Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1937, Page 8

SOCIETY. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST Japanese Ambassador And Mme. Saito Here For a Few Days’ Stay Greek Minister Goes to Syracuse for Ahepa Convention—Others, in the News. HE Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Saito came to Washing- ton the middle of the week from Hot Springs, Va., to bid bon voyage to the retiring Second Secretary of the embassy and Mme. Okazaki, who are going to China. M. Okazaki will be Japa- nese Conrul General in China and will take off in the China Clipper Wednesday for his new post. Mme. Okazaki and the younger members of the family will sail the end of next week to join him in China. The Greek Minister, Mr.VDememos Sicilianos, stopped in Washington today en roure to Syracuse to aitend the convention of Ahepa, which will open there tomorrow. The Minister was entertained at a cocktail party yesterday before leaving Hot Springs where he has been for several weeks. F. Neary were the hosts. Mr. and Mrs. John Representative Michael K. Reilly has as his guests at the 8horeham Mr. and Mrs. William M. Casile of Oshkosh, Wis., and their son, Mr. Edward Casule, who is a student a{ Columbian School. Mrs. Castle is a niece of Representative Reilly and with her family will remaln several days. The Federal Emergency Ad Hopkins, who are at Saratoga for ministrator and Mrs. Harry L. the races, were among the guests et the dinner which Mr. and Mrs. Morton L. Schwartz gave at the Arrowhead Inn last evening. The Federal Housing Administrator, Mr. Stewart McDonald, has gone to Southampton, where he is the guest over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund C. Lynch at Lyndune. Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, U. S. N., and Mrs. Land are guests of Mr. and Mrs. George O. Forbes at North Egremont near | Lenox. Mass. Mrs. Wainwright, wife of Capt. Dallas B. Wainwright, jr., U. 8. N, has gone from her home in Westmoreland Hills, Md., to| New York, where she joined Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Stamm of Dobbs-Ferry at the Waldorf-Astoria, Col. M. D. Welty, U. S. A.. and Mrs. Welty of Fort Benning, Ga., have arrived in Washington and their stay in the Capital. Capt. James C. White, U. S at the present time. will be at the Martinique during | | A, is at the Wardman Park Holeli Maj. Lester Dessez, U. S. Marines, and Mrs. Dessez, who have been in Paris, France, for the past same time. Bumner Kittelle, at their Summer three years, will arrive Thursday. | Miss Eunice Dessez is expected to arrive in the city at the | home, Shandaken, in the Adiron- dacks before joining Maj. Dessez at Quantico, Va. Lieut. William White, U. 8. N, and Mrs. White have arrived fn Washington from Norfolk, Va., and are staying at the Martinique. Mrs. Watts Here | Mrs. George Watts of Los Angeles | fa the guest ~f her parents, Mr. and | Mrs, Claude Conard, and her sister, | Miss Ruth Conard at their home in Takoma Park On her way East Mrs. Watts stopped off in Knoxville, Tenn, where she was matron of honor at the wedding of Miss Dorothy Lovell, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Lovell of Knox- | ville, who was married last Tuesday | evening to Prof. Gusiave Le Marquis | Charland of Montreal, Quebec. The wedding took place in the Seventh | Day Adventist Church in Knoxville | and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Albert Griffin of Louis-| ville, Ky. | Mrs. Charland has visited frequent- | Iy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Con- | ard and two years ago she was a teacher in the Shenandoah Valley Academy in New Market, Va, and often visited here at the time. Mr. Charland teaches French in a high school at Three Rivers, near Montreal and during the Summer he has been teaching in the McGill Uni- versity. