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Evening star., 1938-04-14
DR.. HARVEY SMITH
WILL RESIGN To
ACCEPT NEW POST
Will Become Official of
School System at
Lancaster, Pa.
WINS HIGH PRAISE
FOR SERVICE IN D. c.
DR.. Ballou Says No One Has
Been Considered to Fill
Vacant Post.

DR.. Harvey A. Smith disclosed to-
day that he plans to resign as assist
ant superintendent of schools, in
charge of senior high schools. to be-
come superintendent of the Lancaster,
Pa, school system, where he once
taught German. The resignation will
be effective as of July l, he said
The announcement came as sur
prise to members of the school system,
although Dr.. Frank W. Ballou, super
intendent. said he had discussed the
matter with Lancaster officials here
earlier in the week.
DR.. Ballou said no one is yet under
consideration to succeed DR.. Smith,
who was elevated to his present post
in July, 1886. from the prlncipalshlp
of Central High School.
The superintendent had no state
ment to make whether Dr. Smiths
successor will be brought in from the
outside or elevated from within the
school system. 1t is known, however,
that the Board of Education leans to-
ward appointments from within the
system as far as possible
DR.. Ballou spoke very highly of DR..
Smith, saying he was a fine school
officer" who has lived up TO all ex-
pectations."
Our loss will be Lancaster's gain,"
he asserted
Coincidental with the announce
ment of Dr.. Smiths resignation. it was
learned that the Adjutant, high school
cadet year book, is being dedicated to
him.
DR.. Smith came to Washington from
Millville IN. j. High School in 1929
to take over the principalship of Cen
trail High School. A native of Penn
sylvania, he received his bachelor of
arts degree in 1914 from Franklin and
Marshall College, and seven years
later took his masters degree at the
University Of Pennsylvania
In 1929 he took his Pin D. in school
administration from Teachers College
at Columbia University.
His teaching experience included in
struction in Latin and mathematics at
Franklin and Marshall, which also is
Evening star., 1938-04-14
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

This is a fair warning-don't let
Prof. Steuart H. Britt of George
Washington University entice YOU
into a game of stud poker.
Prof. Britt yesterday afternoon
looked through the backs of Is cards
face down on his desk in ordinary
sunlight and called 20 of them cor
rectly
1t was all perfectly honest and
above board. He actually saw through
the cards. A month ago he could
have done no more than make wild
guesses, like the rest of us. He has
developed his uncanny ability since
then by intensive practice of evenings.
He wears glasses and is not man
of exceptionally keen eyesight. He
says anybody can do it if he practices
long and hard enough.
But he had better never let him.
self get caught in game with boys
who carry guns on their hips. The
things he does, if they happened in
a real poker game, would be a fair
enough excuse for shooting any fel-
low full Of holes.
Evening star., 1938-04-14

the outlines-sometimes "a out OF Is
times. So, he concluded. If there
were outlines which could be felt
there was something which could be
seen, also-if one looked hard enough.
He began placing the cards in all
sorts of positions and in all sorts of
lights and eventually found what he
was looking for.
Prof. Britt is frankly skeptical of
some of the results reported by DR.
Rhine. This is one way, he says, by
which much better results than any
reported by the Duke professor can
be obtained with no recourse to extra
sensory perception whatsoever. This
is not necessarily, however, the way
in which any of the Duke results have
been obtained, and Prof. Britt's ac-
complishment is put forward not as
disproving the Rhine results but as
demonstrating one factor which must
be taken into account.
The cards must be in fairly good
light. It would be very difficult if
not impossible to duplicate his as
founding results in the artificial Light
Evening star., 1938-04-14

had a good deal to do with it-one
point of star standing out in lumi-
nous lines. 1t was just where Prof
Britt had indicated. But all efforts
to see the other points Of the star
failed. The reporter could get no
suggestion whatsoever of wavy lines,
which DR.. Britt says are easiest Of
all to see.
In criticizing the Rhine results
Prof. Britt stakes much on this posi-
bility of subliminal stimulation by
which one actually can see what off,
hand would be declared impossible
to see. Secondly, he insists that Dr.
Rhine has published only favorable
selections of his results. Third, there
is the possibility of bad faith among
some of tie card readers.
Prof. Britt, it should be empha-
sized. is not a stud poker player and
intends to stick to teaching psy-
chology for living.
This is not only more respectable
but safer. The boys might make
short work Of subliminal stimulation
with their automatics.
Evening star., 1938-04-14

