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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02
ODD BITS

A cow shed was recently con-
verted into a thcater in a small
English town.
Although England has 100000
chess players, there is not profess
sional among them.
A 111-year-old lumber mill, oper-
ated by the tides is still in profitable
operation at East Boothbay, Maine.
Oldest of European coins is the
French sou. It's value is so low
that it is less than the cost of pro-
duction.
Leichtenstein, the tiny country
tucked between Switzerland and
Austria, has all its ornaments in
a museum.
A 5OO-year-old butter ladle, hand
ed down through eight generations,
is owned by Mrs. T. o. Griffith,
Ravenna, Ohio.
An orange weighing three pounds
and measuring 1874 inches in cir
cumference was produced recently
in the Rio Grande valley.
A man, rated before the operation
as bright" had the left frontal lobe
of his brain removed and now is
classed by psychologists as gift
ed"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02
AT HOME AND ABROAD

Draguignan Is the name OF a
town Of 5000 in southern France.
Every day ton of waste paper
is cleared from County hall, London.
White House military aids must
remain single during their tenure of
office.
Thirty-seven per cent of the total
area Of Portland, Ore, Is still va
cant land.
The feet Of the somnambulist
should never sleep.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02
FIRE AND WATER

Policemen of Hammersmith,
England, have organized a row.
ing club.
Michigan has $50 forest fire
towers of which the tallest is 157
feet high.
It is estimated that the United
States uses 100 gallons of water
a day per capita.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

The great mystery of man is his
moral sense. Need and desire
prompt all development. Would a
wolf deliberately develop trait that
interfeged with his -huntings
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

Every molecule here in the begin.
ming Is still here in some state.
Atoms from Babylon's walls may ba
In this printed page.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

How do you know the ancients
took all of their gods and myths
seriously? Think of our literature
about Santa Claus.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

Scientists have found way to
double the stretch of rubber, which
sounds impressive till you observe
what we've done to the word anna
teur."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

Another advantage Of a large
family is the increased probability
of having someone at breakfast who
isn't grouchy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02
ALONG THE HIGHWAY

The dullest drivers usually have
the brightest headlights.
A new speedometer has the higher
speeds numbered in red that CLOVIS
q warning.
More than half of the railroad
Embarrassing accidents occur with
in city limits.
The loudest horn does not always
proclaim the best car. The same
applies to car owners.
Too many motorists forget the
best way to watch the road is
through the windshield.
In Is states in the Union, persons
under sixteen years of age are per-
mitted to drive motor cars.
The United States has more buses
than all the rest of North America
and South America combined.
Starting in high gear by engaging
the clutch slowly is good way to
prevent wheels from slipping.
The average United States motor
list pays the tax collector 16 cents
for each hour he rides in his car.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

When money talks the cream Of
the conversation Is Eieh.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02
ODD STUNTS

Burma has outlawed the jumping
bean because it's moth might men
ace timber.
A complete set Of office furniture
of glass has been made for ma
harajah of India.
A huge birdhouse in Prospect
park, Minneapolis, bears a sign
reading 'For Wrent."
Thirty babies, all boys, have been
born in one house in Szekesfehrvar,
Hungary, in the last three years.
Britain's Football association
blacklisted 100 men, mostly for chal-
longing the decisions of the referee.
More than $50 miners in South
Wales have deserted the coal fields
in the last three years to become
clergylnen.
An Indian art student has en-
graved portraits of King George v
and Queen Mary on a grain of rice
one-eighth of an inch long.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

Speaking of fireworks. David wa
the original giant cEasksE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

The average United States motor
list pays the tax collector 16 cents
for each hour he rides in his car.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

Starting in high gear by engaging
the clutch slowly is good way to
prevent wheels from slipping.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-02

The United States has more buses
than all the rest of North America
and South America combined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Traffic Safety Work
In Schools Hailed

