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Evening star., 1937-10-09

thing compared to marrying a woman
sight unseen, and only the foolhardy
would risk it.
Marriage is the most personal thing
on earth and picking out a husband
or wife is chore that nobody can do
for you. For whether a man and
woman are happy together or not de-
pends altogether upon whether they
suit each other. not upon what they
are. A girl might be 4 model Of all
the virtues and just the one your
mother would select for your wife and
yet be utterly repugnant to you.
whereas some little flibbertisibbet
might be just your hearts desire.
A N4"AY' there are risks enough
in marrying even when you have
known girl from her cradle up
without taking any chances on a ladv
who was driven to advertising for 4
husband.
Of course. the women who are hus-
band hunting exaggerate their charms
Naturally they put their best foot
foremost. That is merely good sales
manship and you can't blame them
for that. But If you are wise. you
will discount their age and their brau-
ty and their money by at least so per
"ent.
Not every wealthy widow" who
desires to marry for companionship
has = nickel nor Is everv girl who
represents herself as sweet and 20"
blushing maiden. Often she ia 4
widow with half a dozen brah. So
beware.
The qualities you demand In the
girl you marry are sensible and well
considered and you should have no
dlmculty IN meeting one who comes
up to specifications when you come
out OF your mountains and down into
the places where girls abound. But
don't marry any girl under the de-
fusion that she will change your
nature and cure your wandering foot
Wives are no miracle workers and
after a man is married his nature
IS even as it was before.
LOOK over the girls yourself before
you pick out one to spend the balance
Of your life with. Marriage lasts a
long. long time and 1t seems longer
il you get the wrong one.
Evening star., 1937-10-09

guard against setting fire to the cur.
tains, window sashes and draperies.
And make certain that there is 4
guard between that candle and snv
child who might want to get closer
to 1t than three feet. And. II yo.i are
a responsible person. you will not dab
the Christmas tree with bits OF cotton
and then light flaming candles. Nor
will you wear a cotton Santa Claus
beard or a suit trimmed with cotton.
Nor will you allow any child. over
whose safety you have the slightest
control, 10 wear such a suit. Candles
or no candles, take no chances with
costumes trimmed with inhsmmable
material. Don't trim the house with
material without first knowing that
it is fireproof. Don't hang ornaments
Of any sort on lighting fixtures.
Have q fire extinguisher handy.
Have one full pail of water close by
for the blaze that might start from a
candle to the tree. A pail of sand
handy where you are using oil. Don't
throw water on an oil fire. 1t must
be mothered, not spread.
hope that all teachers in all
schools. and Sunday schools, leaders
OF childrens entertainments for this
holiday season, will guard against f1rs
so that this year We will have a clean
record. No fires, no children hurt,
no homes desolated because someone
was less than careful.
Mr.. Patri has prepared leAfiet en-
titled Baby Carriages in which hS
tells parents how to make the car.
riage ride a happy. profitable expert.
ence. Send for it. addressing youJ
request to Mr.. Angelo Patri. chilc
psychology department OF The Star
Inclose a self-addressed, stamped a.
cent? envelope.
(Copyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-10-09


strike 1t and see the flame. II he
hnds box OF them he is set for a real
blaze and. probably, a severe burn.
Why have them about at all? We
can buy matches that strike only on
the box, and that reduces some of
the hazard at least. Then We can
Keep these matches in q safe place
and do away with still more.
Rubbish piled in corners offers a
thought to passing child. "All
ready to start. If l only had a
match" Once that idea rises the
match Is soon provided and the fire
with all its dangers gets under way.
There Is no excuse for rubbish in
cellars, under the stairs, in dark
closets, at the back fence. Get rid of
1t. II there are no children in your
house there are plenty close by. The
love OF fire is latent in every one of
them. A suggestion is enough to
brlng 1t to the active state. and a
rubbish pile is = very powerful suR-
sestion indeed.
inns time OF year potato pots are
IN style. The children find an old
pot or can, make a fire IN it. swing
ing 1t around their heads to give it a
good start. and, when the ashe. are
right. drop in q potato. The potato
is only the excuse for the exciting fire
pot. Watch. then, for such parties
IN the vacant lots. They are espe-
cially popular on cold evenings.
Don't let handy boys tinker with
the electric wiring. They may know
what they are about, but then again
they may short circuit the line with
lnconvenient results. If not worse. 1t
is always better to let the expert at
TEND to the wiring. 1t would have
been cheaper for a few people I've
heard about.
II you light candles on occasion
Evening star., 1937-10-09
Beautiful But Dumb Doesn't Work Ball Fans
The Old Gardener Saws:

