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Smyrna times., 1938-06-30
Swedish Party at Old Church

The Swedish party on the way to
dupont Hotel, where a State lunch
con was held, stopped at Old Swed-
es' Church for a 10-minute relig-
iouS ceremony in Swedish. After
a change to civilian clothes a
white gabardine-Bert1 appeared
at the luncheon, where Secretary
and Mrs Hull, Governor McMullen,
former Governor Buck, Foreign
Minister Holsti, of Finland, and U.
S. Senators Townsend and Hughes
were also guests.
Secretary of State Hull Gives Talk
At the public exercises in Rodney
Square Secretary Hull, facing a
crowd of about $4,000 persons
massed in several streets in the
heart of the city, spoke feelingly of
the peace and amity with which
New Sweden was established.
There is need today" he said,
perhaps a greater need than ever
before, in relations among individ-
uals and among nations, for those
same qualities and principles which
characterized the colonizers of
New Sweden. After the brief re-
marks and a few Swedish selec-
tions by some of the tourists who
arrived on the Kungsholm, two
hour parade was held through Will
mington's streets, and past the
stand where the American and for
eign dignitaries were assembled.
The parade, with nearly 100 large
and colorful floats in line, repre-
sented three centuries of industrial
progress, which had their begin
ming when the Swedes landed in
the Delaware Valley. Swedish roy
al party had dinner at the Will
mington home of Henry dupont
Monday evening, and was then
taken to the beautiful Longwood
estate of Pierre S. dupont A
scheduled lawn party was driven
into a sheltering pavilion because
of the rain. The Kungsholm, with
the royal party aboard, left Will
mington early Tuesday morning
for Philadelphia for the second and
third days of the tercentenary cele-
bration. The Swedish royal party
will make 30-day tour of Amer
lea, starting Thursday. They will
go as far west as Minnesota, Gold
en- land Of Americas Swedes.
Smyrna times., 1938-06-30

TO 1868, land I am also proud that
Swedish blood runs in my veins"
he added, for another of my an
cestors, Martin Hoffman, was an
early Swedish settler of New Am
sterdam." The President express
ed his regrets at the Crown
Princes illness, and said ne was
looking forward to entertaining
him at Hyde Park or Washington.
He also interpolated a paragraph
in the text of his speech, thanking
King Gustaf V for his kind
thoughts toward the American peo-
pie. Although he addressed his
words to Your Royal Highnesses, .
Mr.. Roosevelt also included greet
ings to the representative of the
Republic of Finland That small
country, he said, occupies an es-
pecially warm place in the Ameri-
can heart" He made no reference
to Finland's payment of her war
debts as the possible reason for the
warm place" The bells of Old
SWedes' Church tolled the hour of
noon as the President finished
speaking. 1t was still raining
heavily. Mr.. Roosevelt was sped
back to his special train, backed
on circus siding, and a few min
utes later the royal delegation ar
rived at the train and boarded it
for a few moments chat before the
train left.
Smyrna times., 1938-06-30
RAINS CAUSE
FLOOD UP STATE

CONTINUED Prom Page Onel
The Washington times., 1938-09-14
u. S. Holds Parents,
4 Children 'StarVe'

-Four small children. hungry
and alone in their Takoma Park
(Md0 home for two days, were
under the watchful care of Mont
gomery county authorities today
awaiting the return of their par
ents, who are under arrest in an
other city.
The parents, Edward Kern, 80,
and Elizabeth Kern, 27, are in
of Federal authorities in
Railway, N. j., charged with
marihuana.
Ranging in age from to 9
years, the children were found
last night after police were mott
fled Of the parents arrest. The
The Washington times., 1938-09-14
Twin BUILDINGS
OKAYED At COST
OF $500 0,O00
D. C. Will Repay SIS Pct.
Over "a Years

Secretary Of Interior Harold L.
Ickes today cleared the way for
construction of the new municipal
center, long sought to house the
various departments of the Dis.
trict government.
The structure, to be financed
through a $5,700,00O PWA loan.
grant, will consist of twin build.
ings located between c and D
Streets and Third and Sixth
Streets Northwest and divided by
John Marshall Place. They are
to be connected by an under.
ground paSsageway.
WORK TO BEGIN SOON
The District, in accepting the
Ickes loan, has agreed to repay
SIS per cent Of the total over a
period of "a years, beginning in
1941.
Congress already has authorized
81, 100000 for the structures and
$4,000 of this amount has been
appropriated to begin work on the
first wing.
Actual construction is expected
to get under way as soon as bids
are let and accepted.
COMMISSIONS YIELD
Secretary Ickes' notification he
has approved the project followed
approval of the National Park
and Planning Commission and the
Fine Arts Commission. The PWA
grant would have been forthcom-
ing sooner, it is understood, but
for opposition by the two latter
groups on the grounds the pro-
posed center would block the vista
between Pennsylvania Avenue and
Judiciary Square.
Adoption Of the twin building
plan satisfied the planning body
and the Fine Arts Commission.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14
WARS. ON PETS
Sniper Mains Victims
In Seat Pleasant