Visual traffic safety education in
the elementary schools of the Ma
tional Capital and vicinity is an
important factor in the training
of youngsters in safe use of the
streets, according to the District
of Columbia Division of the Amer
lean Automobile Association.
The A. A. A., which annually
supplies 10000 lessons and posters
to schools in the Washington area,
said that the colorful posters, each
carrying an important safety mes
sage, encourages school children to
cooperate with the safety patrols
and also to use greater caution in
traffic.
More advanced education is given
in high schools, said the District
of Columbia Motor Club, through
the A. A. A. sportsmanlike driving
text material approved for use in
the schools of the National Capital.
Experimental courses with this text
material were conducted at the
Roosevelt and Dunbar High Schools
preliminary to wider use of the
traffic safety textbooks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Memorial Parkway's
First Unit Near
Completion
Scenic Highway Connects
Columbia Island
And RossIyn

Work on construction of the road
way in Unit / of the George Wash
ington Memorial Parkway, from
Columbia Island to Rosslyn, prob
ably will be completed within week
or 10 days, barring unusual weather
conditions, it was learned today.
More than month ahead Of
schedule, the contractors, Corson
& Gruman Co., of this city, now
is completing pouring of concrete
paving of a double park road
way similar in design to the Mount
Vernon highway. Construction Of
locust wood guard rails of the type
used along the Mount Vernon high
way is in progress.
Completion of the new roadway
will make possible early opening of
the first unit Of the long-sought
George Washington Parkway. This
parkway is intended to extend from
Mount Vernon to Great Falls and
ultimately may be extended down
the Potomac to the birthplace of
George Washington at Wakefield, Va.
Bids on New Span Opened.
Completion of the first unit also
will provide a vitality necessary new
traffic artery during. construction of
new span at the Virginia end of
Key Bridge. Bids for the bridge job
were opened yesterday by the Bureau
of Public Roads and the work prob
ably will begin by the end of next
month.
The roadway in Unit / has been
permanently paved with concrete
throughout most of its length of
approximately one mile under the
present $89,688 contract. At each
end, however. temporary macadam
paving will be laid over heavy fills
until permanent construction be-
comes possible, possibly two years in
the future.
The temporary connection at the
south end will tie the new parkway
unit in with the Lee boulevard
Columbia Island. the Mount Vernon
highway and Arlington Memorial
Bridge. At the north end tenn
porary surface will be laid from the
end of the new concrete paving to
the Rosslyn plaza. No attempt will
be made to place permanent paving
until it is certain that settling of the
fills has ceased and until other con-
struction in those areas has been
completed.
Bridge to Be Replaced.
tho ra1,,,,ohio Tell orI ~ &1,o
unit it will be necessary to construct
permanent bridge to replace the
present temporary wooden span
across Boundary Channel. At the
north end a permanent connection
remains to be made into Rosslyn
plaza following completion of the
new Key Bridge span and connec-
ton must be made with the roadway
under the new arch into Unit 2 OF
the George Washington parkway
Unit 2 will extend from Key Bridge
up the Virginia shore of the Potomac
to Spout Run Valley and into this
valley far enough to connect with
existing roads.
Representatives of the contracting
firm are warm in their praise of the
natural beauties of the new parkway
The new highway follows rather
closely the Virginia shore of the
river, providing new views of country
relatively unknown to most WASH
ingtonians, including the upper end
of Columbia Island and all of Roose-
welt Island.
The two halves of the roadway are
divided by a parkway of varying
widths conforming with require
ments of the rolling terrain along
the river, it was explained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
| School Board
To Decide on
Street Playing
special Dispatch to The Star.