Many house plants die from
too much water. OverwAterine
causes the soil to become sour.
Indirectly, similar results follow
cverpottine. A plant in 4 4-inch
pot Will stand overwAterinf
longer than a plant Of similar
size IN 4 7-inch pot. There ia
leas danger Of sour soil. As the
hours OF sunshine diminish. 10
should the supply Of water. This
does not mean. however. that 4
smaller amount should be given
when required. but merely that
1t must be given less frequently.
The simplest method Of deter
mining whether 4 plant requires
watering or not Is to tap the pot
smArtly with the knuckles. A
hollow sound means that the soil
is becoming dry and water may
b. given, but If there is 4 dull,
solid sound no water Ia required.
(Copyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-10-09
My Neighbor Says:

Instead of burning up withered
stalks and plants, save them to
lay over leaves used to cover
flower beds. They prevent leaves
blowing away. Burn these stalks
and plants in the Spring.
To remove mustard stains from
table linen. boil stained part in
quart Of water to which one
teaspoon OF washing soda has
been added.
Glass shoppers may be easily
removed from bottles II 4 towel
Is dipped into boiling water and
wrapped around the neck Of bottle
for a few minutes.
To make dustless busters, sAtu-
rate cheesecloth with kerosene
oil; let the oil evaporate and
when the cloth Is dry you will
have a good duster.
A slice Of raw potato added to
soup to which too much salt has
been added, and boiled in the
soup for = few minutes, will ab-
sorb much Of tho salt.
To measure q oupful, q table,
spoonful or 4 teaspoonful OF any
dry ingredient, I'LL utensil full. but
do not pack. Level OF with .
knife.
(Ccpyrieht. 1887
Evening star., 1937-10-09

over MS mistakes
and lauded his
victories, purely
. n d sim pl y
through personal
| n { er e S t. Of
course. If We were
po pul ar an d
knew all t h e
members OF the
team, including
the m a n a g e r,
equally well, then
We might & e t
steamed up over
the eleven as a
INIT but that
Jil~'t r a ny, q N
Evening star., 1937-10-09
1903

Have you seen some lovely material
that you would like to have . drese
made Of? II 50, send IS cents for the
Barbara Bell Pattern Book and select
just the style that you want and IL
best suited to you. Even II you have
never tried your hand at sewing BE-
fore, you will find that each pattern
contains a complete step-by-step sev
chart. making the process very sim
pie. These interesting and exclusive
fashions include designs suitable for
all ages and occasions.
(Copyrisht, 1879
Evening star., 1937-10-09
Caution Children About
Playing With Matches
On Any Occasion
Adult Watchfulness Will
Help to Prevent Serious
And Painful Accidents.
BY ANGELO PATRT.

hd naes & u.s. draws us toward it by some magic Of It's
hoen 1eelng pull
most accidents
prevent much OF the trouble try
Loose matches that
Evening star., 1937-10-09
knowledge of Game Is
imperative if We Are
To Avoid Shelf>Age
Two Methods Suggested
As Means of Acquiring
Needed instruction.
BY BETSY CASWELL

WASHINGTON has become ball
~ the advent Of the professional game Interest
v " nd a
bright girl intelligent on
The
Evening star., 1937-10-09

of the moment was displaying his
prowess on the school team. We
rooted for the individual. agonized
Evening star., 1937-10-09
BY MARY ALLEN HOOD.

~ YHEN better straw hats are
n made, Bunny Rabbit will
wv eat them! Color or smart
nasa raao ffnrs MT q mhif
Evening star., 1937-10-09
Photo by p c. wilkinson. Star stan.

thing compared to marrying a woman
sight unseen. and only the foolhardy
would risk it.
Evening star., 1937-06-26
BIG BUSINESS is DEVELOPED
Drivers Who Desire Leave Their Cars Safe Places Are Some
times Wanderers in Seethng Sea of Traffic, While
Anchorage Operators Figure Rates.

