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Evening star., 1939-11-22
Thanksgiving Date Confusion
Enmeshes Roosevelt Family
Some of Children to Observe Tomorrow,
Some November 30 and Others Both Days

About half the country will OBJ
serve Thanksgiving Day tomorrow,
but the confusion which followed
President Roosevelts decision to ad-
vance the customary date has ex-
tended right into his own family.
The President and Mrs. Roose-
welt will have their turkey dinner
tomorrow night at the Warm
Springs, Ga, foundation for infan-
tile paralysis patients Some of their
children. however, will observe both
tomorrow's holiday and the one pro-
claimed by Governors in some States
for November 80.
James Roosevelt, the Presidents
eldest son, will celebrate in New
York tomorrow and then go to
Massachusetts,, which has selected
the traditional last Thursday in
November. Mr. and Mrs. John
Roosevelt also will have their turkey
at Nahant, Mass, on the second
Thanksgiving"
The Governor of Texas proclaimed
both Thursdays as holiday, so Mr..
and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt will have
two dinners at their ranch near
Fort Worth, Tex Mr.. and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., will have
turkey tomorrow at their cottage in
Charlottesville, Va, but next week
they will have guests for Thanksgiv-
ing recess of the University of Vir-
ginia
Date Often Changed.
The Presidents daughter, Mrs.
John Boettiger of Seattle, will follow
her fathers example and observe
only the first Thanksgiving"
Provincetown has claimed to be
the scene of Massachusetts, settlers
first Thanksgiving, but popular ira
dition assigns the origin of the OBJ
serva1 ce to the Pilgrims Harvest
Festival in Plymouth in 1921, after
the crops were gathered, according
to a bulletin from the National Geo.
graphic Society.
The game of shifting the date for
the observance has been a favorite
pastime of Presidents, it seems, &C
cording to the Geographic Society.
Here's what the records show, from
the first President on down:
President Washington: Despite
Jeffersons warning that church and
state should be separate according to
the country's new Constitution,
Washington in 1889 proclaimed that
the last Thursday of November
should be day of general thanks
Evening star., 1939-11-22

The board also heard arguments
over the appeal of Hanse Hamilton
for permission to extend an existing
gasoline service station to the
northwest corner of Connecticut
avenue and Fessenden street NV,
and an appeal by Louise H. Grifiths
for permission to establish a gaso-
line service station at the south
east corner of Carroll and Maple
streets NV.
Evening star., 1939-11-22
Free Milk for Poor
Seen by Schultz if
Market Is Open
Indiono Representative
Also Sees Retail Price
Drop if Bill Posses

Representative Schultz, Democrat,
of Indiana declared today that
Washington dairies could furnish
free milk to the poor if Congress en-
acts his bill to open the local milk
market to producers outside the
so-called local milkshed.
He made the statement shortly
before he left his office to go to the
Department of Agriculture to ap-
pear at a public hearing there in
opposition to a proposal of the
Maryland Virginia Milk Producers
Association for re-establishment o1
Federal supervision over the Local
milkshed.
MIR. Schulte's bill has a preferred
status on the House calendar and is
expected to be called up soon after
Congress convenes in January.
Sees 11-Cent Milk.
"If my bill is passed, Washington
will be flooded with superior milk
from Indiana, Wisconsin and other
States" he declared. The increased
supply should force down the retail
price of milk to IL or IL cents a
quart, and at the same time provide
an ample surplus so that dairies
could give away milk to the poor in
stead of charging them for it.
Diaries pay far less per gallon for
surplus milk than for the basic al
lotments." he added. THE recent
milk investigation by a subcommit-
tee of the House District Committee
showed the dairies are making a
good profit. 1t seems to me they
can afford to be philanthropic and
give away some of this surplus milk
to the poor who really need it."
Mr.. Schultz explained he did not
mean that the dairies should give
free mill to every applicant, but
only to those persons certified by
relief officials.
Giving milk to the poor might
cost the dairies 500 day." he said
but it would make rosy the cheeks
Of lot of kids here in Washington
whose faces are now as white as
paper"
Attends Frederick Hearing.
Mr.. Schultz attended the second
of the series of hearings of the Ag-
riculture Department on the pro-
posed milk agreement yesterday ir
Frederick, Md, and charged that
from his observations, the meeting
was stacked" by producers who are
opposed to his bill.
He said he believed the purpose
of the milk producers association in
urging Federal control of Washing
tons milk supply is to force inde-
pendent producers to join the or
ganization and thereby give it "ab-
solute control" over the supply al
well as prices.
Evening star., 1939-11-22

