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Evening star., 1936-03-01

Ralph Custer Is thoroueh. conscien-
tious boy who works hard for everything he
gets. He has a Job taking care of two fur
naces in the neighborhood, and is PAINS
One day he discovers that a local hard
ware store is. running a contest: with a
splendid bicycle as first prize. and he sud
way would be easier than working for 1t.
He enters the contest. which involves solv-
all entries due in the hardware store by
9 p.m on the last day of the month. The
same day he enters. Miss Jameson. whose
ing away until the end OF the month and
warns him that # he ever lets her fire 90
on the problem. the first step in the con-
test and is delighted when he is sure he
has the right answer. He plans to start
work on his essay Immediately.
Evening star., 1936-03-01

SIX guns are made by gluing tiny
- round sticks to a wooden base,
shaping the rounded breech with a
drop Of composition wood, thick glue,
or putty. Glue the gun mounts on the
model in the positions shown.
The masts are whitfield from round
sticks, Il inch thick by inches long
and attached to the model as shown.
A crows nest is glued to the fore
mast. Pins are used for fagstaffs and
for the anchor hoist. The rigging
and radio aerial may be added by
threading black silk thread from the
masts to the hull.
Paint the entire boat a battleship
gray, using quick-drying enamel, Civ
ing it two or three coats to produce
high gless: then outline the port
holes and bridge details with black
enamel.
Careful workmanship will produce
a good-looking model destroyer, so
take your time in constructing It:
even if you spend a week or more,
shaping and gluing the many parts in
position.
Evening star., 1936-03-01

the top of all the stacks in line, when
the remaining stacks are glued to the
hull as shown.
Between the stacks comes the mid
ship cabin, G. The size and shape
of this tiny block are shown; also the
tiny blocks representing q stern, or
rear cabin, A. and the hatch, B.
While the glue holding these blocks
to the hull is drying, you can be shap-
ing the depth bomb racks, the torpedo
tubes, the crows nest, the lifeboats,
and the guns. The size and the shape
Of all these tiny parts are sketched.
The depth bomb racks are tiny
blocks of wood. with the bombs rep
resented by 20 inch pieces of tiny
round sticks. The torpedo tubes are
three pieces of. q Inch wire, glued
to tiny wooden base. Two Of each
of these parts are required. and are
glued to the hull at the stern of the
model as shown.
Five tiny lifeboats are mounted to
pins for davits and are attached. two
on each side Of the models hull, and
one on top Of hatch B.
Evening star., 1936-03-01
N0fhine Extra.

Traveller: Can I get anything to
eat n this Dump"
Waiter: "Yas, sab, you kim"
Traveller: Such as what?" Hi
Waiter: "Such as It Is, sab" ~
Evening star., 1936-03-01
Obieine FeHow.

Charity worker: "Wil you pleaso
help the Working Girls Home?"
2 Bill: "Sure, where are they?"
Evening star., 1936-03-01
LION AND LAMB.

The definitions are:
HORIZONTAL.
!. Agreeable, charming.
Z. They are strong in March.
8. Monkey.
10. Company (Abbr).
II. Proposition of place.
~. Musical note.
13. Exclamation.
IA. BY way Of.
is. March comes in like this
II. And goes out like this.
18. A number.
10. Exist.
20. Elevated line (Abbr.).
21. Weight (Abbr).
%. Greek letter.
%. Kind of poem.
"a. A blustery month.
26. A line drawing. chart.
VERTICAL.
!. Reverential fear.
2. Musical note.
8. Measure of length.
4. Trouble, bother.
5. Boy Scouts (Abbr.).
6. Fit to be eaten.
8. Permitted.
9. To color
IL. Directed. pointed.
13 Indefinite article.
H. Southern State (Abbr).
16. Old English (Abbr).
II. Left end (Abbr).
10. Knot on tree.
%. A horse.
%. Unit of electrical resistance.
"a. Mother.
rs. Calcium (Abbr).
,
Now comes a word diamond bull
around the head man." The secone
word is taxi, the third means cloaks
the fifth is an animal and the sixth i!
to take seat. Complete the diamond
Evening star., 1936-03-01
Puzzles