occupy 80 per cent of the space. maxi
mum collections would produce an in
come of 33.l85 a month, and in addi-
ton to rent overhead includes such
items as salaries. workmen'S compensa-
ton. District unemployment insurance
and social security for II employees; :;
fire. theft and liability insurance.
The Grand Plaza area, as this one
is called. is exempt from the new
license regulations because it is Fed
eral property, but the concern that
runs it has to pay a substantial sum
in license fees for its nine other
lots and had to buy $500 worth of
fire extlnguishers.
The operators claim their 25-cent
all-day and 15-cent night parking
rates are the lowest in town for down
town parking. Investigation revealed
this probably is true. Under this
schedule. the monthly rate is about
$3.50, whereas 1t is SO and more
elsewhere.
nAVID SIRKIS said it was only
because a number Of Federal
employees occupying allotted space
always was on leave that there is
ever room for the general public in
this super-parking lot. He estimates
the cars in this one area, when full.
would occupy seven or eight miles Of
curb space II strung out on the side
OF Sixteenth street, they would reach
from Lafayette Park to the District
Line.
Grand Plaza Parking Area. Inc,
has been in business here since March.
1882. It's rentals exceed $4,000 a
month: its lots. exclusive Of the one
mentioned, will hold 1850 cars, and
it has 80 employees. Fees range from
IS cents a day, on two money-losing
lots on street between Twentieth
and Twenty-first streets, to 35 cents
a day. The operators say they have
yet to call the fire department to
any of their lots; that not more than
three cars have been stolen from under
their noses in five years, and all but
one were recovered.
Some motorists may be skeptical.
but parking-lot attendants are said
by their employers to be skilled
drivers, accepted only after trial.
These youths and young men make
from $14.50 to s26 so a week, depend
ing on how much they collect in
commissions from the sale OF gasoline
and oil and car-washing. Most OF
them have to pay from their own
pockets for damage they infiict to
cars they handle. They do not seem
to regard this as unreasonable.
SEVERAL parking lot concerns oper-
ate nationally. Biggest are the
Service Parking Corp. and the Auto
City Parking Co. The latter has
Evening star., 1937-06-26
By Joseph II. Edgerfon.

r WIDER a cloud-f1ecked sky the
Atlantic rolls. blue, wide and
lonely. In all visible space,
~ there are only the sea, the
sky and the white clouds. Stately
roll the long swells. an occasional
comber trailing yeasty foam across
the blue to match the white OF the
clouds which march across the blue
above
So it is. so it has been through the
ages, save only for the occasional
passage of a vessel, tiny in all this
space. These seas saw caravels of
Columbus, fearfully pushing into the
unknown. They tossed the colonists
who in 1909 were driven by storm
upon the Bermudas and left there
the first settlers before going on to
Virginia.
So rolls the sea, serene, ma jestic,
alone. But wait! Listen! What is
that high. distant droning? Far above
the marching sWells there is a eleam
in the bright sun. up above the clouds.
To a conveniently hypothetical OBJ
server down there on the sea. it is a
tiny speck, insignificant in the skies
which stretch from horizon to horizon.
Since our observer is hypothetical.
it is no task for him to mount from
the sea up through some 5000 feet
OF thinning, cooling air and through
the scattered belt of the clouds AS he
Ho nd
in mpressiveness. 1t finally is re-
vealed to him as a great flying boat,
sliding smoothly through the clear sky
behind the pull of four roaring propel-
lers. Its appearance on the unmarked
sky trail from the United States t o
the Bermudas marks the beginning Of
a new era in mans conquest of space
the opening of air tranSporta ton
across the Atlantic.
Nor is it any task for our observer to
get into the big flying boat and reveal
what is going on there as the airliner
per minute along the 773-mile course
from Port Washington. Long Island,
to Bermuda.
OUR hypothetical snooper finds out
pretty quickly that this is one OF
the early passenger trips by Pan Amer
lean Airways' Bermuda Clipper and
that the service is preliminary to an
extension to Europe by way OF the
Azores
He finds also that the big clipper
Is. in many respects, a flying ocean
liner in miniature. 1t carries the
same equipment for surface operation
as the steamship, including navigation
lights, whistle, fog horn. life pre-
servers and other equipment common
to sea craft.
The likeness goes even further. The
Evening star., 1937-06-26

Thirtieth and M streets filling sta
ton displays a mountain vista IN full
color, and he is planning a grass plot
and flower garden for one OF his park
ing places.
THE Auto-City concern mas eight
parking lots in Washington and
will have ninth within month.
The lots can hold about 300 cars
Smallest is for 20 cars, at 1915 New
York avenue, largest. for l43 cars. at
1923 Fifteenth street The concern
employs 20 attendants. who make
from SIS to $22 a week 1t does not
carry fire or theft insurance on cars
on its lots. but has liability insurance
legitimate damage for which it Is
responsible. In seven years there has
been one car stolen from an Auto
City lot here during parking hours
and this was recovered undamaged
the same day, according to the man.
agement
Auto-Citv maintains central,
open all night lot, to which it trans
fers cars from other areas when they
have been left there beyond closing
time
Rates are from an all-day maxi
mum Of 40 cents in the busiest areas
to 10 cents tat Third and Indiana
avenuel. Usually they are Is cents
for the first hour, jumping cents
an hour toward IS, 80, 35 and Accent
maximums.
Very few lots, according to the
local management, are filled to ca
pacity. Business Slumps during the
Summer and in severe Winters, as it
does throughout the parking lot busi-
ness. The bitter Washington Winter of
l935-36 almost drove the professional
parkers out Of business. according to
one source.
Evening star., 1937-06-26

