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Start of Debate, However, Gives Preferred Status to Reform Bill. Prolonged debate on the "red rider” repealer prevented House action yes terday on the Norton bill to modern ize and humanize Juvenile Court pro cedure in the District. The measure, however, was called Up late and general debate atarted, which gives it a preferred status on the House calendar on the next Dis trict day. February 22. Chairman Norton of the District Committee, who is sponsoring the bill, had hoped to get final action before adjournment and pleaded with the House to stay in session until it passed. She pointed out the measure was not controversial and would not precipitate the debate that greeted the "red rider” repealer. The House, however, took action on A conference report on the deficiency appropriation bill and adjourned. Mrs. Norton said she is confident the bill will be passed by the House on the next District day. The principal purpose of the meas ure is to abolish the present criminal procedure In Juvenile Court and sub stitute a chancery system. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair, much colder tonight; tomorrow fair and colder; minimum temperature tonight about 27 degrees. Maryland—Cloudy and much colder tonight; tomorrow fair and colder. Virginia—Cloudy and much colder, preceded by rain in southeast portion tonight; tomorrow fiir and colder. West Virginia—Partly cloudy and tnuch colder tonight; tomorrow partly Cloudy, colder in east portion. River Report. Potomac River clear and Shenan doah little cloudy today. Ifinrt far Uil 21 Hours. Tempnature. Barometer. Testerday— Degree*. Inches. 4 P.m_ 48 29.79 8 pm_ 44 29 78 Midnight _ 4.'! 29.74 Today— 4 a m_ fin 29 fift £a.m_-6# 29.72 oen _ 54 29.79 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today 1 _ Highest. 6.3. at 6 a m. today. Year ato. •ft Loweat. 42. at 1:15 a m. today. Year an. is. Record Temperatures This Year, Highest. 76, on January ft. Lowest. 23, on February 6. Humidity far Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Elghest. fl8 per cent, at midnight, jwest. 79 per cent, at 0 a.m. today. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.> Today. Tomorrow. High _6:30 a.m. 7:15 a.m. Low _1:09 a.m. 1:54 a.m. Sigh_6:55 p.m. 7:37 p.m. sw _1:23 p.m. 2:08 p.m. The San and Moon. Rises. Sets. Bun. today _7:07 a m. 5:38 p.m. Bun. tomorrow_7:06 a.m. 5:3ft P.m. Moon today _ 5:47 am. 4:10 p.m. Automobile lights must be turned on •ne-haif hour after sunset. FreriyHstHm. Monthly precipitation In Inchgi in the Capital icurrent month to date): Month. 1937. Avge. Record. January _ 7.83 3.55 7.83 '37 February _0.71 3.27 « 84 ’84 March_ 3.75 8.84 ’91 April__ 3.27 9.13 '89 May __ 3.70 10.89 '89 June__ 4.13 10.94 '00 July __ 4.71 in.83 '88 August __ 4 01 14.41 ’28 September__ 3.24 1. .45 34 October __ 2.84 8.57 ’85 November__ 2.37 8 89 '89 December__ 3.32 7.56 01 Music at Arts Club. p ITA BEMENT, dramatic singer, and Evelyn Scott, violinist, ac companied by Marjorie Davis, will give a musical program on Thursday eve ning at 8:30 o'clock at the Arts Club. EDUCATIONAL. " Clouet Now Forminr Accountancy Pace Counet; B. C. S. and I M. C. S. Degree! C. P. A. Preparation Day and Even* ing daises; Coeducational, t Send for 30th Year Book. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION BLDG. ME.29IS STENOTYPE The machine woy of taking dic tation. Registrations open for new classes in Day School, February 15. The Temple Scheel 1420 K Stmt He. 1258 No. 3279 The Temple School SECRETARIAL TRAINING Mid-year classes now forming. Day and Evening Sessions. Courses for beginners and advanced students. 1420 K Street No. 3258 No. 3279 EMPLOYMENT and promotion are the rewards for thorough preparation in accountancy Courses lead to B.C.S. and M.C.S. degrees. Unexcelled record in train ing for Governmental positions, for business, and for private practice as a C.P.A. Mid-Winter Classes Now Forming STRAYER COLLEGE OF ACCOUNTANCY P. 1. Hem«i, Director HOMER BUILDING. 