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The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30
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By TOM FIZDALE

Nineteen thirty nine dawns with teIe-
vision for the masses as its most predict
able forecast. Lots of rumors flying back
and forth. But they're still only rumors.
One huge radio network is reported almost
ready now to announce its visual broadcasts
on nationwide scale. Others in New York
and Hollywood claim to be close to the solu-
ton of its problems. Yet many experts in
broadcasting and in receiver manufacturing
still maintain that widespread use of tele-
vision is years away.
Best refutation to runors that Dorothy
der Husband Herbie Kay are s1p..r4..-., )
personal appearance tour together in the ma
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30
got thirty days for contempt.

got thirty days for contempt.
The horse of Policeman Wilbur
Nelson of Cleveland, Ohio, stops
only at the order of cease" and
won't start until Nelson says
proceed"
Albert Mueller is the only male
in a class Of % studying the fine
art of sewing in a vocational eve
ming school at Fond Du Lac, Wis.
After a courtship of forty years
Joseph Hickey. so, and Miss Car
RE Payne, 70, filed marriage in
tentions in Salem. Mass. Hickey
explained to the license clerk that
''he never had time to chase
around after girls as young
ster."
Delmar Lantz, of Harrisburg,
Pa, in his sleep walked out of a
window, slid on his stomach down
a slate rooted porch and crashed
into a brick wall, suffering a con-
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30


nephew prOmenadng they
opined nephew.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30

Arthur Bond Yockney of New
Orleans, stated in his 19-word will
Il leave all to my sister Augusta.
and no tommy rot about it."
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30

tons theatres as soon as their respective
working schedules permit. That doesn't
sound like they're divorce minded, does it?
lights Out" has just finished tfue years of
mystery, murder, meILerdrnnler And it's still
the fdUorte shOlU OF many famous artists includ-
ing Walter Huston, Boris KarIof and Oracle
Allen-RipIey it or not
So enthusiastic are jitterbugs who attend
Benny GOodman's swing broadcasts that
control engineers have tough time keeping
their boisterOus idolatry from knocking the
radio stations off the air. All of which gives
you an idea of how seriously alligators take
their moosic.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30

Charging that her husband, Alb
ner, had been drunk since 1897,
Mrs. Jennie Bishop of Akron, O.,
filed suit for divorce.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30

With detective stories and mysteries be-
ing so popular isn't it about time somebody
brought to radio a good husky spy series
now that spies are so much in the public
prints? Our personal nomination for the
lead would be Sidney Ellstrom of "GirI
AIone,'' who has been f'kiIled'' too many
times in Lights Out"
When Paul Whiteman tested music low
ers with Roy Posts pathometer,'' the latest
in the lie detector field, he tried people all
the way from youngsters to 75-year-old mar
ried men and found that universally they
reacted most strongly to swing even when
they maintained their favorite style Of music
was something entirely different
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30

Mrs. Harry Smith, of Walkerton
Ind, has invented and marketed
a klmona jacket" for poorly
feathered chicks.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30

A move to a Nobel Peace DeAn! "oounan
to John J. Anthony director Original serious MUSIC
Good Will enlightened
the road to Peace has been launched New York committee
headed by Harry Davis.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-12-30

Three eggs laid by a hen be-
longing to Mrs. A. L. Chambrev
OF Marsh Hills. Pa. weighed
nearly pound each.
Evening star., 1938-08-06

more Of the same" was the sub
stance Of the weekend weather FORE
cast today, as Washington continued
to suffer from excessively high humid
ity.
With the humidity at 81 per cent
at 1880 am, the temperature stood at
76, and indications were. the FORE
caster said, that today would be pretty
much a duplicate Of yesterday, with
not much change Sunday. BY 10 am.
the mercury had risen to 30. At noon 1t
was 81, but the humidity had dropped
to II. The maximum for the day was
expected to be about the same as yes
terday, SO degrees, with the large
amount of moisture in the air making
the atmosphere oppressive.
Partly cloudy weather, with probable
local showers tonight and tomorrow
were other details Of the oficial fore
cast.
The rainfall for the "a hours end
ing last night measured las inches,
Of which 40 fell in the morning dur
ing q torrent Of cloudburst propor-
tions.
While two other deaths this week
were attributed indirectly to the op-
pressive weather which aggravated
organic maladies, the first caused
directly by the heat occurred yester-
day, Coroner A. Masruder Macdonald
announced today.
The corousr's sutopsy Disclosed
Evening star., 1938-08-06
MAI. A, W. STEVENS
WEDS AT ROCKVILLE
Famous Army Flyer and Miss
Ruth Fisher of Ohio Married
in Church Rites.

