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Evening star., 1937-07-18
BACKS F|REMEN'S
WEEK Of 4OHOURS
Association Head Complains
to Donovan of Pay
Raise Inequity.

Curtis McGhee. president of the
City Flreighters' Association. which
includes most of Washington S43
flremen, complained yesterday that
we never have had a chief engineer
OF the fire department approve of
anything for fremen except the last
salary increase, when the chief enei-
neer received a 54 per cent pay in
crease while the loWly private re-
ceived only IA per cent pay in
crease"
McGhee's complaint was contained
in an open letter to Chief Schrom and
District Auditor Daniel Donovan op-
posing Donovans contention that the
institution of a 40-hour week for fire.
men. Or three platoon system. would
be too heavy drain on the District
government finances.
Get 5.5 Pct. Of Appropriation.
Does our Fire Department cost so
much that We cannot have our To-
hour week reduced to even a 6O-hour
Week?' asked McGhee. The D. C.
Fire Department uses approximately
5.5 per cent Of the total D. c. appro-
prlatlon. while the average appro-
prlatlon of the l9 largest cities in
the United States for their fire de-
partments Is approximately 9 per
cent
If We should receive a 6O-hour
week, which would be a stepping
stone to the eight-hour day or A.
hour week, our Fire Department would
still require less than 6.5 per cent
OF the total D. c. appropriation. We
flremen will be satisfied for several
years to receive 60-hour week as a
stepping stone to our goal"
McGhee reminded Donovan that
when the auditor was chairman of a
civil service survey committee for the
District government last year, he
grouped flremen among the employees
classified for 40 to "A hours of work
each week. The longest work week
set up by this committee consisted
of 48 hours.
Cites Other Hour Cuts.
Since your report" McGhee told
Donovan, there have been 5000 or
more District employees whose hours
of duty. have been reduced to 40 hours
week or the minimum number of
hours in their classiflcations. Does it
seem logical to deny the 843 firemen
even 60-hour week when you con-
slider the others?
Mr. Chief Engineer. We would like
to ask you why you have worked so
vigorously in obtaining costly 1c0-foot
aerial ladder trucks? Why does not
New York City have at least a few
lO0-foot aerial ladder trucks?
Mr. Chief Engineer, if you are so
hard pressed for little money to buy
hose and other things. why not put
back into the fire-flghting division
about one-half of the IS men not in
the lre-fighting ranks and replace
them with civilians
"All these IS men came into the
Fire Department to fight fire A good
place to start Is on seven or eight
of those able-bodied firemen in your
omce. They did not pass a clerical
civil service examination. Why do
you need so many of them? They re-
ceive $2,400 year, and you can get
good clerks at $1,000. They receive
uniforms, medical attention. pensions
for themselves, wives and children and
work 80 hours week"
Evening star., 1937-07-18
NEW SPAN TO BE BUILT
ON POINT LOOKOUT ROAD
Bridge Over Dyers Run Will Cost
$14, 4,2OO-Construction Time
30 Days,
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDAOWN, Md, July IL
A new State road bridge will be con-
structed over Moll Dyers Run, about
miles below here on the Leonardtown-
Point Lookout Highway The bridge
will cost $4,000 It is being built by
w. w. Hewitt & Sons Of Valley Lee,
Md. The time allotted for the spans
construction is 80 days.
The new bridge over the historic run
viii help solve traoc tie.ups following
heavy 1atnA
Evening star., 1937-07-18
VISIT AQUATIC GARDENS
Sandy Spring Little Garden Club
Discusses Water Lilies.

SANDY SPRING, Md, July II (Spe-
ciaD.--A tour to the w. B. Shaw
aquatic gardens followed the July
meeting of the Little Garden Club held
with Mrs. Charles E. Bond this week.
Water lilies we're the subject Of discus
sion at the meeting.
The two lily pools were inspected
and short business meeting presided
over by the clubs president, Mrs. VIII
Qiam H. Hough. n
Evening star., 1937-07-18
New Industries for Islands.

