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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-05

A large group of residents of the north and northeast districts met at the North school Friday evening for the purpose of forming Parent Teacher association. William P. Og- den, secreatry of the board of edu- cation, presided. A temporary slate of officers was elected to hold office until the next meeting when perma- nent officers will be elected. These temporary officers are: President, Thomas Seery; vice president, Mrs. French; secretary, Miss Amelia Gullucie; treasurer, Robert Lyons; board of directors, Mrs. Gordon Gull yer, Mrs. Raymond Dieter, Mrs. Ed gar Norton. Miss Ellen Hunt and Miss Rita. FitzMaurice, teachers of the Woodtick school told of the work being done by the association of that school. It was voted ot hold meet ings on the first Friday of each month. At the close of business meeting a social hour was held with music, cards and refreshments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-05

meeting of the Chess club Wednes- day night. A woodworking class will begin Thursday night. A Stamp club meeting will be held Wednes. day night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-05
COMPANY ( MEETS
 WALLINCFORDUNIT

Company G. local unit of the Con- necticut national guard, will be the guest of Company K, 102nd Infan- try, of Wallingford, at smoker to be held in the Wallingford state armory on December 18th.
 The smoker will be preceded by a rifle match between the Waterbury and Wallingford guardsmen. A com bat firing problem will also engage the interest of the two rivals. In g previous match, Wallingford guards men won a 715-688 contest, but Lieutenant Phil Kelly of the local
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-05
Daniels Feted

Mrs. Leon Daniels who were married recently. Mrs. Daniels was the for mer Miss Edna Palmer, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer. MT. Dan- iels isl the son of Mrs. Leavenworth. The couple were the recipients of numerous gifts. A musical evening was spent followed by 8 wedding supper. Those who attended were MT. and Mrs. Fred Roberts of Hart ford, MT. and Mrs. Alonzo Orr of Prospect, Mrs. Leon Lewis, Frank Lewis of Waterbury, MT. and Mrs. Egbert Daniels, Mrs. Harry s. An- derson, Irving Daniels, MT. and Mrs. Leon Daniels, MT. and Mrs. Ray mond Leavenworth.
 MT. Daniels sailed Friday from New York city on the s. s. Uruguay. He will make a 100-day cruise with Bill Tasillio'S orchestra of which he is a member and which is furnishing musical entertainment for the cruise.
 MT. and Mrs. Philip Duhaime are entertaining Mrs. Duhaime's sister. Mrs. Henry Rouillerd of Montreal, Canada.
 MT. and Mrs. Arthur Olson ot Somerville, Mass, spent the week. end with Mrs. Olson's grandparents MT. and Mrs. Henry Perkins of Woodtick.
 Mrs. Raymond Leavenworth is i'll at her home on College place, Hitchcock lake
Evening star., 1938-06-08

Meanwhile she has been going to
the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for
the Blind twice week, learning to
read and write in Braille, and her
parents have arranged for her to enter
the Maryland School for the Blind,
near Baltimore, next fall
Gee, can hardly wait for Sep
tember to come" Helen said, as she
dealt a hand of Brailled "old maids"
to her 5-year-old sister, Joan. IT
want to learn all can so I can teach
blind people when grow up. Grand
mother Purdy can't see so well any
more, and I'm teaching her how to
read Braille now. And she's getting
along swell, tool"
While the Purdys were in the midst
OF their worries over Helen, their
2-year-old son, Raymond, was stricken
with pneumonia. Spinal meningitis
developed after he had virtually re-
covered from the lung infection, and
he died on December 81, 1886.
Mr.. Purdy is an employe of the
Fruit Growers Express Co., and his
wife works for the Chestnut Farms
Chevy Chase Dairy. Both have here
tofore avoided publicity regarding
Helen's case, deeming it too personal
a matter" They consented to permit
publication of this story, however, in
the hope it might prevent other par
ents from mistaking blindness for
clumsiness.
Despite her blindness, Helen plays
checkers with a board and mem
made especially for the sightless)
washes and dresses herself, curls her
own hair-in fact. she's even learning
to roller-skate and to ride a bicycle.
Evening star., 1938-06-08