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Conard and their daughters will Jeave for Ashe- ville, N. C., to spend about two weeks before their return to Takoma Park. CHILDREN PRESENT GIFT TO MRS. CARR President of Board of Trustees of Barney Neighborhood House Receives Shawl. Tn recognition of her 15 years as president of the Board of Trustees of Barney Neighborhood House, 470 N &treet southwest, the children of that settlement last night presented Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr with a “knee shawl” made on weaving looms in the house. Yarn for the shawl was bought with money contributed by the children, who for three weeks collected their pennies and donated them, never more than five at a time, to the yarn fund. The occasion of the presentation ‘was the program ending the six-week vacation school. Mrs. Carr, who leaves *®oon for Europe with her busband, newly appointed Minister to Crecho- slovakia, gave out the prizes to the girls and boys who could boast perfect attendance, excellence in sewing or other crafts, or superior sportsman- ship. . Another feature of the program was /tHe presentation to the nursery chil- n by the True American Club boys # boat-swing made by them this mer for the new nursery play- nd. More than 200 children and nts were on hand to see the prize awarding. MIDDLE-AGED COUPLE FOUND SHOT TO DEATH Coroner Says Woman Apparently Killed Husband Before Com- mitting Suicide. By the Associated Press. GREENVILLE, S. C., August 14.— Isaac Turner and his wife, a middle- aged retired couple, were found shot to death at their suburban home yes- terday. Coroner George W. McCoy said Mrs. ‘Turner, about 50, apparently kilied her husband, a few years her senior, and then committed suicide. J. A, Henry, Greenville attor: Dey, discovered the bodies when he answered an urgent telephone call by Mrs. Turner to come to their home. Mrs. Turner's body was sent to Rome, Ga., for burial. % MRS. WILLIAM A. CRAIG,JR., Whose marriage took place August 7 in Lynn, Mass. She Jormerly was Miss Constance A. Lauzon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Lauzon of Lynn. Mr. Craig is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Craig of this city—Bachrach Photo. NAVAL RESERVE GROUP OFF ON 14-DAY CRUISE 60 Board Destroyer for Two-Week Training Trip to Virgin Islands. More than 60 Washingtonians left, the navy vard this morning aboard the destroyer Badger for a 14-day training cruise to the Virgin Islands. The group, constituting the 2d Fieet Division of the 1st Battalion, United States Naval Reserve, is en route to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Short range firing practice will be a feature of the cruise. The two other divisions of the 1st Battalion will take their training cruise to Boston in early September, the 1st Division aboard the U. 8. 8. Dickinson and the 3d Division aboard the U. S. 8. Decatur. “Oswald” Is Divorced. RENO, August 14 (#).—Mrs. Myriel Labriola won an uncontested divorce on grounds of cruelty yesterday from Antonio Labriola, prominent radio comedian known as “Oswald.” They ‘were married December 17, 1932, and have a daughter, Joyce, 3. Chimpanzee Bites Jane Withers. HOLLYWOOD, August 14 (P — Jane Withers, child film star, was scratched on the back and legs and bitten on a finger by a chimpanzee with which she was romping for a movie yesterday. Dr, Behle R. Burns sald the injuries were slight. MISS FRANCES LEWIS SMITHER Whose mother, Mrs. Charles Lewis Smither, announces her en- gagement to Mr. George Terrill Brumback, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Brumback of Arlington, V September 4. Residential Washington S()cigllN()tes Mrs. Loose Hostess to Former Minister and 3 Senora de Alfaro. HE former Minister of Panama Senor Ricardo Alfaro. and Senora de Alfaro. who are motoring in the North, are guesta of Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose in her Summer place, Sea Rocks, at Gloucester, Mass Mrs. Henry Morgenthau. mother of the Secretary of the Treasury, is o . | among the passengers arriving foday Mrs. Dessez will visit her parents, Rear Admiral and Mrs. | in the Staatendam from Europe, where she has been for some weeks Mrs. Henry White, widow of former United States Ambassador 1o France, who is spending the season at South- | ampton. was the guest in whose honor Mrs. Philip Hiss gave a dinner party followed by bridge last evening. Mr. and Mrs. F. Hamilton McCorm- ick-Goodhart, who are at their Sum- | mer place at Bar Harbor. entertained at luncheon yesterday Valley Golf Club at the Kebo preceding the | weekly tournament. Mrs. Herbert Shipman. daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edson Bradley of Washington, was hostess at dinner