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for selfish personal gains, and
who usually leave in their wake
a hapless victim. 1t is a reas-
suring thought to feel that the
crime movement has expert
enced an ebb-tide flow since the
Justice Department agents have
been armed with legislation
that has increased the scope Of
their activities.
To J. Edgar Hoover more tl-an
any other individual goes the
responsibility for obtaining from
Congress the powers that have
been invested in his forces to
curb this menace, that had
reached an alarming figure, not
alone in dollars and cents but
in human lives as well.
Despite the brilliant efforts
Mr.. Hoover has launched in his
constant fight against the
denizens of the underworld,
there are those in public life
who at convenient moments
hurl verbal hrickbats in his di-
rection, in their attempts to
discredit his value as a pub
lie servant. These onslaughtS
are in most cases, prompted by
the "green-eyed monster" How.
ever, to us he's the present-day
Horatio Alger hero-truly a local
boy who made good in his home
town.
MODERNIZED BUREAU
Mr.. Hoover, more than any
other individual, is responsible
for many up-to-the-minute ideas
that have been adopted by the
Justice Department in waging
this warfare upon trangreSsorS.
Attorney General Cummings,
his chief, has been the first to
congratulate him for his cour.
age and intrepidness, which
of necessity must be employed
when enemies of society are at
large, and the lives, especially of
children, are at stake.
We appreciate the fact there
are several unsolved kidnapings,
particularly the Mattson case.
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LeUiathan-R. !. p.

I was a quartermaster on the
s. S. Leviathan in the days Of
her glory and spent many
happy hours under the COM
mand of Commodore Hartley.
1t seems too bad that such a
faithful old servant as the Levia-
than should be sent to her death
in England's junk yards. Better
it would be if the sea should
take her in its arms and carry
her to its deepest canyons. She
was the greatest ship that ever
sailed the North AtlanticI
H. w. c.
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st. N. W.:
The an
swer is SIM
pie. 1t just
depends on
which side Of
t he fence e
y ou' re on.
Fill b listers
are a painful
thing W h e n
in use against
S O m e t hing
y ou' re in
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Talk Marathon

Here's some food for thought.
We are always patting ourselves
on the back because the United
States is supposed to be a purely
democratic nation. Yet the
Southern Senators find it lots Of
fun to filibustc:: against the anti
lynch bill. Some democracyl /.
I. sAFRAN. 5
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THE ANSWERS

to kill some
of those bills
t h a t are
b r o ught up
b e f ore Con.
greSS, l think
we S n o ul d
have more of
t h e m. If
n e C e S Sary,
t h e y should
be carried on
longer than
the one in
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favor of, and on the other hand
it's about all that can be done
to prevent passage of something
you're against"
\ 4 X
Miss Eunice Broyles, 1929
Connecticut Ave. N. W., labor
problems analyst:
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t i m e a n d
public money.
The idea Of
grown men
standing up
in Congress
and talking
through their
hats against
t h e passage
of some law
t h ey don't
+ a cy for
p O little a.
me as being
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mo. I don't
b ellie We in
a n y t h in g
that permits
a loud voiced
m i nority to
S t y mie pro
gressive legis-
/ a t ior. Fill
b u S terS per-
m it sm a ii
factional and
b / a S e d
elements to
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"No. I don't
t h nix they
S h o uId be
a IL o " e d if
they're block
ing construc-
tive legisla-
ton. Most of
the filibusters
Of the past
h a We b e e n
aimed at the
d e S t ruction
of this type
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Three-Minute JOURNEYS
By Temple Manning

@ HE SAID she was going to spend the winter in
~ England and they all laughed. They would still
be laughing had she particularzed and said that she
going to the resorts along Englands west coast
that s unless they too knew of the glories of Devon
and Cornwall and the Scilly Isles in winter.
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"T h a t's a
bad one to
ask me, and
I'll tell you
why. I used to
be a lobbyist
on C a pi t ol
Hill and saw
one of the
b ills for
which I was
W o r k | n g
killed in that
manner. I be-
'ilih1lSterS "
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still on the G-men's books, but
with the Justice agents keeping
a weather eye on likely suspects
in crimes of such nature, that
case may develop a ''lead" in the
very near future. CWAR.
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Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims In
the District OF Columbia since
January 1, 1898. is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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progress now on the lynching
bill. Oh yes, I'm from Missis-
sippi."
4 4
Miss Gwen Geach, 1929 Con-
necticut Ave. N. W., District
Government employe:
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Wise Words

