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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1938-12-10

the Club Plantation, where the A.
X. AS gave Cocktail Party dur
ing the Blue Hour.....
SPECTATOR SPECIALS
Edythe Buckner pens very en-
pertaining column In that popular
Valley spread. Ditto Wilbur
Hughes IN national weekly.
Louise Jones. Westside princess
charming, Is playing the types"
for Rev. Bell. The "Tattler" re-
ports that "Boogie' Treadwell will
align with Bill Jason now that she
has severed relations with Mickey
Brooks Louise Bowe. student at
Cleary College in Ypsilanti. is be-
ing squirrel about by Ray Eliot.
popular Ann Arborite and jolly
goodfcllow Bob Mathews adj
mits an amorous tendency towards
cute and friendly Lillian Ruther-
ford. Just one OF the many that
are so inclined -. Carolyn w.
Dent. who linked that nice card. IS
the recording secretary elect OF the
Central Youth Council....
SPECTATOR SPICES
Regina Solomon will welcome
many of her friends when the A.
X. A. boule convenes here this
month Otto Nicholas. Westside
gay-boy, Is an apprentice TO a
prominent undertaken. $500. Add
"Detroorchids" for Dora Talbert
who was gowned so prettily
in ruffled taffeta garment
with hoped skirt at the r..
I. ID. Ball....J. Thomas Holton
submits the following as the form
al toast OF the Playboys Guild:
To the Girls
Here's TO the girls--the good ones.
But not too good,
For the good die young
And nobody wants a dead one!
Here's TO the gIrls-the old ones.
But not too old
For the old dye" too.
And nobody wants a dyed onel
Funny how the spelling OF names
change. Tho Spectator remembers
when "Graycc", as in Grayce Sad
Ter, was simply Grace. ard when
"smythe". as in Tolula Smythf.
'Vss rus. plain Smith. Fanny"
lsro "rann,c", ss In TaLnse An
dergoa. Allie Mae lis changes
TO "Allye." Lacy Thomas energies
with "Lucye", and Edith Buckner
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1938-12-10
School Children's
Verse And Prose


submit their vtsss
teschss for inspection
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1938-12-10

The ideal gift for your close
friends for Christmas Is a years
subscription to The Detroit Tribune
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1938-12-10

The ideal gift for your close
friends for Christmas is a years
subscription TO The Detroit Tribune
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1938-12-10

comes up with "Edythe". You may
expect "Sadye" for Sadie" and
"Minnye" for Minnie" any day now.
Add the names OF Anna Gordy and
Burney Watkins to the growing
roll OF the Spectators "Dimples"
Club. Frank Sanders Is squirting
winsome Mildred Cummings about
quite frequently....
Devoted to those tunes and sweet
singers, non-professionals, that the
many. -. June Baber is known a.
round as a sweet singer OF sweet
songs. She renders so nicely "Lull
In My Life" and my Reverie"
Doris Owens. OF the Westside,
soothes many worry with her
pleasant singing. Her current fav-
critics are MY own, "Oldfolks,"
and Two Sleepy People" Many
have forgotten that Dorothy Dam
icls was cree quito songstress.
Iorr Spectator sil'l oa'cys hor
r,ndi ions Of scch 0l1ics as when
Did You Leave Heaven" and IL
Can't Escape From You.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1938-12-10

S Is COR santa. who will laugh and
have tun.
BY Mary Harris. OBJ
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Parking War Is Urged
AGAINST Nearby Drivers

Enforcement Of parking restric-
tions to break up "habitual VIOLA
tions" by drivers from Maryland
and Virginia was urged last night
by the West End Citizens Asso-
citation, which suggested that the
Police Department be required to
subscribe to an official list of nearby
car owners, with their licenses tags,
to facilitate locating and convicting
offenders.
The association unanimously op-
posed pedestrian laws of any sort
in Washington, and called for en-
forcement of existing laws to protect
the pedestrian from automobiles.
R. P. Wylie. Community Chest
speaker, told the group of efforts
to better acquaint the citizens of
the District with the actual problems
OF the various charitable groups.
Robert Lyons, who has been presi-
dent OF the association for the last
flVe years, was presented an electric
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Chest Campaign
Workers Tell
Story in Song

