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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
NEW RECREATION HALL
FOR BOYS is ASSURED

Success of the Dance of the, States"
held Monday night at the Willard Ho-
tel, assures a new recreation hall for
the summer camp of the Boys Club of
Metropolitan Police at Scotland. Md,
Gordon Hittenmark, radio announcer
and sponsor Of the dance, announced
yesterday.
The goal for the dance was $4,000,
which I'VE have more than reached"
Mr.. Hittenmark said More than 5000
persons danced to the continuous swing
music by three orchestras. There are
still many tickets out which people
SUBSIDIZED for but were unable to use"
the announcer pointed out
Mr.. Hittenmark thanked members
Of 20 State societies who co-operated
in making the dance success. In
turn, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superin-
tendent of police and founder of the
club, commended the announcer and
the National Broadcasting Co. for
their efforts to aid our clubs and in
turn help eliminate juvenile delin-
quency in Washington"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18

be useless II not a burden to society"
AS a matter OF fact, Commissioner
McMillin points out, it was not until
1923 that the Classification Act estab-
lished the principle Of equal pay for
equal work.
Fluctuation Shown.
A study of the charted trend of
employment Of women discloses in
terestingly that the number increases
in time of emergency and falls in
periods of depression. Employment
peaks in the last IS years were during
the Spanish-American War, World
War, and the inciuency of the New
Deal. When business is bad, there is
an abrupt drop. as evidenced on half
dozen occasions. Right now, the line
is moving down.
But they always have come back,
mot only in their numbers in the
Government service, but also in the
responsibility and importance Of the
positions to which they were ap-
pointed" the writer emphasized.
Aoody, uo4c I1Ad1I IVu "oIHeu Holu
high-grade supervisory positions, more
than so of the number receiving sala-
ries of $4,000 or more.
Commissioner McMillin blames 1.-THE
eleemosynary view of public employ
ment" as the factor that has done
great deal to handicap women. declar-
irg that this bases on the theory of
who has the right to public job
rather than who can best do the work
involved"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
VAN NUYS GIVEN
PRAISE BYLAND0N
Kansan Makes Statement
In Interview After Dinner
at Lebanon, Ind.
BY the Associated Press

.
LEBANON, Ind, May 18.-Alf M.
Landon, en- route East today after
exchanging barbed banter with In
diana Democrats in q political funfest
here, left behind q tribute to Senator
Van Mugs, Democrat, of Indiana, who
has been tagged for the discard by the
Democratic State organization because
he fought the court reorganization bill.
The former Kansas Governor and
Republican nominee for President In
1886 called Senator Van Mugs "a
Hoosier OF great political courage" and
said Indiana should appreciate" a
Senator possessed of the courage to
defy both the great Federal political
machine and the State machine Of
Indiana, too"
Gov. Landon paid his tribute in an
interview. He did not mention the
Senator at the annual Governors day
dinner of the Ulen Country Club last
night, where political "razzberries"
were dished out abundantly.
Gov. Landon gave y no indication
whether he felt Indiana Republicans
should support Senator Van Mugs, who
has said he would seek reelection as
an independent.
'Indiana's Democratic and Repub-
lican senatorial nominees will be
chosen in State conventions in the
summer. Senator Van Mugs has said
he would not permit his name to go
before the Democratic convention be-
cause Il haven't chance with the
machine picked delegates
Gov. M Clifford Townsend, DEM
ocrat, and the politically durable
James E. Watson. who at 70 is again
after the Republican nomination for
Senator. were among those who gave
and took satire at the Gridiron dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
Won,a1,'s Rise II, Government
Detailed in 52-Page History
Work Published Under
Sponsorship of Civil
Seruice Body.

