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Evening star., 1937-10-10

are listed as engaged in this work out
of a total Of nearly l48,000. Not q
large percentage, to be sure, but who
shall say it lacks significance?
There are more than 200 members
OF the weaker sex" carrying on as
builders and building contractors In
this country, while the number of pro-
fessional women bakers is nearly g.
600. No less than so women are earn
ing livelihood as carpenters. Edi-
tors know the efficiency of women
linotype operators, compositors and
typesetters and it will come as no sur
prise to them, perhaps, that more
than 10000 American women are in
this line of work.
IMAGINE woman running a der
rick! Yet unless Uncle Sam has
erred badly in his researches, four
women are doing just that thing. One
woman is employed as a fireman, but
Uncle Sam qualities that with a
parenthetical except locomotive and
fire department" However, there is
no qualification to the statement that
the country boasts SO feminine glass
blowers, IS loom fixers, millwrights,
19 garage hands and airplane me-
chanic. There's real versatility, but
even that by no means calls the ROLL
Note. further. that there are in the
United States no less than 40 women
who qualify as millers in grain, -four,
feed, and the like, while 10 women
are supporting themselves and fami-
lies as molders. founders or casters.
More than 40 are oilers of machinery.
We will avoid any punning comment
on the fact that although Uncle Sam
lists nearly 5000 women as painters"
he hastens to extend the classical
ton to include GLACIERS and enamel
ers." The fact that there are about
Is feminine piano and organ tuners
is not so surprising as to discover the
existence of nearly 1900 women pa
Evening star., 1937-10-10
DANCING.

Dance smartly in few private lessons On.
OF WAshinEton's foremost dance instrur-
lress. Catherine Bale. I341 Conn Ave y
PEYTON PENN STUDIO, is45 at. NV.
Met; $3.50. Modern dancing, ballroom
speciality; standard routines, ballroom
etIauette Please telephone evenings.
Lanslotz Studios. 2sI5 Connecticut-Pri-
yate lessons, day or night Ball room classes
Wednesday nights; also stage and reducing
cl.sses. Branch Studio. CherrydaIe. Va.
Class for business girls now
starting. Tues, Fri. night
Low weekly rates. Costume
It'll Free. DI. 1913.
CANELLIS DANCE STUDIOS
Evening star., 1937-10-10

street and highway 1aborers. One
woman is found in the ranks Of the
white wings. Women gained promi-
nence as street car workers during
the war. There remain five women
"motormen."
Among the radio operators there are
46 women expert in their line. while
no less than $500 women are en-
ployed as advertising agents. Under
the provocative heading brokers not
specified and promoters" one notes
that 554 women are listed There are
more than 1,700 women stock brokers.
More than l10 other women who earn
living delivering parcels for bakeries
and other stores, driving cars or other
conveyances in the course of their
duties.
Men by no means have a monopoly
on the insurance field, for 10000 wom-
en- are acting as agents, with a total
Evening star., 1937-10-10

and 849 women are listed as police
men" Looking still further, one notes
total Of So women who qualify as
marshals and constables.
Uncle Sans busy researchers have
found that of the $4,000 editors and
reporters in the country 10000 are
women and that Of the II 900 dentists
1900 are daughters of Eve. Twenty
one American women are classed as
inventors
There are several rather piquant
classifications under semi professional
and recreational pursuits" Here we
learn that "a women are keepers of
billiard rooms, dance halls and skating
rinks, while more than $500 are keep
ers of pleasure resorts. race tracks,
etc" One hundred and eighty are
drawing pay as radio announcers and
executives in the realm of the micro
phone.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Yohh4~ . pldlc Is every WIleT6,
IA not just the home!
" " The authority for that
statement is no less a per-
eon, or personification, than Uncle
Sam. In the data his Census Bureau
has collected on the activities of those
who reside in the United States, it is
revealed that there is nothing which
the fair sex cannot do. Profession
ally-aS distinct from amateurishly-
women are listed as artisans in the
building trades, as woodchoppers and
even as blacksmiths.
All of this. naturally, is over and
beyond the fact that women are stead
lily expanding their domain in busi-
ness Offices and in a host of pro-
fessions.
There is nothing broad and general
about this data which Uncle Sam has
collected on the sphere of the fair SEX
1t is backed up by figures that are en-
gagingly specific.
1t shows. for instance, that more
than 200 women rate as fishermen
and oystermen. while there are al
most 100 women classified as lumber
men, raftsmen and woodchoppers. In
the mining industry there are scores
Of women operatives and numerous
women officials and handful of FEM
tnine overSeerS.
By digging deeply into Uncle Sans
capacious and revealing files We learn
there are % women apprentices to
the building and hand trades out of a
total of 10000. There are five women
carpenters apprentices; seven elec-
tricians' apprentices, and six machin-
lists apprentices.
Not even so brawny trade as that
which comes under the heading
"blacksmiths, forgemen and hammer
men" has escaped the fine feminine
hand Nine precedent-defyinp women
Evening star., 1937-10-10
UNDER WASHINGTON

