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Evening star., 1938-11-22
Airport al Forestvi||e
Opposed by Board

Opposition to the establishment of
a flying field at Forestville. Nd, by
the National Institute of Aeronau-
tics, a Washington concern, was
voted today by the Prince Georges
County Board of Commissioners.
The board decided to 60 before the
Maryland Aviation Commission at
hearing to be held in Odd Fellows
Hall in Forestville next Tuesday
night and ask that the application
for a license to open the airport be
denied.
The commissioners stand was
taken after a delegation Of Forest
vile residents appeared before their
meeting in Upper Marlboro and de-
clared that such a field not only
would thwart the development of
the community as a residential area
but that planes operating there
would endanger churchgoers and
school children.
1t was pointed out by Roland
Sansbury, the delegations spokes-
man, that the site on which it Is pro-
posed to open the airport adjoins
the property of the Methodist
Church and the playground of the
Forestville School. He said the run
ways would be located "less than
third of a mile from 60 or 10 homes"
The proposed site is owned by
James J.. Fee of Forestville and is
situated on the north side of the
Marlboro pike. It is about 3 miles
from Washington.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Democratic Women's
Activities Outlined

The activity OF Democratic wom-
en- throughout the Nation during
the recent political campaigns was
discussed by Miss Virginia Rishel,
associate editor of the Democratic
Digest, in talk before the Demo-
cratic Women's National Council
last night at the Washington Hotel.
Speaking in place of Mrs. Thomas
F.. McAllister, director of the wom-
ems Division of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, Miss Rishel COM
mented on the large number of
women candidates elected to State
offices throughout the country.
Mrs. Blair Bannister, assistant
treasurer of the United States, also
discussed aspects of the November
elections.
Mrs. Arthur D. Condor, director
general of the Absentee Voters
Bureau of the Democratic National
Committee, announced the bureau
will be closed for approximately a
year, beginning December l. She
added that the bureau probably
would resume its work early In 1910.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Boy Is Mi|I;onth
ToFie Prints
With F. B. |.

Ray Wesley Conover, 12-year old
Oakland, Calf, schoolboy, has been
notified by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation that he is the mil
lionth person to file his fingerprints
with the F. B. I. Identification Divi-
sion for non criminal identification
purposes.
The boys identification card was
sent to the bureau by the Twenty
Thirty Club of Oakland, civic organi-
zation which is sponsoring the fin
gerprinting of school children in
that city. Voluntary f1ngerprinting
campaigns are under way In many
other cities.
The F. B. I. established its civil
Identification file in 1888 to facilitate
identification of missing persons and
unknown dead. These fingerprints
are kept in a unit separate from the
criminal Identification files, and no
searches are made Of them in Grim
inal investigations.
The prints have enabled the r. B.
I. to identity amnesia, accident and
storm victims In numerous instances.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Letter Urges Concord
In Economic Field
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The council of the International
Chamber of Commerce made public
today q letter asking the govern
ments of its member countries Ito
work out with the least possible
delay a policy Of friendship In the
economic field"
The letter, signed by Thomas j.
Watson Of New York, president, in
cluded q resolution adopted by the
chambers council.
AT present, whether rightly or
wrongly" the resolution said, ma
items believe that their safety and
well-being are threatened by the
policies Of other nations. Policies
based on suspicion and fear must
lead to progressive isolation and dis
treSs. -
Whatever justification can be
found for present trends of policy
In present circumstances, no one de-
MES that greater well-beins for all
would result from collaboration"
Evening star., 1938-11-22
D. {. Man, 81, Survives
Storm in Leaky Boat

