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The Washington times., 1938-12-01
ban ON BIRDS
ASKED TO CURB
PARROT fever

Aiming toward prevention of an
outbreak of parrot fever in the
Capital, Health Officer George c.
Rutland today was preparing a
recommendation to be laid before
the Commissioners, which would
ban importation Of any bird of
the parrot family from distant
communities.
Two women, the health depart
ment reported. have been stricken
by the disease, which is contracted
through the care and petting of
the sick birds.
DR.. Rutland warned that anyone
who recently purchased birds
should observe them carefully for
any signs or illness, loss OF appe-
tite, drowsiness, dropping wings
and diarrhoea.
Half a dozen local pet shops
are allowed to sell the birds, DIR.
Rutland said, and these dealers
were urged to isolate any birds
showing signs of illness.
DR.. Rutland pointed out that
New York, along with several other
States, has regulations banning
birds from distant States as a
health precaution.
He said that birds bred locally
are much safer than those i'm
ported from States.
The women victims of the fever
-psittacoSiS-are improving, the
department announced.
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Gets First Prize

counting Office, and w. R. Ogg, of
the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton.
Four other speakers in the COM
petition were Everett Bellows, Ann
Dienste, Evelyn Morris and Eliza
beth Yates.
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not on the Wane.
DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, curator Of
physical anthropology at the Ma
tional Museum, Smithsonian In
stitution, had already bluntly
pointed out that primitive man
was not besieged by many of the
physical and mental ills which
hamper civilized men. He had
added that real civilization" does
not consist of the abundance Of
such devices as electric refrigera-
tors-but is mental and moral"
Then he turned his sharp clear
gaze on the crises and expressions
in various parts of the world.
Was he going to hint that what
civilization has been Salvaged
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And the Members Protest

IN PROTEST I receive several letters from the
Westminster Colony Club members and Presi-
dent Harvey A. Turnure is especially censorious
of few statements made here some days ago.
For your information" he insists, "this club was
not formed by exmembers of any club. Every
member of the Colony Club is member of some
representative club in Westchester. The idea was
born by people who wanted to dance to good music
in the winter in Westminster and were willing to
pay for it, L suppress my signs as realize my
nice little paragraph about group of people,
once opulent but now impoverished but still
social, had managed to find their fun again at
less expense. Was not what you might call
pointblank without thinking twice. strictly the
truth In fact, according to the members, it is
not true at all: and have sufficient penitence to
satisfy all, and leave some for the band.
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MUSTER
District Red Cross Lists
II3,22O Names

There are now 1920 members
of the American Red Cross in
Washington, General F. r. Keefer,
chairman of the District chapter,
announced last night.
AT the time the roll call ended
on October II the chapter had
well gone lover the top" in its
campaign to win $4,000 members
and more have been coming in
steadily, he said.
A breakdown OF the member
ships disclosed that 1895 live in
Prince Georges county, 4,231 in
Montgomery county, 1,349 in Alex
andria, $500 in Arlington county
and 1873 in Fairfax. The other
10O,311 are District residents.
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revamp transport to bring down costs Of Northern
manufactured goods so that the South may buy
q great deal more finished products, Washington
has dealt WPA and PWA brides.
Instead of encouraging the decentralization Of
industry to spread out population, create more
employment and more even distribution of goods,
washington drives directly at the cotton-textile
business Of the South in favor Of the New
England textile industry. with its wage-and-hour
act.
Instead Of encouraging business and industry
to settle in this part of the nation. to develop
the fabulous, untouched richness Of the
uth-particularly in minerals Washington
delivers pompous lectures to Southerners on how
they fail to contribute their share to the national
welfare.
And the South is growing rapidly tired of being
80 treated.
HOUSTON is magnificent example of what
"A may be done by free enterprise in the South
Sixteen years ago Houston was comparatively
insignificant city of Texas.
Today Houston is double the size it was
dozen years ago. Fifty miles inland. yet it is
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
CANT RECALL
MISSING CASH.
OFT DECLARES
Brown Says MarshaI's
Aide Signed Receipt

