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sembly-symnasium, SALT, 900; Giddinss
School, assembly-symnasium, $4,000;
Smothers School, eight-room addition
and assembly y-gymnasium, $l6S, 900;
Monroe School, assembly gymnasium.
$4,000, and Washington Vocational
School, l0-room addition and as
sembly y-gymnasium and additional
room for cleaning and dyeing, $iS5, 900.
The other building projects incor-
porated by the school officials In their
1910 estimates are:
An elementary school. including as
sembly- gymnasium, in the vicinity OF
Bladensburg and Mount Olivet roads
NE, $4,000; Ketcham School,
eight rooms and assembly gymnasium,
$l78, 900; Bryan School, six-room ad-
dition, $114,0O0; an extensible eight
room elementary school, including an
assembly gymnasium, on the old Dem
nison Vocational School site, $191, 900;
Birney School, six-room addition, in
cluding assembly gymnasium and
necessary remodeling Of present
building, $l53,90O; to complete the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior
High School and Library, $325,000
junior high school in the vicinity OF
Bladensburg and Mount Olivet roads
NE, $425,000 to begin construction
with total authorization of 1924, $50;
Taft Junior High School, 10-room ad-
dition and gymnasium, $4,000; new
Junior high school on site to be pur-
chased in Anacostia, 100000 to be-
gin construction with total authorize.
ton Of $881.850 for plans for i'm
provements to Shaw Junior High
School, $4,000; additional lavatorie,
for Terrell Junior High School, $780,
600; Browne Junior High School, new
gymnasium and inclined floor in au.
ditorium. $4,000; Randall Junior
High School. 1O-room addition ane
remodeling, $4,000; Calvin Coolidg,
High School, to complete construc.
ton, $45000O; new senior high schOo
and stadium at Twenty-fourth stree
and Benning road NE, to begin con.
struction, $35O,OOO. with total au
thorization. $l,525,0O0, and plans To-
new building for Wilson Teachers
College at Thirteenth and Upshul
streets NV, $4,000.
Twenty-nine items are sought b,
the Board OF Education for purchase
Of land for school sites, as follows:
Additional land at Peabody Schoo
for 16-room extensible building t.
replace present school and for ply.
sical education purposes, s35, 900.
Site for elementary school in yicin
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, Of Eleventh and q streets Sc

ity Of Eleventh and q streets Sc,
$12S,0oo.
site for school for handicapped chill
dren in vicinity Of Children's Hospital,
3125,000
Land in vicinity of Washington Cir
Gle for 24-room building to replace
Corcoran, Grant and Weightman
Schools, $4,000.
Site for elementary school in vicin-
ity OF Pennsylvania and Alabama ave-
nues Sc, $25,000.
Site for elementary school in vicin-
ity of Minnesota avenue and e street
Sc, $4,000.
Site for elementary school In vicin-
ity Of Thirteenth and Tuckerman
streets NV. $4,000.
Site for 4-Room School.
Site for four-room elementary school
in vicinity OF Fourth street and Rhode
Island avenue NE, $4,000.
Land for physical education pur-
poses at Douglass-simmons School,
$4,000.
Land adjoining syphax School, for
an eight-room addition and assembly
gymnasium and physical education
purposes, $25,000.
Land adjoining Montgomery School,
eight-room addition to replace Briggs
School, including assembly -gymna-
SUM and physical education purposes,
100000.
Land adjoining Morse School. for
eight-room addition, including assem-
bly-gymnasium and physical educa-
tion purposes, $35,000.
Land at the Logan School for an
assembly-gymnasium, $4,000.
Land at Garrison School for assem-
bly-gymnasium and physical educa-
ton purposes, 100000.
Land adjoining the Stevens School
for assembly-gymnasium and physical
| education purposes, 100000.
Land for new elementary school in
Broosland area and for physical edu-
cation purposes, $4,000.
Land for school for Handicapped
children in vicinity of Freedmen
Hospital, 100000.
Land at the Grimke School fol
physical education purposes. sos 900.
Additional land at Cleveland Schoo
| for physical education purposes
| $4,000.
S15O,OOO Site Desired.
Site for new building to replace
Abbot Vocational School, $15O,00O.
Site for Junior high school in vicin.
| ity of Massachusetts, avenue and Ma.
comb street NV, $4,000.
| Site for junior high in vicinity o.
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DR.. Gabler to Speak.