last evening at Seaview Terrace at Newport. Miss Kate M. Ellis has gone to Big Pond, Md., for a fortnight's visit. Mrs. John B. Gordon and her daughters, Miss Amonett and Miss Margaret, are visiting at Buffalo, N. Y Mrs. William H. Williams has as her guests in her apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Smith of Montgomery, Ala. Mrs. M. E. Sugg of Hot Springs. Ark., has arrived in Washington for & visit of several days. She is at the Wardman Park Hotel. CAPITAL FUGITIVE HELD IN INDIANA John S. McCauley to Be Returned. Admits Jumping Bond on Two Charges. John 8. McCauley was held in In- dianapolis for Washington authorities today after admitting, Indiana police said, that he had jumped bond on charges of embezzlement and larceny after trust pending against him here, according to an Associated Press dis- patch. McCauley, 35, who had lived here in the 1700 block of Columbia road. pleaded mnot guilty when arraigned March 12 on the two charges. The larceny after trust indictment alleged that he fraudulently obtained $500 from Howard Gendall, Paterson, N. J., on promises he would obtain employ- ment for him here. In the other in- dictment he is charged with embez- zling $36 from Joseph Rubin, who had hired him to move some furniture here from New York. He was under $500 bond on each charge. His bondsman, Patrick F. O'Connor, said McCauley would be returned here tonight or Monday. McCauley left| | Washington, O'Connor said, shortly after he was shot in the arm. A charge of assault with a deadly weapon against Hazel I. Tadlock, McCauley’s former secretary, in connection with the shooting was ignored by the grand jury reporting Wednesday. McCauley was apprehended in In- dianapolis after a widespread search in Midwestern cities. He told police he had operated a filling station in In- dianapolis for four months under an assumed name. POWER RATES CUT 12,000 Rural Homes in Indiana to Benefit by Order. INDIANAPOLIS, August 14 (#).— The Indiana Public Service Commis- sion ordered yesterday a reduction of approximately 25 per cent in the rates for electric energy supplied to rural electric membership corporations by private utility companies. The utility companies promptly joined in a statement announcing acceptance of the new rates and say- ing they were “anxious to assist in the development of rural electrification projects.” The commission seid 12,000 homes in territories already organized for R. E. M. C. projects and 9,500 pros- pective consumers Would be benefited. a. The wedding will take place —Underwood & Underwood Photo. LITTLE MISS PA Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lenox R. Lohr, who has returned to her home in Tarrytown, N. Y., in Washington with her uncle W. Foux. TRICIA LOHR, after spending the school year and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Albert —Harris-Ewing Photo. | |0'Connel I-Rousseau | Engagement Told Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O'Connell, New York City and South Norwalk, Conn., announced the engagement of their daughter, Eileen Patricia, to Mr. Wil- lism Parker Rousseau of New York at a | luncheon Thursday on the Viennese ! roof of the St. Regis. Mr. Rousseau is | the son of Mrs. H. H. Rousseau of this city and Blue Hiil, Me, and the late Rear Admiral H. H. Rousseau, U. S. N the | Miss O’'Connell studied at Sacred Heart Convent in New York and at the Sorbonne in Paris. Mr. Rousseau was graduated from the Lenox School and is associated with the advertising firm of Young & Rubi- | can The wedding will take place early in January. Besides the young cou- ple the guests at the luncheon in- cluded Mrs. H H. Rousseau, Mr. and Mrs. Waldron E. Conklin and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey W. Harper of Larchmont, N. Y., and Mr. William E. Leahy of Washington and Mr. H. H. Rous- sead, jr. 'Date Set fr;r Debut | Of Miss Szechenyi Miss Sylvia Szechenvi was hostess at luncheon yesterday at Baileys Beach, Newport. Miss Szechenyi will be the guest for whom her mother, Countess Szechenvi, wife of former Hungarian Minister at Washington. will give a dance Saturday evening. August 28, at her Summer home, the Breakers, at Newport. The dance, to which 600 guests will be invited, will be Miss Szechenyi's debut in this country. Smither-Brumback Engagement Told Mrs. Charles Lewis Smither an- nounces the engagement of her daugh- ter Prances Lewis to Mr. George Ter- rill Brumback, son of Mr. and Mrs, T. J. Brumback of Arlington, Va The wedding will take place Sai- | urday, September 4. 