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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-26

First time Bess K. JOhnson, of "TO-day's Children cast on NEG. was given part in dramatic radio production she memorized the entire script as she had during her years on the stage. So accustomed was she to learning parts, it only took a few hours time. To. day, after four years on the aif, she can't even memOrize q poem, she says.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-26
Educational
"A Local and f'rivate Instructors

WE WANT to select a reliable young man, now employed, with foresight, fair education and me- chanical inclination, who is willing to train during space time or evenings, to qualify as Installation and Service expert on all types Electric Refrigerators. Write fully giving age, phone, present occupa
 Utilities Inst, Box C-15S, Democrat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-26

ACROBATIC, tap and all types of dancing taught. Bobby Southland. 147 East Main St. Dial 4-2372.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
BOY, 6, HURT BY CAR;
DRIVER IS CHARGED
Victim May Have Fracture of
skull-Youth, II, Also In
jured by Auto.

Six-year-old Benjamin F. Dean, jr.,
of 6002 Thirty-third street, is under
treatment at Emergency Hospital for
a probable fracture of the skull and
cuts suffered yesterday afternoon
when he was run down by an auto
mobile on Quesada street near Thirty
second street.
The driver of the automobile, Cur
tbs w. Beatty, 81, of Arlington
County, Va, was charged with reck-
less driving and released under 81 ,O0O
bond.
A hit-and-run driver early today
knocked down and slightly injured
Hyman Kipnis, II, of 1888 Georgia
avenue, as he alighted from a street
car near his home. The youth was
treated at Garfield Hospital for cuts
about the head and an injury to his
shoulder.
Police were unable to obtain the
license number of the car which
struck Kipnis.
Preston Moore, 80, of 1943 Twelfth
street, and Peter Goodwin, As, of 500
First street, both colored, were
severely injured shortly after 7 am
today when their automobile was in
collision at Sixth and c streets with
a machine operated by Policeman
Charles G. Williams, second precinct.
Goodwin received probable internal
injuries, while Moore's back was hurt.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
<. W. A. employees
HERE PAID $91,598
9, 156 District and Federal Work
ers Get First Pay Under
New Program.

Emergency works employees num-
bering 9,156. including the forces of
both the District and Federal Gov
ernments. today received their first
pay checks under the new national
employment-relief program. the dis
bursement totaling S91, ,59850.
OF the total number of E. W. A.
workers, 1000 were enrolled under
the banner of the District Govern
ment and 2,156 under Federal
agencies here.
Most of the men engaged during
the past week under the E W. A.
have been engaged on highway. sewer,
playground and school improvements.
District E. w. A. officials reported
that more than $4,000 work cards
have been distributed to persons who
had applied for relief. An additional
number of these reported today at the
District woodward near Constitution
avenue and Sixth street to receive
assignments for work on a variety of
projects.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
COURT REFRESHES MANS
MEMORY ON 73 ARRESTS

The record of Irving Thomas
F1aherty was dragged" into Police
Court yesterday, when he was brought
before Judge Isaac r. Hit on a
vagrancy charge.
Ever been here before?" he was
asked.
Last week, your honor, for in
toxication."
Ever before that?"
"A couple Of times, I guess"
"Well," and Judge Hit hoisted
from his desk two closely typewriter
pages, heres part Of your record
prepared by the clerks Office. It
shows you've been here 73 times"
II guess that's right"
Hit sentenced the man to make
a vagrancy bond Of $500 or serve six
months in jail
Evening star., 1934-04-07
HUNT TRIALS TODAY
AT BRADLEY FARMS
Sportsmen of Washington and
Nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia to Compete.

Leading sportsmen of Washington
and nearby Virginia and Maryland
were scheduled to gather at Bradley
Farms, Md, this afternoon at las
to compete for trophies offered in the
Riding and Hunt Club annual hunter
trials.
To be run over a mile and one-half
course in natural country, the trials
have attracted entries from the most
prominent stables in this district.
Among the exhibitors will be Mrs. M.
Robert Guggenheim, whose string OF
thoroughbreds is nationally known;
Mrs. Robert C. Winmill, noted War
renton sportswoman; Thomas T. Mott,
M. F. H. of the Redland Hunt; F.
Moran McConihe, Mrs. William G.
Hill, Frank Burrows, Mrs. Alice Berry
of Rockville, Maj. Wifrid M. Blunt.
M. F. H. of the Washington Hunt;
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. George S. Patton.
Joint masters of Cobbler Hunt, and
their daughter, Miss Beatrice Patton:
Albert E. Mackenzie, j. j. Cotter
and others.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
BUSINESS TO TAKE
PARK|NGBANPOLL
Survey to Be Taken on F
and G Streets Regarding
30-Day Trial.

