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place in the Shoreham Hotel tomor-
row evening, Sis O'Clock. 4
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
John Dickinson will be the speaker
Of the evening. President Aaron Kline
will preside.
Group singing will be led by Mrs.
Lillian B. Brousseau, instructor in mu-
sic in the Washington public schools.
The guest soloist will be Miss Hat
tie Herfurth, contralto, accompanied
by Mrs Earle S. Belman.
Hostesses for the evening will be
the principals of the Washington
schools.
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National and State Officers
ID, A, r. Guests July 6.

National and state officers of the
D. A. R., who have accepted invita-
tions to the dinner at the Congress
sional Country Club for July 6. at 2
p.m., given by the Col. Tench Thigh
man Chapter Of the D. A. r. In honor
of the regent, Mrs. William Chase,
and the newly elected officers: The
Vice President General Mrs. Henry
Zoller, jr.: Mrs. Arthur Shanklin,
Maryland state regent; Mrs. Wilbur
B. Blakeslee. Maryland vice regent.
and Miss Adelphine Hall, Maryland
state librarian, all Of Baltimore, Will
attend. L
The members of the chapter will
invite their husbands and friends to
pay tribute to their newly elected Off
GERS. Reservations should be made
through Miss Margaret Loughborough.
secretary. Mrs. william Talbot will
have charge of the installation serv-
ice, preceding the dinner. Mrs. Jesse
w. Nicholson is chairman of the din
ner arrangements.
Miss Constance Friend of New York
City is at the Carlton during the N.
Evening star., 1934-07-02
Fairfax Council Meets Tonight.

FAIRFAX, Va, July 2 (SpeciaD -
A meeting of the Fairfax Town Coun-
ell will be held tonight at o'clock
in the office of Mayor Thomas P.
Chapman. A preliminary report on
the auoit OF the accounts of the town
which is now being made is expected.
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Festival in Church Grove.

BADEN, Md, July 2 (Special -
The Ladies' Aid Of st. Paul's Church
will hold its annual Fourth of July
festival in the church grove. There
will be a base ball game between the
Brandywine nine and the Martin 6s
Boyd Spring Works team of Wash
ington on the Baden High School
grounds, supper will be served and
other attractions will be in order.
Evening star., 1934-07-02

@. Gilbert and family Of st. Au-
gustine. Fla, and ave making their
home temporarily at 313 Court House
road, preparatory to moving into their
new home near Rock Creek Park in
the early Fall.
Evening star., 1934-07-02
HOMESTEAD WORK TOPIC
A. X. Besley One of Kiwanis Din
ner Meeting Speakers.

LANDOVER, Md, July 2.-Featur-
ing the weekly dinner meeting of the
Kiwanis Club of Prince Georges
County Thursday at $50 pm. at the
Beaver Dam Country Club here will
be talks by A. K Besley on the Home
stead subsistence work at BeltSyille,
and by Harry Hughes on the Civilian
Conservation Corps camp. also at
Beltsville. Besley is working on the
subsistence homestead plan being de-
veloped on the Gatti tract near the
Government farm. He also is pro-
curement officer for the Beltsville
c. c. c., of which Hughes is super
intendent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-09

ed down the ladder to the schooner Sitka.
 According to witnesses, Capt. Sandvik apparently stumbled as he crossed the guard on the face of the dock, clutched at the ladder and swing about in the air striking the gunwale of the schooner 15 feet below before hitting the water. 3ystanders pulled him out and he
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-09
HALIBUT FISHERMAN
 BREAKS LEG IN FALL

Capt. Tom Sandvik, skipper of the halibut schooner Norland, broke his lower left leg in two places last night at 12 o'clock, when he slipped from the face of the Cold Storage dock as he start
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-09
SON OF MRS. KELLEY WILL
 COME NORTH TO ARRANGE
 FOR FUNERAL AND BURIAL

James c. Briggs, son of Mrs. Alice L. Kelley, who died at St. Ann's Hospital yesterday, will leave Seattle Saturday to accompany the body of his mother south. MT. and Mrs. Briggs live in Oregon City, Oregon. n
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-09
SEWARD BUILDING HAS
 RENEWED FOUNDATION

Work is nearly completed on re- newing the foundation of the Sew ard Building on Front Street. This work was done by the Kraft Cab- inet Works.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-09

was taken to St. Ann's Hospital for treatment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-09

THIS is rd-boed world. All of us have thrown an armor of caIlousness about us-doctOrs business men, debs alike. We have grown immune to the bruises of civilizations hurried hustle. But through all of this there remains in us tender spot for Mother. Sunday, May 13 we set aside to pay homage to the wonderful who guided first cautious footsteps, who defended us in all our rights and wrongs and who today is possibly wishing wistfuly that she may have just little attention from those to whom she gave ALL
Evening star., 1934-11-16
PITTS SUES TO GET
PROPERTY FROM U. S
Seeks to Halt Sale Of Stocks,
Bonds and Jewelry Valued
at $S,000,00o.

