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Evening star., 1938-06-21
Water Street Remaining Seen
As Slap at Jeffers0n's Plan

With the remaining of Water street
S.W. as Maine avenue, Washington
has witnessed the virtual scrapping
of a plan attributed to Thomas Jeffer-
son for the orderly naming, on basis
of geography, Of the avenues of the
National Capital.
Despite the prolonged discussion Of
the proposed Thomas Jefferson Me-
mortal and the interest it has aroused
in the President who more than any
other is responsible for the establish
ment and present form Of the Ma
tional Capital, there has not been a
single protesting voice raised against
the abandonment of the Jefferson
plan for naming the city's avenues,
it was pointed out by William T..
Partridge, architectural corsultant to
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
"Jefferson's part in the locating
and founding Of the National Capital
has not been given due credit in the
history of Washington" Mr.. Part
ridge said. "1t is worthy of study.
One of his many contributions to
the unique plan of the city was the
naming of the streets. His memo
randum to the Commissioners in-
trusted with the execution Of the
project Is in the Library Of Congress
and while there are no notes, 30 far
discovered, which cover the naming
Of the avenues, without doubt that,
too, followed his suggestions.
Few Know of System.
Indeed, only such q mind as his
would conceive the system. Few
know that there was any system en-
ployed."
To understand the naming Of the
avenues of Washington, Mr.. Part
ridge said, it is necessary to consider
the L'Enfant plan for the layout Of
the city. He first selected the sites
for the Capitol and White House
and from these two points drew radial
lines, in pairs, for the avenues, each
pair symmetrical about the four
cardinal compass directions.
As u well known. he laid out the
system Of lettered and numbered
stsssts anA ~ svstem q dtsiltng ths
Evening star., 1938-06-21

Foreign Service in 1885 with bach
elor of science degree. DR.. Bowen
is leaving in day or so for his home
in San Antonio. Tex, and will return
here in time to take up new duties
on July IS.
The National Council of Catholic
Men Is a subordinate council of the
National Catholic Welfare Conference.
In his new duties DR.. Bowen will
assist in organizing diocesan councils
Of Catholic men under the direction
OF the various bishops. He will also
assist in the organizing Of Catholic
Evidence Guilds throughout the coun-
try.
A graduate of st. Mary's College in
San Antonio, DR.. Bowen first csme to
Washington to attend the George
town Law School, During his student
days he served as secretary to the Rev.
John B. Creeden, S. j., the then
president of the university. After his
graduation he returned to San
Antonio, entering business with a
brother.
In 1929, the Rev. Coleman Nevis,
8. j., recalled him to Washington to
serve As his secretary and in 1885 he
continued in the same capacity when
the Rev. Arthur A. O'Ieary, 8. j.,
was made president. DR.. Bowen holds
the degrees Of IL. B., IL. M, M. A.
from Georgetown and in 1885 he
earned . Phi. D. degree in sociology.
During his stay here he ilas been
prominent in the Catholic Evidence
Guild and other Catholic lay matters
Recently he was elected grand knight
OF the Washington Council, Knights
Of Columbus.
DIR. Bowen is AZ years old and un-
married. A sister, Miss Mary Bowen,
resides here.
Evening star., 1938-06-21

city into four sections divided by
North, South and East Capitol streets
and the Mall.
1t has been forgotten, however, Mr..
Partridge said, that similar plan
was followed for the naming of the
avenues. Under the plan attributed
to Jefferson, he said, the avenues
lying mainly to the north of the Mall
and East Capitol street were to be
named for Northern States; those
south of the boundary for Southern
States. The only exceptions to the
rule were made in the case of long
avenues which crossed the boundary.
Original States First.
Reading clockwise," Mr.. Partridge
said, I'VE find the avenues carefully
arranged by name geographically aft
er the 13 original States-New Hamp-
shire maine was not then in the
Union). Vermont, Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut and SO on down the list to
Georgia avenue. now for some un-
known reason renamed Potomac ave-
nue.. It does not even touch the river,
but lies parallel with the Anacostia.
1T will be recalled that LEnfant
planned his radial avenues in pairs.
The main pairs Of avenues are named
for adjoining States Connecticut and
Vermont, New York and Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Virginia, Delaware and
New Jersey"
The Jefferson plan first was aban-
doned when, in naming the original
northern boundary street of the old
city, the authorities assigned to it
the name of Florida, the extreme
Southern State.
80 as to preserve perfect balance
to this misnomer." Mr.. Partridge COM
mented ironically, I'VE now name his
toric Water street Maine avenue.
"A recent writer on city planning
remarked that to gain their ends
the planning agencies loudly invoke
in public the sacredness of L'Enfant's
plan while in private there is MOTH
ing they seem to enjoy so much as
cutting OF the legs Of L'Enfant's
trousers. That trousers were not then
worn does not alter the truth Of that
yemASk."
Evening star., 1938-06-21
MAN UNDER Indictment
IN ROBBERY ARRESTED