2,000 TO GET PAY RISE ON APPROVAL OF BILL Measure Provides Fund to In- | crease Federal Building Em- ployes’ Salaries. | Approximately 2.000 employes of Federal buildings will receive pay in- | creases of $60 a year each when allot- ment of $135.000 for increasing pay of those receiving less than $1,200 per | annum, included in the recently signed Interior bill, is officially approved by Secretary Itkes. | Those affected include mainly char- women, janitors, elevator operators and other employes in the Jower civil service brackets. Charles A. Peters, jr., assistant director of the National | Park Service in charge of buildings, pointed out today, however, that not | raise. Only those with a fair civil service rating will be considered, he said. Eight Die in Air Crash. HANOVER, Germany, August 14 (#).—FEight mechanics and engineers German three-engined plane crashed and burst into flames while on a test flight from the local airdrome. Jillx;l)ef);illg - ’Chute Jumper Meets His Jinx All Set for His Leap, Cdlls It Off Because of Rain. | | Barr he isn't superstitious, is wondering whether, after all, there’s something in this Priday-the-13th jinx. He planned, in complete defiance of the double jinx day, to make a para- chute jump from Beacon Field at 13 minutes past 6 o'clock last night. He took a black cat—a toy one—with him. and took & third light from a match. He was all set to show there’s nothing in a day. Then, fust as'he was about to board a plane, a thunderstorm came up. He had to call off the jump. Barr, who works for the Internal Revenue ‘Bureau, is a member of the ‘Washington Parachute Club. M. O. Exdridge, acting traffic di- rector, has more respect for Friday the 13th. He declined to have his new car delivered yesterday. It was sent to him today. *, all such employes would benefit by the | were killed here yesterday when a | Louis Barr, who always has insisted | He spilled salt, walked under a ladder | !Wed'diAngs 'Of Recent | Date Noted |Miss Lauzon Married to Mr. Craig in Lynn, Mass. HE marriage of Miss Constance A. Lauzon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Lauzon of Lynn, Mass., to Mr. William A. Craig, | ir. son of Mr. and Mrs. Craig of Washington, took place Saturday morning, August 7. The ceremony was performed in the Church of St Jean Baptisie at Lynn at 9 o'clock and a wedding breakfast followed in the home of the bride's parents. Miss Dorothy Craig of Washington sister of the bridegroom. was maid of | honor, and the bridesmaids were Miss Regina Lauzon and Miss Eva Lauzon, sisters of the bride. Mr. George Dawer of Peabody. Mass was best man. and the ushers included Mr. Leonard Lauzon and Mr. Gilbert Lauzon, brothers of the bride Mr. Lauzon escorted his daughter who wore for her wedding a gown of white satin made on princess lines and trimmed with lace. She carried a cluster of lilies. After a wedding irip to Canada, re- turning to Cleveland and a short visit in Washington. Mr_and Mrs. Craig will be at home at 20 New Park street, in Lynn, Mass, a3 Miss Dorothy Everson Bride of Mr. Fuller. "THE marriage of Miss Dorothy A Everson, executive secretary of the Montgomery County Welfare Board, and Mr. Wallace Puller of Washington, took place Saturday, Au- gust 7. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller are spending several weeks with the bride’s mother Mrs. Stephen Everson, in Hudson, Wis. Miss Ruby Kelley | Bride of Mr. Mason. "THE marriage of Miss Ruby Louise Kelley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Kelley, of Forest Glen, Md., | and Mr. John Henry Mason, son of | Mr. and Mrs. Roy S. Mason, of Silver Spring, Md., took place Wednesday, | August 4, at Baltimore. The cere- | mony was performed by | Clarence E. Wise In the parsonage of “me Howard Park Methodist Episcopal Church. i, Mrs. William Shoemaker of Wash- ington was matron of honor and Mr. Shoemaker acted as best man. | The bride graduated in the class of 1934 from the Takoma-Silver | Spring High School and Mr, Mason, who also graduated in that class, com- { pleted his