Mistake, error, is the disci-
pline through which we ad-
vance.-Channing.
The hand that follows intel
lect can achieve.-Michelangelo
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force their opinions on the peo-
ple."
Miss Marjorie Nance, 1922 @
st. N. W., teletype operator:
Il think they're a waste of
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problems analyst:

of legislation by a small mi
nority whose personal feelings
lead them to oppose passage"
X X 4
Fred L. Eisinger, 1926 East
Capitol St., research statistician:
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LISTEN, WORLD!
Ru Elsie Robinson

Features Syndicate
N his gentle, shining story-'What Is Mracle?"
4 Manuel Komroff wrote this line:
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Editor addresses
the writers will be omitted
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The Inquiring|
photographer
The Washington Times in.
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Do you think congressional
filibusters should be permitted?
THE ANSWERS
Miss Irene Willis, 2817 Con-
necticut Ave. N. W., clerk:
Eyes. If that is what it takes
Evening star., 1938-08-09
CHICAGO GRAIN
Dv the Associated Press.

bV the AssoclateG Press.
CHICAGO. Aug. 9.-Reports cf
rains impeding the Canadian harve'
and tending to develop rust led to al
vances of lis cents in Chicago wheat
prices late today.
The advance much more than over
came early fractional declines to new
five-year low-price records for wheat
and for corn. rye and oats as well.
Europe's corn crop was reported
suffering from heat and drought.
At the close. Chicago wheat futures
were 14-s. higher, compared with yes
terday's finish; September. 63is-l4;
December. 65ls-i4; corn, 7s-l3s up:
September, 51-5l1s; December, 48s.-
40, and oats, l4-3s advanced.
Cash Quotations.
Cash wheat. No. 3 red. 65; No.
hard, 66a4 STA; No. 2 yellow, hard,
6514: No. l mixed. Sc; mainly spring.
Corn, No / yellow. 5l4-521a; No. 1
white. 52l2. Oats. No. 2 mixed, 2o%-
22A: No white. 241a-25A, Rye.
No. l, 43a.; buckwheat, No. 2. 245-40
nominal: barley sales, 1852; feed. 81
40 nominal; mailing, 50-62 nominal:
timothy seed, 275-85; clover seed, red,
7.50-80.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
RUMANIANS BUY FOUR
PLANES LIKE HUGHES

