delicious Juicy Prime Ribs of Roast scc Beef Brown Potatoes. Fresh Asparagus LOTOS LANTERN 733 17th St. NW. 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