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The Washington times., 1937-04-29
$1,000 BOND
HOLDS POLICE

Ruby Downs, 55-year-old mem
ber of the Metropolitan Police
force, was released today in $4,000
bond by U. S. Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage before whom he
was arraigned on a charge of in
terfering with { Federal officer.
The complainant, Emmett Brod-
erick, attached to the U. S. Mar
shars office, testified at the hear
ing that he attempted on March
20 to serve process on Mrs.
Emily B. Mccoy at her home in
the 1900 block of OrTen st. N. E.,
when he was told Mrs. Mccoy
was not at home and showed vio-
lently" from the premises by Po-
liceman Downs, who appeared
from behind a door, in the Nc
Coy apartment.
Downs was represented at the
hearing by Attorney Hare. Haw-
ken, who declared no complaint
was filed against the policeman
until a week after the incident,
when someone other than Brod-
erick brought the matter to the
attention of the latter'S superiors.
The Grand Jury will consider
Downs case at an early date, &C.
cording to Commissioner Turnage.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
BY CARL L. DENIES

Imagine poker game music Stravinsky directed his
ballet the other night the Metropolitan Opera House
when the American Ballet presented "The Card Party while
the audience chncked and annlanded
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
Red Snapper Biting
Nicely as President
Nears Gulf Waters

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, April
90 Q.N.S0.-AS though they had
heard President Roosevelt in.
tended angling in the Gulf. red
snapper fish are biting nicely. it
was reported here by Capt. Carl
H. Nelson, Of the schooner Nep-
tunia.
Captain Nelson. upon his return
to Corpus Christi with 4,50o
pounds of red snappers, said the
fish were running about 80 miles
east Of Port Aransas near the spot
where Mr.. Roosevelt plans to try
his luck.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
Bus Line to Arctic

HEISNGFORS, (U.SO.-Fin-
land boasts the only highway in
the world which buses traverse to
the Arctic Ocean. In summer
travellers make the trip Of 322
miles by a regular service from
Rovaniemi to Liinahamari, where
the sun shines all night for some
weeks.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
.omen's Club
Calendar
TODAY

Washington Chapter of the
Mizrachi Junior Women-Benefit
musicale, S:15 p. m, Jewish Com
munity Center.
Constitution Chapter, D. A. r.
Meeting. 8 p. M, in American
Pen Women st1dio, Grafton
Hotel.
Washington Retreat League
Evening Of Retreat for Ladies Of
st. Anthony and st. AIMS Cath
olic parishes, $50 p. M, Retreat
House, 1000 Harewood Rd. N. E.
Blue Triangle Club-Picnic in
Rock Greek Park, group leaves
the Y. W. c. A. at 5 p. m.
Twentieth Century Club-Meet-
ing Of the board of directors, II
a. M, at the Y. w. C. A.
Petworth Woman's Club-Ex-
ecutive board meeting 8 p. m,
home of Mrs. Clarence Fisher,
4113 Illinois Ave.
1ota Phi Delta Chapter of the
Delphian Society-Meeting, 10 a..
m, Jelleff's Little Theater.
TOMORROW
Alpha Chapter of Beta Gamma
Phi National Sorority-Spring
dance, 10 p. M, Broadmoor Sill
yer Grill.
Columbian Women Of George
Washington University-Annual
dinner, Mayflower Hotel.
Women's City Club-Afternoon
bridge, 1880 p. m, 736 Jackson
Pl. N. w.
Women'S International League
for Peace and Freedom-Annual
convention, Washington Hotel.
Woman's National Democratic
:Club-Card party, 2:30 p. m;
tea, 4:30 p. M, 1926 New Hamp.
Ahire Ave. n. W.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
Seven Sisters at Wedding