junior year at the University of Illinois in June. Mr. and Mrs Mason have taken an apartment near the District line. NEW CASH MAY PERMIT 100 MILES MORE ROAD 84,500,000 Allotted in Bill for ll Work Blue Ridge { Parkway. | The $4,500.000 allotment in the roads and trails fund of the recently signed Interior bill, to be used for additional work on the Blue Ridge Parkway, is expected to permit con- on 450;mile highway, the United States Bureau of Public Roads announced today. Approximately 135 miles of the new highway now are under contract, J. V. McNary, acting chief engineer in charge of road construction in na- tional parks, said today, and about half this distance is completed. Bids are expected to be advertised on three sections of the additional 100-mile distance, just north of the Virginia-North Carolina line, early in September. The parkway eventually will con- nect with Skyline Drive in Shenan- doah National Park to provide a continuous route from Front Royal, in North Carolina. PICKET BILL OPPOSED E. L. Oliver Assails Act Before Civil Liberties Group. Opposition to the Pittman bill pro- hibiting the picketing of Embassies and Legations was voiced last night by E. L. Oliver of Labor's Non-partisan League before the Joint Committee on Civil Rights of the Civil Liberties Union. Committee members, meeting in Wesley Hall to plan a mass meeting for the Sylvan Theater within & week in protest of the measure, were told to labor. the Rev. | struction of another 100 miles of the | the proposed legislation is "repunuml iss Stocking Sets Date For Wedidng | Miss Dorothy Marion Stocking, ! | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earle D. Stocking, will be married Tuesday to Mr. John Eliot Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil N. Howard of Fairfax, Va. The wedding will take place in the Church of Our Saviour at Sixteenth | and Irving streeis northeast, the Rev. :A‘.\m Lamar Wilis officiating. Miss Stocking has chosen as her at- tendants Mrs. SirVantis Henshaw as matron of honor and Miss Elizabeth Salley of Orangeburg, S. C., and Miss | Miriam Stackhouse of this city as | bridesmaids. Little Joanne Guy will be flower girl Mr. Howard will have his cousin, Mr. J. Rosser Shelton, as his best man and the ushers will be Mr. P. Worth Stocking, brother of the bride-elect; Mr. C. Carlton, jr.; Mr. Albert Hovey- King and Mr. Richard Danzi A reception for the wedding party and the two families will follow at the home of the bride's parenta. Miss Prentice Gives Party at Bass Rocks Miss Dalsy Prentice. who is spending the Summer at Bass Rocks. Mass.. en- !tertained a party of 22 at the Bass Rocks Golf Club Wednesday. Mire. Sthultz Sails. Mrs. Gertrude Ray Schultz of Bethesda, Md. sailed todav on the Carinthia from New York for a trip 0 the Gaspe and Quebec Mrs Schultz’s sister, Mrs. J. Enos Ray, ac- companied her on the trip. and they expect 10 go to Bermuda before re- turning home. HOUSE GROUP STUDIES GARBAGE CASE CHARGE Discrimination Against Employes Who Testified at Inquiry Seen by Business Agent. House District Committee members today studied charges of discrimina- | tion against employes who testified | against William R. Wood, superin- | tendent of the District Garbage Sta- tion, before a board of inquiry sev- | eral weeks ago. | The charges were made by James | Kimbro, business agent of Local 466, | | International Hodcarriers, Building | and Common Laborers’ Union, who | said he submiltted to Representative | Dirksen of Iilinois photographs show- ing one of the principal witnesses against Wood carrying four large gar- | bage buckets. Kimbro said collectors usually carry only one bucket. | Kimbro said he had the assurance of committee smembers they would make an independent investigation of conditions in the garbage collection division of the District Government. No strike will be called pending the investigation, Kimbro said. Wally’s Wedding . Dress Influences | ‘ Style for Co-eds | Gown With High Neck | and High-Waisted Ef- | | fect to Be ) ogue. 1 By the Associatea Press. CHICAGO, August 14.