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The Washington times., 1937-01-06
RATE CUT
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TAKOMA PARK, Md, Jan. 6.
A substantial decrease in the
Takoma Park (Md.) tax rate for
the 1937-1938 fiscal year as a re-
suit of a general reasSessment Of
property was predicted here today.
With no general reassessment
for more than 10 years, real prop
erty valuations are so unequal a
general revaluation is deemed the
only fair solution, J. Wilson Dodd,
town clerk and treasurer, declared.
Reassessment, which got under
way this week, is expected to in
crease the present assessible basis
by more than a million dollars,
Dodd said, and a reduction Of sew
eral cents in the tax rate next
year will probably be passed to the
taxpayers.
At present a 95cent tax rate
is required on a basis of slightly
more than $5,O0O,OOO, according
tu Mr.. Dodd. If this can be in
creased to $6,OO0,00O or better, it
is estimated that the tax rate
can be lowered to around 10 cents.
Revaluation is being rushed in
an effort to have it completed
before the new fiscal year begins
July /. R. L. Houston Jones, Mil
ton Bollman and H. T. Brooks
have been appointed by Mayor
John Adams to make the survey.
The Washington times., 1937-01-06
Y. F. W. DINNER
TONIGHT

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. g.
James E. Van Zandt, past com.
nlander of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and William I. Snyder, chief
claims officer at the Veterans
Headquarters in Washington, will
be guests of the Russell Mitchell
Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
at a dinner in the George Mason
Hotel tonight.
Former Comdr. Van Zandt, now
chairman of the National Legisla-
tive Committee of Veterans, will be
the speaker at an open meeting of
the post in Eagles Hall Immediately
after the dinner.
Three members of the Russell
Mitchell Post have been elected or
appointed to State offices. They
are: Samuel B. DeVaughan, eighth
district councillor; John A. Duncan,
aide-de-camp, and Sergt. Henry
Loveless, department bugler.
The Washington times., 1937-01-06
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The Washington times., 1937-01-06
TWO BILLS SEEK
RED RIDER
REPEAL

Repeal Of the so-called RED
rider" in District school laws, un.
der which public school authori-
ties have been prohibited from
teaching or discussing the prime
Piles of Communism is proposed in
two amendments offered in the
House as part Of its opening grist.
Closely following the introduc-
ton of such an amendment to ex-
isting law by Representative Am
brose Kennedy CD Of Maryland,
Representative Kent Keller CD
of Illinois, who has applied for
membership on the District Com
mittee of the House, dropped an
other into the hopper.
Vaccination Rule
A proposal by Representative
William Lemke (R) of North Da-
kota, Union Party candidate for
President in the recent election
would wipe out the present man
datory requirement that pupils
admitted to District schools be
vaccinated before admission. His
bill would prohibit school or health
authorities from making vaccina-
ton for smallpox or incubation
against any other disease a condi-
ton of admission to any educa-
tional institution in the District.
Property owners whose prop
critics have been foreclosed would
get break under a second bill
introduced by Lemke. This meas
ure would give judgment debtors,
mortgagors and subsequent lien
holders the right of redemption
from sale of real estate in the
District by a judgment creditor or
mortgage after execution of fore
closure sale. 1t also limits the
commission allowed mortgage COM
panies for management of en-
numbered real estate.
Fairfax Post Office
A proposal authorizing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to acquire
land in the town of Fairfax, Va,
for a post office site was before
the House Committee on Post
Offices today.
This measure. sponsored by Rep
resentative Howard Smith CD of
Virginia also would authorize con-
struction of the post office build
ing and provides an appropriation
of $50, 900 for the work.
The Washington times., 1937-01-06
INAUGURATION
FUND RISES
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honor of Governor Lloyd Stark
and other Missouri dignitaries.
Meanwhile the inaugural hous-
ing and hospitality committee an
nounced that hotel and rooming &C.
commodations for visitors will be
plentiful. Edgar Morris, chair
man of the committee, said several
thousand rooms already had been
listed with the committee to care
for those unable to secure hotel
accommodate tionS.
Four units of the Regular Army
in the Third Corps Area will parti-
cipate in the inaugural parade
under command of Major Gen.
Albert j. BoWley. The units are:
Twelfth Infantry companies
from Forts Howard and Washing
ton, Md; Third Cavalry, Tenth
Cavalry machine gun troop and
first battalion of the Sixteenth
Field Artillery from Fort Myer,
Va; Thirty-fourth Infantry from
Fort George C. Meade, Md, and
Fifth Engineers from Fort Belvoir,
Va,
The Washington times., 1937-01-06

