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Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-01-05

Bass inette
Practically new; Kapok mattress.
l Northway.
Notary Public
George Y. Bryant, 56 c Crescent Road.
(Applications for Civil Service exam
nations and other legal papers must
be notariged.)
Haircutting
All typos CT haircutting and barber
ing by Mr.. Ju1iana. Call at l G
Northway after 500 I'm.
Haircutting
Haircuts, shaves ma ssages, etc., by
MIR. Scardillis. ladies' haircutting
q speciality. By appointment at
Eo stway.
Driving Instructor
Will give lessons in driving. Prepa-
ration for taking drivers permit
examinations. Kerl Coblenzer,
Eestway.
General House Work
Floors waved, general household re-
3 EastWay.
Piano Lessons
SC cents per hour, all ages Of pu-
pills accepted, by German educated
instructor, Mrs. Kate Coblenzer,
E Eostway.
Pablo Repairing
Will cell at home for free estimate.
3 Hillside, Phone Greenbelt 279l.
Lost and Found
Lost, Dec. 8, childs brown galoshes,
size or 3--near or around Lidge Road.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-01-05

Tenor Banjo
Vera, Professional Model with Case.
Cost $500. will sell for $25 cash.
A. c.. Lehman, 3 c Eastway.
Bassinette
Practically new; Kapok mattress.
l A Northway.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-01-05
Lo st end Found

Lost, Dec. 8, childs brown galoshes,
size or 3--near or around Iidge Road.
IF found, please notify Mrs. Wright,
Il 4 Ridge Road.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-01-05
Services

Notary Public
George ". Bryant, Sc Crescent Road.
(Applications for Civil Service exam
nations and other legal papers must
be notari1ed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
cAsT nF cHARAcTERs

GALLY BLAIR - heroine. She had everything that popularity could win her, except DAN REYNOLDS = hero. He might have had Sally but while he was king on skis COREY PORTER was king of the social whirL So But 60 on with the story.
 
 Yesterday: EnrOute to . party, COrey's car is smashed and Dan is to go back with Corey to as- sist him. Craftily, Corey plans on this trip to tell Dan the truth about his benefactOr, SalIy's father.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30

he had been tired and 1t had been late it did not sound like him.
 Yet it was true that Dan had to be at the office on time and he was very conscientious. It was not necessary for Sally co have two young men to see that she was escorted home safely. Corey was driving the car, so he had to be the one to return. Sally supposed she was still being silly to feel disappointed; she even felt a bit hurt.
 "You mustn't hold it against Dan," Corey said, making mag niflcent gesture of taking the abe sent boys part. q told him I knew you'd understand, Sally. I even hoped you wouldn't mind as long as I came back"
 "Of course I don't mind," Sally said generously. It was nice of Corey to defend Dan. She was silly to feel as she had.
 Someone in the crowd laughed and remarked, sotto voice, but 6dl1y OVGIxlCdIu 1G MY UCbo cA . on Heads. Anyone want to take it?"
 Fudge had named Corey heads" when he had suggested Sally toss 8 coin to choose between them. Sally felt 8 hot flash of anger. They were always making dares, these gay young friends of hers, always treating everything so lightly, as if nothing was of any serious consequences. Her friend- ship with Dan had begun on a dare. A dare that had nearly wrecked it.
 Sally was through with such nonsense. If she could have she would have told Dan the whole truth tonight. She still would tell him the very first chance she got.
 How could she know that that chance was lost to her, perhaps forever?
 (T0 Be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
STORIES IN <. \" AM ' <
UNITED Srarrs pos1AcE
Coolidge Turned His Back On the Presidency

As early as the spring of 1927, a
 movement got under way to re-elect Calvin Coolidge, then serving his second term. But the quiet New Englander wanted no more of the most difficult office in the country. On Aug. 2, 1927, he set about to cut short the re-elec. ton campaign.
 He did it at his summer office in the Black Hills of South Da- kota, issuing one of the briefest but most historic presidential statements of all time, q do not choose to run for President in 1928"
 The Presidents announcement fell on newspapermen like bonbshell. At II o'clock he told them he would have statement at noon when he was to be in- ducted into the Sioux Indian tribe. Soon after he handed his statement to his secretary, told him to type IS or 16 copies and bring the messages to him. He then personally cut them apart into thin slips and handed them out to reporters as they passed his desk. He refused additional com- ment.
 The public, however, refused to believe the President. They placed every possible interpreta- ton on the message until at last in a terse six sentences added to a speech at the final moment in December, MT. Coolidge declared that he was. not candidate and that the decision must be re- spected."
 So retired into public life one of the most legendary characters ever to reach the White House. The prosperity President is shown here on stamp of the new U. S. regular series, enlarged. Copyright. 1888. NEA Service. Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
CHAPTER XVII