PEABODY, Mass, uNS.).
Seven Of her sisters were attend.
ants of Miss Helen scangos when
she married to Peter C. Coolurts,
Boston store-keeper. Accompany
ing their sister on her trip down
the church aisle were, Julia, Mar
garet, Joan, Della, Carol, Angelica.
and Pauline Scangos.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29

sic by IIendelssohn, set the mood
for the "Scherzo" and the famous
Spring Song" Webers waltz,
Invitation to the Dance" was
followed by an encore waltz, "Alt
Wien," by Godowsky.
The majestic musical descrip-
ton of Siegfried's ride down the
mountainSide to the Rhine (Sieg-
fried's Rhine Journey, from die
Gotterdammerung." by Wagner,
was performed with an intensity
of purpose, piling motif upon
motif in succeeding climaxes of
thrilling power.
Dvorak's "Humoreske," and
"Slavonic Dance No. s." presented
a light interlude preceding the
fourth section from the symphonic
poem, my Fatherland," by Sme-
tana. This section, From Bo.
hemia's Fields and Forests" is
heard all too seldom. The first
part is pastoral in mood, gradually
changing to a rhythmic dance
mood and ending in a series of
dynamic climaxes.
The theme from the overture
to Strauss Gypsy Baron" will
be heard next wednesday night in
the concert of the United States
Marine Band Symphony Orches-
ira. The overture is composed Of
themes from a light opera by the
younger Strauss.
The opening event of the obser-
vation of National Music Week
will be the Sacred Choir FeS-
tival next Tuesday night at the
Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church
at $50 o'clock. Six leading
church choirs will take part, each
representing a group and the final
number will be the "Hallelujah
Chorus" from Handel's oratorio,
The Messiah" sung by the massed
choirS.
The choirs that are cooperat.
ing in this concert are the Ham
line M. E. Church choir, the A
Capella choir, First Congregational
Church, Calvary M. E. Church
choir, Takoma Park Presbyterian
Church choir, Eighth Street Tenn
pie quartet and Mt. Vernon Place
M. E. Church choir.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
Dr.. BaIIou 10 Join
Trip Of Educators

Frank W. Ballou, District Super
intendent of Schools, and the
heads of II other leading school
systems of the country will EN-,
bark on a two-week tour of some
of the country's outstanding edu-
cational centers Sunday.
The trip. known as the Occupa.
tiorial Educational Tour for School
Superintendents. will start from
Chicago and cover 3,l51 miles.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
FIRE RECORD

Twenty-four hours, from 10 a. M, April
Is, to 10 a. ny. April 20.
12 noon-secoad and D Streets North
west. automobile.
l2:43 p. m.-Box Z94 Forty-first and
Garrison Streets Northwest, false alarm.
1:22 p. m. south Capitol and D
Streets false local alarm.
s:?4 p. rn.-l3A3 Connecticut Ave. NV,
overheatAd motor.
1851 .. m.-Isl7 Thirty-sixth ST. NV,
clothes
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
World Of Music

Theme From the Overture to "Gypsy Baron by Strauss
"A suggestion tor using and preserving the daily music theme
teachers of music appreciation adOtse their pupils to clip and
paste them 3r5 fling card NTH composers at the top
and file them IN alphabetical oTderl
Evening star., 1937-08-07
SILVER SPRING BANK
WILL BE REMODELED
Special DISpatcr TO The Star.

SILVER SPRING, Nd. August =
Work will begin Monday on extensive
alterations to the building of the Sill
Yer Spring National Bank, it was an
nounced today.
The building will be extended ap-
proxlmately Is feet toward the front
and one-story addition of about the
same depth will be built at the rear,
A 5-foot-Wlde addition will also be
bullt on the east side of the building,
The front of the structure. on Geor-
e1a avenue, will be of Indiana lime
stone and cast iron in modern design
The windows and entrance doors will
be OF steel. and the entrance to the
bank will be at the sidewalk level
The same treatment will be carried
around the Oak street side of the build
Ing for distance of Is feet, and al
teratlons will be made to the old
portion OF the structure to bring it
into harmony with the new.
The new arrangement of the in
terror of the bank will include a CEN
ter lobby with banking screen con-
tanning II wickets on each side. The
new lobby will be II feet deeper than
the old one
Evening star., 1937-08-07
BY DOROTHY DUCAS AND
ELIZABETH GORDON.
. OES an electric fan do any

