Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 52

FEBRUARY 7, 1937—PART FOUR. ‘v THE: SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, F—4 NAVY SPONSO RIOTIC WOMEN Society : Holds Meeting To Carry on Traditions Service in Washington Cathedral Launches Another Year in Story of Devotion to Welfare of Nation as PROGRAM. Sunday, February 7, at 4 pm.— Annual patriotic service of the Society of Sponsors in Washing- ton Cathedral, Mount St. Alban. Monday, February 8, at 10:15 am—Informal assembly in el patio, Hotel Carlton; 10:45 a.m., opening of first session; 12:45 pm., reception of guests; 1:15 pm., annual luncheon in the Carlton room, Hotel Carlton, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, guest of honor. Tuesday, February 9—10:30 am., opening of second session, el patio, Hotel Carlton; 12:30 pm., adjournment; 9 pm. the Army and Navy reception at the White House, to which the Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt have graciously invited all sponsors who have not previously this Winter attended another recep- tion at the White House. By Mary Badger Wilson. ODAY the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy, gathered in Washington for their annual meeting, are holding a patriotic service in Wash- ington Cathedral at 4 p.m, where a | choir of midshipmer from Annapolis | will render music. Tomorrow and the day after that business sessions of the Society of Sponsors are scheduled at the Hotel Carlton. Mrs. Russell C. Langdon, president of the society, will preside. | Mrs. Roosevelt, herself a Spoasor, will be the guest of honor at the| society’s annual luncheon, held this year at the Carlton, and the Navy | Sponsors will be guests at the Army and Navy reception at the White | Government Begins. ings persisted for many centuries. Old documents record that the Chinese “offered painted figures, and they cut and burned them before their idols with certain ceremonies,” singing songs “with an unorderly tone, sounding certain little bells.” The ancient Egyptians and the ancient Greeks had elaborate religious ceremonies. The Greeks named their vessels for the goddesses, and, accord- ing to Appian, erected altars on the shore when a ship was to be blessed. The priests sacrificed bulls or calves, and sometimes, because Poseidon, ruler > (A P LR N NN » * <13 . ¥, s -, U. S. Enterprise, giant new House on Tuesday evening. | This year the assembling of Navy | Bponsors in our Capital City has a wider interest than usual United States is now building a big= | ger, better Navy, and our newwspa- | pers will frequently inform us, during coming months, that a new battle- | ship, a new cruiser or a new destroyer | has “gone down the ways.” The Navy is one institution which might be regarded as safely mascu- line in a world said to be fast be- coming a woman’s world. Certainly our giant vessels will be built by men and manned by men. But here, as elsewhere, women will have the last word because women will name the ships. Yes, our Navy has godmoth- ers, officially known as the Society of Sponsors. ] NO’!‘ until the nineteenth century | did it become a feminine peroga- tive to christen men-of-war. Before that time ships were christened by men, and prominent officials were frequently launched with the ship. ‘The earliest record of a United States Navy christening is that of the Con- stitution, October 20, 1797, when Capt. James Sever, U. S. N., broke a bottle of wine over the bow of the frigate, John Paul Jones, himself, was on board the America when she was launched. 1In 1828, apparently, the first woman sponsored an America Navy ship. Preble’s History of the Portsmouth Navy Yard records that: “The Con- cord glided beautifully into her des- | tined element and was vhnstened’ by a young lady of Portsmouth.” In those days young ladies—whether O‘i | Portsmouth or elsewhere—did not have their names in the public prints, and so the identity of this first Spon- sor is lost in the dimness of propriety. By 1846 it would seem that a lim- fted publicity had become permissible for the sheltered sex, for in that year it was recorded that the United States sloop of war Germantown was christened by Miss Watson, daughter of John Fanning Watson, the Phila- "delphia annalist. A reporter of the day observed that Miss Watson “was attired in pure white and wore in her girdle a neat bouquet of freshly- culled flowers.” From