John Grafton Knott, rs, under In.
dictment for the 5000 robbery Of the
J. E. Hanger Co. in the 200 block
Of G street NV. late in April, was
arrested by 1t. Joseph Shimon yes
terday at the home of relatives in tho
1900 block Of l. street Sc. and re-
portedly signed statement admitting
the robbery.
1t. Shimon said Knott would be
questioned with regard to other rob-
berries, among them, that at the
Shah & Shah jewelry store Of the 900
block of F street NV. and the
Castleberg Co. in the 1000 block Of
r street NV.
The suspect has bean working ~ .
painter at the Navy Yard.
Evening star., 1938-06-21
DIPHTHERIA SAFEGUARD
IS URGED ON PARENTS
D. c. Health Department Advises
1mmunization for Children
for Summer Protection,

Warning that 200 children may de-.
velop diphtheria in the next six
months, the District Health Depart.
ment appealed to parents today to
protect the youngsters against the dis
ease through immuniEation.
The departments vaccination clinic
at 230 Third street NV. will provide
free immunization for children whose
parents are unable to pay the family
physician.
DR.. Joseph A. Murphy. supervising
medical inspector Of the public schools,
joined in the Health Departments
warning, and pointed out that early
summer immunization gives the whole
vacation period ,in which to acquire
full protection.
BE wise, immunize now" said the
Health Department statement, PRO
tect all pre-school children imme-
diately. The preventive measure often
gives lifetime immunity against
diphtheria.
Evening star., 1938-06-21
CROSS-TOWN BUS
HEARING DUE SOON
Utilities Commission to Explore
Possibilities for Northern
Area Service.

The long proposed cross-town bus
hne designed to serve the northern
section of the District will be con-
sidered by the Public Utilities Com
mission at q public hearing in the
near future, 1t was announced today
4, by Richmond B. Keech, vice chair
man.
The plan envisions a bus line that
will connect Westmoreland Circle on
Massachusetts avenue at the extreme
western boundary of the District. with
perhaps Bladensburg road NE, or
the east.
An application of the Capital
Transit Co., for authority to extend
its American University bus line to
Westmoreland Circle, gave the COM
mission an excuse for proposing con-
sideration of q complete cross-town
service. The commission considered
the application late yesterday, but
before taking definite action, decided
to find out what the public and the
company thinks Of other bus exten-
sioi1s that will provide q complete
cross-town bus service for the northern
section Of Washington.
The present terminus of the faI
western bus service is Massachusetts,
avenue and Fessenden street NV
The commission thinks that one link
in the proposed cross-town line might
be established by extending the
service to Westmoreland Circle. Other
connections, it was said, could be
made 50 that the Westmoreland Circle
line would absorb the present Bureau
Of Standards and Tenley Circle line
and afford connection with the exist
ing Soldiers Home and Rhode Island
avenue bus line. Then there are
proposals that the Soldiers Home
and Rhode Island avenue line be ex-
tended to Bladensburg road. thus A.
forftng complete cross-town servios
Evening star., 1938-06-21

The amount of change in the cases
of New Jersey and Delaware avenues
Is smaller, because they are closer to
the north and south line, which does
pass through the center of the dome
resulting in less angular displacement
of these avenues.
North and South Capitol streets,
whose center lines, projected, pass
squarely through the dome, have no
such displacement and form a straight
line. The center lines of East Capt.
tol street and the Mall also pass
through the center Of the dome, as
we'll as through the east and west
doorways. and also form a straight
line.
The result of this arrangement of
streets and avenues is that an OBJ
server standing in the east entrance
to the rotunda OF the Capitol can
by turning his head look directly
down the center lines, in turn, of
Delaware avenue to the north-north-
east, Maryland avenue to the east
northeast, East Capitol street to the
east, Pennsylvania avenue to the
east-southeast and New Jersey ave-
nue. to the south-southeast. The same
situation Is found to the west.
In former days, when there was
nothing to mark the center lines OF
the wide avenues, the fact was not
so evident to the casual observer at
. distance from the Capitol. Today
with center lines marked on some
Of the avenues, the fact is far more
noticeable. Where these center lines
exist 1t Is easy to see by sighting
along them that they do not point
at the home but at the doorways OF
the Capitol.
Evening star., 1938-06-21
$500 NEEDED FOR GOAL
FOR CHINESE RELIEF
District Red Cross Cites Gifts to
American Sufferers on
Previous Occasions.