Justice Department investiga-
tors today went forward with
their study of data taken during
a lengthy inquiry into the books
of the United States Marshal's
office.
Announcement of their findings
may be made shortly, a Justice
Department spokesman said.
CLAIMS RECEIPT
Meanwhile Major Ernest w.
Brown, superintendent of police,
asserted the Police Department
has a receipt for the missing
$751; 8 seized in a gambling raid
20 months ago.
The receipt, said Major Brown,
is signed by Thomas OFT, chief
deputy marshal now on indefinite
leave of absence. OFT was SuS-
pended recently, a Department OF
Justice spokesman said, pending
inquiry into the books of the
marshals office.
OFT last night said, II have no
recollection of the money" and
added he did not handle all sums
seized in raids. He said if he had
access to the records he might re-
call the sum and it's disposition.
TARvER TO ACT
Assistant United States Attorney
William S. Tarver, assigned by Dis
trict Attorney David A. Pine to aid
Justice Investigators in the In
quiry, said he planned shortly to
confer with the Federal inquirerS.
The search for the missing money
was brought into the open two
days ago during trial Of two men
charged with maintaining the eS-
tablishment where the cash was
seized.
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CRIME GAINING
IN WASHINGTON,
BENNETT SAYS

Crime In the District has stead
ily increased since 1880, James v.
Bennett, director of the United
States Bureau of Prisons, declared
last night at the annual meeting
of the Board of Public Welfare.
1.-THE District is having more
than its share of crime" Ben
nett declared. I'm the District
since 1880, there has been a 7S
per cent increase in the popula-
ton of the Workhouse, while
the increase for the nation as
a whole has been but II per
cent over the same period"
Police departments of the ma
ton and not prisons, Bennett said,
stand today as the greatest detri-
ment to crime in the country.
tits the danger of getting
caught that holds the American
back from crime. He still is
the gambler, however, and there
always is the possibility the po-
lice will not arrest him, and the
prosecution attorney will not
turn up enough evidence to. try
him."
Bennett lauded the report re-
Gently made by the Penal Re
organization Committee and con-
tended the District must no
longer depend on the Federal Gov
eminent to round out its penal
system"
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MO HOUSE with the inner gloom Of the Little
IN Theater, where, currently, statuesque Blanche
Yurka appears as the redwigged, cratic Elizabeth
of England. There is candlelight coldness to the
place and would select it above all others for
shivery plays of mystery or sanguinary wrong
doing The error of boxoffiee man in hailing
Teddy Hart as Jimmy Savo led to the twaining
and twinning of the pair in the Boys From
Syracuse" so I am told. .Marlene Dietrich,
languid Lorelei, perched on barstool in Tony's'
long limbs dangling loose. and at the time there
were but five of us and only one to record that a
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through the centuries may be
threatened by cataclysm, as the
prophets Of doom" have beer
chanting amid 1885 mounting
complexities?
'SETBACKS LOCAL
But, no, DR.. Hrdlicka said pa
tiently:
"Setbacks are usually local.
not general. Even if they are
general, they are not lasting.
They are usually followed by a
powerful reaction which catches
up again.
I'VE can only feel terribly
sorry that such miserable con-
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Gaze Man Was
Not So Tough!

The cave man wasn't so
tough after all.
That is, he didn't go
around smacking people
down with an ak unless he
had to. DR.. Ales Hrdlicka
today said that there
wasn't as much to fight
about in those days as
there is now. The only
time he fought was when
he killed for something to
eat or to protect his
woman.
But when aroused the
cave man was no sissy, and
when two ax-slingers met
in a dispute over a hunk
of meat or the village
heartbreaker, one of them
usually was left with a
cracked skull.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
BAD EGG
LOVES Labor Lost fol
Molly Penguin

Molly, the Zoo penguin, quail.
flied for the building up to a
terrific let-down" department to-
day, The egg she has been sitting
on for weeks, while bird-lovers
speculated on the possibility of a
jackass penguin forthcoming,
proved unfertile.
BirdhouSe Keeper Malcolm
Davis Can earlier offspring Of
Molly was named after him) re-
moved the egg from Molly's cage.
ut happens" said Keeper Davis,
time after time" L
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
THURSDAY, DEC. I, 1885,
By EUalw walsh Mclean

to recognize that human nature is bad as we'll as
good. They know how to put hope and faith into
many broken lives. A Catholics devotion to his
church is one Of the most beautiful things you
will ever see.
There is another thing that interests me so
much in this religion Their leaders know how to
adjust their church to the times they live in.
They are far.seeing men and they realize so fully
when to give in little bit. But they also realize
that they must never waver an inch from the
belief that there are certain fundamental laws
in our lives that cannot, and must not, be
changed.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