Declaring he is the victim of a plot,
G. Bryan Pitts, former head of the F.
H Smith Co. who was indicted sew
eral years ago for a conspiracy to de-
fraud the Smith Co. Of S., $1,000, filed
suit in District Supreme Court yester-
day in an effort to halt sale by the
Government of his stocks, bonds and
jewelry seized in satisfaction of in
come tax claims.
The petition, filed on behalf Of Pitts
and his wife, Mrs. Gladys T. Pitts, as
serts the Government seized $4,000, 900
worth Of property in satisfaction Of
a tax claim aggregating $4,000, 1000.
He contends this property has been
appraised at much less than its true
value and that he will suffer great
loss If the Government is permitted
to sell it at the assessed valuation.
A public auction for disposing Of
part of the property has been set for
November II and %.
Pitts Is now serving penitentiary
sentence at Lorton Reformatory in
connection with charges brought
against him growing out Of the fall
ure Of the Smith Co. 4
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Park and Planning Body
to Seek Legislation for
Development.
COMMISSION INDORSES
MILITARY ROAD CLOSING
Public Roads Bureau Plans for
George Washington Memorial
Parkway Favored.

The National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission today decided to push
legislation in the forthcoming Con-
gress for development of Gravelly
Point as permanent municipal air
port.
This stand was taken in reaffirmine
Its previous vote on the subject. The
commission again suggested that the
United States Engineer Once, under
direction Of the chief Of Army En-
gineers, fill in the site with sand and
gravel pumped from the bed Of the
Potomac River.
At the same time the commission
again went on record as indorsing
legislation to close Military road, which
now separates the Hoover and Wash
ington airports, provided an adequate
substitute road is supplied.
Parkway Plan Indorsed.
Oficials Of the Bureau of Public
Roads submitted plans for highway
construction In the George Washington
Memorial Parkway. between the
Arlington and Key Bridges, and these
received commission Endorsement.
Under the new plan, a temporary
bridge will be constructed near the
northwest end of Columbia Island,
across Boundary Channel, to carry
traffic to the Virginia mainland.
Later, when funds become available,
a more substantial bridge is to be built.
There will be two highways, keeping
r1Oca N tho rjvor opJ r,ippinr ~, ~
the circle at Rosslyn. Va Each of the
roads will provide two or three lanes
for traffic. Funds Of this development
have been made available by the
Public Works Administration.
The staff Of the commission was
given the task Of studying the prob
lem raised by the proposal TO convert
the old spark-plug factory. on Wash
ington and Pendleton streets, in Alex
andria. Va. into an apartment house
John Nolen. jr.. director of planning
for the commission. and Thomas S.
Settle. its secretary, informed the
commission that the City Council Of
Alexandria had given them a "cour-
teous and satisfactory hearing"
The Council tabled a request to re-
zone the property, until the commits
sion has had opportunity to inspect
the maps and plans and give the
matter close attention. When the
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway was
constructed, Alexandria entered into
an agreement with the Federal Gov
ernment to preserve its memorial
character and not permit construction
out of harmony with this. The COM
mission is attempting to establish If
the proposed apartment house would
violate this agreement.
Mall Drives Named.
The new highways under construc-
ton on the Mall were officially named
by the commission as the North and
South Mall drives and the North and
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Doctors of Public Health No,v
AuaiIabIe for FOlUler's Post
Watched With Interest In
Lieu of NeU Profession Which Has
Developed in Last Is Years.