at IN. and holy communion and
a sermon at 10 am. The rector, the
Rev. Paul D. Wilbur, will preach.
Goodwill Industries will entertain
its employees at a Thanksgiving din
ner at l pm. at headquarters of the
organization, 1918 New Hampshire
avenue NV.
Evening star., 1939-11-22
Daiiriies0ffer
Plan for Cent
Milk Cut
Price Paid Farmers
Would Be SIoshed
In Spring
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Ihe Agr,cutturuL Adjustment
Act of 1888 carried a plan for
tederally supervised firing OF
prices to be paid producers OF
farm commodities. In 1886 q
price, rr,ng agreement OF THIS
sort went into effect in the
Washington area for dairy farm
ers, but the plan Uas shelDed
,ohen District Court Judge held
it unconstitutional. The Supreme
Court has since upheld its palid-
ity, and noD another agreement
is SouQht.
Evening star., 1939-11-22
To Discuss Child Roisino

Or. Martin l.. Reymert, director
OF the laboratory for child research
at Mooseheart, ILL.,, will discuss prob
lems IN raising children, at $50
pm: Friday, at a meeting of the
local chapter of the Women of the
Moose at Moose Hall, 1414 I
street NV.
The planets all move around the
sun IN the same direction and al
most in the same plane.
Evening star., 1939-01-20

and booked as Foster Joseph
Blakeley -Bazeley, 27, who said he
was a magazine writer and son of
the wife of a wealthy steel man,
and Edward Lawforth, 26, broker,
were brought here last night.
New York Detectives Charles Nc
GoWan and Frank Crimmins said
Blakeley -Bazeley admitted taking a
bracelet, owned by the former Muriel
Honey) Johnson, at a house party
in 1894 at Southampton, Long Island.
AT the time, Blakeley-Bazeley was
G. house guest of the late Col. H. H.
Rogers, oil millionaire, at his estate,
The Port of Missing Men"
The series of thefts about which
police said they would question the
pair included the loss in 1888 of
SIS, 900 in jewels from the Southamp-
ton bathhouse locker of former Gov.
Alfred E. Smith; loss of $4,000 in
jeWelry last July from the home of
Mrs. Orson Mum, a New York
society leader, and the disappear
ance of $35 900 in jewelry from the
Evening star., 1939-01-20

to New Orleans. Payton claimed to
be from New Orleans and Quentin
from Biloxi, Miss.
I'VE Travelled so fast don't know
how many jobs we did" said Payton
in Southern draWl. I'VE were just
getting going when they knocked
us off,
When seized through automobile
license numbers, the suave brothers
were house guests of Julian P. In
glefield. an official of the 1888 Ma
tional Air Races.
The nattily attired Wilson's were
described by Mr.. Inglef1eld as expert
airmen. Mrs. Inglefleld said she
invited Payton, here for the air
races, to visit her home because
"he wanted to meet my daughter"
Payton wooed Lillian Inglefield,
18. and Quentin occasionally was the
companion of her 21-year-old sister,
Kathleen.
Lillian said Payton sought to give
her a ring-"but mother wouldn't
hear of it until she met his family"
Evening star., 1939-01-20

home of Luella Gear, actress, in 1887.
The detectives said Blakeley-
Bazeley signed a statement ad-
hitting the theft of the bracelet and
declaring he gave it to Lawforth,
who pawned it for $500, splitting the
proceeds with him.
Evening star., 1939-01-20
Courting Brothers
Nonchd|ant After
Arrest for Robberies
Police Claim Confessions
Secured From Pair Who
Posed as Rich Mans Sons