NOU'VE all heard that March Is
a. supposed to come in like lion
and go out nke lamb. TnaJs what
our crossword puzzle does, too-but it
contains very good -humored looking
lion, and rather sheepish lamb!
LION AND LAMB.
Evening star., 1936-03-01
C. A p T A IN

Our word chains will make you think
Of March weather. Change only one
letter at time and always form a
genuine word.
Change WIND to RAGE in four
moves.
Change MILD to WARM in five
moves.
q
PICTURE ANAGRAM.
Evening star., 1936-03-01
INSTALLMENT III.

~ ALPH soon discovered that al
- most every boy he knew had
entered the Smith Hardware
Il Stores contest in the hone of
Evening star., 1936-03-01
Reader Writes of
Making Bat a Pet
By Horace Mitchell.

fHere's something newt How MANY OF
you fellows and girls ever had a bat for
pet? Read about one in this interest,"
ing story by Edwin Sanders, ir.)
Evening star., 1936-03-01

w YHEN the model of a low
\H/ wing monoplane wass de-
w scribed few weeks ago,
told YOU that the next
Evening star., 1936-10-03
SEVEN ARE INJURED
IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS
Man Suffers Severe Head Cuts
When Machine Careens Of
Road Near Waldorf.

Seven persons were injured, one
seriously, in trafic mishaps in and
near Washington in the last ~ hours.
Robert A.. Ross, IS, Of Magazine
road southeast was treated at Casualty
Hospital today for severe head cuts
after his automobile careened Oh the
road and overturned near Waldorf,
Md. He left the hospital after being
treated. 'c'.,.-.!
Others injured were: William Wig
gins. IA. 1850 Florida avenue, struck
while riding q. bicycle on @ Street
Bridge. minor lacerations; Arthur w.
Clancy, 1910 Eleventh street south
east. struck at Eleventh and M streets
southeast, lacerations; Herbert Will
son, 8, Of ;113 c street northeast,
struck near Second and C streets
northeast, lacerations; Mae Ferguson,
SO, and Alfred Ferguson, 40, both of
316 Twelfth street southeast, in COL
lision at Twelfth and D streets SOUTH
east, both cut and bruised; Albert B.
Norrod, ST., TOT Twentieth street,
struck at Fifth street and Florida
avenue, elbow and chest abrasions.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
TREASURY REPORTS
U. S. SPENDING DROP
First Quarter Expenditures Are
$1e9,6se, ,467 Under Figure
for Year Ago.
Bv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
A drop in emergency expenditures
during the first quarter Of this fiscal
year was shown in a Treasury state
ment yesterday to have more than
offset rise in spending for general
governmental functions, making the
total spent 169,686, ,467 under the
figure for the corresponding period
last year. .g
In its month-end condition state
ment for September the Treasury
listed emergency expenditures for the
three months at $601, ,742,95 a drop
of $278, ,939,494 under the correspond
ing period year ago. General Govern
ment expenditures. however, climbed
$109, ,253. OPT over last year to $685.
056,813.
Receipts were up $137.451,212 over
last year, being listed at $1,135,915,677
for the first quarter of this fiscal
period. This left q deficit for the
quarter of $524, 4,8S4,0S7.
Among individual revenues a sub
stantial upturn was shown from in
come taxes, which increased from
$277,S49,826 in the quarter last year
to $359, 9,641, ,731 this year.
The statement showed the Treasury
had working balance of 1,718, ,599, ,076
on September. 80. Secretary Morgen-
thau announced recently he planned
to keep available cash on hand
above the billion-dollar level because
of times and conditions" abroad.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
MRS. MARY &. JOHNSON,
NATIVE OF D. c., DIES
One Daughter Is Teacher Here
Funeral Tomorrow in
South Pasadena.