The forthcoming appointment Of a
health officer for the District, to sue
ceed Dr. William C. Fowler, on his
retirement. has already raised the
question whether the appointment
will be political or whether the selec-
ton will be governed by other con-
siderations
The profession of public health OFF,
Ger as distinct from that of physician
has developed in the United States
during the past Is years, largely under
the stimulus of the United States
Public Health Service.
1t is now regarded. Public Health
Service officials explain, as either a
distinct medical speciality or as a
profession in itself. Both Harvard
and Johns Hopkins Universities now
have special public health depart
ments, which award degrees of doctor
Of public health" instead Of doctor
Of medicine"
The practice Of placing State and
city health departments in charge of
physician has been of long stand
ing in the United States, but for
some time past there has been grow
ing up a specialized body of knowledge
which does not enter into the train
ing Of the ordinary medical man. Medi-
cal training Is directed especially at
the treatment Of the individual pa
tient. theoretically, the doctor of
public health Is not concerned with
the individual, but with the commu-
nj Ia DC ,od rxyftt rtry-ix,
a case OF diphtheria, but with pre-
venting the spread of diphtheria.
Expert In Several Lines.
He must be an expert on water and
milk supply, sewage disosal, COM
municable diseases, child hygiene,
medical inspection Of schools, the
methods of vital statistics, and the
social problems involved in such all
ments as malaria, hookworm and
venerea1 diseases. Such q matter as
vital statistics, speciality in itself,
hardly would enter into the education
Of a practicing physician. To him it
would mean only a record Of births,
deaths, communicable diseases, etc.,
without the application of those sta
tisticaf methods without which a very
unreal picture Of the actual situation
is apt to result.
The doctor Of public health Is q
specialist in the rather vaguely de-
fined no-man's land which lies be-
tween medicine and engineering. He
must know the sewage disposal prob
lem, for example, from the standpoint
both Of the engineer and the bac-
teriologist and act as q liaison officer
between the two.
The Public Health Service gives
special courses to iY own men and to
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Capital Wedding Ceremony
TOCulni11ate 40. Year Romance

A romance that bloomed and died
under parental mandate more than
40 years ago, only to be reborn in the
fading years Of life, will reach its long
delayed elimination November a.,
when Lewis Beck and nellie Towne
are united in marriage by Justice
Let's of the District Supreme Court.
1t was back in 1892 in the small
town of Winfield, Kans., when Beck
first proposed marriage to Miss Towne.
He was 20. She was 18. She was
too young, her parents thought, and
Miss Towne obeyed their edict to wait.
But after that Beck and Miss Towne
drifted apart. He Travelled West, East,
South, and in fact, all over the coun-
try with small circus. Miss Towne
married. Beck also fell in love again,
with another woman. and married
Evening star., 1934-11-16

rushed out to find the stairway ir
flames.
She threw an overcoat around
Katherine and dashed down the blaz-
ing stairs. Her brother. blinded and
choked by smoke, could not follow
Instead, he opened rear window and
swung onto the waterpipe.
There was barely room for his fin
gers and no ledge to support his feet
A neighbor, Thomas Carroll, 1918
Thirtieth street, noticing his plight
searched for a ladder. but with no
success. The bulldog, meanwhile
blocked access to the yard with his
menacing growls.
Damage to the house and furniture
totaled about s700. Fire Capt. Sylves-
ter NJ Gould, commanding No. En-
gine Company, also was cut about the
hands in extinguishing the blaze
Evening star., 1934-11-16
HOMES
PARADE PLANNED
Housing Program and Ma.
tionat Guard Sponsoring
Event Monday.

Officials Of the Washington Better
Housing Program and District Ma
tional Guard today launched plans
for big parade, with bands, military
units and floats, to signalize the OPEN
ing of the Better Homes Exposition
Monday, November 26.
The parade, which will be staged
jointly by the National Guard and
the Better Housing Program, will be
designed to show the benefits Of home
improvement under the "moderniza-
ton" loans sponsored by the Federal
Housing Administration.
Capital firms in the home construc-
ton and equipment field will enter
specially designed floats. Other plans
call for a contingent Of National
Guard, number of bands and cars
bearing officials of F. H. A., the
Washington Better Housing Program
and District government.
The procession will get under way
at Z pm. from Eighteenth street and
pennsylvania avenue, ana Will con-
tinue down Pennsylvania avenue to
Sixth street. The terminus will be
the bus center of Washington, Penn
sylvania avenue between Sixth and
Seventh streets, where the exhibit
containing several dozen displays by
local firms in the home construction
and equipment field, will be held.
Details Of the parade are being
worked out by Col. John w. Oehmann,
District building inspector and head
Of the National Guard. Decision to
hold the march was made yesterday
afternoon during meeting attended
by Col. Oehmann, John Poole, execu-
tive director of the local housing cam
paign; Dorsey w. Hyde, assistant di-
rector: Maj. Ernest w. Brown, chief
of police, and other officials of the
National Guard and the housing pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
CITY PLAYGROUND
MERGER IS URGED
Departmental Control Held
Needed by SibyI Baker,
District Supervisor.