The Philippines Government will
finance new cotton spinning. meat
packing, fish canning and can manu-
featuring plants.
Evening star., 1937-07-18
lUMBERMAN DIES
Col. E. F. Allison Succumbs ,

Col. E. F. Allison Succumbs at
Estate in Alabama.
BELLAMY, Ala, July II lP,.-Col.
E. F. Allison. II, an outstanding
Southern lumberman and sportsman,
died of heart ailment at his country
estate here today.
Col. Allisons timberland holdings
stretched over about $4,000 acres
along the Tombigbee River, and had
been converted over the last 80 years
into an outstanding game preserve.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

may also be added, II desired. Cook
for five minutes longer and serve hot.
with chutney.
EGGS A LA KING.
To cups medium well-seasoned
cream sauce add Y pound chopped
cooked mushrooms, l small cooked
green pepper, chopped, and l canned
pimento, sliced. Add 2 tablespoons
sherry and heat. Hard cook 6 eggs
and slice, quarter or leave whole, as
desired. While they are still hot cover
with cream sauce mixture and serve
with toast.
individual relish plates are nice to
serve with eggs la king. Include
on each choice wisps of celery, radish
roses, dainty bur gherkins and stuffed
pickle slices. These are made by hol-
lowing out centers of sour-spiced
pickles and stuffing some with pimen-
tC and others with cream cheese. Add
little grated fresh onion to the cream
cheese, about l teaspoon to each
package.
EGGS POACHED IN TOMATO
SOUP.
Nearly meal by itself Heat con-
tents OF can of favOrite tomato
solp with half as much water. Add
little sugar if desired Have the soup
below the boiling point and break in
to 6 eggs. Serve on hot, slightly
buttered toast sprinkled with minced
parsley.
SUPPER EGGS.
Cover toast rounds with slices Of hot
ham. On each place broiled tomato
slice prepared in this way:
Season first with salt, pepper, lit
tie sugar and celery salt. Place in
creased pan and cover with bread
crumbs. Sprinkle with grated cheese
and little chopped onion. Dot with
butter. Broil about 10 minutes under
moderate flame.
Place poached eggs on tomato slices
and serve very hot with Hollandaise
sauce.
EGGS IN POTATO NESTS.
To 2 cups mashed potatoes add
about p cup chopped ham or minced
crisp bacon. Add at least 8 table
spoons chopped parsley and season
we'll with salt, pepper. Place in we'll
creased baking dish and press out
hollows for eggs Break eggs into
hollows and sprinkle with breadcrumbs
and dot with butter Bake in mod
crate oven until eggs reach desired
firmness. Serve with hot tomato
sauce
CREAMED EGGS AND ASPARAGUS.
Make a sauce, using 4 tablespoons
butter, 4 tablespoons flour and 2 cups
cream or milk diluted with water
from 1-pound can asparagus tips.
Season with salt, pepper and little
nutmeg. When sauce boils add aspar-
agus tips, which have been cut in
pieces or in half. Slice 4 to 6 hard
cooked eggs and place layer in but
tered baking dish. Alternate with
asparagus sauce until the dish is filled.
Cover with breadcrumbs and dot with
butter. Have hot before serving.
Brown top, but do not bake.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Treatments
To Bleach
Elbows
Following Beauty
Routine Is Fine
For the Arms.
BY ELSIE PIERCE.

IF YOU have joined us in the week
Of rest and repair, If you are
earnest in your efforts. then set aside
this evening for very thorough arm
and back treatment.
You can't 60 wrong If you take
your warm. soothing, cleansing treat
ment every night before retiring.
While in the tub concentrate par
ticularly on an arm and elbow scrub
bing. You'll need three things: the
brush, q bland soap and plenty Of
elbow work. Start with good. sound
scrubbing Rinse thoroughly in warm
water. And pat dry with a soft towel.
Have the following beauty aids
handy. First, the juice of lemon
to which a few drops Of perox-
ide are added. This has to be made
fresh each time because both in
gradients deteriorate. You will also
need your facial nourishing cream
Of cocoa butter, and a mixture of corn
and almond meal in a shaker of some
kind. You can make one easily
enough by punching holes in q card
board box, or use large saltshaker
with holes large enough for the meal
to sift through.
First take up the lemon juice and
peroxide mixture and pat the full
length Of arm, concentrating on elbow
incidentally it's fine treatment for
back and neck too). Allow the liquid
to dry on. Then massage with your
nourishing cream Of cocoa butter from
flngertips to shoulders and back again.
Leave the hands and arms quite
greasy and shake the meal mixture
onto the creamed skin, leaving this
on for q few minutes. Next, wiring
towel out of hot water and wrap
the entire length of the arm. Repeat
as the towel cools-flve or six times
will do. Now you're ready for the
final rinsing in clear, warm water to
which q few drops of tincture Of
benzoin have been added. The last
rinsing water should be very cool.
Pat dry with dry towel. Dust with
t9lcum or busting powder.
If, after this complete treatment
the elbows still seem rough or horny,
use a pumice stone the next evening,
after the soap and brush friction.
This should remove any dead scales.
Then massage with oil or tie oil
soaked cotton pads over the elbows
with strips Of old flannel. Sweet
almond or olive oil, slightly warm,
will help to soften the skin. Leave
the oil or a mixture Of nourishing
cream and oil overnight, under the
flannel strips. Your elbows should
seem like silk the next morning.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Manners
of the
Moment
TRYING to get more than one bite