MIR. Britt calls it subliminal stimu-
lation. He has developed the Ca
pacity Of seeing things very close to
the lower threshold of human eye
sight.
Random Deck of Cards.
This particular pack was not a
pack of ordinary playing cards, 1t
was a random deck of cards used
by DR.. J. B. Rhine of Duke Uni
versity, who lectured before the Grad
uate School of the Department of
Agriculture yesterday afternoon, for
his experiment. in so-called extra
sensory perception. Instead of the
ordinary playing card symbols, these
cards have on their faces a star, a
square, cross, circle and two wavy
lines in sets of five, one symbol on
each card The cards, however, are
of the same size and texture as regular
playing cards.
In DR. Rhine's experiments various
persons have been able to guess"
the cards much better than would
be expected from pure chance. This
Evening star., 1938-04-14
Chemists Rush to Sare Beauty
Endangered by European Crisis
Patriotic American Bees and Scientists
Cooperate to Produce Finest
Quality of Cold Cream.

The Niagara Falls inventors claim
to have discovered a chemical process,
which consists of a reaction between
molten wax and an alkaline solution
of hydrogen peroxide, which renders
the American product white and
creamy enough for the most dainty
of cold creams.
Something like rubber wrapping
paper should be possible from an
other chemical process patented this
week by the late Erich Gebauer-
Fueinegg and Eugene W. Moffet of
Chicago. BY means of it, according
to the patent description. it should
be possible to cover paper or any,
thing else with translucent films of
rubberlike material about a thou
sandth of an inch thick.
BY treating butadiene. a prelimi-
nary stage of rubber. with hydrogen
chloride at a temperature of -85 cent?
grade a product is obtained, accord
ing to the patent, which is soluble
in benzene, ethylene dichloride or
carbon tetrachloride which then can
be sprayed as a film over any material
in almost any desired thickness. 1t
produces a product which is moisture
proof and, if the proper solvent is
used, essentially fireproof.
Bridge for Deaf.
This has been essentially impossi-
BILE with previous chemical processes,
the inventors say, because the rubber
has become partially crystalline and
essentially insoluble
To make bridge possible for the deaf
and dumb is one of the objects of
bridge table patented by Kent B.
Holland of Sacramento 1t will also,
the inventor claims. stop a lot of
bridge arguments and conversation.
On this table there is a line of
numbers from l to 7 before each
player. To make bid one simply
presses button. which lights up
one number and also indicates the
suit. 1t remains lighted until the
bidding has passed around to this
player again.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
Now Europe can 90 to smash


Patriotic American bees will see tc
it that the compilations of patriotic
American girls do not suffer from
lack of the finest quality of cos
metics
This is supposedly made possible
by process of wax bleaching patent
ed this week by Joseph S. Reichert
Donald J. Campbell w. S. Hine-
gardner and L. P. London of Niagara
Falls.
The basis of high-class cold cream
it appears from the patent descrip-
ton, is beeswax. This first must be
bleached until it is snow white and
softened to creamy texture before
the other cosmetic ingredients are
mixed with it.
In the past, the inventors say, the
cosmetics industry has depended en-
tirely on foreign bees for its wax
American bees produced dark-coloreo
wax, which could not be bleached
by any process which would allow it
to be creamed afterwards.
Highly Specialized Job.
Bleaching wax. it seems, has been
a highly specialized job. That pro-
duced by European bees could be
washed free of its impurities and
then placed in the sun ct definite peri
DDS during the spring or fall. Dur
ing the summer there was too much
sun and during the winter not
enough. The skill came in mixing
different grades of wax in the proper
proportions for sun whitening.
American wax would not Whiten in
the sun. perhaps due to some minute
chemical ingredient contributed by
the bees or obtained from American
flowers. 1t could be bleached by q
chemical process which left it in a
condition in which it would not
cream satisfactorily. So the patriotic
American bee had to content herself
with making wax for church candles
and the like, while her foreign sisters
labored to make American woman
hood beautiful.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
BILL WOULD BAR
JOb|NTERFERENCE
congressman Supporting
Appointments Would
Be Punished.