DR.. Werner Gabler. consulting man.
agement engineer. will speak tomorrow
night in the fourth of . series Of meet
ings on grocery merchandising con-
Quoted by the Cooperative League Of
the District in the Cleveland Park
Congregational Church. DR.. Gabler
will discuss merchandising from the
standpoints of the cooperative store
operator and the consumer.
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Kansas avenue and oAllatin street
NV, S75,000.
Additional land for physical educa-
ton purposes adjacent to johnson
Building at the Powell Junior High
School, $4,000.
Additional land for Junior high
school in vicinity OF First and Pierce
streets NV, 100000.
Land adjoining the Banneker Rec
reation site to repay the Park and
Planning Commission for that portion
Of the recreation area used for the
Banneker Junior High School, $780,.
900.
Land for new high school along
Rhode Island avenue NE, $4,000
Additional land At Armstrong High
School for construction Of an addi-
ton, $25,000.
New site for Cardozo High School
and for physical education purposes,
sos, 900.
Land for construction Of new Miner
Teachers College and for physical
education purposes, $4,000.
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RITES FOR GLAND
TO Be IN SWEDEN
Motion Picture Actor Will Be
Buried in Umeo, His
Birthplace.
py the Associated Press.

py the Associated Press.
SANTA BARBARA. Calf, Aug. g.
Warner GLAND, the Charlie Chan who
escaped a thousand terrible deaths on
the screen. died OF bronchial pneu-
monia today in his native Sweden.
When the 57-year-old star Of the
stage and screen died. his estranged
wife. the former Edith Shearn of the
stage, was preparing for hurried trip
from here to his bedside.
The end came In a Stockholm hos
pital after Mr.. GLAND was removed
from the home of Eric Stocklasse.
Scandinavian artist and friend Of the
actor, in Tyreso. near Stockholm.
Mrs. GLAND was 50 overcome by the
news that she Cancelled reservations
on airplanes and steamer, made five
days ago when she first learned of her
husbands illness. She received word
only yesterday that his condition was
critical.
Harrison Ryon. the widows attor-
ney, said Mr. GLAND would be buried
in the little Swedish town of Umeo,
his birthplace, as he requested.
Departure Was Mysterious.
Mr.. Glands departure to Sweden
more than a month ago was almost
as mysterious as were the movements
Of author Earl Derr Biggers' famous
detective that he portrayed.
He had reached a separate mainte-
nance agreement with his wife after
her suit filed a year ago. and patched
up differences with his Hollywood
studio, which temporarily suspended
him after an unanounced departure
from the set.
Mrs. GLAND charged in her suit
that Mr.. GLAND so disregarded his
duties as a husband that he caused
her much mental anguish" She de-
clared excess drinking was the cause
of their trouble. As Charlie Chan,
she said. he earned 100000 in 1896.
Before Mr.. GLAND sailed quietly
from Los Angeles Harbor on a Swedish
freighter. he had agreed to do three
more Charlie Chan pictures on his
return this fall.
So convincing were his roles as q
Chinese he was mistaken by Chinese
for one Of their countrymen on vaca-
ton trip in the Orient.
everywhere I went" he said,
1.-The natives addressed me In Chi
nese. I was introduced always as
Mr.. Chan was accepted as a
Chinese"
Settled in Connecticut.
Mr.. GLAND came to America in
1893 with his father, Jonas GLAND, a
half Russian, and his brother. Arvid.
They settled on a wind-swept farm
In Connecticut, but before many years
he was in Bostsn. working in a ma
chine shop to earn IS a week while
he took voice lessons.
Mr.. GLAND saved his money and
after his marriage in 1908 produced
and played in 1bsen's Peer Gynt.'
AS a producer Mr.. GLAND made and
lost small fortune.
In 1910 he made his motion pic
ture debut. getting s25 day for play
ing John Bunyan in "Pilgrim's Prog
ress." That was produced at Fort Lee
N. j., and Mr.. GLAND liked to re-
call that he was almost drowned ir
the Pool of Despond, mudhole.
Twenty years ago movie fans sat
breathless as Mr.. GLAND tried. with
diabolic cunning. week after week, to
kill Pearl White. Both died in
Europe, far from the scenes OF the
old silent movie serial thrillers in
which they played-Miss White in
Paris two days before him. They
were the villain and heroine in the IA
NOUS old serial. THE Perils Of
Pauline"
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His Director Dies.