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The Washington times., 1937-01-06
ROAD
ISSUE REVIVED

Another controversy over the
control Of the Military Road,
which bisects observation-disclosures
Airport was promised in Congress
when Representative How
Smith CD of Virginia declared
he will introduce a bill designed
to transfer the ownership of the
road from the War Department to
Arlington county.
Smith pointed out the road is in
such poor condition now that it is
of little use to anyone and he
added that if it were given to Ar
lington county the county would
spend the money to resurface it.
AS long as it is owned by the War
Department, however. he said, the
county does not feel that it should
improve the road.
A similar proposal was made by
the Virginian last year, during the
controversy over the guarding of
the road. At that time Congress
indicated definitely that it did not
believe the road should be turned
over to the county.
The Washington times., 1937-01-06
Commerce Chamber
To Dine at Church

FAIRFAX, Va, Jan. 6.-Direc-
tors of the Fairfax County Cham
Der of Commerce and members Of
various committees of the county
trade body will attend a dinner
meeting tonight at the Fair
fav Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.
The dinner will be served by
members of the Volunteer Class
of the church.
The Washington times., 1937-01-06

Association 10 Meet

The annual meeting of the
Washington chapter of the Inter.
Professional Association will be
held at the chapters new per,
manent headquarters, S08 Seven
teenth st. N. W., on Friday, at 8
The organization. national in
scope, was formed to further the
economic security and civil liberty
of professional workers. Mrs.
Mary Van Kleeck, of the Russell
Sage Foundation, is national
chairman. At the meeting of the
Washington chapter officers will
be elected and committees named
for the coming year.
The Washington times., 1937-01-06
GAO. Pair Prove
Popular With
Workers

AS a general rule, supervisors
in the Government service are not
too popular with the clerks over
whom they must reign. The ne
cessity for administering discipline,
giving out work and avoiding ia
voritism makes the position some
what difficult.
Bertha Clifford, of the General
Accounting Office, however, is an
outstanding exception to this rule.
Miss Clifford, who does her
daily stint in the old Pension Of
flee Building, has only one quality
that exceeds her efficiency and
ability to handle work with ma.
chinelike precision, and that quail
ity is her talent for making people
like her.
Supervise Is Clerks
Under her immediate supervision
is a crew of IS clerks known as
checkers" because their work has
to do with handling Federal checks,
and any one of them will say Miss
Clifford is tops" Her genial per
sonality is the reason.
A native of Omaha, Neb., where
she was educated at the Central
High School, Miss Clifford came
to Washington four years ago to
begin her Government career,
General Accounting office being
the only Federal establishment
with which she has been con-
nected. Her rise to supervisory
post was swift, due to her intelli-
gence and ability to grasp prob
lens easily.
Although she likes all sports
and particularly enjoys dancing,
Miss Clifford's speciality in recrea-
tional activities is horseback rid
ing. In youth in Nebraska, she
delighted in riding bareback, and
she remains somewhat disdainful
of those whose only riding ex-
perience consists of easy jauntS in
Rock Creek Park.
'TOps" as Bowler
Miss Clifford, who lives at 1864
Girard st. N. W., also enjoys
bowling, and is a regular COM
petitor in the Catholic Ladies
League as well as several of the
G. A. o. pin organizations. Ac-
cording to fellow players, she is
also tops" at the sport.
Another employe of the General
Accounting Office who is quite
well known to fellow workers in
the old Pension Office Building
is R. S. Coad, of 5000 Connecticut
Ave. N. w.
Like Miss Clifford, Mr.. Coad is
an avid bowler in his spare time,
although he says his favorite
sport is motoring to one or an
other of the historic spots within
an hours drive of Washington.
He takes such drives frequently
on Sundays and holidays.
Likes Federal Career
Mr.. Coad, who was born at
Charlotte Hall, Md, and attended
the military academy there has
lived in Washington for the last
six years and has been q Govern
ment employe for three of them.
Prior to his entrance in Uncle
Sans service he studied at Loyola
College in Baltimore and the
Georgetown University Prepara-
tory School, entering G. A. o. in
1888 to become a clerk in the
searching and transcribing section.
He says that sales work, push
ing" articles placed on the market
by commercial firms, would have
been his career if he hadn't joined
Federal ranks. But he says he is
glad he selected a Government
career, having made numerous
friends and found the work en-
tirely to his satisfaction, with the
opportunity for unlimited progress.
The Washington times., 1937-01-06
Food Exports Drop

