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Evening star., 1937-06-15
HUGE Slabs of Marble Pillars
In St. Peters Crash to Floor

inspection Of all columns inside the
cathedral.
Vatican engineers said the marble
fragments probably were loosened by
sudden changes in the temperature
during the past several days.
After inspecting the pillars the
engineers began to detach all marble
facings that seemed insecure and
roped OF areas at the bases Of pillars
they considered unsafe.
Vatican City authorities said they
would undertake extensive and costly
work Of aligning and refacing the
tremendous pillars, Of which st. Peters
hss ahos3t p
Evening star., 1937-06-15
U. S. TO BUY MILK

BY the Associated Press.
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration announced today the
Government would buy 3,264,00O
pounds Of dry skim milk under a
surplus removal program Ito improve
marketing conditions and prices to
farmers"
Bids OF from SIS to 625 cents a
pound were accepted from II COM
panies, and the milk product will be
distributed to State relief agencies.
Deliveries this month will be from
Maryland, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio,
Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Cali
fornia and New York.
Evening star., 1937-06-15

UtI.
Mr. Dalphin died Saturday night in
Hyattsville, Md, after a long illness.
"A native Of New York, he retired in
1882 after nearly 35 years Govern
ment service. The first nine years Of
that time was spent with the United
States Engineers Once in Boston and
the remainder here.
Evening star., 1937-06-15
President Has Class
On Good Business
For School Senior

With President Roosevelt as his
teacher, William Lord Drake, jr.,
Milwaukee High School senior.
was given valuable pointer to-
day in a class on good business
practice.
Winner Of the Gorgas essay
contest, the youth stood before the
Chief Executive to receive a $500
cash prize. Handing an envelope
to william, Mr.. Roosevelt sug-
gested, You'd better look inside
and see II the $500 is there"
Like any good pupil, Drake fol-
lowed instructions-and, smiling,
announced everything was OK.
Evening star., 1937-06-15

their parents and
police today.
The girls, Doris
McWhirter, 16, OF
400 New Jersey
avenue southeast,
and Is a b e | ! e
Green, 16, Of 512
T h ird stree t
southeast. disap-
peared from their
homes yesterday.
Before she left
home, Doris told
her twin sister
that she and 1sa-
belle planned to
on fret IN Palti.
Evening star., 1937-06-15

in the Neyius fu-
neral home, 924
New York ave-
nue., with Rev.
DR.. William 8.
Abernethy, pas
tor of Calvary
Baptist Church.
officiating.
Burial will be
in Rock Creek
Cemetery, " / t h
Masonic rites At
the grave by the
La Fayette Lodge
OF M a S o n S, OF
which Mr.. Dali
phin was a men,
Evening star., 1937-06-15
BOY, d, HALTS TRAIN

Freight Delayed While He Drives
Cows From Rails.
BROWNTOWN, Wis, June is P).
Wayne Segner, 4, stood in rail-
road right of way and waved thun-
derng freight train to a dead halt.
The engineer popped his head out and
s6ked:
Whats the matter, SOM"
you can't drive that thing any
farther till I get my daddy's COWS
Of the track" Wayne ordered. Then
he called his father from a nearby
Aeld to help drive two valuable Jersey
COWS from the tracks.
Evening star., 1937-06-15

is designed to ease his mental anguish,
being equipped with comfortable
couches and chairs, a radio, reading
matter and, If We remember correctly,
an ice box. Regular bulletins at stated
intervals relieve the father of suspense,
and everything is done to make it pos
sible for him to survive the ordeal with
the least possible damage.
PROBLEM.
There's problem bothering
local ldd-abcut-toWn he could hare
solued for himself if only he liked
lobster. He stopped in restau-
rant up on Fourteenth street the
other night, looked at the menu,
and his eye tell upon this:
Lobster la NeWburg, 10.
Broiled Lobster, etc, 1.25.
Lobster q la NeUburg, rs.
The poor chap still is wondering
Just Uhat lobster Nepburg tDould
hare cost him. A nickels q lot
these days.
X
OUCH!
IF ANY reader of this corner COM
mits mayhem or anything like that
on Patrick Ross. Mr. Ross will have nc
room for complaint. He's brought it
all down on his own head. Seems he
looked at the paper the other day, saw
story about the Basques, surrounded
in Bilbao with only one exit, trying tc
force another way out.
Well" said Mr.. Ross, you CAM
blame them for not wanting to put al
their Basques in one exit
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
WASHINGTON newspaper men who
" have had their troubles keeping
straight on the spelling of the name.
of Arno B. Cammerer director of tn,
National Park Service, and H. P
Caemmerer. executive officer of th'
Fine Arts Commission, who are kir
despite the difference, now have {
real problem to worry over.
1t is provided by father and two
sons who spell the family name three
different ways. The father is JOSEPH
T. Staniszewski, 744 Quebec place Ont
OF the sons is Second Lieut.. Eugene
Joseph Stann, who has just graduated
from the United States Military Acad.
emy, West Point. as fifth man in hi.
class in general standing The other
son is Francis E. Stan of the Sta,
sports department, now assigned tt
the road with the Washington base
ball club.
Try to refer to that family collec-
lively!
FOR MEN ONLY.
L. B. Clark is q glass bloUer, par
excellence. at the Smithsonian In
stitution during porking hours. He
makes glass equipment for labora-
tories. But at home, in his lighter
moments, he makes button hole
udses. The glass tube is sealed at
one end a fnnoe ertends around
the mouth OF the other end. This
Evening star., 1937-06-15
S25,OOO,OOO for Islands.