then on it became the recog- nized procedure to have our fighting craft sponsored by women, and only in a few scattered instances did men again participate in the naming of the ships. Thus, what may have originated as a gallant and gracious gesture became established as a cher- ished tradition of our Navy. By 1908 so many women had served as sponsors that they organized un- der the leadership of Miss Mary Camp- bell (now Mrs. Underwood) the So- ciety of Sponsors of the United States Navy, which was later incorporated. As its name implies, the society con- sists of women who have bestowed names upon the fighting craft of our country; and its objects, briefly stated, are “the promotion of a healthy, pop- ular sentiment for the development and support of the United States Navy” and “the undertaking of such benevolent work as the society rhay determine.” Among the members of the society are two former Presidents’ wives, Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Hoover. The Presi- dent’s mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, and his daughter, Mrs. John Boet- tiger, are also sponsors, and on April 4, 1936, the President’s wife christened the Navy plane carrier Yorktown. THE Navy Department has taken fre- | quent opportunity to show its ap- preciation of the helpfulness of the sponsors, and at the last annual meet- ing of the society in Washington the President of the United States sig- nally honored its gathering by a personal letter expressing his interest in the organization and showing his familiarity with its work. Even though the remainder of her life should be colorless, & Navy spon- sor can always cherish the memory of one vivid day. There are few ex- periences more authentically thrill- ing than the launching of & great ship, and the ceremony, however sim- ple, is unfailingly impressive. All ages and all peoples have observed such ceremonials, and the traditions which have gathered about the baptism of ships are most interesting. Long ago, when men had a super- stitious fear of the elements, they strove to propitiate the gods before they went down to the sea in a new . ship. Among primitive peoples there “"were even human sacrifices performed in order that the boat's deck might sbe washed with human blood. Such ‘barbaric practices naturally disap- peared with the growth of civilization, but the habit of making votive offer Mrs. Swanson, wife of the Secre 5 i aircraft carrier, launched last October at Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Claude A. Swanson christened the ship and became a member of the Society of Sponsors. RS ARE ORGANIZATION OF PAT British battleships anchored at Gibraltar, port of the United State’s Atlantic fleet, taken from the American consulate. The tip of Spain and the Strait are in the distance. Gibraltar Is Under Rule Like American Capital Historic Rocky Fortress, Neighbor of Trou- bled Spain, Has Taken New British Position Since Days of the World War. By Arthur D. Hayden. (Formerly U. S. Vice Consul at| Gibraltar.) HE British crown colony of Gib- raltar is approximately 5 miles long, & quarter of a mile wide at its widest part and 1,400/ feet high at its highest point, situated | on & peninsula extending into the sea, being the northern of the two pillars of Hercules of the ancients and is| bounded on the north by the neutral ground which separates it by about & quarter of a mile from the frontier of the sea, was a god particularly fond The | of horses, unblemished stallions were | offered. DUR!NG the Middle Ages it be- came the practice on English as well as continental ships to erect shrines to the saints, and a new vessel was always blessed by a prelate of | the church “with attendant train of priests and choristers.” Many Euro- pean nations still preserve the elabo- rate beauty of the medieval religious ceremonials at launchings. France has a particularly beautiful tradition which follows the baptismal rite by having both a godmother and a god- father for a new ship. After the Reformation the launching ceremonies for English ships became purely secular and remained so until 1875, when H. M. S. Alexandra was | named for the princess who was later to be Queen of England. She re- quested that there be a religious serv- ice at the launching, and the Arch- bishop of Canterbury drew up the form of such a service, which is still used at all launchings of British