Contributing to the spirit Of
cheerfulness that is the keynote Of
the Community Chests daily report
meetings, traditionally popular mel
odies are sung with words describ-
ing how the solicitors go about their
chores Of getting pledges.
Among the ballads interspersed
between pep talks and reports are
those sung by the volunteers to the
tunes Of "Hinky Dinky, Parlez
Vous," ZACH. Du Lieber Augustine, j."
Sidewalks of New York" and "The
Old Gray Mare"
Here are the words of one caroled
to the tune Of I've Been Working
on tho Railroad:
I've been working on the Chest
Drive
All the live long day,
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Magicions to Present
Evening Of Muqic'

The sixth annual Evening Of
Magic" sponsored by the local as
sembly Of the Society Of American
Magicians, will be presented in the
main auditorium OF the National
Press Club at $50 pm, December 2,
Frederick H. Untiedt, president, an
nounced today.
Carl E. Brockway has been ap-
pointed general chairman of the
Show Committee which includes
Harry H. Baker, Raymond E. Otter
back. Ralph Mittendorf, John H.
Hines and Herman Cole.
Evening star., 1938-11-15

clock in appreciation for his serv-
ices.
On Thursday, the group will meet
at 8 pm. at the 723 Thirteenth
street entrance Of the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co. to be con-
Quoted on a tour through the long
distance branch Of the building.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Comic Operu to Be Given

The Marriage Of Nannette." .
comic opera in three acts, will be
presented by students Of Bladens-
burg (Md) High School Thursday
and Friday. The cast Of 125 is under
the direction Of Mrs. Helena J.
Haines. music teacher, and Miss
Pauline Phillips, dramatic coach.
Evening star., 1938-11-15

I've been working on the Chest
Drive
Just to show the folks the way;
How to give to those who need 1t
Help from all the rest
Soon you'll hear the whole town
shouting
We're behind our Chest"
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Irish Minister Approves
Showing of Picture

. Robert Brennan, Minister of Erie
to the United States, who lived from
1916 to 1921 with a price Of $25 900
on his head while the Irish rebellion
was at its peak, has announced his
approval Of presentation by the
Hibernians of Dawn Over Ireland"
motion picture based on Ireland's s
struggle for freedom.
The Aim will be shown at the
Rialto Theater Saturday and Sum-
day. with performances continuous
from 2 to II pm.
Great Britain expects to sell
% 900 900 TOYS this year.
Evening star., 1938-11-15

newly designed modern suite constructed Of hardwood and
wont venees Consists Of Bed Chest Of Drowers and your
choice Of Vanity or Dresser INCLUDED Comfortable Mot
ess, Coil Spring. Pillows, and choice Of Modern Chor
or Bench
Evening star., 1938-11-15

London Club design with knueIe ond wood panel fronts
Solo, Club Choir and Wing Cho covered in durobe moeo
Spring filled reversible cushions INCLUDED-Smo Oc
cosionoI Chor. Floor Lomp, Bridge Lomp Tobe Lomp End
Tobe and Occasional TobIe
Evening star., 1938-02-06
RECREATION STAFFS
DECLARED I'LL PAID
Physical Education Can't Find
Leaders at $45 a Month, Says
Miss Irma Ringe.

The recreation field needs leaders
and 1t can't get them at $45 a month,
Miss Irma Ringe. assistant director of
the w. P. A. Recreation Division, told
the third annual conference of the
District Physical Educational Associa-
ton at the Y. w. c. A. yesterday.
THE present training of physical
education teachers seems to me to be
half way between that Of q teacher
and DOCTOR" she said. But we
don't want teachers or diagnosticians,
we need leadership"
Discussing the system of community
centers, Miss Ringe told her audience
Of approximately 200:
I'VE want something more than lust
night school. The people should
tell the leaders what they want to
do, rather than be told what to do
for their recreation"
The present recreation programs are
inadequate so far as adults are con-
cerned. she added. explaining that she
favored more mixed group" activi-
ties. (.
The conference later heard an ad-
dress by DR.. Jesse F. Williams Of
Columbia University on Social Hy-
giene and Education as See It."
Evening star., 1938-02-06
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Navy Band, at 2 pm. to-
morrow in the Sail Loft, Navy Yard.
1t. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander
Morris, assistant leader.
Program:
March Chief Of Naval Operations"
Benter
Overture, "Sancho Panza" Williams
Solo for cornet. La Mandon-
nata" Bellstedt
Musician Oscar Short.
Idyl, 1.-THE Glow Worm" -Ltncke
Hymn. What q Friend We Have
in Jesus" -------Co Converse
Song, "A Reverie in My Garden"
Mrs. Gillett
Love scene from "Feuersnot," r. straus
Solo for clarinet. celebrated vari-
atoms for Clarinet" Paudert
Musician Charles Brendler.
Waltzes from Faust" Gounod
March, boy Scouts Of America"
Goldman
March. "The Boy Scouts -Zelaya
Song, "The World Is Waiting for
the Sunrise" Seitz
Caprice" INSTRUMENTATION -Crist
(a) "Fervent Is My Longing" Bach
(b) organ Fugue In G Minor"
Bach
March, "Raditzky"- Strauss
THE Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-02-06
HARLAN WOOD HEADS
BAR INVESTIGATORS
Former Legion Chief Succeeds A.
F. Garfield as Chairman of
Committee.

