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The Coolidge examiner., 1939-08-10
Jelly Shelf Gems

THE AMETHYST. OF amethyst hue
and delicate taste is ripe grape jam.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-08-10

directions carefully-it's special for
grapes!
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Women Warned Of Treating
MoIes in Beauty Shops

DR.. Alice E. Palmer. surgeon. of
Detroit, Mich. discussed the occur
renee of malignant pigmented moles
yesterday at the meeting of the
American Association for the Study
of Neoplastic Diseases at the May
flower Hotel.
In a general survey of the prob
lem. entered into by prominent ply
sicians and surgeons from all parts
of the Nation. who discussed vari-
GUS papers. warning was sounded
for the benefit of American woman
hood who frequent beauty shops.
They were told. indirectly at this
meeting, that there is danger in
seeking temporary relief from ma
lignant moles in beauty parlors.
The removal of even so tiny
thing as a mole was put in the
category of surgical operation
and 1t was pointed out by these au-
thorities that persons with moles
should not permit even the re-
moval OF hairs from malignant
moles in beauty shop operations.
Capt. A. DeCoursey, Washington
specialist. spoke of the frequency of
the occurrence of these pigmented
tumors in the human eye. His sub
ject was "Melanotic Lessons of the
Eye" Other papers were read by
DR.. Julian L. Rawls of Norfolk.
Va; DR.. Janvier w. Lindsay Of this
city and DR.. Murray M. Copeland
of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
DC. Caravan 5000 Strong,
Takes Over Worlds Fair
SpeciuI-Troin Travellers Are Welcomed
By Mayor La Guordio and Who|en

Washington delegation. which left
Union Station at am.
In fact, so great was the last
minute rush for excursion tickets
that third section had to be added
to the District Day train caravan.
Originally the railroad had planned
to use only two sections. r
An advance guard Of some 500
excursionists who are planning to
spend the week end at the fair left
Washington yesterday afternoon
and arrived here last night. 1t
was too late to go to the fair
grounds, so most of these early ar
rivals passed the remainder OF the
evening wandering along Broad
way and visiting some Of the night
spots.
Each of the three sections which
arrived today had 10 coaches. One
coach of the official section was
occupied by Commissioner Hazen,
his fellow Commissioners. Col. Da-
vid McCoach. jr., and George E.
Allen. committee chairmen, guests
Of honor and their wives.
Others in the Official party, in
addition to the Commissioners. Mr..
Morgan and Gen. Cox, included
Lawrence E. Williams. president of
the Board of Trade: Arthur J.
Sundlun, president of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton; Edgar Morris, chairman of the
Ticket Committee; Minor Hudson,
president of the Junior Board of
Commerce: District Auditor Daniel
J. Donovan, Corporation Counsel
Elwood H. Seal, Richard B. Keech
vice chairman of the Public Utili-
ties Commission; Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Glenn Simon, j
| Austin Latimer. executive assistant
to the Postmaster General; Police
Supt. Ernest w. Brown, DR.. H. c.
Byrd, president of the University
of Maryland; Mrs. Cary T. Gray
son. Frederic A. Delano, chairman
of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission: Curtis
Hodges of the Greater National
Capital Committee and Highway
Director H. c. Whitehurst.
Miss OvertOn Joins Party.
Miss Ruth Overton, daughter o1
Senator Overton of Louisiana ano
queen Of the 1899 Presidents Cur
Regatta, also came along as guest
of the official party.
Numerous other coaches Of the
excursion trains were occupied by
different organizations making the
trip in body. Members of the
District Guard and Marine Corps
Reserve needed two coaches, en-
ployes of the District Inspection
Department had another, and three
cars were filled with the police drill
team and other policemen and theil
wives.
Just to show it is broad minded
about this Worlds Fair business
the California State Society char.
tered a coach to enable its member,
to visit the Eastern rival.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
President Invites Nations
To Continue With Fair

President Roosevelt today issued
a proclamation inviting the foreign
nations participating in the New
York Worlds Fair to continue to
take part in the exposition in
1910, "or such part thereof as may
seem appropriate"
In the preamble to the proclama- =
ton, the President stated:
1T has been made evident that
through the medium of the Worlds
Fair at New York peaceful inter-
course between nations is promoted.
and the exchange of ideas, expert
ence and technical knowledge be-
tween many parts of the earth has
been encouraged.
Especially at the present time.
1t is fitting and proper that the ideal
OF peaceful intercourse be main
tanned as offering the only ultimate
hope toward progress and peace"
The President declared he was
acting in accordance with the con-
gressional resolution providing for
the invitation to the foreign coun-
tries.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Charles Borden-Smith,
Rug Expert, Dies