The Virgin Islands Of the United
States, formerly the Danish West
Indies, were bought for s25,00O 900
by the United States from Denmark
In a treaty proclaimed January %.
Q17.
Evening star., 1937-06-15

more and then continue on to New
York today, police were told.
Queen Elizabeth will receive the
degree Of LID. from Edinburgh
(Scotland) University.
Evening star., 1937-06-15
FUNERAL IS CONDUCTED
FOR JOHN c. DALPHIN
Masonic Rites for Retired Clerk
In Old Office of Buildings
and Parks.

Funeral services for John c. Dal-
phin, SO, retired administrative clerk
of the old Office of Public Buildings
and Public Parks, are being held today
Evening star., 1937-06-15
Kairos Klub to Give Party.

. The Kairos Klub Of Grace Baptist
Church will give garden party to-
morrow evening on the church
grounds, Ninth street and South
Carolina avenue southeast.
Evening star., 1937-06-15
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
COMFORT,
ME crying need for "paternit,

rooms IN hospitals was dis
cussed the other night by
4 Nick" Abbott, who is the
father Of 2-months-old son. CMrs.
Abbott is Washington girl, formerly
"Aliebar" Price.)
In Washington, it seems, no thought
is given to the needs Of the expectant
father, whereas in Los Angeles hospi-
tails have ceased exposing him to tho
unpleasant and unsympathetic atmos-
phere Of general waiting rooms, where
Nick spent many unhappy hours in
a local hospital in April Nurses, he
complains, are inclined to get young
fathers mixed up and give them in
accurate information or none at all.
A paternity room, on the other hand,
Evening star., 1937-06-15
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
MISSING FROM HOMES
Two Believed on Way to New
York to Seek Stage
Careers.

Two high school girls, believed to
be en- route to New York to seek jobs
on the stage, were being sought by
Evening star., 1937-06-15
FOR MEN ONLY.

fdnge is painted Uith solution
containing gold and is heated.
Presto, the fange is gold plated.
A tew drops OF mater In the uase
keeps the pansies fresh all day.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
BROWNS 5 ELI
IN BATHTUB

Leaving a short note to her
daughter, Mrs. Julia T. Water
man, So, ended her life today by
drowning herself in the bathtub
of her apartment in the Brighton
Hotel, 2123 California ST., N. w.
Mrs. Waterman'S body, clad
only in nightgown, was found
in the tub by colored maid, who
summoned help. A doctor was
called and pronounced her dead.
Later Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald issued a verdict of suicide.
A one line note was found in
the apartment, addressed to Mrs.
Waterman's daughter, Mrs. George
Y. Worthington, wife of a widely
known Washington real estate
man and financier. The note read:
Goodbye, heart of mine.
Mother" r.
Mr.. Worthington said that Mrs.
Waterman, a widow, had lived in
Europe for the last IS years. Only
last January Mrs. Worthington
went to Europe and brought her
mother back. Since then Mrs.
Waterman had been melancholy,
Mr.. Worthington said.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Huge GrOwth

From its limited first equip
ment of two buildings, with
about so pupils, the school
plant has grown, in $50 years,
to a system Of some IT'S build
ings, with more than $4,000
pupils. During the same
period, the teaching staff has
increased from two teachers
to about 5000, and the scope
Of public educational oppor-
tunities from a one-room
school to a comprehensive
program of free public edu-
cation that extends from the
kindergarten through the
teachers college.
The washington school system,
as I have said, is efficient and pro-
gressiVe, but it has many physical
limitations.
I sincerely hope that some of the
most urgent needs of the schools
will be- met in the very near future.
More school buildings are still q
major requirement, especially for
senior and Junior high school
pupils.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Daylight Saving Time
Proposed For ID. C..

