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Evening star., 1937-05-02
Will Feature Songs.

Songs of Stephen Foster will be
featured on musical program of the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants,
when it meets Wednesday night at
7:30 pm, in the Old Union Engine
House. The songs will be by the as
semblage, Secretary J. Elliot Wright
sr., announced yesterday. j. Elliot
Ferry, baritone, will lead.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
15,ODO COME HERE
FOR CONVENTIONS
Twenty.eight Meetings Set
for May; Thirty-five Held
in April.

Aside from the hundreds Of thou
sands Of visitors brought to Washing
ton last month by the Japanese cherry
blossoms and Spring sightseeing tours.
there were more than $4,000 delegates
to conventions, according to Curtis
Hodges, executive director of the
Greater National Capital Committee
Of the Board of Trade.
During April the city was host to
35 national meetings, and to date %
conventions have been booked for May.
Chief of the forthcoming sessions
will be that Of the American Red
bring at least $500 delegates here
Another important gathering will be
the National Rayon Conference,
bringing 500 delegates.
Another large convention week is
scheduled for the city beginning to-
day. Thirteen organizations slated to
convene during the week will bring
at least 5000 delegates and visitors.
Winding up sessions tomorrow that
got under way late last week are the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom and the Phi Ep-
silon Pi Fraternity, Eastern regional
section.
New Conventions Open.
Two sessions will open tomorrow.
The Acoustical Society of America
will convene it's seventeenth annual
meeting at the National Bureau Of
Standards. Convention headquarters
will be at the Wardman Park Hotel.
The other is the National League of
Women Voters, with headquarters at
the Washington Hotel.
Other meetings scheduled for the
week include American Judiciary So
ciety, Mayhower Hotel, Tuesday; Colo
NAL Danes of America, Shoreham Ho-
| tel, Tuesday: District Council Of Sons
and Daughters of Liberty, Hotel
Washington, Wednesday; American
| Society of Mammalogists, Raleigh Ho-
tel, Wednesday; International Asso-
citation of Public Employment Serv-
! ices, Wardman Park Hotel, Wednes-
| day; American Law Institute, May
flower, Wednesday; National Safe De-
post Association, Willard, Thursday;
National Parks Association, Cosmos
! Club, Friday; American Council on
Education. Chamber of Commerce,
Friday; Association of Art Museum
Directors, Corcoran Art Gallery, Fri
day; Walther League of America, Ra-
leigh, Saturday, and the Governing
Board Of the National Council of
| Parent Education, Saturday.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
SPANISH WAR VETS
TO ATTEND SERVICE
Department Will Do Honor to
Mothers at Suitland Chris.
tian Church.
Meetings This Week.

Monday-Colonel John Jacob
Astor Camp, 7 pm, Stanley
Hall; Henry w. LaWton Camp,
8 pm, Pythian Temple; Ad-
miral George Dewey Auxiliary,
Bpm, Northeast Temple.
Tuesday - Colonel John Jacob
Astor Auxiliary, 8 pm, 921
Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
Observation-Disclosures Auxil-
iary, 8 pm, Pythian Temple
Thursday-Richard j. Harden
Camp, 8 pm, Pythian Temple.
Friday-Henry W. Lawton Auxil-
iary, 8 pm, Pythian Temple.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
Will Elect Officers.

The annual election of officers will
be held by the Mount Pleasant Citi-
Eens' Association at the last meeting
Of the season Saturday night, John De
La Mater, secretary, announced. The
meeting will recess until October, he
said.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
Progressives to Recess.

The final meeting Of the season will
be held by the Georgetown Progressive
Citizens Association tomorrow night
at the Curtis School, Mrs. Henry w.
Draper, president, announced yeAer-
day. The association will hold its
next meeting on October 4, she said.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
ELECTION SCHEDULED

Forest Hills Also to Hear Garden
Club Report.
The annual election Of officers will
be held by the Forest Hills Citizens
Association at its meeting tomorrow
night at the Ben Murch School, Mrs
Leslie B. Wright, secretary, announced
yesterday.
Other items on the program include
a report on recently organized garden
club; plans for beautifying streets;
additional appropriations for the Alice
Deal and Wilson High Schools and q
report on pending fiscal bills in Con-
gress
Evening star., 1937-05-02
To Name Committee.