SEec1al DISPATCH 10 1n0 StaI.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, November a.
The Annapolis Board Of Education
will decide whether school children
are to be allowed to play on school
lots after school hours and on holi-
days or be forced to kick their foot
balls in the streets.
The question was brought to a
head last Sunday when a sandlot
game was halted by police on COM
plant of the congregation of the
Christian Science Church, which
was holding services in the Annapo-
lis High School.
President Robert L. Burwell of
the local Civitan Club has appointed
a committee composed of A. K.
Snyder, veteran athletic trainer at
the Naval Academy; DR.. Henry H.
Sadler and 1t. Arthur w. Bryan,
u. S. Navy, retired, to ascertain
from the School Board why chill
dren cannot use the school grounds
for play"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Greenbe|t Sets Aside $500
For Building Plans
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GREENBELT, Md. Nov. 24.-The
Greenbelt Town Council has ap-
propriated $500 for preliminary
plans for community building for
this model low-cost housing COM
munity, it was learned today.
The Council set aside the fund
Monday night and final action will
be taken after residents have been
given an opportunity to record their
suggestions as to what the building
should contain.
Under present plans the building
will house bowling alleys, a gymna-
stun, reading rooms, billiard room,
table tennis rooms and several meet
ing rooms. The town is now using
the elementary school building as
community hall.
It was announced that r. j..
Wadsworth, architect for the Green
belt project, and Hale Walker, the
original Greenbelt planner, have
offered their services free for the
planning of the new building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Guard of Honor Dance

Capt. Guy G. Nadeau of the Ma
tional Guard of Honor of the Ameri-
can Legion, will be the guest Of
honor at the first dance of the sea-
son sponsored by the Guard of
Honor at 10 pm. Saturday at the
Wardman Park Hotel. Other off,
GERS of the guard who will attend
include 1t. H. w. Lineburg, 1t. John
j. Nc innis, 1t. M. j. Angevine, 1t.
Rudolph Blick, 1t. w. e. Locklin
and Adit. I. r. Zaontz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Police Think SHIPPER
Has Left Capital;
Call in Details
Suspects Are Liberated
As Victims Fail to
Identify Them

Baffled in their day-and-night
search for a mad sniper bandit,
Washington police today announced
withdrawal of the details that have
been patrolling the Rock Creek Park
section, scene of the sniper's MUIR
derous attacks.
Il believe the sniper has left the
city, said Inspector Bernard w.
Thompson, chief of detectives, as he
announced the withdrawal.
Police details in squad cars, aug
mented by volunteer vigilantes, have
been patrolling the park area since
the sniper's last attack, on last
Thursday night, when he shot and
killed Peter Murray, 60, and wound
ed his companion, Mrs. Edna l..
Brown, 40. In other attacks in the
last two weeks one other person was
killed and one wounded.
With the release of several sus-
poets, police admitted they were
without clues as to the killers iden-
tity or whereabouts. All suspects
were released yesterday after some
of those who were held up and
robbed were unable to identify any
of them.
The watch police have maintained
for several days on a shanty in the
park area thought to be the sniper's
hideout also has been abandoned.
Police said they are starting a
systematic recheck of all possible
leads in an effort to locate some
trace of the killer, for whose arrest
or information leading to his cap
ture rewards totaling $500 have been
offered.
Searchers in the park area last
night thought the sniper had re-
appeared when shots rang out. Po-
licemen and others rushed to the
scene of the shooting and found,
not the sniper, but a duck in Rock
Creek. The unknown hunter disap-
peared without retrieving his kill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Large Office Building
Planned on Mclean
Town House Block
$4,000, 900 Sale Price
Approved by Court;
Plans Drawn.