Unification Of the recreation facil-
tiles Of the National Capital under
control Of department of the
municipal government was urged to-
day by Miss Sibyl Baker, District su-
pervisor of Fairgrounds, in her an
nual report to the Commissioners.
She recommended that the city heads
take the initiative in the move to
unite playground activities. Control
now is scattered among several agen-
cies. some Federal and some mu-
nicipal.
The matter is expected to come to
a head late this month, when the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, the District Commission
ers and other official bodies will con-
slider report from the National
Recreation Association. The need for
a united system will be urged by the
national body it was revealed yester-
day.
Miss Baker stressed in her report on
the year ending last June 80 that
municipal facilities are not adequate
and said: For a full and effective
program of recreation. Washington
needs more and better physical facil-
tiles, increased staff, and an improved
professional status for recreation
leaders.
Attendance Figures Given.
While city facilities are less than
they should be, Miss Baker said, re-
ports show District play centers had a
grand total attendance last fiscal year
Of 1858 ,029. The attendance at the
Fairgrounds and recreation centers
amounted to 3,527,773; at swimming
pools, 188,158; at special play CEN
ters, 28,817; at extra playground &C
tivities, 118,281.
Miss Baker said the city conducted
last year "a year-round centers, SO
part-time centers on school grounds
and in parks, three swimming pools
on Fairgrounds, and the municipal
pools on the Monument Grounds,
making a total of SO centers. She
made the point that the attendance
increased despite the fact that some
of the school Fairgrounds were closed
by the economy program, halting of
activities on nine grounds while i'm
provements were made and the un-
usually long and severe Winter of
last year.
Federal Help Cited.
Miss Baker reported that consid-
cradle progress was made in improve
ment of play centers by the activities
of the civil works program and its
successor, the emergency works pro-
gram. Under these programs, she
said, 1875 acres of land were graded,
4,5O0 feet of fence installed, four new
center houses were built and five
others remodeled, locker houses in
the Monument Grounds were i'm
proved, and the following new ia
cilities were added: Three wading
pools, five tennis courts, seven basket
ball courts, IS volley ball courts, three
horseshoe grounds, six soccer fields
and one base ball diamond.
Evening star., 1934-11-16

her. Death, however, took Miss
Towne's husband and Beck's wife,
She married again, but that union
was an unhappy one. Six years ago
she was divorced from her second
husband.
In the Spring of this year, Beck
learned that his boyhood sweetheart
was in California and free. Beck
wrote and again proposed marriage.
For the second time she accepted.
Miss Towne will arrive In Washing
ton two hours before the scheduled
time of the ceremony.
Beck, a night watchman in the
United States marshal's Office, Is now
50. Miss Towne is go. The bloom Of
youth has left her face and her hair
has turned silvery white, but Beck
says she is still sweet Nelle"l to him.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
SERGT. TALLEy
DIES IN HIS SLEEP
Police Official Commended
Eight Times in 13 Years
for Unusual Merit.
Detective Sergt. Carleton Talley was

