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Evening star., 1937-09-08
F STREET TRAFFIC
CHANGES PLANNED
Special Rules Ordered While
Transit Firm InstaIIs
New Switch.

Special traffic regulations will be
invoked this week at and near the
intersection of Fourteenth and F
streets, while a new switch is being
installed by the Capital Transit Co.,
so as to avoid the closing of F street
to all traffic.
The rules were ordered yesterday by
District officials, after F street mer-
chants had made a determined pro-
test against closing the thoroughfare
Carter Barron. Capitol Theater exc
cutive, had threatened to seek judicial
relief" if the commissioners permitted
the street to be closed.
The work will be in progress for
three or four weeks. During that time,
Commissioners Hazen and Sultan said,
the following rules will be in effect:
AS soon as signs can be posted, both
right and left turns, now prohibited,
will be permitted at Thirteenth and F
streets. East bound traffic on F street
w be allowed most of the day and
during all theater hours. West-bound
traffic on F street will be halted at
Fourteenth street, but U-turns will be
permitted between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth street.
Through North bound traffic up
Fourteenth street from Pennsylvania
avenue win be banned, but vehicles
will 10 permitted to go north to F
street and turn east there South
bound traffic on Fourteenth street
will be permitted to continue
Special police will be assigned to
aid movement of traffic The transit
company has been directed to keep
distractions to q minimum and to
hasten the work as much as possible.
Evening star., 1937-09-08

as rotting skeletons in later years.
Men will now live in portable houses
for the year or two they will be
employed in some such project as
Boulder Dam-then will tow them off
to the next job"
Dugan Is convinced that what econ
omists call the threatening housing
shortage" will be solved by trailers.
For years, he pointed out, they have
been crying that we need pre-fabri-
Gated houses, produced by cheap mass
production. When good sanitation is
achieved, this is exactly what the
trailer will give us, he thinks. Though
trailers will make America mobile,
they will be semi-permanent homes
rather than unanchored vessels.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
NINE ARE NAMED
FOR PAY PARLEYS
Public, Employers and EN-.
ployes Each viii Have
Three in Group.

Paving the way for a decision as tC
the lowest wages that may be paid
Washington's retail clerks hereafter
the District Minimum Wage Board
announced appointment of a confer
ence committee of nine members.
The first meeting of the group will
be held September Is at pm. in the
boards offices in the District building
The public, employers and employees
each have three representatives on the
committee.
The representatives of the public
are John J. Esch, Transportatio
Building; Mrs. Glen L. Swiggett
Mendoza Apartments, and Mrs. S. O.
Brock. 174l Holly street. The an
polntments were recommended by
MRS. William Kittle. chairman of the
board, who represents the public.
Mr. Esch, an attorney, was a MEM
per OF the House from Wisconsin from
1899 10 l92l, serving during the last
TWO years of his term as chairman of
tne House Interstate Commerce Com
'AAi'ecc' Lhtci, ne was member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
He has been engaged in the private
practice of law here since 1923.
Inc employer representatives are
John j. Hasley, general manager of
the Palais Royal department store
Jacob Hemminger, manager of the
r. w. Woolworth Co, Twelfth and F
streets, and Edwin Hahn. president
William Hahn e. Co., shoe dealers.
These were nominated by John H.
Hanna, president of the board of the
capital Transit Co, who represents
employers.
The employe members are Miss
Anna M. Thornhill of Woodward &
Lothrop, Hrs. Erma Ketchum of H. l..
Green & Co. and Mrs. A. E. Milstead
of the Hahn shoe store. These were
nominated by Arthur L. Schoenthal.
the representative of employees on the
Minimum Wage Board. He selected
the three out of nine who were elected
several weeks ago at mass meeting
Of retail clerks.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
SECURITY BOARD DENIES
PLAN TO ADD WORKERS
Only Vacancies Will Be Filled
in Baltimore Division,
Officials Saw.