Representative Barry Democrat, Of
New York today introduced bill
making it misdemeanor Or any
member of Congress, or member-elect.
to recommend any person for appoint
ment to the classified civil service.
The bill carries penalty of $500
fine. or imprisonment for not more
than ane-Eear, or-hoth.
Representative Barry explained that
there is prevailing impression
among many persons that the Fed
eral civil service is subject to political
manipulation and that if Congress
man really wants to he can get arv
one appointed from a list regardless e,s
the applicants rating"
During the last two and one-na,f #
years, = he said, L have had hundreds OF
civil service applicants request or
suggest that through some politica al
hocus-pocus they be picked off a list
ana appointed to a job In the great
majority of cases these aspirants were
near the bottom of the register.
When informed that such a prac-
tlce would be manifestly unfai. ard
improper as well as impossible of
accomplishment most of the eligibles
obviously don't believe it. They are
merely convinced that their Congress
man doesn't want to help them or
doesn't know tho ronas
Representative Barry is convinced
that his experience reflects an atti-
tude toward the Federal civil service
that is widespread among the pubic
One way to cure this false i'm
preston he argued, "is to convince
the American public that members of
Congress have no influence in obtain
ing civil service jobs" He feels it
would also rebound to the benefit of
civil service.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
PRESIDENT AUTHORIZES
EASTER EGG ROLLING
Only Children Under 10 Years
and Guardians to Be Admitted
Between 8 and $50.

President Roosevelt has authorized
the use of the south grounds of the
White House for the Easter Monday
egg rolling from 9 am. to p.m.. it
was announced today by Capt. How
ard Ker, U. S. A., in charge of White
House building and grounds.
Only children 10 years of age and
under will be admitted to the grounds
from am. to $3.50 pm, Capt. Ker
declared, except that small children
may be accompanied by an adult
guardian.
The Marine Band will give a con-
cert in the grounds from $3.50 to S
pm, and the general public will be
admitted to this. Immediately fol-
lowing the concert the grounds will
be closed.
Periodically during Easter Monday
various bands will entertain the chill
dren. and other attractions are be-
ing planned under the personal SUPER
vision of Mrs. Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1938-04-14

in which poker usually is played, he
says. 1t is little more than mere
seeing. One gets only the vaguest
sort of impression through the back
of the card and has to make lot OF
deductions, which eventually may be-
come subconscious, to interpret those
impressions. But that is probably
how folks are able to see anything
except that the deductions are so
automatic that one doesn't realize
they are being made.
Reporter Tries Hard.
The Star reporter. under the pro-
fessor's direction, tried hard to do
some seeing" through the backs of
cards with some lurking ideas which
were not entirely pure and innocent
as to what use the ability might be
put if he found he had it, He got
only. to the point Of seeing how it
might be done.
In one instance, after looking in
tently from all sorts of angles at a
card whose back was exposed in
bright sunlight, he saw-or thought
he saw, but suggestion may have
Evening star., 1938-04-14
MURDER CHARGE
DENIED BY lands
Fireman Is Scheduled to Go
on Trial May 9 in
Staying of Wife.

James L. Lands, 23-year- old
rookie fireman, listened imperturb-
ably to the reading in District Court
this morning of an indictment charg-
ing him with the hrst-degree murder
Of his estranged wife. Mrs. Blanche
Lands, %. He pleaded not guilty.
Assistant United States Attorney
Cecil Hefiln Informed Justice Jesse
c. Adkins that the Government in
tended to try Lands May 9.
The young fireman was dressed
neatly as he walked into the court
room. looking neither to the right nor
to the left. He stood without moving
as the court clerk, Samuel Silverman.
read the lengthy indictment. The first
count charged Lands with beating his
wife to death with a sand-flled stock
ing; the second with beating her to
death with stone. and the third
that he killed her with a blunt in
strument, the exact nature of which
was unknown to the grand jurors.
The indictment was returned yes
teiodS, ieSS lIldIl Three weeks a1ter
Mrs. Lands was found with crushed
skull on lonely stretch of Twenty
fourth street NE.
Attorney E. Russell Kelly, who with
Attorney Jean Boardman appeared
for the defendant, asked the court
to allow him until April % to attack
the indictment. This request was
granted.
Lands is reported by police as ad-
mitting being with his wife during
the early morning of March "a. when
she was fatally injured, but denied he
struck her. He said she jumped from
his moving automobile, hitting her
head on fender.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
MT. PLEASANT CAR LINE
LOOP is GIVEN APPROVAL
Present Switch Back Tracks
Would Be Removed Under
Transit Co. Plan

