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Evening star., 1936-04-02
STEAMSHIPS.

WEST INDIES 4 CARIBBEAN GUEST
CRUISES every week with the Great
White Fleet. IL & 18 days, SI75 and up.
Apply Travel Agents or UNITED FRUIT
CO.. Pier 5. North River, New York City.
Evening star., 1936-04-02

union men employed on w. p. A.
projects.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
UNION SETTLES STRIKE
HALTING P.W.A. PROJECTS
Two-Week Tie-Up Ended as 1000
on Sympathy walkout Agree
to Arbitrate.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, April "A strike Of
1000 union men tying up 40 Public
Evening star., 1936-05-17
MRS.KE|TH-M|LLER
BRIDE Of AVIATOR
Britons With Flying Luck
Are Married in Regis
iSter's Office.
BY the Associated Press.

EPSON, England, May 16-Mrs.
]. M Keith-Miller and Flight Lieut.
John Barnard Walter Pugh, two
Britons who have had far more than
the ordinary share of flying luck,
were married today ina registers Of
flee.
Pugh's highest gamble with fortune
came just year ago, when the mo-
tor of his express plane cut out over
the English Channel. A fishing boat
rescued him.
Good and bad flying luck has fol-
lowed his bride more than 10 years.
In 1926 she became the first woman
to fly from England to Australia.
She made that flight with Capt.
w. N. Lancaster. In 1882 she was q
witness in LancaSter's trial for the
murder of Haden Clarke in Miami
Lancaster was acquitted.
She set a woman's trans-American
air record in 1880. That same year
she turned up safe in the Bahamas
after being missing three days on an
over-water flight.
Four years ago. when endurance
records were not what they are today,
Pugh and Mrs. Victor Bruce set a
British air endurance record Of 81
hours and 13 minutes at Felixstowe.
Evening star., 1936-05-17
FIGHT IN PROSPECT
0NFLOOD CONTROL
Authority Given Roosevelt by
Senate Body in Bill to
Be Opposed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Over Republican opposition. the
Senate Commerce Committee yester-
day wrote into the 1884, 900 900 omni-
bus flood control bill authority for
President Roosevelt to decide which
projects should be started first.
The committee limited to $50 900 600
the amount that could be spent during
the next fiscal year. The adminiStra-
tion contended this was as much as
the budget situation would permit.
Republican members Of the COM
mittee announced they would carry
to the floor of the Senate, when the
bill comes up Tuesday, the fight
against giving the President power to
select the projects. They contended
this took the authority from the War
Department engineers, where it be-
longed.
Hayden Amendment.
The amendment adopted, as offered
by Senator Hayden, Democrat, OF
Arizona, provided that the projects
should be prosecuted Gin order Of
their emergency, as may be designated
by the President
The Chief Executive recently ex-
pressed the view that flood control
work for the present should be con-
fined to those Eastern areas recently
stricken by floods and to habitually
endangered sections in the West.
Authority for more than 200 flood
control projects in 40 States is now
carried in the bill.
The Hayden amendment, presented
after conferences with President Roose.
welt and other administration officials,
also proposed the creation of a perma'
nent National Resources Board to re.
place the National Resources Com
mittee set up by the President in June
1885.
Would Have Five Members.
This would be composed of fivt
members at $4,000 year and woule
have authority to plan conservation
and development of natural resources
making recommendations to the Chief
Executive and Congress.
Another section of the Hayder
amendment would give the Agri
culture Department joint authorit!
with the War Department to maxi
future surveys Of fiood-control projects
Five million dollars would be giver
the Agriculture Departments Sol
Conservation Service to study meas
ures for run-off and water-fiow re
tardation and soil erosion prevention
in watersheds where the Army engi
neers were planning other flood
control projects.
Hayden said the War Department
would survey flood-control projects
on major streams as it has in th'
past, but that the Agriculture Depart
ment would plan for little streams"
The limiting of next years spending
to S50OOO,O 900 would not apply, how
ever, to work done on the project:
by Works Progress Administration EN-.
ployes under work relief funds.
Although Senate leaders said the
bill would be called up probably Tues
day, f1ood-control advocates from the
Eastern States announced they would
meet Monday to impress upon mem
bers of the Senate and House the
need for immediate action"
Evening star., 1936-05-17
MARINES CLAIM RECORD
FOR MAJ. GEN. RUSSELL
Say He Now Has More Service
Than Any Officer on Ac-
tive List.