Dietrich sat at q beerbar with "1ong limbs
dangling loose"
L ungifted populace exposes itself in the restau-
rants and night spots Thus, within one half.
hour in the Tavern, found Ballplayer Hank
Greenberg sitting with Aviator Dick Merrill.
An eminent bookie who has mislaid his gram.
ma diploma sat table away from Doro-
thy Thompson, crusading commentator. Poet
wit Dorothy Parker entered with Playwright Lii.
Ian Hellman Humorist Arthur Kober and fash
Toner of detective tales Dashiel Hammett With
in this half-hour, too, saw Editor Jack Lait.
silentMan William S. Hart, and Sports An
nouncer Ted Husing.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Society
Plans Annual Show

Those guys with the quick
fingers and the patter about
now you see it and now you
don't" are going to go at it again.
And those keen-eyed hawks Of
the press, the membership of the
National Press Club, will be flab-
bergasted, as usual. December 2
is the date the washington Sec
ton of the American Society Of
Magicians will put on their show
in the Press Club Auditorium.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
First Aid Quarters
Urged for Center

DR.. George c. Rutland, District
health officer, asked the Commits
sioners today to make adequate
provisions in the new Municipal
Center for first aid treatment.
Each of the wings of the structure
at John Marshall Place and In.
diana Avenue Northwest, Rub
land suggested, should have one
first aid room and four rest rooms.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Tenant Is Shot
In Rental Row

Rufus E. Crook, AZ, of Takoma
Park, Md. was shot in the leg last
night following an argument with
his landlord. The landlord, James
Frisbee, 60, was taken into custody
by Maryland police. They said
the argument was over the rent.
Crook was treated at Casualty
Hospital and later sent home.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01

the worlds largest export point for cotton. The
city's meteoric rise in industrial Importance and
size has been due mainly to the 100000 900 ship
channel built from Galveston.
Water-borne commerce, because it is not only
economical but engineeringly sound here, has
enabled Texas to buy many things cheaply,
export many of her own products cheaply.
The wage-andhour bill will serve but to freeze
a large part of the economic status of the South.
In the oil fields, "roughnecks" receiving So a
day working on the oil rigs, earned $50 week
working seven days week. Now they have
discovered the wage-andhour law will not allow
them to earn more than $44 week. Few times
will they find companies able to pay them time
and-a-haf overtime.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Line Plainly braun

Lite FIuIHIy DF0LUn
THERE is a direct line between goodness and
badness, and once this line is shaken in the
tiniest degree, as the church realizes fully, hui
mainly is bound to suffer.
With undaunted souls like the Pope fighting
every inch of the way to keep going, when it would
be so much easier to say, II have done my duty;
want peace; with the great brotherhood of
Catholics in the world striving and fighting evil.
and with the other beautiful religions carrying
their shining armor of belief and faith through
everything, there is still hope in heartsck world
for brighter and better future
And, to His Holiness, the Pope, the peoples Of
the civilized world send their love and their ad-
miration to gallant and beautiful soul.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Western Class
Play Aids Chest

The speech class Of Western
High School presented Happy
Birthday" a play, for the benefit
of the Community Chest before
the schools Parent Teacher AS.
ISOLATION in the auditorium last
night. Proceeds were earmarked
for the Instructive Visiting Nurse
Society.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01

"Giant hills hung beetling
around. Mild in speech is
Hemingway and rarely gives
hint in table conversation of
his assembly Of word-howitzers
in book and magazine pieces
.. which reminds me: Three
Of us sat at the Stork trying
to recall the opening lines Of
Grey's "Elegy" and did well to
parting day." but could not
pick up from there. Until
q bibulous gent at the next
table checked his salute of hic-
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This is the fight His Holiness,
the Pope, is making and how
he is winning it against over
whelming odds.
The example Of this remark
able man who was so near
death's-dooE that they gave
him extreme JUNCTION, making
up his mind he would not die
until he could accomplish what
he wanted to do in this world
Is certainly a triumph for real
faith and religion.
nNNH
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free-enterprise announcement
basis. is the Administration
which will do more to raise
the entire economic level Of
the nation, even above the level
at which it now stands, than
almost any other set of politi-
clans in American history.
What has been done to date
in this part Of the nation by
the Roosevelt administration
may be put down mostly as
deception.
Instead of attempting to
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Human Progress Still on Upgrade
SQys Hrdlicka, Student of Man
By LUCIA GIDDENs

wise white haired scientist who has traced the upward
struggle mankind through the ages looked out today the
world uttered his faith that human progress
The Washington times., 1938-12-01

cups and muttered, 1.-THE lowing herd wind slow
ly DER the lea," and from that point Ed Swasey
completed down to darkness and to me-. I have
yet to peek into any of the city's multitudinous
busy-bee lunch shops and find more than one or
two hungry bees" at the counter.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
My Say