Legislation seeking to put the
District on daylight saving time
from the last Sunday in April until
the last Sunday in October was
proposed in the House today by
Representative Leon Sacks Cd
of Pennsylvania.
Explaining daylight saving time
was in effect during the summer
at his home town of Philadelphia,
Sacks, member of the House Dis.
trict Committee, said:
81 was surprised to learn that
the District does not observe this
practice which is general in the
Eastern States, and upon max
ing inquiry find that there is
considerable sentiment for it in
the District.
'Tn my opinion the city Of
Washington is ideally situated
for operation of the daylight
saving schedule, and it would be
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
JURY REVIEWS
RH0DESCASE

Locked up for the night, the
jury in the forgery trial of Fred
B. Rhodes. former president of the
closed Fidelity Building and Loan
Association, resumed deliberations
today.
Rhodes has admitted withdraw.
ing $1,000 from the defunct in,
stitution by signing the name of
a depositor, but contends it was
done with the depoSitor'S authori,
zation.
A withdrawal of $40, however,
was presented as evidence by the
Government in support of Its
charge of forgery. Rhodes was
not permitted to explain this in.
cident, since it had been brought
out that this withdrawal was made
by Rhodes against the same de.
positor'S account after the accused
had resigned as president.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
; WOMEN AID
GABLE AT TRIAL

LOS ANGELES, April 81
GN.SO Three women who have
played important real life roles
for Clark Gable were called to
court today in the extortion
trial of Mrs. Violet Wells Norton,
47-year-old English woman. and
Jack L. Smith, private inveStiga-
tor.
The women will follow the
dramatic courtroom appearance
of the actor, who took the wit
ness stand and with smile and
few terse sentences showed
emphatically that he could not
be the father of Mrs. Norton's
daughter.
Mrs. Norton and Smith are
charged with seeking to extort
money from Gable by contending
he fathered 13-year-old Gwendo-
line Norton in England.
Among the scores of women
who crowded the courtroom yes
terday was Fran Doerfer, Port.
land, Ore, girl with. whom Gable
"kept company" is years ago.
She is ready to testify in de-
tense of her girlhood sweetheart
to prove he was in the Pacific
Northwest counting her during
the years Mrs. Norton is al
legged to have said he was living
with her in far off England.
At the same time prosecutors re-
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The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Bandits Have 'Ha-Ha'
As laughed Chief
Stops Guarding Bank

DETROIT, April 81 I.N.S).
They laughed when Police Chief
Lyle German started guarding
Northville'S only bank.
Today, the good citizens of the
village learned their laughter had
cost the Depositors State Bank
there $4,000.
The bank was held UP by two
bandits yesterday.
Today, Chief German said:
II had a tip that the bank was
going to be held up, and I
guarded the bank for about two
weeks. But everyone laughed
so hard when no robbery Oc-
cured that 1 finally gave up"
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
JEFFERSON
MEMORIAL
AT BASIN.
HELD UP
Leaders in Congress
Favor Eliminating
Appropriation

A new lease on life for the
Japanese cherry blossoms circling
the Tidal Basin was given today
when members Of Congress seemed
inclined to eliminate the APP
preparation for the Thomas Jeffer-
son Memorial on the strength Of
President Roosevelt's plea for
economy.
The plan for the memorial
which has been approved by the
Thomas jefferson Memorial Com
mission would have necesSitated
the removal of the gorgeous dis
play which only recently brought
hundreds Of thousands of visitors
to this city.
One powerful Administration
leader in Congress today predicted
that the money to finance the 49,.
900 900 structure will not be rec
commended by the Appropriations
Committee.
Economy Plea Cited
Only recently President Roose-
welt recommended to Congress
that $500, 900 be made available In
the next deficiency supply bill for
beginning work on the project, and
it had been expected that the item
would be carried in the deficiency
bill, which is soon expected to be
reported to the House.
Yesterdays Executive message
to Congress, urging that body do
its utmost to curtail expenditures,
in view of the fact that the budget
cannot be balanced this year, &C
companied by a recommendation
for a relief appropriation, which
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The Washington times., 1937-04-21
ROW SETTLED
IN STATE DEPT.