As Corey had predicted, they met the rest of the party on their way back. They stopped to explain what had happened, how near they had come to an accident. Sally was transferred to the big sedan and Corey and Dan went on.
 Don't worry if we are a bit 1ate," Corey said. eff this tank keeps on dripping this fast one of us will have to hoof it for some assistance. It will take a little time to get it welded when we finally make a garage. You folks go ahead and enjoy your seafood. Dan and I'll be along before the nights over."
 Sally still felt she would rather have stayed with the boys but perhaps they thought a girl would only be in the way in getting Corey's car back in shape. She still felt disappointed that the evening had to turn out this way. Though she told herself they were lucky-thanks to Dan-to have it turn out as well as it had.
 Sally had not to realize until long afterwards how the whole course of her life might have been altered by that narrow escape. How the change in plans was to affect her. She was not to cor- meet what was to happen with the fact that she went on to the shore dinner and Dan went back with Corey.
 Of course Sally could not enjoy her dinner nearly so much as she would have had Dan been there to enjoy 1t with her. She seemed to have lost the healthy appetite
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
THREE INJURED IN
 SKATING MISHAPS
Goal Tender in Hockey Game Among Casual
 ties of Day

Nksdng accidents injured three peEUons in Waterbury and Middle hugy last night.
 Anthony Perrin, 24, of Middlebury suffered severe lip laceration while acting aS goal tender for the Mid dleoury hockey team in a game against the St. Ann's A. A. team of Waterbury. Perrin was taken to Waterbury hospital.
 At Fulton Park skating pond, Bruno Mariani, 25, of 58 Elizabeth street. suffered 8 scalp 1aceration, and Miss Mary Boulanger, 20, of 55 Field street, sustained a wrist gpratn.
 Hundreds enjoyed skating last night at Fulton and Washington parks, at many ponds, and at the Hamilton paEG wading pool. The regular Hamilton park skating pond sSIM not be ready until next month, since new drainage system is be- ing installed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30
cRANlukl CRACKERS

Some of the following statements are true. Some are false. Which are which?
 l. An ola is a Spanish jar. 2. Football players may lose as much as 10 pounds in a hard game. 3. Al Smiths birthday comes on Christmas.
 1. The World Court meets in Geneva.
 5. The Bessemer process is a sys- tenn of bridge-playing.
 Answers on Back Page.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30

Get your scissor and your cFayons right now. Cut out and color this figure of Yvonne Dicnne so you'M be ready to dress her tomorrow when the dress win appear that Cinderella wears as the poor little
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Evening star., 1938-12-18
District Prepares Prosecution
Of 400 Business Operators
Warrants Will Be Issued for All Who
Failed to Poy Privilege Toxes

sued instructions that informations
be filed and warrants sought, on the
ground that ample time had been
given for the defendants to take
advantage of possible legal defenses.
Even more than 400 business OPP
orators were said to have failed to
comply with the levies made last
fiscal year but Mr.. Brooke found on
investigation that many of these had
gone out of business.
Separate From Tax Action.
The prosecution cases now being
started are separate from whatever
action may be taken by Tax Collec-
tor Chatham. M. Towers to seek to
compel payment of the overdue
levies. The firms which failed to
pay the taxes levied last fiscal year
were refused issuance of licenses for
the present fiscal year and the
charge in all these cases is that of
operating without licenses.
Mr.. Brooke estimated that the op-
orators scheduled to face prosecu-
ton owe the District somewhere be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 in taxes.
He said he did not believe there were
any large" fiHns involved in the
prosecution. that most of the de-
tendants probably were small.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Drama on Joan Of Arc
Presented Over WMAL