tinue it as means of escape for her
self and family if the British shoult
return to burn the White House. His
tory proves that Dolly was right in hel
belief that this event would come Il
pass. The British, however, arrive<
too unexpectedly for Dolly to reaci
the room that gave entrance to tn,
tunnel, and the story is that she flee
down the street and clambered ovel
the wall of the Octagon House, tear
ing her rufaed pantaloons Slaves
followed her later through the tun
mel, bearing with them pictures ane
other articles that Mistress Dolly hae
gathered hastily together. The Stuart
painting OF George Washington Is sale
to have been carried on this flight
through the tunnel. An excellent copy
Of the painting now hangs over the
mantelpiece in the drawing room o.
the Octagon House.
IN THOSE DAYS the Potomac was
much nearer the White HOUSE
than 1t is now, and the second branch
of the tunnel led to the waters edge
The passage is, of course, choked to-
day, but during the course Of excava.
tions evidence was brought to light
which seemed to bear out the truth
of the story that such a tunnel actually
existed.
This was the underground passage
that conspirators proposed to use in q
plot to hdnap President Lincoln. Sc
well defined was the plot, it Is said
that a boat was waiting at the mouth
of the tunnel to bear the abducted
President down the Potomac. Thu
plot is said to have been brewed in the
old Surratt house at 604 H street
where the conspirator5 met.
Several plans for making away with
Lincoln were discussed, including
assassination, which was finally car.
ried out. But the kidnapping plot
was advanced to the point of enlistine
the aid of George Atzerodt, who hae
been engaged in ferrying passenger
and contraband goods to the Virgins
shore, to transport the abduction party
across the Potomac, once they emerged
from the tunnel Also relays oi
horses were made ready along wha,
was known as the underground
route" to get the party on its way
About the middle Of March, 1865
word was received along the under.
ground route" that relays were ready
and roads and time were propitiou.
for going forward with the plot. Lin.
coin owed his life. on that occasion
to q change in his evenings plan
and the Octagon tunnel was nevel
used for its nefarious purpose.
So, from hating plants to intrigue
Washington has its tunnels. And
when final appropriations have gon'
forward for that purpose, subway
will be added to the network. Th'
first Of these, as public utility, ant
an escape from the congested tram,
| that streams across our surface street
Just before 8 o'clock and Just afte
every day in the Capital, will b
the subway desisned to link the North
east from the region Of Capitol Hill
with the Northwest section Of uppe
Connecticut avenue. This subway, 1
present plans are carried through
without change, will run, in its course
underneath Dupont Circle, thereb!
cutting of one Of the most daneerou
trafic Intersections In Washington to
day. Also, it will whisk hundreds o
Government workers to and from wor'
in. hgurativeH speaking, the wink o
an eye.
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like a nightmare city. wrapped in
utter darkness and pervaded by pro-
found and eerie silence, the noises of
the city above completely shut out by
the earth itself and the insulation of
the channels.
In addition to these thousand or
more miles under the earth, there are
5000 other miles of damp, dark. pas
sageways There are 1900 miles of
gas mains and almost 1000 miles of
electric power conduits. Then there
are the street car pits, the f1re-alarm
lines. traffic light cables and telephone
cables, contributing to the web of
passageways that honeycomb sub
surface Washington. AS matter of
fact downtown Washington is almost
entirely undermined, its structure
resting, howbeit, on sturdy under
pinnings.
Subterranean passages have, though,
q more colorful association than these
purely utilitarian aspects. Caves and
secret tunnels have always been as
sociated with romance and bright
danger. Eloping lovers have fed down
secret corridors: a great naval hero
once escorted q lovely lady and a
French queen to safety through an
underground passage; a gunpowder
plot was laid in the depths of the
earth Similarly, Washington does
not lack for her glamorous secret
passageways, nor that flavor Of SUBJ
terranean romance. Have you ever
visited, for example, the secret stair
way and the hidden tunnel IN the
Octagon House?
This tunnel once connected this
famous old house with the White
House, and another branch once
gave onto the Potomac, but both these
branches have been cut off by exca-
vations for the modern buildings that
now intercept its course on either
hand.
STANDING at the junction of
~ Eighteenth street and New York
avenue. below Pennsylvania avenue,
the Octagon House was built in 1898,
but was not actually completed until
1900. Col. John Tayloe, who had
been persuaded by his friend, George
Washington. to build on the site
selected by the first President, was the
owner OF the establishment, which
was famed in its day for its lavish
hospitality. Even today tales are told
of ghosts" who haunt the place.
The tunnel can be traversed today
for a short distance, though it is
blocked so that 1t no longer gives
egress either behind a fireplace in
the Executive Mansion, where 1t once
Is said to have opened, or into that
Potomac cave. However, there b
enough of the old tunnel left to provide
q pleasant adventurous glow for the
explorer. The prelude to descent is
in itself alluring. One goes through
an 1ngeniously concealed curved door,
way that opens onto secret stair
case leading into the cellar of the
old house and the entrance Of the
tunnel.
This subterranean passageway is
about Z feet high, with a circular roof
OF masonry, brick walls and 4 dirt
floor. It twists and winds for q short
distance and one can still make out
the beginnings of the branch that
led In other days to the White House.
Tradition reports that this branch
was built at the request Of Dolly Mad
tBon, who urged Col, Tayloe to con-
Evening star., 1937-10-10
By Mary Jane Moore.