Construction of a large ONCE
building on the property which in
cludes all real estate and structures
in the area bounded by Vermont
avenue, Fifteenth, H and I streets
NV, with the exception of the
Shoreham Building. is planned fol-
lowing authorization by Justice
Oscar r. Luhring in District Court
yesterday of acceptance of a sale
price of $4,000, 900 cash for the prop
critics of the estate of John r. Nc
Lean.
The purchaser Of the property
which includes the old Mclean town
house, parking lot and a number
of commercial establishments ad-
joining, is the Lafayette Building
Corp, Delaware concern with
Offices in the Woodward Building.
The American Security &, Trust
Co., represented by the law firm of
McKenney, Flannery & Craighill,
acted as executor and trustee.
Heir in Hospital.
Mr.. McLean's son and sole heir,
Edward B. Mclean, is a mental
patient at the Sheppard and Enoch
Pratt Hospital, Towson, Md. APP
proval of the sale was expressed by
John r. Mclean, I'd, the latter's only
child of full age, and by guardians
of another son and daughter, both
of whom are minors.
The old Mclean town house on I
street, formerly the scene of gay
parties, and more recently an Office
for a Government agency, will be
removed, it is reported, in accordance
with plans calling for the demolition
of structures subject, by court order,
to the expiration of existing leases.
Building Plans Drawn.
It was reliably reported that the
new building would cover all the
available property received under
the sale and would front on all Of
the boundary streets. Extensive
preliminary plans already drawn, it
is reported, call for modern office
building constructed to the limit
of District building regulations and
including such features as basement
automobile parking space and other
facilities.
Only objection to the sale was
offered by Rear Admiral Mark l..
Bristol, representing Edward B. Nc
Lean, who told the court he believed
the price inadequate and the trans
action unnecessary.
Spokesman for the trustee, how
ever, insisted that no better offer
had been forthcoming over period
of years and the sale should be
made in view Of the status of the
estate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Stolen Turkeys Make
Meal for Some One

Somewhere in Washington today
some one may be eating turkey, nice,
succulent turkey with all the trim
mings, that was stolen last night
from 1914 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, according to a report made to
police by Daniel Cassidy,
Mr.. Cassidy said two dressed tur-
keys, IL dozen eggs, three pounds OF
bacon and eight pounds of onions
were stolen from a basement store
room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24

James Arthur Conley, a special
process server appointed by Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat of District
Court, today was faced with neces-
sity of serving a paper by method
slightly more orthodox than that
of Turing his victim to town with
two theater tickets and note signed
PALSY Walsy."
A special process server was ap-
pointed because Mrs. LIE Verne
Dickey, 1899 Sixteenth street, Silver
Spring, Md, who was involved in a
traffic accident with George CHA
Kappa, 1411 Oak street NV, on May
/, could not be found after Mr..
Chiarappa filed suit to recover $l5,-
900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Suspect Is Hunted
In $1,808 Theft

Police today were seeking a color
ed man suspected of stealing $1,700
in checks and s108 in cash yesterday
from the Offices of the Phillips e.
Candy Realty Co., 1912 Fifteenth
street NV
The theft was reported by Miss
Norma Beckett, Office employee, who
said she left the Office for a moment
and found the colored man there
when she returned. She said the
man inquired about house to rent
and then left.
Another colored man who held up
and robbed Franklin l.. Jolley, of
81 Rhode Island avenue NV, of
SIT was also sought. Jolley reported
he was robbed by q man who stop
ped him and asked for match.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
IMAM Hurt Here
|Gets Treatment
Baltimore

Clarence Thompson, 29-year-old
colored hobo, couldn't explain why
he didn't get treated here in the
first place.
Burned yesterday in a fire he
made IN the Benning yards, Thomp-
son boarded a freight train and rode
to Baltimore, where he obtained
treatment in the city hospital. Then
he returned to Washington.
His burns became so painful he
later sought treatment at Emer-
gency and Gallinger Hospitals here.
Thompson said his home IL In
Charleston, 8. G.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Process Server Must Find
Lure Other Than Theuter