Contributions Of $500 are needed to
complete the $4,000 quota of the Dis
trict for relief of the Chinese civilians
it was announced today by the Dis
trict Chapter Of the American Red
Cross. Donations are being accepted
at the chapter Offices, 1880 E street
NV.
A statement issued by the local
chapter said:
"On several occasions in the past
China has sent contributions through
the Red Cross for disaster suffers in
the United States, showing deep sym.
pathy for those in need. Gifts te
the disaster sufferers in the 1882 Cali
fornia earthquake, the 1896 spring
floods and the floods of January
1887, totaled more than $4,000 il
American money. These gifts came
from the people we are now trying
to aid"
Evening star., 1938-06-21

BY JOSEPH s. EDGERTON.
The Capitol dome, contrary to COM
mon belief, is not the center of the
system of avenues which radiate from
the building. The dome itself Is far
of center when viewed down the cen
ter line Of these avenues from a dis
tance.
The fact that the towering dome,
outstanding architectural focal point
in the National Capital, is actually
not the center of the surrounding
street plan. although near the cen
ter, or rather the centers, for there
are two of them. was revealed by
William T. Partridge, architectural
consultant to the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
Actually the main doorways into
the rotunda, from east to west, are
the points at which the avenues
radiating east and west Of the north
south line are pointed.
This means, Mr.. Partridge pointed
out, that the avenues are not projec-
tions of the same line on both sides
Of the Capitol, but are logged 1T that
point by an amount sufncient to miss
the center of the dome entirely. That
this jog is Of real importance in the
directions taken by the avenues on
either side of the dome, however, is
shown clearly by any good map or
aerial photograph OF the city, espe-
cialy in the cases Of Maryland and
Pennsylvania avenues.
Maps or photographs show quite
a sharp angle is taken by Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland avenues east
and west of the Capitol grounds.
Evening star., 1938-06-21

signed to accept
q position as field
representative Of
the N ito n q !
Council Of Cath
olic Men, with
headquarters in
Washington.
He will be sue
ceeded at George
town by John D.
Lane, his assist
ant since 1881.
Mr.. Lane, who
resides at Sis H
street NE, was
graduated from
the School of
Evening star., 1938-06-21
Miss Culpeper' Is Selected.

CULPEPER, Va, June 81 (SpeciaD.-
Miss Lottie Longerbeam last night
was chosen by popular vote as Miss
Culpeper" in Z beauty contest spon-
sored by the Wide Awake Circle Of the
Methodist Church through local busi-
naaD 6ema 4
Evening star., 1938-06-21
DR.. JOHNG. BOWEN
RES|GNSG. U.P0ST
Secretary to President to
Be Representative With
Catholic Mems Unit.

Georgetown University announced
today that DR.. John G. Bowen, who
has been secretary to the presidents
Of the university since 1929, has re-
Evening star., 1938-06-21
RESERvISTS PROMOTED
w. G. Brombacher and W. L.
Hoeke Raised in Naval Unit.

William George Brombacher, chief
Of the aeronautics instrument section
of the Bureau Of Standards, has been
promoted to the rank Of lieutenant
commander In the Naval Reserve, the
Navy Department announced today.
Promotion Of william L. Hoeke,
4408 Yuma street NV, to the rank
Of usutsnaut Junior grade. also was
Ano0a0106
Evening star., 1938-06-21
Oldest Barmaid,

Eghty-five-year-old Polly Rown-
tree Of Dulwick, England, claims tn
h the worlds oldest harmAad.
Evening star., 1938-06-21
BAND CONCERTS

BY the Army Band in the formal
garden at Walter Reed Hospital at
$50 o'clock tonight. Capt. Thomas
F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, as
sistant.
BY the Soldiers Home Band in the
bandstand at O'Clock tonight. John
8. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant.
BY the Navy Band at the District
War Memorial in West Potomac Park
at 7:30 O'Clock tonight. 1t. Charles
Benter. leader: Charles Brendler, as
sistant
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04