TRYING to get more than one bite
L out Of = very minute canape Is
something we're never very success
full at. We know that polite people
think it is nicer to take q canape IN
two bites than in one. But personally.
we think that their judgment is very
poor sometimes. It's all very well to
make q hfe-sized canape last for sew
eral bites. You can do it naturally.
But to take one of those pinheads
that are served every once in while
and expect to bite it in half Is just
ridiculous. You have to bare your
teeth and peck, like chicken. And
If you should ask us, we'd say 1t looks
gLastly.
Ve think the matter Of biting or
l1Wallowing whole should depend en-
tirely upon the canape. When you
can bite it inconspicuously, 60 ahead
and bite. But If you have to make
yourself look like two hens approach
ing an inch worm, we'd say chuck the
whole thing In at once and then for
get 1t. JEAN.
tcopyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-28

Bell Pattern Book. A useful book to
have at hand-32 pages of smart
fashions.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. l976-B is
designed for sizes 80, "a, 3e, 80, 40, a.
A, As, 48 and so. Size "a requires
~ yards of 35-inch material.
Send is cents for the Barbara Bell
Fall and Winter Pattern Book. Make
yourself attractive, practical and be-
coming clothes, selecting designs from
the Barbara Bell well-planned, easy
to-make patterns. Interesting and
exclusive fashions for little children
and the difficult junior age, slenderiz-
ing, well-cut patterns for the mature
figure, afternoon dresses for the most
particular young gnwomen and matrons
and other pattefns for special occa-
sions, are all to be found in the Bar
bara Bell Pattern Book.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

new year in with you. There may not
be as much noise. hoop-la and brou-
haha about the evening, as if you had
gone out on the town-but it is mighty
pleasant and warming to the cookies
of ones heart to be surrounded by
only those who love one best. Then
the wishes for Happy New Year ring
truer than ever, and that almost for
gotten emotion-sentiment more
comes into its own.
If your friends gather at your house
for such an evening the refreshments
need not be elaborate or formal. One
or two light, but tasty dishes. served
in chafing dish, or buffet style, will
amply fill the bill Everyone will have
had dinner at home and only sim.
pie collation." as the etiquette ex-
perts call it, will be necessary. One
good hot dish, such as chicken a la
king; a casserole of wild rice, chicken
livers, mushrooms. bacon and kid
neys, rice and shrimp, or some con-
coction featuring eggs, should suffice,
together with a crisp green salad, a
few specially selected cheeses. toasted
crackers and rye and white breads
Crisp curls Of sweet butter may be
served with the cheeses. Hot coffee
and other beverages, as you prefer
will round out the menu.
EGGS seem to be especially adapted
- to this type Of late supper. They
are light, easily digested and can be
served in such variety Of ways that
no hostess need fear repetition, even
if she entertains great deal. Here
are some suggested recipes for egg
dishes that have proved excellent
choices for many midnight feast:
CURRY OF EGGS.
I tablespoon butter.
2 teaspoons flour.
l cup milk.
l teaspoon onion juice.
y teaspoon paprika.
l teaspoon curry powder.
Pepper and salt to taste.
6 hard-cooked eggs.
Blend the butter, flour and season.
ings in a double boiler. When smooth,
add the milk. stirring constantly.
Cook for 10 minutes. Add the eggs
| cut in quarters. A little cooked rice
Evening star., 1937-12-28
EAR MISS DIX: Just because
I cannot get along with my
mother-in-law, our troubled
rorriod life NJ ~ wars is