The Social Security Board yesterday
denied reports in circulation here and
IN Baltimore that it was planning i'm
mediately to augment by 1900 the
clerical force of its operation section.
located in Baltimore.
About 2,140 employees now are at
work in the Baltimore Office attending
the files of approximately 33,50O 900
applications received for participation
in the Federal old age benefits pro-
gram under the social security act.
The board said this represents a re-
duction of 410 employees in recent
months as the result of designations
and the completion of temporary ap-
pointments.
Currently. it was explained, the per-
sonnel turnover in the Baltimore Office
Is light. The board intends to fill only
such positions as become vacant.
These appointments will be made from
Civil Service Commission registers, as
required under the act.
The board now has on file approxi-
mately $4,000 applications for jobs.
Personnel officials said fully 80 per
cent of the applicants were not eligible
under civil service regulations.
Evening star., 1937-09-08

The pale stars are gone.
For the sun, their swift shepherd,
To their folds them compelling
In the depths Of the dawn,
Hastes in meteor -eclipsing array,
and they flee
Beyond his blue dwelling,
AS fawns flee the leopard.
-(Shelly: Fragment.)
x X
" ROM Boiling Field an Army
L aviator flies high into the sun
| rise He carries delicate in
4 Struments to measure tenn
peratures. wind drifts, etc, miles
above the surface of the earth.
There, amidst the hurting air
masses tossed back and forth by the
revolving planet, weather is made
Upon the recordings of the birdmans
instruments may depend whether or
not the prize fight will be held at the
ball park this evening.
The birds are in full chorus in hedge
and garden shrubbery. 1t has been
estimated that more than 80 species
take part in this sunrise orchestra.
The great chorus of the robins is done.
The cardinal, the cuckoo, the ruby
throated hummingbird, the whole
family of sparrows, the swallows, the
oven-bird, the vireos take up the
singing. The brassy notes of the
crows mingle in the harmony.
This is mornings own voice-tender.
yelled, love-obsessed morning. She
expresses herself through the minds
OF great composers and with the
Evening star., 1937-09-08
MARRIAGE LICENSE
FEE MAY Be $3.50
Law Requires Additional so
Cents for Oath Admins
tration, Clerk Finds.

Marriage licenses in the District not
Monday, but they may be more ex-
pensive as well.
Col. Charles E. Stewart, clerk of
the District Court, while studying
the effect of the new license law which
requires three-day interim between
application and issuance of the license,
made the startling discovery that the
So fee charged all these years may
be so cents less than the law re-
quires.
The statute now in effect prescribes
50 fee for the license, but another
law, which has been on the books for
many years, requires 50-cent charge
for administration of the oath when
the license is issued.
Overlooked" Requirement
I'VE must have overlooked this In
the past" said Col Stewart. And
now l have another problem on my
hands. 1 guess we may have to
charge that extra so cents after all
these years"
He said he had not decided finally
whether the charge must be boosted
He is sure, however, that the new
three-day law, which becomes effective
Monday, really is four-day law. In
other words, there must be a full
three-day wait after application be-
fore the license can be issued.
Wait Is Necessary.
Thus. ardent couples who apply for
licenses on Monday must wait until
Friday before the necessary authorize
tion can be obtained.
The law states that "three days
must elapse after the date of the
application before the license is
granted" Col. Stewart interpreted this
to mean that the interim must not
include either the day of application
or the day of issuance.
He consulted two District Court
justices and various attorneys in the
Justice Departments legislative de-
partment, who confirmed his opinion.
Evening star., 1937-09-08

itation this afternoon at the thirty
second annual convention of the So
ciety, meeting in the Mayf1ower Hotel
He is delegate from McKeesport, Pa,
where he is sanitary engineer in a
steel mill. Trailer plumbing is his
pet hobby.
"One thing is sure-the traditional
bathtub is doomed" he said
To some extent the collapsible, or
folding, bathtub has been the sub
ject of experiments, but it has proved
unworkable. principally because it gets
dirty in the creases, he said.
The shower, on the other hand,
can be incredibly economical of inches.
You can stow clothes in the shower,
Evening star., 1937-09-08
NOTED JONES SHIP
REPRODUCED HERE
Bon Homme Richard and
Scraps to Be Seen During
Regatta.