Mai. Albert W. Etevens Of the Army
Air Corps, famed stratosphere flyer
and aerial photographer, was mar
ried in Rockville, Md, last night to
Miss Ruth E. Fischer of Dayton, Ohio.
They were returning today to Dayton,
where Maj Stevens is stationed at
Wright Field.
The wedding ceremony was per-
formed in the Rockville Presbyterian
Church by the Rev. Henry Pasma.
Tie bride and bridegroom were ac-
companied by DR.. Lyman J. Briggs,
director of the Bureau of Standards:
Mrs. Briggs, Dr. Thomas w. McKnew,
assistant secretary Of the National
Geographic Society, and Mrs. Nc
Knew.
DR.. Briggs and DR.. McKnew have
been closely associated with Maj.
Stevens record aerial achievements.
Both were in the Black Hills in 1885
when Maj. Stevens, then captain,
and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson made
their record-breaking stratosphere
flight. The flyers ascended $4,000 feet
Maj. Stevens and Miss Fisher had
been visiting DR.. Briggs and DR..
McKnew for several days. They said
they had planned to get married for
some time.
The flyer is So and his bride, "a.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
No Relief in Sight for Capital,
Suffering Excessive Humidity

hat Nathan Howard, 80, colored, 1916
Montello avenue NE, died from a
"thermic" or heat stroke. Howard was
overcome while at work in q brick
plant at New York avenue and
Bladensburg road NE. He died in
Emergency Hospital few hours later.
Six-year-old Tracy Ansell had .
narrow escape when lightning struck
her home, 107 West Bradley lane,
Chevy Chase, Nd, during yesterdays
storm and tore . hole in the ceiling
Of the room in which she was playing.
She was unhurt.
The child is the daughter of Burr
Tracy Ansell, Washington attorney,
who was away from home at the time.
Her mother and brother, John, 3, were
in an adjoining room. The lightning
started q. small fire, which was put
out quickly by the Chevy Chase Fire
Department. Mr.. Ansell said the
lightning apparently ran along a radio
aerial and bored through the roof.
It made . small hole In the roof and
loosened plaster in the living room.
The heavy rains during July damaged
tobacco, cotton and peanut crops in
Virginia, the State Department Of
Agriculture reported today.
Corn and truck crops also suffered
to some extent, the Associated Press
stated. Cantaloupes and watermelons
slso have showu sisns Of vet weather
damage.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
C0I0red Cu1,1,,an Shoots Up'
Cleaning Shop in Ro,v Ouer 81

A colored man "shot up" a cleaning
and pressing shop at 1910 Fourteenth
street NV. shortly before noon to-
day and terrorized passersby as he
fled along crowded sidewalks with his
smoking revolver in his hand.
The only casualty was Lafayette
Patrick, AZ, colored, 1910 T street NV,
who was hit in the left thumb by one
of five bullets fired by the guhman
in an asserted attempt to hit another
man with whom he had argued last
night about a borrowed dollar.
Patrick's fellow workers in the clean
ing shop, where he was employed as
a shoe sinner, said he had lost three
fingers from his left hand in factory
machinery some time ago, leaving only
the thumb and little finger. His
wounded thumb was treated at Freed
mems Hospital.
Police were told the gunman walked
into the shop, stepped up on the
shoe-shine bench and said Gimme a
shine" But before he sat down, Wit
nesses said, he saw Jesse Smart, 80,
colored, 1908 w street NV, sittir at
the other end Of the bench.
He Immediately pulled a gun from
his pocket and began shooting at
Smart. His intended victim ran
Evening star., 1938-08-06
PLANS OF VIOLENCE
LAID TO U.A.W HEADS
Four Suspended Executives Refuse
to Return to Trial, Fearing
Force of $50.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Aug. 6.-Four suspended
vice presidents Of the United Auto
mobile Workers notified the U. A. w.
Executive Board today that they would
not appear for the resumption OF their
trial because they had "unimpeachable
information" that $50 men had been
mobilized at the international Offices to
do violence to them.
The notification was contained in a
letter signed by the four officers. It
was handed to Paul E. Miley and Ellis
worth Kramer, executive board mem
bers. at the Office of Maurice Sugar,
attorney for the defendants, Richard
T. Frankensteen, Syndham Mortimer,
Walter N. Wells and Ed Hall. The
trial, which has been in recess since
July 20, was resumed today, without
the defendants.
The U. A. w. headquarters was
heavily guarded by men described by
union officials as loyal members" !"
Oflcials said the precautions were in
tended to prevent any recurrence OF
disorder that marked the opening OF
the trial two weeks ago.
Evening star., 1938-08-06