Relating the story Of the employ
meat Of women in the Government
from the days when they were viewed
In the light Of an unnecessary evil
up to the present era, which sees
one Of their number in the cabinet,
women in the Federal Service, F."
q 52-page history Of this evolution,
appeared today under the sponsorship
of the Civil Service Commission.
The work Of Commissioner Lucille
Foster McNillin-the third woman,
incidentally, who has been on the
commission-the publication brings to-
gether for the first time the answers
to questions that are asked the COM
mission thousands of times annually.
for woman's place in the Government,
it has been found, is perennial topic
of interest.
Commissioner McMillin avoids a
promising field Of controversy by de-
clining to name the first woman" In
Federal employ.
Clara Barton One Of First.
~ - ICNOAAUC0 tAloU SA0l q 0dA WI,
later founder Of the Red Cross, was
at least one of the first of her sex
employed in departmental service, the
rolls Of the Patent Office showing her
as a 5000 copyist-forerunner to
stenographer-as early as 1854.
Women were entering elsewhere long
before that, however, factory type oc-
equations being made available to
them, first in the Philadelphia mint,
and then elsewhere.
The Civil War period saw women
coming into Treasury and Post Office,
but after the war, there seems to
have been a decided feeling that
"women's place is in the home" as
evidenced by an article in the New
York Round Table on November g.,
1857:
THE profession Of teaching is SYM
pathetic to womanhood, and gives a
worthy occupation to the mind But
the task Of female copyists in the de-
partments, and the quasi-factory
duties of girls in the printing bureau,
are of a far less elevating character,
and produce rather bad than
good influence. However, if women
are overtaken by poverty in WASH
ington, there is little choice between
keeping a clearinghouse or gong
to the Treasury or poorhouse."
In the next year, Representative
Thomas A. Jenckes of Rhode Island,
one of the pioneers in civil service
reform. cast about for methods OF
effecting economies, and sounded out
various officials as to the efficiency OF
women employees.
Wanted No Feminine Influence.
Naturally, the replies varied. but at
least one man-an internal revenue
assessor in New York-wanted no
feminine influence around his estab-
lishment. He said:
If the nerves and firmness of a
man can rarely be found to Withstand
the exactions Of dishonest taxpayers,
I doubt the experiment of filling their
places with females"
One of the controlling factors that
seemed to figure largely in the early
appointments of women was that they
could be hired for less than men, the
Government apparently taking leaf
out of the book of the Massachusetts
textile factory established in 1869 to
offer employment to women and chill
dren many of whom would otherwise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
SEVEN FALSE ALARMS
SEND WOMAN TO JAIL
BY :he Associated Press.

BY :he Associated Press.
UNION. N. j., May 18.-Mrs. Con-
cetta Miele woke up in Union County
Jail today instead of her trolley car
home hard by the Railway Valley
Railroad tracks.
She had SO more days to serve of a
term begun yesterday in default of a
$50 fine imposed by Acting Recorder
Benjamin Romano on a charge of
turning in seven false fire alarms.
Although it's just an old trolley car
mounted on a concrete foundation, it
has six rooms, two baths, lots of air
and light (windows all the way
around) and it's home to Ralph Miele,
one of Newark's last blacksmiths: his
wife and their two children, Raphael,
Is, and Clair, Is.
Mrs Miele said she turned in the
alarms because their home was en-
dangered by sparks whenever train
roared by.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
Baby Black Panther Goes Into Action
Terrell Jacobs the Lion King Well May Wonder He's Met
His Future Match.
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.

BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.
The Terrell Jacobs have new kit
ten.
This hardly would be worth record
ing. except among their neighbors.
were it not for the fact they are the
famous Misunderstanding couple APP
pearing at the moment with the Ring
ling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus
at Fifth street and Florida avenue
Me-, and for the further circumstance
that the cat is a l4-week-old black
panther.
Mr.. Jacobs, who is known as the
Lion King" and has some pulse
pounding wild animal acts in the cur
rent show, with his comely wife assist
ing in the Gagged ring, acquired the
kitten only three days ago in New
York.
This panther-sometimeS incorrect
ly called leopard. since he's not
true leopard. Mr.. Jacobs points out
was born somewhere in the Malay
Peninsula But his family connections
are unknown.
All Terrell Jacobs knows is that the
cat was waif which came over on
an animal boat and was offered for
sale by trader He named him Satan.
The name seemed quite appropriate
when Mrs. Jacobs sought to coax the
cat to pose for photograph.
Kitty. kitty, kitty" we said hope
Ill 70
pretty wild alley cats.
BE nice cat" Mrs. Jacobs added.
"G-r-r-r-r-r!" Satan retorted dis
dainfully
Claws Clutter Air.
Mr. Jacobs then picked up Satan,
whose claws were reaching out in SAN
guine expectation of running some
body. The trainer handed the young
panther to his wife. who grasped him
gingerly but firmly. around the middle.
holding him out from her, Claws
cluttered the air, while Satan used
some language which undoubtedly. If
it could have been translated. would
have shocked everybody.
But the pictures were snapped, Mrs.
Jacobs emerged with nothing worse
than a slight scratch on the hand and
her husband returned Satan to the
box where he lives.
His diet is raw meat, and he doesn't
seem to need it.
Mr. Jacobs currently is putting on
acts in which lions, in addition to per-
forming the more conventional stunts.
walk tight wire, Jump through FAM
ing hoops. lie down and do various
other startling things-for lions
Horse Remains Nonchalant.
Mrs. Jacobs pilots lion through an
amazing ride on the back of nom
chalant horse.
His lions we're guarded more closely
today. in spite of the fact that one Of
them escaped yesterday morning and
enjoyed a few minutes of freedom
among the circus tents.
The lion jumped out of its cage
while being fed and ran into an empty
tent. Attendants had no difficulty in
recapturing the animal, which they
described as one of their most tractable
lions There were no spectators in the
circus tents at the time. The lion
was roped and led back to his cage
Mr.. Jacobs also has some perform
ing black leopards-the first Of their
kind any one has succeeded in train
ing.
Crowds that damned the big tops.
which holds 10000, have acclaimed
the opening pageant. "Nepal," with
Bring En- Back Alive" Frank Buck:
the terrifying gorilla, Gargantua; the
breathlesS riding act, the acrobats, the
trapeze and tight-wire artists, the
clowns and all the other concomitants
of Circus Land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
ADJOURNMENT DOUBTED

Senator Green, Democrat, of Rhode
Island, who cruised with President
Roosevelt last week end, is wary about
forecasting the congressional adjourn
ment date
I'm making plans to spend the
summer and winter here, if necessary"
he said today.
Senate and House leaders said Mon
day they hoped to end the session
early in June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
UNION is REJECTED
BY HOTEL WORKERS
Mayfower Service Employees Vote
in Election Under N. L. r. B.
Supervision.

Service employees of the Mayhower
Hotel yesterday rejected union rep
resentation, l25 to lot, in an election
supervised by the National Labor
Relations Board Local 80 of the
Restaurant and Hotel Employees In
ternational Alliance. which has work.
ing agreements with most of the local
hotels and restaurants, was the union
involved. The alliance is an affiliate
of the American Federation of Labor.
The departments involved in the
balloting including bellboys, maids
cleaners, housekeepers, watchmen and
porters. Out of 234 employees eligible
to vote only two failed to cast their
ballots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
A|RMA|L COVERS
TO Be EXHIBITED
PhiIateIic Society Sponsors
Display of Stamps at
Carlton Tonight.

Stamps and covers appraised at sew
eral hundred thousand dollars will be
exhibited at a National Air MailsWeek
meeting of the Washington Philatelic
Society at the Carlton Hotel at 8
O'Clock tonight.
Material on display will include
covers flown at the start of regular
air mail service in May. 1918, owned
by Fleming Newbold of The Star and
Francis B. Leech, former president
of the American Air Mail Society;
letters flown by Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, the property of Carter Glass,
jr., president of the American Phila-
telic Society; pioneer flight covers be-
longing to Louis Jay Heath, former
president of the Washington Air Mail
Society; Clipper ship trans-Pacific let
tiers from the collection of David H.
Davenport. and zeppelin trans-At-
lantic covers from the collection of
MISS ElSlc AOuIoc 11OlISlCNC.
Washington will be the terminal for
a number of special pickup airmail
flights by pilots holding Federal air
mail commissions for one day tomor-
row. Similar flights have been ar
ranged in all parts of the United
States. adding thousands of cities and
towns to the airmail network for one
day.
Three special flights have been
scheduled from the College Park (Md)
Airport alone All mail carried on the
flights will bear a special cachet au-
thorized by the Post Office Depart
ment.
The Carlton showing also will in
clude airmail stamps exhibited by DR..
Ellis Haworth, covers by Alden H.
Whitney. labels by Miss Alice B. Cilley
and other rare air post philatelic treas
ures from the albums of long list of
members and friends Of the society.
The speakers will be Second AS
sistant Postmaster General Harllee
Branch, Charles P Graddick. superin-
tendent of the Air Mail Service Divi-
sion: Postmaster Vincent c. Burke
1t James c. Edgerton, pioneer flyer.
Department OF Commerce: Roy Knab-
enshue, veteran dirigiblc pilot. and
Gerard Ten Eyc.s Beeckman. Depart
ment of the Interior: Nils H. Randers-
PETERSON, Library OF Congress: Paul H.
CARRIER. Smithsonian Institution: Jo-
seph S. Edgerton. aviation editor. The
Star, and Albert F. Kunze. leader,
Washington Stamp Club of the Air.
Messages are expected from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Postmaster General
Farley and Orville Wright, one of the
famous brothers who made the first
successful fight in a heavier-than-air
machine
The public is invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18