Dogs and cats in the vicinity of
Seat Pleasant, Md, have temper
arily forgotten their hatred of
each other as they dodge the
shots Of sniper who apparently
has declared open season on all
pets in the neighborhood.
At least a dozen dogs and cats
have been manned or killed dur
ing the past two weeks, it was
reported to police, while scores Of
others have been fired upon.
Believed to typify the "heighth
of meannesS," the Sniper aims to
wound, rather than kill and most
of the victims have been injured
in the leg.
Owners of the wounded pets
have been unable to determine
whether a % caliber rifle or q
high-poWered air gun is used.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14
SIX Children
WiII Defend
Dog iGs Court

Neighbors of Rex. a small dog
pet of the the six children Of
Howard Rose. 5000 block Earl PI.
N. E.. will appear in Police Court
Saturday to press their battle for
the mongrel puppy's removal from
the community.
Led by Joseph SesSo, next-door
neighbUr of the Rose family, they
contend that Rex barks night and
day, disturbs their babies and
keeps them from sleep.
Rose. whose children refuse to
have Rex giver away, will be sup
ported by other residents who
claim they have never heard the
dog bark except at pasSerSby at
hours when he is on duty as .
watchdog.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14

Sweeps Winner
To Wed --Son1e Day
u. S. Girl Aide
Won't Set Date
OF Nuptials

The date of Miss Lucille Barry'S
wedding is as uncertain as the
next winner of the Irish Sweep
stakes.
The only thing definite is that
Miss Barry, who won $4,000 in
the sweepstakes last year, will
marry Carleton Walsh, who sold
her the ticket, sometime this
MONTH"
Questioned about a news tip
that her wedding was scheduled
for this afternoon, the pretty 23-
year-old Department of Commerce
stenographer laughingly declared:
There's nothing to it. I'm not
getting married today. Maybe
we'll be married before the end
of this month but it won't hap
pen in Washington-it will be
out of town."
Miss Barry, who lives at 1925
Third st. N. w., collected SAT 1878
on her sweeps ticket after taxes
were deducted. Walsh is a De
partment of Commerce account
ant.
Miss Barry tainted when she
learned that Royal Danieli came
in second in the sweepstakes race
but she refused to give up her job
even after the small fortune was
finally in her hands.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14
IS INDICTMENTS
FOUND AGAINST
ARLINGTON PAIR
Series Of BurgIaries in
N. W. Charged

The District grand jury today
presented Is separate indictments
against two Arlington (Va) men
in connection with series of
housebreakingS and thefts
throughout the Northwest section.
The two indicted are Leonard
R. Herbst, %, and Fred R.
Letcher, 26, both of whom gave
the same address in the 1700
block of North Rhodes st. in
Arlington. All of the indictments
charge housebreaking and larceny.
SPOTTED BY PHONE GIRL
Herbst and Letcher were appre-
hended after an alert Police De-
partment telephone operator, Mrs.
Cora Horn, spotted two suspicious
appearing men leaving the apart
ment building in which she lives
at 4314 George Ave. N. w.
Mrs. Horns accurate deScrip-
ton of the men led to their arrest
and police declare they confessed
to at least Is "jobs" in Washing
ton and IA in nearby Virginia.
OTHER INDICTMENTS
The grand jury also reported to
Justice Joseph w. O'Donoghue. in
Criminal Court, the following
other indictments:
James Lucas, Joseph B. John
son, Ernest T. Davis, Walter A.
SpriggS, and James Kno, house
breaking and larceny; Richard H.
JamiSon, false pretenSes; Maurice
Mickey, AlphonSo Brooks, Robert
L. Jackson, Pauline B. Gaines
and Louise R. Harrison, violations
of the gaming laws; John Mobley,
assault with intent to commit rob-
berry; Albert Bryant, Nelson N.
Brooks, George Willis, Samuel
Browning, William A. Doering,
Earl Glover, Theodore Watkins,
Winston Gorhann, Jacob Brass and
Edith Roots, robbery; Leslie B.
Moore, receiving stolen property:
Henry T. Copeland, Vincent
Dixon, John A. He'll, Richard w.
Brody, and John T. Hodge, joy
riding; Willie May Russell, grand
larceny: Ralph E. Brown, Charles
l.. Froneberger, Mildred Charles
ton, Philip Marrow, Andrew Bax-
ter and Charles r. Donohue, as
Sault with dangerous weapon.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14
Man
Seeks Kin in DistriCt

