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Evening star., 1938-04-27
Husband Asks Divorce

ROCKVILLE, Nd, April ~ (spe-
ciaD.-William L. Wilson of this
county has filed suit in Circuit Court
for an absolute divorce from Mrs.
Eleanor G. Wilson, charging deser-
ton. They were married At WASH
ington Grove October 36. 1922, and
have no children, the petition states.
Evening star., 1938-04-27

Pressure is low over Southwestern Green
land. Godthaab 80 80 inches. while dis
turbance is moving Northeastward near
latitude 50S N. and longitude 4oe W, with
lowest pressure about $3.50 inches. A
disturbance is moving rapidly East-North-
eastward over Northern ontario. Mooso-
nee 297s inches. with trough extending
Southwestward to a disturbance over the
Middle and Southern Plains, Dodge, City.
KanS.. % 81 inches. Pressure is falling
over Alaska. Dutch Harbor. $50 inches
A high-preSsure area is moving rapidly
Eastward over Northern and Eastern Que
bee. Clarke City. "a inches. while pres
sure is high from Sable Island. Nova Sco-
tia Southwestward over the Middle At
lantic and South Atlantic States. Atlantic
City N. J.; 3o44 inches. Pressure is ris-
ing over the Western Canadian provinces.
Swift Current, Saskatchewan. 3O..6 inches.
During the last "a hours there have been
showers over Southwestern Quebec, West
ern and Northern ontario the Plains
States and In scattered areas over the
Rocky Mountain region and Manitoba and
Saskatchewan Temperatures have risen
considerably in the Lake region, while they
nave fallen over the Plains States.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac. clear At
Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
OPERETTA TO BE GIVEN
Raymond School Pupils Will Put
on The Geewhilikins.'

An operetta, "The Geewhilikins, :"
will be staged tomorrow afternoon and
Friday night by pupils Of the Raymond
School, in the auditorium of the
school, Spring road and Tenth street
NV. More than 40 pupils will be
in the cast.
The production has been directed by
Miss Lucy Hopkins and Mrs. Vera
Ebert. teachers, with the cooperation
Of Miss Lou E. Ballenger, principal.
The matinee will begin at 3:15 pm.
tomorrow and the Friday night show
at 3 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
Food Distributors to Meet.

The Independent Food Distribu-
tors Association of Washington will
hold a mass meeting at o'clock to-
night in the Masonic Temple, Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
House of Morgan
Lends q Nickel
Without Security
Dear, Acheson Floats
Loan, but Only after
Some Difficulty.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Dean Acheson, lawyer, had difficult
ty floating scent loan from the
house OF Morgan yesterday.
During a recess in the Securities
Commission hearing the lawyer for
the Stock Exchange asked Thomas w.
Lamont and Arthur Anderson, Nor
gan partners, for q nickel to make q
phone call. Neither had q nickel.
Charles Dickey. another partner,
hshed In his pockets, produced . s.
cent piece and lent It without Sc
curity.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
WEATHER REPORT

District Columba-General tomorrow slightly
moderate
Maryland slightly
tonight
Evening star., 1938-04-27

Four air.raid protection demonstra.
tions were given In Westminster, Eng
land, In i've weeks
Evening star., 1938-04-27

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today
Hishest, II. 8 pm. yesterday Year
sgo, 64.
Lowest, "a. 5 am. today Year ago. 45.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 81. on April 90.
Lowest. 1s, on January 2S.
Humidity for Last 81 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayo
Highest, 81 per cent, at g am. today.
Lowest, 80 per cent, at 3:l5 pm. yes
terday.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United States Coast and
Geodetic survey
Today. Tomorrow.
High 5:3S am 6:25 am.
Low - 1910 am.
High - SOL pm. 6:4S pm.
Low - 1896 pm. 1:24 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises Sets.
Sun. today 5:16 6:56
Sun tomorrow 5.15 6:67
Moon. today --- 3:26 am. 4:24 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one.half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
River Report.
Report for Last 81 Hours.