frantically about the small room try
ing to dodge the bullets, finally diving
behind the hat-cleaning counter.
The bullets punctured several hats
that had just been cleaned, smashed
a mirror and ploughed through two
show cases.
Menios Togas and T. Togas, CO.
proprietors of the establishment, were
standing at opposite ends Of the room
when the shooting started. Bullets
few close to them and two other
shoe-shine boys.
Patrick was standing near Smart,
talking to him. when one of the bullets
hit his thumb.
Employees of the shop said Smart
and the gunman had engaged in
argument there last night over money
Smart claimed the man owed him.
Smart and the man who shot at
him were said to have worked together
at another cleaning establishment on
U street.
After running out of the shop with
his revolver still in his hand, the
gunman fled around the corner and
disappeared on crowded U street,
police were told. Ofncers Immediately
began searching for him.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
KENTUCKY VOTERS
CASTING VERDICT
IN NEW DEAL TEST
US. Watches Blood marked
Senatorial Fight Between
BarkIey and Chandler.
BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT
AS 445,000 GO TO POLLS
Result May Not Be Known Until
Next Week, Counting So Slow.
Five Sought in Killing.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 6.-With
"X's" in small squares on ballots,
Kentucky Democrats today wrote the
answer to the torrid United States
senatorial nomination primary cam
paign. already marked by bloodshed.
The eyes of the Nation were CEN
tered on the Bluegrass State as the
outcome Of the battle between Sen
ator Alben W. Barkley and Gov. A.
B. Chandler that involves severe
test Of New Deal leadership was
awaited. Mr.. Barkley. supported by
President Roosevelt. is the Senate
majority leader and has been men,
toned as presidential timber in 1910.
Because Of vote-counting regula-
tions the answer might not be de-
termined until early next week. Tab
ulators begin their work Immediately
after the polls close at 1 pm. 0ocal
time) and continue until midnight
Counting then is halted until Mon
day morning. But returns will be
made public as they come in by pre-
cincts.
Shooting Marks Campaign.
The long. heated Barkley- Chandler
campaign was heightened by shoot
ing Thursday night in Jackson. in
bloody Breathitt" County. Former
Sheriff Lee Combs was killed, and his
brother, Lewis Combs. county CAM
paign chairman for Gov. Chandler,
and Sheriff Walter Deaton we're
wounded on the stairway leading to
Senator Barkley's headquarters.
Five men, one Barkley county
chairman, are sought on charges in
connection with the shooting. which
followed a meeting of precinct COM
mitteemen.
Lewis Combs said in an interview
from his hospital bed in Lexington
that the meeting had been called to
oust his father, S. L. Combs, as county
Democratic chairman. Sheriff Deaton
said County Judge Pearl Campbell.
uncle Of the Combs brothers, had
called him to the building because
the Judge feared trouble.
President Stumped for Him.
The Democratic party's Senate
leadership would shift to other shoul-
ders in event of Senator Barkley's
defeat and would mark the passing
from the Washington scene of vet
eran Of more than a quarter century
Of service for his State in national
affairs.
Early last month President Roose-
welt made a one-day stump tour across
Kentucky in interest of Mr.. Barkleys
candidacy.
In his principal address, at Newport,
the President tempered his praise for
Evening star., 1938-08-06
STREET SAFETY
SURVEYS PUSHED
Lu|I in Accidents Speeds
Hunt for Space to Rope
Off as Fairgrounds.