Aid in his efforts to locate his
two long-lost sisters was asked to-
day of the Patterson Newspapers
by Edward e. Guest, of Fari-
bault, MINI.
Nearly 80 years have passed,
Mr.. Guest writes, since he has
heard from his relatives whom he
has reason to believe live in the
District. The sisters, Miss Anna
Leath Guest and Mrs. Pauline
Maie Engers Cor Engle), originally
lived in Tennessee.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14
NeIU Building:
CONSIDER BIDS
FOR HIGH SCHOOL

The District Engineer Depart
ment pored over bids today for
construction of the proposed
Calvin Coolidge High School to
be erected at Fifth and Sheridan
Streets Northwest. The lowest bid
was $1,399, 900 whereas the ex-
penditure authorized for the
structure is $1,35O,0OO.
Submitted yesterday by eight
companies, the bids entailed six
alternative estimates based on
various specifications allowing for
deductions. One Of these called
for one gymnasium instead of two.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14
It's AU In Fun:
ALICE TO RoMP
And FROLIC ALL
over CAPITAL
It'SAnimated Cartoon to
Teach Amateurs
BY JAMES J. CULL1NANE

By JAMES j. CULL1NANE
In an eerily lighted studio on
the top floor Of the Albee Build
ing q group of serious young men
and women are working night and
day over plans to blow the dome
off the Capitol, release a prehis-
toric monster on Constitution
: Avenue and make the Great
Emancipator get off his seat in
the Lincoln Memorial-all in the
spirit Of good clean fun.
The young men and women are
90 serious because they are stu
dents of the country's only ami
mated cartoon school and their
plans are fantastic because they
ere working on movie.
ALICE m WASHINGTON
About four months from now,
as soon as the students complete
several thousand more drawings,
the movie will be shown in Wash
ington and Snow White may have
Q new rival in an impish little
girl. named "Alice." Name Of the
movie will be "Alice in Washing
ton"
Herman Pearlman, originator
and principal instructor Of the
Animated Cartoon School, decided
before he opened his clasSrooms
last spring that the best way to-
teach anyone to draw animated
cartoons is to put them to work
on an animated cartoon.
That is the way Pearlman
learned all he knows about ami
mated cartoons. He was a staff
artist on the Washington Times
In 1882 when Walt Disney came to
town just before he released the
''Three Little Pigs"
Pearlman impressed the Great
Animator with some Of his draw
ings and was offered a job in
Hollywood. He worked as an ami
nnator in Disney's studio for IA
months and then went to work
with Max tPopeye the Sailor
MANI FleiScher.
THERE'S A SHORTAGE
As animated cartoons became
Increasingly popular, Pearlman
found that the shortage Of anima-
tors was becoming critical. So he
decided to train some. He says q
good animator can always get a
job. In 10 months, Pearlman
promises he can teach a student
the entire Disney routine.
First lessons consist of making
rough sketches Of circles, ovals
and parallel lines. Then the
sketches are cleaned up, charac-
ters begin to emerge and the stu
dent can start animating. This
consists of a seemingly endless
succession Of completed sketches,
each one with an arm, leg or eye
in Q mtnutely different position.
Animators work on Illuminated
drawing boards so they can see
how far out Of line from their last
sketch to make the drawing they
are working on. The drawing
boards. PearIman says. are just
like they use in Hollywood. After
awhile an animator gets so he can
twir1 q pad Of sketches with his
thumb and watch his subject
move.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14

children said they had not eaten
for two days.
They were fed by the police and
then turned over to the custody
of the Montgomery county proba,
tion office.
According to word from Rah-
way, Mrs. Kern admitted she and
her husband had been running
marihuana from New York to
Maryland.
It is understood that the chill.
dren will be cared for by the
county until their parents return
or other relatives are located.
The Washington times., 1938-09-14