IS ~ OES an electric fan do any
Our mail is full Of this
49, question these days. pen
ned in desperation by men and women
who want to do something to relieve
the sitting discomfort of the chief
rooms of their houses. and who feel
they cannot afford to investigate true
air conditioning
II you have been casting sleeps
eyes at an electric fan and talking
yourself out of buying it because what
you have heard about air cooling has
made you think you should save your
pennies for something more elaborate,
it's time you stopped belittling the
electric fan. For a fan, while doing
only one of the four jobs of Summer
air conditioning (circulatin the air
is part of every air conditioning
SYSTEM, can make a tremendous diff
ference in stuffy, hot room
Lose Body Warmth.
You see, keeping cool is matter
of losing your own body warmth, in
whatever way presents itself-drink-
Evening star., 1937-08-07
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than 98.6 degrees (the body's tenn
perature) it also takes away some OF
your excess heat before it moves on
The more it moves, the more it takes,
naturally.
In buying an electric fan, there
fore. the thing to consider Is how
much it will make the air move In
your room. 1t doesn't have to move
fast so long as it keeps moving
In fact. 1t is better to have fan
that will agitate wide stream of
air in many parts of the room than
one which circulates briskly within a
smaller space
II the volume of air passing through
a fan determined its efficiency, the
new superfan we've just found prob
ably never would have been designed
Almost any fan moves a lot of air
around the fan. But this new fan is
made to move a lot OF air around the
room. Its makers say 1t does the work
OF four ordinary fans. because of an
intricate blade construction.
LING OAIuen Hose.
1t works with air like a garden hose
with water. Remove the nozzle OF
hose and the water runs out in a
lazy curve. doesn't it7 Cover part of
the opening with your finger and the
water shoots out in a sort of sprav
reaching farther than before and with
more zip. Yet the volume of water
passing through is actually less than
before you covered up part of the
opening. The same motor may be
used in two different fans, you see
but one may drive the air in a 20-foot
circle while the other sends air in
40-foot circle.
The blades OF this extra powerful
fan We have in mind have curved
cutting edges. which create less air
resistance and so make a quieter fan.
II you would like to know where YOU
Evening star., 1937-08-07

to the porch or out to the Summer
house In order to have some refresh
ment out Of the night hours.
It should not be necessary to resort
to such extreme measures as this.
Adding insulation to the house Will
make your bed rooms, even those up
under the roof, bearable In Summer.
The amount OF money it costs to force
rock wool between the inner and outer
walls OF the house by means of a
pneumatic hose is less than that you'd
spend for a new family car-and it
will last more years.
There is a company that will come
At the drop of hat, estimate what
1t would cost to fill in the air spaces
In your walls with fluffy, flre-resistant
and permanent threads spun from
rock, and within week you can have
an indoor change of temperature, no
matter what the thermometer does
outdoors. 1t is the same material
that is made into bats" or pads look
ing like cotton batting, for new houses
When you spit" the stuff in it is kept
Evening star., 1937-08-07