The dredgeS on the Klondike are the largest in the North, each having 12-cubic foot buckets. One is oper- ating near the mouth of Hunker, at the mouth of Bonanza, near Lovet Gulch and one below Bear Creek. The same dredges have been en- gagged on the Klondike between Hunker and the mouth of the stream, stretch of some 12 miles since they were erected over 20 years ago under direction of the late Col. Joseph w Boyle.
 PayStreakS Widened
 It is understood the intention of the Yukon Consolidated Gold, which controls and operates the chief creeks of the camp, plans to work out much of the ground along the sides of Hunker and Bonanza where earlier dredges confined their work to the richer pay in the center ot the creeks. Miles of such ground is to be worked, made possible by the higher price of gold and improved equipment and facilities.
 Options have been taken on other gold bearing creeks near Dawson by concerns now operating in Alaska according to late advices received here, and additional dredging oper- ations may be inaugurated on those creeks in the near future.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04
NEW YORK IS MISSING STAR
 HULA DANCER
Manhattan Rialto Is Not the Same Since Meymo
 Holt Has Left

NEW YORK, April 4.-Without any wish to be unfair to Hawaiian dancers now in New York I must express the opinion that the hula is not the same since Meymo Holt went back to Honolulu.
 Meymo had a lot to do with New Works fetish for softly twanging steel guitars, frosted drinks in CO., conut shells, and swaying grass skirts. It took her just one per- formance to become a sensation in New York Rival impresarios, catch ing a glimpse of her languorous dancing and seeing what she did to her bewildered audiences, hur- ried back to their offices with plans for entertainment of similar nature
 But while there were plenty of palm leaves to go around, there was only one Meymo And so none of the rival Hawaiian places caught on," as they say on the Rialto. All of us attended each op- ening with the proper enthusiasm, perfectly willing to be shown, but after few minutes we usually re- trieved our bonnets and wandered back to the Lexington.
 What was it that Meymo had? Don't ask me know little about the finer points of any type of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

Wesley Ruggles and Young Claude Binyon. A team of writers-Morrie Ryskind and Ant thony Veiller- worked on the hit Stage Door" but even there the director was fac- tor Gregory LaCava's hand fig ures in all the scripts he directs.
 Tay Garnett gets the team of Gene Towne and Graham Baker to work for him whenever possible, as recently on Joy of Living" But the oldest director writer combin- ation is Edmound Goulding and Edmund Goulding. He likes to di- rect his own scripts.
 For economy and speed the di- rector writer approach to a script is unbeatable. The two can estab- fish an understanding of what each wants first thing-and they don't go into production with a "story cost" upwards of $250,000 for adap- tation alone chalked against them
 E 4 ts
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Successful Film Formula;
 TuO Authors to Euery Plot

HOLLYWOOD, April An the movie poker game pair beats full house-to get full house into the theatres.
 That goes for writers, not Tor stars. The old movie custom ol sending writers marching in pla- toons and regiments against help less film subject continues, not without many good pictures result ing. But little by little another idea is spreading. The work of special teams-one writer, one director points to the wisdom of the newer practice.
 The old mass literary attack has it uses, of course. A difficult sub ject with which many minds wrestle may not be conquered all at onceg but in the wrestling each mind may leave behind a usable idea before retiring exhausted to the sidelines. The Lives of 8 Bengal Lancer" was undeniably a hit, and it was a product of so many writers work that in the end there wasn't room on the credit list for all of them The four who had done the most work got bill- ing.
 But in many cases, 8 story that has had the benefit of treatments" by all the writers on the lot doesn't hit the production stage. Too many cooks, or maybe there wasn't any broth there to begin with.
 How It Started
 Director writer teams aren't ex-
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One undeniable advantage Meymo enjoyed was the presence of Ray Kennedy, a marvellous baritone who sang the native songs which Meymo translated with her dancing. Ray was one of those rare entertain CTS, a star unaffected by tempera- ment. and he was as much fun in a poker game as at the mike" He has kissed the Blarney stone, for something of County Slingo is fus- ed with his Island blood.
 As for Meymo, whose name ram- bles on and on for B syllables, and means, freely translated something like et-spirit-of-the-Heav- enly- Rains n-high-bowers, = she is a college lass, has noted foot playing brother, and spe a k English with the meticulous per- lection demanded by an Oxford professor. She, too, is but part Island" the rest of her geneaiogy having to do, like the Seven Years War, with the English and the French.
 Meanwhile the guitars are St1li strumming and the little grass skirt remains the symbol of Manhattan's
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04