war- ships. In the early days of the United States the custom then prevailing in England was followed, and the be-| stowing of a name upon an American fighting ship was purely a civil cere- mony. There is on record only one exception to this. When the Prince- ton (1st) was launched in 1843, prayer was offered by a clergyman. ‘When the Oklahoma was launched in 1914, the president of the Society of Sponsors (at that time Mrs. Rey- nold T. Hall) requested that prayer be offered. Since that date, through the efforts of the sponsors, the custom of having prayer at a launching has become well established. The prayer used is the same which was offered at.the launching of the Princeton in 1843. E ALTHOUGH women bestow the| names upon our fighting craft, | there has been but one vessel on the Navy lists ever to be named for a | woman. That was the Harriet Lane, named for the niece of President Buchanan, a ship which was trans- ferred to the Navy from the Treasury Department. The naming of vessels of the Navy is governed by statute, the first of such statutes having been passed by Congress in the year 1819. Under the laws existing at present, battle- ships and armored cruisers are named for the States of the Union; cruisers for cities; torpedo boat destroyers for distinguished naval officers, for heroic enlisted men, for Secretaries of the Navy, for distinguished inventors and in a few instances for United States Senators and Congressmen dis- tinguished in the naval committees. Mine sweepers are named for the various birds, while submarines are designated by letters and numerals. ‘The first airship to be named and christened was the Shenandosh, the Indian name meaning “Daughter of the Stars.” A bottle of wine has been broken upon the bow of the majority of our Navy vessels at the time of naming, but in some cases water has been used, and in a few instances both wine and water. A bottle of whisky was broken over the bow of the Princeton and over the frigate Raritan in 1843; a bottle of brandy was used at the launching of the San Jacinto in 1850 and also on the New Ironsides in 1862. It is recorded that “a fair young wome an sponsor broke a bottle of pure Irish whisky over the bow of the Shamrock in 1863, bestowing the name.” Most of our American sea customs derive from the English navy, and so it is interesting to know that the Eng- lish adopted the practice of breaking a bottle of wine on the bow of a ship in the year 1690. Before that they used the ceremony of the cup, which has been described in accounts of the launching of the Tudor ship, Grace- Dieu. Henry the Eighth “stood on her deck with & joyful face, as she took the water, and drank from & great silver goblet to her good fortune. The cup was by him among his attendant knights, and when emptied was thrown overboard.” THIS habit of tossing silver goblets into the sea was too expensive to suit the frugal notions of the lords of the admiralty, who abolished it, sub- stituting the custom of breaking a bottle of wine. The new custom seems to have been followed without mishap for more than a hundred years, until 1811, when it became the English fashion for a lady to christen the ships of the navy. It is gelated that ome lady, taking a bad aim with her bot- l the sponsor. When vessels are named tle, struck a spectator, who sued the | for individuals the Navy Department admiralty for damages and recovered heavily. Then was devised the plan of making the bottle fast to the bow’ with a lanyard. This practical plan | ard so far our annals record no injury to innocent bystanders. | In the old Navy it was the custom |a new Navy sponsor, the Society of | for navy yard officials to designate | Sponsors of the U. S. Navy will have | the sponsor who should break the bot- | its membership very greatly increased i tle of wine or water and give the new | during the period of naval construc- ship its name. But the present prac- | tion on which our country is nowl itice is for the Navy Department to entering. request the Governor of the State for which a battleship is to be named to nominate the ship's sponsor, and to| request the mayor of a city for which FEBRUARY 7 Sunday Monday Tuesday selects the sponsor, whenever possible | tional defense. designating some member of the fam- | speech which he made before his sud- | ily of the man for whom the ship is | den death, in February, 1936, Assist-| due to Mrs. Russell C. ux_xgdon. Who | on the south by the Strait of Gib- named. The selection of all sponsors | ant Secretary of the Navy H. L.