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clea
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac. clear .
Great Falls today.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Widen Plans
To Teach
Children

Education for children de-
tanned at the Receiving
Home appeared a possibility
under a .WPA teaching
project for handicapped chill
dren today.
Mrs. Hazel Clark Taylor,
in charge of the new WPA
program, and Grady H.
Leonard, superintendent of
the Receiving Home, are in
accord on the need for teach
ing facilities for the children
detained at the home. Many
remain there as long as seven
months without any school
ing.
Although the Board of
Education certifies only 1873
prospective pupils for the
WPA teaching program, OF.
ficials believe that at least
so more youngsters of
meager school record can be
located throughout the Dis
trict.
"Tf pupil rolls cannot be
filled from the physically
handicapped" Mrs. Taylor
said, then the children from
the Receiving Home should
certainly be considered"
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
'PICCOLO FOUND
IN THEFT CASE

That most maligned of musical
instruments, the piccolo, assumed
an important place today in the
economic history of Central High
School.
It's all because police. hot on
the trail of thieves who have been
robbing lockers at the Euclid
Street institution, have so far re,
covered only one item Of the lot
"a common, ordinary or garden
variety of piccolo.
Still missing are such items as
a suit coat, topcoat, raincoat,
gloves, hat, tennis shoes and other
things which high school students
are wont to stow in lockers. Prin-
cipal victims to date, it was re-
ported. are Jack CumminS, 1900
block of Irving st. N. w., and
William Doyle, 1900 block Of But-
more st, N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
DISTRICT HARBOR
URGED

A coordinated plan for develop
ment of Washington's waterfront
and completion of the Anacostia
Park development was urged at a
meeting of the Board of Trade
last night.
John A. Remon, chairman OF
the river and harbor committee OF
the organization, outlined a pro
gram of Potomac River pollution
control.
When the harbor development
program is completed, Mr.. Remon
pointed out, ocean-going ships will
be able to come to Washington to
discharge cargo and take on pas
Sengers and freight.
John w. O'Leary, chairman OF
the executive committee of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, and struck at the rising
costs of government, in his ad.
dress.
Many business firms, he pointed
out, are forced to pay more in
taxes than they pay to stockhold-
ers or employees.
Washington, he said, has en-
joyed the greatest boom of any
American city in the last five
years, as proved by bank clear
ances, building permits and de
partment store sales.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
BLIND PERSONS.
ARE EFFICIENT IN.
BRAILLE LIBRARY
Seven Here Send Books
All Over World

In a library over a garage, where
a person with sight would be lost,
seven men and women without
sight carry out the functions OF
international book-lending with
precision and dispatch.
The seven blind persons run the
National Library for the Blind in
a loft on top of a garage in the
HOO block of TWenty-first st.
N. W., sending their Braille books
all over the world, with the if.
regular assistance Of sighted"
volunteer workers.
There is a circulation depart
ment and a filing department,
proofreading and transcribing,
binding and recording, done in
much the same fashion as the
regular Libraries do, but with one
major difference-the books, the
bindings. the files and the cor
respondence are all in Braille.
CHORES FOR NON.BLIND
The sighted" women volunteers
do the chores" that the blind
workers cannot do-they address
envelopes and address canvas
sacks containing books that are
being sent to blind readers. These
sacks are prepared for mailing,
and the books sent out and re
turned are indexed by the sightleSS
librarians themselves.
In addition to the Braille books.
the sightless workers lend out the
talking books" prepared by the
Government for the blind who are
unable to read Braille and to
augment their Braille reading.
Carl AllensWorth, busy man In
the library, takes care Of the lend
ing of its 200 talking books, which
range in subject matter, from the
Bible to P. G. WodehouSe.
RUN CIRCULATION
Miss Ida M. Weitzel, who sees
but cannot read imprint, and Fred
O. Lentz are in charge of circula-
ton: Mrs. Bessie Golihew is proof
reading "Hatching the American
Eagle" and Miss Mary Collins is
binding the pages as Mrs. GoliheW
finishes them.
DR., Ammen Yeatman IS In
charge of incoming Braille mail,
recording and filing, with Mrs.
Stelle Parker his assistant.
Just coming into the library and
being filed by Mrs. Parker was
Anthony Adverse" the rather
huge book even in imprint, which
in Braille comes to 36 volumes.
Gone With the Wind" also OF
considerable words, comes to a
mere IL volumes in the Braille.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE BOOKS
The library contains Braille
books not only in English but in
Spanish, German. French and
Latin.
A campaign is now in progress
to raise funds for the library
so that additional blind persons
may be employed to work at their
homes in transcribing books into
the Braille.
To this end, a benefit perform
ance Of "The Citadel" will be
given in a midnight preview
Thanksgiving Eve at Loew's Capi.
tol.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Sewer PLANS
Contract to Boston
Firm for S1O3,5OO