THRoUGH all the worries and trials Of hui
= mainly there is one shining, bright example
the civilized world is giving thanks for today.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Workers Appear Prosperous


WALKING through the Hughes Tool Company
w plant outside Houston, was astounded at
the prosperous appearance Of employees, Negro
and white. Nothing ill-clad, illfed or illhoused
about these workmen.' Nor did they appear.
victims of employer oppression.
The reason for their seeming contentment was
not hard to find. The lowestpaid Negro workers
drew $40 week, equivalent to $40 week in the
North. The average wage throughout this, the
largest maker of oil industry tools in the world.
stood above 80 cents an hour.
CIO organizers had tried to "take" these
workers many times in the last few years, but
on each occasion the organizers could not beat
down the obvious fact that these men knew that
while they were free, each could work on his
own initiative make more money by so doing.
and to submit themselves to the domination of
outsiders would simply freeze all to the standard
of work put out by the most inefficient or sloweSt
worker.
Copyright Ledger Syndcate)
(Bodke Carriers opinions are his otun and not
necessarily those OF The Washington Tin1eSJ
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
1(But''

HOUSTON, Textile Federal Administration
~ that devotes its entire time trying to raise
The Washington times., 1938-12-01

privilege Of meeting two Popes during my life
time, and they were rare men. They were men
who seemed to stand apart from the ordinary
run of human beings.
The Roman Catholic Church is truly wonder.
fIll organization. When one stops to think how
many hundreds of years it has gone on through
history its brilliant leaders always planning for
their people, protecting and guarding them! The
beautiful peace and comfort it gives to even the
poorest soul who belongs to that faith! 1t is
10y to know that powerful belief like this still
exists, in our troubled world.
Understanding People
VTNHE Catholic priests and nuns are such under
l. standing sympathetic people. They are taught
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Understanding People

CASUAL FRAGMENTS: There is no sense to
~ it, but every time I see bulk-oodled' heaVy-
iawed Ernest Hemingway think OF PoeS phrase:
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
PHOEBE JANE BEALL
Won Third PrIze.-Tin1es
Staff Photo

were Miss Helen Newman, Col o.
r. MCGUIRE, Of the General Ac-
The Washington times., 1938-12-01

(Bodke Carriers opinions are his otUn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TineSJ
Evening star., 1938-01-09
CIVIC RESOLUTIONS.
FOR 1888 SOUGHT
Friendship Also Distributes
QUESTIONABLE in New
Year Greeting.

In . new year greeting to mem.
bers Of the Friendship Citizens As
sociation, President Samuel J. Flick
niger asked them to make three reso-
lutions for 1s3S-first. to bring into
the association at least one new
member . year; second, to attend
meetings regularly and take an active
part in civic affairs, and, third, to pay
dues regularly.
The resolutions were contained in
. letter mailed last week, which also
contained an outline Of the work
ahead Of the association and q ballot
on which members could indicate
whether or not they were in favor OF
vote for the District and what form
that vote should take.
Questionnaire Details.
They were asked If they favored
local self-government, representation
in Congress, q mayor and legislative
body, elected commissioners, or a local
Legislative. body elected on q ward or
city-wide basis. Results Of the ques-
tionnaire are expected to be an
nounced late this month.
One Of the outstanding needs Of the
community, Mr.. F1ickinger said, is a
new branch library building at Wis
consin avenue and Albemarle street
NV. The use Of the present library
Is dwlindling because of the made
quate facilities afforded, he said.
Previously Mr.. Fickinger had stated
that this drop in library use had
been used as an argument by the
Public Library when it failed to
grant their request for q new branch,
and in his letter he urged members
to patronize the present one at Wis
consin avenue and River road NV,
by taking out a card and making
practice of getting b book every week.
Other immediate needs in Friend
ship Heights, he said, were the COM
pletion of the woodrow Wilson Sta
dlum and q community theater.
Prizes Awarded.
Last week a special committee of
the association announced the win
ners in the annual contest for the
best decorated homes and business
establishments in the community dur
ing the Christmas season. First place
for the best decorated home went to
Richard K. Stevens, 4404 Fessenden
street NV, "for' the most elaborate,
appropriate and well-planned dis
play: second, James Coker, 4429
Brandywine street NV, for artistry
in making interior and exterior light
ing Join in an effective picture;
third, Warren w. Mulligan, 431l
Chesapeake street NV, for choice
Of size and color Of lights and their
arrangement"
Prizes for business establishments
went to Mcdowell Bros, Inc, 5252
Wisconsin avenue NV; Sunoco Serv-
ice Station, Wisconsin avenue and
River road NV, and Tolman Laun-
dry, 5248 Wisconsin avenue.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS.