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Jan. 20.-EXposed
as bogus "scions" who financed their
way by robbery, the brothers Will
son-Payton, %, and Quentin, %
dismissed their plight today with
dippant banter.
They confessed, Detective Sergt.
Joseph Munley said, to holdup and
abductions from the Great Lakes
Evening star., 1939-01-20
Men-About-Town
Gri||ed in Theft Of
100000 in Gems
Pair Confessed Stealing
Bracelet at Rogers
Estute. Police Soy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RIVERHEAD, N. Y, Jan. 2O.-An
answer to thefts of 100000 in gems
was sought today by police as they
questioned two young Manhattan
men-about-town who were charged
with grand larceny in connection
with the theft of a $500 diamond
bracelet from Mrs. Richard E.
Berlin.
The two, arrested in New York
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24
A Good Idea

Quite bit of excitement was stirred up in New York State this week when the Rev. Peter Moran, pastor of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York City, objected quite strenuously to a plan to affix bronze plaque to the beautiful memorial to St. Isaac Jogues, the French Catholic missionary who discovered Lake George. The monument was dedicated and unveiled at the village of Lake George, which is at the southern tip of the beau- tiful New York lake, earlier in the sum-. mer. The plaque which was to be at- tached to it would have contained the names of the legislative commission which had charge of the memorial
 There will be plenty of people through out the nation who will join with the Paulist priest in his criticism of such efforts to capitalize on the strength of some public monument. While New York states legislators may only have been following custom in arranging for their names to be inscribed on the Father Jogues memorial, still it is much better to leave them off. We find the same state of affairs existing today in the dedica- quite fuss over the names of the public officials which should grace the corner stone. Probably none should.
 At any rate the chairman of the legis- lative commission has needed Father Morans protest and has countermanded the order for plaque. The Jogues me- morial at Lake George will thus stand as tribute to the missionary explorer, the gift of the citizens of Nev York State and not any particular little group that may have been chosen to superintend the actual work of construction and dedica- tion. That's as it should be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24
Views of The Press
MIR. TONES APPOINTMENT
(Hartford Times)

Observers of the career of Joseph M. Tone as Commissioner of Labor for Connecticut over terms covering eight years will be gratified that he is to continue service in the field in which he has made an enviable rec ord. AS special liaison officer be- tween the Federal Department of Labor and the Labor Departments of the states, MT. Tone will be in position to give the benefit of his experience to Federal and State authorities, to the advantage of both.
 In Connecticut Mir. Tones ad- minstrations were marked by in- telligent and successful efforts to bring about amicable solutions of disputes between employers and workers. Notable among the im- proved conditions to which he con- tributed is the practical suppression of sweated labor In the homes He was vigorous in prosecuting exploit CTS of home labor who attempted to establish themselves in this State after they had found conditions dis advantageous elsewhere.
 During his administration there came into existence the unemploy- ment compensation system, greater development of State employment agencies, revival of mediation and arbitaration and in general a closer relationship between labor and gov ernment. He was skillful in his se- lection of deputies and diplomatic in his relations with business and with his associates in the State gov- ernment. That he will continue the excellent record which he has made is the confident expectation of all who know him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24
Private Planes Also Fly

One reads so much about military avia- tion and bombing planes these days that it seems as though all air progress were military. That is far from true. Quietly, and with little public attention, private flying for sport and business is making tremendous strides in this country A single company, for instance, reports that it has built TIP planes in the first six months of 1889, almost equal to it's entire production for 1938 These planes are type of no possible military use. They are built and sold for sport, travel, and business use.
 That is an impressive number of pri- vate planes to go into use during six months from single plant. Many of the early automobile companies were in business for long time before they achieved production at that rate It means that America is taking to the air, not only for military purposes of defense, but in the normal courses of peaceful pursuits such as the Wright brothers envisioned when they first lifted their crude ship into the air at Kitty Hawk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24