| has served as national president of the rajtar and on the west by the Bay is always followed in our own Navy, | must be approved by the Secretary of | Roosevelt called the sponsors “the liv- | sponsors since 1922 and whose gra-|of Algeciras, forming a peninsula ex- the Navy and finally by the President. | ing links between our warships and ‘Since every nmew Navy ship means|the Nation, to whose security the influence in support of a proper na In the last publi naval service is dedicated.” ESPITE their Wednesday Thursday connection with | fighting craft, the Navy Sponsors | form a remarkable peaceful society. Hitherto the society has been com- ' Pacifists, in fact, might well envy the paratively small in numbers, but has harmony of spirit and action which had a geographic advantage arising has been achieved by this group, whose from the fact that every State of the membership has been so variously a cruiser is to be named to nominate | Union has citizens who are in its| chosen and is so geographically scat- Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week - | a5 fine a co-operative spirit, much of °s“ t;‘]e bo;ger °§0§2; pmvix!:): O; %ad;z!; [ | the credit for which 15 undoubtedly pPA'. The SoOTY B BOTERd O =l | ciousness and sincerity have endeared | tending into the sea. her to the entire membership. Relations between Gibraltar, Spain 1In addition to their generous con-|anq Morocco have always been inti- | tributions toward all funds raised for ' mate Gibraltar has always depended the families of those suffering from | jargely upon Morocco and Spain for naval disasters, the sponsors have un- | per food supplies; Morocco largely dertaken specialized welfare work of | gnq Spain somewhat less f~r dairy and their own in giving preparatory school- | ¢3rm products, fruits, etc., while a ing to sons of deceased naval or Ma- | yery Jarge part of the immediately rine officers who desire to enter ”‘“nd;aum Spanish populace has sub- United States Naval Academy. Their sisted upon profits derived from the work along this line has had Very smuggling of contraband from “The Linea, the Spanish port of entry on | happy results. Rock” or “Gib,” as Gibraltar is gen- Friday | Saturday | that side of the neutral ground, which, BEFORE the coming of Primo Riv- era, the saying was that one could take “a house and lot” into Spain through the customs at La | __FEBRUA | | | e % 3 = ! | —James Dunn_in James Dunn_in_, Stuart Erwin in “All { Academy |"Hearts in Bondage.” “Hearts in Hondage " American Chump alp] ellamy in | alp) ellamy in icqueline ‘el n Ath ond G Sts. SE. P Brian et | “WAIS Brian Rente | NG careo Ambassador yude_Rains and | Claude Rams &nd | Claude | Claude Rains and | 13th and Colmbia Ian Honter in ~ | Tan Hunter in | Apollo “Stolen Holiday." 624 H St. N.E. Francis. | Rains and | uart Erwin in “All- Reginald Denny American Chump. Jacqueline Well: ~_“Night_Carso. Robert Taylor and | Al Greta Garbo arbo Greta in “Camille” _ | Robert Taylor Grets Garbo in “Camille.” “Robert Taylor and Greta_Garbo in ille.” “We're in the Legion “W ed_ Astaire N "Robert. Tiélur “and erally called. ald_ Dei in| _Robert Young in | Rl Mhe Legion “The Longest incidentally, separates the British and n the Legion “The Longest Nignt.” | gryed Astaire | Tom T¥ler9- |Spanish sentry lines, provided one ~ Bobby Breen Lily Pons end | had previously “arranged” with the Gene Raymond in | proper customs officials at La Linea. — Paris.” In fact, it was generally understood that any one receiving the appoint- |ment as chief of customs for the | usual four-year term would be in po- in “Rainbow on the River. Eleanor Powell and James Stewart in | “Born_to Dance" | Cart. Novelty. News. Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor n | » | _“Stolen Holiday.” | - n =5 William POWEH‘ and Willlam Powell and | Willlam Powell and Arcade Hyattsville, Md. Mytna Loy in Myrna Loy in | Myrna Loy in “After the Thin | “After the Thin “After: the, Thin ! Ma Man.” | | Ashton Clarendon. Va. to_ Danc | orn Novelty. Ne Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor in “Camille.” Dark. Paul Kelly in “Accusing Finger “Accusing Pinger. £ James Dunn in *“T n Fisted_Gentleman Greta Garbo and |~ Shirley Ross Robert Taylor in in “Camille.” “Hideaway Girl.” Paul Kelly in - d Robert Cummings Martha Raye in “Hideaway Girl.” Fred MacMurr: in ‘“Texas Rangers Jack Haley and Betty iP\M’n(.u n “Mister_Cinderella.” ‘t ol Mysterious | Cross. “Char [ Ohariet TAUERON ' Bfan &Vthe Spera.” el i Popeye. g e sition to retire at its end. On the other hand, if preliminary arrangements were neglected, one ran a very good chance of losing all by confiscation if caught trying to “get by” without formal declaration; and William Boyd n “Call of the Prairie.” George Brent and | George Brent and | Beverly Roberts in | Beverly Roberts in “God's Country. and “God's Country and * ! the Woman. man. | | Avalon 5612 Connecticut Ave. ! nd| “Gold Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in “Gold Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in Diggers o William Powell and | Carole Lombard | in “My Man Godfrey. | Charles Starrett and Irene Hervey in Along_Came Love.”| art. Novelty, News. Joe E. Brown in “Polo_Joe.” Lionel Barrymore in “The Doll.” Burgess Meredith and Margo in “Winterset.” ___Popeye. = Barbara Stanwyck the Wol B M it Avenue Grand T s 645 Pa. Ave. SE Cameo Mount Rainter. Md. _| Carolina 11th and N.C. Ave S8E. Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea i ~Banjo on My Knee. Cart._Novelty. News. "Eleanor ;uwell and | zlejxfir “Powell and | Jack Benny in ack Benny in | “Thie Broadway Mel-|“The Broadway Mel ody o ! d | Clark Gable and Joan Crawford n “Love on_the Run William Powell an Carole Lombard n “My Man Godfrey." William Powell and | yrna Loy _in Myrna Loy_in “After the Thin “After_the Thin Man.” Man.” Diggers of 193 i~ |~ Dick Foran | “William Powell and | | Warner Oland n “Charlie Chan at the | Opera. “Rainbow on the River.” many articles were prohibited, even | though declared, and if found in one’s | possession were immediately confis- cated, the owner not even being al- lowed to return with them to Gib- raltar. Gibraltar being practically a free | Charles Laughton in “Rembrandt.” ghing at Trou- le.” “Adventure in Manhattan" Mickey Mouse Ken Maynard in ‘Avenging Waters.” Anne Shirley in “Make Way_for a Lads ‘Guns of the Pecos. |_Our Gang comedy ‘William Powell and | yrna Loy in “After the Thin BT | an( use. Joe E. Brown in “Polo_Joe.” Lionel Bariymore ““The_Devil Doll. Warner Baxter Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in y ody_of 19:36.” “Rainbow on the ver.” "Gold Diggers of 1837." “Rainbow on the J o “Wanted—Jane Tur- ner.” Central River. “Wanted—Jgne Tur-| 425 9th 8t. N.W. Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in “Gold, Digeers of Martha Raye in Fredric March _and | Fred: n he Road to Glory. “Hideaway Girl.” port, the only duty a very light one on tobacco and spirits, while Spain maintained extortionate duties on Hoot Gibson in Feud of the West. Charlie Ruggles in Wives Never Know. edric March Warner Baxter n ] ““The Road to Glory." Edmund Lowe in “Mad Holiday.” smuggler's rewards were most alluring. Gibraltar, a British crown colony William _ Powell _and |Myrna Loy in “After the Thin Man.” Cartoo: “George Brent and Beverly Roberts in “God's Country and George Brent and Beverly Roberts in “God's Country and _the Woman. ‘the_Woman. Circle 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. William_ Powell_and| Barton MacLane “Smart_Bionde.” Comedies. Glenda Farrell and | W ner Oland and Boris Karloff in *Charlie Chan at the Opera.” under & military governor, while prac- tically a free port commercially, had most unbending and strictly enforced in George Brent and | George Brent and Beverly Roberts in | Beverly Roberts in God's Country, and| “God's Country and *{ the Wo! the Woman." Colony Ga. Ave. and Parragut Bobby Breen Bobby Breen in “Rainbow on the River.” n “Rainbow on the River.” rgess Meredith = 5 B waree restrictions applying to every one not ,'IW‘Nl']YS" . native born or there officially in one Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in “Gold | Digsers of 1917, _Com TPhilip Huston and |~ Philip Huston and June _Travis in June Travis in “The Big Game.’ “The Big Gam Dumbarton Dick Powell and Clark _Gable and Joan Blondell in “Gold Diggers of 1057.” Comedy. Comeds. Crawford in on the Run.’ Laurel and Hard: “Our Relations.” No. f “Darkest Africa.””_Comed: Clark_Gable and Joan Crawford in *Love on the Run.’ News. Comedy. British crown colony, it is of inter- est to note that its inhabitants are . Ave. N.W. Fairlawn _ News. Comedy. | News. Comed: Bobby Breen and | Bobby Breen a: May Robson in May Robson in “Rainbow, nbow_on_the Gladys Geos nd Arline Judge in | “Valiant is the Word on the toon. for Carrle.’ | Errol Fiynn and Olivia de Havilland in! “Charge of Errol Fiynn and Olivia de Havilland “Charge of the Li the Lighf Brigade.’ ght Srigade.” 1 Agh! under the same status as are those of the District of Columbia, in that they have no vote and absolutely Warner Oland in | “Chan at the Opera. Comedy. Two_cartoons. Wheeler and Woolsey n s Boy.” Cartoon. n| t| “Mummy _Comedsy. River.” Ci pon. tc ri Jack Benny a: d Burns Eleanore Whitney 1n| in_“Bi “Rose Bowl.” nd Burns! in_ “Bif | Lionel Barrymore “Ah. _Wilde in| ‘Wilderness!” | Lawrence Tibbett Eleanore Whitney in & wl.” “Metropolitan.” Lionel Barrymore in' 'Ah. _Wildernes Robt. Kent in “Crime of Dr. Forbe: Charles_Starrett i, ‘Along_Came Love.” Nelson Eddy in 7 Mare in| CI ret in |**Along me Lowve. Nelson Eddy in |“Naughty Marietta. nothing to say about the laws by which they are governed, being allowed only to take what they get from the Joel McCrea and rbara Stanwyck in! Knee." Ge e Brent and | Beverly Roberts in “God's Country and|“ 13th and C Sts. N.E. the Woman. 3 in “Winterset.” Burgess Meredith and Mar ‘Rain- | authorities assigned there by the Martha Raye in d “Hideaway Girl.” |bow on the River.,” “Eleanor Powell James Stewal n “Born_to Dance.” Eleanor Powell and James Stewart in, “Born to Dance.” and | Eleanor Powell and rt 3 ames Stewart “Born to Dance.” Jesse 18th ar. Victor McLaglen in “Magnificent Brute.” Jame: Laurel and Hardy, ames Dunn in - “Come _Closer. Folks.” ‘Our Relations.” crown. 'OST outstanding, from an Ameri- in| hd can “oint of view, was the car- Laurel and Hardy in “Our Relations.” Bert Wheeler and Robert, Woolsey “Mummy's Boys.” Lee Falls Church. Va. Bert Wheeler and Dark. Robert nWoolle! “Mummy's Boys.” Warner Oland Warner Oland “Charlie Chan at the Opera. William Boyd Edmund Low - dinal law that no foreigners could take British,” membership, thereby increasing m'med. Very few organizations show]town of La Linea de la Conception,’; practically everything, the successful | capacity or another. With regard to a | its heavier guns, and its importance now rests in its great value as a naval base. At the base of the rock itself, along its western side, for a greater part of its length, lies the line wall, part of the old and long-since obsolete forti- fications, and beneath it, extending to and into the Bay of Algeciras, is the dockyard, with huge gr..nite dry docks capable of taking the largest battlee ships, together with machine shops, etc., capable of completely overhaul- ing the largest ships—building them, in fact, if given the raw material Huge watersheds have been built at great cost, on the east side of the rock, to catch the seasonal rains, October to March, inclusive, to be stored in the large caves under the rock itself, and every building has its tile roof water- shed to catch every drop of rain against the dry season in the concrete reservoirs under the buildings that oce cupy the place in our cellars. After the war Gibraltar suffered greatly from the suspension of nearly all its commerce and the drastic eco- nomics of both the British and local colonial governments, together with the practical closing of the Spanish ports of entry at La Linea and Alge- ciras, the reduction of the garrison and the withdrawal of the Atlantic fleet to England as its base. All of this re- sulted in great hardship to the people of Gibraltar and nearby Morocco and Spain. UN‘ITL the advent of Primo Rivera, the dictator of Spain, Gibraltar had been kept isolated from the rest of Europe by land by the Spanish gove ernment almost entirely because of Spain’s resentment at England'’s occu- pancy of Gibraltar. In fact, the title | of the Spanish governor of Algeciras, | 5 miles across the bay, is to this day “Governor of Algeciras and Gibraltar, now temporarily in possession of the the Spaniards will all tell you, and once a year he makes an offi= cial call upon the governor of Gibrale tar, receives a 21-un salute and ree turns to Algeciras. In due course, his call is returned, the governor of Gibe raltar receives a 21-gun salute and ree turns to Gib. And so it has gone on for years and years and will till who knows when? As a result of this long-continued animosity, years 2go, when the Brit- ish built their railroad from the Span< ish rail junction of Bobadilla south, through Ronda, toward Gibraltar, in an effort to establish rail connection between Gib and the rest of Europe, the Spanish government would not allow them to build the road directlv into Gibraltar, but made them build to Algeciras, which is 5 miles away on the opposite side of the bay of the same name, from which place a line of steamers had to be established to connect with Gibraltar. 