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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-03
Outstanding EDents
 OF Year ChronicLed

Six deaths resulting from fire, accidental death from asphyaton and death caused by heart attack Supernduced by fire listed in the fire depart ent chronology The period covered is the departments fiscal year from December 1937 to November 3O 1938
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-03

presented an Assembly Program yesterday afternoon, in the Sprague school gymnasium, which was as follows:
 Announcer-Richard Jackman 1. Health Play-Entire Class
 2. Good Will Exercise-"The World
 is Full of Friendly Folks, Rob-
 ert Hawksley, Matthew Gaurini,
 Peter Signori, Edward Lawson 3. Recitation, ''The Pine Cone Tur-
 key"-Jean Relihan
 4. Piano Selections -"The Garden
 Waltz, "The Turkish Bazaar" !,
 Laurine Kunkel.
 Girl Scout Troop No. 27, under the leadership of Mrs. Sidney Henchel, met yesterday afternoon, with the following members present: Barbara Burns, Ethel Meriviglia, Shirley Cook, Ruth Weymer, Beverly Davis, Norma HendrickSQn, Olive Johnson, Ruth Tyler, Shirley Leisring, Lena Williams, Rita Guimond, Marie Fappiano, Penelope Bradley and Eleanor DiBlasi.
 The afternoon was spent prac- ticing Christmas carols for the Yule Log Hunt, which will take place Saturday, December 10th, at the Girl Scout Camp. Plans were also made for Christmas party, and the girls discussed collecting food for a Christmas basket, to be given to some deserving family.
 Mrs. Emerson Liebe, and Miss Ma rie Laun. assisted Mrs. Henchel with the meeting.
 At the regular monthly meeting of the Fairmount Community Club, held Thursday evening, the club de- cided not to hold the Annual Christ mas party for the children. Instead, the clubs Santa Claus will, on i Christmas Eve, deliver a present from the club, to each child of Fair mount, under eight years of age. In order not to miss any youngsters, 1t would be appreciated if all par entS would notify James Morrow, of Essex avenue, of children eligible to receive a visit from Santa Claus | It was also voted that all meet ings for the year 1889 will be held in the hall at the home of William Weymer, of Essex avenue, and that the meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of each month al 8 D. m.
 A social and card party witf l games followed the business transac'
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
STREET SCORES
LACK OF Relief
IN SCHOOL TALK
He Declares Critics Do
Nh
:. Not Realize Need
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
;itizenS Associations Editor

Citizens Associations Editor
Speaking before the Friendship
Citizens Association at last nights
meeting in the Janney School, FL
wood Street, Director of Public
? Welfare, sharply criticized made
uuate relief funds. He said the
problem of providing relief for the
needy was beyond that of private
agencies and that the Government
must lend greater financial aid
to the function.
Ae pointed out that while the
public assistance division is pro-
viding relief for $4,000 persons, it
was compelled last month to re-
fuse aid to 1,100, due to limited
funds.
Persons who live in the better
sections. who complain about in
creased appropriations for relief,
he said, do not realize the serious
ness of the situation, or they
would not take such a stand.
, In response to, a question, Mr..
, Street said he did not know by
what method the Budget Bureau
had determined its recommends
!, ton for but 100000 relief in. the
1889 District Supply bill, and that
his department would welcome an
investigation, providing it is COM
prehenSive, painStaking and non
political.
ASK MORE POLICE
During brief business session
resolutions were adopted, request.
ing the appointment of 100 addi.
tional police, with a certain num-
Der to be assigned to the Eighth
precinct, covered by the aSSocia-
tion's territory.
The Capital Transit Company
was asked. to extend the ,Tenley
Circle bus service to the area be-
tween Forty-fourth' to Forty.sixth
Streets, and Brandywine, Yuma |
and Albermarle Streets.
Traffic lights were requested at
Forty.sixth and an:dyw inc
Streets. Sixty-two new members
were elected during the meeting,
presided over by President A. j..
Flickinger.
-: URGE SALES TAX
At meeting last night in the
woodrow Wilson High School, theI
Executive Committee Of the Chevy
Chase Citizens Association, reaf-
flrmed its former action urging al
sales tax, and reduction of real
estate takes In the District to 81 so
per 500. .sc' - - e. ~
The committee also favored an
initial appropriation of $650,000 tol
start construction on a new Penn
'Sylvania Avenue bridge, discussed
the needs of a cross-town bus line
through Rock Creek Park and Mil
itary Road, and recommended
that prizes be offered for the most
attractive gardens and lawns with
ii its territory during the sum-
Iner, with members of the Chevy
Chase Garden Club as judges.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
Shipping Bid
u. S. Accepts Tampa
COn1p011y's Offer