Proprietors Of business houses on F
and G streets will be polled as to their
sentiment on the proposal to estab-
lish an all-day ban against parking.
Arrangements for the canvass were
made yesterday at a conference be-
tween William A. Van Duzer, director
of traffic, and Commissioner Melvin
c. Hazen. Van Duzer proposed the
all-day ban for the two streets. be-
tween Seventh and Fourteenth streets,
be given a 30-day trial.
Business interests are to be called
into conference with Var Duzer
1t was not certain that the plan would
be tried if sentiment of the business
men was overwhelmingly opposed.
The Transportation Committee OF
the Chamber of Commerce recently
went on record indorsing the sugges-
ton for banning parking on these
and other congested downtown
streets, but objected to a proposal
that commercial vehicles be pro-
hibited from parking between and
$50 am.
The suggestions came originally
from a committee of District officials,
named to study means of improving
traffic conditions and to plan better
coordination of snow-removal ef-
forts as related to traffic.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
Nineteenth Century Volumes
Sho,o Machine Age Abornin g
Inrentire Imagination Astounded
Americans in attempts to Aid Mothers
and DeveloP Ne,O Transportation.

But that same year another Eng
lishman was awarded a patent for
IAN engine to be run by the vapor OF
alcohol or some other volatile liquid
He may have been the father of the
gas engine.
Match Invented,
But Was Expensive.
In 1929 inventors were thinking
hard to produce workable match.
About the most practical scheme Of
fered, however, was by Isaiah Jen-
nings. civil engineer of New York City
He patented the proposal for a tiny
glass tube filled with sulphuric acid
and coated with a mixture of pot
ash, sulphur and sugar. This would
then be wrapped in paper.
To light the match one broke the
tube. AS soon as the sulphuric acid
came in contact with the coating it
would set it afire. Such a device was
expensive, it was admitted. and the
matches could be used freely only by
the very wealthy. On the other hand,
they had the advantage of remaining
inf1amable Indefinitely and of being
dependable in all sorts of weather.
The cigarette age was yet afar off.
The problem of a practical railway
carriage was a difficult one at the
time Peter Fleming of Philadelphia
saw Southern MARYLAND farmers roll
Evening star., 1934-04-07
Denies Screaming
At Burglar-Says
She Only Said 'Ohr

Instead of Screaming" as re-
ported in The Star, Mrs. Mae L.
Thomas merely said a Every low,
surprised 'Ohr" when she dis
covered a burglar in the clothes
closet Of her apartment at 1712
Sixteenth street Thursday night.
The only other sound, as the
colored intruder leveled his gun
at her. Mrs. Thomas wrote The
Star today, was "the violent
ringing of the elevator bell," aft
er she ran to the corridor for
help.
please correct this error"
Mrs. Thomas continued, "as I
can readily verify the fact that
there was not a sound more than
the violent ringing of the eleva-
tor bell"
Incidentally, the burglar es-
capped down a stairway.
Evening star., 1934-04-07

sengers on even a short journey. So
he suspended inside the big hogshead
smaller hogshead. This inside one
was weighted on one side so that it
would not roll with the outer one. 1t
was to be his passenger coach.
That same year John Gardner Of
Washington secured a patent for
running rails on wheels instead Of
wheels on rails" The railroad
he proposed was to consist of two
parallel lines of upright posts with
rollers revolving on top Of them. In
stead of wheels, the railway carriages
were to have runners, like sleds, upon
which they would glide over the
wheels. He claimed that this wheel
road would be Every economical, more
durable than a railroad and less liable
to injury from frost or snow." Fur
thermore, said the old Washington
inventor, 1t would do away with the
necessity of railroad bridges across
streams. His wheelroad carriages
could be made in the form OF boats
which would simply run off the wheels
into the water.
The same month forgotten genius
named James R. Nance Of Floyd
County, Ind. secured patent which
might have made him one of the rich
est men on earth had he been alive
and able to enforce his rights CEN
tury later. It was "for a process by
which the greatest quantity Of spir-
ituous liquor or whisky can be ex-
tracted from Indian corn" The de-
tails were not given. The editor ex-
planned that Mr.. Nance hoped to make
Q personal profit from his invention
and that he would be unable to pre-
vent its use by individuals in making
up their household supplies II the for
mul1 were published.
Evening star., 1934-04-07