married life Of 18 years is
about to terminate. We live with my
husbands mother, and she and I have
personalities that clash at every step.
She expects me to do her way because
she is experienced. and if don't then
I am bull-headed But my husband
refuses to give me home of my own.
Three children are involved, boy of
II, who shutters. brought on. believe,
by the continual quarreling atmos-
phere in which he has been reared,
and two younger children. I have
left my husband four times and re-
turned to my parents and am now
with them for the fifth, but he is in
the South and lonesome and I am in
the North and need him and so do
the children. If we send the boy to
college we can't afford to set up q
home. I refuse to be sacrificed. I
would have gone insane If had stayed
at = my in-law's home another six
months. What Is your advice?
MRS. J. F. M.
Answer-On the principle that the
thing to choose is always the greatest
good for the greatest number I would
urge you to put your money in start
ing home rather than in sending
the boy to college. The benefits he
will receive in being in a peaceful
home and with contented mother
will do far more for him than any
schooling.
At his age he has plenty Of time to
wait and it won't hurt him to be out
Of school year. In fact, many edu-
Gators are advocating years break
between high school and college be-
cause 1t gives boy time to take stock
Of himself and decide what he wants
to do In the world, and that enables
him to choose the studies that will fit
him for it when he goes to college.
RUT your letter Is another warning,
If any were needed, against the
folly Of . man taking his wife to live
with his mother when he marries. 1t
50 inevitably precipitates trouble that
the Chinese character for fight Is de-
rived from two women living under
the same roof. It doesn't matter what
fine, noble, Christian characters the
women are, Just to put them together
Is all that Is necessary to make them
do unbelievable things to each other,
and any man is just hunting for
trouble who tries 1t.
But. dear lady, granting that your
mother-in-law Is q bossy old woman
who thinks she IS inspired wisdom
an dthat she has right to rule the
roost, don't you think you have paid
. pretty high price for your 18 years
warfare with her? Don't you think
that just as matter of expediency
It would have been better for you
to have given in to her, and used q
Evening star., 1937-12-28

makes tiny desk for writing bread
and butter letters" A small folding
ironing board and iron may hide in the
closet when guests arrive and only
appear when you wish to press a
fine seam. Everyone knows the hours
that are saved by being able to leave
an unfinished task in status quo"
and to find 1t that way when a few
minutes Of extra time makes it pos
sible to take it up where you left of.
Many spots in your house 60 for
months-maybe forever-unused and
unnoticed, when. with little thought
and effort they might be turned into
really efficient additions. Now, when
everything in the place Is being over
hauled, is an excellent time to suit
the action to the word!
II you have any problems on the
furnishing or decorating Of your home
on which you would like advice, write
to Margaret NOVEL;. in care Of the
Woman's Page Of The Star, and your
questions will be answered in her Sat-
urday column IS quickly IS space
permits.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

But in addition to all the things that
may be bought there are such simple
things as dish cloths OF soft cheese-
cloth, flannel for polishing and large
knitted cloths for floors and wood
work.
There are marvellous new liquids to
clean windows which turn out a per-
feet job with a minimum of effort,
and large squares of chamois to alb
sorb every drop of moisture. Equip
your ironing board with three covers.
BY laundering these every two weeks
they will last much longer than the
one that seems to be scorched or torn
almost Immediately. Provide the
kitchen with pan holders 50 that your
linen dish towels will not be used for
this purpose. A small daughter just
learning to sew can do wonders for
you with dish towels and pot holders.
After providing these things, select
place for them; instruct your maid in
the proper care of each article. After
that you have every right and reason
to expect the utmost in a perfectly
kept house.
X X X X
nO YOU want a sewing room more
than anything in the world? A
place where you can work and leave
things strewn about, to go back to
the next day? Why not equip the
guest room so that it may be trans
formed into the ideal sewing room?
A drop-leaf table before the window
with a standing mirror makes a fine
dressing table. or. with the mirror
removed, cutting table. Your sew
ing machine, closed up and equipped
with a blotter and stationery stand,
Evening star., 1937-12-28

on New Year Eve.
The h O t e ! s and
nightclubs beckon
countless pleasure
seekers, but many
still prefer to
c e ! e b ra t e the
passing Of the old
and the coming
of the new in the
congenial oil d.
fashioned way, at
home. There is
n o t h in g nicer,
really, than get
ting together q
few tried and true
friends to see the
Evening star., 1937-12-28
BY BARBARA BELL.
FAVORITE style for spring is
this c1a aSSic dosiorod for %bn

A FAVORITE style for spring is
~ this classic designed for the
~ active woman, with kick pleat
4 "A at front and back of skirt and
open pleat in back of blouse. The
woman headed South for the winter
will include this dress in her ward
robe again and again. It is q favorite
fashion, even now destined for a front
place in fashions for spring and sum-
mer. For run-around wear, now un-
der winter coats, 1t is a perfect choice.
Make 1t up In flannel Of pastel tint
or in soft wool challis. For morning
wear, try the same pattern in q cot
ton print. With the pattern comes
q complete and detailed sew chart, so
that even If you are new at sewing
you can make this dress with conf
dence.
For other designs as smart as this
one, send for q copy Of the Barbara
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Storage Space.

