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The Washington times., 1938-05-18
2 CIVIC GROUPS
|INDORSE VOT E,
D. C. SELF-RULE
PetWorth Joins Petition
For Transit Shift
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

The Citizens Forum of Colum
bia Heights and Petworth Citizens
Association met last night anc
Endorsed the suffrage planl
adopted by the Citizens Commit
tee on Suffrage for the District
which includes national represen
tation in the House and Senate
and the Lewis-Randolph joint res
olution, which sets up a republican
form Of government for the Dis
trict, the ultimate object being
local self-government.
Petworth named Horace ]
Phelps and Ernest F. Henry as
representatives to the House Ju
dietary hearing on suffrage, which
begins today. The Citizens Forum
named President Lyman F. Keb
Ter, Burd w. Payne, Mrs. C. j
Fernald and Mrs. Florence Laugh
lin its representatives and elected
the following new members: Mrs
B. S. Selbach, Miss Elizabeth r
Swenk and Thomas Raysor.
ASK TRANSIT CHANGE
Petworth voted to join in a pc
tition of 273 names, presented by
Elsie M. Pinney, requesting the
Capital Transit Company to re-
turn the Petworth bus line to its
original routing.
The association rejected a reso
luton urging passage of the new
coming regulations, and Endorsed
proposal from the Columbia
Heights Business Mems Associa
ton for a cross-town bus line
through Rock Creek Park.
A resolution by Harvel o. Craver
was adopted which opposed the
20 to 50-foot from corner parking
regulations.
George w. Potter was named
chairman of the annual banquet
to be held in October.
100 MEMBERS ADDED
There we're 106 new members
elected during the meeting held in
the Petworth School, raising the
membership to 1873.
The Southeast Council of Citi-
zens Associations. meeting last
night in No. II Police station, re-
queSted the Board of Education
to proceed with the purchase Of
land now available for a new
AnacoStia High School.
Some opposition was registered
against Senate bill 1861, setting
up new zoning regulations in Re
District.
A complete tabulation of the re-
cent membership drive sponsored
by the council revealed the fol-
lowing as having secured the great
est number for their respective
organizations, who will be spe-
cial guests at the victory dinner
tomorrow night at the Press Club:
Congress Heights, Alma Allen;
Hillcrest, Mrs. o. R. Davidson;
Bradbury Heights, Charles H.
Baumbach; Lincoln Park. Oden
Carrick: North Randle Commu-
nifty, w. A. Farran; Southeast,
Mrs. Alyce Thume, Summit Park,
U. S. Fisher: Randle Highlands,
Arthur Hoyle: Washington High
lands, Mrs. Roy Clark.
Vernis Absher was named to
represent the council at the con-
greSsional hearings on suffrage for
the District.
RAP HOSPITAL SITUATION
Denouncing unsatisfactory con-
ditions at. Gallinger Hospital, due
to. long working hours and gen.
eral overcrowding, the Bennings
Citizens Association alst night
urged the institution be placed on
an eight-hour-day basis. Vice
President Ray w. Hawkins and
Harvey Frank were named to con-
fer with DR.. Edgar A. Bocock,
superintendent, relative to other
needs.
The Washington times., 1938-05-18
|WINN SIMMONS
SCORES 149 TO
WIN ROSE Prize
Takoma Park Club
Holds Show

TAKOMA PARK, Md, May Is.
VIM T. Simmons captured the
Silver medal certificate award
given by the American Rose So.
ciety for the highest number Of
points won at the twenty.second
annual Rose Show Of the Takoma
Park Horticultural Club, held at
the public library, Fifth and Cedar
Streets, last night.
The Washington times., 1938-05-18
LEGION MEETINGS

American Legion meetings to-
night include Stanley Church De.
pue Post, Hayloft, 8 p. M. and
Cooley-Mc Cullough Post. 8 p. m.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
By LYDIA CRAY SHAW AP Feature Service Writer

NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-Dorothy Fontaine traded a nice, safe, clean job at the Rockefeller Institute in New York for perilous laboratory duty in a loyalist hospital at the Spanish front, and came back with only one complaint-the rats gave her the jitters.
 Bombings didn't mean a thing to this slim, boyish girl with tousled, sandy hairTbut the rats
 I'd lie in bed at night and watch them gallop over the cross beams and pray they kept their footing"-Miss Fontaine lifted her hands in supplication as she spoke. q guess they had had lot of practice, though. They never did fall off"
 The rats haunted Miss Fontaine's dreams all through the IA months she spent at the Spanish front. But bombings were routine. Twice her hospital at Tarancon was struck.
 Plenty of 'damns" and "hells" punctuated Miss Fontaine's descrip- ton of the bombings, and plenty
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
When Old Soldiers
 Meet,JustLoOk0ut