Turning time back to days of the
Revolution, shipbuilding experts of the
Washington Navy Yard today started
construction of a reproduction of one
of the most famous men-of-w war in
American naval hiStory-John Paul
Jones Bon Homme Richard
The quaint ship, 65 feet long and
with three tall masts, will be used in
re-enactment of the historic battle
between the Richard and the British
war ship, the Scraps, during which
Jones voiced his immortal phrase
I've not yet begun to fight" The
battle will be staged, with the help of
fireworks, on the night of September
% as high light of water pageant
on the Potomac River in connection
with the Presidents Cup Regatta
September l8 to 26.
Jones ship and the Scraps will be
reproduced with the aid of two barges
and much lumber, cardboard and
canvas. Plans for the construction
of the vessels at the Navy Yard were
disclosed yesterday by Melvin D.
Hlloreth, chairman OF the Pageant
Committee, at a luncheon of the Cen
eral Regatta Committee in the Har-
rington Hotel. l.. P. Steuart, in charge
of the fireworks program, declared the
display will be the greatest every held
in Washington
James c. Councillor. general chair
man. who presided, received reports
of progress from various committee
men.
Harry Smith, assistant chairman of
the Race Committee, returned from
the Gold Cup races at Detroit with a
number of entries from famous motor
boat owners. Gordon Leech, race
chairman, told of certain improvements
made in the race program. Jack
Marshall, chairman of the sailing
races, reported numerous entries.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
u. S. EXECUTIVE GROUP
DECLINES BY 1928

A reduction of 15,243 in the num-
Der of persons on the pay roll of
the executive branch of the Govern
ment lowering the total to 854.9l7.
was reported yesterday by the Civil
Service Commission The July pay
roll was Sl27,177428 as compared
TO Sl28,334.1 1913 in June.
The decrease in employment in
this branch in the District was 8l8,
leaving total here of 111,30l.
Primary causes of the reductions
were a decrease in the amount of
emergency funds available for ad-
ministrative employees and delay
in budget allotments.
Evening star., 1937-09-08

have a large family with only three
baths in the house?" he inquired. He
f1ourished a picture of his seven chill
dren. Il have never been able to
take a trailer trip, in spite of being
an expert.
Another worry about trailers is
their menace to the health of the
communities in which they pause. The
American Automobile Association esti-
mated that from 1885 to 1885 trailers
on the road jumped from $4,000 to
100000. This increasing horde, darting
about the country, potentially capable
Of spreading black plaques over the
Nation-if proper sanitary conditions
are not maintained" he said.
Dugan demanded State, or, If pos
Evening star., 1937-09-08

and just swing the hangers out when
you turn the water on" he pointed
out THE whole trend of the coun-
try is toward showers"
Some possibility exists" he ad-
mitted, that we can develop tub
you can turn bottom-up and use as
the living room sofa"
No trailer has been developed so
far that produces hot tap water, but
Dugan is hopeful.
The amount of water which can be
transported has been limited to 80 GAL
Ions. This will furnish only three
baths, Dugan estimates, and is there
fore of social significance.
How can man living in trailer
Evening star., 1937-09-08
TEACHER APPOINTED

Srecial Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. September g.
Miss Corrine Reardon, for several
years teacher of French in the Alex
andria and George Washington High
Schools, today received notice of her
appointment as a member of the
faculty of Eastern High School,
Washington, as French teacher.
Miss Reardon after graduating from
Randolph Macon Woman's College
received an A. M degree from George
Washington University.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
FOUR FROM D. c. AREA
ON PRESIDENT HOOVER
Dollar Liner, Bombed by Chinese
Planes, Due Wednesday in
San Francisco.