:, The bid Of the Tampa, Fla,
Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.,
for the construction of four fast
cargo vessels to be operated in the
Merchant Marine service was &C
cepted yesterday by the U. s.
Maritime Commission.
Chairman Emory s. Land said
the vessels. will cost $7,262, ,652.
He added that the bid by the
Tampa company falls approx
mately" within the range of the
commissions own estimates.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03

Plain and fancy pullons in rayon
bengaline and dounle-woven fabrics.
Black, brown, navy, natural, beige,
silvertone and white. Sizes 51a to 8
in group. t
< Kann's-Street
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
Nagged Over Job,
Mate Slashes Wife

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, March 81
(C.T.P.SO. Because his wife,
nagged him to get a job for eight
years, Stanley ZiemSki, IS years
old, took an ak to her yesterday,
he told the police. She is in a
hospital with a head wound and
he was held by the police.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-15

NEXT: What sheet of U. s. stamps shot up in a few hours from a price of SPA to S500.000.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-15
ih1REp,p ExpleREQ


 THE future of navigation on the
 A Pacific rested with young Capt. James Cook, just turned 30, as he | sailed in command of an explora- tory expedition to that vast ocean Aug. 26, 1768. No man had dared ever to chart that illimitable space.
 Doubling Cape Horn,. Captain Cook reached Tahiti the following April: plowed on to New Zealand. There he charted the rough coast and moved on next to chart Aus tralia's rugged shore. The en- tire separation of Australia from New Guinea was ascertained. But before that trip was ended nearly three years later half of Cooks crew had died.
 Nevertheless Cook led a second expedition to the Pacific again in 1772, this time to discover the imaginary "Terra Australis h. cognita." He explored instead the Antarctic from New Zealand to Cape Horn. As reward for this signal achievement he was ap- pointed to command another ex- petition to search for a passage around North America from the Pacific.
 But this task was to prove Cooks untimely end. After mak- ing important surveys along the Bering Sea coast he returned to winter in the Sandwich Islands. Here he was murdered on Feb. IA, l779, by warning natives. Often honored today, Captain Cook is portrayed on 1895 New Zealand stamp, shown here, landing at Poverty Bay in 1769.
 Copyright. 1888. NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-15
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couldn't fight the current back to the ship.
 "Yassuh," Obadiah agreed help lessly. His eyes were still on the spot where his boat was being slowly swept to the bottom of the harbor.
 So they stood there on the mar row reef, and they shouted. One at time they called out; then all three together. But long minutes passed, and their cries brought no response from the surrounding darkness.
 Now Joyce could feel the black waters licking at her feet, and she remembered Obadiah saying that the tied was low. She wondered how much higher it would rise, yet she did not dare put the question into words.
 Two hours later, their threats sore and dry from useless shout ing, they were still standing there, and now the water was up to their knees. of in the distance they could hear the occasional put put of other motorboats, but | none came this way. Suddenly, despite her tired throat, Joyce began to sing silly little jingles, remembering the words carefully, to keep her mind from thoughts of cevilfish with greedy tentacles. (TO Be COntinued)
 Football championship games will be televised in Wembley, Eng land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-15

Football championship games will be televised in Wembley, Eng land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-15
Cn AmIlJM Cn ACsNEnS

One name in each of the follow ing sets of names is unrelated to the others, Which names are out of place?
 1. Keats, CzolgoSz, Byron, Shel- ley.
 2. Luke, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyke.
 3. Lewis, Allen, Mitchell, Gull liver. {. Longfellow, Whittier, Crom- well, Lowell.
 5. Kaufman, Coward, Anderson, Dubinsky.
 Answer on back page
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-15

Joyce returned to the Empress on the 5:30 tender It had been de- lightful day ashore, in spite of Mrs. Porter.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
SCHOOL CENTER
OF zON|NG TIFF