DUTCHFLAT, Cal, Sept 15.- Here's one that won't go down in the list of happy reunions of vet crans.
 Game Warden Earl HiscoX, look ing into Henry A. Schroeder's hunt ing credentials, got to talking about the World War. He discovered that they had been in macine gun com panies pitted against each other he with the A. E. F. and Schroeder with the Germans.
 He also found that Schroeder had falsely represented himself as citizen in getting a hunting li- cense and had apparently been smuggled into this country in 1926.
 Now Schroeder is serving a 50- day jail sentence and on his release must face deportation proceedings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15

of explanatory gestures. Thirty think like tuberculosis or typhoid. four, but looking not more than "A, she was curled up cross-legged on a couch in her apartment, but shifted her position constantly.
 Worked with Lindbergh
 When she went to Spain, she left behind a research career with Dr. Alexis Carrell and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, with whom she had worked on the mechanical heart. " She dumped it all overheard for a two-fold job in the war area-lab- oratory and pharmacy work. Here are some of the difficulties she faced:
 No running water in the hos pital
 Distilled water-a hospital must" obtained from homemade still constructed out of two empty oil cans and a coil of copper wire.
 Constant threat of an alcohol shortage.
 Difficulty in securing serums and other necessities.
 And daily new flock of patients whose wounds had to be tested for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
BUGS LOSE TWO
 TO GIANTS AS
 RAGE NARR0WS
Cleveland and Yankees Quit When Rain Postpones
 Last Game
(By Associated Press)

They put blowout patch on Pittsburghs Pirate pennant bubble yesterday and tried to get it to take off again in what is hilar- iously referred to as "The National League Race
 Those forgotten Giants all but blew the bubble to bits by taking both ends of a doubleehader from the Pirates, and as the Cubs whip ped the Boston Bees, Cub shaved dropped into a spot within two and half games of the top.
 The Giants moved into third to tie with the Cincy Reds who split a twin bill with Brooklyn.
 In the American League, the last lap there saw the Yankees put off their final game with Cleveland because of rain.
 Bostons second place Red Sox belted the Tigers and the Athletics nipped the Browns to climb out of the cellar.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15

infection. Smears were taken to see if they had contracted any
 Moved Overnight
 When the evacuation hospitals were shifted to another point-that might happen overnight, Miss Fon- taine found-the staff got moved as best they could.
 'Once I travelled five days in box car" she reminisced, "and never took my clothes off. Every time there was danger of bombing, we'd jump off the train and try to hide in shell holes. Meantime we'd stop the train and gather along the tracks while food was prepared over an open fire"
 After IA months of this excite ment, Miss Fontaine can't quite face the idea of nice quiet job at Rockefeller Institute or any where else.
 "Ill probably wait awhile before I hunt for another job she said.
 In the meantime, she's going to propagandize to have the neutral ity embargo lifted. She calls it "a bunch of baloney,"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
SEATTLE TAXES STILL ANOTHER
 AND ANCELST0O
San F Francisco and San Diego Still in Deadlock
 for Fourth Place
(By Associated Press)

Seattle and Los Angeles. currently engaged in going down the home stretch in the last week of regular reason play in the final fight for first place matched stride for stride last night.
 Seattle won and the Angels won, keeping Los Angeles two games tC the advantage.
 The Rainiers won their 18th straight victory and their 27th game in thirty starts by smearing San Diego with a terrific bombardment in the fifth frame.
 Behind Rish's five-hit hurling, the Angels toyed with the tail end Acorns to win easily.
 Seattle has six games left to play and Los Angeles five.
 San Francisco's Seals, battling with San Diego for fourth place and pennant playoff berth, made no headway, losing to Sacramento.
 Hollywood took another game from Portland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
Alaska I. B. Assn. MeetsL Evening