lots in Detroit. Baltimore and on the
outskirts of Chicago Dezendorf, who
also runs Otis Service Stations-Ott
Is corruption OF his nickname, Art"
has one OF the biggest strings OF
Washington parking lots. as we'll as
areas in Richmond and Baltimore.
Dezendorf says his rates here are
the same or only slightly higher than
in the other cities in which he oper-
ates, but that his rents are so per cent
higher. The lowest is $6 900 4 year.
He says the new regulations have dis
couraged expansion of his business,
and that he is thinking OF Withdrawing
from a field in which he ella inns to
with a parking lot at Sixth and D
streets, started seven years ago.
Rates at Dezendort lots, which have
total capacity Of 400 cars, range
from 25-cent to half-dollar all-dav
maximum. Generally, they start at
Is or Is cents for the first hour and
jump 5 cents An hour until the
maximum is reached
Dezendorf carries insurance against
theft Of cars from his lots. as do the
Grand Plaza people He forbids car
washing by itinerant men, who he
thinks are responsible for most of the
reported thefts OF articles left in cars
He claims to pay his employees more
than any other parkinglot operator
allowing them bonuses for gasoline
sales, which bring some weekly SAL
aries to s26 or more.
Although protesting the requirement
that surfaced parking lots be equipped
with sidewalk drains and grease
traps, as penalty for keeping your
place clean Dezendorf is not with
out an esthetic sense-if esthetics can
be said to figure in the parking lot
business. A tWo-story wall at his
Evening star., 1937-06-26

yHEN Washington motor
n I ist drives downtown in the
" " morning he has less than
one chance in 10 of find
Evening star., 1937-06-26

r YNDER a cloud-fecked sky the
Atlantic rolls. blue, wide and
lonely. In all visible space,
~ there are only the sea the
Evening star., 1937-06-26

(Conti4ued on Page B-s)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-30
BEATTY URGES
TRADE REFORM

Blaming poor business leader
ship for the depression, Sir Ed
ward w. Beatty, chairman Of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, last
night called on members of the
U. S. Chamber OF Commerce at the
annual dinner of the chamber at
the Willard Hotel to chart the
course of modern business taking
into consideration the needs of all
the people.
The titled Canadian expressed
the conviction that capitalism is
the economic system best able to
provide comforts and luxurieS for
everyone. He pointed out that
businessmen should base their
transactions on a long term profit
He said:
"LOng term profit can be
gained only by baSing it on a
sound and lasting service of the
needs of the people as a whole.
1t can only be gained by treat
ing labor not as q commodity,
but as a partner Of capital. 1t
can only last if the wealth which
results from it is treated as a
trust, not as loot"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-30
R ELIEF FIGHT
DEADL0CKSMD.
HOUSES

ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 30.
Enmeshed in a maze of controver-
sial issues, programs and tax relief
figures, the house Of delegates and
senate of Maryland today stood in
an absolute deadlock.
The house wishes to raise ap-
proximately $5.5O0,000 for relief.
The senate has agreed upon a
program which will bring an esti-
mated $3,900,000.
From the time of converting yes
terday until an early hour today
the House remained in executive
session permitting members to
sound off on their idea of relief
needs and probable taxation.
Various Taxes Studied
Despite avowed secrecy. the
house was considering taxes on
cosmetics, legal documents, re-
registration of automobile drivers,
beer, automobile titling, distilled
spirits, utilities, incomes, gross re-
ceipts, corporation franchise, ad-
missions, pin ball machines, music
boxes and additional taxes on
race track bets.
Varying amounts we're estimated
to be available from each of these
levies, but few of them certain
and backed by reliable information
in the State tax gathering author
tiles.
AS a result of the muddle of this
assembly it appeared sessions
would continue at least another
week. Small blocs representing
special interests in the senate ap-
peared to be dispersed and that
body was backing its 100000
program as a whole.
House Views Relief
Early yesterday the house re-
solved itself into a committee Of
the whole to consider relief legiS-
lation. This action was taken on
the motion of Delegate Kent R..
Mullikin CD of Prince Georges
county, majority floor leader.
Baltimore city delegates were
still attempting to force through
taxes on tobacco or cigarettes,
which under their plan would raise
an estimated 100000. One of
the plans would make the tax,
presumably passed on to the pur-
chaser, amount to 81 per 100 cigar
cites, and another would require
two-cent-per-package levy on the
purchaser.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-30
FRIENDS PLEAD
FOR JORDAN