Justice Oscar r. Luhring quashed
service of the paper yesterday after
Defense Attorneys Charles S. Baker
and Benjamin L. Topper said Mrs.
Dickey and her husband, Granville
E. Dickey, received friendly
anonymous note through the mail
signed Palsy Walsy" and inclosing
two tickets to the National Theater
for September 30. Attending the
theater that night, Mrs. Dickey was
served.
Justice Luhring was told yesterday
that Mr.. Conley had traced the
Dickey car into the District, found
it parked near the National and sur
missed the couple were at the show.
The justice, however, thought that
too much of coincidenc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Increase Shown Again
In National Income
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of Commerce Roper
said yesterday the national income
increased in October for the fifth
consecutive month and that the to-
tai for the year might reach $65, 000,-
900, O00-the highest since 1880 ex-
cept for 1875 aggregate Of sos, 000,-
100000.
The forecast of the prospective ma
tional income-the total of wages,
dividends, interest, rents and other
payments received by individuals
contrasted with an earlier ohicial
estimate of $61, 000, 000, 900 made be-
fore the vigor Of the recovery move
ment became apparent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Picketing Continues
In Truck Strike

Truck drivers and helpers of the
Griffith Consumers Co., who went
on strike yesterday morning, con-
tinued today to picket the company S
Offices and garage at 1900 First
street NE. No disorders were re-
ported.
The company said the difficulty
was caused by difference of opin-
ion as to the number of yard men
who should be permitted to vote in
an election on union affiliation
Union leaders said the strike is for
recognition, higher wages and better
working conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Miss Alma O. Baker
Dies in Hospital
Special Dispatch to the Star.

Special Dispatch to the Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Nov. 24.-Miss
Alma o. Baker, 40, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ollie c. Baker of near
Rockville, died yesterday at the
Montgomery County General Hos
pital, Sandy Spring, where she had
been patient about two weeks.
Besides both parents, she is sur
vlved by sister, Mrs. Russell L.
Bogley, and brother, Russell
Baker, both Of Rockville. She was
a lifelong resident of this vicinity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Political Forecustinq
Not So Simple

The University of California will
have an electrical display at the
San Francisco Fair at which, if you
pick your wife from the cardboard
models provided, then push but
ton, you will be able to see what
your children will look like. Now, if
only our national political parties
would erect cardboard presidential
candidates so the visitor could press
a button in front of any one of
them and see what the national debt
would look like four years from now i!
The Commentator Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Physical Tests for PUPILS

FAIRFAX, Va, Nov. "a Especially
Physical examinations for all high
school pupils taking part in school
athletics, including Wasserman tests,
are to be given by physicians
throughout the county cooperating
with the Fairfax County Health De-
partment, 1T has been announced by
Or. Edward M. Holmes, jr., director.
The examinations will be completed
by December 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Two Dogs Killed
| With Same Gun
In Same Way
irecial Dispatch to The Star.


CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, Nov.
24.-David Shoemaker of Nippon
accidentally killed two valuable
hunting dogs-both setters-within
the last week-in the same manner
and with the same gun, but on
separate occasions.
One dog belonged to him, the other
to his brother. In each instance he
was attempting to restrain the
FESTIVE dog by holding it back with
the barrel of the gun when the gun
was discharged accidentally.
After the second accident, Mr.
Shoemaker gave away his gun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Mrs. GIuscock Named

WARRENTON, Va, Nov. "a (Spe-
ciaD Mrs. B. Richards Glascock
Of Warrenton, wife of Judge Glas-
cock Of the Trial Justice Court, has
been appointed chairman for Eau
quier County for the 1938-39 Presi'
dents birthday ball.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Bond Concert

BY the Marine Band in the audi
forum at the Marine Barracks at
3 pm. tomorrow. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader; William F. Santel-
mann, assistant.
Program.
Marines Hymn"
Overture, "Anacreon" Cherubini
"Canzonetta" GODDARD
March, High School Cadets" Sousa
Prelude" third act, and Dance
of the Apprentices, from
die Meistersinger" Wagner
waltz in A Major" Brahms
Characteristic, "Tabatiere
Musique" ----Li adow
FESTIVAL March," in Cadman
'The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-01-16

Vero Zorino's stotuesque
beouty becomes flowing
poetry in her role Of premiere
bolIerino in The 0oIdwyn
foIlies."
Evening star., 1938-01-16
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