Shed been perfect in every way before
that and we just thought it was
sort OF awkward age that she'd out
grow before long.
But it grew steadily-though very
gradually - worse instead of better.
Then when she was about 3Ea years
old I discovered there was something
peculiar about her right eye 1t was
like cloud of smoke-a mass of gray
that sort of billowed around in the
eyeball.
MY husband and still didn't think
there was anything seriously wrong,
but We decided to take Helen to Epis-
copal Hospital just to play safe. The
doctors there told us right off that
she had glioma-that she couldn't live
more than two months unless the eve
was taken out.
1T was a terrible decision to have
to make, but somehow we made it,
Six months later, however. the tu-
NOR had spread to Helen's left eye.
In desperate effort to save the
child from life of blindness, the ply
sicians resorted to X-ray treatments.
These absorbed the growth for a
while. but last November IA she suf-
fered hemorrhage of the eye.
1T panied her terribly" Mrs. Purdy
said, and it wouldn't clear up There
was nothing for the doctors to do but
remove the eye, or else just let her die.
Frank and decided we'd rather have
her blind than dead"
Helen now has an artificial right
eye-a glass globule that is almost a
duplicate of the blue eyes that she
lost-and if all goes well she'll have
mate for it later on.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
CANCER WORK 0. KID
BY MEDICAL SOCIETY
Willard D. Rockefeller Plan Is
Indorsed by Doctors at
Session Here,

The Executive Committee of the
Medical Society of the District of Co.
lumbia has approved the project of
Willard D. Rockefeller of New York
City, to establish the Rockefeller Can
Ger Control fund as a memorial to his
mother, it was announced today.
The proposal was laid before the
committee Monday night by DR.. Edith
Seville Coale, member Of the society,
a friend and physician Of Mrs. Rocke-
feller for years, who has been requested
to serve as trustee of the fund. Col.
Eugene r. Whitmore, who is also in
terested in the project, appeared with
DR.. Coale.
DR.. H. c. MacAtee, the societys dele
gate to the American Medical Associa-
ton convention next week in San
Francisco. will bring the project before
the convention for approval.
The fund Is to be used, DR.. Coale
pointed out, for the following pur-
poses:
Il. To provide for the treatment and
care Of INDECENT cancer patients and
for specified clinical work.
.. To furnish equipment and ma
terials to specified clinics and hospi-
tails Tor cancer work.
3. For educational purposes"
Evening star., 1938-06-08

well that at Christmas and Easter the
girl editors were able to make sizable
contributions Of food and clothes to
several poor families. Since then, the
work has continued without interrupt
ton.
They haven't even taken an ice
cream cone for themselves" y. said Mrs.
Joseph Boylan, Eleanor's mother, as
she told how the girls take notes about
the south, east and west buildings of
Clifton Terrace and later prepare them
for ditto sheet publication. They make
their own deliveries and collections.
The News sells for a nickel a CODY
and the nickels go into a rabbit bank
IN the Boylan apartment, to be saved
for the next dispensation of charity.
Circulation isn't the only source of
revenue for the monthly paper. Eleanor
and Margaret now carry advertise
ments from the drug store and the deli
catessen at the terrace.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
BY PHILIP H. LOVE.

BY PHILIP H. LOVE.
Eight-year-old Helen Purdy is alive
today only because her parents decided
they'd rather let her lose her eyeballs
than her life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank c. Purdy Of
suburban Hillside. Md, faced the
heart-rending dilemma twice-first in
June. 1884, when they had to choose
between permitting removal of their
daughters right eye and letting her
die. and again in November, 1897,
when they had to make the same
choice concerning her left eye.
1t was essentially the same decision
as that reached by a Jury" of 10
medical experts and two rabbis about
a month ago in the widely publicized
case of Helaine Colan, 5la-week-old
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Herman
Colan of Chicago. The jury, assem-
bled when the dentist and his wife
confessed inability to make q choice,
advised immediate removal of the in
fant's left eye and, according to latest
reports from Chicago, is now consid-
ering similar operation on her. right
eye.
Both Helaine and Helen were VIC
tins of the same misunderstanding
condition-glioma, a cancerous tumor
of uncertain origin and rapid growth,
for which medical science knows no
cure.
When Helen was about 18 months
old she started showing signs of what
my husband and thought was clum-
siness." Mrs. Purdy recalled today.
Shed bump into the table, knock
over her glass of milk and-well we
didn't regard it as anything serious.
Evening star., 1938-06-08

Newspapers always have taken the
attitude there's not much point in pub
licizing the activities of rival sheet" 4"
but this case, involving the Clifton
Terrace News and its schoolgirl editors,
is different.
The executives, Eleanor Boylan, II,
editor in chief, and her new associate
editor, Margaret Higgins, 7, make
money on their paper; yet they don't
pocket dime. It goes to help others.
From the income of their May edi-
ton, a "dittoed" house publication,
they are aiding in clothing three boys
in family of 10 children. And it
isn't their first help for the family,
either. In April, they bought two little
girls clothes and now they plan to get
to the rest of the children In the fam
lily with their June profits.
The Clifton Terrace News made its
debut last September. It prospered so
Evening star., 1938-06-08
CANCER INSTITUTE
PLANS UNDER WAY
Drawings Being Prepared
by U. S. for Building on
Rockville Pike.