11th A E STREETS ENTER NOW! FIRST WEEK’S PUZZLES RE-PRINTED ON THIS PAGE! PUZZLE No. 1 | PUZZLE No. 2 PUZZLE No. 3 WHAT NAME DOES THIS PUZZLE REPRESENT? The Correct Solution Is in tha Following Uot Washington Irving Jack London John Ringling Marie Antoinette Roacoe ArbuckJe George Washington Oscar Wilde Sir Walter Raleigh Noah Webstar Robert Louis Stevenson William Pin Lillian Russell WHAT NAME DOES THIS PUZZLE REPRESENT? The Correct Solution to in the Following List Charles Dickens Stephen Decatur Mark Twain Rudyard Kipling j Teiaa Gulnan < latTle Notion Charles Lamh Israel Zanftwill Anna Psrlowa William Penn Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Browning] WHAT NAME OOES THIS PUZZLE REPRESENT? The Correct Solution It in the Following List Thomas Carlyle Warren Hastings Horace Walpole ' Amerigo Vespucci John Stuart Mill] Oliver Cromwell Ponce de Leon JohanntStraues Christopher Columbus Benjamin Franklin Percy Shelley John Quincy Adams PUZZLE No. 4 WHAT NAME OOES THIS PUZZLE REPRESENTT Tka Carr act Sakitiaa la in tka FaMawlag Hat Henry Clay Wiley Poet Diamond Jim Brady Leif Ericaon Thomas Jaflaraon* Julius Casaar - Pocahontas Walter Raletfth James Oftlsthorpa Russell Safte Robert Pulton Thomas M Fifths n PUZZLE No. 5 WHAT NAME DOES THIS PUZZLE REPRESENT? TIm Correct Solution It in tho Following List Cotton Mather Stephen Foster, Harry Houdlni Jane Austen George Washington Patrick Henry Franz Schubert Kind Canute Juliet Capulet Robert Southey Jeanne Eadels Nicolai Lenin PUZZLE No. 6 WHAT NAME DOES THIS PUZZLE REPRESENT? The Correct Solution It in the Following List Millard Flllmora Jeanne d'Arc Daniel Defoe James Monroe Percy Shelley Rudolph Valentino William Shake*[tear* Robert MorrU Admiral Dewey Henry Ward Beecher Eugene Field George Eaatman r«* niM, i* f» rMutt, MpfrtfkM /MT, kf P. LmJUfi C#.. /«• _ Here s Ho pr-lie nOO.000.00^^ TSS'-'^feS^wS'*-^ 3 Sr*3 SssKSgsff “* « detent opporwmty to had such an You win in this contest by solving a series of puzzles each week in accordance with the rules. EACH WEEK, for 15 weeks, a series of six puzzles will be offered for solution. The contest has been in progress for one week. Thus, to enable you to start now, we are today reprinting all 6 of the first week’s puzzles. There is nothing hard to understand, nothing complicated about this contest. Follow these 3 suggestions, and put yourself in line to win a cash fortune of $100,000.00. 1st... RE AD THE RULES! Find the name represented by each of the 6 puzzles printed on this page. Below each puzzle is a list of names. Find your solution for each puzzle in the list below the puzzle. FILL IN your solutions on the entry form provided in this announcement. 2nd...Send your entry to OLD GOLD CONTEST, P. O. Box 9, Varick Street Station, New York, N. Y. Mail your entry any time be tween now and Midnight of the coming Saturday. Immediately upon receipt of your entry the 2nd Week’s puzzles will be mailed to you, and your name will be placed on our mailing list to re ceive further puzzles as issued. 3rd ...In this contest, each weekly series of solutions is to be accom panied byk3 OLD GOLD yellow package wrappers or 3 hand drawn facsimiles. Thus, when sending in your entry, enclose 3 OLD GOLD yellow package wrappers or hand-drawn facsimiles. Remember! Read the Rules. Solve the puzzles NOW. Make up your mind to enter TODAY. You have until Midnight Saturday night to ob tain your wrappers (or prepare your facsimiles) and mail your entry. 1,000 CASH PRIZES.. .*200,000.00 IN AWARDS FIRST PRIZE... <100,000.00 2nd Prize • • ..$30,000.00 3rd & 4th Prize (each) . . . $10,000.00 5th & 6th Prize (each) . . . $5,000.00 7th & 8th Prize (each) . . • $2,500.00 •tti & 10th Prize (each) . . . . • $1,500.00 11th & 12th Prize (each).$1,000.00 10 Prizes (each) ....... $500.00 28 Prizes (each) .$250.00 SO Prizes $100.00 each... $5,000.00 • 100 Prizes $50.00 each... $5,000.00 e 800 Prizes $10.00 each... $8,000.00 iNNit or W\ yy ^ OUTII JACKIT or 7 "cruorMAtti" //\y\ Om*i N« Hf l«W»w Enter Now! By Using This Entry Form THE RULES Pleaam Read Them Carefully 1. OLD GOLD’S PUZZLE CONTEST to open to everybody with the exception of the employees of P. Loriliard Company, In*., and it* advertising and sales promotion agencies. 2. A group of not lam than M puzzles which will become in creasingly difficult aa the contest proceeds will be offered for solution. Each puarie will represent or in some definite way contain dam which will convey the idea of a name. The name may be that of a parson, book, song, movie, dty, state or nation. The sertiar pnwfee will be of the more elementary type, in order to assist contestants in familiarizing themselves with the prin ciples for solving this particular kind of puzzle. 3. OLD GOLD will pay a First Prise of *100,000.00 and »»» other cash prizes (a grand total of 1,000 prises aggregating (100,000.00) to the one thousand contestants who by their submission* achieve the one thousand highest scores through solving puzzles they era called upon to solve under these rules and who in all other ways conform to all of thee* Official Rules. 