Mrs. Mary e. johnson. 80, native
Washingtonian, died Thursday after q
short illness at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Pauline e. CLAWS, In South
Pasadena, Calf, according to word
received here.
Mrs. johnson was the mother of Miss
Maidee Ever, 1141 New Hampshire
avenue, q teacher at the Powell Junior
High School. Besides the two daugh-
ters, she leaves q sister, Mrs. Clara
Murphy Of the Cortland Apartments
here; fiye grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren. Mrs. johnson,
the widow Of Frank e. johnson, had
lived in California the past rs years,
Her first husband was the late Charles
Cary Ever. She married Mr.. johnson
some time after Mr.. Ever died and
went to California with him.
Funeral services will be held In
South Pasadena today. Burial will
be at Forest Lawn, Glendale, Calf.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
JACOBS REPORTS
PROGRESS|NSTUDy
Of D. ENHANCES
Mass of Data Analysed at
Conference With Ad.
visory Committee.
LAUDS COOPERATION
OF Department AIDES
Date for Meeting Of Expert and
Civic Organizations May
Be Set Today.

A mass Of statistical information
bearing on fiscal relations between
the Federal and District Govern
ments was analysed today at q con-
ference between j. L. Jacobs, Chicago
efficiency engineer and tax expert, and
his advisory committee appointed by
President Roosevelt to determine the
equitable share of expenses of the
United States toward the mainte-
nance and operation of the munich
pality.
The conference was the third
Jacobs has held with the Advisory
Committee since the President an
nounced the appointments August %.
Jacobs is directing the fiscal rela-
tions study. His Advisory Committee
consists Of George McAneny, president
Of the Title Guaranty Trust Co. OF
New York City; James w. Martin,
chairman of the Kentucky State Tax
Commission, and Clarence A. Dykstra,
city manager Of Cincinnati.
Jacobs announced that he and the
Advisory Committee had made good
progress" in the study and were
pleased with developments" Coop
Grafton from Federal and District de-
partments, which are furnishing data,
he declared, has been fine"
A date for a meeting between
Jacobs and representatives of civic
organizations. who will be given an
opportunity to submit reports on the
fiscal relations question, is expected
to be fixed before adjournment of
today's conference.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
THREE new LODGES
TAKEN IN BY G. E.
Receive Temporary Certificates
of Affiliation From Execu.
tive Council.

Three new lodges. including one in
the Justice Department. where a unit
recently was expelled. received tenn
porary certificates of afilation yester-
day from the Executive Council Of the
Amedican Federation of Government
Employees. The others are at Nation
al Labor Relations Board and the
Aqueduct.
The new Justice lodge has II men,
bers. The old lodge was ousted be-
cause Of an attack on J. Edgar
Hoover. director of the Bureau of In
vestigation, who discharged eight Of
its members in the bureau.
Labor Relations reports rs MEM
bers, and Aqueduct So.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
Big Animal Balloons to Parade
In Downtown Halloween Fete

More than Is giant, helium-filled
balloon figures, like the ones you see
in newsreel parade pictures, will fea-
ture this years annual Halloween
parade, sponsored by the Greater
National Capital Committee Of the
Washington Board Of Trade.
The balloons, representing animals.
will be furnished at . cost Of $700
by q group of Washington stores In
place Of the floats used in the past.
The figures, each with . ground"
crew of about 10 men, will float above
the parade, guided by small ropes
running to the ground.
Stores which viii furnish balloons
are Frank r. Jellef, Inc; woodward d
Lothrop, Sears, Roebuck u Co.; Gold
enberg Co., Kann & Sons Co., Hecht
Co., LansbMgh d Bro, Palais Royal
and Raleigh Haberdasher.
At . meeting Of the parade com.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
SANAT0R|UMFUND
NEEDS PRESENTED
Larger Personnel and Play.
ground Urged at Glenn
Dale by Head.