The Marines are claiming another
record-they say their commandant
Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, now has
more service than any officer of the
Army, Navy or Marine Corps on the
active list. Gen. Russell has had 4S
years in the service.
The general will retire on reaching
the age of "a years on December l.
He was born November IA, 1872, in
California. In accordance with cur
rent practice he will quit the service
the first of the month following his
Gath birthday anniversary.
Gen. Russell was appointed a sec
ond lieutenant July /, 1894. But he
then had years, l month and 10
days prior service-as midshipman.
including 2 years as passed mid
Shipman, as was the rule in those
days. He spent four years at the Naval
Academy, officials declared. During
his lengthy career. Gen. Russell has
had more than 18 years service on
foreign shores.
Evening star., 1936-05-17
SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED
Guilford Jameson and Judge
Fromberg to Address Hebrews.

Guilford Jameson, Republican ma
tional committeeman and Judge Jo-
seph Fromberg, Democratic national
committeeman, will address the
Brotherhood of the Washington He
brew Congregation Wednesday in
special election meeting to be held at
the Congregation Temple at $3.50 pm.
In addition to the annual election,
a straw ballot will be taken for the
next President of the United States.
Music will be furnished by Harry Mes
tor, the singing policeman" accom-
panied by Harry Manville.
Evening star., 1936-05-17
SAW LINCOLN SHOT

RISING STAR, Tex, May 16 (P).-
John Freeland, 81, who said he was
present at the assassination of Presi-
dent Abraham Lincoln, died at his
home near here today. Freeland was
q butchers apprentice in Washington
when the President was fatally shot.
He played parts occasionally in Ford's
Theater
Evening star., 1936-05-17
The Sun and NJ
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in
Capital lcurrent month to datel:
Evening star., 1936-05-17
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair and
warmer today; tomorrow probably
showers; moderate southerly winds.
Maryland-Fair and warmer today;
tomorrow probably showers.
Enthusiastically fair and warm
er today, probably followed by showers
IN Southwest portion at night; tomor-
row local showers and warmer in East
portion.
West Virginia-Generally fair and
warmer today; probably showers and
cooler tomorrow.
Evening star., 1936-05-17

IODAI.
Breakfast, International Federation
of Catholic Alumnae, Mayflower
Hotel, 9 am.
Evening star., 1936-05-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Breakfast, International Federation
of Catholic Alumnae, Mayhower
Hotel, 8 am.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Newcomers Club, Carl
ton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Fra
ternity, University Club, 1890 pm.
Card party and tea, Ladies' Board
Of Georgetown University Hospital,
Georgetown Hospital, Thirty-fifth and
N streets. 2 pm.
lard party, Nativity Church, Four
teenth and A streets southeast, $50
pm.
Dance, Minnesota State Society,
Washington Club, Seventeenth and
X streets, pm.
Dinner, Stamp Club, Carlton Hotel,
pm.
Meeting, American Legion Auxil-
iary, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Fourth Degree, knights Of
Columbus, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner, Jacoby Society, Lafayette
Hotel, 6 pm.
Joint memorial exercises, Ladies of
g. A. r., rotunda of Capitol, 2:30 pm.
Evening star., 1936-05-17

Record until 10 pm. Saturday.
HIGHEST. "A, pm. yesterday. Year
Ago 80.
Lowest. SO. am. yesterday. Year
ago A..
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81. on May s.
Lowest. 0. on January 90,
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-08-28
SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. s
Continued from Page One)


iums
In contemplation are two new Junior
GYMS and auditoriums in Hagerstown.
Also in the plans for the future is an
addition to the Williamsport School
building.
The Winter Street school building is
having modern toilets installed, to be
ready for use by the time school opens.
The following is the school calendar
for the ten months of 1936-37: Begins
Tuesday, Sept. 8, ends Monday, Oct 5;
beins Tuesday, (.ct. g. ends Monday,
Nov. 2; begins Wednesday, Nov 4, ends
Thursday, Dee. 3: begins Friday, Dec.
4, ends Monday, Jan. IL; begins Tues
day, Jan. u, ends Monday, Feb. 8; be-
gins, Tuesday, Feb. 8, ends Monday,
March 8; begins Tuesday, March 8,
ends Wednesday,. April Z; begins
Thursday, April 8, ends Wednesday,
May 5 begins Thursday, May 6, ends
Wednesday, June 2; begins Thursday,
June 3, ends Friday, June II.
The schools will be closed at II noon
on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, October 6, Z, s and 9, days Of
the Hagerstown Fair, and at II noon
on Wednesday, November IL, for Ar
mistice Day.
Pay days are scheduled for October
5. November 2, December 3, January
IL, February 8, March 8, April z, May
5. June 2 and July 1.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-08-28
HOLC RETIRES BONDS
ISSUED 2 YEARS AGO
Volume of Monthly Pay
ments Has Increased
in Recent Months