the difficulty to failure to transfer
registration cards of persons who had
moved recently.
There were hundreds of cases
where cards were missing" said Chair
man John L Barrett There's no
doubt of that. 1t was mostly due to
changes of address and enrolment"
Numerous complaints to the Elec-
tons Court brought from one member.
Judge Francis Skunk Brown, state
ment that the commissioners are
derelict in their duty"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
VOTERS DEMAND
ELECTION INQUIRY
Several Thousand Claim They
Were Denied Pennsylvania
Primary Ballot.

+. the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May ia de-
mand for an investigation Of Phila-
delphia's registration commission sys-
tenn arose today from disputes at the
polls and the claims of several thou
sand persons that they had been de-
MED the right to vote in the primary
election.
The committee of 10. semi-politi-
cal citizen group, asserted it would
call upon Gov. George H. Earle for
an investigation by the Common
wealth.
Hundreds Of complaints were made
by voters and party leaders to the
Registration Commission and Elec-
tons Court.
The commission attributed most of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
D. c. GROUP ELECTS

Miss Annabel Matthews was re-
elected president of the District Wom-
ems Bar Association at a meeting
last night at the Mayflower Hotel.
Mrs. Mary Marraffa Wittenmyer
was reelected recording secretary.
Others elected included Mrs. Helen
HUM Rivers, vice president; Mrs.
Verna Parsons Young, treasurer; Mrs.
Olive Geiger Faircloth, corresponding
secretary, and Mrs Elizabeth M. Cox,
a member of the Executive Committee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
MOTHER WHO SCALDED
BABY SENT TO ASYLUM
Housewife Admits Killing Her
Child Because She Had
Murder in MY Heart"

By the Asst ciated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 18.-
A 42-year-old mother was ordered con-
fined yesterday to the State asylum at
Provo following the bath-tub scalding
of her child.
The woman, Mrs Celia VIM, adj
mitted scalding her 2l-months-old
daughter, Shirley Hannah, to death
Sunday, Deputy Sheriff R. c. Jackson
said. The Wins had six other chill
dren.
The haggard housewife said she had
murder in my heart" and suffered
from severe pains in her head. Mr..
Jackson said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
POLICE HEAD REQUESTS
WISE CASE EVIDENCE
Transcript Asked to Determine
Whether Charges Should Go
Before Trial Board.

A transcript of the evidence in the
case against Precinct Detective Luther
Wise, who was acquitted in District
Court Monday of attempted extortion.
has been requested by Police Supt.
Ernest w. Brown to determine whether
the case should be presented to the
Police Trial Board.
Maj. Brown said he would turn the
transcript over to the corporation
counsel's Office for a decision on
whether trial board action should fol-
low.
Wise. who is under suspension from
the force, was accused Of accepting $40
from Fred Kosma, restaurant proprietor.
He claimed it was merely loan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
FRANCE EXPANDS.
AFR|CANDEFENSE
Recruiting of 10000 More
Native Soldiers Is
Authorized.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. May 18-France moved to
reinforce her African defenses today,
as her friendship conversations with
Italy were reported in diplomatic
circles to have begged down over Diff
ferences on Spain and Tunisia.
Recruiting of $4,000 additional ma
tive troops was ordered started imme-
diately by Gen. Jules Buhrer, new
chief of staff Of colonial armies.
Frances colonial forces now number
100000, of which 10000 are Euro
peans.
Deadlock Reported.
Diplomats reported conversations
between Jules Blondel, French charge
d'affaires in Rome, and the Italian
Foreign Minister, Count GaleazZo
Ciano, had come to a deadlock because
of Premier Mussolini's demands that
France recognize Insurgent Leader
Francisco Franco as the master of all
Spain and assure Italy equal govern
ing rights in the Tunisian protectorate.
The turn in the conversations, look
ing toward a friendship agreement
similar to the Anglo Italian accord,
followed II Duces Genoa speech, in
which he expressed doubt last Satur-
day whether France and Italy could
arrive at an agreement.
Sources close to the foreign Office
said Premier Edouard Daladier's gov
eminent refused fatty to give Italy
any pledge regarding the Spanish
conflict and that France considered
the question of Italian rights in
Tunisia settled long ago.
French Protectorate.
Although Tunisia is French pro-
tectodate, there are $1,000 Italian
settlers there-about the same num-
Der as the French have. Italians in
Tunisia retain their Italian citizen
ship and send their children to Italian
schools. They have no voice in the
government, which is controlled by
French resident-general
The question for years has been a
stumbling block IN French-Italian re-
lations, with France firmly refusing to
share the governing power with Italy.
The importance of the French
Italian differences over Tunisia was
stressed a few months ago in the
Chamber of Deputies by NJ. Daladier
and former Air Minister Pierre Cot,
who declared that France might have
to fight most of her share of the
next World War in Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
Trip to Mexico Described.

