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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-24

NORTH EAST
T n G A T r &
North East, Maryland
8 Delightfully."- ir-Conditioned 8
Free Parking Lot
Shows G 8 p. M. week days
Saturday Feb. rs
Matinee 2 p. M.
DOUBLE FEATURE
PAINTED DESERT
George O'Brien LARAMIE johnson
Your fighting hero in a story of the
mine thieves
AND
While New York Sleeps
Michalon Whalon Harold Huber
Jean Rogers Joan Woodbury.
A thrilling comedy mystery
Monday Tuesday Feb. 27-28
The Winners of the $250.O00
Movie Quiz Contest will be announc-
ed from the stage of this theatre
Monday night at the close of the
first show.
FOUR DAUGHTERS
Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane
Lola Lane, Gale Page
John Garfield
Chosen by the Motion Picture Acad-
envy of wards as one of the ten best
of the year
Wednesday Mar. 1
Thanks For Everything
Jack Oahie Tony Martin
Jack Haley Binnie barnes
The tops for fun. melody and
madness
AWARD NIGHTS
Thursday-Friday Mar. 2-8
PACIFIC LINER
Chester Morris Victor McLaglen
Alan Hale Wentlie Barrie
Red drama on the raging breast of
an angry sea. Laughs as fast as The
hurricane
Next Week:
Riders OF The Black Hills
Smashing The Spy Ring
Brother Rat :
rfiota And MndoIa Ahnard
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-24

Next Week:
Riders OF The Black Hills
Smashing The Spy Ring
Brother Rat
Artists And Models Aboard
Gunga Din
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-24

Monday Tuesday Feb. 27-28
The Winners of the $25O.000
Movie Quiz Contest will be announc-
ed from the stage of this theatre
Monday night at the close of the
first show.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-24
Thursday-Friday Mar.
PACIFIC LINER

Chester Morris Victor McLagIen
Alan Hale Wentlie Barrie
Red drama on the raging breast of
an angry sea. Laughs as fast as The
hurricane
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Police Shifts Augur
Anti-Gamb|ing Drive
In Prince Georges
Commanding Officers
OF Two Stations
Swap Positions
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

By staff Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, July 23
An important shakeup in the
Prince Georges County police was
begun today with the transfer of
the commanding officers of the Hy-
attsville and Upper Marlboro sta
tions. The transfers were ordered
"for the good of the service" it was
learned following a stormy session
of the Board of Police Commission
ers yesterday.
Under orders issued by the board,
Sergt. Ralph w. Brown. command
ing officer of the Hyattsville station,
will take charge of the headquar-
ters here, and Sergt. Elon Turner
will be transferred to the command
of the Hyattsville station. County
officials say that these two changes
are only the beginning of
shakeup which will involve the
transfer of several officers.
The changes repeatedly were
sought by States Attorney H. VIM
ship Wheatley, jr., and it was au-
thoritatively learned that an imme-
diate cleanup of gambling activi-
ties in the Hyattsville area would
be ordered. This was understood
to apply particularly to the noto-
rious "Jimmy's Place" just across
the District line on the Bladensburg
road, where gambling has been car
ried on unmoleSted for the last sew
eral years.
Reports today were being circu-
lated that James A. La Fontaine,
operator of the establishment, had
made plans to move his operations
into Charles County, just across the
Prince Georges County line, on the
Southern Maryland pike. 1t was
known that an elaborate clubhouse
has been built there.
Police Supt. Arthur w. Hepburn
said the changes were routine" and
designed to give the two station
commandants an opportunity to
learn each others sections of the
county. He denied persistent reports
that the change was made to facili-
tate the anti-gambling campaign
being conducted by States Attorney
Wheatley.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
I. A. Values 10-Dam
System al $3.50, 100000

BY the Associated Press.
The Tennessee Valley, Authority
yesterday appraised the potential
value OF its completed l0-dam sys-
tenn to dwellers in the lower Mis-
sissippi Valley at more than $780,
100000.
President Roosevelt sent Con-
gress the report with the statement
that T. v. A. officials considered it
"a contribution to the theory of
valuation of the benefits of flood
control" and, as such, commended
it to the study of Congress and the
executive departments ''in consider
ing flood control problems in gen.
eral."
When all the proposed T. v. A.
dams along the Tennessee River
are in operation, the T. V. A. report
said they will effectively lower flood
heights in the Mississippi Valley by
feet from Cairo, ILL.,, to the Gulf
The Tennessee is a tributary of the
Mississippi.
Charles w. Oakley, T. v. AS senior
hydraulic engineer, who prepared
the report, said the most important
benefit would be an estimated $780,
100000 increase in the market value
of agricultural land in the alluvial
valley as a result of better safe
guards against floods.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Led 'Churwomun's Life Amid
Riches, Wife's Suit Charges