tanned that the rocking Of cradles
sidewise was wrong. They should
be rocked lengthwise. He secured a
patent on a notwithstanding era
die. Other inventions were designed
to enable the tired mother to rock
the cradle without getting out OF bed
when the baby woke and started cry
ing at night.
All the washing machines were de-
vices for rubbing clothes backwards
and forewards against a soaped sur
face by means Of rollers. What they
lacked was power. Most Of them
were designed to be operated with a
pump handle.
In 1929 Lemuel Wellman Wright,
an Englishman, secured an American
patent on an automobile rather
on a carriage propelled by . COM
pressed air engine.
Such vehicle was to carry two
cylindrical tanks five or six feet long
full of compressed air which was to
be fed through tank to the engine.
The supply would enable a motorist
to keep going for three or four miles.
Wright foresaw the present-day road
side gas station when he proposed
that large cast-iron reservoirs Of COM
pressed aiI be placed along the roads
at convez Int intervals.
Evening star., 1934-04-07

|HE yesterday of the Cars. the
today of the Soviet and a to-
morrow of delicious foods all
L have been combined in the
furnishing of the new embassy
of the Soviet Republic.
The richest art of old Russia. rugs.
chairs, vases, candlesticks, that are
museum pieces were sent here by the
Soviet government for the embassy.
THE most marvellous use of the color
red that exists" Eugene Sheen. who
decorated the building, said of the
Russian rugs spread out in the grand
salon. There are so shades of red in
every rug"
caded. or frescoed and gilded, back
ground the antiques from Russia fitted
in authentic Louis XIV manner.
Only Ambassador Troyanovsky's
own severely simple business suite,
reconstruction from Czarist Ambas-
sador George Bakhmeteff's armory,
dominated by the bust Of Lenin, was
keyed to the Russia of today.
AS for the kitchens, they were
ready for anybody's most exacting to-
morrow, and leaps and bounds in ad-
vance of the White House There
was a refrigerator, just for fish, where
the caviar will be kept cooled to Rus
sian taste; rolling tables where,
theoretically, meats cooked at 9 am.
will be just as hot and juicy at 7
pm. as when they came from the
ovens: a steam table where John, the
Russian chef, can cook a banquet for
200 without walking from his sta
tion.
The snowy rooms of state are on
the second floor.
Nine. Troyanovsky, Schoen said,
chose the gold and red color scheme
Of the grand salon, with its amazing
array Of antique rugs that may be
swiftly rolled away for dancing.
But the most beautiful rug Of all,
80 feet long, IA feet wide, from an
old mosque, graces the state dining
room, which also boasts the most
sparkling chandelier. There is
complete dinner service of the finest
type popof and imperial porcelain,
and table jars that were presents Of
Louis XIV to Russia.
Evening star., 1934-04-07

SeT1eS OF QTtlcteS on fOtOWdc HtCeT
pollution and the proposed setodge
treatment plant for the District.)
The Potomac River at and below
the District of Columbia, is contami-
mated from sewage arising In the Dis
trict, in Virginia and in Maryland.
All three, therefore, must be involved
in any attempt to purify the river.
In the plan proposed by commits
sion of experts retained by the Dis
trict to study the problem, 1t is rec
commended that the District construct
a sewage treatment plant to eliminate
from the river the sewage that origi-
mates in the District, and that origi-
mating in Maryland which by arrange
ment with the Maryland Suburban
Sanitary Commission will enter the
Districts sewer lines. Some of the
Maryland sewage will be treated at
plants to be constructed by the Mary
land commission in Maryland, and the
report notes that Alexandria and
Arlington County, in Virginia, are
taking steps to construct sewage treat
ment plants of their own.
Larger Population.
The population of the combined
Maryland District of Columbia terri
tory which will be tributary to the
proposed plant is now estimated at
approximately $4,000, and will in
crease to approximately 650,000 in
1850 and ultimately to some 800, 900.
The plans for the new plant have
been laid so as to take care Of popu-
lation of 650000, with room for en-
largement later to take care of pop
ulation of 100000.
consists of a large proportion of
combined system" sewers, taking
both sewage and storm water in the
same main. There is a system of
interceptor sewers which in normal
weather take the sewage to the
pumping station where it is pumped
into the Potomac River. In times Of
rainstorm, however, the stormwater
overflows, and carries with it sewage
diluted with storm water into many
overflow points along the river.
There are three of these along the
Potomac above Key Bridge, eight
along the Georgetown Channel, %
along Rock Creek and 18 along the
Eastern Branch.
Complications Avoided.
More recently separate system"
sewers have been installed wherever
possible. These take sewage direct
to the pumping station, with no COM
plications of overflow from storm
water sewers.
The main pumping station is at the
foot of New Jersey avenue southeast.
There is another near the mouth of
Rock Creek. feeding into this, and
another at Poplar Point.
The main station is connected to an
outfall sewer which lies along the bed
of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers,
Evening star., 1934-04-07
Maryland and Virginia Aid
Needed to Purify Potomac
Riuer Contaminated by $50 Million,
Gallons of Sewage Daily-Need
of Treatment Plant Cited.