The District Commissioners have
authorized Metcalf & Eddy, Bos-
ton engineering firm, to draw
plans for a sewer system which
will preserve Rock Greek from con-
tamination by polluted water.
AS agreed on, the contract called
for a payment of $103,500 for the
work.
The Boston firm, which investi
gated the sewer problems in the
District several years ago. is tc
undertake it's survey Immediately
The project for which the plans
are to be the basis was estimated
by Engineer Commissioner David
McCoach, jr.. to entail an ex
penditure of more than $4,000, 900
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Women to Meet

CHERRYDALE, Va, Nov. 10.
The Woman's Club of Cherrydale
will meet at 8 p. m, tomorrow, in
the Cherrydale library on Lee
Highway. Under a new schedule,
the club will meet the second Fri
day of each month, instead of the
second and fourth Thursdays.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Firemen'S Museum

BOSTON, Nov. 10 U.N.SO.
The Boston fire department has
started a museum which will con-
tain antique fire engines. tubes
and other equipment that has been
used at some time or other to fight
fires.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10

eyes, 1 agree with you, Mabel. This
Is o nice district, but the only difficulty
il that haven't been able to find a
satisfactory room around here"
"Oh, you shouldn't have 50 much
trouble. just consult the furnished
room columns Of the rald.Times."
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25
Richmond Minister
Addresses Virginia
Union Convocation

RICHMOND, Va, Nov, 18-The
Rev. G. S. Mccall, minister of the
Mount Tabor Baptist Church of
Woodville, deplored the furious
driving" Of the life of today's gen.
Grafton in an address delivered at
the weekly convocation services of
Virginia University Friday morning
in Coburn Chapel.
The Rev. Mr., Mccall used as a
basis for his sermon the story of
Jehu, warrior in the Old Testa-
ment, who was famous for his fur
ious driving" ability, and known
throughout the land for the furious.
ness of his revenge.
I'VE are not living IS they did in
the year 1800," the speaker said
"This day is day of speed, of driv-
ing" 1--WE are in too much OF 9
hurry to meditate-We miss the fel,
lowship we ought to have because
of our furious driving
LET US not drive SO furiously that
we lose the significance Of life," hi
concluded.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25

should you marry Z. c. as you are
well acquainted with his habit Of
gambling and il just won't mix with
matrimony. r. b. does love you--
but he isn't going 70 marry any time
soon. Why don't you make some
other friends.
A. Al. H.Should I step aside and
let my brother go with his girl?
Ans: Yes--to do 80 would be the
means of you both finding out which
one of you brothers she really likes
best. Your heart beat" is as yet
to come into your life.
/. T,-Will we start to house,
keeping as | am tired of living with
my husbands folks?
Ans: Not until you get work and
save enough money to get moved.
Your husband seems contented
enough right where he Is, and he Is
going to make no attempt to get out
until you get the place and establish
yourself in it. Then he will follow,
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25
FRI, NOV. &c, 1898 !

slips company participates. This
program includes sailing races, pull
ing boat races, boxing, swimming
and Wrestling meets, rifle and pistol
matches, baseball, basketball, and
football games. Within this keleido-
scope Of sports lie many opportunI-
tics for the enlisted personnel TO
show their athletic prowess and
there Ii indeed keen competition
between individuals and between
groups who are out to make the
first team
Coaching these athletic teams are
young officers who are picked for
their ability in some particular sport.
In most cases the individual officers
were proficient In their sport while
midshipman at the Naval Academy
and 50 are quite capable.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25
NAVY NEWS AND ODDITIES
United States Navy Recruiting Service
Main Station-Cincinnati, Ohio
Sub-Stations - Lima, Dayton, Portsmouth,
Columbus, Athens, Marion, Springfield,
and Chillicothe, Ohio

many new warships to bring this
country on . parity with the largest
Navies of the world. The additional
men needed for these new ships
naturally means additional oppor-
tunity for advancement and man
enlisting in the Navy now should go
as far in his first few years as his
ability and ambition can carry him
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25

Opportunity For Advancement

Opportunity For Advancement
In Navy Increased
Newly enlisted recruits in the
Navy have opportunity for advance
ment far greater than ever before
due to the combined circumstances
of the big Navy building program
approved by Congress and the an
ticipated extra building program OF
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25