BEVERLY HILLS. Calf, Aug. G
(P.-Film Director John G. Blystone,
IS. died today of heart attack a few
hours after the death in Stockholm OF
Warner GLAND, whom Mr.. Blystone
started in the famous Charlie Chan
series years ago.
Mr. Blystone directed 81 pictures for
Fox Studios, later goth Century Fox,
before he resigned in February, 1886,
after II years service.
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School Budget
Continued From First Page.)

paid employees performing the same
grade Of work in the Public Library.
This proviso, which affects l6 public
school librarians, reduces the pay of
librarians below that provided for
school librarians under the Teachers
Salary Act. the board said In renew
ing their fight against this restrictive
language. the school officials further
argued that as changes are made from
year to year in the Public Library staff,
the average salary would be changed,
The Washington times., 1938-05-25

ceased TO exist. Tooay, Jnere was
better than q fair chance that
the hard, old Biscuit had
mouthed his last bit and re-
sponded to his last bat in the
ribs; that, to be specific, he
might be permanently retired.
Only the sportsmanship Of own
er Charles s. Howard, they say,
carried the Biscuits bad knees this
far; meaning to within a few
days of the big race. Mr.. How
ard meant to work" the horse
yesterday, but not to help his con-
dition. The owner knew, in fact,
that a work could only hurt the
already distressed Biscuit; might,
indeed, make an ice wagon horse
out Of him.
Owner Howard was willing to
take that chance with a faithful,
old friend in order to show the
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
ADMIRAL ENTERS
SUBURBAN cap

NEW YORK, May rs G.N.S0.
Substituting for the cancelled
match race with seabiscuit on
May 30, Samuel D. Riddle today
announced entry Of War Admiral
in the Suburban Handicap at Bel
mont Park race track next Satur~
day.
In the Suburban, the son Of
Man O. War will face Pompoon,
his rival Of a year ago; Shark.
Caballero I'd, Mowastre, Aneroid
and a few others.
War Admiral will be given an
impost of 1872 pounds, four morO
than was assigned Pompoon.
Riddle decided to enter the cad
mirap in the Suburban when
notified Seabiscuit, c. s. Howard's
handicap champion, was unfit for
racing at this time.
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night. Ross has never scaled over
142 and Armstrong is q natural
! lightweight. He'll probably make
1856 for this fight. Here's another
thing you can bet on-Armstrong
will be the first champion to re.
linquish his title without q de-
fense. Anyone who watched Henry
train for Petey Sarron realized
this because Armstrong worked
himself to a shadow trying to
make the limit. It seems logical
to suppose that he will campaign
as lightweight, win or lose.
ROSS FAVORED
Ross has scored two knockoutS
since defeating Garcia-over
Henry Schaft, April 4, and Bobby
Venner, April IS. Armstrong, on
the other hand, has fought 10
times this year and only Baby
Arizmendi has stayed around to
hear the decision. On fighting
edge, you must pick ArmStrong.
But we string along with Ross
by a knockout In seven rounds.
Barney is the 8-5 choice to
win. You can get 5 to / if you
think Armstrong can knock out
the champion. Ross is even money
on a knockout.
The consensus Of opinion favorS
Ross. The champions boosters
number Jim Braddock, Tony Can.
zoneri, Fred Allen, Billy McCar.
ney, Charley Cook, Johnny Cordes,
Eddie Cantor and Jack Dempsey,
But the challenger doesn't lack
supporters. The movie colony,
which first discovered Armstrong
when the latter fought on the
Coast, is behind Henry almost to
q man.
GOVERNOR TO ATTEND
Such celebrities as George Raft,
Abe LYMAN, Robert Taylor, Pat
O'Brien, AL Jolson and Richard
'Arlen see nothing but Armstrong.
Speaking of celebrities, New
York's Little Flower" Mayor Flo
relic H. LaGuardia, will be on
hand for the fight. So will Cover.
nor Herbert H. Lehman, PoStmas.
ter General James Farley and
scores Of other big and sen1-big
shots.
Both boxers finished training
yesterday.
The price range is $3.50, $11.5O.
$5.75, $3.50, $3.50 and $1.15. The
supporting card is headed by an
eight-rounder between Davey Day.
Chicago lightweight, and Nor
ment Quarles, former North Caro-.
lima University boxer. Two six.
FOUNDERS pair Frankie Blair with
Dem Wakerlis and Young Chaopie
with Phil Siriani. In fou--s,
Johnny Rinaldi meets Sammy
Julian and Jimmy Liddell opposes
frankie Aiello.
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race crowd yesterday how really
bad the horse was: That, briefly,
he wasn't being withdrawn be-
cause the terms Of the race were
winner-take-all, with nothing for
second place but q deficit. The
idea was to show the public that
the Biscuit, as Is, would have done
worse than finish second. He
mightn't have finished at all.
Therefore, even If he does re-
turn to racing at some later date,
it won't be for the Arlington
Classic at Chicago and certainly
not for the Massachusetts Handi-
cap at Suffolk Downs, June 20.
AS for War Admiral, it was more
than possible today that he might
be started in the Suburban Handi-
cap at Belmont on Saturday, with
CONTINUED on Page 26, Col. p
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today scraped something closely
approximately bottom with an
abysmal performance against Chi
cago'S White Sox. 1t was, as Al
Simmons remarked to Bucky Har,
riS after the game:
THAT" said Simmons, was
the worst exhibition we've put
up all year. Not one Of us put
up a noteworthy performance.
Seemed as If all Of us decided to
have q bad day at once"
However. Harris was not with
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
QUALIFYING SET
IN SPEED TESTS