Living with a man of means is no
sinecure, Mrs. Betty Rosenberg, ST.,
of 4723 Fourth street NV, told
District Court yesterday in filing
suit for limited divorce.
Through Attorneys Alvin L. New
myer and Lewis H. Shapiro, Mrs.
Rosenberg told the court her hus-
band, Meyer Rosenberg, 4007 Four
teenth street NV, is worth more
than 100000, but that she has been
forced to live as housekeeper and
charwoman in her own home"
Citing numerous instances of
alleged cruelty, the wife charged
that "for over 80 years she has put
Evening star., 1939-07-28
New Welfare Director
Choice Postponed

Appointment of new director of
public welfare was postponed today,
at least until Tuesday, as the Dis
trict Commissioners conferred most
of the morning with Frederick w.
McReynolds, chairman of the Board
of Public Welfare, without reaching
decision.
After the session ended, Commits
sioner Hazen said the city heads
still favored the appointment of a
local candidate. The recommended
ton of the Board of Public We'll
fare, presented by Mr.. McReynolds,
called for the appointment of an
outsider.
Mr.. McReynolds, it was reported,
will discuss another recommends
ton with the Welfare Board Mon
day. If recommendation is made
by the board at that time, it could
be considered by the commissioners
at the usual Tuesday board meet
ing.
The $8,000-a-year post was vacated
last May by Elwood Street, who re-
signed to become head of the Com
munity Fund in Richmond, Va.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
.vadakin Named
Head Of Doctors
Hospital
Institution Ready
By 1910; Rates to
Be S. to So

Charles E. Vadakin, formerly man
ager of one of the hospitals of the
famous Mayo Clinic, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the new
Doctors Hospital, which is to be
opened about January, 1910, at 1885
I street NV.
This was announced today by Of
flcials of the hospital as construc-
ton work went forward on the new
building. Mr.. Vadakin, who came
highly recommended from the Mayo
Clinic at Rochester, Mimi, is a
native of Marietta, Ohio, where he
began his hospital work as an en-
ploye of the Marietta Memorial Hos
pital. He was employed in various
positions in this hospital from 1880
to 1882. Appointed Office manager
of the Marietta Memorial Hospital
in 1882, he remained there until
1885, when he became associated
with the Kahler Corp, which owns
and operates hospitals in connection
with the Mayo Clinic. For two
years he was assistant manager in
their various hospitals.
In 1887 he was made manager of
the Kahler Hospital of the Mayo
Clinic and remained in this position
until he resigned to come to the
Doctors Hospital Mr.. Vadakin was
busy today in conference with off,
cials of the Board of Directors of
the latter institution, who announced
he will begin organizing his staff
and making the necessary prepara-
tions for the opening.
Ready by First of Year.
Mr.. Vadakin is a member of the
American College of Hospital Ad-
Evening star., 1939-07-28

up with everything that human
body and mind could stand" She
advised the court she is suffering
from arthritis and cannot seek en-
ployment.
In her suit, Mrs. Rosenberg asked
the court to restrain her husband
from drawing money from any of
the banks in which he has deposits.
She declared her husband has re-
fused to take her out in public with
him and never addresses her except
to heap abuse upon her.
He allowed her $3.50 weekly to
run the home, but when he eats
a meal outside, she said, he deducts
that from her allowance.
Evening star., 1939-07-28