Edward F. Colladay, new president
of the Board of Trade, expects TO
name his Executive Committee. COM
mittee chairmen and committee per-
sonnel some time this week 1t is ex-
pected most of the present committee
heads will be renamed to their posts.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
glance at the clock or ones
watch and everything is normal.


watch and everything is normal.
Many local citizens who run off
to Atlantic City. Philadelphia, New
York or other places which operate
on daylight-saving schedules would
hail the adoption of this law
for Washington. They have been
many times caused no end Of an
noyance through these differences
in time on their week end and
other short trips during the Sum-
mer. Another factor which an
noys District people is the fact
that they are completely upset as
to their favorite radio programs
Some of these which they have
been in the habit Of hearing at din
ner now occur before they get
home.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
Election Is Slated,

The annual election of officers will
be held by the Columbia Heights Citi-
zens' Association meeting Tuesday
evening at the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, Mrs. Margaret H. Worrell,
president, announced yesterday. Ac-
ton on the proposed Collins tax bill
Is also expected, she said.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
MANOR PARK CITIZENS
PLAN ANNUAL PICNIC
Final Meeting Of Year Will Be
Held in June-Report on New
Bus Service Due.


Plans for the annual picnic of the
Manor Park Citizens Association in
June will be discussed at a meeting
OF that association tomorrow night
in the Whittier School, President
Ernest H. Pullman announced yester-
day.
Last year the association held this
affair in Rock Creek Park. However,
other sites have been suggested this
year, he said. The June meeting will
be the groups last until September,
making the meeting tomorrow night
the last meeting of the season, to be
held in the Whittier School,
A report on the bus service by way
of Third and Kennedy streets, which
was scheduled to have started today
will be made by George A. Corbin.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
BURROUGHS FACES
zON|NC PROBLEMS
Rating of Eighteenth Street
Northeast Is Point Under
Consideration.

Whether vested interests or the
wishes of adjoining property owners
will prevail in a move to rezone
Eighteenth street northeast from
Randolph street to Bunker Hill road
from a commercial to restricted resi-
dental rating, is an issue now before
the Burroughs Citizens Association,
Kenneth P. Armstrong, secretary, an
nounced yesterday.
Residents of the newly developed
section, known as woodbridge Gar
dens," located within the Burroughs
associations boundaries, are unani-
nous in their desire to have this
change in zoning for the adjoining
strip Of land, Armstrong said. This
tract is the residue of a strip zone"
laid out for commercial uses after
the passage OF the original zoning
law many years ago, at which time
the adjoining property was wholly un-
developed, and its future uses largely
speculative, he declared.
Status of Property.
Subsequently, portions of this strip
zone" were developed for commercial
uses, but the major part of it was
used for the erection of row houses
and apartments, a use out OF keeping
with the remainder of the neighbor-
hood, he declared, which is zoned for
detached residences only. 1t is fear
of such use of the remaining areas
that has impelled Woodbridge Gardens
residents to move for a complete abo-
lition Of the commercial zone.
In October, 1886, proposal to
change the southern part Of this area
to residential use in return for a
slight extension OF the commercial
area at the northern end was pro-
posed by the owners OF the property
Armstrong asserted. However, this
move was opposed by the owners OF
another tract of land lying north OF
Bunker Hill road, who were supported
by the Michigan Park Citizens Asso-
citation, in which territory this latter
conflict the Zoning Commission made
no decision and suspended action
pending study of the entire situa-
ton.
Later Proposal Opposed.
A subsequent proposal by the COM
mission involving change to reSiden-
tial uses of both north and south
ends of the tract, but leaving a COM
mercial area in the center, was not
favored by either the Woodbridge Gar
den residents or the owners of the
property affected Plans are now
being made to present proposal to
the commission at its June harings to
change all the area to a restricted resi-
dental zone.
The Zoning Commission has indi-
Gated its reluctance to change the
zoning of any property without the
consent of the owners, unless there
is substantial unanimity in favor OF
the change and is in accord with the
proper future development Of the
neighborhood.
The resolutions adopted by the
Burroughs group maintain that there
Is such unanimity of sentiment anC
that failure to change this Zoning
will result in an ''incongruous intru-
SION in high-grade residential area
which will impair property values. II
Is also held that residents Of Wood
ridge Gardens purchased their prop
critics from the same interest as the
owners of the commercially zoned
land and that at the time of the
purchase assurances We're made that
no structures of an inferior character
would be permitted in or adjacent to
the deYelnnment
Evening star., 1937-05-02
To Hold Last Meeting.