Second instalEment Of "a Million for
Marty" scintillating novel in the
American Weekly. You can start it
Sunday Tel. RE. 1894 for Home
Delivery.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
New Deal for Whales

Want to buy any whale oil? Uncle
Sam has a thousand tons of it in New
York, seized from the whaling vessel
FRANCO. The old gentleman has it on
his hands pending the outcome of a
suit against the crew, accused of hav-
ing killed tWenty-seven nursing COW
whales and thirty-one less than
thirty-five feet long.
The whale is a valuable and pic
turesque little animal, slightly smaller
than a house, and for all anybody
knows to the contrary, may make a
good pet, and certainly deserves bet
ter treatment. With a little encour-
agement it may be possible to induce
it to summer at the bathing beaches,
where it would add no end to the
hilarity of the scene. It also develops
enough horsepower to make a good
tow car for a disabled steamer. Be-
sides this, when a whale gets stom-
ach-ache it produces any amount Of
ambergris, worth twenty dollars a
pound. No doubt some way of max
ing whales sick could be found, per-
haps by making them listen to a
reading Of the Congressional Record.
Future generations, however, will
have no whales to tame if something
isn't done now to protect them, such
as banning the use of explosive har-
poons. The shade of Moby Dick cries
aloud for such reform. Let the
whaler go back to the old style har-
poon. Then if he hooks a mere fin
gerling of thirty-two feet or so, the
harpoon may be gently disengaged
and the cute little creature be al
lowed to swim away in peace until
he gains forty or fifty tons more.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
More Social Security

The "liberalizing" changes in the
old-age insurance provisions of the
Social Security Act which the Social
Security Advisory Council is under
stood to be ready to offer as an
antidote for the pension schemes an
ticipated in the Seventy sixth Con-
gress are not particularly startling,
most of them having been antici-
pated in the months the council has
wrestled with the subject.
Two proposals which have not pre-
viously figured in the discussion of
amendment are reported to have
council Endorsement. One would re-
arrange the scale Of payments, now
$40 to $85 monthly, 10 married men
would get q minimum Of 80 and
Evening star., 1938-12-11
AN AWAKENING
By the Right Reu. James Freeman D. d. ILL., d. D. c. L.
Bishop OF Washington.

There Is a pertinent admonition con-
tanned in letter which the Apostle Paul
wrote to the Thessalonian Church which
fits our time. He says: LET us not sleep,
as do others; let us watch and be sober"
Certainly the time in which we are nv-
ing calls for sober thinking and deep re-
Election. A friend of mine, a man of dis
eliminating judgment, suggested the i'm
portance Of listening in crisis" His
contention was that, as a people, we are
given too much to talk and discussion;
that what We need today is the cultiva-
ton OF the habit of listening-listening to
the many voices Of our age and listening
with discriminating judgment and the
capacity to evaluate what we hear. We
are less prone to do this In days when
everything is favorable and "life moves
along like song" than we are in days
when shadows are upon our pathway and
seemingly insoluble problems face us.
Observation and experience during
these more recent days have led us to
the inevitable conviction that the worlds
confusions and disorders are having a
SOLDERING effect upon us and that we are
beginning to weigh and appraise the real
and abiding values of Lfe We have
seen the material fabric which we have
so carefully reared shattered, and many
OF our hopes and expectations have
failed OF realization. Our development
has been so fast and so satisfying that
we have given less heed than we once did
to those moral and spiritual values that
are indispensable to healthy growth. We
have thought of Christian teaching and
Sunday worship in our churches as use
ful In their place, but not necessarily
indispensable to our material prosperity
and to our coveted aims and ambitions.
We have placed higher education and
culture above religious faith and practice
and our concern has been to give to our
children the advantages of a liberal
education without furnishing them with
those Christian ideals and principles that
make for restraint and self-discipline.
These SOLDERING days have made us
realize, as We have not done in recent
years, that the greatness of people re-
sides not in its material growth and en-
richment, but in its moral worth and
Evening star., 1938-12-11