New Jersey residents, at least those of small community called Holland Town ship, had chance to grow very senti- mental, perhaps even maudlin, the other day when five little fred" schoolhouses were sold at auction The five had been used up to the past June and few of them were over one hundred years old. One central and modern structure will be used for the towns pupils in Septem- Der. There was active bidding for the schoolhouses with some of the towns people, who went to school in them par ticipating. But only two were success ful. One man and wife secured build ing and will use it as storehouse for his nearby farm. A contractor also got one and will remodel it for renting. The other three went to outlanders who plan to utilize the schools for their own per Sonal use in the future. The highest price paid was $2,500 and it was paid for the most modern of the group. Sic tram sit little schoolhouses!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24
Do Something About Alaska

The United States has owned Alaska for 72 years. There is ground for won- dering how proud we ought to be of our record in this magnificent territory About $7,2O0,OOO was paid for the vast area when Seward bought 1t from Russia. Many times that amount has came out in gold. other metals, furs, fish, and lumber. Yet during that whole 72 years the United States has succeeded in achiev- ing as a population figure in Alaska static 60,OOO.
 There is something wrong there. For many years it has been known that vast stretches of Alaska were no polar tundra, but regions potentially rich in agricul- tural soil, forests, and mineral wealth. Perhaps because Alaska came to the United States at time when 1t was still opening up the west, when there were stlll vast stretches of the central continent to explore, Alaska has been neglected. Now many people keep repeating, "the frontier is closed" Yet Alaska is even today for practical purposes, untouched.
 Imagine what the countries of Europe which claim to be hard-pressed for living room" would do with Alaska if they had it! Mussolini, embarking on vast military expedition to conquer faraWay AbySSinla in the pestilential tropics! Hitler, risking world conflagration to extend German living space" into east central Europe! Yet we, who complain of "cloSed from tier" and an end of opportunity, have this vast area, almost continent in itself, at our disposal, and we do nothing about it. Nothing? Not quite that. But liter ally nothing compared with the vast potentialities lying there untouched.
 A new survey by the Interior Depart ment is the latest of many to call atten- ton to these neglected resources. Land, climate, and resources of Alaska, says this report, are in every respect equal to Scandinavia, where 100000 people have developed one of the finest civilizations known to the world. The report suggests large-Scale settlement by refugees (since Americans have for 72 years refused to go there in any numbers).
 This would build new market for American goods, new source for Amer ican energy and strength, new bulwark of defense, new national inspiration for achievement. And all without injuring the people of any other country. Whether this particular plan is possible it is hard to say. But it is certain that the United States ought to turn eyes to Alaska with greater seriousness than 1t has yet done. The situation of the world, and our own internal situation, is no longer such that we can afford to pass up any bets
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24

We are glad to read that the Surplus Commodities Corporation plans to ex- pand it's work in providing school lunches for under-nourished children. The free lunch program has been a pretty good idea since it was first thought up and those of us who have been Wailing about the loss of good foodstuffs lately will take heart at this news When you read about milk being dumped in the New York milk strike and you know that it could do so much good if only it could be placed in the proper dispensing chan nels, you sometimes wonder what we are coming to in this nation, where our labor troubles must always be subjected to such unpleasantness as this type.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24
Kind Words for MT. Ickes
(Hartford Tin,es)

Considering the acrimony that marked the final session of the United States, Senate, it is refresh ing to read the praise which Re- publican Congressman Ralph Q. Brewster of Maine heaps upon volu- ble and violent Harold Ickes, Secre- tary of the Interior, who is no slouch when 1t comes to blasting things and people he does not like.
 Why MT. Brewster, from the land of the Roosevelt haters, should dare the wrath of his constituents by saying kind words about MT. Ickes will puzzle the outsider until he re- calls that Maine has a large stake in fisheries and that MT. Ickes' de- partment now include the Federal Bureau of Fisheries.
 As Holsters become scarce off the Main coast, as the cormorants come back and raid the herring, as fall hears and the prospect looms of tightening belts through the winter. the Maine fisherman well comes help even from a New Dealer.
 And to do MT. Ickes justice, he has done an exceptional job in his management of the PWA. Congress- man Brewster bases his praise Of the secretary on his PWA record, declaring that if MT. Ickes "can do for the fisheries the kind of job he has done in PWA then fishermen everywhere of every kind will have occasion for rejoicing Such words will be honey on the tongue of the Secretary, and they won't hurt MT. Brewster and his fisherman constitu- ents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24
Sanity Called For