Judge and Mrs. Joseph R. Jackson
OF Washington and Mr.. and Mrs
Frank G.. Ashbrook of Bethesda, Md,
are among the passengers on the
liner President Hoover, which was
bombed by Chinese planes near Shang-
hal recently, the Dollar Line an
nounced today. They will arrive at
San Francisco next Wednesday. ac-
cording to an Associated Press dis
patch.
Jackson is an Assistant Attorney
General attached to the Customs Di-
vision, with Offices in the Internal
Revenue Building. Ashbrook is a
biologist at the Department of Agri-
culture.
Mrs. Margaret Sanger of New York.
well-known birth control advocate.
also was aboard the liner.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
K. OF C. CRUISE TONIGHT
Second Moonlight Showb boat Trip
Is Scheduled.

The Knights of Columbus of Wash
ington will conduct their second moon
light Showboat cruise down the
Potomac River tonight. They will
leave the Seventh street wharves on
the steamer City of Washington at
$50 o'clock
General chairman of the committee
in charge of the cruise is Joseph
Pricci. Other committee members
are: Francis A. McCann, Robert F.
Handley, Ted F. Mosley, Peter Acquil-
inc, Joseph Robinson, Andrew Dig
nan. William p Vogelson, Alfred P.
Netf, Ralph DelaVergne, Joseph John
son, Frank Govans, John Won Read
ding, DR.. Edward P McLarney, Dr.
Alexander Leonardo, Charles j. Dean,
Charles J. Gianoly Joseph M. Corbe,
Joseph Sheehan, William H. McCor-
mick, Kenneth Wettig and Daniel
O'Connor
Evening star., 1937-09-08
GAME PROTECTOR

Former House Speaker Named to
Virginia Commission.
RICHMOND, Va, September s (F).
Gov. Peery yesterday appointed j.
Sinclair Brown, 81, of Salem. former
Speaker of the House of Delegates for
three terms, as member of the State
Game Commission
He succeeds Richard Crane of West
over, whose term expired June 80 but
remained in office until his successor
was named
Brown is former president of the
Virginia Bankers Association.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
HISTORICAL MATERIAL
ON CONSTITUTION SHOWN
Exhibit at Public Library Will
Be Continued for Three
Weeks.

Commemorating the 15Oth ami
versary of the adoption of the Con-
stitution, the Public Library at Eighth
and K streets today opened a three
week exhibit of historical material.
Included in the display are portraits
OF the signers of the Constitution, a
copy of the Constitution and facsimiles
of documents associated with the
drafting of the Constitution.
The exhibit is being displayed under
auspices of the United States Consti-
tition Sesquicentennial Commission
and is from the collection of Herman
H. Diers, Ill Rhode Island avenue
northeast. Diers is an employe of
the Bureau of Public Roads.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
COL. PEYSER ELECTED
HEAD OF LEGION POST
NJ EN- bers of Base Ball Team, Win
ners of Title, Are Presented
With Award

Col Julius l. Peyser. Washington
attorney, last night was elected COM
nander OF the Vincent B. Costello
Post, American Legion.
Charles Kohen, manager of the Cos
tello Post base ball team, 1887 Dis
trict Legion champions. presented
team members with cup awarded
at the organizations regional con-
vention in Binghamton, N. Y.
other officers elected at the meet
ing included Martin Goerl. senior vice
commander; Capt. Charles Buck, sec
ond vice commander, and John Her.
man, third vice commander. install
lation will be next Wednesday at the
Carlton Hotel
Evening star., 1937-09-08
EIOSNESS TRIBUTE SET
Hoover Sends Message to Be Read
at Memorial Meeting.