fracture, deep cuts on his face and
head and a fracture near the base
of his spine.
The victim had not regained con-
sciousness more than an hour after
he was admitted to the hospital
emergency room.
The driver of the car, Jack Mo-
rails, 81, of Brandywine, Md, told
police he was making turn from
Naylor into Good Hope road and
had swerved his car as close to
the curb as possible to make room
for truck coming up the hill on
Good Hope road.
Mr. Morals said he saw the man
on the curb and sounded his horn,
but that Mr.. Bancroft stepped into
the street directly in the path of
his car.
Six Children Recovering.
Meanwhile, six children were re-
covering today from injuries re-
ceived in District traffic accidents.
A fractured leg was suffered by
Stanley Kirson, 6, when he was run
down by a delivery truck while play
ing in the rear of his home, at
4819 Georgia avenue NV. The
driver of the truck failed to make
his identity known after taking the
injured boy to Garfield Hospital,
and was being sought by police
today.
Struck by an automobile on North
Capitol street near Evarts street.
Thomas A. Quinn, 4, of IS Girard
street NE, was treated at Sibley
Hospital for cuts and bruises on
his face and legs.
Lonnie Pugh, 7, colored, II Logan
circle, also received leg fracture
when he was struck by a car after
darting from an alley in the 1900
block of Kingmore place NV. He
was treated at Children's Hospital
James L. Smith, jr., 16, of 1920
Thirty fifth street NV. was treated
at Georgetown Hospital for an in
jured ankle after he was struck by
an automobile in the street near his
home.
Four-Car Collision.
A four-car collision in the 210C
block of North Capitol street resulted
in minor injuries to 3-year-old Will
liam Herbert Dameron, 444 New Jer-
sey avenue Sc. He was treated al
Sibley Hospital for cuts and bruises
and permitted to go home.
Ruth Estes, 8, Of 405 Seward square
Sc. received cuts and bruises when
a bicycle she was riding with her
brother Armand crashed into the
rear Of an automobile ut Eleventh
and M streets Sc.
Evening star., 1939-07-28

ministrators, and also a member of
the American Hospital Association.
Mr.. Vadakin held a press confer
ence today and discussed the new
hospital and his new job. With
him were DR.. Oscar B. Hunter, sec
retary of the hospital; DR.. Alan J.
Chenery, chairman of the Executive
Committee of the board, and Dr.
F. A. Moss, a member of the board
Construction of the hospital has
proceeded, it was explained, to the
point where it will be ready for op-
Grafton by the first of next year,
unless some unforeseen developments
take place.
Prices for the rooms for the hos
pital, it was explained, will range
from S. to So for the most part, with
few suites at SIS. A feature of
each private room will be a call
system by which a patient may talk
to the nurses on the floor through
a communicating device similar to
that used by business executives on
their desks.
Group Nursing" System.
A system of group nursing" will
be available for patients who are too
i'll for care by the floor nurses on
duty in the hospital, but who cannot
afford the full time of a private
nurse. This system, which has been
used already to some extent in the
District, is a provision by which
from two to four patients may divide
the cost of a private nurse.
Doctors Hospital will have no
clinics, however, it was explained.
1t will be confined to patients of in
dividual doctors, but will give first
aid to emergency accident cases.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Steuort Bid Apparently
Low on c. c. c. Trucks

The Steuart Motor Co., local Ford
dealer, today was the apparent low
bidder on 1913 motor trucks for the
Civilian Conservation Corps, be-
cause lower bid by General Motors
was based on delivery of the trucks
later than the 40 days allowed in
the bidding specifications, it was an
nounced at the Treasury Depart
ment.
The Steuart Co. offered to supply
Its stake body trucks at $155 ,268
less 10 per cent discount for cash
payment in 20 days. The General
Motors bid, which was not consid-
cred, was $151, ,432 less S per cent.
The other 18 trucks were of the
dump body type, on which the Steu-
art Motor bid of S17,781, less 10 per
cent for cash within 20 days, also
was low. The bids were submitted
yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Judge Tells Officer
To Speak Up in Court
As Well as on Street

Members of the Police De-
partment and others who testify
in Police Court, please take
note:
Judge John p. Mcmahon
wants you to sit back in the
witness chair and speak loud.
Don't be bashful, just speak
right up.
Yesterday Judge Mcmahon
was admonishing an officer to
follow these simple rules. He
said:
when you officers are on the
street, you can be heard three
blocks. In court, you don't talk
loud enough to be heard three
feet.
every defendant is entitled
to hear his accuser. Now sit
back and talk so this one can
hear you"
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Band Concert

BY the United States Army Band
tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Capt.
tol. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader;
Karl Hubner, assistant leader.
Program
Defile, "Sambre ct Meuse'' Turlet
Overture, "Rienzi' --- Wagner
Rhythmic pastel, From an 18th >
Century Drawing Room Scott
BASED on Mozart sonatina)
Cornet trio, Three Solitaires,"
Herbert
Messrs. John Kahler, Charles
Barnes and Victor Christensen,
soloists.
Rhapsody, From Africa to
Harlem" Bennett
Bolero. "Andalucia" -Lecuona
Ballad, Londonderry Air" Granger
Morris dance, shepherds Hey"
Traditional
Fantasy, 'Danse Macabre,"
Saint -Saens
Xylophone solor. "Czardas," Monti
Joseph L. Young, soloist.
Chorale and fugue,
"Fervent Is My Longing" Bach
Finale, "Barnum g. Bailey's Royal
Pageant" -Duble
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1939-07-28
|Mun Must Lie
lin Bed He Made,
Judges Edict