Charles Borden-Smith. 70. rug ex-
pert for w. & j. Sloane, died yes
terday In Warrenton. Va, of heart
attack. He had gone to the Virginia
town for vacation.
A native of Philadelphia, Pa, he
came to Washington as a young
man and joined the w. B. Moses
Co. in the rug department. Later he
went to New York with the Sloane
firm. He was sent here from New
York to establish a local branch.
He was with the firm Al years and
made his home at 1435 Clifton
street NV.
He was a member of the Associa-
ton of Oldest Inhabitants. Rotary,
Board Of Trade. Knights of Colum-
bus and the Holy Name Society.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Teresa K.
Smith, he leaves four daughters,
Dorothy, Helen, Edna and Marion;
q brother, Francis j. Smith; sister,
Adelaide Smith, all Of this city, and
q son, Edward Borden Smith; New
York City.
Funeral services will be held ut
10 am. Tuesday In st. Paul's Cath
Ole Church.
Evening star., 1939-09-09

The place: Intersection of Ninth
and S streets NV.
The accident: Crossing Ninth
street at point about Is feet south
of the pedestrian crosswalk, 61-
year old colored woman received IA
tai injuries when struck by the left
fender of northbound automobile.
Witnesses testified she paused In the
middle of the street when the cars
driver sounded his horn, then sud-
denly attempted to run the rest of
the way. The driver said he tried
to stop. but the woman was hit and
was flung along the pavement, roll
ing over several times, according to
witnesses. Bystanders assisted her
into the drivers car and she was
taken to Garfield Hospital, where
she died September from COM
pound fracture of her left leg, shock
and pneumonia caused by post
operative condition.
The time: About 1870 PM, Au-
gust rs. ..
Weather conditions: Clear. Light
ing of street good.
The street: Dry and level; more
than 76 feet wide.
The vehicle: Passenger sedan,
with good brakes, police said. Driver
said he was going 20 or II miles per
hours; one witness said "at least 80
miles per hour"
The driver: A 41-year-old coll
ored man, with six months driving
experience.
Coroners verdict: Accidental
ieath.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Autopsy Ordered
In Death Of Man
Working Under Truck
Foot Crushed by
Another Vehicle
Only Visible Injury

An autopsy was ordered today In
the death of George Hammett. IS,
of 1241 B street Sc. who died in
Garfield Hospital last night. He
was brought to the hospital We'd
nesday night for treatment of in
juries received in a freak automo-
bile accident.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
ordered the autopsy to determine
whether Mr. Hammett died of traf-
fic injuries.
The hospital was informed that
the man was working under truck
at the P. c. Bowie Co., 1137 Seven
teenth street NV. when another
truck passed by, running over his
foot.
An X-ray was ordered following
his admission to the hospital and
revealed a fractured ankle. The
hospital was unable to state the
cause of death and turned the case
over to the coroner.
Two persons were hurt early today
when the automobile they were
riding left the Baltimore Boulevard
near Muirkirk. Md.
Robert Clark, 10, of 10 Bergman
avenue. Capitol Heights. Md. and
John Heneck, Is, 1108 Oak avenue.
Silver Spring, Nd, were victims of
the accident. They were removed
to Casualty Hospital by the Bla-
densburg Rescut Squad and were in
undetermined condition.
William S. Burley, so, of 1854
Nineteenth street NV, a truck
driver, was exonerated by a coro-
ners jury yesterday in the death of
3-year old Joseph l.. Carter, 2483
Phillips court NV The child was
run over in front of his house Tues
day by an ice truck driven by MIR.
Burley.
An inquest into the death of
George R. Stuart, "a, 4025 Twentieth
street NE, killed in crash last
week at Eighteenth street and Bum
ker Hill road NE, was continued
yesterday until some time next
week.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Pennsylvania Thief, 80,
Biomes His Reurino
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
EPHRATA, Pa. Sept. 9.-Joe Buz-
Iard, 80-year-old horse thief, is up
to his old tricks again.
BY his own estimate he's spent
"a years in mostly for horse
stealing. it was" State police ar
rested him in his Welsh mountain
cabin yesterday and hailed him
before a justice of the peace on a
horse-and-buggy theft charge.
"Aw, don't bother with that" Joe
said with a wave of gnarled hand.
I'm guilty"
Two weeks ago, after serving 19
months of two-year sentence, he
was released from the New Castle
County, Del, workhouse. He had
been convicted of stealing a sales
mans suitcase full of shoes for the
left foot.
ITS the way you are brought up"
Buzzard quipped as he went back
to jail.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
D. {. May Scrap
Plan 10 Lay In
Staples for Year
Secrecy Surrounds
Program for Large
Quantity Purchases