A neighborhood difference over
a plan of the Holton Arms School,
1927 s st. N. w., to construct a
third-floor addition to it's build
ing, faced an airing this afternoon
by the District zoning Commission
at a special hearing.
The school was in operation in
1901, before the coming laws were
considered. In 1924. to protect
property in the neighborhood, the
coming commission blanketed the
area into "a" restricted residential
coming, although most of the
houses are Of the row type.
Last May 6, the school obtained
a permit from the building inSpec-
tors office for the addition, but
this was revoked by the commits
Sioner when several residents of
Bancroft Place Northwest, to the
rear of the school, complained the
addition was a violation of the
coming regulations as a structural
change to the property.
Although work had been started
on the addition, it was ordered
stopped until the coming commits
sion could decide the matter.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Custer Order
Employment Center
Told to Move

C. E. Lampson, director of the
Public Employment Center, was
notified today by District officials
to vacate the municipally.owned
building it occupies at 456 Indiana
Ave. N. w., by July /.
The building is to be turned
over to the legal staff of the Dis
trict Unemployment Compensa.
ton Board. The employment
center also occupies a District.
owned building at 480 Indiana
Ave. N. w., and activities of the
agency probably will be merged
in the one building.
Officials of the compensation
board urged the action so that
space might be found at the
board headquarters for a dozen
auditors who are to start an audit
of the board accounts beginning
July /.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Gypsy Girl
And SuitOr
Arrested

Believing she might be sold by
her stepfather for 5000, although
the price on her was said to have
been, $4,000, 14-year-old Anna
Mitchell, gypsy princess" ran
away with the man she loved.
Her romantic flight came to an
end in Washington last night,
when police arrested her and two
men after member of the gypsy
band had reported to police the
girl was believed to have ben kid
naped.
The trio are now being held in
the Fairfax county jail and will
be given a hearing in police court
tomorrow morning.
Sheriff Eppa Kirby, Of Fairfax,
said the girl told him she fled
with Patrick Mccall, 81, her
sweetheart, and Elmer Williams,
81.
Mccall is charged with con-
trinuting to the delinquency of a
minor, Williams is being held as
an accomplice, while the girl is
being held on an open charge for
investigation.
The girl told Sheriff Kirby that
she and Mccall first went to
Richmond, Va, to get a marriage
license, but when refused came
to Washington and were prepar-
ing to get the license when
arrested.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23

Jealous protection by the Board
of Education of its executive "au-
tonomy" over Washington schools
stood revealed today as endanger-
ing lives of 100000 local public
school pupils.
No District agency-outside of
the Fire Department IN a k S
safety inspections Of any of the
city's myriad schools, it was
learned.
The revelation came in the
wake of the collapse of a ceiling
at Cardozo High School Tuesday
night where 10 persons were in
jured.
Col. Dan I. Sultan, Engineer
Commissioner, was asked why the
ceiling had not been inspected by
the building inspectors office for
structural deficiency.
That's up to the Board of
Education" said Colonel Sultan,
who explained boilers in school
heating plants are inspected
regularly because they are fire
hazards.
All other inspections are made
by school employees, it was con.
tinued, and the safety surveillance
maintained over all other private
and public buildings in the Dis.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Freight Cars
Leave Track
Albanian

Plunging from the rails of the
Pennsylvania railroads main line
between Baltimore and Washing
ton. three freight cars were
smashed into kindling near Ian
ham, Md, early today.
Passenger filters were delayed an
hour while wrecking crews worked
feverishly to clear the debris from
the tracks.
A faulty truck on one of the
cars in long, Southbound freight
train is believed to have caused
the wreck. While the train was
proceeding at a fast speed, one
car plunged from the tracks,
two others with it.
The train was brought to a
quick stop and all of its crew es-
capped injury,
The Washington times., 1938-06-23

CALLED BANDIT

The hitchhiking bandit OF
northern Virginia climaxed his
career last night when he
thumbed a ride from Police Sergt.
George Bell, of Pucellville, &C
cording to Bell today.
Riding with John D. Reese, of
Arlington, victim of an earlier
robbery, Sergeant Bell was patrol
ling the roads in search of the
hitchhiking bandit when youth
at the side of the highway raised
his hand in the traditional salute
of the hitch-hiker.
That's him." exclaimed
Reese.
The youth, identified as George
Peabody, of Vienna, Va, thumbed
a ride from him in Rosslyn last
night, Reese said. AS they neared
Falls Church, the youth drew a
gun, took his money and ordered
him out of the car, Reese related.
A short time later, said Reese,
the bandit drove Reese's car into
Hatcher's Service Station, emptied
the cash register, and ordered
James N. Hough. an attendant. to
run down the road. When Hough
asserted he would walk, not run,
the youth is declared to have fired
shot at him to make him change
his mind.
A short distance from Purcell
Vile a tire on Reese's car blew out,
forcing the youth to abandon it,
it was asserted.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
PreIegoI Work
Bar Votes Tonight on
Higher Requirement