Eusens +. OConnor. Sd, %. Garden City
na sanas f.. r Rev H'IE:Gn E I sSskey III ltso
William D. weekley. 81. 3l13 south Da-
fs: 49, sSod. sys island sad .1s Ma9s S1 Es Il: ~
James 4. Collier. ~, and Harriet M. Dodd.
W:rren ~; both OF Arlinston' Va; the Rev.
ana Louis Ware e. 90 'StS se1 y St. St. NV: NV:
% and yff sss x0rk S lszt * ST. s.
Nathsn E1hn, Gohsn 6 so,tx e 4sf II s. Sc and
Ralph E Hureer. 50. New Brighton Pa,
and ibs Rst EstelS VlekS H. Raleigh N CT
ssye; NV, and clara NJ II. Greene. Gree sefi!s IS.
Raph fSn St yones nw 81 the ,se sey a,P
Island n1 ave-. nS Soufh fhe Rev. s e smi'h: khafe
orss Ma .Ha MHas Mary R1sn S:r. sss:9.
Frank W. Nelson, "a. ouantico. Va, and
XirEinia lie May Harrison. II. wash
Losis +; tE Hill; q; and Sarah c. Pumphre,
sss Hs
tain, 30. both Of New York. N Y
Moses Carter 35. Alexandria. Va. and
Theodore Bernard Bancroft. 81. and Emma
Louise Osthaus. 43, both Of washington
James Alfred Carter. 10. and Irene Eliza
beth Baker. IS. both OF WashinEton
Henry Lee carp. 21. Gaithersbure. Md :,
and Esther Ruth Clark. IS. German
stephen N. Faris. 81. and Alice c. Lloyd
10. both Of Washington.
LaWrence Lyre et A. Howard. q; and virginia N
T. Kenneth Cassel. Fl. and Carolyn Mar
garet Thompson. is, both of Leonard
town. Md
Curtis 81, both Of spencerville Md
Robert A. Hood. 21. and Roberta Hall, 1S,
both of Sandy Spring. Md.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

more difficult tournaments. If any,
thing. the competition will be keener
in 1888 than ever before We cannot
promise to continue our winning
record. but we certainly are going to
be in there trying.
We will not hold title to the Wander
bilt Cup, which we won in November,
for very long, as in the future this
tournament will be played in April at
the same time as the individual
masters. The date of the other i'm
portant team-of-four event, the
Spingold Trophy, has been changed
to the summer and will be played for
at Asbury Park, N. J.
For many years the American
Bridge League had a hard struggle
financially, due mostly to the super
fluffy of leagues and tournaments.
From time to time temporary loans
were made to the league by individ-
uals, thus making possible its passage
over the rocky road Due to the popu-
lar master point plan and the recent
merger, the league has at last found
its way into the black. All debts have
been paid, and a prosperous future is
in store. However, the league is a
non-prof1t-making organization, and
the directors have decided to devote
all surplus money to . very worthy
cause, the tight against infantile
paralysis.
(Copyright, 193S)
Evening star., 1938-01-09
SPEAKERS TO NOTE
CIVIL SERVICE ACT

The Central Council of the United
Civil Service Employees will mark the
flfty-flfth anniversary Of the passage
OF the Civil Service Act with an open
meeting at the All States Hotel, 514
Nineteenth street NV, next Saturday
at 8 pm.
Talks will be made by DR.. John r.
Doyle. former secretary Of the Civil
Service Commission; E. Claude Bab-
cock, national president of the United
Civil Service Employees; Rudolf R.
Strattan, national secretary of the
United Civil Service Employees, and
John T. Chichester. president of the
Central Council of the United Civil
Service Employees.
A motion picture of life in Puerto
Rico will follow the speeches.