A last-minute move to save
Thomas Jordan, 35-year-old former
buSboy, sentenced to die May ID
for the Garden-T-Shoppe Staying
five years ago of Mrs. Lizzie
Jaynes, cashier Of the restaurant,
was made by his friends today.
The Court of Appeals was asked
to require the District Court to
hear a motion for a new trial,
which was filed on Jordan'S behalf
on the basis Of newly discovered
evidence.
At the same time, the District
Court received the motion for a
new trial, with a request for the
permission of new counsel to
appear in Jordan's behalf.
Both moves were made by
John M. Holzworth, who describes
himself as a member of the New
York bar and who came into the
limelight several years ago when
he lectured as an expert on the
Kadiak bear during the Wild Life
Conservation Council here.
Jordan has been granted sew
eral stays of execution while his
appeal was being carried through
the courts. Two weeks ago Presi
dent Roosevelt refused to inter
Vene.
The voluminous papers filed to
day point to several discrepancies
in the Identification Of the robber.
slayer and it is on these discrep.
ancies that Holzworth seeks a new
trial. The police incidental at
the time of the killing described
Mrs. Jaynes' slayer as a man
about six feet tall, with light hair
and gray eyes, and this Identified.
ton was corroborated at the trial
by Mrs. Frank j. Bell, a witness,
of 4031 Connecticut Ave. N. w.
Jordan, on the other hand, is
slightly more than five feet six
inches tall, and has decidedly
brown hair and eyes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-30

Miss Judith Greenwood, 1888
Twelfth st. N. E., who several
months ago attained prominence
on the University of Maryland
campus as the first freshman ever
to carry the main lead in Foot
light Club production, has been Sc
lected for the feminine lead again
in the clubs final show of the
school term.
Miss Greenwood will play the
difficult part of Fanny Townsend
in A. E. Thomas comedy, mo
More Ladies'" to be presented May
81, % and % in the university audi
forum, director Of the dramatic
group. The Maryland presentation
will be the first amateur produc-
ton of mo More Ladies" sine it
started on Broadway in 1884.
Other members of the cast, most
Of them veterans in the Footlight
Club, will be Florence Small, Hy-
attsville; Richard Hunt, 1881
Fourth st. N. W.; Leon Yourtee,
jr., Brownsville, Md; Geraldine
Schulz, Chevy Chase, Md; Lois
Ernest, Kensington, Md; Thomas
Wharton, College Park; and De-
bora Billig, Jamaica, N. Y.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-30
FOUR PERSONS
HURT HERE IN
7 H0LDUPS

Thugs operating in Washington
during the night injured four per
sons in seven holdups, in which
the loot totaled about $3.50.
The largest robbery was of 500,
taken by a man who held up Jo-
seph Carr, manager Of a liquor
store at 1112 G st. N. w. The
next was of SIS, lost by George
Simms, colored, 1880 Sixth st. N.
W., when he became too friendly
with four strangers.
His SIS Snatched
Simms told police he met the
men at Seventh and N Streets
Northwest. They told him they
knew where there was a party If
he had money. The victim dis
played $75 in a billfold, upon
which his friends" grabbed the
notes, returned the wallet and
fled.
Fred Storm, IA, Of 1923 r st.
N. W., was thrown from a bicycle
by a colored man he pursued after
an attempted purSe-snatching at
Fifteenth and R Streets Northwest.
The assailant had tried to rob
Ruth Montgomery, 1925 R st. N.
w., who was walking near her
home. After assaulting Storm, the
mar escaped.
Struck With Pistol
Bill Williams, 1921 Sixteenth st.
N. W., was treated at Emergency
Hospital after he had been hit on
the head with a pistol by two men
who accoSted him in Lafayette
Park. The bandits got nothing.
Because he was forced to face
a wall under the H Street viaduct
when someone placed "blunt in.
strument" in his back, Jack j.
White, colored, of $50 Twenty.
fifth Pl. N. E., could give no de.
scription Of the robber. He lost
$50.
Allen Garland, colored, 212 D
st. N. W., cut during q robbery
at Seventh and L Streets North.
west, and John Jordan, colored,
of 1903 Ninth st. N. W., were
others injured.