formation shout this aM-year round
boon.
A BOUT this time OF the year, when
tbs sun k 20 bright that It II
hard to believe gray days and chill
winds ever will be with US again, the
true homemakers begin to think OF
dressing up the house for the Winter
Especially when there are ma ajor
things to be done, like recovering q
floor. must one be foresighted enough
to plea we'll III advance.
If you are going to do over a floor
may we suggest cork tile? It isn't 8
new material, but it has been usec
comparatively little for residences
when you stop to think that it Is
just as cheap as wood block anc
cheaper than rubber tile. President
Roosevelt's executive Offices are al
floored with cork tile. 1t comes with
both square and beveled edges ano
can be laid in many designs. includ.
Evening star., 1937-08-07
FAIRFAX DEEDS
SET NEW RECORD
Total of 480 Such Instru-
ments Admitted to Rec
ord in July.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FAIRFAX, Va, August THE re-
eording of deeds and trusts in Fairfax
County during the month of July
reached the highest total for any
previous month, figures compiled in
the office of the county clerk reveal.
total of 480 of such instruments
were admitted to record through the
month, bringing the number for the
first seven months of the year to 1859
Previous to July, the former high to-
tai for single month was 449.
Included among the conveyances of
the past several days is the sale of a
house and lot in the town of Fair
fax to Mr.. and Mrs Roger Hampton
Copeland by Mr.. and Mrs A. R. Sher-
wood. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Copeland
are instructors in Fairfax High School
A house and lot on LAWYERS road
and West street, town of Vienna, has
been sold TO Mr., and Mrs. Earl j. De
Muth by Samuel w Berry, and in the
same town a house and lot on Maple
avenue has been purchased by Mr.. and
Mrs. George r. Lee of Washington
from Ellen Wall
Sales at Belle Haven.
Three properties have changed hands
In Belle Haven Subdivision A house
and lot has been sold by John K. Hines
to Mr. and Mrs Harold B Landon. and
Robert S. Barrett, trustee, has con-
Veyed house and lot to Mabel F. HON
ton. The third house and lot was sold
by Joseph K. Seidle, Inc, to Mr.. and
Mrs. DenWood S. White.
A tract of two acres at Mclean, in
Providence district, has been sold by
Mr.. and Mrs F. M. Walter to Richard
M. Smith, and Mr. and Mrs Anton G.
Schlechte have purchased six lots in
Shreve Subdivision at Robey Station
from Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Musser
On the Richmond WASHINGTON
highway, in Mount Vernon district
Marguerite Field Graham has pur-
chased 4.59 acres from J. T Nartyn
Jr., and in the same district M. and
Mrs. George w. Smith have purchased
lot on the Potomac River from Mr.
and Mrs. Henry L. Crawford
furCnaSe tract on River.
Mr.. and Mrs Howard B. Bloomer
1r., have purchased tract of approx
mately 1888 acres at Gunston, on the
Potomac. A tract of about 1859 acres
on Georgetown pike, in Providence
district, has been sold to Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace l.. Lohnes by Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond B. Harding and on the road
between Germantown and Oakton. in
Providence district, Charles P. Hawke
and Harry Mclaughlin have purchased
20 acres from Mr.. and Mrs. Bertram
F. Thornett.
Two tracts, comprising about 5.26
acres, IN Providence district, at Dunn
Lorlng, have been sold to Mr. and
Mrs Augustus H Martin by Mrs. Ada
Carleton of Merriield. A tract of II so
acres on the Springfield road, in Falls
Church district, has been sold to Mr..
and Mrs. Philip NJ Cole by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas A. Byrne, and Mr.. and
Mrs. William C. Crumbaugh have con-
veyed lot near the Annandale Road
Falls Church road to David L. Crum-
baugh
In the town of Herndon Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene P. Bicksler have pur-
chased lots from Mr.. and Mrs. David
l.. Blcksler and from Ida L. Castle
man and Virginia c. Castleman. A
lot IN Sherwood subdivision, town of
Falls Church, has been sold by Mr.. and
Mrs, j. V. Turner to Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Geddes.
Evening star., 1937-08-07

can see the new super air screws,
either in low-stand or high stand
models check the coupon on this page
Immediately and send 1t to the Home
Institute.
WE KNOW it's nothing new, but
we can't help mentioning it again
and again-this matter OF insulation
for the already-built house, to make
life more comfortable during heat
waves and more economical to heat in
Winter
About this time every year dozens
OF people we know complain that their
nice little house in the country,
whittier they have ned the city's dis
comforts is pretty hot at nights" ="
Some OF them even relate how they
carry their pillows and sheets down
Evening star., 1937-08-07