An increase in personnel sufncient
to care for 80 patients and construc-
tion of a playground for children In
the Children's tuberculosis Sana-
torium at Glenn Dale, Md, was rec
commended yesterday in report to
the Board of Public Welfare.
DR.. Daniel Leo Finucane, superin-
tendent, pointed out that because
the 1887 budget does not contain
funds for sufficient personnel it will
be impossible to open new wards on
the first floor Of recently completed
additional wings.
Extra Beds Necessary.
I'VE will open the new wards on
the second and third fioors," his re-
port stated, "and we will be able to
take approximately 220 patients, but
the institution was built for 800 pa
tients, and there must Of necessity
be 80 vacant beds ready to receive
patients, and no one provided to take
care Of these 80 patients"
The playground, the report said,
had been planned several months
ago, and detailed specifications for
its construction were submitted in
the hope it could be constructed as
w. P. A. project.
Playground Need Urgent.
This, however, was ruled out,
the report continued, "and We. feel
that the need for a proper playground
has become more urgent daily"
DR.. Finucane also reported that
the sanatorium had a total of 227
patients during the last fiscal year.
with lit in the hospital at the end
of the year.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
D. c. SUES STOFORCE
REMOVAL Of TRACK
Capital Transit Ordered Into
Court on Abandoned
E Street Line.

Asserting that the Capital Transit
Co. has refused to remove its aban-
doned street car tracks on E street
between Eleventh and Fourteenth
streets, the District Commissioners
filed suit in District Court yesterday
to force the company TO do so.
They also asked the court to COM
pei the Capital Transit Co. TO replace
street surface damaged by taking up
the tracks.
BY order of the Public Utilities
Commission the tracks were aban-
doned May ], but the company al
lowed the rails and an electric con-
duit to remain.
Early last month the District
Commissioners, by resolution, ordered
the trolley equipment removed, but
the company replied that the merger
act" relieved them Of such RESPONSE
bility.
AS q result the Commissioners
acting through Corporation Counsel
Elwood Seal. appealed to the court.
They said the presence Of the tracks
constitutes a public nuisance and is
hazardous and, because of the ac-
cumulation of filth in the conduits,
unhealthful.
Chief Justice Alfred Wheat ordered
the company to show cause by Oc-
tober 19 why writ Of mandamus
should not be issued compelling the
track removal
Evening star., 1936-10-03
Retirement GROUP
MAPS LEGISLATION
Federal Employees in Indus.
trial Occupations in Ses-
sion Today.

The Retirement Federation, COM
posed of Government employees in in
dustrial occupations-such' as navy
yards, naval stations and arsenals-
today was in session at the Hamilton
Hotel mapping plans for retirement
legislation to be sought at the next
session Of Congress.
Several speakers were listed, among
them Representative Ramspeck, DEM
ocrat of Georgia, chairman of the
House Civil Service Committee. There
will be dinner tonight at ~7:30.
One of the plans to be studied is
that advanced by the Civil Service
Commission under which an employe
could retire-or be retired by the Gov
ernment-on reaching the age of so,
after 80 years service. First reaction
of the industrial workers to this Is
rather unfavorable, according to Rob-
ert H. Alcorn, chairman of the Joint
Conference on Retirement, repre-
senting all branches.
Opponents would rather have early
retirement entirely optional with the
workers, even to the extent of paying
for it themselves If necessary. There
Is feeling, however, that discussion
could EARLY lead to compromise.
At present, industrial workers 60 out
at 81 and IS. and the great mass of
employees at 10.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
RATES ARE CHANGED
ON MONEY ORDERS
Retaliation of Currency by For
eign Nations Affects U. s.
Conversion.
By the Associated Press.