Drawings and specifications for the
proposed National Cancer Institute.
to be located on the Rockville pike,
one and one-half miles north of
Bethesda. are being prepared by the
Treasury Department, it was an
nounced today. When they are COM
pleted, constructions bids will be
solicited.
The building is to be erected on
property which was the gift of Mr..
and Mrs. Luke l. Wilson, where three
buildings already are under construc-
tion for the National Institute Of
Health.
Preliminary architects sketches of
the exterior, as drawn by the Public
Works Branch, Procurement Division,
Treasury Department, show the pro-
posed National Cancer Institute build
ing, to consist Of subbasement, three
stores and attic. The building will be
Of Georgian design, with brick ex-
terror walls, stone trim, and pitched
slate roof. The ground area will be
1880 square feet and the content
6Uo, ,56Z CUBIC feet.
The structure will be Of fireproot
construction throughout, with concrete
foundation walls and floor slabs. The
main lobby will have a terrazzo floor,
marble wainscot and plaster ceiling.
The offices will have linoleum floors,
glazed terra Gotta wall units and
acoustical treatment for the ceilings.
The laboratories and animal rooms
will be provided with hardened cement
floors, glazed terra Gotta wall units and
painted contrete ceilings.
The structure is being erected under
authority Of the Emergency Construc-
ton Program Act of 1887, which in
cluded an allotment of $750, 900 for the
building and administration.
Evening star., 1938-06-08

now housed in the basement of the
District Building. would be moved
to one Of the three rooms on the
third floor now occupied by the Play
ground Department Officials said it
was highly desirable that this legal
officer be given space adjoining the
office of the corporation counsel.
The business privilege tax division
and the estates and inheritance tax
division would be given rooms 20 and
20, In the District Building basement,
and the smoke regulation division, now
housed in space partitioned off from
the office of Director of Inspection
Hugh P. Dram, would be transferred
to room 8, in the District Building
basement, now used by the Parole
Board, until more adequate space is
available.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
u. S. PAY ROLL DROPS
AS JOBS INCREASE
Employment Raise to 1868 for
April Disclosed by Civil
Service Commission.

Government employment increased,
but the pay roll dropped, in April.
The monthly personnel report of
the Civil Service Commission, released
yesterday afternoon, showed the num-
Der Of persons on the pay roll went
from 816,472 to 826.319, a rise Of
9,847, but the pay roll slumped by
s126.870, from $123,961 ,041 to $123,-
S34,171. The District pay roll was
$1s,971, sos.
The seeming paradox. it was said,
was due to decreased volume of per
diem payments for the 30-day month.
Employment here increased by 998,
to bring the number of those on the
pay roll to 1888. Outside of Wash
ington 8,849 workers were added, for
a total of 712,500.
There were large seasonal increases
in employment in the ordnance and
engineering branches of the Army and
in the National Park Service. General
Land Office and Agriculture Depart
ment. The naval building program
was reflected by increased personnel
in the Navy Department, and there
was an upturn also in the Labor De-
partment.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
SAFETY COURSE
PLANNED.FORD.C. c.
Junior Board OF Commerce
Will Launch First Session
Friday.