Harry G. Watson presided over a called meeting of the Alaska Tuber- culosis Association last evening to consider how best to carry on a more vigorous program against tu- berculosis throughout Alaska.
 The Alaska Tuberculosis ASsocia- ton depends entirely on the volun- tary gifts received during the an- nual Christmas Seal Sale. There are PIT communities from every part of Alaska behind this work which from the beginning has been carried on according to the stan dards of the National Tuberculosis Associati which for years has been the leader in the nations cam paign to eradicate tuberculosis.
 The parent organization has leaned Mrs. Florence Breed, Field Advisor on the staff, to assist with the Alaska program.
 Dr. John A. Carswell. epidermiolo- gist in the Department of Health, reported over 4,O0O persons exam ined and X-rayed, with more than COCO young people tuberculin- tested up to date.
 Dr. w. w. Council, Commissioner of Health, stated that the Christmas Seal funds given to this work had enabled the Department of Health to add X-ray equipment and tuber- culosis clinicien which has extended the amount of work possible, and now being done by the Department of Health.
 more extensive program of tu- berculosis education is to be car ried on by the Alaska Tuberculosis Association as it is necessary to do this work as it's present contribu- tion to the case finding-X-raying and tuberculin testing activities.
 MT. Watson stated that the very fine leadership and group interest in the various parts of Alaska in this public health problem of tuber- culosis is developing some interest ing local tuberculosis programs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
BLACK WIDOW
 SPIDERS WILL
 BE FOUGHT NOW

WASHINGTON, Sept IS. - The days of the poisonous, little black widow spider may be limited in this country. Uncle Sans e0to- mologists have plan to fight it with another spider which they have imported from Haiti, and which particularly likes to feed on black widow eggs. The second spider is harmless.
 Right now the two spiders are being watched in federal labora- tories. Before the scientists turn the Haitian spider loose they want 10 be sure it sticks to black widows. Seems they consider the harmless spiders a real help because they eat mosquitoes and flies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
Japanese Beetles
 Prove Destructive

MOUNT VERNON, Va, Sept. 15. The Japanese beetle has no re- spect even for Americas most fa- nous shrine-the home of George Washington.
 The destructive insect invaded the rose garden, but A. c. Reath, head gardener at Mount Vernon, says that with the aid of the United States department of agriculture the situation lis well under con- troll"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15

not be returned, whereas wedding gifts should be sent back if the marriage is called off
 The parents of the girl announce the engagement Often this takes place at an afternoon tea or a din- ner. The girls parents may also notify the local newspaper.
 Engagement rings are never worn until the announcement has been made. If the engagement should be terminated, the ring is sent back The ring is a symbol and when the symbol is no longer sig nificant it should be removed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
BLOW AREA COMES BACK
 TO PRODUCE
Dust Bowl Sings Song of Blue Skies as Rains
 Cut Wild Acres
By ROBERT GEIGER AP Feature Service Writer

AMARILLO, Tex, Sept. 15.-The old-timers were right: The dust bowl does shink when it gets wet.
 That came home to me during a dust bowl trip which brought me here to the office of Soil Con- servator H. H. Finnell, the head quarters of the governments fight against the blow area.
 Redrawing a map of the bowl on the basis of latest rain reports, Fin nell said:
 Control of the so-called dust bowl is nearer realization today than at any time since it came into existence
 Unexpected rams nave caused him to slash millions of acres off his 1889 blow area predictions. In 1935-36, 50 million acres of land were blowing away. ToWnsmen couldn't see across the street and farmers caught only an occasional glimpse of the sun for months.
 We can't say those days are gone forever but next spring south western skies should be less dusty than in any spring since 1892" Finnell commented. "The area where severe dust storms may orig mate next winter, under present conditions, is composed of about 16 million acres-the wild acres of the dust bowl"
 This all bears out the predictions of old-timers who said the south west would green up" almost over night when rain fell again.
 Rain Made to Order
 I drove down south of Amarillo to the little town of Hereford to see one of these old-timers who never lost faith and who had made his own drought relief. Hereford is out of the dust bowl now and even the dry land farmers there have good crops, but Joe Evans was sit ting pretty even before the rains came.
 Evans, a middle-aged, 5-foot-4 farmer who made $30,000 in wheat during one season in the twenties, heard from agricultural agents that the dust bowl problems would re- quire generations to solve. He agreed-in principle = but decided that in his own case it would have to be solved right then in 1856.
 Gambling that plenty of water was available far beneath his dusty acres, he drove down two wells, 175 feet deep. To a pump on each he rigged a powerful automobile engine, and started pumping water at the rate of 2,000 gallons minute.
 Then he carefully contoured and terraced his lands, as government experts recommended, to save what rain might fall. He planted corn and livestock feed on most of the 1,200 acres he was able to irrigate from his wells. On one tract he raised some wheat.
 A Three Basket Man
 Last year." he tells one proudly, when I discovered I could make only $5 a ton from grain sorgum harvested on 1000 acres, I bought cattle and fed the sorgum to them, making $10.50 a ton. That's what it's possible to do when a farmer keeps his eggs in more than one basket"
 Now, with normal rainfall as well as the irrigation water, he has corn eight feet tall, feed crops bet ter than anything around him and 25,0O0 bushels of wheat in storage.
 But I'm not wheat crazy now" says Evans. Sooner or later the man who depends on wheat alone is going to find himself in the poorhouse.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
Cultivate Weeds,
 EXterminate Them