Saints Men," realistic drama
emphasizing the political aspects of
Joan of Arcs work in unifying the
French people at critical time
in their history, was presented over
Station WMAL last night by The
Star and the Washington Civic
Theater.
The radio drama was the third of
the "Road to Freedom" series, re-
calling the courage, suffering and
sacrifices of men and women in
many ages and nations in the long
struggle for rights and privileges
enjoyed as a matter of course by
United States citizens today.
The program next Saturday night,
Christmas Eve, will dramatic the
struggle of the early Christians for
religious freedom in Rome during
the Nme of st. Peter, emphasizing
the Christian teaching of the SUI
premacy of the human personality.
Saints Men," written especially
for the radio program last night by
Charles Dillon in collaboration with
DR.. James T. Lowe, Georgetown
University professor who directed
research work for the Road to
Freedom" series, was one of the
few Joan dramas" that did not
present her as speaking.
The program was announced by
Bill Coyle, radio director of The
Star. Members of the cast included
Betty Rice, Edward Stevlingson, Nor
man Rose, Edward BaggS, George
Clark. Marvin Beers, John Hoar,
| Ted Allison, Paul Walter. Dorothy
White and Elizabeth Seibert.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Motor Cyt|e Rider
Is Killed in Wreck
On Richmond Road
Fort Myer Soldier Is
Victim; Companion
Treated for Shock

Welbie F. Dillingham;, a soldier
at Fort Myer, was killed last night
when his motor cycle struck a
smudge-pot on the Richmond
Washington highway, skidded about
IS PAGES on its side and burned.
Daniel Underwood, %, attached
to E Troop of the Third Cavalry
at Fort Myer, riding with the vic
tim. was thrown clear. He was
treated at Alexandria Hospital for
shock.
The body of the man killed was
taken to the Wheatley funeral
home, where it was identified later
by Fort Myer officials. He was said
to be q first t-class private in E Troop,
recently transferred to Fort Myer
from post in Kentucky.
State Trooper E. H. Howell said
Pvt. Dillingham's clothes caught fire
from the flaming wreckage when he
was pinned beneath it. The officer
put out the flames with a fire ex-
tinguisher. after Robert Jehu of Fort
Belvoir, who was passing by before
the officer arrived. had tried vainly
to beat them out with his coat.
Two Pedestrians Injured.
Two pedestrians were injured yes
terday when srtuck by automobiles.
Francis S. Milovich, 50, of SIG A
street NE, received a compound
fracture of his right ankle and
shock when he was struck by a car
at Rhode Island avenue and
Twelfth street NE. He was admit
ted to Sibley Hospital
Robert Amber, SO, colored, of IS
Myrtle street NV. was treated at
Sibley Hospital for cuts and bruises
after he was struck by an automo-
bile at North Capitol and H streets.
Lawrence Sawyer, 38, of Arling-
ton, Va, was treated at George
town Hospital for cuts and bruises
he received in an autoombile acci-
dent on Columbia pike in Arlington.
Evening star., 1938-12-18

District officials mobilized their
forces yesterday for prosecution of
between $50 and 400 business oper-
ators who failed to pay business
privilege taxes levied last fiscal
year and who are declared now to
be operating without required
licenses.
Warrants for the arrest of more
than a score of this number were
requested yesterday at Police Court
and officials planned to file informa-
tions in all other cases this week.
All of the group of alleged violators
are to be charged with operating
without a license, for which the law
provides fine up to $500 for each
day of operation without license
Decision Follows Conference.
I'VE are not fooling," said Allan
F. Brooke, administrator of the
business privilege tax division, I'VE
are going to 60 right down the line
until we have started action in
each and all cases"
The decision to take the wholesale
number of cases to court was reach
ed following a conference yesterday
between Corporation Counsel FL
wood H. Seal. Tax Assessor Fred D.
Allen and Mr.. Brooke. Mr.. Seal is
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Hackers S License Required
For Funeral Cars