Postal authorities have notified post
masters that revaluation of currency
by France, Switzerland and the Meth
erlands had altered conversion rates
for q number of countries with which
money order business Is transacted.
Instructions issued by Acting Post
master General w. w. Howes said, in
part:
1T is ordered that after October
4, In the issue of international money
orders the money Of the United States
shall be converted into that of China
at the rate of 80 cents to the Shanghai
dollar; into that of New Zealand at
the rate Of "a to the pound; into
that of Great Britain, Northern Ire
land, Irish Free State and the Union
Of South Africa at the rate Of S. to
the pound: into that of Denmark at
the rate of 22K cents to the krone;
into that Of France, the French Levant
and the regency of Tunis at the
rate of S cents to the franc; into that
of the Netherland Indies and Surimam
at the rate of IS cents to the florin !;
into that of Norway at the rate Of IS
cents to the krone, and into that of
Sweden at the rate of 26 cents to
the krona."
Ofiicials said the rates were based
on the prevailing market, plus mar
gin of safety"
Howes advised the postmasters that
money order business had been sus-
pended temporarily with Grenada, the
Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland
and that until further notice money
orders should not be issued for pay
ment in any Of those countries.
Evening star., 1936-10-03

mittees, held yesterday noon at the
Harrington Hotel, Maj. Ernest w.
Brown, chairman Of the Subcommit-
tee on Safety, urged all subcommit-
tee heads to make an added effort
this year to interest children in the
parade.
Property damage caused by chill
dren In the outlying neighborhoods
can be greatly reduced" Maj. Brown
said, "if the children can be in
duced to come down and watch the
parade instead Of damaging property
with their pranks. About 400 police
men will be detailed to the parade.
greatly reducing law enforcement
facilities in the outlying sections"
Mrs. Edna knight Gasch, chairman
Of the Subcommittee on the Selection
Of Candidates for Queen, announced
that . master Of ceremonies and Jester
viii be appointed this year to compile
ment the queens court.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
U. S. WORKERS URGED
TO AID IN CAMPAIGN
Letters to Government Employees
Ask Contributions to Dem.
ocratic Fund.

Government employees again are
being urged to contribute to the Demo-
cratic war chest.
Letters have been sent out asking
q minimum" Of 500 in some cases,
and ANY" gift in others.
Reputedly, the communications are
going to the homes of the workers to
evade the law against solicitation in
Government buildings. t.. g..
ITO get to the point q once" these
say. 'the Democratic National Com
mittee needs funds. II you desire to
play . part in the glorious victory we
shall have in November, we must enlist
at once your generous financial sup
port" >a
This is the second mail campaign in
recent months. Earlier, the Executive
Council sponsored one. The employees
also were importuned to purchase
"nominator" tickets for the demon
stration the night President Roosevelt
was notified Of his nomination, and
have been asked also to buy party
publications in other Embarrassing en-
deavors.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
Three Members of:D. G. Family
Hurt in Accidents Same Day

Freak mishaps incapacitated three
members Of q Southeast family in less
than an hour yesterday.
Mrs. Catherine Day, 50, Of SOS Raj
eigh place southeast was the nrst VIC
tim. Riding on q bus crowded with
school children, she was struck .
hard blow on the ankle with . rock.
Five minutes later Mrs. Days
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Jones, 20, Of
l702 Twenty-eighth street southeast,
who was seated beside her mother,
was almost knocked unconscious b .
small piece Of steel, believed to have
been thrown BY some one on the bus.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
FRAZIER ADVOCATES
ELECTION OF LEMKE
Co.Author of Farm Moratorium
Bill Says Major Parties
Forgot Promises.
Ry the Associated Press