Ernest White. 81, q foreman for
a motorboat sales agency, was re-
cuperating today after five days OF
storm and mishap in leaky. balky
fishing boat he was bringing to
Washington from Old Plum Point,
Md.
Mr.. White left Thursday night
and should have arrived Friday
night or Saturday morning. He en-
countered adverse winds, however,
and a storm Saturday night, during
which his motor quit and a leak de-
veloped.
The waves twice swept Mr.. White
overheard from the open cockpit
He was able to regain the boat and
keep the hand pump going. The
following day he beached the craft
at Maryland Point long enough to
repair the leak with rags.
Getting the motor going. Mr..
White proceeded up the Potomac,
only to run out of gasoline yester-
day of Old Indian Wharf, Md.
He sent for fuel and food and came
in to Washington last night.
Mr.. Whites hands were blistered !;
he had a cut on his leg received
when waves were battering the 28-
foot boat, and he had been almost
wholly without sleep for five days.
In addition, he had been without
food for two of the days.
The boat belongs to the owner of a
sales agency where Mr.. White is en-
ployed, in the 800 block of Maine
avenue S.W.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
hoId-up Nets Pair $1,000;
Hjiatked Car Located

Police today had reported no trace
Of bandits who held up two Wash
ington sportsmen last night in the
rear of their home at 1322 Tenth
street NV. and robbed them OF
$500.
Wallace Beach, 30, and Wallace
Hulse. so, told second precinct po-
lice they were preparing to enter
the formers automobile when two
white men appeared. One thrust a
large automatic against Mr.. Beach's
head and threatened:
Give me the money or I'll turn
this thing loose
Mr.. Beach turned over $1,000 and
Mr.. Hulse handed them $500. The
bandits then fed in Beach's auto
mobile.
The automobile was found aban-
doned this morning in the 1900
block of Vermont avenue NV.
A dapperly- dressed young man,
believed by police to be an ex-
convict, was sought today for q
string of grocery store hold-ups
here, the last two of which were
perpetrated last night.
The robber, with face partly
masked and armed with a pistol,
held up the store Of Myer Burke,
255 Tenth street NE, and OBJ
tanned $48.
Within IS minutes, a man be-
lieved to be the same robber, using
the same tactics and warning that
he would shoot If there was an out
cry, robbed Herman Ritzenberg and
his wife, Anna, at their market at
123 Fifteenth street NE. In this
hold-up the bandit obtained $23.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Auto Wrecks Home,
7 Injured Extritated
By Cutting Car Roof
One of Victims in
Bowie Accident Is
Seriously Hurt

John B. Perry, 2O-year-old Wash
ington exercise jockey, is in a criti-
cal condition at Casualty Hospital
with injuries received when an au-
tomobile in which he was riding
smashed through the front of a
home at Bowie, Md, after failing
to negotiate a turn in the road.
The driver of the machine. John
Stafford Kelly, %, of 3101 Ellicott
street NV, an official of the lum-
Der company bearing the name of
his father, the late J. Frank Kelly,
suffered possible internal hurts and
cuts of the face and hands. He is
in Casualty Hospital also.
They were returning to the Capt.
tai from the races at Bowie late
yesterday in Mr.. Kelly's new car
when the accident occurred. The
vehicle ran of the road at Bowie
and High Bridge roads and plunged
into the living room of the residence
OF Barth Kasper, a retired butcher.
Members of the Glenn Dale, Md,
rescue squad had to cut through the
rOO1 OF Cne car, q cOnVerLlDle SEDAN,
to extricate the injured pair. Both
were taken to Casualty Hospital for
treatment.
Physicians said the Perry youth,
who lives at 3501 Yuma street NV.
and who rides for w. w. Vaughan
of Washington, suffered a fractured
skull and cuts of the face. His
right thumb was amphtated in the
mishap.
Mr.. Kasper said the crash was the
second such accident to occur at
his home within a year. He, too,
was returning from the races when
it took place.
Mrs. Grace Adkins, 40, of Capitol
Heights, Md, was injured late yes
terday when an automobile in which
she was riding ran of the Benning
road. She was brought to Casualty
Hospital by Ralph Kalick of Capitol
Heights, driver of the car, and treat
ed for u fractured jaw.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
DivorceCose
Speeded for
Operation

Justice may move rapidly In
emergencies, Mrs. Marian Padgett
was convinced today, for, after hav-
ing her case set ahead, she lost no
time in securing an absolute divorce
and the reason for the speed was
that she requires a surgical oper-
alton.
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat in
District Court today granted Mrs.
Padgett an absolute divorce from
her husband, Aubrey w. Padgett,
on the ground Of five years volun-
tary separation. She was repre-
sented by Attorney Lewis B. Perkins.
Yesterday Justice Oscar r. Luhring
set the case ahead on the plea that
Mrs. Padgett requires an operation
and Chief Justice Wheat lost no
time in adjudicating her cause.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Hugo Worch Estate
Exceeds 100000