American exports of foodstuffs
registered a sharp decline during
November because of the mari
time strike, the Commerce Depart
ment reported today. Total ex-
ports Of food products were valued
at $13.6S4 900. about half the No
vember, 1885, figure Of $26,75S,-
900.
The Washington times., 1937-01-06
Purse Thief Gets So

Edith Piron, 2140 o st. N. W.,
reported to police today that
white man snatched her purse last
night as she was walking near her
home.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

modern motor, its high tempera-
ture and the comparatively small
cooling system make this cleaning
almost imperative. The moment
that any deposits of grease, scale.
or rust lodge in the cooling system.
they raise the engine temperature.
Resultant overheating will en6an-
ger the car because any tendency
to boil will Immediately result in
loss of anti-freeze.
THE only insurance & ain
heavy repair bills" the bulletin
says. sis prompt preparatto o n
against cold weather. A water pump
or a motor that is frozen, or a dead
battery, may easily destroy the me
chanical efficiency of the car. Rust
deposits win form with great rapid
ity in the cooling system if a water
pump is permitted to leak. Such a
leak sucks In air and the greatest
rust creator known is air mixed
with water.
THE day LIS long past when 1t is
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

it reached $10,675, which was the
successful bid, made by Joseph l..
Carpenter, Jr. There is mort
gage on the property of $4,000.
A movement is on foot among
the young men of Dover to raise
funds for the erection of a monu-
ment to the memory of Caesar
Rodney, says the Index: The body
lies in an open field on the Pardee
farm in Jones' Neck, about four
miles from Dover, with nothing to
mark its resting place but a large
rough stone upon which is inscrib-
ed nothing but the name of him
who lies underneath.
The papers give an account of a
thrilling adventure of DR.. Cahau of
Frederica last week. 1t is a little
singular that all the incidents the
man dressed in women's clothes,
the dropping of the whip and the
latter getting out to get it, the
finding of the loaded pistol in the
muff, the effort of a confederate
further on trying to catch the
bride of his horse and the doctor
firing two pistol shots at hi mfrom
the pistol left in the muff, &C., are
the exact incidents of a similar
event which occurred some weeks
ago near Philadelphia, and pub
lished in the daily papers. It is a
singular coincidence.
The Rev. J. A. B. Wilson, D. D.,
presiding elder of the Dover dis
trict, is about to be appointed SUI
perintendent Of the Bulgarian Mis-
sion of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. No man in the Whining
ton Conference has done any more
to bring up the work of the church
than he has. When he was ap-
pointed presiding elder of the Sal
isbury district, the district was
considered the worst off in the CON
ference. When he left it last
spring it stood number 5 out of
over $50 presiding elders districts
in the whole church, and under his
administration the Dover District
is being enthused as it never was
before and, if we are not mistaken
the Dover district will lead confer
ence next spring.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

business. Some of these are a sue-
pension of the 2 per cent age in
surance reserves.
WAR REFERENDUM-The e,ih
ject of war is to be an important
one in the Special Session and con
sequently much talk of a new nen-
trality law will be heard. In the
house an appeal for an amendment
to the Constitution to provide for
popular referendum preceding
any declaration of war was start
ed.
SAVING BONDS - If persons
holding U. S. Saving bonds, need
cash at once, they may cash in
their bonds. Provision has been
made by the Treasury Department
to pay Immediately by Federal Re
serve banks any U. S. Savings
bond, properly certified, registered
and the name of either person or
of incorporated or unincorporated
body that is in its own right.
NEW PUBLICATION -Corn-hog
farmers who are worried by soil
losses and declining fertility Will
find practical answers to many of
their erosion problems in new
Farmers Bulletin, No. 1895, Con
serving Corn Belt Soil" the De-
partment of Agriculture has an
nounced.
ROAD BUILDING More than
$4,000 miles of all classes of high
way were brought to completion in
the fiscal year 1887. This mileage
exceeded by several hundred miles
the work completed in the previous
year and also the record of q. 700
miles completed in 1884.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