The State Department tug-of-war
between R. Walton Moore, AS
sistant Secretary of State, and
Sumner Welles, also an Assistant
Secretary of State, for the post of
Undersecretary, is likely to end in
Judge Moore being appointed
Counselor, while Mr.. Welles will
be Undersecretary. a post vacant
for several months.
If the, drawn-out struggle is
settled in this manner it will be
because the Senate adopts the sug'
gestion of its Foreign Relations
Committee and reestablishes the
post of Counselor, abandoned Sev'
eral years ago.
u The rivalry between the assis-
ftant secretaries has been marked.
Judge Moore, former member of
Congress from the Eighth district,
which includes Alexandria, has the
support of a large section of Con-
gress. Mr.. WelleS' support is by no
means small.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
OFF
NEXT WEEK
international News Service

Plans were shaped rapidly TO-
day for President Roosevelt'S
fishing cruise next week off the
Texas coast, with a stop in
Mississippi scheduled tentatively.
The Presidents special train
will leave Washington early next
Wednesday. Mr.. Roosevelt is
considering leaving the train at
Biloxi and motoring to Gulfport.
stopping en- route to visit the
home of jefferson Davis, now
part of the Beauvoir veterans
home.
Under this schedule the PreSi.
dent would board his train at
Gulfport and arrive in New Or.
leans in time for lunch April 20.
After a drive through the crescent
city'S famous streets he will
board the White House yacht
Potomac, which left here Satur'
day for Gulfport.
Mr.. RooSevelt'S cruise is labeled
indefinite but probably will last
about two weeks. Present plans call
for him to put in at Galveston
upon its conclusion. From Calves
ton he is expected to go by train
to Fort Worth to spend one or two
days at the home of Elliott. his
second son.
On the way to Fort Worth. it is
possible the President will revisit
the San Jacinto Battlefield outside
Houston. to view progress on the
memorial being erected there. He
also may stop at Texas A. and NJ.
College.
No final list of fishing compan.
ions has been made public but it
was believed they would be con.
fined to the Presidents son. Ell.
lott; Col. Edwin M. Watson, mill.
tary aide; Capt. Paul Bastedo,
Naval aide, and Capt. Ross Nc
Intire, White House physician.
Presidential Secretary Marvin H.
Mcintyre and a skeleton office
staff, after spending SO hours in
New Orleans, will transfer to Gal
weston and set up a temporary
base from which they will contact
the Presidential yacht by Navy sea-
plane and radio.
Two destroyers will accompany
the Potomac.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

Few educational undertak-
ings, in my opinion, have been
begun under finer auspices
than the Washington public
school system. Founded upon
the ideals so we'll expressed
by the city fathers, and
actively fostered by the lib
eral and far-seeing Thomas
jefferson, then President of
the United States and presi-
dent Of the first Board of
Trustees of the Washington
public schools, the local sys-
tenn has from the first con-
sistently developed a policy
of educational opportunity for
all the children of the COM
munity.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
D. A. R. VOTE
RAPSC0URT
CHANGES
Resolution Is Adopted
By Convention With
Little Opposition

A chorus Of ayes and a few scat.
tered nays volleyed through Con
stitution Hall this morning when
delegates to the 46th annual con.
vention Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution voted on the
report of it's resolutions COMMITTEES
that the D. A. r. oppose President
Roosevelt's Supreme Court reor
ganization plan.
The report stated:
"Such proposed changes would
establish . precedent that may
constitute q threat against the
check and balance system Of
the three departments of gov
ernment-legislative, executive,
and judicial-which historians
and statesmen have considered
the most important feature Of
the American system Of govern
ment, and the very key to its
existance a deBaaeracy in q
republic.
The resolution further stated
that protests should be sent tt
Senator Harry n Ashurst, chair
man Of the Senate judiciary Com
mittee; Representative Hatton w
Summers, chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee; Vice PreSi
dent John N. Garner, and Repre-
sentative william B. Bankhead
Speaker of the House.
Save Cherry Trees
The convention went on record
as opposed to location of the pro
posed Thomas Jefferson Memorial
CONTINUED IN Page 2. Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-04-21

d boon to many thousands Of
Government employees and the
additional thousands employed
in the offices and shops through
out the city to have the added
hours of daylight for recreation
enjoyment during the summer
months"
The Pennsylvania pointed out
that although it might be too late
to get action on the bill at the
present session of Congress, he
hoped that by its introduction lit
will at least create sufficient in
tereSt to obtain a general con
sensus Of opinion for or against
its adoption" next year.
Daylight saving was in effect in
the District during the World
War. when there was q Federal
act calling for such schedule
throughout the country. The Fed
eral act was repealed in the 66th
Congress.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
200 LEAVE
STREETS
QUIETLY
4O-Hour Week Asked,
With $50 for Men,
S22 for Women