'HE Spanish government saw to 1t | that there was no way into Spain from Gibraltar by land, without going over about 3 miles of deep sand. There was a fair road from Gibraltar across the neutral ground to La Linea de la Conception, then about 3 miles of no road at all, over deep, coarse sand to Campamento, the best going being as close to the water as possible and then at low tide, but even then the wheels farthest from the waters of the bay were always nearly hub deep for the entire distance. | The result was that if one wished to | drive into Spain from Gibraltar, in one of the two or three motor cars | then there, it was necessary to are { range ahead of time for mules to tow | your car to Campomento, unless one | had & car light in weight and high powered for the weight, which could stagger through if several refills for ! the radiator were carried, and then bearings were burned out frequently. Once off the beach, good roads care ried one to all parts of Spain and bee yond. As for garages, there were none— one had to find an empty stall in & stable and park there. Repairs—your bicycle man was your only salvation, and tires all had to be brought down from England, while your gas came direct from the U. S. A. Gibraltar is practically all solid rock, save the comparatively small area of low, flat land, containing two ceme- teries and the race track, north of the rock itself, and which appears as the sea in advertisements. It is known as i!he north front and is bounded on the north by the neutral ground, lead- | ing to Spain. Though at one time be- | sieged for seven years by the Spanish, | it has never been taken since the Brit= )1sh flag first flew from its topmost | crag. | ‘HE populace is a conglomeration of Spanish, Maltese, Italian, English, “Charlie Chan at the Opera.” n in “Hopalong Cassidy | “Girl on the Pront Returns.” Pagt Ellzabeth Bergner “As You Like I Elizabeth Beraner “As You Like ol (4 l]lnbezhnseumr “As You Like T8 Little Oth between P and G ‘Elizabeth Berzner “As Yoy Like “As Yoy Like o % Elizabeth Beraner Elizabeth Bergner up permanent residence on the rock, Scotch and Irish, with an occasional six months being the absolute limit Moor thrown in. It is also the only that a foreigner might remain, as a | habitat of wild apes in Europe, and guest in a hotel or even as the guest | how they originally got there is an in “As You Like “As You Like It el of a legal inhabitant. In fact, a Brit- Robert Taylor and e Milo Rockville, Md. Robert Taylor and | Robert Taylor and Grets Garbo QGreta Garbo in “Camille.” mille.” Z Cart. Novelty. New: .|Cart. Novelty. News. F B et " : W. C. Plelds 1n “Poppy.”" Fri “ra Give My Life. . Fields in pDY.” ances Drake in Shirley Deane in “Educating Father.” Also_‘““Coming Around the Mountain.” Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sul- livan_ in “Tarzan _Escapes. ish subject could only become a resi- dent after first making written appli- Marlene Dietrich and(Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer Charles Boyer “Garden of Allah." | “Garden of Allah.” Palm Del Ray. Va. Dark. Barbara Stanwyck and Ji res. in in “Banjo on My Knee. anjo on My Knet Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCres cation, which had to state his reasons for wishing to reside in Gib, his ability properly to care for himself and fam- | _8ybil Jason in “The Cantain’s Kid." Ralph Bellamy in “Wild_Brian Kent.” Joan_Crawford and Cllrk\ Gable n “Dancing_Lady.” Lily Gene S Aerhond in s at Girl, From aris.” Penn 650 Pa. Ave. B.E. "Marlene Dietric! Deanna Durbin “Garden _of Allah. Marlene Dietrich and Deanna Durbin 1 “Garden ot _Allah. ily, if he had a family; what he in- tended to do if admitted, if he wished to set himself up in business, the na- Marlene Dietrich and| Jean Arthur and Deanna Durbin George Brent in “‘More n a Sec- “Garden_of Allah.” |retary.” Lily Pons and Lily Pons and Gene Raymondin | Gene Raymond in "X'hltPO ir] From "ThlIPO r] From Jack Benny and B 5. Jack Benny and urns and en in “ollege Holiday. Cart. Novelty. News. Richmond Alexandris, Va. Dark. ovelty. Ne: Jack Benny Burns and_Allen ““College Holiday. Oart. Novelty. N and in |Lily Pons in " | Girl From Paris. Gene Raymond and|Ge: “That| Cart. Novelty. News. Alsoserial. d[Gene Raymond and | ture of his business, together with cer- Ll Fons I, w8t | tified evidence of his past in every es- 1 cort. 