Irving c. Root, chief engineer of
the Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, who re-
Gently returned from Mexico, told
members and guests of the Enterprise
Farmers Club of Sandy Spring Of the
parks in the cities visited on the trip
at a meeting of the club at the Com
monWealth Farm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
Italians Plan Maneuyers.

ROME, May 10 LP).-1taly's North
African troops will soon conduct
maneuvers in Western Libya, the
Fascist press disclosed today.
Western Libya is contiguous to Tu-
nisia, where French military leaders
we're reported recruiting additional
native troops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
ROOSTER STEALS SHOW
Bird Put on Football Field Before
Game Leads Chase.

Placed by an unknown spectator on
the gridiron just before the start of
the football game between Tottenham
and Blackburn Roovers in Tottenham,
England. a young rooster gave attend
ants such merry chase that it became
the hero of the game. The bird is still
unclaimed and crows so happily in its
new home on the football grounds that
the club may adopt it as mascot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
20. 900 900 in Labor Federation.

OSLO, May 10 tP).-A membership
of over 100000 was claimed for the
International Federation of Trade
Unions yesterday as the organizations
General Council opened an interna-
tional meeting here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
PIT. A. TO ELECT
Washington Lee Association to
Meet Tomorrow

Meet Tomorrow.
The Washington-Lee Parent
Teachers Association will hold its
monthly meeting in the library OF the
school tomorrow at 8 pm.
Officers for the ensuing year will
be elected and Mrs. J. B. Lowell will
speak on Pleasant Vacations for the
Stay-at- Home" Group singing will he
led by H. M. Brown and Mrs. Ruth
Marcy.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
T0iletries Reduced

lubr Fumes Ecu de Cologne Formerly IS Reduced TO 5se
lubns Fumee Eau de Cologne Formerly 81 5 S5
Su1ette Toilet Wotef. Formerly 81. Reduced SOC
IL Bourios Fleu Pesons Perfume Formerly Reduced
3e Ybr Cologne. Formerly 81. Reduced to-----5ee
So Ybry Cologne. Formerly Soc. Reduced to----- 39e
S jars Of Woodbury. Almond Rose Creom. Formerly 5Oc Re-
dueed to lie
y o Of Woodbury. Tor Shampoo Formerly Reduced to ice
50 squbb Tooth Brushes Formerly soc. Reduced to--lee
Electric, Heotins Pods guaranteed Formerly ST. Reduced
ond troy of mirror gloss. Formerly 81 IS Reduced SOC
"a Bouros Mondorne Perfume Formerly 50. Reduced
IL Jars Of Manieore Formerly 5oc Reduced to 3oe
10 Jors OF Monieore. Formerly 35c. Reduced
70 Vonites Formerly 81. Reduced to------------ 95e
Poekose Of seh Rozov Bodes 20 package Formerly
75c Reduced to ace
10 Mirrors. Recently 5oc Reduced to----- 3ee
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- Shoe Horns Formerly Zoe. Reduced to to------ Toe
~ Chin Straps different nokes Formerly ST. Reduced
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Reduced to o--------------- S295
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u rords OF Rubber sheetins Formerly soc yord Reduced
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