Tentative approval was given today
by the Public Utilities Commission to
proposal of the Capital Transit Co.
for construction of loop in the
tracks of the Mount Pleasant street
car line at its northern terminus.
The present sWitch-back tracks on
Mount Pleasant street. just south of
Park road NV, would be removed
and new tracks swung around the
small triangular park bounded by
Mount Pleasant street, Seventeenth
street and Lamont street. 1t would
be necessary to cut off a portion OF
the northern tip of the triangle.
Merchants along Mount Pleasant
street have protested for years against
use of the sWitch-back terminal be-
cause cars are left there for stop
overs, causing traffic confusion.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
j. s. CIVIL SERVICE
|SCONTRASTEDT0
BRITISH SYSTEM
Prof. Laski Describes Plan
Devised by Empire to
Supply Stats.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
JOIN IN DISCUSSION
Round-Table Conference Was Last
of Series by London Economic
Expert.

The American civil service system,
with its patronage problems, won little
in contrast to the British system at a
round-table discussion last night. con-
Quoted by Prof. Harold J. Laski Of the
London School of Economics at George
Washington University.
Prof. Laski told of the esta blishment
in 1870 of British system which has
worked efficiently in supplying sue
ceeding ministers with staffs Of un-
questioned loyalty, efficiency and in
compatibility.
In the discussion, doubt was eX-
pressed whether the service in this
country has been important enough to
attract the most able men. as has been
the case in England.
High Standard Stressed.
Speakers stressed the Importance Of
high standard of entrance to the
service. 1t was emphasized that the
quality Of the service is in direct ratio
to the opportunities for advancement
it offers the employees.
Those discussing the two systems
included members of Congress. officials
of the Civil Service Commission and
representatives of Federal employees
groups
1t was said that the United States
Civil Service mechanism has become
| a ritual instead of a merit system"
and lacks adequate personnel dlrec-
ton. supervision and placement
Speakers said the system is SO rigid
that transfers even in lower positions
are rare.
Even the higher posts in the British
system are interchangeable As to
patronage, it was the consenus that
| legislators would be relieved of an em-
barrassing duty if deprived of the
power of influencing appointments to
the Federal service
| Some Justification Seen.
Some justification of the patrona ee
system was seen in the fact that mem
! bers of Congress most active in en-
largement or creation of a Govern
| ment department are best informed
as to its personnel needs.
| 1t was suggested that while the
British system does not have to con-
tend with political patronage, it is
handicapped by prejudices of class,
family, etc. which have grown up over
long period
Prof. Laski admitted that if his own
labor party should come into power,
some difficulty would be encountered
through the opposition of civil servants,
to changes in policy.
Last nights round-table discussion
was the last of a series conducted by
Prof. Laskl, who left for New York
last night after two weeks in Wash
.ngton. He will sail for England soon.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
ELECTION is HELD

Election of members to the Citizens
Committee of Martins first four addi-
tions to Chevy Chase. Md, was held
last night by the group at the Brook
Vile pharmacy in Chevy Chase.
I Those elected were Paul Alex
ander and Laura Helmuth, two-year
terms each, and Myron CHASER and
Joseph Y. Houghton, one-year terms.
Ralph Chase, John Flack and
George Smoot comprised the Elec-
ton Board.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
SPECIAL SERVICES
MARK HOLY WEEK
Maundy Thursday Being
Observed in Capitals
Churches Today.