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 9.-Delivery
of the last of fleet of four high
speed transports to the Rumanian air.
line. Liniile Aerienne Romano Ex-
ploatate Gu Statul. was announced
today by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
here. The four ships. of the same type
as that used on the world flight of
Howard Hughes, cost approximately
$337,0O0.
The planes. powered with Wright
cyclone engines. carry IL passengers
and crew of three. They have a top
speed of $50 miles per hour. Upon
completion Of routine check flights
at the factory here. the airliners were
flown to New York and shipped to
Bucharest, Rumania, headquarters of
the airline. They will be added to the
feet of smaller Lockheeds which have
been in service for over a year in
Central and Southern Europe.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Stock Averages
By VICTOR EUBANK.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-After
downward drift during the greater
part of today's stock market session.
late buying support got behind the
list and substantially reduced or cam
celed forenoon losses running to
more than 3 points.
Leaders were at their worst in the
first hour when volume, while COM
paratively small, was the best of the
day. Activity dwindled from then
on and. even with the comeback in
the closing period, the pace Jagged
appreciably. Transfers were in the
neighborhood of 100000 shares.
The trading fraternity, brokers
said, apparently suffered a mild case
of the shivers as the undeclared
Russo-Japanese war in the Far East
exhibited few signs of halting and
fears were expressed that, with the
Russian ally of Czechoslovakia en-
gagged in the Orient. the long expected
Middle European outbreak might be
imminent.
Market May Take Rest.
While business news was still an
anesthetic to depressed sentiment, the
thought was again advanced that may
be the market had outrun prospects
for economic expansion over the re-
mainder of the year and were due
to take q rest and await signs Of
definite turn in 1889
Steels. motors, mail orders. farm
implements, coppers, rails. oils and
specialties were among the first to
slide in the forenoon.
The pleasing July sales report of
General Motors served as a prop for
this stock and it erased morning drop
of a point. Chrysler, off "a, retrieved
this and bit more.
Rubber company shares, supported
by U. S. Rubber preferred, which was
up about at new high for the
year, managed to post plus signs.
Union Pacific and Delaware & Hud-
son were gamers among the car
riers
In arrears most of the time were
Montgomery Ward Sears Roebuck. In
ternational Harvester, Caterpillar
| Tractor. Allis Chalmers. Douglas Air
! craft. Consolidated Edison, Public
Service Of NJ j.. Kennecott, Phelps
Dodge. Westinghouse. Du Pont, Gen.
eral Electric. Dow Chemical, Johns
Manville, Owens-Illinois, Eastman
Kodak, Union Carbide, Standard Oil
of N. j., Southern Pacific. Northern
Pacific and Chesapeake d Ohio.
Sterling and Franc Break.
Sterling and the French franc broso
to new lows for the move in terms
of the dollar. In addition the Lon
don gold price was lifted to new ton
since March of last year. seemInglv
abroad as the result of further p0-
litical tension.
Bonds dragged along. with the ma
jority on the losing side Grain iu-
lures. recently weak, did righta bout
with wheat at Chicago up "a to "a of
a cent bushel and corn ahead = tc
Is. Sterling near midafternoon wa
off IS of cent at s487i2 and th-
French franc off 007s of cent a
2725s cents. Cotton, in late transac-
tions, was around 10 to 20 cents a bale
lower
On the curb difficulties were en-
countered by Newmont Mining. Penn
road, Lockheed Aircraft, Aluminium Of
America. Cities Service, Gulf Oil and
Lake Shore Mines.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
BUILDING AWARDS
GAIN 80 PER CENT.
Week Total Far Above That
for Last Year; $57,454,000
Compared to $44,041, 900.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug. 9-Aided by ex-
pansion in public construction, en-
gineering building awards for the past
week increased 80 per cent over the
comparable 1887 period, the Engineer
ing News-Record reported today.
Awards totaled $57,454,000, against
$48,716,000 the preceding week and
$44.041 900 in the like 1887 week.
The cumulative total for the year
was $1,535, ,718.000. only 8 per cent
under the sl,549, 100000 reported for
the same period last year.
Among the latest awards was a
81 100000 contract for a plant at
Savannah. Ga, by the National
Gypsum Co.
BY classif1cations awards compared
as follows:
1888 Week 1887
Private ----$ll, AIT 900 Sl5,509, 900
State and
Municipal --$3l $4,000 s21.7S3 900
Federal s14,864 900 s6,74e,0oO
Evening star., 1938-08-09
JULY INGOT OUTTURN
Fl PCT. ABOVE JUNE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Production
Of steel ingots in July showedsa 81
per cent increase over June, the
American Iron and Steel Institute re-
ported today.
Tonnage of open-hearth and Bes-
semer ingots in July amounted to
1,e82,058 gross tons. compared with
1,638,277 tons in June The July
tonnage, however, was still 81 per cent
under July, 1887.
July production represented an op-
Grating rate of 3342 per cent of the
steel industry's capacity, compared
with 28.46 per cent in June and 78.48
per cent in July last year.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
CARNEG|E.ILLINOIS GETS
BLAST FURNACE READY

BY the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, Aug. O.
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. began
preparing today another blast fur
mace for operation late this week. in
dicating another slight steel output
increase in this district.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'S
Bessemer converter resumed yesterday
boosting output for the district to
between AZ and 43 per cent.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Total Sales for the day. $4,000
sActual
Bankruptcy securities by
Share o l. Derenae Stock xtFs SHARE or esr: M
Declared
n stock last year h or stock Accumulated
dividend paid ,or declared this
dividends the foregoing
decara-
Unless otherwise dividends are not
included. ~ ~
Evening star., 1938-08-09
CITY OF CLEVELAND
BONDS ARE OFFERED
By the Associated Press,

ABSOCIdIeQ EIcSb.
NEW YORK. Aug. "a syndicate
headed by Lehman Brothers offered
today A.000,000 City Of Cleveland az
per cent. "a per cent and 314 per
cent bonds.
The offering consists of $2.327,000
of 3A per cent unlimited tax bonds
priced to yield from $50 to 200 per
cent for maturities ranging from 1914
to 1858, and sl,e73.00o of 2h and
2a per cent limited tax bonds, due
1944-1953. and priced to yield from
40 to $40 per cent.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Liverpool Quotations 3
TUBE MAKERS EXPAND,

From 1885 to 1887, manufacturers
of collapsible tubes (such as tooth
paste containers) increased the num-
ber of employees IL per cent and
boosted wage payments Z per cent, the
Census Bureau reports. Sales of tins
Is manufacturers increased I per cent
to $8,l46,643.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
PAINT SALES LOWER.

The Census Bureau says sales Of
paint, varnish, lacquer and filters by
$50 establishments amounted to $685.
936, ,706 in June. compared with $685.
827, ,42l the previous month and SAL.
656,0 ,0s5 In June. 1887.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
FINANCIAL BAROMETER.