The first bonds of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, amounting to $780,
$4,000 and issued two years ago to OBJ
tian funds for operating expenses, were
paid off in cash at maturity on August
10. This marks another major step in
liquidation operations of the Hole on
which it has been engaged exclusively
since lending ceased in June. Including
$67 ,644,925 of various issues of bonds
already retired, as of August Is, the
corporation had redeemed la total of
$117,380,925 Of it's outstanding obliga-
tons. Total repayments on loans to
home owners to June 3d. 1896, amount
ed to 121,O46,613. Due to improved
circumstances of many borrowers, the
volume of monthly payments of princi-
pal and interest have increased sharply
in recent months.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-08-28
Three

INDUSTRIAL SAVINGS & LOAN
COMPANY OPENS IN THIS CITY
The Hagerstown Industrial Savings
and Loan Company has opened offices in
the Thomas Building, 40 North Jona-
than street. The officers of the COM
pany are A. *. Coffman, president, and
u. Earl Neikirk, secretary treasurer,
both well known and responsible bust
ness men of this city. Service for the
borrower and safety for the investor is
the slogan for the new company which
offers permanent service to the people
of the community.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-08-28

"The strength of nation, especially
of republican nation, is in the intel
lgence and well-ordered homes of it's
people. Mrs. Sigourney
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-08-28

While his mother was tucking him
into bed, Henry Schleidt, Jf., 3, of
East Hampton, Conn, kicked up his
feet. Mrs. Schleidt's jaw was fractured
in three places.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-08-28

eve should strive to exemplify in
others.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-08-28

There are likely to be short graces
where the devil plays host.-Ldmb.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
c.. Youths Telescope Wins Experts High Praise
Youthful inventor Hopes to
Continue Studies at
West Point.

the other. These two motors, as well
as one providing declination slow mo-
ton, are controlled through small
push-button unit carried in the hand.
The purpose Of all these motors, but
tons and gears is to keep the telescope
pointed on selected star or planet
over period of time while that star
or planet travels across the field In
relation to the position of the telescope.
Although young Mr.. Gee designed
this telescope, young friend, who
wishes to remain unknown, helped in
its construction and financing. The
total cost of materials was $3.50. The
labor, extending over months, cannot
be estimated on the basis Of dollars and
cents. Completed, the instrument
weighs about 1000 pounds.
The designer has coupled his tele-
scope building with photography. He
believes that when the telescope is
used with a Photographic plate it is
capable Of making pictures Of stars
at the visual limit Of the largest tele-
scope in the world.
Although visual limits are under the
Photographic limits, it Is estimated
that it can be used successfully with
magnifying powers Of from 4oX to
SOCK.
THE young scientist plans to con-
tinue his studies. At Millard's
he Is preparing for West Point, which
he hopes to enter before the end of
1896.
He has been building telescopes for
the past six years. His first attempt
was a 3-inch refracting telescope and
then 6-inch reflector type.
This latest 12la-inch instrument Is
considered a masterpiece for an ANA
teur and compares favorably, in de-
sign. with the best in the world.
Although young Mr.. Gee has taken
courses in high school physics, chem
istry and general science, he has taken
no college courses in these subjects.
His optical knowledge and knowledge
Of telescope mounting is all derived
from practical work in that line and
from the study of various modern
large telescopes.
Several years ago he made an au-
tomato motor driven machine for
grinding, polishing and figuring opti-
cal mirrors that was quite successful.
1t was used successfully on his 6-inch
mirror, and with it he plans to make
larger mirrors when this term of
school is completed.
The telescope designer is interested
in the field of topography. The 121s-
inch instrument is designed to be used
with a camera and in this way secure
pictures of objects which lie far be-
yond the visual limit.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Comets Break All
Speed Records on
Trips Across SKY