, which empties sewage into the Po-
tomac River. The end of this sewer
is at point about 1000 feet north of
Naval Research laboratory grounds.
When flowing full, this outfau sewer,
which Is 8 feet 4 inches wide by
feet 4 inches high, pours $4,000, 900
gallons Of sewage a day into the river,
equivalent to about 300 gallons per
capita per day.
Passed Through Screens.
This is raw sewage. Some OF it
Is passed through coarse screens,
which take out the largest solid sub
stances, and over sediment chambers,
where grit is allowed to settle out
But otherwise it is untreated.
1t IS this mass Of sewage, daily
pouring into the waters of the Po-
tomac, that gives rise to the condi-
tions mentioned in the first article
OF this series. The prospect is for
continuing increase Of this mass
with increasing population, unless
something Is done about disposing of
the sewage in some manner other
than pouring it into the river.
The commission Of experts, en-
ployed to advise the District Com
missioners on the subject, have
recommended that this sewage be
treated in the Summer months by
process known as the "activated
sludge process" and in the Winter
by a second process, cheaper and
simpler. known as plain sedimen-
tation"
Both Of these processes intercept
the sewage and reduce it to a solid
humus-like material. which has the
properties of a fertilizer. This, ac-
cording to the plans, will then be
shipped to the Districts penal farms
at Lorton and Occoquan, in Virginia,
to replenish the poor soil there.
Would Remove Pollution.
The details of this process will be
described in the final article in this
series, appearing tomorrow. This
process. the experts say, remove from
the river the matters which cause
visual pollution, will remove sus-
pended solids which tend to form
deposits on the bed of the river, will
maintain satisfactory condition of
oxygen saturation in the river at all
times, and will greatly reduce bac-
terial pollution.
AS to whether this will make the
river safe for bathing, the report of
the experts is somewhat cautious. 1t
says: 1T is believed that the high
degree of publication of the sewage
in the warmer months necessary to
meet the other requirements will Sc
cure a bacterial content of the river,
in SO far as contamination by the
sewage eff1uent is concerned, which
will be suitable for bathing. How
ever, the river will not be entirely
safe for bathing on account Of the
necessary discharge from storm over
flows, particularly in the vicinity Of
storm overflows at times of dis
charge"
Evening star., 1934-04-07
Gun SQUAD Called for Cat.

RALEIGH, N. C. @.-Lack Of un-
derstanding of the nature Of mother
love gave a gun squad extra work
yesterday. A cat had taken posses
sion of a chicken house and was re-
ported to be defying all and sundry.
Neighbors told police they thought 1t
was a wild cat. Two coppers arrived,
armed with shotguns, and took q look.
"They were very cute Kittens" COM
mented Patsolman H. B. Williamson.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
KING COMMITTEE
. SPEEDS D. c. BILLS
important Local Measures
to Be Discussed at
Meeting Today.