Harlan Wood. prominent attorney
and former commander of the District
Department of the American Legion.
was named yesterday to succeed
Austin F. Garfield as chairman of the
District Bar Association Committee
investigating unethical practices Of
Police Court lawyers and bondsmen.
Announcement of the appointment
was made by Bolitha j. Laws, who
succeeded Henry l. Quinn as head of
the Bar Association last month.
Committee members who will serve
with Mr.. Wood are H. Mason WEIGH,
vice chairman; Samuel H. Boyd Ar
thur j. Hilland. Robert w. Oliver,
Sam A. Syme and William B. Wolf.
Several complaints yet to be inves-
tigated will be turned over to the
new committee, it was said. prior to
meeting scheduled for 4 pm. Fri
day in Mr. Woods Office in the Nc
Lachlin Building, Tenth and G
streets NV.
Policies of the new committee and
rules of procedure also will be con-
sidered at the meeting.
Judge John P. Mcmahon. head OF
the Board Of Police Court Judges,
which considers charges preferred by
the investigating committee. recently
announced suspension for six months
OF two lawyers for unethical practices.
Their cases are now pending before
the District Court of Appeals. One
other case now is under consideration
by the judges board.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
DELIVERY MAN ROBBED
OF SIPS BY TWO THUGS
Cab Driver Is Another Victim.
Two Women Loses Purses to
Street Snatchers.

Selling him as he alighted from his
machine in the 1900 block OF Alaska
avenue NV, two colored thugs last
night robbed Jessie Dykes, "a, colored
delivery man for the Shepherd Park
Wine and Liquor Store, of $l25.
Another robbery victim was Charles
T. Seymour, 725 Massachusetts, avenue
NE, a cab driver, who was forced to
turn over $3.50 to two colored men who
engaged his taxi.
John A. Bernhan, 46, of IL Third
street NE, was assaulted by three
colored men and robbed Of SO and q
wrist watch, while Mrs. Dorothy Duns-
ford, so M street NV, lost IS and
Mrs. Anna E. Stevens, u, Of 14oS
Fourteenth street Sc, 81 to purse
snatchers.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Ex-COnuict Here
On Visit Seeks
To Register Self

A former convict from Pennsylvania
who thought he was required by law
to register here because of his GRIM
inal record reported to detectives at
headquarters last night.
He explained he had gone straight"
since his discharge from the peni-
tentiary in November. 1923, and re-
Gently came to Washington to get
copy of his discharge from the Army
1t. Warren o. Enbrey explained
that while police officials have rec
commended law requiring the regis
tration of persons with criminal rec
ords the measure had not been put
through Congress.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
POLICE TRACING
HARDY REVOLVER
Six States CirCu|arized in
Effort to Find Owner
of Gun.

Alexandria police yesterday dis
patched circulars to authorities in six
Eastern and Southern States in an
effort to trace the serial number of
the old .38-callber revolver with which
Russell Hardy. special assistant to
the Attorney General. was wounded
in the hip Saturday night, January 20.
Investigators said, however, that the
gun probably antedated many State
laws requiring the registry of dan
serous firearms, and, therefore, the
hope Of finding the owner was slim.
The revolver which, ballistic tests
established, had fired the bullet in
juring Mr.. Hardy was turned over to
police by a colored motorist who said
he vrested it from an unidentified
white man who tried to commander
his automobile near the scene of the
shooting.
Mr.. Hardy told investigators he was
shot by a panhandler who became
enraged when he refused him money.
The shooting occurred outside a hotel
in Alexandria where Mr.. Hardy was
waiting while widow, employed in
the Justice Department. whom he had
driven to Mount Vernon, visited
dressing room inside.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
81 900, 900 Records Checked
By Light in Social Security
Perforated Cards of Each account
Guided by Electricity as Robots Labor
IN FOur-Acre Baltimore Plant.