A temporarily approved plan
whereby the District government
would lay In a years supply Of staple
commodities, despite efforts Of Fed
eral officials to halt frenzied buying
by individuals, may be abandoned,
It was indicated at the District
Building this afternoon.
A veil of secrecy as to the source
Of the plan or anything about 1t
prevailed, with District officials
maintaining an airtight silence.
The unusual purchasing program,
In tentative form, was approved at
q meeting of the Board of Commis-
sioners late yesterday and it. was
learned on good authority that the
suggestion was made by an official
of the Procurement Division In a
telephone conversation with one OF
the District officials,
Capt. H. E. Collins. director of
procurement, said today. however
that he had never heard of such a
suggestion. and other Treasury Off
cials likewise denied knowledge OF It..
Heads Of municipal agencies,
meanwhile. we're preparing order
lists should the plan 60 through.
The new plan called for large
quantity purchases of sugar, soap,
salt and other staple commodities.
Plan Is Delayed.
That drastic steps in carrying out
the program would be delayed until
next week was admitted in most
quarters and there was much indi
cation that after further consid-
Grafton the plan would be dropped
altogether.
Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Patrick H. Tansey was the top Of
fetal on duty at the District Build
ing today and said no comment
would be forthcoming until the
Commissioners are back at their
desks next week.
Despite denials of Treasury Off
cials that the suggestion for the
plan came from that quarter. one
District spokesman steadfastly
maintained that the District gov
eminent did not act independently
nor upon its own initiative"
Some reports went even further
TO indicate that other Federal
agencies had been given the same
suggestion. This, likewise, was de-
MED vigorously at the Treasury De-
partment.
A furry of wholesale and retail
purchasing of foodstuffs since the
outbreak of hostilities in Europe has
caused a sharp upswing in COM
modify prices. Federal officials, in
Guiding President Roosevelt and
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
have reassured the buying public
that any alarm is unwarranted in
view of the surplus of food prod
ucts in the United States.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Silver Shirts Head
Files Damage Suit
AGAINST Dies Probers
Un-Americon Activities
Investigator Named, Too
In $3.50, 900 Action

A $3.l5O.0OO damage suit against
members of the House Committee
on American Activities and one
OF their investigators was filed in
District Court today by William
Dudley Pelley. head of the Silver
Shirt Legion of America.
Mr.. Pelley said members of the
Dies group had "maliciously and
without foundation publicly charged
him with being a representative Of
the German government, rack
eteer. violator of the criminal
statutes of the United States and
public enemy"
Actually. Mr.. Pelley said, he is
engaged at Asheville, N. c., in pub
fishing and distributing various pub
lications devoted to the interests of
Americanism and the suppressing
of Communism and other unpa-
triotic and un-American organiza-
tions'
Those Named Defendants.
Named defendants in the suit
were Chairman Martin Dies, j.
Parnell Thomas. Joe Starnes. John
j. Dempsey. Noah Mason and Jerry
Voorhis, all members of the Con-
gressional Committee. and Robert
B. Parker. an investigator for the
group. The Congressman were sued
for $500, 900 each, while the damages
demanded of Mr.. Parker were
s150,000.
The suit. filed through Attorneys
Ralph A. Potts and Floyd Hatfield,
stated Mr.. Pelley's civil and personal
rights had been violated.
Members of the committee were
accused in the suit of entering into
conspiracy with Mr. Parker hay
ing as their objective the destruc-
ton of Pelley's business and his
personal ruin
Says Mail Copied.
The suit stated Investigator
Parker, under direction of the CO.
defendants, caused himself to be
stationed or planted in the Ashe-
vile Post Office and thereby gain
access to Pelley's mail, of which he
made copies and delivered same to
the co-defendants."
Mr.. Pelley said his private papers,
kilograms. money orders, checks,
books, records, income tax returns,
bank accounts and telephone con-
versations were interfered and tam
pered with.
The defendants, the suit added,
"conspired, confedarated, schemed
and wickedly planned to injure,
harass, persecute and defame Pelley
by agreeing to make public state
ments rejecting on his character
and integrity with the objective Of
subjecting him to public scorn,
hatred, ridicule and contempt"
Evening star., 1939-09-09
BY JOHN H. Cassidy, Jr,