Be sure to have plenty Of storage or
closet space in your "rumpus" or
"whoopee" room. II built-in closets
are not available use portable ones
for holding games and cards. To save
busting, cover the furniture or game
tables when they are not in use.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Dorothy Dix Says
Utmost Tact Needed to Assure
Peace If Living With In.Laws.

little tact and diplomacy in trying to
get along with her than to have lived
In such an atmosphere Of strife that
it kept the whole family upset and
unhappy and wrecked the nervous
system Of your oldest son? And, no
doubt. 1t has alienated your husband
from you and built up a wall between
you that you will never break down.
I grant you he was q stubborn
idiot not to have given you a shack
Of your own to live in, If it was all he
could afford. rather than make you
live with his mother, but you have
been a pretty poor sport about it all.
And if you do adjust your difficulties
and he gives you home of your own
at last, do make some effort to con-
troll your temper and to make your
home place of peace.
DEAR MISS DIX am a girl Of
IS, in junior high. I work at a
soda fountain in q drug store. even
on Sundays, and my hours are so long
that I do not have time for school
work, so am falling behind. But
Mother thinks that I am lazy and
that I could do my school work
and my work in the drug store both If
I wanted to do 50. I am glad to help
my family, but my mother takes all
I make and won't even give me IS
cents week for lunches. I am tired
and discouraged. What can I do7
MABEL.
Answer: II 1t is absolutely neces-
sary for you to help support the family.
you had better drop out Of school, be-
cause trying to do both the school
work and your work in the drug store
will break you down. Little young
shoulders like yours are too weak to
bear such . burden.
But try to make your mother see
how important it Is for you to 70 on
and finish high school, because It will
enable you to get better Job with
more pay If you do. The first thing
an employer will ask you Is Are you
= high school graduate"
DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Use Shorter Cords.

Wall outlets for electrical devices
used in the kitchen, pantry or buffers
pantry should be placed ut table
height. This permits the use Of
shorter cords with cooking utensils,
eliminating coils that are likely TO
Get In the houseWiSe's way.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Starching Family Wash.

To save time in making starch
for = large family wash first make
= very stin starch. Put articles re-
quiring the most starch-such as COL
lars and cuffs-into this. Then dilute
the mixture with warm water and
starch the rest Of the laundry.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

AookS uIdD ana 1OrlOrn, ana all the
things that you and I intended doing
before the holidays cry aloud for i'm
mediate attention.
OF course. by the time the house
gets good Strengthening, the children
60 back to school. and quiet reigns
again, we all feel lots better but now,
while everything is at its worst is the
best time to make plans. Just for ex-
ample-hoW long is it since you have
looked over the maids room?
Maids work is full-time job. OF
course, she is not "on duty" all "a
hours, but if she lives in your house
and Is of one or two afternoons a
week, her room is her only home, and
1t would be good business to make it
SO that she can enjoy it. Her room
does not need to be large one; in
TACT, 1t may be very tiny, but that is
the better reason for furnishing it in
scale and not allowing it to become a
repository for all the clumsy, cast-off
furniture from the rest of the house.
If this room has but one window,
make special effort to paper or paint
the walls in light color Use sheer
draperies at the window which will
keep out neither light nor air. It
might be pleasanter if you used a
studio couch, instead of bed, and ar
ranged the room to look like living
room. The couch may be made up at
night as bed and, with good read
ing light close by, be doubly useful.
Have chest with adequate drawer
space, and good mirror, comforta-
bic easy chair and small table for
writing. If she is the type of person
that you wish to keep in your house
In the future, it is we'll worth your
while to make her comfortable. If she
Is happy she will avoid change, and
1t will not matter so much how hard
the work Is if she can rest well and
enjoy her own room when the day is
done.
WHILE We are on this subject it
might be good plan to check up
on the equipment the maid is using for
her daily tasks. Every one who works
In q house enjoys efficient tools. A
new dish mop and dish cloths turn
out shining glassware Real linen
Evening star., 1937-12-28
During the P0stChrsmas Cleanup Check Your Home for
Maids Room Should Be
Pretty and Restful;
Not Junk Repository
Apartment for Guests Easily
Converted Into Quarters
For Sewing and Pressing.
BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

JOUR house and mne have been strained the utmost during
" holidays Christmas is the the
means the to all of
all picked the Christmas
haba life
Evening star., 1937-12-28

HE simplest
sampler with its matching suggests
the cloth pattern
instructions for cutting the various pieces
The pattern envelope contains
so Tour Inch napkin complete
uased also what coo and material
To obtain this pattern for No
or coin to
Evening ~ - -e