The Senate District Committee was
to meet at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon
to prepare program of local measures
to be pushed during the remainder of
this session Of Congress.
Chairman King probably will call
the committees attention to several
important measures he introduced
during the past week, making essen
tial changes in the District govern
ment.
One would abolish the office of En-
gineer Commissioner and substitute a
third civilian Commissioner, with the
same local-residence qualifications laid
down for the present civilian Commits
sioners. Another would transfer the
powers of the Board of Public Welfare
to the Commissioners, leaving the
board as an advisory group. A third
would substitute the medical examiner
system for the Office of coroner.
Taxi Insurance Bill.
A number of subcommittee have
been studying other bills during the
past few weeks. Among these are the
taxicab insurance bill and the
motorists safety responsibility bill,
both referred to a subcommittee, COM
posed Of Senators McCarran, Demo-
crat of Nevada; Gore, Democrat of
Oklahoma, and Kean, Republican Of
New Jersey
Senator McCarran also is chairman
of subcommittee to which the ilorse
racing bill was referred, but indic.,-
tionS are this measure will meet with
opposition that will cause it to fall by
the wayside at this session. Senator
McCarran believes there is no need
for such legislation, since those who
desire to see horse racing can 60 to
nearby Maryland tracks without diff
Guilty.
Foreclosure Hearings.
A subcommittee composed of Sena-
tors Tydings of Maryland and Capper
of Kansas held hearings a few days
ago on the bill to require a 90-day
period Of grace before mortgage fore
closure sales are held, and may be
ready to report this afternoon.
A subcommittee has been appointed
on old-age pension bills, but has not
met or held hearings yet. Chairman
King has had score Of local bills
passed by the Senate already this ses-
sion, and is confident several other
more important measures will be re-
ported from committee and acted on
before the session ends.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
Nudists to Disrobe Gradually.

CHICAGO @.-In the Spring a
nudist's fancy turns to what? In this
case-that of 70 nudists near VAL
paraiso, Ind.-a decision has been
reached to 60 about the disrobing
gradually, wearing shorts and bras
sieres at first and then discarding
these as the farmers in the vicinity
become used to thd tdea.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
CIVIL SERVICE UNIT
+ RECEIVES BACK PAY
$11 900 Is Disbursed to Employees
in Washington and Field
on Roles March 81.

/. Civil Service Commission employees
today received their back pay, ap-
proximately $1,000 being disbursed
here and in the field
+ This figure covers only those work.
ers who were on the rolls March 81,
and to it must be added about $4,000
which will go to other members Of
the commission staff who were
dropped in the course of the two
months-February and March-cov-
cred by the back pay.
I This class, however, will have to
-i1ie claim for their money with the
General Accounting Once.
Evening star., 1934-04-07

ing their tobacco
to market in great
hOgSheadS. So. he
proposed that rail
coaches be giant
hogsheads W j t h
fl a n ged iron
hoops arou n d
them to fit on
rails.
But rollin G
around in a bar
rel, Fleming ad-
mitted. might be
r a t h e r uncom-
Portable for mas
Evening star., 1934-04-07
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

An untraveled lane into the Ameri.
can past runs through shelf-full OF
old volumes in the National Museum
library.
They are the journals of the Frank
lin Institute of Philadelphia for the
early years of the nineteenth century
They contain descriptions. with COM
ment. on the most talked-about pat
ents which were being issued at Wash
ington. One is taken to the birth-bed
of the machine age
The minds of the great thinkers
were taken up with intensely prac-
tical problems. In 1928 and 1929.
for example, there was food of new
designs for washing machines and
cradles. And in that same year q
Georgetown mans claims were ac-
cepted for a method of preventing
bed bugs ascending the posts of bed
steads at night" which was described
as matter Of vital concern to thou
sands. His proposal was to place the
four posts in cups containing kero-
sene. He called these cups might
angles" They stand guard" he said,
against the imps of Satan at the
four corners of the bed"
DR.. Thomas P. Jones, the editor
who became United States Commits
sioner of Patents the next year, also
was bothered with bed bugs. but didn't
think much of the idea arising from
the National Capital. ALI he did. he
commented, was to draw chalk line
around each bed post. The climbing
bugs would slip on the loose chalk
grains and fall back.
X X
The inventors were solicitous to
lift the burdens of housewives and
mothers. There were at least a dozen
patent cradles in those two years.
Evening star., 1934-04-07
U. S. OFFERED $300,0O0
TO SETTLE TAX CASES

By the Associated Press.
About a dozen people want to give
either the Treasury or Justice De-
partments between $500, 900 and $400.-
900 to settle tax delinquency cases
against them.
At the Justice Department, it was
Indicated none Of the offers came
from prominent people whose cases
already have been presented to grand
juries, but several of the individuals
had found their incomes being scrilti-
nised by Federal agents. ,--e'
Evening star., 1934-04-07

OIl6 WAS HI
elaborate affair
with the mecha-
nisn of a clock
the cradle form
ing the mob of
t he pendulum
When the baby
was placed in 1t
t he pendulum
was set swinging
and would con-
tinue. indefinite
ly until the oc-
upant W a S
asleep. Another
great intellect of
fha dav main
Evening star., 1934-04-07

Mote: This is the second of a
series OF articles on Potomac Riuer
pollution and the proposed se,Ddge
treatment plant for the DistrictI