BENNINGTON, England, Sept. 15-Every weed known to farmers is being cultivated and carefully tended on plot of land at Can nington Demonstration Farm.
 They are intended for a weed museum where research eXperi- ments are in progress to study their habits and to find the best way to exterminate them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
Stuck to Job
THREE HEADS

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 15.-Francis Olig, messenger for telegraph company here, knows when duty calls.
 Injured in collision between his bicycle and an automobile, he was taken to hospital.
 Cant I go out long enough to take this message?" he asked.
 Hospital authorities called his office, assured him the message would be delivered, and kept him in bed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
HODGES ARE
 ELIMINATED

BERLIN, Sept. 15.-The day of the hobo seems over in Nazi Ger many. When Hitler took power, approximately 100000 knights of the road" roamed the country.
 Nazi officialdom has devise d means of keeping closer check on these wanderers, with the re- suit that there are only 22,787 of them left, according to latest sta- tistics. The decrease is attributed to various job creation schemes,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
Dog Is Honored

HUNTSVILLE, Wis. The city fathers have honored Brownie" a little brown dog which for years has followed the city street sweep CT. City Manager Henry Traxler made formal presentation of a medal, gold plated and engraved as Al Schwenker drove the sweeper up to the city pumping station.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
South Africa to Send
 Huge Diamonds to Fair

KIMBERLEY, c a pc Provlnce, Sept. 15.-This diamond producing region is preparing to dazzle the world with an exhibit at the New York Worlds Fair next year.
 One feature will be chromium globe on which the continents will be outlined with diamonds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
WlFE: THROWS
 MEAN BRICK


 GAFFNEY, s. C., Sept. Is. - The hawks and weasels had better let Ms. Hettie Whites hens alone Fer pitching arm is too much for them.
 A hawk measuring three. feet from tip to tip attempted to make off with a prized fowl from her yard. She surprised the raider in the act. picked up a brick and brought him down.
 A full-grown weasel had tried the same trick a little earlier. Mrs. White used @ rock to slay this marauder
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
GAMES WEDNESDAY Pacific Coast League

fdclI1c COaSt League Sacramento 8; San Francisco 1. San Diego 1; Seattle 8. Oakland 1; Los Angeles 6. Hollywood '; Portland 3.
 National League New York 3, 10; Pittsburgh 0, 8. Cincinnati 3, 8; Brooklyn 6, 4. St. Louis 12, 3; Philadelphia g, 2. Chicago 6; Boston 3.
 American League Philadelphia 4; St. Louis 3. Boston 9; Detroit 2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
African Natives Plan
 To Dust Wattle Now

MARITZBURG, Natal, Sept. 15..-- If you were to drop into this South East African Province this October you'd see bunch of people dusting the wattle.
 It will be an attempt to rescue the wattle-the wattle being not a new dance but a tree whose culti- vation provides one of the prin- cipal industries of Natal.
 The dusting is to kill off the bag worm which attacks the tree.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
Needle in Leg

LINCOLN, Kans.-A pain in his leg sent c. H. Walters to phy- sician; and an x-ray examination disclosed needle lodged near the bone An operation recovered the needle, rusty and slightly bent Walters can't remember when the needle stuck him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
|t's a Big Family

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 15. - The Verette family of Milwaukee has numbers and weight. All the nine children of the late MT. and Mrs. John Verette are living. aud the lightest, Mrs. Bessie Ward, weighs 195 pounds. Lyle. the lightest man, weighs 201 Marlin weighs 245, Cliff 268, Earl 263, Mrs. Edith Helwig POP, Frank POT, Ralph POP, and Floyd BOP.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
WHEN YOU GIVE GIRL A RING
 COUNT }
By JOAN DURHAM
AP Feature Service Writer