DRAUGHTS of Arctic cold,
- spreading down across the
Canadian border. have led to a gen
-eral warning from the American
Automobile Association to the mil
lions of car owners who must meet
the first onslaught of Winter. There
are 14,000,000 cars in the "snow
belt" the A.A.A. points cut, whose
owners should lcse no time prepar-
ing their motors for the rigors soon
TO come.
Experience with the ravages
that can result from frozen meters
has caused motorists generally to
take steps at the first hint of freez-
ing weather" says the A-A-A.. cali
ling special attention to the steps
which car owners should take be
fore putting in their new supply OF
santifreeze.
A complete cleaning OF the cool
ing system is necessary, automotive
experts remind us, especially In
new cars. The high speed of the
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

time and attention to it. Some
hundreds of monographs were
manufactured, and are now to be
found in scientific institutions,
where they are exhibited as cur
Iiosities, but nothing more. Edison
said that Notwithstanding all his
hard work upon the electric light
the phonograph would bob up in
his mind, so to speak, at the most
unexpected moments. When he met
some apparently fatal objection to
his lamp and saw the results of
weeks of toll come to nothing, he
would revert to his phonograph and
think over his experiments which
he jotted down for the future;
when he was completely tired out
with experimental work in his lab
oratory, when he was unable to
sleep at night, when travelling In
search of health, the phonograph,
in spirit at least was his constant
companion. In Edison's laboratory
which he is now finishing at a cost
of nearly a quarter Of a million
dollars, and which will be the most
perfect affair Of its kind in the
world, the phonograph stands on
a table with the battery cells un-
derneath. A little switch causes
the motor to begin revolving at the
rate of eighty revolutions a min
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

necessary to take off the radiator
and get directly at water jacket
passages about the motor In order
to clean the cooling system. A new
type of cleaner has been developed
which, at one operation, removes
completely all rust, scale, oil and
grease, and this without damage to
any of the metal parts. The service
station can easily get at such de-
posits without taking down the
cooling system. Thus, the car own
er is saved great many dollars
because in modern and streamlined
cars it is very expensive to remove
radiator"
All cooling systems should be
thoroughly b Q C d /, the A-A-A.
warns. and all connections tight
ened before any protective solution
Is put in. Finally. automotive au-
thorities agree that the careful car
owner should use only the best
standard anti-freeze, not one of the
''boil-away" type.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
PERSONALS

Miss Verena Croplaey, Of Sud
lersville, Md, is visiting Miss May
Primrose.
Miss Min Sutliff, Of Delmar, is
visiting relatives in town.
John H. VanGasel and daughter,
Miss Topsy VanGeseI, of Dento, d
Md, were guests of Mr.. and Misses
Fell from Saturday to Monday.
Alice, the youngest daughter Of
Superintendent 1. N. Mills, gave a
pleasant party to her young Dover
friends on Friday night at her
home, in Clayton.
Hon. w. c. P. Breckenridge, of
Kentucky, who is to lecture here
on next Wednesday evening, is not
the man who took part in the little
bout at fisticuffs in the Democratic
Congressional caucus of Saturday
evening; that Breckenridge writes
@. R. before his name and halls
from Arkansas. BY the way, our
Mr.. Breckenridge will leave Smyr-
na to speak in the Academy Of Mu-
sic, Philadelphia, on Thursday ev-
ening at a hugh reception given in
the interest of peaceful solution of
international disputes by the Ar
bitration Commission.
A private note from D. w. Trum-
peller, Of Jacksonville, Florida,
says: 'I expect soon to make my
home permanently in your town
and State. Times are very dull
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