INDIANAPOLIS, May 80
Q.N.S.). - With two down and
one to go, both Jimmy Snyder
and Kelly Petillo were to make
their final attempts today to
qualify for next Mondays 500.
mile auto speed claSsic-if the
rain holds off.
Snyder, holder of the speed
ways one-lap record of 1870 miles
an hour, has exhausted two Of his
three chances for a place in the
starting lineup, as has Petillo.
Neither was able to complete
the rs miles required to qualify
in previous attempts.
The Washington times., 1938-05-25

out his optimism, especially with
the prospects Of playing the st.
Louis Browns bobbing up in an
hour of need.
I'VE don't figure" said Har-
ris a little hopefully, ito do as
poorly as we've shown. All this
gang needs is about three we'll
pitched ball games in a row to
set 'em off on the right track.
I'm not particularly discouraged
still think we'll get to clicking.
We can't blame 1t entirely on
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
Browns Dispel Mats Gloominess

ST. LOUIS, May 25.-Washing-
ton wheezed into st. Louis with a
record Of two victories and eight
losses to show for its unhappy
little excursion through the hinter-
lands, a sour bit Of mathematics
that is comparable to some of the
most disastrous Western trips in
the history Of the Washington
ball club.
Running into bad weather, a
rat-tat-tat Of reverseS and practi-
lcally no luck whatever, ths Mats
The Washington times., 1938-05-25

The answer should be supplied
at the Garden Bowl in Long Is.
land tomorrow night when Ham.
merin' Henry" vaults out Of his
own featherweight division to
tackle Barney Ross, welterweight
champion, in q 15-round title
bout.
EXCITEMENT HIGH
Not since Ross beat Jimmy Nc.
Larnin in their third and last
bout has a welterweight fight ex.
cited jaded New Yorkers as much
and the reason is simple-there'll
be a puncher in there tomorrow
night. The man with the wallop
Is not the big man, strangely
enough, but the silhouette slasher
from the banks of Missouri who
has knocked out IS of the last 81
men to face him and ran a string
Of knockoutS unprecedented in
modern ring annals by putting az
men in a row to sleep. Up. S.
They weren't all side by side).
Anyone with a punch that
potent is wasting his time boxing.
He could get a job as an anaes-
thetist. Just how much ether
Henry's featherweight wallop con-
tainS is what has excited the curl.
oSity Of some $4,000 people who
are expected to pay some $3.50, 900
for the answer to the riddle.
Ross has been q great cham
pion. Whether time and easy
living have clogged the once great
fighting machine that waded
through men like Tony Canzoneri
and McLarnin, will also be known
when Barney finishes his date
with Henry. Ross did everything
expected Of a great champion.
He was the first man ever to hold
the lightweight and welterweighs
titles. His boxing has been of
artistic perfection. He could
punch and he could take it. His
courage has never been Ques'
toned.
HAS BARNEY SLIPPED?
But Barney is almost 80. His
best years are definitely behind
him and his past few fights have
been unimpressive. Barney had
trouble defeating Izzy Jannazzo
in his first title defense and Izzy
couldn't have lasted five rounds
with the old Ross. Cerefino
Garcia gave Ross a good going
over the last time Barney de.
Tended his title on the Carnival
Of Champions card here last
August, and there were moments
during that bout when it ap-
peared as If a new champion
would be crowned.
Armstrong is ambitious to add
the welterweight crown to his
featherweight title. If he beats
Ross, Henry wants to tackle Lou
AmberS, lightweight titleholder,
next and be the first triple cham
pion in the history of boxing.
Frankly, there won't be a very
big pull in weights tomorrow
The Washington times., 1938-05-25

our pitching. We've been doing
a lot Of crazy things at bat and
on the bases when we're not
that kind of an outfit"
Pitching, however, rem ain S
Washington'S foremost problem.
In the training camp they spoke
of Yves Ferrel as the outstanding
Nat pitcher; Monte Weaver, hav'
ing acquired considerable pound.
age during the winter. was sup
Confined On Page Is. Col. 81
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
Tigers Pitcher
Out With Injury