Hugo Worch, music dealer, who
died here November IA, left an es-
tate upward of 5000 900, 1t was re-
vealed by . petition for letters Of ad-
ministration filed yesterday In Dis
trict Court.
The petition, filed by Paulina H.
Worch, Hugo Worch, jr., and Carl
Worch, his children, asked that the
National Savings 6 Trust Co. be
named administrator Of the estate.
The widow Is Mrs. Ida M. Worch.
Debts will not exceed $4,000, the
court was informed. Mr.. Worch
died possessing the premises at 111o
G street NV, assessed at $163 1888;
5000 Albemarle street NV, assessed
at 1880, and personal property,
including the business at 1ll0 g
street NV, securities, household
furniture and cash aggregating $32,-
$40. The petition advised the court
that although . search has been
made, no viii can be found.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
10bids on New
Key Bridge
Span Opened
Offers Ron9e From
$29O, ,450 to
$393,805

Ten bids for construction Of the
proposed new span at the Virginia
end Of Key Bridge were opened
by the Bureau of Public Roads.
They ranged from an indicated
minimum Of $290,450 offered by De
Lashmutt Bros. Inc. Of Arlington,
Va, to a maximum Of 1898 ,805 bid
by Dravo Corp. Of Pittsburgh. Pa.
The indicated second low bid also
was submitted by a local corpora
ton. the Diamond Construction Co.,
in the amount of $309.017.
Examination OF the bids and other
preliminary work probably will re-
quire a week or 10 days and a con-
tract probably will be awarded early
next month.
Since the project will involve clos
ing Of the bridge to all vehicular
trafnc during the construction Pc
riod, work of removing the broken
and settled concrete work at the
Virginia bridge abutment, which
will be replaced by the new span,
will not begin until the new road
way in unit No. l Of the George
Washington parkway is available
as q detour.
The new road, extending from
the Rosslyn Plaza to Columbia
Island, now is being completed un-
der an $50 9688 contract awarded Cor
son g. Gruman Co. of this city.
The new roadway probably will be
opened to traffic before the end Of
next month.
Construction of the new span, be-
ing financed by Public Works Ad-
ministration grant recently made to
the National Park Service. will open
the way for development of unit
No. 2 Of the George Washington
parkway. extending from Rosslyn
to Spout Run Valley.
Frederic A. Delano, chairman of
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, and Arno B.
Cammerer, director of the National
Park Service and executive officer
Of the commission, have been in
structed by the commission to con-
fer with the County Board of Ar
lington County, Va, before Decem-
ber IS on plans for raising funds
for purchase of land In unit Q.
The county has been requested to
raise $4,000 to match a similar
amount provided by the State gov
ernment. This total will be matched
with 100000 of Federal funds to
provide a total of 100000
County officials, so far unable to
raise their quota out of county
funds, are understood to be nego-
tiating with property owners abut-
ting the proposed parkway with q
view Of gaining their support in
financing the work.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
0ne-Man Car Request
Again Is Denied
Transit Company
Utilities Commission
Refuses to Permit
Conversion