ute; it makes no noise and will be
covered up in the finished instru-
ment. AS soon as it starts a wax
roller may be placed upon the met
al one and the impining diaphragm
brought to bear upon the wax; the
second the needle point touches the
wax low singing sound can be
heard from the diaphragm. This
shows that all is ready. The speak
er can then talk to the phonograph,
using a small mouthpiece. On a
cylinder of wax, four inches long
by one and a quarter inches in di-
ameter, 300 words can be marked.
The line of dots is in a spiral,
round and round the cylinder. No
shouting is necessary merely a
clear and distinct tone. ITO Illus
trate how perfectly this phono-
graph gives back what is said to
it, says one witness, left the room
while Edison read out to the
phonograph a long list of geogra-
phical names of the different points
connected by certain electric
table, and upon coming back to the
room I listened and repeated what
! heard. At first, owing to an ac-
cident to one of the adjustion
screws, nothing but a confused
tumble resulted; when this was fix
ed 1 could distinguish nineteen
words out of twenty, and when the
room was quiet, which was not al
ways the case, as workmen were
busy all over the building, I could
make out every syllable. Edison
himself, after a number of expert
ments in the quiet of his own
house, has no hesitation in saying
that it will be possible to use the
phonograph constantly as a reader
for party of people sitting around
a table, but, of course, the utmost |
silence must be preserved. He has,
he is slightly deaf, heard
whole sentences distinctly at a dis
tance of five feet, when a good fun
mel was used which magnified the
sound" Edison confidently believes
that the phonograph will do away
with the necessity of writing for
the printer at all; the editor and
the reporter of the future will talk
to the phonograph and send the
up to the composing
room.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Peter N. Bremen, Treasurer OF
the Lobdell Car Wheel Company, OF
Wilmington, died on Saturday ev-
ening.
A school Of sulphur bottom
whales has appeared off the Della
ware capes, and has awakened the
interest of fishermen.
The marriage of ]. B. Connor of
FELTON,, and Miss Annie Seward of
Little Creek Neck, is announced
for tomorrow.
Mrs. Sarah a. Wilson, widow of
Capt. John P. Wilson and mother
of Rev. J. A. B. Wilson, DID,, Sam
uel ]. Wilson and Rev w. W. w.
Wilson, died in Milton, Thursday,
aged sc years.
Irving Boggs, a young printer of
Dover, left for Cape Charles City
on Saturday night to take charge
of a paper at that place. J. Clyde
Davis, another typo, on Thursday
morning will leave for Chester
town, Nd, with the same object in
view.
The officers Of the Delaware Ma
tional Guards at Dover last week
elected Capt. George w. Marshall,
Of Company B, Milford, lieutenant
colonel of the First Regiment His
predecessor, A. G. Boyle, Of Dover,
resigned during the encampment
at Rehoboth last July.
The executors of the late Judge
Wootten sold the Ebbitt House,
No. 1907 Market street, Whining
ton, at public sale on Saturday.
The property was started at $4,000,
and the price advanced slowly until
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

American a
mile journey burning
Calcutta, Inda Southampton, England,
Chevrolet which had travelled
they set The photographs highgh of the
Top left John Fuller Stanford University junior and of
the welded
Of Calcutta at the end of long, hard day. Top right
forced walk miles of
pushing the terrain utterly to
Left, Richard
after unusually of
1000
than in again. butt
Swiss Alps, Motz Cold nights
130pius of the Syrian Desert.
Below, left, made by
fourth member of the Baghdad and
Below, right. curious Afghans the car.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

Continuous row crops and un-
protected fallow result in costly
soil losses. When soil is lost at
the rate shown in the chart, ero-
sion requires IS years to remove Z
inches of top soil from land in un-
protected fallow, A years to re-
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
THE EDISON PHoNoGKzPH

TILE EDISON PHONOGKAPH
Edison, the electric inventor, has
not hitherto allowed anyone to see
his new phonograph in working or
der, but he has just given the first
exhibition of what the new instru-
ment will do. In 1877 Edison gave
up work upon the phonograph and
turned his attention to the eleceric
light. The phonograph required a
large amount Of costly experiment
ing, and he could find very few
capitalists willing to advance
money for the perfection of what
would probably turn out to be
nothing more than toy. The cleo
trio light offered a commercial fu-
ture, and Edison devoted all his
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09
The Gum on P. o. Stamps

Although one must wet a postage
stamp to make it stick, the compo-
sition Of the gum used on the
stamp is 38 per cent water, IS per
cent dextrine and 4 per cent glu-
cose.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

move Z inches from land in contin-
uous row crops, $4,000 years to re-
mve the same amount of soil from
land in grass, and $4,000 years to
lose z inches of soil from land in
virgin woods.
Smyrna times., 1937-12-09

WAGES AND HOURS = The
wages and hours bill is still in the
Rules Committee. The petition to
discharge the committee is pro-
crossing slowly as 218 signatures
is quite large number to muter.
BUSINESS AID ~ Studies are
being conducted designed to help