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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-04-19
Stockton News

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Parsons, of
Salisbury, spent the weekend at the
home Of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Snow Parsons.
Master Tommy Dryden spent the
weekend with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. M. Dryden, in Snow Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Barnes and
daughter, Phyllis, of near Girdletree,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Kerbin Sturgis, of
Snow Hill, visited at the home of Mr..
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-04-19
Girdletree News

Mrs. Harry Mccain and sister. Mrs.
II. M. Nichols of Keller, Va, are
spending this week with relatives in
Wilmington and Chester, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Riley entertain
ed to dinner Sunday, DIR. and Mrs.
Harry Lewis of Bishop, Nd, Mrs.
Mary Lewis and family, of Ocean City,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Robinson and
children of Boxiron, Mr.. and Mrs. Fos-
ter Outten and children and Mrs. C..
F. Robinson.
Mr.. Tom Scarborough of Philadel-
phia, made a business trip here last
week and was entertained at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Blades
during his stay in town.
Miss Lula Jackson was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Jones at
Stockton over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Clayton Jones are
visiting Mr.. Jones' sisters, Mrs. Ernest
Strickland and husband at Middletown,
and Mrs. Leonard Weatherby and fam
lily at Wilmington, Del. They will
also visit places of interest in Penn.
before returning.
Mrs. Laura Lee Pilchard and son,
VIM, spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. Snowdon Jones of near Po-
comoke.
A reception by the young people of
the M. E. Church was rendered to the
new pastor. Mr.. E. E. Crockett and
wife last Friday evening in the social
room of the church. Everyone report
ed a good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Merrill and Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Matthews of Pocomoke
were guests Sunday of their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Pruitt.
Mr.. Herbert Somers who is employ
ed at Norfolk, Va, is spending few
days with his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Cantwell Of
Salisbury, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Pat
terson and Mrs. Sallie Dryden, of Rid
ley Park, Pa, spent the weekend
with the latter's brother, Mr.. VIM.
Bounds and family.
Mrs. Harold Kellam of Camden, N.
J., came this week to be with her
mother, Mrs. Emma Ingersoll who is
i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Shockley Of
Snow Hill, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Pilchard, Sunday.
Mrs. Harry Conway spent Tuesday
with her daughter, Mrs. Edwin Para
dee and husband at Stockton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Berdan who has
had an apartment at the Barnes house
are moving this week to the property
Of Mr.. Geo. Taylor, which was recent
ly vacated by Rev. Clough and FAM
lily.
Mrs. Clayton Conway visited her
sister, Mrs. Russell Jones at Stockton,
this week.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-04-19

Frances Cropper home again after hav
ing received treatment at Sabillisville,
Nd, for the past nine months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Jones, Of Po-
comoke, and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hall,
of Hallwood, Va, spent Sunday at the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-04-19

and Mrs. w. A. Sharpley, Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Hammond has returned
to her home in Georgetown, Del, af-
ter spending some time with her sis
ter, Mrs. James Barnes.
We are very glad to report Miss
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08

ever, are making rapid advances in the play curricula of winter recrea- tionists. This is especially true in the New England section and in the Pacific Northwest"
 Among top-rank American ski jumpers, Deyo said, are Caspar Oi- neon, Minot, N. D., Roy Mikelson, Auburn, Cal, Carl Holmstrom, Gear Mountain, N. Y.. and John Steele, Denver, Col. All are members of the 1882 Olympic ski jumping team.
 In addition two outstanding Scan dinavian jumpers have become Ann erican citizens since the last Olym- pics. These are Gunner Oman, Chicago, and Harold Sorenson( Nor folk, Va.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
AMERICA FACES SHORTAGE SKI
 JUMPERS IN l936
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 CHICAGO - America today faces an almost unprecedented shortage of ski jumpers and the shortage is a real problem for the Olympic Ski Games committee and the National Ski association.
 According to the National Ski Association, A good ski jumper must learn to jump when young enough not to know the meaning of fear"
 "The American boy, unlike his Scandinavian and Norwegian cou- sins, doesn't take his skiing serious ly. And when he gets to college, assuming the college is in the north ern part of the country and spon- sors winter sports, it's too late to gain the confidence necessary for first-rank competition.
 "The downhill and slalom, how
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MURDERER GETS SPEEDY JUSTICE
 VIENNA COURTS
(By The Associated Press)