traffic jam that occurred Friday aft
ernoon when short circuit "froze"
Washington's traffic signal system
. and paralyzed traffic in the down.
town section. They are excerpts
from story that appeared on the
first page of The Star of January s.,
1926, when the city's first traffic
lights went into operation.
How times have changed! On that
significant day twelve years ago when
officials snapped the switch that
started the signal lights operating,
motorists were confused to see the
flashing of the formidable red and
green "stop-and-go" beacons. Today
they become almost hopelessly con-
fused when those lights let them
down, as they did suddenly Friday.
Time was when the signals were OBJ
jects of suspicion, ridicule and con-
demnation. Now they are indispen-
sable to the motorists.
The story of Washington's first ex-
perience with traffic lights contained
a prediction by traffic officials that
"as soon as motorists and pedestrians
become familiar with the new sys-
tenn" traffic would be facilitated and
accidents reduced. This prediction
has been borne out by dozen years
of experience. But even those who
dared to champion the radical plan
back there in 1926 could not have
guessed that the time would come
when motorists would become so de-
pendent on regular functioning of
the lights. Is it beyond the range
of possibility that specific pedestrian
regulations might have a similar his
torv0
Evening star., 1938-12-11

single men a maximum of SIS. The
other would give 5000 for funeral ex-
penses to the families of those per-
sons covered by the act who die be-
fore reaching sixty-five-the age
when payments become due.
The other anticipated recon-
mendations follow lines laid down by
President Roosevelt in April month
ly payments to widows and depend
ent children Of insured wage-earners
larger benefits to wives and depend
ent children of annuitants whose in
come is too small to provide necessi-
ties of life for more than one person:
Inauguration of payments in 1910 in
stead OF 1912, and inclusion in the
insurable classes of 100000 seamen
and workers in banks, charitable and
religious organizations.
The council, composed OF repre-
sentatives of employers, employees
and the public, is understood to have
decided that ultimately 100000
farm and domestic workers should be
insured, but would hold this in abey-
ance for couple of years at least.
For further consideration, too, is
left the controversial subject of So
cial security tax revision, but this
issue can hardly be ignored when
Congress takes up the new program.
Already, employer and employe are
paying one per cent Of pay roll and
wages earned, respectively, to finance
old-age insurance and this is sched-
uled to increase until, in 1949, each
is contributing three per cent. Pro-
ponents of the suggested changes see
costs increased to the point where an
additional levy on both employer and
employe will be needed, supple
mented by additional funds from the
which also come out of
the public pocket.
Another question that looms large
in the public mind is how far this
comparatively modest "liberaliza-
tion," the effect of which cannot be
felt for some years, will go toward
heading off more radical revision of
the aged-indigent pension system
an entirely different proposition
now being administered jointly by
the Federal and State governments.
Evening star., 1938-12-11

excellence. Moral worth and excellence
are not sustained through some man
made system Of ethics, but through obe-
dience to the will Of God. That Jesus
Christ has q message for our age and
that 1t Is q message that must be heard
and needed is becoming increasingly
evident. He taught the brotherhood of
man and insisted that we should love our
neighbors as ourselves. In His parable
Of the Good Samaritan, He exemplified
this truth and set before us an example
of charity and kindness unsurpassed in
the teachings of any religious leader.
The application of this Good Samari-
tan principle is tragically needed in our
world Of today. We have found that all
the systems and good resolves we have
made to develop the spirit Of good will
and tolerance have failed of their pur-
pose. We have also discovered that legal
processes, however well conceived, do not
effectively regulate human conduct.
From many sources outside the church
and from men in high Office we are being
admonished that there is urgent need OF
!" ASvAVoA VI IAAC CCoSAlAAl6S u VCSuo NllIlSL.
His name and teachings are no longer
the sole discussion of pulpit and church.
They are being brought into counting
rooms and places Of public assembly, and
His words are being solemnly weighed
by those who have hitherto given them
scant heed. We are also finding that 1t
takes something other than the con-
servation Of our domestic and social ideals
to make us wholesome, self-respecting
and decent-in fine, We are beginning to
realize that religion, and the Christian
religion in particular, is practical con-
cern of life, intimately related to every
thing we covet and hold dear
The application of all this to parental
responsibility in the training of youth Is
clearly obvious. Governesses, nurses and
teachers may have their place in the care
and upbringing of children, but they are
not the best guides in giving to youth
those ideals Of life that are founded in a
deep religious faith and practice. If we
are to have revival of pure religion, 1t
must issue from men and women who are
made sober and reflective by the ominous
events of this very critical period.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Traffic Chaos

"Sixteenth Street in Chaos" .
PUZZLED motorists endeavored to ne
gotiate street under a sudden change
in the traffic control system . Not
more than five minutes had elapsed
before confusion developed along the
entire thoroughfare :. Pedestrians
stood on street corners, somewhat
mystified and dubious about cross
ing ). Even policemen stationed at
intersections to aid motorists ap-
peared helpless :"
No, these are not quotations from
newspaper accounts of the city-wide