w YOMANS place is everywhere
not just the home!
Wv The authority for that
statement is no less a per
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Funny Men of Pictures
Often Are Shy Lads
Bob Benchley and Jack Oakie
AS Comic Off the Screen
AS On, However.
By Sh@Iah Graham.

HOLLYWOOD NANA).-The mem screen n,t.
shock when majority unf,nnv
Some are positively gloomy And
May grateful when some laughs
cracks Only two bring their ue-Roe
Benchey and '' ~ N'
Bencheys laugh the humort outlaws easv and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-13
Cn AMllINl CRACKERS

i. News of the Dionne quin- tuplets has filled newspapers for three papers. Can you name the ! five famous sisters?
 2. A pyre is:
 a dock for boats;
 a musical instrument;
 a burning pile;
 an ecclesiastical official;
 8 Iong-tailed bird.
 8. Look through your letters to find how rouge conceals a scoundrel. 4. One of the following married while serving as President of United States:
 Washington, Grant, Garfield, Taft, Wilson.
 5. If you have some pennies in your right hand and you dropped them into your left hand, one at a time, counting g clinks, how many pennies would you have in your left hand?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-13
coprish., ,q,,. NEA ssme., I"s.

"Oh, good heavens, inspector, what insane thing are you instnu- atingl"
 I'm not insinuating anything Please answer my question"
 "Jill doesn't smoke generally I've seen her take a cigaret on oc- casions. Very rarely. She doesn't like them"
 But under nervous excite ment-"
 John paled perceptibly; he die not answer.
 "We must question your sister, Waldrop resumed. we must know the reason why she left home be. fore it was good daylight on cold, snowy morning without 2 word to a member of her family"
 He turned to the telephone. Jack stood like stone while the inspec- tor spoke professional into thu receiver: call all cars with in. struction to pick up Jill Went worth, who is driving a custom built tan Pierce the license number is :"
 (TO Be COntinuedD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-13
STORES; IN x. \ A Np \.
EahWs4,raror
 OurMoveo Rer,r4