Sol Kline will lie in the bed he
has made for four months.
Admitting he cashed a worthless
check for s25. Kline, 35, stood be-
fore Police Court Judge John P.
Mcmahon yesterday and, with tear
filled eyes, pleaded for leniency.
Il know I've done wrong, your
honor" Kline said, "but please go
easy with me. I've been locked up
in precinct station for three days,
and it's dirty and terrible. And
the beds-they're just hard steel
Stats"
After glancing over the Defend
ants police record Judge Mcmahon
said:
you've made your bed, and you'll
have to lie in it. You serve 120
days In Jail"
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Girl and } Men
Seized in Hunt
For Bandit Trio
One Admits Part in
Ndnuping-HoIdup of
Gas Station EmpIoye

An attractive 18-year-old girl,
near exhaustion from lack of food
and sleep, was captured a few miles
from Newport News, Va, earlv to-
day by police looking for two BAN
dts and girl companion accused
OF filling station holdups in near
by Virginia and Maryland.
Taken to Newport News for oues-
tlonlng. after she had stumbled
from thick underbrush virtually
into the arms of police, the woman
was identified as Mrs. Jack Baxley
of Orlando, Fla.
A few hours later, a man identified
as John w. Gross of Denbigh, Va,
was captured nearby. He was eat
ing sandwich in a Warwick County
roadhouse when officers approached.
Although he had a pistol, troopers
said, he made no effort to use it and
did not resist arrest.
Their arrests followed that yester-
day of Robert w. Hendricks, 10, Of
Richmond, who, police said, admit
ted implication in the holdup and
kidnapping of filling station opera
tor at Suffolk Wednesday night.
Police said the woman and Gross
would be charged with being fugi-
tlves from Suffolk police and that
two charges of grand larceny also
would be placed against Gross by
Newport News police.
Maj. H. B. Nichols, superintendent
of State police. said the description
OF Mrs. Baxley tailed with that
given by the abducted gas station
attendant.
Baxley Grilled, Denies a Part,
Taken into custody along with Hen
drlcks was another man who iden-
titled himself at Nelson Baxley, 20,
who until recently had lived in Flor
ida. He denied, however, that he
had participated in the Suffolk
holdup.
The hunted trio are believed to
have staged number of robberies,
including holdups in Richmond,
Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Rockville
and Alexandria.
Mrs. Baxley was grabbed by State
Troopers A. A. Anderson and H. S.
Hubbard as she emerged from the
! cover of thick underbrush fringing
Route 60 in Warwick County. A
group OF county officers, Newport
News detectives and State police
had searched all last night through
the heavily wooded section for the
woman and her companion.
Yesterday afternoon police arrest
ed Hendricks, who, authorities said,
admitted he was one of trio
charged with the Suffolk holdup.
BloOdhounds Used.
With the aid of bloodhounds,
police had sought the three since
shortly after Butler made his es-
cape from the trunk compartment Of
an automobile where he was locked
when the car was abandoned a few
miles north of Newport News, after
pursuing State troopers had shot
a tire.
| Found at the edge of a swamp
during the hunt, according to police,
was a woman's Identification card,
a Woman's slipper heel and a mans
| coat.
Shortly before reaching Newport
News, Mrs. Baxley tainted and had
to be carried into police head
| quarters.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Moving Rates Delay
Asked by Association

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission was asked today by the In
dependent Movers Warehousemen's s
Association, Inc, to extend from
September 20 to December 20 the
effective date for tariffs naming rates
in cents for 100 pounds for removals.
The associations petition set out
that the organization just recently
established headquarters in WASH
ington, and has not had sufficient
time for a study and determination
of rates.
A meeting of all independent
movers throughout the country will
be held here in August to discuss the
rates, the association has announced.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Proof Claimed for LincoIn's S
Fathers S Title 10 Farm
BY the Associated Press.