VIENNA, Jan. 2, With all the speed it could summon, justice has disposed of handsome Alois Gaidasch twenty-one years old.
 Three hours after special light ming court had sentenced Alois to death for the murder of his father, he was hanged.
 Even then, the proceedings might have been quicker, but Alois kept fainting, and the Austrian law re- quires that the condemned man shall be conscious when the. moose tight ems.
 Gaidasch killed his father during a quarrel in which his father forbade him to continue a love affair with married woman. Gaidasch used a crowbar, which, it was established he premeditatedly hid in his home. When he had killed his father, he hid the body in loft, and invited his woman friend to spend the eve. ming at his home. The next day he told his neighbors that his father had gone abroad. Eventually, when the odor became noticeable, he sew ed the body in a potato sack and bur jed it.
 Before his execution Gaidasch be- quethed all his possessions to the woman.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
IS UNDER WAY TO
 STOP ANIMALS

The ravages of wolves and coyotes in many parts of Alaska is being called to attention of authorities and a movement is now on foot in var ious towns to revive interest at Jun eau during the coming Legislation for further efforts to exterminate the predetators.
 Reports received here from the Mckinley Park and other areas tell of many mountain sheep, caribou and other fine animals being destroy ed by the wolves.
 The Petersburg Chamber of Com merce recently started a movement for fighting the wolves and coyotes, and. adopted the following resolu- tions, which have been received by the Anchorage Chamber of Com merce:
 Resolution
 Whereas from the best informa- tion obtainable we believe that the number of wolves in this locality are increasing and the number of deer and other game animals and birds are decreasing, and
 Whereas we believe that the ex- termination of wolves would rev
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DEFENSE WILL FIGHT
 ALONG THREE LINES OF
 ARGUMENT THIS TRIAL
(By The Associated Press)

(By The AsSoc1ated PfessJ
 BENNINGTON, Jan. 8-The kidnap ladder one of the important exhibits in the the point of issue on the fifth day of the trial
 It rested against the wall the witness cha1r above which were the charts of the ndbeg home and the Hope well The State fighting to have the ladder accepted as evidence and the defense determined to keep out
 Hauptann in the court room this morning in the most cheerful mood he has shown since the trial began After listening the first testimony the ladder he said the guard sitting next to him. If made that ladder Ia have to be secondrate carpenter He smiled as the wit nesses described the ladder.
 Hauptmann ate heartily and slept soundy last night Reilly the defense counsel in announcing that he would attempt several of the State witnesses with the sayng of the baby said that he had divided the defense case into three parts
 First We shall establish alib.
 Second Discount the handwriting the notes
 Third The third part will have to do with the connect ing of those who have testified and who will testify with the theft of the baby
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
OF
 GOLD 1884 SET A
 20 YEAR RECORD
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated PreSS)
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 - Gold production for 1884 of the United States and her possessions was val ued at one hundred and seven mil lion, six hundred and thirty-one thousand, seven hundred dollars, g record. The previous record year being 1915 with one hundred and one million, thirty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.
 The volume for 1915 was greater, being four million eight hundred and eighty-seven ounces compared with three million, seventy-five thou sand one hundred and ninety-two ounces, last year.
 Alaska's production was placed at five hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and thirty-eight ounc- es, valued at eighteen million, nine hundred and forty-four thousand, nine hundred dollars.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
Capitol Hill Feels Skeptical Over The
 Sup. Courts Act
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8-The belief was expressed on Capitol Hill, that the Supreme Courts act of scrapp- ing the oil control provision in the MIRA yesterday, spelled the doom of some other New Deal legislation, especially some laws behind the ag ricultural program.
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erse this condition, and
 Whereas we believe that many more wolves would be taken if trap pers had expert advice on the best methods of trapping them. Therefore be it resolved that the Bureau of Biological Survey be re- quested to assign as many expert predatory animal hunters as poss- ible where wolves and coyotes are prevalent in Alaska to trap wolves and also to instruct Alaska trappers Passed and approved this 5th day of December, 1884.
 PETERSBURG CHAMBER
 COMMERCE,
 By Earl N. Dinner,
 President, Attest:
 A. B. Holt, Secretary.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
NOTED BRITISH ECONOMIST IS BELIEVER THAT
 MONEY IS HIGH
(By The Associated Press)