Owners of cars used for hire In
funeral services must buy hackers
licenses as we'll as insurance re-
quired under taxicab liability regu-
lations, according to an edict laid
down yesterday by the District
Commissioners
The decision was announced after
the issue over what fees should or
could be required for licensing of
funeral cars had been shunted back
and forth between the District
Building. the funeral directors and
the court during the past year.
Fleets of passenger vehicles used
for funeral services heretofore have
been required to bear only the regu-
lar District automobile licenses.
Under ruling that such cars are
used for hire the Commissioners
issued orders to Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer that he
should not issue tags for the opera
ton of passenger vehicles used by
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. usually known
as funeral cars-until licenses have
been procured under the License Act
and until the compulsory insurance
is obtained. Hackers licenses cost
$25 each.
The position of the Commissioners
was buttrsssed by decision by the
District Court of Appeals during
the last year that private cars which
are rented out must have hackers
licenses. The party to that case
made practice of renting out pri-
yate cars. for funeral services.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
| Waitress Strike
| Held Caused by
[Hord-RoU Ban

mattresses at a Washington res
taurant last night presented a brand
new cause for q strike-hard rolis.
IyThe mattresses, employed at the
Kavakos Grill, 727 H street NE,
walked out when the management
objected to one of them eating a
hard roll with her meals.
A spokesman for the striking girls
said five of the six employed in
the restaurant walked out
Bill Kavakos, one of the proprie-
tors. said only three left, leaving
three, members of the same union
as the strikers, at work. He said
the grill had a special sandwich roll
which he asked the girls not to eat
assnis supply would be exhausted.
4 II told them," he added, Ito take
Inv other kind of bread they want
ed, white bread, whole wheat bread
or any other kind of roll. But they
got mad and left"
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Correction in Will Story

Attorneys Milton D. Campbell
and Frank M. Stephen represented
Mrs. Frank Gates in the Circuit
Court at Upper Marlboro, Nd.
when the will of the late Frank
Gates was upheld by the court.
Attorneys Charles c. .Marbury
and Jerome A. Loughran repre-
sented Mrs. Lena Gates de Villibus,
daughter of the late Mr.. Gates by a
previous marriage, who contested
the will. In The Star yesterday it
was incorrectly stated that Mr..
Campbell and Mr.. Stephen repre-
sented Mrs. De villibus.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
District Death Rate
Declines 10Per Cent
Under. 1887 Period
Only Four Positive Cases
Of tuberculosis Found
In High Schools

Health Department officials found
real Christmas cheer yesterday in
summaries of records for the last
10 months which showed a 10 per
cent decrease p the number OF
deaths from the same period of last
year.
There were increases in the num-
Der of deaths from heart disease,
nephritis and tuberculosis, but de-
clines were reported for 10 other Sc
rious ailments and infant mortality
records also showed improvement.
At the same time the department
announced that but four positive
cases of tuberculosis were diScov-
cred among the 3,5l5 high school
students who took the X-ray phys
ical examinations last month. Only
one positive case was discovered by
this means last year. but department
officials said they had expected to
find as many as six cases this year.
Treatment Is. Arranged.
All four of the students were col
ored. Three of them will be treated
at the Districts tuberculosis Sana-
toria at Glenn Dale, Md, and the
other will be treated at home under
the supervision of the Health De-
partment Nursing Bureau.
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, assistant
health officer, said study of the x
ray plates had not been completed,
since about so of the plates are to
be re-read for more exact determi-
nation.
Use of the system of chest photo
graphs for finding persons suffering
from tuberculosis is to be broadened
next spring. Dr. Seckinger added.
It is planned to extend the tests to
persons between the ages of l8 and
Is years, who are at work in fac
tories and shops, he said. The tests
are given only with the consent OF
the person.. and of their parents in
the case of minors.
DR.. Seckinger found that present
District tuberculosis facilities have
about reached the limit of their
capacity. He said the adult build
ing at Glenn Dale is full and q
adult patients are housed in the
childrens building. In addition, he
said, there are 208 tuberculosis pa
tients at Gallinger Hospital. The
tuberculosis Clinic, he added, has
about reached it's limit under present
facilities.
6,6l2 Deaths This Year.
During the first 10 months of last
year there were 1851 deaths from
all causes, and in the same period
this year but 6,612 In the CORE
spending periods the number OF
births increased from 10, ,259 to 10, Isl
or by 4.6 per cent. The number oi
deaths of infants under year of age
declined from 637 to SGT, or by IT,;
per cent.
The department listed tie follow
ing numbers of deaths by various
diseases, comparing the first II
months of this year with the first
10 months of last year:
Measles, two deaths in the perioC
Of this year, as against 13 in thu
same period of last year; whoopine
cough, 4, as against 16; diphtheria
4, as against IL; influenza, "a, a.
against 90; meningitis, 9, as against
%: tuberculosis, 497,. as against 495
cancer, 726, as against TAT; diabetes
1877, as against 148; cerebral hemor.
rhage, 434, as against 500; heart dis.
ease, Its, as against 1913; pneu.
monia, 458, as against 657, and ne
phritis, 542, as against sos.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
7 Men Seized Here
As AsA(Cessories
In Triple Staying
Prisoners Face Charges
In North CoroIinu
Gun Bottle