—The wed- ding dress of the former Wally War- fleld, now the Duchess of Windsor, is | going to college this Fall. | That is, the gown with its high neck] | and high-waisted effect that the Bal- abdicated King of England has influ- | enced Fall fashion, as noted in current style shows for Betty Co-ed. In many of the daytime silk dresses emphasis has been placed on bodice | fullness held in place by a high waist- | Va, to the Great Smoky Mountains | line. A number were trimmed from the Extensive high-neck line to the waist with but- tons, self-covered, metal or pearl. | One garment designed for early Fall | campus wear was a gray woolen suit-| frock, the coat of which had a Nor- folk back. The top of the dress was of brown satin stitched to the skirt, which had a high fitted waist line in | front. Various sizes of pearl buttons were | frequently used for trimming. One deep brown wool dress had a row of dollar sized white buttons ml’rchln] down the front from the high neck to near the hem. A red wool shirt-waist frock was decorated from neck to hem with dime sized buttons of mirror. White pique was widely used for the small turn-down collars on wool sports | trocks. | They lett | Orleans, La. and Mrs 13 Suburban Social Notes Mr. and Mrs. Ramsdell and Their Chil- dren Returning Today to Clopper, Md. R. AND MRS. PAUL C.' RAMSDELL, with their chil- dren, Mr. Charles Benjamin Ramsdell, 2d; Miss Ellen Key Ramsdell, young Miss Anne and Miss Barbara, are returning today to their home at Clopper, Md. Mr. and Mrs Ramsdell have been at Rehoboth Beach, where they have had a cottage for a fortnight. Mr. Charles B. Rams- dell, 2d, is a grandson and namesake of the late Rev. Dr. Charles B. Rams- dell, for many years pastor of the North Presbyterian Church Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hayden Her- rick of Kensington, Md., have visiting them for two weeks Mr. Herrick's niece and her husband, Mr. and Mrs | Jesse Van Horn of Boston, Mass, Mr. and Mrs. William K. Hill of Takoma Park have as their guest Mrs, T. L. Heard of St. Petersburg, Fla last evening for Virginia Beach, accompanied by Mrs. Heard and Miss Marjorie M. Smith. Miss Irene Wright has as her house guests at Yatton, her Round Hill home, Mrs. Frank Underwood of New Harry Carroll | Tuesday after- entertained at of San Benito, Tex noon Miss Wright bridge for her guests. Other guests included Mrs. J. T. Clement, Mrs. Frank McComb, Miss Mary Simpson, Mrs. Hugh Carter, Miss Dolly Walsh, Miss Sydnia Walsh, Mrs. O. L. Wil- liams, Mrs. Edward Bookmiller, Mrs, J. Lynn Cornwell, Mrs. Oscar Emrick, Mrs. Edward Marsh, Mrs A. Speer, Miss Dorothy Smith, Mrs. Mary V. Smith, Miss Elizabeth Barr, Mrs. Stewart Smith, Mrs. J. Terry Hirst, Mrs. Contee Adams, Mrs Curtis Paxson, Mrs. H. H. Green, Mrs, Dwight Terry, Mrs. James Taylor, Mrs. Raymond Case, Mrs. Bernice Reichenbacher and Mrs. John Hans- barger. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Peacock enter- tained at a dinner dance at ihe Con- | gressional Country Club Thursday eve- ning for Miss Mary Georgia Hopkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ward Hopkins of Woodside Park, Md.. and Mr. John Alexis Yznaga, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Combs Yznaga of Washington, whose marriage will take place this afiernoon at 4 o'clock Winners Both | Hemingway, writer of “he-man ERNEST HEMINGWAY. MAX EASTMAN. —A. P, Photos. SILK FIRMS SIGN CONTRACT WITH C.1.0. Move by Manufacturers of Jersey and Pennsylvania Ends Week- 01d Strike. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 14 —An agree- ment was signed early today between some 60 silk and rayon manufacturers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania em- ploying about 8000 workers and the Textile Workers' Organizing Commit- tee, an affiliate of the C. I. O, ending the week-old silk strike in their plants, it was announced at the union offices. The announcement was made by Nathan Shaviro, publicity director of | the T. W. O. C. He said that it was| the most far-reaching agreement ever | made in the silk industry and pw-; dicted that during next week it would be extended to include 30,000 workers timore belle wore when she married the | or three-fourths of the industry. The | strike will be continued against plants | of manufacturers not signing, he said. BUILDING AIR-COOLED Improvements Under Way at District Court. The District Court Building is now being equipped with a complete air- cooling system, covered with a new | copper roof and dressed up with a | new coat of paint, inside and out. The | work is in progress during the Sum- mer recess. Trusty a “Beau Brummel.” INDIANAPOLIS, August 14 (#).