Special Maundy Thursday services
To-Day In many of the Capital.
churches uShered in the Easter period
Maunoy or Holy Thursday. the an.
nlversary day of the institution O,
the sacrament of holy commhion
is being observed throughout the CITY
There will be special service at {
O'Clock tonight in the Grace Lutheran
church, The pastor, the Rev Gerhare
E. Lenski, will be assisted by the Rev
William Althaus, who will deliver the
sermon on the subject The Servan,
OF ALL Miss Anne Helene Monson
soprano. will be the guest soloist.
Holy communion services were helo
IN thefImmaculate Conception Church
Eighth and N streets NV. at GA;
7:30. and $50 am. today, with
solemn mass and procession at s
am. Tehebrae and sermon are to be
held at 7:45 pm, followed by an all
night alteration.
Stations of Cross.
The stations OF the cross will be con.
Quoted from 3 to pm. tomorrow
Good Friday, in Franklin Park, Four
teenth and K streets NV, unde,
auspices of the Washington Catholic
Evidence Guild. This will be the
sixth consecutive year in which the
guild has held this service. The Rev
Charles A. Hart of Catholic University
director of the guild. will be ir
charge of the ceremonies, assisted by
the Rev. Joseph A. Cook of London
Ontario: the Rev. John A. Jordan of
the Dominican House of Studies and
the Rev. John Ellis of the Sulpician
Seminary. A vested choir of IS cleri-
cal students from religious houses as
sociated with Catholic University will
chant the solemn hymns of Good
Friday and also portions of the
requiem mass
The boy choristers of Immaculate
Conception Church will sing the mass
of the pre-sanctified at 9 am. to-
morrow. The three hours agony will
be observed from II noon to 3 pm,
followed by the stations of the cross
at 4 pm and Tenebrae will be
at 7:45 pm. The Tenebrae will be
chanted by the Friars of the Atone
ment, and the sermon will be giver
by the Rev. Henri Matte of the
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Can
ada. The three hours agony serv-
ice will be conducted by the Rev
Henri Wiesel, with music by the
choristers.
Holy Trinity Church, Thirty-sixth
street between N and o streets NV,
will hold 3-hour Good Friday agony
service tomorrow from noon until 3
pm. Rev. Charles F. Connor, S. j., of
st. 1gnatius Church, will preach the
sermon on the seven last words.
st. Luke's Services.
The Rev. j. E. Elliott, rector of st
Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church
Fifteenth and Church streets NV.
will conduct the meditations tomor-
row, and at pm. the choir, under
direction of Louis N. Brown, organist
and choirmaSter, will sing a sacred
oratorio, The Darkest Hour"
The Holy Week services at the
Covenant-First Presbyterian Church
will come to conclusion tomorrow al
4:45 pm. with the full choir rendition
of Stainer's The Crucifixion." Fol-
lowing the rendition, Dr. A. j. Nc
Cartney, pastor, will speak on the fin.
ish of Christ's work
Holy Saturday services at the I'm
Evening star., 1938-04-14
Gets Life for Wife Staying.

CORDELL, Okla, April IA R).-
Marion Larner, 35, Dill City church,
man and town Councilman, was sem
fenced to life imprisonment last ngiht
for hammering his wife to death on
their fifteenth wedding anniversary
He had entered plea of guilty to
murder charge
The produce dealer showed little
emotion, but when District Judge w.
P. Keen pronounced life" Larner ap-
peared immensely relieved.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
RESOLUTION SIGNED
Inquiry to Be Made of Relations
of Anti-Dealers and Companies.

President Roosevelt signed yesterday
congressional resolution ordering a
Federal Trade Commission investiga-
ton of relationships between automo-
bile dealers and manufacturers.
1t directs the commission to deter
mine whether agreements between the
two groups are equitable, whether deal
ers have an opportunity to earn a rea-
sonable profit, whether manufacturers
use coercion in disposition of their
vproducts and whether used-car allow
ances are fair.
Evening star., 1938-04-14

maculate Conception Church will be-
gin with the blessings at am. and
solemn mass of the dawn at 9 am.
There will be confessions at $3.50 to
6 and Z to 9 pm, and the Franciscan
Friars of the Atonement will sing the
Tenebrae
Evening star., 1938-04-14
BAND CONCERT

BY the Soldiers Home Band in
Stanley Hall today at $40 pm John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, Light Horse Guard -Lincke
Overture, Raymond" Thomas
Entire acte--
"A Morning On the Zuide Zee"
Kriens
Might and Love" Gudus pro
Patria) ---H Holmes
Excerpts from Musical Comedy.
Our Own Mrs. Gibbs" - Monckton
Popular Numbers
Stolen Kisses" Snyder
Satanic Blues" Shields
Waltz Suite, Wine, Woman and
Song" (Wein, Webb und Gesang)
Strauss
Finale, THE Land Of Moa"- -lithgow
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-04-14

in Lancaster; teacher of Latin and
German at the Chester tPa.) High
School and teacher of German at Lam
caster High School.
He entered the Millville High School
as teacher of mathematics and be-
came principal of the school in 1922.
Three years later he was made super
intendent of schools in Millville and
held that post until he came here in
1929.
DR.. Smith is member of Phi Beta
Kappa and Phi Delta Kappa and lives
at 4216 Jenifer street NV.
Evening star., 1938-04-14
Ask Higher Wages.

Agricultural workers of the Neither
lands Indies are asking the govern
ment to help them get higher wages.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
Harold Lloyd
Out
On Comedy

HOLLYWOOD.
= OUR gags that register false
note with audiences may ruin a
. budding comedians future. 1t
behooves the smart funny man,