The importance OF this card Is
readily apparent. When employers
make their report to the Treasury of
wages paid tat the outset these were
required semi-annually) they file a
separate form for every individual on
their rolls, each carrying his name and
account number. This form then is
converted into the employe wage card,
which is run through machine
known as a collator, simultaneously
with the corresponding master card.
This machine was specially designed
for social security usage, and If any
variances develop between the two
cards, the machine elects them, and
an inquiry is undertaken to discover
where the trouble lies. This makes
certain that the proper wage card IS
posted on the account sheet intended
for it.
But there still is another check ap-
piled.
1t was recognized that in the en-
rollment Of millions of workers, mis-
takes were bound to creep in. EN-
ployers would report the wrong ac-'
count numbers; employees would do
the same. so that meant that an index
would have to be devised under which,
II necessity arose, the number origi-
nally assigned could be determined
when the name of the worker was
known. This offered another hurdle.
Common names will recur frequently
IN listing of more than 10000, 900,
and the same goes for those that are
not so common; then there are the
names that are spelled differently but
sound alike.
So, out of this, q new visual index
was compiled that virtually makes it
impossible for multiple account num-
bers to be assigned to anyone.
This Is known IS the flexoline mas
ter name index. The hexoline strips,
which are the media on which the
names are recorded, consist Of . thin
sheet OF wood veneer, upon which =
facing OF high-grade paper has been
securely cemented. This material is
prepared in rolls sas inches wide and
about 80 feet in length, with scored
cuts l/6 Of an inch apart. These
rolls then are fed through . machine,
along with coded cards that are ar
ranged alphabetically, and the product
Is a list showing an index code num-
Der, last name, first name, middle
initial, date Of birth and account num-
Der. The printing is accomplished ut
the rate of about 5000 names an hour.
The rolled material then Is rewound
10 maintain the original order Of list
ing. and handled in another machine
which cuts completely through the
scored lines. then automatically in
serts AZ name strips ON 4 double-faced
metal panel which has q capacity on
either face Of 10 names. These panels
are hung on either side Of an easel
like structure, which has space for
hanging 500 panels. About $50 Of
these easels now are In use, and any
given name can be located in . few
seconds.
The coded form IN which these
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Evening star., 1938-02-06
SMALL CLAIMS BILL
APPROVAL EXPECTED
House judiciary Committee Chair.
man Predicts Favorable
Report Tuesday.

A Senate-approved bill to establish
small claims branch in Municipal
Court Is expected to be favorably re-
ported by the Judiciary Subcommittee
Of Of the House District cQwmittee Tues
Chairman McGehee has held extern
sive hearings on the measure and pre-
dicted the subcommittee would ap-
prove 1t after making several minor
amendments.
Mr.. McGehee hopes to have ihe
bill ready for consideration Of yhe
full District Committee ct its Ies-
ular meeting Wednesday.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Bv ], A, FOX,
bV J. n. FOA,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

stan correspondent OF Inc Star.
BALTIMORE. Feb s. Flashing
lights now are checking off the dimes
and dollars that 100000 American
workers are laying up against the
day when they reach the age Of IS
and must step aside for younger men
and women.
A perforated card about the size of
the small blotters school children use
is guided by electricity into one end
Of long machine; at the other end,
a clerk feeds in yellow ledger sheet
resembling the ordinary bank state
ment; there is whir of cogs as a
light in the recesses of the device
flares up to let the operator know that
the key number on card and sheet
correspondence one of the $4,000, 900
is fitted into his proper niche in the
vast old-age benefits system under the
Social Security Act.
The perforations in the card rep
resent, in code, the amount of wages
this particular worker has received
from any single employer in the reg
ular reporting period; electrical i'm
pulses translate these into a dollar
and cents tabulation on the sheet
Four times year now, this posting
operation will be repeated until some
day, after January l, 1912, when the
worker Is IS.
Then the entries on the sheets will
be added, and the total, representing
the wages earned since the benefits
plan became effective on January /,
1887, will determine the size of the
monthly payments this individual
thereafter will receive from the Goy-
ernment.
1t has required approximately IA
months for the Social Security Board
to reach this final step in the integra-
ton Of the parts that make up the
completed pattern of the pension
scheme. Through veritable forest
Of machinery, in the four-acre plant
of the Old-Age Benefits Bureau here.
countless millions of cards and forms
have flowed through a dozen chan
nels in never-ending stream, to wind
up as the regimented records that are
the foundation of the system. It was
launched by staff Of 1000 employees:
today there are 1900 working in three
shifts to care for it.
Just about dozen operations are
required to shift a worker from the
ranks Of industry to the rolls on which
he becomes a beneficiary of Uncle
Sam.
First he registers and is given an
account number. Then the robots of
the Social Security Board take over
and machines begin to turn out rec
ords that will follow him through life.
Most important of these is an or
ange- -colored card on which there are
10 rows Of gits-from 0 to (Which,
when punched III coded combinations,
constitute = comprehensive vital sta
tistics" report. This is known as the
"employe master card and unless
there Is q deliberate attempt at falsi-
hcatiou later, tho worker u under the
constant vigilance Of this vstcamaa.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
NEW ANESTHET|CS
ADVISED At CLINIC
G. u. Dentistry Meeting Told
Safe Drugs Will Lessen
Pain for Patients.