—A negro trusty attired in a silk hat, a red and white zebra striped shirt and white trousers caused a traffic jam yesterday as amazed motorists stopped | to watch him mow the county jails | lawn. A turnkey said friends fur- | nished the outfit when the prisoner re- qufsted clothes for outdoor wear. ! nected with International ! Education in Geneva and came | Hemingwav, 39, and 6 feet | for Spain today to have another | at Other guests included Miss Allie Paza Rhodes of New Orleans, la Mr. Henry Wooster and Mr. and Mrs Roger Shields of Washington Miss Elizabeth Thomas has visiting her this week at her home near Riue- mont Miss Blanche Weber of Geneva, Switzerland. Miss Weber is con- Burean of thia Con- held World Miss country to attend ference of Library Ass in New York and the Frie Conference held in Philadeiphia Thomas entertained at a on Wednesday evening in comp 1o Miss Weber, when PFriends section and others were In meet her the anniia clation rec n ‘The Rev. James S. Cox, rector the Church of Ascension Si Spring, Md, and Mrs. Cox are sper ing a two weeks’ vacation in Floric in Mrs. William W. Everette of W ington and Round Hill is entertsin g in Greystone, her Round Hill hon her daughters, Mrs. Francis M and two children, Alden and Murray, and Mrs. X. Dwight and daughter, Jane Terry, Washington Ca al Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Povich » their young son have moved into new apartment at Sixteenth stre and the East-West High s Spring, Md ay Miss L) n Crutchfield of Sem N. C.. and Miss Sudie Crutchfield Danville, Va., who have been guests of their brother-in-law ar sister, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Mar in Fairfax, Va., have returned to r homes. Miss Phyllis Howland. dau Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Howland turned to her home in S Md. after a two months’ during which she has b her grandmother, Mr land, and her aunt S in Litchfield Hills, Conn., and f in New Haven, Waterbury, Brid and New York. Mr. and Mrs. Howla had as their guests the early pa the week Mr. and Mrs. John Quad of Tonica, 1lI RIVAL WRITERS CLAM VETORY Literary Fight Title Is Still Open After Eastman- Hemingway Battle. By the Associaied Press NEW YORK 14 That, literary heavyweight title, left, varant since the memorable Sinclair Lewis- Theodore Dreiser go in the Metropol- itan Ciub in 1931, was still open today. A now historic bout between Max Eastman, le essavist, and Frnest nov- 1st els, failed to settle anything Editor Maxwell Perkins of Charlex Scribner’s Sons, publishers, in whose paneled office iRhingly called & sanctuary) the ht occurred on Wednesday, was non-commitial He refused 1o give the nod ta either man Although he was referee, it was not by choice, he said Both Claim Victory, both writers they weighed out Meanwhile, victory as claimed today tipped the Eastman. 54, and also leveled the weight at 130 If the prize was publicity, they both won. (Please note Hemingway beam at 197 6 feet sails the civil war, Eastman was Marthas Vineyard, Mass., after ar- ranging for publication of a new book on poetry.) The pair met by chance in Perk office. On the editor’s desk was a rop of & book by Eastman called “Bull :n the Afterncon.” presumably mot on- tirely complimentary to a book Hemingway about bull-fighting titled “Death in the Afternoon. Began to Get Sore. Tn the book appeared this graph: “Come out from behind false hair on your chest, Ernest. We all know you." Hemingway para looked at the closed book, anc, in his own words, “began 10 get sore.” First he bared his chest prove he had hair on it Then, whether Hemingway picked un the volume and threw it in Eastman s face, as Eastman says, or whether Ernest simply slapped Max's face, as Ernest contends, the fight was on Max said he hurled the strappinz Hemingway backward over Perkins desk. Ernest denied it, and offer~d to post & $1.000 purse for a return engagement “in a closed room-— where no one can interfere " ““The best man will unlack the door,* he said “Better” is the word, Mr. Heming- way. 21 Days for Bacon Theft. 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