Request by the Capital Transit
Co. for permission to convert so Of
its old two-man street cars to one
man operation was rejected fatty
today by the Public Utilities Com
mission.
The commission stood by its deci-
sion, reached more than a year ago
in another case, that ANY further
additions to the fleet of one-man
cars should be brought about only
through the acquisition of cars
equivalent or superior to the presi-
dents conference car (the we'll
known streamined modeD."
The street car company now has
$50 cars in service, including all
types. OF these lis are of the
modern streamlined type and there
are II older cars also in one-man
operation, making . total of 1856,
leaving 474 in two-man operation.
Position Of Company.
The company argues that II it
were permitted to convert so street
cars, which are 10 years old, to one
man operation it would be able to
save, in platform wages alone, ap-
proximately $39,50O per year, ex-
elusive of savings on payment of
the social security taxes. To this
the company added: LAS is we'll
known to the commission. operat-
ing economies such as this are
essential If this company is to go
farward on a program of further
renewals and betterments to its
equipment and other facilities"
E. D. Merrill, president of the
transit company, in further argu-
ment, said: This company has
gone to great lengths in expendi-
lures for improvements looking
toward the furnishing of better serv-
ice, and continuation OF the program
OF improvements depends upon
maintenance and improvements of
net earnings. We. believe that the
program Of converting cars to one
man operation for use in rush hour
service on this line (the Mount
Pleasant lne) now equipped with
Presidents Conference cars in the
base service, will be to the advan-
tage of the public and to the COM
pany and its employees"
improvement Seen.
The company presented the argu-
ment that under its plan there would
be an improvement in working con-
ditions since there would be more
men in regular service and fewer
men working as extras"
Each time the company has pro-
posed an increase In the number
Of its one-man cars there has been
an immediate protest from some
elements of the riding public. and
as result the commission previously
has laid down the edict that when
ever the company increased the
number of its one-man-car fleet the
additional one-man cars must be of
the modern streamlined type.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Corporation Licensing
Discussed BY ber|e

Discussing the problems created
by the growth of corporations, As
sistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle
last night told the National Lawyers
Guild that Federal licensing of cor
porations was a logical development
to be expected for the future.
At present, he said, the corpora
ton laws of most lax States-Dela-
ware was cited-actually are the
corporation laws of the country,
inasmuch as corporations seek out
the place of Incorporation Offering
least restrictions.
Mr.. Berle, who was introduced by
Justice Harold M. Stephens of the
Court of Appeals, spoke at the first
of a series of forums in the old
Interior auditorium. On December
z Commissioner Samuel H. Ordway,
jr., OF the Civil Service Commission
will discuss civil service for lawyers
before the guild.
Evening star., 1938-11-22

sistant to the president of the board.
Mr.. woodward will become director
of the Better Business Bureau of
Washington on December /.
Col. Brand has had wide expert
ence in military, engineering and
legal fields. After graduating from
the United States Military Acad-
emy in 1914 he served as an officer
in the Corps of Engineers, U. S. A.,
from which he resigned shortly
after the end of the World War.
He was a member of the Public
Utilities Commission of the District
from 1927 to 1929. He specialized
in Federal taxes in Los Angeles inn
mediately after the war and in 1925
was admitted to the District bar.
Before becoming affiliated with
the Works Progress Administration,
on September l, 1897, Col. Brand was
associated in partnership with the
late P. j. McCumber, former chair
man of the Senate Finance Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Plane Position Finder
Be Demonstrated

A newly invented airplane radio
position finder developed by Capt.
Horace Stark Of Pennsylvania Cen
tral Airlines, internationally known
authority on air navigation, will be
demonstrated in flight over WASH
ington today by its inventor.
Capt. Stark, former instructor to
pilots of the Dutch international
air transport line to the East In
dies, will be at the controls during
the demonstration flight from
Washington Airport at 3:45 pm.
The position finder is a quick
method of locating the map posi-
ton of the airplane on the basis OF
radio signals picked up by the radio
automatic direction finder. If may
be operated with one hand and
eliminates difncult manual plotting
of position.
The device has been made avail
able by its inventor and Pennsyl-
vania- Central Airlines to the Civil
Aeronautics Authority and other
airlines as . contribution to airline
safety, it was announced.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Seven From D. C. to Go
To Fraternity Session.

Seven Washingtonians plan to at
tend the 30th annual session Of the
National 1nterfraternity Conference
opening at the Hotel Commodore tn
New York City Friday.
They are A. w. Defenderfer, Sec
retary. and Walter Jaeger, president,
of Delta Sigma Phi; G. Russell Shet-
terly, chancellor of Lambda Chi
Alpha; Joseph B. Danzansky, presi-
dent Of Phi Alpha; Cecil j. Willin-
son, executive secretary, and John
A. Parker, field secretary, of Phi
Gamma Delta, and H. e. Cromer,
national councillor Of Phi Kappa
Tau.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Bond Concert