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N.E. “Libeled Lady.” raordinary short, iberty.’ Willlam Powell in State “Libele ive Mo Clark Gable in | “Love on the Run” B . n’ll;{ ‘rosby_in = Jack n, ea: Dempsey i ~1dol of I‘Illgnl" Tom Brown in | permit to settle in the colony. Ross Alexander in | There are many reasons why the Here Comes Carter.” | ciyilian population is so strictly lm- B ST deaven | Jack Dem) tor of & Bethesds, M4, e e “Loery | %5 State .%?n gY;fl'g\?'ig‘ Palls Church. Va. 10, Fagaers o ps 209 "“"cx?x'f‘:&me i “Love on the Run.” Li ily Pons :nlg Lily d o S wiat Girl, Prom ‘paris.” LUy Fomsand |ited. The outstanding' one, the one “That P.Gfi"mfl that is invariably given as being amply “Legion of Terror.” Sarabi T | sufficient in itself, is the fact that Gib- Tafe Eare'ly | AUt "Bhecr | raltar ls—first, last and i the time— A amy i0. | & fortress. Therefore it is obviously und Lowe in “Girl on it Bruce Cabot in Turn 'Em “Dop't Edamund Lowe in Joan_Crawfol “Girl on Front Page. Clark bot {n “Don’t| Loose. ) 'Em and | Joan “Love an"'l.lu Run.” | “Love on the Run.” P eaten ™ | Wiia Brian Kent:® Crawford and |Ha: ™ essential that the number of civilians i T be kept as low as possible, that there est_Girl may be as few as possible to be fed in Lily Pons and e e 14th and Park Kd. Bi Bruce C: Turn, Mar Dietrich M atden or Al in| Marlene Dietrich “Garden of Allah. Dorothy_Lamour and | time of war, especially when it is real- Joy ailland i, | ized that there is no fresh water save ‘_ | rain water and that it rains but six rlene Dietrich in Garden 'of Alan.” ‘William 1 and in Uptown «Afier the Thin Man Conn. Ave. &Newark8t. “More Than & Tetary. SenTn & Bec- ok | Barbara Stanwyck | 7 iton and P Mlekion ane months out of the year. et ough and the | “Sins Me s Lo tars.” Song.” ve Fons._Jack Oakie| Warner Baxter and AS O A Bobby_Breen “Rainbow on the River Wilson Arlington, Vs. since the World War its value as din| Myrna Loy i ;_(;:‘lzr,% “To H="7W||“’l & military fortress has steadily slump- ‘West Ifllh York Gs. Ave. and ae West and Randolph Scott o Wew, , Youns g % Love.’ Zaurei and_Hardy in | ®0» because of submarines, airplanes e, S22, o | ~0u: “Reidtiond~" | and radio, with the result that it has § £ Ok “Comedy. | Jjen denuded of all but two or three of N passed upon and approved by the colo- | | unsolved mystery, though it is thought | by many that they gained the rock | through a subterranean passage under | the strait from Africa, that led them | into one of the caves within the rock. They move down to the low levels in Winter, and as warm weather ape | proaches move up, higher and higher. ‘Their marksmanship with rocks is fa« | mous, one of them having once hit & }sentry with a rock on the head and | knocked him unconscious. “The scum of the Levant” an une | diplomatic and newly arrived governor | once called the natives in his inaugue ral address from the balcony in front of Government House, shortly after his arrival from England to assume his role as military governor for & term of four or five years. His speech was met with silence by the natives. The next P. & O. carried a delégation from the local Chamber of Commerce to protest to his majesty’s secretary for the colonies in London. A few weeks later the new governor and all his household proceeded from Govern ment House, along empty streets, not a native blind but that was shut, not a curtain but was drawn, nor a door that was not closed along his entire route, to the King’s Stairs in his maje esty’s dock yard, where a government barge took them alongside the home= ward-bound P. & O, just in from the Orient. And that was the end of his excellency. Like their neighbors, the Spanish and the Moors, the “Scorpions,” as the English sometimes call them, are a proud people! T2 U O Capt. F. C. E. Hayter, an aviator, was fined $500 for smuggling cigars ssud brandy into England from France.