For The first in,e In our history.
the United States Navy is manned
almost entirely by native born
Americans. Grand totals, and they
are pretty grand, at that--show ias
of the Navy's officers and only 3,a75
Of the Navy's enlisted men are listed
as born under foreign flags.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25

for the vacancies will be there, III
addition To tlas, Ii II just twenty
years since the World War, and the
men who enlisted In 1917, 1918,
1919 are completing their twenty
years service and are being trans
ferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve
with pension. Tkis makes room
for more a,lvaneements for the
newly enlisted III u.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25
My New 1899 Assrology Readings
Are Now Ready.

Are Now Ready.
..,
80 $500
one year aha pe sueosssi - = ~
aieef"afds or "hat Is pest lor me 70
DO,
Ans: Regardless OF aSw much sx-
perienee you have, II will be neces-
sary for you TO spend the limited
time in study if you plan to take up
course in nursing. Ii you finish
the courseyou will get employ
ment.
a
w. p.-Will this pirl that / have
in mind pet me into trouble and
does she mean me anv good?
Ans. The young ladv means you
YOU. Ii would be well for you to
choose someone around your own
are for ! friend as she is much too
vounu TO take YOU seriously. No
trouble will arise from your asaoc.
latino With each other.
/ g WV bov friend and /
oct alone terrible He stavs out all
ho,lrs az the NIGHT and never saws
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25

cares anything about me and will he
marry me? How about F. B.?
Ans. Under no circumstances
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25

Spend your money where
you can work. Patronixe stores
that employ Negro clerks.
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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-11-25

Athletics comprise orc Of the de-
finite activities of the United States
Fleet. During the athletic year,
which starts in July, there are sixty
odd athletic events in which the
The Washington times., 1938-10-24

well that no guard got smart.
Some of them were in the model
shop, or furniture factory, where
the squabble started. Others were
in the laundry, which overlooked
the roof of the model shop build
ing, and for that reason was eX-
tremely important. Others we're
in the tailor shop, and some werL
in the mat shop, where they hack
up automobile tires and make
them into rubber mats for the
Navy.
The model shop was guarded
by Royal Cline, officially termed
a senior custodial officer. Under
his eye that day were Limerick,
Lucas, and Franklin, grinning
Harvey Bailey and Milton Petit
john (about whom more later).
There was also Swede Youngberg,
recently tranferred after a long
interview with G-men and cur
rently suspected Of having graded
out"-which means ne may be a
star Government witness when
Lucas and Franklin so to trial.
The Washington times., 1938-10-24
Ready to Take
IOUer Rock

Otherwise, the Rock would have
been taken over by 300 convicts
and San Franciscans could have
looked across a mile and a quarter
Of water at the merriest kind Of
merry hell. Those 800 have had
plenty of guns and ammunition:
they would have mad personal
grudges to satisfy against guards
and against each other. They
would have held the warden and
his despised "custodial officers" as
hostages, and why talk about what
might have happened to the wives
and children Of the two-Score fan1i-
lies on the island?
Don't ask me who figured it all
out. I don't know, but I'm GER
tain it wasn't Tom big Sandy
Limerick, who stopped more lead
that day than he could handle
It wasn't Rufus Whitley" Frank
lin, who got himself shot up. And
it certainly wasn't Jimmy Lucas
who took dive and came up with
nothing more serious than q
The Washington times., 1938-10-24
CIine's Number Up;
Out to Get Him

But If we don't know how Cline
died, we know why. He died be-
cause the cons wanted hin-his
number had been up for long
time. They could have waited for
Cline's relief, a guard named Han
sen, and taken him much easier.
Hansen is a slow-moving, unsuS-
pecting sort of guard, who likes
to stand around buzzing cons. He
used to be guard at San Quentin,
and frequently entertained us by
telling how he helped at hangingS
and just how it sounds when a
neck breaks.
In spite of that the cons took
Cline instead of Hansen. For one
thing, Cline was too free with
that sap of his, a combination
tear-gas gun and metal billy. Fol-
another thing, he once served a
month as relief mail clerk while
Ordway, the regular clerk, was on
vacation. At that time, we got
The Washington times., 1938-10-24
ALCATRAZ HORRORS Barred by FREED CONVICT
Prison Just
A Seethinq
Volcano