CENSING British strategy, Gen. O George Washington in October, l776, withdrew his forces from the north end of Manhattan and con-: centrated them in the much stronger position near White Plains, N. Y.
 Capt. Nathan Hale had just been captured on Manhattan Island, while seeking information within the British lines, and had been ex- ecuted as spy.
 On the 28th General Howe ad- vanced to Washington's position and found the Americans strongly intrenched and quite equal in numbers. He hesitated, doubted and. finally, spurred on to do something, sent 4000 men to storm Chatterton's hill. After a sharp, short action, some 1900 Americans retreated to the main army, hav- ing lost only half as many men as the British.
 Encouraged, Howe then sent for endorsements and waited two days. The third it rained, and the next, when Howe finally moved, he found Washington had with- drawn to a higher and quite im- pregnable position. Here Washing ton held all the passes and await ed attack. Howe studied the pic. ture for two or three days longer and then withdrew without a shot to Dobb's Ferry, a wasted maneu- yer. The so-called battle of White Plains is commemorated by a 1926 U. s. stamp.
 (Copyright. 1887. NEA Service. Inc. )
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-13
TO COLLEGE IN SCOOTER

Storrs, Conn. (UP) = Fred Craige, Connecticut State College freshman, who fractured an ankle in a fall from a tree, solved the problem of keeping up his class work by using 8 scooter bike. Rest ing his inured foot on the bike, he propelled himself about the cam pus without discomfort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-13
Todays Answers to
 CRANlUM CRACKERS

1. The Dionne quints are An nette, Cecile, Emile, Marie. Yvonne ?. A pyre is burning pile.
 3. Rogue" is the scoundrel masked by "rougue."
 1. Wilson married while Presl- dent.
 5. Twenty-four pennies. The first one did not clink.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-13
FORMER MODELS

Alan Curtis and Priscilla Lawson were once models for John Powers in New York. They never met until both were recently placed under contract by Metro Goldwyn- Mayer studios,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-13
cAsT 0r CHARACTERs

NkA04 VT OAAAAANAAO -~@SNS
 JILL WENTWORTH, heroine, attractive debutante.
 ALAN JEFFRY, hero, rising young artist.
 BARRY WENTWORTH, JiIrs stepbrOther.
 JACK WENTWORTH, Jil's brother.
 SYLVIA SUTTON, oil heiress. Yesterday: Mrs. Wentworth finds her husband dead and Bar " standing over him with a marble paperweight in his hand. Immediately she sends Barry to bed to avert suspicion. Later the house is aroused but Jill is ab- sent.
Evening star., 1937-07-01
ARTHUR C[AWS0N
DIES HERE At 50
Physio|ogist of Agriculture
Department Will Be Buried
tomorrow.

Arthur Brooks Clawson, SO, phsio-
logist in charge Of stock poisoning
plant investigations for the Bureau OF
Animal Industry. Agriculture Depart
ment. died yesterday at his home, 1884
Monroe street, after an illness Of sew
eral months. Death was due to
cerebral thrombosis, with which he
was stricken while engaged In field
work in Utah.
More than 20 years with the Agri-
culture Department., Mr. Clawson was
considered by his associates as the
best-informed person in the country
on stock poisoning plants He had
studied stock raising throughout the
United States, particularly on the
West Coast, and his work had greatly
aided in the prevention Of poisoning
OF stock by plants
When stricken in Utah, Mr.. Clawson
was engaged in the study Of a sleeps
disease which causes the animals
heads to swell He was author and
co-author Of numerous Government
publications and special articles, par
ticularly those dealing with poisonous
plants.
Native Of Wisconsin.
native of Green Lake, Wis, Mr..
ClaWson was graduated in 1904 with
an A. B. degree at the University
OF Michigan. He later took post
graduate work at the university of
Chicago and University of Wisconsin,
Before coming here he was instructor in
biology at Lake Forest, ILL.,. University.
Mr.. ClaWson was fellow OF the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Science, a member of
the Botanical and Biological Societies
OF Washington, the Illinois Academy
OF Science. the Wisconsin Academy of
Science, the Sigma XII Fraternity and
the Cosmos Club.
He also had long been active in the
Masonic fraternity, being Thirty
second Degree Scottish Rite Mason
and member of Albert Pike -Consistory
here. He belonged to the Mount
Pleasant Citizens Association.
Widow Survives.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ethel
Clawson; his mother, Mrs. Ada Claw
son. and nephew, Lester Williams,
both of Green Lake, Wis.
Funeral services will be held at
$50 pm. tomorrow in Hines funeral
home, 290l Fourteenth street Burial
will be at Green Lake.
Evening star., 1937-07-01
Tax Quiz
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continued From First PaHe)
the youthful-appearing lawyer as
serted.
Referring to 1885 tax returns, Bruton
said is individual returns were filed
by the trustees, showing separate trust
incomes aggregating sl7O,236, on
which taxes totaled Sl0.930.
He said an individual exemption had
been claimed for each trust and that
the splitting of income among the is
trusts resulted In drastic reduction
Of snrtaxes"
Had one trust been created" he
added, "the trustees would have paid
s77,3ll. or s66,31 more than they did.
Had no trusts been created and the
trust income included in that OF Mrs.
Clark. the total taxes collected would
have been approximately 800 900 more
than have been paid"
Favor Eliminating Exemptions.
In response to questions from COM
mlttee members, Roswell Magill, I'm
dersecretary of the Treasury. said he
had been working with legislative
craftsmen and they agreed one plug"
that might be adopted to fill the trust
fund loophole in the tax law would be
to eliminate exemptions where per-
sonal trusts are concerned.
Representative Crowther, Repub-
lican, of New York said he believed
there had been negligence on the part
Of the Treasury" in failing to inform
congressional committees working on
tax legislation in recent years Of the
contentious cases" now being brought
to light
Magill said it was his impression this
information had been presented.
"Of course, the reason we are bring
ing them in now" he said, "is because
Of the increased Use of the devices
which is costing us great deal OF
revenue
Representative Treadway, Repub-
lican of Massachusetts remarked that
Treasury experts, including Magill,
must have known about the use of the
devices because Magill had written a
book entitled. Taxable Income" in
which some of them were described.
Evening star., 1937-07-01
MISS ANN SMITH DIES
Falls Church Resident Survived
by Sister-Rites Tomorrow.