dancing. But I can tell you this: a dancers first duty to her public is to bewitch and to fascinate. And to Meymo this was like eating her favorite kind of pie.
 She had, after all, a languorous grace that comes with 88 pounds of island girl" When you went to other places you heard people say: This girl is nice, she is pretty but I prefer Meymo."
 It has been this way ever since Meymo went back to Honolulu. And suppose it is unfair. There are other good dancers here. But once you've seen Meymo dance you get choosy. After Ina Claire or Helen Hayes it isn't easy to sit in on a production with anything less and come away satisfied
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04
u S DEPARTMENT oFsAGR1CULTURE. WEATHER BUREAU
 THE WEATHER t
By the U. s. wea ther Bureau)

vicinity beginning at April Tuesday, probably moderate southeast 
 the nofh portion: probably moderate southeast portion tonight Tuesday, moderate Entrance.
 the Gulf of Aaka Moderate Tuesday trance to
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actly new to be sure. Not when Cecil B. DeMille and Jeanie Mac Emerson were knocking off scripts together back in days when most scripts came from the cuff. And in 1883 Playwright Preston Sturges was a novelty sensation because he wrote a complete, final script of his own--"The Power and the Glory" = without even director as coliaborator.
 But since Director Frank Capra and Wrner Robert Riskin got to- gether on films like Tt Happened One Night MT. Deeds, and Lost Horizon the scripting spot light has been brighter on writer director teams
 The man who's going to shoot the picture works directly with the man who's writing it--and the re- suits speak from the screen.
 Such combination-John Ford and Dudley Nichols-turned out The Informer," The Lost Patrol, and The Plough and the Stars which last-named was better than you saw it on the screen. Ford in- sists on editing his own pictures, or at least sitting in on the cutting. That one was finished" after he'd left on a cruise-and he's still sore about it.
 One Man Team
 "The Gilded Lily" T Met Him in Paris" and True Confession" are testimonials to the partnership of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04
One-Man Team

"The Gilded Lily" T Met Him if Paris" and True Confession" are testimonials to the partnership of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04
Apple. Pioneers
 Home Discovered

CONCORD, N. M, April 4.-Birth place of a man to whom all apple growers owe their start-Johnny Appleseed, born Chapman - has been discovered in LeominSter, Mass. according to Henry Bailey Stevens of the New Hampshire Ex- tension Service.
 Chapman, who left his home as a young man, travelled through the new west, carrying bag of apple seed, which he planted as he wan dered about the countryside. a1oc,,ov t,x, Tactnr IT Henderson
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after dark entertainment. But New York won't be Hawaii until Meymo, sprig of ginger between her teeth, deserts her Island in the Pacific for the one we call Man hattan.
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10 ITtSII oUUITIUdot dIIU tdSI ' trance to Cape Hinchinbrook
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IrsAlaska", by Lester D. Henderson
 3 eFs ~ SEHka sA ----
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Tom, Dick, Harry

SLATON, Texas You can find Tom, Dick and Harry almost any time at the home of MT. and Mrs. Harry Bell of Slaton. They are their triplet sons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04
WAKE UP YOUR
 LIVER BILE WITHOUT CALOMEL
And You'll Jump Out of Bed Feel inc You Could Push a Bus Over

And You'I II Jump Out of bed Feei-
 ing You Could Push a Bus Over
 The liver should pour out two pints of iquid bile into your bowels daily. If this. bile not flowing freely your food doesn't digest. t just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up Iour stomach. You get constipated.. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour. unk and the world looks punk.
 Salts. fkzy drinks. palatable laxatives and ,arsh puraatives are makeshifts. A mere ,owel movement doesn't get at the cause. It akes the famous. sure acting Carter's Little Liver Pills to get those two pints of bile lowing freely and make you feel up and Ip". Harmless. gentle, yet amazing in mak- ng bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills. Look for the name Carter's on .he red package Price: 25t.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY aipor temperature 45; Blaine raining AZ Vic
 
 Island raining AZ Prince cloudy cloudy cloudy Sitka, cloudy Radovlle A 47 Tenakee 46 Hoonah Hawk partly cloudy msting Cna cloudy 26 Mccarthy partly cloudy 22 Anchorage partly cloudy Fairbanks 34 Hot Springs Nuato Kaltag, clear 26; Unaak leet 33
 Juneau April 4.-Sunrse ann; sunset pm.
 
 continued this morning the the North Pacific the southern reported 2940 inches the Pacific latitude A degrees and longitude IA prevailed northwestern Canada, the  precipitation Southeast Alaska souhward the northern portion the Alaska
  Relatively reported