Former President Hoover has sent
= message to be read at memorial
meeting for Michael l.. Eidsness, jr.,
late superintendent of the Division of
Stamps, Post Office Department. to be
held under the auspices of the Wash
ington Philatelic Society, in the Carl
ton Hotel tonight.
Speakers will include former Sena-
tor Dickinson Of Iowa, Representa-
tive Millard of New York, Harry L.
Llndquist, editor of Stamps Magazine
and chairman of the National Fed
Grafton Of Stamp Clubs; Max c. Johl
author of the King-Johl histories of
United States stamps, and Albert F,
Kunze, leader of the washington
Stamp Club of the Air.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
Spinach Is the Done

LONG BEACH, Calf, September 8
P).-"Spinach" she picked for soup
sent Mrs. Arthur Merrick and her
husband to hospital.
Police examined the spinach" 1t
was marijuana. a narcotic weed.
Evening star., 1937-09-08
SEEKS DIVORCE
Montgomery County Woman AL
leges Husband Deserted Her.

leges Husband Deserted Her.
ROCKVILLE, Nd, September 8
(SpeciaD Charging that she was de-
serted in March, 1923, Mrs. Corrie Lii
liam Cooksey of Montgomery County
has fled suit in Circuit Court for an
absolute divorce from William Mayo
Cooksey. She also asks to be allowed
to resume her maiden name of Field.
The petition states that the couple
were married at De Land, Fla, June
Is. 1925, and have no children. States
Attorney James H. Pugh represents
the plaintiff.
Evening star., 1937-09-08

HDE ERHAPS it is the old Ameri-
can pioneer spirit-which
i impelled us to travel over
the Blue Ridge, across the
Mississippi and beyond the Great Di-
vide-that has now created a great
new problem for plumbers" said
Thomas M. Dugan yesterday.
An expert in his line (he was once
president of the American Society of
Sanitary Engineering), Dugan believes
the most fascinating plumbing conun-
drums of our generation have been
posed by the wanderlust which is max
ing us nation of dwellers in auto
trailers.
Dugan was 10 speak on trailer SAN
Smyrna times., 1937-06-10

Collection of taxes under the so
cial security act is to be enforced
in Delaware where about 5000 en-
polyers are delinquent, Willard F.
Deputy, collector of U. S. internal
revenue for the district of Della
ware, has announced. The Supreme
Court decision upholding the valid
ity of the act has resulted in some
response, Mr.. Deputy said, but the
taxes were due long before that
under law and must be collected.
A 10 per cent penalty has already
been incurred by most of the delin-
quents, it was said. Employers
Of eight or more who have not yet
filed Treasury form $40 and paid
the excise tax Of one per cent on
their 1885 pay roll, as called for
under Title TX OF the Social Secur-
ity Act, already have incurred a
10 per cent penalty" Mr. Deputy
Smyrna times., 1937-06-10
DELEGATES TO DETROIT
Prof. George w. Wright of Smyrna
Schools MAY Attend National Meet

Prof. George w. Wright of Smyrna
Schools May Attend National Meet
The following superintendent
and classroom teachers in Della
ware have been appointed official
delegates and alternates for the
National Education Association
convention, which will be held in
Detroit June 27 : July 1, by R. w.
Helm, president of the Delaware
State Education Association: The
delegates are: DR.. H. V. Holloway,
State Superintendent of Public In
strduction, Dover; NJ. Claiming
Wagner, Assistant Superintendent
of Schools, Wilmington; E.P .Burk-
holder, Rural Supervisor, George
town; Miss Eunice Bounds, Will
mington; Thomas w. Mulrooney,
Wilmington, and j. w. Boston,
President of Kent County Teach
ers' Association, Milford. The al
ternates are: George w. Wright,
Smyrna; Miss Evelyn Stein, Will
mington; George H. Henry, Dover;
Miss Marguerite Burnett, Director
of Adult Education, Wilmington;
Miss Ethel Gibson, Greenwood, and
w. L. Torbert, Seaford, respective
w
Smyrna times., 1937-06-10
CLASS OF Is AT TOWNSEND
Graduated Tuesday Night From
Townsend Grammar School