0S VIC hSSOCldleO ereSS.
The National Park Service an
nounced yesterday that it had OBJ
tanned documentary proof of Thomas
Lincoln's ownership of the farm at
Hodgenville, KY, where his son,
Abraham. was born.
The papers, officials said, had been
rescued from oblivion" and would
be preserved in the United States
archives.
Park Service experts made $50
microfilm copies of papers in the
Larue County courthouse, Kentucky.
Several of these explained the some
what obscure ownership of Thomas
Lincoln's 348-acre sinking spring
farm" where Abraham was born.
The elder Lincoln surrendered his
equity in the farm in 1916 and moved
his family to North Greek, some 8
miles distant. 1t was at the North
Creek farm that Abraham spent
most of his boyhood, the record
shows.
Evening star., 1939-07-28
Scientists Discuss
Types Of Research
For Byrd Expedition
DR.. Wade Presents
Agendo of Possible
Antarctic Studies

Twenty-three leading men In
almost as many fields of science
assembled at the National Academy
Of Sciences Building today to hear
DR.. F. Alton Wade, senior scientist
of the forthcoming expedition to
the Antarctic present an agenda of
proposed types of research at the
South end of the world
The scientists, called here by the
National Research Council at the
suggestion of the Executive Com
mittee of the United States Antarctic
Service, are meeting in closed ses-
sions to determine what phases of
scientific work should be conducted
during the expedition, commanded
by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
DR.. Wade said he would recon-
mend auroral observation and the
keeping of graphs on the intensity
of the southern lights, their direc-
ton, activity and colors especially
during the Antarctic nights.
Because of the clarity of the at
mosphere, he said. meteor observa-
ton could be carried on effectively
with the scientists at the scene
plotting the frequency. color, in
tensity and path of the meteors
that flash across the sky.
He also planned to suggest
studies of the structure and COM
position of a collection of rock,
mineral and fossil specimens.
A study of the rate of movement
of the ice and its varying degrees
of pressure as well as Photographic
record of ice formations are in
cluded on the agenda to be con-
sidered by the scientific group here.
Studies of terrestrial magnetism.
cosmic ray work, observations of
whales on the way south and COL
lecting plant and animal life are
also suggested.
DR.. Wade also planned to propose
medical research into the effect on
the men of a prolonged stay in the
Antarctic. This would include
metabolism and blood pressure tests,
records of the rate of breating and
the varying effects of the climate
and atmosphere on the strength of
the men.
Evening star., 1939-07-28

main advantage of this is a more
adequate privacy, which, Mr.. Black
said, is the thing the men missed
most. You can get pretty tired O.
mans mannerisms, it seems.
when you see him awake or asleep
all day every day.
Unless the Diesel engine that pro-
vides power for electricity uses up
to much fuel, the men will each
have electric lights in their cubicles.
Otherwise, they will go back to kero-
sene lamps.
In Mr.. Blacks roughly sketched
design of the building. a shaft goes
up to the surface through the snow
in which the buildings are buried
through the winter and ventilation
is obtained through tunnels. sticking
up like periscopes through the snow.
Although 18O men will be in the
expedition when it leaves Boston,
only SIS will stay on the ice during
the winter, which of course, is the
northern summer.
Moon Twice as Big.
The men will live in comparative
darkness, but DR.. Wade said the
illumination from the stars is
sufficient to get around and the
moon is twice as big as it is up
here"
The Antarctica, according to DR..
Wade, isn't as cold as people picture
1t.
I'VE can travel stripped to our
waists sometimes" he declared, "but
we usually wear a shirt to protect us
from sunburn.''
Most of the men, Mr.. Black said,
try to raise boards the minute they
hit the Antarctic so they can have
their picture taken looking as people
think an explorer should"
But boards, he added, are more
trouble than they're worth. They
seem to freeze up in cold weather.
Most of the men keep their boards
clipped to something under an inch
just enough to protect their faces
from the icy blasts.
Whether or not to take movies
along is problem not yet settled.
Last time they took a supply of
movies with them and showed them
over and over again. "Forty-second
Street" never lost its popularity, Mr..
Black reminisced, even after the
10th showing. BY that time, the
men had the whole show memo
rized and could join in the choruses.
Funds Are Guaranteed.
Just how long the expedition will
remain in the Antarctic is up to
Congress. The $350,O00 congress
sional appropriation for the trip
will get them down there, but it
won't get them back, one of the men
explained, adding hastily that the
Budget Bureau has agreed to get
sufficient funds to bring the expedi-
ton back again. Present plans are
for three or four years, but the
original members of the expedition
won't stay that long.
Right now, choosing the right
men Tor the JoD is one OF the major
considerations. Lists of men, how
ever, are being submitted by the
Army, Navy. Coast Guard and
Weather Bureau, among other
services.
To be "the right man. the two
scientists agreed, the prospective
explorer should be compatible. able
to do one thing very well and most
things well enough and he must be
able to WELD a snow shovel.
From the time you start till you
get back" Mr.. Black said, there
are very few times when you're ac-
tually divorced from hard work.
IF we ever organized a society Of
men whove been on the expedition,
I think our emblem should be a
little gold snow shovel. Those snow
shovels are always with Us"