by Sister-Rites Tomorrow.
FALLS CHURCH. Va, July l (Spe-
ciaD Miss Anna Smith died yester-
day after a three-Week illness She
had been a resident of Falls Church
for l l years, coming here from Buffalo,
N. Y. and was actively interested in
the Falls Church Episcopal Church.
She is survived by her sister, Miss
Agnes Smith Of Falls Church. Funeral
services will be held tomorrow at the
Falls Church Episcopal Church at 2
pm.
Evening star., 1937-07-01
1t1 Mrn1nrtau1.

BOYDE. SADIE A. A tribute to the sweet
mem9rS TntaG of our faithful; loving and de-
BoYDE. who left US e' two years sn aso to. o.
day. July J. 1885
Love and remembrance will live for.
AND CH1LDREN MRS MRS SO m,EAN0R S0FDs :
". CURTAIN jR,. AND %7hITzR WfLnfAR ". W BoYpE! aaGMAs ;
COLBERT, EDWARD. A tribute Of love to
ahe ea 'u5 cohBERf fisE husSsnd aho ded ied
July l. 1925.
MARY E. COLBERT AND FAMILY.
GRANT y = . DoNALD; y, In memory of DON
year ago today. July ]. 1896.
In my heart your memory fingers
You were loving. kind and true;
Thrre is not no a day that passes
yqSK PEVof2f1b SS ri 'HRh %irR: e GERTRUDE
HETTENKEMER. ANNIE E. In sad bu,
loX,ng .Nyn4 remembranee 9t my dear mother
rsth,. who departed. this life twenty -one
HER I IovINe VIM Is son. LOUIS. :
JOHNSON. ANNIE E. BARKER. tribute
s HNE + qsTaEz e joHSsoN aYE sse5 9h Sho
passeedd ede away nine years ago today. July
Iod gave US a wonderful mother
She WAS enc who never grew old:
Goa made her smile as the sunshine,
He made her heart Of pure gold.
I know wherever the year may lead
Your love Will follow. too:
And though there are mothers every
There was never one like you.
HER DEVOTED CHILDREN. ANDREW
CLAUDE CATHERINE AND MA
TILDA
You brought me loads Of sunxhine
You cheered me along life's way;
You made this earth seem like heaven
BY your many loving ways.
YOUR FOSTER DAUGHTER. GATH
ER1NE WILLIAMS
TIMER. EVELYN J. In loving memory
OF my dear mother EVELYN j. TIMER,
who left me twenty years ago today.
July 1. 1917.
Beautiful memories Of one so dear
I'll always cherish with love sincere;
4 day that comes with sad regret
And one that ! shall never forget
HER DEVOTED DAUGHTER. RUTH