Detective Sergt. Carleton Talley was
found dead in bed early today by his
! wife in their home at 2311 Randolph
street northeast. Death apparently
was due to heart disease.
Talley was attached to the clothing
and jewelry squad in the Detective
! Bureau and was to have reported for
| duty at am. to relieve Detective
Sergt. Robert J. Barrett. His fellow
officers, who worked with him yes
terday, said he appeared to be in ex-
cellent health when he went off duty
last night.
His brother, Police Lieut.. Clarence
Talley, was on duty this morning when
Mrs. Talley telephoned she had gone
to awaken him in time to meet a fell
| low officer who accompanies him to
| work every morning and had found
him dead. Lieut.. Telley said he would
take few days leave to make funeral
arrangements.
Cited for Bravery.
Sergt. Talley had been commended
eight times in the last 13 years for
exceptional service and bravery and
was to have received two other COM
mendations this week for outstanding
duty performed since November l in
the recovery of a large amount Of
jewelry stolen few weeks ago.
Among the accomplishments for
which Talley was commended during
his service in the Police Department
was for good work in connection with
the arrest Of the murderers Of Mamie
Solomon"
Other concentrations included those
for the assistance given in the appre-
hension of Ludy Robinson, wanted
for murder; his work performed
bringing to justice Garry Robert and
Charles A. Owen, alleged murderers
of James H. Lane; the apprehension
of two men in Sanitary Grocery Co.
store robbery; for work in connection
with the apprehension of four men
wanted for robbery, this commenda-
ton having been made by Assistant
United States Attorney John ]. Sirica;
for cooperation and apprehending
three men wanted for hold-ups; for
the capture of two men who held up
Diamond taXicab and the recov-
cry of most of the money stolen.
Was Given Reward.
He also was permitted to accept a
reward given by Prince and Princess
Kaya. rendered during their visit to
Washington during September of this
year.
In addition to these there were
many Communications from citizens
which were filed but not made part
OF his permanent record as a member
OF the department..
His first official commendation oc-
CURED on February 25, 1921, the 9TH
ers occurring at intervals until his
death.
During the war he served at the
Army Medical School here from 1917
to 1919 and was mustered out of the
service when the armistice was signed.
He joined the Metropolitan Police De-
partment in October, 1919, and was
promoted to detective sergeant in July,
1925. He was 40 years old and mem
Der Of the Washington Police Post,
American Legion. He was a native of
Louisa, Va.
Capt. Bernard w. Thompson Of the
Detective Bureau said Sergt. Talley
would be given a police funeral with
burial in Arlington Cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Frances Talley; a daughter, Virginia,
10, and a son, John, T. His mother,
Mrs. Cora B. Talley, and two brothers,
Clarence and Percy, also survive.
Evening star., 1934-11-16

w YITH his home in flames and
w sSsy s;ss.nss " 'SsSs !sasss ss;s $ ii:
morning clung for 10 min
utes by his fingertips TO waterpipe
outside a window three stories above
the ground.
Three firemen ignored the dog and
hoisted ladder to rescue Angel. Two
of the three men who went to his res
cue-Pvts. John Currier and c. A.
Beck, No. Truck Company-later
were cut about the hands by broken
glass in fighting the blaze at 2918
Olive avenue The third man was
Pvt. J. Gland, No. 6 Engine Company.
Angel and his sister Dorothy. 27.
were in their bed rooms when the fire
broke out in the first-f1oor parlor,
The screams of a niece. Katherine, s.
who was in front room, attracted
the attention of Miss Angel, who
Evening star., 1934-11-16

State health officers In the special
problems of public health administra-
tion, conducts a special course every
year at its Cincinnati laboratory for
State sanitary officers, and supplies
specialists in an advisory capacity to
State health officers.
Same Problems Met.
With the exception Of special disease
problems Of specific areas and quirks
Of local health law, the public health
officers function Is about the same
everywhere, it is pointed out, and he
can be transferred from one post to
another without loss of efficiency. He
is especially trained for the mobiliza-
tion Of medical forces and public SEN
timent to meet any particularly dan
gerous situation, such as the wiping
out of tuberculosis or diphtheria. With
good local resources, it is pointed out,
an efficient public health officer can
practically eliminate such disease as
diphtheria-for which there is a spe-
cific preventive an da specific cure
from a community. The officer is not
primarily interested in treating diph-
liberia, but in not allowing it to happen.
In communities where public health
administration is still political, the
practice has grown up of employing a
non-political administrative assistant
to have charge Of the actual work.
The coming of the trained public
health expert usually Is welcomed by
local physicians.
Illness Social Problem.
The emergence of the doctor Of
public health" it is pointed out, is
due largely to an increasing social
consciousness that sickness is as much
Of a social as an individual problem.
The practicing physician must be
left free to treat individuals as such,
the research man to develop new
methods and determine the behavior
characteristics Of diseases, while the
public health officer can concentrate
his attention on the effect of any
particular disease on society.
The United States Public Health
Service serves primarily as a co-ordi-
mating and advisory Office for public
health work-keeping in touch with
the latest developments in other
countries, with world disease condi-
tions, and with health problems in
any community that are likely to be
of national consequence.
The probability is, it is pointed out,
that the public health officials work
will become more and more specialized
in the future, as research opens up
new fields Of disease control, and In
the end there may be almost complete
separation between the two professions.