Two alleged former convicts,
wanted for completely in triple
killing in North Carolina 10 days
ago, were arrested in rooming
house somewhere" in this city Fri
day night, and have been returned
to Burlington, N. c., it was learned
last night.
The arrests were made here by
agents of the. Federal Bureau OF
Investigation, who turned the men
over to North Carolina authorities.
The place of their arrest in Wash
ington was not disclosed by the
F. B. I.
1t was learned, however, that the
car in which they were believed to
have come from North Carolina
was seized by Prince Georges
County police Thursday night at
Seat Pleasant. 1t is now at ga
rage in Marlboro.
Identity of the two prisoners was
disclosed by Edward Scheidt. spe-
cial agent in charge OF the Char
lotte IN. c. Office of the F.. B. l.,
according to the Associated Press.
He said they were Ralph Hanford,
%, and Gordon o. Smith, 81. They
were charged with being accessories
to murder, and waived extradition.
Each prisoner, he added, had served
two terms in the North Carolina
Penitentiary.
The victims in the gun battle were
Sheriff M. P. Robertson, who had
assumed Office the day before; City
Policeman S. w. Vaughan and Roy
Huffman. who escaped from the
Anson County IN. c. Prison Camp
| October %.
Still hunted by F. B. I. agents
and authorities of several Southern
States is Roy Kelly, 20, who escaped
from the Anson County prison with
Huffman, and is wanted, Scheldt
said. on a charge of murder in the
triple killing.
The hunt for Kelly has extended
over most of the South. Last week
a State policeman was shot neal
Stuart, Va, and he said he thought
his assailant was the hunted con-
vict. The officer was shot when ne
stopped a car to question the two
occupants.
Yesterday the search for Kell,
shifted to Mississippi, where State
highway patrolmen reported they
pursued and fired on a car they
thought was driven by the Nortf
Carolina fugitive near Holly Springs
Miss.
One of the patrolmen, M. r. Win
bish, said he had known Kelly at
Tennessee C. c. c. camp and that NJ
recognized him as the driver OF thu
car.
The Mississippi patrolmen said tht
man believed to be Kelly and wom'
an companion escaped into fores
at a point where the highway wa
blocked for construction work.
None of the shots fired at the fugi'
tive was believed to have been effec'
tive, Patrolman Winbish said.
An unidentified woman was be-
lieved to have been with the forme'
convicts in the North Carolina gun
battle. She was reported seen in tn
car in which the bandits fed.
The triple killing occurred at ,
filing station. The officers noticed
a light burning in the building ant
thought it suspicious.
| The sheriff and Off1cer Vaughan
were shot down and a third officer
B. F. Baliff, shot and killed Huffman
Huffman's companions escaped in {
hail Of bullets.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Extro Police on Night
DUTY Until Christmas

Police patrols were increased last
night by one-third of the day force.
ordered to work overtime in what
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superin-
tendent of police, described as a
usual precautionary" move against
holiday robbers.
The extra force will help patrol
the streets and business section
every night until Christmas. Mai.
Brown said the same practice was
followed last year, after depart
ment stores started staying open
until 8 pm. for late shoppers.
Evening star., 1938-12-18
Scholarships Open

Seventeen out of a total of As
scholarships to be available to fresh
men entering Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in 1889 will be open for
competition among boys in prepara-
tory school or senior year of high
school who live in Washington or
vicinity, it was announced yesterday.
The As scholarships have a total
value of $4,000, covering tuition
from one to five years.