NEW YORK. Aug. q Rn.-The decline
in bank loans to industry and agriculture
that started last October has been re-
weeks.
The drop last week was the smallest
in many months. This may indicate the
long slump is drawing to q close according
to some financial observers.
Commercial industrial and agricultural
loans of Federal Reserve member banks
in 1O1 cities reported BY the Reserve Board,
compared as follows:
Week ended August o. S3. S65. 900. 600
Previous week $3.50. 600. 900
Rame nApid1 last YeaP k.l0Q Cl(l0. 0O0
Evening star., 1938-08-09
ODD.LOT DEALINGS.

The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers with
edd.lot dealers or SPECIALISTS on the New
York Stock Exchange for August 8: S22g
purchases involving 141,1s1 shares: 6.2Oe
sales tnvelving 1919 shares.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Crown Drug Co.-July sales were
of ~ per cent: 10 months OF 2 per
cent.
Evening star., 1938-08-09


Charles Morgan. associate manager
Of Laidlaw e. Co., returned yesterday
from two-week vacation on Moon
River in Canada. He reports he did
not catch or even see any turtles this
year. but the fishing was fine.
Audley A. p. Savage, auditor of the
National Savings e. Trust Co., has
returned with his SON. Harold W. Saw
age, from a vacation in Bermuda.
J. Wesley Clampitt, jr., assistant
secretary and assistant trust of1icer
Of the Union Trust Co., is vacation
ing at Ocean City. Md. He plans to
be back in a few weeks.
j. H. Beall. assistant cashier of the
Security Savings & Commercial Bank,
left Monday for a two-week vacation.
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3 JAILED, LIQUOR
STILL SEIZED IN
RAID ON HOME
One Is Trapped on Roof
In Fashionable Area

Federal agents and members of
the local vice squad shortly after
dawn today raided a fashionable
home at Chevy Chase Parkway
and Connecticut Avenue North
west, arresting two men and a
woman and selling nearly $500
gallons of untaxed liquor in vari-
Que stages of fermentation.
A 200-gallon attic still, large
quantities of molaSSes. sugar and
other whiskey ingredients, also
were confiscated in the raid which
capped several weeks of investiga-
ton.
Booked at the Eighth precinct
police station in connection with
the raid were Thomas Levine, IS;
Helen J. Levine, 80, and MAJ
zeraino Magnaterra, "a, all of the
5000 block of Chevy Chase Park
way.
CAUGHT ON ROOF
The latter, already awaiting
trial on liquor charges growing out
of two raids earlier this year, was
captured as he covered in a
drizzling rain on the rooftop, clad
only in his underwear. Levine
and the woman, described as his
wife, were arrested in bed.
So ingenious were the operators
Of the place, that next-door neigh
bors said they had never noticed
the odors given off by the mash
as it stewed in the attic. A second
floor bathroom had been disman.
tied and the seepage from the
still, located directly above. piped
through specially constructed
ducts directly into an under
ground sewer.
Magnaterra. police said, appar
emily was the only occupant
awake when they rang the front
door-bell about this morning
He refused to answer the bell
police said, so they broke through
small glass panel and unlocked
the door from the porch. Rush
ing upstairs. the raiding party
surprised the Levine couple in
bed, they said, and started a
search for Magnaterra. whose
bedroom showed evidence OF
recent occupancy.
BEHIND CHIMNEY
He had fled through an attic
window to the roof and was found
behind a chimney. He offered nc
resistance.
The prisoners had moved into
the fashionable and deliberately
furnished home about a month
ago, neighbors said. A small boy
who could not be located today
neighbors said, also lived in the
house.
Today's raid is the third of g
series which Alcohol Tax Unit
agents inaugurated last January
when they broke into another
deliberately appointed home al
1Ob4 MdO4oOL1 ~. IN. w. MdSk1d
terra, described as the local repre-
sentative Of a Baltimore ring, was
taken prisoner there with an Is
year-old youth.
ANOTHER HELD
One month later, they raidec
premises in the 1900 block of Far
ragut st. N. W., arresting Guile
Quattrini, of Baltimore, whom pc
lice say is an associate of Magma
terra in the illicit liquor traffic
here and in Baltimore.
Members of today's raidins
party, which was led by Tax Uni
Officer Frank j. Sweeney, we're L
G. Mitchell, w. G.. Harding, j. T
Fisher, H. L. Doyle and E. r. Gill
of the Tax Unit, and William Nc
Even and M. M. Kite, of the loca
vice squad.
A truck, loaded with gallon TIM
of molasses and bags of sugar, also
was found by police in a basement
garage of the Chevy Chase Park
wa premises.
-VoTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 3d.
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BOY, II, KILLED
BY POL|CE CHIEF
Special to The Washington Times