The flnal meeting Of the season will
be held by the Chillum Heights Citi-
zens' Association Friday evening. when
1t meets at the Keene School at 3
pm, President Harrison NJ Dixon
announced yesterday.
Evening star., 1937-05-02

Florida now makes a great cere-
mony of inaugurating new governor
but the trainers Of the States consti-
tuition back in 1885 believed a 63-
word oath Of Office SUFFICIENT.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Opposition Seen to Latest Public Welfare Board
Propo,al-Fedr Expressed Regarding Lib
erdlizing of Liquor Licensing.

definitely that the present citizen
board and its organization are in
efficient and the new set-up will
be an improvement.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23
Guest Colu1nnist
Riley Cooper Tells
of Betting Evils

Courtney Riley Cooper, sVidely kno,On
today fills in as Hugh Bradley's guest col.
nmnisf. His contribution is taken from
his book, Here's to Crime.")
BY COURTNEY RILEY COOPER
THERE is a wave of public gam
l. bling which has been gaining
force ever since the beginning of the
depression. The figures are amaz-
ing. In cities which have conducted
thorough, impartial Investigations,
it has been found that the totals in
this new racket are far beyond the
amounts spent even in the widest
days of prohibition and boOtlegging.
The amount per capita is, in fact,
at least seventy-five dollars a year,
placed on bets, which means that
much of it is turnover. That is not
the amount wagered by each per-
son who CANDLES, but it is the result
Of dividing the total sums by the
aggregate Of every man, woman
and child in the city.
There are comparatively few
towns in America above a popula-
ton of 5000 in which slot machines,
punchboards, horse joints, the num-
bers, bolita or some other form of
lottery does not flourish. There
fore, assuming that all rural dis
tricts are free from the faint of
gambling-which they are not-a
gross population of about eighty
million persons is dallying with six
billion dollars in winnings and los
ings, of which all but about a bill
lion goes through the hands of the
underworld where much, of
course, remains.
, A half-billion dollars of the "legit-
innate" gambling money goes to
fairs, carnivals, county race meets,
charities and a number of small
games of chance which are affiliat-
ed in no way with organized syndi-
Gates.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23
"TF YOU'D take a few steps

"TF YOU'D take a few steps,
L Sis, I believe I'd be inspired
to answer that question, Did you
ever see a dream walking?' You
are nothing less than devastating
truly menace!"
"You meow so sweetly, Connie.
I'm bit suspicious that this little
peplum frock of mine has got
you catty. Your eyes really aren't
green by rights, you know"
Connie Sews Her Own.
GLOW could you? l think my
dress looks as nice on me as
yours does on you. Why practical
ly all of the girls at the Laf-a-Lot
last night wanted to know where
found such a lovely frock. Not
one of them guessed that l made
it myself. And did l feel elegant
when l played Mendelssohn's
Spring Song on DANES new baby
grand! The girls said l fit into
the picture perfectly. I thought
if only Dwight could see me now"
II still say my two-piecer with
its piped peplum, cute little but
tons and stream-lines is the No. l
spring outfit in this woman's
town."
"Girls, girls, if your talk were
only half as pretty as your frocks
you'd be better off. Sometimes l
wonder if you wouldn't be more
appropriately titled The Cheek
Twins, rather than The Chic
Twins"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23

"Okay, Mother, you win. Let's
change the subject by changing
clothes. Well put on our cullottes
and join you in a round of golf,
how's that? Gee, Mother, you new.
er look sweeter than when you're
wearing a casual young two-piece
shirt dress. The plaid pique is
just the thing for you, too. In
fact, Nom, you're just about
tops from any angle"
The Patterns.
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able in sizes IA to 20 az to AZ
bust). Size 16 requires Az yards
of 39-inch material.
Pattern 1886 comes in sizes IA
to 20 (32 to AZ bust). Size Is re-
quires Az yards of 39-inch ma
terial.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23
NOT in THE BOX SCORE:
M AL STEVENS, who must thr