COMETS are fiery clusters with
glowing tails that swirl around in
far-off space. and your mothers and
fathers, or at any rate, grandmothers,
will remember having seen one not
many years ago.
They are the speed kings Of the
heavens, for they travel thousands of
miles a second. No wonder that peo-
pie who lived hundreds of years ago
believed that comets were the serv-
ants Of some devil, and believed. too,
that where they went, there sickness
and death went also. But, of course,
that isn't true.
HALEY, a famous student of the
stars, who lived 300 years ago, discov-
cred that comets are fairly regular
visitors to the earth, although often
they do not appear for years at time,
sometimes as much as 5000 years.
Halley's comet, rather recent visi-
tor named for this scientist. will come
again in about rs years. as it has come
every rs years in the past. In 1910 its
misty tail swept the earth Though
most of us did not know it, and ter
rif1ed many who saw it glowing in the
sky.
Some comets regularly belong to our
sun family, and these travel in the
same paths around the sun always.
Others are sudden visitors from far
of spaces. These are tramps whose
actions cannot be counted on. and
often they disappear as strangely and
as swiftly as they came. Scientists be-
heve that they have strayed from
other sun families, perhaps, and are
veering crafty through space, at
tracted by any sun which they ap-
proach.
Evening star., 1936-02-16

persuades a rabbit CC) to Jump out Of
the hat (67s). AS the bunny hits the
floor, the tortoise Cd, who is a great
fable reader, thinks it's the famous
race in which he upset the dope to
win an amazing victory. Fired with
the desire to win once more, the tor
toise (still d. starts after the hare
rabbit to you) and automatically pulls
the cord (H).
The cord is attached to a reel (really
an old tomato cam by pulleys, and as
it turns the pencil sharpener Cd also
turns and puts lovely point on the
pencil (G).
These self-starting pencil sharpeners
are being placed on sale Immediately,
and a portable typewriter is given free
to every customer-just in case the
professors newest invention fails to
work.
Evening star., 1936-02-16

those extra-special terms which be-
wilders many laymen. 1t has nothing
to do with the A. F. Of L. or the Con-
stitution. 1t is the interval between
the successive passages of the vernal
equinoctial point over the meridian.
being about four minutes shorter than
the mean solar day.
IF THAT definition of Sidereal day
doesn't suit, look it up in the die
tionary.
But to get back to the motors which
manipulate this telescope
Two other motors provide slow and
fast motions through this same gear,
using an elaborate differential for one
and an automatic electrical clutch for
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Silver For Cub
Is MOthered by
The Family Cat
BY HORACE MITCHELL.

(Thts interesting story DdS con-
tributed by EdUtn Sanders. jr.J
HOW would you like to have q
little silver fox cub for pet?
While travelling through the South
eastern part of New Brunswick re-
Gently we found many silver fox
farms. Each farm was equipped with
a watch tower, and We were very
curious to know what this was used
for. At Salisbury a large sign in
vited passers-by to visit the farm
of W. T. Chapman. who has over
300 foxes.
At this place We learned that the
tower was used to watch the foxes
during the breeding season. A man
is on duty up there most of the
time, and the instant he glimpses any
sort of trouble he comes right down
and stops it.
But what interested us most was
a cunning little silver fox whose
mother died when he was only five
days old. There were five cubs in
the litter, three of which died before
their mother. And guess who adopted
the remaining two? The family cat!
She nursed the little cubs and cared
for them just as though they were
her kittens. One more died, but the
Evening star., 1936-02-16

The upper section of the tube is
separated from the lower by eight
l12-inch l diameter steel tubes and is
composed of two interchangeable
sleeves.
Both axes of the instrument are
equipped with precision setting cir
cles for placing the telescope on any
celestial object, whether visible or not.
The telescope is electrically driven
about both axes. This requires four
motors. One, OF the synchronous
type, is similar to a large electric
clock motor 1t drives the polar axis
through a 20-inch worm gear at the
rate Of one revolution in q sidereal
day.
The "sidereal DAY" is another one of
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Betty Fills Tnrnib
Cups With Peas TO
Meet Emergency

"MOTHER and grandmother have
gone to the city for the day, and
left me to get dinner for daddy and
grandfather. And I can't find a thing
in the house to eat. Oh, what shall I
do?" walled Betty.
Don't worry. We'll find something, 4"
consoled Dinah. Look in the ice box
and tell me what you find there"
Some cold roast beef" Betty
answered.
Pine, t begin with! Slice it thin
and serve it with mashed potatoes"
That's not enough" Betty COM
planned.
ANY fresh vegetables on hand?"
"Only these small white turnips, -
Betty answered as she returned from
the pantry. Here's a can of peas l
found on the shelf. Which shall use?"
Both" Dinah replied. Make tur-
nip cups and fill them with peas. That
will make very hearty, filling meal.
You can make a pan of biscuits while
the turnips are cooking. Biscuits with
some of your grandmother's strawberry
jam will make a dessert no man will
refuse"
"Hurrah!'' shouted Betty. you've
saved the day and my reputation as a
cook!"
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Alan {. Gee, 10, Devises
12I2-Inch Lens Used
at Catholic U.
Bv H0yt Barnett
Ian z. GEE, quiet l9-year-old
WASHINGTON amateur telescope