Police interfered this afternoon
as 200 tailors, members Of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers OF
America, Local 1873, who went on
strike this morning, paraded down
F. Street, picketing clothing shops
and calling on fellow workers who
did not go out on strike to join
them.
A group of police notified lead
ers Of the crowd that they were
parading without a permit, in VIC
lation of District law, and the lead.
ers told the strikers to disband
and 60 back to the union head
quarters. There was no trouble.
Meanwhile, it was announced
that conference has been called
for later in the day between rep
resentatives of the strikers and the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION.
Stores Not Affected
The strikers, who failed to re-
port for work this morning, held
a meeting in their hall at S08 !
St. N. w. to map out a campaign.
Spokesman said that the union
has been attempting to negotiate
for more than a month, and the
strike was called when this effort
failed. The workers are seeking
a 4O-hour week With minimum
pay of $50 for men and $22 for
women. Union recognition also is
involved in certain shops, it was
said.
Department stores and clothing
RULE FOR NEW LEAD
speciality shops in washington to-
day said the strike was not affect
ing their business.
The strikers first planned to
picket the shops but on account
of the rain it was decided to aban-
don this plan and hold the mass
meeting instead. During the meet
ing union officers announced that
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The Washington times., 1937-04-21
CrOWding Hit

Crowded schools, with the re-
sultant "double-shifts", do not give
the pupil a proper school-day Of
classroom instruction intersperSed
with appropriate physical exercise
and extra-cwricular activities.
Some Of our school buildings, long
since declared too old and unfit
for use, should be replaced, espe.
cially where heating and toilet ia.
cilities are inadequate.
More teachers are urgently
needed in our schools. Through
out the depression, greatly de-
creased appropriations haze re-
suited in larger classes and
increased teaching hours. Ndttt-
rally the school children haze
suffered In consequence through
less individual instruction and
teWer opportunities for extra
Continued on Page 3, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
5 BOMBS ROCK
CHICAGO

CHICAGO, April 81 U.N.S).
Five dynamite bombs. one of which
severely damaged the exclusive
Lake Shore Country Club house
in Glencoe, exploded last night
and early today, shaking COM
munities from the North Shore
to the far South Side.
No injuries to persons were re-
ported. Property damage will total
at least $25. 900, police estimated,
Two of the bombings rocked
the North Shore, where one blast
tore out the front entrance and
part of the second floor of the
Lake Shore Country Club and the
second did $4,000 damage to the
20-room mansion of Perry L. Smith.
erS, broker, in suburban Wilmette.
Later two more bombs exploded
on the far South Side, and the
fifth Was midway on Elston Ave
nue..
Greatest property damage was
caused by the Glencoe bomb
which caused an estimated $1,000
loss in torn masonry, plaster,
beams and broken windows in the
clubhouse. Two women and
eight men were in the clubhouse.
They escaped injury, although
plaster and woodwork Showered
them.
SmitherS' home was untenanted.
Police believe complaints of or
gained painters against spare
time work by union members may
have led to both bombingS.
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Boy Bandit Confesses
Killing Grocer in Theft

CHICAGO, April 81 0N.S).
Emil Trimaree. 10. has confessed
the holdup murder of Frank Pan
fill, grocer, police announced today.
Trimaree was returned here from
Cincinnati, where he was captured
following the confession of his ar
rested accomplice, Harold Julian,
10.
Panfil was shot and killed in his
store April II, when the two youths
went on a robbery foray to obtain
funds, Julian said, Ito go dane
ing"
The Washington times., 1937-04-21
Former Virginia Girl
Marries Earl Beatty

LONDON, April 81 U.N.S).
Earl Beatty, son and heir of the
late Admiral Beatty, naval COM
handkerchief during the World
War, and Mrs. Dorothy Sands
were married today at the city Of
London registry office. Only q
few close friends were present.
The new Countess Beatty form
erly was wife of Edward Van v.
Sands, of New York. She is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T, F..
Powers, Of Virginia.
Earl Beatty's mother was the
former Ethel Field, of Chicago.