Graduated Tuesday Night From
Townsend Grammar School
Townsend, June 10 - A large
crowd assembled Tuesday night to
do honor to eighteen graduates Of
the Townsend Grammar School.
Those who graduated were: Eliza
beth Mannering, John Guessford,
Rose Jean Guessford, Agnes Eliza
beth Murphy, Laura Elizabeth Bar
Gus, Helen Ann Daniels, Elizabeth
Thelma Conaway, Alfree Nabb,
Luke Rawley, Franklin Schafer,
Wilson Arthur Slaughter, James
Franklin Sylvester, Carl Wesley
Schwatka, Joan Lawrence, Mary
A. Guessford, Joseph Pierson, Dali
las N. Hart. and Braden McGinnis.
w. c. Money presented the certifi-
Gates of promotion with Mary
Guessford giving the acceptance
speech. An operetta, Sunny of
Sunnyside," was presented as a
feature of the commencement ex-
ercises.
Smyrna times., 1937-06-10
1000 SECURITY TAX DELINQUENTS
IN STATE SUBJECT TO PENALTY

said. There is no excuse for con-
tinued delinquency under Title TX.
Ample notice was given employ
ers of eight or more that this tax
was due from them, and them
alone, at the latest, last April l..
The employee does not pay any OF
this tax. "Only 629 employers have
paid taxes under the provisions of
Title TX and I estimate that this
falls short by at least 25 per cent
of the actual number of employers
of eight or more persons in this
district. When my deputies, in the
course of their Investigations, dis
cover these delinquents, not only
the tax but the penalties will be
assessed against them. 1t would
be well for this type of employer
to remember that officers OF cor
porations are counted as employees
for the purpose Of taxation"
Smyrna times., 1937-06-10
SCHOOL BAND
ROTARY GUEST
Prof. ]. w. McFaddin, Lead
er, and Band, Give Sew
eral Selections
DINNER AT WAYSIDE INN

The Smyrna Rotary Club was
entertained last Thursday evening
at the Wayside Inn by the John
Bassett Moore High School Band,
under the leadership of Prof. John
w. McFaddin. V. Lay Phillips ad-
dressed the band after the concert
for their splendid organization and
the quality of music they played.
The club entertained the members
of the band at dinner after the ev-
ening's concert. The Smyrna club
will present a gift to boy grad
uating from Smyrna High School,
who has attained the specified rat
ing for proficiency in scholastic
and athletic achievement. Visit
ing Rotarians: Howard Ennis of
G Georgetown-M Milsboro club; john
w. Vane of Dover club.
Smyrna times., 1937-06-10
TO LEASE LAND
AT C. & d. CANAL
Federal Government to Ac-
quire Property Along Route
to Widen Canal
LIST PROPERTY OWNERS

The Office of the u. S. Engineer,
War Department, in the custom
house building, Philadelphia, Will
receive bids June 25, for leasing
lands of the United States along
the Chesapeake and Delaware Can
al in New Castle County and also
in Cecil County, Nd. The govern
ment acquired the lands in the pro-
cess of widening and charging the
canal. Seven parcels of the lands
are located in New Castle and one
is in Cell County. The parcels
range in size from fraction of an
acre to 96 acres in size, there being
a total of about 200 acres. Leases
will be for five-year period.
Rental is to be paid in advance in
quarterly installments. Bids must
be accompanied by 25 per cent Of
the yearly rental bids. Included in
the seven parcels in New Castle
County are portions of ground for
merly belonging to Claude N. Les
ter and Benjamin Vinton at st.
Georges; Richard T. Cam III, Mel
lie D. Townsend, Lillian Draper,
Julia Ellison ct al. and WILDER,
Percy and Ida Roy in Pencader
Hundred, and WILDER, Percy and
Ida Roy in st. Georges Hundred.
The parcel in Cecil County is with
in the limits of Chesapeake City.