Nby llC 11ooOSldICo AOooI
 LONDON, Jan. Sir Henry Stra- kosch, noted economist, declared to- day that the gold block nations must devalue their currency and establish a new international gold standard, assuring the gold reserves adequacy, thereby avoiding a vio- lent fiuctuation in gold purchasing power. He said that sixty percent devaluation would increase the worth of the United States mone- tary gold ninety percent and in- crease the gold group nations three hundred and seventeen percent; the rest of the world forty-five percent
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
WILL ADVERTISE
 ON A BIG SCALE
 IN NEXT
(By The Associated Press)

(By The ASSoclated PresSJ
 SEATTLE, Jan. 8-The Associated Pacific Fisheries Board of Trustees announced today, a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar, three year canned salmon advertising campaign to start the first week of Lent, coin cident with National Canned Sal mon week. It will be financed by the canners.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
FLU EPIDEMIC 800 RESIDENTS
 BE TREATED
(By The Associated Press)

KETCHIKAN, Jan. 8-A third of Metlakatlas five hundred residents, are under medical treatment for in- fluenza, one hundred new cases of which developed over the weekend
 Doctor George E. Dickinson left here for Metlakatla which has been without medical care since last summer. The funeral took place yesterday of Edward Usher, aged twenty-six who died from pneu- monia.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
GUARD BOAT REPORTS
  RESCUINC PAIR
(By The Associated Press)


 SEATTLE, Jan. 8th-The Coas' Guard Cutter Morris, reported tha it had rescued Jack McCord, Alaska cattleman and miner, and Emil Ol. son, both of whom had been lost for several days, while hunting or the uninhabited island of Ushagat near Kodiak.
 The Morris was enroute to Seldo- via with five hundred sacks of flour to relieve a serious food shortage, when it picked up the two men.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
Internal Revenue
 Jumps Az Percent
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8-A jump of forty-two percent in Internal Re- venue taxes collected by the govern ment during the fiscal year ended last June 30th, was announced by the Treasury Department
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
PREDICT ,JOBPLANW WILL co THROUGH RAPIDLY
 DESPITE SOME CRITICS
(By The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8-As Congress went to work the eight billion dollar budget submitted by President Roose welt yesterday Democratic leaders predicted that his four billion dollar plan to swing from dole to obs would go through quickly, despite stirring criticism in sections
 There is still talk among Democrats we'll Republicans that Congress should choose specific pro- ects which the money should be spent instead of giving it to the President in lump to allot he ft
 Meanwhile Progressves expressed the belief that four billion dollars would not be enough They said they believed that wages prevailing in industry should paid relief workers instead the Presidents plan pay less
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
WAR VETERAN
 A# PACKSPOUND& HALF OF GOLD MINING CAMP
(By The Associated Press)

PHOENIX, Jan. 8-Charles Will Hams, aged forty-one, a world war veteran, and an amateur prospector, staggered in a camp, nine miles from Apache Junction, carrying an estimated pound and half, of rich free gold"
 He said last night when question ed, that he found it in an unnamed deep canyon. The nuggets were identified by prospectors, as almost pure gold.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
CHANGES REGULAR
 ADVERTISING NUGGET

Changes of regular advertisements will be accepted up to 4 PM of the day preceding insertion. New ad- vertisements will be accepted for insertion in the paper up to 1:3O PM of the day of insertion The, Nome Daily Nugget. a
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
Father Mae West
 Dead In Oakland
(By The Associated Press)