LAIN e. 1EG, 4uACt 4o- -yCoA "OtA
n Washington amateur telescope
~ designer. has devised l212-
n inch instrument highly praised
by experts in that field and quite
amazing to the layman.
This young student at Millard's
Preparatory School designed the in
strument now used at Catholic Uni
versity. 1t may be used either as a
CaSSigrain or a Newtonian reflector
due to provision incorporated in a
telescope for the first time by an anna
teur.
Do not let such terms as CaSsigrain
and Newtonian refiectors confuse you.
Other terms quite as complex as these
are in the normal lexicon Of the tele-
scope fans.
Mr. Gee explains them simply.
"As a Cassigrain telescope, light
from the object in the field Of vision
comes into the tube in parallel lines
to the primary mirror.
1t is reflected, in this case, from
the 1914 inch mirror, focused by the
curve, upon the secondary AZ Inch
lens. This lens again concentrates the
light and focuses it upon a prism in
the center of the primary mirror,
from which it Is detected to the eye
piece
The Newtonian reflector may be
called the more elementary of the two.
The light comes in the tube as before.
It is reflected from the primary to a
rangle prism and from the prism to
the eye. Nothing much to it.
But, of course, the CaSsigrain
method generally is about $50 times
more powerful than the Newtonian
when the same eyepiece is used"
THE young telescope designer
mounted his instrument in bear
ings in large iron yoke. carried by
a 3-inch steel shaft. This shaft, in
turn, is mounted in large precision
ball bearings, held in a cast-iron base
at an angle equal to the latitude Of
Washington, D. G.
This mounting arrangement allows
the polar axis to be set parallel to the
earth's axis. This form of telescope
mount is used by some of the worlds
best telescopes; notably the 40-inch
Ritchey Chretian telescope at the
United States Naval Observatory and
the 60-inch Mount Wilson telescope.
The tube of the Gee telescope (all
telescopes apparently are named after
the designeD is made in sections.
The lower carries the 2-inch-thick
1212 Inch primary mirror with its Is
supports, and is turned from a cast
sleeve. This section carries the bear
ing trunnions and is of necessity very
heavy.
Evening star., 1936-02-16

sured once they know the Coast Guard
is on the way!
RUILT at a cost of $4,000, these
self-bailing, non-capsizable craft
will live in any sea. Lined with huge
sponsors or pads of cork for buoyancy
fitted with a two-ton bronze keel to
insure unrightness, even the l00-horse-
power engine is so arranged that over
turning the boat will not affect it
But If anything else should, sails and
oars are carried to enable the crew
to keep going.
Airplares also render valuable as
sistance, each year covering larger
areas more quickly to locate distressed
vessels and even to effect rescues.
However, the breeches buoy, old
standby of the service, remains much
the same, although, because of more
modern equipment along other lines
it is now seldom used. But one day
it may be needed, and badly. Sc
crews spend hours laboriously prac-
ticing with muzzle- loading two-inch
brass cannons, shooting lines over
spars anchored off the stations. For
some dark night, invariably in a howl
ing gale, it will not be possible for a
lifeboat to reach an unknown vessel
pounding its life out in the breakers
some hundred yards off shore. Then
the small cannon will fire the light
line across the wreck, and the gunner
will be lucky If it lodges in the rig
ging on first attempt. When 1t even
tually does, a heavier line attached
to this will be hauled out, and this in
turn will pull the stout cable track
to be taken aboard and made fast
Back and forth a doughnut life pre-
server with attached canvas seat will
drag the crew, one by one, ashore
through the pounding surf, dumping
them down on the streaming beach
soaking wet but happy.
The far-reaching and all-hearing
radio, the efficient teletype. the magic
radio compass. fast planes and modern
lifeboats may have replaced equip
ment which seems old-fashioned. But
the grit, valor and sacrifice of the
service are not new. They are as old
fashioned as the very sea against
which these life savers supreme are
constantly pitting themselves. And
their bravery is every bit as unfailing
Evening star., 1936-02-16

surviving cub grew fat and strong
and became a great pet. The cats
name was Maggie; and they named
the little fox Jiggs.
When We saw Jiggs he was as
large as Maggie. and they had a
great time together. They would
grapple and roll over and over and
pretend to bite each other. Maggie
would thrash her tail from side to
side and Jiggs would pounce on it.
When Maggie got tired she would
box Jigg's ears and walk of with