ing lot Of liquids and losing it in
perspiration, or being exposed to cool
air and losing it by convection, or
beng surrounded by cooler surfaces
and losing it by radiation. With a
powerful electric fan in the room, you
can lose quite a lot of body heat-by
evaporation and convection The air
which wipes over your body, however
warm it is, speeds up the process of
evaporation and being always cooler
Evening star., 1937-08-07

ing random board effects for living
rooms.
1t nils the bill on another count: It's
quiet. Cork absorbs the sound OF foot
steps, you see, and feels comfortable
to the foot at the same time. 1t has
the added advantage that when things
are dropped on the floor, they do not
break-which makes cork tile a good
material for bath rooms and kitchens
Evening star., 1937-08-07
Select Wall Colors First.

In selecting a color scheme for a
room, the wall colors should be Sc
lected first, followed by a choice Of
harmonizing floor and ceiling colors.
Bright colors on walls are usually
avoided except where the wall space
is well broken up by windows and
doors.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23

NY Iiie TWO arIneQ, masked men as
they drove up in front of Miss Sell
ler's home. Shipley was locked in
the turtleback of his small coupe.
The men then drove the terrified
girl to an isolated spot on Kearney
Mesa, where she was forced from
the car, bound hand and foot and
subjected to indignities as the men
began stripping off her clothing.
Miss Sellers said frantic screams
apparently caused the men to take
fright before they accomplished
their purpose and they fled in the
car with Shipley still prisoner.
About one-half mile from the
scene of the attempted assault
Shipley was thrown from the ma
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23

board had received a delegation of
workers from Chrysler's Plymouth
division who had charged the mo-
tor car company with employing the
"speedup" in its operations.
"The delegation asked us to send
international representatives to
confer with Chrysler officials over
the 'speedup' charges" Richard T.
F'rankenstein, acting president of
the union, said. I'VE have desig-
mated R. ]. Thomas, vice. president
in charge of all Chrysler Union
Relations, and Leo Lamotte to re-
present the International"
The blanket wage increase de-
mand, union leaders said, was sent
by letter late yesterday to the
corporation.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23
AUTO WORKERS DEMAND RAISE
OF TEN CENTS AN HOUR IN PAY

DETROIT, Sept. % CUP)-The
United Automobile Workers of
America disclosed tonight that it
had presented to Chrysler corpora
ton demands for blanket wage
increase of 10 cents per hour for
$4,000 production employees.
A corporation spokesman said
the new wage demand had not
been received
Announcement of the request for
higher wages came after a session
of the unions general executive
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23
Trades Union Battles
With City Over Picket

SALEM Ore, Sept 23 The Salem Building Trades Council
maneuvered pketing factory
Salem when picket walking
of the street. pulled OF
1t mounted its picket byce He rode with the traffic
side OF the street. qualifying dismodnted
when he had passed the plant bicycle
side of the complying
requirements, and repeated performance
Company officials scratched
before they had secured the
without permit" The union 6cros
the street out of the city limits the
The lost that
had the picket
statute of the it's sure
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23

Fourteen other storage tanks and
numerous office buildings, loa6ng
sheds and filling stations were
threatened.
Two retail service stations, fire
truck, water tower valued at $20,-
900 and a drayage van were burned
by flaming oil which sprayed across
a four-block area under force of
a series of spectacular explosions
and fire bursts.
The fire apparently started when
gasoline being loaded on a truck
was ignited by combustion. Stand
ard Oil officials did not confirm
this, however, and they announced
they would start an investigation
to determine the cause and actual
extent of the damage.
I'VE were afraid the fire might
cause damage of several millions
of dollars if it spread" one COM
pany official said, "but luckily we
got it under control before it reach
ed more valuable buildings and
storage tanks nearby"
Three hundred firemen, compris-
ing 40 companies, fought the fire
from 800 pm. to am. Unable to
combat the oil flames with water,
they sent out call for chemicals.
At first chemicals were unavailing.
When Standard Oil company sent
ten truckloads of a specially pre-
pared fire-fighting liquid to the
scene, firemen quickly smothered
the blaze and ended the spectacu-
lar fire as quickly as it started.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23
England Accepts
Japanese Apology
In Air Shooting