by tne Associated freSS,
GRAND FORKS, N. Oak, Octo-
ber 3.-United States Senator Lynn
j. Frazier, North Dakota Republican
lined up today with supporters Of the
Union party presidential candidacy
OF Representative william Lemke
the State Colleague who co-authored
the invalidated Frazier-Lemke farm
mortgage moratorium bill.
Speaking last night from the same
platform as the Union party leader,
Frazier asserted the Republican and
Democratic parties forget their
promises to the common people, but
they do not forget those made to
large corporations that make large
campaign contributions"
The platform of Union party
leaders, he declared, was far ahead
of those offered by the Republicans
and Democrats. They mean what
they say in their platform" he added,
~and the other two parties do not. "
In his address Lemke reiterated q
conviction that he would receive
enough votes in November to force
the presidential election into the
House of Representatives.
Referring to his second candidacy
for reelection to Congress on the Re-
publican ticket-Lemke asked voters
to support him so that Il will be
there to look after my own interests. I"
Evening star., 1936-10-03
VIRGINIA ENGINEERe
GET BRIDGE PLAT
Height of Point of Rocks s
Brings Disagreement Wit.
: Maryland.
Ey the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, October 3.--Plar
the new bridge at Point Of Rock
in the hands of Virginia roads off
today for study and approval.
Nathan L. Smith, chief enginee.
the State Roads Commission, said
expected no reply from the Virgin
authorities until early next we
Maryland and Virginia roads eng
neers, he said. have disagreed as i
the height of the structure.
With the approval Of the FEEDER;
Bureau of Public Roads, Smith ex
planned. Maryland plans call for cree
ton of the span feet above tn
high-water mark set during the flood
of last March. Engineers felt tina
water level did not indicate the high
est point flood waters can rise at Poin
Of Rocks.
If and when Virginia roads engineer
consent to the additional height an
approve the plans, they will be sen
Immediately to the Federal Bureau Q
Public Roads for final approval, Smitl
said.
Evening star., 1936-10-03
FOOD COST RISE
IN 81 FORESEEN;;
DROUGHT BLAMED
Full Effects of Scarcity to
Be Felt Early in Year,
U. S. Says. =.
CHEAP FIGURES OF
'32 AND '33 CITED
Contrast With This Year Made
by Consumer Guide-Quota.
tions Highest Since 1880.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
Smart shopping by the purchaser OF
the family's food supplies was advised
by Federal experts today, with q
warning that food costs will 60 higher
After . Nation-wid study, the Con-
sumers' Guide. published ut the Agri-
culture Department. said careful buy
ing will be necessary during the first
half of 1897, when the full price,
rising effects Of the drought will be
felt"
Retail food prices in recent weeks
were said to have reached the highest
level since 1885," but the price study
added that they were still 20 per
cent below" 1929, peak in recent years
The Bureau of Labor Statistics an
nounced today that its retail food
cost index had increased 4 per cent
between August 18 and September Is.
The composite index for Septem-
ber Is was 84.3 per cent Of the
1923-25 average, the report said. The
corresponding period year ago OF
the index was SOL. Food costs, how
ever, the bureau said. are still 2l.9
per cent below the level OF Septem-
Der IS, 1929.
One reason housewives and others
are acutely conscious OF mounting
grocery bills. the Federal experts said
was that the increases follow the
cheap food costs of 1928.
They said 1t has required $1.40 In
recent months to buy the same amount
of food that q dollar bill purchased
in March, 1888.
At the same time, the food experts
said that 81 cents recently would buy
as much food at $104 did in 1929 OF
81 purchased during what they term
an average period, l925-29.
The Irish potato or spud, q main
item in the average family food bill
has been hard hit by the drought. The
survey estimated potato supplies were
20 to as per cent below last years
while retail prices ARE double a year
ago."
Butter at a cents q pound retail
was said to be SO per cent higher than
q year ago, while cheese was up IL per
cent and milk S per cent above 1895.
Compensating these advances some
what, it was said, were declines in the
prices of beef, pork, lamb and poultry
Expensive beef cuts were above 1885
levels, the survey said, but other meat
cuts were reported lower.
The survey said there was mo need
for alarm on the part Of consumers u
to shortage of supplies" Of foodstuffs.