Tonight's meeting of the Board or Aldermen to take action on the removal of the public officials convicted in the local conspiracy case promises to be not merely an unusual gathering but dan perous one. If ever there was lnclte- ment to mob violence there has been ln the few days intervening since the imposl- tion of sentences last Monday evening We presume that the authors of the pro- posals are prepared to assume the respon- sibility for any consequences Of tonlght's session. Personally we doubt if they are
 There is every reason to believe now that many of the convicted officials will deliberately defy the effortI of Republl- can aldermen and interested citizens to oust them simply because they don't want to be busted in such manner. In snort tonight's Sesion can produce conditions that might never be lived down by par ticipantS We sincerely hope that such state of affairs will not come to pass In this present situation we want clear thinking and intelligence, not emotion alism or any play of passions.
 It may be, of course, that the convicted officials will choose tonight's setting to offer their resignations. Such action would naturally avert lot of unpleasant ness and let conditions in the city re- turn to normal much more rapidly than if recourse to legal action against them is demanded and is voted by the alder men. We see nothing gained for those concerned by forcing the issue into the courts. We see only continued provoca- tion and embarrassments for many who are not remotely connected with the con spracy case, yet must be brought into it by their participation in Democratic Party affairs.
 If ever there was time when sane reasoning was demanded it is right now. Continued efforts to stir up mob violence and hatreds will gain Waterbury notn- ing but continued ill-will, neighborhood feuds, and much more unpleasantness. Let us tackle our problem seriuosly, not dramatically
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
Orchids, Born to Blush Unseen

"The Orchid Hunters" by Norman Macdonald (Farrar and Rine-
 hart: $2.75) is called a jungle ad-
 venture" by the publishers and
 certainly 1t is one of the most
 completely adventurous books of
 the year. It is a story of a nine-
 month search for the incredibly
 rare South American orchids. Here is the authors description of the
 first big "strike."
 "Orchids,' he shouted. Hundreds of them!"
 If he had screamed "Jaguar!" he could not have started a swifter exodus. Patcho was abandoned with the pack mules as we raced down the slope. Franks sombrera fell of and J. B.'s cane was abandoned in the flight, but nobody stopped. This was not an ordinary run. It was the last lap of race that had been planned for three years, and we had the endurance of madmen in the grip of their worst obsession.
 Before an almost impossible bar rier of forest, we stopped, panting. The machetes came out, whirled in the sun. i. My heart was pound- ing like a hammer and J. B.'s breath was hot on my neck, but these were incidentals and unim- portant. Grimly the forest rebuked and resisted our assault. Thick vines hung from the great trees, tripping us. Immense ferns tower ing IA feet high blocked our way. Snakes reared their heads along the black limbs above and slithered out of the way.
 But no primeval bogies existed for us. Ten, IS, 20 minutes of struggling. sweating labor, and we began to hear the swift currents of the Claro washing against its banks labyrinth of low vines im- peded us as the vegetation thickened along the river bank. Then II was through, with the river surging at my feet.
 only know that I stood there. staring upward, with Frank and J. B. besire me, and none of us with breath or words to describe what we saw.
 For color was exploding in our vision, in all directions. Lavender flame danced and blazed along the branches and in the crotches of the giant trees. It rioted across the line of forest until 1t was lost from view at the bend of the river. One soli- tary orchid is a breath-taking thing. but here were not hundreds, but thousands of blooms of the Christ-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-24
THE DRUMMER BOY
(Boston Postl

After the Civil war one of the most popular plays was the Drum mer Boy of Shiloh" It was pro- duced thousands of times by various Grand Army posts throughout the country and was always patriotic event.
 Now news reaches us from Beverly Hills, Calif., that the original hero of the piece, the real drummer boy himself, passed on there at the age of 89. He was Joby A. Rowland. who served with the 51st Indiana In- fantry during the rebellion, and about whom the play was woven
 The play itself was so familiar to persons of all ages few years ago that young people could quote It's lines at length and stage its scenes. The drummer boy" himself became eventually the most famous figure of Shiloh.