Anticipating the bitterest fight
in years, members of the Dis
trict Bar Association will vote
tonight on a committee proposal
to raise prelegal requirements to
include two-year college course.
The special meeting, called by
President Bolitha j. Laws to deal
solely with the proposal, will be
held at the Mayflower Hotel
Laws, confirmed this month by
the Senate as associate justice Of
the U. S. District Court here, is
expected to resign from the Bar
Association office prior to taking
his Federal oath.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Blanket Authority of School Board
Over Buildings "Perils" 100000 Pupils

Wyeth explained his office has
had nothing to do with the build
ing since it was turned over to
school authorities at ITS compile
ton "a years ago.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent of schools, was inclined
to blame the collapse of the Car
dozo ceiling to vibrations from
Rhode Island Avenue traffic.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
July 18th Fete
Marine Band to Open
Annual Program

Ten thousand seats will be avail
able to the public for the 1888
Fourth of July celebration, Ed
Dent, District surveyor, in charge
of ticket sales, announced yester-
day.
The annual celebration will
open at tbs p. m. with concert
by the Marine Band. Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings will
speak and Representative A. Willis
Robertson of Virginia will read the
Declaration of Independence. The
fireworks will begin at $3.50.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Tunnel Burglar
RObs Drug Store

After tunneling through the
walls of two adjoining structures,
an industrious burglar early today
escaped with $50 from the cash
register of a drug store at 1748
Seventh st. N. w.
Ethel Dickens, beauty shop pro-
prietor of 704 S st. N. W., said she
saw the robber flee fro mher eS-
tablishment. When she entered
her shop she found a large hole in
the wall leading from 706 s st.
N. w., and another hole projecting
into the drug store.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Harrington Is Picketed
In Top Hats and Tails

Top hats, white ties and tails
took a turn on the picket line at
the Harrington Hotel last night.
Our dressiest pickets were there.
Members of the League of
Women Shoppers, carrying signs
protesting dismissal of Is wait
resses, apparently saw no reason
why they shouldn't do their picket
ing in their best bibs and fuckers.
They came in evening gowns.
Their escorts, naturally, had to
60 along in correspondingly formal
attire. The scene exuded SWank,
as one taxi driver observed.
Picketers included Mrs. Fred
Mott, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel, Mrs.
Florence de Haas-Dembitz, Mrs.
William Zimmerman, jr.; Mrs.
Charles w. Collier, Mrs. Edward
Crofut, Mrs. Edward Hollander,
Mrs. Lawrence Bloomberg, Mrs.
Bernard Gould, Mrs. Sydney
Spear, Mrs. Fred Vale, Mrs. Gard
ner Jackson and Mrs. Josephine
DeRoman.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Pick Delegates
KiLLeen Post Names
Convention EnUOyS

Commander Harvey E. Knott
and Major Hugh Higgins have
been named delegates to repre-
sent the George E. Killeen Post
No. Is, American Legion. at the
department convention to be held
at the Mayflower Hotel in August,
it was announced last night.
Joseph C. WeSlein, Leon T.
BuScher and Robert F. Murtaugh
were chosen alternateS.
At the same time Major Hig-
gins announced his candidacy for
commander of the Killeen post.
The delegates were selected at a
meeting in the Killeen Post hall
at Wisconsin Ave. and NJ SITS. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Credit Plan
Revision of Banking
Rules DrGlUn

Top-ranking Administration II"
nancial experts met yesterday to
draft the revisions of Federal
banking regulations upon which
they agreed Tuesday.
The proposed changes. designed
to hberalize terms on which banks
can make loans to aid investments
in small business enterprises, will
be submitted to President Roose-
welt tomorrow. with a report ex-
planning them fully.
The meeting was attended by
representatives of the Treasury,
Federal Reserve Board, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
and the Comptroller of the Cur
renCy,
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
D. c. BUREAUS
SET FOR MOVE
.
TONEW OFFICES
Many Departments
Change Quarters