New and safe anesthetics that have
come to the aid of the dental surgeon
in difficult, long operations were de-
scribed at the annual clinic of the
Georgetown University School of Den
tistry yesterday by DR.. Wilson R.
Conran of Hartford, Conn.
He referred particularly to a new
drug in which a mixture of pento-
thol is used. Injected into a pa
tents arm. 1t produces almost i'm
mediate results for an operation re-
quiring 80 to 40 minutes.
The beauty of this anesthetic is
that the patient is as safe as one
could possibly be. and you are not
using up what little nerve reserve
the majority of our patients have"
DR.. Conran told the visiting dentists.
Before using pentothol at the Neuro-
Psychiatric Institute at Hartford, DR..
Conran said, he had experimental
with avertin and evipal, drugs that
have come into use since novocain
and nitrous oxide. However, he said
he considered pentothol a more ideal
af1esthetic.
Tested in 500 Cases.
In a series Of more than 500 cases
In which pentothol was used, DR..
Conran said. the results were so salts
factory that he now uses it in all his
hospital cases. It Is not as yet an
Office anesthetic, generally speaking,
he explained.
DR.. Conran deplored the fact that
many dentists perform operations in
their of1ices when, for the sake Of
their own regulations and the nerves"
Of the patient, they should operate
in hospitals. Even general extrac-
tions should take place In q hospital,
he advised.
Others who spoke during the all
day sessions were DR.. F. w. Nash of
Scranton, Pa, whose subject was "A
Look Into Orthodontia" DR.. Will
liam A. Duffy of New Haven, Conn.,,
on "A Concept of Future Dental Edu-
cation" and the Rev. Wilfrid j. Par
sons. s. j., of the Georgetown Grad
uate School, who discussed the den-
lists relation to today's social prob
lem. DR.. James c. Townsend of the
Public Health Service told of the
progress Of governmental dental work
among the Indians and Eskimos.
Until the white mans civilization
was brought to the Eskimos Of Alaska,
about 40 years ago, DR.. Townsend said,
that race had no dental problem.
The primitive Eskimo, subsisting
on his native diet, with no sweets
and very little carbohydrate food,
has the least dental worries of any
known race" he said.
The alumni clinic closed with a
dinner 1T the school last night, at
which greetings were given by DR..
James j. Greeves. president Of the
District Of Columbia Alumni Chapter;
the Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, s.
j., president Of Georgetown Univer-
sity; the Rev. David v. McCauley,
g. j., regent Of the dental school, and
Dr. william n. oogaa. dean.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
HELD IN ASSAULT CASE
Two Men Involved in Charges by
6-Year-old Girl.

TWO middle-aged white men were
arrested early today in connection
with an attempted criminal assault
ron . 6-year-old girl in the Northeast
section late yesterday.
One Of the suspects was taken into
custody near a hobo's jungle" along
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks
on Riggs road NE, where the at
tempted attack was said to have
taken place. The second was ar
rested at his home.
The child,s police were told, was
fured away from yard near her
home, where she had been playing
with her sister and another young
ster.
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Plane Plunge in Hudson Reported.

WEST POINT, N. Y. Feb. 5 R.-
An airplane circled aimlessly over the
icy Hudson River near the Military
Academy in . fog tonight and then
plunged into the river, State police
were notified, but searching parties
short time later found only . few
spots Of oil and . gasoline smell near
ths scenA