shut, I see Limerick and Franklin
after they make the roof. They
are running toward the tower, in
a slight crouch. Limerick gets
there first and hits the door with
his shoulder. It doesn't bulge. So
he turns to the left and raises his
hammer and aims a blow at the
window.
Then Franklin heaveS his
shoulder at the door, and finds it
no go. He turns to the right and
lifts his hammer for a crack at
that window.
So there we have Limerick and
Franklin, each with a hammer,
each banging away at a window.
And there we have the little, over.
looked detail, the two thin sheets
Of celluloid.
Tomorrow, Reed will continue
his eye-1DitneSs account of the
attempted escape By Limerick,
Franklin and Lucas, and DiH
disclose their fatal mistake.
The Washington times., 1938-10-24

chance to sit down, with Franklin,
in California's new gas chamber.
Limerick was told to pick his
own chumps and to tell them
nothing. He picked Franklin and
lucas. Franklin was three-quar-
terS tough and not very bright;
he could be handled. Lucas had
spent his three ysSrs on the Rock
talking himself into the job; he
was always running off at the
mouth about how tough Lucas
was.
As a matter Of fact, he was
yellow clear through-as he proved
when the time came. But he was
always talking a good caper, tell
ing everybody how smart and how
tough he was. SO Limerick took
him at his own estimate and de-
clared him in-no doubt fooled
by the fact that Lucas DID go
after Capone with a pair Of sciS-
sors. But that was a typical Lucas
caper-he tried to cop sneak on
Capone and wilted fast when the
sneak missed.
If you want to draw your own
conclusions, here's one more Incl
dent. Six weeks before the break,
Harvey Bailey, kidnaper, who Is
beyond doubt the most dangerous
man on the Rock, developed a
sudden distaste for work in the
model shop. He wanted to get
away from there in a hurry; he
said he needed a rest; he asked
for a transfer to the tailor shop
and got it.
Then, after a few more or less
restful weeks in the tailor shop,
Mr.. Bailey asked for another trans
fer, back to the model shop. He
got it. He was there on the after
noon of May %, and whether the
events of that afternoon were
wholly surprising to him, ]
couldn't say.
That day. began unlike any
other day during my four years,
one month and 10 days on the
Rock. Every con on the island
knew that something was going
to break wide open.
The forty who we're going to
make it pop kept it covered SC
The Washington times., 1938-10-24
Door Refuses
To BMdqe at .BLOUs

Sites testified at the inquest
they cut the wire over their heads,
but his testimony doesn't check
with the story told and re-told on
the Rock.
Sites also testified he saw the
men running toward him, throw
ing chunks of metal at the tower
window. I contradict that. Sites
didn't see them until they were
right on him. =.
Sitting on my table, swinging
my legs and keeping my mouth
The Washington times., 1938-10-24
Inside StOru
Of Officers
Staying

and goose-necking out the window.
I see q window of the model-shop
on the third floor, swing open.
It's a steel-frame window and it
swings at the middle, so that half
comes outside and half goes in
side, and chain holds it hori-
zontal. It makes a perfect plat
form.
I see a con step through the
window and stand up on the plat
form and grab for the roof.
I recognize him as Limerick,
and, as he disappears around an
angle Of the wall, second con
steps out on the platform. AS soon
as he clears around the wall, a
third one comes UP and I recog-
nize him as Jimmy Lucas.
The Washington times., 1938-10-24
BY P. f. REED
Former Convict Just Released
From Alcatraz Prison

(Cpoyright, 1888, by San Francisco
Examiner and The Washington Times)
He'll on wheels was rolling
toward Alcatraz on the after
noon of May %.
But a dimes worth of cellu-
loid got in the way.
The Rock was all set for the
most murderous prison upris-
ing in modern history. The
scheme. hatched weeks before,
called for a general prison de-
livery; every con who wanted
to 60 home was going to 60
home. 1t was a desperate, fool
hardy scheme; but it was engi-
neered by desperate, foolhardy
men, and it came within a hun
dredth of an inch of scoring-a
hundredth of an inch being
about the thickness Of that
celluloid.
AS it was, one guard had his
skull smashed in and three
cons went up against the guns.
And while two of them were
stopping slugs and the third
was turning violently yellow,
three dozen others were wait
ing to jump in and carry out
their assignments. They're still
waiting-because Of two, thin
sheets Of celluloid.