Special to The Washington Times
HONAKER, Va, April %
Charges of murder were placed
against Chief of Police James
Ruble today by Commonwealth
Attorney Luther Fuller.
The chief is held in jail here
without bond pending meeting OF
the grand jury May 9.
Ruble is charged with the muir
der of William Martin, II, son OF
a wealthy real estate and mining
operator of Drill, Va, last night.
According to witnesses, Chief
Ruble had arrested a companion
of young Martin on a charge of
intoxication. Martin went to the
Jail to protest and quarreled with
the chief.
Some time after Martin left the
Jail, Ruble and Martin met on the
street, and the officer claims Mar.
tin cursed him and attempted to
draw a pistol.
Ruble drew his own weapon and
fired, the bullet striking Martin in
the heart and killing him in
stantly.
Witnesses denied Ruble's story
that he fired in self-defense and
said that Martin, who was armed,
made no attempt to draw his
weapon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-22
N. Y. Loan Bureau
Forced to Suspend

NEW YORK, April % d.N.S0.
Government loan seekers swarm
ing in a hotel lobby and clogging
telephone lines today forced dis
continuance of the loan-aid bureau
set up by the Smaller Business
Association of New York.
The association had announced
it would provide forms and clerical
assistance for business men in OBJ.
tanning RFC loans, but pressure
of business vas so great the asSo-
citation today decided to handle
applications only by mail.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
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were started by my mother and
her husband" he charged that the
straw that broke the camel's back
was their attempt to borrow on his
500, 900 life insurance policy.
Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein
his mother, and her husband,
Arthur L. Bernstein, who she mar.
ried after the death of Jackie's
father, tried to borrow $7,40O
on his insurance policy, Jackie
charged.
He said:
They did everything they
could to make things tough for
me, like shutting off my credit
at the Brown Derby and refus-
ing to allow me to have posses
sion of the pink slip showing
clear ownership of my automo-
bile" he went ON.
Il was in a tight spot recently
and had to borrow money on my
car. I wanted the pink slip
which is necessary in California
10 snow CAe auCOmOp11e Is clear
of mortgages"
GOT SLIP FROM GIRL
Jackie said he went to the of.
fees of Jackie Coogan Produc
lions, Inc, where the pink slip
was kept in safe, and obtained
it from a girl who later learned
that orders had been issued against
letting Jackie have it.
when Bernstein heard I had
it," Jackie said, che hit the cell
ing, and when I went to the
offices a day or SO later he
ordered me out and told me
never to dare come there again."
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 49,
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nina PERSON
MARR|ESK KIRK

LONDON, April % GNS0.
Nina Pierson, formerly of the Zieg.
field Follies, who declared her.
self engaged four times during
the past month, had a husband
today.
He is Ruk Kirk, son of Percy st.
George Kirk, London inventor and
business man. They were mar.
ried at midnight at the Scottish
town Of Gretna Green.
The bride, once engaged to
Tommy Manville, was married to
Paul Leviton, whom she divorced
in Mexico in 1885.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL ~
PULITZER PRIZE
Ernest Poole's His Family" won
the first Pulitzer prize in letters.
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Ickes Brief
Secretary Does NOT
Address Workers

Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes today had set a new high
in short speeches.
You can thank the Lord you
haven't got to hear a speech from
me-" began the secretary, one OF
the chief orators of the New Deal,
before an assembly of Interior De
partment Recreational Associa-
ton at its first annual banquet
last night.
II wish the association WELL"
he concluded, and sat down.
VOTE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL 3d.
Don't miss Mondays Times :. Six
new comic strips are coming in addi-
ton to all the old ones Now Two
Complete pages of comics daily in The
Times. Call RE. 1894 for Home De-
livery.
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3 Abandoned Children
Gain Under District Care

Patrick Sullivan who responded
to a complaint by the landlord
Lucy May, ravished by ricketts, and
reduced by malnutrition to nine
pounds, 10 ounces, was taken to
Gallinger. Her brother and sister
were admitted to the Receiving
Home, pending their mothers re,
turn.
The father, police said, is serv.
ing a Virginia penitentiary sen.
tence Of 10 years.
Awaiting Mrs. Tinsman's return
is a petition filed by the Board Of
Public Welfare, asking custody Of
the children. A Juvenile Court
order asking their commitment to
an institution will be sought, Wei
fare Board officials said.