DETROIT, May Is Q.N.S0,
Harry Eisenstat, 23-year-old south
paw relief hurler, will be lost to
the Detroit Tigers for several
weeks due to a slight skull frac-
ture, hospital physicians an
nounced today.
The young jewish pitcher.
struck over the right eye by a
batted ball during yesterdays pre-
game practice, spent a restfIIl
night, the hospital bulletin said.
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
Tavern Insects
Enter Tourney

Little Tavern Hamburger In
sects, recent conquerors over Hot
Shoppe Unlimiteds by score of
7 to 6, have entered the sixth
annual national city-wide elimina-
ton tournament.
The Washington times., 1938-05-25

Harry Gray
son; a man
with money,
C allie d the
Big Business
Man, and a
reporter with
a lot Of COM
mon sense,
named Tom
Laird, of San
Francisco. In
the ra m a
t h e m a n
with common
sense reScueS
the Big Busi-
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
LIFTIN SCORES

NEW YORK, May IS Q.N.SO.
Nat Liftip, 1891, of New York.
outpointed Johnny Compo. 1874, Of
New Haven, in the eight-round
main bout ct the New York
Coliseum.
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
biscuits Bad Knees
OmenS Retirement
By DAVIS J. WALSH

NEW YORK, May 25 (IN.s)-With an abruptnesS so
completely dsconcertng that Trainer Tom Smith didn't
about the decision Seabscu the handicap champion
declared unfit for racing at this time and forthwith the
100000 Memorial Day match with War Admiral simply
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
SEEKING GAMES

The Kovakas Grill Softball team
is seeking games with any un-
limited team tomorrow on its own
field. Call Lincoln 1879.
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
armstrong; Ross
Fight Slated to
Draw $3.50, 900
By BOB ADDIE

NEW YORK. May 25-Henry Armstrong, the thunderbol in
techncolor either the greatest little coored since Joe
Cans and George Dixon he's Glass sugge who has
tened up his amazing knockout record against league
The Washington times., 1938-05-25
It's This
Way

BY FRANK BUCK" ONEILL
This is a story of a man with
an idea, known as silk Shirt"
Evening star., 1938-12-11

%N SCIENTIFIC circles Francis F.
Lucas is known as microscopic.
Some say he is as much artist as
scientist, for he has an uncanny way
of manipulating lenses and bending
light rays to his purposes, and he was
the first to see an object 1900 times
smaller than the eye alone can see.
Try to picture what that means.
The dot OF ink which forms the period
at the end of this sentence would
appear the size of an automobile. if
you could get so tremendous thing
as the dot within the field of that high
magnifcation. On the same scale a
mosquito would loom as large as a
China Clipper. Under DR.. Lucas's
expert focusing, invisible cracks in
steel show as deep canyons. and the
Evening star., 1938-12-11
SEEING SMALL MADE HIM BIG
by George w. Gray

it would be useless. His left eye had
only half normal vision. So the boy
got a job with the local telephone COM
pany. and went to work as lines
mans helper
That was thirty-hve years ago. Ten
years later Lucas found himself in
New York in charge of the division
that inspects timber for the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company.
There was plenty of trouble. Cross
arms suddenly broke. poles rotted.
other wooden parts deteriorated. while
corresponding parts of apparently the
same quality lasted for years - and
nobody knew why. Lucas peered
through his spectacles at the samples
from which he selected his purchases.
There, in the fibrous woody texture.
Evening star., 1938-12-11

minute structure of living cells, which
may be clues to the nature of diseases.
or the very secret of life itself, are un-
veiled in intimate detail
Lucas calls himself a partner. the
senior member of firm in which his
microscope also is partner. 1t is this
respect for the machine as thing to
be reasoned with. humored. worked
with as responsive collaboration
rather than used merely as a cold
inanimate tool, that is the secret. l
think, of Lucas's amazing success.
In all his techniques he is self
taught From the high school at Glens
Falls. N. Y. he wanted to 60 to
West Point as cadet and prepare for
a career in the Army engineer corps.
But the doctor who examined him said