Aroused citizens and police oncials
today took advantage of the temporary
let-up in traffic accidents to complete
plans for safety campaign to protect
children and to penalize speeders and
reckless drivers.
Police were making surveys in all 13
precincts to find streets which can be
roped of as Fairgrounds, while plans
went forward for the opening Monday
Of 13 additinal Fairgrounds under
competent supervision.
The fact tnat comparatively few
accidents have occurred here in the
last two days failed to slow up a safety
drive launched by the deaths Of nine
children on the streets Of Washing
ton since the closing Of school.
One child, Buster Downing, 8, COL
ored, was treated at Freedmen's Hos
pital today for minor injuries received
in q traffic accident near his home,
408 U street NV. Police were inves-
tigating to find out how the accident
occurred.
The street playground survey was
ordered by Maj. Ernest w. Brown, SUI
perintendent Of police, and reports
from the various precincts are ex-
pected in a few days. Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen has indicated he will
favor establishment of playground
areas in dead-end streets or on those
where barricades will not seriously
inconvenience motorists or business
establishments.
Student Patrols Being Formed.
More than 100 playground super
visors met at the Franklin Admins
tration Building today to receive in
structions in the duties Of the safety
patrols, which will be established Mon
day at each of the 73 Fairgrounds
operated under the jurisdiction Of the
Community Center Department.
Richard M. Ham, safety director of
the American Automobile Association,
who is in charge of the motor clubs
safety patrol activities, told the recrea-
tional leaders the patrols will be SINH
lar in nature and will have the same
responsibilities as the safety units that
operate when school is in session.
A total of 365 children will be
asked to assume this safety work, in
addition to the approximately 200 who
are on duty at intersections near the
~ municipal Fairgrounds.
Pointing to the record Of child
fatalities this summer, Mr.. Ham urged
the supervisors to pay particular at
tention to smaller children.
A. A. A. to Make Awards.
He announced that the A. A. A. will
make awards to Fairgrounds with the
best safety records and to the most
efficient patrols. Thirteen policemen,
one in each precinct, have been
assigned to Police Supt. Ernest w.
Brown to supervise the work of patrols
Meanwhile, officers Of the TRAFFIC
Division received orders rigidly to en-
force traffic laws at a pep" talk at
roll-cal yesterday by It. Robert
Pierce, acting commander. 1t. Pierce
Evening star., 1938-08-06
Third Term Urged.

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. R).-The
International Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers &C. I. o. unani-
mously adopted resolution advocat-
ing third term for President Roose-
welt at its convention here yesterday.
It also recommended increased
membership for the National Labor
Relations Board and q Nationwide
Federal disqualification and eompen.
sation program.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
WILSON C0NFERS
HOUR WITH BENES
Sudeten Problem Touched.
U. S. Envoy Also to See
Lord Runciman.
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Hugh r. Wilson. American AM
bdssador to Berlin. fen to Prahd,
Czech capital, Thursday to pay
pisit to the American minister
there. 1t uas rerealed at thct
time that although his trip pas
unofficial he ,could get a closer
look at the Czech-Sudeten ques-
ton. State Department denied
that his trip had anything to do
NTH the mediation Viscount Run
ctnaa's is attempting in the dispute.
Ey the Associated Press.
PRAHA Czechoslovakia. Aug. g.
Hugh r. Wilson. United States Am
bassador to Germany, visited President
Eduard Benes and Foreign Minister
Kamil Krofta today and then pre-
pared to have lunch with Viscount
Runciman, Britain's unofficial OBJ
server in Czechoslovak- -Sudeten Ger
man relations.
At the presidential residence Benes
and Wilson chatted almost an hour,
but the American Legation insisted
there was only passing reference to
Lord Runciman's efforts to bring about
settlement in the governments dis
pute with its Germanic minority.
The luncheon at the British Lega-
ton will be Wilson's first meeting with
the Viscount
The American Minister to Praha,
Wilbur j. Carr, said America was
manifesting merely detached, though
keen interest, in Viscount Runciman's S
undertaking.
Last night the Ambassador met the
British Minister to CZechoslovakia,
Pasll =. Newton. The engagement to
see Runciman was described as an
outcome of that dinner table con-
versation.
MIR. Wilson, with his son, planned te
ny back to Berlin in mid-afternoon.
Meanwhile, Czechoslovak Sudeter
negotiations were adjourned for the
week end and it was announced
Runciman would 60 into the country
to escape the heat of the city.
His destination was kept secret as
the British feared he might be made
the center of a political demonstration
There was no let-up, however, ir
the newspaper campaign to discredit
German motives for creating a diplo.
matte incident over the assertedly &C.
cidental crossing of the German from.
tier near Glatz by three Czechoslovab
planes on Wednesday,.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
1000 ARMY OFFICERS
PROMOTED BY BRITAIN
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 6.-The war oface
announced the promotion of more
than 1000 army officers today as the
first result of War Minister Leslie
Hore- -Belisha's new program to make
army life more attractive.
More than one-third of the army'S
captains and lieutenants were stepped
up in consequence of the war minister's
abolition of the system in use since
1871 whereby promotions were de-
pendent upon vacancies.
The promotions, effective August J.,
were listed in a special 20-page supple
ment Of the London Gazette-the
largest ever issued.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
BY ]. A, FOX.