Plans for organization of a perma-
nent Accident Prevention Institute
were announced today by Ross r.
Guthrie, chairman Of the Traffic Com
mittee of the Junior Board Of Com
merce.
The first in series of 10 accident
prevention sessions will be held Friday
at pm. in room Ito of the Langley
Junior High School, when M. c. Ed
redge, assistant traffic director, will
discuss Common Accidents and Means
OF Prevention" A sound moving pic
ture on safe driving also will be shown
by the American Automobile Associa-
ton, and Earl Allgaier, A. A. A. safety
engineer will demonstrate several
pieces of scientific driver testing ap-
paratus.
The institute will be open to the
public without charge and classes will
be planned in accordance with recon-
mendations of the National Safety
Council. The general idea of such an
institute has been indorsed by Com
missioner Melvin c. Hazen, Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer, Police
Supt. Ernest w. Brown, Judge Edward
M Curran Of Police Court, Burton w.
Marsh. safety engineer of the A. A. A.;
George E. Keneipp. manager of the
Keystone Automobile Club, and Col.
Lawrence c. Crawford, chairman Of
the Traffic Committee of the Board Of
Trade.
Mr.. Guthrie said he expects the ses-
sions to be attended by taxi and truck
drivers, delivery men and chaffeurs,
drivers Of private machines, persons
unable to drive and others advised by
Traffic Court judge to take the
course in safety education.
The course has been divided into 10
sections. namely, general introduction
to the subject, opposite direction acci-
dents, similar direction accidents, SINH
lar lane accidents, intersection acci-
dents. adult pedestrian accidents, child
accidents. excess speed, highway table
manners and review of the course.
Instructors will be chosen from q list
OF volunteer speakers qualified to give
talks on safety instruction. Among
those on the list are members Of the
washington Safety Society, Mr.. Van
Duzer, Judge Curran, Maj. Brown,
w. T. Cameron, safety adviser Of the
Labor Department; Mr.. Keneipp, Col,
Crawford, and Joseph Kadens, safety
director employed with the local area
OF the War Department engineers.
All those taking the 10-week course
VIII be given certificates and small
windshield stickers.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
DISTRICT AGENCIES
WILL Be MOVED
Increasing Demands for
Office Space Cause
Housing Changes.

Four municipal agencies must be re-
moved from the District Building to
other quarters because of increasing
demand for Office space, partly due to
creation of new services, the Commis-
sioners were advised today by the
Space Committee" headed by Capt.
H. S. Bishop, Assistant Engineer Com
missioner.
In all, IL changes in housing for
District agencies are proposed. Action
probably will be delayed by the Com
missioners until next week, to await the
final decision by Congress on the fu-
ture quarters for the Woman's Bureau
of the Police Department and the
Receiving Home for Children.
These two agencies were to be moved
to the old Police Court Building un-
der plans adopted by Congress some
months ago, but there is pending in
the last deficiency bill plan to con-
tinue the Receiving Home in its pres
ent location for another year.
Part Of the reason for this is dec
laration by the District fire marshal
that the old Police Court Building
structually is unfit for habitation pur-
poses, which would rule out the Re-
ceiving Home and the Woman's
Bureau.
The Bishop Committee has recon-
mended that the headquarters of the
District Playground Department, the
Board of Indeterminate Sentence and
Parole and the Minimum Wage Board
be moved from the District Building to
quarters in the old Police Court Build
ing. It also has recommended that
the Editorial and Publication Division
of the District w. p. A. be moved from
the District Building to the w. P. A.
headquarters, at 400 G street NV.
The permit Office Of the District
Health Department. now housed in
the privately owned building at 901
Eighth street NV, will be moved to
quarters in the old Police Court Build
ing. This agency must leave the
Eighth street building because the
Health Department has no funds with
which to pay rent there.
! AC SOAlu1utUCC dlcO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
tentatively. that the Commission on
Mental Health, to be created under q
recent act of Congress, be housed in
the old Police Court Building.
Removal of the Playground Depart
ment from the District Building, the
committee said, Is made necessary by
the ''imperitive need" for providing
space adjoining the quarters of the
Corporation Counsers Office in the Dis
trict Building for the newly-created
one-man Board Of Tax Appeals. Legal
officials have advised the Commission
ers 1t is essential that this office, to
which 10 v. Morgan has been ap-
pointed, be located close at hand to
the Corporation Counsei's ONCE.
The District inspector q clairns.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
DRAWS DOUBLE FINE
Driver Said to Have Led Follower
Through Light.

A motorist said to have lied" an
other motorist through a red light on
New Hampshire avenue on June 3
drew double penalty in Traffic Court
today from Judge Hobart Newman.
The defendant, Robert o. Gibble,
was fined $40, while the second motor
LIST, John G. Thompson, was penalized
only IS. The two were arrested by
Policeman e. q. Comingore of the
Traffic Division.
Judge Newman said he gave Mr..
Gibble the heavier penalty because he
lied" Mr.. Thompson through the light.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
D. c. BAR SUBMITS
JUDGESH|P LIST
Prettyman, Ferguson and
Richardson Reported
Appellate Choices.