OAKLAND Jan. = Jack West, the father of the nationwide famed movie actress, Mae West, died here of sudden heart attack. He was sixty-five years old.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-08
PIONEERS ATTENTION

All members requested to attend meeting in the U s. MarshaIl's of- fee on Wednesday, January 9th, at sP M. THOs. GAFFNEY,
 Vice President
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Evening star., 1935-02-02
I GET DIPLOMAS
AT WESTERN HIGH
Dr.. Allen A. StockdaIe De-
IiverS Address at Com
menCement Exercises.

Western High School graduated a
class of 81 girls and 26 boys in exer-
cises held yesterday afternoon at the
high school auditorium
DR.. Allen A. Stockdale, minister of
the First Congregational Church. de-
livered the commencement address.
He was presented by DR.. Frank w.
Ballou. superintendent of schools, who
presided.
Glass honors were shared by Robert
Weisz, who delivered the valedictory,
and Edgar Shawen, the salutatorian.
Dr. Elmer S. Newton, principal, as
sisted by Miss P. Edna Thomson and
Norman j. Nelson. assistant principals,
presented the diplomas
John Craighead was president of the
graduating class; Anne Turner, vice
president; Jean Shuler, secretary, and
Frank Craighead, treasurer.
Members of the class who received
their diplomas follow:
Ethel Middleton Archer, Sallie
Maury Archer, Harryette Mae Bailey,
Mary Elizabeth Bennett, Barbara
Stewart Bennion. Lou Borden, jose
phine Cogan Brashears, Bernice Bailey
Calvert, Ruth Virginia Case, Mary
Elizabeth Crawford, Emily Richardson
Doores, Glenn Mae Drury, Virginia
Mae Duehring, Georgia Helen East
man, Lydia Macmillan Evans, Roma
Mary Falcone. Dorothy Agnes Fergu-
son. Carol Stephanie Fries, Laurie
Olive Gilkes and Irene Givotovsky.
Helena Holman, Frances Elizabeth
Hunter, Audrey Jennings, Marionbetty
Kadin. Ruth Kelly. Ann Marie Kill
mon, Sheila Eileen Kitel, Frances Ann
Kydd, Shirley-Birch Manghum. Sally
Love Mccormick, Mary Elizabeth
Mcdowell. mgeberg Luise Merz, Jean
Maufrine Messner, Katherine Lee Miles,
Nancy Frances Mills and Mary Eliza
beth Mooney.
Virginia Lee Parker, Marjorie Jean
Pettus, Jean Jordan Pliler, Mary
Agnes Ready. Grace Williams Rey-
nolds, Allyn Angela Rosasco, Florence
Ada Seguin. Helen Kathryn Shugars,
Jean Harriet Shuler, Virginia Eliza
beth Simms, Mary Mcclure Smith,
Kathryn May Taylor, Anne Gluyas
Turner. Ruth Charlotte Wood and
Martha WoodSon.
Sterling Ruffin Boiling, Bernard
Chew, Frank Cooper Craighead, jr.;
John johnson Craighead, Antonio
Edward Washington Drink
ard, william Greene, William Hanna.
Donald Francis Herman, William Earl
Krouse, George Max Lear, George
Waine Love, Fenwick Rodney Mcleod
and Charles Frederic Newburgh.
Edward Pohost, Robert Milton Riley,
Edgar Cornelius Shawen, William
Francis Smith, Robert Stephen Weisz.
Bennett Willis, jr.; William Wood,
Robert Woods. William Howell Wood
son and Charles Brown Wuest.
Evening star., 1935-02-02
JUNIOR SCHOOLS
ADVANCE PUPILS
300 Sent to Senior High Schools
in Graduation Exercises
Yesterday.