4. The puzzles will be issued for solutions in weekly aeries of six, and contestant* are asked to eolva and submit solutions EACH WEEK. The let Week’s Series of C pussies bears the rdeaae date et Moaday, Feb. 1, 1987. Each Monday, for fourteen additional weeks, there will be another weekly series to solve. Conteatnata should solve the puzzles and submit solutions to tame during the week following issuance date of each series. In submitting tha solutions for any current aeries, a contestant is privileged to submit solution* for preceding series. Thus, a contestant entering the contest during the find week shsald submit both the 1st Week’s Series a* well as the 2nd Week’s Series; and a contestant entering during the Srd Week should submit both the 1st and 2nd Weeks' Series as well as the Srd Week’s Series, and so on. All series should be qual ified in accordance with Rule No. 7. 5. Contestants are requested to mail their solutions EACH WEEK, (n aeries of six. The various current weekly series of pussies, together with Entry Forms, may be obtained FREE at any place where OLD GOLDS are sold, or pussies and ENTRY FORMS may be clipped from newspapers, magaainee or dr- * eulars and will be equally acceptable. S. Neatness will not count. Do not decorate your solutions. Just solve the pussies in accordance with the rules. In ease of ties as many of the prises will be reserved as there are con testants tied before any prises are awarded for a leas perfect submission; that ia, if two or more persons tie in submitting the correct solutions to all of the pussies then the first two or more prises will be reserved for them and theae two or more prises will bs awardsd in the order of the accuracy of the submissions to a first or, ft necessary, a second group of tie-breaking pussies, the second group of tie-breaking pussies to be accompanied by a tetter as hereinafter specified. In event a second tie-breaking group of pussies is necessary, contestants eligible to solve same will be required to accompany their solutions to this second tie-breaking group of pussies with a letter of between 100 and 200 wordaon the subject: "The Increased Popularity of Old Gold Cigarettes in My Community as a Result of the Old Gold Contest.” Only in ease of ties still existing after submissions to the second tie-breaking group of pussies have been checked will the accompanying letters be considered, and In that event prises will be awarded on the basis of originality in description and general interest of the letter*. In case two or more letters ars judged of equal originality and equal general interest then duplicate prists will be awarded. 7. To qualify for a prize, the contestant la required to accompany each aeries of solutions with three OLD GOLD yellow package wrappers, or three reasonably accurate hand-drawn facsimiles. Either will be equally acceptable. It is not necessary to make a purchase in order to compete. A contestant is privileged to enter more than one complete set of solutions, but each eatry must be individually identified as entry "A", entry "B". etc. Each entry will be judged as a unit. No contestant is eligible to win more than one prise, the highest prize won by any individ ual entry submitted by that contestant. I. Upon entering this contest and by the submission of solu tions to the puzzles, the contestant agrees that the decision of P. Loriliard Company in all matters affecting the conduct of the contest, the acceptance of submission*, the making of awards and the measures invoked to insure individual effort In fairness to all contestants shell be final and conclusive. The P. Loriliard Company will establish an individual file for each contestant, but will not be responsible for submissions or communications unduly delayed or lost In the mail either from or to the contestant. fi. sp.rk weekly series of solutions together with 8 OLD GOLD yellow package wrappers or facsimiles as • period in Rule No. 7, etould be addreseed to OLD GOLD CONTEST, P. O. Bog 9, \ trick St. Station, New York, N. Y. Be sure you have familiarized yourself with these rules. Read them over again and then solve the puzzles. Official Entry Form OLD GOLD CONTEST Date P. O. Box 9, Varlck Street Station, New York, N. Y. The following are my solutions to putales 1-A:— 3__ 4 2 _ 5_ 3 _- 6 I enclose herewith S Old Gold yellow package wrappers (or 3 hand-drawn fac similes) in accordance with the rules. cases waica Mr. ' Wm TOO* HAMB Address_ City__State_ Submit th. aolutiona aa Indicated on thla Official Entry Form, by Midnight of tha coming Saturday, or aarllar If you chooaa. fl,.3 PLIASI PRINT YOUR NAMI AND ADDRISS *4