BY the Soldiers Home Band in
Stanley Hall at $50 o'clock tonight.
John S. M. Zimmermanan, band
master; Anton Pointner, assistant.
March. LA Guapa Muchacha,"
Speciale
Overture, "Our Glorious Nation"
Bergenholtz
Entr'acte,
ca Loves Ecstasy" -McElwain
90 Military Patrol Poldini
Melange, 'Darktown Follies" Hill
Popular numbers:
LET a Smile Be Your Um-
brella" -Fain
my Love For You" Kahn
Waltz, "Sobre Ia Solas"
(Over the Waves RoSaS
Finale, Legion Of Victory"
a>- Maj. Paul
THE Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Little Sisters of Poor
Donation Party

A donation party" sponsored an
nually for the benefit of the Little
Sisters of the Poor by the Washing
ton General Assembly, K. of c., will
be held Sunday at 2 to pm. at the
home of the Little Sisters of the
Poor, Second and H streets NE.
Each year the members and
friends of the sponsoring group
bring presents of food, clothing and
other items to be presented to the
old people living at the home. The
Little Sisters of the Poor is a self
supporting charitable agency.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Girl Slightly Scratched
FEEDING Zoo Buboon

Three-year-old Judith Ball re-
ceived a slight scratch yesterday
when Wahoo, the Chacma baboon
at the Zoo, became little too
eager in taking peanuts from her
outstretched hand.
The childs mother, Mrs. Margaret
Ball of 1T Hamilton street NV,
said the baboon did not jump at
Judith but was reaching for pea
nuts at the time. She said the
injury was no more than a pen
scratch.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Will Liberute Quail

ROCKVILLE, Md, Nov. 22 (Spe-
ciaD Robert A. Hughes and Owen
Knight of the Rockville Chapter,
Izaak Walton League, have obtained
from the Pioneer Point Game Re-
serve In Princess Anne County, Nd,
IS pairs Of quail for liberation In
Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Col. Harrison Brand
Named 10 Post in
Board Of Trade
Resigns W. P. A. Position
To Succeed Woodward
As Executive Secretary

Col. Harrison Brand, jr, director
of the Supply Section of the Works
Progress Administration Engineering
Division, will resign that post to
become executive secretary Of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Col. Brands appointment to the
trade organization post was an
nounced last night by Lawrence E.
Williams, first vice president and
acting president in the absence Of
Francis G. Addison, jr. He will sue
ceed Claude H. Woodward, who has
been serving temporarily as as
Evening star., 1938-11-22
Little Lote

MADISON, Wis. P.-Salesmen
who assured Sauk County residents
that the stove they were selling
won tirst prize at the Chicago
Worlds Fair were ordered to cease
and desist" by Ralph E. Ammon, di-
rector of the State department Of
agriculture and markets.
The agents neglected to specify.
Anmon said, that the fair was the
one held In %.
Evening star., 1938-07-24

When wotermeions roll to morket !"
StockdoIe. Tex. one Of the biggest me'o"
shipping eenters in the country. there
isn't much room on the streets for ony-
thing eise You see O bit Of the melon
troffic obove And the two youngsters
o" the right ore doing their best to hold
Up q somple Of the Texos grown fruit
o ~ -poundes Just cut from the vine to
stort on the woy to northern tobIe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-18
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going to be married when I can take her home to America. Shes waiting for me now at the Unicorn and Crown Tavern. She hasn't got friend to her name in all of Lon- don."
 Hmm. Very bad business :. Take another cup of water and quit talking Here! Now l must blow out the lantern"
 Jerry drank the water. T tell you I've got to get out tonight, BankSW
 And I tell you you cant, MT. Whitfield. You're a prisoner of the strongest navy on earth, and the most hard-hearted."
 During the ensuing hour while Jerry cursed his captors, clawed at the matches, kicked and pounded the bulkheads, the wealthiest young man in Boston lay quietly with his eyes closed, as if infinitely bored. But when Jerry Whitfield had fallen heavily to the deck at last, spent and despairing, Cabell Banks rolled his own coat for a pillow and put it under the blood- matted head.
 If you want more water to- night" he said, "call me. But don't order port wine or roast guinea hen. We're out of both."
 (TO Be COntinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-18

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