The names of nine prominent Wash
ington lawyers were submitted to At
torney General Cummings by the Dis
trict Bar Association today as poten-
tial nominees for the three new judge
ships on the District Court and the
one new post on the Court of Appeals.
All nine men were Endorsed by the
association.
The names were submitted by Chair
man Roger j. Whiteford and T. How
ard Duckett, comprising special COM
mittee of the Association
Neither the Attorney General nor
the Bar Association group would di-
vulge the names of those Endorsed, but
1t was understood those recommended
for the appellate judgeship were E.
Barrett Prettyman, former corporation
counsel; Abner Ferguson, general
counsel Of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration, and Seth Richardson,
who served as Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral during the Hoover administration
District Court Endorsements.
Among those repeatedly indorsed for
the vacancies on the District Court
bench were 10 v. Morgan, the Districts
"one-man" board of tax appeals;
George Barse, general counsel of the
Treasury Department; H. Winship
Wheatley, former president of the Dis
trict Bar Association: Arthur Drury
and Brice Claggett, son-in-law of
Senator McAdoo, Democrat, of Cali
fornia. The name of the sixth man
indorsed for the lower bench could not
be learned.
The District Bar Association has
long contended that local lawyers
should receive adequate consideration
for District judgeships, and it Is
known that many resent the fact that
none of the present members ot-the
Court OF. Appeals is Washington
man..
R0osevelt's Stand.
President Roosevelt yesterday de-
clined to hold out hope for appoint
ment of Washington lawyers to the
four new judgeshipS
Asked at his press conference if he
considered these new judgeships as
local appointments or whether he
would go beyond the District to ap-
point the new judges, the President
did not reply directly, but said that in
his opinion lawyers from any State or
territory are eligible for appointment
to any Office in the Capital.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
R0osevelt's Stand.
Moonlight Excursion.

The Prince Georges County Young
Mems Democratic Club will hold a
moonlight excursion June Is. it was
announced today by J. Robert Sher-
wood, president. The organization has
chartered the steamer Potomac.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
Prophet Garner Loses.

Vice President Garner lost 81 betting
with q newspaper man. He bet that
Congress would adjourn yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
D. c. Student to Get Degree.

Patricia A. O'Kelliher, 1920 Tilden
street, will be graduated from Mar
quette University. Milwaukee, Wis, at
fnal exercises there Juns Is.
Evening star., 1938-06-08
BAND CONCERTS

BY the Navy Band in the bandstand
at the Navy Yard ut 7:30 o'clock to-
night. It. Charles Benter, leader;
Charles Brendler. assistant.
BY the Marine Band at the Capitol
at 1880 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader; william r. Santel-
mann, assistant.
BY the Army Band in the audi.
torium at 2:30 pm. tomorrow. Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy. leader: Karl Hub
ner, assistant.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-10-20
PAcIFIc's WOOL SHOW FEATURE
OF LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION

Fleeces from seven states competed
in the wool show sponsored by the
Pacific Wool Growers, western coop
erative marketing organization, at
the Pacific international Livestock
Exposition in Portland, Oregon, Octo-
Der l to 8. This was the twelfth an
nual show held by the cooperative, and
was literally "bigger and better" this
year, according to c. E. Grelle, secre-
tary of the Pacific Wool Growers and
director of the Livestock Exposition.
The wool show booth was gathering
place for all sheepmen attending the
stock show
The adult wool show is divided into
two main divisions The Purebred
division in which only fleeces from
registered sheep are entered, and the
Commercial division, in which fleeces
are judged by grade alone. All Club
members have a separate show, also
sponsored by the Pacific Wool Growers
as a special educational project, which
has attracted greater interest and
larger number of entries each year.
The All fleeces are judged against
each other and are then compared with
fleeces entered by adult exhibitors.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-10-20
Red Cross Nurses
Aid Million Sick

Red Cross public health nurses made
more than one million visits to or on
behalf Of the sick during the fiscal year
1878.
The patients live in mountain com.
munities. on islands off the coast, in
isolated swamp regions. and in crowd.
ed industrial sections. During the same
period the nurses inspected 559,187
school children for health defects in
cooperation with local physicians, and
gave instructions in home hygiene and
care of the sick to .5S,754 mothers and
young girls.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-10-20

Star Aids Safety Movement-LYnn Roberts.
in Republics The Lone Ranger" poses
with the non-skid design on the new auto
tire iea,ured this year by dealers as life
so1er" tread. Developed after more thon
two years and engineered TO give traction
and broking. the new tire will stop cor
on wet pavement foster than any other tire
ye, developed +. an aid 10 safety and
fewer lives lost