The time between the day on which an engagement is announced and the wedding day is the time for the engaged couple to accom- plish three things.
 The bride-to-be must collect her rousseau, plans must be made for the new home, and both must meet each others families if they haven't already done so. This also is the time for parties for the young couple.
 A trousseau includes not only the girls clothes but also the linens for the new home. The supply of linen no longer has to be enough for a lifetime as was customary in older days, but it must be ample enough to set up the new house. hold
 His Responsibility
 It is the husband -to-be's respon- sibility to arrange for the new home. But the couple should plan it together, since both are to live in it and both tastes should be at least partially satisfied. f
 Who may give parties for the young couple? Friends or relatives. Close relatives should not give par ties at which gifts are expected, however Showers for the bride should be given by friends, al- though often the family will help bear the expenses.
 It is still considered proper for the young man to ask a girls fla thers consent to marry his daugh- ter And he should not resent 1t if the father insists on knowing his financial status.
 Only very close friends and rela- lives should send engagement pres ents, if any are sent. They are not necessary--bu are merely a token of the close relationship which exists. Engagement presents are often given, especially in Europe by the bridegrooms family to the young woman they are welcoming into the family.
 Word of Warning
 Engagement presents are never marked with any but the unmar- ried initials of the bride-to-be, since sometimes engagements are term mated. Engagement presents need
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15

Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office. ,,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15

Loce and pracer IOcauon notices for sale at The Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
Word of Warning

Engagement presents are never marked with any but the unmar- ried initials of the brideto-be since sometimes engagements are term mated. Engagement presents need
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-15
Girl Scientist Who CIlucked Career luith Lindy Finds AU Jobs Look Flat After Hospital in Spain

A FTER II months of laboratory E1 work in a Spanish loyallst hos pital-yes, it was bombed-Dorothy Fontaine is back in the U. 5. and finding it hard to relax. Here she s telling how the glass shattered around her, and how the rats scur- ried over the crosSbeamS
Evening star., 1938-06-03
MAN METED $50 DAYS
ON TRAFFIC CHARGES
James Broom Sentenced for
Leaving After Colliding and
Reckless Driving.

James Broom, "a, colored, 20 M
street Sc, today was sentenced by
Police Court Judge Edward M Curran
to serve so days on one charge of
leaving after colliding, 80 days on
second such charge and 80 days each
for reckless driving and operating
without a permit. He was to be ar
raigned later in the United States
branch of Police Court on a charge of
joy riding
Testimony was to the effect Broom
had taken car belonging to Henry
M. Reynolds, 1925 Fifteenth street
NV, from 927 F street NV. Pro-
ceeding to First and M streets NE,
he colhded with truck operated by
Marion A. Morrison. 750 Fairmont
street NV and then was chased by
Elmer D. Utterback, 1924 North Capt.
tol street, and Henry G. Lewis, jr.,
cab driver, over most of the Northeast
section.
AT Blandensburg road and Thirtieth
street NE. Broom struck a car op-
Grated by Mrs. Julia August. $40
Thirteenth street Sc, and continued
toward Cottage City, Md Attention
OF Motor Cycle Policemen e. e Skin
ner and c. L.tSmith was attracted by
the blowing of horns on the pursuing
cars. In Cottage City, Mr.. Skinner
said, the defendant abandoned the car
and ran between some buildings before
he was caught.
Evening star., 1938-06-03
HAZELW00D Funeral :.
SCHEDULED TOMORROW
District Fireman, Who Was Hurt
Fatally in Auto Crash, to Be
Buried in Arlington.

Funeral services for William L.
Hazelwood, 36, District fireman, who
was fatally injured in a Maryland
automobile crash Wednesday night,
will be held tomorrow at 1890 am.
at the Lee undertaking establishment,
Fourth street and Massachusetts ave-
nue NE. Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Mr.. Hazelwood, who lived at AIT
Seventh street NE, was attached to
No. l3 Engine Company He was deco
rated for heroism several years ago
after he saved boy from drowning.
He became a fireman in November,
1882, shortly after receiving his hon
orable discharge from the Navy.
Surviving Mr. Hazelwood are his
widow, Mrs. Florence E. Hazelwood;
his mother, Mrs. Fannie E. Robke.
and two sisters, Miss Annie H. Robke
and Miss Pearl L. Cole.
At an inquest into the accident
yesterday at Prince Frederick, Md,
verdict of accidental death was re-
turned.