M AL STEVENS, who must throw
AVA his N. Y. u. Violets at them
on the second Saturday Of the sea.
son, predicts Carnegie Tech will
have one of the nations hottest foot.
ball teams next fall. You need
more than the sun II you wish to
acquire such lovely tan as that
now displayed by Hannah Dempsey.
Mrs. Jacks recipe is to mix
two drops of iodine in the bottle OF
olive oil used for rubbing purposes
Friends insist the real reason
for Paul Waner's long holdout IS
not the few hundred dollars which
separated the Pirates bid from his
own asking price. Instead, they say,
Paul was anxious to find some
excuse to train in his Florida home
instead of journeying all the way
to California.
Dolly Stark, who held out all last
year, may soon resume as base
balls best umpire. He has been
promised the first available Nation
al League job, which may be the
berth now occupied by the ailing Cy
Pfrman Alumni groups fig
uring on doing a bit of PROSECUTING
at the University of Virginia In
honor of their new coach Frank
Marquette Murray, reveal that it
costs $500 a year to educate foot
ball player AL Burroughs, the
celebrated right fullback of the
Brooklyn (soccer) Hispanos, is a
nephew of Charlie Ellis, famous
center forward of the Brooklyn Celts
of yester-year.
The dice table at Miami's biggest
gambling resort is so large that
more than 200 people can gather
around it and seven men are needed
to handle the game. Big time hook
ey scouts should get a load of Lewis
Sherman, AndOver defenseman,
next winter. The kid is only seven
teen years old, but he weighs 1870
and college coaches whisper he is
another HOBBY Baker The
worst batting trouble Of Vince Di-
Maggie is that he tries too hard
for those long drives into left field.
Word has been passed around that
he is a pull hitter always trying
to murder the ball and SO he is
pitched to accordingly.
One of the saddest stories of recent
days was overlooked by the gents
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23


land where faithful followers never
mistook a Gene Tunney for King
fish Levinsky or a Ruby Goldstein
for a Pedro Montanez. If it keeps
up the first thing you know even
the heavyweight champions master
mind, Million Dollar Gate Joe
Gould, won't be able to recognize
himself as the greatest fight man.
ager in the world.
Princeton track coach Matty Gels
is sure that Archie San ROmani
will crack the old 4:O6.7 mile record
at Palmer Stadium in June. It's not
a bad prediction either. Every year
Archie has lowered his mile time,
once by as much as five seconds,
and he's due again this spring
Did you ever note that, for the past
six years, the National League PEN
nant has gone in complete cycles
'31-Cards, 'S2-Cubs, Giants, 'S4-
Cards, '35-Cubs, '36-Giants-?SoOo-
600? Well, anyhow, it's one way
of figuring that the Cards are due
Two new books worthy of a
gander from sports fans are "ShOw-
man." by william A. Brady, who
used to manage prize-fight cham
pions before he became a big time
theatrical producer, and ''Mara-
thOn" by Clarence De Mar, the
veteran distance running ace
Eddie Owens, star quarterback
and likely successor to Ken Sand
bach as Tiger pilot next fall, is one
of the reasons why Princeton ex-
poets to win it's first Ivy League
baseball championship this year.
Owens, he's a catcher, is the best
baseball player to perform at Mas
sau since Moe Berg's day Tab
hard-hitting Sammy Snead, sensa-
ton of the golf trail, to be real
star this summer Also look
forward for the Met College Out
door track championships to be held
at Randalls Island in May.
Fight Manager Joe Jacobs indig-
nantly denies persistently published
reports that Max Schmeling ever
has been sued for writing that Joe
Louis deliberately" fouled him.
Although he weighs only 1877
pounds and stands a mere five feet
two and One-haH inches. Shorty
Chumbris, Maryland's soph short
stop, is being rated as one of the
best college players in the South
Distemper is even a worse
plague Of greyhound racing than
the gents who do so many interest
ing things to ensure themselves Of
winners. Seventy-five per cent of
all greyhound puppies are killed or
rendered unfit by the disease
New York fight promoters should
take a look at Ben Brown, a mid
dleweight now working out Of At
lanta.
Wally Hally, coast lightweight
boxer who recently defeated Baby
Arizmendi, is a former Salvation
Army trumpet player. Johnny
Weismuller, swimming in a Holly
wood tank, recently equaled his own
so yard free style world record of 81
sc conds Four members
of the Phillies, Manager Jimmy VIII
son, Hal Kelleher, Swede Burkart
and Bucky Walters, are home town
boys.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23
Half Million Is Bet
in Area on Relief