Tomorrow will see the opening
Of the moving season in the Dis
trict government.
The Fairgrounds Department,
housed in three rooms on the third
floor at the District Building for
years, will be moved to a five
room suite on the third floor of
the old Police Court Building,
Sixth and C Streets Northwest.
During recent years several ef-
forts had been made to GUST the
department from the District
Building, but Supervisor Sibyl
Baker had been successful in bat.
Ting down all previous removal
suggestions. But the CommiS-
Sioners today approved a report
of their special space-finding COM
mittee calling for removal OF the
Fairgrounds and other depart
mentS.
BOARD OF TAX APPEALS
Two of the three rooms for
merly occupied by the department
are to be turned over to the new
Board of Tax Appeals and the
other room to the Inspector Of
Claims.
The first of next week will find
the new District Lunacy Commits
sion housed in five-room suite on
the second floor of the old court
building, with a private entrance
on Sixth Street, and the Health
Department Permit Bureau moved
from 901 Eighth st. N. W. into
four rooms on the first floor Of
the building. :,
On July l, the Parole Board
the Minimum Wage Board and
the publication division Of the
WPA will be moved out of the
District Building. The Parole
Board will get two-room office
in the old court building, the
wage board a similar office and
hearing room facilities and the
WPA agency will be shifted to the
WPA Building at 400 c st. N. w.
RESERVED FOR ENGINEER
The entire top floor Of the old
court building has been reserved
for the Engineer Commissioners
office for possible expansion.
The parole board office in
Room 9, District Building, will be
turned over to the Smoke Con-
troll Division: the claims inspector
and WPA publication offices.
Rooms 20 and %, District Build
ing, are to be turned over to the
business privilege and estates and
inheritance tax offices. The wage
board office, Room 502, District
building, is to be reserved for a
peoples counsel, if and when one
ever is appointed.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Cleaning Fluid
Leads to Hospital

Mrs. Clara Mae Byran, 81, of
5000 Massachusetts Ave. N. W.,
was recovering in Gallinger Hos
pital this afternoon from effects
of a cleaning fluid which police
said she swallowed at her home.
Mrs. Byran was first taken to
Casualty Hospital by her sister,
Beatrice Peele. 722 Sixth st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
QuOn Stab
Suspect Is
Released

screams were heard coming
from the rooms above the laundry
of Quon You, at 14O5 H st. N. E.
the night of February l..
And, at 7:3O on the morning
OF February 2 the colored maid,
reporting for work, found the
body of Quon You, stabbed TO
death with a knife, part of the
blade of which still remained IN
his body. And around his neck
was a bit of hemp, with which
he had been garroted, after the
fashion of the thugs of South
Chinese provinces.
POLICE BAFFLED
Authorities were baffled.
Neighbors told of a visitor TO
Quon You's laundry the night of
February land gave a descrip-
ton of the man to police. Police
called in Frank Fong, who is high
in the councils of the On Leong
Tong-for it was believed this
might be a mysterious Tong ven
delta.
Fong brought in William Derr,
who had been many years in this
country, living in Fall River,
Mass, and was about to return
to the land of his ancestors. He
pleasantly admitted he had come
to have a farewell dinner with his
friend Of long standing, Quon
You.
BOTH DINED WELL
Quon You had welcomed him
with indispensable hospitality.
They had dined well, and ex-
changed many beautiful courti-
sizes, and he had departed, leaving
Quon You wreathed in smiles and
very much alive.
There had been no robbery.
Quon You'S gold watch was there,
the money in his till had not been
touched. Only his pain-twisted
face and the splinter of steel told
of hatred, or revenge, or-some-
thing.
INDICTMENT SECURED
But police secured the indict-
ment Of William Derr on charges
of first degree murder-and he
went into Jail to remain until to-
day.
Today United States Attorney
David A. Pine quashed the indict-
ment against Derr, saying there
was no way in which jury could
be convinced of his having slain
IQuon You, and there was no way
IN which any court could be IN
duced to direct a verdict.
So today William Derr stepped
out of Jail, to continue the jour-
ney he began when he left the
door of Quon You's laundry. with
Quon You wreathed in smiles
and very much alive.
The Washington times., 1938-06-23
Anti-To xin
is Children Get
Shots Here
Authorities were baffled.

Sixteen Washington children,
mostly of pre-school age, took the
warning of DR.. George C. Rutland,
District Health Officer, and ap-
peared at the child hygiene clinic,
$50 Third st. N. w., yesterday for
diphtheria immunization.
Summer vacation time is the
best time for the .anti-toxin treat
ments, DR.. Rutland said, since it
takes several months for immun-
ization to develop. The 16 young
Sters on hand for the "ShotS" yes
terday we're the vanguard Of a
group expected at the semi-weekly
clinicS-10 a. m. Wednesdays and
Saturdays-now that school is out.