Six junior high schools held their
graduation exercises yesterday after
noon and the seventh presented d.
plomas last night, bringing to a close
the midyear commencement programs
in the Washington public schools.
More than 800 pupils were advanced
to the senior high schools.
The exercises held yesterday after
noon, along with the presiding Off
cials.. were Deal Junior High, George
M. Whitwell, member of the Board
Of Education; Gordon, Charles B.
Degges. secretary of the board; Paul,
DR.. Stephen E. Kramer, assistant
superintendent; Powell, Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, vice president of the
board; Stuart, Miss Jessie La Sale, as
sistant superintendent, and Shaw. DIR.
H. H. Long, assistant superintendent.
The last junior high school to close
the midyear term was Jefferson.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith. member
of the board, presided at the exercises
last night.
Evening star., 1935-02-02

ARMSTRONG HIGH
HOLDSEXERC|SES
Campbell C. Johnson Deliv-
ers Address to Graduating
Class of SO. .

Seventy-eight members OF the Feb
ruary class and II who completed
their courses at the end Of the Sum-
mer school last August, received their
diplomas of graduation from Arm
strong High School, In the school
auditorium, last night.
Campbell c. johnson, executive sec
retary of the Twelfth Street Y. M.
c. A., delivered the commencement
address and the diplomas were pre-
sented by Mrs. Mary M. McNeill,
member of the Board Of Education.
A brief address was delivered by Gar
net C. Wilkinson, first assistant su-
perintendent in charge of the colored
high schools. Rev. Arthur D. Gray,
pastor of the Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church, delivered the invoca-
ton and benediction.
A short musical program was pre-
sented by the All High School Or
chestra.
August graduates were Philip N. FL
more. Webster G. johnson, Lorenzo
Logan. Raymond W. Stewart, Povent-
ed P. Taylor, Stephen Virgins, Charles
r. Williams, Louis A. Williams, George
H. Wilson, Evelyn H. Bullock and
Hattie M. Price.
Members of the February class fol-
low:
Lawrence c. Arnett, Clarence
Barnes, Sumner Beverly, James w.
Bishop, Henry A. Briscoe, James A.
Carter, Albert v. Cavanaugh, Aaron
A Grove. Edward w. Culpepper, Err
nest E. Edwards, jr.; Ralph c. Fox,
John Gray, Charles w. Green, Irving
D. Green. Everett A. Hewlett. Theo-
dore D. Hill, Carlton c. Hughes and
Erias S. Hyman.
Charles E. Johnson, Morgan H.
Langston, James W. Murray. Bernard
L. Newsom, Charles H. Parker, Will
liam T. Parrot. Alonzo L. Penix, Leon
w. Fuller, Harold H. Putnam, Louis
R. Robinson, Walter A. Roots, James
M. Tompkins, Walter A. Thompson,
Otto L. Tucker, I. Dorsey Watson, Ed
mund A. Wilson, Virgil J. Wilson and
Paul Woodward.
Catherine R. Anderson, Jane M.
Boston, Margaret E. Brown, Mary c.
Butler. Vivian L. Carson, Lille M.
Cheatham, Helen v. Coleman, Chris
tine r. Colston, Ellen E. Cooper,
Veronica A. Crew, Elizabeth L. Davis,
Sylvia ]. Green, Carrie E. Hall, Annie
Harris, Helen L. Harris, Beatrice M.
Hawkins, Jennie Holloway. Gertrude
B. Hunter. Katherine T. Hyman,
Alva j. Jackson. Dorlis N. johnson
and Ruth H. johnson.
Mahala F. Lewis, Helen A. Light
foot, Catholean v. Lowry, Anna G..
Lucas, Noretezel c. MacRae, Mary l..
Matthews. Mary M. Mattingly, Mary
v. Mitchell. Theo E. Murphy, Sadie
M. Muse, La Verne C. Robinson, Elaine
e. Russ, Emma M Smith. Julia E.
Sprow, Carrie L. Suber, Geneva M.
Wallace, Carol G.. Wallace, Thelma
A. Waters. Helen L. Williams and
Alice L. Wilson.
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
Army Orders