NEW YORK. Sept. 9-Residents
of the Nations Capital streamed
into the PENNSYLVANIA Station at
the New York Worlds Fair by the
hundreds and Immediately prepared
to assume virtual command of the
world of tomorrow" for the day.
Headed by the Commissioners and
other District and Federal officials,
a cheering crowd of some 5000 Gov
ernment workers, business leaders,
members of civic organizations and
just plain Washingtonians arrived
aboard a caravan of special trains
to celebrate District of Columbia
Day at the fair.
Because of the illness of his wife,
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen was
unable to make the trip.
New York City's Mayor Fiorello
La Guardia and Grover Whalen,
dapper s100.000-a-year chief Of the
fair, were scheduled to greet the
visitors at noon at the Court Of
Peace. formed by the imposing pa
vilions of a dozen nations.
McCoach for Response.
A response to the greeting will be
made by Commissioner David j. Nc
Coach, jr., the Engineer Commis-
sioner. Immediately after the for
NAL salutations the visitors will be
free to visit the fair as they please.
AS the last of three special Penn
sylvania trains pulled into the Long
Island station the procession to the
Court of Peace got under way, with
a contingent of District National
Guardsmen and Marine Corps Re-
serves, the newly organized Metro
politan Police Drill Team and the
Police Boys Club Band serving as
honorary escort.
The Commissioners. Brig. Gen.
Albert L. Cox, commander Of the
District National Guard and chair
man of the District Day Transports
ton Committee, and Thomas P.
Morgan. jr., chairman of arrange
ments for the celebration, headed
the procession, followed by subcom-
mittee chairmen and guests Of
honor.
Whalen Gives Luncheon.
Only three other events were on
the official District Day calendar,
and these involved only the Com
missioners, guests and other men,
bers of the official party. A lunch
con with Mr.. Whalen was to be
held in the Perylon Hall immedi-
ately after the formal welcoming
ceremony. Later the official party
will be feted at the Ford Building
and have dinner at the Federal
Building. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman
and United States Fair Commits
sioner Edward J. Flynn are expect
ed to attend the dinner.
Representatives of virtually every
Federal and District Government
department or agency, as well as
scores of civic and business Or
ganizations, were included in the
Evening star., 1939-09-09
U. S. Group Urges
Germans to Gust Nuzis

BY the Associated Press.
The Social Democratic Federation.
q. S. A., joined yesterday in an
appeal to the German people ito
overthrow the Nazi regime
Leo Meltzer, executive secretary,
said the federation had 10000 mem
bers. He described it as IAN off,
shoot of the Norman Thomas
Socialist party" born of an intra-
party dispute.
A cable signed by the national
chairman of the federation, Mayor
Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, Conn,
was sent to the German Social
Democratic Party in Exile at Paris.
1t said:
I'VE welcome your manifesto
urging the German people to over
throw the Nazi regime and thus
restore peace and freedom. BY
prompt response, they can save the
German nation from ruin and
strengthen democracy all over the
world"
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Food Price Increase
May Bring Plea for
Congress Action
Murphy Reiterotes
Present Laws Are
Not Adequate

With charges Of food profiteer-
ing" still coming in from individuals
and organizations throughout the
country, national observers specu-
lated today as to whether Congress
would be asked to bolster existing
anti-profiteering laws in the event
prices on staple commodities rose to
an unjustifiable level.
Attorney General Murphy reiter-
ated yesterday that present laws are
inadequate to do a real job" but
would not state whether the admin
istration would seek to have Con-
gress put more teeth in them.
Mr.. Murphy added he had about
completed a study of the laws, un-
dertaken after the Government re-
ceived complaints against food cost
increases since the war started in
Europe.
Legislation Due to Wait.
1t was believed that anti-profiteer-
ing legislation would not come up for
consideration in Congress until the
regular session in January as neu-
trality law revision will occupy vir-
tually its entire time in the event
the expected extra session is called.
President Roosevelt told reporters
yesterday there were sufficient food
supplies to meet any demand. He
intimated there should be no hoard
ing and said Americans had no need
to fear any shortages.
The President said some food
prices might go up a little, but that
they were not going through the
roof as they did in World War days.
Most food prices, he said, were still
below the parity figures sought by
the farm program. One of the OBJ
jectives of that program is to ele-
vate the purchasing power of farm
products to the 1909-1914 level.
In a broadcast address last night
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace ex-
pressed confidence that farmers,
professors, wholesalers, grocerymen
and labor would not seek undue
profits.
Abundance Of Supplies.
'They are going to stand for
abundance and a fair relationship
between prices and services of differ
ent Sorts" he said.
Mr.. Wallace added there was an
abundance of food supplies and that
the Governments ever-normal gram
ary system would insure a continu-
ance of that abundance.
He said some persons had been
frightened by events in Europe and
some housewives had been conduct
ing runs" on grocery stores.
In New York City, increases in
some food prices caused angry
housewives to cry "profteering." but
Markets Commissioner William Eel
loves Morgan, jr.. warned them
against getting "panicky' and
boarding food"
A shortage of sugar in some gro
ceries there was attributed In part
to labor difficulties in a large New
Jersey refinery.
The National Association of Food
Chains made public letter to Mr..
Wallace pledging its cooperation to
preserve reasonable prices.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Bond Concert