Charging that the Socitl Security
Act is being used to boost the cam
didacy Of Gov. Martin L. Davey Of
Ohio for reelection, the Social Sc
curity Board today served notice on
the Department Of Public Welfare Of
Ohio that a hearing will be held hero
ito determine whether in the adj
ministration Of the Ohio plan for old
age assistance there is failure to COM
ply substantially with the provisions
of the Federal law"
This means that Ohio can be cut
of from Federal grants for social Sc
curity if the charges are substantiated.
The date of the hearing will be an.
nounced within the next few days.
The board acted, it was said, after
an investigation disclosed that Gov.
Davey was circularizing beneficiaries
Of old-age pensions asking their sup
port in the Tuesday primary, and that
H. ]. Berrodin, chief of the Division
of Aid for the Aged, also was sending
out letters to these beneficiaries, point.
ing out the part that Gov. Davey had
played in building up the old-age PEN
sion system in Ohio.
The letter Of Gov Davey says, in
appealing for votes, that during the
three and a half years OF my service
as Governor have tried to be your
friend and to protect your interests
in the full spirit Of the old-age pension
law"
Points to Increased Pensions.
He points out that he increased the
pensions $40 . month nearly two years
ago and that, over opposition, in
creased them 10 per cent again last
December 80 that you folks might
have this extra amount in time for
Christmas"
Declaring it is his ambition to
have the best law in the United States
and to increase the old-age pensions
still further" the Governor said: This
is one of the reasons would like to
be Governor again"
The old age pension system Is ad-
ministered on a $3.50 basis, with
State and Federal governments con-
tributing equally. and, according to
figures from the Social Security Board,
Ohio had received total grants from
February. 1896, to August, 1888, Of
36.648,1 In August Ohio pension
rolls carried 110,502 names and the
average payment was $23.02 monthly.
1t was said informally at the board
that this was the second time Gov.
Davey had been warned against mixing
politics with social security, and that
year ago, when it was found that he
was circularizing pensioners, he was
warned against the practice and prom
ised to discontinue it.
The present warning went out over
the signature of Chairman Arthur J.
Altmeyer to Mr.. Berrodin. It vas
as follows: 1T has just come to the
attention of the Social Security
Board that within the last few days
letter, definitely Of political char
acter, entitled, An open letter to re-
cipients of old age assistance was
sent out in the State Of Ohio over
your name as chief Of the division
of aid for the aged.
"Your letter was enclosed with q
letter from Gov Davey. which speci-
fically requests the recipients to sup
port his candidacy in the primary elec-
ton as well as in the general election
Evening star., 1938-08-06
Composer Dies.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (R.-Abra-
ham Cherniavsky, 81, composer and
former conductor of the Royal Opera
House at Moscow, died yesterday Of
a heart attack. Among the eight Of
his l8 children surviving him are three
sons, Leo, Jan and Mischief, known as
the Cherniavsky Trio.
Evening star., 1938-08-06
B ULLETIN

Commissioner Allen returned to
his Office today after . months va
cation and announced he would
not reconsider his intention to re-
sign, effective September I. Specu-
lation Is to whether he would
withdraw his resignation was
heard recently after President
Roosevelt had suggested that Mr..
Allen reconsider and continue in
Office for another six months or
year.