Evening star., 1938-04-27
PLACES TO CLEAN
N0WAT PREMIUM
Boys and Girls Still May Win
Baseball Tickets by
Homework.

Junior Board of Commerce members
were learning today.
The Junior Board found its CITY,
wide cleanup campaign succeeding
SO we'll that dirty lots were at
premium, and it is dirty lots that have
been absorbing most of the energies
of thousands of school boys and girls
cooperating in the drive to beautify
Washington.
Furthermore. even small public park
plots, including squares and triangles
at prominent intersections, are at
premium as far as furnishing work
for the cleanup legionS Is concerned.
The cause of this unexpected state
OF affairs is the Wholehearted CO.
operation of Washington property
owners and the mosquito control di-
vision Of the District Sewer Depart
ment.
Owners Clean Lots.
A majority Of the property owners
have cleaned up their own lots as
soon as the unsightly condition was
called to their attention by the Junior
Board
j. w. Brabner-Smith, chairman Of
the Junior Board Executive Commit
tee, IN charge Of the campaign, had
planned for the school children to
join in beautifying the park lots, with
consent OF the National Park Service
But as each plot was reported, the
mosquito control division moved in to
do the work, he said.
This does not mean, however, that
school children of IL years and older
will have less chance to win free ad-
mission to an American League base
ball game at Griffith Stadium by doing
cleanup work. Those who have not
Joined neighborhood teams working
on dirty lots may still convert The
Stars Cleanup Campaign Baseball
Coupon" into free ticket by helping
to beautify the neighborhood play
ground or by painting. planting or re-
pairing part Of their own home prem
ises.
1000 Free Tickets.
The Washington Baseball Club has
contributed 1000 free admissions to
Nationals game as the reward for
junior cleanup workers. Tickets are
limited to one child in family. The
District Fairgrounds Department and
its units are acting as clearing houses
for the coupons. which are being
printed in The Star every day this
week.
The Radio Committee for the clean
up campaign will inaugurate series
Of building modernization broadcasts
with program at 5 pm. today over
Station VOL Today,s broadcast will
dramatic renovation of The House
That Jack Built" the 100-year-
tWo-story frame house now on exhibit
in the park between the Willard Hotel
and the Commerce Department. 1t
was moved there recently from Third
and N streets S.W.
The list of certifying agents an
nounced by Miss Sybil Baker. District
playground supervisor, follows
Georgetown. Thirty-third street and
Volta place NV Mrs Abbie Flynn:
Montrose, Thirtieth and R streets
NV, Mrs. Pauline Woodruff, Cor
coran;; Twenty-eighth and M streets
NV Miss Virginia Pfeiffer; Rose
Park, Twenty-seventh and o streets
NV, Mrs. Violet Mckinney; Pali-
sades, Dana and Sherrier place NV,
Miss Mary Marshall; Chevy Chase,
Forty-first and Livingston streets
NV, Mrs. Eta Richwine; Janney,
Wisconsin avenue and Albemarle NV,
Miss Elizabeth Jones; Takoma r. c.,
Fourth and Van Buren streets NV,
Arthur Kriemelmeyer; Raymond,
Tenth street and Spring road NV,
Everett Cross; Twin Oaks, Fourteenth
and Taylor streets NV. Mrs. Vivian
Schaefer, Columbia R. c., Sixteenth
and Lamont streets NV, Mrs. Anna
Honabach; Park View, Warder and
Otis streets NV, Miss Emily Tilton;
Monroe. Columbia road, Georgia and
Sherman avenues, Miss Olive Rose;
Banneker r. c.. Georgia avenue and
Euclid street NV, Clarence Pendle-
ton; Howard, Fifth and w streets
NV, Miss Daisy Pierce; Mcmillan,
First and Bryant streets NV. Miss
Elizabeth Mahon; H. D. Cooke, Seven
teenth and Fuller streets NV, Miss
Eleanor Carroll; Happy Hollow. Eight
zenith and Kalorama road NV, Miss
Kathleen Fisher; Mitchell Park,
Twentythird and S streets NV, Miss
Sadie Lewis; Gallinger. F between
Twenty-first and Twenty-second
streets NV, Mrs. Susie Hand; Mont
gomery, Twenty-seventh street be-
tween I and K NV. Mrs. Gladys
Jackson; Stevens, Twenty-first street