LONDON, Sept. % CUP) Great
Britain informed Japan late today
she considers the airpalne ma
chine-gunning of British Ambassa-
dor Sir Hugh Knatchbull- Huges-
sen a closed incident.
The British announcement fol-
lowed "a hours of new consultations
and communications between Tok-
yo and London.
A British note to Tokyo on Aug.
20 demanded a formal apology, as
surances of non-recurrence and
punishment to those responsible
for the shooting of the Britiesh
ambassador to China as he rode
in an automobile between Shang-
hal and Marking on Aug. &C.
The final Japanese note. which
reached here yesterday, admitted
that japanese military planes ma
chine-gunned the ambassadors au-
tomobile and said it occurred be
cause of misunderstanding"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23
Officials Blush as
Wife, q, Demands
Release of Mate

BOISE, Idaho, Sept. %. UP) =
Blushing state officials said today
they would probably consent to
permanent release of Eldon Clever
ly. 81, from the state penitentiary
where he is serving a one to IA
year sentence on statutory charges.
They were blushing because Mrs.
Eldon Cleverly, %, an expectant
mother, hitch-hiked from Idaho
Falls and threatened to have her
baby in the corridors of Idaho's
capitol building unless her husband
was granted reprieve.
The young wife expects her con-
tinement within five weeks, and
said she would walk up and down
corridors of the building until
something was done for her hus-
band. She said she would have
her child there if necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23
MasOns Will Hold
Homecoming Fete

Tickets are now available for the
annual Masonic homecoming din
ner to be held in the Ell Centre
Masonic temple the night of Oct.
a.
The affair, a traditional event
of the fall season. is open to Mas
ons and their families. Since the
number of reservations is limited,
members have been urged by lodge
officers to secure their tickets early.
Officers have tickets available.
DR.. Frank Low who spoke Thurs
day noon at the Ell Centro Rotary
club, it to be the guest speaker.
Prior to the program chicken
dinner is to be served, beginning
at $50 pm. B. f. Lemons is n
charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23

chine and ran back to release the
girl. A passing motorist was hailed
and police summoned.
Shipley and Miss Sellers told
detectives the robbers took a purse
from the girl and a wallet from the
man.
Shipley's car has not yet been
recovered.
The robbery and attempted as
sault recalled memories of the "love
thief" who preyed on young cou-
pies here one year ago, and who,
officers had believed, died when
Leslie Hazleton, federal immigration
officer shot down William Fender,
10, some months ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-23

tended to many points along the
Atlantic coast. They were gone
about three weeks and drove a
new car home.
Clyde Carradine is spending a
two weeks vacation in the coast
Mrs. Pete Brooks and family have
returned to Imperial after pending
the summer in Jacumba.
Leslie L. Burr returned to his
duties Monday morning after
spending a week in Willetts. On
his return he was accompanied by
his daughter, Leslie Mae, who is
attending school here.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. P. HALEY are
back in Imperial after spending
the summer in their cabin in Live
Oaks.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Griffin re-
turned recently from a months
vacation spent visiting relatives in
Iowa.
Jess Bishop of San Diego is
spending a few days in Imperial
on business.
90
Bob Davis returned to Jacumba
Tuesday evening after spending
few days in Imperial tending to
his business.
90
Mrs. Harry tErskine and her
daughter Frances motored to San
Diego Thursday on a shopping trip.