Last year, for instance, Massa-
chusetts' racegoers backed their
lunches thirty-fve million dollars
worth; Kentucky let 60 of about
eleven million; Florida guessed
about twenty-five million dollars
worth; California, always seeking
to better its rival, took more than
thirty million to and from the race
tracks; while Michigan, Texas, Ore
gon, West Virginia, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Nevada, Rhode Island,
Louisiana, Maryland, Illinois and
other race-loving states contributed
something like hundred and ten
million.
This money was wagered In
places where pari-mutuel betting is
permitted and where it is possible
accurately to gauge the amounts
risked. Incidentally, it might be in
teresting to know that in one New
England district where nearly a
half-million dollars poured into
races in a single month, the major
ity Of persons in the area were on
relief.
Besides the pari-mutuel betting
must be considered the bOOkies sys-
tenn of betting in New York, where,
1t is estimated, nearly three hum
dred million dollars were wagered.
This, according to the average
mans belief, is all the money which
went into racing, either through
bookie or pari-nutuel systems. How
ever, there was another System"
which made no reports, and which
handled more money than all the
racetracks combined. That was
gangdom. There was a time when
the usual representative of crook
dom who fell into the police net felt
it incumbent upon him to pretend
some legitimate occupation. Today,
however, he settles the matter by
stating that he is a ''betting COM
missioner"
Joe Gould, Jim BraddOck's man.
ager, engaged in only one ring bout
and the beating he received has
tened his career as a handler of
fighters. Paul Dean of the Cardi-
mails was helped along in the court
ship by Bill Delaney, his team
mate at the time, who wrote all
Daffy's letters to his present wife.
-. They are talking of increasing
the Santa Anita handicap purse
next year to make it worth 500, 900
in added money. Branch Rickey's
baseball experience includes a
stretch as catcher for the University
of Michigan Varsity.
Basketball coaches estimate that
with the center jump eliminated in
next years competition that the ac-
tual time of play will be increased
ten minutes a game and they pre-
dict all scoring records will be
wiped out. Don Lash, worlds
record holder in the outdoor and in
door two mile run, has won lit med
ais, cups, PLAQUES, and other
awards in his three years at Indiana
university.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23

who combine prize
fight promotion with
t h e ir newspaper
chores. I refer to the
New Jersey report
that two Irish proc
ess servers mistook
a polish sparring
partner for the
heavyweight cham
pion of the world.
Things have come to
a sorrowful pa S 8
when an Onslaught
messy can't recognize
Evening star., 1937-01-12
EXTENSION OF MERIT SYSTEM is ADVOCATED

in the unco-ordinated organization of
the executive branch Is twinned by
similar diffusion and dispersion in
the Congress. Separate committees
of the Congress must of necessity be
set up to pursue investigatorial activi-
ties. hold hearings and consider legis-
lation and appropriations. But the
Congress has not in either House ade-
quate machinery for the collection and
coordination of the information
which it requires II 1t is to hold the
President effectively accountable for
the conduct of the executive branch
as whole.
With respect to fiscal affairs this
need might be met by the organiza-
ton by each House Of special COM
mittees or by both Houses of q joint
committee on fiscal control to receive
the reports Of its auditor general.
With respect to non-flscal affairs,
the creation Of similar special COM
mittees or OF 6 Joint committee to
keep currently informed Of the ac-
tivities Of the three managerial agen-
cies dealing with budget, personnel,
and planning. which we recommend
should be set up directly under the
President, would 60 far toward les
sening the evil effects Of the present
lack Of coordination.
Thus the principle Of the account
ability of the Executive TO the Con-
gress might be made effective In
action.
Evening star., 1937-01-12

Of the II great departments will Of
necessity rise higher above the level
OF administrative detail than they
have in the past. will be more re-
sponsibly engaged in the formulation
Of policy as they delegate their ad-
ministrative work to their subordi-
mates, and collectively the depart
ment heads may act more and more
as a council Of state upon whom the
President may rely for advice and
whose jurisdictional differences Of
opinion he will himself have the
power and the authority to compose.
Such a reorganization OF the ad-
ministrative agencies of the execu.
tive branch will reduce the number
Of agencies reporting to the President
to a manageable compass and will
bring the machinery Of our Federal
Government up to date and enable
it to deal economically. effectively
and democratically with modern prob
lens.