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band this evening at 6 o'clock
in the Soldiers Home bandstand.
John S. M. Zimmerman. bandmas-
ter; Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March Mexicana, "zacatecas"
Codina
Overture, "Fierrabras" --- Shubert
Transcription, way Down Upon the
Swanee River" : Roberts
CAS- it is played in eight different
foreign countries)
Excerpts from musical comedy, lit
tie Boy Blue" Bereney
Popular numbers, Punch and Judy
Show" Black
There's a Gold Mine in the Sky"
Kenny
Waltz song. "Collette" Simson
Finale, THE Wallabies" (Australia)
Lithgow
"The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Herring Says 'Modmon'
Must Be Stopped

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa. Sept. o.
Senator Clyde L. Herring, Demo-
crat, of Iowa, yesterday told cham
ber of commerce meeting that he
felt the mailman OF Europe must
be stopped"
That may not be neutral but
that's the way I feel he said.
Congress soon will be called into
special session, he added. ito de-
clare neutral a country which really
isn't neutral"
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Heat tWaveGoes
After Causing
One Death
Eight Frustrated;
Showers Forecast
For Tomorrow

The mercury receded today from
the years high Of 100 degrees which
contributed to the death Of q car
penter and caused eight heat pros
trations in Washington yesterday.
The Weather Bureau predicted
this morning that today's tempera-
lures would not exceed 80 degrees
Tomorrow will be even cooler, with
local showers.
Cloudy skies are in prospect for
the week end, with gentle winds from
the east and northeast, it was pre-
dicted. Tonight will be cool.
The 100-degree high was reached
at $50 pm. yesterday, after the
mercury had staged steady march
from low of 73 degrees at l am.
Days Low Is 73.
The temperature was SO at mid
night and dipped to a low for the
day Of 70 degrees at 6 am. 1t began
to climb a short time later and
stood at II at 9 am, with a rela.
tive humidity of go per cent-which
the Weather Bureau declared was
not excessive.
The record temperature of yes
terday shattered the mark set in
1872 when the mercury reached 81.
1t was the hottest day since July 10.
1896, when a temperature of los
degrees was recorded.
Treasury Department workers who
toll in buildings that are not air.
conditioned were dismissed yester-
day at 2:30 pm. and other Gov
ernment departments followed suit.
The heat was prevalent in other
cities in this section. Baltimore
sweltered with 100 degree tempera-
ture, Richmond reported a record
high of 81. Harrisonburg, Va, re-
ported 96 degrees, Cumberland. Nd,
80, and Frederick, Md, 80.
Fatal Fall Blamed on Heat.
The death of Eric Johanson. 40.
of 414 A street Sc. the carpenter,
was attributed indirectly to heat. He
was working in the new Juvenile
Court Building, Fourth and E streets
NV, when ne paled. tainted and
tumbled 18 feet to concrete floor.
He was working on wooden forms
for concrete at the time of the
accident, according to his foreman.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said he would conduct an autopsy.
Charles Norris, 66. of Edmonston,
Md of
pital for heat exhaustion after being
overcome in front of the State De-
partment Building. Also treated at
Emergency was James Lowrie, IS,
of 637 Florida avenue NV who coll
lapsed at Third street and Indiana
avenue NV.
Others Given Attention.
At Casualty Hospital Edward
Thompson, IS, of COS o street NV,
who was overcome in Beltsville,
Md, and Arthur Morton, 40, colored,
of Arlington. Va. were given treat
ment for heat exhaustion. The Cas-
ualty Hospital ambulance responded
to three other calls to treat heat VIC
Tins.
Providence Hospital treated one
woman who came into the emer-
gency room on the verge of COL
/ lapse.
Adam Williams. 9. colored, OF 900
Desmond court SW., was pulled
from the Tidal Basin yesterday after
/ suffering a cramp while swimming.
Police credited James Daugherty.
lot D street NV, with the rescue.
The boy was treated at Emergency
Hospital