Capt. George E. Hartman,
QuartermaSter Corps, three
months and Is days leave.
Col. Harry L. Steele, Coast
Artillery Corps, to Major General.
Maj. Gen. Harry L. Steele,
Chief of Coast Artillery to Wash,
ington, D. C.
Col. Walter S Grant, Cavalry,
to Washington, D. C.
Capt. Walter Gregory. Infan,
try, to Eighth Infantry, Fort
Moultrie, South Carolina.
Capt. Curtis D. Away, to Fifth
Infantry, Fort Williams, Maine.
Capt. Edward C. Atkinson, to
18th Infantry, Fort Howard, Md
Capt. Price w. Beebe, to 10th
Infantry, Fort Thomas, Kentucky
Capt. Joel r. Burney, to 66th
Infantry (tanks), Fort George G
Meade, Maryland.
Capt. John M. Ferguson, to 18th
Infantry, Fort Howard, Maryland
Capt. Eugene N. Frakes, to 18th
Infantry, Fort Howard, Maryland
Capt. Earl Lev. Lyons, to Sixth
Infantry, jefferson Barracks, Mo
Capt. Douglass N. McMillin, to
Third Infantry, Fort Smelling,
Minnesota.
First Lieut.. Louis A. Hammack,
to 29th Infantry, Fort Benning,
Georgia.
First Lieut.. John F. Holland, to
18th Infantry, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas.
First Lieut.. Paul E. MacLaugh,
lin, to oath Infantry, Fort Ben,
ming, Georgia.
First Lieut.. Edward j. O'Neill, to
oath Infantry, Fort Benning, Ga.
First Lieut.. L. Hoyt Rockafel-
low, to Fourth Infantry, Fort Lin
coin, North Dakota.
Second Lieut.. William H. Shimo-
mex, to oath Infantry, Fort Ben
ming, Georgia.
Capt. Herbert R. Roberts, In
fantry, to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
Second Lieut.. Chester Lynn
Snyder, Infantry Reserve, to first
lieutenant.
Second Lieut.. Robert w. Burns,
Air Corps, to Randolph Field, Tex.
Capt. Edward M. Robbins, Air
Corps, to Inglewood, California.
1t. Col. Resolve P. Palmer, Ad-
jutant Generals Office, to Colonel.
Major Frederick E. Uhl, Infan-
try, to Lieutenant Colonel.
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
WAN 7
PWA LOANS

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Feb.
&c. Earle Wyvill, president of
Prince Georges County Volunteer
Firemen's Association, will ask
executive board members at their
meeting tomorrow night at
Greater Capitol Heights to con-
slider a public works program for
county firehouses.
Since Abel Wolman, State pub
lie works director, has asked
county commissioners and school
boards to submit suggestions of
needed public works, separate
fire companies wanting new or
improved homes" for their
equipment might ask that such
structures be included in the pro-
posed program.
Greater Capitol Heights is seek
ing a loan for a community hall
adjacent to the present fire house,
while Upper Marlboro unsucceSS-
fully sought a public works loan.
Fire houses might we'll be
termed public buildings" Mr..
Wyville points out, and because
of the nature of its use, fire build
ings might well be constructed
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
Citizens Take Action
In 0verCroWdinq

Due to overcroWding at Eastern
High School, built for capacity
of 1900 and now carrying an en-
rollment of some 5000 students,
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintend-
ent of schools, was last night re-
quested by Northeast Washington
Citizens Association, meeting in
Ludlow School, to transfer all post
graduates attending Eastern High
to other public school buildings in
order to relieve the congestion.
The secretary was directed to
communicate with Capt. Mans
field, of No. 9 Precinct, and Capt.
Milliken, of the Woman's Bureau
regarding complaints at Eighth
and H Streets, Northeast, where
licenses it was alleged, had been
issued over the protest of the po-
lice and residents.
Report from the executive COM
mittee was adopted opposing rein"
statement of any member of the
police or fire department who had
been removed for cause, and re-
jected legislation for an elective
school board and paid military in
Struction in public schools.